Chapter Summaries

Zhong Shan destroyed the Purple Firmament Sect Master's lightning projection with his Divine Realm and the Eye of Heavenly Punishment while guarding Daji's tomb. He then faced Sima Zongheng, who arrived demanding to know what lay inside the tomb, and their fight began.

• The Purple Firmament Sect Master attacked Zhong Shan with a lightning storm, but Zhong Shan absorbed and controlled the lightning within his Divine Realm.
• Zhong Shan used the Eye of Heavenly Punishment to destroy the Purple Firmament Sect Master's projection and returned to guarding Daji's tomb, anticipating the Sect Master's true body.
• Sima Zongheng arrived at the plaza, saw the stone stele, and demanded to know whether the Nine Tails Princess was inside and what the tomb contained.
• Zhong Shan refused to answer or let Sima Zongheng pass, and Sima Zongheng challenged him with a saber and a flying sword.
• Sima Zongheng struck with his red saber as Zhong Shan countered with Changsheng, and their opposing hot and cold attacks collided.

Zhong Shan defeated the Great Immortal Sima Zongheng in a prolonged battle, revealing that he could overcome a shattered-Dao-heart Great Immortal. As the gathered experts tried to approach the mountain where the Nine Tails Princess was receiving what belonged to her, Blood Lightning struck Sima Qing and the Ghoul Chess Saint arrived to confront the crowd.

• Zhong Shan used the Square Heaven Jade Seal and his Divine Realm to fight Sima Zongheng, then broke Sima Zongheng's left palm with the Opening Heaven Palm and left him gravely injured.
• Sima Qianjun arrived and tended to Sima Zongheng, while Sima Qing eyed the nine-tailed fox sculpture and briefly attempted to use a Pupil Technique on Zhong Shan.
• Mr. Li and Su A Fo arrived, and Zhong Shan told the gathered experts that the Princess was inside the mountain receiving what belonged to her.
• Sima Zongheng urged the experts to break into the mountain, and they gathered to press toward it despite Zhong Shan's warning.
• Blood Lightning descended from the clouds and struck at Sima Qing; he shattered it with a palm but was driven a thousand zhang away.
• The Ghoul Chess Saint appeared among the crowd and demanded to know what they were doing.

Zhong Shan kept the Ghoul Chess Saint and the gathered experts from entering the Ancient Immortal’s tomb, claiming the Nine Tails Princess was inside speaking with its former owner. The Purple Firmament Sect Master and the Supreme Beginning Sacred King arrived, and the chapter ended with the three Life Position holders facing off as the Purple Firmament Sect Master unleashed his purple aura against Zhong Shan.

• The Ghoul Chess Saint arrived and stopped the gathered experts, but Zhong Shan warned him that the Ancient Immortal was speaking with the Nine Tails Princess inside the tomb.
• The Ghoul Chess Saint thanked Zhong Shan and declared himself the tomb’s gatekeeper, rejecting Sima Qianjun’s claim that the Ancient Immortal must be dead.
• The Purple Firmament Sect Master appeared and revealed that Zhong Shan had destroyed his projection, while the Supreme Beginning Sacred King arrived and heard the Ghoul Chess Saint’s account.
• Zhong Shan urged the Supreme Beginning Sacred King to send the Purple Firmament Sect Master away, but the Sect Master refused and asserted his claim to the tomb.
• The Purple Firmament Sect Master, the Supreme Beginning Sacred King, and Zhong Shan each manifested an altar of the Life Position and confronted one another.
• The Purple Firmament Sect Master challenged Zhong Shan and spread a domineering purple aura across the surrounding land.

Su Daji's Residual Thought emerged in the form of the Nine Tails Heavenly Fox skeleton, rebuked outsiders, and revealed Nüwa's gift for the fox clan. After asking the Nine Tails Princess to bury her with King Zhou, Su Daji entered a red coffin and vanished, leaving the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm on the verge of collapse.

• Su Daji's Nine Tails Heavenly Fox skeleton emerged from the gate, and the Purple Firmament Sect Master withdrew after she ordered outsiders to leave.
• Su Daji ordered Sima Qing and his companions to leave, then recognized the Supreme Beginning Sacred King as Qingqiu's ruler.
• Su Daji revealed that Nüwa had left the fox clan a great gift in the Aolai Sea and instructed the Supreme Beginning Sacred King to retrieve it.
• Su Daji asked the Nine Tails Princess to bury her with King Zhou, Di Xin, and the princess promised to fulfill the wish.
• Su Daji entered a red coffin and her Residual Thought vanished, causing the Ancient Immortal Secret Realm to shake and begin collapsing.

Zhong Shan, Nine Tails Princess, and Su A Fo traveled to Aolai Sea, where Nüwa's lost treasure was rumored to lie. They arrived to find the ocean immense and still unexplored, and began by acquiring a map of the waters.

• Su A Fo told Zhong Shan that news of Nüwa's lost treasure in Aolai Sea had spread, drawing experts from across the Wind Tomb Territory.
• Nine Tails Princess emerged from seclusion, agreed to travel to Aolai Sea with Zhong Shan, and bargained Su A Fo into giving her two Great Immortal Artifacts for a place in their party.
• Nine Tails Princess told Zhong Shan that she had raised his merit from Baron to Viscount, while Su A Fo tried and failed to obtain a similar favor.
• After three months of travel, Zhong Shan, Nine Tails Princess, and Su A Fo reached Aolai Sea and found no sign of the treasure despite many experts gathering there.
• Zhong Shan proposed learning the area before searching, and Su A Fo paid three hundred Immortal Stones for a local cultivator's map.

Zhong Shan investigated the circumstances of Supreme Sage’s death while searching Aolai Sea for Nüwa’s legacy treasure, then learned that a Saintess from his former world was under attack. Believing she might be a woman from his past, he rushed to the battlefield and began fighting the Sea Shark Clan.

• Zhong Shan studied reports on Aolai Sea and learned that Supreme Sage had died there on the sixth of June at noon, five months later.
• Hong Xiao reported that a million Sea Shark Clan members were besieging a Saintess of Purple Firmament Dao Field who had come from Zhong Shan’s Small Chiliocosm World.
• Zhong Shan recalled a woman from his past and hurried five hundred thousand li west to the battlefield, while Nine Tails Princess and Su A Fo followed.
• Zhong Shan killed seven Sea Shark Clan members who blocked his way, then used Heavenly Law: Ten Thousand Waves to freeze the sea and kill nearly ten thousand more.
• When tens of thousands of Sea Shark Clan members surrounded Zhong Shan, he blasted them apart, and Su A Fo and Nine Tails Princess arrived in time to witness the attack.

Zhong Shan rescued Zi Xun from the Sea Shark Clan and stunned the gathered experts by killing the Great Immortal Sixteenth Elder with one Opening Heaven Palm. After Hong Xiao’s troops routed the fleeing clan members, Zhong Shan brought the captured Little Prince to Zi Xun.

• Zhong Shan slaughtered his way through the Sea Shark Clan army as the Nine Tails Princess and Su A Fo joined the assault.
• Zhong Shan saw Zi Xun inside the Sea Island barrier, and the Sea Shark Clan Little Prince ordered the Sixteenth Elder to kill him.
• Zhong Shan used the Opening Heaven Palm to destroy the Sixteenth Elder’s world and crush him to fragments.
• Hong Xiao ordered his two hundred thousand troops to kill the fleeing Sea Shark Clan members while Zhong Shan captured the Little Prince.
• Zhong Shan sealed the Little Prince’s power and brought him before Zi Xun, whose Dao Field companions thanked Zhong Shan.

Zhong Shan rescued Zi Xun from the Sea Shark Clan Little Prince, but their unresolved feelings drove her to leave the Purple Firmament Dao Field’s expedition. A month later, Zhong Shan discovered that Human Venerable had appeared at nearly half of the Aolai Sea’s major battles.

• Zhong Shan saved the Purple Firmament Dao Field survivors, but a mysterious green arrow killed the Sea Shark Clan Little Prince before he could name Sima.
• Zhong Shan and Zi Xun spoke privately; he urged her to leave the Purple Firmament Dao Field, but she left in tears after asking whether he could give her what she wanted.
• More than half a month later, Zi Xun returned to the Purple Firmament Dao Field to retrieve something and departed despite Cheng Baiyi’s efforts to keep her there.
• Cheng Baiyi ordered the Purple Firmament Dao Field forces around the Aolai Sea to find and exterminate the Sea Shark Clan.
• Hong Xiao showed Zhong Shan records of nearly a hundred battles and revealed that a black-and-yellow-robed man had watched almost fifty of them.
• Zhong Shan recognized the man as Human Venerable, the Human Vein feng shui Master who held the Chaos Bell.

Zhong Shan fought four Sea Shark Clan elders in his divine realm, but the clan was annihilated by Cheng Baiyi before the conflict could fully conclude. After absorbing the elders and their artifacts, Zhong Shan advanced to Heavenly Immortal Fifth Level, while Sima Qing began planning a new scheme against the Purple Firmament Saintess.

• The Sea Shark Clan's Second, Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Elders confronted Zhong Shan, who drew them into his divine realm to fight.
• Zhong Shan devoured three elders and their Great Immortal Artifacts, leaving the Second Elder alive and raising his cultivation to Heavenly Immortal Fifth Level.
• The Fourth Elder arrived and revealed that Cheng Baiyi had annihilated the Sea Shark Clan, then Cheng Baiyi crushed the Second and Fourth Elders with a white palm.
• Cheng Baiyi departed after facing Zhong Shan, who returned to the main hall with the Nine Tails Princess and the others.
• Sima Qianjun told Sima Qing that Cheng Baiyi had destroyed the Sea Shark Clan, and Sima Qing decided to devise a new plan after their attempt on the Purple Firmament Saintess failed.

Cheng Baiyi learned of Zhong Shan's past connection with Zi Xun and grew resentful, while news of Nüwa's Five Colors Divine Stone drew Zhong Shan and his companions to Ghost Island. There, amid a vast formation and tens of millions of gathered experts, Cheng Baiyi publicly challenged Zhong Shan to a palm exchange.

• Cheng Baiyi learned that Zi Xun and Zhong Shan had belonged to the Kaiyang Sect and that she had introduced him to the Great Luo Heavenly Dynasty, and he grew angry.
• The Human Venerable rallied thousands of followers to carry out the Divine Emperor's undertaking at the Aolai Sea.
• Su A Fo told Zhong Shan and the Nine Tails Princess that a nine-zhang Five Colors Divine Stone had appeared on Ghost Island and could be used to create an Ancient Immortal-level incarnation.
• Zhong Shan, Su A Fo, the Nine Tails Princess, and Hong Xiao reached Ghost Island and found a deadly formation of shifting Black Holes blocking the island, with millions of experts gathered outside.
• Cheng Baiyi called out Zhong Shan and challenged him to a public palm exchange, claiming he would not kill him.

Cheng Baiyi challenged Zhong Shan to a public palm spar, hoping to prove himself stronger, and Zhong Shan accepted after judging that Cheng Baiyi was still a Great Immortal. As Zhong Shan unleashed his eightfold strength, Sima Qianjun secretly fired a Great Immortal Artifact arrow at his back.

• The Nine Tails Princess accused Cheng Baiyi of repaying Zhong Shan’s rescue of the Purple Firmament Saintess with ingratitude, and Zhong Shan questioned why Cheng Baiyi had chosen to challenge him now.
• Zhong Shan accepted Cheng Baiyi’s challenge and told the Nine Tails Princess that Cheng Baiyi had not yet reached the Ancient Immortal Realm.
• Zhong Shan and Cheng Baiyi struck palms across the sea, and their powers met in a stalemate that astonished the onlookers.
• Cheng Baiyi pushed Zhong Shan’s silver palm back, so Zhong Shan activated the seventh level of Heavenly Demon Body Tempering and raised his strength eightfold.
• Sima Qianjun aimed a Great Immortal Artifact bow at Zhong Shan and fired a golden arrow toward his back while Zhong Shan was focused on Cheng Baiyi.

Zhong Shan defeated Cheng Baiyi’s palm and survived Sima Qianjun’s ambush when the Emperor Painting returned the arrow and killed its shooter. As Cheng Baiyi refused to accept defeat, the Ghoul Chess Saint challenged him and the Nine Tails Princess publicly taunted him.

• Zhong Shan unleashed eightfold power with the Opening Heaven Palm and dispersed Cheng Baiyi’s palm.
• Sima Qianjun fired a Golden Long Arrow at Zhong Shan, but the Emperor Painting sent it back and killed Sima Qianjun.
• The Nine Tails Princess ordered Hong Xiao to capture the people on Sima Qianjun’s island, while spectators marveled at Zhong Shan’s strength.
• Cheng Baiyi demanded another round, but Zhong Shan rebuked him for refusing to accept the result.
• The Ghoul Chess Saint stepped in to challenge Cheng Baiyi, and the Nine Tails Princess accused Cheng Baiyi of scheming against Zhong Shan.

Purple Firmament Sect Master and Taiyi Sacred King gathered with other experts to examine the Jade Void Kunlun Great Array around Ghost Island, and Mr. Li arranged for Sima Qing to break it with the Imitation Immortal Execution Four Swords. As tens of millions assembled for the Five Colors Divine Stone, Human Venerable prepared a soul sacrifice, and Sima Qing finally raised the sword formation against the array.

• Purple Firmament Sect Master appeared and challenged Zhong Shan before Ghoul Chess Saint stepped in to protect him.
• Taiyi Sacred King arrived to claim Qingqiu's interest in the Five Colors Divine Stone, and the assembled experts identified the barrier as the Jade Void Kunlun Great Array.
• Mr. Li revealed that Sima Qing would use the Imitation Immortal Execution Four Swords to break the formation.
• Human Venerable learned that nearly fifty million people had gathered near Ghost Island and ordered preparations for a soul sacrifice to continue.
• After another five days, Sima Qing arrived with the four swords and deployed the Immortal Execution Sword Formation around Ghost Island.

The Immortal Execution Sword Formation and Jade Void Kunlun Great Array destroyed each other, exposing the Five Colors Divine Stone on Ghost Island. Taiyi Sacred King warned that it could not be taken because it suppressed immense karma and an unknown being, leaving the gathered experts wondering what was sealed beneath the island.

• The two peerless arrays clashed and broke apart, while their backlash left nearly a thousand Taiyi Sacred Court officials collapsed.
• Dozens of experts rushed toward the Five Colors Divine Stone but died when the surrounding Black Qi touched them.
• The Human Venerable ordered his subordinates to begin the Blood Sea Starry Sky Soul Sacrifice on a nearby island.
• As the Supreme Beginning Sacred King and the Purple Firmament Sect Master approached Ghost Island, Taiyi Sacred King stopped them and warned that the stone must not be taken.
• Taiyi Sacred King explained that the stone suppressed immense karma, recounting how the stone on Flower Fruit Mountain had helped free Patriarch Bodhi from a seal.
• Taiyi Sacred King revealed that even the Primal Sage had avoided the karma beneath Ghost Island and had tasked the Taiyi Sacred Court with guarding it.

Taiyi Sacred King warned the gathered cultivators that the Five Colors Divine Stone sealed a ferocious demon, but Nine Tails Princess stirred their greed by suggesting the demon might reward whoever freed it. A blood-sea formation then trapped the area and began sacrificing countless souls to break the seal, while Human Venerable revealed that he had activated it to release the being beneath the stone.

• Taiyi Sacred King explained that the Five Colors Divine Stone predated the Seven Sages’ plan and sealed a demon even the Primal Sage had feared to provoke.
• Nine Tails Princess argued that the demon might be harmless or grateful, rekindling the gathered cultivators’ desire to take the Five Colors Divine Stone.
• A blood sea swept toward Ghost Island, killing cultivators and turning their souls into ghosts as stars seemed to fall from the sky.
• Taiyi Sacred King identified the Blood Sea Starry Sky Soul Sacrifice formation and warned that it was meant to feed the sealed demon with billions of souls.
• Human Venerable confirmed that a thousand Heavenly Immortals had activated the formation and said the souls’ energy would free the lord beneath the Five Colors Divine Stone.

Zhong Shan survived the Blood Sea Starry Sky Soul Sacrifice grand array, escaped a Black Hole by absorbing its laws, and swallowed the Five Colors Divine Stone to raise his cultivation. As Ghost Island’s seal began breaking and a peerless ferocious demon neared release, Purple Firmament Sect Master and Taiyi Sacred King wondered why it had happened so soon.

• The grand array trapped cultivators in a crimson Blood Sea while falling stars, Black Holes, and chaotic space killed many of them.
• Ghoul Chess Saint protected Nine Tails Princess and Su A Fo as the array separated them from other cultivators.
• Zhong Shan was sucked into a Black Hole, absorbed its laws with his Divine World, and used the Emperor Painting to make it disappear.
• Guided by the Red Phoenix Pink Lotus, Zhong Shan reached Ghost Island, clashed briefly with Sima Qing, and took the Five Colors Divine Stone using the Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail.
• The Eight Extremes Heavenly Tail digested the stone, raising Zhong Shan to the peak of Heavenly Immortal Seventh Level.
• Black Qi erupted across Ghost Island as Purple Firmament Sect Master and Taiyi Sacred King realized the ferocious demon was about to break free earlier than expected.

Ghost Carriage emerged from the seal at Ghost Island, revealing a terrifying nine-headed form and confronting Taiyi Sacred King. Human Venerable arrived with the Divine Emperor’s order, and Ghost Carriage departed through a void passage, leaving Taiyi Sacred King wounded by his ominous blood.

• The seal at Ghost Island broke, and Ghost Carriage rose from a black void as the surviving cultivators fled or watched.
• Ghost Carriage targeted Taiyi Sacred King, whose Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover could not stop a drop of Ghost Carriage’s blood from reaching him.
• Human Venerable arrived with the Chaos Bell, identified Ghost Carriage as the one he had released, and relayed the Divine Emperor’s order for him to follow his arrangements.
• Ghost Carriage accepted the Chaos Bell, opened a passage through the void, and left with Human Venerable and his followers after glancing toward Zhong Shan.
• Supreme Beginning Sacred King explained that Ghost Carriage’s blood brought misfortune and identified him as an Ancient Ferocious Beast and the ancestor of Nine Phoenix.
• Taiyi Sacred King spat blood, then vanished, while the Purple Firmament Sect Master watched him leave.

Zhong Shan witnessed four powerful figures descend, including three Great Sages, after Ghost Carriage’s seal released spirits. The gray-robed sage erased the seal’s evils and declared that the Mandate of Heaven had been set before departing.

• The Purple Firmament Sect Master noticed Zhong Shan’s cultivation had risen to the Heavenly Immortal Seventh Level and ambiguously admitted he might kill him.
• A Heavenly Ghost emerged from Ghost Carriage’s seal, and the Purple Firmament Sect Master destroyed it while more spirits continued to shriek within.
• A white pillar of light descended upon a gray-robed man, whose overwhelming aura silenced the spirits and subdued the spectators.
• Three more figures descended in pillars of light, and Zhuangzi bowed to the gray-robed sage as the other two revealed themselves as sages.
• The gray-robed sage destroyed the seal and its spirits, then declared that the Mandate of Heaven had been set before leaving his host to plunge toward the sea.

After the Sages departed, Zhuangzi explained that the newly emerged Sage was the Mitian Sage and claimed responsibility for the missing Five Colors Divine Stone. He appraised the Supreme Beginning Sacred King’s sword, then offered to examine Zhong Shan’s weapon and accept him as a disciple, but Zhong Shan refused.

• The two remaining Sages departed, and the Supreme Beginning Sacred King greeted Zhuangzi with respect because of his ties to Qingqiu.
• Zhuangzi told the Supreme Beginning Sacred King to announce that he had taken the Five Colors Divine Stone, then revealed that the new Sage was the Mitian Sage.
• The Ghoul Chess Saint explained the Mitian Sage’s history and described Zhuangzi’s three categories of swords: the Emperor’s Sword, the Vassal’s Sword, and the Commoner’s Sword.
• Zhuangzi examined the Supreme Beginning Sacred King’s sword and judged that he had reached the Vassal’s Sword realm but had not yet attained the Emperor’s Sword.
• Zhuangzi offered to examine Zhong Shan’s saber and take him as his disciple, but Zhong Shan declined, saying he would bow only to Heaven and Earth after Tian Xingzi’s death.

Zhong Shan refused Zhuangzi’s offer to become his disciple, then deduced that Nüwa’s legacy treasure was not the Five Colors Divine Stone but a hidden object high above the Aolai Sea. He concluded it would appear only at noon on the seventh day of the sixth month, leaving the group to prepare for its arrival.

• Zhong Shan refused Zhuangzi’s repeated invitation to become his disciple, and Zhuangzi departed after offering to help him if needed.
• The Supreme Beginning Sacred King ordered his army to withdraw and announce that Zhuangzi had taken the Five Colors Divine Stone, while the other spectators left the area.
• Zhong Shan told the Nine Tails Princess and Su A Fo that Nüwa’s legacy treasure remained connected to a secret in the Aolai Sea, not the Five Colors Divine Stone.
• The Purple Firmament Sect Master told Cheng Baiyi that he no longer wanted to kill Zhong Shan, then watched Cheng Baiyi leave with a sly expression.
• Zhong Shan deduced that Nüwa’s legacy treasure would appear high above the Aolai Sea at noon on the seventh day of the sixth month, and the Nine Tails Princess explained how the stars would make its appearance possible.