Chapter Summaries

Shi Yongheng formed three Flowers of the Great Dao, broke through to the Heavenly God Realm, and drew a terrifying lightning tribulation while testing his new cultivation method. As onlookers gathered, he endured the lightning and revealed his self-created Dragon God Technique.

• Shi Yongheng used his gathered medicines and blood essences to form three one-petaled Flowers of the Great Dao, then advanced from Saint Sacrifice to the Heavenly God Realm.
• A fierce lightning tribulation struck the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm, and observers realized Shi Yongheng was undergoing it after creating a new cultivation method.
• Shi Hao, Shi Yi, Qin Hao, Cao Yusheng, the Lunar Jade Rabbit, and Three Gold arrived to watch over Shi Yongheng in case anyone attacked him.
• Shi Yongheng grew dozens of yards tall and let the lightning temper his body and flowers while he used the Willow Deity Method to restore his life force.
• Shi Yongheng manifested several incomplete precious techniques, and Shi Hao explained that he had created the Dragon God Technique himself.

Shi Yongheng survived his tribulation, reached the tenth heavenly palace, and recovered with the Immortal Pool’s tribulation lightning liquid. He declared his determination to forge his own cultivation path and urged his companions to value personal strength over treasures, leaving the watching cult masters wary of his ambitions.

• Shi Yongheng entered the tenth heavenly palace and found the Slaying Immortal Platform and the Immortal Pool.
• Shi Yongheng drank most of the five-colored tribulation lightning liquid, healed his injuries, and meditated on the gains from his tribulation.
• Shi Yongheng sent the remaining liquid to Shi Yi, Shi Hao, Qin Hao, Three Gold, Cao Yusheng, and the Lunar Jade Rabbit, who divided it among themselves.
• Shi Yongheng told Shi Yi that he intended to forge his own cultivation method despite the risk, declaring that he would become eternal or die trying.
• Shi Yongheng warned Shi Hao and Qin Hao not to rely on external bones and urged them to focus on their own strength.
• The watching cult masters grew wary of Shi Yongheng’s confidence, while the Ten Crown King, Zhe Xian, Yue Chan, the Witch, and Yun Xi were stirred by his words.

Shi Yongheng absorbed immortal blood and comprehended the Immortal Dao Domain, then nearly destroyed himself while trying to build the Dao within his body. He survived through nirvana and emerged vastly stronger, with signs that his 1,296 blood acupoints could become heavenly passages.

• Shi Yongheng spent six months consolidating his cultivation before discovering an Immortal Dao Domain burial site and obtaining immortal blood.
• Shi Yongheng used the blood to comprehend the Dao and decided to seek his own Dao within his body.
• Shi Yongheng drew Order Divine Chains into himself, nearly perished as his body and soul broke down, and experienced the Willow Deity's cycle of growth, destruction, and rebirth.
• Shi Yongheng recovered through the vitality of his 1,296 points of light and deepened his understanding of the Willow Deity Method and his other techniques.
• Shi Yongheng awakened with strength increased hundreds or thousands of times and found that his Unique Heavenly Passage had expanded dramatically.
• Shi Yongheng failed to channel his heavenly passage through the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, but discovered signs that his 1,296 major blood acupoints could become heavenly passages.

After the Immortal Dao Arena fully appeared, Shi Hao entered its hundred-battle challenge to claim the Creation. He won eight hundred consecutive battles, leaving the arena surrounded by the corpses of powerful opponents.

• Shi Yongheng emerged from seclusion and saw Zhe Xian, Ning Chuan, and Shi Hao gathered near the ancient palace and forming arena.
• The Immortal Dao Arena fully appeared, while a massive crack spread through the small worlds and sect masters outside tried to force their way in.
• Shi Hao stepped onto the arena after learning that challengers had to win one hundred consecutive battles before resting.
• Shi Hao defeated his opponents, killing Lightning Prince during his eighty-sixth battle and passing the hundred-win challenge.
• Shi Hao stayed on the arena and continued fighting until he had won eight hundred consecutive battles and killed several hundred opponents.

Gu Jianyun and Ning Chuan dominated the arena, defeating challengers and winning hundreds of matches. After Ning Chuan stepped down to recover, the Ten Crown King entered the arena, shocking the crowd.

• Gu Jianyun stood unchallenged until he had won ninety-nine matches, then killed a former rival who wielded the Boundless Blood Scripture.
• Gu Jianyun defeated a challenger bearing a Heavenly God artifact, but left the arena after spotting Ning Chuan.
• Ning Chuan took the arena and won four hundred consecutive matches, including a battle against an ancient freak with a Heavenly God artifact.
• Ning Chuan stepped down to preserve his strength after noticing Shi Hao recovering, along with Zhe Xian, the Ten Crown King, and Shi Yi.
• The Ten Crown King, shrouded in Chaos energy, entered the arena, and the crowd recognized him as the undefeated figure from the Immortal Ancient Era.

The Ten Crown King and Zhe Xian began a clash of peerless techniques as Shi Hao completed his transformation and challenged Ning Chuan. The two battles shook the ancient arena, and Shi Hao broke free of Ning Chuan’s void-refining technique to strike back.

• The Ten Crown King killed a challenger wielding a Heavenly God artifact, then faced Zhe Xian on the arena.
• The Ten Crown King and Zhe Xian revealed that they had entered the Immortal Ancient Era in the same lifetime and exchanged more than a hundred blows using techniques of the Ten Fiends.
• Shi Hao completed his transformation as Ning Chuan challenged him, and both pairs of young Supremes began fighting on the arena.
• Shi Hao and Ning Chuan unleashed powerful arts that tore open the void and provoked visions of blood, ghosts, gods, and demons.
• Ning Chuan used One Origin Refines the Void and his Dragon Patterns to restrain Shi Hao, but Shi Hao broke free with the Thunder Emperor Secret Technique and charged forward with a lightning-wreathed fist.

Shi Hao, Ning Chuan, and the ancient prodigies clashed in a chaotic arena melee as more challengers arrived. The battle continued with Gu Jianyun badly wounded and additional mysterious fighters entering the fray.

• The Ten Crown King joined Shi Hao and Ning Chuan's fight, while Ning Chuan and Zhe Xian battled over their past encounter in the Fiend Nest.
• Shi Hao fought Zhe Xian with the Kunpeng Technique, and Ning Chuan charged Shi Hao as the fighters crossed paths in the melee.
• Gu Jianyun entered the arena, but Chang Gong Yan blocked his path before Shi Hao challenged him and made him stagger back bleeding.
• Shi Yi attacked Gu Jianyun with beams from his Double Pupil, and the Divine Flame Man and Zi Yanfei also targeted him.
• Feng Wu, Yue Chan, Witch, Qin Hao, and Li Yunchong were quickly knocked from the arena as Gu Jianyun seethed over his injuries.
• More ancient prodigies entered, including a woman carrying a miniature volcano with a small coffin in its lava and a golden-haired woman surrounded by golden haze.

Shi Hao broke through the arena’s light gate, freeing himself from the World Tree’s laws, and the other young Supremes followed him into the passage. They reached a chamber of ancient coffins, where Shi Yongheng revealed his overwhelming strength and began studying an Immortal King-level scripture.

• Shi Hao fought Zi Yanfei and the other Supremes, then charged through the expanding gate of light and escaped the World Tree’s restraint.
• Qing Yi, Ten Crown King, Ning Chuan, Shi Yi, Cao Yusheng, Chang Gong Yan, Shi Yongheng, and other experts entered the gate, traveling through a passage of laws toward the Wall of Despair.
• The group arrived in a chamber of ancient coffins and found Shi Hao unable to gain the acknowledgment of any coffin.
• Shi Yongheng gained the acknowledgment of one of the largest coffins, and Ning Chuan attacked him but failed to harm him.
• Shi Hao and the other Supremes recognized Shi Yongheng, who warned Ning Chuan to stop provoking him and then studied the scripture inside his coffin.

Shi Hao fought off a coalition of ancient freaks and powerful geniuses during the arena melee, then was selected for teleportation when a rift destabilized the arena. As everyone tried to stop him from leaving, he used his treasures and techniques to withstand their attacks.

• The Ten Crown King attacked the newcomers, triggering an unprecedented melee in which Shi Hao, Zhe Xian, Ning Chuan, Shi Yi, and other experts fought.
• The young king of Fire Cloud Cave and three other ancient freaks ambushed Shi Hao with Heavenly God artifacts, but Shi Hao used the Myriad Spirits Diagram and Dragon God Technique to destroy them.
• The Divine Flame Man tried to suppress everyone with a fragment of the Samsara Disk, but the Ten Crown King and Zhe Xian countered it with their treasures.
• A widening rift destabilized the arena, which chose Shi Hao for teleportation because he had won eight hundred consecutive matches.
• The Ten Crown King, Zhe Xian, Ning Chuan, Shi Yi, and the other geniuses attacked Shi Hao to stop him from leaving, but Shi Hao fought back using his armor, the Myriad Spirits Diagram, and the ancient ship's scale.

Shi Hao completed his tribulation, disrupted Ning Chuan’s, and fought him as the Immortal Ancient Ruins’ rift widened. Outside powers broke into the ruins as the trial ended, and sect masters hunted for Shi Hao and the other treasure-bearing geniuses; Tian Zi escaped with the World Tree sapling under the Emperor Clan’s protection.

• Shi Hao completed his God King tribulation, interrupted Ning Chuan’s tribulation to seize Tribulation Lightning Liquid, and defeated him in a fight.
• Ning Chuan used the Immortal Dao Hand Bone to widen the great rift, allowing sect masters and Heavenly Gods from outside to enter as the trial ended and the surviving geniuses were sent out.
• Sect masters sealed the area around the returning geniuses, searching for Shi Hao and others who had obtained treasures.
• Shi Yongheng unleashed a Sea of Undead and killed a young genius, while Zhe Xian used the Heavenly Horned Ant’s horn to break through the void seal and flee.
• Tian Zi tried to escape with the World Tree sapling, but the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts moved to seize it before a member of the Emperor Clan carried Tian Zi away on a stone arch bridge.

Shi Hao was trapped by the sect masters and badly injured as they tried to kill or capture him, while Shi Yongheng fought them elsewhere. Qi Daolin and the Undying Being arrived to protect Shi Hao, but the sect masters turned their hostility toward them.

• The sect masters sealed the region with formations, intercepted Shi Hao and dozens of other geniuses, and began fighting over who would claim him.
• The Celestial Race's protector and other sect masters attacked Shi Hao, who used the Myriad Spirits Diagram to resist before being struck down by the Underworld Master.
• Shi Hao used an ancient talisman to severely wound a Luofu True Valley elder, and Shi Yongheng took advantage of the distraction to kill him.
• Qi Daolin appeared after the sect masters' juniors fell from the sky, warning that he would retaliate against anyone who harmed his disciple.
• The Undying Being arrived and revealed that he had killed more Heavenly Gods, while Qi Daolin drew the wounded Shi Hao to safety.
• The sect masters threatened Qi Daolin and the Undying Being, and the Temple expert launched an attack against them.

Willow Deity returned during the confrontation between the sect masters, killing a blood bat with a single golden leaf and stopping the fighting. Willow Deity urged everyone to end their internal conflict as the Border Wasteland faced coming chaos.

• Qi Daolin defended Supreme Hall and Huang against Immortal Palace's second-in-command, who threatened to attack him.
• The Undying Being confronted Immortal Palace's second-in-command, while Yue Chan, the Witch, and Cao Yusheng asked their allies whether they would intervene for Huang.
• The Lord of Heavenly Kingdom battled Shi Yongheng as the Dao Protector of the Celestial Race called on the sects to attack together.
• Golden willow leaves appeared in the sky, and one leaf pierced the blood bat's forehead, killing the sect master.
• The Peacock God Lord recognized Willow Deity and greeted it with reverence.
• Willow Deity warned that war would soon engulf the Border Wasteland and called on the factions to end their internal conflict.

The Willow Deity returned to protect Shi Hao and Qi Daolin as the sect masters demanded the youths be handed over. When they attacked, the Willow Deity turned the Bronze Hall against them and began overpowering their forces.

• Gu Jianyun and Ning Chuan explained that the golden Willow Tree came from the Immortal Ancient Ruins and was not the Willow Tree from the Lower Realm.
• Shi Yongheng revealed that the Willow Deity was his master, and the Willow Deity praised his growth and Shi Hao's presence.
• The sect masters refused to leave without Shi Hao, Qi Daolin, and the descendants of Sin Blood, so the Willow Deity declared that they would fight.
• The Bronze Hall rose from the Black Abyss, and its ancient voice challenged the Willow Deity as the battle erupted.
• The Willow Deity killed the master of Sword Valley and a powerful Underworld figure, then seized the Bronze Hall with golden branches and smashed a Teng Snake Clan sect master.
• The Willow Deity suppressed the Bronze Hall's power and wielded it against the attacking sect masters, shattering the void as the fight continued.

The Willow Deity defeated the forces attacking it, then accepted a request to end the battle while warning the factions not to persecute its disciples or define the descendants of Sin Blood. It revealed privately that it was only a battle imprint, and Shi Yongheng vowed to protect his fellow disciple and purge anyone who threatened them.

• The Willow Deity overwhelmed the Immortal Palace experts and defeated the Bronze Immortal Palace, while Shi Yongheng killed a sect leader with the divine dragon’s sudden attack.
• An ancient decree and a damaged axe arrived from beyond the domain, apparently asking the Willow Deity to spare its enemies, and it agreed to end the fighting.
• The Willow Deity killed several more experts from lineages that had branded people descendants of Sin Blood, declaring that no one else could define them.
• The Willow Deity secretly told Shi Yongheng and the Undying Being that it was a battle imprint, not its true body, and that its time in this world was limited.
• White Turtle, the Heaven Severing Sect leader, the Snow Phoenix Clan patriarch, the Butian Sect leader, and others came forward to mediate.
• The Willow Deity declared Shi Hao and Shi Yongheng its disciples and threatened to destroy any lineage that used its strength to bully them; Shi Yongheng vowed to handle such enemies himself.

After Willow Deity ended the battle, Shi Hao reunited with his parents and brother while the gathered factions reacted to his new backing. Willow Deity then took Shi Hao and Shi Yongheng away with Undying Being and Qi Daolin.

• Chang Gong Yan, Cao Yusheng, and Little Rabbit congratulated Shi Hao, while Willow Deity drew a crowd that included Peacock God Lord and Qi Daolin.
• Witch teased Shi Hao about Yue Chan, and Yue Chan's grand-uncle's suggestion that Shi Hao marry into the Butian Sect embarrassed Yue Chan.
• Shi Hao reunited with Qin Yining, Shi Ziling, and Qin Hao, and the Heavenly Venerable of Mount Eternal welcomed him to the Qin Clan.
• Shi Hao asked the Qin Clan to find A Man and said he would visit the clan and bring her back when he had time.
• Willow Deity carried Shi Hao and Shi Yongheng away with Undying Being and Qi Daolin.

Willow Deity revealed that it was searching for the Ultimate Land beyond the Border Wasteland, a journey that might cost it everything, and warned Shi Hao about the grief and sacrifice involved. After the great experts departed, Shi Yongheng reached the Immortal Ancient Ruins and learned that visitors from the Nine Heavens had come to test the Three Thousand Prefectures’ prodigies for entry into the new academies.

• Willow Deity told Shi Hao that its homeland and everyone it knew had been destroyed, and that it sought the Ultimate Land to fulfill a long-held wish.
• Shi Hao and Shi Yongheng vowed to grow strong enough to join Willow Deity, but it warned them that the journey would demand great sacrifice and that they must first pass the Border Wasteland.
• Willow Deity advised Shi Hao to forge his own path, suggested he visit the Heavenly God Academy, and then vanished.
• Qi Daolin announced that he was going into No Man's Land to seek the Supreme Hall's inheritance, while the Undying Being and Shi Yongheng also departed.
• Shi Yongheng arrived at the Immortal Ancient Ruins, where the Heavenly Venerable of Mount Eternal explained that Nine Heavens visitors were assessing prodigies for entry into the Saint Academy and Heavenly God Academy.

Shi Yongheng defeated Ye Gongzi, explored the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm and the Sea of Death, then reincarnated in the Eternal Life World. He awakened in the Shi Residence and reached the Supernatural Powers Secret Realm.

• Shi Yongheng explained that his master was a Supreme Giant among Immortal Kings, while Qin Hao defeated one outsider and lost to Ye Gongzi.
• Ye Gongzi challenged Shi Yongheng, who subdued and severely wounded him using the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye.
• The Nine Heavens lowered their academy admission standards, and Shi Yongheng explored the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm and tempered himself in the Sea of Death.
• When the ten-year deadline arrived, Shi Yongheng concealed himself in the Sea of Death and left his body meditating.
• Shi Yongheng awakened in the Eternal Life World as a youth of the Shi Residence and reached the Supernatural Powers Secret Realm.

Shi Yongheng arrived at the Yuhua Sect to seek a place among its disciples and was recognized as a Divine Ability Realm genius. The entrance examination began for the other applicants, who learned they would have to fight puppets made from underground demons.

• Shi Yongheng traveled to the Yuhua Sect and arrived at the Immortal-Stepping Academy, where applicants had gathered for the entrance examination.
• The applicants discussed the sect's strict rules and the danger of defeating a Divine Strength Puppet.
• Yuhua Sect examiners recognized Shi Yongheng and confirmed that he had recently reached the Divine Ability Realm, making him eligible for inner or true disciple status without taking the outer disciple examination.
• The applicants entered a vast hall, where an examiner announced that they had to defeat a Divine Strength Puppet and revealed that the puppets were made from underground demons.

The Yuhua Sect’s entrance assessment ended, eliminating Wang Hao and admitting Zhou Xuan and other successful candidates as disciples. Shi Yongheng became a true disciple, received Eternal Peak, and began studying the sect’s vast account of the world.

• Wang Hao faced the Divine Strength Puppet, was badly injured, and was rescued by an examiner before being declared eliminated.
• The examiners ended the assessment and led the successful candidates to collect robes, talismans, a Demon-Slaying Sword, martial arts manuals, and sect rules.
• Shi Yongheng was taken away after the assessment and granted Eternal Peak as a true disciple.
• Shi Yongheng saw Purple Lightning Peak, Fang Qingxue’s mountain, beside his own peak.
• Shi Yongheng opened The Worlds and explored its extensive entries on sects, dynasties, regions, creatures, and treasures.

Shi Yongheng traveled into the Abyss Rift to seek opportunities, slaughtering underground demons along the way. At his destination, a Great Ashura confronted him and demanded that he leave its territory.

• Fang Qingxue visited Shi Yongheng, then left after they exchanged polite greetings.
• After seven days of seclusion, Shi Yongheng left Yuhua Sect and traveled to the Abyss Rift.
• Shi Yongheng entered the underground world and hunted demonic beasts while gathering herbs and spiritual ores.
• A group of White-Furred Flying Zombies attacked Shi Yongheng's boat, but he electrocuted or killed them and refined their corpses.
• A Great Ashura appeared before the Pure Yang Wuji Boat, warned Shi Yongheng to leave, and readied a powerful spirit-artifact saber.