Chapter Summaries

Hatake Sakumo infiltrated Compassionate Voyage in the Land of Valleys and discovered a vast underground facility where cloned children were being cultivated. He encountered Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, but Orochimaru rescued him and faced Isshiki himself.

• Hatake Sakumo investigated Compassionate Voyage's suspicious finances and infiltrated its headquarters using a disguised identity.
• Hatake Sakumo found thousands of children with identical faces in cultivation tanks, then discovered a powerful humanoid life-form sealed in a separate room.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki surprised Hatake Sakumo and blocked his attack before knocking him into a wall and striking at him with black rods.
• Orochimaru appeared, stopped the black rods, healed Hatake Sakumo, and transported him back to the Leaf.
• Orochimaru turned to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and declared that he had finally found him.

Orochimaru and the reanimated Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Madara Uchiha faced Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and the replica of Shibai Otsutsuki. After the replica nullified their ninjutsu and its White Zetsu-like creatures absorbed Madara’s flames, Orochimaru’s Bio-Armor interfered with Isshiki’s Sukunahikona, leaving Isshiki stunned.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki identified Hagoromo Otsutsuki’s power in Orochimaru and revealed that the incubation chamber held a clone of Shibai Otsutsuki.
• Orochimaru refused Isshiki’s offer and summoned Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Madara Uchiha through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Hashirama Senju’s Wood Release and Tobirama Senju’s Flying Thunder God Technique failed against the replica’s power.
• Tens of thousands of incubation chambers shattered, releasing mutated creatures that Madara Uchiha identified as similar to White Zetsu and whose bodies absorbed his flames.
• Orochimaru explained that the creatures were replicas based on God Tree fragments and Ōtsutsuki cells, while Tobirama Senju carried the replica and Hashirama Senju prepared a wooden golem.
• Orochimaru, wearing white Bio-Armor, confronted Isshiki and disrupted his Sukunahikona, surprising him.

Orochimaru used his understanding of Ōtsutsuki power to disrupt Isshiki’s abilities as the battle destroyed Cihang Pharmaceuticals’ underground base. Isshiki suddenly began bleeding in the ruins, while Tobirama remained certain Orochimaru had already won.

• Orochimaru told Ōtsutsuki Isshiki that he had seen through his power, prompting Isshiki to charge toward Hashirama Senju’s wooden figure.
• Madara Uchiha attacked Isshiki with Susanoo, but Isshiki appeared behind him and pierced him with a black rod that stopped his body from regenerating.
• Orochimaru and Isshiki fought at close range as their clashes and Hashirama Senju’s growing wooden figure caused the underground base to collapse.
• Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and Tobirama Senju emerged above the ruins on the wooden figure as Cihang Pharmaceuticals’ headquarters collapsed around them.
• Tobirama Senju assured Hashirama Senju that Orochimaru’s victory had been decided from the beginning, and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki abruptly froze and vomited blood.

Orochimaru defeated Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with a virus he developed with Tobirama Senju to accelerate the collapse of Isshiki’s vessel, then killed him with the Grass Sword. Afterward, Orochimaru discovered a spreading black mark on his palm, and Tobirama suspected it was the Ōtsutsuki Karma used for resurrection.

• Orochimaru explained that he and Tobirama Senju had created a virus to exploit the flaws in Isshiki’s vessel and speed its collapse.
• Isshiki realized he had lost as his body disintegrated, and Orochimaru beheaded him with the Grass Sword.
• Orochimaru felt a brief disconnection from time and space after Isshiki died and wondered whether Isshiki had used a spacetime ninjutsu.
• Hashirama, Madara, and Tobirama joined Orochimaru on the battlefield, and Tobirama noticed his unease.
• Orochimaru showed the others a black-lined mark spreading across his palm, and Tobirama recognized it as possible Ōtsutsuki Karma.

After learning that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's Karma could transform him, Orochimaru activated the mark in his underground laboratory to study its effects. Isshiki appeared in Orochimaru's mental realm and challenged him, leaving the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• Orochimaru returned to Konoha and told Jiraiya and Hiruzen Sarutobi about Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, the battle in the Land of Valleys, and the Karma mark.
• Jiraiya planned to share intelligence with the other great nations, while Hiruzen Sarutobi promised to report the incident to the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire.
• Orochimaru examined the Karma and concluded that it could permanently rewrite its host's body and genetic information.
• Orochimaru entered the Body Cultivation Furnace and flooded the mark with Chakra, activating it and beginning his transformation into an Ōtsutsuki.
• Orochimaru's body developed Byakugan and a horn before he entered his mental realm, where Ōtsutsuki Isshiki appeared and threatened to take him over.

Orochimaru confronted Ōtsutsuki Isshiki in his mental realm, where allies from other worlds joined forces to overwhelm him. Isshiki’s body dissolved after Harry Osborn immobilized him and Ultraman Impat and Susanoomon struck his core.

• Orochimaru explained that Isshiki’s mental strength was limited to the Chakra system, then revealed a blue-white flame that burned Isshiki’s Spirit Body.
• Zhuge Qing appeared and joined Orochimaru as Isshiki enlarged himself into a towering giant.
• Ultraman Impat and Susanoomon emerged at equal scale and drove Isshiki onto the defensive with coordinated attacks.
• More Zhang Qis appeared, and some harried Isshiki while others watched and mocked him.
• Harry Osborn used the Mind Stone to freeze Isshiki, allowing Ultraman Impat and Susanoomon to strike his core and make his giant body crumble into points of light.

After Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s defeat, Orochimaru allowed his Golden Core to devour the energy-rich fruit formed from Isshiki’s remains. He awoke transformed toward an Ōtsutsuki, with the Body Cultivation Furnace recording nearly complete data on the change, and wondered how the Golden Core would develop.

• The dispersed motes of light gathered into a dark Purple fruit containing Isshiki’s condensed energy and life essence.
• Orochimaru felt his Golden Core craving the fruit, and Zhuge Qing explained that its Chakra might be compatible with the Golden Core.
• Orochimaru agreed to let the Golden Core consume the fruit, which vanished into it without incident.
• Orochimaru wondered whether this meant energy could pass between universes, and Zhuge Qing said Chakra’s spiritual component likely enabled the transfer.
• The other Zhang Qi figures left, and Orochimaru woke in the Body Cultivation Furnace with Byakugan and a body transformed toward the Ōtsutsuki clan.
• Orochimaru saw that the furnace had recorded 97.8% complete data on human genes transforming into Ōtsutsuki genes, and wondered what changes the Golden Core would undergo.

Zhang Qi absorbed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s purified Chakra to temper his body and spirit, preparing to break through from the Golden Core realm. After half a month of cultivation, a vast phantom Golden Core appeared in the sky as his breakthrough began.

• Zhang Qi absorbed a steady stream of Isshiki’s Chakra through his connection to Orochimaru, strengthening his body and cleansing his consciousness.
• Zhang Qi used Masaki Keigo’s photon-life experience and his connection to countless versions of himself as a guide for transforming his spirit.
• Zhang Qi’s Golden Core consumed most of the Chakra Fruit’s energy, bringing his body and spirit to the brink of their limits.
• Zhang Qi’s breakthrough began at dusk, and a colossal golden phantom of his Golden Core appeared in the sky, startling people across the region.

Zhang Qi advanced from Golden Core to Nascent Soul, displaying vast energy-manipulation abilities and declaring that he could easily destroy Hellstar. The team considered how his strength might affect future missions, while Zhang Qi warned that the Saints' legacy still held more power to uncover.

• The Central Continent Team watched Zhang Qi's Golden Core shatter and a giant of light emerge as he reached Nascent Soul.
• A heavenly tribulation gathered, recognized the giant of light, and vanished before striking.
• Zhang Qi tested his new form by draining and reshaping nearby energy, then returned to human form and described his strength.
• Zhang Qi told the team he could easily destroy Hellstar, prompting Overlord to celebrate and Zhan Lan to warn that missions could become more dangerous.
• Chu Xuan argued that the team should quickly turn the Yellow-Skinned Saints' legacy into combat strength, and Zhang Qi said they had only completed half of it.

Zhang Qi tested the innate spiritual treasures, learned that the River Chart and Luo Book could deduce the laws of the world, and used his overwhelming power to help Chu Xuan unify the Gods and Oni World. With the world nominally united, Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan turned to excavating the legacies left by the other Saints.

• Qi Tengyi showed Zhang Qi the innate spiritual treasures, and Zhang Qi activated the Eastern Emperor Bell, briefly shaking the Earth.
• Zhang Qi explained that the bell used his energy as a key and power source, prompting Chu Xuan to ask him for help accelerating their plans.
• Zhang Qi studied the treasures, discovered damage in several of them, and chose the River Chart and Luo Book for their power of deduction.
• At Chu Xuan's request, Zhang Qi appeared in an ancient Daoist robe and severed a Pacific fleet with a sword gesture, while Chu Xuan spread rumors of an immortal judging humanity's wars.
• Zhang Qi's displays of power ended resistance to Chu Xuan's conquest, and the world's leaders surrendered, leaving it nominally unified.
• Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan declared the first step complete and planned to excavate the other Saints' legacies.

Chu Xuan led a worldwide search for ancient legacies while Zhang Qi uncovered the cultivation-based workings of Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum and revived the emperor. After overpowering Qin Shi Huang, Zhang Qi learned that the emperor blamed cultivators for his suffering and asked why they had harmed him.

• Chu Xuan used state resources to locate ancient relics and supernatural beings, while he and the Central Continent Team catalogued them for research.
• Zhang Qi obtained information about the Eye of Shangri-La and Qin Shi Huang’s mausoleum, then entered the underground palace beneath Mount Li.
• Zhang Qi used the Eye of Shangri-La to lift the curse from Qin Shi Huang and the terracotta figures, awakening the emperor.
• Qin Shi Huang attacked Zhang Qi with overwhelming physical strength and elemental fire, but Zhang Qi stopped his blows and sent him crashing through the palace.
• Zhang Qi struck Qin Shi Huang down again and demanded a proper conversation; Qin Shi Huang accused cultivators of having harmed him before.

Zhang Qi learned that the First Emperor had been deceived by mysterious envoys into performing the Five Elements Dragon Transformation ritual and sealed beneath the Lishan Underground Palace. Realizing Shangri-La was likely a major Eastern legacy the envoys had sought to keep him from, Zhang Qi offered to bring the First Emperor back to life if he took him there.

• The First Emperor stopped attacking Zhang Qi after hearing his secret and asked who he was.
• The First Emperor explained that envoys from beyond the heavens had tricked him into using the Five Elements Dragon Transformation Secret Art, leaving him trapped in a terracotta body and sealed beneath the palace.
• Zhang Qi connected the secret art to other mutation-based powers in the world and suspected the pale-skinned Saints had left their own legacy there.
• The First Emperor said he had heard of Shangri-La, an immortal realm said to hold a Fountain of Youth.
• Zhang Qi concluded that the envoys had cursed and sealed the First Emperor to keep him from finding Shangri-La, then offered to revive him if he led Zhang Qi there.

Zhang Qi restored Qin Shi Huang’s arm and brought him out of the imperial mausoleum, where Qin learned about the modern world and revealed what he remembered of the route to Shangri-La. As they reached the snow region’s hidden formation, it activated a deadly cold that threatened to freeze the space around them.

• Zhang Qi used his knowledge of laws to restore Qin Shi Huang’s arm, and Qin agreed to cooperate with him.
• Zhang Qi carried Qin Shi Huang out of the imperial mausoleum and told him it was 1940 AD and that the world had changed.
• Qin Shi Huang learned that Zhang Qi and his allies had unified the world, then described the expedition that had found clues to Shangri-La.
• Zhang Qi followed Qin Shi Huang’s directions to a glacier in the snow region and detected a vast formation beneath the landscape.
• The formation unleashed icy winds and killing intent, while Zhang Qi recognized it as a safeguard left by a white-skinned lineage Sage.
• The surrounding temperature plunged below minus two hundred degrees, freezing the air into a deadly forbidden zone.

Zhang Qi used the River Chart Luo Book to analyze and take control of a formation that had brought the area close to absolute zero. After he broke the formation, the illusion of a frozen wasteland vanished, revealing the hidden paradise of Shangri-La.

• The formation plunged the surroundings toward absolute zero, terrifying Qin Shi Huang with its power.
• Zhang Qi summoned the River Chart Luo Book, which revealed the formation’s hidden geometric runes.
• Zhang Qi deduced that the runes were a simplified system for commanding the world’s laws and had exploitable weaknesses.
• The River Chart Luo Book decompiled the runes, and Zhang Qi took control of the formation and reversed its operation.
• The formation collapsed, and the frozen illusion disappeared to reveal the verdant landscape of Shangri-La.

Zhang Qi and Qin Shi Huang entered the immortal realm left behind by the Yellow-Skinned Saints and discovered that its Bagua Furnace could control the flow of time. The revelation gave Zhang Qi’s group an ideal place to cultivate, with up to one hundred days inside passing for every day outside.

• Qin Shi Huang marveled at the immortal realm while Zhang Qi realized the Saints had left behind a complete cultivation sanctuary.
• Zhang Qi and Qin Shi Huang flew to Doushuai Palace, where eight bronze giants scanned them and opened the palace gates for Zhang Qi.
• Zhang Qi found the Bagua Furnace at the center of the palace and sent a thread of true essence into it.
• The Bagua Furnace transmitted the Saints’ message, identifying the realm as Shangri-La, a base for cultivation, pill refinement, artifact forging, and inheritance.
• Zhang Qi learned that the Bagua Furnace could regulate time inside Shangri-La by up to a hundred to one compared with the outside world.

Zhang Qi used the Bagua Furnace to restore Qin Shi Huang’s human body, then gathered Doushuai Palace’s alchemy and artifact-forging knowledge. Back in Berlin, he recruited Qin Shi Huang to conquer the world with the Central Continent Team’s support.

• Zhang Qi refined Qin Shi Huang in the Bagua Furnace, removing the cursed and genetically altered parts of his body and restoring him to flesh and blood.
• Zhang Qi gave Qin Shi Huang a breathing technique, then copied Doushuai Palace’s alchemy and artifact-forging knowledge into the Digital World for a cultivation technology project.
• Zhang Qi and Qin Shi Huang returned to Berlin, where Chu Xuan reported the team’s Nazi mission rewards and the discovery of a White-Skinned Saint’s laboratory.
• Zhang Qi introduced Qin Shi Huang to the Central Continent Team and ordered him to conquer the world, promising to revive and train the Terracotta Army.
• Qin Shi Huang accepted the command, and Zhang Qi and the others returned to the Main God Space.

After returning from the Gods and Oni World, Zheng Zha learned that body cultivation suited him better than orthodox cultivation. Zhang Qi then described three ways to resolve Zheng Zha and Zhao Yingkong’s inner demons, leaving Zheng Zha to face the challenge of confronting and defeating his own.

• Zheng Zha welcomed Zhang Qi, Chu Xuan, Zhang Jie, and the others back, and Zhang Jie recounted their adventures in the Gods and Oni World.
• Zhang Qi told Zheng Zha that he was better suited to body cultivation than orthodox cultivation, and Zheng Zha eagerly chose the god-and-demon path.
• Zhang Qi shifted the discussion to Zheng Zha and Zhao Yingkong’s inner demons and offered three possible methods of resolving them.
• Zhang Qi warned that suppressing Zheng Zha’s inner demon would let it grow stronger, while separating it as a Three Corpse could leave Zheng Zha without desires.
• Zheng Zha asked about the final method, and Zhang Qi told him to face his inner demon and defeat it.

Zheng Zha awakened his fourth-stage Gene Lock and unleashed [Destruction] against Zhang Qi, who effortlessly blocked his attacks with an A.T. Field. Zhang Qi ended the fight by striking Zheng Zha down, calming his clashing energies, and beginning to use a divine ability from the Great Dream Yellow Millet Scripture.

• Zheng Zha awakened his heart demon and attacked Zhang Qi with his strongest power.
• Zhang Qi blocked Zheng Zha's initial punches with an A.T. Field.
• Zheng Zha activated [Destruction] and launched a relentless barrage, while Zhang Qi analyzed the skill and defended without moving.
• Zhang Qi struck Zheng Zha in the face and slammed him into the floor, stopping his [Destruction] state and soothing his energies.
• Zhang Qi told the exhausted Zheng Zha to sleep and began using a divine ability from the Great Dream Yellow Millet Scripture.

Zheng Zha was trapped in an illusion of the ordinary life he had longed to share with Lori, eventually forgetting his life as a Reincarnator. When a zombie outbreak erupted at a mall and threatened pregnant Lori, his buried memories and instincts surfaced, but he was powerless to stop the attack.

• Zheng Zha awoke in an office with memories of a life in which Lori had survived, grown up, and married him.
• Zheng Zha visited Lori and embraced her, then devoted himself to their peaceful married life while forgetting the Main God Space.
• After a year, Lori revealed she was pregnant, and Zheng Zha eagerly prepared to become a father.
• At a shopping mall, Zheng Zha recognized the panic and attackers as a zombie outbreak from Resident Evil.
• Zheng Zha tried to shield Lori, but, lacking his Reincarnator abilities, could only watch as a zombie bit her pregnant abdomen.

Zheng Zha relived endless dreams in which Lori died despite his attempts to protect her, until her words helped him remember he was a reincarnator and awaken the Light of the Soul. He cleaved the Hellstar Ultimate Monster in two, breaking the cycle of despair.

• Zheng Zha woke in his former life and reunited with Lori, then tried to prepare for disasters he remembered from his dreams.
• Zheng Zha watched Lori die in repeated cycles from curses, monsters, and other threats, despite seeking physical training and supernatural protection.
• Zhang Qi observed Zheng Zha's dream and understood that his helplessness and desire to protect an ordinary life had shaped his inner demon.
• Zheng Zha heard Lori tell him she did not need saving, then watched her transform into a seven-colored battle axe as her chant awakened his memories.
• Zheng Zha unlocked the fourth stage of the Gene Lock and awakened the Light of the Soul without losing control.
• Zheng Zha struck the Hellstar Ultimate Monster with the axe and split it in two.