Chapter Summaries

Chu Zheng destroyed Cold Pond Spirit Lord’s incarnation and seized much of his congregation, rapidly strengthening his own divine form and following. After the Divine Court offered him a place under its protection in exchange for half his Prayer Power, Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord visited in person, but Chu Zheng refused and chose to build strength independently.

• Cold Pond Spirit Lord attacked Chu Zheng’s temple and offered Chu Zheng a Venerable’s position, but Chu Zheng struck back with Thunder Law and destroyed his Dharma body.
• Chu Zheng ordered Yuan Dazun to gather Cold Pond Spirit Lord’s believers while he used the Heavenly Fortune Technique to locate and destroy the god’s other temples.
• Chu Zheng’s following grew to nearly a million, his divine cultivation advanced to the second realm, and his main body reached the Late Nascent Soul Stage.
• A Divine Court messenger offered Chu Zheng a divine office in exchange for regularly surrendering fifty percent of his Prayer Power.
• Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord visited Chu Zheng and urged him to join the Divine Court, but Chu Zheng refused.
• Chu Zheng told Yuan Dazun to rest, build strength, and recruit believers rather than seek the Divine Court’s protection.

Chu Zheng grew his Incense Godhood Path by gathering believers and distributing Spirit Stones, while his main body advanced to Perfection of Divine Infant. His wealth began drawing millions of believers away from nearby deities, and Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord and the other Incense Gods grew alarmed.

• Chu Zheng reached the middle-ranking Spirit Lord realm, while his main body's cultivation neared Perfection of Divine Infant and the flood of believers' wishes burdened his Golden Body.
• Chu Zheng blessed Yuan Dazun, raised him to the Second Order, made him a core believer, and granted him the Mystical Invocation Method.
• Chu Zheng sent believers to collect relics, traded valuable finds for Spirit Stones, and used the wealth to attract more followers.
• Over several years, Dao Lord Zhengchu of Ten Thousand Treasures gained nearly three thousand True Believers and more than five million False Believers as his cultivation advanced.
• Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord lost nearly a million believers to Chu Zheng's Spirit Stone offerings, prompting him and other nearby Incense Gods to take notice.

Chu Zheng became a High-ranking Spirit Lord and advanced to Sixth Order Restorer, gaining Qi Gathering to Mend the Heavens. After refining the Undying Heavenly Qilin Fire and mastering Qilin Transformation, he discovered he could use residual Immortal Qi to mend Immortal treasures, but realized future Restorer advances would require rarer materials and resolved to leave Cangyun soon.

• Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord arrived at Dao Lord Zhengchu’s temple intending to recruit him into the Divine Court or eliminate him, then sensed that Chu Zheng had become a High-ranking Spirit Lord.
• Chu Zheng broke through his cultivation bottleneck to become a Sixth Order Restorer and gained the Ninth Order Divine Ability Qi Gathering to Mend the Heavens.
• In the Grand Xuan Holy Land, Chu Zheng refined the Undying Heavenly Qilin Fire, advanced his Divine Infant to its first transformation, and mastered the Immortal Art Qilin Transformation.
• Chu Zheng used Qi Gathering to Mend the Heavens to extract Immortal Qi from a fragment of Immortal bone and inject it into the incomplete Hundred Star Pill, partially restoring it.
• Chu Zheng recognized that future Restorer levels would demand many more rare treasures and decided he needed to leave Cangyun.

Chu Zheng tested Origin Qi, which violently rejected his Immortal Dao body, then advanced to the Divine Transformation Realm and drew attention across Cangyun. As he expanded his divine following through a bloody conflict, he learned that Zhao Tingxian had joined the Divine Court as a Chief God.

• Chu Zheng extracted Origin Qi from a corpse fragment, discovered that it could not coexist with Immortal Dao power, and stored it in his Small World after it destroyed part of his body and Five Elements Immortal Root.
• Chu Zheng's breakthrough to the Divine Transformation Realm shook the Holy Lands, while Bai Zhixiao suspected Chu Zheng had found a secret connected to Zhao Tingxian and ordered Grand Void elders to search Zhao Tingxian's cave mansion and dig deeper underground.
• Chu Zheng sensed Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord had abandoned plans to meet him, then several Heretical Gods destroyed more than ten of Chu Zheng's temples and killed hundreds of thousands of his believers.
• Chu Zheng used the Heavenly Divination Art to retaliate against the attacking deities, destroying their temples and gaining more than two million believers as Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord remained silent.
• Yuan Dazun told Chu Zheng that Zhao Tingxian had entered the Divine Court as its fourteenth Chief God, and Chu Zheng recognized his old acquaintance's title.

Chu Zheng faced Immortal Snake Star Lord’s demands over damaged divine statues and avoided a costly punishment by invoking his supposed connection to Zhao Tingxian. When Zhao Tingxian appeared, Chu Zheng questioned him about his past actions and the forces behind Azure Cloud’s fate, learning that Shang Cangyun followed the same path as Zhao Tingxian.

• Immortal Snake Star Lord demanded that Chu Zheng build one hundred Golden Bodies and divert incense from one million believers, but Chu Zheng refused to commit and implied his Dao Lord had gone to meet a powerful acquaintance.
• Immortal Snake Star Lord withdrew the demand and required only that Chu Zheng rebuild the damaged divine statues after suspecting he might be connected to Great Sage Heavenly Venerate of Yin-Yang Profound Spirit Suppressing Demons.
• Zhao Tingxian appeared in Chu Zheng’s temple, admitted he wished to kill Chu Zheng, and then softened after learning Chu Zheng had entered Divine Transformation by using the Sculpting God Method from Zhao Tingxian’s former cave dwelling.
• Zhao Tingxian said he had intercepted news of Azure Cloud’s outer realm passage but had not informed the Immortal Alliance, and he denied that any Demon Immortals were among the friends he told.
• Zhao Tingxian explained that Shang Cangyun’s projection took the nearest route during the battle outside the realm, buying him time, and revealed that Shang Cangyun walked the same path as he did.

Zhao Tingxian explained to Chu Zheng that only Immortal Descendants could reach the Immortal Venerable Realm, then vanished after warning him about Cangyun’s dead end and his Qi cultivation identity. Decades later, as Chu Zheng’s believers spread across the stars and he attempted to refine his spirit, Immortal Snake Star and several nearby stars were annihilated; Chu Zheng survived in the Azure Cloud Realm but lost two cultivation realms and began preparing for the dangers ahead.

• Zhao Tingxian told Chu Zheng that Immortal Descendants retained immortal blood through their family lines and were the only ones qualified to become Immortal Venerables, while True Immortals born in Cangyun faced a dead end.
• Zhao Tingxian said ancient events might have severed Cangyun’s Heavenly Fortune, warned Chu Zheng that his Qi Cultivator identity would not remain hidden, and identified his arrival in Cangyun as reincarnation before departing.
• Over the following decades, Chu Zheng expanded his believers across the Star Domain, advanced his Incense Godhood cultivation, and reached the Nascent Soul Sixth Transformation with his main body.
• When Chu Zheng learned that Zhao Tingxian had left the Divine Court, his dormant Death Tribulation stirred, and he began refining his spirit into a Primordial Spirit.
• A brilliant white light engulfed Immortal Snake Star and several nearby Life Stars, which disappeared as Chu Zheng watched through his Golden Bodies.
• Chu Zheng awoke in the Azure Cloud Realm with his cultivation reduced from the Nascent Soul Sixth Transformation to the Fourth, realized his remaining believers had saved him from total loss, and resolved to prepare for the Immortal Alliance’s dangers.

Chu Zheng emerged from seclusion to prepare for the Myriad Sects Hidden Dragon Competition, attended to Grand Xuan Holy Land’s disciples, and spent time with Song Lingxue. He arrived in Bioluo Kingdom for a planning meeting, where the other factions proposed that he and Grand Void oversee the competition preparations.

• Chu Zheng restored his cultivation to the fifth transformation of the Divine Infant Realm and emerged after being summoned to discuss the upcoming competition.
• Chu Zheng approved Fu Quanliang’s plan to select new Inner Disciples and removed the Pill Toxin from his body.
• Song Lingxue recalled their years at Song Manor and asked whom Chu Zheng would have chosen; Chu Zheng lifted her into his arms and took her to the hall.
• Fu Quanliang held the sect competition, more than three hundred disciples entered the inner sect, and Chu Zheng gave the top three Top-grade Magic Treasures and every disciple a chance to receive his guidance.
• Chu Zheng left for Bioluo Kingdom after spending more than a month with Song Lingxue, then arrived at the planning meeting and heard a proposal for him and Grand Void to oversee preparations.

Chu Zheng attended the Myriad Sects Hidden Dragon Competition in Bioluo Kingdom, where he drew attention from an information broker and learned that the Martial Hall’s envoys had arrived. He met the envoys and saw the four Super-grade Immortal Bone cultivators intended to be exchanged for Song Lingxue, bringing their imminent separation closer.

• Bai Zhixiao questioned Chu Zheng about Zhao Tingxian’s cave mansion, but Chu Zheng denied responsibility and left.
• Chu Zheng explored Bioluo Kingdom and examined the competition’s jade stele, wondering whether the event was connected to Shang Cangyun’s path.
• Shang Xiukun auctioned information about Chu Zheng, and Ye Yujiao bought it for one hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Chu Zheng learned that the Martial Hall’s special envoys had arrived in Cangyun earlier than expected and went to meet them.
• Chu Zheng met Xie Xingzhong, Yu Ning, and four Heavenly Prides with Super-grade Immortal Bones, who were intended to be exchanged for Song Lingxue.

Chu Zheng chose two fire-aligned Immortal Seeds for Grand Xuan and brought Martial Hall Special Envoys Xie Xingzhong and Yu Ning to meet his wife, Song Lingxue. He offered them resources and promised to heal their hidden injuries, then completely restored Yu Ning’s wounds, leaving her stunned.

• Chu Zheng selected Fu Xin and Rong Yucun from the four Immortal Seeds, while Grand Void Holy Land and Primal Spirit Holy Land won the remaining two through bidding.
• Chu Zheng warned Bai Zhixiao to protect his Immortal Seed, then traveled to Grand Xuan with Xie Xingzhong and Yu Ning.
• Chu Zheng introduced the envoys to Song Lingxue, and Yu Ning praised her martial talent after examining her.
• Chu Zheng offered Xie Xingzhong and Yu Ning Half-Immortal Pills and Spirit Stones in exchange for looking after Song Lingxue, then promised to heal their hidden injuries.
• Yu Ning volunteered to be treated first, and Chu Zheng used the Restoration Panel to completely heal her hidden injuries.

Chu Zheng sacrificed his Heart Essence Blood to heal Yu Ning and Xie Xingzhong, earning their trust as Xie advanced to the half-Saint realm. He traveled with them and Grand Xuan’s disciples to the Myriad Sects Hidden Dragon Competition, where Song Lingqing saw Chu Zheng and Song Lingxue again.

• Yu Ning thanked Chu Zheng after his secret method repaired her hidden wounds, then she and Xie Xingzhong agreed to stay in Tai Xuan City and return in ten days.
• Yu Ning told Xie Xingzhong that Chu Zheng had used his own Essence Blood to heal her, while Chu Zheng comforted Song Lingxue and promised to find her after she left Cangyun.
• Ten days later, Chu Zheng spent two days treating Xie Xingzhong, whose injuries healed as he advanced to the half-Saint realm; Xie promised to protect Song Lingxue.
• Chu Zheng chose to accompany Yu Ning and Xie Xingzhong to Bioluo Kingdom, bringing Song Lingxue and more than a hundred Grand Xuan disciples to the competition.
• At Myriad Dragon City, Song Lingqing watched Chu Zheng and Song Lingxue arrive with the Grand Xuan disciples and felt the distance between herself and her elder sister.

Chu Zheng reunited Song Lingqing with Song Lingxue, whose request that her sister take her place beside him sparked a fierce argument. He then met Ye Yujiao of the Divine Wood Pavilion, who revealed she wanted to marry him and ally their sects.

• Xiang Jue of the Divine Wood Pavilion gave Chu Zheng a damaged fragment of the Floating Light Bottle and invited him to meet Ye Yujiao at the Ascension Tower.
• Chu Zheng secretly brought Song Lingqing to Song Lingxue, who asked her sister to take her place beside him after she left Cangyun; Song Lingqing angrily rejected the request but agreed to watch over Chu Zheng.
• Song Lingqing left the secret chamber in anger, and Song Lingxue concealed her real reason for making the request; Chu Zheng departed to learn more about the Divine Wood Pavilion.
• At the Ascension Tower, Ye Yujiao explained that she had bought information about Chu Zheng and given him the ancient fragment as a gift.
• Ye Yujiao asked Chu Zheng to take her as his wife and said the Divine Wood Pavilion would ally itself with Grand Xuan.

Chu Zheng rejected Ye Yujiao’s marriage proposal and returned to cultivating while Grand Xuan settled in Myriad Dragon City. He used Star Gazing and Heaven Capturing to enter the Eastern Origin Realm, restored a dying boy’s body, and considered building a following there.

• Ye Yujiao offered Chu Zheng a marriage alliance backed by Divine Wood Pavilion’s resources and an Immortal Pill, but he refused, warning that his karma could bring disaster upon them.
• Chu Zheng collected the untouched spiritual delicacies, returned to Song Lingxue, and told her he had rejected the proposal.
• Ye Yujiao complained to Ye Huang, who revealed the Ye Family’s old history with Grand Xuan and advised her to observe Chu Zheng before judging him.
• More than a month later, Chu Zheng had recovered to Nascent Soul Sixth Transformation and used Star Gazing and Heaven Capturing to travel to a continent in the Eastern Origin Realm.
• Chu Zheng entered the body of a boy who had been fatally mauled by wasteland beasts and used the Restoration Panel to regrow his missing flesh.

Chu Zheng entered the Eastern Origin Realm in a child’s body and discovered that its beast totem could absorb spiritual qi and protect him. After Lie brought him to the Wangshan Tribe, Chu Zheng began studying totems and learned that his own was unusually powerful, though he still could not activate it for long.

• Chu Zheng examined the beast totem on his back and found that it absorbed spiritual qi to strengthen his body.
• Lie found Chu Zheng as the sole survivor at a massacre site and took him along while his group hunted a herd of Three-Colored Land Fish.
• Lie brought Chu Zheng to the Wangshan Tribe, where the Shaman let him stay and told Lie to bring Ying to train for the Shaman’s duties.
• Lie introduced Chu Zheng to Ying as her younger brother, and Chu Zheng saw the Beast Spirit carved on Lie’s back.
• Chu Zheng tested his own totem in a bronze mirror but stopped when activating it drained his vital essence.
• After more than two months in the Wangshan Tribe, Chu Zheng learned that totems had four levels and suspected his own was at least second-class.

Chu Zheng learned about the Eastern Origin Realm’s totem cultivators, shamans, and the Wan Clan Alliance while growing stronger under Lie’s care. He chose to remain with the Wangshan Tribe and, before turning five, set out alone to complete his coming-of-age hunt.

• Lie explained that totem cultivators needed wild-beast essence to sustain their strength, while shamans had powerful Divine Souls and longer lifespans; Ying began secluded cultivation as the next shaman.
• Lie fed Chu Zheng beast blood, and Wan Yun and Wan Song arrived to collect the tribe’s hunting tribute and medicinal supplies for the Wan Clan Alliance.
• Lie asked whether Chu Zheng’s totem belonged to a tribe they knew, but Wan Yun said Chu Zheng came from another alliance; Chu Zheng refused Lie’s offer to search for his home and chose to stay.
• After completing the Hundred Day Spiritual Transformation and reaching more than thirty thousand jin of strength, Chu Zheng asked Lie to let him undergo the coming-of-age ceremony early, and Lie agreed.
• Three days later, Chu Zheng left the Wangshan Tribe alone with a bone spear, bow, and quiver to hunt, while Lie stayed behind despite the tribespeople’s concerns.

Chu Zheng hunted a Second Order Shadow Lion with a prepared Magic Array, explored ancient ruins, and returned to the Wangshan Tribe with weapons and a First-class Totem Stone Slab. The shaman celebrated the slab as the Spirit of the Tribe’s blessing, while Chu Zheng privately resolved to replace totem faith with Qi cultivation.

• Chu Zheng spent two days preparing a Magic Array, lured the Shadow Lion into it, and killed it despite being struck apart by the beast’s boulder.
• Chu Zheng explored the ruins of the Red Bear Tribe, restored several ancient weapons, and found a Totem Stone Slab recording a First-class Totem.
• After nearly five days away, Chu Zheng returned to the Wangshan Tribe dragging a brown striped leopard and the Shadow Lion’s head.
• The shaman recognized the slab as a First-class Totem, and Chu Zheng declared that his own ability—not the Spirit of the Tribe—had brought it back.
• Chu Zheng resolved to gradually replace the Eastern Origin Realm’s faith in totems with Qi cultivation.

Chu Zheng sought out the shaman Luan and studied the Bone Scripts to learn about totem cultivation and the history of humanity in the Eastern Origin Realm. After reading them for half a month, he understood the broad stages of totem cultivation and had entered the youth stage ahead of schedule.

• Lie questioned Chu Zheng about the Shadow Lion and Talisman Soldiers, then praised him for bringing new hope to the Wangshan Tribe.
• Lie gave Chu Zheng the Dragon Bone Spear and took him to meet the shaman Luan, who agreed to let him read the Bone Scripts.
• Chu Zheng read the Bone Scripts and learned how humanity developed Beast Spirit totems, Heavenly Patterns, Talisman Soldiers, and shamanic arts to survive against desolate beasts.
• After studying the scripts for half a month, Chu Zheng learned that totem cultivators relied on their totems and desolate beast flesh, blood, and vital essence to grow stronger.
• Chu Zheng concluded that totem cultivation was divided into six age-based stages and that he had advanced from childhood into youth.

Chu Zheng learned more about totems and the shaman’s life, then prepared the Wangshan Tribe for the approaching cold wave by finding spirit-ore veins and an Earth Flame. He returned and demonstrated how to forge ore into talisman soldiers, introducing a new weapon-making method to the tribe.

• Ying gave Chu Zheng Tendon Strengthening Pills, and he quickly consumed nearly all of them, greatly increasing his strength.
• Chu Zheng planned to locate spirit-ore veins and a fire seed so the Wangshan Tribe could forge weapons and prepare during the cold wave.
• Lie returned from a hunt injured after encountering an Ice Scale Flood Dragon and warned that the cold wave was coming sooner than expected.
• Chu Zheng found several mineral veins, killed an Earth Flame Dragon, and obtained its Second Order spirit flame.
• Chu Zheng returned to the Wangshan Tribe and forged spirit ore into an arrow marked with an array pattern, then explained that ore could be made into weapons.
• Shan and Tuo used their own spirit flames to forge ore into battle axes, while the shaman recorded the new development.

Chu Zheng and Lie traded the Wangshan Tribe’s talisman soldiers at an ancient market, where Chu Zheng obtained a Celestial Spirit Race Supernatural Bone. After returning, Chu Zheng repaired the bone and forged a small storage bag while the tribe began testing its new smelting furnace.

• Lie recovered with Chu Zheng’s help, then took Chu Zheng and thousands of talisman soldiers to a market before the cold tide.
• At the market, Lie traded the talisman soldiers to Bai Zhong for blood essence, spiritual medicine, a Melting Bead, and an incomplete Supernatural Bone.
• Lie gave the Supernatural Bone to Chu Zheng, who learned it could grant an Innate Supernatural Ability and that the Celestial Spirit Race traded such bones for supplies.
• Lie sold all the talisman soldiers, bought materials for a smelting furnace, and returned to the Wangshan Tribe with Chu Zheng.
• Chu Zheng repaired the Supernatural Bone, raising its chance of awakening an Innate Supernatural Ability to fifty percent, then forged a small storage bag.
• Chu Zheng returned to find the tribe’s furnace built and undergoing trial operation.

As the cold tide approached, Chu Zheng watched the Shaman replace Lie’s totem with a powerful bear totem, a process that left her life essence exhausted. Before Chu Zheng left the hall, the Shaman revealed that he reminded her of an ominous being from the Other Domain and entrusted Lie with a matter concerning him.

• With the cold tide nearing, Chu Zheng stayed underground and cultivated until he forged Jade Bone.
• The Shaman summoned Chu Zheng and Ying to watch as she removed Lie’s old totem and carved a bear totem onto his back.
• After Lie’s new totem took hold, Chu Zheng restored his injuries but found that the Shaman’s Divine Soul and life essence could not be restored.
• The Shaman confirmed that Ying had memorized the carving and told Chu Zheng to leave before speaking privately with Lie.
• The Shaman told Lie that Chu Zheng’s aura resembled that of an ominous figure she had encountered nearly a thousand years earlier, an evil ghost from the Other Domain.

The Wangshan Tribe buried the dying shaman beside Chuming, and Ying took over her duties while Chu Zheng helped strengthen the tribe. After a nearly four-year cold tide, Chu Zheng returned to the surface, discovered a nearby tribe destroyed by a colossal beast, and came back to find the Wan Clan Tribe inviting Wangshan to a Beast Hunting Grand Celebration.

• Lie told Chu Zheng that the shaman had passed away and took him and several warriors to bury her beside Chuming.
• Ying learned that her mother Ya had passed her power to Ying at birth, and she resolved to protect the tribe as its shaman.
• During the prolonged cold tide, Ying served as shaman while Chu Zheng advanced his cultivation and taught warriors basic methods for drawing in Spiritual Energy.
• After the cold tide receded, Lie led Wangshan's strongest warriors out to clear nearby threats, and the tribe returned to the surface a month later.
• Chu Zheng ventured more than twenty thousand li from Wangshan, found a nearby tribe destroyed by a single beast's claw, and collected its remaining Talisman Soldiers and Bone Script fragments.
• Chu Zheng returned to find that the Wan Clan Tribe had brought gifts and invited Wangshan to the Beast Hunting Grand Celebration.