Chapter Summaries

Chu Zheng joined Wangshan Tribe’s journey to the Beast Hunting Grand Celebration after refining a supernatural bone and awakening the Soul Snatching ability, which also appeared in his main body. The tribe reached the Wan Clan Tribe Alliance’s assembly and boarded the Celestial Luan Flying Ship, where the Wan Clan soon approached to negotiate for Wangshan Tribe’s spiritual-ore talisman soldiers.

• Lie asked Chu Zheng whether he wanted to attend the Beast Hunting Grand Celebration, and Chu Zheng agreed to go.
• Chu Zheng replaced a spinal bone with a supernatural bone, awakened Soul Snatching, and discovered the ability also appeared in his main body.
• Half a year later, Lie led Chu Zheng and half of Wangshan Tribe’s elite warriors toward the Beast Hunting Grand Celebration while Ying stayed behind.
• Wangshan Tribe arrived at the Wan Clan Tribe Alliance’s assembly, where Chu Zheng saw powerful Celestial Spirit Race warriors and the alliance’s many gathered elites.
• The tribes boarded the Eighth Order Celestial Luan Flying Ship and set off for the Thirteen Wastes.
• Members of the Wan Clan visited Wangshan Tribe to inquire about its spiritual-ore talisman soldiers.

Chu Zheng demonstrated that spirit ore could be forged into Talisman Soldiers, and Wan Xu promised to spread the discovery throughout the Wan Clan Alliance under Zhengchu’s name. After refusing Wan Xu’s offer to join the Wan Clan, Chu Zheng entered the Beast Hunting Grand Celebration alone and was ambushed by a huge creature.

• Chu Zheng forged a First Order Talisman Soldier from spirit ore, and Wan Xu realized the method’s value.
• Wan Xu discovered Chu Zheng’s extraordinary growth, offered him a place in the Wan Clan, and Chu Zheng chose to consider the offer later.
• Wan Xu promised to reward the Wangshan Tribe and promote the spirit-ore weapon method throughout the alliance under Zhengchu’s name.
• The Celestial Luan Flying Ship carried the tribes to the wasteland, where they prepared for the dangerous Beast Hunting Grand Celebration.
• Chu Zheng entered the Blood Pool, activated his Totem, and headed into the wasteland alone after Lie warned him to be careful.
• A shrill cry rang out as a massive shadow plunged from above and enveloped Chu Zheng.

Chu Zheng explored the Beast Hunting Grand Celebration, collected battle merits, and discovered a ruined temple tied to the Dao Ancestor. After restoring the Dao Ancestor Golden Body and offering incense, he received a jade box containing a Nine-Aperture Golden Core, whose owner was dead.

• Chu Zheng killed a Third Order ferocious bird with his bow, absorbed its heart's blood into his totem, and drained its blood and Qi with the Melting Bead.
• Over half a month, Chu Zheng slaughtered hundreds of savage beasts, collected Talisman Soldier fragments, and turned back toward camp after deciding he had earned enough merits for his goals.
• Chu Zheng found a valley filled with the remains of nearly twenty Eighth Order or stronger beings and searched it for clues.
• Chu Zheng restored a ruined temple and found a damaged Dao Ancestor Golden Body that looked exactly like him.
• Chu Zheng offered incense to the Dao Ancestor, received a jade box from the void, and discovered a Nine-Aperture Golden Core belonging to someone who had died.

Chu Zheng swallowed a Mystic Immortal’s Nine-Aperture Golden Core and reached Golden Core Realm Perfection, while his main body broke through to the Seven Transformations of Divine Infant. He answered a summons in the Incense Godhood Path’s starry realm and learned that a century had passed and Yuan Dazun could no longer manage his growing congregation alone.

• Chu Zheng weighed the Golden Core’s power and possible dangers, then swallowed it to advance his cultivation and improve his chances of raising his Restorer rank.
• The Golden Core drained Chu Zheng’s mana and Dao Embryo, then replenished his dantian and granted him nine Divine Abilities; he consumed the Melting Bead’s stored flesh and blood to sustain the transformation.
• After more than half a month, Chu Zheng reached Golden Core Realm Perfection and decided to return to camp for secret medicines that could help him enter Refining Spirit.
• Chu Zheng sensed a change in his main body, whose breakthrough in Myriad Dragon City raised its cultivation to the Seven Transformations of Divine Infant.
• Chu Zheng followed a summons to the Incense Godhood Path, where Yuan Dazun greeted him as the Dao Lord and Chu Zheng learned that a hundred years had passed.
• Chu Zheng learned that Yuan Dazun’s cultivation had lagged behind the growth of Chu Zheng’s believers and considered combining the totem method with the congregation.

Chu Zheng returned to the Beast Hunting Grand Celebration camp, where his rapid growth stunned Lie and his battle merits drew attention. After trading them in, he left with rare medicines and Supernatural Bones, while Wan Jue offered to make up the cost herself.

• Chu Zheng raised Yuan Dazun to the Fourth Order, branded him with a cloud totem, and gave totems to a hundred more believers.
• Chu Zheng returned to the camp and shocked Lie with his near-Prime Stage strength; Lie gave him resources from the Wan clan and pointed him toward the battle-merit exchange.
• Chu Zheng asked for secret medicine to strengthen his Divine Soul and Supernatural Bones, and Wan Jue confirmed his battle merits with a Nine-Segment Bone Needle.
• Wan Jue offered to make Chu Zheng her man, but he refused and repeated his request for the rewards.
• Wan Jue gave Chu Zheng five medicinal pills and two Supernatural Bones, declaring she would cover any missing battle merits herself.

Chu Zheng shared his Circulation of Qi Breathing Method, a new cultivation path that stirred the Eastern Origin Human Race, while advancing his own cultivation and gaining two supernatural abilities. After nearly half a month in seclusion, he emerged to face the alliance leaders and other powerful experts gathered at the Wangshan Tribe’s camp.

• Chu Zheng left the battle merit exchange, gathered defective totem slabs and secret medicines, and returned to the Wangshan Tribe’s camp.
• Chu Zheng rejected Lie’s suggestion that he marry Wan Jue, then gave Wan Xu a beast bone inscribed with the Circulation of Qi Breathing Method.
• Wan Xu promised the Wan Clan would protect Chu Zheng and spread the method, while Lie abandoned his plan to enter the hunting grounds again and later left to gather resources for the tribe’s infants.
• Chu Zheng consumed the secret medicines, entered the Spirit Refining Realm, and gained the sixth-order abilities Void Roaming and Spirit Seizing from two Supernatural Bones.
• After nearly half a month of seclusion, Chu Zheng emerged to find nearly a hundred high-ranking experts gathered at the camp, including the alliance leaders Wan Qiong, Yan Bi, and Shan Xun.

Chu Zheng presented the Circulation of Qi Breathing Method to the Three Great Clan Lords, who debated whether to kill or protect him before agreeing to keep him alive and let him remain with the Wan Clan. As the Beast Hunting Grand Celebration ended, Chu Zheng returned from the hunting grounds, having reached the Prime Stage and begun preparing for the coming beast tide.

• Chu Zheng explained how he devised the Circulation of Qi Breathing Method, and Shan Xun questioned its flaws while Wan Qiong asked whether he possessed its later stages.
• After Chu Zheng left, Shan Xun and Wan Qiong argued against killing him, and Yan Bi agreed to spare him; the Three Great Clan Lords decided he would stay in Wan Clan territory.
• Wan Qiong told Wan Jue that she could not marry Zhengchu and ordered her not to provoke him, but Wan Jue secretly remained determined to pursue him.
• Chu Zheng killed wild beasts and advanced his physique to the Prime Stage, while searching unsuccessfully for more traces of the Mystic Immortal who had left the Nine-Aperture Golden Core.
• When the recall horn sounded, Chu Zheng left the hunting grounds and returned, planning to recuperate and prepare Dao Soldiers for the coming beast tide.

Chu Zheng returned from the Beast Hunting Grand Celebration as the desolate beasts launched a major ambush, and he learned the attack may have been tied to his presence. After the Three Great Clans asked him for a new cultivation path, he demanded worship and sacrifices in exchange for methods that could help them break Heaven and Earth’s shackles.

• Chu Zheng and Lie boarded the Celestial Luan Flying Ship as the Wan Clan Alliance hastily evacuated the hunting grounds.
• Chilü, the Crimson Phoenix King, attacked the ship, and Wan Qiong fought it off while several other Beast Kings joined the ambush.
• The Celestial Luan escaped to human territory, and Chu Zheng learned that fourteen Beast Kings had attacked and that the Three Great Clan Lords had returned with injuries.
• Wan Xu brought Chu Zheng to the Wan Clan, where Wan Qiong, Yan Bi, and Shan Xun asked him to provide a new cultivation method.
• Chu Zheng demanded that every tribe worship his Golden Body Divine Statue and offer Blood Food sacrifices every ten years in return for cultivation methods and other arts.
• The three Clan Lords stood at Chu Zheng’s offer, and he began inscribing the complete Grand Cycle Qi Circulation Compendium onto a beast bone.

Chu Zheng agreed to share cultivation methods under the name Dao Lord Zhengchu, but a massive beast tide forced the clans to the front lines. He joined Wan Qiong at the battlefield, healed wounded soldiers with the Restoration Panel, and left behind a divine statue and medical texts as his following began to take root.

• Chu Zheng revealed the Grand Cycle Qi Circulation Compendium’s dangers and agreed to provide further methods if the clans spread them under the name Dao Lord Zhengchu.
• A beast tide breached the border passes and attacked human and Celestial Spirit territories, prompting Wan Qiong and the other clan lords to prepare for battle.
• Chu Zheng insisted on joining the front lines, and Wan Qiong carried him to a military camp before departing to confront the Beast Kings.
• Chu Zheng used medicine mixed with his blood and the Restoration Panel to heal the camp’s wounded, then left a Divine Statue and medical texts for the shamans.
• Chu Zheng sensed that the Golden Body in the Eastern Origin Realm had gained its first Incense and Fire Prayer Power, allowing his main body to sense the realm across the stars.

Chu Zheng's healing and growing worship made him a renowned figure among the human alliances and the Celestial Spirit Race, while his cultivation advanced to the Eighth Transformation of the Divine Infant. When the Beast Emperor shattered the Wan Clan's defenses, Chu Zheng left seclusion and went to see the Wan Clan's ultimate weapon, the Sky-Splitting Divine Crossbow.

• Chu Zheng traveled between camps, healing soldiers and shamans until Dao Lord Zhengchu's Golden Body temples spread throughout the Wan Clan Alliance.
• Over several years, Chu Zheng gained support across the Eastern Origin Human Race and the Celestial Spirit Race, and his main body advanced to the Eighth Transformation of the Divine Infant.
• Chu Zheng visited the Celestial Spirit Race, healed its people, gained resources, and maxed out his Sixth Order Restorer experience.
• After the battlefronts stabilized, Chu Zheng secluded himself to refine war armaments and spread formation techniques through his incense Golden Bodies.
• The Beast Emperor led more than ten Beast Kings in an assault that broke the Wan Clan's defenses and severely wounded Wan Qiong, who ordered the use of the Sky-Splitting Divine Crossbow.
• Chu Zheng hurried to the Wan Clan Tribe and saw the enormous crossbow bolt of the Life-Slaying Heavy Artifact.

Chu Zheng witnessed the Sky-Splitting Divine Crossbow wound a Beast Emperor, but its counterattack devastated Wan Qiong and forced the Wan Clan Alliance to abandon its Ancestral Land. Wan Qiong ordered an evacuation and said he would seal the immovable crossbow.

• Chu Zheng arrived as Wan Qiong and other experts prepared the Sky-Splitting Divine Crossbow against a Beast Emperor advancing with a vast beast tide.
• The Sky-Splitting Divine Crossbow fired across the void, killing hundreds of millions of wasteland beasts and blasting a huge wound through the White Tiger’s shoulder.
• The injured White Tiger struck through the light curtain, and Chu Zheng fled as Wan Qiong shattered his nine totems and sacrificed much of his body to block its claw.
• Wan Qiong ordered the Wan Clan Alliance to abandon what could not be carried and evacuate the Ancestral Land, saying he would seal the Sky-Splitting Divine Crossbow.
• Wan Qiong summoned the Celestial Luan Flying Ship and ordered everyone to board.

After the Beast Emperor devastated the Wan Clan’s homeland, Chu Zheng helped the human factions retreat and shared cultivation scriptures, then sought a way to strengthen Shan Xun. Three years later, he sensed the Eastern Origin Realm’s Heavenly Fortune turning against Qi Refining, while a reincarnated cultivator named Nie Longhu discovered a child practicing the Qi Cultivation Method.

• Wan Qiong ordered the Wan Clan Alliance to abandon its Ancestral Land, seal the Sky-Splitting Divine Crossbow, and evacuate toward the Yan Clan, while Chu Zheng asked him to rescue the Wangshan Tribe.
• The Beast Emperor flattened the Wan Clan’s Ancestral Land but then slept beside the crossbow, allowing the human race to halt the beast tide and establish a defensive line under the Yan Clan.
• At a council in the Yan Clan Tribe, Shan Xun proposed that the Beast Emperor might provide the human race a chance to create a Sacred Beast Totem, while Chu Zheng admitted he could not defeat it.
• Chu Zheng gave the Clan Lords Immortal Scriptures and martial scrolls, then asked Shan Xun to teach him the shaman’s cultivation method so he could try to help her break through.
• During the Beast Emperor’s three-year slumber, Chu Zheng promoted Qi cultivation, rebuilt his Golden Body, and sensed that the Eastern Origin Realm’s Heavenly Fortune was rejecting the Qi Refining Lineage.
• In the Songhe tribe, Nie Longhu encountered a child cultivating the Qi Cultivation Method and realized that someone had spread the teachings in the realm.

Nie Longhu reunited with Chu Zheng and warned him that the Incense Godhood Path endangered his future cultivation. He also explained that the Heavenly Dao limited the Eastern Origin Human Race and the White Tiger alike, leaving Chu Zheng and the clan lords to reconsider their assumptions about the crisis.

• Nie Longhu investigated the Songhe Tribe, learned about Dao Lord Zhengchu’s teachings, and recognized Chu Zheng’s face on a Divine Statue.
• Chu Zheng sensed Nie Longhu calling his True Name, hurried to meet him, and brought him to the Yan Clan’s Ancestral Land.
• Over a feast, Nie Longhu criticized Chu Zheng for following the Incense Godhood Path and warned that its accumulated prayer power and karmic ties could obstruct his Dao.
• Chu Zheng introduced the three clan lords and asked Nie Longhu about helping Shan Xun break through; Nie Longhu explained that the Heavenly Dao imposed limits on advancement in the realm.
• Nie Longhu told the clan lords that the White Tiger had also reached the realm’s limit and might never awaken from its sleep, and he insisted the Eastern Origin Human Race would not perish while the heavens remained.

Chu Zheng learned from Nie Longhu that spreading the Qi Cultivation Method across the Eastern Origin Realm could provoke the Heavenly Dao to unleash a Dao Tribulation and destroy its practitioners. After the clan lords began trying to erase the method’s traces, Shan Xun asked Chu Zheng to help her attempt a breakthrough using Moonlight Essence.

• Nie Longhu explained that the widespread Qi Cultivation Method could make the Heavenly Dao reject the lineage and trigger a deadly Dao Tribulation.
• Chu Zheng chose to ask the shamans to erase the Qi Cultivation Method’s traces before considering the riskier option of having a Mystic Immortal attack the Heavenly Dao.
• Chu Zheng showed Nie Longhu a Nine-Aperture Golden Core from a Dao Ancestor shrine, and Nie Longhu found that its former owner’s imprint had been completely erased.
• Nie Longhu warned Chu Zheng about the growing war between All Heavens Myriad Realms and the Immortal Alliance’s Martial Hall, offered to introduce him to Dao Lords, and asked to be sent somewhere safe.
• Chu Zheng gave Nie Longhu a Law-Breaking rune pattern, then brought the clan lords back and explained the danger so they could order their shamans to act.
• Shan Xun asked Chu Zheng to try the magic array that gathered Moonlight Essence and might help her break through.

Chu Zheng prepared the Inverted Yin Yang Array to help Shan Xun break through, while the Yan Clan weathered the Beast Emperor’s ongoing threat and Chu Zheng’s influence and cultivation grew. Shan Xun entered the array at the hour of extreme Yang, and the transformed supreme Yin Qi triggered a dramatic breakthrough.

• Chu Zheng agreed to help Shan Xun and began preparing a Ninth Order Inverted Yin Yang Array, while Nie Longhu left for the human heartland.
• Wan Qiong helped Chu Zheng refine the array flags as the Wan Clan joined the Yan Clan; Chu Zheng recommended Ying to a Divine Shaman, and Lie stayed with the Wangshan Tribe to fight the beast tide.
• Over several years, Chu Zheng gained followers and cultivation, while the Qi Cultivation Method faded from attention and preparations for the array were completed.
• Shan Xun asked Chu Zheng to find a successor for the Divine Shaman lineage and investigate whether shamans could escape their lifelong solitude; Chu Zheng agreed to try.
• At the hour of extreme Yang, Chu Zheng activated the array, which transformed the gathered Yang Qi into supreme Yin Qi that entered Shan Xun and caused her aura and Divine Soul to surge.

Shan Xun broke through to the Sacred Domain, but the awakened Heavenly Dao struck her with heavenly punishment. She sacrificed herself to bless humanity and destroy the White Tiger, leaving Chu Zheng to carry on her legacy and study the divine shaman cultivation path.

• Shan Xun crossed into the Sacred Domain, awakening the Heavenly Dao and causing the White Tiger to flee toward the Thirteen Wastes.
• The Heavenly Dao sealed Shan Xun and summoned a Heavenly Punishment Sword, leaving her unable to fight back.
• Shan Xun sacrificed her Primordial Spirit to bless the White Tiger with power, and the Heavenly Dao killed it with a massive sword of punishment.
• Shan Xun made a second wish for humanity's peace, then vanished, leaving only her black robe.
• Yan Bi took Shan Xun's robe and gave Chu Zheng her Shamanic Path legacy, while Wan Qiong departed to reclaim the Ancestral Land.
• After the beast tide receded, Chu Zheng established a shrine for Shan Xun and devoted himself to studying divine shaman cultivation.

After a century in the Eastern Origin Realm, Chu Zheng completed a new cultivation path blending the Divine Shaman lineage with an Immortal Scripture and prepared to leave the realm. Before departing, he visited Nie Longhu, who gave him the Myriad Worlds Battlefield’s coordinates and warned him of the mortal danger there.

• Over nearly a hundred years, Chu Zheng developed a new path that let cultivators retain Divine Shaman abilities without severing their emotions, and many shamans began practicing it.
• Chu Zheng dismissed Wan Xiu from his service, ending his role in her training as he prepared to depart the Eastern Origin Realm.
• Chu Zheng found Nie Longhu and said he was leaving the realm; Nie Longhu concealed his shock at Chu Zheng’s rapid cultivation progress.
• Chu Zheng asked Nie Longhu how to enter the All Heavens Myriad Realms, and Nie Longhu gave him the Myriad Worlds Battlefield coordinates and a Dao Seal to summon help.
• Nie Longhu warned Chu Zheng that the Realm Battlefield was patrolled by Immortal Emperors and Martial Ancestors, and that discovery could endanger all Ten Clans.

Chu Zheng completed his preparations to leave the Eastern Origin Realm, sending his accumulated resources into the Cosmos with Wan Qiong’s help and leaving the Eastern Origin Human Race the Incense Godhood Path. He then tested his ideas in the wilderness by killing a Flood Dragon, whose death drew a deadly true-dragon tribulation toward him.

• Chu Zheng questioned Nie Longhu about Tribulation Qi and Incarnation Tribulation, and Nie Longhu advised him to preserve a few Karma Threads as possible lifelines.
• Chu Zheng exchanged his Talisman Soldiers and Totem Stone Slabs for cultivation resources, then used a meteorite as a vessel to store them beyond the Eastern Origin Realm.
• Wan Qiong helped Chu Zheng send the meteorite through a Spatial Portal with the Sky-Splitting Divine Crossbow, and Chu Zheng left him a Bone Script describing the Incense Godhood Path.
• Chu Zheng entered the wilderness and killed a Fifth Order Flood Dragon, which branded him with an Inverse Scale Seal before dying.
• Chu Zheng felt his accumulated Tribulation Qi turn into a Death Tribulation as true-dragon figures appeared in storm clouds and locked their killing intent onto him.

After an incarnation’s death to the Abyssal Dragon King absorbed much of his Tribulation Qi, Chu Zheng broke through to the Profound Connection Realm and became a Seventh-Order Restorer. He gained the ability to turn Immortal Qi into Origin Qi, repaired the Starfall Bow, and was interrupted by news that the Myriad Sects Hidden Dragon Competition was about to begin.

• The Abyssal Dragon King pinned Chu Zheng’s incarnation with Spatial Law and burned its body and Primordial Spirit to ashes, consuming much of the Tribulation Qi.
• Back in Myriad Dragon City, Chu Zheng absorbed Incense and Fire Prayer Power and broke through to the Profound Connection Realm, becoming a False Immortal.
• The Restoration Panel advanced Chu Zheng to a Seventh-Order Restorer and granted him the Tenth-Order Divine Ability Revert to Root, Return to Origin.
• Chu Zheng tested his new ability, finding that he could transform Immortal Qi into Origin Qi but could not reverse the process with his current strength.
• Chu Zheng extracted Immortal Qi from True Immortal remains and used it to repair the Starfall Bow, whose spirit accepted him as its master.
• A transmission informed Chu Zheng that the Myriad Sects Hidden Dragon Competition was about to officially begin.

Chu Zheng left seclusion to attend the opening ceremony of the Myriad Sects Hidden Dragon Competition, where his Profound Connection cultivation shocked the assembled leaders. After Shang Liangyi proposed that Chu Zheng preside over the ceremony, most factions backed him, and Chu Zheng took the stage, where he spotted Song Lingqing.

• Chu Zheng accepted the Azure Nether Sect's invitation and left seclusion, reuniting with Song Lingxue and inviting her to the ceremony.
• At the Immortal palace, Bai Zhixiao recognized that Chu Zheng had reached Profound Connection, stunning the gathered leaders.
• Shang Liangyi proposed that Chu Zheng preside over the opening ceremony and declared that the Primal Spirit Holy Land supported him.
• Nearly seventy percent of the faction leaders backed Chu Zheng, and Bai Zhixiao's Grand Void Holy Land also agreed.
• Chu Zheng took the stage and spotted Song Lingqing among the crowd.