Chapter Summaries

Zheng Yi was swept into the spatial currents after two Nascent Soul cultivators shattered the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-heaven. In the Sea Realm, a Great Sea Monster attacked a pirate fleet just after it captured several merchant ships.

• Two Nascent Soul forces collided, destroying the Sumeru Senluo Grotto-heaven and breaking the seal around the Bloodline of the Sea God Saimoqikesi.
• Zheng Yi protected himself as best he could and was carried into the darkness by currents near the Yellow Springs core.
• A pirate fleet surrounded and captured four or five merchant ships, killing guards and preparing to plunder the vessels.
• Verdant tentacles crept up the ships, and a Great Sea Monster’s enormous shadow terrified the pirates.
• The Great Sea Monster crushed pirates with its tentacles and overturned their warships into the sea.

After recovering from nearly three years of unconsciousness in the Sea Realm, Zheng Yi used the Heaven Intercepting Vine to overwhelm a pirate fleet and began building the Seven Treasures Mystical Technique. He implanted the surviving pirates with Heavenly Demon Seeds, turning them into devoted followers as he prepared to use them to learn about the region.

• The Heaven Intercepting Vine capsized the pirates’ warships and devoured most of the fleet, leaving a few survivors terrified on a merchant ship.
• Zheng Yi emerged from the sea and recalled how the Heaven Intercepting Vine had fused with his mana, nurtured seven origin mystical techniques, and sustained him while he recovered.
• Zheng Yi decided to spare the surviving pirates so they could guide him and provide information about the unfamiliar Sea Realm.
• Zheng Yi implanted every pirate aboard the merchant ship with a black Heavenly Demon Seed, then ordered them to rise.
• The seeds transformed the pirates’ fear into worship and loyalty, and Zheng Yi recognized the power of the Heavenly Demon Relic to influence minds.

Zheng Yi used the Heavenly Demon Seed to covertly control pirates and merchants in the East Origin Sea Area, seeking resources and a safe base to restore the Heaven Intercepting Vine and advance his Seven Treasures Mystical Technique. He infiltrated Poison Dragon Island and subdued its Purple Mansion Late Stage Third Leader, beginning to take control of the pirate group.

• Zheng Yi tested the Heavenly Demon Seed on pirates and learned about the East Origin Sea Area and the Poison Dragon Island Pirate Group.
• He implanted Heavenly Demon Seeds in the merchant convoy's senior members, returned their ships, and made them his hidden trade network.
• Zheng Yi led the surviving pirate ships toward Poison Dragon Island, using the journey to secretly seed more pirates.
• After arriving at Poison Dragon Island, Zheng Yi implanted seeds in passing pirates and entered the Council Hall.
• Zheng Yi revealed himself to the Third Leader, suppressed him with the Heavenly Demon Relic's Core Formation aura, and turned him into a Heavenly Demon Slave.

Zheng Yi used the Heavenly Demon Seed to take control of Poison Dragon Island’s Third Leader, Yi Bo Xiong, and most of the pirate group’s upper ranks. After subduing Second Leader Zhao Xiang Peng and the island’s guards, he confronted First Leader Kui Ma, who tried to flee.

• Zheng Yi learned from Yi Bo Xiong that First Leader Crimson Demon Ao Kui Ma was a half-step Core Formation cultivator and that he and Zhao Xiang Peng were in seclusion.
• Yi Bo Xiong gathered Poison Dragon Island’s high-ranking members, and Zheng Yi used his Golden Core-level Divine Soul and Heavenly Demon Seeds to make them submit.
• Zheng Yi and Yi Bo Xiong went to Zhao Xiang Peng’s retreat, where Zheng Yi suppressed him and planted a Heavenly Demon Seed in him.
• Zheng Yi subdued the Island Lord Guards with Heavenly Demon Seeds while approaching Kui Ma’s secluded residence.
• Kui Ma detected the group, recognized that Yi Bo Xiong and Zhao Xiang Peng had been controlled, and tried to escape, so Zheng Yi unleashed the power of the Heavenly Demon Relic.

After secretly taking control of the Poison Dragon Island Pirate Group, Zheng Yi used Crimson Demon Ao Kui Ma’s secluded cultivation site to examine the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree and his growing collection of divine powers. He concluded that nurturing his abilities required vast resources and forces, leaving him intent on expanding his control over others.

• Zheng Yi planted a Heavenly Demon Seed in Kui Ma and secretly brought the Poison Dragon Island Pirate Group under his control.
• Zheng Yi settled into Kui Ma’s secluded cultivation site, built atop Poison Dragon Island’s third-grade spiritual vein, to examine his restored cultivation.
• Zheng Yi manifested the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree and reviewed its seven branches, which held his mature and unfinished innate divine powers.
• Zheng Yi identified the Nine Bends Yellow Springs Grand Array Diagram and the Heavenly Demon Relic as two ancient inheritances independent of the Seven Treasures Mystical Technique.
• Zheng Yi recognized that nurturing the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree required immense resources, so he decided to make more people serve him and use Poison Dragon Island as his base.

Zheng Yi assessed the unfinished Seven Treasures Mystical Tree and expanded his plans to gather resources by controlling pirates and merchant caravans. While cultivating on Poison Dragon Island, he sensed a strange, poisonous heat beneath the island and decided to investigate whether the legendary Ancient Poison Dragon remains were buried there.

• Zheng Yi identified that five of his seven divine abilities had taken shape, while the 'Five Dragons Divine Fire Shroud' and 'Five Finger Mountain' still needed resources and further development.
• Zheng Yi ordered the detained merchant caravans released after planting Heavenly Demon Seeds in their leaders, making them servants under his control.
• Crimson Demon Ao Kui Ma told Zheng Yi that Poison Dragon Island was rumored to be the former dwelling place of an Ancient Poison Dragon whose bones might lie underground.
• Zheng Yi concluded that he needed to expand his control over pirate groups and trade routes to gather the resources required to complete his divine ability seeds and pursue a Nine Rank Golden Core.
• While probing underground with the Heavenly Demon Relic, Zheng Yi sensed a source of scorching, poisonous energy and decided to investigate the possible Ancient Poison Dragon remains.

Zheng Yi discovered an intact Ancient Poison Dragon skeleton buried beneath Poison Dragon Island and secretly brought it to his chamber to refine his body. After arranging the island’s affairs and preparing vast resources, he began cultivating Azure Sky Overlord Blood to forge a Golden Core-stage body.

• Zheng Yi pushed his Divine Soul Power deep underground and found the Ancient Poison Dragon’s bones, whose lingering dragon might roared through his Sea of Consciousness before vanishing.
• Zheng Yi decided to use the bones to recultivate Azure Sky Overlord Blood and strengthen his body for forming a Nine Rank Golden Core.
• Zheng Yi secretly retrieved the more than twenty-meter-long skeleton and concealed its aura with a formation.
• Zheng Yi ordered the Three Great Leaders to manage Poison Dragon Island during his retreat and told them to spare surrendering merchant caravans so he could plant Heavenly Demon Seeds in them.
• Zheng Yi prepared a formation and abundant resources in the secret chamber, then began cultivating to condense a Golden Core fleshly body.

Zheng Yi refined the Ancient Poison Dragon's dragon bone with the God-Demon Body Refining Technique, transforming his body and awakening the Azure Sky Overlord Blood. After a month of absorbing spiritual energy and resources, his fleshly body reached the Golden Core Stage, while he turned his attention to gathering what he needed to complete the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree and advance to Core Formation.

• Zheng Yi's God-Demon aura clashed with the Ancient Poison Dragon's remaining dragon qi, and the collision exhausted the dragon bone's last resistance.
• During Zheng Yi's year in seclusion, the Poison Dragon Island Pirate Group aggressively plundered resources under his orders, provoking nearby pirate groups while killing fewer merchant crews than before.
• Zheng Yi completely refined the dragon bone, strengthening his bones and beginning to cultivate the Azure Sky Overlord Blood.
• Five blood-qi dragons formed around Zheng Yi as his fleshly body advanced to the Golden Core Stage and his spiritual power circulated more efficiently.
• Zheng Yi spent about a month absorbing energy from the Third-Order Spirit Vein and plundered resources, maturing his God-Demon Blood and strengthening his Sea of Consciousness.
• Zheng Yi concluded that he needed more resources to complete the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree and prepare for Core Formation.

After emerging from seclusion with his body at the Core Formation level, Zheng Yi learned that the Poison Dragon Island Pirate Group was fighting the Black Hound Pirate Group over disputed waters. He traveled to the battle and watched from concealment as the fight escalated, leaving the outcome undecided.

• Zheng Yi emerged from seclusion with immense blood qi after refining the Ancient Poison Dragon's bones and forming a God-Demon Blood Seed.
• Zheng Yi learned that Kui Ma and the other leaders had taken most of the Poison Dragon Island forces to fight the Black Hound Pirate Group over fleets crossing into its waters.
• Zheng Yi decided the conflict could help him expand his control and gather the resources needed to cultivate the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree and form a ninth-grade Golden Core.
• Zheng Yi crossed the sea under concealment, while his God-Demon aura frightened away the sea beasts that sensed him.
• On a small island, Kui Ma, Yi Bo Xiong, and Zhao Xiang Peng fought the Black Hound Pirate Group's five Purple Mansion Cultivators as Zheng Yi watched from above.
• Black Hound Bo Beda demanded to know why Crimson Demon Ao Kui Ma was fighting so fiercely, and Ao Kui Ma offered to spare him if he merged into the Poison Dragon Pirate Gang.

Zheng Yi enslaved the Black Hound Pirate Group and expanded his influence among pirate groups and the Four Seas Alliance, then discovered a Ten Thousand Year Poison Dragon Flame he could not yet capture. In the Apocalyptic World, Fengdu City held a grand ceremony for the newly completed Five Colors Five Elements Altar, whose rites stirred an aura linking the Three Realms with the Incense Fire Dharma Realm.

• Zheng Yi subdued Black Hound Bo Beda and made the Black Hound Pirate Group deliver half its accumulated resources to Poison Dragon Island.
• Zheng Yi ordered Crimson Demon Ao Kui Ma to provoke nearby pirate groups and began infiltrating the Four Seas Alliance through captured merchant caravan executives.
• Zheng Yi discovered the spiritual Ten Thousand Year Poison Dragon Flame underground but could not capture it because it moved too swiftly through the earth.
• The Five Colors Five Elements Altar was completed in Fengdu City, where believers gathered for a grand foundation-laying ceremony guarded by Soul Hall's army.
• The Five Direction Ghost Emperors manifested above the altar, and the ceremony's rites stirred an aura that connected Heaven, Earth, and the netherworld with the Incense Fire Dharma Realm.

Zheng Yi completed a grand sacrifice that summoned Mount Tai City and the Five Direction Ghost Emperors, then brought forth the Sky Patrol Palace and his Heavenly Dao Body. The ritual strengthened the believers’ faith and gave Zheng Yi a new measure of authority over the Apocalyptic World’s Heavenly Dao.

• The Ritual Master led the believers in a sacrifice as lightning opened Mount Tai City's Ghost Gates and revealed the city above the altar.
• The Five Direction Ghost Emperors appeared over the altar, suppressed the surrounding region, and bowed when the ritual called for the Heavenly Dao Body to return.
• The Sky Patrol Palace descended, and its golden radiance healed believers’ illnesses, restored sight, and began regrowing some crippled limbs.
• Zheng Yi’s Heavenly Dao Body appeared in golden armor, bearing his face and wielding a Golden Longsword.
• Zheng Yi recognized that the Heavenly Dao Body had gained a thread of Heavenly Dao Authority and that the Apocalyptic World had cooperated to resist greater threats.

Zheng Yi’s Heavenly Dao Body claimed a small measure of Heavenly Dao Authority, while the Faith Dharma Realm expanded toward becoming a Divine Domain. He then used the power of the Five Direction Ghost Emperors to destroy a Corpse City, where a Corpse Giant revealed that the Extraterritorial Demonic Kingdom was preparing for war.

• Zheng Yi watched the Faith Dharma Realm expand and begin manifesting more cities as it moved toward the path to godhood.
• The Heavenly Dao Body declared that it was acting on Heaven’s behalf, then rode a Golden Chariot with the Five Direction Ghost Emperors to patrol the world.
• Zheng Yi reflected that the world’s weakened source consciousness had granted him authority in exchange for help opposing the Blood Moon and the Extraterritorial Demonic Kingdom.
• Zheng Yi observed the Heavenly Dao Body attack a Corpse City and the Central Mystic Yellow Ghost Emperor devastate it with earth and stone.
• A Corpse Giant emerged from underground, and Zheng Yi recognized its Death Nether Array as evidence that the Extraterritorial Demonic Kingdom was strengthening its forces for war.

Zheng Yi used the Five Direction Ghost Emperors and the Sky Patrol Palace to destroy Extraterritorial Demonic Kingdom cities as he advanced toward its hidden capital. The Sky Patrol Palace reached the capital and exposed its horrific slaughter of humans, leaving the city trembling beneath its pressure.

• Zheng Yi's Central Mystic Yellow Ghost Emperor crushed a Giant Corpse and flattened an Extraterritorial Demonic Kingdom city.
• Zheng Yi directed the Sky Patrol Palace across the territory, where the Five Direction Ghost Emperors destroyed Demon Cities along its route.
• The Sky Patrol Palace reached the hidden headquarters of the Extraterritorial Demonic Kingdom, where Zheng Yi saw the Four Great Ancestor Spirits' altars and the civilization's human victims.
• Golden Lightning tore away the capital's concealing fog, and the Sky Patrol Palace's pressure made the city and surrounding basin tremble.

Zheng Yi and the Five Direction Ghost Emperors destroyed the Extraterritorial Demonic Kingdom’s capital, freeing its murdered human souls and strengthening the world’s Heaven and Earth Will. He claimed the Heaven and Earth God and Demon Diagram, an otherworldly Divine Path fragment that might expand his authority, while the Soul Hall began taking over the Western Continent.

• The Heavenly Dao Body summoned the Five Direction Ghost Emperors, whose combined five-element power annihilated the Extraterritorial Demonic Kingdom’s city and Ancestor Spirit Tower.
• The destroyed kingdom’s Vengeful Spirits were cleansed by the sunlight, bowed to Zheng Yi’s Heavenly Dao Body, and dissolved into heaven and earth.
• A golden object escaped from underground, but Zheng Yi captured it and identified it as the Heaven and Earth God and Demon Diagram, an Extraterritorial Heavenly Scripture containing Divine Authority beyond this world’s Heavenly Dao.
• The Heaven and Earth Will grew stronger after the kingdom’s destruction, and Zheng Yi’s Golden Seed expanded to the size of an adult’s fist.
• Zheng Yi ended the operation and left the Soul Hall to expand across the Western Continent, while he considered how the diagram and the Blood-Colored Moon threatened the Apocalyptic World.

Zheng Yi fused the Heaven and Earth God and Demon Diagram with the Incense Fire Divine Path to create the Netherworld Underworld Gods and Immortals Ranking Chart and establish the foundations of a Divine Dynasty. He reshaped the Incense Fire Dharma Realm into a three-dimensional Underworld, appointed Yellow Springs Daoist as its River God, and left countless dead souls trapped beneath the Yellow Springs.

• Zheng Yi used the Super Brain Main God to deduce a new authority from the Heaven and Earth God and Demon Diagram, creating the Netherworld Underworld Gods and Immortals Ranking Chart and gaining the power of divine appointment.
• Zheng Yi declared the establishment of his Divine Dynasty and used gathered Faith Power to reshape the Incense Fire Dharma Realm into a three-dimensional Underworld.
• Zheng Yi summoned the Yellow Springs River and invoked Yellow Springs Daoist to take his position as its god.
• The Ranking Chart issued Zheng Yi’s decree, and Yellow Springs Daoist accepted his enfeoffment as Yellow Springs God.
• The newly appointed River God set the Yellow Springs flowing, revealing the souls of slaughtered beings struggling beneath its waters.

Zheng Yi enfeoffed Yellow Springs River Gods, City Gods, and Land Gods, strengthening the Incense Fire Dharma Realm and establishing its divine order. Seeking a way to unite the Heavenly Realm, Human Realm, and Underworld, he planted the Seven-Colored Glowing Tree Seed in the Underworld as the beginning of a Jianmu.

• Yellow Springs Daoist and other River Gods received Divine Path Talismans and authority over the Yellow Springs water systems.
• Zheng Yi oversaw the enfeoffment of City Gods and Land Gods across Soul Hall's territories, and their temples and worship strengthened the Incense Fire Dharma Realm.
• The enfeoffed River Gods, City Gods, and Land Gods took their positions, allowing the Dharma Realm's earth and water powers to stabilize and grow.
• Zheng Yi considered how to unite the Three Realms and decided to grow a Jianmu to connect them.
• Zheng Yi retrieved the Seven-Colored Glowing Tree Seed, an imprint once left on Luo Yaoji by the Peach God, and planted it in the Underworld.

Zheng Yi fused the Golden Seed with the growing tree seed, creating the Three Realms Tree that linked the Netherworld, Human World, and Heavenly Realm. He also refined the Five Elements altars into a new divine ability, then returned to the Cultivation World to pursue the Ten Thousand Year Poison Dragon Flame.

• Zheng Yi's Heavenly Dao Body removed the Golden Seed from his true body's mind and fused it with the Seven Colors Tree Seed, which grew through the Underworld into the Human World and Heavenly Realm.
• People across the Western Continent witnessed the towering tree and worshipped it as a divine miracle, while Zheng Yi recognized that the Three Realms had stabilized.
• The Heavenly Dao Body refined Soul Hall's five Five Colors Altars into Five Finger Mountain, and Zheng Yi added it to the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree.
• Zheng Yi used Five Finger Mountain to awaken the Five-Color Five-Element Innate One-Qi Great Capturing Hand, whose embryonic form briefly grasped the shadow of a star before draining his mana.
• Zheng Yi returned to the Cultivation World on Poison Dragon Island, where he prepared to capture the Ten Thousand Year Poison Dragon Flame and complete the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree.

Zheng Yi captured the Ten Thousand Year Poison Dragon Flame with his Five-Color Five-Element One Qi Great Capturing Hand and combined it with four other rare spirit fires. He refined them into the Five Fires Divine Dragon Shroud, which he described as his strongest defensive art and a weapon that could also incinerate enemies.

• Zheng Yi used a fiery Spirit Stone as bait to lure the Ten Thousand Year Poison Dragon Flame from deep underground on Poison Dragon Island.
• When the spirit fire lunged for the bait, Zheng Yi seized it with the Five-Color Five-Element One Qi Great Capturing Hand and subdued its resistance with Divine Soul power.
• Zheng Yi assembled the Ten Thousand Year Poison Dragon Flame with Yellow Springs Fire, the Nine Nether Soul Slaughtering Flame, Ten Thousand Corpses Nether Fire, and Nirvana Azure Glazed Flame.
• Zheng Yi used his five blood-qi dragons to devour and refine the five spirit fires, forming a golden shroud encircled by five fire dragons.
• Zheng Yi declared that the completed Five Fires Divine Dragon Shroud could attack and defend, and was his strongest defensive art at present.

Zheng Yi completed the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree, whose emergence stirred a tremendous heavenly phenomenon and drew a Thunder Tribulation. He left Poison Dragon Island to face the storm at sea, where the tree rose to defend him as lightning struck his body.

• Zheng Yi tested the Five Fires Divine Dragon Shroud and found that his strike could not break its golden shell.
• The Seven Treasures Mystical Tree took shape, causing Poison Dragon Island to quake and alarming the Pirate Group's Heavenly Demon Slaves.
• Zheng Yi flew away from the island and ordered the upper ranks not to follow him.
• Over the sea, the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree's formation summoned dark clouds, violent storms, and a powerful Thunder Tribulation.
• Zheng Yi manifested the tree, which spread across the sky and pushed back the descending heavens.
• Heavenly lightning struck Zheng Yi and battered his body, but his God-Demon Body Refining Technique helped him endure it.

Zheng Yi endured the first wave of heavenly lightning, then let the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree face the next strike and transform the Tribulation Thunder into a silver star. After the clouds cleared, he forced two hidden Lower Three Grades Void Core Formation cultivators out of hiding, leaving them trapped under his power.

• Zheng Yi used his Azure Sky Overlord Blood to withstand the first wave of thunder and discovered that the lightning had tempered his body.
• A silver Thunder Giant Sword descended, and Zheng Yi let the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree and Heaven Intercepting Vine intercept the attack.
• The Heaven Intercepting Vine swallowed the Tribulation Thunder and condensed it into a silver star above the Seven Treasures Mystical Tree.
• Zheng Yi sensed two hidden observers and forced them out of concealment from opposite directions.
• The two Lower Three Grades Void Core Formation cultivators demanded to know how Zheng Yi had found them, while he bound them with his Divine Soul Power.