Chapter Summaries

Zhuang Hong captured Fairy Chi and confirmed that she was a Strange Worm named Chi Zongling, then questioned her about her past. Chi Zongling recounted Po Organization’s destruction during a True God Race massacre and revealed that she had wandered through the void for seventeen years before reaching the Dragon Court Mixed Domain.

• Fairy Chi pleaded for Zhuang Hong to release her, and he had Xiao Qi bring three Green Clear Pattern Beasts for her to drain as proof that she was a Strange Worm.
• After Chi Zongling drained the three Void Spirits, Zhuang Hong questioned her while keeping her confined, and she explained that she had come from the Strange Stone Treasure Domain and had worked with Cong Jiansheng.
• Chi Zongling described Po Organization, led by Mu Zhang, and its effort to help Strange Worms advance to True Spirit.
• When over a hundred Po Organization members advanced together, the True God Race attacked and slaughtered most of them, forcing Chi Zongling and other survivors to flee.
• Chi Zongling said she had evaded pursuit and wandered through the void for seventeen years before accidentally finding the Dragon Court Mixed Domain.

Chi Zongling told Zhuang Hong that the regions were a ranch harvested by the True God Race every ten thousand years, with the next calamity less than two thousand years away. After testing that they could not devour each other, Zhuang Hong agreed to follow her to the Edge of the Outer Domain, leaving the Azure Mystery Sect in Qi Chengjun’s care.

• Chi Zongling explained that the True God Race harvested the ranch’s inhabitants in a ten-thousand-year cycle, and that the next harvest was less than two thousand years away.
• Zhuang Hong questioned Chi Zongling’s account and whether Mu Zhang had told her the truth, so she offered to take him to the Edge of the Outer Domain.
• Zhuang Hong pierced Chi Zongling and found he could not devour her, then released her from the Diamond Cage.
• Zhuang Hong told Xiao Bai to watch the Azure Mystery Sect and gave Qi Chengjun a Spirit Concealing Pearl for protection from Void Spirits.
• Zhuang Hong returned to Chi Zongling, and the two flew toward the Edge of the Outer Domain.

Chi Zongling led Zhuang Hong to the Edge of the Outer Domain and showed him the Dragon Court Mixed Domain from the Central Axis. There, Zhuang Hong saw its true form and learned that the mayflies living inside it appeared as tiny worms.

• Chi Zongling led Zhuang Hong through the Chaos Zone toward the Edge of the Outer Domain, where the planets dwindled and vanished.
• At the edge, Chi Zongling explained that the surrounding void was vast and dangerous, then guided Zhuang Hong to the Dragon Court Mixed Domain's Central Axis.
• Zhuang Hong activated Dimensional Sight and saw the Dragon Court Mixed Domain as a vast, multicolored cylindrical tube.
• Chi Zongling explained that different observers saw the real world from different perspectives and that Mu Zhang had taught her about the domain's appearance.
• Chi Zongling asked Zhuang Hong to inspect a patch of green light, revealing that the tiny wriggling things inside it were what mayflies truly looked like.

Zhuang Hong learned from Chi Zongling that Mayflies were the true form of all creatures in the Dragon Court Mixed Domain and that Strange Worms risked being detected and destroyed during Harvest Season. After they reconciled and returned, Chi Zongling was stunned to learn that Zhuang Hong had killed the three True Spirits who pursued him.

• Zhuang Hong magnified a patch of green light and saw the countless writhing Mayflies that made up the Dragon Court Mixed Domain.
• Chi Zongling explained that Mayflies were composed of individuals across different spaces and that Strange Worms weakened them by devouring their Other Selves.
• Chi Zongling warned Zhuang Hong that the True God Race would track Strange Worms during the Great Cleansing and that civilizations would be destroyed during Harvest Season.
• Zhuang Hong and Chi Zongling introduced themselves again, apologized for their earlier conflict, and returned together to the Dragon Court Mixed Domain.
• Chi Zongling asked about powerful Strange Worm organizations, and Zhuang Hong said he had grown strong without a master or organization.
• Zhuang Hong told Chi Zongling that he had killed the three True Spirits who pursued him, leaving her shocked.

Zhuang Hong resolved to gain strength through learning and returned with Chi Zongling to find the Demon Sect had conquered nine of the Ten Great Sects. The Demon Sect prepared to challenge the Azure Mystery Sect, but Zhuang Hong returned before the sect could decide how to answer the refugees’ pleas.

• Chi Zongling decided to stay beside Zhuang Hong and learn spells, believing she could gain more from him than from Mu Zhang.
• Zhuang Hong concluded that knowledge born from civilized worlds could provide the key to escaping the Dragon Court Mixed Domain’s ranch, and he set out to continue studying cultivation.
• Zhuang Hong and Chi Zongling returned to find that Cong Jiansheng’s Demon Sect had taken the territories of the Nine Great Sects while leaving the Azure Mystery Sect untouched.
• Cong Jiansheng told his cultivators that an immortal protecting the Demon Sect was already acting and promised they could attack the Azure Mystery Sect once word arrived.
• Sovereign Huangfu sought Qi Chengjun’s advice about the refugee sect leaders’ requests for Zhuang Hong’s help, but Zhuang Hong appeared before Qi could offer a solution.
• Zhuang Hong returned to the Azure Mystery Sect with Chi Zongling and told Qi Chengjun that she was the True Spirit he had mentioned.

Zhuang Hong began exchanging techniques with Chi Zongling, learning that he must suppress all his senses to awaken the perception needed for the Spirit Concealing Art. He promised to teach her a technique for gaining a photographic memory if her lessons satisfied him, leaving Chi Zongling eager to share everything she knew.

• Zhuang Hong told Qi Chengjun to keep others away while he studied Strange Worm arts with Chi Zongling.
• Zhuang Hong and Chi Zongling agreed to exchange techniques, and Chi Zongling began teaching him the Spirit Concealing Art.
• Chi Zongling explained that Zhuang Hong needed to abstain from all sensory perceptions to awaken his ability to sense Spirit Fluid.
• Zhuang Hong remembered Chi Zongling's instructions and learned that Strange Worms could not normally gain photographic memories by growing stronger.
• Zhuang Hong offered to teach Chi Zongling a technique that would give her a photographic memory if she satisfied him, and she eagerly agreed to share her knowledge.

Zhuang Hong secluded himself to practice abstinence cultivation and, after fifteen days, regained control of his body with dramatically heightened senses and a new ability to perceive Source Energy. He discovered that he could sense Spirit Fluid, but its ripples and tentacles left him bewildered.

• Zhuang Hong chose a secluded solution cave, had Xiao Bai guard it, and used thirty-six Little Spirits to seal the cave from light, sound, and outside vibrations.
• Zhuang Hong withdrew his perception into the Sea of Consciousness World and spent ten days in meditation while his thoughts wandered freely.
• Zhuang Hong sensed changes in his body but continued meditating for five more days, until colorful ribbons merged into his divine light and he understood that abstinence cultivation was complete.
• Zhuang Hong reclaimed control of his body and found that his senses had transformed, his Mental Strength reached seven thousand meters, and he could perceive Source Energy's underlying properties.
• Zhuang Hong sensed Spirit Fluid within himself and saw ripples extend into thin tentacles, making him feel like a slime and leaving him stunned.

Cong Jiansheng learned from Chi Zongling that immortality could not be pursued through ordinary cultivation, while Zhuang Hong reunited with her and taught her a rune spell. Chi Zongling moved to the Azure Mystery Sect and left stunned after her first Little Missile blasted away part of a mountain.

• Chi Zongling returned to Cong Jiansheng and told him there were no immortals in this world, that power like hers came from luck, and that she and Zhuang Hong were friends.
• Chi Zongling warned Cong Jiansheng not to target the Azure Mystery Sect and said she was moving there; Cong Jiansheng decided to seek out Zhuang Hong himself to learn how to become a true immortal.
• Zhuang Hong met Chi Zongling as she moved in, confirmed he had mastered the Spirit Concealing Art, and described the strange Spirit Fluid he had sensed.
• Zhuang Hong taught Chi Zongling the Little Missile rune spell, and she learned to form its rune array after he suggested engraving it on her clothes.
• Chi Zongling accidentally launched a golden Little Missile that destroyed part of a nearby mountain, leaving her amazed by its power.

After Chi Zongling taught Zhuang Hong the Strange Worm Shapeshifting Art, he tried activating a spider mark in his body. The attempt abruptly made his stomach swell into a sphere seven or eight meters tall.

• A Little Missile explosion stirred the Azure Mystery Sect, but Sovereign Huangfu kept the sect leaders from approaching Dragon Fighting Peak.
• Qi Chengjun checked on Zhuang Hong and told the sect leaders that he had been practicing an Immortal Technique.
• Chi Zongling offered to repay Zhuang Hong for teaching her rune arts, and Zhuang Hong asked her to teach him the Strange Worm Cultivation Method and Shapeshifting Art.
• Chi Zongling explained how Strange Worms activated Other Self marks to shapeshift, and Zhuang Hong began practicing with his spider mark.
• Zhuang Hong's heart pounded, his blood surged, and his stomach rapidly expanded into a sphere seven or eight meters tall.

Zhuang Hong rapidly mastered Chi Zongling’s Strange Worm skills and talisman arts, even turning his pelvic bone into a Storage Space. When Demon Lord Cong Jiansheng came seeking answers about his path, Zhuang Hong agreed to help him become a Space Traveler.

• Zhuang Hong transformed into a giant spider while learning Chi Zongling’s Shapeshifting Art, then returned to human form and tried other transformations.
• Over half a year, Zhuang Hong and Chi Zongling exchanged skills, and Zhuang Hong learned her Strange Worm techniques and how to make Storage Bags.
• Zhuang Hong transformed his pelvic bone into a Storage Space, while Chi Zongling admitted she had taught him all the skills she knew.
• Zhuang Hong encouraged Chi Zongling to keep studying talisman arts and promised to help make her smarter by modifying her brain.
• Qi Chengjun reported that Cong Jiansheng had come to the Azure Mystery Sect, and Zhuang Hong invited the Demon Lord to his pavilion.
• Cong Jiansheng asked Zhuang Hong how to advance, live forever, and gain power; Zhuang Hong agreed to help him become a Space Traveler after he finished his current work.

Zhuang Hong decided to take Chi Zongling to the Outer Domain to test their strength against the True God Race, while preparing for the confrontation. His search for his Other Self revealed that Spirit Liquid Tentacles could guide him to it, and digesting a tiny lizard granted him a new skill.

• Zhuang Hong considered abandoning Chi Zongling, fighting the True God Race with her, or advancing to a True Spirit, but chose to face the enemy alongside her.
• Zhuang Hong planned to prepare for the battle by readying his advancement, improving Xiao Qi's command of the Little Spirits, and setting up formations in the moon's Outer Domain.
• Zhuang Hong left Chi Zongling to study immortal cultivation and followed the longest Spirit Liquid Tentacle toward his Other Self.
• Zhuang Hong found a tiny four-legged lizard and watched a Spirit Liquid Tentacle extend to connect with it, revealing how the tentacles guided him to an Other Self.
• Zhuang Hong drained and digested the lizard, gaining the skill Waterproof.

Zhuang Hong confirmed that Spirit Liquid Tentacles could locate his sensed Other Selves, then prepared for the impending True God Race by dispatching Cong Jiansheng to search for his Other Selves and taking Chi Zongling to the Oasis World. There, Chi Zongling saw the Strange Worms rebuilding their homeland and learned that Zhuang Hong could help them become Subordinate Mutant Worms.

• Zhuang Hong tested Waterproofing in a lake and found that it repelled all liquid within five meters.
• After finding several Other Selves, Zhuang Hong confirmed that Spirit Liquid Tentacles pointed toward the ones he could sense and returned to prepare for the True God Race.
• Zhuang Hong learned that Chi Zongling needed at least three years to complete Foundation Establishment and that Cong Jiansheng planned to learn the Spirit Concealing Art.
• Cong Jiansheng concealed his Spirit Fluid aura, then left to search for his Other Selves and grow stronger before returning in three years.
• Zhuang Hong and Chi Zongling traveled to the Oasis World, where they saw its inhabitants clearing ash and hunting Void Spirits.
• Chi Zongling learned that many Strange Worms in the Oasis World were Subordinate Mutant Worms and that Zhuang Hong could help them devour their Other Selves' Mental Strength.

Zhuang Hong returned to Traveler's New Paradise, learned how Yin Zizhong and the Travelers had defended and expanded it, and prepared to teach them essential skills. He left Yin Guan with cultivation resources and Xiao Bai to guard the settlement, then discovered that Yin Zizhong had three wives and two children despite once calling himself devoted.

• Zhuang Hong reunited with Yin Guan, heard about New Paradise's growth and defenses, and gave him pills and cultivation items to improve his cultivation.
• Zhuang Hong entrusted Xiao Bai to help Yin Guan guard New Paradise and warned Xiao Bai not to attack Strange Worms.
• Zhuang Hong met Yin Zizhong and the Travelers in the Light District, promised to teach them skills during his ten-day stay, and gave Yin Zizhong Essence Wine to recruit talented people.
• Yin Zizhong told Zhuang Hong that Travelers could have children who inherited their abilities, and revealed that he had three wives and two children.
• Zhuang Hong challenged Yin Zizhong about his former claim of devotion, and Yin Zizhong replied that he had followed Zhuang Hong's advice to marry and have children.

Zhuang Hong and Chi Zongling traveled from Ji Ling Star to the moon and then searched the Outer Domain for a place to prepare against the True God Race. They began setting up powerful arrays as Zhuang Hong considered advancing to a True Spirit if their preparations proved insufficient.

• Zhuang Hong gave the emperor a Martial Dao Cultivation Method that might extend his lifespan, then left Ji Ling Star with Chi Zongling aboard a spaceship.
• Chi Zongling warned Zhuang Hong about the True God Race's strength and asked whether he could defeat it; Zhuang Hong said they would have to face one to find out.
• Zhuang Hong and Chi Zongling reached Ji Ling Star's iron-rich moon, then departed for the Outer Domain to make preparations.
• After exploring for two days, Zhuang Hong and Chi Zongling found a crude palace above a Blue Crystal mine and chose it as their base.
• Zhuang Hong gave Chi Zongling instructions to build three Adamantine Sawtooth Grinding Kill Arrays and fill Source Storage Crystals with her True Spirit Source Power.
• Zhuang Hong entered his Sea of Consciousness World to study how to advance to a True Spirit, keeping it as a contingency if the True God Race endangered him.

Zhuang Hong developed a Mental Attribute Cultivation Method and inspected Chi Zongling’s completed Adamantine Sawtooth Grinding Kill Array. After testing the formation and receiving her True Spirit Source Power, he considered advancing but decided not to rush.

• Zhuang Hong chose the Mental Attribute for his future cultivation and combined five Mental Attribute Cultivation Methods into a new method, with Mental Impact as its primary attribute.
• After a month of work, Zhuang Hong tested the new method in the Sea of Consciousness World and found it affected his Mental Strength and Source Power, though he decided to strengthen its Mental Impact focus.
• Chi Zongling told Zhuang Hong she had completed all three formations, and he inspected the enormous Adamantine Sawtooth Grinding Kill Array with her.
• Zhuang Hong activated the formation with spirit stones, revealing rotating pillars and sawteeth that filled its barrier, then tested its rapid self-repair by blasting part of it apart.
• Chi Zongling gave Zhuang Hong Source Storage Crystals filled with True Spirit Source Power, which he successfully drew upon before deciding not to rush his advancement to True Spirit.

Zhuang Hong and Chi Zongling prepared for the True God Race while waiting for its arrival. When a Giant Corpse God appeared, Chi Zongling drew it into battle as Zhuang Hong watched for weaknesses.

• Zhuang Hong completed the Soul-Shaking Skill, meeting all three conditions for advancing to the True Spirit Level.
• Zhuang Hong embedded Source Storage Crystals into three array disks and gave Chi Zongling rare treasures to restore her Source Power.
• After another month of waiting, Chi Zongling warned Zhuang Hong that a single member of the True God Race had arrived.
• Zhuang Hong prepared for battle and identified the approaching enemy as a Giant Corpse God, a fast and heavily defended True Spirit.
• Chi Zongling used her Phantom Realm and Talisman Arts to confuse and slow the Giant Corpse God while Zhuang Hong observed it from a distance.

Zhuang tested the Giant Corpse God's speed, strength, and defense while Chi Zong used the Phantom Realm to interfere. The Giant Corpse God withstood Zhuang's attacks and repeatedly battered him, leaving Zhuang to reassess the threat as its speed suddenly increased.

• Zhuang asked Chi Zong to draw the Giant Corpse God toward him so he could test it.
• Zhuang blocked the Giant Corpse God's punch with his saber, but the blow shattered the weapon and sent him flying.
• Zhuang attacked with a full-force slash and the Golden Light Bullet, but neither damaged the Giant Corpse God's body.
• The Giant Corpse God struck Zhuang repeatedly, breaking through layers of his defenses and denting his Golden Armor.
• The Giant Corpse God's speed abruptly increased, and Zhuang asked what had caused the change.

Zhuang and Chi Zong tried to restrain the Giant God, but its red glow brought overwhelming speed, strength, and defense that let it break their attacks. Zhuang recovered from being struck into a crater and urged Chi Zong to stall it while they waited for an opening.

• Zhuang recovered from the Giant God's punch and warned Chi Zong that another hit could kill him.
• Chi Zong formed layers of defenses and summoned spirit-like beings while Zhuang used Golden Chains and the Hand Vajra to restrain the Giant God.
• The Giant God broke free of Yan Mao's illusion, shattered the Hand Vajra and Fairy Chi's barrier, and charged at Zhuang.
• Zhuang noticed the Giant God's red glow and realized it had evolved again as its attacks overwhelmed their defenses.
• The Giant God smashed Zhuang's shield and sent him flying into a crater, while Zhuang repaired his injuries and chose to avoid direct combat.

Chu Yuan fought the repeatedly enhanced Giant Corpse God while evading its attacks and studying how it reacted to damage. He realized its defenses consumed its power and told Fairy Chi he had a way to defeat it.

• Chu Yuan used Divine Concealment, Little Spirit squads, and True Spirit Golden Light Bullets to keep the Giant Corpse God occupied, but its defenses initially showed no visible damage.
• The Giant Corpse God received further enhancements, becoming too fast for Chu Yuan to evade reliably and strong enough to smash through his defenses.
• Chu Yuan tested Diamond Defense using Fairy Chi’s stored Source Power and survived a punch that shattered his shields and drove him into a crater.
• After observing the Giant Corpse God weaken slightly under a Golden Light Bullet, Chu Yuan concluded that its defense and strength drew on the same limited reserve of power.
• Chu Yuan told Fairy Chi he had found a way to deal with the Giant Corpse God.

Zhuang fled with Chi Zong from the enhanced Giant Corpse God and tested different attacks while keeping it at a distance. He discovered that Lightning Attraction drained its power far more effectively than other attacks, leaving them with a way to wear it down.

• Zhuang recalled most of the Little Spirits and fled with Chi Zong as the enhanced Giant Corpse God pursued them.
• Zhuang explained that they had to drain the Giant Corpse God's energy instead of confronting it directly, and used True Spirit Source's Phantom Realm to disrupt its senses.
• Zhuang tested fire attacks and found that they weakened the Giant Corpse God more than Golden Light Bullets, though the effect was limited.
• Zhuang used Lightning Attraction on the Giant Corpse God and sensed that it drained far more of its power than the other attacks.
• Zhuang continued testing attacks of different attributes and found that lightning worked best, while the Giant Corpse God kept pursuing them.