Chapter Summaries

Dong Bo Xue Ying considered Zhou Zheng’s advice to attend the Divine Court Myriad Flowers Banquet and seek a master, while Zhou Zheng planned to recommend him to the Blood Blade Divine Emperor. Nearly four hundred years later, Zhou Zheng received a banquet invitation and visited the Blood Blade Divine Court to discuss an important matter.

• Yu Jing Qiu told Dong Bo Xue Ying that Zhou Zheng’s proposal was meant to help him, and Xue Ying asked whether he could attend the banquet without taking a master.
• Zhou Zheng explained that Xue Ying would need backing if he refused a master, then said he would attend and planned to recommend Xue Ying to the Blood Blade Divine Emperor.
• Zhou Zheng cultivated the Space-Time Dao, Slaughter Dao, and Eternal Dao through his clones for nearly four hundred years.
• Zhou Zheng received a golden invitation to the Divine Court Myriad Flowers Banquet and sent his clone out of the Xia Clan World.
• Zhou Zheng arrived at the Blood Blade Divine Court, and the Blood Blade Divine Emperor agreed to meet him.

Zhou Zheng traded the Spirit Awakening Technique and information about Lake Heart Island and Moon Palace with Blood Blade Divine Emperor in exchange for Saliva Soul Liquid. He also asked the Divine Emperor to help Dong Bo Xue Ying find a master at the Divine Court Myriad Flowers Banquet, leaving the request to Blood Blade Divine Emperor’s discretion.

• Zhou Zheng drank Blood Blade Divine Emperor’s Nine Bitterness Tea and endured its powerful effect on his Original Divine Heart.
• Blood Blade Divine Emperor gave Zhou Zheng a drop of Saliva Soul Liquid in exchange for hearing about Ancient Cultivation.
• Zhou Zheng explained that Ancient Cultivation awakened varied talents and used corresponding inheritances to strengthen them.
• Zhou Zheng offered the Spirit Awakening Technique and asked Blood Blade Divine Emperor for intelligence about Lake Heart Island and Moon Palace.
• Zhou Zheng asked Blood Blade Divine Emperor to recommend a good master for Dong Bo Xue Ying at the Divine Court Myriad Flowers Banquet, and Blood Blade Divine Emperor agreed only to put in a word.

After completing the second rotation of the "Five Rotations of the Ethereal Soul," Zhou Zheng greatly strengthened his Ancient Cultivation talent and discovered he could summon three clones with a vastly expanded range. Just as he considered sending them to explore dangerous secret realms, Yu Jing Qiu urgently called for help.

• Zhou Zheng returned to the Xia Clan World with the Saliva Soul Liquid and used his Ancient Cultivation clone to cultivate the second rotation of the "Five Rotations of the Ethereal Soul."
• After half a year of painful cultivation, Zhou Zheng's Original Divine Heart transformed and his deduction speed increased nearly a hundredfold.
• Zhou Zheng had his other two clones complete the same cultivation, then discovered he could summon three Ancient Cultivation clones instead of one.
• Zhou Zheng sent the three clones in different directions and found their range could cover roughly one prefecture of the Blood Blade Divine Court.
• Yu Jing Qiu's clone urgently messaged Zhou Zheng, asking him to save her.

Zhou Zheng sent an Ancient Cultivation clone to Anhai Prefecture's prefectural city after Yu Jing Qiu asked for help, where Ancestor Jin Xiao was attacking her and the Snowy Empire Lord. Ancestor Jin Xiao pressed his assault, confident that he could capture Yu Jing Qiu before Zhou Zheng or Lord Cheng Tian intervened.

• Zhou Zheng used Cause and Effect to locate Yu Jing Qiu in Anhai Prefecture and sent a nearby Ancient Cultivation clone to help her.
• Yu Jing Qiu told Zhou Zheng that Ancestor Jin Xiao had tried to capture her and that the Snowy Empire Lord was holding him off.
• Ancestor Jin Xiao attacked the Snowy Empire Lord in his enormous alien-beast form, overwhelming him with his power.
• The Snowy Empire Lord warned Ancestor Jin Xiao that Yu Jing Qiu had sought help from Lord Cheng Tian, but Ancestor Jin Xiao dismissed the threat and continued his attack.
• Ancestor Jin Xiao planned to kill the Snowy Empire Lord's clone and capture Yu Jing Qiu, believing Pang Yi could protect him afterward.

Zhou Zheng arrived in Anhai Prefecture and stopped Ancestor Jin Xiao from killing Snowy Empire Lord, then forced Jin Xiao to abandon his attack on Yu Jing Qiu. The onlookers witnessed Zhou Zheng's overwhelming strength as Jin Xiao fled severely wounded.

• Ancestor Jin Xiao attacked Snowy Empire Lord, but Zhou Zheng's sword severed Jin Xiao's claw and stopped the strike.
• Zhou Zheng told Ancestor Jin Xiao that Yu Jing Qiu came from the Xia Clan World and warned him not to target her again.
• Ancestor Jin Xiao challenged Zhou Zheng's resolve and invoked the Five Fiends of the God Realm, prompting Zhou Zheng to wound him with a second sword strike.
• Ancestor Jin Xiao fled after Zhou Zheng ordered him to leave, while Snowy Empire Lord and the watching World Gods marveled at Zhou Zheng's strength.

Zhou Zheng protected Yu Jing Qiu from Ancestor Jin Xiao, then returned to the Xia Clan World. Two years later, the Blood Blade Divine Emperor revealed his awakened Slaughter talent and offered Zhou Zheng a different cultivation inheritance in exchange for a Slaughter inheritance, introducing him to Witch Cultivation.

• Zhou Zheng reassured Yu Jing Qiu that Ancestor Jin Xiao would likely leave her alone for a while, though he warned her to stay vigilant.
• Lord of Anhai Prefecture praised Dong Bo Xue Ying’s performance after Zhou Zheng asked about him.
• Zhou Zheng declined Lord of Anhai Prefecture’s invitation to watch the Divine Court Myriad Flowers Banquet selection and left Anhai Prefecture.
• Two years later, Zhou Zheng returned to the Blood Blade Divine Court after the Blood Blade Divine Emperor summoned him to discuss his awakened Ancient Cultivation talent.
• The Blood Blade Divine Emperor showed Zhou Zheng his Slaughter-inclined talent and offered to trade an inheritance from another cultivation system for Zhou Zheng’s Slaughter inheritance.
• Zhou Zheng examined the inheritance on a black stone and recognized the system as Witch Cultivation.

Zhou Zheng studied the Witch Cultivation inheritance Blood Blade Divine Emperor had provided and used its insights into matter to develop a prototype for a new Ultimate Art. He left his experiments to meet Pang Yi, who had arrived outside his Cave Heaven.

• Zhou Zheng and Blood Blade Divine Emperor agreed to exchange portions of their inheritances first, then trade the rest after the Myriad Flowers Banquet.
• Zhou Zheng entered a guest Cave Heaven in the Blood Blade Divine Court and began examining the Myriad Things Illustrated Record.
• The inheritance broadened Zhou Zheng’s understanding of matter and helped him devise a way to alter the life force in a particle so it could regenerate after being destroyed.
• Zhou Zheng imagined turning his whole body into such particles to create an Ultimate Art, though he realized completing it would require a deeper Eternal Dao.
• Zhou Zheng noticed Pang Yi outside his Cave Heaven and went to meet him.

Zhou Zheng sparred with Pang Yi, who tested him with two powerful attacks and discovered that Zhou Zheng had opened three Daos. Pang Yi later told Ancestor Jin Xiao to let their grievance go, and Jin Xiao learned how formidable Zhou Zheng had become.

• Pang Yi approved of Zhou Zheng's handling of Ancestor Jin Xiao's matter, then challenged Zhou Zheng to exchange two moves.
• Zhou Zheng stood firm against Pang Yi's Dominator-level punch, impressing Pang Yi with his defense.
• Pang Yi's second attack briefly affected Zhou Zheng's mind and annihilated his arm, but Zhou Zheng escaped and his Eternal Dao preserved his life source.
• Pang Yi recognized that Zhou Zheng had opened three Daos, while Zhou Zheng realized Pang Yi's cultivation method drew on the power of faith to strengthen the mind.
• Pang Yi told Ancestor Jin Xiao that Zhou Zheng was exceptionally formidable and urged him to let their grievance end.

Destruction Monarch invited Zhou Zheng to drink and recruited him to scout a dangerous site in the Eternal Divine Palace on Lake Heart Island. Zhou Zheng accepted, planning to send an Ancient Cultivation clone, and the group intended to depart within a hundred years after the Myriad Flowers Banquet.

• Destruction Monarch hosted Zhou Zheng in a Divine Palace and praised him for withstanding Pang Yi’s full-force strike.
• Destruction Monarch asked Zhou Zheng to join an expedition to a place in the Eternal Divine Palace that he and Lü Yi had discovered before being killed there.
• Zhou Zheng agreed to scout the route after Destruction Monarch explained that they needed someone with strong survival abilities.
• Destruction Monarch set the departure for within a hundred years after the Myriad Flowers Banquet, while Zhou Zheng planned to send an Ancient Cultivation clone.

As the Divine Court Myriad Flowers Banquet reached its final stage, Dong Bo Xue Ying and Yu Jing Qiu visited Zhou Zheng, who assured her that Ancestor Jin Xiao would not target her again. After they left, Dong Bo Xue Ying encountered his eldest senior brother, Hui Ming.

• Dong Bo Xue Ying and Yu Jing Qiu arrived at the Blood Blade Divine Court with the Lord of Anhai Prefecture and met Seventh Plum Rain along the way.
• Dong Bo Xue Ying thanked Zhou Zheng for resolving the trouble in Anhai Prefecture City, and Zhou Zheng told Yu Jing Qiu that Ancestor Jin Xiao would not trouble her again because Pang Yi had spoken with him.
• Yu Jing Qiu and Dong Bo Xue Ying left Zhou Zheng’s Cave Heaven, grateful for his protection, while Dong Bo Xue Ying reflected on the importance of powerful backing and hoped the Blood Blade Divine Emperor would accept him as a disciple.
• Hui Ming approached Dong Bo Xue Ying and Yu Jing Qiu, introduced himself to her, and remarked that his junior brother was fortunate.

Zhou Zheng attended the Myriad Flowers Banquet at the Blood Blade Divine Court, where he met several powerful figures and learned that Dong Bo Xue Ying had come to try his luck. The banquet began after four Overlords arrived and nineteen hundred Deity-level geniuses gathered in the plaza.

• Zhou Zheng arrived at the Blood Blade Divine Court and spoke with the North Profound Palace Master, who questioned whether the Island Master of Time and Space would object to his visit.
• Ancestor Chi Huo greeted Zhou Zheng and asked whether Dong Bo Xue Ying planned to join the Blood Blade Divine Court; Zhou Zheng said he was letting Xue Ying try his luck.
• Great Powers and Venerables gathered, with visitors seated separately from Blood Blade Divine Court members.
• The Blood Blade Divine Emperor, the Bloody Dominator, the Purgatory Overlord, and Empress Qian He appeared, surprising the assembled Great Powers with the presence of two Abyss Overlords.
• Nineteen hundred Deity-level geniuses appeared in the plaza, officially beginning the Divine Court Myriad Flowers Banquet.

At the Myriad Flowers Banquet, Dong Bo Xue Ying competed while Zhou Zheng watched and wagered that Blood Blade Divine Emperor would take him as a disciple. After reviewing Dong Bo Xue Ying’s record and character, Blood Blade Divine Emperor reconsidered helping him find a master, while the other powerful figures discussed Zhou Zheng’s mysterious origins.

• Blood Blade Divine Emperor began the Myriad Flowers Banquet competition, and Zhou Zheng watched Dong Bo Xue Ying perform steadily without revealing his First-grade Divine Heart.
• North Profound Palace Master wagered one hundred million Divine Crystals against Zhou Zheng that Blood Blade Divine Emperor would not take Dong Bo Xue Ying as a disciple.
• Blood Blade Divine Emperor remembered Zhou Zheng’s request to find Dong Bo Xue Ying a master, but Pang Yi and Zhushan Prefecture Master both declined to take him.
• Blood Blade Divine Emperor read Dong Bo Xue Ying’s history and learned about his hardships, devotion to his wife, and potential, prompting him to reconsider the young genius.
• Empress Qian He and the Abyss Dominators discussed Zhou Zheng’s dealings with Blood Blade Divine Emperor and his mysterious strength, while Blood Blade Divine Emperor kept his belief that Zhou Zheng came from a Different Universe to himself.

As the Myriad Flowers Banquet narrowed to its final contestants, Seventh Plum Rain and Dong Bo Xue Ying attracted the attention of Great Powers. The Blood Blade Divine Emperor finally prepared to grant a token, leaving the assembled Powers convinced that Dong Bo Xue Ying was its recipient.

• After the eliminated geniuses waited for tokens, Empress Xuan Mu chose Seventh Plum Rain, who had placed 159th, as her disciple.
• The North Profound Palace Master and other Venerables discussed Seventh Plum Rain’s ties to the Snowy Empire Lord and their conflict with Ancestor Jin Xiao, while warning that Pang Yi was formidable.
• Dong Bo Xue Ying emerged ranked in the thirties, and several Great Powers offered him tokens because of his extraordinary potential.
• While other token recipients chose their mentors, Dong Bo Xue Ying waited, hoping for a chance to join one of the Three Ancestors and relying on his connection to Cheng Tian Palace.
• The Blood Blade Divine Emperor handed a Golden Token to a World God guard, and the Great Powers were astonished; the North Profound Palace Master suspected Dong Bo Xue Ying would receive it.

Dong Bo Xue Ying became the Blood Blade Divine Emperor’s disciple, and Zhou Zheng completed an exchange of inheritances before traveling to Lake Heart Island. He arrived at the Bloodfire Gate intending to challenge it while waiting for the Destruction Monarch’s departure plans.

• The Blood Blade Divine Emperor offered Dong Bo Xue Ying a place among his disciples, and Dong Bo Xue Ying performed the disciple-taking ceremony.
• At the Myriad Flowers Banquet, the Blood Blade Divine Emperor served Myriad Flower True Fruits, and the Great Powers shared food and conversation.
• Several days later, Zhou Zheng and the Blood Blade Divine Emperor exchanged inheritances, including a discussion of the Myriad Things Illustrated Record.
• Zhou Zheng returned to the Xia Clan World after using an Ancient Cultivation clone to guard against a possible Mother Ancestor Cult ambush, but the cult did not attack.
• Zhou Zheng traveled to Lake Heart Island to challenge the Bloodfire Gate before departing with the Destruction Monarch.

Zhou Zheng entered Lake Heart Island and reached the Bloodfire Gate, where he proved himself qualified to attempt its challenge. He chose the second of eighteen passages and was swallowed by it as the gate closed.

• Zhou Zheng sent an Ancient Cultivation clone into Lake Heart Island and used his Space-Time Dao to travel through its ice-covered channels toward the Bloodfire Gate.
• Zhou Zheng examined the Black Armored Lifeforms guarding the island and recognized that the Sword Master had transformed them into eternal guardians.
• Zhou Zheng arrived at the Bloodfire Gate, defeated Xing Shan with a single hand, and asked to attempt the challenge.
• The tall, thin woman explained the gate’s passages and reward rules, then opened it for Zhou Zheng.
• Zhou Zheng entered the second passage, and the guardians discussed how unlikely it was that he would pass the second or third checkpoint.

Zhou Zheng passed the Bloodfire Gate’s first trial and chose to continue into a deadly passage of flames. There, he fought a crimson-armored swordsman for three days, improving his swordsmanship before defeating it and wondering whether stronger opponents awaited him.

• Zhou Zheng fought through repeated ambushes in the blood-red passage and reached its end.
• Blood Shadow revealed that the Bloodfire Gate was a treasure and offered Zhou Zheng the choice to withdraw with a reward or continue; Zhou Zheng chose to continue.
• Zhou Zheng entered the fiery passage and used his powerful body and Eternal Dao to withstand its heat.
• A crimson-armored figure attacked Zhou Zheng, and he suppressed his strength to study its swordsmanship, which combined traces of the Slaughter Dao and Destruction Dao.
• After fighting for more than three days and refining his swordsmanship, Zhou Zheng broke through the figure’s defenses and defeated it.

Zhou Zheng fought through the Bloodfire Gate’s Second Trial, evading growing groups of powerful sword-wielding enemies until he reached the end of the passage. After learning that only four others from his cosmic era had passed the trial, he chose to enter the Ruler-level Third Trial with his Ancient Cultivation clone.

• Zhou Zheng battled a crimson-armored swordsman for half a month before defeating him and continuing along the flaming passage.
• Zhou Zheng defeated a Peak Venerable enemy, then used the Space-Time Dao to evade successive groups of pursuers as their numbers grew to twelve.
• Zhou Zheng reached the trial’s end and learned from the Artifact Spirit that he was the fifth person in his cosmic era to pass the Second Trial.
• The Artifact Spirit explained that the Third Trial could only be passed by Rulers and offered Zhou Zheng the choice to proceed or withdraw for a reward.
• Zhou Zheng chose to enter the Third Trial, deciding that the risk was acceptable because he had sent his easily summoned Ancient Cultivation clone.

Zhou Zheng survived the Third Trial only briefly, but the experience gave him insight into combining Space-Time and Eternal Daos. He returned to the Bloodfire Gate to use the trial as a training ground, and his second attempt began with the resurrected opponents adapting to his abilities.

• Zhou Zheng chose to continue the Bloodfire Gate trials and entered the Third Trial, where deadly stars battered him until his Ancient Cultivation clone collapsed.
• While contemplating outside Lake Heart Island, Zhou Zheng realized that the Third Trial had revealed an opportunity to combine his Space-Time and Eternal Daos.
• Zhou Zheng decided to repeatedly challenge the Third Trial as practice and sent another Ancient Cultivation clone into the Bloodfire Gate.
• The resurrected beings in the trials remembered Zhou Zheng; the First Trial's Blood Shadows let him pass, while prepared Venerables attacked him in the Second Trial.
• Zhou Zheng quickly cleared the Second Trial despite the Venerables' new plans against his Space-Time Dao.

Zhou Zheng repeatedly challenged the Bloodfire Gate’s Third Trial, using the deaths of his clones to refine a technique combining the Space-Time Dao and the Eternal Dao. Twenty years later, he used Eternal Space-Time to survive the trial’s final attack and passed, leaving him awaiting its reward.

• Zhou Zheng rejected the Artifact Spirit’s offer of a reward and entered the Third Trial again, lasting fifteen breaths before dying.
• Zhou Zheng returned to the Third Trial hundreds of times over the next twenty years, studying the insights gained through his clone’s repeated deaths.
• Zhou Zheng created Eternal Space-Time, a domain that let him control Space-Time and slow incoming stars.
• Zhou Zheng used Eternal Space-Time to evade the trial’s increasingly powerful attacks for an hour, then merged with Space-Time to escape the final assault.
• Zhou Zheng realized he had passed the Third Trial and anticipated receiving its treasure.

Zhou Zheng passed the Bloodfire Gate’s final trial and received the Heaven Opening Sword and a Talisman Token that led to the Initial Land. After returning to his true body, he discovered that his Ancient Cultivation clone had also obtained a token, leaving him wondering whether the clone could enter the Initial Land.

• The Bloodfire Gate Artifact Spirit confirmed that Zhou Zheng had passed the Third Trial and told him there were no further trials.
• Zhou Zheng chose the left box, refined the Heaven Opening Sword, and learned that it contained Dominator-level Slaughter Dao and traces of Destruction Dao.
• Zhou Zheng refined the Talisman Token and learned that it could transport its owner to the Initial Land, where entry offered great opportunities but near-certain death.
• The Bloodfire Gate Artifact Spirit explained that the Sword Master had placed an intact Talisman Token among the rewards for a Venerable who passed the Third Trial.
• Zhou Zheng returned to his true body and transferred the treasures, then summoned another Ancient Cultivation clone and found it had also brought out a Talisman Token.
• Zhou Zheng confirmed the second token carried the same information and wondered whether his Ancient Cultivation clone could use it to enter the Initial Land.