Chapter Summaries

Zhou Feng received the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine from White-Browed Old Man, who hoped to use him to turn the tables on Chen Yunmu. Rather than hand over the pine, Zhou Feng swallowed it and began the Mortal Transformation Method, leaving White-Browed Old Man to reveal that it contained Blood-Devouring Demon Poison.

• White-Browed Old Man sensed Zhou Feng’s abundant life force and offered him the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine to draw him into the conflict.
• Zhou Feng caught the pine as most of the watching cultivators fled, wary of provoking someone whose strength and origins they did not know.
• Chen Yunmu demanded that Zhou Feng hand over the Ageless Pine, but Zhou Feng refused, deciding he needed its power to rebuild his body.
• Zhou Feng swallowed the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine and began the Mortal Transformation Method in front of Chen Yunmu and White-Browed Old Man.
• White-Browed Old Man panicked and warned Zhou Feng that the pine contained Blood-Devouring Demon Poison, while Chen Yunmu held back to watch.

Zhou Feng used the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine to nurture a new body and successfully fused it with his True Spirit. After Chen Yunmu withdrew, the other onlookers also left, leaving Zhou Feng alone.

• Zhou Feng swallowed the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine and relied on Gluttony Instinct to withstand its poison and life-draining power.
• The White-Browed Old Man released the pine’s restraints and escaped while Chen Yunmu tried to seize it.
• Zhou Feng used the Mortal Transformation Method to grow a new body from his original one and fused it with his True Spirit.
• Zhou Feng blocked Chen Yunmu’s Spirit Flood Dragon Scissors with his new body.
• Chen Yunmu departed, and the other onlookers withdrew, leaving Zhou Feng alone.

After completing the Mortal Transformation Method, Zhou Feng discovered that powerful Central Plains factions had marked him as a promising seed to nurture and later harvest. The White-Browed Old Man, also branded and trapped by the system, resolved to test Zhou Feng, while Zhou Feng questioned whether his new body had truly transformed.

• Zhou Feng noticed five marks on his body after Chen Yunmu and the others left, then carried his original body out of the city to adapt to his new one.
• The White-Browed Old Man escaped Chen Yunmu but realized his declining vitality and the loss of the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine had left him doomed to serve as fertilizer for Zhou Feng.
• The White-Browed Old Man’s Chen Family Divine Seal lit up, and he reflected on how the Shen family’s mark had once protected him before turning into a means of control and eventual harvesting.
• The White-Browed Old Man accepted that he could not escape his fate and decided to use his remaining strength to test Zhou Feng.
• Zhou Feng examined his new body and found it only slightly stronger than his old one; as he absorbed spiritual energy, it began showing signs of spiritual materialization again.

Zhou Feng realized the Mortal Transformation Method was weakening his soul as it unified his spirit and body, but he could replenish Soul Power by converting blood qi and flesh. As he considered shedding mortal body parts to advance toward the inhuman, the White-Browed Old Man found him and began a desperate attempt to possess his body.

• Zhou Feng concluded that the Mortal Transformation Method had succeeded, and that his Blood Qi Transformation into Spirit skill could counteract its weakening effect on his soul.
• Zhou Feng considered abandoning unnecessary organs and recognized that Chen Yunmu and the other advanced cultivators had shed visible mortal traits as they progressed toward the inhuman.
• Zhou Feng devoured spiritual energy and converted the resulting blood qi into Soul Power to recover from exhaustion and prepare to nurture another body.
• The White-Browed Old Man found Zhou Feng through the Chen Family Divine Seal, but Zhou Feng refused to leave his cave and speak with him.
• The White-Browed Old Man explained Cloud Dream Marsh and the need to condense a Dao Seed while secretly draining his blood to form an array for a final attempt to possess Zhou Feng.

Zhou Feng learned that Dream Power in Cloud Dream Marsh gradually eroded memories and techniques, then realized the White-Browed Old Man was stalling and attacked him. The old man attempted to enter Zhou Feng’s soul and survive as a holdout, but Zhou Feng quickly suppressed him, leaving the old man close to being erased.

• The White-Browed Old Man explained that Dream Power in Cloud Dream Marsh could make people forget their techniques, cultivation, and even their identities.
• Zhou Feng realized the White-Browed Old Man was stalling, rushed from the cave, and struck him with a powerful punch.
• The White-Browed Old Man released his soul and entered Zhou Feng’s body, intending to occupy a small part of his soul space and negotiate for survival.
• Zhou Feng’s soul suppressed the White-Browed Old Man, nearly erasing him before he could carry out his plan.

After annihilating the White-Browed Old Man, Zhou Feng learned how Cloud Dream Marsh forced cultivators to hunt one another and began planning how to survive. He fashioned his shed flesh and blood and the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine into a crude magic treasure, discovering that the pine still held a trace of life force.

• Zhou Feng easily destroyed the White-Browed Old Man’s divine soul and obtained everything he knew, including information about Cloud Dream Marsh and his hidden treasure vault.
• Zhou Feng learned that Cloud Dream Marsh sorted cultivators into Immortal Seedlings, pests, and fertilizer, driving them to hunt one another and face Dream Beasts.
• Zhou Feng decided to refine the Mortal Transformation Method further and make a Natal Magic Treasure from his shed flesh and blood.
• Zhou Feng shaped the flesh and blood into a pot, used the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine to bind it, and named the crude treasure the Sky Swallowing Demonic Pot.
• Zhou Feng refined the pot with blood essence and spiritual energy, and the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine revealed a hidden trace of life force.

Lumian Lee entertained the patrons of a tavern in Cordu with a fabricated tale about working at a morgue, then met the outsiders Ryan Coss, Valentine, and Lia. Pierre revealed that Aurore had brought Lumian to the village five years earlier, given him her surname and his name, and that Lumian had forgotten what he was originally called.

• While refining the Sky Swallowing Demonic Pot, Zhou Feng fused his flesh and blood with the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine.
• Lumian told Ryan Coss a detailed story about a poor young man who worked as a morgue watchman, then admitted it was a story his sister had written.
• Lumian introduced himself to Ryan and learned that Ryan’s companions were Valentine and Lia; Ryan explained that the surname Lee recalled a feared figure named Frank Lee.
• Lumian ordered Green Fairy, and Pierre offered to tell Ryan about Lumian in exchange for a drink.
• Pierre said Aurore had brought Lumian back to Cordu when he was thirteen, given him the surname Lee and the name Lumian, and that Lumian had never left the village.
• Lumian said he had forgotten what he was originally called.

Zhou Feng escaped after killing his enemy and headed north toward the Flood Dragon Mountain Range. Meanwhile, Dao Jun continued his extreme body cultivation, intent on sealing every source of energy inside himself, as the Shen family investigated his strength and apparent escape from their formation.

• Zhou Feng left the battlefield quickly, kept the marks on his body as bait, and traveled north toward the Flood Dragon Mountain Range.
• Dao Jun continued practicing the Mortal Transformation Method, absorbing spiritual energy while deliberately transforming and discarding parts of his body.
• Dao Jun planned to make his body contain all energy without leakage, relying on his recovery abilities and Life Wheel if the strain caused his body to collapse.
• Dao Jun decided to find a market in the Flood Dragon Mountain Range, where he could investigate the decline in spiritual energy and seek cultivation methods.
• Yi Shui and other Shen family disciples reported that Dao Jun had a powerful body, had shown no other divine abilities, and seemed to have evaded their grand formation.

Zhou Feng learned how Grievance Qi and baleful energy affected the Flood Dragon Mountain Range and decided to earn spirit stones by fishing with the Chen Family Divine Seal as bait. Meanwhile, Chen Yunmu ordered the Shen family to keep pressuring Zhou Feng and posted a bounty on him.

• Chen Yunmu told his people to keep testing Zhou Feng and issue a bounty notice, letting him grow stronger before the Shen family hunted him.
• Zhou Feng explored a marketplace and learned that cultivators there needed pure spirit stones because the local spiritual energy carried Grievance Qi and baleful energy.
• Zhou Feng realized his resilient soul and Life Wheel protected him from those impurities, while his body could be rebuilt with the Mortal Transformation Method.
• Zhou Feng decided he needed a cultivation method, a Dao Law Seed, and spirit stones, and chose to return to his old trade of fighting for resources.
• Zhou Feng planned to use the Chen Family Divine Seal as bait and go fishing.

Zhou Feng used the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine and his deliberately crude behavior to draw greedy cultivators toward the Yuan Clan. As the Zhou Feng Clan prepared its Monster Hunting Gathering and its valuable Flood Dragon Pills, Duan Xing and his allies decided Zhou Feng was an easy target and moved closer to acting.

• Zhou Feng wandered through the Yuan Clan Marketplace with a mutated body after absorbing too much baleful energy while cultivating.
• Zhou Feng learned how the Zhou Feng Clan used its Flood Dragon Pills and Monster Hunting Gathering to attract cultivators and protect its marketplace.
• Zhou Feng deliberately exposed a trace of the Ten Thousand Year Old Immortal Pine's aura and accumulated baleful energy to bait people into attacking him.
• Duan Xing and his companions dismissed Zhou Feng as an outsider and concluded that his crude act concealed no great strength.
• Duan Xing and his allies prepared to act against the Yuan Clan after their helpers arrived.

Zhou Feng escaped Duan Xing’s killing formation and killed him before fleeing, then discovered an incomplete Five Viscera Treasure Technique in a Dao Seed. He decided to stop wandering and settle in the Flood Dragon Mountain Range to refine his cultivation.

• Duan Xing triggered a killing formation to ambush Zhou Feng, but Zhou Feng’s Forbidden Body let him break through it and attack.
• Zhou Feng compressed his power into a single blow, punched through Duan Xing’s chest, snapped his neck, and fed the body to the Sky Swallowing Demonic Pot.
• White Tiger Daoist and the other cultivators fled toward the marketplace, while White Tiger Daoist noted Zhou Feng’s unusual aura and carried the Shen Family Divine Seal.
• Zhou Feng used Longevity Steps to flee until divination showed no sign of great misfortune.
• A Dao Seed emerged from the Sky Swallowing Demonic Pot and gave Zhou Feng the incomplete Five Viscera Treasure Technique, which refined the viscera into magical treasures.
• Zhou Feng judged that the Flood Dragon Mountain Range was a suitable place to settle down, organize his cultivation, and develop steadily.

After settling in the Yuan Clan Marketplace, Zhou Feng learned that cultivators survived by showing potential and began improving the Gluttony Pill to support his Five Viscera Treasure Technique. He extracted the passive Born Close to Dao, which made comprehending the Great Dao’s laws easier, and turned his attention back to alchemy.

• Zhou Feng settled into the Yuan Clan Marketplace and realized that displaying value and potential protected cultivators from being targeted.
• Zhou Feng considered how to cultivate the Five Viscera Treasure Technique more effectively, including increasing the dosage of his Gluttony Pills.
• Zhou Feng’s progress bar filled, and he extracted the passive Born Close to Dao, gaining greater ease in comprehending the Great Dao’s laws.
• Zhou Feng went to the Hundred Herbs Pavilion and bought ingredients so he could refine more Gluttony Pills.

Zhou Feng modified his plans for alchemy and cultivation after discovering that the original Gluttony Pill could not overcome his body’s self-healing. He chose Body Cultivation as his path toward the Ascension Realm and prepared to seek advice at a Dao lecture.

• Zhou Feng refined a Gluttony Pill, but its effects were too weak to trigger lasting mutation in his body.
• Zhou Feng decided to modify the Five Viscera Treasure Technique rather than abandon it, believing it could help him reach the Ascension Realm.
• Zhou Feng reviewed how Dao lectures let cultivators exchange cultivation methods and advice, despite the danger of revealing their weaknesses.
• Zhou Feng chose Body Cultivation because it suited his Passive Skills and his preference for overcoming opponents through physical strength.
• Zhou Feng embraced his goal of becoming a lone tyrant and planned to present his cultivation direction at the upcoming Dao lecture.

Zhou Feng attended the Dao Discussion Assembly in the Yuan Clan Marketplace’s cultivation secret realm, where the other cultivators saw him as a chance to test their fundamental cultivation methods. White Tiger Daoist began offering Zhou Feng a Food Consumption Method, leaving him to hear what the method involved.

• Zhou Feng entered the cultivation secret realm and absorbed its abundant spiritual qi to support his cultivation and nourish the Sky Swallowing Demonic Pot.
• Several cultivators greeted Zhou Feng and invited him to discuss his cultivation Dao, while he accepted their attention despite knowing that asking about fundamental cultivation methods was considered offensive.
• The assembly’s cultivators gathered around Zhou Feng, viewing him as a useful test subject for refining their own fundamental methods.
• White Tiger Daoist recognized Zhou Feng’s interest in Body Cultivation and offered to teach him a Food Consumption Method.
• Zhou Feng noticed that White Tiger Daoist also appeared to follow the path of Body Cultivation and stayed quiet to listen.

At the Dao Discussion Assembly, White Tiger Daoist explained the incomplete Food Consumption Method and warned that extreme bodily transformation could obstruct comprehension of the Dao. Zhou Feng then shared his unconventional cultivation philosophy, leaving the other cultivators astonished and convinced his experiences might point toward a breakthrough.

• White Tiger Daoist described the Food Consumption Method as one of the seventy-two Earth Fiend Techniques, explaining that its four chapters were incomplete and that he possessed only the Herb Chapter.
• White Tiger Daoist said that strengthening the body through consumption was difficult and cautioned that becoming inhuman could hinder Dao comprehension and cause cultivation problems.
• The assembly members questioned White Tiger Daoist about his lack of progress and the rumored harm the method had caused his body.
• Zhou Feng recalled his Born Close to Dao Passive Skill and concluded that his constitution could make comprehending the Dao easier.
• Zhou Feng explained that he sought to transform himself beyond ordinary humanity, prompting astonishment among the assembly members.
• The cultivators focused their attention on Zhou Feng, believing his experiences might reveal an opportunity for their own breakthroughs.

At the Dao discussion gathering, Zhou Feng weighed the risks of the Five Viscera Treasure Technique and clarified how it fit into his cultivation path. He chose the Gravity Technique as his killing art, but the gathering exposed more of his background and left others suspicious of him.

• Zhou Feng questioned the dangers of altering his body, and other cultivators warned that the Food Consumption Mortal Transformation Method could damage his cultivation path.
• Zhou Feng decided to keep the Mortal Transformation Method and Longevity Steps, use the Five Viscera Treasure Technique for defense, and focus on a few powerful arts.
• Zhou Feng used his Intelligent Brain to search his memories for a suitable offensive art and settled on the Gravity Technique.
• Other cultivators probed Zhou Feng about his recovery, bloodline, and inheritance, revealing details of his background to the gathering.
• The gathering continued as a teaching session, while Zhou Feng’s apparent lack of knowledge made others suspect he was feigning weakness or setting a trap.

Zhou Feng continued developing the Five Viscera Treasure Technique and wondered how Cloud Dream Marsh cultivators created their own methods. The White Tiger Daoist revealed that Cloud Dream Stones offered a thousand years of experimentation in a dream, then proposed that he and Zhou Feng enter the Dream World together.

• Zhou Feng reviewed his panel and considered how difficult it was to create a great divine ability suited to himself.
• Zhou Feng wondered how Cloud Dream Marsh enabled its cultivators to develop individual techniques.
• The White Tiger Daoist visited Zhou Feng and described his own extreme approach to Body Cultivation.
• The White Tiger Daoist explained that Cloud Dream Stones let cultivators spend a thousand years testing methods in a Dream World.
• The White Tiger Daoist said the price of obtaining a Cloud Dream Stone was for him and Zhou Feng to enter the Dream World together.

Zhou Feng agreed to enter a Dream World with White Tiger Daoist using a Cloud Dream Stone, hoping to gain time for cultivation and test whether his passives worked there. As they headed to the Illusion Dream Pool, Zhou Feng knew White Tiger Daoist might exploit him, and his status panel still marked the journey as a Great Omen.

• White Tiger Daoist explained that Cloud Dream Stones used their participants' knowledge to create Dream Worlds, while recording their cultivation secrets and consuming their Soul Power.
• Zhou Feng agreed to obtain a Cloud Dream Stone by guarding the border of Cloud Dream Marsh for a year, and White Tiger Daoist warned that Dream Beasts could make that duty last thousands of years in dreams.
• White Tiger Daoist revealed that repeated use of Cloud Dream Stones had worn down his Dao heart, and he urgently wanted Zhou Feng's help completing a cultivation method.
• White Tiger Daoist led Zhou Feng to the Illusion Dream Pool, while onlookers suspected he intended to make Zhou Feng secondary nourishment in their shared Dream World.
• Zhou Feng accepted the risk and wondered whether his passive abilities would work in the Dream World as his status panel indicated a Great Omen.

In the Dream World, Zhou Feng explored its cultivation system and used his still-active Passive Skills to rapidly develop a Gluttony Stomach technique. His progress convinced Zhou Zongming that Zhou Feng was a hidden prodigy, prompting him to open the clan’s Dao Repository, while Zhou Feng continued seeking cultivation resources.

• Zhou Feng realized that his Passive Skills still worked in the Dream World and began cultivating with the Zhou Clan’s methods.
• Zhou Feng circulated qi and blood through his body and developed a simplified Gluttony Stomach, rapidly digesting food to generate more qi and blood.
• Zhou Feng’s intense cultivation damaged his stomach, but his Passive Skills helped it heal as he continued training.
• Zhou Zongming mistook Zhou Feng’s extraordinary progress for concealed talent and believed he had reached Bone Refining.
• Zhou Zongming decided to open the clan’s Dao Repository, while Zhou Feng concluded he needed to leave the mountain to find more resources and cultivation techniques.

Zhou Zongming brought Zhou Feng to the ancestral hall and gave him Zhou Family Village’s last White Tiger Heart, hoping to help him grow strong enough to restore the clan. Zhou Feng swallowed it, gained the White Tiger Blood Refining Method, and sensed a sinister presence within its blood energy as Zhou Mi and others arrived in outrage.

• Zhou Zongming led Zhou Feng into the ancestral hall to reveal the Stockade’s remaining foundation, while villagers rushed to alert Zhou Mi.
• Zhou Zongming and Elder Zhou showed Zhou Feng the beating White Tiger Heart and explained that it was Zhou Family Village’s last hope.
• After Zhou Feng accepted Zhou Zongming’s decision, he swallowed the White Tiger Heart and received the White Tiger Blood Refining Method.
• Zhou Feng experienced the heart’s savage blood energy and visions of a tiger, while his panel showed the new method at Beginner level.
• Zhou Mi and a group of villagers stormed into the ancestral hall, saw the empty box, and demanded that Zhou Zongming come out.
• As Zhou Feng digested the heart, its blood energy grew cold and sinister, and he sensed a snake watching him.