Chapter Summaries

After discovering that three-colored tribulation lightning remained in his dantian, Wenlong returned home and promised Wen Hao a Sword Manual. Wen Hao ran off after confronting her grandmother, while Wenlong reflected on her mischievous behavior.

• Wenlong found three-colored tribulation lightning in his dantian and briefly summoned it before drawing it back inside.
• Wen Hao asked Wenlong why she could not learn the techniques that Wen Lai and Yang Bingxue had learned, and he promised to give her the Sword Manual.
• Wenlong carried Wen Hao home and listened as she described disciplining her younger brothers.
• Huang Jinlian criticized Wenlong for spoiling Wen Hao, and Wen Hao ran off after accusing her grandmother of favoring boys.

Wenlong arranged for the Wen children to receive formal academic and cultivation lessons, and set Long Zhang to work establishing an academy for Huaxia City. After settling those affairs, Wenlong took Number Four and Number Five into the Deep Mountains to test whether his three-colored lightning tribulation could help him survive his second heavenly tribulation.

• Wenlong asked Long Zhang to discipline Wen Hao and guide her cultivation, with Number Three watching over her.
• Wenlong called a family meeting and arranged for Liuliu to teach academics and etiquette while Long Zhang and Number Three taught cultivation at a new family school.
• Wenlong asked Long Zhang to begin building an academy for Huaxia City's youths, and Long Zhang agreed.
• Wenlong prepared for his second heavenly tribulation and took Number Four and Number Five to the Deep Mountains to test his three-colored lightning tribulation.

Wenlong prepared for his second heavenly tribulation by practicing with his three-colored tribulation lightning and summoning Old Sun for support. He survived the three increasingly powerful bolts, strengthened his own lightning, and returned to the City Lord's Residence after Old Sun left to undergo his own tribulation.

• Wenlong practiced controlling his three-colored tribulation lightning in the Deep Mountains for two days, then asked Old Sun to help him undergo his second tribulation.
• Old Sun arrived after gathering Heaven and Earth Spirit Stones in the Forbidden Grounds and told Wenlong he planned to undergo another tribulation soon.
• Wenlong set up Defensive Array Formations in a remote mountain forest, took a Qi-Attracting Pill, and began his second heavenly tribulation.
• Wenlong used his three-colored lightning, formations, and sword to withstand the three bolts, though the last shattered his defenses and injured him.
• Wenlong found that his own three-colored tribulation lightning had grown stronger, healed himself, and returned to the City Lord's Residence while Old Sun departed to undergo his tribulation.

Wenlong explored several forbidden grounds with Number Three and the Insect King, overcoming illusions and formations to collect heavenly treasures. He returned home with a rich haul and decided to form exploration teams so he could focus on cultivation, developing his combat methods, and strengthening the Huaxia Alliance.

• Wenlong prepared pills and supplies, then headed to the nearest forbidden ground with Number Three and the Insect King.
• Wenlong burned away an illusion that concealed immortal herbs and corpses, then sent the Insect King ahead to scout with venomous insects.
• Wenlong broke through a natural formation, avoided the dangers, and harvested the real immortal herbs and other heavenly treasures.
• Wenlong and his companions explored several more forbidden grounds over the following days and gathered abundant treasures.
• Wenlong returned home and decided to establish exploration teams to gather wealth while he focused on cultivation and learning more combat methods.

Wenlong restored the souls of the Insect King, Old Seven, and Old Black after securing their life souls and their loyalty, then prepared them for the Forbidden Grounds expedition. With the expedition team’s core members in place, he headed to the Great Black Stone Forest to practice more martial arts.

• Wenlong restored the Insect King's soul after the Insect King agreed to leave his life soul with him, then gave him cultivation materials.
• Wenlong restored Old Seven's soul under the same conditions and sent him to the Cultivation Chamber with cultivation materials.
• Wenlong recalled Old Black from his assignment, tested his honesty, and restored his soul after he accepted Wenlong's demands.
• Wenlong prepared resources to help Old Black advance and sent him to the Cultivation Chamber.
• Wenlong decided not to restore any more souls yet and headed into the Great Black Stone Forest to practice other martial arts.

Wenlong helped Old Black, Monkey Sun, Lin Yueming, and Purple Robe survive their heavenly tribulations, then organized two teams to gather treasures in the Forbidden Grounds. After sending Purple Robe's team out, he returned to the ruins to investigate the Great Black Stone.

• Wenlong helped Old Black survive his second-stage heavenly tribulation with a defensive array formation.
• Wenlong established the first Expedition Team, led by Old Black with the Insect King and Number Four, and sent them into the Forbidden Grounds.
• Wenlong tested Purple Robe's loyalty, restored her soul to her body, and supplied her with resources for cultivation.
• Wenlong helped Monkey Sun and Lin Yueming survive their Boundless Realm tribulations.
• After Purple Robe survived her second tribulation, Wenlong formed a second Expedition Team with her, Number Three, and Number Five, then returned to the ruins to study the Great Black Stone.

Wenlong learned that both expedition teams had vanished inside the forbidden ground on Misty Mountain and went in to find them. Separated from Number Two and cut off from the outside, he became lost in a lightless place littered with human bones.

• Old Seven told Wenlong that both expedition teams had entered the Misty Mountain forbidden ground and lost contact with the outside.
• Wenlong sent Monkey Sun to wait for Old Sun, then traveled with Number Two and Old Seven toward Misty Mountain while Number One remained at the entrance.
• Wenlong and Number Two entered the thick mist, but his mental power weakened until Number Two disappeared without a trace.
• Wenlong calmed himself, set up a Defensive Array Formation, and continued alone through the darkness with Fire Spirit for light.
• Wenlong found scattered human bones and discovered that he could neither contact the outside nor use his Teleportation Array to escape.

Wenlong escaped the darkness of the Forbidden Grounds and found a hidden, illuminated chamber containing a mysterious origin orb. After he touched it, the orb entered his dantian and swallowed the Ice Spirit, Fire Spirit, and three-colored lightning tribulation, leaving him helpless.

• Wenlong followed a distant light to a rock wall and discovered that its glow came from a magical formation.
• He unraveled the formation and entered a passage filled with plants, then broke another formation to reveal a small orb of light.
• Wenlong touched the orb and lost consciousness, seeing it bring life and light to barren places and purify dark river water.
• After Wenlong regained consciousness, the orb vanished from the chamber, and he searched his sea of consciousness for it.
• Wenlong found the orb in his dantian, where it swallowed the Ice Spirit, Fire Spirit, and three-colored lightning tribulation one after another.
• The orb circled leisurely inside Wenlong's dantian while he sat helplessly, lamenting the loss of his treasures.

After Wenlong’s origin shattered his dantian, it reshaped it into a dan sea and revealed that it could speak. Wenlong named the origin Little Light and began learning its abilities, including its power to devour all things.

• Wenlong tried to restrain the origin in his dantian, but it smashed through the formation and shattered his dantian, causing him to lose consciousness.
• Wenlong woke to find that the origin had transformed his ruined dantian into a dan sea, where it rested quietly.
• Wenlong summoned the origin and discovered that it contained sources of fire, ice, thunder, life, light, and darkness.
• The origin spoke to Wenlong, told him it had reshaped his dan sea, and offered to teach him its skills.
• Wenlong named the origin Little Light and learned that it had started as a source of life before devouring a source of light and other origins.
• Wenlong familiarized himself with Little Light’s skills and was most impressed by its ability to devour all things.

After mastering Little Light’s Origin Source abilities, Wenlong removed the darkness from the Forbidden Grounds and fought the monsters that emerged. He defeated their powerful leader, cleared out the smaller creatures, and contacted the expedition team.

• Wenlong absorbed the Forbidden Grounds’ darkness with Little Light, revealing the landscape in daylight.
• A swarm of mantis-like monsters attacked, and their strongest member grew stronger by absorbing its kin’s vital essence.
• Wenlong fought the huge monster with fire and sword techniques, but its defenses and attacks overwhelmed him.
• After Little Light urged him to vary his methods, Wenlong immobilized the monster with thunderbolt and killed it.
• Wenlong used the Divine Sword to kill the remaining monsters, then scanned the area and contacted the expedition team with a Communication Talisman.

Wenlong rescued Number Two from the Forbidden Grounds and brought the injured Expedition Team back to Huaxia City. After preparing for months, he set out to undergo his third Heavenly Tribulation, while his life-source origin source made his growing strength far greater than he realized.

• Wenlong met Old Black, Old Sun, and the rescued Expedition Team, then used Number Two's Communication Talisman to locate and save him from a cave in the Forbidden Grounds.
• Wenlong entrusted the injured team members to Yuan Jing and returned to training after they were safely back in Huaxia City.
• Old Sun announced that he would undergo another Heavenly Tribulation, then vanished on his Somersault Cloud.
• Wenlong spent several months testing himself near the Heavenly Tribulation Array and preparing for his own third tribulation.
• Wenlong took two teams to guard the site where he had undergone his earlier tribulations and prepared to face the third-level Heavenly Tribulation.

Wenlong survived his breakthrough tribulation, gained a stronger thunder origin, and strengthened the Wen family as its members advanced. With the expedition exploring the Forbidden Grounds again, he entered the Great Black Stone ruins to train and learn to use his origins.

• Wenlong endured four heavenly lightning strikes, using the source of life and his three-color thunder source to survive and absorb a fourth color.
• Wenlong recovered, sent Number One's and Number Two's souls to break through, and divided the expedition into three teams led by Old Black, Purple Robe, and Number One.
• Yuan Jing, Yuan Lailai, Yang Bingxue, and Wen Haohao survived their heavenly tribulations, bringing the Wen family to five Infinite Realm experts.
• Wenlong hoped the expedition would find an origin for Old Sun and help him achieve revenge.
• Wenlong entered the ruins within the Great Black Stone to improve his martial techniques and practice using his origins.

After Wenlong returned from the Great Black Stone, he and Old Sun strengthened and reorganized the Huaxia Alliance, with Old Sun taking charge as its powerful Elder. Wenlong remained determined to travel to the Heaven Realm and eventually reach Heaven Beyond Heaven, while Old Sun agreed to guide him.

• Wenlong met Old Sun, who asked him to return his subordinates’ wisdom souls so they could grow stronger and form a force to support him.
• Wenlong restored the wisdom souls of the Huaxia Alliance members while keeping their life souls under his control, then prepared the alliance’s first assembly.
• Old Sun refused to become Alliance Leader, enlightened Long Zhang to help him advance, and encouraged Wenlong to take the leadership position.
• At the assembly, Wenlong appointed Old Sun as Elder, Long Zhang as Steward, Number Three, Number Four, Number Five, and Lin Yueming as Guardians, and kept Old Seven in charge of intelligence.
• Wenlong arranged alliance rules, protection for Dragon City, and public access to its Teleportation Array while Old Sun explained the Huaxia Domain’s natural defenses.
• Wenlong insisted on going to the Heaven Realm and eventually reaching Heaven Beyond Heaven, and Old Sun agreed to take him beyond the Huaxia Domain.

Wenlong traveled with Old Sun to the Heaven Realm, passed the Southern Heavenly Gate without resistance, and chose Hanging Mountain as a base for the Huaxia Alliance. As Wenlong and Old Sun planned to develop it, a powerful presence approached, and Old Sun prepared to confront it.

• Wenlong took Old Sun toward the Heaven Realm in his upgraded Flying Saucer, and Old Sun promised to protect him from powerful enemies.
• The Giant Spirit God recognized Old Sun at the Southern Heavenly Gate and let him and Wenlong pass without a fight.
• Old Sun guided Wenlong through the Heaven Realm to Hanging Mountain, where Wenlong decided to establish a base and build a Teleportation Array linking it to the Immortal World.
• As Wenlong and Old Sun discussed developing Hanging Mountain, Old Sun sensed an approaching presence and challenged it to come forward.

Wenlong and Old Sun defeated a mist-shrouded challenger sent to test Old Sun, and Wenlong captured the man and made him a subordinate. After threats from powerful factions raised tensions across the Three Realms, Wenlong named the man Number Six, appointed him Grand Protector of the Huaxia Alliance, and began protecting and revitalizing his territory.

• Old Sun ordered Wenlong to fight the mist-shrouded stranger, and Wenlong used darkness and four-colored lightning to disable him before Old Sun struck him down.
• Wenlong captured the stranger's soul with the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, while Old Sun destroyed an enormous palm attacking them and threatened the Hall of Miraculous Mist.
• Old Sun's master threatened Thunderclap Monastery, and the factions of the Three Realms held back as tensions and the balance of power began to shift.
• The stranger surrendered and confessed that someone had sent him to test Old Sun, promising him support.
• Wenlong named the stranger Number Six and appointed him Grand Protector of the Huaxia Alliance.
• Wenlong began building a powerful defensive array around his territory and used the source of life to make flowers and grass grow in his path.

Wenlong finished a concealed Teleportation Array linking the Heaven Realm to the Huaxia Domain, then joined Old Sun in seeking opponents to recruit as Huaxia Alliance guardians. After Old Sun helped him capture two attackers as Numbers Seven and Eight, Wenlong was left wary of Old Sun’s risky training methods.

• Wenlong completed and tested the hidden Teleportation Array, confirming it connected to the Huaxia Domain and could not be detected while inactive.
• Old Sun proposed recruiting guardians for the Huaxia Alliance, so Wenlong left Number Six at Hanging Mountain and went out with him to find opponents.
• A man blocked Wenlong and was struck by Wenlong’s lightning, then a second man appeared to help him.
• Old Sun ambushed both men with a giant palm, and Wenlong captured their souls in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• Wenlong assigned the captives the designations Number Seven and Number Eight, strengthening the Huaxia Alliance.
• Wenlong realized he had charged into a fight against two powerful opponents without knowing the second was there, while Old Sun said he had been training Wenlong’s reactions.

Wenlong and Old Sun subdued five more opponents and returned to Hanging Mountain, strengthening the Huaxia Alliance with new protectors. After Wenlong cultivated and went back to the Huaxia Domain, he discovered the Origin Source could absorb every mysterious spell in the Great Black Stones.

• Wenlong attacked the approaching enemies, while Old Sun struck down five opponents and hurried him back to the Heaven Realm.
• Wenlong and Old Sun returned to Hanging Mountain, where the five captives became protectors Number Nine through Number Thirteen.
• Wenlong treated the injured protectors and cultivated on Hanging Mountain for a month before agreeing to return to the Huaxia Domain with Old Sun.
• Wenlong handed the new protectors over to Long Zhang, while Old Sun’s victory over Tathagata threatened to spark a wider conflict between Buddhists and Daoists.
• Wenlong entered the ruins and discovered that the Origin Source in his Dan Sea had absorbed the mysterious spells within all the Great Black Stones.

After breaking through to the fourth level of the Infinite Realm and gaining the Void Great Palm, Wenlong went to Hanging Mountain and watched the Demon Realm invade the Heaven Realm. The battle remained unresolved as Erlang Shen fought the Demon King and Nezha fought the leader of the Demon Race.

• Wenlong passed his Heavenly Tribulation, reached the fourth level of the Infinite Realm, and gained the Void Great Palm from his source essence.
• Wenlong traveled to Hanging Mountain with Number Nine and Number Ten, where Number Eight reported that the Devil Race was attacking the Heaven Realm.
• Wenlong watched the Hundred Clans of the Demon Realm clash with a hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, while he set up a Defensive Array Formation to protect his position.
• Erlang Shen fought the Demon King, while Nezha battled the leader of the Demon Race, and neither fight produced a clear advantage.
• Wenlong spotted Marshal Li Jing watching the battle with the Iron Pagoda and thought about how it was mainly used against Nezha.

Wenlong watched the Demon King fight the Heavenly Gods, then gained sudden enlightenment from the battle after returning to Hanging Mountain. He emerged with a stronger foundation and began learning about the Heaven Realm to prepare for exploring it.

• Wenlong watched the Demon King battle Erlang Shen and judged that the Demon Realm would lose if the fighting dragged on.
• After three days and nights, Heavenly Gods arrived in force, and the Demon King stayed behind to cover his army’s retreat before fighting the Gods alone.
• The Demon King battled the Gods for another day, then departed laughing, leaving Wenlong impressed by the Great Gods’ strength and the Demon King’s valor.
• Wenlong returned to Hanging Mountain and entered sudden enlightenment, while Long Zhang arranged the settlement and cultivated toward the second layer of the infinite realm.
• Wenlong fully grasped his new insights, drew his power inward, and began asking the Guardians about the Heaven Realm to prepare for his travels.

Wenlong and Numbers Nine and Ten explored an uncharted region of the Heaven Realm, where he found a strange bamboo that produced disorienting sounds and gathered it with nearby treasures. At a floating mountain, a Devil Race man tried to rob them, but Wenlong countered his attacks and forced him onto the defensive.

• Wenlong took Numbers Nine and Ten deeper into the Heaven Realm aboard the Flying Saucer while Numbers Seven and Eight guarded the Hanging Mountain.
• Wenlong and his companions shut off their six senses to resist strange sounds near a cliff, and Wenlong used his mental power to find the hole-riddled golden bamboo producing them.
• Wenlong cut down the bamboo, gathered more of it and the immortal herbs along the cliff, then piloted the Flying Saucer onward.
• A black-clad man from the Devil Race demanded Wenlong's Storage Rings and flying craft, then attacked him with black vapor.
• Wenlong absorbed the black vapor with his darkness origin source and attacked with the Fire Spirit and thunderbolts, leaving the Devil Race man struggling behind a black shield.