Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qing completed the first layer of the Immortal Golden Body and tested its strength while the Heavenly Emperor planned to appoint him Great Emperor of Fengdu and honor Zhang Xuanshu. After studying three texts on Space Power, Zhou Qing decided to focus on the Dao of Worlds.

• Zhou Qing refined Shaoyan Chou's immortal pills to complete the first layer of the Immortal Golden Body, making Wu Xian's body comparable to a Pure Yang magic treasure.
• Zhou Qing tested his transformed body's resilience against strikes powered by Heartforce and Space Power.
• The Heavenly Emperor ordered Taibai Jinxing to draft an edict appointing Zhou Qing Great Emperor of Fengdu, and explained that the title could help him secure Zhou Qing's support.
• The Heavenly Emperor also ordered Zhang Xuanshu appointed Primordial Lady Suhua of the Nine Heavens and granted her an immortal stipend equal to the eldest princess's.
• Zhou Qing read three texts on Space Power and decided to focus his cultivation on the Dao of Worlds.

After mastering the first four levels of Dark World, Zhou Qing accepted the Heavenly Emperor’s appointment as Great Emperor of Fengdu and traveled to the Netherworld. He arrived at the Six Paths of Reincarnation, where Lord Cui explained their origins as Zhou Qing studied the Daos within them.

• Zhou Qing mastered the Xun Wind Realm after studying Dark World for several months.
• Taibai Jinxing brought the Heavenly Emperor’s decree appointing Zhou Qing Great Emperor of Fengdu, and Zhou Qing accepted after hearing Daoist Sanqing’s advice.
• Taibai Jinxing gave Zhou Qing immortal pills, immortal wine, and two high-grade Xiantian Spirit-Treasures.
• After finding that Lü Dongbin had gone traveling, Zhou Qing teleported to Fengdu City, where Lord Cui and the Ten Yama Kings welcomed him.
• Lord Cui introduced Zhou Qing to Granny Meng at the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and Zhou Qing glimpsed the many Daos within them as Lord Cui described their history.

Zhou Qing advanced his Space Power after contemplating the Six Paths of Reincarnation, then took over the Underworld without changing its operations. He asked Lord Cui to find his lost acquaintances and learned that Immortal Duohe was enslaved in a Netherworld mine, while a Ghost Emperor considered the Seamless Gate’s offer for his Annihilation Dark Gold mine.

• Zhou Qing’s Space Power reached the third level as he observed the Six Paths of Reincarnation, surprising Lord Cui and Granny Meng.
• Zhou Qing learned about the Underworld’s affairs and left its established operations unchanged.
• Zhou Qing asked Lord Cui to use the Book of Life and Death to locate Immortal Wusui and Immortal Duohe.
• Lord Cui discovered that Immortal Duohe was mining dark red metal as a slave in the Netherworld.
• A Seamless Gate envoy offered the Ghost Emperor leadership of a branch and the Godking’s tutelage in exchange for the Annihilation Dark Gold mine.
• A commotion arose outside the Ghost Emperor’s hall as he weighed the offer.

Zhou Qing and Lord Cui confronted Bai Qi in the Western Ghost Emperor’s territory while searching for Zhou Qing’s missing subordinate. Zhou Qing revealed his formidable powers, subdued Bai Qi with Dark World, and shattered Bai Qi’s Godslayer attack with Sky Rend Claw.

• Lord Cui identified the mist-shrouded mountains as the Western Ghost Emperor’s territory, where Bai Qi led ghost soldiers out to confront them.
• Lord Cui introduced Zhou Qing as the Great Emperor of Fengdu and a direct disciple of the Three Pure Ones, but Bai Qi denied knowing where Zhou Qing’s subordinate was.
• When Bai Qi attacked with his longsword, Zhou Qing trapped him with third-level Space Power and suppressed him inside his sixth-level Dark World.
• Bai Qi unleashed Godslayer toward Zhou Qing, but Zhou Qing’s Sky Rend Claw—empowered by fourth-level Heartforce—dispersed the sword light.

Zhou Qing killed Bai Qi with a series of fourth-stage Heartforce attacks, leaving witnesses across the Three Realms astonished by his strength. Daoist Sanqing and the Seamless Gate took note of Zhou Qing, while an old man in a minor world became eager to claim him as a student.

• Zhou Qing overwhelmed Bai Qi with fourth-stage Heartforce attacks, and Bai Qi died while trying to flee through the Dark World's suppression.
• Lord Cui watched Bai Qi fall and realized Zhou Qing was becoming a legendary figure in the Three Realms.
• Dao Father Carefree praised Zhou Qing's progress to Daoist Sanqing, then recognized his fourth-stage Heartforce and reconsidered his potential.
• Godking witnessed Zhou Qing's victory and committed Taixu's name to memory.
• An old man teaching in a minor world sensed Zhou Qing's fourth-stage Heartforce and decided he should become his good child.

After killing Bai Qi, Zhou Qing discovered that he controlled a vast annihilation dark gold mine and alerted Daoist Sanqing and the Netherworld Bureau. Zhou Qing rescued Immortal Duohe and offered him a position in Fengdu City, leaving Duohe stunned by Zhou Qing’s rank and power.

• Zhou Qing looted Bai Qi and found at least three million jin of annihilation dark gold in his grotto-heaven treasure.
• Zhou Qing used Heartforce to discover Bai Qi’s mine, whose reserves held at least ninety million jin, and informed Daoist Sanqing and Lord Cui.
• Daoist Sanqing arrived, freed the mining slaves, and let Zhou Qing take Immortal Duohe before sending Zhou Qing and Lord Cui back to Fengdu City.
• Zhou Qing reunited Immortal Duohe with the fiends from the Wujiang Immortal Mansion and arranged for him to serve as a judge under Lord Cui.
• Immortal Duohe struggled to understand Zhou Qing’s status as Great Emperor and wondered whether he had been mining for millions of years.

Zhou Qing and Lord Cui entered the Seven Wonders World while searching for Immortal Wusui, and Zhou Qing found that the world differed from his first simulation. He reunited with Immortal Wusui in Pure Yang Heaven and prepared to take him away.

• Zhou Qing and Lord Cui reached the Seven Wonders World, where Skyburner Venomwind had killed many cultivators outside the world.
• Immortal Wusui played a game of Go with Patriarch Black Turtle and worried about finding Zhou Qing, while Patriarch Black Turtle warned him against leaving the world.
• Zhou Qing explored Pure Yang Heaven and saw how the world had developed differently from his first simulation, while Lord Cui noticed Lü Dongbin's opportunity in the Pure Yang Immortal Mansion.
• Zhou Qing and Lord Cui appeared before Immortal Wusui and Patriarch Black Turtle, and Zhou Qing revealed that he had become a Pure Yang True Immortal.
• Immortal Wusui bid farewell to Patriarch Black Turtle and entered Zhou Qing's grotto-heaven treasure.

Zhou Qing rewarded Patriarch Black Turtle and Old Immortal Heming with reincarnation decrees, then cleared the Skyburner Venomwind around the Seven Wonders World and found a mysterious token. Meanwhile, his true body mastered Time Power and began considering how to combine time and space.

• Zhou Qing gave Patriarch Black Turtle two reincarnation decrees, one for himself and one for Old Immortal Heming, allowing them to reincarnate as devas in the Heaven Realm.
• Zhou Qing searched the void around the Seven Wonders World and destroyed the Skyburner Venomwind’s hidden wind caves.
• Zhou Qing found a token marked “Thousand Winds” inside one of the destroyed wind caves and secretly kept it.
• Zhou Qing contemplated the Six Paths of Reincarnation and mastered Time Power.
• Zhou Qing decided to study how to combine the Path of Time and the Path of Space into the Path of Time and Space.

After securing a share of the Annihilation Dark Gold mine, Zhou Qing underwent the Empyrean God Tribulation in the Netherworld under Daoist Sanqing’s protection, using his newly combined Time and Space powers to withstand the final lightning. As Zhou Qing completed his transformation into an Empyrean God, Patriarch Bodhi recognized his talent for the Path of Time and Space and considered making him a disciple.

• Daoist Sanqing told Zhou Qing that the Daoist Sect would receive seventy percent of the Annihilation Dark Gold mine and grant him thirty percent of the sect’s share for discovering it.
• Zhou Qing explained that he would wait for his Second Primaltwin to return before leaving his post, but Daoist Sanqing offered to protect him while he underwent the Empyrean God Tribulation in the Underworld.
• Several months later, Zhou Qing’s Fiendgod Body Refining and Ki Refining Path reached Void Perfection, and he endured the wind and fire tribulations and most of the lightning tribulation with his divine body.
• Zhou Qing used a combination of Time Power and Space Power with Heaven-Exterminating Claw to break apart the Pure Yang Golden Light Lightning, which then transformed his divine body into a perfect one.
• Zhou Qing awakened from the Heart Demon Tribulation, completed his Empyrean God transformation, and switched his cultivation method to the Sudden Enlightenment Meditation Sutra.
• Daoist Sanqing, True God Youdu, Ksitigarbha, and Patriarch Bodhi watched Zhou Qing’s tribulation, and Bodhi recognized his talent for Time-Space Fusion and considered taking him as a disciple.

After becoming an Empyrean God, Zhou Qing received the first chapter of Patriarch Bodhi’s Time and Space technique and was challenged to comprehend the Power of Time and Space within three hundred years. He entered the World Prison, claimed its Chaos Spirit Liquid, and began improving his divine abilities and body.

• Daoist Sanqing gave Zhou Qing Patriarch Bodhi’s first chapter of the Time and Space technique and relayed Bodhi’s offer to teach him the rest if he comprehended the Power of Time and Space within three hundred years.
• Zhou Qing left the Three Realms and entered the World Prison through its stele, where two jailers delivered eighteen bottles of Chaos Spirit Liquid.
• Zhou Qing used Annihilation Dark Gold to cultivate the Empyrean God chapter of Great Extinction Divine Power and tested the resulting attack.
• Zhou Qing refined materials including a Daluo Immortal Pill to cultivate the second level of Immortal Golden Body, strengthening his divine body to the level of a Xiantian mid-grade spirit treasure.

Zhou Qing cultivated the Eighteen Fiendgods of Taowu with Chaos Spirit Liquid, restoring the strength of his seventeen new clones before entering the World Prison to prey on its prisoners. He found a black-robed first-tier Celestial Immortal whose grandfather, Ancestor God Tianxing, was already dead, and took the prisoner’s treasures without telling him.

• Zhou Qing used Chaos Spirit Liquid to restore his seventeen clones, which he planned to use for cultivation and Dao comprehension.
• Zhou Qing entered the World Prison and learned that its chaos-draining formation left most prisoners unable to replenish their power.
• Zhou Qing sent his clones to search for prisoners and found a black-robed first-tier Celestial Immortal who mistook him for the warden.
• The black-robed man asked Zhou Qing to find out why his grandfather, Ancestor God Tianxing, had not come to release him, and Zhou Qing agreed without revealing that Tianxing was dead.
• Zhou Qing took the black-robed man’s treasures, including more than two thousand supreme-grade pure yang magic treasures and an upper-grade Xiantian Spirit-Treasure.

Zhou Qing looted prisoners throughout the World Prison, learning Gongsun Bai’s shameful past before moving on to a green-robed elder with third-stage Primordial Power. The elder finally submitted after Zhou Qing overwhelmed him with Darkworld Descent, a Heartforce illusion, and a final attack.

• Zhou Qing bewitches Gongsun Bai into permitting a memory search and learns that his affair with his stepmother led to his imprisonment for several chaos cycles.
• Zhou Qing gives Gongsun Bai immortal pills and leaves to loot other prisoners in the World Prison.
• Using his eighteen clones and Heartforce, Zhou Qing quickly subdues and searches hundreds of Empyrean God and first-class Celestial Immortal prisoners.
• Zhou Qing attacks a green-robed elder, discovers his sand shield is reinforced with third-stage Primordial Power, and suppresses him with Darkworld Descent and a Heartforce illusion.
• Zhou Qing strikes the weakened elder again, then uses Heartforce bewitchment until the elder gives up and submits.

Zhou Qing plundered Nangong Hu and discovered the Junshan Formation Records, a World God formation legacy. After exhausting the remaining Empyrean God and First-Tier Celestial Immortal prisoners, he prepared to target stronger prisoners by wearing down their power with ranged attacks.

• Zhou Qing took Nangong Hu's treasures, including the Heavenstar Gourd, then searched his memories and learned about his past and the Chaos Immortal Daoyi's legacy.
• Zhou Qing found the Junshan Formation Records, which detailed formations and the advancement of Formationforce from the first level to the sixth.
• Zhou Qing spent nearly ten years plundering the other Empyrean God and First-Tier Celestial Immortal prisoners, but found no other unbound precious legacies.
• Zhou Qing decided to target the True God and First-Tier True Immortal prisoners by repeatedly attacking them from range to deplete their divine power and Immortal energy.

Over a hundred and fifty years, Zhou Qing amassed wealth by plundering prisoners, strengthened his cultivation, and advanced his Time Power and Power of Time and Space. Patriarch Bodhi took him to the chaos, accepted him as a disciple, and passed on the remaining parts of the Time and Space method.

• Zhou Qing subdued True Immortal Qifeng to obtain the Waterflame Jindan Refining Technique, then plundered nearly a hundred True God and first-tier True Immortal prisoners for their wealth.
• Zhou Qing cultivated the Eighteen Fiendgods of Taowu with his Second Primaltwin and took a million jin of Nine Flame Paste from the Daoist Sect's treasury, leaving him to seek Ice Heart Marrow at the Moonlit Pool.
• Zhou Qing's Second Primaltwin raised its Time Power to the third layer beside the Six Paths of Reincarnation and developed first-layer Power of Time and Space, which devastated a mountain in the Netherworld.
• Patriarch Bodhi took Zhou Qing to a chaos star, praised his talent, and accepted him as a disciple of the Path of Time and Space.
• Patriarch Bodhi taught Zhou Qing the complete Time and Space method, including the Slanting Moon, Square Inch, and Three Stars parts.

After more than twenty years of studying the Time and Space technique, Zhou Qing began a third simulation in the Desolate Era world. Reincarnated as Dongfang Jue, the posthumous son of the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom’s eldest prince, he resolved to grow strong enough to survive the coming chaos cycle.

• Zhou Qing saw that the simulation time had reset and started a new simulation.
• The panel assigned Zhou Qing the identity of Dongfang Jue, grandson of the King of Nine Directions, and set the objective of surviving for one chaos cycle.
• Zhou Qing considered whether the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom had fallen and realized that its fate remained uncertain.
• Dongfang Jue awakened in his mother’s womb, learned about his family and kingdom, and worried that the kingdom might be destroyed.
• Dongfang Jue resolved to control his fate by absorbing Primordial Qi and every treasure his mother consumed to speed his growth.

Zhou Qing’s simulation revealed how the Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom killed his father and launched an attack on his family while the King of Nine Directions was away. His mother fled, gave birth to him prematurely, and died; a black-clad Ancestor God found them and hesitated before killing him, leaving Zhou Qing to choose whether to flee or wait.

• The Cold Mountain Chaos Kingdom found a top-tier World Realm expert skilled in formations, killed Zhou Qing’s father, and gained the advantage in the war.
• The King of Nine Directions led his World Realm experts to the front, leaving the capital undefended.
• Unknown attackers raided the regent’s residence and fatally wounded Zhou Qing’s mother.
• Zhou Qing’s mother escaped using a spacetime treasure, gave birth to him prematurely, and died after placing her magic treasure bracelet around his neck.
• A black-clad Ancestor God tracked them down, recognized the situation, and hesitated before attacking Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing’s simulation showed him being abducted by a black-robed Ancestor God, then cultivating with treasures and texts hidden in his mother’s Moonspirit Bracelet. When the bracelet’s spirit explained why he could not advance in Dao comprehension, he realized the simulation had taken him beyond the Nine Directions Chaos World.

• Zhou Qing chose not to flee the black-robed Ancestor God, reasoning that the King of Nine Directions’ blood curse protected his simulated self from being killed.
• The black-robed Ancestor God abducted him and kept him inside a grotto-heaven treasure for ten years without harming him.
• Zhou Qing’s simulated self accessed the Moonspirit Bracelet, discovered the resources his mother had hidden, and began cultivating several techniques.
• After decades of study, he could not advance beyond the realm of subtlety, so he asked the bracelet’s spirit for guidance.
• The Moonspirit Bracelet’s spirit sensed that they were outside the Chaos World’s jurisdiction, and Zhou Qing understood why he could not reach the realm of One with the World.

Zhou Qing’s simulation showed his cultivation advancing before the estate-world treasure imprisoning him collapsed and cast him into the chaos. He recognized the ruined worlds and short-lived bubble worlds around him as the Realm Ruins, where the black-robed Ancestor God had left him to die.

• At age 150, Zhou Qing’s simulated self reached Early Primal in Ki Refining, created a Second Primaltwin, and advanced his Fiendgod Body Refining to Mid Primal, while limiting his Ki Refining because he could not control his primal power.
• Zhou Qing reflected on how the Wubao Sword Art caused cultivators to forget Dao insights, making their cultivation unstable.
• After forty years of focusing on Fiendgod Body Refining, his simulated self reached Peak Primal and then broke through to Void Return at age 200.
• The estate-world treasure shattered, and Zhou Qing chose to hide in the estate world inside the Moonspirit Bracelet, surviving the chaotic currents and escaping in a Supreme Xiantian Spirit-Treasure flying boat.
• Zhou Qing’s simulated self found ruined worlds and short-lived bubble worlds, then realized the black-robed Ancestor God had abandoned him there to be killed by the chaos.
• Zhou Qing recognized the region as the Realm Ruins, a perilous area formed from chaos worlds destroyed by World Realm experts.

Zhou Qing’s simulated self became trapped in the Realm Ruins, where he survived by hiding in bubble worlds and learned to comprehend the Power of Destruction by watching them collapse. Before the space-time storm could threaten him, the King of Nine Directions rescued him and brought him to the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom.

• Zhou Qing chose to shelter his true body in a safe bubble world and send his Second Primaltwin to explore, but the Second Primaltwin soon became lost in the Realm Ruins.
• After two bubble worlds he inhabited were destroyed, Zhou Qing’s simulated self gained an epiphany and comprehended a trace of the Power of Destruction.
• He spent thirty years seeking bubble worlds near destruction and watching them collapse, gradually strengthening his Power of Destruction.
• The King of Nine Directions appeared, recognized Zhou Qing as his grandson, and took him away from the Realm Ruins.
• In the palace, Zhou Qing learned that the King of Nine Directions had negotiated his return, searched for him for centuries, and opened a safe route through the Realm Ruins to rescue him.

After reuniting with his Second Primaltwin in the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom, Zhou Qing chose Godlord Miejue as his teacher and pursued the path of Primordial Power. He rapidly advanced in the Great Dao of Destruction and Heartforce, then faced a choice about which body should undergo tribulation or whether to keep consolidating his foundation.

• Zhou Qing chose Godlord Miejue over Ancestor Immortal Gufeng, favoring the Primordial Power path toward the World Realm.
• Godlord Miejue reluctantly accepted Zhou Qing as his disciple, then recognized his unusual talent after learning he had gained a trace of the Power of Destruction in the Realm Ruins.
• Zhou Qing studied the Great Dao of Destruction and achieved major mastery in forty years while also cultivating Heartforce.
• Zhou Qing entered the Tower of Samsara and cleared its first level, then reached the second level of Heartforce twenty years later by clearing the second level.
• Zhou Qing had mastered Indestructible Dao-Body and Microcosmic Divine Power, and the simulation offered him the choice to undergo tribulation with his true body, with his Second Primaltwin, or to continue consolidating his foundation.