Chapter Summaries

Lei Chong, the Thunder Emperor’s son, left the Demon Transformation Cave after sixteen years of cultivation and gathered sacred medicines from the Kunpeng Nest altar. As the doors opened and outsiders approached, he prepared a plan involving three spirit bodies to conceal himself and escape.

• Lei Chong recalled transmigrating into the Thunder Emperor’s son sixteen years earlier and cultivating to the Inscription Realm Extreme Realm.
• Lei Chong passed through the Demon Transformation Cave’s restrictions, relying on his magic immunity to withstand their attacks.
• Lei Chong emerged from beneath the altar, collected several sacred medicines, and realized that people were arriving at the hall.
• Lei Chong formed a plan and summoned three spirit bodies, preparing to sacrifice one if necessary as the hall doors began to open.

Lei Chong tried to stay out of the fight for the Kunpeng rune bone, but a fragment landed in his hand and drew the cultivators’ attacks. After he discarded it and slipped into the crowd, Han Tian noticed his suspicious behavior and confronted him.

• Lei Chong used runes to stir up mist in the hall as Shi Hao, Mo Shang, Han Tian, and other cultivators rushed toward the altar.
• Shi Hao obtained the Kunpeng rune bone, but the cultivators attacked him until he fell into the Demon Transformation Cave and the bone shattered into fragments.
• A fragment landed in Lei Chong’s hand, forcing him to fight off the crowd until Han Tian engulfed him in flames and he used the confusion to discard it.
• Lei Chong blended into the crowd, but Han Tian tracked him down and accused him of acting suspiciously around the rune bone.

Lei Chong fought Han Tian and Mo Shang in the Kunpeng Nest while the cultivators sought the Kunpeng runic bone fragments. After Lei Chong overwhelmed Han Tian’s techniques and ignored the Divine Illumination Lamp’s flames, he killed Han Tian with a lightning blade.

• Mo Shang attacked Lei Chong, but Lei Chong injured him and pursued Han Tian, who was trying to escape with the Kunpeng runic bone.
• Lei Chong used his unfinished Five Fowl Fan to scatter runes and drive back Han Tian’s flames, while Mo Shang charged at him with his halberd.
• The cultivators turned on Mo Shang to seize his two runic bone fragments, and Lei Chong resumed his fight with Han Tian to test his strength and the Divine Illumination Lamp.
• Han Tian summoned the Flame Fish Clan’s divine phantom, but Lei Chong destroyed it with a lightning Suanni before Han Tian used the lamp’s flames to dispel the Suanni.
• Lei Chong’s lightning blade pierced Han Tian through the flames, and Han Tian’s body split apart.

Lei Chong killed Han Tian, seized the Divine Illumination Lamp, and fought off the Flame Fish and other cultivators as the battle for the Kunpeng rune bones ended. After leaving the Kunpeng Nest, he traveled across the North Sea and recovered Han Tian’s Qiankun bag from a Flame Fish corpse.

• Lei Chong used the Divine Illumination Lamp to burn the Flame Fish who tried to reclaim Han Tian’s belongings, then killed their middle-aged leader and robbed the survivors.
• Lei Chong fought off more clans and venerables while the battle for the rune bones raged for more than ten days; five rune bones went to major powers, and the surviving cultivators left the Kunpeng Nest.
• Lei Chong bid farewell to Heavenly Desolation and flew out over the North Sea, where he questioned sea-clan members to find his bearings.
• Lei Chong found a power boat among his spoils and sailed away from the Kunpeng Nest, inscribing array patterns inside his body as his strength returned.
• Lei Chong cut open the Flame Fish corpse and retrieved Han Tian’s Qiankun bag.

Lei Chong discovered that the golden fish’s flesh could aid his cultivation, then learned that a blue crystal in his spoils was Blue Crystal Sea Gall, a treasure for cultivating the Heavenly Eye. He used its bile to begin opening his Heavenly Eye while the Witch watched nearby.

• Lei Chong searched the spatial bag, kept its herbs and rare materials, and found an unidentified blue crystal.
• He roasted and ate the golden fish, discovering that its essence Qi strengthened his body and array patterns as he cultivated.
• The Witch arrived for the fragrant fish, recognized the crystal as Blue Crystal Sea Gall, and asked Lei Chong to share it with her.
• Lei Chong learned the gall could cultivate the Heavenly Eye and agreed to let the Witch have a portion after she offered a vial to preserve its divinity.
• Lei Chong summoned two spiritual bodies to guard him, opened the crystal, and guided its bile into his eyes until his Heavenly Eye began to awaken.

Lei Chong awakened his Heavenly Eye, used it to inscribe Thunder Emperor runes, and sailed across the North Sea. After Flame Fish tried to lure the ship toward a suspected killing array, his spirit body avoided them, but a thick fog appeared over the sea.

• Lei Chong awakened his Heavenly Eye and saw the Flame Fish watching the ship.
• Lei Chong traded the remaining Blue Crystal Sea Gall to the Witch for materials, then used his Heavenly Eye to inspect and inscribe Thunder Emperor runes within his body.
• Lei Chong continued cultivating as his ship traveled across the North Sea for three days without finding land.
• A Flame Fish attacked the ship with fire, and Lei Chong's spirit body blocked it and tried to seize the fish.
• More Flame Fish interrupted the spirit body's attack and fled toward a suspected Divine Spirit Array, so the spirit body turned the ship away.
• After half a day of sailing, thick fog appeared over the sea and reduced visibility to three zhang.

Lei Chong escaped the Flame Fish Clan’s fog formation using his Heavenly Eye, then evaded a trap that destroyed his ship and captured only one of his spiritual bodies. He remained hidden in the clouds and discovered that Han Ming had only just entered the Venerable Realm.

• Lei Chong used his Heavenly Eye to find a safe route through the fog formation and sailed out while Han Ming waited in vain.
• Han Ming ordered the Flame Fish Clan to activate a second plan after Lei Chong escaped the formation.
• Lei Chong spotted Flame Fish beneath the sea and sent one spiritual body to pilot the ship while he hid among the clouds.
• A giant scarlet fish swallowed the ship, and Han Ming used a secret artifact’s runic chains to capture and destroy Lei Chong’s spiritual body.
• Han Ming realized the captured body had no soul and that Lei Chong had tricked him.
• Lei Chong watched Han Ming from above and confirmed that the elder had only just entered the Venerable Realm.

Lei Chong fought Han Ming and the Flame Fish with his Thunder Emperor Spirit Body, the Divine Illumination Lamp, and the Kunpeng Method. After Han Ming sacrificed his blood to awaken the Scarlet Blood War Spear’s divine spirit imprint and summoned a Kun Fish, Lei Chong prepared to end the battle with his Suanni.

• Han Ming ordered the Flame Fish clan to search for Lei Chong, but Lei Chong struck first with lightning and killed many of them.
• Han Ming attacked with the Scarlet Blood War Spear, while Lei Chong used the Divine Illumination Lamp to burn through Han Ming’s fog array.
• Han Ming summoned a Flame Fish divine spirit phantom with the spear, but Lei Chong’s lamp dispersed it and badly wounded Han Ming.
• Han Ming poured more blood into the spear, awakening a protective phantom, then summoned a Kun Fish as he made a final attack on Lei Chong.
• Lei Chong recognized Han Ming’s last methods and summoned a Suanni to finish the battle.

Lei Chong killed Han Ming, prompting the Flame Fish Clan to abandon revenge rather than risk provoking him. After traveling across the North Sea, Lei Chong studied Han Ming’s array diagram and adapted its killing array with his own lightning Dao runes, strengthening his abilities.

• Lei Chong broke Han Ming’s techniques, killed him, and collected his corpse and spoils.
• The Flame Fish Clan’s red-haired elder discovered Han Ming’s broken soul tablet, and the elders decided not to seek revenge or provoke Lei Chong.
• Lei Chong traveled for five or six days without another Flame Fish attack and concluded the clan might have abandoned its plan.
• Lei Chong examined Han Ming’s storage bag, studied the Divine Spirit Array diagram, and created a lightning-based killing array using its principles.
• Lei Chong cultivated with Han Ming’s flesh and blood, and a strange vision appeared in his mind.

Lei Chong followed a group of frightened merfolk to their undersea city and asked to use the tribe’s teleportation array. After learning they owed him for killing Han Tian, he asked whether they had seen the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow.

• Lei Chong remembered the image of a mountain bound in motionless lightning and suspected the Thunder Emperor had left it for him.
• Lei Chong spotted silver merfolk beneath the sea and followed them to their crystal city, where they feared he had come to rob them.
• Lei Chong reassured the merfolk that he only wanted to borrow their teleportation array, and their elders welcomed him with a banquet.
• The elders thanked Lei Chong for killing Han Tian, explaining that the Flame Fish Clan’s rising strength threatened the Merfolk Tribe, and agreed to let him use their array.
• Lei Chong asked the elders whether their patrols had seen the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow pass through the area.

Lei Chong learned that a giant black bird had flown west toward the Fire Kingdom, then traveled to the Medicine Capital to search for a phoenix bone near Divine Medicine Valley. He found no trace of the bone before scriptures suddenly sounded and a flash appeared before his eyes.

• A merfolk girl reported that a giant black bird had flown west toward the Fire Kingdom about five days earlier.
• Lei Chong gave the merfolk girl the Flame Fish Clan's war spear, accepted gifts from the elders, and departed through the teleportation array.
• Lei Chong arrived in the Medicine Capital, where the ancient spiritual medicine tree inspected him without reacting.
• Lei Chong reached Divine Medicine Valley and used his Heavenly Eye to study the arrays and search for the phoenix bone.
• Lei Chong found corpses and shattered artifacts but no phoenix bone, then heard scriptures and sensed a flash before his eyes.

Lei Chong studied the great array and repeatedly carved its runes into his flesh, advancing to the Middle Array Formation Stage after seven days. In the Divine Medicine Valley, a disciple tried to drive him away while he was comprehending the Dao, and Lei Chong struck back with lightning.

• Lei Chong tried to seize the orb of light, but the great array destroyed his spirit body and injured him.
• Lei Chong studied the great array and began carving its runes into his flesh, repairing the damage with spirit medicine until the first rune took shape.
• Lei Chong continued cultivating beside the chanting little tree and advanced from the Early Array Formation Stage to the Middle Array Formation Stage in seven days.
• At the Medicine Capital, the green-haired senior from Demon Spirit Lake asked Lin Feng's Divine Medicine Sect to find someone, then had Lin Feng guide him to the strange sight in Divine Medicine Valley.
• Lin Feng's disciple ordered Lei Chong to leave while Lei Chong was in Dao comprehension, then attacked him; Lei Chong's spirit body stayed beside him as his true body could not move, and Lei Chong answered with a streak of lightning.

Lei Chong fought off Lin Feng and the demonic spider, then went to the Medicine Capital to hire the Ten Thousand Blood Tower to find the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow. After Lei Chong left Divine Medicine Valley, the demonic spider prepared to retaliate and noticed a flickering ball of light.

• Lei Chong's spirit body killed a Divine Medicine Sect man who had attacked him, then fought the demonic spider and forced Lin Feng to kneel and apologize with spiritual medicines.
• Lei Chong awakened his true body and went to the Medicine Capital, where he saw a wanted notice for the Great Demon God and decided to seek information about the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow.
• Lei Chong offered the Ten Thousand Blood Tower a Blood Spirit Pearl to kill the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow, but the old man refused; Lei Chong then paid with Sea Blue Essence for information within a month.
• Lei Chong traded for more than a hundred spiritual medicines and returned to Divine Medicine Valley.
• Lin Feng urged the demonic spider to punish Lei Chong, and the spider agreed to prepare before attacking him.
• The demonic spider inspected the little tree in the great array, sensed its great terror, and turned toward a ball of light that appeared before the boulder.

Demon Spider tried to retrieve a mysterious ball of light from a deadly formation in Divine Medicine Valley, using the Heaven Ascending Ladder to protect those he forced to reach for it. When the attempts killed another disciple, Lin Feng pointed Lei Chong toward the formation, prompting Lei Chong to attack the Divine Medicine Sect members.

• Demon Spider ordered a Divine Medicine Sect disciple to reach into the formation, and a streak of sword light killed him instantly.
• Demon Spider fetched the Heaven Ascending Ladder from the Medicine Capital and used it to cross the formation.
• A disciple reached toward the ball of light from the ladder, but the formation's Sword Qi overwhelmed the ladder's protection and killed him after disturbing the soil.
• Demon Spider demanded more disciples attempt to retrieve the ball of light, and Lin Feng reluctantly prepared to choose someone.
• Lin Feng spotted Lei Chong and ordered him forward, and Lei Chong angrily struck at the Divine Medicine Sect members.

Lei Chong fought Lin Feng and the Demon Spider after Lin Feng attacked him, overwhelming them with his strength and lightning techniques. He then revealed a sword technique that shredded the Demon Spider’s net and severed one of his legs.

• Lin Feng attacked Lei Chong, but Lei Chong shattered his hand and sent him flying with a single palm strike.
• The Demon Spider intervened to protect Lin Feng and exchanged blows with Lei Chong, transforming into a giant spider and unleashing his full strength.
• Lei Chong and the Demon Spider fought to a standstill, though Lei Chong remained unharmed while the Demon Spider was badly burned.
• The Demon Spider launched a refined net artifact at Lei Chong, who answered with golden sword beams that tore the net apart and severed the Demon Spider’s leg.

Lei Chong killed the demonic spider Venerable, seized the Heaven Ascending Ladder, and escaped before the Demon Spirit Lake could retaliate. In an inn, he studied the Double Pupils and saw a vision of the Thunder Emperor Palace, then began cautiously imprinting their runes into his Heavenly Eye.

• Lei Chong killed the demonic spider Venerable and crushed Lin Feng and the Divine Medicine Sect members who had knelt before him.
• Lei Chong refined and took the Heaven Ascending Ladder, then left the Divine Medicine Valley to avoid facing the Demon Spirit Lake.
• Lei Chong watched a group of demonic spiders arrive in Medicine Capital, led by a golden spider who seemed close to the Divine Fire Realm.
• Lei Chong examined the Double Pupils and was drawn into a vision of lightning and the Thunder Emperor Palace, which he recognized as his former home.
• Lei Chong decided to imprint the Double Pupils' runes into his Heavenly Eye and began testing the process cautiously.
• Lei Chong's Heavenly Eye started to change as new runes formed within it.

Lei Chong used the Double Pupils’ imprints to strengthen his Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, then returned to Divine Medicine Valley to study the glowing mass inside its formation. After three days of comprehension, he mastered the source of its shifting flame runes and began recreating them.

• Lei Chong’s imprints blocked the Double Pupils’ illusions and enhanced his Heavenly Eye, which he used to disintegrate an insect and observe it in detail.
• Lei Chong learned that Demon Spirit Lake had left the Medicine Capital after failing to find the culprit, while threatening whoever had wronged them.
• Lei Chong returned to Divine Medicine Valley and used his improved Heavenly Eye to see that the glowing mass within the formation was a shifting symbol resembling either a flame or runes.
• Lei Chong summoned two spirit bodies and spent three days studying the rune mass, breaking it down into its fundamental symbols while the valley’s chanting aided his comprehension.
• Lei Chong grasped the runes’ source and inscribed crude symbols that merged into red patterns resembling the glowing mass.

Lei Chong studied the sphere of light’s runes, then returned to the Ten Thousand Blood Tower to demand news of the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow. After forcing the tower’s old man to reveal a sighting in the Stone Kingdom, Lei Chong asked for a map of the Fire Kingdom’s dangerous places to search for a suitable hiding spot.

• Lei Chong practiced the sphere of light’s runes and learned to unleash a powerful phoenix-wing attack that cut rifts in the void.
• Lei Chong spent a month inscribing array patterns into his body, then paused when his cultivation slowed at a bottleneck.
• Lei Chong returned to the Ten Thousand Blood Tower and demanded his money back after the old man said its search of the Fire Kingdom had found no trace of the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow.
• Lei Chong defeated the old man when he refused to return the money, and the old man admitted that the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow had appeared outside the Stone Kingdom’s capital three days earlier.
• Lei Chong asked the old man for a map marking the Fire Kingdom’s dangerous places, and the old man quickly brought one.

Lei Chong reached the Stone Kingdom’s imperial capital and searched for the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow, whose trail led him to the Witch. He asked to stay at her establishment until an auction in three days.

• Lei Chong spared the old man, took back his deposit, and gave him two months to locate the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow.
• Lei Chong entered the Stone Kingdom’s capital and used his Heavenly Eye to learn that a giant bird had recently confronted a sun outside the city before flying away.
• Lei Chong visited a palace advertising fox girls and saw through the proprietress’s enchantment, demanding that the Witch appear.
• The Witch stopped the proprietress from attacking Lei Chong and greeted him, though a glowing jade disc on her arm startled her.
• Lei Chong told the Witch he had come for an auction, and she said the Gu Bone Auction would take place in three days and offered him a room.

Lei Chong and the Witch attended the Gu Bone Auction House, where Lei Chong spotted Shi Hao and bid on an Earth-Shrinking Talisman. He came to acquire a Void Beast Hide for his planned pursuit of the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow, and the auction introduced the rare hide as the crowd reacted in shock.

• Lei Chong spent three days strengthening his Heavenly Eye before attending the auction with the Witch.
• Shi Hao arrived at the auction, and Little Pagoda warned him that someone had hidden in the Kunpeng Nest before it opened.
• Shi Hao won an unusual bone fragment at auction, while Lei Chong watched from a neighboring private room.
• Lei Chong outbid Shi Hao for the Earth-Shrinking Talisman, which he wanted to help catch the Heaven-Swallowing Sparrow.
• The woman in red demonstrated a Void Beast Hide that made her disappear, and the crowd erupted when someone identified it.