Chapter Summaries

Lei Chong won a Void Beast Hide at the auction and began refining it, while Shi Hao bought the Indestructible Golden Body for a bargain. After Yue Chan appeared and the Witch left to compete with her, Lei Chong emerged to find a crowd eager to approach him about the hide.

• Lei Chong had the Witch use materials from his Qiankun pouch to outbid the other guests and secure the Void Beast Hide.
• Lei Chong examined the hide and began refining it, while Shi Hao won the damaged Indestructible Golden Body at a low price.
• Yue Chan arrived just after Shi Hao's bid, and the Witch rushed out to compete with her while Lei Chong stayed behind.
• The Witch invited Lei Chong to a gathering of the imperial capital's geniuses in two days, but he refused.
• After the auction, the Witch pointed people seeking the Void Beast Hide toward Lei Chong, who emerged and was surrounded by guests from Rain King Mansion and Martial King Manor.

Lei Chong and Shi Hao confronted factions trying to seize the Void Beast Hide and other treasures at the Gu Bone Auction House, then left with the Witch to discuss a wanted notice. Lei Chong revealed that it had appeared in Medicine Capital and concerned an old man whose brows resembled Shi Hao’s.

• Shi Ziteng, Rain King Mansion, and Martial King Manor pressured Lei Chong to give up the Void Beast Hide, while Shi Hao challenged them.
• Lei Chong struck the Rain King Mansion elder and sent several faction members flying after they threatened Shi Hao and demanded his battle puppet and Heavenly Bone.
• The Gu Bone Auction House intervened, and the factions left without taking the treasures.
• Lei Chong told Shi Hao he wanted to deal with the hostile forces together, then mentioned seeing a wanted notice resembling Shi Hao’s old man.
• Lei Chong and Shi Hao asked the Witch for a secluded place, where Lei Chong said a Demon Spirit Lake venerable had issued the notice in Medicine Capital about a month earlier.

Lei Chong offered Shi Hao a way to lure Demon Spirit Lake’s Demon Spiders in exchange for borrowing the God-Striking Stone. After discovering the runes hidden inside the stone, Lei Chong and Shi Hao found that they could not memorize them directly and began copying them onto bone instead.

• Shi Hao learned that a Demon Spider had issued the wanted notice for his grandfather but had since been killed, reassuring him that his grandfather might still be alive.
• Lei Chong proposed throwing the dead Demon Spider’s leg outside the city to draw out Demon Spirit Lake’s people, and asked to borrow the God-Striking Stone for half a day.
• The God-Striking Stone eagerly agreed to follow Lei Chong after being offered a Myriad Law Stone, while the Little Pagoda offered to strike once in exchange for the stone and Lei Chong refused.
• Lei Chong used his Heavenly Eye to find golden primordial runes inside the God-Striking Stone, but trying to memorize them shook his primordial spirit and made him forget them.
• Shi Hao also tried to inspect the runes and suffered a similar backlash, so Lei Chong used his Heavenly Eye to carve the runes onto bone for later study.

Lei Chong gave Shi Hao a rune bone bearing the God-Striking Technique, then used his spirit body to draw the forces coveting his Void Beast Hide into an ambush. The attackers’ Venerable-level formation failed to harm him, so Yu Yan brought out a divine decree to suppress him.

• Lei Chong engraved another God-Striking Technique rune bone and gave it to Shi Hao, warning him not to pass on the technique carelessly.
• Shi Hao secretly followed Lei Chong after Lei Chong refused his offer of help.
• Lei Chong switched places with a spirit body and sent it toward the city gate while his true body slipped away through the void.
• Yu Yan and the other forces trapped Lei Chong’s spirit body in a formation outside the Stone Kingdom Imperial Capital and demanded the Void Beast Hide.
• Lei Chong shattered their Venerable-level formation, prompting Yu Yan to produce a divine decree that radiated suppressive golden light.

Lei Chong defeated Yu Yan and his allies, seized and studied the Rain Clan’s divine decree, then joined Shi Hao on the way to confront the Rain Clan. The two arrived at the Rain King Mansion, where Lei Chong smashed its gates and brought the residence into chaos.

• Lei Chong repelled Yu Yan’s divine decree, destroyed the group’s artifacts, and killed Yu Yan, Shi Chuan, and the others.
• Lei Chong captured the decree and repeatedly attacked its spiritual imprint, strengthening his primordial spirit as the decree’s patterns vanished.
• Lei Chong took Yu Yan’s head and flew toward the imperial capital, where he met up with Shi Hao.
• Lei Chong and Shi Hao agreed to confront the Rain Clan and headed for the Rain King Mansion.
• When the mansion guards tried to drive them away, Lei Chong hurled Yu Yan’s head at the gates and shattered them, throwing the guards aside.

Lei Chong and Shi Hao fought the Rain Clan guards after smashing the Rain Manor’s gate, and Lei Chong swiftly defeated them. As they took the Rain Clan’s Eight Vicious Swords, powerful figures inside the manor launched the Nine Heavens of the Rain Path.

• A middle-aged Rain Clan cultivator confronted Lei Chong and Shi Hao, and Lei Chong struck him down with lightning.
• Experts from the Rain King Mansion attacked with the Eight Vicious Swords, but Lei Chong destroyed them and killed the attackers with purple lightning.
• Lei Chong seized the stone casket, learned the sword formation and its incantation, then gave the casket to Shi Hao.
• Several figures from deep within the Rain Manor unleashed the Nine Heavens of the Rain Path, covering the area in a curtain of rain.

Lei Chong defeated the Rain Clan's Nine Heavens of the Rain Path and seized much of their divine decree, but the remaining fragments gathered in a statue and manifested the Rain God. The Rain Clan celebrated as the Rain God appeared to protect them.

• The Rain Clan unleashed the Nine Heavens of the Rain Path, but Lei Chong shattered its colossal lotus with lightning.
• The Rain Clan summoned the Rain God's illusory figure, which Lei Chong destroyed with a lightning Suanni and a net of lightning.
• A divine decree appeared in the Rain Clan's ancient temple, and Lei Chong's true body arrived as his spirit body returned to him.
• Lei Chong used the Divine Illumination Lamp and lightning to weaken and seize the decree while Shi Hao and Little Pagoda took some of its power.
• The remaining decree fragments flew to the divine statue after Lei Chong destroyed the temple, and the statue manifested the Rain God's illusory form.

Lei Chong and Shi Hao escaped the Rain Clan’s manor with its divine decrees, but the Rain God’s statue pursued them into the mountains. Lei Chong defeated the statue’s projection and staged the demonic spider’s remains beside it to frame the Rain Clan, leaving Shi Hao unsure whether the plan would work.

• Lei Chong seized and sealed the remaining divine decrees, then fled the Rain Clan’s manor with Shi Hao as the Rain God’s statue gave chase.
• The statue tracked them out of the imperial capital using a raindrop, but Lei Chong shook it off and hid with Shi Hao in the void using beast hide.
• The Rain God’s statue found their hiding place and attacked, and Lei Chong fought it for over a hundred exchanges until he suppressed it and its projection faded.
• Lei Chong placed part of the demonic spider’s body beside the statue and claimed the Rain Clan should be blamed for its death.
• Shi Hao understood Lei Chong’s plan but questioned whether it would work, since the demonic spider had supposedly died the previous month.

Lei Chong arranged a cover story for the divine statue’s reappearance, passed pieces of the divine decree to Shi Hao and Little Pagoda, and returned to Medicine Capital. There, he refined a Divine Being’s imprint, purged impurities from his primordial spirit, and emerged from three days of contemplation with his spirit acting on its own.

• Lei Chong told Shi Hao to spread the story that the divine statue and a giant spider had vanished together a month earlier, then warned him that Demon Spirit Lake might come to investigate.
• Lei Chong gave pieces of the divine decree to Shi Hao and Little Pagoda before leaving a spirit body behind and returning to Medicine Capital.
• Lei Chong refined the decree’s spiritual imprint, stripped away the Rain God’s will, and swallowed the purified essence.
• Lei Chong used golden flames to burn impurities from his primordial spirit, including lingering rules from an Immortal King of the Foreign Realm.
• Lei Chong contemplated the Divine Being’s insights for three days, and when he opened his eyes, his primordial spirit punched at the void.

Lei Chong mastered the basics of the God-Striking Technique and went to buy medicinal ingredients in the Medicine Capital. After he purchased a rare body-tempering precious medicine, a pure-blooded White Tiger tried to take it.

• Lei Chong used the bone fragment to comprehend the God-Striking Technique and branded its rune into his primordial spirit.
• Lei Chong tested the technique by sending a golden imprint from the inn toward Divine Medicine Valley, then crushed the bone fragment.
• Lei Chong bought medicinal ingredients from street vendors and identified a rare precious medicine that tempered the body.
• Lei Chong agreed to buy the precious medicine, but a pure-blooded White Tiger demanded it and reached for it.

Lei Chong killed the White Tiger with the God-Striking Technique, prompting the Divine Flame Man to confront him in Divine Medicine Valley. Lei Chong’s spirit body wounded the Divine Flame Man’s primordial spirit, and his awakened true body trapped him in a golden lightning net.

• Lei Chong killed the White Tiger with a God-Striking Technique rune and stored the pure-blooded creature’s corpse.
• The Divine Flame Man learned of the White Tiger’s death and set out with his pure-blooded followers to avenge him.
• In Divine Medicine Valley, Lei Chong’s spirit body clashed with the Divine Flame Man, whose divine flames shattered against its lightning.
• Lei Chong’s spirit body struck the Divine Flame Man with a golden mark that injured his primordial spirit, but the Divine Flame Man realized Lei Chong could not use the technique again immediately.
• Lei Chong awoke and sent out a vast golden lightning net that enveloped the Divine Flame Man.

Lei Chong battled the Divine Flame Man, whose Chaos Disk restored him after Lei Chong injured his primordial spirit. Lei Chong endured and absorbed the Divine Flame Man’s divine fire, then continued fighting while secretly contacting Heavenly Desolation, which responded after Lei Chong offered to help locate the enemies who had ambushed the Kunpeng.

• Lei Chong injured the Divine Flame Man with lightning, but the Chaos Disk dispersed the lightning, healed his injuries, and blasted Lei Chong away.
• The Divine Flame Man trapped Lei Chong in a prison of divine fire, but Lei Chong used the Golden Spin Ripple Technique to absorb the flames and break free.
• Lei Chong summoned a lightning suanni and used Kunpeng wings to destroy the Divine Flame Man’s flame figures as their battle tore through the valley.
• Lei Chong recalled that Heavenly Desolation had asked him to find the surviving True Immortals who ambushed the Kunpeng and that he had promised to report clues with a special incantation.
• Lei Chong chanted the incantation during the fight, and Heavenly Desolation sent a ripple into his mind in response.

Lei Chong defeated the Divine Flame Man, but their fight escalated when the Reincarnation Disk and Heavenly Desolation confronted each other above the formation. After the treasures ended the clash and departed, a familiar flame appeared in Divine Medicine Valley, revealing the ball of light’s presence.

• Lei Chong unleashed his full strength and defeated the Divine Flame Man, who used the Reincarnation Disk to defend himself.
• Heavenly Desolation’s halberd intervened against the Reincarnation Disk, and their clash sent dangerous gray mist into the formation.
• Heavenly Desolation and the Reincarnation Disk ended the confrontation, while Lei Chong confirmed that the people he sought had left traces in the formation.
• Heavenly Desolation departed to rebuild its body, and the Divine Flame Man led his servants away from Lei Chong.
• A strange flame appeared in Divine Medicine Valley, and Lei Chong recognized it as the ball of light from the formation.

After the formation collapsed, Lei Chong and the Divine Flame Man fought over the exposed treasures and the mysterious symbols in the flames. Lei Chong uncovered a hidden gate and sent a spirit body through it, where it remained alive but lost clear contact with him.

• Lei Chong sent spirit bodies to collect divine materials from the broken formation, and the Divine Flame Man ordered his servants to seize them.
• Lei Chong warned the Divine Flame Man's servants to stay back, then his spirit bodies and the Divine Flame Man's spirit bodies battled over the materials and symbols.
• The Divine Flame Man failed to control the symbols with his first-generation runes, while Lei Chong recognized that they were symbols rising from the soil rather than flames.
• Lei Chong's rune-covered hand reached into the soil despite the Divine Flame Man's warning, revealing a gate of light and an altar beneath the formation.
• Lei Chong sent a spirit body through the gate, and the altar teleported it away while its faint connection to him remained.

As powerful factions gathered at Divine Medicine Valley to investigate the phoenix-like flames, Jin Lie tried to force Lei Chong to reveal what he knew. Lei Chong answered with a sudden strike, beginning a confrontation as more formidable newcomers arrived.

• The Divine Flame Man sent another spiritual body through the gate of light, while Lei Chong watched and kept sensing his own surviving spiritual body beneath the vortex.
• Reports of the flames drew powerful figures to the Medicine Capital, including Yue Chan, Granny Xihua, the Witch, and their Venerable followers.
• The Witch questioned Lei Chong about how long he had been at the valley, and he claimed he had arrived less than an hour earlier.
• Jin Lie arrived, became interested in the True Phoenix-like flames, and decided Lei Chong was the easiest person to pressure for information.
• After Jin Lie threatened to probe Lei Chong's divine sense, Lei Chong attacked first with a huge hand.

Lei Chong entered the secret realm ahead of the other factions and explored a volcanic region, where he found a Vermilion Bird’s rune bone and Primal True Feather. Unable to move the bone, he began studying its complete runes to comprehend its precious technique.

• The Heaven Severing Sect elder stopped Lei Chong from fighting Jin Lie, and Lei Chong rushed through the gate of light after his spiritual body returned.
• The Divine Flame Man followed Lei Chong into the secret realm, where the Reincarnation Disk revealed that anyone above the Venerable Realm was suppressed.
• Lei Chong circled the mountain, found its protective formation blocked access to the phoenix nest, and headed for the volcanoes behind it.
• Lei Chong reached a glowing ancient tree and found a Vermilion Bird’s rune bone and Primal True Feather in its nest.
• Lei Chong failed to move the rune bone and began studying its runes, discovering that its precious technique differed from those of later-generation descendants.

Lei Chong mastered the Vermilion Bird Art and lifted the rune bone from the True Phoenix nest, while the factions below struggled to break the mountain’s formation. Jin Lie found Lei Chong atop the tree and demanded that he come down.

• Lei Chong studied the rune bone, manifested the Vermilion Bird’s fire and fierce attacks, and mastered the art’s initial stage.
• Jin Lie tried to break the formation before the mountain with his wings, was thrown back injured, and withdrew as others examined the barrier.
• The formation revealed silhouettes of divine birds, and the factions speculated that learning their precious techniques might open the way.
• Lei Chong used his Vermilion Bird runes to lift the rune bone, realizing that taking it would make him essential to breaking the formation.
• Jin Lie followed Lei Chong to the ancient tree and ordered him to come down.

Lei Chong fought Jin Lie, the Golden-Winged Great Peng, and used Vermilion Bird techniques to overcome his powerful attacks. After Jin Lie lost a leg and his feather swords were burned away, divine flames engulfed him, leaving Lei Chong reaching to seize the roasted Peng.

• Lei Chong unleashed a Vermilion Bird formed from divine flame, which struck Jin Lie’s talon and forced him to reveal his true form.
• Jin Lie merged with a gigantic Golden-Winged Great Peng while Lei Chong merged with a Vermilion Bird, and they clashed repeatedly in the sky.
• Jin Lie formed crimson war spears from his blood and attacked Lei Chong, but Lei Chong destroyed them and sliced off one of Jin Lie’s legs.
• Jin Lie sent his golden feathers flying as swords, but Lei Chong’s divine flames burned them and engulfed Jin Lie.
• Lei Chong smelled Jin Lie’s roasted flesh and reached out to grab him.

Lei Chong killed Jin Lie, claimed the Vermilion Bird’s Primal True Feather, and escaped a fight with the cultivators who came to investigate. He learned the Bi Fang Precious Technique from afar and seized the Bi Fang’s rune bone while the Divine Flame Man fought nearby.

• Lei Chong crushed Jin Lie, destroyed his primordial spirit, and took his body and the Vermilion Bird’s rune bone and Primal True Feather.
• A group of cultivators confronted Lei Chong over Jin Lie’s death, but he overwhelmed them and drove them off.
• Lei Chong found another immortal bird’s nest but left when he could not approach it safely amid the flames and gathered cultivators.
• Lei Chong observed the Divine Flame Man fighting over the Bi Fang’s rune bone and used his Heavenly Eye to learn the Bi Fang Precious Technique from a distance.
• Lei Chong rode a flaming Bi Fang to the nest, scattered the fighters, and seized the Bi Fang’s rune bone.

Lei Chong used the Bi Fang, Li Fire Crow, and Azure Luan Precious Techniques to seize their rune bones while outrunning the cultivators who tried to stop him. He then mastered the final bird’s precious technique and took its rune bone, bringing him within reach of collecting all five.

• Lei Chong picked up the Bi Fang rune bone, and the Divine Flame Man blocked the furious cultivators from pursuing him.
• Lei Chong reached the Li Fire Crow’s nest, mastered its Precious Technique, and took its rune bone while Yue Chan chose to keep studying instead of chasing him.
• Lei Chong escaped the pursuing Venerables and stole the Azure Luan rune bone after quickly mastering its Precious Technique.
• Lei Chong reached the final nest, studied the divine bird’s technique, and seized its rune bone, leaving him with all five.