Chapter Summaries

At the B13 Research Institute, Zhang Xuezhou joined efforts to localize the Innate One Qi Technique by combining it with mental Gene Fighting Techniques. He began adapting his Kunpeng Combat Technique, leaving Luo Burang eager to see how powerful Zhang’s strikes would become.

• With the Ferocious Beast extract running low, Luo Burang left his assembly-line duties and joined Luo Tianming’s team at the B13 Research Institute.
• Luo Tianming, Ren Yisheng, and Luo Burang led separate research groups that tested their different approaches to the Innate One Qi Technique.
• Zhang Xuezhou concluded that the technique had gained a practical entry point through its combination with the Dragon Elephant Combat Technique, and Ren Yisheng said Zhang’s Kunpeng Combat Technique might suit it even better.
• After agreeing to participate, Zhang Xuezhou asked about the Aberrant Beast chicken and learned that the institute had dissected it and stored it as a specimen.
• Zhang Xuezhou practiced an improved Kunpeng Combat Technique while researchers examined his body and helped adapt the technique to him.
• Luo Burang watched Zhang’s strikes and wondered what force the Kunpeng Combat Technique would produce when combined with the Innate One Qi Technique.

Zhang Xuezhou tested the adapted Kunpeng Combat Technique and discovered that his weak genes hindered its use, so he began combining Law Power with mental power. After discussing Luo Burang’s theory of a hidden structure in the forehead, he answered an Aomeijia Alliance call and heard Hu Hao instead of Hu Yu.

• Zhang Xuezhou’s first Gene Fighting Technique attack failed because his Gene Power was too weak to support it.
• Zhang Xuezhou used a flying needle as a medium and pierced the target, welding the needle into the steel plate behind it.
• Zhang Xuezhou tested combining Law Power with mental power and said he had grasped the basics but still needed to overcome his reliance on a medium.
• Luo Burang suggested that a special structure in the center of the forehead might provide a medium for releasing mental power, and Zhang Xuezhou decided to investigate the third eyes of Buddha Son Shigong and True Lord Erlang.
• Zhang Xuezhou received an alert from his Aomeijia Alliance contact and discovered that Hu Hao, not Hu Yu, was speaking on the call.

After recognizing Hu Hao’s call as a trap set by the Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder in Qinmeng, Zhang Xuezhou decided to go there and exploit the chance to steal World Origin. He prepared to approach cautiously, while Ren Yisheng considered how they might trap their powerful enemy.

• Hu Hao claimed that Yu and Madam White Bone had trapped the Demon Venerable with the White Bone Banner and urged Zhang Xuezhou to bring the Wind and Thunder Saber to Qinmeng.
• Ren Yisheng and Zhang Xuezhou recognized the call as a lie and inferred that the Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder in Qinmeng had set a trap for Zhang Xuezhou.
• Zhang Xuezhou decided to go to Qinmeng, hoping to seize World Origin and escape while the enemy was caught unprepared.
• Zhang Xuezhou described his plans to use his improved flying speed, a firearm, an Airbus, and his strengthened mental domain to reduce the risks.
• Ren Yisheng wondered whether they could set a trap for the Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder, but Zhang Xuezhou doubted they could restrain him without exhausting his World Origin.

Zhang Xuezhou flew to the Spider God Cave and watched a staged trap meant to draw in the white-haired old man. The old man detected Zhang Xuezhou too late to catch him and ordered Corpse Demon to obtain Hu Yu’s Cloud Wings so he could pursue him and kill the elder carrying the Wind and Thunder Saber.

• Li Yingbo arranged improved transport and communications for Qinmeng as Zhang Xuezhou flew toward the Spider God Cave.
• Zhang Xuezhou followed Hu Hao from above to avoid being detected and saw skeletons and frozen beasts gathering near the cave.
• The white-haired old man and Corpse Demon staged a quarrel and the old man’s captivity to make the arriving elder lower his guard.
• The white-haired old man sensed Zhang Xuezhou, but Zhang Xuezhou moved too quickly for the White Bone Banner to catch him.
• The white-haired old man ordered Corpse Demon to take Hu Yu’s Cloud Wings and find Hu Yu’s Quelling Chief, promising her a share in the blessings of Dimensional Ascension if she helped kill the Lineage elder.

After stealing the World Origin from the Half-Step Dimensional Ascension Holder from Qinmeng, Zhang Xuezhou returned to investigate the trap and encountered Old Devil Xixumi. Xixumi agreed to cooperate with him against the Devil Venerable and revealed that the Devil Venerable planned to take Hu Yu’s Enchanted Blue Cloud Wings.

• Zhang Xuezhou flew three hundred li away, refined the Origin Qi of Huangdao's Three Palaces, and decided to return for another chance to attack his opponent.
• Zhang Xuezhou encountered Old Devil Xixumi near the trap and confronted him about stealing the treasures of the Quelling Chief and Liao Meng.
• Xixumi admitted he had been spying on the Devil Venerable and described how the Devil Venerable had attacked the Fire Meteor cultivators, killing Devil Lord Hundred Eyes and scattering the survivors.
• Zhang Xuezhou urged Xixumi to cooperate with the Tiger Saint Aristocratic Clan against the Devil Venerable, and Xixumi agreed.
• Xixumi told Zhang Xuezhou that the Devil Venerable intended to remove Hu Yu’s Enchanted Blue Cloud Wings and attach them to himself; he then heard Hu Yu wailing from the Spider God Cave.

Zhang Xuezhou used Xixumi and Diting’s intelligence to ambush the Devil Venerable and steal both pairs of Cloud Wings, then escaped into the air. The Devil Venerable was left unable to fly well and pursued Hu Hao for his second-grade Cloud Wings.

• Xixumi contacted Diting, who reported that the Devil Venerable had removed his own Cloud Wings and was trying to implant Hu Yu’s into White Bone.
• Zhang Xuezhou followed their information and found the Devil Venerable, White Bone, and the wounded Hu Yu at the implantation site.
• Zhang Xuezhou seized Hu Yu’s Enchanted Blue Cloud Wings, and the Devil Venerable’s roar incapacitated White Bone and let the wings go.
• Zhang Xuezhou grabbed the Devil Venerable’s Holy White Cloud Wings and fled, then used his Red Gold Cloud Wings to take to the air.
• Unable to fly effectively without his Cloud Wings, the Devil Venerable pursued Hu Hao when he saw him flying nearby.

Zhang Xuezhou stole the Demon Venerable’s Cloud Wings and escaped across a strait with Hu Hao, leaving the Demon Venerable stranded on the opposite shore. The Demon Venerable began transforming the world to counter flying opponents, creating deadly winds that killed a creature overhead.

• Zhang Xuezhou taunted Hu Hao by claiming he had acted as an inside man and ordered him to flee with him from the Demon Venerable.
• Zhang Xuezhou reassured Hu Hao and threatened the pursuing Demon Venerable with the Wind and Thunder Saber as they raced toward the strait.
• Hu Hao flew across the strait, while Zhang Xuezhou taunted the Demon Venerable from the far shore.
• The Demon Venerable transformed into human form, crossed the sea on ice, and conjured black wind vortices to make flying dangerous.
• The Demon Venerable watched a creature caught in the winds get sliced apart and fall from the sky.

Zhang Xuezhou helped Hu Hao escape the Demon Venerable by getting him aboard a transport plane, then discussed the threat with Li Yingbo and sought information about their pursuer. The chapter ended with Hu Hao explaining that the Demon Venerable’s name was Yu and beginning to describe their clan’s rivalry.

• Zhang Xuezhou urged Hu Hao to run to an airfield, where Hu Hao boarded a transport plane and escaped the Demon Venerable.
• Hu Hao asked Zhang Xuezhou to use the Wind and Thunder Saber against the Demon Venerable, and Zhang Xuezhou said he needed information and Hu Hao’s blood to unseal it.
• Zhang Xuezhou warned Li Yingbo that the Demon Venerable could threaten human society, and Li Yingbo described preparations to endure famine and suppress Ferocious Beasts.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked Hu Hao for the Demon Venerable’s real name, and Hu Hao answered that it was Yu.
• Hu Hao explained that his long struggle with Yu came from their competing bloodlines and status in the Tiger Saint Lineage.

Zhang Xuezhou learned more about Hu Yu’s ruthless nature from Hu Hao and brought Hu Hao to Western Capital under strict orders not to harm anyone. He arranged for Hu Hao to be studied and considered how the encounter had helped him understand Hongjun’s predicament.

• Hu Hao told Zhang Xuezhou how Tiger Saint and Hu Yu became rivals after their Lineage favored Tiger Saint, and how Tiger Saint defeated Hu Yu over the World Origin.
• Zhang Xuezhou questioned Hu Hao about Hu Yu’s character and concluded that Hu Yu viewed other beings as inferior, while reflecting on humanity’s place among civilizations.
• Zhang Xuezhou warned Hu Hao not to cause trouble after they arrived in Western Capital, and Hu Hao promised not to eat people when threatened with the Wind and Thunder Saber.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Li Yingbo to let his sister test whether Hu Hao could activate the Wind and Thunder Saber, assess his character, and protect the Cloud Wings on his back.
• Zhang Xuezhou connected his experience with Hu Hao to Hongjun’s conflict with Houtu and considered that understanding Hongjun might help him survive their future dealings.

Zhang Xuezhou discussed the Demon Venerable Hu Yu, World Origin, and Ren Anran’s failed attempt to reach the True Self Realm while preparing for his own attempt. Just before returning to the Three Realms, he received news that Hu Yu had built a deadly ice castle and unleashed black whirlwinds.

• Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Anran discussed the difficulty of staying in touch with Xixumi and Diting and taking World Origin power from Hu Yu.
• Zhang Xuezhou asked Zhang Huang whether Hu Yu was the same person who had once taught him, and Ren Anran urged Zhang Xuezhou to practice with Zhang Huang.
• Ren Anran gave Zhang Xuezhou records of her failed attempt to enter the True Self Realm, and he studied them to prepare for his own attempt.
• Zhang Xuezhou settled into a routine between Sinkhole No. 2 and the B13 Research Institute while preparing to return to the Three Realms.
• Mengtesi Badun relayed Xixumi’s report that Hu Yu had built a frigid ice castle in a fjord and created black whirlwinds that sliced apart anything they struck.

Zhang Xuezhou prepared to attempt a breakthrough to the True Self Realm while Ren Anran recovered and studied techniques in both worlds. He set out alone for Mount Tai, leaving Ren Anran and Yi Shuo behind as he began his attempt.

• Ren Anran watched Zhang Xuezhou return to the Three Realms and discussed his chances of reaching the True Self Realm with the Mallard's Demon Thought.
• The Mallard's Demon Thought estimated Zhang Xuezhou had at least a ninety percent chance, but warned that he would die if he avoided risking his life.
• Ren Anran explained that her Yang Corporeal Soul Body had dispersed after its failed crossing, and Zhang Xuezhou assessed her condition when he awoke in Chang'an City.
• Zhang Xuezhou estimated his own chance of breaking through at fifty percent, despite his excellent preparation and restored Law Power.
• Zhang Xuezhou told Ren Anran and Yi Shuo to wait at home, then vanished as he flew toward Mount Tai.

Zhang Xuezhou opened the Yin-Yang Secret Land and used its abundant Spiritual Qi, his Yang Corporeal Soul Body, and several pills to begin fusing his Law Power and advancing toward the True Self Realm. The King of Huainan appeared through the Yin-Yang Secret Pills, giving Zhang Xuezhou an unexpected chance to confront him.

• Zhang Xuezhou activated the Yin-Yang Precious Orbs and opened the Yin-Yang Secret Land, releasing a vast surge of liquid Spiritual Qi.
• Zhang Xuezhou summoned his Yang Corporeal Soul Body and began colliding their opposing Law Power to reduce the danger of their cultivation fusion.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Grain Avoidance Instruction to absorb Spiritual Qi and took pills to strengthen his body and aid the fusion.
• Zhang Xuezhou swallowed a bottle of the King of Huainan’s Yin-Yang Secret Pills, triggering an Incantation Technique that connected them across a distance.
• The King of Huainan appeared before Zhang Xuezhou and mocked his Dragon Fish Fortune Body, while Zhang Xuezhou welcomed the chance to face him.

Zhang Xuezhou confronted the King of Huainan over his crimes, and the King decided to kill him during their Fortune Technique battle. Zhang Xuezhou overwhelmed the King with multiplying dragon fish, leaving the King desperate enough to call for help.

• Zhang Xuezhou accused the King of Huainan of forging Technique Gold, killing the King of Jiangdu, and committing other treasonous acts.
• The King of Huainan dismissed Zhang Xuezhou's accusations as unprovable and decided to kill him before he could expose the truth.
• The King of Huainan fully manifested his golden dragon Fortune Form and attacked Zhang Xuezhou with wind and rain.
• Zhang Xuezhou's dragon fish multiplied across the battlefield and began devouring the King of Huainan's Fortune Form despite his attempts to break free.
• The King of Huainan called on Wu Bei to summon help as the dragon fish continued tearing him apart.

Zhang Xuezhou overwhelmed the King of Huainan in the Fortune War, devouring the king’s Fortune Form despite his attempts to stall and threaten him. The King of Huainan lost the battle and returned to reality in a state of madness.

• The King of Huainan watched his ministers and queen Tu Du vanish as Zhang Xuezhou’s dragon fish devoured their Fortune Bodies.
• The King of Huainan tried to convince himself the battle was an illusion, then pleaded, made excuses, and threatened Zhang Xuezhou while repairing his Fortune Form with Huainan’s Karmic Fortune.
• The King of Huainan believed he had won when the darkness receded, but Zhang Xuezhou’s dragon fish transformed into a giant golden dragon.
• The King of Huainan accused Zhang Xuezhou of turning Emperor Gaozu’s Fortune Form into a puppet, then heard the dragon speak as Emperor Gaozu and lost his grip on reality.
• The giant golden dragon tore apart the King of Huainan’s Fortune Form, and the king returned to the royal palace altar before collapsing into madness.

Zhang Xuezhou defeated the King of Huainan in a grueling Fortune War and instinctively advanced to the True Self Realm, gaining powerful cultivation abilities. As the secret lands began to merge and threatened to destroy the Yin-Yang Secret Land, Zhang activated its formations to protect it.

• Zhang Xuezhou defeated the King of Huainan after fighting through the Fortune Forms of 3,665 participants.
• Zhang Xuezhou emerged from the Fortune War and realized his body's instincts had carried him into the True Self Realm, forming an Infant and transforming the Grain Avoidance Instruction into a Greater Divine Ability.
• Zhang Xuezhou decided he could not count on reproducing the same breakthrough in the real world and focused on cultivating with the Yin-Yang Secret Land's Spiritual Qi.
• The Yin-Yang Secret Land shook and cracked as the High Heaven Secret Land and the Kunlun Secret Land began merging.
• Zhang Xuezhou activated the Mountains and Rivers Everlasting Grand Formation and the Yin-Yang Two Instruments Formation to protect the Yin-Yang Secret Land.

Zhang Xuezhou stabilized the Yin-Yang Secret Land as the High Heaven Secret Land and Kunlun Secret Land drew together, and suspected Donghua was seeking the World Origin. The merger suddenly turned catastrophic when Kunlun plunged into High Heaven, sending lightning and violent impacts through the secret lands.

• Zhang Xuezhou used the Mountains and Rivers Everlasting Grand Formation and Yin-Yang Two Instruments Formation to stabilize the Yin-Yang Secret Land and share the forces shaking High Heaven.
• Zhang Xuezhou watched the immortals in High Heaven anticipate the merger and wondered whether the Jade Emperor would use the lightning to cultivate.
• Zhang Xuezhou saw five-colored light and suspected Donghua was drawing in the World Origin, then considered why Donghua had hidden his purpose from the Jade Emperor and the Three Pure Ones Heavenly Venerables.
• True Lord Yisheng and the other immortals saw Kunlun rise above High Heaven as the secret lands moved closer together.
• Kunlun suddenly plunged into High Heaven, lightning struck the region, and the impact shattered the immortals' palace and made the Yin-Yang Secret Land lurch violently.

Zhang Xuezhou watched Donghua push the Kunlun Secret Land into repeated collisions with the High Heaven Secret Land, while the Yin-Yang Two Instruments Formation failed and the Yin-Yang Secret Land crashed into the High Heaven Secret Land. After Laojun bound Donghua and forced the collisions to stop, Donghua blamed the Western Sect for sabotaging the merger.

• Donghua reassured the Immortal Court as Kunlun repeatedly pressed down on the High Heaven Secret Land, while Zhang Xuezhou suspected Donghua intended to destroy his rivals.
• Repeated impacts damaged Zhang Xuezhou's Yin-Yang Two Instruments Formation until it collapsed and the Yin-Yang Secret Land hurtled into the High Heaven Secret Land, splitting it open.
• Celestial Venerable Lingbao struck at Donghua, and the imperial consort took the blow meant for Haotian as the secret lands collided again.
• Laojun sensed killing intent, ordered Gold Horn and Silver Horn to fetch his treasures, then bound Donghua with the Golden Fillet Rope.
• Donghua promised the collisions would stop and blamed the Western Sect, claiming Jieyin and Zhunti were causing the destruction with Buddha light.

After the High Heaven Secret Land was damaged in its merger with Kunlun, the Jade Emperor and the Three Pure Ones blamed the Western Sect and moved to rally support. Donghua proposed holding the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly, and the Jade Emperor suggested inviting Jieyin and Zhunti so they could be confronted there.

• The Jade Emperor blamed Jieyin and Zhunti for sabotaging the High Heaven Secret Land, and Laojun withdrew the Golden Fillet Rope from Donghua as Xuannü confronted him.
• The Jade Emperor calmed Xuannü and urged Divine Emperor Haotian to investigate the damage, while Celestial Venerable Lingbao and Celestial Venerable Yuanshi also accused the Western Sect.
• The Empress questioned whether the Buddha light came from Spirit Mountain or Mount Meru, but the Jade Emperor insisted that the Western Sect explain it.
• The Jade Emperor concealed his grief over the destruction of his hidden possessions and used the Western Sect as a target to redirect blame and pressure Donghua.
• Donghua proposed holding the Ten Thousand Immortals Assembly before taking action, and the Jade Emperor suggested inviting Jieyin and Zhunti to the gathering.
• Celestial Venerable Lingbao accepted the plan, and the group considered inspecting the secret land at Mount Tai while invitations were sent.

After the Yin-Yang Secret Land survived the collision, Zhang Xuezhou decided to use the lightning around the shattered secret lands to cultivate the Twelve-Zhang Golden Body Instruction. He began enduring the lightning strikes, hoping to adapt the technique to resist powerful domains.

• Zhang Xuezhou found the Yin-Yang Secret Land intact and noticed that its wells and ground were recovering.
• Zhang Xuezhou decided to try the Twelve-Zhang Golden Body Instruction, reasoning that the secret lands’ ongoing collision would provide ample lightning.
• Zhang Xuezhou flew toward the lightning region and found the High Heaven Secret Land shattered into dozens of fragments, while much of the Kunlun Secret Land was also destroyed.
• Zhang Xuezhou landed on the secret land, weakened his Lightning Avoidance Instruction, and drew lightning strikes to himself.
• Zhang Xuezhou used the Life-Creating Fortune Pill and grew to seven zhang tall as he began cultivating the Twelve-Zhang Golden Body Instruction.

Zhang Xuezhou endured days of ordinary lightning and pills to build a nine-zhang Golden Body, prompting the Jade Emperor to investigate how he had succeeded. The Jade Emperor concluded that Zhang Xuezhou’s Demon Power and prior Heavenly Tribulation had likely let him advance by chance.

• Zhang Xuezhou continued cultivating under the lightning, using Life-Creating Fortune Pills and the Heavenly Form Technique to reach a nine-zhang Golden Body.
• The Jade Emperor arrived after five days and explained that ordinary lightning was not the Lightning Tribulation required to cultivate the Twelve-Zhang Golden Body Instruction.
• Zhang Xuezhou told the Jade Emperor that he had relied on his pills and had not changed the cultivation method.
• The Jade Emperor explained that Lightning Tribulation came from the Lightning-Attracting Pool in the void and could transform the fleshly body.
• Zhang Xuezhou revealed that he had Demon Power, cultivated the Technique Within the Clouds, and had previously passed a Heavenly Tribulation.
• The Jade Emperor decided that Zhang Xuezhou’s unusual experience had let him advance through sheer luck.