Chapter Summaries

Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning lured City Lord Feixue and his allies into a prepared Chaos World and revealed that Jiu Zhen’s apparent death had been part of the deception. Zhou Zheng crushed Emperor Lord Wu Meng’s Heart World and overwhelmed City Lord Feixue, then appeared before him again to continue the attack.

• Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning sensed City Lord Feixue approaching and prepared to face him inside their accelerated Chaos World.
• City Lord Feixue, Blood Cloud Emperor Lord, and Emperor Lord Wu Meng caught up with Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning, who revealed that they had lured them into a trap.
• Zhou Zheng restored Jiu Zhen’s sealed memories and used Heartforce to destroy his soul, confirming the deception to City Lord Feixue and Blood Cloud Emperor Lord.
• City Lord Feixue summoned six Destiny Divine Weapons and charged Zhou Zheng while Emperor Lord Wu Meng unleashed his Heart World.
• Zhou Zheng’s enormous tower crushed Emperor Lord Wu Meng’s Heart World, and its pressure slowed City Lord Feixue.
• Zhou Zheng struck City Lord Feixue with overwhelming force, scattered his Divine Body into snowflakes, and rushed after him as he reappeared.

Zhou Zheng overwhelmed City Lord Feixue and forced him to flee through the Endless Maze, while assigning Ji Ning and his Avatar to contain the two Eternal Emperor Lords. Zhou Zheng caught up with Feixue in another world and sealed its Space-Time, leaving Feixue trapped again.

• Zhou Zheng crushed City Lord Feixue in combat, while Emperor Lord Wu Meng and Blood Cloud Emperor Lord refused to intervene directly.
• City Lord Feixue unleashed his Bronze Gu Ge, but Zhou Zheng blocked the Dominator-level treasure’s strike without using his Immortality Body.
• City Lord Feixue tore open Space-Time and fled into the Endless Maze, while Zhou Zheng told Ji Ning to handle Blood Cloud Emperor Lord and sent his Avatar against Emperor Lord Wu Meng.
• City Lord Feixue drove his damaged Domain Flying Ship through the maze, hoping to escape before Zhou Zheng could catch him.
• Zhou Zheng appeared in Feixue’s next world and descended with his Heart World, sealing all Space-Time.

Zhou Zheng pursued City Lord Feixue through the Endless Maze and killed him after Feixue exhausted his escape treasures. He reunited with Ji Ning and claimed the damaged Domain Flying Ship, whose Artifact Spirit said the fragments they possessed could restore it.

• Zhou Zheng caught City Lord Feixue despite his use of a final treasure to escape, then destroyed him and collected his belongings.
• Zhou Zheng returned to Ji Ning, who reported that Blood Cloud Emperor Lord and Emperor Lord Wu Meng had fled when Zhou Zheng's Avatar disappeared.
• Zhou Zheng told Ji Ning that City Lord Feixue was dead and revealed the damaged Domain Flying Ship.
• The Artifact Spirit said the fragments held by Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning could make the Domain Flying Ship whole, and both handed over fragments.

Zhou Zheng returned to the Three Realms with Ji Ning, then learned about the Azure Flower Grotto-Heaven near their home and agreed to investigate it. At its gates, Zhou Zheng resisted a powerful illusion, and the ancient doors opened for him.

• Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning returned to the Three Realms in a Domain Flying Ship, while news of City Lord Feixue's death and the ship's transfer to Zhou Zheng stirred Yan Long Domain.
• Ten years later, Ji Ning told Zhou Zheng about the Azure Flower Grotto-Heaven near the Three Realms and urged him to investigate it.
• Zhou Zheng agreed to explore the grotto-heaven, deciding that he would later leave Ji Ning time to use its treasures and could leave behind his experience merging with the Dao.
• Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning reached the grotto-heaven's gates, where the Azure Flower triggered an illusion that magnified Zhou Zheng's loneliness and memories.
• Zhou Zheng's will remained firm, the ancient gates opened, and he entered the grotto-heaven with Ji Ning.

Zhou Zheng attempted the trials in the Azure Flower Grotto-Heaven and passed all three with ease, revealing himself as a Fourth Step Ultimate Dao Lord. After clearing the final trial, he stood to receive the great opportunity promised by the Grotto-Heaven Master.

• Zhou Zheng defeated the black-robed Eternal Emperor Lord in a single exchange and passed the First Trial, receiving a lifebound Dao Talisman from the Grotto-Heaven Spirit.
• Zhou Zheng defeated the ten Eternal Emperor Lords guarding the Silver Palace Gate and opened it, passing the Second Trial.
• The Cave Mansion Spirit recognized Zhou Zheng's Ultimate Dao and gave him a volume on the Ultimate Flame Dao, which Zhou Zheng studied before moving on.
• Zhou Zheng easily blasted away the Holy City Lord-level Eternal Emperor Lord in the Third Trial and passed.

After passing the Third Trial, Zhou Zheng studied the vast collection of techniques in Supreme Being Qi’s Azure Flower Grotto-Heaven and gained a sliver of confidence in his Daomerge. The Cave Mansion Spirit then showed him a powerful deduction platform and set a test Zhou Zheng had to pass to earn another Enlightenment Treasure.

• The Cave Mansion Spirit brought Zhou Zheng to the First Hall, where he spent tens of billions of years studying techniques and deepening his understanding of the Chaos Universe’s Daos and laws.
• Zhou Zheng emerged from his study with a sliver of confidence in his Daomerge, and the Cave Mansion Spirit led him to the Second Hall.
• Zhou Zheng sat on Supreme Being Qi’s stone platform and discovered that it greatly accelerated the soul and True Spirit’s deductive ability.
• The Cave Mansion Spirit explained that Supreme Being Qi had left the grotto-heaven in hopes that future generations would perfect his Nine Heavens Space technique, and Zhou Zheng promised to do his best.
• The Cave Mansion Spirit told Zhou Zheng that he had to create ten Holy City Lord Level techniques to earn another Enlightenment Treasure, and Zhou Zheng accepted the test.

Zhou Zheng told Ji Ning he would cultivate in the Azure Flower Grotto-Heaven for a hundred Chaos Epochs, then spent billions of years creating powerful Dao techniques. When Ji Ning reported that mysterious Eternal Emperors had trapped his Original Body, Zhou Zheng agreed to help him retaliate.

• Zhou Zheng visited Ji Ning in the Three Realms and explained that he would enter long-term cultivation in the Azure Flower Grotto-Heaven, whose opportunity came from the deceased Supreme Being Qi.
• Zhou Zheng began cultivating under thousandfold Time Acceleration and created the Illusion Dao technique Unreal Great World, followed by Sword Dao and Claw Dao techniques.
• Ji Ning told Zhou Zheng that mysterious Eternal Emperors had ambushed and trapped his Original Body in Yu Xinghai.
• Ji Ning revealed that he had reached the threshold of a breakthrough and comprehended the fourth level of the Ultimate Dao, and proposed breaking through with Chaos Crystals before Zhou Zheng arrived by Domain Flying Ship.
• Zhou Zheng agreed to join Ji Ning and strike back at the Eternal Emperors.

Ji Ning and Zhou Zheng confronted five Eternal Emperors outside the Destruction Nebula, where Zhou Zheng used Heartforce to catch them off guard. The clash left two Emperors captured, while Emperor Golden Void and another black-robed Emperor remained free.

• The five Eternal Emperors waited for the Destruction Nebula’s dangerous period to pass, planning to capture Ji Ning and take Zhou Zheng’s Domain Flying Ship.
• Ji Ning emerged from the nebula and challenged the five Emperors, then called Zhou Zheng to join him.
• Emperor Golden Void sent Sen Heng after Ji Ning while he and three others attacked Zhou Zheng.
• Zhou Zheng’s Heartforce briefly trapped the four attackers in illusions, but Emperor Golden Void recovered and countered Zhou Zheng’s strike with a Universe Treasure.
• Zhou Zheng’s other three Avatars reached the remaining Emperors, and two of them captured Jin He and Tian Mu.

Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning defeated Emperor Golden Void and four allied Eternal Emperors, though the survivors escaped. After learning their identities, Zhou Zheng pursued Emperor Golden Void and the Black-Robed Emperor Lord by appearing at Black Annihilation Holy City and enveloping it with his Heart World.

• Zhou Zheng used his Heartforce Illusion to suppress Jin He and Tian Mu, then fought Emperor Golden Void while Ji Ning overwhelmed Emperor Lord Sen Heng.
• Emperor Golden Void admitted defeat and escaped with the Black-Robed Emperor Lord, while Zhou Zheng briefly stalled Emperor Lord Sen Heng with Heartforce before he also fled.
• Ji Ning told Zhou Zheng that Emperor Golden Void had founded a sealed imperial dynasty, the Black-Robed Emperor Lord ruled Black Annihilation Holy City, and Emperor Lord Sen Heng had no major power behind him.
• Zhou Zheng decided to pursue Emperor Golden Void and the Black-Robed Emperor Lord, then appeared at Black Annihilation Holy City and spread his Heart World over the entire city.

Zhou Zheng confronted Black Annihilation Emperor Lord over his attempt to kill Ji Ning, while Ji Ning battled Emperor Golden Void in the Phoenix Cry Domain. Black Annihilation Emperor Lord fled after Zhou Zheng captured his Law Body, and Ji Ning continued breaking through a mysterious Array Restriction that clearly alarmed Emperor Golden Void.

• Zhou Zheng called out Black Annihilation Emperor Lord in Black Annihilation Holy City and accused him of targeting Ji Ning.
• Black Annihilation Emperor Lord admitted his actions, relinquished his position as Holy City Lord, and vowed to hide for 108,000 Chaos Epochs.
• Zhou Zheng used his Illusion Art to incapacitate Black Annihilation Emperor Lord's Law Body and suppressed it, then withdrew his Heart World when Emperor Lord Jin Yu arrived.
• Zhou Zheng told Emperor Lord Jin Yu that Ji Ning was safe in the Phoenix Cry Domain and that he would not let the attack on his disciple go unanswered.
• Ji Ning fought Emperor Golden Void's Law Body while using five swords to batter a concealed Array Restriction in a mysterious Eternal Realm.
• Emperor Golden Void desperately warned Ji Ning not to touch the place, but Ji Ning continued attacking as the Array Restriction neared collapse.

Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning cornered Emperor Golden Void and began breaking the array concealing a Xis Race warship. As more powerful arrivals gathered in the Eternal Realm, the fight over the hidden treasure was poised to expand.

• Zhou Zheng sealed Emperor Golden Void's Law Body with an illusion while Ji Ning continued attacking the array.
• Ji Ning cracked the array and revealed a Xis Race warship filled with armored soldiers, which Zhou Zheng identified as a hunting vessel.
• Zhou Zheng warned Ji Ning that the warship was likely damaged but valuable, then prepared to keep Emperor Lord Jin Yu from interfering.
• Emperor Lord Jin Yu recognized that Mangya Dominator had revealed Emperor Golden Void's hideout and hesitated over whether to claim the treasure.
• Mangya Dominator arrived and admitted Emperor Golden Void had summoned him, then Ming Lan Dominator, Fengyu Dominator, and two unfamiliar figures arrived through Space-Time.

Ji Ning and Zhou Zheng paused their attempt to break into the Xis Race warship as powerful cultivators gathered, including Emperor Qing Shi, whose second Primordial Spirit had reached Dominator level. While Emperor Lord Jin Yu inspected the ship, Zhou Zheng explained that he and Ji Ning had become powerful by comprehending the Ultimate Dao, leaving the gathered experts astonished.

• Ji Ning stopped breaking the Array Restriction and joined Zhou Zheng as the newcomers gathered around the warship.
• Zhou Zheng recognized Emperor Qing Shi as a Dominator-level cultivator whose second Primordial Spirit had become the Black-robed Emperor.
• Emperor Lord Jin Yu swore a Life Oath, broke through the remaining Array Restriction, and entered the warship to inspect it.
• Ming Lan Dominator asked why Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning were so powerful, and Zhou Zheng revealed that he followed the Ultimate Space-Time Dao while Ji Ning followed the Ultimate Sword Dao.
• Zhou Zheng said Ji Ning had comprehended the Ultimate Dao before him, and Ji Ning suggested that a Dao beyond the Ultimate Dao might someday exist.

Emperor Lord Jin Yu revealed that the nearly intact Xis Race warship needed repairs and new energy, prompting the powerful figures to agree to keep their contest within the Eternal Realm. After they swore Life Oaths, Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning used their abilities to gain an advantage, but Mangya Dominator and the others unleashed their strength and began fighting for the warship.

• Emperor Lord Jin Yu reported that the Xis Race warship was mostly intact but needed its core repaired and its energy replenished.
• Emperor Lord Jin Yu proposed limiting the struggle for the warship to the Eternal Realm, and the assembled experts agreed and swore Life Oaths.
• Zhou Zheng agreed with Ji Ning that they should seize the warship and learned that Ji Ning had cultivated the Heart Sword Technique to its twelfth form.
• The eight oath-takers unleashed their domains, and Zhou Zheng merged his Heart World with Endless Domain to overpower the others’ domains.
• Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning vanished using their respective techniques, but Mangya Dominator transformed into a terrifying alien beast and the others unleashed their strength to seize the warship.

Zhou Zheng entered the battle around the Xis Race warship and found that the Dominators’ constant attacks left no opening for Ji Ning to approach. He attacked Fengyu Dominator to disrupt the balance, leaving the fight more volatile.

• Mangya Dominator and the others used sweeping attacks to keep Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning away from the Xis Race warship.
• Zhou Zheng decided to reveal himself and create an opening for Ji Ning, choosing to enter the battle himself.
• Zhou Zheng charged toward the warship, but Mangya Dominator and another attacker struck him, forcing him to use an Avatar and his Space-Time abilities to survive.
• After realizing the evenly matched Dominators were preventing any opening, Zhou Zheng launched a full-force attack at Fengyu Dominator.
• Fengyu Dominator had to focus on defending against Zhou Zheng, weakening his ability to respond to the other fighters.

Zhou Zheng fought Fengyu Dominator to draw attention away from the Xis Race warship, creating an opening for Ji Ning to approach it. Ji Ning reached the warship and tried to store it, but his expression changed when the attempt failed.

• Zhou Zheng used his speed and resilience to keep Fengyu Dominator occupied, forcing him to wield a Universe Treasure and fight at full strength.
• Mangya Dominator tried to swallow the Xis Race warship, but Ming Lan Dominator and Qing Shi’s Puppet delayed him while Huang Qiong also moved toward it.
• The battle’s full force caused the Eternal Realm to begin collapsing, and Ji Ning recognized the opening Zhou Zheng had created.
• Ji Ning concealed himself with his Shadowless Sword Techniques and Zhou Zheng’s domain, then flew toward the Xis Race warship.
• Ji Ning blocked a surge of power, reached the warship, and tried to store it in his Grotto-Heaven Treasure, but his expression changed.

Ji Ning failed to seize the Xis Race warship because it could not be put away, but Zhou Zheng broke through to the third form of the Path to Godhood and gained the upper hand over Fengyu Dominator. As the battle remained at a stalemate, Zhou Zheng began developing the fourth form and came within one step of Dao Heart Perfection.

• Ji Ning realized the Xis Race warship could not be put away and was blasted back before he could reach it.
• Zhou Zheng attacked Fengyu Dominator again and broke through to the third form of the Path to Godhood, suppressing him with his sword.
• Zhou Zheng told Ji Ning to wait for an opportunity while he pursued another breakthrough, and Ji Ning agreed to maintain the stalemate.
• Zhou Zheng's Second Primordial Spirit used the Supreme Stone Platform and thousandfold Time Acceleration to study the fourth form.
• Zhou Zheng concluded that the next step required explosive power born from restraint and came within one step of Dao Heart Perfection.

Zhou Zheng waited for an opening in the battle over the Xis Race warship, then revealed his newly gained strength when the other Dominators tried to stop him. He annihilated their attacks and raced toward the warship, leaving Mangya Dominator, Ming Lan Dominator, and Fengyu Dominator stunned.

• Zhou Zheng told Ji Ning that he had created the Fourth Stance of the Path to Godhood and waited for a chance to strike.
• Daoist Qingshi used a Silver-White Sphere to rush toward the Xis Race warship, but the combined attacks of the others broke the white light and blasted him away.
• Mangya Dominator and Zhou Zheng charged toward the warship, but Mangya Dominator struck Zhou Zheng back while Fengyu Dominator and Ming Lan Dominator blocked Mangya Dominator.
• Mangya Dominator, Ming Lan Dominator, and Fengyu Dominator attacked Zhou Zheng together, prompting him to reveal the Fourth Stance of the Path to Godhood and annihilate their attacks.
• Zhou Zheng used Infinite Body to merge into Space-Time and speed toward the Xis Race warship, surprising the three Dominators.

Zhou Zheng seized the Xis Race warship and escaped the shattered Eternal Realm despite attacks from three Dominators. After the other cultivators departed, Daoist Qingshi asked Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning to let him observe their Ultimate Daos in exchange for treasures.

• Mangya Dominator ordered an attack around the Xis Race warship, and Zhou Zheng endured the assault before grabbing the vessel.
• Zhou Zheng fought off Mangya Dominator, Fengyu Dominator, and Ming Lan Dominator while retreating beyond the Eternal Realm with the warship.
• The three Dominators stopped pursuing Zhou Zheng, and the gathered cultivators congratulated him before leaving.
• Daoist Qingshi asked Zhou Zheng and Ji Ning to let him observe their Ultimate Daos, and they agreed if he swore a Life Oath not to reveal them.
• Daoist Qingshi presented treasures in exchange, including the powerful White-Haired Alien Puppet named Bai Rong.

Zhou Zheng claimed the Black Jade, an Annihilation-class Xis Race warship, and used five Demon Sparrow Crystals to power it. After discovering that the damaged core could potentially be repaired with Xis Race materials, he considered exploring Yu Xinghai; meanwhile, Emperor Golden Void sought help contacting other Dao Alliances after learning Zhou Zheng had taken the warship.

• Zhou Zheng gave Ji Ning Daoist Qingshi's treasures, then brought him inside the Black Jade and refined its core.
• The warship's Artifact Spirit explained that the Black Jade was an Annihilation-class ship with nine hundred puppet soldiers and a damaged, depleted core.
• Zhou Zheng powered the Black Jade with five Demon Sparrow Crystals, restoring its operation, but found that the damaged core limited it to thirty percent of its strength.
• Zhou Zheng learned that Xis Race materials might repair the core and considered using Supreme Bolin's map to explore Yu Xinghai.
• Emperor Golden Void learned from Emperor Lord Jin Yu that Zhou Zheng had obtained the warship, then asked him to contact the Dao Alliances of other domain realms.

After more than ten thousand years, a Black-robed Emperor appeared in the Tian Cang Eternal Realm and demanded that Dao Lord Cheng Tian reveal himself, while his companions learned of Cheng Tian’s formidable strength and valuable ships. Zhou Zheng later met Ji Ning and revealed that he had repaired a Xis Race warship and found a trapped Chaos Origin Beast in the Yao Huo Realm.

• A Black-robed Emperor confronted Ji Ning in the Tian Cang Eternal Realm and demanded that Dao Lord Cheng Tian show himself before leaving.
• The Black-robed Emperor reunited with two companions, who learned that Cheng Tian could rival Mangya Dominator and might possess a Domain Flying Ship.
• The three Black-robed Emperors decided to probe Cheng Tian’s strength and considered reporting to Wolf Lord if they could not defeat him.
• Zhou Zheng arrived in the Da Mo Domain with Ji Ning’s Original Body aboard a repaired Xis Race warship.
• Zhou Zheng told Ji Ning that he had found a Chaos Origin Beast trapped by a formation in the Yao Huo Realm.