Chapter Summaries

After spending a thousand years studying Space-Time, Zhou Zheng passed the Third Trial by defeating nine waves of guards on a Blood-colored Long Bridge. Jiang Feng declared him the first living being to pass every trial and gave him a Talisman Token and the chance to choose a text and a treasure.

• Zhou Zheng created the Five Scrolls of Space-Time and advanced his Power of Space-Time to the fourth level, the Space-Time Heart.
• When the thousand-year trial ended, Zhou Zheng was sent to a Blood-colored Long Bridge and learned that he could use only his sword arts.
• Zhou Zheng defeated nine increasingly powerful waves of guards with his sword and returned to the great hall.
• Jiang Feng congratulated Zhou Zheng for becoming the first living being to pass every trial since the Trial Ground was established.
• Jiang Feng gave Zhou Zheng his master's Talisman Token and offered him one choice from a book of texts and a book of treasures.

Zhou Zheng chose a Heartforce Scripture from the Trial Ground’s collection, then examined its treasures and became intrigued by a World Pearl capable of cultivating ten First-Class Celestial Immortals. He learned how the pearl had been made but had not yet chosen a treasure.

• Zhou Zheng weighed the Divine-Demon Flow method, the Dao of Space-Time scripture, and the Heart Power Secret Canon before choosing the Heartforce Scripture.
• Zhou Zheng reasoned that other routes to a Divine-Demon Flow method might be available to him, while the Heartforce Scripture could improve his abilities immediately.
• Zhou Zheng examined the treasure list, which included Chaos Rare Treasures, Divine Weapons of Dao, and Ten Directions Chaos Spirit Liquid.
• Zhou Zheng read that the World Pearl could cultivate ten First-Class Celestial Immortals and learned it had been refined from the essence of numerous worlds.
• Zhou Zheng suspected that only an exceptionally powerful expert could have refined the World Pearl, and the chapter ended before he selected a treasure.

Zhou Zheng chose the Heart Power Secret Canon and the World Pearl, then was attacked by a powerful banner after leaving Taixu Valley. He escaped its sealed space with his Power of Space-Time and stayed behind to see who was hunting him.

• Zhou Zheng chose the Heart Power Secret Canon and the World Pearl, intending to seek a method for becoming a First-Class Celestial Immortal elsewhere.
• Sky Fox True Immortal told the Lord of Flying Fox she would return to the Heavenly Realm if she could not find Zhou Zheng, despite searching for him for over a thousand years.
• A ripple in the Nine Realms Banner alerted Sky Fox True Immortal to a possible trace, and she sent the banner through space to investigate.
• The banner appeared above Taixu Valley and tried to draw Zhou Zheng into its world phantom, sealing the surrounding space.
• Zhou Zheng escaped beyond the banner's sealed range using his fourth-level Power of Space-Time and waited to identify his pursuer.

Zhou Zheng fought Sky Fox True Immortal and Flying Fox True Immortal, using his mastery of Space-Time to evade their treasures and overwhelm them with powerful sword strikes. After Flying Fox True Immortal’s senior brother arrived, Zhou Zheng withdrew and went to Sky Fox Mountain, where Sky Fox True Immortal discovered that her Second Primordial Spirit had been captured.

• Zhou Zheng escaped the Nine Realms Banner’s suppression and told Sky Fox True Immortal and Flying Fox True Immortal that his name was Cheng Tian.
• Sky Fox True Immortal attacked Zhou Zheng to avenge her nephew, and Flying Fox True Immortal used the Precious Lotus Lantern to protect her from Zhou Zheng’s sword.
• Zhou Zheng bombarded the pair with illusions and sword strikes, forcing Flying Fox True Immortal to burn his blood essence to sustain the lantern’s shield.
• After sensing Three-Eyed enter the Flying Fox Great World, Zhou Zheng left, and Three-Eyed arrived to aid Flying Fox True Immortal.
• Sky Fox True Immortal said Zhou Zheng had gone to Sky Fox Mountain, then discovered that her Second Primordial Spirit had been captured.

Cheng Tian Heavenly God’s victory over Sky Fox True Immortal drew attention across the Three Realms and prompted the Gate of No Return to investigate him. Back at Mount Fangcun, Zhou Zheng prepared for his tribulation and welcomed Silver Moon Heavenly God and Kong Jiang, who came to meet their newly famous junior brother.

• News of Cheng Tian Heavenly God’s victory spread through Nuwa’s faction and the Gate of No Return, which learned that he mastered the Power of Space-Time.
• The Black Robe God King identified Cheng Tian Heavenly God as Bodhi’s disciple and ordered an investigation into his origins.
• A white-haired old man sent a distant disciple to return and bring news of his junior brother.
• Zhou Zheng returned to Mount Fangcun and planned to raise his Original Body to perfected Void Returning before undergoing the heavenly tribulation.
• Three months later, Silver Moon Heavenly God and Kong Jiang visited Zhou Zheng, and Kong Jiang introduced herself by her proper name and Daoist title, Five Lights.

Zhou Zheng suspected that Kong Jiang had been enslaved by Old Man Yuan and planned to use their future meetings to study the signs of enslavement. He then continued studying Heartforce techniques with Sky Fox True Immortal's imprisoned Second Primordial Spirit as his test subject.

• Kong Jiang and Silver Moon Heavenly God left after speaking with Zhou Zheng, and Kong Jiang invited him to visit Mount Fangcun after his tribulation.
• Zhou Zheng reasoned that Old Man Yuan had likely made Kong Jiang a Puppet to gain access to Bodhi's Space-Time Dharma Gate, and resolved to study her condition.
• Zhou Zheng entered his Cave-Heaven Treasure, where he had imprisoned Sky Fox True Immortal's Second Primordial Spirit after attacking Sky Fox Mountain.
• Zhou Zheng silenced Sky Fox True Immortal and studied the Heart Power Secret Canon's methods for enslaving living beings.
• Zhou Zheng judged that Sky Fox True Immortal's Dao Heart might be weak enough for his Heartforce to overcome, potentially enslaving her Original Body as well.

Zhou Zheng began transcending the Heavenly God Tribulation outside Mount Fangcun, where the Wind and Fire Tribulations failed to harm him and an exceptionally powerful Thunder Tribulation began. As the first lightning fell, Hou Yi and the others wondered whether Zhou Zheng had passed Taixu Valley’s Third Trial.

• Zhou Zheng reached the Void Returning consummate stage, prepared for three days, and told Patriarch Bodhi he was ninety percent confident he could transcend the tribulation.
• Zhou Zheng left Mount Fangcun in his Original Body and released his aura to summon the Heavenly God Tribulation as Silver Moon, Kong Jiang, Ji Dian, Patriarch Bodhi, Hou Yi, and others watched.
• Zhou Zheng endured the Wind and Fire Tribulations without difficulty, and the heavenly fire only tempered his Divine Body.
• The Thunder Tribulation gathered golden light, and its first bolt descended half holy white and half faintly golden, startling the watchers.
• Hou Yi recalled recommending Zhou Zheng for Taixu Valley and suspected that Zhou Zheng might have passed its Third Trial.

Zhou Zheng passed the Heavenly God tribulation and returned to Mount Fangcun, where Patriarch Bodhi tested his mastery of Space-Time. Their three-day discussion and battle revealed the strength of Zhou Zheng’s Five Scrolls of Space-Time, though Bodhi defeated him by unleashing the Fifth Level.

• Zhou Zheng endured nine bolts of Pure Yang Golden Light Lightning and passed the Inner Demon Tribulation after a month.
• Silver Moon, Kong Jiang, Jiang Jun, and the other disciples congratulated Zhou Zheng, who then returned to Mount Fangcun and visited Patriarch Bodhi.
• Zhou Zheng told Patriarch Bodhi he had created the Five Scrolls of Space-Time, and their first exchange showed his mastery exceeded Bodhi’s expectations.
• Zhou Zheng summoned more than a thousand copies of himself, but Patriarch Bodhi countered them with his four-faced, eight-armed form.
• After fighting for three days and nights, Zhou Zheng was defeated when Patriarch Bodhi fully unleashed the Fifth Level of the Power of Space-Time.

After passing the Heavenly God Tribulation, Zhou Zheng told Patriarch Bodhi about Taixu Valley and began assessing his new strength and plans. He resolved to target Shao Yan Chou for the World Prison, while keeping Kong Jiang close to investigate Old Man Yuan’s enslavement technique.

• Zhou Zheng explained Taixu Valley’s Third Trial to Patriarch Bodhi, who warned him to keep its secrets and reminded him to remain true to his original heart.
• Patriarch Bodhi declined to reveal Hou Yi’s identity, and Zhou Zheng said he would continue cultivating toward higher realms.
• Zhou Zheng examined his stronger Heavenly God Divine Power and soul, then identified Heart Power Enslavement and soul-based bewilderment as two ways to deal with Shao Yan Chou and obtain the World Prison.
• On the seventh day after Zhou Zheng’s tribulation, Kong Jiang visited with a Pure Yang Supreme Magic Treasure, and Zhou Zheng grew closer to her while suspecting she had been enslaved.

After mastering an Enslavement Secret Art, Zhou Zheng enslaved Sky Fox True Immortal and learned that Dark Light Sword Ancestor had recruited her to help create a Puppet. Later, Zhou Zheng prepared to leave Mount Fangcun and travel through the Three Realms, while deciding not to correct Patriarch Bodhi’s misunderstanding about him and Little Peacock.

• Zhou Zheng used verbal guidance and his Enslavement Secret Art to make Sky Fox True Immortal willingly serve him for a million years.
• Sky Fox True Immortal revealed that Dark Light Sword Ancestor had ordered her to capture cultivators skilled in the Path of Puppetry to help create a Puppet.
• Zhou Zheng ordered Sky Fox True Immortal to watch the Gate of No Return and report useful intelligence, but kept her Second Primordial Spirit imprisoned.
• After learning more Heartforce secret arts over the following decade, Zhou Zheng went to bid farewell to Patriarch Bodhi before descending the mountain again.
• Patriarch Bodhi encouraged Zhou Zheng to travel through the Three Realms and mentioned his apparent relationship with Little Peacock, which Zhou Zheng chose not to clarify.

Zhou Zheng visited Daoist Qingxu to have him divine the locations of Shao Yan Chou’s Clones. Qingxu found nine, and Zhou Zheng left with the information he needed to pursue Shao Yan Chou.

• Zhou Zheng bypassed the formations around Daoist Qingxu’s Immortal Mountain and asked him to divine Shao Yan Chou’s location.
• Zhou Zheng explained that Shao Yan Chou was a Celestial Immortal who had followed Xia Mangxun, and gave Qingxu the information he had gathered.
• Daoist Qingxu divined the locations of nine of Shao Yan Chou’s Clones and warned that Shao Yan Chou had more hidden away.
• Zhou Zheng thanked Qingxu, offered him a mid-grade Pure Yang Magic Treasure, and agreed to enter through the front gate next time.

Zhou Zheng enslaved Shao Yan Chou and seized the World Prison, a treasure containing seven powerful methods. After memorizing them, Zhou Zheng began refining the Divine Patterns that unlocked the World Prison within.

• Zhou Zheng identified Shao Yan Chou on a hidden island and secretly enslaved him with Heartforce over three days.
• Shao Yan Chou submitted to Zhou Zheng and revealed the location of his most precious treasure.
• Zhou Zheng traveled to a Small World, where Shao Yan Chou led him into a Cave-Heaven Treasure containing the World Prison Stone Tablet.
• Zhou Zheng took ownership of the Cave-Heaven Treasure and examined the seven methods recorded on the Stone Tablet.
• Zhou Zheng memorized the methods and began refining the Divine Patterns around the Stone Tablet.

Zhou Zheng refined the Stone Tablet and entered the World Prison, where he took charge as its Warden and claimed its accumulated Chaos Spiritual Liquid. He mastered the Second Level of the Eighteen Divine Demons of Taowu and created seventeen Clones, bringing his total to eighteen.

• Zhou Zheng used his Heartforce and Heavenly God Divine Power to refine the Stone Tablet, which transported him into the World Prison.
• Dong Qu and Xi Fu welcomed Zhou Zheng as Warden Cheng Tian, and he demanded and received eighteen bottles of Chaos Spiritual Liquid.
• Zhou Zheng learned about the World Prison and its Chaos Spiritual Liquid from the two prison guards, then sent them away.
• Zhou Zheng studied the Eighteen Divine Demons of Taowu and quickly mastered its First and Second Levels.
• Zhou Zheng used immortal pills to split his divine soul and formed seventeen identical Clones, giving him eighteen bodies in total.

Zhou Zheng strengthened his eighteen Clones with Chaos Spiritual Liquid and sent seventeen into the World Prison to search prisoners for a transferable First-Class Celestial Immortal Cultivation Method. He began inspecting a Celestial Immortal’s memories after coercing the prisoner into submission by promising to ask when he could be released.

• Zhou Zheng used Chaos Spiritual Liquid to restore all eighteen Clones to the peak strength of his Original Body.
• Zhou Zheng left one Clone behind and sent the other seventeen through the light into the vast, energy-starved World Prison.
• Zhou Zheng’s Clones detected many powerful prisoners, and he decided to search Celestial Immortals first for a transferable cultivation method.
• Zhou Zheng found a chained white-robed Celestial Immortal at a lake and announced that he was the new Warden.
• The white-robed man offered his treasures but resisted a memory inspection, so Zhou Zheng threatened him and promised to ask about his release.
• The white-robed man submitted to Zhou Zheng’s demand while secretly swearing revenge once he escaped.

Zhou Zheng plundered the World Prison’s prisoners for their memories and treasures, then defeated Feng Xun and searched his mind. He discovered the unrestricted Nine Heavens Profound Firmament Record, giving his Second Primordial Spirit a path to become a First-Class Celestial Immortal.

• Zhou Zheng searched the white-robed Celestial Immortal’s memories, took his treasures, and gave him immortal pills while promising to ask about his release.
• Zhou Zheng’s seventeen Clones used persuasion and force to plunder other prisoners, and three years passed as he dealt with nearly a hundred Celestial Immortals.
• Feng Xun ambushed Zhou Zheng with immortal swords, but Zhou Zheng evaded the attack and challenged him to a fair fight.
• Zhou Zheng shattered Feng Xun’s Taiji Sword Formation and forced him to surrender his memories and treasures.
• Zhou Zheng found the Nine Heavens Profound Firmament Record in Feng Xun’s memories and realized his Second Primordial Spirit could become a First-Class Celestial Immortal.

Zhou Zheng used the World Pearl and the Nine Heavens Profound Firmament Record to transform his Second Primordial Spirit, while a great calamity approached the Three Realms. Patriarch Bodhi warned him about the Gate of No Return and began explaining the origins of the Three Realms.

• Zhou Zheng entered the World Pearl and cultivated the Nine Heavens Profound Firmament Record, expanding his Purple Mansion until it began to resemble a world.
• The Heavenly Dao issued guidance that an unprecedented Great Calamity had arrived, and Dao Ancestors across the Three Realms sensed it.
• After a year, Zhou Zheng emerged from the World Pearl with his Second Primordial Spirit's aura transformed and stronger than that of some Celestial Immortals.
• Patriarch Bodhi told Zhou Zheng he had searched the Three Realms for a year and warned that the Great Calamity would threaten everyone.
• Patriarch Bodhi cautioned Zhou Zheng about the Gate of No Return and began to explain how the Three Realms came into being.

Patriarch Bodhi explained the ancient conflict between Nuwa’s faction and the Gate of No Return, warning Zhou Zheng that he could become a target in the coming calamity. Zhou Zheng then began his Second Primordial Spirit’s Heavenly Immortal Tribulation in secret, and its immense power left Bodhi shocked and suspicious.

• Patriarch Bodhi told Zhou Zheng about the origins of the Three Realms and the Gate of No Return, and warned him to stay cautious during the Great Calamity.
• Patriarch Bodhi explained that Nuwa’s faction struggled to unite because it lacked a leader with authority comparable to the Heart Demon Lord and the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons.
• Zhou Zheng decided that he needed to become stronger before confronting Old Man Yuan and agreed to undergo his Second Primordial Spirit’s tribulation.
• Zhou Zheng asked Patriarch Bodhi to conceal the Heavenly Immortal Tribulation, and Bodhi arranged a secret place on Mount Fangcun.
• Zhou Zheng triggered the tribulation, and Patriarch Bodhi was stunned by its extraordinary power.

Zhou Zheng completed his Heavenly Immortal Tribulation and formed a First-Class Golden Core, revealing to Patriarch Bodhi the extraordinary potential of his Second Primordial Spirit. He then arranged to trade treasures for Grand Unity Immortal Pills and strengthened his Second Primordial Spirit by cultivating the Eighteen Divine Demons of Taowu.

• Zhou Zheng formed a First-Class Golden Core after enduring the Heavenly Immortal Tribulation, and Patriarch Bodhi asked him about it.
• Zhou Zheng explained that First-Class Celestial Immortals could rival Heavenly Gods and that his Second Primordial Spirit could become comparable to a Dao Ancestor as a True Immortal.
• Patriarch Bodhi warned Zhou Zheng to keep his strength secret from the Gate of No Return and agreed to exchange his treasures for Grand Unity Immortal Pills.
• Zhou Zheng gave his Second Primordial Spirit Chaos Spiritual Liquid and had it cultivate the Eighteen Divine Demons of Taowu.
• Zhou Zheng's Second Primordial Spirit split into eighteen First-Class Celestial Immortal clones, bringing his total number of clones to thirty-six.

After decades of traveling the Three Realms, Zhou Zheng witnessed how the Gate of No Return fueled conflicts and brought suffering to ordinary cultivators. His resolve led him to break through to Fifth Level Heartforce, and he discovered that the tavern owner was a True God.

• Patriarch Bodhi returned with Grand Unity Immortal Pills, and Zhou Zheng gave most of them to his Second Primordial Spirit clones before leaving Mount Fangcun to travel.
• For thirty years, Zhou Zheng’s clones cultivated the Power of Space-Time and dealt with imprisoned experts while one clone traveled through the Three Realms.
• In Phoenix Cry Great World, Zhou Zheng overheard three Purple Mansion Cultivators plotting revenge on Mo Teng Fort and recognized how the Gate of No Return had provoked the conflict.
• Reflecting on the suffering caused by the Gate of No Return, Zhou Zheng resolved to become strong enough to withstand upheaval and completed his breakthrough to Fifth Level Heartforce.
• As Zhou Zheng prepared to pay for his wine, he sensed that the seemingly ordinary tavern owner was a True God.

Zhou Zheng escaped Old Man Yuan’s attempt to probe and enslave him, then traveled to the Twenty-Seven Realms of Fujū to study the Five Treasures Sword Technique. After nearly a century of cultivation, Patriarch Bodhi summoned him to Fengdu because the Six Paths of Reincarnation had come under attack, and Zhou Zheng set out to bring reinforcements there.

• Zhou Zheng detected traces of Old Man Yuan’s attempted enslavement and continued toward a place untouched by the Gate of No Return.
• Zhou Zheng visited the Twenty-Seven Realms of Fujū and quickly mastered the complete Sword Dao before entering the Power of Sword.
• Zhou Zheng began cultivating the Five Treasures Sword Technique in the Sword Immortal Realm, finding that it affected the Three Realms’ Daos but not his Power of Space-Time.
• After nearly a hundred years, Patriarch Bodhi told Zhou Zheng that the Six Paths of Reincarnation had come under attack and ordered him to collect reinforcements at Fengdu.
• Zhou Zheng hurried through Space-Time to the Netherworld so he could lead the reinforcements to the Six Paths of Reincarnation.