Recaps

After the ancient serpent god Set warned Chen Zheng about otherworldly passages and strange events, Chen Zheng explained that the Great Purge was approaching and threatened every world, even the Pantheon. The founder of the Pantheon appeared before Chen Zheng, fearing he would be targeted first and asking Chen Zheng to look after the Pantheon if he died.

• Little Bone roasted the dead Titan Python and shared its meat with Mishima Lola while the ancient serpent god declined to compete with her.
• Set reported that otherworldly passages and dangerous realms were connected to China and Europe, and that the Pantheon had been trembling and cracking.
• Chen Zheng told Set that the Great Purge was approaching and that the Pantheon, its gods, and even its founder might fall.
• Set decided he was too frightened to leave Earth after Chen Zheng said he would kill the Great Purge before it destroyed the worlds.
• The Pantheon's founder appeared beside Chen Zheng, said he might be targeted first, and asked Chen Zheng to look after the Pantheon if he was done for.

Athena descended in her true body to challenge Demon God Chiyou for control of Europe, but he overwhelmed her in a battle broadcast around the world. As Chiyou’s killing blow vanished just before it struck Athena, he pointed his blade at the sky and greeted someone who had finally arrived.

• Athena returned to Olympus after her earlier defeat and vowed to descend in her true body and take the European region three days later.
• Set told the Feathered Serpent God that the mysterious Chen had lived longer than almost anyone on Earth and was the lover of the being who created Set.
• At Superpower Group headquarters, Old Nie reported that Athena and Chiyou were battling in France, while Lin Zhengming identified the masked observer atop the Eiffel Tower as the Jiuli Holy Lord.
• Chiyou tore off and swallowed Athena’s right arm, but Athena transformed into a giant to continue fighting.
• Chiyou summoned a massive blade and unleashed a strike that shattered Athena’s defenses and wounded her forehead, but the blade radiance vanished before it could kill her.
• Chiyou pointed his blade at the thunderclouds and said that someone had finally come.

Chen Zheng arrived in the City of Romance to face Demon God Chiyou, who called him his teacher before attacking. Chiyou’s opening strike failed to harm Chen Zheng, and he raised a lightning-charged saber as the City of Romance was torn from the ground.

• The Jiuli Holy Lord absorbed lightning strikes and boasted that the Nine Netherworlds Demonic Body made him unkillable.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the City of Romance, and his arrival disrupted the satellite signal broadcasting the confrontation.
• Athena returned to her normal form and landed beside Francis, while Little Bone and Mishima Lola assessed Chiyou’s strength.
• Chiyou bowed to Chen Zheng, called him his teacher, and then slashed at him, splitting the City of Romance without injuring him.
• After Chen Zheng judged Chiyou’s saber technique inadequate, Chiyou summoned lightning into his weapon and uprooted the entire city.

Demon God Chiyou unleashed his Yellow Springs and Nine Netherworlds slash, seemingly erasing Chen Zheng along with the surrounding spacetime. Chen Zheng reappeared unharmed, leaving Chiyou and the Jiuli Holy Lord stunned.

• Chiyou summoned Yellow Springs, spreading black water and mist across Europe and prompting the angel at the Holy See to protect the Holy Garden.
• Chiyou attacked Chen Zheng with his second slash, engulfing him in thunderbolts and black rivers before striking with his actual saber.
• Chiyou's slash annihilated the surrounding spacetime, and the Jiuli Holy Lord believed Chen Zheng had been killed.
• Chiyou lamented that Chen Zheng had chosen Xuanyuan over him, then declared that he had prepared a place for Chen beneath the Nine Netherworlds.
• Chen Zheng appeared above Chiyou unharmed, while Little Bone told Mishima Lola that even black holes could not destroy his master's body.

Chen Zheng defeated Demon God Chiyou’s strongest attacks, then reminded him of their past and the otherworldly demon whose bones formed the prototype of Chiyou’s lightning blade. Chiyou accepted that Chen Zheng would never have chosen him over Xuanyuan and destroyed his own primordial spirit.

• The Jiuli Holy Lord claimed Chen Zheng had dodged Chiyou’s spacetime-cleaving slash, while Little Bone and Mishima Lola believed Chen Zheng had endured it head-on.
• Chiyou pierced his own heart and unleashed a blood lightning slash, but the attack shattered his lightning blade and left him kneeling before Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng told Chiyou that everything he knew had been taught by him and recalled how he had once slain an otherworldly demon that could cut through things regardless of laws.
• Chiyou remembered the otherworldly demon and how Chen Zheng had refined its bones into the blade that became the prototype of his lightning blade.
• Chiyou asked whether Chen Zheng would have chosen him over Xuanyuan if he had curbed his ferocity, but Chen Zheng said no.
• Chiyou struck his own forehead, destroyed his primordial spirit, and cried out that he wished he had never met Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng destroyed Chiyou, who detonated his primordial spirit, and left the City of Romance in ruins before departing with Athena and Little Bone. As Europe and China reacted to the aftermath, a huge anomalous supernatural presence appeared on China’s monitoring system.

• Chiyou detonated his primordial spirit, but Chen Zheng survived and declared there would be no more Chiyou, tossing away the last fragments of Chiyou’s spirit.
• The Jiuli Holy Lord died when Chiyou’s shared primordial spirit exploded, and the Yellow Springs Demonic Face vanished after losing its host.
• Chen Zheng, Athena, and Little Bone left the ruins of the City of Romance, and the demon god’s corpse turned to ash as a global satellite broadcast revealed the devastation.
• At the Holy See, the angel told the pope that Chen Zheng was alive and that Heaven’s first Angel King was on Earth with the Golden Family.
• At Olympus, Athena knelt before Chen Zheng and asked for punishment, while Mishima Lola eavesdropped on the sounds from inside the temple.
• At Superpower Group headquarters in Yanjing, the monitoring system detected anomalous supernatural energy, and Old Nie, Xiao Peng, and Lin Zhengming saw a presence they thought was larger than Earth.

A colossal Kun appeared over China, searched for something, and vanished before a gigantic city crashed through the sky above the East China Sea. As cultivators gathered to investigate, a shadow from the city slaughtered the sea creatures beneath it, leaving the city’s terrifying origins unresolved.

• Xiao Peng identified the giant beast as Kun, while Lin Zhengming explained that it was a projection or a manifestation across dimensions.
• Cultivators across China saw Kun, and the purple-robed elder at Luofu Grotto-Heaven recognized it as the Dharma manifestation of a patriarch from Supreme Heaven; Kun searched for something and then left.
• A young man in Xuandu Yujing Grotto-Heaven tried to copy Kun with his Mountains and Rivers Fan, but the fan cracked and the image vanished.
• A gigantic city crashed out of the sky and hovered above the East China Sea, prompting at least a thousand cultivators to head there.
• Dragon Soul told the Su Family gathering that the city had a terrifying background and that only Ancestor Chen might understand it.
• A shadow swept out from the city and turned the sea creatures beneath it into bloody water.

Chen Zheng learned that the Heavenly Retribution Forbidden City had corrupted cultivators and sent them to kill him and those connected to him. He destroyed the attackers and the city with a sword, then struck something beyond the heavens as blood rained over the East China Sea.

• Logan watched news of the mysterious events in China, while laughter and falling black feathers startled the Golden Family.
• Chen Zheng told Athena and Mishima Lola that the colossal Kun had warned him about the Heavenly Retribution Forbidden City and its unknown master.
• Mishima Lola saw corrupted cultivators declare their intent to kill Chen Zheng and everyone connected to him, and Chen Zheng told them to go.
• Chen Zheng sent a sword ray to China, where it erased the attackers above Nan City and Yanjing and destroyed the Forbidden City.
• The sword ray pierced the heavens, after which blood rained over the East China Sea and Chen Zheng declared that he alone had always been able to take the seat.

Chen Zheng met Corpse Immortal Ji, who brought news that the Nine Tribulations had been betrayed and attacked by the Heavenly Dao Palace. After she left, she stole Mishima Lola and Athena’s bikinis, leaving them in ancient-style underwear.

• Descenders from the upper realms discussed the destroyed city and the mysterious sword immortal, then agreed to wait for word from the upper realms and suspend their operations on Earth.
• Chen Zheng told Little Bone that the World Serpent had awakened, and Athena identified it while they watched the sea in Greece.
• Corpse Immortal Ji appeared and told Chen Zheng that Seventh had betrayed the Nine Tribulations, leaving Eighth and Ninth homeless after the Heavenly Dao Palace raided them.
• Chen Zheng said his sword strike had taken half of Seventh’s life and promised to crush the traitor when he returned to Supreme Heaven; Corpse Immortal Ji also said she was training Nüba.
• Corpse Immortal Ji vanished after agreeing to teach Nüba, and Mishima Lola and Athena discovered that she had stolen their bikinis and replaced them with ancient-style underwear.

Chen Zheng and Athena watched Little Bone battle the Midgard Serpent after it emerged from the sea under someone’s control. Little Bone overwhelmed the serpent, and Chen Zheng confronted the unseen figure who tried to swallow her through a black magic circle.

• Chen Zheng explained that Athena’s new undergarments were powerful immortal-artifact-grade armor, while Mishima Lola lamented losing her bikini without compensation.
• A colossal Midgard Serpent rose from the sea, and Athena recognized that it was being controlled.
• Little Bone transformed into a hundred-meter-tall beast and charged the serpent, smashing it into the sea and blasting it with fiery pillars.
• Athena shielded the shore from the waves, and the frightened citizens sent her faith power as they prayed.
• Chen Zheng asked who was controlling the serpent and suggested the culprit might be tired of living.
• A black magic circle appeared above Little Bone and began pulling her in as Chen Zheng addressed the figure behind it.

Loki and Alduin fused to create an artificial black hole to kill Chen Zheng, while Little Bone’s flames evolved her and destroyed Loki’s magic array. As the black hole began pulling in the seaside hotel and everyone nearby, Chen Zheng appeared at its entrance.

• Loki’s black magic array swallowed Little Bone, and Alduin descended from the Dragon Realm, declaring himself the Black Dragon King and attacking her with dark dragon breath.
• Little Bone absorbed Alduin’s breath, evolved, and blasted the magic array apart, revealing a charred Loki.
• Loki blamed Alduin for making Little Bone stronger, then fused with the Black Dragon King and confronted Chen Zheng and Athena.
• The fused Loki explained that a powerful lord had marked Chen Zheng and opened an artificial black hole above the hotel to devour him.
• Little Bone’s flame attack was absorbed by the black hole as it sucked up buildings and people, and Chen Zheng appeared at its entrance.

Chen Zheng survived Loki and Alduin’s artificial black hole, then tore both of them apart when they attacked him. Little Bone finished off the badly wounded World Serpent, leaving the people on shore stunned by the slaughter.

• Loki expanded his artificial black hole, sucking up much of the city as Chen Zheng stepped inside it.
• Athena caught the falling people and buildings after the black hole’s pull vanished, while the black hole convulsed around Chen Zheng.
• The black hole spat Chen Zheng out and shattered, and he said it had been too small to contain him.
• Loki and the Black Dragon King Alduin attacked Chen Zheng, but more than a thousand spiritual energy dragons tore them apart within seconds.
• Little Bone breathed true fire on the barely living World Serpent, and the people on shore smelled roasting meat.

Parker livestreamed the Tyrannosaurus rex eating the Midgard Serpent as Thor warned the newly awakened Fenrir about the danger of provoking Chen Zheng, and Fenrir agreed to work with him. After Chen Zheng learned that Godzilla had appeared in the East China Sea and went there, he saved Lin Zhengming and destroyed Godzilla with a single palm strike.

• Parker regained his phone signal in the seaside hotel ruins and restarted his livestream of the Tyrannosaurus rex eating the giant python.
• Thor showed Fenrir the livestream and warned him that Chen Zheng had destroyed Loki and the Midgard Serpent; Fenrir shrank to husky size and agreed to work with Thor.
• At the Su Family villa, the Dragon Soul told Chen Zheng that Spirit Realm powers had concealed his past deeds, and Chen Zheng said the ominous city had come to kill him.
• Chen Zheng received Lin Zhengming's message about Godzilla appearing in the East China Sea and vanished to investigate.
• Godzilla blasted Lin Zhengming out of the air, but Chen Zheng arrived and sent Godzilla flying before blowing it apart with one palm strike.

Chen Zheng destroyed Godzilla with a single strike, then faced Ye Killing God, who had come to avenge his younger brother Ye Wang. Chen Zheng turned Ye Killing God’s Ninefold Sword Domain against him and revealed that he had created the technique.

• A mysterious figure later identified as Chen Zheng blew Godzilla apart, stunning viewers around the world.
• Dragon Soul tried to ease the silence at the Su Family’s villa by comparing the feat with Chen Zheng’s deeds in the Spirit Realm.
• At a beachfront bar in Nanhai City, Lin Zhengming thanked Chen Zheng and reflected on his weakness before the recent mutations.
• Ye Killing God arrived, identified himself as a member of the True Martial Ye Family, and said he had come to avenge his younger brother Ye Wang.
• Ye Killing God attacked Chen Zheng with his Ninefold Sword Domain, but Chen Zheng redirected the sword energy and pierced him.
• Chen Zheng told Ye Killing God that the sword technique could not harm him because he had created it, and Ye Killing God collapsed.

Chen Zheng explained the Ninefold Sword Domain and his immunity to sword techniques, then traveled with Mishima Lola to Los Santos. At Santa Monica Beach Pier, he used a snap of his fingers to turn a group of movie scammers’ clothes and camera to ash.

• Chen Zheng told Lin Zhengming about the Ninefold Sword Domain, Lietian’s sword strike, and his immunity to sword techniques.
• Lin Zhengming sent Chen Zheng information about the True Martial Ye Family through the Superpower Group’s database.
• Chen Zheng arrived in Los Santos, where Mishima Lola picked him up and led him to Santa Monica Beach Pier.
• A hip-hop filmmaker and his men surrounded Chen Zheng and Mishima Lola, trying to recruit them for a movie.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and turned the men’s clothes, body hair, and camera to ash, sending them into panic.

Chen Zheng stormed the True Martial Ye Family’s estate in Los Santos, shattered its defenses, and defeated its sword experts with ease. As he confronted an old man in white, the elder summoned Ancestor Ye through a sword-shaped token.

• Mishima Lola spotted the True Martial Ye Family’s bagua formation, and Chen Zheng broke it with a single stamp.
• Chen Zheng’s reflected sword qi killed five Ye Family sword experts, while Mishima Lola realized their souls had been destroyed.
• An Eighth-Level Sword Domain sliced through Mishima Lola’s demonic wings, but Chen Zheng shattered its barrier and she retreated.
• An old man in white challenged Chen Zheng’s claim that the Ye Family was unworthy of the Ninefold Sword Domain.
• The old man summoned Ancestor Ye through a sword-shaped token, and the resulting aura shattered glass across Los Santos.

Mishima Lola watched as Chen Zheng confronted the True Martial Ye Family and Ancestor Ye’s avatar, who recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen and bowed to him. After Ancestor Ye destroyed the Ye Family estate at Chen Zheng’s command, a mysterious woman appeared behind Mishima Lola.

• Mishima Lola sensed Ancestor Ye’s overwhelming aura when Ye Kong summoned his avatar with the True Martial Sword Token.
• Ancestor Ye began to threaten Chen Zheng over his criticism of the Ye Family’s claim to the Ninefold Sword Domain, but stopped when he saw Chen Zheng.
• Ancestor Ye explained that the Ninefold Sword Domain had been passed down from Su Tianjun, then slapped Ye Kong and prostrated himself before Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen.
• Ye Kong died from shock, and Ancestor Ye annihilated the True Martial Ye Family estate with a single sword strike before leaving.
• As Chen Zheng stood among the ruins, a woman appeared behind Mishima Lola and warned her not to disturb Ancestor Chen.

Su Youyou, an envoy carrying the powers of the sacred beast White Tiger, an ancient demon, and a ruler-level deity, visited Chen Zheng with a Life Card from Daiqisi. After delivering messages from Daiqisi and the Demon Empress, she revealed her name and vanished, leaving Mishima Lola bewildered.

• Su Youyou appeared behind Mishima Lola, recognized Husky's bloodline, and teased her about pursuing Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng's black shadow identified Su Youyou as an envoy of the sacred beast White Tiger before returning to his body.
• Su Youyou gave Chen Zheng a Life Card from Daiqisi and asked him to teach her; Chen Zheng accepted the card and said he might visit Daiqisi.
• Chen Zheng told Su Youyou to advise White Tiger to hide and remarked that the Demon Empress still owed him something.
• Su Youyou relayed that the Demon Empress would repay Chen Zheng with her body, then introduced herself as Su Youyou, with the childhood name White Tiger, and vanished.

Chen Zheng said he planned to harvest the spiritual energy in China’s grotto-heavens and blessed lands, while the Soul Sect began attacking them. A mysterious young man destroyed the Soul Sect invaders in the Qingcheng and Xuandu Yujing Grotto-Heavens, leaving the realm’s fate in his hands.

• Chen Zheng told Mishima Lola that he intended to harvest the spiritual energy of China’s grotto-heavens and blessed lands.
• A Soul Sect presence took over Yue Sansheng’s body in the Xuandu Yujing Grotto-Heaven and used the Mountains and Rivers Fan to slaughter cultivators.
• Wuwang emerged from the Qingcheng Grotto-Heaven after the Soul-Devouring Mist killed its disciples and announced the Soul Sect’s plan to occupy the grotto-heavens and revive its three ancestors.
• A mysterious young man speaking through enormous eyes in the sky shattered Wuwang’s primordial spirit and reduced him to ash.
• The same young man destroyed the Soul Sect presence in the Xuandu Yujing Grotto-Heaven before it could use the Mountains and Rivers Fan to devour the realm’s spiritual energy.

A Soul-Devouring Grand Array appeared over Siberia, randomly teleporting cultivators into its expanding mist, and Chen Zheng set out to stop it after it took Chen Zhi and Jiang Rou. The array swallowed a Russian fighter jet as the chapter ended.

• Cultivators discovered that Jade Capital Grotto-Heaven and Qingcheng Grotto-Heaven had vanished, while a video showed an ominous mist spreading across Siberia.
• Newly recruited awakened ones vanished at Superpower Group, and Lin Zhengming disappeared moments after Xiao Peng reported the incident.
• The array tried to take people at the Su Family villa, but Chen Zheng shattered its eerie light and Dragon Soul identified it as the Soul-Devouring Grand Array of the Soul Sect.
• The Medicine King told Chen Zheng that Chen Zhi and Jiang Rou had disappeared, so Chen Zheng left for Siberia and told Dragon Soul to guard the villa.
• A Russian fighter jet attacked the mist with a bomb, but the mist swallowed the explosion, expanded, and dragged the jet inside.

A foreign particle-state superhuman cornered Hu Fei, Chen Zhi, and Jiang Rou inside the Soul-Devouring Grand Array, but Chen Zheng arrived and killed him. Chen Zheng unleashed the Ten Hells Blood Venerable’s baleful qi, suppressing the entire array and freezing its inhabitants in terror.

• A blonde operations-room commander ordered the Skeleton Squad to stand by after a fighter jet was swallowed by the Siberian fog, and rejected the Wolf God’s offer to deal with it.
• Hu Fei protected Chen Zhi and Jiang Rou from a black shadow, while a foreigner with a particle-state ability taunted them as their strength waned.
• A ghostly face announced that it would deal with a peak Core Formation cultivator and that the Soul-Devouring Altar would appear in fifteen minutes.
• The foreigner’s duplicates attacked the three women, but Chen Zheng appeared, seized the real body, and crushed his neck.
• A beast-shaped shadow urged Chen Zheng to release his baleful qi, and the resulting power froze the fog and suppressed the Soul-Devouring Grand Array.
• Over a thousand black shadows and hundreds of ghostly faces felt that any movement would bring their obliteration.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Soul-Devouring Grand Array’s ghosts and confronted Vasily and the Soul Sect cultivators at its altar. When the three patriarchs returned and saw him, they recognized him as the legendary Fierce God.

• Chen Zheng erased the ghosts in the array, taught Hu Fei a sword technique, and sent Hu Fei, Chen Zhi, and Jiang Rou outside.
• Chen Zheng reached the altar, where Lin Zhengming, Lü Changhe, and seven others were bound, and killed Vasily after the foreigner threatened him.
• The Wolf God heard of Vasily’s death and raced toward the Soul-Devouring Grand Array.
• The black-robed cultivator praised the legendary Chen Zheng, King of Ferocious Men, and Chen Zheng said he shared the same name.
• The three patriarchs returned, mistook the array’s baleful energy as a gift, and prepared to attack Chen Zheng.
• The patriarchs turned toward Chen Zheng, froze, and cried out in astonishment as they recognized him.

Chen Zheng killed the Soul Sect’s three patriarchs and the black-robed cultivator, then destroyed Wolf God Viktor with one punch. The Russian special operations staff watched in stunned silence as the Chinese man hovered above the Siberian wilderness.

• The Heaven, Earth, and Human Patriarchs recognized Chen Zheng as the Fierce God and attacked him after learning his cultivation had regressed.
• Chen Zheng’s baleful energy tore apart and absorbed the three patriarchs, then killed the black-robed cultivator and dispersed the Soul-Devouring Grand Array.
• Chen Zheng awakened Lin Zhengming, Lü Changhe, and the other captives on the altar.
• Wolf God Viktor charged toward the altar, threatening to kill everyone there.
• Chen Zheng intercepted Viktor and blew him apart with one punch, leaving the Russian operations staff shocked by the surveillance footage.

After Chen Zheng was forcibly teleported by the God of Time to the Interstellar Colosseum, he destroyed a giant beast with one slap and shattered the arena’s containment and defenses with a snap. Back on Earth, divine treasures appeared worldwide as beings from the upper realm began descending en masse, while his allies waited for his return.

• A beam of light took Chen Zheng from Siberia, and Lin Zhengming told the Su Family that he had likely been teleported by aliens.
• Dragon Soul warned that beings from the upper realm were descending on China, and Lin Zhengming showed the group recordings of divine objects appearing around the world.
• Dragon Soul advised everyone not to compete for the treasures and to wait for Ancestor Chen, while Little Bone promised to swallow anyone who threatened them.
• The God of Time revealed that he had forcibly teleported Chen Zheng to the Interstellar Colosseum, where spectators watched a giant beast charge him.
• Chen Zheng slapped the giant beast into pieces, stunning the interstellar spectators.
• Chen Zheng rose above the arena and snapped his fingers, turning the Interstellar Colosseum’s containment systems and defensive barrier to dust.

Chen Zheng freed the arena’s prisoners and destroyed Star Lord Shaluo’s attacks, then took control of Shaluo’s sacred weapon. He revealed that sacred weapons were split-off individuals from Deep Blue, whom he had created.

• The arena’s divine power shackles failed, freeing its slave warriors as the spectators fled.
• Chen Zheng killed the Black Wing Clan man who ordered an attack on him and destroyed Star Lord Shaluo’s first soul projection with a word.
• Star Lord Shaluo summoned a sacred weapon, but the little girl in purple turned her third-eye beam on him and destroyed his second soul projection.
• Chen Zheng called the sacred weapon to his side, and she obeyed him, leaving Star Lord Shaluo and the arena’s survivors astonished.
• Chen Zheng explained that sacred weapons were individuals split off from Deep Blue, whom he had created.