Recaps

An Jing manifested a phantom of the Heavenly Court, and Chen Zheng said she could become a Heavenly Emperor. The next day, a mysterious livestream showed a demonic asteroid racing toward Siberia, and with impact only seconds away, no one had stopped it.

• Su Cheng and An Jing discussed the possible conspiracy behind the reincarnations of people born with the destiny of a Son of Heaven, while Su Jinghong dismissed An Jing's chances of becoming a Heavenly Emperor.
• The Crimson Firmament Heavenly Sword appeared, and a phantom of the Heavenly Court manifested behind An Jing; Chen Zheng said it was probably the Heavenly Court and told her becoming a Heavenly Emperor was no great matter.
• A mysterious livestream showed an asteroid speeding toward Earth, and the United States announced that it was expected to strike Siberia and cause catastrophic damage.
• Thor appeared in space to take selfies, then Athena attacked the asteroid with a lightning-charged spear, but her strike only produced sparks and seemed to make it accelerate.
• Fu Xuanji recognized the asteroid as a demon star and warned that it could not be stopped; the livestream's countdown dwindled to seconds as the asteroid drew close to Earth.

Chen Zheng stopped a mysterious asteroid with one finger and shattered it, then used its scattered fragments to spell “trash” in space. He returned to Su Cheng's home as the Superpower Group planned to collect the debris, while Su Jinghong recognized the asteroid's origins.

• As the asteroid neared Earth, Chen Zheng appeared above Siberia and blocked its impact with a single finger.
• Chen Zheng shattered the asteroid, and its fragments formed the Chinese characters for “trash” as he vanished.
• Chen Zheng texted Lin Zhengming that the asteroid's demon seed was destroyed and told the Superpower Group to collect the debris.
• Old Nie offered to work on a high-capacity storage ring so the group could bring back the meteoroids.
• Fu Xuanji froze beside the teleportation array after witnessing Chen Zheng stop the asteroid, while Zheng Haoran stared in disbelief.
• At Su Cheng's home, Su Jinghong recognized the asteroid's origins, and Chen Zheng claimed nothing in heaven and earth was harder than him.

After Ye Qingcheng unified the Azure Cloud Realm, Chen Zheng brought the Superpower Group there to test satellite launches and build a network. The group began setting up equipment in the Yin Moon Dynasty’s imperial capital as the Star Academy’s elder objected.

• The United States abandoned plans to pursue Chen Zheng and removed him from its most-wanted list.
• Ye Qingcheng’s forces defeated the Huntian Imperial Dynasty, and she told Gui Bu to inform Ancestor Chen that she had unified the Azure Cloud Realm.
• Chen Zheng brought the Superpower Group into the Azure Cloud Realm, where Lin Zhengming and Xiao Peng marveled at the world’s vastness.
• Chen Zheng placed the group and its equipment in the Yin Moon Dynasty’s imperial capital, where Ye Qingcheng and Gui Bu bowed to him and he ordered Lin Zhengming to begin a satellite launch.
• Little Bone greeted Ye Qingcheng, Old Ghost Fox arrived, and an elder from Star Academy mocked the group’s equipment while demanding that Ye Qingcheng proceed with the Star-Gazing Tower.

Chen Zheng deployed satellites, signal towers, and projection devices across the former Yin Moon Dynasty to broadcast Old Nie’s cultivation lessons throughout the Azure Cloud Realm. When the Heavenly Dao’s thunderclouds appeared, Chen Zheng shattered them with a single word, leaving the Star Academy elder stunned.

• Lin Zhengming reported that the Superpower Group had assembled equipment capable of converting spiritual energy into electricity.
• Chen Zheng sent a satellite into the sky and distributed signal towers and projection devices across the former Yin Moon Dynasty.
• At Chen Zheng’s command, Lin Zhengming’s team connected the network and began broadcasting Old Nie’s lesson, True Explanation of Cultivation: Basics, across the major cities.
• Gui Bu and the Star Academy elder realized Chen Zheng was spreading cultivation knowledge throughout the realm, and the elder accused him of trying to claim the merit for enlightening its people.
• When thunderclouds gathered in response to the broadcast, Chen Zheng told them to scram, and they shattered instantly.

Chen Zheng’s public cultivation lessons spread through the Yin Moon Dynasty, connecting its people to the Azure Cloud Realm and provoking Star Academy’s objections. When the lessons began looping, the Heavenly Dao bestowed Purple Qi of Merit on Chen Zheng, leaving Star Academy’s elder in disbelief.

• The Heavenly Dao of the Azure Cloud Realm dispersed its thunderclouds after Chen Zheng confronted it, astonishing the Star Academy elder and the others.
• The spiritual-energy projections played the Foundation Establishment and Core Formation lessons across the Yin Moon Dynasty, while cultivators and mortals recorded them and sensed a connection to the realm.
• The Star Academy elder accused Chen Zheng of using demonic methods and insisted that the Heavenly Dao would not grant him merit.
• After the Core Formation lesson ended, Chen Zheng ordered the projections to loop, and Old Nie’s cultivation lessons began playing again throughout the dynasty.
• Thunder shook the sky, then Purple Qi of Merit appeared and descended toward the imperial capital, prompting the Star Academy elder to shriek in disbelief.

Chen Zheng redirected the merit bestowed by Heaven to Ye Qingcheng, the Superpower Group, and Old Nie before Star Academy’s Wang Xuanyang summoned Sage Zhuang’s dharma body. The sage descended in the forms of a Kun, a Peng, and a butterfly, then looked at Chen Zheng and asked whether they had met in a dream.

• Chen Zheng sent most of the purple merit into Ye Qingcheng and shared other wisps with Lin Zhengming and the Superpower Group members.
• Chen Zheng sent another portion of the merit across the realms to Old Nie, whose body and understanding of cultivation improved.
• Gui Bu praised Chen Zheng’s methods, while Ye Qingcheng discovered that the merit had strengthened her primordial spirit’s protection.
• Wang Xuanyang warned that Star Academy would answer Chen Zheng’s interference, then summoned Sage Zhuang’s dharma body.
• Sage Zhuang descended in the forms of a Kun, a Peng, and a butterfly before taking human form and asking Chen Zheng if they had met in a dream.

Sage Zhuang's manifestation confronted Chen Zheng over the Kun who had left him, and his Dream Butterfly Secret Art revealed Chen Zheng's role in the Kun's departure. Sage Zhuang withdrew after seeing more than the others could, while the Star Academy elder killed himself.

• The Star Academy elder begged Sage Zhuang's manifestation to kill Chen Zheng, but Sage Zhuang ignored him and examined Chen Zheng.
• Little Bone recognized Sage Zhuang as Zhuangzi, and Sage Zhuang explained that someone had taken the Kun from his dream, an incarnation of his Dao fruit.
• Sage Zhuang used the Dream Butterfly Secret Art to show visions of the Kun leaving with Chen Zheng and later becoming Patriarch Qiankun.
• Sage Zhuang accused Chen Zheng of tricking his Kun away, but after seeing further visions, he withdrew without fighting.
• Chen Zheng explained that Sage Zhuang had seen things he was not yet qualified to see, and the Star Academy elder struck his own forehead and annihilated his primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng established a realm-wide cultivation education network in the Azure Cloud Realm, then confronted the Supreme Hall after its Thunder Warship arrived demanding submission. The Supreme Hall’s golden-armored envoy was killed instantly, leaving the warship and its master to face Chen Zheng.

• Chen Zheng ordered satellites reinforced and Dao-teaching platforms built outside the Azure Cloud Realm’s cities, with demons and ferocious beasts included in the teachings.
• Two days later, Dao-teaching platforms began broadcasting Old Nie’s cultivation lessons, and Gui Bu established the Azure Cloud Academy, where living beings could exchange honor points for cultivation methods.
• Lin Zhengming reviewed the completed psionic network as the Unrivaled Sword shot from the imperial palace and was blocked by the arriving Thunder Warship.
• A golden-armored Supreme Hall envoy demanded that the Azure Cloud Realm’s ruler submit or die, threatening to destroy the imperial city with the Thunder Divine Firmament Cannon.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the warship, tore through its lightning barrier with spiritual energy dragons, and killed the envoy in a single clash.

Chen Zheng slaughtered the Supreme Hall cultivators aboard a lightning warship after they threatened him and attacked with Dao soldiers and a Five Elements Killing Array. As the last surviving white-robed cultivator begged for help, Master Feng emerged from the cabin.

• Chen Zheng killed Jin Huan and destroyed the thousand Dao soldiers sent to capture him, alarming Xiao Peng, Ye Qingcheng, Old Ghost Fox, and Gui Bu.
• Chen Zheng’s spiritual qi dragons tore apart a Peak Body Integration cultivator and annihilated the Five Elements Killing Array formed by at least five thousand Dao soldiers.
• Chen Zheng killed the dozen-plus cultivators aboard the warship, leaving only the white-robed cultivator alive and trembling on his knees.
• The white-robed cultivator begged Master Feng to save him, and Master Feng stepped out of the warship’s cabin.

Feng Hou recognized Chen Zheng as the Saintly Teacher, knelt before him, and claimed he had joined the Supreme Hall against his will. After the Superpower Group left the Azure Cloud Realm, Chen Zheng prepared to seek ancient yin fiends in the Sea of No Return and train Ye Qingcheng.

• Master Feng slapped the white-robed cultivator, then knelt before Chen Zheng and called him the Saintly Teacher.
• Chen Zheng questioned Feng Hou about the Human Emperor Xuanyuan and why he had joined the Supreme Hall; Feng Hou said he had no choice, and the white-robed cultivator died after his Dao heart shattered.
• Chen Zheng let Feng Hou leave and declared that his enemies could try to make everyone betray him and his loved ones abandon him.
• The Superpower Group left the Azure Cloud Realm with cultivation resources after confirming its spiritual-energy equipment worked independently.
• Gui Bu told Chen Zheng that ancient yin fiends haunted the Sea of No Return, and Chen Zheng planned to use them to create a Gods and Fiends Grand Formation.
• Chen Zheng ordered Ye Qingcheng to accompany him to the Sea of No Return and train to defeat Tribulation Transcendence cultivators and Half-Step True Immortals with one strike.

Chen Zheng subdued the twelve ten-thousand-year yin fiends in the Sea of No Return and helped Ye Qingcheng absorb its nether spring, letting her unleash a powerful sword strike. He then placed the fiends around Yin Moon Imperial City to form a Divine Fiend Grand Formation, though he judged its strength lacking.

• Gui Bu warned Chen Zheng that the Sea of No Return was dangerous, but Chen Zheng sent spiritual energy dragons into it and dragged out eleven yin fiends.
• A Half-Step True Immortal yin fiend emerged and demanded that Chen Zheng release its underlings, but Chen Zheng wounded it with a blood-colored spear and forced all twelve yin fiends to submit.
• Chen Zheng told Ye Qingcheng to absorb the nether spring beneath the sea, and she drew it into her Nether Absolute Sword Physique.
• Ye Qingcheng used the Ninefold Sword Domain to annihilate the Sea of No Return with one sword strike, while Chen Zheng said its power had reached nearly three thousand times its original strength.
• At Yin Moon Imperial City, the twelve yin fiends formed a Divine Fiend Grand Formation that Gui Bu believed could destroy a True Immortal, but Chen Zheng called it weaker than expected and sent the fiends beneath the city.

Chen Zheng returned to Earth after urging Ye Qingcheng to master a three-thousandfold sword strike, and told Little Bone about the tragic swordsman Azure Cloud. At the Superpower Group headquarters, a mysterious livestream showed teleportation arrays opening worldwide and releasing vast swarms of flying Alien monsters.

• Chen Zheng told Ye Qingcheng to maintain a three-thousandfold Ninefold Sword Domain before coming to Earth, then left the imperial palace with Little Bone.
• Chen Zheng explained that he hoped Ye Qingcheng would become a Sword Ancestor and recounted how Azure Cloud, a powerful swordsman, died over a woman.
• At the Superpower Group headquarters, Lin Zhengming showed footage of a teleportation array in Russia releasing a monster that wiped out a combat squad.
• Old Nie detected abnormal supernatural energy above China as teleportation arrays appeared around the world and the mysterious livestream went live.
• Lin Zhengming, Xiao Peng, and Old Nie watched hundreds of thousands or millions of winged Alien monsters pour from teleportation arrays across the globe.

A mysterious livestream showed Parademons gathering in the skies around the world, while Chen Zheng and the Superpower Group waited for the monsters to make their move. After the teleportation arrays vanished, the Parademons began advancing, and a million of them assembled above China.

• Viewers worldwide watched flying monsters emerge from teleportation arrays, and Chen Zheng identified them as the great calamity of the cultivation world.
• Huge Queen Parademons appeared, and Chen Zheng told Little Bone to wait until all the monsters had arrived before acting.
• The Superpower Group counted over a hundred Queen Parademons and over a million ordinary Parademons above China, while Lin Zhengming told Xiao Peng to wait for Chen Zheng.
• The teleportation arrays vanished, and Queen Parademons roared as the gathered forces began to move.
• The livestream showed a million Flying Parademons assembled ten thousand meters above China.

A million Parademons descended on China, and Chen Zheng finally intervened by invoking the Ninefold Sword Domain through Su Cheng. His sword qi halted the army, but the hundred Queen Parademons fused into a gigantic super Queen Parademon.

• Viewers watched a million Parademons begin their attack as people across China waited for Chen Zheng to act.
• At Mount Luofu, Fu Xuanji struck at the monsters, but a Queen Parademon swallowed his sword gleam, leading viewers to mistakenly believe Chen Zheng had been defeated.
• At Su Cheng's home, Chen Zheng took Su Cheng's hand and used it to make a sword-striking gesture, invoking the Ninefold Sword Domain.
• A sword cry froze the Parademon army in midair, and solid purple sword qi surrounded the monsters as Lin Zhengming recognized it as Purple Ying.
• The hundred Queen Parademons fused into one enormous super Queen Parademon, over a hundred meters tall and over five hundred meters long.

The Super Queen and million-strong Parademon army attacked China, but Chen’s purple sword qi annihilated them and destroyed the next wave of teleportation arrays. After gods fought the remaining monsters elsewhere, the livestream returned to China, where an enormous hand thrust into the sky above Nan City.

• The Super Queen Parademon emerged from the merged flying monsters, and viewers placed a life-or-death bet on China’s cultivation world or the Parademon army.
• Chen’s purple sword qi sliced apart the million-strong Parademon army and then erased the Super Queen, giving the Chinese bettor a hundred years of lifespan and apparently killing the foreign bettor.
• More bizarre teleportation arrays appeared over China, but Chen’s sword qi pierced and destroyed every one of them.
• Thor, Athena, and other legendary gods fought monsters in other countries, and Thor killed the final Queen Parademon.
• Old Nie’s monitoring system detected extreme supernatural energy in Nan City as Xiao Peng saw an enormous hand thrust into the sky and plunge into another spacetime.

A giant hand pulled extraterrestrial creatures and a Kree warship from the sky and destroyed them, while Earth’s observers wondered about the power behind it. Fu Xuanji suspected the Penglai Sword Palace had misled the sects into targeting Chen Zheng, who ended the chapter teasingly teaching Su Cheng sword techniques.

• The giant hand dragged creatures through the sky and crushed them, causing blood to rain across the world.
• Lieutenant General Luther of the Kree Empire appeared aboard a black warship, but the giant hand destroyed the ship and the Starry Sky Behemoth cub.
• Old Nie and Xiao Peng discussed extraterrestrial civilizations and suspected Big Boss Chen had wielded the giant hand.
• Fu Xuanji concluded that the Penglai Sword Palace may have deceived Spirit Realm sects into targeting Chen Zheng.
• Little Bone lamented that it had not eaten the monster, while An Jing teased Chen Zheng and Su Cheng about his hand-over-hand sword lessons.

Chen Zheng explained his connection to the Heavenly Dao Palace when its palace master, Yinghuo, appeared on Earth and revealed that he had raised her. After she vanished before turning to face them, Athena and Thor received urgent orders from the Pantheon and Odin to return, hinting that major events were unfolding among the gods.

• Chen Zheng told the women that he had once served as acting palace master of the Heavenly Dao Palace and learned its Heavenly Dao abilities.
• Yinghuo appeared on the balcony, spoke with Chen Zheng about their past and a conflict involving her birth father, then vanished before showing her face.
• Chen Zheng identified Yinghuo as the Heavenly Dao Palace's current palace master, astonishing the women and Little Bone.
• An Jing asked Chen Zheng to teach her swordsmanship, and Zuo Qinghong joined them while Little Bone asked Su Cheng when she would join in.
• Athena received Zeus's message ordering her to return to the Pantheon and left Earth.
• Thor learned that Odin was returning to Earth and worried that his internet celebrity life would end.

Chen Zheng destroyed the ghost ship in the East China Sea and turned his attention toward the Demon King of Heaven Six organization's plan to demonize Japan. As battle engulfed the Island Country's capital, the Hata Family's last surviving shrine maiden faced ghost warriors at her shrine.

• Lin Zhengming told Xiao Peng that a Demon King of Heaven Six challenger had fought Yu Canghai to a draw, been poisoned, and then been crushed to death by Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the ghost ship in the East China Sea and destroyed the ship and its ghost warriors after stopping their teleportation.
• Chen Zheng discussed the Demon King of Heaven Six's ambitions with Mishima Lola, then agreed that she could become Japan's new ruler.
• In the Island Country's capital, samurai corpses attacked amid artillery fire as a golden three-headed dragon destroyed buildings and black aura rose from beneath the earth.
• At the Hata Family shrine, the last surviving little shrine maiden aimed her bow at the ghost warriors who had cornered her.

Mishima Lola rescued the little shrine maiden as Chen Zheng and his companions reached a city Oda Nobunaga had turned into a sacrificial formation. Oda challenged Chen Zheng, who crushed him beneath the city’s iron tower, leaving the humans and corpse legion stunned.

• Mishima Lola saved the little shrine maiden from the ghost samurai besieging the Hata Family.
• Little Bone transformed into a giant Tyrannosaurus and burned the golden three-headed dragon to ashes, then regretted losing a potential meal.
• Oda Nobunaga appeared atop the city’s iron tower and declared his intention to conquer the world, calling Chen Zheng his first target.
• Chen Zheng appeared above Oda Nobunaga, shattered his katana with a stomp, and drove him into the collapsing iron tower.
• Chen Zheng asked whether Oda Nobunaga was worthy of being his opponent as the city’s humans and corpse legion fell silent.

After Oda Nobunaga opened a gate that merged a demon realm with Japan, Great Demon King Youjia descended and faced Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng revealed a black throne, terrifying Youjia into fleeing back toward the demon realm.

• Chen Zheng stomped Oda Nobunaga into the ground, but Nobunaga emerged from the ruins and announced that he had an undying body.
• Oda Nobunaga opened a passage between worlds, and black demonic qi spread across Japan, turning most of the city's inhabitants into monsters.
• Demon-realm creatures and corpse legions poured into Japan, while their attacks on Chen Zheng and the Star Raft burst apart before reaching them.
• Great Demon King Youjia descended, and Oda Nobunaga offered Chen Zheng as food so Youjia could adapt to Earth's power.
• Chen Zheng said he regarded the demon realm as food and summoned a pitch-black throne, making Great Demon King Youjia howl in terror and flee.

Chen Zheng used the Pitch-Black Throne to consume Great Demon King Youjia, the demon realm, and its creatures, restoring Japan. Oda Nobunaga warned that an invincible god was coming, and a bald man in a combat suit and cape emerged from a spacetime rift.

• Chen Zheng ordered the Pitch-Black Throne to devour the corpse legions and monsters, then it swallowed Great Demon King Youjia.
• The Pitch-Black Throne consumed the entire demon realm, and the woman who appeared on it told Chen Zheng he could use her three times for free.
• Japan returned to normal, and Oda Nobunaga admitted that Chen Zheng had treated the demon king and demon realm as offerings.
• Oda Nobunaga's body exploded, but his eyeballs remained and announced that an invincible god was coming to kill Chen Zheng.
• A bald man wearing a combat suit and cape stepped out of a spacetime rift above the ruins.

Chen Zheng defeated a bald caped man who could withstand his attacks and revealed that the fighter had been created by a secret technique. After sending the confused man back to his world, Chen Zheng turned his attention to Oda Nobunaga and the ruined iron tower.

• The bald caped man attacked Chen Zheng with powerful punches, but Chen Zheng remained unharmed and sent him crashing into ruins with a slap and a kick.
• The bald caped man unleashed more punches and destroyed Chen Zheng's spiritual energy dragons, yet he still could not injure Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng explained that the bald caped man was a living being created by imposing another person's character through a secret technique, then used his Lawless Hand to break the technique.
• The bald caped man reverted into a confused man in glasses, and Chen Zheng sent him through a spacetime rift back to his world.
• Oda Nobunaga asked whether Chen Zheng would target him next, and Chen Zheng transformed a piece of the ruined iron tower into a person.

Chen Zheng revealed Jiuyan, a Shinto Alliance member and Bodhi’s granddisciple, who had orchestrated deaths on Earth for an assessment. Bodhi arrived, killed Jiuyan, and then joined Chen Zheng aboard the Star Raft for tea in Kunlun.

• Jiuyan revealed himself to Chen Zheng, tried to escape, and threatened him with his Shinto Alliance status and Bodhi’s backing.
• Chen Zheng confronted Jiuyan over his scheme, but Jiuyan dismissed the deaths of mortals and mocked Chen Zheng’s reduced cultivation.
• Bodhi descended, saw through Jiuyan’s lies, and turned him to dust; he also destroyed Oda Nobunaga’s eyeball.
• Chen Zheng and Bodhi exchanged remarks about Jiuyan’s conduct and Wukong, then moved to the Star Raft.
• Chen Zheng took Bodhi to Kunlun, where Bodhi praised the Star Raft and drank Dao-Enlightenment Tea.

Chen Zheng discussed transcendence and the Patriarch’s fate with the Daoist, showing him half of the shattered Jade Disc of Creation. The Daoist left after urging Chen Zheng to visit the Cloud Luo Imperial Palace for its Dao Enlightenment Tea, while Chen Zheng reflected on Yunluo and a rumor about twin sisters.

• Chen Zheng asked the Daoist for more Dao Enlightenment Tea, and the Daoist said Chen Zheng’s survival suggested he had won his battle with the being above Heaven.
• Chen Zheng showed the Daoist half of the Jade Disc of Creation, and the Daoist was shocked that the Patriarch’s supreme treasure had shattered.
• Chen Zheng said he had found the half-disc in an Emperor’s Tomb in the Azure Cloud Realm, and the Daoist tried to divine what had happened to the Patriarch but refused to pursue the karma further.
• Chen Zheng and the Daoist considered whether the Patriarch had crossed beyond and whether the being above Heaven had ever wanted to go outside.
• The Daoist asked whether Chen Zheng could transcend in this life, and Chen Zheng calmly answered yes.
• The Daoist told Chen Zheng that Demon Empress Yunluo had obtained an ancient Dao Enlightenment Tea Tree and vanished, and Chen Zheng thought of Yunluo and a rumor about twin sisters.

Zeus arrived in Nan City and requested an audience with Chen Zheng, warning him that the creator of the Western Great World was returning and a war of the gods was imminent. After Zeus departed, Fu Xuanji realized Chen Zheng had let him overhear their conversation and questioned whether Chen Zheng was the Pantheon’s Holy God.

• Xiao Peng reported that the Mishima Family had taken control in Japan and that its heir, Mishima Lola, had submitted to Chen Zheng.
• Old Nie detected a powerful lightning bolt entering China and heading toward Nan City, while Fu Xuanji sensed it was a being far stronger than himself and followed it.
• Fu Xuanji and Catherine secretly entered Nan University and spotted a white-robed foreigner surrounded by lightning beside Mirror Lake.
• Chen Zheng appeared, and the foreigner introduced himself as Zeus and paid respects to the Holy God.
• Zeus told Chen Zheng that the Pantheon had cracked, its creator had gone into a sealed slumber, and the creator of the Western Great World was returning ahead of a divine war.
• After Zeus left, Chen Zheng headed toward Catherine, while Fu Xuanji revealed himself and asked whether Chen Zheng was truly the Pantheon’s Holy God.