Recaps

Chen Zheng appeared to let Flower-Faced Lady approach the Rootless Tree, then called on the child Azure Cloud to slay her. When Azure Cloud obeyed, a phantom appeared behind him and destroyed Flower-Faced Lady with a sword strike.

• Wang Jianren felt relieved that he had never openly provoked Chen Zheng, while Lü Qiao and the other cultivators were stunned by Chen Zheng's power.
• Chen Zheng tossed his Rootless Tree leaf sword back into the ground and closed his eyes, leading Flower-Faced Lady to believe he had exhausted his True Essence.
• Flower-Faced Lady moved toward the Rootless Tree, but Chen Zheng opened his eyes and called Azure Cloud over to slay her.
• At Chen Zheng's command, Azure Cloud drew a leaf sword, closed and opened his eyes, then thrust at Flower-Faced Lady as she attacked him.
• A phantom appeared behind Azure Cloud and struck Flower-Faced Lady with a sword, making her vanish completely.

The phantom Azure Cloud emerged from the child, revealed himself as Chen Zheng’s former disciple, and reclaimed the Rootless Tree as his divine sword. After answering Chen Zheng’s questions about his past life and Princess Hongyan, Azure Cloud returned to the child, while Chen Zheng foresaw the child one day surpassing him and slaying the Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Dao.

• The Rootless Tree transformed into a divine sword, and Azure Cloud bowed to Chen Zheng as his master.
• Chen Zheng told Azure Cloud that he had once ended his life over a woman and asked what he would do if Princess Hongyan triggered his tribulation of love again.
• Azure Cloud vowed to cut Princess Hongyan down himself, then returned with the sword to the child’s body.
• The child woke without remembering what had happened, and Chen Zheng told him that Azure Cloud had killed the demoness.
• Chen Zheng told the child he hoped his swordsmanship would surpass his own, and foresaw him cleaving open the Thundercloud Heavenly Sea and slaying the Spirit Realm’s Heavenly Dao.

After Little Bone awakened in the Spirit Realm, it and Chen Zheng faced the Black Witch Sect as its leader arrived to attack Azure Cloud Town. Little Bone annihilated the sect with one breath of true fire, then began eating the Witch Soul Beast while the town’s defenders watched in shock.

• Wang Jianren urged Lü Qiao to leave Azure Cloud Town before the Black Witch Sect and other factions attacked.
• Little Bone awakened, revealed its dragon-beast form, and asked Chen Zheng for food before setting off toward the approaching Black Witch Sect.
• Chen Zheng told Granny Silver Flower that he had returned to open forbidden lands and seize the Spirit Realm’s Dao foundation.
• The Black Witch Sect’s leader arrived atop the Witch Soul Beast, but Little Bone burned the sect and its leader to nothing with one breath of true fire.
• Little Bone grew to a hundred meters and devoured the Witch Soul Beast as Lü Qiao and Wang Jianren realized it had destroyed the Black Witch Sect.

Chen Zheng took Azure Cloud to the Eastern Spirit Prince's Residence and arranged for him to be raised there until he fully awakened. When Daoist Yunfan abducted Princess Hongyan and Granny Silver Flower with the Spirit-Refining Gourd, Chen Zheng killed him and freed them.

• Chen Zheng arrived at the Eastern Spirit Prince's Residence and told the King of Eastern Spirit that Azure Cloud would be raised there until he fully awakened.
• Daoist Yunfan entered with an order from Perfected Longevity and the Great Yan Emperor, demanding that the King of Eastern Spirit go to Undying Mountain.
• Daoist Yunfan used the Spirit-Refining Gourd to capture Granny Silver Flower and Princess Hongyan, then tried to capture Azure Cloud.
• Chen Zheng subdued Daoist Yunfan, and Little Bone killed him with a blast of true fire.
• Chen Zheng retrieved the Spirit-Refining Gourd and freed Granny Silver Flower and Princess Hongyan.

Chen Zheng gave Azure Cloud the Spirit-Refining Gourd and asked the King of Eastern Spirit about Undying Mountain and the Longevity Stele. After hearing the stele might appear that night, the King learned that the four Spirit Kings were likely keys to its secrets, leaving him shaken.

• Chen Zheng gave Azure Cloud the Spirit-Refining Gourd, and Azure Cloud used it to capture and release the King of Eastern Spirit.
• The King of Eastern Spirit introduced himself as Li Huangtu and promised to care for Azure Cloud.
• The King told Chen Zheng how Wuji Dao Lord Jiang Ziya emerged from the Heavenly Ravine, fought a mysterious person, and left behind Undying Mountain and the Longevity Stele.
• The King explained that the Longevity Stele might appear that night, but Chen Zheng said they would go to Undying Mountain the next day.
• Granny Silver Flower revealed that the four Spirit Kings had died on Undying Mountain the last time the stele appeared, and Chen Zheng said they were likely keys.

The King of Eastern Spirit traveled with Chen Zheng and the others to Undying Mountain, where they found a blood man and the corpses of many cultivators, including the other three great Spirit Kings. When the blood man attacked the King of Eastern Spirit, Chen Zheng forced it to retreat, leaving the gathered factions staring at him.

• Little Bone dismissed the King of Eastern Spirit’s fears and demanded a feast before their trip to Undying Mountain.
• The group reached Longevity Prefecture, and the King of Eastern Spirit described the region’s history and warned of the dangers near Undying Mountain.
• At Undying Mountain, the King of Eastern Spirit found the Longevity Stele, a blood man, and the corpses of the other three great Spirit Kings.
• A Longevity Dao cultivator blamed the King of Eastern Spirit for the deaths and ordered the gathered cultivators to attack him before the blood man could.
• Little Bone’s true fire destroyed the attackers’ techniques, but the blood man ignored it and charged the King of Eastern Spirit.
• Chen Zheng told the blood man to scram, forcing it back to the Longevity Stele, then warned the gathered cultivators that they did not have much time left.

Chen Zheng revealed overwhelming power at the Longevity Stele, cracking it with one step and destroying the Longevity Dao cultivators and a Loose Immortal. He then shattered the stele, leaving Perfected Longevity and the bull-headed demon cultivator as the only surviving opponents.

• Little Bone warned the assembled cultivators to leave before the tea went cold, but the bull-headed demon cultivator mocked Chen Zheng and threatened to summon his ancestor’s battle soul.
• Chen Zheng appeared atop the Longevity Stele and cracked it beneath his foot, stunning the assembled cultivators and the blood figure.
• Perfected Longevity explained that the stele held a secret of eternal life, identified himself as a reincarnated cultivator, and ordered nine Longevity Dao cultivators to attack Chen Zheng with an array.
• Chen Zheng unleashed ten thousand Blood Spirit Dragons, which tore apart the array’s dragon, devoured the Loose Immortal’s Wind and Fire Tribulation Power, and killed the Loose Immortal and the Longevity Dao cultivators.
• Perfected Longevity and the bull-headed demon cultivator survived by retreating, while Chen Zheng stamped down again and shattered the Longevity Stele.

Chen Zheng uncovered the Longevity Stele’s secret, an ancient book about eternal life, while Perfected Longevity and a bull-headed demon cultivator fought to claim it. The summoned Bull Demon King crushed Perfected Longevity, then revealed his loyalty to Chen Zheng and offered to serve as his mount.

• Chen Zheng stomped the Longevity Stele into rubble, revealing an ancient book that Perfected Longevity and a blood figure both tried to seize before Chen Zheng claimed it.
• The bull-headed demon cultivator summoned the battle soul of the Great Sage Who Pacifies Heaven, Bull Demon King, and demanded that it take the book from Chen Zheng.
• Perfected Longevity rushed Chen Zheng, but Bull Demon King seized and crushed him with a pitch-black hand.
• The bull-headed demon cultivator celebrated and urged Bull Demon King to seize the book, but Bull Demon King slapped him into a crater.
• Bull Demon King shrank into a black bull, flew to Chen Zheng, and offered to be ridden as his mount.

Chen Zheng subdued the Bull Demon King's battle soul and arranged for a bull-headed demon cultivator to serve as Azure Cloud's mount. The Bull Demon King recognized the danger of Chen Zheng's ancient book and fled, leaving Chen Zheng holding the Heaven-Opening Upper Volume.

• The Bull Demon King appeared as a black bull and recalled racing Laozi's azure ox, stunning the survivors as Little Bone fretted over Chen Zheng's supposed taste for riding bulls.
• Chen Zheng ordered the Bull Demon King to change back and stopped him from killing his descendant, assigning the bull-headed demon cultivator as Azure Cloud's mount instead.
• Chen Zheng told the Bull Demon King that Azure Cloud would become a great figure once fully awakened, and the Bull Demon King reacted with disbelief.
• The Bull Demon King recognized the ancient book's connection to the Longevity Stele, refused to read it, and vanished.
• Little Bone glanced at the book, cried out from the pain it caused, and Chen Zheng revealed its cover read Heaven-Opening Upper Volume.

Chen Zheng opened the Heaven-Opening Upper Volume, causing the Thundercloud Heavenly Sea to descend before a glance from him sent it away. He recognized the revealed woman as a member of the Heaven-Opening Clan and the mysterious fighter who had battled Ziya, then pursued her toward the Heavenly Ravine after she escaped.

• The blood-covered figure tried to stop Chen Zheng from opening the ancient booklet, but he knocked her down and revealed her as a woman wearing Void Exotic Beast hide.
• Chen Zheng opened the booklet, and the Thundercloud Heavenly Sea surged toward Undying Mountain before withdrawing when he glanced at it.
• Chen Zheng read the booklet and said it was not the secret of longevity, suggesting that Little Tuntun might gain new abilities by swallowing it.
• Chen Zheng identified the woman as a member of the Heaven-Opening Clan and connected her to Ziya and a battle at Undying Mountain three thousand years earlier.
• The woman escaped west through a force of nothingness, and Chen Zheng followed her toward the Heavenly Ravine.

Chen Zheng entered the Heavenly Ravine, discovered that its land formed a gigantic heart and endured its Chaos Wind unharmed. He reached an ancient tribe and asked whether its buried giant axe was the legendary Heaven-Opening Axe.

• The King of Eastern Spirit retreated from Undying Mountain with Granny Silver Flower and Azure Cloud, while the black ox named Azure Cloud as his master.
• Chen Zheng and Little Bone passed through the Heavenly Ravine's mist and found a canyon filled with enormous ancient beast skeletons.
• A gust of Chaos Wind reduced Little Bone's flesh to ash, but Chen Zheng explained that the wind was far weaker than pure Chaos Wind and that he had left Jiang Ziya things to help him survive it.
• Chen Zheng scanned the ravine with the Cosmic Cantilever and confirmed that its land was shaped like a heart, then said the place had never belonged to the Spirit Realm.
• Chen Zheng arrived in an ancient tribe, where warriors surrounded him, and asked whether the giant axe in the ground was the Heaven-Opening Axe.

Chen Zheng entered the Pangu Holy Clan’s ancestral grounds, shattered the formation protecting it, and learned that the Void Beast Emperor was coming to destroy the clan. As the beast attacked, a creature from Chen Zheng swallowed it in one bite.

• Shaohua attacked Chen Zheng, who kicked him into Progenitor Rock and cracked the cliff, damaging the Holy Emperor Grand Formation.
• The Grand Shaman explained that the Heaven-Opening Axe was trapped by Nine Heavens Xirang and that its next master would not be born for three years.
• The Void Beast Emperor arrived, tore apart the Grand Shaman’s blood-colored protective formation, and prepared to swallow the ancestral grounds.
• A beast emerged from Chen Zheng and swallowed the Void Beast Emperor in a single encounter.

Chen Zheng’s Little Tuntun swallowed the Void Beast Emperor and the Pangu Holy Clan’s Heaven-Opening Upper Volume, leaving the clan fearing the loss would doom the coming Sacred Emperor. When Xiaoyaozi of the Shinto Alliance arrived to claim the Heaven-Opening Axe and attacked Chen Zheng, Chen Zheng turned Xiaoyaozi’s sword against him.

• Little Tuntun swallowed the Void Beast Emperor, then devoured the Heaven-Opening Upper Volume despite the Pangu Holy Clan’s protests.
• The High Shaman challenged Chen Zheng over the prophecy and asked who he was, but a Shinto Alliance warship arrived before he answered.
• Xiaoyaozi announced that he intended to take the Heaven-Opening Axe for the future Sacred Emperor, and Little Bone mocked his boast that he had moved it.
• Xiaoyaozi recognized Chen Zheng as a possible successor to Wuji Dao Lord Jiang Ziya, then attacked him with the Thousand Mechanisms Sword.
• Chen Zheng casually flicked his hand, reversing the divine sword and sending it through the space between Xiaoyaozi’s brows.

Chen Zheng repelled Xiaoyaozi’s sword strike, but Xiaoyaozi summoned Demon God Jiuying to devour the Pangu Holy Clan. Jiuying instead ate Xiaoyaozi, bowed to Chen Zheng as the Saintly Teacher, then devoured the warship and its crew before charging out of the Heavenly Ravine.

• Chen Zheng deflected Xiaoyaozi’s Thousand Mechanisms Sword and grievously wounded him, leaving Xiaoyaozi’s body insubstantial.
• Xiaoyaozi summoned Demon God Jiuying and ordered it to devour everyone in the Pangu Holy Clan’s ancestral land.
• Demon God Jiuying ignored Xiaoyaozi’s orders and swallowed him in one bite.
• Demon God Jiuying bowed to Chen Zheng and addressed him as the Saintly Teacher.
• Demon God Jiuying swallowed the two young cultivators and their warship, then charged out of the Heavenly Ravine toward a Great Thousand World.

Chen Zheng restored the Pangu Holy Clan’s ancestral formation and took the Heaven-Opening Axe, prompting the clan to hail him as the Holy Emperor. The axe cracked in his hand, and he revealed that his strength had damaged it.

• Chen Zheng stopped the Chaos Wind from attacking the Pangu Holy Clan and explained that he had entered the Heavenly Ravine to learn about his disciple Jiang Ziya and find its treasures.
• The Grand Shaman Priest and the woman in animal skins accused Jiang Ziya of betraying the clan, but Chen Zheng said there must have been a misunderstanding.
• Chen Zheng repaired the Progenitor Rock Holy Emperor Grand Formation with a sweep of his hand.
• Chen Zheng pulled the Heaven-Opening Axe from the Nine Heavens Xirang, and the Pangu Holy Clan knelt and hailed him as the Holy Emperor.
• The Heaven-Opening Axe cracked in Chen Zheng’s grip, and he explained that his right hand was strong enough to damage it.

Chen Zheng stunned the Pangu Holy Clan by repeatedly cracking and repairing the Heaven-Opening Axe, then heard Liusu explain the clan’s lost art and isolation. He denied being Patriarch Hongjun and began recounting how he had once entered the Primordial Wilderness and earned the name Green Lotus Saintly Teacher.

• Chen Zheng cracked and repaired the Heaven-Opening Axe several times, leaving the Pangu Holy Clan members collapsed and Liusu spitting blood.
• Liusu told Chen Zheng that the Sacred Emperor Undying Art had been lost after the Chaos Wind Demon swept away the clan’s strongest members, leaving the Holy Emperor Grand Formation as both shelter and prison.
• Liusu guessed that Chen Zheng was Patriarch Hongjun, but Chen Zheng denied it, and Little Bone claimed that Hongjun had lost to her master.
• Chen Zheng told Liusu and Linglong that he was Jiang Shang’s teacher, meant the Pangu Holy Clan no harm, and hoped they would resolve their misunderstandings with Jiang Shang.
• Chen Zheng recalled that he had entered the Primordial Wilderness before the great war between the Wu and demon races, where others had called him Saintly Teacher and Green Lotus Saintly Teacher.

Chen Zheng used the scanner to project the scene of Pangu opening heaven, but the projection became so real that Little Bone collided with Pangu and was nearly seized. He returned everyone to the Shamanic Sacrifice Hall, leaving Liusu, Linglong, and Little Bone uncertain whether they had truly traveled through time.

• Chen Zheng told Liusu, Linglong, and Little Bone about dreaming into the Primordial Wilderness and wondered whether it had sprung from his dream.
• Chen Zheng used the scanner to project chaos before heaven and earth opened, showing Pangu cleaving it apart.
• The projection expanded around the Shamanic Sacrifice Hall and made Pangu appear before them as heaven and earth separated.
• Little Bone charged at Pangu, struck him, and drew the giant's attention as Pangu reached to seize it.
• Chen Zheng waved his hand and ended the scene, then told Little Bone that it was real if it felt real and fake if it believed it was fake.

South China Sea Mad Blade flooded the Eastern Spirit Sword Prefecture and attacked the royal residence while Mo Shenglong and Nu Honglian watched, each seeking the secret of longevity. When Azure Cloud awakened and a phantom behind him killed Mad Blade with one sword strike, the other powerful figures were left facing an unknown threat.

• South China Sea Mad Blade demanded the secret of longevity and flooded the Sword Prefecture's main city, devastating it and swallowing tens of thousands of its inhabitants.
• King of Eastern Spirit secretly told Granny Silver Flower to take Hongyan and the others through a teleportation array, while Azure Cloud refused to flee.
• South China Sea Mad Blade entered the royal residence and struck down the Ox-Headed Demon King, who stood between him and Azure Cloud.
• Granny Silver Flower stepped in to shield Azure Cloud, but Azure Cloud awakened and a phantom behind him dispelled Mad Blade's attack.
• The phantom unleashed a sword strike that annihilated South China Sea Mad Blade, body and soul.

The mysterious Senior Chen arrived in Sword Prefecture after Nu Honglian tried to kill the unconscious Azure Cloud, then destroyed Nu Honglian and the forces gathered around the city. The chapter left Fairy Linlang and the surviving onlookers shaken by Chen’s ruthless power.

• Azure Cloud’s phantom appeared and killed South China Sea Mad Blade with one sword strike before Azure Cloud fainted.
• Fairy Linlang took Princess Hongyan away but refused to save Azure Cloud when Nu Honglian attacked him.
• The King of Eastern Spirit stepped in front of Nu Honglian’s sword light and was pierced, but Senior Chen shattered the attack with a cold snort.
• Senior Chen descended and unleashed ten thousand Blood Spirit Dragons, killing Nu Honglian, the South China Sea Heavenly Blade Sect disciples, and their water beasts.
• Mo Shenglong tried to recruit Senior Chen for the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty, but Chen’s Blood Spirit Dragons killed Mo Shenglong, his guards, and destroyed their warship.

Chen Zheng returned to the Eastern Spirit Sword Prefecture, healed the Ox-Headed Demon King and the King of Eastern Spirit, and faced Prince Heavenly Lord and Marquis Equal to Heaven as they arrived with their forces. When Marquis Equal to Heaven’s imitation of Chen Zheng’s Divine Finger Flick failed, Chen Zheng used the real technique and left both warships’ commanders as the only survivors.

• Fairy Linlang realized Chen Zheng and Little Bone had witnessed her refusal to help Hongyan, and she regretted thinking she could befriend him.
• Chen Zheng healed the Ox-Headed Demon King and the King of Eastern Spirit with a casual gesture.
• Prince Heavenly Lord arrived with Marquis Equal to Heaven and accused Fairy Linlang of killing Mo Shenglong, while Marquis Equal to Heaven urged them to seize the secret of the Longevity Stele.
• Marquis Equal to Heaven performed his supposed Divine Finger Flick, but nothing happened, and Little Bone called him a knockoff.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and turned the guards, generals, and subordinates aboard both warships to ash, leaving only Prince Heavenly Lord and Marquis Equal to Heaven alive.

Chen Zheng killed Prince Heavenly Lord and confronted the immortal manifestation summoned by Marquis Equal to Heaven. When the blue-robed Profound Immortal recognized Chen Zheng, he fled, but Chen Zheng killed Marquis Equal to Heaven as well.

• Prince Heavenly Lord threatened Chen Zheng with the Great Yan Imperial Clan, but Chen Zheng pierced his heart with a blood-colored spear and destroyed his body and primordial spirit.
• Marquis Equal to Heaven crushed a jade talisman and summoned his master, a blue-robed Profound Immortal manifestation who appeared while brewing tea.
• The blue-robed man told Marquis Equal to Heaven that his composure and Divine Finger Flick were inspired by a mighty figure he had once seen in Supreme Heaven.
• After seeing Chen Zheng, the blue-robed man dropped his teacup and fled as his manifestation shattered.
• Marquis Equal to Heaven recognized his predicament, knelt, and begged Chen Zheng for mercy, but Chen Zheng's divine spear destroyed his body and primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng sent the Pangu Holy Clan from Heavenly Ravine to Earth, where they sought Lin Zhengming, while the King of Eastern Spirit agreed to help him take the Great Yan throne. Heavenly Ravine’s departure shocked the Spirit Realm and drew the attention of Earth’s cultivation world.

• Chen Zheng told the King of Eastern Spirit that they would kill the Great Yan Emperor and make him the new emperor, and the King asked to go the following day after tending to the injured.
• Heavenly Ravine broke free of the earth and flew across the Spirit Realm, then tore through space-time and traveled to Earth.
• Great Shaman Priestess Liusu led the Pangu Holy Clan out of Heavenly Ravine and toward Earth at the Saintly Teacher’s command.
• Little Bone told the others that Chen Zheng had met the Pangu Holy Clan in Heavenly Ravine, obtained the Heaven-Opening Axe, and sent the clan to Earth.
• At Superpower Group headquarters, Old Nie and Xiao Peng detected Heavenly Ravine approaching Earth, and a mental voice summoned Lin Zhengming to meet the Pangu Holy Clan.

Chen Zheng and his companions reached Qian Capital, where the Vermilion Bird Grand Array blocked Little Bone’s attacks and summoned the Vermilion Bird spirit. After the array turned its wrath on the warship, Chen Zheng casually threw an axe toward the capital, leaving his companions shaken by what they recognized.

• The King of Eastern Spirit warned Chen Zheng about Qian Capital’s formidable Vermilion Bird Grand Array and the Great Yan imperial bloodline’s secret.
• Great Yan’s Divine Crossbow bolts attacked the warship, but Little Bone burned them to cinders with her true fire.
• Little Bone’s flames failed to penetrate the array, so she transformed into her colossal form and struck Qian Capital with a powerful sword blow.
• The array summoned the Vermilion Bird spirit, blocked Little Bone’s strike, and unleashed its oppressive might against her and the warship.
• Chen Zheng summoned an axe and casually tossed it toward Qian Capital, while Fairy Linlang and the others recognized it with alarm.

Chen Zheng’s axe shattered Qian Capital’s defenses and split the imperial capital apart, but it absorbed the Vermilion Bird’s spirit before trying to escape and being destroyed by Chen Zheng. As Ancestor Mo and Young Master Wind and Cloud arrived, Lü Ji transformed and challenged Chen Zheng to fight.

• Lü Ji’s supreme-grade halberd shattered against Chen Zheng’s axe, which then broke through the Vermilion Bird Grand Array and split Qian Capital and the imperial palace.
• The axe absorbed the Vermilion Bird’s spirit, then tried to escape through a rift in space and time.
• Chen Zheng shattered the axe and absorbed its fragments, saying that the one behind its escape had shown himself too early.
• Ancestor Mo and Young Master Wind and Cloud arrived, and Lü Ji identified Chen Zheng as the King of Eastern Spirit’s backer and the killer of General Mo, Prince Heavenly Lord, and Marquis Equal to Heaven.
• Lü Ji summoned his armor, halberd, and nightmare warhorse, then challenged Chen Zheng to fight.

Marquis Wen Lü charged Chen Zheng’s warship, but Chen Zheng crushed him with a single wisp of baleful qi. Chen Zheng then challenged Ancestor Mo and Young Master Wind and Cloud, whose attempt to read his fate failed and left him coughing blood.

• Marquis Wen Lü awakened his overwhelming baleful qi and charged Chen Zheng’s warship after Young Master Wind and Cloud ordered him to kill everyone and capture Little Bone.
• Little Bone recognized Marquis Wen Lü as Lü Bu as he thrust his halberd at Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng released a wisp of baleful qi that shattered Marquis Wen Lü’s halberd and crushed him to his knees; Marquis Wen Lü then let his body collapse while speaking of finding Diao Chan.
• Chen Zheng told Ancestor Mo and Young Master Wind and Cloud to use their abilities before he killed them and the Great Yan Emperor.
• Young Master Wind and Cloud’s runes shattered as he tried to read Chen Zheng’s fate, and he spat blood in shock that Chen Zheng’s fate appeared to be nothing.