Recaps

Chen Zheng confronted Xiao Ao, the Heavenly Ghost Emperor, after Xiao Ao revealed his fear and intent to kill him. Chen Zheng unsealed tens of thousands of streams of baleful energy, which annihilated Xiao Ao and the Heavenly Ghosts before gathering into a colossal beast that shook the Ten Hells.

• Xiao Ao admitted that the Shinto Alliance and Supreme Hall had forced him to betray the girl, then unleashed his baleful energy and attacked Chen Zheng.
• Xiao Ao’s pressure split Heavenly Ghost Mountain and shattered Little Bone and the Spectral Holy Dragon, while Chen Zheng’s aura rose to match the Heavenly Emperor.
• Chen Zheng revealed transparent baleful-energy shackles and shattered them, releasing tens of thousands of terrifying streams of baleful energy.
• The baleful energy devoured Xiao Ao completely, leaving no trace of his body or primordial spirit.
• The Heavenly Ghost commanders and guards knelt, but the released energy tore apart every Heavenly Ghost at the summit except the three evil ghosts brought by the Spectral Holy Dragon.
• The streams of baleful energy converged into a colossal beast whose roar made the Ten Hells tremble.

Chen Zheng defeated the Heavenly Ghost Emperor but exhausted his True Essence, then drained Heavenly Ghost Hell to recover it. The little girl emerged from a lotus seed and urged him to devour the World Tree to break through.

• The cultivators of the Shinto Alliance and Supreme Hall mistook the savage aura for the Heavenly Ghost Emperor’s breakthrough until Quasi-Sage Mingdeng was blasted from the Sea of Bitterness, bleeding golden blood.
• Chen Zheng told the Spectral Holy Dragon that he had only exhausted his True Essence and asked him to help next, while the Spectral Holy Dragon panicked at the prospect of entering Blood Prison.
• Chen Zheng entered the Heavenly Ghost Emperor’s palace, and the essence power of Heavenly Ghost Hell surged into it as fissures split the hell apart.
• Chen Zheng emerged from the ruins with his True Essence restored, while the Spectral Holy Dragon and three evil ghosts cowered before him.
• The little girl appeared from a lotus seed and told Chen Zheng that devouring the World Tree would let him break through.

Chen Zheng crossed Nether Hell aboard the Star Raft, where a Corpse Clan divine son recognized him and withdrew in fear. He then arrived invisibly at the Blood Prison Sea of Bitterness, finding the Shinto Alliance and Supreme Hall assembled with powerful forces.

• Chen Zheng taught the three evil ghosts a secret art, then left Heavenly Ghost Hell with the Spectral Holy Dragon aboard the Star Raft.
• The Spectral Holy Dragon asked about Nether Hell, and Chen Zheng said a divine son of the Corpse Clan was buried there.
• A Corpse Clan divine son attacked the Star Raft, recognized Chen Zheng in his blood armor, and hastily retreated.
• The Star Raft reached the Blood Prison Sea of Bitterness unseen by the Shinto Alliance and Supreme Hall forces gathered there.
• The Spectral Holy Dragon marveled at the assembled experts and wondered how Chen Zheng would face them without his Uninterrupted Slaughter Dao or baleful qi.

Chen Zheng stepped onto the shore of the Sea of Bitterness and withstood attacks from a Profound Immortal and a Golden Immortal, astonishing the cultivators of the Shinto Alliance and Supreme Hall. He challenged someone within the sea, and a vast figure began rising at its far end as towering waves surged toward him.

• The Spectral Holy Dragon urged Chen Zheng to stay aboard the warship, but Chen Zheng went ashore while Little Bone confidently predicted his enemies would suffer.
• Qu Quan attacked Chen Zheng with immortal arts, including the seventh-tier Fan Immortal Seal, but Chen Zheng emerged unharmed and the seal shattered.
• Deacon Kong struck Chen Zheng with his Immortal-Slaying Finger, which fractured from the force of backlash before Kong withdrew in shock.
• Chen Zheng called out to someone in the Sea of Bitterness, prompting a cold female voice to answer that she wished she could kill him.
• A gigantic figure rose at the far end of the Sea of Bitterness, sending towering waves toward Chen Zheng on the shore.

A woman hidden in the Sea of Bitterness unleashed waves that destroyed the Shinto Alliance and Supreme Hall warships, while Chen Zheng remained unharmed. After she confronted Chen Zheng, Quasi-Sages and Ancestor Wanfa emerged, and the Little Holy Lord recognized Chen Zheng as her father and accused him of bringing a mistress to meet her.

• Dao Lord Qinglian failed to stop the first wave, and the warships retreated into the sky as Chen Zheng stood unharmed after it passed.
• The woman crossed the Sea of Bitterness to reach Chen Zheng, then destroyed the Shinto Alliance and Supreme Hall warships with nine waves, killing their Profound Immortals.
• Dao Lord Qinglian and the silver-armored Heavenly Emperor identified the woman as a high-stage or peak Quasi-Sage, while Deacon Kong escaped with his right arm destroyed.
• The woman shrank to ordinary size and confronted Chen Zheng as Quasi-Sage Mingdeng, Quasi-Sage Lige, Quasi-Sage Fangu, and Ancestor Wanfa emerged from the Sea of Bitterness.
• The Little Holy Lord saw Chen Zheng and angrily accused him of bringing one of his mistresses to meet her.

Chen Zheng’s identity as the Little Holy Lord’s father was revealed, and Quasi-Sage Mingdeng failed to move him, then injured himself attacking him. Chen Zheng challenged Ancestor Wanfa to try next.

• The Little Holy Lord announced that Chen Zheng was her father, shocking the gathered cultivators.
• Chen Zheng acknowledged that the girl carried his bloodline and had inherited his physique.
• Quasi-Sage Mingdeng tried to seize Chen Zheng, but could not move him despite using his strength and Quasi-Sage pressure.
• Quasi-Sage Mingdeng struck Chen Zheng and was blasted backward, coughing up golden blood.
• Chen Zheng challenged Ancestor Wanfa to attack him, stunning the onlookers.

Ancestor Wanfa unleashed the Law of Destruction, the Thunder Slaughter Dao, and ten thousand arts against Chen Zheng and Shengji, but neither was harmed. Wanfa then claimed Chen Zheng could not retaliate or stop his plan to resurrect the Hell Emperor and slaughter the Ten Hells.

• Shengji refused to help Chen Zheng and said he would have to deal with Ancestor Wanfa and the others himself.
• Ancestor Wanfa's Law of Destruction destroyed the coastline, but Chen Zheng and Shengji remained unharmed.
• Ancestor Wanfa attacked with the Thunder Slaughter Dao, which also failed to harm them, and Chen Zheng mocked his power.
• Ancestor Wanfa unleashed ten thousand arts with Wanfa Return as One, blasting a bay into the coastline and opening a hole into chaotic space-time, but Chen Zheng and Shengji still did not move.
• Shengji and Chen Zheng criticized Ancestor Wanfa's pursuit of multiple great Daos, and Wanfa concluded that Chen Zheng's Void Refinement cultivation limited his ability to strike back.
• Ancestor Wanfa said Chen Zheng could not stop him from resurrecting the Hell Emperor and slaughtering the living beings of the Ten Hells.

Chen Zheng revealed the power he had planted in the Blood Prison when the hundred thousand blood steps on Purgatory Mountain became a blood-colored face that shattered Ancestor Wanfa’s attack. As the face slaughtered the Shinto Alliance and Supreme Hall’s forces, Ancestor Wanfa challenged Chen Zheng to prove whether his Heavenly Dao could defy fate.

• Ancestor Wanfa ordered Lige, Mingdeng, and Fangu to begin resurrecting the Hell Emperor while he prepared to kill the Blood Prison’s inhabitants.
• Chen Zheng summoned the hundred thousand blood steps on Purgatory Mountain, which transformed into blood dragons and formed a vast face that shattered Wanfa Return as One.
• The Blood God recognized Chen Zheng, knelt, and begged forgiveness for betraying the Little Holy Lord.
• The blood-colored face roared toward the Sea of Bitterness, killing the Golden Immortals and tearing apart Dao Lord Qinglian and the silver-armored Heavenly Emperor.
• Chen Zheng explained that the face was a Heavenly Dao he had planted in the Blood Prison, and Ancestor Wanfa challenged him to prove its power.

Chen Zheng watched as the blood-colored face he claimed was a planted Heavenly Dao struck down the Quasi-Sages and fought Ancestor Wanfa. After the Hell Emperor’s resurrection ritual opened a rift, Mingdeng was annihilated and Ancestor Wanfa lost half his life and cultivation.

• Ancestor Wanfa attacked the blood-colored face, was driven back, then returned to stall it while Lige, Mingdeng, and Fangu continued the resurrection ritual.
• Chen Zheng told Ancestor Wanfa he would let the ritual finish before making his move, and Ancestor Wanfa agreed to wait for the Hell Emperor’s return.
• Lige, Mingdeng, and Fangu completed the ritual, causing a blood-colored pillar to strike the Sea of Bitterness and a rift to open in the heavens.
• Chen Zheng announced that he would start killing, and Mingdeng attacked the blood-colored face despite Ancestor Wanfa’s warning.
• The blood-colored face annihilated Mingdeng, then grew a body and tore apart Ancestor Wanfa, who escaped with half his life and cultivation stripped away.

Chen Zheng seized Ancestor Wanfa’s Chaos Treasure Bottle just as the resurrected Hell Emperor emerged, leaving the Shinto Alliance and Supreme Hall stunned. The Hell Emperor revealed herself as Wan Ji and knelt before Chen Zheng, calling him her benefactor.

• Chen Zheng dismissed the blood giant after it had killed Mingdeng and torn away half of Ancestor Wanfa’s life.
• Ancestor Wanfa brought out his Chaos Treasure Bottle and vowed to imprison Chen Zheng as the Hell Emperor returned.
• The Hell Emperor emerged from the heavenly fissure, and her blood-red aura spread across all Ten Hells.
• Chen Zheng severed Ancestor Wanfa’s connection to the Chaos Treasure Bottle and took the Dao Artifact.
• The Hell Emperor ignored Ancestor Wanfa’s commands, approached Chen Zheng, revealed herself as a woman, and introduced herself as Wan Ji, his benefactor.

Chen Zheng encountered the Hell Emperor Wan Ji, who recognized him as the benefactor who had saved her Heaven’s Forsaken Clan, while Chen Zheng’s future daughter Chen Lingsu revealed her power and drew the Heavenly Dao’s attention. Wan Ji returned to the Great Void Battlefield, which Chen Zheng recognized as the Threshold Land.

• Wan Ji knelt before Chen Zheng, but he did not remember her, and Ancestor Wanfa tried to control her with a secret art.
• Wan Ji’s blood aura turned against Ancestor Wanfa’s group, splitting Quasi-Sage Lige in half as they escaped.
• Chen Lingsu introduced herself as Chen Zheng’s daughter from the future, and the Heavenly Dao’s nine Eyes of Heavenly Punishment appeared before Chen Zheng drove them away.
• Wan Ji explained that she belonged to the Heaven’s Forsaken Clan and that Chen Zheng had once saved her people from the Heavenly Dao.
• Wan Ji departed for the Great Void Battlefield, and Chen Zheng identified it as the Threshold Land where one could reach the Epoch Hegemon level.

Chen Zheng’s future daughter warned him about a Sage in Supreme Heaven before the River of Time took her back. Afterward, Shengji learned that she was an incarnation of the Sea of Bitterness Holy Ji and asked Chen Zheng to send her there.

• Chen Zheng’s daughter killed Blood God with a glance and sent everyone away so she could speak privately with her father.
• She warned Chen Zheng to beware of a Sage in Supreme Heaven, who might be the Myriad Transformation Ancient Demon in disguise and would cause Uncle Monkey Sun’s death.
• The River of Time reclaimed the girl, and Chen Zheng said she was slowly awakening as she returned to the future.
• Shengji asked Chen Zheng whose will she embodied, and he revealed that her source was the Sea of Bitterness Holy Ji.
• Shengji asked Chen Zheng to send her to the true Sea of Bitterness, and a black-robed man appeared, surprised that Chen Zheng’s cultivation had fallen to the Void Refinement Stage.

Chen Zheng sent Shengji with Shana to the Sea of Bitterness, extracted most of the Blood Prison’s origin, and let the Spectral Holy Dragon leave for the Holy Spirit Realm. He then went to Slaughter Hell as the Sin Beast emerged in the form of a rabbit and bit off Chu Xun’s arm.

• Shana took Shengji to the Sea of Bitterness after Chen Zheng told her to seek her origin.
• Chen Zheng extracted ninety percent of the Blood Prison’s origin, weakening the Hundred Thousand Blood Steps, and the Spectral Holy Dragon used them to reach a teleportation array and depart for the Holy Spirit Realm.
• Chen Zheng taught the Spectral Holy Dragon an escape technique and asked him to look after Ji Yuwei if they met.
• A spiraling column of water and bones erupted from the White Bone River, revealing the legendary Sin Beast as a small white rabbit.
• Chu Xun tried to seize the rabbit, but it unleashed black light and bit off his right arm.

The rabbit revealed itself as a Sin Beast, but Chen Zheng freed it after Chu Haoyang sealed it in the Ancient God Black Jade. As the rabbit spoke with Chen Zheng, Chu Haoyang summoned the Chu Family’s other trump card, a gigantic headless Fierce God.

• The Sin Beast rabbit bit off Chu Xun’s right arm and attacked Chu Haoyang, who captured it in the Ancient God Black Jade.
• Chu Haoyang boasted that the Chu Family had planned for the Sin Beast’s emergence and challenged Bai Nishang and the other factions.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the White Bone River and shattered the Ancient God Black Jade, freeing the rabbit; its bite could not hurt him, and its teeth broke.
• Little Bone called the Sin Beast unimpressive, and Chen Zheng questioned why it had not helped its master escape a Sage’s suppression.
• Chu Haoyang summoned the Chu Ancestor’s second trump card, and a gigantic headless body emerged from the black qi.

Chu Haoyang summoned the ancient Fierce God Xingtian to kill Chen Zheng, but Xingtian recognized Chen Zheng and knelt to beg forgiveness. The Chu Family’s apparent advantage collapsed as Xingtian declared himself guilty.

• Chu Haoyang revealed that he had summoned Xingtian as the Chu Family’s trump card, and Xingtian absorbed the White Bone River’s yin baleful energy to restore his strength.
• Chu Haoyang taunted Chen Zheng while Chen Zheng casually ordered the vile beast rabbit to hop for him.
• Xingtian reached Heavenly Emperor-level strength and charged at Chen Zheng with his axe after Chu Haoyang commanded him to strike.
• Xingtian recognized Chen Zheng just before the axe landed, froze in terror, and knelt to apologize for daring to attack him.

Chen Zheng commanded Xingtian to slaughter the foreign cultivators at the White Bone River, then headed for the Hall of Slaughter. Bai Nishang survived Xingtian’s attack and followed Chen Zheng, hoping to learn from him.

• Xingtian recognized Chen Zheng as the Saintly Teacher and obeyed his order to kill the cultivators gathered by the White Bone River.
• Xingtian wiped out the Chu Family, Immortal Martial Hall, Wu Family, and Thunder Dao Palace forces, then defeated Chu Haoyang and Chu Xun.
• Bai Nishang blocked one of Xingtian’s axe strikes with her World-Defying Saber Strike and introduced herself as a descendant of Bai Wudi.
• Bai Nishang asked Chen Zheng to accept her as a disciple, but he refused, and she said the Bai family would not seek revenge for Young Master Nine Spirits.
• Chen Zheng and Xingtian headed toward the Hall of Slaughter, and Bai Nishang followed them, hoping to improve her saber technique.

Chen Zheng entered the Hall of Slaughter to confront the demon hiding inside the injured hell lord, Zhan Ge. He destroyed the ancient demon, leaving his companions to learn that his Lawless Hand was its natural nemesis.

• Chen Zheng arrived at the Hall of Slaughter and explained that he had sensed a hidden presence; Bai Nishang followed, hoping to become his disciple.
• Chen Zheng opened the hall's doors and entered with Xingtian, Little Bone, the Sin Beast rabbit, and Bai Nishang.
• The demon possessing Zhan Ge mocked Chen Zheng, revealed its monstrous form, and lunged at him, but Chen Zheng kicked it into the wall.
• The demon claimed its race had powerful allies, including Sages, and insisted that even the Blood Heavenly Venerable could not kill it.
• Chen Zheng recalled defeating Ancestor Tianhua and used his Lawless Hand to shatter the demon into stone and dust.

After Chen Zheng destroyed the Myriad Transformation Ancient Demon, he learned that Xingtian was being summoned by a mysterious voice and let him leave. Bai Nishang offered her primordial spirit soul seed to become Chen Zheng’s disciple, and he accepted her while sending the Sin Beast rabbit to help her seek out three dangerous forces to temper her battle bones.

• Chen Zheng absorbed the divine icicle left by the Myriad Transformation Ancient Demon, but his cultivation settled at the middle stage of Void Refinement.
• Chen Zheng explained that the ancient demons could devour Sages and impersonate them, raising the possibility that they were pawns of the Heavenly Dao or something beyond it.
• Xingtian told Chen Zheng that a voice in his primordial spirit was calling him and left to investigate, promising to send word if an Ancestral Wu had been resurrected.
• The Sin Beast rabbit speculated that its master, the Sin Lord, had gone to Supreme Heaven to resurrect an Ancestral Wu, while Chen Zheng dismissed the threat of Pangu’s True Body.
• Bai Nishang offered her primordial spirit soul seed to Chen Zheng, who accepted her as a partial disciple and taught her to temper her battle bones with Chaos Wind, Primordial Fire, and the Primordial Lightning Tribulation.
• Chen Zheng ordered the Sin Beast rabbit to accompany Bai Nishang, and the rabbit wailed as they left the Hall of Slaughter.

Chen Zheng devoured the source power of the Ten Hells Prison, restoring his cultivation only to the late Void Refinement Stage before five ancestors from a Great Thousand World attacked him. He emerged unharmed, severed their giant palms with his sword, and left the Shinto Alliance leader threatening him from afar.

• Seven-colored divine light spread across the Ten Hells Prison as Chen Zheng devoured source power from its prisons, alarming their inhabitants.
• Chen Zheng's aura surged to the True Immortal Realm before settling at the late Void Refinement Stage.
• Five ancestors from a Great Thousand World sent giant palms through the sky to strike Chen Zheng at the Hall of Slaughter, and Bai Nishang tried to intervene before the rabbit stopped her.
• Chen Zheng remained unharmed and severed all five giant palms with his sword, sending them crashing into Slaughter Hell and leaving golden blood in the craters.
• The Shinto Alliance leader threatened to kill Chen Zheng if he came to the alliance's main hall, and Chen Zheng dismissed him as trash.

Chen Zheng defeated five patriarchs, left their blood as a cultivation resource, and gave Luo Yan a section of Dao Bamboo before departing. As he traveled through chaotic spacetime, a colossal warship called the Primordial Melody passed by, and its Epoch Hegemon woman aboard showed unexpected interest in him.

• Five patriarchs from the Shinto Alliance and Supreme Hall attacked Chen Zheng from a Great Thousand World, but he stopped their divine abilities with a single sword strike.
• Chen Zheng offered Slaughter Hell's beings the patriarch blood in five pits; one cultivator died after swallowing it, and the others decided to use the pits as cultivation grounds.
• In the Shadow Clan People’s ancestral grounds, Chen Zheng told Nether Emperor Luo Yan that Luo Tian was safe in the Divine Ruins and gave Luo Yan a section of Dao Bamboo.
• Chen Zheng left the ancestral grounds, remarking that the Prison of the Ten Hells was ultimately a prison, while Luo Yan knelt and bid him farewell.
• As the Star Raft crossed chaotic spacetime, the Creation Lotus Seed’s little girl told Chen Zheng that the Power of Disorder at the World Tree could help Little Bone evolve.
• A colossal warship called the Primordial Melody swept past the Star Raft; its Epoch Hegemon woman noticed Chen Zheng before the ship tore through spacetime and departed.

Chen Zheng arrived at the Demon-Sealing Ferry, where cultivators gathered before crossing the Blood River to the Asura Realm. After Old Man Wu offered him a sword and discipleship, the Shen Family arrived, and Young Master Shen ordered his guards to seize Wu Qingyan and Little Bone.

• The little girl explained the difference between Eternal Creations and Ultimate Creations, then revealed that the Cosmic Cantilever had constrained her and awakened her early.
• Chen Zheng and Little Bone reached the Demon-Sealing Ferry, where Chen Zheng noted that most market wares were fake.
• Old Man Wu offered Chen Zheng a genuine ninth-grade Purple Dragon Sword if Chen Zheng became his disciple, while nearby cultivators mocked him.
• Wu Qingyan arrived to tell Old Man Wu that the Heavenly Craft Workshop's ship was about to leave for the Asura Realm.
• Young Master Shen arrived with the Thunder God Guard and ordered them to seize Wu Qingyan and Little Bone.

Old Man Wu fought Young Master Shen and Daoist Equal to Heaven to protect Wu Qingyan, but Chen Zheng’s quiet call of “Six Ears” drove Daoist Equal to Heaven to flee. The cultivators were left stunned by the powerful figure’s sudden retreat.

• The Thunder God Guard attacked Chen Zheng and Old Man Wu, but Old Man Wu cut down the guard and Thunder Beast with the Purple Dragon Sword.
• Young Master Shen summoned a Golden Immortal avatar from a hair bestowed by Daoist Equal to Heaven, and the avatar forced Old Man Wu back.
• Chen Zheng urged Old Man Wu to kill Young Master Shen, so Old Man Wu destroyed the avatar with a sword strike and attacked Young Master Shen.
• Daoist Equal to Heaven arrived in person, blasted Old Man Wu away, and shattered the Purple Dragon Sword.
• Chen Zheng called Daoist Equal to Heaven “Six Ears” twice, and Daoist Equal to Heaven screamed, seized Young Master Shen, and fled.

Chen Zheng joined Wu Tiangang and Wu Qingyan aboard the Heavenly Craft Workshop’s ship to the Asura Realm, where he learned of Wu Tiangang’s poison and a mysterious woman surnamed Qin. When a Dao Lord-level Blood River beast attacked the ship, an eerie laugh sounded and an enormous shadow devoured it.

• Chen Zheng revealed that he was heading to the Asura Realm and boarded the Heavenly Craft Workshop’s ship with Wu Tiangang and Wu Qingyan.
• Wu Tiangang told Chen Zheng that his real name was Wu Tiangang, that the Wu Family had framed and poisoned him, and that a mysterious woman surnamed Qin had given him ancient jade pieces.
• The ship entered the Blood River, where a Dao Lord-level beast attacked and overwhelmed the cultivators’ defenses.
• Wu Tiangang tried to fight the beast but was badly injured as it charged at the ship.
• An eerie laugh sounded, and an enormous shadow appeared and devoured the Blood River beast.

Chen Zheng and the Heavenly Craft Workshop’s cultivators arrived in Flowing Light City seeking the Blood Soul Holy Flower, but they were trapped by Asuras planning a blood sacrifice. After Chen Zheng learned that Xin Ba had been defeated, he fought back against the attackers.

• Master Tun swallowed a Dao Lord Realm and a Heavenly Emperor Realm blood river beast before returning to Chen Zheng’s body.
• The warship reached the Blood Soul Flower fields near Flowing Light City, where Deacon Lan Qin warned the cultivators not to touch the flowers or ask about the Asura civil war.
• Asura guards led the cultivators into Flowing Light City, where the gates shut and a formation trapped them.
• A tall Asura announced that his uncle had seized the city from Xin Ba and attacked Deacon Lan Qin, but Old Man Wu blocked the strike.
• Chen Zheng asked whether Xin Ba was dead, rebounded the tall Asura’s attack, and unleashed ten thousand Blood Spirit Dragons that tore apart the Asura guards.

Chen Zheng fought off Xing Ri and exposed the City Lord of Flowing Light City as someone who recognized him. The chapter ended with Xing Shen kneeling and welcoming Chen Zheng back as “Your Majesty.”

• Xing Ri charged Chen Zheng, but his body shattered when he struck him and broke apart again after his next attack.
• Chen Zheng questioned Xing Ri about Xin Ba, and Xing Ri revealed that Xin Ba was being refined and that the Xin Clan and Asura Empress were also targets.
• Xing Ri restored his body and summoned his uncle, the City Lord of Flowing Light City, whose power rivaled a Dao Lord.
• Xing Ri ordered his uncle to kill Chen Zheng, but Xing Shen instead knelt before Chen Zheng and welcomed him back as “Your Majesty.”