Recaps

Chen Zheng rescued the Holy Mother of Jade Pool from the Creation Ancestral Master’s trap and easily countered his powers. The Creation Ancestral Master then called upon his lord to descend and confront Chen Zheng.

• Chen Zheng erased Prince Yi and his subordinates, then agreed to help Qin Yao find her master.
• Chen Zheng identified the murky substance in Jade Pool’s inner hall as Chaos Beast saliva and destroyed it, revealing the Creation Ancestral Master and the trapped Holy Mother of Jade Pool.
• The Creation Ancestral Master used his Hand of Creation to freeze space and time, but Chen Zheng broke the seal with a casual sweep of his hand.
• The Creation Ancestral Master attacked Chen Zheng with reincarnation’s power, but the force vanished inside Chen Zheng without affecting him.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the Creation Ancestral Master’s Hand of Creation as an unfinished Dao Artifact, prompting the Creation Ancestral Master to beseech his lord to descend.

Hong Wangu descended on the Jade Pool and tried to recruit Chen Zheng into the Eternal Sect, then attacked him when he refused. The little girl inside the Creation Lotus Seed destroyed Hong Wangu’s Dharma body and killed the Creation Ancestral Master.

• Hong Wangu arrived at the Jade Pool, where the Creation Ancestral Master identified him as his lord and Qin Yao and Chu Hongyi were immobilized by his aura.
• Hong Wangu offered Chen Zheng the second-highest position in the Eternal Sect if he acknowledged him as his master, but Chen Zheng refused and challenged him to kill him.
• Hong Wangu grabbed Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng remained unharmed, so Hong Wangu entered his primordial spirit to inspect its secrets.
• The little girl inside the Creation Lotus Seed roared at Hong Wangu and shattered his Dharma body.
• The Creation Ancestral Master tried to confront the little girl, who shattered his body and primordial spirit, leaving only his Daoist robe.

The little girl revealed that Chen Zheng was not the Grand Emperor’s reincarnation, though the Grand Emperor had copied a face identical to his and might still be alive. Chen Zheng remained certain only that he was himself, while the little girl warned that the Grand Emperor could be plotting against him.

• In the Great Void, Hong Wangu recognized the little girl as the Future Lord of Tribulation and resolved to learn her identity after the war.
• In Jade Pool, Chu Hongyi and Holy Maiden Qin Yao recovered from the little girl’s display of power and wondered about the hidden beings they had encountered.
• The little girl told Chen Zheng that the gold-robed figure in the mural was the Grand Emperor, creator of the Sun Herding Clan, and that he had been born a Sage in the Ninth Epoch.
• Chen Zheng and the little girl discussed her role as the Future Lord of Tribulation and his claim that he had overcome the thing from beyond the world that once tried to control him.
• The little girl explained that the Grand Emperor was not Chen Zheng’s reincarnation, had copied his face, and was likely still alive and harboring sinister designs on him.
• Chen Zheng searched his memories and concluded that he was Chen Zheng, not the Grand Emperor, but knew no more about his identity.

After reflecting on his past and meeting the Holy Mother of Jade Pool, Chen Zheng followed Chu Hongyi to the immortal pool, where the Ninth Tribulation Lord attacked him and accused him of destroying the Ninth Epoch. Chen Zheng caught her axe barehanded.

• Chen Zheng concluded that he had always been himself and believed even Hong Wangu could not harm him.
• The Holy Mother of Jade Pool recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen and explained that the Ancient Great Demon Pit held unusual secrets.
• Chen Zheng told the Holy Mother of Jade Pool that he had come to find a woman hiding in Jade Pool, then followed Chu Hongyi to the rear mountain's immortal pool.
• A lotus seed burst from beneath the pool, trapped Chu Hongyi, the Holy Mother of Jade Pool, and Qin Yao, and revealed a woman who attacked Chen Zheng with a sword and spear.
• The woman called Chen Zheng the Grand Emperor and blamed him for destroying the Ninth Epoch; she transformed into a huge axe, which Chen Zheng caught with his right hand.

Chen Zheng confronted the Ninth Tribulation Lord, who mistook him for the Grand Emperor and warned him that the Creation Lotus Seed was deadly poison. He swallowed it anyway, comprehended the Dao of the Ninth Epoch, and the Future Lord of Tribulation took the Ninth Tribulation Lord away to interrogate her about the Gate of Eternal Life.

• Chen Zheng crushed the Ninth Tribulation Lord’s axe form and learned she had mistaken him for the Grand Emperor.
• Chu Hongyi told the Ninth Tribulation Lord that her supposed Supreme Holy Body had left her unable to advance beyond Qi Refinement.
• The Future Lord of Tribulation identified the other Creation Lotus Seed as the Ninth Epoch’s and explained that comprehending the Dao of past epochs could lead to transcendence.
• Despite the Ninth Tribulation Lord’s warning that swallowing a Creation Lotus Seed had caused the Grand Emperor’s fall, Chen Zheng swallowed it.
• Chen Zheng immediately comprehended the Ninth Epoch’s Dao of Life and revealed that the lotus seed’s poison could not harm his body.
• The Future Lord of Tribulation took the Ninth Tribulation Lord away to interrogate her, promising to send her back so Chen Zheng could seek the Gate of Eternal Life.

Chen Zheng transformed Chu Hongyi’s constitution and revealed his power to create a Flat Peach Spirit Root, then left Jade Pool with her. The Holy Mother of Jade Pool and Qin Yao watched him depart, and the Holy Mother called him invincible in the world.

• Chen Zheng used his power to transform Chu Hongyi’s crippled constitution, causing her cultivation to surge to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Chu Hongyi jumped into the immortal pool to wash away the impurities expelled during her transformation.
• The Holy Mother of Jade Pool told Chen Zheng that demons from beyond the realm had once targeted the Flat Peach Garden during the destruction of the human race’s Heavenly Court.
• Chen Zheng said he could create a Flat Peach Spirit Root, formed a protective array around Jade Pool, and gave the Holy Mother a ray of profound light.
• Chen Zheng left Jade Pool with Chu Hongyi, and the Holy Mother told Qin Yao that he was invincible in the world.

Chen Zheng returned with Chu Hongyi to find the Chu Family under attack by Yuwen Jin and Wu Chao of the Divine Capital. After Chen Zheng empowered Chu Hongyi to the Dao Lord level, she killed Yuwen Jin, while Wu Chao remained unable to intervene.

• Chen Zheng killed the Yuwen Family cultivators outside the Chu estate and entered with Chu Hongyi.
• Wu Chao shattered Chu Yingxiong’s golden-body defense with the God-Creating Cauldron, leaving the Chu Family on the brink of defeat.
• Chen Zheng blocked Wu Chao’s cauldron strike and shattered it, then asked Chu Hongyi whom she wanted to kill.
• Chen Zheng sent power into Chu Hongyi, raising her cultivation from the Tribulation Transcendence Stage to the Dao Lord level.
• Chu Hongyi struck Yuwen Jin dead as he tried to flee, while Wu Chao dared not attack her.

Chu Hongyi killed Yuwen Jin after Chen Zheng awakened her bloodline power, and Chen Zheng restored Chu Yingxiong’s strength. When Wu Chao summoned the God-Creating Cauldron’s spirit, Dao Lord Liyue recognized Chen Zheng and knelt before him.

• Chu Hongyi briefly rose to the Dao Lord Realm, killed Yuwen Jin, then fell back to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage.
• Chen Zheng restored Chu Yingxiong’s injuries and replenished his immortal spiritual power.
• Wu Chao summoned Dao Lord Liyue from the God-Creating Cauldron and urged him to kill Chen Zheng.
• Dao Lord Liyue saw Chen Zheng, fell to his knees, and kowtowed to him.

Dao Lord Liyue recognized Chen Zheng and revealed that the creator of the God-Creating Cauldron had learned artifact refining from him and loved him. After Wu Chao and the Yuwen Family tried to flee, Liyue killed them, then told Chen Zheng that his own mannerisms had inspired the creator.

• Dao Lord Liyue knelt before Chen Zheng, then slapped Wu Chao twice for suggesting he had mistaken Chen Zheng for someone else.
• Liyue played a recording showing Chen Zheng forging Dao Artifact swords in three strikes while a woman in plain robes collected the swords he discarded.
• Liyue explained that the woman had created him in imitation of Chen Zheng's artifact-refining skills and had loved Chen Zheng, and that he had once helped Daoist Tianying because of his bloodline.
• Wu Chao and the Yuwen Family cultivators fled, but Liyue snapped his fingers and turned them to ash.
• Liyue told Chen Zheng that his finger-snap attack and domineering manner had inspired the woman who created him.

Chen Zheng identified Yuan Baobao as a Heavenly Craft Workshop grandmaster he had once taught, while Dao Lord Liyue left to confront the Divine Capital and urged Chen Zheng to visit her. The group then set out for the Ancient Great Demon Pit, where Chen Zheng hinted at a cosmic bomb after discussing the Luo Shu.

• Chen Zheng named Yuan Baobao, and Dao Lord Liyue explained that she was a Heavenly Craft Workshop grandmaster who might become an ancestor-level figure.
• Dao Lord Liyue received a summons from Tianying, left the Chu Family estate, and asked Chen Zheng to visit Yuan Baobao in Supreme Heaven.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the Divine Capital's reputation without an Ancestral God, leaving Chu Yingxiong astonished.
• The next morning, Chen Zheng, Chu Yingxiong, and Chu Hongyi departed Yaoguang City for the Ancient Great Demon Pit after Chu Yingxiong resolved the Yuwen Family matter.
• Chu Yingxiong recalled how opening a stone coffin with Bieyue had led to her practicing the Heartlessness secret technique and disappearing, while Chen Zheng explained his interest in the Luo Shu.
• Chu Hongyi asked whether Chen Zheng had transmigrated, and he answered with the cryptic words “a cosmic bomb,” alarming Chu Yingxiong.

Chen Zheng, Chu Hongyi, and Chu Yingxiong crossed the Soul Bridge into the Ancient Great Demon Pit, where a black-robed old man tried to transfer his heart fire onto Chen Zheng. The heart fire engulfed Chen Zheng’s left shoulder, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Chen Zheng led Chu Yingxiong and Chu Hongyi across the Soul Bridge toward the Ancient Great Demon Pit, while cultivators at the platform learned that the Divine Capital had sent the King of Yan, Yan He Tu.
• Chu Yingxiong told them the Ancient Great Demon Pit might once have been a demon kingdom, and warned that its Heavenly Frost Freeze and heart fire could kill cultivators.
• A black-robed old man appeared before the group, declared that heart fire had ensnared him, and ordered Chen Zheng to take the calamity in his place.
• The old man vanished and reappeared beside Chen Zheng, then spread the heart fire across Chen Zheng’s left shoulder.

Chen Zheng arrived at the Ancient Great Demon Pit, where the Luo Shu emerged from a purple mountain and flew into his hand. After he revealed and combined the two halves of the Luo Shu, a demon warned that the mountain was the tomb of a supreme Imperial Lord, and Chen Zheng told the gathered cultivators to do as they pleased.

• Chen Zheng repelled Qu Fulong’s heart fire, and Qu Fulong fled after learning it could not harm him.
• A strange light from Chu Yingxiong’s stone coffin appeared, but Chen Zheng took Chu Yingxiong and Chu Hongyi into the demonic mist to find the Luo Shu first.
• Inside the mist, the Luo Shu flew out of the cracked purple mountain and landed in Chen Zheng’s hand as Dao Lords and other cultivators battled over it.
• Kuchen, Yan He Tu, and Qu Luoshui demanded the Luo Shu, while a dark figure warned that the purple mountain was the tomb of its race’s supreme Imperial Lord.
• Chen Zheng revealed that he already possessed the other half of the Luo Shu, combined the scrolls, and absorbed the complete Luo Shu into his primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng told the furious cultivators, “I'm done. Do as you please.”

Chen Zheng faced the Golden Immortals and Dao Lords as the great demon began to awaken beneath the purple mountain. After the Dao Lords betrayed their plan and the demon attacked, Chen Zheng stopped its gigantic hand with one finger, leaving cracks across it.

• Daoist Kuchen, the King of Yan, Qu Luoshui, and the shadow demon mocked Chen Zheng and threatened Chu Hongyi.
• A gigantic demonic hand burst from beneath the earth, crushed a Golden Immortal, and fed his flesh and blood into the split purple mountain as the great demon began to awaken.
• The King of Yan, Qu Luoshui, and Daoist Kuchen pretended to join forces against the demon, then attacked Chen Zheng to seize the Luo Shu.
• Chen Zheng erased Chu Yingxiong's escape technique and teleported Chu Hongyi and Chu Yingxiong behind him, leaving himself in the three Dao Lords' path.
• The demonic hand struck, smashing the King of Yan underground, but Chen Zheng held it back with one finger and caused cracks to appear across it.

Chen Zheng shattered the great demon’s attacks without injury, leaving the ancient creature crippled before Purple Mountain. As demonic qi surged toward the mountain and a greater Emperor Lord began to awaken, Chen Zheng ignored warnings and asked whether anyone knew the loneliness of an expert.

• Chen Zheng destroyed the giant demonic hand with one finger, stunning the King of Yan and the other cultivators.
• The shadow demon summoned the great demon’s true body, which struck at Chen Zheng with a freshly reformed hand.
• Chen Zheng remained unharmed as the great demon’s hand and half its body exploded, leaving it kneeling before him.
• Chen Zheng noticed that the demon inside Purple Mountain had awakened, while the shadow demon and the Black Tortoise Golden Immortal warned him of the Emperor Lord’s impending revival.
• Chen Zheng ignored the plea to use the Luo Shu and asked the shadow demon whether it knew the loneliness of an expert.

Chen Zheng faced the awakening Emperor Lord in Purple Mountain as the sealed demons revived and the Golden Immortals panicked. Just as the Emperor Lord focused on Chen Zheng, a stone coffin tore through spacetime and landed on his head.

• The shadowy demon accused Chen Zheng of being no true expert, while Chen Zheng dismissed the great demon’s helpless rage.
• Purple Mountain trembled, and the shadowy demon and the Black Tortoise Clan elder urged Chen Zheng to stop the Emperor Lord and save the Western Emperor Realm.
• The Emperor Lord emerged as millions of demons revived, prompting Chu Yingxiong and the human Golden Immortals to fear the scale of the threat.
• The Emperor Lord absorbed streams of blood from across the Ancient Great Demon Pit, causing the demons’ cultivation to regress, and Lou Yi and Kuangtu paid him respect.
• The Emperor Lord turned his attention to Chen Zheng, but a black streak tore through spacetime and dropped a stone coffin onto his head.

Chen Zheng faced the revived Supreme Imperial Lord, who tried to make a deal against the self-willed stone coffin and then attacked him with the Purple Illusion Demon Eyes. Chen Zheng countered with a succession of powerful eye techniques, leaving the demons and the purple figure injured.

• The Supreme Imperial Lord hurled the stone coffin at Chen Zheng, but it flashed away and refused to attack either of them.
• The Supreme Imperial Lord used his Purple Illusion Demon Eyes to lure the Golden Immortals to him, then devoured them.
• The King of Yan, Kuchen, and Qu Luoshui begged Chen Zheng to use the Luo Shu to save them, while the Supreme Imperial Lord demanded to see it.
• The Supreme Imperial Lord attacked Chen Zheng with his Purple Illusion Demon Eyes, forcing the three Dao Lords to their knees.
• Chen Zheng revealed the Reincarnation Eye and other eye techniques, forcing Lou Yi to his knees and splitting the demons’ bodies.
• Chen Zheng’s final void-like gaze caused blood to stream from the Supreme Imperial Lord’s Purple Illusion Demon Eyes.

Chen Zheng effortlessly withstood Emperor Lord Ziyuan’s attacks, and Ziyuan summoned the Origin Demon Warship to fire its Sage-Slaying Cannon. The chapter ended with Lou Yi fleeing as the cannon threatened to annihilate the Western Emperor Realm.

• Chen Zheng revealed five divine eyes and overwhelmed Emperor Lord Ziyuan’s Purple Illusion Demon Eyes.
• Chen Zheng invited Ziyuan to attack him, but Ziyuan’s blows rebounded and left his demonic body cracked.
• Emperor Lord Ziyuan accidentally killed Daoist Kuchen when a rebounding collision sent him crashing into the Dao Lord.
• Ziyuan summoned the Origin Demon Warship, and the demons surged aboard as the earth split apart.
• Ziyuan announced that the warship’s Great Pulverization cannon had once slain a Sage, while Lou Yi fled with Kuangtu.

Emperor Lord Ziyuan unleashed Great Pulverization against Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng swallowed the attack. When Ziyuan tried to flee the Western Emperor Realm, Chen Zheng’s Pitch-Black Throne appeared and devoured him and the Origin Demon Warship.

• Emperor Lord Ziyuan infused the Origin Demon Warship with his purple blood essence, causing its power to surge and the prelude to Great Pulverization to tear apart Qu Fulong’s primordial spirit.
• Emperor Lord Ziyuan unleashed Great Pulverization at Chen Zheng, and Chen Zheng casually swallowed the devastating attack.
• Emperor Lord Ziyuan ordered the Origin Demon Warship to flee, claiming Chen Zheng could not stop it.
• Chen Zheng said the Origin Demons would not leave after Great Pulverization had disappointed him.
• A woman appeared on the Pitch-Black Throne, and its demonic energy devoured Emperor Lord Ziyuan and the Origin Demon Warship.

The stone coffin erased Qu Luoshui and opened before Chen Zheng, transporting everyone from the Ancient Great Demon Pit into a dim, unfamiliar world. A faceless woman approached Chen Zheng and greeted him.

• The Pitch-Black Throne swallowed the Origin Demon Clan and entered Chen Zheng's body.
• The stone coffin erased Qu Luoshui, leaving only his scattered bones.
• King of Yan invoked Fuxi's name, but the stone coffin ignored him and moved toward Chen Zheng.
• The stone coffin opened completely and transported Chen Zheng, Chu Hongyi, Chu Yingxiong, and King of Yan to another world.
• A woman emerged from the darkness, walked up to Chen Zheng, and reached out to him.

A mysterious woman confronted Chen Zheng and tried to awaken his memories by showing him the remains of powerful beings she had killed. After she revealed that the remains included a Sage and killed the King of Yan, Chen Zheng and the others were left facing her threat.

• The woman asked Chen Zheng if he recognized her, but he could not make out her face or remember her.
• The woman summoned the remains of an Ancient God and an Ancient Immortal, and Chen Zheng remarked that she had killed many patriarch-level beings.
• A third skeleton emerged wearing the Sage's Immortal-Demon Daoist Robe, and the woman identified it as a disobedient Sage.
• The woman said Chen Zheng had taught her the God-Slaying, Immortal-Slaying, and Sage-Slaying Methods, then declared that the King of Yan had no value and could sleep forever.
• The Sage's skeleton seized the King of Yan, turning him to ashes.

Chen Zheng encountered Hongdou, who returned half of the Primordial Divine Stone and revealed that First Heaven was buried beneath the Heaven-Burying Stone Coffin. After First Heaven awakened, Hongdou took the coffin to the forbidden land in the Great Void, while Chen Zheng remained without any memory of her or his past.

• Hongdou explained that she had used ancient murals to lure Chen Zheng to the Heaven-Burying Stone Coffin and recognized the Creation Lotus Seed as the Future Lord of Tribulation.
• The Creation Lotus Seed declared that she and Chen Zheng were partners and decided to keep the Ninth Tribulation Lord alive.
• Hongdou returned half of the Primordial Divine Stone to Chen Zheng and said that speaking his name would awaken the being suppressed inside the coffin.
• Hongdou told Chu Hongyi that Primordial, also called First Heaven, was buried there and that only Chen Zheng had once been able to suppress him.
• First Heaven roared awake, and Hongdou left to suppress him before taking the Heaven-Burying Stone Coffin to the forbidden land in the Great Void.
• Chu Hongyi asked Chen Zheng about Hongdou, but he said he had no memories of her or the coffin.

Chen Zheng absorbed the Primordial Divine Stone, raising his cultivation to the Early Body Integration Stage before Creation purified the power, and learned that Chu Bieyue was missing. After Chu Yingxiong reported that Dao Lord Liyue had been suppressed in the Divine Capital, Chen Zheng took the God-Creating Child Cauldron and set out with Chu Hongyi to investigate.

• Chen Zheng crushed the Primordial Divine Stone and absorbed its power, but Creation purified it and stabilized his cultivation at the Early Body Integration Stage.
• Chen Zheng explained that his fleshly body was a universe and that the Primordial Divine Stone was only a drop in the ocean, then confirmed Chu Bieyue was not at the Ancient Great Demon Pit.
• Chu Yingxiong named the Northern Sea's great whirlpool as another forbidden place, and Chen Zheng sensed that it concealed Guixu.
• Chu Yingxiong received word that Dao Lord Liyue had been suppressed, and Chen Zheng decided to visit the Divine Capital.
• Chen Zheng collected the God-Creating Child Cauldron, left Chu Yingxiong to guard the Chu Family, and departed with Chu Hongyi for the Divine Capital.

Chen Zheng stormed the Eastern Holy Divine Capital, transformed into a thousand-zhang god-demon, and destroyed its defenses and palaces with a single stomp. He then shattered King Lingxiao’s High Heaven Hall and killed him, while the Divine Capital’s survivors still hoped Daoist Tianying would emerge.

• Chunyu Xian attacked Chen Zheng, who killed the ninth-tier Profound Immortal with one slap.
• The golden-robed elder and other cultivators attacked Chen Zheng, but their lightning and magic treasures could not harm him.
• Chen Zheng transformed into a thousand-zhang god-demon and stomped through the Four Symbols Grand Formation, destroying the Divine Capital and Eastern Holy Mountain.
• King Lingxiao and King Xuanji escaped the stomp, and the Divine Capital’s cultivators called for Daoist Tianying to appear.
• Chen Zheng shattered King Lingxiao’s High Heaven Hall, seized him, and crushed both his body and primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng freed Dao Lord Liyue and smashed open Daoist Tianying’s palace, drawing the Heavenly Emperor Realm expert into battle. Daoist Tianying’s Holy Punishment failed to stop Chen Zheng, who began brutally slapping him while King Xuanji and the Divine Capital cultivators watched in terror.

• Chen Zheng retrieved the God-Creating Mother Cauldron beneath Eastern Holy Mountain, broke its seal, and released Dao Lord Liyue.
• Chen Zheng destroyed Eastern Holy Mountain and its white jade palace, revealing Daoist Tianying beneath the ruins.
• King Xuanji attacked Chen Zheng with ten thousand clones, but Chen Zheng destroyed them and then blasted King Xuanji into bloody mist, leaving only his primordial spirit.
• Daoist Tianying appeared and unleashed Holy Punishment, but Chen Zheng seized him with demon-god power and slapped him away.
• Chen Zheng repeatedly slapped Daoist Tianying, leaving King Xuanji and the Divine Capital cultivators horrified at their old ancestor’s helplessness.

Chen Zheng survived Daoist Tianying’s Saint-Felling Spear and absorbed its power, prompting Tianying to summon the Eastern Saint Supreme’s dharma body. Chen Zheng unleashed the third God-Devil Transformation and tore the dharma body apart.

• Chen Zheng returned to human size, then killed a Profound Immortal who attacked him and warned that ordinary Profound Immortals could not challenge him.
• Daoist Tianying summoned hundreds of millions of Saint-Felling Spears, but Chen Zheng erased them and absorbed their Dao of Slaughter power.
• Daoist Tianying revealed his master was the Eastern Saint Supreme and summoned the Supreme’s dharma body from the sky.
• The Eastern Saint Supreme’s dharma body dismissed Chen Zheng’s third God-Devil Transformation as too weak to defeat him.
• Chen Zheng transformed into his thousand-zhang demonic form and tore the Eastern Saint Supreme’s dharma body to shreds.