Recaps

Chen Zheng arrived at Wuji Mountain for the preliminary selection of the Son of the Heavens and drew a thousand bolts of Wuji Divine Lightning. He consumed the lightning unharmed, leaving the onlookers stunned as the selection grounds awaited him.

• Chen Zheng, Bai Mei, and Bai Mu'er reached Wuji Mountain, where warships were gathering for the preliminary selection of the Son of the Heavens.
• Bai Mu'er noted that the selection's age rules had changed, and Chen Zheng suggested that Holy Emperor Pan was recruiting talent while the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord was injured and asleep.
• Chen Zheng told the others that his disciple, the Wuji Dao Lord, had condensed a Dao Fruit, prompting Yin-Yang Dao cultivators to mock him.
• Chen Zheng stepped onto Wuji Mountain, and a thousand bolts of Wuji Divine Lightning struck its summit.
• The lightning and thunderclouds vanished, and Chen Zheng said that Wuji Divine Lightning tasted pretty good.

Chen Zheng entered the Son of the Heavens preliminaries with Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei, astonishing the Yin-Yang Dao cultivators with his power. In the first trial, he crossed the shifting-law region effortlessly and gave Li Liusha a secret art that let him advance.

• Chen Zheng decided he would not compete in the preliminaries and teleported into the trial site with Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei.
• Ancestor Qi Yin speculated that Chen Zheng was a powerful being's reincarnation and led the Yin-Yang Dao disciples into the preliminaries.
• Chen Zheng identified the shifting-law region as the first trial while Bai Mei and Bai Mu'er followed him through it with ease.
• Li Liusha asked Chen Zheng and the women for help, and Chen Zheng sent mystic light into him before crossing the region in a single step.
• Li Liusha discovered that Chen Zheng's gift was a secret art that let him walk through the shifting laws, and he shouted his name and promised to repay Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng freed Yin Xue and Diao Chan from the Heavenly Eye Beast’s restraints, provoking the beast’s appearance before the assembled cultivators. The beast recognized Chen Zheng as its former Palace Master and prostrated itself to apologize.

• Bai Mei realized Li Liusha was the reincarnation of the Quicksand Emperor, one of the candidates for Heaven, and Chen Zheng said he only hoped Li Liusha would find himself again.
• Chen Zheng arrived at the foot of Heavenly Eye Mountain with Bai Mei and Bai Mu'er, where the Blood River Holy Son warned him not to interfere with the Heavenly Demon Twin Beauties.
• Chen Zheng shattered the restraints on Yin Xue and Diao Chan, who identified themselves as disciples of the Female Heavenly Demon and paid their respects to Ancestor Chen.
• The Blood River Holy Son accused Chen Zheng of breaking the rules, and the Heavenly Eye Beast appeared and unleashed its heavenly might.
• The Heavenly Eye Beast saw Chen Zheng, rushed to his feet, and kowtowed while apologizing for failing to recognize its former Palace Master.

Chen Zheng learned that the three-eyed beast was once Yinghuo’s dog and questioned him about Emperor Pan’s plans. After the beast revealed that an awakening could destroy heaven and earth, Chen Zheng ordered him to eliminate the Blood River Holy Son and the other witnesses.

• The three-eyed beast kowtowed to Chen Zheng and explained that Yinghuo had created him as her dog after Chen Zheng left her.
• The beast said he could not summon Emperor Pan, but Emperor Pan might appear after all ten places in the selection were decided.
• The three-eyed beast revealed that an awakening might reshape or destroy everything in heaven and earth, while Yinghuo had not intervened to stop it.
• Chen Zheng told the beast to get up and get to work, and the beast understood that he should erase the witnesses.
• The three-eyed beast turned the Blood River Holy Son and the other cultivators into dust and smoke.

Chen Zheng entered the Son of the Heavens preliminaries and answered Holy Son Duotian’s challenge at Heavenly Eye Mountain. Duotian revealed that his strength had risen to the Patriarch Realm as he prepared to fight Chen Zheng.

• The three-eyed beast erased the Blood River Holy Son and his companions, then left after receiving a summons.
• Li Liusha emerged from the first trial, credited his secret technique with restoring his magical power, and continued across the ancient forest.
• Holy Son Duotian won nineteen duels and declared that he would take first place and defeat Ancestor Chen if he appeared.
• Chen Zheng arrived at the divine temple with four women and answered Duotian’s call.
• Duotian unleashed his blood fiend power and raised his aura to the Patriarch Realm, surpassing the Patriarchs watching.

Chen Zheng faced Holy Son Duotian, whose fully developed Chaos Body unleashed a devastating power of chaos. Chen Zheng killed him with a single finger, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Holy Son Duotian trapped Chen Zheng inside a barrier and attacked him with hundreds of Great Dao laws, which Chen Zheng absorbed without moving.
• Ancestor Fengyue urged Duotian to unleash his full power and revealed that the Futu Sect could revive him using his true blood preserved in the Eightfold Futu Pagoda.
• Duotian released the power of chaos and charged Chen Zheng with an attack that surpassed a Sage's strength.
• The divine temple shielded the fight, and the cultivators saw Duotian's body and primordial spirit torn apart while Chen Zheng remained unharmed.
• Chen Zheng dismissed Duotian's Chaos Body as limited by the standards of a Great Thousand World, then destroyed him with a finger, shocking the onlookers.

Chen Zheng challenged the Futu Sect after killing Holy Son Duotian, then met the phantom of Pangu, who asked him to return the Heaven-Opening Axe. The chapter ended with the cultivators stunned by the revelation that Chen Zheng possessed the legendary artifact.

• Ancestor Fengyue claimed the Futu Sect's progenitor could resurrect Duotian, but Chen Zheng dismissed the threat and challenged the sect's ancestors to wait for him.
• Ancestor Fengyue left Heavenly Eye Mountain aboard the Futu Sect's warship after accepting Chen Zheng's challenge.
• Li Liusha thanked Chen Zheng for giving him a secret art, alarming Elder Qin and the young man from the Seven Ancients Sect.
• A phantom appeared before the assembled cultivators, and Bai Mu'er identified him as Holy Emperor Pangu.
• Pangu asked Chen Zheng to return the Heaven-Opening Axe, leaving the cultivators shocked that Chen Zheng possessed it.

Chen Zheng traded the Heaven-Opening Axe to Holy Emperor Pan for a map to a burial ground of gods and learned that a terrifying beast might be released. A gigantic transparent face appeared and vanished after Chen Zheng identified it as Primordial Chaos, leaving the cultivators stunned.

• Holy Emperor Pan offered Chen Zheng a map to a burial ground of gods in the Sky-Pillaring Ancient Star Domain in exchange for the Heaven-Opening Axe, and Chen Zheng accepted the trade.
• Holy Emperor Pan warned Chen Zheng that someone wanted to release the terrifying beast he had suppressed and urged him to retrieve an object from the burial ground.
• A gigantic transparent face appeared, roared at Chen Zheng, and asked him to slay it if it failed or lost control; Chen Zheng told it to sleep for three years before emerging.
• The face dispersed, and Chen Zheng told the shaken cultivators that it was Primordial Chaos.

The Heavenly Eye Beast explained the Son of the Heavens preliminaries, and Chen Zheng chose Qi Ruyi to compete for first place. Qi Ruyi stunned the assembled cultivators by defeating Xiang Li with a single sword strike.

• Li Liusha asked what was required to pass, and Chen Zheng summoned the Heavenly Eye Beast to explain the rules.
• The Heavenly Eye Beast said contestants would compete for first place and that the winner would receive a Great Dao Seed.
• The Heavenly Eye Beast paired Xiang Li with Li Liusha, but Xiang Li resolved to fight Qi Ruyi instead.
• Chen Zheng judged that Qi Ruyi could win, and she stepped forward to challenge the other contestants.
• Xiang Li attacked Qi Ruyi with an ancient sword technique, but Qi Ruyi shattered his sword with one strike.

Qi Ruyi won first place in the Futu Great World’s Son of the Heavens preliminaries and received a Great Dao seed, while Li Liusha advanced after defeating Xiang Li with a strange devouring secret art. Chen Zheng left with his companions, and the watching cultivators suspected he was behind the world’s recent upheavals and wondered whether the Futu Sect would be his next target.

• Qi Ruyi’s victory over Xiang Li went unchallenged, and the three-eyed beast awarded her first place and a Great Dao seed.
• Li Liusha transformed into quicksand and drained Xiang Li’s magical power, causing Xiang Li’s Ancient Star Physique to regress.
• The remaining contestants won their group battles, and the ten qualifiers received divine markings for the Son of the Heavens main selection.
• Chen Zheng told the qualifiers that only Qi Ruyi could barely fight his half-disciple, then departed with Bai Mu'er, Bai Mei, and the Heavenly Demon Twin Beauties.
• The gathered cultivators connected Chen Zheng to recent disasters in the Futu Great World and speculated that the Futu Sect might be his next target.

The Futu Sect’s founding ancestor Xisheng revealed the Bone of Heaven and the sect’s origins in the Heaven Nie Family, planning to empower Holy Son Duotian against Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng discovered that the Land of Return to Dust held something Heaven had left behind, and Bai Mu'er recognized the revealed object from the Primordial Ruins.

• Xisheng told the Futu Sect ancestors that Duotian could surpass Chen Zheng by devouring the Bone of Heaven.
• Xisheng revealed that the Futu Sect came from the Heaven Nie Family of the Great Cang Saint Dynasty and that the sect sought something hidden in the Land of Return to Dust.
• Xisheng said Duotian had Nie Family blood and an awakened Chaos Body, and planned to take him to the Land of Return to Dust after he devoured the bone.
• Chen Zheng sent Yin Xue and Diao Chan to summon the Female Heavenly Demon to the Return to Dust Dao Domain.
• Chen Zheng showed Bai Mei and Bai Mu'er an image of the Land of Return to Dust and revealed an object that Bai Mu'er recognized from the Primordial Ruins.

Chen Zheng, Bai Mu'er, and Bai Mei arrived at the Land of Return to Dust, where Bai Mei revealed her Patriarch strength and Chen Zheng’s power overwhelmed a cultivation-detecting compass. The three entered the dangerous realm, leaving the watchers stunned and the Secluded Immortal Tower preparing to summon its master.

• Chen Zheng and the two women left Black and White Chess Mountain and reached the entrance to the Land of Return to Dust as the Yin-Yang Daoist emerged from seclusion.
• Bai Mei warned that the realm lowered entrants’ cultivation and contained dangerous spacetime currents, then the group approached its gate.
• Shang Ding of the Secluded Immortal Tower insulted Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei, so Bai Mei killed him with a casual gesture.
• Gu Xiaowu’s Fate-Identifying Compass revealed that Bai Mei and Bai Mu'er were Patriarchs, then shattered when he pointed it at Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng entered the Land of Return to Dust with the two women, while the watching cultivators recoiled and the Secluded Immortal Tower decided to summon its master.

Chen Zheng reached the heart of the Land of Return to Dust and obtained Heaven's heart chamber as the Futu Sect arrived to challenge him. He erased the Futu Sect group with one sword strike, leaving the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower unable to move.

• The Master of the Nether Immortal Tower learned that Chen Zheng had entered the Land of Return to Dust and recognized him as the Ancestor Chen who had killed Holy Son Duotian before.
• Chen Zheng and Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei reached an ancient altar, where the spirits feared him because he had obtained Heaven's heart chamber.
• Star-Picking Ancestor, Ancestor Fengyue, Ancestor Duobao, and Holy Son Duotian arrived and greeted Chen Zheng, who dismissed the Heart Stone of Heaven as inferior to the Taisu Stone Egg.
• Holy Son Duotian revealed that he had fused with the Bone of Heaven and challenged Chen Zheng to take Heaven's relic and suppress him.
• Chen Zheng unleashed one sword strike that reduced the Futu Sect group to nothingness, while the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower watched in shock and found himself unable to move.

Chen Zheng killed Holy Son Duotian and absorbed the Heart Stone of Heaven and Bone of Heaven, which revealed the identity of a Heaven but did not significantly improve his cultivation. He let Susu swallow the relics, while the Futu Sect’s ancestors withdrew and Chen Zheng warned the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower about Ying Tianzhu’s legacy.

• Chen Zheng retrieved the Bone of Heaven after killing Duotian and used it with the Heart Stone of Heaven to form a humanoid being, which shattered when it saw him.
• Chen Zheng absorbed the two relics, briefly reached the Heavenly Emperor Realm, then returned to the Heavenly Immortal level and restored the relics as particles.
• Chen Zheng summoned Susu, and the Taisu Stone Egg swallowed both the Heart Stone of Heaven and the Bone of Heaven.
• Ancestor Fengyue accused Chen Zheng of luring Duotian into the Land of Return to Dust for the Bone of Heaven, but Chen Zheng said the relics were mainly food for Susu.
• Star-Picking Ancestor challenged Chen Zheng to come to the Futu Sect, then he, Ancestor Fengyue, and Ancestor Duobao destroyed their Dao bodies.
• Chen Zheng told the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower that he could leave because he had obtained Ying Tianzhu’s legacy, but warned him that he knew what to do next.

After learning that Ying Tianzhu’s inheritance pointed toward the Taiyin Clan in the Great Void, Chen Zheng left the Land of Return to Dust and went to the Futu Sect. The sect’s ancestors and the Nie Family prepared a forbidden object to confront him, and Old Ancestor Xisheng invited Chen Zheng into the Eightfold Futu Pagoda.

• The Master of the Nether Immortal Tower told Chen Zheng that Ying Tianzhu’s divine talisman had brought the inheritance to him and that Ying Tianzhu had directed him to seek the Taiyin Clan in the Great Void.
• Chen Zheng vanished from the Land of Return to Dust, and the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower told Diao Chan that Chen Zheng had gone to destroy the Futu Sect.
• Diao Chan and the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower set out for the Futu Sect as cultivators at the Land of Return to Dust reacted to news of Chen Zheng’s attack.
• The Futu Sect’s nine ancestors gathered their disciples inside the Eightfold Futu Pagoda and awaited Chen Zheng alongside members of the Nie Family, who had brought a forbidden object.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the Futu Sect with two women, and the attacking blood dragons shattered before they could reach them.
• Old Ancestor Xisheng sent a divine staircase from the Eightfold Futu Pagoda and invited Chen Zheng inside.

Chen Zheng entered the Eightfold Futu Pagoda to face the Futu Sect’s leaders, who revealed their ties to the Nie Family and summoned a terrifying Forbidden Artifact. The stone coffin’s pressure immobilized the sect’s ancestors, while Chen Zheng remained before it.

• Chen Zheng and Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei entered the Eightfold Futu Pagoda through its guiding divine light.
• The Star-Picking Ancestor told Chen Zheng to face the three founding ancestors alone, and Chen Zheng vanished to the highest floor.
• Xisheng explained that the Futu Sect’s founders and the three archaic-robed cultivators came from the Nie Family, which he said was known as the Heaven Clan and the origin of Chaos Bodies.
• Nie Sha ordered the Forbidden Artifact to be brought forth, and the three Nie Family envoys summoned a stone coffin from black vapor.
• The stone coffin shook the Eightfold Futu Pagoda and its pressure immobilized the Futu Sect’s founding ancestors and great ancestors.

Nie Sha and the other Nie Family cultivators used a Forbidden Artifact stone coffin to try to suppress Chen Zheng, but its terrifying pressure affected everyone except him. The chapter ended with Chen Zheng striking the coffin and spiderweb cracks spreading across it.

• Nie Sha and the other Nie Family cultivators spilled blood onto the stone coffin, causing it to tremble and shake the Eightfold Futu Pagoda.
• The Forbidden Artifact's aura forced Star-Picking Ancestor and the other Futu Sect ancestors to their knees, while Nie Sha demanded Chen Zheng hand over the Bone of Heaven and the relic of Heaven.
• Chen Zheng pointed out that the coffin's pressure had no effect on him, though Nie Sha insisted it could still suppress him.
• Nie Sha poured more blood into the coffin, and its growing power cracked the space inside the Eightfold Futu Pagoda and forced his two companions to their knees.
• Chen Zheng walked up to the stone coffin and struck it, spreading spiderweb-like cracks across its surface.

Chen Zheng demonstrated that the Heaven Nie Family’s forbidden stone coffin feared him, then used it to destroy Nie Sha and the others before the Creation Little Doll questioned his connection to coffins made to bury Heavens. The coffin crumbled, and Chen Zheng revealed an image of a one-armed man punching it into dust.

• Chen Zheng repeatedly cracked and repaired the forbidden stone coffin, taunting Nie Sha and showing that he could use it without burning his essence.
• Xisheng offered to have the Futu Sect submit to Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng refused and raised his hand against the stone coffin.
• The coffin’s aura crushed Nie Sha, the other Nie Family cultivators, the Futu Sect’s three old ancestors, and the nine ancestors into blood mist, which the little purple Dao-Devouring Beast devoured.
• Creation Little Doll suggested that Chen Zheng had created the coffins used to bury Heavens in his first life, but the coffin suddenly crumbled into dust.
• Chen Zheng used seven-colored divine light to reveal an image of a one-armed man punching a stone coffin into dust.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Futu Sect, took control of the Eightfold Futu Pagoda, and learned that the Female Heavenly Demon had been captured. After hearing that a mysterious young man had subdued her with a stone slab, Chen Zheng sent the pagoda toward the Return to Dust Dao Domain.

• Chen Zheng traced the stone coffin’s memories and identified the one-armed man as the Abnormal Human Sovereign.
• Chen Zheng made the Eightfold Futu Pagoda’s treasure spirit submit to him, then emerged after defeating the Futu Sect’s ancestors.
• Chen Zheng killed the Futu Sect’s tens of thousands of cultivators with a snap of his fingers, leaving Bai Mu'er to reflect on the sect’s destruction.
• Diao Chan told Chen Zheng that a mysterious young man had suppressed her master, the Female Heavenly Demon, with a stone slab and intended to take her as his wife.
• Chen Zheng sent the Eightfold Futu Pagoda crashing toward the eastern void, while the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower witnessed the Futu Sect’s complete destruction.

Chen Zheng arrived at Heavenly Demon Mountain as the Female Heavenly Demon faced an attack from the brocade-robed boy and the Xuanhuang Elders. He caught the boy’s ancient stone slab and erased its imprint, leaving the boy bleeding and enraged.

• The Xuanhuang Elders broke Heavenly Demon Mountain’s barrier while the brocade-robed boy threatened the Female Heavenly Demon and ordered her followers killed.
• Chen Zheng, Bai Mu'er, Bai Mei, and Diao Chan arrived in the Eightfold Futu Pagoda and smashed the Heaven-Equaling Warship, killing most of its occupants.
• The Female Heavenly Demon called Chen Zheng her uncle, and the boy challenged him with an ancient stone slab.
• Chen Zheng casually caught the slab and erased the boy’s imprint, causing the boy to spit blood.

Chen Zheng took the brocade-robed youth’s Realm Map and invited him to summon his master, the lord of the First Heavenly Palace. After the Palace Lord appeared, he ignored his disciple and asked Chen Zheng whether he remembered the Heaven-Reflecting Peach Blossom.

• Chen Zheng erased the brocade-robed youth’s primordial spirit imprint from the Realm Map and claimed the treasure.
• The youth threatened Chen Zheng and revealed that his master was the lord of the First Heavenly Palace, which the Xuanhuang Elders said ruled over the past.
• Chen Zheng asked the youth to summon his master, and the youth called the Palace Lord down to Heavenly Demon Mountain.
• The white-robed Palace Lord appeared, ignored the youth’s complaints, and asked Chen Zheng about the Heaven-Reflecting Peach Blossom.

The Azure Lord recognized Chen Zheng as his master’s old acquaintance and gave him a coal-like object called the Cosmic Embers, while revealing that recovering his past required reaching Transcendence. He also crippled his former disciple Pan Zao and departed, leaving Chen Zheng to study the mysterious gift.

• The Azure Lord questioned Chen Zheng about their past and explained that the Heaven-Reflecting Peach Blossom had been refined by his master’s old acquaintance, who looked almost exactly like Chen Zheng.
• The Creation Little Doll called the Azure Lord another servant of Zero, and the Azure Lord identified it as the Future Lord of Tribulation and concluded that Chen Zheng had erased his past.
• The Azure Lord gave Chen Zheng the coal-like Cosmic Embers, following his master’s instruction, and revealed that his master’s homeland held a supreme divine object that could help restore Chen Zheng’s past if he attained Transcendence.
• The Azure Lord recognized Pan Zao as his former disciple, crippled his cultivation, and sent the unconscious youth back to his mother as a mortal.
• The Azure Lord and the Xuanhuang Elders departed, and the Female Heavenly Demon marveled at Chen Zheng’s past identities as he examined the Cosmic Embers.

Bu Sheng stole the Cosmic Embers from Chen Zheng, believing the divine object would help him escape the Great Thousand World's limits. After Chen Zheng let him go, Bu Sheng tried to use it to break through, but exploded, leaving the embers behind as blood rain fell across the world.

• Bu Sheng's manifestation appeared on Heavenly Demon Mountain and took the Cosmic Embers, claiming he had divined its arrival and would give Chen Zheng a favor in return.
• Chen Zheng agreed to let Bu Sheng keep the divine object, then told the puzzled cultivators to wait for rain.
• Less than ten breaths later, Heavenly Dao lightning struck Yanzhi Valley, where Bu Sheng's true body appeared and resisted the lightning.
• Bu Sheng thanked Chen Zheng and declared that the Cosmic Embers would let him break free of the Great Thousand World's shackles and rise above Sages.
• Bu Sheng identified the object as World Ember, then exploded as blood rain fell across the world.
• The cultivators realized Chen Zheng had meant they would witness the blood rain of a Sage's fall.

Chen Zheng explained how Bu Sheng died after absorbing the world’s ember, then helped the Female Heavenly Demon complete her primordial holy demon physique with a single sweep of his hand. He warned her of a future threat to the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land and left her wondering whom he loved most.

• Chen Zheng retrieved the world’s ember and explained that Bu Sheng had burst after trying to absorb more information than he could contain.
• Cultivators across the Futu Great World realized that Bu Sheng and the Futu Sect had fallen because of Chen Zheng.
• The Female Heavenly Demon asked Chen Zheng how to complete her primordial holy demon physique, and he offered to use a massage technique.
• Chen Zheng swept his hand across the Female Heavenly Demon’s back, instantly bringing her physique to greater completion.
• Chen Zheng told her to warn the Primordial Heavenly Demon to flee if a powerful enemy attacked the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land.
• The Female Heavenly Demon asked Chen Zheng which of his women he loved most, and he furrowed his brows.

The Female Heavenly Demon left the Futu Great World with Diao Chan, while Chen Zheng traveled through chaotic space-time and was attacked by a being who called himself one of the Heavens. Chen Zheng was forcibly transported to the Sky-Pillaring Ancient Star Domain, where a terrifying heavenly immortal confronted the Dragon Firmament Chamber of Commerce over a caged demon girl.

• The Female Heavenly Demon told Diao Chan that Chen Zheng had only given her a massage, then took her back to the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land as Heavenly Demon Mountain left the Futu Great World.
• The Seventh Princess told Chen Zheng that the Wall-Breaking Shuttle belonged to Number Five, and Chen Zheng suspected Number Five was the trapped Reincarnation Fate Lord.
• A force attacked Chen Zheng's Star Raft through the River of Time, and Chen Zheng shattered the torrent and a sky-propping hand with seven-colored divine light.
• A being who called himself one of the Heavens used the Laws of Space and Time to transport Chen Zheng, while accusing him of abandoning the original Heaven Heavenly Court.
• At the Dragon Firmament Market on Langhuang Star, a middle-aged fat man offered a caged demon girl to a seemingly ordinary heavenly immortal whose aura had terrified the surrounding cultivators.