Recaps

A rampaging Ancient Immortal destroyed the city lord’s residence in Qingjue Immortal City and fled toward Great Yu Mountain, where lotus yao gathered around a vision linked to the Azure Emperor. Chen Zheng arrived with Ximen Qiubai as humans and vicious demons faced the monsters, and the Seven Palace Demon singled Chen Zheng out to clear a path.

• The stunning Ancient Immortal melted the young city lord, the purple-robed man, and the city lord’s residence before fleeing, while the city lord chased after her.
• Cultivators suspected Chen Zheng had known the Ancient Immortal would rampage, but he denied being involved, and the stallholder speculated that she might belong to the lineage connected to Great Yu Mountain.
• A vision of a man seated on a lotus appeared above Great Yu Mountain, prompting cultivators to rush there in hopes of seeing the Azure Emperor.
• Chen Zheng asked Ximen Qiubai to guide him to Great Yu Mountain, where they found lotus yao swallowing humans and vicious demons and resisting secret arts.
• The Seven Palace Demon demanded that human cultivators clear a path through the lotus yao, then pointed at Chen Zheng and ordered him to do it.

Chen Zheng entered Great Yu Mountain after casually feeding Seven Palace Demon to the lotus demons and destroying the rest of them. Deep inside, he confronted the city lord of Qingjue Immortal City as the lord seized and swallowed a green pearl, only for something to tear through his chest.

• Chen Zheng grabbed Seven Palace Demon and threw him to the lotus demons, which devoured him.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the lotus demons in a single clash and entered Great Yu Mountain; Ximen Qiubai and other cultivators followed.
• The city lord of Qingjue Immortal City revealed his plan to absorb the green pearl and claim the Azure Emperor’s inheritance while the others lay injured in the mine.
• Chen Zheng warned the city lord that he could not absorb the pearl, but the city lord swallowed it and reached for him.
• Something pierced through the city lord’s chest as his body froze.

The city lord of Qingjue Immortal City transformed into a servant of the Turbid World Demon Lotus, but his demonic rays had no effect on Chen Zheng. He released the Demon Lotus’s true body from her seal, and she confronted Lu Feixuan over the sacrifice she had made to imprison her.

• The city lord of Qingjue Immortal City transformed into a lotus demon and attacked Chen Zheng with demonic rays, which left him unharmed.
• The city lord retreated into Great Yu Mountain to free the Turbid World Demon Lotus’s true body, despite the stunning Ancient Immortal warning what he intended to do.
• The city lord returned with lotus demons carrying a demonic palace out of the cliff face and hailed the Demon Lotus’s emergence.
• A figure resembling a little girl emerged from the palace and identified Lu Feixuan as the former holy maiden who had sacrificed her future to seal her.
• Lu Feixuan recalled that the Grand Pure Limitless Sect had sealed the Turbid World Demon Lotus, while the Demon Lotus challenged her about whether that sacrifice had been worth it.

The Turbid World Demon Lotus revealed her plans to corrupt the epoch and boasted about her creator, while Lu Feixuan warned her of powerful enemies. When Chen Zheng released his aura, the Demon Lotus recognized him as her father.

• The Turbid World Demon Lotus confronted Lu Feixuan and mocked the Human King Lu Clan and Grand Pure Limitless Sect for failing to suppress her.
• Lu Feixuan warned that this was the twelfth epoch, created by the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord, and that the Future Lord of Tribulation could destroy the Demon Lotus.
• The Demon Lotus suspected the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord was occupied and explained that her creator possessed power beyond Tribulation Lords and Heaven.
• The lord of Qingjue Immortal City urged the Demon Lotus to eliminate Chen Zheng because he had neutralized turbid world power.
• Chen Zheng released his aura, and the Demon Lotus stared at him in disbelief before recognizing him as her father.

Chen Zheng’s identity as the Turbid World Demon Lotus’s father seemed confirmed, but she doubted his strength and tried to awaken his evil. After Chen Zheng revealed a power that could shift between sacred and monstrous, the child inside a lotus seed appeared and frightened the Demon Lotus into fleeing into the cliff.

• The Turbid World Demon Lotus defended Chen Zheng when the lord of Qingjue Immortal City challenged his claim to be her father.
• The Turbid World Demon Lotus judged Chen Zheng too weak and fired the power of the turbid world at him, knocking the stunning Ancient Immortal aside when she tried to intervene.
• Chen Zheng’s azure lotus manifestation shifted between sacred and monstrous evil, shocking the watching cultivators.
• A little child emerged from a lotus seed and confronted the Turbid World Demon Lotus, who wailed that everyone was bullying her and fled with the Demon Hall into the cliff.
• Chen Zheng withdrew the manifestation and disappeared into the cliff, leaving Ximen Qiubai and the others wondering who the child was.

Chen Zheng captured Turbid World Demon Lotus, then uncovered the Five Emperors’ recorded images describing the Land of Eternal Life and its connection to their reincarnations. The images left him considering how to investigate the Land of Eternal Life, while his scan advanced the Cosmic Cantilever’s progress to sixty-one.

• Creation Little Doll coaxed Turbid World Demon Lotus out of the Demon Hall, captured her, and declared that she would train her as a disciple.
• Chen Zheng put away the Demon Hall and revealed an image left by the Azure Emperor in a lotus leaf inside the hidden formation.
• The Five Emperors’ images recounted their discovery of the Land of Eternal Life, their strange memory-erasing illness, and their belief that their reincarnations served as keys to entering it.
• Chen Zheng and Creation Little Doll concluded that the Land of Eternal Life might be connected to Zero, and Chen Zheng noted that entering it could make him a new key.
• Chen Zheng scanned Great Yu Mountain and the Green Moon Ancient Realm, raising the Cosmic Cantilever’s progress to sixty-one.

Chen Zheng emerged at the Great Yu Mountain mine and effortlessly destroyed the Vicious Demon Clan’s kings, the demonized lord of Qingjue Immortal City, and the remaining demons. He exposed Daoist Hongtian as a clone that destroyed itself, then left for Qingjue Immortal City with Lu Feixuan, while Wenren Haoyue wondered why Chen Zheng had spared him.

• Chen Zheng discovered that the Yu Character Stele was hidden in the Land of Divine Origin, then went to the besieged Great Yu Mountain mine.
• Chen Zheng appeared behind Lu Feixuan and erased Eight Palace Demon and Nine Palace Demon before either could finish speaking.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the fleeing demonized lord of Qingjue Immortal City and exposed Daoist Hongtian, who revealed he was a clone and shattered himself.
• Chen Zheng erased the Vicious Demon Clan members who begged for mercy, then invited Lu Feixuan to accompany him to Qingjue Immortal City.
• Wenren Haoyue wondered why Chen Zheng had spared him, and Wenren Yi suggested it might be because of their family’s ancestor.

Chen Zheng returned to the ascended Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations and discovered that its growth was tied to a magical artifact from Beyond the Universe. He then encountered a ghostly woman who asked to bite him and immediately regretted it.

• Ximen Qiubai told Chen Zheng which realms Qingjue Immortal City's teleportation array connected to, and Chen Zheng chose to visit the Baishao Ancient Realm before returning to the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations.
• After Chen Zheng left, Ximen Qiubai wondered whether he had once been undefeated and decided to travel to Great Might Heavenly Dragon City in the Outer Realm.
• Chen Zheng arrived in the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations and found that its spiritual energy, size, and population had greatly increased since his previous visit.
• Chen Zheng sensed seven-colored divine light from Divine Desolation interrupting his own, and concluded that a being from Beyond the Universe had arranged something in the ascended realm.
• A white-robed ghost asked Chen Zheng to let her bite him, then bit his arm and began crying when the bite nearly shattered her ghostly body.

Chen Zheng rescued Yin Xiaodie from the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor’s pursuers and revealed overwhelming power in Ghost Desolation. After learning about the region’s recent upheaval, he decided to visit its sacred sites, while Yin Xiaodie grew increasingly afraid of him.

• Chen Zheng obliterated the ghost cultivators pursuing Yin Xiaodie and asked about the new Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor.
• Yin Xiaodie explained that a divine object had transformed the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations, and that the Ghost Emperor had captured her for an ancient ritual.
• Chen Zheng gave Yin Xiaodie the Nine Netherworlds Reincarnation Secret Art, which she recognized as a lost supreme ghost-cultivation technique.
• Chen Zheng asked whether they should visit Yan Ancient City or Ten Thousand Ghosts Cliff, and Yin Xiaodie warned that the cliff had collapsed and urged him to leave Ghost Desolation.
• Gui Qianchou arrived to seize Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng instantly destroyed him.
• Chen Zheng reflected that few people in the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations still recognized his aura, leaving Yin Xiaodie trembling with fear.

Chen Zheng and Yin Xiaodie reached the Ghost Desolation Ancient Battlefield, where the World-Chaos Ghost Saber was trying to capture Hongyue and lure out her father. Chen Zheng stepped in and challenged Yan Tutian to strike him, and Yan Tutian’s soul-devouring saber shattered against him.

• Yin Xiaodie told Chen Zheng that the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor and Divine Desolation had targeted the Xiongzhao Beast’s daughter, so Chen Zheng changed course for the ancient battlefield.
• At the battlefield, Chen Zheng and Yin Xiaodie found Hongyue fighting Yan Tutian, who intended to capture her and use her to draw out her father.
• Yan Tutian mocked the taboo Hongyue hoped would return and claimed he could kill it with one strike.
• Chen Zheng stepped between Yan Tutian and Hongyue and gave Yan Tutian ten breaths to unleash his strongest saber strike.
• Yan Tutian attacked Chen Zheng, but his soul-devouring saber cracked and shattered.

Chen Zheng destroyed World-Chaos Ghost Saber in the ancient battlefield, despite Yan Tutian’s ghost artifact protecting his primordial spirit. Hongyue recognized Chen Zheng as the taboo her father once followed and bowed to him as the Old Ancestor.

• World-Chaos Ghost Saber unleashed ten thousand ghostly shadows, but Chen Zheng swept them away and shattered his body and primordial spirit.
• World-Chaos Ghost Saber accused Chen Zheng of being a disguised old monster and then fled after warning him that the gods of the Divine Desolation wanted him dead.
• Chen Zheng shattered World-Chaos Ghost Saber’s primordial spirit again, and the spectral soul fell silent under his gaze.
• Hongyue transformed into a woman in red, bowed to Chen Zheng, and addressed him as the Old Ancestor.
• Yin Xiaodie recognized Chen Zheng as the legendary taboo, and Hongyue swallowed the ghosts outside the pit with a streak of blood-red light.

Chen Zheng forced the Five Hells Ghost Pearl to retrieve a drop of ancient blood and gave it to Hongyue. When a Half-Step Dao Ancestor deity from Divine Desolation arrived and threatened them, Chen Zheng killed him with a single gesture.

• The Five Hells Ghost Pearl recognized Chen Zheng as Vicious One Ancestor and offered to break the sealing formation beneath the ancient battlefield.
• The artifact spirit retrieved the ancient blood, and Chen Zheng gave it to Hongyue, explaining that it was of no interest to him or his spirit pet.
• The artifact spirit warned Chen Zheng that a deity from Divine Desolation had arrived and that its Dao Ancestor had a three-tier Dao Tower.
• Huang Yuan arrived, mocked Hongyue and the others, and trapped the ancient battlefield in divine light.
• Chen Zheng grabbed at Huang Yuan, causing the deity to explode and his primordial spirit to shatter.

Chen Zheng returned to Yan Ancient City with Yin Xiaodie as the Ghost Clan reeled from the deaths of Gui Qianchou and Yan Tutian and prepared to sacrifice the Grand Shaman. After Chen Zheng said he was looking at the years, the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon recognized him and recoiled in terror.

• Chen Zheng sent Hongyue to find her father and warn him to stay alive until Chen Zheng could visit.
• The Five Hells Ghost Pearl brought Chen Zheng and Yin Xiaodie through a teleportation formation to Yan Ancient City.
• Ghost Clan and Demon Clan members discussed Consort Yin's escape, the Grand Shaman's intended sacrifice, and the deaths of Gui Qianchou and Yan Tutian.
• Chen Zheng arrived above Yan Ancient City with Yin Xiaodie and the ghost pearl, then landed on the city wall as the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon descended.
• Chen Zheng said he was looking at the years, and the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon recognized him and recoiled in terror.

Chen Zheng stood on Yan Ancient City's wall, claiming to watch the passage of time as the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon and the Ghost Clan's attacks failed against him. The Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor intervened, but Chen Zheng destroyed his Dao Ancestor ghost body and said he had been disturbed.

• Chen Zheng appeared atop Yan Ancient City's wall, and the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon showed fear as Yin Xiaodie and the demons watched.
• The Ghost Clan's leaders attacked Chen Zheng with black qi, but he absorbed their attacks while the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon remained silent.
• The Ghost Clan's leaders summoned the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor from his seclusion.
• The Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor tried to grab Chen Zheng, but his attack had no effect.
• Chen Zheng turned, smiled, and destroyed the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor's Dao Ancestor ghost body with a raised hand.
• Chen Zheng said the Ghost Emperor had disturbed him while he was watching the passage of time.

Chen Zheng crushed the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor’s body and shattered the ghosts’ Soul-Devouring Coffin without moving. He let a terrifying aura wash his netherworld sword, then destroyed the Ghost Emperor’s primordial spirit as it tried to swallow the blade.

• Chen Zheng’s appearance left Yan Ancient City’s ghosts and the Demon Clan stunned after he crushed the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor’s Dao Ancestor body.
• The Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor summoned the Soul-Devouring Coffin, but it shattered against Chen Zheng without making him move.
• Chen Zheng called for someone to wash his sword, and a woman-shaped aura bowed before enveloping the netherworld sword phantom.
• The Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor used Nine Netherworlds Reincarnation to try to swallow the sword, but the aura honed its edge and the sword reduced his primordial spirit to ash.

Chen Zheng defeated Lord Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor, freed the Grand Shaman, and met with Demon Desolation’s Ninth Princess, Di Yan. He agreed to visit the Demon Desolation Sacred Land to investigate the changes in her father, Di Mulang, and sent her back with a way to summon a hidden demonic artifact.

• Chen Zheng’s sword shadow destroyed Lord Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor, leaving the Ghost Clan’s leaders terrified and uncertain about the clan’s future.
• Chen Zheng freed the Grand Shaman from the altar and summoned the Demon Clan into the Ghost Clan’s sacred hall.
• Di Yan told Chen Zheng that her father, Di Mulang, had grown timid and developed feminine mannerisms after becoming a Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Zheng agreed to visit Demon Desolation while traveling to see the Xiongzhao Beast, and investigate what had happened to Di Mulang.
• Chen Zheng told Di Yan that her eldest sister could summon a hidden demonic artifact by reciting an ancient incantation if she faced danger.

Chen Zheng left Yin Xiaodie in Yan Ancient City, while the Xiongzhao Beast fought the Divine Venerable and Corpse Venerable at Xiongzhao Mountain. Just as the beast nearly self-detonated, Chen Zheng arrived and saved him.

• Chen Zheng told the Five Hells Ghost Pearl to take Yin Xiaodie to Netherdark Mountain for the Ghost Clan sacred artifact, then departed.
• The Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon promised to help Yin Xiaodie cultivate, and the Grand Shaman said he would leave Yan Ancient City.
• The Xiongzhao Beast refused to surrender to the Divine Venerable and Corpse Venerable, insisting that Chen Zheng would avenge him.
• The Divine Venerable revealed the Golden Shadow Divine General and used him to wound the Xiongzhao Beast.
• The Xiongzhao Beast began to self-detonate, but Chen Zheng pressed him back into his original form and the beast knelt before his master.

Chen Zheng returned to the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations and confronted the Divine Venerable and Corpse Venerable, who underestimated him because his cultivation had fallen to the Profound Immortal level. After destroying their Golden Shadow Divine General and killing them, he learned that the Valkyrie from the Human Desolation had disappeared in the Heavenly Abyss.

• The Xiongzhao Beast recognized Chen Zheng as his master, while Huang Tianba and the Corpse Venerable dismissed Chen Zheng as too weak to threaten them.
• Huang Tianba ordered the Golden Shadow Divine General to kill Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng crushed the metal puppet with his bare hand and destroyed the crystal in its skull.
• Chen Zheng identified the Golden Shadow Divine General as a Reaper from an Indestructible Dao Lineage, then absorbed its metal body.
• Huang Tianba and the Corpse Venerable fled in opposite directions, but Chen Zheng sent two dragons of baleful energy after them and devoured them.
• The Xiongzhao Beast told Chen Zheng that the Valkyrie from the Human Desolation had entered the Heavenly Abyss eight hundred years earlier and had not returned.

Chen Zheng discussed the Valkyrie, Chen Huang, and plans to visit the Heavenly Abyss and Human Desolation before heading to the Demon Desolation Sacred Land with Mo Xin. At Nine Heavens Demon Phoenix Mountain, the demons mocked them over the Blood Radiance Divine Spear until the Ninth Princess recognized Chen Zheng and respectfully invited him inside.

• Chen Zheng said he would visit the Heavenly Abyss to find the Valkyrie and Chen Huang's elder sister, then travel to Human Desolation with the Xiongzhao Beast after it recovered.
• Chen Zheng healed the Xiongzhao Beast and told it to take Hongyue beyond the domain to find her mother when the time was right.
• Chen Zheng and Mo Xin arrived at Nine Heavens Demon Phoenix Mountain, where demons demanded that Mo Xin surrender the Blood Radiance Divine Spear.
• Gui Xinshu accused Chen Zheng and Mo Xin of using trickery to enter the sacred land and asked the Ninth Princess to judge them.
• The Ninth Princess bowed to Chen Zheng and invited him into the Holy Mountain, stunning the gathered demons.

Chen Zheng and Mo Xin interrupted the Demon Lord’s attempt to marry Princess Suxin to He An, and the Demon Lord recognized something familiar about Chen Zheng. The chapter ended with Mo Xin wielding the blood-colored divine spear and sending it to kill He An.

• The Ninth Princess welcomed Chen Zheng and Mo Xin, while Gui Xinshu and the other demons dismissed them and headed to the summit.
• The Demon Lord announced an alliance with the He Family and his decision to marry Princess Suxin to He An, who privately resolved to take her beyond the domain.
• Chen Zheng objected by addressing the Demon Lord as Di Mulang, prompting the demons and He An to condemn him.
• The Demon Lord hesitated as he recognized Chen Zheng’s voice and spear, while Princess Suxin called Chen Zheng “Old Ancestor.”
• He An tried to seize Chen Zheng, but Mo Xin grabbed the blood-colored divine spear and launched it at He An.

Mo Xin withstood Dao Ancestor Chang Geng’s attack, and the demons realized Chen Zheng was the reincarnation of the Vicious One Ancestor. Chen Zheng revealed his overwhelming ferocity and killed Chang Geng with a single thrust of the Blood Radiance Divine Spear.

• Mo Xin shattered Young Master He’s attack, then survived Chang Geng’s Dao Ancestor might despite being injured.
• Gui Xinshu warned that Mo Xin might be the Vicious One Ancestor’s successor, and Chang Geng recognized Chen Zheng’s indestructible fleshly body as proof that he was the Vicious One Ancestor’s reincarnation.
• Gui Xinshu urged the Demon Lord to join Chang Geng in suppressing Chen Zheng, but Chang Geng declared he could handle Chen Zheng alone.
• Chang Geng summoned blood dragons, and Young Master He claimed his battle-tempered blood energy surpassed the Vicious One Ancestor’s former might.
• Chen Zheng reclaimed the Blood Radiance Divine Spear, revealed blood dragons more ferocious than Chang Geng’s, and pierced Chang Geng through, destroying his primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng killed Dao Ancestor Chang Geng and several others, then exposed a hidden demoness within the Demon Lord. The chapter ended with the demoness revealed as the source of the Demon Lord’s strange behavior.

• Chen Zheng stabbed Dao Ancestor Chang Geng to death with the Blood Radiance Divine Spear and gave the spear to Mo Xin.
• Gui Xinshu knelt and begged for mercy, but Mo Xin killed him with the spear.
• A white-robed young man threatened Chen Zheng with the power of the Ancestral Dragon Sacred Dynasty, and Chen Zheng had Mo Xin kill him as he tried to flee.
• Chen Zheng confronted the Demon Lord and demanded that someone hiding come out.
• The Demon Lord fled, but Chen Zheng’s gaze forced an unfamiliar demoness out from between his brows.

Chen Zheng revealed that the demoness who invaded Di Mulang’s primordial spirit came from the Heavenly Abyss and had targeted his Ancient Demon of the Mortal World bloodline to open a sealed place. He exposed the demoness as the Nine Heavens Demon Phoenix, who warned that Lord Zao Wang and the gods of Divine Desolation were preparing to escape the Heavenly Abyss.

• The Ninth Princess told Di Mulang that a demoness had invaded his primordial spirit and Chen Zheng had driven her out.
• Di Mulang recalled what happened and asked Chen Zheng about the legends of his journey through the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations.
• Chen Zheng explained that he had left the Heavenly Abyss to rescue Gai Tian and Gai Shi, and said the demoness wanted Di Mulang’s bloodline to open a sealed place.
• Chen Zheng addressed the eavesdropping Nine Heavens Demon Phoenix, and the demoness returned and revealed that she knew he was Vicious One Ancestor.
• The Nine Heavens Demon Phoenix warned that Lord Zao Wang and the gods of Divine Desolation were preparing to join forces, then vanished.

Chen Zheng revealed that the Heaven Cocoon he had left with Princess Suxin contained a Heaven Candidate, and he broke it open so she could fuse with the being inside. The little girl merged with Suxin, unleashing immense demonic power as the story left their fusion underway.

• Chen Zheng changed the formation so the Nine Heavens Demon Phoenix could no longer control it, then took Di Mulang, Princess Suxin, and the Ninth Princess to the rear mountain.
• Chen Zheng explained that the Nine Heavens Demon Phoenix had delayed the Heaven Cocoon’s emergence, which he had left for Suxin more than two thousand years earlier.
• Chen Zheng revealed that the Heaven Cocoon contained a Heaven Candidate, and said Suxin would remain in control after gaining a second primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng broke open the cocoon, revealing a little girl whose appearance summoned thunder and lightning that Chen Zheng made vanish with a word.
• The little girl began fading because she had no place in the world, then plunged into Suxin’s brow and triggered an immense surge of demonic power.

Princess Suxin successfully merged with the girl inside Heaven's Cocoon and reached the Half-Step Dao Ancestor realm. Zao Wang arrived to propose an alliance and invoked Princess Jinxiu, but Chen Zheng exposed his lack of leverage and devoured his split spirit with a stone-egg-like object.

• Princess Suxin's fusion succeeded, raising her cultivation to Half-Step Dao Ancestor and filling her with a transcendent aura.
• Chen Zheng sensed Zao Wang's arrival, and Zao Wang appeared as a ripple-like split spirit in the cave abode.
• Zao Wang proposed an alliance to open the mysterious place and claimed he could use Princess Jinxiu as leverage.
• Chen Zheng said Zao Wang could not control Jinxiu and had no real bargaining chip, then warned that he had underestimated her.
• A stone-egg-like object devoured Zao Wang's split spirit as Di Mulang and the Ninth Princess watched in confusion.