Recaps

Chen Zheng suppressed the Source of All Evil and revealed that the Tribulation Lord Divine Throne let him recover his peak power within the Abandoned Nine Heavens. After sending a drop of his true blood to Su Jinxiu, he absorbed the Source of All Evil and annihilated the remaining enemies, while a mysterious voice from his pocket claimed the bodies as food.

• Chen Zheng said the Tribulation Lord Divine Throne had restored his peak cultivation and explained that the Source of All Evil had been lured out deliberately.
• Chen Zheng sent a drop of true blood to Su Jinxiu, who absorbed it and became enveloped in ancient immortal light.
• The Purple Emperor of Ten Thousand Ages attacked Chen Zheng but was blasted apart without Chen Zheng looking at him.
• Chen Zheng absorbed the Source of All Evil into his primordial spirit and dismissed its warning about a supreme Dominator.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers, reducing the black-robed old man, Zao Wang, Divine Emperor Gai Shi, and the Purple Emperor of Ten Thousand Ages to dust.
• A dark gleam swept up the remains, and a babyish voice said Susu had just woken up in time to get food.

Chen Zheng took his companions into the Heavenly Abyss, where they discovered the ruins of an Indestructible Dao Lineage and heard that Chen Huang’s missing sister might have left the realm. They found another Dao lineage’s cultivators confronting the Pure Woman’s branch, and Chen Zheng addressed them as the conflict escalated.

• Chen Zheng told the Valkyrie to absorb his true blood and annihilated the Abandoned Nine Heavens’ remaining evil thoughts.
• The Barbarian Venerable, Di Mulang, and the Heaven-Equaling Imperial Clan departed, while Chen Zheng set out for the Heavenly Abyss with Chen Huang, the Myriad Longevity Divine Ape, and the others.
• The group descended beneath the Heavenly Abyss and learned from the Myriad Longevity Divine Ape that the ruins belonged to an Indestructible Dao Lineage and that a Prison lay at the bottom.
• Chen Huang wondered whether an Indestructible Dao Lineage had taken his missing sister, and Chen Zheng said she was alive and might have been taken beyond the realm.
• The group discovered an Indestructible Dao Lineage’s Dao Child confronting the Pure Woman’s branch after a woman broke an ancient artifact, then saw him unleash the Tenfold Sword Domain against the ancient forest.
• Chen Zheng spoke down to the Dao Child and his cultivators, who looked up at the Star Raft.

Chen Zheng confronted Chong Huang and the Supreme Reincarnation Hall cultivators after they threatened to cripple him for insulting their leader’s sword technique. He killed Yan Tianshen effortlessly, then mocked Chong Huang and his companions as small fry, while the Myriad Longevity Divine Ape wondered which powerful figure in the Great Void Chen Zheng resembled.

• Chong Huang declared that Chen Zheng had to be punished for insulting the Supreme Reincarnation Hall’s leader and threatened the Myriad Longevity Divine Ape when it tried to intervene.
• Chen Zheng stepped off the Star Raft to face Chong Huang, but Yan Tianshen attacked him first and turned to ashes before touching him.
• Chong Huang recognized Chen Zheng’s indestructible body and challenged him to state his name, claiming his Tenfold Sword Domain could kill him.
• Chen Zheng said that anyone with real strength or standing in the Great Void would mistake him for a powerful figure there, but Chong Huang and his followers were too insignificant to recognize him.
• The Myriad Longevity Divine Ape wondered which Great Void powerhouse Chen Zheng resembled.

Chen Zheng revealed a Sword Physique that reflected sword techniques and killed Dao Child Chonghuang with his own attack. He then turned Chonghuang’s disciples to ashes, leaving the Star Raft’s onlookers stunned by his power.

• Dao Child Chonghuang demanded Chen Zheng’s name and unleashed his strongest strike, the Tenfold Sword Domain.
• Chen Zheng stood still as Chonghuang’s sword attack rebounded and pierced Chonghuang between the brows.
• Chen Zheng told the dying Chonghuang that he had lost the moment he pointed his sword at him, then explained that his Sword Physique could reflect any sword technique.
• Dao Child Chonghuang’s primordial spirit shattered, and he fell dead.
• Chen Zheng turned the Supreme Reincarnation Hall disciples to ashes, while the Star Raft’s onlookers stared in silence.

The Valkyrie brought Chen Zheng into the Great Dao Formless Tower to treat the injured Pure Woman, despite the tower’s restrictions and the objections of its disciples. After the woman in white challenged his ability and ordered him out, Chen Zheng questioned her trust in men and pointed out the tower’s faceless divine statue.

• Chen Zheng shattered the light around Dao Child Chonghuang’s departing divine sword and gave the sword to Chen Huang.
• The Valkyrie told Chen Zheng that Pure Woman was injured and led him into the Great Dao Formless Tower, whose thirty-three levels disabled visitors’ magical power.
• At the thirty-third heaven, the woman in white rebuked the Valkyrie for bringing a man and demanded that she summon the Lord of Formlessness to atone for breaking the tower’s rules.
• The woman in white ordered Chen Zheng out, but her roar had no effect, and the other women noticed his Indestructible Fleshly Body.
• Chen Zheng asked whether the woman in white wanted to save Pure Woman or replace her, then questioned why she worshiped a faceless divine statue that did not seem to be a woman.

Chen Zheng entered the Great Dao Formless Tower and examined the curse afflicting the sleeping Pure Woman, while Zhuang Jiang tried to drive him away. Zhuang Jiang’s sacrifices to summon the Lord of Formlessness instead poured into Chen Zheng, leaving the women stunned as the Valkyrie suggested the Tower Master had foreseen his connection to the Lord.

• Chen Zheng brushed aside Zhuang Jiang’s icy barrier and studied the curse on the sleeping Pure Woman, recognizing methods from the Reincarnation Lineage.
• Zhuang Jiang forcibly extracted essence true blood from Su Jinxiu and the other women, then sacrificed it to the statue of the Lord of Formlessness.
• The statue’s divine light and Dao resonance flowed into Chen Zheng instead of summoning the Lord of Formlessness.
• The Valkyrie explained that the statue was a medium and implied the Tower Master had foreseen the sacrificial power reaching her teacher.
• Zhuang Jiang rejected the claim that Chen Zheng was the Lord of Formlessness and sacrificed another drop of her own blood, but its power again entered Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng was confirmed as the reincarnation of the Lord of Formlessness, while Zhuang Jiang transformed into a Myriad Transformation Ancient Demon and tried to possess him. After Chen Zheng destroyed the demon and exposed a curse within the Pure Woman, he dismissed the Reincarnation Fate Lord’s offer to reveal his past, leaving the others to wonder how many powerful identities he had held.

• Su Jinxiu explained that the sacrificial power entering Chen Zheng confirmed he was the reincarnation of the Lord of Formlessness.
• Zhuang Jiang’s face developed demonic markings, and Su Jinxiu identified her as possessed by a Myriad Transformation Ancient Demon.
• The demon abandoned Zhuang Jiang and flew into Chen Zheng to possess him, but its screams stopped abruptly as he destroyed it.
• Chen Zheng tapped the Pure Woman’s brow, drawing out a ghostly face that identified itself as the Reincarnation Fate Lord and challenged him to find it.
• Chen Zheng said he had little interest in his past and described Evil, multiple identities, and unknown lineages as what remained, astonishing the onlookers.

Pure Woman awakened after Chen Zheng removed her curse and saved Zhuang Jiang from a Myriad Transformation Ancient Demon. Chen Zheng led them to the Nameless Divine Hall, where Epoch Hegemons arrived to challenge its Great Samsara Chess Game, and the golden-masked man offered to risk being devoured if he lost to Chen Zheng.

• Pure Woman awakened, thanked Chen Zheng, and learned that Zhuang Jiang would recover after he removed the demon from her primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng told Pure Woman and Su Jinxiu that he knew what was inside the Nameless Divine Hall, and they agreed to accompany him.
• Chen Zheng, Pure Woman's followers, his companions, and the Myriad Longevity Divine Ape gathered before the hall, where its divine sense phantom invited Chen Zheng to solve the Great Samsara Chess Game.
• Several Epoch Hegemons' will incarnations arrived, and the Hall Master of the Supreme Reincarnation Hall demanded a chance to play.
• Chen Zheng called the newcomers food, and the golden-masked man offered to let Chen Zheng's devourer consume him if he lost.

Epoch Hegemons descended to challenge the Great Samsara Chess Game in the Nameless Divine Hall, and the golden-masked man lost almost immediately. The will incarnations then challenged Chen Zheng to prove himself, but their pressure had no effect on him.

• The golden-masked man asked Chen Zheng for a chance, and Chen Zheng agreed on the condition that he change his true body's face if he lost badly.
• The golden-masked man entered the Nameless Divine Hall and faced its phantom across the piece-less Great Samsara Chess Game.
• The chessboard's strange patterns overwhelmed the onlookers, while the Myriad Longevity Divine Ape realized the Epoch Hegemons hoped solving the game would help them break through.
• The phantom defeated the golden-masked man's will incarnation in less than half an incense stick, and Chen Zheng mocked him for losing.
• The Supreme Reincarnation Hall master's will incarnation and the other Epoch Hegemons challenged Chen Zheng, but their overwhelming force did not move him.

Chen Zheng entered the Nameless Divine Hall and solved the second-layer Great Samsara Chess Game with a single move, freeing its guardian. The Supreme Reincarnation Hall master's will avatar and the others then watched in horror as Chen Zheng's stone egg devoured the golden-masked man and all of them.

• Chen Zheng dismissed the Great Samsara Chess Game as useless to him, and its phantom asked him to solve it and grant it release.
• Chen Zheng entered the Nameless Divine Hall, revealing his face to the will avatars, who reacted with shock.
• The golden-masked man's mask cracked, revealing a face identical to Chen Zheng's, and the Creation Little Doll called him an imitator.
• Chen Zheng casually completed the chess game, causing the board and the phantom to vanish and leaving an ancient stone tablet behind.
• Chen Zheng told the golden-masked man's true self to change his face, then his stone egg devoured the golden-masked man and the will avatars.

Chen Zheng revealed the first layer of the Great Samsara Network to those gathered in the Heavenly Abyss, then assessed how the Cosmic Cantilever could help him regain his power. He learned that the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord had moved its defenses to the Supreme Heaven to obstruct him, but remained confident that it could not stop him.

• Chen Zheng transformed the Heavenly Abyss into a cosmic river of stars and showed the first layer of the Great Samsara Network, causing most of the onlookers to pass out as they tried to comprehend it.
• The Creation Little Doll watched the Valkyrie, Mo Xin, the Pure Woman, and the Myriad Longevity Divine Ape endure the vision, while worrying that Chen Zheng had guided many others with the potential to transcend.
• Chen Zheng told the Creation Little Doll to take Zhengyue and the others into the Dao Diagram World to comprehend the complete second layer of Great Samsara.
• The Spirit of the Trans-Spacetime Wheel warned Chen Zheng about Sheng Hongtian, whom Chen Zheng dismissed as a distant concern while explaining his plan to use the Cosmic Cantilever to break the universe's barrier.
• Chen Zheng sensed that the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord had moved its contingency measures to the Supreme Heaven to block his return to power, but said its pride would likely keep it from threatening Ancestor Chen's lineage directly.

Chen Zheng bid farewell to his allies in the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations, then sent Mo Xin beyond the domain to reunite with Mo Village. A sword’s cry drew him toward the Azure Cloud Realm, while an unknown Sword God followed the same trail to claim a disciple.

• The Xiongzhao Beast and Hongyue left the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations, and Chen Zheng gave the Myriad Longevity Divine Ape a warning to pass to the Supreme True Demon.
• Pure Woman and Su Jinxiu departed for the Great Void in the Great Dao Formless Tower, and the divine ape followed them; Chen Zheng then vanished with Mo Xin as those remaining in the Ancient Land bid him farewell.
• Chen Zheng visited Princess Suxin in the Demon Desolation and told the Ninth Princess and Di Mulang that Suxin could choose whether to leave after completing her fusion.
• In chaotic spacetime, Chen Zheng asked Ancient Sage Lixiao to take Mo Xin beyond the domain, then refused Creation Little Doll’s request to leave with A Jiu, Xiao Liu, Zhengyue, and Linglong.
• A sword’s cry alerted Chen Zheng to someone seeking the Nether Absolute Sword Physique in the Azure Cloud Realm, so he crossed into a Bridge of the Heavens.
• An unknown figure emerged in chaotic spacetime, recognized the sword-physique’s lingering will, and followed Chen Zheng through the Bridge of the Heavens to claim the prospective disciple.

Yun Yi and Mo Shenglian led Divine Wood Cliff’s forces to demand Ye Qingcheng’s surrender and attacked the Yin Moon imperial city while she slept. Gui Bu’s attempt to activate the Twelve Capital Heaven Gods and Fiends Grand Formation failed, and an unknown figure appeared beside him.

• Yun Yi threatened the Azure Cloud Realm and demanded that Ye Qingcheng submit to Divine Wood Cliff, while Mo Shenglian called for Gui Bu to kowtow.
• Yun Yi struck the imperial city’s Sword Domain, shaking it and alarming the people inside.
• Gui Bu tried to activate the Twelve Capital Heaven Gods and Fiends Grand Formation, but Yun Yi shattered it and tore Gui Bu’s body apart.
• An ethereal voice called the attackers weak, and a figure suddenly appeared beside Gui Bu.

Chen Zheng returned to the Azure Cloud Realm and effortlessly destroyed the body of the Demon Clan youth, while the demons revealed their ties to Ancestor Heijue. A deranged Sword Ancestor then arrived seeking Ye Qingcheng as his disciple, and his sudden wail left Yun Yi and the youth blown apart.

• Chen Zheng appeared before Yin Moon Imperial City, and his glance turned the Demon Clan youth's body to ashes until the World-Destroying Black Lotus restored him.
• Chen Zheng identified the lotus as a sliver of the World-Destroying Black Lotus's power and ignored Yun Yi's warnings about Ancestor Heijue and Supreme Heaven.
• A disheveled Sword Ancestor descended through the Bridge of the Heavens, admired Ye Qingcheng's Sword Domain, and demanded that she acknowledge him as her master.
• Yun Yi and the Demon Clan youth tried to provoke the Sword Ancestor into killing Chen Zheng by claiming Chen Zheng was Ye Qingcheng's master.
• The Sword Ancestor wailed, shaking the Azure Cloud Realm and causing Yun Yi and the Demon Clan youth to explode into blood mist.

Chen Zheng defeated Yun Yi and the young demon after a mysterious madman opened a gate to the Eternal Life Sword Domain, then learned that Ye Qingcheng’s Nether Absolute Sword Physique had awakened again. He planned to take her through the gate and left Princess Zhengyue to guard the Azure Cloud Realm.

• The madman opened a heavenly gate to the Eternal Life Sword Domain, challenged Chen Zheng to retrieve a tome that could cleave through epochs, and departed after deciding Chen Zheng was not the person he sought.
• Yun Yi sent the young demon and his Fate artifact through the gate, but the gate’s sword power destroyed the warship and everyone aboard except the young demon.
• Chen Zheng explained that the gate was meant for peerless sword cultivators, then destroyed the young demon and the faint power of the World-Destroying Black Lotus; the black shadow that appeared afterward vanished when Chen Zheng challenged it.
• Gui Bu, Old Ghost Fox, and the Azure Cloud Realm’s people welcomed Chen Zheng, who healed Gui Bu and learned that Ye Qingcheng had fallen asleep after the realm’s recent changes.
• Chen Zheng identified Ye Qingcheng’s state as the second awakening of her Nether Absolute Sword Physique and decided to take her to the Eternal Life Sword Domain.
• Chen Zheng summoned Princess Zhengyue to guard the Azure Cloud Realm while he and Ye Qingcheng were away, leaving Gui Bu and Old Ghost Fox astonished.

After Ancestor Chen departed, Zhengyue assured Gui Bu and Old Ghost Fox that she would protect the Azure Cloud Realm, while they discussed Little Bone and Daji. At the Eternal Life Sword Domain, a young Golden Immortal ignored the usual trials and stared toward the ninth Zhoutian Sword Platform as a black-robed elder took interest in the motionless True Immortal woman beside him.

• Gui Bu bowed to Zhengyue and asked her to look after the Azure Cloud Realm, and she calmly agreed.
• Zhengyue told Gui Bu and Old Ghost Fox that Little Bone had become mistress of the Colorless Sea in Great Dark Heaven, while Old Ghost Fox said Daji was in seclusion.
• Sword cultivators on a rising platform fought swarms of sword puppets, then survived a million sword weapons that froze and shattered before the Epoch Sword Palace appeared and vanished.
• A middle-aged sword cultivator sent the platform’s fighters to the first Zhoutian Sword Platform and warned the young Golden Immortal not to aim for the ninth.
• The young Golden Immortal kept staring at the ninth Zhoutian Sword Platform, while a black-robed elder on the fifth platform recognized the woman beside him as awakening one of the ten great Sword Physiques and ordered the Gold Sword Envoy to bring her over.

Chen Zheng rejected the Limitless Sword Ancestor’s attempt to claim Ye Qingcheng and brought her onto the ninth Zhoutian Sword Platform. When the elder attacked, Chen Zheng killed him with an indifferent glance, leaving everyone in the Eternal Life Sword Domain stunned.

• The Limitless Sword Ancestor advanced to the seventh Zhoutian Sword Platform and demanded that the Golden Sword Envoy let him take Ye Qingcheng as his disciple, but the envoy cited the rules protecting those with the top five Sword Physiques.
• The Golden Sword Envoy secretly told Chen Zheng that the Limitless Sword Ancestor wanted Ye Qingcheng because he possessed the Devouring Sword Physique, and that she could enter the Epoch Sword Palace if she had one of the top five Sword Physiques.
• Chen Zheng took Ye Qingcheng directly to the ninth Zhoutian Sword Platform, astonishing the gathered sword cultivators and the Sword Ancestors seated there.
• The Limitless Sword Ancestor declared that he would take what was inside Ye Qingcheng, but Chen Zheng turned and killed him, reducing him to ashes.
• The Golden Sword Envoy and the other Sword Ancestors stared in disbelief as Chen Zheng calmly said he had merely killed a Sword Ancestor, and a newcomer fainted in terror.

Chen Zheng killed Dao Ancestor Yunji after Yunji attacked him, then reclaimed the sword runes from the nine steles to help Ye Qingcheng awaken her Nether Absolute Sword Physique. The Epoch Sword Palace appeared, and the Golden Sword Envoy wondered whether the Eternal Life Sword Master would come to meet Chen Zheng.

• Dao Ancestor Yunji appeared and demanded to know who had killed his disciple, the Limitless Sword Ancestor.
• A middle-aged newcomer identified Chen Zheng as the killer, and Yunji promised to protect him before attacking Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng destroyed Yunji's body and shattered his primordial spirit with a casual grab, and the middle-aged informant died after his Dao heart shattered.
• Chen Zheng explained that he had come to reclaim a few things and help Ye Qingcheng awaken, then drew the ancient runes from the nine sword steles into her brow.
• Ye Qingcheng awakened the Nether Absolute Sword Physique, and the Epoch Sword Palace reappeared as the Golden Sword Envoy wondered whether the Eternal Life Sword Master would appear.

The Three Venerables of Sun, Moon, and Star and the Eternal Life Sword Master arrived after Dao Ancestor Yunji called for help against Chen Zheng. The Sword Master revealed that a mysterious elder had summoned Chen Zheng and admitted he would not dare fight him.

• Dao Ancestor Yunji summoned the Three Venerables of Sun, Moon, and Star and accused Chen Zheng of killing Wuji and destroying his body.
• The Three Venerables recognized that Chen Zheng possessed an Indestructible Fleshly Body, and Chen Zheng silenced the gathered onlookers.
• The Eternal Life Sword Master arrived, and Dao Ancestor Yunji pleaded for him to punish Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng asked about someone who had entered the Eternal Life Sword Domain, and the Sword Master said a venerable elder had been waiting for him.
• The Sword Master explained that the elder was recovering from severe injuries and would later cross swords with Chen Zheng.
• When Chen Zheng invited the Sword Master to fight in the elder’s place, the Sword Master said, “I wouldn’t dare.”

The disheveled man returned to his peak and challenged Chen Zheng to a primordial-spirit sword duel, but Chen Zheng defeated him with ease. The man departed into chaotic spacetime to hunt down a traitor, while Chen Zheng remained in the Eternal Life Sword Domain.

• The disheveled man appeared in the Epoch Sword Palace, and the Eternal Life Sword Master and his junior sister welcomed him as their master.
• The disheveled man challenged Chen Zheng to a primordial-spirit sword duel, and Dao Ancestor Yunji accused Chen Zheng of being afraid when he declined.
• Chen Zheng sent out his primordial spirit, shattering the disheveled man's sword might and revealing that Heaven and Earth's First Sword was within him.
• The disheveled man unleashed a devastating sword strike that split the sky and the Eternal Life Sword Domain, but cracks appeared across his primordial spirit, showing that Chen Zheng had won.
• The disheveled man said he could not catch up to Chen Zheng and left to find and kill the traitor who had betrayed them both.

Chen Zheng encountered the Eternal Life Sword Master, retrieved a secret canon from the Epoch Sword Palace, and strengthened Ye Qingcheng’s sword inheritance and weapon. Chen Zheng and Ye Qingcheng then departed, leaving the Eternal Life Sword Domain free to leave its isolated spacetime.

• Dao Ancestor Yunji’s Dao heart shattered, and he vanished as Chen Zheng asked the Eternal Life Sword Master about his master, Jian Cang.
• The Epoch Sword Palace sent an inheritance into Ye Qingcheng, and the frosty woman bowed to Chen Zheng before returning to the palace.
• Chen Zheng drew out the secret canon, which the Eternal Life Sword Master said had suppressed the Eternal Life Sword Domain’s ability to leave its special spacetime.
• Chen Zheng sent the secret canon into Ye Qingcheng, awakening her Nether Absolute Sword Physique as swords across the Eternal Life Sword Domain rang out.
• Chen Zheng took a vein of divine iron from the northwest and used it to refine the Unrivaled Sword, which devoured its artifact tribulation.
• Chen Zheng sent the Unrivaled Sword into Ye Qingcheng and departed with her from the Ninth Heavenly Circuit Sword Platform.

Ye Qingcheng awakened her Nether Absolute Sword Physique a second time and helped the Azure Cloud Realm advance into a Great Thousand World. When cultivators from other realms arrived to seize its power of creation, her sword annihilated them all, leaving her invincible beneath Dao Ancestors.

• Chen Zheng told Ye Qingcheng her Nether Absolute Sword Physique had awakened a second time and directed her to help the Azure Cloud Realm advance.
• Ye Qingcheng cleaved open the sky with a sword strike, and the Azure Cloud Realm absorbed immortal spiritual power and rapidly advanced as its inhabitants broke through in cultivation.
• Cultivators from other Great Thousand Worlds arrived to claim the realm's power of creation and resources, with Luo Jiuxiao of Divine Wood Cliff demanding a major share.
• Chen Zheng ordered the intruders slain, and Ye Qingcheng's sword reduced them all to nothingness.
• Chen Zheng explained that Ye Qingcheng's strongest sword strike could defeat nearly anyone beneath Dao Ancestors, and Gui Bu and Old Ghost Fox fainted.

Ye Qingcheng reached the Heavenly Emperor Realm after the Azure Cloud Realm ascended, and Chen Zheng learned that the realm’s newly freed Heavenly Dao had caused the breakthrough. The Great Samsara Sacred Lamp identified Ye Qingcheng as having the potential to become a Creator, while the Trans-Spacetime Wheel teleported Chen Zheng and his companions away to a slow-time cultivation place; meanwhile, Little Bone prepared to wait for Chen Zheng in Great Dark Heaven.

• Chen Zheng scanned the ascended Azure Cloud Realm, learned that a Heavenly Dao had broken free of the Heavenly Dao Palace’s control, and saw Ye Qingcheng become a Heavenly Emperor.
• The Azure Cloud Realm’s Heavenly Dao appeared before Ye Qingcheng, bowed to Chen Zheng, and entered the space between Ye Qingcheng’s brows at his direction.
• The Great Samsara Sacred Lamp judged that Ye Qingcheng had the potential to become a Creator, then stole magical power from Beyond the Universe and helped Chen Zheng advance to second-rank Golden Immortal.
• The Trans-Spacetime Wheel revealed that it could teleport Chen Zheng to a place where time flowed extremely slowly, then sent him and the others away.
• In Great Dark Heaven, Little Bone dismissed the Yama Clan’s request to send forces to the Azure Cloud Realm, while the metal cat said he had sensed spacetime beacons left by his former master.
• Chu Hongyi asked Little Bone to let her visit Chen Zheng, but Little Bone told her to cultivate until she reached the Heavenly Emperor Realm.

Chen Zheng and his companions entered the Land of Stopped Time, where cultivators gained vast stretches of cultivation time but faced periodic trials. As more entrants arrived, a Foundation Establishment cultivator named Qi Hao eagerly mistook Chen Zheng for a benefactor who could advance his cultivation.

• The Artifact Spirit of the Trans-Spacetime Wheel brought Chen Zheng and his companions to the Land of Stopped Time and returned to his primordial spirit.
• The Dragon Desolation Battle Flag spotted the stone stele and wondered whether time standing still meant they could live forever.
• An old cultivator warned them that periodic trials determined whether they could stay, and explained that one person had transcended the place after exhausting its benefits.
• Several new people arrived, including a Foundation Establishment cultivator who asked if the powerful beings around him would become his teachers.
• Qi Hao approached Chen Zheng, introduced himself, and asked him to pass on magical treasures or help improve his spiritual root.

Chen Zheng noticed that the Land of Stopped Time consumed its cultivators’ lifespans, but the old man dismissed his warning and accused him of trying to manipulate the others. When the land’s will tried to expel Chen Zheng and his companions, he resisted, while Dao Ancestor Hongyun was expelled for asking what he had discovered.

• Ye Qingcheng shattered the ancient battlefield trial with one sword, and Chen Zheng’s group passed the preliminary trial.
• Chen Zheng examined a stone stele and a cave, then said the Land of Stopped Time was not very good because its cultivation time was tied to lifespan.
• Qi Hao and the other cultivators questioned whether the land consumed their lifespans, while the old man insisted Chen Zheng was lying to gain more cultivation time.
• The Land of Stopped Time tried to expel Chen Zheng and his companions, but Chen Zheng resisted its power.
• Dao Ancestor Hongyun asked Chen Zheng what he had noticed and was immediately expelled by the land’s will.