Arc 82The Conviction Earrings

Chen Zheng traversed the River of Time, exposed its false guide, and reached the Immortal Domain, where he uncovered the Conviction Earrings and helped Dugu Qian claim their power. After destroying the Death Temple Master, Chen Zheng returned to Pure Heaven Valley and found the Grotto-Heaven Clan humiliating the Liuli Divine Temple and threatening Fairy Qin.

  • Yan Wu led Chen Zheng and his companions into the Primordial Ruins, where the Master revealed the cavern was a prison for Tribulation Lords, Holy Emperors, and Heaven.
  • Chen Zheng’s demon dragon swallowed the final Calamity Eye, destroyed Moon God’s will, and blasted a hole through the heavens with its lightning breath.
  • Chen Zheng entered the River of Time, overwhelmed the ancient beings seeking its hidden power, and learned from the river’s Will about the restarted epoch and Chen Lingsu.
  • Chen Zheng reached the Divine Ear Clan, killed the Death Temple envoy, and discovered that the clan’s inherited treasure was one of the Conviction Earrings.
  • Chen Zheng and Dugu Qian passed Fairy Qin’s screening for the Wuji Heavenly Book, and Chen Zheng warned that its secret technique was beyond an Epoch Hegemon’s ability to cultivate.
  • Chen Zheng visited the Death Temple, claimed both Conviction Earrings for Dugu Qian, and killed the masked Temple Master when he refused to summon Tai Mo.
  • Dugu Qian killed the Death Temple cultivators while Chen Zheng spared Jiu Yi, Yin Tulong, and Elder Yu, then Chen Zheng left for Pure Heaven Valley.
  • Chen Zheng entered Pure Heaven Valley and found the Grotto-Heaven Clan humiliating the Liuli Divine Temple while demanding that Fairy Qin come out.
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Ch. 2027Prison

Chen Zheng and his companions entered the depths of the Primordial Ruins and discovered a prison holding powerful beings. As they approached its master, the Master of the Primordial Ruins addressed a voice from within Chen Zheng, and the sealed prisoners began to stir.

  • The female stone puppet stopped fighting and led Chen Zheng and the others toward the deepest reaches of the Primordial Ruins.
  • The group entered a cavern lined with stone coffins containing living beings, including Holy Emperors and a Tribulation Lord.
  • Yan Wu introduced herself as the Master of the Primordial Ruins' disciple and invited Chen Zheng to meet her master.
  • An indifferent female voice from within Chen Zheng demanded that the Master of the Primordial Ruins appear, causing the central stone coffin to shake.
  • The Master of the Primordial Ruins spoke from deeper in the cavern, and the mistress of the Bliss Ice Palace identified the site as a prison for Tribulation Lords, Holy Emperors, and Heaven.

Ch. 2028Master of the Primordial Ruins

The Master of the Primordial Ruins discussed Chen Zheng’s past battle with the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord and the threat posed by its hidden trump card. She warned that the Tribulation Lord could take control of the Primordial Chaos Universe, and that her master’s own founding ancestor was a powerful enemy.

  • Outside the Primordial Ruins, the Master of the Primordial Ruins and a mysterious woman exchanged words while the Master battered the Outer Domain Heavenly Dao.
  • The beings of the various orthodoxies waited outside the Primordial Ruins for Chen Zheng to emerge, while Yannü, Mo Xin, and the others waited inside the Prison cavern.
  • The Master of the Primordial Ruins studied Chen Zheng and explained that her master had once fallen for him, helping the Primordial Chaos Universe reach its twelfth epoch.
  • The Master of the Primordial Ruins told Chen Zheng that the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord’s hidden trump card could help it wipe out the heavens and myriad worlds.
  • Chen Zheng said he should have little trouble returning to his peak in the little over a year remaining before the crisis.
  • The Master of the Primordial Ruins warned Chen Zheng that her master’s greatest enemy was their lineage’s founding ancestor, who had nearly broken through the Ninefold Great Reincarnation.

Ch. 2029The Fifth Calamity Eye!

The Master of the Primordial Ruins took the Primordial Ruins away after striking Chen Zheng, leaving him apparently without magical power and revealing the final Calamity Eye. Moon God's will seized it, but Chen Zheng's demon dragon devoured the eye and destroyed Moon's will and the Moon God Clan.

  • The Master of the Primordial Ruins struck Chen Zheng and then departed with the Primordial Ruins, leaving Chen Zheng and the others outside.
  • The final Calamity Eye emerged from beneath the place where the Primordial Ruins had stood.
  • Moon God's will took control of the Moon God Clan's patriarch and tried to seize the Calamity Eye, declaring his hostility toward Chen Zheng and the Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor.
  • Chen Zheng summoned his demon dragon, which snatched and swallowed the final Calamity Eye.
  • The demon dragon ignored the divine lightning and destroyed Moon God's will and the Moon God Clan cultivators.

Ch. 2030The Number Eighty-Six

The devil dragon swallowed the divine lightning and destroyed the Moon God Clan, while the Master of the Primordial Ruins departed with the Primordial Ruins. At the Purple Ultimate Holy Court, Chen Zheng explained the Master’s realm and his own path to restoring his power, then addressed Supreme Heaven and received a terrifying roar in reply.

  • The devil dragon swallowed billions of divine lightning bolts and blasted a hole through the heavens with its lightning breath.
  • Chen Zheng said the Master of the Primordial Ruins had left the Land Beyond the Domain, and he departed with his companions as the major orthodoxies wondered who she was.
  • At the Purple Ultimate Holy Court, Chen Zheng said Zhengyue would sleep before advancing further and explained that the Master of the Primordial Ruins had reached Half-Step Transcendence.
  • Chen Zheng explained that his magical power was gone but that he knew where to regain it, and said Sage-level magical power would let him crush beings below three Epoch Rings.
  • Chen Zheng scanned the Land Beyond the Domain, then looked toward Supreme Heaven and said he had reached number eighty-six.
  • A terrifying roar answered from the heaven Above the Nine Heavens, leaving everyone in the hall terrified.

Ch. 2031The City of Time

Chen Zheng entered the River of Time and reached the City of Time, where he and a group of lost cultivators were given one day to comprehend the Great Dao of Time. As the others began their efforts, the city's Grand Protector warned Chen Zheng that he also faced a comprehension test.

  • Yannü returned to the Dao Diagram World to cultivate, and Chen Zheng set out through chaotic spacetime with the Heaven-Gazing Beast.
  • Chen Zheng entered the River of Time on foot after putting away the Star Raft, and several Patriarch Realm cultivators followed him through its dangerous currents.
  • Gu Tian and the other cultivators thanked Chen Zheng outside the City of Time and revealed that they came from the Immortal Domain, once known as the Hongtian Divine Realm.
  • Shi Yuan transported Chen Zheng, Gu Tian, and the others into the City of Time, where they saw thousands of beings gathered around the Pillar of the Great Dao of Time.
  • Gu Tian and the others learned they had one day to comprehend the Great Dao of Time to the Dao Ancestor level and began meditating.
  • The Grand Protector told Chen Zheng that he also had one day to reach the Epoch Hegemon level or be expelled from the City of Time.

Ch. 2032A Dao Debate? Let Me Give You Some Pointers Instead

Chen Zheng arrived at the City of Time and was challenged by Lady Zhou to prove himself before entering the depths of the River of Time. After he gave her seven elders pointers that surpassed their understanding and assimilated her Epoch Lock, Lady Zhou agreed to lead him onward.

  • Lady Zhou appeared and said Chen Zheng had to defeat her seven subordinates and then her to reach the depths of the River of Time.
  • Grand Protector Shi Yuan explained that the City of Time's rules were meant to protect Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng declined a Dao debate and offered to give the seven elders pointers instead.
  • Chen Zheng sent white light into the seven elders and Shi Yuan, revealing his superior comprehension of the Great Dao of Time and prompting the elders to bow and withdraw.
  • Lady Zhou unleashed the Epoch Lock on Chen Zheng, but the shackles were assimilated into the Epoch Locks he already possessed.
  • Chen Zheng told Lady Zhou to lead the way, and she transported him and the Heaven-Gazing Beast toward the depths of the River of Time.

Ch. 2033Whatever Old Monsters You Are, Make Way!

Fairy Zhou explained that the power hidden in the deepest part of the River of Time was beyond the Great Dao of Time, while ancient Epoch Hegemons and other powerful figures fought to obtain it. Chen Zheng entered the region to retrieve that power, leaving the gathered old monsters stunned after everyone else was thrown out.

  • Fairy Zhou told the Heaven-Gazing Beast that the power within the spiderweb-like Great Dao of Time was beyond time’s control, and a badly wounded figure charged back into the depths.
  • The Seven Emotions Ancient Devil and the Holy Emperor Sect’s Sect Master were repeatedly blasted out, while Fairy Zhou identified the Ten Seals Daoist as a fallen Epoch Hegemon from the ninth epoch.
  • The Seven Emotions Ancient Devil mocked Fairy Zhou and insulted Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng’s words enraged him and an unseen force hurled him away before he could reach Chen Zheng.
  • Chen Zheng said he would retrieve the power himself and stepped into the region, after which more than twenty old monsters, including Eating Daoist, Madam Li, Nine Songs Immortal Venerable, and Dragon Cao Tian, were blasted out.
  • Eating Daoist noted that Chen Zheng was the only one left inside, and the gathered figures wondered who he was.

Ch. 2034Have you still not seen the gap?

Chen Zheng obtained the power within the Void Jade Disc and claimed he had swallowed it, prompting the ancient beings in the River of Time to challenge him. After Seven Emotions Ancient Devil tried to seize the Heaven-Gazing Beast, Chen Zheng erased him with a glance, and the beast asked the others if they still could not see the gap between them and Ancestor Chen.

  • Fairy Zhou told the ancient beings that the Will of the River called Chen Zheng Ancestor Chen, while Seven Emotions Ancient Devil argued that Chen Zheng could not easily obtain the power they sought.
  • The Great Dao of Time strands shattered, and Chen Zheng appeared, saying he had swallowed the power beyond the Great Dao of Time.
  • The ancient beings accused Chen Zheng of hiding the Void Jade Disc, but Eating Daoist and the other strongest monsters refused to act first.
  • Seven Emotions Ancient Devil tried to seize the Heaven-Gazing Beast and demand a share of the Void Jade Disc's power.
  • Chen Zheng glanced at Seven Emotions Ancient Devil, turning his body and primordial spirit to ash.
  • The Heaven-Gazing Beast told the stunned old monsters that Chen Zheng's achievement showed a gap between them measured in epochs.

Ch. 2035The Will of the River of Time

Chen Zheng met the Will of the River of Time, which confirmed that he was the reincarnation of someone extraordinary and explained how his battle with the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord had changed the epoch. The Will revealed it had allowed Chen Lingsu to cross from the future, leaving Chen Zheng questioning her apparent ability to travel through time.

  • The Heaven-Gazing Beast warned the Eating Daoist and the others that Chen Zheng could erase them effortlessly, and they decided to wait for him to leave the River of Time.
  • The Will of the River of Time summoned Chen Zheng into an ancient stone hall while the others recognized the phantom as the river’s true controller.
  • The Will told Chen Zheng that the Creation Immortal King had borrowed the River of Time to trouble him and confirmed that Chen Zheng was the reincarnation it had been investigating.
  • The Will explained that Chen Zheng’s battle with the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord had restarted the epoch and brought back beings who had died in earlier times.
  • The Will revealed that it had let Chen Lingsu cross over from the future, and Chen Zheng asked whether her talent had allowed her to travel through time freely.

Ch. 2036You Almost Fooled Me

Chen Zheng questioned the River of Time’s phantom about his lost past and the path to Transcendence, then left without sharing what he had learned. The phantom realized Chen Zheng had seen through its deception and decided to seek out Chen Lingsu.

  • The phantom explained that the Land of the Beginning held a record of the universe’s past, and that Tribulation Lord Tokens could open the way there.
  • The phantom suggested that destroying the Creator’s body sealed in the Chaos Domain would remove the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord’s greatest weapon.
  • Chen Zheng told the phantom, “You almost fooled me,” then left the ancient hall with Fairy Zhou and the Heaven-Gazing Beast.
  • The cultivators departed the depths of the River of Time, while the phantom wondered how Chen Zheng had detected its flaw.
  • The phantom realized that Chen Zheng’s other artifact had exposed it, then vanished to find Chen Lingsu and pass things on to her.

Ch. 2037First entry into the Immortal Domain

Chen Zheng and the Heaven-Gazing Beast entered the Immortal Domain and found the Divine Ear Clan facing a Death Temple envoy demanding its inherited treasure. Chen Zheng killed the envoy with a single blow, leaving the remaining envoys kneeling.

  • Gu Tian and the other Patriarchs were teleported away after failing the test, while Chen Zheng and the Heaven-Gazing Beast traveled to the Immortal Domain.
  • Fairy Zhou revealed that Chen Lingsu was Chen Zheng's biological daughter, and Grand Protector Shi Yuan worried that Chen Zheng could not defeat the Immortal Domain Supreme.
  • Gu Tian returned to the Divine Ear Clan, where the elders discussed their likely defeat by the Death Temple envoy and the clan's decline from its former glory.
  • Chen Zheng and the Heaven-Gazing Beast arrived as the Death Temple envoys demanded the clan's inherited treasure, using a divine token to threaten the clanspeople.
  • Chen Zheng dismissed the token's power and killed the blue-robed envoy with a single blow, causing the other envoys to kneel.

Ch. 2038The Five Great Sacred Mountains

Chen Zheng killed the kneeling Death Temple cultivators, protected the Divine Ear Clan with a barrier, and learned about the Immortal Domain and its five sacred mountains. The clan remained safe as Yin Tulong of the Death Temple attacked the barrier and demanded that they withdraw it.

  • Chen Zheng ordered Gu Tian and the others to kill the kneeling cultivators after the Death Temple envoy vanished and its divine token fell.
  • Chen Zheng caught the divine token, then placed a powerful barrier around the Divine Ear Clan’s valley.
  • Gu Tian explained that the Immortal Domain had been renamed by the Immortal Domain Supreme and described the Ancient God Realm, the Divine Ear Clan’s decline, and its five sacred mountains.
  • The Heaven-Gazing Beast said the Great Void also had sacred mountains named after Heavens, and Chen Zheng remarked on the coincidence of Taisu Sacred Mountain.
  • Yin Tulong attacked the barrier and threatened to summon the Death Temple’s deputy temple master, while the barrier held firm.

Ch. 2039Go Back and Bring an Epoch Hegemon!

Chen Zheng protected the Divine Ear Clan from Yin Tulong of the Death Temple, whose Tai Mo artifact could not break the barrier. After Chen Zheng destroyed Yin Tulong’s body and let his primordial spirit escape, Gu Tian asked him to examine the clan’s inherited treasure.

  • Yin Tulong threatened the Divine Ear Clan and struck their barrier with the Tai Mo artifact, but it remained intact.
  • Yin Tulong offered his origin true blood to empower the artifact, shaking the barrier without breaking it.
  • Chen Zheng told Yin Tulong to return with a stronger Epoch Hegemon, then slapped him and shattered his body and cracked the artifact.
  • Yin Tulong’s primordial spirit fled, and Gu Tian and the elders realized Chen Zheng had let him escape to report back.
  • Gu Tian bowed to Chen Zheng and asked him to examine the Divine Ear Clan’s inherited treasure.

Ch. 2040Conviction Earrings

Chen Zheng opened the Divine Ear Clan’s inherited treasure and learned it was one of the Conviction Earrings, a mysterious artifact that had alarmed the treasures within his primordial spirit. The Future Lord of Tribulation appeared, and Xiaochao warned that the earrings belonged to the Extreme Realm Creator behind the Creators’ War of Great Pulverization and that she might be connected to him.

  • Gu Tian presented the Divine Ear Clan’s sealed jade box, and Chen Zheng opened it to reveal an earring that enveloped the clan in white light and left them unable to move.
  • Chen Zheng identified the artifact as one of a pair called the Conviction Earrings and said no one in the Primordial Chaos Universe could destroy it.
  • Xiaochao told Chen Zheng that the earring had once convicted the Great Samsara Sacred Lamp and had frightened several other treasures within his primordial spirit.
  • The Future Lord of Tribulation emerged from Chen Zheng’s brow, stared at the earring and Xiaochao, then returned to Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit.
  • Xiaochao warned Chen Zheng that the Conviction Earrings belonged to the Extreme Realm Creator who triggered the Creators’ War of Great Pulverization and that the Future Lord of Tribulation might be connected to him.

Ch. 2041You Can Live Until He Shows Himself!

Chen Zheng revealed that the Divine Ear Clan’s ancestral treasure was of no use to him, then defeated the Death Temple’s attack and demanded that its master prepare the other earring. He let Jiu Yi escape and warned Yin Tulong that he could live until someone showed himself, leaving Gu Tian to wonder whom Chen Zheng was trying to lure out.

  • A mysterious voice sent Dugu Qian to Chen Zheng, asking him to help train her while the voice entered seclusion until Ultimate awakened.
  • The Heaven-Gazing Beast recognized Dugu Qian’s Ten Thousand Lifetimes Misfortune Dao Body, and a giant puppet hand began battering the Divine Ear Clan’s barrier.
  • Gu Tian explained that the Divine Ear Clan had once saved Jiu Yi’s sister, while an elder said Jiu Yi had changed after cultivating Tai Mo’s emotionless technique.
  • Chen Zheng stepped outside the barrier and shattered the ancient puppet, then destroyed Jiu Yi’s physical body while sparing his primordial spirit and ordering him to tell the Death Temple’s master to prepare the other earring.
  • Chen Zheng told Yin Tulong that he could live until someone showed himself, and Yin Tulong fled as Gu Tian wondered who Chen Zheng meant.

Ch. 2042The thousand clans gathered

Chen Zheng learned that the Liuli Divine Temple had called an early Gathering of a Thousand Clans to seek someone recognized by the Wuji Heavenly Book, which was said to contain a secret art leading to Transcendence. He brought his companions to Pure Heaven Valley, where sensing divine steles began testing the gathered clans.

  • Chen Zheng said he still needed Yin Tulong to draw Tai Mo out because an extraordinary artifact concealed the Immortal Domain from his artifact’s scan.
  • A divine decree from the Liuli Divine Temple announced an early Gathering of a Thousand Clans, offering the recognized clan a place in Pure Heaven Valley.
  • The Heaven-Gazing Beast said the Wuji Heavenly Book contained the universe’s most powerful secret art and warned that the Immortal Domain Supreme might have an interest in it.
  • Chen Zheng placed the Conviction Earrings on Dugu Qian to test whether her Ten Thousand Lifetimes Misfortune Dao Body could control them, then took everyone to Pure Heaven Valley.
  • At Pure Heaven Valley, Fairy Qin briefly appeared before returning inside, and an old man in divine robes summoned sensing divine steles to find those connected to the Wuji Heavenly Book.

Ch. 2043A Mistake?

The divine stele appeared to reject Chen Zheng and Dugu Qian while selecting everyone else, but Fairy Qin revealed that the screening had been mistaken. She declared that Chen Zheng and Dugu Qian were the only ones who passed, leaving the other cultivators eliminated.

  • Chen Zheng and Dugu Qian were left behind as the other arrivals were teleported forward, and the cultivators assumed the pair had failed the screening.
  • Divine Son Fenghua mocked Chen Zheng and offered Dugu Qian a place as his Dao companion, while the Heaven-Gazing Beast called him an idiot.
  • The divine-robed elder activated the divine stele for a second screening, but its light produced no visible result, and Divine Son Fenghua claimed everyone had qualified.
  • Fairy Qin arrived and told the divine-robed elder that the divine stele's screening had been mistaken.
  • Fairy Qin announced that only Chen Zheng and Dugu Qian had passed the first screening, stunning the gathered cultivators.

Ch. 2044The Wuji Heavenly Book

Fairy Qin revealed that an altered incantation had caused the divine stele to screen the candidates incorrectly, and Dugu Qian proved she could touch the Wuji Heavenly Book. Chen Zheng then drew the book to himself and opened it, unleashing a dazzling power before Pure Heaven Valley.

  • Fairy Qin explained that someone had altered the divine stele's incantation and brought out the Wuji Heavenly Book for the candidates to test.
  • Divine Son Fenghua was blasted away when he tried to seize the book, confirming that he had failed the screening.
  • Dugu Qian touched the Wuji Heavenly Book, but a force pushed her back, and she told Chen Zheng what she had sensed.
  • Divine Son Fenghua mocked Dugu Qian and challenged Chen Zheng to try the book himself.
  • Chen Zheng pulled the Wuji Heavenly Book before him and opened a page, causing divine light and a disorienting reversal of time and space.

Ch. 2045You Aren't Qualified to Cultivate This!

Chen Zheng warned that no one present was qualified to cultivate the incomplete secret technique in the Wuji Heavenly Book, but Immortal Emperor Dawn seized it and tried anyway. Dawn fled in terror after entering the book, leaving the cultivators shaken and Chen Zheng’s warning vindicated.

  • Chen Zheng closed the Wuji Heavenly Book to end its illusion, then gave it to Fairy Qin and said its secret technique was incomplete and beyond their ability to cultivate.
  • Divine Son Fenghua accused Chen Zheng of staging the ordeal, but Immortal Emperor Dawn appeared and snatched the book from Fairy Qin.
  • Immortal Emperor Dawn claimed he could comprehend any secret technique and ordered Chen Zheng and the girl beside him to become his pill-refining attendants.
  • Chen Zheng warned Immortal Emperor Dawn not to cultivate the book’s technique, but Dawn sent his primordial spirit into it to prove his ability.
  • Immortal Emperor Dawn’s primordial spirit returned in terror, and he fled into the sky; the Wuji Heavenly Book returned to Fairy Qin as the cultivators believed Chen Zheng’s warning.

Ch. 2046Do you know what it means to brandish an axe at the master carpenter's door?

After Immortal Emperor Dawn went mad trying to cultivate the Wuji Heavenly Book, Chen Zheng warned that even an Epoch Hegemon was unqualified to master its arts. Talisman Spirit seized the book and challenged Chen Zheng, but his power vanished and he fell to his knees before him.

  • Chen Zheng told the gathered cultivators that an Epoch Hegemon could not cultivate the secret arts in the Wuji Heavenly Book.
  • Talisman Spirit emerged from Pure Heaven Valley, used a supreme divine talisman to resist the book's power, and seized it from Fairy Qin.
  • Divine Son Fenghua urged Talisman Spirit to investigate the book's dangers, then tried to provoke him into attacking Chen Zheng.
  • Talisman Spirit struck Chen Zheng with the power of Nothingness, but Chen Zheng remained unmoved and Talisman Spirit's power drained away, leaving him kneeling like a mortal.

Ch. 2047A strict hierarchy!

Chen Zheng defeated the tall, thin old man after the man stole the Wuji Heavenly Book, revealing that the old man’s divine talisman had been overpowered. After the old man died, Chen Zheng learned that his master, Daoist Tianwu, awaited him at Taisu Heaven Lake, and announced he would first visit the Death Temple.

  • Chen Zheng returned the Wuji Heavenly Book to Fairy Qin and explained that the tall, thin old man had mistaken borrowed power for invincibility.
  • The tall, thin old man revealed that the Liuli Divine Temple’s master had fallen into a prolonged slumber while trying to suppress him, and Divine Son Fenghua and Elder Yu took note of the temple’s weakness.
  • The old man demanded to know why his No-Life Divine Talisman had shattered, and Chen Zheng suggested its power had been outranked by a similar force.
  • The tall, thin old man refused to reveal where his master was, then abruptly shattered into ashes; Chen Zheng captured his lingering thoughts and asked about Daoist Tianwu.
  • Daoist Tianwu spoke from Taisu Heaven Lake and invited Chen Zheng to meet him, while Chen Zheng said he would visit the Death Temple first.
  • Divine Son Fenghua and Elder Yu fled, and Chen Zheng declared that no place was forbidden to him.

Ch. 2048A Personal Visit to the Death Temple

Chen Zheng and Dugu Qian arrived at the Death Temple, where the temple’s leaders learned of Chen Zheng’s power and his threat to visit. After Chen Zheng killed the Temple Master’s beast with one slap, the Death Temple’s people noticed Dugu Qian’s matching earring and looked to their masked Temple Master for a response.

  • Yin Tulong reported that Chen Zheng had destroyed his body and that Immortal Emperor Dawn had imprisoned him and Jiu Yi.
  • Divine Son Fenghua told the Death Temple that Chen Zheng had defeated Daoist Talisman Spirit and said he would visit the temple.
  • Chen Zheng and Dugu Qian entered the main hall after a crash, and Chen Zheng killed the attacking Tyranny Beast with one slap.
  • Yin Tulong and the others noticed that Dugu Qian wore the matching mysterious earring and turned toward the Death Temple Master.
  • Chen Zheng looked at the masked Temple Master and asked whether he was a one-ring overlord, leaving the elders furious and afraid to act.

Ch. 2049The Second Conviction Earring

Chen Zheng confronted the Death Temple Master over the Conviction Earring, dismissing the Temple Master’s power and breaking free of the Tai Mo Heaven-Binding Silk. When the two earrings were joined, the Temple Master tried to command them, but they flew into Chen Zheng’s hand instead.

  • Divine Son Fenghua and the elders defended the Death Temple Master and demanded to know what Chen Zheng wanted.
  • Chen Zheng said he wanted the earring, and the Death Temple Master bound Chen Zheng and Dugu Qian with the Tai Mo Heaven-Binding Silk.
  • Chen Zheng shattered the binding silk and urged the Death Temple Master to use his strongest trump card.
  • The Death Temple Master presented the second Conviction Earring and challenged Chen Zheng to let the paired treasure choose its master.
  • Chen Zheng sent Dugu Qian’s earring to the jade box, and the Death Temple Master used a secret art to command the earrings toward himself.
  • The paired Conviction Earrings flew away from the Death Temple Master and landed in Chen Zheng’s hand.

Ch. 2050Please, Just Give Me a Quick Death!

Chen Zheng gave Dugu Qian the Conviction Earrings, revealing their power to let her judge the fates of others, and explained why the Temple Master had never been able to use them. When the Temple Master refused to summon Tai Mo, Chen Zheng killed him with a gesture, leaving the Death Temple cultivators horrified and Yin Tulong begging for death.

  • Chen Zheng put the Conviction Earrings on Dugu Qian, and a powerful divine rune appeared between her brows.
  • Dugu Qian sensed that she could decide the lives of everyone in the hall except Chen Zheng, but resisted the earrings' influence.
  • Chen Zheng explained that the earrings worked as a pair, could judge even a One-Ring Overlord, and could only be used by women with an inauspicious cultivation physique.
  • Divine Son Fenghua accused Chen Zheng of inviting misfortune by keeping Dugu Qian near him, but Chen Zheng dismissed the danger.
  • Chen Zheng demanded to see Tai Mo, and when the Temple Master refused, Chen Zheng removed his mask and killed him with a gesture.
  • The Death Temple cultivators recoiled in horror, while Yin Tulong begged Chen Zheng to kill him quickly.

Ch. 2051The crisis at Liuli Divine Temple

Chen Zheng left the Death Temple after Dugu Qian erased its remaining cultivators, then entered Pure Heaven Valley after learning the Grotto-Heaven Clan had targeted Fairy Qin. He found the clan humiliating Liuli Divine Temple and threatening to record the scene to shame its people.

  • Elder Yu killed Divine Son Fenghua, and Chen Zheng let the stone egg devour the Death Temple master's remaining Epoch Ring fragments.
  • Chen Zheng spared Jiu Yi, Yin Tulong, and Elder Yu, while Dugu Qian erased the other Death Temple cultivators.
  • Chen Zheng learned the Grotto-Heaven Clan had learned of Liuli Divine Temple's vulnerability and left with Dugu Qian.
  • Outside Pure Heaven Valley, the Heaven-Gazing Beast warned Chen Zheng that Grotto-Heaven Clan members had targeted Fairy Qin, so Chen Zheng opened the barrier and entered with the gathered cultivators.
  • The gathered cultivators found Grotto-Heaven Clan members making vicious beasts urinate on Liuli Divine Temple, while one threatened to record the humiliation unless Fairy Qin came out.
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