Recaps

The Dragon of a Hundred Million Tribulations tried to escape its seal beneath Subduing Dragon City while Daoist Soul-Splitter explained the state of the Great Void and urged it to kill Chen Zheng. When the dragon attacked Chen Zheng, Chen Zheng destroyed its body and primordial spirit with a single slap.

• The Dragon of a Hundred Million Tribulations rammed the barrier and demanded to know who had trapped it.
• Daoist Soul-Splitter identified himself as a member of the Mashen Ghost Gate and said he had come to free the dragon.
• Zhuxiaozi told Chen Zheng that beings from Feng Tian Ghost Land could revive after death and explained the region's history.
• The dragon questioned Daoist Soul-Splitter about Xizi, then learned that she had not married but had joined primordial spirits with someone during cultivation.
• Daoist Soul-Splitter pointed out Chen Zheng as the one who made the barrier and urged the dragon to attack him.
• The dragon swatted at Chen Zheng, who casually slapped it and caused its body and primordial spirit to explode.

Chen Zheng defeated the Dragon of a Hundred Million Tribulations and Sinful Heaven, then had the dragon swallowed by a dragon-headed being. Daoist Soul-Splitter tried to escape with Sinful Heaven, but Chen Zheng shattered their portal.

• Chen Zheng blasted the Dragon of a Hundred Million Tribulations apart with one slap, while Daoist Soul-Splitter claimed the dragon could not be killed because a supreme tribulation had created it.
• Sinful Heaven attacked Chen Zheng with the Supreme Killing Fist, but his body shattered on impact and his primordial spirit nearly vanished while Chen Zheng remained unharmed.
• Chen Zheng restored the dragon, and a half-formed dragon head swallowed it before spitting out its bones; Chen Zheng crushed the bones and sent them into the Dao Diagram.
• Chen Zheng suggested that swallowed beings of Feng Tian Ghost Land could not return to life, then watched Daoist Soul-Splitter attempt to flee with Sinful Heaven through a black vortex.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and shattered the black vortex as a terrified scream came from within.

Chen Zheng explained how beings from Feng Tian Ghost Land could be killed permanently, while Zhuxiaozi’s mortal master began rapidly advancing through the realms after comprehending the Dao. A divine envoy from the Merit Divine Temple arrived demanding the Dragon of a Hundred Million Tribulations’ whereabouts, and Chen Zheng struck him down when he attacked the master.

• Chen Zheng said that repeated killings or devouring could overcome Feng Tian Ghost Land beings’ revival, and he declared that he wanted to test the Abnormal Human Race’s emperor.
• Zhuxiaozi’s master emerged from his mortal state and rapidly advanced to Epoch Hegemon and then Five-Ring Overlord as he comprehended the Dao.
• A blue-crowned divine envoy from the Merit Divine Temple arrived and demanded to know where the Dragon of a Hundred Million Tribulations had gone.
• The envoy belittled Chen Zheng and threatened Zhuxiaozi’s master, while the golden decree he had brought shattered.
• When the envoy attacked the master, Chen Zheng slapped him out of Subduing Dragon City, splitting his body and primordial spirit.
• The envoy recognized Chen Zheng as the attacker but discovered he had lost all his abilities.

Mu Linfeng rose from a mortal to the Supreme Realm, but his power quickly faltered while fighting Cang Gui, a Supreme being from Feng Tian Ghost Land. Chen Zheng destroyed Cang Gui’s avatar and extinguished his will, leaving Subduing Dragon City’s inhabitants kneeling before him.

• Mu Linfeng reached the Supreme Realm, astonishing Zhuxiaozi and the beings in Subduing Dragon City.
• Cang Gui appeared above the city and taunted Mu Linfeng about his past with Madam Xi and the incomplete secret art.
• Mu Linfeng struck Cang Gui’s avatar, but his unstable Supreme Realm regressed to the Ten-Ring Overlord level as Cang Gui re-formed.
• Cang Gui trapped the city behind a barrier and demanded to know who killed Daoist Soul-Splitter and Sinful Heaven and took the Dragon of a Hundred Million Tribulations.
• Chen Zheng slapped apart Cang Gui’s avatar, seized his will, and extinguished it in the Taisu Stone Egg.
• The beings in Subduing Dragon City knelt and praised Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng learned that the Heaven-Sweeping Lord of Sorrow had targeted Hongguang Great Domain, and Wrath God’s defense against the Tianhuo Great Curse had only delayed the danger. As the blue-crowned youth urged the city’s people to summon the Merit Divine Temple’s grand elder, life across the entire domain suddenly withered.

• Mu Linfeng and Zhuxiaozi thanked Chen Zheng for rescuing them, while Subduing Dragon City’s inhabitants wondered at his power.
• Chen Zheng noticed a fiery rain descending on Hongguang Great Domain, and Wrath God destroyed it with a punch from his Dharma Idol.
• Chen Zheng identified the attack as the Tianhuo Great Curse cast by the Heaven-Sweeping Lord of Sorrow and warned that Hongguang Great Domain’s Supremes could not withstand him for long.
• The blue-crowned youth urged the inhabitants to summon the Merit Divine Temple’s grand elder, claiming the Heaven-Sweeping Lord of Sorrow wanted the Wings of Heaven.
• Vegetation across Hongguang Great Domain withered instantly, leaving its inhabitants stunned.

Chen Zheng took the beings of Subduing Dragon City to the Wrath Divine Sect after identifying Wrath God as the one behind Hongguang Great Domain’s withering. Wrath God accused Chen Zheng of being Heaven-Sweeping Lord of Sorrow’s avatar, and Chen Zheng warned that the Wrath Divine Sect would be destroyed if the accusation was part of a poor act.

• Hongguang Great Domain’s plants withered, and the blue-crowned youth urged Subduing Dragon City’s inhabitants to rebuild his body so the Merit Divine Temple could save them.
• An immortal decree summoned the domain’s major lineages to the Wrath Divine Sect, and Chen Zheng said Wrath God was falsely blaming someone else for the calamity.
• Chen Zheng sealed the blue-crowned youth’s primordial spirit into an orb, then teleported the group to Wrathful Firmament Sacred Mountain.
• At the Heavenly Firmament Divine Temple, Wrath God accused Chen Zheng of being Heaven-Sweeping Lord of Sorrow’s avatar and blamed him for the domain’s withering.
• Chen Zheng criticized Wrath God’s act and warned that the Wrath Divine Sect would cease to exist if it disappointed him.

Chen Zheng exposed the Wrath God's power-draining trap in the Heavenly Firmament Divine Temple and effortlessly destroyed the Wrath God and his supposed trump card, the Heaven-Devouring Demon Lord. He absorbed the demon seed and left the gathered cultivators stunned as he asked how they liked his performance.

• Kuang Tianshen accused Chen Zheng of killing Ji Kuang, stealing the Wings of Heaven, and draining Hongguang Great Domain, rallying cultivators whose power flowed to the Wrath God.
• The Wrath God revealed that the Heavenly Firmament Divine Temple was an ancient pill cauldron that had been transferring power from everyone inside into him.
• Chen Zheng slapped the Wrath God apart, then destroyed his re-formed body and primordial spirit when he tried to use the temple's power against him.
• The Wrath God summoned the Heaven-Devouring Demon Lord, but Chen Zheng shattered the black figure and revealed it was only a demon seed.
• Chen Zheng crushed the demon seed, absorbed its black energy, and asked the Wrath God how his performance had been; the Wrath God's primordial spirit shattered.

Chen Zheng annihilated the Wrath God and his followers, then sent Yannü to return Lan Hun to the Merit Divine Temple using the Wings of Heaven. After Yannü returned almost instantly, Sword Maniac Liuxing arrived to seize the wings, but he was killed moments after the Undefeated Divine Stele proclaimed the Wrath God's fall.

• Chen Zheng turned Kuang Tianshen and the kneeling cultivators to ash, then restored the Heavenly Firmament Divine Temple.
• Chen Zheng ordered Yannü to take Lan Hun's primordial spirit orb to the Merit Divine Temple, explaining that Lan Hun was someone else's pawn.
• Yannü used the Wings of Heaven to deliver Lan Hun and returned so quickly that the witnesses were stunned.
• Yannü said a Supreme sword cultivator had tried to catch her, and Sword Maniac Liuxing appeared outside Wrathful Firmament Sacred Mountain demanding the Wings of Heaven.
• The Undefeated Divine Stele proclaimed the Wrath God's fall, and Liuxing attacked the mountain after hearing the announcement.
• A streak of sword light turned back and killed Liuxing, prompting the Stele to proclaim the newly ascended Supreme's fall.

After Chen Zheng restored the Hongguang Great Domain and departed, two new Supremes appeared on the Supreme Ranking: Chu Yaoyao and Madam Xi of the Mashen Ghost Gate. Madam Xi’s bewitching power unsettled the domain, while Chen Zheng remained in Red Lotus Immortal City, where a wealthy man asked to trade for his immortal robes.

• Chen Zheng returned the spiritual power he had taken to the Hongguang Great Domain, then vanished with Yannü after dismissing the gathered cultivators.
• The man in immortal armor noticed that Chu Yaoyao had entered the Supreme Ranking, and Zhuxiaozi wondered whether the Eternal Demon Dragon’s threat had involved Chen Zheng.
• Madam Xi appeared on the Supreme Ranking, and her laughter bewitched people across the Hongguang Great Domain and caused the man in immortal armor to lose control of his body.
• Madam Xi invited the one who had killed the Dragon of a Hundred Million Tribulations to visit the Feng Tian Ghost Land, prompting alarm over her power.
• In Red Lotus Immortal City, Yannü remarked that Madam Xi seemed more dangerous than the Immortal Empress of Ultimate Bliss, and a wealthy man offered to trade for Chen Zheng’s immortal robes.

Chen Zheng and Yannü attended the Blood Alliance auction in Red Lotus Immortal City, where Chen Zheng used strands of origin true blood to claim rare items. He declared that he would take every item dug out of the Ultimate Great Domain, drawing an angry challenge from an old man in purple robes.

• A middle-aged man explained that he wanted Chen Zheng's immortal robe to curry favor with a powerful figure, then told him the auction offered goods from the Ultimate Great Domain.
• After a thunderclap rang over the city, the middle-aged man entered the venue to bid on a divine egg that might belong to a beast called Unborn, and Chen Zheng and Yannü followed.
• Yannü noticed an old woman whose concealed aura and the Wings of Heaven marked her as someone on the Supreme Ranking.
• Chen Zheng offered origin true blood and immediately won the red lotus immortal crystal, then used another strand to claim the second item before its introduction was finished.
• Chen Zheng said he would take everything dug out of the Ultimate Great Domain, and an old man in purple robes accused him of going too far.

Chen Zheng and a middle-aged man competed for the Unborn Divine Beast egg at the Blood Alliance auction, where the middle-aged man offered a map of the Shattered Land. Chen Zheng then presented a streak of starlight that astonished the Eternal Blood Palace’s young mistress, leaving its value—and the auction’s outcome—unresolved.

• The Blood Alliance president exchanged Chen Zheng’s Origin True Blood for several auction items, explaining that the Eternal Blood Palace’s master urgently needed it.
• The president revealed the Unborn Divine Beast egg and set a minimum price of a Half-Ultimate Creation.
• The middle-aged man offered an ancient scroll he identified as a map of the Shattered Land, and the Eternal Blood Palace’s young mistress confirmed it was worth half an Ultimate Creation.
• Chen Zheng offered a streak of starlight for the egg, and the young mistress reacted with astonishment while warning him that he should not expect to get it back.

At the Blood Alliance auction, Chen Zheng traded an ancient scroll for the unborn divine beast egg, then faced an attack from Mr. Nanguo, who arrived riding a Corpse Kun. Mr. Nanguo revealed that his jade talisman linked Chen Zheng to an Extinction Body and was meant to kill him.

• The girl accepted Chen Zheng’s ancient scroll in exchange for the unborn divine beast egg, then left for the Eternal Blood Palace.
• Tianming conceded the auction and departed, while the yellow-robed Daoist failed to catch up with him.
• Mr. Nanguo arrived on a Corpse Kun and used the Great Dao of Death to separate Chen Zheng from the other guests.
• Chen Zheng recognized Mr. Nanguo as Number Five, the attacker who had tried to kill him at the Medical Immortal Pavilion.
• Mr. Nanguo struck Chen Zheng between the brows with a white jade talisman and explained that it linked him to an Extinction Body, which would kill him unless he had broken free of the First Great Samsara.

Mr. Nanguo’s disguise was exposed, revealing a golden skeletal body containing a tiny living person from the Transcendence Domain. The person used the Transcendence Connection to show everyone the vast hierarchy beyond their universe and tried to shatter their Dao hearts.

• Chen Zheng dismissed the extinction body as an inferior imitation, and the white jade talisman shattered as the corpse Kun split open.
• Mr. Nanguo’s skin collapsed, revealing a metal skeleton with a bizarre little person inside its skull.
• The little person from the Transcendence Domain activated the Transcendence Connection and pulled everyone’s perspective beyond the universe.
• The little person showed them that their Primordial Chaos Universe was one of countless egg-sized universes within the First Great Samsara Universe.
• The little person revealed increasingly vast levels of the great samsara and declared that transcendence was only the beginning.
• The little person sneered at Chen Zheng, and a series of tearing sounds signaled that several Dao hearts had shattered.

Chen Zheng survived the Great Samsara and revealed the overwhelming strength of his body and primordial spirit to Number Five. After a stone egg swallowed the golden skull, Number Five raged against the one who had created the Transcendence Domain before turning to ash.

• The Great Samsara vanished, leaving the Blood Alliance assembly hall strewn with cultivators whose Dao hearts had shattered, while Chen Zheng and Yannü remained unharmed.
• Number Five demanded to know why Chen Zheng had survived, and Chen Zheng demonstrated a five-layer river of stars that caused the branch head and the Seven-Ring Overlord to faint.
• Chen Zheng explained that his body and primordial spirit surpassed the Cosmic Cantilever, then revealed several transcendent objects, including the Trans-Spacetime Wheel and the Great Samsara Sacred Lamp.
• Number Five tried to release the transcendent connection, but a stone egg emerged from Chen Zheng's primordial spirit and swallowed the golden skeleton.
• Number Five cursed the creator who had abandoned him, turned to ash, and Chen Zheng told Yannü that the creator may have abandoned him after finding him disappointing.

After Mr. Nanguo’s defeat, Chen Zheng asked Luo Ying about the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor and learned that the Holy Emperor’s disciple, the immortal consort, was being held by the Seven Illusions Divine Emperor. Luo Ying offered to help Chen Zheng meet the Holy Emperor if he rescued her sister-like friend.

• Yannü wondered at how easily Chen Zheng had shattered Mr. Nanguo’s Dao heart, and Chen Zheng said the Zero he knew was on Earth.
• Luo Ying arrived at the scene, and Chen Zheng healed the chairman so he could recount Mr. Nanguo’s defeat.
• Luo Ying apologized on behalf of the Eternal Blood Palace and gave Chen Zheng nine portions of Eternal True Blood.
• An old woman revealed Supreme Realm power before vanishing, and Chen Zheng said she might have been an Ancient God.
• Chen Zheng asked Luo Ying about the Epoch Divine Stele, the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor, the Domain Eye, a Great Void Realm Map, and a Tribulation Lord Ancient Token.
• Luo Ying said the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor was hidden within the Seven Illusions Divine Dynasty and that the Seven Illusions Divine Emperor had abducted the immortal consort for her secret arts and clan’s power.

Chen Zheng entered the Seven Illusions Divine Dynasty to take away the imprisoned Immortal Consort, effortlessly destroying the dynasty’s Fate Dragon and defeating the Seven Illusions Divine Emperor. The emperor’s divine body shattered, leaving the palace’s inhabitants terrified of Chen Zheng’s power.

• Chen Zheng reversed the rain of arrows and destroyed the Seven Illusions Divine Dynasty’s summoned guards, then shattered its Fate Dragon with one slap.
• Chen Zheng gave the defenders ten breaths to surrender the Immortal Consort, then entered the capital with Yannü and Luo Ying and broke the formation around her palace.
• The Seven Illusions Divine Emperor emerged from seclusion and repeatedly charged into the Immortal Consort’s palace, only to be blasted back out by Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng shattered the Seven Illusions Divine Emperor’s divine body, terrifying the beings throughout the imperial palace.

Chen Zheng freed the immortal consort from the Seven Illusions Divine Emperor’s seal and defeated the emperor despite his forbidden arts. After Chen Zheng and the others left, the emperor’s battered primordial spirit disintegrated, leaving the Martial God General and the old man in the Star Observatory stunned.

• The Seven Illusions Divine Emperor repeatedly attacked Chen Zheng in Cold Moon Palace, then summoned the imperial clan’s ancestral souls when he was driven into a desperate fight.
• The emperor claimed his seal on the immortal consort could not be undone and offered Chen Zheng treasures in exchange for leaving her behind.
• Chen Zheng casually shattered the seal, and Luo Ying caught the weakened immortal consort.
• The Seven Illusions Divine Emperor unleashed Divine Emperor’s Wrath, but Chen Zheng, Yannü, Luo Ying, and the immortal consort emerged from the palace and vanished.
• The Martial God General and the old man in the Star Observatory found the emperor reduced to a battered primordial spirit, which disintegrated as he laughed about being called unworthy of serving as food.

After the Seven Illusions Divine Emperor fell, the Immortal Consort, Luo Ying, and Yannü reached Heart Lake to rescue the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor, who was trapped inside Hongguang Great Domain’s Domain Eye. Tang An of the Primordial Dao offered to cut down the Grand Emperor’s sword, but the Grand Emperor’s disciple, the Purple Nether Emperor, appeared to stop him.

• The Great Void heard that the Seven Illusions Divine Emperor had fallen, and the Eternal Spirit Immortal worried that Feng Tian Ghost Land’s seal was close to breaking.
• The Immortal Consort explained that the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor was hiding in the Domain Eye beneath Heart Lake, sealed there by the Grand Emperor’s Sword Domain.
• A sword left by the Grand Emperor appeared before Heart Lake, and Tang An offered to destroy it in exchange for the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor’s secret art.
• Luo Ying and Yannü doubted Tang An’s intentions and refused to trust him easily.
• The Purple Nether Emperor appeared beside the sword and challenged Tang An, while Yannü judged him to be only a barely passable Ten-Ring Overlord.

Chen Zheng forced the Grand Emperor’s Heaven-Suppressing Divine Sword to retreat, shattered the Heart Lake’s Sword Domain, and rescued the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor. He then summoned a braided little girl who transformed into a devil dragon and plunged into the lake to swallow the Domain Eye.

• Yannü called Chen Zheng her master as he walked toward the Heart Lake and the Heaven-Suppressing Divine Sword.
• The divine sword retreated from Chen Zheng, then fled after he advanced to the lake’s edge, shattering the second layer of the Sword Domain.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor from the Heart Lake, and Immortal Consort recognized her.
• Purple Nether Emperor warned Chen Zheng that releasing the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor would offend the Grand Emperor, but Chen Zheng ignored him.
• Chen Zheng summoned a braided little girl, who transformed into a devil dragon and plunged into the lake to swallow the Domain Eye.
• The Rainbow Light Holy Emperor recognized the dragon as Eternal Devil Dragon Emperor Yang.

Chen Zheng had the little girl swallow the Rainbow Light Domain Eye, then drew the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor into his primordial spirit. Tang An and the Purple Nether Emperor attacked Chen Zheng, but the Purple Nether Emperor died and Tang An's remnant revealed he had prepared a way to revive; Luo Ying recognized Chen Zheng as the number one on the Supreme Ranking.

• The little girl transformed into a devil dragon, swallowed the Domain Eye, and returned to Chen Zheng's brow.
• Yannü wondered whether Big Sister Zhengyue could reach the Supreme Realm by swallowing all thirteen Domain Eyes, while Chen Zheng sent divine light into the Rainbow Light Holy Emperor's brow.
• The Rainbow Light Holy Emperor agreed to enter Chen Zheng's primordial spirit and revealed that a disciple of Transcendence had taken the Rainbow Light Epoch Divine Stele a million years earlier.
• Tang An and the Purple Nether Emperor attacked Chen Zheng with their ultimate sword strikes, but both were destroyed before their attacks could reach him.
• Tang An's transparent remnant explained that his hidden origin true blood gave him a way to revive and admitted he had used Chen Zheng to eliminate the Purple Nether Emperor.
• Luo Ying recalled her connection to Chen Zheng and identified him as the number one on the Supreme Ranking, astonishing the Immortal Consort.

After Chen Zheng destroyed the Grand Emperor Heaven-Quelling Divine Sword, Madam Xi’s Ghostly Beings bewitched the Hongguang Great Domain’s inhabitants and dragged Myriad Spirits Immortal Mountain into Feng Tian Ghost Land. Chen Zheng judged Madam Xi’s power unimpressive, while Baxue Tianshen arrived seeking him but flew off toward the Ghost Land when he saw it open.

• Luo Ying took the Immortal Consort away as the Heart Lake Sword Domain shattered, and Chen Zheng’s netherworld sword shadow crushed the fleeing Grand Emperor Heaven-Quelling Divine Sword.
• Endless phantoms appeared across the Hongguang Great Domain and lured its inhabitants toward Feng Tian Ghost Land; when Yannü cut down a phantom, its destruction triggered an explosion in space and time.
• More than a hundred phantoms surrounded Chen Zheng and Yannü, then exploded to form a heart-shaped pattern of holes in space and time around them.
• The phantoms overwhelmed the domain’s orthodoxies, and Madam Xi transported Myriad Spirits Immortal Mountain into Feng Tian Ghost Land despite the resistance of Myriad Spirits Ancient Immortal.
• Chen Zheng said Madam Xi was not very powerful, and Baxue Tianshen arrived asking about Chen Zheng before flying toward Feng Tian Ghost Land to find Xizi.

Chen Zheng and Yannü entered Feng Tian Ghost Land, where Chen Zheng’s power prevented its ghosts from reviving after he erased them. The story left them advancing into the land after Chen Zheng destroyed a Supreme who charged at him.

• Chen Zheng led Yannü through the ghost gate despite the ghosts’ taunts and attacks.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and erased half of the Extinction of Life Clan, whose members failed to revive.
• Yu Jiusheng, grand elder of the Extinction of Life Clan, followed Chen Zheng and Yannü into Feng Tian Ghost Land with his clansmen.
• A Supreme of the Batian Ancient Clan charged at Chen Zheng on Madam Xi’s behalf, but Chen Zheng slapped him apart.
• The Supreme recognized Chen Zheng as his sworn younger brother’s associate before his primordial spirit was annihilated, and Yannü said, “Simps must die!”

Chen Zheng killed Baxue Tianshen and Calamity Tiger, then struck down Lord White Bone and Lord Cang Gui in Feng Tian Ghost Land. As Madam Xi appeared and tried to beguile him, Chen Zheng dismissed her and slapped at her.

• A proclamation announced that Baxue Tianshen had fallen, and Chen Zheng gathered his Epoch Ring fragments for Taisu.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the threats posed by Feng Tian Ghost Land's rulers, and Calamity Tiger attacked him.
• Chen Zheng struck Calamity Tiger into black mist, and the tiger did not revive.
• Yannü spotted Hongguang Great Domain's cultivators bound in Soul-Binding Silk, while Chen Zheng shattered Lord White Bone's mountain and struck down Lord Cang Gui.
• Madam Xi appeared and tried to beguile Chen Zheng, but he called her weak and swung a slap at her.

Chen Zheng confronted Madam Xi and challenged the hidden figure in Feng Tian Ghost Land, who revealed himself as Jieshuhuang and proposed a divine-abilities contest judged by a magical appearance-scoring mirror. Chen Zheng accepted the first round and wagered that he would take the mirror if he won.

• Chen Zheng shattered Jieshuhuang's black lotuses and destroyed Madam Xi's body, leaving her primordial spirit protected by a black lotus mark.
• Chen Zheng called for the hidden Eminence to appear, and Jieshuhuang emerged as an Epoch Hegemon before his aura rose into the Supreme Realm.
• Jieshuhuang introduced himself and proposed a best-of-five divine-abilities contest, with the winner allowed to demand one thing from the loser.
• Jieshuhuang restored Madam Xi and used a magical mirror from the Shattered Land to give her appearance a score of ninety-seven.
• Chen Zheng wagered that he would take the mirror if he won, then said he would not lose.

Chen Zheng and Jieshuhuang tested themselves with artifacts in a contest, and the Years Hourglass produced an unexplained symbol for Chen Zheng instead of a lifespan reading. The chapter ended with Madam Xi asking what the symbol meant.

• Chen Zheng changed Madam Xi's face into Aunt Thirteen's, and the divine mirror gave it ten thousand points before restoring Madam Xi's face and score of ninety-seven.
• Jieshuhuang conceded the beauty round and brought out the Years Hourglass, which measured every lifetime a being had lived.
• The Years Hourglass showed that Jieshuhuang had existed for eleven epochs and 13.8 billion years, delighting Madam Xi and the gathered races.
• Chen Zheng submitted to the hourglass, but it displayed only a crossed-loop symbol after the word for lifespan.
• Madam Xi quietly asked Jieshuhuang what the symbol meant.