Arc 98The Heavens Stir

Chen Zheng pursued the Future Tribulation Sect, destroyed Tribulation Mountain and the Yin Ancient Sacred Lord’s conspiracy, and helped Lan Ling and Cloud Spirit Mountain. The arc ended with Chen Zheng confronting a curse-bearing Heaven, learning more of the First Epoch, and setting out to visit the Empress Sect.

  • Daoist Kucang summoned Extreme Evil, whose face matched Chen Zheng’s before it shattered and fled, and Chen Zheng killed Kucang and attended Taishuang’s Eternal Life Banquet.
  • Chen Zheng killed Gao Xingxiu at the banquet, received the divine objects he sought from Taishuang, and then helped Lan Ling defeat Tribulation Mountain and its master, a Creation Worm.
  • Chen Zheng healed Cloud Spirit Mountain’s mistress and destroyed the Seven Treasures Immortal Gate after its Holy Son and elders attacked Cloud Spirit Mountain.
  • At the Heavenly Dragon Grand Banquet, Chen Zheng killed Great Dream God and the Yin Ancient Sacred Lord, freeing Taichong Heavenly Dragon and learning that Primordial Heaven was sealed in the Demon-Sealing Caverns.
  • Taichong Heavenly Dragon empowered Cloud Spirit Mountain’s mistress to enter the Supreme Realm, while Chen Zheng and Gu Cang went to Lesser Holy Emperor Mountain to find Great Empyrean.
  • Great Empyrean revealed that the Love Emperor and other First Epoch powers had vanished in the Land of the Beginning, then his curse broke free as a green light that Chen Zheng subdued.
  • Chen Zheng removed Great Empyrean’s curse and gained a second Overlord Divine Rune, while Holy Word Wuji Heaven warned him about herself and Taiyou Azure Emperor Heaven before Chen Zheng set out for the Empress Sect.
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Ch. 2427Extreme Evil appeared again! Extreme Evil refused to fight!

Daoist Kucang released a demonic thought beneath the Great Lake of Unforgivable Evil, drawing Extreme Evil to confront Chen Zheng. Extreme Evil recognized Chen Zheng, roared, and fled the Great Void, leaving Kucang stunned.

  • Sect Master Long Chu took Chen Wushang and the others toward the Great Lake of Unforgivable Evil, while Divine Son Manyue set out to witness the expected fight.
  • Extreme Evil appeared above the Second Great Domain, took third place on the Supreme Ranking, and pressed toward the Great Lake of Unforgivable Evil.
  • Daoist Kucang revealed that he had released the sealed demonic thought to summon Extreme Evil after guessing Chen Zheng’s identity.
  • Chen Zheng thanked Daoist Kucang for undoing the seal instead of attacking Extreme Evil.
  • Extreme Evil’s face became clear and matched Chen Zheng’s; it roared at him, shattered its face, and fled beyond the Great Void.
  • Daoist Kucang realized something was wrong and stared at Chen Zheng in shock.

Ch. 2428The Eternal Life Banquet

Chen Zheng killed Daoist Kucang, confirmed that You'er's soul fragments were being suppressed in the Heaven-Governing Great Domain, and announced that he would attend the Eternal Life Banquet in the Ultimate Great Domain. The next day, he and his companions arrived at the banquet site, where puppet attendants greeted them and Wan Ji sensed an aura of the Heaven's Forsaken Clan.

  • Chen Zheng crushed Daoist Kucang, collected the Epoch Ring fragments, and drew the faceless divine statues into his primordial spirit.
  • Proclamations announced the deaths of Tiangou Wuque and Daoist Kucang, while the Yin Desolation Immortal Gate's leaders discussed the danger of attending the Eternal Life Banquet.
  • Chen Zheng said he would attend the banquet the next day and invited the others to decide whether to accompany him; Sect Master Long Chu ultimately chose to go.
  • Chen Zheng led a group of more than a dozen people from the Yin Desolation Immortal Gate to the snowy Ultimate Great Domain.
  • Puppet women welcomed the group and opened a portal to the banquet, while Wan Ji sensed an aura belonging to the Heaven's Forsaken Clan.

Ch. 2429This privilege was for Ancestor Chen alone!

Chen Zheng entered the Eternal Life Banquet’s mysterious world, where Gao Xingxiu challenged him with the Supreme-level sword Space-Time Tribulation. Lemon declared that the host’s ban on fighting did not apply to Ancestor Chen, and Chen Zheng destroyed Gao Xingxiu’s Dao avatar and gave the sword to Wan Ji.

  • Chen Zheng entered the banquet’s white-metal world with Wan Ji, Immortal Empress Zhuoyin, Sect Master Long Chu, and the others, while Ten Directions Indestructible recognized him and admitted he feared him.
  • Gao Xingxiu of Tribulation Mountain in the Hong Domain challenged Chen Zheng to take Space-Time Tribulation, relying on the host’s rule against fighting.
  • Chen Zheng asked Wan Ji to assess the sword, and Wan Ji identified it as a Supreme-level treasure.
  • Lemon arrived and announced that Ancestor Chen alone had permission to fight whenever he wanted.
  • Gao Xingxiu tried to flee through the gate, but Chen Zheng shattered his Dao avatar, erased his imprint on Space-Time Tribulation, and gave the sword to Wan Ji.

Ch. 2430Taishuang

The master of the Eternal Life Banquet appeared before Chen Zheng and revealed that she was an outsider from beyond the Primordial Chaos Universe. Calling herself Taishuang, she spoke of arriving in the Primordial Chaos after another woman and asked whether that woman had ever mentioned her.

  • Ten Directions Indestructible questioned whether Chen Zheng would act if the banquet master refused to show him consideration, and Chen Zheng told him to guess.
  • Ten Directions Indestructible said he only wanted to meet the banquet master, while Sect Master Long Chu suspected the displayed treasures had been gathered for Chen Wushang.
  • As Sect Master Long Chu began to explain whom he meant by Chen Wushang, a woman's laughter announced the banquet master's arrival on a divine throne.
  • The white-metal woman studied Chen Zheng and said she was eating her lemons, while Chen Zheng recognized her from visions in Sword Abyss.
  • The woman called herself Taishuang, said she had come from beyond the Primordial Chaos, and asked Chen Zheng whether the other woman had mentioned her.

Ch. 2431A few whispered words

At the Eternal Life Banquet, Taishuang revealed that she had gathered divine objects for Chen Zheng and asked him to send her out of the Primordial Chaos Universe. After she departed aboard a giant ship, the surviving guests fled, while Chen Zheng connected her to the Taishuang Heaven and the Frost Heaven Giant Ship.

  • Taishuang told Chen Zheng she had collected the divine objects he sought and asked him to send her out of the Primordial Chaos Universe.
  • Chen Zheng accepted the objects and entered Taishuang’s primordial spirit, where an unknown adult woman’s cold snort sounded from within his body.
  • Taishuang called their exchange a secret, gathered the puppets, and blew Chen Zheng a kiss before transporting everyone out of her metal world.
  • A crystalline white giant ship emerged from the Great Void and vanished, and Ten Directions Indestructible and the other Supreme beings departed.
  • Chen Zheng murmured the names Taishuang, Taishuang Heaven, and Frost Heaven Giant Ship, leaving the Yin Desolation Immortal Gate cultivators unsettled.

Ch. 2432Lan Ling

Chen Zheng learned that Lan Ling was cursed by an Extreme Realm Creator and could reveal his movements, but he went to find her anyway. After Lan Ling unearthed a blood jade while searching for treasure, the surrounding cultivators turned their attention toward her.

  • The Future Lord of Tribulation warned Chen Zheng that Lan Ling carried a curse from an Extreme Realm Creator and could serve as an observer, and said she could make Yanluo the future Holy Emperor.
  • The Trans-Spacetime Wheel’s Artifact Spirit suspected the Future Lord of Tribulation was Holy Word Wuji Heaven, but Chen Zheng dismissed its concern and said he would bind her again if necessary.
  • Chen Zheng arrived at a mountain in the Heaven-Governing Great Domain and learned from Cloud Spirit Mountain cultivators that Lan Ling was searching for treasure to save her mountain mistress.
  • Lan Ling dug up a blood jade, drawing the attention of nearby beings, then tried to conceal it by claiming she had found a sweet potato.

Ch. 2433Helping You Raise Your Cultivation

Chen Zheng killed the cultivators who attacked Lan Ling and raised her cultivation by giving her Epoch Ring fragments. He then transported Lan Ling and the Cloud Spirit Mountain cultivators to Tribulation Mountain in the Hong Domain, saying he planned to wipe out a few lineages and help Lan Ling cultivate.

  • Lan Ling’s sweet potato attracted cultivators who rushed to seize her supposed Blood Jade, but Chen Zheng turned them to ash with a snap of his fingers.
  • Linghu Yingang of the Hong Domain’s Tribulation Mountain challenged Chen Zheng, who caused Linghu Yingang to turn to dust.
  • Chen Zheng sent Gudu Yingang’s Epoch Ring fragments into Lan Ling’s brow, raising her cultivation from the Indestructible Fifth Realm to Half-Step Hegemon.
  • Chen Zheng asked how long Cloud Spirit Mountain’s Lord could hold out, then said the group would come with him to the Hong Domain.
  • Chen Zheng transported Lan Ling and the Cloud Spirit Mountain cultivators to Tribulation Mountain, where he said he would wipe out a few lineages and help Lan Ling raise her cultivation; he refused her request to send them home.

Ch. 2434They Couldn't Laugh!

Chen Zheng confronted Tribulation Mountain in Hong Domain and erased its defenses despite its cultivators’ claims of endless revival. The mountain’s people revived after its destruction, but they realized Chen Zheng might also be able to destroy their resurrection treasure, leaving them fearful for their master.

  • Chen Zheng shattered Tribulation Mountain’s protective formation, drawing out its hall masters and a great lightning dragon.
  • A mottled-faced elder recognized Chen Zheng and warned that Tribulation Mountain’s supreme treasure let its cultivators revive endlessly.
  • The elder revealed that Tribulation Mountain’s master had entered a mysterious place to seek an inheritance and expected to rise on the Supreme Ranking.
  • Chen Zheng erased the hall masters’ bodies and annihilated the great lightning dragon’s attack with a finger flick.
  • Tribulation Mountain collapsed into ash, and the mottled-faced elder, the other hall masters, and the dragon revived.
  • Tribulation Mountain’s cultivators celebrated their revival, but the revived figures fell silent as they feared Chen Zheng could destroy their resurrection treasure.

Ch. 2435The Azure Divine Tree! The Soaring Master of Tribulation Mountain!

Chen Zheng forced the resurrecting Tribulation Mountain cultivators to take him to their master, where they found him drawing power from an azure divine tree alongside the Canghai Divine Bird. As the master of Tribulation Mountain climbed to fifth on the Supreme Ranking, Chen Zheng and the others arrived at the site of the inheritance.

  • The flower-faced elder and the Tribulation Mountain cultivators tried to teleport away, but Chen Zheng stopped them and transported them to a place with a bloody-maw entrance.
  • The Tribulation Mountain cultivators saw their master's ranking rise from eighth to sixth and boasted that his strength had not reached its limit.
  • Chen Zheng transported everyone to the azure divine tree, where the master of Tribulation Mountain and the Canghai Divine Bird stood motionless while competing for its power.
  • The Tribulation Mountain cultivators already at the divine tree recognized Chen Zheng and reacted with alarm.
  • The master of Tribulation Mountain absorbed more divine power, rose to fifth on the Supreme Ranking, and displaced Hongdou.

Ch. 2436Slaying the Master of Tribulation Mountain!

The master of Tribulation Mountain reached fifth on the Supreme Ranking after absorbing the azure divine tree, but Chen Zheng killed him with one stroke as soon as he awakened. Chen Zheng then destroyed Great Maple God and eliminated the fleeing Tribulation Mountain cultivators, leaving Lan Ling terrified and calling on her trump card.

  • Shenyan celebrated the master of Tribulation Mountain’s rise to fifth on the Supreme Ranking and challenged Chen Zheng, while Yin Qujie revealed he was a prince of the Yin Ancient Sacred Dynasty.
  • The azure divine tree shattered, and the master of Tribulation Mountain and the Canghai Divine Bird awakened.
  • Chen Zheng’s netherworld sword shadow pierced the master of Tribulation Mountain’s brow and killed him before he could speak.
  • Chen Zheng pointed at Great Maple God and shattered his body and primordial spirit.
  • Shenyan, Yin Qujie, and the other Tribulation Mountain cultivators fled, but Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and turned them to ash.
  • Lan Ling screamed for her trump card to save her.

Ch. 2437The Bizarre Magical Treasure, the Changsheng Horn

Chen Zheng killed Tribulation Mountain's master with one sword and revealed that the Supreme was a Creation Worm. He claimed the Everlasting Changsheng Horn and shared the fallen master's power and Epoch Ring fragments with the Canghai Divine Bird and Lan Ling, leaving both of them greatly strengthened.

  • Chen Zheng asked whether Cangyun and Hongzhuang had come to the Hong Domain with the Canghai Divine Bird, then exposed Tribulation Mountain's master's wormlike true form as a Creation Worm.
  • Chen Zheng told Lan Ling that eating the Supreme-level worm could raise her cultivation, frightening her into fainting.
  • Chen Zheng destroyed the Creation Worm's body and obtained a strange treasure that Lan Ling identified as the Everlasting Changsheng Horn, which could repeatedly revive creatures at the cost of lowering their cultivation.
  • Lan Ling said her mysterious trump card recognized the horn and wanted to speak with Chen Zheng when it next awoke; Chen Zheng stored the treasure for Yanluo.
  • Chen Zheng gave the power stripped from Tribulation Mountain's master to the Canghai Divine Bird and the fallen Epoch Hegemons' ring fragments to Lan Ling, raising the bird to thirteenth on the Supreme Ranking and Lan Ling to Three-Ring Epoch Hegemon.

Ch. 2438The Five-Colored Domain Eye

Chen Zheng revealed the Hong Domain Domain Eye, which little Zhengyue swallowed before returning to him. He then brought Lan Ling and the others to Cloud Spirit Mountain, where they were greeted with suspicion.

  • Chen Zheng uncovered the five-colored Hong Domain Domain Eye, and little Zhengyue transformed into a demon dragon and swallowed it.
  • Little Zhengyue returned to Chen Zheng and said only one Domain Eye remained.
  • Chen Zheng explained that the Future Tribulation Sect had fled to the Heaven-Governing Great Domain, as Tianshen Tomb had.
  • Lan Ling asked Chen Zheng to take her and the others to Cloud Spirit Mountain, and the yellow-robed elder gave him its beacon.
  • Chen Zheng activated the beacon and teleported the group to Cloud Spirit Mountain, where dozens of figures questioned whether he was powerful enough to help them.

Ch. 2439I Dreamed of You, My Lord

Chen Zheng healed the Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord and learned that she had dreamed of his previous incarnation before finding Lan Ling as a baby. The chapter leaves Lan Ling and her mother questioning Chen Zheng’s forgotten past and his connection to Lan Ling.

  • Lan Ling brought Chen Zheng to the summit of Cloud Spirit Mountain, where he said he would stay a few days before destroying an orthodoxy.
  • Chen Zheng healed the Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord with a streak of azure light before Lan Ling could use the Blood Jade.
  • The Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord awoke, recognized Chen Zheng from a dream, and revealed that she had found Lan Ling the day after dreaming of his previous incarnation.
  • Lan Ling wondered whether Chen Zheng was her father or former master, but Chen Zheng said he had forgotten the identities he held in his first life.
  • The Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord explained that Chen Zheng’s dreamlike presence had seemed greater than an Epoch Hegemon, despite his current appearance as a One-Ring Overlord.

Ch. 2440The Holy Son Was Worse Than a Dog

Lan Shu betrayed Cloud Spirit Mountain and helped the Seven Treasures Immortal Gate attack, but an unseen force killed the Seven Immortals Holy Son and two Epoch Hegemons as they reached the mountain. The Seven Treasures Immortal Gate demanded that Cloud Spirit Mountain surrender the killer, and a thunderclap erupted at its sect grounds.

  • Lan Shu revealed that he had defected to the Seven Treasures Immortal Gate and explained his resentment toward Lan Jiang and Cloud Spirit Mountain.
  • The Seven Immortals Holy Son flew to the summit with two Epoch Hegemons, but all three were instantly killed by Ancestor Chen's unseen power.
  • The green-robed half-demon warned that Cloud Spirit Mountain would suffer for the deaths, while the elders recognized that Ancestor Chen had acted.
  • The Seven Treasures Immortal Gate demanded that whoever killed its Holy Son and elders come answer for the crimes.
  • Beings across the region turned their attention to Seven Treasures Immortal Mountain after a sudden thunderclap erupted there.

Ch. 2441A Thunderclap

A Supreme-level thunderclap destroyed the Seven Treasures Immortal Gate after Chen Zheng intervened to protect Cloud Spirit Mountain. The mountain mistress accepted an invitation to the Yin Ancient Sacred Dynasty’s Heavenly Dragon Grand Banquet, where a rare chance for advancement awaited.

  • Divine lightning annihilated Seven Treasures Immortal Mountain and erased the Seven Treasures Immortal Gate, leaving Wuyou Prefecture’s observers wondering who protected Cloud Spirit Mountain.
  • The blue-robed half-demon begged the mountain mistress for mercy but was reduced to dust for betraying Cloud Spirit Mountain.
  • The yellow-robed old man said the Supreme being had merely passed by, while a disciple recalled that Lan Ling bore three Overlord Divine Runes.
  • Lan Ling asked why her mother was unsurprised, and the mistress of Cloud Spirit Mountain explained that Chen Zheng was a reincarnated Supreme being.
  • Zhao Wuyou, governor of Wuyou Prefecture, offered Cloud Spirit Mountain the Seven Treasures Immortal Gate’s vacant place at the Heavenly Dragon Grand Banquet.
  • Lan Ling recalled that the Yin Ancient Sacred Dynasty’s Taichong Heavenly Dragon could empower beings to enter the Supreme Realm.

Ch. 2442Yin Ancient Dragon City

Chen Zheng agreed to travel with Lan Ling and the lord of Cloud Spirit Mountain to Yin Ancient Dragon City, where they encountered the Sin Cult and a flirtatious young noble. The group entered the city as its visitors prepared to watch the spectacle Heaven Washing the Sword.

  • Lan Ling suggested visiting Yin Ancient Dragon City to meet Taichong, and Chen Zheng agreed to leave the next day.
  • Zhao Wuyou escorted Chen Zheng, Lan Ling, and the lord of Cloud Spirit Mountain by immortal ship to Yin Ancient Dragon City.
  • Lan Ling admired the city’s enormous dragon-shaped sculpture, and Zhao Wuyou explained it was modeled after Taichong’s true body.
  • Fairy Qin Mei of the Sin Cult invited Lan Ling and Chen Zheng to join the cult, but both declined her offers.
  • Gu Cang invited Fairy Qin Mei to watch Heaven Washing the Sword, then hurried after her into the city despite Lan Ling’s warning about his tastes.

Ch. 2443Heaven Washing the Sword

Zhao Wuyou brought Chen Zheng, Lan Ling, and the master of Cloud Spirit Mountain to Dragon City for the Heavenly Dragon Grand Banquet, where the first trial was revealed to be viewing the spectacle of Heaven Washing the Sword. After Zhao Wuyou defended Cloud Spirit Mountain’s invitation by declaring that a Supreme protected it, the gathered cultivators were drawn into an ink-wash scroll as the spectacle began.

  • Zhao Wuyou flew the group into Dragon City, where they appeared inside the mouth of its enormous dragon-shaped stone sculpture.
  • Gu Cang and Fairy Qin Mei were among the gathered guests, while a governor from Cold Moon Province challenged Zhao Wuyou for inviting Cloud Spirit Mountain instead of the Seven Treasures Immortal Gate.
  • Zhao Wuyou explained that the Seven Treasures Immortal Gate had been destroyed and that a Supreme being protected Cloud Spirit Mountain, silencing Governor Gu and surprising the other guests.
  • An indifferent voice announced that the spectacle of Heaven Washing the Sword would begin after a ten-breath countdown.
  • A painting-like scroll unfurled across the sky, and immortal light pulled everyone in the dragon’s mouth into it.

Ch. 2444Did it freeze?

During the Heavenly Dragon Grand Banquet, Chen Zheng and Lan Ling noticed that the replay of Heaven washing a sword had frozen, while others mistook the pause for a trial. Heavenly King Yin confirmed it was an accidental failure of the ancient formation, leaving Provincial Governor Gu and the others embarrassed.

  • The Divine Empress of Yin Ruins appeared above Yin Ancient Dragon City, prompting immortal guards to hurry to report to the Sacred Lord.
  • Inside the ink-wash world, the spectacle of Heaven washing a sword played in slow motion before freezing as Heaven drew the divine sword from the water.
  • Provincial Governor Gu and other guests insisted that the frozen scene held a Great Dao for them to contemplate, and they rebuked Lan Ling for saying it had simply frozen.
  • Chen Zheng agreed with Lan Ling, and Provincial Governor Gu asked Heavenly King Yin to expel them for disrupting the banquet.
  • Heavenly King Yin confirmed that the ancient formation had frozen by accident, leaving Provincial Governor Gu and the other guests embarrassed.

Ch. 2445The Tribulation God Coiled Around the Dragon!

The Yin Ancient Sacred Lord sealed the Ink-Wash World and joined forces with the Future Tribulation Sect to drain Heavenly Dragon’s power. After everyone was transported to the Holy Court, Heavenly King Yin confronted Yin Huang, while Lan Ling called out to Chen Zheng about the Great Dream God.

  • Heavenly King Yin explained that the Ink-Wash World had been sealed and that the Sacred Lord planned to use Heavenly Dragon’s power to create more Supreme beings.
  • Everyone in the Ink-Wash World was transported to the Holy Court, where the Great Dream God was coiled around an unconscious Heavenly Dragon and draining his essence.
  • Governor Gu and several provincial governors knelt and offered to keep the events secret, while Heavenly King Yin condemned Yin Huang for betraying Heavenly Dragon.
  • Yin Huang threatened to strip Heavenly King Yin of his Supreme power, and the Great Dream God revealed that she was one of the Future Tribulation Sect’s four Tribulation Gods.
  • Lan Ling called out to Chen Zheng and identified the Great Dream God as a member of the Future Tribulation Sect.

Ch. 2446You Decide What to Do with the Rest

Chen Zheng killed Great Dream God, Yin Ancient Sacred Lord, and other threats in the Holy Court, then had Heavenly King Yin deal with the survivors and helped awaken the Heavenly Dragon. The Taichong Heavenly Dragon revealed that Primordial Heaven was likely sealed in the Demon-Sealing Caverns, along with powerful Demonic Thoughts and the Huntian Great Demon Lord’s disciple.

  • Chen Zheng instantly killed Great Dream God and the Yin Ancient Sacred Dynasty crown prince, then destroyed Yin Ancient Sacred Lord’s primordial spirit.
  • Chen Zheng gave the remaining Epoch Ring fragments to the Taisu Stone Egg and told Heavenly King Yin to decide what to do with the rest.
  • Heavenly King Yin killed the immortal guards and destroyed the crown prince’s remnant soul, while Governor Gu collapsed after his Dao heart shattered.
  • Heavenly King Yin awakened the Heavenly Dragon, who thanked Chen Zheng and revealed that he had once followed Primordial Heaven.
  • The Taichong Heavenly Dragon said a mysterious faceless woman had sealed Primordial Heaven in a stone coffin and that the coffin was likely in the Demon-Sealing Caverns with other dangerous beings.

Ch. 2447The Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord's advancement

Chen Zheng learned that Primordial Heaven was imprisoned in the stone coffin and that Extreme Evil was formed from the Huntian Great Demon Lord’s severed thoughts. After Taichong Heavenly Dragon raised the Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord to the Supreme Realm, Chen Zheng said he would visit the Demon-Sealing Caverns and meet Primordial Heaven.

  • Taichong Heavenly Dragon explained that the Supreme Ranking was only a reference and that the Demon-Sealing Caverns were no ordinary prison.
  • Gu Cang revealed that a Heaven named Taiqiong lived at Lesser Holy Emperor Mountain and begged Chen Zheng to help the cursed senior.
  • Chen Zheng asked Taichong Heavenly Dragon to use his innate divine ability on the Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord.
  • Taichong Heavenly Dragon sent Supreme power into the Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord, and she entered the Supreme Realm.
  • Chen Zheng praised the divine ability and said he would visit the Demon-Sealing Caverns to see Primordial Heaven.

Ch. 2448The very first being

After the Yin Ancient Sacred Lord’s fall was announced, a will briefly possessed his corpse to deliver a message ordering the Yin Clan to return to its ancestral land before the First Progenitor awakened. The Taichong Heavenly Dragon then revealed that the person responsible for the Great Dream God’s death might be the reincarnation of the universe’s very first being, leaving Heavenly King Yin questioning the extent of that person’s power.

  • A voice announced throughout Yin Ancient Dragon City that the Great Dream God and the Yin Ancient Sacred Lord had fallen, alarming the city and the nine provinces.
  • The Yin Ancient Sacred Lord’s corpse opened its eyes, and a will identifying itself as Yin Zhongjie’s presence explained that it had come to investigate the Divine Empress and the Sacred Lord’s death.
  • Heavenly King Yin said the Sacred Lord had colluded with a Future Tribulation Sect fiend and tried to devour the Heavenly Dragon, then ordered the will to leave.
  • The possessing will revealed that a progenitor had emerged from a sealing coffin and instructed every Yin Clan member in the Sacred Dynasty to return to the ancestral land before the First Progenitor awakened.
  • The Taichong Heavenly Dragon said the Yin Clan’s progenitors could not threaten the person who killed the Great Dream God and described that person as likely the reincarnation of the universe’s earliest being.
  • Heavenly King Yin questioned whether even the earliest being’s reincarnation could truly defeat every Supreme being, noting that Primordial Heaven remained suppressed and absent from the Overlord Ranking.

Ch. 2449Great Empyrean

Chen Zheng rescued Lesser Holy Emperor Mountain from an Unhindered Slaughter Dao vice sect master and met Great Empyrean, one of the Eight Acquired Heavens. Great Empyrean recognized Chen Zheng as the Love Emperor and called Lan Ling the Chaos Heavenly Maiden, leaving them stunned by their forgotten connections to the First Epoch.

  • Gu Cang and Chen Zheng found Lesser Holy Emperor Mountain's rear mountain sealed by an Unhindered Slaughter Dao barrier, while its sect master and elders lay unconscious.
  • An Unhindered Slaughter Dao vice sect master threatened to kill the mountain's people unless its Heaven surrendered.
  • Chen Zheng shattered the barrier with a breath and killed the vice sect master, whose name disappeared from the Supreme Ranking.
  • Chen Zheng, Gu Cang, Lan Ling, and Lan Jiang entered the rear mountain, where they found the withered old man Great Firmament.
  • Great Empyrean recognized Lan Ling as the Chaos Heavenly Maiden and asked whether she had awakened after finding her master, Lord Love Emperor.
  • Great Empyrean identified himself as one of the Eight Acquired Heavens and said he had met the Love Emperor during the First Epoch, though Chen Zheng no longer recognized him.

Ch. 2450Don't You Know I'm the Biggest One Here?

Great Empyrean recounted the vanished powers of the First Epoch before an unknown curse transformed him into wood and attacked Chen Zheng. The curse awakened several mysterious women’s voices, but Chen Zheng silenced its will and asserted his authority.

  • Great Empyrean told Lan Ling that the Love Emperor and several other First Epoch powers, including the Huntian Great Demon Lord and Supreme Sword Master, had vanished after going to the Land of the Beginning.
  • Great Empyrean’s unknown curse transformed his body into green wood, and he urged Chen Zheng to warn the other Heavens before his head turned to wood as well.
  • A streak of green light escaped Great Empyrean’s wooden body and pierced Lan Ling’s barrier, striking Chen Zheng between the brows.
  • Three unfamiliar women’s voices recognized one another as the Taiyou Azure Emperor Heaven and Holy Word Wuji Heaven, while Lan Ling, Lan Jiang, and Gu Cang watched in confusion.
  • Chen Zheng stripped the will inside the green light of its ability to speak and asked whether it knew he was the biggest one there.

Ch. 2451Two Overlord Divine Runes

Chen Zheng saved Great Empyrean from the curse, gained a second Overlord Divine Rune, and spoke with the will called Holy Word Wuji Heaven. After Great Empyrean revealed the Empress Sect’s connection to Supreme Nether Azure Emperor, Chen Zheng decided to visit it and Chu Hongyi.

  • Chen Zheng shattered the azure face with a slap, and a crash echoed from the Shattered Land.
  • Great Empyrean returned to human form, thanked Chen Zheng for removing his curse, and explained his connection to the Empress Sect’s first sect master and Supreme Nether Azure Emperor.
  • Chen Zheng gained a second Overlord Divine Rune while remaining at the One-Ring Overlord level.
  • Holy Word Wuji Heaven warned Chen Zheng to beware of her and Taiyou Azure Emperor Heaven, left Lan Ling’s trump card, and said she would go into seclusion.
  • Chen Zheng said he would visit the Empress Sect to see Chu Hongyi, prompting Lan Ling to question his other disciples.
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Arc 98 of 111