Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng appeared in Su Cheng’s home and showed her memories of his life across ancient worlds, claiming he had lived for a few billion years. He explained that he had returned to the present after restarting the epoch and left Su Cheng stunned by his account of Earth’s past.

• Su Cheng attacked Chen Zheng with nail clippers, but he stopped them in midair with an invisible force.
• Chen Zheng introduced himself as Chen Zheng and sent Su Cheng images of his experiences, including prehistoric lands, giant beasts, and a floating city.
• Su Cheng asked how long Chen Zheng had lived, and he said he had experienced a few billion years.
• Chen Zheng said his immortal body and soul had endured unbearable years, and that he had left Earth near the end of King Zhou of Shang’s reign.
• Chen Zheng recalled that Demon Consort Daji and Jiang Ziya had wanted to leave with him, but he had refused to take them.
• Su Cheng asked whether Chen Zheng was a transmigrator and whether anything had happened between him and Demon Consort Daji.

Chen Zheng stayed at Su Cheng’s home and slept through Professor An Jing’s lecture at Nan University, provoking her with criticism of her paintings. He demonstrated extraordinary painting skill, leaving behind a portrait that seemed alive, and An Jing rushed off to find him and ask him to be her master.

• Chen Zheng told Su Cheng he would live at her home, then slept through Professor An Jing’s lecture the next day.
• An Jing ordered Chen Zheng to leave her class, but he criticized her paintings and offered to paint a picture before going.
• Chen Zheng painted a portrait of An Jing in less than three minutes, and the figure seemed to come alive and fly around the lecture hall.
• An Jing recognized Chen Zheng’s painting as reaching the divine realm, asked Su Cheng to have the picture mounted, and rushed out to find him.

At Nan University, Chen Zheng faced Yan Hao and four other students in a one-on-five basketball challenge and stunned the crowd with impossible long-range shots. He left the court after winning, while a student prepared to upload a video of his shots online.

• Yan Hao and his companions confronted Chen Zheng because he had been seen with Su Cheng, then mocked him after learning he was her bodyguard.
• Yan Hao challenged Chen Zheng to a full-court one-on-five game, and Chen Zheng agreed to take three possessions against their three.
• Chen Zheng let Yan Hao's team score, then made repeated long-range shots despite their attempts to block him.
• Chen Zheng scored from the boundary at the back of his half, declared the game over, and walked away as A Dong fainted.
• The watching students called Chen Zheng a cheater and an expert, while a student in glasses celebrated recording the game for an online upload.

Chen Zhi recognized a viral video of her older half-brother, Chen Zheng, while An Jing tried to persuade him to teach her painting. When thugs attacked Chen Zheng in a park, he effortlessly defeated them with mysterious power and left the women stunned.

• Chen Zhi told Jiang Rou that the man in a viral basketball video was her older brother and said she would contact him soon.
• An Jing asked Chen Zheng to teach her painting, then declared that he was her man and tried to take him home.
• More than a dozen thugs surrounded Chen Zheng, An Jing, and Su Cheng and threatened to beat Chen Zheng and harm the women.
• Chen Zheng struck the hulking leader with an unseen force and sent him crashing into a tree.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers, causing the remaining thugs to panic, scream, and collapse.
• An Jing asked whether Chen Zheng was Thanos reincarnated, and he replied that he was much stronger.

Chen Zheng revealed that his traditional clothes were powerful immortal robes and gave An Jing a red qipao that massively increased her True Qi. When An Jing reached what she believed was the terrestrial immortal realm, thunderclouds and lightning appeared over Nan City.

• An Jing stayed at Su Cheng's home and flirted with Chen Zheng while practicing yoga the next morning.
• Su Cheng invited Chen Zheng to a family banquet and suggested buying him formal clothes.
• Chen Zheng claimed his outfit was immortal robes made of heavenly silkworm silk that could withstand heavenly tribulation.
• Chen Zheng summoned a red qipao onto An Jing, and she felt her True Qi surge to far beyond the great grandmaster realm.
• An Jing recognized the strength as possibly belonging to a terrestrial immortal, and thunderclouds and lightning suddenly gathered over Nan City.

Chen Zheng suppressed a Heavenly Tribulation in Nan City, then attended the Su Family banquet with Su Cheng and An Jing, where guests mocked him for being a bodyguard. The banquet's guests were stunned when Chen Zhi, a daughter of the XN Chen Family, called Chen Zheng her brother.

• Chen Zheng made the Heavenly Tribulation and its thunderclouds vanish, leaving An Jing questioning whether he was an immortal.
• Yu Canghai recognized the lightning as a Heavenly Tribulation and hoped to meet the powerful cultivator living in Nan City.
• At the Su Family banquet, Liu Xian and Yan Hao belittled Chen Zheng for attending as Su Cheng's bodyguard.
• Chen Zhi arrived at the banquet, ignored a fawning businesswoman, and called Chen Zheng her brother.

Chen Zheng's identity as a member of the Xining Chen Family shocked the banquet guests, though he denied having much connection to the family. When Yu Canghai arrived, he ignored the other guests and bowed to Chen Zheng as his senior, leaving Liu Xian horrified.

• Liu Xian challenged Chen Zhi's claim that Chen Zheng was her brother, but Chen Zhi's status silenced him.
• Su Ziming recognized Chen Zheng as Chen Qian's son, while Su Cheng and An Jing were surprised by his connection to the Chen Family.
• Chen Zheng denied having much to do with the Chen Family, and Liu Xian mocked him as an unacknowledged illegitimate son.
• Chen Zhi began telling Chen Zheng that their father wanted him to return, but Yu Canghai's arrival interrupted her.
• Yu Canghai ignored Liu Xian and bowed respectfully to Chen Zheng, calling himself his junior and Chen Zheng his senior.

Yu Canghai arrived at the Su Family banquet and treated Chen Zheng as his senior, shocking the guests. After Chen Zheng left Liu Xian’s punishment to Yu Canghai, the banquet continued, while Su Cheng wondered how long Chen Zheng would remain by her side.

• Yu Canghai greeted Chen Zheng as Senior, leaving Su Ziming, Chen Zhi, and the other guests stunned.
• The middle-aged woman surnamed Wang told Yu Canghai that Liu Xian had mocked Chen Zheng, and Yu Canghai asked Chen Zheng how to deal with him.
• Chen Zheng called Liu Xian a mere ant and left his fate to Yu Canghai, who hurled him out of the hall and challenged Liu Zhong to seek revenge.
• Yan Hao tried to flee the Su Family residence, fell at the doorway, and hurried away in terror.
• Chen Zheng told Su Ziming to let the banquet continue and said he was only Su Cheng’s bodyguard, while Su Cheng wondered if he would soon leave her side.

After the banquet, Yu Canghai questioned Chen Zheng about the Heavenly Tribulation and received a glimpse of a realm beyond martial arts. Chen Zheng left the study, while Yu Canghai and Wen Tailai struggled to comprehend what they had witnessed.

• Yu Canghai respectfully asked Chen Zheng whether he had caused the Heavenly Tribulation in Nan City, and Chen Zheng denied it.
• Jiang Rou suspected Chen Zheng was connected to the ancient treasures of her family, while An Jing and Su Cheng kept quiet about the qipao that had triggered the tribulation.
• Chen Zheng offered to show Yu Canghai something and sent a ray of mysterious light into the Great Grandmaster's brow.
• Yu Canghai experienced a vision of a legendary realm, then thanked Chen Zheng for his guidance and called that realm the beginning of cultivation.
• Chen Zheng left the study as Jiang Rou and Chen Zhi followed, and Yu Canghai told Wen Tailai that Chen Zheng's existence surpassed even immortals' imaginings.

Yu Canghai told Wen Tailai that Chen Zheng had lived through an impossible span of time and viewed the Terrestrial Immortal realm as only the beginning of cultivation. At Su Cheng’s home, Chen Zheng empowered Chen Zhi, rejected ties to the Xining Chen Family, and heard Jiang Rou explain why he resembled a figure in her family’s ancient painting.

• Yu Canghai told Wen Tailai that Chen Zheng had survived from prehistoric Earth and that the Terrestrial Immortal realm was merely the start of cultivation in Chen Zheng’s eyes.
• Chen Zheng tapped Chen Zhi between the brows, opened her Ren and Du meridians, and gave her the Carefree Chapter of the Myriad Heavens to comprehend.
• Chen Zheng said he had little interest in the Xining Chen Family and considered himself simply Su Cheng’s bodyguard.
• Jiang Rou asked Chen Zheng to become her husband, and he agreed before she revealed that she had only meant to invite him to the Jincheng Jiang Family.
• Jiang Rou said Chen Zheng resembled the figure in an ancient jade painting passed down by her family, whom she identified as Jiang Ziya’s master.
• Su Cheng accepted that Chen Zheng’s extraordinary stories were true and felt fortunate to have met him.

Chen Zheng accompanied Jiang Rou to the Jiang Family residence in Jincheng, where he clashed with Tang Qisheng, a young master who claimed Jiang Rou was destined to be his. Chen Zheng defeated him with one kick, severing his meridians and leaving him unconscious.

• Chen Zheng told An Jing that a few thousand years had felt like a brief nap and agreed to visit the Jiang Family with Jiang Rou.
• Jiang Rou introduced Chen Zheng to Uncle Qian as her boyfriend when they arrived at the Jiang Family residence.
• Tang Qisheng confronted Jiang Rou and dismissed Chen Zheng, but Jiang Rou kissed Chen Zheng to make her choice clear.
• Tang Qisheng challenged Chen Zheng to a duel and attacked him with a sinister claw strike.
• Chen Zheng kicked Tang Qisheng into a tree, severed all his meridians, and knocked him unconscious.

Chen Zheng crippled Tang Qisheng, provoking Tang Luo to confront the Jiang Family and demand revenge. Tang Luo attacked Chen Zheng after Chen Zheng questioned whether being a Grandmaster was impressive.

• Jiang Rou stopped Uncle Qian from worrying over Chen Zheng crippling Tang Qisheng and had Uncle Qian take Tang Qisheng back to the Tang Family.
• Uncle Qian discovered that Tang Qisheng’s meridians had been shattered, then Tang Luo attacked him when he arrived at the Tang Family compound.
• Jiang Rou brought Chen Zheng into the Jiang Family villa and teased him about being her boyfriend.
• Tang Luo confronted Jiang Fang and demanded to know who had crippled Tang Qisheng, then singled out Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng asked Tang Luo whether being a Grandmaster was impressive, and Tang Luo attacked him with a palm strike.

Chen Zheng effortlessly defeated and crippled Tang Luo, a top-ten Black List Grandmaster, at the Jiang Family villa. The chapter ended with Jiang Boyue recognizing Chen Zheng as the Jiang lineage’s Ancestral Master and bowing to him.

• Chen Zheng sent Tang Luo and his followers flying from the Jiang Family villa with a single slap.
• Chen Zheng revealed that his slap had crippled Tang Luo, and Jiang Fang confirmed that Tang Luo had lost all his True Qi.
• Jiang Boyue came downstairs and told Tang Luo he had provoked someone he should not have.
• Jiang Boyue studied Chen Zheng, knelt before him, and addressed him as the Ancestral Master.
• Tang Luo spat out blood and fainted as the Jiang Family members stood stunned.

Chen Zheng revealed himself as the Jiang Family’s ancient Ancestral Master, linked to Jiang Ziya and a painting preserved in the family jade. He unlocked an immortal-path Secret Method that gave Jiang Boyue a chance to break through, then told Jiang Rou that three thousand years felt like only a moment.

• Jiang Boyue recognized Chen Zheng as the Ancestral Master, and Jiang Fang realized Chen Zheng matched the figure in the Jiang Family’s ancestral jade.
• Jiang Boyue took Chen Zheng and Jiang Rou to the study, where the jade projected an image of Chen Zheng from three thousand years earlier.
• Chen Zheng explained that he had given the jade to Jiang Ziya and unlocked its Secret Method for Jiang Boyue.
• Jiang Boyue told Jiang Fang that the Secret Method could let him break through within half a year and escape his failing lifespan.
• In Jiang Rou’s bedroom, Chen Zheng said that three thousand years passed like a snap of the fingers.

Chen Zheng told Jiang Rou that he had lived through vast stretches of history and recounted how he came to regard Jiang Ziya as his disciple. Jiang Rou doubted his claims and suspected he had invented a version of her ancestor’s story to tease her.

• Jiang Rou dismissed Chen Zheng’s claim that he had slept for thousands of years and awakened during the age of dinosaurs.
• Chen Zheng said he had raised a Tyrannosaurus rex, let an asteroid strike Earth in hopes of dying, and later returned to the current point in time after a fight destroyed an epoch.
• Chen Zheng claimed that he needed no food or energy, could not die, and was likely unharmed by any weapon on Earth.
• Chen Zheng reflected on Jiang Ziya, whom he believed had reached at least the Golden Immortal level in the Immortal Realm.
• Jiang Rou wondered whether Chen Zheng had been involved with her ancestor, and Chen Zheng described a young man and a little fox who had listened to his stories.
• Jiang Rou concluded that Chen Zheng meant Jiang Ziya and Daji, but suspected he had made up the tale based on Investiture of the Gods.

Chen Zheng returned to Nan City after advising Old Master Jiang about his upcoming Heavenly Tribulation, then cooked Su Cheng and An Jing an Immortal Ascension Banquet. An Jing passed out when the meal’s effects overwhelmed her True Qi, and Chen Zheng carried her to her bedroom to help regulate it while Su Cheng watched.

• Chen Zheng explained the Terrestrial Immortal Realm and Old Master Jiang’s coming Heavenly Tribulation before leaving the Jiang Family for Nan City.
• Jiang Rou tried to persuade Chen Zheng to live with her and Chen Zhi, but he said he wanted to live as he pleased.
• A sleazy middle-aged man asked Chen Zheng to introduce him to a beauty, and Chen Zheng told him that being handsome was a prerequisite.
• Chen Zheng served Su Cheng and An Jing a meal he called the Immortal Ascension Banquet, and both women eagerly devoured it.
• An Jing passed out after her True Qi surged, and Chen Zheng carried her to her bedroom to help it flow smoothly while asking Su Cheng to witness what happened.

Chen Zheng restored An Jing after her true qi overwhelmed her mind, then told An Jing that he had mastered many other skills as well as painting and cooking. On campus, Kim Eun-woo and the Korean international students confronted Chen Zheng over his insult, and Chen Zheng dismissed them as morons.

• Chen Zheng cleared An Jing’s blockage with a few presses, and Su Cheng declined his advanced technique when he told her to take off her clothes.
• The next day, An Jing questioned Chen Zheng about his abilities, and he said his skills in music, chess, calligraphy, painting, tea ceremony, and medicine were more or less on par with his painting.
• Kim Eun-woo and several Korean international students approached An Jing and Chen Zheng, and Chen Zheng mocked their greeting and manner of speaking.
• Kim Eun-woo blocked Chen Zheng’s way and demanded an apology, while bystanders recognized Chen Zheng as the Three-Point King from a viral video.
• Chen Zheng called the Korean international students morons, and Kim Eun-woo’s face darkened.

Chen Zheng accepted Kim Eun-woo’s challenge and effortlessly dodged his attacks before defeating him with one kick. He left with An Jing and Su Cheng, while Kim Eun-woo realized he was badly injured and could no longer stand.

• Kim Eun-woo challenged Chen Zheng to fight, and Chen Zheng agreed after warning that his skills were meant for real combat.
• At the Taekwondo Club, Chen Zheng gave Kim Eun-woo five minutes to attack without retaliating.
• Chen Zheng dodged Kim Eun-woo’s repeated kicks and punches, leaving the onlookers astonished.
• When Kim Eun-woo launched another flying kick, Chen Zheng countered with one kick that sent him crashing into the blond-haired youth.
• Chen Zheng called Kim Eun-woo’s skills “rotten fish and shrimp” and left with An Jing and Su Cheng; Kim Eun-woo collapsed after realizing he could not stand.

After Chen Zheng defeated Kim Eun-woo, Zhang Xu tried to force Chen Zheng to apologize, but An Jing defended him and quit her professorship. The chapter ended with Principal Lu revealing that An Jing was his daughter and promising to investigate the incident.

• After kneeling in defeat, Kim Eun-woo asked Haoshang to take him to see Senior Sister Yunmei for revenge.
• During An Jing's lecture, Zhang Xu arrived with security guards and ordered Chen Zheng to come apologize to Kim Eun-woo.
• An Jing cursed at Zhang Xu, refused to let the guards take Chen Zheng, and announced she was quitting her job.
• Principal Lu arrived, and An Jing led Chen Zheng and Su Cheng out of the classroom.
• Principal Lu told Zhang Xu that An Jing was his daughter and said he would investigate the incident.

At the Jasmine Bar, Chen Zheng shared his wine, Drunken Life, Dreaming Death, with Yan Susu, whose reaction left the patrons desperate to taste it. An influential old man then offered Chen Zheng a ten-million annual salary to become his winemaker.

• Yan Susu asked Chen Zheng whether he had any wine she could try, and he produced a small white-jade bottle from thin air.
• Yan Susu opened the bottle and was overcome by its aroma, while the fragrance spread through the bar and captivated the patrons.
• Yan Susu drank the wine and asked Chen Zheng its name, and he called it Drunken Life, Dreaming Death.
• The patrons crowded Chen Zheng and offered to pay any price for the wine.
• An old man removed his hat, revealed himself as a familiar public figure, and offered Chen Zheng an annual salary of ten million to work as his winemaker.