Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng destroyed the Nirvana Demon Palace, subdued the Nirvana Demon, and claimed the Epoch Azure Stone, but a masked figure named Ling Yan seized the power released when the stone shattered. The Black Emperor Divine City’s city lord failed to stop Ling Yan, whose mask suddenly displayed a complete divine pattern.

• The city lord of Black Emperor Divine City arrived and warned Chen Zheng that opening the Nirvana Demon Palace could unleash its demon.
• Chen Zheng shattered the palace, revealing the Nirvana Demon and an Epoch Azure Stone; the awakened demon began shaking the Black Abyss Ancient Realm.
• Chen Zheng summoned a black throne, and the Nirvana Demon knelt before him; a woman's phantom captured her as a demon seed.
• Chen Zheng took the Epoch Azure Stone and shattered it, releasing immense power.
• Ling Yan rushed to seize the released power, and the city lord failed to stop him as Ling Yan's mask transformed into a complete divine pattern.

Chen Zheng absorbed the Epoch Azure Stone’s power and destroyed Ling Yan despite having only Quasi-Sage magical power. He followed the lord of Black Emperor Divine City to the city, where a masked attacker had defeated the lord and demanded the Epoch Azure Stone, and Chen Zheng destroyed the attacker’s mask.

• The Epoch Azure Stone’s power flowed into Chen Zheng, restoring his magical power to the Quasi-Sage level.
• Chen Zheng casually destroyed Ling Yan’s Overlord Divine Runes mask and annihilated Ling Yan.
• Chen Zheng asked the lord of Black Emperor Divine City about more Epoch Azure Stones, and the lord sensed that the city was under attack.
• Chen Zheng and the others reached Black Emperor Divine City, where four Sky-Supporting Giants held the city aloft and a masked attacker had defeated the lord.
• The attacker revealed that his divine mask was an improved version and demanded the Epoch Azure Stone.
• Chen Zheng made a grabbing motion and turned the attacker’s complete divine rune mask to ash.

Chen Zheng killed four masked cultivators who claimed their master could defeat him, then took and consumed the Epoch Azure Stone. He explained that such divine treasures had little effect on him because his physical body was already too strong.

• Chen Zheng crushed another cultivator with power comparable to an Epoch Hegemon, leaving Black Emperor Divine City's inhabitants fearful for their city lord.
• Four more cultivators wearing complete divine-patterned masks appeared and warned Chen Zheng to leave, claiming their master could refine the masks and wanted the Epoch Azure Stone.
• Chen Zheng instantly killed the four newcomers, shattering their masks, and the four sky-reaching giants vanished, sending Black Emperor Divine City falling.
• Chen Zheng stopped the city from crashing, extracted the Epoch Azure Stone, shattered it, and devoured its power.
• Yannü and Ancient Sage Lixiao wondered why Chen Zheng's magical power barely increased, and Chen Zheng said his powerful physical body made such treasures largely ineffective.

Chen Zheng found a demon seed sealed beneath the northern snowfield of the Black Abyss Ancient Realm and warned everyone to avoid the Seven Demon Seeds. After returning outside the Domain, he announced his intention to enter the Primordial Ruins, where a female stone puppet’s master was waiting for him.

• Chen Zheng scanned the Black Abyss Ancient Realm, found no Epoch Azure Stones, and learned its restoration progress had reached eighty-five.
• Chen Zheng told the city lord of Black Emperor Divine City to study the secret art on the Emperor Stele, then went to the northern snowfield.
• Chen Zheng drew a pure-white demon seed from underground, identified it as one of the Seven Demon Seeds, and warned everyone to avoid such beings.
• Chen Zheng took Yannü, Mo Xin, Ancient Sage Lixiao, and the others out of the Black Abyss Ancient Realm, then sent the Ancient Immortal Road’s survivors on their way.
• At the Purple Ultimate Holy Court, Chen Zheng said he planned to enter the Primordial Ruins, and Ancient Sage Lixiao recalled that a female stone puppet had said her master was waiting for him there.

Chen Zheng entered the Primordial Ruins with his companions, drawing many powerful figures after him, but the ruins expelled most of the entrants and sealed themselves off as a battle began inside. The Outer Realm’s Heavenly Dao appeared in the sky, bloodied and battered, after a brief glimpse of Chen Zheng and a female stone puppet.

• Chen Zheng said he would enter the Primordial Ruins in the Great Cang Sacred Dynasty, and Golden Venerable promised to witness it.
• Chen Zheng entered the Primordial Ruins with Yannü, Bai Mu'er, Mo Xin, Ancient Sage Lixiao, the people of Mo Village, and several beasts; God-Demon Sacred Venerable and Golden Venerable followed.
• Bai Mu'er, the Bliss Ice Palace palace master, Fairy Xueyao, Eternal Life Immortal Mother, Ji Fanxi, and others also entered, while the Holy Emperor Sect's Holy Maiden stayed outside.
• The Primordial Ruins expelled dozens of entrants, including God-Demon Sacred Venerable, Golden Venerable, Old Sword God, Eternal Life Immortal Mother, and Miss Yuyu, leaving Chen Zheng and several women inside.
• A tremendous clash shook the Primordial Ruins, and divine light sealed it off from the Outer Realm as those outside retreated.
• A brief image showed Chen Zheng, the women with him, and a female stone puppet before the light screen shattered and a bloodied, battered incarnation of the Heavenly Dao appeared in the sky.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.