Chapter Summaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chen Zheng confronted the Grotto-Heaven Clan after its members tried to humiliate the Liuli Divine Temple. He challenged the Three-Ring Overlord Mo Yi and stepped through his heavenly might, standing before him unharmed.

• A Grotto-Heaven clansman threatened to record the Liuli Divine Temple’s humiliation and spread it throughout the Immortal Domain.
• Chen Zheng intervened, and the clansman’s attack and Grotto-Heaven Space art both failed to affect him.
• Mo Yi revealed himself as a Three-Ring Overlord, and the onlookers feared Chen Zheng could not defeat him.
• Chen Zheng called the Grotto-Heaven Clan’s experts over so he could kill them all at once, angering its members.
• Mo Yi pointed at Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng strode through his heavenly might and arrived unharmed before him.

Chen Zheng faced the Grotto-Heaven Clan elder Mo Yi in Pure Heaven Valley, shrugging off his attacks and taunting him to summon the clan's experts. When Mo Yi tried to flee, Chen Zheng unleashed a netherworld sword shadow that swallowed him in a vast Sword Domain.

• Chen Zheng's body withstood Mo Yi's heavenly might, and he challenged the elder to summon the Grotto-Heaven Clan's experts so he could kill them together.
• A Grotto-Heaven clansman attacked Chen Zheng with a divine sword, but the strike rebounded and pierced the clansman's own chest.
• Mo Yi used the Grotto-Heaven Clan's Grotto-Heaven Wuji secret art, but its manifestations shattered without harming Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng produced a bead of blood, then said he could kill Mo Yi without wasting his true blood.
• Mo Yi tried to escape into the sky, but Chen Zheng's netherworld sword shadow caught him and dragged him into a Sword Domain.

Chen Zheng killed Mo Yi of the Grotto-Heaven Clan and used the Conviction Earring to destroy the clan members in Pure Heaven Valley. He saved Fairy Qin with his true blood, and she emerged healed and newly empowered before thanking him as Qin You.

• Chen Zheng sent Susu to devour Mo Yi's surviving primordial spirit and shattered Epoch Ring, then ordered Dugu Qian to convict the kneeling Grotto-Heaven clansmen, turning them to ashes.
• Chen Zheng restored and opened the Liuli Divine Temple, where he found Fairy Qin wounded by the Grotto-Heaven Clan's No-Life Sacred Relic and a monster holding the Wuji Heavenly Book.
• Chen Zheng struck down the monster and imprisoned its primordial spirit, then sent his true blood into Fairy Qin to heal her.
• Fairy Qin healed, forged a nine-story Dao Tower, and manifested a palace resembling the Holy Court before emerging to thank Chen Zheng as Qin You.
• Chen Zheng called Fairy Qin “You'er,” then explained that one of his disciples had that name, leaving Qin You disappointed.

Qin You told Chen Zheng that the Liuli Divine Temple’s second elder had been a demonic creature who cursed the temple’s sleeping cultivators. Chen Zheng used a divine stone said to be from beyond the Primordial Chaos Universe to awaken them, leaving the demonic creature baffled by his power.

• Qin You reported that the second elder had colluded with the Grotto-Heaven Clan and Daoist Tianwu, and the demonic creature claimed only its creator could undo the curse on the sleeping cultivators.
• The demonic creature demanded pure yin power from Fairy Qin and Dugu Qian, but Chen Zheng struck its primordial spirit and ordered Fairy Qin to fetch the divine stone.
• Fairy Qin brought the divine stone, and Chen Zheng crushed it and swallowed its power despite the demonic creature’s warning that he could not absorb it all.
• Chen Zheng swept divine light over the sleeping Liuli Temple Master and the other cultivators, awakening them and breaking their curse.
• The demonic creature questioned how a Quasi-Sage could wield the stone’s power, and Chen Zheng asked which aspect of half-step transcendence it meant: physical body, primordial spirit, or magical power.

The fiend warned Chen Zheng that its master was a genuine Half-Step Transcendence being who could descend into the Immortal Domain, but Chen Zheng insisted on confronting him. Chen Zheng traced the fiend’s origin to its master, and the master’s will entered the vision and turned toward them.

• Jing Liuli and the Liuli Divine Temple elders thanked Chen Zheng for saving them after Fairy Qin explained what he had done.
• The fiend revealed that its sleeping master had created it and would descend in his true body once awakened, prompting Gu Tian and the others to worry.
• Chen Zheng offered to restore the fiend’s body and asked it to take him to its master, but the fiend refused and warned him against his overconfidence.
• Chen Zheng reached toward the fiend’s primordial spirit and traced its origin through a vision resembling the River of Time.
• The fiend’s master gave a cold snort, and his figure in the vision came alive and began to turn around.

Chen Zheng repelled the will of a half-step transcendence being, who recognized his extraordinary primordial spirit and vanished after promising to apologize once Jiang Huan awakened. After explaining that Jiang Huan was Huantian Liuli’s younger brother, Chen Zheng prepared to take companions to the Grotto-Heaven Clan’s sacred land.

• The fiend revealed that Chen Zheng had swallowed its master's otherworldly divine stone, and the master's will invaded Chen Zheng's primordial spirit to investigate him.
• Chen Zheng's primordial spirit forced the will back out, and the will destroyed the fiend before apologizing to Chen Zheng and vanishing.
• Fairy Qin explained that the name Jiang Huan belonged to a fallen Divine General of the Hongtian Divine Metropolis, while Chen Zheng said the being was Huantian Liuli's younger brother.
• Chen Zheng explained that Susu could not devour Jiang Huan's primordial spirit because it was not at the half-step transcendence level.
• Chen Zheng told the others to recover and then choose companions to go with him to the Grotto-Heaven Clan's sacred land, prompting fears that he intended to wipe out the clan.

Chen Zheng entered the Grotto-Heaven Clan’s sacred ground and killed its Overlord, Lord Mo Jue, while the clan realized he might also have killed Lord Mo Yi. He declared the clan’s existence harmful and considered wiping it out, but an old man warned that doing so would affect all the heavens and myriad worlds.

• Chen Zheng destroyed the evil beasts with a finger snap, and the Grotto-Heaven clansmen recognized the move as the Immortal Domain Supreme’s Supreme Art.
• Grotto-Heaven Clan members questioned Chen Zheng’s connection to the Immortal Domain Supreme and demanded that Qin You explain Lord Mo Yi’s disappearance.
• Chen Zheng ignored the clansmen, entered the sacred ground, destroyed its stone puppets and sacred hall, and killed Lord Mo Jue with a sword strike.
• A stone egg swallowed the shattered Epoch Ring, leaving Dugu Qian, Fairy Qin, Gu Tian, and the others astonished.
• Chen Zheng said wiping out the Grotto-Heaven Clan would benefit other races, and an old man warned that the act would affect all the heavens and myriad worlds.

Mo Qianji claimed the Grotto-Heaven Clan and its divine pillar were essential to all grotto-heavens and blessed lands, but Chen Zheng disproved his threats by destroying the clan and the pillar. He revealed that Pure Heaven Valley remained safe and that twelve other pillars still existed.

• Mo Qianji revealed the Grotto-Heaven Divine Pillar and claimed the clan’s heavenly mandate made it indispensable to every grotto-heaven and blessed land.
• Chen Zheng shattered the stone platform and took the divine pillar from Mo Qianji.
• Chen Zheng annihilated the Grotto-Heaven Clan, and Fairy Qin confirmed that Pure Heaven Valley remained intact.
• Mo Qianji reappeared as a demonic face, but Chen Zheng destroyed the Grotto-Heaven Divine Pillar and absorbed its released power.
• Chen Zheng explained that the pillar, not the clan, supported the grotto-heavens and blessed lands, and that thirteen pillars existed in total.

Chen Zheng agreed to fight in the Battle of the Five Heavens after Yu Pingtian warned him to stop weakening Taisu Sacred Mountain. The chapter ended with Chen Zheng revealing that Yu Pingtian’s Heaven Bone had been sucked dry, leaving him bewildered.

• Chen Zheng explained that a troublemaking figure had fished Mo Qianji from the River of Time.
• Yu Pingtian of the Heaven-Pacifying Clan arrived and warned Chen Zheng that destroying the Death Temple and Grotto-Heaven Clan weakened Taisu Sacred Mountain.
• Fairy Qin explained that the Battle of the Five Heavens determined which sacred mountain’s lineages could enter the Northern God Ancient Wasteland’s core region.
• Chen Zheng said he would fight in the Battle of the Five Heavens for Taisu Sacred Mountain.
• Chen Zheng patted Yu Pingtian’s shoulder and told him his Heaven Bone had been sucked dry, surprising Yu Pingtian.

Chen Zheng took Yu Pingtian and the others to the Heaven-Pacifying Clan’s Divine Emperor Cave Abode to investigate the clan’s secrets and Yu Pingtian’s Heaven Bone. After the clan tried to expel them and the grotto-heaven erupted in strange power, Chen Zheng swept away the clouds and revealed what lay ahead.

• Chen Zheng said Yu Pingtian’s Heaven Bone did not make him the reincarnation of a known Heaven and asked to visit the Heaven-Pacifying Clan.
• Yu Pingtian used an immortal formation to bring Chen Zheng and the others to the clan’s Divine Emperor Cave Abode, where the realm began to shake and seemed to call to him.
• A crowned young man confronted the outsiders, ordered them to leave, and took Yu Pingtian away to Pingtian Hall.
• The Divine Emperor Cave Abode shook again, and waves of mist surged toward Chen Zheng and the others.
• Chen Zheng dispersed the mist and revealed the grotto-heaven, prompting the Heaven-Gazing Beast to curse in shock.