Chapter Summaries

The Xu Family forced the An Family to become its vassal after An Xiaoyue and An Xin were expelled from the Heavenly Destiny Assessment. When Chen Zheng tried to leave with the An Family, the city lord and Xu Family blocked their exit and revealed they had obtained an Immortal Soul Needle to break his defensive treasure.

• An Xiaoyue and An Xin stepped onto the immortal formation, but it transported them out without giving them immortal markings.
• Xu Luoye and the Xu Family patriarch declared that the An Family had failed the assessment and would become the Xu Family's vassal.
• The city lord confirmed the An Family's new status, while the Xu Family threatened to make An Xiaoyue its maid and Chen Zheng its servant.
• Chen Zheng told the An Family to leave, but the city lord raised a barrier and refused to let them go.
• The Xu Family patriarch revealed an Immortal Soul Needle and said the Xu Family wanted Chen Zheng to help someone with the same surname as him.

Chen Zheng survived the Xu Family patriarch’s attack, then destroyed the patriarch and the city lord when they attacked him. After Xu Luoye realized Chen Zheng’s power was triggered by attacks against him, Chen Zheng stepped onto the immortal formation, whose assault provoked an overwhelming force that erased the hall and everyone inside except the protected An Family members.

• The Xu Family patriarch attacked Chen Zheng with the Immortal Soul Needle, which shattered against his brow, and the patriarch exploded into a mist of blood.
• Chen Zheng challenged Xu Luoye and the city lord, then protected An Xiaoyue and the other An Family members with immortal light.
• The city lord attacked Chen Zheng with an immortal art and was killed by a surge of the Great Dao of Destruction.
• Xu Luoye deduced that Chen Zheng’s power struck back when others attacked him and urged everyone to retreat.
• Chen Zheng stepped onto the immortal formation, whose power triggered a greater force that erased the Heavenly Destiny Immortal Hall and everything inside except the protected An Family members.
• Living beings throughout Xuanji Immortal City stared toward the vanished hall, city lord, Xu Family, and Lu Family.

Chen Zheng stood unharmed in the ruins of the Heavenly Destiny Immortal Hall, then shattered Dao Ancestor Wan Heyi when he challenged him. Chen Zheng took a crystal from Wan Heyi and learned that the Cosmic Cantilever identified it as the Ultimate Dao-Devouring Stone, while its effect on his body suggested his body surpassed the level the artifact spirit had estimated.

• The An family and Xuanji Immortal City’s residents saw Chen Zheng standing unharmed where the Heavenly Destiny Immortal Hall had been destroyed.
• Dao Ancestor Wan Heyi appeared and demanded that the An family patriarch explain what had happened.
• Wan Heyi’s heavenly might could not pass through the barrier around the An family, and his body shattered when he turned his pressure toward Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng reached into Wan Heyi’s cracked primordial spirit and took a crystal that slowed the fission inside his body.
• The Cosmic Cantilever identified the crystal as a Decay Body, also called the Ultimate Dao-Devouring Stone, and its artifact spirit wondered whether Chen Zheng’s body exceeded a Creator’s.

Chen Zheng used the Decay Body to slow his body's fission and spared Wan Heyi, then faced an Immortal Lord who came to investigate Xuanji Immortal City's destruction. When Lengyu attacked him, Chen Zheng killed him effortlessly.

• Chen Zheng explained that the crystalline jade pendant containing the Decay Body had slowed his body's fission, though he still needed more pieces to recover his magical power.
• Chen Zheng healed Wan Heyi, explaining that the crystalline jade pendant and Wan Heyi's secret art had saved his life.
• Immortal Lord Lengyu arrived from the Second Heaven and questioned Wan Heyi about City Lord Yan Lubo and the destroyed Heavenly Destiny Immortal Hall.
• Wan Heyi falsely claimed that Yan Lubo's attempt to seize the immortal bell's power had destroyed the hall, and Lengyu struck him nearly to death.
• Chen Zheng admitted that he had killed Yan Lubo and destroyed the hall and its immortal formation, then challenged Lengyu to attack.
• Lengyu's immortal light failed to harm Chen Zheng, and Lengyu exploded into blood mist as his Dao Tower collapsed.

Chen Zheng killed Immortal Lord Lengyu and learned that Wan Heyi’s sect legacy items held dangers that only an Epoch Hegemon could trigger. Wan Heyi urged the group to flee toward Daluo Golden City, while An Xin’s remark about her family’s connection to Heavenly Emperor Jing led the An Family to suspect Chen Zheng knew their secret.

• Chen Zheng, the An Family, and Wan Heyi withdrew to Wan Heyi’s cultivation ground after Chen Zheng killed Immortal Lord Lengyu.
• Wan Heyi explained that he had lied to Immortal Lord Lengyu because he knew Chen Zheng was dangerous, and Chen Zheng said the crystal pendant’s hidden threat would likely activate only at the Epoch Hegemon level.
• Wan Heyi warned that Immortal King Yitian’s forces might investigate the deaths and offered to take Chen Zheng to Daluo Golden City, where his junior sister kept another sect legacy item.
• Wan Heyi told the group that Demon Emperor Dijun had risen from Quasi-Sage to Epoch Hegemon in less than a year, and the An Family discussed his extraordinary heavenly mandate.
• An Xin proposed changing her name to An Jing because her clan was related to Heavenly Emperor Jing, and Chen Zheng said someone was already called An Jing, prompting the An Family to suspect he knew their secret.

Chen Zheng brought Wan Heyi and the An Family to Daluo Golden City, where they learned that his dangerous body was being suppressed by a crystal jade pendant. As Wan Heyi led them to his junior sister’s shop, a rude young man confronted them, but his companion recognized Chen Zheng and fled with him.

• Wan Heyi sensed another Immortal Lord arriving in Xuanji Immortal City and teleported the An Family and Chen Zheng to Daluo Golden City.
• The newcomer, Hu Xuanji, used the Great Dao of Time to witness Immortal Lord Lengyu’s death and discovered that a mortal had killed him.
• After arriving in Daluo Golden City, the group drew dismissive looks from its residents, and Wan Heyi explained the city’s commercial nature and powerful inhabitants.
• Chen Zheng told Wan Heyi to take them to his junior sister’s shop, explaining that the crystal jade pendant was suppressing his body and that losing control could destroy the city.
• At the Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion, a young man insulted the group, but his companion recognized Chen Zheng and fled with him.

Chen Zheng and Wan Heyi met Wan Heyi’s junior sister, Wan Nianqing, who asked Chen Zheng to save her Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion from an Epoch Hegemon backed by the Eternal Dao Dharma Sect. Chen Zheng promised to kill the threat within ten breaths when he arrived the next day.

• A Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion cultivator invited Chen Zheng, Wan Heyi, and the An Family inside after the pavilion master emerged from seclusion.
• Wan Heyi introduced Chen Zheng to his junior sister, who recognized that Wan Heyi’s inheritance item was already inside Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit.
• Wan Nianqing explained that an Epoch Hegemon backed by the Eternal Dao Dharma Sect planned to seize her the next day, and she feared for her disciples and pavilion.
• Chen Zheng said killing an Epoch Hegemon was easy and promised to kill Wan Nianqing’s attacker within ten breaths.
• Wan Nianqing introduced herself and agreed to await Chen Zheng’s help.

The Xiao Family patriarch learned that Chen Zheng was no ordinary mortal and ordered the Guardian Elder to retrieve an object for its rightful owner. At the Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion, Chen Zheng killed Yin Mouluo in a single strike, stunning the crowd.

• Young Master Xiao dismissed the Guardian Elder's concerns, but the Xiao Family patriarch reprimanded him and said he would take him to apologize to Chen Zheng.
• The Xiao Family patriarch asked the Guardian Elder to retrieve an object from their ancestral land and return it to its rightful owner.
• A crowd gathered outside the Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion as Yin Mouluo arrived to demand that Madam Wan come out.
• Chen Zheng stepped outside and began counting down while Madam Wan and Wan Heyi wondered whether he could kill Yin Mouluo.
• Yin Mouluo attacked Chen Zheng, but his body and primordial spirit exploded, blasting away nearly everyone nearby.
• Chen Zheng remarked that the kill had taken more than three breaths because Yin Mouluo had not attacked sooner.

Chen Zheng killed Yin Mouluo and drew the Eternal Dao Dharma Sect’s threat, then faced another Epoch Hegemon, An Ke. An Ke’s dark arrow struck Chen Zheng, but he survived and An Ke exploded into blood mist.

• Chen Zheng’s killing of Yin Mouluo stunned the onlookers and the people inside the Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion, while a dark gleam from his pocket devoured the Epoch Ring fragments.
• A cultivator from the Eternal Dao Dharma Sect warned that Chen Zheng had killed the sect master Hong Wangu’s brother-in-law and would face the sect’s newly strengthened forces.
• Chen Zheng recognized Hong Wangu’s name, and Lord An Ke arrived as another Epoch Hegemon, reportedly with two Epoch Rings.
• Chen Zheng began another countdown as An Ke fired a dark arrow that struck him between the brows.
• An Ke lost control of the arrow’s power, retreated, and burst into a mist of blood as Daluo Golden City shook.

Chen Zheng destroyed an immortal battle puppet summoned by the Eternal Dao Dharma Sect, completing a triple kill and leaving the sect’s Daluo Golden City branch reeling. After the barrier fell, the major factions discovered that Daoist Wuyang had also died, and turned their attention toward the Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion.

• Chen Zheng calmly asked whether killing the Epoch Hegemon in three breaths counted as keeping his promise, as the ancient divine talisman sealed off the area around the Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion.
• The Eternal Dao Dharma Sect’s middle-aged man summoned an immortal battle puppet with four Overlord Divine Runes and declared that it would kill Chen Zheng.
• The immortal battle puppet charged Chen Zheng, but the divine light shattered to reveal Chen Zheng unharmed and the puppet destroyed.
• The ancient divine talisman and the barrier broke apart, while the onlookers realized Chen Zheng had scored a triple kill.
• The major factions sensed Daoist Wuyang’s scream and learned that the half-step Epoch Hegemon had died, then directed their attention back toward the Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Eternal Dao Dharma Sect’s Daluo Golden City branch and its cultivators after the sect’s fighter attacked him with the Chaos Blood Gourd. As Madam Wan offered him a jade pendant inside the Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion, Daluo Golden City suddenly lost its golden outer layer and became dim.

• The Xiao Family’s head and guardian elder recognized Chen Zheng as the person they had feared offending, while Young Master Xiao panicked at the sight of his power.
• Chen Zheng invited the Eternal Dao Dharma Sect’s master to come to Daluo Golden City, and the sect’s middle-aged fighter returned with the Chaos Blood Gourd.
• The Chaos Blood Gourd shattered, and Chen Zheng destroyed the fighter and every Eternal Dao Dharma Sect cultivator in Daluo Golden City.
• Chen Zheng entered the Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion, where Madam Wan offered him a crystalline jade pendant as the Xiao Family prepared to apologize and present gifts.
• Daluo Golden City shook, and its golden outer layer vanished, leaving the city dim and shadowy.

The Daluo Golden Hall opened, drawing Chen Zheng and many others into a strange world of enormous creatures. After a magical treasure passed through a giant bird and became impossible to retrieve, the world cracked and transformed into a realm resembling purgatory.

• The Daluo Golden Hall opened, and beings across Daluo Golden City rushed inside while Chen Zheng accepted a second crystalline jade pendant from Madam Wan.
• Chen Zheng sensed a call from within the hall and led Wan Heyi, Madam Wan, and members of the An Family toward it, while the Xiao Family chose to stay behind.
• The entrants found themselves in a separate world filled with enormous mountains, trees, and beasts whose cultivation levels they could not sense.
• A cultivator struck a giant bird with a magical treasure; the treasure passed through the bird and could not be retrieved.
• The world cracked like a spiderweb and transformed from an apparent paradise into a realm resembling purgatory.

Daluo Golden City’s cultivators became visible to the purgatorial behemoths and struggled to survive as attacks made the creatures stronger. A group from another universe revealed that the world was a breeding farm, leaving Chen Zheng and the others challenged to kill the behemoths to learn more.

• A shift in the world made the behemoths notice the newcomers, and the creatures charged at them.
• Mr. Mo used Flame Extremity to destroy a giant bird’s head, but the bird grew two heads; his second attack made it grow four and grow stronger.
• An old man tried to escape with the Immortal Domain cultivators in a flying shuttle, but an abyssal maw swallowed them, while a colossal dragon beast appeared overhead.
• Black Cauldron Daoist used his blood cauldron to halt the behemoths’ attacks, but he soon ran out of strength, and the survivors turned to Chen Zheng for help.
• Immortal ships arrived carrying stone statues with Epoch Hegemon auras, and a black-armored young man said the connected worlds were part of a breeding farm and demanded that the newcomers kill the behemoths.

Fan Li revealed that he belonged to the Infinite Clan of the Floating Sand Universe and planned to conquer the Primordial Chaos Universe after Lord Floating Sand achieved Transcendence. As the giant beasts attacked, Chen Zheng summoned a gigantic black shadow that swallowed every beast, leaving everyone stunned.

• Fan Li declared that anyone who survived the beasts would earn the right to learn about his group, and he offered Chen Zheng a chance to save the others.
• The people from Daluo Golden City begged Chen Zheng for help, and Fan Li froze the beasts and challenged him to destroy them.
• Chen Zheng asked which universe Fan Li came from, and Fan Li identified himself as a member of the Infinite Clan from the Floating Sand Universe.
• Fan Li said Lord Floating Sand would descend upon and merge the Floating Sand Universe with the Primordial Chaos Universe after achieving Transcendence.
• Fan Li unleashed the giant beasts, but Chen Zheng called them food as a huge black shadow appeared and swallowed them all.

A mysterious shadow inside Chen Zheng devoured the realm’s giant beasts, and Chen Zheng shattered Fan Li and the Fusha Life-and-Death Arena with a single attack. Fan Li realized Chen Zheng had been warning him out of kindness, but then he suddenly knelt before Lord Floating Sand’s divine statue.

• A black shadow emerged from Chen Zheng, swallowed every giant beast, and returned to his body.
• Fan Li challenged Chen Zheng to the Fusha Life-and-Death Arena, while Chen Zheng warned him that his cultivation was too low to fight there.
• Fan Li attacked Chen Zheng, but the arena and Fan Li’s body crumbled into sand, leaving his primordial spirit barely intact.
• Chen Zheng asked Fan Li whether he understood, and Fan Li realized Chen Zheng had not been arrogant but had genuinely warned him.
• After the middle-aged man urged Fan Li to awaken Lord Floating Sand’s divine statue, Fan Li suddenly knelt before it.

Floating Sand descended through the statue and declared his plan to invade the Primordial Chaos Universe within a year, but Chen Zheng calmly agreed to face him. After the others left the realm, Chen Zheng suggested that Floating Sand might not be a threat even if he transcended.

• Floating Sand’s will descended through the statue, identified Chen Zheng as the Son of Transcendence, and announced his plan to merge the Floating Sand and Primordial Chaos Universes.
• Floating Sand explained that within a year he would fall back into Great Samsara, invade the Primordial Chaos Universe, and transcend again after merging the two Great Samsaras.
• Chen Zheng told Floating Sand he would be waiting to fight him, and Floating Sand departed with the Infinite Clan as the realm returned to normal.
• An immortal gate opened, and Mr. Mo, Black Cauldron Daoist, and the other beings of Daluo Golden City thanked Chen Zheng before leaving.
• Wan Heyi worried that no one could stop Floating Sand, but Chen Zheng said the invader might not amount to much and hinted he could threaten a transcendent himself.

Chen Zheng accepted the Xiao Family’s attributeless divine iron and gave its patriarch a secret art to help find their living founding ancestor. As Madam Wan prepared to return to the Immortal Domain, Chen Zheng revealed that he had fought the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord and helped raise his daughter.

• The Xiao Family’s patriarch brought Young Master Xiao to apologize and offered Chen Zheng the ancient iron their founding ancestor had guarded.
• The Trans-Spacetime Wheel’s Artifact Spirit tried to trace the iron’s origins but was blocked, and Chen Zheng identified it as divine iron that could contain any power and grow through nurturing.
• Chen Zheng gave the Xiao Family’s patriarch a secret art and said its third level could help him find their still-living founding ancestor; the patriarch and his companions departed.
• Madam Wan said she would return to the Immortal Domain with her senior brother to seek their master and recover hidden items from their sect’s old grounds.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the threat from Floating Sand and told the others he had fought the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord and once helped raise his daughter.

Chen Zheng confronted Immortal Lord Hu Xuanji in Xuanji Immortal City and destroyed the immortal bell and Hu Xuanji despite his mastery of the Great Dao of Time. The An Family and Wan Heyi were left free to continue with Chen Zheng toward the Thirteenth Heaven.

• Wan Heyi, An Xiaoyue, and the An Family returned to Xuanji Immortal City, where Immortal Lord Hu Xuanji waited with the immortal bell.
• Chen Zheng told Hu Xuanji to stay out of his way as he headed to the Thirteenth Heaven, but Hu Xuanji activated the bell and ordered him to kneel.
• The immortal bell cracked, and Hu Xuanji's body began crumbling as Chen Zheng resisted the bell's power.
• Hu Xuanji tried to use the Great Dao of Time to rewind events, but its power shattered and his primordial spirit was annihilated.
• The people of Xuanji Immortal City and Chen Zheng's companions watched in stunned silence as Chen Zheng's path to the Thirteenth Heaven appeared unopposed.

Chen Zheng carried Wan Heyi, the An Family, and Madam Wan’s cultivators through the Immortal Luo Tian Realm, shattering the immortal bells from the First Heaven through the Ninth Heaven as he advanced. He stopped in the Tenth Heaven, where its bell remained intact, and appeared to search for something.

• Chen Zheng took Wan Heyi, Madam Wan, An Xiaoyue, the An Family, and the Heavenly Shuttle Pavilion’s female cultivators aboard the Star Raft and entered the Second Heaven.
• Chen Zheng passed the Second Heaven’s guards, slapped its immortal bell, and shattered it, opening the gate to the Third Heaven.
• Dao Ancestor Yunhe followed Chen Zheng and witnessed the Third Heaven’s bell shatter; the Dao Ancestor guarding that heaven followed them onward.
• Chen Zheng continued upward, breaking the immortal bells in the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Heavens.
• Dao Ancestor Yunhe caught up in the Tenth Heaven, where Chen Zheng had stopped to search for something while its immortal bell remained intact.

Chen Zheng reached the Tenth Heaven and demanded that the Night Clan reveal who had stolen the An Family girl’s Heavenly Emperor Destiny. After Night Clan patriarch Ye Yuntian admitted to the crime and mocked the An Family, Chen Zheng threatened to wipe out the clan, leaving the Tenth Heaven watching to see how he would act.

• Chen Zheng called for the Night Clan member who had stripped the An Family girl of her Heavenly Emperor Destiny to show himself.
• Lord Jiuzhu moved to attack Chen Zheng, but Dao Ancestor Yunhe warned him that Chen Zheng had shattered the immortal bells of the lower heavens, so Jiuzhu lowered his hand.
• Chen Zheng threatened to wipe out the Night Clan if no one appeared, and Ye Yuntian, its patriarch, revealed himself.
• Ye Yuntian admitted that he had taken the An Family girl’s Heavenly Emperor Destiny and given it to an Immortal King, and said he would do the same to any future An Family child who awakened it.
• Chen Zheng said he would wipe out the Night Clan, while Ye Yuntian remained contemptuous and dared him to try.