Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng revealed his overwhelming power after Yin-Yang Wrath Immortal arrived to threaten the Dark Immortal Sect over dark heavenly stones. The stones’ newly discovered use in reconstructing the Epoch Divine Stele promised to turn the Yin Grotto into a battleground, while Wrath Immortal ended the chapter thanking Chen Zheng for sparing his life.

• The Dark Immortal Sect cultivators realized Chen Zheng had killed the Evil Flame Dao Ancestor of the Evil Ghost Dao without giving him a chance to react.
• Yin-Yang Wrath Immortal and a sinister young man arrived, and the young man announced that dark heavenly stones could reconstruct the Epoch Divine Stele and had become extremely valuable.
• The young man demanded that the Dark Immortal Sect retrieve its dark heavenly stones and surrender them, while warning that powerful lineages would soon flood the Yin Grotto.
• Chen Zheng glanced at Yin-Yang Wrath Immortal, shattering his mask, body, and primordial spirit, then noticed a mark within the spirit.
• Chen Zheng reconstructed Yin-Yang Wrath Immortal’s primordial spirit, and Wrath Immortal bowed to thank him for sparing his life as the sinister young man fell to his knees.

Chen Zheng revealed the dark heavenly stone’s power, then began erasing the Yin Grotto’s evil orthodoxies as he traveled with Su Changqing and Yan Yi. He said destroying them helped him recover evil-natured demonic thoughts, leaving his companions shocked and uncertain about his nature.

• The Yin-Yang Wrath Immortal killed his disciple for disrespecting Chen Zheng, then departed after Chen Zheng ordered him to bring his elders.
• Chen Zheng purified the dark heavenly stone, revealed its connection to the Epoch Divine Stele, and asked Su Changqing and Yan Yi to guide him through the Yin Grotto.
• Chen Zheng teleported the Dark Immortal Sect’s second elder and the others away, then erased the Evil Ghost Dao and Wrath Immortal Sect as he traveled onward.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the Yin Talisman Sect before its cultivators could react, alarming Su Changqing and Yan Yi.
• Chen Zheng told Yannü that destroying evil orthodoxies let him recover evil-natured demonic thoughts, leaving his companions afraid to question him.

Chen Zheng erased the Yellow Springs Gate and the Evil Dragon Hall, then revealed that he had fought the terrifying being behind the Evil Dragon Hall young hall master's inheritance. Su Changqing and Yan Yi were left shaken by the revelation of Transcendence Descent.

• Su Changqing led Chen Zheng and Yan Yi to the Yellow Springs Gate, which Chen Zheng erased instantly.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the Evil Dragon Hall's guardian evil dragon with a glance, then erased the hall's master and cultivators with a snap.
• The Evil Dragon Hall young hall master attacked with a black axe, but it shattered without reaching Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng identified the young hall master as the host chosen for Darongtian's Transcendence Descent and said he had fought that being before.
• The young hall master's primordial spirit shattered, leaving Su Changqing and Yan Yi horrified by what they had learned.

Chen Zheng returned to the Dark Immortal Sect with Su Changqing and learned that the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple had sent Lord Xiao Xuan to claim dark heavenly stone and punish the sect for killing Luxin. After Xiao Xuan discovered that Chen Zheng had wiped out the other Yin Grotto lineages, He Yidao arrived to attack, but Yannü killed him with one slash.

• Chen Zheng brought Su Changqing back to the Dark Immortal Sect, where Su sensed a visitor from the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple in the sect master's hall.
• Lord Xiao Xuan reprimanded Su Changqing over Luxin's death and demanded that he lead the temple's forces to seize dark heavenly stone from the other Yin Grotto lineages.
• Su Changqing told Xiao Xuan that Chen Zheng had already wiped out every other lineage in the Yin Grotto and that they already knew dark heavenly stone could reconstruct the Epoch Divine Stele.
• Xiao Xuan dismissed Su Changqing's claim, then sensed the arrival of He Yidao, an elder's disciple, and hurried outside to confront him.
• Chen Zheng called Yannü out to meet the attack, and Yannü used her stone saber to slash He Yidao into nothingness, stunning Xiao Xuan.

Yannü slew He Yidao, drawing the threat of Elder Lu Juexin, and the Thunder and Fire Twin Absolutes attacked the Dark Immortal Sect. Chen Zheng killed them with one slap and revealed that Dao lineages were his legacies, leaving everyone stunned.

• Yannü killed He Yidao and dismissed Xiao Xuan's warning about his powerful master, Elder Lu Juexin.
• Xiao Xuan asked Chen Zheng and Yannü which Dao lineage they came from, but the Thunder and Fire Twin Absolutes interrupted them by attacking the sect.
• Chen Zheng shattered the Thunder and Fire Twin Absolutes' Great Dao of Thunder and Fire and killed both with a single slap.
• Xiao Xuan guessed Chen Zheng was an heir to a top indestructible Dao lineage, but Chen Zheng said he was not an heir and that some Dao lineage was his legacy.

Chen Zheng and his companions traveled to the depths of the Yin Grotto, where powerful lineages had gathered to break a sealing formation. Xiao Xuan feared Chen Zheng would be exposed as a reincarnated Supreme, but Chen Zheng ignored his warnings and arrived among the gathered Half-Step Hegemons.

• Xiao Xuan learned that Chen Zheng had entered the Great Void from outside and suspected he was a reincarnated Supreme.
• Divine light and eerie radiance streamed into the Yin Grotto as people from the Juantian Divine Gate, Qilin Holy City, Empress Sect, Painting Immortal Pavilion, and World-Pitying Devil Palace arrived.
• Xiao Xuan warned Chen Zheng that even Supreme beings could be hunted in the Great Void and advised him to conceal his origins until his magical power recovered.
• Chen Zheng chose to visit the depths of the Yin Grotto and teleported there with Yannü, Su Changqing, Yan Yi, and Xiao Xuan.
• The group arrived among more than a hundred powerful figures, including at least ten Half-Step Hegemons, who mocked Xiao Xuan and the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple.
• A man with a devil marking urged the others to focus on breaking the sealing formation and praised Ming Jiang of the Painting Immortal Pavilion's skill with the immortal brush.

Half-Step Hegemons failed to break the Yin Grotto’s sealing formation, but Chen Zheng shattered it with a casual slap and revealed a cavern filled with Dark Heavenly Stones. The other cultivators were stunned, and Zhong Shenshu and the others turned cold.

• Ming Jiang failed to break the sealing formation with his ink brush, and Daoxiang and Wu Luoli also failed to open it.
• Daoxiang challenged Zhong Shenshu to try breaking the formation, and Zhong Shenshu boasted about defeating Daoist Shengtian before sending out his crimson petal.
• Zhong Shenshu’s petal nearly got sucked into the formation, so he pulled it back and suffered a backlash.
• Chen Zheng stepped forward and shattered the sealing formation with a casual slap.
• A cavern containing at least a thousand Dark Heavenly Stones appeared, and Zhong Shenshu and the other Half-Step Hegemons turned cold.

Chen Zheng opened the sealed grotto and claimed its trove of Dark Heavenly Stones, prompting several half-step hegemons to vie for his allegiance. He declared he would kill them all, then erased Daoxiang, Ming Jiang, and Zhong Shenshu with a snap, leaving the others stunned.

• Chen Zheng opened the sealing formation, revealing more than a thousand Dark Heavenly Stones, and the onlookers wondered how someone with Old Ancestor cultivation could have done it.
• Daoxiang offered to take Chen Zheng to Qilin Holy City and make him a disciple, but Chen Zheng refused and collected all the Dark Heavenly Stones.
• Daoxiang claimed the formation had already reached a critical point, while Ming Jiang and Zhong Shenshu also tried to recruit Chen Zheng and threatened him if he chose their rivals.
• Chen Zheng said he would kill the competing half-step hegemons rather than choose among them.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and annihilated Daoxiang, Ming Jiang, and Zhong Shenshu, leaving Divine Maiden Wu, Long Huai, and the other witnesses shocked.

Chen Zheng left the Yin Grotto after annihilating most of the surviving fiends and demonic cultivators, and Xiao Xuan chose to take the Dark Immortal Sect to Heavenly Maiden City with him. As they headed there, the World-Pitying Devil Palace sent Young Master Qin to investigate the deaths in the Yin Grotto and confront the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple.

• Chen Zheng reclaimed the crimson petal and divine-pattern fragments, then departed the Yin Grotto with Su Changqing, Yan Yi, and Xiao Xuan.
• Chen Zheng explained that the dark heavenly stones were meant to repair the Epoch Divine Stele and said he wanted to find something in Heavenly Maiden City.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple had intended to use Yan Yi's demonic inheritance in a deal with the World-Pitying Devil Palace, then decided to bring the Dark Immortal Sect to Heavenly Maiden City and merge it into the temple.
• Chen Zheng said he was a reincarnated demon and intended to kill all the fiends and demonic cultivators in the Great Void.
• The World-Pitying Devil Palace learned that Chen Zheng had killed Zhong Shenshu, Daoxiang, and Ming Jiang, and sent Young Master Qin to Heavenly Maiden City to investigate.

Xiao Xuan brought Chen Zheng and the others to the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple, where attacks on Chen Zheng were reflected back and killed the attackers. The temple fell silent after Chen Zheng destroyed Elder Ling and his scarlet dragon.

• Xiao Xuan asked Chen Zheng to show mercy at the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple, and Yannü explained that Chen Zheng automatically reflected attacks and killing intent.
• Temple cultivators tried to seize the immortal ship and were instantly turned into blood mist.
• Qi Tianxia accused Xiao Xuan of responsibility for He Yidao’s death, then died when his Dao Ancestor pressure and killing intent were reflected by Chen Zheng.
• Elder Ling rode a scarlet dragon out of the temple and tried to seize Chen Zheng, but he and the dragon were annihilated.

Chen Zheng effortlessly killed Lu Juexin after the elder summoned an epoch hegemon tribulation, then offered to help the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple produce an Epoch Hegemon. A visitor from the World-Pitying Devil Palace arrived seeking a girl tied to the Supreme Demon’s legacy and Zhong Shenshu’s killer, and took interest in Yannü and Yan Yi.

• Chen Zheng called for another challenger after Elder Ling had been destroyed, and Temple Master Chu and Elders Yu and Bu arrived.
• Lu Juexin summoned the epoch hegemon tribulation and attacked Chen Zheng with the Tribulation-Free Saber Art, but Chen Zheng shattered the slash and killed him.
• Temple Master Chu begged Chen Zheng to spare Lu Juexin and offered a divine herb, but Lu Juexin crumbled to dust.
• Chen Zheng said he could help the temple raise an Epoch Hegemon, leaving its cultivators stunned.
• Qin Yi of the World-Pitying Devil Palace entered the temple, asked to meet the girl who might have received the Supreme Demon's legacy, and sought Zhong Shenshu's killer.
• Qin Yi noticed Yannü and Yan Yi aboard Chen Zheng's immortal ship, but lamented that Yan Yi was a spirit without a physical body.

At the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple, Chen Zheng accepted Elder Yu’s apology gift and revealed that he knew the Supreme True Demon Ji Shang. Qin Yi used his True Demon Eyes and connection to Ji Shang to threaten Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng mocked Ji Shang by calling him “Teddy,” and Qin Yi summoned help before demanding that Chen Zheng beg him.

• Qin Yi entered the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple and demanded Yan Yi, but the temple cultivators ignored him and focused on Chen Zheng, whom they suspected had killed Zhong Shenshu.
• Elder Yu apologized to Chen Zheng for planning to trade Yan Yi and offered him a Heavenly Maiden Flower Crystal.
• Chen Zheng broke the crystal’s seal with a casual gesture and gave it to Yan Yi, astonishing the witnesses.
• Qin Yi revealed his True Demon Eyes and invoked his connection to the Supreme True Demon Ji Shang to intimidate the temple and demand that Yannü serve him.
• Chen Zheng called Ji Shang “Teddy,” so Qin Yi sent a streak of black light beyond the temple’s barrier and threatened to have Chen Zheng erased.
• Qin Yi demanded that Chen Zheng kneel and call him Dad a hundred times in exchange for his protection.

Chen Zheng was revealed as an elder of the Supreme True Demon after a message warned Qin Yi about his connection to Ji Shang, and Qin Yi begged him for forgiveness. Chen Zheng rejected him, and a crimson petal killed Qin Yi and gave the True Demon Eye to Yan Yi, while Chen Zheng noticed that the event had drawn something from the sky.

• A message from a being serving Ji Shang identified anyone who knew the name Teddy as Ji Shang's elder, and Qin Yi immediately knelt and called Chen Zheng Dad.
• Chen Zheng said he did not like taking godsons, so Qin Yi fled, fearing what would happen if he returned to the World-Pitying Devil Palace.
• Elder Bu sent his divine sword after Qin Yi, but a crimson petal reached him first and killed him, consuming his True Demon Eye.
• Chen Zheng sent the crimson petal to Yan Yi, and the True Demon Eye branded itself onto her as a cocoon of black energy formed around her.
• Chen Zheng said the event had drawn something to them and identified Youdu's epoch as a demonic-path epoch, leaving the others staring at the sky in shock.

Heavenly Maiden City witnessed the Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers marvel, and Feng Gui attacked the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple while trying to break the flowers’ seals to save Lian Qing. Chen Zheng then changed the flowers and sent them toward Feng Gui and Yan Yi’s demonic cocoon.

• Crystalline Heavenly Maiden Flowers appeared above Heavenly Maiden City, and Feng Gui drove away those who tried to seize them.
• Feng Gui attacked the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple with his Heaven-Defying Divine Palm, but Elder Bu blocked one strike at the cost of his divine sword.
• Feng Gui failed to break the seals on the flowers, even after bombarding them with repeated palm strikes.
• Xiao Xuan told Chen Zheng that Feng Gui wanted the flowers to break the formation sealing Lian Qing beneath the Blood Grotto.
• Chen Zheng turned the flowers inky black, sent one toward Feng Gui, and sent the rest into the demonic cocoon surrounding Yan Yi.

Chen Zheng entered the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple and challenged Zhuo Xie’s understanding of the Tribulation-Free Saber Art, claiming its practitioners had learned it incorrectly. When Xiang Cang’s Epoch Hegemon Will Spirit Transformation appeared to avenge Qin Yi, Chen Zheng demonstrated the true saber art and destroyed it with one slash.

• Feng Gui thanked Chen Zheng for undoing the seal on his Heavenly Maiden Flower and departed, while Chen Zheng entered the Tribulation-Free Divine Temple with Yannü.
• Chen Zheng reassured everyone that Yan Yi would awaken after absorbing the Heavenly Maiden Flower’s power, and Temple Master Chu raised the colorless barrier around the temple.
• Zhuo Xie insisted that his version of the Tribulation-Free Saber Art was authentic, but Chen Zheng said the temple had practiced it incorrectly and took up Zhuo Xie’s saber.
• Xiang Cang’s Will Spirit Transformation appeared above Heavenly Maiden City and demanded that Qin Yi’s killer reveal himself.
• Chen Zheng casually slashed with the saber, shattering Xiang Cang’s Will Spirit Transformation and stunning the city’s inhabitants.

Chen Zheng demonstrated the supreme realm of the Tribulation-Free Saber Art, then learned that the Youdu Divine War had begun and decided to enter the Youdu Great Tomb. Elder Zhuo offered to guide him, hoping to discover whether his missing junior sister Yuxuan was still alive.

• Chen Zheng passed the Tribulation-Free Saber Art to Elder Zhuo and Yannü, astonishing Temple Master Chu and the others.
• A decree announced that the Youdu Great Tomb would open on the full moon and that every orthodoxy with a Fifth Realm Dao Ancestor had to participate in the Youdu Divine War.
• Elder Zhuo recalled that he, Xiang Cang, and the Bee Queen were the only survivors he knew of from the previous war, while his junior sister Yuxuan had vanished inside the tomb.
• Chen Zheng asked about the Youdu Epoch Divine Stele and said he would visit the tomb.
• Elder Zhuo offered to guide Chen Zheng and seek the truth about Yuxuan, and Chen Zheng warned that Elder Zhuo's unresolved concern could prevent him from mastering the saber art.

Chen Zheng arrived at the Youdu Great Tomb with Zhuo Xie and Yannü, where Xiang Cang taunted Zhuo Xie and Princess Qiyu arrived aboard the Peach Blossom Treasure Ship. Chen Zheng then declared that the Youdu Great Tomb was a fake tomb, drawing the gathered cultivators' disbelief.

• Zhuo Xie arrived at the Youdu Great Tomb and recognized Xiang Cang, one of the three survivors of the divine war a hundred thousand years earlier.
• Yannü casually counted the Epoch Hegemons present, while Xiang Cang mocked Zhuo Xie for failing to become an Epoch Hegemon and bringing juniors to the divine war.
• The Peach Blossom Sacred Dynasty's Peach Blossom Treasure Ship arrived, and Princess Qiyu told the crowd to stop staring at it because the Bee Queen would not appear yet.
• Yannü remarked that Princess Qiyu seemed strange, and Princess Qiyu demanded to know what she meant.
• Chen Zheng announced that the Youdu Great Tomb was a fake tomb, and the gathered cultivators questioned his claim.

Chen Zheng warned that the Youdu Great Tomb was a false tomb, but the other factions entered anyway. When they fled in terror and Xiang Cang emerged badly wounded, he demanded Chen Zheng explain what he knew.

• The gathered cultivators mocked Chen Zheng for calling the Youdu Great Tomb a false tomb, while Xiang Cang accused him of undermining the Huntian Cult's divine war.
• Chen Zheng told Princess Qiyu that her bloodline was special and her body carried Changsheng Fragrance; she questioned how he could know, and the Bee Queen spoke from inside her ship.
• The Youdu Great Tomb opened, and the cultivators entered while Xiang Cang urged Zhuo Xie to join him, invoking their past survival of the divine war.
• The cultivators fled the tomb in panic, crying out about monsters and monstrous hands, and Xiang Cang emerged with his Devil Immortal Daoist Robe torn to shreds.
• Xiang Cang demanded that Chen Zheng tell everyone what he knew about the Youdu Great Tomb.

Chen Zheng led Yannü and Zhuo Xie into the Youdu Great Tomb, and the other cultivators followed after mistaking the quiet tomb for proof that he had deceived them. Chen Zheng crossed the Nether River safely and told them the only nether beast was gone, but Xiang Cang and the others refused to believe him and remained stranded on the opposite bank.

• Chen Zheng entered the Youdu Great Tomb with Yannü and Zhuo Xie, ignoring Xiang Cang, while the other cultivators speculated that he had staged the earlier monster attacks.
• Xiang Cang and the cultivators reentered the tomb, found the stone forest quiet, and decided Chen Zheng had tricked them.
• Xiang Cang led the cultivators toward the Nether River, where they found Chen Zheng, Yannü, and Zhuo Xie preparing to cross.
• Chen Zheng crossed the Nether River with Yannü and Zhuo Xie, and the beast that lunged from the water shattered when it reached them.
• Chen Zheng said the nether beast had been the only one in the river, but Xiang Cang and the cultivators distrusted him and stayed on the far bank.

Chen Zheng reached the broken mountain and uncovered an Epoch Divine Stele hidden within the supposedly fake Youdu Great Tomb. Xiang Cang and the other cultivators accepted the Murk Nether Clan’s devil seeds and were ordered to hold Chen Zheng off, but they waited as he began unraveling the ancient secret.

• Xiang Cang tested the Nether River, and the cultivators crossed after discovering the monster was gone.
• Chen Zheng returned, and the Murk Nether Clan’s Devil Hand and Devil Eye appeared, warning the cultivators that the Youdu Tribulation Lord was not buried in the No. 2 Great Tomb.
• The Devil Eye offered devil seeds in exchange for submission, and Xiang Cang and the others swallowed them to gain power.
• Xiang Cang consumed nine more seeds and reached the level of a Five-Ring Overlord.
• The Devil Eye brought the cultivators to Chen Zheng and ordered Xiang Cang to wait until Chen Zheng’s time to unravel the ancient secret had passed.
• Chen Zheng twisted the broken mountain’s cliff face, revealing part of the Epoch Divine Stele.