Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng arrived at Qilin Holy City, broke its defenses, and exposed the bronze furnace beneath the sacred hall. The figure who emerged appeared to be Holy King Tu Yang, but the sword scar on his chest matched the wound left by the Immaculate Sword Palace’s attack on the fiend from beyond the heavens.

• Chen Zheng appeared atop Qilin Holy City’s walls, and Elder Tu Lu exploded and died when he confronted him.
• City Lord Tu Kui spoke with Chen Zheng and summoned Bai Shijiu of the Immaculate Sword Palace to judge him for swallowing a Stainless Demon Seed.
• Bai Shijiu and the others accused Chen Zheng of becoming a demon, while the Bone Sword Immortal and Lady Qing watched from outside the city.
• Chen Zheng pointed at Qilin Holy City, shattering the floating city and exposing a bronze furnace beneath the sacred hall.
• A black barrier sealed off the area as a figure climbed from the furnace, and Bai Shijiu recognized the sword scar on him as the wound Holy King Tu Yang had inflicted on the fiend from beyond the heavens.

Chen Zheng exposed Holy King Tu Yang as the fiend behind Qilin Holy City’s deception, then killed him with a single slap and absorbed his Undefeated Demon Seed. The barrier’s witnesses were left stunned as Chen Zheng crushed the city’s plan to make him submit and frame him as a demon.

• The Bone Sword Immortal and Lady Qing realized Holy King Tu Yang was the fiend who had once ravaged the Youdu Great Domain.
• The white-robed old man attacked the fiend but was struck down by its roar, while Tu Kui revealed the Immaculate Sword Palace had been invited as blood food.
• Tu Kui and Tu Hong urged Chen Zheng to submit, threatening to kill him and blame him for the massacre if he refused.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the fiend’s Seven-Ring Overlord strength and appeared before it atop the bronze furnace.
• Chen Zheng killed the fiend with one slap, caught the escaping purple demon seed, crushed it, and absorbed its demonic essence.

Chen Zheng killed Holy King Tu Yang and declared that he would reclaim demon seeds from powerful demonic lineages. When the Dutian Qilin's manifestation arrived, it recognized Chen Zheng, destroyed Qilin Holy City's entire clan to protect its true body, and begged him not to come looking for it.

• Chen Zheng dismissed Tu Yang's death as ordinary and said he would kill the Dutian Qilin if it appeared.
• Tu Hong tried to provoke Chen Zheng by naming powerful demonic lineages and asking what he would do if his loved ones possessed demon seeds; Chen Zheng said he would destroy the lineages and called himself the greatest demon between heaven and earth.
• Tu Hong revealed that he had been stalling for the Dutian Qilin's manifestation, which descended and threatened Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng revealed that he had also been waiting and challenged the manifestation to lead him to its true body or leave.
• The Dutian Qilin recognized Chen Zheng, erased Qilin Holy City's clan to safeguard itself, and begged Chen Zheng not to pursue it before its manifestation shattered.

After destroying Qilin Holy City, Chen Zheng learned more about Bai Shijiu’s origins and traveled to Stone City, where a Tribulation Lord Ancient Token was hidden. He met Chu Yaoyao of the Reincarnation Lineage, who hurried underground after sensing someone else making a move for the token.

• Chen Zheng destroyed Qilin Holy City, took its bronze furnace, and gave Yannü the secret art inscribed on it to study.
• Bai Shijiu told Chen Zheng that his Bai family shared a Chaos brand with the Chaos Lu Clan, and Chen Zheng left with Yannü.
• Bai Shijiu, Bone Sword Immortal, and Lady Qing discussed Chen Zheng’s identity and the Mortal World Devil Hall after he vanished.
• Chen Zheng sent Yannü into the Dao Diagram to cultivate and went to Stone City after sensing something there.
• Chu Yaoyao told Chen Zheng that a Tribulation Lord Ancient Token was hidden in Stone City, then rushed underground when she sensed someone else making a move.

Chen Zheng killed the Great Dao Sect cultivators who threatened Enchantress Chu and opened the hidden space beneath Stone City. As Chu Yaoyao entered to retrieve the Tribulation Lord Ancient Token, Di Yang appeared and pulled her back.

• The Great Dao Sect cultivators claimed Lord Di Yang had ordered them to seize the underground treasure and threatened Enchantress Chu.
• The middle-aged cultivator warned Chen Zheng that Di Yang's True Blood Spirit Transformation was coming, but Chen Zheng said he would wait for him.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and turned the Great Dao Sect cultivators to ash, leaving the middle-aged man's primordial spirit alive.
• Chen Zheng broke open the cavern wall and revealed the mysterious underground space.
• Chu Yaoyao rushed inside to fetch the Tribulation Lord Ancient Token, but Di Yang appeared and pulled her back.

Demon Dragon Diyang dragged Chen Zheng, Enchantress Chu, and Stone City’s inhabitants into an underground space, intending to humiliate Chen Zheng in a public execution. Chen Zheng defeated Diyang’s True Blood Spirit Transformation, absorbed his true blood for Zhengyue, and planned to spread the recording across the Great Void’s thirteen domains.

• Diyang revealed his demon dragon form and declared that he would execute Chen Zheng before Stone City’s inhabitants.
• Diyang threatened to record Chen Zheng’s humiliation and distribute it, while Chen Zheng asked Enchantress Chu to record Diyang instead.
• Chen Zheng froze Diyang’s True Blood Spirit Transformation with a slap and repeatedly struck it until it exploded into true blood.
• Chen Zheng collected Diyang’s true blood and sent it to Zhengyue to devour, causing the Great Dao Sect middle-aged man’s Dao heart to shatter.
• Chen Zheng recovered an ancient token and told Enchantress Chu to copy the recording and distribute it across the Great Void’s thirteen domains; she asked whether there would be a reward.

Chen Zheng encountered the Rootless Clan after their arrival from another universe, and their clan chief tried to seize him and strip away his Dao. Chen Zheng survived the Ultimate Dao-Devouring Body with no harm, leaving the Rootless Clan stunned.

• Chen Zheng gave Enchantress Chu a secret art in exchange for her promise to spread the Divine Shadow Stone recording throughout the Great Void.
• A distortion connected Stone City to another universe, and cylinders appeared carrying the Rootless Clan, a people formed from black and white bugs.
• The Rootless Clan chief tried to seize Chen Zheng, but his body exploded and his primordial spirit was shattered by the backlash.
• The Rootless Clan chief sent an Ultimate Dao-Devouring Body crystal into Chen Zheng's brow, expecting it to devour his Dao.
• Chen Zheng remained unharmed and asked whether the Rootless Clan had any more of the crystal, stunning them.

Chen Zheng defeated the Rootless Clan’s attempt to kill him with the Ultimate Dao-Devouring Body, trapped them by severing their dimensional escape route, and destroyed them. He obtained a mysterious Heart of Origin, which the Trans-Spacetime Wheel’s Artifact Spirit said could restore his magical power and help him return to his peak.

• The Rootless Clan patriarch attacked Chen Zheng with a larger piece of the Ultimate Dao-Devouring Body, but Chen Zheng absorbed it without harm and challenged the clan to produce more.
• The Rootless Clan tried to flee to its home universe, but Chen Zheng severed the dimensional alignment and trapped their giant cylinders in the mysterious space.
• Chen Zheng accused the Rootless Clan of devouring everything in its path and dismissed its claim that it was needed to maintain the Ninefold Great Reincarnation’s balance.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and reduced the Rootless Clan and its giant cylinders to ash, then absorbed the cylinders with seven-colored divine light.
• Chen Zheng found a meteorite-like heart chamber that remained intact, and the Trans-Spacetime Wheel’s Artifact Spirit identified it as the Heart of Origin, which could supply Blood of Origin and help him return to his peak.

Chu Yaoyao left after recognizing Chen Zheng’s power, and Chen Zheng sent Stone City’s residents back to the surface. After his defeat of Demon Dragon Diyang’s spirit transformation was broadcast across the Great Void, Chen Zheng went to Facing Heaven Mountain to look for his disciple Dust Woman.

• Chu Yaoyao decided to return to the Reincarnation Lineage and cultivate before she met Chen Zheng again.
• Chen Zheng sent the Heart of Origin into his primordial spirit and returned Stone City’s residents to the surface.
• A divine shadow of Demon Dragon Diyang’s defeated spirit transformation appeared across the thirteen great domains, provoking the Eternal Demon Dragon’s threat of revenge.
• Chen Zheng arrived at Facing Heaven Mountain and told an ox demon he was looking for his disciple Dust Woman.
• The ox demon said the Epoch Demon Manor had no Dust Woman, only a male Dust Son, and challenged Chen Zheng to pass the Four Primordial Calamities if he wanted to ascend.

Chen Zheng challenged Facing Heaven Mountain and endured its Four Primordial Calamities, then learned that he had to eat a Nine Heavens Extreme Chili Pepper to complete the challenge and earn one request. He reached the summit and faced the pepper, leaving the test unresolved.

• Chen Zheng rose toward Facing Heaven Mountain to challenge its Four Primordial Calamities, stunning the bull demon and the onlookers.
• All Four Primordial Calamities appeared at once, but Chen Zheng closed his eyes and endured them as if enjoying a bath.
• After two hours, Chen Zheng woke and called the Four Primordial Calamities nostalgic, shocking everyone.
• An old man at the Epoch Demon Manor told Chen Zheng that passing the calamities was not enough: he had to eat a Nine Heavens Extreme Chili Pepper and remain conscious to complete the challenge.
• The old man explained that the pepper could make even ordinary Epoch Hegemons pass out, and Chen Zheng smiled at the prospect.

Chen Zheng swallowed Nine Heavens Extreme Spice without harm and was brought into the Epoch Demon Manor after it began shaking and cracking. There, he and Elder Gusu found Dust Son helping the ancient demon Lord Heaven-Equaling break free.

• Chen Zheng swallowed an entire string of Nine Heavens Extreme Spice, felt it strike the shackles within him, and asked to take all the peppers on Facing Heaven Mountain.
• The Epoch Demon Manor shook, its entrance plaque cracked, and Elder Gusu took Chen Zheng inside to help investigate.
• Elder Gusu found Dust Son in an ancient hall, where he was aiding the suppressed Lord Heaven-Equaling and boasting that he would become manor lord and marry her.
• Dust Son revealed that his race served Lord Heaven-Equaling and that Lord Eternal Devil Dragon Emperor Yang had reshaped his body and primordial spirit to help him infiltrate the manor.
• Lord Heaven-Equaling's demonic shadow roared and caused the senior members suppressing it to spit blood and collapse.

Chen Zheng stopped Di Yang’s avatar from helping release the ancient demon beneath Facing Heaven Mountain and collected the avatar’s true blood. Di Yang’s true body roared in fury as the people inside the Epoch Demon Manor watched in disbelief.

• The white-robed young man used the manor’s sacred relic to loosen the seal, and the ancient demon’s silhouette emerged above the Epoch Demon Manor.
• Di Yang’s avatar arrived, sealed Facing Heaven Mountain against escape, and praised the white-robed young man for helping free Lord Heaven-Equaling.
• The white-robed young man attacked Chen Zheng, but his body and primordial spirit shattered before his demonic radiance could reach him.
• Chen Zheng called Di Yang a loyal friend who kept delivering true blood, then destroyed the avatar with a slap and collected its true blood.
• Di Yang’s true body roared in anger, while the bull demon and others wondered why the familiar-sounding outburst had happened again.

Chen Zheng revealed his overwhelming strength at the Epoch Demon Manor, where he confronted the Heaven-Equaling Ancient Demon and stripped away its power with the stone coffin. He explained that he had come only because the demon’s power had destroyed his disciple’s calligraphy.

• Elder Gusu asked Chen Zheng whether he had defeated Di Yang’s Spirit Transformation in the divine projection.
• The Heaven-Equaling Ancient Demon attacked Chen Zheng, who destroyed its demonic shadow with one slap.
• The Heaven-Equaling Ancient Demon offered Chen Zheng eternal life and entry into the supreme realm, claiming to possess the Second Tribulation Lord’s heart’s blood.
• Chen Zheng summoned a stone coffin, opened it slightly, and caused the Heaven-Equaling Ancient Demon’s Power of Qitian to fly inside.
• Chen Zheng sealed the coffin and told the stunned onlookers that he had come because the demon’s power had destroyed his disciple’s calligraphy.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Heaven-Equaling Ancient Demon after it ruined his disciple’s calligraphy, then told the Epoch Demon Manor that he had come to Facing Heaven Mountain seeking his disciple’s spirit pet. He left the manor elders stunned by his appetite for Nine Heavens Extreme Chili Peppers and his claim that the stone coffin he summoned had been a gift from someone else.

• Elder Gusu realized the calligraphy destroyed by the Heaven-Equaling Ancient Demon was the plaque inscription Chen Zheng’s disciple had left behind, and Chen Zheng explained why its destruction deserved punishment.
• The Heaven-Equaling Ancient Demon threatened Chen Zheng with Di Yang’s true body and offered a secret about the Second Epoch’s destruction, but Chen Zheng pulled the demon from underground and annihilated it with a seal.
• Dust Son’s primordial spirit shattered after the Heaven-Equaling Ancient Demon died, while Chen Zheng collected the demon’s Epoch Ring fragments.
• Chen Zheng said he had sensed a spirit pet’s power and identified the missing pet as the Raging Snow Demon Emperor, who was secluded at the Epoch Demon Manor.
• Chen Zheng asked to take all the manor’s Nine Heavens Extreme Chili Peppers and revealed that someone else had given him the stone coffin, leaving the elders astonished.

Chen Zheng swallowed the Nine Heavens Extreme Chili Peppers and stopped the Void-Devouring Heavenly Wolf's will from possessing the Raging Snow Demon Emperor, forcing it to merge with his primordial spirit instead. The Raging Snow Demon Emperor awakened as a giant silver wolf, recognized Chen Zheng, and rushed toward him.

• Chen Zheng collected and swallowed more than a hundred strings of Nine Heavens Extreme Chili Peppers.
• The Void-Devouring Heavenly Wolf's will appeared above the Epoch Demon Manor and declared it would possess the Raging Snow Demon Emperor.
• Chen Zheng seized the Heavenly Wolf's will, crushed its manifested wolf form, and sent it into the Raging Snow Demon Emperor's primordial spirit.
• The Raging Snow Demon Emperor transformed into a giant silver wolf, recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen, and ran toward the depths of the Epoch Demon Manor.

Chen Zheng left the Epoch Demon Manor after healing its people and giving the Raging Snow Demon Emperor a mission to find Dust Woman, then went to the World-Pitying Devil Palace. He effortlessly erased its guards and leaders, leaving the palace disciples in terror.

• Chen Zheng told the Raging Snow Demon Emperor to cultivate until he could reach Half-Step Hegemon and search the Great Void for the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode, where his master Dust Woman might be.
• Chen Zheng healed the Epoch Demon Manor's lord and elders, imparted a secret art because his disciple had written the manor's plaque, and departed.
• The Raging Snow Demon Emperor told the manor's lord and elders that he knew little about Chen Zheng's origins or Dust Woman's identity.
• Chen Zheng stood outside the World-Pitying Devil Palace as its disciples watched the Blood Demon Guards and Elder Gu mysteriously vanish.
• Lord Xuegang arrived with dozens of blood-robed cultivators, but Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and reduced them all to ash.

Chen Zheng overwhelmed the World-Pitying Devil Palace and revealed that he had killed several of its powerful figures. The palace master, Li Tiancheng, invoked the Crimson Devil Flower against him, but was destroyed before its second attack could land.

• Chen Zheng erased the World-Pitying Devil Palace's half-step hegemons with a glance, terrifying the disciples who had survived.
• Li Tiancheng confronted Chen Zheng and learned that he had killed Xiang Cang, Zhong Shenshu, and Young Master Qin.
• Li Tiancheng summoned the Crimson Devil Flower and sacrificed a hundred thousand years of lifespan to attack Chen Zheng.
• The Crimson Devil Flower's first beam struck Chen Zheng, but Li Tiancheng's body and primordial spirit were destroyed.
• Li Tiancheng offered another million years of lifespan for a stronger attack, but his primordial spirit shattered before the Crimson Devil Flower's beam hit Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng entered a hidden blood gate beneath the World-Pitying Devil Palace and discovered an empty world modeled on a standard Creator World template. The Artifact Spirit explained that manifesting the world with his primordial spirit could lay the foundation for becoming a Creator, while the Future Lord of Tribulation recognized something familiar about it.

• Chen Zheng destroyed the Crimson Devil Flower, shattered the blood-colored mountain, and entered the blood gate after sensing that the World-Pitying Devil Palace disciples had not created the grotto-heaven.
• The surviving disciples realized that the palace members fused with Yan Hong Demon Seeds had been killed, while Chen Zheng had spared them.
• Inside the blood gate, the Artifact Spirit identified the empty world as an imitation of a standard Creator World template, and the Future Lord of Tribulation briefly appeared to examine it.
• The Artifact Spirit told Chen Zheng that manifesting the template with his primordial spirit could establish a foundation for becoming a Creator, though even Transcendents could need millions of years to comprehend it.

Blazing Soul Heaven entered the Creator's world inside the blood-colored gate and tried to comprehend it so he could rise again. He failed, while Chen Zheng effortlessly replicated the world with his primordial spirit, leaving Blazing Soul Heaven stunned.

• Blazing Soul Heaven sealed off the area around the blood-colored gate and entered the mysterious world inside it.
• Blazing Soul Heaven introduced himself as a fallen Second-Layer Great Samsara transcendent and claimed he would become a Creator by comprehending the world.
• Blazing Soul Heaven began comprehending the Creator's world but spat blood and failed within half an incense stick.
• Blazing Soul Heaven realized Chen Zheng possessed an object of transcendence and argued that neither of them could evolve the world.
• Chen Zheng's primordial spirit transformed into a smaller world identical to the Creator's world, leaving Blazing Soul Heaven speechless.

Chen Zheng emerged from the World-Pitying Devil Palace after impressing Blazing Soul Heaven with his power, then traveled to Pearfall in the Peach Blossom Sacred Dynasty after sensing a devil seed. There, as Lady Qing worried over a plot against the Bee Queen, a golden dragon phantom attacked their restaurant and vanished at Chen Zheng’s glance.

• Chen Zheng’s artifact spirit taunted Blazing Soul Heaven by revealing that Chen Zheng possessed multiple transcendent objects, and Chen Zheng put away the Creator’s world.
• The blood gate disappeared, revealing Chen Zheng and Blazing Soul Heaven; Chen Zheng vanished, and Blazing Soul Heaven fled to seek a way out of the universe.
• At the Heavenly Dao Palace, Divine Consort questioned the Palace Master about Wuji Dao Lord, Daji, and Chen Zheng, while the Palace Master said she would continue teaching Tianzhao.
• In Pearfall, another person who had vowed to slay the Demon Empress was executed, as a hidden scheme against the Bee Queen continued.
• Lady Qing worried that the Peach Blossom Sacred Dynasty’s imperial clan was behind the attacks, while Chen Zheng explained that a devil seed’s aura had drawn him to the city.
• A golden dragon phantom surged toward Chen Zheng and Lady Qing’s restaurant, but Chen Zheng’s glance made it shatter and disappear.