Chapter Summaries

After the Night Jiaolong Clan stole Canghai’s True Self Divine Pearl, Chen Zheng agreed to lead the Cangyun Divine Bird and the divine island’s clan patriarchs to the God-Defying Clan’s lair. They reached its sacred pit and faced the God-Defying Emperor, whose attack struck Chen Zheng as the patriarchs watched in alarm.

• Chen Zheng revealed that he was the Supreme Ranking’s top-ranked figure, and Yannü explained his connection to Extreme Evil and his first incarnation, the Huntian Great Demon Lord.
• A messenger reported that the Night Jiaolong Clan had stolen the True Self Divine Pearl from the Cang Sea God Temple and vanished, threatening the formation that restrained Canghai’s turbulent currents.
• Chen Zheng proposed attacking the God-Defying Clan, and the Cangyun Divine Bird summoned the strongest demon-clan patriarchs and led them east across Canghai.
• Chen Zheng accelerated the immortal boat through the dark waters, while the patriarchs worried that the God-Defying Emperor would overpower them.
• The God-Defying Emperor confronted the group at the clan’s sacred pit and attacked Chen Zheng, leaving the watching patriarchs unsure whether Chen Zheng had been defeated.

Chen Zheng effortlessly defeated the God-Defying Emperor in the deep sea, destroying his body and primordial spirit despite the Emperor's attacks. The Cangyun Divine Bird confirmed that the Emperor's name had vanished from the Supreme Ranking, leaving the witnesses stunned by how quickly he had fallen.

• The God-Defying Emperor healed his wounds and attacked Chen Zheng with the Blue Sea God-Defying Halberd, but his body turned to ash before the weapon could reach Chen Zheng.
• The God-Defying Emperor transformed his primordial spirit into a suppressing seal and charged Chen Zheng, but the seal shattered on impact.
• Chen Zheng gathered the Epoch Ring fragments as the God-Defying Emperor's remaining primordial spirit dissipated.
• The Cangyun Divine Bird checked the Supreme Ranking and saw that the God-Defying Emperor's name had been struck from it.

Chen Zheng killed the God-Defying Emperor and several other enemies, then confronted the Lord of Turbulence over the True Self Divine Pearl. The Supreme Ranking announced the God-Defying Emperor’s death throughout the Great Void, leaving its inhabitants shaken.

• Chen Zheng made the fleeing Night Jiaolong Clan patriarch and the unconscious God-Defying Clan members vanish, leaving their Epoch Ring fragments behind.
• A turbulence seized the True Self Divine Pearl, but Chen Zheng ordered it to return the pearl and warned it to tell its master to leave the Great Void.
• The turbulence revealed itself as the Lord of Turbulence, ranked twelfth on the Supreme Ranking, and promised to relay Chen Zheng’s message.
• Chen Zheng sent the God-Defying Clan’s sacred pit into the Dao Diagram for the Seventh Princess to study its yin-and-yang secret art, then returned everyone to Canghai Divine Island.
• The Undefeated Divine Stele proclaimed throughout the Great Void that the God-Defying Emperor had fallen, and the Cangyun Divine Bird reflected on the shock this would cause to cultivators’ Dao hearts.

Chen Zheng and Yannü accompanied the clans of Canghai Divine Island to meet Lord Xuyu, a great demon from an ancient epoch, who tested the five chosen youths and demanded Mu Hongzhuang cripple her cultivation. When the Cangyun Divine Bird protested, Lord Xuyu tore his body apart.

• Chen Zheng said he would meet the ancient great demon in ten days, and the clans of Canghai Divine Island set out together when the time came.
• Lord Xuyu greeted the clans in a hidden realm beneath Canghai and prevented them from bowing.
• Lord Xuyu asked the five chosen youths to step forward if they were virgins, and Young Master Qilian was eliminated.
• Lord Xuyu dismissed Miss Qiao, Young Clan Leader Shapi, and Young Master Feihong for lacking the aptitude to inherit his secret art.
• Lord Xuyu told Mu Hongzhuang he could give her a supreme secret art only if she crippled her cultivation and became mortal.
• The Cangyun Divine Bird challenged Lord Xuyu, who tore his physical body apart.

Great Demon Xuyu attacked the Canghai Divine Island clans after rejecting their chosen candidates, but Chen Zheng stopped his power and shattered Xuyu’s primordial spirit with a single word. The appearance of the Huntian Great Demon Lord’s origin demon shadow left Xuyu begging Chen Zheng for mercy.

• Great Demon Xuyu destroyed Lord Cangyun’s body and dismissed the divine island clans, claiming their candidates had failed to impress him.
• Chen Zheng silently neutralized Xuyu’s power as he tried to send the clans away, prompting Xuyu to suspect the Lord of Turbulence had arrived.
• Xuyu searched the area and the clans, then realized Chen Zheng had stopped him and attacked Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng said “Scram,” cracking Xuyu’s primordial spirit and shocking everyone present.
• An origin demon shadow appeared behind Chen Zheng, and Xuyu recognized it as the Huntian Great Demon Lord’s before begging Chen Zheng to spare him.

Chen Zheng’s demonic shadow frightened Xuyu, who revealed that Primordial and Huntian Great Demon Lord had once been allies and that You’er’s body and Primordial were sealed in the Heaven-Governing Great Domain. Xuyu turned hostile after Chen Zheng hinted at what You’er had told him, but Chen Zheng’s stone egg swallowed Primordial’s Heavenly Dao Platform, and his demonic shadow destroyed Xuyu as his cultivation fell.

• Xuyu recognized Chen Zheng’s origin demonic shadow and begged for mercy, recalling that Primordial had once brought him to visit Huntian Great Demon Lord.
• Xuyu told Chen Zheng that You’er’s body was sealed in the Demon-Sealing Pit and Primordial was sealed inside a stone coffin in the Heaven-Governing Great Domain.
• Chen Zheng said You’er’s remnant soul lived within his primordial spirit, prompting Xuyu to abandon his plea and boast that the Primordial Heavenly Dao Platform would protect him.
• Chen Zheng sent a stone egg toward the platform, and it swallowed the white lotus platform as a voice inside called Chen Zheng Daddy and accused Xuyu of stealing the Power of Heaven.
• Xuyu’s cultivation fell to the Ten-Ring Overlord level, and he fled before Chen Zheng’s origin demonic shadow caught and annihilated him.

Chen Zheng defeated Xuyu, bestowed secret arts on several Canghai clan heirs, and gave Mu Hongzhuang a heavenly mandate before returning to Canghai Divine Island. There, Hao Jinliu, the Lord of Turbulence’s disciple, demanded tribute and women, but Chen Zheng killed him with a casual point.

• Chen Zheng explained that Xuyu had been a weakened copy and gave secret arts to the heirs of four Canghai clans.
• At Chen Zheng’s request, Susu sent Mu Hongzhuang a heavenly mandate, then returned to Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit.
• The Supreme Ranking announced throughout the Great Void that Xuyu, formerly ranked seventeenth, had fallen.
• Hao Jinliu arrived at Canghai Divine Island, claimed to be the Lord of Turbulence’s disciple, and demanded tribute and nine women.
• Yannü told Hao Jinliu that the island’s clans had witnessed Xuyu’s death, and Chen Zheng turned Hao Jinliu to ashes with a point.

Chen Zheng and the Cangyun Divine Bird went to Ice Spirit Immortal Island after Tribulation Mountain arrived to summon Palace Master Canghai back to the Hong Domain. Tribulation Mountain claimed only its master could save her from the ancient fiend’s savage energy, while the Cangyun Divine Bird realized they had set a trap for his sister.

• Chen Zheng warned the Lord of Turbulence to leave the Great Void within ten days, and Yiyi appeared to promise she would deliver the message.
• The Cangyun Divine Bird sensed an immortal ship at Ice Spirit Immortal Island and learned that his elder sister, Palace Master Canghai, was in danger from savage energy.
• Chen Zheng joined the Cangyun Divine Bird and Mu Hongzhuang as they flew to Ice Spirit Immortal Island, where they met envoys from Tribulation Mountain.
• The blue-robed man and Yin Qujie said Palace Master Canghai had to return to Tribulation Mountain, claiming its master could save her from the ancient fiend’s backlash.
• Yin Qujie destroyed a demonic face formed by the savage energy and boasted that he alone could temporarily suppress Palace Master Canghai’s condition.
• The Cangyun Divine Bird recognized that Tribulation Mountain had engineered the crisis to force his sister back to the Hong Domain and grew furious.

Chen Zheng accepted Shenyan’s wager and swallowed all the savage energy tormenting Canghai Divine Bird, earning the Tribulation-Free Fruit. The visitors from Tribulation Mountain fled after Shenyan passed the fruit to Yannü and delivered a cryptic message about a place opening again.

• Shenyan wagered a Tribulation-Free Fruit that Chen Zheng could not resolve Canghai Divine Bird’s savage energy, and Chen Zheng accepted.
• Chen Zheng swallowed the savage energy, shattered the island’s barrier, and drew out Canghai Divine Bird, who was freed from her torment.
• Cangyun Divine Bird told Canghai Divine Bird that Chen Zheng was number one on the Supreme Ranking.
• Shenyan honored the wager and gave the Tribulation-Free Fruit to Chen Zheng, who told Yannü to eat it.
• Shenyan invited Canghai Divine Bird to visit Tribulation Mountain and said that a certain place had opened again before fleeing with the immortal ship.
• The woman in feathered robes explained that Tribulation Mountain’s cultivators could be reborn unless its magical treasure was destroyed.

A mysterious Great Void Combat Power Ranking appeared and placed Chen Zheng last despite his first place on the Supreme Ranking, while Extreme Evil took the top combat rank. As the ranking vanished and promised to return every half month, Chen Zheng's companions discussed why challengers had little chance against him.

• The Cangyun Divine Bird explained that Shenyan had likely tried to lure the Canghai Divine Bird to the inheritance site, and she thanked Chen Zheng for dispelling her baleful aura.
• A golden Great Void Combat Power Ranking appeared beside the Supreme Ranking, placing Chen Zheng last and assigning unexpected ranks to Li, Fearless Heaven, Hongdou, Thirteen, and the Grand Emperor.
• The Eternal Night Emperor briefly appeared in third place, then Extreme Evil appeared in first place before the Combat Power Ranking vanished.
• A deep voice announced that the Combat Power Ranking would reappear every half month, and Yannü suspected someone had created it to provoke others into testing Chen Zheng.
• The Cangyun Divine Bird told the Canghai Divine Bird that Chen Zheng had killed the God-Defying Emperor and Great Demon Xuyu, and that Extreme Evil was Chen Zheng's severed evil thought.
• Yannü revealed that Thirteen lived inside Chen Zheng's primordial spirit, and the Cangyun Divine Bird fainted in shock.

Chu Hongyi defended Chen Zheng’s Supreme Ranking position to Empress Sect disciples, insisting that her uncle was formidable. That night, a Heaven and Earth Great Dragon emerged from Canghai, drawing the Lord of Turbulence and a mysterious sword cultivator, while a new name appeared on the Supreme Ranking.

• Chu Hongyi argued that Chen Zheng deserved his top Supreme Ranking position and told the other disciples that her uncle was number one under heaven.
• Yannü recited a line of poetry as the moon rose over Canghai, then the waves grew violent and countless lights appeared across the sea.
• Chen Zheng recognized the lights forming a great dragon and wondered whether Old Ancestor was in the Great Void.
• The Canghai Divine Bird explained that the Lord of Turbulence had likely come to Canghai for the great dragon, which carried the power of an epoch.
• The Lord of Turbulence tried to seize the dragon, but a sword silhouette cut apart his attack and a white-robed sword cultivator appeared.
• The Cangyun Divine Bird and beings across the Great Void saw the Master of Holy Emperor Mountain appear at seventh place on the Supreme Ranking.

The Master of Holy Emperor Mountain, the Lord of Turbulence, and the Tianyuan Divine Master converged on Canghai as the Heaven and Earth Great Dragon emerged. While the two contenders moved to seize it, Aunt Thirteen appeared and captured the dragon, leaving the gathered beings stunned.

• The Canghai Divine Bird identified the Master of Holy Emperor Mountain as a powerful, mysterious figure, and Chen Zheng revealed that the Master had come only as a clone.
• Creation spoke through Chen Zheng, and the Tianyuan Divine Master sealed Canghai to keep other Supreme Ranking beings from entering.
• The Heaven and Earth Great Dragon fully formed, and the Lord of Turbulence and the Master of Holy Emperor Mountain rushed to claim it.
• A woman appeared above the dragon and captured it before either contender could reach it.
• Yannü recognized the woman as Aunt Thirteen, ranked second on the Supreme Ranking.

Thirteen appeared above Canghai and drove off the master of Holy Emperor Mountain and the Lord of Turbulence while revealing that Chen Zheng had reached physical Transcendence. As the Tianyuan Divine Master prepared to leave, Fearless Heaven pierced his barrier and arrived.

• Thirteen appeared above Canghai, and nearly everyone present knelt before her.
• The master of Holy Emperor Mountain struck Thirteen three times, but each sword attack passed through her without effect.
• Thirteen revealed that the master of Holy Emperor Mountain had used half a Cosmic Cantilever to create his avatar and warned him about Chen Zheng’s power.
• Thirteen told the master of Holy Emperor Mountain and the Lord of Turbulence to leave, and both vanished from Canghai.
• The beings of Canghai realized Thirteen had been describing Chen Zheng, whose physical body had achieved Transcendence.
• The Tianyuan Divine Master noticed someone had pierced his barrier, and Fearless Heaven descended into Canghai.

Fearless Heaven attacked Thirteen, but Chen Zheng stepped in and endured repeated Pinnacle of Primordial Chaos strikes without harm. He provoked Fearless Heaven into unleashing three more blasts, leaving the confrontation escalating.

• Fearless Heaven arrived on Canghai Divine Island, dismissed Thirteen, and struck at her with Pinnacle of Primordial Chaos power.
• Chen Zheng appeared in front of Thirteen and took Fearless Heaven’s first strike, which seemed to strip away his magical power.
• Fearless Heaven struck Chen Zheng again, but Chen Zheng said the power felt good and remained unharmed.
• Chen Zheng asked Fearless Heaven to hit him some more, provoking him into unleashing three Pinnacle of Primordial Chaos blasts at once.

Chen Zheng endured Fearless Heaven’s attacks and urged him to fire more blasts, while Thirteen revealed that Fearless Heaven had once achieved Transcendence. Fearless Heaven fled, and Thirteen left with a cryptic promise to give Yanluo a great dragon of heaven and earth and let her open heaven.

• Fearless Heaven fired blasts of the Pinnacle of Primordial Chaos at Chen Zheng, but only his divine armor cracked under the impact.
• Chen Zheng praised Fearless Heaven’s strength and asked him to attack again, while Tianyuan Divine Master resolved not to provoke Chen Zheng.
• Thirteen revealed that Fearless Heaven had once achieved Transcendence and said his divine armor had been close to an Ultimate Creation.
• Fearless Heaven silently cursed Chen Zheng and vanished, then Tianyuan Divine Master also hurried away.
• Thirteen declared that Creation would give Yanluo a great dragon of heaven and earth and allow her to open heaven, leaving the Canghai beings bewildered.

Chen Zheng and Yannü left Canghai for Green Mountain after an Epoch Divine Stele phenomenon appeared, while cultivators gathered at the Green Water River discussed its deadly defenses and the Supreme Ranking. The Liuli Palace elder recognized Yannü and introduced Chen Zheng, whose name the other cultivators dismissed as an attempt to imitate the Supreme Ranking’s top-ranked figure.

• The Cangqing Divine Bird questioned Yannü about Yanluo’s physique, then an azure pillar appeared over Green Mountain and was identified as the sign of an Epoch Divine Stele.
• Chen Zheng and Yannü vanished from Canghai and appeared before the Green Water River, while the Canghai Divine Birds bowed respectfully toward the mainland.
• An old man warned the gathered cultivators that the Green Water River contained dangerous spacetime formations and that even Supreme-ranked beings could not be certain of reaching the divine stele.
• Cultivators debated the Supreme Ranking after hearing that the Master of Holy Emperor Mountain had appeared at a different rank from the Master of the Holy Corpse.
• Chen Zheng told Yannü that the two masters were not the same person in a simple sense, and the Liuli Palace elder recognized Yannü as the Tianjiao Ranking’s first-ranked cultivator.
• The Liuli Palace elder named Chen Zheng as Yannü’s master, but the gathered cultivators suspected he had adopted the name of the Supreme Ranking’s number one.

Zhuge Tianci emerged from a century of seclusion and arrived at the Green Water River, unaware that the Great Void had changed and that the Supreme Ranking had replaced the Overlord Ranking as the measure of power. After learning that Chen Zheng shared the name of the ranking’s top figure, Zhuge Tianci sat in thought while the Liuli Palace elder mocked Chen Zheng.

• Yanran objected when a man accused her master of exploiting the name of the person atop the Supreme Ranking, but a distant sword cry interrupted her.
• Zhuge Tianci arrived above the Green Water River as a Ten-Ring Overlord and declared that he would claim the Azure Epoch Divine Stele.
• After seeing the Supreme Ranking, Zhuge Tianci learned that Ten-Ring Overlords no longer stood at the Great Void’s peak and asked who its top-ranked figures were.
• Qu Fulong identified Chen Zheng as the person atop the Supreme Ranking, but Zhuge Tianci rejected the claim and nearly attacked Qu Fulong before learning he was Divine Lord Qu’s younger brother.
• Chen Zheng suggested that Zhuge Tianci seek another breakthrough, and Qu Fulong laughed at Chen Zheng for sharing the name of the Supreme Ranking’s top figure.

Chen Zheng and Yannü crossed the Green Water River and entered Green Mountain, where the Azure Epoch Divine Stele appeared and the cultivators’ powers were suppressed. As Immortal Venerable Cangshang and others guarded the stele, Chen Zheng reached for it and drew it to himself, leaving everyone stunned.

• Chen Zheng took Yannü across the Green Water River by passing through the divine goose’s space-time formation, then entered Green Mountain.
• Zhuge Tianci broke the formation, and the cultivators from the various orthodoxies followed into Green Mountain; Qu Fulong planned to summon Divine Lord Qu and seize the stele.
• A pillar of azure light erupted, and the cultivators were drawn into a mysterious space where they saw the Azure Epoch Divine Stele.
• Immortal Venerable Cangshang and nine Epoch Hegemons from the Cangqing Lineage stopped Chen Zheng and Yannü outside the warding stones.
• Divine Lord Qu arrived at Qu Fulong’s summons, but Chen Zheng reached out and caused the Azure Epoch Divine Stele to fly toward him.

Chen Zheng shattered the Azure Epoch Divine Stele to unlock the shackles on his magical power and advance to the Indestructible Seventh Stage. He killed Divine Lord Qu and Qu Fulong with ease, then revealed he had already destroyed another Epoch Divine Stele and might destroy them all; the other cultivators suspected he was the Chen Zheng at the top of the Supreme Ranking.

• Chen Zheng smashed the Azure Epoch Divine Stele and unlocked the shackles on his Indestructible Seventh Stage magical power.
• Chen Zheng swallowed several streams of Origin True Blood and reached the Indestructible Seventh Stage despite Green Mountain's laws.
• Chen Zheng killed Divine Lord Qu and Qu Fulong, terrifying the cultivators from the various orthodoxies.
• Chen Zheng said he had already destroyed the Epoch Divine Stele in the Youdu Great Domain and might destroy all thirteen steles.
• Zhuge Tianci asked whether Chen Zheng was truly the person at the top of the Supreme Ranking, and everyone turned to await his answer.

Chen Zheng revealed his connection to the Supreme Ranking’s top and summoned A Jiu, the Ninth Tribulation Lord, who reclaimed Green Mountain’s power and forced the Cangqing Lineage to submit. After Divine Lord Qu’s death was proclaimed throughout the realm, Chen Zheng asked Immortal Venerable Cangshang about the Cangqing Great Domain’s Calamity Eye, but learned that Cangshang had never regained control of it.

• Chen Zheng gathered the Epoch Ring fragments and faced Immortal Venerable Cangshang, who restored the Cangqing Lineage’s peak strength and surrounded him.
• Chen Zheng summoned A Jiu, whose innate Supreme aura caused the others to be teleported out of Green Mountain while she devoured its mysterious power.
• A proclamation announced that Divine Lord Qu had fallen, and Zhuge Tianci realized the Supreme Ranking’s members could die.
• A Jiu recovered to the level of an Epoch Hegemon, and Immortal Venerable Cangshang and the Cangqing Lineage pledged allegiance after she called Chen Zheng her master.
• Chen Zheng asked about the Cangqing Great Domain’s Calamity Eye, and Immortal Venerable Cangshang admitted he knew its location but had never reclaimed control of it.