Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng killed the Great Evil King, reassured Lu Xuan about Lu Xinchan, and gave her sword shadows to deliver. He then had Daoist Beiyou lead him to the Talisman Hall, while the Heavenly Dao Palace learned that the Holy Emperor Arc had named Supreme Heaven as its ultimate villain.

• Chen Zheng destroyed the Great Evil King with a netherworld sword shadow, freeing Daoist Beiyou and the others from the fear illusion.
• Lu Xuan told Chen Zheng that Lu Xinchan was the Chaos Lu Clan's holy maiden and was cultivating in seclusion; Chen Zheng gave Lu Xuan two sword shadows, one for Xinchan.
• The Six Desires Tribulation Lord reclaimed power from the underground palace and thanked Chen Zheng before returning to his brow.
• Chen Zheng ordered Daoist Beiyou to take him to the Talisman Hall to fetch something, and they left by teleportation formation.
• The Two Elders of the Heavenly Dao Palace reported that the Holy Emperor Arc had portrayed Supreme Heaven as the ultimate villain, but the Palace Master told them to let the Daoist draw what he wished.

Chen Zheng rescued the Talisman Hall from the Blood River Palace, took the Dao Tribulation Jade, and explained that the Divine Talisman Clan’s ancestral land had been swallowed by the Primordial Supreme Heaven. A mysterious woman in white then revealed his name, leaving the Talisman Hall stunned.

• Daoist Beiyou led Chen Zheng to the besieged Talisman Hall, where Blood River Palace cultivators were attacking an ancient array.
• Chen Zheng annihilated a blood python and killed a Three-Ring Overlord without any visible exertion.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the blood beast and ancient array, revealing a Dao Tribulation Jade that the Blood River Palace had sought.
• Chen Zheng killed Elder Xue Si as he tried to seize the Dao Tribulation Jade, then took the jade for Xiao Liu to devour.
• Daoist Beiyou and Fu Qianjiu led the Talisman Hall in killing the remaining Blood River Palace cultivators, and Chen Zheng explained what had happened to the Divine Talisman Clan’s ancestral land.
• A barefoot woman in white appeared and identified Chen Zheng, startling the Talisman Hall disciples.

Chen Zheng and Chu Yaoyao went to the Past Tribulation Sect’s Lesser Great Void after Chu Yaoyao revealed its hidden grounds. The sect declared war and summoned cultivators from across the Great Void to witness Chen Zheng’s suppression, but he entered its grounds and shattered its formations while the arrivals remained outside.

• Chu Yaoyao invited Chen Zheng to investigate the Past Tribulation Sect and transported him to its hidden grounds, which resembled a Lesser Great Void.
• The Past Tribulation Sect announced throughout the Great Void that it would muster its strength to suppress the leader of the Supreme Ranking.
• Tian Xianzi appeared as a Will Spirit Transformation and tried to turn Chen Zheng against Chu Yaoyao, but Chen Zheng struck him down twice.
• Chen Zheng entered the Lesser Great Void, and Chu Yaoyao followed as cultivators from across the Great Void arrived at the mountain outside.
• The Past Tribulation Sect’s cultivators watched in terror as Chen Zheng shattered their tribulation formations, while the visitors outside could not find the sect’s grounds.

Tian Xianzi summoned ancient tribulations and turned imprisoned remnants into Supreme-level abominations to attack Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng’s transparent shackles swallowed the abominations and released their resentful thoughts, which turned on the Past Tribulation Sect.

• Chen Zheng killed several Past Tribulation Sect Epoch Hegemons with a single slap and challenged the sect to use its full strength.
• Tian Xianzi unleashed the Past Tribulation Sect’s secret art, drawing tribulation power and imprisoned thoughts from destroyed epochs into the Lesser Great Void.
• The sect used the ancient formation to create Supreme-level tribulation abominations and sent them to kill Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng’s transparent shackles swallowed the abominations and spat out their resentful thoughts.
• The released thoughts turned on Tian Xianzi’s ancient immortal tower and tore apart the Past Tribulation Sect’s people and beasts in their path.

Chen Zheng confronted the Past Tribulation Sect’s leaders, who explained that true Transcendence required surpassing the limits of body, magical power, and primordial spirit. The Future Lord of Tribulation appeared, and the sect brought out three powerful drums to welcome her.

• The Past Tribulation Sect’s sect master arrived and recognized Chen Zheng’s many Epoch Shackles, while Chu Yaoyao warned him that the man coveted her eldest senior sister’s power.
• Tian Xianzi and the sect master argued that Chen Zheng had not achieved true Transcendence and claimed their sacred objects could suppress even the Future Lord of Tribulation.
• The Future Lord of Tribulation appeared beside Chen Zheng, and the Past Tribulation Sect’s leaders recognized her and grew uneasy.
• The sect master ordered the three Tribulation Drums of Past, Present, and Future brought forth, and Chu Yaoyao sensed their power when they appeared.

Chen Zheng faced the Past Tribulation Sect’s three tribulation drums and emerged unharmed as each drum broke. The sect master died after sounding the Future Tribulation Drum, while the remaining cultivators were left devastated.

• The sect master of the Past Tribulation Sect sounded the Past Tribulation Drum, but Chen Zheng remained unharmed and the drumhead cracked.
• The sect master sounded the Present Tribulation Drum, stripping most of the sect’s cultivators of their cultivation and causing the second drum to break.
• Chen Zheng warned that sounding the Future Tribulation Drum would kill the sect master, but the sect master refused to believe him and struck it.
• The Future Tribulation Drum shattered, and the sect master’s primordial spirit broke apart.
• Chen Zheng explained that his body belonged to the level of the second great samsara, beyond the drums’ first-samsara power, and the sect master fell dead.

Tian Xianzi and the Past Tribulation Sect tried to exile Chen Zheng by collapsing their Lesser Great Void and activating the Domain Eye and Guixu beneath it. The place vanished, and the Supreme Ranking lost both Chen Zheng and Thirteen, leaving their fate uncertain.

• The Past Tribulation Sect elders and Tian Xianzi realized Chen Zheng’s body and primordial spirit had transcended, while Tian Xianzi tried to stall by claiming Earth was a sealed universe core.
• Chen Zheng saw through Tian Xianzi’s plan to detonate the Domain Eye and Guixu beneath the Lesser Great Void.
• Tian Xianzi called for one last gamble, and the two elders poured their essence power into the fallen Past Tribulation Sect Master’s body.
• The Past Tribulation Sect Master’s body became dazzling white light as the Lesser Great Void collapsed, revealing the Domain Eye and Guixu, which Tian Xianzi used in an attempt to exile Chen Zheng.
• The Domain Eye and Guixu contracted and disappeared, leaving an enormous pit where the Past Tribulation Sect had stood.
• The orthodoxies saw that the first- and second-ranked names, Chen Zheng and Thirteen, had vanished from the Supreme Ranking.

After the Supreme Ranking’s top two vanished without an announcement, Chu Hongyi insisted her uncle would return, while Chen Zheng, Chu Yaoyao, and the Past Tribulation Sect cultivators arrived in the Land of Exile. Stripped of their magical power and crushed by the land’s oppressive force, they faced three strange objects that claimed even supreme beings had to behave themselves there.

• Eternal Devil Dragon Emperor Yang concluded that the Past Tribulation Sect had exiled Chen Zheng and resolved to enter the Shattered Land’s third ring before Chen Zheng returned.
• Empress Sect disciples discussed the disappearance of Chen Zheng and Thirteen from the Supreme Ranking, while Chu Hongyi insisted her uncle had merely left the Great Void temporarily.
• Chu Hongyi’s senior sister dismissed the possibility that her uncle was the Supreme Ranking’s top figure and warned that the Primordial Ancestor Divine Dynasty would reject them.
• Chu Yaoyao awoke as the shifting space and time settled, finding the Past Tribulation Sect cultivators and Chen Zheng stripped of their magical power in the Land of Exile.
• Tian Xianzi laughed at Chen Zheng’s predicament, but an invisible force repeatedly pressed him down as the half-stele, broken sword, and half-mask appeared and warned the cultivators to behave.

Tian Xianzi’s sect exiled Chen Zheng to the Land of Exile, where its three guardians took him to the Supreme Annihilator for examination. The torture seat leapt straight to its highest setting, but Chen Zheng remained unharmed and asked the guardians to turn it up further.

• Tian Xianzi celebrated exiling Chen Zheng and told the three guardians that Chen Zheng had once been the strongest in the Primordial Chaos Universe.
• The half-mask brought Chen Zheng, Chu Yaoyao, Tian Xianzi, and the others to a plaza full of exiles and introduced the Supreme Annihilator.
• The half-mask explained that the seat had thirteen torment difficulties and said they would test Chen Zheng only at Torment One or Two.
• Chen Zheng sat on the Supreme Annihilator, which surged to Torment Thirteen while leaving him unharmed.
• Chen Zheng asked the half-mask to turn the Supreme Annihilator up to its limit.

Chen Zheng endured the Supreme Annihilator Torture Seat at its limit to unlock his final magical-power shackle, leaving the torture seat reduced to ashes. The half-mask and the gathered beings were left stunned by the power he revealed.

• Tian Xianzi warned the half-mask that Chen Zheng was using the torture seat to unlock shackles and might become impossible to suppress.
• The half-mask raised the Supreme Annihilator Torture Seat to its limit despite Tian Xianzi's protests.
• Chen Zheng endured the blinding power, and a second tearing sound seemed to resonate through the Primordial Chaos Universe.
• The light vanished, revealing Chen Zheng unharmed and a crack in the Supreme Annihilator Torture Seat.
• Chen Zheng thanked the half-mask, explained that he had unlocked his final shackle, and stood as the torture seat crumbled into ashes.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Supreme Annihilator and became one with the Land of Exile, while the Past Tribulation Sect realized he had undone his shackles and once fought the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord. He learned that Chu Yaoyao’s master was imprisoned in a separate prison built by a Creator, then used the throne’s ashes to form a stone spear and unleashed the Creator’s Dao.

• Chen Zheng shattered the Supreme Annihilator, then closed his eyes and merged with the Land of Exile’s presence as the half-mask and broken sword trembled.
• Tian Xianzi and the Past Tribulation Sect elders recognized that Chen Zheng had undone the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord’s shackles, and the elders collapsed in fear.
• Chen Zheng told Chu Yaoyao that the Reincarnation Fate Lord was not in this prison, and the half-mask explained that he was held in a second prison built for beings from Beyond the Universe.
• The half-mask said that breaking out of the Second Prison required a Dao stronger than the Creator’s, and that even the fallen Creator’s prisons could not be opened by beings from the Primordial Chaos Universe.
• Tian Xianzi laughed that the Past Tribulation Sect had still won, but Chen Zheng turned the Supreme Annihilator’s ashes into a stone spear and released the Creator’s Dao, shaking the Land of Exile.

Chen Zheng survived the Creator-level strike, and a stream of black-and-white energy from his body escaped the Land of Exile and shook the Primordial Chaos Universe. He revealed that the Creator's power had nearly made his physical body lose control, leaving everyone horrified by what might happen if it did.

• The half-mask teleported Chu Yaoyao away as the Creator-level Dao struck Chen Zheng, cracking the ground across the Land of Exile.
• Everyone believed Chen Zheng might be dead, but black-and-white energy erupted from his body and passed through a crack beyond the Land of Exile.
• The energy annihilated chaos outside and shook the Primordial Chaos Universe, while the half-mask showed a vision of the damaged Heavenly Dao Palace and the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord's true body.
• A white light repaired the palace before the half-mask's screen shattered, and the half-mask suspected a girl had sensed Chen Zheng's presence.
• Chen Zheng smiled and said the Creator's power had almost made his physical body lose control, terrifying everyone.

Chen Zheng escaped the Second Prison with Chu Yaoyao, leaving the Past Tribulation Sect trapped in the Land of Exile as its barriers sealed again. Back in the Great Void, he restored Six Desires Heaven’s Domain Eye and added the Great Void Realm Map piece to his formation map, leaving Chu Yaoyao to realize that only one piece remained.

• Chen Zheng drew a circle with the stone spear and left the Second Prison with Chu Yaoyao, while the Land of Exile’s cracks sealed behind them.
• Tian Xianzi and the Past Tribulation Sect disciples despaired when the half-mask told them they would remain imprisoned for eternity.
• The Supreme Ranking restored Chen Zheng, Thirteen, and Chu Yaoyao, prompting Yang and the Huntian Cult Leader to push deeper into the Shattered Land for power.
• Chen Zheng revealed the restored Domain Eye and Great Void Realm Map, and Little Zhengyue swallowed the Domain Eye.
• Chen Zheng placed the ancient stone disk into the Great Void Formation Map, and Chu Yaoyao realized that only one of its thirteen pieces was missing.

Chen Zheng arrived at the Karmic Fire Divine Temple as its out-of-control divine fire threatened the surrounding lineages, and he recognized that the Zhou Ultimate Divine Temple’s intervention would fail. The chapter ended with the three Zhou cultivators blasted from the Sacred Mountain, leaving the onlookers questioning Chen Zheng’s discernment.

• Chu Yaoyao and the eldest senior sister of the Reincarnation Lineage set out to retrieve a Decay Body so they could rescue their master for Ancestor Chen.
• The Karmic Fire Divine Temple’s divine fire surged out of control, injuring its elders and frightening cultivators gathered outside the Sacred Mountain.
• Chen Zheng arrived in the Futu Great Domain and exchanged words with Chi Huoyi, who recognized him from the Undefeated Divine Temple.
• Three cultivators from the Zhou Ultimate Divine Temple entered the Sacred Mountain to suppress the fire in exchange for the Tianhuo Dao Scripture.
• Chen Zheng said the three were not up to the task, and the divine fire immediately shattered their auroras and blasted them back out, surprising the gathered cultivators.

Chen Zheng extinguished the Karmic Fire Divine Temple’s rampaging divine fire with a single breath, shocking the gathered cultivators and raising doubts about whether he was the top of the Supreme Ranking. Chi Huoyi’s Dao heart shattered, and he fell from the sky after his earlier taunts.

• Divine Son Chi Chong argued that the Zhou Ultimate Divine Temple’s three Epoch Hegemons had failed because they were not supreme beings, and the cultivators accepted his explanation.
• The white-robed old man from the Zhou Ultimate Divine Temple challenged Chen Zheng to demonstrate his ability, while Chi Daozong offered him the Tianhuo Dao Scripture if he could suppress the fire.
• The divine fire surged out of the Karmic Fire Sacred Mountain, and Chi Daozong tried to contain it before urging Chen Zheng to retreat.
• Chen Zheng blew once and extinguished the divine fire, leaving Chi Daozong and the gathered cultivators stunned.
• Chi Huoyi’s Dao heart shattered, and he fell to the ground as Chi Daozong declared that he had died of shame.

Chen Zheng saved the Karmic Fire Divine Temple, received the Purple Emperor Divine Box containing the Tianhuo Dao Scripture, and revealed his overwhelming power when the Zhou Ultimate Divine Temple tried to steal it. The cultivators recognized him as the first on the Supreme Ranking, though he had only reached Half-Step Hegemon cultivation.

• The Karmic Fire Divine Temple elder died after his Dao heart collapsed, and Divine Son Chi Chong shattered his own primordial spirit in shame.
• Chi Daozong gave Chen Zheng the Purple Emperor Divine Box and explained that its former key bore the name Zi Huangtian, a figure possibly connected to the Third Epoch’s Holy Emperor.
• The white-robed elder of the Zhou Ultimate Divine Temple used the Eon Light Immortal Ship to steal the box and challenged Chen Zheng to retrieve it from the Heaven-Governing Great Domain.
• Chen Zheng casually shattered the Eon Light Immortal Ship and turned the white-robed elder and his two companions to ashes.
• The Purple Emperor Divine Box flew to Chen Zheng, and the cultivators realized he was the first on the Supreme Ranking despite having only Half-Step Hegemon cultivation.

Chen Zheng revealed that the Tianhuo Dao Scripture concealed a crimson ancient token before Ye Xianqiong of the Blood Grotto attacked the Karmic Fire Divine Temple. Chen Zheng instantly killed Ye Xianqiong and his blood dragons, leaving the cultivators stunned by the Supreme Ranking’s number one.

• Chen Zheng opened the Purple Emperor Divine Box, and the Tianhuo Dao Scripture revealed an image of a powerful woman in purple robes before transforming into the Tianhuo Ancient Token.
• Chen Zheng collected the ancient token and the remains of the Zhou Ultimate Divine Temple’s ship and the dead Epoch Hegemons.
• Ye Xianqiong arrived with ten thousand blood dragons and trapped the Karmic Fire Divine Temple beneath the Blood Heaven Grand Array.
• Ye Xianqiong dismissed Chen Zheng as a Half-Step Hegemon and sent a blood dragon to attack him.
• Chen Zheng shattered the blood dragons and killed Ye Xianqiong with one slap; Chi Daozong identified him as the number one on the Supreme Ranking.

Chen Zheng killed Ye Xianqiong with a single slap, then accepted the Lord of the Blood Cave’s blood sword challenge for three days later. He stayed at the Karmic Fire Divine Temple to borrow its divine fire, while the Lord of the Blood Cave rose to ninth on the Supreme Ranking.

• Chen Zheng gathered the fragments of the Epoch Ring, and Chi Daozong and the others thanked him for saving the Karmic Fire Divine Temple.
• The Lord of the Blood Cave appeared in the blood clouds and challenged Chen Zheng to a life-or-death battle deep within the Blood Grotto in three days.
• The Lord of the Blood Cave’s rank surged to ninth on the Supreme Ranking, surpassing the Heaven-Sweeping Lord of Sorrow and Eternal Devil Dragon Emperor Yang.
• Chen Zheng said he would give the Lord of the Blood Cave three days to grow stronger and agreed to stay at the Karmic Fire Divine Temple while borrowing strands of its divine fire.

Chen Zheng used the Trans-Spacetime Wheel to reveal Zi Huangtian’s past and learned that she had once controlled three thousand universes as a powerful Creator. After Zi Huangtian seemed to notice the vision, the frightened wheel spirit hid inside Chen Zheng, who then arranged to stay at the Karmic Fire Divine Temple for three days before heading to the Blood Grotto.

• Chen Zheng and Chi Daozong’s group examined the purple divine fire and its crystal-sphere prison beneath the Karmic Fire Divine Temple.
• The Trans-Spacetime Wheel showed them a vision of Zi Huangtian receiving worship from countless beings, then seated before exactly three thousand universes.
• The wheel spirit identified Zi Huangtian as a top-level Creator who had cultivated the Great Dao of Life.
• Zi Huangtian looked toward Chen Zheng during the vision, frightening the Trans-Spacetime Wheel’s spirit into hiding inside his primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng told Chi Daozong he did not know Zi Huangtian, put away the magical treasure, and said he would stay three days before going to the Blood Grotto.

Outside the Blood Grotto, onlookers watched the Lord of the Blood Cave’s ranking climb as he fought an unknown challenger within. The battle began, forcing everyone back as the Great Dao inside the Blood Grotto fell into chaos.

• Feng Gui was blasted out of the Blood Grotto again and shouted for the Lord of the Blood Cave to release Lian Qing.
• The Lord of the Blood Cave rose from below fifteenth place to seventh and then fifth on the Supreme Ranking, while the Grand Emperor repeatedly reclaimed sixth place.
• Blood Grotto beings fled the depths, and the onlookers realized that the Lord of the Blood Cave’s challenger had arrived and the battle had begun.
• A terrifying force erupted from the Blood Grotto, sending the spectators and Blood Grotto beings retreating thousands of li.
• Feng Gui tried to charge back inside, but an unknown force of the Great Dao of Space and Time teleported him away and immobilized him.
• Chi Daozong denied being responsible, while the onlookers sensed that the Great Dao inside the Blood Grotto had fallen into chaos.