Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng plunged Metropolis into darkness, absorbed the Tower of God’s supernatural energy, and began drawing spiritual energy from across the Americas. As the Feathered Serpent God released a stone jar to divert the energy, the Eagle God awakened and flew toward Metropolis.

• Chen Zheng destroyed Metropolis’s equipment, absorbed the Tower of God’s stored energy, and killed Colonel Burns and several soldiers at the Hand of God base.
• Chen Zheng rose above Metropolis and summoned spiritual energy from across the Americas.
• The Feathered Serpent God answered a priest at the Pyramid of Kukulkan and released a stone jar that began devouring the energy flowing toward the United States.
• A giant serpent in the Amazon welcomed Chen Zheng’s harvest and warned that Set would return to reclaim the energy.
• The Eagle God awakened above Machu Picchu and flew toward Metropolis, where Mishima Lola watched its approach and Little Bone called it food.

Chen Zheng killed the Eagle God after it threatened Metropolis, and Little Bone roasted and devoured the giant eagle. Chen Zheng then ordered Little Bone to fly to a spirit-gathering land, leaving the city’s citizens relieved as they watched them depart.

• Little Bone urged Chen Zheng to leave the giant eagle’s corpse intact so it could eat it, while Mishima Lola feared the creature.
• The Eagle God attacked Chen Zheng and threatened to destroy Metropolis unless Chen Zheng gave up the spiritual energy he had taken.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the threat and killed the Eagle God with a single sword strike before it could destroy the city.
• Little Bone roasted and devoured the eagle, leaving Metropolis’s citizens shocked by the feast above their city.
• Chen Zheng told Little Bone to head to a spirit-gathering land, and Little Bone flew away with Chen Zheng and Mishima Lola as the citizens watched.

Chen Zheng and Little Bone confronted the Feathered Serpent God at the Pyramid of Kukulkan after Little Bone ate the Eagle God. The Feathered Serpent God lost control of her stone jar, which Chen Zheng reclaimed and revealed he had once used for pickling.

• At the Pyramid of Kukulkan, Little Bone told the old priest it had eaten the Eagle God and demanded more giant creatures to roast.
• The Feathered Serpent God appeared and tried repeatedly to activate her stone jar, draining much of her divine power without success.
• Mishima Lola and Little Bone remarked on the Feathered Serpent God's futile attempts as Chen Zheng asked where she had obtained the jar.
• Chen Zheng summoned the jar into his hand, and the spiritual energy it had absorbed flowed into him.
• Chen Zheng said he had used the jar to make pickles and had given it to Progenitor Yu more than three thousand years earlier, causing the old priest to faint.

Chen Zheng reclaimed the stone jar from the Feathered Serpent God and warned her to behave, but a Titanoboa challenged him and summoned the Ancient Serpent God Set. Set recognized Little Bone and Chen Zheng, then shrank and prostrated himself in fear.

• Chen Zheng asked about Feihuan, explained the stone jar’s history, and took it back while warning the Feathered Serpent God to conduct herself properly.
• A giant Titanoboa emerged from the jungle, accused Chen Zheng of killing the Eagle God, and demanded that the Feathered Serpent God help fight him.
• Little Bone knocked the Titanoboa into the air with a single tail swipe, prompting it to summon the Ancient Serpent God.
• Set introduced himself as an ancient witness to Earth’s history, but Little Bone recognized him as a former toy and called him Little Snakey.
• Set saw Little Bone and Chen Zheng, shrank, and prostrated himself, greeting them as Big Sis and Ancestor Chen.

Set revealed his history with Chen Zheng and Little Bone, then played a recording of the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The footage showed Chen Zheng surviving the blast unharmed, and Set declared him impossible to kill.

• Little Bone scolded Set for abandoning her and Chen Zheng before the asteroid struck, and Set admitted he had fled after believing they were dead.
• Set recalled how Chen Zheng had once defeated him and made him serve as Little Bone’s toy.
• Chen Zheng suggested Set could try attacking him, but Set refused, saying he had witnessed Chen Zheng survive the asteroid impact.
• Set used his Snake Eye Secret Art to show footage of the asteroid striking Earth and destroying the prehistoric creatures around Chen Zheng and Little Bone.
• The recording showed Chen Zheng standing unharmed after the shock wave passed, and Set bowed to him, declaring him impossible to kill.

After the ancient serpent god Set warned Chen Zheng about otherworldly passages and strange events, Chen Zheng explained that the Great Purge was approaching and threatened every world, even the Pantheon. The founder of the Pantheon appeared before Chen Zheng, fearing he would be targeted first and asking Chen Zheng to look after the Pantheon if he died.

• Little Bone roasted the dead Titan Python and shared its meat with Mishima Lola while the ancient serpent god declined to compete with her.
• Set reported that otherworldly passages and dangerous realms were connected to China and Europe, and that the Pantheon had been trembling and cracking.
• Chen Zheng told Set that the Great Purge was approaching and that the Pantheon, its gods, and even its founder might fall.
• Set decided he was too frightened to leave Earth after Chen Zheng said he would kill the Great Purge before it destroyed the worlds.
• The Pantheon's founder appeared beside Chen Zheng, said he might be targeted first, and asked Chen Zheng to look after the Pantheon if he was done for.

Athena descended in her true body to challenge Demon God Chiyou for control of Europe, but he overwhelmed her in a battle broadcast around the world. As Chiyou’s killing blow vanished just before it struck Athena, he pointed his blade at the sky and greeted someone who had finally arrived.

• Athena returned to Olympus after her earlier defeat and vowed to descend in her true body and take the European region three days later.
• Set told the Feathered Serpent God that the mysterious Chen had lived longer than almost anyone on Earth and was the lover of the being who created Set.
• At Superpower Group headquarters, Old Nie reported that Athena and Chiyou were battling in France, while Lin Zhengming identified the masked observer atop the Eiffel Tower as the Jiuli Holy Lord.
• Chiyou tore off and swallowed Athena’s right arm, but Athena transformed into a giant to continue fighting.
• Chiyou summoned a massive blade and unleashed a strike that shattered Athena’s defenses and wounded her forehead, but the blade radiance vanished before it could kill her.
• Chiyou pointed his blade at the thunderclouds and said that someone had finally come.

Chen Zheng arrived in the City of Romance to face Demon God Chiyou, who called him his teacher before attacking. Chiyou’s opening strike failed to harm Chen Zheng, and he raised a lightning-charged saber as the City of Romance was torn from the ground.

• The Jiuli Holy Lord absorbed lightning strikes and boasted that the Nine Netherworlds Demonic Body made him unkillable.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the City of Romance, and his arrival disrupted the satellite signal broadcasting the confrontation.
• Athena returned to her normal form and landed beside Francis, while Little Bone and Mishima Lola assessed Chiyou’s strength.
• Chiyou bowed to Chen Zheng, called him his teacher, and then slashed at him, splitting the City of Romance without injuring him.
• After Chen Zheng judged Chiyou’s saber technique inadequate, Chiyou summoned lightning into his weapon and uprooted the entire city.

Demon God Chiyou unleashed his Yellow Springs and Nine Netherworlds slash, seemingly erasing Chen Zheng along with the surrounding spacetime. Chen Zheng reappeared unharmed, leaving Chiyou and the Jiuli Holy Lord stunned.

• Chiyou summoned Yellow Springs, spreading black water and mist across Europe and prompting the angel at the Holy See to protect the Holy Garden.
• Chiyou attacked Chen Zheng with his second slash, engulfing him in thunderbolts and black rivers before striking with his actual saber.
• Chiyou's slash annihilated the surrounding spacetime, and the Jiuli Holy Lord believed Chen Zheng had been killed.
• Chiyou lamented that Chen Zheng had chosen Xuanyuan over him, then declared that he had prepared a place for Chen beneath the Nine Netherworlds.
• Chen Zheng appeared above Chiyou unharmed, while Little Bone told Mishima Lola that even black holes could not destroy his master's body.

Chen Zheng defeated Demon God Chiyou’s strongest attacks, then reminded him of their past and the otherworldly demon whose bones formed the prototype of Chiyou’s lightning blade. Chiyou accepted that Chen Zheng would never have chosen him over Xuanyuan and destroyed his own primordial spirit.

• The Jiuli Holy Lord claimed Chen Zheng had dodged Chiyou’s spacetime-cleaving slash, while Little Bone and Mishima Lola believed Chen Zheng had endured it head-on.
• Chiyou pierced his own heart and unleashed a blood lightning slash, but the attack shattered his lightning blade and left him kneeling before Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng told Chiyou that everything he knew had been taught by him and recalled how he had once slain an otherworldly demon that could cut through things regardless of laws.
• Chiyou remembered the otherworldly demon and how Chen Zheng had refined its bones into the blade that became the prototype of his lightning blade.
• Chiyou asked whether Chen Zheng would have chosen him over Xuanyuan if he had curbed his ferocity, but Chen Zheng said no.
• Chiyou struck his own forehead, destroyed his primordial spirit, and cried out that he wished he had never met Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng destroyed Chiyou, who detonated his primordial spirit, and left the City of Romance in ruins before departing with Athena and Little Bone. As Europe and China reacted to the aftermath, a huge anomalous supernatural presence appeared on China’s monitoring system.

• Chiyou detonated his primordial spirit, but Chen Zheng survived and declared there would be no more Chiyou, tossing away the last fragments of Chiyou’s spirit.
• The Jiuli Holy Lord died when Chiyou’s shared primordial spirit exploded, and the Yellow Springs Demonic Face vanished after losing its host.
• Chen Zheng, Athena, and Little Bone left the ruins of the City of Romance, and the demon god’s corpse turned to ash as a global satellite broadcast revealed the devastation.
• At the Holy See, the angel told the pope that Chen Zheng was alive and that Heaven’s first Angel King was on Earth with the Golden Family.
• At Olympus, Athena knelt before Chen Zheng and asked for punishment, while Mishima Lola eavesdropped on the sounds from inside the temple.
• At Superpower Group headquarters in Yanjing, the monitoring system detected anomalous supernatural energy, and Old Nie, Xiao Peng, and Lin Zhengming saw a presence they thought was larger than Earth.

A colossal Kun appeared over China, searched for something, and vanished before a gigantic city crashed through the sky above the East China Sea. As cultivators gathered to investigate, a shadow from the city slaughtered the sea creatures beneath it, leaving the city’s terrifying origins unresolved.

• Xiao Peng identified the giant beast as Kun, while Lin Zhengming explained that it was a projection or a manifestation across dimensions.
• Cultivators across China saw Kun, and the purple-robed elder at Luofu Grotto-Heaven recognized it as the Dharma manifestation of a patriarch from Supreme Heaven; Kun searched for something and then left.
• A young man in Xuandu Yujing Grotto-Heaven tried to copy Kun with his Mountains and Rivers Fan, but the fan cracked and the image vanished.
• A gigantic city crashed out of the sky and hovered above the East China Sea, prompting at least a thousand cultivators to head there.
• Dragon Soul told the Su Family gathering that the city had a terrifying background and that only Ancestor Chen might understand it.
• A shadow swept out from the city and turned the sea creatures beneath it into bloody water.

Chen Zheng learned that the Heavenly Retribution Forbidden City had corrupted cultivators and sent them to kill him and those connected to him. He destroyed the attackers and the city with a sword, then struck something beyond the heavens as blood rained over the East China Sea.

• Logan watched news of the mysterious events in China, while laughter and falling black feathers startled the Golden Family.
• Chen Zheng told Athena and Mishima Lola that the colossal Kun had warned him about the Heavenly Retribution Forbidden City and its unknown master.
• Mishima Lola saw corrupted cultivators declare their intent to kill Chen Zheng and everyone connected to him, and Chen Zheng told them to go.
• Chen Zheng sent a sword ray to China, where it erased the attackers above Nan City and Yanjing and destroyed the Forbidden City.
• The sword ray pierced the heavens, after which blood rained over the East China Sea and Chen Zheng declared that he alone had always been able to take the seat.

Chen Zheng met Corpse Immortal Ji, who brought news that the Nine Tribulations had been betrayed and attacked by the Heavenly Dao Palace. After she left, she stole Mishima Lola and Athena’s bikinis, leaving them in ancient-style underwear.

• Descenders from the upper realms discussed the destroyed city and the mysterious sword immortal, then agreed to wait for word from the upper realms and suspend their operations on Earth.
• Chen Zheng told Little Bone that the World Serpent had awakened, and Athena identified it while they watched the sea in Greece.
• Corpse Immortal Ji appeared and told Chen Zheng that Seventh had betrayed the Nine Tribulations, leaving Eighth and Ninth homeless after the Heavenly Dao Palace raided them.
• Chen Zheng said his sword strike had taken half of Seventh’s life and promised to crush the traitor when he returned to Supreme Heaven; Corpse Immortal Ji also said she was training Nüba.
• Corpse Immortal Ji vanished after agreeing to teach Nüba, and Mishima Lola and Athena discovered that she had stolen their bikinis and replaced them with ancient-style underwear.

Chen Zheng and Athena watched Little Bone battle the Midgard Serpent after it emerged from the sea under someone’s control. Little Bone overwhelmed the serpent, and Chen Zheng confronted the unseen figure who tried to swallow her through a black magic circle.

• Chen Zheng explained that Athena’s new undergarments were powerful immortal-artifact-grade armor, while Mishima Lola lamented losing her bikini without compensation.
• A colossal Midgard Serpent rose from the sea, and Athena recognized that it was being controlled.
• Little Bone transformed into a hundred-meter-tall beast and charged the serpent, smashing it into the sea and blasting it with fiery pillars.
• Athena shielded the shore from the waves, and the frightened citizens sent her faith power as they prayed.
• Chen Zheng asked who was controlling the serpent and suggested the culprit might be tired of living.
• A black magic circle appeared above Little Bone and began pulling her in as Chen Zheng addressed the figure behind it.

Loki and Alduin fused to create an artificial black hole to kill Chen Zheng, while Little Bone’s flames evolved her and destroyed Loki’s magic array. As the black hole began pulling in the seaside hotel and everyone nearby, Chen Zheng appeared at its entrance.

• Loki’s black magic array swallowed Little Bone, and Alduin descended from the Dragon Realm, declaring himself the Black Dragon King and attacking her with dark dragon breath.
• Little Bone absorbed Alduin’s breath, evolved, and blasted the magic array apart, revealing a charred Loki.
• Loki blamed Alduin for making Little Bone stronger, then fused with the Black Dragon King and confronted Chen Zheng and Athena.
• The fused Loki explained that a powerful lord had marked Chen Zheng and opened an artificial black hole above the hotel to devour him.
• Little Bone’s flame attack was absorbed by the black hole as it sucked up buildings and people, and Chen Zheng appeared at its entrance.

Chen Zheng survived Loki and Alduin’s artificial black hole, then tore both of them apart when they attacked him. Little Bone finished off the badly wounded World Serpent, leaving the people on shore stunned by the slaughter.

• Loki expanded his artificial black hole, sucking up much of the city as Chen Zheng stepped inside it.
• Athena caught the falling people and buildings after the black hole’s pull vanished, while the black hole convulsed around Chen Zheng.
• The black hole spat Chen Zheng out and shattered, and he said it had been too small to contain him.
• Loki and the Black Dragon King Alduin attacked Chen Zheng, but more than a thousand spiritual energy dragons tore them apart within seconds.
• Little Bone breathed true fire on the barely living World Serpent, and the people on shore smelled roasting meat.

Parker livestreamed the Tyrannosaurus rex eating the Midgard Serpent as Thor warned the newly awakened Fenrir about the danger of provoking Chen Zheng, and Fenrir agreed to work with him. After Chen Zheng learned that Godzilla had appeared in the East China Sea and went there, he saved Lin Zhengming and destroyed Godzilla with a single palm strike.

• Parker regained his phone signal in the seaside hotel ruins and restarted his livestream of the Tyrannosaurus rex eating the giant python.
• Thor showed Fenrir the livestream and warned him that Chen Zheng had destroyed Loki and the Midgard Serpent; Fenrir shrank to husky size and agreed to work with Thor.
• At the Su Family villa, the Dragon Soul told Chen Zheng that Spirit Realm powers had concealed his past deeds, and Chen Zheng said the ominous city had come to kill him.
• Chen Zheng received Lin Zhengming's message about Godzilla appearing in the East China Sea and vanished to investigate.
• Godzilla blasted Lin Zhengming out of the air, but Chen Zheng arrived and sent Godzilla flying before blowing it apart with one palm strike.

Chen Zheng destroyed Godzilla with a single strike, then faced Ye Killing God, who had come to avenge his younger brother Ye Wang. Chen Zheng turned Ye Killing God’s Ninefold Sword Domain against him and revealed that he had created the technique.

• A mysterious figure later identified as Chen Zheng blew Godzilla apart, stunning viewers around the world.
• Dragon Soul tried to ease the silence at the Su Family’s villa by comparing the feat with Chen Zheng’s deeds in the Spirit Realm.
• At a beachfront bar in Nanhai City, Lin Zhengming thanked Chen Zheng and reflected on his weakness before the recent mutations.
• Ye Killing God arrived, identified himself as a member of the True Martial Ye Family, and said he had come to avenge his younger brother Ye Wang.
• Ye Killing God attacked Chen Zheng with his Ninefold Sword Domain, but Chen Zheng redirected the sword energy and pierced him.
• Chen Zheng told Ye Killing God that the sword technique could not harm him because he had created it, and Ye Killing God collapsed.

Chen Zheng explained the Ninefold Sword Domain and his immunity to sword techniques, then traveled with Mishima Lola to Los Santos. At Santa Monica Beach Pier, he used a snap of his fingers to turn a group of movie scammers’ clothes and camera to ash.

• Chen Zheng told Lin Zhengming about the Ninefold Sword Domain, Lietian’s sword strike, and his immunity to sword techniques.
• Lin Zhengming sent Chen Zheng information about the True Martial Ye Family through the Superpower Group’s database.
• Chen Zheng arrived in Los Santos, where Mishima Lola picked him up and led him to Santa Monica Beach Pier.
• A hip-hop filmmaker and his men surrounded Chen Zheng and Mishima Lola, trying to recruit them for a movie.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and turned the men’s clothes, body hair, and camera to ash, sending them into panic.