Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng agreed to travel with Lan Ling and the lord of Cloud Spirit Mountain to Yin Ancient Dragon City, where they encountered the Sin Cult and a flirtatious young noble. The group entered the city as its visitors prepared to watch the spectacle Heaven Washing the Sword.

• Lan Ling suggested visiting Yin Ancient Dragon City to meet Taichong, and Chen Zheng agreed to leave the next day.
• Zhao Wuyou escorted Chen Zheng, Lan Ling, and the lord of Cloud Spirit Mountain by immortal ship to Yin Ancient Dragon City.
• Lan Ling admired the city’s enormous dragon-shaped sculpture, and Zhao Wuyou explained it was modeled after Taichong’s true body.
• Fairy Qin Mei of the Sin Cult invited Lan Ling and Chen Zheng to join the cult, but both declined her offers.
• Gu Cang invited Fairy Qin Mei to watch Heaven Washing the Sword, then hurried after her into the city despite Lan Ling’s warning about his tastes.

Zhao Wuyou brought Chen Zheng, Lan Ling, and the master of Cloud Spirit Mountain to Dragon City for the Heavenly Dragon Grand Banquet, where the first trial was revealed to be viewing the spectacle of Heaven Washing the Sword. After Zhao Wuyou defended Cloud Spirit Mountain’s invitation by declaring that a Supreme protected it, the gathered cultivators were drawn into an ink-wash scroll as the spectacle began.

• Zhao Wuyou flew the group into Dragon City, where they appeared inside the mouth of its enormous dragon-shaped stone sculpture.
• Gu Cang and Fairy Qin Mei were among the gathered guests, while a governor from Cold Moon Province challenged Zhao Wuyou for inviting Cloud Spirit Mountain instead of the Seven Treasures Immortal Gate.
• Zhao Wuyou explained that the Seven Treasures Immortal Gate had been destroyed and that a Supreme being protected Cloud Spirit Mountain, silencing Governor Gu and surprising the other guests.
• An indifferent voice announced that the spectacle of Heaven Washing the Sword would begin after a ten-breath countdown.
• A painting-like scroll unfurled across the sky, and immortal light pulled everyone in the dragon’s mouth into it.

During the Heavenly Dragon Grand Banquet, Chen Zheng and Lan Ling noticed that the replay of Heaven washing a sword had frozen, while others mistook the pause for a trial. Heavenly King Yin confirmed it was an accidental failure of the ancient formation, leaving Provincial Governor Gu and the others embarrassed.

• The Divine Empress of Yin Ruins appeared above Yin Ancient Dragon City, prompting immortal guards to hurry to report to the Sacred Lord.
• Inside the ink-wash world, the spectacle of Heaven washing a sword played in slow motion before freezing as Heaven drew the divine sword from the water.
• Provincial Governor Gu and other guests insisted that the frozen scene held a Great Dao for them to contemplate, and they rebuked Lan Ling for saying it had simply frozen.
• Chen Zheng agreed with Lan Ling, and Provincial Governor Gu asked Heavenly King Yin to expel them for disrupting the banquet.
• Heavenly King Yin confirmed that the ancient formation had frozen by accident, leaving Provincial Governor Gu and the other guests embarrassed.

The Yin Ancient Sacred Lord sealed the Ink-Wash World and joined forces with the Future Tribulation Sect to drain Heavenly Dragon’s power. After everyone was transported to the Holy Court, Heavenly King Yin confronted Yin Huang, while Lan Ling called out to Chen Zheng about the Great Dream God.

• Heavenly King Yin explained that the Ink-Wash World had been sealed and that the Sacred Lord planned to use Heavenly Dragon’s power to create more Supreme beings.
• Everyone in the Ink-Wash World was transported to the Holy Court, where the Great Dream God was coiled around an unconscious Heavenly Dragon and draining his essence.
• Governor Gu and several provincial governors knelt and offered to keep the events secret, while Heavenly King Yin condemned Yin Huang for betraying Heavenly Dragon.
• Yin Huang threatened to strip Heavenly King Yin of his Supreme power, and the Great Dream God revealed that she was one of the Future Tribulation Sect’s four Tribulation Gods.
• Lan Ling called out to Chen Zheng and identified the Great Dream God as a member of the Future Tribulation Sect.

Chen Zheng killed Great Dream God, Yin Ancient Sacred Lord, and other threats in the Holy Court, then had Heavenly King Yin deal with the survivors and helped awaken the Heavenly Dragon. The Taichong Heavenly Dragon revealed that Primordial Heaven was likely sealed in the Demon-Sealing Caverns, along with powerful Demonic Thoughts and the Huntian Great Demon Lord’s disciple.

• Chen Zheng instantly killed Great Dream God and the Yin Ancient Sacred Dynasty crown prince, then destroyed Yin Ancient Sacred Lord’s primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng gave the remaining Epoch Ring fragments to the Taisu Stone Egg and told Heavenly King Yin to decide what to do with the rest.
• Heavenly King Yin killed the immortal guards and destroyed the crown prince’s remnant soul, while Governor Gu collapsed after his Dao heart shattered.
• Heavenly King Yin awakened the Heavenly Dragon, who thanked Chen Zheng and revealed that he had once followed Primordial Heaven.
• The Taichong Heavenly Dragon said a mysterious faceless woman had sealed Primordial Heaven in a stone coffin and that the coffin was likely in the Demon-Sealing Caverns with other dangerous beings.

Chen Zheng learned that Primordial Heaven was imprisoned in the stone coffin and that Extreme Evil was formed from the Huntian Great Demon Lord’s severed thoughts. After Taichong Heavenly Dragon raised the Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord to the Supreme Realm, Chen Zheng said he would visit the Demon-Sealing Caverns and meet Primordial Heaven.

• Taichong Heavenly Dragon explained that the Supreme Ranking was only a reference and that the Demon-Sealing Caverns were no ordinary prison.
• Gu Cang revealed that a Heaven named Taiqiong lived at Lesser Holy Emperor Mountain and begged Chen Zheng to help the cursed senior.
• Chen Zheng asked Taichong Heavenly Dragon to use his innate divine ability on the Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord.
• Taichong Heavenly Dragon sent Supreme power into the Cloud Spirit Mountain Lord, and she entered the Supreme Realm.
• Chen Zheng praised the divine ability and said he would visit the Demon-Sealing Caverns to see Primordial Heaven.

After the Yin Ancient Sacred Lord’s fall was announced, a will briefly possessed his corpse to deliver a message ordering the Yin Clan to return to its ancestral land before the First Progenitor awakened. The Taichong Heavenly Dragon then revealed that the person responsible for the Great Dream God’s death might be the reincarnation of the universe’s very first being, leaving Heavenly King Yin questioning the extent of that person’s power.

• A voice announced throughout Yin Ancient Dragon City that the Great Dream God and the Yin Ancient Sacred Lord had fallen, alarming the city and the nine provinces.
• The Yin Ancient Sacred Lord’s corpse opened its eyes, and a will identifying itself as Yin Zhongjie’s presence explained that it had come to investigate the Divine Empress and the Sacred Lord’s death.
• Heavenly King Yin said the Sacred Lord had colluded with a Future Tribulation Sect fiend and tried to devour the Heavenly Dragon, then ordered the will to leave.
• The possessing will revealed that a progenitor had emerged from a sealing coffin and instructed every Yin Clan member in the Sacred Dynasty to return to the ancestral land before the First Progenitor awakened.
• The Taichong Heavenly Dragon said the Yin Clan’s progenitors could not threaten the person who killed the Great Dream God and described that person as likely the reincarnation of the universe’s earliest being.
• Heavenly King Yin questioned whether even the earliest being’s reincarnation could truly defeat every Supreme being, noting that Primordial Heaven remained suppressed and absent from the Overlord Ranking.

Chen Zheng rescued Lesser Holy Emperor Mountain from an Unhindered Slaughter Dao vice sect master and met Great Empyrean, one of the Eight Acquired Heavens. Great Empyrean recognized Chen Zheng as the Love Emperor and called Lan Ling the Chaos Heavenly Maiden, leaving them stunned by their forgotten connections to the First Epoch.

• Gu Cang and Chen Zheng found Lesser Holy Emperor Mountain's rear mountain sealed by an Unhindered Slaughter Dao barrier, while its sect master and elders lay unconscious.
• An Unhindered Slaughter Dao vice sect master threatened to kill the mountain's people unless its Heaven surrendered.
• Chen Zheng shattered the barrier with a breath and killed the vice sect master, whose name disappeared from the Supreme Ranking.
• Chen Zheng, Gu Cang, Lan Ling, and Lan Jiang entered the rear mountain, where they found the withered old man Great Firmament.
• Great Empyrean recognized Lan Ling as the Chaos Heavenly Maiden and asked whether she had awakened after finding her master, Lord Love Emperor.
• Great Empyrean identified himself as one of the Eight Acquired Heavens and said he had met the Love Emperor during the First Epoch, though Chen Zheng no longer recognized him.

Great Empyrean recounted the vanished powers of the First Epoch before an unknown curse transformed him into wood and attacked Chen Zheng. The curse awakened several mysterious women’s voices, but Chen Zheng silenced its will and asserted his authority.

• Great Empyrean told Lan Ling that the Love Emperor and several other First Epoch powers, including the Huntian Great Demon Lord and Supreme Sword Master, had vanished after going to the Land of the Beginning.
• Great Empyrean’s unknown curse transformed his body into green wood, and he urged Chen Zheng to warn the other Heavens before his head turned to wood as well.
• A streak of green light escaped Great Empyrean’s wooden body and pierced Lan Ling’s barrier, striking Chen Zheng between the brows.
• Three unfamiliar women’s voices recognized one another as the Taiyou Azure Emperor Heaven and Holy Word Wuji Heaven, while Lan Ling, Lan Jiang, and Gu Cang watched in confusion.
• Chen Zheng stripped the will inside the green light of its ability to speak and asked whether it knew he was the biggest one there.

Chen Zheng saved Great Empyrean from the curse, gained a second Overlord Divine Rune, and spoke with the will called Holy Word Wuji Heaven. After Great Empyrean revealed the Empress Sect’s connection to Supreme Nether Azure Emperor, Chen Zheng decided to visit it and Chu Hongyi.

• Chen Zheng shattered the azure face with a slap, and a crash echoed from the Shattered Land.
• Great Empyrean returned to human form, thanked Chen Zheng for removing his curse, and explained his connection to the Empress Sect’s first sect master and Supreme Nether Azure Emperor.
• Chen Zheng gained a second Overlord Divine Rune while remaining at the One-Ring Overlord level.
• Holy Word Wuji Heaven warned Chen Zheng to beware of her and Taiyou Azure Emperor Heaven, left Lan Ling’s trump card, and said she would go into seclusion.
• Chen Zheng said he would visit the Empress Sect to see Chu Hongyi, prompting Lan Ling to question his other disciples.

The Empress Sect faced a siege by an uncanny force demanding Chu Hongyi, while Chu Hongyi insisted her uncle would save her. Her uncle arrived inside the sect’s protective formation, but the cultivators dismissed him as a mere Two-Ring Epoch Hegemon.

• In a hidden world beneath a valley, clan elders decided to send Lan Jiang a bloodline imprint and summon her back after she reached the Supreme Realm.
• At the besieged Empress Sect, Elder Liu blamed Chu Hongyi for provoking the black-armored guards and demanded that the sect hand her over to Hei Jueshen of the Demon-Sealing Caverns.
• Chu Hongyi argued with Elder Liu, defended her uncle, and declared he could defeat the Demon-Sealing Caverns with one slap.
• Chu Hongyi sensed her uncle arriving and rushed from the sect master’s hall to greet him.
• The sect’s cultivators saw Chu Hongyi embrace a young man with two Overlord Divine Runes who had appeared inside the protective formation without damaging it.
• Elder Liu and the outer hall disciples mocked the young man, believing Chu Hongyi’s uncle was only a Two-Ring Epoch Hegemon.

Chen Zheng arrived at the Empress Sect and proved Chu Hongyi had not been bluffing when he killed Hei Jueshen and Changkong Wuji with ease. The Undefeated Divine Stele proclaimed Hei Jueshen’s death, leaving the sect stunned and Elder Liu terrified.

• The outer hall's eldest senior sister and Elder Liu dismissed Chu Hongyi’s claims despite sensing that Lan Jiang was a supreme being.
• Chu Hongyi embraced Chen Zheng, then argued with Lan Ling over who was his disciple and who had known him first.
• Changkong Wuji demanded that Chu Hongyi come with him and threatened to destroy the Empress Sect, boasting that Hei Jueshen ranked among the top fifteen of the Supreme Ranking.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the suspended black bridge, killed Hei Jueshen, and turned the surrounding black-armored guards to ashes.
• Chen Zheng killed Changkong Wuji after he threatened him, and Chu Hongyi rebuked Changkong for doubting her uncle.
• The Undefeated Divine Stele announced Hei Jueshen’s death, and Elder Liu trembled in terror.

Chen Zheng confronted the Demon-Sealing Caverns after its forces came to avenge Hei Jueshen and Changkong Wuji, then revealed a terrifying devil form that annihilated them. Elder Liu died in terror, and the Empress Sect was left stunned by Chen Zheng’s power.

• Elder Liu realized Chen Zheng had killed Hei Jueshen with a single blow and begged the Empress Sect’s sect master for protection.
• A Supreme leader from the Demon-Sealing Caverns arrived with ten Demon-Sealing Imperial Guards and demanded revenge for Hei Jueshen and Changkong Wuji.
• The guards formed a Demon-Sealing Array that crushed the Empress Sect’s protective formation and threatened Chu Hongyi.
• Chen Zheng stepped forward and said he was a devil before the array’s beast struck him.
• A dark shadow roared behind Chen Zheng, shattering the array, turning the ten guards to ash, and leaving their leader as a skeleton.
• Elder Liu screamed that Chen Zheng was a great devil, then her primordial spirit shattered.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Demon-Sealing Array and its guards with his demonic shadow, then killed Tianga Ancient God with a single sword strike after Changkong Wannian summoned him. The Empress Sect’s people were left kneeling in shock.

• Chen Zheng’s demonic shadow obliterated the Demon-Sealing Grand Array, its guards, and the Supreme wielding the black scepter, leaving only a skeleton and remnant soul.
• Great Empyrean realized the Huntian Great Demon Lord had been the Love Emperor, while Chu Hongyi marveled at how much stronger Chen Zheng had become.
• Changkong Wannian sacrificed the black scepter to summon Tianga Ancient God, who appeared above Empress Mountain and was ranked fifth on the Supreme Ranking.
• Changkong Wannian declared that Tianga Ancient God would suppress Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng answered that he had misunderstood karma.
• Chen Zheng pierced Tianga Ancient God’s brow with a sword shadow, killing him instantly, then shattered Changkong Wannian’s remnant soul and reduced the skeleton to ashes.
• The Empress Sect’s people fell to their knees as the sect master muttered that Chen Zheng had killed Tianga Ancient God in an instant.

Chen Zheng killed Tianga Ancient God and revealed that the Empress Sect’s grand elder was a puppet cursed by the Supreme Nether Azure Emperor. After Chen Zheng removed the curse from Wu Luoli and destroyed the grand elder, the Demon-Sealing Caverns’ master learned that Lady Hongdou would not save his clan.

• Tianga Ancient God vanished from the rankings, and an announcement confirmed his death across the Great Void.
• Chen Zheng gathered the shattered relics at the Empress Sect and asked Chu Hongyi to explain how she had arrived there.
• The master of the Demon-Sealing Caverns begged Lady Hongdou for help, but she said his clan could not be saved because she called the Huntian Demonic Dao’s Dao Lord Sister You'er.
• Great Empyrean revealed that the Empress Sect’s grand elder served the Supreme Nether Azure Emperor and had cursed Wu Luoli.
• Chen Zheng shattered Wu Luoli’s azure container, removed the curse from her, and erased the grand elder.

Chen Zheng revealed that Wu Luoli was the reincarnation of Great Empyrean's blood descendant and raised his cultivation before discussing the Primordial Chaos Universe's possible origins. A decree then announced the opening of the Heavenly Dao Origin Realm and the final selection of the Son of the Heavens.

• Chen Zheng explained that the Supreme Nether Azure Emperor's curse had helped raise his cultivation, and he marked Wu Luoli to reveal her lineage.
• Great Empyrean recognized Wu Luoli as the reincarnation of his descendant Tianli and thanked Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng consumed Origin True Blood and reached the peak of the Three-Ring Overlord level while the Artifact Spirit explained that he needed Creator-level origin power to keep pace with his growing physical strength.
• Chen Zheng and the Artifact Spirit discussed the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord and the possibility that the Primordial Chaos Universe was formed from shattered Great Samsaras or was an Ultimate Ring.
• A golden decree appeared above the Heaven-Governing Great Domain, announcing that the Heavenly Dao Origin Realm had opened and the final selection of the Son of the Heavens had begun.

The final selection for the Son of the Heavens began in the Heavenly Dao Origin Realm, where Chen Zheng and the Empress Sect group arrived aboard the Star Raft. Emperor Pan appeared and spoke with Chen Zheng, while the chapter ended as a powerful young man rode a colossal creature into view.

• Emperor Pan’s golden edict announced the final selection and opened a gate to the Heavenly Dao Origin Realm.
• Chen Zheng brought the Empress Sect group through the gate aboard the Star Raft, which remained above the clouds while the other contestants gathered below.
• Chu Hongyi jumped down from the Star Raft, and the roaming lightning manifestations turned away as if they feared Chen Zheng.
• Lan Ling considered joining the contestants before Emperor Pan appeared on the Star Raft and asked Chen Zheng about his talented disciple Yanluo.
• Chen Zheng asked Emperor Pan why he was organizing the selection after claiming to have parted ways with Primordial Chaos, and Lan Ling wondered whether Chen Zheng was the name atop the Supreme Ranking.
• A colossal creature rose from the wilderness as a purple-robed young man stood on its head, drawing fear from those nearby.

Chen Zheng watched the Son of the Heavens selection as Lei Ji seized territory, then said his disciple Yanluo could easily defeat him. When several powerful young women appeared on the savage land, Chen Zheng recognized them, and Lan Ling wondered whether he had guided them all.

• Emperor Pan introduced Lei Ji of the Leimeng Immortal Abode and asked Chen Zheng to assess his talent.
• Chen Zheng said Lei Ji was no match for Yanluo and planned for her to test the eventual Son of the Heavens.
• Lan Ling asked whether Yanluo was cuter than her, and Chen Zheng assured her that she was.
• The Empress Sect’s sect master and Great Empyrean spotted several formidable women fighting on the savage land and speculated about their identities.
• Chen Zheng named Bai Nishang, Shen Wulei, Qi Ruyi, Cangsheng, and Ye Qingcheng, prompting Lan Ling to ask whether he had guided them all.

Chen Zheng’s associates were eliminated from the final selection, and Lei Ji became the future Holy Emperor after defeating the other contestants. Chen Zheng then appeared before the crowd with a woman and formally introduced her as his third disciple, Yanluo.

• The savage land contracted and the Heavenly Dao gathered the remaining contestants before the central mountain, while Chu Hongyi and the women Chen Zheng had guided were sent to the audience stands.
• Holy Emperor Pan said the eliminations were likely caused by Chen Zheng’s adopted daughter, who was stronger than Pan.
• Lei Ji used his Great Dao of Thunder to defeat the contestants and received the Holy Emperor Mark from the mountain.
• Lei Ji demanded that the audience pay respects to him, while Holy Emperor Pan suggested Chen Zheng’s adopted daughter had not chosen Lei Ji herself.
• Chen Zheng stepped before the mountain with a woman, turned to introduce her to the crowd, and named her as his third disciple, Yanluo.

Chen Zheng introduced his third disciple, Yanluo, and let her face the Heavenly Dao’s lightning and the future Holy Emperor Lei Ji. Yanluo emerged from the divine thunder and killed Lei Ji with one kick, then apologized for using too much strength.

• Lei Ji and the purple-robed old man mocked Chen Zheng for introducing Yanluo, while Chu Hongyi and Chen Zheng’s other acquaintances recognized their connections to him.
• Chen Zheng asked Yanluo why he had called her out, and she said it was to blow the future Holy Emperor apart.
• Chen Zheng told Yanluo to hold back and give Lei Ji the time it took to drink a cup of tea, then sat down to brew tea as she prepared to fight.
• Heavenly Dao’s divine lightning swallowed Yanluo, and Lei Ji mocked Chen Zheng for sending his disciple to her death.
• Yanluo charged through the lightning, kicked Lei Ji into a mist of blood, destroyed his primordial spirit, and cracked his Holy Emperor’s mark.
• Yanluo apologized to Chen Zheng, saying she had not controlled her strength and had not expected Lei Ji to burst apart after one kick.