Chapter Summaries

After Bai Nishang shattered Lei Ji’s Holy Emperor mark with a kick, Chen Zheng confronted the Supreme Heavenly Dao and erased Lei Ji’s remnant soul. He then gathered the mark’s fragments and sent six streams of Holy Emperor particles toward Chu Hongyi and the others.

• Bai Nishang kicked Lei Ji apart and cracked his Holy Emperor mark, then returned to Chen Zheng’s brow.
• Lei Ji and the purple-robed elder appealed to the Supreme Heavenly Dao and Emperor Pan, but the Heavenly Dao gave no response.
• Emperor Pan appeared beside Chen Zheng and said he wanted to conspire with him.
• Chen Zheng told the Supreme Heavenly Dao that he would erase Lei Ji, then reduced Lei Ji’s remnant soul to ashes and shattered the Holy Emperor mark.
• Chen Zheng transformed the mark’s fragments into six streams of Holy Emperor particles and sent them toward Chu Hongyi and the others.

Chen Zheng gave six women powerful marks, and Emperor Pan sent everyone else out of the Heavenly Dao Origin Realm before asking Chen Zheng for advice about the coming awakening. After Emperor Pan left a golden talisman and vanished, a mysterious white-jade hand seized it, and Chen Zheng's attempt to stop the hand made the realm shake violently.

• Chen Zheng gave Chu Hongyi, Bai Nishang, Shen Wulei, Ye Qingcheng, Qi Ruyi, and Cangsheng marks that seemed even stronger than the Holy Emperor Mark, and they thanked him.
• Emperor Pan sent everyone in the Heavenly Dao Origin Realm except Chen Zheng and himself back to their realms, then asked Chen Zheng about seeking power behind the Wall of Origin in the Chaos Prison.
• Chen Zheng advised Emperor Pan to look behind the Wall of Origin rather than pursue the Creator's corpse, and Emperor Pan left a golden talisman before departing to find Hongjun.
• The Super Spacetime Wheel Disc's artifact spirit identified the talisman as possibly a Reincarnation Fate Lord Token and urged Chen Zheng to scan the Little Azure Pearl.
• A white-jade hand seized Emperor Pan's golden talisman, and Chen Zheng pressed down on it as the Heavenly Dao Origin Realm began to shake violently.

Chen Zheng left the Heavenly Dao Origin Realm after identifying the vanished white jade hand as belonging to another Zero, while the realms recovered from their brief collapse. Back in the Great Void, Chu Hongyi considered the Primordial Ancestor Divine Dynasty’s invitation but resolved to find her mother, until a sudden apparition of the Eternal Demon Dragon drew everyone’s attention.

• Chen Zheng released the golden talisman, ending the upheaval that had cracked the myriad worlds, and concluded that the white jade hand belonged to another Zero.
• The white-robed Will Spirit appeared, asked Chen Zheng whether he had sensed anything beyond repulsion, and then vanished after he said no.
• Chen Zheng departed the Heavenly Dao Origin Realm as its phantom lightning figures discussed his power and his past as acting palace master.
• At the Empress Sect, Chu Hongyi rejected the Primordial Ancestor Divine Dynasty’s invitation to hear Divine Emperor Xingtian expound the Dao, saying she wanted to find her mother instead.
• Lan Ling suggested that Chen Zheng could help Chu Hongyi retrieve her mother, but a roar from the north interrupted them as the Eternal Demon Dragon appeared and was revealed to have risen to seventh on the Supreme Ranking.

Chen Zheng accompanied Chu Hongyi to the Primordial Ancestor Divine Dynasty’s Divine Metropolis of Heaven-Weaving for Divine Emperor Xingtian’s Dao lecture, which Jiang Shen said was meant for Chu Hongyi’s imprisoned mother, Princess Long Xiang. They entered the Divine Court, where the imperial descendants mocked Chu Hongyi, but she stayed confident with Chen Zheng beside her.

• The Eternal Demon Dragon rose to seventh place on the Supreme Ranking and roared that he had obtained a secret art of Transcendence and would personally tear Chen Zheng apart.
• Chen Zheng told Lan Ling to let the Eternal Demon Dragon live a little longer, then used the invitation’s spacetime beacon to take Chu Hongyi to the Primordial Ancestor Divine Dynasty.
• Chu Hongyi told Chen Zheng that her mother, Princess Long Xiang, was under house arrest and that she wanted nothing to do with the dynasty’s imperial family.
• Jiang Shen warned Chu Hongyi to endure any provocations, but she declared that Chen Zheng could protect her even from Divine Empress Beiming and Divine Emperor Xingtian.
• Jiang Shen explained that the Dao lecture was for Princess Long Xiang, then led Chen Zheng and Chu Hongyi into the Divine Court, where imperial descendants mocked Chu Hongyi.
• Chu Hongyi smiled at the mockery and said she was used to trouble from being outstanding in looks and cultivation talent.

At the Divine Emperor’s sermon, Chu Hongyi realized the other two royal branches were forcing Xingtian to share the Great Dao of Life and expend his essence as the price for releasing her mother. She interrupted the ceremony with a shout, awakening the royal descendants and drawing their furious attention.

• Royal descendants mocked Chu Hongyi and Chen Zheng before Divine Emperor Xingtian emerged to begin his sermon.
• Divine Empress Beiming and Crown Prince Longxie discussed his plans to comprehend the Great Dao of Life and rise above the dynasty’s other branches.
• Xingtian manifested the Great Dao of Life and sent azure motes of his essence power into the royal descendants, including Chu Hongyi.
• Chu Hongyi and the old guide realized that the other two branches were exploiting Xingtian and her mother’s confinement to demand the legacy and his essence.
• Chu Hongyi shouted, “Stop right now!”, shaking the Divine Court and rousing the disciples, who glared at her in anger.

Chu Hongyi challenged Divine Empress Beiming as she tried to expel her from the Divine Court, and Jiang Shen intervened when Beiming attacked the princess. Chen Zheng destroyed Beiming’s divine cauldron, slapped her twice, and blasted her body apart, leaving the imperial descendants stunned by his power.

• Chu Hongyi slapped away Divine Empress Beiming’s maids after Beiming ordered her expelled from the Divine Court.
• Divine Empress Beiming summoned a divine cauldron and attacked Chu Hongyi, so Jiang Shen stepped in to protect her.
• Jiang Shen’s body split under the cauldron’s divine power, and Chu Hongyi called Chen Zheng for help as the imperial descendants mocked him.
• Chen Zheng casually slapped Divine Empress Beiming, shattering her cauldron and leaving bloody marks on her face.
• Chen Zheng slapped Beiming again, broke through her divine-light barrier, and blasted her body into a mist of blood.
• Jiang Shen realized Chu Hongyi’s claim about Chen Zheng’s supreme combat strength might be true as the imperial descendants stared in shock.

Chen Zheng crippled two Primordial Ancestor Divine Dynasty ancestors and forced the Formless Divine Emperor to agree to end the imperial lineages’ restrictions and release Long Xiang. The emperor claimed Long Xiang had been imprisoned because of an ancient baleful force, and Divine Empress Beiming accused Zu Qiankun of Tianshen Tomb of infecting her.

• The Formless Divine Emperor arrived and Chu Hongyi warned him not to oppose Chen Zheng, while the emperor said the other ancestors would test Chen Zheng regardless.
• The two ancestors attacked Chen Zheng with Supreme-level Great Dao power, but Chen Zheng raised his hand and left them as little more than remnant souls.
• The Formless Divine Emperor asked Chen Zheng’s identity, then agreed to end the restrictions between the imperial lineages and release Long Xiang.
• The Formless Divine Emperor explained that Long Xiang had been confined because an ancient baleful force might turn her into a monster.
• The old man said Long Xiang had not been tainted at his clan’s ancestral land, and Divine Empress Beiming denied harming her and blamed Zu Qiankun, who had joined Tianshen Tomb.

Chu Hongyi and Chen Zheng confronted Zu Qiankun, who had planted an ancient fiend in Princess Long Xiang and threatened to take her away. Chen Zheng destroyed the fiend and freed Long Xiang, while Zu Qiankun’s Will Spirit Transformation remained present.

• Divine Empress Beiming, Crown Prince Longxie, and the imperial clan begged Chu Hongyi’s forgiveness, and she demanded that the Formless Divine Emperor release her mother, Princess Long Xiang.
• The Formless Divine Emperor revealed the secluded palace holding Long Xiang and warned that the ancient fiend inside her could corrode supreme beings.
• Zu Qiankun appeared through a Will Spirit Transformation, admitted planting the fiend, and demanded permission to take Long Xiang as his wife.
• Zu Qiankun taunted Chu Hongyi and re-formed his Will Spirit Transformation after she shattered it with a punch.
• Chen Zheng dissolved the palace, exposed Long Xiang, and blew the ancient fiend out of her body, where it disintegrated into ash and smoke.

Chen Zheng destroyed the ancient fiend inside Princess Long Xiang and revealed that he planned to target the Tianshen Tomb and Linglong Sword Palace. He shattered Zu Qiankun’s Will Spirit Transformation after learning where his true body and allies were, leaving the Primordial Ancestor Divine Dynasty’s imperial family terrified of him.

• Chen Zheng destroyed the ancient fiend with a breath, and Chu Hongyi caught her fainting mother, Princess Long Xiang.
• Zu Qiankun listed his powerful connections and tried to persuade Chen Zheng to let his Will Spirit Transformation go, while the Formless Divine Emperor recognized the lineages behind him.
• Chen Zheng revealed that the Tianshen Tomb was among the lineages he had come to destroy, and Zu Qiankun realized it had been relocating to evade him.
• Chen Zheng told Zu Qiankun that he knew where the Tianshen Tomb and Zu Qiankun’s father were, and promised to kill them both.
• Zu Qiankun threatened to flee with his allies, but Chen Zheng told him to choose between cowardice and death before shattering his Will Spirit Transformation.

Chen Zheng took Chu Hongyi and the others back to the Empress Sect, then brought Lan Ling and Yannü to Scale Abyss to confront the Heavenly Gods hiding there. The Ancient Heavenly Gods prepared to use a grand array called Transcendence, and Zu Qiankun believed their alliance could defeat Chen Zheng.

• Chen Zheng left the Primordial Ancestor Divine Dynasty with Chu Hongyi, the unconscious Princess Long Xiang, and Jiang Shen, while the Formless Divine Emperor lamented that the dynasty had missed a great opportunity.
• At Scale Abyss, an Ancient Heavenly God told Zu Qiankun that the Tianshen Tomb's Heavenly Gods could not enter the Shattered Land because they had once fled from it, and revealed that their grand array was meant for Transcendence.
• At the Empress Sect, Chen Zheng told Lan Ling that Yannü's Good Luck Dao Body could help her awaken, then transported Lan Ling and Yannü with him to Scale Abyss.
• The Ancient Heavenly God and five other Ancient Heavenly Gods emerged to face Chen Zheng, and Zu Qiankun regained his confidence, trusting their strength and the Transcendence Grand Array.

Chen Zheng confronted the Ancient Heavenly Gods of Tianshen Tomb, who had arranged a Transcendence Array to absorb his power and help them escape the Primordial Chaos Universe. He destroyed the array and its defenders with one palm, leaving Lan Ling unable to learn anything from the strike.

• Lan Ling and Yannü followed Chen Zheng into Scale Abyss, where Yannü identified the Ancient Heavenly Gods’ unusual array and measured Lan Ling’s combat power at 360 billion.
• The Ancient Heavenly Gods taunted Chen Zheng, but he saw that their Transcendence Array was meant to absorb his attacks and help them break free of the Primordial Chaos Universe.
• The Ancient Heavenly Gods discussed their plan and revealed that Chen Zheng was the reincarnation of several legendary figures, including the Huntian Great Demon Lord and the Supreme Sword Master.
• Chen Zheng told Lan Ling to watch, then struck the Transcendence Array with his palm as the Ancient Heavenly Gods desperately tried to hold it together.
• Chen Zheng’s palm shattered the array and wiped out the six supreme Ancient Heavenly Gods, Zu Qiankun, and the other defenders in Scale Abyss.
• Lan Ling complained that Chen Zheng had killed them before she could react or learn from his palm strike.

After Chen Zheng and his companions entered the isolated world Zu Kunlun formed from the Exquisite Heart, the Great Void watched the Supreme Ranking and learned that the top two had joined the battle. Zu Kunlun demanded that Chen Zheng bring out the reincarnation of the Exquisite Heart, setting the stage for their confrontation.

• The six Ancient Heavenly Gods of the Tianshen Tomb vanished from the Supreme Ranking, and Zu Kunlun challenged someone to meet him at the Linglong Sword Palace.
• Zu Kunlun used the Exquisite Heart to create an isolated world, causing his name to disappear from the Supreme Ranking as beings across the Great Void speculated about his challenge.
• Lan Ling and Yannü discussed Chen Zheng's hidden first-place rank and Zu Kunlun's plan to fight him at full strength.
• Chen Zheng, Lan Ling, and Yannü entered Zu Kunlun's world, and the names of Chen Zheng and Thirteen vanished from the Supreme Ranking.
• The Linglong Sword Palace disciples questioned how the three had entered, then a voice demanded that they bring out the Exquisite Heart's reincarnation and declared that the deaths of Qiankun and the seizure of the Linglong Sword Palace would be settled.

Chen Zheng and Yannü confronted Zu Kunlun in the world he had created, where he used a treasure to summon real versions of himself from other dimensions. Chen Zheng revealed the true Immortal Venerable Linglong and destroyed Zu Kunlun’s manifestations and hidden body, leaving the struggle over the Exquisite Heart unresolved.

• The Linglong Sword Palace disciples recognized Chen Zheng and Yannü as the top two on the Supreme Ranking and feared they could not defeat them.
• Zu Kunlun appeared in countless real versions of himself, and the Trans-Spacetime Wheel explained that a treasure had drawn them from other dimensions.
• Chen Zheng summoned Immortal Venerable Linglong, who transformed from a little girl into a peerless woman, revealing that Zu Kunlun was not the true Linglong.
• Zu Kunlun claimed that Linglong had already lost the Exquisite Heart and that his borrowed treasure could not be overcome.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and destroyed the world and Zu Kunlun’s many manifestations, then exposed the hidden Zu Kunlun inside a crystal-clear drop and killed him.

Chen Zheng destroyed Zu Kunlun and rejected the Eternal Divine Mountain's attempt to reclaim the crystalline teardrop, then sent it into the Dao Diagram. After Chen Zheng, Yannü, and Lan Ling left the shattered Linglong Sword Palace grounds, onlookers wondered whether the apparently low-ranked trio included the first and second figures on the Supreme Ranking.

• The First Divine Emperor of the Eternal Divine Mountain spoke through Zu Kunlun's returning soul and challenged Chen Zheng to meet him in the Shattered Land, but Chen Zheng shattered the shadows and the imprint on the teardrop.
• Yannü explained that the First Divine Emperor had lent Zu Kunlun the teardrop to test Chen Zheng, while Lan Ling admitted she had learned little from watching Chen Zheng fight.
• Linglong absorbed the Linglong Sword Palace disciples and their Sword Palace, then returned to the space between Chen Zheng's brows.
• Yannü and the Trans-Spacetime Wheel discussed the teardrop's mysterious origins, and the artifact spirit hinted that it could trace origins before falling silent.
• Chen Zheng sent the teardrop into the Dao Diagram, causing Zu Kunlun's world to collapse, and he left with Yannü and Lan Ling.
• The onlookers at the Linglong Sword Palace ruins saw the trio's apparent Three-Ring Overlord cultivation and questioned whether either of them was first or second on the Supreme Ranking.

After Zu Kunlun’s fall, the Myriad Longevity Sacred Tree manifested at Myriad Longevity Sacred Mountain, drawing crowds seeking its life-extending power. Chen Zheng and Great Empyrean arrived as the berserk Myriad Longevity Divine Ape fought strange ships, but a gigantic dark hand seized it, leaving the Divine Mother’s fate uncertain.

• A proclamation announced Zu Kunlun’s fall, and onlookers linked the recent destruction of several Dao lineages to the figure at the top of the Supreme Ranking.
• The Myriad Longevity Sacred Tree appeared above the central nexus, and beings rushed toward Myriad Longevity Sacred Mountain to seek its power.
• Great Empyrean told Chen Zheng and Lan Ling that the tree’s manifestation likely meant someone had forced their way into the mountain, so they hurried there.
• The world around Myriad Longevity Sacred Mountain opened to reveal the sacred tree, while the Myriad Longevity Divine Ape destroyed the strange spindle-shaped ships.
• Great Empyrean suspected something had happened to the Myriad Longevity Divine Mother, and a gigantic dark hand seized the divine ape between two fingers.

Ten Directions Tongtian revealed that the God-Descending Lineage served a transcendent called Great Dark Heaven and urged the gathered beings to seize Myriad Longevity Sacred Mountain. Chen Zheng destroyed Great Dark Heaven’s hand with a breath, then struck Ten Directions Tongtian down.

• The beings inside the Myriad Longevity Sacred Tree identified the gigantic dark hand as Great Dark Heaven, ranked third on the Supreme Ranking, and Yannü recognized its power as Transcendence Descent.
• Ten Directions Tongtian announced himself as deputy sect master of the God-Descending Lineage and urged the gathered beings to conquer Myriad Longevity Sacred Mountain.
• Ten Directions Tongtian revealed that Great Dark Heaven could keep its hand in the Great Void and claimed the God-Descending Lineage would offer the Myriad Longevity Divine Mother as a slave when its master's true body arrived.
• The beings charged Myriad Longevity Sacred Mountain, but its divine light blasted them back before they rushed inside again.
• Chen Zheng appeared beside Great Dark Heaven’s hand and shattered it with a breath.
• Chen Zheng struck Ten Directions Tongtian, destroying his physical body and cracking his primordial spirit.

Ten Directions Tongtian attacked Chen Zheng over the Myriad Longevity Sacred Tree, but Chen Zheng killed him and revealed his overwhelming power. The Myriad Longevity Divine Ape recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen and led him to see the Myriad Longevity Divine Mother.

• Ten Directions Tongtian summoned Ten Directions Indestructible, who recognized Chen Zheng, warned his brother not to provoke him, and destroyed his own Dao avatar to escape.
• Ten Directions Tongtian invoked his master Great Dark Heaven and demanded that Chen Zheng show respect, but Chen Zheng annihilated him with a flick of his finger.
• The divine ape roared and reduced the beings who had invaded Myriad Longevity Sacred Mountain to bones and ash.
• Chen Zheng collected the Epoch Ring fragments, and the Myriad Longevity Divine Ape bowed to him before leading him to see her.
• Yannü told Lan Ling that Chen Zheng's breath had destroyed the dark giant hand, and they speculated about the danger of his breath during an intimate moment.

The survivors were trapped inside the sealed world of the Myriad Longevity Sacred Tree while the God-Descending Lineage discussed Ancestor Chen and decided to leave the Great Void. At Myriad Longevity Sacred Mountain, Great Empyrean explained that the tree could hasten the epoch calamity, and Chen Zheng turned the Divine Mother into an azure lamp.

• The survivors discovered that the divine tree's world had been sealed, preventing anyone inside from leaving or outsiders from entering.
• Ten Directions Indestructible warned the God-Descending Lineage not to provoke Ancestor Chen, and the sect master agreed to move the sect out of the Great Void.
• At Myriad Longevity Sacred Mountain, Great Empyrean said the Myriad Longevity Sacred Tree's gift of vitality could disrupt an epoch's balance and bring its calamity early.
• Chen Zheng sent grayish-azure divine light into the Myriad Longevity Divine Mother's brow, and she transformed into an azure lamp.

Chen Zheng discovered that the Myriad Longevity Divine Mother had become an azure lamp, resembling both Holy Maiden Yingge’s past form and the Great Samsara Sacred Lamp. The group learned that opening the Land of the Beginning required thirteen Tribulation Lord Ancient Tokens and an azure Samsara lamp, and they resolved to investigate the three lamps there.

• Chen Zheng’s Great Dao of Life transformed the Myriad Longevity Divine Mother into an azure lamp, while the Trans-Spacetime Wheel’s Artifact Spirit recognized its resemblance to the Great Samsara Sacred Lamp.
• Chen Zheng summoned Holy Maiden Yingge, who revealed that she had been an azure lamp in her previous life and showed an ancient lamp phantom.
• Chen Zheng released the Great Samsara Sacred Lamp, and its Spirit admitted it did not know why the three lamps resembled one another.
• Chen Zheng said they would need to reach the Land of the Beginning to understand the lamps, requiring thirteen Tribulation Lord Ancient Tokens and at least one azure Samsara lamp.
• Great Empyrean described legends about the Land of the Beginning and its Mountain Guardian, while Lan Ling wondered aloud whether Taiyi might be a villain.

In the Netherworld, Corpse Immortal Ji and Xiangliu worried that the ascension of the heavens and the revival of ancient powers might lead to the Primordial Wilderness being reshaped, while wondering where Chen Zheng would go next. In the Great Void, Chen Zheng saw Wanjie disappear from the rankings as a new Supreme Realm name, Tribulation Ruins, appeared in the top ten.

• Corpse Immortal Ji and Xiangliu discussed the ascension of the heavens and feared the Primordial Chaos Great Dao might recreate the Primordial Wilderness and trigger another Wu-Demon War.
• Corpse Immortal Ji and Xiangliu wondered whether Chen Zheng would return to his homeland or go to Supreme Heaven, where his conflict with Primordial Chaos could involve its daughter.
• Chen Zheng sent the Myriad Longevity Sacred Mountain, the Myriad Longevity Sacred Tree, the Myriad Longevity Divine Mother, and the mountain’s disciples into the world within the Dao Diagram.
• Lan Ling teased Chen Zheng about destroying another orthodoxy and suggested he visit Wanjie, while Yannü said Chen Zheng had planted Wanjie thousands of years earlier.
• Wanjie’s name vanished from the Supreme and Overlord Rankings as Tribulation Ruins appeared ninth on the Supreme Ranking, alarming Yannü and Lan Ling.