Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng destroyed the Master of Chaos, Great Zhuo Tian, by using the Chaos Divine Throne and Chaos Ancient City, then summoned Lan Ling to comprehend the throne. Great Dark Heaven assured the God-Descending Lineage that he would descend within a year, while they feared Chen Zheng might grow strong enough to defeat him first.

• Chen Zheng reduced the Master of Chaos to bones, and Chaos Vicious Beasts tore apart his primordial spirit before the sect master could finish explaining that he was not fully dead.
• Great Dark Heaven promised that his true body would descend within a year after the bloodstone was destroyed, and claimed Chen Zheng could not transcend before then.
• The Taisu Stone Egg devoured the shattered remnants of the Master of Chaos's epoch ring and transcendent Great Dao.
• Chen Zheng called Lan Ling to the altar, where the Chaos Vicious Beasts bowed to her as she approached.
• Chen Zheng told Lan Ling to sit on the Chaos Divine Throne and comprehend it, and the Chaos Vicious Beasts roared in obeisance when she sat down.

Lan Ling recovered the Chaos Heavenly Maiden’s memories and inherited Chaos Ancient City before Chen Zheng’s group entered the Chaos Eternal Domain. They learned that the Chaos Lu Clan dominated the domain and that ancient inscriptions there might contain techniques left by the Abnormal Human Race’s First King.

• Lan Ling sat on the Chaos Divine Throne, saw a memory of the Chaos Heavenly Maiden being killed by a woman she suspected was Zero, and began recovering her former incarnation’s power.
• Three days later, Lan Ling had inherited the Chaos Heavenly Maiden’s memories and Chaos Ancient City, which she carried as a small magical treasure.
• Chen Zheng guided the Star Raft into the Chaos Eternal Domain, where cultivators offered the travelers guides and invitations to their cities.
• Chen Zheng bought an original Eternal Domain guide from a female cultivator, then learned that Flowing Flower City and Primordial Divine City each possessed an ancient inscription describing an invincible technique.
• The guide identified the Chaos Lu Clan as the domain’s foremost orthodoxy and named Lu Muyue as its leader, while the Flowing Flower City cultivator explained that the Life-Claiming Daoist had ranked the Eternal Domain’s Ten Calamity Seats.

Chen Zheng and the Star Raft reached First Heaven Giant City, where the First King was fighting inside and the group entered the Primordial Heaven Forbidden Land. Heavenly Puppets surrounded their boat, and the Life-Claiming Daoist offered to immobilize them if Chen Zheng lent him the Star Raft.

• The female cultivators left after receiving summonses, and a clash from deep within the Eternal Domain alerted the Abnormal Human Sovereign and the three kings that the First King was fighting.
• Chen Zheng guided the Star Raft to First Heaven Giant City, where the group sensed the city's strange closeness and saw orthodoxies gathering from across the Eternal Domain.
• The Star Raft entered the Primordial Heaven Forbidden Land as cultivators from various orthodoxies faced a trial against nearly unbreakable Heavenly Puppets.
• Nine Heavenly Puppets appeared around the Star Raft, drawing the attention of every other puppet in the forbidden land.
• The Life-Claiming Daoist approached Chen Zheng and offered to immobilize the Heavenly Puppets in exchange for borrowing the Star Raft.

Chen Zheng and the Abnormal Human Race fought off the Heavenly Puppets at the first trial, while the Life-Claiming Daoist tried to bargain for the Star Raft. After Chen Zheng called him Tianxiu, the Daoist fled, and a puppet-like voice accused Chen Zheng of destroying its master.

• The Life-Claiming Daoist immobilized the Heavenly Puppets and urged Chen Zheng to lend him the Star Raft, but the puppets broke free and attacked.
• King Lie, King Bei, and King Hong destroyed the attacking puppets, revealing themselves as Abnormal Human Kings of the Great Void.
• The Life-Claiming Daoist warned that the puppets would keep returning and pressed Chen Zheng to make a deal, while most of the other cultivators entered the Past Heavenly Dao Palace.
• The Abnormal Human Sovereign blasted another wave of puppets apart, but they reappeared, and the Life-Claiming Daoist again urged Chen Zheng to cooperate.
• Chen Zheng addressed the Life-Claiming Daoist as Tianxiu, causing the Daoist to consult his Original Guide and flee through the stone gate.
• A cold, puppet-like woman's voice declared that she hated Chen Zheng for destroying her master.

Chen Zheng and his companions crossed the trials of the Primordial Heaven Forbidden Land and reached the Past Heavenly Dao Palace, where its master welcomed him as Ancestor Chen. The Life-Claiming Daoist warned that Chen Zheng had provoked a terrifying being, but the palace’s welcome suggested Chen Zheng held an honored place there.

• Chen Zheng erased the revived heavenly puppets, and their female voice vowed to stop him from seeing her master again.
• The Life-Claiming Daoist fled through the third trial, breaking its formation and clearing a path for the cultivators from the various orthodoxies.
• Chen Zheng and his companions followed the cultivators through the trials, while Lan Ling guessed that the Life-Claiming Daoist’s Original Guide could reveal everything about anyone whose name he knew.
• At the seventh trial, Lan Ling recognized the Past Heavenly Dao Palace and recalled that the Chaos Heavenly Maiden had seemed afraid of the First Epoch’s Heavenly Dao Palace.
• The Life-Claiming Daoist appeared inside the palace, warned Chen Zheng to withdraw, and revealed that his Original Guide had identified a terrifying being connected to the name Chen Zheng had mentioned.
• A voice welcomed Ancestor Chen, and a figure appeared on the divine throne, restored the palace, and sent a beam of light to guide Chen Zheng and his companions inside.

Chen Zheng and his companions were transported to the ninth trial, where the Abnormal Human Race’s First King fought the Void Emperor on a chained arena. As the battle intensified, the chains began pulling something down from the endless nothingness above.

• Chen Zheng asked the Past Heavenly Dao Palace’s master, the Azure Lord, about the First King, and the Azure Lord sent everyone to the ninth trial.
• The group saw the First King and the Void Emperor standing on an enormous arena suspended over a pit filled with bones, while powerful factions watched from nearby stands.
• The Life-Claiming Daoist recognized many mighty orthodoxies and grew uneasy when he could not find someone he expected to be there.
• The Azure Lord told Chen Zheng that the bald old man was the First King and the shadow was the Void Emperor, who would want to meet Chen Zheng after their battle.
• The First King and the Void Emperor resumed their fight, and their blows shook the arena and chains, which began pulling something down from the endless nothingness above.

Chen Zheng overwhelmed Tianxiu, a Great Chaos metal puppet, but she suddenly carried him into the endless void to send him to another universe. The Transcendence Lineage believed he was gone and thought they could act without restraint.

• The void shuddered, and the Void Emperor fell while the First King dropped to one knee before both vanished from the arena.
• Tianxiu emerged from a golden divine pearl and confronted Chen Zheng, but he lifted her and tossed her aside without effort.
• The orthodoxies and the Transcendence Lineage were shocked by Chen Zheng's strength, while Pan Zao privately feared being imprisoned and killed despite his many lives.
• Lan Ling realized Tianxiu's hatred was connected to the white-jade hand that had killed the Chaos Heavenly Maiden.
• Tianxiu wrapped herself around Chen Zheng and flew with him into the endless void, intending to send him to another universe.
• The former master of the Heavenly Dao Palace explained Tianxiu's plan, and the Transcendence Lineage rejoiced at the prospect of Chen Zheng's absence.

Chen Zheng returned from the endless void after defeating the metal female puppet and killing First Heaven, the terrifying being locked within it. The First King and Void Emperor were freed from their restraints, while the Life-Claiming Daoist and the assembled lineages reeled at Chen Zheng’s power.

• The Life-Claiming Daoist discovered that the Original Guide’s account of Chen Zheng was incomplete and realized Chen Zheng was the Ancestor Chen connected to Lu Xinchan.
• The former master of the Heavenly Dao Palace explained that First Heaven was imprisoned within the endless void, and the assembled beings feared Chen Zheng had been sent to another universe.
• Chen Zheng emerged carrying the crippled metal female puppet as First Heaven attacked him, then hurled the puppet at the beast and destroyed it.
• The Taisu Stone Egg devoured First Heaven’s remains, while Jin and Huang secretly recognized the egg.
• Chen Zheng returned the First King and the Void Emperor to the ancient arena, and they realized First Heaven’s death had freed them from their restraints.

Chen Zheng effortlessly killed the Transcendence Lineage’s Calamity Seats Jin and Huang and its six Sons of Transcendence, despite Pan Zao warning that their Fate Lord could destroy the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode. The Life-Claiming Daoist gave Chen Zheng the Original Guide, which Chen Zheng passed to Lan Ling, but her first attempt to search it returned no results.

• The sword-wielding youth Pan Zao and Calamity Seat Huang told Chen Zheng that the Transcendence Lineage could not open the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode and offered to release it if he let them go.
• Chen Zheng instantly destroyed Jin and Huang, then erased the six Sons of Transcendence, including Pan Zao, who warned that the Fate Lord could open the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode and harm the World-Purifying Dust Woman.
• The Taisu Stone Egg devoured the fragments left by the slain members of the Transcendence Lineage.
• The Life-Claiming Daoist offered the Original Guide to Chen Zheng, who told him to give it to Lan Ling.
• Lan Ling accepted the Original Guide, placed her imprint and true blood on it, and searched for the woman she saw as her greatest threat, but found no results.

Chen Zheng arrived at the Transcendence Lineage’s City of Cantilever with Yannü and Lan Ling, while the others left the Primordial Heaven Forbidden Land. Lan Ling used the original guidebook to investigate the city and several transcendent objects, then the sword-wielding youth Chen Zheng had killed appeared alive again.

• Lan Ling found information about Chen Zheng in the original guidebook, but his entry abruptly stopped halfway through.
• Chen Zheng vanished with Yannü and Lan Ling, and the beings in the Primordial Heaven Forbidden Land departed after learning its restrictions had been lifted.
• The Void Emperor and the master of the Heavenly Dao Palace of the Past discussed Li and whether she would confront Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng arrived above the City of Cantilever, and the Trans-Spacetime Wheel’s artifact spirit identified it as a city fused with the Sixth Reincarnation Fate Lord.
• Lan Ling looked up the City of Cantilever, the Reincarnation Fate Lords, and several transcendent objects in the original guidebook.
• The sword-wielding youth who had claimed to have 9,999 lives flew out of the City of Cantilever alive.

Chen Zheng entered the Sixth Reincarnation Hall and agreed to play a Great Dao match against the Sixth Fate Lord, who wagered the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode and the Transcendence Lineage’s treasures. The Fate Lord revealed his Eighth Great Samsara primordial spirit cultivation, but Chen Zheng matched it with eight rivers of stars of his own.

• Chen Zheng entered the City of Cantilever with Lan Ling and Yannü, then followed Pan Zao to the Sixth Reincarnation Hall.
• The Sixth Fate Lord introduced himself and proposed a match, wagering the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode against Chen Zheng’s Tribulation Lord Ancient Tokens.
• Yuan identified himself as the head of the Four Great Tribulation Seats and said the other three seats had died at Chen Zheng’s hands.
• The Sixth Fate Lord revealed eight encircling rivers of stars, displaying his Eighth Great Samsara primordial spirit cultivation.
• After the Sixth Fate Lord’s followers urged Chen Zheng to submit, Chen Zheng produced eight rivers of stars behind himself.

Chen Zheng defeated the Sixth Fate Lord by comprehending the ninefold great reincarnation network in a single glance, winning back the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode and other treasures. He then revealed that he possessed the last intact Cosmic Cantilever and asked to take the City of Cantilever, making the Fate Lord’s composure falter.

• The Sixth Fate Lord proposed a contest to see who could comprehend the jade disc’s complete network of the ninefold great reincarnation first.
• The Sixth Fate Lord said he had spent countless years studying the network and needed about half a day to complete it.
• Chen Zheng comprehended the network in one glance, formed the ninth layer, and shattered the jade disc.
• The Sixth Fate Lord admitted defeat and returned the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode, Tribulation Lord Ancient Tokens, and Epoch Divine Steles to Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng told the Sixth Fate Lord that he possessed the last intact Cosmic Cantilever and asked to take the City of Cantilever, causing the Fate Lord’s expression to change.

Chen Zheng escaped the Sixth Fate Lord’s trap, seized the City of Cantilever, and defeated the remaining Transcendence Lineage. He gave Yannü and Lan Ling the stolen life-granting divine flame and brought them and the city into the world within the Dao Diagram, where a wooden puppet arrived searching for First Extreme.

• The Sixth Fate Lord sent Chen Zheng, Yannü, and Lan Ling into the Chaos Prison, but Chen Zheng escaped and destroyed the Fate Lord’s physical body, forcing his primordial spirit to flee.
• Yuan killed the Transcendence Lineage members in the City of Cantilever and destroyed his own primordial spirit, leaving Pan Zao as the lineage’s sole survivor.
• Pan Zao repeatedly killed himself in despair, so Chen Zheng stripped away his life-granting divine flame and annihilated him.
• Chen Zheng split the divine flame between Yannü and Lan Ling, tested the City of Cantilever with the Cosmic Cantilever, and moved the city and the two girls into the world within the Dao Diagram.
• A wooden puppet sensed the Cantilever’s power, searched the palm-sized world for First Extreme, and then vanished.

Chen Zheng restored Yan Yi’s body, introduced a mysterious divine lotus, and completed the ninefold great reincarnation network in the Chaos Bone Tower. As the tower’s dome vanished, a hand reached down from the nothingness above it.

• Chen Zheng molded a body from an azure lotus for Yan Yi, who merged with it.
• Chen Zheng brought a divine lotus to the lotus pond, where it absorbed Lan Ling’s chaos power and argued with her.
• Lan Ling wondered why Yanluo and Tianjiao could comprehend the fifth-level network while she could only view the first level.
• Chen Zheng completed the ninefold great reincarnation network on the Chaos Bone Tower’s ninth floor.
• The tower’s dome dissolved, and a hand reached down from the nothingness above it.

Chen Zheng left the Chaos Bone Tower after a mysterious hand drew a dangerous symbol, then traveled to the Chaos Lu Clan to seek the First Ancient Token. He arrived as the clan was embroiled in a battle involving Lu Muyue and powerful ancestral souls.

• A mysterious hand appeared above the Chaos Bone Tower, drew a dangerous symbol, and vanished, leaving the tenth floor empty.
• The Artifact Spirits and Thirteen warned Chen Zheng about the symbol, and Chen Zheng left the tower with Yannü and Lan Ling.
• Chen Zheng traveled toward the Chaos Lu Clan, where the Taisu Stone Egg had located the last Tribulation Lord Ancient Token.
• Yannü and Lan Ling saw powerful forces fighting within the Chaos Lu Clan's sun-sized ancestral land.
• An attacker threatened Lu Muyue and the girl she had brought back, but Lu Muyue sent out an Ultimate Creation immortal ship that shattered the attacker's giant Dharma manifestation.
• The Great Calamity Seat summoned the Chaos Lu Clan's ancestral souls, which Yannü and Lan Ling recognized as likely former transcenders.

Chen Zheng killed the Chaos Lu Clan's Great Calamity Seat with a single sword strike after the Seat challenged him, and the clan’s ancestral souls acknowledged him. As Lan Ling wondered about the woman Chen Zheng was helping, a wondrous aura rose from deep within the ancestral grounds.

• Lan Ling blocked the Great Calamity Seat’s attack with the Chaos Ancient City and absorbed its chaos power, while Chen Zheng sent later blasts into her body.
• The Great Calamity Seat challenged Chen Zheng to kill him, and Chen Zheng agreed before destroying his primordial spirit with a sword strike.
• The Great Calamity Seat’s body crumbled to ash, and the Taisu Stone Egg devoured the fragments left behind.
• The Chaos Lu Clan’s ancestral souls praised Chen Zheng and disappeared, while members of the Great Calamity Seat’s lineage fell to their knees.
• Lan Ling and Yannü speculated about the woman Chen Zheng was helping, then a wondrous aura surged from deep within the ancestral grounds and left Lan Ling stunned.

Chen Zheng examined Lu Xinchan’s awakened physique and found it powerful but still short of the Transcendence Physique. He and Lu Muyue traced Xinchan’s unusual bloodline to substances connected to Chen Zheng, while Lan Ling wondered whether Xinchan, Yanluo, and Tianjiao were all his daughters.

• Lan Ling sensed Lu Xinchan’s aura and realized it surpassed her Ultimate Chaos Body, though it seemed to lack something.
• The Chaos Lu Clan invited Chen Zheng into the ancestral hall, and its members learned he had recently slain legendary foes in the Primordial Heaven Forbidden Land.
• Chen Zheng told Lu Muyue that Xinchan’s physique crushed nearly all others but remained slightly inferior to the Transcendence Physique.
• Lan Ling revealed that Chen Zheng had the Transcendence Physique, surprising Lu Muyue and Lu Xinchan.
• Lu Muyue said the substances she encountered behind the Wall of Origin belonged to the current epoch, and Chen Zheng speculated they might have been connected to him during his long sleep on Original Earth.
• Lan Ling wondered whether Lu Xinchan, Yanluo, and Tianjiao were all Chen Zheng’s daughters, despite the Original Guide naming only Chen Lingsu.

Chen Zheng opened a deep, dark door to the legendary Land of the Beginning using the green lamp and all thirteen Tribulation Lord Ancient Tokens. The door allowed only him to enter, and he stepped through alone as Thirteen threatened to leave with the others if he did.

• Chen Zheng gave Lu Xinchan and Lu Muyue the complete nine-layer great samsara network, and Lu Muyue took him to the Chaos Lu Clan's ancestral grotto.
• Chen Zheng summoned Yingge, who transformed into a green lamp, then used the thirteen Tribulation Lord Ancient Tokens to open a door to the Land of the Beginning.
• As Chen Zheng tried to enter, most of the beings and treasures within his primordial spirit flew out, revealing Thirteen and several other Tribulation Lords to Lu Muyue and Lan Ling.
• The Artifact Spirit of the Trans-Spacetime Wheel said the door allowed only Chen Zheng to pass, and Thirteen threatened to leave with Xiao Liu and the others if he went inside.
• Chen Zheng invited Thirteen to enter first, then stepped through the door alone, leaving Yannü, Lan Ling, and the others worried about whether Thirteen would take the others away.

Chen Zheng reached the ancient mountain in the Land of the Beginning and absorbed the Mountain Guardian’s memories, while the Infinite Hourglass argued that he was a tool in a scheme involving a fallen Extreme Realm Creator. Back in the ancestral cavern, a mysterious white-jade hand attacked the Creation Lotus Seed, which vanished with its attacker, leaving everyone waiting for Chen Zheng’s return.

• A mysterious woman’s white-jade hand reached for the Creation Lotus Seed, but the seed erupted in white light and both disappeared.
• Lu Muyue realized the hand had escaped her perception and wondered whether a transcendent’s true body had entered Primordial Chaos.
• Chen Zheng followed a phantom up the immense mountain and sat on an ancient meditation cushion.
• Lights from the surrounding darkness poured into Chen Zheng’s mind, revealing the Mountain Guardian’s memories and a fleeting image of an unidentified woman.
• The Infinite Hourglass deduced that Chen Zheng was a tool created by the Ultimate Creator to stop a fallen Extreme Realm Creator from returning to power.
• Chen Zheng said he could break free of every restraint, and the Infinite Hourglass gave up arguing and went into hibernation.

Chen Zheng and his companions left the Chaos Eternal Domain and encountered powerful beings fighting over a damaged giant ghost ship beyond it. After they withdrew upon noticing Chen Zheng, the Great Dao Lord of Light tried to claim the ship, which remained unmoved.

• Chen Zheng returned to the Chaos Lu Clan’s ancestral cavern, where Lan Ling explained that Thirteen was fighting a white jade hand, and he advised Lu Muyue to leave Primordial Chaos if she could.
• Chen Zheng left with Lan Ling and Yannü aboard the Star Raft and crossed beyond the Chaos Eternal Domain into endless darkness.
• Lan Ling and Yannü spotted Hongdou fighting the Eternal Night Emperor near a giant ghost ship, while Ultimate Extreme Evil battled the Great Dao Lord of Light and the Master of the Primordial Ruins arrived with her followers.
• When the Master of the Primordial Ruins recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen, Ultimate Extreme Evil, the Eternal Night Emperor, the Master of the Primordial Ruins, and Hongdou all withdrew.
• The Great Dao Lord of Light reached for the giant ship, but it did not move, and he asked Chen Zheng whether he objected to taking it.