Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng led Yannü and Lan Ling through the giant ghost ship while the Great Dao Lord of Light struggled against its Reincarnation Ancient Spirits and followed them to the ship’s core. There, the girls recognized a mysterious rune that had appeared before, and the Great Dao Lord of Light was devoured when he tried to seize it.

• Lan Ling wondered whether Demon Empress Hongdou and the Master of the Primordial Ruins had deliberately avoided Chen Zheng after greeting him.
• Chen Zheng ignored the Great Dao Lord of Light and led Yannü and Lan Ling into the netherworld barrier, where the Reincarnation Ancient Spirits fled from them.
• The Great Dao Lord of Light was beset by the spirits, then followed the trio through a hall filled with the corpses of beings whose auras were at the Great Chaos level.
• The Great Dao Lord of Light reached the ship’s core and saw secret arts engraved on divine steles, while Chen Zheng and the girls studied a rune they recognized from the Chaos Bone Tower.
• The Great Dao Lord of Light tried to seize the rune, but it revealed itself to be alive and devoured his physical body.

Chen Zheng and the others learned that the mysterious rune was a tribulation meant to suppress the fallen Extreme Realm Creator who molded the Primordial Chaos Universe. After the rune sealed the space and the Great Dao Lord of Light prepared to flee, Chen Zheng reached for it to test his limits.

• The Great Dao Lord of Light's Lei Ting Dominator cracked while saving his primordial spirit from the mysterious rune, and he asked Chen Zheng to cooperate in taking it.
• Lan Ling rebuked the Great Dao Lord of Light for trying to seize the rune before Chen Zheng, while Yannü and the Artifact Spirit of the Trans-Spacetime Wheel warned of its power.
• The Infinite Hourglass explained that the rune was an extreme realm creator's tribulation prepared to suppress the fallen creator who molded the Primordial Chaos Universe.
• The rune sealed the space as the Great Dao Lord of Light tried to escape, but the Infinite Hourglass said it would release those who were not Extreme Realm Creators.
• Chen Zheng raised his hand toward the rune to test his limits, ignoring the Great Dao Lord of Light's horrified warning.

Chen Zheng endured the mysterious rune’s power, which tore his body apart and erased his magical power, but left him with Creator-level flesh. The Great Dao Lord of Light tried to kill him and escape with the Lei Ting Dominator, but Chen Zheng’s strength and the Infinite Hourglass kept him from getting away.

• The mysterious rune’s power tore Chen Zheng’s flesh apart, terrifying Yannü, Lan Ling, the Artifact Spirit of the Trans-Spacetime Wheel, and the Great Dao Lord of Light.
• The rune’s power abruptly vanished, and Chen Zheng’s body recovered as he declared that he had withstood the tribulation.
• The Great Dao Lord of Light mistook Chen Zheng for a powerless mortal and tried to destroy his primordial spirit, but Chen Zheng blasted him into a shattered remnant soul without turning around.
• Chen Zheng explained that the rune had removed his magical power but left his flesh at the Creator level, beyond the Great Dao Lord of Light’s ability to sense.
• The Lei Ting Dominator tried to carry the Great Dao Lord of Light’s remnant soul away, but the Infinite Hourglass’s seven-colored light pinned it in place.

Chen Zheng erased the Great Dao Lord of Light’s remnant soul, claimed the Lei Ting Dominator, and left to see someone while Yannü and Lan Ling stayed behind to study the divine steles. Elsewhere, Li and Demon Empress Hongdou departed for other universes, and thunder over Earth signaled Chen Zheng’s return as the goddess rushed toward him.

• The Taisu Stone Egg devoured the Great Dao Lord of Light’s remnant soul and the Lei Ting Dominator, then Chen Zheng sent the Dominator to Tianjiao, where it acknowledged a new master.
• Chen Zheng let Yannü and Lan Ling learn the Transcendence Secret Arts, sent the damaged Great Samsara Ship into the Dao Diagram, and vanished into the darkness to see someone.
• Demon Empress Hongdou and the Master of the Primordial Ruins agreed to travel to other universes and left together.
• The Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor questioned the little metal figure about the two Zeros, but it admitted it could not answer.
• Thunder broke out above Europa, and the returning goddess transformed into a little girl and rushed off with her Eastern goddess attendant.

Chen Zheng returned to Earth, moved the Pangu Holy Clan into the world within the Dao Diagram, and met with his allies in Nan City. After arriving in Kunlun, he and the others discovered cultivators secretly digging beneath the mountain despite the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation.

• Chen Zheng told the Pangu Holy Clan that Emperor Pan was alive, then sent the clan into the world within the Dao Diagram.
• Chen Zheng met Xiao Peng and Lin Zhengming in Nan City and asked about major events in Earth's supernatural world.
• Lin Zhengming reported that invaders from the Otherworldly Domain had appeared in the West and that people from Supreme Heaven had descended near the North Pole.
• The Western world's goddess arrived with Yang Xuefei, and Chen Zheng raised the goddess's cultivation by ruffling her hair.
• Chen Zheng transported the group to Kunlun, where Lin Zhengming spotted cultivators secretly digging underground without alerting the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation.

Chen Zheng confronted Old Ancestor Lanfu and his cultivators beneath Kunlun Immortal Mountain, then sent Lanfu back to Supreme Heaven with a warning for Mysterious Maiden. He took Lin Zhengming, Xiao Peng, Yang Xuefei, and the goddess to the earth's core, where they faced deadly magma.

• Lin Zhengming and the others found Old Ancestor Lanfu and his cultivators digging beneath Kunlun Immortal Mountain, and Lanfu threatened them with his immortal sword.
• Chen Zheng destroyed Lanfu's sword and physical body, then told his surviving primordial spirit to warn Mysterious Maiden that she had fewer than ten days left to live.
• Chen Zheng sent Lanfu back to Supreme Heaven through a spacetime passage and explained that the earth's core might hold the best or most terrifying person in existence.
• The goddess asked who was in the earth's core, and Chen Zheng took the group down to investigate.
• Lin Zhengming, Xiao Peng, and Yang Xuefei saw a wave of magma capable of melting everything surge toward them.

Chen Zheng met Zero, who explained that his repeated transmigrations and reincarnations were connected to her and that she was Reincarnation. She left him close to stepping beyond reincarnation, while the artifact spirits reeled at her revelation.

• Chen Zheng led Lin Zhengming and the others through the Earth's core, where magma annihilated invading beings from the Otherworldly Domain.
• When a crimson barrier cracked the group's azure protection, Chen Zheng repaired it, taught them Visualizing Heaven and Earth, and sent them outside.
• Zero appeared, and one of Chen Zheng's transparent Cosmic Cantilever crystals flew into her forehead; the artifact spirits recognized that she had once possessed a complete one.
• Chen Zheng asked whether he had repeatedly transmigrated to prehistoric Original Earth, and Zero explained that without his cultivation of Nothingness, everything would have reset before the First Epoch.
• Zero said his battle with Primordial Chaos had still led to reincarnation, but his transcended body had made this cycle different, and she revealed, “I am Reincarnation.”

Zero explained that Earth and Chen Zheng might come from beyond the Ninefold Great Reincarnation, and revealed that the War of Great Pulverization had been a conflict between three women seeking to escape reincarnation. She warned that the Blood Curse would soon break and risk a second Great Pulverization, then Chen Zheng struck the Otherworldly Domain and prepared to go there with Athena.

• Zero said Earth might not belong to the universe and offered possibilities for Chen Zheng's origins, while Chen Zheng reflected on how he had received Nothingness.
• Zero and Chen Zheng realized that their cultivation of Nothingness made them unable to touch without threatening the Primordial Chaos Universe, and Zero explained that another Zero was a Reincarnation who turned backward.
• Zero revealed that the War of Great Pulverization had been a war between three women and warned that the Blood Curse would soon break, potentially causing a second Great Pulverization.
• Zero vanished after mentioning a rune made by sacrificing half of the Cosmic Cantilever, and Chen Zheng left Earth's core as the Trans-Spacetime Wheel's Artifact Spirit recognized the rune he had once tested.
• Chen Zheng hurled a divine spear through the Otherworldly Domain's teleportation array, annihilating its guards and shocking the Western supernatural world and the Lord of the Morning.
• Chen Zheng decided that the primordial core fire was insufficient and told Athena to go with him to the Otherworldly Domain.

Chen Zheng took Athena into the Otherworldly Domain and began devouring its collapsing Evil God Universe with darkness. He destroyed the giant gods and severed the domain’s connection to Earth’s spacetime, while its inhabitants called for Unicron to stop him.

• Chen Zheng transported himself and Athena to the Otherworldly Domain, leaving Xiao Peng, Yang Xuefei, and Lin Zhengming behind in Nan City.
• Western supernatural beings livestreamed the Otherworldly Domain as Chen Zheng appeared there, and its entrance vanished when he severed its connection to their spacetime.
• Chen Zheng identified the domain as the collapsing Evil God Universe and continued shrinking it as Athena walked beside him.
• The Otherworldly Domain’s creatures attacked Chen Zheng, but darkness devoured them before they could reach him.
• The last giant gods of the Zhan Ge Universe appeared and were swallowed by darkness, prompting the creatures to summon Unicron.

Chen Zheng and Athena entered the collapsing Zhan Ge Universe, where Unicron emerged after absorbing the power of its progenitors and challenged Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng effortlessly destroyed Unicron and devoured the universe, then heard a timid voice from the surrounding spacetime.

• As the Zhan Ge Universe collapsed, its inhabitants called for Unicron, and the universe abruptly stabilized as a Giant of Light emerged from its radiance.
• Unicron called Chen Zheng an Extinction Body and attacked, but Chen Zheng grew so enormous that Unicron barely reached his knees.
• At the urging of the Otherworldly Domain’s inhabitants, Unicron charged Chen Zheng’s vulnerable spot, but his ultimate strike shattered his own primordial spirit without harming Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng compared Unicron’s attack to tofu hitting a stone wall, then devoured the Zhan Ge Universe and everything within it.
• After Chen Zheng stood in the surrounding nothingness, a timid voice asked whether he would kill its speaker for witnessing what happened.

Chen Zheng devoured the Zhan Ge Universe and encountered Qin Fu in the Ruin of Myriad Universes, where his sword shattered an Annihilation Tribulation Light and scarred the heavens. Back on Earth, he told his companions that he would upgrade the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation and that most worlds would merge and reenact the Primordial Wilderness.

• Qin Fu explained that the Zhan Ge Universe had returned to the Ruin of Myriad Universes and described the realm as a passage linking First Great Samsara Universes.
• An Annihilation Tribulation Light descended on Chen Zheng, and his netherworld sword shattered it, leaving a vast gash in the Ruin of Myriad Universes.
• More than a dozen powerful figures arrived to investigate, but Qin Fu vanished before they could question her.
• Chen Zheng returned to the apartment in Nan City with Athena, and Athena told Xiao Peng, Lin Zhengming, and Yang Xuefei that Chen Zheng had devoured the Zhan Ge Universe.
• Chen Zheng said he would upgrade the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation and predicted that most worlds would merge into one realm and reenact the Primordial Wilderness.

Chen Zheng watched the worlds assemble around Supreme Heaven, then went there as the Netherworld became connected to it. At the Netherworld, he broke Jade Void Palace’s attempt to claim the realm, though its envoy had never heard of him.

• Chen Zheng showed Xiao Peng, Lin Zhengming, Jiang Boyue, Athena, and the others a map of the merging worlds and explained that Earth remained separate from Supreme Heaven.
• Dragon Soul feared the coming Calamity and wanted to return to Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain, while Chen Zheng said Earth would be largely unaffected and departed for Supreme Heaven.
• Corpse Immortal Ji saw that the Netherworld had joined Supreme Heaven and worried that its orthodoxies could now attack directly.
• Yin Que of Jade Void Palace ordered Corpse Immortal Ji to accept a Supreme Golden Talisman and make the Netherworld Domain a dependency of Jade Void Palace.
• Xiangliu welcomed Chen Zheng, and Chen Zheng shattered the golden talisman; Yin Que remained bewildered and said he had never heard of him.

Chen Zheng led Corpse Immortal Ji, Nüba, Liuli, Xiangliu, and the Netherworld army into Supreme Heaven, where their advance toward the Thirty-Three Heavenly Rivers went unchallenged. As Supreme Heaven’s inhabitants recognized Chen Zheng and questioned his power, a white-robed woman in the Heavenly Dao Palace confronted the Divine Consort about her distraction.

• A young disciple of Perfected Huanglong boasted that Jade Void Palace and Yuanshi Tianzun protected him, but Xiangliu mocked him and Corpse Immortal Ji erased him.
• Corpse Immortal Ji asked whether Chen Zheng had returned to attack Supreme Heaven, and Chen Zheng ordered her to gather her subordinates for the journey there.
• Corpse Immortal Ji assembled the Netherworld army, and she, Xiangliu, Ghost King, Nüba, Liuli, and Chen Zheng set out toward Supreme Heaven.
• The Netherworld army crossed into Supreme Heaven and advanced toward the Thirty-Three Heavenly Rivers without resistance, shocking observers who doubted Chen Zheng could face the realm’s powers.
• A white-robed woman in the supreme Heavenly Dao Palace told the Divine Consort that her dance could not move her or Chen Zheng and asked whether the Divine Manor’s master’s revival had distracted her.

The Netherworld army advanced unopposed through the Thirty-Three Heavenly Rivers and surrounded Human Emperor City, while Supreme Heaven’s powers waited to see whether the returned Ancestor Chen was truly powerless. When Human Emperor City’s imperial golden dragon appeared, Corpse Immortal Ji destroyed it in one strike, revealing her Supreme Realm strength and raising questions about whether she dared defy the Heavenly Dao Palace.

• The Palace Master mocked the Divine Consort over her past attempt to seduce Ancestor Chen, then swept her from the Heavenly Dao Palace.
• The Netherworld army entered the thirtieth Heavenly River without resistance, while a few beings recognized the man in the Netherworld Domain Lord’s carriage and waited to test his apparent mortal state.
• The Netherworld army surrounded Human Emperor City, prompting observers to question why Corpse Immortal Ji had chosen to attack it.
• An imperial golden dragon emerged from Human Emperor City, but Corpse Immortal Ji erased it with a netherworld ghost claw.
• Beings across Supreme Heaven wondered whether Corpse Immortal Ji would face the Heavenly Dao Palace after revealing that she had reached the Supreme Realm.

Chen Zheng entered Human Emperor City with Nüba and effortlessly destroyed its defenders before confronting the Human Emperor, whose identity proved to be fused with a demon. The demon revealed that Ancient Ancestor Wutian had merged him with Xuanyuan and challenged Chen Zheng to face the World-Destroying Black Lotus.

• Chen Zheng and Nüba entered Human Emperor City, where the immortal guards and Five Elements Immortal Soldiers crumbled before they could approach him.
• Imperial Preceptor Wentian appeared to defend the city, but Chen Zheng destroyed him and his immortal banner in a single encounter.
• Chen Zheng entered the ancient Human Emperor Hall and suggested that its Human Emperor was not truly Ji Xuanyuan.
• Nüba confronted the imperial-robed man who looked like her father, but Chen Zheng slapped him and exposed his demonic face.
• The demon claimed that Ancient Ancestor Wutian had fused him with Xuanyuan and challenged Chen Zheng to suppress the World-Destroying Black Lotus.

Chen Zheng freed Xuanyuan from the sinister man’s possession and destroyed the summoned will of Black Lotus Wutian, then left Human Emperor City to kill someone. As Corpse Immortal Ji withdrew her army, a crash from the Mysterious Maiden Palace drew Supreme Heaven’s attention.

• Chen Zheng separated the sinister man from Xuanyuan, and the sinister man’s body and primordial spirit were destroyed while Xuanyuan remained unharmed.
• The sinister man summoned Black Lotus Wutian’s will, but Chen Zheng disintegrated it with a glance and destroyed the sinister man’s primordial spirit.
• Xuanyuan thanked Chen Zheng, who told him to speak with Nüba while he arranged for Corpse Immortal Ji to withdraw and went to kill someone.
• Corpse Immortal Ji led the Netherworld Army away from Human Emperor City, puzzling onlookers across Supreme Heaven.
• A heaven-shaking crash came from the Mysterious Maiden Palace, and the living beings of Supreme Heaven turned their attention toward it.

Chen Zheng confronted the Mysterious Maiden Palace, exposed the Mysterious Maiden’s apparent deception, and shattered the palace’s Nine Heavens Grand Array. He transported the palace cultivators to the secret realm, declaring he would reveal the Mysterious Maiden’s true body and peel away her identity bit by bit.

• Chen Zheng appeared in the Mysterious Maiden Palace and destroyed its statue of the Mysterious Maiden.
• Old Ancestor Lan recognized Chen Zheng from their encounter on Earth and prepared to attack him with the Azure Wave War Banner.
• Chen Zheng returned from behind the main hall with the injured Mysterious Maiden, who slipped away as the palace cultivators formed the Nine Heavens Grand Array.
• Chen Zheng claimed he had injured the Mysterious Maiden more than two years earlier, then shattered the palace’s array and created a stronger version himself.
• Chen Zheng transported the palace cultivators to the secret realm and said he would expose the Mysterious Maiden’s true body.

Chen Zheng revealed that the Mysterious Maiden Palace’s secret realm concealed a bloodthirsty demon tree bearing the Mysterious Maiden, whose real name was Xuanqing. Xuanqing disclosed that she had devoured her younger sister, the original Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens, leaving the surviving palace cultivators to confront the truth about their revered leader.

• The Mysterious Maiden Palace cultivators sensed the secret realm’s savage slaughter energy, while Ancestor Lan and Old Ancestor Lanfu insisted Chen Zheng had deceived them.
• Blood-colored vines erupted from underground, draining and dragging away Old Ancestor Lanfu and the cultivators below the Dao Ancestor level.
• Chen Zheng pulled an enormous demon tree from beneath the earth, revealing the Mysterious Maiden seated atop its blood pool.
• The Mysterious Maiden attacked with a storm of thorns, and one thorn drained Ancestor Lan’s blood essence and destroyed his primordial spirit.
• The Mysterious Maiden revealed herself as Xuanqing, declared that she had reached the Supreme Realm and obtained the Xuechen Sacred Tree, and admitted she had devoured her younger sister.
• Xuanqing explained that her younger sister had been the original Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens, who had saved a Great Thousand World, become a remnant soul, and willingly yielded her title and soul to Xuanqing.

Xuanqing completely merged with the Xuechen Sacred Tree, but Chen Zheng destroyed it with a single move, and her primordial spirit faded away. After returning the Mysterious Maiden Palace to its realm, Chen Zheng vanished, while a mysterious person arrived in Taiyin Imperial City and offered the Azure Cloud Domain Lord a trade for the Unrivaled Sword.

• Xuanqing merged completely with the Xuechen Sacred Tree and sent its blood-colored thorns toward Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng shattered the thorns, lifted the tree, and destroyed it, leaving Xuanqing's primordial spirit in the falling blood rain.
• Xuanqing's primordial spirit smiled at Chen Zheng and dissolved, while he used the Taisu Stone Egg to devour the tree's true blood, Epoch Ring fragments, and other treasures.
• Chen Zheng returned the Mysterious Maiden Palace cultivators to their palace and disappeared, leaving them to wonder who he was.
• A mysterious person arrived in Taiyin Imperial City and offered the Azure Cloud Domain Lord a mysterious prison layout and a supreme treasure-grade Taili Sword in exchange for the Unrivaled Sword.

After warning Ye Qingcheng that Supreme Heaven’s factions might target the Azure Cloud Domain, Chongtian Weiming left, and Ye Qingcheng went to meet Ancestor Chen in the Earth Immortal Domain. There, a crowd gathered at the Heavenly Craft Workshop over a Creation Divine Stone, just as an unexpectedly familiar-looking man and woman arrived.

• Chongtian Weiming offered Ye Qingcheng the Taili Sword for the Unrivaled Sword, but she refused and kept her sword.
• Chongtian Weiming warned Ye Qingcheng about powerful lineages seeking the Azure Cloud Domain and told her how to summon him if she needed help.
• Ye Qingcheng told Gui Bu that Ancestor Chen had called her to the Earth Immortal Domain, then departed as a streak of sword light.
• Old Ghost Fox told Gui Bu about Ancestor Chen’s recent appearance at Human Emperor City, and they discussed the troubles brewing in Supreme Heaven’s Demon Domain.
• Powerful factions gathered outside the Heavenly Craft Workshop after the latest "Holy Emperor Arc" depicted a Creation Divine Stone appearing there and a burst of divine light confirmed an aura of creation.
• A man and a woman flew over the waiting crowd and landed at the workshop’s formation gate, where the onlookers recognized the man as familiar.