Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng and Ye Qingcheng entered the Heavenly Craft Workshop after its gate opened for them, alarming the outsiders and bewildering the workshop disciples. At the rear mountain, Chen Zheng threw the ancient guardian Hao Zun out of the forbidden ancient pit, and a voice declared that sparing his life was already mercy.

• Crown Prince Jikong questioned Chen Zheng’s presence, but the Heavenly Craft Workshop opened its gate and admitted Chen Zheng and Ye Qingcheng.
• Onlookers accused the workshop of favoring the Netherworld Domain, while Crown Prince Jikong left to summon an elder rather than spend his Heavenly Craft Immortal Token.
• Hall Master Liyue personally escorted Chen Zheng toward the rear mountain, confusing the disciples who watched them go.
• Hao Zun ordered Liyue to take Chen Zheng and Ye Qingcheng away from the ancient pit, defying the decree of Workshop Master Lei.
• Chen Zheng threw Hao Zun out of the rear mountain, and a voice warned Hao Zun that Ancestor Chen had already shown mercy by sparing his life.

The Heavenly Craft Workshop’s creation divine stone was refined into a divine sword, despite Hao Zun’s insistence that no one could overcome its God-Demon Seal without his power. The sword endured its tribulation by swallowing the lightning and returned to the workshop, leaving the watching powers of Supreme Heaven astonished.

• Hao Zun claimed the Heavenly Craft Workshop needed his origin power to refine the creation divine stone and taunted them for sparing his life.
• A vast aura of creation and brilliant divine light rose from the rear mountain as hammering sounds signaled that someone was forging an artifact.
• A divine sword emerged from the Heavenly Craft Workshop and hovered above Artifact Refining City, drawing the attention of cultivators across Supreme Heaven.
• Tribulation clouds gathered over the Earth Immortal Domain, and divine lightning struck toward the sword.
• The divine sword surged into the sky and swallowed the tribulation lightning and thunderclouds in a burst of sword light.
• The sword flew back into the Heavenly Craft Workshop as onlookers watched eagerly.

Chen Zheng forged the Creation Divine Sword in moments, and Ye Qingcheng wielded it to confront a Demon Domain supreme being outside the Heavenly Craft Workshop. After crippling Great Venerable Zimeng with one strike, she revealed that she was merely Ancestor Chen's sword attendant.

• Chen Zheng forged the Creation Divine Sword from the Creation Divine Stone in less than an incense stick's time, stunning the Heavenly Craft Workshop's disciples and masters.
• Chen Zheng sent Ye Qingcheng outside with the sword to test it against the supreme beings drawn to the Heavenly Craft Workshop.
• Ye Qingcheng broke through the workshop's grand formation and stood alone above it, prompting onlookers to wonder about her identity and backing.
• Great Venerable Zimeng swept in with a demonic wind to seize the sword, but Ye Qingcheng shattered it and crippled him with one strike.
• Great Venerable Zimeng asked whether Yuanshi Tianzun or Laojun had secretly trained Ye Qingcheng, and she replied that she was merely Ancestor Chen's sword attendant.

Ye Qingcheng, the Azure Cloud Domain Lord and Ancestor Chen’s sword attendant, defeated Great Venerable Zimeng and then slew a gigantic demonic Buddha with the Ninefold Sword Domain. After a dark light devoured the remnants of both Supremes, Crown Prince Jikong and others wondered whether Ancestor Chen would reveal himself when stronger enemies came for the Creation Divine Sword.

• Ye Qingcheng identified herself as Ancestor Chen’s sword attendant, and Crown Prince Jikong suspected that the young man who had ridden in Corpse Immortal Ji’s carriage was Ancestor Chen.
• A gigantic demonic Buddha seized and swallowed Great Venerable Zimeng, prompting cultivators to flee Artifact Refining City.
• The demonic Buddha reached for Ye Qingcheng, but she unleashed the Ninefold Sword Domain and disintegrated it, drenching the city in black blood.
• A streak of dark light emerged from the Heavenly Craft Workshop, devoured the remnants left by both Supremes, and returned inside as onlookers glimpsed what might have been a stone egg.
• Crown Prince Jikong and the old man wondered whether more Supremes would come to fight for the Creation Divine Sword and force Ancestor Chen to appear.

A mysterious ancient corpse wearing the Zhou Birth Mark overwhelmed Ye Qingcheng and threatened to seize the Creation Divine Sword. When it lunged at her, an immense force dragged it into the ancient pit, where it seemed to be slain, leaving everyone wondering whether Ancestor Chen had intervened.

• A mysterious ancient corpse descended above the Heavenly Craft Workshop, and onlookers recognized the Zhou Birth Mark on its armor from the Holy Emperor Arc.
• The ancient corpse ignored Ye Qingcheng’s Ninefold Sword Domain and struck her hard enough to crack her forehead, leaving her unable to stop it.
• As the corpse lunged to bite Ye Qingcheng, she activated her origin power and unleashed the Ninefold Sword Domain again, blasting it backward.
• The mark on the corpse’s armor changed from Zhou Birth to Zhou Transformation, and an invisible force dragged it into the ancient pit.
• A sharp shattering sound and a despairing roar came from the pit, leading onlookers to conclude that the corpse had been slain and suspect Ancestor Chen had acted.

Chen Zheng revealed that he could effortlessly destroy the Zhou Transformation ancient corpse, but seven more Zhou Transformation Supremes appeared above the Heavenly Craft Workshop. After Ye Qingcheng tested whether they could cross Supreme Heaven’s boundary, Chen Zheng dragged all seven into the workshop and apparently killed them in one strike.

• Chen Zheng destroyed the ancient corpse and obtained its Zhou Transformation Sacred Mark, which Liyue and Yuan Baobao connected to the mysterious creator of the Holy Emperor Arc.
• Seven Zhou Transformation Supremes from the human, dragon, corpse, demon, ghost, god, and devil races appeared above the Heavenly Craft Workshop.
• Ye Qingcheng flew beyond Supreme Heaven, drawing speculation that she was fleeing, but returned after the devil pursuing her stopped at the boundary.
• Chen Zheng grabbed the seven Supremes and pulled them through the formation into the rear mountain’s ancient pit.
• The beings inside and outside the workshop heard seven desperate roars and a shattering sound, indicating Chen Zheng had killed the seven Supremes.

Chen Zheng destroyed seven Anomaly Supremes at the Heavenly Craft Workshop and sent the Creation Divine Sword toward the Great Heng Immortal Dynasty to flush out the mysterious figure behind the Holy Emperor Arc. The sword enveloped Great Heng in the Ninefold Sword Domain, and figures resembling female characters from the comic appeared beneath the dynasty to resist it.

• Cultivators outside the Heavenly Craft Workshop concluded that Ancestor Chen had secretly tested and then annihilated the seven Anomaly Supremes, while debating whether he was the seemingly powerless young man they had seen.
• Lei Tiangu and the other past workshop masters witnessed Chen Zheng reduce the seven Supremes to ashes with a single sweep.
• Yuan Baobao warned Chen Zheng that the mysterious Holy Emperor Arc artist might command a vast force of Supremes, and Chen Zheng said he knew where the figure was hiding.
• Ye Qingcheng handed Chen Zheng the Creation Unrivaled Sword, and he sent it flying east toward the Great Heng Immortal Dynasty.
• The Ninefold Sword Domain spread over Great Heng, and divine-light figures resembling female characters from Holy Emperor Arc appeared beneath the dynasty to resist the sword.

Ancestor Chen’s Ninefold Sword Domain forced Shenhua, the mysterious creator of the “Holy Emperor Arc,” out from beneath Hengyu Tian Capital and destroyed his physical body. Shenhua escaped as a primordial spirit after threatening revenge, while the gathered cultivators wondered whether the young man in the Heavenly Craft Workshop was Ancestor Chen.

• Crown Prince Jikong and the others saw the “Holy Emperor Arc” figures vanish as Ancestor Chen’s Ninefold Sword Domain sent its sword rays toward Hengyu Tian Capital.
• The sword rays plunged beneath the capital, where blood-red light gathered into a distorted figure that the onlookers recognized as the creator of the “Holy Emperor Arc.”
• Shenhua accused his attacker of destroying his physical body, vowed revenge when the Zhou Extreme Holy Emperor appeared, and fled as a primordial spirit.
• The Creation Divine Sword returned to the Heavenly Craft Workshop, and cultivators outside Artifact Refining City speculated that the young man there was Ancestor Chen.

Chen Zheng joined the Heavenly Craft Workshop masters beneath the ancient pit, where Hao Zun revealed that the depths connected to the Epoch Burial Pit, a place containing Creation Divine Stones and imprisoning transcendent remnant souls. When Chen Zheng drew the symbol that sealed the pit, Hao Zun recognized it and feared that Chen Zheng did not belong to this epoch.

• The Heavenly Craft Workshop masters explained that excavation had stopped at the hundredth underground level, where a Creation Divine Stone had recently emerged.
• Hao Zun revealed that the ancient pit connected to the Epoch Burial Pit and claimed it held at least a hundred Creation Divine Stones.
• Hao Zun explained that a divine stele's symbol suppressed supreme beings and remnant souls from beyond the universe, and warned that it would suppress Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng drew the symbol in the air, and Hao Zun collapsed after recognizing it as the sign from the Epoch Burial Pit.
• Hao Zun cried out and asked who Chen Zheng was, insisting that he did not belong to this epoch.

Chen Zheng sent Hao Zun back to the Epoch Burial Pit, gave Yuan Baobao an art in payment for the Creation Divine Stone, and predicted the pit would emerge within three months. In Eastern Splendor Immortal City, people from the Cosmic Divine Temple demanded a supreme treasure immortal robe from the True Immortal Pavilion and threatened to seize it by force.

• Chen Zheng erased the mysterious symbol, sent Hao Zun back to the Epoch Burial Pit, and returned with the others to the Heavenly Craft Workshop’s rear mountain.
• Ye Qingcheng left for the Azure Cloud Domain while Chen Zheng gave Yuan Baobao an art and told her to prepare for the Epoch Burial Pit’s emergence within three months.
• Chen Zheng vanished, and the old workshop master and the exiled elders warned themselves not to provoke him.
• A group from the Cosmic Divine Temple entered the True Immortal Pavilion and offered a Cosmic Divine Pill for one supreme treasure immortal robe.
• After half an incense stick passed without an answer, the group’s leader told the shopkeeper, “Courtesy first, force afterward.”

A divine-robed cultivator from the Cosmic Divine Temple and Man Ba of Giant Vicious Mountain fought over the True Immortal Pavilion’s two supreme treasure immortal robes. A mysterious young man killed Man Ba effortlessly, and the witnesses suspected he was Ancestor Chen.

• Man Ba and his followers entered the True Immortal Pavilion and openly demanded its two supreme treasure immortal robes.
• Man Ba and the divine-robed cultivator clashed with supreme-level power, then rushed for the robes when neither could defeat the other.
• A young man appeared before the robes and stopped them; Man Ba broke through into the supreme realm and attacked him.
• The young man caused Man Ba’s body and primordial spirit to disintegrate, leaving only divine-pattern fragments.
• Yao Bao recognized the young man as possibly Ancestor Chen, and Luo Yixiu bowed to him as shopkeeper of the True Immortal Pavilion.

Chen Zheng returned to the True Immortal Pavilion to retrieve a painting scroll and learned that Lady Jinxiu had gone to the Heavenly Sea after several people disappeared. He left to investigate, while two immortal garments transformed into women to guard the pavilion.

• The Cosmic Divine Temple cultivators fled, but Chen Zheng killed them, then erased the burly men from Giant Vicious Mountain when they invoked their master, the Giant Vicious Beast.
• Chen Zheng told Luo Yixiu that he had come to retrieve a painting scroll he had left at the True Immortal Pavilion.
• Luo Yixiu reported that Elder Qu Shang, Steward Meng Xi, and Young Mistress Qianqian had disappeared ten days earlier, and that Lady Jinxiu had left for the Heavenly Sea that same night.
• Chen Zheng suspected someone was targeting Qianqian’s Wanfa Immortal Physique or the painting scroll, then caused the two supreme treasure immortal garments to transform into women who called him Master.
• Chen Zheng left for the Heavenly Sea and told the two transformed garments to guard the True Immortal Pavilion.

Chen Zheng traveled across the Heavenly Sea with an old boatman to the Heavenly Sea Divine Wings as they awakened. A teleportation array appeared instead of the Gate of Eternal Life, and members of an ancient divine race emerged and assembled fragments into a hollow ring.

• An old boatman offered to take Chen Zheng to the Heavenly Sea Divine Wings for three hundred top-grade immortal stones, and Chen Zheng paid him with ancient god black jade.
• The old man rowed Chen Zheng through the Heavenly Sea without encountering any anomalies and told him about his rowing technique and Didi Boat Hailing idea.
• Chen Zheng and the old man reached the Heavenly Sea Divine Wings, which awakened and spread open as the gathered beings watched for the Gate of Eternal Life.
• A teleportation array appeared at the center of the divine wings, and members of an ancient divine race emerged carrying fragments that seemed to come from a ring.
• The ancient divine race assembled the fragments into a ring with a hollow center.

A stone ring dragged Xuan Kongyi, Old Man Qu, Chen Zheng, and other beings into Lightless Heaven, a fallen Great Universe where an ancient divine being said an extinction body was needed to awaken its will. After a stone pillar lifted Old Man Qu and Chen Zheng above the deadly land, Xuan Kongyi urged them to offer their true blood, and Old Man Qu realized Chen Zheng was likely the extinction body.

• The ring pulled the surrounding beings into a dark world, where an ancient divine being identified it as Lightless Heaven and said they needed an extinction body to awaken its will and escape.
• Xuan Kongyi tested the silent land with immortal jade, which shattered after a dark shadow appeared.
• Xuan Kongyi sent Old Man Qu’s boat carrying Chen Zheng toward the dangerous land, but the shadow retreated as a stone pillar rose beneath them and lifted them high above the world.
• Xuan Kongyi claimed his tests had revealed a clue and told Old Man Qu and Chen Zheng to drip their true blood onto the pillar.
• Old Man Qu realized he was not the extinction body and saw Chen Zheng calmly reach toward Xuan Kongyi.

Chen Zheng destroyed Xuan Kongyi’s body and ignored the latter’s Innate Chaos Decree, then awakened Lightless Heaven’s dormant will with a drop of true blood. The awakened world will offered to help someone transcend, leaving Xuan Kongyi’s promised chance within reach.

• Chen Zheng shattered Xuan Kongyi’s body after Xuan Kongyi treated him and Old Man Qu as tools to scout Lightless Heaven.
• Xuan Kongyi attacked Chen Zheng with the Innate Chaos Decree and revealed his plan to use Chen Zheng to control Lightless Heaven, but the decree had no effect.
• Chen Zheng offered Xuan Kongyi a chance at Transcendence and sent a drop of true blood beneath the dark earth.
• The true blood awakened Lightless Heaven’s dormant will, which revealed itself as a former Creator and offered to help Chen Zheng transcend.

Chen Zheng let Xuan Kongyi attempt Transcendence, but Lightless Heaven revealed that a Blood Curse barred his clan from ever achieving it. Chen Zheng then refused to choose another candidate and demanded half of the phantom’s essence in exchange for freeing him from Lightless Heaven.

• Xuan Kongyi eagerly accepted the chance at Transcendence, and Chen Zheng told the enormous phantom to grant it to him.
• The phantom restored Xuan Kongyi’s fleshly body, but it disintegrated as he approached Transcendence; the phantom explained that a Blood Curse prevented his clan from transcending.
• Xuan Kongyi accused Chen Zheng of deceiving him, but Chen Zheng calmly admitted he could toy with him.
• The phantom explained that the Blood Curse was a Great Samsara Edict and that the affected bloodlines were unworthy of producing another transcendent.
• The phantom offered Chen Zheng the chance to choose someone else, but Chen Zheng demanded half its essence in exchange for sending it out of Lightless Heaven.

Chen Zheng accepted half the Creator’s essence and used seven-colored divine light to send the Creator out of Lightless Heaven. After leaving the deathly silent world, Chen Zheng seized Xuan Kongyi and ordered him to lead the way to the Heavenly Sea’s Dark Wing Clan.

• The Creator tried to send Chen Zheng into transcendence, but Lightless Heaven began to crack until he brought Chen Zheng back.
• The Creator recognized Chen Zheng’s extraordinary nature and offered him half his essence in exchange for a transaction.
• Chen Zheng accepted the essence and used seven-colored divine light to send the Creator out of Lightless Heaven.
• The ancient divine beings opened the ring, and they and the others began leaving the deathly silent world.
• An ancient divine being explained that Lightless Heaven was the Creator’s origin universe and that he had escaped its prison rather than destroy it.
• Chen Zheng seized Xuan Kongyi’s primordial spirit outside the ring and ordered him to lead the way to the Dark Wing Clan, sealing him before he could destroy himself.

Chen Zheng took Old Man Qu to the Heavenly Sea Mystic Wing Clan’s ancestral land and effortlessly destroyed its forces, including its ancestor. He then freed Lady Jinxiu from a sealing formation, and she recognized him as Ancestor Chen.

• Xuan Kongyi’s primordial spirit pleaded with Chen Zheng not to attack the clan, but Chen Zheng transported Old Man Qu’s boat to its ancestral land.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the clan’s progenitor statue, then erased two groups of clansmen who entered the Supreme Realm using the Blood of Mad Heaven.
• Chen Zheng killed the clan’s ancestor before he could summon his treasure or use a secret art, and Xuan Kongyi called him a demon.
• Chen Zheng explained that the Blood of Mad Heaven caused demonic corruption and pulled Lady Jinxiu out from beneath the ancestral land’s sealing formation.
• Old Man Qu recognized Lady Jinxiu, who smiled at Chen Zheng and called him Ancestor Chen.

Chen Zheng stopped Xuan Kongyi’s self-destruction, gave Old Man Qu control over the Heavenly Sea Mystic Wing Clan, and revealed that he was the reincarnation of the Ninth Water Emperor. At the True Immortal Pavilion, Chen Zheng reunited with Meng Xi, Qu Shang, and Qianqian and began investigating the universe hidden in Lady Jinxiu’s scroll, but a black talisman appeared over the city bearing an edict from the Great Fiend.

• Xuan Kongyi detonated his primordial spirit, but Chen Zheng erased its power and saved those present.
• Chen Zheng gave Old Man Qu control over the Heavenly Sea Mystic Wing Clan and revealed that Old Man Qu was the reincarnation of the Ninth Water Emperor.
• Chen Zheng reunited with Meng Xi, Qu Shang, and Qianqian at the True Immortal Pavilion, then sent them into the Dao Diagram to cultivate.
• Lady Jinxiu explained what she had learned from the scroll, and Chen Zheng said it contained a hidden universe that even Patriarch Hongjun had not discovered.
• A voice announced an edict from the Great Fiend, and a black talisman appeared over Eastern Splendor Immortal City.

Chen Zheng destroyed a Giant Vicious Edict threat over Eastern Splendor Immortal City and told Lady Jinxiu that his power would recover within three months. He then arrived at Lietian Dao Field, where he wiped out the Extinction Sword Sect’s attackers and faced three of its supreme sword cultivators.

• Chen Zheng shattered the Giant Vicious Edict and killed the dragon-headed vicious creature above Eastern Splendor Immortal City.
• Chen Zheng told Lady Jinxiu that he could draw on the magical power between heaven and earth and expected his cultivation to recover within three months.
• Black-clad sword cultivators attacked Lietian Dao Field while its disciples feared the Old Ancestor would not awaken in time.
• Chen Zheng arrived and annihilated the attackers as they moved to break through the Dao Field’s formation.
• Three supreme sword cultivators from the Extinction Sword Sect confronted Chen Zheng, who said their disciples had been blocking his view of Lietian.