Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng was thrown into a volcanic landscape and swallowed by lava, but he remained conscious as his body adapted to the heat. After the lava hurled him onto rocky ground, he found himself alive and unharmed beneath a coating of lava material, and checked that everything was still fine.

• Chen Zheng awoke in a barren volcanic landscape and feared he had transmigrated to a hellish future Earth.
• The ground split open, and Chen Zheng fell into lava while calling for a system that never answered.
• Chen Zheng’s burning pain gradually faded as his body seemed to adapt to the lava, and he began to hope he could survive.
• The lava flung Chen Zheng onto rocky ground, where he opened his eyes and saw the flowing magma.
• Chen Zheng found his body unharmed beneath a layer of lava material and checked that everything was fine.

Chen Zheng dug a pit and waited for rain in the desolate, lava-filled world, wondering where he had been transported. When a storm finally arrived, lightning repeatedly struck and paralyzed him before torrential rain and violent winds battered him.

• Chen Zheng decided to collect rainwater and dug a bathtub-sized pit with his fingernails, which seemed to grow stronger as he worked.
• Chen Zheng moved away from the pit and speculated that he might be on an unknown, still-forming planet with no other people.
• Thunder began overhead, and Chen Zheng welcomed the rain, but a bolt of lightning struck him directly.
• More lightning bolts struck Chen Zheng, leaving him paralyzed as the torrential rain began.
• Chen Zheng endured the freezing rain and terrifying winds while lying helplessly on the rock.

Chen Zheng endured the demonic wind and discovered that his body and soul could adapt to the apocalyptic world. With no food available, he ate molten lava, grew stronger, and fell asleep hoping the world would improve.

• Chen Zheng endured the raging wind, thunder, and rain until the storm abruptly stopped.
• Chen Zheng found himself hungry in a barren world and decided to try eating lava.
• Chen Zheng cautiously tasted the lava, then gulped it down after discovering it did not burn him.
• Chen Zheng felt his strength grow as he devoured molten lava and believed his body was evolving.
• Chen Zheng returned to the rocky area, lay down, and quickly fell asleep.

Chen Zheng woke on a towering mountain to find he had become godlike, with immense strength, speed, and vision. After discovering he was alone on a barren planet, he flew into space and recognized the Moon and Earth, realizing he had awakened on Earth billions of years ago.

• Chen Zheng woke atop an enormous mountain, free of hunger and cold and able to see across vast distances.
• Chen Zheng leaped across the land and crashed into the ocean, then learned he could fly by thought and travel around the planet in under a second.
• Chen Zheng searched the lifeless world and called out for other beings, but received no answer.
• Chen Zheng left the planet’s atmosphere and saw the Moon and a water-covered Earth.
• Chen Zheng realized he had not traveled to another world but had awakened on Earth billions of years in the past after evolving in his sleep.

Chen Zheng discovered that he could not create life and set out to explore the Solar System, only to find an invisible barrier preventing him from leaving it. Despairing over his endless isolation and inability to die, he heard a woman’s voice speak to him.

• Chen Zheng tried to create life from thought and clay, but neither his efforts nor his blood brought the clay figure to life.
• Chen Zheng traveled to the Moon, Mars, and the Sun, finding no life and growing bored with the empty planets.
• Chen Zheng tried to leave the Solar System but struck an invisible barrier and could not break through.
• Chen Zheng returned to Earth and considered jumping from a mountain, lamenting that he could not die.
• A mysterious woman’s voice told Chen Zheng that the fall would only make a crater, and he reacted with tears and laughter at hearing someone speak.

Chen Zheng spoke with a mysterious woman who explained that he could meet Goddess Nüwa in a dream and described how he might eventually transcend time and space. After she went to sleep for an uncertain span of time, Chen Zheng was alone again and decided to try dreaming.

• Chen Zheng asked whether the mysterious voice belonged to a god, Nüwa, or Gaia, and learned that he could meet Nüwa in a dream.
• The woman appeared as a phantom, but Chen Zheng's attempt to touch her caused the prehistoric Earth to shake, and she vanished before speaking to him again by voice.
• Chen Zheng asked about the Earth, future life, and whether another version of himself would exist in the twenty-first century, and the woman explained that a powerful enough self could transcend time and space.
• Chen Zheng introduced himself and learned that the woman had forgotten her name, so he agreed to call her Big Sis.
• Big Sis said she was going to sleep for tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of years, then stopped responding, and Chen Zheng decided to try having a dream.

Chen Zheng awoke as an azure lotus in the Primordial Wilderness, transformed into a man, and learned that Kuafu and Gonggong were present. After he effortlessly sent Gonggong flying with one punch, Chen Zheng asked the Wu Clan where to find Nüwa and Patriarch Hongjun.

• Chen Zheng transformed from an azure lotus into a human in front of Kuafu and the Wu Clan members.
• Chen Zheng told Kuafu not to chase the sun and mentioned Dayi shooting down the suns, making the Wu Clan suspect he was trying to provoke a war.
• Gonggong accused Chen Zheng of misleading the Wu Clan and attacked him with an azure python.
• Chen Zheng punched the python, sending it and Gonggong crashing through a mountain.
• Kuafu asked if Chen Zheng was a Sage, and Chen Zheng denied it before asking where Nüwa and Patriarch Hongjun could be found.

Chen Zheng endured the Heavenly Dao’s strongest punishment without injury and concluded that he was invincible in the Primordial Wilderness. He named himself the Green Lotus Saintly Teacher and had Kuafu lead him to the Wu Clan’s ancestral land.

• Chen Zheng withstood the purple divine lightning and challenged the Heavenly Dao to use its full strength.
• The Heavenly Dao darkened the Primordial Wilderness and struck Chen Zheng with a vast net of lightning, but he remained unharmed.
• Chen Zheng decided the Heavenly Dao and likely the Sages posed little threat to him, then asked Kuafu about the Wu Clan’s secret arts and formation.
• Chen Zheng said he could defeat the other Ancestral Wu and asked Kuafu to show him around the Wu Clan.
• Chen Zheng chose the title Green Lotus Saintly Teacher, and Kuafu respectfully led him toward the Wu Clan’s ancestral land.

Chen Zheng visited the Wu Clan and watched the Twelve Ancestral Witches activate their grand formation, then mastered it at a glance and manifested Pangu’s True Body by himself. The Twelve Ancestral Witches were left stunned by his effortless display, while Chen Zheng decided he should keep a lower profile.

• At the Purple Empyrean Palace, Patriarch Hongjun said he would invite Chen Zheng to speak with him, while a young Daoist boy wished he could be as powerful.
• At the Wu Clan’s ancestral grounds, Dijiang told Chen Zheng that the Twelve Gods and Fiends All-Heaven Great Array required all Twelve Ancestral Witches to activate.
• Chen Zheng identified Houtu and asked whether she had created the Six Paths of Reincarnation, astonishing the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches briefly activated the formation, summoning and then dismissing a phantom of Pangu’s True Body.
• Chen Zheng said he had comprehended the formation at a glance, then casually activated it alone and manifested an even more terrifying Pangu’s True Body.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the formation and said he would keep a lower profile, while the eleven Ancestral Witches other than Houtu toppled backward in shock.

Chen Zheng completed Houtu’s embryonic Six Paths of Reincarnation at a glance, then visited Patriarch Hongjun in the Purple Empyrean Palace and found the Three Thousand Great Daos unimpressive. After Chen Zheng left for the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court, he sensed that someone inside the palace wall had watched him and wondered whether it was the Heavenly Dao.

• Chen Zheng completed the Six Paths of Reincarnation from Houtu’s embryonic structure, then accepted an invitation to visit Patriarch Hongjun at the Purple Empyrean Palace.
• Chen Zheng met Patriarch Hongjun and the Three Saints, and asked to see the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Patriarch Hongjun showed Chen Zheng a jade disc, which Chen Zheng dismissed as unimpressive and suspected was a fake.
• Chen Zheng said he would not interfere in the Wu-Demon War beyond occasionally helping, then left the Purple Empyrean Palace.
• Patriarch Hongjun discovered that the jade disc he had shown Chen Zheng had shattered and suspected it was connected to a being inside the wall.
• Chen Zheng stopped on his way to the Demon Clan’s Heavenly Court after sensing someone in the Purple Empyrean Palace wall watching him.

Chen Zheng visited the Demon Clan's Heavenly Court to inspect its treasures, effortlessly broke and restored the Eastern Emperor Bell, and announced that he would establish a Dao sanctuary. Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi were left wondering what his intentions meant for the Demon Clan.

• Chen Zheng entered the Heavenly Court and told Guiche that he wanted to meet Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi.
• Chen Zheng asked to see the Eastern Emperor Bell and the He Tu and Luo Shu, and the two Demon Emperors summoned the treasures.
• Chen Zheng examined the He Tu and Luo Shu, then took the Eastern Emperor Bell and cracked it with his hand.
• Chen Zheng restored the Eastern Emperor Bell, returned it to Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and dismissed it as unimpressive.
• Dijun asked Chen Zheng's title, and Chen Zheng identified himself as Green Lotus Saintly Teacher and said he would establish a Dao sanctuary.
• Dijun worried about Chen Zheng's lack of distinction between the Demon and Wu Clans, while Guiche compared his plans to Lady Empress Wa's creation of the Human Clan.

Chen Zheng left the Primordial Wilderness to temper his Dao heart, then ended his dream as the Wu-Demon War devastated the world. He woke in the age of dinosaurs and found a baby Tyrannosaurus rex biting his leg.

• Chen Zheng left his cultivation ground and headed west, where he accidentally shielded the Heaven-Abandoned Clan from heavenly punishment and inspired Wan Ji to follow him.
• Chen Zheng found no Western gods in the Primordial Wilderness and meditated in the far west to steady his Dao heart.
• Chen Zheng witnessed the Wu-Demon War devastate the Primordial Wilderness and chose to wake from his dream.
• Patriarch Hongjun, Empress Wa, and other Sages watched Chen Zheng leave the Primordial Wilderness as the human era approached.
• Chen Zheng woke in the age of dinosaurs and decided to help an injured baby Tyrannosaurus rex that was biting his thigh.

Chen Zheng found and adopted an injured tyrannosaurus rex hatchling in the Cretaceous, naming it Little Bone and deciding to help it cultivate. After frightening Little Bone with his overwhelming power, he built a wooden house and began opening its meridians.

• Chen Zheng healed the tyrannosaurus rex hatchling, named it Little Bone, and took it out of the pit.
• A huge prehistoric creature charged Chen Zheng, who struck it away with a casual slap and sent the nearby animals fleeing.
• Chen Zheng awakened Little Bone's spiritual intelligence and taught it a Demon Clan secret art, but Little Bone fainted in terror.
• Chen Zheng decided to remain an observer rather than develop dinosaur civilization, and chose to raise Little Bone instead.
• Chen Zheng built a wooden house, moved the unconscious Little Bone inside, and began opening its meridians.

Chen Zheng watched Little Bone grow stronger while considering its future, then confronted an alien from the Keli Civilization that had arrived to claim Earth. After destroying its ship and shrugging off its weapon, he learned that a dangerous metal civilization also had its sights on the planet.

• Little Bone charged and killed an adult Tyrannosaurus rex, and Chen Zheng reflected on its future and whether it would accept entering a time cabin.
• A spacecraft descended, and an armored alien emerged and questioned Chen Zheng about his identity and Earth's past force field.
• The alien identified itself with the Keli Civilization and threatened to kill Chen Zheng, claiming its civilization had a right to expel him from Earth.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the spacecraft with a slap and remained unharmed when the alien fired its energy weapon at him.
• The alien pleaded for its life and revealed that a powerful civilization of metallic, mechanical life-forms also intended to claim Earth.

Chen Zheng sent the Mechanical Race attackers back into space and later placed Little Bone in a time-stilled demiplane before the asteroid struck Earth. As Chen Zheng fell asleep at the impact site, Little Bone rushed out to face the shock wave.

• Chen Zheng waved the Mechanical Race fireballs back beyond Earth's atmosphere, where they exploded, then left the stranded armored humanoid behind.
• Decades later, Chen Zheng created a time-stilled demiplane for Little Bone, whose lifespan he could not extend, and said he would sleep until the age of humanity.
• Chen Zheng watched the asteroid arrive and chose not to save the dinosaurs, then stood at the predicted impact site as it struck Earth.
• The asteroid's shock wave engulfed the land, and Chen Zheng called it weak before falling asleep.
• Little Bone saw the destruction from the demiplane, charged out, and rushed toward the shock wave's center.

Ten years after the twin-moon phenomenon, Chen Lingsu and the others lived in the Ultimate Creator's world while Chen Zheng fought his way through its heavenly domains. After entering the gate beyond the Supreme Heavenly Domain, Chen Zheng found only endless nothingness and wondered whether other fellow Daoists existed beyond it.

• Chen Lingsu complained that her father was missing while Yanluo explained that he had likely gone somewhere unknown.
• Chen Zheng, An Jing, Thirteen, and Zero played mahjong as Chen Lingsu left to find Yinghuo and the others went shopping.
• Spies recalled that five-year-old Chen Lingsu had defeated the supernatural world's powerhouses and later destroyed a star-devouring demon, while they still knew almost nothing about her father, Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng said he had faced no resistance while killing his way through every heavenly domain, and the Supreme Heavenly Domain lord's daughter condemned him for killing its lords.
• Chen Zheng entered the gate of light and found endless nothingness beyond the Ultimate Creator's world, where he wondered whether he could reach other stories.