Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng destroyed a Kree fleet, then broke free of the Kree Empire’s Cage of Time and killed its leaders and Divine Envoy. When the Son of Time appeared to punish him, he recognized Chen Zheng and vanished without a fight.

• Chen Zheng used a finger snap to turn a Kree warship and its fleet to dust, revealing that he could control the speed of the annihilation.
• A mechanical arm captured Chen Zheng and transported him to a Kree judgment hall, where twelve Kree leaders threatened to imprison and torture him.
• Chen Zheng stepped out of the Cage of Time, killed the twelve leaders, and explained that he had let the Kree capture him to avoid fighting his way inside.
• Chen Zheng killed the Divine Envoy after the man tried to sentence him, and a young cleric summoned the Son of Time with a crystal.
• The Son of Time appeared, saw Chen Zheng, and immediately vanished, while Little Bone mocked him for failing to face her master.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Kree forces after the Son of Time fled, then reached the Tower of Judgment, where an imprisoned Corpse Demon God recognized him as Boss Chen. The chapter left Chen Zheng reunited with Old Bones, who wept that he had lost the little young miss.

• Chen Zheng said he had named Alaska at the Dominator of Time's request, then turned the Kree in the hall to ash when they attacked him.
• Chen Zheng walked outside and reflected the Kree's air and ground forces' firepower, annihilating the forces surrounding him.
• A Kree general released the Corpse Demon God from a transparent container atop the Tower of Judgment, and the creature killed the general after he urged it to attack Chen Zheng.
• Old Bones recognized Chen Zheng, clung to his leg, and wept that he had failed to keep his promise and had lost the little young miss.

Chen Zheng learned that a powerful goose had taken Tianjiao away more than five hundred years earlier, and suspected it served her uncle. Master Tun swallowed the Kree Empire and its planet, but spat out a mysterious cube that even Chen Zheng could not crush.

• Old Man Bone explained that a great goose had defeated him and flown away with the little young miss, and Chen Zheng inferred that Tianjiao was safe and might be with her uncle.
• Old Man Bone identified the Master of Space and Time as the one who sealed him in the Kree Empire, and Chen Zheng said the Kree fleet had been sent to lure him there.
• Master Tun swallowed the mechanical arm and the entire Kree planet, then began digesting it.
• Old Man Bone learned that Chen Zheng's cultivation had regressed after a battle with the thing above heaven, which had restarted the epoch and was nearing its awakening.
• Master Tun spat out a fist-sized crystalline cube that he could not absorb, and Chen Zheng failed to crush it in his hand.

Chen Zheng revealed that the crystalline cube surpassed the Cosmic Cube and might have come from beyond the realm, prompting the Master of Space and Time to appear and demand it back. When the Master tried to summon the cube, Chen Zheng’s power had already erased his connection to it.

• The shadow failed to devour the crystalline cube, and Chen Zheng said it was not the Cosmic Cube, which he had previously crushed.
• Chen Zheng explained that the cube might have come from beyond the realm, and the old skeleton realized it could prove that the Realm of Transcendence existed.
• Chen Zheng sensed the Master of Space and Time hiding nearby and called him out.
• The Master of Space and Time thanked Chen Zheng for confirming the cube’s origins, then asked him to return it in exchange for a treasure that could restore his cultivation.
• The Master tried to summon the cube but failed, and Chen Zheng reminded him of an earlier incident when Chen Zheng had severed someone’s connection to an ultimate divine artifact.

The Master of Space and Time threatened Chen Zheng by targeting Little Bone and the beings connected to him on Earth, but Master Tun swallowed his soul projection. The Master of Space and Time returned and forcibly teleported Chen Zheng and the others away, leaving their destination unknown.

• The Master of Space and Time sealed off space and time and demanded that Chen Zheng hand over the crystalline cube, threatening Little Bone and Chen Zheng's connections on Earth.
• Master Tun swallowed the Master of Space and Time's soul projection, and Chen Zheng remarked that his mastery of the Law of Space and Time was unimpressive.
• Chen Zheng named Lietian as one of the ancestors he had taught, while Old Man Bone explained that he avoided becoming an ancestor because an unrivaled she-devil had once drained him for hundreds of years.
• The Master of Space and Time returned with another soul projection and vowed to send Chen Zheng somewhere far from Earth.
• Master Tun swallowed the second projection as the Master of Space and Time used Teleport to forcibly send Chen Zheng and the others away.

A mysterious attacker targeted Nan City because of its connection to Ancestor Chen, but a little girl struck from another world and killed him before he could harm Su Cheng’s family. Meanwhile, Chen Zheng and his companions found themselves in a world full of blood energy, where Chen Zheng began swallowing its spiritual dragons to restore his strength.

• A figure descended over Nan City and tried to erase everyone connected to Ancestor Chen, but a Daoist nullified his attack and a little girl killed him while defending her mother.
• The Daoist recognized traces of a shattered space-time beacon and realized the girl was Ancestor Chen’s biological daughter.
• Old Man Bone worried that the blood energy would restore his cultivation enough to turn him into a patriarch and draw the Number One Ugly Woman’s attention.
• Little Bone asked whether An Jing and the others were safe, and Chen Zheng said Bodhi had copied enough of his Great Dao imprints to protect them.
• Chen Zheng summoned the blood-energy spiritual dragons across the world and began swallowing them in great waves.

Chen Zheng absorbed all the blood energy in the world, strengthening his body and gaining blood spirit dragons while his True Essence cultivation settled at the Nascent Soul Stage. He and his companions entered the underground domain of the Ancient Earth Demon Clan, where Old Man Bone’s power was suppressed.

• Chen Zheng swallowed the world’s blood energy, released ten thousand blood spirit dragons, and found that the mysterious crystal fused with his flesh had granted his True Essence a spell-breaking rhythm.
• Old Man Bone and Little Bone marveled at Chen Zheng’s deceptive Nascent Soul cultivation and greatly increased combat power.
• A warship emerged from underground, and Yi Chang, second elder of the Ancient Earth Demon Clan, thanked Chen Zheng and Old Man Bone for clearing the man-eating blood energy and invited them to the clan’s sacred land.
• Chen Zheng accepted Yi Chang’s invitation, and the group traveled by warship into a vast subterranean world that Old Man Bone and Little Bone found unsettling.
• Yi Chang led them toward the Longevity Cave and mentioned the Purple Firmament Sacred Tower and the Saintly Teacher; upon entering, Old Man Bone’s combat power was suppressed to the Body Integration Stage.

Chen Zheng and Old Man Bone were brought by Yi Chang to the Ancient Earth Demon Clan’s Purple Firmament Sacred Tower, where Old Man Bone recognized its likeness to the Purple Empyrean Palace and spotted statues of the six Sages. The tower’s unseen Saintly Teacher invited Chen Zheng inside, while Old Man Bone and Little Bone were sent away; a voice from within then addressed Chen Zheng as an old acquaintance named Qinglian.

• Longevity Cave suppressed Old Man Bone’s cultivation, and Yi Chang promised it would return after their meeting with the Saintly Teacher.
• The Ancient Earth Demon Clan members watched Chen Zheng and Old Man Bone hungrily as Yi Chang led them through the clan’s cavern settlement.
• Old Man Bone recognized the Purple Firmament Sacred Tower as a match for the Purple Empyrean Palace and identified statues of six Sages kneeling before it.
• Yi Chang announced that the Saintly Teacher had invited Chen Zheng inside but ordered Old Man Bone and Little Bone to leave the sacred grounds.
• After Old Man Bone and Little Bone departed, the tower door opened and a voice invited Chen Zheng, calling him Qinglian and an old acquaintance.

Chen Zheng entered the Purple Firmament Sacred Tower and exposed its supposed master Hongjun as a chaos-tainted impostor who wanted the Jade Disc of Creation and Chen Zheng’s undying body. The impostor froze the black shadow and began probing Chen Zheng’s origins, transforming the hall into an ancient scene where a naked man bathed in lava.

• Chen Zheng met the Daoist in the tower, rejected his claims of being Hongjun, and called him fake.
• The black shadow recognized that the Three Thousand Great Daos were only an illusion and cursed the Daoist as a mere hair or pube from Hongjun.
• The Daoist demanded Chen Zheng’s half of the Jade Disc of Creation, promising to release his companions and teach him the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Chen Zheng identified the Daoist as a parasite born from chaos energy and revealed that he had created the Ancient Earth Demon Clan using a hidden supreme treasure.
• The Daoist froze the black shadow with an object and transformed the great hall into an ancient landscape to investigate Chen Zheng’s origins and undying body.
• Chen Zheng saw a naked man humming as he bathed in lava.

The Daoist used a bone artifact to probe Chen Zheng’s memories, mistaking his survival on prehistoric Earth for legendary body-tempering trials. Convinced he had uncovered the source of Chen Zheng’s immortality, the Daoist revealed himself as a chaos worm and attacked to devour Chen Zheng’s memories and seize his body.

• The Daoist recreated Chen Zheng bathing in magma, but Chen Zheng explained that it was ordinary magma on prehistoric Earth and that he had been trying to kill himself because of loneliness.
• The Daoist showed Chen Zheng enduring a thunderstorm and a superstorm, calling them the Primordial Lightning Tribulation and Chaos Wind, while Chen Zheng identified them as natural events on prehistoric Earth.
• The Daoist mistook Chen Zheng’s repeated leaps from a towering peak for a secret body-refinement technique, but Chen Zheng said he had been driven mad by loneliness and unable to die.
• The Daoist accelerated through Chen Zheng’s memories and concluded that his body had grown stronger over millions of years underground.
• The Daoist revealed his true form as a chaos worm and lunged at Chen Zheng, intending to devour his memories and take his body.

Chen Zheng destroyed a Chaos Worm in his primordial spirit world with the Heaven and Earth's First Sword, then learned that a fragment of the Heaven-Devouring Clan’s ancestor had been taken into the chaos. He and his second primordial spirit left the ruins determined to investigate the ancestor’s death.

• The Chaos Worm’s fangs shattered when it tried to bite Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit, and it claimed its bone artifact made it impossible to kill.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Heaven and Earth's First Sword, which annihilated the worm in his primordial spirit world.
• The black shadow retrieved the bone fragment and realized it belonged to the strongest ancestor of the Heaven-Devouring Clan, who had been killed and brought into the chaos.
• Chen Zheng suggested that someone from the Chaos Domain might have killed the ancestor and promised to help the black shadow investigate.
• The black shadow swallowed the bone fragment, causing the Purple Firmament Sacred Tower to collapse, and it wondered whether the six sages were truly guilty.

Chen Zheng entered the Ancient Earth Demon Clan's sacred ground and reclaimed the mystic power that had transformed the clan members into humans. After the clan members became mole crickets and vanished, Old Man Bone and Little Bone suspected that the Purple Empyrean Palace's patriarch was nearby.

• Little Bone and Old Man Bone faced the Ancient Earth Demon Clan members, whose power had been suppressed along with Little Bone's AllSpark.
• Second Elder Yi Chang and the other clan members pounced on Little Bone and Old Man Bone, but Little Bone dodged their attacks.
• Chen Zheng arrived, and his shadow reclaimed the mystic light from the clan members, causing them to revert to their mole-cricket forms.
• Old Man Bone connected the mole crickets to a rumor that the Purple Empyrean Palace's patriarch had been the first cricket between heaven and earth.
• The mole crickets shrank, turned transparent, and disappeared, while Little Bone spotted a shadow in the Longevity Cave and Old Man Bone wondered if it belonged to the patriarch.

Chen Zheng and his companions discovered that the Demon Life Blood Realm had become a lifeless wasteland, where a mysterious figure had admitted defeat to an enemy beyond Heaven. As they traveled through a space-time passage, Old Man Bone became Gu Dadiao and reached the Patriarch Realm, only for his love-seed to summon the woman he feared as they emerged into a battle watched by tens of thousands.

• Chen Zheng, Little Bone, Old Man Bone, and the black shadow emerged from Longevity Cave and found the Demon Life Blood Realm withered and devoid of life.
• A fading figure crossed the wasteland, said, "I lost," and spoke of "Enemies beyond Heaven" before vanishing; Chen Zheng concluded that the enemy was probably neither from the Chaos Domain nor from beyond the domain.
• Chen Zheng led the group out of the exhausted Demon Life Blood Realm and into a passage through space and time.
• Old Man Bone absorbed the Law of Space and Time, regained his flesh and blood, and broke through to the Patriarch Realm; he revealed his real name was Gu Dadiao and that a woman had planted a seed of love in his bones.
• Chen Zheng stepped out of the passage, and the seed of love sent a streak of green light into the sky; two battling forces stopped and tens of thousands of eyes turned toward Gu Dadiao, who collapsed in fear.

Chen Zheng used ten thousand blood dragons to annihilate the Blood River Sect and Rakshasa Cult cultivators and claim the Asura true blood. As Qin Tianzong threatened him, a powerful woman in black armor descended from the sky.

• The Blood River Sect and Rakshasa Cult stopped fighting and attacked Chen Zheng and Gu Dadiao, while Gu Dadiao collapsed and wailed.
• Princess Ziyue wagered with Qin Tianzong that both factions' cultivators would be wiped out within three breaths.
• Chen Zheng released ten thousand blood dragons, which tore apart the attackers and seized the artifact containing the Asura true blood.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the quality of the true blood, while Qin Tianzong threatened him aboard the warship.
• A towering woman in black armor descended from the sky, and Gu Dadiao recognized her arrival with terror.

Gai Shi descended to the True Blood Battlefield and forced Gu Dadiao to marry her before Chen Zheng. The chapter ended with Gai Shi and Gu Dadiao kneeling to pay respects to Ancestor Chen, leaving Qin Tianzong terrified.

• Gai Shi descended in her true body, and Qin Tianzong offered to capture Chen Zheng in hopes of winning her favor.
• Gai Shi brushed Qin Tianzong aside and landed beside Gu Dadiao, announcing that she would hold their wedding before Ancestor Chen.
• Gu Dadiao called out to Chen Zheng for help, then revealed his patriarch-level cultivation when Gai Shi tried to make him marry her.
• Gai Shi subdued Gu Dadiao, declared that he had to marry her after taking her first time, and knelt with him to pay respects to Chen Zheng.
• Qin Tianzong realized how dangerous the situation was and decided to flee the True Blood Battlefield.

Gai Shi married Gu Dadiao and destroyed Qin Tianzong’s warship and escape route after he tried to flee the True Blood Battlefield. With the way back to Earth gone, Chen Zheng accepted Physiognomist Zhenyi’s offer to divine his fate using a spacetime beacon.

• Gai Shi completed a wedding ceremony with Gu Dadiao, asked Chen Zheng about her missing brother Gai Tian, and invited Chen Zheng to a future banquet in Dark Heaven.
• Qin Tianzong tried to escape through a spacetime passage, but Gai Shi shattered the passage, destroyed his warship, and killed him.
• Physiognomist Zhenyi introduced Princess Ziyue as the daughter of the Hundred Tribulations Dragon Emperor, and Gai Shi treated Ziyue as an acquaintance’s daughter before departing with Gu Dadiao.
• After Gai Shi left, Little Bone worried that the group had no way back to Earth, and Chen Zheng asked Zhenyi about his spacetime beacon.
• Zhenyi asked to perform a divination for Chen Zheng, who accepted and took the beacon as Zhenyi began his divination.

Physiognomist Zhenyi’s divination of Chen Zheng failed catastrophically, and he told Princess Ziyue about Chen Zheng’s fearsome past and powerful connections. Back on Earth, Demon Empress Yunluo appeared at Su Cheng’s home and addressed Su Jinghong as her little sister.

• Physiognomist Zhenyi’s Dao artifact compass shattered when he tried to divine Chen Zheng, and the backlash left him injured.
• Chen Zheng told Zhenyi to return when he had reached the level of a Twelve Tribulations Loose Immortal, then departed.
• Zhenyi told Princess Ziyue about Chen Zheng’s reputation in the Spirit Realm and the powerful women connected to him, leaving her discouraged about her chances.
• At Su Cheng’s home, Little Bone told An Jing, Su Cheng, Zuo Qinghong, and Su Jinghong about Gai Shi and her connection to Gu Dadiao.
• Demon Empress Yunluo appeared outside the home, and Su Jinghong recognized her after Yunluo called her little sister.

Yunluo contacted Chen Zheng through Su Youyou’s body, teased him about joining his harem, and left him Dao-Enlightenment Tea. Days later, Ye Qingcheng came to Earth to visit, but her shopping trip was interrupted when a demonic force appeared and killed a foreign suitor.

• Yunluo spoke to Chen Zheng through Su Youyou’s body, offered him Dao-Enlightenment Tea, and invited him to visit the imperial palace.
• Chen Zheng checked on his companions’ cultivation, and Ye Qingcheng asked to visit after mastering a three-thousandfold Ninefold Sword Domain.
• An Jing, Su Cheng, and Zuo Qinghong helped Ye Qingcheng choose modern clothes at a Dior counter in Nan City.
• A foreign man named Edward approached Ye Qingcheng and declared his love, then apologized to Chen Zheng after recognizing him.
• A demonic hand sealed the area and crushed Edward, and a figure emerged from beneath the floor amid a strange distortion.

Satan appeared before Chen Zheng after fleeing the conquest of Hell by monsters allied with Heaven, and begged him to save his life from a holy sword’s power. Chen Zheng erased the holy light and agreed to help Satan once, while warning him that deserters were little better than traitors; Satan then departed, and the shop returned to normal.

• Satan crushed the soul of a foreigner who followed the God of Nature, then recognized Chen Zheng and knelt before him.
• Satan told Chen Zheng that monsters allied with Heaven had conquered Hell and that the Holy Son of Heaven’s holy sword was draining his power and eroding his soul.
• The holy light consumed half of Satan’s body, and he pleaded with Chen Zheng to save him.
• Chen Zheng erased the holy sword’s light and agreed to help Satan once, but called him a deserter and warned him not to expect further help.
• Satan warned Chen Zheng about the holy sword and the monsters that evolved by devouring, then vanished with the barrier.
• The shop assistants returned to normal without remembering the encounter, and Chen Zheng advised Qingcheng to wear more practical clothes while Little Bone praised bikinis.

Chen Zheng accompanied Su Cheng and the others on a shopping trip while Europe faced an invasion by Hell’s forces and Heaven’s hybrid monsters. After Heaven’s Holy Son challenged Athena and unleashed the underworld king against her, Chen Zheng identified the giant for Little Bone.

• Chen Zheng stopped Little Bone from saying more at the boutique, then joined Su Cheng and the others as they took the empress from the Azure Cloud Realm around modern Earth.
• Athena returned to Earth, told Francis that Heaven had joined forces with monsters to conquer Hell, and warned that Satan had escaped and Hades might have been mutated.
• Monsters attacked the Golden Family’s castle, but Lucifer killed them; he then fought Heaven’s Holy Son, who vowed to show the world fear the next day.
• The mysterious livestream showed Hell’s army and hybrid monsters invading Europe, where Thor and the giant wolf of Northern Europe had been defeated.
• Heaven’s Holy Son challenged Athena in Greece and summoned a chained giant from Hell to fight her.
• Little Bone asked Chen Zheng who the giant was, and Chen Zheng identified him as the king of the underworld.