Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng entered the Heavenly Ravine, discovered that its land formed a gigantic heart and endured its Chaos Wind unharmed. He reached an ancient tribe and asked whether its buried giant axe was the legendary Heaven-Opening Axe.

• The King of Eastern Spirit retreated from Undying Mountain with Granny Silver Flower and Azure Cloud, while the black ox named Azure Cloud as his master.
• Chen Zheng and Little Bone passed through the Heavenly Ravine's mist and found a canyon filled with enormous ancient beast skeletons.
• A gust of Chaos Wind reduced Little Bone's flesh to ash, but Chen Zheng explained that the wind was far weaker than pure Chaos Wind and that he had left Jiang Ziya things to help him survive it.
• Chen Zheng scanned the ravine with the Cosmic Cantilever and confirmed that its land was shaped like a heart, then said the place had never belonged to the Spirit Realm.
• Chen Zheng arrived in an ancient tribe, where warriors surrounded him, and asked whether the giant axe in the ground was the Heaven-Opening Axe.

Chen Zheng entered the Pangu Holy Clan’s ancestral grounds, shattered the formation protecting it, and learned that the Void Beast Emperor was coming to destroy the clan. As the beast attacked, a creature from Chen Zheng swallowed it in one bite.

• Shaohua attacked Chen Zheng, who kicked him into Progenitor Rock and cracked the cliff, damaging the Holy Emperor Grand Formation.
• The Grand Shaman explained that the Heaven-Opening Axe was trapped by Nine Heavens Xirang and that its next master would not be born for three years.
• The Void Beast Emperor arrived, tore apart the Grand Shaman’s blood-colored protective formation, and prepared to swallow the ancestral grounds.
• A beast emerged from Chen Zheng and swallowed the Void Beast Emperor in a single encounter.

Chen Zheng’s Little Tuntun swallowed the Void Beast Emperor and the Pangu Holy Clan’s Heaven-Opening Upper Volume, leaving the clan fearing the loss would doom the coming Sacred Emperor. When Xiaoyaozi of the Shinto Alliance arrived to claim the Heaven-Opening Axe and attacked Chen Zheng, Chen Zheng turned Xiaoyaozi’s sword against him.

• Little Tuntun swallowed the Void Beast Emperor, then devoured the Heaven-Opening Upper Volume despite the Pangu Holy Clan’s protests.
• The High Shaman challenged Chen Zheng over the prophecy and asked who he was, but a Shinto Alliance warship arrived before he answered.
• Xiaoyaozi announced that he intended to take the Heaven-Opening Axe for the future Sacred Emperor, and Little Bone mocked his boast that he had moved it.
• Xiaoyaozi recognized Chen Zheng as a possible successor to Wuji Dao Lord Jiang Ziya, then attacked him with the Thousand Mechanisms Sword.
• Chen Zheng casually flicked his hand, reversing the divine sword and sending it through the space between Xiaoyaozi’s brows.

Chen Zheng repelled Xiaoyaozi’s sword strike, but Xiaoyaozi summoned Demon God Jiuying to devour the Pangu Holy Clan. Jiuying instead ate Xiaoyaozi, bowed to Chen Zheng as the Saintly Teacher, then devoured the warship and its crew before charging out of the Heavenly Ravine.

• Chen Zheng deflected Xiaoyaozi’s Thousand Mechanisms Sword and grievously wounded him, leaving Xiaoyaozi’s body insubstantial.
• Xiaoyaozi summoned Demon God Jiuying and ordered it to devour everyone in the Pangu Holy Clan’s ancestral land.
• Demon God Jiuying ignored Xiaoyaozi’s orders and swallowed him in one bite.
• Demon God Jiuying bowed to Chen Zheng and addressed him as the Saintly Teacher.
• Demon God Jiuying swallowed the two young cultivators and their warship, then charged out of the Heavenly Ravine toward a Great Thousand World.

Chen Zheng restored the Pangu Holy Clan’s ancestral formation and took the Heaven-Opening Axe, prompting the clan to hail him as the Holy Emperor. The axe cracked in his hand, and he revealed that his strength had damaged it.

• Chen Zheng stopped the Chaos Wind from attacking the Pangu Holy Clan and explained that he had entered the Heavenly Ravine to learn about his disciple Jiang Ziya and find its treasures.
• The Grand Shaman Priest and the woman in animal skins accused Jiang Ziya of betraying the clan, but Chen Zheng said there must have been a misunderstanding.
• Chen Zheng repaired the Progenitor Rock Holy Emperor Grand Formation with a sweep of his hand.
• Chen Zheng pulled the Heaven-Opening Axe from the Nine Heavens Xirang, and the Pangu Holy Clan knelt and hailed him as the Holy Emperor.
• The Heaven-Opening Axe cracked in Chen Zheng’s grip, and he explained that his right hand was strong enough to damage it.

Chen Zheng stunned the Pangu Holy Clan by repeatedly cracking and repairing the Heaven-Opening Axe, then heard Liusu explain the clan’s lost art and isolation. He denied being Patriarch Hongjun and began recounting how he had once entered the Primordial Wilderness and earned the name Green Lotus Saintly Teacher.

• Chen Zheng cracked and repaired the Heaven-Opening Axe several times, leaving the Pangu Holy Clan members collapsed and Liusu spitting blood.
• Liusu told Chen Zheng that the Sacred Emperor Undying Art had been lost after the Chaos Wind Demon swept away the clan’s strongest members, leaving the Holy Emperor Grand Formation as both shelter and prison.
• Liusu guessed that Chen Zheng was Patriarch Hongjun, but Chen Zheng denied it, and Little Bone claimed that Hongjun had lost to her master.
• Chen Zheng told Liusu and Linglong that he was Jiang Shang’s teacher, meant the Pangu Holy Clan no harm, and hoped they would resolve their misunderstandings with Jiang Shang.
• Chen Zheng recalled that he had entered the Primordial Wilderness before the great war between the Wu and demon races, where others had called him Saintly Teacher and Green Lotus Saintly Teacher.

Chen Zheng used the scanner to project the scene of Pangu opening heaven, but the projection became so real that Little Bone collided with Pangu and was nearly seized. He returned everyone to the Shamanic Sacrifice Hall, leaving Liusu, Linglong, and Little Bone uncertain whether they had truly traveled through time.

• Chen Zheng told Liusu, Linglong, and Little Bone about dreaming into the Primordial Wilderness and wondered whether it had sprung from his dream.
• Chen Zheng used the scanner to project chaos before heaven and earth opened, showing Pangu cleaving it apart.
• The projection expanded around the Shamanic Sacrifice Hall and made Pangu appear before them as heaven and earth separated.
• Little Bone charged at Pangu, struck him, and drew the giant's attention as Pangu reached to seize it.
• Chen Zheng waved his hand and ended the scene, then told Little Bone that it was real if it felt real and fake if it believed it was fake.

South China Sea Mad Blade flooded the Eastern Spirit Sword Prefecture and attacked the royal residence while Mo Shenglong and Nu Honglian watched, each seeking the secret of longevity. When Azure Cloud awakened and a phantom behind him killed Mad Blade with one sword strike, the other powerful figures were left facing an unknown threat.

• South China Sea Mad Blade demanded the secret of longevity and flooded the Sword Prefecture's main city, devastating it and swallowing tens of thousands of its inhabitants.
• King of Eastern Spirit secretly told Granny Silver Flower to take Hongyan and the others through a teleportation array, while Azure Cloud refused to flee.
• South China Sea Mad Blade entered the royal residence and struck down the Ox-Headed Demon King, who stood between him and Azure Cloud.
• Granny Silver Flower stepped in to shield Azure Cloud, but Azure Cloud awakened and a phantom behind him dispelled Mad Blade's attack.
• The phantom unleashed a sword strike that annihilated South China Sea Mad Blade, body and soul.

The mysterious Senior Chen arrived in Sword Prefecture after Nu Honglian tried to kill the unconscious Azure Cloud, then destroyed Nu Honglian and the forces gathered around the city. The chapter left Fairy Linlang and the surviving onlookers shaken by Chen’s ruthless power.

• Azure Cloud’s phantom appeared and killed South China Sea Mad Blade with one sword strike before Azure Cloud fainted.
• Fairy Linlang took Princess Hongyan away but refused to save Azure Cloud when Nu Honglian attacked him.
• The King of Eastern Spirit stepped in front of Nu Honglian’s sword light and was pierced, but Senior Chen shattered the attack with a cold snort.
• Senior Chen descended and unleashed ten thousand Blood Spirit Dragons, killing Nu Honglian, the South China Sea Heavenly Blade Sect disciples, and their water beasts.
• Mo Shenglong tried to recruit Senior Chen for the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty, but Chen’s Blood Spirit Dragons killed Mo Shenglong, his guards, and destroyed their warship.

Chen Zheng returned to the Eastern Spirit Sword Prefecture, healed the Ox-Headed Demon King and the King of Eastern Spirit, and faced Prince Heavenly Lord and Marquis Equal to Heaven as they arrived with their forces. When Marquis Equal to Heaven’s imitation of Chen Zheng’s Divine Finger Flick failed, Chen Zheng used the real technique and left both warships’ commanders as the only survivors.

• Fairy Linlang realized Chen Zheng and Little Bone had witnessed her refusal to help Hongyan, and she regretted thinking she could befriend him.
• Chen Zheng healed the Ox-Headed Demon King and the King of Eastern Spirit with a casual gesture.
• Prince Heavenly Lord arrived with Marquis Equal to Heaven and accused Fairy Linlang of killing Mo Shenglong, while Marquis Equal to Heaven urged them to seize the secret of the Longevity Stele.
• Marquis Equal to Heaven performed his supposed Divine Finger Flick, but nothing happened, and Little Bone called him a knockoff.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and turned the guards, generals, and subordinates aboard both warships to ash, leaving only Prince Heavenly Lord and Marquis Equal to Heaven alive.

Chen Zheng killed Prince Heavenly Lord and confronted the immortal manifestation summoned by Marquis Equal to Heaven. When the blue-robed Profound Immortal recognized Chen Zheng, he fled, but Chen Zheng killed Marquis Equal to Heaven as well.

• Prince Heavenly Lord threatened Chen Zheng with the Great Yan Imperial Clan, but Chen Zheng pierced his heart with a blood-colored spear and destroyed his body and primordial spirit.
• Marquis Equal to Heaven crushed a jade talisman and summoned his master, a blue-robed Profound Immortal manifestation who appeared while brewing tea.
• The blue-robed man told Marquis Equal to Heaven that his composure and Divine Finger Flick were inspired by a mighty figure he had once seen in Supreme Heaven.
• After seeing Chen Zheng, the blue-robed man dropped his teacup and fled as his manifestation shattered.
• Marquis Equal to Heaven recognized his predicament, knelt, and begged Chen Zheng for mercy, but Chen Zheng's divine spear destroyed his body and primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng sent the Pangu Holy Clan from Heavenly Ravine to Earth, where they sought Lin Zhengming, while the King of Eastern Spirit agreed to help him take the Great Yan throne. Heavenly Ravine’s departure shocked the Spirit Realm and drew the attention of Earth’s cultivation world.

• Chen Zheng told the King of Eastern Spirit that they would kill the Great Yan Emperor and make him the new emperor, and the King asked to go the following day after tending to the injured.
• Heavenly Ravine broke free of the earth and flew across the Spirit Realm, then tore through space-time and traveled to Earth.
• Great Shaman Priestess Liusu led the Pangu Holy Clan out of Heavenly Ravine and toward Earth at the Saintly Teacher’s command.
• Little Bone told the others that Chen Zheng had met the Pangu Holy Clan in Heavenly Ravine, obtained the Heaven-Opening Axe, and sent the clan to Earth.
• At Superpower Group headquarters, Old Nie and Xiao Peng detected Heavenly Ravine approaching Earth, and a mental voice summoned Lin Zhengming to meet the Pangu Holy Clan.

Chen Zheng and his companions reached Qian Capital, where the Vermilion Bird Grand Array blocked Little Bone’s attacks and summoned the Vermilion Bird spirit. After the array turned its wrath on the warship, Chen Zheng casually threw an axe toward the capital, leaving his companions shaken by what they recognized.

• The King of Eastern Spirit warned Chen Zheng about Qian Capital’s formidable Vermilion Bird Grand Array and the Great Yan imperial bloodline’s secret.
• Great Yan’s Divine Crossbow bolts attacked the warship, but Little Bone burned them to cinders with her true fire.
• Little Bone’s flames failed to penetrate the array, so she transformed into her colossal form and struck Qian Capital with a powerful sword blow.
• The array summoned the Vermilion Bird spirit, blocked Little Bone’s strike, and unleashed its oppressive might against her and the warship.
• Chen Zheng summoned an axe and casually tossed it toward Qian Capital, while Fairy Linlang and the others recognized it with alarm.

Chen Zheng’s axe shattered Qian Capital’s defenses and split the imperial capital apart, but it absorbed the Vermilion Bird’s spirit before trying to escape and being destroyed by Chen Zheng. As Ancestor Mo and Young Master Wind and Cloud arrived, Lü Ji transformed and challenged Chen Zheng to fight.

• Lü Ji’s supreme-grade halberd shattered against Chen Zheng’s axe, which then broke through the Vermilion Bird Grand Array and split Qian Capital and the imperial palace.
• The axe absorbed the Vermilion Bird’s spirit, then tried to escape through a rift in space and time.
• Chen Zheng shattered the axe and absorbed its fragments, saying that the one behind its escape had shown himself too early.
• Ancestor Mo and Young Master Wind and Cloud arrived, and Lü Ji identified Chen Zheng as the King of Eastern Spirit’s backer and the killer of General Mo, Prince Heavenly Lord, and Marquis Equal to Heaven.
• Lü Ji summoned his armor, halberd, and nightmare warhorse, then challenged Chen Zheng to fight.

Marquis Wen Lü charged Chen Zheng’s warship, but Chen Zheng crushed him with a single wisp of baleful qi. Chen Zheng then challenged Ancestor Mo and Young Master Wind and Cloud, whose attempt to read his fate failed and left him coughing blood.

• Marquis Wen Lü awakened his overwhelming baleful qi and charged Chen Zheng’s warship after Young Master Wind and Cloud ordered him to kill everyone and capture Little Bone.
• Little Bone recognized Marquis Wen Lü as Lü Bu as he thrust his halberd at Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng released a wisp of baleful qi that shattered Marquis Wen Lü’s halberd and crushed him to his knees; Marquis Wen Lü then let his body collapse while speaking of finding Diao Chan.
• Chen Zheng told Ancestor Mo and Young Master Wind and Cloud to use their abilities before he killed them and the Great Yan Emperor.
• Young Master Wind and Cloud’s runes shattered as he tried to read Chen Zheng’s fate, and he spat blood in shock that Chen Zheng’s fate appeared to be nothing.

Chen Zheng killed Young Master Wind and Cloud and Ancestor Mo after they threatened him and demanded Little Bone, then destroyed the imperial hall and confronted the Great Yan Emperor. He explained that he was helping the King of Eastern Spirit because the king was his disciple's father-in-law.

• Young Master Wind and Cloud revealed that his Feng Family belonged to the Fate-Usurping Clan and claimed Little Bone was destined to contract with him, but Little Bone cursed him.
• Chen Zheng pierced Young Master Wind and Cloud through the heart with a blood-red divine spear, pinning him to a stele in Qian Capital.
• Ancestor Mo summoned three mechanical beasts and threatened to call on Sage Mo, but Chen Zheng's ten thousand blood spirit dragons destroyed the beasts and tore apart Ancestor Mo's primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng sent the divine spear into the palace and blasted apart the emperor's hall, revealing the Great Yan Emperor protected by a golden eight-trigram array.
• The Great Yan Emperor asked why Chen Zheng supported the King of Eastern Spirit, and Chen Zheng said the king was his disciple's father-in-law.

The Great Yan Emperor revealed his Reincarnation Divine Pupils and tried to cast Chen Zheng into the Animal Path. Chen Zheng remained unharmed and showed that he had the same divine pupils, turning a mocking cultivator into a pig.

• The Great Yan Emperor sent the bloodlight divine spear back at Chen Zheng, but the spear stopped in midair.
• The Great Yan Emperor restored his ruined palace with each step and revealed that he had awakened the Reincarnation Divine Pupils.
• The Great Yan Emperor gave Chen Zheng ten breaths to choose a path of reincarnation, urging him to choose the Animal Path.
• The Great Yan Emperor struck Chen Zheng with the divine light of reincarnation, while the onlookers assumed Chen Zheng had been defeated.
• Chen Zheng revealed his own gray-white pupils, and one glance turned a mocking cultivator into a pig.

The Great Yan Emperor summoned the Dharma body of a Sage to judge Chen Zheng, leaving everyone in Qian Capital awed and afraid. The Sage’s Dharma body recognized Chen Zheng’s unusual powers and called him Teacher.

• The Great Yan Emperor revealed that he possessed Reincarnation Divine Pupils and claimed his master controlled the Great Dao of Samsara.
• The Great Yan Emperor summoned his master’s Dharma body, which appeared above the imperial palace and was identified as a Sage’s Dharma body.
• The Sage’s presence forced nearly everyone in Qian Capital, including Fairy Linlang, to kneel.
• The Great Yan Emperor accused Chen Zheng of being a future scourge and asked the Sage to slay him, while Little Bone cursed the emperor.
• The Sage’s Dharma body examined Chen Zheng and remarked that Teacher’s methods were beyond his ability to learn.

Chen Zheng confronted the Great Yan Emperor with the help of the Reincarnation Sage, who revealed that he had once been Chen Zheng’s student. After the Sage killed the Great Yan Emperor, Chen Zheng seized and melted a mysterious golden eight-trigram talisman, while Azure Cloud awakened with a newly formed cloud mark.

• The Reincarnation Sage addressed Chen Zheng as his teacher, astonishing the cultivators, and explained that he had become a Sage after a vacant seat opened in the Black-Yellow Great World.
• The Great Yan Emperor begged Chen Zheng for mercy, but the Reincarnation Sage killed him with a finger despite his golden-light eight-trigram formation.
• A golden figure appeared in a rift in the sky as the eight-trigram talisman tried to escape, but Chen Zheng stopped it and called its method a Dao-Stealing Technique.
• The Reincarnation Sage’s Dharma manifestation dispersed, and the King of Eastern Spirit brought his warship to the palace to handle the aftermath.
• Chen Zheng melted the talisman, then noticed Azure Cloud had awakened with a cloud mark between his brows that made onlookers feel as if their primordial spirits had been pierced.

Chen Zheng led the King of Eastern Spirit and the others into the Great Yan imperial tomb, where Little Bone destroyed three imperial corpses. They found a celestial river and starry sky formed by half a heavenly book, but its barrier repelled Little Bone and badly injured the Ox-Headed Demon King.

• The King of Eastern Spirit took Qian Capital and was declared the Great Yan Emperor, Li Huangtu.
• Chen Zheng opened the Li Imperial Clan's tomb, and he, Little Bone, the King of Eastern Spirit, and the Ox-Headed Demon King went inside.
• The Ox-Headed Demon King recounted how a beautiful woman he had loved turned out to be a skeleton monster, explaining his fear of corpses and skeletons.
• Three imperial corpses attacked the group, and Little Bone burned them to ash with her true fire.
• The group discovered a celestial river and starry sky beyond a stone door, but the barrier bounced Little Bone back and injured the Ox-Headed Demon King.
• Chen Zheng identified the phenomenon as half a heavenly book hidden in the tomb and said he had swallowed it before entering the Spirit Realm.