Chapter Summaries

Emperor Haoyang revealed that he had survived the True Immortal Tribulation and tried to seize Little Bone’s Golden Crow Emperor Blood so he could control the Heavenly Book. After Chen Zheng took the book and shrugged off Haoyang’s attacks, the Eastern Emperor appeared and knelt before Chen Zheng, calling him the Saintly Teacher.

• King of Eastern Spirit recognized the figure beneath the Heavenly Book as Emperor Haoyang, the first emperor of the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty, who claimed he had waited over three thousand years for Little Bone’s Golden Crow Emperor Blood.
• Emperor Haoyang tried twice to seize Little Bone, but his magical power failed against Chen Zheng’s protection.
• Chen Zheng took the Heavenly Book, making the wondrous space vanish and leaving the group in the underground palace.
• Emperor Haoyang attacked Chen Zheng twice, but Chen Zheng’s body repelled both strikes and shattered Haoyang’s right arm.
• Emperor Haoyang summoned the Eastern Emperor, a Golden Crow remnant soul, and urged him to kill Chen Zheng.
• After seeing Chen Zheng, the Eastern Emperor knelt before him and cried, “Taiyi bows to the Saintly Teacher!”

Chen Zheng encountered Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s remnant soul inside Emperor Haoyang and promised to help resurrect him. Before Chen Zheng took Taiyi away, Taiyi gave Little Bone the Golden Crow Sacred Art and revealed that a Sage had stolen the Chaos Bell.

• The King of Eastern Spirit recognized Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and Taiyi ignored Emperor Haoyang’s demands to attack Chen Zheng.
• Taiyi killed Emperor Haoyang with Golden Crow flames after Haoyang insulted and threatened him.
• Chen Zheng learned the Chaos Bell had saved Taiyi’s remnant soul before a Sage stole it, and Taiyi explained that the bell had also torn away half of the Luo Shu.
• Taiyi gave Little Bone the Golden Crow Sacred Art, which Chen Zheng said could raise her combat strength and eventually let her reach Quasi-Sage-level mastery of secret arts.
• Chen Zheng stabilized Taiyi’s remnant soul and promised to resurrect him at the Golden Crow Ancestral Land in Supreme Heaven, then healed the Ox-Headed Demon King and stored Taiyi and the half of the Luo Shu.

Chen Zheng accepted Fairy Linlang’s key to Guixu and agreed to open it, while revealing that Guixu connected to the World Tree and was being analyzed by the Cosmic Cantilever. The chapter left the purpose of the device—and the identity of the one who had tried to seize the Heaven-Opening Axe—unresolved.

• The King of Eastern Spirit and the Ox-Headed Demon King overheard Chen Zheng and Little Bone discuss the shattered Heaven-Opening Axe, Little Bone’s wish to rob a Sage, and an unknown figure who had tried to take the axe.
• Chen Zheng explained that Azure Cloud’s second Sword Dao cloud pattern let him awaken twice daily and that he would awaken whenever Princess Hongyan was in danger.
• Princess Hongyan recalled her previous life, including Chen Zheng crushing her to death, and collapsed in terror.
• Fairy Linlang gave Chen Zheng the Spirit Realm key to Guixu and asked him to help her reach a Great Thousand World.
• Chen Zheng accepted the key and revealed that Guixu led to the World Tree and was a target of the Cosmic Cantilever’s analysis.
• Chen Zheng told Little Bone that the Cosmic Cantilever could eventually destroy all the heavens and myriad worlds, and even the thing above Heaven.

Chen Zheng and Fairy Linlang arrived at the South China Sea, where Tyrant Blade Xiang Huang confronted them with the Heavenly Saber Sect. Chen Zheng effortlessly neutralized Xiang Huang’s Heavenly Punishment strike and destroyed Xiang Huang, leaving Little Bone wondering what method he had used.

• Fairy Linlang explained that Xiang Huang was a powerful Heavenly Saber Sect cultivator wielding the supreme-grade Thunder Blade.
• Xiang Huang ordered Chen Zheng to leave, and Little Bone grew to over a thousand meters tall and incinerated the sea beasts and Heavenly Saber Sect disciples.
• Xiang Huang trapped Little Bone in a lightning net, but Little Bone escaped with the Golden Light Escape Technique.
• Xiang Huang unleashed his Heavenly Punishment strike, summoning a lightning dragon that charged at Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng blew once and dispersed the lightning dragon, then blew again, shattering Xiang Huang’s Thunder Blade and reducing Xiang Huang to a skeleton.

Chen Zheng destroyed Xiang Huang and the Heavenly Saber Sect with breaths of Chaos Wind, then claimed the second key to Guixu. Fairy Linlang realized that both keys were in Chen Zheng’s hands and became determined to enter Guixu.

• Xiang Huang summoned the Master of the Thunder Blade, but the figure recognized Chen Zheng, said he would await him on the Extradomain Battlefield, and vanished without fighting.
• Little Bone identified the figure as Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, while Chen Zheng explained that his breath carried Chaos Wind from the Heavenly Ravine.
• The Heavenly Saber Sect’s supreme elder attacked Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng blew him away along with the sect’s island and the cultivators on it.
• Chen Zheng retrieved the second key to Guixu from the sea, and Fairy Linlang resolved to use Guixu to reach a Great Thousand World.
• A gigantic whale-like creature surfaced in the South China Sea, and Little Bone eagerly wondered about eating it.

Chen Zheng led Fairy Linlang and Little Bone into the great whirlpool to open Guixu, while planning to let the East China Sea Immortal Pavilion and the sea race follow them inside. The whirlpool opened, and both groups entered, with Sea Emperor Longya believing the Immortal Pavilion’s Loose Immortals were doomed.

• Fairy Linlang led Chen Zheng toward Guixu’s entrance in the great whirlpool, while Little Bone pointed out that others were secretly watching them.
• Fairy Linlang asked Chen Zheng to close Guixu’s entrance after they entered, but he said he wanted the Immortal Pavilion and sea race to come in so he could deal with them together.
• Chen Zheng stepped into the center of the great whirlpool, and Fairy Linlang followed with a Water-Avoiding Pearl.
• The East China Sea Immortal Pavilion and the sea race arrived at the whirlpool, where Sea Emperor Longya and the old man in white exchanged taunts.
• A beam of mystic light shot from the whirlpool, which stopped moving as Guixu opened and released a surge of spiritual energy.
• The old man in white led the Immortal Pavilion cultivators into Guixu, and Sea Emperor Longya followed with the sea race, expecting the Immortal Pavilion’s Loose Immortals to die there.

Fairy Linlang, Chen Zheng, and Little Bone entered Guixu, where the Immortal Pavilion and sea race revealed their plans and summoned powerful figures. When Sea Emperor Qinglin and Loose Immortal Lei Jiuxiao recognized Chen Zheng, they both knelt and begged him to spare their lives.

• Fairy Linlang entered Guixu and rapidly reached the True Essence cultivation of a Four-Tribulation Loose Immortal without triggering Heavenly Tribulation.
• Pavilion Master Mu and Pavilion Master Lin revealed that the Immortal Pavilion had arranged for Fairy Linlang to find the Key to Guixu.
• The Immortal Pavilion revived Loose Immortal Lei Jiuxiao, while the sea race summoned Sea Emperor Qinglin.
• The Immortal Pavilion and sea race leaders urged their champions to kill Chen Zheng, citing his past killings and destruction.
• Sea Emperor Qinglin and Loose Immortal Lei Jiuxiao recognized Chen Zheng, dropped to their knees, and begged him to spare their lives.

Chen Zheng was revealed as the legendary Savage who had devastated the Spirit Realm three thousand years earlier. When the Immortal Pavilion and sea race urged Lei Jiuxiao and Sea Emperor Qinglin to kill him, the two instead slaughtered their own followers and bowed to Chen Zheng.

• Lei Jiuxiao recognized Chen Zheng as the Savage who had killed the Spirit Realm’s strongest cultivators three thousand years earlier, and Sea Emperor Qinglin recalled surviving after Chen Zheng blasted him into Guixu.
• Fairy Linlang connected Chen Zheng to the legend of Wuji Dao Lord Jiang Ziya, while Sea Emperor Longya and Deputy Pavilion Master Lin urged the two Loose Immortals to attack Chen Zheng.
• The sea race and Immortal Pavilion members attacked Chen Zheng, and Lei Jiuxiao and Sea Emperor Qinglin turned on their own followers instead.
• Lei Jiuxiao and Sea Emperor Qinglin wiped out the sea race and the Immortal Pavilion’s Loose Immortals, then apologized to Chen Zheng and refused to fight him.

Chen Zheng resisted Guixu’s attempt to expel him, then used the Cosmic Cantilever to scan Guixu and retrieve a mysterious dark seed. As he examined it, his eyes transformed into nothingness, frightening Little Bone.

• Sea Emperor Qinglin told Lei Jiuxiao and Fairy Linlang about powerful beings he had seen enter Guixu, including a monkey with Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils, while Little Bone urged him to leave for a Great Thousand World.
• Chen Zheng said Guixu’s cleansing had begun, and its spiritual-energy tide swept Fairy Linlang, Lei Jiuxiao, and Sea Emperor Qinglin into a world passage bound for Supreme Heaven.
• Guixu’s laws tried to expel Chen Zheng, but he shattered the spiritual-energy tides and silenced Guixu with a warning.
• Chen Zheng used the Cosmic Cantilever to scan Guixu and found something hidden at the center of its crisscrossing Guixu Roads.
• Chen Zheng drew out a dark object resembling a seed, and his eyes changed into pure nothingness as he examined it, terrifying Little Bone.

Chen Zheng discovered a baby girl inside the black pearl, absorbed Guixu’s spiritual energy to replenish his cultivation, and returned to Great Yan. As Azure Cloud advanced and Chen Zheng prepared to leave for Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain, Great Hong’s state preceptor invited the Great Yan Emperor to witness an immortal fetus.

• Chen Zheng used his eyes to reveal a baby girl inside the black pearl, then sealed it away after it began devouring his spiritual energy.
• Chen Zheng swallowed most of Guixu’s spiritual energy, restored his True Essence to the Nascent Soul Stage, and dismissed Guixu’s warning that the pearl could cause a calamity.
• Chen Zheng told the King of Eastern Spirit that the East China Sea Immortal Pavilion had been destroyed and its sea-folk experts wiped out, and said he would leave Great Yan after Azure Cloud grew his fifth cloud marking.
• Azure Cloud announced that he had grown his third cloud marking, and Chen Zheng said he planned to visit Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain.
• Zhuge Yu, Great Hong’s state preceptor, invited the Great Yan Emperor to Tian Capital to witness an immortal fetus.

Chen Zheng accompanied the King of Eastern Spirit to Great Hong to see the Immortal Fetus, despite his True Essence having mysteriously vanished. When Great Hong tried to humiliate the King with the Profound Light Path, Chen Zheng shattered it with one step, leaving the imperial court and onlookers stunned.

• Zhuge Yu described the Immortal Fetus and invited the King of Eastern Spirit and Chen Zheng to Great Hong.
• Little Bone noticed Chen Zheng's True Essence had disappeared, but Chen Zheng agreed to attend the Immortal Fetus Assembly with the King of Eastern Spirit.
• Zhuge Yu led them to Great Hong's imperial palace, where the Profound Light Path's pressure nearly forced the King of Eastern Spirit to his knees.
• Chen Zheng took the King's place and stepped onto the Profound Light Path as the crowd mocked him.
• Chen Zheng's first step split the Profound Light Path and cracked the street toward the imperial palace, while the butcher who had mocked him begged for mercy.

Chen Zheng and his companions were insulted after arriving at the Great Hong imperial palace, so they visited the training grounds, where Little Bone accepted a challenge from the factions’ spirit beasts. She transformed into a hundred-meter-tall Tyrannosaurus rex and swallowed every beast in one gulp.

• The King of Eastern Spirit resolved to cultivate after Chen Zheng broke the Profound Light Path and spared him from humiliation before Great Hong.
• Little Bone complained about being placed in a remote courtyard, but Chen Zheng told her to wait until the next day before acting.
• Chen Zheng, Little Bone, and the King of Eastern Spirit went to the training grounds and found Prince Chu Li and Prince Yinglong wagering over a beast fight.
• A demon cultivator challenged Chen Zheng to send Little Bone against the other factions’ spirit beasts, while Chu Li mocked him and offered a spirit pill for Little Bone.
• Chen Zheng told the gathered factions to send all their beasts at once, and Little Bone transformed into a giant Tyrannosaurus rex and swallowed them all.

Little Bone won the spirit-beast contest, while Chen Zheng discovered that the being sealed in his bead had purified his True Essence. At the Immortal Fetus Assembly, the fetus emerged in five-colored light and swallowed the cultivators’ magical treasures, as Zhuge Yu revealed himself as Kong Yu of the Kong Family.

• Little Bone swallowed Chu Li’s golden-eyed lion and other spirit beasts, winning the contest and frightening the gathered factions.
• The factions paid their stakes, and Little Bone befriended Xianyin before Chen Zheng left with her.
• Chen Zheng told Little Bone that the baby girl gestating inside his bead had returned his True Essence in purified form and that her birth could cause the heavens and myriad worlds to collapse.
• At the Immortal Fetus Assembly, Zhuge Yu said royal blood from four imperial dynasties would open the fetus, and the four rulers each offered a drop of blood.
• The immortal fetus stirred and released five-colored light that swallowed the cultivators’ magical treasures.
• Zhuge Yu knelt before the figure in the light and identified himself as Kong Yu, a descendant of the Kong Family of the Black-Yellow Great World.

Kong Yu revealed that the Immortal Fetus held a mythical peacock demon, who swallowed the fleeing Half-Step True Immortals and threatened the other cultivators. After recognizing Chen Zheng, the demon remembered their past and fell to his knees before him.

• Kong Yu revealed his identity and said the figure emerging from the Immortal Fetus would eat the cultivators, while the Half-Step True Immortals tried to flee.
• The peacock demon stopped the fleeing cultivators and swallowed them, then spared Chu Li after learning of his clan’s connection to the Kong Clan.
• The demon’s peacock phantom appeared, and its pressure forced nearly everyone in the hall to their knees except Chen Zheng and the Great Hong Emperor.
• Kong Yu and Chu Li urged the demon to eat Chen Zheng and Little Bone, but the demon recognized Chen Zheng and asked why he looked familiar.
• Chen Zheng called the demon a feathered beast, triggering the demon’s sealed memories, and the demon fell to his knees before him.

Kong Xuan emerged from the Immortal Fetus, recognized Chen Zheng, and pleaded to leave, while Chen Zheng’s party forced him to reveal the fetus’s story. After Kong Xuan killed Chu Li and Kong Yu and wiped out the other factions, he agreed to explain the Immortal Fetus.

• Kong Xuan knelt before Chen Zheng, tried to flee in the Immortal Fetus, and was pulled back by Chen Zheng.
• Kong Xuan pleaded to leave and asked Chen Zheng to let him go, while Chen Zheng asked why he had sealed himself inside the Immortal Fetus.
• Chu Li attacked Chen Zheng, but Kong Xuan struck him down and erased his primordial spirit.
• Kong Xuan offered to kill Kong Yu for Chen Zheng, then erased Kong Yu’s primordial spirit when Chen Zheng declined to intervene.
• At Little Bone’s instruction, Kong Xuan killed everyone from the hostile factions except Prince Yinglong and Big Sister Xianyin.
• Chen Zheng promised to let Kong Xuan leave if he explained the Immortal Fetus, and Kong Xuan agreed after hearing that Chen Zheng had crushed the Heaven-Opening Axe.

Kong Xuan revealed that the Immortal Fetus came from an epoch before Pangu and might help him survive the coming Epoch Calamity. Chen Zheng returned it to him but warned that it could not guarantee his survival, and Kong Xuan disclosed that he had eaten the corpse of the immortal found inside it.

• The mythical great demon sealed Tianhong Hall and explained that the Immortal Fetus predated Pangu’s creation of the Primordial Chaos Epoch.
• Kong Xuan claimed the Immortal Fetus gave him a seventy-percent chance of surviving an Epoch Calamity, while Chen Zheng allowed him to keep it.
• Chen Zheng examined the Immortal Fetus and warned Kong Xuan that relying on it would not make surviving the calamity easy.
• Kong Xuan revealed that a dead immortal from the previous epoch had been inside the Immortal Fetus and that he had eaten the corpse.
• A hideous woman's face emerged from Kong Xuan's contorted face, horrifying the King of Eastern Spirit, Prince Yinglong, and Princess Xianyin.

A monstrous face emerged from Kong Xuan and repeatedly attacked Chen Zheng, who held it back with tea. After it swallowed the transformed Great Hong Emperor and grew stronger, Chen Zheng summoned a crystal cube that destroyed it, though its final words were cut short.

• A woman's face broke free of Kong Xuan and lunged at Chen Zheng, but he stopped it with splashes of tea.
• Kong Xuan recognized the face as belonging to the immortal corpse he had eaten and swore he had not known it was inside him.
• The Great Hong Emperor transformed into a monster and tried to swallow the woman's face, but she swallowed him instead.
• The woman's face urged Kong Xuan to join her in attacking Chen Zheng, but Kong Xuan resisted his brief temptation and prostrated himself.
• The strengthened face lunged at Chen Zheng, who revealed a crystal cube that disintegrated it as it screamed a name beginning with “Yu.”

Chen Zheng explained that the Immortal Fetus was the Boat of the Other Shore and discussed how Kong Xuan and the Great Hong Emperor were entangled in hidden schemes. Kong Xuan asked to see the Heaven-Opening Axe, and Chen Zheng revealed that its original owner might still be alive.

• Chen Zheng identified the Immortal Fetus as the Boat of the Other Shore, which immortals had used to cross the Immortal Epoch's cataclysm.
• Chen Zheng gave Xianyin an ancient jade and said she would awaken within a year, then Kong Xuan sent her and Prince Yinglong out of Heavenly Hong Treasure Hall.
• Chen Zheng and Kong Xuan discussed how the Great Hong Emperor and Kong Xuan might have been pieces in schemes laid by the master of Purple Empyrean Palace and Spirit Mountain.
• Kong Xuan asked to see the Heaven-Opening Axe, and Chen Zheng explained that it had regained its form but needed to devour the Pangu Banner, Taiji Diagram, and Chaos Bell to become whole.
• Chen Zheng said the Heaven-Opening Axe's original owner was still alive, leaving Kong Xuan disbelieving.

Chen Zheng headed toward Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain after leaving the Spirit Realm capital, while Kong Xuan fled in an Immortal Fetus that Chen Zheng said could not protect him from the epoch calamity. At the Dragon Sovereign’s hall, Crown Prince Shenhuang attacked Princess Zhengyue, but the Vicious One appeared just as Shenhuang tried to bite her.

• Kong Xuan left the Heavenly Hong Treasure Hall in an Immortal Fetus, and Chen Zheng explained that it would not save him from the epoch calamity.
• Azure Cloud gained a fifth cloud marking, and Chen Zheng departed after expressing hope that the child would awaken within a year.
• Chen Zheng heard Princess Zhengyue calling for the Vicious One and flew toward Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain.
• Crown Prince Shenhuang defeated the Dragon Sovereign, bound Princess Zhengyue, and threatened to eat her to awaken a supreme bloodline.
• As Crown Prince Shenhuang lunged at Princess Zhengyue, Chen Zheng appeared and shattered all of Shenhuang’s dragon teeth with his bite.

Chen Zheng saved Princess Zhengyue from Crown Prince Shenhuang, then killed the prince despite his threats about his Supreme Heaven lineage. As Little Bone ate the dragon corpse, a phantom appeared and accused Chen Zheng of killing its son.

• Chen Zheng arrived at Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain, saved Princess Zhengyue, and killed two Holy Dragon Guards with a blood-colored divine spear.
• Crown Prince Shenhuang threatened Chen Zheng with his father, Dragon Emperor Hunzhu, and claimed he was destined to awaken as a great figure from the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations.
• Chen Zheng dismissed Shenhuang's boasts and pinched him to death, shattering his primordial spirit.
• Little Bone roasted and ate Shenhuang's dragon corpse while Chen Zheng praised the purified True Essence that had enabled his attack.
• A phantom appeared in the Dragon Sovereign's hall, covered Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain in terrifying pressure, and accused Chen Zheng of killing its son.