Chapter Summaries

The old man's phantom awakened Xiangliu and ordered him to subdue Chen Zheng, but Xiangliu recognized Chen Zheng as the Saintly Teacher and prostrated himself before him. Long Qi escaped, and the old man's phantom offered Chen Zheng a half-volume of Military Strategy in exchange for his life.

• The old man's phantom claimed Xiangliu owed him for freeing him and commanded Xiangliu to possess Chen Zheng.
• Xiangliu awakened, identified himself as the ancient Wu Clan great shaman, and filled Immortal-Slaying Valley with terrifying pressure.
• Xiangliu recognized Chen Zheng, prostrated himself, and addressed him as the Saintly Teacher.
• Long Qi used his vital blood essence to flee Immortal-Slaying Valley, while Chen Zheng left Xiangliu to deal with the old man's phantom.
• The old man's phantom pleaded for his life and offered Chen Zheng the half-volume of Military Strategy he had stolen from the sacred mountain.

Chen Zheng exposed the old man's phantom's bluff and claimed to have defeated Bai Wudi, then obtained the hidden half-volume of Military Strategy. Xiangliu swallowed the phantom's remnants and pursued the fleeing cultivators, swallowing the red-robed demon cultivator as well.

• The old man's phantom killed Immortal Spirit Boy to hide the location of Military Strategy and claimed that Bai family's defenses made him immune to Chen Zheng's soul-searching.
• Little Bone challenged the phantom to summon Bai Wudi, and the phantom hesitated, revealing that he feared his ancestor.
• Chen Zheng said he had slapped Bai Wudi off Divine Martial Mountain and left a nick in his saber, which the phantom recognized as true.
• Little Bone ordered the phantom killed, and it shattered into immortal light; Chen Zheng caught some of the light and retrieved the hidden half-lump of iron from the valley.
• Xiangliu swallowed the remaining immortal light and chased the fleeing cultivators, gulping down the red-robed demon cultivator despite his pleas.

Chen Zheng analyzed the Military Strategy treasure and learned its powers, while Xiangliu revealed that he had awakened after the ancient war between the witches and demons. Chen Zheng suspected the Immortal Epoch’s forces were behind the return of ancient beings and sent Xiangliu to the Netherworld.

• Xiangliu swallowed every cultivator in Immortal-Slaying Valley, then greeted Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng scanned the half-volume of Military Strategy and discovered that its twelve divine steles could command armies across the myriad worlds.
• Xiangliu told Chen Zheng that he had regained consciousness after dying in the Primordial Wilderness war between the witches and demons.
• Little Bone explained that other mythological figures had reappeared and described the Immortal Fetuses, the Boat of the Other Shore, and an immortal corpse seeking to survive another epoch.
• Chen Zheng suggested that beings from the Immortal Epoch might be behind the ancient figures’ return, then sent Xiangliu to the Netherworld.

Chen Zheng sent Corpse Immortal Ji to take Xiangliu to the Netherworld, then went to Chaotic Demon Valley, where Long Qi had warned his father that Chen Zheng would come for revenge. Chen Zheng broke the valley’s Dragon-Phoenix Grand Array with a pebble, leaving the leopard-headed demon cultivator suddenly fearing for his neck.

• Corpse Immortal Ji took Xiangliu to the Netherworld and reported that Nüba had reached the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, the First Ghost King was nearing it, and Liuli had entered an imperial palace.
• Chen Zheng told Little Bone that the Heavenly Punishment Divine Lord was Old Seven of the Nine Tribulations, lord of Heavenly Retribution Forbidden City, and a traitor.
• Long Qi warned the master of Chaotic Demon Valley that Chen Zheng was coming, but the valley’s demon cultivators trusted their Dragon-Phoenix Grand Array and planned to call on a demon god if needed.
• Chen Zheng arrived outside Chaotic Demon Valley and shook it by tossing pebbles at the array.
• The leopard-headed demon cultivator taunted Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng’s pebble shattered the Dragon-Phoenix Grand Array, and the demon cultivator felt a chill around his neck.

Chen Zheng effortlessly broke Chaotic Demon Valley’s defenses and survived its strongest attacks, prompting the valley master Long Xiang to summon a Demon God. The summoned Demon God knelt before Chen Zheng and addressed him as Ancestor Chen.

• Chen Zheng shattered the Dragon-Phoenix Grand Array with a pebble, then broke Jin Ling’s golden wings when the demon attacked him.
• Long Qi urged his father, Long Xiang, to flee, but Long Xiang transformed into a phoenix-shaped bird and blasted Chen Zheng and Little Bone with Heavenly Demon Fire.
• Chen Zheng and Little Bone emerged unharmed after the Heavenly Demon Fire disintegrated.
• Long Xiang summoned a Demon God manifestation, and the demon cultivators bowed as it opened its eyes and approached Chen Zheng.
• The Demon God clasped his hands in salute, knelt before Chen Zheng, and introduced himself as Ao Kun.

Ao Kun revealed that Chen Zheng had once guided him, and the Demon God prostrated himself before Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen. Long Xiang summoned the Feather Emperor to save Chaotic Demon Valley, but she arrived and embraced Chen Zheng as her husband.

• Long Qi recognized the pattern of powerful beings submitting to Chen Zheng and prepared drops of blood essence so he could escape.
• Ao Kun thanked Chen Zheng for guiding him and bowed fully before him, terrifying the demon cultivators of Chaotic Demon Valley.
• Long Xiang used the Feather Clan's divine talisman to summon the Feather Emperor, and Long Qi grew more wary as her phoenix carriage arrived.
• The Feather Emperor stepped from her carriage and asked Long Xiang who the villain was.
• The leopard-headed demon cultivator pointed out Chen Zheng, but the Feather Emperor went to him, called him her husband, and threw herself into his arms.

Chen Zheng faced the blood qilin manifestation summoned through Long Qi’s qilin bloodline after it shattered Ao Kun’s manifestation and Feng Fei’s barrier. Chen Zheng drew a sword and destroyed the blood qilin, leaving the demon cultivators’ last hope gone.

• Long Qi fled using a blood-essence secret technique, but Ao Kun pulled him back and Long Qi transformed into a blood qilin.
• The blood qilin shattered Ao Kun’s manifestation and broke Feng Fei’s immortal-light barrier with its bloody attack.
• Long Xiang and the demon cultivators believed the blood qilin would defeat Chen Zheng and save them.
• The blood qilin attacked again, and Chen Zheng told Ao Kun and Feng Fei to let him handle it.
• Chen Zheng’s sword rang out and its beam destroyed the blood qilin manifestation.

Chen Zheng destroyed Chaotic Demon Valley and entered the phoenix carriage with Feather Empress Feng Fei while Little Bone, Princess Zhengyue, and the Feather Clan maids waited outside. A dragon-and-phoenix omen appeared, and Chen Zheng and Feng Fei’s primordial spirits arrived before a mysterious gray-white divine throne.

• Chen Zheng ordered Ao Kun to kill the demons in Chaotic Demon Valley, and Ao Kun destroyed them all before the valley master’s primordial spirit broke apart while warning that a woman wielded the Ancestral Qilin’s inheritance.
• Feng Fei took Chen Zheng into her phoenix carriage, but Princess Zhengyue was thrown out, and Little Bone explained that the princess was from Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain.
• The Dragon Desolation Battle Flag recounted Chen Zheng’s feats in the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations, enthralling the Feather Clan maids, Little Bone, and Princess Zhengyue.
• A dragon-and-phoenix phenomenon appeared above the carriage, and Chen Zheng and Feng Fei’s primordial spirits merged and traveled through strange visions.
• Chen Zheng and Feng Fei’s primordial spirits reached a mysterious place with an empty gray-white divine throne, which Feng Fei feared to look at as Chen Zheng called it “Loneliness above the Nine Heavens.”

Chen Zheng confronted the mysterious gray-white throne, but a little girl sealed inside a lotus seed emerged and caused the skies across countless worlds to split. After Chen Zheng sealed her again, he and Feng Fei returned to their bodies in the Spirit Realm, where their companions speculated about the upheaval.

• Feng Fei recognized the mysterious place as the realm above the Nine Heavens that her Feather Clan ancestor had sought before falling.
• The gray-white throne attacked Chen Zheng, but the lotus-sealed girl emerged and shattered it.
• The girl's hand split the mysterious place and skies across countless worlds, until Chen Zheng forced her back into the sealed lotus seed.
• The girl called herself Creation, claimed she had helped Zhengyue, and threatened to remake humanity before Chen Zheng drew her back into his primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng and Feng Fei were forced out of the mysterious place and returned to their bodies in the Spirit Realm.
• Little Bone and the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag joked that Chen Zheng and Feng Fei had split the sky, while the Feather Clan maids rolled their eyes.

Chen Zheng headed for the Penglai Sword Palace, which he intended to destroy before leaving the Spirit Realm. At Nine Mysteries Mountain, he brushed off the Sword Palace’s disciple and shattered the mountain’s stone steps with a single step.

• Chen Zheng sent Princess Zhengyue and the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag into his primordial spirit to continue training with Creation, while resolving to train Little Bone himself.
• Chen Zheng learned that the holy monk and little monk had left Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain, then told the Dragon Sovereign he would stay in the Spirit Realm and deal with a few enemies.
• Chen Zheng identified the Penglai Sword Palace as his next target and vanished toward it.
• At Nine Mysteries Mountain, Chen Zheng arrived during the Penglai Sword Palace’s disciple examination, where the crowd mocked him and a Sword Palace disciple attacked him.
• Chen Zheng’s body withstood the disciple’s sword strike, and he stepped onto the mountain’s stone steps, causing them to crack and explode as Nine Mysteries Mountain shook.

Chen Zheng stormed Penglai Sword Palace, destroying its defenses and overwhelming its disciples and palace masters with his immense strength and Blood Spirit Dragons. The first palace master, Lu You, attacked him with the Mystic Heaven Divine Sword and Supreme Mysterious Maiden Sword, but Chen Zheng stood unharmed and dismissed the strike.

• Chen Zheng shattered the Nine Mysteries Mountain steps and broke the Nine Heavens Divine Formation with a leap.
• Penglai Sword Palace disciples attacked Chen Zheng, but he blasted them away and shattered their spirit swords.
• Chen Zheng unleashed ten thousand Blood Spirit Dragons, which destroyed the Mysterious Maiden Sword Formation and reduced Penglai Sword Palace to ruins.
• The Blood Spirit Dragons tore apart the fifth palace master before the first palace master, Lu You, appeared and destroyed the dragons with a sword strike.
• Lu You attacked Chen Zheng with the Mystic Heaven Divine Sword and Supreme Mysterious Maiden Sword, but Chen Zheng took the blow without harm and said the first palace master had shown all he could do.

Chen Zheng killed a Penglai Sword Palace master while the remaining palace masters repeatedly called for the Mysterious Maiden, who never answered. When their pleas failed, Lu You killed the other four palace masters and sacrificed himself to send the Mystic Heaven Divine Sword into the ruins, intending to revive the strongest palace master.

• Chen Zheng decapitated a Penglai Sword Palace master with a casual grab, leaving five palace masters alive.
• The palace masters called upon the Mysterious Maiden three times, but she did not descend or respond.
• Chen Zheng warned the palace masters that they had one final chance, while Little Bone mocked their unanswered summons.
• Lu You beheaded the other four palace masters with the Mystic Heaven Divine Sword.
• Lu You stabbed himself and sent the Mystic Heaven Divine Sword into the Sword Palace ruins, declaring that he would bring back the strongest palace master.

Chen Zheng faced Dugu Jiu, the revived strongest Palace Master of the Penglai Sword Palace, and effortlessly destroyed him after Dugu Jiu’s attacks failed. The First Palace Master detonated his primordial spirit, causing Nine Mysteries Mountain to collapse and bringing the Penglai Sword Palace to an end.

• The First Palace Master revived Dugu Jiu, who opened his eyes and used the Laws of Thunder and Metal to attack Chen Zheng with the Mystic Heaven Divine Sword and countless swordlike plants and trees.
• Chen Zheng remained unharmed as the swords shattered against his body and the Mystic Heaven Divine Sword broke.
• Dugu Jiu recognized Chen Zheng, demanded that the First Palace Master summon the Mysterious Maiden, and learned that she had ignored the First Palace Master’s attempts.
• Dugu Jiu fled toward the sky, but Chen Zheng caught and killed him.
• The First Palace Master detonated his primordial spirit, splitting Nine Mysteries Mountain with fissures until it collapsed, and the cultivators realized the Penglai Sword Palace was no more.

After destroying Penglai Sword Palace, Chen Zheng saw a dragon and the Three Lives Flower appear in a vision across the Spirit Realm. He learned that the flower was believed to grant its owner three lives and eventual immortality, then left the cultivators stunned by asking whether they had heard of Seven Lives Grass.

• After Nine Mysteries Mountain collapsed, Chen Zheng looked north, and a dragon's silhouette appeared before all living beings in the Spirit Realm.
• The dragon vanished, and the Three Lives Flower appeared in its place before disappearing moments later.
• A brocade-robed young man told Chen Zheng that the vision had revealed the legendary Three Lives Flower, said to grant three lives and ultimately make its owner immortal.
• The young man explained that Primordial Magnetism Palace's last palace master had left behind the legend of the flower before the sect's legacy was lost.
• When the young man asked whether Chen Zheng thought little of the flower, Chen Zheng asked if he had heard of Seven Lives Grass, leaving him and the other cultivators dumbfounded.

Chen Zheng reached Tongtian Deathland, where the Spirit Realm’s major sects had gathered to seek the Three Lives Flower. After Zhuang Qing attacked him and his Blood-Drinking Sword shattered, Chen Zheng entered the deathland while the sects misread Zhuang Qing’s death as the sword’s backlash.

• The young man in brocade robes guessed Chen Zheng was heading to Tongtian Deathland and concluded he had spared the survivors because he did not kill indiscriminately.
• Five of the Spirit Realm’s seven great upper sects sent their Half-Step True Immortals into Tongtian Deathland while their elders remained with the warships.
• Zhuang Qing attacked Chen Zheng with the Blood-Drinking Sword, but the sword broke against Chen Zheng and its broken half killed Zhuang Qing.
• Chen Zheng entered Tongtian Deathland as violent rumbling erupted inside, and the black-robed elder dismissed him as a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator who would die there.
• Ji Yuwei watched Chen Zheng’s path and suspected the events were not as simple as the other cultivators believed.

Chen Zheng and Little Bone crossed the Sea of Bones, where Ancestor Qianji revealed his identity and tried to capture Chen Zheng. After the Half-Step True Immortals sacrificed Chen Zheng to the revived evil dragon, the dragon recognized him, stopped its attack, and prostrated itself before him.

• Chen Zheng erased the Sea of Bones with a casual sweep after Little Bone’s true fire strengthened the bones.
• Ancestor Qianji warned Chen Zheng about the Faceless Fierce God, then revealed he recognized Chen Zheng and attacked him with the Divine Fire Shroud.
• The Faceless Fierce God pursued the Half-Step True Immortals alongside a revived evil dragon, and the group rushed toward Chen Zheng.
• Xuanjizi urged Ancestor Qianji to send Chen Zheng to the evil dragon as a sacrifice, and Ancestor Qianji used his secret art to move Chen Zheng in front of it.
• The evil dragon halted before Chen Zheng, regained a trace of awareness, and prostrated itself, while the Faceless Fierce God’s power subsided.

Chen Zheng was revealed as the Vicious One from a buried Spirit Realm legend, and the resurrected Evil Dragon obeyed him. After Zhou Baihe attacked and was killed by the Evil Dragon, Chen Zheng ordered it to kill the fleeing Half-Step True Immortals.

• The Evil Dragon called Chen Zheng the Vicious One, prompting the five Half-Step True Immortals to recall the legend of the Spirit Realm's Number One Fiend.
• Little Bone pointed out that the Fierce God statue resembled Chen Zheng, and the Evil Dragon confirmed it had carved the statue in his likeness.
• The Evil Dragon said Chen Zheng had destroyed the strongest combatants in the Spirit Realm three thousand years earlier and that the blast had destroyed its body.
• Zhou Baihe attacked Chen Zheng, but the Evil Dragon blocked the strike and reduced Zhou Baihe to shattered bones.
• Chen Zheng ordered the Evil Dragon to kill the fleeing Half-Step True Immortals, and it turned Ancestor Qianji to ashes.

Chen Zheng killed Cao Bao as Tongtian Deathland expanded to engulf the ruins of the Primordial Magnetism Palace, revealing the dead Half-Step True Immortals to the gathered sects. A mysterious dark figure appeared above them with the Three Lives Wondrous Flower and invited Little Bone to ascend to immortality.

• Evil Dragon killed Xuanjizi and Ming Zhan, leaving Cao Bao as the last surviving Half-Step True Immortal.
• Cao Bao tried to escape Tongtian Deathland with his talisman seal, but Chen Zheng caught him and crushed his neck, destroying his primordial spirit.
• Tongtian Deathland expanded to include the Primordial Magnetism Palace ruins, and Chen Zheng, Little Bone, Evil Dragon, and Cao Bao's corpse appeared before the gathered cultivators.
• Little Bone revealed that Zhou Baihe, Ancestor Qianji, Xuanjizi, and Ming Zhan had all died, leaving the sect cultivators in shock.
• A dark figure appeared above Tongtian Deathland with the Three Lives Wondrous Flower and asked Little Bone to follow him and ascend to immortality.

A mysterious figure from the Primordial Magnetism Palace revealed that he had used the Three Lives Flower to sustain Evil Dragon and sought to ascend by provoking Chen Zheng, the legendary Vicious One. After Chen Zheng crushed him, the figure revived and summoned an immortal road leading to the supreme Immortal Domain.

• The dark figure used Primordial Magnetism Divine Light to shatter the cultivators’ magic treasures and absorb their metal essence, then revealed that Chen Zheng was the Vicious One who had killed his disciple three thousand years earlier.
• The dark figure attacked Little Bone, but Chen Zheng disintegrated his Primordial Magnetism Divine Light and crushed his head when he tried again.
• The dark figure revived through the Three Lives Flower and explained that he had deliberately sought a third death to summon an immortal road.
• The dark figure held the Three Lives Flower aloft and called to the sky, causing an immortal road to appear above Tongtian Deathland.

The dark figure summoned the Immortal Road with the Three Lives Flower and tried to claim Little Bone, but Chen Zheng stepped onto the road unharmed. A female immortal recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen and withdrew the Immortal Road, leaving the dark figure furious and setting up his destruction.

• A Tribulation Transcendence cultivator from Emperor Immortal Gate stepped onto the Immortal Road and was erased by its immortal light.
• The dark figure revealed that the Three Lives Flower was the key to the Immortal Road and demanded that Chen Zheng give him Little Bone.
• Chen Zheng stepped onto the Immortal Road unharmed, and a female immortal called him Ancestor Chen before making the road vanish.
• The dark figure failed to restore the Immortal Road, and the Three Lives Flower shattered.
• The dark figure lunged at Chen Zheng, who destroyed him with a single point; Ji Yuwei saw a strand of hostile energy come undone.