Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng destroyed the five Supreme Sects’ fleeing warships with dragons of baleful aura, then restored the Evil Dragon’s body and took Ji Yuwei into the Primordial Magnetism Palace to awaken her divine eyes. The Luofu Immortal Sect learned that Chaotic Demon Valley and Penglai Sword Palace had also been destroyed, and its cultivators suspected Chen Zheng was responsible.

• The five Supreme Sects’ warships fled after Chen Zheng destroyed the black shadow, but Chen Zheng sent five dragons of baleful aura after them and annihilated the vessels and their crews.
• The surviving cultivators begged Chen Zheng for mercy, while Little Bone told them he only wanted to kill members of the Seven Great Supreme Sects.
• Chen Zheng restored the Evil Dragon’s fleshly body and invited Ji Yuwei into the Primordial Magnetism Palace, explaining that she had divine eyes he could help awaken.
• Chen Zheng took Ji Yuwei into the palace ruins, and the barrier contracted around them as the other cultivators fled.
• Elder Lin received news that Chaotic Demon Valley and Penglai Sword Palace had been destroyed, and the Luofu Immortal Sect’s cultivators suspected Chen Zheng was behind it.

Chen Zheng found a Source Stone in the ruins of the Primordial Magnetism Palace and awakened Ji Yuwei’s Origin Divine Eyes with the Source Pearl inside it. Ji Yuwei used her new ability to see Chen Zheng’s hidden dangers, then looked at an image of a woman identical to herself.

• The Dragon Sovereign learned that Xie Hongchen had called a Demon-Slaying Assembly and sent people to capture the Great Yan Emperor, so he rushed to protect him.
• Chen Zheng shattered the Primordial Magnetism Divine Light Formation and used the Source Stone to reveal the Primordial Magnetism Palace’s massacre by the black shadow from the Tongtian Deathland.
• Chen Zheng extracted a Source Pearl from the Source Stone and told Ji Yuwei that swallowing it would awaken her divine eyes.
• Ji Yuwei swallowed the Source Pearl and awakened the Origin Divine Eyes, which let her see Little Bone’s past and glimpse the many things within Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng explained that Ji Yuwei’s Source Pupil could trace origins, and she looked again to see a woman who looked exactly like herself.

Ji Yuwei used the Origin Divine Eyes to uncover her past as the Water Spirit Great Venerable, but Fire Spirit Great Venerable arrived to seize her eyes and avenge his fallen Holy Spirit. Chen Zheng revealed the baleful fury that identified him as Vicious One Ancestor, and Fire Spirit Great Venerable fled only to be destroyed.

• Chen Zheng explained that the Origin Divine Eyes could trace the origins of people and objects, and Ji Yuwei closed her eyes to explore her past.
• A fiery light struck the ruins of the Primordial Magnetism Palace and surged underground, while the Luofu Immortal Sect cultivators retreated.
• Ji Yuwei recalled her past as the Water Spirit Great Venerable, and Fire Spirit Great Venerable appeared, revealing that his maid had helped him track her reincarnation.
• Fire Spirit Great Venerable attacked Chen Zheng with his avatar's power and two kinds of true fire, but Chen Zheng remained unharmed.
• Chen Zheng unleashed baleful fury, causing Fire Spirit Great Venerable to recognize him as Vicious One Ancestor and flee.
• Fire Spirit Great Venerable's fiery form was annihilated as it escaped into the sky.

Chen Zheng erased the Myriad Gods' Lure from Ji Yuwei and gave her a secret art to improve her holy spirits. After she returned to the Luofu Immortal Sect warship, a mysterious figure arrived to speak privately with Chen Zheng, then left him an inheritance; Little Bone recognized who the figure was from Chen Zheng's clues.

• Chen Zheng erased the Myriad Gods' Lure from Ji Yuwei and explained that her Origin Divine Eyes could help her cultivate rapidly.
• Chen Zheng sent Ji Yuwei to the Holy Spirit Realm and taught her a secret art for raising the rank of holy spirits.
• Ji Yuwei returned to the Luofu Immortal Sect warship, where the cultivators trembled before an azure-sword figure who descended beside Chen Zheng.
• The azure figure asked Chen Zheng whether the venerable patriarch was still in the world, and Chen Zheng answered that he was in the heavens and myriad worlds.
• The azure figure departed after leaving Chen Zheng a strand of sword qi as an inheritance for a future successor.
• Chen Zheng told Little Bone that the figure wielded five swords, and Little Bone realized who he was.

Chen Zheng learned that the Heaven-Burning Sword Sect had joined four other sects to assemble at Sky-Burning Mountain and challenge him, while a mysterious sword phantom defended Great Yan from the sect's attack. The five sects completed their formation and openly called for Chen Zheng to come fight, as the Dragon Sovereign headed north to witness what followed.

• Lin reported to Chen Zheng that the Heaven-Burning Sword Sect had sent people to Great Yan, and Chen Zheng departed for Sky-Burning Mountain despite her warning about its Seven Pinnacles and Xie Hongchen.
• A sword phantom emerged from a child in Great Yan's imperial palace, killed a Heaven-Burning Sword Sect elder, and forced the sect's warship to retreat.
• The Dragon Sovereign of Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain arrived to help Great Yan, recognized the phantom's strength, and rode north after sensing sword light from Sky-Burning Mountain.
• At Sky-Burning Mountain, Xie Hongchen and Half-Step True Immortals from four other sects gathered and completed the Heaven-Burning Sword Formation for their Demon-Slaying Assembly.
• Old Ancestor Tianzhan, Yuan Fu, Fang Zhao, and Cang Lansheng each challenged Chen Zheng, and the five sects' combined power surged into the formation.

Five sects assembled at Sky-Burning Mountain to trap and kill Chen Zheng, while others debated his chances and learned that a terrifying figure from Supreme Heaven had visited him. Chen Zheng answered the sects’ provocation and appeared above the mountain, where Xie Hongchen activated the Brahma Heaven Sword Formation and infused it with divine lightning.

• The King of Eastern Spirit and his allies feared for Chen Zheng, while the voice within Azure Cloud dismissed the idea that he needed their help.
• Ji Yuwei told the Luofu Immortal Sect’s sect master she planned to leave for the Holy Spirit Realm after the battle and insisted Chen Zheng would not fall.
• Elder Lin reported that a terrifying figure from Supreme Heaven had visited Chen Zheng, frightening the Luofu Immortal Sect’s deputy sect master.
• At Sky-Burning Mountain, Old Ancestor Tianzhan threatened to destroy the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty unless Chen Zheng appeared, and Chen Zheng answered by showing himself.
• Xie Hongchen activated the Brahma Heaven Sword Formation and its Burn the Heavens and Boil the Seas technique, drawing divine lightning into the formation.

Chen Zheng and Little Bone faced the five sects above Sky-Burning Mountain, where Little Bone cracked the Dao Manor’s Ancient Beast Talisman before Chen Zheng casually broke the Heaven-Burning Sword Formation. The Seven Pinnacles attacked next, but Chen Zheng killed them all with ten thousand Blood Spirit Dragons.

• Little Bone revealed its enormous true form and destroyed the phantom beasts created by Cang Lansheng’s Ancient Beast Talisman, cracking the immortal artifact with the Golden Crow Secret Art.
• After Little Bone exhausted its True Essence, Chen Zheng broke the Heaven-Burning Sword Formation with a casual point.
• Xie Hongchen summoned the Heaven-Burning Sword Sect’s Seven Pinnacles to attack Chen Zheng with their linked sword intents.
• Chen Zheng shattered the Seven Pinnacles’ sword intent and sent ten thousand Blood Spirit Dragons to tear the seven sword cultivators into a mist of blood.

At the Demon-Slaying Assembly, Xie Hongchen unleashed the Heaven-Burning Sword Sect’s Sword Dao Divine Stele as his third measure against Chen Zheng. The stele stopped before Chen Zheng and shattered, leaving the five sects’ leaders and disciples stunned.

• Cang Lansheng urged Xie Hongchen to deal with Chen Zheng, and Xie Hongchen revealed that the Heaven-Burning Sword Sect had deeper foundations than Penglai Sword Palace.
• Xie Hongchen summoned the Sword Dao Divine Stele and explained that its former sect master had sent Li Dongliu, who died at Chen Zheng’s hands, into the lower world.
• The stele unleashed overwhelming sword qi, shattered the five sects’ warships, and drove their disciples and leaders to shout for Chen Zheng’s death.
• The Sword Dao Divine Stele halted just before Chen Zheng, trembled, and shattered into pieces.

Sword Immortal Beiyue descended to the Spirit Realm and revealed that he was Chen Zheng’s granddisciple, having destroyed the Sword Dao Divine Stele to protect him. After Chen Zheng told Beiyue to finish his business, Beiyue erased Sky-Burning Mountain and the assembled five sects.

• Sword Immortal Beiyue arrived at Sky-Burning Mountain and sealed the area with his Sword Domain, while the five sects urged him to kill Chen Zheng.
• Beiyue knelt before Chen Zheng and announced that he was Chen Zheng’s granddisciple, stunning the gathered cultivators.
• Beiyue explained that he had destroyed the Sword Dao Divine Stele after discovering it was attacking Chen Zheng, and Fang Zhao and Cang Lansheng were killed when they tried to escape.
• Old Ancestor Tianzhan and Daoist Yuanfu begged Chen Zheng for their lives, but Chen Zheng told Beiyue to finish his business first.
• Beiyue unleashed his Sword Domain and erased Sky-Burning Mountain along with the five sects assembled there.

Chen Zheng learned that an ancient Myriad Transformation Demon had copied Lietian’s Ninefold Sword Domain and advised Sword Immortal Beiyue how Lietian could destroy it. After a demonic star struck Ten Directions City, the city fell into chaos and began transforming into a huge humanoid figure.

• Sword Immortal Beiyue told Chen Zheng that Lietian had fought a mysterious Ninefold Sword Domain user on Mount Buzhou and that the figure had later appeared on the Extradomain Battlefield.
• Chen Zheng identified the mysterious figure as a Myriad Transformation Demon and told Beiyue to lure it to the Purple Empyrean Palace, where his formations could destroy it.
• Beiyue vanished after promising to deliver Chen Zheng’s message, and the Dragon Sovereign learned that Beiyue had killed the Heaven-Burning Sword Sect’s experts.
• Chen Zheng and the Dragon Sovereign spotted a demonic star streaking toward Ten Directions City and discussed how it might corrupt the city or its cultivators.
• Demonic qi engulfed Ten Directions City, killing or corrupting its inhabitants as a voice rang out and an enormous humanoid shape appeared within the qi.

Ten Directions City transformed into a gigantic fiend under Cao Man’s control, and its charge carried Chen Zheng to the Emperor Immortal Gate, which Cao Man destroyed. Cao Man summoned an army and challenged Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng killed him and shattered the fiend’s demonic pearl.

• Ten Directions City became a towering fiend, and its tsunami swept away nearby towns and sects as Cao Man revealed his hideous face.
• Cao Man charged at Chen Zheng, blasting him across a thousand-li ravine to the Emperor Immortal Gate while the Dragon Sovereign was knocked aside.
• Cao Man’s fiend destroyed the Emperor Immortal Gate and absorbed the baleful qi of its slain cultivators.
• Cao Man declared his plan to slaughter the Spirit Realm and summoned an army, claiming he would conquer the world and advance to the Extradomain Battlefield.
• Chen Zheng pierced Cao Man’s head with a blood-red light, causing Cao Man, his army, and the giant fiend to collapse; Chen Zheng then shattered the fiend’s demonic pearl.

Chen Zheng discovered that the God-Control Sect and Dao Manor had fled the Spirit Realm, then returned to Qian Capital and refined Nine Mysteries Pills for Azure Cloud and the others. At Dao Manor, he encountered its manor lord Hong Xu’s trap and easily slapped away the Demon Ancestor’s released demonic thought.

• The Dragon Sovereign told Chen Zheng that the God-Control Sect and Dao Manor had abandoned the Spirit Realm, and eight sword-like cloud markings appeared in the sky.
• Chen Zheng said Azure Cloud’s ninth cloud marking would awaken when he woke, then quickly refined Nine Mysteries Pills and gave them to the group, leaving a bottle for Azure Cloud.
• Chen Zheng and Little Bone found the God-Control Sect’s grounds empty, and Chen Zheng concluded its cultivators had gone to the Holy Spirit Realm.
• At Dao Manor, a figure lured Chen Zheng into an ancient courtyard, where Hong Xu revealed that a flaw in the sealing formation had freed the Demon Ancestor’s demonic thought.
• The demonic thought lunged at Chen Zheng, who sent it flying with a single slap and called Hong Xu cowardly for not appearing in person.

Chen Zheng faced the Demon Ancestor Luohou’s summoned will in the Dao Manor’s ancient courtyard, where he easily shattered its attacks and saved the demonic thought from being destroyed. The clash ended in an explosion that erased the area, and the Dragon Sovereign sensed that Chen Zheng was no longer in the Spirit Realm.

• The demonic thought burned itself to summon Demon Ancestor Luohou’s will, while Hong Xu urged Chen Zheng to flee.
• Chen Zheng calmly brewed tea as the demonic thought completed its summoning and Luohou appeared in the ancient courtyard.
• Luohou tried to seize the demonic thought, but Chen Zheng interrupted him with tea and shattered his pressure.
• Chen Zheng saved the demonic thought and suggested nurturing it until it could become a second Luohou and devour the original.
• Luohou’s will roared, shattering as the ancient courtyard and surrounding area vanished in an earth-shaking explosion.
• At Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain, the Dragon Sovereign sensed that Chen Zheng had disappeared from the Spirit Realm.

In the Dao Diagram World, Chen Zheng was warned that the powerful Fairy Guanghan might take Little Bone, while Huang He tried to claim the beast for himself. Fairy Guanghan arrived and ignored Huang He, bowing respectfully to Chen Zheng instead.

• Azure Cloud's ninth cloud pattern flickered into view as a tremor shook the Spirit Realm's western region, prompting the Dragon Sovereign to investigate.
• Elder Yang explained to Chen Zheng that the Dao Diagram World could only be left by clearing all nine levels of the Immortal Ascension Tower.
• Huang He demanded that Chen Zheng hand over Little Bone, but Elder Yang could not persuade him to back down.
• Huang He called out to Fairy Guanghan as her carriage arrived, and she came down to the platform.
• Chang Xiao'e walked past Huang He, bowed to Chen Zheng, and addressed him as Young Master.

Chen Zheng reunited with Chang Xiao'e in the Dao Diagram World, where she treated him as her Saintly Teacher and brought him to Guanghan Hall. As she explained how she had entered the world and how its prison-like barrier worked, the Fire Cloud Hall learned Huang He had been killed and feared conflict with Guanghan Hall.

• Chang Xiao'e bowed to Chen Zheng and revealed her true name, while Huang He challenged him and the demonic thought swallowed Huang He and his followers.
• Chang Xiao'e invited Chen Zheng to Guanghan Hall, and Fire Cloud Hall cultivators arrived at the platform and learned that Huang He had been killed by Chen Zheng's demonic thought.
• Inside Guanghan Hall, Chang Xiao'e knelt before Chen Zheng and addressed him as the Saintly Teacher, while the demonic thought wondered whether he taught the Sages.
• Chen Zheng asked Chang Xiao'e to explain the Dao Diagram World, and she said demons had destroyed the Heavenly Court, she had entered through a spacetime rift, and the Dao Diagram's prison both protected and confined its inhabitants.

Fairy Guanghan explained the dangers of the Dao Diagram World as Chen Zheng learned that a successor of Demon Ancestor Luohou might be watching the demonic thought. When the Three Envoys of Fire Cloud Hall attacked Guanghan Hall and demanded the murderer of Huang He, Chen Zheng killed one of them with a single move.

• Fairy Guanghan explained that cultivators had to hunt creatures born from the yin spring and that the only escape from the Dao Diagram World was the Immortal Ascension Tower.
• Chen Zheng said Luohou's successor was likely watching the demonic thought, and Fairy Guanghan suspected the mysterious assassin who had wounded Daoist Guiyun was that successor.
• The Three Envoys of Fire Cloud Hall attacked Guanghan Hall and demanded that Fairy Guanghan hand over the killer of Huang He.
• Chen Zheng went outside to face the envoys as they threatened to seize him and force Fairy Guanghan to join Fire Cloud Hall.
• A Fire Cloud Hall envoy attacked Chen Zheng with True Immortal fire, but Chen Zheng grabbed his head and crushed it.

Chen Zheng killed Huang Chao, a True Immortal of Fire Cloud Hall, then accompanied Fairy Guanghan to the Yin Spring, where several vicious creatures had appeared. As their carriage emerged beyond the barrier, an unseen pursuer attacked with a netherworld sword aimed at the demonic-thought shadow.

• Chen Zheng killed Huang Chao with a casual strike and taunted the two surviving Fire Cloud Hall elders.
• After hearing vicious creatures stir at the Yin Spring, Chen Zheng agreed to accompany Fairy Guanghan there, while Elder Yang left to seek help from Pure Yang Palace.
• The Fire Cloud Hall elders told their hall master they expected the creatures to kill Chen Zheng and let him claim Fairy Guanghan and Guanghan Hall.
• Fairy Guanghan's carriage passed through the barrier, and the demonic-thought shadow sensed something following them.
• A sword pierced the carriage and stabbed toward the demonic thought.

Chen Zheng faced an attack from Luohou’s successor near the Yin Spring, where savage creatures gathered around a mysterious emergence. The Nether Emperor’s divine-thought avatar appeared, killed Luohou’s successor instead of Chen Zheng, and bowed to him as the Holy Lord of the Ten Hells.

• Chen Zheng caught the demonic thought and used it to devour the power of Luohou’s successor’s sword, then said he had marked the blade with a law.
• Fairy Guanghan explained that the Yin Spring lay in the dark region, where two peak True Immortal beasts and another creature emerging from the spring had gathered with a thousand savage creatures.
• Chen Zheng brought Little Bone and the demonic thought out of the carriage, but Luohou’s successor appeared and attacked the demonic thought again.
• Chen Zheng dragged Luohou’s successor out of hiding as he summoned the Nether Emperor’s divine-thought avatar, while two old men from Fire Cloud Hall watched and urged the attack.
• The Nether Emperor’s avatar killed Luohou’s successor, identified himself as Luo Yan of the Shadow Clan, and bowed to Chen Zheng as the Holy Lord of the Ten Hells.

Chen Zheng learned that the Ten Hells revered him as their Holy Lord because of his daughter, then confronted the Dao Diagram Artifact Spirit’s attempt to become a Heavenly Dao. After Luo Yan vanished, Chen Zheng and his companions defeated the savage creatures attacking them.

• Luo Yan revealed that Luo Tian, his uncle and former Nether Emperor, had recognized Chen Zheng as the Holy Lord and that Chen Zheng’s daughter had named him so before the Ten Hells.
• Chen Zheng ordered Demonic Thought to consume Luohou’s successor, and Demonic Thought grew stronger after swallowing him.
• Luo Yan killed the two Fire Cloud Hall elders who tried to flee, but a strange power struck and removed Luo Yan.
• Chen Zheng identified the power as the Dao Diagram Artifact Spirit’s effort to open a world and become its Heavenly Dao.
• Fairy Guanghan froze the savage creatures near the yin spring, but the two strongest creatures broke her attack and drove them into a frenzy.
• Little Bone devoured the weaker creatures, and Chen Zheng killed the two peak True Immortal creatures with a single strike before Little Bone ate them.

Chen Zheng rejected Dao Spirit Heavenly Venerable’s offer to help him become a Great Thousand World Sage, dismissing the Spirit’s ambitions as too limited. Dao Spirit Heavenly Venerable unleashed a powerful beast from the Yin Spring and challenged Chen Zheng to defeat the Son of the Desolate God.

• Chen Zheng realized that the lotus seed’s purified True Essence had drawn out his sealed baleful aura when he killed two Peak True Immortal beasts.
• Little Bone swallowed the beasts and returned to Chen Zheng’s shoulder as another creature struggled out of the Yin Spring.
• Dao Spirit Heavenly Venerable appeared, revealed his plan to make the Dao Diagram World a Great Thousand World, and offered Chen Zheng dominion and resources in exchange for helping him.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the offer and challenged Dao Spirit Heavenly Venerable to think beyond the Heavenly Dao and seek what lay above heaven.
• Dao Spirit Heavenly Venerable vanished and released the Son of the Desolate God from the Yin Spring, ordering Chen Zheng to defeat it.