Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng faced the Desolate God's son and survived its attacks, then watched it summon its father’s Dharma body. The Desolate God’s Dharma body knelt before Chen Zheng and addressed him as the Supreme Grand Commander.

• The Spirit of the Dao Diagram sent the Desolate God's son to attack Chen Zheng, but its hand shattered against him.
• The Desolate God's son recovered its hand and struck Chen Zheng a thousand times, yet its body broke apart, leaving only its head.
• The Spirit of the Dao Diagram summoned the Desolate God by allowing one of his Dharma bodies into the Dao Diagram World.
• The Desolate God's Dharma body appeared and knelt before Chen Zheng, paying respects to the Supreme Grand Commander.

Chen Zheng’s past identity as the Supreme Grand Commander was revealed when the Desolate God’s manifestation paid him respect and delivered the Ancestral God’s request to meet. After the Desolate God and his son were sent away, Chen Zheng said the Dao Diagram World might be useful for nurturing a Holy Emperor.

• The Desolate God’s manifestation addressed Chen Zheng as the Supreme Grand Commander and said the Ancestral God hoped to see him before his great annihilation.
• The Spirit of the Dao Diagram challenged Chen Zheng’s identity, but the Desolate God’s manifestation destroyed its avatar and explained that Chen Zheng had led a battle at God-Demon Crossing to save the myriad worlds.
• Chen Zheng agreed to visit the Ancestral God and told the Desolate God to take his youngest son back.
• The Spirit of the Dao Diagram teleported the Desolate God’s manifestation and his son out of the Dao Diagram World, then claimed Chen Zheng could not escape its trap.
• Chen Zheng said the Dao Diagram World might help nurture a Holy Emperor, shocking Demonic Thought and Fairy Guanghan.

Chen Zheng returned to Guanghan Hall after dealing with the Dao Diagram crisis, while the other cultivators wondered whether the Fire Cloud Hall elders had survived. The newly ascended Heavenly Immortal Chiyang attacked Guanghan Hall and Pure Yang Palace, but Chen Zheng killed him and destroyed Fire Cloud Hall with a single giant palm.

• Chen Zheng explained that he planned to erase the Dao Diagram Artifact Spirit's self-awareness and use the Dao Diagram World to raise a Holy Emperor, rather than kill the spirit outright.
• Fairy Guanghan and Chen Zheng returned to Guanghan Hall, but the two elders of Fire Cloud Hall did not emerge from the teleportation array.
• Heavenly Immortal Chiyang accused Fairy Guanghan and Chen Zheng of killing the elders, then attacked Guanghan Hall and Pure Yang Palace with his Blazing Yang Secret Art.
• Chen Zheng summoned a giant palm that extinguished Chiyang's fiery clouds, seized him, and slammed him into Fire Cloud Hall.
• Chiyang and Fire Cloud Hall were blasted to scraps despite his protests that he was a Heavenly Immortal and a member of powerful lineages.

Chen Zheng destroyed Fire Cloud Hall, dismissed the Spirit of the Dao Diagram’s threats, and promised to deal with it at the Immortal Ascension Tower. After Elder Yang was expelled from the Pure Yang Palace, he came to ask Chen Zheng to save Perfected Guiyun, but Chen Zheng told him to do it himself.

• Chen Zheng destroyed Fire Cloud Hall and its master with a single palm strike, while Perfected Guiyun fainted after his injuries worsened from intervening.
• Fan Jian expelled Yang Zhengtian from the Pure Yang Palace, then told another True Immortal that Guiyun was beyond saving; Yang discovered his own injuries had healed again and flew to Guanghan Hall.
• The Spirit of the Dao Diagram confronted Chen Zheng, who dismissed its threats and said he had found its weakness and would visit the Immortal Ascension Tower the next day.
• Chen Zheng told the Demonic Thought he would send it to Great Dark Heaven to cultivate, and promised it chances to survive as it advanced in cultivation.
• Yang Zhengtian asked Chen Zheng to save Perfected Guiyun, but Chen Zheng said Yang could save him himself, leaving Yang bewildered because he was only at the Void Refinement Stage.

Chen Zheng entered Pure Yang Palace and interrupted Elder Fan as he drained Perfected Guiyun’s immortal essence. He awakened Yang Zhengtian’s primordial spirit, and Yang Zhengtian killed Elder Fan and healed Perfected Guiyun before Chen Zheng left for the Immortal Ascension Tower.

• Chen Zheng swept the Pure Yang Palace disciples aside and entered with Fairy Guanghan and Elder Yang.
• Elder Tao opened the main hall doors, revealing Elder Fan devouring Perfected Guiyun’s immortal essence.
• Chen Zheng awakened Yang Zhengtian’s primordial spirit, transforming him into a powerful warrior who crushed Elder Fan.
• Yang Zhengtian healed Perfected Guiyun, then reverted to his frail state and forgot what had happened.
• Chen Zheng left Pure Yang Palace with Fairy Guanghan and the others to visit the Immortal Ascension Tower, while Elder Yang struggled to believe he was the Immortal Martial Emperor.

Chen Zheng entered the Immortal Ascension Tower and cleared all nine floors in moments, shattering its record tablet. The Spirit of the Dao Diagram appeared in fury, revealing that Chen Zheng had escaped its Nine Void Chaotic Spacetime trap almost instantly.

• The Spirit of the Dao Diagram dismissed Chen Zheng as a threat and prepared a trap for him at the Immortal Ascension Tower.
• At the tower, Chen Zheng noticed Diao Chan's record and learned from Fairy Guanghan that she had cleared all nine floors in twenty-seven days.
• Granny Yin asked Chen Zheng to deliver a message to Purple Cloud Mountain and offered him a plain half bead; Chen Zheng instead declared that he would take Zi Yanluo as his formal disciple and told Granny Yin to protect her.
• Chen Zheng entered the Immortal Ascension Tower and cleared all nine floors within moments.
• The record tablet flashed with a new name above Diao Chan's, then exploded before anyone could read it.
• The Spirit of the Dao Diagram roared that Chen Zheng had escaped its Nine Void Chaotic Spacetime trap in an instant and rushed into the tower.

Chen Zheng cleared the Immortal Ascension Tower in fewer than nine breaths, then confronted the Spirit of the Dao Diagram, who had blocked his exit and claimed to have created the world. After Chen Zheng exposed the Spirit as a thief, it exploded, leaving the barrier around the cultivators cracked and an enormous savage beast poised to attack.

• Chen Zheng cleared all nine floors of the Immortal Ascension Tower in fewer than nine breaths, stunning the cultivators gathered outside.
• The Spirit of the Dao Diagram appeared on the tower’s ninth floor and demanded that Chen Zheng submit to him in exchange for leaving the Dao Diagram World.
• The Spirit threatened to remove the barrier protecting the world’s cultivators and claimed that he had created everything inside the Dao Diagram World.
• Chen Zheng accused the Spirit of merely stealing things from other worlds and arranging them inside the Dao Diagram, then said the world could never become a Great Thousand World.
• The Spirit’s Dao heart broke, and he exploded, causing cracks to spread across the barrier protecting the cultivators.
• An enormous savage beast emerged outside the barrier as the Spirit vowed to kill every cultivator.

The Spirit of the Dao Diagram went mad after Chen Zheng exposed that its world was assembled from things stolen from other worlds, and it unleashed its ferocious creatures on the cultivators. Chen Zheng’s mysterious black shadow devoured the horde, while a little girl inside a lotus seed demonstrated creation by bringing earth, water, wind, and fire into existence, leaving the Spirit in disbelief.

• The Spirit of the Dao Diagram shattered the barriers and sent tens of thousands of ferocious creatures charging at the cultivators.
• Little Bone burned a pleading cultivator to ashes, and Fairy Guanghan froze some attackers but could not stop them.
• Chen Zheng summoned a black shadow that swallowed the ferocious creatures, including the Green-Eyed Dragon-Scaled Leopard.
• Chen Zheng opened the lotus seed, and the little girl inside summoned earth, water, wind, and fire to form new land and mountains.
• The little girl scorned the Spirit of the Dao Diagram as it denied that her creation was real.

The baby girl inside the lotus seed reshaped the Dao Diagram’s inner world, and Chen Zheng subdued the Spirit of the Dao Diagram before letting most of its captives leave. He refused to let Zi Yanluo go and revealed that Granny Yin was not what she seemed, transforming her into a strikingly beautiful woman.

• The baby girl added a Great Dao of Metal, destroyed the Spirit of the Dao Diagram’s stolen creations, and rebuilt the land into a new world.
• The Spirit of the Dao Diagram failed to remove the new land, shattered, and left a speck of light that Chen Zheng collected as the inner space settled.
• Chen Zheng reopened the Immortal Ascension Tower and offered the cultivators a chance to leave or remain; most, including the Pure Yang Palace cultivators, teleported away.
• Granny Yin offered half a lotus seed and asked to take Zi Yanluo back to the Yanluo Realm, but Chen Zheng said the little girl must stay.
• When Chen Zheng pointed at Granny Yin, Zi Yanluo tried to protect her, but mystic light transformed Granny Yin into a tall, beautiful woman in a purple dress.

Chen Zheng exposed Granny Yin as Yin Xue and witnessed the Female Heavenly Demon emerge from her, whereupon the demon recognized him as Ancestor Chen and declared her desire to sleep with him. After she returned to Yin Xue, Chen Zheng identified little Yanluo as the key to his Holy Emperor Plan, hinting that her constitution surpassed the Chaos Body.

• Chen Zheng dispelled Granny Yin’s disguise, revealing the beautiful demonic cultivator Yin Xue, who summoned her master’s divine sense to take little Yanluo away.
• The Female Heavenly Demon appeared, recognized Fairy Guanghan, and then rushed into Chen Zheng’s arms, calling him Ancestor Chen and recalling that she had fallen for him long ago.
• The Female Heavenly Demon returned to Yin Xue’s body and invited Chen Zheng to meet her in Futu Great World, declaring that sleeping with him was her sole ambition.
• Yin Xue bowed to Chen Zheng, who examined little Yanluo and said her special constitution suited his Holy Emperor Plan.
• Chen Zheng explained that a constitution existed above the Chaos Body, leaving Fairy Guanghan, Yin Xue, and Demonic Thought’s shadow stunned.

Chen Zheng tested Yanluo and revealed that she possessed the same Nothingness physique and divine eyes as him. Yanluo copied his changing eyes, used them to see secrets about the others, and fainted after failing to see anything about Chen Zheng.

• Yin Xue explained that the Female Heavenly Demon had chosen Yanluo for the Holy Demon Physique, but Chen Zheng said she had misidentified it.
• Chen Zheng revealed that Yanluo shared his unknown, superior physique and asked her to look into his eyes.
• Chen Zheng's eyes shifted through several divine forms, and Yanluo's eyes changed to match each one.
• Yanluo used her Reincarnation Eyes to uncover secrets about Yin Xue, Fairy Guanghan, and the Demonic Thought shadow, but she could not see anything about Chen Zheng and fainted.
• Chen Zheng named the Nothingness physique and divine eyes, explaining that the body devoured all power and the eyes fused all divine eyes.

Chen Zheng established a world inside the Dao Diagram for Yanluo to develop into a Great Thousand World and prepare her to become a Holy Emperor. After arranging for Fairy Guanghan and Yin Xue to remain there, he sent Demonic Thought away with Gai Shi to the Great Dark Heaven.

• Yin Xue gave Chen Zheng the half lotus seed that had appeared on Yanluo's birth day, and he planted it in the Dao Diagram world.
• Chen Zheng named Yanluo the world's master, explained his plan to raise her as a Holy Emperor, and built palaces and nine steles inscribed with secret arts.
• Fairy Guanghan and Yin Xue agreed to stay in the realm for three years while Yanluo prepared to open heaven.
• Chen Zheng summoned Gai Shi and told her to take Demonic Thought to the Great Dark Heaven, giving him three chances to save his life.
• Yin Xue learned that Gai Shi was a Quasi-Sage and a descendant of an ancient race whom Chen Zheng had raised alongside her brother Gai Tian.

Chen Zheng explained the secret arts on the nine steles, and Yanluo swiftly mastered several through her Physique of Nothingness. In the Spirit Realm, a demonic dynasty began its invasion, while a mysterious young man appeared over Qian Capital with a terrifying beastly shadow.

• Chen Zheng said Yanluo could cultivate any secret art and that her Physique of Nothingness surpassed even the Chaos Body.
• Yanluo learned several secret arts at a glance and manifested a Sword Domain around the nine steles, astonishing Fairy Guanghan, Yin Xue, and Little Bone.
• The Dragon Sovereign told the King of Eastern Spirit that a Great Thousand World faction backed the demon dynasty and might be searching for Guixu.
• The Dragon Sovereign and the King of Eastern Spirit saw demonic qi surging toward Great Hong as the demon army began its advance.
• The Dragon Sovereign flew toward Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain, while a young man with a ferocious beastly shadow appeared above Qian Capital and intimidated the King of Eastern Spirit.

Chen Zheng returned to Qian Capital and confronted Young Master Heaven-Swallowing, whose Ancient Heaven-Swallowing Beast had threatened the Great Yan Imperial Dynasty. Chen Zheng’s own beast subdued and devoured it, and Chen Zheng killed the terrified Young Master Heaven-Swallowing.

• Young Master Heaven-Swallowing mocked the Great Yan Emperor and threatened Princess Hongyan, but the Azure Cloud phantom cut his robe and identified his beast as a Heaven-Swallowing Beast.
• Chen Zheng appeared above Qian Capital with Little Bone, and Young Master Heaven-Swallowing ordered his beast to attack him.
• Young Master Heaven-Swallowing used an incantation to force the beast to charge, but Chen Zheng’s human-sized shadow made it kneel and plead for mercy.
• The shadow swallowed the Ancient Heaven-Swallowing Beast, while Little Bone refused to eat Young Master Heaven-Swallowing.
• Young Master Heaven-Swallowing begged Chen Zheng for mercy, but Chen Zheng grabbed at him and burst his head.

Chen Zheng returned to the Spirit Realm and learned that the Ancient Tulan Dynasty had reappeared, while Huang Yi discovered that Young Master Heaven-Swallowing had been killed and vowed vengeance. As Prince Shen knelt before the Evil Emperor’s Heart Chamber to receive the Demon Seed, it opened and pulled him inside.

• Little Bone burned Young Master Heaven-Swallowing to nothing, and Chen Zheng vanished toward Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain.
• Huang Yi learned from Young Master Heaven-Swallowing’s shattered life tablet that his junior brother’s primordial spirit had been destroyed, then left to welcome the Evil Emperor Demon Seed.
• Chen Zheng killed a demon at Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain and took the Dragon Sovereign west to learn about the Ancient Tulan Dynasty’s return.
• A black meteor fell inside the Ancient Tulan Dynasty, and Chen Zheng headed there after the demonic qi retreated into the western region.
• Huang Yi urged Prince Shen to kneel before the Evil Emperor’s Heart Chamber, but the chamber opened and dragged Prince Shen inside.

Chen Zheng attacked the Ancient Tulan Dynasty’s sacrificial ceremony to stop Prince Shen’s fusion with the Evil Emperor Demon Seed. He left Emperor Lougu alone on the sacrificial grounds after destroying the dynasty’s forces with a snap of his fingers.

• Huang Yi announced that Prince Shen was fusing with the Evil Emperor Demon Seed, but Chen Zheng and the Dragon Sovereign arrived and rejected his appeal to the crowd.
• Emperor Lougu ordered his demons to attack Chen Zheng, and Chen Zheng instantly destroyed hundreds of them.
• Fan Taiji identified Chen Zheng as the Vicious One and offered him friendship if he survived the battle.
• Emperor Lougu sent the four great generals and thousands of demons against Chen Zheng, whose Blood Spirit Dragons tore them apart.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and turned the remaining demons to ash, leaving only Emperor Lougu standing on the sacrificial grounds.

Chen Zheng effortlessly defeated Prince Shen after the Evil Emperor Demon Seed empowered him, then faced the thousand-foot Evil Emperor's Devil Manifestation. The manifestation recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen, fell prostrate, and revealed itself as Little Xiexie.

• Huang Yi destroyed the sacrificial grounds' walls to expose the demonfolk and stall for Prince Shen to emerge from the Evil Emperor's Heart Chamber.
• Prince Shen charged Chen Zheng with the Evil Emperor Demon Seed's power, but Chen Zheng knocked him into the ancient Star God temple with one slap.
• Huang Yi summoned the Evil Emperor's Devil Manifestation, which opened its eyes and attacked Chen Zheng.
• The Devil Manifestation fell before Chen Zheng, sobbed, and identified itself as Little Xiexie.

Chen Zheng revealed his God-Devil Transformation after Huang Yi sealed the battlefield and challenged him. His overwhelming pressure crushed Huang Yi and forced Emperor Lougu and the demonfolk to their knees, while Fan Taiji was annihilated.

• Evil Emperor Youxuan recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen and recalled how Chen had praised him in Great Darkness Heaven.
• Huang Yi used a secret technique to dismiss Youxuan’s manifestation, then activated a golden talisman barrier that sealed the area.
• Huang Yi revealed his Golden-Winged Great Peng bloodline and challenged Chen Zheng, believing the barrier would give him the advantage.
• Chen Zheng recalled learning the God-Devil Transformation and revealed its first form, crushing Huang Yi’s golden eagle body with his aura.
• Emperor Lougu and the demonfolk fell to their knees, while Fan Taiji was torn apart and annihilated by the God-Devil pressure.

Chen Zheng annihilated the Ancient Tulan Dynasty after its people succumbed to the Star God’s Stardust Poison, then destroyed the poison when it attacked him. He discussed Guixu and an old acquaintance there before an azure-black sword light rose from Qian Capital, startling the Dragon Sovereign.

• Emperor Lougu explained that the Star God had poisoned and trapped the Ancient Tulan Dynasty, and the Stardust Poison caused him and his people unbearable agony.
• At Emperor Lougu’s request, Chen Zheng erased him and the demonfolk across the Ancient Tulan Dynasty with a glance.
• Stardust Poison surged toward Chen Zheng from the ruins, but he dispelled it and warned the Star God not to cross him.
• Chen Zheng told the Dragon Sovereign that the Great Thousand World cultivators may have been searching for Guixu or a hidden treasure, and said he would return to Guixu after dealing with the Thundercloud Heavenly Sea.
• Chen Zheng said he had sensed a male old acquaintance in Guixu, then an azure-black sword light rose near Qian Capital and startled the Dragon Sovereign.

Azure Cloud awakened after growing nine cloud patterns and faced Tribulation Transcendence above Qian Capital. He cleaved the Thundercloud Heavenly Sea with one strike, briefly opening a view into Supreme Heaven before the sky was sealed again.

• Sword light rose from Qian Capital, and ancestor-level figures in Supreme Heaven recognized the awakened Azure Cloud Sword Ancestor.
• Chen Zheng and the others saw nine cloud patterns on the sleeping child Azure Cloud, who then awakened and destroyed the Eye of Heavenly Punishment with a sword strike.
• Azure Cloud flew above Qian Capital as the Thundercloud Heavenly Sea descended, and he declared that he could cleave the heavenly rivers.
• Nine Eyes of Heavenly Punishment attacked Azure Cloud, but he shattered them and split the Thundercloud Heavenly Sea with one strike.
• The Spirit Realm's cultivators glimpsed Supreme Heaven through the split sky before purple qi appeared and sealed it.