Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng revealed that Yan Shijiu had been devoured, then faced City Lord Yan Kuang and Nangong Li, who planned to seize Qianqian and suppress him. Yan Kuang’s use of the Zhoutian City Grand Array drew the Dao-Defying Turbulence toward the city, and returning its borrowed power only made the threat worse.

• A black shadow emerged from Chen Zheng, devoured Yan Shijiu, and left behind his bones and command token.
• Yan Kuang arrived with Nangong Li, accused Chen Zheng of killing his brother, and sealed the city lord’s estate with the Zhoutian City Grand Array.
• Yan Kuang revealed that he had orders to kill Chen Zheng and intended to trade Qianqian, while he and Nangong Li discussed taking Qu Shang and Meng Xi.
• Chen Zheng warned Yan Kuang that he had made a grave mistake just as the Dao-Defying Turbulence appeared over Zhoutian City.
• Yan Kuang returned the power he had borrowed from the grand array, but the Dao-Defying Turbulence grew more violent.

Dao-Defying Turbulence battered Zhoutian City's grand formation until it began to fail, trapping everyone inside. Chen Zheng suggested that becoming a mortal could protect them, but after Yan Kuang crippled his cultivation, Chen Zheng claimed he remembered another way to deal with the turbulence.

• Nangong Li and Yan Kuang panicked as Dao-Defying Power sealed off Zhoutian City and the grand formation weakened under the turbulence.
• Yan Kuang admitted that he could not strengthen the formation, while Chen Zheng told the cultivators that becoming mortals might let them withstand the turbulence.
• Yan Kuang crippled his cultivation and became a mortal as the grand formation finally failed and the black currents descended.
• Chen Zheng reassured Qianqian that he remembered another way to deal with the Dao-Defying Turbulence, and Yan Kuang laughed, insisting Chen Zheng would have to cripple his cultivation too.

Chen Zheng seized the Dao-Defying Turbulence and tricked Yan Kuang into crippling his cultivation, then fed the power to Little Bone so it could evolve into a Dao-Defying Variant. As Little Bone transformed in the void above Zhoutian City, the Heavenly Dao sent a tribulation, and Chen Zheng brought forth the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool.

• Chen Zheng caught all the Dao-Defying Turbulence in his palm, while Yan Kuang realized he had crippled his cultivation for nothing.
• Chen Zheng summoned Little Bone and told it to devour the Dao-Defying Power so it could evolve.
• Little Bone swallowed the power, grew into a five-hundred-meter beast, and flew into the void as its Golden Crow Emperor Blood and other forces burned through its body.
• The cultivators recognized Little Bone’s extraordinary bloodlines and Dao-Defying Power as it underwent its transformation.
• The Heavenly Dao struck Little Bone with Purple Empyrean Divine Lightning, but Chen Zheng summoned the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool into the void.

Little Bone endured the Purple Empyrean Divine Lightning and began transforming into a Dao-defying variant, drawing the intervention of a Golden Immortal and a Dao Lord. Chen Zheng’s sword shattered the Golden Immortal’s ninth-rank immortal artifact and severed the Dao Lord’s lightning hand, leaving the city lord’s residence silent.

• Little Bone was repeatedly torn apart by the divine lightning while Qianqian watched and comprehended secret arts from the spectacle.
• Little Bone turned black and red, withstanding the Purple Empyrean Divine Lightning and regenerating faster than it could be destroyed.
• Golden Immortal Yuanmu attacked Little Bone, but Dao-Defying Turbulence forced his hand to withdraw.
• A Golden Immortal launched a ninth-rank immortal artifact and a Dao Lord struck with a gigantic lightning hand, while Yan Kuang celebrated and Qianqian called to Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng’s netherworld sword shattered the immortal artifact, severed the lightning hand, and left a region of the void blood-red.

Chen Zheng watched Little Bone complete its transformation into a Dao-Defying Variant, then stopped Nangong Li from taking Zhoutian City's formation core. Nangong Li summoned his master, Yin-Yang Daoist, who recognized Chen Zheng and bowed to him as Ancestor Chen.

• Chen Zheng explained that the netherworld sword had exhausted its power after wounding a Golden Immortal and severing a Dao Lord's hand, and Yan Kuang died from the shock.
• Little Bone absorbed the Dao-Defying Power under the Nine Heavens Thunder Pool's lightning and emerged as a terrifying Dao-Defying Variant before returning to Chen Zheng.
• The cultivators fled the city lord's manor, but Chen Zheng stopped Nangong Li and demanded that he leave the formation core behind.
• Nangong Li summoned the Yin-Yang Ancestor and urged him to seize Chen Zheng's sword, but the old man recognized Chen Zheng and bowed, calling him Ancestor Chen.

Chen Zheng received the Star Banner from Yin-Yang Daoist and used it to repair Zhoutian City's protective formation. After discovering that twenty-seven heavenly pillars secretly supported the city, he left with Qianqian, Meng Xi, and Qu Shang.

• Nangong Li urged Yin-Yang Daoist to take him away with the Star Banner, but Yin-Yang Daoist erased him for turning against Ancestor Chen.
• Yin-Yang Daoist gave Chen Zheng the Star Banner and departed, while Qianqian saw a star rune in her mind.
• Chen Zheng used the Star Banner to repair Zhoutian City's protective formation and gave a duplicate to Qu Shang to control the city's formation core.
• Chen Zheng's Cosmic Cantilever scanned Zhoutian City and revealed that twenty-seven heavenly pillars supported it.
• Chen Zheng speculated that someone was trying to refine Zhoutian City into a Heavenly Court, then left with Qianqian, Meng Xi, and Qu Shang.

Chen Zheng met Su Zongheng, a fortune-teller sent by Guiguzi to recruit him into a proposed alliance of people from Earth. After Chen Zheng rejected the offer and Su Zongheng’s attempt to tell his fortune backfired, Su warned him that Ancestral Dragon and a being above the Nine Heavens were his great enemies.

• Little Bone told Chen Zheng that it felt watched after becoming a Dao-Defying Variant, and Chen Zheng said it was likely the Heavenly Dao observing an anomaly.
• Shopkeeper Li told Chen Zheng that a fortune-teller had arrived, so Chen Zheng went to meet him in the main hall.
• Su Zongheng told Chen Zheng that his master, Guiguzi, wanted to cooperate with him and unite people from Earth to conquer the myriad worlds.
• Chen Zheng rejected the offer, and Su Zongheng’s attempt to tell his fortune caused him to spit blood and shattered his six chancellors’ seals.
• Su Zongheng warned Chen Zheng that his enemies included a being above the Nine Heavens and Ancestral Dragon, then left the hall.

Chen Zheng prepared to leave Zhoutian City, warning Qu Shang that another upheaval would come and giving her a divine talisman for Meng Xi. He traveled with Little Bone to the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm, while his disciples continued to grow stronger within the Dao Diagram World.

• Chen Zheng explained that the Ancestral Dragon Su Zongheng had mentioned was a mortal emperor he had already killed, and said he had no reason to visit Supreme Heaven yet.
• Chen Zheng warned Qu Shang that another upheaval would threaten Zhoutian City and left a divine talisman for Meng Xi to help protect them.
• The lotus-seed girl warned Chen Zheng that Little Bone’s Dao-Defying Variant would attract the Heavenly Dao, and urged him to improve his True Essence cultivation before she fully awakened.
• Inside the Dao Diagram World, Chen Zheng praised Zi Yanluo’s rapid cultivation and said he would help her open the heavens within three years, then sent mystic light to Ya'er, Fairy Guanghan, Yin Xue, and Liya.
• Chen Zheng and Little Bone departed Zhoutian City through the teleportation array for the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm, where Qu Shang said an Ancient Demon Hall might contain divine medicine.

Chen Zheng and Little Bone explored the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm and witnessed a red-robed woman destroy the Evil Dragon Sect. The woman collapsed from her injuries, and a gray-robed old man appeared to capture her.

• Chen Zheng scanned the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm with the Cosmic Cantilever and noticed it had twenty-seven heavenly pillars.
• Chen Zheng and Little Bone watched a black-robed cultivator transform into an evil dragon and devour creatures and cultivators in a city.
• The red-robed woman appeared, and her demonic images annihilated the evil dragon and the city's demonic cultivators, destroying the Evil Dragon Sect.
• The red-robed woman spat blood from her injuries, and a gray-robed old man arrived and threatened to take her.

Chen Zheng rescued Diao Chan from an elderly demonic cultivator and learned that Buddhist forces had entered the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm in pursuit of a rumored secret treasure. He warned that the realm held a weapon of slaughter and an object of calamity, leaving Diao Chan stunned by the danger ahead.

• Chen Zheng pulled Diao Chan onto the Star Raft, and Little Bone incinerated the elderly demonic cultivator with its true fire.
• Diao Chan introduced herself and explained that a Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle Dharma Body had gravely wounded her.
• Diao Chan told Chen Zheng that Buddhist cultivators and other forces were gathering to attack the Ancient Demon Hall across the Burning Flame Demon River.
• Little Bone asked to test its strength against the Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle's Dharma Body, and Chen Zheng called the situation the beginning of Western Heaven Spirit Mountain's collapse.
• Chen Zheng said the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm held a weapon of slaughter and an object of calamity, then warned that even the Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle could not withstand the weapon; Diao Chan fell silent in horror.

Chen Zheng and Diao Chan arrived at the Burning Flame Demon River, where cultivators mocked them and tried to attack. Chen Zheng’s companion Little Bone repelled the attackers without killing them, while Chen Zheng turned his attention to the Ancient Demon Hall.

• Chen Zheng and Diao Chan appeared before the cultivators gathered at the Yellow Springs Passage Entrance.
• Lei Xuan attacked Chen Zheng with lightning fire, but Chen Zheng extinguished it with a breath and said he had come to save the cultivators.
• Lei Xuan, a Daoist, and a fair-faced scholar jointly attacked Chen Zheng and Diao Chan.
• Chen Zheng told Little Bone to spare the attackers, and Little Bone’s roar destroyed their attacks and sent them flying.
• The cultivators realized Chen Zheng might have meant his offer to save them, but wondered what he intended to do next.

The Yellow Springs Ancient Realm sealed and then collapsed the Bridge of the Heavens, trapping the cultivators and cutting off their return route. When Monk Mingkong summoned the Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle's Dharma Body to attack Chen Zheng, it recognized him and trembled in fear.

• The Yellow Springs Ancient Realm's Slaughter Dao power sealed the Bridge of the Heavens, trapping the cultivators inside.
• Chen Zheng told the cultivators that their Dao lineages were destined to face calamity, but they dismissed his warning and blamed him for the realm's changes.
• The Bridge of the Heavens collapsed, leaving the cultivators without a safe route back to their worlds.
• At the urging of Lei Xuan, Meng Qingshu, and Ziyunzi, Monk Mingkong summoned the Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle's Dharma Body to kill Chen Zheng.
• The Dharma Body appeared and focused on Chen Zheng, but then trembled and asked why he was in the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm.

The Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle recognized Chen Zheng and initially showed him respect, but attacked after learning his cultivation had regressed. Chen Zheng sent Little Bone to fight the eagle while the others watched, leaving their battle raging above the Burning Flame Demon River.

• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle withdrew his claw from Meng Qingshu after Chen Zheng ordered him kept alive, then learned Chen Zheng's cultivation had fallen to the Spirit Transformation Stage.
• Lei Xuan, Meng Qingshu, and Ziyunzi hoped the eagle would attack Chen Zheng when he revealed his old grudge over a slap.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle unleashed his pressure and said he would kill Chen Zheng, causing Diao Chan to spit blood.
• Chen Zheng told Little Bone to fight the eagle and warned him not to kill the others before they saw what was inside the Ancient Demon Hall.
• Little Bone expanded into a thousand-meter Dao-Defying Variant, and he and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle began battling in the sky.

Little Bone overpowered the Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle’s Dharma body as a white-haired demoness awakened inside the Ancient Demon Hall. She sent uncanny power along the cultivators’ spacetime imprints toward their sects, then fixed her gaze on everyone except Chen Zheng, leaving them horrified.

• Little Bone bit off the Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle’s Dharma body’s right wing, while Chen Zheng said the battle was nearly over and the thing in the Ancient Demon Hall was about to emerge.
• The white-haired demoness awakened in the Ancient Demon Hall, killed its Deputy Hall Master, and sent the fleeing demonic cultivators into panic.
• The demoness’s uncanny power reached toward the sects behind the cultivators through their spacetime imprints, while Little Bone drove the Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle’s Dharma body into the Burning Flame Demon River.
• Chen Zheng explained that he had warned the cultivators he was there to save them, but Meng Qingshu, Ziyunzi, Lei Xuan, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle’s Dharma body dismissed the danger to their powerful lineages.
• The demoness rose into the sky, drew the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm’s power of the Dao of Slaughter into herself, and looked down at the cultivators.
• An uncanny shattering sound rang in everyone’s minds, and every cultivator except Chen Zheng showed utter horror.

The white-haired demonic woman’s calamity power caused cracks to appear in distant sects and ancestral grounds, and their leaders confirmed the damage was real. As the frightened cultivators blamed Chen Zheng, the woman descended and knelt before him, greeting him as her master.

• The cultivators saw visions of fissures in their sects and ancestral grounds, while Little Bone reported that the Supreme Exalted Hall had cracked.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle confirmed that a fissure had opened in Spirit Mountain.
• Golden Immortal manifestations berated Lei Xuan, Meng Qingshu, and Ziyunzi over damage to their lineages, then fled when the white-haired demonic woman’s calamity power threatened them.
• Meng Qingyun, Lei Xuan, Ziyunzi, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Eagle warned Chen Zheng that his lineages would suffer calamity too.
• The white-haired demonic woman descended before Chen Zheng, knelt, and greeted him as her master.

Chen Zheng revealed that Wanjie, the white-haired female demonic cultivator, had grown from a calamity seed he planted in the Ancient Demon Hall, and she obeyed his command to kill the cultivators who tried to escape. He crossed the Burning Flame Demon River with Wanjie and Diao Chan, then entered the Ancient Demon Hall to seek a divine herb.

• Meng Qingshu recognized Chen Zheng as the legendary mighty figure and learned that Wanjie had formed from the calamity seed he planted in the Ancient Demon Hall.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng dharma manifestation tried to flee with Mingkong and the Buddhist cultivators, but Wanjie killed them with a strike of killing Dao power.
• Chen Zheng ordered Wanjie to cut down the remaining cultivators, and she erased Lei Xuan, Meng Qingshu, Ziyunzi, and the others.
• Wanjie told Chen Zheng her name and asked him to bestow another, but he kept the name and said it suited her origins.
• Chen Zheng crossed the Burning Flame Demon River and entered the Ancient Demon Hall with Wanjie and Diao Chan, intending to inspect the mature divine herb inside.

Chen Zheng picked and swallowed an Immortality Grass in the Ancient Demon Hall, while his cultivation briefly surged before falling back to the Spirit Transformation Stage. Elsewhere, powerful factions reacted to events in the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm and made plans to pursue other opportunities.

• At Spirit Mountain, the Golden-Winged Great Peng urged the Buddhas to suppress the Victorious Fighting Buddha and warned that Ancestor Chen would bring disaster, but Golden Cicada defended him.
• The Thunder Dao Palace patriarch set aside the report of a possible Calamity Physique in the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm and sent the sect's elites to seek a holy gate on Holy Mountain.
• The Meng Clan grand elder ordered the clan's disciples to enter the Land of Great Dreams, while the Divine Firmament Sect master sent his disciples to Qiluo Mountain to attack the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty.
• In the Ancient Demon Hall, Diao Chan recognized a divine herb but doubted she could pick it; Chen Zheng casually pulled it into his hand and identified it as Immortality Grass.
• Chen Zheng swallowed the Immortality Grass, briefly reached the Half-Step True Immortal Realm, then fell back to the Spirit Transformation Stage and said he was nearing the Void Refinement Stage.

Chen Zheng interrupted the Blue Moon Imperial Dynasty’s Blood Refining Great Array and rescued a bloodied descendant of an ancient clan. Gudu Jue summoned God Yi, whose appearance made Little Bone recognize him as the Golden Crow race’s nemesis.

• Wanjie told Chen Zheng that a demonic cultivator dynasty had set up a Blood Refining Great Array in the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm, and Chen Zheng went there to stop it from devouring the realm’s spiritual essence.
• Chen Zheng arrived at the Blue Moon Imperial Dynasty and saw a bound man being bled into the array while thirty-six blood beasts guarded the square.
• Chen Zheng freed the bloody man and destroyed the thirty charging blood beasts, ignoring Gudu Jue’s attack and questions.
• Chen Zheng healed the man and asked whether Fu Yingqiong was still his clan’s patriarch, while Gudu Jue called on his master’s ally to kill him.
• God Yi emerged from the palace with an ancient divine bow, and Little Bone sensed that he was the Golden Crow race’s nemesis.

Dugu Jue ordered Hou Yi to kill Chen Zheng, but Hou Yi turned his Sun-Shooting Bow on Dugu Jue and then knelt before Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng freed Hou Yi from Ancestor Tiancan’s shackles and pulled a resigned young man in imperial robes from the gray palace.

• Dugu Jue revealed that Ancestor Tiancan had resurrected Hou Yi and commanded him to kill Chen Zheng and the Ancient Demon Hall’s master.
• Hou Yi aimed his Sun-Shooting Bow at Dugu Jue and shot him through the heart, despite Dugu Jue’s defenses.
• Hou Yi knelt before Chen Zheng and asked him for release, while Dugu Jue laughed at his declaration of Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen.
• Chen Zheng shattered the shackles Ancestor Tiancan had placed inside Hou Yi, and Dugu Jue’s remaining defenses failed as the arrow’s power destroyed him.
• Chen Zheng suggested the dead members of the Wu Clan might be resurrected, then pulled a young man in imperial robes from the gray palace.
• The young man said Dugu Jue had forced him and accepted death, believing the Blue Moon Imperial Dynasty was finished.

Chen Zheng devoured the spiritual essence of the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm and demonic energy from an ancient demon pit, advancing from spirit transformation to void refinement. He took the blood-covered man aboard the Star Raft and left, while Hou Yi identified him to the Blue Moon Emperor as the Saintly Teacher, Ancestor Chen.

• Chen Zheng spared the young man, then shattered the Blood Refining Great Array and swallowed the Yellow Springs Ancient Realm's spiritual essence.
• Chen Zheng absorbed a flood of demonic energy from a rift leading to an ancient demon pit, whose furious owner sealed the rift.
• After absorbing energy equivalent to several realms, Chen Zheng broke through only to void refinement and returned to Blue Moon Imperial City.
• Chen Zheng took the blood-covered man aboard the Star Raft, and Wanjie followed as they departed.
• Hou Yi told the Blue Moon Emperor that Chen Zheng was the Saintly Teacher, also known as Ancestor Chen, before vanishing.