Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng returned to Flowing Light City and forced its lord, Xing Shen, to kneel and cripple himself after Xing Shen killed his own nephew, Xing Ri. Chen Zheng then went to the underground blood sacrifice formation to find Xin Ba and shattered the formation with a casual sweep of his hand.

• Xing Shen recognized Chen Zheng, knelt before him, and refused Xing Ri’s demands to attack, recalling that Chen Zheng had once killed an Asura Emperor with a single slap.
• Xing Shen killed Xing Ri and then crippled himself, explaining that he had betrayed the Asura Empress because he feared the Divine Son and the legendary Progenitor.
• Chen Zheng asked where Xin Ba was, and Xing Shen said he was in the underground blood sacrifice formation before Chen Zheng vanished.
• Wu Qingyan asked Little Bone how Chen Zheng could be the Asura race’s emperor, and Little Bone suggested that the Asura Empress might be in his master’s harem.
• Deacon Lan Qin remembered that Chen Zheng’s back resembled the figure in a statue made by the Heavenly Craft Patriarch.
• Old Man Wu followed Chen Zheng underground and watched him shatter the blood sacrifice formation with a casual sweep of his hand.

Chen Zheng rescued Xin Ba and learned that the Asura ancestral land was under attack by the Styx Divine Son and powerful newcomers seeking to awaken Ancestor Styx. At the Blood Pool Sacred Hall, Chen Zheng called to the blood pool, and its power began annihilating the attackers as Xin Meng lay near death.

• Chen Zheng shattered the formation, healed Xin Ba, and asked him what had happened in the Asura Realm.
• Xin Ba explained that a human had opened an ancient gate with a Dao Artifact, after which divine heirs and powerful Asuras appeared and besieged the ancestral land to awaken Ancestor Styx.
• Chen Zheng, Xin Ba, and Old Man Wu traveled by Star Raft to the ancestral land, where they found the Styx Divine Son attacking the Blood Pool Sacred Hall and Xin Meng lying beneath his foot.
• The Styx Divine Son mocked Chen Zheng and ordered an Asura guard to kill him, but Chen Zheng called toward the blood pool.
• The blood pool shook, and the Asura guard who had moved to attack Chen Zheng exploded into blood mist, followed by the other Asura guards.

Chen Zheng’s power destroyed the Styx Divine Son’s forces at the blood pool temple, and the Asura Empress arrived before collapsing into his arms. The Styx Divine Son then summoned the legendary swords Yuantu and Abi, whose appearance shook the Asura Realm and exposed the hidden Star Raft.

• A mysterious force from the blood pool shattered the middle-aged Asura and crushed the Styx Divine Son’s Asura body and blood fiend power.
• The Law of Slaughter killed Ming Gu, a Heavenly Emperor Realm Asura, while Ming Lie and the Styx Divine Son survived.
• Xin Ba explained that Chen Zheng had left the power in the blood pool for the Asura Empress and the Asura Imperial Guard to cultivate, and Old Man Wu and Wu Qingyan reacted with awe.
• The Asura Empress appeared beside Chen Zheng, coughed blood, and fell into his embrace; the Styx Divine Son mocked her and challenged Chen Zheng.
• The Styx Divine Son summoned Yuantu and Abi, shaking the Asura Realm and breaking the Star Raft’s concealment formation.

Chen Zheng subdued Yuantu and Abi with Heaven and Earth's First Sword, then used the swords to kill the Styx Divine Son. A blood-colored face appeared in the sky, demanding to know who had killed its chosen one and awakened it.

• The Styx Divine Son summoned Yuantu and Abi and sent them to attack Chen Zheng and the Asura Empress.
• Heaven and Earth's First Sword appeared, and Yuantu and Abi fell before it in submission.
• Chen Zheng taunted the Styx Divine Son and then used Yuantu and Abi to destroy his primordial spirit.
• The Dao Lord Asura and Ming Lie retreated as a blood-colored face appeared in the sky and roared about the Styx Divine Son's death.

Ancestor Styx appeared in the Asura Realm, revived the Styx Divine Son, then killed him after recognizing Chen Zheng as the Saintly Teacher and chose to return to slumber. After the rift healed, Chen Zheng healed the unconscious Asura Xin Meng, who awoke and wept with joy at his return.

• Ancestor Styx manifested over the Asura Realm, making every Asura except the Asura Empress kneel.
• Ancestor Styx revived the Styx Divine Son, who mocked Chen Zheng and urged the ancestor to kill him and the Asura Empress.
• Ancestor Styx killed the Styx Divine Son instead, praised Chen Zheng and the Asura Empress, and departed with Yuantu and Abi after calling Chen Zheng the Saintly Teacher.
• The Styx Divine Son's lingering thought, the Dao Lord Asura, and Ming Lie were reduced to dust, and the rift in the sky closed.
• Chen Zheng discussed Yuantu and Abi with the Asura Empress and healed the unconscious Asura Xin Meng.
• Asura Xin Meng woke, recognized Chen Zheng, and wept with joy at his return.

Chen Zheng cured Wu Tiangang and Wu Qingyan of the divine fiend poison, restoring their cultivation, then used the Cosmic Cantilever to survey the world beyond a gate in the Asura Realm. The Asura Empress sensed a Dao Artifact like the one that had previously stolen Asura true blood entering the realm.

• Chen Zheng refined pills that drove the divine fiend poison from Wu Tiangang and Wu Qingyan, destroying the fiend beasts that emerged from them.
• Wu Tiangang recovered his Dao Lord cultivation and Wu Qingyan rose to the Tribulation Transcendence Stage, and both thanked Chen Zheng before leaving to rest.
• The Asura Empress joined Chen Zheng, who dismissed the God-Slaying Lord as a title and used the Cosmic Cantilever to reveal a primeval world beyond a gate.
• Chen Zheng said the world beyond the gate held ancient exotic beasts and would suit Little Bone, while the Asura Empress asked what realms the Asura Realm connected to.
• A distortion split open the sky to the southeast, and the Asura Empress recognized the incoming power as belonging to the Dao Artifact that had previously taken Asura true blood.

Chen Zheng broke the barrier protecting Brahma Valley and confronted Wan Wusheng, who tried to recruit him and then attacked with a powerful manifestation. Chen Zheng’s drop of blood destroyed the manifestation and Wan Wusheng’s lotus dais, and its purified power entered the Asura Empress, raising her to the Quasi-Sage level.

• Asura Xin Meng failed to break Brahma Valley’s barrier, while Wan Wusheng introduced himself and taunted the Asura Empress from within.
• Chen Zheng swept away the barrier and entered Brahma Valley, where Wan Wusheng offered to take him as a disciple and used a strange power to bewitch Xin Meng.
• Chen Zheng dispelled Wan Wusheng’s power, and Wan Wusheng unleashed his ancestor-like manifestation against him.
• Chen Zheng released a drop of blood that destroyed the manifestation and shattered Wan Wusheng’s lotus dais.
• Azure profound qi purified the blood’s baleful power, and the resulting true blood entered the Asura Empress, advancing her from the Heavenly Emperor Realm to the Quasi-Sage level.

Chen Zheng used Wan Wusheng’s lotus dais to help the Asura Empress absorb his blood and break through to Quasi-Sage. Wan Wusheng was rescued by the Eastern Saint Supreme with a Life and Death Puppet, while Chen Zheng warned that the Great Thousand Worlds’ Patriarchs would be vulnerable once his cultivation recovered.

• Chen Zheng’s blood overwhelmed the Asura Empress, but he calmed its power and helped her reach mid-stage Quasi-Sage using the innate azure power from Wan Wusheng’s lotus dais.
• Chen Zheng explained that the lotus dais had purified his blood, while Wan Wusheng realized Chen Zheng had targeted his Dao Artifact from the start.
• The Asura Empress attacked Wan Wusheng, but the Eastern Saint Supreme’s giant hand seized him from Brahma Valley.
• Chen Zheng severed the giant hand with Heaven and Earth’s First Sword, but Wan Wusheng escaped the follow-up strike by using a Life and Death Puppet.
• Chen Zheng said Patriarchs could not harm him now and that he would be able to slay them once his True Essence cultivation recovered to the True Immortal Realm.

Chen Zheng entered the Ancient Savage Realm through a one-way altar and followed the Taihao Clan to their settlement after sensing the Ancient Dao Enlightenment Tea Tree. When the Lei Xuan Divine Bird attacked the tribe, Little Bone devoured it, leaving the Taihao Clan members kneeling before Chen Zheng.

• Chen Zheng entered the Ancient Savage Realm with Little Bone through an altar that allowed travel only one way, and he promised the Asura Empress he would return within ten days.
• Chen Zheng encountered Taihao Clan members in an ancient forest and followed them after sensing the scent of the Ancient Dao Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• An old woman from the Taihao Tribe detected Chen Zheng with a beast bone and called him an evil god.
• The Lei Xuan Divine Bird attacked the Taihao Tribe with lightning, and Little Bone swallowed both the lightning and the bird.
• The Taihao Clan members fell to their knees after Little Bone returned to Chen Zheng's shoulder.

Chen Zheng saved the Taihao Tribe from the Lei Xuan Divine Bird and learned that the ancient tea tree was a spirit guarding the tribe. When Great Shang sent its forces to seize him, Chen Zheng destroyed their chariots and cultivators with a snap of his fingers.

• Little Bone swallowed the Lei Xuan Divine Bird after it unleashed divine lightning on the Taihao Tribe.
• Chief Yao Guang thanked Chen Zheng and explained that the tribe had lost its inherited secret art and feared retaliation from Great Shang.
• Chen Zheng spoke to the ancient tea tree, which revealed itself as a Half-Step True Immortal and recounted the legend of Little Bone, the World-Demise Beast.
• The ancient tea tree suggested that Great Shang's Saintly Teacher might have divined something about the tribe, while Little Bone dismissed the threat as unrelated to him.
• Thirty-six of Great Shang's Purple Cloud War Chariots surrounded the Taihao Tribe to capture Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng raised his hand and turned the chariots and their cultivators to ash.

Chen Zheng visited the Taihao Tribe, where its people mistook him for the evil god shown in an ancient painting. As the painting’s prophecy began unfolding and the sky turned red, a massive fireball descended toward the Li Wu Mountain Range.

• Chen Zheng destroyed the Great Shang Kingdom’s Purple Cloud War Chariots and harvested leaves from the ancient tea tree, terrifying the Taihao Tribe.
• Tribal Chief Yao Guang led Chen Zheng and Little Bone to the ancestral hall and showed them the evil god painting, whose figure resembled Chen Zheng exactly.
• Chen Zheng confirmed he was the person in the painting and took it, while Yao Guang recalled the prophecy that the evil god’s appearance would change Liwu and Lord Little Bone would swallow heaven.
• The sky turned red across the Li Wu Mountain Range, and the Taihao Tribe’s people pleaded with Chen Zheng to spare them.
• Chen Zheng sensed a familiar aura as a massive fireball formed in the sky and blasted toward the Li Wu Mountain Range.

The heavenly fire struck Liwu Mountain, and the Sun God Crown appeared above the flames, drawing the attention of the mountain’s tribes. Chen Zheng helped Little Bone claim the crown, which revealed a buried divine temple, just as three immortals from the Great Shang Kingdom arrived for battle.

• The ruler of the Great Shang Kingdom learned that the Saintly Teacher remained in seclusion, and the Saintly Teacher sent three immortal disciples with a magical treasure to confront the upheaval at Liwu Mountain.
• Heavenly fire engulfed the depths of Liwu Mountain, and the Sun God Crown appeared; its influence turned the eyes of living beings golden until the ancient tea tree and azure light restored the Taihao Tribe’s senses.
• A group of beings tried to seize the crown, but the flames burned them to ash, and Chen Zheng explained that only someone with the right blood could gain its recognition.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the flames, and Little Bone swallowed eighty-one fire dragons before placing the Sun God Crown on its head.
• The flames sank underground, revealing a blood-red divine temple, and Little Bone used the crown to learn that a race in that world cultivated suns.
• Three figures from the Great Shang Kingdom arrived on clouds with purple-cloud war chariots, setting the stage for a battle at Liwu Mountain.

The Fallen God Clan’s Sun God Crown drew three high immortals to Liwu Mountain, where they attacked Chen Zheng and demanded the crown from Little Bone. Chen Zheng exposed them as impostors and wounded Lietian, but Su Tianjun summoned nine corpse-like figures through the divine temple, leaving their arrival unresolved.

• The Fallen God Clan’s inheritance appeared, and beings across Liwu Mountain rushed toward the divine temple while Yao Guang consulted the ancient tea tree.
• Lietian, Azure Cloud, and Su Tianjun arrived with the Great Shang Kingdom’s Purple Cloud War Chariot and demanded that Little Bone surrender the Sun God Crown.
• Little Bone recognized the three men’s names as stolen from people connected to Chen Zheng, and Chen Zheng called them impostors.
• Azure Cloud and Lietian attacked Chen Zheng, but he remained unharmed and turned Lietian’s sword strike back against him, badly wounding him.
• Su Tianjun revealed a golden talisman that could summon the Fallen God Clan and make them grant three requests, then sent it into the divine temple.
• A blaze formed a bridge beyond the Ancient Savage Realm, and nine corpse-like figures in blood-colored sacrificial robes appeared within it.

Chen Zheng was revealed as the Saintly Teacher when the Fallen God Clan’s nine high gods bowed to him. After Chen Zheng ordered Yang Jiu to act, the high gods incinerated the Great Shang Kingdom’s three high immortals and their cultivators, leaving the tribes outside the fiery barrier stunned.

• The brocade-robed middle-aged man used the Fallen God Token to summon nine high gods and asked them to kill Chen Zheng.
• The nine high gods opened their eyes, sealed Liwu Mountain behind a fiery barrier, and struck the brocade-robed man instead of Chen Zheng.
• The nine high gods knelt before Chen Zheng and called him the Saintly Teacher, despite the three high immortals’ protests.
• Chen Zheng told Yang Jiu to deal with the three high immortals, and Yang Jiu incinerated them and the Great Shang Kingdom’s Purple Cloud Chariot cultivators.
• The fiery barrier shattered, and the tribes saw Chen Zheng unharmed while the Great Shang Kingdom’s forces had vanished.

After the three Profound Heaven Exalted Immortals died in Liwu Mountain, Chen Zheng reunited with the Fallen God Clan and learned that they had lost the Land of Sun Herding to powerful old monsters. When one of those enemies attacked through a hidden strand of divine sense, Chen Zheng destroyed it with his divine eyes, while the Creation Lotus Seed’s little girl revealed how weak the clan was compared with the monsters seeking transcendence.

• The cultivators learned that the three Profound Heaven Exalted Immortals had perished, and the king of Great Shang hoped the evil god and the Saintly Teacher would kill each other.
• Yang Jiu told Chen Zheng that the Fallen God Clan had failed to reclaim the Land of Sun Herding and that the Fallen God Ancestor had disappeared.
• A phantom hidden in Yang Jiu’s primordial spirit demanded that Chen Zheng reveal how to break the seal on the Sun of Descent.
• Chen Zheng’s divine eyes destroyed the phantom’s strand of divine sense after it suppressed Yang Jiu and the other eight members of the Fallen God Clan.
• The Creation Lotus Seed’s little girl called the Sun Herding Clan weak and warned that powerful beings were seeking transcendence in this epoch.

Creation gave Yang Jiu and the Fallen God Clan the Grand Emperor Great Array and sent them to the Great Void Battlefield, while Chen Zheng learned that the Seventh Princess had been sealed and went with Ku Cha to the Great Shang Kingdom. There, the ruler sent Chen Zheng toward the Saintly Teacher, then prepared for a confrontation as the Saintly Teacher announced his recovered immortal power.

• Creation imparted the Grand Emperor Great Array to Yang Jiu and eight Fallen God Clan members, then sent them to the Great Void Battlefield.
• Chen Zheng left the temple as the crimson temple sank, and Ku Cha revealed that he served the Seventh Princess and that Chen Zheng was her teacher.
• Ku Cha told Chen Zheng that the Saintly Teacher had helped seal the Seventh Princess, so Chen Zheng took him to the Great Shang Kingdom.
• The ruler of Great Shang directed Chen Zheng to the Saintly Teacher's location, then summoned General Heavenly Dragon and urged the black bird phantom to help him.
• The Saintly Teacher announced that his immortal power had fully recovered, alarming the ruler of Great Shang.

Chen Zheng confronted Great Shang's Saintly Teacher, who revealed that he had lured Chen Zheng to the Ancient Savage Realm to return to the Eternal Ancient Kingdom and divide up the Seventh Princess's power. Great Shang's Saintly Teacher died after trying to cultivate the secret arts Chen Zheng gave him, leaving the Seventh Princess's fate unresolved.

• The ruler of Great Shang watched the battle between Chen Zheng and Great Shang's Saintly Teacher from the imperial city, hoping they would weaken or kill each other.
• Great Shang's Saintly Teacher revealed that he was Ancient Immortal Daoyi, had helped imprison the Seventh Princess, and had kept Ku Cha alive to lure Chen Zheng into a scheme thousands of years in the making.
• Great Shang's Saintly Teacher trapped Chen Zheng in the Nine Mysteries Cauldron, but Chen Zheng sent him several supreme secret arts instead.
• Great Shang's Saintly Teacher began cultivating the secret arts inside the cauldron, while Little Bone realized Chen Zheng had set a trap.
• The Nine Mysteries Cauldron exploded when Great Shang's Saintly Teacher suffered cultivation deviation, and Chen Zheng's spiritual power consumed his remnant primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng and Little Bone defeated Great Shang’s ruler, Black Bird, and General Heavenly Dragon after Ancient Immortal Daoyi died. Little Bone devoured the Heavenly Dragon, leaving Ku Cha to wonder whether the prophecy about the World-Demise Beast was real.

• The ruler of Great Shang learned that the Saintly Teacher had died and ordered Black Bird to prepare the guardian array for General Heavenly Dragon’s arrival.
• Ku Cha worried that Daoyi’s death had made saving the Seventh Princess impossible, but Chen Zheng said no array or seal could stump him.
• The ruler of Great Shang activated the Black Bird Guardian Great Array and ordered Chen Zheng to kill himself, while Little Bone transformed and swallowed the Heavenly Dragon’s sacred aura.
• Little Bone corroded the Heavenly Dragon with Dao-Defying Power, while Chen Zheng reflected Black Bird’s divine sword into the ruler and the bird, mortally wounding them.
• Little Bone tore into and devoured the Heavenly Dragon, and Ku Cha began to suspect the prophecy about the World-Demise Beast was true.

Chen Zheng and Ku Cha reached the Eternal Ancient Kingdom after Little Bone devoured the heavenly dragon and destroyed the Great Shang ruler’s forces. Chen Zheng shattered the kingdom’s defenses with a casually thrown axe and warned its people to flee.

• Little Bone incinerated the Purple Cloud War Chariot and the Heavenly Dragon Guards, then devoured the heavenly dragon and entered Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit to digest it.
• A crimson dragon emerged from a marsh and recalled the prophecy that the Evil God and World-Demise Beast would destroy the Great Shang Kingdom and then the Eternal Ancient Kingdom.
• Chen Zheng and Ku Cha arrived at the Eternal Ancient Kingdom, where giant crossbow bolts, Yinglong, and stone puppets shattered before they could harm Chen Zheng.
• Ancient Immortal Xiong Ba struck Chen Zheng with a giant palm, but the attack broke apart without injuring him.
• Chen Zheng threw a giant axe at the kingdom’s stone gate, shattering its ancient grand formation and splitting the gate and walls with massive cracks.
• Chen Zheng warned the Eternal Ancient Kingdom’s cultivators that they could still flee, but soon would not be able to.

Chen Zheng smashed the Eternal Ancient Kingdom’s formation and gate with a battered axe, drawing all six of its ancient immortals into the open. As they challenged him, he identified the axe as the legendary Heaven-Opening Axe, leaving them in shock.

• Chen Zheng’s axe broke the Eternal Ancient Kingdom’s protective formation, stone gate, and city walls, and Ku Cha wondered whether it was a Sage-level treasure.
• Ancient Immortals Xiong Ba, Mohe, Wuliang, Zuo Liu, Mo Bei, and Yuzhou appeared and surrounded Chen Zheng and Ku Cha.
• Xiong Ba tried to shatter the axe with his laws and Soul-Devouring Staff, but neither affected it and his staff broke.
• Chen Zheng taunted the ancient immortals and asked whether they knew the story of Pangu opening the heavens.
• Chen Zheng revealed that the axe was the Heaven-Opening Axe, and its power dispersed the ancient immortals’ invisible attacks.