Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng, Chu Hongyi, and Chu Yingxiong crossed the Soul Bridge into the Ancient Great Demon Pit, where a black-robed old man tried to transfer his heart fire onto Chen Zheng. The heart fire engulfed Chen Zheng’s left shoulder, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Chen Zheng led Chu Yingxiong and Chu Hongyi across the Soul Bridge toward the Ancient Great Demon Pit, while cultivators at the platform learned that the Divine Capital had sent the King of Yan, Yan He Tu.
• Chu Yingxiong told them the Ancient Great Demon Pit might once have been a demon kingdom, and warned that its Heavenly Frost Freeze and heart fire could kill cultivators.
• A black-robed old man appeared before the group, declared that heart fire had ensnared him, and ordered Chen Zheng to take the calamity in his place.
• The old man vanished and reappeared beside Chen Zheng, then spread the heart fire across Chen Zheng’s left shoulder.

Chen Zheng arrived at the Ancient Great Demon Pit, where the Luo Shu emerged from a purple mountain and flew into his hand. After he revealed and combined the two halves of the Luo Shu, a demon warned that the mountain was the tomb of a supreme Imperial Lord, and Chen Zheng told the gathered cultivators to do as they pleased.

• Chen Zheng repelled Qu Fulong’s heart fire, and Qu Fulong fled after learning it could not harm him.
• A strange light from Chu Yingxiong’s stone coffin appeared, but Chen Zheng took Chu Yingxiong and Chu Hongyi into the demonic mist to find the Luo Shu first.
• Inside the mist, the Luo Shu flew out of the cracked purple mountain and landed in Chen Zheng’s hand as Dao Lords and other cultivators battled over it.
• Kuchen, Yan He Tu, and Qu Luoshui demanded the Luo Shu, while a dark figure warned that the purple mountain was the tomb of its race’s supreme Imperial Lord.
• Chen Zheng revealed that he already possessed the other half of the Luo Shu, combined the scrolls, and absorbed the complete Luo Shu into his primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng told the furious cultivators, “I'm done. Do as you please.”

Chen Zheng faced the Golden Immortals and Dao Lords as the great demon began to awaken beneath the purple mountain. After the Dao Lords betrayed their plan and the demon attacked, Chen Zheng stopped its gigantic hand with one finger, leaving cracks across it.

• Daoist Kuchen, the King of Yan, Qu Luoshui, and the shadow demon mocked Chen Zheng and threatened Chu Hongyi.
• A gigantic demonic hand burst from beneath the earth, crushed a Golden Immortal, and fed his flesh and blood into the split purple mountain as the great demon began to awaken.
• The King of Yan, Qu Luoshui, and Daoist Kuchen pretended to join forces against the demon, then attacked Chen Zheng to seize the Luo Shu.
• Chen Zheng erased Chu Yingxiong's escape technique and teleported Chu Hongyi and Chu Yingxiong behind him, leaving himself in the three Dao Lords' path.
• The demonic hand struck, smashing the King of Yan underground, but Chen Zheng held it back with one finger and caused cracks to appear across it.

Chen Zheng shattered the great demon’s attacks without injury, leaving the ancient creature crippled before Purple Mountain. As demonic qi surged toward the mountain and a greater Emperor Lord began to awaken, Chen Zheng ignored warnings and asked whether anyone knew the loneliness of an expert.

• Chen Zheng destroyed the giant demonic hand with one finger, stunning the King of Yan and the other cultivators.
• The shadow demon summoned the great demon’s true body, which struck at Chen Zheng with a freshly reformed hand.
• Chen Zheng remained unharmed as the great demon’s hand and half its body exploded, leaving it kneeling before him.
• Chen Zheng noticed that the demon inside Purple Mountain had awakened, while the shadow demon and the Black Tortoise Golden Immortal warned him of the Emperor Lord’s impending revival.
• Chen Zheng ignored the plea to use the Luo Shu and asked the shadow demon whether it knew the loneliness of an expert.

Chen Zheng faced the awakening Emperor Lord in Purple Mountain as the sealed demons revived and the Golden Immortals panicked. Just as the Emperor Lord focused on Chen Zheng, a stone coffin tore through spacetime and landed on his head.

• The shadowy demon accused Chen Zheng of being no true expert, while Chen Zheng dismissed the great demon’s helpless rage.
• Purple Mountain trembled, and the shadowy demon and the Black Tortoise Clan elder urged Chen Zheng to stop the Emperor Lord and save the Western Emperor Realm.
• The Emperor Lord emerged as millions of demons revived, prompting Chu Yingxiong and the human Golden Immortals to fear the scale of the threat.
• The Emperor Lord absorbed streams of blood from across the Ancient Great Demon Pit, causing the demons’ cultivation to regress, and Lou Yi and Kuangtu paid him respect.
• The Emperor Lord turned his attention to Chen Zheng, but a black streak tore through spacetime and dropped a stone coffin onto his head.

Chen Zheng faced the revived Supreme Imperial Lord, who tried to make a deal against the self-willed stone coffin and then attacked him with the Purple Illusion Demon Eyes. Chen Zheng countered with a succession of powerful eye techniques, leaving the demons and the purple figure injured.

• The Supreme Imperial Lord hurled the stone coffin at Chen Zheng, but it flashed away and refused to attack either of them.
• The Supreme Imperial Lord used his Purple Illusion Demon Eyes to lure the Golden Immortals to him, then devoured them.
• The King of Yan, Kuchen, and Qu Luoshui begged Chen Zheng to use the Luo Shu to save them, while the Supreme Imperial Lord demanded to see it.
• The Supreme Imperial Lord attacked Chen Zheng with his Purple Illusion Demon Eyes, forcing the three Dao Lords to their knees.
• Chen Zheng revealed the Reincarnation Eye and other eye techniques, forcing Lou Yi to his knees and splitting the demons’ bodies.
• Chen Zheng’s final void-like gaze caused blood to stream from the Supreme Imperial Lord’s Purple Illusion Demon Eyes.

Chen Zheng effortlessly withstood Emperor Lord Ziyuan’s attacks, and Ziyuan summoned the Origin Demon Warship to fire its Sage-Slaying Cannon. The chapter ended with Lou Yi fleeing as the cannon threatened to annihilate the Western Emperor Realm.

• Chen Zheng revealed five divine eyes and overwhelmed Emperor Lord Ziyuan’s Purple Illusion Demon Eyes.
• Chen Zheng invited Ziyuan to attack him, but Ziyuan’s blows rebounded and left his demonic body cracked.
• Emperor Lord Ziyuan accidentally killed Daoist Kuchen when a rebounding collision sent him crashing into the Dao Lord.
• Ziyuan summoned the Origin Demon Warship, and the demons surged aboard as the earth split apart.
• Ziyuan announced that the warship’s Great Pulverization cannon had once slain a Sage, while Lou Yi fled with Kuangtu.

Emperor Lord Ziyuan unleashed Great Pulverization against Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng swallowed the attack. When Ziyuan tried to flee the Western Emperor Realm, Chen Zheng’s Pitch-Black Throne appeared and devoured him and the Origin Demon Warship.

• Emperor Lord Ziyuan infused the Origin Demon Warship with his purple blood essence, causing its power to surge and the prelude to Great Pulverization to tear apart Qu Fulong’s primordial spirit.
• Emperor Lord Ziyuan unleashed Great Pulverization at Chen Zheng, and Chen Zheng casually swallowed the devastating attack.
• Emperor Lord Ziyuan ordered the Origin Demon Warship to flee, claiming Chen Zheng could not stop it.
• Chen Zheng said the Origin Demons would not leave after Great Pulverization had disappointed him.
• A woman appeared on the Pitch-Black Throne, and its demonic energy devoured Emperor Lord Ziyuan and the Origin Demon Warship.

The stone coffin erased Qu Luoshui and opened before Chen Zheng, transporting everyone from the Ancient Great Demon Pit into a dim, unfamiliar world. A faceless woman approached Chen Zheng and greeted him.

• The Pitch-Black Throne swallowed the Origin Demon Clan and entered Chen Zheng's body.
• The stone coffin erased Qu Luoshui, leaving only his scattered bones.
• King of Yan invoked Fuxi's name, but the stone coffin ignored him and moved toward Chen Zheng.
• The stone coffin opened completely and transported Chen Zheng, Chu Hongyi, Chu Yingxiong, and King of Yan to another world.
• A woman emerged from the darkness, walked up to Chen Zheng, and reached out to him.

A mysterious woman confronted Chen Zheng and tried to awaken his memories by showing him the remains of powerful beings she had killed. After she revealed that the remains included a Sage and killed the King of Yan, Chen Zheng and the others were left facing her threat.

• The woman asked Chen Zheng if he recognized her, but he could not make out her face or remember her.
• The woman summoned the remains of an Ancient God and an Ancient Immortal, and Chen Zheng remarked that she had killed many patriarch-level beings.
• A third skeleton emerged wearing the Sage's Immortal-Demon Daoist Robe, and the woman identified it as a disobedient Sage.
• The woman said Chen Zheng had taught her the God-Slaying, Immortal-Slaying, and Sage-Slaying Methods, then declared that the King of Yan had no value and could sleep forever.
• The Sage's skeleton seized the King of Yan, turning him to ashes.

Chen Zheng encountered Hongdou, who returned half of the Primordial Divine Stone and revealed that First Heaven was buried beneath the Heaven-Burying Stone Coffin. After First Heaven awakened, Hongdou took the coffin to the forbidden land in the Great Void, while Chen Zheng remained without any memory of her or his past.

• Hongdou explained that she had used ancient murals to lure Chen Zheng to the Heaven-Burying Stone Coffin and recognized the Creation Lotus Seed as the Future Lord of Tribulation.
• The Creation Lotus Seed declared that she and Chen Zheng were partners and decided to keep the Ninth Tribulation Lord alive.
• Hongdou returned half of the Primordial Divine Stone to Chen Zheng and said that speaking his name would awaken the being suppressed inside the coffin.
• Hongdou told Chu Hongyi that Primordial, also called First Heaven, was buried there and that only Chen Zheng had once been able to suppress him.
• First Heaven roared awake, and Hongdou left to suppress him before taking the Heaven-Burying Stone Coffin to the forbidden land in the Great Void.
• Chu Hongyi asked Chen Zheng about Hongdou, but he said he had no memories of her or the coffin.

Chen Zheng absorbed the Primordial Divine Stone, raising his cultivation to the Early Body Integration Stage before Creation purified the power, and learned that Chu Bieyue was missing. After Chu Yingxiong reported that Dao Lord Liyue had been suppressed in the Divine Capital, Chen Zheng took the God-Creating Child Cauldron and set out with Chu Hongyi to investigate.

• Chen Zheng crushed the Primordial Divine Stone and absorbed its power, but Creation purified it and stabilized his cultivation at the Early Body Integration Stage.
• Chen Zheng explained that his fleshly body was a universe and that the Primordial Divine Stone was only a drop in the ocean, then confirmed Chu Bieyue was not at the Ancient Great Demon Pit.
• Chu Yingxiong named the Northern Sea's great whirlpool as another forbidden place, and Chen Zheng sensed that it concealed Guixu.
• Chu Yingxiong received word that Dao Lord Liyue had been suppressed, and Chen Zheng decided to visit the Divine Capital.
• Chen Zheng collected the God-Creating Child Cauldron, left Chu Yingxiong to guard the Chu Family, and departed with Chu Hongyi for the Divine Capital.

Chen Zheng stormed the Eastern Holy Divine Capital, transformed into a thousand-zhang god-demon, and destroyed its defenses and palaces with a single stomp. He then shattered King Lingxiao’s High Heaven Hall and killed him, while the Divine Capital’s survivors still hoped Daoist Tianying would emerge.

• Chunyu Xian attacked Chen Zheng, who killed the ninth-tier Profound Immortal with one slap.
• The golden-robed elder and other cultivators attacked Chen Zheng, but their lightning and magic treasures could not harm him.
• Chen Zheng transformed into a thousand-zhang god-demon and stomped through the Four Symbols Grand Formation, destroying the Divine Capital and Eastern Holy Mountain.
• King Lingxiao and King Xuanji escaped the stomp, and the Divine Capital’s cultivators called for Daoist Tianying to appear.
• Chen Zheng shattered King Lingxiao’s High Heaven Hall, seized him, and crushed both his body and primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng freed Dao Lord Liyue and smashed open Daoist Tianying’s palace, drawing the Heavenly Emperor Realm expert into battle. Daoist Tianying’s Holy Punishment failed to stop Chen Zheng, who began brutally slapping him while King Xuanji and the Divine Capital cultivators watched in terror.

• Chen Zheng retrieved the God-Creating Mother Cauldron beneath Eastern Holy Mountain, broke its seal, and released Dao Lord Liyue.
• Chen Zheng destroyed Eastern Holy Mountain and its white jade palace, revealing Daoist Tianying beneath the ruins.
• King Xuanji attacked Chen Zheng with ten thousand clones, but Chen Zheng destroyed them and then blasted King Xuanji into bloody mist, leaving only his primordial spirit.
• Daoist Tianying appeared and unleashed Holy Punishment, but Chen Zheng seized him with demon-god power and slapped him away.
• Chen Zheng repeatedly slapped Daoist Tianying, leaving King Xuanji and the Divine Capital cultivators horrified at their old ancestor’s helplessness.

Chen Zheng survived Daoist Tianying’s Saint-Felling Spear and absorbed its power, prompting Tianying to summon the Eastern Saint Supreme’s dharma body. Chen Zheng unleashed the third God-Devil Transformation and tore the dharma body apart.

• Chen Zheng returned to human size, then killed a Profound Immortal who attacked him and warned that ordinary Profound Immortals could not challenge him.
• Daoist Tianying summoned hundreds of millions of Saint-Felling Spears, but Chen Zheng erased them and absorbed their Dao of Slaughter power.
• Daoist Tianying revealed his master was the Eastern Saint Supreme and summoned the Supreme’s dharma body from the sky.
• The Eastern Saint Supreme’s dharma body dismissed Chen Zheng’s third God-Devil Transformation as too weak to defeat him.
• Chen Zheng transformed into his thousand-zhang demonic form and tore the Eastern Saint Supreme’s dharma body to shreds.

Chen Zheng destroyed Daoist Tianying and the Divine Capital cultivators after unleashing the Nine God-Devil Transformations, then resisted an ancient demon’s attempt to control him. He sent Dao Lord Liyue back to Supreme Heaven with the Life-Slaughtering Sword and a message for Yuan Baobao.

• Daoist Tianying questioned how Chen Zheng’s third god-devil transformation had destroyed Eastern Saint Supreme’s manifestation, and Chen Zheng attributed his strength to his flesh and blood.
• Daoist Tianying transformed and the Divine Capital cultivators became monsters, but Chen Zheng crushed them and annihilated Tianying’s escape as a blood thread.
• Chen Zheng’s demonic body grew out of control until a cold snort restored him to human size, and he tore apart King Xuanji’s damaged primordial spirit.
• An enormous demonic face appeared above the heavens, but Chen Zheng rejected its attempt to control his mind and said he would later visit the Chaos Prison.
• Chen Zheng sent the God-Creating Child Cauldron and the Life-Slaughtering Sword with Dao Lord Liyue, instructing him to take the sword to Yuan Baobao at the Heavenly Craft Workshop.

Chen Zheng and his companions reached the Northern Sea and found the Earth Spirit Hall, Jade Dynasty, and Black Tortoise Tribe fighting over a little girl protected by Zhao Polu. Chen Zheng recognized her extraordinary exquisite heart, freed her and Zhao Polu from the Earth Spirit Hall’s treasure, and left the girl frightened of him.

• Chu Yingxiong described the Northern Region’s legends of the divine maiden and its rival powers as the Star Raft crossed the region to the Northern Sea.
• Chu Yingxiong and Chu Hongyi saw Zhao Polu defending a little girl while Daoist Kuyun, Prince Jiuge, and a Black Tortoise Tribe woman each demanded custody of her.
• The three factions trapped Zhao Polu and the girl with their magical treasures, while Chu Hongyi wondered if the girl was tied to the divine maiden legend.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Earth Spirit Hall’s Heavenly Net and Earthly Web to the Star Raft and identified the girl as possessing an extraordinary exquisite heart.
• Chen Zheng opened the treasure with a gesture and freed Zhao Polu and the girl, who hid behind Zhao Polu in fear of him.

Chen Zheng revealed Xiao Linglong’s Exquisite Immortal Physique and erased a vast vortex threatening the Star Raft before parting the Northern Sea to open a path toward its depths. Xiao Linglong entered the path, and Prince Jiuge and Daoist Kuyun died when Chen Zheng closed it behind them.

• Chen Zheng told Zhao Polu that Xiao Linglong had an Exquisite Immortal Physique and was not the daughter of his old friend.
• Daoist Kuyun’s and Prince Jiuge’s plans were exposed as a colossal vortex surged toward the Star Raft, and Chen Zheng dissolved it with a finger.
• Chen Zheng parted the Northern Sea, opening a broad path into its deepest reaches.
• Xiao Linglong transformed into immortal light and entered the path, leaving Zhao Polu wondering who she was and whether his old friend had deceived him.
• Prince Jiuge and Daoist Kuyun pursued Xiao Linglong, but Chen Zheng closed the path and the Northern Sea’s laws ground them to bits.

Chen Zheng piloted the Star Raft into Guixu, where the Black Tortoise Tribe's old chief Yi Kong and Earth Spirit Hall's Li Youxian confronted him. A black shadow revealed itself as Chu Bieyue and attacked, but Chen Zheng struck it down with a slap, leaving everyone shocked by his power.

• Chen Zheng took the Star Raft into Guixu and said the missing girl mattered more than the mysterious realm.
• Yi Kong and Li Youxian appeared with their followers, and Li Youxian accused Chen Zheng of owing the Earth Spirit Hall a blood debt.
• A black shadow tore off Li Youxian's right arm and began devouring it.
• A voice from Guixu ordered Chu Bieyue to kill everyone, and Chu Yingxiong and Chu Hongyi recognized the shadow as their family member.
• Chu Bieyue lunged at the Star Raft, but Chen Zheng slapped him down, prompting a voice from Guixu to identify Chen Zheng as the Grand Emperor.

Chen Zheng faced Devil Dragon Di Yang, Immortal Venerable Linglong, and a mysterious old man in Guixu, while they debated his connection to the Grand Emperor. The old man revealed himself to be Primordial Chaos Dao Ancestor, leaving the cultivators stunned as Di Yang challenged him to name the realm of his true body.

• Devil Dragon Di Yang emerged from Guixu, destroyed the Bridges of the Heavens, and accused Chen Zheng of being an incarnation created by the Grand Emperor.
• Di Yang declared that he was Eternal Devil Dragon Emperor Yang and that his dragon body was formed from a single drop of his eternal true blood.
• Immortal Venerable Linglong appeared, overwhelmed the cultivators with her aura, healed Zhao Polu, and questioned Chen Zheng about the Grand Emperor.
• Chen Zheng called for an old acquaintance, who appeared among the shattered Bridges of the Heavens and exchanged greetings with him as Ancestor Chen.
• Di Yang identified the old man as Primordial Chaos Dao Ancestor, master of the Purple Empyrean Palace, and demanded to know where his true body was hiding.