Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng killed the Shen Family Ancestor, revealed as the Six Ears Macaque, after his blood sword wounded a golden body of the Western Sect leader and marked Spirit Mountain. He and Little Bone headed into the sea of blood, while the cultivators wondered who Chen Zheng was.

• The Golden Lotus of Merit failed to cleanse the blood from Spirit Mountain, so Buddhism sealed the mountain as Supreme Heaven’s onlookers speculated about a coming tribulation.
• In the Heavenly Dao Palace, the Palace Master of Yinghuo Palace discussed Chen Zheng’s enemies and made the Divine Consort resume dancing.
• The Shen Family Ancestor demanded to know why Chen Zheng favored the Monkey King, but Chen Zheng dismissed him as Little Bone’s Dao-Defying Power destroyed him.
• Little Bone absorbed the Shen Family Ancestor’s Golden Immortal power, and Chen Zheng explained that his blood sword had cut down only one of the Western Sect leader’s golden bodies and marked his Dao lineage.
• Chen Zheng promised to destroy those plotting against him, then steered the ancient Dao platform into the sea of blood as the cultivators watched in disbelief.

Chen Zheng and the Asura Empress were drawn by the Ancient Dao Platform into a mysterious space reflecting the past, where Chen Zheng encountered Immortal Venerable Linglong’s first life and entered a vast pitch-black city. There, a man resembling the face Chen Zheng had worn with the Heaven-Wielding Mask challenged him to bring the Future Lord of Tribulation, the Ninth Tribulation Lord, and Immortal Venerable Linglong to meet him.

• Chen Zheng returned to the Asura ancestral grounds, where the Asura Empress embraced and kissed him, while Old Man Wu and Wu Qingyan prepared to leave for the Immortal Martial Great World.
• Old Man Wu thanked Chen Zheng for curing their Divine Fiend Poison, and Chen Zheng told him to seek out Bai Nishang if he needed help; Old Man Wu then departed with Wu Qingyan.
• That night, the Ancient Dao Platform drew Chen Zheng and the Asura Empress’s primordial spirits into the River of Time and a mysterious ancient space.
• The platform showed them a crying child Chen Zheng identified as Immortal Venerable Linglong in her first life, and a dark hand attacked before the Asura Empress was forced out of the space.
• Chen Zheng entered a vast pitch-black city, followed an old man to a dark hall, and faced a man on a Pitch-Black Throne who said he would kill Chen Zheng and the Future Lord of Tribulation, the Ninth Tribulation Lord, and Immortal Venerable Linglong together.

The sinister man who claimed to have existed before the ages tried to trap Chen Zheng and Creation with an illusion, then attacked with a bone flute. The attack brought him to the Asura Realm, where the Asuras collapsed under his pressure and he asked where Chen Zheng was.

• The sinister man declared that he had existed before the ages and claimed the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor Mask and Exquisite Ancient Dao Platform as his means.
• The sinister man showed Creation a vision of the Land of the Beginning and thirteen Tribulation Lord statues, but Creation recognized the illusion and rejected his attempt to unsettle her.
• The sinister man summoned a bone flute and played a note that shattered everything in the mysterious space except Chen Zheng and Creation.
• The flute note resounded through the Asura Realm, forcing its Asuras to their knees and making Xin Meng spray blood while Little Bone's dao-defying power broke apart.
• The Asura Empress flew out of the blood-colored temple as a powerful figure descended from the twisted sky and asked where Chen Zheng was.

Chen Zheng confronted the uncanny man who had descended into the Asura Realm and stopped his Eternal Night secret art from spreading across the myriad realms. Before the man’s thought was destroyed, he sent Chen Zheng and his companions to the Great Void.

• The uncanny man’s pressure injured the Asuras and threatened the Asura Empress, but Chen Zheng appeared and shielded the ancestral land.
• The uncanny man attacked Chen Zheng with his bone flute, which became countless heavenly pillars, but Chen Zheng’s netherworld sword shattered them.
• The uncanny man declared that he would unleash the first act of Eternal Night, turning the skies black across the myriad realms.
• Chen Zheng released the crystalline cube, whose seven-colored light erased Eternal Night and shattered the uncanny man’s thought.
• The dying uncanny man invoked the Law of Space and Time and sent Chen Zheng, Little Bone, and the Creation Lotus Seed to the Great Void.

Chen Zheng and Little Bone arrived in Heavenly Sea City, where locals feared a coming disaster from the Star Constellation Sea. When Mu Yun flew out to face the towering waves, Chen Zheng stopped them with his teacup, leaving the city safe and the scheming scholar silenced.

• Chen Zheng explained that Linglong had disrupted the sinister man's teleportation, sending him, Little Bone, and the Creation Lotus Seed to the Holy Spirit Realm.
• Locals discussed the Sea God, the Ink Emperor, and the danger posed by the Star Constellation Sea as Chen Zheng watched the sea.
• A scholar accused Chen Zheng of bringing disaster and urged Mu Yun to attack him, but Little Bone exposed the scholar's interest in its secret treasure.
• Enormous waves surged toward Heavenly Sea City with force approaching the peak of the Golden Immortal level, and Mu Yun flew out to confront them.
• Chen Zheng tossed his teacup after Mu Yun, and its mysterious light absorbed the waves, resolving the calamity in a breath.

Chen Zheng saved Mu Yun from a Sea God attack and went with her to the Mu Family, where the Holy Tomb’s Elder Fan pressed the family to surrender its dying holy spirit. The spirit transformed before Chen Zheng and bowed to him as her ancestor.

• Chen Zheng used a teacup to swallow the Sea God’s waves and force, then returned them to the sea.
• A Thousand Autumns Academy scholar accused Chen Zheng of conspiring with the Sea God and tried to flee, but Little Bone burned him to nothing.
• Chen Zheng told Mu Yun he was going to the Mu Family, and she led him into the estate.
• Elder Fan urged Mu Ge to let the Holy Tomb take the Mu Family’s failing holy spirit, while Mu Yun rejected his demand.
• As the python-shaped holy spirit fell toward the main hall, Chen Zheng said she had come to see him, and she transformed into a woman and bowed, calling herself Xiaoqing and him the ancestor.

Chen Zheng reunited with Xiaoqing, the Mu Family’s Holy Spirit Ancestor, and killed a Holy Tomb overseer who tried to seize her. Xiaoqing learned that the Heavenly Dragon Emperor had reincarnated in the Holy Spirit Realm, while the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag revealed White Snake’s identity and asked whether its former master had returned as a Holy Spirit.

• Xiaoqing bowed to Chen Zheng, stunning Mu Yun and the Mu Family head by calling him her ancestor.
• The Holy Tomb overseer tried to capture Xiaoqing with a Holy Spirit Heavenly Crystal, but Chen Zheng killed him with a gesture and Little Bone burned his corpse.
• Xiaoqing told the Mu Family that Chen Zheng had once guided her from an ordinary green snake into a Holy Spirit, then learned the Heavenly Dragon Emperor had reincarnated.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag, which recognized Xiaoqing as Third Chief Green Snake and revealed that Second Chief Bai was Bai Suzhen.
• The Dragon Desolation Battle Flag asked whether the Heavenly Dragon Emperor had reincarnated as a Holy Spirit, and Chen Zheng confirmed that he had returned in the Holy Spirit Realm.

Mr. Mo revealed himself as a Golden Immortal ink flood dragon and attacked Heavenly Sea City, but Chen Zheng sent the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag to subdue him. As the flag prepared to make the captured dragon into a meal, the Sea God approached the city.

• The Dragon Desolation Battle Flag fretted over choosing between its former master, the Heavenly Dragon Emperor, and its current master, Princess Zhengyue, until Little Bone told it not to worry before they met.
• The Mu Family head offered to invite Fairy Menglin from the Food God Manor to prepare a welcoming feast for Chen Zheng.
• Mr. Mo transformed into a giant ink flood dragon, uprooted the Thousand Autumns Academy, and swallowed its disciples.
• The ink flood dragon taunted Xiaoqing and demanded that she offer herself to him, so Chen Zheng ordered the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag to act.
• The Dragon Desolation Battle Flag shrank the ink flood dragon into a loach and captured it, while the dragon warned that the Sea God and Ink Emperor would come for them.
• Chen Zheng pointed out that the Sea God was approaching Heavenly Sea City on towering waves.

Chen Zheng’s group faced the Mirage Emperor, whose hidden father, the Ink Emperor, awakened and threatened Heavenly Sea City. Chen Zheng sent a line of egrets from Egret Academy into the Star Constellation Sea, where a black dragon claw seized the Mirage Emperor.

• Chen Zheng sent the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag to test the Mirage Emperor, and the flag transformed into a white dragon that forced him down.
• The Mirage Emperor called for his father, and the Star Constellation Sea darkened as the awakened Ink Emperor’s aura broke the white dragon’s power.
• The Mu Family head realized the Ink Emperor had secretly protected the Mirage Emperor during the earlier hunt and had never truly slept.
• The ink flood dragon revealed that the Ink Emperor was not the Star Constellation Sea’s most terrifying master.
• Chen Zheng pointed toward Egret Academy, releasing a line of egrets that flew over Heavenly Sea City and into the Star Constellation Sea.
• A black dragon claw emerged from the sea, seized the Mirage Emperor, and withdrew beneath the water.

Du Shaoling revealed that Chen Zheng's vitality had restored him, allowing him to summon divine white egrets and drive back the Ink Emperor. The group learned the Ink Emperor might awaken as a Quasi-Sage and serve an even more terrifying master, an ancient Wu Clan figure reincarnated in the Star Constellation Sea.

• The humans in Heavenly Sea City celebrated after Du Shaoling's divine white egrets drove back the Ink Emperor, and Du credited a senior at the Mu Family.
• Du Shaoling arrived at the Mu Family great hall, thanked Chen Zheng, and explained that Chen's vitality had healed his old ailment and extended his life.
• Xiaoqing explained that Du was a sage among poets whose verses wielded the Great Dao, while Little Bone and the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag mocked the imprisoned ink flood dragon.
• Du warned that the Ink Emperor had not fully awakened and said Chen Zheng might need to stop him when he did.
• Xiaoqing estimated the Ink Emperor's strength, and Du said he had once stood at the peak of the Heavenly Emperor realm and might become a Quasi-Sage upon awakening.
• Du revealed that sacred writing described the Star Constellation Sea as the resting place of a great ancient Wu Clan figure, whom he believed was the Ink Emperor's master.

Chen Zheng and the others discussed the possible Ancestral Wu reincarnation and Academy Head Du’s prospects before a decree summoned Mu Ge and Fairy Menglin to Heavenly Crown City. They learned the city planned to execute the Spectral Holy Dragon, and a presence watched them from the sky as Chen Zheng noted the coincidence.

• Chen Zheng suggested the Star Constellation Sea might be the reincarnation site of an Ancestral Wu and said Academy Head Du could rise to Dao Lord or Quasi-Sage upon returning to the Black-Yellow Great World.
• Mu Ge hosted a flood dragon feast prepared by Fairy Menglin, and the meal advanced him to ninth-rank Profound Immortal while boosting Mu Yun’s cultivation.
• A red-robed envoy delivered a Heavenly Crown decree ordering Mu Ge and Fairy Menglin to reach Heavenly Crown City within three days.
• Mu Ge read that Heavenly Crown City would hold a Dragon-Slaying Assembly to slay the Spectral Holy Dragon, and Little Bone recognized the dragon as an old acquaintance.
• Chen Zheng remarked on the coincidence of the Ink Emperor’s awakening and the planned execution, then Xiaoqing, Academy Head Du, and Mu Ge noticed someone spying on them from the sky.

Chen Zheng went to Heavenly Crown City with Little Bone after discovering that the Tian Family had set a trap for him. Inside the sealed Tian Family ancient hall, its ancestor revealed that the Supreme Sovereign Tian Family sought revenge for Chen Zheng killing his relatives in the past.

• Chen Zheng gave Academy Head Du the secret art Heavenly Law and Decrees to help defend Heavenly Sea City, then left for Heavenly Crown City with Little Bone.
• In Heavenly Crown City, cultivators discussed a mysterious female thief, the Six Holy Families, and the Spectral Holy Dragon as Chen Zheng entered the city.
• Chen Zheng stopped the rain and broke the barrier sealing Heavenly Crown City, then appeared before the Tian Family's ancient hall.
• The Tian Family activated another barrier around the ancient hall, cutting it off from the rest of the city as a black-robed woman watched from afar.
• An old man's phantom confronted Chen Zheng, transformed into a monster, and accused him of killing his grandfather, father, and uncles in Supreme Heaven.

The Supreme Sovereign Tian Family activated the Heaven-Refining Grand Formation and sacrificed its own members to kill Chen Zheng, but he destroyed the formation and restored Tian He. Tian He realized Chen Zheng had survived and feared the eternal despair he had promised the Tian Family.

• The Tian Family trapped Chen Zheng and Little Bone inside the Heaven-Refining Grand Formation, and Chen Zheng drew Little Bone into his primordial spirit as the formation began to crack it apart.
• Tian He revealed the Tian Family’s ancient grudge against Chen Zheng, then joined the disciples in sacrificing themselves to strengthen the formation.
• The formation’s power surged as the Tian Family’s Profound Immortals, Golden Immortals, and elders were destroyed, while its pressure devastated Heavenly Crown City.
• Tian He sacrificed his remnant soul to amplify the formation, but Chen Zheng roared and shattered the twelve Eyes of Heavenly Punishment and the formation.
• Chen Zheng reconstructed Tian He’s body and primordial spirit, and the stunned Tian He realized the formation had failed to kill Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Tian Family’s formation, repeatedly resurrected its ancestor until he revealed where the Spectral Holy Dragon was sealed, and then awakened the dying dragon into a Heavenly Dragon Emperor. The Six Holy Families watched in fear as the newly awakened dragon bowed to Chen Zheng and called him Master.

• The Tian Family ancestor’s scheme failed, and Chen Zheng resurrected him after he detonated his primordial spirit.
• The ancestor revealed that the Spectral Holy Dragon was sealed inside the Jun Heaven Divine Talisman in Jun Heaven Hall, then released him and surrendered the talisman.
• After Chen Zheng asked about another surviving member of the Tian Family branch, the ancestor self-detonated again and was not resurrected.
• Chen Zheng sent mystic light into the dying Spectral Holy Dragon, awakening him as a gigantic white dragon with the aura of the Heavenly Emperor Realm.
• The Spectral Holy Dragon bowed to Chen Zheng and introduced himself as the Heavenly Dragon Emperor.

Chen Zheng ordered the Heavenly Dragon Emperor to punish Heavenly Crown City’s Six Holy Families, and the Heavenly Emperor destroyed them all. Afterward, Chen Zheng noticed a disturbing presence near the Holy Tomb.

• The Liu Family patriarch tried to save Liu Qi, but the Heavenly Dragon Emperor stopped Liu Qi’s escape and erased the Liu Family.
• The Wind and Thunder Tiger tried to flee with the Lei Family, but the Heavenly Dragon Emperor killed it and destroyed the Lei Family.
• Wei Yan offered Wei Xi to the Heavenly Dragon Emperor, but Wei Xi killed herself, and he erased the Wei Family.
• The Xiang Family patriarch attempted to teleport away, but the Heavenly Dragon Emperor destroyed the Xiang Family, then annihilated the Zhuo and Feng Families as well.
• The Heavenly Dragon Emperor told the survivors that he was merely Ancestor Chen’s mount, then bowed to Chen Zheng after destroying all six families.
• Chen Zheng noticed a savage holy spirit’s silhouette near the Holy Tomb, and the Heavenly Dragon Emperor identified its direction before Chen Zheng said something was wrong.

Chen Zheng restored Heavenly Crown City and reunited with Ji Yuwei, then learned that the Holy Tomb's Spirit Lord might be the reincarnation of the Primordial Spirit Great Venerable. He summoned the Sage connected to the Jun Heaven Divine Talisman, leaving the Sage's identity unknown.

• Chen Zheng restored Heavenly Crown City and called Ji Yuwei to the ancient hall.
• Ji Yuwei met Chen Zheng and recognized the Heavenly Dragon Emperor as the reincarnation of the Spectral Holy Dragon who had saved her.
• Chen Zheng explained that someone in the Holy Tomb was refining the reincarnated soul of his former disciple.
• Ji Yuwei suspected the Holy Tomb's Spirit Lord was the reincarnation of the Primordial Spirit Great Venerable, and the Heavenly Dragon Emperor recalled that the Great Venerable may have secretly harmed his predecessor.
• Chen Zheng summoned a Sage through the Jun Heaven Divine Talisman, and Little Bone casually demanded to know who the phantom was.

Chen Zheng identified the phantom summoned by the Jun Heaven Divine Talisman as a dead Sage seeking his help. After a Holy Tomb envoy demanded the Tian Family and Six Holy Families receive his decree, Chen Zheng ordered the Heavenly Dragon Emperor to kill him and set out for the Holy Tomb.

• The Jun Heaven Divine Talisman manifested a Sage, whom Chen Zheng recognized as a dead Sage with a connection to the talisman.
• Chen Zheng said the dead Sage seemed to want his help, but left the matter to fate.
• A Holy Tomb envoy named Wei Ming demanded that the Tian Family and Six Holy Families receive his decree, then learned their compounds were empty.
• Chen Zheng ordered the Heavenly Dragon Emperor to kill Wei Ming, who was destroyed along with his yellow dragon chariot.
• Chen Zheng and Ji Yuwei rode the Heavenly Dragon Emperor toward the Holy Tomb in the northwestern Holy Spirit Realm.

Chi Yan revealed that Chen had destroyed the Tian Family and the Six Holy Families, but the newly awakened Ink Emperor ignored Heavenly Sea City and headed for the Holy Tomb. The Heavenly Dragon Emperor confronted the Ink Emperor above the sealed tomb, where both dragons revealed their terrifying Heavenly Emperor auras.

• Chi Yan told the Mu Family head that Chen had destroyed the Tian Family and the Six Holy Families, then died when the Ink Emperor passed over Heavenly Sea City without attacking.
• The Dragon Desolation Battle Flag and Xiaoqing described Chen’s overwhelming past power as the Ink Emperor awakened from the Star Constellation Sea.
• Academy Head Du concluded that a sacred object in the Holy Tomb might resurrect the Ink Emperor’s master, an ancient Wu Clan figure.
• Living beings across the Holy Spirit Realm learned that the Ink Emperor was heading to the Holy Tomb, and some set out to witness what would happen.
• The Ink Emperor and the Heavenly Dragon Emperor faced off above the sealed Holy Tomb, and the Heavenly Dragon Emperor sensed the Ink Emperor’s ancient, formidable aura.

The Ink Emperor, the Heavenly Dragon Emperor, and a savage dragon-shaped holy spirit erupted into battle above the sealed Holy Tomb while Chen Zheng recognized the holy spirit’s aura as Shana’s other side. As the combatants crashed toward the tomb, black light transformed a dozen escaping figures into Heavenly Emperors.

• The Mirage Emperor taunted Chen Zheng and demanded that the Holy Tomb’s Spirit Lord surrender what was hidden inside.
• A savage dragon-shaped holy spirit burst from the Holy Tomb and joined the Ink Emperor and Heavenly Dragon Emperor in battle.
• Little Bone noticed the holy spirit shared an aura with the eerie Sage phantom, and Chen Zheng identified it as Shana’s other side.
• Chen Zheng concluded the Ink Emperor had come for the Holy Tomb’s heaven-defying treasure and suspected the Spirit Lord’s plan could backfire.
• The three dragons fell toward the Holy Tomb as its cultivators fled, but black streaks caught a dozen escaping figures and raised them to the Heavenly Emperor Realm.

The Holy Tomb’s Spirit Lord used black qi to seize control of the Heavenly Dragon Emperor and the Ink Emperor, making them carry a hidden wooden coffin out of the tomb. He called the coffin a forbidden thing and bit into it, while the immobilized witnesses could only watch.

• More than a dozen Holy Tomb cultivators mutated into Heavenly Emperor-level beings, then crumbled to ash before attacking the Heavenly Dragon Emperor and the Ink Emperor.
• A black-qi thought of the Spirit Lord split apart and entered the two dragons, causing them to fall into the Holy Tomb.
• The true Spirit Lord appeared and commanded the dragons to retrieve an object from the deepest part of the Holy Tomb.
• The dragons carried a pitch-black wooden coffin outside, and the cultivators watching from afar found themselves unable to move.
• The Spirit Lord broke the lower half of his wooden mask, declared that he would devour the forbidden thing, and bit down on the coffin.