Chapter Summaries

The Holy Tomb Spirit Lord devoured the wooden coffin and claimed to have become undying and indestructible, revealing a Sage’s corpse inside. He attacked Ji Yuwei, but Chen Zheng effortlessly destroyed his body, leaving only his head.

• The Holy Tomb Spirit Lord broke his wooden mask, revealed a face resembling the missing Primordial Spirit Great Venerable, and denied being him.
• The Holy Tomb Spirit Lord transformed into a jiangshi and bit more pieces from the coffin while declaring he would become undying and indestructible.
• The Ink Emperor tried to take the coffin, but the Holy Tomb Spirit Lord destroyed his body; the Ink Emperor reappeared and identified the coffin as a Sage’s.
• The Holy Tomb Spirit Lord absorbed black energy from the coffin and claimed his undying body was perfected, forcing the surrounding cultivators and emperors to kneel.
• The Holy Tomb Spirit Lord tried to seize Ji Yuwei, but Chen Zheng shattered his arm and reduced everything below his head to dust.

Chen Zheng opened the Sage’s coffin, releasing a terrifying Sage corpse that sealed the Holy Spirit Realm in black qi. The corpse knelt before Chen Zheng and begged him to save it.

• Chen Zheng explained that his Azure Great Dao of life had overwhelmed the Holy Tomb Spirit Lord’s forbidden power of death.
• The Holy Tomb Spirit Lord taunted Chen Zheng into opening the Sage’s coffin, and Chen Zheng swept its lid aside.
• Black qi poured from the coffin and sealed the Holy Spirit Realm as the Sage corpse rose and the Holy Tomb Spirit Lord celebrated the coming destruction.
• The Ink Emperor prepared to flee with the Sea God Mirage Emperor while the Sage corpse appeared before Chen Zheng, knelt, and cried, “Save... me!”

Chen Zheng confronted the sage corpse, which knelt and begged him for help while revealing that Primordial Spirit and its own master were enemies. Primordial Spirit appeared above the Holy Tomb, claimed the sage corpse, and left Chen Zheng facing a mysterious half-male, half-female face.

• The sage corpse knelt before Chen Zheng and begged him to save it, stunning the cultivators and causing the Ink Emperor to halt his escape.
• The Holy Tomb Spirit Lord accused Primordial Spirit of lying, but the sage corpse destroyed him with a casual strike.
• The sage corpse warned that Primordial Spirit and its own master were both evil, revealing that it served a master who was Primordial Spirit's mortal enemy.
• Chen Zheng said Primordial Spirit seemed to be present and questioned whether the being above the heavens was the same entity.
• A beam of divine light pierced the black aura and formed a half-male, half-female face, which declared that the sage corpse belonged to it; Chen Zheng asked who it was.

Chen Zheng confronted Primordial Spirit, who tried to seize the sacred corpse and Sage's wooden coffin while claiming Chen Zheng had only three years left to live. Chen Zheng used a crystalline cube and seven-colored divine light to reclaim them and shatter Primordial Spirit's face, leaving their feud unresolved.

• Primordial Spirit told Chen Zheng he was too weak to stop him from taking the sacred corpse and Sage's wooden coffin.
• Primordial Spirit enveloped the sacred corpse in divine light and mocked Chen Zheng, predicting a transcendent would emerge from the Great Void within three years.
• Primordial Spirit began leaving with the sacred corpse and coffin, then vowed to slay Chen Zheng within three years.
• Chen Zheng released seven-colored divine light from the crystalline cube between his brows and took back the sacred corpse and coffin.
• Chen Zheng shattered Primordial Spirit's half-male, half-female face with another burst of divine light, and Primordial Spirit swore revenge from beyond the spacetime rift.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Holy Tomb’s forces and brought the sacred corpse and coffin back, then examined the corpse’s fragmentary memories. Restoring one image made the corpse lose control and retreat into the coffin, which Chen Zheng stopped from escaping.

• Chen Zheng explained that oaths alone could not make someone a Sage, and Little Bone recalled that he had destroyed the Primordial Spirit’s manifestation.
• The Black Emperor fled with the Sea God and Mirage Emperor, while Chen Zheng said the black dragon could not escape.
• At Chen Zheng’s command, the Heavenly Dragon Emperor searched the Holy Tomb cultivators’ souls, learned they had sacrificed reincarnated beings and abducted others, and erased them.
• Chen Zheng restored the sacred corpse and coffin, then asked the corpse about its master and the curse; the corpse said it remembered being Extreme Sage and showed fragments of its past.
• Chen Zheng clarified a blurred image in the corpse’s memory, but the light screen shattered and the corpse went berserk, diving toward the coffin.
• The coffin drew the corpse inside and tried to escape, but Chen Zheng pulled it back; Little Bone said the restored image resembled her master’s scanning projector.

Chen Zheng traveled to the Star Constellation Sea with Ji Yuwei, Little Bone, and Academy Head Du to awaken a sleeping ancient being, but found the Ink Emperor dead and the Mirage Emperor absorbing his power. The Mirage Emperor confronted Chen Zheng, claiming he had prepared a prison to trap him.

• Chen Zheng shrank the holy coffin and stored it in his Sumeru Space before leaving the Holy Tomb with the Heavenly Dragon Emperor.
• Chen Zheng returned to Heavenly Sea City, then departed with Ji Yuwei and Academy Head Du for the Star Constellation Sea aboard the Star Raft.
• Little Bone swallowed a powerful sea beast as the Star Raft descended into the depths, where a surge of blood aura revealed the Ink Emperor's presence.
• Chen Zheng brought the Star Raft through a water-screen barrier into an underwater city, where they found the Ink Emperor dead and the Mirage Emperor devouring his blood essence.
• The Mirage Emperor declared that he had inherited the Ink Emperor's power and challenged Chen Zheng, saying he had prepared a heaven-imprisoning jail for him.

The Mirage Emperor killed the Ink Emperor and raised the Heaven-Imprisoning Prison, revealing that a force behind him was manipulating events and seeking Chen Zheng’s supreme treasure. Chen Zheng helped awaken the ancient Wu Gonggong, whom the Mirage Emperor then tried to control and set against everyone around Chen Zheng.

• Little Bone noticed the Mirage Emperor’s madness and strange starlight as he raised the Heaven-Imprisoning Prison, which destroyed the underwater city, the Ink Emperor’s dragon corpse, and the Star Raft’s protective barrier.
• The Mirage Emperor taunted Chen Zheng and threatened to awaken someone sleeping beneath the Star Constellation Sea, while Chen Zheng said the Heaven-Stealing and Sun-Swapping Technique would not be enough to steal his treasure.
• The Mirage Emperor split into more than a dozen figures and performed a spell that opened the ruins; Chen Zheng shattered a star-rune beast that attacked the Star Raft.
• An ancient Wu with a python’s head and human body emerged inside an aqua-blue pillar, and Chen Zheng sent mystical light into him to help him awaken.
• The Wu opened his eyes, revealing Quasi-Sage pressure, and the Mirage Emperor’s figures used the Creation: God-Control Technique to command Gonggong to slaughter everyone around Chen Zheng.

Ancestral Wu Gonggong attacked the Star Raft but recognized Chen Zheng and knelt before him, while the Mirage Emperors unleashed Creation Secret Arts and revealed themselves as remnants of the Creation Divine Hall. Chen Zheng destroyed them with his baleful energy, and Ji Yuwei recognized the power that had earned him the name Vicious One Ancestor.

• Ancestral Wu Gonggong pounced onto the Star Raft, then recognized Chen Zheng and knelt before him as Ancestor Chen.
• Academy Head Du and Ji Yuwei reconsidered Chen Zheng’s origins, while Little Bone rejected the suggestion that he was Hongjun.
• The Mirage Emperors used Creation Secret Arts to attack Gonggong and revealed that they were remnants of the Creation Divine Hall.
• The Mirage Emperor urged the remnants to imprison Chen Zheng and Gonggong, and they summoned a Heaven-Imprisoning Prison that split the Star Raft.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the remnants as incomplete cultivators of Creation Secret Arts and destroyed them with dragons of baleful energy.
• Ji Yuwei recognized Chen Zheng’s signature power and called him the Vicious One Ancestor.

Chen Zheng learned that the Mirage Emperor had helped the Creation Immortal Envoys and discovered a Creation Immortal Fruit beneath the ruins. He retrieved it and then created a second fruit, exhausting all his true essence.

• The Mirage Emperor offered to reveal a secret and explain how to escape the Heaven-Imprisoning Prison if Chen Zheng spared him.
• The Mirage Emperor revealed that the Creation Immortal Envoys had recruited him through a star rune and ordered him to create avatars using his true blood.
• Chen Zheng told Gonggong that the Mirage Emperor had killed Gonggong’s black dragon, and Gonggong killed the Mirage Emperor.
• Gonggong explained that the black dragon had forgotten his memories from the Primordial Wilderness era and recognized only Gonggong as his master.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Creation Immortal Fruit from beneath the ruins and created a second one, exhausting his true essence.

Chen Zheng explained the Creation Immortal Fruits and the Physique of Creation to Gonggong and Academy Head Du while revealing that ancient Ancestral Wu had been revived and that Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s remnant soul was within him. Little Bone and Ji Yuwei advanced to the Golden Immortal Realm, and Gai Shi arrived after Chen Zheng called for her.

• Chen Zheng gave Creation Immortal Fruits to Little Bone and Ji Yuwei, and Academy Head Du explained that the fruit could awaken extraordinary physiques, including the fabled Physique of Creation.
• Chen Zheng identified Yinghuo as someone with the Physique of Creation and told Gonggong that several Ancestral Wu, including Zhulong, Goumang, Houyi, and Kuafu, had revived.
• Chen Zheng told Gonggong that Dijun had returned to life and that Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s remnant soul was within his primordial spirit.
• Little Bone transformed, unleashed its power, and reached the Golden Immortal Realm; Ji Yuwei also stabilized at the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Chen Zheng called for Gai Shi, who shattered the Heaven-Imprisoning Prison, arrived on the Star Raft, and said she had been losing weight so Gu Dadiao would not run away again.

Chen Zheng sent Little Bone with Gai Shi to the Colorless Sea and saw several companions leave the Holy Spirit Realm for other worlds. Back in Heavenly Sea City, he extracted a strand of Chiyou’s primordial spirit from the holy corpse and learned that the holy corpse master had targeted it and learned about him.

• Chen Zheng sent Gai Shi and Little Bone to the Colorless Sea, urging Little Bone to become its master and reach the Patriarch Realm.
• Gonggong left after Chen Zheng told him that Zhulong, Goumang, Hou Yi, and Kuafu had gone to the same place.
• Academy Head Du departed for the Black-Yellow Great World, and Chen Zheng gave the Heavenly Dragon Emperor a secret technique before he returned to the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations.
• Chen Zheng took the holy corpse from its coffin and used the crystalline cube to draw a strand of primordial spirit from its skull.
• Chen Zheng recognized the strand as Chiyou’s primordial spirit and concluded that the holy corpse master had learned about him through Chiyou and now had him in its sights.

After a Sage fell in the Great Thousand World, blood rain gathered into a sword that attacked Heavenly Sea City and Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng survived the strike and sent three drops of blood through the torn sky, destroying a hidden realm before the Holy Spirit Realm could see what happened next.

• Chiyou's primordial spirit told Chen Zheng it would wait for him before shattering, and blood rain began falling across the Holy Spirit Realm as beings sensed that a Sage had died.
• A gigantic blood sword formed from the rain and descended toward Heavenly Sea City, where its inhabitants were immobilized and feared the city would be destroyed.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the city and took the blood sword's strike head-on, then emerged unharmed from the curtain of blood.
• Chen Zheng sent three drops of blood into the tear in the sky, and an earth-shattering blast revealed a human-shaped mountain with an Asgard Palace and floating coffins before shattering them all.

Chen Zheng returned to the Mu Family after blasting the Master of the Holy Corpse’s lair into view, then examined the Holy Spirit Realm’s Dao foundation with Princess Zhengyue and the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag. The little Creation girl revealed that the Master’s array used Saint-Burying Coffins and suspected Chen Zheng was one of five who knew the Tribulation Lord Grand Array; she ended by confronting him after he called her little.

• The Master of the Holy Corpse answered Chen Zheng from the shattered Asgard Palace and challenged him to come to Holy Emperor Mountain.
• Chen Zheng returned to the Mu Family and told Ji Yuwei and the Heavenly Dragon Emperor to return to the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations and cultivate toward the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Chen Zheng left with the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag and examined the Holy Spirit Realm’s Dao foundation above Supreme Peak City with the Cosmic Cantilever.
• The little Creation girl said the Master of the Holy Corpse was not at Holy Emperor Mountain and had built an incomplete Tribulation Lord Grand Array using Saint-Burying Coffins.
• The little Creation girl suspected Chen Zheng was one of the five who knew about the Tribulation Lord Grand Array because a faceless woman had called him Teacher and the Heaven-Burying Coffin had been meant for A Jiu.
• Chen Zheng dismissed her suspicions and called her little, so the little Creation girl appeared as an adult woman and demanded to know whether she was still little.

Chen Zheng rejected Creation's plans to restore his cultivation by risking the destruction of the world and absorbed much of the Holy Spirit Realm's immortal spiritual power instead. After leaving the realm, he confronted the Creation Divine Hall remnants' summoned River of Time and stood firm against it.

• Creation urged Chen Zheng to seek the World Tree or the Gate of Eternal Life to restore his cultivation, but he refused because both paths could endanger the world.
• Creation warned Chen Zheng that the Twelfth Tribulation Lord could sacrifice all life to transcend, but Chen Zheng said it could not suppress him.
• Chen Zheng absorbed seventy percent of the Holy Spirit Realm's immortal spiritual power, raising his cultivation only to mid Body Integration before departing.
• The Creation Divine Hall remnants summoned the River of Time with the Creation Immortal Scroll and vowed to suppress Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng enlarged his body and collided with the River of Time, remaining unmoved as the river vanished and the remnants cried out in shock.

Chen Zheng was sent by the River of Time to the Land of Absolute Sealing, where the Creation Divine Hall remnants expected him to remain trapped for ten years. He arrived at a Cloud Mountain Mine, crushed its overseer Di Xing, and calmly asked about the three stars overhead as the miners urged him to flee.

• The Creation Divine Hall remnants sacrificed the Creation Immortal Fruit and summoned the River of Time to carry Chen Zheng into the Land of Absolute Sealing.
• Chen Zheng tore apart the dark-robed projection and learned that the Creation Divine Hall remnants were hiding in the Great Void, but the River of Time swallowed him before he could act further.
• The remnants rejoiced that Chen Zheng would be trapped for at least ten years and that a powerful figure would awaken in three years, then erased their projections.
• A beautiful woman arrived too late to stop Chen Zheng’s transport and blamed the Creation Immortal King for using the Law of Space and Time against her foster father.
• Chen Zheng appeared at the Cloud Mountain Mine and crushed overseer Di Xing to death; Lu Wuwang and the other cultivators warned him to hide from the Seven Emotions Sect’s Enforcement Hall.
• Chen Zheng ignored the warnings and asked the cultivators what the three enormous stars in the sky were called.

Chen Zheng faced the Seven Emotions Sect’s enforcers at Cloud Mountain Mine and killed them with a casual sweep of his hand. The surviving miners mistook him for a member of the Six Desires Demon Sect, but he introduced himself as Chen Zheng.

• A middle-aged cultivator explained the four ancient stars and warned Chen Zheng that the Seven Emotions Sect’s enforcers were approaching.
• A burly miner accused Chen Zheng of crushing Di Xing to death, and Liu Zhengming attacked him with a lightning whip.
• Chen Zheng said he did not like the word “run” and killed Liu Zhengming and the other Seven Emotions Sect cultivators with casual gestures.
• Chen Zheng killed the burly informer when he tried to flee, leaving the miners terrified.
• The middle-aged cultivator asked whether Chen Zheng was a devil son of the Six Desires Demon Sect, and Chen Zheng gave his name.

Chen Zheng faced Lightning King Yun Xiao, who had arrived at Cloud Mountain Mine to avenge the Seven Emotions Sect disciples. Chen Zheng survived Yun Xiao’s lightning attack and killed him, leaving the mining slaves and sect disciples stunned.

• Lu Wuwang and the mining slaves warned Chen Zheng that the Seven Emotions Sect and Yun Xiao would seek revenge for the dead disciples.
• Yun Xiao arrived at Cloud Mountain Mine and trapped everyone beneath a Lightning Gang Barrier.
• Yun Xiao demanded Chen Zheng’s name and summoned Five Profound Yin Lightning Bolts after Chen Zheng called him weak.
• Chen Zheng grabbed at Yun Xiao as the lightning struck him, and Yun Xiao exploded while Chen Zheng remained unharmed.
• Lu Wuwang and the mining slaves realized Chen Zheng had killed Yun Xiao, while the Seven Emotions Sect disciples stood stunned.

Yun Xiao unleashed a juvenile Dao-Devouring Beast to kill Chen Zheng, but the beast submitted to Chen Zheng instead. It shrank into a purple puppy, begged to become his pet, and claimed to be the last of its kind.

• Yun Xiao summoned the Dao-Devouring Beast, which sealed the True Essence of everyone in the Cloud Mountain Mine and drained the Seven Emotions Sect disciples and Yun Xiao.
• Yun Xiao urged the beast to devour Chen Zheng, but it saw the phantom of Little Tuntun and cowered before him.
• The Dao-Devouring Beast transformed into a purple creature, shrank to puppy size, and rubbed against Chen Zheng as it acknowledged him as its master.
• Chen Zheng called the beast timid and questioned its ordinary bloodline and talent.
• The little purple beast spoke, begged Chen Zheng to take it in, and said it was the last of its race, while Lu Wuwang called its behavior acting cute.

Chen Zheng accepted the Dao-Devouring Beast Pan Tian as his third spirit pet, then confronted Demon Son Hongtian, who wanted to cooperate to capture her. After Pan Tian swallowed the Azure Great Dao, Hongtian recognized its power and fled.

• Yun Xiao perished, and Pan Tian erased the Seven Emotions Sect disciples who tried to flee.
• Chen Zheng identified the purple beast as an Ancient Dao-Devouring Beast and accepted her as his spirit pet, keeping her inherited name, Pan Tian.
• Chen Zheng revealed that he had noticed Demon Son Hongtian hiding nearby, and Pan Tian warned that Hongtian carried an artifact that resisted her devouring power.
• Hongtian explained the Dao-Devouring Beast's connection to Longevity Ancient Star and proposed cooperating with Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng refused.
• Chen Zheng let Pan Tian swallow a streak of azure profound light, and Hongtian recognized the Azure Great Dao before vanishing.

Chen Zheng freed the mining slaves from the Seven Emotions Sect’s Life and Death Curse and brought Lu Wuwang to confront the sect. As the sect threatened Lu Wuwang over his ties to a young master from Ziwei Ancient Star, Chen Zheng called for Old Demon Wuxiang to awaken.

• The Dao-Devouring Beast mocked Demon Son Hongtian for fleeing, and Chen Zheng sent it into his primordial spirit for Creation to discipline.
• Chen Zheng rejected Lu Wuwang’s warning and said he would wipe out the Seven Emotions Sect, then dispelled the mining slaves’ Life and Death Curses.
• Chen Zheng took Lu Wuwang to the Seven Emotions Sect, where his blood-colored spirit dragons killed the sect’s attackers and forced the sect to activate its mountain-protecting formation.
• Lu Wuwang feared his actions would bring disaster upon the Five Elements Sect, while the Seven Emotions Sect’s disciples threatened him over the young master from Ziwei Ancient Star.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the young master’s importance and called for Old Demon Wuxiang to awaken.