Chapter Summaries

Little Bone devoured the ancient Yinglong and vowed to conquer the Colorless Sea before Chen Zheng arrived in the Great Dark Heaven. In the Land of Absolute Sealing, a Heavenly Emperor’s iron curtain sealed off the Earth Spirit Domain, and Chen Zheng went to investigate.

• Little Bone killed and devoured the ancient Yinglong, then announced that it would challenge the Golden Shark King and become lord of the Colorless Sea within six months.
• Madam Lüzhu asked Chen Zheng how they could escape the Land of Absolute Sealing, and he said it could not trap him and that he had things there to collect.
• Tian Yao said she wanted to return to Green Mound, while Lu Wuwang said he needed time to restore his cultivation.
• A vast iron curtain appeared over the Earth Spirit Domain, blocking its view of the Three Great Ancient Stars and sealing it off from them.
• Chen Zheng identified the curtain as the work of a Heavenly Emperor, then vanished to investigate and promised a result within three days.
• Lu Wuwang reassured Madam Lüzhu that Chen Zheng would handle the crisis and promised to help her rule the Land of Absolute Sealing if it was unsealed.

Chen Zheng bypassed the sky-shrouding iron curtain and infiltrated Beyond Heaven City, where the Gouchen Lei Family planned with the Ji Family to seal off rival factions and seize a chance to leave the Land of Absolute Sealing. After Chen Zheng absorbed the Lei Family elders’ lightning attacks and disappeared, a little girl’s weeping spread across Gouchen Ancient Star and made every living being cry.

• Chen Zheng entered Beyond Heaven City and learned that the Gouchen Lei Family had captured a fleet from a mid-tier civilization whose people built the city’s modern district.
• The Lei Family’s leaders discussed joining forces with the Ji Family to block rival factions from reaching Longevity Ancient Star and use the Investiture of the Gods to return to Supreme Heaven.
• Chen Zheng revealed himself in the Lei Family’s sealed hall, absorbed their lightning techniques, and was recognized as the mysterious young man mentioned by Yin Jiu.
• Chen Zheng noticed the little girl’s weeping and vanished, after which the sound spread throughout Gouchen Ancient Star and caused all living beings to cry uncontrollably.

A little girl’s eerie crying spread across Gouchen Ancient Star, and Chen Zheng recognized her as the reincarnated founding sect master of the Six Desires Demon Sect. The Lei Family’s supreme elder arrived to suppress her and Chen Zheng, but his lightning attack failed, and a netherworld sword shadow appeared behind Chen Zheng as the supreme elder vanished.

• The little girl’s crying made beings across Gouchen Ancient Star weep, while Chen Zheng remained unaffected.
• Lei Peng and the Lei Family elders identified the girl as the possible reincarnation of the Six Desires Demon Sect’s founding sect master and warned Chen Zheng to leave.
• The little Creation girl told Chen Zheng that the girl was Six Desires Heaven, the Sixth Tribulation Lord, who had lost her Creation Lotus Seed and her mind.
• The Lei Family’s supreme elder arrived, recognized the girl, and dismissed Chen Zheng as a mere Mahayana Stage cultivator.
• The supreme elder’s divine lightning failed to affect Chen Zheng, and a netherworld sword shadow appeared behind him as the supreme elder suddenly vanished.

Chen Zheng confronted the Lei Family, while the awakened Six Desires Tribulation Lord revealed that Longevity Ancient Star had reappeared and its immortal gate led out of the Land of Absolute Sealing. As the Lei and Ji Families raced to seize the opportunity, Chen Zheng broke Qinghua Ancient Star’s barrier and sent its warship toward Longevity Ancient Star.

• The Lei Family’s supreme elder fled from Chen Zheng, and Lei Peng and the other cultivators retreated after Chen Zheng dismissed the threat of killing them.
• The little girl stopped pretending to be a child, revealed herself as the Six Desires Tribulation Lord, and asked Chen Zheng to help her find her Creation Lotus Seed.
• Longevity Ancient Star appeared, and the Lei and Ji Families sealed Gouchen, Ziwei, and Qinghua Ancient Stars to monopolize its immortal gate.
• The Lei and Ji Families’ warships entered Longevity Ancient Star, while Qinghua Ancient Star’s furious cultivator protested their attempt to suppress it.
• Chen Zheng carried the Six Desires Tribulation Lord beyond Gouchen Ancient Star, shattered Qinghua Ancient Star’s barrier, and let its warship charge toward Longevity Ancient Star.

Chen Zheng arrived on Longevity Ancient Star as the Lei, Ji, and Qing Families fought its native cultivators for access to the immortal gate. When a Dao-Devouring Beast emerged, the Lei Family summoned its awakened ancestor, Great Emperor Gouchen, who appeared as a Quasi-Sage.

• Chen Zheng entered Longevity Ancient Star with the little girl, and three beams of immortal light signaled that the battle for the immortal gate had begun.
• The Lei and Ji Families joined forces to block the other factions, while Qing Zhe declared that Great Emperor Qinghua was also about to awaken.
• Chen Zheng endured the cultivators’ attacks without injury, and Qing Zhe offered to cooperate with him in exchange for a teleportation chance.
• The Lei Family’s supreme elder revealed that the little girl was the Six Desires Demon Sect’s founding demon reincarnated, and her power frightened Qing Zhe.
• A Dao-Devouring Beast burst from beneath the earth and attacked the cultivators, prompting the Lei Family’s supreme elder to summon Great Emperor Gouchen.
• Great Emperor Gouchen emerged from a cauldron with an aura above the Heavenly Emperor level, suppressing the beast as a Quasi-Sage.

The Lei, Ji, and Qing families’ ancestors awakened as Quasi-Sage Great Emperors, but each fell silent after seeing Chen Zheng. Antarctica Longevity Great Emperor then appeared above the immortal gate, joining the gathering of the Four Extremes Great Emperors.

• The Lei Family’s supreme elder asked Great Emperor Gouchen to suppress Chen Zheng and the girl, but Gouchen silently studied Chen Zheng instead.
• Ziwei Great Emperor awakened from the Ji Family’s cauldron and likewise stared at Chen Zheng without responding to his descendants.
• The girl spoke in the cold voice of an adult woman, dismissing the Four Extremes Great Emperors as rotten fish and shrimp.
• Qinghua Great Emperor awakened from the Qing Family’s cauldron and also fell silent upon seeing Chen Zheng.
• Antarctica Longevity Great Emperor appeared above the immortal gate, and the three families’ supreme elders recognized him.

The awakened Four Extremes Great Emperors fell silent when they saw Chen Zheng, while the Ji Family's supreme elder tried to use the Investiture of the Gods to change the situation. Mie Cangqiong seized the treasure and revealed his plan to take everyone's fortunes, but his attack on Chen Zheng had no effect.

• The Longevity Great Emperor awakened and, like the other three emperors, stared silently at Chen Zheng.
• The Ji Family's supreme elder summoned the Investiture of the Gods and offered it to the Ziwei Great Emperor, who refused to take it.
• Mie Cangqiong snatched the Investiture of the Gods and revealed that he was a mid-stage Quasi-Sage who had concealed his identity for a thousand years.
• Mie Cangqiong announced that he would seize the fortunes of the gathered cultivators and clawed at Chen Zheng to take his heavenly mandate.
• Mie Cangqiong's attack on Chen Zheng did nothing.

Chen Zheng effortlessly took the Investiture of the Gods from Mie Cangqiong, and the Four Extremes Great Emperors bowed to him as Ancestor Chen. When Mie Cangqiong tried to flee through the immortal gate, Chen Zheng used the treasure to destroy his primordial spirit.

• Mie Cangqiong used the Investiture of the Gods against Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng seized it and dispelled its attack.
• Great Emperor Gouchen called Chen Zheng Ancestor Chen, and the Four Extremes Great Emperors bowed to him.
• Chen Zheng addressed Gouchen as Lei Zhenzi and Ziwei as Bo Yikao, and both answered him respectfully.
• Mie Cangqiong tried to escape through the immortal gate, but Chen Zheng struck him with the Investiture of the Gods.
• The Investiture of the Gods destroyed Mie Cangqiong’s primordial spirit, and his corpse fell to the ground.

Lei Peng and the Lei Family's supreme elder tried to flee through the Immortal Gate, but a hidden swordsman killed them and revealed that the gate had trapped everyone who entered it. The swordsman recognized Chen Zheng, bowed to him as the Seven Severances Immortal King, and left through the gate, which then vanished.

• Lei Peng begged Chen Zheng for mercy, while Ji Mo crippled his cultivation and knelt to atone.
• The Lei Family's supreme elder seized Lei Peng and tried to escape through the Immortal Gate, but a cold sword light killed them both.
• The Seven Severances Divine Sword appeared, and the Seven Severances Sword Master emerged from the gate and admitted that those who had entered before were still trapped in the Land of Absolute Sealing.
• The Seven Severances Immortal King recognized Chen Zheng, prostrated himself before him, and departed through the Immortal Gate.
• The Immortal Gate vanished after the Seven Severances Immortal King left.

Chen Zheng went to the Firmament Forbidden Land with the Four Extremes Great Emperors and the little girl, where its guardians warned them of the dangers within. He casually dispersed the Chaos Mist, leaving the creatures guarding the forbidden land stunned.

• The cultivators realized the immortal gate had vanished with the Seven Severances Immortal King, and the Four Extremes Great Emperors headed for Gouchen Ancient Star’s forbidden land.
• Chen Zheng read the word “Firmament” on the stele, and the little girl began crying as she recalled that she had left something important inside.
• Great Emperor Gouchen explained that the Four Extremes Great Emperors had previously fled the forbidden land after encountering powerful creatures and suffering damage to their magical power and essence.
• A qilin-bodied old man warned Chen Zheng not to enter unless he was a Sage, while strange creatures in the mist mocked him and challenged him to disperse it.
• Chen Zheng swept his hand across the Chaos Mist and dispersed it completely, stunning the old man and the creatures inside.

Chen Zheng charged through the exposed Firmament Forbidden Land, defeating its defenders and bypassing Dao Child Shengge. He reached the altar beside the immortal gate, leaving its treasures within reach.

• Chen Zheng dispersed the chaos mist, revealing the Firmament Forbidden Land and its immortal gate, altar, and treasure vase.
• The reincarnated Six Desires Tribulation Lord rushed toward the vase, but the forbidden land's defenders trapped her in a formation.
• Dao Child Shengge appeared and tried to seize Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng broke the formation, rescued the little girl, and charged deeper into the forbidden land.
• The Boulder God grew to a thousand zhang and tried to stop Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng knocked him down and cracked his arm.
• Dao Child Shengge used the Firmament Myriad Ages technique, but Chen Zheng broke through its enormous palm and landed before the altar.

Chen Zheng swallowed the Six Desires Creation Lotus Seed despite Dao Child Shengge’s warnings, leaving everyone stunned when he emerged unharmed. Dao Child Shengge summoned the Firmament Dao Lord, while the little girl continued demanding the seed back.

• The little girl reached for the Heavenly Firmament Eternal Ruyi Vase, and Chen Zheng took it from the altar despite Dao Child Shengge’s warnings.
• Chen Zheng opened the vase and released the Creation Lotus Seed, which Dao Child Shengge identified as the little girl’s companion treasure and warned could bring about an epoch-ending calamity.
• Chen Zheng swallowed the Creation Lotus Seed, and the little girl cried and beat at him while the beings in the forbidden land expected him to die.
• When ten breaths passed without harm to Chen Zheng, Dao Child Shengge realized he could devour Creation Lotus Seeds and demanded to know which Tribulation Lord he was.
• Chen Zheng said he had previously eaten an Azure Creation Lotus Seed and now expected to gain control of the Great Dao of the Six Desires epoch.
• Dao Child Shengge activated the eyes on the head-shaped mountain and summoned his master, the Firmament Dao Lord.

Chen Zheng confronted the Firmament Dao Lord, who recognized that Chen Zheng surpassed the Grand Emperor and knew powerful figures from the Great Void. Chen Zheng then casually broke the restrictions sealing the world, leaving the Firmament Dao Lord shocked.

• The Firmament Dao Lord descended in a Dharma body, and Dao Child Shengge reported that Chen Zheng had swallowed a Creation Lotus Seed and disrupted the forbidden land’s arrangements.
• The Firmament Dao Lord concluded that Chen Zheng was not the Grand Emperor or an incarnation of the three great Heavens, and he questioned Chen Zheng about the powerful beings he had met.
• Chen Zheng named Hong Wangu, the Grand Emperor, Immortal Venerable Linglong, Eternal Devil Dragon Emperor Yang, the Primordial Spirit, and Supreme True Demon Ji Shang, stunning Dao Child Shengge and the Firmament Dao Lord.
• The Firmament Dao Lord explained that an old undying being had created the Land of Absolute Sealing to await someone and promised to pass something on if Chen Zheng could unseal it.
• Chen Zheng pointed at the altar, and its divine light shattered the restrictions over the entire Land of Absolute Sealing, shocking the Firmament Dao Lord.

The Land of Absolute Sealing became a realm unto itself after Chen Zheng lifted its restrictions, and the Firmament Dao Lord gave him the Epoch Heavenly Disc, which recorded thirteen epochs and their Tribulation Lords. Chen Zheng learned that the disc could unite the Tribulation Lords’ power or restart a destroyed epoch, but he suspected Creation had concealed its true nature.

• The Land of Absolute Sealing lost its prison barrier, allowing Lu Wuwang, Madam Lüzhu, and Tian Yao to sense that Chen Zheng had succeeded.
• The Firmament Dao Lord gave Chen Zheng the Heavenly Disc, explained that its marks represented destroyed epochs, and warned that war in the Great Void threatened the current epoch.
• Creation absorbed the Heavenly Disc into Chen Zheng and gave him golden runes, while the Six Desires Tribulation Lord’s reincarnated little girl cried over losing it.
• Chen Zheng placed the little girl in his primordial spirit and read that the Epoch Heavenly Disc could draw on the Tribulation Lords’ power or restart a destroyed epoch.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the disc’s apparent power and suspected Creation had withheld something, since it seemed unable to rival the Cosmic Cantilever.

The Four Extremes Great Emperors left the Land of Absolute Sealing for Primordial Supreme Heaven, while Tian Yao returned to Green Mound and Chaoyun departed, leaving Pan Tian with Chen Zheng. Su Youyou reported that the Cloud Realm’s supreme treasure had drawn powerful contenders, including two men pursuing Feather Empress Feng Fei.

• The Four Extremes Great Emperors bowed to Chen Zheng and departed for Primordial Supreme Heaven, and Lu Wuwang and Madam Lüzhu left the hall.
• Tian Yao asked Chen Zheng to let her return to Green Mound, then left the Land of Absolute Sealing after spending time with him.
• Chaoyun gave Chen Zheng an ancient map of the Divine Ruins, then left Pan Tian in his care.
• Chen Zheng taught Pan Tian the Sacred Emperor Undying Art, and she entered his primordial spirit to cultivate.
• Su Youyou told Chen Zheng that the Immortal Domain influenced three great immortal dynasties and that Wan Wusheng and Holy Son Duotian were vying for Feather Empress Feng Fei.

Chen Zheng sent Su Youyou to the Cloud Realm with a decree warning that anyone who touched Cloudborne Feather City would have their entire household wiped out. In Phoenix-Courting City, the decree repelled Young Master Beishan and Holy Son Duotian, while Wan Wusheng dismissed it and the threat to Cloudborne Feather City remained.

• Su Youyou warned Chen Zheng that Holy Son Duotian and powerful figures from the Great Thousand Worlds threatened Cloudborne Feather City, and Chen Zheng said he would first visit the Divine Ruins to restore his cultivation.
• Chen Zheng wrote a threat on a golden page and ordered Su Youyou to hang it on the heavenly pillar in Phoenix-Courting City before departing the Six Desires Demon Sect.
• Guangcheng Dao Lord left the Land of Absolute Sealing and wondered when Chen Zheng would return to Supreme Heaven.
• Su Youyou hung the golden page on the heavenly pillar, and Young Master Beishan was blasted away when he tried to remove it.
• Holy Son Duotian was also repelled by the golden page, even after he attacked it with the power of chaos, while Wan Wusheng said the decree would not stop him from going to Cloudborne Feather City.

In Phoenix-Courting City, Wan Wusheng threatened to claim the Feather Clan’s supreme treasure, while Zhou Xianglong reacted in terror to the golden page and cried that a man was returning. In the Divine Ruins, Chen Zheng arrived with Pan Tian and stunned Divine Maiden Taiyin with a line of poetry.

• Young Master Beishan and Holy Son Duotian returned to Phoenix-Courting City and speculated about who had written the golden page.
• Wan Wusheng announced that an ancestor of the Supreme Hall would break through Cloudborne Feather City’s blockade within ten days and claimed the Feather Clan’s treasure.
• Zhou Xianglong emerged from seclusion, saw the golden page, and cried that a man was coming back.
• Chen Zheng and Pan Tian entered the Divine Ruins, where a local elder explained that outsiders below True Immortal were assigned to work as herb slaves.
• Commander Murong Hai and the heavenly guards challenged Chen Zheng, but Divine Maiden Taiyin arrived and greeted him warmly.
• Chen Zheng recited, “Who first awakens from the great dream?” and Divine Maiden Taiyin trembled and stared at him in shock.

Divine Maiden Taiyin protected Chen Zheng from being sent to the medicinal gardens after he claimed to know Elder Luo Tian. When Luo Tian arrived, he struck Divine Son Nanming and knelt before Chen Zheng, calling him Ancestor Chen.

• Divine Maiden Taiyin invited Chen Zheng to accompany her, but Divine Son Nanming arrived and ordered Murong Hai to take him to the medicinal gardens.
• Divine Maiden Taiyin sealed Murong Hai's magical power and said Chen Zheng knew Elder Luo Tian.
• Divine Son Nanming summoned Luo Tian to expose Chen Zheng, while the Dao-Devouring Beast accused him of jealousy.
• Luo Tian arrived drunk and accepted Divine Son Nanming's immortal wine before hearing that Chen Zheng claimed to be his descendant.
• Luo Tian slapped Divine Son Nanming, then knelt before Chen Zheng and paid his respects to Ancestor Chen.

Chen Zheng entered the Divine Ruins after Luo Tian recognized him as Ancestor Chen, then questioned the Five Elders about an Ancestral God Talisman. When he revealed that the talisman should react to divine-race beings but had not reacted to them, the elders sealed the Ancestral God Hall.

• Luo Tian knelt before Chen Zheng and apologized for his drunken behavior, while the other four elders invited Chen Zheng into the divine city.
• Divine Son Nanming, Murong Hai, and the heavenly guards knelt; Luo Tian shattered their physical bodies and told them to reflect on their actions.
• Luo Tian introduced Dongyue Divine Ji, Ye Lin, Yao Kun, and Wu Shen as the other four Quasi-Sage elders of the Divine Ruins.
• Chen Zheng showed the elders an Ancestral God Talisman, and they recognized its script but admitted they could not read it.
• Chen Zheng said the talisman was supposed to react to beings of the divine race and asked why it had not reacted to the elders.
• Dongyue Divine Ji and the other three elders abruptly sealed the Ancestral God Hall with divine light.

Chen Zheng exposed the Divine Ruins’ inhabitants as demons trapped in a dreamscape that fed a powerful demon’s strength. After the Ancestral God Talisman revealed the truth across the Divine Ruins, the demon descended over the divine city and threatened everyone.

• Chen Zheng explained that the Divine Ruins’ god clans were not real and that its inhabitants had been trapped in a dream woven by a demon.
• Divine Maiden Taiyin and Dongyue Divine Ji revealed their demonic forms, while Elder Yao Kun insisted he was a god clan member and attacked them.
• The Ancestral God Talisman shattered the disguises of Yao Kun, Wu Shen, and Ye Lin, revealing that all three were demons.
• Chen Zheng said the demon grew stronger from the inhabitants’ dreams, and the Ancestral God Talisman spread demonic radiance across the Divine Ruins.
• The demon descended over the divine city as the inhabitants outside fled in terror, only to find they could not escape.