Chapter Summaries

The Great Dao Dream Demon revealed that the Divine Ruins was a dream and tried to devour Chen Zheng’s dreams and primordial spirit. It fled in terror after seeing something in Chen Zheng’s memories, then its will shattered and its body collapsed outside the Ancestral God Hall.

• The Divine Ruins’ inhabitants realized they had become demons, and Divine Son Nanming destroyed his own primordial spirit.
• The Great Dao Dream Demon attacked the Ancestral God Hall and urged Yao Kun to kill Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng shattered every one of Yao Kun’s teeth with a kick, leaving the Quasi-Sage demon kneeling in shock.
• Chen Zheng put away the Ancestral God Talisman and let the Great Dao Dream Demon’s secret art enter his primordial spirit.
• The Great Dao Dream Demon screamed in terror at what it saw in Chen Zheng’s memories, then its will shattered and its enormous body collapsed.

The Great Dao Dream Demon died after looking into Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit, and Chen Zheng revealed a terrifying memory left there by an old acquaintance. The vision crippled Yao Kun, while Chen Zheng learned the Divine Court of the Divine Dao Great World had fallen in the Divine Ruins’ northern region and decided to go there.

• The Dao-Devouring Beast swallowed the Dream Demon’s dissipating power and gained the ability to devour dreams.
• Chen Zheng displayed a dream of a woman torturing a purple figure as gods and demons hung nearby, terrifying everyone who saw it.
• Chen Zheng explained that the scene was a memory from an old acquaintance who had accompanied him through his loneliest years.
• Yao Kun’s Dao heart collapsed after seeing the vision, leaving him crippled and reduced to the size of a young monkey.
• Wu Shen said the northern region of the Divine Ruins held the fallen Divine Court and several dozen supreme divine medicines, so Chen Zheng decided to go there.

Chen Zheng entered the Eternal Firmament Divine Court, where the princess’s lingering thought offered him its legacy, but he refused and asked for the divine medicine garden instead. After he tore open the Court’s formation with a casual gesture, the princess agreed to lead him there.

• Chen Zheng entered the divine light surrounding the Divine Court after Wu Shen failed to pass through it.
• The princess’s lingering thought appeared and offered Chen Zheng the Eternal Firmament Divine Court’s supreme Divine Dao art in exchange for his bow to the throne.
• Chen Zheng refused the legacy, gave the princess the Sacred Emperor Undying Art, and asked her to take him to the divine medicine garden.
• A divine general challenged Chen Zheng, who tore open the Divine Court’s great formation with a casual sweep of his hand.
• The princess agreed to guide Chen Zheng to the garden, and the divine general knelt before the throne, wondering whether Chen Zheng could have changed the outcome of the ancient battle.

Chen Zheng swallowed more than fifty supreme divine medicines in the Divine Court, broke through to the Middle Tribulation Transcendence Stage, and shattered a tribulation that summoned thirty-six Eyes of Heavenly Punishment. He told the Divine Court Princess that he had once regarded all beings beneath heaven and earth as ants, leaving the divine generals kneeling in awe.

• Chen Zheng gathered the supreme divine medicines and swallowed them all at once, causing the Divine Medicine Garden and the Divine Court’s grand formation to collapse under the resulting power.
• Luo Tian, Dongyue Divine Ji, and the Dao-Devouring Beast retreated as the eruption drew thirty-six Eyes of Heavenly Punishment above the Divine Ruins.
• The thirty-six Eyes of Heavenly Punishment attacked Chen Zheng, but he shattered them with a roar and swallowed the chaotic power he had unleashed.
• Chen Zheng told the Divine Court Princess that the medicines had brought him to the Middle Tribulation Transcendence Stage, though his physical body had made the breakthrough difficult.
• Chen Zheng described his combat strength and said that he had once considered all beings beneath heaven and earth ants, prompting the divine generals to kneel.

Chen Zheng restored the Divine Court and turned its princess’s remaining thought into a seed so she could try to revive her original self. At the Ancestral God Hall, Li Ji arrived to take Divine Maiden Taiyin away, but the Creation Lotus Seed destroyed her Dharma body.

• Chen Zheng restored the Divine Court formation and the Divine Ruins, then offered the Divine Court princess a chance to cultivate toward reviving her original self.
• The Divine Court princess accepted the risk of being devoured and let Chen Zheng turn her thought into a seed for the Feather Clan’s sacred ground.
• Luo Tian and Dongyue Divine Ji announced they would return to the Ten Hells, and Dongyue Divine Ji asked Chen Zheng to take Youruo as his maidservant.
• Li Ji, High Priestess of the Taiyin Clan, entered the Ancestral God Hall and declared she would take Divine Maiden Taiyin away and erase others’ memories of her.
• Chen Zheng warned Li Ji not to erase Divine Maiden Taiyin’s memories, and the Creation Lotus Seed appeared and destroyed Li Ji’s Dharma body.

Creation took Divine Maiden Taiyin into Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit, and Chen Zheng said he would return to the Cloud Realm. There, Su Youyou and the gathered factions watched as Chen Zheng revealed a true phoenix on Seven Feather Mountain, drawing birds from across the realm to pay homage.

• Creation said Divine Maiden Taiyin had Taiyin Clan blood, took her into the Creation Lotus Seed, and entered Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng told Luo Tian that he would return to the Cloud Realm.
• In Phoenix-Courting City, Bai Feihu urged Su Youyou to leave, while Su Youyou warned that his alliance with Wan Wusheng could bring him danger.
• A phoenix’s cry drew Su Youyou, Bai Feihu, Young Master Beishan, and thousands of cultivators to Seven Feather Mountain.
• Chen Zheng appeared with a little bird, then tossed it into the air and revealed an enormous true phoenix.
• Birds from across the Cloud Realm flew to Seven Feather Mountain and paid homage to the true phoenix.

A young man atop Seven Feather Mountain revealed his overwhelming power by killing Young Master Beishan, a Golden Immortal, in an instant. He then rode the true phoenix toward Phoenix-Courting City, while Su Youyou and Bai Feihu followed.

• A true phoenix and countless birds paid homage to the young man, stunning the cultivators gathered near Seven Feather Mountain.
• Young Master Beishan mocked the young man and threatened the phoenix, claiming the great powers surrounding Cloudborne Feather City could destroy it.
• The young man swiftly tore off Young Master Beishan's head and annihilated his primordial spirit, leaving the cultivators terrified.
• The young man called Golden Immortals trash, mounted the true phoenix, and flew toward Phoenix-Courting City.
• Su Youyou followed the young man, while Bai Feihu resolved to see whether he could stand against the Chaos Body and flew after them.

The golden page's owner arrived at Phoenix-Courting City on a true phoenix, where his identity stunned Wan Wusheng and the assembled cultivators. After he effortlessly killed a peak Dao Lord, the city faced the full force of his arrival.

• Wan Wusheng ordered Dao Lord Lu Zhang to intercept the golden page's owner, while the Blazing Yang Divine Hall's elder sent a Flame God Dao Soldier to avenge Young Master Beishan.
• Lu Zhang and the Flame God Dao Soldier were hurled back and killed against Phoenix-Courting City's heavenly pillar in a single breath.
• The golden page's owner arrived on a true phoenix, and Wan Wusheng recognized the man who had destroyed his Dao Artifact lotus platform in the Asura Realm.
• Zhou Xianglong rushed from the city lord's residence and knelt before the golden page's owner, shouting that he had finally arrived.
• The Blazing Yang Divine Hall's elder transformed into a fire dragon and attacked, but the golden page's owner destroyed him with one palm strike.

In Phoenix-Courting City, Chen Zheng revealed overwhelming power by destroying Wan Wusheng’s protective formation and killing him despite Eastern Saint Supreme’s intervention. The city’s witnesses were left stunned as Chen Zheng turned to face the consequences of his attack.

• Chen Zheng’s name was revealed, and Su Youyou said Wan Wusheng would die, while Bai Feihu dismissed her prediction.
• Holy Son Duotian introduced his Chaos Body, but Chen Zheng ignored him and challenged Wan Wusheng to use his trump cards.
• Wan Wusheng summoned the Innate Divine Talisman Formation and mocked Chen Zheng, while Bai Feihu claimed the formation could not be broken.
• Chen Zheng swept away the formation’s talismans, shocking the crowd and prompting Wan Wusheng to call for his master.
• Eastern Saint Supreme sent a great hand across worlds to save Wan Wusheng, but Chen Zheng split it with a netherworld sword shadow and crushed Wan Wusheng’s head, erasing his primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng killed Wan Wusheng and promised to destroy the forces attacking Cloudborne Feather City. He left for the city with Su Youyou while Zhou Xianglong slaughtered the outsiders remaining in Phoenix-Courting City.

• Chen Zheng ignored Holy Son Duotian and warned that Golden Immortals could easily lose their lives after killing Wan Wusheng and breaking Eastern Saint Supreme's divine ability.
• Eastern Saint Supreme threatened Chen Zheng and attacked Cloudborne Feather City, prompting the Cloud Realm natives to beg Chen Zheng to save the Feather Clan.
• Chen Zheng said Cloudborne Feather City could withstand the attacks and vowed to kill everyone besieging it.
• Holy Son Duotian fled, and Zhou Xianglong crushed the people Wan Wusheng and Young Master Beishan had brought.
• Chen Zheng departed for Cloudborne Feather City with Su Youyou, while Zhou Xianglong killed the remaining outsiders in Phoenix-Courting City and Bai Feihu escaped.

Chen Zheng arrived at Cloudborne Feather City as three factions besieged it, and the three ancestors’ divine ability avatars confronted him. After they attacked, Chen Zheng transformed into a thousand-zhang godfiend.

• The Futu Sect, Blazing Yang Divine Hall, and Supreme Hall failed to break Cloudborne Feather City’s wards as they attacked from three directions.
• Chen Zheng rode a true phoenix through the barrier and faced the avatars of Eastern Saint Supreme, Star-Picking Ancestor, and Heavenly Fire Ancestor.
• Eastern Saint Supreme revealed that Chen Zheng had severed his divine ability with a sword, while Chen Zheng taunted all three ancestors and promised to kill them.
• Heavenly Fire Ancestor, Eastern Saint Supreme, and Star-Picking Ancestor attacked Chen Zheng with their divine abilities.
• Chen Zheng stepped between the avatars, swelled to a thousand zhang, and sprouted demonic horns as Star-Picking Ancestor identified him as a godfiend.

Chen Zheng used the Nine God-Devil Transformations to destroy three Great Thousand World ancestors’ avatars and rout their forces, though he recognized that his Tribulation Transcendence cultivation limited the technique’s staying power. He then heard about a masked bookstore owner in Supreme Heaven whose picture books might have been made by another transmigrator.

• Chen Zheng used the fourth transformation of the Nine God-Devil Transformations to destroy Eastern Saint Supreme and Heavenly Fire Ancestor’s avatars, while Star-Picking Ancestor challenged him to come to the Futu Sect.
• Star-Picking Ancestor destroyed his own avatar, and Chen Zheng killed a fleeing Dao Lord with a single blow.
• Chen Zheng’s god-devil body burst apart, releasing phantoms that slaughtered the fleeing cultivators and drove the surviving Quasi-Sages from the Cloud Realm.
• Chen Zheng reflected that his limited Tribulation Transcendence true essence prevented him from sustaining the Nine God-Devil Transformations.
• Su Youyou told Chen Zheng about a masked bookstore owner in Supreme Heaven who had started a picture-book series called the “Holy Emperor Arc,” and Chen Zheng wondered if the owner was another transmigrator.

Chen Zheng and Su Youyou entered Cloudborne Feather City and discovered that chaos-tainted forces had seized control of the Feather Emperor Palace. Feng Die declared that Feng Fei had been deposed and warned Chen Zheng to leave, revealing that the one behind the new Feather Clan had transcended the laws of the Great Thousand World.

• Chen Zheng bypassed the protective formation with his Lawless Hand and entered Cloudborne Feather City on the true phoenix.
• Su Youyou sensed chaos power tainting the Feather Emperor Palace, and Chen Zheng led them there to investigate.
• Chaos-tainted feathered arrows pierced the true phoenix's wings, but Chen Zheng healed her and destroyed the arrows after they became eerie snakes.
• Feng Die emerged from the palace with yin-tainted Feather Clan warriors and told Chen Zheng that the clan was changing and a new Feather Emperor would arise.
• Feng Die revealed that Feng Fei had been deposed and warned Chen Zheng that the force behind the new Feather Clan had transcended the Great Thousand World's laws.

Chen Zheng entered the Feather Emperor Palace and discovered that the Primordial Phoenix was forcing the Feather Clan to become the New Feather Clan. After the Primordial Phoenix attacked him, Chen Zheng revealed a crystalline cube and captured her, leaving her fate in his hands.

• Feng Die led Chen Zheng and Su Youyou into the palace, where they found Feather Empress Feng Fei immobilized and learned the Primordial Phoenix had ordered the Feather Clan transformed into the New Feather Clan.
• The Primordial Phoenix appeared, and Feng Die and the Feather Clan bowed while the true phoenix and Su Youyou felt her overwhelming power.
• Chen Zheng rejected the Primordial Phoenix's demand that he bow and swallowed the Chaos Wind she unleashed.
• The Primordial Phoenix declared herself above Sages and released an aura that cracked the Cloud Ancestor's protective formation, forcing Feather Clan members to their knees.
• Chen Zheng summoned a crystalline cube that frightened the Primordial Phoenix, then used its seven-colored light to draw her inside.

Chen Zheng captured the Primordial Phoenix Ancestor and refined her into Feather Empress Feng Fei’s second primordial spirit. After Feng Fei awakened, Primordial Phoenix demanded that Chen Zheng help her kill the resurrected Ancestral Dragon, and Chen Zheng said it would not escape if it appeared.

• Chen Zheng absorbed the Primordial Phoenix Ancestor and explained that she had only reached half the Dao Ancestor realm.
• Chen Zheng merged Primordial Phoenix into Feng Fei as her second primordial spirit, causing Feng Die to faint.
• Chen Zheng revived Feng Fei, and Su Youyou explained what had happened in the palace.
• Primordial Phoenix vowed to break free, but Chen Zheng dismissed her chances of reaching transcendence and revealed that powerful figures could not harm him unless they took the final step.
• Primordial Phoenix asked Chen Zheng to help kill the resurrected Ancestral Dragon, and Chen Zheng said it would not escape if it appeared.

Chen Zheng joined the Jade Disc of Creation with Cloud Ancestor’s supreme treasure, revealing a black-and-white disc carrying Great Daos from Primordial Chaos and Youdu. The event also led Hong to leave a Jade Talisman of Creation with Chen Zongheng before departing, while Feng Fei and Su Youyou remained puzzled about Youdu.

• Chen Zheng drew Cloud Ancestor’s half-disc from Feng Fei and brought out the other half, the Jade Disc of Creation.
• The halves joined, releasing black-and-white patterns across the Cloud Realm before they shattered and vanished.
• Hong gave Chen Zongheng a Jade Talisman of Creation and told him that mastering its black-and-white Great Daos could make even Sages powerless against him.
• Hong disappeared after sending the talisman into Chen Zongheng’s brow, and Chen Zheng identified the boy as the successor Hong had chosen.
• Chen Zheng explained that the reunited disc held half the Great Daos of Primordial Chaos and half the Great Daos of Youdu.

Chen Zheng reunited the Jade Disc of Creation, gave its Great Dao imprints to Feng Fei and Su Youyou, and planted the Divine Court Princess’s thought in the Feather Clan’s Nirvana Soil. At Food God Manor, he learned that the Food God and his disciples had been captured, then erased the cultivators who mocked Fairy Menglin.

• Chen Zheng copied the Jade Disc of Creation’s Great Dao imprints into Feng Fei’s and Su Youyou’s brows, and entrusted True Phoenix to Feng Fei.
• Su Youyou left for the Demon Empress, while Feng Fei withdrew Primordial Phoenix’s power from the Feather Clan and restored its former state.
• Chen Zheng planted the Divine Court Princess’s thought seed in the Feather Clan’s sacred grounds, where Nirvana Soil could nurture her rebirth.
• Chen Zheng arrived at Food God Manor and learned from Fairy Menglin that the Food God and his disciples had been captured by people from a powerful family in a Great Thousand World.
• When cultivators at Food God Manor threatened Fairy Menglin and insulted Chen Zheng, he erased them with a glance.

Chen Zheng learned that the Chu Clan had captured the Food God and his disciples, then took Fairy Menglin to Cloudborne Feather City and vowed to confront the clan. On Earth, Asgard Palace transformed into a palace resembling the Heavenly Court.

• Chen Zheng erased the cultivators at the Food God Manor and asked who had captured his half-disciple.
• Fairy Menglin recognized Chen Zheng as the Food God's teacher and said the Chu Clan of the Immortal Martial Great World had taken the Food God and her senior brothers for an Immortal Ascension Banquet.
• Chen Zheng said he had already killed Chu Clan members, ordered the Food God Manor closed, and left with Menglin for Cloudborne Feather City.
• Outside Mount Kunlun, the Food God's thought manifestation, Lin Zhengming, and Xiao Peng discussed Chen Zheng's journey and the powerful figures in his arrangements.
• As thunder shook Mount Kunlun, Asgard Palace transformed to resemble the Heavenly Court.

Chen Zheng’s disciples discussed their cultivation and plans before the Seventh Princess privately revealed that she came from the Land of Transcendence. She explained that she had been sent to find Zero, the only being she knew to have transcended the first Great Samsara.

• The little Creation doll advised Chen Zheng that cultivating yin and yang with women who had special physiques could help restore his cultivation.
• Zi Yanluo showed Chen Zheng that her Physique of Nothingness united many laws, and he promised to take her to the Yanluo Realm once she mastered the third level of the Creation Chapter.
• Yin Xue asked to return to her sect in the Futu Great World, and Chen Zheng agreed and sent a message for the Female Heavenly Demon.
• The Seventh Princess privately told Chen Zheng that she had remembered fragments of her origins and had come from the Land of Transcendence as Number Seven.
• The Seventh Princess said her mission was to find Zero, the creator of the Transcendence Sequence, who had transcended the first Great Samsara.

Chen Zheng prepared to leave the Cloud Realm for the Immortal Martial Great World, but the Heavenly Dao sent eighty-one Eyes of Heavenly Punishment and two Elders to forbid his passage. He annihilated their attack and departed, leaving the Cloud Realm stunned by his power and his connection to Yinghuo.

• Chen Zheng examined the Cosmic Cantilever’s pillar form, but it reverted to a cube when he asked how it suspended universes.
• Three days later, Chen Zheng boarded the Star Raft to leave the Cloud Realm, where Feng Fei and Fairy Menglin saw him off.
• Eighty-one Eyes of Heavenly Punishment and two immense phantoms appeared, ordering Chen Zheng not to enter any Great Thousand World.
• Chen Zheng challenged the two Elders of the Heavenly Dao Palace to reveal where his traitor was hiding, then brushed aside their lightning, Heavenly Dao Giant Palms, and manifestations with the Ninefold Sword Domain.
• Chen Zheng declared that only the thing at its peak or perhaps Yinghuo could stop him, then departed on the Star Raft.
• The Cloud Realm’s inhabitants wondered who Yinghuo was and learned she was the Heavenly Dao’s daughter and the palace master of the Heavenly Dao Palace.