Chapter Summaries

Mage Dongpo manipulated Yao Village into offering Cangsheng as a sea sacrifice so he could claim the Yinghuo Immortal Sword, but the sword appeared and Chen Zheng emerged from a spatial distortion. The chapter ended with Mage Dongpo and the Shaman God reacting in shock when Chen Zheng mentioned meeting Bai Wudi.

• Mage Dongpo persuaded Yao Village to sacrifice Cangsheng, Sword Immortal Cangming's sole descendant, while secretly intending to seize the Yinghuo Immortal Sword.
• Cangsheng told Mage Dongpo that he could not wield the sword because he lacked a sword physique, and the Shaman God arrived at the coast.
• Mage Dongpo and the village chief urged the Shaman God to take revenge on Cangsheng, and the Shaman God accepted her as the sacrifice.
• As the Shaman God attacked Cangsheng, the Yinghuo Immortal Sword appeared above the altar and Chen Zheng stepped out of a spatial distortion.
• Mage Dongpo and the Shaman God mocked Chen Zheng's Tribulation Transcendence Stage cultivation until he mentioned meeting Bai Wudi, whose name stunned everyone present.

Chen Zheng wielded the Yinghuo Immortal Sword to defeat the Shaman God and Mage Dongpo, then gave the sword to Cangsheng and declared that she had a sword physique. The people of Yao Village realized they had misjudged him as he offered to instruct her.

• Mage Dongpo and the Shaman God doubted Chen Zheng’s claim to know Bai Wudi, but Chen Zheng summoned the Yinghuo Immortal Sword into his hand.
• Chen Zheng’s sword strike pierced the Shaman God, whose remaining thought escaped with the help of a Dao Artifact.
• Chen Zheng attacked Mage Dongpo, stopped his sword shadows after hearing him use the Great River Flows East, and asked if he was Su Dongpo’s reincarnation.
• Mage Dongpo begged for mercy and claimed his teacher was Su Dongpo, but Chen Zheng killed him and identified him as a traitor from the Black-Yellow Academy.
• Chen Zheng tossed the Yinghuo Immortal Sword to Cangsheng and said she had an unmanifested sword physique he could teach.
• The people of Yao Village were horrified as they realized they had misjudged Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng revealed that Cangsheng possessed a powerful variant sword physique, just as the Chu Family arrived to seize the Yinghuo Sword. After Cangsheng killed Chu Xiu with the sword, Chen Zheng declared that he had come to wipe out the Chu Family and slaughtered everyone aboard their warship.

• Chen Zheng told Cangsheng that her sword physique ranked among the top five and was stronger than the Sword Physique of Metal.
• Chu Xiu arrived with the West Mound Chu Family, demanded the Yinghuo Sword, and offered Yao Village a place at the Immortal Ascension Banquet.
• The old village chief exposed Cangsheng and Chen Zheng to the Chu Family, hoping to secure a banquet place for his grandson.
• Chen Zheng crushed a Chu Clan True Immortal and sent the cultivator's condensed spiritual power into Cangsheng, stirring her sword physique.
• When Chu Xiu attacked Chen Zheng, Cangsheng's Yinghuo Sword cut off Chu Xiu's head.
• Chen Zheng said he had come to wipe out the Chu Family, then killed everyone aboard the warship.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Chu Clan’s attackers and helped Cangsheng awaken her devouring sword physique, then revealed his connection to the Yinghuo Sword. Cangsheng accepted him as her ancestor and learned that Yinghuo was the Heavenly Dao Palace’s master, whom Chen Zheng had raised.

• Chen Zheng destroyed the Xiling Holy Emperor Ship and the Chu Clan cultivators, and the shock killed Yao Village’s old village chief.
• Chen Zheng gathered the dead cultivators’ blood energy and sent it into Cangsheng, triggering a sword cry and a beast’s roar from within her.
• Chen Zheng identified Cangsheng’s hidden constitution as the devouring sword physique and awakened it, causing a dark shadow and a terrifying phenomenon over Yao Village.
• The shadow briefly faced the Yinghuo Sword and Chen Zheng before cowering and retreating into Cangsheng, after which Chen Zheng brought her and the sword back to the village.
• At Cangming’s former residence, Chen Zheng gave Cangsheng Dao-Enlightenment Tea and accepted her as half a disciple, telling her to call him Ancestor Chen.
• Chen Zheng said he had casually forged the Yinghuo Sword for a little girl, gave it to Cangsheng, and revealed that Yinghuo was the Heavenly Dao Palace’s master and Creation’s daughter, whom he had raised.

Cangsheng learned more about Chen Zheng’s Nothingness Sword Physique and practiced the Ninefold Sword Domain with the Yinghuo Sword. When Shen Wulei and members of the Shen Family arrived demanding the sword, Cangsheng struck down a Half-Step True Immortal who tried to seize it.

• Chen Zheng told Cangsheng that her Devouring Sword Physique could lead to cultivation deviation, but he could suppress it, then revealed that his own sword physique was called Nothingness.
• Chen Zheng explained that his physique could master, disregard, and reflect any sword art, and that swords across all the heavens and myriad worlds might come to pay homage if he revealed it.
• Shen Wulei arrived at Yao Village, and Cangsheng recognized her as a descendant of the Shennong Clan’s Flame Emperor and a famed beauty.
• A young man from the Shen Family demanded that Cangsheng lend them the Yinghuo Sword and reached for it, so Cangsheng called on Chen Zheng and prepared to strike.
• Cangsheng used the Ninefold Sword Domain to pierce the young man, who collapsed dead.

Cangsheng slew Shen Ying with the Yinghuo Immortal Sword, while Shen Wulei used a mysterious flute before following Chen Zheng toward the awakened Shaman God. When a massive island appeared in the Xuanming Sea and its divine light ensnared Cangsheng, Chen Zheng freed her and set out to investigate the sea’s four factions.

• Cangsheng killed Shen Ying with one sword strike, shocking the Shen Family servants and the villagers of Yao Village.
• Shen Wulei’s flute reacted to Chen Zheng, then she struck Shen Ying’s corpse and the servants before silently following Chen Zheng.
• The Shaman God roared from the depths of the Xuanming Sea, and Chen Zheng took Cangsheng toward the sea while Shen Wulei followed.
• A massive island rose from the sea and cast Five-Colored Divine Light that enthralled Cangsheng, but Chen Zheng restored her senses.
• Cangsheng named the Xuanming Sea’s four factions, and Chen Zheng said they might all be wiped out before heading toward the island to raise his cultivation.

Chen Zheng killed Ao Ding with a single grab after Ao Ding mocked him, then entered Immortal-Burying Island with Cangsheng. As the other sects fled to summon their leaders, a terrifying roar sounded from the island.

• Ao Ding, Han Xiaohu, and Ran Hongchen arrived with their sects and recognized Shen Wulei as the Shen Family's heaven-favored daughter.
• Ao Ding boasted that his sect's Quasi-Sage patriarch could not be killed and taunted Chen Zheng, who destroyed him with a single grab.
• Chen Zheng warned the remaining cultivators to escape the Xuanming Sea's barrier before their sects were doomed, then entered the island with Cangsheng.
• A stone stele bearing the name Immortal-Burying appeared, and Shen Wulei followed Chen Zheng onto the island.
• Han Xiaohu returned to summon his sect master, while Ran Hongchen took the Holy Mother Spirit Palace disciples away and the Golden Wing Upper Cloud Sect disciples fled after a roar came from the island.

Chen Zheng led Cangsheng into a valley on Immortal-Burying Island and collected its divine herbs while the Shaman God and other cultivators confronted them. As Chen Zheng warned that they should not have come, a sudden rain stripped the flesh from everyone below the Dao Lord Realm, including Han Xiaohu and Ran Hongchen.

• Shen Wulei was wounded by dark light in the island's hazy immortal region, and Chen Zheng's azure mystical light protected her from further attacks.
• Chen Zheng and Cangsheng reached a valley filled with divine herbs, where Cangsheng recognized their value.
• The transformed Shaman God appeared and offered to make Shen Wulei his Dao companion, but she rejected him and said her heart belonged to someone.
• The sect master of the Golden Wing Upper Cloud Sect arrived with other cultivators and attacked Chen Zheng, while the Shaman God claimed the island's visitors were nourishment for him.
• Chen Zheng collected every divine herb and warned the gathered cultivators that they should not have come to Immortal-Burying Island.
• Rain fell over the area and reduced everyone below the Dao Lord Realm to bones, including Han Xiaohu and Ran Hongchen.

The Shaman God awakened a terrifying beast on Immortal-Burying Island, which Chen Zheng identified as Ancestral Wu Xuanming. Xuanming recognized Chen Zheng and knelt before him, calling him Ancestor Chen.

• Bizarre rain stripped the flesh from disciples and injured a Dao Lord, while Cangsheng, Shen Wulei, and Chen Zheng remained unharmed.
• The Shaman God claimed an ancient figure on Immortal-Burying Island would awaken and threatened Chen Zheng and Cangsheng.
• A bone-spiked giant beast burst through a cliff, and the Shaman God revealed it was Ancestral Wu Xuanming.
• Chen Zheng named Xuanming, and the Shaman God ordered the beast to leave Chen Zheng's corpse intact.
• Xuanming's eyes cleared, and he knelt before Chen Zheng, paying respects to Ancestor Chen.

Xuanming broke free of the Shaman God's control and bowed to Chen Zheng, who questioned the source of the Ancestral Wu resurrections. After the Shaman God summoned his master's will, Chen Zheng dismissed the arriving Immortal King Yitian as a disappointment.

• Xuanming broke free of the imperishable artifact's control and bowed to Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen.
• Chen Zheng told Xuanming he had met several resurrected Ancestral Wu and wondered whether all Twelve Witches might gather to form their grand formation.
• The Shaman God boasted that his master surpassed Sages, but Chen Zheng challenged him to summon that master's will.
• The Shaman God called upon his master, and Immortal King Yitian descended as a strand of divine sense.
• Chen Zheng compared Yitian unfavorably to the Eternal Night Immortal King and told him to leave if he could not match one of that rival's Dao bodies.

Chen Zheng’s Ancient Heaven-Swallowing Beast devoured Immortal King Yitian’s divine sense avatar, and Chen Zheng captured and refined the Shaman God with the Chaos Treasure Bottle. He then turned his attention to Qi Xiu, leaving the Golden Wing Upper Cloud Sect master facing him.

• Chen Zheng faced Immortal King Yitian’s avatar and said that Immortal Kings like him made perfect nourishment.
• An Ancient Heaven-Swallowing Beast burst from Chen Zheng and devoured Yitian’s avatar as it tried to flee, while Chen Zheng challenged the Immortal Domain Supreme.
• The Shaman God begged for mercy, then tried to escape through a spacetime passage after the beast returned to Chen Zheng’s body.
• Chen Zheng used the Chaos Treasure Bottle to pull in and refine the Shaman God, then gave Cangsheng the sword-shaped blood energy released from the bottle.
• Chen Zheng turned toward Qi Xiu, who trembled as he faced the young man.

Chen Zheng faced the three sects after Ancestral Wu Xuanming was teleported away, and the Golden Wing Upper Cloud Sect's founding patriarch arrived. Chen Zheng identified him as Demon Master Kunpeng, who briefly spoke with Chen Zheng before leaving, and Chen Zheng refined Qi Xiu and Ye Wu as the other sects looked on in terror.

• Qi Xiu and Dao Lord Ye Wu tried to appease Chen Zheng and invoked the Golden Wing Upper Cloud Sect's ancient Demon Clan patriarch.
• A formation summoned Ancestral Wu Xuanming away, and Chen Zheng said he would meet him again soon.
• Qi Xiu summoned the Golden Wing Upper Cloud Sect's founding patriarch, who arrived through space and time.
• Chen Zheng identified the patriarch as Demon Master Kunpeng and asked whether he had the He Tu; Kunpeng said the Three Pure Ones had taken it and left after calling his appearance a cameo.
• Qi Xiu fled with Ye Wu, but Chen Zheng sent the Chaos Treasure Bottle after them and refined them.
• The Heartlessness Sword Sect and Holy Mother Spirit Palace leaders remained frozen as the Heartlessness Sword Sect's Immortal Martial Emperor nervously addressed Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Heartlessness Sword Sect leaders, spared the Holy Mother Spirit Palace because of his old friend Tongtian, and upgraded the Star Raft after clearing Immortal-Burying Island. He then left for the Golden Wing Upper Cloud Sect to obtain the He Tu, while Shen Wulei pursued him.

• Chen Zheng fed the blood energy of the Heartlessness Sword Sect's Dao Lord and Immortal Martial Emperor to Cangsheng, whose sword physique rapidly advanced.
• Chen Zheng spared the Holy Mother Spirit Palace's cultivators because its founder was the disciple of his old friend Tongtian.
• Chen Zheng cleared Immortal-Burying Island of its threats and resources, upgrading the Star Raft to a supreme-grade dao artifact.
• Chen Zheng swallowed more than twenty divine herbs and settled his cultivation at early half-step true immortal.
• Chen Zheng departed for the Golden Wing Upper Cloud Sect to obtain the He Tu, and Shen Wulei followed him.

Chen Zheng confronted Demon Master Kunpeng at the Golden Wing Upper Cloud Sect, where Kunpeng revealed that the He Tu was inside He Tu Hall and tried to claim it as his Dao-attainment treasure. Chen Zheng entered the hall and found Kunpeng unable to make the He Tu acknowledge him, leaving Chen Zheng poised to take control of it.

• Chen Zheng broke through the Golden Wing Upper Cloud Sect’s attacks and barriers while Kunpeng claimed he had hidden there to refine a Dao-attainment treasure.
• Kunpeng revealed himself as the sect’s patriarch and said an avatar of Laojun had taken the He Tu and Luo Shu thousands of years earlier.
• Chen Zheng dismissed Kunpeng’s warnings, shattered the hall’s barriers, and entered He Tu Hall as the sect cultivators glimpsed the He Tu’s visions.
• Shen Wulei arrived at the Star Raft and learned from Cangsheng that Chen Zheng had entered He Tu Hall with Kunpeng.
• Inside the hall, Kunpeng tried to make the He Tu acknowledge him, but Chen Zheng said Kunpeng’s realm was too low to control it and claimed only he could do so.

Chen Zheng took the He Tu and Luo Shu from Demon Master Kunpeng, revealing an illusion of the ancient Primordial Wilderness across the Xuanming Sea. As Kunpeng questioned his purpose, Chen Zheng used a mysterious crystalline cube to scan the vision, advancing its completion to nine-tenths.

• Chen Zheng seized the He Tu and drew the Luo Shu from his primordial spirit, making them project the ancient Primordial Wilderness.
• The vision spread across the Xuanming Sea, and cultivators throughout the Immortal Martial Great World marveled at its mountains and rivers.
• Shen Wulei said the scene was likely the Primordial Wilderness of ancient times, while Cangsheng feared that the Wu-Demon War might return.
• The Holy Mother Spirit Palace recognized the phenomenon as the Primordial Wilderness, and Xie Sanxiao tried to report Chen Zheng to the palace master but was blocked by immortal light.
• At the Heartlessness Sword Sect, Zangxin declared that he would soon recover his peak strength and wage war across the world for his master.
• Chen Zheng told Demon Master Kunpeng that he only needed the He Tu and Luo Shu's Primordial River Luo True Intent to scan it, then used a crystalline cube to bring its completion to nine-tenths.

Chen Zheng left Upper Cloud Immortal Island and headed to the Heartlessness Sword Sect’s headquarters to fulfill his promise to his follower by killing her clan’s enemies. He annihilated nearly all the sect’s disciples, then faced its white-robed leader, who attacked him with the Huntian Sword Strike.

• Chen Zheng withdrew the Primordial Wilderness illusion and told Demon Master Kunpeng that Dijun and the Ancestral Wu were answering the same call.
• Shen Wulei left to return to her clan after receiving news of a crisis, while Chen Zheng chose to attack the Heartlessness Sword Sect before visiting the Shen Family.
• Demon Master Kunpeng transformed into a giant bird and left Upper Cloud Immortal Island as Chen Zheng and Cangsheng traveled toward the sect’s headquarters.
• The Heartlessness Sword Sect’s cultivators mocked Chen Zheng and Cangsheng, but Chen Zheng’s palm and snap annihilated every disciple below the Dao Lord level.
• The white-robed sect leader recognized Chen Zheng as the one who had killed the sect’s grand elder on Immortal-Burying Island and launched another Huntian Sword Strike.

Chen Zheng had Cangsheng compare swordsmanship with Zangxin, the Quasi-Sage sect master of the Heartlessness Sword Sect. After Chen Zheng taught her a sword strike, Cangsheng defeated Zangxin’s Huntian Sword Strike, leaving him bleeding while she fainted from exhaustion.

• Zangxin unleashed the Huntian Sword Strike, but Chen Zheng stepped out and remained unharmed.
• Chen Zheng sent Cangsheng to face Zangxin and protected her from the Quasi-Sage’s crushing pressure.
• Cangsheng drew the Yinghuo Sword and awakened her Devouring Sword Physique.
• Chen Zheng taught Cangsheng a sword strike, and she used it to clash with Zangxin’s Huntian Sword Strike.
• Cangsheng fainted after exhausting her True Essence, while the bloodied Zangxin had lost the exchange.

Cangsheng’s sword strike wounded the Heart-Burying Sword Venerable, who summoned his master, the Huntian Cult Leader. The Huntian Cult Leader recognized Chen Zheng’s Imperishable Realm fleshly body and demanded his identity, but Chen Zheng had not yet answered.

• Cangsheng used the Ultimate Ninefold Sword Domain to defeat the Heart-Burying Sword Venerable, and Chen Zheng returned the unconscious girl to the Star Raft.
• The Heart-Burying Sword Venerable revealed that his master was the Huntian Cult Leader and summoned him to descend.
• The Huntian Cult Leader arrived as a masked divine sense, while the Heartlessness Sword Sect’s Immortal Martial Emperor and Dao Lord knelt before him.
• The Huntian Cult Leader identified Chen Zheng’s Imperishable Realm fleshly body and said he resembled an old friend, the Grand Emperor.
• Chen Zheng corrected the Huntian Cult Leader’s claim that he resembled the Grand Emperor, and the Huntian Cult Leader asked him to state his name.

The Huntian Cult Leader summoned the Four Envoys of Heaven, Earth, Black and Yellow to trap Chen Zheng and challenged him to show a stronger hand. Chen Zheng revealed the Six Desires Tribulation Lord, A Jiu, and the Creation Lotus Seed, forcing the Huntian Cult Leader to admit Chen Zheng’s pair of jokers won.

• The Huntian Cult Leader summoned the Four Envoys and sealed the thirty-three linked islands with a powerful barrier.
• Chen Zheng accepted the Cult Leader’s challenge to compare their cards and summoned the Six Desires Tribulation Lord, who he called his first card.
• The Huntian Cult Leader recognized the Six Desires Tribulation Lord as a big joker, while Chen Zheng summoned A Jiu, the Ninth Tribulation Lord, as his second card.
• Chen Zheng called out the Creation Lotus Seed, and the Four Envoys feared it contained the Thirteenth Tribulation Lord, the Future Lord of Tribulation.
• The Huntian Cult Leader conceded that Chen Zheng’s pair of jokers formed a rocket and beat his hand.

Chen Zheng left the thirty-three linked islands after the little Creation child killed the Heart-Burying Sword Venerable and other cultivators to strengthen Cangsheng. At the Holy Mother Spirit Palace, the Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit revealed her identity and told Chen Zheng she feared a nightmare would come true, just as blood began raining across the Immortal Martial Great World.

• The little Creation child trapped the Huntian Cult Leader and the Four Envoys of Huntian, but they shattered their avatars and she turned their remaining power into energy for Chen Zheng's Ancient Heaven-Swallowing Beast.
• The little Creation child killed the Heart-Burying Sword Venerable and several other cultivators, sending their blood energy to Cangsheng, whose cultivation rose to the Void Refinement Stage.
• The little Creation child warned Chen Zheng that she would charge for future help and declared A Jiu and Xiao Liu hers before returning to Chen Zheng's brow with them.
• Chen Zheng left the empty linked islands aboard the Star Raft and arrived at the Holy Mother Spirit Palace, where Xie Sanxiao and the elders welcomed him as Ancestor Chen.
• The Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit revealed herself as the Palace Mistress and paid respects to Chen Zheng, then said she feared a nightmare would become reality.
• Chen Zheng said the destined event had arrived, and blood began raining over the entire Immortal Martial Great World.