Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng revealed that the Tear of Heaven contained half a Great Samsara and that Yanluo had been born from the life-seed he left behind. He identified the shadowed figure as the Lord of Heaven, possibly his first life, but said that figure had erased himself from the Great Samsara and might not be Chen Zheng.

• Chen Zheng broke open the Tear of Heaven and discovered that it contained half a Great Samsara, not anything related to Heaven.
• The little Creation doll explained that Chen Zheng was Yanluo's father because the Tear of Heaven was a life-seed that the Master of Purple Cloud Mountain had touched.
• Chen Zheng showed everyone visions of a shadowed figure on a throne, while the little Creation doll recognized Primordial, Taixuan, Taishi, the Grand Emperor, and Immortal Venerable Linglong.
• The little Creation doll declared Chen Zheng its greatest enemy and absorbed the Creation Lotus Seed between its brows.
• Chen Zheng called the figure the Lord of Heaven and said he had refined himself into Nothingness, leaving only Chen Zheng within the Great Samsara.

Chen Zheng discussed the mysteries of his possible first incarnation before the Shinto Alliance arrived at Purple Cloud Mountain to attack him. The Yanluo Realm’s mutated Heavenly Dao appeared and bowed to Chen Zheng, greeting him as the Palace Master.

• Chen Zheng told the little purple beast that the Lord of Heaven might not have been his first incarnation, and the beast thought it saw a woman in the Yanluo scenery.
• Chen Zheng discovered Hongjun’s arrangements at the Yanluo Realm’s Dao foundation and noted that the realm’s Heavenly Dao seemed to have escaped the Heavenly Dao Palace’s control.
• Three warships from the Shinto Alliance arrived at Purple Cloud Mountain, and Chen Zheng destroyed a golden-armored cultivator who attacked him.
• Dao Lord Qinglian recognized Chen Zheng, while Ancestor Wanfa threatened him and summoned the Yanluo Realm’s mutated Heavenly Dao to help suppress him.
• The Yanluo Realm’s Heavenly Dao appeared before Chen Zheng, bowed like a maidservant, and greeted him as the Palace Master.

The Heavenly Dao of the Yanluo Realm, Zi Fu, revealed that Chen Zheng had once presided over the Heavenly Dao Palace, and Palace Master Yinghuo arrived and called him her father. Yinghuo erased Ancestor Wanfa and the Shinto Alliance forces, leaving Chen Zheng and his companions unharmed.

• Zi Fu ignored Ancestor Wanfa’s attempts to recruit her and told Chen Zheng that his teachings had helped her gain freedom from the Heavenly Dao Palace’s restrictions.
• The Shinto Alliance cultivators reacted in shock when Zi Fu said Chen Zheng had once presided over the Heavenly Dao Palace.
• Palace Master Yinghuo appeared, and Zi Fu immediately knelt before her while Ancestor Wanfa and the Shinto Alliance bowed in fear.
• Ancestor Wanfa urged Yinghuo to apprehend Chen Zheng, but Yinghuo called him her father and asked what she should do.
• Chen Zheng told Yinghuo to handle the matter as she saw fit, and she erased Ancestor Wanfa and the Shinto Alliance forces with a casual sweep of her hand.

Ancestor Wanfa reported that Chen Zheng had once ruled the Heavenly Dao Palace, and the Shinto Alliance Leader learned that Earth held a being capable of resisting his divine sense. In the Yanluo Realm, Yinghuo visited Chen Zheng, but the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord forcibly recalled her thought, and Chen Zheng revealed that the Heavenly Dao Palace was a prison built by him.

• Ancestor Wanfa told the Shinto Alliance Leader that Chen Zheng had ruled the Heavenly Dao Palace and was Father to its current Palace Master, Yinghuo.
• The Shinto Alliance Leader sent Ancestor Wanfa and Dao Lord Qinglian to the Creator God Temple, then sent his divine sense toward Earth and had it overwhelmed by an unknown being.
• In the Purple Cloud Demon Sect, Yinghuo and the little Creation doll traded accusations before the doll returned to Chen Zheng’s brow.
• Yinghuo told Chen Zheng she had come to see him, and Chen Zheng said he would visit the Heavenly Dao Palace and send her to the Great Void before the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord awakened.
• The Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord forcibly took Yinghuo’s thought away, but Chen Zheng shattered his manifested face and explained his power and the Dao-Devouring Beast’s ultimate prey to the little purple beast.

Chen Zheng learned about the forgotten forbidden ground of Youdu and said he planned to kill Nether Sage after visiting Martial Extreme Holy Mountain. At the mountain’s gathering, he rescued Wu Qingyan from Wu Pojun, and Wu Pojun and Bai Tanlang recognized him.

• Chen Zheng returned to Flame Emperor Mountain, where Ancestor Shen Guang told him that Martial Extreme Holy Mountain would soon open and described the forgotten forbidden ground Youdu.
• Chen Zheng said he would visit Martial Extreme Holy Mountain before seeking out and killing Nether Sage.
• Three days later, tens of thousands of cultivators gathered outside Martial Extreme Holy Mountain, including many prominent clans, sects, and ranking talents.
• Wu Pojun exposed Wu Qingyan, who had disguised herself in True Immortal Pavilion robes, and tried to seize her.
• Chen Zheng summoned Wu Qingyan onto the Shen Family’s warship, where Shen Wulei and another woman appeared with him.
• Wu Pojun and Bai Tanlang recognized Chen Zheng and confronted him.

At Martial Extreme Holy Mountain, Chen Zheng faced the Wu Family’s threats over Wu Qingyan and revealed overwhelming strength. He killed Wu Pojun’s second uncle and struck Wu Pojun, warning that further threats could lead him to wipe out the entire Wu Family.

• Ji Feng recognized Chen Zheng from Ancestor Ying's Secret Realm and secretly warned the first and third princes, but they dismissed his concerns.
• Wu Qingyan reunited with Chen Zheng, and Wu Pojun demanded that Chen Zheng hand her over while insulting him.
• Wu Pojun’s second uncle revealed that Wu Pojun had awakened the Ten Fiends Battle Physique and mocked Chen Zheng before the gathered cultivators.
• Chen Zheng glanced at Wu Pojun’s second uncle, causing the high-level Profound Immortal to explode into bloody mist.
• Wu Pojun threatened Chen Zheng and invoked the Wu Family’s Wu Ancestor, but Chen Zheng slapped him from several hundred paces away and warned him not to threaten him again.

Chen Zheng threatened the Wu Family, entered Martial Extreme Holy Mountain with three women, and effortlessly absorbed its deadly trials. He reached the site of the strongest inheritance, where the True Dragon Ranking cultivators and other powerful entrants had gathered around a blood-colored divine jade stele.

• Chen Zheng shattered the Wu Family Immortal Martial Emperor's pressure and slapped him, then entered Martial Extreme Holy Mountain with Cangsheng, Shen Wulei, and Wu Qingyan.
• Ji Feng stayed outside, and Chen Zheng recognized the Carefree Chapter of the Myriad Heavens as his inherited secret art before heading into the mountain.
• Chen Zheng swallowed the chaos wind in a gorge that killed thousands of cultivators, then crossed a pit by absorbing all its primordial fire.
• Chen Zheng swallowed a primordial lightning tribulation as Golden Immortals followed him through the mountain.
• Chen Zheng and the three women reached thirteen stone pillars surrounding an ancient platform, where the True Dragon Ranking cultivators and other powerful entrants watched a blood-colored divine jade stele.

Wu Pojun absorbed the blood energy of the divine jade stele and claimed the Holy Emperor's inheritance, but Chen Zheng sent him flying with one kick. Wu Pojun summoned his master, Holy Emperor Xuechen, whose appearance turned the skies blood-red across the Immortal Martial Great World.

• Wu Pojun seized the blood-colored divine jade stele and absorbed its energy, rising from Early Dao Lord to peak Immortal Martial Emperor and then Quasi-Sage.
• Wu Pojun declared that he had obtained a Holy Emperor's inheritance, while Lin Mengyao secretly tried to communicate with the stele.
• Wu Pojun attacked Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng kicked him away and cracked his body.
• At the second prince's urging, Wu Pojun healed himself, raised the stele, and called upon his master, Holy Emperor Xuechen.
• Holy Emperor Xuechen appeared on the stone platform, and his arrival turned the sky blood-red across the Immortal Martial Great World.

Wu Pojun summoned his master, Holy Emperor Xuechen, to force Chen Zheng into a master-servant pact, but Chen Zheng called forth Six Desires instead. Holy Emperor Xuechen recognized her, apologized, and shattered after she rebuked him.

• Wu Pojun asked Holy Emperor Xuechen to kill Chen Zheng and make him Wu Pojun's servant, but Chen Zheng remained unharmed.
• Holy Emperor Xuechen offered to spare Chen Zheng if he signed a master-servant blood pact with Wu Pojun.
• Chen Zheng asked the little Creation child whether it wanted to meet the Holy Emperor of the Seventh Epoch, and Creation dismissed Xuechen as insignificant.
• Chen Zheng summoned Six Desires, and Wu Pojun and the Longhan Immortal Dynasty's third prince mocked her appearance.
• Holy Emperor Xuechen attacked Six Desires, but she shattered his blood saber and the thirteen stone pillars.
• Holy Emperor Xuechen recognized Six Desires, bowed, apologized for the intrusion, and shattered above the stone platform.

Chen Zheng watched the Six Desires Tribulation Lord destroy Wu Pojun, then faced Futu, the Seventh Tribulation Lord, who came to Martial Extreme Holy Mountain and abducted Lin Mengyao. Futu withdrew after recognizing Chen Zheng’s sword and the Future Lord of Tribulation, while the Creation child took Six Desires back into Chen Zheng.

• Wu Pojun transformed with the Ten Fiends Battle Physique, but the giantess Six Desires became after swallowing the Blood God Jade Stele killed him with one palm.
• Six Desires returned to her little-girl form and said that her younger brother Futu was coming, prompting most factions to flee Martial Extreme Holy Mountain.
• Futu arrived as a child, pressured Six Desires into kneeling, and tried to seize her while questioning Chen Zheng’s resemblance to the Grand Emperor.
• Chen Zheng’s netherworld sword, the Creation Lotus Seed, and the Creation child’s presence made Futu pause; Futu then abducted the blood-armored Lin Mengyao and left.
• The Creation child dismissed Futu and took Six Desires into Chen Zheng, while Chen Zheng said he looked forward to meeting the other Tribulation Lords.

At the deepest reaches of Martial Extreme Holy Mountain, Chen Zheng awakened a boastful mechanical puppet that claimed to possess great wisdom and extraordinary power. When it remembered its name was Taisu, the mountain’s deepest region collapsed.

• Outside Martial Extreme Holy Mountain, cultivators speculated about Chen Zheng’s power and the Wu Family’s likely revenge as the princes and other survivors departed.
• Chen Zheng, Cangsheng, Shen Wulei, and Wu Qingyan met the chatterbox mechanical puppet that had emerged when Chen Zheng unsealed the formation.
• The puppet introduced itself as a loyal, all-purpose mechanical puppet and claimed it could destroy a sage by self-destructing.
• The puppet described its former master as invincibly powerful but could not explain why it remembered an operating table.
• Chen Zheng asked the puppet for its name, and it remembered that it was called Taisu.
• Taisu’s declaration triggered a collapse in the deepest region of Martial Extreme Holy Mountain.

Chen Zheng seized the Primordial Matter and left Martial Extreme Holy Mountain with Cangsheng, Shen Wulei, and Wu Qingyan for the Wu Clan’s ancestral land. At Tiankui Divine Martial Mountain, Wu Tianjue challenged Chen Zheng as the clan brought out the dying Wu Tiangang.

• Taisu warned Chen Zheng that the Primordial Matter could destroy the surrounding world, and Chen Zheng caught it unharmed.
• The Primordial Matter struck Taisu apart, transformed into a stone egg, and suppressed the mechanical puppet after it taunted the egg.
• Chen Zheng boarded the Star Raft with the three women, collected the Shen Family warship, and asked Wu Qingyan to guide him to the Wu Clan’s ancestral land.
• Wu Qingyan identified Tiankui Divine Martial Mountain and recalled that her grandfather’s recovered cultivation had not been believed by the Wu Clan.
• Wu Tianjue and another Immortal Martial Emperor confronted Chen Zheng, while the Wu Clan’s Divine Martial Formation appeared around the mountain.
• The Wu Clan pinned the gravely wounded Wu Tiangang to a blood-colored pillar, and Wu Tianjue dared Chen Zheng to break the formation and raze the mountain.

Chen Zheng transformed into a towering god-demon and smashed the Wu Clan’s Divine Martial Formation before overpowering the Wu Ancestor. The Wu Ancestor’s body was crushed, leaving the Wu Clan in despair as Chen Zheng revealed he had barely exerted himself.

• Wu Tianjue and Wu Shang demanded that Chen Zheng cripple his cultivation and kneel to save Wu Tiangang, but Chen Zheng threatened to wipe out the Wu Clan if Wu Tiangang died.
• Chen Zheng transformed into a several-thousand-zhang god-demon and shattered the Divine Martial Formation with one punch, killing the Wu Clan disciples below the Golden Immortal level.
• Wu Tianjue fled into Tiankui Divine Martial Mountain with Wu Tiangang as the Wu Ancestor emerged and charged Chen Zheng with a blood dragon’s momentum.
• Chen Zheng seized the Wu Ancestor and hurled him into Tiankui Divine Martial Mountain, splitting the mountain in two.
• The Wu Ancestor activated the Immortal Martial Extreme Form and attacked again, but Chen Zheng casually grabbed him and crushed his body.
• Chen Zheng said he had barely used his strength in his fifth god-demon transformation, and the Wu Clan turned deathly pale.

Chen Zheng defeated the Wu Ancestor and rescued Wu Tiangang, then confronted the God-Slaying Lord, who claimed the Wu family’s persecution of Wu Tiangang and Wu Qingyan had been a trial. The God-Slaying Lord accepted Chen Zheng’s challenge, but Chen Zheng’s stone egg released a terrifying pressure that forced everyone, including the Lord, to their knees.

• Chen Zheng defeated the Wu Ancestor and rejected the Wu Clan’s claim that its mistreatment of Wu Tiangang and Wu Qingyan had been part of a trial.
• The Wu Ancestor revealed that a powerful lord had chosen Wu Tiangang and Wu Qingyan as destiny seeds and intended to make Wu Tiangang his servant and Wu Qingyan his disciple.
• Chen Zheng seized Wu Tiangang’s blood-colored pillar and placed it on the Star Raft, then sensed the God-Slaying Lord arriving at the Wu Clan’s ancestral grounds.
• The God-Slaying Lord mocked Chen Zheng and accepted his offer of a trial after Chen Zheng returned to his ordinary form and tossed him a dark bead that became a stone egg.
• The stone egg released a terrifying aura that forced everyone except Chen Zheng and those aboard the Star Raft to the ground, including the God-Slaying Lord.

Chen Zheng used the stone egg to destroy the God-Slaying Lord, then ordered the Wu Ancestor to eliminate Wu Tianjue’s faction and place Wu Tiangang’s lineage in charge of the Wu Clan. As the Star Raft departed, observers across the Immortal Martial Great World wondered what Chen Zheng had gained, while Susu begged him for energy so she could emerge from the stone egg.

• The stone egg crushed the God-Slaying Lord and absorbed his blood fiend energy, then flattened the mechanical puppet when it tried to crawl out of Chen Zheng’s pocket.
• Chen Zheng healed Wu Tiangang and told the Wu Ancestor to act; after Wu Tianjue and Wu Shang fled, the Wu Ancestor annihilated them and Wu Tianjue’s descendants.
• The Wu Ancestor appointed Wu Tiangang clan head, declared Chen Zheng master of the Wu Clan, and formed a barrier around Tiankui Divine Martial Mountain to block outside observers.
• The Bai family ancestor and Nether Sage speculated about Chen Zheng’s actions and what he had obtained at Martial Extreme Holy Mountain.
• Aboard the Star Raft, Chen Zheng questioned the little Creation doll about what he had obtained, while Susu called him Daddy and pleaded for energy to come out of the stone egg.

Chen Zheng and the little Creation child discovered that a universe was sealed inside the stone egg, while the puppet identified its contents as Taisu. The revelation rattled the little Creation child, who warned that she might become Chen Zheng’s greatest enemy once fully awakened.

• The mechanical puppet recalled that its former master had captured Taisu, erased her will, and sealed her inside the stone egg, where she called Chen Zheng Daddy.
• The little Creation child suspected Chen Zheng might be Taiyi, but the puppet argued that Chen Zheng was too powerful to be Taiyi.
• Chen Zheng used the Cosmic Cantilever to scan the stone egg, revealing a glass-like object containing countless worlds and living beings.
• The little Creation child reached toward the image, causing the Immortal Martial Great World’s Heavenly Dao to resist her emergence with a storm of divine lightning.
• The little Creation child said their universe was the Primordial Chaos Universe, declared that its thirteenth era did not exist, and warned Chen Zheng she might become his greatest enemy when fully awakened.

Chen Zheng arrived at Youdu to verify what he had learned about its lost epoch, but the Nether Sage’s three Dharma bodies confronted him and Cangsheng. After Taisu’s stone egg stopped their attack, the Devouring Sword Physique devoured one Dharma body’s face, while Chen Zheng’s group remained above Youdu.

• Wu Qingyan bid farewell to Chen Zheng and vowed to master Divine Martial Heavenly Summons so she could see him again.
• Chen Zheng took Cangsheng and Shen Wulei aboard the Star Raft to Youdu, saying he wanted to verify a few things.
• The Three Friends of Youdu tried to bar Chen Zheng’s way, but he destroyed their bodies and broke through Youdu’s defensive array.
• Three Dharma bodies of the Nether Sage appeared, and Cangsheng attacked the divine general form with her Devouring Sword Physique.
• The Nether Sage’s three Dharma bodies overwhelmed Cangsheng until Chen Zheng tossed out Taisu’s stone egg, which halted their attacks.
• The Devouring Sword Physique devoured the divine general Dharma body’s face, while Taisu told Chen Zheng that a Sage’s Dharma body was too low-grade to be useful.

Chen Zheng summoned Susu to crack Nether Sage’s Heavenly Dao Sage Position and force him to flee into Youdu, where he awakened the sealed will of the Holy Emperor of Youdu. Chen Zheng then awakened a mysterious manifestation within Shen Wulei, prompting the Holy Emperor to recognize her as the Youdu Heavenly Maiden.

• Nether Sage appeared in person and challenged Chen Zheng, who said he had come for Youdu and would kill Nether Sage along the way.
• Chen Zheng ordered Susu to suppress Nether Sage, and the stone egg cracked the Sage’s Heavenly Dao Sage Position, causing him to retreat into Youdu.
• Youdu broke free of the black mountain and rose into the sky as Nether Sage awakened the sealed will of the Holy Emperor of Youdu.
• The Holy Emperor recognized Susu as Taisu and noticed Chen Zheng’s resemblance to the Grand Emperor, while Nether Sage urged his teacher to flee to the Great Void.
• Chen Zheng pointed at Shen Wulei, awakening a blood-crowned Dharma manifestation within her, and the Holy Emperor identified her as the Youdu Heavenly Maiden.

Shen Wulei’s manifestation reclaimed Youdu and sealed the region, leaving Chen Zheng to face the Nether Sage. Chen Zheng drew a netherworld sword and erased the Sage, his Sage Position, and his primordial spirit.

• The manifestation behind Shen Wulei reclaimed Youdu, expelled its inhabitants, and absorbed the enormous demonic face that had served the Nether Sage.
• Shen Wulei entered Youdu, and the Heavenly Maiden sealed the region behind a barrier that prevented anyone from escaping.
• The Nether Sage demanded that Chen Zheng fight him while Chen Zheng’s stone egg and mechanical puppet offered to destroy the Sage themselves.
• Chen Zheng summoned a netherworld sword and slashed, making it seem at first as though nothing had happened.
• Hundreds of millions of sword phantoms appeared and erased the Nether Sage’s body and Heavenly Dao Sage Position, then destroyed his primordial spirit as blood rain fell across the Immortal Martial Great World.

Chen Zheng slew the Nether Sage in Youdu, shocking the Immortal Martial Great World. After he entered Youdu, the stone egg’s voice and the Devouring Sword Physique eliminated the Three Friends of Youdu and the other survivors, and a new Heavenly Dao Sage Position appeared.

• Blood rain swept across the Immortal Martial Great World, and the Wu Ancestor and others sensed that the Nether Sage had fallen in Youdu.
• Chen Zheng explained that slaying the Nether Sage had exhausted his immortal essence, while the mechanical puppet urged him to seize the Zhoutian Divine Cauldron someday.
• The Youdu Heavenly Maiden invited Chen Zheng into Youdu to receive a secret art, and Chen Zheng entered after dismissing the mechanical puppet’s suggestion about how to handle her.
• The Three Friends of Youdu tried to flee, but the stone egg’s aura crushed their primordial spirits, which the Devouring Sword Physique swallowed.
• The stone egg’s voice ordered the remaining people of Youdu killed, and the Devouring Sword Physique devoured their remnants after they were annihilated.
• The blood rain ended, and a Heavenly Dao Sage Position appeared as the living beings wondered which ancestor would attain Sagehood.