Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng cured Yan Susu’s gu poison and killed the gu insect, then Tang Hanguang accused him of setting it up and tried to leave without honoring his wager. When Tang Hanguang attacked Chen Zheng, Chen Zheng crippled him with one kick, leaving him terrified and calling Chen Zheng a demon.

• Chen Zheng drew the gu insect out of Yan Susu and killed it, while Yang Tiancheng and the others watched in shock.
• Tang Hanguang accused Chen Zheng of planting the gu and refused to kowtow to him, then tried to leave.
• Yang Xuefei froze Tang Hanguang with her supernatural power, but he broke free and threatened Chen Zheng.
• Tang Hanguang attacked Chen Zheng, who sent him flying with a single kick and shattered nearly every bone in his body.
• Tang Hanguang stared at Chen Zheng in terror and called him a demon.

Chen Zheng exposed Master Feng as the mastermind behind Yan Susu’s gu curse and said he would go to the Miao Frontier to meet an old acquaintance and deal with her remaining troubles. After learning about the Ji Family and the Nine Cauldrons, he was invited to Nan University to face a foreign art professor who had challenged him.

• Chen Zheng pulled Tang Hanguang’s soul out to search his memories, then left him unconscious and named Master Feng as the mastermind behind Yan Susu’s curse.
• Yang Tiancheng thanked Chen Zheng for saving Yan Susu, while Yang Xuefei said she wanted to join him in the Miao Frontier to avenge her aunt.
• Yang Tiancheng speculated that Chen Zheng might be connected to the Chen Family and the Medicine King, Chen Zhilong.
• At Su Cheng’s home, Chen Zheng said he planned to visit an old acquaintance in the Miao Frontier, and An Jing and Zuo Qinghong explained the Nine Cauldrons and the Ji Family.
• Chen Zheng told the women that he had named the infant Ji Fa, prompting Su Cheng and Zuo Qinghong to understand his implication.
• An Jing told Chen Zheng that a foreign art professor at Nan University had challenged him and invited him there the next day.

At Nan University, Chen Zheng faced Professor Gosling’s supernatural painting challenge and answered the goddess Gosling created with a living landscape of China’s mountains and rivers. The painting burst into the sky above Nan City, drawing the attention of cultivating beings across China.

• Chen Zheng arrived at Nan University and declined Gosling’s embrace, telling him to get straight to the challenge.
• Gosling painted a goddess whose supernatural presence entranced the audience and prompted one administrator to bow before the portrait.
• Chen Zheng began painting a landscape while An Jing ground ink for him, ignoring an administrator’s taunts.
• Gosling’s goddess charged at Chen Zheng’s finished painting, but Chen Zheng’s mountains and rivers came alive and destroyed her with two divine dragons.
• Chen Zheng’s painting flew into the sky above Nan City, where cultivating beings across China sensed it and looked toward the city.

Chen Zheng defeated Professor Gosling’s goddess portrait with his landscape painting and left Nan University after refusing another contest. Gosling lost his divine abilities, while the goddess Athena vowed through a clergyman in Greece to make Chen submit to her.

• Chen Zheng’s landscape painting appeared across Nan City’s sky, and its clash with Gosling’s portrait split the portrait in two.
• Gosling admitted defeat, and Chen Zheng said a foreign goddess could not stand above China’s mountains and rivers.
• Chen Zheng refused the university administrator’s request to keep the painting and left with An Jing and the others.
• Gosling asked for another contest, but Chen Zheng said even Gosling’s goddess would have to kneel before him.
• Athena stripped Gosling of his abilities, leaving him distraught and unable to accept becoming mortal.
• Athena spoke through a white-robed clergyman at the Parthenon, vowing to make Chen submit, but the clergyman did not know who Chen was.

Chen Zheng brought An Jing, Su Cheng, and Zuo Qinghong to the ancient martial arts gathering at Mount Tai, where Bai Chongsheng confronted him over his grandson. The conflict escalated when Hu Fei arrived and threatened Bai Chongsheng to protect Chen Zheng.

• Chen Zheng declined Qin Yi's invitation to review a film script because he planned to attend the ancient martial arts gathering at Mount Tai.
• Chen Zheng and the three women arrived at a resort at the foot of Mount Tai, where Bai Ye recognized Chen Zheng as the man who had injured him and crippled his meridians.
• Bai Chongsheng ordered Chen Zheng and his companions to leave, and resort owner Jin Zhao initially backed him until Zuo Qinghong revealed herself and addressed Chen Zheng as her young master.
• Bai Ye demanded Zuo Qinghong and the other women, and Bai Chongsheng ordered Chen Zheng to leave while declaring that Zuo Qinghong would stay.
• Hu Fei burst into the lobby with her sword drawn and warned that she would cut down anyone who tried to touch Chen Zheng.

Four Great Grandmasters gathered to protect Chen Zheng when Bai Chongsheng threatened him, leaving the lobby stunned. Chen Zheng faced Bai Chongsheng himself and defeated him with a single kick.

• Hu Fei, Yu Canghai, and Jiang Boyue appeared and warned Bai Chongsheng not to attack Chen Zheng, each addressing him as Young Master.
• Medicine King Chen Zhilong arrived and also offered to protect Chen Zheng, bringing the number of Great Grandmasters backing him to four.
• Bai Chongsheng and Bai Ye fell silent as the crowd reacted to the four Great Grandmasters, while Jin Zhao panicked and An Jing and Su Cheng watched.
• Hu Fei asked permission to fight, but Chen Zheng said he would handle Bai Chongsheng himself.
• Bai Chongsheng launched his Wind and Thunder Rush at Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng struck him with a faster kick.
• Bai Chongsheng crashed into a corner, his body left shrunken and unable to rise, then spat out blood.

After Chen Zheng’s group checked into the resort, the staff feared the consequences of his defeat of Bai Chongsheng and Bai Ye, while Jin Zhao speculated that the Bai family might be destroyed. As the Ancient Martial Arts gathering approached, Zuo Qinghong began to suspect that the legacies of China’s powerful families and sects were connected to Chen Zheng.

• The sword-wielding girl killed Bai Ye when he charged at Chen Zheng, and Jin Zhao begged Chen Zheng to spare the hotel staff.
• Chen Zheng checked into the hotel with three women while Jin Zhao and the staff recovered from their fear and discussed how the Bai family might be struck from the Ancient Martial Arts world’s rolls.
• Jiang Rou and Chen Zhi arrived at Chen Zheng’s suite, where Chen Zheng asked whether the Ji Family would attend the gathering.
• Chen Zhi said the Ji Family and other hidden families or sects might come for the chance to study a transcendent artifact, while Chen Zheng said only the Ji Family interested him.
• Zuo Qinghong recalled Chen Zheng’s stories about Ji Fa, the Nine Cauldrons, and the Kunlun Limitless Art, then wondered whether powerful families’ and sects’ legacies were connected to him.

At the Ancient Martial Arts gathering, Qin Zhong disqualified Hu Fei from the Great Grandmaster battle and threatened Chen Zheng, so Chen Zheng ordered Hu Fei to kill him. A Ji Family Third Master arrived just as Qin Zhong died, bringing the gathering to a direct confrontation with the Ji Family.

• Qin Zhong announced that winners in three tiers would earn a week of enlightenment before the Ji Family's transcendent artifact.
• Qin Zhong disqualified Hu Fei without explanation, mocked her inheritance, and threatened to disqualify Chen Zheng when he objected.
• Hu Fei drew her sword and pointed it at Qin Zhong after he threatened her sect.
• Chen Zheng told Hu Fei to cut Qin Zhong down, and she killed him with one stroke.
• A Ji Family Third Master rushed into the venue as Qin Zhong collapsed, and Jin Zhao wondered how powerful Chen Zheng's hidden trump card was.

Ji Chengfeng, the Ji Family’s Terrestrial Immortal, arrived to avenge the slain representative and overwhelmed Hu Fei, Jiang Boyue, and Yu Canghai. Chen Zheng casually struck down Qi Yun, then Ji Chengfeng recognized him and knelt in worship, leaving everyone stunned.

• Ji Chengfeng cracked Hu Fei’s sword with a snort and threatened the people who had killed the Ji Family’s representative.
• Qi Yun accused Chen Zheng, begged to join the Ji Family as a servant, and drew disgust from the gathered martial artists.
• Jiang Boyue and Yu Canghai revealed that they had become Terrestrial Immortals, but Ji Chengfeng suppressed them both.
• Chen Zheng slapped Qi Yun from a distance and dispersed Ji Chengfeng’s pressure, prompting Ji Chengfeng to knock Qi Yun to the ground.
• Ji Chengfeng walked up to Chen Zheng and knelt prostrate before him, shocking everyone in the gymnasium.

Ji Chengfeng recognized Chen Zheng as Young Master Chen, prostrated himself before him, and killed Qi Yun at his request. The gathering continued with everyone unsettled, while Ji Chengfeng invited Chen Zheng to visit the Ji Family and Chen Zheng postponed the matter until the gathering ended.

• Ji Chengfeng knelt before Chen Zheng, addressed him as Young Master Chen, and rose only after Chen Zheng told him to get up.
• Qi Yun begged Chen Zheng for mercy, but Ji Chengfeng struck him with a lethal palm and reduced him to ash after Qi Yun's master refused to help.
• Ji Chengfeng invited Chen Zheng to visit the Ji Family, and Chen Zheng said they would discuss it after the gathering ended.
• The contests below the Grandmaster level resumed, though the contestants and audience kept glancing toward Chen Zheng.
• Medicine King Chen Zhilong and Jin Zhao reflected on Chen Zheng's growing mystery and the powerful trump card he had not revealed.

After the Ancient Martial Arts gathering, Chen Zheng led An Jing and Yan Lu to the Ji Family, where he discovered that the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation had lost its central cauldron. The Ji Family head recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen and knelt to welcome him back.

• An Jing won the Grandmaster battle, while the Great Grandmaster battle was canceled because no one eligible remained to compete.
• Yu Canghai, Jiang Boyue, Chen Zhilong, and the others discussed Chen Zheng's mysterious ties to the Ji Family as Chen Zheng departed with Ji Chengfeng.
• Chen Zheng chose to take An Jing and Yan Lu to the Nine Cauldrons before meeting the Ji Family's disciples.
• At the Nine Cauldrons Tower, Chen Zheng noticed that its central cauldron was missing and asked the Ji Family head where it was.
• Master Fang insulted Chen Zheng, then demanded that the Ji Family hand over An Jing because of her special constitution.
• Ji Chengyan recognized Chen Zheng, fell to his knees, and welcomed Ancestor Chen back, leaving Master Fang stunned.

Chen Zheng returned to the Ji Family and discovered that a stolen cauldron had left the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation broken. He restored the formation with a gesture, then had Ji Chengfeng throw Master Fang Tong out of the compound.

• Ji Chengfeng and the head of the Ji Family knelt to welcome Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen, while Master Fang Tong demanded that the Ji Family let him repair the formation.
• Chen Zheng learned that a Ji Family traitor and a woman had stolen the formation's cauldron thirty years earlier, and he criticized the family for failing to recover it.
• Chen Zheng pointed at the vacant formation eye and restored the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation, causing the Ji Family compound's spiritual energy to surge.
• Master Fang Tong accused Chen Zheng of using an illusion and refused to leave, so Chen Zheng ordered him thrown out.
• Ji Chengfeng grabbed Master Fang Tong and hurled him out of the Ji Family compound.

Chen Zheng restored the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation and heard how Ji Shanhe stole its core cauldron under the control of a Nine Li holy maiden, crippling the Ji Family. After learning about the missing cauldron and the Jiang Family’s expulsion from the Three Great Families, Chen Zheng vowed to deal with the Nine Li remnants, the Long Family, and the Celestial Master's Mansion.

• The Ji Family head thanked Chen Zheng for restoring the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation and recognized him as Ancestor Chen.
• The Ji Family head explained that Ji Shanhe had stolen a formation-core cauldron thirty years earlier while controlled by a Nine Li holy maiden, causing the deaths of four Terrestrial Immortals.
• Chen Zheng asked about the Nine Cauldrons’ purpose, rebuked the Ji Family for losing one, and demanded leads on the cauldron and an account of the Jiang Family’s expulsion.
• The Ji Family head said Ji Shanhe had been tracked across several continents and was most likely in Africa, and revealed that the Long Family and a Celestial Master had helped kill the Jiang Family’s Terrestrial Immortal.
• Chen Zheng declared that the Nine Li remnants, the Long Family, and the Celestial Master's Mansion would not escape him, chilling everyone in the hall.

Chen Zheng and An Jing returned to Nan City as a demon from the Demon Hall attacked the Su Family villa. The demon overwhelmed Yu Canghai, but Chen Zheng arrived at the last moment and stomped the attacker into the ground.

• Chen Zheng and An Jing left the Ji Family for Nan City, and An Jing discussed her experience with the Nine Cauldrons Grand Formation and flirted with Chen Zheng on the train.
• At the Su Family villa, Su Ziming reported being watched by a strange crow, and Zuo Qinghong identified the suspected force as the Demon Hall.
• A giant crow transformed into a tall, thin man, who attacked the gathering and threatened to capture Zuo Qinghong for his young master.
• Yu Canghai fought the demon but was pierced by a black feather, while Zuo Qinghong prepared to escape with Su Ziming and the others.
• Chen Zheng arrived from above and drove the tall, thin demon into the ground with a single stomp.

Chen Zheng overwhelmed the Black Feather Demon General, who invoked the Demon Hall, an upper-realm Golden Crow, and the Long Family to threaten him. When Chen Zheng revealed a drop of golden blood, the crow recognized it and panicked before his head suddenly exploded.

• Chen Zheng stomped the Black Feather Demon General into the dirt after the demon threatened him.
• The Black Feather Demon General transformed into a giant crow and attacked, but Chen Zheng slapped him down and sent his feathers pinning him to the ground.
• The Black Feather Demon General claimed ties to the Demon Hall, a great Golden Crow demon, and the Long Family, then demanded Chen Zheng heal him and hand over Su Ziming and a woman.
• Chen Zheng said he had killed pureblood Golden Crows before and showed the crow a golden drop of blood, which terrified him.
• The crow screamed that the blood was impossible, retreated in terror, and his head suddenly exploded.

Chen Zheng explained why Hei Yu had died, then faced Second Young Master Long’s threats at a restaurant and struck him down. Long Kun and the others saw Chen Zheng’s power as Second Young Master Long ended up kneeling before him, badly injured.

• Chen Zheng explained that Hei Yu’s faith had collapsed when he recognized the Golden Crow Emperor Blood, causing his primordial spirit to self-destruct.
• Zuo Qinghong learned that Chen Zheng planned to go to the Miao Frontier, while Yu Canghai and Wen Tailai reacted with fear at the prospect.
• Three demon kings in the Demon Hall discussed Hei Yu’s death and vowed that the killer would die when the great Golden Crow demon descended.
• Second Young Master Long threatened Chen Zheng over his scenes with Yanran and demanded that he mutilate himself, while Qin Yi and Yanran objected.
• Long Kun tried to attack Chen Zheng but froze after seeing his killing intent, and Chen Zheng slapped Second Young Master Long across the room, leaving him kneeling and bleeding.

Chen Zheng crippled Second Young Master Long and threatened the Long Family, then explained that he was searching for a missing ding cauldron belonging to the Ji Family. Later, while he cleared Zuo Qinghong’s true qi at Su Cheng’s home, Su Cheng spotted a surprising international news report.

• Chen Zheng crippled Second Young Master Long, and Long Kun backed down and carried him away after Chen Zheng threatened the Long Family.
• Qin Yi explained that Second Young Master Long had kept Yanran in Nan City, and Chen Zheng said he would deal with the Long Family after finding the Ji Family’s missing ding cauldron.
• Yanran realized Chen Zheng was connected to the Ji Family and struggled with her growing desire to get close to him.
• After Chen Zheng cleared An Jing’s true qi, An Jing asked him to stay, but he left to continue the work with Zuo Qinghong.
• Su Cheng noticed a surprising story on an international news channel while Chen Zheng cleared Zuo Qinghong’s true qi.

Su Cheng learned that a newly unearthed Tyrannosaurus fossil might be the one Chen Zheng had taught cultivation during the Jurassic period. Chen Zheng decided to investigate and revive Little Bone, while the others wondered whether she could transform into a woman.

• Su Cheng watched a report about an unusually hard Tyrannosaurus fossil with an energy-filled core and meridian-like patterns, and connected it to Chen Zheng’s story.
• Chen Zheng examined the news and recognized the fossil as Little Bone, explaining that she had stayed with him and been buried by the asteroid’s impact.
• Chen Zheng said he would revive Little Bone where she had been unearthed and contacted Catherine to request firsthand information.
• Zuo Qinghong realized Chen Zheng’s focused technique made her body seem no different to him from a Tyrannosaurus’s body, and complained that her feelings were hurt.
• Su Cheng asked whether Little Bone could take human form, and Chen Zheng replied that he had ridden a phoenix.

On the bus to the Miao village, Zheng Ke'er was drawn to Chen Zheng, while Lin Zhaofeng mocked and provoked him. Zhang Yifu recognized Chen Zheng as the man depicted in an ancient stone mural and warned his students to behave around him.

• Zheng Ke'er watched Chen Zheng on the bus, sensing loneliness and an unusual weight of years in his eyes.
• Lin Zhaofeng mocked Chen Zheng and feinted at him, but Zhang Yifu rebuked Lin and apologized to Chen.
• Zhang Yifu gave Chen Zheng his business card, and Chen warned him to leave immediately if he encountered anything strange in the Miao Frontier.
• After the group arrived at their inn, Zhang Yifu scolded Lin Zhaofeng for his behavior.
• Zhang Yifu told the students that Chen Zheng was the man depicted in an ancient stone mural he had seen in Europe.

Zhang Yifu led his students into the mountains, where swarms of venomous creatures attacked and killed Lin Zhaofeng. Just as the creatures lunged at Zheng Ke'er, Chen Zheng appeared, and they bowed their heads to him.

• Zhang Yifu warned his students about the dangers in the mountains and told them to flee if anything strange appeared.
• A swarm of snakes, centipedes, scorpions, spiders, and toads emerged from the forest and covered Zhang Yifu.
• Lin Zhaofeng smashed a small snake, provoking a hundred snakes to swarm him and bite him to death.
• The snakes turned on Zheng Ke'er, but Chen Zheng appeared before they could reach her.
• The venomous creatures retreated and bowed to Chen Zheng.