Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng learned that the World Tree could be reached beneath the sea of sand outside the Heavenly Crystal Ancient Tomb and traveled there with his companions. As the Futu Sect prepared to awaken powerful forebears to fight him, Chen Zheng arrived at the World Tree’s entrance and was recognized by Zhuge Qingniu.

• The Fierce Slumber Beast revealed that it had forgotten everything after its master sealed it inside an egg, and the mysterious little girl told Chen Zheng that Yaotiao slept beneath the World Tree alongside her Creation Lotus Seed and a vast store of disorderly power.
• The little girl identified herself as the Future Lord of Tribulation, warned that draining the power beneath the World Tree would destroy it and the myriad worlds, then ended her connection with Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng took his companions to the World Tree entrance beneath the sea of sand, while Miss Yu lamented that Bai Mu'er had vanished and Granny Linghua recounted the events to her arriving master.
• At the Futu Sect, the Star-Picking Ancestor, Ancestor Duobao, and Ancestor Fengyue resolved to prepare offerings and awaken the forebears within the Eightfold Futu Pagoda to confront Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng arrived before the World Tree's enormous curtain of light, where Zhuge Qingniu recognized him from the Seven Kills Secret Realm in Zhoutian City.

Chen Zheng entered the World Tree’s illusory realm with his companions, while Zhuge Qingniu warned the cultivators outside before bringing them in with the Eight Formations Diagram. Inside, Chen Zheng said he would first examine the World Tree, as Gongsun Chou worried he might discover his sleeping master.

• Zhuge Qingniu recognized Chen Zheng and warned the other cultivators not to provoke him, but they dismissed the warning and demanded that he use the Eight Formations Diagram to take them inside.
• Chen Zheng walked through the light screen with Bai Mu'er, Gongsun Chou, and the Fierce Slumber Beast without any apparent effort.
• Zhuge Qingniu used the Eight Formations Diagram to bring in the Fortune-Extinguishing Dao Palace and Spring Palace Music Bureau cultivators, then entered himself.
• Inside the dreamlike realm, Bai Mu'er found that her divine sense could not detect the transparent World Tree, and Gongsun Chou said beings above Sages could not enter or destroy it.
• Bai Mu'er asked where the Tribulation Lord was, and Chen Zheng said he would examine the World Tree first, unsettling Gongsun Chou and the Fierce Slumber Beast.
• The cultivators from the two sects arrived and declared their hope of gaining the World Tree's recognition.

Chen Zheng watched the Fortune-Extinguishing Dao Palace and Spring Palace Music Bureau disciples fail the World Tree’s trial while Chu Yu raged at his rejection. After Chu Yu challenged him to try, Chen Zheng summoned the World Tree to himself and invited Zhuge Qingniu to touch it.

• The young cultivators took Divine Fortune Pills and rushed to touch the World Tree, but their first attempts failed.
• Chu Yu was blasted back by the World Tree, lost his divine light, and demanded another pill, which Elder Wu refused to give him.
• Chu Yu mocked Zhuge Qingniu and then challenged Chen Zheng, insisting that Chen Zheng had no chance of gaining the World Tree’s recognition.
• Chen Zheng said he did not need its recognition and criticized Chu Yu’s poor temperament.
• Chen Zheng called for the World Tree to come to him, and it became solid before him as he invited Zhuge Qingniu to touch it.

Chen Zheng helped Zhuge Qingniu gain the World Tree’s recognition, then faced the Fortune-Extinguishing Dao Palace’s attempt to seize the tree’s power. When their ancestor Mie Cangsheng arrived, a mysterious blue-robed woman appeared and left him trembling, as Gongsun Chou recognized her as his master.

• Chu Yu rushed toward the World Tree but was blasted away before he could reach it.
• Chen Zheng told Zhuge Qingniu to touch the World Tree, and Zhuge gained its recognition despite having failed its test before.
• Elder Wu asked Chen Zheng to let the Fortune-Extinguishing Dao Palace disciples touch the tree, but Chen Zheng withdrew it and rebuked him.
• Elder Wu secretly summoned Mie Ancestor Cangsheng, who descended as the sect’s cultivators hoped he would overpower Chen Zheng.
• A blue-robed woman appeared from beneath the World Tree, frightening Mie Cangsheng and forcing Elder Wu and the others to their knees.
• Gongsun Chou recognized the woman as his master, and Chen Zheng smiled as the one behind everything appeared.

Chen Zheng confronted a blue-robed Creation who emerged from the World Tree, while Mie Cangsheng and the others realized they were trapped and vastly outmatched. When the Creation attacked Chen Zheng, he slapped her and then sat down to drink tea, leaving everyone stunned.

• The blue-robed woman identified Chen Zheng as the one who disturbed the World Tree, and Mie Cangsheng recognized her as a Creation from a destroyed era.
• The Creation Little Doll appeared from the Creation Lotus Seed, dismissed Mie Cangsheng, and left him trapped as his body began to collapse.
• Mie Cangsheng considered turning on Bai Mu'er, while Chen Zheng urged the two women to stop glaring and suggested they greet each other.
• The blue-robed woman struck at Chen Zheng, but he slapped her before her blow landed.
• Chen Zheng sat down and told Bai Mu'er to brew tea, and she obeyed while the others watched in disbelief.

Chen Zheng faced the woman in blue, who demanded to know his identity after he slapped her twice. He summoned A Jiu and Six Desires, and their revelations about his power left the woman in blue questioning whether even the Future Lord of Tribulation could escape his control.

• The woman in blue accused Chen Zheng of being Eldest Sister’s tribulation slave and demanded to know who he was.
• Chen Zheng taunted her about Thirteen, while Chu Yu and Mie Cangsheng urged her to attack, claiming Chen Zheng had exhausted his strength.
• The woman in blue tried to inspect Chen Zheng, but he slapped her again, leaving Chu Yu and Mie Cangsheng trapped and despairing.
• Chen Zheng said he might be the master of beings like her and summoned A Jiu and Six Desires.
• Six Desires explained that Chen Zheng had swallowed her and A Jiu’s Creation Lotus Seeds, and Creation Little Doll told the woman in blue she would not escape.

Chen Zheng pursued the Fourth Tribulation Lord beneath the World Tree, opened her outer-universe shuttle, and swallowed the Fourth Creation Lotus Seed. Yaotiao revealed that the Tribulation Lords had been named by someone older than them, while the Creation Little Doll asked how many seeds Chen Zheng had swallowed.

• Bai Mu'er destroyed Mie Cangsheng's body and annihilated his primordial spirit when he tried to escape, leaving Zhuge Qingniu unharmed.
• Chen Zheng and the other Tribulation Lords disappeared into the depths beneath the World Tree to pursue the woman in blue.
• The Fourth Tribulation Lord insisted that Chen Zheng could not open her shuttle or obtain the Creation Lotus Seed hidden inside it.
• Chen Zheng opened the shuttle, took the Creation Lotus Seed, and swallowed it, drawing Yaotiao out in her true body.
• Chen Zheng absorbed the seed and learned that the Fourth Epoch was the Rainbow Light Epoch, while Yaotiao said someone older than the thirteen Tribulation Lords had named them.
• The Creation Little Doll asked Chen Zheng how many Creation Lotus Seeds he had swallowed.

Chen Zheng discussed the Creation Lotus Seeds and the origins of the Tribulation Lords, leading the Fourth Tribulation Lord to realize that beings beyond her understanding might exist. After the Creation Little Doll took the others away and left her Chaos Creation Lotus Seed with Chen Zheng, he brought the mysterious flying shuttle into his Dao Diagram for the Seventh Princess to examine.

• Chen Zheng told the Fourth Tribulation Lord that Creation Lotus Seeds no longer significantly improved his cultivation and asked whether she had saved any divine treasures from her epoch.
• The Creation Little Doll explained that Chen Zheng's transcendent body and primordial spirit made him a bane to Tribulation Lords, and the Fourth Tribulation Lord realized she had never truly reached half-step transcendence.
• The Fourth Tribulation Lord suffered a mental demon and cracked apart, but the Creation Little Doll healed her with gray-white light.
• A Jiu asked whether Chen Zheng or Zero had created them, and Chen Zheng speculated that the Primordial Chaos Universe's will might have created the Tribulation Lords to manage it.
• The Creation Little Doll said she could not confirm the theory and declared that Zero was no good, then took the Tribulation Lords away and left her Chaos Creation Lotus Seed with Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng sent the metal flying shuttle into his Dao Diagram so the Seventh Princess could investigate its origins.

Dream God Ancestor’s spying will was destroyed by Qi Ruyi, leading the Futu Sect’s ancestors to fear Seven Severances Sword Master and focus on awakening their venerable ancestors. Chen Zheng left the World Tree’s Divine Illusion Space with Bai Mu'er and appeared in Talisman Seal Sand City, where Ancestor Dragon Elephant suddenly died after reaching for them.

• Qi Ruyi destroyed Dream God Ancestor’s spying will, and the Futu Sect’s ancestors realized Seven Severances Sword Master had reached the Dao Ancestor realm.
• Star-Picking Ancestor and Ancestor Fengyue decided they could only oppose Chen Zheng through strength and sent laws to awaken the venerable ancestors in the Eightfold Futu Pagoda.
• Zhuge Qingniu thanked Chen Zheng for gaining the World Tree’s recognition and left the Divine Illusion Space; Chen Zheng told Bai Mu'er that Gongsun Chou and the Fierce Slumber Beast had gone to find Rainbow Light Holy Emperor.
• The World Tree appeared after Chen Zheng and Bai Mu'er departed and warned that even Lord Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord might not destroy the reinforced power of disorder.
• In Talisman Seal Sand City, the Sand City lord threatened Duan Chenglou and his family while Ancestor Dragon Elephant demanded to search the souls of the newly arrived man and woman.
• Ancestor Dragon Elephant grabbed at the man and woman, then bled from all seven orifices and fell dead as the Sand City lord screamed.

Chen Zheng and Bai Mu'er arrived in Sand City and killed Ancestor Dragon Elephant and city lord Bake, saving the Duan Family. Chen Zheng helped Duan Chenglou free Miss Yu and Granny Linghua, then identified their ancestor Duan Jin as someone connected to him.

• Chen Zheng asked whether Sand City was under attack, and Duan Chenglou realized that Chen Zheng and Bai Mu'er had killed Ancestor Dragon Elephant.
• Bake claimed he had only followed Ancestor Dragon Elephant's orders, then fled underground and was killed by Bai Mu'er.
• Chen Zheng granted the Duan Family the right to appoint Sand City's next city lord, and Duan Chenglou asked him to open the family's mysterious space.
• Chen Zheng removed the space's restrictions, releasing Miss Yu and Granny Linghua; Miss Yu rushed toward Bai Mu'er and was immobilized.
• Duan Chenglou asked about the Duan Family's connection to Chen Zheng, who identified their ancestor Duan Jin.

Chen Zheng and Bai Mu'er arrived at Three Emperors Lake after sensing a woman from the Heavenly Crystal Saint Clan in danger. Ancestor Tiancan turned the Five-Colored Divine Seal against Bai Mu'er, leaving Chen Zheng facing the assembled sects and their powerful allies.

• Chen Zheng told Duan Chenglou that Ancestor Duan Jin had once obtained a beast skeleton that could help him survive.
• Bai Mu'er sensed a clanswoman, and Chen Zheng took her from Talisman Seal Sand City to Three Emperors Lake.
• Ancestor Tiancan and the Three Emperors Sect celebrated after suppressing a Heavenly Crystal Saint Clan woman with the Five-Colored Divine Seal.
• Ancestor Tiancan explained that the seal bore Empress Wa's blessing and humanity's merit, making it valuable to rulers beyond this world.
• Chen Zheng and Bai Mu'er appeared at Three Emperors Lake, and the captive woman recognized them as Chen Zheng and the High Priestess.
• Ancestor Tiancan recognized Bai Mu'er and sent the Five-Colored Divine Seal's immortal light toward her.

Chen Zheng defied Ancestor Tiancan and shattered the Five-Colored Divine Seal before challenging Yuan She, the Three Emperors Sect’s foremost ancestor. Yuan She’s golden-pupil power failed against Chen Zheng’s own golden pupils, leaving Yuan She bleeding and screaming.

• The Heavenly Crystal Saint Clan woman remained unaffected by the Five-Colored Divine Seal, and Chen Zheng challenged Ancestor Tiancan to honor his boast and cut off his head.
• Chen Zheng shattered the Five-Colored Divine Seal, reassembled it, and asked Ancestor Tiancan whether he was now qualified to make a wager.
• Yuan She introduced himself as the Three Emperors Sect’s foremost ancestor and used his Di Ji Divine Eyes to summon a golden palace phantom over Three Emperors Lake.
• Chen Zheng revealed that he also had golden pupils, and the golden palace phantom shattered after Yuan She met his gaze.
• Yuan She recoiled onto his imperial throne as blood streamed from his golden pupils.

Chen Zheng defeated Ancestor Yuanshe and faced the Three Emperors Sect’s plea for help from the Three Immortals of Chaos. Recognizing Ancestor Chen, the three Ancient Immortals vanished and promised to meet him again in the Chaos Domain.

• Ancestor Shenji fled with the Soul-Devouring artifact, while Ancestor Tiancan stayed beside Ancestor Yuanshe.
• Bai Mei thanked Chen Zheng after he freed her from the five-colored divine seal and explained that it countered saint and ancient clans.
• Ancestor Yuanshe called upon the Three Immortals of Chaos, who descended above Three Emperors Lake.
• The Three Immortals questioned Yuanshe’s claim that Chen Zheng had defeated him, then recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen.
• The Three Immortals cursed and vanished, promising to meet Chen Zheng in the Chaos Domain for another drink and a size comparison.

Chen Zheng confronted Ancestor Yuanshe after the Three Emperors Sect’s summoned founders fled, and Yuanshe tried to bargain and escape. Chen Zheng stopped him and revealed he had deliberately let the other two ancestors go to pursue larger leads.

• Ancestor Tiancan abandoned the Five-Colored Divine Seal and fled after the Three Emperors Sect’s founders recognized Chen Zheng and escaped.
• Ancestor Yuanshe killed a deacon for criticizing the founders, then bowed to Chen Zheng and offered to accept punishment for the sect’s past siege of the Heavenly Crystal ancestral grounds.
• Chen Zheng ordered those involved in the siege to end their own lives, sparing the rest of the Three Emperors Sect.
• Ancestor Yuanshe argued that Chen Zheng lacked the strength to stop him and offered pills and exile in exchange for sparing the sect.
• Chen Zheng said he had deliberately let Ancestor Shenji and Ancestor Tiancan escape, but Yuanshe tried to flee anyway.
• Chen Zheng tore apart Yuanshe’s primordial spirit and explained that he had let Shenji go to draw out an old foe, while revealing his connection to Empress Wa Palace and the Heaven-Mending Secret Art.

Chen Zheng killed Ancestor Yuanshe and forced the Three Emperors Sect elders and deacons involved in the attack on the Heavenly Crystal Saint Clan to destroy their primordial spirits. He then pursued Ancestor Shenji to Soul-Devouring Cliff, where Shenji retreated into a sealed palace as Chen Zheng approached the Heroic Soul Hall.

• Chen Zheng killed Ancestor Yuanshe, whose primordial spirit shattered just as he broke through.
• Chen Zheng ordered those who had besieged the Heavenly Crystal Saint Clan's ancestral land to end their own lives, and the guilty elders and deacons detonated their primordial spirits.
• Chen Zheng left the Three Emperors Sect with Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei, while the remaining disciples panicked.
• At Soul-Devouring Cliff, Bai Mei explained the Heroic Soul Hall's origins, and Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei said the Ten Thousand Souls Nether Soil Grand Formation would be difficult to break.
• Ancestor Shenji warned Chen Zheng about the formation and the Heroic Soul Hall's soon-to-awaken hall master, then fled into a palace as Chen Zheng stepped onto the cliff.

Chen Zheng entered Yincao Hall with Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei, where Ancestor Shenji waited for the hall’s strongest master to awaken. The red-robed figure emerged from a black coffin and sealed the hall, and Chen Zheng asked to see its face.

• Chen Zheng pushed open Yincao Hall’s doors despite Ancestor Shenji’s warning, and Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei followed him inside.
• Heroic Soul Hall’s disciples emerged and discussed Shenji’s order to flee if the awakened hall master could not defeat Chen Zheng.
• Bai Mei recognized the hall’s watching eyeballs as a special race that could see through people’s hearts, and she saw a black coffin inside the hall.
• Ancestor Shenji realized Chen Zheng had killed Yuan She and declared that the hall master would use him as a sacrifice.
• The black coffin opened, and a red-robed figure rose and sealed Yincao Hall and the two women.
• Chen Zheng asked the red-robed figure to brush aside its hair, and it revealed its face to him.

Ying Tianhuan recognized Chen Zheng as the Vicious One Ancestor and trapped him in an Other-Dimensional Space, but Chen Zheng endured it and shattered the space. Ying Tianhuan exhausted his strength, knelt before Chen Zheng, and died after hearing that Chen’s body was simply too strong.

• Ying Tianhuan recognized Chen Zheng as the Vicious One Ancestor and attacked him with the Nine Heavens Divine Might, sending them both into an Other-Dimensional Space.
• Shenji explained that Ying Tianhuan’s Other-Dimensional Power made him invincible in his space and expected Chen Zheng to be trapped there.
• Chen Zheng returned with Ying Tianhuan, who continued attacking him while Shenji celebrated the Other-Dimensional Space.
• Chen Zheng tore apart the Other-Dimensional Space, shaking Yincao Hall and Soul-Devouring Cliff.
• Ying Tianhuan exhausted his magical power and physical strength, fell to his knees, and asked why Chen Zheng could not be exiled.
• Chen Zheng said his body was simply too strong to explain, and Ying Tianhuan spat blood and died.

After Ying Tianhuan and Shenji died, a mysterious devil eye appeared over Soul-Devouring Cliff and confronted Chen Zheng. The boy inside it tried to claim Chen Zheng as his slave, but Chen Zheng summoned several Tribulation Lords, leaving the boy panicked and calling for his master.

• The eyeballs burst apart after Ying Tianhuan died, and Shenji destroyed his own primordial spirit after learning what had happened.
• A gigantic devil eye appeared above Soul-Devouring Cliff and turned the Heroic Soul Hall cultivators into stone statues with black light.
• The devil eye entered the Netherworld Hall, where the boy inside it named Chen Zheng his slave and called himself Creation.
• A little doll called the boy a fake, while Chen Zheng remained unmoved by the boy's offer to take him to his master.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Creation Lotus Seed, the Ninth Tribulation Lord, the Six Desires Tribulation Lord, and the Fourth Tribulation Lord, and the boy cried out for his master to save him.

A mysterious half-step transcendence being confronted Chen Zheng and claimed that only Chen Zheng could free his true body. Chen Zheng used the Cosmic Cantilever to capture him and learned that he was the Reincarnation Fate Lord, a being from beyond the universe.

• The boy inside the demonic eye cried for help after the Tribulation Lords and Creation Little Doll rejected his claim to be Creation.
• A phantom appeared, recognized the Future Lord of Tribulation, and taunted Chen Zheng about their past wager and Chen Zheng's forgotten identity.
• Susu tried to swallow the phantom but could not, and the phantom revealed that his true body was imprisoned and that Chen Zheng had to find him before the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord awakened.
• As the phantom tried to escape, seven-colored divine light from Chen Zheng's brow captured him and the demonic eye, causing the phantom's will to shatter.
• Chen Zheng identified the phantom as the Reincarnation Fate Lord, a half-step transcendence being from beyond the universe.

Chen Zheng left Soul-Devouring Cliff with Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei after destroying the Reincarnation Fate Lord’s message, and the three went to confront the Heaven-Mending Dao. The Heaven-Mending Dao summoned a divine envoy from Empress Wa Palace, leaving Chen Zheng face-to-face with the envoy as Ancestor Tiancan looked on.

• Creation Little Doll retreated into Chen Zheng’s glabella, and Chen Zheng shattered the Reincarnation Fate Lord’s black light before leaving Yincao Hall with Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei.
• A sinister wind turned the petrified Heroic Soul Hall cultivators to ash, and powerful beings across Futu Great World discovered that Heroic Soul Hall had been wiped out.
• Chen Zheng, Bai Mu'er, and Bai Mei arrived at Hongtian Mountain, where Heaven-Mending Dao cultivators recognized Bai Mu'er and suspected she had killed Ancestor Renchong.
• Chen Zheng said he knew Empress Wa quite well, but the Heaven-Mending Dao cultivators dismissed his claim as boasting.
• The Heaven-Mending Palace opened, and Ancestor Tiancan welcomed three women from Heaven Beyond Heaven, including the divine envoy from Empress Wa Palace.
• Ancestor Tiancan turned to Chen Zheng after the divine envoy arrived, while the Heaven-Mending Dao bowed to her.