Chapter Summaries

Meng Xianyin and the Empress Wa Palace maids recognized Chen Zheng as Ancestor Chen, silencing the Heaven-Mending Dao cultivators who had challenged him. When Chen Zheng ordered Ancestor Tiancan killed, Tiancan fled into the Heaven-Mending Palace, and Meng Xianyin revealed that Chen Zheng had compiled the Heaven-Mending Record and was Empress Wa’s teacher and friend.

• Ancestor Tiancan accused Chen Zheng of destroying a Five-Colored Divine Seal and urged the Divine Envoy to suppress him.
• Meng Xianyin knelt before Chen Zheng and identified herself as Empress Wa Palace’s Divine Envoy, prompting Shaoyao and the Heaven-Mending Dao cultivators to kneel as well.
• Chen Zheng lifted Meng Xianyin to her feet and asked whether the others now believed he was familiar with Empress Wa.
• Ancestor Tiancan claimed he had barely participated in the siege of the Heavenly Crystal Saint Clan and offered to accept Chen Zheng’s judgment.
• Chen Zheng ordered Ancestor Tiancan killed, so Tiancan retreated into the Heaven-Mending Palace and raised it into the sky.
• Meng Xianyin explained that Chen Zheng had compiled the Heaven-Mending Record and was Empress Wa’s teacher and friend, leaving the Heaven-Mending Dao cultivators and Ancestor Tiancan stunned.

Chen Zheng stopped Ancestor Tiancan’s escape, and Feng Ling’er delivered Empress Wa’s request that he return to Supreme Heaven. After the visitors left, Chen Zheng entered the Heaven-Mending Palace, where he destroyed the nine Heaven-Mending Records and revealed that they had formed a page of golden paper.

• Ancestor Tiancan tried to flee in the Heaven-Mending Palace, but divine light forced it back and left him dead inside.
• Feng Ling’er told Chen Zheng that Empress Wa wanted him to return to Supreme Heaven and warned that Sword Ancestor Lietian, Holy Buddha Wukong, Daji, and others might perish in the tribulation.
• Chen Zheng told Feng Ling’er to have Empress Wa decree that anyone who harmed those connected to him would be killed, and she departed with Meng Xianyin, Dadou, and Xiaodou.
• Wu Qi and other Heaven-Mending Dao elders destroyed their own primordial spirits after Chen Zheng entered the palace, while Bai Mei and Bai Mu’er followed him inside.
• Chen Zheng examined the nine Heaven-Mending Records, crumbled them into dust, and revealed that they had condensed into a page of golden paper, which he said was one of a woman's creations.

Chen Zheng’s revelation about the thirteen fallen Epoch Hegemons was interrupted when Yuan Feihong of the Indestructible Yuan Family attacked the Duan Family. Yuan Feihong’s assault ended when Chen Zheng glanced at him and shattered his body and primordial spirit.

• Chen Zheng identified the thirteen figures as Quicksand Emperor, Ying Tianzhu, Sacrifice Emperor, Dust Woman, and others whom a powerful woman had slain, and said she had sealed Taisu in a stone egg in a previous life.
• Bai Mu'er teleported everyone out of the Duan Family rear courtyard as Yuan Feihong attacked the estate and demanded that the family surrender Duan Jin’s descendants.
• Yuan Feihong used the Ancient Sacrifice Technique to hurl Duan Chenglou toward the shattered rear courtyard, while Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei failed to stop him.
• Yuan Feihong mocked Chen Zheng and sent a thought into his mind, but Chen Zheng glanced at him and shattered his body and primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng restored the Duan Family estate and questioned Yuan Feihong about his dispute with Duan Jin, learning that Duan Jin had taken the Yuan Family’s Sinful Divine Beast and Dao companion. He expelled Yuan Feihong back beyond this world and announced that he would visit the Yuan Family.

• Chen Zheng restored the Duan Family estate and asked Yuan Feihong to explain his grievance with Duan Jin.
• Yuan Feihong revealed that Duan Jin had transformed into a Sinful Divine Beast and taken Rao, the Yuan Family ancestor’s Dao companion.
• Bai Mu'er identified the Sinful Divine Beast Yu and displayed Rao’s transformed human form, shocking the Duan Family with its appearance.
• Chen Zheng remarked on Duan Jin’s extreme tastes and slapped Yuan Feihong out of the Futu Great World.
• Chen Zheng told Yuan Feihong to have the Yuan Family leave Duan Jin alone and prepare to welcome his future visit, then mentioned the Sacrifice Emperor.

Chen Zheng explained that the thirteen figures on the golden paper had been Heaven Candidates killed by Zero, while Creation Little Doll warned him that Zero was manipulating the universe. The Son of the Heavens preliminaries began across the Futu Great World, and Chen Zheng identified the announcing voice as Holy Emperor Pan, who he challenged to reclaim the Heaven-Opening Axe.

• Bai Mu'er asked about the thirteen blood shadows, and Chen Zheng said Sacrifice Emperor and the others had been Heaven Candidates killed by a mysterious woman.
• Chen Zheng recalled his connection to the golden paper and Sacrifice Emperor, leaving him uncertain about Zero's identity and motives.
• Creation Little Doll warned Chen Zheng that Zero treated him and all powerful beings as pieces in her universal game.
• Golden characters announced the Son of the Heavens preliminaries at Wuji Mountain in the Futu Sea, stirring the Futu Great World.
• Chen Zheng said the voice belonged to Holy Emperor Pan and challenged him to take back the Heaven-Opening Axe.
• Chen Zheng wondered whether a Holy Emperor's decree had appeared on Earth and said he sometimes suspected Earth was where everything began.

Chen Zheng arrived at Wuji Mountain for the preliminary selection of the Son of the Heavens and drew a thousand bolts of Wuji Divine Lightning. He consumed the lightning unharmed, leaving the onlookers stunned as the selection grounds awaited him.

• Chen Zheng, Bai Mei, and Bai Mu'er reached Wuji Mountain, where warships were gathering for the preliminary selection of the Son of the Heavens.
• Bai Mu'er noted that the selection's age rules had changed, and Chen Zheng suggested that Holy Emperor Pan was recruiting talent while the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord was injured and asleep.
• Chen Zheng told the others that his disciple, the Wuji Dao Lord, had condensed a Dao Fruit, prompting Yin-Yang Dao cultivators to mock him.
• Chen Zheng stepped onto Wuji Mountain, and a thousand bolts of Wuji Divine Lightning struck its summit.
• The lightning and thunderclouds vanished, and Chen Zheng said that Wuji Divine Lightning tasted pretty good.

Chen Zheng entered the Son of the Heavens preliminaries with Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei, astonishing the Yin-Yang Dao cultivators with his power. In the first trial, he crossed the shifting-law region effortlessly and gave Li Liusha a secret art that let him advance.

• Chen Zheng decided he would not compete in the preliminaries and teleported into the trial site with Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei.
• Ancestor Qi Yin speculated that Chen Zheng was a powerful being's reincarnation and led the Yin-Yang Dao disciples into the preliminaries.
• Chen Zheng identified the shifting-law region as the first trial while Bai Mei and Bai Mu'er followed him through it with ease.
• Li Liusha asked Chen Zheng and the women for help, and Chen Zheng sent mystic light into him before crossing the region in a single step.
• Li Liusha discovered that Chen Zheng's gift was a secret art that let him walk through the shifting laws, and he shouted his name and promised to repay Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng freed Yin Xue and Diao Chan from the Heavenly Eye Beast’s restraints, provoking the beast’s appearance before the assembled cultivators. The beast recognized Chen Zheng as its former Palace Master and prostrated itself to apologize.

• Bai Mei realized Li Liusha was the reincarnation of the Quicksand Emperor, one of the candidates for Heaven, and Chen Zheng said he only hoped Li Liusha would find himself again.
• Chen Zheng arrived at the foot of Heavenly Eye Mountain with Bai Mei and Bai Mu'er, where the Blood River Holy Son warned him not to interfere with the Heavenly Demon Twin Beauties.
• Chen Zheng shattered the restraints on Yin Xue and Diao Chan, who identified themselves as disciples of the Female Heavenly Demon and paid their respects to Ancestor Chen.
• The Blood River Holy Son accused Chen Zheng of breaking the rules, and the Heavenly Eye Beast appeared and unleashed its heavenly might.
• The Heavenly Eye Beast saw Chen Zheng, rushed to his feet, and kowtowed while apologizing for failing to recognize its former Palace Master.

Chen Zheng learned that the three-eyed beast was once Yinghuo’s dog and questioned him about Emperor Pan’s plans. After the beast revealed that an awakening could destroy heaven and earth, Chen Zheng ordered him to eliminate the Blood River Holy Son and the other witnesses.

• The three-eyed beast kowtowed to Chen Zheng and explained that Yinghuo had created him as her dog after Chen Zheng left her.
• The beast said he could not summon Emperor Pan, but Emperor Pan might appear after all ten places in the selection were decided.
• The three-eyed beast revealed that an awakening might reshape or destroy everything in heaven and earth, while Yinghuo had not intervened to stop it.
• Chen Zheng told the beast to get up and get to work, and the beast understood that he should erase the witnesses.
• The three-eyed beast turned the Blood River Holy Son and the other cultivators into dust and smoke.

Chen Zheng entered the Son of the Heavens preliminaries and answered Holy Son Duotian’s challenge at Heavenly Eye Mountain. Duotian revealed that his strength had risen to the Patriarch Realm as he prepared to fight Chen Zheng.

• The three-eyed beast erased the Blood River Holy Son and his companions, then left after receiving a summons.
• Li Liusha emerged from the first trial, credited his secret technique with restoring his magical power, and continued across the ancient forest.
• Holy Son Duotian won nineteen duels and declared that he would take first place and defeat Ancestor Chen if he appeared.
• Chen Zheng arrived at the divine temple with four women and answered Duotian’s call.
• Duotian unleashed his blood fiend power and raised his aura to the Patriarch Realm, surpassing the Patriarchs watching.

Chen Zheng faced Holy Son Duotian, whose fully developed Chaos Body unleashed a devastating power of chaos. Chen Zheng killed him with a single finger, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Holy Son Duotian trapped Chen Zheng inside a barrier and attacked him with hundreds of Great Dao laws, which Chen Zheng absorbed without moving.
• Ancestor Fengyue urged Duotian to unleash his full power and revealed that the Futu Sect could revive him using his true blood preserved in the Eightfold Futu Pagoda.
• Duotian released the power of chaos and charged Chen Zheng with an attack that surpassed a Sage's strength.
• The divine temple shielded the fight, and the cultivators saw Duotian's body and primordial spirit torn apart while Chen Zheng remained unharmed.
• Chen Zheng dismissed Duotian's Chaos Body as limited by the standards of a Great Thousand World, then destroyed him with a finger, shocking the onlookers.

Chen Zheng challenged the Futu Sect after killing Holy Son Duotian, then met the phantom of Pangu, who asked him to return the Heaven-Opening Axe. The chapter ended with the cultivators stunned by the revelation that Chen Zheng possessed the legendary artifact.

• Ancestor Fengyue claimed the Futu Sect's progenitor could resurrect Duotian, but Chen Zheng dismissed the threat and challenged the sect's ancestors to wait for him.
• Ancestor Fengyue left Heavenly Eye Mountain aboard the Futu Sect's warship after accepting Chen Zheng's challenge.
• Li Liusha thanked Chen Zheng for giving him a secret art, alarming Elder Qin and the young man from the Seven Ancients Sect.
• A phantom appeared before the assembled cultivators, and Bai Mu'er identified him as Holy Emperor Pangu.
• Pangu asked Chen Zheng to return the Heaven-Opening Axe, leaving the cultivators shocked that Chen Zheng possessed it.

Chen Zheng traded the Heaven-Opening Axe to Holy Emperor Pan for a map to a burial ground of gods and learned that a terrifying beast might be released. A gigantic transparent face appeared and vanished after Chen Zheng identified it as Primordial Chaos, leaving the cultivators stunned.

• Holy Emperor Pan offered Chen Zheng a map to a burial ground of gods in the Sky-Pillaring Ancient Star Domain in exchange for the Heaven-Opening Axe, and Chen Zheng accepted the trade.
• Holy Emperor Pan warned Chen Zheng that someone wanted to release the terrifying beast he had suppressed and urged him to retrieve an object from the burial ground.
• A gigantic transparent face appeared, roared at Chen Zheng, and asked him to slay it if it failed or lost control; Chen Zheng told it to sleep for three years before emerging.
• The face dispersed, and Chen Zheng told the shaken cultivators that it was Primordial Chaos.

The Heavenly Eye Beast explained the Son of the Heavens preliminaries, and Chen Zheng chose Qi Ruyi to compete for first place. Qi Ruyi stunned the assembled cultivators by defeating Xiang Li with a single sword strike.

• Li Liusha asked what was required to pass, and Chen Zheng summoned the Heavenly Eye Beast to explain the rules.
• The Heavenly Eye Beast said contestants would compete for first place and that the winner would receive a Great Dao Seed.
• The Heavenly Eye Beast paired Xiang Li with Li Liusha, but Xiang Li resolved to fight Qi Ruyi instead.
• Chen Zheng judged that Qi Ruyi could win, and she stepped forward to challenge the other contestants.
• Xiang Li attacked Qi Ruyi with an ancient sword technique, but Qi Ruyi shattered his sword with one strike.

Qi Ruyi won first place in the Futu Great World’s Son of the Heavens preliminaries and received a Great Dao seed, while Li Liusha advanced after defeating Xiang Li with a strange devouring secret art. Chen Zheng left with his companions, and the watching cultivators suspected he was behind the world’s recent upheavals and wondered whether the Futu Sect would be his next target.

• Qi Ruyi’s victory over Xiang Li went unchallenged, and the three-eyed beast awarded her first place and a Great Dao seed.
• Li Liusha transformed into quicksand and drained Xiang Li’s magical power, causing Xiang Li’s Ancient Star Physique to regress.
• The remaining contestants won their group battles, and the ten qualifiers received divine markings for the Son of the Heavens main selection.
• Chen Zheng told the qualifiers that only Qi Ruyi could barely fight his half-disciple, then departed with Bai Mu'er, Bai Mei, and the Heavenly Demon Twin Beauties.
• The gathered cultivators connected Chen Zheng to recent disasters in the Futu Great World and speculated that the Futu Sect might be his next target.

The Futu Sect’s founding ancestor Xisheng revealed the Bone of Heaven and the sect’s origins in the Heaven Nie Family, planning to empower Holy Son Duotian against Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng discovered that the Land of Return to Dust held something Heaven had left behind, and Bai Mu'er recognized the revealed object from the Primordial Ruins.

• Xisheng told the Futu Sect ancestors that Duotian could surpass Chen Zheng by devouring the Bone of Heaven.
• Xisheng revealed that the Futu Sect came from the Heaven Nie Family of the Great Cang Saint Dynasty and that the sect sought something hidden in the Land of Return to Dust.
• Xisheng said Duotian had Nie Family blood and an awakened Chaos Body, and planned to take him to the Land of Return to Dust after he devoured the bone.
• Chen Zheng sent Yin Xue and Diao Chan to summon the Female Heavenly Demon to the Return to Dust Dao Domain.
• Chen Zheng showed Bai Mei and Bai Mu'er an image of the Land of Return to Dust and revealed an object that Bai Mu'er recognized from the Primordial Ruins.

Chen Zheng, Bai Mu'er, and Bai Mei arrived at the Land of Return to Dust, where Bai Mei revealed her Patriarch strength and Chen Zheng’s power overwhelmed a cultivation-detecting compass. The three entered the dangerous realm, leaving the watchers stunned and the Secluded Immortal Tower preparing to summon its master.

• Chen Zheng and the two women left Black and White Chess Mountain and reached the entrance to the Land of Return to Dust as the Yin-Yang Daoist emerged from seclusion.
• Bai Mei warned that the realm lowered entrants’ cultivation and contained dangerous spacetime currents, then the group approached its gate.
• Shang Ding of the Secluded Immortal Tower insulted Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei, so Bai Mei killed him with a casual gesture.
• Gu Xiaowu’s Fate-Identifying Compass revealed that Bai Mei and Bai Mu'er were Patriarchs, then shattered when he pointed it at Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng entered the Land of Return to Dust with the two women, while the watching cultivators recoiled and the Secluded Immortal Tower decided to summon its master.

Chen Zheng reached the heart of the Land of Return to Dust and obtained Heaven's heart chamber as the Futu Sect arrived to challenge him. He erased the Futu Sect group with one sword strike, leaving the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower unable to move.

• The Master of the Nether Immortal Tower learned that Chen Zheng had entered the Land of Return to Dust and recognized him as the Ancestor Chen who had killed Holy Son Duotian before.
• Chen Zheng and Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei reached an ancient altar, where the spirits feared him because he had obtained Heaven's heart chamber.
• Star-Picking Ancestor, Ancestor Fengyue, Ancestor Duobao, and Holy Son Duotian arrived and greeted Chen Zheng, who dismissed the Heart Stone of Heaven as inferior to the Taisu Stone Egg.
• Holy Son Duotian revealed that he had fused with the Bone of Heaven and challenged Chen Zheng to take Heaven's relic and suppress him.
• Chen Zheng unleashed one sword strike that reduced the Futu Sect group to nothingness, while the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower watched in shock and found himself unable to move.

Chen Zheng killed Holy Son Duotian and absorbed the Heart Stone of Heaven and Bone of Heaven, which revealed the identity of a Heaven but did not significantly improve his cultivation. He let Susu swallow the relics, while the Futu Sect’s ancestors withdrew and Chen Zheng warned the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower about Ying Tianzhu’s legacy.

• Chen Zheng retrieved the Bone of Heaven after killing Duotian and used it with the Heart Stone of Heaven to form a humanoid being, which shattered when it saw him.
• Chen Zheng absorbed the two relics, briefly reached the Heavenly Emperor Realm, then returned to the Heavenly Immortal level and restored the relics as particles.
• Chen Zheng summoned Susu, and the Taisu Stone Egg swallowed both the Heart Stone of Heaven and the Bone of Heaven.
• Ancestor Fengyue accused Chen Zheng of luring Duotian into the Land of Return to Dust for the Bone of Heaven, but Chen Zheng said the relics were mainly food for Susu.
• Star-Picking Ancestor challenged Chen Zheng to come to the Futu Sect, then he, Ancestor Fengyue, and Ancestor Duobao destroyed their Dao bodies.
• Chen Zheng told the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower that he could leave because he had obtained Ying Tianzhu’s legacy, but warned him that he knew what to do next.

After learning that Ying Tianzhu’s inheritance pointed toward the Taiyin Clan in the Great Void, Chen Zheng left the Land of Return to Dust and went to the Futu Sect. The sect’s ancestors and the Nie Family prepared a forbidden object to confront him, and Old Ancestor Xisheng invited Chen Zheng into the Eightfold Futu Pagoda.

• The Master of the Nether Immortal Tower told Chen Zheng that Ying Tianzhu’s divine talisman had brought the inheritance to him and that Ying Tianzhu had directed him to seek the Taiyin Clan in the Great Void.
• Chen Zheng vanished from the Land of Return to Dust, and the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower told Diao Chan that Chen Zheng had gone to destroy the Futu Sect.
• Diao Chan and the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower set out for the Futu Sect as cultivators at the Land of Return to Dust reacted to news of Chen Zheng’s attack.
• The Futu Sect’s nine ancestors gathered their disciples inside the Eightfold Futu Pagoda and awaited Chen Zheng alongside members of the Nie Family, who had brought a forbidden object.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the Futu Sect with two women, and the attacking blood dragons shattered before they could reach them.
• Old Ancestor Xisheng sent a divine staircase from the Eightfold Futu Pagoda and invited Chen Zheng inside.