Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng entered the Eightfold Futu Pagoda to face the Futu Sect’s leaders, who revealed their ties to the Nie Family and summoned a terrifying Forbidden Artifact. The stone coffin’s pressure immobilized the sect’s ancestors, while Chen Zheng remained before it.

• Chen Zheng and Bai Mu'er and Bai Mei entered the Eightfold Futu Pagoda through its guiding divine light.
• The Star-Picking Ancestor told Chen Zheng to face the three founding ancestors alone, and Chen Zheng vanished to the highest floor.
• Xisheng explained that the Futu Sect’s founders and the three archaic-robed cultivators came from the Nie Family, which he said was known as the Heaven Clan and the origin of Chaos Bodies.
• Nie Sha ordered the Forbidden Artifact to be brought forth, and the three Nie Family envoys summoned a stone coffin from black vapor.
• The stone coffin shook the Eightfold Futu Pagoda and its pressure immobilized the Futu Sect’s founding ancestors and great ancestors.

Nie Sha and the other Nie Family cultivators used a Forbidden Artifact stone coffin to try to suppress Chen Zheng, but its terrifying pressure affected everyone except him. The chapter ended with Chen Zheng striking the coffin and spiderweb cracks spreading across it.

• Nie Sha and the other Nie Family cultivators spilled blood onto the stone coffin, causing it to tremble and shake the Eightfold Futu Pagoda.
• The Forbidden Artifact's aura forced Star-Picking Ancestor and the other Futu Sect ancestors to their knees, while Nie Sha demanded Chen Zheng hand over the Bone of Heaven and the relic of Heaven.
• Chen Zheng pointed out that the coffin's pressure had no effect on him, though Nie Sha insisted it could still suppress him.
• Nie Sha poured more blood into the coffin, and its growing power cracked the space inside the Eightfold Futu Pagoda and forced his two companions to their knees.
• Chen Zheng walked up to the stone coffin and struck it, spreading spiderweb-like cracks across its surface.

Chen Zheng demonstrated that the Heaven Nie Family’s forbidden stone coffin feared him, then used it to destroy Nie Sha and the others before the Creation Little Doll questioned his connection to coffins made to bury Heavens. The coffin crumbled, and Chen Zheng revealed an image of a one-armed man punching it into dust.

• Chen Zheng repeatedly cracked and repaired the forbidden stone coffin, taunting Nie Sha and showing that he could use it without burning his essence.
• Xisheng offered to have the Futu Sect submit to Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng refused and raised his hand against the stone coffin.
• The coffin’s aura crushed Nie Sha, the other Nie Family cultivators, the Futu Sect’s three old ancestors, and the nine ancestors into blood mist, which the little purple Dao-Devouring Beast devoured.
• Creation Little Doll suggested that Chen Zheng had created the coffins used to bury Heavens in his first life, but the coffin suddenly crumbled into dust.
• Chen Zheng used seven-colored divine light to reveal an image of a one-armed man punching a stone coffin into dust.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Futu Sect, took control of the Eightfold Futu Pagoda, and learned that the Female Heavenly Demon had been captured. After hearing that a mysterious young man had subdued her with a stone slab, Chen Zheng sent the pagoda toward the Return to Dust Dao Domain.

• Chen Zheng traced the stone coffin’s memories and identified the one-armed man as the Abnormal Human Sovereign.
• Chen Zheng made the Eightfold Futu Pagoda’s treasure spirit submit to him, then emerged after defeating the Futu Sect’s ancestors.
• Chen Zheng killed the Futu Sect’s tens of thousands of cultivators with a snap of his fingers, leaving Bai Mu'er to reflect on the sect’s destruction.
• Diao Chan told Chen Zheng that a mysterious young man had suppressed her master, the Female Heavenly Demon, with a stone slab and intended to take her as his wife.
• Chen Zheng sent the Eightfold Futu Pagoda crashing toward the eastern void, while the Master of the Nether Immortal Tower witnessed the Futu Sect’s complete destruction.

Chen Zheng arrived at Heavenly Demon Mountain as the Female Heavenly Demon faced an attack from the brocade-robed boy and the Xuanhuang Elders. He caught the boy’s ancient stone slab and erased its imprint, leaving the boy bleeding and enraged.

• The Xuanhuang Elders broke Heavenly Demon Mountain’s barrier while the brocade-robed boy threatened the Female Heavenly Demon and ordered her followers killed.
• Chen Zheng, Bai Mu'er, Bai Mei, and Diao Chan arrived in the Eightfold Futu Pagoda and smashed the Heaven-Equaling Warship, killing most of its occupants.
• The Female Heavenly Demon called Chen Zheng her uncle, and the boy challenged him with an ancient stone slab.
• Chen Zheng casually caught the slab and erased the boy’s imprint, causing the boy to spit blood.

Chen Zheng took the brocade-robed youth’s Realm Map and invited him to summon his master, the lord of the First Heavenly Palace. After the Palace Lord appeared, he ignored his disciple and asked Chen Zheng whether he remembered the Heaven-Reflecting Peach Blossom.

• Chen Zheng erased the brocade-robed youth’s primordial spirit imprint from the Realm Map and claimed the treasure.
• The youth threatened Chen Zheng and revealed that his master was the lord of the First Heavenly Palace, which the Xuanhuang Elders said ruled over the past.
• Chen Zheng asked the youth to summon his master, and the youth called the Palace Lord down to Heavenly Demon Mountain.
• The white-robed Palace Lord appeared, ignored the youth’s complaints, and asked Chen Zheng about the Heaven-Reflecting Peach Blossom.

The Azure Lord recognized Chen Zheng as his master’s old acquaintance and gave him a coal-like object called the Cosmic Embers, while revealing that recovering his past required reaching Transcendence. He also crippled his former disciple Pan Zao and departed, leaving Chen Zheng to study the mysterious gift.

• The Azure Lord questioned Chen Zheng about their past and explained that the Heaven-Reflecting Peach Blossom had been refined by his master’s old acquaintance, who looked almost exactly like Chen Zheng.
• The Creation Little Doll called the Azure Lord another servant of Zero, and the Azure Lord identified it as the Future Lord of Tribulation and concluded that Chen Zheng had erased his past.
• The Azure Lord gave Chen Zheng the coal-like Cosmic Embers, following his master’s instruction, and revealed that his master’s homeland held a supreme divine object that could help restore Chen Zheng’s past if he attained Transcendence.
• The Azure Lord recognized Pan Zao as his former disciple, crippled his cultivation, and sent the unconscious youth back to his mother as a mortal.
• The Azure Lord and the Xuanhuang Elders departed, and the Female Heavenly Demon marveled at Chen Zheng’s past identities as he examined the Cosmic Embers.

Bu Sheng stole the Cosmic Embers from Chen Zheng, believing the divine object would help him escape the Great Thousand World's limits. After Chen Zheng let him go, Bu Sheng tried to use it to break through, but exploded, leaving the embers behind as blood rain fell across the world.

• Bu Sheng's manifestation appeared on Heavenly Demon Mountain and took the Cosmic Embers, claiming he had divined its arrival and would give Chen Zheng a favor in return.
• Chen Zheng agreed to let Bu Sheng keep the divine object, then told the puzzled cultivators to wait for rain.
• Less than ten breaths later, Heavenly Dao lightning struck Yanzhi Valley, where Bu Sheng's true body appeared and resisted the lightning.
• Bu Sheng thanked Chen Zheng and declared that the Cosmic Embers would let him break free of the Great Thousand World's shackles and rise above Sages.
• Bu Sheng identified the object as World Ember, then exploded as blood rain fell across the world.
• The cultivators realized Chen Zheng had meant they would witness the blood rain of a Sage's fall.

Chen Zheng explained how Bu Sheng died after absorbing the world’s ember, then helped the Female Heavenly Demon complete her primordial holy demon physique with a single sweep of his hand. He warned her of a future threat to the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land and left her wondering whom he loved most.

• Chen Zheng retrieved the world’s ember and explained that Bu Sheng had burst after trying to absorb more information than he could contain.
• Cultivators across the Futu Great World realized that Bu Sheng and the Futu Sect had fallen because of Chen Zheng.
• The Female Heavenly Demon asked Chen Zheng how to complete her primordial holy demon physique, and he offered to use a massage technique.
• Chen Zheng swept his hand across the Female Heavenly Demon’s back, instantly bringing her physique to greater completion.
• Chen Zheng told her to warn the Primordial Heavenly Demon to flee if a powerful enemy attacked the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land.
• The Female Heavenly Demon asked Chen Zheng which of his women he loved most, and he furrowed his brows.

The Female Heavenly Demon left the Futu Great World with Diao Chan, while Chen Zheng traveled through chaotic space-time and was attacked by a being who called himself one of the Heavens. Chen Zheng was forcibly transported to the Sky-Pillaring Ancient Star Domain, where a terrifying heavenly immortal confronted the Dragon Firmament Chamber of Commerce over a caged demon girl.

• The Female Heavenly Demon told Diao Chan that Chen Zheng had only given her a massage, then took her back to the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land as Heavenly Demon Mountain left the Futu Great World.
• The Seventh Princess told Chen Zheng that the Wall-Breaking Shuttle belonged to Number Five, and Chen Zheng suspected Number Five was the trapped Reincarnation Fate Lord.
• A force attacked Chen Zheng's Star Raft through the River of Time, and Chen Zheng shattered the torrent and a sky-propping hand with seven-colored divine light.
• A being who called himself one of the Heavens used the Laws of Space and Time to transport Chen Zheng, while accusing him of abandoning the original Heaven Heavenly Court.
• At the Dragon Firmament Market on Langhuang Star, a middle-aged fat man offered a caged demon girl to a seemingly ordinary heavenly immortal whose aura had terrified the surrounding cultivators.

Chen Zheng rescued the little demon girl Dust Woman by killing the Dragon Firmament Chamber of Commerce’s people with a snap of his fingers. After the city guards and the chamber’s reinforcements arrived, he killed them too, leaving the surviving guards and market cultivators terrified.

• Chen Zheng recognized the caged little demon girl as Dust Woman and killed Gu Sankai, Fatty Zhang, and the chamber’s attendants with a snap of his fingers.
• Chen Zheng sent a mysterious art into Dust Woman’s mind, and she began cultivating as ancient Dao resonance surrounded her.
• The Dragon Firmament Chamber of Commerce and Thousand Mechanisms Ancient City sealed the market and arrived to investigate the killings.
• A young cultivator identified Chen Zheng, and Dao Lord Yi attacked him but was killed by Chen Zheng’s glance.
• Chen Zheng killed Ma Chaoxi and the chamber’s reinforcements with another snap, while the city guards stood frozen in fear.

Chen Zheng effortlessly killed the Dragon Firmament Chamber of Commerce’s elders and Daoist Ying’s avatar, then awaited Daoist Ying’s true body. Star Lord Meng Ge recognized Chen Zheng as the legendary Grand Commander and knelt before him, leaving Daoist Ying stunned.

• Chen Zheng killed the Dragon Firmament Chamber of Commerce’s steward elders with a snap of his fingers, then destroyed Daoist Ying’s avatar with one slap.
• Chen Zheng told the crowd he would wait for Daoist Ying’s true body, while the immortal guard commander warned him about the Chamber of Commerce.
• The immortal guard commander explained that Jade Moon Mountain had been destroyed and Water Moon Heaven had vanished after the Moon Long River changed course.
• Daoist Ying arrived with Star Lord Meng Ge and demanded that Meng Ge capture Chen Zheng, but Meng Ge instead recited the same lines Chen Zheng had spoken.
• Chen Zheng asked whether Meng Fang was well, and Meng Ge knelt before him, identifying himself as Meng Fang’s descendant and addressing him as the Grand Commander.

Chen Zheng killed Daoist Ying after learning of Meng Fang’s death and said he would eventually kill the person responsible. As Chen Zheng and Meng Ge discussed the sealed threat and the Flame Grotto God Clan’s rise, the Dragon Firmament Giant Ship arrived and demanded that Meng Ge come out.

• Daoist Ying accused Meng Ge of conspiring with Chen Zheng and threatened him with the Dragon Firmament Chamber of Commerce’s alliance with the Flame Grotto God Clan.
• Meng Ge told Chen Zheng that Meng Fang had died over two thousand years earlier after a dispute with Daoist Lingzhu, and Chen Zheng killed Daoist Ying with a glance.
• Chen Zheng used his Reincarnation Eye and said Meng Fang had reincarnated, while the person who killed him could live a while longer.
• Chen Zheng and Meng Ge discussed the Ancestral God’s retreat, the Flame Grotto God Clan’s rise, and the possibility that a sealed threat might escape.
• The Dragon Firmament Giant Ship appeared above Langhuang Star, and a voice ordered Meng Ge to come out and welcome its young master.

Chen Zheng used the Eightfold Futu Pagoda to destroy the Dragon Firmament Giant Ship after its crew threatened Langhuang Star. The little demoness finished her comprehension and opened her eyes as Chen Zheng dismissed the ship as trash.

• The Dragon Firmament Giant Ship threatened to destroy Langhuang Star unless Star Lord Meng Ge appeared and handed over Daoist Ying's killer.
• Chen Zheng raised his hand, and the Eightfold Futu Pagoda destroyed the ship's attack and split the vessel in two.
• A black-robed young man blamed the Beichen Chamber of Commerce and threatened Chen Zheng with the Dragon Firmament Chamber of Commerce's ties to the Flame Grotto God Clan.
• The Eightfold Futu Pagoda pulverized the ship's bow and stern, killing the young man and everyone aboard.
• Star Lord Meng Ge praised Chen Zheng, who called the ship trash before turning to the little demoness as she opened her eyes.

Chen Zheng dismissed Meng Ge’s concerns about the erased traces of his past and warned that he would settle old accounts after returning to the Sky-Pillaring Ancient Star Domain. When Vice President Lingzhu’s avatar threatened Langhuang Star, Chen Zheng destroyed it with a purple blade gleam.

• Meng Ge told Chen Zheng that Jade Moon Mountain and Water Moon Heaven had vanished, perhaps because someone wanted to conceal Chen Zheng’s past in the Sky-Pillaring Ancient Star Domain.
• Chen Zheng said he would settle the accounts that needed settling and noted that Yan Ku could not kill the Ancestral God, though he might shorten the Ancestral God’s lifespan.
• The Dragon Firmament Chamber of Commerce elders discussed the deaths and the Eightfold Futu Pagoda guarding Langhuang Star, while Vice President Lingzhu said he would investigate and accompany Yan Ku to Ancestral God City.
• The next day, Lingzhu’s avatar appeared above Langhuang Star and invited the Futu cultivator to negotiate, claiming the pagoda could not destroy a Half-Step Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Zheng refused negotiations, accused Lingzhu of killing Meng Fang, and challenged him to send his true body.
• Lingzhu’s avatar attacked Thousand Mechanisms Ancient City, but Chen Zheng’s purple blade gleam shattered it in one clash.

Chen Zheng sent his scimitar Zhengyue across the starry river, where it shattered Daoist Lingzhu’s Changsheng Bamboo and split Dragon Firmament Ancient Star in half. After the Sky-Pillaring Divine Images vanished, Chen Zheng told Meng Ge that Zhengyue needed to recharge after each use.

• Chen Zheng sent Zhengyue toward Dragon Firmament Ancient Star, and the Sky-Pillaring Divine Image broadcast its journey across the Sky-Pillaring Ancient Star Domain.
• Daoist Lingzhu summoned the Changsheng Bamboo to protect Dragon Firmament Ancient Star, but Zhengyue cut through the bamboo cage.
• Zhengyue sliced Dragon Firmament Ancient Star in half, sending its inhabitants fleeing and shocking the domain’s viewers.
• Chen Zheng withdrew Zhengyue, and the Sky-Pillaring Divine Images shattered across the domain.
• Chen Zheng told Meng Ge that Zhengyue needed to recharge after each use and revealed the scimitar’s name.

Chen Zheng took the little demoness to the Sky-Pillaring Ancient God Temple to discover who had activated its divine image. Inside, Daoist Honggu revealed that he had lured Chen Zheng there to claim his scimitar, but his Saint Eye instead identified Heaven Physiques in both Chen Zheng and the little demoness.

• Chen Zheng decided to visit the Sky-Pillaring Ancient God Temple, while Star Lord Mengge received Yan Chifeng of the Beichen Chamber of Commerce.
• Chen Zheng and the little demoness reached the temple, opened its bronze doors, and entered as watchers outside chose to wait.
• The little demoness clung to Chen Zheng as they followed a dripping sound into the temple's deepest hall.
• Daoist Honggu said he had activated the divine image to lure Chen Zheng there and demand his scimitar in exchange for using his Saint Eye.
• Daoist Honggu examined Chen Zheng and the little demoness, then cried out that both possessed a Heaven Physique.

Chen Zheng exposed Daoist Honggu as a Myriad Transformation Demon who had devoured the real Immortal King Honggu, then killed him with the charged Zhengyue Scimitar. The little demon girl remained beside Chen Zheng, shaken by what she saw.

• Chen Zheng told Daoist Honggu that the girl was a Heaven Candidate and said Honggu was too lost in his role.
• Chen Zheng summoned Princess Zhengyue, who charged the Zhengyue Scimitar with her true fire and awakened its fearsome purple light.
• Chen Zheng created a water-screen mirror, and Daoist Honggu saw his reflection as a hideous demon.
• Chen Zheng explained that Daoist Honggu was a powerful Myriad Transformation Demon who had devoured the real Immortal King Honggu.
• Daoist Honggu denied the truth, but Chen Zheng sent the Zhengyue Scimitar through his skull and erased his primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng restored Immortal King Honggu’s primordial spirit after killing the Myriad Transformation Demon, awakening Honggu’s memories as the Heaven Candidate Guhong. Honggu recognized Chen Zheng as the teacher of Sacrifice Emperor and Dust Woman, then left to make sense of his restored past, while the little demon girl remained unable to accept her identity as Dust Woman.

• Chen Zheng killed Daoist Honggu, then gathered soul remnants from the Zhengyue curved saber and restored Immortal King Honggu’s primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng showed Honggu memories of Guhong, revealing that Honggu and Guhong were the same person, and mentioned Seven Severances Immortal King’s reincarnation.
• Honggu recognized the little demon girl as Dust Woman’s reincarnation and recalled how a mysterious woman had tortured the thirteen Heaven Candidates.
• Chen Zheng told Honggu that Epoch Hegemons had called him Teacher and said he had refined himself and his past into nothingness.
• Honggu recognized Chen Zheng as Sacrifice Emperor and Dust Woman’s teacher, called him Senior Nothingness, and left the Sky-Pillaring Ancient God Temple.
• Creation Little Doll warned that the little demon girl’s resistance to her identity would make awakening difficult, and the girl then called her cute.

Chen Zheng discovered that the Sky-Pillaring Ancient God Temple could transform into forms resembling an extracosmic shuttle and the Boat of the Other Shore, then took it away. He arrived at Ancestral God City amid Yan Ku’s violent bid to seize power, where he killed a Flame Grotto God guard with a single encounter.

• Chen Zheng analyzed the Sky-Pillaring Ancient God Temple and realized it could transform into a vessel resembling the Boat of the Other Shore, whose design might have inspired the legendary boat.
• Chen Zheng opened the temple, took it away, and left with the little demoness; the figures guarding it emerged afterward and lamented its disappearance.
• Ancient Gods in Ancestral God City whispered that Yan Ku and the Flame Grotto God Clan had taken control, killed the Desolate God Guards, and captured the Desolate God while seeking to depose the sealed Ancestral God.
• Chen Zheng and the little demoness appeared at Ancestral God City’s main gate, where Flame Grotto God guards ordered them to leave and one attacked Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng killed the attacking guard in a single encounter and remarked that the city was familiar, but its gods were no longer the same.