Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng faced Demon Emperor Yinglong’s manifestation and Ancestral Demon Lady Feng in Immortal-Slaying Town. Lady Feng ignored the battle and knelt before the little demon girl, asking if she was her master.

• The Immortal-Slaying Squad discussed the terrifying man in azure and considered following Chen Zheng rather than fleeing.
• Demon Emperor Yinglong arrived as a manifestation and demanded to know who Chen Zheng was.
• Chen Zheng challenged Yinglong to come in his true body, and Yinglong summoned Ancestral Demon Lady Feng to kill him.
• Lady Feng ignored Yinglong’s orders and stared at the little demon girl beside Chen Zheng.
• Lady Feng knelt before the little demon girl in tears and asked whether she was her master.

Lady Feng revealed that she had mistaken the little demon girl for her reincarnated master, the Dust Emperor, whose existence the Demon Court feared because she could oppose the Demon Lord of Youdu. Chen Zheng learned that Lady Feng was a painting spirit and said he would soon visit the Demon Court.

• Lady Feng knelt before the little demon girl and wept, while Demon Emperor Yinglong accused her of staging a deception.
• Chen Zheng asked whether the ancient demon pit’s inhabitants still worshiped the Dust Emperor, and Yinglong denied that the Dust Emperor existed while warning Chen Zheng away from the Demon Court.
• Lady Feng confirmed that the Dust Emperor existed and explained that a command from the Primordial Demon Pit had ordered the destruction of Dust Emperor temples and forbidden her worship.
• Lady Feng said the Demon Lord of Youdu and the Dust Emperor could not live in the same lifetime, and explained that she had mistaken the little demon girl for her master reincarnated.
• Chen Zheng asked about Lady Feng’s nature, and she revealed that she was a painting spirit created from a painting her master had made.

Chen Zheng brought the little demoness and Lady Feng to the Yinglong Demon Court, where the three Ancestral Demons tried to stop the little demoness from awakening. Chen Zheng shattered their suppression and began restoring her past, causing the entire ancient demon pit to tremble.

• Chen Zheng explained that he had come to help the little demoness recover her memories and to devour the ancient demon pit's essence, then followed Lady Feng's beacon toward the Demon Court.
• Wu Xian decided that the Immortal-Slaying Squad would head to the Primordial Demon Pit, hoping to witness the world-shaking battle he foresaw.
• Demon Emperor Yinglong warned that the little demoness's awakening would prevent the Demon Lord of Youdu from reviving and pleaded for the three Ancestral Demons to intervene.
• The three Ancestral Demons activated the Demon Court's formation and suppressed Lady Feng with a terrifying law, but Chen Zheng shattered the barrier and made them spit blood.
• Chen Zheng touched the little demoness's brow, causing her eyes to turn white and a phantom to appear as the Yinglong Demon Court and the entire ancient demon pit began to shake.

Chen Zheng took the little demon girl and Lady Feng to the Yinglong Demon Court’s secret treasury space, ignoring Demon Emperor Yinglong’s claims that its deadly laws would kill anyone without the clan’s sacred relic. He swallowed the laws as soon as he entered, leaving the Ancestral Demons stunned.

• The realm trembled, and people across its regions wondered whether a progenitor-level demon was emerging or whether Chen Zheng was responsible.
• Demon Emperor Yinglong dismissed the woman’s phantom as a fabricated memory, while Lady Feng asked whether her teacher could awaken.
• Chen Zheng ripped out Demon Emperor Yinglong’s primordial spirit, learned the secret treasury space’s location, and took the little demon girl and Lady Feng there through a gate of nothingness.
• Demon Emperor Yinglong and the three Ancestral Demons followed Chen Zheng to the entrance and warned that its laws would destroy anyone without the sacred relic.
• Chen Zheng entered with the little demon girl and swallowed the terrifying laws, shattering the blood-colored stele as Ancestral Demon Yingyou wondered whether he was even human.

Chen Zheng opened the stone box in Shangmie Space, revealing a male remnant soul instead of the Dust Emperor. The apparition identified himself as the Youdu Tribulation Lord, and the three ancestral demons fell to their knees.

• Demon Emperor Yinglong accused Chen Zheng of humiliating him, while Lady Feng and the three ancestral demons wondered at Chen Zheng’s power.
• Chen Zheng opened the stone box above the altar, releasing an ethereal figure that solidified into a man.
• Demon Emperor Yinglong believed Chen Zheng had failed to awaken the Dust Emperor and urged the apparition to join forces against him.
• Lady Feng realized the sealed remnant soul was not her master, leaving her uncertain how the Dust Emperor could awaken.
• The apparition declared that he was the Youdu Tribulation Lord, and the three ancestral demons recognized him as the Demon Lord of Youdu and fell to their knees.

The phantom revealed that he was the Youdu Tribulation Lord, who had been Dust Woman’s younger brother in the first era, and explained why he had worshipped her. After recognizing Dust Woman’s reincarnation and Chen Zheng, he called upon an elder sister, and Creation Little Doll appeared and rebuked him.

• The three ancestral demons and Demon Emperor Yinglong knelt before the phantom, who identified himself as the Youdu Tribulation Lord and said the Immortal Demon Master had betrayed him.
• The phantom rejected Yinglong’s claim that the Demon Lord of Youdu and the Dust Emperor could not share a lifetime, revealing that he and Dust Woman had been siblings born of the same mother.
• The phantom explained that Dust Woman had been taken by a terrifying being, so he had created the Youdu era and ordered its inhabitants to worship her in hopes of her reincarnation.
• The phantom recognized the little demoness beside Chen Zheng as his reincarnated sister Dust Woman and said Chen Zheng was her teacher, then called for his eldest sister to appear.
• Creation Little Doll emerged from a lotus seed between Chen Zheng’s brows and criticized the phantom for letting a subordinate seal away one of his primordial spirits.

Chen Zheng rejected the Demon Lord of Youdu’s offer and learned that Youdu’s good-side spirit was connected to the little demon girl’s first life. After the three Ancestral Demons summoned a Primordial Yinglong for a final showdown, Chen Zheng’s black shadow swallowed it, and he sensed a familiar aura to the south.

• Chen Zheng asked the Demon Lord of Youdu’s phantom for the Creation Lotus Seed, but the phantom said his main body held it and then departed.
• Demon Emperor Yinglong’s heart demon shattered his primordial spirit, and the three Ancestral Demons took the Yinglong Demon Clan’s sacred relic and fled.
• The Creation Little Doll explained that the phantom was the Youdu Tribulation Lord’s good side and that it was linked to the little demon girl’s first life.
• The three Ancestral Demons sacrificed their bodies and summoned a Primordial Yinglong, which devoured the Demon Court’s creatures and attacked Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng’s towering black shadow swallowed the Primordial Yinglong and returned to his body, while Chen Zheng sensed a familiar aura to the south.

After the Yinglong Demon Court vanished, a divine treasure appeared in Qinglian Ancient City, drawing thousands of cultivators who waited outside its defenses. Chen Zheng arrived and recited a line about the azure lotus, and the divine treasure flew out of the city to him as an azure lotus.

• The Yinglong Demon Court became an empty city, leaving the Southern Luo Immortal Court as the only power in the Ancient Demon Pit.
• Thousands of humans, demons, and devils gathered outside Qinglian Ancient City, which Yu Changlong and the three great families had locked down.
• Dazzling divine light rose from the city, and the gathered cultivators believed the divine treasure could let its master surpass Sages.
• Chen Zheng appeared before the city, and the Azure-Clad Guards warned him to stop as the onlookers mocked his Heavenly Immortal cultivation.
• Chen Zheng recited, "Before heaven, there was the azure lotus," and the divine light flew out of the city and transformed into an azure lotus before him.

Hundreds of cultivators died trying to seize the azure lotus, while Chen Zheng remained unharmed and drew the attention of Qinglian Ancient City's rulers and Prince Chenchong. When Prince Chenchong ordered Jianxiao to kill him, Chen Zheng’s body sent the sword light back and beheaded Jianxiao.

• The Dragon God Giant Crossbows killed hundreds of cultivators who rushed toward the azure lotus, but Chen Zheng and the lotus remained unharmed.
• Yu Changlong, the three great families, and Southern Luo Immortal Court’s Prince Chenchong arrived and focused on the divine treasure.
• Prince Chenchong demanded that Yu Changlong help him claim the lotus, but the families urged the prince to retrieve it himself.
• Prince Chenchong ordered Jianxiao to seize the lotus and kill Chen Zheng for not kneeling.
• Jianxiao’s sword light entered Chen Zheng’s body and then shot back out, beheading Jianxiao.

Chen Zheng ignored Elder Tiange’s Nine Poisons Secret Art while remaining focused on the divine Qinglian, and Yu Changlong summoned the Qilin Sword and a Crimson Flame Qilin to attack him. The sacred beast recognized Chen Zheng and revealed that its race’s Sacred Venerable and Blood Qilin were seeking ways to deal with him.

• A swordsman attacked Chen Zheng and was killed without Chen Zheng moving, prompting Prince Chenchong to call him a beloved Jianxiao and draw the cultivators’ attention.
• Prince Chenchong ordered Elder Tiange to kill Chen Zheng, but the Nine Poisons Secret Art had no effect on him.
• Prince Chenchong urged Yu Changlong to retrieve the divine Qinglian, and Yu Changlong summoned the Qilin Sword and a Crimson Flame Qilin.
• Yu Changlong ordered the Crimson Flame Qilin to slay Chen Zheng, but the sacred beast recognized him and cried out in alarm.

Chen Zheng stopped the Crimson Flame Qilin from escaping and killed it with a single slap, then Tiantian devoured its remains and killed Prince Chenchong and the others. The cultivators before Qinglian Ancient City knelt in fear as Tiantian told Chen Zheng she had awakened new abilities.

• The Crimson Flame Qilin tried to teleport away after warning Chen Zheng that the Qilin Clan's Sacred Venerable was investigating him, but Chen Zheng severed the space-time laws and stopped it.
• The Crimson Flame Qilin begged Chen Zheng to spare it as an envoy, then attacked when he refused and was killed with one slap.
• Prince Chenchong pleaded for his life and offered to give up the divine Qinglian, while Chen Zheng summoned Tiantian to devour the Crimson Flame Qilin's remains.
• Yu Changlong and the others tried to flee, but Tiantian froze them, reduced them to mortals, and turned Prince Chenchong, Daoist Tiange, Yu Changlong, and the old man to ashes.
• The remaining cultivators knelt before Chen Zheng as Tiantian said she had awakened new abilities and could devour her enemies' magical power and essence.

Chen Zheng used the divine green lotus to crush Emperor Chen Qian, while Lady Feng arrived and called the Chen Imperial Clan thieves. As Chen Qian warned that the clan’s awakened old ancestor was coming, Chen Jiutian appeared on the Azure Bird above Qinglian Ancient City.

• Chen Qian appeared before Qinglian Ancient City, claimed the green lotus belonged to the Southern Luo Immortal Court, and challenged Chen Zheng.
• The cultivators learned that the little purple beast was a Dao-Devouring Beast, and Chen Zheng used the divine green lotus to shatter Chen Qian’s body and pin down his primordial spirit.
• Lady Feng arrived with the little demon girl, and Chen Qian recognized her as Ancestral Demon Lady Feng.
• Lady Feng called Chen Jiutian and the Chen Imperial Clan thieves, while Chen Qian claimed their old ancestor had awakened and would soon arrive.
• An enormous Azure Bird descended over Qinglian Ancient City, and the cultivators wondered whether Chen Jiutian was riding on its back.

Chen Jiutian arrived and demanded that Chen Zheng kill himself, boasting that his azure bird was a second Dao Ancestor. The bird suddenly awakened and threw Chen Jiutian into the sky, and Chen Zheng asked if he understood.

• Emperor Chen Qian accused Chen Zheng of crimes and pleaded with Chen Jiutian to kill him.
• Chen Jiutian told Chen Zheng to take his own life, claiming he could strip him of Qinglian and would not lower himself to attack a Heavenly Immortal.
• Chen Jiutian revealed that the azure bird’s seal concealed power greater than his own and ordered it to kill Chen Zheng.
• The azure bird ignored Chen Jiutian’s order until Chen Zheng released its seal, unleashing its power and blasting Chen Jiutian off its back.
• Chen Zheng asked Chen Jiutian if he understood, and Chen Jiutian realized he could no longer control the unsealed bird.

Chen Zheng undid the azure bird’s seal, and the freed Dao Ancestor overwhelmed Chen Jiutian, exposing the Chen Imperial Clan’s theft of the bird and its secret art. After the battle, the azure bird thanked Chen Zheng and recognized his Dao-Devouring Beast companion.

• Chen Jiutian’s sealed azure bird went berserk and battered him while the cultivators watched.
• Lady Feng revealed that the Chen Imperial Clan had stolen the azure bird and its supreme secret art, and Emperor Chen Qian accused her and Chen Zheng of attacking the Southern Luo Immortal Court.
• The patriarchs of the Baili, He, and Hong Families abandoned Chen Jiutian and pledged themselves to Chen Zheng.
• The azure bird pummeled Chen Jiutian into Qinglian Ancient City’s wall, splitting the city and leaving him crippled.
• The azure bird thanked Chen Zheng for freeing it and explained that the Demon Master of Youdu and Chen Jiutian’s master had schemed against it.
• The azure bird heard the little purple beast and recognized it as a supposedly extinct Dao-Devouring Beast.

Qingniao revealed her grudge against the Chen Imperial Clan, but Chen Jiutian summoned his master, the Dust Emperor, who arrived and subdued the gathered cultivators. Chen Zheng awakened the little demon girl with the divine Qinglian, and her power made the Dust Emperor recognize her as the Dust Emperor.

• Qingniao said Chen Jiutian had stolen her power and inherited secret art, then vowed to destroy the Chen Imperial Clan.
• Chen Jiutian summoned the Dust Emperor, who appeared above Qinglian Ancient City and forced most of those present to their knees.
• The Baili, He, and Hong families swore loyalty to the Dust Emperor, while the little demon girl remained unaffected by his pressure.
• Chen Zheng used the divine Qinglian to dispel the Dust Emperor’s pressure, and the Dust Emperor offered to take Chen Zheng as his disciple.
• Chen Zheng sent the divine Qinglian into the little demon girl, awakening her and revealing an overwhelming aura and an adult woman’s figure behind her.
• The Dust Emperor’s mask shattered, and he recognized the woman as the Dust Emperor.

Lu Renwang revealed that he had been posing as the Dust Emperor and summoned the Primordial Cauldron to suppress the phantom behind the little girl. Chen Zheng effortlessly took control of the cauldron and erased Lu Renwang’s primordial spirit imprint, leaving the battle’s balance suddenly overturned.

• Lu Renwang explained that the Dust Emperor was real and revealed his identity as the chief disciple of the Primordial Dao.
• Lu Renwang summoned the Primordial Cauldron, suppressing the woman’s phantom and causing the azure bird and Lady Feng to spit blood.
• Lu Renwang boasted that the Primordial Cauldron made him undefeated below the Epoch Hegemon Realm and offered to make Chen Zheng his disciple.
• Chen Zheng reached for the Primordial Cauldron, which flew to him, and erased Lu Renwang’s primordial spirit imprint with a light tap.

Chen Zheng seized Lu Renwang’s Primordial Cauldron and revealed an ultimate creation, killing Chen Jiutian and Emperor Chen Qian while Lu Renwang escaped. After the three great families tried to submit to him, Tiantian stripped their patriarchs and elders of their magical power, leaving the other cultivators terrified of Chen Zheng’s next move.

• Chen Zheng took the Primordial Cauldron from Lu Renwang and criticized its crafting, prompting Lu Renwang to threaten him in the name of the Primordial Dao.
• Chen Zheng summoned a purple curved blade that hooked Lu Renwang’s primordial spirit, but a divine light carried it out of the Ancient Demon Pit while Tiantian devoured the energy in his body.
• Chen Jiutian’s Dao heart shattered and he died, and Emperor Chen Qian’s broken primordial spirit also perished.
• The patriarchs of the Baili, He, and Hong Families bowed to Chen Zheng and called him Master.
• Chen Zheng called Tiantian, who devoured the magical power of the three families’ patriarchs and elders, reducing them to mortals as the watching cultivators feared what he would do next.

Chen Zheng used the divine Qinglian to reveal a fragment of the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode’s past, hoping to help the little demon girl accept her identity as Dust Woman’s reincarnation. The vision ended after an azure-robed man named Lady Qing, and Chen Zheng said he had forgotten everything from his first lifetime.

• Qingniao regained her memories, transformed into an azure-robed woman, and asked Chen Zheng whether her master could awaken in this lifetime.
• Creation threatened the little demon girl but lowered her hand when she met the girl’s eyes, then declared she would fully awaken within half a year.
• Chen Zheng revealed the divine Qinglian’s preserved vision of the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode, where Lady Feng and Qingniao saw Dust Woman speaking with an azure-robed man.
• The vision vanished when the man named Lady Qing, and Lady Feng wondered if that name belonged to the model for her true form.
• Chen Zheng said he had forgotten his first lifetime and explained that the little demon girl seemed able to calm Creation.

Chen Zheng and his companions arrived at the Primordial Demon Pit after Qingniao destroyed the Chen Imperial Clan of the Southern Luo Immortal Court. The entrance was sealed by the ancient demon Zhaori, and Chen Zheng declared that he had come to slay the Immortal Demon Master.

• Lady Feng told Chen Zheng that the Chen Imperial Clan had stolen his secret art, and Qingniao volunteered to destroy the clan.
• Qingniao wiped out the Chen Imperial Clan overnight, and news of the Southern Luo Immortal Court's destruction spread through the Ancient Demon Pit.
• The ancient demon Zhaori sealed the Primordial Demon Pit's entrance and ordered every living being outside to leave, killing one cultivator who questioned him.
• Chen Zheng, Lady Feng, the little demoness, and Qingniao arrived at the sealed entrance as the watching cultivators recognized them.
• Zhaori demanded to know why they had come, and Chen Zheng said he intended to slay the Immortal Demon Master.

Chen Zheng faced the Immortal Demon Master and thirteen progenitor-level ancient demons, then revealed his demonic power from the Pitch-Black Throne and destroyed them all with a casual slap. He warned that unleashing more of what was sealed within him could wipe out the entire realm.

• The Immortal Demon Master mocked Chen Zheng and summoned three progenitor-level ancient demons, then ten more appeared.
• Qingniao and Lady Feng admitted they could not face the enormous demonic face and the thirteen ancient demons in their weakened states.
• Chen Zheng said he was a demon too, summoned the Pitch-Black Throne, and donned armor formed from demonic qi.
• The ancient demons attacked with their Great Daos, but their powers did nothing to Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng sat on the throne as a mysterious woman appeared beside him, then casually slapped the Immortal Demon Master and all thirteen progenitor ancient demons into smithereens.