Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng halted Chen Huang’s attack and freed him from the Grand Elder’s control, prompting Chen Huang to kneel and call him Master. As Patriarch Fusheng prepared to fight alongside Ancestor Baxia, Baxia instead transformed and bowed to Chen Zheng as his Saintly Teacher.

• Chen Huang grabbed Chen Luoluo while Patriarch Fusheng threatened to sacrifice the Chen Family and Cloud-Turning Star’s cultivators.
• Chen Zheng called Chen Huang’s name, and Chen Huang froze despite Patriarch Fusheng’s commands and the black divine talisman.
• The talisman was torn apart, Chen Huang entered the Patriarch Realm, regained his senses, and prostrated himself before Chen Zheng as his Master.
• Patriarch Fusheng awakened Ancestor Baxia and urged him to join the fight against Chen Zheng and Chen Huang.
• Ancestor Baxia descended from the warship, transformed into a dragon turtle, and greeted Chen Zheng as Saintly Teacher.

Baxia recognized Chen Zheng as the Saintly Teacher and begged to follow him, while Patriarch Fusheng summoned the Juntian Holy Land Grand Elder’s Dao body. Chen Zheng’s purple saber destroyed the Dao body in a single slash, leaving everyone stunned.

• Baxia knelt before Chen Zheng, explained how he had learned of the Saintly Teacher, and asked to serve him.
• Patriarch Fusheng accused Baxia of betraying the Juntian Holy Land and threatened him with the Grand Elder’s arrival.
• The Grand Elder’s white-robed Dao body descended and attacked Chen Huang, calling him a gu insect he had selected.
• A purple saber flashed past the Grand Elder’s Dao body and shattered it in one slash.

Chen Zheng killed Juntian Holy Land’s grand elder with a mysterious curved blade and ordered Baxia to destroy the Holy Land’s warship and kill its survivors. A terrifying woman appeared in the Dacheng Immortal Mansion, and Chen Zheng entered with Fan Qi, Chen Huang, and Baxia to face her.

• Chen Zheng killed Juntian Holy Land’s grand elder with one strike and told Patriarch Fusheng to have the grand elder come in his true body.
• Chen Zheng ordered Baxia to attack, and Baxia destroyed Juntian Holy Land’s warship, killed Patriarch Fusheng, and swallowed his primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng rewarded Baxia with a secret art after Baxia reported that he had fulfilled the command.
• A strange woman with facial features on only half her face appeared beside Liu Tianhe inside the immortal mansion, then vanished with him.
• Chen Zheng entered the immortal mansion with Fan Qi, Chen Huang, and Baxia, and the Immortal Gate slammed shut.

Chen Zheng and his companions entered the Dacheng Immortal Mansion’s inner hall, where its guardian demanded he accept the inheritance. The Creation Little Doll exposed the hall’s candles as burning Heavenly Dao power and called for the hidden mansion master, who then appeared in a form resembling the doll.

• Outside Heaven-Equaling Valley, Chen Conglong told Chen Luoluo to wait after the Dacheng Immortal Mansion closed.
• Chen Zheng, Fan Qi, Chen Huang, and Baxia followed the half-faced woman through the mansion to its dark inner hall, where candles lit as she entered.
• The woman declared Chen Zheng the fated inheritor and said he had to accept the mansion’s inheritance before she could leave to search for its master.
• Chen Zheng asked about the faceless statue, and the Creation Little Doll emerged to say the statue’s source and Chen Zheng had once been lovers.
• The Creation Little Doll revealed that the candles burned Heavenly Dao power and demanded the mansion master come out.
• The mansion master appeared, and the guardian bowed to him; Chen Huang and Baxia noticed that he resembled the Creation Little Doll.

The immortal mansion's master appeared with a face like Creation Little Doll's and revealed that Zero had created her to preserve the memories of her teacher, a transcendent being. After warning Chen Zheng about the teacher's enemies, she left with the Dacheng Immortal Mansion, leaving him with a mysterious object.

• The immortal mansion's master appeared, embraced Chen Zheng, and revealed that her body and primordial spirit had reached half-step transcendence.
• Creation Little Doll demanded an explanation, and Chen Zheng suggested that Zero had created the girl using Thirteen's younger appearance as a model.
• The immortal mansion's master said she existed to help her teacher recover memories, since the transcendent being forgot more each day, and warned that destroying her would bring trouble for Creation Little Doll.
• Creation Little Doll challenged the master's connection to Zero, darkening the master's expression.
• The immortal mansion's master warned Chen Zheng that her teacher had powerful enemies, gave him an object, and departed with the half-faced woman and the Dacheng Immortal Mansion.
• A voice from above asked Chen Zheng to remember her, the Lord of the Dacheng Immortal Dao, because she also bore the surname Chen.

Chen Zheng obtained another Great Void Realm Map and returned with the Chen Family to Qian City, where Chen Huang reunited with his master and learned his sister might still be alive. Juntian Holy Land fired a World-Destroying Divine Crossbow at Cloud-Turning Star, and Chen Zheng sent it back toward its point of origin.

• Chen Zheng absorbed the Great Void Realm Map, bringing his total to five, then left Heaven-Equaling Valley for Qian City with the Chen Family.
• Liu Tianhe broke free of Cloud-Turning Star instead of returning to Sacred Word Academy, while Fan Qi left with Sister Du.
• Chen Huang and the Chen Family disciples paid respects to Chen Zheng at the Chen Family residence, where Chen Zheng said Chen Huang could reach the Dao Ancestor Realm and his imperial elder sister was likely alive beyond the Great Thousand World.
• Patriarch Baxia spotted Juntian Holy Land's World-Destroying Divine Crossbow speeding toward Cloud-Turning Star.
• Chen Zheng appeared in the void and slapped the crossbow, twisting space and time so it flew back along its original path.

Chen Zheng dismissed Juntian Holy Land’s attempt to rally the Great Universe realm and planned to visit it after staying on Cloud-Turning Star. At the Sacred Word Academy, Daoist Tiance predicted the return of the Great Rakshasa Divine Sect, and the sect’s city appeared in the star domain moments later.

• Chen Zheng slapped the World-Destroying Divine Crossbow back toward Juntian Holy Land, stunning cultivators across the Divine Dao Star Domain.
• Chen Zheng said Juntian Holy Land’s recruitment decree would not deter him and planned to visit the holy land with Baxia after a few days on Cloud-Turning Star.
• At the Sacred Word Academy, Chen Zheng recognized the slovenly Daoist as Tiance, whose divination could not reveal Chen Zheng’s fate.
• Tiance warned that the Great Rakshasa Divine Sect would return within days and bring slaughter to the Divine Dao Star Domain.
• The Great Rakshasa Divine City appeared in the star domain, and a voice ordered every Golden Immortal or higher to report there within three days or be killed.

Chen Zheng led Fan Qi, Daoist Tiance, and the others to the Great Rakshasa Divine City to meet the Rakshasa God, while cultivators across the Divine Dao Star Domain gathered there under the sect’s promise of eternal life. Inside the city, they encountered a Rakshasa Woman whose dance threatened to bewitch them.

• The Great Rakshasa Divine Sect announced that those who joined would gain eternal life, and Daoist Tiance warned that the sect was a source of calamity.
• Baxia suspected the sect’s return and Juntian Holy Land’s recruitment decree were connected to the Saintly Teacher, and Chen Zheng summoned Fan Qi to go with him to meet the Rakshasa God.
• Chen Zheng brought Daoist Tiance along despite his protests, and the group entered the Great Rakshasa Divine City as cultivators from across the star domain gathered there.
• Daoist Tiance warned that the Great Rakshasa God might be a half-step Dao Ancestor connected to aberrant demons, while Chen Zheng told him he might save the domain’s living beings.
• Baxia and the others encountered the Rakshasa Woman performing the mind-bewitching Rakshasa Allure, and Daoist Tiance warned that her power had reached the Patriarch Realm.

The Rakshasa Woman’s dance entranced the Divine Dao Star Domain’s cultivators, but Chen Zheng and a few companions resisted. After the Shen Family’s armored young man activated a sacrificial formation, Chen Zheng shattered it and turned the ancient torture devices against him, leaving him bound to an altar.

• The Divine City gates slammed shut while the Rakshasa Woman’s dance bewitched nearly everyone inside, though Chen Zheng, Chen Huang, and several others stayed clearheaded.
• The Rakshasa Woman approached Chen Zheng and clung to him, provoking Lü Xianhua, who threatened to kill Chen Zheng and activated a sacrificial formation.
• The Rakshasa Woman secretly gave Chen Zheng a divine talisman, but Chen Zheng instead shattered the formation with a casual sweep of his hand.
• The entranced cultivators regained their senses as Lü Xianhua warned they were trapped in the Divine City and the Great Rakshasa God would kill them.
• Chen Zheng took control of the ancient torture devices and used them to bind Lü Xianhua to a torture rack.

Chen Zheng faced the Lü Clan's ancestor and the clan's more powerful heaven-grade instruments of punishment. When the instruments attacked him, they cracked and recoiled, leaving their fate—and the confrontation—unresolved.

• Chen Zheng used the earth-grade punishment rack to tear apart Lü Xianhua's divine armor and flesh.
• Lü Xianhua called for his ancestor, and the black-robed Ancestor Lü appeared.
• Ancestor Lü summoned heaven-grade instruments and warned that they could suppress Dao Ancestors but would drain Chen Zheng's blood if he could not control them.
• Chen Zheng shattered the instruments' backlash, stepped onto their altar, and let them attack him.
• The heaven-grade instruments cracked, retreated, and trembled as if frightened when they locked onto Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng made the Heavenly Punishment Clan’s instruments tremble and revealed that they were only a fraction of the implements that had once killed him. When the Great Rakshasa God awakened, he attacked Lü Fangsi instead of Chen Zheng, explaining that Chen Zheng was his sworn elder brother and Rakshasa Woman’s Eldest Uncle.

• Chen Zheng explained that his physical strength exceeded the limit of what the Heavenly Punishment instruments could suppress, then said the Lü Clan descended from a servant of someone he had once known.
• Lü Fangsi rejected Chen Zheng’s claim, boasted that his ancestor was still alive, and called on the Great Rakshasa God to awaken and stop him.
• The Great Rakshasa God appeared and opened his eyes as Rakshasa Woman pleaded with him about Chen Zheng.
• Lü Fangsi urged the Great Rakshasa God to suppress Chen Zheng and mocked Rakshasa Woman for supporting an outsider.
• The Great Rakshasa God seized Lü Fangsi and slammed him into the ground, then revealed that Chen Zheng was his sworn elder brother and Rakshasa Woman’s Eldest Uncle by seniority.

The Great Rakshasa God rejected the Heavenly Punishment Clan and called Chen Zheng his big brother, provoking Lü Fangsi to summon the clan’s founding ancestor. The ancestor’s will descended over Great Rakshasa Divine City and unexpectedly asked Chen Zheng to spare his descendants.

• The Great Rakshasa God declared that he had long regarded Chen Zheng as his big brother and agreed to side with him.
• The Great Rakshasa God told Lü Fangsi that the Heavenly Punishment Clan’s founding ancestor could not bring his true body into a Great Thousand World, then dismissed the clan’s claims of having helped him.
• Lü Fangsi spat blood in anger and threatened Chen Zheng, who brushed off the threat.
• Lü Fangsi silently recited an ancient incantation, and a figure with an aura like heavenly punishment appeared above Great Rakshasa Divine City.
• Lü Fangsi begged the founding ancestor to uphold justice, but the ancestor looked at Chen Zheng and asked him to spare the Heavenly Punishment Clan’s descendants.

Chen Zheng rejected Lü Jie’s offer to spare the Heavenly Punishment Clan, and Lü Jie tried to take his descendants away by force. Chen Zheng’s stone egg swallowed Lü Jie’s will incarnation, after which the Great Rakshasa God killed the remaining clan members.

• Chen Zheng dismissed Lü Jie’s offer of information and safe passage for his descendants, saying he did not need Lü Jie’s sincerity.
• Lü Jie revealed that he was an Epoch Hegemon and threatened to take the black-robed old man, the armored young man, and the Lü Family disciples away by force.
• Chen Zheng mocked Lü Jie’s standing among his master’s servants, while Lü Jie insisted Chen Zheng was only a Heavenly Immortal now.
• A stone egg flew from Chen Zheng’s pocket and swallowed Lü Jie’s will incarnation before he could escape with the Heavenly Punishment Clan members.
• The Great Rakshasa God killed the remaining Heavenly Punishment Clan members and swallowed their blood mist and remnant souls.

The Great Rakshasa God revealed that an other-realm demon bone inside him could open a bridge for an invasion of the Divine Dao Star Domain. Chen Zheng removed the demon’s influence, while Daoist Tiance remained behind to investigate the greater calamity.

• The Great Rakshasa God invited Chen Zheng to the Rakshasa Divine Temple, and Rakshasa Woman gave the departing cultivators a secret art and offered a test for those seeking eternal longevity.
• Daoist Tiance chose to stay, warning that a true calamity still threatened the Divine Dao Star Domain; Rakshasa Woman questioned Fan Qi about Chen Zheng instead.
• The Great Rakshasa God told Chen Zheng that he had brought back an other-realm demon bone that served as a bridge between the Divine Dao Star Domain and another realm.
• Chen Zheng swept his hand toward the Great Rakshasa God, driving out the demon’s influence and ending the immediate threat posed by the bone.
• The Great Rakshasa God thanked Chen Zheng and affirmed that he would always regard him as his big brother.

Juntian Holy Land issued a decree accusing Chen Zheng of massacring the Seven Gods Star Domain and announced his public execution, provoking outrage across the Great Universe Realm. Chen Zheng identified the likely disguise behind the scheme and remained untroubled as factions gathered at Juntian Holy Land.

• Chen Luoluo, Chen Huang, and Chen Conglong saw Juntian Holy Land's divine images depicting Chen Zheng slaughtering the Seven Gods Star Domain and recognized the accusation as a frame-up.
• Across the Great Universe Realm, factions reacted to the decree, and many set out for Juntian Holy Land to witness the announced execution.
• The Pantheon Star Domain's Dominators and the Life Dominator's group condemned Juntian Holy Land's scheme, while Daiqisi said they should wait for its destruction.
• At Great Rakshasa Divine City, Baxia recalled a shape-shifting demon within Juntian Holy Land, and Chen Zheng identified it as a demon of myriad transformations.
• Daoist Tiance warned that Juntian Holy Land intended to turn the gathered factions against Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng said he would kill anyone who made himself his enemy.

Juntian Holy Land gathered powerful factions to form the Great Universe Holy Alliance and lure Chen Zheng into a trap. Chen Zheng arrived, and his purple curved blade killed the newly emerged Juntian Holy Lord in an instant.

• Ancestor Yingsuo announced that Juntian Holy Land would use a secret treasure to lure Chen Zheng and that its forces had prepared a Heavenly Net and Earthly Web.
• Mr. Zhuge told his young companion that Juntian Holy Land was afraid of Chen Zheng and was using the gathered factions as political cover.
• Ancestor Yingsuo presented Dragon God Aogu and two other Half-Step Dao Ancestors as witnesses and spokesmen for the new Great Universe Holy Alliance.
• Chen Zheng and his companions appeared, and Juntian Holy Land activated its formation while the gathered cultivators and Aogu demanded his execution.
• The Juntian Holy Lord appeared as a newly advanced Half-Step Dao Ancestor, but Chen Zheng's purple curved blade pierced his skull, extracted and devoured his primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng used a purple curved blade to kill four Half-Step Dao Ancestors, including the Juntian Holy Lord and Dragon God Aogu, as the gathered cultivators watched in terror. He then turned toward the Juntian Holy Land and asked whether one last target remained, leaving Ancestor Yingsuo and the others fearing he would kill the old supreme elder too.

• Chen Zheng's curved blade killed the Juntian Holy Lord, shocking the assembled visitors and revealing that Chen Zheng expended no magical power when using it.
• Chen Zheng killed Dragon God Aogu by piercing his skull and destroying his dragon soul.
• Two more Half-Step Dao Ancestors fled through spacetime passages, but Chen Zheng's blade hooked out and destroyed their primordial spirits.
• Ancestor Baxia, Daoist Tiance, Sister Du, and the gathered cultivators watched in silence while Fan Qi remained unmoved by the deaths.
• Chen Zheng looked toward the Juntian Holy Land and asked if there was one last one left, making Ancestor Yingsuo fear for the old supreme elder.

Chen Zheng entered the Juntian Holy Land, killed its grand elder, and exposed the holy land’s plot to frame him. After Ancestor Yingsuo invoked the Ancestral Dragon Sacred Dynasty, Chen Zheng reduced the holy land and its leaders to ashes.

• Chen Zheng passed through the Juntian Holy Land’s grand array and entered its interior.
• Ancestor Yingsuo attacked Baxia, but Baxia repelled his magical artifact and accused the Juntian Holy Land of framing Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng emerged carrying the grand elder’s head, while steward Chi Changlong confessed that the holy land had used Ancestor Lingyao to impersonate Chen Zheng and kill innocents.
• Ancestor Yingsuo threatened Chen Zheng by invoking Prime Minister Li and the Ancestral Dragon Sacred Dynasty.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and turned the Juntian Holy Land and its higher-ups to ashes.

After destroying the Juntian Holy Land, Chen Zheng returned to the Chen Family with a white divine fire from its supreme elder’s treasure and revealed that it came from beyond the universe. He planned to visit the Great Universe Divine Temple, where he hoped to encounter the Shinto Alliance’s leader.

• The Master of Space and Time appeared as a projection, confronted Chen Zheng, and vanished after declaring that Chen Zheng would not find his true body.
• Chen Zheng departed with Fan Qi, Baxia, Sister Du, and Daoist Tiance, while the surviving cultivators discussed his strength and the scholar and youth secretly left by warship.
• At the Chen Family residence, Baxia recognized the white flame as an overwhelming power from the old supreme elder’s treasure, and Daoist Tiance explained that he had never been able to divine the Great Universe Divine Temple.
• Creation Little Doll identified the flame as something from beyond the universe and said that Primordial Chaos had likely known about its power before it fought Chen Zheng and shattered.
• Chen Zheng said he could absorb the flame and planned to visit the Great Universe Divine Temple, where he expected the Shinto Alliance’s leader might appear.

The Shinto Alliance leader prepared to challenge Chen Zheng and sent disciples toward Daiqisi’s divine kingdom and the Great Universe Divine Temple. After the Giant of Light opened the temple to all, Chen Zheng boarded a Star Raft and set out for it as forces across the Great Universe Realm followed.

• The Shinto Alliance leader discussed Chen Zheng’s strength with his disciples and said he was waiting for an opportunity to defeat or suppress him.
• When the Great Universe Divine Temple appeared, the Shinto Alliance leader sent Qing Zhi and Chu Liu toward Daiqisi’s divine kingdom, took Ji Yu, Oulun, and Ling Zhou to the temple, and left Yin Taixu to guard headquarters.
• Yin Taixu resolved to return to the Great Void and not be swayed by the prospect of becoming Shinto Alliance leader.
• The Giant of Light announced that the Great Universe Divine Temple was open to all and that whoever obtained its inheritance would become its master.
• Powerful sects and families across the Great Universe Realm set out for the temple despite fearing they might encounter Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng departed Cloud-Turning Star aboard a Star Raft, while a Chen Family disciple lamented that the family members were too weak to witness the coming legend.