Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng killed the demon ape with a purple curved saber and claimed its Dao Fruit, revealing power that stunned the King Kong Clan and the visiting factions. He absorbed the Dao Fruit’s immortal spiritual energy, then let a little purple beast devour the remainder, while the Red Lotus Demoness called him Master.

• Ouyang Feitian attacked the Red Lotus Demoness, but her crimson divine light destroyed his body and left his primordial spirit protected by a magic treasure.
• The demon ape turned its attention to the Red Lotus Demoness and reached for her while Ouyang Feitian continued demanding that she leave with him.
• Chen Zheng used a purple curved saber to pierce the demon ape’s head, killing it and sending its body crashing into the cold pool.
• Chen Zheng took the demon ape’s Dao Fruit, absorbed its immortal spiritual energy, and said the remaining fruit was too low-grade for him.
• A little purple beast emerged and swallowed the Dao Fruit, then vanished after showing hostility toward the Red Lotus Demoness, who asked if it was Chen Zheng’s spirit pet.

Chen Zheng killed Ouyang Feitian after he fled, then accepted the King Kong Clan’s offering of the Holy Ape Bone. He discovered that the bone held a secret method from another era and learned that the Holy Ape had emerged from the mysterious Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb.

• Ouyang Feitian offered Chen Zheng the Auspicious Cloud Immortal Array secret method, but Chen Zheng rejected it and killed him when he tried to flee.
• Ancestor Yuan Chen thanked Chen Zheng for saving the King Kong Clan and escorted him to their ancestral grounds.
• Ancestor Yuan Chen offered Chen Zheng the King Kong Sacred Tree’s leaves and a piece of Holy Ape Bone from the clan’s remnant-soul elder.
• Chen Zheng found a secret method from another era imprinted on the Holy Ape Bone and said the bone itself did not belong to this era.
• Ancestor Yuan Chen revealed that the Holy Ape had emerged from the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb, which the Intent Sage had reportedly entered and survived.

Chen Zheng went to Grand Emperor Immortal City with Prince Xiu and demanded the immortal coffin from its ruler. When the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb opened, the ruler handed over the coffin and explained that he had used it to preserve A Xiang’s remnant soul.

• Ancestor Yuan Chen and the remnant soul discussed Chen Zheng’s power and warned that the Flying Heavenly Dao should not seek revenge for Ouyang Feitian.
• Prince Xiu arrived at Lotus Mountain, and Chen Zheng agreed to accompany him to Grand Emperor Immortal City.
• Prince Xiu wondered if Chen Zheng was an incarnation of the dynasty’s founding ancestor, but Chen Zheng dismissed the idea and said the ruler’s conduct would determine the dynasty’s fate.
• Chen Zheng entered the palace with the Red Lotus Demoness, and the ruler accused him of suppressing the Imperial Preceptor and impersonating the founding ancestor.
• The Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb opened, and Chen Zheng demanded the immortal coffin; the ruler gave it to him and said it contained A Xiang’s preserved remnant soul.

Chen Zheng retrieved the immortal coffin from the Grand Emperor Sovereign and brought the Red Lotus Demoness back to Lotus Mountain, where he awakened her mother. He then took Hua Qianzhu to the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb, where a mysterious woman called to her before vanishing.

• The Grand Emperor Sovereign admitted he feared death, ordered Prince Xiu to accompany him to the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb, and warned his court not to provoke Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng sent dark azure light into the woman in the immortal coffin, and the Red Lotus Demoness saw a crimson gleam leave her mother's brow.
• Chen Zheng chose Hua Qianzhu to accompany him to the tomb and used the Star Raft to reach it, where factions from across the Heavenly Fortune Great World had gathered.
• Hundreds of gates opened, and cultivators rushed into the tomb; Chen Zheng remarked that it was not truly a legacy tomb and warned Hua Qianzhu not to answer anyone who called her except him.
• Inside a beautiful flower grove, a woman appeared and called Hua Qianzhu back; Hua Qianzhu held back her reply, and the woman vanished.

Chen Zheng and Hua Qianzhu reached the Life and Death Stone Forest, where the Yin Emperor forced them to fight to the death. Chen Zheng struck the Yin Emperor with one slap, and immortal light transported him and Hua Qianzhu toward the land of inheritance.

• Hua Qianzhu saw that the cultivators in Senluo Hell had fallen into reincarnation and would probably never wake up.
• Chen Zheng and Hua Qianzhu reached the stone forest, where defeated cultivators were destroyed and winners were transported away.
• The Yin Emperor forced Chen Zheng and Hua Qianzhu into a death match and threatened them when Chen Zheng refused to fight Hua Qianzhu.
• Chen Zheng slapped the Yin Emperor, dissolved his phantom body, and drained his power until his primordial spirit fled.
• Chen Zheng and Hua Qianzhu were transported away by beams of immortal light, leaving the gathered cultivators horrified.

Chen Zheng and Hua Qianzhu arrived at the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb, where Yue Jing tried to lure Hua Qianzhu into a trial and trade a Moon God Pill for her. When the Yin Emperor called on the Wind Demon Emperor to punish Chen Zheng, the Wind Demon Emperor instead destroyed the Yin Emperor and knelt before Hua Qianzhu, welcoming her return as the Second Young Lady.

• Hua Qianzhu learned that the Quasi-Sages and other powerful cultivators were inside the nine Heavenly Mandate Pearls undergoing trials.
• Yue Jing offered Hua Qianzhu a Moon God Pill and asked her to enter a trial with him, but she moved to stand beside Chen Zheng.
• Yue Jing called Chen Zheng a worthless mortal and offered the pill to trade for Hua Qianzhu, while Wang Yin challenged his conduct.
• The Yin Emperor appeared, accused Chen Zheng and Hua Qianzhu of breaking the Life and Death Ancient Forest's rules, and summoned the Wind Demon Emperor to kill Chen Zheng.
• The Wind Demon Emperor cursed and struck down the Yin Emperor, then knelt before Hua Qianzhu and welcomed her back as the Second Young Lady.

The Wind Demon Emperor identified Hua Qianzhu as the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb’s Second Young Lady, and the Yin Sha Emperor tried to send Chen Zheng into a Heavenly Mandate Pearl for a trial. Chen Zheng warned the pearl could not contain him, and it shattered as he was sent inside.

• The Wind Demon Emperor called Hua Qianzhu the Second Young Lady, shocking her and the others, while Holy Son Yuejing realized he had provoked someone dangerous.
• The Yin Emperor questioned the identification and appealed to his uncle, the Yin Sha Emperor, who emerged from the cliff and recognized Hua Qianzhu as the Second Young Lady.
• The Yin Emperor claimed Chen Zheng had deceived Hua Qianzhu, but the Yin Sha Emperor said Chen Zheng only resembled a terrifying being and decided to toy with him.
• The Yin Sha Emperor tried to send Chen Zheng into the central Heavenly Mandate Pearl, despite Chen Zheng warning that it was too small to withstand him.
• The Heavenly Mandate Pearl shattered almost immediately, and Chen Zheng asked why no one believed what he said.

Chen Zheng shattered and absorbed all nine Heavenly Mandate Pearls, provoking the Yin Sha Emperor to summon the eldest young lady of the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb. The barefoot woman appeared before the gathered cultivators, and Hua Qianzhu recognized her as the woman who had called out to her earlier.

• Chen Zheng absorbed the fragments of the first Heavenly Mandate Pearl, while the Wind Demon Emperor blamed the Yin Sha Emperor for forcing him inside.
• Holy Son Yujing urged the Yin Sha Emperor to summon the eldest young lady, and Chen Zheng shattered the other eight Heavenly Mandate Pearls and absorbed their fragments.
• The cultivators emerged from the shattered pearls as the Yin Emperor’s primordial spirit celebrated Chen Zheng’s apparent doom.
• The Yin Sha Emperor summoned the eldest young lady, who appeared as a barefoot woman in white.
• Hua Qianzhu recognized the barefoot woman as the one who had called out to her when she first entered the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb.

Chen Zheng faced the eldest young lady after swallowing all nine Heavenly Mandate Pearls and claimed he could fulfill the beings’ demands. He found the supreme inheritance, the Heaven-Governing Creation Scripture, leaving the eldest young lady questioning who he was.

• The Yin Emperor’s primordial spirit told the barefoot woman in white that Chen Zheng had destroyed and swallowed all nine Heavenly Mandate Pearls.
• The barefoot woman in white questioned Chen Zheng, who said he would satisfy the beings’ demands and revealed first-tier Profound Immortal cultivation.
• The barefoot woman in white asked Chen Zheng to find the supreme inheritance connected to the Heavenly Mandate Pearls.
• Chen Zheng drew grayish-white runes from the cliff and formed the Heaven-Governing Creation Scripture, astonishing the cultivators and the barefoot woman in white.
• The barefoot woman in white asked Chen Zheng who he was after he brought her younger sister back, swallowed the pearls, and found the scripture.

The grayish-white runes empowered the cultivators who received them, turning them against their allies as they plundered their power. Yuejing gained Dao Ancestor-level combat strength and attacked Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng destroyed him with a casual slap.

• The Grand Emperor Sovereign imprinted the Heaven-Governing Creation Scripture into his primordial spirit and fled with Prince Xiu as the inheritance tomb began to shake.
• The grayish-white runes entered the other cultivators, granting them ancestor-level power and driving them to declare themselves servants of the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor.
• Murong Changfeng attacked Zhuge Qingshan, and Yuejing betrayed Ancestor Qiye, piercing his chest and devouring his essence and primordial spirit.
• Yuejing devoured the Yin Emperor's damaged primordial spirit and the Yin Sha Emperor, then claimed Dao Ancestor-level combat strength and threatened Chen Zheng.
• Yuejing attacked Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng's casual slap shattered Yuejing's body and fragmented his primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng humiliated the cultivators who had received the Heaven-Governing Creation Scripture and dismissed the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor as a failure. When the Holy Emperor’s will descended, it acknowledged Chen Zheng’s superior standing and asked for the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor Mask back, leaving Yue Jing and the others shaken and kneeling.

• Chen Zheng slapped Holy Son Yue Jing and the other rune-inheritors back to their original forms, then mocked their claims that the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor was invincible.
• Mie Hongyan fled while Zhuge Qingshan and Wang Yin stayed to watch what would happen.
• Yue Jing and the other cultivators called for the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor’s will to descend, and the barefoot woman in white revealed that her master was already awake.
• The Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor’s masked will and the master of the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb appeared, and the barefoot woman in white and Wind Demon Emperor recognized the master.
• The Holy Emperor’s will told Chen Zheng he had no objection to being insulted if Chen Zheng returned the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor Mask, then praised Chen Zheng for once preventing the Primordial Chaos Universe from collapsing.
• Chen Zheng called the Holy Emperor’s true body an Epoch Hegemon and future cannon fodder, while Yue Jing and the other inheritance recipients lost faith and fell to their knees.

The Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord’s Great Samsara Tribulation Formation trapped Chen Zheng and the others, erasing nearly every cultivator caught in its first wave. Chen Zheng shattered the formation with seven-colored divine light, leaving the survivors stunned and Holy Son Yuejing dead.

• Chen Zheng said he had forgotten his past, while the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor asked whether he remembered burying First Heaven and the First Tribulation Lord.
• The Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb shattered, and the tomb owner identified the surrounding void as the Great Samsara Tribulation Formation, laid to seal Chen Zheng.
• The first wave of baleful wind erased the inheritors, while Holy Son Yuejing, Wang Yin, and a few others survived.
• The Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor said the formation could not kill Chen Zheng but warned it would hold him until the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord returned.
• Holy Son Yuejing mocked Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng shattered the formation with seven-colored divine light, and Yuejing’s battered primordial spirit broke apart.

Chen Zheng broke the Great Samsara Tribulation Formation in the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb, freeing its ancient inhabitants and revealing that his flesh and primordial spirit had surpassed their former limits. After learning that the Grand Emperor was his greatest enemy in the Great Void, Chen Zheng watched the Nine Extremes Dao Lord and Hua Qianzhu depart with the tomb.

• Chen Zheng destroyed the Great Samsara Tribulation Formation with seven-colored divine light, and the Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor asked whether he had transcended.
• Wang Yin and Zhuge Qingshan understood that Chen Zheng’s flesh, primordial spirit, and magical power could transcend separately, while Chen Zheng clarified that only his magical power remained at the Profound Immortal level.
• The Nine Extremes Dao Lord, Qianying, the Wind Demon Emperor, Zhuge Qingshan, and Wang Yin thanked Chen Zheng for saving them.
• The Heaven-Governing Holy Emperor told Chen Zheng that the Grand Emperor most wanted him dead and said he would await Chen Zheng’s return to the Great Void.
• The Great Thousand World began rejecting the ancient beings, and Hua Qianzhu chose to leave with the Nine Extremes Dao Lord after Chen Zheng nodded; the Heavenly Mandate Legacy Tomb then vanished.
• Outside the tomb, cultivators from the major sects mourned their fallen ancestors and speculated that the recent upheavals might be connected.

The Red Lotus Demoness and Shaoyan left Lotus Mountain for their respective clans after Chen Zheng sent them on their way, and Chen Zheng then went with Wang Yin to treat the poisoned Jiang Chenzi. At the Sword Palace, a Medical Immortal Pavilion elder claimed no one else could cure Jiang Chenzi, while Chen Zheng’s arrival drew ridicule.

• Chen Zheng taught the Red Lotus Demoness a secret art, and she departed for the Spirit Rhino Clan to join her mother.
• Xiang Yin arrived from the Divine Eye Clan to collect Shaoyan, and Chen Zheng sent her, Shaoyan, and the other Divine Eye clanspeople to the Bridge of the Heavens.
• Chen Zheng vanished from Lotus Mountain after promising its demons that the mountain’s barrier would remain forever.
• Wang Yin brought Chen Zheng to the Heaven-Pointing Sword Palace and explained that Jiang Chenzi and several disciples were frozen by a strange poison.
• Zhang Bo and a Medical Immortal Pavilion elder demanded that Lin marry Zhang Bo in exchange for curing Jiang Chenzi, while claiming no one else could save him.
• Chen Zheng asked about Jiang Chenzi, and the elder mocked him and vowed to kneel and call him Grandpa if he could cure the poison.

Chen Zheng cured the Heaven-Pointing Sword Lord’s poison, exposing the conflict between the sword palace and the Medical Immortal Pavilion. As the Lord began to awaken, Pavilion Master Cao Tianmen arrived but was stopped at the rear building’s threshold.

• Chen Zheng expelled the poison seed from the Heaven-Pointing Sword Lord, who spat black blood and fainted from exhaustion.
• Chen Zheng reminded Zhang Bo and Zhang Gun to honor their wager, while Zhang Bo tried to revoke it and Zhang Gun secretly summoned help.
• Wang Yin warned Zhang Gun and Zhang Bo not to plot against them, and Lin Wan thanked Chen Zheng for saving her master.
• After about an incense stick, the Heaven-Pointing Sword Lord began to wake as Cao Tianmen announced his arrival at the Sword Palace.
• Cao Tianmen shattered the sword formation and reached the rear mountain, but an unseen force stopped him from crossing the small building’s threshold.

Chen Zheng confronted Cao Tianmen and the Zhang family after Cao arrived to attack the Heaven-Pointing Sword Palace. The chapter ended with Chen Zheng killing Cao with a glance and frightening Zhang Bo’s injured primordial spirit into shattering.

• Cao Tianmen arrived at the rear mountain, and Zhang Bo and Zhang Gun taunted the weakened Heaven-Pointing Sword Lord and Chen Zheng.
• Zhang Bo’s divine sword struck Chen Zheng, rebounded, and pierced Zhang Bo, while Zhang Gun used an immortal bell to stabilize his primordial spirit.
• Cao Tianmen summoned nine blood dragons, but they shattered against the formation protecting the pavilion.
• Cao Tianmen threatened to slaughter disciples on the front mountain, and Chen Zheng killed him with a glance as he tried to leave.
• Zhang Bo’s primordial spirit shattered from fright.

Chen Zheng killed Cao Tianmen with a glance, learned that Cao’s power came from a blood jade tied to an Indestructible Dao Lineage, and agreed to visit the Medical Immortal Pavilion. The Heaven-Pointing Sword Lord revealed that he was Jiang Chenzi, Chen Zheng’s disciple Su Tianjun’s student, and bowed to Chen Zheng as his Ancestral Master before a Divine Firmament Sect challenger appeared above the palace.

• Zhang Gun begged Chen Zheng for his life and revealed that the Medical Immortal Pavilion possessed a mysterious blood jade that had empowered Cao Tianmen.
• Zhang Gun conjured an image of the blood jade, whose eye-like mark disturbed Wang Yin and Lin Wan, and Chen Zheng agreed to visit the pavilion for the jade and materials for his artifact.
• The Heaven-Pointing Sword Lord introduced himself as Jiang Chenzi and bowed to Chen Zheng as his Ancestral Master, explaining that Su Tianjun had bestowed his title.
• Chen Zheng discussed the strange poison afflicting Jiang Chenzi and said someone was secretly stirring up trouble after the Reincarnation Platform appeared in the Nether Capital.
• A thunderous voice from above the Heaven-Pointing Sword Palace accused Jiang Chenzi of killing Patriarch Qiyi of the Divine Firmament Sect and demanded that he come out to die.

Chen Zheng confronted Kun Zongdao and the Divine Firmament Sect, whose forces had come to attack the Heaven-Pointing Sword Palace. After Chen Zheng devoured Kun Zongdao’s lightning unharmed, he urged the stunned thunder cultivator to strike again.

• Zhang Gun warned Chen Zheng that the Divine Firmament Sect wielded formidable thunder techniques and had an old monster stronger than a Sage.
• Kun Zongdao sealed off the Heaven-Pointing Sword Palace with wind and thunder and threatened to destroy it unless Jiang Chenzi appeared.
• Chen Zheng confronted Kun Zongdao and challenged him to use his thunder techniques, while Zhang Gun secretly hoped the Divine Firmament Sect would kill him.
• Kun Zongdao struck Chen Zheng with the Nine Firmaments Divine Thunder, but Chen Zheng absorbed the lightning without injury.
• Chen Zheng said the blast felt good and asked Kun Zongdao to keep attacking before half an incense stick had passed.

Chen Zheng effortlessly absorbed the Divine Firmament Sect patriarchs’ lightning attacks, killed Xing Gu with a slap, and forced Kun Zongdao and Feng Chong to exhaust their magic power. When Kun Zongdao asked to discuss business, Chen Zheng exposed a fleeing disciple’s memories, revealing a plot to kill Patriarch Qiyi and frame the Heaven-Pointing Sword Lord.

• Kun Zongdao, Feng Chong, and Xing Gu jointly attacked Chen Zheng with the World-Destroying Thunderbolt, but he absorbed it unharmed and invited them to continue.
• Xing Gu threatened Chen Zheng, who killed him with a casual slap; Kun Zongdao and Feng Chong then kept casting the lightning technique until they were nearly out of magic power.
• Kun Zongdao humbly asked to discuss business, and Chen Zheng mocked him for not knowing how to search a soul.
• A Divine Firmament Sect disciple tried to flee, but Chen Zheng crushed his body, captured his primordial spirit, and revealed his memories.
• The memories showed that the disciple had killed Patriarch Qiyi, planned to seize his cultivation experience, and intended to frame the Heaven-Pointing Sword Lord and provoke a war between the sects.

Chen Zheng exposed Gu Tianming as the killer behind the deaths in the Nether Capital and learned that the Divine Firmament Sect might be compromised from within. He urged Kun Zongdao to warn the world’s major powers and declared that he would wait for the mastermind to appear, leaving Kun unsure why Chen Zheng had spared him.

• The Heaven-Pointing Sword Lord recognized memories in Gu Tianming’s primordial spirit as evidence that Gu had killed Patriarch Qiyi and other cultivators in the Nether Capital.
• Kun Zongdao suspected the Divine Firmament Sect’s sect master might have known about Gu Tianming’s plot, and Gu warned that his master’s scheme involved every power in the world.
• Gu Tianming’s primordial spirit suddenly split apart and was destroyed just as Kun Zongdao tried to search it.
• Chen Zheng advised Kun Zongdao to remain at the Heaven-Pointing Sword Palace and alert the three great immortal dynasties and the major sects and families.
• Chen Zheng said he was waiting for the mastermind to reveal himself, and Kun Zongdao asked why Chen Zheng had spared him.