Chapter Summaries

The Divine Firmament Sect opened its gates to thousands of visitors as Chen Zheng waited for the hidden power behind the sect to reveal itself. When the sect master tried to execute Kun Zongdao, Feng Chong, and the others, Chen Zheng killed him with a single palm, leaving the crowd stunned.

• The Divine Firmament Sect opened its gates and welcomed thousands of cultivators, including the sovereign of the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty.
• Kun Zongdao told Chen Zheng that the dynasty's sovereign was a Half-Step Dao Ancestor, and Chen Zheng dismissed the threat while explaining his plans to confront the sect's hidden enemy and retrieve the Heavenly Swords.
• The Divine Firmament Sect's master appeared and demanded that Kun Zongdao, Feng Chong, and the disciples aboard the Heavenly Strike Warship kneel and accept punishment.
• The sect master attacked the warship with destructive purple lightning as the visitors watched.
• Chen Zheng summoned a giant palm that crushed the sect master's lightning shield and ancient bell, then killed him in one strike.

An unseen attacker aboard the Heavenly Strike Warship instantly killed the Divine Firmament Sect's sect master, then killed the sect's ancient ancestor when he charged the ship. The attacker remained hidden, leaving the gathered cultivators terrified and wondering who wielded the sinister curved saber.

• An enormous palm killed the Divine Firmament Sect's sect master, and the cultivators suspected someone aboard the Heavenly Strike Warship.
• The Divine Firmament Sect's purple-robed ancestor appeared and demanded that the attacker show himself.
• The purple-robed ancestor charged the warship after suggesting the attacker might only be able to use the killing technique once.
• A flash of purple light pierced the ancestor's skull, and a curved saber extracted and devoured his primordial spirit.
• The saber vanished, leaving the ancestor's corpse behind as the attacker remained unseen.

Furious Thunder Immortal Venerable descended into the Divine Firmament Sect with a formation that kept the Heavenly Dao from expelling him and demanded that Ancestor Chen reveal himself. Ancestor Chen finally emerged from the Heavenly Strike Warship, shocking everyone by appearing to be only a Profound Immortal.

• The Divine Firmament Sect's disciples and patriarchs knelt after their sect master and founding patriarch fell, while the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty's emperor and his allies waited for the hidden mastermind.
• A Thunder Evolution Grand Formation expanded the barrier above the sect, and Furious Thunder Immortal Venerable appeared at the center of nine lightning pools.
• Furious Thunder Immortal Venerable revealed that he was an Indestructible Seventh Stage Dao Ancestor from the Epoch of Immortals and said the Heavenly Dao could not stop him because it was repairing itself.
• Furious Thunder Immortal Venerable threatened to kill those close to Ancestor Chen unless he appeared, and the cultivators present were struck by his pressure.
• Ancestor Chen walked out of the Heavenly Strike Warship, and nearly everyone was stunned to see that he appeared to be a Profound Immortal.

Chen Zheng confronted Furious Thunder Immortal Venerable, a Seventh Realm Dao Ancestor, and unleashed the Ninefold Sword Domain. As their powers clashed and the Divine Firmament Sect’s island shattered, the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty’s old monsters joined the attack, and the chapter ended with Chen Zheng’s sword striking amid the chaos.

• Jiang Chenzi, Wang Yin, Lin Wan, Kun Zongdao, and the others bowed to Chen Zheng, while the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty’s sovereign and the old man in imperial robes assessed his strength and planned to act when an opportunity arose.
• Furious Thunder Immortal Venerable challenged Chen Zheng to attack him, confident that Chen Zheng’s Profound Immortal magical power could not harm a Seventh Realm Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Zheng summoned a netherworld sword shadow that made nearby sword weapons fly from their owners’ hands and bow before it.
• Chen Zheng raised the Ninefold Sword Domain, whose hundreds of millions of sword shadows tore apart Furious Thunder Immortal Venerable’s nine lightning pools.
• Furious Thunder Immortal Venerable summoned a Chaos Thunder Ball, and the pressure from their powers destroyed the Divine Firmament Sect’s floating island.
• The old man in imperial robes, the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty’s sovereign, and the other old monsters burned their bloodline origins, joined their attack to the Chaos Thunder Ball, and charged Chen Zheng before his sword rang out again.

Chen Zheng destroyed Furious Thunder Immortal Venerable and the Grand Emperor Immortal Dynasty’s forces, then went to the imperial palace and confronted the Grand Emperor’s likeness. The chapter ended with Chen Zheng addressing a newly arrived figure who wanted to kill him.

• Chen Zheng said his ultimate sword strike had exhausted his magical power for three days and still fell short, then ordered Kun Zongdao to take over the ruined Divine Firmament Sect.
• Chen Zheng killed the Heavenly Gate immortal master who tried to flee and warn the Heavenly Gate, while Kun Zongdao explained that Furious Thunder Immortal Venerable had orchestrated the crisis.
• Chen Zheng entered the deserted Grand Emperor Immortal City and sent the Grand Emperor Sovereign’s remnant soul into reincarnation as a reward for sending Prince Xiu away.
• Chen Zheng questioned the Grand Emperor’s likeness in an ancient painting, which came alive and then burned to ashes.
• Creation Little Doll speculated that the Grand Emperor had once been Chen Zheng’s disciple, and Chen Zheng said he would confront the Grand Emperor in the Great Void before addressing a new arrival who wanted to kill him.

A blue-robed man from the Transcendence Sequence tried to capture Chen Zheng and take the Eternal True Blood, but Chen Zheng’s Sands of Time and power neutralized his attacks. The Seventh Princess identified him as Number Four, who had come to the Primordial Chaos Universe on a mission to find Zero, and he fled after seeing the divine light between Chen Zheng’s brows.

• The blue-robed man demanded Chen Zheng hand over the Eternal True Blood and come with him, claiming Chen Zheng had exhausted his magical power.
• Chen Zheng absorbed the man’s Law of Space and Time with the Sands of Time, then disabled his diamond-shaped artifact when it tried to capture him.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Seventh Princess, and she recognized the blue-robed man as Number Four of the Transcendence Sequence.
• The Seventh Princess revealed that Number Four’s mission was to find Zero and said Zero might be connected to Chen Zheng.
• Number Four saw seven-colored divine light between Chen Zheng’s brows, shrieked, and fled with his crystal.

Chen Zheng discussed the Cosmic Cantilever and the mysteries of transcendence with the Seventh Princess before arriving at the Heavenly Gate to claim its Heavenly Sword. Despite his magical power vacuum, he shattered the sword formed from the Azure Cloud Stairway and stood at the gate’s threshold.

• Chen Zheng told the Seventh Princess that the Cosmic Cantilever’s progress had reached only forty percent and discussed what might lie beyond the Ninefold Great Reincarnation.
• Cultivators from across the realm gathered at the Heavenly Gate to watch Chen Zheng approach while his magical power remained depleted.
• The young master from the Chen Family of Guan Heaven doubted Chen Zheng, while Princess Ji Chunyu called him the founding patriarch.
• Chen Zheng lifted a foot toward the Azure Cloud Stairway, triggering its hundred thousand steps to form a giant sword and strike at him.
• Chen Zheng shattered the giant sword and stepped onto the Azure Cloud Stairway, standing one step away from entering the Heavenly Gate.

Chen Zheng confronted the Heavenly Gate and challenged its claim that only a true dragon emperor could command a Heavenly Sword. After revealing his power over swords, he forced the Heavenly Swords and nearly every sword in the Heavenly Fortune Great World to bow before him.

• Li Mushi warned Chen Zheng that he could not gain a Heavenly Sword's recognition without the fate of a true dragon and told him to leave.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Primordial Ancestor Heavenly Sword, and Li Mushi accused him of killing Li Huai'an and Ancestor Xiaoyao and taking the Heavenly Gate Sacred Ship.
• Chen Zheng defended his actions and sent the Primordial Ancestor Heavenly Sword into the Heavenly Sword Grand Formation, shattering it and triggering a battle among four Heavenly Swords.
• A white-robed elder recognized Chen Zheng's Peerless Sword Physique and declared that it could enslave at most one Heavenly Sword.
• Chen Zheng released a wisp of aura, and the four Heavenly Swords landed before him and trembled as swords across the Heavenly Fortune Great World flew to Heavenly Fortune Mountain and bowed.

Chen Zheng took the four Heavenly Swords after their submission exposed the terrifying aura of his Sword Physique, but refused to reveal what it was. When the Heavenly Gate’s old monster attacked him, the sword strike rebounded and destroyed the Heavenly Gate, leaving only the sword pool.

• The four Heavenly Swords and the immortal swords across the realm bowed to Chen Zheng, shocking the Heavenly Gate and the onlookers.
• Chen Zheng said he had come only to fetch the Heavenly Swords for someone else, then put them away without explaining his Sword Physique.
• As Chen Zheng descended Heavenly Fortune Mountain, he told the Heavenly Gate’s old monster that he was too weak to make Chen Zheng manifest his Sword Physique.
• The old monster unleashed his strongest sword strike, but its light rebounded from Chen Zheng and engulfed the Heavenly Gate.
• The Heavenly Gate, its sect master, its cultivators, and the old monster vanished, while only the outline of the sword pool remained.

Chen Zheng claimed the Fortune-Extinguishing Ancient Banner after Heavenly Gate fell, then sent it with other treasures to An Jing and warned his companions that the true tribulation would arrive within two years. When he entered the Bridge of the Heavens, he shattered another River of Time attack and continued toward the Great Void.

• The Heaven-Pointing Sword Lord said Chen Zheng was immune to sword techniques, while Kun Zongdao predicted that the Fortune-Extinguishing Dao Palace would face him next.
• Chen Zheng went to the Fortune-Extinguishing Dao Palace, where Mie Hongyan surrendered the Fortune-Extinguishing Ancient Banner and preserved the sect's lineage.
• Chen Zheng gave Corpse Immortal Ji the Heavenly Fortune Tally, four Heavenly Swords, and Fortune-Extinguishing Ancient Banner to deliver to An Jing, and said a terrifying being might be sleeping on Earth.
• Chen Zheng told Lin Wan and the others that the true tribulation would come in two years or less and urged them to improve their cultivation.
• Chen Zheng entered the Bridge of the Heavens, absorbed the power of a River of Time attack, and continued through chaotic spacetime toward the Great Void.

Chen Zheng returned to the Great Universe Realm and effortlessly destroyed the foreign demons attacking the Deep Blue Divine Kingdom. He learned that Deep Blue had gone to confront Gui Fang, and arrived at the Great Rakshasa Divine City as Gui Fang attacked her.

• Chen Zheng appeared above the Deep Blue Divine Kingdom, destroyed the attacking foreign demon army, and killed Ming Yin and the demons aboard their warship.
• After learning that Deep Blue had left to assassinate Gui Fang, Chen Zheng crossed the Divine Dao Star Domain on the Star Raft.
• At the Great Rakshasa Divine City, Gui Fang urged Great Rakshasa Sen to join him and offered to spare the realm if Rakshasa Woman married his son.
• Deep Blue tried to assassinate Gui Fang again, but he struck her back and threatened to make her his bed-warming maid.
• As Gui Fang reached for Deep Blue, cracks appeared across his body, and a voice asked whether he thought he could bully her while she was under its protection.

Chen Zheng arrived at the Great Rakshasa Divine City, destroyed the invading Otherworldly Demon armies, and captured Gui Fang’s primordial spirit. He promised to visit the Otherworldly Demon World and left Gui Fang and the remaining commanders fearing his next move.

• Chen Zheng appeared aboard the Star Raft and erased the million-plus Otherworldly Demons surrounding the Great Rakshasa Divine City with a snap of his fingers.
• Deep Blue Overlord greeted Chen Zheng as her master, while the Great Rakshasa God and Rakshasa Woman emerged and addressed him.
• Gui Fang threatened Chen Zheng with the strength of the Otherworldly Demon World, but Chen Zheng crushed his body and captured his primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng told Gui Fang he would visit the Otherworldly Demon World and erase his race, then wiped out the invading Otherworldly Demons across the Great Universe Realm.
• Chen Zheng offered Gui Fang and the remaining commanders a chance to witness the disappearance of their race.

Chen Zheng imprisoned the surviving Otherworldly Demons and visited Life Dominator Daiqisi’s divine kingdom, where he revealed that Daoist Tiance and Fan Qi were reincarnations of Heaven Candidates. He left with the little demoness, while the others contemplated his revelations and Chen Zheng’s plans for the Great Universe Realm.

• Chen Zheng imprisoned the purple-skinned Otherworldly Demon and the other commanders, then asked the Great Rakshasa God to hold them while he visited others.
• Chen Zheng arrived at Life Dominator Daiqisi’s divine kingdom, where Ancestor Baxia and Daoist Tiance discussed the defeated Otherworldly Demon army and the Great Rakshasa God’s prophecy.
• Chen Zheng sent profound light into Daoist Tiance, who began awakening to an ancient, supreme aura.
• Chen Zheng revealed that Daoist Tiance and Fan Qi were reincarnations of Heaven Candidates, and said the thirteen Heavens, candidates, and Tribulation Lords would gather in one place.
• Chen Zheng urged Chen Huang to return to the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations, said Demon Empress Yunluo was unusual, and told Fan Qi she should leave the realm.
• Chen Zheng left the divine kingdom with the little demoness, while Daiqisi watched him go with disappointment.

Chen Zheng and his companions entered the Otherworldly Demon World, where Gui Fang revealed the realm's yin baleful energy could assimilate or kill outsiders. When the once-in-a-hundred-thousand-years Demon Tide struck, Chen Zheng swallowed it whole and advanced only one minor realm.

• The Great Rakshasa God and the Rakshasa Woman described the Otherworldly Demon World, while Shi warned that its yin baleful energy seemed tainted.
• Gui Fang claimed the realm's energy would assimilate outsiders and revealed that the Great Rakshasa God had already become an Otherworldly Demon.
• A colossal Demon Tide swept across the land, terrifying the sealed Otherworldly Demon commanders and prompting them to urge the group to flee to the Heavenly Cavern.
• Chen Zheng took the little demon girl's hand and stepped before the approaching tide despite the Great Rakshasa God's and Shi's concern.
• Chen Zheng inhaled and swallowed the Demon Tide, then complained that it had raised his cultivation by only one minor realm.

Chen Zheng swallowed the hundred-thousand-year demon tide and surveyed the Otherworldly Domain, deciding to visit its wondrous places before confronting the Origin Demon. At the Eastern Extremity Sea of Fire, Zhengyue devoured the flames and revealed a crimson stele bearing the character Hong.

• Chen Zheng swallowed the demon tide, restoring his magical power by one minor realm and leaving the Otherworldly Demon commanders despairing.
• An Otherworldly Demon commander explained that the Origin Demon drew the demon tide's power from a higher-level place, prompting Chen Zheng to say he would seek out the Origin Demon.
• The Great Rakshasa God suggested looting the Otherworldly Domain's wondrous places, and Chen Zheng surveyed the realm before choosing the Eastern Extremity Sea of Fire.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Star Raft and reached the Eastern Extremity Sea of Fire despite the commanders' warnings.
• Chen Zheng called Zhengyue out, and she swallowed the flaming phantoms and the entire sea of flames.
• A crimson inscribed stele bearing the character Hong appeared in Chen Zheng's hand, and its aura made the Great Rakshasa God and the others feel like ants.

Chen Zheng reached the Undying Tree Demon’s forest, where the little demon girl’s power halted the ancient being’s attack and revealed that she was his master. The Undying Tree Demon then recognized Chen Zheng as his founding ancestor, leaving the Otherworldly Demon commanders terrified of his origins.

• An Otherworldly Demon commander revealed that the Hong Character Stele was connected to the Origin Demon’s seal, and Chen Zheng took it before heading south.
• Chen Zheng and his companions arrived at the Undying Tree Demon’s forest, where the enormous tree attacked their Star Raft with its branches.
• The little demon girl’s azure divine light stopped the attack, and the Undying Tree Demon transformed into a black-robed old man and knelt to her as Ziwu.
• Ziwu explained that the little demon girl had once planted him as an unusual seed and worried that she had not fully awakened her memories.
• Chen Zheng said the girl’s habit of collecting seeds likely came from him, and Ziwu recognized him as the founding ancestor of the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode lineage.

Chen Zheng obtained the Huang Character Stele from the Undying Tree Demon and learned that the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode’s World-Purifying Dust Woman had once been captured by a terrifying being. He then traveled to the Heavenly Cavern to seek the Cosmos Character Stele, leaving the Otherworldly Demon commanders fearing for their race.

• The Undying Tree Demon told Chen Zheng that his former master, the World-Purifying Dust Woman, had been captured in one encounter and that the Mortal Dust Immortal Abode had fallen.
• The Undying Tree Demon offered Chen Zheng the Huang Character Stele, explaining that the Cosmos, Hong, and Huang steles were in the Otherworldly Domain and that the steles sustained his cultivation.
• The Great Rakshasa God and the others realized that the four steles might form the phrase Yu Zhou Hong Huang, while Chen Zheng wondered what purpose they served.
• Chen Zheng put away the Huang Character Stele, and the Undying Tree Demon’s cultivation fell from the seventh realm to the second realm of Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Zheng traveled by Star Raft to the Heavenly Cavern, where the Otherworldly Demon commanders hoped their three patriarchs could stop him.

Chen Zheng extracted the Cosmos Character Divine Stele and fought the three Otherworldly Demon clan leaders. He destroyed their bodies and reduced the Heavenly Cavern to ruins.

• The returning Otherworldly Demons recognized the Undying Tree Demon and learned that Chen Zheng had devoured the demonic tide and come for the Cosmos Character Stele and the Origin Demon.
• Chen Zheng ignored the gathered elders and pulled the Cosmos Character Divine Stele from the Heavenly Cavern.
• Gui Qi, Ming Chao, and Che Bao arrived with thousands of Otherworldly Demons and surrounded the Star Raft.
• Chen Zheng transformed into a giant godfiend and hurled the three clan leaders into the Heavenly Cavern's mountain, collapsing it and annihilating many Otherworldly Demons.
• Chen Zheng crushed the bodies of Gui Qi, Ming Chao, and Che Bao, then destroyed the Heavenly Cavern and left it in ruins.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Heavenly Cavern and confronted the awakened Origin Demon, whose arrival cracked the Otherworldly Domain. The Origin Demon recognized something familiar in Chen Zheng and asked whether he was Taiyi or the Lord of Heaven.

• Chen Zheng used the Nine God-Devil Transformations to blast apart the three patriarchs' bodies and raze the Heavenly Cavern, leaving its unusual bones intact.
• The three patriarchs' primordial spirits claimed Chen Zheng had exhausted his power, while an imprisoned commander warned them that Chen Zheng sought the Origin Demon and was connected to a powerful little demon girl.
• Gui Qi, Ming Chao, and Che Bao summoned the Origin Demon, whose appearance split the Otherworldly Domain's earth and sky.
• The Origin Demon opened his eyes, asked who had stolen his divine steles and disturbed his sleep, and fixed his gaze on Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng said the Origin Demon seemed familiar; the Origin Demon trembled and asked whether Chen Zheng was Taiyi or the Lord of Heaven.

Chen Zheng confronted the Origin Demon in the collapsing Otherworldly Domain and learned that the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord had promised to take the Origin Demon beyond the Great Samsara. After the Origin Demon’s attacks failed and his Eye of the Primogenitor revealed that Chen Zheng’s body had surpassed the Samsara’s limits, the Origin Demon disintegrated, and Chen Zheng dragged a skeleton down from the void.

• The Origin Demon recognized Chen Zheng’s connection to Taiyi or the Lord of Heaven, but attacked him with a cauldron of nothingness that shattered and caused the Otherworldly Domain to break apart.
• The Origin Demon revealed that the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord had promised to take him beyond the Great Samsara, and Chen Zheng mocked him for serving it.
• The Origin Demon summoned nine Demon Tides, devoured the Otherworldly Demons, and tried to seal Chen Zheng and the Star Raft.
• Chen Zheng broke the sealing formation and swallowed all nine Demon Tides.
• The Origin Demon used the Eye of the Primogenitor and realized Chen Zheng’s body had surpassed the Great Samsara’s limits; he then disintegrated, and Chen Zheng dragged a skeleton down from the void spacetime.