Chapter Summaries

Daoist Huitian revealed that the Blue Firmament Holy Land had planned to use visiting Old Ancestors as stepping stones for his breakthrough, and that the charge against Chen Zheng was an excuse. When Huitian attacked Chen Zheng at the summit of the heavenly stairway, Chen Zheng destroyed his stone body with one slap.

• The Blue Firmament Holy Land’s founding patriarch appeared with a Stone Clan body, and the blue-robed elder claimed Chen Zheng was the leader of Nine Tribulations and responsible for the death of Huitian’s blood descendant.
• The blue-robed elder revealed that the visiting Old Ancestors were meant to be stepping stones for Huitian’s breakthrough, while the Holy Land planned to ascend beyond the Great Thousand World with him.
• Gao Xianshu challenged the Holy Land’s scheme, but the elder dismissed the possibility of retaliation and admitted that Chen Zheng’s identity did not matter to their plan.
• Daoist Huitian stepped onto the summit and transformed into a stone man to seize Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng struck Huitian’s hand with a casual slap, shattering his stone body as the cultivators watched in shock.

Chen Zheng destroyed Daoist Huitian’s body and exposed that his rise to power had depended on the Heavenly God Biluo’s divine blood. After Biluo refused to save him, Chen Zheng erased him completely, leaving Lan Xingxuan and the Blue Firmament Holy Land terrified as they recognized that their scheme had backfired.

• Chen Zheng destroyed Daoist Huitian’s body with a single slap, and Lan Xingxuan began to question whether Chen Zheng was truly the Foremost of the Nine Tribulations.
• Daoist Huitian called on Heavenly God Biluo to save him, but Biluo revealed that he had repeatedly used divine blood to help Huitian advance and refused to rescue him after he provoked Chen Zheng.
• Lan Xingxuan and the Blue Firmament Holy Land’s cultivators lost faith in Daoist Huitian when they learned his cultivation had depended on Biluo’s help.
• Daoist Huitian attacked the gathered cultivators with a mountain-sized magical artifact, but Chen Zheng shrank it into a stone and sent it into the middle-aged fat man’s brow.
• Daoist Huitian charged at Chen Zheng, who destroyed his primordial spirit, prompting the Blue Firmament Holy Land’s disciples to beg for mercy.
• Lan Xingxuan asked whether Chen Zheng was the Foremost of the Nine Tribulations, and Chen Zheng said their clever scheme had backfired.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Blue Firmament Holy Land after revealing himself as the Foremost of the Nine Tribulations, then left with Mo Xin and Shi Zu. The holy land collapsed, and the surviving sects recognized that it had brought its own downfall.

• Lan Xingxuan begged Chen Zheng for mercy and offered him the Sage Seed and Divine Seed, so Chen Zheng sent the Sage Seed to Shi Zu and absorbed the Divine Seed.
• Chen Zheng erased Lan Xingxuan and then killed Holy Son Zhanlu and the other kneeling Blue Firmament Holy Land cultivators with a glance.
• Chen Zheng departed with Mo Xin and Shi Zu, while the Holy Mirror shattered and the Blue Heavens Immortal Peak collapsed.
• The visiting cultivators fled, and Gao Xianshu warned the Son of Heaven Academy disciples never to provoke Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng learned that the Ice and Snow Divine Palace had confined Little Qi and Holy Maiden Qin, and he went there to intervene. At the palace entrance, its stewards confronted him and revealed that Holy Maiden Qin had lost her status again and the Ice Spirit Sacred Flower had been given to Holy Maiden Yun.

• Shi Zu learned that he belonged to the Stone Clan and had received the Sage Seed from Chen Zheng, who told him to visit the Netherworld when his memories returned.
• Shangguan Fei told Chen Zheng that Little Qi and Holy Maiden Qin were confined in the Ice and Snow Divine Palace, and the Ice Spirit Sacred Flower might have been taken.
• Chen Zheng decided to go to the Ice and Snow Divine Palace despite Creation Little Doll's complaints about his priorities.
• Mo Xin shattered the palace disciples' freezing attack and immobilized them at the entrance.
• Two stewards confronted Chen Zheng, saying Holy Maiden Qin had been stripped of her status again and the old palace master had given the Ice Spirit Sacred Flower to Holy Maiden Yun.

Chen Zheng confronted the Ice and Snow Divine Palace over its punishment of Holy Maiden Qin and her allies, dismantling the palace with a single word. After defeating the former palace master, he asked the palace master whether she understood what it meant to be played in the palm of someone’s hand.

• Two stewards warned Chen Zheng that entering the Ice and Snow Divine Palace would anger its former palace master, but he dismantled the palace with a word.
• Chen Zheng demanded to know where Holy Maiden Qin and Holy Maiden Yun were, and the palace master recognized him as the man who had given Qin the Ice Spirit Sacred Flower.
• Old Woman Du identified Chen Zheng as the man from Zhoutian City, and the palace master recalled his connection to Yanzhi’s Ice Spirit Divine Physique.
• Chen Zheng shattered the palace master’s ice spirit divine light and pulled the former palace master and several women out from the rear mountain, revealing that they were sealed in ice crystals.
• The former palace master attacked Chen Zheng with Great Dao laws, but he slapped her, shattered her attack, and sealed her magical power.
• Chen Zheng asked the palace master whether she knew what it meant to be played in the palm of someone’s hand.

Chen Zheng freed the women imprisoned by the Ice and Snow Divine Palace, took the Ice Spirit Sacred Flower, and shattered Holy Maiden Yun Ji’s body after she challenged him. When her ancestor offered a Heaven-Weaving Divine Jade containing three hundred Great Daos in exchange for sparing her, Chen Zheng revealed a jade disc that the old man recognized as the Creation Jade Disc.

• Chen Zheng learned that Qi Wan was the current palace master’s niece and criticized the palace master for failing to protect her.
• Chen Zheng shattered the ice crystals imprisoning Su Mengxue’s faction and took the Ice Spirit Sacred Flower from Holy Maiden Yun Ji.
• Holy Maiden Yun Ji recognized Chen Zheng as the Profound Immortal who had taken the Sacred Flower before, and he shattered her physical body with a glance.
• Yun Ji’s ancestor appeared and asked Chen Zheng to spare her, while Yun Ji threatened him with her family’s power and her former life as the disciple of an Epoch Hegemon.
• The old man offered Chen Zheng a Heaven-Weaving Divine Jade containing three hundred Great Daos, but Chen Zheng called it worthless and showed him a jade disc.
• The old man recognized Chen Zheng’s jade disc as the Creation Jade Disc.

Chen Zheng revealed that the jade disc was a treasure beyond the Jade Disc of Creation and used it to retrieve a frozen tear hidden beneath the Ice and Snow Divine Palace. The tear reactivated the Great Samsara Jade Disc, and after everyone else fainted while witnessing the Great Samsara Network, Chen Zheng wondered whether his primordial spirit had reached its first or second layer.

• The old man seized the jade disc and tried to escape with Holy Maiden Yun Ji's primordial spirit, but both disintegrated when they touched it.
• Chen Zheng explained that the jade disc surpassed the Jade Disc of Creation and said he had come to meet Holy Maiden Qin Yanzhi and take something from the Ice and Snow Divine Palace.
• Chen Zheng drew a crystal-clear frozen tear from beneath the palace and placed it on the jade disc, causing the surroundings to transform into a starry void.
• Chen Zheng put the palace's other members to sleep, then let Qin Yanzhi, Su Mengxue, Qi Wan, Chu Shuangshuang, Lan Xiang, Mo Xin, and Creation Little Doll witness the Great Samsara Network until they fainted.
• Chen Zheng remained conscious as the vision ended and asked the Spirit of the Cantilever whether his primordial spirit had reached the first or second layer of Great Samsara.

Chen Zheng learned that the Divine Eye Clan’s ancestral grounds were under attack and teleported there, where a mysterious assailant wielding the Heavenly Beginning Jian threatened the clan’s forefather and Young Master Shaoyan. The chapter ended as the attacker declared he would take both of their eyes for his master.

• Chen Zheng empowered Qin Yanzhi with the Ice Spirit Sacred Flower’s strength and left her to deal with the former palace master, after which Shan revealed herself through Qin Yanzhi and made her a disciple.
• Zhou Zhidao told Chen Zheng that an expert had stolen the Heavenly Beginning Token and the ancient scroll Jian, then attacked the Divine Eye Clan’s ancestral grounds.
• Chen Zheng teleported from Heavenly Beginning City to the Divine Eye Clan’s ancestral grounds and destroyed a charging Sinful Divine Beast Subspecies.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Dao-Devouring Beast, Pan Tian, who absorbed the magical power origins of the beasts guarding the teleportation formation.
• Deep inside the ancestral grounds, the attacker used the Heavenly Beginning Jian to overpower the Divine Eye Clan’s defenders and announced that his master wanted the forefather’s and Young Master Shaoyan’s eyes.

Chen Zheng arrived at the ruined Divine Eye Clan ancestral grounds and confronted Lord Shenyin, a Sage serving an ancient Epoch Hegemon. Lord Shenyin attacked him with the Heavenly Beginning Jian, but Chen Zheng shattered the supposedly hardest artifact and remained unharmed.

• Chen Zheng brought the Dao-Devouring Beast into the Divine Eye World's ancestral grounds after the Heavenly Beginning Jian repeatedly smashed the defenses.
• Lord Shenyin revealed that he had waited for Chen Zheng and claimed the Heavenly Beginning Jian could destroy even a Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Zheng identified the masked Lord Shenyin as a Sage and challenged him for serving a master outside the Great Thousand World.
• Lord Shenyin summoned the Heavenly Beginning Jian and sent it crashing down at Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng collided with the Heavenly Beginning Jian, emerged unharmed, and shattered it into pieces.

Chen Zheng stopped Hidden Sage from taking Shaoyan’s Eye of Chaos, and the Heavenly Dao withdrew rather than expel Chen Zheng. The Dao-Devouring Beast chased Hidden Sage into the sky to devour his magical power and essence.

• Chen Zheng shattered the Heavenly Beginning Jian with his body, leaving the outsiders stunned.
• Hidden Sage tried to seize Shaoyan’s Eye of Chaos, but Shaoyan awakened and blasted him away with the aura of a Heaven.
• The Divine Eye Clan recognized the masked attacker as Hidden Sage and revealed that their forefather had once helped him.
• Chen Zheng ordered Tiantian to devour Hidden Sage, who summoned the Heavenly Dao and asked it to expel Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng challenged the Heavenly Dao, which dispersed its manifestation, and Tiantian pursued Hidden Sage as his screams rang out.

Chen Zheng defeated Hidden Sage and the visitors from beyond the world, restored the Divine Eye Clan founding ancestor’s vitality, and challenged Hidden Sage’s master, Heaven Taixuan, to appear. Hidden Sage died and a Sage’s fall brought blood rain across the Black-Yellow Great World, while Chen Zheng wiped out the fleeing visitors.

• The Dao-Devouring Beast devoured nearly all of Lord Shenyin’s magical power and essence before returning to Chen Zheng to digest it.
• Chen Zheng explained that the Heavenly Dao had yielded to his threats, then restored the Divine Eye Clan founding ancestor’s vitality with a ray of light.
• Chen Zheng rejected Hidden Sage’s offer of a secret art and told him to summon his master, Heaven Taixuan; Hidden Sage died and a Sage’s fall brought blood rain over the Black-Yellow Great World.
• Chen Zheng offered to spare any visitor who could bring Heaven Taixuan to him, but the visitors fled when they realized they could not.
• Chen Zheng swept his hand and killed all the fleeing visitors from beyond the world.

Heaven Taixuan’s masked will avatar offered Chen Zheng nine Taiyi Divine Dao Fruits for the Eye of Chaos, but Chen Zheng exposed the deception and stopped his attack on Shaoyan. The avatar fled after Chen Zheng cracked its mask, only to be devoured by a stone egg.

• Heaven Taixuan appeared beneath the dark sky and offered Chen Zheng nine Taiyi Divine Dao Fruits in exchange for the Eye of Chaos.
• Chen Zheng recognized the fruits and challenged Heaven Taixuan’s claims, while Heaven Taixuan argued that Chen Zheng should accept the trade because his magical power was weak.
• Chen Zheng dissolved eight of the nine fruits, revealing them as illusions, and Heaven Taixuan admitted he would still try to take the Eye of Chaos with his masked artifact.
• Heaven Taixuan’s seven-colored divine light destroyed an Old Ancestor’s magical artifact and targeted Shaoyan, but Chen Zheng’s own divine light cracked Heaven Taixuan’s mask and shattered the attack.
• Heaven Taixuan fled upward, but Chen Zheng’s stone egg devoured his will avatar.

After Chen Zheng saved the Divine Eye Clan, the Great Black-Yellow Dragon appeared and an old man fought to capture it. The old man escaped the Heavenly Dao’s punishment with the dragon, and Chen Zheng revealed that the acquisition would help the Old Ancestor enter the Overlord Realm.

• Xiang Yin and the Divine Eye Clan thanked Chen Zheng for saving them, and he noticed that events had begun in the Imperial Extremity Territory.
• The Great Black-Yellow Dragon appeared over the Imperial Extremity Territory, but Chen Zheng said it was of little use to him.
• An old man fought the Great Black-Yellow Dragon as the world speculated about his identity and the Heavenly Dao summoned thirty-six Eyes of Heavenly Punishment to expel him.
• The old man shattered the Eyes of Heavenly Punishment with a yin-yang Taiji Diagram, captured the Great Black-Yellow Dragon, thanked someone in the Heavenly Beginning Territory, and escaped the world.
• Chen Zheng said the old man had gained the Great Dao of four epochs and should now be able to enter the Overlord Realm securely.

Chen Zheng stayed with the Divine Eye Clan, strengthened Mo Xin, and learned about the Origin of the Divine Eye. When the eye-less puppet awakened, it recognized Chen Zheng as its former Mountain Guardian and revealed that he had once stood at the pinnacle of half-step transcendence.

• Chen Zheng told Xiang Yin that her ancestor and Shaoyan would wake within three days and said he would remain to learn about the Origin of the Divine Eye.
• Chen Zheng summoned the awakened Mo Xin, assessed her Huntian Physique, and taught her the Origin Beginning Scripture.
• Chen Zheng swallowed a Taiyi Divine Dao Fruit, gaining only one minor realm, while Creation Little Doll resolved to surpass him.
• Three days later, Xiang Hengtian showed the repaired ancestral grounds and revealed that the Origin of the Divine Eye was an eyeless puppet made of unfamiliar metal.
• The puppet awakened, called itself Little Ke, recognized Chen Zheng as its Mountain Guardian, and said someone had stolen its eyes.
• Little Ke was shocked that Chen Zheng had fallen to Profound Immortal cultivation, and Xiang Hengtian learned that Chen Zheng had once been near transcendence.

Chen Zheng demonstrated that he possessed nearly every Divine Eye, then learned Zhuge Qingniu’s companion had been poisoned by Star God Hall. After curing her, he left for Star God Hall to take something and confront its people.

• The puppet revealed that whoever possessed every Divine Eye had likely stolen its eyes, then returned to its stone form.
• Chen Zheng showed the Divine Eye Clan his many Divine Eyes and told Shaoyan that he could eventually copy them all with the Eye of Chaos.
• Chen Zheng warned Xiang Hengtian that outsiders’ powers would be suppressed inside a Great Thousand World and said Shaoyan could repel another descent from Taixuan.
• Zhuge Qingniu arrived carrying Rongrong and begged Chen Zheng to save her from Stardust Tianhuo Poison, which Xiang Hengtian associated with Star God Hall.
• Chen Zheng dispelled Rongrong’s poison, then left with her, Zhuge Qingniu, and Mo Xin to visit Star God Hall and take something there.

Chen Zheng led Zhuge Qingniu and the rescued Southern Beginning Academy girl to Star God Hall, where he crushed Boundless Mountain and its disciples with the Futu Pagoda. When Fan Gu appeared to avenge the hall, Chen Zheng destroyed the Half-Step Dao Ancestor with a casual gesture, leaving Star God Hall’s survivors stunned.

• Elder Gao and Holy Son Xingye discussed Star God Hall’s plans and mocked the idea that a Profound Immortal could threaten them.
• Chen Zheng and his companions arrived at Boundless Mountain, and Star God Hall’s disciples mocked them and demanded to know who had saved the poisoned girl.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Futu Pagoda, which flattened Boundless Mountain and crushed nearly all of Star God Hall’s disciples.
• Xing Youzi recognized Chen Zheng and said his avatar had seen him in the Spirit Realm less than a year earlier, when he was below the Void Refinement Stage.
• Fan Gu appeared and condemned Chen Zheng for destroying Star God Hall, but Chen Zheng destroyed Fan Gu and his primordial spirit with one gesture.

Chen Zheng destroyed Star God Hall, uncovered the Great Void Formation Map, and accompanied Zhuge Qingniu and Rongrong to the Southern Beginning Academy. There, the academy’s Star Beast knelt before Chen Zheng and begged him not to eat it.

• Chen Zheng erased Prior Master Fan Gu and the leaders of Star God Hall, then retrieved an ancient stone disc from beneath Boundless Mountain.
• Chen Zheng revealed that the stone disc fit into the Taiyi Formation Map, which displayed an image of the Great Void.
• Zhuge Qingniu asked Chen Zheng to help him propose marriage to Rongrong, and Chen Zheng agreed to visit the Southern Beginning Academy.
• Zhuge Qingniu and Rongrong returned to the academy with Chen Zheng, drawing hostile reactions from the disciples.
• The academy’s Star Beast confronted Zhuge Qingniu, then fell to its knees before Chen Zheng and begged not to be killed.

Chen Zheng entered Southern Beginning Academy and asked to meet Lay Buddhist Bai, while the academy’s divine beast recognized him as a terrifying being from its grandfather’s stories. As Chen Zheng reached Bai in a peach grove, people from the Eastern Emperor’s Manor arrived and called for Shang Rongrong.

• The Literary Beast knelt before Chen Zheng and explained that its grandfather had taught their clan to fear him.
• Shang Rongrong’s father questioned Chen Zheng, who said Star God Hall had been destroyed and asked to meet Lay Buddhist Bai.
• Zhuge Qingniu offered to take Shang Tianyang to Boundless Mountain to confirm Star God Hall’s destruction, while Chen Zheng followed the Literary Beast into the academy.
• The Literary Beast led Chen Zheng and Mo Xin to Lay Buddhist Bai, who drank alone and muttered about Yu’er and Huan’er.
• People from the Eastern Emperor’s Manor arrived demanding Shang Tianyang and ordered Shang Rongrong to go with them.

Chen Zheng brought the drunken Lay Buddhist Bai to the Southern Beginning Academy's entrance to stop Dongfang Xiong from taking Shang Rongrong. After Chen Zheng awakened him, Lay Buddhist Bai used Literary Dao power to make Dongfang Xiong wither away, leaving his fate unclear.

• Dongfang Xiong arrived at the Southern Beginning Academy to take Shang Rongrong, while the academy's divine beast admitted it could not stop him.
• Chen Zheng brought Lay Buddhist Bai to the entrance, but Dongfang Xiong and his followers mocked the drunken man and threatened Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng recited a verse and tapped Lay Buddhist Bai between the brows, awakening his Literary Dao Righteous Qi.
• Dongfang Xiong attacked Lay Buddhist Bai with a punch, but Lay Buddhist Bai recited a poem and Dongfang Xiong vanished, leaving only his battle robes.

Lay Buddhist Bai used Literary Dao Sacred Words to kill the Eastern Emperor's Manor cultivators who had fled, then collapsed from exhaustion. When three imperial preceptors arrived aboard an Ancient Emperor Warship and Mo Xin could not defeat their united form, Chen Zheng destroyed it with one casual grab, leaving one preceptor alive and terrified.

• Lay Buddhist Bai recited Literary Dao Sacred Words to turn the fleeing Eastern Emperor's Manor cultivators into mist, then fainted from depleted magical power.
• The Eastern Emperor's Manor's three imperial preceptors arrived aboard an Ancient Emperor Warship and used their pressure to force the academy disciples to their knees.
• Mo Xin shattered the preceptors' pressure and fought them with the Blood Radiance Divine Spear, but their Three Gods Unite as One form withstood her attack and exhausted her magical power.
• Chen Zheng grabbed the three-headed, six-armed being and exploded it into blood mist, destroying two preceptors' primordial spirits.
• The surviving imperial preceptor protected his primordial spirit and stared in terror as Chen Zheng asked whether he now understood why Chen Zheng had not acted earlier.