Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng proved that he had repaired the Annihilation God Clan's ancestral artifact, despite Daoist Dongxiao's attempt to dispute their wager. He demonstrated his control over the artifact's inner pathways, leaving Daoist Dongxiao unable to deny what he had seen.

• The Spirit of the Ancestral Artifact questioned whether Chen Zheng had repaired her, while Daoist Dongxiao insisted that someone else must have done it.
• Daoist Dongxiao argued that Chen Zheng's method was not artifact refining and tried to avoid paying the wager's stakes, the Cosmic Light Divine Water and Cosmic Extremity Sacred Dew.
• Chen Zheng explained that the artifact's exterior was intact and its internal pathways had been the problem.
• The Spirit of the Ancestral Artifact confirmed that Chen Zheng was right about the pathways.
• Chen Zheng made the artifact's light network fall into disorder and cracks appear, then restored it with another casual swipe, proving he could damage and repair it at will.
• Ji Fanxi realized what Chen Zheng had demonstrated, and the ancient hall fell silent.

Chen Zheng forced Daoist Dongxiao to honor his wager, then had Little Tuntun swallow him and recovered the promised treasures. The Annihilation God Clan remained stunned by Chen Zheng’s power as he took the Cosmic Extremity Sacred Dew and shared the Cosmic Light Divine Water.

• Daoist Dongxiao tried to flee with the Cosmic Light Divine Water and Cosmic Extremity Sacred Dew, but Ji Xiangang activated the ancient hall’s restrictions and stopped him.
• Daoist Dongxiao refused to honor the wager and threatened Chen Zheng, who warned that Little Tuntun could swallow him.
• Chen Zheng named several fearsome enemies, and Little Tuntun swallowed Daoist Dongxiao despite his disbelief.
• Little Tuntun returned an ancient talisman and two jade bottles before retreating into Chen Zheng to sleep.
• Chen Zheng took the ancient talisman and the Cosmic Extremity Sacred Dew, while Ji Xiangang received the Cosmic Light Divine Water and confirmed its contents.

After Chen Zheng repaired the Great Samsara Sacred Lamp, its spirit revealed that his body and primordial spirit had reached extraordinary levels and acknowledged him as her master. The lamp explained that she guided beings through the ninefold great reincarnation, while the beings who attacked her had feared the path beyond their own reach.

• Ji Fanxi gave Chen Zheng Cosmic Extremity Sacred Dew, but three drops barely raised his cultivation to Profound Immortal great perfection.
• The Great Samsara Sacred Lamp's spirit borrowed nine streams of magical power from a domain beyond great samsara, and Chen Zheng absorbed them without breaking through the Profound Immortal level.
• The lamp's spirit entered Chen Zheng's body, discovered his transcendent physical body, complete second layer of the Great Samsara Network, and a spiral arm, then called him a possible reincarnation of a being from an even higher domain.
• The Great Samsara Sacred Lamp's spirit kissed Chen Zheng and acknowledged him as her master, explaining that her purpose was to guide beings beyond the ninefold great reincarnation.
• The lamp's spirit said beings had tried to destroy her because they feared advancing further and wanted to block the path upward.

Chen Zheng acquired the Great Samsara Sacred Lamp and left the Annihilation God Clan’s ancestral land with Ji Fanxi to explore the Three Realms Earth Fissure. At Changsheng Palace, Chen Zheng warned a brocade-clad youth that seeking Fairy Changsheng could cost him his origin essence, provoking the palace’s disciples.

• The ancestral artifact’s spirit, True Illusion, revealed its name and returned to the Great Samsara Sacred Lamp, which sank into Chen Zheng’s brow.
• Ji Fanxi suspected that factions in the Three Realms Earth Fissure were searching for creation beings and warned that a devastating battle might soon destroy the place.
• Chen Zheng agreed to explore the fissure with Ji Fanxi, and they flew by Star Raft to Changsheng Palace.
• Changsheng Palace’s disciples crowded around Ji Fanxi, but Miss Chanchan turned her attention to Chen Zheng after learning the warship belonged to him.
• A brocade-clad youth named Yuan produced a supreme treasure and challenged Chen Zheng, who warned him that pursuing Fairy Changsheng could cost him his origin essence.

Chen Zheng exposed Fairy Changsheng as the Immortal Empress behind Changsheng Palace, prompting her to reveal herself and accuse him of stealing away her chosen successors. The Immortal Empress confronted him in a fury, demanding to know why he had come to the Three Realms Earth Fissure.

• Chanchan and the visitors accused Chen Zheng of trying to meet Fairy Changsheng without offering a supreme treasure, while Chen Zheng calmly said she was afraid to face him.
• Chen Zheng summoned two beautiful women, one of whom appeared to be a powerful Dao Ancestor and addressed him as Ancestor Chen.
• Fairy Changsheng rushed out in anger, and the two women beside Chen Zheng recognized her as the Immortal Empress.
• Chen Zheng called her the Immortal Empress, and she transformed into a mature woman with a vast aura.
• The Immortal Empress accused Chen Zheng of luring away Madam Yan and Long Jingyao, then demanded to know why he had come to the Three Realms Earth Fissure and interfered with her search for disciples.

Chen Zheng revealed the Immortal Empress of Ultimate Bliss’s mistaken search for a successor and warned her about a scheme involving countless beings resembling Ancient Immortal Six Desires and Ancient Immortal Futu. He had Susu swallow the Empress’s will incarnation, leaving the witnesses stunned and Ji Fanxi wondering what kind of being Susu was.

• Long Jingyao declined the Immortal Empress of Ultimate Bliss’s offer to lead a lineage, while the guests learned that she and Madam Yan were her former disciples and successors.
• The Immortal Empress accused Chen Zheng of luring away her successors, and Chen Zheng explained that she had sensed Ancient Immortal Six Desires’s aura but chosen the wrong target.
• Chen Zheng and Ji Fanxi explained that many beings bearing the appearances and auras of Ancient Immortal Six Desires and Ancient Immortal Futu existed in the Three Realms Earth Fissure, prompting the Empress to suspect a scheme involving Primordial Chaos.
• Chen Zheng told the Immortal Empress that Susu could sever her ties to the Earth Fissure by swallowing her will incarnation, then revealed that Susu had already done so.
• Ji Fanxi realized Susu could devour the will incarnations of Epoch Hegemons and wondered what level of being Susu was.

Chen Zheng destroyed the illusion of Changsheng Palace and uncovered a divine jade vein containing a sinister being that recognized him. He took the vein and left with Ji Fanxi for the Annihilation God Clan after Ji Fanxi learned that its Old Ancestor had recovered.

• Miss Chanchan and the Changsheng Palace disciples destroyed themselves, and Chen Zheng swept away the palace, revealing it had been an illusion.
• Chen Zheng uncovered a divine jade vein beneath the ruins and used divine light to reveal a being trapped inside it.
• The being opened its eyes, laughed sinisterly, and vanished, leaving a human-shaped hollow in the vein.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the being as unimpressive, put away the divine jade vein, and told Ji Fanxi to leave with him.
• Ji Fanxi sensed that the Annihilation God Clan's Old Ancestor had recovered and received a summons, so Chen Zheng took him toward the clan's ancestral land.
• Yuan Hong and the old man realized Chen Zheng's words implied the Taicang Yuan Family's ancestor was beneath him in status.

The Annihilation God Clan left the Three Realms Earth Fissure, and thirteen drops of Heavenly Blood appeared in its depths, drawing the factions inside. Chen Zheng decided to follow them and investigate Falsehood Heavenly Venerable’s trump card.

• Ji Xiangang thanked Chen Zheng, then led the Annihilation God Clan’s ancestral grounds out of the Three Realms Earth Fissure.
• Creation Little Doll learned from Jiang Hua’s memories about the Great Samsara Sacred Lamp, while Chen Zheng explained his findings about Falsehood Heavenly Venerable and the hidden production of Tribulation Lord true-blood bodies.
• Mist parted in the fissure’s depths, revealing thirteen drops of Heavenly Blood that Ancient Immortal Six Desires and Ancient Immortal Futu recognized as resembling their own blood.
• The fissure opened, and Dao Ancestors and other cultivators rushed inside to claim the Heavenly Blood.
• Chen Zheng and Ancient Immortal Six Desires decided to enter the depths, while Creation Little Doll said none of the thirteen drops belonged to her or Twelfth Brother.

Chen Zheng and the others entered the earth fissure and found hundreds of bodies resembling Ancient Immortals Six Desires and Futu, along with thousands of creation beings gathered before a pitch-black palace. Falsehood Heavenly Venerable revealed the Thousand Thousand Tribulations array and challenged Chen Zheng, naming him and several of his titles.

• The earth fissure’s barrier reappeared after the Star Raft entered, trapping the cultivators inside.
• Ancient Immortals Six Desires and Futu saw hundreds of figures identical to themselves before the pitch-black palace, while thousands of creation beings emerged from it.
• Falsehood Heavenly Venerable offered creation heavenly blood to anyone who killed Chen Zheng, but the Dao Ancestors hesitated to act.
• Chen Zheng challenged Falsehood Heavenly Venerable to come and kill him personally.
• The thousands of creation beings formed the Thousand Thousand Tribulations array, forcing everyone except Chen Zheng and the others aboard the Star Raft to their knees.
• Falsehood Heavenly Venerable declared that the array was meant to defeat Chen Zheng and addressed him as Ancestor Chen, Saintly Teacher Chen, Dao Lord Chen, and Heaven Chen.

Chen Zheng casually destroyed Falsehood Heavenly Venerable’s Thousandfold Tribulation Array and demanded that he reveal his strongest trump card. Falsehood Heavenly Venerable used a dark spinning top to combine the blood beads into a monstrous being, leaving the gathered cultivators horrified.

• Chen Zheng dismissed the Thousandfold Tribulation Array as too weak to harm him and challenged Falsehood Heavenly Venerable to reveal his strongest trump card.
• Falsehood Heavenly Venerable claimed Chen Zheng could not break the array, but Chen Zheng shattered it with a casual sweep, leaving thousands of eerie blood beads in the air.
• Chen Zheng questioned whether Primordial Chaos’s plans amounted to the array and urged Falsehood Heavenly Venerable to show his real scheme.
• Falsehood Heavenly Venerable turned dozens of Dao Ancestor Realm creation beings into blood beads and brought out a dark spinning top that linked the beads together.
• Chen Zheng dispelled the top’s suction, but Falsehood Heavenly Venerable used its shadowy radiance to fuse the true-blood bodies into a terrifying eleven-headed monster.

Falsehood Heavenly Venerable unleashed the Darkness Spinning Top and its terrifying eleven-headed creature to overpower Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng revealed seven-colored divine light and captured the artifact. The creature remained a threat as the Darkness Spinning Top struggled helplessly in Chen Zheng’s grasp.

• The Darkness Spinning Top created an eleven-headed, twenty-two-armed creature whose roars shattered the Star Raft’s barrier and suppressed the cultivators.
• Falsehood Heavenly Venerable appeared and revealed that he had used the artifact against his master’s orders, intending to refine Chen Zheng into a puppet.
• Falsehood Heavenly Venerable had the creature seize Chen Zheng and the Darkness Spinning Top swallowed him in eerie light.
• Seven-colored divine light halted the Darkness Spinning Top, and Chen Zheng emerged and dragged the artifact back before him.
• The Darkness Spinning Top unleashed terrifying pulses but could not break free of Chen Zheng’s restraints.

Chen Zheng captured the Darkness Spinning Top, destroyed the Falsehood Heavenly Venerable’s monster and body, and revealed that his Lawless move broke arrays and restrictions. The will beyond the heavens tried to seize him through the artifact, but Chen Zheng repelled it and shattered the Falsehood Heavenly Venerable’s remaining primordial spirit.

• Chen Zheng restrained the Darkness Spinning Top with seven-colored divine light and shattered the Falsehood Heavenly Venerable’s Half-Step Transcendence monster in a collision.
• Chen Zheng told the Falsehood Heavenly Venerable that his fleshly body had reached a higher realm, while his primordial spirit and magical power had not, and that the Falsehood Heavenly Venerable’s master was slumbering because of him.
• The Falsehood Heavenly Venerable fled into the pure black palace, but Chen Zheng used the Darkness Spinning Top to destroy the palace and shatter his body.
• The Falsehood Heavenly Venerable offered to connect Chen Zheng to the will beyond the heavens so he could free Yinghuo, but Chen Zheng refused and explained that his Lawless move broke arrays and restrictions.
• A black light entered the Darkness Spinning Top and engulfed Chen Zheng, but he shouted for the Great Dark Heaven to get out, shattering the light and cracking the artifact.
• The will beyond the heavens threatened to devour Chen Zheng before its face shattered, and the Falsehood Heavenly Venerable’s primordial spirit disintegrated.

Chen Zheng explained the Darkness Spinning Top’s connection to the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord and the being called Great Dark Heaven, who had tried to control him. After Creation Little Doll thanked Chen Zheng for breaking the scheme and warned him to show mercy if they ever became enemies, she and the other Tribulation Lords returned to his primordial spirit, leaving Ancient Immortal Cangqing asking where to go next.

• Mu Santong, Ke Qi, and the other rescued cultivators thanked Chen Zheng and left the earth fissure.
• Chen Zheng summoned Creation Little Doll and the women, including A Jiu, Xiao Liu, Yaotiao, Ancient Immortal Cangqing, and Palace Master Hongguang.
• Chen Zheng explained that the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord had used the Darkness Spinning Top and Creation Little Doll’s true blood to create controlled true-blood bodies, while Great Dark Heaven had tried to possess him.
• Chen Zheng repaired the Darkness Spinning Top and said the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord had held back because he feared the being from Beyond the Universe connected to it.
• Creation Little Doll said the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord had ultimately sought Transcendence in the Land of the Beginning, then thanked Chen Zheng and asked him to show mercy if they became enemies.
• Creation Little Doll, A Jiu, Xiao Liu, and Yaotiao returned to Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit, while Ancient Immortal Cangqing asked where they should go next.

Chen Zheng returned to Yinghuo Immortal City and met Yinghuo Goddess, who revealed she was a copy of another Yinghuo from the Primordial Supreme Heaven and spoke of her travels and the origins of the Jiang Family’s stone dagger. Yinghuo Goddess declined to go to Supreme Heaven, and the chapter left her curious about the Great Void and the Supreme True Demon.

• Chen Zheng and the others left the Three Realms Earth Fissure, and the Tribulation Lords’ true-blood bodies returned to their respective immortal cities.
• At the Jiang Family’s rear courtyard, Yinghuo Goddess threw the Forbidden Artifact stone dagger at Chen Zheng, but he caught it and tossed it back.
• Yinghuo Goddess explained that she was a copy of another Yinghuo and said she had heard Chen Zheng killed Falsehood Heavenly Venerable.
• Yinghuo Goddess refused Chen Zheng’s suggestion that she go to Supreme Heaven, explaining that she had founded nine Dao lineages across different worlds.
• Yinghuo Goddess revealed that the stone dagger came from a mysterious place in the outer realms and had once recognized the Jiang Family’s first patriarch.
• Yinghuo Goddess told Chen Zheng she had visited the Wall of Origin and fought a woman surnamed Lu, then asked him to summon the Supreme True Demon’s avatar so she could see him.

A sinister Epoch Hegemon from the Great Void appeared in Yinghuo Immortal City to thank Chen Zheng, while the Yinghuo Goddess discussed the Primordial Ruins before leaving for Supreme Heaven. Chen Zheng continued exploring the Falsehood Great World aboard the Star Raft, then heard an eerie cry as the True Martial Realm began ascending.

• A middle-aged creature from the Great Void appeared outside Yinghuo Immortal City, thanked Chen Zheng for freeing him from the divine jade vein, and invited him to Shadowless Mountain before departing.
• Chen Zheng identified the visitor as someone from the Reincarnation Fate Lord's lineage, and the Yinghuo Goddess discussed the Primordial Ruins and sent the stone dagger away.
• The Yinghuo Goddess vanished to find her sister in Supreme Heaven, and Chen Zheng left the city while its residents wondered whether he had left the world.
• Aboard the invisible Star Raft, Chen Zheng swept the Falsehood Great World with the Cosmic Cantilever and saw its unsealing progress rise to fifty-five.
• An eerie cry rang across the Falsehood Great World as the True Martial Realm began ascending, and Xiao Tianxing recalled legends of demons powerful enough to trample the heavens and myriad worlds.

After the True Martial Realm ascended to a Great Thousand World, Chen Zheng left Jiang Hua with a way to contact him and vanished. In the realm, newly freed monsters and demons wreaked havoc as a young Profound Immortal appeared above the ancient forest, seemingly targeted by its terrifying beasts.

• Chen Zheng told Jiang Hua and the others that the True Martial Realm's ascension was connected to him, and Xiao Tianxing speculated that the Yu Family might have fled there.
• Chen Zheng told Jiang Hua to find Feather Empress Feng Fei in the Cloud Realm once she reached Old Ancestor cultivation, then vanished after bidding everyone farewell.
• The ascension broke seals beneath the Azure Cloud Ancient Forest, releasing terrifying monsters that attacked a giant ape as humans and members of the Demon Clan fled.
• A ten-thousand-zhang fiend appeared above the forest, frightened the fighters into stillness, then surged north toward the Central Heaven Dao Domain.
• A young man who appeared to be a Profound Immortal descended into the True Martial Realm, and the monsters in the forest seemed to target him.

Chen Zheng destroyed the monsters attacking the Azure Cloud Ancient Forest, refused the giant ape Cangyuan as a spirit pet, and revealed a Dao Seed hidden in the forest. As the gathered beings learned it could nurture a Dao Fruit, several robed cultivators appeared and fixed their attention on the seed.

• The monsters that had attacked the giant ape exploded into blood mist when Chen Zheng arrived, and Cangyuan offered to serve as his mount.
• Chen Zheng rejected Cangyuan as an unqualified spirit pet, and the giant ape departed toward the north.
• As Xia Heluo tried to thank Chen Zheng, a colossal bird appeared above the forest, and Chen Zheng remarked that certain beings had poor discernment.
• Chen Zheng pulled a radiant Dao Seed from the forest and explained that it could nurture a Dao Fruit.
• Several cultivators in similar Daoist robes appeared and stared at the Dao Seed.

Chen Zheng erased Azure God's cultivators with a glance and gave the Dao Seed to You'er, explaining that he had come to find her split soul and meet a demon. Azure God arrived to confront him, but trembled and appeared to have wet himself in fear.

• Lin Wugeng demanded that Chen Zheng hand over the Dao Seed, and Chen Zheng reduced him to ash with a glance.
• The other cultivators serving Azure God challenged Chen Zheng and also crumbled into ash.
• Chen Zheng drew the Dao Seed into his primordial spirit for You'er and told Xia Heluo he had come to find her split soul and meet a demon.
• An archaic warship arrived carrying Azure God, who confronted Chen Zheng after his followers recognized him.
• The gathered cultivators smelled urine and saw Azure God trembling with a puddle beneath his feet.

The Azure God recognized Chen Zheng, bowed in terror, and recounted how the Demon Slaying Sect's failed Immortal Ascension Ceremony might have caused the True Martial Realm's ascension. He revealed that the sect master was likely still alive in the Central Heaven Dao Domain, while Chen Zheng dismissed the prospect of him becoming an Old Ancestor.

• The Azure God wet himself in fright, cleaned himself, and bowed to Chen Zheng as Your Immortal Excellency.
• Chen Zheng called the Azure God Cang Xiao'er and asked why he had not ascended after more than two thousand years.
• Cang Xiao'er explained that Su Tianjun had ascended, while the Demon Slaying Sect was destroyed and his master died after its Immortal Ascension Ceremony went wrong.
• Cang Xiao'er said the ceremony's grand formation may have later caused the True Martial Realm to ascend to a Great Thousand World.
• Cang Xiao'er claimed the Demon Slaying Sect's sect master was likely alive in the Central Heaven Dao Domain and may have become an Old Ancestor.
• Chen Zheng said he could not think much of the sect master if he had only become an Old Ancestor.

After the True Martial Realm’s advancement, Chen Zheng watched a Golden Crow arrive and vanished, leaving the Azure God to explain his terrifying reputation. In Central Heaven City, Chen Zheng watched a battle above the city while a fortune-teller tried to sell him secret arts from the ancient ruins.

• A Golden Crow with Dao Lord great perfection cultivation appeared, and Chen Zheng explained that its combat strength was roughly that of a Heavenly Emperor.
• The Azure God lamented the arrival of powerful outsiders, but Chen Zheng vanished; the Azure God then told his followers that Chen Zheng had once frightened even the mightiest creatures without magical power.
• In Central Heaven City, residents discussed the battle overhead, the dangers surrounding the ancient ruins, and the True Martial Ye Family’s uncertain fate.
• A fortune-teller sat across from Chen Zheng, offered him three secret-art manuals, and claimed the ruins kept them looking new for thousands or millions of years.