Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng defeated the Eternal Night Emperor’s will incarnation and brought the Nine Evils to the Primordial Ancestral God Hall, where he restored the shattered crown and rekindled the Primordial Fire. He discovered and swallowed a higher divine flame, then gave it to Yanluo to absorb as preparation for opening heaven.

• The stone egg devoured the Eternal Night Emperor’s will incarnation, and Chen Zheng sealed the Nine Evils and brought them with the others to the Primordial Ancestral God Hall.
• The Nine Evils said the shattered Primordial Ancestral God Crown and missing Son of Hope made rekindling the Primordial Fire impossible, but Chen Zheng reassembled the crown.
• Chen Zheng rekindled the Primordial Fire, driving back the darkness and bringing a beam of light to the Land of Embers.
• Chen Zheng found and swallowed a hidden purple divine flame, then realized it strengthened fate status rather than helping him break through.
• Chen Zheng summoned Yanluo and gave her the purple divine flame to absorb so she could use it to open heaven when the main selection for the Son of the Heavens began.

Chen Zheng suppressed the Nine Evils, learned of the Five Emperors Realm Gate, and found and entered it. On Earth, Asgard Palace suddenly ascended and departed while Xiao Peng, Liusu, and Lin Zhengdao discussed its power and the mysterious being beneath the planet.

• Yanluo absorbed the purple divine fire and returned to Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit, while Chen Zheng sent the Nine Evils underground and sealed the Primordial Ancestral God Crown behind a barrier.
• The black-robed old man told Chen Zheng that the Land of Embers held a secret realm gate connected to the Epoch Five Emperors.
• Chen Zheng swept the Land of Embers with the Cosmic Cantilever, gained one point of progress, and located the realm gate at the land’s southernmost end.
• The black-robed old man and the others watched Chen Zheng enter the immortal gate as they marveled at his power.
• On Earth, Xiao Peng, Liusu, and Lin Zhengdao discussed Asgard Palace’s growing power, Chen Zheng’s promised return, and the being they suspected was sleeping in Earth’s core.
• Asgard Palace burst with immortal light, rose into the sky, and departed through the boundary.

Chen Zheng arrived in Qingjue Immortal City in the Green Moon Ancient Realm, where guide Ximen Qiubai tried to sell him on opening Ancient Immortal sealing stones. After Chen Zheng picked a stone, a wealthy young man challenged him to a wager over their prizes.

• Chen Zheng entered Qingjue Immortal City and met Ximen Qiubai, who offered to guide him through the Green Moon Ancient Realm.
• Chen Zheng claimed he was Undefeated for Ten Thousand Lifetimes, but Ximen Qiubai dismissed the boast and explained how sealing stones could be opened for rewards.
• Chen Zheng called the practice a way to pay to get stronger and picked up a palm-sized sealing stone at a stall.
• A richly dressed young man bought the stall's Moon Scar sealing stone with a Dao Artifact and challenged Chen Zheng to gamble for his immortal robes against a Supreme-Grade Dao Artifact.

Chen Zheng accepted a wager to unseal a being from a sealing stone, competing against a young man whose stone revealed a valuable Purple Illusion Golden-Eyed Beast. Chen Zheng’s lowest-grade stone then opened to reveal a peerlessly beautiful Ancient Immortal, leaving the crowd stunned.

• A young man challenged Chen Zheng to gamble over their immortal robes, and Chen Zheng accepted after Ximen Qiubai offered him a Dao Artifact as the stake.
• The young man unsealed a Purple Illusion Golden-Eyed Beast from a Moonmark Sealing Stone, prompting the crowd to declare him the winner.
• Chen Zheng paid the stallholder for his lowest-grade sealing stone and began opening it despite warnings that it was empty.
• Immortal light burst from Chen Zheng’s stone, which revealed a humanoid being identified by the crowd as a peerlessly beautiful Ancient Immortal.

Chen Zheng won a wager against Wenren Haoyue by opening a peerlessly beautiful Ancient Immortal, but the Purple-Robed Envoys seized her for the young city lord. The chapter ended with the Ancient Immortal going berserk at the city lord’s estate, prompting onlookers to wonder whether Chen Zheng had anticipated everything.

• Chen Zheng opened a peerlessly beautiful Ancient Immortal and won a Dao Artifact from Wenren Haoyue, who introduced himself as a member of the Wenren Clan before leaving with Wenren Yi.
• Ximen Qiubai urged Chen Zheng to bind the Ancient Immortal with his blood, while the stall owner lamented his bad fortune.
• Purple-Robed Envoys from the city lord’s estate arrived, and their rugged leader offered a Supreme-Grade Dao Artifact before taking the unbound Ancient Immortal.
• Chen Zheng calmly said he had never suffered a loss as cultivators warned that the city lord’s lineage was backed by a powerful force.
• The Ancient Immortal broke free and went berserk at the city lord’s estate, leaving Ximen Qiubai and the onlookers wondering whether Chen Zheng had foreseen the outcome.

A rampaging Ancient Immortal destroyed the city lord’s residence in Qingjue Immortal City and fled toward Great Yu Mountain, where lotus yao gathered around a vision linked to the Azure Emperor. Chen Zheng arrived with Ximen Qiubai as humans and vicious demons faced the monsters, and the Seven Palace Demon singled Chen Zheng out to clear a path.

• The stunning Ancient Immortal melted the young city lord, the purple-robed man, and the city lord’s residence before fleeing, while the city lord chased after her.
• Cultivators suspected Chen Zheng had known the Ancient Immortal would rampage, but he denied being involved, and the stallholder speculated that she might belong to the lineage connected to Great Yu Mountain.
• A vision of a man seated on a lotus appeared above Great Yu Mountain, prompting cultivators to rush there in hopes of seeing the Azure Emperor.
• Chen Zheng asked Ximen Qiubai to guide him to Great Yu Mountain, where they found lotus yao swallowing humans and vicious demons and resisting secret arts.
• The Seven Palace Demon demanded that human cultivators clear a path through the lotus yao, then pointed at Chen Zheng and ordered him to do it.

Chen Zheng entered Great Yu Mountain after casually feeding Seven Palace Demon to the lotus demons and destroying the rest of them. Deep inside, he confronted the city lord of Qingjue Immortal City as the lord seized and swallowed a green pearl, only for something to tear through his chest.

• Chen Zheng grabbed Seven Palace Demon and threw him to the lotus demons, which devoured him.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the lotus demons in a single clash and entered Great Yu Mountain; Ximen Qiubai and other cultivators followed.
• The city lord of Qingjue Immortal City revealed his plan to absorb the green pearl and claim the Azure Emperor’s inheritance while the others lay injured in the mine.
• Chen Zheng warned the city lord that he could not absorb the pearl, but the city lord swallowed it and reached for him.
• Something pierced through the city lord’s chest as his body froze.

The city lord of Qingjue Immortal City transformed into a servant of the Turbid World Demon Lotus, but his demonic rays had no effect on Chen Zheng. He released the Demon Lotus’s true body from her seal, and she confronted Lu Feixuan over the sacrifice she had made to imprison her.

• The city lord of Qingjue Immortal City transformed into a lotus demon and attacked Chen Zheng with demonic rays, which left him unharmed.
• The city lord retreated into Great Yu Mountain to free the Turbid World Demon Lotus’s true body, despite the stunning Ancient Immortal warning what he intended to do.
• The city lord returned with lotus demons carrying a demonic palace out of the cliff face and hailed the Demon Lotus’s emergence.
• A figure resembling a little girl emerged from the palace and identified Lu Feixuan as the former holy maiden who had sacrificed her future to seal her.
• Lu Feixuan recalled that the Grand Pure Limitless Sect had sealed the Turbid World Demon Lotus, while the Demon Lotus challenged her about whether that sacrifice had been worth it.

The Turbid World Demon Lotus revealed her plans to corrupt the epoch and boasted about her creator, while Lu Feixuan warned her of powerful enemies. When Chen Zheng released his aura, the Demon Lotus recognized him as her father.

• The Turbid World Demon Lotus confronted Lu Feixuan and mocked the Human King Lu Clan and Grand Pure Limitless Sect for failing to suppress her.
• Lu Feixuan warned that this was the twelfth epoch, created by the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord, and that the Future Lord of Tribulation could destroy the Demon Lotus.
• The Demon Lotus suspected the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord was occupied and explained that her creator possessed power beyond Tribulation Lords and Heaven.
• The lord of Qingjue Immortal City urged the Demon Lotus to eliminate Chen Zheng because he had neutralized turbid world power.
• Chen Zheng released his aura, and the Demon Lotus stared at him in disbelief before recognizing him as her father.

Chen Zheng’s identity as the Turbid World Demon Lotus’s father seemed confirmed, but she doubted his strength and tried to awaken his evil. After Chen Zheng revealed a power that could shift between sacred and monstrous, the child inside a lotus seed appeared and frightened the Demon Lotus into fleeing into the cliff.

• The Turbid World Demon Lotus defended Chen Zheng when the lord of Qingjue Immortal City challenged his claim to be her father.
• The Turbid World Demon Lotus judged Chen Zheng too weak and fired the power of the turbid world at him, knocking the stunning Ancient Immortal aside when she tried to intervene.
• Chen Zheng’s azure lotus manifestation shifted between sacred and monstrous evil, shocking the watching cultivators.
• A little child emerged from a lotus seed and confronted the Turbid World Demon Lotus, who wailed that everyone was bullying her and fled with the Demon Hall into the cliff.
• Chen Zheng withdrew the manifestation and disappeared into the cliff, leaving Ximen Qiubai and the others wondering who the child was.

Chen Zheng captured Turbid World Demon Lotus, then uncovered the Five Emperors’ recorded images describing the Land of Eternal Life and its connection to their reincarnations. The images left him considering how to investigate the Land of Eternal Life, while his scan advanced the Cosmic Cantilever’s progress to sixty-one.

• Creation Little Doll coaxed Turbid World Demon Lotus out of the Demon Hall, captured her, and declared that she would train her as a disciple.
• Chen Zheng put away the Demon Hall and revealed an image left by the Azure Emperor in a lotus leaf inside the hidden formation.
• The Five Emperors’ images recounted their discovery of the Land of Eternal Life, their strange memory-erasing illness, and their belief that their reincarnations served as keys to entering it.
• Chen Zheng and Creation Little Doll concluded that the Land of Eternal Life might be connected to Zero, and Chen Zheng noted that entering it could make him a new key.
• Chen Zheng scanned Great Yu Mountain and the Green Moon Ancient Realm, raising the Cosmic Cantilever’s progress to sixty-one.

Chen Zheng emerged at the Great Yu Mountain mine and effortlessly destroyed the Vicious Demon Clan’s kings, the demonized lord of Qingjue Immortal City, and the remaining demons. He exposed Daoist Hongtian as a clone that destroyed itself, then left for Qingjue Immortal City with Lu Feixuan, while Wenren Haoyue wondered why Chen Zheng had spared him.

• Chen Zheng discovered that the Yu Character Stele was hidden in the Land of Divine Origin, then went to the besieged Great Yu Mountain mine.
• Chen Zheng appeared behind Lu Feixuan and erased Eight Palace Demon and Nine Palace Demon before either could finish speaking.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the fleeing demonized lord of Qingjue Immortal City and exposed Daoist Hongtian, who revealed he was a clone and shattered himself.
• Chen Zheng erased the Vicious Demon Clan members who begged for mercy, then invited Lu Feixuan to accompany him to Qingjue Immortal City.
• Wenren Haoyue wondered why Chen Zheng had spared him, and Wenren Yi suggested it might be because of their family’s ancestor.

Chen Zheng returned to the ascended Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations and discovered that its growth was tied to a magical artifact from Beyond the Universe. He then encountered a ghostly woman who asked to bite him and immediately regretted it.

• Ximen Qiubai told Chen Zheng which realms Qingjue Immortal City's teleportation array connected to, and Chen Zheng chose to visit the Baishao Ancient Realm before returning to the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations.
• After Chen Zheng left, Ximen Qiubai wondered whether he had once been undefeated and decided to travel to Great Might Heavenly Dragon City in the Outer Realm.
• Chen Zheng arrived in the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations and found that its spiritual energy, size, and population had greatly increased since his previous visit.
• Chen Zheng sensed seven-colored divine light from Divine Desolation interrupting his own, and concluded that a being from Beyond the Universe had arranged something in the ascended realm.
• A white-robed ghost asked Chen Zheng to let her bite him, then bit his arm and began crying when the bite nearly shattered her ghostly body.

Chen Zheng rescued Yin Xiaodie from the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor’s pursuers and revealed overwhelming power in Ghost Desolation. After learning about the region’s recent upheaval, he decided to visit its sacred sites, while Yin Xiaodie grew increasingly afraid of him.

• Chen Zheng obliterated the ghost cultivators pursuing Yin Xiaodie and asked about the new Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor.
• Yin Xiaodie explained that a divine object had transformed the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations, and that the Ghost Emperor had captured her for an ancient ritual.
• Chen Zheng gave Yin Xiaodie the Nine Netherworlds Reincarnation Secret Art, which she recognized as a lost supreme ghost-cultivation technique.
• Chen Zheng asked whether they should visit Yan Ancient City or Ten Thousand Ghosts Cliff, and Yin Xiaodie warned that the cliff had collapsed and urged him to leave Ghost Desolation.
• Gui Qianchou arrived to seize Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng instantly destroyed him.
• Chen Zheng reflected that few people in the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations still recognized his aura, leaving Yin Xiaodie trembling with fear.

Chen Zheng and Yin Xiaodie reached the Ghost Desolation Ancient Battlefield, where the World-Chaos Ghost Saber was trying to capture Hongyue and lure out her father. Chen Zheng stepped in and challenged Yan Tutian to strike him, and Yan Tutian’s soul-devouring saber shattered against him.

• Yin Xiaodie told Chen Zheng that the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor and Divine Desolation had targeted the Xiongzhao Beast’s daughter, so Chen Zheng changed course for the ancient battlefield.
• At the battlefield, Chen Zheng and Yin Xiaodie found Hongyue fighting Yan Tutian, who intended to capture her and use her to draw out her father.
• Yan Tutian mocked the taboo Hongyue hoped would return and claimed he could kill it with one strike.
• Chen Zheng stepped between Yan Tutian and Hongyue and gave Yan Tutian ten breaths to unleash his strongest saber strike.
• Yan Tutian attacked Chen Zheng, but his soul-devouring saber cracked and shattered.

Chen Zheng destroyed World-Chaos Ghost Saber in the ancient battlefield, despite Yan Tutian’s ghost artifact protecting his primordial spirit. Hongyue recognized Chen Zheng as the taboo her father once followed and bowed to him as the Old Ancestor.

• World-Chaos Ghost Saber unleashed ten thousand ghostly shadows, but Chen Zheng swept them away and shattered his body and primordial spirit.
• World-Chaos Ghost Saber accused Chen Zheng of being a disguised old monster and then fled after warning him that the gods of the Divine Desolation wanted him dead.
• Chen Zheng shattered World-Chaos Ghost Saber’s primordial spirit again, and the spectral soul fell silent under his gaze.
• Hongyue transformed into a woman in red, bowed to Chen Zheng, and addressed him as the Old Ancestor.
• Yin Xiaodie recognized Chen Zheng as the legendary taboo, and Hongyue swallowed the ghosts outside the pit with a streak of blood-red light.

Chen Zheng forced the Five Hells Ghost Pearl to retrieve a drop of ancient blood and gave it to Hongyue. When a Half-Step Dao Ancestor deity from Divine Desolation arrived and threatened them, Chen Zheng killed him with a single gesture.

• The Five Hells Ghost Pearl recognized Chen Zheng as Vicious One Ancestor and offered to break the sealing formation beneath the ancient battlefield.
• The artifact spirit retrieved the ancient blood, and Chen Zheng gave it to Hongyue, explaining that it was of no interest to him or his spirit pet.
• The artifact spirit warned Chen Zheng that a deity from Divine Desolation had arrived and that its Dao Ancestor had a three-tier Dao Tower.
• Huang Yuan arrived, mocked Hongyue and the others, and trapped the ancient battlefield in divine light.
• Chen Zheng grabbed at Huang Yuan, causing the deity to explode and his primordial spirit to shatter.

Chen Zheng returned to Yan Ancient City with Yin Xiaodie as the Ghost Clan reeled from the deaths of Gui Qianchou and Yan Tutian and prepared to sacrifice the Grand Shaman. After Chen Zheng said he was looking at the years, the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon recognized him and recoiled in terror.

• Chen Zheng sent Hongyue to find her father and warn him to stay alive until Chen Zheng could visit.
• The Five Hells Ghost Pearl brought Chen Zheng and Yin Xiaodie through a teleportation formation to Yan Ancient City.
• Ghost Clan and Demon Clan members discussed Consort Yin's escape, the Grand Shaman's intended sacrifice, and the deaths of Gui Qianchou and Yan Tutian.
• Chen Zheng arrived above Yan Ancient City with Yin Xiaodie and the ghost pearl, then landed on the city wall as the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon descended.
• Chen Zheng said he was looking at the years, and the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon recognized him and recoiled in terror.

Chen Zheng stood on Yan Ancient City's wall, claiming to watch the passage of time as the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon and the Ghost Clan's attacks failed against him. The Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor intervened, but Chen Zheng destroyed his Dao Ancestor ghost body and said he had been disturbed.

• Chen Zheng appeared atop Yan Ancient City's wall, and the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon showed fear as Yin Xiaodie and the demons watched.
• The Ghost Clan's leaders attacked Chen Zheng with black qi, but he absorbed their attacks while the Yellow Springs Sacred Dragon remained silent.
• The Ghost Clan's leaders summoned the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor from his seclusion.
• The Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor tried to grab Chen Zheng, but his attack had no effect.
• Chen Zheng turned, smiled, and destroyed the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor's Dao Ancestor ghost body with a raised hand.
• Chen Zheng said the Ghost Emperor had disturbed him while he was watching the passage of time.

Chen Zheng crushed the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor’s body and shattered the ghosts’ Soul-Devouring Coffin without moving. He let a terrifying aura wash his netherworld sword, then destroyed the Ghost Emperor’s primordial spirit as it tried to swallow the blade.

• Chen Zheng’s appearance left Yan Ancient City’s ghosts and the Demon Clan stunned after he crushed the Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor’s Dao Ancestor body.
• The Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor summoned the Soul-Devouring Coffin, but it shattered against Chen Zheng without making him move.
• Chen Zheng called for someone to wash his sword, and a woman-shaped aura bowed before enveloping the netherworld sword phantom.
• The Sun-Swallowing Ghost Emperor used Nine Netherworlds Reincarnation to try to swallow the sword, but the aura honed its edge and the sword reduced his primordial spirit to ash.