Chapter Summaries

At Human King Temple, Chen Zheng revealed that the First Human King had secretly cultivated the Eight Desolations Heaven-Opening Scroll and devoured the first rulers of the other desolations in the Heavenly Beginning Sea. He explained how he had sealed the First Human King and warned that the gods of Divine Desolation and the beings in the Heavenly Abyss were pursuing their own plans, leaving the prospect of a war dependent on their strength.

• Chen Zheng showed the gathered orthodoxies and imperial clans ancient images of the First Human King devouring beings of many races in a barrier beneath the sea.
• Chen Zheng identified the location as the Heavenly Beginning Sea, also called the Reincarnation Sea, and said the First Human King had cultivated the Eight Desolations Heaven-Opening Scroll to try to become a Dao Ancestor.
• Chen Zheng revealed that he had found the First Human King's Divine Shadow Stone with Su Jinxiu, and said Su Jinxiu's kindness had led him to spare and seal the fallen king.
• Chen Zheng said the scroll had come from an abandoned Nine Heavens and explained that he was not someone who slaughtered indiscriminately.
• Chen Zheng warned that the gods of Divine Desolation and the beings in the Heavenly Abyss wanted to control the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations, and said a war involving all races depended on whether they were strong enough.

After the great lineages departed, Chen Zheng stayed in Human Desolation and sought to restore his cultivation by obtaining the Eight Desolations Realm Stone. A mysterious woman named Pure Woman gave him Heavenly Beginning Origin, but even after consuming both sources of power, he remained at the Profound Immortal level.

• Chen Zheng returned the Haotian Divine Feather to Su Liuxuan and told him that the Valkyrie was alive and might soon be seen again.
• Chen Zheng told Chen Huang that his elder sister was either inside the Heavenly Abyss or had been taken out of the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations, which he described as a spare tire for Supreme Heaven.
• Chen Zheng said he planned to visit Spirit Desolation after retrieving the Eight Desolations Realm Stone.
• A faceless woman appeared, introduced herself as Pure Woman, and gave Chen Zheng a stone casket containing a strand of Heavenly Beginning Origin before leaving.
• Chen Zheng devoured the Heavenly Beginning Origin and then broke the Eight Desolations Realm Stone for its power, but neither let him break through the Profound Immortal level.

Chen Zheng returned to South Dream Immortal Spirit Lake, where the Fire Spirit Clan was expelling humans, and his mysterious power extinguished their flames. He revealed that he had visited the lake before to meet two spirit snakes, prompting a woman from the Water Spirit Clan to recognize something and panic.

• Chen Huang advanced to the Dao Ancestor Realm in Human Desolation and looked toward Spirit Desolation.
• Chen Zheng visited South Dream Immortal Spirit Lake, where an old peddler warned him to leave as the Fire Spirit Clan ordered the humans out.
• Chen Zheng remained on a boat while Fire Spirit clanspeople attacked him, and water extinguished their flames without him moving.
• Huo Piao attacked Chen Zheng, but water drenched him and extinguished all the true fire around him, leaving him without magical power.
• Chen Zheng told the Water Spirit Clan's curious little girl that he had returned to the lake hoping to see the green and white spirit snakes he had met there before.
• The woman beside the little girl recognized something about Chen Zheng's words and panicked.

Chen Zheng reunited with Shui Qingyi at South Dream Immortal Spirit Lake after more than two thousand years, while Huo Piao tried to enforce Fire Spirit Great Venerable’s decree. Shui Qingyi revealed that the Water Spirit Great Venerable had been imprisoned and asked Chen Zheng to consider taking her daughter, Shui Bingyue, as his disciple.

• Shui Yingrong recognized Chen Zheng and told him Green Snake and White Snake had left South Dream Immortal Spirit Lake, then went to fetch her sister, Shui Qingyi.
• Huo Piao threatened Chen Zheng and secretly summoned the Heavenly Spirit Envoy, while Chen Zheng said Shui Qingyi’s cultivation talent was ordinary.
• Shui Qingyi arrived, greeted Chen Zheng as an old acquaintance, and was revealed to be Shui Bingyue’s mother.
• Huo Piao ordered Shui Qingyi to seize Chen Zheng, but she suppressed him to his knees and revealed that the Water Spirit Great Venerable had been imprisoned.
• Shui Qingyi introduced Shui Bingyue and asked Chen Zheng whether he would take her as a disciple; Chen Zheng smiled at the girl’s name.

Shui Qingyi defied the Fire Spirit Clan and revealed that Chen Zheng was the legendary enemy who had returned to Spirit Desolation. Chen Zheng effortlessly killed Heavenly Spirit Envoy Huo Yi, leaving both clans stunned.

• Chen Zheng gave Shui Bingyue a secret art that she recognized as Spirit Desolation’s supreme sacred scripture.
• Shui Qingyi explained that the Fire Spirit Great Venerable had imprisoned the Water Spirit Great Venerable and asked Chen Zheng to go to Ten Spirits Holy Mountain.
• Huo Piao called for help, and Heavenly Spirit Envoy Huo Yi arrived to accuse Shui Qingyi of betraying the Spirit Clan.
• Shui Qingyi revealed that the human enemy of Spirit Desolation had returned and pointed out Chen Zheng.
• Huo Yi attacked Chen Zheng with a fire dragon, but water extinguished it, and Chen Zheng reduced Huo Yi to ashes with a glance.

Chen Zheng took Shui Qingyi and Shui Bingyue to Ten Spirits Holy Mountain after the teleportation array was destroyed, where Fire Spirit Great Venerable had prepared an ambush. Mo Xin broke the mountain’s defensive array, but it immediately repaired itself as ten Dao Ancestor-level Ancient Giant Spirits surrounded the Star Raft.

• Chen Zheng destroyed Huo Piao and the Fire Spirit clansmen, then learned Holy Mountain had wrecked the teleportation array to stop his approach.
• Chen Zheng brought Shui Qingyi and Shui Bingyue aboard the Star Raft and traveled with them to Ten Spirits Holy Mountain.
• Mo Xin hurled the Blood Radiance Divine Spear at the Ten Spirits Gou Tian Great Array and broke it, but the array repaired itself.
• Fire Spirit Great Venerable appeared with the other eight spirit great venerables and declared that he had prepared a grand gift for Chen Zheng.
• Ten Ancient Giant Spirits appeared around Ten Spirits Holy Mountain and encircled the Star Raft, each radiating a Dao Ancestor-level aura.

Chen Zheng entered Ten Spirits Holy Mountain’s array and withstood attacks from the Spirit Clan Great Venerables, who discovered his body was that of a Dao Ancestor. He summoned the will beneath Spirit Desolation, then revealed he wanted it to wash a sword rather than help him fight the Spirit Clan.

• Mo Xin’s Blood Radiance Divine Spear failed to harm an ancient giant spirit, while the Spirit Clan Great Venerables mocked Vicious One Ancestor and challenged him to face their forces.
• Chen Zheng left the Star Raft and appeared atop Ten Spirits Holy Mountain, inside the Ten Spirits Gou Tian Great Array.
• Fire Spirit Great Venerable and the other Great Venerables attacked Chen Zheng, but their Great Dao powers shattered against him.
• Fire Spirit Great Venerable identified Chen Zheng’s body as a Dao Ancestor’s body, while Metal Spirit, Wood Spirit, and Earth Spirit threatened him and cited Water Spirit Great Venerable as their bargaining chip.
• Chen Zheng called for Fate, and a tremendous phantom rose from beneath Spirit Desolation and said its will could not help suppress the Spirit Clan.
• Chen Zheng told the phantom he had summoned it to help him wash a sword.

Chen Zheng had Fate wash his netherworld sword, then used it to destroy the Spirit Clan’s ten Ancient Giant Spirits as they reached for the Star Raft. The Spirit Clan members realized he could now casually slay low-realm Dao Ancestors.

• Chen Zheng summoned a netherworld sword phantom, and Fate washed it with streams of vast energy before departing.
• The Spirit Clan Great Venerables secretly planned to kill Chen Zheng and seize the Star Raft as leverage.
• Chen Zheng ignored the jeering Spirit Clan and turned his attention to the ten Ancient Giant Spirits.
• Fire Spirit Great Venerable ordered the Ancient Giant Spirits to seize the Star Raft, frightening Shui Bingyue while Shui Qingyi and Mo Xin stood their ground.
• Chen Zheng raised his hand, and the washed sword disintegrated all ten Ancient Giant Spirits in a single breath.
• Chen Zheng remarked that the sword could now kill low-realm Dao Ancestors without needing to be nurtured after each use, leaving the Spirit Clan stunned.

Chen Zheng faced Primordial Spirit Great Venerable’s descending will, which claimed to be a Ninth Realm Dao Ancestor and warned that defeating it would not free the Spirit Clan or Water Spirit Great Venerable. Chen Zheng struck with the ultimate attack of the Ninefold Sword Domain and instantly shattered the incarnation, leaving the nine Spirit Venerables stunned.

• The nine Spirit Venerables realized Chen Zheng could easily kill them and begged Fire Spirit Great Venerable to summon Primordial Spirit Great Venerable.
• Primordial Spirit Great Venerable descended in an incarnation of their will, and the Spirit Venerables bowed in relief.
• Primordial Spirit recognized Chen Zheng and claimed their incarnation possessed Ninth Realm Dao Ancestor strength, while warning that the Spirit Clan remained under their control.
• Primordial Spirit hinted that beings from the first life were reviving and hated Chen Zheng most.
• Chen Zheng unleashed the ultimate strike of the Ninefold Sword Domain and destroyed Primordial Spirit’s incarnation, stunning the nine Spirit Venerables.

Chen Zheng annihilated Spirit Desolation to uncover and destroy the Eight Desolations Realm Stone, then began devouring the source within it. Primordial Spirit’s will incarnation attacked him in vain as the land became chaos.

• Chen Zheng’s sword cut down Primordial Spirit’s first will incarnation, shocking the Spirit Clan and Shui Bingyue.
• Primordial Spirit sent another will incarnation, which claimed Chen Zheng had exhausted his sword’s accumulated power and could not defeat him.
• Chen Zheng said he had a way to free Spirit Desolation’s Spirit Clan and slashed across the land, leaving its living beings unharmed while annihilating everything else into chaos.
• Chen Zheng found the Eight Desolations Realm Stone beneath Spirit Desolation, shattered it, and began devouring the source of the Eight Desolations inside.
• Primordial Spirit’s will incarnation furiously attacked Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng absorbed its power without harm.

Chen Zheng restored his magical power to the Golden Immortal level, recreated Spirit Desolation, and freed the Spirit Clan from the Primordial Spirit's control. The Primordial Spirit's will avatar attacked him and was devoured by Susu.

• Chen Huang explained that Chen Zheng had turned Spirit Desolation into chaos to search for an Eight Desolations Realm Stone and restore his magical power.
• The Primordial Spirit's will threatened to erase Water Spirit Great Venerable unless Chen Zheng stopped, but Chen Zheng emerged from the chaos having recovered Golden Immortal-level magical power.
• Chen Zheng swept his hand over Spirit Desolation, restoring the land and Ten Spirits Holy Mountain as they had been before.
• The Spirit Clan discovered that their reverence for the Primordial Spirit and his control over them had vanished, and Chen Zheng said he had washed away their shackles.
• The Primordial Spirit's will lunged at Chen Zheng, and Susu answered Chen Zheng's call and devoured the avatar.

Chen Zheng swallowed Primordial Spirit's will avatar with the stone egg, then killed the Spirit Clan Great Venerables who tried to flee after offering him their allegiance. He headed beneath Ten Spirits Holy Mountain to find the imprisoned Water Spirit Great Venerable.

• The stone egg swallowed Primordial Spirit's will avatar, and Susu said she had enjoyed the taste.
• Black Spirit Great Venerable and the other Spirit Clan Great Venerables knelt and acknowledged Chen Zheng as their master, with Fire Spirit Great Venerable joining them last.
• Chen Zheng called the Great Venerables turncoats, and they fled; he erased them all with a snap of his fingers.
• Chen Zheng dismissed the power of his attack as limited, then shattered the divine senses of beings spying on Ten Spirits Holy Mountain.
• Chen Zheng turned into light and headed beneath Ten Spirits Holy Mountain, where Water Spirit Great Venerable was imprisoned.

Ji Yuwei explained how the Spirit Clan Great Venerables had arrived through a one-way teleportation formation, and the half tablet summoned a strange metal cat. The cat recognized Chen Zheng’s power, called itself Dingdang Cat, and revealed it came from a destroyed Great Samsara.

• Ji Yuwei accepted Chen Zheng’s order to oversee Spirit Desolation, and he reassured her that the Heavenly Dragon Emperor was safe inside the formation at the Desolate Ancestral Dragon Court.
• Ji Yuwei revealed that the five Spirit Clan Great Venerables had arrived through a one-way teleportation formation and produced half of a stone tablet.
• The tablet activated and formed a teleportation formation, from which a metal sphere emerged and transformed into a catlike beast.
• The metal beast introduced itself as Key and offered to open any door, but Chen Zheng kicked it away and told it to stop pretending.
• The metal cat admitted that it was Dingdang Cat, a being from a destroyed Great Samsara, and asked Chen Zheng’s surname.

Chen Zheng and the others learned that the metal cat had survived the destruction of another Great Samsara and once served a powerful master named Zero. Creation Little Doll claimed Chen Zheng was that Zero’s old lover, but Chen Zheng suggested the two Zeros might be different people, leaving the group to consider whether another Zero existed beyond the Great Samsara.

• The metal cat explained that it had been thrown back into the Great Samsara after witnessing two terrifying beings fight beyond it, then arrived through a teleportation array.
• The cat told Chen Zheng and the others that it had once been a stray cat, risen to rule a Great Samsara, and later sought to find its former master, a woman stronger than any being it had encountered.
• When Creation Little Doll demanded the master’s name, the metal cat said it believed she was called Zero, and Creation Little Doll claimed she was sleeping in the Primordial Chaos Universe and had loved Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng suggested that the master who raised the cat and the Zero sleeping in the Primordial Chaos Universe might share a name but be different people.
• Creation Little Doll wondered whether another Zero existed beyond the Great Samsara.

Chen Zheng sent Dingdang Cat to Great Dark Heaven, secured the half-stele, and traveled with Mo Xin to Dragon Desolation. At the foot of Heavenly Dragon Mountain, a blood-colored spear killed a Divine Desolation general, and the surviving guards fled to report the attack.

• Chen Zheng told Dingdang Cat to find the lord of the Colorless Sea and teach her combat, then sent the cat away with a spacetime beacon.
• Chen Zheng took the half-stele and told Water Spirit Great Venerable that Yuwei could defend Spirit Desolation from Primordial Spirit's incarnations.
• Chen Zheng and Mo Xin left for the Desolate Ancestral Dragon Court in Dragon Desolation.
• Divine Desolation guards tortured captured dragons in a town near Heavenly Dragon Mountain and threatened to use their blood for pills.
• The Dragon Desolation Battle Flag attacked the guards, then retreated when a Peak Quasi-Sage divine general appeared.
• A blood-colored spear pierced and killed the divine general, prompting the guards to flee and call for Divine Venerable Tianqi.

Zhengyue freed the dragons at Heavenly Dragon Mountain, and they followed Chen Zheng, Mo Xin, and the little dragon girl to the Desolate Ancestral Dragon Court. Divine Venerable Tianqi failed to seize Mo Xin, then recognized something unusual about Chen Zheng, who exposed Tianqi’s humiliating past and left him trembling as a puddle appeared beneath him.

• Zhengyue shattered the dragons’ shackles, and the freed dragons bowed to Chen Zheng, Mo Xin, and the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag.
• Chen Zheng led the group toward the summit of Heavenly Dragon Mountain despite the dragons’ warning that it was dangerous.
• Divine Venerable Tianqi dismissed the threat of the Vicious One Ancestor’s successor and boasted that he could suppress the legendary figure himself.
• Divine Venerable Tianqi tried to grab Mo Xin, but his power failed to draw her toward him.
• Divine Venerable Tianqi noticed Chen Zheng’s Dao Ancestor-level physical body and demanded to know who he was.
• Chen Zheng reminded Divine Venerable Tianqi that he had wet his pants before the Heaven-Severing Divine Emperor’s statue, and Tianqi trembled as a puddle appeared beneath him.

Chen Zheng defeated and killed Divine Venerable Tianqi with ease, then entered the Desolate Ancestral Dragon Court. As a strange aura emerged from within, the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag sensed it resembled the aura of ordinary demons rather than dragons.

• Divine Venerable Tianqi trembled and wet himself when Chen Zheng recalled their encounter in the Divine Desolation Ancestral Land.
• Tianqi charged Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng kicked him into the Dragon Court's formation and then destroyed his body with a flick of his finger.
• Tianqi asked Chen Zheng how powerful he had been in the past, and Chen Zheng answered that he had been above the Nine Heavens before Tianqi's shattered primordial spirit disintegrated.
• Mo Xin used the Blood Radiance Divine Spear to annihilate the divine generals and guards after Tianqi died.
• Chen Zheng dispelled the formation around the Desolate Ancestral Dragon Court, where a strange, demon-like aura emerged and puzzled the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag.

Chen Zheng entered the Desolate Ancestral Dragon Court and confronted the purple-robed Purple Emperor of Ten Thousand Ages, who had sealed the Heavenly Dragon Emperor and sought Chen Zheng’s help reaching the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations. The Purple Emperor vanished after Chen Zheng revealed he had already visited that place and shattered his body.

• Chen Zheng opened the Dragon Court’s gates despite its defenses and let a sinister incarnation escape.
• The Purple Emperor of Ten Thousand Ages appeared on the dragon throne and assessed Chen Zheng, Little Zhengyue, and Mo Xin.
• The Purple Emperor revealed that he had sealed the Heavenly Dragon Emperor and summoned him to prove he was alive.
• The Purple Emperor proposed joining forces with Chen Zheng to open a place in the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations, threatening to keep the Heavenly Dragon Emperor sealed if Chen refused.
• Chen Zheng said he had been to that place, then shattered the Purple Emperor’s body, which turned into black qi and disappeared.

Chen Zheng freed the Heavenly Dragon Emperor, defeated the Purple Emperor of Ten Thousand Ages’ presence, and revealed that the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations was Primordial Supreme Heaven’s spare tire. In the Great Dark Heaven, Dingdang Cat arrived to teach Little Bone combat, while Chu Hongyi recognized his name and asked about magical treasures.

• Chen Zheng removed the black qi sealing the Heavenly Dragon Emperor, while the Purple Emperor of Ten Thousand Ages destroyed his primordial spirit and promised to wait for Chen Zheng at a mysterious place.
• Zhengyue explained that the Purple Emperor of Ten Thousand Ages could persist through a split spirit, and Chen Zheng dismissed him as a half-finished product.
• Chen Zheng found and crushed the Eight Desolations Realm Stone, then said he would retrieve the final Realm Stone in Divine Desolation before opening the mysterious place again.
• Chen Zheng told the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag that the Ancient Land of the Eight Desolations was Primordial Supreme Heaven’s spare tire, and the Heavenly Dragon Emperor spoke of the Heavenly Dao Palace’s power.
• In the Colorless Sea, Dingdang Cat introduced himself as a metal cat from a destroyed Great Samsara and said he had come to teach Little Bone combat on her master’s orders.
• Chu Hongyi asked Dingdang Cat if he carried magical treasures in his pocket, then blurted out the name Miao Renfeng.

Little Bone absorbed the metal cat’s combat experience while Chu Hongyi cultivated, and Chen Zheng helped the Heavenly Dragon Emperor survive his tribulation in Dragon Desolation. Zhengyue transformed into a demonic dragon to frighten away the divine senses spying on Dragon Desolation, then returned to Chen Zheng to rest.

• The metal cat gave Little Bone a glowing sphere of his combat experience, which she began absorbing as Chu Hongyi decided to cultivate nearby.
• Chen Zheng erased the Purple Emperor of Ten Thousand Ages’ lingering aura from the Desolate Ancestral Dragon Court, allowing the Heavenly Dragon Emperor to overcome his Half-Step Dao Ancestor tribulation.
• Chen Zheng sent Zhengyue to scare those spying on Dragon Desolation with their divine senses.
• Zhengyue took the form of a thirty-thousand-meter demonic dragon and shattered the spying divine senses with her roars.
• Zhengyue returned to Chen Zheng and said she was going to rest, while the Dragon Desolation Battle Flag worried that her conversations with Turbid World Demon Lotus had made Demon Lotus start swearing.