Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng revealed that the azure pearl was an incomplete treasure connected to a Creator, then had the surviving authority choose Ye Qingcheng as a bearer of a Holy Emperor Fate. After the mysterious voice warned that other bearers existed, Chen Zheng sent several women to cultivate in the Dao Diagram, while Chu Yaoyao tried to persuade him to let her join them.

• Pan Tianhua destroyed himself after threatening to kill Ancestor Chen, and Chen Zheng revealed the azure pearl that had devoured the Heavenly Dao.
• Qin Yanzhi heard Supreme Good Heaven's will identify the pearl as an incomplete treasure connected to a Creator.
• Chen Zheng called on the remaining authority to choose a Son of the Heavens, and sacred white light bestowed a Holy Emperor Fate on Ye Qingcheng.
• A mysterious voice said other worlds had also granted Holy Emperor Fates and warned that Ye Qingcheng or Chen Zheng would need to slay the other bearers.
• Chen Zheng sent Bai Nishang, Shen Wulei, Wu Qingyan, Cangsheng, Ji Chunyu, Qi Ruyi, and Qin Yanzhi into the Dao Diagram to cultivate and contemplate the Reincarnation Imprint.
• Chu Yaoyao claimed her Reincarnation Lineage was closely tied to Chen Zheng's and offered to let him search her soul, hoping he would let her contemplate the Reincarnation Imprint.

Chen Zheng reached the Demon-Sealing Grotto, destroyed the demon and recovered a piece of the Great Void Realm Map. He then offered to take Old Ancestor Jin Xuanyang to a place that could help him leave the Eternally Evergreen Realm and answer its natives’ questions.

• Chen Zheng flew the Star Raft to the Demon-Sealing Grotto after the Cosmic Cantilever found a map fragment there.
• Old Ancestor Jin Xuanyang warned Chen Zheng not to enter the grotto, but Chen Zheng destroyed it and crushed the sealed demon.
• The Demon-Sealing Stone revealed a map of the Great Void and its fragment joined the Taiyi Formation Map.
• Chen Zheng offered to take Jin Xuanyang somewhere with a path out of the Eternally Evergreen Realm and a way to resolve its natives’ doubts.
• Jin Xuanyang accepted Chen Zheng’s offer and bowed to him.

Chen Zheng led his companions to Smoke Dragon Prison beneath the No-Life Gobi, where they encountered prisoners and a trial overseen by Smoke Dragon. After Chen Zheng effortlessly defeated Smoke Dragon’s attack, the furious guardian threatened to summon its master.

• Chen Zheng brought the Star Raft to the No-Life Gobi and led the group through a hidden underground barrier into a prison chamber filled with beings nailed to punishment pillars, including figures resembling the Evergreen Sage.
• Smoke Dragon appeared and explained that the prisoners had failed its master’s trial, then subjected Chen Zheng and his companions to the Water-Heaven Screen.
• The water-screen reflections attacked the group, but Chen Zheng shattered every screen, prompting Smoke Dragon to recognize his indestructible fleshly body.
• Smoke Dragon transformed into nine Dao Ancestor-level dragons and charged Chen Zheng, who shattered them all with one slap and knocked Smoke Dragon into a cliff face.
• Smoke Dragon failed to escape the cliff face and threatened to summon its master, whom it described as supreme Creation dwelling Above the Nine Heavens.

Chen Zheng showed the smoke dragon a recording that revealed its master, the Primordial Chaos Supreme Tribulation Lord, had been badly wounded by him and was unable to answer its summons. The smoke dragon’s faith collapsed, its body turned to ash, and the prisoners in the Smoke Dragon Prison were freed.

• The smoke dragon repeatedly summoned its master, but nothing appeared in the Smoke Dragon Prison.
• Chen Zheng lit an incense stick and waited with the smoke dragon; when it burned out, its master still had not descended.
• Chen Zheng sent a beam of mystical light into the smoke dragon, which recognized it as a recording and reacted in disbelief.
• Chen Zheng explained that he had wounded the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord in battle and that the Lord was slumbering to recover.
• The smoke dragon’s Dao heart shattered, its true body turned to ash, and the beings bound to the punishment pillars fell free.

Chen Zheng revealed that Smoke Dragon’s faith in Primordial Chaos had shattered his Dao heart, freeing the prisoners of Smoke Dragon Prison. After the survivors escaped or returned to the Eternally Evergreen Realm, Chen Zheng suggested that the Evergreen Sage was likely a reincarnation of one of the Heavens.

• The rabbit explained that Smoke Dragon’s faith in Primordial Chaos had collapsed when Chen Zheng showed him that Primordial Chaos could be defeated, shattering Smoke Dragon’s Dao heart.
• Old Devil Bronze Drum attacked Chen Zheng, but disintegrated into ash when Chen Zheng merely glanced at him.
• Dugu Junqing told the freed prisoners that Chen Zheng had killed Smoke Dragon and released them from the punishment pillars.
• Chen Zheng told Pure Yang’s First Sword that the exit lay behind the cliff, and Pure Yang’s First Sword and most of the prisoners left through it.
• The Evergreen Sage returned to the Eternally Evergreen Realm instead of leaving, and Chen Zheng said he was afraid of becoming involved with him and was likely a reincarnation of one of the Heavens.

Chen Zheng learned that the Yin Demon Spring’s seal had cracked and that the Yama Tribe was trying to seize it. He arrived at the Great Dark Heaven and effortlessly destroyed a Dao Lord Realm Yama, leaving the tribe’s attack in silence.

• Supreme Good Heaven’s will warned Chen Zheng that the Creator Azure Pearl might be linked to a fallen Creator, and Creation Little Doll revealed the power of Chen Zheng’s artifacts.
• Chen Zheng displayed his five artifacts from beyond the heavens, and Supreme Good Heaven’s will left with Qin Yanzhi to nurture her.
• Chen Zheng sensed that someone had attacked the Yin Demon Spring, grabbed Zhengyue, and departed for the Great Dark Heaven.
• The Yama Tribe attacked the cracked seal, hoping to rule the Great Dark Heaven while King Little Bone and Gai Shi were weakened.
• The Yama Tribe mistook Chen Zheng for a human spy and sent a Dao Lord Realm Yama to kill him, but Chen Zheng annihilated the attacker in midair.

Chen Zheng confronted the Yama Tribe at the Yin Demon Spring and revealed that he was the one who had tried to make Luohou’s uncontrolled thought devour Luohou’s true body. After the Yamas entered the spring, Chen Zheng destroyed its sealing formation, and the resulting demonic qi trapped the tribe inside.

• Chen Zheng asked the Yamas about the changes in Great Dark Heaven, and they warned him about the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect and Demon Ancestor Luohou.
• A Yama explained that Chen Zheng’s plan to have Luohou’s uncontrolled thought devour his true body had failed, and Chen Zheng revealed that he had devised it.
• The Yama who insulted Chen Zheng turned to ashes, and the others threatened him by claiming their chief had become a Dao Ancestor.
• The Yamas rushed into the Yin Demon Spring after its power surged, believing their chief had taken control of it.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the formation-sealing stones, causing demonic qi to surge from the pit and seal the area around it.
• The Yamas inside the pit realized that Chen Zheng had destroyed the sealing formation and cried out in alarm.

Chen Zheng stood unharmed after a Yama elder and the Yama patriarch attacked him, prompting the patriarch to summon the Yin Demon Spring’s spirit. The spirit rushed to Chen Zheng and rubbed against his leg like a docile pet.

• Elder Yiyan attacked Chen Zheng and exploded into a mist of blood before reaching him.
• Five Yama elders emerged and watched as the Yin Demon Spring revealed the Yama patriarch seated before it.
• The Yama patriarch struck Chen Zheng with destructive demonic qi, but it vanished without harming him.
• The patriarch summoned the Yin Demon Spring’s spirit using a Tribulation Heavenly Demon Talisman.
• The demonic spirit charged at Chen Zheng, then clutched his trouser leg and rubbed against him docilely.

Chen Zheng revealed his connection to the demon spirit and devoured the Yin Demon Spring, advancing to Third-Stage Golden Immortal. He left the Yama Tribe stunned and destroyed the Yama Clan chief and his Tribulation Heavenly Demon Talisman with a glance.

• The demon spirit called Chen Zheng the Demon Among Demons and scorned the Yama Clan chief’s threat involving the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect.
• The demon spirit revealed that its former incarnation was the Nine Yin Evil Spirit and recalled visiting the four forbidden grounds with Chen Zheng.
• When a Yama elder doubted Chen Zheng’s identity, the demon spirit summoned Yin Demon Spring water, and Chen Zheng devoured it along with most of the spring.
• Chen Zheng consumed the remaining spring water and its essence, advancing from Second-Stage to Third-Stage Golden Immortal.
• The Yama Clan chief mocked Chen Zheng’s breakthrough, but Chen Zheng destroyed him and the Tribulation Heavenly Demon Talisman with a glance.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Yin Demon Spring’s attackers and set off with the demon spirit, newly named Supreme Treasure, for Nine Netherworlds Senluo City. There, he halted a desperate attack by the Corpse Clan, leaving both sides staring at him and his companion.

• Chen Zheng’s demon spirit killed the Yama elders who had come to the Yin Demon Spring, and Chen Zheng discussed taking it to the Chaos Domain.
• The demon spirit noticed the Corpse Clan’s manifestation near Nine Netherworlds Senluo City and warned that the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect was pursuing powerful targets there.
• Chen Zheng renamed the demon spirit Supreme Treasure and flew with it toward Nine Netherworlds Senluo City.
• The Corpse Clan army overwhelmed the city’s defenders, and City Lord Yin Tianzong tried to attack the giant corpse beast with his junior brother by unleashing a combined secret art.
• Chen Zheng appeared above the battlefield and froze Yin Tianzong, his junior brother, and the advancing forces before their attack could land.

Chen Zheng and Baobao appeared above Nine Netherworlds Senluo City during the Dead Land Corpse Clan’s attack, and Chen Zheng effortlessly destroyed the Corpse Clan’s beast. After Chen Zheng warned that the city was dangerous, the black-robed middle-aged man tried to reach its suppressed ancient object but lost his body to a burst of gray-white light.

• Baobao killed a young Corpse Clan member after he insulted her and Chen Zheng.
• The Corpse Clan sent a giant corpse beast at Chen Zheng and Baobao, but Chen Zheng destroyed it with a glance.
• A Corpse Clan member warned Chen Zheng that opposing them meant opposing the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect, and Chen Zheng replied that the place was dangerous.
• The black-robed middle-aged man rushed into Nine Netherworlds Senluo City, apparently trying to reach its suppressed ancient object.
• A gray-white beam struck the black-robed man, leaving him with only his primordial spirit, and Chen Zheng remarked that the city was dangerous.

The Corpse Clan from the Dead Land learned that the Immortal Silkworm was sealed beneath Nine Netherworlds Senluo City, and Divine Son Lüshang tried to break into the city with the Sage-Slaying Stone Spear. The hidden formation destroyed the spear and Lüshang, while Chen Zheng watched and remarked that he had already warned them the city was dangerous.

• The black-robed middle-aged man's primordial spirit accused Yin Tianzong of secretly activating a formation that destroyed his physical body, but Yin Tianzong denied knowing about it.
• The demon spirit revealed that the Immortal Silkworm was hidden beneath Nine Netherworlds Senluo City, alarming the city's inhabitants and the Corpse Clan from the Dead Land.
• Divine Son Lüshang arrived aboard the Corpse Clan's warship and threatened Yin Tianzong, demanding that he surrender the Immortal Silkworm.
• The black-robed middle-aged man offered to lead Lüshang to the sealed divine temple and warned him that the demon spirit might be the Yin Demon Spring's spirit.
• Divine Son Lüshang hurled the Sage-Slaying Stone Spear at Nine Netherworlds Senluo City, but the city's formation cracked the spear and disintegrated his physical body.
• Chen Zheng chuckled that he had warned everyone the city was dangerous, and the onlookers began to suspect he knew what was happening.

Chen Zheng opened the Divine Temple beneath Nine Netherworlds Senluo City and released the Immortal Silkworm, offering everyone a chance to become its master. When the Corpse Clan and a city subordinate rushed to seize it, the silkworm transformed into a familiar human form and blasted them away, leaving everyone stunned.

• Divine Son Lüshang revealed that he had sent word of the Immortal Silkworm to the Dead Land's Corpse Clan and threatened Chen Zheng with an approaching Corpse Dao Ancestor.
• The black-robed middle-aged man urged Chen Zheng to surrender the Immortal Silkworm to the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect, but Chen Zheng said he would let everyone see it and compete to become its master.
• Chen Zheng opened the Divine Temple inside Nine Netherworlds Senluo City, releasing the Immortal Silkworm in a streak of jade-green demonic light.
• Divine Son Lüshang, the black-robed middle-aged man, and Yin Tianzong's subordinate Old Qin charged toward the Immortal Silkworm.
• The Immortal Silkworm changed into a familiar human form and blasted all three attackers away, astonishing Yin Tianzong and the demon spirit.

After the Eighth Ancestor of the Dead Land arrived to seize the Immortal Silkworm from Lan Bao'er, he recognized Chen Zheng as the peerless mighty figure thought to have perished. Chen Zheng revealed he had not failed his tribulation transcendence, then instantly killed the newly ascended Corpse Dao Ancestor, leaving everyone stunned.

• The people of Nine Netherworlds Senluo City recognized the Immortal Silkworm as Lan Bao'er, and Old Qin charged toward her before a terrifying cold snort destroyed his body.
• Divine Son Lüshang welcomed the Eighth Ancestor of the Dead Land, who declared that he would take the Immortal Silkworm and laughed at the thought of testing the peerless figure who had supposedly perished.
• The Eighth Ancestor described the figure who had once suppressed the Dead Land, prompting everyone to look toward Chen Zheng and the demon spirit of the Yin Demon Spring.
• Divine Son Lüshang identified the demon spirit, and the Eighth Ancestor sensed that Chen Zheng's body was unusual and locked onto him with his corpse Dao aura.
• Chen Zheng said he had not failed his tribulation transcendence, and he instantly reduced the Eighth Ancestor to dust.

Chen Zheng entered Wuwang Divine Hall after Yin Tianzong killed the Corpse Clan attackers and the Immortal Silkworm returned to its original form. Daoist Kuzhen revealed what had happened to several figures from the past and explained that Heaven-Robbing Heavenly Demon Mountain’s arrival had transformed the world.

• Chen Zheng identified Lan Bao'er as the Immortal Silkworm’s chosen host, while Divine Son Lüshang tried to provoke him into a confrontation.
• Chen Zheng told Yin Tianzong to deal with the Corpse Clan, and Yin Tianzong’s black torrent killed Divine Son Lüshang and the other attackers; Old Qin destroyed his own primordial spirit.
• Yin Tianzong and the people of Nine Netherworlds Senluo City thanked Chen Zheng and the demonic spirit, then Chen Zheng brought the Immortal Silkworm into Wuwang Divine Hall with Yin Tianzong and the demonic spirit.
• Daoist Kuzhen awakened, greeted Chen Zheng and the demonic spirit, and explained that Yin Pan had died, Shijiu Niang had left Great Dark Heaven, and Yao Xianji had died as a mortal.
• Daoist Kuzhen said Lu Wuwang had left the world, and suspected the Ultimate She-Devil had fought the great demon of the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect before Heaven-Robbing Heavenly Demon Mountain fell into this world.

A Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect disciple came to Nine Netherworlds Senluo City and demanded the Immortal Silkworm, but Chen Zheng gave Lan Bao'er a chance to awaken its power. Lan Bao'er’s blood-colored gaze instantly destroyed the attacker and his Flood Demon, then swept beyond Great Dark Heaven.

• Daoist Kuzhen worried that Chen Zheng’s diminished magical power would leave him unable to oppose the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect and the Dark Heavenly Dao.
• A Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect disciple arrived atop a powerful Flood Demon and demanded that Nine Netherworlds Senluo City hand over the Immortal Silkworm.
• Chen Zheng sent a drop of his blood and the Immortal Silkworm out of the temple, allowing Lan Bao'er to take human form.
• The disciple tried to seize Lan Bao'er, but a ray from her blood-red eyes evaporated him and the Flood Demon.
• Lan Bao'er's blood-colored ray crossed Great Dark Heaven and swept beyond it.

Lan Bao'er, empowered by the Immortal Silkworm and Chen Zheng's true blood, killed a primordial demon, and the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect issued a decree threatening to destroy the world unless its inhabitants reached the Land of Dao Slaughter within half a month. Chen Zheng left Nine Netherworlds Senluo City with Demon Spirit, while Daoist Kuzhen and Yin Tianzong waited for him to resolve the crisis.

• Lan Bao'er, transformed by the Immortal Silkworm and empowered by Chen Zheng's true blood, killed the primordial demon and returned to Wuwang Divine Hall in a cocoon.
• Chen Zheng told the Immortal Silkworm to return to its place of origin after the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect was destroyed and to treat Lan Bao'er differently from its previous hosts.
• Yin Tianzong received the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect's World Destruction Decree, which gave the realm's inhabitants half a month to reach the Land of Dao Slaughter or face destruction.
• Daoist Kuzhen explained that the Land of Dao Slaughter's No-Dao No-Life Road posed a deadly obstacle for most cultivators and wondered what the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect intended there.
• Chen Zheng took Demon Spirit out of Wuwang Divine Hall, and Daoist Kuzhen told Yin Tianzong that Chen Zheng would visit several places to recover his power before taking them to the Land of Dao Slaughter.
• Daoist Kuzhen recalled that Chen Zheng once commanded the Dark Heavenly Dao's human form to scram, leaving Yin Tianzong dumbfounded.

Chen Zheng and Baobao appeared inside the Wuwang Demon Court while its barrier was close to breaking, confronting the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect disciples waiting to seize what lay beneath the court. After Nulong identified Yin Suwan and her powerful lineage, Chen Zheng remained focused on the dark suppressing stele.

• In the depths of Dead Land, Wuwang Demon Court’s leaders discussed the world-destruction decree, their limited places in the Land of Dao Slaughter, and their plans to harness a sacred object and cultivate more Old Ancestors.
• Nulong cursed the Wuwang Demon Court’s defenders as he and Yin Suwan waited for the barrier to break, planning to take the thing suppressed beneath the court back to their sect.
• Chen Zheng and the palm-sized Baobao appeared soundlessly atop the imperial capital’s wall, startling the demonic cultivators because the barrier had not fluctuated.
• Baobao warned Yin Suwan that Chen Zheng could crush her, but Yin Suwan dismissed the warning and invited him to play a game.
• Nulong challenged Baobao’s claim that Chen Zheng was extraordinary, and Chen Zheng asked who Suwan was while studying the dark suppressing stele.
• Nulong identified Yin Suwan as Elder Yingu’s blood descendant and described Elder Yingu as one of the Heaven-Robbing Demon Sect’s Three Saint Demons.

Chen Zheng accepted Yin Suwan’s challenge to play against her Fate Chessboard and dismissed the first two demonic shadows it summoned. Yin Suwan summoned the terrifying Chaos Holy Demon, leaving the Wuwang Demon Court’s cultivators in fear.

• The Wuwang Demon Court’s cultivators learned that Yin Suwan had a six-tier Dao Tower, while Chen Zheng proposed making her a maid to his disciple Yanluo.
• Yin Suwan agreed to become Yanluo’s maid if Chen Zheng beat her at the Fate Chessboard, and Chen Zheng stepped out of the barrier to play.
• Nulong warned Chen Zheng that he would be trapped inside the Fate Chessboard, while the demon spirit predicted Yin Suwan’s defeat.
• Yin Suwan summoned the Extreme Yin Demon and the Fallen Demon, but both shadows shattered before reaching Chen Zheng.
• Yin Suwan summoned the Chaos Holy Demon, whose enormous shadow covered the Wuwang Demon Court’s imperial city and terrified its cultivators.

Yin Suwan summoned an incarnation of the Chaos Holy Demon, which shattered the Wuwang Demon Court’s defensive barrier and seemed poised to defeat Chen Zheng. Instead, the demonic shadow turned into a puppy, rushed into Chen Zheng’s arms, and begged him to uphold justice against Huntian.

• Yin Suwan summoned the Chaos Holy Demon’s incarnation, and its roar cracked the Wuwang Demon Court’s barrier.
• Nulong and Yin Suwan taunted Chen Zheng as the Chaos Holy Demon’s shadow broke through the barrier.
• Princess Ying mocked the Demon Court’s lord while the city’s demonic cultivators feared their imminent destruction.
• The Chaos Holy Demon’s shadow suddenly shrank into a puppy-like beast and leapt into Chen Zheng’s arms.
• The Chaos Holy Demon called Chen Zheng Ancestor Chen and complained that Huntian had bullied him and barred him from the Wall of Origin.