Chapter Summaries

After a monster battle in Japan drew international attention, Chen Zheng visited the Hata Family shrine to retrieve an object and encountered the family’s hidden ancestor. The ancestor revealed himself as Xu Fu and bowed to Chen Zheng, calling him Ancestor Chen.

• News spread online that a gigantic Tyrannosaurus rex had killed Yamata no Orochi and attacked a fleet near Japan.
• Count William escaped an American military squad and, from Eagle Country, asked Catherine to warn Chen that the Americans were targeting him.
• Chen Zheng and Mishima Lola entered a Hata Family shrine, where a young shrine maiden and other family members ordered them to leave.
• Chen Zheng addressed an unseen presence inside the shrine, prompting an old man to materialize and float out.
• The old man retrieved an object from the shrine, presented it to Chen Zheng, and introduced himself as Xu Fu, a cultivator of the Qin Dynasty, before paying respects to Ancestor Chen.

Xu Fu returned a wooden fox carving to Chen Zheng and explained how it had granted him longevity, while Chen Zheng revealed that its lightning damage had caused the Heavenly Dao to reject Xu Fu's tribulation attempts. The reunion was interrupted when several figures appeared above the Hata Family shrine to capture Xu Fu.

• Xu Fu presented Chen Zheng with a damaged wooden fox carving, and Chen Zheng recognized it as one he had made long ago for a little fox.
• Xu Fu recounted finding the carving in an ancient sect, gaining longevity from it, and discovering that Chen Zheng was the immortal cultivator who had taught figures from the Shang and Zhou eras.
• Chen Zheng explained that a lightning technique had damaged the carving, and that the Heavenly Dao's mark on it had caused Xu Fu's repeated failures to pass through the Kunlun Tribulation Crossing Land.
• Several figures appeared above the shrine, and one challenged Xu Fu, declaring that they had come to capture him.

God Susanoo arrived at the Hata Family residence to capture Xu Fu and ordered Chen Zheng to leave the island nation. Chen Zheng overwhelmed Susanoo, and Amaterasu descended, recognized Chen Zheng, and turned on her brother.

• Susanoo confronted Xu Fu and demanded that Chen Zheng leave the island nation with Little Bone and the wooden carving.
• Susanoo's Divine Domain forced the Hata Family members to their knees and wounded Mishima Lola, but the little shrine maiden resisted.
• Chen Zheng slapped Susanoo three times, breaking his Divine Domain and leaving him unable to fight back.
• Susanoo called for Amaterasu, who descended with overwhelming divine might.
• Amaterasu recognized Chen Zheng, apologized for her younger brother's offense, and offered to take Susanoo back to Takamagahara.
• When Susanoo demanded that Amaterasu kill Chen Zheng, she slapped Susanoo.

Amaterasu recognized Chen Zheng as the man who had torn apart the Golden Crow Supreme, while Susanoo refused to apologize and was killed by Chen Zheng’s shadow. Chen Zheng left the island nation with Xu Fu, who chose to return to Kunlun’s tribulation grounds.

• Amaterasu slapped Susanoo and told Chen Zheng she had seen him tear the Golden Crow Supreme apart in the Golden Crow Ancestral Land.
• Susanoo rejected Amaterasu’s demand that he kneel and apologize to Chen Zheng, so Chen Zheng granted his wish to die.
• Chen Zheng’s black shadow swallowed Susanoo and spat out his blood-stained skeleton.
• Chen Zheng asked Xu Fu whether he would return to China or stay in the island nation, and Xu Fu chose to enter Kunlun’s tribulation grounds again.
• Chen Zheng departed with Xu Fu as Amaterasu bowed, while Mishima Lola watched him leave.

Lin Zhengming investigated a corpse demon who had gone to Nan City to seize the Xuanyuan Sword. At Mirror Lake, Chen Zheng arrived as the woman called Fire Spirit froze upon seeing him, and the corpse-controlling bell shattered.

• Xiao Peng showed Lin Zhengming evidence of a sinister woman behind several museum thefts, and Lin Zhengming confronted her but found his mental attacks ineffective.
• Lin Zhengming learned the woman had gone to Nan City to seize the Xuanyuan Sword.
• At Mirror Lake, Hu Fei fought the green-faced corpse-controller and his thousand-year-old corpse demon, Fire Spirit, but was repeatedly overpowered.
• Chen Zheng and Zuo Qinghong arrived as Fire Spirit reached for Hu Fei, and the green-faced man ordered Fire Spirit to kill Chen Zheng and capture Zuo Qinghong.
• Fire Spirit remained frozen while staring at Chen Zheng, who said that Fire Spirit was not her name, and the corpse-controlling bell shattered.

Chen Zheng confronted Penglai Immortal Island’s forces after the drought demon reunited with him, and his finger snap destroyed their Terrestrial Immortals and Fang Han’s body. Fang Han summoned the Mysterious Maiden, leaving a beam of mystic light descending toward Nan City.

• The blue-faced man’s Corpse-Control Bell shattered, and the woman in blue killed him before kneeling to Chen Zheng and calling him Saintly Teacher.
• Zuo Qinghong recognized the woman in blue as a drought demon as her presence withered the vegetation and lake water around Mirror Lake.
• Fang Han and Penglai Immortal Island’s cultivators arrived under the Mysterious Maiden’s order to capture the drought demon and claim Hu Fei’s Xuanyuan Sword.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers, turning several Terrestrial Immortals to ash and decapitating Fang Han, whose Nascent Soul survived.
• Fang Han invoked the Mysterious Maiden’s talismanic decree, and a beam of mystic light descended from the sky toward Earth.

The Mysterious Maiden descended at Mirror Lake to take Nüba to Supreme Heaven, dismissing Chen Zheng as a weakened former legend. Chen Zheng revealed overwhelming power, destroyed the Mysterious Maiden’s divine sense, and shattered Fang Han’s Nascent Soul.

• The Mysterious Maiden’s arrival isolated Nan City, and she appeared at Mirror Lake before Nüba, Chen Zheng, Hu Fei, Zuo Qinghong, and Fang Han.
• Fang Han urged the Mysterious Maiden to destroy Chen Zheng for defying her decree, while she offered to take Nüba to her palace in Supreme Heaven.
• Nüba refused to leave Chen Zheng’s side, and the Mysterious Maiden warned her that Chen Zheng could not protect her from the enemies coming to Earth.
• The Mysterious Maiden attacked Chen Zheng, but he erased her power and revealed a beast-shaped phantom that horrified her.
• Chen Zheng crushed the Mysterious Maiden’s divine sense, then shattered Fang Han’s Nascent Soul with a cold glance.

Chen Zheng sent a drop of his blood into Supreme Heaven, destroying the Mysterious Maiden Palace and severely injuring Mysterious Maiden. Back on Earth, Nüba chose to leave the past behind, while Chen Zheng offered to help her cultivate in the Netherworld.

• Chen Zheng launched a bead of blood through the worlds, and it pierced the Spirit Realm's Thundercloud Heavenly Sea into Supreme Heaven.
• The Mysterious Maiden Palace exploded, leaving Mysterious Maiden charred and with only half her body.
• Physiognomist Zhenyi told the Dragon Emperor that Princess Zhengyue's karmic bond with Chen Zheng could not be severed, and that Chen Zheng might help Ten Thousand Dragons Mountain escape its trapped-dragon predicament.
• Chen Zheng told Zuo Qinghong that his blood could restart the myriad heavens and worlds if perfectly controlled, but her constitution was too weak to fuse with it.
• Chen Zheng offered to remove the restrictions on Nüba's cultivation or send her to the Netherworld to train with Corpse Immortal Ji.
• Nüba said she wanted to return to her childhood, and Chen Zheng told her that era had already been destroyed.

Chen Zheng summoned Corpse Immortal Ji to take Nüba to the Netherworld, where she would train and eventually seek Xuanyuan in the Immortal Domain. After Ji departed with Nüba, Chen Zheng explained that kissing her would have cost him the spiritual energy dragons within him.

• Chen Zheng told Nüba to learn from Corpse Immortal Ji and someday fight her way into the Immortal Domain to find Xuanyuan.
• Chen Zheng summoned Corpse Immortal Ji, whose appearance frightened Nüba and made the Xuanyuan Sword tremble.
• Corpse Immortal Ji offered to teach Nüba her strongest secret art if Nüba could get Chen Zheng to kiss her.
• Corpse Immortal Ji teased Chen Zheng about their past, then obeyed when he called her name and took Nüba to the Netherworld.
• After Ji and Nüba vanished, Chen Zheng told Zuo Qinghong that kissing Ji would have cost him the spiritual energy dragons inside him.

Chen Zheng reached Penglai Immortal Island with Little Bone and attacked its guardians, while the Superpower Group watched until the island’s protective formation blocked its surveillance. The island’s Terrestrial Immortals confronted Chen Zheng, who revealed that he had killed their mainland forces and prepared to strike the red-robed elder.

• Lin Zhengming learned from Chen Zheng that he wanted Penglai Immortal Island’s coordinates and ordered Xiao Peng to request more satellites to monitor the East China Sea.
• Chen Zheng arrived at Penglai Immortal Island on the super Tyrannosaurus rex, and Little Bone bit the Yinglong’s neck open and tore off its head.
• Little Bone killed the Penglai disciple who fled, while Penglai Immortal Island activated its mountain-protecting formation and vanished from satellite surveillance.
• More than a dozen Terrestrial Immortals confronted Chen Zheng and accused him of killing Elder Yinglong and a disciple.
• Chen Zheng confirmed that he had killed the island’s mainland forces, withstood the red-robed elder’s sword attack, and raised his hand to offer the elder a slap.

Chen Zheng destroyed Penglai Immortal Island and killed its disciples and four Nascent Souls, but a sword-wielding old man descended from the upper realm. A nearby aircraft carrier prepared to attack Chen Zheng, believing he would be badly injured.

• Chen Zheng shattered Penglai Immortal Island's protective formation and split apart the island's grotto-heaven with one palm.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers, killing more than a hundred cultivators below the Nascent Soul realm, then broke the red-robed elder's sword form and destroyed his body.
• Chen Zheng crushed the Nascent Souls of the red-robed elder, Penglai Immortal Island's sect master, and two mountain-guarding old monsters.
• Xiao Peng, Lin Zhengming, and Old Nie watched the destruction on satellite footage as a sword-wielding old man descended over the East China Sea.
• Commanders aboard a nearby aircraft carrier ordered level-one combat readiness and prepared to attack Chen Zheng.

Chen Zheng showed Nie Jingshen memories of the Mysterious Maiden, shattering the sword master’s Dao heart and causing his manifestation to self-destruct. The fallout left Nie Jingshen a living corpse in the Spirit Realm, while an American carrier crew ordered a withdrawal after Chen Zheng disappeared.

• Chen Zheng told Nie Jingshen that he had killed Nie Cangsheng and showed him a fleeting image of the Mysterious Maiden kneeling before him.
• Chen Zheng showed Nie Jingshen another memory, and Nie Jingshen lost control and self-detonated above the East China Sea.
• Chen Zheng said Nie Jingshen’s Dao heart had shattered, while the Ninth Sword Palace discovered that Nie Jingshen was alive but reduced to a living corpse.
• The American carrier commander ordered a withdrawal after an operator reported that Chen Zheng had disappeared, while the tyrannosaurus remained in the area.

Chen Zheng annihilated a U.S. carrier fleet that attacked him, prompting its last transmission to report that it had encountered Thanos. He then explored the revived East China Sea with Little Bone, where the Dragon King recognized him and bowed as a descendant of the Demon God Ao Kun.

• The U.S. carrier fleet opened fire on Chen Zheng, but his energy shield stopped its weapons and his finger snap destroyed the fleet and its personnel.
• A communications soldier sent the message “Report! We've encountered Thanos!” before the command room and the rest of the fleet vanished.
• Lin Zhengming reflected that Chen Zheng surpassed anything on Earth, even the newly appearing supernatural beings and gods.
• Chen Zheng and Little Bone descended into the East China Sea, where Little Bone easily killed several sea monsters and they found a dragon palace.
• Flood dragons surrounded Chen Zheng and Little Bone, but the Dragon King killed one that demanded to eat them, transformed into a man, and prostrated himself before Chen Zheng as Ao Bai, descendant of the Demon God Ao Kun.

At the Dragon Palace, Ao Bai told Chen Zheng about Ao Kun and the Dragon-Shaped Jade before Chen Zheng helped the flood dragons defeat monsters. Chen Zheng followed the monsters’ spacetime rift to the deep sea and swallowed the world beyond it, leaving Ao Bai stunned.

• Ao Bai explained that Ao Kun had left him a replica Dragon-Shaped Jade and had searched for Chen Zheng after the Battle of Zhuolu.
• Chen Zheng revealed that the genuine Dragon-Shaped Jade was a spaceship, then agreed to help Ao Bai fight the monsters attacking the Dragon Palace.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and reduced more than a dozen monsters to powder.
• Chen Zheng had Ao Bai lead him to the spacetime rift at the bottom of the sea, where a voice threatened to destroy Earth.
• Chen Zheng transformed, and the enormous shadow behind him devoured the monster world through the rift before returning to his body.

After Chen Zheng’s shadow swallowed the monster world, powerful cultivation-world factions attacked the Ying, Jiang, and Ji Families to seize their Prohibition Decrees and treasures. Enormous eyes appeared over each family and erased the attackers, while Dragon Soul revealed that Chen Zheng had laid a Zhou Heaven Star Grand Formation across the land.

• The Flood Dragon King marveled that Chen Zheng’s shadow had swallowed an entire world, but Chen Zheng disappeared before the king could cook for him.
• Feng Xiaoyao attacked the Ying Family winery and demanded its Prohibition Decree, but enormous eyes appeared and erased him before he could kill Ying Sanshui.
• A blue-robed Qingcheng Sect Daoist attacked Jiang Boyue over the Jiang Family’s Prohibition Decree, and the eyes erased him and his Nascent Soul.
• Dragon Soul told Jiang Boyue that the eyes belonged to his lord, Chen Zheng, who had long ago laid a Zhou Heaven Star Grand Formation across the land.
• Mao Jiudao overpowered Ji Chengfeng and reached for the Nine Cauldrons, but the eyes appeared above the Ji Family and erased him.

Xu Fu began his tribulation at Kunlun, where Chen Zheng intervened when the Heavenly Dao targeted him with a powerful lightning net. The Kunlun Immortal Palace then emerged from the Tribulation Crossing Land, leaving the Kunlun disciples convinced that their sect leader had summoned it.

• At Superpower Group headquarters, Lin Zhengming told Xiao Peng that Chen Zheng had killed Nascent Soul experts and apparently erased the leader of the Twelve Cities of Xuandu Yujing.
• Xu Fu told Chen Zheng he had decided to brave the Kunlun Tribulation Crossing Land, and Chen Zheng promised to watch over him if the Heavenly Dao singled him out again.
• Several days later, Xu Fu entered the Kunlun Tribulation Crossing Land as Lü Changhe warned Chen Zheng that Kunlun's sect leader, Fan Wuji, might be extremely powerful.
• A lightning net filled with Heavenly Dipper Orthodox Lightning descended on Xu Fu, and Chen Zheng told the Heavenly Dao that it was targeting him unfairly.
• The lightning-magic talismans vanished from the tribulation net after Chen Zheng spoke, weakening its power as Xu Fu faced the storm.
• The Kunlun Immortal Palace rose from the Tribulation Crossing Land, and the Kunlun disciples assumed it had appeared for Fan Wuji.

The Kunlun Immortal Palace appeared above Kunlun, and Fan Wuji claimed it had appeared for him before failing to open its doors. After Zuo Qinghong laughed at him, Fan Wuji ordered the people of Kunlun to attack her, with Chen Zheng still beside her.

• Lü Changhe recalled the Still Water Lineage’s warning about the Kunlun Immortal Palace and suspected it had appeared for Chen Zheng, not Fan Wuji.
• Fan Wuji emerged from the tribulation grounds, claimed the immortal palace had appeared for him, and was welcomed by the people of Kunlun.
• Zheng Haoran and several Nascent Soul old monsters arrived as Fan Wuji tried to open the palace doors, but they would not budge and the recoil hurled him away.
• Zuo Qinghong laughed at Fan Wuji, who ordered the people of Kunlun to kill her.
• The people of Kunlun sent hundreds of streaks of sword light toward Zuo Qinghong, with Chen Zheng still standing beside her.

Chen Zheng confronted Kunlun's sect master, Fan Wuji, as the immortal palace opened for him. After Fan Wuji attacked with fused lightning arts, Chen Zheng killed him with hundreds of spiritual energy dragons.

• A Kunlun Terrestrial Immortal attacked Zuo Qinghong, but Chen Zheng killed him with a glance.
• Fan Wuji bowed to Chen Zheng as an ancestor and claimed the Kunlun Limitless Art descended from Chen Zheng's disciple, Jiang Ziya.
• Chen Zheng revealed that the immortal palace had appeared for him, and its doors opened to welcome him.
• Fan Wuji admitted he intended to kill Chen Zheng and unleashed the Kunlun Limitless Art fused with the Orthodox Heavenly Lightning Art.
• Chen Zheng announced that Fan Wuji's minute was up and sent hundreds of spiritual energy dragons to devour his lightning and tear apart his body and primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng killed Fan Wuji and the Kunlun cultivators with hundreds of spiritual energy dragons, then rejected the Kunlun Immortal Palace’s offer to acknowledge him as its master. As a terrifying lightning tribulation descended, he sent a giant beast into the storm, and it returned carrying a bloodied, sky-blotting hand.

• Chen Zheng’s spiritual energy dragons tore Fan Wuji apart, then killed the Kunlun cultivators.
• The Nascent Soul cultivators recognized Chen Zheng’s overwhelming power, while Zuo Qinghong praised him.
• The Kunlun Immortal Palace formed stone steps for Chen Zheng, but he refused its offer and told it to seek one of Ziya’s descendants instead.
• The immortal palace withdrew as ancient lightning patterns descended toward the tribulation grounds, forcing the Nascent Soul cultivators to retreat.
• Chen Zheng sent a giant beast formed from a black shadow into the thundercloud storm, and it returned with a bloodied, sky-blotting hand.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Kunlun Sect after helping Xu Fu ascend and silencing the Dao Lord who attacked him. The next day, he left for Europe with Catherine to investigate the chaos there and choose a new Vampire Lord.

• Chen Zheng's black shadow tore apart the lightning figure's arm and forced the Dao Lord's attack to end, allowing Xu Fu to ascend.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the Kunlun Sect's grounds, then left with Zuo Qinghong as Lü Changhe and the other cultivators reacted in alarm.
• Catherine told Chen Zheng that Count William's call had been cut off, and Chen Zheng agreed to visit Europe and help the Vampires choose a new Vampire Lord.
• Chen Zheng and Catherine boarded the Mishima Group's private plane while Mishima Lola reported that supernatural forces and beings from other worlds were appearing across Europe.
• Mishima Lola ended their video call after Chen Zheng said he had a sexy Vampire maid, and Little Bone admitted An Jing had made it watch suggestive dramas.