Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng led the Dragon Demon Clan to the Corpse Immortal Hall, destroying every being from the Nine Tribulations Demon Grotto along the way. When the Dragon of Annihilation confronted him, Chen Zheng killed it with a single grab.

• The Immortal-Burying Wood Puppet began to crack under Chen Zheng’s gaze, then obeyed the little purple beast and followed him.
• Chen Zheng set out for the Corpse Immortal Hall, and the Dragon Demon Clan followed as he reduced the Nine Tribulations Demon Grotto’s revived beings and monsters to dust.
• Chen Zheng and his followers reached the Corpse Immortal Hall, where the Dragon of Annihilation’s army and three Dao Ancestor generals were gathered.
• The Dragon of Annihilation accused the Immortal-Burying Wood Puppet of betrayal, while Chen Zheng dismissed the dragon as weak.
• A demon in dragon-scale armor attacked Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng grabbed the Dragon of Annihilation and turned it to ashes.

Chen Zheng destroyed the Dragon of Annihilation and the invading demonic army before entering the Corpse Immortal Hall. There, Corpse Immortal Ji explained that Liuying was in the Stone Clan’s underground palace, which was tied to the Netherworld’s upheaval.

• Chen Zheng killed the dragon-scaled demon and erased the demon who invoked a former Epoch Hegemon, along with the demonic army outside the Corpse Immortal Hall.
• The Dragon Demon Clan knelt in awe, and Chen Zheng encouraged one young man to keep reading before entering the hall.
• The little purple beast failed to pass through Corpse Immortal Ji’s barrier and waited outside.
• Inside the hall, Chen Zheng greeted Nüba, Xiangliu, the Ghost King, and Corpse Immortal Ji, then learned Hongyi had gained a divine mark that could eventually give her an Epoch Hegemon-level body.
• Corpse Immortal Ji told Chen Zheng that Liuying was in the Stone Clan’s underground palace and that the palace was deeply connected to the Netherworld’s changes.

Chen Zheng sealed the Corpse Immortal Hall against demons from the Nine Tribulations Demon Grotto, then entered the Stone Clan's underground palace with Corpse Immortal Ji to find Liuying. He freed Liuying from the Epoch Shackles and shattered the crystal encasing her.

• Chen Zheng placed a barrier around the Corpse Immortal Hall, left the Eightfold Futu Pagoda outside it, and told Nüba, Xiangliu, Ghost King, and Burial Immortal to guard the hall while the little purple beast devoured Great Dao fragments.
• A Half-Step Dao Ancestor demon died when it struck Chen Zheng's barrier, and seven or eight stronger demons appeared outside as Chen Zheng and Corpse Immortal Ji headed for the underground palace.
• Chen Zheng entered the spell-forbidden valley and opened the underground palace's sealed entrance despite losing his magical power.
• An old man's phantom attacked Chen Zheng with savage force and triggered the Epoch Shackles, but Chen Zheng's shackles devoured the torrent and freed Liuying from her restraints.
• Chen Zheng shattered the crystal encasing Liuying while the old man's phantom watched in shock.

The Stone Clan sacrificed its origins to summon the Progenitor Divine Stone and unleash a devastating strike against Chen Zheng. Chen Zheng caught the stone unharmed and identified it as the Stone of the Beginning, leaving the old man's phantom and the stone people stunned.

• The old man's phantom summoned stone people and led them in an ancient chant that shook the Netherworld and the myriad worlds.
• At the Corpse Immortal Hall, Ten Seals Immortal Venerable failed to subdue the Futu Pagoda, while the Nine Tribulations Demon Grotto beings taunted those trapped inside the barrier.
• The old man's phantom and several stone people burned their origins to summon the Progenitor Divine Stone and strike Chen Zheng.
• The stone's attack tore through the underground palace and surrounding spacetime, with a crack reaching the Corpse Immortal Hall's barrier.
• Chen Zheng caught the stone unharmed, recognized it as the Stone of the Beginning, and shocked the old man's phantom and the stone people.

Chen Zheng used the Stone of the Beginning to reveal the Stone Clan’s origins and the Reincarnation Fate Lord’s past. The Trans-Spacetime Wheel’s artifact spirit ran out of energy after showing the stone’s history, leaving Chen Zheng and the others with the clan’s memories of its rise and fall.

• Chen Zheng identified the stone as the Stone of the Beginning, and the Creation Little Doll revealed itself as the legendary Future Lord of Tribulation.
• The elderly phantom recognized Chen Zheng as the Mountain Guardian and wondered whether he was the mysterious person who had given the Stone of the Beginning to the Stone Clan’s progenitor.
• At Chen Zheng’s command, the Artifact Spirit of the Trans-Spacetime Wheel used the stone to recreate the past.
• The vision showed the Reincarnation Fate Lord taking a stone-born being as his disciple and giving him the Stone of the Beginning.
• The elderly phantom and the kneeling stone men watched scenes of the first epoch’s collapse, Heaven suppressing the Stone Clan, and the clan’s last chief dying in battle.
• The Trans-Spacetime Wheel’s artifact spirit ended the vision after exhausting its stored energy and returned to Chen Zheng’s primordial spirit.

Chen Zheng reclaimed the Stone of the Beginning, absorbed its power, and left the Stone Clan with Liuying. At the Corpse Immortal Hall, he crushed Ten Seals Immortal Venerable and erased half the fleeing beings from the Nine Tribulations Demon Grotto, leaving the survivors terrified.

• Chen Zheng reclaimed the Stone of the Beginning and absorbed its power, but Creation Little Doll warned that using it made his cultivation unstable.
• Chen Zheng told the Stone Clan that its hope remained, then left with Corpse Immortal Ji and Liuying.
• The Stone Clan's underground palace burst out of the Netherworld as Chen Zheng and Corpse Immortal Ji departed.
• Chen Zheng appeared atop the Futu Pagoda and crushed Ten Seals Immortal Venerable, shocking the Nine Tribulations Demon Grotto beings.
• Chen Zheng snapped his fingers and erased half of the fleeing beings who were guilty of the ten unforgivable evils.

Chen Zheng subdued the ancient beings of the Netherworld and saw the Cosmic Cantilever's progress reach seventy-nine as he moved closer to completing the Primordial Chaos Great Samsara. He decided to delay Nüba's journey to Supreme Heaven until he completed it, then take her to see the Human Emperor himself.

• The ancient beings submitted to Chen Zheng after he crushed the Ten-Seal Immortal Venerable, and he said he still lacked the power to defeat the Primordial Chaos Tribulation Lord.
• Chen Zheng swept seven-colored light across the Netherworld, raising the Cosmic Cantilever's progress to seventy-nine, while its spirits discussed transcendence and his unusual mastery of great samsara networks.
• Chen Zheng and Corpse Immortal Ji entered the Corpse Immortal Hall with the sleeping Liuying, where the Dragon Demon Clan welcomed them.
• Chen Zheng told Nüba that changes in Supreme Heaven made a direct journey to Human Emperor City too dangerous for now.
• Chen Zheng sent Nüba, Corpse Immortal Ji, Xiangliu, Ghost King, and the others to cultivate in the Sands of Time and promised to take Nüba to see the Human Emperor after completing the Primordial Chaos Great Samsara.

After a Primordial Resonance revealed that the Primordial Heavenly Demon was in desperate trouble, Chen Zheng traveled to the vanished Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land and found the Heavenly Demon Great World. He and the little purple beast were pulled toward a colossal presence in the world’s east.

• Chen Zheng taught Corpse Immortal Ji the first level of the Great Samsara Imprint and gave Burial Immortal a killing formation.
• A Primordial Resonance appeared over the Netherworld, and Chen Zheng recognized it as a call connected to the Primordial Heavenly Demon and something beneath the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land.
• Chen Zheng realized that the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land had become the Heavenly Demon Great World and left the Netherworld with the little purple beast.
• They entered the desolate world, where the little purple beast devoured shattered Great Dao fragments.
• A colossal force rose in the east and drew the Great Dao fragments and the Star Raft toward it; Chen Zheng told the little purple beast not to resist.

Chen Zheng arrived at the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land as the Slumbering Moon God Clan’s trap for the Primordial Great Fiend failed and the beast turned on them. A black net hidden inside Chen Zheng swallowed the Primordial Great Fiend and spat out a demon hall, leaving the Slumbering Moon God Clan and the rescued woman stunned.

• The Slumbering Moon God Clan mistook Chen Zheng for a Dao Lord and sent a Quasi-Sage to attack him, but the attacker exploded before reaching the Star Raft.
• The Primordial Great Fiend broke free of the Heavenly Net and Earthly Web, and Grand Elder Qihuo used the captured woman’s true blood in an attempt to lure out the Primordial Heavenly Demon.
• Chen Zheng teleported the woman onto the Star Raft and warned Grand Elder Qihuo that the Primordial Great Fiend was targeting him, after which the fiend crushed Qihuo’s body.
• The Primordial Great Fiend turned toward the Star Raft and attacked, while the woman prepared to burn her source to protect Chen Zheng.
• A black net emerged from Chen Zheng, enveloped the world, and swallowed the Primordial Great Fiend before spitting out a demon hall and returning to Chen Zheng’s body.

Chen Zheng saved the Primordial Heavenly Demon by having the Dao-Devouring Beast swallow the Primordial Great Fiend, then confronted the Slumbering Moon God Clan. He destroyed the clan’s forces except for the grand elder’s primordial spirit, which he handed to the Dao-Devouring Beast to play with.

• The Primordial Heavenly Demon and his companions emerged from the demon palace, thanked Chen Zheng, and sealed the Bridge of the Heavens to prevent the Slumbering Moon God Clan from escaping.
• The Primordial Heavenly Demon refused to release the Slumbering Moon God Clan, while the horse-faced man claimed the clan would leave the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land alone.
• Chen Zheng questioned why the Primordial Great Fiend had been weaker than expected, and the Primordial Heavenly Demon explained that Demon Brain had betrayed him and stolen part of the fiend’s power or potential.
• The Slumbering Moon God Clan’s grand elder and the horse-faced man warned Chen Zheng about the clan’s strength and powerful allies, but Chen Zheng said he intended to destroy them as well.
• Chen Zheng granted the grand elder’s request to leave him alive as a witness, turning the horse-faced man and the other Slumbering Moon God Clan cultivators to ash.
• Chen Zheng condensed the grand elder’s primordial spirit into a dark ball and gave it to the Dao-Devouring Beast, which batted it back and forth until the grand elder fainted.

Chen Zheng left the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land after giving the Primordial Heavenly Demon a divine inheritance, then crossed into the Underworld and reached the Yin River. The gathered beings fell silent when he spoke from the sacrificial altar.

• Chen Zheng gave the Primordial Heavenly Demon divine light to comprehend and pass on, then left the Heavenly Demon Ancestral Land with the Dao-Devouring Beast, leaving the bewildered woman behind.
• The Primordial Heavenly Demon recognized the woman as Ruan Xiang's daughter and asked whether Ruan Xiang was well, but she did not answer.
• A torrent of the River of Time attacked the Star Raft, and Chen Zheng identified the culprit as the Creation Immortal King; Creation Little Doll vowed to destroy him in the Great Void.
• The Trans-Spacetime Wheel's Artifact Spirit warned Chen Zheng that the Future Lord of Tribulation might be connected to a fallen Creator, but Chen Zheng remained confident he could control her.
• Chen Zheng forced the Star Raft into the Underworld, where he and the Dao-Devouring Beast saw a crowd gathered at the Yin River awaiting the ferryman.
• Chen Zheng put away the Star Raft and landed on the tallest sacrificial altar; the crowd prepared to curse him, then froze when he spoke.

Chen Zheng spoke the forbidden ancient name of the Jiuli Yin River, drew out the Jiuli Dragon Hound, and drove it away with a glance. The temple then threatened Jiuli Prefecture’s inheritance of the Divine Office Azure Talisman unless the offender was killed, but Chen Zheng remained untroubled and insulted its envoy.

• The Jiuli Dragon Hound emerged from the Yin River and attacked a gaunt old man and his granddaughter after Chen Zheng spoke the river’s taboo name.
• Chen Zheng asked where the dog had come from, and the Jiuli Dragon Hound froze, cowered, and fled back into the river when he glanced at it.
• The ferryman questioned whether Chen Zheng belonged to the Wu Clan, while Chen Zheng asked why the region’s ancient name, Heaven-Forsaken Mountain, had become Jiuli Prefecture.
• A voice from the temple announced that Jiuli Prefecture’s Divine Office Azure Talisman would be recalled unless the offender was killed before the day ended.
• Chen Zheng ignored the decree and asked where the temple’s dog had come from, shocking the ferryman and the Underworld creatures.

Chen Zheng defied the temple envoy, whose lightning punishment the Dao-Devouring Beast swallowed, and then dragged the envoy’s true body before the people of Jiuli Prefecture. After Chen Zheng challenged the Jiuli Prefecture Lord to uphold his Great Wu bloodline, the Prefecture Lord tore the envoy apart.

• The temple envoy sent dark lightning at Chen Zheng, but the Dao-Devouring Beast swallowed it and taunted him.
• The Jiuli Prefecture Lord arrived after his Divine Office Azure Talisman was reclaimed and realized Chen Zheng’s fleshly body was at the Dao Ancestor level.
• Chen Zheng forcibly dragged the temple envoy’s true body from the temple and threw him onto the ground before the crowd.
• The envoy boasted that his master was Elder Heavenly Wu and threatened Chen Zheng, who ordered the Jiuli Prefecture Lord to kill him.
• Chen Zheng questioned the Jiuli Prefecture Lord’s Great Wu lineage, and the Prefecture Lord tore the envoy apart.

Chen Zheng had the Jiuli Prefecture Lord kill a Divine Temple envoy, prompting the Divine Temple to strip the lord of his Divine Office Azure Talisman and send punishment after them. After Chen Zheng dragged another envoy to Jiuli, he took the envoy’s talisman and revealed over a hundred more, leaving everyone stunned.

• The Jiuli Prefecture Lord killed a Divine Temple envoy at Chen Zheng’s command.
• The Divine Temple reclaimed the Jiuli Prefecture Lord’s Divine Office Azure Talisman, demoted him, and sent lightning punishment toward him and Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng seized another Divine Temple envoy from the temple and dragged him to Jiuli, then ordered the Jiuli Prefecture Lord to kill him.
• The second envoy took the Jiuli Prefecture Lord’s azure talisman and used it to increase his power before attacking Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng pulled the talisman from the envoy’s hand and revealed over a hundred azure talismans.

Chen Zheng gave the Prefecture Lord of Jiuli over a hundred powerful azure talismans, enabling him to kill the Divine Temple envoy, then gave another talisman to the ferryman. As the group prepared to head to Houtu Imperial City, they wondered who Chen Zheng was and why he had helped them.

• Chen Zheng refined over a hundred azure talismans and gave them to the Prefecture Lord of Jiuli, who absorbed one and recovered his cultivation.
• The Prefecture Lord of Jiuli killed the Divine Temple envoy despite the envoy's threat that Elder Heavenly Wu would retaliate.
• The ferryman warned that the Divine Temple might investigate before sending more envoys and asked whether Jiuli Prefecture would still enter the Reincarnation selection.
• Chen Zheng said he would take someone to Houtu Imperial City and gave the ferryman an azure talisman before sending him away.
• The Dao-Devouring Beast called Chen Zheng Ancestor Chen and suggested the Prefecture Lord of Jiuli was descended from one of Chen Zheng's old acquaintances.

Chen Zheng asked about the Underworld’s balance of power and learned that the Burning Heaven Divine Clan’s arrival had transformed the realm and set it against the established factions. He prepared to travel to Houtu Imperial City and revealed that the withered old man’s granddaughter might one day become the Great Nether Venerable.

• Chen Zheng invited the withered old man and his granddaughter to accompany him to Jiuli Prefecture, while the Jiuli Dragon Hound considered leaving the Yin River.
• At the Jiuli Prefecture palace, Chen Zheng asked about the Underworld’s powers, and Fu Chan described the four halls, the Divine Temple, and the mysterious Burning Heaven Divine Clan.
• The Jiuli Prefecture Lord explained that Zhuo Tian was the current Great Nether Venerable and that the Burning Heaven Divine Clan was trying to win over the Underworld Venerables through marriage.
• Chen Zheng ordered the Jiuli Prefecture Lord to distribute green talismans and told him, Fu Chan, the old man, and the girl to go with him to Houtu Imperial City the next day.
• The Dao-Devouring Beast asked whether the girl had a special constitution, and Chen Zheng said she had a chance of becoming the Great Nether Venerable.

Chen Zheng took the Jiuli Prefecture Lord and his companions across the Underworld to Houtu Imperial City, where the Dao-Devouring Beast sensed several powers that could counter it. As they approached, Chen Zheng hinted that the Burning Heaven Divine Clan had usurped Houtu’s place, while the city’s guardians watched their arrival.

• The Jiuli Prefecture Lord asked about Chen Zheng’s knowledge of the Wu Clan, and Chen Zheng revealed that he had killed Chiyou after his resurrection and that the Master of the Holy Corpse now held Chiyou’s primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng agreed with Creation Little Doll that they would seek out the Master of the Holy Corpse.
• The next day, Chen Zheng piloted the Star Raft across the Underworld’s barriers toward Houtu Imperial City, startling Fu Chan and the others with the conspicuous journey.
• The Jiuli Prefecture Lord, Fu Chan, and Fuyi recognized Houtu Imperial City as they approached, while the Dao-Devouring Beast sensed four powers inside that could counter it.
• Chen Zheng questioned the Burning Heaven Divine Clan’s claim over Houtu as the city’s guardians fixed their attention on the Star Raft.

Chen Zheng brought the Jiuli Prefecture Lord and his companions through Houtu Imperial City's barrier and summoned the Ancient Reincarnation Arena before the Battle of Reincarnation was scheduled to begin. He sent little Mingyue onto the arena and sat down beside the divine statue, telling everyone to ignore him as Feng Yixiu failed to seize him.

• Feng Yixiu accused the Jiuli Prefecture Lord, Fu Chan, and their companions of breaking Houtu Imperial City's rules and threatened Chen Zheng with the Sevenfold Hell.
• Chen Zheng used immortal light to carry the group through the city's barrier and land before the Reincarnation Divine Statue.
• Chen Zheng summoned the Ancient Reincarnation Arena, startling the city's residents, nether dragons, and arriving prefecture lords and contestants.
• Chen Zheng sent little Mingyue onto the arena, despite her having no cultivation or magical power.
• Feng Yixiu tried to grab Chen Zheng, but nothing happened, and Chen Zheng summoned tea and told the contestants to enter the arena and everyone else to watch.

Mingyue entered the Battle of Reincarnation despite having no apparent magical power, then revealed a terrifying presence when Yao Chen attacked her. She destroyed the Ancient Reincarnation Arena by absorbing its power and declared herself Immortal Venerable Mingyue.

• The prefecture lords sent seven contestants into the Ancient Reincarnation Arena, including the seemingly powerless Mingyue.
• The Nether Dragon Prefecture Lord told Ming Xiao to protect Mingyue, while Feng Yixiu threatened Chen Zheng and Jiuli Prefecture.
• Yao Chen attacked Mingyue, but she coldly ordered him to scram and turned his body to ash with a single word.
• The Jiuying Prefecture Lord rescued Yao Chen's primordial spirit as the other contestants realized Mingyue held another primordial spirit and was absorbing the arena's power.
• Mingyue devoured the Ancient Reincarnation Arena, and an adult woman's soul phantom appeared behind her and announced, "I'm Immortal Venerable Mingyue!"

Immortal Venerable Mingyue’s soul projection revealed herself before falling asleep, and Madam Mi arrived to claim Mingyue and punish Chen Zheng for destroying the Ancient Reincarnation Arena. Chen Zheng killed the Fifth Realm Dao Ancestor sent to attack him, leaving Madam Mi shrieking in shock.

• Immortal Venerable Mingyue’s soul projection recognized a blue talisman in the Nether Dragon Prefecture Lord’s primordial spirit, then vanished back into Mingyue.
• The Dao-Devouring Beast pulled Mingyue over to examine her, while the Jiuli Prefecture Lord and Fu Chan wondered whether Ancestor Chen had made the talismans.
• Madam Mi arrived in a chariot and demanded that Mingyue be handed over; Feng Yixiu accused Chen Zheng of destroying the Ancient Reincarnation Arena and asked her to punish him.
• Madam Mi ordered Uncle Fu Yue to kill Chen Zheng and bring back Mingyue, and Uncle Fu Yue attacked with divine flame.
• Chen Zheng charged upward, shattered the divine flame, and crushed Uncle Fu Yue to death; the Dao-Devouring Beast devoured the Great Dao fragments around his corpse.
• Madam Mi trembled and shouted that Chen Zheng’s audacity knew no bounds.