Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng revealed that he had recovered his Heavenly Emperor Realm power by enduring the Calamity Eye creature’s strike, while the Sacred Brightness Mountain Daoists realized they had misunderstood his motives. Shensuanzi arrived claiming the Divine Source Palace had saved them, but after Chen Zheng challenged his lies, Shensuanzi attacked and lost his physical body.

• Chen Zheng explained that the creature’s strike had broken the shackles on his power, and the Dao-Devouring Beast lamented how difficult his recovery was.
• Shensuanzi arrived at Sacred Brightness Mountain and claimed the Divine Source Palace had driven back the creature and would suppress the Calamity Eye.
• The Daoists and Golden Venerable stayed silent as Shensuanzi boasted, and he only then recognized Chen Zheng as the Heavenly Emperor who had survived the strike.
• Chen Zheng accused Shensuanzi of lying, so Shensuanzi attacked him with the Great Dao of Ice.
• The icy power shattered and Shensuanzi’s body turned to ashes, leaving his primordial spirit to question whether Chen Zheng had blocked the creature.

Chen Zheng pulled the Calamity Eye from Sacred Brightness Mountain’s sealing formation, revealing that he had already devoured most of its power. Little Zhengyue then swallowed the Western Extreme White Tiger Tribulation Eye, leaving everyone stunned and the Heaven-Gazing Beast terrified.

• Shensuanzi warned that the Calamity Eye beneath Sacred Brightness Mountain would erupt within three days and offered to suppress it with the Heaven-Pillar Divine Needle.
• Chen Zheng casually pulled the Calamity Eye from the underground sealing formation, frightening Daoist Qingfeng and the others.
• Chen Zheng said he had already devoured most of the Calamity Eye’s power and summoned Little Zhengyue.
• Little Zhengyue swallowed the Calamity Eye in front of everyone.
• The Heaven-Gazing Beast shrieked in horror as it stared at Little Zhengyue.

Chen Zheng destroyed Shensuanzi and resolved the calamity eye beneath Sacred Brightness Mountain, while little Zhengyue showed she might devour the others. The group returned to God-Devil Holy Mountain, as the Ancestral Dragon Emperor prepared for Chen Zheng’s arrival and sent a master to investigate the Asgard Palace.

• Shensuanzi tried to abduct little Zhengyue, but she repelled the Heaven-Fixing Divine Needle and Chen Zheng shattered Shensuanzi’s primordial spirit.
• The Dao-Devouring Beast swallowed Shensuanzi’s Great Dao fragments, and Daoist Qingfeng thanked Chen Zheng for resolving the calamity eye beneath Sacred Brightness Mountain.
• God-Demon Sacred Venerable described the other calamity eyes and warned Chen Zheng about the Primordial Ruins, but Chen Zheng said he intended to visit it.
• Chen Zheng returned toward God-Devil Holy Mountain with little Zhengyue and took the Heaven-Fixing Divine Needle to give to the monkey, while Golden Venerable returned to the Purple Ultimate Holy Court.
• The Ancestral Dragon Emperor said someone wished to devour his Ancestral Dragon body and awaited that person at the Ancestral Dragon Holy Court.
• The Ancestral Dragon Emperor ordered a gray-robed elder to investigate the Asgard Palace, then entered Huantian with Minister Bai to test Bai’s World-Defying Saber Strike.

After obtaining the Heaven-Fixing Divine Needle, Chen Zheng explained that he wanted to lure Extreme Evil down so he could break the shackles limiting his magical power. He revealed God-Devil Mountain’s Reflection World, where the God-Demon Sacred Venerable discovered that his power was being drained.

• Wukong took the Heaven-Fixing Divine Needle and left the God-Devil Hall, while Chen Zheng declined to retrieve the second tribulation eye from the God-Devil Burial Pit.
• Chen Zheng told the God-Demon Sacred Venerable that Extreme Evil was the evil thoughts severed by one of his identities in his first life, and that fighting Extreme Evil could break his shackles.
• Chen Zheng revealed a phantom of God-Devil Mountain and brought the God-Demon Sacred Venerable and the Dao-Devouring Beast into its Reflection World.
• The God-Demon Sacred Venerable saw a weakened version of himself and watched another god-demon be hailed as the Sacred Venerable; Chen Zheng explained that reverence in the Reflection World drained power from the corresponding true body.

Chen Zheng broke the Reflection World created by the Ancestral Dragon Emperor and identified the woman who escaped as Huantian, the artifact spirit behind it. He warned that Huantian might prevent him from completely erasing the Ancestral Dragon Emperor, leaving his companions wondering what he meant by “Great Huantian.”

• A god-devil in the Reflection World attacked Chen Zheng, but Chen Zheng shattered the attack and the god-devil with a casual finger.
• Chen Zheng dismissed a false version of the Heaven-Gazing Beast clan’s ringleader and then a fake Chen Zheng, causing the Reflection World to collapse.
• Chen Zheng dragged an expressionless woman out of the collapsing world, but she vanished as the group returned to the Supreme God-Devil Hall.
• Chen Zheng identified the woman as Huantian, an artifact spirit whose magical treasure had created the Reflection World.
• Chen Zheng named the Ancestral Dragon Emperor as the likely creator and said Huantian might keep him from erasing the emperor completely.

Chen Zheng left God-Devil Hall to visit Tongtian Sword Tower, where Langhuan Sword Manor was seeking someone to inherit an awakened divine sword. He arrived as the powerful candidates failed and drew ridicule for being only in the Heavenly Emperor Realm, then questioned the tower’s name.

• Chen Zheng confirmed a mysterious discovery with seven-colored light, then vanished to visit Tongtian Sword Tower.
• The God-Demon Sacred Venerable explained the tower’s location and told the Dao-Devouring Beast to stay and cultivate; the beast knocked the laughing Heaven-Gazing Beast aside.
• At Tongtian Sword Tower, crowds gathered to compete for an awakened supreme divine sword, and Prince Jiufeng failed the test.
• The Heaven Nie Family’s seventh young master entered the tower, emerged within ten breaths with sword wounds, and conceded that the sword was not fated for him.
• Chen Zheng arrived at the tower, and the Yuan Family’s young master recognized him while the seventh young master mocked his low cultivation.
• Chen Zheng asked why the tower was called Tongtian Sword Tower, prompting the crowd to call him an idiot and joke that he was performing for the Ten Thousand Shadows Palace.

Chen Zheng refused Flying Heavenly Sword Venerable’s invitation to enter the Tongtian Sword Tower and instead summoned the Supreme Divine Sword himself. The sword arrived before him, and when the Heaven Nie Family’s seventh young master sent a Dao Ancestor to seize it, the sword destroyed the attack and the Dao Ancestor vanished.

• Flying Heavenly Sword Venerable invited Chen Zheng into the Tongtian Sword Tower, promising to explain its name and make him a personal disciple if he passed the trial and saw the Supreme Divine Sword.
• Chen Zheng called the trial too much trouble and told Flying Heavenly Sword Venerable to bring the sword to him instead.
• Chen Zheng reached toward the tower, causing it to shake as the Supreme Divine Sword shot out and descended before him.
• The Heaven Nie Family’s seventh young master secretly ordered a Dao Ancestor to use eerie green light to seize the forming sword.
• The Supreme Divine Sword crushed the green light, and a dark gleam flashed as the Dao Ancestor disappeared.

Chen Zheng summoned the supreme divine sword from the Tongtian Sword Tower, ignored Flying Heavenly Sword Venerable’s demand that he become his disciple, and watched the sword take human form. The woman in plain robes bowed to Chen Zheng and called him her master.

• Chen Zheng’s summoned sword killed the Dao Ancestor who accompanied the Heaven Nie Family’s seventh young master, leaving the onlookers terrified.
• Flying Heavenly Sword Venerable appeared, recognized that Chen Zheng had awakened the ancient supreme divine sword, and offered to take him as a disciple.
• Chen Zheng told Flying Heavenly Sword Venerable to be quiet, while the seventh young master hoped the refusal would provoke him into attacking.
• Flying Heavenly Sword Venerable tried to use a mind-clearing secret art on Chen Zheng, but it vanished before reaching him.
• Chen Zheng told the forming sword silhouette to take its final shape, and it transformed into a woman in plain robes who bowed and addressed him as Master.

Chen Zheng claimed the supreme divine sword after it transformed into a woman who called herself a child sword. When the Langhuan Manor Master tried to kill him and seize the sword, Chen Zheng’s Sword Physique reflected the attack and killed him, and Chen Zheng left with Yuan Feihong and Uncle Haoran.

• The divine sword transformed into a woman, called Chen Zheng “Master,” and entered the space between his brows as a sword shadow.
• The Langhuan Manor Master arrived and sealed the area in a Sword Domain to stop Chen Zheng from leaving with the divine sword.
• The Langhuan Manor Master attacked Chen Zheng with sword shadows, but the strikes rebounded and pierced the Manor Master, destroying his primordial spirit.
• Chen Zheng told the Flying Heavenly Sword Venerable to manage the Langhuan Sword Manor and vanished; the Flying Heavenly Sword Venerable said Chen Zheng had a terrifying Sword Physique that reflected sword techniques.
• The cultivators noticed Yuan Feihong and Uncle Haoran were gone, while the Nie Family’s Seventh Young Master vowed to report Uncle Yun’s death and seek revenge.

Yuan Feihong brought Chen Zheng into the Yuan Family’s ancestral grounds, where Chen Zheng learned that the family’s sacred relic and Ancient Sacrifice Technique were deteriorating. After a servant insulted Chen Zheng and demanded he kneel, Chen Zheng destroyed the servant’s body, and the servant fled to seek help as Yuan Feihong’s brother and an angry clan elder arrived.

• Yuan Feihong avoided taking Chen Zheng to Taicang Imperial City and led him into the Yuan Family’s ancestral grounds through the mountain’s formation.
• Chen Zheng recognized that the Yuan Family’s Ancient Sacrifice Technique was fairly complete, and Yuan Feihong explained that the patterns on the family’s sacred relic had been deteriorating for about a hundred years.
• Shenzaozi, a servant whose divine ability could slow the sacred relic’s deterioration, belittled Chen Zheng and demanded that he kneel and kowtow.
• Chen Zheng destroyed Shenzaozi’s fleshly body for disrespect, leaving his primordial spirit alive to repent.
• Shenzaozi fled into an ancient palace to summon help, and Yuan Feihong’s eldest brother and an angry clan elder arrived with overwhelming pressure.

Chen Zheng repelled Elder Yuan Kai and questioned the truth behind Shenzaozi’s divine ability, while Yuan Feihong’s brother continued to accuse him of betraying the Yuan Family. The chapter left the Yuan Family elders alarmed by Chen Zheng’s suggestion that they examine Shenzaozi’s exposed primordial spirit.

• Shenzaozi accused Chen Zheng of attacking him, and Yuan Feihong explained that Chen Zheng was connected to the Yuan Family’s progenitor.
• Yuan Feihong’s elder brother accused him of bringing a Nie Family spy into the ancestral grounds, and Elder Yuan Kai attacked Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng casually struck Elder Yuan Kai back into a cliff, then restored his body and magical power with blue-green divine light.
• Elder Yuan Kai mistook Chen Zheng’s healing for another attempt to humiliate him, while Shenzaozi and Yuan Feihong’s elder brother also insisted Chen Zheng was a Nie Family enemy.
• Chen Zheng pointed out that Shenzaozi’s exposed primordial spirit could be examined, making the Yuan Family elders and Shenzaozi visibly alarmed.

Shenzaozi was exposed as a Divine Source Palace spy who had stolen the Yuan Family’s Ancient Sacrifice Technique and used his leverage over their degrading sacred relic to demand protection. Chen Zheng examined the relic and restored its faded patterns in an instant, leaving the Yuan Family astonished.

• Shenzaozi tried to flee, but Elder Yuan Kai captured and examined his primordial spirit, discovering that he was a Divine Source Palace spy.
• Shenzaozi threatened that killing him would doom the Yuan Family’s sacred relic, while Yuan Kai revealed the Divine Source Palace had murdered the Yuan Family’s strongest patriarch and stolen their technique.
• Shenzaozi argued that the Yuan Family had no choice but to protect him, and Chen Zheng mocked the family for letting a spy infiltrate their ancestral land.
• Chen Zheng asked to see the sacred relic, and Yuan Kai led him to the cauldron despite Shenzaozi’s taunts.
• Chen Zheng swept his hand over the cauldron and instantly restored its nearly vanished patterns, shocking the Yuan Family.

Chen Zheng explained that the Yuan Family’s sacred cauldron had been damaged by the epoch’s collapse, which he had caused in a past battle. When the Divine Source Palace’s master sent a Dao body to attack Ancient Sacrifice Sacred Mountain, Chen Zheng destroyed it with a snap of his fingers, leaving the Yuan Family in awe and Yuan Feihong eager to learn his methods.

• The sacred cauldron’s patterns escaped into a river of stars, revealing the secret of immortality to Shenzaozi before the vision shattered.
• Chen Zheng explained that the cauldron recorded part of the Great Samsara Network and had been affected when he shattered and restarted the epoch.
• Shenzaozi revealed that he had alerted the Divine Source Palace and threatened that its master’s Dao body would seize the cauldron.
• The Divine Source Palace’s master attacked Ancient Sacrifice Sacred Mountain with a Dao body, and Chen Zheng erased it with a snap of his fingers without leaving the hall.
• The Yuan Family’s Dao Ancestors believed Chen Zheng’s claims, and Yuan Feihong asked whether Chen Zheng would teach his methods to outsiders.

Chen Zheng killed Nie Wujian, a Heaven of the Nie Family, with a single sword strike after Nie Wujian threatened to seize the Yuan Family’s ancestral grounds. The Yuan Family watched Nie Wujian fall before their ancient hall.

• Nie Wujian shattered the Yuan Family’s protective formation and demanded that Yuan Kai surrender the family’s sacred relic and seal the disciples’ cultivation.
• Shenzaozi revealed that the Divine Source Palace and the Nie Family had joined forces and urged Nie Wujian to kill Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng questioned Nie Wujian’s claim to the title of Heaven and called him a half-step epoch hegemon.
• Nie Wujian attacked the Yuan Family’s ancestral grounds, but Chen Zheng sent out a sword shadow that pierced Nie Wujian’s head.
• Nie Wujian fell dead before the Yuan Family’s ancient hall as Chen Zheng declared that he was unworthy of the title Heaven.

Chen Zheng killed Nie Wujian, then faced the Flame God when she arrived to borrow the Yuan Family’s sacred cauldron. After recognizing Chen Zheng as the one who saved her husband, she left without taking the cauldron, while Shenzaozi’s Dao heart shattered.

• A dark object flew from Chen Zheng’s pocket and drained Nie Wujian into a desiccated corpse after Chen Zheng’s sword struck him.
• The Flame God appeared over the Yuan Family’s ancestral grounds and demanded to borrow their sacred cauldron.
• Yuan Kai refused, explaining that the Yuan Family was under threat, and the Flame God destroyed the eldest young master’s body when he questioned her past with Yuan Yinyang.
• Shenzaozi offered the Flame God information about the Yuan Family’s sacred relic in exchange for rescue, but Chen Zheng revealed that she was Xiongzhao Beast’s wife and Hongyue’s mother.
• The Flame God bowed to Chen Zheng, thanked him for saving her husband, declined to take the cauldron, and invited him to visit the City of Ten Thousand Sins.
• Shenzaozi’s primordial spirit shattered after the Flame God departed, leaving the Yuan Family witnesses stunned.

Chen Zheng saved the Yuan Family's ancestral land and set out with them for Taicang Imperial City, where he suspected a Heaven was buried. As he teleported them away, a mysterious black-robed man appeared above the sacred mountain and questioned why Yan had backed down.

• The God-Demon Sacred Venerable arrived at the Yuan Family's ancestral land and learned that the Divine Source Palace and the Nie Family had joined forces against the Yuan Family, possibly with the Taicang Imperial Family's support.
• Tiantian devoured Shenzaozi's Great Dao fragments, and Chen Zheng decided to take a stroll through Taicang Imperial City to help the Yuan Family.
• The God-Demon Sacred Venerable left after recalling his history with the Holy Emperor Sect's holy maiden, whose past was also tied to Yuan Yinyang and the Flame God.
• Chen Zheng speculated that a Heaven might be buried beneath Taicang Imperial City, formed a protective array around Ancient Sacrifice Sacred Mountain, and teleported away with the Yuan Family and the sacred cauldron.
• A black-robed man appeared above Ancient Sacrifice Sacred Mountain and complained that Yan had backed down and had once borne a child with a piece of trash.

Chen Zheng entered Taicang Imperial City as the Nie Family besieged the Yuan residence, where Yuan Tianshu was burning his source to resist. Chen Zheng appeared inside the sealed courtyard and faced down a Nie Family elder who dismissed him as a mere Heavenly Emperor Realm cultivator.

• Elder Yuan Kai pointed out the Holy Emperor Sect, and Chen Zheng remarked on its temple and Taicang Imperial City.
• Yuan Feihong and the others sensed that Yuan Tianshu and the Yuan Family Old Ancestor were in danger at their residence.
• Chen Zheng entered the imperial city, slipped past Holy Court divine guards, and vanished before they could stop him.
• Commander Mu warned Yuan Feihong not to return to the Yuan residence, but Yuan Kai led the group there.
• At the Yuan residence, Yuan Tianshu burned his source to hold off the Nie Family, whose elder demanded a blood contract.
• Chen Zheng appeared in the rear courtyard and challenged the Nie Family elder, who sneered at him for being a Heavenly Emperor Realm cultivator.

Chen Zheng protected the Yuan Family as an unknown sword ring repeatedly shattered Nie Xuanyuan’s attacks, leaving the gathered clans stunned. Yuan Feihong and the others reached the rear courtyard, where the Dao-Devouring Beast devoured the fragments of the Great Dao Heavenly Pearls.

• Chen Zheng appeared in the Yuan Family’s rear courtyard, and Nie Xuanyuan dismissed him while the Nie Family mocked him.
• A Nie Family Dao Ancestor attacked Chen Zheng and suddenly turned to ashes before he could strike.
• Nie Xuanyuan unleashed heavenly might, but a sword ring shattered it, and Yuan Tianshu’s group realized Nie Nine Tribulations might wield Epoch Hegemon-level power.
• Nie Xuanyuan threatened to massacre the Yuan Family and sent Great Dao Heavenly Pearls toward the ancient house, but another sword ring shattered them.
• Yuan Kai led Yuan Feihong and the others into the rear courtyard, and the Dao-Devouring Beast swallowed the shattered pearls’ fragments.

Chen Zheng revealed that his child sword had stored the power of Nie Xuanyuan’s earlier techniques and said it had slain Heaven Wujian. As Nie Xuanyuan challenged him to prove the sword could kill him, everyone waited to see what would happen.

• The Dao-Devouring Beast denied swallowing a Great Dao Heavenly Pearl, and Chen Zheng’s sword cry shattered Heaven Xuanyuan’s secret technique as it surged toward the beast.
• Chen Zheng summoned a sword phantom, and Nie Xuanyuan challenged him to explain how he could wield it with his Heavenly Emperor Realm power.
• Chen Zheng explained that the child sword had stored borrowed power from Nie Xuanyuan’s techniques and revealed that it had killed Heaven Wujian at the Ancient Sacrifice Sacred Mountain.
• Yuan Tianshu and the Yuan Family disciples realized Chen Zheng had slain one of the Nie Family’s three titled Heavens, while Yuan Feihong confirmed Chen Zheng’s identity as Ancestor Chen.
• Nie Xuanyuan declared himself ready to die and demanded that Chen Zheng prove he could kill him with the sword.

Chen Zheng killed Nie Xuanyuan and destroyed the Great Cang Sacred Lord’s white dragon intervention, then openly questioned why anyone had shown the Yuan Family respect. The chapter ended with no reply from the imperial palace as the Holy Court seemed to retreat into silence.

• Nie Xuanyuan tried to teleport away from the Yuan Residence, but Chen Zheng’s sword shadow pursued him and pierced his forehead, destroying his primordial spirit.
• Nie Nine Tribulations tried to save Nie Xuanyuan with a huge hand, but Chen Zheng’s sword shadow pierced through it and then moved to destroy Nie Xuanyuan’s body.
• The Great Cang Sacred Lord sent a white dragon to stop the sword shadow, but Chen Zheng cut it down and erased Nie Xuanyuan’s body completely.
• Chen Zheng asked who had shown the Yuan Family any respect, openly challenging the Great Cang Sacred Lord.
• Nie Nine Tribulations declared that disrespecting the Sacred Lord was punishable by beheading, but the imperial palace gave no response.