Chapter Summaries

Chen Zheng challenged Nie Nine Tribulations to fight that day, but Nie Nine Tribulations postponed their duel for half a month and ordered the Nie Family cultivators at the Yuan Residence killed. Yuan Tianshu suspected Nie Nine Tribulations was plotting with the Great Cang Sacred Lord to enter the Primordial Ruins, which Chen Zheng revealed was a prison.

• The Great Cang Holy Court concealed itself without answering Chen Zheng's challenge, and Nie Nine Tribulations threatened to fight the Yuan Family until one side was dead.
• Chen Zheng challenged Nie Nine Tribulations to a fight that day and revealed that he had killed Nie Nine Tribulations' second and third brothers.
• Nie Nine Tribulations refused to fight immediately, scheduled their duel for half a month later, promised not to harm the Yuan Family in the meantime, and ordered the Nie Family cultivators at the Yuan Residence killed.
• The Nie Family cultivators at the Yuan Residence knelt after Nie Nine Tribulations abandoned them, while Yuan Tianshu and the others marveled at Chen Zheng's power.
• Yuan Tianshu suspected Nie Nine Tribulations and the Great Cang Sacred Lord planned to enter the Primordial Ruins, and Chen Zheng said its depths held a prison.

Chen Zheng revealed that the Primordial Ruins held a prison that creatures from the Outer Realm were not qualified to enter. At the Yuan Residence, he identified an ancient token as the Futu Ancient Token, which Yuan Yinyang linked to the shattered Xuechen Epoch and Tribulation Lord Futu.

• Chen Zheng said the prison in the Primordial Ruins was beyond the reach of creatures from the Outer Realm, and the Yuan Family realized earlier visitors had likely been erased.
• The Nie Family’s seventh young master reported that Chen Zheng had wielded the divine sword from Tongtian Sword Tower with Heavenly Emperor Realm magical power to kill Old Ancestor Xuanyuan.
• Nie Nine Tribulations told the Nie Family to leave Chen Zheng alone while he and the Great Cang Sacred Lord completed their plan.
• Chihuang appeared before Nie Nine Tribulations and explained that the plan would let his true body and others serving Lord Taixuan descend on the Outer Realm and seize the Primordial Ruins.
• Chihuang described Epoch Rings and said Hong Wangu was rumored to have reached the tenth ring, while Nie Nine Tribulations vowed to complete the plan within three days.
• Chen Zheng identified Yuan Yinyang’s ancient token as the Futu Ancient Token, and Yuan Yinyang connected it to the Xuechen Epoch, Tribulation Lord Futu, and the collapse of Six Desires Heaven.

Chen Zheng headed for the Frozen Sea after learning about a divine lotus in the Jiaoren Kingdom, despite warnings that the merfolk there were undying and had sealed the region. After he effortlessly killed a Tideborn Beast and vanished toward the Merfolk Kingdom, Fairy Xue recognized him as the person her master had mentioned and followed him into danger.

• Chen Zheng left the Yuan Family and traveled to the Frozen Sea, while Yuan Yinyang suspected he was seeking the Frozen Sea Calamity Eye.
• At a ferry landing, an old man warned Chen Zheng that the Jiaoren Kingdom was sealed after its spiritual pearl was stolen and revealed that it also had a divine lotus.
• Chen Zheng decided to visit the Merfolk Kingdom, and a Tideborn Beast attacked him as he crossed the sea.
• Chen Zheng destroyed the Tideborn Beast without any visible effort and disappeared with the Dao-Devouring Beast and Heaven-Gazing Beast.
• Fairy Xue arrived searching for Chen Zheng, recognized him as the person her master had mentioned, and flew into the Frozen Sea after him.

Chen Zheng entered the Merfolk Kingdom and took its Calamity Eye despite the merfolk’s warnings and resistance. The merfolk were left stunned when the little girl formed from divine light swallowed it, while Chen Zheng reassured them that he meant no harm.

• Chen Zheng ignored the Frozen Sea barrier, shattered the divine shark’s teeth when it attacked, and walked into the Merfolk Kingdom.
• Chen Zheng’s glance cracked Zi Fan’s body, and he told the merfolk he had come to take the Calamity Eye.
• The Lian Emperor and other merfolk leaders warned that removing the Calamity Eye could endanger their kingdom, but Chen Zheng said it was not a problem.
• Chen Zheng summoned the little girl from between his brows and drew the Calamity Eye out of the kingdom.
• The little girl swallowed the Calamity Eye, remarked that it tasted sweet, and returned to Chen Zheng’s brow as the divine shark collapsed.

Chen Zheng watched the Moon God Clan move to seize the merfolk kingdom’s divine lotus after the Calamity Eye barrier vanished. He took the lotus and the objects tied to it for himself, then killed Feng'er with his own rebounding attack, leaving Lian Juantian staring at him in shock.

• Zhengyue swallowed the Calamity Eye, convincing the Lian Emperor that Chen Zheng had been telling the truth.
• The Calamity Eye barrier shattered, and Lian Juantian’s Moon God Clan surrounded the merfolk kingdom with a moonlight barrier.
• A merfolk girl accused Chen Zheng of failing to help, while the Moon God Clan dismissed him as a fallen Dao Ancestor.
• Lian Juantian used an object to summon the divine lotus from the old merman’s stone disc, but Chen Zheng pulled the lotus, stone disc, and summoning object to himself.
• Feng'er attacked Chen Zheng with a sword ray that rebounded and killed him, shocking the merfolk and enraging the Moon God Clan.

Chen Zheng’s treasures revealed themselves as the Great Void Realm Map and protected him from Lian Juantian, while a little girl refused to devour the divine lotus’s nascent will. When Lian Juantian challenged Chen Zheng, Chen Zheng killed him with a sword strike.

• Lian Juantian failed to activate several secret arts, and his moonlight attack was blocked by Chen Zheng’s stone disc, which shed its shell to reveal the Great Void Realm Map.
• The crescent-robed Moon God Clan man identified the map and urged Lian Juantian to seize it, but the map, divine lotus, and summoning treasure joined forces to blast him away.
• Chen Zheng summoned a sinister little girl and offered her the divine lotus as an opportunity, but she refused to devour its gestating will and returned to the space between his brows.
• Chen Zheng demanded that Lian Juantian reveal what he knew about the Daoist who had stolen the divine lotus and map, but Lian Juantian boasted that his body could withstand Chen Zheng’s power.
• Chen Zheng formed a sword from two sword shadows and annihilated Lian Juantian.

Chen Zheng killed the Moon God Clan elder Lian Juantian, revealed that he had assembled eight pieces of the Great Void Realm Map, and dealt with the Merfolk Clan and a divine lotus. After destroying another Moon God Clan attacker, he discovered a temporal marker linked to a familiar figure who might be the master of the Purple Empyrean Palace.

• Chen Zheng used the united Child Sword and Mother Sword to kill Lian Juantian, and the Dao-Devouring Beast swallowed the Great Dao fragments he left behind.
• Chen Zheng fitted the Great Void Realm Map into his formation diagram, revealing that he possessed eight pieces.
• Chen Zheng told the divine lotus to take form soon, planted it in Lian Juantian's object, and let the Merfolk Clan keep the immortality it had granted them.
• The middle-aged Moon God Clan man tried to escape aboard his warship, but Chen Zheng destroyed them and the Dao-Devouring Beast devoured the resulting Great Dao fragments.
• Chen Zheng examined a temporal marker from the fragments and recognized a figure who might be the master of the Purple Empyrean Palace.

Chen Zheng left the Merfolk Kingdom and followed Xue Yao to the Bliss Ice Palace, where he found the palace torn apart and its mistress battling attackers from the Lawless Sect. The mistress repelled the Lawless Twin Swords and killed one attacker, then roared as her six Dharma manifestations began attacking indiscriminately.

• Chen Zheng departed the Merfolk Kingdom with the divine lotus and Eternal Soil, while the merfolk and divine shark bid him farewell.
• Xue Yao introduced herself as a disciple of the Bliss Ice Palace and invited Chen Zheng to visit her master, and he agreed.
• Chen Zheng and Xue Yao reached the Frozen Sea dock, then the immortal ship hurried toward the Bliss Ice Palace after six icy-blue pillars rose into the sky.
• The group found the Bliss Ice Palace torn apart and its mistress inside a barrier, facing attackers from the Lawless Sect.
• The palace mistress blasted the Lawless Twin Swords out of the barrier and crushed the black-clad man and his Dao Tower.
• The palace mistress roared, and her six Dharma manifestations began attacking indiscriminately.

Chen Zheng saved the Bliss Ice Palace disciples from the palace master’s attacks and revealed that she was a female Holy Emperor, not a she-devil. When the palace master transformed into a phoenix-robed figure, Chen Zheng summoned a little girl whose arrival restored the palace master’s clarity and prompted her to embrace and kiss the girl.

• The purple-robed man abandoned his physical body and urged Fairy Xue to help him suppress the palace master, while Chen Zheng shattered the barrier and transported the Bliss Ice Palace disciples to the immortal ship.
• The six Dharma manifestations attacked the ship, but Chen Zheng slapped them away, and he declared that the palace master was a female Holy Emperor rather than a she-devil.
• The palace master’s six manifestations became shackles and then a phoenix robe as her aura reached its peak, while the purple-robed man again tried to persuade Chen Zheng to join him.
• Chen Zheng summoned a little girl, and the Heaven-Gazing Beast recognized her with a tremble.
• The palace master regained clarity, flew to the immortal ship, hugged the little girl, and called her Big Sister Six Desires.

Chen Zheng left the Bliss Ice Palace and entered Lawless Forbidden Mountain, declaring that he had come to wipe it out. Outside the sealed mountain, onlookers saw the Lawless Sect's Deputy Sect Master Wuze driven out on a divine sword, apparently slain.

• Chen Zheng let Yi Xingkong escape, then departed for the Lawless Sect while the Six Desires Tribulation Lord and the Bliss Ice Palace Master discussed their pasts and Chen Zheng's many identities.
• Chen Zheng arrived at Lawless Forbidden Mountain, which the Lawless Sect had sealed off, and told the gathered cultivators he had not come to pick up treasures.
• Chen Zheng passed through the barrier with the two beasts and said he had come to wipe out the mountain.
• A huge crash and screams came from inside the mountain, and Lord Wuze was driven out impaled on a divine sword, leaving the onlookers stunned.

Cultivators gathered outside Lawless Forbidden Mountain discovered that the young intruder had slain vice sect master Wuze, while powerful arrivals speculated about the divine sword and its wielder. The Lawless Sect's sect master was then hurled from the mountain, crippled and apparently insane, leaving everyone wondering who had defeated him.

• Cultivators confirmed that Wuze had been killed and that the divine sword had destroyed his primordial spirit.
• Powerful figures arrived and recognized Wuze's corpse, while Miss Yu said the sword came from Langhuan Sword Manor's Tongtian Sword Tower and hinted that its wielder would soon appear.
• Miss Yu told the crimson-armored man that he would meet the person who obtained the sword soon, and he noticed she seemed preoccupied.
• The Lawless Sect's sect master was thrown out of Lawless Forbidden Mountain, crippled and laughing wildly.
• Jue Tianshen and the other arrivals demanded to know who had slain Wuze and defeated the sect master.

The Lawless Sect's sect master revealed that the young man had entered the Calamity Eye, while a golden man tried to break its seal. A terrifying creature swallowed the golden man and destroyed Forbidden Mountain, then the young man and two beasts emerged before vanishing, leaving the Lawless Sect, the mountain, and the East Pole Calamity Eye gone.

• The Lawless Sect's sect master laughed as Forbidden Mountain's barrier shattered and the Calamity Eye's power surged out.
• Jue Tianshen and the others realized the young man had entered the Calamity Eye, while the sect master gloated that he had lured him inside.
• A golden man appeared on Forbidden Mountain and struck toward the sealing formation, prompting the cultivators to fear the East Pole Calamity Eye would be released.
• A huge creature charged out, swallowed the golden man, and crashed down, reducing Forbidden Mountain to ashes.
• The young man and two beasts emerged from the demonic light and vanished, while the Lawless Sect's sect master slumped in despair.
• The demonic light cleared to reveal that Forbidden Mountain, the Lawless Sect, and the East Pole Calamity Eye were all gone.

After the East Pole Calamity Eye vanished, a mysterious Magpie Bridge appeared across the three great sacred dynasties, promising a chance to meet the Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor and win the Golden Shuttle of the Other Shore. Chen Zheng brought Fairy Xue and the Bliss Ice Palace women onto the bridge, and they passed its trial and were teleported away.

• The dragon-riding man failed to search the Lawless Sect master's soul, while Jue Tianshen suspected the demonic dragon had swallowed the East Pole Calamity Eye and the dragon-riding man left to report its Ancestral Dragon blood to the Holy Court.
• A Magpie Bridge appeared across the three great sacred dynasties, and a divine magpie announced that the Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor was seeking a marriage match and offered the Golden Shuttle of the Other Shore as a dowry.
• Jue Tianshen and Ren Qianqiu sensed something was wrong, while a cultivator who tried to ascend the bridge was teleported back to his starting point.
• At the ruins of the Bliss Ice Palace, Chen Zheng said the Golden Shuttle could cross the Sea of Bitterness and invited Fairy Xue and the other female disciples to accompany him.
• Chen Zheng brought the women onto the Magpie Bridge, and they all passed its trial and were teleported away; the divine magpie wondered why he had brought so many women to meet the Heavenly Emperor's daughter.

Chen Zheng reached the Eternal Heavenly Court and revealed that its challenge involved a remnant of Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor’s will. When he reached for the Golden Shuttle of the Other Shore, he dismantled the palace and took it, ending the imperial son-in-law selection before it began.

• Over ninety percent of those who tried to cross the Magpie Bridge were teleported back, and Divine Magpie fled when the bridge suddenly collapsed.
• Chen Zheng arrived at the Eternal Heavenly Court with more than twenty female cultivators accompanying him, drawing the attention of the gathered younger generation.
• Divine Magpie asked Great Immortal Fantian whether someone had solved Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor’s riddle and whether the imperial son-in-law had been chosen.
• Chen Zheng explained that Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor was real but her daughter was not, and asked whether the presence before him was testing him or seeking to return to her primordial spirit.
• When the palace did not respond, Chen Zheng reached toward it and tore it apart, causing the Golden Shuttle of the Other Shore to fly out.
• Chen Zheng took the Golden Shuttle of the Other Shore while the onlookers stared in shock.

Chen Zheng took the Golden Shuttle of the Other Shore and exposed the plot behind the Magpie Bridge marriage contest. He defeated Stone Demon Wei Yin and the transformed Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor, leaving Divine Magpie to wonder if Chen Zheng had used the Stroking Technique.

• Chen Zheng took the Golden Shuttle of the Other Shore and explained that Divine Magpie had planned to use cultivators to power it.
• A dark gleam pierced Great Immortal Fantian, destroying his physical body, but Chen Zheng let it strike him and then revealed Stone Demon Wei Yin.
• Chen Zheng said Wei Yin's lord was Great Dark Heaven and mentioned Transcendence Descent, leaving the cultivators confused.
• The sword-armored woman emerged from the Eternal Heavenly Court, and Wei Yin urged Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor to attack Chen Zheng.
• Chen Zheng shattered the woman's Great Dark Evil Sword and swept her out of the air, prompting Divine Magpie to wonder if it was the Stroking Technique.

Chen Zheng subdued Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor’s remnant will and destroyed the black-robed man, then exposed the mysterious lord hiding in Bai Zhanji and trapped him in the Darkness Spinning Top. The other cultivators were left terrified as Chen Zheng refined the lord’s thought with its own artifact.

• Chen Zheng subdued Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor’s remnant will with a light touch, sealed her as a ball of light, and gave her to Divine Magpie.
• Chen Zheng watched the black-robed man’s body and primordial spirit vanish, while the Dao-Devouring Beast noticed that no trace of the Great Dao remained.
• Young Master Yan and the Little Sword God complained about wasting their special artifacts, and Chen Zheng said he had already taken one of them.
• Bai Zhanji fled with another cultivator, but Chen Zheng sent the Darkness Spinning Top after him and captured the mysterious lord’s primordial spirit.
• The mysterious lord cursed Chen Zheng for using his own artifact against him, then was refined by the Darkness Spinning Top as the cultivators watched in silence.

Chen Zheng returned to the Bliss Ice Palace and learned that the Great Cang Sacred Lord had provoked the master of the Primordial Ruins. A blood-colored bone emerged in Taicang Imperial City, and the Holy Emperor Sect's Holy Maiden could not stop the disaster.

• Chen Zheng restored the Eternal Heavenly Court, sent Divine Magpie to deliver an imprint to Gai Shi Heavenly Emperor's reincarnation, and said he was her man.
• The Six Desires Tribulation Lord returned to Chen Zheng's primordial spirit, while the Six Desires Holy Emperor asked about his past identities and the Creation Lotus Seed he had swallowed.
• The Six Desires Holy Emperor sensed a Great Void figure from Heaven Taixuan's lineage descend near the Great Cang Sacred Dynasty, then flee in terror.
• White light sealed Taicang Imperial City as people cried out that the Great Cang Sacred Lord had succumbed to demonic corruption.
• A blood-colored bone appeared above Taicang Imperial City, drawing the attention of powerful figures beyond the Domain.
• The Holy Maiden of the Holy Emperor Sect failed to control the situation and said the master of the Primordial Ruins intended to destroy the Taicang Imperial Family.

The white light around Taicang Imperial City vanished, revealing the Great Cang Sacred Lord transformed into a corpse fiend and attacking the Yuan Family. A mysterious sword pinned him to the Holy Court, and its owner descended with only Heavenly Emperor Realm cultivation.

• The God-Demon Sacred Venerable told the gathered cultivators that the Divine Source Palace's palace master feared someone other than him.
• The white light covering the imperial city shattered, revealing corpses before the Holy Court and the corpse-fiend Great Cang Sacred Lord draining a Taicang Imperial Family guardian.
• The Great Cang Sacred Lord charged Yuan Yinyang, and Yuan Tianshu failed to stop him with the Yuan Family's Ancient Sacrifice Technique.
• The God-Demon Sacred Venerable failed to teleport the Yuan Family members through the barrier surrounding the imperial city.
• A sword silhouette pierced the barrier and pinned the Great Cang Sacred Lord to a heavenly pillar before the Holy Court.
• The sword's owner descended before the Holy Court, and the gathered cultivators were astonished that his cultivation was only at the Heavenly Emperor Realm.

Chen Zheng subdued the zombified Great Cang Sacred Lord and entered the Great Cang Holy Court, while the Heaven Blood Bone appeared above it and drew the attention of powerful factions. When Nie Nine Tribulations seized the bone, onlookers saw that he had also been zombified.

• Chen Zheng slapped the Great Cang Sacred Lord through the Holy Court doors and entered the court.
• Onlookers recognized Chen Zheng as the swordsman who had slain Nie Xuanyuan, while Fairy Xue and others arrived aboard the Bliss Ice Palace's immortal ship.
• The Heaven Blood Bone appeared above the Holy Court, and hundreds of cultivators who approached it vanished along with their primordial spirits.
• The Holy Emperor Sect's holy maiden reached for the bone, but Nie Nine Tribulations appeared first and captured it with a magical artifact.
• The crowd recognized Nie Nine Tribulations and saw that he had been zombified.

The mysterious young man emerged from the Great Cang Holy Court after crippling the Great Cang Sacred Lord and killing the corpse-transformed Nie Nine Tribulations. As he carried Princess Ying out with the empress dowager behind him, the Heaven Blood Bone became a person who called himself Taicang and demanded Princess Ying’s body for rebirth.

• The palace master of the Bliss Ice Palace teleported the Yuan Family members away from Nie Nine Tribulations as he prepared to attack them.
• Nie Nine Tribulations seized the artifact covering the Heaven Blood Bone, but the Great Cang Sacred Lord was thrown from the Holy Court, crippled.
• A sword shadow pierced Nie Nine Tribulations through the forehead, killing him and releasing the Heaven Blood Bone.
• The young man emerged from the Holy Court carrying a woman, with the empress dowager following; Yuan Tianshu recognized the woman as Princess Ying.
• The Heaven Blood Bone transformed into a living person who called himself Taicang and asked whether they had brought him Princess Ying’s body for rebirth.