Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen examined a mysterious, gentle Qi as Flirtatious Chicken emerged from nirvana as a gigantic Golden Crow and mastered Yin and Yang Qi. Flirtatious Chicken recognized Yang Zhen, shrank back to chicken size, and reunited with him and their companions.

• Yang Zhen sensed Yin and Yang Qi transforming into mysterious, gentle Qi and stored some of it in his Divine Sense space.
• Flirtatious Chicken erupted into the sky as a gigantic Golden Crow, scattering the mysterious Qi and displaying mastery over Yin and Yang Qi.
• Yang Zhen charged toward Flirtatious Chicken, while the Jade Pool Holy Lord feared the newly awakened Golden Crow might attack him.
• Flirtatious Chicken heard Yang Zhen and joyfully rushed to him, shrinking down and landing in his arms.
• Shameless Cat greeted Flirtatious Chicken with a smack, then fought with him as Yang Zhen reunited with Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er.

After Flirtatious Chicken was reborn with a powerful Golden Crow bloodline, a sudden upheaval scattered Yang Zhen and the others into a terrifying abyss-shrouded region. Yang Zhen reunited with Han Yan'er and learned they were in the Desolate Forbidden Zone, where the chapter left them searching for answers and facing an unknown presence.

• Flirtatious Chicken emerged from nirvana stronger than before, and the Jade Pool Holy Lord identified his Golden Crow bloodline.
• Flirtatious Chicken warned Yang Zhen to be careful just before a tremendous force hurled everyone into darkness and separated them.
• Yang Zhen landed beside an enormous abyss in a place Flirtatious Chicken called the Desolate Forbidden Zone, where his senses and True Essence were impaired.
• Yang Zhen warned nearby cultivators not to stare into the abyss, but one cultivator leaped into it and vanished.
• Yang Zhen found Han Yan'er and other cultivators, who could not use their True Essence without rapidly draining it.
• Han Yan'er told Yang Zhen she had lost sight of her elder sister and sensed a terrifying presence that she could not withstand.

Yang Zhen discovered that a mysterious Yin and Yang Qi could dissolve the dangerous Desolation Qi inside his body, but he found that the Desolation Qi returned as soon as it was cleared. He rushed toward cries and screams from behind a rocky outcrop.

• Flirtatious Chicken sensed Desolation Qi on Han Yan'er and the others, and the group began exploring the strange place.
• Yang Zhen found a tiny wisp of Desolation Qi inside himself and realized it was slowing and desolating his cells.
• Yang Zhen tried several powers to remove the wisp, but it dissolved only when he released the mysterious Qi he had encountered in the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda and the Land of Seven Yin and Seven Yang.
• A larger wisp of Desolation Qi appeared on Yang Zhen's spine after he cleared the first, and he realized the surrounding Qi surged toward him whenever his body was free of it.
• Yang Zhen heard cries and screams, including women's voices, from behind a nearby rocky outcrop and dashed toward them.

Yang Zhen and his companions encountered an enormous bronze tree whose inscriptions trapped nearby cultivators in a strange vision. After witnessing a squad of Demon Emperor Guards in the vision, Yang Zhen woke beside Han Yan'er and looked back at the tree.

• Yang Zhen, Han Yan'er, and the others crossed the valley and found a gigantic bronze tree covered in bones, while cultivators walked toward it and impaled themselves on its branches.
• A Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator activated the tree's glowing patterns, releasing a force that enveloped Yang Zhen and separated him from Han Yan'er and the others.
• Yang Zhen found himself in a boundless chaos-like place and sat down to refine a trace of Qi derived from the Two Qi of Yin and Yang.
• A squad of fifty or sixty golden-armored Demon Emperor Guards marched past Yang Zhen, but he could not catch up as they entered a golden hall.
• The hall, ancient tree, and strange world vanished, and Yang Zhen woke when Han Yan'er called to him.

Yang Zhen questioned whether the ancient bronze tree’s illusion had shown him a real bronze hall and prepared to investigate it. After the Jade Pool Holy Lord and the others arrived, Shameless Cat recognized the tree as something it had seen before, and Hua Youyue identified it as the Demon God Tree.

• Han Yan'er and the others told Yang Zhen that he had seemed trapped in an illusion and nearly hanged himself on the ancient bronze tree, while he realized he might have been the only one who saw something real.
• Yang Zhen said he had seen a great bronze hall behind the tree and tried to approach it, but Han Yan'er and the others warned him about the danger.
• Han Yan'er offered to accompany Yang Zhen, while Flirtatious Chicken tried to lead the way until Yang Zhen picked him up and told him to wait with Little Dao Addict.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord arrived with Hua Youyue and the others, and Yang Zhen warned them not to stare at the tree.
• Shameless Cat said it had seen a similar ancient bronze tree before, and Hua Youyue called it the Demon God Tree.

Yang Zhen and the others discussed the Demon God Territory, the vanished Demon Emperor Guards, and the ancient bronze trees. Shameless Cat revealed that he had once entered an ancient bronze hall, and the group found one beyond the tree, where Yang Zhen sensed something was wrong.

• Hua Youyue remembered that the ancient bronze tree was called a Demon God Tree, and Yang Zhen asked the others about the Demon Emperor Guards.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord described the Demon God Territory and the disappearance of its Demon God and three Great Emperors, while Hua Youyue questioned whether Yang Zhen had seen the legendary guards.
• Shameless Cat said he had once entered an ancient bronze hall but had been blasted out on the first floor, then explained that the bronze trees had a mysterious origin connected to the Demon God Territory.
• Yang Zhen led the group around the ancient bronze tree, and they discovered an enormous bronze mountain containing an ancient bronze hall.
• Yang Zhen stared at the hall and sensed that something was strange.

Yang Zhen discovered that the ancient bronze palace's markings concealed a Heavenly Palace True Rune and considered refining it to make entering easier. Shameless Cat recognized what Yang Zhen had found, and Yang Zhen prepared to try peeling the rune from the doors.

• Yang Zhen noticed something unusual about the markings on the ancient bronze palace, and Shameless Cat explained that they inflicted heavenly might on anyone trying to enter.
• The cultivators urged Yang Zhen not to force his way through, then mistook his intent stare at the doors for a desire to gnaw on them.
• Yang Zhen mocked Shameless Cat for failing to recognize the treasure and hinted that he might refine the palace itself.
• Shameless Cat spotted what looked like a Heavenly Palace True Rune on the doors and asked whether Yang Zhen could peel it off.
• Yang Zhen admitted he was not very confident but said he would give it a try.

Yang Zhen prepared to refine the Heavenly Palace True Rune inscribed on the ancient bronze hall’s doors while the gathered cultivators agreed to wait outside. When he touched the doors, a terrifying heavenly might erupted and swept across the bronze mountain.

• Jade Pool Holy Lord asked Yang Zhen whether the Heavenly Palace True Rune was one of the Nine Runes of Heaven and Earth, and Yang Zhen confirmed it.
• Yang Zhen hesitated to touch the bronze doors because triggering their restrictions might endanger everyone and cause changes to the ancient bronze tree.
• The gathered cultivators promised to wait outside the hall until Yang Zhen had finished refining the rune, and Yang Zhen theatrically agreed to proceed for their sake.
• Yang Zhen placed both hands on the bronze doors, triggering a powerful heavenly might that stunned everyone.

Yang Zhen opened the ancient bronze hall and revealed the Heavenly Palace True Rune, but a dangerous force from inside left him unable to move. The others were drawn toward the hall as Yang Zhen realized the situation had turned dire.

• Yang Zhen resisted the bronze door’s power and drew the Weapon Character Instruction on its surface.
• The patterns on the opened door formed the Heavenly Palace True Rune in the sky.
• Yang Zhen revealed his Desolate Heaven True Rune and prepared to suppress and refine the Heavenly Palace True Rune.
• World-destroying green Qi erupted from the hall, and the bronze door opened as its force swept over everyone.
• Yang Zhen floated motionless in midair while the others struggled against the hall’s pull and called out to him.

Yang Zhen and the others discovered a vast hidden world behind the ancient bronze hall, where the Heavenly Palace True Rune inside Yang Zhen began battling the Desolate Heaven True Rune. As golden-armored Demon Emperor Guards arrived, Yang Zhen lost consciousness and found himself in a strange space where the Desolate Heaven True Rune had become a dragon and the Gen Metal True Rune appeared as a sword.

• Yang Zhen and the others realized the world behind the ancient bronze hall might be a Sealed Land, though the Jade Pool Holy Lord had never heard of it.
• The Heavenly Palace True Rune surged inside Yang Zhen, and he used the Desolate Heaven True Rune to fight it within his body.
• The Jade Pool Holy Lord and the others spotted forty or fifty Heavenly Cycle Realm experts approaching from the north in golden armor, led by a young woman who identified their location as the Demon God Territory.
• Yang Zhen lost consciousness after looking toward the approaching guards and awoke in a pitch-black space filled with purple lightning.
• Yang Zhen watched the Desolate Heaven True Rune take the form of a dragon and battle the lightning, then discovered that the object in his hand was the Gen Metal True Rune.

Yang Zhen watched the Gen Metal, Desolate Heaven, and Heavenly Palace True Runes fight inside his body while he lay unconscious outside. Yue Ling recognized his unusual condition and invited him and the others to the Demon Cloud Palace, where she wondered which visitor was the predicted Heavenly Palace Star.

• Inside his body, Yang Zhen realized the three Heaven and Earth True Runes were battling, then sat down to comprehend their power as he watched.
• Yue Ling suspected Yang Zhen had comprehended the Heavenly Palace True Rune on the bronze door and approached his unconscious body despite Hua Youyue and Han Yan'er’s hostility.
• Yue Ling touched Yang Zhen’s forehead with a cyan light, then recoiled in shock and ordered someone to carry him to the Demon Cloud Palace.
• Yue Ling introduced herself and welcomed Hua Youyue, Han Yan'er, Yao Lianxing, and the others as guests in the Demon God Territory.
• As Yang Zhen was carried away, Yue Ling recalled a clan elder’s prediction of a demon star and a Heavenly Palace Star, and wondered which visitor was the latter.

Yang Zhen woke after refining the Heavenly Palace True Rune and discovered he was in the Demon God Territory. Shameless Cat explained the territory’s history and showed him a potent fruit, which Yang Zhen immediately wanted to cultivate for profit.

• Yang Zhen woke, summoned the Heavenly Palace True Rune, and recalled how it and the other two runes had subdued it while he was unconscious.
• Yang Zhen noticed the strange jade bed and surroundings, then recognized the golden armor as belonging to the Demon Emperor Guards.
• Shameless Cat entered and told Yang Zhen that the bronze world was the Demon God Territory, an inheritance whose current Demon God was a Celestial Phenomenon Realm expert still in seclusion.
• Shameless Cat gave Yang Zhen a Vermilion Dragon Saliva Fruit and explained that eating one provided energy equivalent to more than a hundred purple crystals.
• Yang Zhen ate the fruit and declared he wanted to learn how to grow it, while Shameless Cat began considering a plan.

Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that the Demon God Territory was giving away powerful cultivation methods, though he suspected the methods could provoke another Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth. He suggested Yang Zhen might be the Person of the Heavenly Palace and offered to take him to find out.

• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that people from across the cultivation world had come to seek the Demon God Territory's cultivation methods.
• Yang Zhen hurried out to obtain a method, claiming he wanted to expose the Demon God Territory's motives.
• Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that the method was heaven-defying and might be connected to the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.
• Yang Zhen asked how to get the method, and Shameless Cat suggested he could become the Person of the Heavenly Palace because he had refined the Heavenly Palace True Rune.
• Shameless Cat invited Yang Zhen to come with him and see the world.

Yang Zhen toured the Demon God Territory and learned that it was welcoming cultivators and sharing its cultivation resources. Holy Lord Yao revealed that the territory planned to recruit young disciples, leaving Yang Zhen wary of its intentions.

• Yang Zhen followed Shameless Cat through a vast hall and saw the artificial Bronze Mountain, whose formations gathered primal Qi.
• Shameless Cat explained that cultivators from across the continents were arriving at the Demon God Territory, and Yang Zhen asked about its heaven-defying cultivation methods.
• Yang Zhen reunited with Han Yan'er, Hua Youyue, and Holy Lord Yao, who invited him to hear what had happened while he slept.
• At a teahouse, Holy Lord Yao told Yang Zhen that the Demon God Territory had opened its resources and cultivation methods to visitors.
• Holy Lord Yao revealed that the Demon God Territory intended to accept any young person who met its requirements as a disciple.

Yang Zhen learned that the Demon God Territory would host an open Dao discourse where winners could choose one of its Cultivation Methods, but he had no intention of debating the Central Emperor. When Shameless Cat revealed that the prize for defeating the Central Emperor was the Half-Step Emperor Method called the Heaven-Seizing Creation Instruction, Yang Zhen overturned the tea stall in shock.

• Holy Lord Yao and Hua Youyue told Yang Zhen that the Central Emperor would give a Dao discourse in half a month and that winners of Dao debates could choose a Demon God Territory Cultivation Method.
• Yang Zhen spent the next few days in the Demon God Territory, where people discussed his exploits and the Demon Emperor Guards’ power.
• Yang Zhen recognized Long Legs leading a patrol of Demon Emperor Guards, but she passed without stopping to speak with him.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen to think about defeating the Central Emperor in a Dao debate, and Yang Zhen insisted he had no intention of doing so.
• Shameless Cat revealed that defeating the Central Emperor could earn the Heaven-Seizing Creation Instruction, a Half-Step Emperor Method, and Yang Zhen jumped up and overturned the tea stall in shock.

Yang Zhen learned that the Demon God Territory might be researching immortality by using cultivators as test subjects. He was left wondering how much its disciples knew about the heaven-defying experiments.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat discussed the Demon God Territory, the half-step imperial art, and the mysterious abyss, while Yang Zhen decided not to join the Dao debate.
• Over the next ten days, Yang Zhen spent time with Yue Ling, Hua Youyue, and Han Yan'er, while Little Dao Addict seemed distracted.
• Yue Ling told Yang Zhen that Nanny Tie had died and insisted that someone would one day achieve eternal life.
• Yue Ling's words led Yang Zhen to suspect that the Demon God Territory was researching immortality and using cultivators as test subjects.
• Yang Zhen connected the bronze mountains, trees, abyss, and heaven-defying cultivation methods to the Demon God Territory's experiments and wondered whether Yue Ling knew about them.

Yang Zhen prepared for the Dao proclamation gathering while urging Han Yan'er to create her own Dao and declining to debate. At the gathering, he reunited with Sir and met the young Yuan Hao, whose challenge and prodigious talent made Yang Zhen suspect trouble.

• Yang Zhen secretly investigated whether the Demon God Territory was acting against heaven as cultivators gathered for the upcoming Dao proclamation.
• Han Yan'er urged Yang Zhen to debate the Dao, but he told her to create her own Dao and refused to participate.
• Yang Zhen reunited with Sir in the Demon God Territory and greeted the Spirit Transformation Realm experts who had accompanied him from the East Sea.
• Yuan Hao approached Yang Zhen and suggested they spar, while Sir and the elders reacted to the exchange.
• An old woman warned Yuan Hao to show respect and pointed out that Yang Zhen had made his name before Yuan Hao began cultivating, prompting Yang Zhen to suspect an unfriendly challenge.

Yang Zhen traded barbs with Yuan Hao, who challenged him to a Dao debate while claiming the inheritance of an East Sea Great Emperor. Yang Zhen released a trace of Dao Rhyme that made Yuan Hao spit blood, then left him terrified and wondering what had happened.

• Yuan Hao approached Yang Zhen and called him Senior, and Yang Zhen mocked him as a young man destined to wash up on the beach.
• The crowd revealed that Yuan Hao had reached the Spirit Transformation Realm in just over a year and had comprehended a Great Emperor's Dao.
• Yuan Hao challenged Yang Zhen to debate the Dao, and a tall young woman disparaged Yang Zhen's comprehension.
• Yang Zhen recognized that Yuan Hao and his companions were provoking him, then warned Yuan Hao against rising on someone else's shoulders.
• Yang Zhen released a trace of Dao Rhyme, causing Yuan Hao to vomit blood and stagger back in terror.

Yang Zhen used a needle-like strand of Dao Rhyme to defeat Yuan Hao, and Shameless Cat identified the method as an Emperor Technique. Rumors spread across the Western Region that Yang Zhen would challenge the Central Emperor at the upcoming Dao gathering.

• Yang Zhen calmly walked away after a gust of his Dao Rhyme left Yuan Hao pale and coughing up blood.
• Yuan Hao told his master that Yang Zhen's Dao Rhyme had pierced his defenses as if they were absent.
• Yang Zhen explained to Shameless Cat that he had condensed his Dao Rhyme into a needle and struck Yuan Hao with it.
• Shameless Cat called Yang Zhen's method an Emperor Technique, and the old gentleman said Yang Zhen had surpassed his level.
• Two days later, rumors spread through the Western Region that Yang Zhen could control Dao Rhyme and would challenge the Central Emperor at the Dao gathering.

Yang Zhen learned that rumors had spread that he planned to challenge the Central Emperor at the Grand Dao Assembly, apparently because Yuan Hao had revealed his ability to shape Dao Rhyme into a needle. As more ancient Celestial Phenomenon Realm experts were reported to be gathering, Yang Zhen suspected they had awakened from slumber like the Three Emperors.

• Yang Zhen denied planning to challenge the Central Emperor, while Shameless Cat and Flirtatious Chicken urged him to take the man on.
• Han Yan'er told Yang Zhen that what she had said still stood, then hurried away; Yang Zhen took this as a reason to accept a possible Dao debate if the Central Emperor approached him.
• Yue Ling told Yang Zhen that rumors claimed he could condense Dao Rhyme into a needle and intended to use it against the Central Emperor.
• Yang Zhen, Shameless Cat, and Flirtatious Chicken suspected Yuan Hao had spread the rumors after learning about Yang Zhen's Dao Rhyme technique.
• Yue Ling warned Yang Zhen that powerful seniors, including Old Man Vast Sea, Old Man Leaping Dragon, and Heavenly Venerable Shangwu, would attend the Grand Dao Assembly.
• Yang Zhen and his companions realized the newly mentioned experts were likely ancient figures who had awakened from slumber, like the Three Emperors.