Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen and Lin Ruochu reached the summit of Mount Xiyuan, where they joined Elder Guo’s group and watched prominent figures gather around the Savage Wilderness supreme treasure. As Luo Jin welcomed the Empress of Su Emperor Palace and the Three Flowers Holy Maiden, Yang Zhen wondered where Chen Xiaotian was.

• Lin Ruochu told Yang Zhen that Luo Jin and Jin Chanzi were far stronger than Yang Tiehe, while Yang Zhen privately dismissed the comparison.
• Yang Zhen taught Shameless Cat new entrance music and arranged for a dramatic future entrance.
• Yang Zhen and Lin Ruochu joined Elder Guo’s group and held the western side of Mount Xiyuan’s summit.
• Lin Ruochu pointed out the Heaven-Splitting Ox from Su Emperor Palace and the Three Flowers Holy Land, whose Holy Maiden she admired.
• Luo Jin welcomed the Empress of Su Emperor Palace and the Three Flowers Holy Maiden, then Lin Ruochu noticed the people from Yaoguang Holy Land arriving.

Yang Zhen watched Luo Jin and Jin Chanzi gather the cultivators on Mount Xiyuan and announce that the Void Rock Shuttle would soon appear, drawing the Demonic Sect’s forces nearby. The Third Holy Maiden confirmed the shuttle existed, and Yang Zhen turned his attention to something in the sky.

• Lin Ruochu told Yang Zhen to hold the western side of Mount Xiyuan’s summit and warned him to protect himself.
• Yang Zhen considered the Void Rock Shuttle and its connection to the Void Rock Realm, where the Devil God Tomb was located.
• Luo Jin and Jin Chanzi addressed the gathered cultivators, and Luo Jin announced that the Void Rock Shuttle would emerge within two hours.
• Luo Jin warned that Chen Xiaotian and the Demonic Sect were nearby, then claimed their forces numbered only two or three thousand.
• Jin Chanzi invited the Third Holy Maiden to speak, and she confirmed that the Void Rock Shuttle existed.
• Yang Zhen suddenly looked toward a spot in the heavens with a solemn expression.

Yang Zhen and the others faced a massive Devil Cultivator army led by Chen Xiaotian, while Shameless Cat warned that the world had begun another cycle of reincarnation. As the confrontation escalated, a strange heartbeat-like sound echoed across the Western Origin Mountain Range.

• Yang Zhen warned Lin Ruochu to leave, and Elder Guo asked him to protect her as the Devil Cultivators approached.
• A force of twenty thousand Devil Cultivators arrived over the Western Origin Mountain Range, with Chen Xiaotian and dozens of Final Step powerhouses at their head.
• Luo Jin and Jin Chanzi challenged Chen Xiaotian, who dismissed the Western Region Alliance and demonstrated the power of his giant beast.
• Yang Zhen discussed the Void Heaven Seal and Void Rock Shuttle with Shameless Cat, who said he sensed a new cycle of reincarnation beginning.
• Lin Ruochu questioned Yang Zhen about his identity, and a heartbeat-like sound suddenly rang through the mountain range.

Chen Xiaotian arrived at Mount Xiyuan with a host of Devil Cultivators as the Void Heaven Seal began to emerge, then used a Heavenly Devil Cage to seize the summit. Yang Zhen rushed toward the treasure but was left outside with the other cultivators as Luo Jin led them into battle.

• Chen Xiaotian and his Devil Cultivators surrounded the cultivators at Mount Xiyuan as heaven and earth trembled in anticipation of the Void Heaven Seal.
• Chen Xiaotian killed a Saint Venerable Realm elder with a single attack, and Luo Jin refused to let the treasure fall into his hands without a fight.
• Jin Chanzi summoned a golden Buddha with blood-red eyes, whose fist destroyed the summit and revealed that the treasure had appeared.
• Yang Zhen grabbed Shameless Cat and rushed toward the summit, while Chen Xiaotian trapped it inside a Heavenly Devil Cage and blocked the other cultivators.
• Luo Jin led the Dao cultivators in an assault on the Devil Cultivators guarding the summit.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat watched the Void Heaven Emperor Palace emerge, but Chen Xiaotian ordered the Devil Domain to block the Dao cultivators and unleashed the Nine Transformations of the Heavenly Devil formation. As the formation engulfed the mountain, Yang Zhen wondered whether the Western Region Holy Assembly Alliance had any countermeasure, and Luo Jin cried out for his master.

• The Void Heaven Emperor Palace burst from the mountain, and Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that the Void Heaven Seal might be inside.
• Chen Xiaotian ordered the Devil Domain to kill any Dao cultivator who entered the palace, and the Devil Cultivators formed a barrier.
• Luo Jin charged Chen Xiaotian, but the Black Flame Devil Venerable struck him, prompting Jin Chanzi to intervene and Dao cultivators to attack the formation.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat sneaked into the fighting crowd, planning to reach the palace and take the Void Heaven Seal.
• Chen Xiaotian’s Nine Transformations of the Heavenly Devil formation erupted in black flames around the Dao cultivators, and Luo Jin called for his master.

Elder Moonwatch appeared to save Luo Jin and confronted Chen Xiaotian and a Devil Emperor, who revealed his true power and fought him in the sky. As Yang Zhen tried to slip into the Void Heaven Emperor Palace, Chen Xiaotian recognized him and Yang Zhen pretended to be a passerby.

• Elder Moonwatch arrived, dispersed the devil fire threatening Luo Jin, and was identified as an Emperor Realm expert.
• Elder Moonwatch confronted Chen Xiaotian and the Devil Emperor, who revealed himself as a Soul-Release Devil Ape from High Antiquity.
• Elder Moonwatch and the Devil Emperor clashed, sending the battle high into the heavens and shaking the surrounding space.
• Yang Zhen used the distraction to edge toward the Void Heaven Emperor Palace.
• Chen Xiaotian spotted Yang Zhen, who waved and claimed he was just a passerby.

Chen Xiaotian surrounded Yang Zhen with Devil Cultivators and declared that he would kill him, while Three Flowers Holy Land, Su Emperor Palace, and Jade Pool Holy Land prepared to charge into the Void Heaven Emperor Palace. Yang Zhen then summoned ten thousand Dao cultivators, leaving Chen Xiaotian shocked as they arrived on Mount Xiyuan.

• Chen Xiaotian ordered thousands of Devil Cultivators to surround Yang Zhen and said that Yang alone had to die.
• The Empress of Su Emperor Palace, the Three Flowers Holy Maiden, and the Third Holy Maiden ordered their factions to prepare to charge into the Void Heaven Emperor Palace.
• Yang Zhen cursed Chen Xiaotian, who admitted he was using his numbers to overwhelm Yang and threatened Three Flowers Holy Land and Empress Fengyu.
• Yang Zhen claimed he could summon ten thousand people, and cries of “Protect our Holy Lord!” rang out from every direction.
• Ten thousand Dao cultivators reached Mount Xiyuan, and Chen Xiaotian demanded to know how they had entered as Yang Zhen said they had crawled through a tunnel.

Yang Zhen and his allies stormed toward the Void Heaven Emperor Palace, where Yang Zhen overwhelmed Chen Xiaotian in a clash that stunned the gathered cultivators. Chen Xiaotian vanished and summoned the deadly Black Lotus of Death, and Yang Zhen prepared to answer it with a lotus of his own.

• Chen Xiaotian ordered the Devil Cultivators to kill Yang Zhen, but more than ten thousand cultivators erupted into action and protected their holy lord.
• Yang Zhen charged Chen Xiaotian with a tiny Heavenly Scorpion, then summoned a golden scorpion and blasted Chen Xiaotian backward with a punch.
• Yang Zhen chased and attacked Chen Xiaotian, whose greater cultivation could not overcome Yang Zhen's speed and reckless assault.
• Chen Xiaotian released a wave of blood, disappeared, and warned that Yang Zhen would die before summoning the Black Lotus of Death.
• Yang Zhen told the panicked crowd that he also seemed to have a lotus.

Chen Xiaotian unleashed the Black Lotus of Death as everyone fought toward the Void Heaven Emperor Palace, but Yang Zhen brought out the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus and neutralized its deadly blood strands. When Chen Xiaotian fed his heart’s blood to the Black Lotus and sent it charging at Yang Zhen’s lotus, Yang Zhen closed his eyes, leaving everyone terrified of the impending clash.

• Chen Xiaotian unleashed the Black Lotus of Death, sending deadly blood strands raining down on the fleeing cultivators.
• Hua Youyue, the Empress of Su Emperor Palace, the Third Holy Maiden, and the Yaoguang Holy Lord urged their forces forward toward the Void Heaven Emperor Palace.
• The auras of Yang Zhen’s cultivators turned golden, boosting their strength as they fought back the Devil Cultivators.
• Yang Zhen revealed the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus, which absorbed the Black Lotus’s blood strands and sent the crowd into cheers.
• Chen Xiaotian fed his heart’s blood to the Black Lotus of Death and sent it roaring toward the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus.
• Yang Zhen closed his eyes as Shameless Cat warned that Chen Xiaotian was trying to destroy both lotuses, leaving the crowd fearing the explosion.

Yang Zhen revealed the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus and used it to destroy Chen Xiaotian’s Black Lotus of Death, saving everyone from the imminent collision. Chen Xiaotian charged at Yang Zhen but crashed into the protective formation his own Devil Cultivators had created.

• Chen Xiaotian prepared to let the Black Lotus of Death collide with Yang Zhen’s World-Ending Heavenly Lotus, while the gathered cultivators feared they would all die.
• Yang Zhen revealed that he possessed more than one lotus and claimed he would save all living beings under heaven.
• Chen Xiaotian ordered the Devil Cultivators to protect Yang Zhen so he would witness everyone’s deaths, and they formed a defensive barrier around him.
• Yang Zhen summoned the Heaven and Earth Azure Lotus, which destroyed the Black Lotus of Death before it struck the World-Ending Heavenly Lotus.
• Chen Xiaotian charged at Yang Zhen but smashed into the Devil Cultivators’ protective formation, drawing laughter from those present.

Yang Zhen vanished from Chen Xiaotian’s attack, reappeared behind him, and beat him until Chen Xiaotian unleashed Heavenly Devil Disintegration. Yang Zhen survived the blast and slipped into the Void Heaven Emperor Palace, where he felt strangely as though he had returned.

• Chen Xiaotian charged Yang Zhen with his black longsword after the Devil Cultivators withdrew their defensive formation.
• Yang Zhen vanished, then reappeared behind Chen Xiaotian and struck him with punches that pierced through the void.
• Chen Xiaotian fled from Yang Zhen, but then seized him and unleashed Heavenly Devil Disintegration.
• The blast filled Mount Xiyuan with a sea of blood, and the cultivators believed Yang Zhen had died as he cried out.
• Yang Zhen survived unharmed and secretly entered the Void Heaven Emperor Palace, where he wondered why he felt as though he were back.

Yang Zhen explored the Void Heaven Emperor Palace and found a Heavenly Heart Stone structure that might contain the Void Heaven Seal, but the Devil Emperor warned that it held a dangerous Primordial Heaven Restriction. After Shameless Cat explained the danger of touching it, Yang Zhen pulled his hand back, while the Devil Emperor approached with a knowing smile.

• Yang Zhen entered the palace and found its carvings strangely similar to his own Heaven and Earth True Runes.
• Yang Zhen reached a circular Heavenly Heart Stone structure that might seal the Void Heaven Seal, and the Devil Emperor warned him about its Primordial Heaven Restriction.
• Elder Moonwatch urged Yang Zhen to touch the stone, while the Devil Emperor challenged him to open the restriction.
• Yang Zhen called Shameless Cat out of hiding, and Shameless Cat explained that Primordial Heaven Restrictions concealed living beings and helped them evade Heavenly Punishment.
• Shameless Cat warned that touching the restriction without knowing how to use it would bring terrifying Heavenly Punishment, so Yang Zhen withdrew his hand.
• The Devil Emperor approached Yang Zhen with a contemptuous laugh, and Shameless Cat wondered if he knew how to use the restriction.

Yang Zhen watched the Devil Emperor attempt to take the Heavenly Heart Stone, then stopped him with Heaven and Earth True Runes he had secretly altered. After the Devil Emperor was exposed and challenged, Yang walked toward the stone, claiming he would open it himself.

• Yang Zhen feared the danger of the Primordial Heaven Restriction and acted wary while the Devil Emperor approached the Heavenly Heart Stone.
• The Devil Emperor claimed the stone belonged to Devil Cultivators, triggered a blinding burst of light, and tried to carry it out of the hall.
• Old Man Wangyue charged after the Devil Emperor, and Yang Zhen activated the altered Heaven and Earth True Runes to knock him down and send the stone rolling away.
• Yang Zhen and Old Man Wangyue mocked the Devil Emperor for trying to steal the stone, while the Devil Emperor insisted he had been protecting everyone from the restriction.
• Yang Zhen walked toward the Heavenly Heart Stone and declared that he would step in and open it himself.

Yang Zhen agreed to search the Void Heaven Emperor Palace for a way to open the Heavenly Heart Stone rather than risk triggering Heavenly Punishment. Studying the palace’s Heaven and Earth patterns, he began to understand Heaven and Earth Numeracy and the nature of the Power of the Void.

• Yang Zhen admitted he did not know how to break the Primordial Heaven Restriction and agreed to search for a key to the Heavenly Heart Stone after others warned him of the danger.
• The Devil Emperor proposed that everyone search the palace for a way to open the Heavenly Heart Stone, and Yang Zhen accepted.
• The Third Holy Maiden, Hua Youyue, and the Empress of Su Emperor Palace asked Yang Zhen whether he had a plan, and he told them to search while he stayed behind.
• Yang Zhen sat down and used his awareness to perceive the Heaven and Earth True Runes throughout the palace.
• Yang Zhen realized the patterns followed Heaven and Earth Numeracy and began wondering why living beings could not control the Power of the Void.

After three days of waiting, Yang Zhen emerged from cultivation with Void Power, astonishing everyone gathered around the Heavenly Heart Stone. The Devil Emperor challenged him to prove his claim and swore to eat the stone if Yang Zhen could use the power, then watched Yang Zhen open a rift in the void.

• Everyone returned from searching for a way to breach the Heavenly Heart Stone and found Yang Zhen cultivating, then waited for him for three days.
• Yang Zhen radiated Void Power as he finished cultivating, startling the Devil Emperor, Old Man Wangyue, Hua Youyue, and the others.
• Yang Zhen said he had mastered Void Power, but the Devil Emperor dismissed his claim because Yang Zhen was still at the Saint Realm.
• The Devil Emperor swore to eat the Heavenly Heart Stone if Yang Zhen could demonstrate Void Power.
• Yang Zhen casually opened a visible rift in the void, leaving the Devil Emperor pale and stunned.

After the Devil Emperor bit the Heavenly Heart Stone and underwent Mortal Transformation, Yang Zhen tried to stop the stone from erupting before it killed everyone in the Void Heaven Emperor Palace. He summoned the Heavenly Void True Rune and used it to open the stone, leaving the group facing whatever lay beyond it.

• The Devil Emperor bit a piece off the Heavenly Heart Stone, then lost his Emperor Qi and underwent Mortal Transformation.
• As the Heavenly Heart Stone began to rumble and glow, Shameless Cat warned that it was about to erupt and kill everyone.
• Old Man Wangyue urged Yang Zhen to act, and Yang Zhen admitted he had no plan before stepping toward the stone.
• Yang Zhen gathered the Heaven and Earth True Runes Origin into the Heavenly Void True Rune.
• Yang Zhen slammed the Heavenly Void True Rune onto the Heavenly Heart Stone, which slowly opened.

The Heavenly Heart Stone released a palm-sized golden seal and triggered World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment, forcing the cultivators to hide as Yang Zhen faced the black lightning. After Yang Zhen’s clash with the punishment, the disturbance subsided and Han Yan’er sensed danger, but Yang Zhen’s fate remained unclear.

• Shameless Cat, the Devil Emperor, and Old Man Wangyue buried themselves as the Heavenly Heart Stone’s power collapsed the Void Heaven Emperor Palace and sent a golden seal into the sky.
• Nine Dragons Great Saint warned Yang Zhen that World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment had descended, but Yang Zhen punched through its pressure and rose toward the black clouds.
• Yang Zhen used Desolate Heaven Sacrifice to draw in Primordial Qi, reached the Final Step, and attacked the punishment with the Star Spring Sword.
• World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment struck Yang Zhen with three bolts of black lightning, unleashing turbulent currents of the void before the disturbance slowly subsided.
• At the Three Flowers Holy Land, Han Yan’er opened her eyes with blood at her mouth and instinctively called out Yang Zhen’s name.

After Yang Zhen vanished beneath the World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment, Hua Youyue and the others feared he was dead, while Han Yan'er awakened and entered a separate Heavenly Punishment. Hua Youyue prepared to face the World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment alongside Yang Zhen, who suddenly reappeared as space shattered.

• Hua Youyue tried to save Yang Zhen, but Nine Dragons Saint Venerable stopped her and warned her about the World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment.
• The Devil Emperor and Old Man Wangyue emerged from the ground and discussed Yang Zhen's disappearance, while Hua Youyue insisted he was still alive.
• Han Yan'er awakened at the Three Flowers Holy Land, summoned an Ice Phoenix, and plunged into the gray Heavenly Punishment.
• Hua Youyue declared she would bear the danger with Yang Zhen and rose into the air with her Moon Shadow longsword.
• Yang Zhen reappeared before everyone as space shattered.

Yang Zhen and Hua Youyue faced the World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment, and Yang Zhen endured its assault with his sword and powerful techniques. He unleashed the Heaven-Ascending Token and split the storm clouds open, leaving everyone stunned as sunlight reached the world.

• Yang Zhen reappeared beside Hua Youyue and joined his heaven-and-earth patterns and Star Spring Sword with her red Qi and night-blooming cereus flowers.
• A black lightning dragon descended, and Yang Zhen used the Tianxuan Sword to destroy it before charging into the World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment.
• Hua Youyue followed Yang Zhen, but the punishment erupted into black flames and Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beasts, and a drop of Yang Zhen's blood revealed that he was injured.
• Yang Zhen invoked the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice and the Heaven-Ascending Token's Ascend to Heaven in One Step.
• Yang Zhen roared that he would open the world like Pangu, and a dark-gold flash split the World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment, letting sunlight shine through.

After surviving the World-Destroying Heavenly Punishment, Yang Zhen returned to Mount Xiyuan badly wounded but alive, leaving everyone amazed at his resilience. He began restoring his body with Heaven and Earth Qi and Blood, and the life force he released astonished even the Devil Emperor and Old Man Wangyue.

• The Devil Emperor revealed that Yang Zhen had been injured by the punishment, while Hua Youyue watched the chaotic void currents fade.
• Yang Zhen emerged from the void covered in blood, and Hua Youyue rushed to him in tears.
• Hua Youyue summoned the Ageless Tree to heal Yang Zhen, but he waved it away and insisted his injuries were minor.
• Shameless Cat explained that he had hidden to avoid distracting Yang Zhen during the punishment.
• Yang Zhen released Heaven and Earth Qi and Blood to refine his body, and a tremendous surge of life force left everyone astonished.