Chapter Summaries

Yang Zhen learned that the Void Rock Realm held dangerous creatures and an enormous secret, then agreed to take the black-clad woman and the Witch Scale Clan’s Scale Maiden inside. After Great Emperor Golden Eagle explained that humans had a prophesied Child of Heaven’s Victory, Yang Zhen wondered if the title applied to him and stepped between the two young women as their gazes met.

• The black-clad woman warned Yang Zhen that many Qiongqi Heavenly Voids might lurk inside the Void Rock Realm and showed him a piece of black dragon hide left by her ancestor.
• The black-clad woman said a dying dragon had given the hide to her ancestor and that she needed to uncover the Void Rock Realm’s secret, so Shameless Cat urged Yang Zhen to take her along.
• The Witch Scale Clan’s Scale Maiden asked Yang Zhen to take her inside, and Great Emperor Golden Eagle explained her status and the human race’s rare Child of Heaven’s Victory.
• Yang Zhen pointed to himself when he heard about the Child of Heaven’s Victory, then stood between the Scale Maiden and the black-clad woman and asked the latter whether she was married.

Yang Zhen led the Devil Domain's Heavenly Maiden and the Witch Scale Clan's Scale Woman toward the Void Rock Realm while each faction concealed its own plans. Near the entrance, Yang Zhen sensed a strange force of rejection that no one else seemed to notice, leaving him wondering why he was different.

• Yang Zhen let the Heavenly Maiden follow after Han Yan'er agreed, then treated the Scale Woman with exaggerated respect and led the group toward the Void Rock Realm.
• The Witch Scale Clan mistook Yang Zhen's behavior for proof that the Scale Woman had planted a Heart Gu in him, and an elder secretly summoned more clansmen to seize the realm.
• The Heavenly Maiden recognized the Heart Gu possibility but followed Yang Zhen without concern, while Yang Zhen suspected the Devil Domain had its own hidden plans.
• As the group neared the entrance, Yang Zhen felt a soul-suppressing force of rejection tied to Gods and Devils, though Shameless Cat, the women, and the others showed no sign of sensing it.
• When Great Emperor Golden Eagle said the presence felt ordinary, Yang Zhen began singing and privately wondered whether he was unusually different.

Yang Zhen and the others entered a swamp in the Void Rock Realm, where a giant wild species attacked them before a mysterious flute subdued it and the Qiongqi Heavenly Void. A slender figure approached from the far end of the swamp.

• Yang Zhen sensed a strange presence and tricked the Scale Maiden into leading the group forward while the Devil Domain's Heavenly Maiden questioned him.
• The group was suddenly transported to a foul, poisonous swamp, where a giant wild species sprang out and nearly swallowed them.
• Yang Zhen escaped the creature's mouth, struck its claw, and threw the woman beside him away before she warned him it was a giant wild species.
• The Qiongqi Heavenly Void charged the giant wild species, and the two creatures clashed across the swamp.
• A flute sounded, causing the giant wild species to retreat into the water and the Qiongqi Heavenly Void to turn into a small dog and fall asleep on Yang Zhen's shoulder.
• A slender figure slowly approached from the direction of the flute.

Empress Tianxuan reunited with Yang Zhen in the Void Rock Realm and led him and the others to a graveyard to reveal the secrets of heaven and earth. There, she explained that the Gods and Devils were powerful cultivators, while a War God was a different kind.

• Empress Tianxuan emerged from the mist and recognized Yang Zhen, telling him he needed to reach the Great Emperor Venerable realm to begin learning heaven’s secrets.
• Great Emperor Golden Eagle and Great Emperor Aotian recognized Empress Tianxuan and rejoiced that she was alive.
• Empress Tianxuan drew a small insect from Yang Zhen and warned the Witch Scale Clan’s Scale Maiden not to harm him.
• Empress Tianxuan tested Yang Zhen’s grasp of the Power of the Void, then asked the gathered Great Emperors and maidens whether they still wanted to learn the dangerous secrets.
• Empress Tianxuan brought the group to a vast graveyard, where she said the Gods and Devils were powerful cultivators and described a War God as a different kind.

Empress Tianxuan revealed that the Gods and Devils in the Void Rock Realm were failed Dao Bodies created by a powerful being named Yang Zhen, and suggested that Yang Zhen was that being. She also identified Shameless Cat as the Qilin Ancestor, leaving both revelations to unsettle Yang Zhen and his companions.

• Empress Tianxuan said the War Gods were vassals of the Gods and Devils, and that the beings in the Tomb of Gods and Devils were likely all the remains of one person’s failed copies.
• Yang Zhen told Empress Tianxuan he had encountered a weak Divine Sense, and she identified its owner as the still-living Dao Ancestor, who was investigating a secret beyond their understanding.
• Empress Tianxuan told Yang Zhen that the Dao Ancestor’s name was also Yang Zhen and suggested he was that person, but Yang Zhen rejected the idea and said he did not want his memories to awaken.
• Empress Tianxuan recognized Shameless Cat as Daolin, or the Qilin Ancestor, and Shameless Cat proudly embraced the revelation.

Empress Tianxuan urged Yang Zhen to comprehend the Power of Creation within the Tombs of Gods and Devils, while Shameless Cat rejected recovering his old memories. Yang Zhen settled into the tombs with Han Yan'er, the Scale Maiden, and the Heavenly Maiden, and his sudden enlightenment triggered a strange upheaval.

• Empress Tianxuan told Yang Zhen that the Power of Creation in the Tombs of Gods and Devils came from the Dao Ancestor and did not belong to this world.
• Empress Tianxuan asked Shameless Cat whether he wanted to recover his memories, but Shameless Cat said he was content with the present and let the past go.
• Yang Zhen entered a Tomb of Gods and Devils to comprehend the Power of Creation, while Great Emperor Golden Eagle and the others departed to protect the Three Flowers Holy Land, with Empress Tianxuan promising to go there too.
• Han Yan'er stayed with Yang Zhen, and the Scale Maiden and the Heavenly Maiden also remained in the tombs, settling apart after Yang Zhen teased them.
• Yang Zhen raised a palace and entered sudden enlightenment, whereupon heaven and earth changed color and ghosts wailed throughout the Tombs of Gods and Devils.

Yang Zhen endured a destructive yet renewing power while cultivating inside the Void Rock Realm as ancient races began returning and fighting across the world. The chapter left Hua Youyue preparing the Three Flowers Holy Land to protect people and help Yang Zhen comprehend the Power of Faith.

• Yang Zhen experienced a force that battered and renewed his body while Qiongqi Heavenly Void roared amid ominous signs in the Tomb of Gods and Devils.
• The Pirate King's Treasure appeared near Turtle-Snake Island, and the Merfolk Race emerged as the sea gave way to a vast continent, sparking a battle with East Sea cultivators.
• Members of other races joined the fighting, and Empress Tianxuan and Empress Fengyu warned Hua Youyue that the Void Realms were returning.
• The Third Holy Maiden reported that a giant Buddha and powerful newcomers had appeared in the Western Region, and Empress Tianxuan said they aimed to welcome the Dao Ancestor and awaken the War God Bloodline.
• Hua Youyue decided the Three Flowers Holy Land should travel among the continents to protect people, while Empress Tianxuan proposed raising statues of Yang Zhen to help him gain the Power of Faith.

The Three Flowers Holy Land tried to unite the returning Myriad Races against the Dao Ancestor while Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er emerged from seclusion in the Void Rock Realm. After Han Yan'er sent Yang Zhen flying with a punch, he crawled from the rocks and wondered whether it had really been okay for her to hit so hard.

• Five months passed as the Three Flowers Holy Land led a campaign to welcome the Myriad Races and urge them to oppose the Dao Ancestor instead of fighting one another.
• In the far north, the Heavenly Strength Race elder discussed the Power of Faith and ordered Jin Zhao to follow Jin Han after Jin Han rushed off to capture people from the Three Flowers Holy Land.
• A little girl with jade-green horns slipped away from the Heavenly Strength Race and fled down the mountain on a snow leopard.
• Yang Zhen and Han Yan'er appeared together above the palace in the Tomb of Gods and Devils, startling the Heavenly Maiden and the Scale Maiden.
• Yang Zhen asked Han Yan'er to punch him with all her strength, and her blow sent him through the palace and into a mountain.
• Han Yan'er hurried to Yang Zhen, who crawled from the rocks and muttered about how hard she had hit him.

Han Yan'er awakened her War God Bloodline, and Yang Zhen explained that he had only partly comprehended the power of heavenly governance. After the group emerged from the Void Rock Realm into a changed world, an immense force of faith engulfed Yang Zhen, leaving him ready to absorb it.

• Han Yan'er sent Yang Zhen flying with a punch after awakening her bloodline, then explained that the power in the Tomb of Gods and Devils had triggered it.
• Yang Zhen told Han Yan'er, the Scale Maiden, and the Heavenly Maiden that he had only partly comprehended the power of creation, which the Heavenly Maiden identified as the power of heavenly governance.
• Yang Zhen and the others left the Void Rock Realm and found that the Great Wilderness World had changed, with vanished parts of heaven and earth seemingly returned.
• Violent golden energy surged toward Yang Zhen, and he recognized it as the power of faith and pushed Han Yan'er away to protect her.
• Yang Zhen invoked the Desolate Heaven Sacrifice as the power of faith formed a huge golden dragon behind him, and he realized he was about to gain an immense amount of power.

Yang Zhen followed a surge of Power of Faith to Heavenly Origin City, where he found a statue of himself and learned that the Three Flowers Holy Land had helped people survive the world’s disasters. Moved by the frightened residents’ devotion, he gave them his blessing in a burst of holy light.

• Yang Zhen absorbed the Power of Faith and sensed another version of himself near Heavenly Origin City, then set off with Han Yan’er.
• Yang Zhen and Han Yan’er found a huge statue of Yang Zhen surrounded by worshippers, and an old man accused Yang Zhen of impersonating the Holy Lord.
• The old man explained that the Three Flowers Holy Land had helped protect the people from disasters and that Heavenly Origin City hoped for refuge in the coming Great Tribulation.
• Yang Zhen saw the residents’ fear and promised that things would get better.
• Yang Zhen told the old man that he had felt their faith and bestowed a blessing, filling the city with holy light.

Yang Zhen imparted the Dao above Heavenly Origin City, helping many cultivators enter enlightenment and rallying them to resist the upheaval of the realms. After an old man swore his life to Yang Zhen and received a Divine Soul Oath, Yang Zhen reached out to seize the Heavenly Punishment striking him.

• Yang Zhen’s heavenly sound filled Heavenly Origin City, and the old man and many others entered enlightenment as their cultivation rose.
• Yang Zhen urged the crowd to face the merging realms without fear, then conjured an illusion of a swordsman fighting a Heavenly Tribulation.
• The crowd shouted “Let’s go!” and poured their Power of Faith into Yang Zhen as the old man formed a honey badger phantom.
• Yang Zhen named the phantom a honey badger, and the old man vowed to protect him even from the Dao Ancestor, triggering a Divine Soul Oath.
• Yang Zhen leaped beneath the oath’s Heavenly Punishment and reached out to seize the lightning.

Yang Zhen returned to the Three Flowers Holy Land after discussing the Great Dao and the Dao Ancestor with Han Yan'er, Scale Maiden, and Heavenly Maiden. He discovered an unknown power from beyond the heavens was preventing the holy land's Great Emperors from refining heaven and earth, and recognized Dao Ancestor as its source.

• Yang Zhen crushed an old man's Heavenly Punishment, urged him to recover, and invited him to the Three Flowers Holy Land.
• As Yang Zhen preached along the way, Han Yan'er, Scale Maiden, and Heavenly Maiden noticed his presence changing and heard him question the division of the Great Dao into Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Han Yan'er wondered whether Dao Ancestor had mastered the Three Thousand Great Daos, and Yang Zhen considered the danger of the Great Wilderness World attracting others from beyond it.
• Yang Zhen returned to the expanded Three Flowers Holy Land and learned from Great Emperor Golden Eagle that an unknown power was preventing the Great Emperors from refining heaven and earth.
• Yang Zhen spread his Divine Sense across the holy land, sensed the power's source, and addressed Dao Ancestor.

Yang Zhen faced the Dao Ancestor’s Star Chart ferocious beast when it attacked Three Flowers Holy Land, but its power sent him crashing into a crater. After learning that the Star Chart drew power from the starry sky, Yang Zhen hinted that he could obtain that power without entering space, leaving Empress Tianxuan doubtful.

• Yang Zhen rallied Three Flowers Holy Land and challenged the Dao Ancestor to come and face him.
• The Dao Ancestor sent a starry sky that formed a Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast, which struck Yang Zhen down with a Star Chart.
• Empress Tianxuan explained that the Star Chart drew power from the starry sky and offered to hold the beast off while Yang Zhen refined heaven and earth.
• Yang Zhen took Empress Tianxuan’s hand and declared that he could obtain the Power of the Starry Sky without going there.

Yang Zhen sent his Divine Sense into the starry sky while shielding the Three Flowers Holy Land, creating an opportunity for those below to comprehend its power. The chapter ended as Empress Tianxuan and the others began studying the starry expanse he had brought before them.

• Yang Zhen decided to test whether he could master the power of the starry sky by sending his Divine Sense beyond the Nine Heavens.
• Hua Youyue told Han Yan'er that she had been feeling uneasy, while Empress Tianxuan promised to protect Yang Zhen if the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast attacked.
• The Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness realized that Yang Zhen might be sending his Divine Sense into the starry sky, which Empress Tianxuan said could endure for only a quarter of an hour.
• Yang Zhen unleashed his soul power to protect the Three Flowers Holy Land as his Divine Sense pierced the Nine Heavens and entered the void.
• Yang Zhen's power made the Three Flowers Holy Land appear to be beneath a lifelike starry sky, and Empress Tianxuan urged everyone to seize the chance to comprehend it.

Yang Zhen broke into the starry sky and faced the Dao Ancestor’s Dao Physique, then brought the starry sky’s presence back to Three Flowers Holy Land to help Empress Tianxuan comprehend it. As both she and Yang Zhen began to change, a beautiful planet appeared above her head.

• Empress Tianxuan entered sudden enlightenment as Yang Zhen brought the starry sky above Three Flowers Holy Land.
• Yang Zhen fought the Heaven and Earth Ferocious Beast’s explosive attack with the Tianxuan Sword Technique, then broke through into the starry sky.
• Yang Zhen met the Dao Ancestor’s Dao Physique, escaped its attack by entering the Great Wilderness World, and was badly injured.
• Yang Zhen returned with the starry sky’s presence and urged everyone to protect Empress Tianxuan while she comprehended it.
• Yang Zhen and Empress Tianxuan began comprehending the evolving starry sky, and a beautiful planet appeared above her head.

Empress Tianxuan comprehended the Power of the Starry Sky as the Dao Ancestor appeared and attacked Yang Zhen with a devastating nebula. Yang Zhen absorbed the attack into his ten planets but collapsed unconscious, and Empress Tianxuan carried him away from the ruined Three Flowers Holy Land.

• Empress Tianxuan formed a planet and appeared to comprehend the Power of the Starry Sky, while Yang Zhen revealed ten planets of his own.
• The Dao Ancestor appeared, taunted Empress Tianxuan about the coming destruction of the Great Wilderness World, and promised Yang Zhen a stroke of good fortune.
• The Dao Ancestor engulfed Yang Zhen in nebulae, and the attack devastated much of the Three Flowers Holy Land.
• Shameless Cat charged toward Yang Zhen but collapsed at his feet as Yang Zhen endured the attack and absorbed the nebulae into his planets.
• Yang Zhen fell unconscious after threatening the Dao Ancestor, and Empress Tianxuan carried him away.
• Yang Zhen woke in Empress Tianxuan's arms and joked that she had wanted his body.

After Dao Ancestor’s power left Yang Zhen with an empty Dantian, he discovered the starry sky closing in on the Great Wilderness World. He sent his soul to confront the War God Shun and trapped him in Yang Zhen’s Dao Resonance space, while Shameless Cat called for him to take the War God alive.

• Yang Zhen woke in Empress Tianxuan’s Emperor’s Garden and found that Dao Ancestor’s power had stripped away all the power in his body, leaving only ten silent planets in his Divine Sense space.
• Shameless Cat explained that Empress Tianxuan would not be forced to ascend, but warned Yang Zhen that his own situation was more troublesome.
• Han Yan’er blasted a hole through the building, revealing that the starry sky had nearly reached the Great Wilderness World and its power was shattering the land.
• Yang Zhen sensed something and sent his soul into the sky, where he confronted the enormous War God Shun and exchanged blows with him.
• Yang Zhen enveloped War God Shun in his Dao Resonance space and revealed that the starry river around them was an illusion; Shameless Cat shouted for Yang Zhen to take him alive.

Yang Zhen defeated the War God, and Shameless Cat explained that the War God's golden blood contained Dao Ancestor-refined starlight that could alter the Three Flowers Holy Land's fortune. After Yang Zhen refused to refine the War God's battle spirit and released it, the spirit returned to him and began channeling starlight into his body.

• Yang Zhen overwhelmed the War God with clones and sword attacks, then struck him down with a giant Star Spring Sword as the Three Flowers Holy Land faced destruction.
• Yang Zhen returned to his body while the War God dissipated in golden blood, and Shameless Cat sent Empress Tianxuan to check whether its battle spirit remained.
• Shameless Cat told Yang Zhen that the War God's golden blood contained starlight capable of changing the world's fortune and producing a Child of Heaven's Selection.
• Empress Tianxuan returned with the War God's battle spirit, but Yang Zhen released it rather than refine it.
• The battle spirit returned to Yang Zhen, hovered above him, and drew starlight into his body, astonishing Shameless Cat.

Yang Zhen vanished into a mountain of chaos after a surge of starry power, leaving the people of the Three Flowers Holy Land fearing he might never return. Three years later, Hua Youyue watched over their gifted child, Yang Nian, while Shameless Cat wondered when Yang Zhen would emerge.

• Yang Zhen’s power erupted, and Shameless Cat urged everyone to send their belongings to him before he disappeared inside a mountain of chaos.
• Shameless Cat said Yang Zhen’s true dragon nirvana might leave him unable to return to the Great Wilderness World, while Hua Youyue and the others worried for him.
• Empress Tianxuan vowed to defend the Three Flowers Holy Land, and Hua Youyue pledged to stand with the Dao Ancestor.
• Three years passed as the Three Flowers Holy Land thrived beneath a nebula and a protective curtain of light.
• Hua Youyue found two-year-old Yang Nian watching a War God battle a ferocious beast, and his gesture stirred the Great Dao.
• Shameless Cat called Yang Nian a Child of Heaven’s Selection and wondered why Yang Zhen had not emerged; Yang Nian watched eagerly as the War God tore the beast in two.

Hua Youyue and the Three Flowers Holy Land learned that Dao Ancestor Xingquan had killed the Snow Mountain Clan’s people and intended to remake the Great Wilderness. As Xingquan threatened to unleash the Spirits of Annihilation, Shameless Cat’s past identity as Zu Lin became clear, and the chapter ended with everyone facing the danger of an invasion by beings at least as powerful as Great Emperors.

• Hua Youyue learned from Li Xue that Dao Ancestor Xingquan had killed her clansmen and claimed the weakening seal would bring upheaval to the Great Wilderness.
• Dao Ancestor Xingquan appeared, recognized Shameless Cat as Zu Lin, and provoked a violent outburst from him.
• Shameless Cat told Empress Tianxuan that Xingquan and the Human Emperor had been holy spirits born at the dawn of the Great Wilderness, and called Xingquan the embodiment of heaven and earth’s sins.
• Xingquan unleashed his Power of Heavenly Governance, shook the Great Wilderness, and announced that he would destroy its inhabitants and change the Principles of Heaven and Earth.
• Xingquan proposed bringing the Spirits of Annihilation to the Great Wilderness, and Shameless Cat warned that even the weakest of them was at the Great Emperor level.