Chapter Summaries

Meng Chen guided Zhen Yizi to understand that he needed to forge his own Dao instead of relying on others’ techniques. He gave Zhen Yizi a Pangu Imprint and a Great Dao Divine Script to aid his cultivation, then accelerated time around him as he began to comprehend it.

• Meng Chen kept Zhen Yizi behind after the meeting to guide his cultivation.
• Meng Chen explained that Demon Saint Tongtian had been defeated because he relied on other people’s Daos and had not created his own.
• Zhen Yizi understood Meng Chen’s lesson and promised to pursue his own Dao.
• Meng Chen gave Zhen Yizi a Pangu Imprint to open the divine temple in the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven.
• Meng Chen wrote a Great Dao Divine Script character and placed it in Zhen Yizi, warning that only he could comprehend it.
• Zhen Yizi began meditating on the character, and Meng Chen set up a spacetime acceleration grand array around him.

Meng Chen trained Zhen Yizi and prepared to obtain powerful cultivation resources while Haotian God arrived at the Jade Void Palace to trade treasures for Undying Fruits. Haotian God secured Meng Chen’s friendship and the Heavenly Court’s ties to the Chan Sect by offering him the Fate Demon God’s Heart.

• Meng Chen gave Zhen Yizi pure Dao scriptures and poured abundant mana into the Time Acceleration grand array as Zhen Yizi’s cells evolved.
• Haotian God brought the Fierce Ape Divine Rod to Meng Chen, who judged it poor material and demonstrated its inferiority with Chaos Immortal Gold.
• Haotian God offered the Sumeru Illusion, and Meng Chen traded one Undying Fruit for it.
• Haotian God presented the Fate Demon God’s Heart, which stirred Meng Chen’s Great Dao of Fate.
• Meng Chen traded nine Undying Fruits and three middle-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures for the heart and promised that the Heavenly Court would be the Chan Sect’s best friend.
• Haotian God celebrated the deal, believing Meng Chen’s friendship secured support for his rule as Heavenly Emperor.

Meng Chen and Haotian God traded treasures, while Ancestor Hongjun revealed to Yuanshi Tianzun that Meng Chen was already destined to lead Xuanmen and was effectively trading for his own treasury. Meng Chen agreed to buy Haotian God’s Fragment of the Chaos Pearl with 365 Undying Fruits delivered in batches.

• Meng Chen and Haotian God exchanged stolen treasures for legitimate Chaos Divine Artifacts, while Ancestor Hongjun and Yuanshi Tianzun watched from the Purple Cloud Palace.
• Ancestor Hongjun told Yuanshi Tianzun that Meng Chen was Xuanmen’s next sect leader, making the treasures Meng Chen traded for effectively his own.
• Haotian God offered Meng Chen a Fragment of the Chaos Pearl, and Meng Chen weighed its limited usefulness against its extraordinary origin.
• Meng Chen proposed paying 365 Undying Fruits for the fragment, delivered in batches, and Haotian God accepted.

Meng Chen refined the Fate Demon God's Heart and began turning it into a Heavenly Dao Spirit in a time-sealed seclusion. In the Demon Realm, Luo Hou humiliated Demon Saint Tongtian and sent him away without resurrecting his disciples.

• Meng Chen used the Chaos Bell, God-Slaying Spear, and Myriad Dragon Whip to suppress the Fate Demon God's Heart and merge its Fate Power into his River of Fate.
• Meng Chen refined the heart into a seven-orificed gemstone, then began assimilating it with the Great Dao of Fate inside Jade Void Palace.
• Demon Saint Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace, found it empty, and asked Luo Hou to resurrect the Disciples of Intercepting Teaching.
• Luo Hou rebuked Demon Saint Tongtian for his betrayal and failure against Yuanshi Tianzun, then forced him to kneel and bow.
• Luo Hou threw Demon Saint Tongtian out of the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons and told him to reflect before he would help resurrect his disciples.

Great Dream Demon Saint told Demon Saint Tongtian that Duo Bao had been planted in Xuanmen as part of Luo Hou’s plan to undermine the Immortal Dao. Tongtian realized that Luo Hou had shaped his past and might control his future, but his response remained unknown.

• Demon Saint Tongtian returned to Biyou Palace furious at Luo Hou and considered destroying the Demon Realm to avenge his humiliation.
• Great Dream Demon Saint arrived and said he had come to tell Tongtian the truth about Duo Bao.
• Great Dream Demon Saint revealed that Luo Hou had placed the Ten Thousand Demons Pagoda’s artifact spirit in a Duobao Rat and sent it into Xuanmen as a demonic chess piece.
• Great Dream Demon Saint explained that Luo Hou saw an opportunity when Tongtian accepted Duo Bao as a disciple and that Intercepting Teaching’s disciples gradually entered the Demonic Path.
• Demon Saint Tongtian closed his eyes as he realized Luo Hou had plotted against him from the beginning, while Great Dream Demon Saint warned that Luo Hou had determined both his past and future.

Sage Jieyin was ambushed by the three Saints of the Saintess Great World after his scheme to steal Ancestral Veins failed. As Dunhuang Saint’s request made Tianhe Saint and Saint Xiong Ba grow even stronger, Jieyin fled into the Chaos World.

• Sage Jieyin opened his Buddha kingdoms and fought Dunhuang Saint, Saint Xiong Ba, and Tianhe Saint.
• Sage Jieyin recalled how his attempt to sow discord between Saint Xiong Ba and Tianhe Saint had failed because they both prioritized Dunhuang Saint.
• Dunhuang Saint said she wanted to make Sage Jieyin her maidservant, making Tianhe Saint and Saint Xiong Ba unleash stronger attacks against him.
• Saint Xiong Ba and Tianhe Saint shattered the Twelfth Grade Merit Golden Lotus and surged in strength after Dunhuang Saint pleaded that they not hurt Jieyin’s face.
• Sage Jieyin feinted, used the force of their attacks to escape, and fled into the Chaos World.

After failing to seize an Ancestral Vein from the Saintess Great World, Sage Jieyin returned to the Primordial Wilderness and sought Sage Zhunti’s counsel. Sage Zhunti challenged him to consider whether he truly sought prosperity for the west or merely power for the Western Church, leaving Sage Jieyin to confront the karma burdening his Dao Fruit.

• Sage Jieyin returned secretly to the Primordial Wilderness after the Saintess Three Sages drove him from their world.
• Sage Jieyin met Sage Zhunti at Spirit Platform Mountain and admitted that he had failed to seize an Ancestral Vein.
• Sage Zhunti advised Sage Jieyin to seek help from Sage Laozi and Goddess Nüwa, and proposed giving extra Sage Positions to Kunpeng and Hongyun to repay old karma.
• Sage Jieyin objected that the Sage Positions should go to Western Church disciples and claimed that he wanted the west to prosper.
• Sage Zhunti asked whether Sage Jieyin wanted the Western Church or the west to prosper, then pointed out that their flawed Dao Fruits and the west’s debts to the Eastern Lands stood in the way.

Meng Chen comprehended a new Daoist art within the Jade Void Palace, drawing a heavenly phenomenon that alerted the sages and other great experts. After perfecting his Saint Dragon Myriad Tribulations Undying Body, he grasped the principle of “No Dao, No Self” and believed he had found the true Path of Transcendence.

• Rosy clouds and visible Dao charm spread across the Primordial Wilderness, and the sages recognized that someone was creating a method of attaining the Dao.
• Sage Laozi traced the phenomenon to the Jade Void Palace and realized Meng Chen was its source.
• The Fate Demon God's Heart became the heart of the River of Fate, and Meng Chen's cultivation rose as the river came alive.
• Meng Chen drew Dao charm into himself, fused principles from his accumulated foundation, and completed the Saint Dragon Myriad Tribulations Undying Body.
• Meng Chen comprehended “No Dao, No Self” and believed he had broken free of heaven and earth's cultivation system to enter the true Path of Transcendence.

After Meng Chen comprehended No Dao, No Self, the Heavenly Dao rewarded him with immense Merit and hoped he would eventually transcend. His achievement shook the Primordial Wilderness, and Ancestor Kunpeng abandoned his plans for revenge against the Chan Sect.

• Meng Chen completed his comprehension of No Dao, No Self, triggering a heavenly phenomenon and receiving Merit from the Heavenly Dao.
• Great Immortal Zhen Yuan recognized how far Meng Chen had surpassed him, while Old Ancestor Styx praised Meng Chen and anticipated his conflict with Tongtian and the Intercepting Teaching.
• Ancestor Kunpeng considered attacking Meng Chen and the Chan Sect, then realized he could not defeat Meng Chen or Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Ancestor Kunpeng recalled both the harm and help Yuanshi Tianzun had given him and concluded that the Chan Sect's disciples had not wronged him.
• Ancestor Kunpeng gave up his grudge, fearing that provoking the Chan Sect would lead Meng Chen to destroy him and the Eternal Calamity Land.

Zhen Yizi emerged from seclusion with greatly increased cultivation as Meng Chen gathered the Chan Sect and Myriad Witch Kingdom forces to enter the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven. At Mount Buzhou, Meng Chen united the strongest factions around his camp as more forces arrived.

• Zhen Yizi completed his comprehension, advanced the Mystic Arts of Eight Nine to the sixth transformation, and formed his own Dao.
• Meng Chen summoned the Chan Sect and Myriad Witch Kingdom forces, and Yellow Dragon True Man chose not to enter the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven.
• Meng Chen ordered the expedition members to kill the Dunhuang Heavenly Palace demonesses, and Gu Changsheng vowed to eradicate them.
• At Mount Buzhou, Meng Chen greeted the leaders of the Teaching of Humanity, Western Church, and Wa Palace and called for Xuanmen disciples to unite against foreign enemies.
• The Four Primordial Spirit Clans joined Meng Chen's camp, while Five Villages Temple took a position nearby as more factions arrived.

The immortals gathered as Buzhou Grotto-Heaven emerged, while Yuanshi Tianzun stayed behind to defend the Primordial World’s laws from intruders. Meng Chen sent the gathered factions into the dangerous grotto-heaven, where they discovered colossal beasts and powerful beings resembling the Wu Clan.

• Meng Chen, Great Immortal Zhen Yuan, and Haotian God discussed the promising juniors and their plans to cultivate new disciples.
• Yuanshi Tianzun fought transmigrators, reborn people, and system users while repairing the laws of Heaven and Earth.
• Haotian God worried that the juniors’ wicked impulses would go unchecked beyond the Primordial Wilderness and stressed the need to establish heavenly laws and regulations.
• Buzhou Grotto-Heaven emerged from parallel spacetime, revealing a vast world inhabited by colossal beasts and humanoid Heavenly Protagonists.
• Meng Chen ordered the factions to enter, and Guang Chengzi led them through the gates.

Zhen Yizi and the Twelve Great Witches discovered that Buzhou Grotto-Heaven amplified their power, while Guang Chengzi separated the Chan Sect from other factions and plotted against the Disciples of Intercepting Teaching. After capturing and searching two enemies, the group learned that at least thirty Greater Worlds had allied to attack the Primordial World.

• Zhen Yizi and the Twelve Great Witches found that Pangu Grotto-Heaven’s laws strengthened them, and Zhen Yizi resolved to claim its treasures for the Chan Sect.
• Guang Chengzi sent most factions away, then drove the Heavenly Court group and Eternal Mother’s Disciples of Intercepting Teaching away as well.
• Guang Chengzi secretly decided to suppress the Disciples of Intercepting Teaching in Buzhou Grotto-Heaven so they could not return to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Guang Chengzi and Kong Xuan pursued fleeing opponents from the Five Elements Greater World and captured two Grand Golden Immortals despite one enemy’s self-destruction.
• Guang Chengzi learned from the prisoners that at least thirty Greater Worlds had agreed to unite against the Primordial World and slaughter its immortals.

Ru Meng and the other Saintesses of Dunhuang Heavenly Palace gathered in Buzhou Grotto-Heaven to discuss confronting Meng Chen and taking advantage of the conflict between the Primordial World and other Greater Worlds. After their disciples returned with Grotto-Heaven Origins, the Saintesses accepted the spoils and adapted to the local laws.

• Ru Meng recalled how Meng Chen had defeated her and declared that the Saintesses would erase their past shame if he entered Pangu Grotto-Heaven.
• Ruhua insisted that Meng Chen could not have attained the Great Luo Dao, while the Saintesses agreed to stay together and let other Greater Worlds fight the Primordial World first.
• Ru Ge and Ru Shi warned against splitting up and urged the Saintesses to wait for their rivals to weaken one another before acting.
• The Saintesses and their disciples spent a day discussing the Primordial World, the Morality Great World, and their plans for the conflict.
• The disciples returned wounded with Grotto-Heaven Origins and offered them to the Saintesses, who accepted the spoils and began adapting to the laws of heaven and earth.

Zhen Yizi trapped the Saintess Great World’s immortals and revealed that he was Meng Chen’s disciple, sent to kill them in his teacher’s place. He slaughtered the saintesses and their protectors, collecting Innate Spiritual Treasures as the survivors realized they could not escape.

• A lightning barrier sealed off the Saintess Great World’s immortals, and their combined attacks failed to break it.
• Ru Ge and Ru Meng recognized Meng Chen’s mana and panicked, but the newcomer who descended was Zhen Yizi, Meng Chen’s disciple.
• Zhen Yizi explained that Meng Chen had sent him to trample the immortals’ dignity, then attacked them with the Juntian Divine Axe.
• Zhen Yizi killed Ru Shi and destroyed the simps who tried to avenge her, then slew Ru Meng and collected another Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• A fleeing saintess struck the contracting lightning barrier and was blasted into powder by the Jade Clear Divine Thunder.

Zhen Yizi slaughtered the Saintess Great World immortals and collected their treasures, while the Chan Sect party faced eight powerful disciples from the Yang Mei Great World. Guang Chengzi revealed Meng Chen’s status as their sect master and hinted that Meng Chen’s disciple was approaching.

• Zhen Yizi killed the Saintess Great World immortals despite their curses and pleas for surrender, then found nine Innate Spiritual Treasures among their belongings.
• Kong Xinzi and seven Yang Mei Sect disciples appeared before the Chan Sect party and displayed cultivation on par with Guang Chengzi’s.
• Kong Xinzi praised Meng Chen while claiming the Primordial World’s other disciples were no match for the Yang Mei Great World.
• Guang Chengzi told Kong Xinzi that Meng Chen was the Chan Sect’s Teaching Sect Master, leaving the Yang Mei disciples stunned.
• A powerful aura approached, and Guang Chengzi said Meng Chen’s disciple would soon meet the Yang Mei disciples.

Zhen Yizi intercepted the Yangmei Great World party and challenged them after boasting that he had slaughtered the Saintess Great World’s immortals. He defeated and killed all eight experts, leaving the Primordial World’s dominance over the encounter unquestioned.

• Zhen Yizi arrived before Guang Chengzi and the Yangmei Great World party, announcing that he had killed every immortal in the Saintess Great World.
• Zhen Yizi insulted the Yangmei Great World and demanded that Kong Xinzi and the others accept the title of Hairy and Horned, Moist-Born and Egg-Hatched and give thanks.
• Kong Xinzi, Pu Jizi, Mu Shenzi, Wu Daozi, Rou Yuzi, and the others attacked Zhen Yizi with their arts and treasures.
• Zhen Yizi used Divine Light to trap the eight experts and deprive them of their control over space and time.
• Zhen Yizi killed all eight experts from the Yangmei Great World.

Meng Chen and Haotian God revealed that Great Immortal Yangmei commanded six powerful Sages, including five who embodied the Primordial Five Tai. The Primordial Wilderness Sages weighed the threat as they continued watching the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven.

• Meng Chen broadcast the events inside the Buzhou Grotto-Heaven, leading the Sages to recognize the strength of Yangmei's younger generation.
• Sage Laozi warned that Great Immortal Yangmei might have recruited Chaos Demon Gods, putting Yuanshi Tianzun at risk.
• Meng Chen told the Sages that the Yangmei Great World had six Sages, information he had learned from his Grandmaster.
• Haotian God named the six Sages and explained that five had achieved Sagehood through the Primordial Five Tai Great Dao, while the Termination Saint followed the Dao of Termination.
• Goddess Nüwa expressed confidence in her Creation Dao and said she wanted to test it against the Primordial Five Tai Great Dao.
• Meng Chen privately judged that the divided Primordial Five Tai Great Dao could not overcome Yuanshi Tianzun's Pangu True Body, and the immortals continued watching.

Eternal Mother confronted Daoist Duobao and the World-Ending Palace after they mocked her group for being expelled from Guang Chengzi’s main force. She rejected Duobao’s offer and launched a battle, while Zhen Yizi and Guang Chengzi watched for different reasons.

• Spirit Fang Demon taunted Eternal Mother’s group for being separated from the Human and Illustrious Teachings, and Daoist Duobao invited her to join the World-Ending Palace.
• Long-Eared Dingguang Demon urged Han Zhixian and Fairy Caiyun to follow Daoist Duobao, but they ignored him.
• Eternal Mother told Daoist Duobao that they were no longer fellow disciples and encouraged her companions to follow their own paths.
• Daoist Duobao threatened Eternal Mother, who answered by attacking him with the Vacuum Seven-Colored Palm.
• Daoist Duobao countered with the Rulai Divine Palm, and their clash sparked a battle between the World-Ending Palace and the Heavenly Court gods.
• Zhen Yizi watched the battle while seeking the newly emerged Heavenly Earth Divine Object, and Guang Chengzi watched with the intent to kill.

Guang Chengzi attacked the World-Ending Palace and Heavenly Court forces in Buzhou Grotto-Heaven, killing Daoist Duobao and suppressing or slaughtering his allies. Haotian God watched the massacre while Meng Chen remained unconcerned, leaving the Heavenly Court’s surviving deities to face Guang Chengzi alone.

• Guang Chengzi ambushed Daoist Duobao and the World-Ending Palace disciples, then defeated Daoist Duobao’s Rulai Divine Palm and seized his true spirit.
• Guang Chengzi slaughtered the World-Ending Palace disciples while Zhen Yizi trapped Eternal Mother’s group with Jade Clear Divine Thunder.
• Southern Dipper Star Lord and Northern Dipper Star Lord invoked the Undying Fruits and appealed to Guang Chengzi, but he attacked the Heavenly Court gods anyway.
• Guang Chengzi suppressed Southern Dipper Star Lord beneath Mount Buzhou, beheaded Jade Maiden Star Lord, and killed Fierce Might Star Lord.
• Eternal Mother and the remaining gods began resisting, while Haotian God watched in anger and Meng Chen remained unconcerned.

Guang Chengzi discovered that the newly emerged Heavenly Earth Divine Object could seize Calamity Fate, but Zhen Yizi claimed it before he could take it. As the Primordial World’s fighters defeated rivals across Buzhou Grotto-Heaven, its growing reputation made other worlds retreat from Zhen Yizi, who claimed another divine object without a fight.

• Guang Chengzi watched the Calamity Fate altar absorb the enemies’ flesh and blood, then learned that it had transferred their Calamity Fate to him.
• Zhen Yizi took the altar into the void, while Guang Chengzi accepted its loss and decided he would cultivate a disciple for the Chan Sect.
• Zhen Yizi found a mirror that replicated objects and used it to copy the Celebration Clouds of the Heavens.
• The Twelve Great Witches formed the Twelve Divine Pillars Grand Formation, killed the Qiankun Great World immortals and Amorous Demoness, and collected their spoils.
• The Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise clans wiped out immortals from five allied Greater Worlds, spreading the Primordial World’s fearsome reputation.
• Other worlds began avoiding Primordial World immortals, and Zhen Yizi claimed a Heavenly Earth Divine Object after its other claimants fled.