Chapter Summaries

Fuxi named the Lingming Stone Monkey Sun Wukong and created the Great Sage Law for him, then brought him to Lingtai Three-Inch Mountain to cultivate. While Fuxi was away, Zhunti tried to lure Sun Wukong into learning from his disciples, but their display of Daoist Arts ended with Sun Wukong mocking a disciple’s misshapen “Phoenix.”

• Fuxi named the Lingming Stone Monkey Sun Wukong and created the Great Sage Law, a technique linked to Chaos’s four primal Daos.
• Fuxi warned that cultivating the Great Sage Law outside the Primordial World could be deadly and brought Sun Wukong to Lingtai Three-Inch Mountain.
• Fuxi taught Sun Wukong the Great Sage Law, and Sun Wukong quickly advanced from Heavenly Immortal to Mysterious Immortal.
• After Fuxi left to devise a technique for Nuwa, Zhunti arranged for his disciples to demonstrate dazzling Daoist Arts to attract Sun Wukong.
• A young Daoist attendant used Spitting Flame to form a crude pheasant-like figure and called it a Phoenix, prompting Sun Wukong to laugh and ridicule him.

Sun Wukong fought back after a young Daoist boy attacked him, then faced an assault from the disciples of Lingtai Three-Inch Mountain. He agreed to a one-on-one ring match after Bodhi Daoist saw a chance to make him leave the sect.

• The young Daoist boy attacked Sun Wukong with a Pheasant Phoenix, and Sun Wukong extinguished it before retaliating with a Phoenix made of Southern Bright Li Fire.
• Qiaofu redirected Sun Wukong's Fire Phoenix toward him with Cosmic Shift, but Sun Wukong swallowed the flames, and the other disciples joined the fight.
• Sun Wukong fled the disciples' combined attack, knocked a sword-wielding disciple unconscious, and refused to kill him.
• Sun Wukong challenged the disciples to fight him one-on-one, and Bodhi Daoist urged Qiaofu to accept and arrange a ring match.
• Qiaofu agreed, and Sun Wukong entered Zhunti's ring to test his strength.

Sun Wukong defeated the disciples of Lingtai Three-Inch Mountain in a series of arena battles, overcoming their Divine Abilities with direct attacks and control of the elements. After grievously injuring Qiaofu in the final fight, he left the arena.

• Qiaofu sent Ma Lei to fight Sun Wukong, who knocked him out of the arena with a single punch before he could use a Divine Ability.
• Qiaofu warned the remaining disciples not to underestimate Sun Wukong, then sent Linghua into the arena.
• Linghua used Flowers Bloom in an Instant to animate attacking spirit plants, but Sun Wukong burned them with Innate divine fire and forced her to flee.
• Qiaofu sent Jingtao to counter Sun Wukong with Innate Weak Water and a black wind, but Sun Wukong commanded the wind and rain to engulf Jingtao, prompting Qiaofu to stop the fight.
• Qiaofu entered the arena for the final battle, but Sun Wukong formed earth, wind, water, and fire into a small world and struck him out of the arena, grievously injuring him before leaving.

After Sun Wukong’s victory convinced Bodhi Daoist that recruiting him was hopeless, a violent upheaval in Chaos brought the Sages face to face with Daoist Yang Mei holding the mysterious Hongmeng God Ranking. As the ranking’s images appeared across the Primordial World, its purpose remained unknown.

• Sun Wukong defeated Qiaofu with a Divine Ability that created a Small Thousand World, and Bodhi Daoist abandoned hope of luring him to Western Paradise.
• Violent Chaos Qi threatened the Primordial World’s World Barrier, drawing the Sages to its boundary, where Hongjun questioned Fuxi about the cause.
• A dazzling golden light appeared in Chaos and revealed Daoist Yang Mei holding a ranking list; Fuxi and Hongjun noticed his puppet-like state and powerful presence.
• Yang Mei unfurled the list, revealing the name “Hongmeng God Ranking,” while Hongjun and Fuxi wondered whether the Great Dao had created it.
• Illusory rankings emerged from the Hongmeng God Ranking and appeared before living beings throughout the Primordial World, shaking the world.

Rankings appeared throughout the Primordial World, revealing that the Chaos contained countless worlds and listing cultivation techniques from across them. As the Great Dao Cultivation Technique Ranking continued, Fuxi became interested in techniques that might help the Human Race advance.

• Rankings appeared before beings throughout the Primordial World, and the Four Seas Dragon Kings realized each person saw them in a different direction.
• Haotian told Taibai Jinxing that the rankings were not his doing and feared the disturbance might bring another blow to the Heavenly Court.
• The Great Dao Cultivation Technique Ranking placed Hongjun's Slaying the Three Corpses twentieth among techniques from the Myriad Heavens and Worlds of the Chaos.
• Hongjun celebrated the ranking while Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti congratulated him, but Fuxi kept watching the list.
• The ranking revealed the Three Thousand Great Daos Rivers Method in tenth place, and Fuxi considered how it could benefit the Human Race.

The Great Dao Cultivation Technique Ranking revealed that Fuxi’s disciple Sun Wukong practiced the third-ranked Great Sage Law, while Fuxi’s Dao Scripture ranked second and the Hongmeng Scripture he practiced ranked first. Hongjun’s attempts to mock Fuxi collapsed as the rankings and the Human Race’s blessings celebrated Fuxi’s achievements.

• Hongjun taunted Fuxi because Fuxi’s cultivation technique had not appeared on the ranking, while Hongjun’s Slaying the Three Corpses ranked twentieth.
• Laozi pointed out that the third-ranked Great Sage Law, created by Fuxi for Sun Wukong, had appeared on the stele, leaving Hongjun speechless.
• Sun Wukong celebrated the Great Sage Law’s ranking on Lingtai Three-Inch Mountain, while the other disciples lamented that their techniques were unranked.
• The ranking revealed that Fuxi’s Dao Scripture, tailored for the Human Race, placed second, and the Human Race shouted blessings for Fuxi as he accepted their Power of Vows.
• The ranking named Fuxi’s Hongmeng Scripture first, stating that it could lead to the Great Dao Sage Realm and increase the chance of reaching the Primordial Unity Realm.

Fuxi considered revising the Hongmeng Scripture after the ranking revealed that its chief strength was steadily raising its practitioner to a realm above Hunyuan. The ranking then showed the Myriad Daos United Great World, whose powerful Sages left the Primordial World’s observers alarmed, while its own Sages questioned why their cultivation method ranked only fifth.

• Fuxi decided the Hongmeng Scripture lacked distinctive qualities and might need further revision, while other cultivators considered becoming his disciples to learn it.
• Fuxi warned that the Hongmeng God Ranking’s appearance heralded powerful worlds above the Primordial World, though the Primordial World had already begun ascending through his arrangements.
• The Great Dao Cultivation Technique Ranking displayed scenes from other worlds, then focused on the Myriad Daos United Great World and showed its inhabitants viewing the same ranking.
• Zhunti noticed that all twelve figures in the image were Hunyuan beings, and Fuxi recognized one Great Dao Sage, two apparent Dao-Union Sages, and nine Heavenly Dao Sages.
• The Primordial World’s observers fell silent at the sight of the Myriad Daos United Great World’s formidable strength.
• The Sages of the Myriad Daos United Great World accepted the ranking’s information as trustworthy and asked their Master why the Myriad Daos United Method ranked fifth.

The Great Dao Cultivation Technique Ranking revealed the Pangu Primordial Great World’s seventh-place strength, prompting different worlds to consider seeking it, defending themselves, or becoming its vassal. A new Great Dao Divine Ability Ranking then appeared, placing Hongjun’s Slaying the Three Corpses twentieth and Fuxi’s Dao Patterns above the Daoyuan Great World’s Great Dao River.

• Three Great Dao Sages discussed searching the Chaos for the Pangu Primordial Great World and agreed to seek the Hongmeng Scripture after the ranking settled.
• Fuxi, Hongjun, and the other mighty figures watched the ranking identify their world as seventh among the displayed Great Worlds, despite its top-ranked cultivation techniques.
• Worlds across the Chaos debated invading the Pangu Primordial Great World or fortifying their own barriers, while the Daoyuan Great World chose to become its vassal.
• The Hongmeng God Ranking revealed the Great Dao Divine Ability Ranking and placed Hongjun’s Slaying the Three Corpses in twentieth place.
• Fuxi recognized the Daoyuan Great World’s Great Dao River in eighth place, then saw his own Dao Patterns ranked above it.

The Great Dao Divine Ability Ranking placed Fuxi’s Dao Patterns eighth and tied his Primordial Eight Trigrams with Ten Thousand Dao Return to One for second and third, while Heaven-Opening Strike took first. The Great Dao Cultivation Ranking then revealed Fuxi’s immense lead over Hongjun and the other Primordial sages, leaving the Mystic Sect figures wondering whether they should switch sides.

• The mighty figures of the Primordial World learned that Fuxi’s Dao Patterns ranked eighth and anticipated that his Primordial Eight Trigrams would appear higher.
• The ranking tied Primordial Eight Trigrams and Ten Thousand Dao Return to One for second and third, naming them the strongest deduction and defensive Divine Abilities in Chaos.
• The ranking placed Heaven-Opening Strike first as the strongest offensive Divine Ability, born directly from the Great Dao.
• The Great Dao Cultivation Ranking placed Hongjun twentieth at the peak of the middle stage of Dao-Union Sage and Fuxi eighth at the Half-Step Great Dao Sage Realm.
• The Primordial sages were shocked by the gap between Fuxi, Hongjun, and themselves, and the Mystic Sect figures wondered if they could switch to the Human Race’s side.

The Great Dao Cultivation Ranking revealed that Fuxi had surpassed Hongjun by an entire realm, shaking the Primordial World and driving many races to abandon the Heavenly Court and seek the Human Race’s protection. At the boundary of the Primordial World, the Great Dao Treasure Ranking appeared, listing the Chaos Bell and the Three Thousand Great Daos Rivers, while Fuxi considered learning the method used to cultivate the latter.

• Hongjun inwardly resented Fuxi’s half-step Great Dao Sage Realm cultivation, which stood a full realm above his own.
• Haotian collapsed in fright, Sun Wukong nearly wrecked Lingtai Three-Inch Mountain, and leaders of the myriad races began drafting declarations to sever ties with the Heavenly Court and seek the Human Race’s protection.
• Fuxi studied the top four cultivators on the ranking and noted that two of the top three came from the Great Dao United Great World, prompting him to consider preparing for a future conflict.
• The Great Dao Treasure Ranking placed the Chaos Bell twentieth and identified it as a Chaos treasure fused with Primordial Violet Qi that could help its bearer enter the Hunyuan realm.
• The ranking placed the Three Thousand Great Daos Rivers nineteenth, and Fuxi considered using the Primordial Eight Trigrams Divine Ability to derive the Great Dao River Method.

The Great Dao Treasure Ranking revealed that Fuxi Qin had become the only Chaos Merit Spiritual Treasure and ranked first, restoring the Pangu Primordial World's standing. As the Primordial World’s beings celebrated and took up qin-making, Daoist Yang Mei appeared beside Fuxi and Hongjun.

• The Great Dao Treasure Ranking clarified that treasures bound to a single great world were excluded, leading Hongjun and others to assume the Primordial World would have no entries.
• The ranking announced Fuxi Qin in first place as the only Chaos Merit Spiritual Treasure in existence.
• Fuxi explained that he had poured all the Merit and Fortune he had gained since birth into Fuxi Qin, and the other mighty figures abandoned the idea of doing the same for their own treasures.
• The Primordial World's living beings celebrated Fuxi Qin's ranking and began deciding to forge qin treasures, while many hailed Fuxi as their ancestral master.
• After the ranking fell still, Daoist Yang Mei approached Fuxi and Hongjun and greeted Hongjun.

Daoist Yang Mei explained that the Hongmeng God Ranking came from a message from the Great Dao and warned Hongjun and Fuxi that a new tribulation was beginning. He revealed that the Primordial World belonged to the Hongmeng Universe, which faced five successive calamities, leaving Hongjun stunned by the scale of the danger.

• Hongjun dismissed the others, then questioned Daoist Yang Mei about his return and the Hongmeng God Ranking.
• Daoist Yang Mei said he had traveled through Chaos, reached the Great Dao Origin, and received a message from the Great Dao.
• Daoist Yang Mei praised Fuxi, while beings across the Primordial World debated the rankings and the wider worlds of Chaos.
• Daoist Yang Mei told Hongjun and Fuxi that the Primordial Beginning Calamity had ended and the Taishi Tribulation was beginning.
• Daoist Yang Mei explained that the Hongmeng Universe would pass through the Innate Five Tais and face extinction unless someone attained eternal Dao during the remaining stages.
• Hongjun was stunned to learn that the Primordial World existed within a multiverse facing five great calamities.

Daoist Yang Mei warned Hongjun and Fuxi that the Hongmeng God Ranking could help other worlds locate the Primordial Great World, while Fuxi could block their deductions. Across the multiverse, Great Dao Sages chose the Primordial World as their first target and Fuxi as the one to eliminate, while Hongjun’s disciples debated how to face the coming Taishi Tribulation.

• Daoist Yang Mei explained that the Hongmeng God Ranking could reveal the locations of great worlds and that Fuxi could use the Primordial Eight Trigrams to conceal the Primordial World.
• The three Dao Ancestors of the Great Dao Unity Great World agreed to attack the Pangu Primordial Great World first and make Fuxi their first target.
• Dao Ancestors in other great worlds likewise set their sights on the Primordial World, but Fuxi’s deductions left them facing only fog.
• Hongjun summoned his Sage disciples to discuss the Taishi Tribulation, and Laozi suggested seeking cultivation techniques from other worlds.
• Hongjun challenged Laozi’s proposal by pointing out that Fuxi already held the top-ranked techniques, then grew furious when Laozi revealed that he and the other disciples had read the Dao Scripture.

Fuxi and the other Sages agreed to end the Extraterrestrial Demons Calamity before the Taishi Tribulation, and the Primordial World launched an all-out attack on the Demon Sea. Fuxi and Hongjun then went to face its two Heavenly Demon Kings.

• Houtu urged the group to end the Extraterrestrial Demons Calamity before other worlds could attack the Primordial World.
• Black Tortoise offered to help repair the Western Ley Lines, while Nuwa planned to join Zhen Yuanzi in using a grand formation to restore them.
• Fuxi and Hongjun gathered the Sages and cultivators at the world's boundary, where Fuxi explained how Sun Wukong could absorb the Outside-Heaven Demons' origin and prevent their revival.
• The Primordial World army marched toward the Demon Sea, protected in Chaos by the Taiji Diagram and the Chaos Bell.
• Fuxi chose to face the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon King, while Hongjun chose the Great Liberation Heavenly Demon King, and both charged into the heart of the Demon Sea.

Fuxi and Hongjun defeated the Heavenly Demon Kings, while the Sages destroyed the Heart-Demon Kings. Fuxi then surveyed the Primordial World's battle against the Outside-Heaven Demons, with the Northern Battlefield remaining the bloodiest of its four regions.

• Fuxi used the Fuxi Qin to defeat the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon King and trap him in a newly created small world.
• Hongjun defeated the Great Liberation Heavenly Demon King and likewise made him a World-Creating Demon God.
• The Heart-Demon Kings trapped the Sages in visions of their greatest fears and escaped the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• The Sages quickly broke free and destroyed the Heart-Demon Kings, with Jieyin and Zhunti using Merit to erase their demonic Qi origins.
• Fuxi observed the Cultivators of Ten Thousand Races, the Human Race Soldiers, and the great experts overwhelming Outside-Heaven Demons across three battlefields.

Sun Wukong slaughtered the Outside-Heaven Demons on the northern battlefield, showing signs of becoming the Chaos Demon Ape. Meanwhile, powers across Chaos watched the battle after Fuxi’s Heavenly Secrets barrier was partially breached, and some began assessing the Primordial World and its techniques.

• Sun Wukong used the Great Sage Law to wield the four elemental sources, replenish his power, heal with demonic Qi, and resist the Outside-Heaven Demons’ attacks until they despaired.
• Deductions across the great worlds partially breached Fuxi’s barrier, revealing a real-time view of the battle without exposing the Pangu Primordial Great World’s coordinates.
• In the Myriad Daos United Great World, Guixu Dao Ancestor and Dao Yi Dao Ancestor assessed Sun Wukong and the Primordial Sages while directing their followers to keep searching for the Primordial World’s location.
• In the Daoyuan Great World, Changhe Dao Ancestor praised the Human Race’s battle formations, began deducing them for his world, and grew eager to meet Fuxi.

The Primordial World defeated the Outside-Heaven Demons and received the Great Dao’s reward, while Sun Wukong advanced to the Quasi-Sage Realm. As the world’s ascension paused for the western earth veins to be restored, Merit poured in and left Zhunti and Jieyin bitter at how much others received.

• Sages across the other worlds remembered Fuxi’s effortless defeat of the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon King and recognized Sun Wukong’s potential to become the Chaos Demon Ape, prompting some worlds to prepare for war.
• The Primordial factions gave the remaining demonic Qi to Sun Wukong, who broke through to the Quasi-Sage Realm but suppressed his urge to advance because his foundations were unstable.
• Fuxi stored the remains of the Demon Sea, and the Great Dao rewarded the Primordial World for overcoming the Extraterrestrial Demons Calamity as its Acquired Dao Fruits matured.
• The Black Tortoise and Zhen Yuanzi repaired the western earth veins, while Fuxi sent Nuwa south and Hongjun sent Laozi north to help direct and restore them.
• After the western earth veins recovered and the Primordial World paused before completing its ascension, Merit engulfed the great experts, and Zhunti and Jieyin grew bitter as Fuxi, Nuwa, the Black Tortoise, Zhen Yuanzi, and Laozi received further Merit for the repairs.

Hongjun warned his disciples to cultivate while Jieyin and Zhunti sought help with their debts and declining influence. A hundred years later, the Primordial World completed its ascension, and Fuxi became a Great Dao Sage.

• Hongjun warned his disciples that conflict across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds could reach Chaos.
• Jieyin and Zhunti asked Hongjun for help repaying their debts and countering the Human Race's migration west.
• Laozi suggested moving other races into the Western Primordial World as well.
• The Primordial World completed its ascension a hundred years later, expanding ninefold and gaining new resources.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Hong Yun that the visions of pasts and possible futures were caused by Fuxi becoming a Great Dao Sage.
• Fuxi rose two places on the Great Dao Cultivation Ranking after attaining the Great Dao Sage Realm.

Fuxi’s advancement to the Great Dao Sage Realm reshaped rankings and plans across Chaos, while weaker worlds were slaughtered and drained by wandering Sages. Near the Primordial World, two murderous Dao Ancestors from the Origin Great World discussed how to find and seize it, unaware that Fuxi had already advanced.

• Fuxi’s advancement changed the Hongmeng God Rankings across the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, prompting beings in Chaos to debate his strength.
• Dao Ancestor Chenguang realized Fuxi’s advancement had ruined the plan he had made with Dao Yi Dao Ancestor and Guixu Dao Ancestor.
• Changhe Dao Ancestor sent his six disciples to guard the Daoyuan Great World and set out to find the Pangu Primordial Great World and Fuxi.
• Wandering Sages slaughtered inhabitants and drained the origin power of weak worlds, which drifted to Chaos’s boundary and were cast onto a vast continent beneath a golden ranking.
• Hongzhuo Heavenly Venerable and Old Man Letian, two Great Dao Sages from the Origin Great World, discussed the breakthrough phenomenon and their search for the Pangu Primordial Great World.
• Hongzhuo Heavenly Venerable and Old Man Letian agreed to scout a nearby great world and return to the Origin Great World to prepare a conquest if it was the Pangu Primordial Great World.

Fuxi discovered that Hongzhuo Heavenly Venerable and Old Man Letian were approaching the Primordial World, so he warned Hongjun and prepared to face them. At the border, the Hongmeng God Ranking began shining with unprecedented force, drawing Fuxi, Hongjun, and the Primordial World’s Sages to witness what would happen.

• Fuxi used the Primordial Eight Trigrams Divine Ability to learn of Hongzhuo Heavenly Venerable and Old Man Letian’s slaughter and plans against the Primordial World.
• Fuxi went to Zixiao Palace and told Hongjun that two Great Dao Sages from the Origin Great World were nearing the Primordial World.
• Fuxi explained that the Jade Disc of Good Fortune, Human Path Sword, and Six Paths Reincarnation Disk might help Hongjun fight Old Man Letian, while Fuxi would face Hongzhuo Heavenly Venerable with the Fuxi Qin.
• Fuxi and Hongjun arrived at the Primordial World’s border, where the Hongmeng God Ranking released ten thousand rays of golden light.
• The Primordial World’s Sages and Quasi-Sages gathered at the border, and its mighty figures greeted Fuxi while overlooking Hongjun.