Chapter Summaries

Zhu Zi'an, Xiao Bi, and the Black Robe Man passed the fourth floor and entered a White Expanse on the fifth, where they discovered that absorbing its Origin Essence was the way forward. After the three were sent to separate spaces, Xiao Bi entered a palace and was hailed as the Purple Nether Source Lord.

• Zhu Zi'an, Xiao Bi, and the Black Robe Man allied their pieces, defeated the White Chess Pieces, and passed the fourth floor.
• The three reached the fifth floor, where the Black Robe Man touched the treasure cauldron and vanished, while Chi Yu summoned Xiao Bi to the Void Creation Space.
• Zhu Zi'an closed his eyes and absorbed the White Expanse Origin Essence, discovering that it cleared the floor; the Black Robe Man later returned, shaken by the fuzz-like creatures.
• Chi Yu sent Xiao Bi back to the fifth floor, and she joined Zhu Zi'an in absorbing the remaining Origin Essence until all three were transported to separate spaces.
• Xiao Bi entered a Sacred Palace on her Floating Treasure Island, where Divine Soldiers and Divine Generals bowed and called her the Purple Nether Source Lord.

Xiao Bi gained control of the fifth-floor trial after Chi Yu stopped Purple Nether from possessing her, while Zhu Zi'an and the Black Robe Man cleared the floor by devouring its resources. The three reached the eighth floor, defeated their identical selves with Zhu Zi'an’s system’s help, and were transported away without learning where they were going.

• Chi Yu captured Purple Nether as she tried to possess Xiao Bi, learned her history, and turned her into Purple Nether Origin Essence that gave Xiao Bi control of the fifth-floor trial.
• Xiao Bi perfected and cleared the fifth floor, then advanced directly to the sixth while Chi Yu promised not to interfere for the next three floors.
• Zhu Zi'an devoured souls on the fifth floor, while the Black Robe Man and his Future Self absorbed its Origin Essence until the space collapsed and the Black Robe Man reached the sixth floor.
• Xiao Bi and the Black Robe Man were sent from the sixth floor directly to the eighth, where each faced an identical counterpart and became trapped in a stalemate.
• Zhu Zi'an arrived on the eighth floor, used the Devour Soul System to devour his counterpart, and cleared the trial; the system then helped Xiao Bi and the Black Robe Man defeat their counterparts too.
• Three beams of light transported Zhu Zi'an, Xiao Bi, and the Black Robe Man away from the eighth floor.

Zhu Zi'an and Xiao Bi cleared the Lingtai Treasure Pagoda, received its divided inheritance, and were transported with the Lingtai Old Man to Three Source City before discovering a hidden passage beneath the Boundless Sea. At the seabed, Xiao Bi’s Violet Nether Great Hall subdued the Sea Soldiers and Sea Generals, and a strange stone opened to reveal a humanoid creature with a fish tail.

• The Lingtai Old Man sent Zhu Zi'an, Xiao Bi, and the Black Robe Man into a final arena match, where Zhu Zi'an and Xiao Bi defeated the Black Robe Man before their own fight was stopped to protect the pagoda.
• The Lingtai Old Man divided the inheritance between Zhu Zi'an and Xiao Bi, then Golden Light transported them and the pagoda to Three Source City as Black Qi tried to devour him.
• When Three Source City’s Supremes attacked them, the Lingtai Old Man turned the attackers into bloody mist, and the three vanished, leaving the damaged pagoda behind.
• Zhu Zi'an, Xiao Bi, and the Lingtai Old Man followed a peculiar Origin Essence aura beneath the Boundless Sea and found a stone inscribed with strange characters.
• The Lingtai Old Man touched the stone, summoning Sea Soldiers and Sea Generals, and Xiao Bi released the Violet Nether Great Hall’s Divine Soldiers and Divine Generals to subdue them.
• The stone split open and released Golden Light and the peculiar aura, then a humanoid creature with a fish tail appeared before the three.

Zhu Zi'an, Xiao Bi, and the Old Man of Ling Platform entered the Holy Source Realm despite a creature’s warning and were absorbed by its black pillars, causing Calamity Source to be reborn. Calamity Source unleashed an army upon the Myriad Heavens, while the Source Clan’s elder sent Qing Yuan away as the clan’s last hope.

• A beautiful fish-tailed creature tried to warn Zhu Zi'an and his companions away from the Holy Source Realm, but they entered after she vanished.
• Crimson vines bound the three newcomers, sealed their cultivation, and carried them to black pillars that absorbed them completely.
• The three were reborn as Calamity Source, who summoned an army of Dao Body soldiers and sent them out to invade the Myriad Heavens.
• Calamity Source transformed into a fish-tailed creature and headed toward a location in the Boundless Sea, declaring that he had returned.
• A Source Clan elder told Qing Yuan she was the clan’s last hope and sent her away in a flash of red light.

Calamity Source killed Xuan Yuan and conquered the Boundless Sea before ravaging realms across the Myriad Heavens. Chi Yu’s Future Self tried to exploit Calamity Source but was discovered and forced to flee, while Chi Yu watched from the Primordial Universe without intervening.

• Calamity Source confronted Xuan Yuan, killed her, and seized the Boundless Sea for the Source Clan.
• Calamity Source and his soldiers slaughtered the inhabitants of another realm, turning it into the third Holy Source Realm before marching toward the Myriad Heavens.
• Chi Yu’s Future Self sent clones to approach Calamity Source, but they were assimilated into puppets.
• Future Self’s clone offered Calamity Source a method of Self-Control Transcendence, then was swallowed when it could not provide the method.
• Calamity Source sensed Future Self through the clone, attacked him in Dark Space, and collapsed his lair as Future Self escaped to the Primordial Universe.
• Chi Yu watched the events from his throne and chose not to revive Xiao Bi and the others yet.

Future Self’s escaped Divided Source emerged in a new Chaos, killed the Chaos Godfiends, and sacrificed himself to separate clear and turbid qi, creating a world. Chi Yu watched the world form and sent in a soul fragment that awakened as a grain of dust with a Stronger System.

• Future Self split into myriad sources to escape Calamity Source, and one hidden source survived after a red light erased its memories.
• The source was reborn as a Blood Embryo, fought and killed the Chaos Godfiends, then tore open a Void and separated its clear and turbid qi.
• The source braced Heaven and Earth until it died, becoming the world’s stars, land, waters, plants, and other features.
• Chi Yu recognized the creation as resembling Pangu splitting Heaven and Earth and sent a data-wrapped soul fragment into the new world.
• The fragment awakened as a grain of dust, gained cultivation through the Stronger System after Huan attacked it, and clung to the first living creature as life began to spread.

Dust grew powerful while protecting Huan through the First Enlightenment Tribulation, then remained with him as he cultivated into the first Dao Body. The Three Clans later rose to power, and renewed Tribulation Qi signaled another great calamity.

• Huan’s roar reactivated Dust’s Stronger System, and Dust grew large enough to crush Huan before settling in a river beside him.
• Gray Tribulation Qi drove Huan into slaughter, and the remnant souls of the Chaos Godfiends rallied the spirits against his army.
• When the Godfiends attacked the battered Huan, Dust shielded him, drove off the attackers, healed him, and confined him within the mountain range.
• Huan cultivated to Great Luo Heaven Venerable and transformed into the first Dao Body; Dust spoke and urged him to keep cultivating within the mountain range.
• The Kui, Life, and Armor Clans emerged as the victors of a new struggle for supremacy and established the Three Clans.
• The Three Clan leaders reached early-stage Great Luo Heaven Venerable, prompting the remnant souls of the Chaos Godfiends to gather as Tribulation Qi rose again.

As Huan advanced to Chaos Dao Mythical Great Luo, Dust revealed himself as Chi Yu’s split soul and left the mountain range with him. While they settled among the Kui Tribe and made the mountains a refuge, Tu founded the Evil Sect, leading Immortal and the remnant souls of the Chaos Godfiends to oppose him.

• After the Three Clans were destroyed, Huan emerged from seclusion and advanced to the early stage of Chaos Dao Mythical Great Luo, while Dust’s system raised him to the mid-stage.
• Dust transformed into a Dao Body and revealed that he was Chi Yu’s split soul; he and Huan left the mountain range and settled in the Kui Tribe.
• Tu founded the Evil Sect and ravaged Heaven and Earth to strengthen his path to Chaos Dao Mythical Great Luo, so Immortal and the remnant souls formed the Exterminate Evil Alliance.
• Dust explained the great calamities of the Primordial World to Huan, who comprehended the eternal Dao and the Dao of Slaughter.
• Dust moved the Three Clans’ remnant lineage into the inner mountain range and let other living beings gather in the outer range, depriving the Evil Sect of its source of power.
• Immortal and the remnant souls charged into the Evil Sect’s main hall to confront Tu, beginning their final battle.

Tu advanced to Chaos Dao Mythical Great Luo while fighting the Chaos Godfiend remnant souls, then pursued Immortal and Ghost into the Forbidden Mountain Range. Huan defeated and captured Tu, but Dust released all three, and Immortal later advanced to Chaos Dao Mythical Great Luo.

• Tu absorbed the Ash Tribulation aura, advanced to Chaos Dao Mythical Great Luo, and devoured most of the Chaos Godfiend remnant souls; Immortal and Ghost escaped.
• Immortal and Ghost fled to the Forbidden Mountain Range, where Tu followed them inside despite Huan's warning that fighting was forbidden.
• Tu fought Huan, who overpowered him, sealed the Great Array, and bound him.
• Huan brought Tu, Immortal, and Ghost before Dust, who sent them away after revealing that he had watched the surviving Chaos Godfiends for a long time.
• Tu, Immortal, and Ghost returned to their Daoist grounds, and the nearby living beings returned to their ancestral lands as peace resumed.
• Immortal later received Golden Light and advanced to Chaos Dao Mythical Great Luo.

Horizontal Sky opened Horizontal Sky Palace to lecture the newly awakened spirits on the Great Luo Dao and Chaos Dao, helping many advance in cultivation. After accepting the Eighteen Spirits as disciples, he appointed Approaching Heaven to govern Heaven and Earth and announced another lecture in ten thousand years.

• Horizontal Sky announced his Mythical Great Luo breakthrough and invited spirits to hear him lecture at Horizontal Sky Palace in ten thousand years.
• More than a thousand Supreme Immortals survived the Chaos Gang Wind and entered Horizontal Sky Palace, where the Eighteen Spirits took the eighteen cushions before Horizontal Sky began his lecture.
• During the Great Luo Dao lecture, the Eighteen Spirits and some other spirits broke through to the Great Luo Heaven Venerable Realm.
• At the next lecture, the Eighteen Spirits entered the Mythical Great Luo Realm of the Chaos Dao, and Horizontal Sky advanced to the Chaos Dao Mythical Rule Realm.
• Horizontal Sky accepted the Eighteen Spirits as disciples and gave them eighteen Chaos Dao Weapons.
• Horizontal Sky appointed Approaching Heaven, the embodiment of Yin-Yang law, to govern Heaven and Earth, then dismissed the spirits until his next lecture.

Spirit Eye and Wisdom Eye established Immortal Void Heaven to supervise Approaching Heaven, who was later forced to self-destruct in battle. Meanwhile, the Future Self’s remnant soul replaced Horizontal Sky and began planning a tribulation involving the Eighteen Spirits, while Huan captured Approaching Heaven’s drifting remnant soul.

• Spirit Eye and Wisdom Eye established Immortal Void Heaven and clashed with Approaching Heaven until Horizontal Sky ordered them to supervise without interfering with his administration.
• At the third lecture, the Future Self’s remnant soul was revealed to have replaced Horizontal Sky and reclaimed the providence of Heaven and Earth.
• The Future Self began planning a great tribulation involving the Eighteen Spirits and sought to reclaim Three Origins, the two Eyes, and its Thirteen Essence Bloods.
• Spirit Eye and Wisdom Eye led the Immortal Void Divine Army against Approaching Heaven’s forces and forced Approaching Heaven to self-destruct.
• Huan seized Approaching Heaven’s drifting remnant soul at the Sand Mountain Range, and Dust appeared as Huan questioned him.

Dust revived Approaching Heaven and watched Huan break through to the peak of the Chaos Dao Mythical Rule Realm, which advanced Dust to the Chaos Dao Mythical Origin Realm. Meanwhile, Calamity Source possessed Heavenly Origin, consumed Horizontal Sky, and transformed the Future Self’s Heaven and Earth into calamity before Dust revealed that he had secretly saved the Future Self’s divided source.

• Dust revived Approaching Heaven, then teleported him out of the Sand Mountain Range.
• Huan broke through to the peak of the Chaos Dao Mythical Rule Realm, triggering Dust’s advancement to the initial stage of the Chaos Dao Mythical Origin Realm.
• Calamity Source possessed Heavenly Origin and established the Heaven Sect, gradually turning its disciples into calamity puppets.
• Calamity Source attacked Earthly Origin and Human Origin, but golden light saved them; he then consumed Horizontal Sky and returned to the Heaven Sect.
• Calamity Source’s forces devoured and assimilated Heaven and Earth over ten thousand years, then absorbed the ruined realm and departed into Chaos.
• Dust revealed that he had secretly moved the Future Self’s divided source to a hidden space in Chaos, preserving it from Calamity Source.

Dust sent his Future Self’s Divided Source into a new life, where it awakened in the body of Chen Shi Mao, a Chen Family servant, with a Self-Cultivation System. After exposing Chen Sheng and Si Kong Wan’er’s affair, Chen Shi Mao rose to elite-servant status, and Chen Xiao’s repeated assassination attempts gave way to her declaring herself his lifelong enemy.

• Dust used the Self-Palm Realm to send the Future Self’s Divided Source into a new life, naming Calamity Source as its ultimate enemy.
• The Future Self awakened as Chen Shi Mao, a servant who had been killed after discovering Si Kong Wan’er and Chen Sheng’s affair, and the Self-Cultivation System infused him with Golden Core cultivation.
• Chen Shi Mao reported the affair to Chen Bai Wan, who caught the pair; Chen Sheng killed Si Kong Wan’er and was seized by the guards, while Chen Shi Mao was promoted to elite servant.
• The system infused Chen Shi Mao with Nascent Soul cultivation, and he spent the day accompanying Chen Xiao while she shopped.
• Chen Xiao tried to assassinate Chen Shi Mao that night, but he stopped her; over the following months, she kept returning until she lay beside him and declared she would be his enemy for life.

Future Self followed the Self-Cultivation System’s guidance to a Spirit Nectar cave, where he broke through to the peak of the Dao Integration Realm and recovered a treasured sword. After returning to the Chen Residence, he revealed his immense cultivation when the Second Madam questioned him about Chen Xiao.

• Chen Xiao decided to follow Future Self everywhere, while her mother, the Second Madam, ordered Chen Shi Mao to come see her.
• Future Self traveled to the waterfall cave, absorbed its Spirit Nectar, and broke through to the peak of the Dao Integration Realm.
• Future Self found an Azure Light Sword in the pool, cleaned it, tested its power, and returned to the Chen Residence.
• The Second Madam questioned Future Self about Chen Xiao, and he denied having any interest in her before turning to leave.
• An attendant attacked Future Self, but his aura blasted the attendant through a screen, prompting the Second Madam to hurry off to report him to the master.
• Chen Xiao returned from searching the city and learned that the guards had not seen Chen Shi Mao return.

Future Self revealed his overwhelming cultivation to the Chen Family Head, who welcomed him as a powerful backer, while Chen Xiao kept pestering him. When the Self-Cultivation System directed him to a nearby cultivation site, Future Self took Chen Xiao to a dark Lower Realm to investigate.

• The Chen Family Head sent a sword-bearing middle-aged man to test Chen Shi Mao, but Future Self's aura overwhelmed him and led him to report that Chen Shi Mao was at least a Golden Core expert.
• The Chen Family Head hurried to Chen Shi Mao's room and declared his respect, then agreed to let Future Self remain at the Chen Residence.
• Chen Xiao questioned Future Self and pressed him to reveal his power, so he released a trace of his Dao Integration Realm aura and forced her out of the room.
• Chen Xiao stayed in Chen Shi Mao's room and later insisted on following him, but Future Self vanished from the city after the Self-Cultivation System identified a suitable cultivation site.
• Future Self and Chen Xiao arrived in a dark, lightless Lower Realm, where he examined the surroundings and Chen Xiao clung to him in fear.

Future Self and Chen Xiao entered a hidden flower-filled realm, where its fragrance drew them together before the system raised Future Self to peak Human Immortal. After returning to the Chen Residence, they encountered Jin Luan, who arrived to court Chen Xiao and was forced to confront her relationship with Future Self.

• Future Self broke through a stone wall beneath Supreme City and carried Chen Xiao into a concealed realm of flowers.
• The flowers' fragrance affected Future Self and Chen Xiao, and they became lovers and vowed not to betray each other.
• The Self-Cultivation System infused Future Self with cultivation accumulated over 220 days, advancing him to peak Human Immortal as the flowers around them withered.
• Future Self took Chen Xiao back to the Chen Residence, where they spent several days together before leaving.
• Jin Luan visited the Chen Residence and offered Chen Xiao a Purple Treasure Jade, but Future Self took it and thanked him on her behalf.
• Chen Xiao clung to Future Self and called him her Ten Mao, leaving Jin Luan surprised.

Future Self killed Jin Luan and assured the Chen Family Head that the Chen Residence would be safe from the Jin Family. After learning that the Second Madam wanted him to save Chen Sheng, Future Self refused, leaving Chen Sheng’s fate uncertain but grim.

• Future Self pretended to be an elite servant named Chen Shi Mao, then killed Jin Luan with a gesture after Jin Luan tried to intimidate him.
• Future Self promised to protect the Chen Residence from the Jin Family’s Golden Core Old Ancestors and left with Chen Xiao.
• The Chen Family Head told the Second Madam that Future Self was a powerful backer who cared for Chen Xiao, but grew angry when she raised Chen Sheng.
• The Second Madam summoned Future Self to the garden and begged him to save Chen Sheng, offering to do whatever he wished.
• Future Self pulled the Second Madam into his arms, suggested becoming Chen Sheng’s father, then left without agreeing to save him; the Second Madam concluded Chen Sheng was doomed.

While imprisoned for murdering Sixth Mother, Chen Sheng accepted Hua Rong as his master and rapidly cultivated to the Nascent Soul Realm. Hua Rong told him he could leave, and Chen Sheng went to the Red Phoenix Pavilion to seek pleasure.

• Hua Rong appeared to Chen Sheng in the locked hall and offered to help him escape in exchange for residing in his Soul Sea and receiving a drop of essence blood.
• Chen Sheng agreed, and Hua Rong entered his Soul Sea, took him as a disciple, and taught him the Floating Void Immortal Scripture.
• Hua Rong activated Chen Sheng's Yin Yang Supreme Saint Body, and Chen Sheng broke through to the peak of the Golden Core Realm in three days.
• After three months of cultivation, Chen Sheng formed a Nascent Soul and learned from Hua Rong that he could leave the hall whenever he wished.
• Chen Sheng slipped out of the Chen Residence, went to the Red Phoenix Pavilion, and asked the Madam to arrange its two available Seven Colored Fairies for him.

Chen Sheng Devoured the guests and workers at Red Phoenix Pavilion, reached the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, and fled the city. Future Self refused the Second Madam’s plea to save him, then attacked Chen Sheng in a forest, but an Azure Light rescued him and left Future Self unwilling to pursue.

• Chen Sheng Devoured Er Se and the people in Red Phoenix Pavilion’s second-floor rooms, then broke through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
• Madam discovered the skeletons and led armed men to the Chen Residence, where the Chen Family Head learned Chen Sheng had escaped his locked room and ordered a citywide search.
• The Second Madam begged Future Self to save Chen Sheng, but he refused; after she left, he decided Chen Sheng still had to die.
• Future Self tracked Chen Sheng to a forest cave and attacked him, but an Azure Light enveloped Chen Sheng and carried him away.
• Future Self returned to the Chen Residence, deciding to let Chen Sheng live for now because the Azure Light’s power exceeded his own.

Chen Sheng settled in the Desolate Forest to master his immortal arts, while Future Self eliminated the Jin Family cultivators who came to attack the Chen Residence. After spending over a year there, Future Self reached the Taiyi Peak Realm and began considering what to do next.

• Chen Sheng decided to focus on mastering his immortal arts, while Hua Rong resolved to protect him as he cultivated.
• Future Self appeared at the Chen Residence and killed the Jin Family Golden Core cultivators who had come seeking revenge for Luan Er.
• The Second Madam became pregnant with Future Self's child, and Chen Bai Wan accepted the situation rather than challenge him.
• Jia Dao's Self-Cultivation System infused him with cultivation, advancing Future Self through several realms to the Taiyi Peak Realm.
• Chen Xiao told Future Self she had reached Foundation Establishment, then left to continue cultivating.
• Future Self spent the night with the Second Madam and contemplated his plans the next day.