Chapter Summaries

Li Xinghe threatened Hongjun over control of the Primordial World, but Hongjun refused to leave the Heavenly Dao. After the Journey to the West Calamity, the Two Sages of the West faced demands to surrender the scriptures they had secretly used for other purposes, and Li Xinghe intervened as the confrontation escalated.

• Hongjun rejected Li Xinghe's demand to leave the Primordial World, insisting that removing him would require destroying the Primordial Heavenly Dao.
• Li Xinghe warned Hongjun that he would show no mercy, then left while sensing a possible danger from beyond Chaos.
• Hongjun decided to gamble on strengthening the Primordial Heavenly Dao rather than abandon the Primordial World.
• The Six-Eared Macaque demanded that Jieyin and Zhunti hand over the scriptures, and the Two Sages of the West refused, citing his agreement not to interfere in the calamity.
• Li Xinghe told the Six-Eared Macaque to withdraw and promised to handle the matter himself, leaving Jieyin and Zhunti relieved.

After the Two Sages of the West handed over fake scriptures, Duobao and the others discovered the fraud, giving Li Xinghe a justified pretext to launch the War to Conquer Heaven. Li Xinghe prepared to declare war on the Heavenly Dao despite Tongtian’s concerns about the risks and timing.

• Jieyin and Zhunti gave Kong Xuan and the others forged scriptures and claimed the wager was fulfilled.
• Duobao opened the scriptures and found them blank, while the group realized the Fortune and Merit were gone.
• Li Xinghe decided the fraud gave the Human Dao and Earth Dao grounds to wage war against the Heavenly Dao.
• Tongtian and Hongyun learned of Li Xinghe’s plan, and Tongtian asked whether they should delay the war.
• Li Xinghe warned Tongtian that waiting for a breakthrough could leave the Primordial World already destroyed.

Li Xinghe prepared the Jie Sect, the Human Race, and the Netherworld for the War to Conquer Heaven as he warned that a greater crisis might come from beyond Chaos. The Yin Yang Demon God revealed that Pangu had once visited a nearby Hunyuan World, and Li Xinghe disclosed his divination of danger from beyond Chaos.

• Li Xinghe told Tongtian and Hongyun that an unprecedented calamity threatened the Primordial World and possibly the Chaos World, then ordered preparations for war.
• In Huoyun Cave, Fuxi questioned the timing of the campaign, but Li Xinghe said there was no time because visitors might soon arrive from beyond Chaos.
• Li Xinghe's First Incarnation announced the War to Conquer Heaven in the Netherworld, where the Ancestral Witches eagerly prepared to fight.
• Li Xinghe asked the Yin Yang Demon God about the lands beyond Chaos, and Yin Yang described the legendary Primordial Great World and a nearby Hunyuan World.
• Yin Yang revealed that Pangu had once visited the Hunyuan World and killed many there, and Li Xinghe said he had divined a crisis coming from beyond Chaos.

Li Xinghe prepared his allies for a coming threat from beyond Chaos and summoned the Great Dao to judge Hongjun for breaking their agreement. The Eye of the Great Dao appeared above Golden Tortoise Island, and Hongjun submitted to its judgment.

• Li Xinghe urged the Ancestral Witches to strengthen themselves and brought Yin Yang Demon God to the Chaos World to study the Jade Plate of Creation.
• Fuxi and Houtu declared war on Heaven for the Human Dao and Earth Dao, plunging the Primordial Wilderness into chaos.
• Li Xinghe called on the Great Dao to witness that the Heavenly Dao had failed to surrender its Fortune and Merit after the Journey to the West Calamity.
• The Eye of the Great Dao appeared above Golden Tortoise Island, terrifying the Saints and revealing Hongjun's fear of its judgment.
• Hongjun appeared before Li Xinghe, lowered his head, and awaited the Great Dao's judgment.

The Great Dao judged Hongjun and stripped the Heavenly Dao of Fortune, strengthening the Human Dao and rewarding the participants in the Journey to the West Calamity. Li Xinghe then challenged Hongjun to withdraw from the Primordial World or face a war between Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, and Hongjun summoned him beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.

• The Great Dao punished Hongjun, reducing the Heavenly Dao's Fortune and control while increasing the Human Dao's power.
• The Human Dao distributed Merit and Fortune among the Journey to the West participants, and they used the gains to pursue breakthroughs and deduce Law Power.
• The Great Dao's gaze unsettled Fuxi, while Li Xinghe wondered whether it had singled him out and accused Hongjun of fearing its judgment.
• Hongjun conceded the bet and declared that Heaven, Earth, and Humanity would not interfere with one another, but Li Xinghe demanded that he withdraw or face war.
• Hongjun accepted the challenge and told Li Xinghe that his true body awaited beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Hongjun summoned the Heavenly Dao Saints, spared Jieyin and Zhunti after Haotian intervened, then offered Haotian a chance to become a Saint. Haotian accepted Hongjun’s enfeoffment and rose to the peak of the Third Heaven Saint realm.

• Hongjun rebuked Jieyin and Zhunti for their role in the Journey to the West Calamity and threatened them with the Saint-Slaying Pill.
• Haotian pleaded for Jieyin and Zhunti to be allowed to atone, and Hongjun spared them for the time being.
• Hongjun explained that the Primordial World’s changing laws had made new Saint Seats possible and asked Haotian if he wished to become a Saint.
• Haotian accepted Hongjun’s offer, and the other Saints congratulated him.
• Hongjun bestowed immeasurable Heavenly Dao Merit on Haotian, raising him from the Quasi-Saint Peak to the peak of the Third Heaven Saint realm.

Hongjun made Haotian a Saint and ordered Jieyin and Zhunti to serve under him in the Heavenly Court, while preparing the Chan Sect for the coming War to Conquer Heaven. Haotian asserted his authority over the Two Sages of the West and ordered them to move Mount Sumeru to the Heavenly Court.

• Hongjun bestowed immense Heavenly Dao Merit on Haotian, raising him directly to the third level of Saint.
• Hongjun ordered Jieyin and Zhunti to join the Heavenly Court and serve under Haotian, declaring that Western Teachings had no future.
• Hongjun told Laozi and Yuanshi to prepare the Chan Sect for the War to Conquer Heaven, promising to nurture Ye Chen and personally train selected disciples.
• Hongjun admitted that the war could begin at any moment and that even he did not know when it would start.
• Haotian told Jieyin and Zhunti to address him as the Heavenly Emperor and ordered them to move Mount Sumeru to the Heavenly Court.

Hongjun pressured Nuwa to fight for the Heavenly Dao, then appeared to change her after isolating her inside the Purple Cloud Palace. As the Human Race and Netherworld factions prepared for the War to Conquer Heaven, Fuxi sensed an unseen crisis.

• Laozi urged Yuanshi to unite their efforts against the Earth Dao and Human Dao after Hongjun helped Haotian attain the Dao.
• Hongjun confronted Nuwa about her strength and insisted she commit to defending the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun sealed Nuwa inside the Purple Cloud Palace, and she emerged without her former compassionate expression.
• Fuxi failed to divine the warning he felt, then rallied the Human Race powers for the coming war.
• The Witch Race declared itself the vanguard, while Minghe and Zhenyuanzi planned to gain merit by fighting the Heavenly Dao.

Ye Chen accepted the chance to cultivate in Heavenly Dao Space while Li Xinghe prepared the Witch Race and Jie Sect for the War to Conquer Heaven. The chapter ended as Witch warriors and ghost soldiers gathered at Spirit Mountain to begin the campaign.

• Yuanshi told Ye Chen that the Dao Ancestor had summoned him and selected Chan Sect disciples to cultivate in Purple Cloud Palace, and Laozi shared Saint insights with him.
• Ye Chen led the chosen disciples beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens to cultivate in Heavenly Dao Space while Laozi and Yuanshi entered seclusion.
• Li Xinghe visited Duobao on Spirit Mountain and said the War to Conquer Heaven would begin from the west.
• Duobao offered to lead the Jie Sect as the vanguard, but Li Xinghe assigned that role to the Witch Race and told the Jie Sect to support them.
• A passage opened at Spirit Mountain, and Witch warriors and a million ghost soldiers emerged, ready to attack the Heavenly Court.

Chi You’s Witch Race seized the empty western Heavenly Realm and moved Spirit Mountain there while Haotian ordered Jieyin and Zhunti to attack them. Jieyin and Zhunti set out hoping to destroy the vanguard and regain merit, unaware that Haotian had secretly alerted Li Xinghe.

• Chi You led Xing Tian, Hou Yi, underworld soldiers, and Jie Sect disciples into the western Heavenly Realm without meeting resistance.
• Duobao moved Spirit Mountain into the west, gaining merit while Chi You and the Great Witches envied his progress toward Sainthood.
• Jieyin and Zhunti urged Haotian to send troops, but he ordered them to attack after challenging their confidence in battle.
• Jieyin and Zhunti planned to destroy the Human Dao and Earthly Dao vanguard to earn merit and recover their cultivation.
• Haotian secretly notified Li Xinghe after Jieyin and Zhunti left for the western Heavenly Realm.

Jieyin and Zhunti attacked the forces at Spirit Mountain, but Gong Gong and Zhurong confronted them in the Heavenly Realm. The Ancestral Witches used Li Xinghe’s shovel to kill both Western Sages, leaving the Heavenly Dao’s forces defeated.

• Haotian chose to continue cooperating with Li Xinghe, who arranged for Gong Gong and Zhurong to guard Chi You, Duobao, and the others.
• Jieyin and Zhunti attacked Spirit Mountain and the Witch Race, but Gong Gong and Zhurong shattered their strikes and challenged them.
• Jieyin and Zhunti used Heavenly Dao power to suppress the two Ancestral Witches and the charging disciples of Jie Sect and Witch Race.
• Zhurong broke free and struck Zhunti with Li Xinghe’s shovel, killing him.
• Gong Gong used the shovel to smash Jieyin despite the Heavenly Dao’s power, and a bloody rain announced the deaths of both Saints.

Jieyin and Zhunti were punished by Hongjun with Saint-Slaying Pills after their repeated deaths, then encountered Li Xinghe, who offered a way to deal with the pills. The Two Sages of the West begged him to save them and insisted on calling him their godfather.

• Hongjun rebuked Jieyin and Zhunti for wasting the Heavenly Dao Origin and forced them to swallow Saint-Slaying Pills.
• Jieyin and Zhunti suspected the Chaos Shovels had caused their deaths, but Hongjun dismissed their claims and blamed them for ignoring Haotian's advice.
• Li Xinghe intercepted Jieyin and Zhunti on their way back to the Heavenly Court and proposed that they join him to grow stronger.
• Li Xinghe used the Chaos Pearl to block the Heavenly Dao's surveillance, and Jieyin and Zhunti begged him to save them from the pills.
• Li Xinghe refused to become their godfather but said he could help with the pills, while Jieyin and Zhunti insisted they would call him godfather regardless.

Li Xinghe negotiated with Jieyin and Zhunti while strengthening his foothold in the Western Heavenly Realm, then devised a plan to draw Laozi and Yuanshi out by using the Chaos Shovel as bait for the Precious Lotus Lamp. A terrifying fluctuation from the Chaos World reached the Primordial World, alerting powerful experts to the emergence of a supreme treasure.

• Li Xinghe refused to help Jieyin and Zhunti with their Saint-Slaying Pill poison unless they agreed to secretly help him kill Ye Chen on a future battlefield, and Jieyin accepted.
• Gong Gong and Zhurong celebrated defeating Jieyin and Zhunti with the Chaos Shovel, while Li Xinghe told them to cultivate and expand slowly.
• Li Xinghe considered how to obtain the Precious Lotus Lamp from Yuanshi Tianzun and concluded that he needed to lure Yuanshi and Laozi out of the Heavenly Realm.
• Li Xinghe decided to use the Chaos Shovel as bait to tempt Yuanshi, then a terrifying fluctuation spread from the Chaos World into the Primordial World.

A powerful disturbance in Chaos led Hongjun and the Primordial Wilderness factions to suspect that a Chaos Supreme Treasure had appeared, drawing them toward the source. Li Xinghe’s true body secretly monitored the resulting chaos and found that he could not trace Luohu’s movements.

• Hongjun suspected the disturbance was connected to Shichen, Destiny, and Li Xinghe, then ordered Haotian to send Quasi-Saints to investigate.
• Li Xinghe took Tongtian, Kong Xuan, Zhao Gongming, and Xuandu toward Chaos, leaving Hongyun and Yang Jian behind.
• Old Ancestor Minghe sent Yuantu and Abi out of the Primordial Wilderness, while Yuanshi and the Two Sages of the West also headed toward Chaos.
• Hongjun sent an avatar after the other factions left, as Chaos creatures gathered around the disturbance.
• Li Xinghe secretly deduced events in Chaos but could not trace Luohu’s trajectory.

Luohu returned from the Hunyuan World badly injured after raising the World-Ending Millstone to a Chaos Supreme Treasure by destroying two small worlds. The Hunyuan World’s great figures ordered scouts to the Chaos World to identify him and pursue their vengeance.

• Luohu returned to the Chaos World with the World-Ending Millstone newly advanced to a Chaos Supreme Treasure and his strength at the peak of the Hunyuan Taiji Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Luohu revealed that he had wreaked havoc in the Hunyuan World and destroyed two small worlds before a Hunyuan Wuji Grand Unity Golden Immortal forced him to flee.
• Luohu concealed his tracks and went to heal, hoping to obtain another Chaos Supreme Treasure and eventually defeat the Hunyuan World’s great figures.
• The Hunyuan World’s experts learned that Luohu had destroyed a small world and killed its creator’s descendants.
• A great figure of the Hunyuan World ordered scouts to enter the Chaos World and identify Luohu.

As the Human Dao and Earth Dao remained locked in a stalemate with Hongjun, Qian Kun and Five Elements returned to Chaos with news of the Primordial Great World. The Destruction Demon Sect learned that they carried the aura of the Jade Plate of Creation and sent a force to pursue it, while other great sects also heard that the treasure had reappeared.

• Hongjun worried that Li Xinghe's watchful presence and the Human Dao and Earth Dao's eventual growth would undermine his plans to control the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qian Kun and Five Elements sensed a disturbance in Chaos and decided to return to the Primordial Wilderness to tell Li Xinghe about the Primordial Great World.
• The Destruction Demon Sect's Sect Master ordered his disciples to track down Qian Kun and Five Elements and bring back the Jade Plate of Creation.
• An elder connected the two travelers to the Qiankun Sect and the Five Elements Dao Sect, but the Sect Master declared that anyone obstructing the Destruction Demon Sect would be killed.
• Other sects in the Primordial Great World received news that the Jade Plate of Creation had reappeared.

Li Xinghe's First Incarnation discovered that a secret realm in the Chaos World was likely the remnant of a destroyed Lesser Thousand World, and began searching it for World Power. Meanwhile, a group of Hunyuan World scouts followed Luohu into Chaos and sensed a fluctuation that seemed to come from a Chaos Supreme Treasure.

• Li Xinghe's First Incarnation entered a hidden void and concluded that it was probably a ruined Lesser Thousand World with powerful surviving rules and Chaos creatures trapped inside.
• Li Xinghe's First Incarnation began searching for the realm's remaining World Power, hoping to strengthen the Chaos Pearl's inner world, and left its creatures unharmed for the Jie Sect members to face later.
• A group of Hunyuan World scouts followed Luohu's trail into Chaos to avenge the destruction of their world's Lesser Thousand World and the slaughter of its descendants.
• The scouts found Chaos desolate and hostile to ordinary life, then sensed a special fluctuation that seemed to be at the level of Chaos Supreme Treasures.

Li Xinghe led Tongtian and the others through Chaos, where they pursued a chance to prove Dao while rival factions sought a newly appeared treasure. Back in the Primordial World, Ye Chen broke through to the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm under Hongjun’s guidance, creating an unfavorable turn for Li Xinghe.

• The Hunyuan World’s chief warned his group to conceal their auras and recalled how Pangu had once devastated their world.
• Jieyin convinced Zhunti to press on through Chaos in search of the treasure, while Li Xinghe secretly followed them with Tongtian.
• Kong Xuan asked to challenge Yuanshi Tianzun, but Li Xinghe urged him, Zhao Gongming, Xuandu, and Yang Jian to fight Chaos creatures and pursue their breakthroughs instead.
• Tongtian sensed danger, and Li Xinghe warned him that success could bring a breakthrough while failure might force him to start over under the Primordial Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun guided Ye Chen to break through to the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, giving the Heavenly Dao a powerful new figure.

Hongjun made Ye Chen a Heavenly Dao Sage and sent him with ten Quasi-Saint Peak experts to seek a Chaos Supreme Treasure. Meanwhile, Laozi secretly visited Huoyun Cave to meet Fuxi, leaving his true purpose unclear.

• Hongjun bestowed Heavenly Dao Sage status on Ye Chen, while Laozi’s breakthrough to the Hunyuan Taiji Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm strengthened the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun told Ye Chen that a Chaos Supreme Treasure might emerge and ordered him to support Yuanshi in the Chaos World.
• Hongjun gave Ye Chen ten Quasi-Saint Peak Chan Sect disciples to accompany him, and Ye Chen eagerly departed.
• Laozi arrived at Huoyun Cave on a Green Ox and asked Fuxi to come out for a talk.
• Fuxi welcomed Laozi and wondered whether he had come to see him or Li Xinghe.

Laozi visited Huoyun Cave to seek Li Xinghe’s support in taking control of the Primordial Heavenly Dao, but Li Xinghe rejected his claims and imposed humiliating conditions. The meeting ended with Laozi enraged after Li Xinghe demanded he change his name to Grandson.

• Laozi arrived at Huoyun Cave and asked Li Xinghe to discuss an alliance, while Li Xinghe mocked him for refusing to call him Uncle.
• Laozi argued that Pangu Orthodox should inherit the Primordial World, but Li Xinghe declared that only the Twelve Ancestral Witches deserved that title and said the Human Dao and Earth Dao already had the advantage.
• Laozi tried to win over Fuxi, but Fuxi rebuked him and unleashed pressure backed by the Human Dao until Li Xinghe calmed him.
• Li Xinghe said he might cooperate if Laozi handed Ye Chen over for disposal, made Laozi and Yuanshi acknowledge him as their uncle, and surrendered the Creation Axe Set.
• Li Xinghe told Laozi to change his name to Grandson, enraging him.