Chapter Summaries

Hong Yi held Ancestor Kirin at bay in the north while Fang Xun confronted Primordial Phoenix and Ancestral Dragon at Human Emperor Hall. Fang Xun summoned the Demon Race’s remaining destiny into a Demon Summoning Banner and ordered the gathered demons to disperse.

• Hong Yi and Ancestor Kirin fought, with Hong Yi using Teaching Merit and the Other Shore Golden Bridge to block Ancestor Kirin from reaching Shouyang Mountain.
• Fang Xun faced Primordial Phoenix and Ancestral Dragon at Human Emperor Hall as battles broke out across the other fronts.
• Fang Xun invoked his authority as Demon Emperor, and Bai Ze and Fu Xi let him draw upon the Demon Race’s remaining destiny.
• Ancestral Dragon ordered the Sea Demons to advance, but Fang Xun gathered the Demon Race’s destiny into the Wa Huang Token.
• The Wa Huang Token transformed into the Demon Summoning Banner, and Fang Xun commanded the demons to disperse.

Fang Xun faced the Dragon and Phoenix clans’ assault on Shouyang Mountain and summoned the Three Pure Ones and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to turn the battle against them. The forty Great Luo Supremes were trapped inside the formation, leaving Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Phoenix facing Fang Xun’s proposed terms.

• Primordial Phoenix summoned nearly twenty Great Luo Supremes, while more than twenty Great Luo True Dragons joined them at Shouyang Mountain.
• Xuan Du asked Saint Taiqing to let him help Fang Xun, and Saint Taiqing promised to release him once he attained Taiji True Intent.
• Fang Xun summoned the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, and Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, which arrived in the hands of Morality, Primordial, and Spiritual Treasure Daoist.
• Spiritual Treasure Daoist formed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and, with Morality and Primordial, confronted the assembled Great Luo Supremes.
• Fang Xun offered Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Phoenix a bargain: they would retreat if they could not kill him, but the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation expanded and trapped forty Great Luo Supremes before they could stop it.

Fang Xun faced Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Phoenix, then awakened the Myriad Heavens Dao Immortal Light and established a new form of Existence. With the Heavenly Dao celebrating his breakthrough, the two ancient overlords resumed their assault.

• Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Phoenix accepted Fang Xun's terms after recognizing the danger of fighting the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Fang Xun entered the void and fought Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Phoenix, but their power of Nothingness began eroding his body, spirit, and Great Luo Dao Realm.
• Fang Xun revealed the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree, which absorbed Nothingness and transformed it back into Existence.
• Fang Xun awakened the Myriad Heavens Dao Immortal Light by drawing on the worlds where he had planted trees, and the Heavenly Dao recognized his new path.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered merit for Fang Xun, which he poured into the Chaos Bell, while Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Phoenix prepared to attack again.
• Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Phoenix charged the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree with Nothingness-infused attacks.

Maitreya and Demonic Maitreya watched the battle against the Human Race, but Demonic Maitreya sensed danger and forcibly severed Maitreya’s corpse, becoming his master and making Maitreya a Quasi-Saint. Meanwhile, Fang Xun used the Myriad Heavens Dao Immortal Light and power from countless worlds to survive Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Phoenix’s strongest attacks, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Maitreya expected the Three Races to defeat the Human Race, while Demonic Maitreya watched the clashes at Shouyang Mountain and sensed something was wrong.
• Demonic Maitreya severed Maitreya’s corpse before the ideal moment, fused with an Innate Spiritual Treasure, and made Maitreya a Quasi-Saint under his control.
• Demonic Maitreya realized Fang Xun was advancing along the path of “Existence” within the Da Luo Realm, ruining their agreement, while Demon Ancestor Luohou raged at Fang Xun but could not act against the Heavenly Dao.
• Fang Xun used the Myriad Heavens Dao Immortal Light to counter Ancestral Dragon’s “Nothingness” and Primordial Phoenix’s phoenix fire, but the two broke through his defenses and struck the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree.
• Fang Xun drew on the power and Great Dao of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds to withstand their combined assault, then emerged wounded but recovering and told them they could not kill him.

Fang Xun secured war reparations and access for the Human Race from the Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin Clans, then returned to Penglai Immortal Island as Demon Ancestor Luohou threatened him. Nuwa stopped Luohou from entering the island, and Luohou confronted Fang Xun about his cultivation of both Being and Nothingness.

• Fang Xun demanded that the Dragon and Phoenix Clans open their territories to the Human Race, limit conflicts to below the Da Luo realm, and pay one Innate Spiritual Treasure or Innate Spiritual Root for each Da Luo captive.
• Fang Xun visited Ancestor Kirin, who agreed to war reparations rather than risk a joint attack by Fang Xun and Hong Yi.
• Fang Xun returned to Penglai Immortal Island, where his borrowed Myriad Heavens Power faded and Demon Ancestor Luohou's killing intent targeted him.
• Nuwa intervened and faced Luohou in a Sage-level Dao Debate, while Fang Xun used the Chaos Bell to stabilize Penglai Immortal Island's Time-Space.
• Luohou entered Penglai Immortal Island after the contest and questioned Fang Xun about attaining Primordial Golden Immortal while cultivating Being.
• Fang Xun admitted that he intended to cultivate both Being and Nothingness and asked Luohou to explain his cultivation difficulties.

Fang Xun learned that Dual Phase could let him cultivate both Being and Nothingness, then visited Great God Pangu to find the Chaos Demon God who had followed that path. Pangu revealed the god was Shiva, and Fang Xun came face-to-face with him.

• Luohou told Fang Xun that a Chaos Demon God had cultivated both Being and Nothingness, and that Dual Phase was the key.
• Fang Xun reached a realm that qualified him to become a Quasi-Saint, thanked Nuwa, and returned to the Myriad Heavens Hall to recover.
• Fang Xun went to the Source of Time and asked Great God Pangu to show him the Heaven-Opening Battlefield.
• Pangu revealed the battlefield’s formidable Chaos Demon Gods and the nine surviving worlds led by beings as powerful as he had been before Heaven Opening.
• Pangu showed Fang Xun the Four-Faced God Brahma and identified the Chaos Demon God Fang Xun sought as Shiva.
• Fang Xun found himself standing before Shiva, whose four arms held a trident, an axe, a hand drum, and a club.

Fang Xun studied Shiva’s Dual Phase of existence and nothingness while watching him battle Great God Pangu, gaining insight into how the opposing powers could coexist. Shiva’s third eye killed Fang Xun, but Pangu severed the connection between them, and Fang Xun awoke in the Myriad Heavens Hall with a clearer path ahead.

• Fang Xun recognized that Shiva’s destruction and creation embodied existence and nothingness, and Great God Pangu took him to witness their battle firsthand.
• Fang Xun watched Shiva’s attacks open worlds and then destroy them, studying the way the two powers operated together.
• After Pangu struck Shiva with the Sky-Opening Axe, Shiva shifted between the Gentle Phase and the Terrifying Phase, recovering from his wounds before unleashing destruction.
• Fang Xun realized existence and nothingness were two sides of the same coin and could coexist without merging.
• Shiva detected Fang Xun and attacked him with flames from his third eye, but Pangu cut the Yinguo between them, and Fang Xun died and awoke in the Myriad Heavens Hall.
• Fang Xun concluded that he had gained insight into Shiva’s Dharma form and could pursue the path despite lacking a specific cultivation technique.

After sharing his discoveries from the Source of Time, Fang Xun debated new cultivation ideas with the chat group and later learned that Lie Shan Shi had attained Da Luo. As Lie Shan Shi broke free of the River of Time, Heavenly Dao Origin descended upon him, leaving Fang Xun uncertain about what the connection between the Heavenly Dao and the Human Emperor would bring.

• Fang Xun shared his observations of the nine Mythological Worlds and his ideas about cultivating existence and nothingness, prompting the group to debate and create techniques.
• Several hundred Yuan Hui after the war between the Three Races and the Human Race, Fang Xun learned from Hong Yi that Lie Shan Shi had attained Da Luo without encountering a bottleneck.
• Fang Xun released Ya Zi, the Golden-Winged Great Peng, and Lu Yue after realizing their sentences had ended.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng found Peacock cultivating on the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree, and Fang Xun allowed Peacock to remain there.
• Fang Xun watched Lie Shan Shi become a Space-Time Singularity as Heavenly Dao Origin descended upon him, and he wondered whether the connection would prove beneficial or dangerous.

Fang Xun tried to stop a strand of Heavenly Dao Origin from interfering with Lie Shan Shi’s ascension, but it attacked him with the Fate Demon God’s Finger of Destiny. After Nuwa helped restrain it, Fang Xun learned that his interference might make him answer the Third Calamity, and he planned to abdicate as Human Emperor and prepare for the tribulation.

• Fang Xun used the Human Emperor Seal and his powers to try to restrain the Heavenly Dao Origin, but it escaped and pursued him across time-spaces.
• Fang Xun recognized the pursuing attack as the Fate Demon God’s Finger of Destiny, and Nuwa froze it in the time-space of his origin.
• Nuwa refined the Heavenly Dao Origin into the Human Emperor Seal and warned Fang Xun that his actions might bring a Heavenly Dao tribulation and make him answer the Third Calamity.
• Fang Xun told Nuwa he would abdicate the Human Emperor position after one thousand Yuan Hui and focus on the Third Calamity.
• Lie Shan Shi completed his advance to Da Luo, and Fang Xun returned to Penglai Immortal Island to enter seclusion for one thousand Yuan Hui.

Fang Xun abdicated as Human Emperor after completing his merit, and Cangjie and Lie Shan Shi became the two candidates. Their contest began on the Ascension Platform, where Lie Shan Shi’s first palm strike revealed the Primordial Earth Dao.

• Fang Xun left seclusion, declared his merit complete, and summoned contenders to the Ascension Platform to succeed him as Human Emperor.
• Suiren Shi and the other Human Ancestors declined to compete, while Cangjie and Lie Shan Shi stepped forward as candidates.
• The Human Emperor Seal examined both candidates and found that they met its requirements, and Fang Xun asked them to settle the succession between themselves.
• Cangjie unleashed his merit-forged characters, and Lie Shan Shi began his attack with a palm strike that made the Primordial Wilderness tremble.
• Houtu and Fang Xun recognized Lie Shan Shi’s power as the Primordial Earth Dao.

Lie Shan Shi became the Human Emperor after resonating with the Primordial Wilderness Land and bearing the weight of the Human Emperor Seal. Fang Xun abdicated and left for the Heavenly Court as Lie Shan Shi issued decrees that preserved the Human Race’s policies toward foreign races.

• Lie Shan Shi used the Power of the Earth to suppress Cangjie, who conceded defeat and completed the final stage of the Human Emperor Competition.
• Fang Xun gave Lie Shan Shi the Human Emperor Seal, and Lie Shan Shi endured its burden by drawing strength from the Primordial Wilderness Land.
• Lie Shan Shi ascended to the highest tier of the Ascension Platform and became the Human Emperor as Fang Xun declared his Merit Completion and departed.
• Lie Shan Shi issued decrees to maintain the Mysterious Emperor’s policies, continue Human Race expansion, assign Cangjie to guard the Western Primordial Wilderness, and place the Three Ancestors in command of the Incense God Kingdom.
• The Western Teachings reappeared, while foreign races reacted grimly to Lie Shan Shi’s decrees; Fang Xun then left for the Heavenly Court.

Fang Xun visited the Heavenly Court and learned that the Third Calamity would still involve it, though the Heavenly Court would stand apart from the conflict. He then visited Su Ming’s world, where the Primordial Wilderness immortal Dao had produced several Da Luo practitioners, and helped the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree begin to grow.

• Fang Xun arrived at the Heavenly Court, where Bai Ze welcomed him and Ye Fan clarified that he could remain at Wa Imperial Palace rather than take a post.
• Ye Fan told Fu Xi and Bai Ze that the Third Calamity would likely fall upon the Heavenly Court, but Fang Xun explained that it would be the transcendent side.
• Fang Xun returned to Wa Imperial Palace, then traveled to Su Ming’s world and found that Cang Mang, Wang Lin, and Meng Hao had attained the Dao.
• Su Ming explained that he had spread a localized version of the Primordial Wilderness immortal Dao, drawing many Children of Destiny into its cultivation system.
• Fang Xun pointed at the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree sapling, causing it to grow beyond the universe and extend toward the Thick Earth Star Ring and Brilliant Heaven Star Ring.

Fang Xun welcomed Meng Hao, Cang Mang, and Wang Lin for a Dao Debate, then returned to support Heng'e as she confronted her connection to Chang Xi and began her Great Luo breakthrough. The chapter ended with Fang Xun guiding Heng'e through the danger of the Sky-Opening Axe Light as the Dao Ancestor appeared.

• Meng Hao, Cang Mang, and Wang Lin sensed Su Ming's growing Myriad Heavens Dao Tree and visited him and Fang Xun.
• Fang Xun accepted the three cultivators' salute for transmitting the immortal Dao and invited them to a Dao Debate.
• Su Ming, Cang Mang, Wang Lin, Meng Hao, and Fang Xun each shared the Dao they had cultivated.
• Heng'e asked Fang Xun whether she was Chang Xi's reincarnation, and he affirmed that she was his disciple above all else.
• Heng'e released her Dao Realm and traveled upstream through the River of Time to attain Da Luo, while Fang Xun went to the Moon Star's creation to support her.
• Fang Xun asked Heng'e to pass through the Sky-Opening Axe Light, and the Dao Ancestor appeared as Heng'e clung to her teacher in fear.

Fang Xun faced the Dao Ancestor while guiding Heng'e toward the Sky-Opening Axe Light, where she would attempt to enter the Source of Time. He rejected the Dao Ancestor’s wager and used the Demon Ancestor’s request for an All Heavens Travel Slot to assert leverage, ending with a direct threat.

• Fang Xun sent Heng'e toward the Sky-Opening Axe Light and promised to guide her, while she carried a branch from the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree.
• The Dao Ancestor appeared and revealed that Fang Xun’s Teacher had once wagered the Innate Five Primes on whether Fang Xun could attain Da Luo.
• Fang Xun realized the Dao Ancestor wanted the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree’s ability to travel through All Heavens, and the Dao Ancestor wagered that Heng'e could withstand the axe light’s trial.
• Fang Xun brought up the Demon Ancestor’s request for an All Heavens Travel Slot and offered to grant it before the Fourth Calamity, unless he chose to advance to Taiji afterward.
• Fang Xun argued that the Demon Ancestor could not kill him and threatened the Dao Ancestor, saying he could not reach All Heavens in an instant.

Heng'e faced Pangu in the Source of Time, where he severed the incomplete Taiyin Dao from her and imparted insights into the Great Dao. She returned to Taiyin Palace resolved to help Fang Xun after seeing the trials he had endured.

• The Dao Ancestor vanished after Fang Xun confronted him, leaving Fang Xun shaken by the pressure of facing the Primordial Wilderness Heavenly Dao.
• Heng'e used the Myriad Heavens Dao Immortal Light to approach the Sky-Opening Axe Light, but Pangu's axe struck her brow and severed Chang Xi's incomplete Taiyin Dao from her foundation.
• Fang Xun withdrew the Immortal Light and left a figure to guard Heng'e's karmic source as she entered the Source of Time and met Pangu.
• Heng'e asked Pangu whether cultivating the Myriad Heavens Taiyin Dao could help Fang Xun, and Pangu struck her with an axe light that imparted insights into Taiyin, Taiyang, and Yin-Yang.
• Heng'e died and returned to Taiyin Palace, where she told Fang Xun that Pangu had imparted Great Dao insights to her.
• Heng'e reviewed key points in the River of Time, learned more about Fang Xun's past trials, and resolved to help him.

The Moon Star’s completion triggered changes in the Primordial Wilderness Heavenly Dao and revealed the Third Calamity as the Beginning of Investiture of the Gods, which would require the Heavenly Court to be made whole. Heng'e gained a transformed bond with the Moon Star, while Saint Shangqing warned his disciples to prepare for the coming calamity.

• Heng'e’s advancement to Da Luo left her aware of the power of the foes her Teacher and grandteacher had faced.
• The Moon Star erupted with Taiyin moonlight, stirring the stars and causing the Heavenly Dao to change.
• Ye Fan shielded Fu Xi and Bai Ze from the Heavenly Dao Origin, then intensified the disruption in the Heavenly Court, whose empty palaces revealed its incompleteness.
• Fang Xun told Heng'e that the Dao Ancestor had used her to reveal the destined calamity, and Heng'e realized she now possessed the Moon Star as its Taiyin Goddess.
• Saint Shangqing warned his Interception Sect disciples that the Canonization of the Gods would threaten their lives and began teaching them the Dao of Slaying Three Corpses.

Heng'e’s ascension to Da Luo made the Moon Star complete and exposed a flaw in the Heavenly Dao, setting the stage for the Third Calamity and a struggle over the Heavenly Court’s divine positions. Meanwhile, Chi You and Xuanyuan attained Da Luo together, and Fang Xun helped Chi You unite his Witch Clan and Human Race identities before Chi You declared his ambition to contend for the Human Emperor’s throne.

• Saint Jie Yin concluded that the Third Calamity was tied to the Heavenly Court’s divine positions, and he and Saint Zhun Ti planned to use the opportunity to secure authority for Western Teachings.
• Lie Shan Shi and Suiren Shi sensed two Human Race cultivators attaining Da Luo at once and found Xuanyuan and Chi You facing each other with hostility.
• Fang Xun recognized Xuanyuan as another Child of Destiny and realized Chi You’s fortune had been affected by Xuanyuan’s destiny.
• Chi You merged with his Witch Clan body, bringing both his physical body and primordial spirit to the Great Luo Level and carrying the fortunes of both the Witch Clan and Human Race.
• Fang Xun used the Six Paths of Reincarnation Seal to connect the Witch Clan and Human Race fortunes, and Chi You confirmed that he still identified as both.
• Chi You told Fang Xun that he wanted to contend for the Human Emperor’s throne, and Fang Xun said he would need to win the people’s support, especially Xuanyuan’s.

Fang Xun investigated the escalating conflict between Chi You and Xuanyuan and suspected someone had secretly stirred the Human Race into war. Lie Shan Shi stopped the fighting, but Fang Xun and Hong Yi could find no evidence of interference and remained wary of a greater disturbance.

• Lie Shan Shi told Fang Xun that Chi You and Xuanyuan's conflict had drawn more than half the Human Race into the fighting.
• Fang Xun went to the Human Race Territory and suspected a hidden plot after seeing the You Xiong and Jiu Li lineages on the verge of civil war.
• Lie Shan Shi subdued Chi You and Xuanyuan with his power and ordered them to settle their dispute without involving the other clans or starting a civil war.
• Fang Xun examined the Dao hearts of the fighters but found no trace of outside influence, while Hong Yi also failed to identify who had caused the conflict.
• Fang Xun and Hong Yi considered whether the Dao Ancestor was responsible and stayed alert, but no further disturbance occurred after the Human Race returned to peace.

Fang Xun realized that a hidden scheme was exploiting the Human Emperor’s personal ties to shape the succession and undermine his plan for Heaven, Earth, and Man. After Zhuanxu defeated Gong Gong, Fang Xun discovered that Zhuanxu’s son Qiong Chan was attaining Da Luo with destiny upon him.

• Fang Xun and Hong Yi concluded that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity would still strike the Human Race in a changed form, and they decided to secretly watch Chi You and Xuanyuan.
• Lie Shan Shi abdicated the Position of Human Emperor, and Xuanyuan defeated Chi You and received the Human Emperor Seal.
• As the Human Race flourished under Xuanyuan, Fang Xun watched from seclusion and later saw Gong Gong and Zhuanxu contend for the Position of Human Emperor.
• After Zhuanxu defeated Gong Gong, Fang Xun realized Xuanyuan’s family ties had given Zhuanxu support and exposed a scheme to disrupt his plan for Heaven, Earth, and Man.
• Houtu suppressed Gong Gong in the Underworld Realm and warned Fang Xun that his defeat was only a minor part of the matter.
• Fang Xun sensed Qiong Chan, Zhuanxu’s son and Xuanyuan’s great-grandson, attaining Da Luo with destiny upon him.

Fang Xun recognized that Qiong Chan’s Heavenly Mandate threatened to turn the Human Race’s public realm into a family realm, and realized the Dao Ancestor was using the succession crisis to draw him into the calamity. He chose to intervene by awakening Tai Yi and asking him to become Human Emperor, entering the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.

• Fang Xun saw that Qiong Chan’s Heavenly Mandate could let the Xuanyuan lineage control the Human Emperor’s succession and undermine the Abdication System.
• Houtu and Nuwa warned Fang Xun not to enter the calamity, but he decided to act as the Human Emperor while remaining outside it as Empress Wa.
• Houtu told Fang Xun to look to her, then sent him out of the Underworld Realm.
• Fang Xun and Hong Yi went to the tribe marked with the Sun Divine Bird, where Fang Xun rang the Chaos Bell to awaken Tai Yi.
• Tai Yi regained his memories and Dao Fruit, thanked Fang Xun for protecting his Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light, and agreed to become Human Emperor.
• The Heavenly Dao reacted to Fang Xun’s interference with the Human Emperor’s Heavenly Mandate, drawing him into the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.