Chapter Summaries

Fang Xun negotiated with Luohou, who returned to claim the promised passage to a Myriad Heavens World. After extracting information about the sealed First Tribulation and erasing Luohou’s history with the World Destroying Black Lotus, Fang Xun sent him away, leaving his destination’s dangers unresolved.

• Fang Xun and Hong Yi examined Chaos Pure Light and discussed how it could make acquired treasures comparable in strength to innate ones.
• Luohou appeared beside Fang Xun, presented their old agreement, and demanded his promised passage to a Myriad Heavens World.
• Luohou insisted on a world he had never encountered, and Fang Xun negotiated access to the First Tribulation in exchange.
• Luohou gave Fang Xun a Demonic Rune with information about entering the First Tribulation and used the God Slaying Spear to erase his history of controlling the World Destroying Black Lotus.
• Fang Xun gave Luohou a Golden Leaf, sent him away, and returned with Black Lotus while reflecting that the Myriad Heavens Worlds were more dangerous than Luohou imagined.

Luohou entered Li Anping’s world with his cultivation restricted, unaware that Fang Xun had sent him into a trap. Meanwhile, Fang Xun recruited Fang Han into the Chat Group after visiting the Gate of Eternal Life.

• Luohou used the Golden Leaves to travel to a modern world, where he possessed a dead man and began rebuilding his cultivation.
• Fang Xun showed the Chat Group Luohou’s arrival in Li Anping’s world, and the members discussed recruiting new Group Friends.
• Luohou massacred the patrons of a bar to harvest their lives and advance, while Li Anping watched and decided to play with him.
• Fang Xun searched the Absolute Void for a new member and found Fang Han near the nearly vanished Gate of Eternal Life.
• Fang Han welcomed Fang Xun into the Gate of Eternal Life, where Fang Xun saw the worlds Fang Han had created and praised their vitality.

Fang Xun recruited Fang Han, Qin Yu, Chen Nan, and Fang Yun into his expanding network across worlds. The chapter ended with Fang Yun planting the Myriad Heavens Seed after accepting Fang Xun’s offer to teach in the Primordial Wilderness.

• Fang Xun gave Fang Han a Myriad Heavens Seed, and Fang Han planted it before accepting the Myriad Heavens Chat Group invitation.
• Fang Xun appeared in Qin Yu’s universe and invited him to the Chat Group, after which Qin Yu explained the encounter to Lin Meng and Hongmeng.
• Fang Xun met Chen Nan and invited him to join the group, revealing that he had watched Chen Nan fight against Heaven as a tree.
• Fang Xun visited a private school, met the teacher Fang Yun, and offered him a position teaching in the Primordial Wilderness.
• Fang Yun accepted Fang Xun’s appointment and planted the Seed Fang Xun left behind.

Hongjun summoned the Great Luo beings and Quasi-Saints to the Purple Heavens Palace, revealed that the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods would return during the Immeasurable Calamity, and explained his plan to protect the Primordial Wilderness. Fang Xun challenged the cost of that plan, setting up a Dao Debate with Hongjun.

• Fang Xun welcomed Fang Han, Qin Yu, Chen Nan, and Fang Yun into the Myriad Heavens Chat Group, where the newcomers met its members.
• Hongjun returned to the Purple Heavens Palace and invited the Great Luo beings and Quasi-Saints to gather there.
• Hongjun showed the assembled beings the Battle of Creation and revealed that the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods would return after the Five Tribulations of Heaven Opening.
• Hongjun named himself and Xuansu as Pangu's two hopes and explained that he planned to fuse with the Heavenly Dao, seal the Primordial Wilderness, and let it grow strong enough to defeat the Demon Gods.
• Fang Xun questioned what sacrifices Hongjun's plan would demand, then moved his cushion opposite Hongjun to begin a Dao Debate.

Fang Xun and Hongjun argued over how to protect the Primordial Wilderness from the Immeasurable Calamity, with Hongjun proposing isolation and Fang Xun advocating help from the Myriad Heavens. The chapter ended with Fang Xun asserting that their united forces could defeat the Chaos Demon Gods again and give all living beings a chance to advance.

• Hongjun explained that the Primordial Wilderness would no longer need to sacrifice Da Luo as foundations because Fang Xun had brought powerful visitors from other heavens.
• Fang Xun realized Hongjun sought the support of the Da Luo to regain complete control over the Heavenly Dao, then presented the Myriad Heavens as the Primordial Wilderness's second hope.
• Hongjun warned that no Primordial Limitless Golden Immortals remained in the Myriad Heavens and summoned Yang Mei and five other Chaos Demon Gods, who had reclaimed their Primordial Da Luo strength.
• Yang Mei explained that he and the other Demon Gods had once been Limitless Ones, and that their agreement with Hongjun would isolate the Primordial Wilderness during the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Hongjun said Fang Xun would have to return to the Heavenly Dao and surrender the Tree Heart, but Fang Xun rejected the plan and pointed out that Hongjun had already lost twice.
• Fang Xun argued that visitors from the Myriad Heavens could help the Primordial Wilderness flourish and declared that they could kill the Chaos Demon Gods as Pangu had before.

Fang Xun confronted Dao Ancestor Hongjun over the future of the Primordial Wilderness, and they agreed to settle their conflict in the Fourth Calamity after a period of separate development. After Hongjun’s hidden move captured Jie Yin and Zhun Ti, Fang Xun returned to Shouyang Mountain, where he welcomed Fang Yun to bring Hundred Schools of Thought Dao Theory.

• Fang Xun, Meng Qi, and Ye Fan challenged Hongjun and the Chaos Demon Gods, and Hongjun proposed a contest in the Fourth Calamity after one tribulation of preparation.
• Fang Xun and his allies prepared to fight, but Hongjun and the Chaos Demon Gods vanished; Hongjun then used the Primordial Violet Qi to capture Jie Yin and Zhun Ti.
• Nuwa and Taiqing suppressed the hidden influence in their Primordial Violet Qi, while Ye Fan released Maitreya and Ksitigarbha, and Fang Xun told them he would visit Spirit Mountain.
• Fang Xun returned to Penglai and then Shouyang Mountain, where he learned from Hong Yi that the Western Teachings were restoring the west and welcomed Fang Yun through a Light Gate.
• Fang Yun greeted Fang Xun and Hong Yi and said he had come to bring Hundred Schools of Thought Dao Theory sooner.

Fang Xun visited Saint Taiqing to invite him to serve as an Exemplar of the Dao, but realized Saint Taiqing believed Fang Xun already fulfilled that role. Fang Xun then went undercover at the Human Race Repository, where he encountered several Chat Group members and learned Fang Yun had become its Chief Archivist.

• Fang Xun asked Saint Taiqing to become an Exemplar of the Dao, and Saint Taiqing pointed out that Fang Xun had already spread the Dao and protected the Human Race.
• Xuan Du disguised himself as an ordinary youth to study at the Human Race Academy, while Fang Xun disguised himself and took a job at the Human Race Repository.
• Fang Xun met Meng Qi, who was disguised as Li Dan, and Qin Mu, who had taken the name Jiang Bai Gui, at the Archive Room.
• Hong Yi appointed Fang Yun Chief Archivist so he could study the Repository's records, and Fang Xun, Meng Qi, and Qin Mu welcomed him as their new superior.

Fang Xun proved the Primordial Myriad Heavens Dao Fruit, merging the Dao of All Heavens with the Primordial Wilderness and transforming the Heavenly Dao. His achievement announced the coming of the Hundred Schools of Thought era, while a Golden Immortal and his disciples set out to visit him.

• Fang Xun connected with the Primordial Era's myriad daos and presented the Primordial Myriad Heavens Dao Fruit through his alter ego, Li Er.
• The Heavenly Dao responded with immense merit and evolved as the Dao of All Heavens merged with the Primordial Wilderness, disrupting the cultivation of beings across the world.
• Fang Xun asked Meng Qi to conceal his identity, and Meng Qi used his Dao Fruit's characteristics to confuse Great Luo Supremes who had recognized him.
• Fang Xun gathered the merit into several lotuses, creating Merit Supreme Treasures and ushering in the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought Dao Theory.
• Xuan Du and Hong Yi recognized the scale of Fang Xun's merit, while Saint Zhun Ti asked Hongjun the Dao Ancestor whether they should prepare for the coming movement and was told not to.
• On the Plain of Zhuolu, a Golden Immortal divined that the Heavenly Dao's transformation began at the Human Race Repository and led his disciples toward Fang Xun.

Fang Xun welcomed Kong Qiu to the Archive Room, where Kong Qiu sought answers about the Human Emperors and the Abdication System. After Fang Xun declined to guide him, Fang Yun approached Kong Qiu and offered to teach him, and Kong Qiu accepted.

• Fang Xun and Fang Yun sensed Kong Qiu approaching with Purple-Gold Fortune, and Fang Xun waited to receive him.
• Kong Qiu arrived with more than a hundred disciples, and Fang Xun brought them into the Archive Room’s universe.
• Kong Qiu asked Fang Xun why the Human Emperors had allowed bloodline inheritance to lead to the conflict between Tai Yi and Qiong Chan.
• Fang Xun questioned whether Kong Qiu could create a perfect system of rites, then declined to plan a path with him.
• Fang Yun approached the departing Kong Qiu and offered to teach him, and Kong Qiu agreed after learning his name.

Fang Xun sent Hong Yi to challenge the Western Teachings, but the Dao Ancestor guided Jie Yin and Zhun Ti to establish Buddhism first. Hong Yi still prepared to visit Spirit Mountain, confident that his teaching merit surpassed even Buddha’s.

• Fang Xun asked Hong Yi to disrupt the Western Teachings, and Hong Yi agreed to visit Spirit Mountain under the pretext of a Dao Debate.
• Hong Yi’s announced visit stirred the Human Race, while Jie Yin divined that Yi Zi intended to seize the Western Teachings’ foundation.
• Zhun Ti called on the Dao Ancestor, who sent the two Western Sages a Heavenly Book bearing the word “Buddha.”
• Jie Yin became the Buddha of the Past, and Zhun Ti became the Buddha of the Present, as Buddhist light spread across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Fang Xun and Hong Yi realized Buddhism had emerged before they could use it as a trump card, but Hong Yi resolved to go to Spirit Mountain openly.

Fang Xun brought Hong Yi to Spirit Mountain, where Hong Yi challenged Buddhism over the West’s treatment of living beings and its claim to deliver them. Hong Yi’s defense of the Civilization Dao strengthened Human Path Fortune, and his debate with the Buddha Ancestors continued as he questioned how many people they had actually delivered.

• Fang Xun rode Kunpeng with Hong Yi toward Spirit Mountain, while a young man who had come to meet Li Er saw Kunpeng and turned back, having understood something.
• Fang Xun and Hong Yi arrived at Spirit Mountain, where Kunpeng’s cry disrupted the Buddhist welcome and Hong Yi began the Dao Debate with Maitreya.
• Hong Yi condemned Western Teachings’ use of human remains to make magical treasures and declared that its followers had delivered people to themselves rather than delivered them.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti appeared as Buddha Ancestors and questioned whether Hong Yi had used the Human Race to advance his own cultivation.
• Hong Yi said he would welcome a world where everyone could become a Human Race Teacher, and a golden bridge to the Other Shore appeared as Human Path Fortune increased.
• Hong Yi challenged Zhunti to name the people the Buddha Ancestors had delivered and asked how many of their founding vows they had fulfilled.

At the Dao Debate on Spirit Mountain, Hong Yi expounded Mahayana Buddhism and drew the West’s fortune away from Jie Yin and Zhun Ti. As Luohou and Demonic Maitreya challenged the two Buddhas, Fang Xun stole the Merit Golden Lotus and escaped into the Demon Realm.

• Hong Yi exposed Zhunti’s Western Paradise as a borrowing from the future, then taught Mahayana Buddhism and attracted merit and fortune.
• Luohou took over Maitreya’s body, declared himself the Future Buddha, and drew Buddhism’s future fortune to Demonic Maitreya.
• Fang Xun and Hong Yi began to leave Spirit Mountain as Jie Yin and Zhun Ti fought Luohou, while Fang Xun awakened Gandharva with his Heart Demon Dao.
• Fang Xun took the Merit Golden Lotus from the Eight Treasures Merit Pool after transforming into Wutian Buddha, and Luohou blocked the two Buddhas’ attack as he fled.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti pursued Fang Xun into the Demon Realm, where he used the Chaos Bell to seal the Merit Golden Lotus and cut off Jie Yin’s senses.

Fang Xun used the Demonic Buddha body to undermine Spirit Mountain, prompting Ksitigarbha and the Western disciples to adopt Yi Zi’s Mahayana Buddhism and gain its fortune. After Hongjun appeared and the Dao Ancestor and Demon Ancestor reached a concealed compromise, Fang Xun and his allies planned expeditions to the First Tribulation and the Depths of Chaos; Spirit Mountain was left under Ksitigarbha’s care.

• Fang Xun unleashed the Reverse Tathagata Palm against the Western Buddhists, while Luohou fought Jieyin and Zhunti in the Demon Realm.
• Ksitigarbha and Mahakasyapa led Spirit Mountain’s disciples in cultivating Yi Zi’s Mahayana Buddhism, which stabilized the mountain and spread its fortune through the west.
• Demonic Maitreya confronted Fang Xun over Spirit Mountain, and Hongjun appeared in the Purple Cloud Palace as Luohou and the Buddhas halted their battle.
• Fang Xun and Hong Yi returned to Shouyang Mountain and arranged for Fang Xun and Meng Qi to explore the First Tribulation while Ye Fan sent an expedition to the Depths of Chaos.
• Jieyin and Zhunti returned to Spirit Mountain, where Zhunti put Ksitigarbha in charge, leaving Maitreya outside the Buddhist sect.

Fang Xun traveled back to the First Tribulation in Luohou’s time projection and met Hongjun before either had reached Da Luo. Their exchange revealed that Hongjun cultivated Myriad Dao Fruits, bringing Fang Xun’s own path into conflict with the Dao Ancestor’s.

• Kunpeng carried Duan De and the Black Emperor into the Depths of Chaos, while Fang Xun and Meng Qi prepared to return to the First Tribulation.
• Meng Qi used the Karma Thread and Fang Xun used Luohou’s Demonic Rune to enter the past through their respective time projections.
• Fang Xun arrived in the newly opened Primordial Wilderness, where Pangu’s Dao Rhyme remained strong and the Heavenly Dao had not yet fully emerged.
• Fang Xun met Hongjun the Daoist and reenacted their historical Dao debate and battle, discovering that Hongjun wielded Pangu Banner and God Slaying Spear.
• Fang Xun recreated the battle in a Chaos world and recognized Hongjun’s use of Myriad Dao Fruits to counter opposing Great Daos.
• Hongjun confirmed that he cultivated Myriad Dao Fruits, and Fang Xun realized their paths were already contending over the Great Dao.

Fang Xun learned from Meng Qi’s recording that Pangu had defeated nine supreme beings and sent their world fragments into the Depths of Chaos, where Ye Fan found a remnant of a Body Refining Limitless One. As Fang Xun warned Ye Fan of the danger, the Heavenly Dao took shape in the Primordial Wilderness, and Fang Xun, Luohou, Hongjun, and other Chaos Demon Gods entered its Sea of Light.

• Fang Xun confirmed that Hong Jun cultivated the same Myriad Dao Fruits as he did, then received Meng Qi’s recording of Pangu defeating nine powerful beings during Heaven Opening.
• Fang Xun realized that fragments of the nine beings’ worlds had fallen into the Depths of Chaos, where Ye Fan and his companions found a Broken Continent inhabited by Iron-Based Lifeforms.
• Ye Fan awakened the aura of the continent’s deceased Body Refining Limitless One and fought its strongest resident, whose power the aura raised to the level of a Primordial Da Luo Golden Immortal.
• Fang Xun warned Ye Fan that the supreme beings’ remnants could threaten their true bodies across the Myriad Heavens, and Ye Fan agreed to proceed carefully.
• Fang Xun sensed the Heavenly Dao take shape as the Chaos Bell rang, and he, Luohou, Hongjun, and other Chaos Demon Gods entered the Sea of Light.

Fang Xun witnessed the birth of the Heavenly Dao, received Pangu’s gifts, and learned more about the Myriad Heavens and the Immeasurable Calamity. He was then pulled into Luohou’s Death Calamity during the Dao Demon Conflict, where he faced Hongjun the Daoist and questioned whether to save Luohou.

• Fang Xun watched Pangu’s Will reveal the Heavenly Dao Wu Ji Dao Fruit and warn the first beings of the Primordial Wilderness about the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Pangu gave the gathered beings power and other gifts, showed Fang Xun the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree, and then collapsed as the Heavenly Dao was born.
• Fang Xun and Meng Qi concluded that Pangu’s collapse was a method of proving the Dao, and they examined the information Pangu had granted them about the Chaos Demon Gods and the Myriad Heavens.
• Fang Xun realized that Luohou had drawn him into the Dao Demon Conflict, binding him to Luohou’s Death Calamity.
• Fang Xun saw Hongjun the Daoist equipped with the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, and Jade Plate of Creation, and considered whether to fight him for Luohou’s sake.

Fang Xun struck another bargain with Luohou, agreeing to help him seek a way out of his historical death in exchange for information on the Chaos Demon Gods and future aid. Fang Xun then returned to the birth of the Heavenly Dao with Meng Qi’s support, while Luohou seized the resulting disturbance as his chance to change history.

• During the battle with Hongjun the Daoist, Fang Xun negotiated with Luohou and secured a promise of information and future assistance in return for creating an opportunity to escape his Death Calamity.
• Fang Xun explained the deal to Meng Qi, then followed the Karma Thread back to the First Tribulation as the Karma Demon God.
• Fang Xun entered the Endless Sea of Light as Hongjun the Daoist tried to expel him from that point in history.
• Meng Qi anchored the River of Time and blocked Hongjun the Daoist, drawing the attention of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor and other powerful figures.
• As Fang Xun advanced toward the center of the Endless Sea of Light, Luohou sensed an opportunity to alter his defeat and death in the Dao-Demon War.

Luohou altered the history of his death while Hongjun allowed it in exchange for a karmic debt. At the present node, Chaos Demon Gods brought five of their former worlds into the Primordial Wilderness, and Great Immortal Yang Mei tested his restored Limitless One power against the Desolate Heavenly Emperor’s sword.

• Luohou shook off Hongjun’s suppression and changed the history of his death, while Hongjun spared him and demanded a karmic debt.
• Fang Xun contacted Ye Fan, who sensed an intact Wuji World in the Depths of Chaos and left with the Black Emperor and others to investigate.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei and four other Chaos Demon Gods brought their former worlds into the Primordial Wilderness, where the Heavenly Dao absorbed them as five celestial bodies.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei revealed the aura of Limitless One and explained that he had created his world to explore the Great Dao before Pangu shattered it.
• The Desolate Heavenly Emperor attacked Great Immortal Yang Mei to test his strength, and Yang Mei shattered the sword light with a finger.

Fang Xun welcomed Golden Lotus as his Spiritual Treasure and united the Four Lotuses into a powerful lotus platform, then advanced his cultivation to Taishi. He proposed sharing the other worlds’ cultivation systems with the Primordial Wilderness as a first step toward connecting entire worlds.

• Fang Xun returned to Penglai Immortal Island and asked Golden Lotus whether he wished to become his Spiritual Treasure; Golden Lotus agreed and called him Xuansu.
• Fang Xun combined the Four Lotuses with the Dao Trace of the Chaos Green Lotus, forming a supreme lotus platform that could also separate back into the four lotuses.
• Fang Xun entered secluded cultivation and reached the Taishi realm in the Method of Reversing to Limitlessness, strengthening his corresponding Dao method as well.
• Fang Xun returned as Supreme Li Er and asked the group whether he could spread their cultivation systems throughout All Heavens.
• Fang Xun proposed using the systems as an experiment before building permanent passages between the Primordial Wilderness and the other worlds.

Supreme Li Er, Fang Xun’s incarnation, lectured at the Human Race Academy on the Secret Realm Method and the Sacrifice Dao Method from Ye Tiandi’s world. The lecture drew the Witch Clan and other powerful observers, and Zhu Rong began comparing the system with the Primordial Wilderness immortal Dao.

• Mo Di learned that Supreme Li Er would lecture at the Human Race Academy, sacrificed his false body, and summoned his true body to attend.
• Fang Xun explained the Secret Realm Method, and the audience recognized it as the cultivation system from Ye Tiandi’s world.
• Zhu Rong, Gong Gong, Chi You, Xing Tian, and other powerful figures arrived, while Houtu noted the system’s potential for the Witch Clan’s Panwang Profound Art.
• Fang Xun demonstrated the Sacrifice Dao Method, then invited Wushi to explain its mysteries; merit clouds gathered as the method took root in the Primordial Wilderness.
• Fang Xun asked how the Secret Realm Method compared with the Primordial Wilderness immortal Dao, and Zhu Rong praised its cultivation of the body and bodily potential.