Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen fought his master Xu and learned that Xu had once sacrificed himself to resist the Cold Presence, but the Return to Void Origin had corrupted him. Xu regained his memories, sacrificed his remnant soul to purify the Origin, and left Xiao Chen facing the imminent collapse of the Eye of Guixu.

• Xu attacked Xiao Chen with the Chaos python, net, and Return to Void sword, then demanded that he join the new era as a Creation God.
• Xiao Chen refused to abandon the living beings he had promised to protect, and the Chaos Source Crystal showed him Xu’s memories of fighting the Cold Presence in the previous era.
• Xu revealed that he had merged with the Return to Void Origin and become its executor, while Xiao Chen used Time Echo to awaken his forgotten memories.
• Xu recovered his past and regretted his actions, but warned Xiao Chen that the Origin was taking control of him again.
• Xu sacrificed his remnant soul to separate and purify the Return to Void Origin, which entered Xiao Chen as the Eye of Guixu began to collapse.

Xiao Chen fused Chaos and Return to Void, closed the Eye of Guixu, and learned that Hun Tiandi was opening the Ultimate Gate at the Soul Clan Ancestral Land. Xiao Chen set out alone to stop him while Xiao Yan organized defenses and evacuations.

• Xiao Chen realized that Chaos should protect differences, balanced its power with Return to Void, and formed a Reincarnation Ring.
• Xiao Chen purified the remaining Xu Beasts and closed the Eye of Guixu, ending the immediate threat to the Eastern Sea.
• Xiao Chen told Xiao Yan and the others that his master had sacrificed himself and warned that the Cold Presence and Soul Clan remained threats.
• Xiao Chen sensed Hun Tiandi opening the Ultimate Gate through a vast blood sacrifice at the Soul Clan Ancestral Land.
• Xiao Chen refused to let his allies join him, sent Xiao Yan to protect their family and prepare support, and flew toward the Soul Clan Ancestral Land.
• Xiao Yan ordered Dou Saints to establish defenses around the Soul Clan and the rest to help evacuate civilians.

Xiao Chen defeated Hun Tiandi and closed the Ultimate Gate by anchoring the world’s existence, preventing the master’s Void Law from erasing it. Hun Tiandi died after warning that other gates and coordinates remained, leaving Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan uncertain whether the threat was truly over.

• Hun Tiandi used the Blood Sacrifice Great Array to open the Ultimate Gate, and Xiao Chen arrived to stop him.
• Xiao Chen countered Hun Tiandi’s Void Law with the Origin Point Law, but Hun Tiandi sacrificed the Soul Clan’s fortune to summon the master.
• The master attacked Xiao Chen with the true Void Law, and Xiao Chen anchored the existence of the world to block its power.
• Xiao Chen struck the Ultimate Gate with a world-mark and closed it, freeing the imprisoned Soul Clan souls as Hun Tiandi collapsed.
• Xiao Yan chose to destroy Hun Tiandi’s cultivation and imprison him, but Hun Tiandi revealed other coordinates and gates before killing himself with hidden poison.

After Hun Tiandi's death, Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen learned that three of seven ancient World Rift seals had been sabotaged and organized teams to repair them using Emperor-level Origin power. As the teams departed, a hidden eye reopened a crack in the Ultimate Gate and revealed that the rifts were part of a plan to prepare an altar for its master’s descent.

• Xiao Yan decided to spare the surviving Soul Clan clansmen by destroying their cultivation, erasing their inheritance memories, and scattering them across the continent.
• Zhu Kun found ancient scrolls showing that the Soul Clan had sabotaged three of the seven World Rift seals, and Xiao Chen learned that the repairs required pure Emperor-level elemental Origins.
• The Sea Emperor revealed that the Ice Emperor had become the Northern Glaciers seal’s core, while Xiao Yi Xian offered her Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow to help awaken it.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Xiao Li divided their allies into teams to repair or scout the rifts, while Xiao Jin persuaded Xiao Chen to let him accompany Cao Ying.
• After the teams departed, a crack appeared in the Ultimate Gate, and a cold eye declared that the seven rifts would form an altar for its master’s descent.

Xiao Yi Xian inherited the Ice Emperor's legacy and used it to reseal the Northern Glaciers rift for a hundred years. Xiao Chen left with her and Zi Yan for the Nether Fiend Land, while a thread of black qi escaped into the earth veins.

• Xiao Chen and his companions reached the Ice Seal Throne and learned the weakening seal would fail within a month.
• Xiao Chen awakened the Ice Emperor's remnant soul with Xiao Yi Xian and the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Marrow.
• The Ice Emperor explained that the rift could only be permanently repaired by a Creation-level expert, but his legacy could reinforce it for a hundred years.
• Xiao Yi Xian inherited the Ice Emperor's legacy, fused ice and poison powers, and rose to the peak of Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yi Xian used the Heart of the Ice Emperor to seal the rift, and Xiao Chen set out with her and Zi Yan for the Nether Fiend Land.
• A trace of black qi slipped from the sealed rift into the earth veins.

Xiao Chen and Zi Yan entered Nether Fiend Land to stop a rift to the Dark Realm from opening, and Xiao Chen absorbed its Dark Origin into a new domain within his Chaos Universe, closing the rift. Beneath the collapsed Altar, they found three pulsing black eggs in a strange array.

• Xiao Chen discovered that the Soul Crystals in the camp were bait for a trap that drove cultivators to slaughter one another and feed the rift.
• Zi Yan recalled that Nether Fiend Land was an ancient battlefield and that the Dark Soul Clan had tried to open a passage to the Dark Realm.
• Xiao Chen and Zi Yan reached the Altar, where they found the drained bodies of Stone Clan, Tianluan Clan, and Soul Clan members arranged as sacrifices.
• A black humanoid keeper attacked them and revealed that it served a returning master who sought to use the world's blood to welcome eternal darkness.
• Xiao Chen contained the Dark Origin in an undeveloped region of his Chaos Universe, where it fused with the Ancestor Snake origin and formed the Dark Reincarnation Domain, closing the rift.
• After the Altar collapsed, Zi Yan found three black egg-shaped objects pulsing inside a strange array.

Xiao Chen and Zi Yan discovered three eggs in the Nether Fiend Land that were nurturing ancient Dark Realm incarnations, then fought to destroy them as they hatched. Xiao Yi Xian and their allies arrived to save them, but the third egg unleashed a black pillar that reopened the Dark Realm Gate and brought a vast presence into the sky.

• Xiao Chen identified the three eggs as vessels for ancient incarnations being reborn through a blood-sacrifice array, and the first egg hatched into a Peak Six-Star Dou Saint humanoid.
• Zi Yan fought the humanoid while the second egg hatched into an Early Seven-Star Dou Saint giant wolf, forcing Xiao Chen to use a forbidden time-space technique and order Zi Yan to burn the third egg with her Dragon Emperor Origin.
• The giant wolf broke free of the time freeze, injured Zi Yan, and tried to repair the third egg, but Xiao Chen destroyed it with Origin Point Annihilation at the cost of severely damaging his Chaos Universe.
• Xiao Yi Xian arrived and blocked the humanoid's attack with the Heart of the Ice Emperor as Xiao Li, the Feng Ling Clan Leader, and the Stone Clan elders formed the World Purifying Array.
• The third egg exploded into a pillar of black light, and a voice declared that the Dark Realm Gate would reopen as a pair of enormous blood-red eyes appeared beyond the split sky.

Xu returned from the future to stop the Dark Realm Will from destroying the Nether Fiend Land and explained that the original timeline ended in the world's collapse. He revealed the greater threats and joined Xiao Chen's group as they headed to the Endless Fire Domain, where Xiao Yan reported that a living Ancient Emperor had emerged from the flame rift.

• The Dark Realm Will descended through a rift and attacked Xiao Chen's group, but Xu appeared and forced it to retreat.
• Xu healed the group, then explained that he was Xiao Chen's master from the future and had changed a timeline in which the world was destroyed.
• Xu identified the Lord of Void and the Dark Realm Will as threats, and said the Lord of Time was a third force they would face.
• Xu said he could remain for only three months and offered to help repair the Fire Rift while the others handled the remaining rifts.
• Xiao Yan sent an urgent message that a living Ancient Emperor had crawled out of the flame rift in the Endless Fire Domain.

Xiao Chen entered Tou She Ancient God's memories and learned that despair over the universe's eventual Heat Death had driven the remnant soul to seek the world's destruction. After Xu and Xiao Chen persuaded him that another future could be created, Tou She entrusted his final comprehension of fire to Xiao Yan, while the coming battle remained ahead.

• Tou She Ancient God's remnant soul attacked Xiao Yan with a fire lotus that began absorbing his Emperor Flame.
• Xu stopped time, allowing Xiao Chen to use Memory Retrospection and discover the Ancient God's despairing memories of the universe's Heat Death.
• Xiao Chen told Tou She that the distant end of the universe did not justify destroying the present, and Xu explained that other timelines and possibilities existed.
• Tou She accepted that a line of light might be created and passed his final comprehension of the Great Dao of Fire to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan advanced to the early stage of Nine-star Dou Saint as Tou She faded away and the Fire Realm Rift began closing.

After learning that Xiao Chen could save life from Heat Death by creating a new universe with the seven Elemental Origins, the group prepared to restore the remaining four rifts. Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan completed half a year of accelerated cultivation, and the party departed for the Holy Light Plateau as the Holy Light Envoy awaited them.

• Xu revealed that Heat Death threatened the universe and that Xiao Chen's Path of Chaos could create a new universe using the seven Elemental Origins.
• Xu located the four remaining rifts and warned that their living guardians wanted to enter the Dou Qi Continent and consume its energy.
• Xu placed Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan in the Time Domain for half a year of cultivation while the others prepared to depart six days later.
• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan shared their insights, and Xiao Chen stabilized seven elemental stars in his Chaos Universe to achieve half-step world creation.
• The Time Domain ended, and Xu agreed to accompany the group as a witness before they set out for the Holy Light Plateau.
• The Holy Light Envoy sensed the disturbance and prepared to judge whether this era's hope was worth abandoning his obsession.

Xiao Chen and Xu negotiated with the Holy Light Envoy to close the Light Rift, but the Dark Realm Will attacked and began devouring its Light Origin. After Xiao Chen and the Envoy defeated the intrusion together, the Envoy agreed to cooperate and consider joining Xiao Chen’s new universe.

• Xu brought Xiao Chen and the others to the Holy Light Divine Temple to negotiate with the Holy Light Envoy.
• Xiao Chen urged the Envoy to close the Light Rift and join a new universe, prompting the Envoy to recount how he lost his people in the Eighth Era.
• A messenger warned that the Dark Realm Will was forcing its way through the Light Rift to devour the Light Origin.
• Xiao Chen used Chaos Power to transform the Envoy’s holy light, and together they purified the Dark Realm Will’s giant hand and severed its connection to the incarnation.
• The Holy Light Envoy agreed to close the rift and clasped Xiao Chen’s hand, accepting cooperation after seeing the Light Star.

Xiao Chen and his allies reached the Eye of Guixu, where the Sea God descended and agreed to help close the Water Rift in exchange for a sea in Xiao Chen’s hoped-for new universe. As the Sea God began sealing the rift, the Lord of Void intervened and froze its closure.

• The Sea Emperor told Xiao Chen’s group that a spatial collapse near the Eye of Guixu had swallowed half the Sea Demon Clan and the Sea Emperor Hall, and Xiao Chen decided to go there.
• Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, Zhu Kun, and Zi Yan attacked the vortex as Void Puppets formed from debris and overwhelmed them with their power to negate existence.
• The Sea God descended and purified the Void Puppets, then told Xiao Chen that he had withdrawn from the world after losing his child and becoming convinced that bonds were weakness.
• Xiao Chen urged the Sea God to help create a new universe, arguing that it could preserve civilization and give meaning to the Sea Emperor’s sacrifice.
• The Sea God agreed to close the Water Rift and lend the Water Origin if Xiao Chen promised to create a sea where he and his children could live together.
• As the Sea God raised his trident to seal the rift, the Lord of Void extended a white hand and froze the closing rift.

Xiao Chen drew the Lord of Void’s hand into his Chaos Universe and used the power and memories of his allies to anchor existence against its denial. The hand withdrew after hearing his answer and promised to observe whether he could forge a new universe, while the Water Rift was sealed.

• The Lord of Void’s hand emerged from the Vortex Rift and began erasing the Water Rift, while the Sea God’s water dragons vanished against it.
• Xu told Xiao Chen to contain the hand in his Chaos Universe, and the Sea God, Holy Light Envoy, Xiao Yan, and the others lent Xiao Chen their power and memories as anchors.
• Xiao Chen opened his Chaos Universe and drew the hand inside, but it began denying the seven elemental stars.
• Xiao Chen burned his Origin Point Mark and his bonds with the world to strengthen the stellar rings, halting the hand’s advance.
• The Lord of Void asked why Xiao Chen valued existence, and Xiao Chen answered that their lived experiences and memories would always have existed.
• The hand withdrew, saying it would observe whether Xiao Chen could forge a new universe, and the Sea God sealed the Water Rift.

Xiao Chen and his companions confronted the Lord of the Sky, but the Dark Realm Will began corrupting the Wind Rift before they could resolve their dispute. Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan destroyed the Wind Core to stop the corruption, collapsing the rift, but both disappeared, leaving behind only two dim points of light.

• Xu led Xiao Chen and the others into the Sky Rift, where the Lord of the Sky refused to hand over the Wind Rift and explained that she had lost hope after her Fifth Era disciple failed to stop Heat Death.
• The Dark Realm Will attacked the Wind Rift and corrupted its Origin of Wind, so the Lord of the Sky joined Xiao Chen's group in resisting it.
• The Lord of the Sky opened a brief entrance into the Wind Rift, and Xiao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Zi Yan rushed inside to destroy the Wind Core.
• The Dark Realm Will infected Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan as they tried to purify the core, so the two burned their origins and detonated it instead.
• The Wind Rift collapsed and the Dark Realm Will's scheme failed, but Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan vanished, leaving only a gray-white light and a golden light for Zi Yan and the Lord of the Sky to see.

Zi Yan, Sea Emperor, and Holy Light Envoy recovered the Wind Spirit to save the two brothers’ fading souls, while Lord of the Sky helped them escape the collapsing space. Holy Light Envoy and Sea Emperor sacrificed their origins to restore the brothers, and Lord of the Sky agreed to help with the remaining Thunder Rift.

• Xu failed to stop the brothers’ soul fragments from dissipating, and Lord of the Sky revealed that the Wind Spirit might reshape their souls.
• Zi Yan, Sea Emperor, and Holy Light Envoy entered the shattered space and used Holy Light Envoy’s radiance to navigate its maze toward the Wind Spirit.
• Dark Realm Will reached for the Wind Spirit, but Lord of the Sky destroyed its giant hand and helped Zi Yan seize the spirit before the space collapsed.
• Xu discovered that the Wind Spirit needed more Soul Origin, so Holy Light Envoy and Sea Emperor offered their origins to restore the brothers and preserve their memories and cultivation.
• Holy Light Envoy and Sea Emperor merged into the Light Cocoons and fell into slumber, while Lord of the Sky agreed to help Xu with the remaining Thunder Rift.

Xiao Chen faced the Thunder Emperor’s trial and won his cooperation by demonstrating that true power came from fusing all seven elements. After the Thunder Emperor erased the Void Mark in his rift, he revealed that a Seed of Void would sprout on the Timeline in one month, in the Star Realm.

• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan awakened, and Xiao Chen’s group confronted the Thunder Emperor at the Thunder Rift.
• The Thunder Emperor challenged Xiao Chen, who endured his attacks and revealed a miniature universe where all seven elements fused.
• The Thunder Emperor accepted Xiao Chen’s answer, agreed to close the Thunder Rift, and promised to guard the Rules of Thunder in the new universe.
• The Thunder Emperor entered the rift and destroyed the Lord of Void’s Void Mark, then returned with a warning about a Seed of Void on the Timeline.
• Xu located the seed’s sprouting point and told the group it would emerge in the Star Realm one month later.

As the Seed of Void began infecting the Star Realm, Xu discovered it had fused with Cao Ying’s soul, so Xiao Chen volunteered to take it into his own body. Xu transferred the seed but vanished after exhausting his Time Origin, and the seed began sprouting in Xiao Chen.

• Xu explained that the Seed of Void would use an important person or thing as its vessel, and Xiao Chen sensed a blank patch inside the Star Realm’s barrier.
• Xiao Chen returned to the Star Realm and learned that everyone bore Void Marks, with Cao Ying’s mark the strongest; Xu sealed the realm and began removing the marks.
• Xu spent his Time Origin examining souls, then found the seed deeply fused with Cao Ying’s soul and warned that removing it could destroy her.
• Xiao Chen offered to take the seed into his body, and Xu transferred it from Cao Ying to Xiao Chen, leaving a white mark on his glabella.
• Xu vanished after telling Xiao Chen to rely on himself and naming the new universe the Chaos Star Realm; the Time Barrier dissolved.
• The Seed of Void throbbed inside Xiao Chen and began to sprout.

As the Seed of Void erased Xiao Chen’s memories and existence, he began creating a new universe to sever and imprison it. His loved ones anchored his fading soul with shared memories, but the Dark Realm Will attacked before creation was complete, leaving the universe’s rebirth underway as its true body prepared to descend.

• Xiao Chen gathered elemental origins and residual imprints from his allies to create a universe capable of containing the Seed of Void.
• Xiao Yan, the Lord of the Sky, the Thunder Emperor, Zi Yan, Yan Lie, and the Light Cocoon fragments supplied the seven elemental stars with their origins.
• The Seed of Void rapidly erased Xiao Chen’s memories, so Cao Ying, Yun Yun, their children, and their companions recalled shared moments to anchor his soul.
• The Thunder Emperor and the Lord of the Sky left to repel the Dark Realm Will after it broke through the Star Realm’s protective array, destabilizing the universe projection.
• Xiao Chen’s seven wives infused the elemental stars with their emotions and stabilized them as the Dark Realm Will’s true body began opening its eye in the rift.
• Xiao Chen pressed his hands together and made the expanding universe projection explode in a moment of rebirth.

Xiao Chen sacrificed his existence to create the Chaos Star Realm and entered a long slumber, leaving its laws and the sealed Seed of Void to his family and allies. Three years later, his seven children reinforced the seal during their Chaos Baptism and stirred his remnant consciousness, suggesting his awakening was drawing nearer.

• Xiao Chen sealed the Seed of Void in the new universe, entrusted its elemental laws and guardianship to his family and allies, and dispersed into the starry sky as he entered a deep slumber.
• Three years later, Xiao Yan oversaw the seven children’s Chaos Baptism at the Chaos Sacred Hall, where they entered the Chaos Core to strengthen the seal.
• The Seed of Void tried to erode the children’s souls, but each child used their bloodline power to resist and transform the seal into a seven-colored barrier.
• The children suppressed the Seed, and their success awakened a strand of Xiao Chen’s remnant consciousness, which praised them and merged into the seal.
• The Holy Light Envoy estimated the seal would hold for at least a hundred years, while Xiao Yan turned to building a new home in the Chaos Star Realm.
• At the far end of the starry river, a pair of eyes opened with a gentle smile.

After a century of sleep, Xiao Chen returned to the Chaos Star Realm and reunited with his family and allies. They transformed the Seed of Void into the Seed of Hope, while Xiao Chen prepared to face the greater enemies and the laws of Heat Death in a future journey.

• At Xiao Jin's hundredth-birthday celebration, Xiao Yan named him the eighth Guardian, the Chaos Guardian.
• The Chaos Core awakened, and Xiao Chen emerged from the Seven-Colored Seal after a hundred years of sleep.
• Xiao Chen reunited with his wives, children, Xiao Yan, and his old friends, then summoned the recovered Holy Light Envoy and Sea Emperor.
• Xiao Chen and fifteen others joined their powers in the Existence Ritual, transforming the Seed of Void into the Seed of Hope.
• Xiao Chen placed the Seed of Hope in the Chaos Core and announced that the Lord of Void and the true source of Heat Death remained to be confronted.
• Xiao Chen told Xiao Yan he would eventually leave for the final battlefield a billion years in the future, and Xiao Yan promised to protect the Star Realm until he returned.