Chapter Summaries

Ares summoned the Greek gods’ battle intent and authorities to challenge Tongtian, hoping to break through his fear and strike him down. Tongtian mocked their growing power and urged them to try harder as the gods poured even more of themselves into Ares.

• Ares confronted Tongtian and unleashed Battle Intent of Infinity, making gods across the Greek Divine Realm feel their fighting instincts awaken.
• The Greek gods joined their battle intent with Ares’s and poured their divine authorities and Law Power into him.
• Tongtian calmly dismissed the gods’ efforts and invited them to gather more strength.
• Enraged by Tongtian’s contempt, the Greek gods sacrificed more authorities and Divine Power to empower Ares as the heavens and earth shook.

Ares summoned his God of War giant, but the Greek Gods withdrew their support rather than sacrifice their divine authority, leaving him to fight alone. Tongtian mocked their cowardice while Amphitrite warned him of Ares’s attack, and Tongtian remained confident that the pantheon posed no threat.

• Ares began forming his God of War giant by pouring his battle intent and divine power into it.
• The Greek Gods hesitated to contribute because supporting Ares would cost them divine authority and force them to serve under his command.
• The gods’ battle intent ebbed away, leaving Ares with little support as Tongtian ridiculed their hypocrisy and cowardice.
• Amphitrite knelt before Tongtian and warned him that Ares’s growing battle intent could unleash devastating power.
• Tongtian assured Amphitrite that even the full Greek pantheon could not threaten him and called the situation a farce.

The Greek gods poured their Divine Power into Ares as he summoned a colossal God of War giant and prepared his strongest strike against Tongtian. Tongtian remained unmoved as the gods eagerly awaited his defeat.

• The Greek gods rallied behind Ares and channeled their Divine Power into him, strengthening the God of War giant.
• Tongtian dismissed Ares's power and declared that he would show the gods what true strength and a God of War were.
• Tongtian's words shook the Greek Mythology World, making its sky and laws tremble and causing the gods' confidence to falter.
• Ares roared a challenge to Tongtian and unleashed his battle intent as the God of War giant opened its eyes and readied its axe.
• The Greek gods and Myriad Beings expected Ares's strike to defeat Tongtian, who stood completely still as the blow approached.

Tongtian countered Ares’s combined divine attack with one finger, overwhelming the Greek gods and tearing open the void. As void power flooded into their realm, the gods realized their world was in danger of being devoured.

• Sea Queen Amphitrite warned Tongtian that Ares’s ultimate strike burned his godhood to break through his realm.
• Tongtian casually used Heavenly Stream God Finger against Ares’s towering God of War giant, prompting the Greek gods to mock him.
• Tongtian’s pressure froze the God of War giant and left the Greek gods unable to move.
• Tongtian’s finger struck the giant, and the collision shattered the void.
• Void power poured through the rift into the Greek Mythology World, leaving the gods terrified that their realm would be swallowed.

Tongtian studied how Greek divine authority distributed fragments of law and maintained stability, while the gods blamed him for the void consuming their world and united against him. After Ares unleashed the full power of his authority, Tongtian recognized the system’s limits and offered him submission or death.

• As void power seeped through the world’s rifts and eroded its origin, the Greek gods blamed Tongtian and vowed to fight him together.
• On the Sun Star, Ares empowered the collapsing God of War giant with his divine authority for one final attack against Tongtian.
• Tongtian noticed the phantom axe at Ares’s chest and realized divine authorities were sealed fragments of law that stabilized the world but limited its gods.
• Tongtian decided to offer Ares a choice: submit for supreme power or resist and die.

Tongtian gave Ares the chance to unleash his full strength, while the Greek gods watched without helping. Ares burned through his life in a final attack that shattered the Space Barrier, leaving the Greek Mythology World collapsing.

• Tongtian admired Ares’s unyielding fighting spirit and allowed him to continue rather than suppressing him at once.
• Ares rejected Tongtian’s offer to stop and sacrifice his life force to strike back.
• The Greek gods urged Ares to test Tongtian’s limits but did not come to his aid.
• Amphitrite asked Tongtian to take Ares in and reflected on how Poseidon had abandoned her to save himself.
• Tongtian said Ares’s refusal to bow was what made him worthy of being called the God of War.
• Ares unleashed his final attack, shattering the Space Barrier as the world’s laws twisted and its people fled.

Tongtian froze the Greek Mythology World and killed Ares after recognizing his courage and learning the reason behind his final charge. Before Ares died, Tongtian took and absorbed his miniature axe, discovering it was both a token of divine authority and a shackle that suppressed cultivation.

• Ares charged Tongtian, who praised his resolve and declared that he would die.
• Tongtian froze time and all things across the Greek Mythology World, stopping Ares and sealing the gods’ senses and consciousness.
• Tongtian read Ares’s memories and learned that Ares had chosen to risk his life to prove himself.
• Tongtian took Ares’s miniature axe and discovered that it carried divine authority while also suppressing its bearer’s cultivation and true self.
• Tongtian absorbed the axe, and the War God statue shattered as Ares’s life force vanished.
• Tongtian regretted that Ares could not overcome himself, though he acknowledged that Ares had already earned the title of God of War.

Tongtian granted Ares the complete end he wished for, and Ares died at peace after realizing how his efforts to end wars had made him a scapegoat. When Tongtian restored the frozen world, the Greek gods saw Ares vanish and erupted in confusion and fear.

• Tongtian allowed Ares to die, and Ares's body shattered into motes of light.
• Ares let go of his lingering hope for the gods' recognition and found peace as his life ended.
• Tongtian's presence was described as having already reshaped the world's fate, and he restarted time and motion.
• The Greek gods regained consciousness and saw Ares's ashes scatter across the world.
• The gods cried out in shock and demanded to know how Tongtian had erased their God of War.

After Tongtian’s battle with Ares, the shattered sky and raging void healed through Tongtian’s effortless use of Law Power, but the Greek gods mistakenly believed Zeus had saved them. Watching from Olympus, Zeus wondered what secrets lay in the world behind Tongtian.

• Tongtian silently repaired the rift in the Heavenly Vault and drew the void energy back into the abyss.
• The Greek gods credited the world’s recovery to Zeus and regained hope, urging one another to stand against Tongtian.
• Zeus watched from Olympus as the gods praised him and wondered what secrets the world behind Tongtian hid.

Zeus recognized Tongtian as a powerful rival and continued secretly preparing a scheme to kill him, while the Greek gods mistakenly credited Zeus for their victory. Hera witnessed Tongtian repair the void barrier and began considering how she might benefit from aligning herself with him.

• Zeus recalled Tongtian's control over the void and time and acknowledged him as an equal threat.
• Zeus revealed that he had remained hidden in the Greek Mythology World, planting subordinates, arrays, and threads of faith for a plan to destroy Tongtian.
• The gods celebrated Zeus as their savior and rallied to grow stronger, despite Zeus having taken no part in the battle.
• Hera watched Tongtian restore the void barrier and was shocked by his power.
• Hera considered relying on Tongtian to overturn the world and gain a share of his fortune.

Hera reflected on her devotion to Tongtian and suspected that he was studying the Greek gods rather than acting at random. In Athena’s temple, Athena suggested Tongtian might be an opportunity for the Greek gods, while Artemis resisted accepting him and worried about what that would mean for Zeus.

• Hera considered calling Tongtian her Holy Father but decided she could not do so openly while she remained Zeus’s lawful wife and Greek Mythology’s order endured.
• Hera wondered whether Tongtian was observing and testing the gods, then looked toward Athena’s Divine Temple.
• Artemis asked Athena what Tongtian wanted and recalled how he had defeated her without seeming to use much of his power.
• Athena told Artemis that Tongtian’s arrival might be an opportunity for the Greek gods rather than a threat.
• Artemis rejected the idea that the Otherworld Visitor could benefit them and warned that accepting his legitimacy could make the gods defer to everything he did, bringing Zeus into question.

Athena and the other Main Gods feared that recognizing Tongtian would trigger a catastrophic war between him and Zeus. Artemis proposed that Tongtian might be willing to coexist, leaving Athena to consider making contact without surrendering the gods’ dignity.

• Athena worried that accepting Tongtian’s status would eventually force a devastating confrontation with Zeus.
• Artemis pointed out that Tongtian had never attacked the gods or tried to destroy their world when left unprovoked.
• Artemis argued that Tongtian’s restraint suggested the Greek gods could coexist with him.
• Athena considered approaching Tongtian, but Artemis feared that showing goodwill would make them his vassal gods.
• Athena struggled to find a way to ease the threat while preserving the gods’ dignity and avoiding war.

Zeus confronted Hades in the underworld and sought his help in seizing Tongtian’s power, while Hades demanded a price tied to the Origin Power that Zeus had once taken for himself. Zeus revealed that he had fused with the Greek Mythology World’s Origin Power, leaving Hades stunned by the extent of his control.

• Hades recalled how Zeus broke their pact, took the World Origin, and exiled Hades and Poseidon from Olympus.
• Hades demonstrated his control over the void, shutting Zeus’s passage and revealing how he had forged the underworld into an anchor for that power.
• Zeus proposed that Hades help him deal with Tongtian, and Hades agreed only if Zeus paid a price.
• Hades explained that his time ruling the dead had awakened Endless Decay, a power that could erode bodies, souls, and even gods.
• Zeus admitted that the Origin Power had driven him to seize sole authority and displayed the power fused within him.

Athena and Artemis came to acknowledge Tongtian, while Hera revealed that countless Greek gods were already cultivating his techniques and that he had anticipated Zeus and Hades’ schemes. Zeus arrived and conceded defeat, but Tongtian said he would take the Greek world’s Origin and recreate a better world for its people as he attained enlightenment.

• Athena praised Tongtian’s power, and Artemis thanked him for sparing her life after their battle.
• Hera arrived, called Tongtian Father God, and showed that countless Greek deities were cultivating the techniques he had given them.
• Tongtian declared that gods and mortals could cultivate without relying on Zeus to grant them Divine Power.
• Hera claimed Tongtian had foreseen the schemes of Zeus and Hades and that they would come to him themselves.
• Zeus appeared, admitted defeat, and yielded rule of the world to Tongtian.
• Tongtian said he would take the World Origin and recreate a better world, then unleashed his power as he attained enlightenment.

Five hundred years into his imprisonment in Purple Heaven Palace, Li Tian, living as Sect Master Tongtian, failed once again to break through the Saint-Slaying Pill’s restraints and feared his Primordial Spirit would be consumed. His unyielding resolve activated the Primordial Dao System, giving him a possible path to escape Hongjun’s control and return to the Primordial Wilderness.

• Li Tian failed at the final step of his attempt to break through the Saint Realm, and the resulting backlash injured him.
• Li Tian recalled that Hongjun had imprisoned him with the Saint-Slaying Pill, which was eroding his Primordial Spirit and cultivation.
• Li Tian resolved to destroy his own Dao foundation rather than let Hongjun turn him into a puppet or use his body.
• The Primordial Dao System activated after detecting Li Tian’s unyielding will and asked him to confirm binding.
• The system explained that it had spent its origin power helping Li Tian merge with Saint Tongtian’s Primordial Spirit.
• Li Tian considered Hongjun’s threat to the Primordial Wilderness and decided he had to break free and return.

Tongtian bound himself to the Primordial World's Origin, gained a low-grade Chaos Godfiend foundation, and broke through the cultivation shackles that had held him back. The system revealed that the world's fortune was negative because of its disastrous future, but Tongtian gained powerful treasures and laws to help him oppose Hongjun and change that fate.

• Tongtian bound himself to the Primordial World's Origin, which refined his foundation into a low-grade Chaos Godfiend foundation and removed the Saint-Slaying Pill suppressing his cultivation.
• Tongtian checked the system interface and learned that the Primordial Great World had a negative fortune value based on projections of its future decline.
• Tongtian resolved to stop Hongjun's schemes and asked whether he could raise the world's fortune by reversing its course.
• The system assured Tongtian that it would track the world's fortune in real time and issue rewards as the value changed.
• Tongtian opened the initial gift pack and received the Chaos Great Dao Art, a Jade Plate of Creation fragment, the Origin of Fate Law, the Origin of Sword Dao Law, and the Primordial Chaos Array Codex.

Tongtian examined his new Great Dao treasures, and the Jade Plate of Creation fragment caused anomalies that alarmed Hongjun. Protected from heavenly deductions, Tongtian used the fragment to enter profound Dao comprehension and began strengthening his Dao foundation.

• Tongtian summoned the Jade Plate of Creation fragment, triggering powerful anomalies outside Purple Heaven Palace.
• Hongjun investigated the upheaval with his own Jade Plate of Creation but could not trace Tongtian’s origins.
• Tongtian relaxed after Hongjun’s Divine Sense withdrew, knowing the system had erased all heavenly secrets concerning him.
• Tongtian connected his Spiritual Sense to the fragment, which drew profound laws into his Primordial Spirit.
• Tongtian entered deep Dao comprehension as his Dao foundation and Dao fruit rapidly improved.

After two hundred years of secluded cultivation, Tongtian reached the sixth level of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal and advanced his understanding of the Sword, Destiny, and Time Great Daos. He began his escape plan by using a Destiny technique to replace something, triggering a phenomenon that the Primordial Wilderness's powerful cultivators could not trace and leaving the realm gripped by fear.

• Tongtian completed two hundred years of cultivation, reached the sixth level of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and made major progress in the Sword and Destiny Daos and minor progress in the Time Dao.
• Tongtian decided to leave Purple Heaven Palace, pursue the system's rewards, and use his plan to alter the Primordial Wilderness's declining fortunes.
• Tongtian formed a Karma Net with Destiny principles and cast the technique, saying, "Replace!"
• A violent phenomenon shook the Primordial Wilderness, but the system's protection concealed its source from the Grand Pure Saint, Heavenly Lord Yuanshi, and other mighty beings.
• The Saints and cultivators failed to trace the disturbance, feared another catastrophe, and ordered disciples to remain in closed-door meditation.

Tongtian used fate laws to send his consciousness from Purple Heaven Palace into his Obsession Corpse, allowing him to act while his true body remained imprisoned. He saw through Hongjun’s scheme to divide the Three Pure Ones and resolved to challenge the Chess Game, while Hongjun remained confident Tongtian could not change the destined outcome.

• Tongtian used Fate Track Severance to transfer his Divine Sense into his Obsession Corpse and begin acting beyond Purple Heaven Palace.
• Hongjun appeared before Tongtian and told him to reflect on his mistakes, promising he might be released after the next Immeasurable Tribulation.
• Tongtian rejected Hongjun’s claim that the Heavenly Dao Trend was settled and suspected Hongjun would never let him leave.
• Tongtian concluded that Hongjun had manipulated the Three Pure Ones into turning against one another to clear the way for his own transcendence.
• Tongtian began comprehending the Great Dao as Hongjun watched him, certain that the Chessboard could not be overturned.

Hongjun prepared to seize the Primordial Wilderness’s destiny during the coming tribulation, unaware that Tongtian’s Obsession Corpse, Li Tian, had escaped Purple Heaven Palace and reached Golden Ao Island. Li Tian entered the ruined former home of the Interception Sect and vowed to rebuild it and reclaim what had been taken.

• Hongjun resolved to use the coming tribulation to seize the Primordial Wilderness’s destiny and eliminate anyone who stood in his way.
• Li Tian used Tongtian’s memories to locate Golden Ao Island, avoiding attention by arriving at the edge of the Great Desolation Continent first.
• Li Tian recalled the Interception Sect’s defeat and the fates of Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao, renewing his determination to avenge them.
• Li Tian opened a passage through the island’s innate formation and entered Golden Ao Island to recover his strength.
• Li Tian surveyed the island’s ruins and vowed to raise the Interception Sect’s banner and rekindle its incense offerings.