Chapter Summaries

Li Tian decided to secure the Netherworld Underworld for Earthly Dao while Saint Zhunti recovered and attacked him again. Secretly drawing power from his true body in Purple Heaven Palace, Li Tian raised his incarnation to the peak of the seventh layer of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm and prepared to crush Zhunti’s assault.

• Li Tian resolved to turn the Netherworld Underworld into Earthly Dao’s fortress and keep Heavenly Dao forces out.
• Saint Zhunti healed his wounds and regrew his severed arm with Heavenly Dao power, then grew confident in his restored strength.
• Li Tian secretly contacted his true body, Saint Tongtian, through the laws of destiny and karma.
• Saint Tongtian sent mana to Li Tian’s incarnation, raising him from the third-layer peak to the seventh-layer peak of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm.
• Saint Zhunti unleashed the Seven Wonderful Treasure Tree’s rainbow light, while Li Tian prepared to defeat the attack with his newly revealed strength.

Li Tian effortlessly shattered Zhunti’s attack and beat him into submission, leaving the watching Saints and great powers stunned. As Jieyin prepared to intervene, Hongjun secretly empowered him and resolved to personally destroy the Earthly Dao’s rising flame if the two Saints also fell to Li Tian.

• Li Tian froze and shattered the Seven Wonderful Treasure Tree’s rainbow attack with two commands.
• Li Tian struck Zhunti into a mountain, leaving him battered and humiliated before the watching powers.
• The Supreme Pure Saint, Heavenly Lord Yuanshi, and Nuwa watched Zhunti’s defeat with satisfaction, while Jieyin grew enraged at his junior brother’s suffering.
• Jieyin formed Magic Seals and prepared to enter the battle to regain dignity for Zhunti.
• Hongjun secretly sent Heavenly Dao power into Jieyin and planned to act personally if Li Tian defeated both Saints.
• Li Tian looked down at the broken Zhunti in the Netherworld Blood Sea, having deliberately held back part of his strength.

Li Tian continued fighting the Buddhist Saints as the Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit and Six Roots of Purity Bamboo freed Ksitigarbha from the Blood Sea. He uncovered Jieyin’s hidden position and struck at him, while Ancestor Minghe prepared to destroy the Blood Sea if Li Tian abandoned him.

• The Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit and Six Roots of Purity Bamboo broke Ancestor Minghe’s seal, allowing the gravely wounded Ksitigarbha to escape the Blood Sea.
• Ancestor Minghe realized that Jieyin had entered the battle and resolved to detonate the Blood Sea if Li Tian refused to protect him.
• Li Tian dodged the Six Roots of Purity Bamboo’s divine light while using the Green Ping Sword to fend it off.
• Li Tian revealed that he had been evading the attacks to locate Jieyin, then swung the Green Ping Sword at the concealed Saint.

Li Tian exposed Jieyin Saint's ambush and fought him while condemning Buddhism's assault on the Netherworld Blood Sea. Saint Zhunti recovered from his injuries and began treating the gravely wounded Ksitigarbha as the battle continued.

• Li Tian blasted Jieyin Saint out of hiding after detecting him concealed in a spatial layer.
• Li Tian accused Jieyin Saint and Buddhism of invading the Netherworld and trying to seize the Blood Sea, while Jieyin demanded to know why Li Tian had attacked him.
• Jieyin Saint attacked Li Tian with a demon-subduing vajra, and Li Tian met the strike with the Green Ping Sword.
• Saint Zhunti recovered his strength through the Golden Lotus and Heavenly Dao power, then examined Ksitigarbha.
• Saint Zhunti found that the Blood Sea's poison had left Ksitigarbha near death, but Buddhist treasures had protected his heart meridians, and he used Saintly Power to ease Ksitigarbha's suffering.

Saint Zhunti subdued Ancestor Minghe and seized his three supreme treasures, but Li Tian helped Minghe reclaim them and struck Zhunti while fighting Jieyin Saint. Zhunti called on his senior brother to join forces and suppress Li Tian.

• Saint Zhunti purged the Blood Sea poison from Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and then confronted Ancestor Minghe and the Asuras.
• Ancestor Minghe refused Zhunti's offer to join Buddhism and attacked him with Yuantu and Abi.
• Zhunti used the Seven Wonderful Treasure Tree to suppress Minghe's swords and Twelve-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, claiming all three treasures.
• A sword strike from Li Tian disrupted Zhunti's control, allowing Minghe to activate the treasures and summon them back.
• Li Tian forced Jieyin Saint back and pierced Zhunti's chest with sword qi, prompting Zhunti to demand that Jieyin join him in suppressing Li Tian.

Li Tian used a system Magic Treasure Upgrade Card during his battle against Zhunti and Jieyin, transforming the Green Ping Sword into an Innate Supreme Treasure. The sword completed its ascension while the two Buddhist Saints were still fighting him.

• Zhunti and Jieyin joined forces and overwhelmed Li Tian with relentless attacks, leaving him searching for a way to break their pressure.
• Li Tian remembered his Magic Treasure Upgrade Cards and realized he could use one to raise the Green Ping Sword's rank instantly.
• Li Tian activated a card on the Green Ping Sword and confirmed the upgrade as its forty-eight and a half restrictions began transforming.
• The Green Ping Sword completed its ascension, gaining forty-nine Innate restrictions and becoming an Innate Supreme Treasure.

Li Tian used the newly awakened Green Ping Sword to wound the Two Sages of Buddhism’s primordial spirits, threatening the Heavenly Dao Saints’ immortality. The Dao Ancestor then descended through Zhunti’s body into the Netherworld, and Li Tian resisted his overwhelming pressure with Earthly Dao Power.

• Li Tian unleashed the Green Ping Sword’s full power, blasting Zhunti and Jieyin into the mountains and cracking their primordial spirits.
• Zhunti and Jieyin realized the sword could pierce the Heavenly Dao and endanger the Saints’ true spirits, while Li Tian resolved to use it against anyone who crossed him.
• The Dao Ancestor’s pressure descended through Zhunti, forcing Jieyin and everyone present except Li Tian to kneel.
• The distant Saints recognized the Dao Ancestor’s aura and wondered why he had personally intervened in the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Li Tian stood against the pressure by circulating Earthly Dao Power and addressed the Dao Ancestor as he arrived.

Li Tian fought Zhunti, who was possessed by Hongjun, in a desperate battle to defend the Netherworld and the Asura Race. After surviving their clash, Li Tian was badly wounded and nearly powerless as Zhunti closed in to finish him, while Li Tian called for the Green Ping Sword.

• Zhunti unleashed a colossal finger strike at Li Tian, whose sword qi vanished against it.
• Li Tian used his strongest sword strike to collide with Zhunti’s attack, shaking the Primordial Wilderness.
• Li Tian survived the collision but was buried in rubble and badly injured as the Netherworld and Asura Race watched anxiously.
• Zhunti attacked Li Tian again, blasting him into a rock wall and worsening his injuries.
• Li Tian struggled to his feet and called to the Green Ping Sword as Zhunti approached to kill him.

Li Tian survived Zhunti’s crushing attack when Empress Pingxin’s Earthly Dao Power restored his strength, allowing him to strike Zhunti with the Green Ping Sword. As Zhunti unleashed even greater Heavenly Dao power, Pingxin revealed that Hongjun was fighting her in the depths of chaos—and that she had begun to gain the upper hand.

• Zhunti nearly crushed Li Tian, but Li Tian prepared to draw on his true body’s power before Empress Pingxin’s Earthly Dao Power reached him.
• Li Tian regained his strength, summoned the Green Ping Sword, and struck Zhunti hard enough to send him crashing into the mountains.
• Li Tian declared that good and evil had their destined order and resolved to break Hongjun’s old shackles on the Primordial Wilderness.
• Zhunti wielded the Seven Wonderful Treasure Tree and drew on immense Heavenly Dao power, leaving Li Tian doubtful that he could win.
• Empress Pingxin told Li Tian that Hongjun was fighting her in the Netherworld’s depths and that she had faintly gained the upper hand.

Li Tian fought Saint Zhunti while trying to rediscover the instinctive sword strike that had forced Zhunti back. Far away in chaos, Empress Pingxin confronted Hongjun over his plan to drag the Primordial Wilderness into the Dharma-Ending Age, while Li Tian’s evasions grew less effective.

• Li Tian avoided Saint Zhunti’s attacks and repeatedly retraced the sword strike that had briefly made Zhunti retreat.
• Li Tian and Saint Zhunti’s duel settled into a stalemate as observers waited for a victor.
• Hongjun and Empress Pingxin exchanged blows in the chaotic void, shattering countless Chaos Stones with their power.
• Hongjun accused Pingxin of disrupting the Primordial Wilderness and threatened to erase her, while Pingxin condemned his plan to pursue transcendence at the world’s expense.
• Hongjun drew on the Primordial Wilderness Heavenly Dao through the Jade Plate of Creation, while Pingxin summoned the Earthly Dao wheel with the support of Zhenyuanzi and the Earth Book.
• Saint Zhunti increasingly predicted Li Tian’s movements, pushing him closer to defeat.

Li Tian unleashed a sword strike by fusing Earthly Dao power, magic power, and the dormant force in his bloodline. He killed Saint Zhunti, whose body and Heavenly Dao-entrusted Primordial Spirit were destroyed, and the Primordial Wilderness mourned his fall.

• Li Tian revealed that he had awakened a vast power hidden in his bloodline and prepared to counterattack Hongjun's Divine Sense, who possessed Saint Zhunti.
• Li Tian combined the dormant power with Earthly Dao Authority and magic power, then poured their force into the Green Ping Sword.
• Hongjun's Divine Sense tried to confine Li Tian and end the battle before his attack could fully erupt, but Li Tian unleashed his sword strike.
• Li Tian's sword severed Saint Zhunti's Saintly light and destroyed his immortal body and Primordial Spirit.
• Purple Cloud Divine Thunder, violent winds, and blood rain swept across the Primordial Wilderness as heaven and earth mourned Saint Zhunti's death.

After Li Tian annihilated Hongjun’s Divine Sense and Zhunti in the Netherworld, Hongjun retreated from his battle with Empress Pingxin, who hurried to investigate what had happened. Li Tian was left exhausted but victorious, and Ancestor Minghe pledged his loyalty to him.

• Hongjun sensed that his Divine Sense and Zhunti had been destroyed, abandoned his fight with Empress Pingxin, and vanished into chaos.
• Empress Pingxin chose not to pursue Hongjun and returned toward the Netherworld to investigate the disturbance.
• Li Tian recovered from unleashing a powerful sword strike that combined three strands of Origin Power and devastated the battlefield.
• Ancestor Minghe approached Li Tian, thanked him for saving him from the Buddhist Sect, and vowed to repay him without hesitation.

Li Tian explained to Ancestor Minghe that the Buddhist Sect’s assault on the Netherworld Blood Sea had been part of Hongjun’s effort to undermine the Earthly Dao. He offered Minghe a path to revenge by joining the Earthly Dao, leaving Minghe to weigh the choice between the two rival powers.

• Li Tian resolved that the Netherworld had to be unified to protect the Earthly Dao, even if that meant fighting Ancestor Minghe.
• Ancestor Minghe recounted how the Buddhist Sect had suddenly attacked the Netherworld Blood Sea, and wondered why Hongjun had intervened.
• Li Tian revealed that the Blood Sea was the Earthly Dao’s foundation and that the Heavenly Dao sought to sever its lifeline.
• Ancestor Minghe realized he had been used as a pawn and despaired over his inability to challenge the powerful figures behind the attack.
• Li Tian asked whether Minghe dared take a path to revenge and invited him to join the Earthly Dao.
• Ancestor Minghe considered the consequences of siding with either the Heavenly Dao or the Earthly Dao.

Ancestor Minghe chose to ally the Blood Sea and the Asura race with the Earthly Dao, seeking to earn a Saintly Position through his own strength rather than bargain for one. His vow was answered with merit and the Blood Sea’s expansion, while Li Tian gained a clearer Dao heart and greater power.

• Ancestor Minghe decided to bet his Blood Sea foundation on the newly awakened Earthly Dao as his chance to attain sainthood.
• Minghe agreed to join the Earthly Dao camp and asked Li Tian to test his battle strength instead of granting him a position.
• Li Tian defeated Minghe in three breaths while holding back most of his strength, and Minghe accepted the result without resentment.
• Minghe declared that he would claim an Earthly Dao Saintly Position through his own efforts, and his conviction brought Li Tian a breakthrough in understanding.
• Minghe led the Asura race in swearing loyalty to the Earthly Dao, earning Mystic Yellow merit as the Blood Sea expanded and gained vitality.

Ancestor Minghe attained the Earthly Dao Saintly Position, and Li Tian received powerful system rewards for facilitating his rise. Li Tian and Empress Pingxin agreed to pursue peace and prosperity for the Primordial Wilderness together as Minghe celebrated his long-awaited breakthrough.

• Profound yellow energy flowed into Ancestor Minghe, cleansing his injuries and raising his cultivation until he broke through to Saint.
• Li Tian met Empress Pingxin, who explained that Minghe's sainthood followed his enlightenment and the will of heaven and earth.
• The system rewarded Li Tian with Time Law, the Chaos Bead, Demonic God Essence Blood, Battle Law, upgrade cards, and a method for reforging the Humanity Dao.
• Empress Pingxin asked Li Tian what he most wished to accomplish, and he said he wanted the Primordial Wilderness to prosper and its living beings to live peacefully.
• Li Tian and Empress Pingxin agreed to walk that path together, and Ancestor Minghe descended from the heavens after attaining sainthood.

Ancestor Minghe attained the Saintly Fruit through Empress Pingxin and pledged unwavering loyalty to her, while the Earthly Dao’s victory shook the Primordial Wilderness. As the Heavenly Dao’s authority faltered, Fuxi declared that the Human Race’s long-awaited moment to make its move had arrived.

• Li Tian and Empress Pingxin congratulated Ancestor Minghe, who thanked them and swore to remain loyal to Empress Pingxin.
• Empress Pingxin warned Minghe that his Saintly Fruit would scatter if his Dao heart strayed, and Li Tian lightened the mood before the group began celebrating.
• The Primordial Wilderness factions recognized that the Earthly Dao’s rise had made a new balance of power with the Heavenly Dao increasingly certain.
• The Grand Pure Saint wondered whether he could break the restraints of the Saint-Slaying Pill, while Saint Yuanshi’s faith in his teacher began to crack and Nuwa searched her memories for a familiar aura.
• Haotian despaired over the Heavenly Court’s loss of authority, then vowed to escape being a puppet and make even the Heavenly Dao Saints bow to him.
• Fuxi told the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors that the time had come for the Human Race to place its wager and reveal the strength it had secretly built.

The Human Dao and Earthly Dao allied against the Heavenly Dao, while Li Tian accepted the Human Race’s invitation to Ying Zheng’s Mount Tai Fengshan ceremony. At Mount Tai, Ying Zheng and his ministers prepared for the rite and were humbled by the mountain’s vastness.

• Fuxi, Xuanyuan, Shennong, and the Five Emperors agreed to join forces against the Heavenly Dao, formally allying the Human Dao with the Earthly Dao.
• Li Tian received the Human Race’s invitation to the ceremony, decided to attend, and planned to give Ying Zheng the Human Emperor Deification Art.
• Ying Zheng led his ministers through the preparations for Great Qin’s Mount Tai Fengshan ceremony and urged them to avoid any mistakes.
• Ying Zheng and his ministers reached Mount Tai’s summit and were struck by the immense mountains and sea of clouds, which tempered their pride.

Ying Zheng inspected the Mount Tai Fengshan altar and prepared to oversee the ceremony himself. Li Tian arrived and asked him to walk together, intending to present a gift, while Ying Zheng asked why Li Tian had left the Human Race's sacred land in such a hurry.

• Ying Zheng approved the altar after inspecting its construction, and the officials envied the overseer who had earned his praise.
• Ying Zheng dismissed the ministers so he could study the altar and personally supervise the next day's ceremony.
• Li Tian appeared before Ying Zheng, whose cultivation had advanced close to the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Li Tian praised Ying Zheng's renewed clarity and invited him to walk around the altar while he presented a gift.
• Ying Zheng asked Li Tian why he had abruptly left the Human Race's sacred land during their previous meeting.
• Li Tian decided to tell Ying Zheng the truth, expecting them to become allies against the Heavenly Dao.

Li Tian explained Heavenly Dao and Hongjun’s schemes against the Netherworld to Ying Zheng, who vowed to protect the Human Race. Li Tian passed Ying Zheng the Human Emperor God-Sealing Art, and Ying Zheng began his perilous path toward mastering the Imperial Way.

• Li Tian explained that Heavenly Dao and Hongjun had used the Buddhist sect to disrupt the Netherworld and obstruct the Earthly Dao’s revival.
• Ying Zheng condemned Heavenly Dao’s methods and vowed to build defenses so the Human Race would not suffer the same fate.
• Li Tian transferred the Human Emperor God-Sealing Art and its insights into Ying Zheng’s sea of consciousness.
• Ying Zheng entered deep enlightenment and learned that rulers of the past who pursued the Imperial Way had been suppressed by Heavenly Dao’s forces.
• Ying Zheng thanked Li Tian for the art, and Li Tian explained that he did not cultivate the Imperial Way and had only held the art temporarily.

Ying Zheng prepared to use the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai to gather the Human Dao Fortune and restore the Human Race's standing. As the fortune began to re-form, Hongjun realized the Human Dao was reviving and resolved to stop it.

• Li Tian gave Ying Zheng an art suited to the Human Race, and Ying Zheng decided to seek the Three Ancestors' approval for his plans.
• The Human Race gathered its forces at Mount Tai, displaying an army of experts that deterred the watching races from challenging them.
• Ying Zheng began the Fengshan ceremony and proclaimed that he would gather the Human Dao Fortune with the Kongtong Seal.
• The scattered Human Dao Fortune rushed toward Mount Tai and began to take the shape of a dragon.
• Hongjun saw the Human Dao's revival and resolved to intervene, fearing it was aligned with the Earthly Dao.