Chapter Summaries

Houtu returned to the Nine Netherworlds, while Li Fan and Nuwa resolved to confront the Time Demon God and seize his mastery of time. Their declaration shook the River of Time, exposed countless Parallel Primordial Worlds, and alerted powerful figures across the Primordial World as the conflict began.

• Houtu warned Li Fan that the Heavenly Human Five Declines were worsening and the Buddhist Westward Journey was near, then returned to the Nine Netherworlds.
• Nuwa told Li Fan she could not master the Law of Time, and he explained that the vanished Time Demon God controlled the River of Time and opposed anyone who sought its power.
• Li Fan revealed that the Time Demon God had created countless false branch Prehistoric Worlds to scatter his fate, and he and Nuwa vowed to destroy his incarnations and attack his true body.
• Nuwa declared that she would fight the Time Demon God until one of them died, causing the River of Time to surge and the demon god to awaken in a Parallel Primordial World.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, Primordial Beginning Heavenly King, Taishang, Primordial Lord of Heaven, and Lingbao Tianzun sensed the upheaval, while Lingbao Tianzun considered entering a parallel world to change the past.

Juling Clan returned to the Primordial World after traveling through Parallel Primordial Worlds and brought intelligence about their histories. Li Fan summoned the supreme experts to the River of Time to discuss how to pacify the parallel worlds and protect the main world.

• The River of Time and another ancient river collided, opening a path through which Juling Clan returned from the gap between time and space.
• Li Fan, Taishang, Primordial Beginning Heavenly King, and Ancestor Dragon recognized Juling Clan and considered the significance of her return.
• Juling Clan read the jade tablet’s records of a Parallel Primordial World, revealing a familiar history that lacked the ancient eras and differed in its outcomes.
• Juling Clan shared what she had learned from traveling through parallel worlds, and the gathered experts examined the scattered visions.
• Cangli Clan, Tianling Clan, and Juling Xuan Yue reunited with Juling Clan.
• Li Fan summoned the supreme experts and All Grand Unity Experts to the River of Time to discuss pacifying the parallel worlds and protecting the main world.

Li Fan convened the supreme experts at the River of Time and decreed that time would sever all interference between past, present, and future. The meeting erupted after Li Fan and Wangshu exposed Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones for concealing their involvement in the parallel worlds, leaving everyone demanding an explanation from the Heavenly Dao Spokesperson.

• Juling Clan delivered intelligence about the parallel Prehistoric Universe, and Li Fan restored her damaged Dao Foundation.
• The supreme experts discussed how to contain the parallel worlds, and Li Fan decreed that no one could tamper with time.
• Wangshu asked whether the experts could control their parallel counterparts, and the Three Pure Ones falsely claimed they could not.
• Li Fan challenged Hongjun over what he knew about parallel counterparts, and Wangshu threatened to kill him before deliberating.
• Empress Ziguang and Li Fan accused Heavenly Dao, Hongjun, and the Three Pure Ones of secretly enabling the scheme, prompting the gathered experts to demand that the Heavenly Dao Spokesperson appear.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun intervened to defend the Three Pure Ones, but Li Fan and his allies resisted and challenged the Heavenly Dao’s authority. The gathering ended with Primordial Beginning Heavenly King appointed Immortal Path Alliance Leader and warning the Three Pure Ones, while Li Fan returned to Grand Unity Heaven to prepare for further turmoil.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun declared the Three Pure Ones’ actions aligned with the heavenly mandate and attacked Li Fan, but Empress Ziguang, Wangshu, the three progenitors, and other immortals defended him.
• Li Fan crushed a fissure into the Heavenly Dao Rule and declared that he would replace heaven for all beings, while Primordial Beginning Heavenly King intervened to stop the clash from destroying the universe’s foundations.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven admitted that the Three Pure Ones were at fault, and Taishang proposed reselecting the Immortal Path Alliance Leader.
• Wangshu nominated Primordial Beginning Heavenly King, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun permitted the appointment before returning to the Heavenly Dao Origin.
• Primordial Beginning Heavenly King assumed the alliance leadership, announced that he would reform the Immortal Dao order, and reprimanded the Three Pure Ones.
• Li Fan and his allies returned to Grand Unity Heaven, where Wangshu praised his strategy and he said they still had matters to arrange.

Tang Sanzang began his journey east and made Six-Eared Macaque his first disciple after overpowering him and promising to help him become a Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Their meeting drew the attention of Li Fan and Primordial Beginning Heavenly King, who considered Tang Sanzang a candidate for a new Great Dao.

• Tang Sanzang encountered Six-Eared Macaque in the Eastern Divine Continent and attacked him with the Mighty Heavenly Dragon technique.
• After their clash, Tang Sanzang demanded that Six-Eared Macaque become his disciple, and the macaque accepted after hearing his words were sincere.
• Tang Sanzang named his new disciple Sun Wuting and set off east with him.
• Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuting discovered the spying Demon God Jidu, who escaped through the void; Tang Sanzang identified him as a Quasi-Saint.
• Li Fan and Primordial Beginning Heavenly King noticed Tang Sanzang and Sun Wuting, and Primordial Beginning Heavenly King considered Tang Sanzang a candidate to open a Great Dao.

Tang Sanzang embraced his own Journey to the East after Primordial Beginning Heavenly King recruited him, while Li Fan outlined Grand Unity Heaven’s plans to secure control of the Immortal Path Alliance and prepare for threats to the Prehistoric Universe. The chapter ended with Li Fan resolved to protect all beings and bring order to the Three Realms.

• Tang Sanzang knocked down a toll-demanding demon with his Merciful Iron Fist and stomped it into a deeper pit.
• Primordial Beginning Heavenly King revealed that others expected Tang Sanzang to be a pawn in the Journey to the West and urged him to establish the Journey to the East.
• Tang Sanzang accepted Primordial Beginning Heavenly King’s proposal and formed the Journey to the East gang.
• Goddess Wangshu told Li Fan that Primordial Beginning Heavenly King’s recruitment echoed his arrangements for Tang Sanzang’s Journey to the East.
• Li Fan identified three priorities: perfecting the Cultivation Era’s laws, monitoring the Buddhist sect and Primordial Beginning Heavenly King, and guarding against Chaos Demon Gods.
• Li Fan declared that Grand Unity Heaven would build strength and act when the time was right to bring order to the Three Realms.

After completing the Grand Canal at immense human cost, Yang Guang launched a campaign to conquer the Northern Continent and claim rule over the Earth Immortal Realm. His million-strong army was crushed by the continent’s barbarian and demon forces, leaving Yang Guang vowing revenge.

• Yang Guang completed the Grand Canal, stirring the Earth Veins but bringing calamity upon the Sui Dynasty for the laborers’ deaths.
• Yang Guang ordered an invasion of the Northern Continent and marched out with a million Sui soldiers.
• The Sui army clashed with millions of barbarians and the Northern Continent’s demon forces in a brutal battle.
• After fighting from dawn until night, the Sui army’s lines collapsed, and fewer than one hundred thousand soldiers returned.
• Yang Guang watched the survivors and vowed that he would avenge the defeat.

Zhuang Zhou tried to lure the powers coveting the Eighth Saint’s position into a trap, but the Three Pure Ones were held off by the three ancestral leaders while nearly three thousand Quasi-Saints attacked him. He was killed at the Pu River, leaving the Saint position and Hongmeng Purple Qi exposed.

• Rumors that Zhuang Zhou was delaying his ascension stirred greed and killing intent among the great powers, and Zhen Yuanzi left Wuzhuang Temple.
• Zhuang Zhou revealed that he had been waiting for every would-be attacker to take the bait, as the Three Pure Ones arrived to protect him.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Shi Qilin confronted the Three Pure Ones and entangled them in battle.
• The Reclusive Great Powers Alliance and other Quasi-Saints attacked Zhuang Zhou, overwhelming his defenses and blasting out his Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Zhuang Zhou died at the Pu River before the Three Pure Ones could return, and they found only his Dao Blood.

Li Fan watched the Three Pure Ones and the three ancestral leaders battle while thousands of Quasi-Saints fought over the Hongmeng Purple Qi. The fighting continued to draw in more forces, and the Heavenly Dao’s plan to clear out Quasi-Saints seemed to be succeeding.

• Li Fan told the others that the Heavenly Dao would be the true winner and chose not to intervene.
• The Three Pure Ones and Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Shi Qilin fought across the heavens, underworld, and Inner Chaos.
• Randeng, Zhen Yuanzi, Lu Ya, Kong Xuan, the Asura Kings, and the Demon Clan’s Seven Crown Princes battled over the Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Grand Master Xuandu and Guang Chengzi failed to reach the purple qi as stronger Quasi-Saints drove them back.
• A Quasi-Saint self-destructed amid the battle, while more Heavenly Realm experts and human fighters joined the melee against the Demon Clan’s Seven Crown Princes.

Li Fan intervened when the Three Pure Ones and the three clan ancestors brought their conflict near the Heavenly Realm, freezing battles across the Primordial World and threatening to suppress them all. The Hongmeng Purple Qi escaped amid the chaos, and Zhen Yuanzi understood the Heavenly Dao’s intention.

• Human experts ambushed the Demon Clan’s Seven Crown Princes, killing Lu Qi and Lu Lu while Lu Wu survived and Lu Ya revealed he had been acting.
• Li Fan’s aura froze battles throughout the Primordial World as he rose in anger at the fighting near the Heavenly Realm.
• The Three Pure Ones and Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Shi Qilin argued over Zhuangzi’s death and threatened one another before Li Fan.
• Li Fan ordered everyone to stop or face suppression, and the combatants across the Primordial World fell silent.
• The Hongmeng Purple Qi fled through space, and Zhen Yuanzi realized the Heavenly Dao regarded those beneath the Heavenly Emperor as Chugou.

After Zhuangzi died, the Three Pure Ones remade him as Zhuang Zhou to preserve the Daoist Sect’s inheritance, while Haotian gained the Heavenly Dao’s favor. In the Nine Provinces, Yang Guang watched Great Sui collapse and faced the legacy of his failed ambition.

• Nuwa and the others discussed Kong Xuan’s lost opportunity and Haotian’s likely rise as a Heavenly Saint.
• The Three Pure Ones used traces of Zhuangzi’s presence to create Zhuang Zhou, and Li Fan watched him drift through the Prehistoric Universe.
• Taishang had enlisted Kunpeng’s help in reshaping Zhuangzi, and Kunpeng obeyed Taiqing’s instruction.
• As rebellions spread and Great Sui’s fate neared collapse, Yang Guang angrily ordered Yuwen Huaji and Yuwen Chengdu to declare whether they would die at his command.
• Yang Guang lamented that the canal, imperial examinations, and border campaigns had earned him only the name of a tyrant.

Tang Sanzang and Six Ears continued their unruly Journey to the East as the Stone Monkey was born on Flower Fruit Mountain, awakening the Four Spirit Monkeys’ shared origin. Six Ears feared the coming chaos, while Tang Sanzang promised to protect him, and Li Fan recognized the curse driving the four toward consuming one another.

• Tang Sanzang frightened a young demon, who fled to seek refuge with Ancestor Drillwind, while Six Ears complained that their journey offered no fights.
• Tang Sanzang ate meat and drank wine at Buddhist temples, intimidating the monks and dismissing their customs as he traveled with Six Ears.
• The immortal stone on Flower Fruit Mountain split apart, and the Stone Monkey leaped out with a howl that reached the celestial palaces.
• Six Ears, Yuan Hong, and Wu Zhiqi each sensed the Stone Monkey’s birth and felt their shared origin stir with hostility.
• Six Ears identified the newborn as the Spirit-Illumined Stone Monkey and warned that chaos was coming, but Tang Sanzang promised no one would devour his origin.
• Li Fan watched the four monkey silhouettes and recognized the curse of Fate that urged them to devour one another and become the sole Chaos Demon Ape.

Li Fan realized that the parallel Prehistoric Universe worlds were being used to recruit and confine the Chaos Demon Gods, while Nuwa revealed she would join forces with Creation Demon God to seek the Great Dao. The chapter ended with Nuwa accepting the danger of binding their origins together and committing to enter the tribulation herself.

• Darkness Demon God questioned where the missing Supreme Demon Gods and Three Thousand Demon Gods had gone, while Yellow Springs Demon God and Death Demon God argued over reviving Chaos Demon Ape.
• Li Fan suspected that the missing Demon Gods had revived in parallel Prehistoric Universe worlds and realized the Three Pure Ones were there as well.
• Nuwa explained that the three Daos had arranged the parallel worlds as a recruitment scheme controlled by the Humanity Dao, while the Three Pure Ones pursued their own plan.
• Goddess Taiyuan asked Nuwa about her connection to Creation Demon God, and Nuwa said she could no longer reach the Dao of Taishi by her old path.
• Nuwa declared that she would adapt to Creation Demon God and use the Hongmeng Sacred Sword to pursue the Great Dao, despite the danger of entangling their origins.

Nuwa fused with the Creation Demon God’s Dao Fruit and became the Creation Holy Demoness, combining immortal and demonic power into a new Great Dao. In the Parallel Primordial World, she harvested the Origins of seven Chaos Demon Gods and set her sights on the Yin Yang Demon God before turning toward the main world and its Heavenly Emperor.

• Nuwa transformed into the Creation Holy Demoness and explained that she treated the paths of saint and demon as ways to break the deadlock.
• Li Fan recognized that Nuwa had gained an advantage by following her own Dao without distinguishing between saint and demon.
• In the Parallel Primordial World, the Creation Demoness targeted seven Chaos Demon Gods and froze them as they tried to flee.
• The Creation Demoness extracted the seven Demon Gods’ law Origins, spared their lives, and identified the Yin Yang Demon God as her next target.
• The Creation Demoness looked beyond the River of Time toward the main world and met the Heavenly Emperor’s gaze.

Creation Demoness sent a tiny avatar to Grand Unity Heaven to offer help with the impending chaos in the Parallel Primordial World. She agreed to cooperate with Li Fan and the others, then was overwhelmed by the goddesses eager to touch her miniature form.

• Creation Demoness sent a figurine-sized avatar through the River of Time to Grand Unity Heaven, where Li Fan caught her in his palm.
• Nuwa teased the tiny avatar for looking adorable, while Creation Demoness insisted that her reduced size did not diminish her aura.
• Creation Demoness offered to suppress disasters in the Parallel Primordial World and share intelligence, but Wangshu and Nuwa asked her to explain what she wanted in return.
• Li Fan and Wangshu offered to cooperate and help her if the Great Dao changed, and Creation Demoness agreed to a pact with them.
• Nuwa, Wangshu, and the other goddesses surrounded the avatar and touched and pinched her despite her protests, while Li Fan promised the incident would remain secret.

The Monkey King summoned the Dinghai Shenzhen from the East Sea and claimed it as his weapon, causing a catastrophe before Ancestor Dragon stabilized the waters. As the Divine Needle advanced into a Top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Three Realms reacted to his declaration that he would stand equal to Heaven.

• The Monkey King called the Dinghai Shenzhen to Flower Fruit Mountain, shattering the East Sea's seal and freeing Gonggong while the seas fell into chaos.
• Ancestor Dragon used the Hunyuan Water Law to stabilize the East Sea and remarked that the monkey was no ordinary being.
• The Monkey King took control of the Divine Iron, struck Flower Fruit Mountain with it, and vowed to stand equal to Heaven.
• The Divine Needle advanced from a Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure to a Top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure as its power resounded through the Three Realms.
• Haotian ordered the immortals to invite Tathagata, while Nuwa and Fuxi considered the upheaval and the Four Sea Dragon Kings and demon kings discussed befriending the Monkey King.

Zixia descended into the world as the Daughter of Fate but rejected the Heavenly Dao’s plan to make her a shackle for all beings. Under Nüyi’s guidance, she joined the Heavenly Emperor’s lineage and began learning to control Fate for herself.

• Zixia awakened on the Heavenly Dao altar and declared that she would seek a path for all beings instead of preserving an unchanging Fate.
• Li Fan watched Zixia meet his gaze as the River of Fate connected with her, while Nüyi offered to take her as a disciple.
• Li Fan granted Nüyi’s request, and Zixia accepted her place as Nüyi’s direct disciple in the Heavenly Emperor’s orthodox lineage.
• Nüyi brought Zixia to the Hundred Flowers Garden and taught her to understand Fate through the heart of flowers.
• Zixia drew upon a thread of Fate for the first time, balancing its power with the garden’s spiritual charm and stabilizing her Dao Foundation.
• Li Fan and the goddesses discussed Zixia’s progress and the remaining birth of Heavenly Balance as Zixia resolved to carve out her own path of Fate.

After Gonggong escaped his imprisonment, the Witch Clan found him hiding in a secluded sea realm and urged him to return with them. Across the Prehistoric Universe, powerful factions watched his release warily as Li Fan and the Three Goddesses continued cultivating in Grand Unity Palace.

• The Witch Clan, Demon Clan, and other factions searched the Prehistoric Universe for Gonggong, each hoping to claim or use him.
• Gonggong hid in an ancient secluded sea realm to recover his strength until Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, Qiangliang, Shebishi, and Xuanming broke through its barrier and found him.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches reproached Gonggong for hiding instead of returning to the clan, while Gonggong said he had feared causing them trouble before recovering his strength.
• At Huoyun Cave, Nuwa, Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan, Da Yu, and Suiren discussed Gonggong's return and decided the human race would watch and wait.
• At Jade Void Palace, Primordial Lord of Heaven and Taiqing Morality Heavenly Venerate warned that Gonggong's release could bring another storm.
• Li Fan told Goddess Wangshu, Empress Ziguang, and Goddess Taiyuan that Gonggong had completed his sentence, and the four continued cultivating while Li Fan shielded Grand Unity Palace from observation.

Jieyin decided that the Buddhist Sect would no longer bear the karma of Lion Camel Ridge and the Journey to the West alone, and moved to drag the Human Race into the debt calamity. As blood-red Buddha Light spread across the Western Heaven, a figure on Flower Fruit Mountain stirred and the calamity began to take shape.

• Jieyin condemned the Buddhist Sect’s original-sin karma and revealed that Lion Camel Ridge’s bloodshed remained unresolved while the Journey to the West was unfinished.
• Manjushri and Puxian warned Jieyin that intervening could provoke the Heavenly Emperor and the Human Dao Saint, but Jieyin dismissed their objections.
• Jieyin declared that the Human Race must share the Buddhist Sect’s debts and pointed toward Flower Fruit Mountain, identifying Empress Nuwa’s person as the one who would settle them.
• The Primordial Beginning Heavenly King sensed the turmoil at Spirit Mountain and chose to let the Buddhist Sect suffer the consequences of its karma.
• Blood-red Buddha Light swept across the Western Heaven, stirring the figure atop Flower Fruit Mountain and beginning a debt calamity across the Three Realms.

Zixia broke free from Fate and returned to the Primordial World to recruit the Monkey King into a path of their own. The Chaos Bell’s suppression ended, freeing Tathagata, Zhunti, Huang Tian, and the imprisoned Buddhist host, while its return interrupted Li Fan’s seclusion.

• Zixia bade farewell to Li Fan, crossed the Inner Chaos, and arrived at Flower Fruit Mountain to meet the Monkey King.
• Zixia proposed that she and the Monkey King reject the control of the Heavenly Dao and Buddhism; the Monkey King accepted her invitation.
• The Chaos Bell’s suppression period ended, freeing Tathagata, Zhunti, Huang Tian, and the other imprisoned Buddhist figures as resentment and turmoil spread across the Western Land.
• The Monkey King faced the blood-red western sky and welcomed a fight with Tathagata, while Zixia sensed that a great upheaval had begun.
• The Chaos Bell returned to Grand Unity Palace and interrupted Li Fan’s seclusion; Li Fan declared that Fate had no script and that the Monkey King had broken free from the world’s greatest falsehood.