Chapter Summaries

Wutian conquered Spirit Mountain, defeated Tathagata, and declared Buddha and devil united under his rule after the World-Destroying Black Lotus rose to ninth grade. Li Fan suspected Luohu had changed the future and chose to watch how the Demonic Sect’s influence reshaped the Prehistoric Universe.

• Wutian led the Demonic Sect’s army against Spirit Mountain and broke through its defenses as the Buddhas gathered to resist.
• Tathagata and Wutian clashed, while Ancient Buddha Randeng entered Nirvana and fled into reincarnation.
• Wutian overwhelmed Tathagata, severed his Buddhist roots, and cast his broken body into the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Wutian proclaimed himself Buddha Ancestor and united Buddha and devil, gaining Heavenly Dao merit that raised the World-Destroying Black Lotus to ninth grade.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, Lingbao Tianzun, Ancestor Dragon, and Yuanfeng reacted to Wutian’s victory, while Li Fan suspected Luohu had altered the future and decided to observe.

Wutian’s decree made demonic cultivation dominant across the Three Realms, where a mortal cultivator reached Nascent Soul through reckless shortcuts within a hundred days. Wutian accepted the resulting chaos as proof of his rule, while Li Fan judged it a passing disturbance that the Heavenly Dao would eventually set right.

• Wutian abolished the Buddhist sect’s precepts and spread demonic cultivation throughout the Three Realms.
• A mortal demonic cultivator advanced rapidly by taking an old cultivator’s power, refining pills in an iron wok, and ambushing the Son of Destiny and a demonic beast.
• He formed a Golden Core through reckless cultivation, borrowed and gathered spirit stones, and looted the Demonic Sect’s internal battlefield.
• He seized Liu Ruyan and pursued dual cultivation, then formed a huge Nascent Soul in an abyss while fleeing Nascent Soul cultivators, reaching his hundred-day goal.
• Wutian perceived the disorder and chose not to restrain the demonic cultivators, seeing their chaos as evidence of his authority.
• Li Fan observed the Three Realms from Grand Unity Palace and dismissed the upheaval as a temporary wave in the calamity.

Tang Sanzang set out to return the infant Tathagata to the Buddha Ancestor’s throne and recruited a broken, grief-stricken Sun Wukong from Flower Fruit Mountain. With Sun Wukong restored to his battle attire, the villain-led Westward Journey began.

• Tang Sanzang carried the infant Tathagata out of Chang'an, and the child’s sleeping divine power brought them to Flower Fruit Mountain in moments.
• Tang Sanzang and Tathagata found Sun Wukong alone in Water Curtain Cave, drinking among the ruins of his home.
• Sun Wukong rejected the journey at first, grieving that it could not bring back his dead monkeys.
• Tang Sanzang told Sun Wukong the journey would send Buddha back to his throne and give Sun Wukong an ending amid the coming Buddha-Devil Calamity.
• Sun Wukong took up the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, regained his battle armor, and agreed to escort Tathagata to the Western Heaven.

Nuwa and Li Fan sent Yang Jian, Nezha, and Ao Lie to join Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang, entrusting them with protecting humanity and completing the twelve Human Dao Saints. The group began its perilous Westward Journey as the Immeasurable Kalpa threatened the Three Realms.

• Nuwa told Yang Jian, Nezha, and Ao Lie that they were chosen to fill the three vacant places among the twelve Human Dao Saints and ordered them to protect humanity during the Westward Journey.
• Nuwa gave Yang Jian the Fire of Human Dao and commanded the three to keep their mission secret, while Li Fan blessed them against Calamity Qi.
• Li Fan transported Yang Jian, Nezha, and Ao Lie to the road west of Flower Fruit Mountain, where they joined Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang.
• The assembled group set out together, with Yang Jian promising to sweep away demonic threats and Sun Wukong welcoming the new companions.
• Li Fan, Nuwa, Wangshu, Goddess Taiyuan, and Empress Ziguang discussed the journey's stakes and agreed to guard the Grand Unity Palace rather than interfere with the group's trials.

Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian turned the Westward Journey into a treasure-hunting rampage, leaving Tang Monk struggling far behind on foot. The chapter ended with Nezha reminding them that they had forgotten Tang Monk while they were busy killing monsters and collecting their treasures.

• Nezha offered to raise Little Tathagata, while Sun Wukong and Yang Jian doubted that he could care for a baby responsibly.
• After a month on the road, Sun Wukong found himself mediating between Nezha and Yang Jian as their detours left Tang Monk walking without Ao Lie as his horse.
• Sun Wukong and Yang Jian compared their monster kills, and Nezha surprised them by saying he had killed eighty-one demons across the Northern Continent.
• Nezha killed a distant monster despite Yang Jian's warning that it might be a Heavenly Court immortal's mount, while Yang Jian eyed its Beast Bone Pendant.
• Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Yang Jian began crushing demon caves and taking monsters' treasures, leaving demons and Devil Race members helpless against them.
• Nezha pointed out that the trio had left Tang Monk far behind, and Tang Monk continued trudging along the road while silently trying not to get angry.

Wutian faced Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha at Spirit Mountain, but Li Fan’s intervention left him gravely wounded and unable to overcome the Heavenly Emperor’s power. Refusing to surrender, Wutian destroyed himself and Spirit Mountain, while the Buddha-Devil Calamity continued and Demon Ancestor Luohu prepared to return.

• Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha arrived at Spirit Mountain and challenged Wutian to give up control.
• Wutian attacked the three with his peak Quasi-Saint power, but Li Fan’s blessings enabled the Heavenly Emperor to strike back and grievously wound him.
• Wutian rejected defeat and gathered his cultivation and Spirit Mountain’s power into the World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Wutian detonated the lotus, destroying Spirit Mountain and killing many Buddhist and Demonic Sect followers.
• Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha survived without feeling victorious, as Luohu prepared to return and the Buddha-Devil Calamity continued.

Luohu returned to the Primordial World and unleashed demonic pressure, while Li Fan revealed that the calamity was a scheme to force the Three Daos to appoint their Saints. The Heavenly Dao summoned Haotian to become its Eighth Saint and confront Luohu, who showed no fear of him.

• Luohu broke free of the River of Time and returned to the Primordial World, prompting the great powers to prepare for the coming calamity.
• Taiqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Lingbao Tianzun fortified Kunlun Mountain, while Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Shi Qilin rallied their clans.
• Nuwa used the Shanhe Sheji Tu to shelter living beings in a Great Thousand World, as Li Fan explained that he was using Luohu to pressure the Three Daos into completing their Saint candidates.
• The Heavenly Dao ordered Haotian to suppress Luohu, and the descending Saint Fruit Position helped him overcome the final barrier to Sainthood.
• Haotian became the Eighth Saint of the Heavenly Dao, but Luohu regarded him with mockery rather than fear.

Luohu overwhelmed Haotian and then Zhen Yuanzi as the Heavenly and Earthly Dao Saints challenged him. Nuwa appointed Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha as Human Dao Saints, bringing all three paths together to face Luohu.

• Haotian fought Luohu through the night, but Luohu shattered the Haotian Mirror and Haotian Pagoda and drove him to the brink of defeat.
• Houtu attacked Luohu with the power of the Six Paths Reincarnation and appointed Zhen Yuanzi as the Sixth Saint of the Earth Dao.
• Zhen Yuanzi took up the Earth Book and attacked Luohu, but Luohu broke the Earth Book and wounded him.
• Nuwa named Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha Human Dao Saints and summoned them to fight Luohu.
• Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha joined Haotian and Zhen Yuanzi on the battlefield, and the saints of Heaven, Earth, and Man attacked Luohu together.

Kunpeng joined the battle against Demon Ancestor Luohu but was swiftly defeated, and the clash threatened to tear apart the Primordial World. Houtu and Nuwa sent the combatants into Inner Chaos, while Zhunti and Jieyin stayed behind to join the fight and pursue Buddhism’s interests in the calamity.

• Kunpeng unleashed his Mysterious Origin Heaven-Splitting Arrow at Luohu, but Luohu shattered the attack with the Heavenly Demon Tower and knocked Kunpeng into the ground.
• Haotian, Zhen Yuanzi, Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Kunpeng fought Luohu together, splitting the Primordial World with their attacks.
• Houtu and Nuwa stopped the battle, opened a passage to Inner Chaos, and hurled the combatants through it to protect the Primordial World.
• Nuwa and Houtu headed to Grand Unity Heaven to discuss the Buddha-Devil Calamity with the Heavenly Emperor, followed by the other Hunyuan supreme beings.
• Zhunti and Jieyin went to the battlefield instead and joined Haotian, Zhen Yuanzi, Yang Jian, and the others in surrounding Luohu.

The Two Sages of the West and their allies drove Luohu out of the battlefield, ending the Buddha-Devil Calamity’s immediate conflict. At Grand Unity Palace, Li Fan set policies for repairing heaven and earth, settling karma, and reforging Heavenly Law, establishing a new order for the Primordial Three Realms.

• Zhunti and Jieyin combined their laws with Haotian, Zhen Yuanzi, Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha to suppress Luohu, but Luohu broke free and fled into Outer Chaos.
• The group went to Grand Unity Palace, where Sun Wukong was awed by the highest heaven and its overwhelming Dao rhythm.
• Fuxi asked Li Fan to approve the settlement of Buddhist fortune, hidden Devil Race remnants, damaged world veins, and karmic debts, while the gathered powers debated how to divide the calamity’s spoils.
• Li Fan declared that heaven and earth would be repaired, karma settled, and Heavenly Law reforged, with Goddess Wangshu, Goddess Taiyuan, and Ziguang overseeing the new policies.
• Nuwa, Houtu, Taiyi, the Three Pure Ones, and the others applauded Li Fan’s decision, while Zhunti and Jieyin accepted that future negotiations would take place within its framework.

After the Buddha-Devil Calamity, the Three Pure Ones discovered that the Immeasurable Kalpa had begun and that the Primordial World was collapsing. They sent the Daoist Sect disciples away with protective talismans, leaving them scattered across the realms to seek a chance of survival.

• The Three Pure Ones sensed the Great Dao cracking and ordered the Daoist Sect to leave Kunlun Mountain.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven told the disciples that the Immeasurable Kalpa had arrived, gave core disciples Protective Jade Talismans, and ordered them to scatter.
• Guang Chengzi and the other disciples accepted their Master's decree, while Grand Master Xuandu returned to Shouyang Mountain to guard the Daoist temple.
• Guang Chengzi headed for the Immortal God Domain, Chi Jingzi and the others went to the Earth Immortal Realm, Yellow Dragon returned to the Dragon Clan, and Manjushri Guangfa Tianzun, True Man Puxian, and Daoist Cihang set out for Inner Chaos.
• The Three Pure Ones remained at Jade Void Palace as the disciples departed into a world where heaven and earth themselves were collapsing.

Li Fan explained that the Immeasurable Kalpa was the Primordial World's inevitable reckoning as its origin collapsed. With the goddesses' support, he began using Grand Unity Heaven and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to cultivate the Primordial Purple Lotus and advance the pearls toward a Chaos Supreme Treasure, while sensing a hidden force behind events.

• Manjushri, Puxian, and Cihang asked Li Fan why the Immeasurable Kalpa had brought the Primordial World to the brink of destruction, and he explained that it was heaven and earth's final reckoning.
• Li Fan and the goddesses examined the five lotus platforms, the Reincarnation Purple Lotus, and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, confirming they could form the Primordial Purple Lotus.
• Xihua and Yaochi reported that the Five Heavenly Realms' defenses were ready, and Li Fan declared that they would use Grand Unity Heaven's fortunes to ripen the lotus and advance the pearls.
• Nuwa, Houtu, Xihe, Changxi, and Goddess Taiyuan pledged to support the undertaking and defend against interference.
• Cihang used the Jade Pure Bottle's last Sweet Dew to shelter cultivators arriving from across the Prehistoric Universe.
• Li Fan sank his mind into the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl as its Chaos Supreme Treasure aura awakened, but he remained wary of a hidden force driving events.

As the Immeasurable Kalpa threw time into chaos, Ancestor Dragon blew up the East Sea's Eye and declared the Dragon Clan’s refusal to guard the Return to Ruins. The other Dragon Kings mobilized their clans, while the Three Pure Ones and other ancient powers reacted to the upheaval.

• Ancestor Dragon detonated the East Sea's Eye, unleashing a torrent of time and destroying the East Sea Dragon Palace; Elder Candle Dragon used the turmoil to reach the Perfection of Hunyuan Golden Immortal.
• Ao Guang ordered the East Sea Dragon Clan to awaken and declared that the clan would be free of its former duties.
• Ao Run rallied the West Sea Dragon Clan to defend its waters, while Ao Qin ordered the South Sea Dragon Clan to fight against time and reclaim its lost years and freedom.
• Elder Candle Dragon appeared at Zhong Mountain and declared that the Immeasurable Kalpa was the Return to Ruins cycle, which the Dragon Clan had accelerated.
• Yuanfeng and Shi Qilin assessed the Dragon Clan’s rebellion, while the Three Pure Ones argued over Ancestor Dragon’s actions and the Primordial Beginning Heavenly King cursed him for worsening the disorder of time.

As the Immeasurable Kalpa spread across the Primordial World, the ancient clans began evacuating to safer realms. Bai Li moved the entire Qingqiu Sacred Realm to Grand Unity Heaven, while the Four Symbols Great Thousand World sheltered the other clans.

• Ancestor Dragon moved the Dragon Clan into the Four Symbols Great Thousand World to escape the black tide and Calamity Qi.
• The Phoenix Clan, White Tiger Clan, and Black Tortoise Clan followed, while Shi Qilin brought the Qilin Clan into the Black Tortoise Realm.
• Bai Li used a Hunyuan divine ability to remove all of Qingqiu from the Primordial World and severed its karmic ties to the world and Heavenly Dao.
• Ancestor Dragon, Vermillion Bird, Shi Qilin, Black Tortoise, and the Three Pure Ones watched Bai Li's feat with astonishment and admiration.
• The five ancient clans gathered in the Four Symbols Great Thousand World, while the Qingqiu Fox Clan took refuge in Grand Unity Heaven as the black tide continued to spread.

Li Fan and the goddesses forged the Primordial Purple Lotus and Sea-Calming Chaos Pearl into twin Chaos Supreme Treasures with the Great Dao’s aid. As merit and power spread across the worlds, Li Fan prepared to face the Immeasurable Kalpa, while Shichen appeared in the River of Time and called out to Pangu.

• Li Fan, the goddesses, and the Creation Demoness joined forces to advance the Primordial Purple Lotus and Sea-Calming Chaos Pearl, drawing the Great Dao’s true body to intervene.
• The Great Dao infused both treasures with Hongmeng Purple Qi, and Li Fan and his allies completed their transformation into Chaos Supreme Treasures.
• The Great Dao bestowed merit across the Primordial World, empowering Li Fan and the goddesses as beings throughout many worlds reacted with awe, jealousy, and resentment.
• Li Fan declared that the completed treasures would secure their foundation and said he would face the Immeasurable Kalpa next.
• Shichen manifested in the River of Time, offered himself as a sacrifice, and called out to Pangu.

Shichen sacrificed himself to unleash a Great Dao-level strike against Pangu, while Primordial Beginning Heavenly King sacrificed his Dao Foundation to interfere. Li Fan suppressed the catastrophe, but Shichen’s final move left Pangu’s complete return difficult, and Primordial Lord of Heaven began absorbing the remnants to advance.

• Shichen sacrificed his Primordial Dao Fruit and fused the River of Time into a sword aimed at Pangu.
• Primordial Beginning Heavenly King struck at Shichen, was badly wounded, then sacrificed his own Dao Foundation to disrupt the sword.
• Li Fan entered the Prehistoric Universe and used the Primordial Purple Lotus and Sea-Stabilizing Chaos Pearl to calm the River of Time and imprison Shichen’s remaining power.
• Shichen revealed that his sacrifice had already marked the Great Dao and hindered Pangu’s complete return before his phantom vanished.
• Primordial Beginning Heavenly King faded away, while Primordial Lord of Heaven absorbed his remnants and advanced along the Hunyuan Grand Beginning path.
• Lingbao Tianzun considered inheriting Primordial Beginning’s Daoist tradition if Yuanshi returned to heaven and earth.

Pangu's attempt to strike the Great Dao failed, and Li Fan returned to Grand Unity Palace to discuss how Pangu might enter reincarnation. Li Fan suspected Pangu was letting events unfold as part of a hidden plan and told Houtu to leave a deceptive opening in the Nine Paths of Reincarnation so Pangu would reveal his choice.

• Pangu and his temporal counterpart attacked the Great Dao with their World-Opening Axes, but its source pressure shattered their strikes and froze them in place.
• Li Fan reclaimed the Primordial Purple Lotus and Sea-Stabilizing Chaos Pearl, then returned to Grand Unity Palace, where Nuwa and the other goddesses welcomed him and asked about his treasures.
• Houtu asked how Pangu should be handled if he returned through reincarnation, and Li Fan explained that his fate could affect the foundation of the Primordial World.
• Li Fan suggested that Pangu might be going along with the events leading to his reincarnation, and the goddesses considered how his apparent defeat could fit a larger plan.
• Li Fan told Houtu to leave a seemingly real but false opening in the Hongmeng Supreme Dao so Pangu would have to reveal which path of reincarnation he chose.

The Immeasurable Kalpa shattered the Primordial World’s star-energy network, ushering in an age of annihilation and an era-long blizzard that froze the world. Amid the catastrophe, Xuanming forged the Great Dao of bitter winter through her own body and will, becoming a Hunyuan Grand Unity ruler as the snow continued to fall.

• The collapse of the Auxiliary Star nodes left the Supreme Stars’ light unusable across the Primordial World, while the lingering Immeasurable Kalpa slowed the laws and transformations of heaven and earth.
• Jieyin broke through to the Innate Five Primes realm and stepped onto the Hunyuan Great Dao of Taishi as the scattered stars went dark and the Primordial World’s entropy reached its extreme.
• An era-long blizzard buried the Primordial World, freezing its lands, blessed places, battlefields, and myriad living beings in an icebound cage.
• Xuanming absorbed the world’s cold, ice, annihilation, and stillness, relying on her flesh and will rather than the weakened River of Time to advance toward Hunyuan.
• Xuanming declared that she would vindicate the Hunyuan Great Dao of bitter winter and became the sole ruler of the age of absolute zero, while the great snow continued through the Dharma-Ending Age.

Xuanming attained the Dao of Hunyuan through the extreme-cold calamity and pledged to protect the Primordial World. As the great powers celebrated, the frozen world erupted with new life, while Jieyin’s law cultivation slowed again.

• Dijiang and the Ancestral Witches congratulated Xuanming on attaining the Dao, and she promised to protect the Primordial World and her lineage.
• The Three Pure Ones, Ancestor Dragon, Minghe, Kunpeng, Zhen Yuanzi, Yuanfeng, Li Fan, and other great powers offered Xuanming congratulations.
• Li Fan declared that he would stand with Xuanming through the extreme-cold calamity, and Xuanming vowed to help welcome the Newborn Primordial World.
• After the celebration, living beings across the Primordial World adapted to the catastrophe, and new races evolved throughout the frozen world.
• Xuanming watched life flourish amid annihilation and recognized that survival remained the Primordial World’s enduring force.
• Jieyin cried out as the progress of his law cultivation slowed once again.

The Return to Ruins broke the Great Dao’s uniqueness, causing duplicate versions of powerful beings to appear and threatening the Primordial World with collapse. Li Fan used the Primordial Purple Lotus and the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to begin suppressing the crisis, then prepared to sever the illusory shadows himself.

• Li Fan and Goddess Wangshu recognized that the Return to Ruins was rewriting existence and creating duplicate imprints throughout the Heavenly Realms.
• The Death Demon God declared that the Great Terror would make all beings deny themselves, shaking the Human Dao saints and cracking Xuanyuan’s Dao Heart.
• Two Pangu figures completed the Time Loop, and Li Fan abandoned the original plan to suppress the Return to Ruins with Chaos Supreme treasures.
• Li Fan joined the Primordial Purple Lotus with the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and unleashed the Taiyang and World Origin Great Daos across the Inner Chaos.
• Duplicate versions of the Three Pure Ones, Buddhist figures, and other mighty beings appeared, while the Primordial World’s laws began to overlap and conflict.
• Li Fan gripped the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler and declared that he would personally sever the illusory shadows.