Chapter Summaries

Di Kun reconsidered the Earthly Dao after realizing his work on the Earth Veins could disrupt heaven and earth’s natural laws, then followed a disturbance between his brows to a powerful Innate Creation Array. He began comprehending the array, which he hoped would aid his cultivation and Zhou Jun’s work in the Earth Veins.

• Di Kun reflected on the mysteries surrounding Pangu Opens the Heavens as he descended Mount Zhou and resumed communicating with the Earth Vein nodes.
• A new perspective on heaven, earth, and nature led Di Kun to sense tangled laws and subconsciously reshape parts of the land through the Earth Veins.
• A tremor between his brows interrupted Di Kun’s insight, and he realized that the Earthly Dao included the land itself as well as the Earth Veins.
• Di Kun feared that neglecting the effects of his actions on the natural world could bring Causality and ruin his cultivation, but resolved to observe more carefully.
• Following the disturbance between his brows, Di Kun discovered an enormous Innate Formation filled with Creation Dao charm and connected it to the Twenty-Fourth Grade Primordial Jade Lotus.
• Di Kun began comprehending the Innate Creation Array, anticipating that it could help his cultivation and Zhou Jun’s work deep within the Earth Veins.

Di Kun entered the Creation Green Lotus’s hidden blessed land and discovered the Three Lights Divine Water and a Primordial Jade Lotus revealing the creation of Pangu and all living things. Unable to approach the lotus itself, he settled down to study its vision and seek insight into the Law of Creation.

• Di Kun understood the innate formation, opened a passage into the blessed land, and entered its dense Creation Qi.
• Di Kun gathered Creation-infused stones and soil as he made his way toward the center of the land.
• Di Kun found a vast lotus pond filled with Sunlight Divine Water, Moonlight Divine Water, and Starlight Divine Water, as well as a 24th Grade Creation Green Lotus showing visions of Pangu and the birth of living things.
• Di Kun tried to enter the Primordial Jade Lotus but was stopped by a powerful barrier.
• Di Kun summoned a Nine Grade Purifying World White Lotus, sat upon it, and began contemplating the vision and the Great Dao of Creation.

Zhou Jun used insights sent by Di Kun to make progress against the Earth Vein, setting up a Creation Array and using the World-Purifying White Lotus to cleanse its harmful energies. As he descended, he saw remnant souls heading west toward the Blood Sea and wondered where the fallen beings’ blood had gone.

• Di Kun sent Zhou Jun insights through their mysterious connection, giving him a new understanding as he struggled beneath Wuyi Mountain.
• Zhou Jun decided that he and Di Kun would each handle half of the path, leaving Di Kun to take on the feng shui work while he focused on the Earth Vein.
• Zhou Jun arranged a Creation Array and placed the twelve-petaled World-Purifying White Lotus inside it to purify the Resentful Energy, baleful energy, and Death Energy.
• Zhou Jun studied the Earth Vein and the white lotus’s purification Dao, deepening his understanding as he advanced underground.
• Zhou Jun saw remnant souls of fallen Innate Lifeforms and Ferocious Beasts flying west, and wondered whether their blood had also gone to the Blood Sea or was hidden deeper underground.

Zhou Jun speculated that Hongjun might be exploiting the Primordial Wilderness like an ambitious manager taking over a company, and considered how later generations had forgotten the world’s other cultivation paths. He continued descending into the Earth Vein, where worsening negative energies and eerie black soil made his progress increasingly difficult.

• Zhou Jun compared powerful cultivators to programmers patching flaws in the Primordial Wilderness and wondered whether Hongjun was using that role for personal gain.
• Zhou Jun imagined Hongjun as a scheming manager who sought to seize control of the world and undermine its heirs and direct descendants.
• Zhou Jun considered how the Primordial Wilderness evolved into later realms and how later cultivators came to focus mainly on the Immortal Dao.
• Zhou Jun summoned the Eighteen Leyline Pearls and absorbed lingering souls of Innate Races and Ferocious Beasts while descending through the Earth Vein.
• Zhou Jun encountered soil steeped in Resentful Energy, baleful energy, and Death Energy, which resisted his advance and reminded him of the Netherworld Underworld.

Zhou Jun created a formation in the Netherworld Soil that transformed Killing Intent into Rootless Water, which could condense the divine soul and wash away memories. He suspected the water could help the underworld evolve without relying on the Blood Sea’s origin, potentially affecting his plans for the Primordial Wilderness.

• Zhou Jun cautiously entered the Netherworld Soil, fearing that the buried Chaos Gods and Demons might still be alive.
• Zhou Jun established Creation and Purification Grand Arrays but found that the immense Killing Intent could not all be transformed.
• Zhou Jun dug out a space in the Netherworld Soil and built a formation using laws he had comprehended and the Eighteen Leyline Pearls.
• Zhou Jun activated the formation, which absorbed Killing Intent until clear Rootless Water emerged.
• Zhou Jun discovered that Rootless Water could condense the divine soul and wash away memories, then considered whether it could replace the Blood Sea’s origin in the underworld’s evolution.

Zhou Jun dug through the Netherworld Soil and uncovered the Blood River, whose Killing Intent and resentment flowed into the Netherworld. He realized that the river’s forces explained the formation of the Blood Sea, Bioluo Huangquan, the River of Oblivion, and the Eighteen Levels of Hell.

• Zhou Jun decided to continue digging despite the dangers beneath the Netherworld Soil.
• Zhou Jun encountered increasingly hard Netherworld Stone and heard an underground river flowing below him.
• Zhou Jun breached the passage and used the Eighteen Leyline Pearls and Pure World White Lotus to withstand the Killing Intent and resentment that burst out.
• Zhou Jun saw dark-red liquid within the opening and recognized it as the Blood River he had been seeking.
• Zhou Jun deduced that the Blood River fed the Blood Sea and helped form Bioluo Huangquan and the River of Oblivion.
• Zhou Jun understood that the Eighteen Levels of Hell had been carved into Netherworld Stone to punish wicked souls and use them to absorb and filter the river’s resentment.

Zhou Jun investigated why his simulated Netherworld seemed incomplete and discovered that the Blood Sea’s blood was merging with the Resentment of Chaos Gods and Demons. He suspected the Blood Sea and Minghe’s actions were part of a hidden scheme, then reasoned that more Chaos Gods and Demons might be involved in concealing it from the Heavenly Dao.

• Zhou Jun used the Eighteen Leyline Pearls to simulate the Netherworld’s formation but sensed that something was missing.
• Zhou Jun felt a tremor beneath the blood river, where Resentment of Chaos Gods and Demons erupted and drew in blood from Innate Lifeforms.
• Zhou Jun watched the blood merge with the resentment and saw some of it enter the Netherworld Stone, which absorbed its Resentful Energy.
• Zhou Jun deduced that the Blood Sea’s yang-natured blood could suppress the gods and demons’ yin-natured resentment, and wondered why Minghe had not used the Karma Red Lotus to restore the Blood Sea.
• Zhou Jun connected the mystery to cycles and blood circulation, suspected a scheme by the Chaos Gods and Demons, and reasoned that other beings must have helped conceal it from the Heavenly Dao.

Zhou Jun uncovered a hidden scheme beneath the Sea of Blood and suspected that other famous mountains concealed similar dangers. He decided to travel to Mount Zhou, but first began making a Stone Tablet to preserve the secret and expose it to future visitors and the Heavenly Dao.

• Zhou Jun concluded that a Chaos God and Demon was suppressed beneath the Sea of Blood and wondered whether Kunlun Mountain concealed another such corpse.
• Zhou Jun used his ability to inspect information about Kunlun and discovered that East Kunlun and West Kunlun had been divided into distinct regions.
• Zhou Jun chose to investigate Mount Zhou first, believing it safer and suspecting Pangu Hall and a secret connected to the Chaos Green Lotus lay there.
• Zhou Jun decided to erect a Stone Tablet by the Sea of Blood, reasoning that revealing the Chaos Gods and Demons' scheme could earn him the Heavenly Dao's favor despite the risks of accumulating Causality.
• Zhou Jun used his Green Lotus Hoe to dig up Netherworld Stone, refined it with Innate Spiritual Materials and Sea of Blood, and began inscribing the secret onto the tablet with Great Dao Runes.

Zhou Jun erected a Stone Tablet bearing the words “Secret of the Sea of Blood,” but the Chaos Gods and Demons concealed it before he could learn why the Heavenly Dao had not reacted. After returning to Wuyi Mountain and traveling to Mount Zhou, he reconsidered the Ferocious Beasts’ threat and chose not to interfere, hoping to observe the Heavenly Dao’s response.

• Zhou Jun carved “Secret of the Sea of Blood” onto the Stone Tablet and placed it beside the Sea of Blood, where Resentment of Chaos Gods and Demons surged toward it but could not destroy it.
• Zhou Jun saw the Stone Tablet vanish beneath the resentment and sensed the Chaos Gods and Demons erasing traces of its existence, so he left and returned to Wuyi Mountain.
• Zhou Jun reflected on his improved understanding of formations and on how breaking through the Chaos Gods and Demons’ blockade would help him perceive the truth behind future events.
• Zhou Jun reached the foot of Mount Zhou and reconsidered whether the Heavenly Dao might have ordered the Innate Beings to resist the Ferocious Beasts because their attack could threaten Mount Zhou and the Heavenly Dao’s evolution.
• Zhou Jun decided not to interfere with the coming conflict and slipped into the Earth Veins, heading toward central Mount Zhou.

After receiving Zhou Jun’s discoveries, Di Kun deduced that the Chaos Gods and Demons had woven deeper schemes throughout the Primordial Wilderness. He suspected Mount Zhou’s missing Innate Spiritual Roots, especially the Primordial Jade Lotus beside him, concealed a major secret.

• Di Kun absorbed Zhou Jun’s information about the Sea of Blood and wondered why the Chaos Gods and Demons had obstructed its evolution and blood circulation.
• Di Kun reasoned that Minghe was unlikely to have been replaced and proposed investigating Kunlun Mountain and the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains after the Ferocious Beast Tribulation ended.
• Di Kun considered whether the Chaos Gods and Demons had planted schemes in Mount Zhou and other regions of the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Kun noticed the Primordial Jade Lotus and recalled how the Innate Gourd Vine and the lotus had vanished from history after being divided among famous figures.
• Di Kun questioned why the Primordial Jade Lotus appeared only when Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones passed Mount Zhou, and doubted that heaven and earth alone had caused its destruction.

Di Kun and Zhou Jun deduced that the Primordial Jade Lotus represented a sliver of vitality that could help the Primordial Wilderness transcend, and that Hongjun’s schemes had blocked this possibility. The chapter left them questioning whether Hongjun merged with the Dao to occupy the place that should have belonged to that vitality.

• Di Kun concluded that Hongjun and the others had sealed the Primordial Jade Lotus to hide Pangu’s image and prevent Nuwa from using it to perfect humanity.
• Di Kun linked the lotus to the Three Pure Ones and reasoned that the Witch Clan would have protected it if they had found it.
• Zhou Jun pointed out that the lotus had twenty-four petals and called it a unique symbol of creation and a sliver of vitality for heaven and earth.
• Di Kun realized that humanity’s birth could fulfill that vitality and enable the Primordial Wilderness to transcend, while Hongjun’s schemes and the destruction of the Creation Green Lotus had obstructed that outcome.
• Zhou Jun proposed that Hongjun had merged with the Dao to occupy the position reserved for the sliver of vitality, leaving the Heavenly Dao incomplete and unable to repair the loss.

Di Kun and Zhou Jun discussed the flaws in the Three Corpses path before Zhou Jun proposed opening an Abyss beneath the Sea of Blood to contain the Chaos Gods and Demons. Di Kun recognized the plan’s potential strategic benefits but understood that carrying it out would be extremely dangerous and difficult to control.

• Di Kun considered Zhou Jun’s observations and concluded that relying on Innate Spirit Treasures to sever the Three Corpses could pollute one’s Dao and prevent their eventual merger.
• Di Kun asked why the Innate Gourd Vine had suffered the schemes of the Chaos God and Demon Reincarnations, but Zhou Jun admitted he did not know.
• Zhou Jun told Di Kun he planned to use the Eighteen Leyline Pearls beneath Mount Zhou to open the Eighteen Levels of Hell, then proposed creating an Abyss beneath the Sea of Blood.
• Di Kun reacted with alarm, warning that an Abyss might nurture the suppressed Chaos Gods and their resentment and give them a chance to attack the Primordial Land.
• Zhou Jun argued that the Abyss could contain the gods’ corpses and Resentful Energy, redirect future calamities, and force Hongjun to strengthen the Primordial Land against their possible return.
• Di Kun considered Zhou Jun’s reasoning and saw potential in the plan, while recognizing that it was perilous and would require the Great Dao’s help to manage.

Di Kun questioned Zhou Jun’s reckless changes to the Primordial Wilderness, but Zhou Jun argued that they had to abandon their dependence on the familiar timeline and seek change. Zhou Jun then revealed plans to create an Undead Realm and a Burial Ground, leaving Di Kun worried about the dangers of the Witch Clan and Zhou Jun confident they could be distracted.

• Di Kun warned Zhou Jun that altering the Primordial Wilderness could erase their foreknowledge and leave them without an advantage.
• Zhou Jun argued that following the known timeline had made them complacent and that they had to become players rather than chess pieces.
• Di Kun accepted Zhou Jun’s argument but warned him not to violate the Primordial Wilderness’s laws or introduce Cthulhu.
• Zhou Jun proposed opening an Undead Realm near the Blood Sea and a Burial Ground beneath the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to nurture new races.
• Zhou Jun explained that the Undead and Burial Ground could enrich the Netherworld and challenge Western Buddhism, while Di Kun questioned whether the plans would work.
• When Di Kun worried the Witch Clan might destroy them, Zhou Jun said his search for Pangu Hall and the Endless Abyss would keep the clan occupied.

After discussing a plan to overturn the existing order by creating new life, Di Kun began experimenting with the Great Dao of Creation in his Blessed Land. He created and tended many trees, learning from their growth and deaths as he worked toward a Primordial Life Tree and a new race.

• Zhou Jun argued that creating new life could overturn the existing rules, collected Three Lights Divine Water and Creation Spirit Soil, and left Di Kun with the Primordial Jade Lotus.
• Di Kun decided to begin his world-changing plans in the uninhabited Blessed Land and considered creating elemental life, Blood Sprite, Elves, and War Treants.
• Di Kun combined Creation Spirit Soil, Three Lights Divine Water, his blood, and the origins of Innate Spiritual Roots to shape a small living tree.
• Di Kun repeatedly created and planted trees, studying their different growth and survival patterns to refine his methods.
• Di Kun used the trees' origins to develop new varieties, increasing the vitality and diversity of the Blessed Land.

Di Kun created a thriving world of elemental sprites and other gentle life, while Zhou Jun gathered materials and secretly collected lives and resources across the Primordial Wilderness. After observing life adapt to the devastation caused by Ferocious Beasts, Zhou Jun brought Breath Soil to the Creation Grotto-Heaven to foster Breath Soil Sprites for his own territory.

• Di Kun expanded his creations, filling the Lotus Pond and surrounding woods with Water Sprites, Earth Spirits, Wind Sprites, Wood Sprites, and other beings.
• Zhou Jun repeatedly delivered materials to Di Kun while secretly stealing possessions, scavenging corpses after battles, and seeking Innate Spiritual Roots in dangerous places.
• Zhou Jun observed ruined lands and spiritual roots recovering from Ferocious Beast attacks, including roots whose aura caused the beasts to protect them.
• Zhou Jun relocated some of Di Kun's creations to remote places and left clones to observe how the elemental sprites evolved.
• Zhou Jun gathered rare flames, divine waters, and astral winds to support the sprites' growth and propagation.
• Zhou Jun found Breath Soil in a Blessed Land and placed it among the Earth Elves in the Creation Grotto-Heaven, hoping to produce Breath Soil Sprites for Wuyi Mountain Grotto-Heaven.

Di Kun surveyed the many beings and creations he had made, wondering why he could create elves but not the Primordial Life Tree, while Zhou Jun teased him about Goblins. After Di Kun and Zhou Jun left the Blessed Land, its inhabitants remained there, relying on Zhou Jun’s teachings and their own efforts to find a path forward.

• Di Kun reflected on his many creations and the Great Dao Merit he had earned, but remained unable to create the Primordial Life Tree.
• Di Kun discovered that Creation Green Lotuses had multiplied and watched Water Sprites, elves, and Goblins thrive among his creations.
• Zhou Jun teased Di Kun about Goblins, and Di Kun kicked him into the forest before they joked about what the author dared to write.
• The gathered beings thanked Di Kun as their Father God, and he urged them to survive and grow through their own efforts.
• Di Kun and Zhou Jun left, while the beings stayed in their remote settlement and continued learning from Zhou Jun’s teachings of the Earthly Dao.

Zhou Jun reasoned that evolution arose as life degenerated in response to the loss of spiritual energy, then warned that his Abyss plan depended on the Primordial World’s new capacity for evolution. He helped Di Kun realize the Primordial Life Tree needed fruit capable of nurturing elves, then gathered Creation Green Lotus seeds and hurried out of the Blessed Land.

• Zhou Jun observed the Blessed Land’s unusual trees and considered how they might strengthen stellar origins and evolve the Great Formation of the Stars.
• Zhou Jun concluded that evolution emerged when later generations degenerated to survive declining spiritual energy, and realized that this made his planned Abyss possible.
• Zhou Jun told Di Kun to focus on making the Primordial Life Tree’s fruit nurture elves and suggested that the Creation Green Lotus held the answer.
• Zhou Jun and Di Kun realized that the Chaos Green Lotus had nurtured Pangu, and Di Kun returned to the Lotus Pond to continue creating the Primordial Life Tree.
• Zhou Jun collected several third-grade and sixth-grade Creation Green Lotuses and seeds from the ninth-grade and twelfth-grade lotuses, then hurried out of the Creation Blessed Land.

Zhou Jun watched the Ferocious Beast Tribulation near its end while developing the starry sky and investigating the Earth Dragon Clan. Di Kun successfully created a unique Primordial Life Tree that bore elves, and he and Zhou Jun planned to protect it and expand their efforts after the tribulation.

• The Ferocious Beast army advanced toward Mount Zhou as powerful figures across the Primordial Wilderness united to fight it and gained merit and Fortune by slaying the beasts.
• Zhou Jun planted Star Trees across the Primordial Starry Sky, collected stars and spiritual materials, and created Star Spirits with rapid travel, reproduction, and sealing abilities.
• Zhou Jun studied the resilient Earth Dragon Clan and noticed its members received familiar Dao spells from an unexplained source, but Di Kun's message interrupted his investigation.
• Di Kun showed Zhou Jun the unique Primordial Life Tree, which produced elves and could nurture ordinary Primordial Life Tree saplings but could not be recreated.
• Di Kun planned to send the original tree to Wuyi Mountain and plant a sapling in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains after the Ferocious Beast Tribulation, while he contacted the Earth Dragon Clan and Zhou Jun examined materials for creating Starry Sky Behemoths.

Zhou Jun and Di Kun reconsidered the purpose of the Primordial Starry Sky’s seal and the nature of the Three Daos. Zhou Jun concluded that Heaven, Earth, and Human were not separate competing forces but aspects of one unified Heaven and Earth Consciousness, which had chosen Hongjun as its representative while occupied with suppressing Chaos Gods and Demons.

• Di Kun suggested that remnants of Chaos Gods and Demons, associated with Fate and karma, might be sealed in the starry sky.
• Zhou Jun wondered whether Fate and karma had caused the Three Heavens to fall, while Di Kun argued that the Three Heavens were meant to complete the Thirty-six Heavens under the Three Pure Ones.
• Zhou Jun questioned whether Heaven, Earth, and Human could truly compete for authority, and proposed that the Three Daos might form a Trinity.
• Zhou Jun argued that the Heavenly Dao drove the world’s operation and that the Earthly and Human Daos could not substantially influence it.
• Zhou Jun concluded that a single Heaven and Earth Consciousness existed and had selected Hongjun to act as its spokesperson while it suppressed the Chaos Gods and Demons.
• Zhou Jun reasoned that Hongjun could represent the Heavenly Dao but that the Heavenly Dao could not use Hongjun’s body as its own.

Di Kun reconsidered the Three Daos and wondered whether Hongjun had altered the Great Daos to prevent others from attaining the Dao. Zhou Jun argued that Hongjun's plans could be disrupted by the changed world and the Chaos Gods and Demons, while Di Kun saw Zhou Jun's Abyss as a possible way to expose Hongjun's scheme.

• Di Kun questioned his understanding of the Three Daos and considered whether Hongjun had infused the Three Thousand Great Daos with his own Dao after merging with the Heavenly Dao.
• Di Kun worried that his realm system, based on Golden Immortals, might steer Primordial World Beings away from the true Great Dao.
• Zhou Jun suggested that Hongjun might have prevented earlier powerful beings from attaining the Dao, while Ancestor Yang Mei may have attained it in Chaos.
• Zhou Jun reasoned that the changed world and the Chaos Gods and Demons could undermine Hongjun's plans and force him to let others attain the Dao.
• Di Kun said Zhou Jun's Abyss might let the Chaos Gods and Demons create life and reveal Hongjun's scheme, and Zhou Jun said he hoped all living beings could attain the Dao.