Chapter Summaries

As conflicts spread among the Innate Races, the Earth Dragon Clan gathered the dead to strengthen the Desolate Mountains and Shen Yuan’s Trading Space. Meanwhile, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin Clans rose as powerful races, and their ancestors challenged the Innate Gods and Demons without seeking supremacy.

• Innate Races fought over resources, while weaker races sought protection from Innate Gods and Demons or joined together to survive.
• The Earth Dragon Clan collected corpses and bones through the earth veins, nourishing the Desolate Mountains and strengthening Shen Yuan’s Trading Space.
• Shen Yuan made final preparations for the Trading Space as elves and other living beings planned its layout and built structures.
• The Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin Clans spread across the Primordial Wilderness and grew stronger with abundant resources.
• Ancestor Dragon and the others challenged nearby Innate Gods and Demons, gaining experience and advancing while their opponents also benefited from the exchanges.

Di Kun mastered the first steps of combining the Great Daos of Space-Time and subdued the three clan leaders and other challengers, quieting the Primordial Wilderness. Wen Xuan’s new inscriptions severed his contact with Di Kun and Shen Yuan, leaving them unable to contribute to the Great Dao of History or know when contact would return.

• Di Kun created a world in his palm that could alter time and exile beings into the currents of space-time.
• Ancestor Dragon and the others challenged Di Kun, who subdued them; Luohu, Yang Mei, and Hongjun later defeated the challengers in a single exchange.
• The other Innate Races abandoned plans to attack the Dao fields of Innate Gods and Demons after learning how decisively the challengers had been defeated.
• Wen Xuan inscribed the Great Dao of Space-Time onto earlier murals, making the Jade Tablet space heavier and slowing its passage of time.
• The inscriptions severed Wen Xuan’s contact with Di Kun and Shen Yuan, prompting Di Kun to stop cultivating and consider how Wen Xuan’s Great Dao of History could continue.

The Hundred Thousand Great Mountains advanced under Elf leadership, developing civilization, specialized crafts, and a Trading Space. Shen Yuan weighed whether to reveal the region to the wider Primordial Wilderness, concerned about the balance of the Three Daos and the risks of exposing their activities and his identity.

• Di Kun sought a way to leave traces of the Great Dao of History in the Primordial Wilderness through the Elf race’s Civilization Stone Tablet.
• With support from Di Kun and the Primordial Life Ancient Tree, the Elves became the leading organizers of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and their Civilization Stone Tablet came to represent the whole region.
• As Elf Civilization spread, Spirit Planter Masters, Alchemy Masters, and Artifact Refiner Masters emerged, and the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains integrated resources and strengthened its inhabitants.
• Shen Yuan completed his plan to establish the Trading Space and considered removing the Desolate Mountains to expose the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Shen Yuan worried that revealing the region could upset the balance of the Three Daos and restrict their activities, while his identity was unsuitable for exposure.

Shen Yuan observed the Desolate Mountains transforming as a special Innate Lifeform neared birth, then learned that the Abyss was preparing to send its reborn Chaos Gods and Demons into the Primordial Wilderness. He realized that the Abyss’s coming conflict could determine whether he gained dominion and uncovered the true nature of his Great Dao.

• Shen Yuan saw that baleful energy and Dao charm were transforming the Desolate Mountains, where an Innate Lifeform connected to him by master-disciple Causality was close to birth.
• Shen Yuan created stone tablets infused with Mana and spatial coordinates and sent them toward the Earth Dragon Clan’s territory and Wuyi Mountain.
• Shen Yuan learned from his Abyssal Great Dao that the Abyss would open a passage to the Primordial Wilderness for the Chaos Gods and Demons gestating within it.
• Shen Yuan considered how the Chaos Gods and Demons’ defeat could allow the Abyss to merge with the Primordial Wilderness, while his failure to gain dominion could restrict his Great Dao.
• Shen Yuan realized that his true Great Dao was concealed beneath the Abyssal Great Dao, a mystery he had learned to question through information Di Kun obtained.

Shen Yuan reflected on how his control over the Primordial Wilderness’s future might prevent true transcendence, while the Abyssal Great Dao obscured his path forward. He left the Desolate Mountains’ emerging life to develop on its own and steadied himself after nearly dissolving into the Dao.

• Shen Yuan concluded that the changes he and Wen Xuan had discovered might be beneficial, and he hoped resolving the Abyss could give him a chance to transcend.
• Shen Yuan looked toward the Eastern Territory and hoped Hongjun would complete his plan soon so he could prepare for what came next.
• Shen Yuan saw that lightning and a faint spark of vitality had helped withered trees in the Desolate Mountains gain a trace of intelligence and the potential to become Primordial World Beings.
• Shen Yuan questioned whether shaping the Primordial Wilderness’s future was transcendence or merely another form of control, and he decided not to guide what happened next.
• Shen Yuan realized his actions resembled Hongjun’s original plan, then nearly dissolved into the Dao before noticing the danger and steadying his mind.

Shen Yuan observed the Desolate Mountains as lightning awakened fragmented souls and transformed buried corpses into tombs and baleful bones, making the region more dangerous. He considered moving the mountains to open a passage for lifeforms within the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, but left them as they were and turned his attention to Xuanming Abyss.

• Shen Yuan suppressed his doubts about his conjecture and focused on observing the Desolate Mountains’ changes.
• Lightning destroyed some fragmented souls and restored the consciousness of others, who entered their corpses or attached themselves to bones and withered trees.
• The awakened souls formed tombs and absorbed Resentful Energy, while bones absorbed baleful aura and Blood Baleful Energy.
• Death Energy came to dominate the Desolate Mountains, concealing intelligent souls and baleful bones as the region continued transforming.
• Shen Yuan considered moving the Desolate Mountains because they blocked lifeforms from leaving the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, but decided to let nature take its course.
• Shen Yuan turned his gaze toward Xuanming Abyss beyond the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Di Kun realized that the Primordial Wilderness was increasingly rejecting the Earth Dao World and that he would have to leave after the Kalpa of Calamity. He empowered an old carving knife with the Dao of History, and its message about Mount Zhou eased his worry before it vanished.

• Di Kun observed that the three innate races’ struggle for resources had slowed and found that the Primordial Wilderness was increasingly suppressing the Earth Dao World.
• Di Kun learned that he would have to leave the Primordial Wilderness after the Kalpa of Calamity, though Wen Xuan and Shen Yuan would continue acting behind the scenes.
• Di Kun infused an old carving knife with a wisp of the Dao of History, transforming it and allowing it to search for something.
• The carving knife pointed toward Mount Zhou and sent Di Kun a message that eased his worry before it tore through space and disappeared.

Di Kun set aside his plans to connect with the Great Dao of History and reviewed his cultivation, discovering that he had neglected his own Earthly Dao Fruit while focusing on Mythical Grand Unity. He began using brief, dangerous merges with the Earthly Dao to deepen his understanding and control, leaving him with a clearer path forward.

• Di Kun recognized that his confidence had grown into arrogance and that his inexperience with the Dao Fruit Realm left him vulnerable as Hongjun and others approached the same realm.
• Di Kun realized he had focused on Wen Xuan and Shen Yuan’s foundational Great Daos instead of developing his own Earthly Dao Fruit.
• Di Kun discovered that the Earthly Dao could link to the Primordial Land and temporarily take the place of the Earthly Dao Will in operating the Primordial Continent.
• Di Kun cautiously merged with the Earthly Dao for brief periods, tempering his will, improving his control of the Dao Fruit, and comprehending more Dao arts and divine abilities.

As his control and mind strengthened, Di Kun uncovered the hidden causal schemes surrounding Pangu, Hongjun, and Luohu, and realized that the Abyss might conceal further secrets. He was left fearing that an unseen will had guided his discoveries and confronting how Zhou Jun’s mortal mindset still shaped him.

• Di Kun strengthened his control over his power and extended his connection with the consciousness of the Earthly Dao.
• Di Kun uncovered that all beings in the Primordial Wilderness were connected to Pangu through Causality, nourishing Pangu’s attainment of the Dao.
• Di Kun realized that Hongjun and Luohu sought to escape Pangu’s Causality by rebuilding Qiankun and grafting their own Causality onto it.
• Di Kun suspected the Chaos Gods and Demons had been suppressed for resisting Pangu’s causal scheme and wondered what secrets the Abyss held.
• Di Kun feared that a hidden mastermind might have deliberately revealed these truths and recognized that Zhou Jun’s past identity and mindset had never truly disappeared.

Di Kun discovered that his path had been shaped by others and realized the Earth Dao World had trapped him in Wuyi Mountain. As he cultivated, his Earth Dao aura spread across the region, forcing nearby beings to abandon their homes.

• Di Kun overcame his fear that his future had already been decided and resolved to seek the root of the problem.
• Di Kun deduced that Hongjun and Luohu had long plotted to pursue transcendence within the Primordial Wilderness, while Yang Mei had sought a method in the depths of chaos.
• Di Kun realized that returning the Dao to the Primordial Wilderness could break its shackles, but he could not contact Wen Xuan and Shen Yuan or leave Wuyi Mountain.
• Di Kun entered cultivation, and his Earth Dao aura spread beyond Wuyi Mountain, suppressing other Daos and driving nearby beings from their lands.

Shen Yuan’s Trading Space grew busier and nourished the Treasure Dropping Coin and Treasure Gathering Basin, but his connection with Wen Xuan and Di Kun was severed, leaving him worried that their plans had gone wrong. He also learned that the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains had reached the limit of their growth without a completed Earthly Dao, while Houtu’s Reincarnation had prevented the Blood Sea from destroying the Primordial Wilderness and thwarted Minghe’s path to the Great Dao.

• Shen Yuan completed the Trading Space, where increasing trade helped the Treasure Dropping Coin and Treasure Gathering Basin grow.
• Shen Yuan could no longer contact Wen Xuan or Di Kun, and he feared that something had gone wrong with their plans.
• The Primordial Life Ancient Tree told Shen Yuan that the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains had reached their limit because the Earthly Dao was incomplete.
• Shen Yuan realized that Reincarnation had helped supplement the Earthly Dao and prevented the Blood Sea from flooding the Primordial Land.
• Minghe viewed Houtu’s creation of Reincarnation as a loss of the Blood Sea’s origin and an obstruction to his path to the Great Dao, though the Asura path served as compensation.

Shen Yuan struggled to find his path after losing his connection to Di Kun and the Earth Dao Fruit. Di Kun then revealed his Earth Dao World before the Primordial Wilderness, and the chapter ended as he began to speak.

• Shen Yuan reflected on how his past Earth Dao breakthroughs had come unexpectedly and found he could no longer advance without his connection to Di Kun.
• Shen Yuan realized that borrowing power from the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and the Abyss could increase his karmic debt.
• A powerful Dao aura spread across the Primordial Wilderness, drawing Shen Yuan, Hongjun, Luohu, and countless other figures toward Wuyi Mountain.
• Di Kun released his full aura, which the Primordial Wilderness amplified across the world.
• Di Kun brought forth the Earth Dao World and the Earth Dao Fruit as powerful figures watched in shock.
• Di Kun began to speak.

Di Kun returned the Earth Dao World to the Primordial Wilderness, transforming it as it merged with the land and the Blood Sea. The Yellow Springs spread north into the Desolate Mountains, where remnant souls and bones began forming new features of the underworld.

• Di Kun declared that he would return the Earth Dao World to the Primordial Wilderness, and it merged into the land.
• The Earth Dao World expanded as Rootless Water mixed with the Blood Sea, forming the Yellow Springs and Azure Firmament and carrying away wronged souls.
• Clear remnant souls wept along the Yellow Springs, and their tears nourished the Shore Flowers.
• The Yellow Springs spread beneath the Northern Land, while the Desolate Mountains sank into the Earth Dao World and were surrounded by its waters.
• Remnant souls within the Desolate Mountains grew stronger by devouring wronged souls, and corpses poured into the Earth Dao World.
• The remnant souls used bones to build boats, formed Bone Bamboo Forests, and gathered in the expanding Desolate Mountains as they became a mountain range.

Di Kun sent the Eighteen Earth Fiend Pearls into the Pangu Blood Pool beneath Mount Zhou, triggering its transformation and the emergence of twelve Ancestral Witches. The Ancestral Witches announced themselves as Pangu’s direct descendants, changing the Witch Clan’s standing in the Primordial Wilderness.

• The Desolate Mountains’ fall created a Heavenly Moat whose resentful echoes blocked access to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Di Kun’s Eighteen Earth Fiend Pearls flew beneath Mount Zhou and revealed Pangu Hall and the Pangu Blood Pool.
• The Eighteen Earth Fiend Pearls entered the Pangu Blood Pool, shattered one by one, and formed eighteen small worlds.
• Mount Zhou trembled as Pangu Marrow flowed into Pangu Hall, while Wen Xuan chose not to send his message to Di Kun and Shen Yuan.
• Twelve figures emerged from Pangu Hall and declared themselves the Ancestral Witches of the Witch Clan, formed from Pangu’s Essence Blood.

Di Kun established the four seasons, the Twelve Solar Terms, the Twelve Tones, and the Twelve Earthly Branches, then used the Earth Dao World to organize Earth Dao practitioners and the Primordial Land. Most Earth Dao practitioners accepted his summons and entered the Earth Immortal Realm, leaving the world’s order and reconstruction in their hands.

• Di Kun appointed Ju Mang, Zhu Rong, Ru Shou, and Xuan Ming as the gods of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and they accepted the divine positions.
• Di Kun divided a stalk of bamboo into twelve tubes and used them to establish the Twelve Solar Terms and Twelve Tones, completing the Great Dao of Sound.
• Di Kun established the Twelve Earthly Branches to govern earthly transformations and the seasons.
• Di Kun declared that Earth Dao cultivators would become Earth Immortals, directing them to manage mountain and river veins or cultivate in seclusion in the north of the Earth Dao World.
• Most Earth Dao practitioners accepted the summons and entered the Earth Immortal Realm through the Sea of Yellow Springs.

Di Kun established the Five Paths of Reincarnation by transforming his body into the Reincarnation Disk and placing his True Spirit within it. He left Reincarnation to govern souls until Heaven and Earth were perfected, while the new system purified the Earth Dao World and earned Great Dao Merit.

• Many Earth Dao practitioners entered the Earth Immortal Realm, accelerating the Earth Path World's growth and strengthening the Earth Immortals' prospects.
• As the Earth Dao Dao Fruit dispersed, Di Kun declared that he would transform himself into Dao and establish Reincarnation in the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Kun's body, Mana, and Dao essence formed the Reincarnation Disk, which settled at the Center of Mount Zhou as Pangu Hall transformed into a colossal city beside it.
• Six bridges appeared to guide souls toward different afterlives and rebirths according to their merits and faults.
• Di Kun placed his soul and True Spirit in the Reincarnation Disk, which absorbed Resentful Energy and baleful energy; Pangu Hall absorbed some as nourishment for the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Great Dao Merit gathered and was distributed among Di Kun's True Spirit, the Earth Dao World, and Pangu Hall; beings across the Primordial Wilderness bowed and called Di Kun the Merciful Earth Dao Ancestor.

The Reincarnation Demon God established Reincarnation in the Abyss with the Great Dao’s permission, using Reincarnation Valley and his damaged Reincarnation Disk as its foundation. The restored system spread through the Abyss, where new life and more intense conflict followed.

• The Great Dao revealed the Abyss to the Primordial Land, and Hongjun and Luohu recognized the Reincarnation Demon God and his damaged natal Reincarnation Disk.
• The Reincarnation Demon God explained that Di Kun’s creation of Reincarnation had ruined his plans, so he asked the Great Dao to let him establish Reincarnation in the Abyss.
• The Eye of the Great Dao approved his request and granted him merit, judging that Abyssal Reincarnation would benefit the Abyss and the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Great Dao repaired the Reincarnation Disk, transformed Reincarnation Valley with Yellow Springs water, and formed eggs from flesh and resentful souls.
• Reincarnation spread through the Abyss, increasing the reproductive abilities of its races and intensifying their conflicts and slaughter.

After Di Kun completed the Earth Dao, the Primordial Wilderness expanded and the Reincarnation Demon God's actions delayed the Kalpa of Calamity. Fear of the Abyss drove the races to cooperate, while trade and the Melody Dao flourished as they prepared for the coming conflict.

• Di Kun's completion of the Earth Dao caused the Primordial Wilderness and Mount Zhou to expand, strengthened the Primordial Life Ancient Tree, and allowed the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to grow.
• The Reincarnation Demon God's appearance dissipated baleful qi, Resentful Energy, and Calamity Qi, delaying the Kalpa of Calamity.
• The races of the Primordial Wilderness, alarmed by the Abyss's power, stopped fighting over resources and focused on cultivation in preparation for war.
• The Trading Space spread across the Primordial Wilderness, trade aura accelerated the gestation of the Treasure Dropping Coin and Treasure Gathering Basin, and the basin began refining Innate Currency.
• Cultivators gathered at the foot of Mount Zhou to cultivate the Melody Dao, and many races encouraged their talented clansmen to learn it.

As the Primordial Wilderness prospered and explorers uncovered new resources, their investigations revealed secrets about the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and the dangerous Desolate Mountain Forbidden Land. News drew powerful beings toward the region, though ordinary explorers could not cross the Bottomless Fissure.

• The growing Abyss accelerated the accumulation of Calamity Qi, while the Dragon-Phoenix-Kirin three clans gained Fortune as weaker races sought their protection.
• Fuxi and Nuwa emerged on Mount Zhou, the Three Pure Ones remained in seclusion on Kunlun Mountain, and Luohu prevented the Two Saints of the West from taking form on Mount Sumeru.
• Beings traveled across the Primordial Wilderness, sharing knowledge through the Trading Space and discovering resources as the land entered an age of prosperity.
• Explorers investigated the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and learned that the Desolate Mountains had fallen into the Earthly Dao world, leaving behind the Bottomless Fissure and a dangerous forbidden land.
• Explorers spread reports that Earth Dragon Clan members and Earthly Dao cultivators had entered the Desolate Mountain Forbidden Land, where some returned gravely injured and others perished.
• Powerful great powers emerged from seclusion and headed toward the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to investigate its secrets.

Shen Yuan learned that explorers had gathered at the Bottomless Fissure to enter the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, making the region’s isolation impossible to maintain. He discovered that Yuanchu could not become Spokesperson of the Northern Territory until the Great Mountains’ Earth Veins connected with those of the Primordial Wilderness.

• The Primordial Life Ancient Tree told Shen Yuan that many Primordial World Beings had gathered outside the Bottomless Fissure to explore the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Shen Yuan recognized that powerful outsiders would eventually enter the Great Mountains and that their isolation could not last.
• Shen Yuan asked how Yuanchu’s fusion with the Ancestral Vein was progressing and whether Yuanchu could become Spokesperson of the Northern Territory.
• The Primordial Life Ancient Tree explained that Yuanchu’s fusion was complete but the Earth Veins of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains remained disconnected from the Primordial Wilderness.
• Shen Yuan realized the Earth Veins had to connect with the Primordial Wilderness for Yuanchu to gain heaven and earth’s recognition as Spokesperson.