Chapter Summaries

Shen Yuan ordered the Primordial Life Ancient Tree to connect the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to the Primordial Wilderness and prepare its inhabitants to defend their home. The connection was completed, the Primordial Land reached completion, and Ferrymen began appearing in the Northern Territory and around the Sea of Yellow Springs.

• Shen Yuan told the Emerald Sprout to connect the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to the Primordial Land's Earth Veins and make the mountain beings prepare.
• The Primordial Life Ancient Tree sensed two suitable connection nodes, one in Mount Zhou Territory and one in the Eastern Territory, then sent its roots toward both.
• Primordial World Beings gathered at the Bottomless Fissure and watched the Ancient Tree's roots spread across it, displaying the Great Way of Life.
• The Ancient Tree's roots joined the Earth Veins at both nodes, causing the Ancestral Veins across the Primordial Land to erupt in pillars of light.
• Heaven and earth announced that the connection had opened and the Primordial Land had reached completion.
• Ferrymen began appearing in the Northern Territory and around the Sea of Yellow Springs within the Earth Dao World.

After the Earthly Dao was completed, Wen Xuan realized he had taken the wrong path and turned to Shen Yuan to complete the final step of his renewed plan. Meanwhile, bridges opened into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and eleven explorers crossed them to investigate its outskirts.

• Wen Xuan recognized that his shallow foundation had led him astray and resolved to forge a new path while waiting for an opportunity.
• Wen Xuan sent a stream of mana into the starry sky and resumed carving the Primordial Wilderness's history, wondering whether Luohu could seize the chance presented by the Three Heavens.
• Two Earth Vein bridges appeared between Mount Zhou Territory, the Eastern Territory, and the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Living beings shared reports about the powerful ancient tree guarding the mountains, and some concluded that it might be the mountains' Spokesperson.
• Eleven explorers crossed the Bottomless Fissure over the new bridge and cautiously began exploring the outskirts of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Eleven Explorers entered the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and encountered Tumu, who explained the Primal Ancient Tree’s rules for visitors. The group agreed to obey and asked Tumu to guide them as they began exploring.

• The Explorers found that the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains’ life Dao charm and abundant Zaohua spiritual essence healed their hidden injuries and nourished its spirit plants.
• A Mana fluctuation approached, and the Explorers spread out into a defensive formation as they sensed a seemingly weak living being.
• Tumu of the Earth Dragon Clan emerged from the earth and greeted the Explorers, while Yekai of the Dog Night Clan introduced their group and explained their peaceful intentions.
• Tumu conveyed the Primal Ancient Tree’s decree: visitors could explore freely if they did not casually slaughter locals or enter a race’s habitat without invitation.
• Yekai and the Explorers agreed to follow the rules, then asked Tumu to guide them around the mountains.
• Tumu accepted, curious to learn about the Explorers’ discoveries beyond the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Yekai and the others spoke with Tumu and learned how the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains functioned as a self-sufficient realm under the protection of the Primal Ancient Tree. Tumu’s account also left them wondering who had created the Desolate Mountains and deepened their awe of Di Kun Dao Ancestor.

• Yekai and the others grew closer to Tumu and learned that, unlike most of the cautious Earth Dragon Clan, he loved adventure.
• Tumu explained that the Primal Ancient Tree was fused with the Earth Veins, sensed everything in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and could not be attacked without bringing karmic retribution.
• Yekai and the others learned that the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains had dueling grounds, healing experts, and established professions such as alchemy and artifact refining, and that many Trading Space masters lived there.
• Tumu explained that the inhabitants had become self-sufficient and that the Desolate Mountains had formed their own domain while Innate Sacred Beings were nurtured in the Earthly Dao World.
• Yekai and the others suspected Di Kun Dao Ancestor had created the Desolate Mountains, then heard Tumu describe the layout and nature of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Tumu told Yekai and the others how the Primal Ancient Tree nurtured the Elf race and how Di Kun Dao Ancestor brought it to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. He also revealed that several races there had been created by powerful experts and described where they might be found.

• Tumu explained that the Primal Ancient Tree nurtured a Primal Elf every ten thousand years, and that the tree later merged with the Earth Vein to reshape the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Tumu revealed that the Winged People, Stone People Clan, Wood People Clan, Dwarves, Goblins, and Elemental Elves had been created by mighty experts.
• Yekai and the others reacted with shock and pressed Tumu for details about the created races.
• Tumu described the Elemental Elves, the Dwarves, and the elusive Stone People Clan, including a battle-loving member who challenged passersby.
• Tumu explained that the Wood People Clan and Goblins lived alongside Elves, while the Winged People had withdrawn and could perhaps be found near the Ancestral Vein.

Tumu withheld further secrets of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains after sharing its greatest mystery, while Yekai and the other explorers prepared to continue their journey. After exchanging communication tokens with Tumu, they set out to explore other regions, and Tumu departed through the Earth Veins.

• Tumu declined to reveal every secret of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and Yekai and the others accepted his decision.
• Yekai and the others exchanged communication tokens with Tumu, learning that Earth Vein communication could connect them across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Yekai and the other explorers left to investigate more of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, encouraged that they would survive if they avoided causing trouble.
• Tumu bowed toward the Ancestral Vein of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and vanished into the Earth Veins.

Yekai and the others explored the borders of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains while concealing what they had learned about its inhabitants. Their expedition turned into a battle when a Stone Person attacked Chifeng, and the chapter left Yekai’s group charging to meet its powerful counterattack.

• Yekai and the others agreed to explore the outer borders of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and warned the Trading Space about its danger without revealing everything they knew.
• Yekai and the others kept the existence of beings created by other great powers secret, fearing that disclosure could bring powerful outsiders into the mountains.
• Yekai and the others encountered a Stone Person when Chifeng leaned against a rock, and it suddenly struck at him.
• Yekai used his divine ability to save Chifeng from the direct blow, but Chifeng was injured by the Stone Person’s laws and the blast of Mana.
• Lingyin began treating Chifeng while Yekai and the others prepared to face the late-stage Golden Immortal Stone Person.
• Yekai and the others charged, and the Stone Person shouted “Battle!” before unleashing a dense wave of Mana from its fists.

Yekai and the other explorers fought a Stone Person in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and were quickly overwhelmed by its powerful attacks. The Stone Person left after trapping them in stone pillars, and Yekai sent Qingfeng away with their recording as the injured survivors began to recover.

• The Stone Person made the ground and surrounding space heavy, forcing Yekai and four others to combine their Dao charms into a Pseudo-Hundun Shield to withstand his fists.
• After the group tried to circle the Stone Person, he swept at them and slammed his arms into the ground, causing stone pillars to burst up and trap the explorers.
• The Stone Person rolled away as a boulder, and the pillars crumbled, revealing that most of the explorers had suffered severe injuries.
• Yekai asked Qingfeng to take Lingyin's Shadow Recording Stone, and Qingfeng used his Trade Token to leave with it.
• Yekai reflected on the Stone Person's strength and the danger of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, while he treated himself and Lingyin tended to the wounded.

After recovering from the Stone Person’s attack, Yekai led his companions onward through the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. They formed an array to guard against danger, but living vines attacked as soon as it was complete, leaving them ready to fight back.

• Yekai concluded that the Stone Person was likely a trial of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and urged the group to continue exploring to strengthen themselves for the coming Kalpa of Calamity.
• Yekai and his companions sensed dense wood spiritual energy and healing vitality ahead, so they advanced cautiously in formation and linked their senses and powers through an array.
• As the array took shape, vines hanging from a great tree sprang toward Qingfeng, who dodged by vanishing and reappearing three zhang away.
• Yekai suspected a living being was controlling the vines and warned the group that unusual places ahead could bring further trials.
• The vines attacked again, and Yekai’s companions began their counterattack.

Shen Yuan learned that achieving the Great Dao through the Primordial Wilderness created a debt of Dao Karma and uncovered a plot involving the Chaos Gods and Demons. He realized that he and his allies faced the burden of that Karma and vowed to contend with the plotters.

• Shen Yuan emerged from seclusion and told the Primal Ancient Tree to let its plan unfold naturally while preparing to stabilize the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains afterward.
• A strand of Earth Vein Mystic Qi carrying an Earth Path Dao Fruit entered Shen Yuan, revealing that Di Kun and Hongjun had repaid the Primordial Wilderness's Karma through their actions.
• Shen Yuan deduced that the Primordial Wilderness's calamities and schemes were attempts to reclaim its origin and advance toward becoming an Eternal World.
• Shen Yuan suspected Wen Xuan had understood the same truth and sent information to the Primordial Life Ancient Tree.
• Shen Yuan realized the Chaos Gods and Demons intended to use the Abyss to sever its Karma with the Primordial Wilderness, potentially leaving him and his allies unable to achieve the Great Dao.
• Shen Yuan recognized the growing Karma of Heaven and Earth and vowed to oppose the Chaos Gods and Demons.

Shen Yuan deduced that severing Causality could let him transcend, but he remained uncertain about the Primordial Wilderness’s hidden truth and the identity of its fleeing “One.” After a ripple in his sea of consciousness revealed a familiar clue, he went to the Yu Shu of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

• Shen Yuan calculated that his final step could sever Causality and let him Reflect All Heavens, while acknowledging the plan’s uncertainties.
• Shen Yuan considered whether transmigrating protagonists were the Primordial Wilderness’s fleeing “One” and wondered why transmigrators continued to arrive.
• A ripple in Shen Yuan’s sea of consciousness jolted him out of his thoughts and warned him that he had neared a hidden existence.
• Shen Yuan recognized the ripple’s source, realized an escape route had been prepared, and went to the Yu Shu of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• The Hundred Thousand Great Mountains’ Earthly Dao cultivators benefited from Fortune and its protection because of the Stone Book Di Kun had left behind.

Shen Yuan considered how Yu Shu had become a record of events across the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and how its influence was spreading through the Earth Veins. He wondered whether Zhen Yuanzi could connect the Yu Shus and become the Primordial Wilderness’s master of the Earthly Dao, though the path remained uncertain.

• Di Kun’s Stone Book became Yu Shu, recording events in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and changing with the mountains’ transformation.
• Shen Yuan used the Earthly Dao Fruit to conceal Yu Shu within the Ancestral Vein and kept its powers from others.
• Yu Shu began gestating in Ancestral Veins elsewhere as the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains reconnected with the Primordial Wilderness.
• Shen Yuan considered how Yu Shu might support Reincarnation and grant Earthly Dao cultivators the favor of Fortune.
• Shen Yuan wondered whether Zhen Yuanzi could use the Earth Book to connect the Yu Shus and become the master of the Earthly Dao.

Yekai and the others continued exploring the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, surviving its trials and gaining strength while keeping its secrets. After Daoist Tumu gave them a Scroll that turned their recorded experiences into a source of Dao insight, they reached the mountains' border with the North Sea and saw weak races living there in safety.

• Yekai and the others endured repeated attacks and traps in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, improving their strength and teamwork as they overcame each trial.
• After they considered revealing more about the mountains, Daoist Tumu told them to keep its secrets and gave them a Scroll to record their experiences.
• Golden light and Dao charm marks appeared on the Scroll after they recorded their encounters, sharpening their understanding and making cultivation easier.
• Yekai and the others realized the Scroll offered them a chance to advance toward the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Yekai and the others reached the boundary between the North Sea and the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, where weak North Sea races had settled to escape being hunted.

Yekai and his companions learned why the North Sea feared the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and heard that the border waters had not flooded the region because heaven and earth said the time had not yet come. After their trials, they continued toward the mountains with Yekai nearing a breakthrough to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

• The North Sea beings explained that settlers from the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains had planted barren islands, expanded their influence, and eventually clashed with the North Sea Races.
• The North Sea beings described how an expedition into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains vanished, turning the region into a forbidden zone.
• Yekai and his companions learned that the races who knew the history lived in the North Sea's depths and attacked outsiders who entered.
• The North Sea races could not explain why the waters of the three seas had not flooded the border region, but said heaven and earth indicated the time had not yet come.
• Yekai and his companions had grown stronger through their trials, and Yekai stood one opportunity away from reaching the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

Space Rifts stirred the Blood Sea, awakening grotesque creatures and prompting Luohu to investigate. He discovered Golden Blood within them and learned from a message from the Primordial Wilderness that the changes were tied to the Abyss World’s coming invasion.

• Space Rifts appeared near the Western Continent and deep in the Blood Sea, releasing turbid aura that intensified the Kalpa of Calamity.
• Blood Essence at the bottom of the Blood Sea awakened and merged into grotesque creatures, causing the sea to surge and the creatures to attack nearby land.
• Ancestor Luohu emerged at the Blood Sea and investigated the creatures after the Western Continent’s consciousness revealed that the Abyss World would invade during the next Kalpa of Calamity.
• Luohu captured a creature and found that it had no intelligence, carried Resentful Energy and baleful aura, and contained a drop of Golden Blood that drew the other creatures’ attention.
• Luohu examined a strand of Turbid Qi, received a message from the Primordial Wilderness, and grew grave.

Luohu encountered a Blood Sprite in the Blood Sea, received two traces of Dao aura, and learned that one came from Di Kun. Back at Mount Sumeru, he received Di Kun’s message and examined a detailed map of the Western Continent.

• A Blood Sprite emerged from the Blood Sea and presented Luohu with two traces of Dao aura, one bearing Di Kun’s aura and the other seeming connected to the Abyss.
• Luohu destroyed the Abyss aura in his hand, then gave the Blood Sprite a drop of Golden Blood, which it swallowed before returning to the Blood Sea.
• Luohu returned to Mount Sumeru and recalled how Di Kun’s Earth Dao had enabled travel between Earth Vein nodes and helped the Earth Dragon Clan serve the races of the Primordial Wilderness.
• Luohu carried Di Kun’s aura into his sea of consciousness, where Di Kun appeared, greeted him, and left behind a message and a diagram.
• Luohu received Di Kun’s information and studied the diagram, which detailed the mountains, rivers, and lakes of the entire Western Continent, including the Blood Sea.

Luohu learned from Shen Yuan that Di Kun had transformed into Reincarnation to repay his karmic debt and pursue transcendence, and he wondered what secret had driven Di Kun to take that step. When a map revealed a scheme spreading across the Western Territory, Luohu recognized Di Kun’s arrangement and accepted that he would have to cooperate over the Blood Sea.

• Luohu realized Di Kun had integrated the Primordial Land and left behind origin incarnations before transforming into Reincarnation.
• Shen Yuan’s aura delivered information about the Abyss, the Blood Sea, and the reason Di Kun had become Reincarnation.
• Luohu doubted Shen Yuan’s motives and pondered what hidden secret had made Di Kun abandon the Earthly Dao Fruit.
• Luohu decided to set aside his suspicions and deal with the Blood Sea, expecting to cooperate with Di Kun and Shen Yuan.
• Luohu used a map connected to Mount Sumeru’s Ancestral Vein and saw black lines spread across the Western Territory.
• Luohu recognized the scheme as Seven Emotions and Six Desires, Refine Heart Transform Desire, and praised Di Kun’s calculations.

Luohu warned the Western Continent about the Blood Sea’s Abyssal changes, drawing beings to explore the sea and hunt its monsters. After learning more from Di Kun and Shen Yuan, Luohu summoned Hongjun, Yang Mei, and the others to discuss the Kalpa of Calamity and the Causality they still had to repay.

• Luohu sent a message explaining the Blood Sea’s changes and the opportunities and danger within it.
• Beings from across the Primordial Wilderness entered the Blood Sea to suppress its monsters, while others searched the Western Territory for Abyssal rifts.
• Searchers failed to find the concealed Space Rift at the border between the Western Continent and the Western Sea.
• After receiving information from Di Kun and Shen Yuan, Luohu invited Hongjun, Yang Mei, and the others to Mount Sumeru to discuss the Kalpa of Calamity.
• Hongjun, Luohu, Yang Mei, and the others recognized that they had settled their Causality for obstructing the Primordial Wilderness’s opening but still owed Causality to the Chaos Gods and Demons who had enabled their reincarnations.
• Luohu and the others hesitated to confront the Chaos Gods and Demons reborn in the Abyss, fearing it would deepen their tribulation and damage their Dao hearts.

After greed turned many cultivators into intelligent, corrupted Sea of Blood monsters, the Blood Sea was thought to be safe once the fallen were mostly eliminated. When one-tenth of those who entered later vanished, western powers barred entry and began searching for the cause.

• Beings who secretly consumed all their Golden Blood grew powerful but fell into the Blood Sea and returned as destructive monsters.
• Thousands more beings became intelligent Sea of Blood monsters, prompting cultivators to swear Great Dao oaths and join forces to hunt them.
• After most fallen monsters were slain, the remaining ones concealed their auras and attacked without warning.
• Beings gathered on the Blood Sea shore and discovered that one-tenth of those who had entered had disappeared without a trace.
• Powerful figures from the west barred everyone from entering the Blood Sea and began investigating the disappearances.

Several peak Grand Unity Golden Immortals failed to uncover the cause of the Blood Sea’s changes and decided to wait for the culprit to reveal himself. Luohu denied knowing much about the situation, then revealed that Di Kun and Shen Yuan had informed him of the changes, leaving Hongjun and the others suspicious and confused about Shen Yuan’s role.

• The peak Grand Unity Golden Immortals emerged from the Blood Sea without finding any clues and discussed whether to summon a Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• A Daoist in a dark blue robe persuaded the others to maintain their defenses and wait for the culprit to act, and they began refining their plan.
• Hongjun asked Luohu why he had not intervened as the Western Spokesperson, while Yang Mei and the others watched him closely.
• Luohu said he knew little beyond the Blood Sea’s changes and the approaching Kalpa of Calamity, and explained that Di Kun and Shen Yuan had informed him.
• Hongjun, Yang Mei, and the others were startled to learn of Shen Yuan’s connection to the Blood Sea and questioned why the Abyss’s creator would help the beings of the Primordial Land.