Chapter Summaries

Luohu and the others uncovered the Abyss’s divided authority and the hidden danger posed by Chaos Gods and Demons reincarnated in the Primordial Wilderness. As they planned for the coming Kalpa of Calamity, Luohu revealed Shen Yuan’s connection to Di Kun, but kept Di Kun’s map to himself.

• Yang Mei explained that Shen Yuan retained the Abyss’s core authority while the Three Paths of the Primordial Wilderness controlled much of the rest, and Luohu returned with the group to Mount Sumeru.
• Luohu and the others distributed Jade Tokens and stationed themselves around the Blood Sea, where hidden monsters repeatedly attacked and captured explorers.
• Luohu shared Shen Yuan’s information, and Boundless Ancestor explained why reincarnated Chaos Gods and Demons threatened the Primordial Wilderness’s control over its Great Daos.
• Hongjun proposed helping the Chaos Gods and Demons abandon their Great Daos, but Luohu urged secret plans to manage their Karma and prepare across the Western Continent.
• Luohu warned that Shen Yuan’s plans remained unclear and disclosed that Di Kun had left him information about the Blood Sea, prompting Hongjun and the others to demand the full account.
• Luohu sent them information about Di Kun and Shen Yuan’s connection, but withheld the map Di Kun had left him.

Luohu, Hongjun, and the others discussed Di Kun’s escape from his Karma and concluded they could not safely imitate his method. They then turned to the Abyss and the approaching Kalpa of Calamity, agreeing to help Luohu with a plan for the Western Continent despite suspecting he was hiding his true objective.

• Luohu asked Hongjun and the others how to respond to the information from Di Kun and Shen Yuan, and they reasoned that Di Kun had considered his actions unavoidable.
• Ancestor Nirvana warned that abandoning their current Dao to follow Di Kun’s path could leave them unable to forge another Dao.
• Ancestor Qiankun explained that Di Kun had earned his freedom through extensive service to the Primordial Wilderness, including establishing the Earthly Dao and transforming himself into Reincarnation.
• Hongjun ended the discussion of Di Kun and raised the Abyss passage’s unexpected appearance on the Western Continent and its connection to the Kalpa of Calamity.
• Luohu discussed his Western Continent plan with Hongjun and the others without revealing his true objective, and they agreed to help him.

Shen Yuan learned from the Leyline Map that Luohu and the others had begun carrying out Di Kun’s plan, though he knew the timing was not yet right. Meanwhile, rumors that the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains concealed great treasures drove increasingly greedy living beings to enter them.

• Di Kun’s origin avatar had delivered the Leyline Map to Shen Yuan after the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains reconnected with the Primordial Wilderness, and Shen Yuan understood Di Kun’s arrangements.
• Shen Yuan sensed Luohu and the others’ actions in the Western Continent and decided they still needed to wait for a better moment.
• Living beings traded Golden Blood from the Blood Sea for resources and breakthroughs, while some began eyeing the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• When others questioned Yekai and his group about the mountains, their Dao Oath prevented them from revealing what they had seen.
• Yekai and his group’s silence fueled rumors that they had found a safe land of treasure and were hiding its riches.
• Greedy living beings began entering the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, believing its dangers were overstated and its guardian might avoid conflict.

Living beings entering the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains found stone tablets describing Yekai and the others’ experiences, but a restriction prevented them from sharing what they learned. Their fears and suspicions split them over whether to withdraw, follow Yekai’s route, or explore new areas, while those still outside grew wary of entering.

• The newcomers discovered stone tablets throughout the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and learned that they could not reveal their contents before Yekai and the others left.
• Some entrants feared they lacked the protection Yekai and the others had received and chose to withdraw, while others suspected the tablets were meant to deter competition for resources.
• Some living beings dismissed the warnings, believing the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains’ inhabitants were weaker than the Primordial Wilderness’s residents and seeking resources to advance their cultivation.
• The first entrants returned without explaining their decision, making those still outside hesitate and reconsider entering.
• Those who remained inside disagreed over whether to follow Yekai and the others’ relatively safe route or explore places they had not visited.
• The newcomers did not know that the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains’ races managed and guarded its resources, leaving little of value for outsiders to find.

Shen Yuan’s plan used Yekai and the others’ trials and exploration to help the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains reconnect with the Primordial Wilderness before the Kalpa of Calamity ended. The chapter ended with Shen Yuan and the others embracing an unpredictable future rather than following the course laid out in their memories.

• The Primordial Life Ancient Tree allowed entrants to act freely as long as they did not harm the beings of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and it left disputes for them to settle.
• The beings of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains anticipated that Yekai and the others would pass the trials and open the way for them to travel throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Shen Yuan reflected that the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains had been severed from the Primordial Wilderness and that he had devised the trials to help restore their connection.
• Shen Yuan planned for Yekai and the others to complete the trials before the Kalpa of Calamity ended, so the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains could be perfected through its power.
• Shen Yuan, Di Kun, and the others chose the uncertain future of the Primordial Wilderness over the predictable path in their memories.

Yekai and his companions struggled against an opponent who had adapted to their tactics and concealed his weakness. Frustrated and furious, they abandoned their plans and charged together, determined to fight to the end.

• Qingfeng and Lingyin told Yekai they could find no opening because their opponent had repaired his weakness and improved his defenses.
• Yifeng urged the group to force their way through, revealing his anger over the opponent's earlier blow and their prolonged struggle.
• Yekai and the others recalled their repeated defeats and grew angry at always suffering the worst injuries.
• Yekai abandoned the formation and charged at their opponent, and his companions followed.

The Stone Person launched a full assault against Yekai and his companions, who joined forces to stop his barrage of rocks and mud. As their combined tornado began to falter, the Stone Person raised more waves of stone toward it.

• The Stone Person abandoned his defensive approach and attacked Yekai and the others with fist-sized rocks and a wave of mud and sand.
• Qingfeng summoned a tornado of wind blades to break apart the incoming rocks, while Chifeng added his Yang Thunder Tribulation Fire to strengthen it.
• The tornado scorched and shattered the rocks, but the Stone Person's wave of mud and stone struck it and threatened to disperse it.
• Shuining arrived and sent water from his Heaven and Earth Water Pattern into the tornado, making it more violent with flames, wind, rain, and lightning.
• The rain slowed the Stone Person's wave, which the tornado scorched and shattered, but the Stone Person raised more waves of mud and stone toward it.

Yekai and his companions fought the Stone People until he abandoned his defensive tactics and charged into a direct confrontation. Yekai’s surprise assault left the Stone People immobilized as attacks struck across his body.

• After the tornado dissipated, the Stone People advanced on Yekai and his companions, who charged to meet him.
• The Stone People raised the swamp to block their vision, then brought down his Stone Hammer and Law of Gravity.
• Yekai transformed into a giant black dog, vanished into the swamp’s shadows, and dodged the Stone People’s attacks.
• Yekai’s movements brought other fighters into the battle, and they attacked the Stone People while the giant dog struck at his head.
• The Stone People’s attempt to retreat failed when a vine bound him, ice formed around his heart, and a Sun Divine Arrow and other attacks hit him.

After a brutal battle with the Stone People, Yekai and the others realized they had lost their fighting spirit and recovered their true natures. As they healed, a mysterious sapling appeared and helped several of them enter deep enlightenment, leaving them poised for breakthroughs.

• Chifeng and the others lay gravely wounded after fighting the Stone People, but they smiled at having finally fought with spirit.
• Yekai explained that the group had grown too cautious during the trial and had lost the courage and sharpness they once possessed.
• The group recognized that the Stone People fighter had suffered severe injuries while helping them regain their true hearts, and they resolved to apologize when they met him again.
• Yekai said the battle had clarified his true heart and that he might soon break through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• As Yekai, Qingfeng, Shuining, and the others recovered, a sapling emerged and spread a life Dao charm that healed them and drew several into deep enlightenment.

Shifang recovered beneath the Primordial Life Ancient Tree and was ordered to join the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains in the Kalpa of Calamity. The Elf Empress then reported that the scattered Elf branches had been found and their initial Fortune gathered, and the Ancient Tree ordered them to return for its baptism.

• Shifang healed beneath the Primordial Life Ancient Tree while absorbing the Ancestral Vein's earth energy, bringing him close to a breakthrough.
• Shifang thanked Great God Primordial, and the Ancient Tree told him to break through and join the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains in the Kalpa of Calamity against the Ferocious Beast race.
• Shifang left for his clan's territory, having held back during his battle with Yekai and the others to avoid killing them and disrupting the Ancient Tree's plan.
• The Elf Empress reported that the Elf branches' locations and histories had been investigated and their Elf Stone Walls linked to gather the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains' scattered initial Fortune.
• The Primordial Life Ancient Tree ordered the clans' saintesses to bring their initial Fortune back for its baptism and formally return.

Shen Yuan began the next phase of his plan, leaving Primordial to oversee the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. In the Abyss, reincarnated Chaos Gods and Demons discussed why they had opposed Pangu, then called on an unseen benefactor who had helped them escape their predicament.

• Shen Yuan told Primordial to manage the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and vanished to begin his next plan.
• Reincarnated Chaos Gods and Demons gathered near the Abyssal Space Rift, where their presence kept the surrounding creatures in check.
• Shen Ni explained that they had opposed Pangu to prevent him from replacing Hundun at its source and erasing their origins.
• The Destruction Demon God and the Karma Demon God described their reasons for fighting Pangu, and the others reconsidered their anger as they recalled his transformation into the Dao.
• The Destiny Demon God addressed a hidden listener in the depths of the Abyss, acknowledging the help that had allowed them to escape their predicament.

Shen Yuan returned to the Abyss and learned more about the Chaos Gods and Demons’ past with Pangu and the Primordial Wilderness. After Causality explained that the reincarnated bodies were only a single thought of the original Chaos Gods and Demons, Shen Yuan realized the truth and was left shocked.

• Shen Yuan emerged from a spatial vortex and greeted the reincarnated Chaos Gods and Demons.
• The Death Demon God told Shen Yuan that they had revealed the truth because he would eventually have discovered it himself.
• Fate thanked Shen Yuan for helping free them from their suppression and confirmed that he had already guessed much of what they told him.
• Shen Yuan considered why the Abyss bore the Chaos Gods and Demons’ Causality when they had ultimately been suppressed.
• Causality explained that the reincarnated bodies were merely a single thought of the original Chaos Gods and Demons, and Fate and the others confirmed Shen Yuan’s shocked realization.

Shen Yuan pieced together how Pangu’s severing of the Primordial World from Hundun confined the Chaos Gods and Demons and limited their power. Shen Ni explained that they sought to help the Primordial World become eternal so they could return through its River of Time, leaving Shen Yuan to consider how their plans might shape the world’s future.

• Shen Yuan reasoned that Pangu had severed the Primordial World’s connection to Hundun to prevent the Chaos Gods and Demons from reviving within it after their defeat.
• Shen Yuan concluded that the Gods and Demons had entered the Primordial World through fragments of thought, while Pangu’s seal prevented them from bringing their full power across.
• Shen Yuan asked Shen Ni why the Gods and Demons persisted in actions that could bring calamity upon the Primordial World.
• Shen Ni said the Gods and Demons were manifestations of divine thoughts and that the Primordial World had to endure tribulations to become eternal.
• Shen Ni explained that an eternal Primordial World could bear Hundun’s energy, allowing Pangu to attain the Dao and the Gods and Demons to return through the River of Time.
• Shen Yuan considered that the Gods and Demons might have caused the Primordial World’s future shattering and the emergence of the Three Thousand Worlds, though he recognized that future was no longer certain.

Shen Yuan reconsidered the Chaos Gods and Demons’ connection to Pangu and realized he had underestimated their intelligence and long-term plans. After examining the Abyss, he found it was largely independent of the Primordial Wilderness and wondered whether Pangu had hidden himself and whether the struggle over his Dao Fruit concealed another purpose.

• Shen Yuan exchanged a knowing look with Fate, Karma, Shen Ni, and the others, then returned to the Abyss while they sat down to discuss the Dao.
• As the Chaos Gods and Demons discussed the Dao, Dao essences flowed into the Blood Sea, where Sea of Blood monsters gathered to absorb them.
• Shen Yuan reviewed his encounters with the Chaos Gods and Demons and concluded that they had left traces in the Primordial Wilderness to connect to the River of Time and prepare for the future.
• Shen Yuan realized he had underestimated the Chaos Gods and Demons, whose aid had served their interests by accelerating the Primordial Wilderness’s elevation and their return.
• Shen Yuan examined the Abyss and discovered that, despite its connection to the Primordial Wilderness, it was largely independent of its governance.
• Shen Yuan suspected Pangu might have hidden himself and questioned whether Hongjun and the others were using the struggle over Pangu’s Dao Fruit to conceal something.

Shen Yuan pieced together how the Chaos Gods and Demons’ resentment threatened the Primordial Wilderness and how his own actions had weakened it. He realized the Primordial Wilderness had repaid his help with opportunities, but its investments had left him owing it Causality again.

• Shen Yuan reasoned that the Chaos Gods and Demons’ resentment had naturally formed from their remnants and sought to destroy the Primordial Wilderness.
• Shen Yuan recognized that his work on the Earth Veins, his actions at Mount Zhou, and opening the Abyss had suppressed the resentment and cut off its source of strength.
• Shen Yuan concluded that Houtu had transformed into Reincarnation beside the Blood Sea to suppress resentment and stabilize the Earthly Dao.
• Shen Yuan understood that the Primordial Wilderness had rewarded his efforts with opportunities, then invested in him so he would help it again.
• Shen Yuan cursed inwardly as he realized that the Primordial Wilderness’s repayment had made him indebted to it once more.

Shen Yuan investigated a disturbance in the Blood Sea and witnessed its light corrupt Primordial Wilderness creatures into Sea of Blood monsters. As the pillar faded, black resentful energy gathered into a huge sphere over the sea.

• Shen Yuan sensed a disturbance from the Blood Sea, crossed from the Abyss, and concealed himself above it.
• The Blood Sea turned violent, and Sea of Blood monsters surfaced in great numbers as Primordial Wilderness creatures watched from shore.
• A blood-red and black pillar rose from the sea, tempting weaker creatures; some transformed into monsters while stronger beings protected others with Mana barriers.
• Shen Yuan sensed a familiar presence in the Blood Sea's changed aura and watched as the pillar gradually thinned.
• Black resentful energy flowed into Sea of Blood monsters and gathered above the Blood Sea as an enormous sphere.

Duotian emerged from the Blood Sea, founded the Clan of Corruption, and announced the beginning of the Kalpa of Calamity. Abyssal creatures poured into the Primordial Wilderness, overwhelming the Western Continent’s border forces as reinforcements struggled to contain them.

• Duotian appeared above the Blood Sea as its turmoil intensified and its plea for protection reached Daluo experts.
• Duotian declared that he had been born from the Abyss and the Resentment of Chaos Gods and Demons, established the Clan of Corruption, and opened the Kalpa of Calamity.
• Calamity Qi gathered above the Western Continent, and Space Rifts opened along its border with the Western Sea and in the Abyss.
• Abyssal creatures poured through the rifts and killed many Primordial World Beings before they could organize their defenses.
• Grand Unity Golden Immortals left the Blood Sea battlefield to protect the border forces, but endless Abyssal attackers kept them from weakening the invasion.

Shen Yuan sensed the Blood Sea’s changes and realized the Chaos Gods and Demons had used Duotian to bring the Kalpa of Calamity forward and evade the Earthly Dao World’s gradually emerging Reincarnation. The Chaos Gods and Demons’ resentment merged into Duotian, leaving his identity uncertain as the calamity slipped beyond Shen Yuan’s control.

• Shen Yuan sensed the Blood Sea’s transformation and realized the Kalpa of Calamity had erupted earlier than his plans allowed.
• Shen Yuan traced the changes to Duotian, a transformed Sea of Blood monster who had survived the purge and gathered other beings to his side.
• The Chaos Gods and Demons exploited Shen Yuan’s attention, using their Great Daos and traces of their power to help Duotian absorb their blood and comprehend multiple Great Daos.
• Duotian became an incomplete amalgamation of the three thousand Chaos Gods and Demons, giving the resentment hidden across the Primordial Wilderness a vessel.
• The resentment merged into Duotian to escape the Earthly Dao World’s emerging Reincarnation, though it remained unclear whether Duotian still retained his original self.

Shen Yuan ordered the Primordial Life Ancient Tree to mobilize the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and its beings gathered into a highly coordinated force. Watching them during their trials, Yekai and the others gained new insight into creating their own Great Daos and found a broader path toward the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

• Shen Yuan used his origin avatar to command the Primordial Life Ancient Tree to act in advance.
• The Primordial Life Ancient Tree conveyed the command across the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and countless beings gathered and headed for the exits in coordinated formations.
• Yekai and the others watched the mountain beings pass and felt the pressure of their practiced, unified combat formation.
• Repeatedly resisting their instinctive fear brought Yekai and the others close to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Yekai and the others learned that many beings in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains developed their own Great Daos from foundations laid by Great God Primordial Ancient Tree and Di Kun Dao Ancestor.
• Yekai and the others began seeking to create new Great Daos rather than merely comprehend the Daos of their predecessors.

The Western Continent descended into a war of attrition as Abyssal creatures poured through Space Rifts and the Primordial World Beings adapted to battle. Wise Abyssal creatures began studying their enemies’ tactics and weapons, and the Chaos Gods and Demons gave them tokens to command others and expand the Abyssal forces’ gains.

• Grand Unity Golden Immortals who had survived the Ferocious Beast Tribulation attacked Abyssal creatures, but the Primordial Wilderness warned them against intervening, and others restrained those who fell into demonic obsession.
• Abyssal creatures broke through the border between the Western Territory and Western Sea, spreading into other regions before Primordial World Beings could block their advance.
• Primordial World Beings endured early defeats, then used the fighting to turn their accumulated knowledge into stronger combat skills and stabilize the defensive line.
• The war settled into attrition as Abyssal creatures slowly expanded their territory and both sides adapted to one another’s methods.
• Wise Abyssal creatures studied Primordial World Beings’ coordination and magic treasures, drawing the attention of the Chaos Gods and Demons.
• Chaos Gods and Demons sent aura-bearing tokens through the Space Rifts to the wise Abyssal creatures, enabling them to command other Abyssal creatures and help expand their gains.