Chapter Summaries

Qi Yuan entered the Ancestral Land, where he exposed no traitors but frightened them into fleeing through his fortune-telling. He led his citizens into a dangerous tower, safely reached its highest level, and found a vast supply of Lin Mu Immortal Liquid whose true nature he discovered was bathwater.

• Snake Old and other Ancient Gods fled as soon as they entered the Ancestral Land, while Yan Xi Ancient God explained that World Defying Great Venerable had turned them into traitors plotting to assassinate the others and seize the final gate.
• Qi Yuan denied being sent by a Great Venerable and said he had identified the traitors by telling their fortunes; when the Ancient Gods thanked him, he invited them to become citizens of Green Water Village, but they refused.
• The younger twin sister gave Qi Yuan a map and explained the Ancestral Land’s dangers, including roaming Puppet Gods, but Qi Yuan chose to head toward a tower despite the group’s warnings.
• Inside the tower, Qi Yuan spotted fifty-seven dormant Puppet Gods and used his twitching eyebrows to find a safe route, leading his citizens through the tower without waking them.
• Qi Yuan and his citizens reached the tower’s highest level and found a large supply of Lin Mu Immortal Liquid, which Qi Yuan identified as bathwater made with bathing liquid from the Water Treasure Clan.

Qi Yuan led the villagers through the first two towers of the ancestral land, gathering Lin Mu Immortal Liquid and a vast cache of Taiyin Thunder Pearls. Impressed by his success and eager to enter the next towers, all eight waiting Ancient Gods agreed to serve him for ten years per tower.

• Qi Yuan let the villagers drink the Lin Mu Immortal Liquid, which strengthened them and helped Happy Arhat open his second divine aperture.
• Qi Yuan led the villagers out of the first tower with about ten thousand jin of Lin Mu Immortal Liquid, astonishing the Ancient Gods waiting outside.
• Qi Yuan entered the second tower and collected more than a thousand small Taiyin Thunder Pearls and over a dozen fist-sized ones.
• Looking Pine Ancient God offered to serve Qi Yuan for ten years to enter the next tower, and the other seven Ancient Gods quickly joined him.
• Qi Yuan accepted all eight Ancient Gods and told them they would serve for ten years per tower.

Qi Yuan led the Ancient Gods through the ancestral land, discovering a He Yao Six Factory warehouse full of Divine Aperture Essence and other treasures that greatly strengthened his group. Meanwhile, World Defying Great Venerable betrayed Snake Old and sent Feng Kui and Tan Zui to capture the other Ancient Gods for sacrifices.

• Qi Yuan led the group through the third tower, collected scattered treasures, and took ten vials of Divine Aperture Essence from its highest floor.
• Qi Yuan reached the He Yao Six Factory, where the group opened a massive alloy door and found warehouses packed with Divine Aperture Essence and other medicines.
• Qi Yuan distributed treasures among the Ancient Gods, and several of them broke through to higher cultivation stages.
• World Defying Great Venerable reassured Snake Old and the other Ancient Gods, then had them restrained and thrown into a furnace as sacrifices.
• World Defying Great Venerable ordered Feng Kui and Tan Zui to capture the other Ancient Gods who had entered the ancestral land.

Qi Yuan found God Domain Immortal Liquid in a tower and gave it to the ancient gods, who awakened God Domain Seeds. When Feng Kui and Tan Zui ambushed the group, the newly empowered gods suppressed them, leaving Qi Yuan to mock the two New Gods as underdeveloped.

• World Defying Great Venerable learned that three ancient god Great Venerables had arrived in South Facing City, then ordered the New Gods to leave the ancestral ground without Feng Kui and Tan Zui.
• Qi Yuan opened a warehouse and found several hundred vials of God Domain Immortal Liquid, which he handed out to the ancient gods who claimed they were underdeveloped.
• The ancient gods, including the twin sisters, drank the liquid and awakened God Domain Seeds, while Feng Kui and Tan Zui watched them leave the tower.
• Feng Kui and Tan Zui blocked Qi Yuan's group and demanded the treasures they had found, but Qi Yuan ordered the ancient gods to attack them.
• The ten ancient gods used their God Domain Prototypes to immobilize Feng Kui and Tan Zui, and Qi Yuan mocked the defeated New Gods as incomplete.

Qi Yuan led the Ancient Gods through the Ancestral Land, defeated two evil gods, and discovered that the Lost Fluorescent Stick could take them to ancient times, where they could break through to True God. He prepared to contemplate powerful deities for his companions before the journey began.

• Qi Yuan ordered the Ancient Gods to kill Feng Kui and Tan Zui, then sent their corpses to the trash can because burial was forbidden in the Ancestral Land.
• Divine Thunder Great Venerable left Green Water Village to secretly hunt Zhang Feng and entrusted his possessions to Xiao Xue for Qi Yuan.
• Qi Yuan led the group to the final tower, where they endured its deadly hazards and found the Lost Fluorescent Stick on the highest floor.
• Qi Yuan discovered that the Lost Fluorescent Stick could send them to ancient times, where they could use the ancient aura to break through to True God.
• Qi Yuan used the Blood-colored Jade Leaf to activate the Lost Fluorescent Stick and decided to contemplate powerful deities for his eight companions before their journey.

Qi Yuan contemplated eight previously unknown Myth-grade Divine Contemplation Methods, astonishing the gods and drawing the attention of the Myth Plan’s leaders. He bestowed the methods on his eight village subjects, then used the Lost Fluorescent Stick to take them away so they could break through to True Gods.

• Qi Yuan summoned Marshal Tian Peng through contemplation, and the Mountain of Contemplation produced eight Myth-grade Divine Contemplation Methods amid thunder, drums, dragons, and phoenixes.
• Li Mountain Great Venerable realized that Qi Yuan had created all eight methods and ordered the discovery kept secret while planning to protect him.
• Qi Yuan gave the eight methods to Zhu Zhuangshi and the other seven villagers, despite the Ancient Gods’ envy and disbelief.
• Zhu Zhuangshi asked whether his method would help him defeat Big Black Dog, and Qi Yuan told the villagers to study their methods at once.
• Qi Yuan warned the remaining Ancient Gods not to move, then used the Lost Fluorescent Stick to take his eleven subjects away.

Qi Yuan returned to the ancient Mortal Heart World, broke through to True God Level 13, and met the No Food Saint Mother as the Hong Tang War threatened the Heavenly Pillar. She told him she would soon face an enemy above True God to buy time for the World Seed's escape, and Qi Yuan agreed to help before joining her for a walk around the world.

• Qi Yuan arrived in the ancient world with the villagers, ordered them to cultivate, and broke through to True God Level 13 while Subduing Dragon Arhat and Taming Tiger Arhat also advanced.
• As the Heavenly Pillar shook during the Hong Tang War, Qi Yuan left the villagers to cultivate and traveled toward the battlefield.
• The No Food Saint Mother explained that she would hold back an enemy above True God for twenty breaths so the other mythic powerhouses could send out the World Seed after the Heavenly Pillar broke.
• Qi Yuan agreed to help the No Food Saint Mother, though he could not physically interact with her or the world, and waited at her home.
• The No Food Saint Mother cooked and ate fish while Qi Yuan watched, then offered to take him around Mortal Heart World to help raise his realm, and he accepted.

Qi Yuan witnessed No Food Saint Mother sacrifice herself to hold back Blood Sun Great Saint's Devouring Body Projection as the Heavenly Pillar fell, then returned from the Hong Tang War. Outside the ancestral land, he reunited with the Great Venerables, who were stunned by the villagers' newfound strength, and Li Mountain Great Venerable urged him to wait before returning.

• Qi Yuan toured Mortal Heart World with No Food Saint Mother, then watched a Yang Spirit projection collapse the Heavenly Pillar and flood the world with blood rain.
• No Food Saint Mother fought Blood Sun Great Saint's Devouring Body Projection while Qi Yuan identified her injuries and powers, but she was overwhelmed after holding the enemy back for twenty breaths.
• No Food Saint Mother died after saying she had fulfilled her promise to guard the Heavenly Pillar, and the six myths perished after the Yang Spirit projection entered it.
• Qi Yuan returned from the ancestral land, where a dark-skinned man had already emerged boasting of opening three divine apertures, and the Great Venerables asked him about Qi Yuan.
• Qi Yuan appeared with twenty villagers, whose strength and God Domain Prototypes astonished Li Mountain Great Venerable; he also revealed that he had given eight villagers mythical-grade Divine Contemplation Methods.
• When Qi Yuan said he was leaving by teleportation array, Li Mountain Great Venerable hurriedly asked him to wait.

Qi Yuan rejected Li Mountain Great Venerable’s offer to join the Myth Plan and leave Mortal Heart World, declaring that he would fight the evil gods instead. After learning Divine Thunder Great Venerable had gone to Cai Country to find Zhang Feng, Qi Yuan led his allies there and pressed on despite the danger of Evil God Barracks.

• Li Mountain Great Venerable explained the Myth Plan and urged Qi Yuan to join it, but Qi Yuan refused to run and vowed to kill the being above True God within the Heavenly Pillar.
• Li Mountain Great Venerable revealed that Divine Thunder Great Venerable had gone to find Zhang Feng and had little time left, so Qi Yuan returned to Green Water Village and received the old god’s Storage Bag from Xiao Xue.
• Qi Yuan identified Zhang Feng as his target and ordered his allies to march openly toward Cai Country, overruling the twin sisters’ concerns about exposing Green Water Village.
• Qi Yuan’s group killed Evil Gods who tried to block their route, then used Dao technique voice transmission to announce that they were going to slay Zhang Feng.
• An unseen ancient god warned Qi Yuan that Evil Gods from the barracks were stationed in Cai Country’s capital, but Qi Yuan ordered the group onward, determined to see Zhang Feng dead or alive.

Qi Yuan and his allies killed Zhang Feng and eight Evil God Barracks fighters in Cai Country Capital, then fled as a Great Venerable attacked them. Zhu Zhuangshi and the other three villagers summoned the Four Sages of the Arctic and shattered the incoming strike.

• Qi Yuan exposed Zhang Feng’s feigned injuries, killed the eight Evil God Barracks fighters, searched Zhang Feng’s memories for Venerable Tian Bao, and then killed him.
• Qi Yuan’s group fled Cai Country Capital, but a Great Venerable launched a devastating attack at them from the north.
• The older twin sister prepared to have eight ancient gods block the strike, but Qi Yuan sent Zhu Zhuangshi, Chen Xifan, Shi Zhongshan, and Mu Tong to face it.
• The four villagers manifested the Four Sages of the Arctic and shattered the Great Venerable’s pillar of light.

Qi Yuan and the ancient gods escaped after blocking the Evil God Barracks Battalion Commander's strike, while Divine Thunder Great Venerable learned that Zhang Feng had already been killed and suspected Qi Yuan was responsible. In Flying Wasteland City, Qi Yuan announced a new plan to strike the evil gods before they could retaliate.

• Zhu Zhuangshi and the other ancient gods blocked the Battalion Commander's full-force attack, then fled toward Green Water Village as the Battalion Commander ordered his deputy to pursue them.
• Divine Thunder Great Venerable learned at a roadside tavern that Zhang Feng had been killed by an ancient god who also blocked the Battalion Commander's strike.
• After hearing that the killer had promised the citizens another feast, Divine Thunder Great Venerable suspected Qi Yuan was responsible and asked Li Mountain Great Venerable about the eight myths being discussed in their group chat.
• Li Mountain Great Venerable urged Divine Thunder Great Venerable to return, while Divine Thunder Great Venerable feared Qi Yuan's actions had exposed Green Water Village to the evil gods.
• In Flying Wasteland City, Qi Yuan told the ancient gods to eat and recover, then proposed taking the initiative against the evil gods with a plan called Three Days... Annihilate a Hundred Gods.

Qi Yuan sent the ancient gods of Green Water Village to attack evil gods across Lin Country and Maple Country, turning his proposed three-day campaign into a single-day assault. As the Evil God Barracks prepared to retaliate, Twilight Venerable left the Ancient God Alliance and began recruiting people to support Green Water Village.

• Qi Yuan asked Qi Qi about nearby evil gods, then ordered the ancient gods to attack across Lin Country and Maple Country with Taiyin Thunder Pearls.
• The elder twin explained that the campaign relied on the ancient gods overwhelming their enemies with superior strength, while Qi Yuan assigned Zhu Zhuangshi a separate task.
• The ancient gods killed every evil god in three nearby Maple Country cities, alarming the Ancient God Alliance's venerables.
• Twilight Venerable defended Green Water Village's attacks, rejected the Alliance's inaction, and left to help them.
• Ten Thousand Mountains Venerable and Venerable Wen Yang learned that Twilight Venerable was urging people to support Green Water Village.

Twilight Venerable and a small group of ancient gods set out to support Origin Celestial Lord, while Divine Thunder Great Venerable and Li Mountain Great Venerable learned that Qi Yuan had launched a campaign against the evil gods. Qi Yuan arrived at Flower Leaf City with Zhu Zhuangshi and requested a suona player as he prepared to kill someone.

• Twilight Venerable revealed that Origin Celestial Lord had contemplated twenty-one legendary Divine Contemplation Methods, and the ancient gods resolved to protect him as they headed toward Green Water Village.
• Divine Thunder Great Venerable learned that Qi Yuan had led more than twenty ancient gods to kill Zhang Feng and was now sweeping through the evil gods of Maple Country and Lin Country.
• Li Mountain Great Venerable decided to go to Green Water Village and urged Divine Thunder Great Venerable to take Qi Yuan to the North Sea Divine Eye.
• Qi Yuan and Zhu Zhuangshi visited Small Jiang Mountain, where Qi Yuan recalled coming there long ago with No Food Saint Mother.
• At a pavilion in Flower Leaf City, Qi Yuan asked for a suona player because he was preparing to kill someone, and Aunt Liu assigned Xiao Xing to investigate the guests.

Qi Yuan destroyed the Evil God Barracks at Limitless Mountain with a Taiyin Thunder Pearl while Xiao Xing played the suona at Red Leaf Pavilion. He left to attack more barracks, while Divine Thunder Great Venerable waited anxiously for him to return to Green Water Village.

• Aunt Liu told Xiao Xing that Red Leaf Pavilion had gathered little intelligence for the ancient gods despite years of work and many deaths.
• Qi Yuan listened to Xiao Xing play the suona, restrained Aunt Liu when she tried to evacuate the pavilion, and left with Zhu Zhuangshi to handle the evil gods.
• Qi Yuan used a Taiyin Thunder Pearl to destroy Limitless Mountain and its Evil God Barracks, then killed an evil god who had escaped the blast.
• Xiao Xing recognized Qi Yuan as the guest who had destroyed Limitless Mountain, and Qi Yuan announced his arrival to Flower Leaf City before leaving to attack more barracks.
• Divine Thunder Great Venerable scolded the returning Ancient Gods for killing the evil gods in Feng and Lin and worried that Qi Yuan had not returned to Green Water Village.

Qi Yuan returned to Green Water Village after destroying four Evil God Barracks, recruited the visiting ancient gods as his subjects, and dismissed fears of an imminent attack. He began assessing his new subjects so he could match them with suitable Divine Contemplation Methods, while Divine Thunder Great Venerable warned that Qing Heng Continent’s forces would soon retaliate.

• Divine Thunder Great Venerable urged Qi Yuan to flee to the North Sea Divine Eye, but Qi Yuan revealed that he and Zhu Zhuangshi had destroyed four nearby Evil God Barracks with Taiyin Thunder Pearls.
• Qi Yuan invited Twilight Venerable, Fire Lotus Venerable, and the other ancient gods to become his subjects, and they accepted after learning he would provide God Domain Immortal Liquid.
• Divine Thunder Great Venerable initially refused to become Qi Yuan’s subject, then agreed after Qi Yuan hinted at a grand gift.
• Divine Thunder Great Venerable warned that the Qing Heng Continent Warlord would send at least ten Great Venerables to retaliate, but Qi Yuan said he would defeat them and sweep through Mortal Heart World.
• Qi Yuan asked Qi Qi for the completed information forms, distributed them to the ancient gods, and told them to record their cultivation paths and desired divine offices so he could find suitable Divine Contemplation Methods.
• Looking Pine Ancient God urged Li Xiao to choose the Body Refinement Path, and their bickering eased the tense mood among the gathered gods.

Qi Yuan formed a second Star Golden Core and promised Divine Thunder Great Venerable that he would save Mortal Heart World. Meanwhile, the Ancient God Alliance defected to the New Gods at Sunset Slope, where Three Flames Great Venerable prepared to attack Qi Yuan and his allies.

• Divine Thunder Great Venerable warned Qi Yuan that the Land of Contemplation could support only five more myth-level Divine Contemplation Methods and reported that thirty-four Great Venerables and over a thousand Evil Gods were gathering at Sunset Slope.
• Qi Yuan told Divine Thunder Great Venerable that his Golden Core was a star, and a second sun appeared in the sky as he formed another Star Golden Core.
• Qi Yuan assured Divine Thunder Great Venerable that he had a detailed plan to clear Mortal Heart World within the year.
• Ten Thousand Mountains Venerable and Venerable Wen Yang led ninety-seven Ancient Gods to Sunset Slope to pledge allegiance to the New Gods and offer their service.
• Three Flames Great Venerable mocked the Ancient Gods for submitting and threatened Qi Yuan with death for attacking the New God barracks.
• Qi Yuan waited with Divine Thunder Great Venerable and several concerned Ancient Gods, then asked whether all the forces had arrived.

Qi Yuan used his second Star Golden Core to destroy the Evil God army at Sunset Slope, killing more than a thousand True Gods. The Warlords and Southern Land Great Venerables reacted to the intervention, while Spirit Bell Great Venerable chose to enter the Northern Land; back in Flying Wasteland City, Qi Yuan gathered everyone for the next step of his plan.

• Qi Yuan summoned a sun phantom that crashed into Sunset Slope and killed more than thirty Great Venerables and over a thousand other True Gods.
• Qi Yuan mourned the fallen White Moonlights in words, then returned with the others to feast.
• Evil God Warlord and the other Warlords discussed the attack and suspected that a Yang Spirit from beyond the domain had placed a pawn in Mortal Heart World.
• Southern Land Great Venerables debated the attack, and Spirit Bell Great Venerable announced that he would go to the Northern Land.
• Qi Yuan gathered everyone in Flying Wasteland City and said that half of the first step in his plan to destroy the evil gods was complete.

Qi Yuan brought the Ancient Gods and villagers into the past to cultivate and began contemplating a powerful thunder deity, but the Mountain of Contemplation cracked. No Food Saint Mother warned him that further contemplation could break the Heavenly Pillar, and Qi Yuan went to meet her there.

• Qi Yuan used the Lost Fluorescent Stick to take the Ancient Gods and villagers back to a time before the Heavenly Pillar collapsed, where they could cultivate but not interact with the past.
• Qi Yuan chose to contemplate the Nine Heavens Responding Origin Thunder Sound Universalizing Heavenly Venerable for Divine Thunder Great Venerable, and the Mountain of Contemplation cracked as it formed the Divine Contemplation Method.
• No Food Saint Mother refused Spirit Bell Great Venerable's plea to leave the Heavenly Pillar, insisting she had promised to guard it until it fell.
• No Food Saint Mother warned Qi Yuan that continuing to contemplate would break the Heavenly Pillar, so he left the place of contemplation to find her.
• Qi Yuan met No Food Saint Mother atop the Heavenly Pillar and wondered whether she recognized him from their future encounter.

Qi Yuan learned that No Food Saint Mother was fused with the unstable Heavenly Pillar, which could be repaired if she ate. He persuaded her to learn to make braised fish, then she left with cooking utensils as Spirit Bell Great Venerable and Old Man Fan Xin checked on her and the Heavenly Pillar.

• No Food Saint Mother confirmed that the Heavenly Pillar was unstable and could crack if Qi Yuan continued contemplating, explaining that she was fused with it and that eating would stabilize it.
• Qi Yuan urged No Food Saint Mother to eat and persuaded her to make braised fish, though she had not eaten for a long time.
• Qi Yuan and No Food Saint Mother went to buy cooking utensils and discussed catching fish for a meal before he left to contemplate the gods.
• Spirit Bell Great Venerable and Old Man Fan Xin returned with several True Gods, worried that the Heavenly Pillar's instability meant No Food Saint Mother was injured.
• No Food Saint Mother passed them carrying pots and spatulas, assured them she was unharmed, and confirmed she could attend the battle at Rising Dragon Arena.

Qi Yuan discovered that No Food Saint Mother's severe reaction to eating came from the world's filth tainting her food, and his Flawless Glazed Golden Body could purify it. After she recovered enough to eat, No Food Saint Mother questioned Qi Yuan about his unseen presence, and he asked what kind of constitution prevented her from eating.

• No Food Saint Mother dismissed Old Man Fan Xin and the other ancient gods, then returned to the bamboo hut with Qi Yuan.
• Qi Yuan directed No Food Saint Mother as she cooked seven fish, but eating one piece left her trembling and barely conscious.
• Qi Yuan used his ability to inspect objects and learned that flawless glazed blood could purify the world's filth on food.
• Qi Yuan shed several drops of his own flawless glazed blood onto the fish, and No Food Saint Mother's condition improved enough for her to eat.
• No Food Saint Mother asked how Qi Yuan had helped her and pointed out how frightening it was that she could hear him but neither see nor sense him.
• Qi Yuan asked No Food Saint Mother what constitution made her unable to eat.