Chapter Summaries

Donghua and the other six Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals split into four groups to collect Pangu scraps across Chaos, and each group encountered a shell cultivated by a Dao Venerable. Donghua, Jade Spirit Child, and Xuandu helped their opponents regulate their shells, while Tianheng began the same process in the north.

• Donghua took the Immortal Court's command banner and sent the six others into three paired routes while he traveled east alone.
• Donghua found the Venerable of the Dao of Ten Thousand Balances' shell, exposed its balance eye, and taught him to regulate the Ten Thousand Balance Scale; the Venerable agreed to collect the shell and return with Donghua.
• Jade Spirit Child and Wood Spirit Child found Dao Venerable Wansheng's vine shell, caused its patterns to tangle, and helped her regulate the Ten Thousand Life Pool; she agreed to return with them.
• Xuandu and Yin Xi found Dao Venerable Wandu's measure shell, opened its measure eye, and taught him to regulate the Ten Thousand Measure Ruler; Yin Xi told him to meet him at the City of Ten Thousand Crafts.
• Tianheng and Tiandu found another shell belonging to the Venerable of the Dao of Ten Thousand Balances, exposed its scale eye, and Tianheng advised him to keep the Ten Thousand Balance Scale half full and reserve thirty percent of its patterns inside.

Di Jun led the Ten Great Demon Sages into Chaos to collect six universe worlds, teaching them to open the counterweight holes in the shells of six Dao Venerables. The worlds and their Venerables returned to the Primordial Wilderness, where the Venerables began training at Yin Xi’s passes and the Demon Race prepared to study the dismantled worlds.

• Di Jun assigned the Ten Great Demon Sages six routes through Chaos and explained how to find and open the shells’ counterweight holes.
• Di Jun opened the servitude eye in the Dao of Ten Thousand Servitudes Venerable’s shell, and the Venerable agreed to return with him and learn the regulation method.
• Ji Meng, Bai Ze, Fei Lian, Shang Yang, and Ci Tie each used the method to stabilize a shell and recruit its Dao Venerable, while their partners helped inspect the shells.
• Di Jun and the Demon Sages brought back six universe worlds, and Taiqing’s true body directed where to place and dismantle them.
• Di Jun assigned five Dao Venerables and Demon Sages to oversee worlds around the continents, while he took the Dao of Ten Thousand Servitudes Venerable to prepare teaching materials.
• Di Jun announced the collected worlds on the Human Dao Heavenly Net, and Yin Xi reported that all six Dao Venerables had arrived at the City of Ten Thousand Crafts to begin the passes.

Ancestral Dragon led the Dragon Clan in collecting ten Universe Worlds, overcoming their rulers by exposing faults in their worlds' counterweight regulation and teaching them how to restore balance. The ten Dao Venerables joined the Primordial Wilderness and began training under Yin Xi while the collected worlds were assigned for dismantling and integration.

• Ancestral Dragon answered Taiqing's true body's summons by dividing the expedition among ten routes and ordering the Dragon Clan to spare living creatures wherever possible.
• Ancestral Dragon opened the Dao of Ten Thousand Dragons Venerable's blocked counterweight hole, taught him to balance his world's power, and secured his world and cooperation.
• Candle Dragon, Azure Dragon, and Ying Long used the same approach to collect the worlds of the Dao of Ten Thousand Times Venerable, the Dao of Ten Thousand Trees Venerable, and the Dao of Ten Thousand Waters Venerable.
• Ancestral Dragon taught six groups the Counterweight Hole Regulation Method, and they collected the remaining six Universe Worlds and recruited their rulers.
• Taiqing's true body assigned locations for the collected worlds and ordered their dismantling, while Ancestral Dragon assigned the Dao Venerables to help inspect worlds and compile teaching materials.
• Yin Xi reported that the ten Dao Venerables had reached the City of Ten Thousand Crafts to begin its passes, and Ancestral Dragon instructed them to return afterward for work assignments.

After the Phoenix Clan’s karma was cleared, Yuanfeng led the clan into Chaos to collect Pangu’s scattered worlds while preserving their inhabitants. The clan stabilized ten worlds by teaching their Dao Venerables how to regulate their shells, then set out for the City of Ten Thousand Crafts so the cultivators could learn the principle of naturalness.

• Yuanfeng assigned ten Phoenix Clan groups routes through Chaos and warned them to preserve the worlds’ inhabitants and approach their Dao Venerables with caution.
• Yuanfeng discovered that the Dao of Ten Thousand Nirvanas Venerable’s shell was collapsing because its counterweight hole had been sealed, taught him to regulate his pool, and collected his world seal.
• Vermilion Bird, Jiu Feng, Azure Luan, Kong Xuan, and Kunpeng each stabilized a world by explaining how to balance its pool eye, inner reserve, and shell patterns, then collected its world seal.
• Yuanfeng sent her regulating method through the clan’s command banners, helping the four elder groups stabilize the other worlds they encountered.
• The ten Phoenix Clan groups brought their collected world seals together, and Yuanfeng invited the six Dao Venerables and their people to the City of Ten Thousand Crafts to clear the Naturalness Pass.

Beginning Qilin and the five directional qilins led the Qilin Clan in collecting ten worlds from Chaos, stabilizing their shells by teaching the Dao Venerables to regulate their pool eyes and storehouses. After the Dao Venerables cleared Yin Xi’s Naturalness Pass, Beginning Qilin sent the clan back into Chaos to collect more of Pangu’s scraps.

• Beginning Qilin summoned the five qilins and assigned them routes through Chaos to collect worlds, warning them not to underestimate the Dao Venerables inside the shells.
• Beginning Qilin found the Dao of Ten Thousand Earths Venerable’s unstable shell, opened its earth eye halfway, and invited him to clear the Naturalness Pass.
• Metal Qilin, Wood Qilin, Water Qilin, Fire Qilin, and Earth Qilin each stabilized a shell by finding its weakness and teaching its Dao Venerable to keep the corresponding pool eye partly open.
• The Qilin Clan’s elders used Beginning Qilin’s instructions to collect additional worlds, and the ten world seals were brought together beneath Beginning Qilin’s command flag.
• Yin Xi tested the Dao Venerables at the City of Ten Thousand Crafts, and they learned to regulate their shells without blocking the ballast holes with their hands.
• Beginning Qilin placed the ten world seals in the city and directed the Qilin Clan to continue collecting Pangu’s scraps in Chaos.

White Tiger led the White Tiger Clan into Chaos to collect ten world shells without destroying them, teaching their Dao Venerables to regulate their worlds instead of blocking their pool apertures. After the group passed Yin Xi’s Naturalness Pass at the City of Ten Thousand Crafts, White Tiger prepared to lead them back into Chaos to collect more shells.

• White Tiger gathered the five White Tigers and instructed them to collect worlds carefully, keeping shell apertures partly open and preserving inner reserves.
• White Tiger found the giant shell of the Dao of Ten Thousand Slaughters Venerable, identified its blocked slaughter aperture, and taught him to let the shell regulate its own weight.
• The five White Tigers and four elder groups stabilized ten world shells and gathered their world seals without destroying the worlds or their inhabitants.
• White Tiger brought the Dao Venerables to Yin Xi at the City of Ten Thousand Crafts, where they entered the Naturalness Pass and learned to regulate their respective worlds.
• White Tiger planted the command flag on the city wall and ordered the clan to return to Chaos the next day to find and collect more world shells.

Black Tortoise Patriarch led his clan on a mission to collect fifteen Universe Worlds, teaching the Dao Venerables within them to regulate their worlds by keeping their pool apertures half open. After the worlds returned to the Primordial Wilderness and were assigned for dismantling and study, the nine Dao Venerables went to the City of Ten Thousand Crafts to attempt its passes.

• Black Tortoise Patriarch divided the nine black tortoises among routes through Chaos and sent the other clan elders to collect fifteen Universe Worlds.
• Black Tortoise Patriarch and the eight black tortoises found worlds whose Dao Venerables had sealed their pool apertures, then taught them to keep the apertures half open and maintain thirty percent of their power inside.
• The other six elder groups followed Black Tortoise Patriarch's message and used the same regulation method to persuade the remaining Dao Venerables to surrender their world seals.
• Black Tortoise Patriarch returned with the collected worlds, and Taiqing's true body assigned where they would be placed and how they would be dismantled.
• Black Tortoise Patriarch assigned the worlds to his clan and posted an announcement inviting disciples to observe the work.
• Yin Xi told Black Tortoise Patriarch that the nine Dao Venerables had reached the City of Ten Thousand Crafts to attempt its passes, and he told her to let them try before sending them to Xuan Ming Abyss.

Five Qi Dao Lord and the five other Dao Lords of the Five Elements Clan entered Chaos to gather six Great Thousand Worlds, defeating their guardians by finding and correcting imbalances in each world's elemental foundation. They returned with the worlds and their rulers, who pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Dao and submitted to the Five Elements Clan.

• Five Qi Dao Lord assigned himself and the five Dao Lords separate territories in Chaos, warning them to find weaknesses in world-shell patterns rather than rely on brute force.
• Five Qi Dao Lord defeated Dao of Ten Thousand Elements Venerable by identifying the sealed elemental vent destabilizing his world, then taught him to restore balance and accepted his Origin pearls.
• Sharp Metal Dao Lord, Azure Radiance Primordial Lady, Ren Water Dao Lord, Li Fire Dao Lord, and Kun Origin Dao Lord each repaired a world-shell vent, persuaded its guardian to submit, and claimed its world seal and Origin pearls.
• The six Dao Lords gathered and restored the six supreme Great Thousand Worlds, quelling the turmoil among Chaos's shattered Pangu worlds.
• Five Qi Dao Lord and the Five Elements Clan brought the worlds back to the Primordial Wilderness, where the six surrendered Dao Venerables and their followers pledged allegiance to the Heavenly Dao and submitted to the clan.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors traveled into Chaos, each collecting a Universe World by finding the flaw in a Dao Venerable’s overgrown shell and teaching its owner how to restore balance. They returned with eight worlds and their Dao Venerables, and the Heavenly Sovereign assigned the worlds for integration before the Dao Venerables went to attempt Yin Xi’s passes.

• The Heavenly Sovereign sent the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in eight directions to collect worlds and instructed them to seek sparse patterns rather than force open shells.
• The Heavenly Sovereign, Earthly Sovereign, Human Emperor, Zhuanxu, Di Ku, Yao, Shun, and Yu each entered a shell, opened its blocked Dao eye, and persuaded its Dao Venerable to hand over a pearl and world seal.
• The eight leaders returned to the City of All Spirits with their worlds, their Dao Venerables, and the surviving inhabitants.
• Taiqing's true self assigned each world a location and ordered the leaders to merge large worlds into continents, break down medium worlds for materials, and feed small worlds to the earth veins.
• The eight Dao Venerables went to the City of Ten Thousand Crafts to practice for Yin Xi’s passes, while the Heavenly Sovereign announced that he would arrange work for them afterward.

The nine Great Witches entered Chaos to collect worlds and each subdued a Universe World by finding and opening the blocked eye at its heart. They returned with the worlds and their inhabitants, and Old Priest relayed the Ancestral Witches’ instructions for placing and dismantling them.

• Old Priest sent Chi You, Hou Yi, Xing Tian, Kuafu, Xiang Liu, Feng Bo, Yu Shi, Wu Xian, and Wu Peng into Chaos, one in each direction, to collect worlds and spare their inhabitants where possible.
• Chi You found the Ten Thousand Lands Venerable’s shell, opened its blocked earth eye, and received its earth bead and world seal.
• Hou Yi, Xing Tian, Kuafu, Xiang Liu, Feng Bo, Yu Shi, Wu Xian, and Wu Peng each opened the blocked eye in a shell embodying their respective Dao and received its bead and world seal.
• The nine Great Witches returned with one Universe World each, accompanied by the surviving Dao Venerables and living beings from those worlds.
• Old Priest relayed where the Ancestral Witches wanted the nine worlds placed and ordered the collected worlds sorted for merging, materials, and feeding the earth veins.

The Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirit Elders traveled through Chaos, collected ten Universe Worlds, and brought six Dao Venerables and their worlds back to the Primordial Wilderness. The worlds were assigned places and tasks, while the six Dao Venerables went to the City of Ten Thousand Crafts to challenge its passes.

• Cangwu told the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirit Elders to split into groups, collect worlds, and spare the living beings inside them.
• Cangwu, Chixiao, Xuan Ming, Bai Ze, Yinghuo, and Zhenyue each found a giant shell, entered through its sparse patterns, taught the Dao Venerable inside how to adjust its pool eye, and received its world seal.
• The remaining thirty elders used their Heavenly Spirit arts to collect the other worlds, and the Dao Venerables inside them agreed to leave their shells.
• Cangwu led the elders and the collected worlds back to Witch City, where Old Priest assigned the worlds to locations and explained how to sort and use them.
• Cangwu announced the collected worlds through the Human Dao Heavenly Net, and Yin Xi reported that the six Dao Venerables had arrived at the City of Ten Thousand Crafts to challenge its passes.
• Cangwu told Yin Xi to let the Dao Venerables challenge the passes and send them to Tongtian Tower afterward for work assignments.

Twelve Witch Race elders collected Universe Worlds from Chaos, repairing the Dao Venerables’ clogged pools and bringing their worlds back to the Primordial Wilderness. The worlds were assigned to the edges of the five continents, and Wuyin announced that disciples could observe how to collect worlds.

• Elder Wuyin found Dao Venerable Wanwu’s shell stagnating because its Mist Eye was clogged, adjusted it, and received the mist pearl and world seal.
• Elders Chuanyi, Jinguang, Fanhai, Zhidi, and Five Elements each cleared a clogged Dao Eye in a Universe World shell and received its pearl and world seal.
• Elders Liujia, Nizhi, Bianshan, Huisheng, Tuoji, and Jiuxi each adjusted a shell’s clogged Dao Eye and received its pearl and world seal.
• The twelve elders returned with one Universe World apiece, and Old Priest relayed the Ancestral Witch’s orders for placing and dismantling them.
• Wuyin announced over the Human Dao Heavenly Net that the twelve primordial Daluo Golden Immortals had joined the Primordial Wilderness and invited Witch Race disciples to observe the worlds.

Ten Witch Race elders followed their command talismans through Chaos, collected ten Universe Worlds by opening the blocked law-eyes in their shells, and brought their Dao Venerables back to the Primordial Wilderness. Old Priest assigned the worlds for integration and dismantling, while the Dao Venerables began practicing the elders’ method; Zhenyue left them to train before arranging work for them.

• The ten elders traveled separate routes through Chaos, collected Great Thousand Worlds and Middle Thousand Worlds, and each found a giant shell whose blocked law-eye was suffocating its world.
• Zhenyue, Qing Nang, Ba Shan, Zuo Huo, Yan Ri, Bu Wu, Qu Yun, Yi Xing, Zhao Lei, and Dao Hai opened their shells’ law-eyes, taught the Dao Venerables to regulate their laws, and obtained their pearls and world seals.
• The ten Dao Venerables and their living beings returned with the elders to Witch City, where Zhenyue reported the ten Universe Worlds to Old Priest.
• Old Priest relayed the Ancestral Witch’s order to place the worlds at the edges of the five continents, merge the great worlds with the continents, dismantle the middle worlds for materials, and feed the small worlds to the earth veins.
• The Dao Venerables practiced regulating their laws for three days and then went to the City of Ten Thousand Crafts to attempt its trial.
• Zhenyue posted the journey’s results on the Human Dao Heavenly Net and told Yin Xi to let the Dao Venerables practice before arranging work for them at Tongtian Tower.