Chapter Summaries

Taiqing and Yuanshi attacked the Investiture of the Gods to free the deities bound to it, and their strike shattered its chains while triggering backlash from the Heavenly Dao. Taiqing restored bodies for the freed souls, and Haotian finally appeared as the Investiture neared destruction.

• At Yuxu Palace, Yuanshi told the Chan Sect disciples that he and Taiqing would free them from the Investiture of the Gods despite the backlash.
• Taiqing announced across the Primordial World that he and Yuanshi would release the deities bound to the Investiture.
• Taiqing struck the Investiture with the Taiji Diagram as Yuanshi pressed it with the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, drawing retaliation from the Heavenly Dao and Divine Dao.
• The Investiture’s chains snapped, freeing the listed deities’ primordial spirits, but their divine bodies began to dissipate.
• Taiqing used his mana to condense physical bodies for the freed deities, while Yuanshi was left to restore the Chan Sect disciples.
• As the Investiture cracked apart, Haotian appeared in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and reached toward it.

Haotian visited Fairy Yun Hua in the Origin Realm to celebrate attaining the Dao and hoped to impress his nephews, Yang Jiao and Yang Jian. Yang Jiao revealed that he had attained the Dao earlier, and the family agreed to exchange insights.

• Haotian arrived at Fairy Yun Hua’s sanctuary, where he met Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, and Yang Chan.
• Haotian announced that he had attained the Dao with Wu Tian’s help and waited for Yang Jiao and Yang Jian to praise him.
• Yang Chan warmly congratulated Haotian, but Yang Jiao revealed his Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal aura and offered to guide him.
• Fairy Yun Hua scolded Yang Jiao and Yang Jian for teasing Haotian, and both nephews thanked their uncle.
• Haotian proposed that he and his nephews exchange insights into the laws of the Heavenly Dao and Earthly Dao.

Haotian took Yang Jiao and Yang Jian to Chaos to exchange insights through battle, but Yang Jiao’s strength surprised him. As Yang Jiao and Haotian continued their physical contest, Yang Jian watched and drew in chaotic energy, seeking a breakthrough to the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

• Haotian led Yang Jiao and Yang Jian out of the Origin Realm and into Chaos to spar.
• Haotian and Yang Jiao unleashed their Great Dao understandings and fought through more than ten thousand exchanges while Yang Jian watched with his Heavenly Eye.
• Yang Jiao suggested they compete in physical strength so Yang Jian could learn from the fight, and Haotian agreed.
• Haotian and Yang Jiao revealed their immense Dharma bodies and traded powerful blows, leaving Haotian numb and impressed by Yang Jiao’s strength.
• Yang Jiao urged Haotian to continue as Yang Jian sat in Chaos, absorbing chaotic energy and approaching a breakthrough.
• Haotian accepted and charged back at Yang Jiao, who met him head-on.

Cultivators across the Primordial Wilderness attained new realms as Wu Tian helped the Great Witches break through, while mounting conflicts threatened the flourishing era. In Chaos, Yang Jian neared the Primordial Origin realm under Yang Jiao’s protection, and Haotian returned to oversee the Divine Dao, sensing another change approaching.

• Minghe, Kunpeng, Yun Zhongzi, and Perfected Being Yuding attained new realms as cultivators across the Primordial Wilderness advanced.
• Wu Tian and Empress Pingxin helped Xing Tian, Kua Fu, Hou Yi, Jiu Feng, and the other Great Witches break through to the Primordial Origin realm.
• Emperor Yu used the Nine Provinces Barrier and Nine Cauldrons to suppress cultivators causing trouble in Human Clan territory as Calamity Qi accumulated.
• Yang Jiao battled Haotian in Chaos while Yang Jian absorbed insights and began to show signs of reaching the Primordial Origin realm.
• Haotian returned to the Primordial Wilderness to oversee the Divine Dao and sensed that the world was about to change again.

As the Primordial World's spiritual qi rapidly declined, the Divine Dao weakened and chaos spread, while Wu Tian prepared for the coming catastrophe. He revealed that Zhao Gongming's eventual attainment of the Dao would coincide with the Primordial World's final upheaval.

• Haotian sensed the Divine Dao's decline, returned to the Heavenly Court, and tried to preserve incense offerings and calm the Primordial World.
• Cultivators reacted to the dwindling spiritual qi by seeking shelter, fighting over treasures, or binding themselves to blessed lands through Zhen Yuanzi's Earth Immortal Dao.
• Empress Pingxin asked Wu Tian to intervene, but he said the chaos was inevitable and that returning fighters would guard the surrounding Chaos while awaiting the dead's return.
• Wu Tian told Empress Pingxin that Zhao Gongming's attainment of the Dao during the End of Dharma Age would mark the Primordial World's overturning.
• Zhao Gongming worried that he had not attained the Dao, and Bixiao tried to comfort him by pointing out that she had not attained it either.

Haotian discovered that Zhao Gongming's incense power remained strong despite the Divine Dao's decline and revealed that Zhao's path to attainment lay within the Divine Dao. Zhao began breaking through as Haotian stabilized the Divine Dao's River of Luck, and a wisp of Primordial Origin aura formed around him.

• Haotian noticed that the God of Wealth's Palace still received immense incense power and went to investigate.
• Zhao Gongming greeted Haotian with Qiongxiao and Bixiao, and Haotian asked why Zhao's incense remained prosperous.
• Haotian told Zhao that his opportunity to attain the Dao lay within the Divine Dao, shattering the barrier obscuring Zhao's understanding.
• Zhao Gongming entered cultivation as incense power and the Divine Dao's luck gathered around him, while Qiongxiao and Bixiao prepared to protect his breakthrough.
• Haotian transformed his avatar into the Haotian Pagoda and suppressed the unstable River of Luck, stabilizing it as a wisp of Primordial Origin aura formed around Zhao.

Zhao Gongming drew on the worship of the God of Wealth to attain the Dao through the Divine Dao, while Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao guarded him. Just as he neared the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, a spatial crack opened and threatened the Divine Dao’s River of Luck.

• Statues of the God of Wealth shone across the Primordial Wilderness, and worshippers’ Power of Incense gathered around Zhao Gongming and strengthened his aura.
• Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao guarded Zhao Gongming as he refined the Power of Incense and perfected the God of Wealth’s Divine Dao laws.
• Zhao Gongming’s primordial spirit began transforming, and the phenomena of attaining the Dao appeared across the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Taiqing Sage and Yuanshi Tianzun sensed Zhao Gongming’s breakthrough, while Yuanshi wondered whether he could succeed.
• A spatial crack opened as Zhao Gongming approached the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, shaking the Divine Dao’s River of Luck and the Haotian Pagoda.
• Yunxiao’s Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation spread through the void and protected Zhao Gongming.

The Faith Demon God targeted Zhao Gongming to devour his Divine Dao luck and incense, hoping to force Wu Tian to appear. Haotian and Yunxiao failed to stop him, and Qiongxiao and Bixiao stepped forward to defend Zhao Gongming.

• The Faith Demon God drew Zhao Gongming’s Divine Dao luck and incense toward himself, but Yunxiao used the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation to shield him.
• Haotian summoned the Heavenly Court’s power and struck the Faith Demon God, briefly helping stabilize Zhao Gongming’s luck and incense.
• The Faith Demon God swallowed incense from beyond Haotian and Yunxiao’s reach, then broke Yunxiao’s formation and struck Haotian down.
• The Faith Demon God attacked Yunxiao again, blasted apart her formation, and sent her falling with golden blood at her lips.
• The Faith Demon God reached for Zhao Gongming, but Qiongxiao blocked him with the Hunyuan Golden Dou while Bixiao attacked with the Golden Flood Shears.

Kong Xuan and the others arrived in time to save Qiongxiao and Bixiao from the Faith Demon God, and the group discovered that Yang Jian had recently attained the Dao. The Faith Demon God dismissed their resistance and summoned figures from Spatial Cracks, escalating the confrontation.

• The Faith Demon God shattered Qiongxiao and Bixiao’s magic treasures and struck them, but Kong Xuan rescued them with Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Sun Wukong, Yun Zhongzi, Perfected Being Yuding, and Yang Jian arrived, and the group learned that Yang Jian had attained the Dao.
• Yang Jian told Kong Xuan that Yang Jiao had returned to Fengdu City to hold the fort, while Xuan Wu was also dealing with trouble there.
• The Faith Demon God concluded that Wu Tian had sacrificed the Primordial Wilderness’s foundation to produce more Primordial Origin experts, but said their resistance would be futile.
• The Faith Demon God told the figures hidden in Spatial Cracks to come out, and they emerged, tearing the void of the Primordial Wilderness further apart.

Six Chaos Demon Gods emerged from the Returning Ruins at full strength while the Primordial Wilderness’s Saints suppressed the Heavenly Dao. The Primordial Origin experts fought back, but the Faith Demon God turned toward Zhao Gongming, leaving Bixiao and Qiongxiao to defend him as Sun Wukong tried to intervene.

• Six Chaos Demon Gods emerged from the rift, while Heavenly Dao Power blocked the other figures from forcing their way through.
• Yuding charged the Destruction Demon God, Yang Jian followed him, and Yun Zhongzi attacked the Karma Demon God.
• Sun Wukong fought the Devouring Demon God, while Kong Xuan, Yunxiao, and Haotian engaged the Space and Destiny Demon Gods.
• The Faith Demon God attacked Zhao Gongming to reclaim his Belief Power, and Bixiao and Qiongxiao used their treasures to protect him.
• Sun Wukong took a blow from the Devouring Demon God and threw his Golden Cudgel toward the Faith Demon God, but the golden light flew back.

Xuan Wu protected Zhao Gongming, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao from the Faith Demon God’s attack with his merit-infused Tortoise Shell. He sent Qiongxiao and Bixiao to the Origin Realm, then used the shell to attack while the battle continued.

• Sun Wukong revealed his Chaos Demon Ape form to purge the Faith Demon God’s aura, then charged to help Bixiao but was blocked by the Devouring Demon God.
• The Faith Demon God attacked Qiongxiao and Bixiao while they stood before Zhao Gongming, but Xuan Wu’s Tortoise Shell shielded them and rebuffed his blow.
• The Faith Demon God repeatedly struck the Tortoise Shell, but its merit-powered defenses held, and Xuan Wu’s will entered the shell.
• Xuan Wu sent Qiongxiao and Bixiao into the Origin Realm, then expanded the Tortoise Shell and smashed it toward the Faith Demon God.
• Wangshu reassured Qiongxiao and Bixiao that Xuan Wu was protecting Zhao Gongming’s opportunity, and the sisters watched the battle on a light screen.

The Returning Ruins’ emergence and the battle shook the Primordial World to the brink of collapse, prompting Empress Pingxin and the other powers to stabilize it. Faced with Pingxin’s presence and growing resistance, the Chaos Demon Gods decided to retreat to Chaos for now.

• Bixiao teased Nezha for being the only one among the three great rebels who had not attained the Dao, and Wangshu told him he could help by settling the Primordial Wilderness’s living beings.
• The Faith Demon God prepared to use his full strength against Zhao Gongming’s Tortoise Shell when the Primordial World began shaking apart.
• The Returning Ruins expanded and released countless decayed dead who attacked living beings and devoured spiritual qi.
• Taiqing, Yuanshi, Nuwa, the Queen Mother of the West, Tongtian’s avatar, and Zhen Yuanzi’s avatar used their treasures to stabilize the Primordial World, while Yuanshi attacked the Returning Ruins’ exit.
• Empress Pingxin manifested the Six Paths of Reincarnation and reinforced the Primordial World, weakening the beings emerging from the Returning Ruins and alarming the Chaos Demon Gods.
• The Faith Demon God gave up on breaking Zhao Gongming’s defense, and the Demon Gods agreed to withdraw to Chaos and wait for another chance.

Wu Tian entered the Returning Ruins while Kong Xuan and Sun Wukong pursued the Chaos Demon Gods, and Zhao Gongming attained the Dao and joined the battle. Fuxi began relocating the Human Clan's Nine Provinces, while Zhen Yuanzi offered Earth Immortals refuge in the Book of Earth.

• Wu Tian strode into the Returning Ruins, forcing back its dark aura as he destroyed figures in his path.
• Kong Xuan and Sun Wukong followed the Chaos Demon Gods beyond the Primordial World and attacked them in Chaos.
• Zhao Gongming attained the Dao as a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, received the Divine Dao's blessing, and headed to Chaos to help fight Faith Demon God.
• Fuxi activated the Nine Provinces Formation and shrank the Human Clan's Nine Provinces, gathering its living beings to relocate them.
• Zhen Yuanzi urged cultivators of the Path of Earth Immortals to place their blessed grotto-heavens in the Book of Earth and seek safety.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches trapped the six Chaos Demon Gods in their strengthened Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Chaos Array and overpowered their attempts to escape. Di Jun, Tongtian, and Taiyi arrived as Di Jun prepared to send the defeated Demon Gods back into the Void.

• The Faith Demon God urged the six Demon Gods to fight the Ancestral Witches, but Dijiang’s pressure quickly shook their confidence.
• The Destiny Demon God tried to carve out an escape route with the River of Fate, but Zhu Jiuyin reversed it with Time Law and the array sealed their way out.
• The Ancestral Witches revealed their strengthened array and explained that they had proved the Dao in Chaos, making them far stronger than before.
• The six Demon Gods tried their own powers against the array, but Dijiang suppressed the Space Demon God, the Destruction Demon God failed to break through, and the others’ escape attempts backfired.
• Di Jun, Tongtian, and Taiyi arrived, and Di Jun said they would send the trapped Demon Gods back into the Void.

Di Jun, Taiyi, Tongtian, and the Ancestral Witches used their array to separate and swiftly kill all six Chaos Demon Gods. Zhao Gongming arrived hoping to defeat the Faith Demon God, only to learn from Sun Wukong that the enemy was already dead.

• Kong Xuan and Haotian watched as the Ancestral Witches trapped the six Demon Gods in the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array and recognized Di Jun's battle plan.
• Zhu Jiuyin divided the Demon Gods into separate spaces, allowing the Chaos Bell and Qingping Sword to attack them in succession.
• The Faith Demon God was suppressed, wounded, and killed, while Di Jun, Taiyi, Tongtian, and the others defeated the remaining five at the same time.
• Sun Wukong wondered whether the Chaos Bell had split into six, and Kong Xuan explained that Zhu Jiuyin had divided time within the array.
• Zhao Gongming arrived and asked to fight the Faith Demon God, but Sun Wukong teased him that the Demon God was already dead.

Zhao Gongming reunited with the Ancestral Witches and received Faith Demon God origin from Tongtian, while Di Jun and the others refined the remaining Demon God origins into their array. The group discovered Wu Tian was missing and learned he had entered the Returning Ruins alone, leaving Di Jun curious about the Ancestral Witches’ knowledge of the place.

• Zhao Gongming recognized the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array and greeted the Ancestral Witches before Sun Wukong could.
• The Ancestral Witches emerged with Di Jun, Tongtian, and Taiyi after defeating the Chaos Demon Gods, and Yunxiao reunited emotionally with Tongtian.
• Tongtian gave Zhao Gongming a Faith Demon God origin to strengthen his Divine Dao, while Di Jun put the other five refined origins into the array.
• Di Jun asked where Wu Tian was, and Kong Xuan reported that Wu Tian had entered the depths of the Returning Ruins to resolve the root of the Primordial Calamity.
• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin worried that Wu Tian had gone into the dangerous Returning Ruins alone, and Di Jun wondered how they knew so much about it.

Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin revealed that they had seen the Witch Clan’s original fate in the River of Time, while the Returning Ruins opened and released more Demon Gods. Di Jun used a blood essence Wu Tian had left with Xuan Ming to try to locate and rescue him, as Wu Tian faced the Four Great Fierce Beasts of Creation inside the Returning Ruins.

• Zhu Jiuyin explained that he and Dijiang had entered the River of Time before Hongjun’s third sermon and later realized their temporal-spatial turbulence had been the edge of the Returning Ruins.
• The Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array shook as the Returning Ruins spread, and Di Jun warned that all three thousand Demon Gods might return.
• Di Jun urged the group to rescue Wu Tian, and Sun Wukong and Yang Jian offered to use their own blood essence to find him.
• Houtu revealed that Wu Tian had left blood essence with Xuan Ming, who summoned the hidden drop from her heart.
• Di Jun had the Ancestral Witches activate the array around Wu Tian’s blood essence, which began pulsing as if calling to him.
• Inside the Returning Ruins, Wu Tian faced the Four Great Fierce Beasts of Creation and felt his heart briefly resonate with the blood essence.

Di Jun sent Taiyi into the Returning Ruins inside the Chaos Bell to find Wu Tian, while the others guarded the Primordial World against invading Demon Gods. Taiyi found Wu Tian amid a battle with the Four Great Fierce Beasts and prepared to demonstrate the Chaos Bell’s power.

• Di Jun persuaded the Ancestral Witches to send Taiyi after Wu Tian, and they used the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array to launch the Chaos Bell into the Returning Ruins.
• Di Jun led the others back to the edge of the Primordial World, where they expanded the formation and hunted invading Demon Gods while waiting for Wu Tian and Taiyi.
• Taiyi traveled through chaotic currents of time and space, witnessing fragments of past Primordial Wilderness Tribulations and the fallen figures moving toward the Returning Ruins’ exit.
• Taiyi found Wu Tian surrounded by the Four Great Fierce Beasts and used the Chaos Bell to suppress time and space, tearing apart the surrounding ferocious beasts.
• Wu Tian drew the Chaos Bell into his hand, praised Taiyi’s refinement of it, and Taiyi flew out of the bell to show off its power.

Wu Tian used the Chaos Bell, with Taiyi controlling it as its artifact spirit, to withstand the Returning Ruins and overwhelm the Four Great Fierce Beasts of Creation. After Wu Tian killed Qiongqi, Taiyi trapped Taotie, Chaos, and Taowu inside a giant bell-shaped barrier and left them to Wu Tian.

• The Chaos Bell transformed into golden armor around Wu Tian, suppressing the spacetime torrents, while the Four Great Fierce Beasts recognized its aura as that of the Heaven-Opening Axe.
• The Four Great Fierce Beasts attacked Wu Tian, but Taiyi rang the Chaos Bell to freeze them, allowing Wu Tian to unleash his Pangu True Body.
• Taiyi repeatedly rang the Chaos Bell to restrain the beasts and block their attacks as Wu Tian punched through Qiongqi's body and beat him into blood mist.
• Taotie, Chaos, and Taowu tried to flee after Qiongqi died, but Taiyi expanded the Chaos Bell's golden light into a giant enclosure around them.
• Taiyi laughed and told Wu Tian to finish the trapped beasts.

Wu Tian used the Chaos Bell to defeat the Four Great Fierce Beasts of Creation inside its phantom, then emerged into the Returning Ruins. He gave Taiyi all four beasts’ origin essences and looked deeper into the ruins as Taiyi asked whether they should continue.

• Taiyi strengthened the Chaos Bell’s protection around Wu Tian inside its phantom.
• Wu Tian battered Taotie, Taowu, Chaos, and Qiongqi without using law power; Chaos was crushed and reduced to ash.
• Wu Tian killed Qiongqi with a punch and Taotie with a kick, leaving all Four Great Fierce Beasts of Creation dead again.
• Wu Tian emerged in the Returning Ruins and gave Taiyi the four beasts’ origin essences.
• Taiyi asked whether they would continue deeper into the Returning Ruins as Wu Tian looked ahead.