Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: Chaos Storm Rises, Three Thousand Demon Gods Attack

Key Plot Points and Events

• Di Jun and Tongtian leave the battlefield and descend toward the Primordial World, while Wu Tian and the Ancestral Witches remain behind to confront the approaching Chaos Demon Gods.
• Taiyi enters the Chaos Bell, becoming its artifact spirit. Though he jokingly accuses Wu Tian of manipulating him, he willingly takes on the role and appears as a moving Three-Legged Golden Crow image within the bell.
• Wu Tian and the Ancestral Witches activate the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array, drawing in and devouring the surrounding Chaos aura. This disturbance attracts numerous Chaos Demon Gods emerging from the Returning Ruins.
• The first Demon God to enter the formation is trapped and effortlessly killed by Wu Tian through the Chaos Bell’s freezing and devouring powers. More Demon Gods continue to arrive as the Returning Ruins expand.
• Inside the Primordial World, Taiqing and the others stabilize the situation by forcing beings within the Returning Ruins to emerge, preventing further openings from appearing unchecked.
• Tongtian offers to help Wu Tian after reconciling with Taiqing and Yuanshi, but Wu Tian refuses, choosing to face the enemy himself.
• Wu Tian fully reveals his Pangu True Body, growing larger than the Primordial World and using the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array as a foundation to amplify and protect himself.
• He decides not to use the Chaos Bell as armor. Instead, Taiyi remains within it as Wu Tian’s weapon, making use of the bell’s powerful crowd-control abilities.
• The Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods recognize the aura of Pangu and mock Wu Tian as merely one of Pangu’s successors. Believing Pangu is dead, they charge Wu Tian to take revenge on his descendants.
• When the Demon Gods launch a combined attack, Wu Tian rings the Chaos Bell, shattering their incoming techniques and stunning them briefly. He then enters their formation and attacks with the God-Slaying Spear, producing countless spear shadows against all surrounding enemies.

Character Developments

• Wu Tian embraces his natural battle instinct and fully commits to the coming war. His normally gentler demeanor gives way to fierce confidence and the complete activation of his Pangu-derived power.
• Taiyi accepts his transformation into the Chaos Bell’s artifact spirit, retaining his playful personality while becoming an essential combat partner for Wu Tian.
• The Ancestral Witches are energized by Wu Tian’s battle intent and fight in coordination with him through the great array.
• Tongtian demonstrates emotional growth by recognizing that his former conflicts with Taiqing and Yuanshi are no longer important. Their reconciliation marks a resolution of past grievances.
• The Chaos Demon Gods are portrayed as arrogant, vengeful, and overconfident. They underestimate Wu Tian because he is not Pangu himself.

Significant Themes

• Inheritance and legacy: Wu Tian and the other beings left behind by Pangu must confront the ancient enemies who still resent their creator.
• Unity and reconciliation: Former rivals such as Tongtian, Taiqing, and Yuanshi begin working together after moving beyond their past conflicts.
• Sacrifice and transformation: Taiyi sacrifices his independent form to become the Chaos Bell’s spirit, while Wu Tian embraces his full Pangu True Body.
• Confidence versus arrogance: The Demon Gods’ contempt for Wu Tian contrasts with his actual strength, suggesting that their underestimation will become their downfall.
• Collective strength: The Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Array, the Ancestral Witches, Taiyi, and Wu Tian combine their powers, emphasizing cooperation in the face of overwhelming numbers.

Character Interactions

• Taiyi humorously confronts Wu Tian over being turned into the Chaos Bell’s artifact spirit, prompting laughter from the Ancestral Witches.
• Wu Tian and the Ancestral Witches share renewed battle enthusiasm as they prepare to defend the Primordial World together.
• Tongtian offers Wu Tian assistance, but Wu Tian confidently declines, indicating his willingness to bear the main burden of the battle.
• Wu Tian and Taiyi coordinate seamlessly: Taiyi provides the Chaos Bell’s consciousness and power, while Wu Tian wields it as a weapon.
• The Chaos Demon Gods taunt Wu Tian by comparing him unfavorably to Pangu, provoking the decisive counterattack that begins the next stage of the battle.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wu Tian launches a devastating assault on the encircling Chaos Demon Gods. His black spear pierces their True Bodies and attacks their primordial spirits with destructive and devouring laws.
• Before the remaining demon gods can retaliate, Wu Tian repeatedly uses the Chaos Bell to immobilize and crush them with overwhelming physical force. He moves through the battlefield like a blur, killing demon gods one after another and leaving their corpses scattered around him.
• Taiyi, observing from within the Chaos Bell, is stunned by Wu Tian’s power and compares him to the resurrected Great God Pangu. He concludes that the Immeasurable Tribulation may not be as threatening while Wu Tian is present.
• Within the Primordial World, the powerful figures continue stabilizing the world and resisting the Returning Ruins’ influence. Tongtian expresses frustration that he cannot join Wu Tian in battle because he has been ordered to guard the Primordial World.
• Suddenly, several figures connected to the Heavenly Dao—Taiqing, Yuanshi, Luohu, Duobao, and Nuwa—begin suffering violent reactions as purple Primordial Violet Qi erupts from them. Their bodies and primordial spirits are being affected through their connection to the Heavenly Dao.
• Taiqing and Yuanshi willingly enter Tongtian’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and order him to activate it, hoping the formation can suppress the disturbance within them.
• Nuwa is protected by a Purple Samsara Lotus emerging from the Six Paths of Reincarnation. In the Western World, Zhen Yuanzi moves to protect Luohu and Duobao with the Book of Earth and the power of a towering sacred tree.
• Di Jun suppresses Human Dao fortune using the Pangu Seal and the Human Clan’s River of Luck. He realizes that the Heavenly Dao itself has become abnormal and is beginning to reject the Primordial World’s inhabitants.
• The Heavenly Dao’s power goes completely out of control, shaking the Primordial World and distorting its laws. It ultimately forms an indifferent, silver-eyed face.
• The face is revealed to be Hongjun, who has returned by taking control of the final strand of Primordial Violet Qi and merging once more with the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun explains that, just as other powerful beings have returned, he too has returned. Using the grand trend of the Immeasurable Tribulation and the Returning Ruins’ power, he corrupts the Heavenly Dao and begins controlling the Heavenly Dao Saints.
• As his complete form emerges, Hongjun declares: “I shall be the Heavenly Dao Demon God!”

Character Developments

• Wu Tian demonstrates overwhelming combat power, effortlessly slaughtering the Chaos Demon Gods and becoming the decisive force on the battlefield.
• Taiyi gains renewed confidence in the Primordial World’s chances because of Wu Tian’s strength, though his admiration also emphasizes how extraordinary Wu Tian has become.
• Tongtian remains eager for battle but accepts his defensive responsibility. He immediately responds when Taiqing and Yuanshi need to be suppressed.
• Taiqing and Yuanshi reveal that their connection to the Heavenly Dao has become a vulnerability. Despite their usual rivalry and authority, they cooperate by entering Tongtian’s formation to contain the corruption.
• Nuwa, Luohu, and Duobao are shown to be similarly endangered because their primordial spirits are linked to Primordial Violet Qi.
• Di Jun acts as a stabilizing force for Human Dao and recognizes the true nature of the crisis before most others: the Heavenly Dao is being seized and corrupted.
• Empress Pingxin takes direct action to protect Nuwa and confront the emerging threat, reinforcing her role as guardian of the Earthly Dao and reincarnation.
• Hongjun returns as the chapter’s major antagonist, abandoning his former role as a cosmic overseer and openly transforming into a demonic incarnation of the Heavenly Dao.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and the legacy of Pangu: Wu Tian’s battle evokes the ancient might of Pangu, suggesting that he has become a force capable of reshaping the balance of the cosmos.
• The danger of dependence on cosmic systems: The Heavenly Dao Saints’ Primordial Violet Qi grants them power but also allows Hongjun to influence and control them.
• Balance between the Three Daos: The Heavenly Dao’s corruption threatens the cooperation between Heavenly Dao, Earthly Dao, and Human Dao that maintains the Primordial World.
• Return and transformation: Hongjun’s resurrection mirrors the return of other ancient powers, but his return is not restorative—he comes back corrupted and seeks domination.
• Internal and external threats: While Wu Tian fights the Chaos Demon Gods outside the Primordial World, Hongjun quietly turns the world’s own laws and foundations against its defenders.
• Cooperation amid crisis: Former rivals and separate factions are forced to work together, especially Taiqing, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Di Jun, Zhen Yuanzi, and Empress Pingxin.

Important Character Interactions

• Wu Tian and the Chaos Demon Gods: Wu Tian dominates them with the black spear and Chaos Bell, allowing virtually no opportunity for resistance.
• Wu Tian and Taiyi: Taiyi witnesses Wu Tian’s massacre from inside the bell and reassesses the scale of the ongoing tribulation.
• Tongtian, Taiqing, and Yuanshi: Taiqing and Yuanshi ask Tongtian to use the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation against them, turning Tongtian’s formation into a tool of protection rather than merely offense.
• Di Jun and Human Dao: Di Jun uses the Pangu Seal and Human Dao fortune to resist the Heavenly Dao’s upheaval and identifies Hongjun’s involvement.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Luohu, and Duobao: Zhen Yuanzi intervenes to protect the two Western figures from the effects of the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Empress Pingxin and Nuwa: Pingxin uses the Purple Samsara Lotus and the power of reincarnation to suppress the corruption within Nuwa.
• Hongjun and the Primordial World: Hongjun seizes the Heavenly Dao, attacks the world’s stability, manipulates the Heavenly Dao Saints, and announces his new identity as the Heavenly Dao Demon God.

Key plot points

• Hongjun returns from the Returning Ruins in a body formed from Heavenly Dao Power, becoming a self-proclaimed “Heavenly Dao Demon God.” His transformation suggests the Immeasurable Tribulation is a test from the Great Dao.
• Trapped within Tongtian’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, Taiqing and Yuanshi realize Hongjun may control them through their Primordial Violet Qi. They decide to sever it and give up their sainthood.
• Tongtian offers help and shares what he learned when he severed his own sainthood. He then uses Qingping Sword to cut the Primordial Violet Qi and its roots from both brothers’ primordial spirits.
• Taiqing and Yuanshi lose their sainthood and their cultivation falls, while the Heavenly Dao—and Hongjun’s aura—shifts. Hongjun collects their severed Violet Qi and manifests three additional versions of himself, apparently using the Qi to create powerful avatars.
• Empress Pingxin tears the Violet Qi from Nuwa and orders Zhen Yuanzi to help the remaining Saints sever theirs, despite the risk that the stolen Qi may further empower Hongjun.

Character developments and interactions

• Taiqing and Yuanshi move from bitter regret to decisive action, recognizing that their sainthood has left them vulnerable to Hongjun’s control. Yuanshi’s stiff apology to Tongtian signals a thaw in their relationship.
• Tongtian acts as a practical ally to his elder brothers, offering both knowledge and direct assistance. His experience makes their severing faster and less damaging.
• Di Jun realizes Hongjun’s apparent indifference to the Saints’ loss of status is a ruse: Hongjun wants their Primordial Violet Qi.
• Empress Pingxin takes the initiative against Hongjun by removing Nuwa’s Violet Qi and organizing further severings. Nuwa suffers severe pain but remains in the scene as the Qi is taken.
• Hongjun reveals his real priority: gathering Primordial Violet Qi to expand his power and influence over the Primordial Wilderness.

Significant themes

• Freedom versus dependence: The Saints must relinquish immense power and status to escape Hongjun’s control.
• Power’s hidden price: Sainthood offers strength but also binds its holders to the Heavenly Dao and its ruler.
• Regret and reconciliation: Taiqing and Yuanshi recognize that they should have followed Tongtian’s example earlier, while their exchange hints at renewed brotherhood.
• Sacrifice under pressure: The allies accept that severing the Violet Qi may empower Hongjun, yet leave such potential instruments in his hands is even more dangerous.

Plot points and events

• Zhen Yuanzi and Tongtian help Luohu and Duobao cast off their Heavenly Dao sainthood, repeating the process that freed Taiqing and Yuanshi. Tongtian uses the Qingping Sword to sever their Primordial Violet Qi.
• After renouncing sainthood, Taiqing and Yuanshi are close to losing their strength, but Di Jun channels Human Dao Fortune into them, stabilizing their auras and preserving two powerful allies.
• The released violet qi returns to Hongjun, whose power over the Heavenly Dao reaches its peak. He attains the long-sought state of merging with the Dao, aided by the Great Momentum and the power of the Returning Ruins.
• Hongjun recognizes Wu Tian as the key to the Great Dao’s trial. Wu Tian, fighting Chaos Demon Gods beyond the Primordial World, orders everyone else to withdraw while he handles them.
• Empress Pingxin sends people into Reincarnation, while Kong Xuan stops Sun Wukong from disobeying Wu Tian’s order. The Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Daos clash as Hongjun begins devouring the Primordial World.
• Though Tongtian considers attacking, Di Jun argues that Hongjun already controls the Heavenly Dao and that the world is worth defending. He declares that the Primordial World endures as long as its people stand. Tongtian then launches the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation against Hongjun.

Character developments and interactions

• Tongtian again takes responsibility for severing Primordial Violet Qi, then commits to fighting Hongjun with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Di Jun supports former Heavenly Dao Saints through Human Dao Fortune and reveals his resolve to defend the world, even as its destruction seems imminent.
• Hongjun reaches the height of his power but shows his ambition has expanded: he intends to consume the Primordial World and ultimately seize its opportunity to attain the Great Dao.
• Wu Tian remains composed despite Hongjun’s return and takes personal responsibility for defeating the Chaos Demon Gods before confronting him.
• Kong Xuan firmly restrains Sun Wukong, insisting that he follow Wu Tian’s command. Empress Pingxin likewise obeys without hesitation.

Significant themes

• Unity against a common threat: Former rivals and factions cooperate to resist Hongjun.
• World and people as one: Di Jun argues that the Primordial World’s meaning rests in those who defend it, not merely its physical land.
• Power and sacrifice: Characters relinquish hard-won sainthood and risk the world’s collapse to prevent Hongjun’s domination.
• Fate and agency: Though the catastrophe is part of the Great Dao’s trial, Wu Tian and the others still choose how to meet it.

Plot points and events

• While Tongtian holds the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation against Hongjun, Di Jun and Empress Pingxin attack with Human Dao and Earthly Dao power. Hongjun repels all three forces and keeps growing stronger by consuming the world and the auras of slain Old Ones.
• Hongjun strikes the formation with power drawn from the Heavenly Dao, overcoming its sword beams and threatening to seize its four swords. Taiqing and Yuanshi re-enter to defend two anchors; Yunxiao and Golden Spirit Holy Mother protect the others.
• Hongjun’s next attack nearly breaks the formation. Taiqing deploys the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Exquisite Pagoda to stabilize it, though sustaining the defense visibly pains him.
• Luohu and Duobao emerge from the Western Sect. Luohu enters the formation diagram and becomes the formation’s spirit, taking control of the formation and revealing a more powerful way to use it.
• The four swords combine into a seven-colored sword. The formation draws power from its defenders; the Pangu Banner becomes the blade’s tip, while the Taiji Diagram’s Yin-Yang energy balances and contains its gathered power.
• At Tongtian’s command, the sword surges toward Hongjun’s Heavenly Dao true form.

Character developments and interactions

• Tongtian is shaken by Hongjun’s overwhelming strength but remains in the fight. He recognizes Luohu’s superior mastery of the formation, praises him, and learns from his technique.
• Luohu, still angry at Hongjun for using avatars to defeat him in the past, joins the battle and demonstrates both his knowledge of the formation and his determination to confront Hongjun.
• Taiqing and Yuanshi risk themselves despite injuries from severing their sainthood. Yunxiao and Golden Spirit Holy Mother also commit their strength to holding the formation together.
• The defenders cooperate without resisting when the formation draws on their power, combining their treasures and abilities into a single attack.

Significant themes

• Cooperation and shared strength: The formation’s decisive power comes from its defenders pooling their energy and treasures.
• Knowledge and humility: Tongtian accepts Luohu’s expertise and learns from it rather than letting pride interfere.
• Escalating sacrifice: The allies endure injuries and strain their treasures to resist Hongjun’s growing power.
• The danger of unchecked power: Hongjun’s consumption of the world and its enemies leaves the Primordial World increasingly unstable and depleted.

Key plot points and events

• Tongtian, Luohu, and the other saints combine their powers into a seven-colored sword that destroys three of Hongjun’s Heavenly Dao clones. But the clones begin to regenerate, revealing that they cannot be permanently killed while the saints remain linked to the Heavenly Dao.
• Di Jun and Empress Pingxin exploit the opening to strike Hongjun’s true form with the Human Dao’s Pangu Seal and the Earthly Dao’s power of Reincarnation. Their attacks pierce and shatter his form.
• Tongtian and Luohu lead a second formation strike, destroying most of Hongjun’s remaining fragments. This destabilizes the Primordial World’s laws—but also opens a passage to the Returning Ruins, which Hongjun had hidden within his true form.
• Chaos Demon Gods pour through the passage. Numerous additional rifts erupt across the world, the World Membrane breaks, and Primordial Chaos Qi floods in.
• Taiqing’s pagoda cannot stabilize all the breaches. Invaders smash the Underworld’s connection to the Primordial World, disrupting Reincarnation and killing countless souls. Empress Pingxin destroys the invaders in the Underworld, but the realm continues collapsing.

Character developments and interactions

• Luohu is exhausted from acting as the formation’s spirit, but the Xuanhuang Pagoda keeps him and the formation stable. He takes satisfaction in fighting for the world’s survival, in contrast to his former reputation as its enemy.
• Tongtian and the saints show formidable unity, but learn that even their strongest attack cannot prevent Hongjun’s clones from regenerating.
• Di Jun and Empress Pingxin seize the chance created by the sword attack, coordinating Human and Earthly Dao strikes that destroy Hongjun’s true form.
• Hongjun is revealed to have made his own true form a bridge to the Returning Ruins; his apparent defeat triggers a far greater catastrophe.
• Empress Pingxin shifts from attacking Hongjun to defending the Underworld, but her intervention cannot prevent its collapse.

Significant themes

• Victory turning into catastrophe: The heroes destroy their enemy, only to unleash the threat he had concealed.
• The interdependence of cosmic forces: Heavenly, Human, and Earthly Dao powers shape both the battle and the world’s survival.
• Redemption and changing allegiances: Luohu’s role as a defender contrasts with his former identity as the feared Demon Ancestor.
• The cost of war: The conflict devastates the world, disrupts Reincarnation, and threatens countless lives.

Key plot points and events

• Just as the Six Paths of Reincarnation and Human Dao seem about to collapse, both are sustained by Wu Tian’s Origin Realm, which is hidden inside the Chaos Pearl within him. This leaves them a chance to survive even if the Primordial World is destroyed—provided Wu Tian lives.
• Hongjun’s scattered body reassembles by drawing on the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao laws. The world is damaged in the process, but Hongjun survives, though initially weakened.
• Di Jun attacks again with the Pangu Seal, while Empress Pingxin strikes with the Samsara Lotus. Hongjun contains their attacks with the world’s laws and taunts them for lacking Pingxin’s former strength.
• To recover, Hongjun drains the remaining Heavenly Dao Origin and devours a Chaos Demon God emerging from the Returning Ruins. The Heavenly Dao absorbs the victim’s laws, making Hongjun stronger.
• Di Jun orders an all-out assault before Hongjun can recover. The Primordial World’s defenders fight Hongjun while also battling the Chaos Demon Gods pouring through the breach, and the world continues to crumble.
• Once fully restored, Hongjun blocks the Returning Ruins passage and confronts Pingxin, questioning why she spends her strength saving mortal lives.
• Pingxin remains committed to guiding the dead toward reincarnation, even as the Primordial World collapses. The chapter ends with her seeing Wu Tian fighting Demon Gods in Chaos, surrounded by their corpses; he notices her gaze.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun demonstrates that he is effectively sustained by the Primordial World and its laws. He grows more ruthless by treating the newly arrived Chaos Demon Gods as fuel, despite their belief that they are allies.
• Di Jun refuses to give up after Hongjun’s return and quickly recognizes that Hongjun’s recovery must be stopped.
• Empress Pingxin reveals the depth of her compassion: preserving individual lives and their chance at reincarnation matters more to her than conserving strength. Hongjun cannot understand this, while Pingxin rejects his detached view.
• Wu Tian, fighting outside the Primordial World with the Chaos Bell and God-Slaying Spear, remains the hidden support for Reincarnation and Human Dao. His apparent success against the Demon Gods draws Pingxin’s attention.

Significant themes

• Compassion versus cold cosmic order: Hongjun treats lives as expendable, while Pingxin believes every being deserves a chance at reincarnation.
• Interdependence and survival: Reincarnation, Human Dao, and even Hongjun’s existence depend on forces beyond any one battlefield.
• The cost of power: Hongjun’s recovery consumes the world and other beings, while the defenders’ struggle accelerates the Primordial World’s destruction.

Plot points

• Wu Tian realizes Hongjun is likely the decisive obstacle of the Immeasurable Tribulation. As Hongjun devours Chaos Demon Gods, his strength grows, and the collapsing Primordial World’s laws become more complete within him.
• The Primordial World has shrunk to about a third of its former size. Hongjun appears poised to consume it entirely and transcend the Heavenly Dao.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches urge Wu Tian to stop Hongjun, insisting that preserving the Primordial World matters because it was formed from Pangu’s body. But Wu Tian is pinned down by the overwhelming numbers of Chaos Demon Gods and cannot reach the world to help.
• Inside the Primordial World, Hongjun increasingly controls the battle, using the world’s contracting laws to suppress Tongtian, Luohu, and the others and preventing them from deploying the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Convinced that the stalemate will end in defeat, the Ancestral Witches sacrifice themselves. They dissolve into pure Pangu essence blood and merge into Wu Tian, causing his power to surge beyond its previous limits.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Tian recognizes that sheer strength, not clever tactics, will decide the calamity. He is awed by the Ancestral Witches’ trust and sacrifice, and understands that he may be able to restore them if he survives.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches, led by Dijiang and supported by Hou Tu and Zhu Jiuyin, put the preservation of the Primordial World and victory above their own survival. They entrust Wu Tian with the hope that he can revive them later.
• Hongjun shifts from a powerful opponent into the central threat: empowered by the demon gods and the Primordial World’s laws, he is close to consuming the world.
• The Chaos Demon Gods exploit the moment Wu Tian’s protective array dissolves, but the Ancestral Witches’ transformation repels their attacks.

Significant themes

• Sacrifice and trust: The Ancestral Witches give up their bodies and futures to empower Wu Tian.
• The stakes of belonging and legacy: They regard the Primordial World not as replaceable territory, but as the body and legacy of Pangu.
• Strength as the deciding force: Wu Tian sees the gulf between himself and Pangu and realizes that the fate of the world depends on reaching greater power.
• Hope amid catastrophe: The sacrifice is framed not as a final farewell, but as a gamble on survival and eventual resurrection.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches sacrificed themselves and merged into Wu Tian, empowering him to destroy many Chaos Demon Gods and return to confront Hongjun. Wu Tian and Hongjun began exchanging attacks, with Hongjun unleashing the Returning Ruins as the chapter ended.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches merged into Wu Tian, transforming him with the power and aura of Pangu.
• Wu Tian used the Chaos Bell and God-Slaying Spear to kill large numbers of Chaos Demon Gods, while vowing to bring the Twelve Ancestral Witches back.
• Wu Tian returned to the Primordial Wilderness and challenged Hongjun, who had become a silver eye formed from intertwined laws.
• Tongtian and the others saw Wu Tian return as he attacked Hongjun with the God-Slaying Spear.
• Hongjun sent a torrent of Heavenly Dao Laws against the spear, then unleashed the corrosive power of the Returning Ruins.

Hongjun revealed that he had become the Immeasurable Tribulation and was drawing strength from the Returning Ruins, but Wu Tian and his allies overwhelmed him with coordinated attacks. Hongjun’s body shattered into fleeing fragments, and Wu Tian moved to stop him from escaping.

• Hongjun revealed that he had become the Immeasurable Tribulation and could draw on the Returning Ruins’ power, causing Di Jun and the others to fear how strong he might become.
• Wu Tian used the Chaos Bell to suppress Hongjun, letting Empress Pingxin and Di Jun strike through the Heavenly Dao laws.
• Hongjun broke free and pushed back the Chaos Bell and the Earthly Dao and Human Dao forces, but Wu Tian attacked again with the God-Slaying Spear and Chaos Bell as his allies joined in.
• Wu Tian’s God-Slaying Spear pierced the Heavenly Dao’s Silver Eyes and devoured Hongjun’s shattered laws while Wu Tian’s fists struck his true spirit.
• Hongjun’s body exploded into fragments that fled and tried to reform, and Wu Tian prepared to pursue them.