Chapter Summaries

Mo Wuhui sacrificed his Chaos and Void Great Dao comprehension to return to the peak of the Saint Realm, then hunted Abyssal Demonic Creatures until battle restored his Chaos Great Dao comprehension. Han Yuan accepted him as his first disciple, gave him powerful resources and a Dao Ancestor Inheritance to seek, and ordered him to grow stronger before venturing out again.

• Mo Wuhui cut away his Chaos and Void Great Dao comprehension, refined demon cores, and joined the Great Azure Sword Master and the Dream Origin Ancient Beast in hunting peak demonic beasts.
• The Great Azure Sword Master and the Dream Origin Ancient Beast reached the peak of the Saint Realm, while Mo Wuhui continued hunting and challenging creatures that had comprehended the Chaos Great Dao.
• During the third millennium, Mo Wuhui comprehended a trace of the Chaos Great Dao in battle and returned to the level of a half-step Dao Venerable.
• Han Yuan summoned Mo Wuhui from the Abyss Realm, accepted him as his first disciple, and told him he saw the potential for him to become a Dao Ancestor.
• Han Yuan granted Mo Wuhui a Dao Ancestor Inheritance to seek, a set of low-grade Chaos Spirit Treasures, ten million strands of Primordial Violet Qi, and ten billion Primordial Coins, and promised guidance once every cosmic cycle.

After Mo Wuhui spent billions of years under Time Acceleration, he broke through to Dao Venerable and left the Abyss Realm with the Great Azure Sword Master and the Dream Origin Ancient Beast. Their advances sparked a rush into the Abyssal Hunting Ground, where Han Yuan prepared Dao Venerable-level opponents and challenged an arriving cultivator as the Five Elements Demon Venerable.

• After five hundred outside years and thirty-five evolution epochs in the Abyss Realm, Mo Wuhui became a Dao Venerable, while three Abyssal Demonic Creatures also reached that realm.
• Han Yuan allowed Mo Wuhui to leave, and Mo Wuhui returned to the Abyss Realm with the Great Azure Sword Master and the Dream Origin Ancient Beast.
• The three emerged from the Abyssal Hunting Ground, and the gathered cultivators discovered Mo Wuhui was a Dao Venerable while his companions had reached the Saint Realm peak.
• News of their breakthroughs spread, prompting three billion cultivators to enter the Abyssal Hunting Ground and some Dao Venerables to send avatars or enter in person.
• Han Yuan created one hundred Dao Venerable-level avatars to fight incoming challengers, then confronted a low-level Dao Venerable as the Five Elements Demon Venerable.
• The newcomer, Xiao, admired Han Yuan's Chaos Spirit Treasure and declared that he would take it.

Han Yuan fought Xiao Sirenn, who overwhelmed his newly comprehended Chaos Five Elements Great Dao with the Chaos Ten Thousand Tribulations Great Dao. Han Yuan escaped through the Abyssal Mother River, while Xiao Sirenn gained spoils and discovered the battle had deepened his understanding of his Great Dao.

• Xiao Sirenn attacked Han Yuan with tribulations, disrupting his Five Elements Great Dao and destroying his avatar.
• Han Yuan returned from the past and fought back, but Xiao Sirenn evaded his strikes and steadily depleted his origin source.
• Xiao Sirenn unleashed the Tribulation Destruction Palm, reducing Han Yuan's origin source by half and blasting his avatar apart.
• Han Yuan's true spirit fled into the Abyssal Mother River and warned Xiao Sirenn that he would return to kill him.
• Xiao Sirenn collected Han Yuan's Chaos Spirit Treasure and other spoils, then realized the battle had improved his understanding of the Chaos Ten Thousand Tribulations Great Dao.

Han Yuan used the Space Great Dao to defeat Xiao Sirenn, while Dao Venerables discovered that the Abyssal Hunting Ground offered valuable combat insights and fixed territorial limits. As Saints flocked there and new Dao Venerables emerged, Han Yuan gained more Luotian Great Daos and wondered whether the hunting ground would attract powerful outsiders.

• Han Yuan attacked Xiao Sirenn with the Space Luotian Great Dao, severed part of his origin, and drove him out of the hunting ground.
• Han Yuan reflected that advancing individual Great Daos to the Luotian level would help him push the Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao toward the Dao Ancestor level.
• Xiao Sirenn told more than two hundred Dao Venerables about the hunting ground's vast realm, its Demon Cores, its combat insights, and the Demon Lords' territorial limits.
• Other Dao Venerables confirmed Xiao Sirenn's account, and over the following centuries they entered the hunting ground to explore.
• A Saint broke through to become a Dao Venerable after entering the hunting ground, and the news drew more Saints into the Abyss Realm.
• After a third Dao Venerable emerged a thousand years later, Han Yuan gained two more Luotian Great Daos and worried that the hunting ground's reputation would attract powerful Dao Venerables.

Meaning Horse and his friends traveled through the Dao Shi Realm’s checkpoints to reach Taigu City, where trillions of Saints had gathered seeking a chance to become Dao Venerables. Han Yuan and the other Daoists recognized that the city’s breakthrough rate had drawn overwhelming attention, and Yongxu Daoist suggested they flee.

• Heart Ape told a gathering of Saints that Wu Zhongtian had become a Dao Venerable after finding an opportunity in Taigu City, and Meaning Horse’s group later decided to investigate.
• Meaning Horse and his friends joined the many peak-Saint caravans crossing the Chaos River of Time and Space toward Taigu City.
• The group passed through ninety-nine guarded checkpoints and traveled for decades before reaching Taigu City, where they found an enormous crowd of Saints waiting to enter.
• Han Yuan asked Eternal Daoist, Daoist Wu Yun, Daoist Kong Mo, and Yongxu Daoist how to handle the trillions of gathered Saints.
• Daoist Wu Yun explained that Taigu City’s three recent breakthroughs were extraordinarily rare, and Yongxu Daoist proposed running away.

Han Yuan negotiated shares of Taigu City’s profits with several Dao Venerables, then watched the city’s trade and the Abyssal Hunting Ground grow. When Meaning Horse and Heart Ape entered the hunting ground seeking a breakthrough opportunity, Han Yuan noticed their affinity with the Abyssal Heart Dao and decided to help them.

• Han Yuan agreed to give Eternal Daoist, Kong Mo, and Wu Yun fifty percent of the profits, while Yongxu Daoist kept his fifteen percent share.
• Taigu City opened an auction house and continued expanding to serve its growing population of Saints.
• Meaning Horse met Heart Ape, who told him about a Demon Venerable’s remains and a possible opportunity to reach the Dao Venerable realm.
• Meaning Horse and Heart Ape entered the Abyssal Hunting Ground and used their Heart Light to move unseen through the minds of Demonic Beasts.
• Han Yuan recognized their compatibility with the Abyssal Heart Dao and decided to give them an opportunity to advance and potentially become his subordinates.

Heart Ape and Meaning Horse exploited the Abyssal Demonic Creatures’ weak hearts to gather demonic cores, then secretly entered the Demon Venerable Ruins and claimed two Heart Dao Pearls. After knocking out the Saints who attacked them, the pair left, while Heart Ape wondered whether their opportunity had been too convenient.

• Heart Ape and Meaning Horse killed Saint-realm Abyssal Demonic Creatures with ease and collected more than three hundred demonic cores.
• The pair reached the Demon Venerable Ruins, where Heart Ape used Mind Marks to slip past the Saints gathered outside.
• Heart Ape and Meaning Horse entered a great hall and each seized a Heart Dao Pearl from the throne.
• The pearls helped both Saints reach half-step Dao Venerable and comprehend the threshold of the Abyssal Heart Dao.
• Heart Ape and Meaning Horse used Mind Storm and Abyss of the Mind to knock out the attacking Saints, then left without killing them.
• Heart Ape questioned whether their discovery had been too much of a coincidence.

Heart Ape and Meaning Horse traced the mysterious beads to an unknown benefactor and sought an audience with Han Yuan, the City Lord of Taigu City. After Han Yuan refused to take them as disciples, the two offered to join Taigu City and serve him.

• Heart Ape reversed time in the grand hall and discovered that the two beads had appeared out of nowhere, then bowed to the unseen senior who had bestowed them.
• Heart Ape and Meaning Horse paid their expedition fee and learned from Dark Demoness that the City Lord lived at the City Lord's Mansion.
• The mansion's door opened for them, and they entered a strange heart-world where they saw Han Yuan above the River of Heart.
• Heart Ape and Meaning Horse asked Han Yuan to accept them as disciples, but he refused, so they offered to join Taigu City and serve him.

Han Yuan recruited Heart Ape and Meaning Horse to serve as intelligence operatives and trained them until both broke through to Dao Venerable. Their breakthrough sparked belief in the Abyssal Hunting Ground, which Han Yuan transformed into a realm-wide Breakthrough Halo and amplified sixfold.

• Heart Ape proposed establishing an intelligence operation, and Han Yuan accepted after deciding their skills suited the work.
• Han Yuan sent Heart Ape and Meaning Horse to train in the Abyssal Hunting Ground with a Demon Lord, accelerated their cultivation, and supplied them with resources.
• After more than seventy evolution epochs, Heart Ape and Meaning Horse broke through to Dao Venerable, astonishing the Saints training nearby.
• The breakthrough spread excitement throughout Taigu City and strengthened the belief that the Abyssal Hunting Ground made breakthroughs easier.
• Han Yuan used the Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao to turn that belief into a Breakthrough Halo Ancient Tree that benefited the entire Great Beginning Realm.
• Han Yuan rolled a six on his die, amplifying the Breakthrough Halo Ancient Tree's effect sixfold.

Han Yuan concealed his Breakthrough Halo after attaining mastery of the Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao, then helped Donghuang Shenji break through to Dao Venerable in the Abyssal Hunting Ground. Donghuang Shenji’s success spread Taigu City’s reputation and strengthened the faith flowing to the Halo Ancient Tree.

• Han Yuan celebrated his new power, checked his pride, and concealed the Breakthrough Halo.
• Donghuang Shenji arrived in Taigu City, heard that Saints had broken through to Dao Venerable in the Abyssal Hunting Ground, and went there to cultivate.
• Donghuang Shenji found a favorable place, slew its Demonic Beasts, set up a Time Acceleration array, and began comprehending the Void Great Dao.
• Han Yuan noticed Donghuang Shenji’s imminent breakthrough and strengthened the Dao essence around him.
• Three years later, Donghuang Shenji transformed into a Three-legged Golden Crow with a Dao Ancestor Bloodline and announced his breakthrough.
• Saints grew eager to cultivate in Taigu City, while their faith flowed to the Halo Ancient Tree and strengthened the Breakthrough Halo.

Han Yuan fused the Void Great Dao into the Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao, greatly expanding the Great Beginning Realm and increasing his origin. He then granted opportunities to cultivators of the Chaos and Karma Great Daos, while Zhou Feng struggled to find a path to Dao Venerable and caught Han Yuan’s attention.

• Han Yuan added the Void Great Dao to the Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao, creating void between its time-spaces and expanding the realm’s scale.
• Han Yuan’s origin increased by thirty percent, then the die multiplied the Void Amplification Effect by five and raised his origin by another 1.5 times.
• Han Yuan found millions of Saints cultivating the Chaos and Karma Great Daos and began bestowing opportunities on them.
• A Karma Great Dao cultivator severed his karmic ties with his junior brother by giving him Chaos Ore as proof that their karma was settled.
• Zhou Feng wondered why his Karma Lines kept snapping, then considered using major karma in Taigu City to reach Dao Venerable.
• Han Yuan heard Zhou Feng’s thoughts and offered to let him temporarily possess Dao Venerable strength.

Zhou Feng bought temporary Dao Venerable cultivation from Han Yuan by agreeing to work for him, then used his breakthrough to gather karma by lecturing Saints in Taigu City. Thirteen years later, another Dao Venerable broke through in the Abyss Realm, allowing Zhou Feng to use his accumulated karma to reach the Dao Venerable realm permanently.

• Han Yuan briefly granted Zhou Feng Dao Venerable status, and Zhou Feng agreed to work for him in exchange for temporary cultivation.
• Zhou Feng announced that he would share his breakthrough experience at the Taigu Lecture Forum, drawing Saints from across the region.
• Zhou Feng lectured one hundred and thirty billion Saints and let them sense Dao Venerable origin power, forging vast karma.
• After the temporary cultivation ended, Zhou Feng's karma raised him to the peak of half-step Dao Venerable, but he remained blocked by the bottleneck.
• Thirteen years later, another Dao Venerable broke through in the Abyss Realm, and Zhou Feng's cultivation surged back to the Dao Venerable realm permanently.

Han Yuan discovered that the Abyss Realm’s finger bone carried terrifying karmic ties and decided to find a chance to dispose of it. Meanwhile, Dong Huangxie turned toward Taigu City to seek wealth, but his envoy was told that only five Demon Heaven experts could enter.

• Han Yuan traced a thick Karma Line to the Abyss Realm and saw seven massive lines reaching beyond the Great Beginning Realm, possibly toward Dao Ancestors.
• Han Yuan decided the Abyssal Ancestral Dao finger bone was too dangerous to keep and considered selling it, while sensing someone was moving against Taigu City.
• Dong Huangxie learned that his forces had suffered enormous losses and needed one quadrillion strands of Primordial Violet Qi to recover and continue the war.
• Dong Huangxie received Donghuang Shenji’s report about Taigu City’s wealth and changed course toward it with his Chaos Flying Boat.
• Dong Huangxie sent Tian Xiong to deliver a calling card, and Zhou Feng said the City Lord would meet them but would allow no more than five visitors.

Dong Huangxie offered to bring Taigu City into Demon Heaven or cooperate with it, but Han Yuan rejected the terms and proposed a sparring match to test Demon Heaven’s strength. The two sides prepared to face off in an arena visible above the city, while Saints gathered to watch.

• Tian Xiong warned Dong Huangxie that Taigu City showed little regard for his title, so Dong Huangxie brought four Peak Dao Venerables to meet the City Lord.
• Dong Huangxie offered Taigu City third-rank Saint Court status, then proposed a personal partnership in exchange for ninety percent of its profits; Han Yuan refused both offers and countered with ten percent.
• Han Yuan challenged Dong Huangxie’s subordinates to spar against Taigu City’s deputy city lords, and he transformed the City Lord’s Mansion into a void arena.
• Heart Ape and Meaning Horse announced the match and promised the safety of Saints watching within Taigu City, prompting observers outside to rush inside.
• Demon Heaven’s Chaos Flying Boat stayed in place after receiving Dong Huangxie’s order to hold position.

Han Yuan arranged a duel between Demon Heaven and Taigu City, pitting Elder Jing Tao against Yongxu Daoist in the Void Battlefield. Their endlessly escalating attacks reached a stalemate, and Dong Huangxie and Han Yuan agreed to call the round a draw.

• Han Yuan opened a Void Battlefield and sent Yongxu Daoist to face Demon Heaven’s Elder Jing Tao.
• Jing Tao used the Chaos Heaven-Shaking Hammer to disrupt Yongxu Daoist’s teleportation and force him to reveal himself.
• Yongxu Daoist concealed himself within space and unleashed layers of spatial blades and storms against Jing Tao.
• Jing Tao countered by turning incoming attacks into force and building an expanding tide of power.
• After their battle remained deadlocked, Dong Huangxie and Han Yuan agreed to a draw.

After Yongxu Daoist’s draw with Jing Tao, Daoist Wu Yun entered the next bout and overwhelmed Yuan Feng by enduring her Eternal Flame while revealing his extraordinary mastery of multiple Daos. Yuan Feng conceded, and Dong Huangxie grew wary of Han Yuan and Taigu City’s other deputy city lords.

• Yongxu Daoist returned to Han Yuan after the draw, and Han Yuan asked who would fight next.
• Daoist Wu Yun volunteered, and Dong Huangxie sent Yuan Feng to test him.
• Yuan Feng unleashed Eternal Flame, but Daoist Wu Yun bathed in it unharmed and used a sharp attack to force Dong Huangxie to defend himself.
• Dong Huangxie recognized Daoist Wu Yun’s mastery of three peak Daos and the Five Elements Dao, while Yuan Feng realized Wu Yun was learning her Fire Dao.
• Yuan Feng conceded, but Daoist Wu Yun followed her into Demon Heaven’s camp until Han Yuan called him back.
• Dong Huangxie watched Daoist Wu Yun report to Han Yuan and began reassessing Taigu City’s lord and deputy city lords.

Daoist Kong Mo defeated Qiu Zhen in one move, revealing Taigu City's overwhelming strength. Eternal Daoist then summoned another version of Jue from the River of Time, and the two began fighting.

• Dong Huangxie sent Qiu Zhen to test Taigu City, and Daoist Kong Mo instantly defeated him by extracting the space that sustained him.
• Qiu Zhen returned from the River of Time with one percent of his origin erased, and Dong Huangxie explained how Kong Mo's technique had defeated him.
• Dong Huangxie sent Jue to fight, and Eternal Daoist appeared before him without disturbing space.
• Eternal Daoist drew a version of Jue from the Time Ruins, who explained that they shared an origin but not a body.
• Jue and Er Jue began a fierce battle with their Annihilation Great Dao abilities.

Jue conceded after Eternal Daoist summoned thirty-six Peak Dao Venerables, who joined forces to create the Time Void secret realm for Taigu City. Dong Huangxie abandoned his challenge and offered gifts, while Taigu City’s power and reputation spread among the peak forces.

• Jue and Er Jue fought for thirty thousand years without either gaining victory, so Eternal Daoist summoned thirty-five Peak Dao Venerables from the River of Time to join Er Jue.
• Jue conceded when the thirty-six Peak Dao Venerables formed a battle formation against him.
• Eternal Daoist had the thirty-six Dao Venerables create the Time Void secret realm, which Han Yuan placed in Taigu City as the Ruins of Time.
• Dong Huangxie declined Han Yuan’s invitation to fight and gave gifts to Han Yuan and the deputy city lords as an apology.
• The Saints and Dao Venerables reacted to Taigu City’s display of power, and news of the battle spread to the peak forces and Dao Children searching for Dao Ancestor's Relics.

Han Yuan distributed Taigu City's enormous Primordial Violet Qi earnings, and he and his allies discovered that the Qi could be condensed into Primordial Chaos Beads. The chapter left Han Yuan preparing to test the beads while Yongchang, Wu Yun, and Kong Mo discussed Taigu City's growing risks and the immense Jianmu.

• Han Yuan thanked Yongchang and the others at a banquet and distributed their shares of Taigu City's profits in Primordial Violet Qi.
• Yongxu Daoist, Daoist Wu Yun, Daoist Kong Mo, and Eternal Daoist were astonished by their huge shares, and Yongchang condensed his Qi into Primordial Chaos Beads.
• Han Yuan secretly turned most of his own earnings into 9,340 Primordial Chaos Beads and prepared to test their effects.
• Daoist Wu Yun complained that Han Yuan's share was too large, while Daoist Kong Mo explained that Han Yuan would bear the consequences if Taigu City attracted powerful factions.
• Daoist Kong Mo showed Wu Yun a phantom of Jianmu and revealed that it was a terrifyingly enormous Chaos Spiritual Root that had grasped the Space Great Dao.

Eternal Daoist, Daoist Kong Mo, and Daoist Wu Yun discussed Han Yuan’s extraordinary Chaos Spiritual Root and the benefits he had granted them. After refining a Primordial Chaos Bead, Han Yuan gained deeper insight into the Great Daos and advanced his Destiny and Karma Great Daos, but found that further progress required changing the destinies or karma of many powerful Dao Venerables.

• Daoist Kong Mo revealed that Han Yuan’s Chaos Spiritual Root had a true body seventy thousand Light Epochs tall, and Eternal Daoist warned the others not to underestimate him.
• Daoist Wu Yun worried that their fifty-one-percent share was excessive, while Eternal Daoist watched Everlasting and hoped it would grow strong.
• Han Yuan refined a Primordial Chaos Bead and received insights into the origins and structure of the Great Daos.
• Han Yuan used Primordial Chaos Beads to advance the Destiny Great Dao to the Mid-level Dao Venerable realm, then raised the Karma Great Dao to the same level.
• Han Yuan advanced both Destiny and Karma to the peak of the Mid-level Dao Venerable realm, but learned that reaching the High-level realm required altering the destinies or major karmic ties of many Dao Venerables.
• Han Yuan set aside the stalled Great Daos and began comprehending the Time, Space, and Five Elements Great Daos.