Chapter Summaries

Saint Heart abandoned his pursuit of the Dao Ancestor's Relic and gathered allies to target Taigu City's City Lord for resources. While searching Taigu City, he infiltrated Wangcai's heart and followed him into the Abyss Realm, where he sensed the Ancestral Dao and realized the relic was there.

• Saint Heart learned that the powerhouse with the Dao Ancestor's Relic had defeated the allied armies and gave up trying to obtain the relic.
• Saint Heart recruited Donghuang Hong, Jiao Yue, and Ling Ling San to attack Taigu City's City Lord and divide the city's resources.
• Saint Heart searched Taigu City and found Wangcai and Jinbao together; he influenced Wangcai into going to cultivate at the Dao Venerable Training Camp.
• Jinbao promised to become Wangcai's Dao companion if he reached Dao Venerable, and Wangcai hurried to the Abyssal Hunting Ground.
• Hidden in Wangcai's heart, Saint Heart sensed the Ancestral Dao in the Abyss Realm and realized the Dao Ancestor's Relic was there.

Saint Heart advanced to the Nine-step Dao Child level through the Abyssal Heart Dao, while Han Yuan resisted taking the same Ancestral Dao path and continued pursuing the Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao. Meanwhile, Donghuang Hong led an overwhelming force to demand tribute from the Dao Venerable Training Camp, only for Eternal Daoist to summon hundreds of projections from the River of Time.

• Saint Heart secretly entered the heart of the Abyss Realm and cultivated the Abyssal Heart Dao after realizing the fallen Dao Ancestor had proven the Abyssal Ancestral Dao.
• Over ten thousand years passed as Yongxu Daoist, Daoist Wu Yun, Daoist Kong Mo, Eternal Daoist, and Saint Heart improved their cultivation, and their progress fed back into Han Yuan.
• Han Yuan approached the threshold of High-level Dao Venerable and considered the Abyssal Ancestral Dao, but chose to keep pursuing the Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao unless circumstances forced him to change course.
• Donghuang Hong and her allies gathered eight hundred Dao Children and one hundred thousand Dao Venerables, then entered the Abyss Realm to attack Taigu City.
• Donghuang Hong led the force to the Dao Venerable Training Camp and demanded five billion Chaos Beads from Eternal Daoist and the other deputy City Lords.
• Eternal Daoist summoned the River of Time, and eight hundred figures emerged to confront Donghuang Hong's force.

As the battle erupted, Han Yuan confronted Saint Heart inside his heart and completely erased him, taking over his body as an avatar. Han Yuan discovered the die remained with his consciousness and began strengthening Saint Heart’s origin with his Abyssal Daos.

• Donghuang Hong ordered the attack, and the Dao Children and other forces split into battles across parallel spacetime.
• Saint Heart arrived at the battlefield and planned to find stronger allies to help him seize the Dao Ancestor’s Relic.
• Han Yuan appeared inside Saint Heart’s heart, revealed he had matched Saint Heart’s Nine-step Heart Dao, and erased his consciousness to take over his body.
• Han Yuan examined Saint Heart’s origin and found it weaker than expected, then used the Abyssal Chaos Dao and the die to increase its power.
• Han Yuan brought more than two thousand Abyssal Daos into Saint Heart’s body, causing his origin to surge and a powerful Dao to begin forming.

Han Yuan discovered that his Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao could bind and absorb the Abyssal Ancestral Dao, and he realized he needed two more Ancestral Daos before attempting a breakthrough. As Saint Heart's power surged, Han Yuan appeared before him while Eternal Daoist and the others watched tensely.

• Han Yuan's Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao restrained the emerging Abyssal Ancestral Dao and absorbed it, revealing that its nine primary Great Daos could serve as vessels for three Ancestral Daos.
• Han Yuan used the Dao Ancestor's Relic to complete Saint Heart's Three Thousand Great Daos, then sealed its power to keep the Abyssal Ancestral Dao from advancing too far.
• Han Yuan concluded that he needed to comprehend three Ancestral Daos and advance with them simultaneously, and he considered learning from Eternal Daoist's plans for an Ancestral Dao.
• Eternal Daoist wounded Donghuang Hong and Yongxu Daoist, then used the Power of Time to restore Yongxu Daoist as Donghuang Hong called for Saint Heart.
• Saint Heart appeared with a new breakthrough, and Han Yuan appeared before him; Yongxu Daoist greeted Han Yuan as the onlookers retreated from the tense confrontation.

Han Yuan confronted Saint Heart over Taigu City, and their staged battle destroyed the Abyss Realm while convincing the observers that both were powerful Nine-step Dao Children. Saint Heart appeared injured and withdrew with Donghuang Hong’s group, leaving Han Yuan to emerge from the void and acknowledge his strength.

• Saint Heart demanded fifty billion Chaos Beads for Taigu City to join the Saint Heaven Dao Court and threatened Han Yuan when he refused.
• Han Yuan and Saint Heart exchanged blows, destroying the Abyss Realm and killing hundreds of millions of Abyssal Demonic Creatures and many Saints and Dao Venerables.
• The observers believed Han Yuan and Saint Heart were battling as Nine-step Dao Children, unaware that both were controlled by the same consciousness.
• Shockwaves from the hidden battle overwhelmed the combined defenses of the Daoists and Donghuang Hong’s Dao Children.
• Saint Heart appeared bloodied and ordered Donghuang Hong’s group to leave, while Yongxu Daoist urged the others to stop them and Eternal Daoist refused.
• Han Yuan emerged from the void looking disheveled and praised Saint Heart’s strength.

Han Yuan helped Eternal Daoist reverse time and restore the Abyss Realm, reviving the cultivators who had fallen in battle. He then led the Saint Heaven Dao Court back to Sacred Heaven and headed for the Saint Court after witnessing the Dao Court’s vastness.

• Han Yuan asked Eternal Daoist to reverse time, then used the Primordial Origin Source to accelerate the process and restore the Abyss Realm, reviving Mo Wuhui, Heart Ape, Meaning Horse, Zhou Feng, and the other fallen cultivators.
• Han Yuan wondered whether the Abyssal Ancestral Dao still had a seat available after merging into the Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao.
• Saint Heart departed for the Dao Court after the search operation ended, while Donghuang Hong and the others thanked him; he heard Donghuang Hong’s private curses, prompting her to apologize and leave.
• Han Yuan led the Saint Heaven Dao Court’s people through the Chaos River of Time and Space and into Sacred Heaven, where he saw the Dao Court’s enormous population and hierarchy.
• Han Yuan piloted the Chaos Flying Boat toward the Saint Court, the Saint Heaven Dao Court’s center of power.

Han Yuan returned to the Saint Heaven Dao Court, challenged the Sacred Monarch to a life-and-death battle, and learned from Wan Cang Dao Lord what it took to pursue the Ancestral Dao. He left the Dao Repository Realm understanding that reaching the ninth step only began the perilous search for a unique Great Dao system.

• Han Yuan discovered that the Radiance Sovereign had seized his Heaven Domain assets and destroyed part of the Sovereign's palace when confronting him.
• Han Yuan revealed his breakthrough to the ninth step and challenged the Sacred Monarch to fight at the Life-and-Death Platform in one hundred years, rejecting the Radiance Sovereign's offer of compensation.
• Han Yuan submitted his challenge application, and news of his advancement spread through the Saint Heaven Dao Court as he quietly went to the Dao Repository Realm.
• Wan Cang Dao Lord explained that a Dao Ancestor needed to unite many Great Daos into a complete system and warned Han Yuan against following another cultivator's path.
• Wan Cang Dao Lord told Han Yuan that fallen Dao Ancestors vanished so completely that even their killers forgot them, while Dao Ancestor's Relics were independent crystallizations of Ancestral Daos.

Han Yuan entered the Dao Repository Realm and studied the complete Five Elements Ancestral Dao system, then discovered that incorporating its structure strengthened his own Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao. After trying to reconstruct the system from the altered version, he found his attempt still differed from the original in eighteen ways.

• Wan Cang Dao Lord explained the Dao Repository Realm and advised Han Yuan to choose an incomplete Great Dao system by intuition.
• Han Yuan entered the Dao Repository Realm and found the complete Five Elements Ancestral Dao among its recorded systems.
• Han Yuan studied the Five Elements Ancestral Dao for a hundred yǎnjì and constructed it within his origin space.
• Han Yuan's Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao absorbed the Five Elements system's essence, improving its structure and increasing its power.
• Han Yuan spent three hundred yǎnjì modifying a defective copy of the Five Elements system, but found eighteen differences from the authentic version.

Han Yuan studied perfect Great Dao systems and found that repairing a single flaw could transform a lotus-shaped framework into its true strange-beast form. After learning from Chongxu about the Sacred Sovereign and the limits of studying dismantled systems, Han Yuan wondered whether the incomplete frameworks he extracted were unusually easy to perfect.

• Han Yuan comprehended an eight-hundred-Dao system shaped like a strange beast, integrated it into the Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao, and spent two hundred evolution cycles adjusting a copy.
• Han Yuan noticed that beings resembling Chaos Demon Gods had arisen from Great Dao fluctuations, then dismissed his speculation about how the original Chaos Demon Gods were born.
• Han Yuan repaired the final flaw in his framework and watched its lotus shape transform into a strange beast.
• Chongxu told Han Yuan that the Sacred Sovereign had mastered dozens of near-perfect systems, including one with three thousand six hundred Great Daos, and could at most send Han Yuan into reincarnation under Dao Court rules.
• Chongxu explained that the Dao Repository Realm's dismantled Great Dao systems offered little advantage without access to their perfect frameworks, while Han Yuan remained unsure why his own extracted systems seemed easier to perfect.

Han Yuan completed a flawless Great Dao system and strengthened the Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao before choosing to study the weakest incomplete Ancestral Dao system. He began searching for its perfect structure while other Dao Children, including Daoist Chongxu, underestimated how long he would persist.

• Han Yuan visited all the publicly available free Dao repositories and completed a flawless system containing 389 Luotian Great Daos.
• The Great Beginning Zhenjie Dao absorbed the completed system, bringing its fused total to more than five hundred perfect Great Dao systems and greatly increasing Han Yuan's strength.
• Han Yuan chose the incomplete Heart Realm Ancestral Dao system with 365 Luotian Great Daos, despite Wan Cang Dao Lord warning him that the task would be difficult and time-consuming.
• Wan Cang Dao Lord granted Han Yuan permission to study the system, and Han Yuan began searching for its most perfect structure.
• Other Dao Children discussed Han Yuan's choice and bet on when he would give up, while Daoist Chongxu predicted he would last no more than a hundred yan epochs.

Han Yuan perfected the Heart Realm Ancestral Dao, becoming a Dao Lord while discovering that higher unclaimed Ancestral Daos required far larger systems. He chose to hide his new realm, keep comprehending the Dao Repository, and compete as planned while Wan Cang Dao Lord prepared to notify the Dao Ancestor.

• Han Yuan added a Void Great Dao and continued adjusting the system until its 366 Great Daos formed a flawless, self-sustaining Heart Realm Ancestral Dao.
• Han Yuan learned that the remaining Ancestral Dao pillars required systems of at least 6,000 and 9,000 Great Daos, then balanced the Heart Realm system with the Abyssal Ancestral Dao System in Saint Heart's origin.
• Han Yuan's Saint Heart Avatar reached the Dao Lord level, and he saw that later climbers on the Heart Realm Ancestral Dao's path could not overtake him.
• Wan Cang Dao Lord appeared, recognized Han Yuan's success, and congratulated him as the Saint Heaven Dao Court's fifth Dao Lord.
• Han Yuan refused an immediate breakthrough or public announcement, asked to keep studying before meeting the Dao Ancestor, and confirmed he would still enter the competition.

Han Yuan accepted the Sacred Monarch’s terms for their Life and Death Challenge, agreeing that the loser would surrender all their wealth. They arrived at a Void Battlefield, where the Sacred Monarch attacked as soon as the match began.

• After the red die amplified the Heart Realm Ancestral Dao System, Han Yuan spoke with Daoist Chongxu, who warned him about the Sacred Monarch’s strength and offered to intervene.
• The Sacred Monarch apologized for Guangming and gave Han Yuan one hundred million Chaos Beads, then proposed that the loser forfeit all their wealth in the challenge.
• Han Yuan accepted the added condition, and Wan Cang Dao Lord transported him and the Sacred Monarch to a Void Battlefield before confirming the stakes.
• Hundreds of powerful cultivators gathered to watch, while Daoist Chongxu wondered why Han Yuan had agreed to risk his wealth.
• When the three-breath countdown ended, the Sacred Monarch made the first move.

Han Yuan fought the Sacred Monarch, revealing an exceptionally complete Abyssal Ancestral Dao and an immense stockpile of Peak Chaos Spirit Treasures. The Sacred Monarch’s Sacred Chaos was pushed back, leaving him at a disadvantage in their wagered battle.

• The Sacred Monarch struck Han Yuan with a secret art combining six hundred Great Daos, but Han Yuan emerged unharmed and severed one of the Sacred Monarch’s arms with a sword attack combining two thousand Great Daos.
• The Sacred Monarch regenerated his arm and unleashed his Holy Ancestral Dao, formed from three thousand six hundred Great Daos, while Han Yuan countered with his near-perfect Abyssal Ancestral Dao.
• Han Yuan’s Abyssal Ancestral Dao began overpowering the Holy Ancestral Dao, astonishing the onlookers and revealing that it was more complete despite containing fewer Great Daos.
• The Sacred Monarch empowered his Sacred Chaos with three thousand six hundred Peak Chaos Spirit Treasures, but Han Yuan answered by reinforcing his Dao system with six thousand Peak Chaos Spirit Treasures.
• Han Yuan’s Abyssal Chaos reclaimed the surrounding territory and began devouring the Sacred Monarch’s origin, putting the Sacred Monarch at a disadvantage as the watchers recalled their wager.

The Sacred Monarch revealed that he was a hidden Dao Lord and fought Han Yuan by unleashing his Light Chaos Realm against Han Yuan’s Mind-Realm Minor Chaos. Their wills clashed across simulated chaoses, where Han Yuan’s smaller collection of Great Daos nevertheless gave him the advantage.

• The Sacred Monarch withdrew the Sacred Dao’s power and revealed his complete Ancestral Dao, shocking the witnesses by exposing himself as a Dao Lord.
• Wan Cang Dao Lord shielded the Nine-step Dao Children from the Sacred Monarch’s aura, while Daoist Chongxu wondered why Saint Heart showed no reaction to it.
• The Sacred Monarch and Han Yuan each transformed their power into a simulated minor chaos and collided their wills.
• The Sacred Monarch created powerful beings within his Light Minor Chaos, and Han Yuan responded by doing the same in his Mind-Realm Minor Chaos.
• As Dao Venerables arose in both chaoses and fought across them, Han Yuan realized that more Great Daos raised the potential strength and limits of a chaos’s living beings.

Han Yuan defeated the Sacred Monarch in the chaos contest and won nearly all of the Divine Dao Lord’s wealth. After Han Yuan and Divine were welcomed as Dao Court Elders, the Saint Heaven Dao Ancestor warned them about dangers facing Dao Lords and explained the threat of premature breakthroughs.

• Han Yuan’s Heart Realm Chaos overwhelmed the Light Chaos, and the Sacred Monarch admitted defeat.
• Wan Cang Dao Lord confirmed Han Yuan’s victory, transferring nearly all of the Divine Dao Lord’s wealth to him.
• Wan Cang Dao Lord invited Han Yuan and the Divine Dao Lord to the main hall, where they met the Saint Heaven Dao Ancestor and other Dao Lords.
• The Saint Heaven Dao Ancestor recognized Han Yuan’s fortuitous opportunity and warned both new Dao Lords about ambushes and veteran Dao Lords who might force them to break through prematurely.
• Han Yuan asked whether a Dao Lord could ever defeat a Dao Ancestor across realms.

Saint Heaven Dao Ancestor explained how Dao Ancestors wield Ancestral Daos and small Chaoses, then guided Sacred Monarch on advancing toward the Holy Ancestral Dao. After learning about the Primordial Land, Han Yuan discovered that the Great Beginning Realm could rapidly refine Primordial Violet Qi into enhanced Chaos Qi, while Wan Cang Dao Lord warned that powerful guests would come to challenge the newly risen Dao Lord.

• Saint Heaven Dao Ancestor explained the difference between Dao Ancestors and Dao Lords, and Sacred Monarch asked why he could not advance in his comprehension of the Holy Ancestral Dao.
• Saint Heaven Dao Ancestor advised Sacred Monarch to comprehend an Ancestral Dao below Nine Hundred before pursuing the One Thousand Eight Hundred Ancestral Dao and the Holy Ancestral Dao, and Han Yuan also took the guidance to heart.
• Wan Cang Dao Lord revealed that Dao Ancestors fought in the Primordial Land, a higher-dimensional realm containing the Great Chaos and countless small Chaoses.
• Han Yuan used the Great Beginning Realm to refine Primordial Violet Qi, causing its Great Daos to grow and producing Chaos Qi that the dice enhanced.
• Wan Cang Dao Lord warned Han Yuan and Sacred Monarch that powerhouses from all sides would come to congratulate and challenge a newly born Dao Lord.

Han Yuan discovered that the broken stele from Sacred Monarch’s wager was a Primordial Spirit Treasure and restored it as the Hongmeng Town Prison Stele. With the Great Beginning Realm greatly strengthened, he traveled to the Primordial Land and used it to absorb Primordial Violet Qi.

• Han Yuan found that the damaged stele resisted his strength and Great Beginning Power, but the Great Beginning Realm gradually refined it.
• A three-faced die doubled the stele’s refinement effect, restoring it and revealing that the Hongmeng Town Prison Stele could suppress Chaos and imprison Dao Ancestors.
• The Hongmeng Town Prison Stele strengthened the Great Beginning Realm’s stability, defenses, and ability to devour and refine.
• Han Yuan traveled through the Chaos River of Time and Space to the Primordial Land and plunged his hand into its purple expanse.
• Han Yuan withdrew his hand with the Great Beginning Realm gone, then turned and left.

Han Yuan guided the Great Beginning Realm through the Primordial Land, where it absorbed Primordial Qi and grew into a vast realm. He formed the Dao Shi Realm around Jianmu and created a new River of Time and Space, leaving travelers from Taigu City stunned by the changed destination.

• Han Yuan watched the Great Beginning Embryonic Membrane absorb Primordial Qi, expanding the Great Beginning Realm to 7.8 billion light-years and strengthening its Great Dao to the Peak Dao Venerable level.
• Han Yuan moved the Great Beginning Realm away from the Great Chaos and deeper into the Primordial Land, where its growth eventually stopped at 9.9 billion light-years.
• Primordial Violet Qi and Chaos Qi gathered beneath Jianmu to form the Dao Shi Realm, where Saints settled, cultivated, mined, and built cities.
• Han Yuan stopped Jianmu from creating new worlds, and the worlds already on its branches detached and moved into Chaos.
• Han Yuan established a Chaos River of Time and Space that connected the Dao Shi Realm to Taigu City, restoring Taigu City's time after it had been held in stasis.
• Travelers from Taigu City followed the altered river to the Dao Shi Realm and discovered that the three thousand heavens were gone, leaving only one world.

Han Yuan and the deputy city lords discovered that the Dao Shi Realm had become a barren world filled with ownerless Primordial Violet Qi veins, and Han Yuan suspected time had reversed across Chaos. Convinced they were in the realm’s past, Taigu City’s powerful residents set out to claim territory and pursue Dao Ancestorhood.

• Han Yuan traveled with the deputy city lords to the Dao Shi Realm and found its three thousand heavens gone, leaving only a desolate land.
• Daoist Kong Mo found Saints fighting over a Primordial Violet Qi vein and reported that mineral veins were scattered throughout the realm.
• Han Yuan proposed that a powerful time reversal had returned the Dao Shi Realm—and perhaps all of Chaos—to an earlier era.
• Daoist Kong Mo found unfamiliar Great Realms moving away from the Dao Shi Realm, supporting Han Yuan’s theory that Chaos had reversed.
• Eternal Daoist and the others left to explore, while Saints, Dao Venerables, and Dao Children from Taigu City spread into the Dao Shi Realm to claim domains and seek advancement.

Han Yuan deduced that the Great Chaos’s Ancestral Daos were controlled by a hidden Origin Dao master and suspected the Chaos Will was conspiring against Dao Ancestors. After the Chaos Will tried to track his incarnation, it branded him an invading outworlder and ordered the Dao Ancestors to destroy him.

• Han Yuan tried to attain the Five Elements Ancestral Dao, sensed an approaching terror, and concluded that Ancestral Daos were unique because they derived from the Origin Dao.
• Han Yuan suspected the Great Chaos’s master trapped Dao Ancestors within the Chaos and deliberately created Dao Ancestor’s Relics to fill vacant positions.
• Han Yuan’s human incarnation saw a black vortex and destroyed itself before its beam could capture him.
• Han Yuan concluded that the Chaos Will had noticed his suspicions and reshaped his incarnation within the Great Beginning Realm.
• The Chaos Will ordered several thousand Dao Ancestors to pursue and destroy the outworlder who had escaped from Hongmeng.
• The Saint Heaven Dao Ancestor considered the promised rewards and summoned the Dao Masters of the Saint Heaven Dao Court.