Chapter Summaries

After Zhou Ming slew the Heavenly Dao, its Saints perished and the allied armies prepared to turn the tide against the Devil Race. An unknown old man then shattered their formations, awakened Hongjun inside Haotian, and revealed himself as Yang Mei.

• The Heavenly Dao Saints vanished, and Di Jun and East King Duke realized Zhou Ming had slain the Heavenly Dao, rallying their forces to fight the Devil Race.
• Di Jun and East King Duke began turning their formations to encircle the Devil Race, but an old Daoist appeared and destroyed both formations with a wave.
• The old man subdued the assembled powers, seized Haotian, and declared that the Wu Clan would soon be a thing of the past.
• The old man called for Hongjun to awaken, and Hongjun's will consumed Haotian's consciousness and took control of his body.
• Hongjun thanked Yang Mei for helping him awaken, and Yang Mei told him to hurry and do what needed to be done.

Hongjun used the hidden Primordial Spirit planted in Haotian to seize the origins of the assembled Great Powers, restoring himself to the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin realm. With his cultivation still insufficient for the plan, he eyed the trapped Wu Clan and Devil Race as his next source of essence.

• Hongjun forcibly stripped the origins from Di Jun, East King Duke, Taiqing, Primordial Lord Tianzun, Jieyin, Zhunti, and the other Great Powers, leaving them alive but severely weakened.
• Yang Mei explained that Hongjun’s Slaying Three Corpses Method had hidden a portion of his Primordial Spirit inside Haotian, and Hongjun admitted the fallback could have been refined if Haotian had proven the Dao of Hunyuan himself.
• Yaochi realized Haotian had been planted as Hongjun’s safeguard long ago and mourned him.
• Hongjun said the weakened Great Powers could still be useful after Heavenly Dao’s fall reshaped the Primordial Wilderness, and Yang Mei warned that Hongjun’s current cultivation was not enough for their plan.
• Hongjun said he needed more origin essence, then looked toward the Wu Clan and Devil Race trapped by Yang Mei as ready-made sources.

Hongjun devoured the Origin Essence of the Wu and Demon Clans to restore his strength to the peak of the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, then imprisoned the surviving Great Powers beneath Spirit Mountain. Luohu returned to find the battlefield empty and Hongjun restored, and recognized why he had once lost to him.

• Yang Mei agreed that Hongjun could kill the Wu and Demon Clans to recover, noting that Luohu would not care about the Demon Clan soldiers.
• Hongjun drained the Origin Essence from Xing Tian and the Wu warriors, while the Demon Clan suffered the same fate; both armies were annihilated.
• Hongjun absorbed the crimson and black torrents, broke through to the peak of the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and declared that his strength had returned.
• Hongjun swept Di Jun, the East King Duke, Taiqing, the Primordial Lord, Jieyin, Zhunti, Yaochi, and the other surviving Great Powers into a fissure, saying their remaining Fortune would serve him and Yang Mei.
• Luohu returned from a black rift with two weakened Hunyuan experts, saw the empty battlefield and Hongjun's restored power, and said he understood why he had lost to him before.

Hongjun, Luohu, and Yang Mei planned to revive Fate and Karma using two captured Demon Clan Hunyuan cultivators as vessels. They split up to restore their allies before Zhou Ming returned.

• Luohu told Hongjun that Pingxin had detonated herself in Chaos and that most of his followers had died, while a few opponents escaped.
• Hongjun revealed that the two surviving Demon Clan Hunyuan cultivators would serve as vessels for Fate and Karma.
• The two cultivators tried to flee, but Luohu froze them in place and ignored their pleas for mercy.
• Luohu sent one captive with Hongjun to the Netherworld Sea of Blood to help Fate, while he and Yang Mei headed to Huoyun Cave to restore Karma.

As Luohu and Yang Mei flew toward Huoyun Cave, Luohu urged Yang Mei to ally with him against Hongjun after they defeated Zhou Ming and the Wu Clan. Yang Mei recognized the danger of Hongjun’s schemes but had not yet agreed, while both understood that the Primordial Wilderness’s opportunity to attain the Dao would ultimately set them against one another.

• Luohu slowed beside Yang Mei and proposed that they join forces against Hongjun after dealing with Zhou Ming and the Wu Clan.
• Yang Mei questioned why he should ally with Luohu when they would also compete for the sole opportunity to attain the Dao.
• Luohu warned that Hongjun had survived the Great Calamity of Chaos and repeatedly used schemes and contingencies to outlast his opponents.
• Yang Mei acknowledged that Hongjun’s scheming was a concern, though he said he did not fear facing him in battle.
• Luohu reminded Yang Mei that the opportunity to attain the Dao lay in the Primordial Wilderness, the reason Yang Mei had returned from Chaos.

Luohu persuaded Yang Mei to ally with him against Hongjun, arguing that Hongjun’s deep ties to the Primordial Wilderness made him the greatest threat. They agreed to recruit Karma, and arrived at Huoyun Cave with a body for him, where Karma asked about Hongjun.

• Luohu warned Yang Mei that Hongjun had the greatest advantage in attaining the Dao and urged him to cooperate against him.
• Yang Mei agreed to ally with Luohu, trusting that Luohu would honor their pact to help the others attain the Dao in the next chaos epoch.
• Luohu and Yang Mei decided to recruit Karma, reasoning that Hongjun was likely to win over Fate.
• Luohu and Yang Mei reached Huoyun Cave, broke its seal, and Luohu offered Karma a Devil Race Hunyuan's body to reshape his Dao Body.
• Karma asked where Hongjun was, and Luohu said Hongjun had gone to the Underworld to deliver a body to Fate.

Karma explained to Luohu and Yang Mei how he and Fate became trapped in a deadly struggle for control of the newly formed Heavenly Dao. He left the origin of his survival and his later control of the Human Path unresolved, while revealing that Pangu’s lingering will had prevented them from escaping through a Great Dao Oath.

• Karma revealed that he resented Fate for thwarting his attempt to seize the Heavenly Dao and said he planned to settle accounts after Zhou Ming and Pangu’s remnants were destroyed.
• Luohu asked how Karma and Fate had survived their apparent mutual destruction and gained control of the Human Path and Earthly Dao.
• Karma explained that he and Fate had fused their Origins into the newborn Heavenly Dao, where neither could retreat without being killed by the other.
• Karma said he secretly split off a wisp of his divine soul and planned to detonate his main soul, but Fate had made the same plan and each discovered the other’s hidden move.
• Yang Mei proposed that they negotiate or swear a Great Dao Oath, but Karma explained that Pangu’s lingering will would have awakened and killed them if they invoked the Great Dao.

Karma recounted how he and Fate fought over the Heavenly Dao, only for their intertwined main souls to be devoured when the Heavenly Dao gained consciousness. After Luohu gave Karma a Devil Race Hunyuan body, Karma began reforging his Dao Body while Luohu and Yang Mei guarded him.

• Karma explained that he and Fate each sent a wisp of divine soul into the Humanity Dao and Earthly Dao while their main souls remained in the Heavenly Dao Origin.
• Their main souls fused through battle, giving the Heavenly Dao an independent consciousness that devoured them.
• Karma said he and Fate hid within their respective Daos for ages because exposure would have left them vulnerable to the Heavenly Dao or Zhou Ming.
• Yang Mei and Luohu concluded that Karma’s survival could help them oppose Zhou Ming, and Luohu gave Karma a Devil Race Hunyuan body.
• Karma entered the Devil Race Hunyuan body to reforge his Dao Body as Luohu and Yang Mei sealed off the space and stood guard.

Karma reclaimed a Demon Clan Hunyuan body and reshaped it with Humanity Dao, reaching the peak of Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal before allying with Luohu and Yang Mei against Hongjun and Fate. Meanwhile, Hongjun helped Fate return in a new body, and the two traveled to Spirit Mountain with plans to eliminate Karma after dealing with Zhou Ming and the Wu Clan.

• Karma purged the Demon Dao Origin from the Demon Clan Hunyuan body and reshaped it with Humanity Dao, reaching the peak of Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Luohu and Yang Mei invited Karma to join forces against Zhou Ming, the Wu Clan, Hongjun, and Fate, and Karma accepted.
• Karma, Luohu, and Yang Mei left Huoyun Cave and headed for Spirit Mountain.
• Hongjun helped Fate return in a transformed Demon Clan Hunyuan body, and Fate reached the peak of Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Hongjun and Fate agreed to eliminate Karma after dealing with Zhou Ming and the Wu Clan, then left the Netherworld for Spirit Mountain.

Hongjun gathered Luohu, Yang Mei, Karma, and Fate at Spirit Mountain and proposed using the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Array to counter the Pangu True Body. The five agreed to prepare the array in Chaos and wait for Zhou Ming and the Ancestral Wu to return.

• Hongjun mediated between Karma and Fate, and they agreed to postpone their conflict until the threat of Zhou Ming and the others was resolved.
• Yang Mei questioned whether the five could defeat Pangu True Body, and Hongjun revealed the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Array he had devised.
• Hongjun explained that the array could use an Ancestral Wu’s Essence Blood to pull one of the thirteen Ancestral Wu out of Pangu True Body.
• Hongjun revealed that he had obtained thirteen drops of Ancestral Wu Essence Blood while extracting the Wu Clan’s origins.
• The five agreed to set up the array in Chaos along the route Zhou Ming and the others would take, then flew there to prepare.

Houtu sensed that Pingxin was near death, so Zhou Ming and the Ancestral Witches changed course to find her. They rescued Wu’s Primordial Spirit in Chaos and learned that the Earthly Dao and Humanity Dao had turned against them, gravely wounding Pingxin and destroying Wu’s body.

• Houtu sensed that her connection to Pingxin had become faint, suggesting Pingxin had suffered a devastating injury.
• Zhou Ming abandoned the group’s return to the Primordial World and led the Ancestral Witches toward Pingxin’s location.
• Zhou Ming sensed a familiar aura ahead and found Wu’s Primordial Spirit fleeing from a Hunyuan of the Demon Clan.
• Zhou Ming destroyed the pursuing demon and used his mana to keep Wu’s Primordial Spirit from dispersing.
• Wu told Zhou Ming and the Ancestral Witches that the Earthly Dao and Humanity Dao had betrayed them, destroying his body and severely wounding Pingxin.

After learning that Hongjun and Luohu’s schemes had devastated their allies, Zhou Ming gathered the survivors in Chaos and chose to avoid returning to the Primordial Wilderness until they had recovered. Houtu rescued Pingxin’s Remnant Soul and revealed that the Earthly Dao had gained a spirit, leaving the group to prepare for revenge while the fate of their followers remained uncertain.

• Zhou Ming placed Wu’s Primordial Spirit in Pangu Hall and continued with Houtu to search for Pingxin.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Zhou Ming that Hongyun, Minghe, Taiyi, Candle Dragon, and Pingxin had sacrificed themselves to help the survivors escape after the Humanity Dao and Earthly Dao backlashed.
• The Ancestral Wu erupted in fury and demanded to return to the Primordial Wilderness, but Zhou Ming warned that Hongjun and Luohu were likely waiting to trap them.
• Houtu found Pingxin’s nearly transparent Remnant Soul, sheltered it within her Primordial Spirit, and learned that the Earthly Dao had gained a spirit.
• Zhou Ming decided the wounded survivors would stay in Chaos to recover before returning to confront Hongjun and Luohu.

In Pangu Hall, Wu urged Zhou Ming to absorb his Origin Essence so Zhou Ming could advance and protect the Human Clan. Zhou Ming finally agreed, and Wu sacrificed himself, leaving the Human Clan’s future in Zhou Ming’s hands.

• Zhou Ming led the survivors through Chaos Turbulence and brought them into Pangu Hall to heal.
• Wu told Zhou Ming that absorbing his Origin Essence could hasten his breakthrough to the Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Zhou Ming refused, but Wu warned that Hongjun’s schemes and the Human Clan’s peril left them no time to wait.
• Wu began extinguishing his consciousness to surrender his Origin Essence, and Zhou Ming restrained him.
• Wu persuaded Zhou Ming to accept his sacrifice, and Zhou Ming let go of his restraints.
• Wu’s Primordial Spirit became pure Origin Essence and surged into Zhou Ming, asking him to safeguard the Human Clan.

Zhou Ming absorbed Wu’s origin and entered seclusion, believing he could reach the Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Houtu accepted Pingxin’s wish to merge their souls so she could grow stronger for the coming battle.

• Zhou Ming absorbed Wu’s memories, Dao, and origin, then vowed to pull him out of the River of Time.
• Zhou Ming entered a Quiet Room in Pangu Hall to cultivate toward the Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Pingxin asked Houtu to stop nourishing her Remnant Soul and let her return to her True Body.
• Pingxin urged Houtu to merge with her so Houtu could gain strength to avenge their fallen allies and protect the final hope.
• Houtu withdrew her nourishing power, and Pingxin willingly merged into her glabella.
• Houtu erupted with a greater aura of life, death, and reincarnation, then resumed cultivating.

Yang Mei revealed that he had reached Hunyuan Infinite and forced Hongjun and the others to confront Zhou Ming together. Hongjun disclosed his hidden plan to reach half-step Hunyuan Infinite, and the five set off for the Primordial Wilderness to prepare their array against Zhou Ming.

• Yang Mei's revelation left Luohu, Hongjun, Fate, and Karma realizing that he had never considered them his equals.
• Yang Mei asked whether Hongjun's Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Array could still counter Zhou Ming's Twelve Divine Fiend Formation after Zhou Ming's breakthrough.
• Hongjun admitted the array's success was uncertain but stronger with Yang Mei anchoring it.
• Hongjun revealed he could gather the Heavenly Dao's scattered authority and reach half-step Hunyuan Infinite.
• Yang Mei ordered Hongjun to return to the Primordial Wilderness and use his hidden measure before they formed the array against Zhou Ming.
• Yang Mei opened a spatial rift to the Primordial World, and the others followed him through.

While returning to the Primordial Wilderness, Zhou Ming sensed an unknown Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal and suspected it was Yang Mei, allied with Hongjun and two other powerful figures. Fearing a trap, he sent his companions into Pangu Hall and went ahead alone to scout.

• Zhou Ming halted in Chaos after sensing an unfamiliar Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal aura.
• He told the others that Hongjun and Luohu, along with two unfamiliar figures bearing traces of the Earthly Dao and Humanity Dao, were at the peak of Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Zhou Ming suspected the unknown expert was the Space Demon God, Yang Mei, and wondered why he had revealed his aura.
• Zhou Ming decided that the others should wait in Pangu Hall while he scouted the Primordial Wilderness alone.
• Di Jiang and Houtu reluctantly agreed, and Zhou Ming sent the group into Pangu Hall before setting off toward the Primordial Wilderness.

Hongjun gathered the Primordial World's scattered Heavenly Dao authority at Buzhou Mountain and reached the Half-step Hunyuan Infinite realm just as Zhou Ming arrived. Zhou Ming formed the Pangu True Body and sent Zhen Yuanzi and the others to rescue survivors, while Yang Mei and the others prepared to meet him.

• Hongjun went to Buzhou Mountain and used his Primordial Spirit to draw the Heavenly Dao authority from across the Primordial World into himself.
• Zhou Ming searched Chaos, found the suppressed Di Jun, East King Duke, Taiqing, Primordial Lord, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Yaochi, and located Hongjun and Yang Mei at Buzhou Mountain.
• Zhou Ming summoned the Twelve Ancestral Witches and formed the Pangu True Body, then sent Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and Wangshu to rescue survivors at Spirit Mountain.
• Hongjun absorbed the final strand of Heavenly Dao authority and became a Half-step Hunyuan Infinite expert as the Pangu True Body approached.
• Yang Mei, Hongjun, Luohu, Karma, and Fate prepared to set their formation and face Zhou Ming.

Hongjun and Yang Mei used the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Array to pull Xuan Ming out of the Pangu True Body, hoping to make it collapse. Zhou Ming rescued her and kept the giant form standing, leaving Hongjun and the others stunned by the apparent failure of their plan.

• Hongjun gave Yang Mei thirteen drops of ancestral witch essence blood, and Yang Mei used Xuan Ming’s blood to set the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Array.
• The Pangu True Body entered the Primordial World and confronted Hongjun, Karma, Fate, and Yang Mei at Buzhou Mountain.
• Zhou Ming stalled while Zhen Yuanzi and the others entered the Primordial World to rescue Di Jun and the others and relocate its living beings.
• Yang Mei activated the array and forcibly tore Xuan Ming out of the Pangu True Body, prompting Luohu and the others to attack her.
• Zhou Ming blocked their attacks with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and pulled Xuan Ming back, while the Pangu True Body weakened but did not collapse.

Zhou Ming’s Pangu True Body shattered the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Array and battled Yang Mei and Hongjun, while their clash devastated the Primordial Wilderness. As the world began to collapse, Zhen Yuanzi and the others evacuated surviving living beings into Chaos.

• Zhou Ming recalled Xuan Ming into the Twelve Divine Fiend Formation and struck the Five Elements Heaven-Sealing Array with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.
• Yang Mei and Hongjun joined forces to block the axe, but Pangu True Body stomped apart the formation and shattered part of Buzhou Mountain.
• Zhou Ming targeted Luohu, forcing Yang Mei and Hongjun to intervene as their battle tore open the sky and earth.
• At Spirit Mountain, Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to rescue humans, while Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and Wangshu gathered other survivors.
• Zhen Yuanzi and the others fled toward Chaos with the rescued living beings as the Primordial Wilderness continued to collapse.

After the Pangu True Body overwhelmed their group, Yang Mei and Hongjun could no longer protect Luohu, Karma, and Fate. Karma and Fate sacrificed their authority to empower Hongjun as Yang Mei charged the Pangu True Body and Luohu prepared to self-destruct.

• The Pangu True Body’s second strike shattered Buzhou Mountain and devastated the surrounding Primordial Wilderness, leaving Yang Mei, Hongjun, Luohu, Karma, and Fate under immense pressure.
• Yang Mei moved the group billions of miles away from the next axe strike and told Luohu, Karma, and Fate to flee because he and Hongjun could no longer protect them.
• Karma offered the Humanity Dao and Earthly Dao authorities to Hongjun so he could seek the power of Hunyuan Infinite, while Fate reminded Yang Mei of their agreement to help them prove their Dao in a later era.
• Luohu chose to burn his Origin Essence and self-destruct to buy Yang Mei and Hongjun time.
• Yang Mei shielded Hongjun, Karma, and Fate with the branches of his willow form and charged the Pangu True Body as Karma and Fate merged into Hongjun.