Chapter Summaries

Luohu sacrificed himself to delay Pangu True Body while Yang Mei fought to keep Zhou Ming from reaching Hongjun. Hongjun fused the authority of the Three Daos into a fragile balance, then joined Yang Mei to face Zhou Ming together.

• Luohu exploded himself to slow Pangu True Body, but Zhou Ming cleaved through the destructive storm and continued toward Hongjun.
• Yang Mei blocked Pangu True Body with his giant willow and fought to buy Hongjun time, suffering repeated wounds as Zhou Ming's axe eroded the Space Law.
• Hongjun fused the authority of the Humanity Dao and Earthly Dao with the Heavenly Dao, gaining power that touched the threshold of Hunyuan Infinite.
• Hongjun arrived beside Yang Mei, and together they barely blocked Pangu True Body's axe strike.
• Hongjun proposed that he and Yang Mei join hands against Zhou Ming and settle things with the Pangu Descendant.

Hongjun and Yang Mei joined forces against Zhou Ming’s Pangu True Body, but Hongjun’s unstable fusion of the Three Talents collapsed under the strain. Zhou Ming killed Hongjun and struck Yang Mei as he escaped through a spatial rift, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Hongjun and Yang Mei coordinated their powers to withstand repeated strikes from Zhou Ming’s Pangu True Body.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei prepared their strongest defenses as Zhou Ming unleashed a more powerful axe strike.
• Hongjun’s fused Heavenly Dao, Earthly Dao, and Humanity Dao authorities backfired, gravely wounding him and ending his power.
• Yang Mei fled through a spatial rift instead of trying to save Hongjun, and Zhou Ming’s axe dissolved Hongjun into nothingness.
• Zhou Ming struck into the rift, splitting Yang Mei’s Hollow Willow true body and wounding him as he escaped.

Zhou Ming and the Twelve Ancestral Witches defeated Hongjun, Luohu, Karma, and Fate, while Yang Mei escaped after being gravely wounded. Zhou Ming confirmed Hongjun was dead, recovered the damaged authorities of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, and joined Zhen Yuanzi and the others to report the outcome.

• Zhou Ming explained that they could not catch Yang Mei, whose wounds and the Sky-Opening Axe intent would prevent his recovery for several Eons.
• Zhou Ming searched the battlefield and confirmed that Hongjun had been completely erased, then collected the damaged authorities of the Heavenly Dao, Earthly Dao, and Humanity Dao.
• Zhou Ming led the Twelve Ancestral Witches through Chaos to find Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, Wangshu, and the others.
• Zhou Ming told the gathered group that Hongjun, Luohu, Karma, and Fate had died, while Yang Mei had escaped gravely wounded.

After the Primordial collapsed, Zhou Ming used the Pangu Realm, salvaged fragments, and the Authority of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity to create a new world for the survivors. The new Primordial stabilized, and Zhou Ming kept it in his control as the survivors entered their new home.

• Zhen Yuanzi told Zhou Ming that his group had saved less than a third of the Primordial's living beings and showed him the fragments they had collected.
• Zhou Ming proposed fusing the fragments with the Pangu Realm and using the Authority of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity to reshape the Primordial.
• Zhou Ming and the others combined their powers to merge the fragments into Pangu Realm while the Twelve Ancestral Witches guarded them.
• Zhou Ming infused the new world with the Authority of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, stabilizing it as its damaged authority began to repair.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and the others sent the surviving beings into the new Primordial World.

Zhou Ming settled the Pangu Realm in a hidden, stable region of Chaos and reunited with the others inside it. He learned that the Heavenly Dao, Earthly Dao, and Humanity Dao were rejecting the new world and slowly dissipating.

• Zhou Ming sent Di Jiang, Houtu, and the others into the Pangu Realm while he left alone to find a safe place for it.
• After traveling through Chaos for thirty thousand years, Zhou Ming expanded the Pangu Realm into a complete world, concealed it with restrictions, and entered it.
• Zhou Ming reunited with Houtu, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and Wangshu, who had waited in Pangu Hall.
• Houtu and Zhen Yuanzi told Zhou Ming that the Three Daos had stopped repairing themselves, were increasingly disconnected from the Pangu Realm, and were slowly dissipating.

Zhou Ming identified the conflict between the Three Daos and the Pangu Realm and decided to refine their authorities himself, despite the risk of becoming bound to the realm. He entered seclusion and began absorbing the Heavenly Dao Authority.

• Zhou Ming explained that the Three Daos were repelled by the Pangu Realm’s source and would eventually scatter if the conflict continued.
• Zhou Ming proposed refining the Three Daos and using himself as a bridge between their authority and the Pangu Realm.
• Houtu warned that refining the Three Daos would bind Zhou Ming to the Pangu Realm and could hinder his pursuit of the Dao.
• Zhou Ming argued that the Three Daos’ source rules would strengthen his understanding of the Dao and help him pursue a breakthrough.
• Zhou Ming entrusted the realm to Di Jiang and entered seclusion in Pangu Hall.
• Zhou Ming summoned the Three Daos and began linking the Heavenly Dao Authority to his Primordial Spirit.

Zhou Ming refined the Heavenly, Earthly, and Humanity Dao Authorities, breaking through to the middle stage of the Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and becoming one with the Pangu Realm. He reestablished reincarnation and opened the Underworld, while the others turned to Houtu as its likely manager.

• Zhou Ming refined the three Dao Authorities and broke through to the middle stage of the Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Zhou Ming emerged from seclusion and told Houtu, Di Jiang, Zhen Yuanzi, and the others that he had completely refined the authorities.
• Zhou Ming led the group to the western edge of the Pangu Realm to rebuild reincarnation.
• Zhou Ming created the Nine-Layered Hell and the Six Paths of Reincarnation, linking them to the Pangu Realm's laws.
• Zhen Yuanzi released the souls he had sealed in the Earth Book, and Zhou Ming declared that reincarnation had been established and the Underworld opened.
• Zhu Rong remarked that the Underworld needed a manager, and everyone looked toward Houtu.

Zhou Ming stabilized the newly established Underworld and learned that the former great powers could not recover their origins through ordinary means. He offered to seal them until he could create a perfect new world to nurture them, and began sealing them after they agreed; he also promised Yaochi he would restore Haotian’s true spirit.

• Zhen Yuanzi and Houtu sent Avatars into the Underworld to establish order and guide the dead souls.
• Houtu told Zhou Ming that Di Jun, East Queen Duke, Taiqing, and the others had survived but lost their origins and their prospects of advancing in the Dao.
• Zhou Ming summoned the damaged great powers and proposed sealing them until he could nurture them anew in a perfect world he would create after attaining the Supreme Dao.
• Yaochi agreed after Zhou Ming promised to reverse time and rescue Haotian’s true spirit.
• Zhou Ming enveloped the group in light and began sealing them, preserving their true spirits and remaining origins.

Zhou Ming promised to bring Hongyun, Minghe, Taiyi, and Candle Dragon back if he attained the Supreme Dao, then proposed that the surviving Great Powers leave the Pangu Realm to cultivate in Chaos. The whole group agreed and crossed beyond the realm’s barriers into Chaos.

• Zhou Ming acknowledged Zhen Yuanzi’s grief over Hongyun and promised to reverse spacetime and restore Hongyun, Minghe, Taiyi, and Candle Dragon.
• Zhen Yuanzi thanked Zhou Ming, and Tongtian, West Queen Mother, Wangshu, and the others saluted him.
• Zhou Ming explained that the many Great Powers were burdening the newborn Pangu Realm and that its laws and spiritual energy could hinder their cultivation.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, and West Queen Mother agreed that they should leave the Pangu Realm, and Zhou Ming proposed moving their Dao Fields into Chaos.
• Zhou Ming stored Pangu Hall, then led the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and Wangshu through the realm’s barriers and into Chaos.

Zhou Ming settled Pangu Hall near the Pangu Realm and prepared to cultivate toward proving the Dao. Houtu stayed behind to guard the realm, deliberately avoiding further cultivation so she would not become Zhou Ming’s Dao tribulation, and he promised she would prove the Dao in the next epoch.

• Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and Wangshu left to establish their own Dao Fields in the Chaos.
• Zhou Ming placed Pangu Hall above the Pangu Realm, concealed it with restrictions, and told the Twelve Ancestral Witches to cultivate nearby.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches entered seclusion, while Houtu remained in the hall to watch over Pangu Hall and the Pangu Realm.
• Zhou Ming realized Houtu was avoiding cultivation so she would not become one of the obstacles to his Dao-proving.
• Houtu said she would wait for the next epoch to prove the Dao, and Zhou Ming promised that she would attain the Dao then.
• Zhou Ming entered the innermost quiet chamber to cultivate, while Houtu stayed behind in Pangu Hall.

After emerging from seclusion at the peak of Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal, Zhou Ming told Houtu and his fellow Daoists that he was about to attain the Dao. He gathered them at Pangu Hall to preach one last time, beginning with a single syllable that stilled the surrounding Chaos.

• Houtu sensed a vast Dao Rhyme from the sealed chamber and watched Zhou Ming emerge, having reached the peak of Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Zhou Ming told Houtu he had felt the Great Dao’s pull and asked her to awaken Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Wu for his final sermon.
• Zhou Ming summoned Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and Wangshu to Pangu Hall, where they joined Houtu and the gathered Ancestral Wu.
• Zhou Ming announced that he was about to attain the Dao, and the assembled Daoists congratulated him.
• Zhou Ming began expounding the Dao with the syllable “Dao,” causing the chaotic currents around Pangu Hall to fall still.

Zhou Ming finished lecturing the Dao and told the gathered cultivators he would seal them inside Pangu Hall before his own Dao Tribulation. After everyone left to enter seclusion, Houtu asked whether he could succeed, and Zhou Ming hinted that Pangu might have succeeded after all.

• Zhou Ming’s lecture immersed Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, Houtu, the Ancestral Witches, Wangshu, and the others in profound Dao comprehension for tens of thousands of years.
• The awakened cultivators thanked Zhou Ming, and he warned that his attempt to attain the Dao would unleash a Chaos-wide tribulation that could endanger the Pangu Realm.
• Zhou Ming proposed taking the Pangu Realm into his body and sealing everyone inside Pangu Hall; the others agreed and went to their own Dao Fields and quiet rooms to enter seclusion.
• After everyone else left, Houtu stayed behind and asked Zhou Ming whether he had confidence in attaining the Dao.
• Zhou Ming reassured Houtu, then asked who had said that Father God Pangu had failed to attain the Dao.

Zhou Ming revealed to Houtu that Pangu had succeeded in attaining the Dao, then prepared to face the Dao Tribulation. He safely sealed his companions and the Pangu Realm away before setting out alone into the Chaos.

• Zhou Ming told Houtu that Pangu had succeeded in attaining the Dao, though he said she would understand how he knew when he reached that final step.
• After tens of thousands of years, Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches emerged from seclusion, followed by Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and Wangshu.
• Zhou Ming asked everyone to withdraw their magic power and not resist, then transformed them into Dao light and sent them into a still region of spacetime within Pangu Hall.
• Zhou Ming shrank Pangu Hall and absorbed it, then compressed the Pangu Realm into a Glazed Treasure Orb and merged it into his body.
• With his companions and the Pangu Realm safe, Zhou Ming stepped alone into the Chaos to face the Dao Tribulation.

Zhou Ming searched Chaos for Yang Mei and tried to understand the Great Dao’s urging to sleep, but found no other living beings. He finally accepted the call to gestate inside a cocoon, while Yang Mei and countless other beings formed cocoons elsewhere in Chaos.

• Zhou Ming wandered through Chaos for ages, searching for Yang Mei and finding no other intelligent life.
• The Great Dao repeatedly urged Zhou Ming to sleep and gestate, but he continued investigating Chaos and considering what awaited him when he proved his Dao.
• Zhou Ming gave up searching and let the Great Dao’s will draw him into sleep, with the Jade Plate of Creation and Pangu Axe emerging beside him.
• Chaos Qi gathered around Zhou Ming and his treasures, forming a giant cocoon supported by the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus.
• Yang Mei sensed Zhou Ming’s transformation, vowed to compete with him when he proved his Dao, and formed his own cocoon.
• Thousands of weaker cocoons appeared throughout Chaos, and the realm fell silent again.

Thousands of systems entered Chaos to kill its coming Dao-prover and claim its Dao Rhyme, choosing dormant Chaos Demon Gods as hosts for their own candidates. The Devour System persuaded several allies to ignore the safer plan and attack the sleeping Pangu directly, and they flew toward his cocoon.

• The Sign-in System told the gathered systems that they must kill Chaos’s Dao-prover and cultivate their own Dao attainer to bring back the Chaos’s Dao Rhyme.
• The Salted Fish System and Punch-in System argued that the Great Dao could not interfere, and proposed taking the bodies of dormant Chaos Demon Gods to build an army.
• The Sign-in System and other powerful systems chose targets, including the Space Demon God, the Fate demon god, the Time Demon God, and the Destruction Demon God, while the other systems scattered.
• The Devour System urged a dozen remaining systems to seize Pangu’s body while he slept, but several cautious systems condemned the plan and fled.
• The Devour System and its allies agreed to destroy Pangu’s Primordial Spirit and compete for his body afterward, then flew toward his gray cocoon.

The Sign-in System tried to seize Yang Mei’s body while he was recovering inside a cocoon, believing the Space Demon God was still gestating. Yang Mei awakened, overwhelmed the intruder, and trapped it in his domain.

• The Sign-in System found Yang Mei’s emerald cocoon and infiltrated it by corroding the Space Law protecting it.
• The Sign-in System entered Yang Mei’s Dao Body and began moving toward his sea of consciousness to devour and replace his primordial spirit.
• Yang Mei awakened and confronted the Sign-in System, which declared that it intended to take over his body.
• Yang Mei’s spatial blades cut apart the Sign-in System’s chains of order, revealing that his power exceeded its expectations.
• Yang Mei seized control of the cocoon’s space, trapped the Sign-in System in spatial layers, and declared it was too late to escape.

Yang Mei fought the Sign-in System inside his sea of consciousness and trapped it in layers of spatial barriers, but the system unleashed a powerful rule wave to escape. The wave destabilized Yang Mei’s barriers, leaving their struggle unresolved.

• Yang Mei blocked the Sign-in System’s golden threads from reaching his sea of consciousness and destroyed the last two at the cost of damaging nearby laws.
• The Sign-in System realized Yang Mei’s Primordial Spirit was far stronger than expected, while Yang Mei began sealing it away to grind it down over time.
• Yang Mei explained that his Dao Body remained asleep during its reshaping, so he could only use his Primordial Spirit to fight the intruder.
• The Sign-in System, weakened by fighting without a host, compressed its power and unleashed a golden wave that made Yang Mei’s spatial barriers tremble.

Yang Mei destroyed the Sign-in System in his sea of consciousness and learned that thousands of systems were targeting Chaos Demon Gods and Zhou Ming. He planned to let Zhou Ming and the systems weaken each other before making his move, while he recovered and began refining the system’s golden core.

• Yang Mei dissolved the Sign-in System’s final attack, then suppressed its attempted self-destruction until its consciousness was erased.
• Yang Mei examined the surviving golden core and discovered that systems from beyond the chaos were targeting Chaos Demon Gods and Zhou Ming, whom they called Pangu.
• Yang Mei realized the system had left this information as poisoned bait, but decided to use the conflict to his advantage and claim the Dao Fruit after both sides were exhausted.
• Yang Mei repeatedly inspected the golden core for hidden consciousness before absorbing it into his sea of consciousness to refine it with his Space Dao.

Seven systems from beyond the chaos tried to kill Zhou Ming while he gestated, but he annihilated them with the Pangu Axe and discovered that thousands of systems were targeting the chaos. He began forming a hidden plan to prepare for a more dangerous Dao Tribulation.

• The Devour System led six others to infiltrate Zhou Ming’s cocoon and attack his primordial spirit while he appeared to be asleep.
• Zhou Ming awakened, blocked their attack, and destroyed all seven systems within three breaths.
• Zhou Ming searched the systems’ surviving rule cores and learned that thousands had entered the chaos to seize its Dao Rhyme and possess gestating Chaos Demon Gods.
• Zhou Ming realized his Dao Tribulation would be more perilous than expected and decided to make preparations both openly and in secret.
• Zhou Ming began probing the Devour System’s dark-red rule core as a bold plan took shape.

The Karma System and thousands of other systems possessed weak Chaos Demon God embryos, implanted transmigrator memories, and persuaded their hosts to sleep through gestation. After a thousand Eons, the Karma System realized the Great Dao had halted their growth, so it and the other systems began gestating their hosts themselves.

• The Karma System possessed a weak Chaos Demon God embryo, implanted a human true spirit and fabricated memories, then awakened Chen Bei as its host.
• Chen Bei learned he was a Fate Demon God who was expected to defeat Pangu, and the Karma System persuaded him to enter deep sleep for the long gestation.
• Thousands of systems repeated the process across the chaos, possessing Demon God embryos and letting their hosts sleep.
• After one thousand Eons, the Karma System discovered that the embryo had not grown because the Great Dao had stopped gestating it.
• The Karma System began feeding Chaos Qi into its host's Dao Body, as the other systems independently started gestating their hosts.