Chapter Summaries

Chen Bei completed his transformation into the Destiny Demon God and set out to recruit allies against Pangu. Yang Mei emerged with a powerful treasure and infiltrated the systems’ gathering, while a distant cocoon began to crack.

• Chen Bei became the Destiny Demon God, received a quest to unite the demon gods against Pangu, and used system positioning to seek allies.
• Thousands of transmigrators emerged from their cocoons and began converging, each believing himself to be the only chosen one.
• Yang Mei emerged with the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle, planned to use the systems’ hosts against Zhou Ming, and headed toward the demon gods’ gathering.
• The systems determined that Yang Mei had destroyed the Sign-in System and was impersonating it, but decided to pretend they believed him and use him as a pawn against Pangu.
• Yang Mei claimed he had defeated the Space Demon God and continued toward the gathering, while a crack appeared in a distant gray cocoon beside the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus.

Zhou Ming emerged from his cocoon with a hidden Dao Body and declared that he would open the heavens. The systems ordered their hosts to stop him, and Yang Mei led the gathering Chaos Demon Gods toward Zhou Ming as thousands assembled for the coming confrontation.

• Zhou Ming concealed his perfected Dao Body inside his Primordial Spirit and prepared to leave the cocoon.
• Zhou Ming burst out of the cocoon equipped with the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus, the Jade Plate of Creation, and the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe, then declared that he would open the heavens.
• The Karma System ordered the systems to withdraw their main bodies and told Yang Mei to lead the Devil Gods in stopping Zhou Ming.
• Yang Mei agreed, gathered nearby Devil Gods, and traveled toward the center of Chaos while other Devil Gods converged there.
• Thousands of Chaos Demon Gods arrived, with Yang Mei at their head, as Zhou Ming waited with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.

Zhou Ming began opening the heavens by attacking the Chaos Demon Gods, while Yang Mei used them as shields and escaped with the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle. The remaining Demon Gods panicked, but their systems ordered them to keep fighting and promised to empower them against Zhou Ming.

• Zhou Ming announced that he would open the heavens and swept his Pangu Axe through the Chaos Demon Gods, erasing dozens of them.
• Yang Mei retreated behind the Demon Gods, then opened a spatial rift to flee while Zhou Ming was occupied.
• Zhou Ming pursued Yang Mei with a second axe strike, but Yang Mei used the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle to block it and escaped.
• The systems realized Yang Mei had fled to preserve his strength and warned one another that he might try to exploit their coming battle with Zhou Ming.
• The remaining Demon Gods panicked after Yang Mei’s departure, while Chen Bei’s subsystem urged him to attack and promised the power of the Great Dao.

Zhou Ming survived the forced self-destruction of thousands of Demon Gods and prepared to open the heavens while the hidden systems waited for him to exhaust himself. He struck the Chaos with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe, splitting it apart.

• Zhou Ming slaughtered the Demon Gods who charged him, while their systems decided to force the remaining hosts to self-destruct.
• The systems took control of the surviving Demon Gods and ignited their origins, making them explode in an attempt to damage Zhou Ming.
• Zhou Ming used the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus and the Jade Plate of Creation to withstand the blast, emerging unharmed though the lotus was badly damaged.
• The Karma System told the other systems to hide and wait until Zhou Ming had exhausted himself opening the heavens.
• Zhou Ming raised the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and split the Chaos with a single stroke.

Zhou Ming split chaos open with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and held the newborn heaven and earth apart with his body while comprehending the Dao. Hidden systems and Yang Mei waited for his strength to fade so they could seize the chance to kill him and claim the Dao Fruit.

• Zhou Ming struck chaos with repeated axe blows until a newborn great world took shape, though heaven and earth began collapsing back together.
• Zhou Ming enlarged his body into a pillar supporting the firmament and endured the world's immense pressure as he comprehended the principles of creation.
• The Karma System and the other systems agreed to wait for Zhou Ming to weaken, then attack him while assigning forces to intercept Yang Mei.
• Yang Mei watched Zhou Ming and the systems from hiding, planning to act after their battle left them both exhausted.
• Zhou Ming continued supporting the sky, and his immense strength began to show a faint decline.

As Zhou Ming’s strength appeared to fade while he held up the newborn world, the systems launched their long-awaited attack to seize his body and Dao Fruit. He revealed that an avatar had borne the burden in his place, then faced the systems with the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.

• The systems sensed an omen that Zhou Ming was about to prove the Dao and divided their forces, with the Punch-in System taking a group to keep Yang Mei away.
• The Karma System led the remaining systems toward Zhou Ming with tools meant to extract his blood, dismember his body, and strip away his Dao foundation.
• Zhou Ming searched for Yang Mei but found no trace of him, then watched the systems approach as if he were powerless.
• Zhou Ming stepped out of the newborn world, revealing that an identical, cracked avatar had been holding up heaven and earth in his place.
• The systems realized they had been deceived, but Zhou Ming’s aura suppressed their power and prevented them from retreating.
• Zhou Ming summoned the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and declared that he would show the systems how this Chaos’s Pangu differed from those they had killed before.

The systems united their rules to resist Zhou Ming, but his relentless attacks overwhelmed their defenses. After he destroyed a weak point in their formation, Zhou Ming began cutting through the exposed line.

• The Karma System urged the systems to fight together, and the Punch-in System rushed from the outskirts to reinforce the main battlefield.
• Thousands of systems combined their origin rules into a defensive formation that blocked Zhou Ming’s first axe strike.
• Zhou Ming’s second strike cracked the shield, but the Karma System burned its source power to stabilize it.
• Zhou Ming unleashed a relentless series of axe strikes, forcing the systems into disorganized defensive efforts.
• Zhou Ming spotted a brief weakness at a node defended by a dozen small systems and destroyed them, opening a gap in the formation.
• Zhou Ming sent his axe-light through the gap and began cutting into the systems’ defenses.

Zhou Ming repeatedly battered the systems’ weakening defensive line while Yang Mei refused to intervene, waiting for the systems to be depleted. Just as Zhou Ming’s attacks were about to destroy the survivors, Yang Mei emerged and blocked a strike, facing Zhou Ming.

• Zhou Ming’s axes tore through the systems’ defensive line, destroying dozens of systems and leaving the survivors increasingly exposed.
• The Karma System called on Yang Mei to join forces against Zhou Ming, but Yang Mei stayed hidden, intending to wait until enough systems had died to defeat them himself.
• Zhou Ming searched for Yang Mei, then resumed his relentless attacks when the Space Demon God did not respond.
• Zhou Ming’s next barrage killed more than thirty systems and drove the survivors behind the dimming Karma System.
• Yang Mei burst from a spatial rift and used a spatial barrier to block Zhou Ming’s axe-light, then greeted him.

Yang Mei emerged to help the surviving systems withstand Zhou Ming’s attacks, but their combined defenses could not match his strength. The Karma System offered to become Yang Mei’s host and help him reach the peak of Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal, leaving Yang Mei suspicious of its motives.

• Yang Mei appeared and joined forces with the surviving systems to block Zhou Ming’s first axe strike.
• Zhou Ming struck again, forcing Yang Mei and the systems to keep defending as their numbers dwindled.
• Yang Mei realized that his improved cultivation and the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle were not enough to defeat Zhou Ming head-on.
• The Karma System offered to lodge within Yang Mei and fuse its karmic rules with his Space Great Dao in exchange for his protection and help escaping Chaos.
• Yang Mei questioned whether the Karma System would truly accept his control and asked whether it feared he would kill the systems after defeating Zhou Ming.

The Karma System revealed that Yang Mei had become an enemy of two Great Dao-level powers by cooperating with the systems, so he accepted its merger to gain a chance against Zhou Ming. After reaching the peak of the Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, Yang Mei fought Zhou Ming on more even terms, but Zhou Ming prepared to attack in earnest.

• The Karma System explained that Zhou Ming was the Chaos Great Dao’s chosen Dao Prover and that Yang Mei had already offended both the local Great Dao and the power behind the systems.
• Yang Mei agreed to merge with the Karma System, first imprinting a restriction on its Origin Essence core before it entered his glabella.
• The surviving systems burned their Origin Essence to hold off Zhou Ming while the Karma System’s merger raised Yang Mei to the peak of the Hunyuan Infinite Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Yang Mei scattered Zhou Ming’s axe light with a palm strike and began exchanging blows with him using the fused power of Space and Karma.
• The systems lent Yang Mei their rule powers, letting him gain the upper hand briefly, but Zhou Ming declared that he would now kill Yang Mei seriously.

Zhou Ming and Yang Mei fought to a stalemate as their damaged treasures wore down and Zhou Ming destroyed the systems supporting Yang Mei. The Karma System proposed sacrificing the weakest systems to shatter Zhou Ming’s Chaos Green Lotus and leave him vulnerable.

• Yang Mei endured Zhou Ming’s axe strikes and counterattacked, while Zhou Ming blocked his blows with the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus.
• Yang Mei warned Zhou Ming that his Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and Chaos Green Lotus were close to breaking, but Zhou Ming continued attacking.
• Zhou Ming directed the force of his axe strikes at the systems behind Yang Mei, destroying several and dimming others.
• The Karma System warned Yang Mei and the remaining systems that they were losing numbers faster than Zhou Ming’s treasures were wearing down.
• The Karma System urged the weakest systems to concentrate their power and self-destruct against the Chaos Green Lotus.

Yang Mei used the Karma System’s information to seize control of ten weak systems and make them self-destruct, shattering the Creation Green Lotus. With Zhou Ming’s defense gone and his Heaven-Opening Divine Axe near breaking, Yang Mei expected victory, but Zhou Ming unleashed the Great Dao of Strength.

• The systems refused to sacrifice themselves, so the Karma System gave Yang Mei their weaknesses and a way to control their source cores.
• Yang Mei used the Space Law and karma rules to force ten weak systems to self-destruct toward the Creation Green Lotus.
• Zhou Ming destroyed three of the incoming systems, but the other seven detonated against the lotus’s cracks and shattered it.
• The surviving systems cursed Yang Mei for sacrificing their comrades, then set aside their anger to focus on defeating Zhou Ming.
• Yang Mei taunted Zhou Ming over losing the lotus and the cracks in his axe, but Zhou Ming unleashed the Great Dao of Strength.

Zhou Ming’s Heaven-Opening Divine Axe shattered during his battle with Yang Mei, but he revealed that his true power came from the Law of Strength and attacked barehanded. He shattered Yang Mei’s Hunyuan Divine Shuttle, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Yang Mei and Zhou Ming clashed repeatedly as Zhou Ming’s increasingly powerful axe strikes damaged both the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle and the ranks of systems supporting Yang Mei.
• The Heaven-Opening Divine Axe broke apart, and Yang Mei and the surviving systems celebrated, believing Zhou Ming had lost his greatest weapon.
• Zhou Ming refused to use the Jade Plate of Creation and stopped Yang Mei’s charging Hunyuan Divine Shuttle with his fist.
• Zhou Ming’s barrage of punches killed a System Light Cluster and spread cracks across the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle, while Yang Mei and the surviving systems reeled in disbelief.
• Zhou Ming explained that the Law of Strength, not the axe, was his true source of power, then delivered a final punch that shattered the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle.

After Zhou Ming destroyed Yang Mei’s Hunyuan Divine Shuttle, Yang Mei and the surviving systems chose to fight to the death. Their attacks and mass self-destruction only lightly injured Zhou Ming, and Yang Mei’s final act was to resist Zhou Ming’s suppression and detonate himself.

• Zhou Ming shattered Yang Mei’s Hunyuan Divine Shuttle with his bare fists, and Yang Mei resolved to fight rather than flee.
• Yang Mei charged Zhou Ming as the Karma System urged the surviving systems to fight to the death.
• Zhou Ming killed systems with casual punches while battling Yang Mei, and dozens of systems chose to self-detonate.
• Yang Mei trapped Zhou Ming with Space and Karma Laws as the systems’ self-destruction engulfed him, but Zhou Ming emerged with only minor injuries.
• Yang Mei admitted defeat, then used the last of his spatial power to break Zhou Ming’s restraint and self-destruct.

Zhou Ming endured Yang Mei’s self-detonation, then held his newborn world apart as its support collapsed. After countless Eons, he comprehended the Dao and reached a state of unity with heaven and earth.

• Yang Mei detonated his entire source, destroying Zhou Ming’s Law of Strength cage and badly wounding him.
• Yang Mei vanished in the explosion, while the shock wave shattered Zhou Ming’s Dao Body Avatar and sent his newborn world toward collapse.
• Zhou Ming braced the collapsing firmament with his body and forcibly kept heaven and earth apart despite his worsening injuries.
• As he supported the world for countless Eons, Zhou Ming comprehended the principles of creation and the relationship between the Three Thousand Great Daos and myriad laws.
• Zhou Ming reached Dao attainment, merged with the Dao of heaven and earth, and opened his eyes with a new understanding.

Zhou Ming completed the newborn world by merging in Pangu Realm and transforming his body into its land, seas, and living things, while leaving gifts for the sleeping Houtu and the Twelve Ancestral Witches. His True Spirit rose beyond Chaos, where Pangu watched it approach and declared that he awaited the next battle.

• Zhou Ming merged Pangu Realm into the newborn world and placed the Jade Plate of Creation before the sleeping Houtu.
• Zhou Ming transformed his Dao Body into the world’s mountains, soil, rivers, and plants, then sent twelve drops of Essence Blood to Di Jiang, Zhu Rong, Houtu, and the other Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Zhou Ming’s heart empowered Pangu Hall as the world’s foundation, and his Primordial Spirit sealed itself within the hall before his aura vanished.
• A point of Light of True Spirit formed in the newborn world and rose beyond Chaos as Pangu watched and praised Zhou Ming.
• Pangu told the blurred figure that Zhou Ming had proven the Dao and its plan had failed; the figure admitted defeat, promised another battle, and disappeared after Pangu said, “I await you.”

After proving the Great Dao, Zhou Ming followed Pangu’s advice and used the River of Time to retrieve the true spirits of those he had promised to revive. He settled his remaining Karma by sending them and the sleepers from Pangu Hall to be reborn in his new world, then prepared to leave a Dao body to guard Chaos.

• Pangu congratulated Zhou Ming on proving the Great Dao and asked him to address Pangu as a Daoist Friend.
• Pangu reminded Zhou Ming to settle the promises and Karma he had formed before completing his path.
• Zhou Ming reached into the River of Time and retrieved the true spirits of Hongyun, Minghe, Candle Dragon, Taiyi, Haotian, and Wu.
• Zhou Ming sent the spirits other than Wu into his newborn Primordial Wilderness world to be nurtured and reborn.
• Zhou Ming released Di Jun, East King Duke, Taiqing, Primordial Lord, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa from their seals in Pangu Hall and scattered them across the new world.
• Zhou Ming fused Wu’s true spirit with his sealed former Primordial Spirit, and Pangu told him to leave a Dao body behind to guard Chaos.

After Zhou Ming proved the Dao, Pangu explained that he had become the Great Dao of his chaos and needed to leave a Dao body behind while his true body continued cultivating. As they headed toward the Eternal Dao Realm, Pangu revealed that Zhou Ming’s Dao Tribulation involved systems from beyond the Chaos Sea, drawn in while Pangu was occupied fighting their master.

• Pangu told Zhou Ming that a Dao Prover governed and protected their chaos until a successor proved the Dao.
• Pangu explained that Dao Provers left Dao bodies behind so their true bodies could travel and cultivate, and revealed that he was one of his own Dao bodies.
• Zhou Ming severed a Dao body to watch over his chaos, then followed Pangu toward the Eternal Dao Realm.
• Zhou Ming asked where the systems from his Dao Tribulation came from, and Pangu said they had come from beyond the Chaos Sea.
• Pangu revealed that he had deliberately drawn the systems into Zhou Ming’s Dao Tribulation while their Great Dao-level master was keeping him occupied.

Pangu explained that the Chaos Sea had been formed through five primordial states before he was born and opened the first world, the seed of the Eternal Dao Realm. He described how later Dao Provers’ worlds merged into the Eternal Dao Realm, while the origins of the systems and the outsiders behind them remained part of the larger mystery.

• Zhou Ming asked Pangu whether anyone had investigated the beings behind the systems or tried to leave the Chaos Sea, and Pangu said many had tried but none had succeeded.
• Pangu told Zhou Ming that the Chaos Sea’s birth passed through six stages: Taiyi, Taichu, Taishi, Taisu, Taiji, and Pangu.
• Pangu used the Great Dao to reveal the ancient void and explained how the first five stages developed from the possibility of change into the foundation of Chaos and its laws.
• Pangu revealed that he had been born in the settled Chaos, split heaven from earth, and opened the first world, the embryonic Eternal Dao Realm.
• Pangu explained that later Dao Provers opened their own worlds, which gradually merged and became the Eternal Dao Realm.

Pangu explained the origin of the Nine Great Chaoses, the war between native and foreign Great Dao Realm beings, and how his Great Dao became extinguished. He revealed that he had lost himself after failing to break through the Great Dao Realm and later attained the Dao again in the Ninth Chaos.

• Pangu told Zhou Ming that the Chaos Sea had split into the Nine Great Chaoses and that Dao attainment could only happen within them.
• Pangu explained that foreign Great Dao Realm beings sent systems into the Nine Great Chaoses, prompting the native experts to fight them.
• Pangu told Zhou Ming that when all Three Thousand Great Daos were extinguished, he had lost himself and could awaken only by attaining the Dao again.
• Pangu revealed that he had tried to break through the Great Dao Realm to leave the Chaos Sea, but the backlash extinguished his Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Pangu said he regained a trace of awareness in the Ninth Chaos as a newly gestated living being, then proved the Dao anew.