Chapter Summaries

More than thirty Great Luo True Realm cultivators surrounded Zhou Ming in the Chaos Void and demanded the supposed legacy of True Saint Yuan Chu. Zhou Ming refused, and True Lord Tianhe ordered the assembled cultivators to attack.

• True Lord Tianhe and Celestial Pivot True Lord agreed to approach Zhou Ming in secret, seal the surrounding space, and prevent his escape.
• Zhou Ming sensed the approaching cultivators and welcomed the chance to test his strength after nearly half of his Rule Shackles had been undone.
• Zhou Ming appeared outside the Qianyuan Dao Realm and was surrounded by more than thirty Great Luo True Realm cultivators, including True Lord Shenluo, Nether Demon True Lord, and True Lord Luangu.
• Celestial Pivot True Lord asked whether Zhou Ming came from True Saint Yuan Chu's Inner World, and True Lord Tianhe demanded that he hand over Yuan Chu's legacy.
• Zhou Ming refused to surrender a legacy he said nothing about, and True Lord Tianhe ordered everyone to attack.

Zhou Ming held off more than thirty Great Luo True Realm experts, then drew them away from the Flowing Light Domain to protect nearby worlds. Meanwhile, the Seven Great Domains attacked Flowing Light Domain teams across the Star Domain, and Liu Yuan ordered the survivors to flee into Chaos while believing Zhou Ming would survive.

• Zhou Ming blocked the combined attack of more than thirty True Lords with one punch, then fought them with his Great Dao of Strength.
• Zhou Ming shifted the battle away from the Flowing Light Domain, and his pursuers chased him into the chaotic region between domains.
• Liu Yuan received Xue Ku Ancestor's distress call and learned that Xuanji and the Seven Great Domains had attacked their teams.
• Xuanji told Xue Ku Ancestor that thirty-seven True Lords were besieging Zhou Ming, then ordered his forces to kill everyone.
• Fan Kong regrouped with Liu Yuan and reported what he had learned, leaving Liu Yuan and the others despairing over Zhou Ming's predicament.
• Liu Yuan ordered everyone to flee away from the Flowing Light Domain, then escaped into the depths of Chaos.

After battling more than thirty Great Luo True Realm experts for dozens of Eons, Zhou Ming deliberately feigned injury to escape their siege. He fled into the deepest Chaos Turbulence with his pursuers close behind, seeking a safe place to recover and break his remaining shackles.

• True Lord Tianhe and the other experts decided they could not defeat Zhou Ming alone and sent pleas for help to fellow Daoists across the Chaos.
• Zhou Ming noticed their calls and chose to escape rather than prolong the battle.
• Zhou Ming pretended to be gravely injured, then unleashed his power to tear open a spatial rift and flee.
• True Lord Tianhe and more than twenty True Lords pursued Zhou Ming through the rift.
• Zhou Ming revealed that his injury was an act and raced deeper into the Chaos Turbulence to shake off his pursuers and find a safe place.

Zhou Ming escaped True Lord Tianhe and the other pursuers by breaking through True Lord Longwood’s barrier and vanishing into a deadly Chaos Storm Eye. The pursuers waited for decades before accepting that he was gone, then blamed Tianhe and feared Zhou Ming’s revenge once he recovered.

• Zhou Ming fled through the Chaos Turbulence while more than thirty Great Luo True Realm experts led by True Lord Tianhe pursued him.
• True Lord Longwood tried to block Zhou Ming, but Zhou Ming shattered his Wood Spirit Barrier with one punch and continued onward.
• Zhou Ming plunged into a Chaos Storm Eye that swallowed his aura, leaving True Lord Tianhe and the others unwilling to follow.
• The pursuers waited decades outside the Storm Eye, but Zhou Ming never reappeared, confirming his escape.
• True Lord Luangu and the others confronted True Lord Tianhe and Celestial Pivot True Lord over the failed pursuit, while Nether Demon True Lord warned that Zhou Ming might become unstoppable after recovering.

Celestial Pivot True Lord persuaded the defeated Great Luo True Realm experts to expose Zhou Ming’s identity, inheritance, and weakness to the entire Primordial Universe, hoping countless hunters would wear him down. As the resulting net spread, Zhou Ming quietly recovered in a remote asteroid belt, unaware of the growing pursuit.

• Celestial Pivot True Lord proposed using Zhou Ming’s need for Fortune to turn the Primordial Universe against him, and the other true lords agreed.
• More than thirty Great Luo True Realm experts spread news of True Saint Yuan Chu’s successor and revealed Zhou Ming’s weakened state, need for Fortune, and identifying traits.
• Powerful beings across the Primordial Universe heard the news, and many grew interested in seeking out Zhou Ming.
• Divine Sense probes began searching the Chaos as a vast net quietly formed around Zhou Ming.
• Zhou Ming recovered from his injuries inside a hollow asteroid in a remote star region, and his aura became more refined.

Zhou Ming began raiding remote worlds for Fortune while searching for Pangu, Taiyi, and the other Returnees. After evading pursuers for years, he was confronted by six Great Luo True Realm experts in the Sirius Star Domain, who demanded that he hand over the heritage.

• Zhou Ming abandoned his plan to rely on subordinates and resolved to personally plunder Fortune while seeking traces of Pangu and Taiyi.
• Zhou Ming raided the Azure Dao Realm, extracted half its Fortune, and escaped before two Great Luo True Realm experts arrived.
• Zhou Ming continued striking medium worlds and changing locations, preventing pursuing experts from forming an effective encirclement.
• Zhou Ming extracted Fortune in the Sirius Star Domain, where six early-stage Great Luo True Realm experts sealed the void around him.
• The white-eyebrowed old man demanded that Zhou Ming hand over the heritage in exchange for his life.

Zhou Ming defeated six Great Luo True Realm cultivators and escaped as an expanding group of pursuers chased him across the Chaos Void. He charged through two more opponents before reaching a Space-Locking Rune net, where Liu Sangeng revealed he had been waiting for him for seven years.

• Zhou Ming shattered the white-browed elder’s Great Luo True Artifact and incapacitated the elder and his five companions with a series of punches.
• Zhou Ming escaped before three arriving true lords could catch him, leaving the white-browed elder to explain their defeat.
• The red-robed woman led the pursuit, and more Great Luo cultivators joined as Zhou Ming fled across several star domains.
• Zhou Ming knocked aside two Great Luo True Realm cultivators who tried to block his path, then continued into the Depths of Chaos.
• Zhou Ming encountered a Space-Locking Rune net between two shattered stars, where Liu Sangeng said he had been fishing for him for seven years.

Zhou Ming escaped a succession of pursuers, hid to refine the Fortune he had gathered, and decided to seek out Pangu and the others. Elsewhere in the Primordial Universe, Cangxuan and Hongchu emerged from a long pursuit and recovered in the Eastern Extremity.

• Liu Sangeng joined Bai Yong and the others in chasing Zhou Ming, while True Lord Duobao let Zhou Ming pass instead of blocking him.
• Zhou Ming broke through multiple ambushes and escaped his pursuers without stopping to fight.
• Zhou Ming hid inside a dead star and spent more than three thousand years refining Fortune to weaken his Rule Shackles.
• Zhou Ming decided to leave the Sirius Star Domain and search for Pangu, Taiyi, Taichu, and the other Returnees, traveling unseen through pure Chaos.
• Cangxuan and Hongchu emerged in the Eastern Extremity after dozens of Great Luo True Realm cultivators pursued them for more than a hundred thousand years.

Hongchu and Cangxuan were trapped in a sealing array by Chixiao and fifteen other cultivators seeking the inheritance they believed the two had obtained. Zhou Ming recognized their auras and secretly approached, leaving their fate unresolved as the attackers prepared to strike.

• Hongchu urged Cangxuan to search for their fellow Daoists by following places where cultivators were being hunted, and Cangxuan agreed to wait until his injuries stabilized.
• Zhou Ming continued secretly toward the Eastern Extremity, suppressing his aura while his Rule Shackles weakened under the effects of Fortune.
• Zhou Ming sensed Hongchu's Thunder Law and Cangxuan's Wood Element Great Dao in the Eastern Pole and cautiously approached, suspecting they might be facing a trap.
• Zhou Ming found Hongchu and Cangxuan wounded inside a trapping array formed by sixteen cultivators led by the Late-Stage Dao Fusion expert Chixiao.
• Chixiao demanded that Hongchu and Cangxuan surrender the True Saint's inheritance, and, after they refused, ordered the cultivators to stop talking and attack.

Zhou Ming appeared inside the formation just as Hongchu and Cangxuan were preparing to die fighting. True Lord Chixiao recognized Zhou Ming as the Green-Robed Man and rallied the sixteen cultivators to capture all three, while Hongchu and Cangxuan suspected their enemies were in for trouble.

• As the trapping formation closed in, Cangxuan told Hongchu to save his strength and prepare to fight to the death.
• Zhou Ming suddenly appeared beside Hongchu and Cangxuan, and Hongchu greeted him with relief while Cangxuan sensed how unfathomable he had become.
• True Lord Chixiao questioned Zhou Ming, then recognized the aura of the Great Dao of Strength and identified him as the Green-Robed Man.
• True Lord Chixiao urged the other fifteen cultivators to capture Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan for True Saint Yuan Chu's inheritance.
• Hongchu quietly told Cangxuan that their enemies seemed to be in for bad luck, and Cangxuan agreed.

Zhou Ming effortlessly broke True Lord Chixiao and fifteen other Great Luo True Realm cultivators’ formation, wounded Chixiao, and drove the rest away. He revealed that less than twenty percent of his shackles remained and told Hongchu and Cangxuan that there was a shortcut to undoing theirs.

• Zhou Ming told Hongchu and Cangxuan to step back, then broke the sixteen cultivators’ confinement formation with one punch.
• True Lord Chixiao tried to flee, but Zhou Ming stopped him and grievously wounded him with a punch.
• Zhou Ming struck the other fifteen cultivators and sent them fleeing without pursuing them.
• Hongchu and Cangxuan asked about Zhou Ming’s strength, and he said less than twenty percent of his shackles remained.
• Zhou Ming called their method foolish and revealed that a shortcut to undoing the shackles existed, prompting them to ask what it was.

Zhou Ming explained that binding their Great Dao origins to a world's fortune could rapidly erase the Inner World's imprints, and the three agreed to take fortune carefully while recovering. They also suspected Jiemie's group had revealed their existence, but decided to focus on regaining their strength.

• Zhou Ming brought Hongchu and Cangxuan into a hollow Star Core and concealed it with formations.
• Zhou Ming explained that using a world's fortune as a catalyst could make them adapt hundreds or thousands of times faster.
• Hongchu wanted to rob worlds outright, but Zhou Ming and Cangxuan convinced him to take only half of each world's fortune to avoid retaliation and preserve its foundation.
• Cangxuan asked why the Primordial Universe had learned about them only in the last few million years, and Zhou Ming recalled that True Lord Tianhe had mentioned certain channels.
• Hongchu suspected Jiemie's group had exposed them, but Zhou Ming said they should focus on recovering their strength, and the three stayed in the Star Core to recuperate.

After recovering from their injuries, Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan raided worlds in Biluo Starfield and seized much of their fortune to restore their strength. Zhou Ming revealed that he had deliberately left a trace of their whereabouts to lure their pursuers into a trap.

• Hongchu and Cangxuan recovered in the Star Core cavern, and Zhou Ming led them into the Chaos.
• The three secretly drained half the fortune from more than a dozen worlds in Biluo Starfield.
• Zhou Ming gave most of the stolen fortune to Hongchu and Cangxuan, who refined it and strengthened themselves.
• Cangxuan warned Zhou Ming that True Lord Chixiao and other enemies would likely track them down.
• Zhou Ming said he had left a trace of their whereabouts in Biluo Starfield so he could lure their pursuers together and catch them in one net.

True Lord Chixiao and True Lord Xuanjia set a lethal formation to ambush Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan near the Jade Balance Realm, but Zhou Ming secretly trapped the ambushers first. The battle ended with Hongchu attacking Chixiao, Zhou Ming badly injuring Xuanjia, and the surviving enemies fleeing.

• True Lord Chixiao and True Lord Xuanjia led forty-three Great Luo True Lords in setting a lethal formation near the Jade Balance Realm.
• Zhou Ming secretly laid a stronger formation around the ambush while Hongchu and Cangxuan watched the enemy through his spatial mirror.
• When Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan approached, Zhou Ming’s formation crushed the enemy formation and shackled the attackers’ laws.
• Hongchu charged at True Lord Chixiao, while the battle erupted around them.
• Zhou Ming broke True Lord Xuanjia’s Xuantian Divine Armor with one punch, forcing Xuanjia to flee into the Depths of Chaos.
• The remaining Great Luo True Lords scattered after Xuanjia fled.

Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan sought information on the other “Returnees” and met True Lord Duobao, who sold them a lead in exchange for a Great Luo True Artifact. The lead pointed them toward the Taichu Qi Sea, where a cultivator possessing the “Qi of Taichu” had been trapped for over ten thousand years.

• Zhou Ming let their fleeing attackers escape because hunting them down would cost too much effort and spreading his reputation could deter future enemies.
• After refining most of their seized fortune, Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan arrived at a ruined Chaos Market to seek information and a new target.
• Hongchu recognized True Lord Duobao and prepared to attack him for selling their whereabouts to pursuers, but Zhou Ming stopped him because Duobao showed no hostility.
• True Lord Duobao admitted that he had sold information about Zhou Ming to both his pursuers and other interested cultivators, then agreed to sell him information about the other “Returnees.”
• Zhou Ming traded a Great Luo True Artifact to True Lord Duobao, who revealed that a cultivator with the “Qi of Taichu” was trapped in the Taichu Qi Sea by True Lord Hanchuan and nearly twenty Great Luo True Realm cultivators.

Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan traveled to the Western Wasteland to rescue Taichu, while True Lord Duobao misled True Lord Xuanjia about their destination. They found Taichu trapped in True Lord Hanchuan’s formation, where Hanchuan was draining his primordial qi and demanding True Saint Yuan Chu’s legacy.

• Zhou Ming explained that he let True Lord Duobao spread news of their actions, then led Hongchu and Cangxuan toward the Western Wasteland.
• True Lord Duobao falsely told True Lord Xuanjia that Zhou Ming and his companions had gone to the Southern Domain, sending Xuanjia and his survivors in pursuit.
• Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan reached the Taichu Qi Sea after decades of travel and discovered Taichu imprisoned in a formation guarded by eighteen figures.
• True Lord Hanchuan revealed that his Hanchuan Dao-Locking Formation had weakened Taichu over ten thousand years and demanded the legacy of True Saint Yuan Chu.

Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan broke into the Hanchuan Dao-Locking Formation and helped Taichu escape. True Lord Hanchuan fled, and Taichu thanked his rescuers.

• Zhou Ming identified True Lord Hanchuan as the formation’s nexus and proposed striking the seventeen cultivators sustaining it.
• Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan approached the formation, and Zhou Ming’s punch severed six nodes at once.
• Taichu seized the opening and shattered the weakened formation from within.
• Hongchu and Cangxuan attacked the remaining cultivators as Zhou Ming entered the formation.
• True Lord Hanchuan recognized Zhou Ming and fled, while the other cultivators scattered.
• Taichu was freed and bowed to Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and Cangxuan in thanks.

After rescuing Taichu, Zhou Ming and his companions stripped fortune from worlds in the Hanchuan Domain, helping Taichu recover and weakening their own shackles. Taichu then revealed that Houtu had also gathered fortune before disappearing hundreds of thousands of years ago.

• Zhou Ming led Hongchu, Cangxuan, and the wounded Taichu to the Hanchuan Domain to collect fortune as compensation.
• The group secretly stripped half the fortune from more than thirty wealthy worlds, then refined their shares in an abandoned teleportation formation.
• Taichu used the largest share to break nearly twenty percent of his rule shackles and recover almost half his strength.
• Zhou Ming refined his share until less than ten percent of his final shackles remained.
• Taichu told the others that Houtu had gathered fortune, drawn pursuers, and vanished without a trace for hundreds of thousands of years.

Zhou Ming and the others realized the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot had exposed their identities and weaknesses to the Primordial Universe’s powers. With Houtu missing and the other Returnees possibly hunted, Zhou Ming decided they would keep gathering Fortune, grow stronger, and make themselves a beacon so their allies could find them.

• Zhou Ming pointed out that their pursuers knew too much about the Returnees’ identities, Great Daos, and suppressed strength for the information to have come from observation alone.
• Cangxuan identified the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot, including Jiemie, Kongxuan, Xu Yuan, and Wuwang, as the likely source of the leaked information.
• Taichu and Hongchu raged at the betrayal, while Zhou Ming concluded that the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot had traded their information to the Primordial Universe’s powers for a foothold.
• Zhou Ming told the others to survive first, find Pangu, Taiyi, Taisu, Taiji, and the other Returnees, and grow strong enough to defeat their enemies.
• Zhou Ming decided they would keep gathering Fortune and draw attention to themselves so the missing Houtu and other Returnees could learn where to find them.

The Celestial Pivot True Lord and True Lord Tianhe founded the Rebel-Slaying Alliance to hunt the Returnees across the Primordial Universe. Meanwhile, a hunting party cornered an Earth-Element Returnee in the Northern Border.

• The Celestial Pivot True Lord described the Returnees’ recent victories and proposed uniting the Great Luo True Lords against them.
• True Lord Tianhe dismissed the Returnees as weakened stragglers but declared the Rebel-Slaying Alliance founded with himself and the Celestial Pivot True Lord as its leaders.
• The alliance ordered hunting parties to search the Primordial Universe and promised rewards for information and participation.
• In the Northern Border, twenty-five Great Luo True Lords sealed off an asteroid belt and found a weary female Returnee who wielded the Earth-Element Great Dao.