Chapter Summaries

Zhou Ming and his companions found Houtu trapped by the Rebel-Slaying Alliance and on the verge of being overwhelmed. Zhou Ming stopped the alliance’s full-force attack with one punch and moved to confront its twenty-five cultivators.

• Zhou Ming found Houtu concealed in a dead region of Chaos behind twenty-five great formations.
• Perfected Lord Kurong demanded that Houtu surrender True Saint Yuan Chu’s legacy, but she refused.
• Perfected Lord Kurong ordered the twenty-five Great Luo True Realm cultivators to unleash their full strength against Houtu’s weakening barrier.
• Zhou Ming appeared in front of Houtu and erased their combined attack with one punch.
• Zhou Ming charged into the formations as the alliance cultivators recognized the Green-Robed Man and tried to retreat.

Zhou Ming and his companions rescued Houtu and learned that she could use Fortune to weaken the Rule Shackles. They then went to save Qianling, only to enter a trap laid by the Rebel-Slaying Alliance, while True Lord Duobao’s warning arrived too late.

• Zhou Ming and Hongchu’s group defeated the twenty-five Great Luo True Realm hunters and rescued Houtu, then gave her Fortune and knowledge of how to scour away the Rule Shackles.
• Houtu recovered much of her strength, and the five companions agreed to seek Pangu, Taiyi, and the other missing cultivators from their Eternal Dao Realm.
• Zhou Ming and the others entered the Mystic Light Star Domain to rescue Qianling and two companions, where sixty-five Rebel-Slaying Alliance cultivators revealed their ambush.
• Zhou Ming calmly faced the encirclement and said that everyone had gathered; half an hour later, True Lord Duobao received desperate pleas for help from the defeated alliance forces.
• True Lord Duobao sent Zhou Ming a warning about the ambush, but Zhou Ming replied that it was too late.

Zhou Ming’s group stopped merely evading the Rebel-Slaying Alliance and began raiding its members’ Dao Fields for Fortune, provoking a crisis within the Alliance. At the Divine Hall, Alliance Leader Tianhe faced furious accusations from the leaders whose domains had been plundered.

• True Lord Duobao saw the Alliance leaders’ desperate pleas and, after learning Zhou Ming had prevailed, apologized and offered his next intelligence report for free.
• Zhou Ming’s group rescued six more Great Dao Realm experts, grew to eleven, and repeatedly escaped the expanding Alliance while gathering Fortune and loosening their Rule Shackles.
• When True Lord Duobao doubled his intelligence fee, Hongchu refused to pay, and Zhou Ming proposed raiding the Dao Fields and worlds of anyone who hunted them.
• Zhou Ming’s group drained half the Fortune from the domains of nine prominent Rebel-Slaying Alliance members, including True Lord Luangu, the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and the Lord of the Nine Nether Manor.
• At the Alliance’s Divine Hall, the victims and other True Lords accused True Lord Tianhe of provoking the attacks, and Tianhe endured their complaints in anger and humiliation.

After Zhou Ming’s raids left the Rebel-Slaying Alliance’s leaders furious and fearful, True Lord Tianhe rallied them to make one final attempt to kill the Green-Robed Man. The leaders accepted his plan to lure the Returnees into a deadly formation, with Tianhe ready to detonate his Law Origin Essence.

• True Lord Luangu and the Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas confronted True Lord Tianhe over their losses and the damage to their domains.
• True Lord Tianhe reminded the gathered true lords that they had chosen to target the Green-Robed Man and could no longer safely withdraw.
• True Lord Tianhe proposed summoning cultivators across the Primordial Universe and trapping the Green-Robed Man in a Heaven-Locking, Earth-Ending Killing Formation.
• True Lord Tianhe vowed to detonate his Law Origin Essence to gravely wound the Green-Robed Man and leave the other Returnees vulnerable.
• True Lord Luangu, the Nine Nether Underworld, and the other true lords agreed to join the plan, driven by greed for the True Saint Yuan Chu Inheritance.

After nearly a thousand years in seclusion, Zhou Ming used the Primordial Universe’s Fortune to break its Rule Shackles and restore his Great Dao of Strength beyond its former peak. He planned to wait for news of the Rebel-Slaying Alliance’s next trap so he could deal with all his enemies at once, and True Lord Duobao’s message reached him.

• Zhou Ming’s companions guarded him as the Rule Shackles within him began to break.
• The torrent of Fortune shattered the final shackle, awakening Zhou Ming’s Great Dao of Strength and restoring him to the Unity Realm.
• Zhou Ming rose with power greater than he had possessed in True Saint Yuan Chu’s Inner World, and Cangxuan asked how he felt.
• Hongchu urged Zhou Ming to take revenge on the Rebel-Slaying Alliance, but Zhou Ming said they should wait for news and draw all their enemies into one trap.
• True Lord Duobao sent Zhou Ming a familiar, fawning thought through the Chaos.

True Lord Duobao warned Zhou Ming that the Rebel-Slaying Alliance had gathered 110 Great Luo True Realm cultivators and prepared a deadly formation at the World-Breaking Abyss. Zhou Ming chose to meet them and destroy the Alliance, but he and his companions were trapped when True Lord Tianhe activated the formation.

• True Lord Duobao told Zhou Ming that True Lord Tianhe had assembled 110 Great Luo cultivators and planned to detonate his Law Origin Essence inside the Myriad Dao Heaven-Severing Formation.
• Cangxuan, Taichu, and the others warned Zhou Ming that the battle could cost them dearly, but Zhou Ming argued that the Alliance had gathered all its forces in one place and should be destroyed at its roots.
• Zhou Ming and the other ten companions agreed to fight and flew openly through Chaos toward the World-Breaking Abyss.
• True Lord Tianhe and the other True Lords waited in ambush as Zhou Ming's group entered the formation's reach.
• True Lord Tianhe activated the Myriad Dao Heaven-Severing Formation, trapping Zhou Ming and his companions inside.

True Lord Tianhe and his allies trapped Zhou Ming in the Myriad Dao Heaven-Severing Formation while Tianhe detonated his Great Dao. Zhou Ming emerged completely unharmed and turned his attention to the weakened Tianhe.

• True Lord Tianhe drove the Myriad Dao Heaven-Severing Formation to its limit while ten Dao-Merging Peak experts attacked Zhou Ming’s companions to pin him down.
• Hongchu, Cangxuan, Taichu, Houtu, and the others intercepted the incoming Great Luo True Artifacts as the formation’s Law Chains closed in on Zhou Ming.
• True Lord Tianhe detonated his Origin and Laws, unleashing a flood of destruction that swept through the World-Breaking Abyss.
• The ten Dao-Merging Peak experts retreated from the explosion and suffered injuries, while Zhou Ming stood at its center completely unharmed.
• Zhou Ming looked down at the weakened True Lord Tianhe and said it was his turn.

Zhou Ming revealed his Unity Realm strength and nearly erased True Lord Tianhe, forcing the Rebel-Slaying Alliance to sacrifice its artifacts and flee through a rift. The alliance was left in ruins, and Zhou Ming considered his objective accomplished.

• Celestial Pivot True Lord and the surviving alliance cultivators realized Zhou Ming had reached the Unity Realm and lost their nerve.
• Zhou Ming attacked True Lord Tianhe with a palm that began unraveling his Great Dao.
• True Lord Luangu and eight other Dao-Merging Peak experts detonated their Great Luo True Artifacts to tear open an escape passage through the World-Breaking Abyss.
• True Lord Luangu rescued True Lord Tianhe, and the alliance leaders and nearly a hundred Great Luo True Lords fled through the passage.
• Hongchu, Cangxuan, Taichu, Houtu, and the others watched the alliance retreat as Zhou Ming let them go, concluding that the alliance was finished.

News of the Rebel-Slaying Alliance’s defeat at the World-Breaking Abyss spread across the Primordial Universe, revealing that Zhou Ming was a Unity Realm expert. After celebrating the victory, Zhou Ming worried that True Lord Tianhe and the other defeated experts would endanger Pangu, Taiyi, Taisu, Taiji, and their missing fellow Daoists by seeking help from hidden Unity Realm experts.

• News spread that True Lord Tianhe and the Rebel-Slaying Alliance had failed to harm Zhou Ming, and the Primordial Universe learned that he was a Unity Realm expert.
• True Lord Luangu regretted helping True Lord Tianhe and blamed him for his injuries and ruined Dao Foundation.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas reflected bitterly on his greed and anger, while other Great Luo True Realm experts withdrew from the Rebel-Slaying Alliance.
• Hongchu mocked the fleeing alliance members as Cangxuan, Taichu, Houtu, and the others celebrated the victory.
• Zhou Ming looked toward the Depths of Chaos and feared that True Lord Tianhe’s group would seek hidden Unity Realm experts’ protection by revealing the True Saint Yuan Chu Inheritance.

After the battle at the World-Breaking Abyss, Zhou Ming and the others worried that their scattered companions would be easy targets for the Rebel-Slaying Alliance. Zhou Ming proposed redirecting the Primordial Universe’s greed toward the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot by publicizing a tempting claim about its members’ treasures, and began considering a trusted middleman to spread the story.

• Houtu reminded the group that more than a hundred of their fellow cultivators remained scattered across the Primordial Universe and could be hunted.
• Cangxuan, Qianling, and Taichu explained that finding everyone would be difficult and retaliating against the enemies’ Dao Fields could put the isolated companions in greater danger.
• Zhou Ming proposed redirecting the hunters toward the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot, whose members had betrayed the Returnees by revealing their identities.
• Zhou Ming said they would spread the claim that the Pivot’s members had received True Saint Yuan Chu’s legacy and that its Fusion Dao Realm cultivators had been granted insights into reaching the True Saint realm.
• Houtu and Taichu questioned how the Primordial Universe would believe the claim, and Zhou Ming decided they needed a trusted middleman.

True Lord Duobao accepted Zhou Ming’s payment to spread a secret about the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot cultivators and Yuan Chu’s legacy across the Primordial Universe. He then sent the news to his clients as an exclusive, setting a storm of interest in motion.

• True Lord Duobao celebrated Zhou Ming’s victory and lamented losing the Rebel-Slaying Alliance as clients.
• Zhou Ming contacted Duobao and offered two Supreme Great Luo True Artifacts in exchange for publicizing secret intelligence.
• Duobao learned that Jiemie and the others had taken True Saint Yuan Chu’s Dao Fruit and legacy, while more than a hundred Fusion Dao Realm cultivators had received True Saint insights.
• Duobao promised to spread the intelligence throughout the Primordial Universe within five years and accepted Zhou Ming’s artifacts.
• After the call, Duobao advertised the intelligence to his entire client network and charged one Supreme Great Luo True Artifact for details.

A report from True Lord Duobao revealed that the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot cultivators had received insights from True Saint Yuan Chu, stirring greed among powerful Great Luo cultivators. True Lord Qingmu was cornered at his Dao Field by seven Great Luo True Realm cultivators seeking his opportunity.

• True Lord Luangu read the intelligence report, grew furious at the supposed inheritance shared among the returnees, and ordered his people to hunt down the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot cultivators.
• The Lord of Ten Thousand Buddhas studied a star chart of suspected hiding places and ordered his forces to head west.
• Great Luo True Realm cultivators across the Primordial Universe changed course to pursue the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot cultivators.
• True Lord Qingmu praised the True Saint's insight and hoped to merge it with his Wood Element Great Dao and possibly reach the Unity Realm.
• Seven Great Luo True Realm cultivators appeared outside True Lord Qingmu's Dao Field and demanded guidance about his True Saint opportunity.

Great Luo True Realm cultivators hunted members of the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot for the True Saint's insights, driving them from their Dao Fields and leaving them gravely wounded. As the persecution spread across the Primordial Universe, Zhou Ming lounged in a nameless cave abode listening to Hongchu brag.

• True Lord Jinge and six Great Luo True Realm cultivators attacked True Lord Qingmu, demanding the True Saint's insights they had heard about from True Lord Duobao.
• True Lord Qingmu fought the seven attackers for hundreds of years, suffered severe injuries, and burned his Wood Element Great Dao origin to escape with the Wood Release Secret Art.
• True Lord Jinge ordered nearby cultivators to pursue True Lord Qingmu, who had fled badly wounded.
• True Lord Xuehe was cornered by twelve Great Luo True Realm cultivators in the Southern Wasteland Demon Domain and escaped after his origin was gravely damaged.
• More than thirty Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot cultivators were driven from their Dao Fields and hunted across the Primordial Universe within a few thousand years.
• Zhou Ming lounged in a nameless cave abode while Hongchu bragged.

After the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot’s Fusion Dao Realm cultivators were hunted across the Primordial Universe, they sought refuge with the Five Unity Realm experts. The Five suspected Zhou Ming and the Eternal Dao Realm had engineered the hunt, and Jiemie questioned the refugees about what else they had concealed.

• Thirty-odd wounded Fusion Dao Realm cultivators fled to the cultivation grounds of Jiemie, Kongxuan, Wuwang, Xu Yuan, and Blood Butcher.
• True Lord Qingmu reached Jiemie's Dao Field and said the Primordial Universe was hunting them, prompting Jiemie to summon the other Unity Realm experts.
• True Lord Qingmu recounted how Great Luo cultivators demanded the True Saint's insights before the wider hunt began.
• Blood Butcher blamed Zhou Ming and the Eternal Dao Realm, reasoning that they had redirected the Great Luo cultivators' attacks toward the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot.
• Jiemie asked the kneeling cultivators whether they were hiding anything else.

True Lord Bone-Eroding confessed that he had falsely told an old friend in the Primordial Universe that Zhou Ming and his companions were True Saint Yuan Chu's successors, triggering the crisis facing the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot. Jiemie struck Bone-Eroding unconscious, but the group knew the Primordial Universe's Great Luo True Realm experts would still pursue them for the True Saint insights.

• Jiemie noticed True Lord Bone-Eroding trembling and ordered him to explain himself.
• True Lord Bone-Eroding confessed that he had spread a false message about Zhou Ming and his companions to take revenge on them.
• Jiemie called Bone-Eroding an idiot, slapped him into an ice wall, and smashed the ice table in fury.
• Blood Butcher, Kongxuan, and Wuwang realized Bone-Eroding's scheme had exposed the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot and its True Saint insights.
• Blood Butcher suggested killing Bone-Eroding, but Jiemie said it would not undo the crisis or stop their enemies.

Jiemie and the other four Unity Realm experts issued a joint statement denying that they possessed True Saint insights, but the denial intensified the hunts against Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot cultivators. As Zhou Ming’s group searched for their scattered companions, they received word that Taishi had been spotted in the Chaotic Void Star Sea and set out to rescue him.

• Jiemie and the other four Unity Realm experts issued a statement denying that they had obtained True Saint insights, but Luangu and Tianhe dismissed it as a cover-up.
• Great Luo True Realm cultivators intensified their attacks on lone Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot cultivators, forcing Jiemie and the others to spend their time rescuing people instead of cultivating.
• Jiemie’s group rejected revealing the Insight Orbs and abandoned plans to confront Zhou Ming, choosing instead to keep rescuing their followers.
• Hongchu told Zhou Ming’s group that Jiemie and the others were overwhelmed, and Zhou Ming ordered them to continue searching for their missing companions.
• Zhou Ming received a message from True Lord Duobao reporting that Taishi had been encountered in the Chaotic Void Star Sea, and the group set out together to rescue him.

Zhou Ming and ten companions traveled to the Chaotic Void Star Sea to find Taishi after True Lord Duobao reported that seven Great Luo True Realm cultivators were closing in on him. They arrived as True Lord Xuanlin and his group attacked Taishi, and Zhou Ming’s party emerged into the confrontation.

• Zhou Ming and his companions agreed to use the lull in the hunt for the Returnees to search for their missing fellow Daoists, and True Lord Duobao later warned them that seven cultivators were probing Taishi.
• Zhou Ming went ahead to investigate, confirmed that Taishi was surrounded by seven Great Luo True Realm cultivators, and found no ambush nearby.
• Zhou Ming called Cangxuan and the others to the Chaotic Void Star Sea, where they watched Taishi’s situation before deciding whether to intervene.
• True Lord Xuanlin demanded that Taishi hand over the supposed True Saint Yuan Chu inheritance, while Taishi denied that it existed.
• True Lord Xuanlin led the other six cultivators in forming a net of Laws and attacking Taishi, who unleashed his Taishi Qi as Zhou Ming and his ten companions arrived through a rift.

Zhou Ming rescued Taishi by driving True Lord Xuanlin and six other Great Luo True Realm cultivators away with a single punch. After Taishi recovered, the group decided to search the Primordial Universe for their scattered fellow Daoists.

• Zhou Ming arrived with eleven companions, ignored True Lord Xuanlin’s demand that they keep their distance, and confirmed he knew Taishi.
• Zhou Ming struck True Lord Xuanlin and his six allies with one punch, injuring all seven and forcing them to flee.
• Taishi thanked Zhou Ming, and Cangxuan explained how the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot’s betrayal and the Rebel-Slaying Alliance’s pursuit had led Zhou Ming to redirect attention toward the Abyssal Sea Divine Pivot.
• Zhou Ming told Taishi they had found only twelve of the more than a hundred Eternal Dao Realm experts, then brought him back to their hiding place to recover.
• Several months later, Zhou Ming and the others agreed to split into groups to search for their fellow Daoists while Zhou Ming stayed ready to provide support.

Zhou Ming and the others devised a code phrase and rendezvous to find their scattered companions, then began searching while True Lord Duobao spread the phrase across the Primordial Universe. Three months later, most recipients dismissed it, but the chapter hinted that some would recognize its significance.

• Zhou Ming proposed using Pangu's line, “When Chaos first opened, the Great Dao was one,” as a code phrase and chose the Desolate Star Sea as the rendezvous.
• Zhou Ming paid True Lord Duobao a mid-grade Great Luo True Artifact to spread the phrase as an esoteric secret throughout the Primordial Universe.
• Zhou Ming assigned Cangxuan, Taichu, Houtu, Hongchu, Taishi, and Qianling to search different regions while he stayed behind to support them and await arrivals.
• The group departed, and Zhou Ming set up a detection formation that would react to people from Yuan Chu's Inner World.
• Three months later, cultivators across the Central Province Sacred Domain and elsewhere received Duobao's message, though most dismissed it as meaningless nonsense.

True Lord Taiji and True Lord Taisu, weakened by the Primordial Universe’s rules, were discovered in their ice cavern by four native cultivators who tried to rob them. Outnumbered and suppressed, they burned their origin essence to break through and escape.

• True Lord Taiji and True Lord Taisu discussed how little of their strength they had recovered and worried about Pangu and the others.
• Four native Fusion Dao Realm cultivators found the cavern, entered, and recognized Taiji and Taisu as returnees.
• The four demanded the returnees’ treasures, and Taiji and Taisu chose to fight rather than surrender.
• Taiji and Taisu fell behind against their unsuppressed opponents and decided to burn their origin essence.
• Taiji burned ten percent of his origin essence and sent two enormous qi dragons at the red-faced man, while Taisu formed a colossal chaos sword to strike the bald cultivator as they tried to escape.