Chapter Summaries

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Yu emerges from a long seclusion, having comprehended the Space Great Dao to 98%.
• Hongjun, despite using the Jade Plate of Creation and Heavenly Dao Merit, only advances his Source Great Dao comprehension to 70%.
• Yang Mei, who had left the Primordial World, returns and is discovered by Bai Yu. His Space Great Dao comprehension is at 78-79%.

Character Developments

• Bai Yu: His dedication to comprehending the Space Great Dao leads to significant progress, putting him on the verge of proving his Dao.
• Hongjun: Although he makes progress, it's not as dramatic as Bai Yu's. He's now in the late stage of Grand Luo Golden Immortal.
• Yang Mei: He returns to the Primordial World and makes progress in his Space Great Dao comprehension, but at a slower pace than Bai Yu and Hongjun.

Significant Themes

• The difficulty of comprehending the Source Great Dao, which increases exponentially at higher levels.
• The importance of innate talent and opportunities in proving one's Dao.
• The value of treasures aiding in Dao comprehension, like Bai Yu's System and Hongjun's Jade Plate of Creation.

Character Interactions

• Bai Yu and Hongjun: Their progress in comprehending the Source Great Dao is compared, highlighting the difference in their abilities and the treasures they possess.
• Bai Yu and Yang Mei: Bai Yu discovers Yang Mei's return and assesses his Space Great Dao comprehension, revealing Yang Mei's cautious nature and the gap in their progress.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Yu, seeking to discuss the Dao of Space, locates Yang Mei, the reincarnation of the Space Demon God, who has returned to the Primordial World.
• Bai Yu, now comprehending the Space Great Dao at 90%, easily finds Yang Mei without being detected, highlighting the gap between them.
• Bai Yu uses the Profound Light Pearl to envelop the Primordial World to prevent Yang Mei's escape.
• Bai Yu knocks on the door of Yang Mei's top-tier Greater World dojo, signaling his arrival.

Character Developments

• Bai Yu: Shows increased power and confidence, now comprehending the Space Great Dao at 90%.
• Yang Mei: Reveals his cautious and reclusive nature, fearing the Primordial Heavenly Dao and seeking Heavenly Dao Merit to potentially appease it.

Significant Themes

• The power dynamics between Grand Luo Golden Immortals and the Primordial Heavenly Dao.
• The struggle of Innate Gods and Demons to achieve their Dao within the Primordial World.
• The importance of Heavenly Dao Merit and its potential uses.

Character Interactions

• Bai Yu and Yang Mei: Their interaction is impending, with Bai Yu showing respect by knocking on Yang Mei's door, while Yang Mei is surprised and fearful of the unknown visitor.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Mei, a late-stage Grand Luo Golden Immortal, receives an unexpected visitor at his dojo.
• He suspects it might be the Primordial Heavenly Dao or another Innate God/Demon, but neither should be able to find him.
• Yang Mei remembers a past encounter with another being who comprehended the Space Great Dao, causing him immense fear and prompting him to flee.
• Yang Mei's precautions and defenses are revealed, including his impenetrable space layers and early warning system.

Character Developments

• Yang Mei: Revealed to be a reincarnated Chaos Godsfiend, he's confident in his Space Great Dao comprehension but fears another who shares this ability. His actions show his paranoia and caution.

Significant Themes

• Fear of the unknown and similar powers (Yang Mei's fear of the mysterious Space Great Dao user).
• The complexity of relationships between Innate God/Demons and the Primordial World.
• The difficulty of comprehending fundamental Great Daos.

Character Interactions

• Yang Mei's past encounter with the unknown Space Great Dao user is mentioned, highlighting his fear and the user's potential threat.
• Yang Mei's interactions with the Primordial Heavenly Dao are implied, showing his lack of belonging and fear of it.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Mei, a reincarnated Space Demon God, exits his seclusion chamber.
• He senses Bai Yu, who has comprehended the Space Great Dao to an astonishing 90%, nearing perfection.
• Yang Mei is shocked and bewildered, questioning his own identity as the reincarnated Space Demon God.

Character Developments

• Yang Mei: Realizes his understanding of the Space Great Dao is inferior to Bai Yu's, causing him to doubt his own identity as the reincarnated Space Demon God.
• Bai Yu: Shows profound comprehension of the Space Great Dao, nearing perfection, and proves to be a formidable figure.

Significant Themes

• Identity and Self-Doubt: Yang Mei's realization about Bai Yu's prowess leads him to question his own identity and abilities.
• Power Dynamics: The chapter explores the power dynamics between Yang Mei and Bai Yu, with Bai Yu clearly superior in the Space Great Dao.

Character Interactions

• Yang Mei and Bai Yu: Yang Mei greets Bai Yu respectfully, acknowledging his superior understanding of the Space Great Dao. Bai Yu responds amiably, indicating no hostile intent.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Mei suspects Bai Yu is a reincarnated Chaos Godsfiend due to his rapid Space Great Dao comprehension.
• Yang Mei feels wronged and jealous, as he believes he should be the reincarnated Space Demon God.
• Bai Yu's true foundation is revealed to be that of an ordinary Innate Being, not an Innate God and Demon or even an Innate Sacred Being.

Character Developments

• Yang Mei: Struggles with jealousy and envy towards Bai Yu, leading to introspection about his own foundation and the nature of Innate Beings.
• Bai Yu: Unknowingly surpasses expectations, reaching a level that rivals Innate Sacred Beings due to his System's enhancements to Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

Significant Themes

• The importance of Innate Foundation in determining one's potential and upper limits.
• The role of luck and opportunities in transcending one's foundation.
• The jealousy and envy that can arise from comparing oneself to others.

Character Interactions

• Yang Mei and Bai Yu: Despite Yang Mei's suspicions and jealousy, he maintains a polite and friendly demeanor towards Bai Yu, inviting him to his abode and showing him around his Greater World.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Bai Yu arrives at Yang Mei's cave dwelling, finding a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, a stone pavilion with Time-Space attributes.
• Inside the pavilion, the scenery shifts, revealing a chaotic Time-Space, but it has little effect on Bai Yu.
• Yang Mei serves Bai Yu a jar of fruit wine, brewed from hundreds of High-Grade Innate Spirit Fruits and several Top-Grade Innate Spirit Fruits, aged for tens of thousands of Yuanhui Eras.

Character Developments

• Bai Yu: Shows appreciation for the rare and high-quality wine, expressing satisfaction after tasting it.
• Yang Mei: Reveals his love for wine and his extensive collection of High-Grade and Top-Grade Innate Spirit Fruits, indicating his immense wealth and status.

Significant Themes

• The value and rarity of Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and their uses in cultivation and enlightenment.
• The appreciation of fine wine and its connection to wealth and status.

Character Interactions

• Bai Yu and Yang Mei share a toast and drink together, showing mutual respect and camaraderie.
• Yang Mei expresses pride in his wine collection, while Bai Yu genuinely enjoys and appreciates the wine.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Mei discovers fruit wine-making by accident and perfects the process over time.
• He uses increasingly higher quality spirit fruits, from Low-Grade to Top-Grade.
• Yang Mei serves fruit wine to Bai Yu, marking a new trend in the Primordial World.
• They finish a jar of wine in a thousand years, stored in a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure jar with a Qiankun World inside.
• Bai Yu gifts Yang Mei two hundred Top-Grade Innate Spirit Fruits (Yellow Zhongli Plums and Water Origin Fruits).
• Yang Mei offers Bai Yu a jar of Star Wine, brewed with a Top-Grade Innate Spirit Fruit (Star Fruit) and aged for over ten thousand Yuanhui Eras.

Character Developments

• Yang Mei evolves from a bored tinkerer to a master winemaker, respected throughout the Primordial World.
• Bai Yu, initially a stranger, becomes Yang Mei's friend, bonding over wine and fruit.

Significant Themes

• The power of dedication and hard work (Yang Mei's winemaking journey).
• The importance of hobbies and relaxation in one's life (Bai Yu and Yang Mei's wine-drinking sessions).
• The value of friendships and reciprocation (Bai Yu's gift of spirit fruits and Yang Mei's gift of Star Wine).

Character Interactions

• Yang Mei and Bai Yu's friendship deepens over shared interests in wine and fruit, leading to mutual respect and gift-giving.
• Yang Mei's interactions with various spirit fruits reflect his dedication and passion for winemaking.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yang Mei brings out a jar of Star Wine, a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Wine, which Bai Yu takes.
• Bai Yu and Yang Mei discuss the Space Great Dao for a hundred Yuanhui Eras.
• The Great Dao manifests, attracting the attention of the Primordial Heavenly Dao.

Character Developments

• Bai Yu is about to Prove Dao and is serious about his discussion with Yang Mei.
• Yang Mei is eager to learn from Bai Yu and progress in his understanding of the Space Great Dao.

Significant Themes

• Dao Discussion: The chapter emphasizes the importance of discussing the Dao with others to refine one's understanding and advance in cultivation.
• Companionship: It highlights the role of companions in cultivation, with Bai Yu and Yang Mei being 'Dao Companions.'
• Heavenly Dao: The Primordial Heavenly Dao's gaze downwards signifies its interest or acknowledgment of the Dao discussion.

Character Interactions

• Bai Yu and Yang Mei: They engage in a serious and thorough discussion about the Space Great Dao, benefiting each other's understanding. They acknowledge each other as 'Fellow Daoists' and 'Dao Companions.'
• Bai Yu and the Primordial Heavenly Dao: Bai Yu disregards the Primordial Heavenly Dao's gaze, showing his confidence and lack of fear.
• Yang Mei and the Primordial Heavenly Dao: Yang Mei also ignores the Heavenly Dao's gaze, demonstrating his bravery and trust in Bai Yu.

Key events

• The Primordial Heavenly Dao realizes that Yang Mei’s and Bai Yu’s discussion caused the Space Great Dao to manifest. It understands they were discussing the Dao together, though neither man knows the Heavenly Dao is watching.
• The chapter explains why the Multiverse Chat Group is wary of Bai Yu and the Primordial World. The group avoids any connection to the Primordial World, which it sees as overwhelmingly powerful—and, despite its fear of Bai Yu, considers safer than whatever danger it senses in him.
• The Heavenly Dao has long watched Bai Yu, but mistakes his use of the system’s Dimensional Gateway for travel through the Chat Group. The Gateway actually uses the Space Great Dao.
• The narration clarifies that the Heavenly Dao existed before the world’s other beings: the Source Great Dao gave rise to it first, and it then brought the cosmos and its inhabitants into being.

Character developments and interactions

• The Primordial Heavenly Dao regards Yang Mei as powerful but still within its control; Bai Yu is a more troubling mystery. It believes Bai Yu, then a mere Profound Immortal, has no right to come and go from the Primordial World freely.
• Bai Yu is unaware of the Heavenly Dao’s attention and once mistakenly thought it had not yet emerged. His understanding has grown with his cultivation, but he still has much to learn about the real Primordial World.
• Yang Mei is treated as an exception to the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions because he is a reincarnated Chaos Godsfiend and a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• The Multiverse Chat Group fears entanglement with the Primordial World and repeatedly tries to expel Bai Yu, while an unknown danger makes it afraid to do so. It and the Heavenly Dao share a wary attitude toward Bai Yu, though for different reasons.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and mistaken assumptions: The Chat Group considers Bai Yu an insignificant ant, yet senses a danger it cannot explain; the Heavenly Dao also misidentifies how he travels.
• Limits of knowledge: Bai Yu’s old fictional references are unreliable guides to the real world.
• Cosmic hierarchy and authority: The chapter establishes the Heavenly Dao’s primordial origin and its authority over the world, while emphasizing that Bai Yu may be beyond the usual rules.

Plot points and events

• The Primordial Heavenly Dao learns that Bai Yu has joined the Multiverse Chat Group and sees this as a grave violation: the group now possesses the coordinates of the Primordial World, which could expose it to outside threats.
• It decides to punish both the group and Bai Yu, though it intends only a mild lesson for him. The Heavenly Dao assumes the group lured him away; in reality, Bai Yu accepted the invitation himself.
• The Multiverse Chat Group is unaware of the Heavenly Dao’s intentions. Its core is dormant, and it was itself shocked to discover that Bai Yu’s arrival had given it the coordinates of a top-tier Grand Cosmos containing forty-nine complete Source Great Daos. The group is far too weak to pose a threat or risk approaching such a world.
• As the Heavenly Dao prepares to act, it suddenly senses imminent death for the first time. The terror is so profound that it disrupts the fundamental operating logic of the Primordial World, leaving the Heavenly Dao effectively stunned.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu is presented as an ordinary Innate Being who joined the group voluntarily, unaware that his choice has alarmed his world’s Heavenly Dao.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao shifts from confident authority to unprecedented fear. Though intelligent and overwhelmingly powerful within its world, it discovers that it is not beyond the possibility of death.
• The Multiverse Chat Group is characterized as cautious and weak, not an aggressor. It would rather expel Bai Yu than risk involvement with a Grand Cosmos.
• The Heavenly Dao misjudges the group, while the group and its members remain ignorant of the danger brewing around them.

Significant themes

• Cosmic scale and vulnerability: Even a top-tier Grand Cosmos’s Heavenly Dao can face a threat it cannot understand or control.
• Misunderstanding and unintended consequences: Bai Yu’s voluntary choice is mistaken for the group’s manipulation, prompting an unjust response.
• Fear and disrupted order: The Heavenly Dao’s first experience of death-fear shakes the very rules it governs.
• Power and caution: The group’s awareness of its weakness contrasts with the Heavenly Dao’s initial certainty.

Plot points and events

• The Primordial Heavenly Dao briefly experiences an unfamiliar sense of danger, then wonders whether the Multiverse Chat Group—or its new member, Bai Yu—is responsible.
• Dismissing the group as insignificant and Bai Yu as an ordinary Innate Being with low-grade roots, the Heavenly Dao traces the karmic links connecting Bai Yu to the group.
• The Chat Group tries to sever those links, but Bai Yu’s continued membership continually creates new ones. The Heavenly Dao quickly reaches the group using the Primordial World’s Karma Great Dao.
• After examining the group and speaking with it, the Heavenly Dao confirms that the group is not the source of the danger: Bai Yu is.
• It leaves the group alone apart from cutting away one of its complete Yin-Yang Great Daos, calling this a minor punishment.

Character developments

• The Primordial Heavenly Dao shifts from dismissive confidence to bafflement and suspicion, then acts decisively to identify the source of its alarm. Its discovery that Bai Yu is involved unsettles its assumptions about him.
• The Multiverse Chat Group proves powerless against the Primordial World and must accept the loss of one Great Dao. It suspects the Heavenly Dao spared it further harm because of Bai Yu, though this is unconfirmed.
• Bai Yu does not participate in the encounter, but is revealed to be more significant than his outwardly ordinary status suggests.

Character interactions

• The Heavenly Dao pursues the Chat Group through karmic ties while the group struggles to cut them.
• Their “meeting” is entirely one-sided in power: the Heavenly Dao questions and tests the group, then damages it before departing. Bai Yu remains unaware of the encounter.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: The Primordial World’s strength lets its Heavenly Dao overwhelm the Chat Group; the weak must endure the strong’s decisions.
• Misjudged worth: Bai Yu appears ordinary, yet is connected to a danger great enough to alarm the Heavenly Dao.
• Limits of resistance: The group’s attempts to sever karmic ties cannot work while Bai Yu remains a member.
• Ambiguous mercy: The Heavenly Dao calls its attack a slight punishment, while the group wonders whether Bai Yu’s presence restrained it.

Key plot points and events

• The Primordial Heavenly Dao investigates Bai Yu, an apparently ordinary Innate Being, and concludes that he is the source of the inexplicable danger it senses whenever it considers judging or attacking him.
• Unable to understand or confront him safely, the Heavenly Dao hides and watches him constantly. It has been monitoring Bai Yu since his first journey outside the Primordial World, though Bai Yu remains unaware.
• Through its connection to Bai Yu, the Heavenly Dao learns the coordinates of worlds linked to the Multiverse Chat Group and Multiverse City. It considers these worlds’ World Sources unimportant compared with the Primordial World’s abundant reserves.
• The Heavenly Dao is unaware that Bai Yu’s Dimensional Gateway also contains coordinates to Grand Cosmoses—worlds valuable enough to attract its interest.
• The Multiverse Chat Group treats Grand Cosmos coordinates as dangerous, passes them to Bai Yu, then cuts its causal ties to them to avoid being implicated if the Primordial Heavenly Dao comes looking.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu remains oblivious to the Heavenly Dao’s surveillance and to the danger the Chat Group has already faced on his behalf.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao shifts from testing Bai Yu to cautiously observing him, deterred by an overwhelming sense of impending death.
• The Multiverse Chat Group acts defensively, keeping the Grand Cosmos coordinates away from itself and entrusting them to Bai Yu. It has also concealed from him that the Heavenly Dao attacked it and severed one of its complete Yin-Yang Great Daos.
• The Heavenly Dao and Bai Yu have no direct interaction, but their Cause and Effect connection lets it observe his movements and learn from his associations.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and misjudgment: Bai Yu appears insignificant, yet even the supreme Heavenly Dao cannot safely challenge him.
• Surveillance and unequal knowledge: The Heavenly Dao knows much about Bai Yu, while he knows nothing of its attention or the Chat Group’s earlier confrontation.
• Risk and responsibility: The Chat Group’s disposal of the Grand Cosmos coordinates reflects its fear of becoming entangled in a conflict beyond its power.
• Abundance and value: World Source is precious in most worlds, but the Primordial World’s unique origins leave it with more than it can use.

Key plot points and events

• The Primordial Heavenly Dao has secretly monitored Bai Yu but cannot detect his system or identify the source of his rapid advancement. It knows about the Multiverse Chat Group, but considers it unremarkable.
• Bai Yu’s command of all three thousand Source Laws surprises the Heavenly Dao, though it underestimates their significance. His system’s main contribution is Dao Comprehension Assistance; his cultivation breakthroughs otherwise come from his own effort.
• The Heavenly Dao is truly shaken when Bai Yu reaches Daluo Golden Immortal and his Three Flowers of Essence, Qi, and Spirit bloom to the Twelfth Grade—the Primordial World’s limit.
• The chapter explains the Heavenly Dao’s control over its chosen figures. It capped Hongjun’s flowers at the Eleventh Grade, despite his potential for the Twelfth, to prevent him from surpassing its control.
• Rahula also reached the Eleventh Grade, but only because the Heavenly Dao intervened to improve his prospects. He was otherwise less favored and was cast as Hongjun’s villainous counterpart in the Heavenly Dao’s “script.”

Character developments

• Bai Yu: His exceptional foundation becomes clearer, and his Twelfth-Grade achievement sets him apart even from the Heavenly Dao’s carefully managed figures. The precise source of his advantage remains hidden.
• Hongjun: Revealed as a powerful but controlled agent of the Heavenly Dao, whose potential was deliberately restricted. He received major advantages, including the Jade Plate of Creation and two Innate Supreme Treasures.
• Rahula: Shown as an unfairly disadvantaged rival. Though labeled a leading figure, he received far fewer resources and needed the Heavenly Dao’s help just to reach the Eleventh Grade.
• Primordial Heavenly Dao: Its ambition to direct events and keep powerful beings under control is exposed, along with its complacent favoritism toward Hongjun.

Significant themes

• Control versus transcendence: The Heavenly Dao fears that exceptional potential might let its chosen figures escape its authority.
• Unfairness and favoritism: The Heavenly Dao shapes outcomes while pretending its “script” is balanced, heavily favoring Hongjun over Rahula.
• Innate talent and opportunity: High cultivation realms depend not only on ability but also on resources, intervention, and circumstance.
• Hidden advantages: Bai Yu’s system remains invisible to the Heavenly Dao, leaving it unable to understand the true cause of his rise.

Character interactions

• The Heavenly Dao observes Bai Yu from afar, trying to uncover the source of his power but failing to see his system.
• It manages Hongjun by limiting his growth, while simultaneously boosting Rahula to keep the two closer in strength.
• The contrast between Hongjun’s privileged treatment and Rahula’s role as the designated villain highlights the Heavenly Dao’s hypocrisy and bias.

Key plot points and events

• Bai Yu blooms his Three Flowers of Essence, Qi, and Spirit to the Twelfth Grade, comprehends the Space Great Dao, and breaks through to Daluo Golden Immortal.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao watches helplessly. Though it would prefer Bai Yu dead, attempts to interfere bring a sense of impending death, so it has learned not to act.
• Bai Yu’s rapid comprehension of the Source Great Dao puzzles the Heavenly Dao. It compares him with Hongjun, whose Eleventh-Grade Three Flowers and Jade Plate of Creation have not enabled comparable progress.
• The Heavenly Dao suspects Bai Yu has a hidden advantage, but dismisses the Multiverse Chat Group as its cause.
• The chapter reveals that the Heavenly Dao secretly gathered the Jade Plate of Creation fragments within the Primordial World and gave Hongjun its core fragment, letting him believe he found it himself. Fragments lost in the Extraterrestrial Chaos remain beyond its reach.
• Even if all fragments were recovered, the Heavenly Dao could not restore the Jade Plate of Creation—just as it cannot reassemble the Pangu Axe or Chaos Green Lotus.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu demonstrates overwhelming growth and independence from the Heavenly Dao’s control. His true source of power remains a mystery.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao shifts from considering intervention to resigned surveillance. Its confusion over Bai Yu also makes it reassess how impressive Hongjun’s cultivation really is.
• Hongjun is unknowingly being managed by the Heavenly Dao, which gave him his treasured Dao-comprehension artifact while concealing its role. He is also the target of the Heavenly Dao’s joking claim that it would make him drink the Blood Sea upside down if the Chat Group truly held such power.

Significant themes

• Power beyond control: Bai Yu has transcended the Heavenly Dao’s authority, leaving it unable to stop or explain him.
• Secrecy and mistaken origins: Hongjun misunderstands how he obtained the Jade Plate, while Bai Yu’s advantage remains hidden.
• Limits of power: Even a world-governing entity cannot recover what lies beyond its reach or repair broken supreme treasures.
• Comparison and perspective: Bai Yu’s extraordinary progress changes the Heavenly Dao’s judgment of Hongjun’s once-impressive pace.

Plot and events

• The Primordial Heavenly Dao realizes that Bai Yu’s cultivation has accelerated far beyond what it considered plausible. It had expected the Jade Plate of Creation to give Hongjun an advantage, and thought Bai Yu might merely match him; instead, Bai Yu races through the stages of Daluo Golden Immortal while Hongjun remains at mid-stage.
• Seeing Bai Yu discuss the Dao with Yang Mei, the reincarnation of the Space Demon God, the Heavenly Dao concludes that Bai Yu is close to attaining enlightenment—something its plan for the Primordial Wilderness does not permit.
• The Heavenly Dao’s long-range Calamity Tribulation Plan has already been mapped out as far as the Witch-Demon Tribulation, though the next planned tribulation is the Dragon-Han Calamity, involving the Dragon, Qilin, and Phoenix clans.
• The Dao-Devil War between Hongjun and Rahula is treated as a contest of paths rather than a calamity. The Heavenly Dao has arranged matters so Hongjun’s victory is effectively predetermined, unless Bai Yu intervenes.
• Bai Yu has no reason to aid Rahula and personally favors Hongjun’s inclusive immortal Dao over a demon-ruled world.
• The chapter explains that Hongjun’s Jade Plate of Creation is only a broken core fragment. Though it can record the principles of many Daos, it is far from intact enough to let Hongjun unite all three thousand great Daos within himself.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu: His extraordinary progress astonishes even the Heavenly Dao, which has monitored him since he was a Profound Immortal. His discussion of the Dao with Yang Mei marks him as being near enlightenment.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao: Its confidence in its understanding of Bai Yu collapses. It recognizes that Bai Yu’s growth is abnormal and that he may disrupt the future it has planned.
• Hongjun: His slower progress is portrayed as normal, despite his talent and treasure. He is equipped by the Heavenly Dao and is favored to defeat Rahula.
• Yang Mei: He appears as Bai Yu’s Dao-discussion partner, underscoring Bai Yu’s connection to the Space Dao.
• Rahula: He is positioned to lose unless Bai Yu changes the course of events.

Significant themes

• Destiny versus disruption: The Heavenly Dao has planned the world’s major conflicts, but Bai Yu may be the one force capable of overturning its design.
• Unequal growth and the limits of expectation: Even a supreme treasure cannot explain Bai Yu’s astonishing advancement.
• Power and legitimacy: The Jade Plate’s reputation exceeds what its damaged state can actually accomplish.
• Competing worldviews: Hongjun’s inclusive immortal Dao is contrasted with the demon-ruled order Bai Yu dislikes.

Plot points

• Bai Yu realizes that the Primordial Heavenly Dao has watched every time he entered or left the Primordial World through the Dimensional Gateway. Because the Gateway uses the Space Great Dao, it leaves a detectable trace—effectively making each crossing like forcing open the world’s front door.
• Though Bai Yu initially worries the Heavenly Dao may punish him, it never warns or confronts him. After repeated tests, he accepts that it is content to leave him alone so long as he does not disrupt the Primordial World’s larger plans.
• The Heavenly Dao then turns its attention to Yang Mei, recognizing his ambition to transcend the Primordial Wilderness and attain Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal status. It intends to prevent him from doing so if necessary.
• Yang Mei has opened Twelfth Grade Three Flowers through his own foundation, unlike Hongjun and Rahula, whose flowers reached Eleventh Grade. The Heavenly Dao believes Yang Mei still lacks the reserves to go further.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu moves from suspicion and anxiety to pragmatic acceptance: he decides to focus on becoming stronger rather than speculate about the Heavenly Dao’s motives. He and the Heavenly Dao settle into a tacit “leave each other alone” arrangement.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao is portrayed as watchful and calculating rather than openly hostile. It tolerates Bai Yu because he has not seriously altered its plans, and his role in ending the Ferocious Beast Calamity even benefited it. It regards Innate Gods and Demons more as tools than as true insiders.
• Yang Mei emerges as independently powerful and ambitious, having achieved an exceptional cultivation milestone without Heavenly Dao assistance. His ambitions put him in potential conflict with the Heavenly Dao.
• The chapter contrasts Hongjun’s authority as the Heavenly Dao’s representative with his loss of freedom, suggesting that status and power do not necessarily mean independence.

Significant themes

• Freedom versus control: The Heavenly Dao shapes the Primordial World’s inhabitants, including its apparent agents; freedom depends on what one is compared with.
• Power and surveillance: Great Dao techniques cannot conceal their presence within the Myriad Heavens, leaving even Bai Yu’s movements visible.
• Pragmatic coexistence: Bai Yu and the Heavenly Dao avoid conflict through mutual restraint, while the Heavenly Dao’s tolerance has clear limits.
• Ambition versus predestination: Yang Mei’s drive to transcend the world challenges a system built around the Heavenly Dao’s plans.

Key plot points and events

• Yang Mei and Bai Yu finish discussing the Space Great Dao. Yang Mei’s comprehension rises to 80%, while Bai Yu’s reaches the 99% limit; he needs one final opportunity to attain complete mastery.
• They travel to the Extraterrestrial Chaos to create that opportunity through battle, believing a direct clash of Dao will reveal more than discussion alone.
• Their confrontation sends immense residual force toward the Primordial World, but the Endless Void absorbs it without harm.
• Bai Yu uses Yang Mei’s Space Great Dao to refine his own, carefully restraining his overwhelming power. Yang Mei fights at full strength and nearly breaks apart under the pressure.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu is calm and vastly stronger than Yang Mei. He needs the clash to perfect his Dao, but struggles to generate enough pressure without seriously destroying his partner.
• Yang Mei knowingly accepts extreme physical danger because the battle will deepen his own understanding. Despite nearing bodily destruction, he refuses to yield.
• Their relationship is marked by mutual understanding and shared purpose: each recognizes that the confrontation benefits both, even though the risks and gains are unequal.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao observes them, regarding both as formidable schemers but still insignificant compared with a Sage.

Significant themes

• Dao is refined through both study and struggle: discussion brings insight, while battle tests and clarifies understanding.
• Progress requires sacrifice: Yang Mei accepts the possibility of death to advance his Dao.
• Unequal power and reciprocal benefit: Bai Yu gains the final insight he needs, while Yang Mei gains greatly from enduring a far stronger opponent.
• Cosmic scale and hierarchy: even tremendous clashes between Daluo Golden Immortals are negligible to the Primordial World and its Heavenly Dao.

Plot and key developments

• After enduring a Yuanhui Era of pressure from their competing Space Great Daos, Yang Mei and Bai Yu stop once Bai Yu’s comprehension of the Space Great Dao reaches perfection. The chaotic Primordial Chaos Qi settles.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao withdraws its constant gaze from Bai Yu. Though Bai Yu has not yet attained Enlightenment of the Dao, his perfected Great Dao gives him a degree of authority comparable to a being of the Thirtieth Tier. The Heavenly Dao can no longer observe him freely without being noticed.
• Bai Yu concludes that Enlightenment is now inevitable: mastering the Source Great Dao was the true obstacle, and he has overcome it. The remaining step is a certainty.

Character development and interactions

• Bai Yu emerges as a perfected Daluo Golden Immortal, just short of becoming a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal. He favors direct, solid cultivation over shortcuts and is unconcerned with Hongjun’s future methods.
• Yang Mei endures the prolonged contest alongside Bai Yu, then silently agrees with him to release their opposing pressure.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao recognizes Bai Yu’s new standing and backs off, signaling a shift in their relationship.
• Bai Yu also judges that the Three Pure Ones have sufficient foundations to attain Enlightenment without relying on the Three Corpses path, provided the Heavenly Dao permits them.

Significant themes and ideas

• Mastery before breakthrough: The chapter presents deep comprehension—not the final act of Enlightenment—as the real challenge. Once a Source Great Dao is fully understood, the breakthrough follows.
• Shortcuts have costs: The Three Corpses Severing Method can offer less well-endowed cultivators a chance to advance, but it does not remove the need to perfect Great Dao comprehension. Its final step, Three Corpses Unification, is difficult, and the method demands compatible Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Cultivation systems and authority: The Primordial World’s realm structure is treated as a framework established by the Heavenly Dao, difficult even for future Dao Ancestors to change.
• Standing and equality: Bai Yu’s perfected mastery brings him close to the Heavenly Dao in quality and status, even if the Heavenly Dao may still possess greater overall power.

Plot points

• Bai Yu regards the Three Corpses Severing Method and the Heavenly Dao Sage fruit as dangerous traps, but feels detached from the Primordial World and does not intend to rely on either.
• Yang Mei warns Bai Yu that the Primordial Heavenly Dao could interfere with his attempt to achieve Enlightenment of the Dao. Once the process begins, it cannot be stopped; interference could lead to failure or death.
• Bai Yu accepts the warning but has already prepared for that possibility. He and Yang Mei return to the Primordial World and part ways: Bai Yu heads to Penglai for final preparations, while Yang Mei enters seclusion to absorb what he learned.
• Rather than begin Enlightenment immediately, Bai Yu relaxes with tea and checks the Multiverse Chat Group. More than a dozen new members have joined, though none are from Grand Cosmoses.
• Several veteran members have reached Profound Immortal but remain short of Golden Immortal because they lack the Roots of the Five Energies. They are considering seeking those resources in a Greater World, as Bai Yu once did.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu shows confidence and careful strategic thinking. He is aware of the danger to his coming breakthrough and has made contingency plans, while remaining emotionally detached from the worlds and groups he oversees.
• Yang Mei reveals his longing to reach the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm, as well as his concern that the Heavenly Dao may obstruct Enlightenment. He offers Bai Yu a candid warning, then turns to cultivate his own gains.
• The two share mutual respect: Yang Mei speaks out of concern, and Bai Yu acknowledges the goodwill without being shaken by it.
• Bai Yu’s status in the chat group remains powerful despite his long absence; members regard him as its stabilizing figure.

Significant themes

• Preparation amid uncertainty: Major breakthroughs demand planning for failure as well as success.
• The dangers of power and shortcuts: Spiritual systems and Heavenly Dao rewards may conceal traps.
• Detachment and belonging: Bai Yu’s outsider perspective keeps him from becoming deeply invested in the Primordial World.
• Cultivation’s material foundations: Even advanced practitioners may be held back by the need for rare resources.

Plot and key events

• Shi Yueyao, Yang Jian, Chonglou, and other veteran group members need to condense the Five Energies Origin to advance toward Golden Immortal. Their choice of five elemental “roots” determines the strength of their physical foundation.
• One option is to raid Greater Worlds for their Five Energies origins. Another is to buy Innate Spiritual Roots from Bai Yu’s Limitless Pavilion, which offers far better materials from a Grand Cosmos.
• Bai Yu has abundant Low- and Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Roots, but even these are priced beyond the group members’ means. Obtaining five would cost an enormous fortune, despite their accumulated World Source. Top-Grade roots are rarer still.
• Unable to afford the ideal materials, the veterans settle for seeking top-grade roots from Greater Worlds. Their foundations can be improved later, so perfection is not essential.
• Bai Yu reflects that he once had no better option himself: as a weak Profound Immortal, he dared not explore the Primordial World and used roots from the Lotus Lantern World, cultivating them until they approached Mid-Grade quality.
• The chapter ends by emphasizing Bai Yu’s detachment from the Multiverse City and Chat Group. He now sees them mainly as sources of World Source and World Coordinates, leaving avatars to manage them while giving them little personal attention.

Character developments

• Bai Yu is shown as vastly more powerful and wealthy than the group’s veterans, yet increasingly indifferent to the organizations he helped build. His past struggles also show that he once faced similar limitations.
• Shi Yueyao, Yang Jian, Chonglou, and the other veterans are ambitious enough to seek strong foundations, but practical enough to accept a less-than-perfect route when the ideal one is unaffordable.

Themes

• The cost of power: A superior cultivation foundation demands rare resources and immense wealth.
• Pragmatism over perfection: A foundation matters, but it can be improved later; pursuing the best option at any cost is unnecessary.
• Changing perspective with power: Bai Yu’s growth has made former concerns—the Chat Group and Multiverse City—seem marginal to him.
• Inequality and scarcity: Resources that Bai Yu considers plentiful remain extraordinary treasures to others.

Character interactions

• The chapter has little direct dialogue; its central interaction is economic and indirect. Bai Yu’s Pavilion supplies resources to the group, but its prices put the best materials out of reach.
• The contrast between Bai Yu’s current abundance and his former reliance on Greater World resources highlights how far he has advanced—and how much weaker the other members remain by comparison.