Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• As Yin-Yang Ancestor dies in a self-detonation, he sends the Taiji Diagram—an Innate Supreme Treasure—to Hongjun. Hongjun quickly performs an initial refinement and gives it to his good corpse, sending the clone to replace Yin-Yang Ancestor in the formation.
• Rahula stabilizes the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation after the blast. Though Yin-Yang’s sacrifice shakes it, the formation remains intact because it draws power from the Western Ancestral Vein beneath Mount Sumeru.
• Rahula is stunned to see Hongjun’s clone carrying the Taiji Diagram and realizes Hongjun now possesses three Innate Supreme Treasures: the Jade Plate of Creation, the Pangu Banner, and the Taiji Diagram.
• Yang Mei regrets joining Hongjun’s campaign after two allies have fallen, but recognizes that he also misjudged Rahula and the formation’s power.
• Rahula collects the lesser spiritual treasures and roots left behind by Yin-Yang Ancestor, despite their damage, wary of the Demon Clan’s expenses.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun appears increasingly resourceful and well-equipped, using his good corpse to replace a fallen ally. Rahula interprets this as evidence that Hongjun could have fielded the needed formation lineup himself, making his recruitment of others seem exploitative.
• Rahula remains confident in his formation’s endurance, but resents Hongjun’s growing treasure collection. He had hoped to claim the Taiji Diagram himself.
• Yang Mei shifts from confidence to regret and self-reproach, while still acknowledging his own poor judgment.
• Yin-Yang Ancestor, though dead, gives Hongjun the Taiji Diagram in his final act. His defeat underscores the cost of fighting without an inexhaustible power source.

Significant themes

• Power and endurance: The formation’s strength comes not just from its swords but from the ancestral vein sustaining it; Yin-Yang falls when his own power runs out.
• Ambition and survival: Yang Mei questions whether the pursuit of the Jade Plate is worth risking his life.
• Unequal fortune and rivalry: Hongjun’s growing collection of supreme treasures fuels Rahula’s envy and frustration.
• Greed and pragmatism: Rahula’s looting of even damaged, lesser items reflects his concern for supporting the Demon Clan.

Key plot points and events

• Hongjun’s Good Corpse replaces Yin-Yang Ancestor in the formation and uses the Taiji Diagram to shield himself. Rahula’s Immortal Slaying Sword Qi cannot penetrate the Innate Supreme Treasure’s complete Great Dao defenses, so Rahula abandons that attack.
• Rahula turns his attention to Yang Mei, the remaining vulnerable opponent. He controls the formation from Yang Mei’s position, sharply increasing the barrage—from thousands of sword-qi streams to as many as a million.
• Rahula’s hidden reserve comes from the power of the Western Continent’s earth veins, which he has tied to the formation. He is willing to make the entire west’s earth veins collapse if necessary, accepting the devastating karmic consequences if it means bringing down his enemies.
• Hongjun, however, is just as committed: he believes he must defeat Rahula to attain Dao Enlightenment, even if doing so destroys the western earth veins—or worse.
• Under the overwhelming assault, Yang Mei privately panics but keeps a composed face. He continues holding on, intending to endure as long as he can before using an escape method that will cost him dearly.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun’s Good Corpse proves far more capable than Yin-Yang Ancestor at wielding the Taiji Diagram, turning it into a durable defense.
• Rahula remains ruthless and determined, treating the threatened destruction of the Western Continent as an acceptable price for victory.
• Hongjun is driven less by personal hatred than by the belief that Rahula blocks his path to the Dao. His resolve makes him willing to accept catastrophic consequences.
• Yang Mei shifts from mounting anxiety to practical calculation. He messages Hongjun for help while maintaining a false smile for Rahula, and privately plans to flee rather than sacrifice himself.
• Rahula views Yang Mei as the easiest target after seeing that Hongjun’s corpses and treasures are difficult to overcome. Yang Mei recognizes the threat and sees Hongjun’s war as having led him into danger.

Significant themes

• Power and limits: Immense destructive force cannot overcome a complete Great Dao embodied in an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Ambition and necessity: Hongjun and Rahula are locked in a struggle because each sees the other as an obstacle to ultimate advancement.
• Collateral damage and karmic burden: Rahula’s use of the western earth veins threatens an entire region, while both sides risk immense consequences.
• Self-preservation versus sacrifice: Unlike Yin-Yang Ancestor, Yang Mei intends to survive, choosing endurance and eventual escape over a final self-destructive stand.

Key plot points

• Rahula’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation traps Hongjun and Yang Mei. Hongjun realizes Rahula has shifted his attacks toward Yang Mei, giving him time to focus on finding a way to break the formation.
• Hongjun repeatedly urges Yang Mei to hold on. Yang Mei endures a century of pressure, partly because he can still withstand the assault and partly because fleeing while Hongjun watches would be humiliating.
• Hongjun eventually discovers the formation’s one flaw: the Immortal-Severing Sword position has less killing power than the other three. Yang Mei occupies that position, which explains how he has survived so long.
• Hongjun tells Yang Mei how to break the formation, then prepares to act. He does not send another version of himself to help Yang Mei, fearing it would disrupt rather than aid him.
• The chapter explains why Rahula cannot remove the flaw: he forged the four swords himself, but the formation diagram was a separate innate treasure. Integrating them into a perfect formation exceeded his skills, despite the considerable effort and study he devoted to the task.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun is resourceful and intensely self-preserving: he wants to save Yang Mei, his last remaining ally, but also needs Yang Mei to keep Rahula occupied while he works. His encouragement is partly genuine and partly a way to buy time.
• Yang Mei shows endurance and pride. He comes close to fleeing but holds out until Hongjun finds a solution.
• Rahula is shown as powerful and determined, but not a master of every craft. His ambitious work on the swords and formation came at the cost of time and some Dao cultivation, yet produced an exceptionally formidable weapon.

Significant themes

• Endurance under pressure: Yang Mei’s survival depends on lasting through an agonizing, high-risk ordeal.
• Flaws within great power: Even the celebrated, overwhelming formation has a single structural weakness.
• Limits of talent and expertise: Rahula’s achievement is remarkable, but his imperfect command of artifact refining and formation-making leaves the flaw intact.
• Self-interest and alliance: Hongjun’s support for Yang Mei is real, but it is also tied to his own survival and need to break the formation.

Plot points and events

• Rahula explains why the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation has a weakness: its four swords were forged after creation, while the formation diagram was born with creation, so they cannot share an origin or merge perfectly.
• The diagram fixes the formation’s basic structure, leaving Rahula unable to redesign it. The Immortal-Severing Sword must link the other swords to the diagram, weakening its killing power; despite considering hiding it and forging a fifth sword, Rahula cannot change the diagram’s prescribed arrangement.
• This mismatch creates the formation’s sole flaw: the Immortal-Severing Sword’s direction is weaker than the other three. A perfectly unified formation, empowered by the Western Continent’s earth veins, might even force Hongjun to surrender.
• Hongjun spends a hundred years failing to break the formation. He finally grows suspicious because Yang Mei is still alive, and sends his Self Corpse into Yang Mei’s direction to investigate.
• The Self Corpse is instantly killed by the overwhelming sword energy, but his death confirms that Yang Mei’s direction is the weak point. Rahula casually takes the treasure the corpse leaves behind, while Hongjun realizes the formation’s flaw.

Character developments and interactions

• Rahula shows deep technical knowledge of the formation, but is frustrated by the limits imposed by its blueprint and the swords’ incompatible origins.
• Hongjun moves from prolonged confusion to insight by questioning Yang Mei’s unexpected survival. His Self Corpse’s sacrifice provides the clue he needs.
• Yang Mei has endured in the formation’s weakest direction, though he is still struggling. He briefly hopes Hongjun’s Self Corpse may help, then is baffled when it dies almost immediately—and when Rahula takes its treasure.
• The characters’ positions shape what they can learn: Hongjun and his corpses occupy three directions, while Yang Mei is in the fourth. Those inside the formation cannot see or sense events elsewhere, so they cannot easily compare the directions and identify the weakness.

Significant themes

• Perfection and shared origin: Things sharing an origin can become a flawless whole; the formation’s lack of such unity produces its vulnerability.
• The limits of mastery: Even Rahula cannot freely alter a formation whose foundational blueprint is fixed.
• Knowledge under constraint: The formation suppresses perception and obscures events, making observation—and cooperation—crucial to solving its puzzle.
• Survival as evidence: Yang Mei’s endurance, initially puzzling, becomes the clue that reveals the formation’s hidden flaw.

Key plot points and events

• Hongjun and Yang Mei discover that Yang Mei’s position at the Immortal-Severing Sword is the formation’s sole weak point—and the least powerful of its four directions. Yang Mei’s choice to defend it helped him survive, but also delayed Hongjun’s discovery.
• Knowing the weakness does not solve their problem: Yang Mei is nearly exhausted, while Hongjun lacks enough strength and forces to exploit it. His Self Corpse has fallen, leaving his other two Corpses, himself, and Yang Mei to cover four directions.
• Hongjun’s three Innate Supreme Treasures cannot overcome the formation because his cultivation is still below Hunyuan, preventing him from fully using their power.
• With defeat looming, Hongjun remains outwardly composed but decides to use another hidden resource. He summons a gray bead that Bai Yu recognizes as the Primordial Chaos Pearl—an immensely powerful Great Dao Treasure, though internally damaged and incomplete.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun shifts from apparent helplessness to grim resolve. He has exhausted his known options but reveals that he prepared for the worst.
• Yang Mei learns that he has been defending the formation’s weak point. Though relieved his choice kept him alive, he is too depleted to counterattack or break the formation.
• Rahula maintains the stalemate and benefits from Yang Mei’s exhaustion, but appears not to grasp that this is a life-or-death struggle over the Dao.
• Bai Yu, watching from the sidelines, recognizes the Primordial Chaos Pearl and reacts with disbelief at the Heavenly Dao’s apparent favoritism toward Hongjun.

Significant themes

• Power versus cultivation: Even exceptional treasures are limited by the wielder’s level of cultivation.
• Hidden resources and survival: Hongjun’s calm masks a willingness to reveal his final contingency when defeat seems near.
• Fate and favoritism: Bai Yu’s reaction suggests the Heavenly Dao has given Hongjun extraordinary advantages.
• Endurance and sacrifice: Yang Mei’s continued defense has bought time, but at the cost of nearly exhausting himself.

Plot points and events

• Bai Yu senses that the pearl Hongjun is holding is the Primordial Chaos Pearl, but cannot fully perceive it. Its Dao seems both complete and incomplete, and it gives off no threat.
• He concludes the pearl is badly damaged. Although curious, Bai Yu is warned by the Primordial Heavenly Dao not to take it.
• Hongjun hurls the pearl at Yang Mei and Rahula—and it self-destructs. Bai Yu is astonished: an intact Innate Supreme Treasure, containing a Complete Source Great Dao, should not be capable of being made to explode.
• The explosion confirms that the pearl is missing a complete Source Great Dao. Bai Yu is left wondering how it was ruined and why the Primordial Heavenly Dao still guards it so closely.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu shifts from detached curiosity to intense puzzlement, recognizing that the pearl’s condition and the Heavenly Dao’s attention point to a hidden secret. He ultimately has to accept that he cannot investigate further.
• Hongjun reveals an extraordinary, apparently destructive use for the pearl by throwing it at Yang Mei and Rahula.
• Yang Mei and Rahula are caught off guard as the pearl splits open in front of them.

Significant themes

• Limits of knowledge and power: Even Bai Yu, a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, cannot fully comprehend a treasure on the same level as himself.
• The mystery of damaged primordial treasures: The Primordial Chaos Pearl’s ruined state contradicts what Bai Yu expects of an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Authority and hidden secrets: The Primordial Heavenly Dao’s warning suggests the pearl remains important despite its apparent weakness.

Plot points and events

• The Primordial Chaos Pearl suddenly appears and explodes, shocking Yang Mei and Rahula, who believe it is the real artifact. Even Bai Yu cannot identify the trick by sight.
• Using the Karma and Space Great Daos, Bai Yu follows a faint karmic trace into the Endless Void and discovers that it leads to the Primordial Heavenly Dao. He concludes that the Heavenly Dao has the real pearl, while the one Hongjun held was somehow a convincing substitute.
• The explosion creates an opening in the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation. Hongjun and his Good and Evil Corpses channel power into their treasures to break through.
• Hongjun discovers that the formation’s base is fused with Mount Sumeru’s earth veins—the Western Continent’s Ancestral Vein. Breaking it will devastate the continent’s earth veins and burden him with immense karma.
• Rahula expects this discovery to make Hongjun stop and surrender, but Hongjun proceeds because he sees victory and attainment of the Primordial realm as worth any cost.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu quietly uncovers the Heavenly Dao’s involvement, while choosing not to pursue the mystery further.
• Hongjun is revealed as utterly determined—and increasingly willing to embrace the role of Demon Ancestor. He will accept even catastrophic karmic consequences rather than lose.
• Rahula misjudges Hongjun, assuming he is too cautious to damage the Ancestral Vein. Their conflict turns on this mistaken belief.
• Yang Mei senses the pearl’s explosion as a mortal threat and escapes into space.
• The narration portrays the Heavenly Dao as an unfair, hidden supporter of Hongjun, making Rahula’s struggle seem rigged from the start.

Significant themes

• Destiny and unfair advantage: The Heavenly Dao’s secret intervention helps make Hongjun the “Child of Destiny.”
• Dao and demon as choices: The chapter suggests that Dao and demon are not absolute opposites; a single decision can lead either way.
• Desperation and sacrifice: Hongjun’s drive to survive and win makes him willing to bear enormous consequences.
• Misjudgment: Rahula assumes Hongjun will act as Rahula himself would, and fails to anticipate his resolve.

Plot points and events

• Hongjun decisively destroys Rahula’s Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, collapsing its Formation Eyes and damaging Mount Sumeru’s Ancestral Vein. The Formation Diagram is ruined for now, and the Western Continent’s ley lines begin spilling Qi.
• The resulting devastation spreads across the continent: mountains collapse, rivers dry up, ley lines shift, and Blessed Grotto-Heavens crumble. Daluo Golden Immortals throughout the world notice the disaster.
• With the formation gone, Hongjun and his Good and Evil Corpses surround Rahula. Hongjun’s Good Corpse uses the Taiji Diagram to suppress Rahula and render the Black Lotus of Destruction dormant.
• Hongjun’s Evil Corpse attacks with the Pangu Banner. The Black Lotus briefly tries to defend Rahula, but the strike breaks through its protection and leaves the lotus grievously cracked.

Character developments

• Hongjun proves willing to accept enormous karmic consequences to defeat Rahula, showing an uncompromising determination to kill him.
• Rahula is stunned and confused by Hongjun’s actions. Once his formation is broken, he recognizes that defeat—and likely death—is inevitable, but he never asks Hongjun why he is doing this.

Significant themes

• Power and cost: Hongjun’s victory comes at a terrible price to the Western Continent and carries immense Cause and Effect and Karmic Force.
• Reliance on external power: Rahula’s near-impregnable position depended on the sword formation and Mount Sumeru’s ley lines; without them, he is vastly outmatched by Hongjun.
• Fate and hidden knowledge: Hongjun understands the history and significance of the conflict, while Rahula does not know the “script” or the Dao-Devil War’s deeper context.

Character interactions

• Hongjun and Rahula face one another in silence after the formation falls. Rahula’s confusion is apparent, but he chooses not to question Hongjun.
• Hongjun’s Good Corpse immobilizes Rahula with the Taiji Diagram, while his Evil Corpse delivers the damaging attack with the Pangu Banner.

• Hongjun kills Rahula and claims his spoils. Hongjun’s strike with the Pangu Banner annihilates Rahula’s body and Primordial Spirit, despite Rahula being a powerful Daluo Golden Immortal. Rahula’s Great Dao of Slaughter returns to heaven and earth, while Hongjun captures its Source and takes his possessions. His most prized gains are the Four Immortal Slaughtering Swords and their Formation Diagram. The swords are intact, and the damaged diagram can be restored.
• Victory comes with a burden. Rahula’s death brings immense Cause and Effect and Karmic Force upon Hongjun, causing the Western Continent to reject him and clouding his True Spirit. Though he has nearly completed his comprehension of the Source Great Dao, this burden will slow his progress toward its final step. Hongjun accepts the delay, confident that he will eventually achieve Enlightenment.
• Hongjun begins repairing the Western Continent. Rather than leave, he starts restoring its damaged earth veins from Mount Sumeru, even putting his Good and Evil Corpses to work. He hopes that repairing the land may lessen the karmic burden he has incurred there.
• Hongjun lends Yang Mei the Jade Plate of Creation. Keeping his promise to lend it for ten thousand Yuanhui Eras, Hongjun hands it over while he is occupied with the restoration. He is grateful that Yang Mei stayed through the battle—unaware that Yang Mei had been poised to flee if necessary.
• Yang Mei’s trust is cautious, not absolute. Surprised and touched by Hongjun’s generosity, Yang Mei privately praises him as dependable. But he has no intention of keeping the Jade Plate or provoking Hongjun, who now possesses two Innate Supreme Treasures. Yang Mei recognizes that even his mastery of the Space Great Dao may not let him hide safely within the Primordial World; leaving it would be a last resort.
  Themes and interactions: The chapter contrasts the overwhelming power of Innate Supreme Treasures with lesser spiritual treasures, and presents the cost of victory through Hongjun’s karmic burden. It also explores trust and self-interest: Hongjun treats Yang Mei as a reliable ally, while Yang Mei appreciates the gesture but remains wary of Hongjun’s power and of the Jade Plate’s special connection to the Primordial Heavenly Dao.

Plot points and events

• The chapter reflects on Hongjun’s rise from an unremarkable Chaos Godfiend and Innate God to a confident, powerful figure after obtaining the Jade Plate of Creation. Its arrival brought extraordinary fortune, leading him to suspect that the Heavenly Dao had chosen him.
• Bai Yu recognizes a parallel between Hongjun’s experience and his own: the system transformed him from an ordinary wage slave into a being who attained Enlightenment of the Dao. He feels grateful rather than fearful of the system, accepting even the possibility of death as a worthwhile price for the life he has gained.
• The chapter emphasizes that “ordinary” depends on perspective. Hongjun was unimpressive only among Innate Gods and Demons; even the least of them surpassed what most beings in the Primordial Wilderness could attain.
• Yang Mei is tempted by the Jade Plate of Creation but understands he cannot simply keep it or escape with it. Hongjun anticipated this and can sense the artifact’s location while it remains in the Primordial World, making its return effectively unavoidable.
• Hongjun has powerful means to retrieve it if necessary: two Innate Supreme Treasures and the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation. Rahula, having faced that formation before, would not want to endure it again.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun is portrayed as newly confident because he believes the Jade Plate and his sudden good fortune reflect the Heavenly Dao’s favor. His decision to lend the artifact shows both confidence in Yang Mei and careful foresight.
• Bai Yu reflects on his own dependence on the system, expressing gratitude, acceptance of mortality, and a preference for meaningful existence over endless dormancy.
• Yang Mei balances desire for the Jade Plate with practical caution; its promise of easier progress in the Source Great Dao is not enough to make him ignore the danger of keeping it.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei are connected through the loan of the Jade Plate: Hongjun allows Yang Mei to use it but has ensured he can track it and reclaim it.
• Rahula is mentioned as someone wary of Hongjun’s combat power, especially the sword formation.

Significant themes

• Fortune, destiny, and divine selection: Hongjun and Bai Yu both interpret their transformations as the result of being chosen by a greater power.
• Perspective and status: Someone ordinary among exceptional beings may still be vastly superior to ordinary lives elsewhere.
• Gratitude and acceptance of mortality: Bai Yu values the extraordinary life he has received, even if it might end, and sees understanding the Dao as worth the risk.
• Temptation restrained by reality: The Jade Plate offers immense benefits, but Yang Mei’s judgment—and Hongjun’s safeguards—keep its appeal from overturning practical caution.

Key plot points

• After the Dao-Devil War, Rahula dies suddenly and without the grand declaration Bai Yu expected. His Demon Clan survives, since Hongjun has little reason to eliminate it.
• Bai Yu turns to preparing for his fifth Enlightenment of the Dao, this time through the Great Dao of Slaughter.
• Hongjun remains occupied repairing the Western Continent’s damaged earth veins, while Yang Mei uses the Jade Plate of Creation to study the Space Great Dao. Bai Yu notes that neither has attained Enlightenment yet: Yang Mei has reached 97% comprehension, and Hongjun’s restoration work may take an immense amount of time.
• Hongjun must repair the leaking veins before their origins are damaged further. The damage to Mount Sumeru’s Ancestral Vein has already caused especially serious harm and accounts for much of his karmic burden.
• Cause and Effect persists after death. Rahula’s share does not disappear with him: the Demon Clan bears most of it, while Hongjun and Yang Mei inherit smaller portions. Hongjun therefore has a practical reason to spare the Demon Clan—it helps carry Rahula’s debt.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu is surprised by Rahula’s unceremonious death but quickly moves on to his own cultivation, implicitly judging Hongjun and Yang Mei’s progress as slow.
• Hongjun is shown as both burdened by responsibility and calculating about it. He works to limit future karmic consequences and keeps the Demon Clan alive partly so it can bear Rahula’s share.
• Yang Mei continues studying space and is drawn into the web of Cause and Effect despite not being the main instigator.
• Rahula’s legacy remains consequential after his death: his clan and the surviving powerful figures are left to shoulder the consequences of the war and the damaged earth veins.

Significant themes

• Cause and Effect outlasts death: A person’s debts can be transferred to surviving groups or connected parties; only those with no clans, disciples, or faction to inherit their responsibility may escape them.
• Responsibility follows causal chains: Hongjun’s role in provoking Rahula ultimately makes him partly accountable for the damage Rahula caused.
• The cost of restoration: Repairing the Western Continent is not merely physical labor but a way for Hongjun to limit an enormous karmic burden.
• Pragmatism over vengeance: Hongjun preserves the Demon Clan not out of mercy, but because its survival serves a karmic purpose.

Key plot points and events

• Hongjun lets the Demon Clan survive because they carry a fifth of the karmic burden tied to Rahula. If he destroyed them, that burden could fall on him, who already bears most of it.
• Rahula’s death shifts some of his karmic responsibility onto Yang Mei, who feels powerless but accepts the consequence.
• Yang Mei focuses instead on the Jade Plate of Creation, now in his hands. It contains all three thousand Great Dao principles and provides powerful assistance in comprehending the Dao.
• Having reached 97% comprehension of the space Great Dao, Yang Mei had expected progress to be slow. With the Jade Plate—and the insights he gained from discussing the Dao with Bai Yu—he believes he may reach 99%, or even complete comprehension, during the ten thousand yuanhui eras he can use it.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun shows strategic restraint: he spares the Demon Clan not out of mercy, but to keep its karmic burden from returning to him. He also leaves the Jade Plate’s three thousand principles accessible to Yang Mei.
• Yang Mei moves from frustration and disbelief at Hongjun’s rise to understanding its cause: the Jade Plate. His envy gives way to excitement and gratitude as he recognizes the opportunity it offers.
• Yang Mei’s earlier Dao discussion with Bai Yu was especially valuable to him, strengthening his foundation in the space Great Dao.
• Yang Mei regards Hongjun’s openness with the principles as astonishingly generous, jokingly imagining himself repaying him as a devoted servant.

Significant themes

• Karma and consequence: Destroying a group may transfer its accumulated burden to the one responsible for its destruction.
• Opportunity and unequal advancement: Innate talent matters, but access to resources and guidance—especially the Jade Plate and Bai Yu’s insights—can dramatically alter someone’s progress.
• Pragmatism and ambition: Yang Mei sets aside resentment and karmic worries to seize the chance to advance his Dao.
• The value of knowledge: The three thousand Great Dao principles are presented as the Jade Plate’s greatest treasure, even more valuable than its direct comprehension aid.

Plot and key developments

• Yang Mei begins preparing for seclusion to comprehend the Space Great Dao.
• As Bai Yu approaches his fifth attainment of Dao Enlightenment, he thinks to check on the Chat Group and Multiverse City. Through his stationed Great Dao Avatar, he quickly reviews their progress and finds that nothing extraordinary has happened.
• The group has grown so large that Bai Yu barely recognizes many newer members. He has little interest in learning about them, viewing the Chat Group chiefly as a means of collecting coordinates for the Grand Cosmos.
• Most members have stalled at the Sixteenth Tier because they lack suitable Dao Paths. The group has only a few high-level paths available, and its members are still too weak to enter the Grand Cosmos safely.
• Chonglou is the group’s strongest member after Bai Yu. Though he has reached the middle stage of Golden Immortal, he is still working on imprinting Source Laws upon his body—a slow, dangerous process.
• Resources are available, including costly Grand Cosmos resources from Bai Yu’s Limitless Pavilion, but resources alone cannot overcome the time and effort required at higher stages.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu remains detached and focused on his own cultivation. His vast power and aloofness have always placed him far above the other members, who regard him with both respect and fear. He does not worry about their slow progress.
• The Chat Group members depend increasingly on Multiverse City for advancement, but their progress remains limited by scarce cultivation paths and arduous breakthroughs.
• Chonglou has advanced farther than the other members, yet his progress illustrates that even the strongest cannot rush the demands of Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Bai Yu receives updates indirectly through his Great Dao Avatar; he has little direct interaction with the members, including longtime participants such as Xiongba, Yang Jian, the Lord of the Moon Sect, and Li Hanyi.

Significant themes

• The gulf between power levels: Bai Yu’s rapid progress contrasts sharply with the Chat Group’s slow cultivation.
• Limits of resources: Access to wealth and supplies cannot substitute for suitable methods, patience, or safe breakthroughs.
• Distance and dependence: Bai Yu treats the group instrumentally, while its members rely on it and Multiverse City as their main avenues for growth.
• Time and cultivation: Different time flows help explain the disparity in progress, but even synchronized time would not erase the immense effort needed to master the Great Daos.

Key plot points and events

• Chat Group members have grown immensely wealthy through their monopoly-like Multiverse Investment Corporation, which profits especially from selling world sources. New members receive company stakes and dividends, letting them advance rapidly.
• With abundant resources, newcomers can rise to the twelfth tier in about a hundred days, then use Sacred Spirit Stones to reach the sixteenth tier through Law-Proven Dao. Even so, most residents of Multiverse City remain below the thirteenth tier, and opportunities are increasingly scarce.
• Multiverse City has matured from rapid growth into a more settled, unequal society. The Chat Group’s united members keep prospering, while earning a living becomes harder for those at the bottom.
• Bai Yu checks on the Chat Group but finds little progress toward locating a Grand Cosmos. He returns to mastering the Primordial World’s Source Great Daos, having completed only four.
• Ten thousand years later, another powerful Dao aura rises from the East Sea—the fifth such occurrence. The region has become a favored place for beings seeking Enlightenment of the Dao.
• This new aura belongs to the Great Dao of Slaughter, alarming Hongjun and Yang Mei. Since Rahula also followed that Dao and they have just killed him, both suspect that the new Dao Attainer might be Rahula.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu remains patient: he accepts that finding a Grand Cosmos cannot be rushed and prioritizes finishing his own Dao cultivation.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei, previously inclined to seek Enlightenment in the East Sea for safety, are now horrified by the possibility that Rahula has returned or survived. They independently make the same connection between the Slaughter Dao and Rahula.

Significant themes

• Compounding wealth and inequality: shared prosperity benefits Chat Group members, but Multiverse City’s development entrenches class divisions.
• Patience and priorities: Bai Yu recognizes the need to complete his existing work before pursuing grander goals.
• Suspicion and uncertainty: repeated Dao attainments have made the East Sea a focal point, but this one raises a troubling question about whether Rahula is truly gone.

Key events

• A fifth being begins attaining the Great Dao of Slaughter, leaving Hongjun bewildered. He is certain Rahula—the reincarnation of the Slaughter Demon God, whom Hongjun personally killed—is not the one.
• Hongjun reasons that anyone capable of attaining the Dao at this point should have an Innate God and Demon Foundation, yet no other known being fits the Great Dao of Slaughter.
• He recalls four previous, mysterious Dao Attainers, who had mastered the Space, Time, Karma, and Destiny Great Daos. Though Hongjun knows many powerful beings, including Yang Mei, he has never heard of any of them.
• As the fifth Dao-attainment phenomenon presses down on the world, all beings are forced to prostrate themselves. Hongjun remains on the ground despite his immense cultivation and potential ability to resist.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun’s confidence in his standing among the Innate Gods and Demons is shaken: despite being near the peak of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, he recognizes how little he knows about the world’s greatest powers.
• His uncertainty about the unknown Dao Attainers deepens, especially as he rules out Rahula and recalls that Yang Mei did not attain the Space Great Dao.
• Hongjun chooses not to use a supreme treasure to stand. He accepts prostrating himself as fitting respect for the being attaining the Dao. The wider world shares this reverence.

Significant themes

• The gulf between cultivation and attainment: Even Hongjun’s extraordinary power is insignificant before a Dao Attainer.
• Humility and reverence: Hongjun’s submission is not humiliation but respect for the Great Dao and those who attain it.
• Mystery and limits of knowledge: The identities of the previous Dao Attainers—and now the fifth—remain beyond Hongjun’s understanding.
• Shared pursuit: Those who seek the Great Dao, from Hongjun and Yang Mei to ordinary beings, are fellow seekers worthy of respect.

Plot and events

• Yang Mei privately knows Bai Yu was the Primordial Wilderness’s first Dao Attainer, but refuses to discuss him for fear that even speaking of Bai Yu could draw his attention.
• Yang Mei cannot identify the three Dao Attainers who came afterward. He does not know whether the being who mastered the Time Great Dao was a reincarnated Chaos Godsfiend.
• The chapter explains why Chaos Godsfiends can survive Pangu’s destruction: their bodies and Primordial Spirits can be destroyed, but their Great Dao Flowers—and the Source Great Daos within them—remain. Unless a Thirtieth-Tier being makes a Dao Sacrifice, it cannot truly be killed; it can only be sealed into eternal silence.
• Their remains helped shape the Primordial World: their bodies nourished it, while their resentment produced Fierce Beasts. Some Primordial Spirits may have reincarnated as Innate Gods and Demons, while others fled into Chaos, remained sealed, or were destroyed.
• The Devouring and Yin-Yang Godsfiends are cited as examples: Bai Yu’s treasures came from their Chaos remnants, while the Yin-Yang Ancestor may be a reincarnation of part of the Yin-Yang Godsfiend’s fragmented Primordial Spirit. The chapter suggests other fragments may exist elsewhere too.
• Yang Mei concludes that the world’s extraordinary resources may be owed to the Three Thousand Chaos Godsfiends—but remains certain that the idea of one person claiming all four Dao Attainments is impossible.

Character developments and interactions

• Yang Mei is shown as cautious and knowledgeable: he recognizes Bai Yu’s identity but keeps silent out of respect and self-preservation. His confidence does not extend to identifying the later Dao Attainers.
• Bai Yu appears through Yang Mei’s thoughts and the chapter’s speculation. He is presented as a powerful figure whose origins and role inspire fear and conjecture.
• Pangu is portrayed as having transformed the Chaos Godsfiends into part of the Primordial World, even though he could not erase their Great Dao foundations.
• The interactions are mostly indirect: Yang Mei’s guarded thoughts contrast with his inability to solve the mystery, while Bai Yu’s immense presence shapes what Yang Mei dares not say.

Significant themes

• Immortality and the limits of destruction: A Dao Attainer’s Great Dao Flower makes true death nearly impossible.
• Rebirth and fragmented identity: Primordial Spirits may survive in pieces and reincarnate in unexpected forms.
• Cosmic cost and creation: The Primordial World’s richness arose partly from the destruction and transformation of the Chaos Godsfiends.
• Secrecy and power: Knowledge of a supreme being can itself be dangerous.
• Certainty versus impossibility: Yang Mei’s absolute dismissal of the “four attainments” possibility ends the chapter on dramatic irony and foreshadowing.

Key plot points and events

• Bai Yu attains the Great Dao of Slaughter, his fifth Source Great Dao. Its overwhelming murderous aura blankets the Primordial World in crimson light and terrifies all beings, including Hongjun and Yang Mei. Hongjun compares it with Rahula’s Slaughter Dao and finds Rahula’s power far inferior.
• The vision soon fades. Hongjun turns back to his urgent work repairing the Western Continent’s earth veins.
• At Penglai Immortal Island, Bai Yu reviews his status. He now commands five Source Great Daos: Time, Space, Karma, Destiny, and Slaughter.
• His breakthrough to Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal has freed him from the Primordial World’s limits. His foundation has risen from an Innate Sacred Foundation to that of a Great Dao Being, equal in rank to a Chaos Godsfiend and at the highest level possible in the Myriad Realms.
• Ten thousand years later, Bai Yu begins another period of seclusion. He considers comprehending Destruction, but discovers that the Primordial World’s Destruction Great Dao is incomplete. He chooses Creation instead.
• Reflecting on Creation leads him to Nüwa and Fuxi: Nüwa’s creation of humanity points to her mastery of Creation, while the two siblings’ origins in Creation and Yin-Yang energies make them natural complements.

Character developments

• Bai Yu has reached a new level of power and a pinnacle foundation, though he intends to keep using his system to deepen his cultivation. He remains composed after attaining Slaughter and adapts quickly when Destruction proves unavailable.
• Hongjun remains cautious in the face of Bai Yu’s immense power, but continues fulfilling his obligation to repair the Western Continent.
• Yang Mei is also shaken by the Slaughter Dao’s aura, underscoring how formidable it is even to one of the Primordial World’s strongest beings.
• Nüwa and Fuxi are presented as complementary figures whose Creation and Yin-Yang natures are linked.

Significant themes

• Limits and transcendence: The Primordial World constrains Bai Yu’s growth until he becomes a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal; beyond that, he reaches the broader Myriad Realms’ ceiling.
• Power and foundation: Bai Yu’s exceptional foundation gives him enormous potential, but he still relies on external aid—the system—to realize it.
• Balance and creation: Creation depends on the interaction of Yin and Yang and their harmonizing force.
• The scale of power: The reactions to Bai Yu’s Slaughter Dao establish the gap between his current strength and even other formidable beings.

Character interactions

• The living beings of the Primordial World collectively bow and tremble under Bai Yu’s Slaughter Dao; Hongjun and Yang Mei personally feel its chilling pressure.
• Hongjun respectfully bows toward the East Sea after the vision ends, then resumes his work.
• Bai Yu’s thoughts connect Nüwa and Fuxi through their complementary origins and roles in the process of creation.

Key plot points

• Fuxi and Nüwa are revealed as exceptionally favored Innate Sacred Beings, with foundations second only to the Three Pure Ones. The Three Pure Ones were formed from Pangu’s Primordial Spirit and were considered complete “native” beings; Fuxi and Nüwa, though born from Yin-Yang and Creation energies, had no connection to the Chaos Godsfiends of those names.
• Nüwa is the true focus of their origins. Fuxi came into being first to help bring her forth and strengthen her foundation. His earlier birth made him the elder sibling, but his foundation is slightly weaker; Nüwa ranks fourth among the Primordial World’s Innate Sacred Beings.
• Their later destinies highlight the Heavenly Dao’s favor: Nüwa becomes a Sage, while Fuxi rises from an emperor of the Demon Race to the first of the Human Race’s Three Sovereigns. Despite his karmic burdens, he becomes one of the strongest beings below the Sages and might have attained Hunyuan if the world’s restrictions had not held him back.
• The chapter then turns to Bai Yu’s cultivation. Great Daos are interconnected, so studying related Daos can aid comprehension. Though Destruction would naturally complement his mastered Slaughter Dao, the Primordial World’s Destruction Great Dao is incomplete. Bai Yu therefore chooses Creation as a practical next step, which can also lead toward understanding Yin-Yang.

Character developments

• Nüwa is portrayed as having extraordinary innate potential and Heavenly Dao favor, explaining why Hongjun made her a direct disciple and why she ultimately became a Sage.
• Fuxi is shown to have a less powerful foundation than Nüwa but an unusually successful destiny: he rules among both the Demon Race and, later, humanity.
• Bai Yu demonstrates a methodical, pragmatic approach to cultivation, seeking even small gains from connections between Great Daos while adapting when an ideal path is unavailable.

Character interactions

• Fuxi’s role is closely tied to Nüwa’s creation: he precedes her and helps establish her exceptional foundation. Their sibling relationship reflects this origin, with Fuxi as the elder brother despite Nüwa’s greater innate rank.
• Hongjun’s decision to take Nüwa as a direct disciple reflects her potential and the Heavenly Dao’s favor.
• Bai Yu’s discussion of Dao relationships is primarily internal reasoning rather than a direct exchange with another character.

Significant themes

• Innate origins and destiny: A being’s origin shapes its potential, but does not always dictate rank or achievement.
• Heavenly favor and cultivation: The Heavenly Dao’s attention can nurture exceptional beings, while innate foundations determine how much development they may require.
• Interconnectedness: Great Daos oppose or generate one another, and progress in one can support understanding of another.
• Adaptation and opportunity: Bai Yu chooses a viable path when the ideal one—Destruction—is inaccessible.

Key plot points and events

• Bai Yu turns his attention to the Creation Great Dao and observes that Fuxi is close to being born. He notices that the Yin-Yang energy forming Fuxi is progressing less strongly than the Creation energy associated with Nüwa.
• Bai Yu dismisses the Primordial World’s Innate Sacred Beings, including the future Heavenly Dao Sages, as unable to attain Hunyuan without the Primordial Heavenly Dao’s permission.
• He reflects that even Hongjun, once he becomes the Heavenly Dao’s spokesperson, will remain subordinate to the Primordial Heavenly Dao. Hongjun has not yet attained sainthood, so the Heavenly Dao is unlikely to tell him about Bai Yu and risk undermining his confidence.
• Bai Yu observes Yang Mei meditating in seclusion. With the Jade Plate of Creation, the Three Thousand Great Dao Principles, and insights from his discussion with Bai Yu, Yang Mei’s progress in the Space Great Dao has accelerated dramatically.
• Yang Mei has already mastered 97 percent of the Space Great Dao and believes he can complete it—and attain Hunyuan—before he must return the Jade Plate of Creation.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu remains detached from the coming birth of Fuxi and the fortunes of the Heavenly Dao Sages. He regards only Hongjun and Yang Mei as noteworthy because they have truly attained the Dao, though he sees Hongjun as constrained by the Heavenly Dao.
• Yang Mei grows excited and astonished at his sudden progress. He credits the Jade Plate, the Three Thousand Great Dao Principles, and his Dao discussion with Bai Yu, gaining confidence that full mastery is within reach.
• Bai Yu and Yang Mei have previously discussed the Dao; Bai Yu now watches Yang Mei’s progress unseen. Their interaction has helped contribute to Yang Mei’s breakthrough.
• Hongjun is not present, but Bai Yu considers how the Heavenly Dao may protect and warn him once he becomes its spokesperson.

Significant themes

• Power and hierarchy: In a top-tier Grand Cosmos, even powerful beings are subject to the Heavenly Dao; strength determines who can act freely.
• Limits of spiritual attainment: Heavenly Dao sainthood is not the same as genuine Hunyuan attainment, and the Sages cannot transcend their world’s restrictions on their own.
• Accumulation and breakthrough: Yang Mei’s long preparation, combined with new resources and insights, turns slow progress into a sudden surge.
• Perspective and scale: Bai Yu’s extraordinary cultivation makes even major figures seem insignificant, underscoring the gulf between levels of power.

Key plot points

• Bai Yu watches Yang Mei’s attempt to attain Hunyuan, chiefly to see whether the Primordial Heavenly Dao will permit it. Unlike Hongjun, Yang Mei has no apparent role to play for the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao knows about the Multiverse Chat Group and the Primordial Wilderness novels shared there, but treats their “plots” as irrelevant. It could change events—or replace Hongjun with Yang Mei—as it wished.
• The chapter explains that the Primordial World is the source of countless similar worlds across the Myriad Realms. Those worlds are like tributaries; if one becomes a Grand Cosmos, it merges into the source.
• Bai Yu learns that the Heavenly Dao’s script ends at the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. This explains why related worlds appear to enter a Dharma-Ending Era afterward: the source’s unfinished script leaves their stories without a continuation.

Character developments and interactions

• Bai Yu remains curious but deliberately does not interfere. He believes he and the Heavenly Dao have a respectful understanding, though he admits he cannot know what it thinks. He insists his restraint is courtesy and caution, not cowardice.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao is revealed as overwhelmingly powerful, aware of the Multiverse Chat Group, and unconstrained by the novels’ plots. It can shape the Primordial World and the destinies of figures such as Hongjun and Yang Mei.
• Yang Mei and Hongjun are discussed as possible Hunyuan achievers, but neither acts directly in this chapter. Their prospects depend less on precedent in novels than on the Heavenly Dao’s wishes.
• Bai Yu’s relationship with the Heavenly Dao is presented as favorable and cooperative: he chooses to watch events rather than challenge or negotiate over the world’s course.

Significant themes

• Power over fate: To beings of supreme power, a “script” is not binding; they can rewrite it.
• Source and reflection: The Primordial World generates and influences countless derivative worlds, so its events shape their stories.
• Perspective and humility: Bai Yu recognizes his own limits and prefers observation to needless interference.
• Unfinished narratives: The apparent decline of cultivation in other worlds is framed not as a deliberate collapse, but as the consequence of the source’s story ending before it was continued.