Chapter Summaries

Yuanfeng withdrew the Phoenix Clan from the struggle for the Primordial Wilderness after Lin Tian and Huang Wu persuaded her. Rahula then recruited Prime Kirin and Ancestral Dragon into a scheme against Lin Tian, and they agreed under his pressure.

• Lin Tian warned Yuanfeng that the Phoenix Clan faced ruin, and Huang Wu urged her to reconsider.
• Yuanfeng ordered the Phoenix Clan to withdraw and thanked Lin Tian, who credited Huang Wu for changing her mind.
• Prime Kirin and Ancestral Dragon vented their anger at Lin Tian while discussing their plans to control the Primordial Wilderness.
• Rahula appeared in Ancestral Dragon's palace and offered to help them take revenge on Lin Tian.
• Rahula pressured Prime Kirin and Ancestral Dragon until they agreed to his plan, though Ancestral Dragon concealed his displeasure.

Yuanfeng withdrew the Phoenix Clan from the struggle for supremacy, ordered its subordinate races to leave, and confined her clan to Immortal Volcano. Qing Xuan formed an alliance with the departing races, while Rahula and Hongjun reacted to the sudden change.

• Phoenix Clan elders and subordinate leaders protested Yuanfeng's decision, but she struck down one speaker and refused to change her mind.
• Yuanfeng left the council hall, and Lin Tian noticed the concealed Demon Race agents without exposing them.
• The Great Elder announced the Phoenix Clan's disbandment as an alliance, and Qing Xuan gathered willing subordinate races into a new alliance.
• Yuanfeng announced throughout the Primordial Wilderness that the Phoenix Clan would withdraw and remain at Immortal Volcano, forbidding its members from leaving without permission.
• Rahula ordered Black Robe and the others to investigate the Phoenix Clan's withdrawal, then suspected Lin Tian when his divination revealed nothing.
• Hongjun sensed that the heavenly secrets had changed and realized something had happened to the Phoenix Clan.

Ancestral Dragon, Prime Kirin, and Rahula discussed Yuanfeng’s withdrawal from the struggle for supremacy and agreed to target Huang Wu. The chapter left Ancestral Dragon preparing the Dragon Clan for the plan despite Candle Dragon’s warning about Lin Tian.

• Ancestral Dragon and Candle Dragon suspected that Lin Tian had prompted Yuanfeng to withdraw the Phoenix Clan from the struggle for supremacy.
• Prime Kirin arrived at the Ancestral Dragon’s palace, and he and Ancestral Dragon discussed their suspicions about Lin Tian’s role.
• Rahula arrived and revealed that he wanted the Dragon and Kirin clans to kill Huang Wu, Yuanfeng’s younger sister, to weaken the Phoenix Clan.
• Rahula assured Prime Kirin and Ancestral Dragon that he would deal with Lin Tian, and they agreed to target Huang Wu after Lin Tian left the Phoenix Clan.
• Prime Kirin returned to prepare the Kirin Clan, while Ancestral Dragon began making arrangements and told Candle Dragon about the plan.
• Candle Dragon warned Ancestral Dragon that the Dragon Clan would be ruined if Lin Tian discovered their involvement, but Ancestral Dragon said he could not refuse.

Huang Wu left the Phoenix Clan’s forbidden ground to find Lin Tian, unaware that Feng Yang had reported her movements and that the Dragon and Kirin Clans were waiting to ambush her. She was attacked on the way and confronted Ya Zi and Lin Feng.

• Yuanfeng found Huang Wu daydreaming on the parasol tree and urged her to cultivate, but Huang Wu resumed lounging after her sister left.
• Huang Wu tore open a rift, sneaked out of Phoenix Clan territory under the Ring of Secrecy, and set off toward the East Sea to find Lin Tian.
• Feng Yang spotted Huang Wu leaving and departed to report her to the Demon Ancestor.
• Ya Zi and Lin Feng waited with their forces on a mountain peak, using a jade pendant to track Huang Wu’s aura.
• Ya Zi’s attack blasted Huang Wu from the clouds, and she drew the Flame Spirit Fan as Ya Zi and Lin Feng revealed themselves.

Ya Zi, Lin Feng, and their allies ambushed Huang Wu, who fought back with a powerful Phoenix Clan technique before sacrificing herself in an explosion. Yuanfeng and Lin Tian both sensed that something terrible had happened, leaving Huang Wu’s fate and their response unresolved.

• Ya Zi and Lin Feng chased Huang Wu toward the Eastern Sea and wounded her until she could no longer fight.
• Ya Zi approached Huang Wu with lewd intentions, but Lin Feng intervened; Huang Wu then released her sister’s hidden power, killing most of the attackers.
• Huang Wu used the Phoenix Clan’s Phoenix Nirvana technique to force a breakthrough, but Lin Feng joined Ya Zi in overpowering her.
• Huang Wu attempted to take Ya Zi and Lin Feng with her by self-destructing, and the explosion reduced her to ashes while both men survived injured.
• Yuanfeng felt a sudden pain in her heart, and Lin Tian dropped his teacup at the Three Immortal Islands.

Yuanfeng discovered Huang Wu’s recorded account of her death and attacked the Dragon and Kirin Clans in rage. As Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin denied responsibility, Lin Tian arrived at the Eastern Sea.

• Lin Tian left to investigate trouble in the Primordial Wilderness while Little Deer worried for his safety.
• After Huang Wu went missing, Yuanfeng searched for her across the Primordial Wilderness with the Phoenix Clan for several thousand years.
• Yuanfeng found Huang Wu’s damaged Flame Spirit Fan and learned that the Dragon and Kirin Clans had killed her.
• Yuanfeng attacked the sea clans and fought Ancestral Dragon, Prime Kirin, Candle Dragon, and their forces, killing many weaker fighters.
• Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin denied knowing what had happened to Huang Wu, and Lin Tian appeared as Yuanfeng prepared to attack again.

Lin Tian confronted Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin over Huang Wu’s death and overwhelmed their forces. Just as he moved to finish off the fleeing leaders, a mysterious surge of energy blocked his attack.

• Yuanfeng told Lin Tian that Dragon Clan and Kirin Clan members had killed her younger sister Huang Wu, and showed him the damaged Flame Spirit Fan.
• Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin denied responsibility, but Lin Tian sensed their clans’ auras on the fan and attacked them.
• Candle Dragon led the Dragon Clan in using the Myriad Dragon Array, but Lin Tian shattered it and killed many Dragon Clan cultivators.
• Ancestral Dragon, Candle Dragon, and Prime Kirin attacked Lin Tian together, but his Primordial Chaos Purple Lotus blocked their strikes and he sent them flying.
• Prime Kirin and the two Dragon Clan leaders tried to flee, but Lin Tian caught up and trapped them before a surge of energy blocked his attack.

Lin Tian tried to kill Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin for Huang Wu’s death, but Hongjun and Rahula intervened, and the Heavenly Way struck Yuanfeng when she continued attacking them. Lin Tian left with the unconscious Yuanfeng, while the surviving leaders prepared for the aftermath of the battle.

• Hongjun and Rahula blocked Lin Tian from killing Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin, then fought him in the void when he rejected their plea to spare them.
• Yuanfeng attacked Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin, but the Heavenly Way stopped her and severely injured her after she attacked again.
• Lin Tian appeared, confronted the Heavenly Way, and left with the unconscious Yuanfeng after it withdrew its lightning.
• Hongjun and Rahula departed after Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin thanked them, while Candle Dragon helped the weakened Ancestral Dragon.
• Ancestral Dragon vowed to settle his hatred with Lin Tian and said it was time to use the secret treasure his clan had refined.

Ancestral Dragon learned that four of his sons had died, while Lin Tian brought the injured Yuanfeng back to the Phoenix Clan and went to punish the Kirin Clan. Lin Feng sacrificed himself to spare his clan, and Lin Tian left without destroying it.

• Candle Dragon told Ancestral Dragon that Ya Zi, Bi An, Fu Xi, and Chi Wen had died, and Ancestral Dragon’s anger worsened his injuries.
• Lin Tian handed the unconscious Yuanfeng to Bing Li at the Phoenix Clan’s territory, then left to confront the Kirin Clan.
• Lin Tian shattered the Kirin Clan’s defensive array and overwhelmed its members, leaving many dead and wounded.
• Lin Feng confessed that he had killed Huang Wu, asked Lin Tian to spare the Kirin Clan, and self-destructed.
• Prime Kirin stopped his clansmen from attacking, and Lin Tian decided to let the matter end and teleported away.

After learning that Rahula had orchestrated Huang Wu’s death to draw the Phoenix Clan into the calamity, Yuanfeng abandoned immediate revenge and formed another plan. Meanwhile, Qing Xuan founded the Alliance of a Hundred Clans and used the merit it received to advance her cultivation.

• Yuanfeng woke in the Phoenix Clan, learned that Lin Tian had carried her back, and told Bing Li that Huang Wu had been killed by the Kirin Clan and Dragon Clan.
• Bing Li and Yuanfeng vowed revenge, but Lin Tian explained that Rahula had manipulated the clans to involve the three innate clans in the calamity and said he had already punished the Kirin and Dragon clans.
• Yuanfeng recalled Huang Wu’s wish for the Phoenix Clan to live in peace, gave up an all-out war, and told Bing Li to gather the clansmen for an announcement.
• Qing Xuan broke through to the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm and ordered Li Zhu to summon the clans that had previously submitted to her.
• Several hundred thousand years later, Qing Xuan led a hundred clans in establishing the Alliance of a Hundred Clans, received Heavenly Dao merit, and advanced to the mid-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.

Rahula and Hongjun recovered from their defeats by Lin Tian and resolved to grow stronger, while the Dragon Clan opened the Dragon Gate to the gathered sea clans. Ancestral Dragon hoped the new recruits would restore the Dragon Clan’s dominance, and Candle Dragon began the crossing.

• Rahula returned injured to Western Sumeru Mountain, learned the four swords were nearly complete, and chose the Phoenix Clan as his first target after Qing Xuan announced the Alliance of a Hundred Clans.
• Hongjun returned to Jade Capital Mountain injured, erupted in anger at Lin Tian, and broke through after vowing to become the strongest at any cost.
• The sea clans rushed to the East Sea Dragon Palace after learning they could transform into dragons by crossing the Dragon Gate.
• Pu Lao learned from Qiu Niu that Lin Tian had killed four of their brothers and angrily questioned his right to do so.
• Ancestral Dragon welcomed the assembled sea clans as a way to restore the Dragon Clan’s power and ordered Candle Dragon to begin the Dragon Gate crossing.

Lin Tian noticed the Dragon Gate and reflected on the rising power struggle among the clans, while the Dragon Clan and Alliance of a Hundred Clans prepared to fight. Qing Xuan resolved to destroy the Dragon Clan first and then challenge the Kirin Clan.

• Lin Tian recognized Ancestral Dragon's Dragon Gate, praised Little Deer's cultivation, and recalled Huang Wu with regret.
• A hundred yuanhui passed as the Dragon Clan, Kirin Clan, and Alliance of a Hundred Clans grew stronger and clashed over territory.
• Ancestral Dragon ordered Candle Dragon to fully encircle and destroy the Alliance of a Hundred Clans while remaining alert to the Kirin Clan.
• Qing Xuan celebrated her growing fortune and cultivation as the Alliance's leaders praised her and pledged to take over the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qing Xuan explained that the Dragon Clan had little high-end combat power and declared that the alliance would defeat it before turning against the Kirin Clan.

Yuanfeng led the Phoenix Clan out to avenge Huang Wu, while Prime Kirin and Ancestral Dragon gathered their clans for a decisive battle against the Alliance of a Hundred Clans. Qing Xuan demanded their submission, but after they rejected and mocked her, the three forces launched into battle.

• Yuanfeng and Bing Li resolved to avenge Huang Wu, and Yuanfeng led the assembled Phoenix Clan toward war.
• Prime Kirin left young Si Xiang behind to preserve the Kirin Clan's legacy, then led his warriors toward the battlefield.
• Qing Xuan welcomed Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin and offered to spare their clans if they submitted to the Alliance of a Hundred Clans.
• Ancestral Dragon, Prime Kirin, and Candle Dragon rejected Qing Xuan's offer and mocked her claim to the Primordial Wilderness' providence.
• Qing Xuan ordered the Alliance of a Hundred Clans to attack, and Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin rallied their clans to fight back.

The Alliance of a Hundred Clans, the Kirin Clan, and the Dragon Clan fought while Qing Xuan, Li Zhu, Prime Kirin, Ancestral Dragon, and Candle Dragon revealed their strength. Yuanfeng joined the battle against the Kirin and Dragon Clans, and the escalating slaughter was interrupted by a mysterious voice urging everyone to stop.

• Qing Xuan used the Soul-Shaking Bell to repel Prime Kirin and Ancestral Dragon, while Li Zhu revealed her strength and fought Candle Dragon with the Space-Rending Mirror.
• Qing Xuan persuaded Prime Kirin to turn against Ancestral Dragon, and the Kirin Clan, Dragon Clan, and Alliance of a Hundred Clans became entangled in battle.
• Yuanfeng arrived with the Phoenix Clan and ordered them to kill members of the Kirin and Dragon Clans before she attacked Prime Kirin and Ancestral Dragon.
• The four leaders and the fighters below succumbed to bloodlust as their battle devastated the Primordial Wilderness.
• A voice from the horizon called on everyone to stop, and a gentle wave of magical power began fading the red light in their eyes.

Hongjun stopped the warring clans and revealed that Rahula had manipulated them into fighting, leaving the Primordial Wilderness devastated and burdened with Karmic Debt. Ancestral Dragon, Prime Kirin, and Qing Xuan sacrificed themselves to save their peoples, and Yuanfeng began to do the same before someone interrupted her.

• Hongjun cleared the baleful qi from the leaders, who saw the carnage their clans had caused and realized they had been manipulated.
• Hongjun exposed Rahula’s scheme, and Rahula appeared, gloated over their defeat, and vanished before Prime Kirin could attack him.
• Hongjun explained that the leaders could use their cultivation to stabilize the Primordial Wilderness and reduce their clans’ Karmic Debt.
• Ancestral Dragon and Prime Kirin vowed to sacrifice themselves, with the Dragon Clan withdrawing to guard the Four Seas and the kirin becoming auspicious beasts.
• Qing Xuan sacrificed herself to preserve the Alliance of a Hundred Clans, then Yuanfeng began her own vow before an unseen speaker interrupted her.

Lin Tian arrived during the calamity and protected Yuanfeng and the surviving Phoenix Clan from Hongjun’s demands for punishment. After escorting them to Immortal Volcano and giving them supplies, he faced Yuanfeng’s question about why he had not stopped the war.

• Lin Tian found Yuanfeng with the surviving Phoenix Clan and told her to withdraw from the calamity.
• Lin Tian used his peak Primordial Origin Golden Immortal cultivation to make Hongjun let the Phoenix Clan leave without further punishment.
• Yuanfeng collapsed from her injuries, and Lin Tian gave her a healing pill before escorting the Phoenix Clan back to Immortal Volcano.
• Candle Dragon returned to the East Sea Dragon Palace and discovered that most of the Dragon Clan’s treasury had been stolen.
• Lin Tian warned Yuanfeng to keep the Phoenix Clan at Immortal Volcano and gave her spiritual roots and Spiritual Treasures.
• Yuanfeng asked Lin Tian why he did not stop the calamity and prevent further deaths, leaving him stunned.

Lin Tian questioned whether he should intervene in the Primordial Wilderness after Yuanfeng challenged his choices, while Yuanfeng discovered she was carrying his child. Lin Tian began reconsidering his role, and Rahula forged the Immortal Slaying swords and array, then reached the peak of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.

• Yuanfeng questioned Lin Tian about helping the Phoenix Clan, and Lin Tian said the greater trend could not be changed, though smaller trends could.
• Yuanfeng ordered the Phoenix Clan to guard Immortal Volcano, then discovered Lin Tian's yang energy was nurturing a child within her and decided she might keep it.
• Lin Tian returned to Three Immortal Islands and asked Little Deer whether someone with the power to help others should do so; her answer led him to reconsider his role in the Primordial Wilderness.
• Rahula completed the four Immortal Slaying swords and their array diagram, then broke through to the peak of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.

Hongjun learned that Rahula’s Four Swords of Execution were driving a new calamity and planned to recruit Destiny, Qiankun, and Slaughter to oppose him. After the Heavenly Dao left, Destiny and Qiankun reunited with Slaughter, but an unknown figure appeared before they could talk.

• Hongjun sensed Fierce Fiend Qi from Sumeru Mountain, and the Heavenly Dao told him that Rahula’s plans had brought about a new calamity over their rival Dao Lineages.
• The Heavenly Dao warned Hongjun that Rahula’s Four Swords of Execution formed a formation that required four beings of the same realm to break, so Hongjun decided to seek help from Destiny, Qiankun, and Slaughter.
• Hongjun asked the Heavenly Dao why he could not merge his severed Three Corpses and attain sainthood, but it gave him a vague answer before leaving.
• Hongjun warned Yaochi and Haotian to guard Purple Sky Palace, then departed; Haotian reassured Yaochi, and the two went to cultivate.
• Destiny and Qiankun found Slaughter, exchanged greetings, and prepared to go to Slaughter’s cave abode when an unknown figure emerged from a crack in the void.

Hongjun recruited Destiny, Slaughter, and Qiankun to help him defeat Rahula, offering them three supreme treasures as payment. After Hongjun left, Qiankun revealed that he could not see through Hongjun’s cultivation and sensed the aura of the Heavenly Dao on him.

• Hongjun visited Slaughter’s abode, where Destiny greeted him with hostility and Qiankun unexpectedly defended him.
• Hongjun explained that Rahula had created the Demon Race and forged the Immortal Execution Sword Formation, then asked the three to help defeat him.
• Slaughter guessed that Hongjun wanted merit, and Hongjun confirmed the Heavenly Dao had ordered him to kill Rahula.
• Destiny initially refused, but agreed after Hongjun offered the Taiji Diagram, the Pangu Banner, and the Heavenly Cloud; Slaughter and Qiankun also accepted.
• Hongjun set a meeting at Jade Capital Mountain one hundred yuanhui later and privately thought the three might not survive to claim the treasures.
• After Hongjun left, Qiankun revealed that Hongjun’s cultivation was hidden from him and that Hongjun carried the aura of the Heavenly Dao, prompting the others to suspect a deeper connection.

Rahula tested the Four Swords of Execution and declared he would rebuild order, but Hongjun arrived with Slaughter, Destiny, and Qiankun to stop him. The forces prepared to clash at Sumeru Mountain, with Rahula wielding the Immortal Execution Sword Formation and the Twelve-Grade World-Ending Black Lotus.

• Rahula activated the Immortal Execution Sword Formation, impressing the Demon Race and making them believe he could defeat Lin Tian.
• Rahula welcomed the Four Swords of Execution and promised rewards to the kneeling Demon Race.
• Hongjun appeared at Sumeru Mountain and announced that he had come to stop Rahula from destroying the Primordial Wilderness.
• Rahula rejected Hongjun's appeal, challenged the Heavenly Dao, and resolved to rebuild order through destruction.
• Slaughter, Destiny, and Qiankun joined Hongjun, and Rahula realized they had come to kill him.
• Rahula summoned the Twelve-Grade World-Ending Black Lotus and the Four Swords of Execution as the four opponents unleashed their cultivation.