Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xing passed the second round of the Primordial Convention after observing the destruction of Manya Small World No. 2436, then accepted Lord Beihe’s rewards and spent a century training to strengthen his Dao Field and World Method. Ten days before the third round, Qiao Song woke him and sent him toward the competition.

• Zhao Xing explained the four stages of a world to Xilin as Manya Small World No. 2436 collapsed, and he and Xilin endured the final darkness before the cultivators were removed.
• Zhao Xing returned to the waiting hall alone, learned that 105 people from the Beihe Star System had passed, and later formed a karmic bond with Lord Beihe, Yang Lin, in exchange for generous rewards.
• Zhao Xing chose Sky Blue Star No. 48 and asked Qiao Song to arrange training; Qiao Song sent 158 Dao Domain Realm experts to pressure him and improve his Dao Field and World Method over a century.
• Zhao Xing improved enough for Yang Zhuo to praise his Three Realms Void technique, then spent six months resting before Qiao Song woke him ten days before the third round.

Zhao Xing entered the third-round Ten Thousand Demon Star Continent assessment and spent its three-year preparation period gathering and subduing plant lifeforms for the coming hunt-and-rescue trial. The chapter ended as the three years elapsed, before the demon tribes and hostages appeared.

• Lord Beihe hoped Zhao Xing and the other contestants from his star system would advance, since their success could bring him True Spirit Fruits and improve his standing.
• Emperor Chen Jiu and Primordial Beginning Envoy Zuo Qiyu sent Zhao Xing and the other contestants to Initial Star Continent No. 99, where the assessment would last thirty-three years and reward hunting demons and rescuing hostages.
• Zhao Xing assessed the rules and decided to prepare by collecting a variety of Plant Soldiers before the demon tribes and hostages arrived three years later.
• Zhao Xing used Three Realms Void and Life Rhythm to locate and harvest thousands of third-realm mushrooms, then continued searching the continent for useful plant materials.
• Zhao Xing defeated and harvested a Major Mystic Power Realm Three Yang Greenwood for materials to make his Giant Yang Clone, and later collected a peak Boundary Thorn Vine for breaking formations.
• Three years passed while Zhao Xing prepared on the Initial Star Continent.

Zhao Xing advanced through the Ten Thousand Demon Star Continent assessment by using his Plant Soldiers, clones, and poison-based tactics to earn points, eventually defeating a Yin Yang Dao Domain Realm beast and rescuing hostages. The thirty-year assessment ended with him ranked 5,214th, securing a place in the fourth round in the Primordial Beginning Realm.

• Zhao Xing used the Star Realm Wandering Vine to reach Ant Clan 996 quickly, then deployed Plant Soldiers and clones to burn through hundreds of thousands of Gold Devouring Ants and climb the rankings.
• Zhao Xing continued hunting across demon Star Continents, while Xilin and Xiao Xuan also earned high rankings and Han Chuchen recovered memories of his past life as a Reincarnation Realm cultivator.
• After Zhao Xing entered the high-level regions, his Green Poison Empress poisoned the waters of Water Demon 12 and killed a Nether Abyss Extinction Hornless Dragon in the Yin Yang Dao Domain Realm.
• The Five Poisons Emperor Lord noticed Zhao Xing's poison tactics, became interested in him, and was ordered alongside Zuo Qiyu to take part in selecting disciples.
• In the final year, Zhao Xing shifted his focus to rescuing hostages after reaching 4,295th place, and the completed assessment ranked him 5,214th in the Manya Star System's True Self Combat Division, advancing him to the fourth round.

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After reaching the Primordial Beginning Realm, Zhao Xing spent decades studying an Emperor Grade mushroom seed and learned the Stem Fighting Divine Power, improving his ability to create plant troops. He then entered the Hundred-Ren Void to challenge his spatial comprehension bottleneck, where he recognized two leading contestants just before the chapter cut off.

• Zhao Xing reunited with the Beihe Star System contestants, spoke with Jin Manyun about the assessments, and later caught up with Jing Yan and Yu Tianqing aboard the Realm Boat.
• Emperor Chen Jiu brought the contestants to Green Leaf Port in the Primordial Beginning Realm, where Zhao Xing chose to study the Three Thousand Dao Seeds.
• Zhao Xing examined the Wuxu Number Nine mushroom seed and used its poison talents to stabilize his Green Poison Empress transformations.
• Zhao Xing studied the Primordial Beginning Dao Repository and cultivated the Stem Fighting Divine Power to Mystic Power Sixth Tier.
• Zhao Xing learned that the Empire had removed hundreds of contestants for violating its rules, then traveled to the Hundred-Ren Void to pursue the third ren of the Dao Manifestation Layer.
• Zhao Xing recognized Ji Xingchen and Han Qiye on a nearby boat as they approached the black river.

Zhao Xing survived a chaotic preliminary arena by defeating Lu Nansong and then advanced through the repechage and semifinal rounds to reach the Primordial Beginning Realm finals. Qing Yuzi reappeared to confirm that Zhao Xing’s advancement had been arranged as part of their agreement, while the finals draw paired Zhao Xing against Wu Chuanlan.

• Zhao Xing used his Plant Soldiers and formations to defeat Ruan Xingluo, then resisted Lu Nansong’s Star Shifting Formation and won their arena.
• Zhao Xing advanced through the repechage and semifinal rounds, reaching the final stage among the last 160 contestants.
• Wu Tian recited scripture to subdue reincarnated Reincarnation Realm cultivators, while Meng Wu noted that Zhao Xing had eliminated two such cultivators.
• Qing Yuzi met Red Star Great Emperor and Guluo He, confirmed the agreement that secured Zhao Xing’s entry, and entrusted Guluo He with a primordial stone for Zhao Xing.
• The finals matchups were announced, and Zhao Xing learned that his first opponent would be Wu Chuanlan from the He Ya Star System.

Zhao Xing defeated Wu Chuanlan in the finals, then lost to Young Lotus Fairy while studying her parasitic techniques. The Primordial Beginning Assembly concluded with Zhao Xing breaking through to master Yin Yang Boundary and preparing to meet a teacher in the Primordial Beginning Realm.

• Zhao Xing simulated battles against Wu Chuanlan and concluded that mastering Yin Yang Boundary could improve his chances in the finals.
• Wu Chuanlan attacked Zhao Xing with his Myriad Laws Mother Tree, but Zhao Xing broke free of Demon Eye Tree Heart, endured Three Tribulation Heavenly Thunder, and defeated him with a poisoned mushroom army.
• Zhao Xing faced Young Lotus Fairy, whose Parasitic Great Divine Power took control of his body and whose Profound Spirit Seed Borrowing Art turned his Plant Soldiers against him.
• Under Young Lotus Fairy's pressure, Zhao Xing lost the match but broke through and mastered Yin Yang Boundary.
• The Primordial Beginning Assembly rankings were announced, with Tuo Sen first and Pu Tianrui second, while Young Lotus Fairy had lost to Tuo Sen.
• Emperor Chen Jiu announced that the participants would meet teachers and cultivate in the Primordial Beginning Realm for 2,486 years.

Zhao Xing and the other finalists arrived at Seaweed City beneath the Primordial Divine Tree to seek Emperor Lord teachers. After Zuo Qiyu and the Five Poisons Emperor Lord fought over him, Guluo He intervened and offered to instruct Zhao Xing personally.

• Emperor Chen Jiu led the 160 finalists to the Primordial Divine Tree and brought them to Seaweed City, where they could seek Emperor Lord teachers.
• Zhao Xing thanked Young Lotus Fairy for helping him grasp the great Mystic Power of the World Method, then entered the city to look for a teacher.
• Zhao Xing ignored the Five Poisons Emperor Lord's lectures, and Zuo Qiyu approached him and offered to take him as a disciple.
• The Five Poisons Emperor Lord stopped Zhao Xing's apprenticeship ceremony and accused Zuo Qiyu of being an unbearable teacher, prompting the two Emperor Lords to clash.
• Guluo He appeared, halted the conflict, and sent both Emperor Lords away before offering to instruct Zhao Xing personally.

Zhao Xing accepted Guluo He’s cultivation guidance and learned that the demigod would help him only with cultivation, not personal matters. After receiving advice and access to twelve Life Great Dao comprehension sites, Zhao Xing returned to Seaweed City to collect his initial resources.

• Guluo He agreed to teach Zhao Xing on Qing Yuzi’s behalf, and Zhao Xing accepted.
• News that Guluo He had taken Zhao Xing as his disciple spread, prompting Lord Beihe to celebrate and increase funding for Zhao Xing’s territory.
• Guluo He brought Zhao Xing into his Inner World and showed him an Emperor-grade Original Seed Resilient Vine growing in a low-energy environment.
• Guluo He offered Zhao Xing access to twelve Life Great Dao cultivation sites and advised him to strengthen his Source Origin Space, advance his Dao field, and develop his mental will.
• After a month passed outside, Zhao Xing returned to Seaweed City and headed to the treasury to collect his initial cultivation resources.

Zhao Xing settled into the Primordial Beginning Realm, used his points to buy the Primal Chaos World technique, and began rebuilding his Source Origin Space. After emerging from seclusion, he read messages from Jing Yan, Yu Tianqing, and Du Yun, then asked for the letters sent by Wu Tian and others.

• Naina Zi gave Zhao Xing his Seaweed Grade resources and Star Mirror, and he moved into Locust Willow Courtyard with two hundred staff.
• Zhao Xing spent all ten thousand points on the first layer of Primal Chaos World and began rebuilding his Source Origin Space from scratch.
• After two years and six months, Zhao Xing had stabilized his Source Origin Space and reached over sixty percent of the first layer.
• Zhao Xing read Jing Yan's and Yu Tianqing's messages, replied to Jing Yan, and learned that Yu Tianqing had become Emperor Yinqi's disciple.
• Du Yun told Zhao Xing that Han Chuchen had been reincarnated and entered the Primordial Beginning Realm, while Zhao Xing's servants brought him more than ten thousand visiting cards.
• Zhao Xing asked for all his letters and found one from Wu Tian, whom Meng Wu had imprisoned.

Zhao Xing investigated Wu Tian's mysterious release, then entered the Primordial Beginning Ocean to earn points and test his strength. He broke through with Five Finger Mountain to survive at 100,000 nautical miles, reached 100,100 before being thrown back, and encountered an enraged stranger.

• Zhao Xing learned that Wu Tian had left prison early and gone to the Black Heaven Desolate Territory, but chose not to contact Wu Tian or Han Chuchen.
• Zhao Xing reached the Primordial Beginning Ocean's West Coast, observed Jiang Xing being thrown ashore, and accepted missions for advancing through the sea, fishing, and treasure hunting.
• Zhao Xing tried to advance with Moyun Vine but could not withstand the ocean at 100,000 nautical miles, so he returned to the 99,000-nautical-mile region.
• Zhao Xing broke through Five Finger Mountain to its fourth stage and used it with Moyun Vine to withstand the waves for fifteen breaths, earning 100,000 points.
• Zhao Xing advanced to 100,100 nautical miles before a wave hurled him back onto an island, where an unfamiliar man recognized him and angrily confronted him.

Zhao Xing met Han Chuchen, who revealed that the Reincarnation Divine Palace had forced him to reincarnate after their past transaction and asked Zhao Xing to help him survive his coming Calamity World. Han Chuchen’s fate had been divined by Hemp Robe Divine Physiognomy at Ten Directions Mountain, leaving Zhao Xing intrigued as he resumed his journey.

• Zhao Xing and Han Chuchen recognized their karmic connection, and Han Chuchen demanded to know why he had been punished and forced to reincarnate.
• Zhao Xing refused to reveal what he knew, while Han Chuchen suspected Zhao Xing had concealed his identity and contributed to his punishment.
• Han Chuchen explained that this was his eighty-sixth reincarnation and that a Fate Master had predicted his chance of survival would lie on an island in an earthen pit.
• Han Chuchen identified the Fate Master as Hemp Robe Divine Physiognomy, whom he had met at Ten Directions Mountain, and asked Zhao Xing to help him when his calamity came.
• Zhao Xing agreed to help Han Chuchen and asked him to preserve and share everything connected to Hemp Robe Divine Physiognomy; Han Chuchen left, and Zhao Xing continued onward.

Zhao Xing returned from the Primordial Beginning Ocean with a vast stock of source stones and completed the first layer of his Primal Chaos World, then received an emergency message from Ji Che about Great Zhou’s conflict with the Carlos Family. The chapter ended as Zhao Xing asked Ji Che what had happened.

• Zhao Xing spent fifty-eight years fishing and searching the Primordial Beginning Ocean, gathering 250,000 Five Elements Source Stones and more than 1,000 Yin Yang Source Stones before leaving.
• Zhao Xing used the source stones to complete the first layer of his Primal Chaos World, expanding his Source Origin Space to about 2.3 star-realm units.
• At Jia Chen Fourteenth Pass, Ji Che welcomed the battered survivors of Great Zhou’s expedition, who reported that forces under the Carlos Family had ambushed them and seized thirty-six star cities.
• Ji Che sent Zhao Xing an emergency message, and Zhao Xing learned that Great Zhou had offended the Carlos Family while expanding beyond the empire’s borders.
• Zhao Xing asked Ji Che to explain exactly what had happened.

Ji Che told Zhao Xing that Great Zhou had lost its territory and suffered heavy casualties after clashing with the Rainbow Moon Dynasty, which was allegedly backed by the Carlos Family. Zhao Xing promised to handle the fallout, but inquiries by Jing Yan and Starfire revealed suspicious details and left Zhao Xing questioning how Ji Si had learned of the Carlos connection.

• Ji Che recounted Great Zhou’s expansion into the Annihilating Star Corridor and reported that the Rainbow Moon Dynasty had killed or injured many of its cultivators and seized its territory.
• Zhao Xing promised to cover Great Zhou’s breach-of-contract penalties, address the Carlos Family threat, and told Ji Che to withdraw everyone inside the pass.
• Jing Yan suspected the attack concealed a secret and advised Zhao Xing to ask Starfire about the Rainbow Moon Dynasty’s business and motives.
• Zhao Xing contacted Yang Baihe, who reported that the dynasty engaged in human trafficking and refining Dao Xuan Pills, but Starfire had no evidence connecting it to the Carlos Family.
• Zhao Xing recognized the names Lord Fuwei, Earl Xihe, and Beins, then wondered how Ji Si had discovered the alleged Carlos connection.
• Jing Yan returned with word that his family had never heard of Carlos Family business in the Annihilating Star Corridor and asked whether Zhao Xing had been mistaken.

Zhao Xing investigated Great Zhou’s defeat and suspected the Carlos Family or another powerful force had manipulated memories and events. After Beins’s attempt to invade Ji Si’s Transmission Realm was destroyed by a mysterious power, Ji Si awoke, and Zhao Xing concealed what he knew while vowing to grow strong enough to settle the debt.

• Zhao Xing learned that Ji Che no longer remembered the Carlos Family and ordered Great Zhou to abandon the Annihilating Star Corridor and withdraw.
• Zhao Xing considered whether the Carlos Family had altered memories to end the conflict or whether someone else had used its name, but decided he could not investigate yet.
• Beins invaded Ji Si’s Transmission Realm and ignored her warning, but an image in a Time House destroyed his Biography Clone and badly damaged his books.
• Ji Si awoke after three months, and Zhao Xing used a Tianning Card to alter her memories while telling her Great Zhou had merely lost an ordinary war.
• Zhao Xing saw the grievously wounded Great Zhou officials, including Xia Jing, and vowed to grow stronger and repay whoever had caused their suffering.

After nearly a century of cultivation, Zhao Xing reached a breakthrough in his understanding of the Life Great Dao, drawing Guluo He’s attention and advice. He then went to Great World City to attempt Zuo Qiyu’s trial for a Straw Man Art, where he learned that Yuan Qiusheng and Cheng Qianye had already passed its first stage.

• Zhao Xing’s Giant Yang Straw Men defeated Bage Er in sparring by using the Rice Grain Chaos Heaven Art and forcing him to reveal his Eight Arms Divine Power.
• Zhao Xing concluded that the Giant Yang Straw Man Art could not support further Dao fusion and decided he needed to learn one of Zuo Qiyu’s advanced Straw Man Arts.
• After years of studying an Emperor Grade Resilient Vine, Zhao Xing used a spell to shake its vitality, marking his first step in comprehending the Life Great Dao.
• Guluo He noticed Zhao Xing’s progress, warned him about the strain caused by relying on the Straw Man Art without a matching soul art, and advised him to seek Zuo Qiyu’s Great World City trial.
• Zhao Xing arrived at Great World City, met Han Chuchen and several other Ministers of Agriculture, and learned that Yuan Qiusheng and Cheng Qianye had passed the first stage of the trial.

Zhao Xing spent over a thousand years repeatedly challenging Great Beginning City’s trials in pursuit of Zuo Qiyu’s Straw Man Art. He finally reached the true Great Void Pass, and Zuo Qiyu warned him that repeated attempts could consume millions of years before Zhao Xing began examining the trial.

• Yuan Qiusheng and Han Chiba explained that the World Shaking River tested Straw Man defenses, while the second trial, Great Void Pass, trapped challengers in unpredictable spaces.
• Zhao Xing crossed the World Shaking River slowly with his Giant Yang Straw Man, preserving its strength, then entered Great Beginning City and escaped a Space-Time Cage by detonating his clone.
• Zuo Qiyu told Guluo He that Great Void Pass had eight hundred million and one variations, with only one theoretically passable by someone in the Source Origin Realm.
• Zhao Xing continued sending clones into the trials after other challengers gave up, and over five hundred years he experienced hundreds of millions of distinct variations while improving his Giant Yang Clone.
• After one thousand and eight years, Zhao Xing’s clone reached the true Great Void Pass, and Zuo Qiyu warned that a failed attempt could require another thousand years of trials before he could try again.
• Zhao Xing vowed to keep trying for a lifetime, and Zuo Qiyu warned him not to sacrifice his cultivation before Zhao Xing focused on examining the trial.

Zhao Xing endured Zuo Qiyu’s Great Void Pass, overcame its despairing mist and the growth that threatened to destroy his Giant Yang Clone, and revived the clone with a divine power he created. After decades spent searching for a way out, Liu Tianning realized Zhao Xing was inside the Great Void Straw Man and suggested controlling it as the key to passing the trial.

• Gray mist filled Zhao Xing’s Giant Yang Clone with despair and spread its influence to his other clones, prompting Liu Tianning to connect with him through the perfected Spirit Hall and urge him to persevere.
• Zhao Xing swallowed five hundred Soul Spirit Pills, strengthening his soul enough to break free of the illusion’s emotional influence, while the mist continued to enlarge his Giant Yang Clone.
• As the clone neared its breaking point, Zhao Xing used his comprehension of Life Resurgence to create Giant Yang Revival, letting the scattered straw-man materials regrow and reassemble into the Giant Yang Clone.
• Zuo Qiyu set the final test as escaping the world, but Zhao Xing found no boundary and spent thirty years unable to find a way out.
• Liu Tianning reasoned that Zhao Xing was inside the Great Void Straw Man and proposed that controlling it—and tracing the gray mist’s planet-like structures as its meridians—could pass the trial.

Zhao Xing passed Zuo Qiyu’s Great Void Straw Man trial and agreed to learn the art despite its supposedly irreparable damage to the soul. After the Five Poisons Emperor Lord took Zhao Xing as his disciple, he revealed that Zuo Qiyu’s former disciple had attacked him to steal a chance to repair that flaw.

• Liu Tianning explained how the Great Void Straw Man’s inner structure resembled the trial, and Zhao Xing used the insight to investigate its celestial bodies and gray mist.
• Zhao Xing secured the celestial bodies with Lock Star Vines, then burned apart his Giant Yang Clone and followed the gray mist until he awakened the Great Void Straw Man and passed Zuo Qiyu’s trial.
• Zuo Qiyu warned Zhao Xing that learning the Straw Man Arts would cause ninety-one irreversible tears in his soul and cap his cultivation at the Reincarnation Emperor Lord realm, but Zhao Xing accepted the risk and received the Great Void Straw Man art.
• Zuo Qiyu demonstrated his dominion over Straw Man Arts, then told Zhao Xing to keep their teacher-disciple arrangement secret and agreed to teach him for one thousand years.
• The Five Poisons Emperor Lord persuaded Zhao Xing to become his disciple and disclosed that Zuo Qiyu’s former disciple had betrayed him after finding an ancient book claiming that devouring another Primordial Beginning Straw Man’s true spirit might repair the soul’s flaw.

Zhao Xing became the Five Poisons Emperor Lord’s disciple and received a source origin divine weapon and an Emperor-grade sapling, then spent over two hundred years mastering the Great Void Straw Man Art. When he completed his first Great Void Straw Man, it caused straw men across the Primordial Beginning Realm to collapse and left Ministers of Agriculture unable to summon them.

• The Five Poisons Emperor Lord reassured Zhao Xing about the danger of masters and disciples killing each other, then formally accepted him as a disciple and gave him a World Ring containing the Golden Cicada Magic Robe and a Seven Realms True Spirit Bamboo sapling.
• Zhao Xing bonded with the Golden Cicada Magic Robe and began raising the Seven Realms True Spirit Bamboo, then sent the Five Poisons Emperor Lord a letter of thanks.
• Zhao Xing examined Zuo Qiyu’s jade talisman and began diligently practicing the Great Void Straw Man Art with the supplied materials.
• After more than two hundred years of cultivation, Zhao Xing completed his first Great Void Straw Man in the 1775th year after entering the Primordial Beginning Realm.
• The Great Void Straw Man’s completion sent a tremor through the Primordial Beginning Realm, causing Ministers of Agriculture below the Reincarnation Realm to lose their straw men and leaving them in turmoil.