Chapter Summaries

Li Qingyun gave Eternal Life Pills to La, Dingwang, and the Empress of Burial, then stayed to guard the Empress as she broke through. La and Dingwang fled Primordial Beginning's with Rui and Li Cang, but La's body was destroyed by the Twisted Ocean as his Eternal Skull passed through the boundary.

• Li Qingyun warned that the Eternal Life Pills could generate Eternal Life Blood but would not help peak Beyond Tribulation Realm cultivators break through, then gave one to each of La, Dingwang, and the Empress of Burial.
• The Empress of Burial advanced toward the Netherworld Entry Realm, while La and Dingwang left Nine Constant Hall after sensing Li Qingyun's killing intent.
• Li Qingyun chose not to attack the two Saints and stayed beside the Empress of Burial to guard her breakthrough.
• La, Rui, Dingwang, and Li Cang headed for the Twisted Ocean to escape Primordial Beginning's, abandoning their clans and clan lands.
• La crossed the Twisted Ocean as its corruption destroyed his body, then his Eternal Skull passed through the Eternal Runes boundary.

Dingwang, Rui, and Li Cang tried to cross the Twisted Ocean, but only Dingwang survived the rune boundary, while Rui and Li Cang died. Li Qingyun killed Ling Saint and, as the Primordial Beginning neared its end, decided that A'li, Xuanji, and Tangyin had to ascend immediately.

• Dingwang, Rui, and Li Cang entered the Twisted Ocean and were reduced to their Eternal Bones before attempting to cross the rune boundary.
• Dingwang plunged his Eternal Skull into the boundary, but Rui and Li Cang died when its rebound scattered their divine souls.
• Ling Saint cursed Li Qingyun over the loss of Eternal Spiritual Energy, and Li Qingyun appeared before him in the Secret Gold Sacred Hall.
• Li Qingyun killed Ling Saint, took La Sheng's remaining Life Lamp, and learned that La Sheng was still alive but fading.
• Two years later, the Yin Ruins collapsed, and Li Qingyun calculated that the universe would fall silent within five years.
• Li Qingyun resolved to have A'li, Xuanji, and Tangyin ascend at once while the final Primordial Beginning pulsation remained.

Li Qingyun saw the Great Calamity of Annihilation rapidly destroying the universe, though humanity’s great fortune helped it endure longer than other races. After discovering that the Primordial Ancestor’s Opportunity had emerged, he redirected it toward allies in hopes of strengthening humanity’s claim to become the next Heaven Opener.

• Li Qingyun found the Nine Constant Hall decaying with the Yin ruins and merged it into his Great Dao Universe, slightly improving his foundations.
• Li Qingyun sensed that the Primordial Ancestor’s remains had surfaced and divined that the opportunity was meant for Innate Divine Spirit and Child of the Cosmos.
• Li Qingyun decided to send the opportunity to Tangyin, A'li, and Xuanji to bolster their foundations and humanity’s standing.
• Li Qingyun sent a wondrous ray of light toward the Golden Feather Palace, where Peng Mo had reached the Seventh Layer of Beyond Tribulation Realm after gaining provisions from the Western Heaven.

Peng Mo seized the chance to pursue the Primordial Ancestor’s Opportunity after Li Qingyun said he would not intervene, while Lu Ya recognized the move as a test of Peng Mo’s greed. The Primordial Ancestor’s Domain emerged, and the Void Annihilation Society’s Children of the Cosmos claimed the opportunity as their own.

• Peng Mo received Li Qingyun’s message that he and Lu Ya would not seek the Primordial Ancestor’s Opportunity, then decided to descend and fight for it.
• Peng Mo split off half his divine soul and attached it to his natal golden feather, sending it into the land of ruined remnants.
• Lu Ya condemned Peng Mo’s ambition and suppressed his own desire for the opportunity, trusting Li Qingyun’s plans for humanity.
• The Primordial Ancestor’s Domain emerged between the Qingyun Dao Lineage, the Void Annihilation Society, and the Guǐ Daoists, releasing vast spiritual energy that Li Qingyun recognized as a chance for humanity’s Heaven Openers.
• A streak of feather-light descended, erased a Void Annihilation Society quasi-saint’s divine soul, and formed an avatar from its flesh and blood.
• The Void Annihilation Society’s Children of the Cosmos surrounded the Dao Enlightenment Ground and warned the Qingyun Dao Lineage and Guǐ Daoists to stay away.

The Guǐ Daoist broke free from his confinement as Danzhu Gong and challenged the Void Annihilation Society’s claim to the Primordial Ancestor’s opportunity. When Peng Mo arrived and attacked the society’s leaders, Danzhu Gong checked him, while Li Qingyun watched from beyond the void and condemned Peng Mo for yielding.

• Emperor Liang and the other Void Annihilation Society magnates discussed monopolizing the Primordial Ancestor’s opportunity before Danzhu Gong emerged from the shattered bronze block.
• Danzhu Gong introduced himself, cursed two Children of the Cosmos for calling him Guǐ Daoist, and demanded one-third of the opportunity from Emperor Liang.
• Peng Mo arrived, attacked the Void Annihilation Society’s leaders, and wounded Emperor Liang, Pang Hong, and Yang Ming.
• Emperor Liang agreed to give Danzhu Gong one-third of the opportunity in exchange for driving Peng Mo away, and Danzhu Gong forced Peng Mo’s avatar back.
• Peng Mo offered to settle for half the opportunity after recognizing Danzhu Gong, while Li Qingyun criticized him for compromising.

Li Qingyun learned that Danzhu Gong had once been Emperor Yin’s foremost alchemist and sent his Turbid Dao clone to capture him and uncover the secrets of Primordial Chaos alchemy. As Peng Mo fought the Children of the Cosmos for the Primordial Ancestor’s Opportunity, a bald youth arrived and claimed it for himself.

• Li Qingyun urged Peng Mo to stop fearing Danzhu Gong, and Peng Mo called for them to join forces against the Children of the Cosmos.
• Danzhu Gong dismissed his former Dao heart and agreed that he might cooperate with Peng Mo; Peng Mo then told Li Qingyun that Danzhu Gong had been Emperor Yin’s favored alchemist.
• Li Qingyun ordered Li Quanlei’s Turbid Dao clone to capture Danzhu Gong and question him about Primordial Chaos alchemy.
• The Turbid Dao clone moved the concealed Muddy Field toward a distant ruin while Peng Mo battled Emperor Liang, Han Shanzi, Jia Yuxu, and the Void Annihilation Society.
• As the battle reached a deadlock, a bald youth with the aura of an Innate Divine Spirit appeared and declared that the Primordial Ancestor’s Opportunity belonged to him.

Li Qingyun spotted Future Maitreya Buddha approaching the Primordial Ancestor's Domain and sent his Turbid Dao clone to stop him. Maitreya escaped repeatedly in the Human Seed Bag, leaving the others shaken by the power they attributed to Li Quanlei.

• Li Qingyun recognized that Future Maitreya Buddha had emerged from the Human Seed Bag and chose to let his Turbid Dao clone handle him.
• Future Maitreya Buddha approached the Primordial Ancestor's Domain, whose barrier admitted him as a later-generation Innate Divine Spirit and offered him its spiritual opportunity.
• The Turbid Dao clone reached through shattered space to seize Maitreya, who escaped into the Human Seed Bag and vanished into temporal turbulence.
• The clone struck the Human Seed Bag whenever it tried to reappear near the domain, and Maitreya left drops of Buddha's blood before the bag disappeared.
• Emperor Liang, Jia Yuxu, Peng Mo, and Guǐ Daoist felt the clone's oppressive power and concluded that Li Quanlei was far stronger than they were.

Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone crushed the Void Annihilation Great Formation, defeated Danzhu Gong, and seized the Guǐ Daoist. Before Li Qingyun killed him, Danzhu Gong revealed that he had refined a Soul Guide from the life souls and Dao fortune of all beings in the First-Sequence Cosmic Domain, leaving Li Qingyun to condemn Emperor Yin’s crimes.

• Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone and Peng Mo Saint shattered the Void Annihilation Great Formation and killed several members of the Void Annihilation Society.
• Danzhu Gong stepped forward to aid Emperor Liang, but Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone attacked him and easily suppressed his guǐ power.
• Danzhu Gong used a bronze relic marked Jun Furnace to defend himself, but Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone took the relic and captured him.
• Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone questioned Danzhu Gong about his work for Emperor Yin, and Danzhu Gong revealed that he had refined a Soul Guide from the life souls and Dao fortune of all beings in the First-Sequence Cosmic Domain.
• Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone killed Danzhu Gong and condemned Emperor Yin for hollowing out the cosmic domain’s foundation.

Li Qingyun reflected on the struggle for survival in the cosmic domain as Peng Mo slaughtered the Children of the Cosmos outside the Primordial Ancestor's Domain. Emperor Liang and Han Shanzi escaped inside, while Jia Yuxu fled into the grey clouds, regretting that she had failed Qingyun.

• Li Qingyun's Turbid Dao clone captured and destroyed Guǐ Daoist—Danzhu Gong while considering the need to grow strong enough to change the world's order.
• Peng Mo's Mortal Clone killed multiple Children of the Cosmos, including Nine-Ring Peaks and the giants Pang Hong and Yang Ming, after Peng Mo Saint poured most of his cultivation into the clone.
• Emperor Liang, Han Shanzi, and Jia Yuxu tried to flee into the Primordial Ancestor's Domain as Peng Mo pursued them and killed more of their companions.
• Emperor Liang blocked Peng Mo's strike and entered the domain, vowing to suppress Peng Mo, Quan Lei, and the Qingyun Dao Lineage; Han Shanzi also got inside, but the barrier rejected Jia Yuxu.
• Jia Yuxu escaped into the grey clouds and lamented that she had chosen the wrong side and failed Qingyun's past entrustment.

Emperor Liang found the Primordial Ancestor’s Spiritual Energy inside an ancient stone statue and began devouring it, drawing others into a struggle for the power. A’li, Li Zuo, Zhu Yuyan, Houtu, Li Xuanji, and Cheng Tangyin discovered that the energy rejected them, and Li Xuanji angrily challenged the statue’s apparent favoritism toward the Children of the Cosmos.

• Peng Mo and Li Qingyun’s Turbid Dao clone broke the domain barrier, allowing A’li and the others to enter the Primordial Ancestor’s Domain.
• Emperor Liang found the ancient stone statue beneath the gate tower, and the Primordial Ancestor’s voice lamented that he had become bloody and twisted.
• The statue began releasing its Spiritual Energy, so Emperor Liang shattered it and greedily absorbed the power.
• Peng Mo attacked Emperor Liang, but the two fought while devouring the Spiritual Energy, and Emperor Liang’s strength rose enough to contend with Peng Mo’s Mortal Clone.
• A’li, Li Zuo, and Zhu Yuyan tried to absorb the energy but were rejected, while Han Shanzi devoured energy elsewhere until Houtu, Li Xuanji, and Cheng Tangyin drove her away.
• Li Xuanji failed to absorb the energy and angrily accused the Primordial Ancestor of favoring the Children of the Cosmos.

Li Qingyun used his turbid Dao clone to seize control of the Primordial Ancestor's Domain after its spiritual essence rejected the human race, driving away the Children of the Cosmos and the Youth Maitreya Buddha. As the domain collapsed, its spiritual essence finally flowed toward A'li, Li Xuanji, Cheng Tangyin, and Li Zuo.

• After the Primordial Ancestor's spiritual essence chose Emperor Liang and Han Shanzi, Li Qingyun sent his turbid Dao clone through the domain barrier and blasted Emperor Liang and Peng Mo away from the essence.
• Li Qingyun offered Peng Mo the Cosmic Grand Drift secret method in exchange for leaving, and Peng Mo withdrew after the clone struck Emperor Liang out of the domain.
• The turbid Dao clone ordered Han Shanzi to leave, then repelled the Youth Maitreya Buddha when he entered in the Human Seed Bag to swallow the spiritual essence.
• Li Qingyun's clone sealed the domain against those who fed on foulness and meat, enduring the ancient backlash as it rewrote the Primordial Ancestor's will.
• As the Primordial Ancestor's Domain collapsed, its spiritual essence surged toward A'li, Li Xuanji, Cheng Tangyin, and Li Zuo.

After the Primordial Ancestor’s Domain collapsed, Quasi-Saints and Void Saints seized the chance to become Saints, while Li Qingyun watched the end of the Primordial Beginning approach. Peng Mo, newly armed with the secret crossing method, attacked Han Shanzi to feed on her and strengthen himself for the crossing.

• Li Qingyun gave Saint Peng Mo the Cosmic Grand Drift secret method after Peng Mo asked for a way to cross the Netherworld Void.
• Li Qingyun examined La Sheng’s fading Life Lamp and Dingwang’s withering primordial aura, concluding that both forerunners were in grave danger.
• Three days after the Primordial Ancestor’s Domain collapsed, the ruined expanse scattered through the void, freeing A'li, Cheng Tangyin, Emperor Liang, Han Shanzi, and the others to attempt Saint ascension.
• A'li, Cheng Tangyin, Li Xuanji, Emperor Liang, Han Shanzi, and others absorbed Outer Void Origin Substance and transformed into Great Dao Universes despite the Primordial Beginning’s lingering suppression.
• Saint Peng Mo appeared before Han Shanzi and struck to suppress and kill her, seeking blood-food nourishment to advance toward the Eighth Layer of Beyond Tribulation Realm.

Han Shanzi died, and Emperor Liang drew the last blessings of the collapsing Lands of the Universe as Peng Mo Saint hunted him. Li Qingyun protected three cosmic lands but remained committed to letting the human race forge its own path, while Emperor Liang broke through into the Netherworld Entry Realm under Peng Mo's watch.

• Han Shanzi pleaded for help from the Dao palaces, but they did not respond, and Peng Mo Saint killed her.
• Peng Mo Saint pursued Emperor Liang while avoiding A'li and Li Zuo under Cloud Saint's watchful gaze.
• The dying Lands of the Universe lent Emperor Liang protection, and their destruction killed countless inhabitants as Peng Mo Saint devoured the Sky-Devouring Roc Clan's cosmos.
• Li Qingyun used Jade Green Dao Light to protect the Land of the First Cosmos, the Land of the Seventh Cosmos, and the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos.
• Emperor Liang burned his foundation and gathered the Great Universe's apocalyptic destiny, then broke through into the Netherworld Entry Realm as Peng Mo Saint let him grow stronger.
• The Empress of Burial condemned the cosmic domain's bias against humanity, while Li Qingyun declared that the human race had to make its own path and dismissed Emperor Liang's claim to greatness.

Li Qingyun gathered the eight human Saints and offered Emperor Liang a chance to leave the boundary of the Primordial Beginning instead of being killed by Peng Mo. Emperor Liang accepted and rushed into the distorted atmosphere, while the River Mother Saint watched, still seeking a way to escape herself.

• Emperor Liang reached the Sixth Layer of the Netherworld Entry Realm and appealed to Saint Yun for protection as Peng Mo prepared to kill him.
• Saint Yun stopped Peng Mo, and A'li, Cheng Tangyin, Li Zuo, Li Xuanji, Houtu, and Zhu Yuyan arrived as the eight human Saints.
• Li Qingyun asked the Saints how Emperor Liang should be dealt with, and they offered differing judgments before deferring to his decision.
• Li Qingyun offered Emperor Liang a chance to leave the boundary of the Primordial Beginning, despite Peng Mo's objection.
• Emperor Liang accepted, escaped Peng Mo's Golden Feather Dao Domain, and rushed toward the distorted atmosphere as the River Mother Saint observed.

As Emperor Liang attempted to escape Primeval, Li Qingyun destroyed the old-world destiny that sought to follow Youth Maitreya Buddha. He discovered that his eternal secret Qi could absorb the destiny and grow stronger, leaving him with a major increase in power.

• Emperor Liang crossed the twisted origin substance layer, revealed his quasi-eternal foundation, and charged toward the boundary despite his rotting body.
• At the boundary, Emperor Liang vowed to leave Primeval and pursue eternal life, while Li Qingyun rebuked him for his resentment.
• After Emperor Liang passed through the boundary, the old-world destiny forces scattered and surged toward Youth Maitreya Buddha, prompting Li Qingyun to pursue them.
• Li Qingyun tried to destroy the destiny with his Dao Domain, but it remained unharmed, so he attacked it with eternal secret Qi instead.
• Li Qingyun discovered that his secret Qi assimilated the old-world destiny, then absorbed it and increased his strength by nearly fifty percent.

As Primordial Beginning neared Great Silence, Li Qingyun sheltered the human saints and the remaining universes while the realm’s survivors prepared to flee. River Mother Saint, whose true name was He Jiang, approached him as the collapse reached its final stage, and Li Qingyun demanded to know how she intended to survive.

• Li Qingyun warned the human saints that Primordial Beginning would soon collapse and sent seven of them into Nine Constant Hall to enter withered silence, while Li Xuanji followed another path.
• As the Great Tribulation consumed Primordial Beginning, only a handful of beings and three lands of the universe protected by Li Qingyun remained.
• A year later, Primordial Azure Palace, Chaos Fire Palace, and Golden Feather Palace disintegrated, and Daoist Lu Ya and Peng Mo bade farewell to Li Qingyun.
• Daoist Lu Ya and Peng Mo flew through the Twisted Ocean toward the Eternal Rune boundary, shedding their bodies until only their eternal and quasi-eternal remains reached it.
• River Mother Saint revealed herself as He Jiang and warned Li Qingyun that the human saints’ fortune would not ensure their passage into the new world.
• Li Qingyun asked He Jiang how she would endure Great Silence and whether the strange gray cloth she wore would protect her.

Li Qingyun let River Mother Saint take Li Xuanji, then concealed himself when the Eternal Clan came to retrieve them. As the Primordial Beginning collapsed, he withdrew his protection from the First and Seventh Cosmos Lands, leaving the Future Buddha's whereabouts unresolved.

• Li Qingyun feigned contempt for Li Xuanji and told River Mother Saint she could take him away, while she warned that the Eternal River Clan would arrive soon.
• River Mother Saint covered Li Xuanji with her gray cloth and left with him, while Li Qingyun hoped the clan's arrival would help Xuanji escape the Primordial Beginning intact.
• A dazzling ship of light reached the first-sequence Cosmic Domain Chain, and its male divine spirit agreed to let a woman retrieve her stranded collateral clanswoman.
• Three days later, eternal radiance crossed the Primordial Beginning boundary and carried River Mother Saint and Li Xuanji away as Li Qingyun hid his powers from the passing Eternal Clan gaze.
• As the Primordial Beginning collapsed, Li Qingyun withdrew his protection from the First and Seventh Cosmos Lands, reasoning that the Future Buddha might be hiding beyond them.

As the First and Seventh Cosmoses collapsed, Li Qingyun saved many people and honored his promise to rescue Ping, a descendant of the Abyss Clan. After the Seventh Cosmos vanished, he trapped the Human Seed Bag and confronted Youth Maitreya Buddha, who remained convinced he would open heaven in the new world.

• Li Qingyun swept people including Yuanbao, Li Yiyi, Li Changsheng, Quanzhu, and Gu Qiong out of the disintegrating Land of the Universe.
• On Three Saints Mountain, desperate Haotians attacked the blue jade Nirvana Token and cursed the Cloud Saint for reserving its salvation for the Abyss Clan.
• Ping revealed her Abyss Clan blood and activated the token, which carried her away before the Haotians were consumed by the collapse.
• Li Qingyun recognized Ping as the reincarnation of Yuan Yiping and brought her into a Land of the Universe within his body, preserving her remaining Abyss Clan bloodline.
• After the Land of the Seventh Cosmos vanished, Li Qingyun used eternal light to seal the Human Seed Bag and the surrounding spacetime turbulence.
• Youth Maitreya Buddha emerged from the bag and protested that he was destined to open heaven in the new world, but he could not escape Li Qingyun.

Li Qingyun endured the Chaos Singularity’s erasure until it gave rise to new vitality, and his cultivation and Great Dao grew stronger. As he waited for the Chaos Ancestral Qi to mature before opening heaven, he placed the Human Dao Lamp into newly born Treasure Qi to help it become a Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasure.

• Li Qingyun endured the Chaos Singularity’s Calamity Force, while his evolving Body: Eternity Cultivation Method protected A'li, the Empress of Burial, Cheng Tangyin, Li Zuo, and the other Saints.
• After ages, the Calamity Force vanished and a thread of ancestral qi appeared, which Li Qingyun watched as it spread and strengthened the Chaos Singularity.
• Li Qingyun discovered that the Eternal Art had advanced nearly to minor attainment and that his Great Dao foundation had more than tripled.
• Li Qingyun saw Treasure Qi emerge and sent the Human Dao Lamp into it, hoping it would be refined into a Heaven-Opening Supreme Treasure.

Li Qingyun transformed the Heaven-Opening Treasure Lamp into the Ancestor Spirit Lamp and led seven saints in opening the Primordial Beginning heavens. As the new era spread beyond the old Primordial Beginning’s cosmic domain, the Heaven Openers gained merit and broke through their cultivation bottlenecks.

• Li Qingyun named the transformed Heaven-Opening Treasure Lamp the Ancestor Spirit Lamp, whose twelve-tiered lotus flame could split the Chaos Singularity.
• Li Qingyun awakened Empress of Burial, Cheng Tangyin, A'li, Li Zuo, Houtu, and Zhu Yuyan, then positioned them at the Singularity’s six poles.
• Li Qingyun and the seven saints declared their vows and used the Ancestor Spirit Lamp to open the Primordial Beginning heavens.
• Li Qingyun and the six saints expanded spacetime, establishing time, space, and light as their Great Dao foundations rose through the merit of opening heaven.
• Li Qingyun saw the new cosmic domain surpass the old Primordial Beginning’s scope, while Empress of Burial entered the Beyond Tribulation Realm and the other saints began breaking through further realms.