Chapter Summaries

Tai Cang fought off the Demon Realm cultivators with the Sky-Opening Sword, revealing power strong enough to kill more than ten quasi-saints with one strike. The Demon Realm, Dragon Clan, and Qilin Clan then prepared to unite against him, while the Phoenix Clan withdrew and left the confrontation unresolved.

• The Demon Realm cultivators and the three races clashed, and Tai Cang protected himself from the battle’s shockwaves with the True Martial Black Eagle Banner.
• The three races offered to help Tai Cang eliminate the demons in exchange for the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method, but the demon leader ordered his followers to capture Tai Cang instead.
• Tai Cang used the Sky-Opening Sword to kill more than ten demon cultivators and grievously wound the rest, stunning the three races and the watching great cultivators.
• The demon leader proposed an alliance with the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans, offering them the Primordial Grand Unity Immortal Art and Tai Cang’s treasures; the Dragon and Qilin leaders agreed.
• The Phoenix Clan leader refused to join the alliance, thanked Tai Cang for looking after Kong Xuan and Great Peng, and led her people away.

Tai Cang slaughtered the demonic path, Dragon Clan, and Qilin Clan attackers, leaving the Phoenix Clan unharmed. After the Phoenix Clan sought the Primordial Grand Unity method, Tai Cang made them agree to steep terms and sent them away to consult Kong Xuan and Great Peng.

• Tai Cang challenged the demonic path, Dragon Clan, and Qilin Clan cultivators, while the Phoenix Clan sealed the battlefield to prevent anyone from escaping.
• Tai Cang used Spacetime Confinement and the Sky-Opening Three Forms to kill more than half the attackers, then slew the demonic path expert despite his threats and curse.
• Tai Cang killed the remaining Dragon Clan and Qilin Clan cultivators, and the watching experts mistakenly concluded that he had reached the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Golden Luan introduced herself as the Phoenix Clan’s representative and explained that Golden Phoenix was her younger sister.
• Tai Cang told Golden Luan that the Phoenix Clan had to consult Kong Xuan and Great Peng before he would trade with them, and required one great divine ability for one person’s qualification to cultivate the method.
• Golden Luan accepted the terms, then led the Phoenix Clan cultivators away.

Tai Cang learned why the River of Destiny had expelled him and was urged by the Three Pure Ones to establish a new faction after the Witch-Demon calamity. He began a breakthrough in seclusion at Yuding’s valley, and a vast heavenly tribulation gathered as he advanced toward the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm.

• Tai Cang returned to Kunlun Mountain, where Laozi explained that the River of Destiny had expelled him because he had entered it before reaching the required realm.
• After hearing that the Dragon Clan, Qilin Clan, and demonic cultivators had attacked Tai Cang, Tongtian nearly retaliated, but Laozi and Yuan Shi stopped him to avoid triggering the calamity early.
• The Three Pure Ones urged Tai Cang to preserve the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method and establish a new faction after the final Witch-Demon battle, and Tai Cang agreed.
• Tai Cang went to Yuding’s valley, taught Yuding the cultivation method, and received his oath to keep it secret.
• After sharing a night of drinking with Yuding, Tai Cang entered seclusion in his former wooden house and began breaking through the Grand Unity Golden Immortal bottleneck.
• Tai Cang’s breakthrough destroyed the wooden house and unleashed a violent heavenly phenomenon; Yuding guarded the valley as the Three Pure Ones and other Chan Sect disciples sensed the tribulation.

Tai Cang endured the Primordial Lightning Tribulation, transformed his innate foundation, and manifested the Pangu True Body, shocking the Three Purities, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and powerful cultivators across the primordial world. As he destroyed the successive law lightning bolts, the final Chaos Divine Lightning began to gather.

• True Person Yuding told Guangchengzi and the Twelve Golden Immortals that Tai Cang was undergoing a tribulation to reach the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Tai Cang withstood successive Purple Firmament Divine Lightning bolts with his bare body, and the lightning transformed his innate foundation and greatly increased his power.
• Tai Cang comprehended the Pangu True Body and used it to destroy the Death Divine Lightning and the other law lightning bolts with his fists.
• The Three Purities, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and many primordial experts sensed Tai Cang's Pangu aura and gathered at Kunlun to witness his tribulation.
• The Three Purities asked the arriving cultivators and Saints not to interfere, and Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa agreed to observe.
• Hong Yun announced the final bolt as Chaos Divine Lightning began gathering above Tai Cang.

Tai Cang survived the Chaos lightning tribulation and broke through to the early stage of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm after mastering the Law of Spacetime. He explained that a cultivator’s chosen primary law determined their strength, but concealed his true law and told the gathered experts that he cultivated space.

• Hong Yun told the gathered cultivators that reaching the Primordial Grand Unity realm required enduring eighty-one lightning tribulations, including twelve increasingly powerful law divine lightning bolts.
• Tai Cang used the Sky-Opening Sword to shatter the Chaos lightning tribulation and cleave through the Nine Heavens Star Domain into Chaos.
• Tai Cang discovered that the clashing laws of space and time had formed the Law of Spacetime, then used his final max-level privilege to strengthen it and broke through to the early stage of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• The Six Saints and other experts reacted to Tai Cang’s immense power, while Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi resolved to pursue the realm and Jieyin demanded that someone from Western Teachings attain it.
• After Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning allowed the gathered experts to ask questions, Tai Cang explained that a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal’s primary law determined their strength and claimed he cultivated the law of space.

The Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, the Demon Race, and Hong Yun plotted to provoke the Ancestral Witches into fighting, after learning that Pangu’s remnant soul might awaken within the Witch Clan. Hong Yun proposed using the Qiankun Cauldron to conceal the Three Pure Ones’ auras, and Laozi prepared to seek the Dao Ancestor’s permission to borrow it.

• After Tai Cang explained the importance of the Law of Space, the cultivators departed, while the Three Pure Ones invited Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi, Nuwa, Hong Yun, and the others into Primordial Clarity Palace.
• Outside Kunlun Mountains, Jieyin and Zhunti suspected that the others were plotting against the Ancestral Witches, but Jieyin chose to wait for the right moment rather than confront them.
• In Primordial Clarity Palace, Di Jun proposed provoking Gonggong and Zhurong into a deadly fight so the Demon Race could attack them after they were weakened.
• Laozi said the Ancestral Witches could be driven to turn on one another by a treasure made from the Three Pure Ones’ primordial spirits, and Hong Yun offered to conceal their auras with the Qiankun Cauldron.
• Laozi revealed that Tai Cang had sensed Pangu’s remnant soul in Pangu Hall, alarming the gathered allies, and then agreed to approach the Dao Ancestor about borrowing the cauldron.

Tai Cang accompanied Laozi to the Purple Cloud Palace, where the Heavenly Dao forbade the Three Pure Ones from destroying the Witch Clan and questioned Tai Cang about his ambitions. Hongjun accepted Tai Cang's loyalty to the Cang Sect, and the sect's fortune descended upon him, letting him master numerous laws.

• Laozi brought Tai Cang into the chaos to meet the Dao Ancestor and borrow the Qiankun Cauldron.
• Haotian and Jade Pond welcomed Laozi and Tai Cang at the Purple Cloud Palace, and Tai Cang gave them Primordial spirit fruits.
• The Heavenly Dao ordered Laozi to preserve the Witch Clan, rejected Tai Cang as the Jie Sect's successor, and warned him not to destroy the Primordial World.
• The Heavenly Dao said Shi Hao had another mission and departed after Tai Cang's trial was completed.
• Hongjun tested Tai Cang's loyalty to the Cang Sect, then acknowledged his position within it.
• The Cang Sect's fortune enveloped Tai Cang, and he mastered numerous laws, including the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter Laws.

Hongjun gave Tai Cang the Qiankun Cauldron and explained the Heavenly Dao’s plans for the Witch Clan, Shi Hao, and the coming Dao transformations. Back at Primordial Clarity Palace, Laozi and the others began refining the Three Pure Ones’ primordial spirits, but the Twelve Ancestral Witches arrived seeking Tai Cang’s Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method.

• Hongjun granted Tai Cang the Qiankun Cauldron and warned that its former owner, Old Ancestor Qiankun, and other world masters would return after the Heavenly Dao transformed.
• Hongjun told Laozi and Tai Cang that the Witch Clan had to survive, Shi Hao must establish the Human Dao, and the Three Pure Ones had to guard against Pangu’s remnant soul escaping.
• Laozi and Tai Cang returned to Primordial Clarity Palace, where Laozi explained that Shi Hao could gain an opportunity by cooperating with the Heavenly Dao.
• Tai Cang lent the Qiankun Cauldron to Yuan Shi, who began refining the Three Pure Ones’ primordial spirits as they merged into one.
• White Crane Boy announced that the Twelve Ancestral Witches had requested an audience, and Laozi sent Tai Cang to turn them away without revealing his cultivation method.

Tai Cang arrived at Jade Void Palace and refused the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ request for the Primordial Grand Unity method, then drove them away with his overwhelming power. After Tai Cang excluded Randeng from a celebration with the Twelve Golden Immortals, the Ancestral Witches suspected he had learned the Spirit of Heaven Opening’s secrets and resolved to prepare for a fight to the death.

• Tai Cang arrived at the confrontation between the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Twelve Golden Immortals, and Dijiang congratulated him on reaching the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and cultivating the Pangu True Body.
• Dijiang offered Tai Cang part of the Witch Clan’s Pangu inheritances in exchange for the Primordial Grand Unity method, but Tai Cang refused, citing Hongjun’s restriction on sharing it beyond the Cang Sect.
• When Zhurong challenged him, Tai Cang released his pressure and forced more than half of the Twelve Ancestral Witches to collapse; Houtu then apologized and led the others away.
• Tai Cang agreed to celebrate with the Twelve Golden Immortals but rejected Randeng’s request to join, leaving Randeng furious and vowing revenge against Tai Cang and Guangchengzi.
• Outside Kunlun Mountains, Zhurong suspected Tai Cang had learned secrets from the Spirit of Heaven Opening, and Dijiang ordered the Twelve Ancestral Witches to return to Pangu Hall and prepare for a fight to the death.

At Primordial Clarity Palace, Tai Cang helped the Three Pure Ones and the Demon Race prepare a plan against the ancestral witches, while Hong Yun joined their alliance in exchange for support for the Earth Immortal Dao. Tai Cang explained the paths beyond the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, then left to meet Kong Xuan, who had requested an audience.

• Tai Cang allowed Guangchengzi, Taiyi, Cihang, and Huanglong to learn the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal method from Yuding after they swore not to pass it on without permission.
• Yuan Shi roughened the Water-Fire Treasure Saber so the ancestral witches would be less suspicious, and the Three Pure Ones promised to protect Di Jun and the Demon Race if they fulfilled their agreement.
• Laozi offered support for Hong Yun’s Earth Immortal Dao, and Hong Yun agreed to follow the Three Pure Ones and Tai Cang and safeguard their interests.
• Tai Cang described advancement through perfected laws or gathered destiny, explaining that only three thousand perfected laws or control of the Primordial World’s destiny could lead to the Limitless Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• White Crane Boy announced that Kong Xuan had come to see Tongtian and Tai Cang, and Tai Cang left to meet him after Tongtian warned him to keep his distance from the Phoenix Clan.

Tai Cang learned that Duobao had secretly allied with the Western Two Sages and was undermining the Jie Sect, so he hurried to Golden Ao Island with Kong Xuan. There, Kong Xuan arrested the disorderly disciples and imposed severe punishments, while the crowd watched in shock as he attacked a Grand Unity Golden Immortal who resisted.

• Tai Cang demanded that the Phoenix Clan submit to him in exchange for the method to become Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortals, and Kong Xuan said the clan would have to decide.
• Kong Xuan told Tai Cang that Duobao had met with the Western Two Sages, gathered expelled disciples, and taught them the Jie Sect's secret arts.
• Tai Cang refused to report Duobao to Tongtian and took Kong Xuan to Golden Ao Island to deal with him personally.
• Tai Cang discovered disciples fighting while the Law Enforcement Hall members lay injured, and he ordered Kong Xuan to seize everyone involved.
• Duobao's followers denied responsibility, but Kong Xuan confined Duobao for a thousand years and the others for eight hundred years.
• When a Grand Unity Golden Immortal protested Kong Xuan's order, Kong Xuan sent the Five-Colored Divine Light blade toward his throat.

Tai Cang exposed Duobao’s role in inciting violence on Golden Ao Island and ordered Kong Xuan to arrest the conspirators. As the captives confessed that Duobao had recruited expelled Jie Sect disciples, Zhao Gongming realized he had been drawn into a serious betrayal.

• Duobao defended a fellow disciple from Kong Xuan’s attack, while Tai Cang concluded that Duobao had secretly colluded with the Western Teachings.
• Zhao Gongming arrived with inner disciples to confront Kong Xuan, but Kong Xuan summoned Tai Cang, who ordered arrests and authorized lethal force against anyone resisting.
• Tai Cang and Kong Xuan’s team captured the fleeing cultivators, freed those trapped by Kong Xuan, and screened the suspects for ringleaders.
• Tai Cang warned Duobao that slaughtering fellow disciples and stirring up unrest merited severe punishment, prompting Zhao Gongming to fear he would be implicated.
• Tai Cang revealed that expelled Jie Sect disciples were mixed among the suspects, and several captives confessed that Duobao had recruited or ordered them.

Tai Cang exposed Duobao’s betrayal of the Jie Sect and sentenced him to death, but Zhunti intervened and tried to recruit Kong Xuan. Tai Cang stopped Zhunti’s attack and stood against the Sage as Kong Xuan guarded Duobao.

• Nearly a thousand cultivators admitted they had been expelled from the Jie Sect, and Duobao’s followers blamed him for their predicament.
• Tai Cang explained that Duobao had repeatedly targeted him, while Zhao Gongming publicly severed ties with Duobao and condemned his betrayal.
• Tai Cang revealed Duobao had cultivated the Western Teachings’ Buddha Golden Body and produced evidence that Duobao had tried to summon the Western Sages; Duobao admitted joining Jieyin and Zhunti’s teachings.
• Tai Cang sentenced Duobao to death, but Zhunti appeared and blocked the Sky-Opening Sword before declaring Duobao was now Western Teachings Shakyamuni.
• Zhunti tried to recruit Kong Xuan, then attacked him after Kong Xuan refused; Tai Cang broke a branch of Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and saved Kong Xuan.
• Tai Cang gave Kong Xuan a Nine Revolutions Golden Pill and ordered him to guard Duobao, while Zhunti confronted Tai Cang in anger.

Tai Cang challenged Zhunti after Zhunti tried to convert Jie Sect disciples, then fought him in the Chaos and gained the upper hand. As their battle drew the attention of powerful figures, Kunpeng infiltrated Witch Clan territory under Nuwa’s cover and presented Zhurong with the Water-Fire Treasure Saber.

• Tai Cang used the Zhu Xian Sword to break Zhunti’s Buddhist light, then assigned Kong Xuan and Great Peng to guard Duobao and the Jie Sect cultivators.
• Tai Cang and Zhunti moved their duel into the Chaos, where Tai Cang’s close combat and divine thunder left Zhunti wounded and faltering.
• Tongtian stayed in Primordial Clarity Palace after Laozi and Yuan Shi warned that leaving could expose their concealed heavenly secrets, and he sent word to Hong Yun for help guarding Golden Turtle Island.
• Di Jun sent Kunpeng to carry out the Demon Court’s plan while he, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi, and Fuxi went to watch the fight and urged Tai Cang to keep Zhunti occupied.
• Zhunti summoned his Thousand-Armed Buddha manifestation, and Tai Cang met its assault with Heaven-Opening Strike—One Sword Splits Yin Yang, locking both forces in a stalemate.
• Kunpeng infiltrated Witch Clan territory disguised as a Great Witch and presented the Water-Fire Treasure Saber to Zhurong.

Kunpeng’s scheme drove Zhurong and Gonggong into a fatal clash, leading to their deaths and the collapse of Buzhou Mountain, which plunged the Witch Clan into catastrophe. After the Three Pure Ones celebrated the Witch Clan’s decline, Tai Cang ended his fight with Zhunti by revealing the Pangu True Body and defeating him with one punch.

• Kunpeng stole Zhurong’s Water-Fire Treasure Saber, altered it to wield water laws, and gave it to Gonggong, whose victories over the other Ancestral Witches intensified the Witch Clan’s divisions.
• Kunpeng tricked Zhurong into confronting Gonggong, then trapped the Great Witches in an illusion array while the two Ancestral Witches fought to the death.
• Gonggong killed Zhurong with the treasure saber, then smashed his head into Buzhou Mountain and died, collapsing the mountain and unleashing floods from the Ninth Heaven.
• Dijiang and the remaining Ancestral Witches failed to stop the heavenly waters and sent Great Witches to seek help from the Saints as the Witch Clan’s fortune declined.
• The Three Pure Ones celebrated the Witch Clan’s misfortune, while Jieyin recognized their scheme and went into the chaos to address the conflict involving Zhunti.
• After Di Jun told Tai Cang that the plan had succeeded, Tai Cang unleashed the Pangu True Body and shattered Zhunti’s thousand-armed Buddha with one punch.

Tai Cang defeated and wounded Zhunti, forcing the Western Teachings to compensate him and agree not to interfere in Duobao’s fate. He then agreed to explain the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm at the Sun Palace, where news arrived that the Witch Clan’s internal conflict had killed two Ancestral Witches and caused the Heavenly River to flood the Primordial World.

• Zhunti manifested his Bodhi True Body, but Tai Cang’s Sky-Opening Sword shattered it and severely wounded Zhunti before Jieyin shielded him with the Twelve-petal Golden Lotus of Merit.
• Jieyin accepted that the Western Teachings were at fault and agreed to surrender Duobao, while Tai Cang demanded compensation and received the Purple Gold Alms Bowl from Jieyin.
• Tai Cang ordered the Western Teachings not to interfere in Duobao’s fate, and Jieyin accepted before taking Zhunti back to the Primordial World.
• Di Jun and the other great powers congratulated Tai Cang, then asked him to explain his insights into the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Tai Cang agreed to share his insights at the Sun Palace and traveled there with Di Jun and the others.
• News reached the group that two Ancestral Witches had died in an internal conflict, Gonggong had struck Buzhou Mountain, and the Heavenly River had flooded the Primordial World.

After the Witch Clan shattered the weakened heavens, the Saints struggled to prevent the Primordial World from collapsing until Hongjun ordered them to gather Five-Colored Stones and use the Warehouse Turtle’s limbs as a new Heavenly Pillar. Tai Cang and Hong Yun went to the North Sea to find the turtle, and Tai Cang discovered it was astonishingly enormous.

• When the Saints refused to help, Zhu Jiuyin proposed widening the breach so the Heavenly Dao would force them to act, and Dijiang led the ancestral witches in breaking the heavens before organizing the Witch Clan’s migration.
• The breach expanded and the Heavenly River devastated the Thirty-Three Heavens, prompting Hongjun to order the Saints, Tai Cang, and Hong Yun to repair the heavens.
• The Saints’ treasures stopped the flood but failed to mend the breach, so Tai Cang suggested seeking Hongjun’s guidance.
• Hongjun ordered Nuwa to refine Five-Colored Stones in the Qiankun Cauldron and assigned Taiqing to obtain the Warehouse Turtle’s limbs for a new Heavenly Pillar.
• Laozi sent Tai Cang and Hong Yun to the North Sea, where Tai Cang used the Chaos Heavenly Eye and was stunned by the Warehouse Turtle’s enormous size.

Tai Cang and Hong Yun confronted Warehouse Turtle, whose strength far surpassed theirs, and Tai Cang bargained for the turtle’s four limbs by promising to reveal a path to a higher realm. After giving Warehouse Turtle the method of gathering all three thousand laws, Tai Cang proposed destroying his body so his primordial spirit could escape and be reborn in a new form.

• Tai Cang discovered Warehouse Turtle’s hidden presence and warned Hong Yun that the creature was too powerful for them to defeat together.
• Tai Cang broke Warehouse Turtle’s barrier, and the turtle trapped him and Hong Yun after rejecting their appeal to support the heavens.
• Tai Cang swore a Great Dao oath to reveal a path to the Limitless Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm in exchange for Warehouse Turtle’s four limbs.
• Warehouse Turtle gave up his four limbs, and Tai Cang stored them in the Twenty-Four Heavens.
• Tai Cang explained that gathering and integrating all three thousand laws could lead to the Limitless Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Tai Cang offered to free Warehouse Turtle from his bodily shackles by destroying his body and helping his primordial spirit form a new one.

Tai Cang killed Warehouse Turtle to claim his origin while swearing to protect the turtle’s rebirth, then returned to help Nuwa repair the sky. After the Five-Colored Stone proved effective but insufficient, Di Jun called for more and urged the Saints to punish the Witch Clan, leaving Jieyin and Zhunti to deflect the decision to Laozi.

• Warehouse Turtle agreed to Tai Cang’s bargain, began forming a new body, and transferred his soul into it as Tai Cang struck him down.
• Tai Cang claimed Warehouse Turtle’s origin and stored the reborn body in the Twenty-Four Heavens before he and Hong Yun left for Buzhou Mountain.
• Tai Cang lent the Qiankun Cauldron to Nuwa, who refined the Five-Colored Stone and used it to seal the breach in the sky.
• The Three Pure Ones called for more Five-Colored Stone, and Di Jun ordered the Demon Race to search while demanding that the Saints punish the Witch Clan.
• Laozi, Yuan Shi, and Tongtian asked Jieyin and Zhunti to judge the Witch Clan, but Jieyin declined and said Laozi should decide.

Tai Cang brought the ten Ancestral Witches to Buzhou Mountain, where Nuwa finished repairing the sky and Primordial forged four Heavenly Pillars to stabilize the world. Laozi ended the sages’ dispute with the Witch Clan by requiring its Great Witches to channel the floodwaters into the Four Seas, and Dijiang agreed before raising one final matter.

• Laozi ordered Tai Cang to summon Di Jun and the Ancestral Witches, so Tai Cang went to the Hundred Thousand Mountains and demanded that the ten Ancestral Witches accompany him to Buzhou Mountain.
• Dijiang agreed to go after Tai Cang overwhelmed the Ancestral Witches with his pressure and they hinted at a hidden trump card; he left Xing Tian in charge of the Witch Clan.
• Nuwa sealed the final crack in the sky with a Five-Colored Stone, and Primordial refined the Warehouse Turtle’s four limbs into Heavenly Pillars that the sages placed at the world’s four poles.
• Dijiang admitted the Witch Clan’s fault but warned that it would fight to the death if the sages pursued the matter, prompting Laozi to call off further punishment.
• Laozi demanded that the Witch Clan send Great Witches to channel the heavenly waters into the Four Seas, and Dijiang promised to clear the flood within a thousand years before saying one more matter had to be settled.