Chapter Summaries

Gu Xi secretly recovered the remains of the Witch-Demon War’s leaders and claimed the Chaos Bell and River Diagram and Luo Script, while his allies restored the battlefield and expanded their influence. As Gu Xi began refining the corpses to pursue the Pangu Sacred Body, Four Seasons Daoist and West Queen Mother brought the Sun Palace’s Star Gods under their control.

• The Five Directions Heavenly Emperors earned merit for forming the Five Elements Heavenly Pillars, while Gods and Demons and the Saints searched for Di Jun’s River Diagram and Luo Script and Donghuang Taiyi’s Chaos Bell.
• Gu Xi revealed that he had collected the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ corpses and partial remains of Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi, then used the Great Karma Art to claim the Chaos Bell and River Diagram and Luo Script.
• Gu Xi began refining the fourteen corpses to extract their blood essence and origins and test whether they could transform his Heaven and Earth Undying Black and Yellow Body into the Pangu Sacred Body.
• The Black and White Impermanence Envoys took the war’s ghosts to the Netherworld, while the Ten Directions Heavenly Venerate of Salvation healed the wounded and Zhen Yuanzi’s Earth God System repaired damaged earth veins and Earth Spirit Apertures.
• Four Seasons Daoist and West Queen Mother joined Ancient God Wang Shu and the Taiyin Star Gods to bring the Sun Palace’s Star Gods under their command.

After Zhen Yuanzi’s merit for repairing the land revealed his allegiance to Gu Xi, Hong Huang learned how vast Gu Xi’s hidden forces were, while the four saintly sects rose in the postwar era. Gu Xi completed his research and swallowed the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ essence blood and the origins of Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi to begin transforming his Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Undying Body into the Pangu Sacred Body.

• Zhen Yuanzi received merit for repairing the damaged earth veins and spirit apertures, manifested his Self Corpse, and advanced to Late Quasi-Saint.
• The Six Sages realized that Zhen Yuanzi served Gu Xi and regretted driving the Witch and Demon Races into war without accounting for Gu Xi’s hidden forces.
• News of Gu Xi’s vast power spread through Hong Huang, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Sect Master Tongtian, Daoist Jieyin, Daoist Zhunti, and Laozi expanded their saintly teachings and recruited followers.
• Gu Xi finished studying the Ancestral Witch essence blood, the origins of Di Jun and Donghuang Taiyi, his own body, and the Yang God Martial Way.
• Gu Xi swallowed the twelve drops of Ancestral Witch essence blood and the two clusters of origin power, declaring that his body would transform into the Pangu Sacred Body.

Gu Xi gathered Taiyin and elemental origins, then broke through the limits of his perfected physical body by repeatedly shattering and reconstructing it. He achieved Fleshly Body Sanctification and named his self-created path the Gu Xi Sacred Body.

• Gu Xi devoured a tenth of the Taiyin origin, then left as Ancient God Wang Shu worried about the Moon Star and followed to observe his goal of proving Dao with his body.
• Gu Xi absorbed portions of the origins of the elemental mansions and revealed his perfected Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Undying Body in the Primordial Starry Sky.
• Gu Xi combined the power of the Twelve Ancestral Witches' essence blood with yin-yang and five-element origins, then declared he would forge a path beyond the physical body's limits.
• Gu Xi's body collapsed into particles and reconstructed itself ninety-nine times, breaking the causal threads and chains of fate connected to him.
• Gu Xi awakened 129,600 Primordial Apertures, resonated with the Primordial World, and declared his Dao complete as the creator of the Gu Xi Sacred Body.

Gu Xi’s body resonated with the universe after transforming, revealing a new path of attaining the Dao through the physical body. As martial cultivators across Hong Huang hailed him as the Martial Ancestor, his karmic station rose in rank, drawing Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s attention.

• Gu Xi’s physical body disintegrated and reformed ninety-nine times, then resonated with the Primordial World and the stars, shocking the great supernatural beings and Six Sages.
• Ancestor Minghe, the Six Sages, and other powerful beings wondered whether Gu Xi had opened a path to surpassing the Quasi-Sage realm through physical cultivation.
• Ancient God Wang Shu realized Gu Xi’s breakthrough could benefit the Taiyin lineage because of his ties to it.
• Countless martial cultivators across Hong Huang congratulated Gu Xi on attaining the Dao with his physical body and hailed him as the Martial Ancestor.
• The Ancestor of Martial Arts karmic station within Gu Xi’s primordial spirit rose in rank, and Hongjun opened his eyes in Zixiao Palace, suspecting Gu Xi meant to contend with him.

Gu Xi transformed his Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Undying Body into the Gu Xi Sacred Body, proving the Dao through his physical body and becoming powerful enough to withstand Saints. He shared Martial Dao insights with Hong Huang, prompting Hongjun to see him as a threat, but the Heavenly Dao stopped Hongjun from attacking him.

• Gu Xi transformed his Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Undying Body into the Gu Xi Sacred Body and concluded that his physical body could withstand even a Saint’s attacks.
• Gu Xi branded five Martial Dao wills on the Five Elements Heavenly Pillars, and martial cultivators, Great Supernatural Beings, and the Six Sages began comprehending them.
• Hongjun feared that Gu Xi’s strengthened Martial Dao would rival the Immortal Path and undermine his status as Dao Ancestor, so he directed killing intent at Gu Xi.
• Gu Xi sensed Hongjun’s killing intent, while the Six Sages and Great Supernatural Beings wondered why Hongjun had turned against him.
• Hongjun prepared to leave Zixiao Palace and kill Gu Xi, but the Heavenly Dao bound the palace with Chaos Divine Thunder and warned him not to attack.

Hongjun abandoned his attempt to kill Gu Xi after the Heavenly Dao intervened, then ordered the Six Sages to restrict Gu Xi to the Netherworld. When Zhunti arrived to deliver the decree, Gu Xi attacked him instead.

• The Eye of Heaven's Will and Chaos Divine Thunder stopped Hongjun from attacking Gu Xi, and Hongjun returned to his meditation cushion with growing suspicion and murderous intent.
• The Six Sages and other powerful beings inferred that the Heavenly Dao had protected Gu Xi after Hongjun remained inside Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun sent the Six Sages a decree ordering Gu Xi to fulfill his duties as Netherworld Sovereign and never leave the Netherworld Underworld.
• Laozi and the other Sages left their domains to deliver Hongjun's decree to Gu Xi.
• Gu Xi welcomed the Heavenly Dao's protection, then saw the Six Sages approaching and decided to test his newly strengthened body.
• Zhunti began announcing Hongjun's decree, but Gu Xi interrupted him and punched him.

Gu Xi tested his newly created path of proving Dao with the physical body against Daoist Zhunti, whose Saintly mastery of the Annihilation Law threatened the Primordial World. Gu Xi countered Zhunti’s strongest attack with Shattering the Void and blasted apart his golden palm.

• Gu Xi struck Daoist Zhunti with pure physical force, and Zhunti countered with the Annihilation Law as the other Saints watched.
• Zhunti merged with the Innate Nirvana Dao and unleashed waves of Annihilation Laws, demonstrating the overwhelming power of a Saint to the Primordial Gods.
• Gu Xi grew ten thousand real arms and shattered Zhunti’s annihilating waves with his fist force.
• Zhunti vanished through spacetime and attacked Gu Xi with his Sixteen-Foot Golden Body’s golden palm, drawing the Annihilation Laws into its strike.
• Gu Xi invoked Shattering the Void and punched Zhunti’s golden palm apart into countless golden particles.

Gu Xi fought Zhunti to a standstill, then rejected Hongjun’s order to remain permanently in the Netherworld by arguing that his many divine positions required him to travel throughout Hong Huang. The Six Sages withdrew to report his response to Hongjun, wary that the Eye of Heaven’s Will might intervene.

• Gu Xi shattered Zhunti’s hand, and the Primordial Gods realized his physical strength could rival a Saint’s.
• Zhunti and Gu Xi ended their fight after concluding that defeating each other could take an immense amount of time.
• Zhunti and Jieyin announced Hongjun’s decree that Gu Xi must permanently guard the Netherworld, while the other Sages backed the order.
• The Primordial Gods and Gu Xi’s allies recognized that Hongjun was trying to restrict Gu Xi, but Gu Xi argued that his many divine positions required him to fulfill duties across Hong Huang.
• When Gu Xi offered to summon the Eye of Heaven’s Will as a witness, Laozi, Tongtian, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Jieyin, and Zhunti hurried away to report to Hongjun, leaving Nuwa behind.

After Gu Xi outmaneuvered the Six Sages, Nuwa asked him to restore Fuxi’s damaged soul and true spirit, and he agreed. Nuwa warned Gu Xi to be especially cautious when pursuing the Dao as a Primordial Chaos Saint, leaving him to wonder which other sages had discovered the Primordial Violet Qi’s hidden danger.

• Nuwa praised Gu Xi for resolving Hongjun’s decree without accepting it or giving the Six Sages grounds to attack.
• Gu Xi recalled Nuwa’s role in his rise and considered her a potential ally against Hongjun.
• Nuwa asked Gu Xi to restore Fuxi’s fragmented soul and incomplete true spirit, and Gu Xi agreed to place them in the Six Paths Treasure Wheel.
• Nuwa recalled Gu Xi’s earlier exploits and praised how quickly he had grown powerful.
• Before leaving for Zixiao Palace, Nuwa secretly warned Gu Xi to be cautious when he sought to attain the Dao as a Primordial Chaos Saint.
• Gu Xi suspected Nuwa had discovered a problem with the Primordial Violet Qi and wondered whether the other sages knew about it.

After proving Dao with his physical body, Gu Xi shared his experience with Luohu and the others, then considered how to expand the Human Dao Sacred Court by absorbing the Witch and Demon Races' remaining legacies. He headed for Pangu Sacred Hall to approach the weakened Witch Race.

• Luohu, Shen Ni, Yin-Yang Ancestor, Ancestor Phoenix, West Queen Mother, Zhen Yuanzi, and the others congratulated Gu Xi, who explained that his physical-body method was not yet universally applicable.
• Gu Xi transmitted his experience of proving Dao with his physical body to Luohu and the others, and they sat down to comprehend it.
• Gu Xi reviewed his gains from the Witch-Demon War, including the Chaos Bell and River Diagram and Luo Script, and checked his merit and debt.
• Gu Xi decided to have West Queen Mother and the others pursue the Demon Race Heavenly Court's remaining legacy and to approach the weakened Witch Race for its legacy.
• Gu Xi left the Netherworld Underworld and flew toward the Witch Race's Pangu Sacred Hall.

Dragon Ming Heavenly Venerate and three other Quasi-Sages attacked Pangu Sacred Hall, defeated Xing Tian and the other Great Witches, and demanded the Witch Race’s treasures. Just as the Witch Race faced surrender or annihilation, Gu Xi descended and overwhelmed everyone with his pressure.

• Dragon Ming Heavenly Venerate, Huayan Heavenly Venerate, Bahuang Heavenly Venerate, and Xuanluo Heavenly Venerate demanded the Witch Race’s formation secrets, divine arts, and Pangu Sacred Hall.
• Xing Tian and the other Great Witches refused to surrender, but the four Heavenly Venerates defeated them in battle.
• The Heavenly Venerates threatened the Witch Race again, and Xing Tian and the others wondered whether they had to yield to protect their people.
• Gu Xi descended, forcing everyone but the Great Witches to the ground and knocking the four Heavenly Venerates from the sky.

Gu Xi warned the Witch Race that karmic retribution and old enemies threatened its survival, then offered it protection under the Netherworld Underworld. The Witch Race submitted to him, strengthening the Netherworld’s destiny, and Gu Xi asked to see Pangu Sacred Hall.

• Gu Xi released Dragon Ming Heavenly Venerate and the others after ordering them to leave the Witch Race’s sacred land.
• Gu Xi explained that the Witch Race faced karmic backlash, many enemies, and possible extinction without a Saint-level protector.
• Xing Tian and the other Great Witches decided that joining Gu Xi was their best chance to survive and rise again.
• Xing Tian, the Great Witches, and the Witch Race members knelt and pledged to obey Gu Xi.
• The Netherworld’s Destiny Golden Dragon fused with the Witch Race’s damaged Destiny Golden Dragon, increasing the Netherworld Underworld’s destiny and origin.
• Gu Xi asked Xing Tian and the others to take him to Pangu Sacred Hall so he could investigate its secrets.

Gu Xi examined the Pangu Sacred Hall after Xing Tian explained that it held a secret the Twelve Ancestral Witches had never uncovered. The hall’s mysterious self-restoration convinced Gu Xi that its secret was real, and he decided to move it to the Netherworld Underworld.

• Xing Tian brought Gu Xi to the Pangu Sacred Hall and explained that its secrets had eluded the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Gu Xi studied the twelve pillars, learned the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation, and considered combining it with the Grand Array of the Myriad Stars.
• Gu Xi investigated the ancient images of Pangu creating heaven and earth but could not find their hidden secret, even after entering the Dao enlightenment state.
• Xing Tian damaged the hall’s roof, which instantly restored itself without any detectable power; he explained that even dismantling and sealing the hall’s fragments had failed to keep it apart.
• Gu Xi concluded that the hall concealed a genuine great secret and ordered its relocation to the Netherworld Underworld, while Xing Tian and the other Great Witches began making arrangements.

The Witch Race migrated into the Netherworld Underworld under Gu Xi’s protection, while Hongjun blocked Gu Xi from taking the Thirty-Three Heavens. With the Human Race’s fortune rising, Gu Xi decided it was time for them to return and become the Protagonists of Heaven and Earth.

• The Witch Race moved its people and accumulated wealth into the Netherworld Underworld, and Gu Xi brought Pangu Sacred Hall there as well.
• The Six Sages and other powers learned of the migration; several regretted losing their chance to take revenge on the Witch Race or seize its wealth.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin, followed by the Three Pure Ones, hurried toward the Thirty-Three Heavens to claim its lands and treasures.
• West Queen Mother and Four Seasons Daoist found the Thirty-Three Heavens sealed by Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, and Gu Xi ordered them to withdraw after sensing Hongjun’s pressure.
• Hongjun told the Three Pure Ones, Daoist Jieyin, and Daoist Zhunti that he had already arranged the Thirty-Three Heavens, forcing them to retreat.
• Gu Xi noted that the Human Dao Sacred Court’s fortune had grown and issued Divine Decrees across the Human Race’s Thirty-Six Grotto-Heavens and Seventy-Two Blessed Lands, declaring the time had come for the Human Race to become the Protagonists of Heaven and Earth.

The Human Race returned to Hong Huang and rapidly reclaimed its former territories, becoming the realm’s strongest race and the new Protagonists of Heaven and Earth. Gu Xi then met Four Seasons Daoist at Buzhou Mountain’s Ancestral Vein to prepare the Four Epochs Dao Fruit’s transformation into a Primordial Chaos Saint Dao Fruit.

• Gu Xi’s decree prompted the Human Race to return to Hong Huang, where its leaders organized hundreds of billions of people and reclaimed their old lands.
• The Human Race swiftly defeated or drove out rival forces, and within a hundred years it reclaimed all its former territories and declared itself Hong Huang’s number one race.
• Supreme Purity Laozi resolved to weaken Gu Xi’s control over the Human Race, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate resented Gu Xi’s growing advantage and Sect Master Tongtian considered finding his own dojo.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti planned to visit Kunlun Mountain to discuss limiting Gu Xi’s influence, while Nuwa’s fortune surged as the Human Race rose.
• Gu Xi met Four Seasons Daoist at the Barrier Space-time containing Buzhou Mountain’s Ancestral Vein and confirmed that the Four Epochs Dao Fruit had reached Quasi-Saint Great Perfection.
• Gu Xi and Four Seasons Daoist planned to use the Heavenly Dao Credit Card’s Great Dao Furnace to improve four seasonal spiritual treasures and support the Dao Fruit’s transformation into a Primordial Chaos Saint Dao Fruit.

Gu Xi and Four Seasons Daoist advanced the four seasonal cauldrons and installed them in Hong Huang’s four Ancestral Veins, spreading the Four Epochs Great Dao throughout the world. The plan succeeded in raising Four Seasons Daoist’s Four Epochs Dao Fruit to Sub-Saint, leaving the path open for it to reach Sagehood.

• Gu Xi used the Great Dao Furnace and vast stores of treasures to advance the four seasonal cauldrons to Top-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasures.
• Four Seasons Daoist placed the Spring Birth of All Things Cauldron in Buzhou Mountain’s Ancestral Vein while Gu Xi suppressed the vein’s violent resistance.
• Gu Xi and Four Seasons Daoist installed the Autumn Wind Golden Moon Cauldron, Summer Solstice Sun Cauldron, and Winter Snow Return to Storage Cauldron in the East Sea, Southern, and North Sea Ancestral Veins.
• Four Seasons Daoist sent the power and laws of the Four Epochs Great Dao through all four Ancestral Veins, spreading them across Hong Huang.
• The Four Epochs Great Dao grew stronger, and Four Seasons Daoist’s Dao Fruit advanced to Sub-Saint, confirming that an Acquired Great Dao could attain Sagehood without Primordial Violet Qi or Hongjun’s interference.

Four Seasons Daoist advanced to Sub-Saint through the Acquired Great Dao, revealing a new path of transformation that could lead to Sainthood. Gu Xi’s achievement won admiration across Hong Huang, while Hongjun resolved to kill him for repeatedly disrupting his plans.

• Four Seasons Daoist erupted with the power of the Four Epochs and revealed his Sub-Saint Dao Fruit, shocking gods and demons across Hong Huang.
• Ancestor Minghe, Demon Master Kunpeng, Zhen Yuanzi, and other Great Supernatural Beings realized the Acquired Great Dao might offer another route to Sainthood, giving its cultivators renewed hope.
• The Three Pure Ones acknowledged Gu Xi’s extraordinary talent and predicted that Dao Ancestor Hongjun would soon act against him.
• Daoist Jieyin, Daoist Zhunti, and Nuwa admired Gu Xi but feared Hongjun would not tolerate his growing influence.
• In Zixiao Palace, Hongjun grew furious that Gu Xi had bypassed his Great Dao Shackles again and declared that he would kill him.

The Four Epochs Great Dao rose to become the foremost Acquired Great Dao, earning Four Seasons Daoist an enormous merit reward that he transferred to Gu Xi. Gu Xi reached 11 trillion merit and unlocked a Heavenly Dao Credit Card feature that let him establish a private bank, which he planned to use to earn merit and influence events in Hong Huang.

• The Four Epochs Great Dao advanced in rank, reshaping Hong Huang's Heavenly Laws and becoming the foremost Acquired Great Dao.
• A vast merit reward descended upon Four Seasons Daoist, who transferred it all to Gu Xi.
• Gu Xi saw that his merit had reached 11 trillion and planned to exchange it for the Chaos Bead.
• The Heavenly Dao Credit Card unlocked a private bank feature with deposit services, loans, and a marketplace.
• Gu Xi welcomed the new feature and considered ways to earn merit and alter the destinies of important figures in Hong Huang.

Gu Xi obtained the Chaos Bead and hid inside it in the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm, where he began refining its Chaos Divine Prohibitions before creating a world. Hongjun failed to locate Gu Xi’s true body and was struck by Heavenly Dao punishment, while Gu Xi watched from safety and continued his cultivation.

• Gu Xi exchanged 100 trillion Merit for the Chaos Bead and discovered that its independent chaos world could shield him from divination.
• Gu Xi concluded that Hongjun might soon target him, entrusted the Netherworld Underworld to the Ten Directions Heavenly Venerate of Salvation, and hid the Chaos Bead in the deepest depths of the Outer Heavenly Demon Realm.
• Gu Xi began comprehending and refining the Chaos Bead’s forty-nine Chaos Divine Prohibitions in preparation for creating a world inside it.
• Hongjun used the Jade Butterfly of Creation to pierce the Heavenly Dao’s concealment of Gu Xi, but failed to find his true body.
• The Heavenly Dao struck Zixiao Palace with Chaos Divine Thunder, injuring Hongjun and startling the Six Sages and other Great Supernatural Beings.
• Gu Xi sensed Hongjun’s failure from within the Chaos Bead, sneered, and resumed refining the Chaos Divine Prohibitions.

After refining all forty-nine Chaos Divine Prohibitions, Gu Xi created a vast world inside the Chaos Bead and made it the final destination of the Human Race's Ascension System. The world was nearly complete, and Gu Xi arranged for spiritual plants to be gathered and a Nirvana Pool built as he prepared it for future cultivation.

• Over five hundred years, the Three Pure Ones split apart: Tongtian moved the Interception Sect to Jin'ao Island, while Laozi and Xuandu settled on Shouyang Mountain.
• Gu Xi summoned Four Seasons Daoist and used the Chaos Bell and powerful divine arts to divide the Chaos World and evolve it into heaven and earth, while Four Seasons Daoist contributed the Four Epochs Great Dao.
• After the world’s creation, four divine talismans entered Four Seasons Daoist, bringing his Dao Fruit close to sainthood; he shared his insights with Gu Xi and returned to Hong Huang to complete the final step.
• Gu Xi spent another hundred years refining the new world, which grew vast, rich in Innate Spiritual Qi, and infused with Chaos origin qi.
• Gu Xi ordered Four Seasons Daoist and the Ten Directions Heavenly Venerate of Salvation to have the Human Race, Human Dao Sacred Court, and Netherworld’s Ghosts and Deities collect spiritual plants, and he constructed a Nirvana Pool for future ascenders.
• The Primordial Gods dismissed the mass collection of plants, but survivors later regretted not following the Human Race’s foresight when the Postnatal Era brought dwindling Innate Spiritual Qi.