Chapter Summaries

In Hei’s soul space, the ancient figure promised the Empress that he could resurrect her brother if she helped Hei establish the Human Dao Palace before the Primordial Gods descended. After the Empress gave Hei her divine arts and released everyone, Hei resolved to prepare the Human Dao Palace, then returned with Long Bo to the Soul Beast Cave Heaven.

• The Empress asked the ancient figure whether he could resurrect her brother, and he agreed on the condition that she assist Hei in establishing the Human Dao Palace before the Primordial Gods descended.
• The Empress accepted the terms and left her cultivation methods and divine techniques in Hei’s soul space.
• After the Empress vanished and freed the group, Hei told Long Bo that he was unharmed and resolved to establish the Human Dao Palace before the coming calamity.
• The group fled the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Land, where most of them emerged aged, while Hei, Long Bo, Liu Yiyi, and two others remained young.
• An anciently dressed woman brought the group to a nearby town, and Hei stayed to learn about the world before being led with Long Bo back to the Soul Beast Cave Heaven.

Ye Hei learned about the Ancient Big Dipper Star and began establishing the Human Dao Sacred Court by bringing Lingxu Cave Heaven under his control. He broke through to the peak of the Dao Palace Realm in one leap, then summoned a mighty presence whose arrival forced beings across the Ancient Big Dipper Star to kneel.

• Ye Hei compared the cultivation systems and concluded that his strength made him nearly invincible within Lingxu Cave Heaven.
• Ye Hei began cultivating the Five Great Secret Realms method and used the Great Saint's blood essence to open his Sacred Body's Bitter Sea.
• Ye Hei rapidly advanced through the Bitter Sea, Life Spring, Divine Bridge, Other Shore, and all five Dao Palaces, reaching the peak of the Dao Palace Realm.
• Pang Bo and the people of Lingxu Cave Heaven witnessed Ye Hei's breakthrough visions, while the sect's master and elders realized what had happened.
• Ye Hei raised his hands as if welcoming a great being, and its terrifying will made countless beings across the Ancient Big Dipper Star kneel.
• The Ancient Supreme Beings awoke as dark clouds and a passage appeared overhead, and an immense silhouette began emerging from the passage.

Hei asked the Ancestor God to establish a Human Dao Palace branch at Quiet Void Grotto-Heaven, and the immortal transformed it into a vast cultivation paradise. The transformation ended with Hei reaching the peak of the Four Extremities realm and a heavenly stele naming the Human Dao Palace appearing outside.

• Hei greeted the Ancestor God and requested approval to establish a Human Dao Palace branch at Quiet Void Grotto-Heaven.
• The Ancestor God approved and sent a torrent of laws and dragon veins to transform Quiet Void Grotto-Heaven into an immortal land.
• The cultivators of Quiet Void Grotto-Heaven broke through their realms, while Hei advanced to the peak of the Four Extremities realm and refined the shattered tribulation and Dao diagram.
• A heavenly stele inscribed with the words Human Dao Palace appeared outside Quiet Void Grotto-Heaven, and the Ancestor God vanished.

After Gu Xuan transformed Yin-Yang Grotto-Heaven into an immortal land, Hei declared it a branch of the Human Dao Palace and took control. Powerful factions across the world set out to seize the land, leaving its new rulers facing an approaching struggle.

• Ancient supremes and major factions coveted Yin-Yang Grotto-Heaven but hesitated to act, fearing Gu Xuan’s power and hidden defenses.
• Guang Sacred Land claimed Yin-Yang Grotto-Heaven as its subordinate force and warned others away, prompting rival factions to dispatch their own forces.
• Li Ruoyu and the people of Yin-Yang Grotto-Heaven bowed to Hei as the immortal envoy after seeing their home transformed.
• Hei announced that Yin-Yang Grotto-Heaven would become a branch of the Human Dao Palace, with himself as sect master, and Li Ruoyu and the others accepted.
• Hei took charge of the new branch, dividing it into halls and assigning positions to the former elders and high-ranking members.

Hei established the Human Dao Palace headquarters on Divine Soil transformed by the Ancestor God, but Li Ruochong warned that Guang Sacred Land and other major powers would covet it. Confident in the formations and other protections the Ancestor God left him, Hei waited for an attack as Guang Sacred Land’s forces arrived outside the headquarters.

• Hei displayed his peak Dao Palace realm strength before the Human Dao Palace cultivators, who praised him as an immortal envoy blessed by the Ancestor God.
• Li Ruochong warned Hei that the transformed Divine Soil contained immense spiritual energy and immortal Dao laws that would attract the major powers, especially Guang Sacred Land.
• Hei reassured the worried elders and disciples that the Ancestor God had left him the Lesser Zhou Heaven Star Formation and an incomplete Zhou Heaven Star Formation to defend their headquarters.
• A host from Guang Sacred Land emerged from a colossal gate of void ten miles from the Human Dao Palace, led by cultivators riding armored flood dragons.

Guang Sacred Land arrived at Human Dao Palace to claim its Divine Soil and order Li Ruobing’s people to leave. Hei defended the palace and effortlessly killed the entire delegation, leaving the surrounding cultivators to fear the consequences.

• Thirty-six divine rainbows brought seven centipedes and thirty-seven Guang Sacred Land cultivators to Human Dao Palace, where Elder Mount Qingshan declared the Divine Soil Guang’s property.
• Elder Mount Qingshan ordered Li Ruobing to leave the Divine Soil and offered him a cultivation method, while Li Ruobing deferred to Hei.
• Hei called Elder Mount Qingshan a barking dog, and Li Ruobing announced that the Black Spider Grotto-Heaven had become Human Dao Palace under Hei’s leadership.
• A Guang cultivator attacked Hei, but a beam from the stone platform split the cultivator and his centipede in two.
• Elder Mount Qingshan attacked Hei, who used immortal Dao laws to cut him down and then slaughtered every remaining Guang cultivator and centipede.
• Li Ruobing and the others marveled at Hei’s strength, while the surrounding cultivators realized that Guang Sacred Land’s deaths would bring a major upheaval.

Guang Sacred Land sent eight Supreme Elders to destroy the Human Dao Palace, but Hei used a Dao-pattern bow to kill two Great Powers with a single volley. He returned to waiting at the mountain gate as news of his strength spread across the world.

• Guang Sacred Land declared Hei a criminal and dispatched eight Supreme Elders to attack the Human Dao Palace.
• Li Ruoshui worried that the Human Dao Palace could not withstand eight Great Powers, but Hei dismissed the threat.
• Hei summoned a divine bow and two arrows from the Dao patterns beneath his feet, then shot down two of the descending Great Powers.
• Hei warned other factions that anyone who offended the Human Dao Palace would die, and its disciples hailed him as their Sect Master.
• Witnessing cultivators reported Hei's feat to their factions, and his name spread throughout the world.

Guang Sacred Land Master attacked Human Dao Palace with the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, but Hei activated the Lesser Zhou Heaven Star Array to block its black dragon phantom. The array forced the Imperial Weapon’s attack downward, leaving Guang Sacred Land Master and the watching cultivators shocked.

• For a month, Guang Sacred Land made no visible move against Hei and Human Dao Palace while the major forces waited for its retaliation.
• Guang Sacred Land Master appeared above Human Dao Palace carrying the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, whose Imperial Weapon pressure terrified the Yan Kingdom.
• Hei judged that immortal dao techniques could not stop an Imperial Weapon and activated the Lesser Zhou Heaven Star Array across Human Dao Palace’s mountains.
• Guang Sacred Land Master unleashed a black dragon phantom from the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron, and cultivators fled as its power swept over the Yan Kingdom.
• The Lesser Zhou Heaven Star Array manifested a corner of an ancient starry sky and blocked the black dragon phantom, stunning Guang Sacred Land Master and the watching cultivators.

Hei activated the Lesser Zhou Heavenly Star Array in the Human Dao Palace, and it stopped the attacks of three Supreme Dao Imperial Weapons. He then unleashed the formation’s power, killing their wielders and leaving six Imperial Weapons blasted into the starry sky.

• A mysterious wielder offered Guang Sacred Land Master support in exchange for a share of the secret of immortality, and attacked the Human Dao Palace with another Imperial Weapon.
• A third Imperial Weapon joined the assault, but the formation imprisoned its divine light along with the other attacks.
• Hei realized the Lesser Zhou Heavenly Star Array could withstand the Imperial Weapons and decided to counterattack.
• Hei twisted his palm against the stone platform, causing the starry sky and its stars to rotate and release a tremendous force.
• The formation shattered the three attacks and killed Guang Sacred Land Master and the other two wielders, while six Imperial Weapons were blasted into the starry sky.
• The entire world fell silent at the sight of the formation’s power.

After Ye Hei's defenses killed three Holy Lord-level figures and repelled three Emperor Weapons, he learned that the Primordial Gods would descend in one month. He began recruiting cultivators by offering three immortal arts, while Gu Xi prepared to open a gate between the Primordial World and the Sun-Shading World.

• Ye Hei's formation killed the Yaoguang Holy Lord and two other Holy Lord-level figures, blasted three Emperor Weapons into the starry sky, and drove rival forces to withdraw.
• Ye Hei received Gu Xi's warning that the Primordial Gods would descend in one month and decided to accelerate the Human Dao Sacred Court's growth.
• After gaining Gu Xi's permission, Ye Hei announced that he would teach the Human Dao Sacred Court's three immortal arts and publicize them to recruit powerful cultivators.
• Li Ruoxu and the others objected to sharing the immortal arts, but Ye Hei persuaded them that the coming upheaval made rapid recruitment necessary.
• Gu Xi summoned the senior members of the Human Dao Sacred Court to prepare to open the Gate of All Heavens between Hong Huang and the Sun-Shading World.

Gu Changge announced that the Great Desolation would open a time-space gate to the Sun-Covering World in one month, prompting factions across the Great Desolation to plan their journeys. As Hei prepared the Human Dao Palace branch for the arriving cultivators, he offered its techniques and powerful inheritances to people across the Sun-Covering World.

• Gu Changge told the Human Dao Palace leaders that the gate to the Sun-Covering World would open in one month and urged them to help Hei expand the branch there.
• Gu Changge sent word throughout the Great Desolation, and figures including the River Styx Patriarch and the Kunpengs resolved to visit the other world.
• The Living Venerable decided to send Mystic Sect disciples to the Sun-Covering World to compete for its karmic fortune, and the six saints began making plans.
• Hei placed three immortal arts and the carp demon ancestor's inheritance in the Human Dao Palace branch's Hidden Scripture Pavilion for qualified members to study.
• Hei invited heroes throughout the Sun-Covering World to join the branch and borrow its techniques or receive its inheritances, stirring an uproar.

Hei opened Human Dao Palace to cultivators seeking its three immortal arts and Great Saint inheritance, and its membership surged into the millions in less than a month. The chapter ended with rival forces realizing their infiltrators had become loyal to Human Dao Palace and that its rise was unstoppable.

• News that Human Dao Palace offered access to its inheritances drew cultivators, Kings, and ancient Saints from across the Five Domains.
• Holy Lands and ancient families plotted to send spies into Human Dao Palace to steal its techniques.
• Hei accepted applicants regardless of their backgrounds, requiring each to swear a binding heart demon oath before the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon King statue.
• Human Dao Palace grew to more than a million cultivators, including dozens of Kings and five or six awakened ancient Saints.
• Rival forces discovered that their spies had cut contact and become loyal to Human Dao Palace, leaving them unable to stop its rise.

Hei announced that the Human Dao Palace had branch palaces beyond the Big Dipper Ancient Star, including one in the Primordial World, and revealed the vast hierarchy of worlds and the ancestral gods’ power. The disciples, including the Divine Soil Lord, were left ecstatic about their prospects after joining the Human Dao Palace.

• Hei opened the ancestral god legacy and three sacred arts to Human Dao Palace disciples, granting experts higher cultivation realms expanded access.
• At the palace’s one-month anniversary, Hei told the gathered disciples that the Human Dao Palace had branch palaces, and the Divine Soil Lord asked whether such branches existed.
• The Divine Soil Lord described the Ancient Starry Road and the countless life stars and civilizations beyond the Big Dipper Ancient Star.
• Hei explained that countless worlds and universes existed beyond their own, and revealed that the ancestral gods had a branch palace in the Primordial World.
• Hei declared the Human Dao Palace one of the Primordial World’s strongest forces, prompting the Divine Soil Lord and the disciples to cheer over their chances of becoming Great Emperors or immortal gods.

Hei announced that the Heavenly Gate would connect his world to the prehistoric world, allowing prehistoric gods to descend, and encouraged the Human Dao Palace cultivators to treat the upheaval as an opportunity. When the gate appeared above the Big Dipper Ancient Star, a prehistoric Giant Beast descended and devoured an ancient supreme being, leaving everyone stunned.

• Hei told Lin Li, Zhen Tian, and the other cultivators that the Heavenly Gate would connect the two worlds and that prehistoric gods would soon descend.
• Hei reassured the cultivators that their membership in the Human Dao Palace would protect them and that they could gain power from the coming upheaval.
• A gigantic gate appeared above the Big Dipper Ancient Star, releasing immortal aura and awakening ancient supreme beings in the restricted zones.
• An ancient supreme being emerged and tried to absorb the immortal aura pouring from the gate to restore his life force.
• A prehistoric Giant Beast came through the gate, swallowed the ancient supreme being, and vanished; Hei identified it as a beast from the prehistoric world.

The gate to the Immortal World opened, and terrifying beings from the primordial world began descending upon the Big Dipper Ancient Star. As ancient Supreme Beings considered whether to enter the gate, more arrivals announced plans to establish their Dao lineages.

• The ancient Supreme Beings watched a giant beast swallow an ancient Supreme Being and wondered whether they could enter the Immortal World through the gate.
• Hei identified the giant beast as the Gluttonous Demon Emperor and explained that he was a peak giant beast of the primordial world.
• A nine-thousand-mile river of blood emerged from the gate, spreading purple snow filled with killing intent across the Big Dipper Ancient Star.
• The Ancestor of the River descended on a blood lotus, made the river of blood vanish, and planned to establish a Daoist temple and spread the Asura religion.
• More powerful figures flew out of the gate, including the Northern Ming True God and Northern Ming Demon Ancestor, announcing their arrival and plans to establish Dao lineages.
• The beings on the Big Dipper Ancient Star realized that many divine demons were about to descend upon their world.

The Six Saints descended through the gateway amid universal auspicious signs and began investigating Beidou Ancient Star, where they found strange connections to figures and powers from their own world. Primordial Celestial Venerable resolved to investigate the traces left by the Wushi Emperor and uncover the mystery linking the worlds.

• Forbidden-zone supreme beings speculated that the descending immortals might be vulnerable primordial spirits and wondered whether devouring one could help them become immortal.
• The gateway shook, and golden flowers, immortal light, and other auspicious signs spread from Beidou Ancient Star across the universe.
• Supreme Purity Laozi, Primordial Celestial Venerable, Tongtian Cult Master, Receiving Daoist, Zhunti Daoist, and Nuwa descended as the Six Saints and surveyed the world.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable noticed similarities between the Heavenly Heart Imprint and the Heavenly Dao, while the Six Saints considered whether the world could reveal Hongjun's secrets.
• Supreme Purity Laozi, Tongtian Cult Master, Receiving Daoist, Zhunti Daoist, and Nuwa each set out to investigate beings or places connected to them.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable led the Chan Sect immortals toward the universe's depths to search for traces of the Wushi Emperor and the Heavenly Court.

The Human Dao Palace’s gods and ancient powers descended into the Big Dipper, led by Gu Mi’s terrifying divine eye, and gathered at their branch. Their arrival revealed the branch’s overwhelming backing, leaving Guang Sacred Land panicked over its deadly feud with Hei and the others.

• The heavenly gate opened, and Nuwa, Confucius, Shennong, the Three Human Emperors, and other Human Dao Palace figures descended on a nine-colored immortal bridge.
• Gu Mi’s enormous golden divine eye appeared over the Big Dipper, and the Daoist of Reception and the Daoist of Zhunti noted his rapid growth while discussing their plans.
• Gu Mi and the others became curious about the Heavenly Heart Imprint and the similarities between figures from this world and their own.
• Gu Mi moved the Human Dao Palace’s gods to its branch, where Hei and the others welcomed them.
• The powerful factions learned that the branch had backing from another world, and Guang Sacred Land panicked because it had already killed many members of the branch.

The primordial gods began establishing their influence as Human Dao Palace welcomed its ancestral god and the gods who would remain at its headquarters. Across the world, descended immortals forced sacred lands and ancient factions to submit, leaving the world’s balance of power in upheaval.

• At Human Dao Palace, Guang and the other gods examined Hei, while the ancient roc praised Hei and the gods settled in to study the world’s history.
• Immortal Master Cang destroyed Sacred Land of Chaos’s protective formation and compelled Wang Zao, its master, elders, and disciples to submit.
• Daoist Misty Mountain attacked Falling Star Sacred Land, whose master, elders, and awakened patriarch surrendered.
• Purple Mansion Sacred Land, the Black Clan, the Carefree Sect, and other factions submitted to descending immortals, while Western Desert Buddhism joined the Western Religion under Daoist Receiver and Daoist Zhunti.
• Across the five regions, immortals subdued sacred lands and ancient factions, while forces with Emperor weapons had not yet been targeted.

Hei cultivated under the guidance of Jiang Taixu and the others, rapidly advancing through several systems and mastering the Empress’s and Wolf Ancestor’s techniques. After he shared his progress in the chat group, its members hoped Gu Yi and the other gods would descend into their worlds too.

• Jiang Taixu and the others taught Hei the inscription texts and their insights, using the Divine Soil’s ancestral vein to temper him and speed his cultivation.
• Hei reached the ninth layer of the Dragon Transformation Realm in all five of his great realm cultivation methods, while advancing his other cultivation systems and mastering two techniques.
• Hei posted his gains and cultivation speed in the chat group, prompting members to envy his fortune and discuss their hopes for divine help.
• Xiao Ling pointed out that gods and demons had already descended into Hei’s world, and other members described the troubles they hoped the gods would resolve in their own worlds.
• In the Great Tang World, Yao read Hei’s message and wished Gu Yi would descend so she could advance just as quickly.

After learning that primordial gods were subduing powers across the Beidou World, Hei sent Nuwa and the others to destroy the Guang Sacred Land in revenge for its attacks on the Human Dao Palace. They shattered Guang’s protective formation, and the Guang Sacred Land’s defenders discovered Hei among their attackers.

• Li Ruoxu told Hei that immortals had subdued many Sacred Lands and ancient powers, and Hei decided the Human Dao Palace should strike the Guang Sacred Land.
• Hei asked Nuwa and the other divine powers to destroy Guang, and they agreed to use the fight to learn about the world’s cultivation methods.
• The Golden-Winged Great Peng and Kong Xuan condemned Guang for attacking the Human Dao Palace, while Nuwa approved the assault.
• A beam of yin and yang energy shattered Guang’s mountain-protecting formation and destroyed several divine palaces.
• The Guang Sacred Land Master, elders, and disciples rushed out and saw Hei among the attackers.