Chapter Summaries

Gu Xi met Beast Emperor Shen Ni, a remnant soul who revealed his identity as the former master of the ancient Fierce Beast race. Shen Ni asked Gu Xi to save him and join his cause, and Gu Xi agreed, leaving the Nether God System with a powerful new ally.

• The Bone Dragon carried Gu Xi into the giant skeleton, where Beast Emperor Shen Ni welcomed him to his graveyard and revealed he was a remnant soul.
• Gu Xi learned Shen Ni's identity, and Dao Lord Heavenly Corpse explained that Shen Ni had once rivaled the greatest figures of the ancient era.
• Shen Ni asked Gu Xi to save him, explaining that he hoped to gain another chance at life and was willing to bet on Gu Xi's future.
• Gu Xi agreed to save Shen Ni and was pleased that the Nether God System would gain a prominent figure.

Gu Xi gained Beast Emperor Shen Ni and the Yin-Yang Ancestor as allies and guardians for his divine systems. Shen Ni then led them to a dangerous Primordial World weapon, where Gu Xi saw a divine spear radiating overwhelming killing intent.

• Beast Emperor Shen Ni agreed to ally with Gu Xi and guard the Nether God System.
• The Yin-Yang Ancestor emerged from hiding, and Shen Ni persuaded him to join Gu Xi as well.
• Shen Ni and the Yin-Yang Ancestor warned Gu Xi about a Most Fierce Item whose master might still be alive, but Gu Xi chose to see it.
• Shen Ni carried Gu Xi and the Yin-Yang Ancestor on the Bone Dragon to a valley filled with bones and blood.
• Gu Xi spotted a divine spear in the valley, surrounded by bloody light and boundless Innate Killing Intent.

Gu Xi identified the God-Slaying Spear as Luohu’s weapon, but it fled after its blood tide revealed that Demon Ancestor Luohu might still be alive. With Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor backing him, Gu Xi won the submission of every Ghost and Deity in the Dragon-Han Battlefield and began purifying it.

• Gu Xi recognized the God-Slaying Spear, and Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor warned him that it held Luohu’s will and had grown stronger by absorbing battlefield killing intent.
• The God-Slaying Spear unleashed a vast blood tide, stared at Gu Xi and the others with blood-red eyes, then shattered space-time and fled.
• Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor concluded that Luohu had not truly died and urged Gu Xi to contend with him; Gu Xi declared that his era would rule Hong Huang.
• Gu Xi announced his plan to purify the Dragon-Han Battlefield and recruit its Ghosts and Deities into his Nether God System, and Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor gathered the Dao Lord-level figures to submit to him.
• Every Ghost and Deity in the battlefield submitted to Gu Xi, including Dao Lord Heavenly Corpse, Dao Lord of Yin Mountain, and Dao Lord of Nine Springs, whom Gu Xi released from the Pure World White Lotus.
• Gu Xi sat atop the Pure World White Lotus and recited the Ten Directions True Scripture of Salvation, filling the battlefield with the Divine Light of Redemption.

Gu Xi purified the Dragon-Han Battlefield and delivered its countless deceased souls, shocking the powerful beings who watched from afar. The Merit he gained deepened his comprehension of the Innate Life and Death Dao, and the chapter ended with a Dao Embryo entering the Great Dao’s depths as observers wondered whether he would condense another Great Luo Dao Fruit.

• Gu Xi chanted the Ten Directions True Scripture of Salvation and began purifying the Dragon-Han Battlefield, drawing the attention of Hong Huang’s Great Supernatural Beings.
• As the divine light spread across the entire battlefield over half a year, the onlookers recognized Gu Xi and were shocked that the three powerful figures within had not stopped him.
• Gu Xi delivered the final deceased souls and sent them into the Eastern Land of Eternal Joy World, followed by Beast Emperor Shen Ni, Yin-Yang Ancestor, and the Dao Sovereign-level Ghosts and Deities.
• A vast mass of Merit entered Gu Xi, and his comprehension of the Innate Life and Death Dao reached a new realm.
• A Great Dao Phantom and a Dao Embryo of life and death reincarnation rose from Gu Xi and entered the depths of the Great Dao, leaving the watching gods and demons wondering if he would condense another Great Luo Dao Fruit.

After purifying the Dragon-Han Battlefield, Gu Xi condensed the Innate Life and Death Dao Fruit and gained 500 billion Merit. He turned to searching for three innate spiritual roots to create Five Elements incarnations, and Beast Emperor Shen Ni revealed he knew where one was.

• Gu Xi purified the Dragon-Han Battlefield, delivered the departed souls within it, and condensed the Innate Life and Death Dao Fruit.
• The gods and demons marveled at Gu Xi’s strength and rapid progress, while Laozi of the Great Pure, Yuanshi, Daoist Jieyin, Daoist Zhunti, Di Jun, Donghuang Taiyi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches discussed dealing with him but made no move.
• Gu Xi checked his status and decided to focus on transforming his Primordial Metal Element Dao Embryo into a Dao Fruit.
• Gu Xi learned that purifying the Dragon-Han Battlefield had earned him 500 billion Merit, bringing his total to 570 billion.
• Gu Xi asked Beast Emperor Shen Ni and the other powerful beings about the Innate Geng Metal, Innate Ren Water, and Innate Wu Earth Spiritual Roots, and Shen Ni said he knew the location of an Innate Wu Earth Spiritual Root.

Gu Xi entered the Kirin Race’s ruined ancestral land and took the Jianmu Divine Tree from Ancestor Kirin’s secret Heavenly Cave, recovering the Kirin Race’s lost techniques and formation controls for them. Kirin Woman then pledged the Kirin Race as a subordinate of the Human Race, while Gu Xi departed for West Kunlun to seek the Peach Tree of Immortality.

• Beast Emperor Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor explained how the Kirin Race had fallen from its ancient power, and Gu Xi asked whether the Jianmu Divine Tree remained in its ancestral land.
• Kirin Woman and four Kirin Race Golden Immortals confronted Gu Xi’s group, then led them to the hidden entrance behind a waterfall.
• Gu Xi opened the secret Heavenly Cave, halted the Primordial Wu Earth Great Formation, and took the Jianmu Divine Tree with his Sleeve Universe ability.
• Gu Xi copied the ancient Kirin techniques, adjusted the formation, and gave Kirin Woman and the four Golden Immortals the formation controls as compensation.
• Kirin Woman and the four Golden Immortals pledged the Kirin Race to the Human Race, and Gu Xi told them to send elites to the Human Sacred Hall.
• Gu Xi left with Beast Emperor Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor for West Kunlun to seek the Peach Tree of Immortality.

Gu Xi visited the West Queen Mother in West Kunlun with Beast Emperor Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor, then asked her to join the Human Dao Sacred Court and hand over her Peach Tree of Immortality. She refused both demands, but Gu Xi remained confident he could persuade her.

• The West Queen Mother reflected on the Purple Mansion Immortal Court's destruction and the lasting damage it had done to her cultivation.
• Gu Xi arrived with Beast Emperor Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor, whose strength and presence shocked the West Queen Mother.
• Gu Xi criticized East King Duke's leadership, and the West Queen Mother agreed that his ambition and haste had doomed the Purple Mansion Immortal Court.
• Gu Xi identified Shen Ni as the ancient Beast Emperor and introduced Yin-Yang Ancestor, while the West Queen Mother recognized the danger they posed.
• The West Queen Mother asked Gu Xi why he had come, and he invited her to join the Human Dao Sacred Court and requested her Peach Tree of Immortality.
• The West Queen Mother angrily rejected both requests, but Gu Xi remained confident he could change her mind.

Gu Xi tried to persuade West Queen Mother to join his Human Dao Sacred Court, then challenged the belief that Primordial Violet Qi was necessary to become a Saint. His argument shook West Queen Mother, Beast Emperor Shen Ni, and Yin-Yang Ancestor, leaving them with a glimmer of hope for another path to sainthood.

• Gu Xi asked West Queen Mother why she rejected his invitation when Beast Emperor Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor had joined his Human Dao Sacred Court.
• West Queen Mother praised Gu Xi's extraordinary potential but said she believed he could reach only peak Quasi-Sage.
• Gu Xi questioned whether Primordial Violet Qi was truly essential for becoming a Primordial Chaos Saint and cited Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Demon Ancestor Luohu, and Great God Pangu.
• West Queen Mother, Beast Emperor Shen Ni, and Yin-Yang Ancestor reconsidered the accepted belief and felt a new glimmer of hope.

Gu Xi persuaded West Queen Mother to join the Human Dao Sacred Court by promising its fortune could ease the karmic obstruction clouding her Dao perception. After testing his strength and seeing him withstand her attacks, she agreed to join and gave him the Peach Tree of Immortality.

• Gu Xi explained that the Human Dao Sacred Court’s fortune could help West Queen Mother recover from the backlash caused by the Purple Mansion Immortal Court’s destruction, and revealed the court’s strength.
• West Queen Mother agreed to join if Gu Xi passed her test, promising him the Innate Ren Water Spiritual Root, the Peach Tree of Immortality, if he earned her approval.
• West Queen Mother used the Kunlun Mirror to take Gu Xi, Beast Emperor Shen Ni, and Yin-Yang Ancestor to a distant primeval forest, then attacked Gu Xi with her Extreme Yin power.
• Gu Xi countered West Queen Mother’s attacks with his Lord of Four Seasons incarnation, Human Dao Golden Body, and other Dao abilities, impressing her with his strength.
• West Queen Mother ended the test, agreed to join the Human Dao Sacred Court, and gave Gu Xi the Peach Tree of Immortality.

Gu Xi cultivated the Primordial Gold Element Dao Fruit at West Kunlun, then combined his five elemental Dao Fruits and spiritual roots to sever his self-obsession and create Five Elements Daoist. The chapter ended with Five Elements Daoist returning to Gu Xi and his Dao Practice surging.

• West Queen Mother learned the Human Dao Sacred Court's true strength and accepted that joining it had been the right choice.
• Gu Xi exchanged 300 billion Merit for the Golden Essence Ancient Tree, refined it, and cultivated the Primordial Gold Element Dao Fruit.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni, Yin-Yang Ancestor, and West Queen Mother sealed West Kunlun as Gu Xi condensed his new Dao Fruit, while other great supernatural beings mistakenly thought West Queen Mother was responsible.
• Gu Xi assembled his five elemental Dao Fruits and spiritual roots, severed his self-obsession, and formed Five Elements Daoist from the five resulting figures.
• Five Elements Daoist greeted Gu Xi, returned to the Auspicious Cloud above him, and Gu Xi's Dao Practice surged.

After severing the Five Elements Daoist incarnation, Gu Xi’s cultivation surged, and he set his sights on establishing Heavenly Tribulations while continuing to purify Hong Huang. He left West Kunlun with Beast Emperor Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor, entrusting West Queen Mother with secretly expanding the Human Dao Sacred Court.

• Gu Xi sensed that he was nearing Quasi-Saint and saw that his Innate Yin Virtue Dao Fruit had advanced after he redeemed the dead of the Dragon-Han Battlefield.
• Gu Xi considered exchanging for the Earth Immortal Orthodox Method but lacked the Merit, so he resolved to keep purifying heaven and earth and redeeming departed souls.
• Gu Xi made establishing Heavenly Tribulations a new goal, planning to use them to judge karmic sin and offer those who survived a chance to start anew.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni, Yin-Yang Ancestor, and West Queen Mother congratulated Gu Xi after he emerged from seclusion and sensed his increased Dao Practice.
• Gu Xi gave West Queen Mother the Postnatal Divine Path Secret Method and warned her to develop the Human Dao Sacred Court discreetly.
• Gu Xi departed with Beast Emperor Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor to continue purifying Hong Huang and redeeming departed souls.

Gu Xi sought a Lightning Dao Primordial Spiritual Treasure to establish heavenly tribulation and learned that the Primordial Thunder Pool belonged to the Ancient God of Thunder Swamp. He and his allies ambushed the Thunder Swamp’s owner, leaving him unconscious while they prepared to take the pool.

• Gu Xi condensed a middle-stage primordial thunder punishment dao embryo and thirty-six Thunder Ancestor Divine Talismans while searching for a Lightning Dao Primordial Spiritual Treasure.
• Four Seasons Daoist found the Primordial Thunder Pool in the Thunder Swamp and revealed that it belonged to the Ancient God of Thunder Swamp.
• Gu Xi decided to take the pool for the sake of the primordial populace and proposed knocking out the Ancient God of Thunder Swamp and making him the apparent culprit behind heavenly tribulation.
• Four Seasons Daoist, Five Elements Daoist, Beast Emperor Shen Ni, and Yin-Yang Ancestor joined Gu Xi in ambushing the Ancient God of Thunder Swamp.
• The Ancient God of Thunder Swamp tried to resist the attacks but was struck by divine powers and fell unconscious.

Gu Xi refined the Primordial Thunder Pool and established heavenly tribulation as a new law in Hong Huang, gaining a second heaven-bestowed Dao Fruit and creating a powerful incarnation to wield it. Heavenly thunder struck beings burdened with karma across the world, provoking the Witch Race, the Demon Race, and other great supernatural beings to seek the tribulation’s wielder.

• Gu Xi sent the thirty-six Thunder Ancestor Divine Talismans into the Primordial Thunder Pool and refined it while the Four Seasons Daoist, the Five Elements Daoist, Beast Emperor Shen Ni, and the Yin-Yang Ancestor guarded the altar.
• Gu Xi connected the Primordial Thunder Pool to the Heavenly Dao and established heavenly tribulation as a new law within Hong Huang.
• A Heavenly Tribulation Dao Fruit merged with Gu Xi’s primordial thunder punishment Dao embryo, and Gu Xi severed an obsession that became a towering figure seated within the heavenly tribulation laws.
• Heavenly tribulation struck karma-burdened Gods and Demons across Hong Huang, killing some and cleansing the karma of survivors.
• Di Jun, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and other great supernatural beings grew furious and sent their divine senses toward the heavenly tribulation laws to find and kill its wielder.

After establishing heavenly tribulation, Gu Xi received immense Merit and advanced to Quasi-Saint, while his Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate incarnation also rose to that realm. As hostile forces began attacking the incarnation, Gu Xi faced a new threat.

• The establishment of heavenly tribulation caused heavy losses among the Demon Race and Witch Race, whose leaders vowed to kill its creator.
• Gu Xi absorbed the Merit, transformed his Innate Merit Dao Fruit, and reached the Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate realm by uniting with the Great Dao Laws.
• Great Supernatural Beings across Hong Huang sensed the birth of a new Quasi-Saint but could not identify him because the Heavenly Secrets were obscured.
• Four Seasons Daoist, Five Elements Daoist, Beast Emperor Shen Ni, and Yin-Yang Ancestor congratulated Gu Xi on his breakthrough.
• Gu Xi saw several powerful attacks tear through time and space toward the Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate incarnation.

Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate faced a massive assault from ancient Great Supernatural Beings who opposed the tribulations, but Heavenly Punishment manifested through the tribulation laws and annihilated every attacker. The surviving powers across Hong Huang were left wary of the tribulations’ might.

• Several Great Supernatural Beings attacked Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate through the tribulation laws, but Purple Cloud Divine Thunder killed the first attackers and destroyed their Dao Fruits.
• Ancient hidden powers unleashed magic treasures and divine abilities against Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate, while the Three Pure Ones, Demon Race, and Twelve Ancestral Witches watched rather than intervened.
• Gu Xi refused Shen Ni, Yin-Yang Ancestor, Four Seasons Daoist, and Five Elements Daoist’s offer to help, declaring that the attackers had defied heaven.
• Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate used the tribulation laws to summon nine-clawed thunder dragons empowered by Heavenly Punishment.
• The thunder dragons shattered the attackers’ magic treasures and killed the hidden Great Supernatural Beings wherever they were concealed, bringing blood rain across Hong Huang.

After Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate slaughtered the Great Supernatural Beings who attacked him, the Demon Race and Witch Race decided not to challenge him again for now. He shared the surviving treasures with Gu Xi, Five Elements Daoist, and Four Seasons Daoist, while keeping the Boundless Golden Pagoda.

• The gods and demons across Hong Huang feared Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate after Heavenly Punishment killed the attacking Great Supernatural Beings.
• Di Jun judged that attacking Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate risked another Heavenly Punishment, so he ordered the Demon Race to gather intelligence and wait for a better opportunity.
• Houtu persuaded the Twelve Ancestral Witches to avoid fighting Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate, and Di Jiang and the others reluctantly agreed.
• Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate recovered four surviving Primordial Spiritual Treasures and regretted that Heavenly Punishment had destroyed several others.
• Thunder Punishment Heavenly Venerate gave the Creation Heavenly Tablet, Great Evolution Divine Furnace, and Yellow Springs Treasure Wheel to Gu Xi, while keeping the Boundless Golden Pagoda.
• Five Elements Daoist took the Creation Heavenly Tablet, Four Seasons Daoist took the Great Evolution Divine Furnace, and Gu Xi kept the Yellow Springs Treasure Wheel.

Gu Xi’s scheme left the Ancient God of Thunder Swamp blamed for creating the heavenly tribulations and hunted by powerful gods and demons. After repaying his debt, Gu Xi borrowed ten trillion merit, leaving him with 10.2 trillion merit and a ten-trillion debt.

• Gu Xi and the others departed after undoing the seal on the Ancient God of Thunder Swamp, who awoke to find his Primordial Thunder Pool missing.
• The Ancient God of Thunder Swamp attacked the gods and demons who arrived, and they accused him of creating the heavenly tribulations before overwhelming him.
• The Ancient God of Thunder Swamp escaped with his primordial spirit and Dao Fruit as the attackers pursued him, unaware that a sacred white lotus image had appeared within him.
• Gu Xi checked his information interface and found that his realm had risen to Early Quasi-Saint and his merit had reached 1.2 trillion.
• Gu Xi repaid his one-trillion merit debt, raising his borrowable credit to ten trillion, then borrowed the full amount.

Gu Xi exchanged for the Earth Immortal Orthodox Method and planned to claim the Book of Life and Death to establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation. The chapter left him preparing to pursue the Merit and status of Netherworld Sovereign tied to that achievement.

• Gu Xi saw that he had accumulated 102 trillion Merit points and decided to spend them on items that advanced his path rather than stockpiling Innate Supreme Treasures.
• Gu Xi exchanged 1 trillion Merit for the Earth Immortal Orthodox Method and learned that it let cultivators refine inner blessed lands and Heavenly Caves while earning Merit by working with Earth Spirit Apertures and Earth Veins.
• Gu Xi identified the Book of Life and Death, priced at 900 billion Merit, as a crucial treasure for his plan to establish the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Gu Xi recalled how Houtu transformed herself into reincarnation, became Netherworld Sovereign, and helped preserve the Witch Race's inheritance after the Witches and Demons' final battle.

Gu Xi cultivated the Earth Immortal Orthodox Method and restored a baleful-qi-contaminated Earth Spirit Aperture, discovering that repairing the earth granted him spiritual energy, blessing virtue qi, and Merit. He passed the method on to his allies and followers, whose efforts to restore Hong Huang’s earth veins gave rise to the Heaven and Earth Position of Ancestor of Earth Immortals.

• Gu Xi cultivated the Earth Immortal Orthodox Method, opening an Inner Scenery Earth Gate and beginning to condense a Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land within himself.
• Gu Xi cleansed and restored a contaminated Earth Spirit Aperture, drawing its spiritual energy into his Inner Scenery Earth Gate and gaining blessing virtue qi and Merit.
• Beast Emperor Shen Ni and Yin-Yang Ancestor praised the method, and Gu Xi explained how Ghosts and Deities could use it to repair the netherworld’s earth yin apertures once the netherworld opened.
• Gu Xi passed the method to Beast Emperor Shen Ni, Yin-Yang Ancestor, the Ghosts and Deities, and had Five Elements Daoist and Four Seasons Daoist carry it to Penglai Island and the Human Race.
• Dao Lord Fuyao, Dao Lord Fubo, Daoist Qingyue, Suiren Shi, and others spread the method, and practitioners began repairing Earth Spirit Apertures and earth veins throughout Hong Huang.
• The Origin of the Great Dao stirred and formed the Heaven and Earth Position of Ancestor of Earth Immortals, shocking Hong Huang’s Great Supernatural Beings.

Gu Xi obtained the Ancestor of Earth Immortals Heaven and Earth Position, provoking envy and alarm among the Three Pure Ones, the Western Daoists, the Demon Race, and the Witch Race. Zhen Yuanzi recognized Gu Xi as a kindred spirit and decided to help him carry forward the Earth Immortal Dao.

• The Ancestor of Earth Immortals Heaven and Earth Position descended upon Gu Xi, and Great Supernatural Beings across Hong Huang reacted with envy and surprise.
• Yuanshi resented Gu Xi’s growing authority and fortune, while Tongtian admired him and considered befriending him.
• Di Jun decided the Demon Race would avoid confronting Gu Xi directly for now and instead suppress the Human Race.
• Di Jiang urged the Ancestral Witches to focus on the Demon Race and its possible Star Array of the Heavens rather than act against Gu Xi.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized Gu Xi’s goals aligned with his own plans to restore Earth Spirit Apertures and Earth Veins, then resolved to help Gu Xi advance the Earth Immortal Dao.