Chapter Summaries

Han Su and the others discussed who should rule the Heavenly Court before the sky over the Ten Domains suddenly shattered. Hong Yuan had opened the breach with the World-Destroying Millstone, and Chaos floods drowned the Ten Domains, killing all its inhabitants as the disaster spread toward the Nine Domains.

• Wu E explained that the human race controlled the Heavenly Court but could not enter the palaces above the Thirty-Six Heavens, while Houtu said Nuwa would yield it to Han Su once she learned of Second Uncle’s arrangement.
• Han Su objected that the human race should not leave because she needed people to do the work.
• A tremendous boom shattered the sky above the Ten Domains, and Chaos Qi poured through a spreading breach.
• Han Su, Houtu, and the others rushed toward the disaster as Chaos floods twisted space and laws, destroyed the land, and swallowed living beings.
• Hong Yuan watched from the void with the World-Destroying Millstone, while Xuangui recalled how Hong Yuan had used it to annihilate the Four Directions God Protection Array and tear open the sky.
• The breach and floods engulfed the Ten Domains and advanced toward the Nine Domains, leaving no living beings alive in the Ten Domains.

Hong Yuan left the ruined heavens after secretly arranging for Yangmei and Luohu to take the blame, leaving the Black Tortoise behind as the Saints arrived. The Saints began stabilizing the breach, while Hong Yuan’s tampering made Shen Ni blame Yangmei and Luohu, and Yangmei sensed that something was wrong.

• Lingzhuzi absorbed the death aura from the Chaos torrent as its black patterns spread, while Hong Yuan put away the World-Destroying Millstone and prepared to leave.
• Hong Yuan told the Black Tortoise to stay and help the arriving Saints, then vanished despite the Black Tortoise’s desperate pleas.
• Houtu, Han Su, the Three Pure Ones, and the other Saints arrived, and Han Su urged them to stabilize the breach before it destroyed more than the Ten Domains.
• The Saints deduced that Yangmei and Luohu had caused the breach, and Hong Yuan’s ripple erased Shen Ni’s doubts and made him blame them.
• Yangmei, in the Outer Heavens, suddenly felt his body grow heavier and suspected that someone was plotting against him.

Yang Mei suspected Hong Yuan had sent him into the Outer Heavens to gather treasures, then continued searching. Meanwhile, the Primordial Origin Golden Immortals failed to mend the widening breach, so they split up to restrain the Chaos torrent and protect the living beings below.

• Yang Mei wondered whether Hong Yuan was setting him up again, but decided not to pursue the matter and continued gathering treasures in the Outer Heavens.
• The twenty-one Primordial Origin Golden Immortals tried to mend the heavenly breach, but its vast size and terrifying Dao Rhyme caused their repairs to fail as the Chaos torrent spread into the Nine Domains.
• Yuanshi and Ancestral Dragon urged the group to contain the Chaos torrent first, and Primordial Phoenix proposed that they split up to restrain it while others evacuated and protected the living beings.
• Xuan Gui volunteered to lead the living beings of the Nine Domains to safety, then hurried away as Wu E, Ming He, and others followed him.
• Shen Ni used his enormous true form to hold back the torrent, while Gong Gong, Zhu Rong, and Ru Shou joined the effort; Taishang and the others then began attacking as well.

As Chaos torrents swallowed much of the Nine Domains, Supreme, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and other cultivators worked to hold back the disaster while Xuangui and the others rescued the remaining inhabitants. Ping Peng arrived after the rescue was complete and exchanged pointed courtesies with Xuangui, leaving their rivalry unresolved.

• Supreme, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and the other cultivators used their treasures and formations to resist the Chaos torrents and the Dao Rhyme pouring through the breach in the sky.
• Xuangui grew into a mountain-sized divine turtle and invited the fleeing inhabitants of the Nine Domains onto his back.
• Ming He, Wu E, and the other cultivators rescued and settled the surviving inhabitants on Xuangui before Ping Peng arrived.
• Ming He worried that Ping Peng and Xuangui would fight, while Wu E admitted no concern and watched expectantly.
• Ping Peng and Xuangui exchanged polite but pointed remarks, and Ping Peng revealed that he had handed the duties of Emperor Fengdu to Ming He.

Ping Peng and the Black Tortoise postponed their contest over who would stay by Ming He's side, while the Saints contained the Chaos torrent pouring through a breach in the heavens but could not repair it. Han Su proposed that Nuwa use mud to patch the breach.

• Ping Peng and the Black Tortoise traded veiled threats over the Mountain God position and who could accompany Ming He, then agreed to test their strength after the crisis was resolved.
• Wu E decided to return to the Hong Yuan Realm and open a betting pool on their future fight.
• Twenty-one Primordial Origin Golden Immortals stopped the Chaos torrent from pouring through the breach, but they could not mend the heavens.
• Zhunti suggested seeking the Dao Venerable, but Jieyin and Zhen Yuanzi argued that the Saints should handle the problem themselves.
• Han Su asked Nuwa whether she could use mud to patch the breach, leaving Nuwa uncertain if it would work.

Nuwa tested ways to mend the sky and discovered that Five-Colored Stone mixed with Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Merit Coins could form exceptionally durable concrete. She began patching the gaps but needed more stone and Merit Coins, leaving the gathered immortals arguing over how to pay.

• Nuwa's Nine Heavens Breathing Soil crumbled when she tried to use it to fill a gap in the sky, so Han Su suggested adding stones to the mud.
• Nuwa tested stones supplied by the Primordial Origin Golden Immortals and found that Five-Colored Stone mixed with Nine Heavens Breathing Soil created strong, self-repairing concrete.
• Nuwa added Merit Coins to the mixture, strengthening it further, and began using the concrete to mend the sky.
• Nuwa ran short of Five-Colored Stone and asked the others to contribute Merit Coins, prompting them to pressure Zhen Yuanzi to pay most of the cost.
• Zhen Yuanzi agreed to pay twenty percent while the other twenty Primordial Origin Golden Immortals split the rest, but Zhunti asked him for a loan, angering him.

Nuwa returned with the Five-Colored Stones and refined them with Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and pooled Merit Coins into concrete to mend the gap in the heavens. As she and her avatars prepared to seal it, survivors across the domains prayed for the repair to succeed.

• Jieyin and Zhunti failed to borrow Merit Coins from Zhen Yuanzi, but Hong Yun lent them eighty billion.
• The group pooled one trillion Merit Coins, including forty billion lent by Houtu to Han Su, while Nuwa searched for Five-Colored Stones.
• After several hundred thousand years, Nuwa returned carrying enough Five-Colored Stones to form a mass as large as a great thousand world.
• Nuwa combined the Five-Colored Stones, Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and Merit Coins into concrete and created seventy avatars to carry it to the heavenly gap.
• Survivors across the domains prayed as Nuwa's avatars flew toward the gap, grateful that the Saints had stopped the chaotic torrents from becoming a world-ending disaster.

Nuwa and the Primordial Grand Unity experts completed the repair of the sky, strengthened it with the living beings’ wishes, and received vast merit. Nuwa discovered that the leftover concrete also held merit, discarded it, and prepared to return so she could send Fuxi into Reincarnation.

• Nuwa placed the concrete into the sky’s crack, and its crystalline tendrils spread until the gap closed.
• Nuwa fused the accumulated wishing power into the repaired sky barrier, strengthening it as merit gathered across heaven and earth.
• The merit descended, with Nuwa and Zhen Yuanzi receiving the largest shares and the other participants receiving portions for their contributions.
• Nuwa noticed that the concrete left in her hand could receive merit, deduced what it meant, and threw it away before Jieyin and Zhunti could obtain it.
• Nuwa bid farewell to Han Su, Shen Ni, Primordial Phoenix, and the others, then prepared to return and send Fuxi into Reincarnation using his preserved true spirit.

Han Su announced that she would take charge of the Heavenly Court and invited powerful figures to help govern its palaces. Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, First Qilin, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti agreed to send External Bodies, while Han Su revealed that Cuiwei would be the Heavenly Emperor and ordered her junior brothers and sisters to join her.

• Han Su told Wu E, Ping Peng, Black Tortoise, and the others that they would accompany her to the Heavenly Court.
• Han Su declared that she intended to take charge of the Heavenly Court and asked the Primordial Golden Immortals to lend their help.
• Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and First Qilin agreed to join the Heavenly Court through External Bodies guarding it.
• Han Su revealed that the reincarnated human infant Cuiwei would be the Heavenly Emperor and told the three rulers to address her as Emperor Lord.
• Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti agreed to help Han Su, and she ordered Ping Peng, Wu E, Black Tortoise, and her other junior brothers and sisters to go with her.

Han Su led Ping Peng, Xuan Gui, and others toward the Heavenly Court, while Yuanshi discovered Lingzhuzi in the Chaos and named it the Chaos Bead. Hong Yuan summoned his followers to help Han Su, and a fragment of battle intent entered the concrete Nuwa had discarded.

• Ping Peng and Xuan Gui argued over who would go to the Heavenly Court, so Han Su ordered both to go and fight, with the loser staying behind to work.
• Han Su led Ping Peng, Xuan Gui, and others toward the Heavenly Court, accompanied by External Bodies sent by Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, First Qilin, Nuwa, and others.
• Yuanshi followed a sense of fate into the Chaos, found Lingzhuzi, and named the black-and-white bead the Chaos Bead.
• Hong Yuan summoned the boys and girls in the Hong Yuan Realm to help Han Su, and Shuo Feng and Zi Qiao organized nearly two thousand Primordial Origin Golden Immortals to depart.
• The concrete Nuwa had discarded landed on a divine mountain near the East Sea, and a fragmentary origin filled with battle intent entered it.

Han Su, Nuwa, and the others arrived at the South Heaven Gate, where human soldiers feared the flood and blamed Yang Mei and Luohu for the devastation. After one soldier cursed the two ancestors, he became entangled in deadly Causality, and the group left without intervening.

• Human Heavenly Soldiers at the South Heaven Gate mourned the people lost to the Chaotic flood and the collapse of the Ten Domains.
• A Heavenly Soldier cursed Yang Mei and Luohu, and his commander ordered him taken away for punishment.
• The South Heaven Gate shook as Han Su, Nuwa, Primordial Phoenix, and the others arrived, forcing the soldiers to prostrate themselves.
• The soldier begged Yang Mei and Luohu to spare humanity, while Xuangui hid his unease and Ping Peng wondered about his behavior.
• Han Su and Nuwa recognized that the soldier's Causality left him facing death, and they continued on without helping him.

Han Su took control of the Jiangxiao Xuanguang Palace and received the Heavenly Book, which could appoint gods and govern the Thirty-Six Heavens. She postponed the Investiture of Gods until Cuiwei was stronger and the time was right, then left the palace with the Heavenly Book put away.

• Nuwa ordered the human quasi-sages to leave the Thirty-Six Heavens, and they took the humans with them.
• Han Su entered the Jiangxiao Xuanguang Palace, which welcomed her and granted her control along with two Innate Supreme Treasures.
• The Heavenly Book emerged from the Imperial Ziwei Palace, and Han Su discovered it could confer divine positions and assign people to heavenly palaces.
• Han Su decided not to begin the Investiture of Gods yet, reasoning that Cuiwei needed to grow stronger and another Kalpa would harm the Primordial Wilderness.
• Han Su considered which allies might receive divine positions, put away the Heavenly Book, and left the Jiangxiao Xuanguang Palace.

Han Su reunited with Zi Qiao and the other disciples who had arrived on the Dao Venerable’s instructions, then began assigning divine offices with the Heavenly Book. Zi Qiao became Bimawen and was tasked with finding horses for the Heavenly Court, while Han Su offered Wu E a post guarding one of the Four Great Heavenly Gates.

• Han Su greeted Zi Qiao, Shuo Feng, and the other disciples, who said they had come on the Dao Venerable’s instructions.
• Nuwa, Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and the other avatars greeted the newcomers as fellow Daoists and explained that their true selves still guarded the Four Extremes.
• Han Su presented the Heavenly Book and asked Zi Qiao and the others what divine offices they wanted.
• Zi Qiao requested a leisurely position, so Han Su appointed her Bimawen and told her to catch horses because the Heavenly Court had none.
• Han Su asked Wu E to choose one of the Heavenly Court’s Four Great Heavenly Gates to guard.

Han Su assigned posts in the Heavenly Court, including making Wu E guardian of the South Heaven Gate and naming Black Tortoise Marshal Tianpeng, while arranging a contest between Black Tortoise and Ping Peng. Meanwhile, Hong Yuan used the end of the Human-Demon Calamity and Nuwa’s work mending heaven to pursue his final Great Dao Law, then absorbed a pill that unleashed a torrent of law comprehension within him.

• Han Su appointed Wu E guardian of the South Heaven Gate and warned that anyone who entered without permission would make him serve as a Heavenly Horse.
• Wu E taunted Zi Qiao about her low rank, and Zi Qiao smiled when she realized she could ride him if someone broke into the Heavenly Court.
• Han Su assigned Black Tortoise to govern the Heavenly River as Marshal Tianpeng, then ordered him and Ping Peng to fight, with the loser staying to work for her and guarding the river.
• Han Su gave Shuo Feng the title of Great Emperor Ziwei and appointed Nuwa, Primordial Phoenix, Ancestral Dragon, and First Qilin to high Heavenly Court posts.
• Hong Yuan realized Nuwa’s mending of heaven had helped him comprehend the three-thousandth Great Dao Law and prepared to break through to the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Hong Yuan absorbed the Great Tonic Pill he had made from the laws and origins of Yang Mei, Qiankun, and others, releasing a torrent of Dao Rhyme and law comprehension within him.

Hong Yuan completed his comprehension of the Three Thousand Great Daos and broke through to a realm where he could create an independent cosmos. When the Demon Realm began collapsing and Mo Luo feared Luohu had died, Hong Yuan arrived and restored Luohu from an indestructible spiritual light.

• Hong Yuan completed the final law rune, absorbed the Three Thousand Great Daos, and broke through his bottleneck.
• Hong Yuan demonstrated his new power by creating and then erasing a miniature cosmos, and concluded that he had become vastly stronger.
• Hong Yuan sensed the Demon Realm collapsing and found Mo Luo and the Demon Race watching the Demon Ancestor's demonic Dao power dissipate.
• Hong Yuan told Mo Luo that Luohu could not die, then admitted he could not deduce what had happened to him.
• Hong Yuan drew Luohu's indestructible spiritual light from the Primordial Wilderness and restored him before Mo Luo.

Luohu returned from the Outer Heavens only to be destroyed by a terrifying force that annihilated the Demon Realm, and Hong Yuan fought it off with his treasures and Daoist powers. After restoring Luohu, Hong Yuan learned that Luohu had discovered an independent universe beyond the Primordial Wilderness, whose Great Dao attacked him as he tried to leave.

• Luohu warned Hong Yuan, then disintegrated as an overwhelming force erupted, destroying Mo Luo and the entire Demon Realm.
• Hong Yuan used the Universe Cauldron, the World-Destroying Millstone, and the Three Thousand Great Daos to confront the force, while the Three Paths and the saints stabilized the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hong Yuan survived the clash with injuries and restored Luohu after the fluctuation dissipated.
• Luohu told Hong Yuan that he had crossed a Chaos ripple into an independent universe and was attacked by its Great Dao when he tried to return.

After Luohu revealed the threat of another universe, Hong Yuan’s system reappeared and offered him three choices; he chose to send Luohu and the others to investigate while he stayed behind. When Hong Yuan asked Great Dao about the other universe, Great Dao punished Luohu and showed Hong Yuan a glimpse of a terrifying Dao Sea.

• Hong Yuan considered the danger posed by the unknown universe and decided he needed to investigate it.
• The system reappeared and offered Hong Yuan three choices, including attacking the other universe, sending Luohu and the others to scout, or defecting to the enemy.
• Hong Yuan chose to send Luohu and the others to investigate, earning a reward that would reduce Pangu’s awakening time tenfold.
• Hong Yuan asked Great Dao to explain the other universe, and Great Dao’s gaze struck Luohu, destroying his head without harming his origin.
• Great Dao showed Hong Yuan a vast Dao Sea whose every drop of water carried an aura comparable to Pangu’s.

Hong Yuan discovered that the Primordial Wilderness and Dad Great Dao might be only one petal of a nine-colored lotus, and he planned to send Luohu, Yang Mei, and the others to investigate another universe. When Hong Yuan and Luohu returned to the Primordial Wilderness, they found it divided into ten separate continents.

• Hong Yuan saw a nine-colored lotus in the Dao Sea and sensed the Primordial Wilderness and Dad Great Dao on one of its petals.
• Hong Yuan decided he needed to awaken Pangu and planned to send Luohu, Yang Mei, and the others to another universe.
• Luohu initially refused, but he agreed after Hong Yuan promised to revive him and pressed him to help protect the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hong Yuan summoned Yang Mei and the others to leave indestructible spiritual lights behind, and planned to prepare concealment treasures blessed by Dad Great Dao.
• Hong Yuan and Luohu returned to the Primordial Wilderness and found it divided into ten separate continents.

Hong Yuan returned to find the Primordial Wilderness shattered into ten domains after his clash with a mysterious force, then revived those who had fallen. Han Su told Di Jun she had sensed a trace of Tai Yi’s indestructible spiritual light and secured Di Jun’s promises to join her Heavenly Court; Yang Mei returned and sensed Hong Yuan’s familiar aura alongside an unknown one.

• Hong Yuan saw that the Primordial Wilderness had broken into ten domains and greeted the Saints and Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortals who gathered before him.
• Hong Yuan revived Qiong Qi, Mo Luo, and the others who had died in the clash.
• Han Su told Di Jun she had sensed Tai Yi’s indestructible spiritual light in the Sun Palace, and Di Jun agreed to join her Heavenly Court along with his family and Tai Yi.
• Hong Yuan told everyone to wait instead of explaining the clash, while he waited for Yang Mei and the others to return.
• Yang Mei returned, saw the shattered Primordial Wilderness, and sensed Hong Yuan’s familiar aura beside an unfamiliar, terrifying one.

Hong Yuan told the gathered saints that Luohu had encountered a powerful Primordial Tai Chi expert from another universe and that their strength might exceed his own. He urged them to cultivate, develop the human race, and prepare to explore that universe, leaving Yang Mei, Luohu, Five Elements, Qiankun, and Causality committed to the dangerous mission despite their protests.

• Luohu recounted his encounter with another universe and the attack by its Primordial Tai Chi expert, and Hong Yuan admitted he might lose to that foe.
• Yang Mei asked whether the other universe had endured the calamity of creation, but Hong Yuan said he did not know.
• Hong Yuan urged the saints to cultivate quickly and told Nuwa to develop the human race, noting that it might produce several more saints.
• Hong Yuan called for an exploration of the other universe and credited Yang Mei, Luohu, Five Elements, Qiankun, and Causality with gathering intelligence.
• The saints thanked the patriarchs, while Yang Mei and the others realized Hong Yuan had volunteered them for the mission; Luohu accepted, and they reluctantly followed suit.