Chapter Summaries

Hong Yuan explained that Pangu’s awakening depended on the Primordial Wilderness’s origin and ordered the saints to join future kalpas, while he sent Yangmei and the others to investigate a distant universe. At the Heavenly Court, Han Su and Nuwa revealed the Kongtong Seal and called on the assembled powers to guide humanity’s Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

• Hong Yuan warned that an uncreated universe could hold hundreds of thousands of living Chaos Demon Gods, and said Pangu would be needed if they threatened the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hong Yuan ordered every force under the saints to enter future kalpas, where the losers would die and the winners would live, then sent the saints and their forces away.
• Hong Yuan kept Fu Xiao, Luohu, Yangmei, Five Elements, Qiankun, and Causality behind to investigate the unfamiliar universe, telling them he would prepare to revive them if they died.
• The saints gathered at the Heavenly Court, where Han Su said humanity needed to rise and grow as the Primordial Wilderness prepared for what lay ahead.
• Nuwa presented the Kongtong Seal and explained that humanity’s rise required the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, who needed guidance; Han Su asked the gathered powers to send teachers.

Nuwa proposed auctioning the positions of Teacher of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors after the factions failed to agree on how to divide them. The others accepted her plan, leaving Jieyin and Zhunti silently worried that their Western Teachings could not compete for the positions.

• Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Di Jiang claimed positions for their factions, while Zhunti and Zhu Rong argued over whether the Western Teachings deserved one.
• Di Jun proposed that Di Jiang yield a position for the Demon Race, but Jieyin, Hong Yun, Ming He, and Zhen Yuanzi rejected the arrangement.
• Nuwa suggested auctioning the positions for Merit Coin, and the gathered powers agreed to let the highest bidders win.
• Jieyin and Zhunti remained gloomy as they realized the Western Teachings had too little Merit Coin to compete with the others.

Nuwa auctioned the Five Emperors and Three Sovereigns teaching positions, and the saints competed with rapidly rising bids. Hong Yun won the Teacher of the Human Emperor position for five billion Merit Coins, leaving the remaining Sovereign positions to be auctioned.

• Nuwa opened the auction for the Five Emperors positions, and Jieyin, Zhunti, Di Jun, Tongtian, and Di Jiang competed for them.
• Di Jiang revealed that the Witch Clan had created several dozen Great Witches from the Ancestral Witches’ essence blood.
• Di Jiang, Tongtian, Jieyin, Ming He, and Di Jun each obtained one of the Five Emperors positions for prices averaging around three hundred million Merit Coins.
• Nuwa began the Three Sovereigns auction with the Teacher of the Human Emperor position, and the bids climbed to billions of Merit Coins.
• Hong Yun outbid the others and secured the Teacher of the Human Emperor position for five billion Merit Coins.

After the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors’ teachers were chosen, Fuxi was born into the Hua Xu Tribe and began searching for a way to help his people. The chapter ended with an elderly Daoist appearing near him.

• Hong Yun secured the position of Teacher of the Human Emperor, Zhen Yuanzi became Teacher of the Earth Emperor, and Yuanshi won the position of Teacher of the Heavenly Emperor.
• The human race expanded across Domains Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten, while conflicts between its tribes grew more frequent.
• Hua Xu Shi became pregnant after stepping into a mysterious footprint at Lei Ze, and she gave birth to Fuxi after carrying him for twelve thousand years.
• The people of the Hua Xu Tribe accepted Fuxi, who showed exceptional intelligence and wanted to help them.
• Fuxi noticed an elderly Daoist had appeared nearby.

Antarctic Immortal Elder appeared before Fuxi and offered to teach him the principles of Heaven and Earth and the Dao of Yin Yang. Fuxi accepted him as Teacher, hoping to complete a calendar that would help the Hua Xu Tribe and humanity, but Antarctic Immortal Elder shook his head when Fuxi asked when he would teach him.

• Fuxi recognized that the mysterious Daoist was a powerful outsider and respectfully asked his purpose.
• Antarctic Immortal Elder introduced himself as a disciple of the Chan Teaching and said he had come to form a master-disciple bond with Fuxi.
• Fuxi asked what Antarctic Immortal Elder could teach him, and Antarctic Immortal Elder promised guidance in the principles of Heaven and Earth and the Dao of Yin Yang.
• Antarctic Immortal Elder examined Fuxi’s calendar design and offered advice to help him develop it.
• Fuxi accepted Antarctic Immortal Elder as his Teacher and asked when he would teach him to complete the calendar, but Antarctic Immortal Elder shook his head.

Fuxi met Antarctic Immortal Elder, accepted him as his teacher, and learned he needed to study the principles of the Heavenly Dao to develop his calendar. After explaining his apprenticeship to Hua Xu Shi, he prepared to leave for the nearby mountain to study.

• Antarctic Immortal Elder showed Fuxi how the movements of the stars corresponded to Yin Yang and offered to teach him the knowledge needed to perfect his calendar.
• Fuxi accepted Antarctic Immortal Elder as his teacher and received a jade talisman to summon him if trouble arose on the way back to his tribe.
• Fuxi returned to the Hua Xu Tribe and told Hua Xu Shi that he had met and become the disciple of Antarctic Immortal Elder.
• Hua Xu Shi checked that Fuxi was unharmed, then urged him to leave quickly so he would not keep his teacher waiting.
• Fuxi asked whether Hua Xu Shi would miss him, and she explained that the nearby mountain was close enough for them to visit each other.

Fuxi said farewell to the Hua Xu Tribe and climbed the mountain to seek his master, the Antarctic Immortal Elder. An old woman lured him into a boiling cauldron, where he lost consciousness and melted into her soup.

• Fuxi told the Hua Xu Tribe chieftain that he had taken an immortal elder as his master, and the chieftain gave him the tortoiseshell from his birth divination.
• The Hua Xu Tribe gathered to see Fuxi off, and Hua Xu Shi and the chieftain gave him supplies and a jade pendant.
• Fuxi rode through the clouds to the mountain and found his cultivation and physical strength suppressed as he began to climb.
• A kindly-looking old woman appeared and offered Fuxi a bowl of meat soup.
• The old woman trapped Fuxi in a bronze cauldron and boiled him until his body melted into the soup.

Fuxi endured repeated deaths during strange encounters with an old woman before reaching Antarctic Immortal Elder and beginning his studies. After mastering his teacher’s lessons and advancing his cultivation, Fuxi left to create the calendar he had envisioned.

• Fuxi woke after his first death and encountered the old woman again, who burned him to ashes when he had not helped her carry firewood.
• Fuxi repeatedly died in encounters with the old woman, nine times in all, before finally reaching the mountaintop.
• Antarctic Immortal Elder welcomed Fuxi and began teaching him, having worried when Fuxi had vanished for several thousand years.
• Fuxi quickly mastered Antarctic Immortal Elder’s teachings and advanced from early True Immortal to late Mystic Immortal.
• Antarctic Immortal Elder urged Fuxi to put his idea into practice and create the calendar, offering to remain available for advice.

Fuxi completed humanity’s calendar with Antarctic Immortal Elder’s guidance, earning immense merit and advancing to the early Grand Unity Golden Immortal stage. The Three Ancestors recognized him as humanity’s destined supreme ruler but decided to observe him before entrusting him with leadership.

• Antarctic Immortal Elder promised to remain on Cloud Platform Peak so Fuxi could seek his guidance, and Fuxi gratefully accepted.
• Fuxi devoted himself to creating a calendar, consulting Antarctic Immortal Elder whenever he encountered difficulties.
• After fifty thousand years, Fuxi completed a calendar of 365-day years, twenty-four solar terms, four seasons, and eight seasonal festivals, causing humanity’s fortune to surge.
• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi deduced that Fuxi had Imperial Dao Nine-Nine Destiny and was humanity’s innate supreme ruler, then debated whether to bring him to their sacred land.
• The Three Ancestors chose to let Fuxi’s calendar take effect and observe him before deciding whether to place humanity under his leadership.
• Heaven and earth bestowed merit on Fuxi, and his cultivation rose from the late Mystic Immortal stage to the early Grand Unity Golden Immortal stage.

Fuxi spread his calendar among humanity, then worried over disorderly relationships in the growing Hua Xu Tribe and went to seek Antarctic Immortal Elder's advice. Meanwhile, Luohu, Yangmei, Five Elements, Qiankun, Causality, Fu Xiao, and Hong Yuan's External Body gathered at the unknown universe's entrance, nervous about entering it.

• Fuxi returned to the Hua Xu Tribe, taught its people his calendar, and asked them to help spread it.
• The calendar gained renown throughout humanity, and the Hua Xu Tribe grew into the strongest tribe in the region as people joined it.
• Fuxi discovered that chaotic unions were causing disputes and children to lack known fathers, so he decided to establish rules for relationships and inheritance.
• Unable to devise those rules himself, Fuxi went to seek Antarctic Immortal Elder's advice.
• Luohu, Yangmei, Five Elements, Qiankun, Causality, Fu Xiao, and Hong Yuan's External Body appeared deep in the Outer Heavens at the unknown universe's location.
• Qiankun and the others recalled their fear of fighting Pangu and admitted they were even more nervous about entering the unknown universe.

Hong Yuan prepared six bone tokens for the group’s journey into another universe and explained that the other Great Dao would not intervene directly. He then revealed six powerful items he had processed for them, leaving the group to face what lay ahead with greater confidence.

• Yang Mei teased Luohu about having died several times, easing the group’s anxiety about their journey.
• Hong Yuan gave the group six bone tokens that could conceal them from powerful beings, and explained to Fu Xiao why the tokens could not hide them from the other universe’s Great Dao.
• Hong Yuan assured Fu Xiao and the others that the other Great Dao would not directly attack them, though it might guide beings under its influence.
• Hong Yuan recalled that his mysterious system could evade detection by both Pangu and the Great Dao, and wondered about its connection to a vast, mysterious lotus.
• Hong Yuan announced that he had processed the items the group had entrusted to him, then revealed six objects surrounded by immense auras.

Hong Yuan prepared imitation Chaos Spirit Treasures for Yang Mei and the others before leading them through a hidden spatial ripple toward an unknown universe. They endured the Cosmic Embryonic Membrane and emerged into a chaotic world unlike the Primordial Wilderness universe.

• Hong Yuan gave Yang Mei, Fu Xiao, Five Elements, Qiankun, Luohu, and Causality imitation treasures that could briefly wield the power of their genuine counterparts.
• Hong Yuan revealed that he and Fu Xiao would also use imitations made with the Universe Cauldron.
• Hong Yuan led the group to the subtle spatial ripple Luohu had discovered and stepped through it first.
• Hong Yuan and the others crossed the Cosmic Embryonic Membrane without difficulty.
• Hong Yuan emerged into a chaotic world unlike the Primordial Wilderness universe.

Hong Yuan and the Chaos Demon Gods entered a hostile new universe and split up to gather information, relying on bone tokens to conceal themselves. The universe’s Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortals discovered the intrusion too late and began searching for the newcomers, while Quan Hong described his earlier clash with an unknown expert.

• Hong Yuan and the others found that the new universe’s laws differed from the Primordial Wilderness, and Yang Mei and Five Elements sensed their abilities were suppressed.
• Hong Yuan failed to deduce information about the universe, then sent the group off in separate directions to investigate.
• The Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortals received the Great Dao’s warning about intruders, and Quan Hong found no trace of them at their arrival point.
• Hao Shi and the other experts joined Quan Hong, examined the area, and resolved to hunt down the intruders.
• Hao Shi asked Quan Hong about the expert who had stopped his attack, and Quan Hong estimated that the expert was not much stronger than him.

Hong Yuan explored a vast universe and found a star river made up of countless Great Thousand Worlds. After capturing and killing Shi Ke, he gained memories that might help him learn more about this universe.

• Hao Shi calmed himself after Quan Hong suggested the intruder might be weaker than him, then decided to find the newcomer and seek information.
• Hong Yuan searched the universe for thousands of years until he sensed an immense aura resembling the Primordial Wilderness Continent.
• Hong Yuan reached a vast river of stars and explored the Yang Xia Great Thousand World, but found it too weak to provide useful information.
• Hong Yuan entered a larger Great Thousand World and seized Shi Ke, a late Primordial Origin Golden Immortal, from within his clan.
• Shi Ke begged for his life, but Hong Yuan crushed him and obtained his memories.

Hong Yuan learned about the Primordial Universe’s powerful rulers and went to investigate a Saint’s dojo. Finding the Saint absent, he destroyed the dojo and thousands of surrounding Great Thousand Worlds to buy time for his true body to develop.

• Hong Yuan learned that nine Chaos Demon Gods ruled the Primordial Star Sea, which was divided into nine regions overseen by twenty-seven Star Domain Saints.
• Hong Yuan compared the Primordial Universe’s vast forces with the Primordial Wilderness and decided to find a Saint to assess their strength.
• Hong Yuan followed Shi Ke’s memories to the Nine Xuan Saint’s dojo, arriving to find the Saint absent.
• Hong Yuan sensed that the Nine Xuan Saint had reached only the sixth level of Primordial Grand Unity and decided to start causing trouble.
• Hong Yuan unleashed the Dao Rhyme of three thousand laws, obliterating the Nine Xuan Saint’s dojo, its attendants, and thousands of surrounding Great Thousand Worlds.

Hong Yuan destroyed Nine Xuan Saint’s Dojo and seized its treasury, prompting the nine Saint Ancestors to rally the Saints against the outsiders. The Saints returned to their Dojos with marks that would let the ancestors kill the intruders, while the hunt for Hong Yuan’s companions began.

• Hong Yuan annihilated Nine Xuan Saint’s Dojo with the Three Thousand Great Daos, then took its treasury before fleeing.
• Nine Xuan Saint sensed his Dojo’s destruction during a gathering in the Vast Void Divine Domain, and Quan Hong showed the other Saints what had happened.
• Quan Hong told the gathered Saints that outsiders had entered the Primordial Universe and asked them to help locate them.
• Hao Shi said the nine Saint Ancestors would deal with Hong Yuan while the Saints searched for the others, and promised to kill the intruders through marks placed on the Saints.
• The Saints accepted the task, received marks from the nine Saint Ancestors, and hurried back to their Dojos.

Hong Yuan unleashed the World-Destroying Millstone, annihilating worlds and spreading destruction across one-fifth of the Primordial Universe. Luohu, Fu Xiao, and Yang Mei joined the devastation, drawing the attention of the universe’s supreme existences, who roared in fury.

• Hong Yuan summoned the World-Destroying Millstone and its aura annihilated millions of major worlds and their inhabitants.
• Hong Yuan sent the millstone expanding across the Primordial Universe, where it devoured worlds and swept destruction through one-fifth of the universe.
• Yang Mei, Causality, and the others recognized the World-Destroying Millstone, while Luohu vowed to avenge his past death by destroying a major world.
• Luohu used the Law of Demons to consume a major world, and Fu Xiao and Yang Mei destroyed other worlds with their mastery of time and space.
• The supreme existences of the Primordial Universe focused on Hong Yuan and the millstone, then shouted in fury.

Hong Yuan used the Universe Cauldron and World-Destroying Millstone to resist the nine Primordial Tai Chi cultivators, but their true forms appeared and trapped him. Quan Hong dismissed Luohu as an ant, prompting Luohu to demand that Hong Yuan kill him.

• The nine Primordial Tai Chi cultivators attacked Hong Yuan with crushing pressure and Dao Rhyme hands.
• Hong Yuan summoned the counterfeit Universe Cauldron and shattered the nine hands, though their attack injured him.
• Hong Yuan fed essence blood to the World-Destroying Millstone, which expanded and ground distant worlds and Primordial Golden Immortals to dust.
• The nine Primordial Tai Chi cultivators manifested their true forms and sealed Hong Yuan in spacetime.
• Hong Yuan asked Quan Hong whether he had killed Luohu, and Quan Hong called Luohu an ant.
• Luohu shouted across spacetime, demanding that Hong Yuan kill Quan Hong.

Hong Yuan confronted Hao Shi and the other eight powerful cultivators, while Quan Hong struck Luohu and left him gravely wounded. When the group suppressed Hong Yuan’s World-Destroying Millstone, he admitted he had come to deliver treasures and ordered something to explode.

• Quan Hong attacked Luohu through the trace of Causality in his voice, but Luohu escaped and survived with grave injuries.
• Hong Yuan faced Hao Shi and the other eight, then tried to vanish with the World-Destroying Millstone.
• Hao Shi used a giant hand woven from laws and Dao Rhyme to force Hong Yuan to reappear.
• The other eight summoned their Chaos Spirit Treasures and joined them to suppress the World-Destroying Millstone.
• Quan Hong mocked Hong Yuan for bringing two Chaos Supreme Treasures into the Primordial Universe, and Hong Yuan replied that he had come to deliver treasures before commanding, “Explode!”

Hong Yuan detonated the World-Destroying Millstone imitation, devastating half the Primordial Universe and badly injuring Hao Shi and the other eight Primordial Golden Immortals. The survivors postponed their retaliation to clear the lingering Dao Rhyme, while Hong Yuan re-formed in hiding and lamented that Qiankun and Luohu had died in the blast.

• Hong Yuan triggered the World-Destroying Millstone's self-destruction, and its blasts tore through space, Laws, Causality, Destiny, and Time.
• Hao Shi and the other eight Primordial Golden Immortals suffered severe injuries as the explosion destroyed more than eighty percent of the galaxy of greater worlds.
• Quan Hong urged the others to invade Hong Yuan's universe, but Hao Shi insisted they first purge the Dao Rhyme from their bodies and repair their Spirit Treasures.
• Quan Hong turned toward the surviving greater worlds and resolved to kill the Grand Unity Golden Immortals who had escaped.
• Hong Yuan re-formed in a hidden space and said the explosion was powerful, while criticizing Qiankun and Luohu for dying after staying near him.