Chapter Summaries

Hong Yuan prepared Taishang to merge with the Heavenly Dao's origin as the great calamity approached. Taishang accepted the role, while the Three Pure Ones remained united despite their rivals having taken the title of Pangu Orthodox.

• Hong Yuan told nervous Taishang that the Heavenly Dao would guide him after he united with it and that he should follow his path of non-action.
• Taishang considered the power and benefits of uniting with the Dao, including the chance to close the gap between himself and Houtu.
• Hong Yuan chose Taishang over Yuanshi and Tongtian because Taishang was steadier and better suited to serve as the Heavenly Dao's representative.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian accepted the choice, while Zhu Rong and Gong Gong's taunts over the Pangu Orthodox title continued to rankle the Three Pure Ones.
• Taishang composed himself and nodded solemnly to Hong Yuan, who prepared to begin the merger.

Hong Yuan helped Taishang merge with a portion of the Heavenly Dao’s origin, then recovered the Chaos Bead and prepared to return to the Primordial Universe to retrieve Yang Mei and Fu Xiao. A system notification offered him three choices for confronting Quan Hong, and Hong Yuan rejected the first choice as he considered the others.

• Hong Yuan condensed a portion of the Heavenly Dao’s origin into a sphere, and Taishang merged with it to begin becoming the master of the Heavenly Dao.
• Hong Yuan reassured the manifested Heavenly Dao that he would visit again, then left in the Chaos Bead.
• Hong Yuan noted his improved strength and the cultivation gains Luohu, Qiankun, Causality, and Five Elements had made through merit.
• As Hong Yuan prepared to retrieve Yang Mei and Fu Xiao, the system presented three choices for dealing with Quan Hong and the Primordial Universe.
• Hong Yuan dismissed the first choice, which asked him to betray the Primordial Wilderness, and began considering the remaining options.

Hong Yuan chose the Two Realms Locking Heaven Array, which could turn the junction between the universes into an isolated battlefield and restrict who could enter by cultivation level. He planned to use it to buy time for the Primordial Wilderness to grow, while making Luohu, Yang Mei, and the others fight and revive as needed.

• Hong Yuan weighed the rewards and chose the third option, receiving the Two Realms Locking Heaven Array and its information.
• Hong Yuan learned that the array could not seal the passage, but could isolate a battlefield between the two universes and prevent participants from leaving until one side won.
• Hong Yuan realized he could restrict entrants to those below the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, giving himself time to cultivate while the others fought.
• Hong Yuan concluded that the Primordial Universe could not forcibly break the durable array, even if Hao Shi and the other eight joined forces.
• Hong Yuan decided Luohu, Yang Mei, and the Saints would fight, be revived when they died, and use the battles to grow stronger.

Hong Yuan summoned the Saints and Primordial Golden Immortals to prepare them for war against the Primordial Universe. After learning that its forces included vastly stronger Saints and nine surviving Chaos Demon Gods, the gathered leaders feared the Primordial Wilderness had little chance of winning.

• Hong Yuan checked Pangu Hall, confirmed that Pangu's revival had accelerated, and summoned the Saints and Primordial Golden Immortals to the junction between the two realms.
• Nuwa, Houtu, and the other Saints gathered, while Taishang remained absent as he merged with the Dao; they greeted Luohu, Causality, and the others who had returned from the Primordial Universe.
• Shen Ni asked Luohu whether he had died and how strong the Primordial Universe was, but Causality explained that its Star Domain Saints and Primordial Golden Immortals far outmatched most of the Primordial Wilderness's fighters.
• Han Su asked about the Primordial Universe's strongest beings, and Five Elements revealed that nine Chaos Demon Gods had reached the Mixed Origin Grand Ultimate Golden Immortal realm, with the strongest more than a hundred times stronger than the others.
• Five Elements recounted how Hong Yuan had destroyed more than half of the Primordial Universe by self-destructing his treasure, but the nine powerful beings had only been injured, leaving the Saints stunned and afraid.

Qiankun reassured the saints that Hong Yuan might have a way to overcome the Primordial Universe’s overwhelming strength, restoring their faith as they traveled to meet him. Hong Yuan noticed their weakened cultivation at the boundary between the universes, ordered them to stay put, and entered the passage alone.

• Qiankun urged the despairing group not to give up and explained that Hong Yuan might secure help from the Great Dao or find another way to buy time.
• Han Su, Zhunti, and Di Jun agreed that Hong Yuan must have a solution, and the saints regained some confidence in him.
• The saints hurried to the boundary between the worlds, where Hong Yuan waited.
• Hong Yuan saw that most of the saints’ cultivation had fallen and judged them too weak to be useful in a battle.
• Hong Yuan told the others to stay where they were, then stepped into the passage between the universes.

Hong Yuan destroyed Daoist Quan Hong’s External Body and revealed that his true cultivation was only at the First Heaven of Primordial Tai Chi. He then fought Quan Hong’s true body with his three Chaos Supreme Treasures, leaving Quan Hong badly wounded and the surrounding void shattered.

• Hong Yuan’s giant hand erased Daoist Quan Hong’s formation and annihilated his External Body.
• Daoist Quan Hong’s true body appeared and was shocked to learn that Hong Yuan was only at the First Heaven of Primordial Tai Chi.
• Hong Yuan told his External Body to take Yang Mei and Fu Xiao away, then summoned the Chaos Bead, World-Destroying Millstone, and Universe Cauldron.
• Hong Yuan and Daoist Quan Hong unleashed their attacks, collapsing the surrounding laws, time, and space.
• Hong Yuan remained unharmed after the clash, while Daoist Quan Hong retreated with severe Dao wounds and a dimmed Chaos Spirit Treasure.

Hong Yuan fought Quan Hong with the power of his three Chaos Supreme Treasures and the Three Thousand Great Daos, while Quan Hong burned his essence blood to answer him. After their final collision devastated the surrounding Chaos, Hong Yuan disappeared, leaving Hao Shi and the others to find Quan Hong covered in chains of Dao wounds.

• Hong Yuan mocked Quan Hong and punched him so hard that his head exploded, though Quan Hong quickly regenerated.
• Quan Hong unleashed a full-force attack, but Hong Yuan used his three Chaos Supreme Treasures to break it apart.
• Quan Hong burned his essence blood as Hong Yuan summoned the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws and declared himself Pangu's younger brother and the son of the Great Dao.
• Hong Yuan and Quan Hong collided with overwhelming force, annihilating the surrounding space, time, and laws and leaving cracks throughout the Chaos.
• Hao Shi and the others arrived to find Hong Yuan gone and Quan Hong standing alone, covered in chains of Dao wounds that devoured his vitality and origin.

Quan Hong revealed that Hong Yuan's true self was only at the first level of Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, despite leaving Quan Hong gravely wounded. Hao Shi and the others prepared to retaliate against Hong Yuan's universe, but Quan Hong's revelation stunned them.

• Hao Shi and the others assessed Quan Hong's Dao injuries and wondered whether Hong Yuan had grown stronger or they had underestimated him.
• Quan Hong admitted that Hong Yuan had escaped, and Hao Shi proposed invading Hong Yuan's universe in response to its repeated attacks.
• Hao Shi and the others prepared to set out, but Quan Hong remained silent and appeared lost in thought.
• Quan Hong asked what they would think if he could not defeat someone at the first level of Primordial Tai Chi.
• Quan Hong revealed that Hong Yuan's true self was only at the first level of Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, shocking the Primordial Tai Chi experts.

Quan Hong showed Haoshi and the other Chaos Demon Gods that Hong Yuan was only at the first level of Primordial Tai Chi, convincing them that his universe was weak and intensifying their resolve to conquer it. At the border, an Ancient Bronze Gate blocked their path; Haoshi struck it and declared its defense peerlessly unmatched, while secretly collecting a fragment that came from somewhere else.

• Quan Hong replayed his clash with Hong Yuan, revealing Hong Yuan's first-level cultivation and shocking Haoshi and the other Demon Gods.
• Haoshi and the others concluded that Hong Yuan's universe was weak and decided to seize it without worrying about a drawn-out battle.
• At the boundary between the Primordial Universe and the Primordial Wilderness Universe, the ripple transformed into a rusted Ancient Bronze Gate.
• The Light-Dark Demon God attacked the gate, but his strike left it completely unmoved.
• Haoshi unleashed a powerful strike that dented the gate, then praised its defense as peerlessly unmatched.
• Haoshi secretly retrieved a fragment that was clearly different from the Ancient Bronze Gate.

Hao Shi and the others discovered that the Ancient Bronze Gate led to the Two Realms Lock Heaven Battlefield, which admitted only those below the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and rejected their origin-empowered External Bodies. Inside the array, Luohu and the others assembled their forces, while Zhu Rong and Gong Gong surveyed the sturdy battlefield.

• Hao Shi’s attack barely dented the Ancient Bronze Gate, and he agreed with Quan Hong to send External Bodies through first.
• The gate revealed that the Two Realms Lock Heaven Battlefield would divide the sides into camps and allow only the victors to leave, while barring those below the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
• Hao Shi and the others found that even their suppressed External Bodies were rejected, so they decided to send Star Domain Saints and Primordial Golden Immortals instead.
• Luohu, Shen Ni, Yang Mei, Qiankun, Five Elements, Causality, and their allies gathered inside the Two Realms Locking Heaven Array.
• Zhu Rong praised the array’s sturdy realm, and Gong Gong said that was expected because Second Uncle had made it.

As the battle against the Primordial Universe approached, the leaders of the Primordial Wilderness turned their anxiety into a contest to motivate everyone to kill enemies. Han Su established a shared prize pool, and the story left the gathered allies preparing for battle with the wager agreed upon.

• Zhu Rong and the others recalled that Second Uncle had assigned them to the Two Realms Locking Heaven Array and promised to revive them as long as the Primordial Wilderness survived.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian accepted Di Jiang's challenge to wager against the Ancestral Witches over the title of Pangu Orthodox and Merit Coins.
• Nuwa, Di Jun, Tai Yi, Jieyin, Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, Ming He, and the Dragon Phoenix Qilin clans proposed joining the contest.
• Han Su offered to organize a thirteen-trillion-Merit-Coin prize pool for the three people who killed the most enemies, while leaving the Three Pure Ones and Ancestral Witches to settle their private wager separately.
• Yang Mei and the other five Ancestors added one trillion Merit Coins each without entering the rankings, and Fu Xiao contributed a flask of Heaven and Earth Origin Liquid.

Han Su and the Primordial Wilderness Saints prepared to fight the arriving Primordial Universe forces, encouraged by Fu Xiao’s offer of Heaven and Earth Origin Liquid. Nearly fifty enemies appeared, and two eighth-level Primordial Golden Immortals overwhelmed Fuxi and Tai Yi, leaving the defenders under immense pressure.

• Fu Xiao offered a pot of Heaven and Earth Origin Liquid alongside nineteen trillion Merit Coins, and Han Su set the rewards to be divided in the established five-three-two ratio.
• The Ancestral Witches prepared to use the Grand Formation of the Ancestral Gods, which could summon a phantom of Pangu’s true body.
• The Kalpa Heaven-Locking Formation tore open, and Yang Mei warned the Primordial Wilderness Saints as they activated their treasures and defenses.
• Nearly fifty cultivators from the Primordial Universe appeared, and their leaders mocked the Primordial Wilderness forces as weak.
• Gu Bu and Feng Jing unleashed their eighth-level Primordial Golden Immortal pressure, sending Fuxi and Tai Yi crashing to the ground while Nuwa and the others struggled to help.

Yang Mei and the other powerful figures scattered the Primordial Universe fighters across separate regions, then began battling their leaders. Yang Mei faced Gu Bu, while fights broke out elsewhere and the remaining warriors prepared to hold off the other Seventh Heaven opponents as reinforcements might arrive.

• Di Jun and the others struggled under the pressure of the Primordial Universe leaders, so Yang Mei and Five Elements used their supreme treasures to scatter both sides across different locations.
• Yang Mei confronted Gu Bu, who mocked him for being a Primordial Grand Unity Fourth Heaven cultivator with a Chaos Spirit Treasure.
• Yang Mei attacked with Space Suppression, and Gu Bu countered with his Law of Blood, causing their powers to collide in a devastating shockwave.
• Luohu and Nuwa each faced a Primordial Grand Unity Eighth Heaven opponent, while Qiankun, Causality, Five Elements, Fu Xiao, and others joined forces against another.
• The Three Pure Ones, the Ancestral Witches, Han Su, and the remaining warriors prepared to delay the Seventh Heaven fighters, relying on Hong Yuan to revive them if they died.

Tai Yi fought a fifth-level Primordial Golden Immortal from the Primordial Universe, relying on his treasures and Golden Crow flames despite his severe injuries. As his fire was overwhelmed and his limbs were blasted apart, Di Yan faced Houtu and the other Ancestral Witches and dismissed them as weak.

• A fifth-level Primordial Golden Immortal mocked Tai Yi for facing him at a lower cultivation level, while eyeing Tai Yi’s Crimson Sun Mirror and Solar True Chariot.
• Tai Yi taunted the man over his Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, then faced the full force of his three treasures and overwhelming cultivation.
• Tai Yi summoned his Three-Legged Golden Crow form and combined its flames with those of the Solar True Chariot and Crimson Sun Mirror to resist the enemy’s sea of mist.
• The Primordial Universe cultivator poured more power into the mist, which swallowed most of Tai Yi’s fire and blasted his limbs apart.
• Di Yan confronted Di Jiang, Houtu, and the other Ancestral Witches, disparaging them as too weak to be worth her time.

Di Jiang, Houtu, and the other Ancestral Witches formed the Grand Formation of the Ancestral Gods and condensed Pangu's true form, which killed three seventh-level Primordial Grand Unity cultivators with one axe strike. Pangu's true form then charged toward Gu Bu, cutting down more than ten Primordial Golden Immortals along the way.

• Di Yan and two other seventh-level cultivators mocked Houtu and the Ancestral Witches, who urged them to begin fighting quickly.
• Di Jiang, Houtu, and the other Ancestral Witches revealed their true forms and formed the Grand Formation of the Ancestral Gods, gathering their baleful energy and blood essence into Pangu's true form.
• Yang Mei recognized that the Ancestral Witches had summoned a form bearing Pangu's aura, while Di Yan and the others were shaken by visions of Pangu defeating Chaos Demon Gods.
• Pangu's true form manifested a massive axe and killed Di Yan and the other two seventh-level cultivators with a single strike.
• Pangu's true form charged toward Gu Bu and killed more than ten Primordial Golden Immortals as it crossed the battlefield.

Di Jiang and the others attacked the three eighth-level Primordial Grand Unity experts while Tai Yi, Fuxi, Zhunti, Hong Yun, and Ming He fell in battle. Hong Yuan revived the fallen Saints in the Hong Yuan Realm and planned to use Great Tonic Pills to strengthen them, leaving Fuxi and the others ashamed of their defeat.

• Di Jiang and the others formed the Pangu True Body and charged the three eighth-level Primordial Grand Unity experts, crushing some enemies along the way.
• Tai Yi was killed, and the Innate Supreme Treasure he had fought over fled before his opponent could seize it.
• Fuxi, Zhunti, Hong Yun, and Ming He also perished as they fought the stronger forces of the Primordial Universe.
• Hong Yuan sensed their deaths and considered using his remaining Great Tonic Pills to raise the cultivation of Yang Mei, Luohu, and the other Saints.
• Hong Yuan returned to the Hong Yuan Realm and used the origins they had left behind to revive Fuxi, Tai Yi, Zhunti, Hong Yun, and Ming He.
• Fuxi and the others faced Hong Yuan, feeling ashamed that they had fallen so quickly.

Hong Yuan gave Fuxi, Tai Yi, Zhunti, Hong Yun, and Ming He pills made from Star Domain Saints, allowing them to break through before the battle. He sent the newly strengthened group and Taishang toward the battlefield with Eight Treasures Brocade Pouches to collect enemy origins, then sensed the deaths of Di Jun, Tongtian, Torch Dragon, and First Qilin.

• Hong Yuan gave Fuxi and the other four Super Universe Invincible Great Returning Pills and urged them to refine them before their forces fell on the battlefield.
• After a hundred years, Fuxi and Tai Yi reached the fourth level of Primordial Grand Unity, while Zhunti, Hong Yun, and Ming He reached the limit of the fourth level.
• Hong Yuan told Taishang to join the others on the battlefield and gave them Eight Treasures Brocade Pouches to retain the origins of enemies they killed.
• Taishang, Fuxi, and the others accepted the pouches, bade Hong Yuan farewell, and headed for the Two Realms Locking Heaven Array.
• Hong Yuan sensed that Di Jun, Tongtian, Torch Dragon, and First Qilin had died.

Hong Yuan revived Di Jun, Tongtian, Candle Dragon, and First Qilin, strengthened them with pills and treasures, and sent them back to the battlefield. He then surveyed growing conflicts in the Primordial Wilderness and prepared for the coming struggle between Xuanyuan and his attendant Cui Wei over the Human Emperor’s position.

• Hong Yuan revived Di Jun, Tongtian, Candle Dragon, and First Qilin, comforted them, and gave each a Great Tonic Pill to refine.
• Di Jun advanced to the fifth layer of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal Realm, while Tongtian, Ancestral Dragon, and First Qilin reached the sixth layer; Hong Yuan also gave them Eight Treasures Brocade Pouches and sent them to the battlefield.
• Hong Yuan observed that battles among the major factions and human tribes had intensified, while Zi Qiao and others kept the Heavenly Court orderly and the Three Ancestors struggled to contain disputes among the human tribes.
• Hong Yuan recognized that the conflicts were paving the way for the next Human Emperor and arranged for Cui Wei to fight Xuanyuan in place of Chiyou.
• Hong Yuan joked that Cui Wei would become a Bimawen if he failed, while Zi Qiao imagined making Wu E serve as her Heavenly Horse after he had mocked her.

Zi Qiao searched the Primordial Wilderness for someone who could breach the South Heaven Gate while Wu E provoked her by ordering a Heavenly General to take one of her horses. After their fight, Wu E roasted the stolen horse as Jiang Shinian neared the completion of his merits and path to sainthood.

• Zi Qiao left an External Body to watch the Heavenly Horses and went into the Primordial Wilderness to find someone to help her breach the South Heaven Gate.
• Wu E sent a Heavenly General to demand a Heavenly Horse for roasting and told him to insult Zi Qiao on his behalf.
• Zi Qiao's External Body attacked Wu E after hearing the demand, and they fought while restraining their power from harming the Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals.
• After the fight, the Heavenly General returned with a horse he had taken during the battle, and Wu E ordered him to roast it.
• As the human tribes' conflicts intensified, Jiang Shinian sensed that he was nearing the completion of his merits and attainment of sainthood.

Jiang Shinian decided to abdicate as Earth Sovereign and let the human tribes’ conflicts determine the next Human Sovereign, after agreeing with the Three Ancestors to intensify the struggle for the sake of the successor’s merit. The tribes began competing for supremacy, and one weaker tribe submitted to the Black Stone Tribe to avoid casualties.

• Jiang Shinian told the Three Ancestors that he would not interfere with the conflicts among the human tribes because they were tied to the next Human Sovereign’s rise.
• Youchao Shi proposed making the struggle more difficult so the next Human Sovereign could earn more Heavenly Dao Merit, and Jiang Shinian, Suiren Shi, and Ziyi Shi agreed.
• The Earth Sovereign and Three Ancestors announced that Jiang Shinian would abdicate and that the strongest person, proven by uniting the tribes, would become the next Human Sovereign.
• A tribal chief warned that the announcement would bring conflict, then learned that Heilan of the Black Stone Tribe demanded his tribe submit within three days.
• The tribal chief led his people to submit peacefully to the Black Stone Tribe rather than risk a forced annexation.