Chapter Summaries

Jiang Yun unleashed his full aura and challenged four Saints to receive his third punch, choosing battle over peace. The Western Saints accepted his decision, the demons withdrew to Heaven, and Jiang Yun faced the Saints alone.

• Jiang Yun released his overwhelming aura and challenged the Saints to take his third punch, enraging Venerable Yuanshi and drawing objections from Taishang Laojun and Empress Nuwa.
• Sect Master Tongtian welcomed Jiang Yun’s challenge, while Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to respect Jiang Yun’s choice.
• Venerable Yuanshi accepted the challenge on behalf of the Saints, and Empress Nuwa healed Emperor Jun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, and the surviving demons.
• Empress Nuwa ordered Emperor Jun and the demons to return to Heaven, and Emperor Jun led them away without Jiang Yun pursuing them.
• Jiang Yun looked down at the survivors on Longevity Mountain, who watched with concern, gratitude, and reverence as he prepared to face the Saints.

Jiang Yun urged humanity to grow strong through its own efforts, then gathered the Saints and other powerful beings in the chaotic void for a battle. He prepared his third move against Tongtian, combining the power of his inner world, the Dao of All Beings, and the will of countless living beings, and challenged Tongtian to block it.

• Jiang Yun told humanity to recuperate and learn his cultivation techniques, while encouraging talented people to innovate beyond them.
• Jiang Yun proposed moving his fight with the four Saints to the chaotic void and vanished there; Tongtian, Yuanshi, Laozi, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti followed.
• Powerful beings across the Primordial Desolation sensed the battle and rushed to observe the gathering in the chaos.
• Jiang Yun chose Tongtian to test his Hunyuan realm and began gathering the power for his third move, Myriad Spirits' Guidance.
• Jiang Yun infused his fist with world power, the Dao of All Beings, and the will of all beings, then asked Tongtian whether he could block it.

Jiang Yun unleashed his third punch, and Sect Master Tongtian met it with a sword forged from the four Immortal Slaying Swords. Their attacks collided in Chaos, creating a newborn mid-thousand world as Tongtian’s sword shattered beneath Jiang Yun’s fist.

• Jiang Yun threw a punch that erased space, time, and Dao principles along its path.
• Sect Master Tongtian fused the four Immortal Slaying Swords into a Chaos Dao Slaying Sword and charged Jiang Yun’s fist.
• Their attacks collided, collapsing Chaos before the impact birthed a mid-thousand world.
• Jiang Yun’s fist force broke apart Tongtian’s Chaos Dao Slaying Sword and its four destruction-law runes.

Jiang Yun’s Myriad Spirits’ Guidance overwhelmed Tongtian’s sword strike, forcing Laozi to use the Taiji Diagram to protect him. Tongtian acknowledged Jiang Yun’s superiority in their direct clash but warned that his Immortal Slaying Sword Formation had yet to unfold.

• Jiang Yun’s fist force defeated Tongtian’s sword strike and pressed on toward him.
• Laozi sent the Taiji Diagram to shield Tongtian, and the clash briefly distorted the treasure before Jiang Yun’s attack dissipated.
• The newborn world formed by the opposing forces collapsed into the Chaos Turbulence.
• Tongtian praised Jiang Yun’s power and admitted that he was inferior in their direct clash.
• Tongtian declared that a true fight would involve his Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, stirring the other Saints’ attention.

Jiang Yun suppressed his desire to test Tongtian's Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, judging that revealing his Three Corpses and their connection to his Inner World would risk exposing his greatest secret. After declaring their sparring cause and effect settled, he left the Saints, while Tongtian remained intent on their unfinished confrontation.

• Jiang Yun felt tempted to face the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation but calculated that his newly advanced Three Corpses could be exposed to the Saints and the Primordial Desolation Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Yun decided the danger outweighed any benefit and suppressed his battle intent, satisfied that his three punches had already established his strength.
• Jiang Yun told Tongtian that their spar was over and their cause and effect had ended, then vanished into the Chaos Aura.
• Tongtian failed to stop Jiang Yun and regretted the missed fight, while Venerable Yuanshi, Taishang Laojun, and Empress Nuwa watched his departure.

Jiang Yun was formally installed as the Third Sect Leader of Western Teachings and preached his Dao of All Beings to the sect. He then warned Jieyin and Zhunti that Mount Sumeru could not sustain all three leaders’ Dao resonances and proposed moving back to Spirit Bamboo Mountain.

• Jieyin and Zhunti officially named Jiang Yun the Third Sect Leader of Western Teachings, and the disciples, Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, Huang, and Wa bowed to him.
• Jiang Yun explained that the Dao of All Beings would help living beings awaken, understand their own paths, and seek transcendence.
• After the sermon, Jiang Yun promised Jieyin and Zhunti that he would share Western Teachings’ fortune and help fulfill their vow of universal salvation.
• Jiang Yun told Jieyin and Zhunti that the combined Dao resonances of the three leaders were obstructing Mount Sumeru’s spiritual veins and the cultivation of its disciples.
• Jiang Yun proposed returning permanently to his former Dao Field at Spirit Bamboo Mountain, and Jieyin and Zhunti sensed the strain on Mount Sumeru for themselves.

Jiang Yun transformed Spirit Bamboo Mountain into a sacred Dao Field and gathered the Primordial Desolation’s mighty beings to hear his lecture on attaining Hunyuan. After explaining how to establish and integrate one’s Dao, he left them with a path to seek their Dao Fruit in Chaos beyond the Heavenly Dao’s suppression.

• Jiang Yun moved Pengxuan Grotto-Heaven to Spirit Bamboo Mountain and reshaped the land with Chaos Aura into a vast sacred Dao Field.
• Ziwei Star Lord, Randeng, Kong Xuan, Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, Candle Dragon, Fire Phoenix, Di Jun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, Styx, Queen Mother of the West, and other mighty beings gathered to congratulate Jiang Yun and seek his guidance.
• Jiang Yun welcomed the visitors, including the Demon Clan, and invited the assembled Quasi-Saint Mighty Beings into his Dao Field.
• Jiang Yun taught that Grand Luo cultivators first needed to establish their own Dao, then integrate and transform the myriad Daos through it to reach Hunyuan.
• Jiang Yun warned that the Heavenly Dao could suppress breakthroughs within the Primordial Desolation and advised seeking the Hunyuan Dao Fruit in Boundless Chaos.
• The lecture ended with the listeners reflecting on Jiang Yun’s explanation, and many gained new insight into the Path to Hunyuan.

Jiang Yun described the dangers and opportunities of the Chaos Graveyard, inspiring ancient beings and Quasi-Saints to seek a path beyond the Primordial Desolation. He then began presenting a star chart of chaos routes, including safe passages and a forbidden storm region.

• Jiang Yun explained that chaos contained deadly storms and World Ruins holding treasures that could strengthen foundations, repair Origins, and help beings break through.
• Zhulong, Huofeng, Dijun, and other mighty beings considered exploring the ruins as a chance to escape the Primordial Desolation’s limits and threats.
• Jiang Yun created a spatial coordinate map and explained a stable domain near the Primordial Desolation and a medium Chaos Vortex Corridor.
• Jiang Yun marked an Annihilation Void route leading to the ruins with the Nirvana Origin of the Time Law.
• Jiang Yun identified a dangerous Origin of Chaos Storm route, warned against venturing deeper, and left its forbidden region unexplored.

Jiang Yun concluded his Dao lecture by giving the mighty figures a map of chaotic space, inspiring cultivation across the Western Teachings. Meanwhile, human suspicion of mixed human-Witch descendants deepened, driving them to form a separate tribe that became the forerunner of the Jiuli.

• Jiang Yun distributed his chaotic-space map to every Dao Field figure at Quasi-Saint cultivation or above, and they thanked him while he warned them to explore cautiously.
• Pharmacist cautioned the Western Teachings disciples to learn from Jiang Yun's path without copying it, and the lecture sparked renewed cultivation across Mount Sumeru.
• Pure-blooded humans increasingly excluded Witch-humans from tribal decisions, resources, and marriages, while an elder's insult drove Man Xiong and other youths to leave their tribe.
• Huang condemned the discrimination and ordered the tribes to unite and punish those who led further exclusion.
• The mixed human-Witch descendants gathered together and formed a new tribe, the forerunner of the Jiuli.

Di Jun redirected the demon race from fighting the Witches and humans toward exploring the Chaos, and Taiyi’s vanguard built an outpost beyond the Primordial Desolation. Taiyi discovered that an invisible Heavenly Dao barrier restrained beings tied to the Primordial Desolation, leaving the demon race searching for a way to settle its collective karmic debt before it could expand into the Chaos.

• Di Jun ordered the demon race to cease attacks on humans, avoid large-scale conflicts with the Witches, suspend the Witch Slaying Sword, and prepare an expedition into the Chaos.
• Taiyi led Fuxi, Bai Ze, Jiu Ying, and thirty thousand elite Grand Unity Golden Immortals through the Chaos and established a fortified outpost using a Membrane Formation.
• Taiyi explored toward a Chaos vortex corridor and encountered a Heavenly Dao barrier that violently resisted his attempt to cross and threatened to pull his origin back toward the Primordial Desolation.
• Taiyi returned to the Heavenly Court and reported the barrier, prompting Di Jun to deduce that it protected the Primordial Desolation from losing its origin.
• Taiyi concluded that the demon race had to contribute more to the Primordial Desolation than it consumed to settle its karma and travel freely into the Chaos.

Jiang Yun deciphered Old Ancestor Yang Mei’s Space Jade Key and used it to reach the Hollow Willow, whose vast root system and leaves formed a Spatial Great Thousand World. A Dao Mark imprint gave Jiang Yun the coordinate to the canopy’s core, where he headed to claim control of the world.

• Jiang Yun analyzed the Space Jade Key and discovered that its hidden spatial route led to Yang Mei’s shed Hollow Willow main body.
• Jiang Yun concealed his departure from Pengxuan Grotto-Heaven and followed the key’s coordinates to a hidden Spatial Fault in the South Sea.
• Jiang Yun activated the Spatial Fault with the jade key and entered the Great Thousand World formed by the Hollow Willow’s roots and branches.
• Jiang Yun explored the Hollow Willow’s billions of leaf-worlds and recognized its Spatial Origin framework as a potential vessel for his Other Shore.
• A faint Dao Mark consciousness bearing Yang Mei’s aura contacted Jiang Yun and revealed the coordinate of the canopy’s Core Imprint.
• Jiang Yun flew toward the canopy’s core to master the Hollow Willow’s remains.

Jiang Yun refined the Hollow Willow’s Tree Heart, learned that the spiritual root came from a fragment of Jianmu and shared a Chaos origin with him, then began drawing its essence to strengthen his Cloud Bamboo main body. He established a stable supply array and left the Willow World to build a secluded Dao Field in the Depths of Chaos.

• Jiang Yun refined the Tree Heart and gained control of the Hollow Willow’s Great Thousand World.
• Jiang Yun traced the Hollow Willow’s origin to a fragment of Jianmu and realized that he and the willow were both Chaos Remnant Lineages.
• Jiang Yun chose to nourish his Cloud Bamboo main body gradually through symbiosis rather than take enough origin to damage the Willow World.
• Jiang Yun found that their growing origin resonance could attract attention, so he decided to establish a Dao Field in the Depths of Chaos.
• Jiang Yun built a Circulation Array that supplied his main body with the willow’s origin while drawing Chaos Qi to replenish it.
• Jiang Yun left the Willow World and stood at the South Sea vortex, ready to enter the Depths of Chaos.

Jiang Yun created Spirit Gourd, a powerful avatar entrusted with guarding Spirit Bamboo Mountain and managing his affairs in the Primordial Desolation World. After bidding farewell to Jieyin and Zhunti, Jiang Yun entered the Depths of Chaos and began establishing a Dao Field where he could merge Hollow Willow and his Cloud Bamboo true body.

• Jiang Yun used his Cloud Bamboo origin and a strand of his primordial spirit to revive the Gourd Vine and refine it into an avatar that reached the mid-stage of the Saint-to-be realm.
• Jiang Yun named the avatar Spirit Gourd and tasked him with guarding Spirit Bamboo Mountain, observing the Primordial Desolation World, and handling affairs for the Dao of All Beings and Western Teachings.
• Jiang Yun told Jieyin and Zhunti that he would remain in the Depths of Chaos, and introduced Spirit Gourd as his representative and the acting Third Sect Leader of Western Teachings.
• Jieyin and Zhunti approved Spirit Gourd’s appointment and assured Jiang Yun that they would help watch over the sect.
• Jiang Yun traveled beyond the Heavenly Dao’s reach and opened a stable region in the Boundless Chaos.
• Jiang Yun began combining Hollow Willow’s spatial origins, his Cloud Bamboo true body, and the laws of his Inner World to form a Chaos Dao Field and advance his cultivation.

Jiang Yun completed a powerful fetal membrane around his Chaos Dao Field, named it Cloud Bamboo Palace, and entered seclusion to evolve his main body into a Chaos Spiritual Root. Meanwhile, Di Jun restarted the Chaos Fetal Membrane Plan to overcome the Heavenly Dao Barrier, winning cautious support from the Western Teachings and Spirit Bamboo Mountain.

• Jiang Yun used the Dao Derivation Disk, his Inner World, and the Hollow Willow's power to build a fetal membrane that filtered Chaos Aura and concealed Cloud Bamboo Palace from the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Yun entered deep seclusion, while Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Nuwa sensed his disappearance into Chaos but did not investigate further.
• Hou Tu and the Ancestral Witches used the Demon Clan's retreat to develop Reincarnation and organize the Ten Halls of Yama and the forces of Hell.
• Di Jun ordered the Demon Clan to publicize the Heavenly Dao Barrier and restart the Chaos Fetal Membrane Plan, sending Kunpeng and Fuxi to seek support from other powers.
• Fuxi presented Di Jun's proposal to Jieyin and Zhunti, who agreed that the Western Teachings would participate if the Demon Clan could unite the factions.
• Fuxi visited the Spirit Gourd Daoist, who pledged Spirit Bamboo Mountain's support for the plan once its details were ready.

The Demon Clan, Western Teachings, West Kunlun, and other factions joined Di Jun’s plan to construct the Chaos Fetal Membrane, while the Sages at Jade Void Palace feared it would prevent humanity from rising as the next protagonist of Heaven and Earth. Yuanshi and Laozi devised a plot to intensify the Witch-Demon conflict, and Yuanshi secretly sent a formation toward the ten Golden Crows in Tanggu.

• Di Jun ordered Kunpeng and Fuxi to rally the Primordial Desolation’s factions, and Jieyin and Zhunti declared that the Western Teachings would participate in constructing the Chaos Fetal Membrane.
• Queen Mother of the West, Styx, Zhulong, Fire Phoenix, and other mighty beings joined the plan as factions supplied materials and Fuxi organized construction at thirty-six key locations.
• At Jade Void Palace, Yuanshi and Laozi agreed that the plan could hinder humanity’s rise, while Tongtian remained troubled but did not oppose them.
• Yuanshi proposed provoking the Witch and Demon Clans by turning the Ten Suns into a source of conflict, and Laozi approved the scheme.
• Yuanshi sent a formation that amplified grievance and violent thoughts toward the ten Golden Crows, who were growing restless in Tanggu and longing to leave their confinement.

Fellow Daoist Spirit Gourd sensed a Saint’s plot to stir up conflict between the Witch and Demon Clans and warned Emperor Jun and Houtu. The Three Pure Ones’ attempt to provoke the Golden Crows was exposed and withdrawn, but Emperor Jun tightened security around Tanggu as the threat remained.

• Fellow Daoist Spirit Gourd detected condensing Calamity Qi linked to the Sun Star and warned Emperor Jun and Houtu that a Saint might be inciting the Witch and Demon Clans.
• Emperor Jun failed to pierce the obscured heavenly secrets with the River Diagram and Luo Shu, then sent Fuxi to guard Tanggu and ordered Kunpeng to reinforce Sun Star patrols.
• Houtu dismissed calls for immediate war preparations and said the Witch Clan would endure as long as reincarnation remained, relying on the Ancestral Witches’ protected life imprints.
• The Three Pure Ones planted a Seed of Malice in the Golden Crows, but Yuanshi realized the Demon Clan was alert and erased the formation and its traces.
• Fuxi found no lingering influence on the Golden Crows and strengthened Tanggu’s guard, while Emperor Jun ordered continued high alert and forbade the Princes from leaving.

Jiang Yun used the Hollow Willow and the Great Law of Proving Dao in Dreams to enter a Gourd-themed Lesser Thousand World, where he discovered that its repeating story drained away the world’s origin. He captured its seven-colored spiritual core and rooted a real Seven-Colored Divine Vine in his Inner World, then returned to cultivating toward the transformation of the Chaos Spiritual Root.

• Jiang Yun continued integrating the Innate Cloud Bamboo Origin and Hollow Willow legacy, while organizing his Inner World with ranked worlds and Ascension Platforms.
• Jiang Yun used the Hollow Willow’s spatial connections and the Great Law of Proving Dao in Dreams to enter a Lesser Thousand World tied to the Innate Gourd Vine.
• Jiang Yun watched the Gourd Babies repeatedly defeat the Snake Demon, then realized each cycle depleted the world’s spiritual qi and origin.
• Jiang Yun concluded that repeated projections and reenactments could gradually weaken a world’s origin, and took the seven-colored core from the Seven-Colored Mountain.
• Jiang Yun planted the seven-colored core in his Inner World, where it grew into a Seven-Colored Divine Vine on the World Tree and received reincarnation power from the Netherworld Reincarnation Treasure Mirror.
• Jiang Yun returned from the Gourd small world and resumed fusing origins, deciding to build his strength before carrying out his plans.

Zhenyuanzi expanded the Earth Immortal lineage by appointing Mountain Gods and Earth Gods and nurturing Earth Spirits, then used the lineage’s accumulated fortune and the Earth Spirit Origin Qi to attain the Dao as an Earth Dao Saint. His emergence strengthened the earth’s foundations, and figures across the Primordial Desolation reacted to his new status.

• Zhenyuanzi used the Earth Scroll to establish Mountain Gods and Earth Gods across unclaimed lands, and Xiao Sheng and Cao Bao accepted his appointment of a Mountain God at Wuyi Mountain.
• Zhenyuanzi used the Kun Origin Diagram to nurture Earth Spirits, joined them with the Mountain Gods and Earth Gods as the Earth Immortals, and was revered as their ancestor.
• The Earth Immortal network resonated across the Primordial Desolation, sending its gathered earth-vein power to Zhenyuanzi as he refined the Earth Spirit Origin Qi and united his three corpses.
• Zhenyuanzi attained sainthood through the Way of Earth, and the Primordial Desolation celebrated his emergence with auspicious signs and golden lotuses.
• Empress Houtu congratulated Zhenyuanzi, while Daoist Jieyin, Zhunti, Dijun, Minghe, and the Ancestor Witches recognized how his attainment strengthened the earth and its foundations.

After Zhenyuanzi attained Earth Dao sainthood, Laozi and Yuanshi sought Hongjun Dao Ancestor’s guidance about Jiang Yun’s interference with the Heavenly Dao’s plans. Hongjun revealed that the Three Ways resonating could bring about Pangu’s return and proposed a bargain with Houtu to weaken Jiang Yun’s merit and remove him from the Primordial Desolation.

• Zhenyuanzi’s sainthood alarmed Yuanshi, who feared that the growing Earth Dao and Jiang Yun’s actions were disrupting the Heavenly Dao’s plans.
• Laozi and Yuanshi went with Tongtian to Zixiao Palace, where Yuanshi accused Jiang Yun of obstructing the great tribulation.
• Hongjun explained that Heaven, Earth, and Man resonating could produce a new will carrying Pangu’s Dao intent and destroy the Primordial Desolation.
• Hongjun told the Three Pure Ones to wait while he went to the Youming World to negotiate with Houtu.
• Hongjun asked Houtu to help draw attention away from the Chaos Fetal Membrane plan and keep the Witches in the Youming World, promising their safety in exchange.
• Hongjun planned to use the resulting karma to wear down Jiang Yun’s merit and eventually banish him and Spirit Gourd Daoist.

Houtu opened the Youming Three Lectures and used a reincarnation trial to select three thousand Dao Listeners, drawing powerful figures from across the Primordial Desolation while their factions paused the Chaos Fetal Membrane plan. The chapter ended with Houtu beginning her first lecture on the Origin of the Way of Earth.

• Houtu announced five vacant Earth Dao Saint Positions and opened the Youming Three Lectures, requiring entrants to pass through the Myriad Worlds Reincarnation Array.
• Spirit Gourd Daoist sent news of Houtu’s plans to Jiang Yun, while Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti encouraged their followers to seek an opportunity.
• The Three Pure Ones recognized that Houtu’s arrangement would divert attention from the Chaos Fetal Membrane plan, and Di Jun and Dijiang ordered their clans to enter the trial.
• Thousands of immortals, demons, witches, and other powerful figures entered the Boundless Sea of Reincarnation, where they struggled through lifetimes of illusion to recover their true selves.
• The array selected three thousand Dao Listeners, and Houtu began her first lecture on the Origin of the Way of Earth.