Chapter Summaries

Han Yi entered the Primordial Demon Sect through a passage and discovered that strange mist had spread across its mountain gate, cutting off perception and trapping those who entered. After crossing the dense fog into the sect’s core, he found a battlefield where Primordial Demon Sect Heavenly Venerables had fallen to demonic corruption, and felt a terrifying presence watching him from a dark palace.

• Han Yi resisted an eerie murmur in the passage, then saw pale black mist shrouding the Primordial Demon Sect’s mountain gate.
• Heavenly Venerable Li Zhan tested the mist with a spirit bird, lost contact with it, and led the Emperor Xuan Sect group inside; Han Yi followed in dark Chaos Divine Armor with the Seven Absolutes Ancient Saber.
• Han Yi reached the core region and saw that dense black fog swallowed probes and concealed the cultivators who entered it.
• Han Yi stepped into the dense fog, was struck by Heavenly Venerable Hanyun, and realized the fog formed a vast spatial formation that prevented escape.
• Han Yi saw Hanyun and dozens of other Primordial Demon Sect Demon Venerables fighting in a corrupted state, while trapped cultivators battled them for survival.
• Han Yi looked toward a dark palace at the battlefield’s center and sensed a cold, indifferent gaze staring back at him.

Han Yi fought the demonized Hanyun Demon Venerable and discovered that black airflow from the central palace could restore the dead. After Han Yi tested the airflow on Xiong Heng, it entered Han Yi’s body, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Han Yi joined the Heavenly Venerables besieging Hanyun Demon Venerable and used his Seven Extremes arts to wound him and protect the other fighters.
• Heavenly Venerable Li Zhan pierced Hanyun Demon Venerable’s head, but black airflow from the central palace restored him, and the fighters fled.
• Han Yi saw Heart-Eater Demon Venerable overwhelm six high-stage Heavenly Venerables and watched Xiong Heng kill two hidden Heavenly Venerables.
• Han Yi killed Xiong Heng and tried to intercept the black airflow that restored him, but his attacks passed through it.
• A second wisp of black airflow changed course toward Han Yi, accelerated, and entered his body.

Han Yi discovered that black streams from the central palace were World Force, then learned from Fu Xu Demon Venerable that the Primordial Demon Lord’s return had triggered the sect’s strange outbreak. After escaping Demon Venerable Ling Tian’s attack, Han Yi headed for the Demon Advent Dao Court to search for its secret vault.

• A black stream entered Han Yi and was absorbed by his panel, which reported that he had seized 12,874 points of World Force.
• Han Yi killed several demonized Demon Venerables, absorbed another black stream, and watched their bodies and belongings get drawn toward the central palace.
• Han Yi found Fu Xu Demon Venerable hiding in a cave, subdued him, and used the Wanming Book to learn that the Primordial Demon Lord had returned and the sect’s Heavenly Venerables had become controlled or demonized.
• Fu Xu Demon Venerable told Han Yi that the nearby Demon Advent Dao Court held a secret vault controlled by Demon Venerable Ling Tian.
• As the cave collapsed, Demon Venerable Ling Tian struck Han Yi, but Han Yi escaped among fleeing Heavenly Venerables and headed toward the Demon Advent Dao Court.

Han Yi survived the Primordial Demon Lord’s emergence when the Lord of Supreme Beginning intervened and drove the demon away. With the Primordial Demon Sect’s defenses gone, the surviving cultivators began fighting over its ruins, and Han Yi found himself targeted by a Celestial Venerable.

• Han Yi searched the ruined Demon Advent Dao Court for its secret treasury, then fought demon-corrupted Demon Venerables and absorbed their black currents as World Force.
• Xieyi Demon Venerable broke free of his battle group, injured Han Yi, and plunged the battlefield into chaos.
• The Primordial Demon Lord appeared and immobilized the cultivators, but a half-step Transcendent from Ancestor God Star arrived and attacked him.
• The strange mist and demon-corrupted Demon Venerables vanished after the clash, and the surviving Celestial Venerables began fighting over the Primordial Demon Sect’s inheritance.
• Han Yi recovered, noticed World Force appearing on his panel, and saw a hostile Celestial Venerable approaching him.

Han Yi entered the Origin Demon Palace and discovered its vast inner world, where he seized a source crystal vein while two high-level Heavenly Venerables fought over it. After enduring their attacks and absorbing much of the vein’s energy, he drove them off and continued exploring with the vein strapped to him.

• Han Yi converted source crystals into Life Seeds to heal, then killed a mid-level Demon Venerable who had targeted him and took his resources.
• Han Yi fought off a high-level Heavenly Venerable who tried to stop him from entering the Origin Demon Palace, then crossed into the palace’s immense inner world with Demon Venerable Fuxu.
• Demon Venerable Fuxu explained that the inner world was the Primordial Demon Lord’s cultivation ground, and Han Yi headed toward the sounds of battle.
• Han Yi found two high-level Heavenly Venerables fighting over a broken source crystal vein, seized it, and began absorbing its energy directly.
• The two Heavenly Venerables attacked Han Yi as he fled with the vein, but they abandoned their pursuit after he endured their blows and warned them that they were wasting time.
• Han Yi fastened the partly drained vein to himself because he could not store it in his Divine Aperture World, then continued exploring.

Han Yi plundered the second layer of the Origin Demon Palace, collecting its lava, wonderstone, mountains, and treasures as more cultivators flooded in. As Heavenly Venerate battles made the palace increasingly dangerous, he escaped and found the Primordial Demon Sect’s grounds had been stripped and destroyed.

• Han Yi uprooted half an erupting volcano, collected its lava, and extracted a fiery wonderstone that nearly destroyed the Divine Aperture World holding it.
• Han Yi realized that objects from the second layer, including an Origin Crystal vein, had become removable, and suspected the Lord of the Primordial Demon’s control had weakened.
• Han Yi saw a high-level Heavenly Venerate claim a Nine-Life Floating Spirit Grass, then began sweeping mountains and their treasures into his Divine Aperture Worlds.
• Han Yi avoided territories claimed by peak Heavenly Venerates and continued collecting resources as more cultivators arrived and fighting intensified.
• Han Yi sensed the growing danger, found that Demon Venerate Fu Xu’s aura had vanished, and escaped after killing two attackers and repelling another group.
• Han Yi saw that the Primordial Demon Sect’s grounds and Dao City had been destroyed and plundered, then fled into Chaos.

Han Yi returned to the Fuheng Dao Domain with treasures from the Primordial Demon Sect’s collapse and cultivated at the Transcendence Dao Mark to advance his Celestial Venerable cultivation. After four thousand years, he opened his eyes as upheavals reshaped the Immemorial World and the chaos.

• Han Yi fled the collapsing Primordial Demon Sect, returned to the Fuheng Dao Domain, and inventoried the source crystal veins, ores, exotic treasures, and spiritual plants he had taken.
• Han Yi learned that his incarnations could not detect any changes in the Primordial Grand World, then chose to cultivate at the Transcendence Dao Mark instead of returning to the Great Wilderness Dao Palace.
• Han Yi absorbed the remaining two source crystal veins and raised his Life Seeds to more than 47 million before beginning to advance to the mid-stage Celestial Venerable realm.
• During Han Yi’s cultivation, Lord of Supreme Beginning collected the Primordial Demon Hall, formally ending the Primordial Demon Sect and leaving the Origin Demon Dao Domain in an era of contention.
• A hundred years into Han Yi’s cultivation, Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable defeated the Three Fiends of Absolute Yin, and the Absolute Yin Three Realms joined the Immemorial Continent beneath the Heavenly Dao.
• After four thousand years of cultivation, Han Yi opened his eyes while the Dao Tombs continued to grow more severe.

After four thousand years cultivating beside the Transcendence Dao Mark, Han Yi broke through to mid-stage Celestial Venerable and gained a Transcendent Sword Scripture that greatly strengthened his sword domain. He learned that Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable had reshaped Primordial Antiquity, then stopped just short of the Dao Mark’s depths to consolidate his cultivation.

• Han Yi awakened from his four-thousand-year seclusion, expanded and then withdrew his sword domain, and advanced to mid-stage Celestial Venerable.
• Han Yi discovered that the Transcendence Dao Mark had bestowed the Ten Directions Dao-Slaying Calamity Ash Sword Scripture, containing the Dao-Slaying and Calamity Ash techniques.
• Han Yi tested the Dao-Slaying technique with Cloud Dusk Ancient Sword, alarming three nearby Celestial Venerables with its destructive power.
• Han Yi learned through his Wanming Incarnation that Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable had exterminated the Absolute Yin Three Realms, driven away Xiong and Nether, subdued An, and restored the Primordial Nine Realms.
• Han Yi approached to within ten li of the Dao Mark’s depths, sensed he could go no farther, and sat down to stabilize his new cultivation.

Han Yi left the Transcendence Dao Mark and tested his newly advanced Green Duckweed Sword against an apex mature Grave Beast, discovering that it could recover from his strongest attacks. He then traveled to Chaos God City to exchange treasures from the ruined Primordial Demon Sect for source crystals and met Dongfang Xu at the Primordial Beginning Pavilion.

• The three Heavenly Venerables identified Han Yi as the cultivator who had fought an Outsider Dao realm cultivator at the Myriad Travel Palace and spread word of his extraordinary rise to high-grade Heavenly Venerable strength.
• After stabilizing his cultivation at the Transcendence Dao Mark, Han Yi left for Ancestor God Star to seek a defensive formation for the Great Wilderness Dao Palace and trade rare treasures for source crystals.
• Han Yi encountered an apex mature Grave Beast and attacked it with the Green Duckweed Sword and Seven Absolutes Ancient Saber, but it recovered from his strongest strikes and would not die.
• Han Yi killed a juvenile Grave Beast with Blade Radiance, then concluded that only apex mature Grave Beasts displayed the extraordinary recovery he had witnessed.
• Han Yi reached Chaos God City and entered the Primordial Beginning Pavilion, where Dongfang Xu greeted him on the ninth floor.
• Han Yi told Dongfang Xu that he had obtained rare items during the destruction of the Primordial Demon Sect and wanted them appraised for exchange into source crystals.

Han Yi sold a portion of his Primordial Demon Hall treasures for 1,275 Source Crystals, collected 500 at the Primordial Beginning Pavilion and the remaining 775 at the Primordial Beginning Hall. There, Dongfang Du told him that Dongfang He had died a thousand years earlier in the Burial Calamity Dao Domain.

• Han Yi asked Dongfang Xu to appraise his Primordial Demon Hall treasures, and Xu identified the strange stone as an Extreme Fire Heart and the purple lotus as an eight-node Mist-Stinging Purple Lotus.
• Han Yi sold eight types of crystal ore, three supreme treasures, and twenty spirit plants for a total of 1,275 Source Crystals.
• Dongfang Xu gave Han Yi 500 Source Crystals and recorded his claim to the remaining 775 at the Primordial Beginning Hall.
• Han Yi traveled to Ancestor God Star and collected the remaining 775 Source Crystals from Dongfang Du at the Primordial Beginning Hall.
• Han Yi asked Dongfang Du whether Dongfang He had recently served at the hall, and Du told him that He had perished outside the Burial Calamity Dao Domain a thousand years earlier.

After learning that Dongfang He had perished in Burial Calamity Dao Domain, Han Yi sought clues from Saint Blaze and resolved to investigate Yellow Wind Valley himself. He gave Nangong Hao resources to aid his breakthrough, set aside his own cultivation, and entered the deadly Dao Domain.

• Dongfang Du told Han Yi that Dongfang He had died in Burial Calamity Dao Domain, and Han Yi decided to investigate.
• Han Yi learned from Saint Blaze that Dongfang He's trail had ended in Yellow Wind Valley, one of the Dao Domain's ten great forbidden lands.
• Han Yi visited the Nangong Clan, gave Nangong Hao fifty Source Crystals and the Myriad Dao Spirit Vine, and learned that Nangong Hao was preparing to break through to Divine Venerable.
• Han Yi stopped cultivating because his grief over Dongfang He made it unsafe to continue, and he left before his traces could disappear in the Dao Tomb storm.
• Han Yi traveled through safer Dao Domains and entered Burial Calamity Dao Domain, where he sensed its pervasive death, destruction, and decay.

Han Yi investigated Yellow Wind Valley and the surrounding Burial Calamity Dao Domain for clues about Dongfang He's fall, uncovering a bloodstained ancient artifact fragment that might be connected. After a hundred years of searching, he found no further evidence and remained uncertain who had killed Dongfang He.

• Han Yi discovered that Grave Beasts in the Burial Calamity Dao Domain possessed Destruction power one level above beasts of comparable size elsewhere.
• Han Yi searched the ruins around Yellow Wind Valley, found a faint wisp of Dongfang He's aura, and then thoroughly investigated the corrosive Yellow Wind Belt without finding decisive evidence.
• Han Yi reasoned that Dongfang He's traces may have been erased by a powerful cultivator, since Yellow Wind Valley alone posed no fatal threat to him.
• After eighteen years of searching outward, Han Yi found a bloodstained fragment of a Celestial Venerable ancient artifact in the Shattered Domain Territory and determined its blood was about a thousand years old, but could not trace its owner.
• Han Yi continued investigating for a hundred years but found no more clues and remained disappointed.

Han Yi discovered that a mysterious talisman absorbed a Grave Beast when it reached peak power, and he saw Yuan Ding Celestial Venerable of the Heaven-Controlling Dao Palace retrieve it. Suspecting the secret was tied to Dongfang He's death, Han Yi escaped to the Guanghan Dao Domain and began cultivating in seclusion.

• After searching the Burial Calamity Dao Domain for more than a century, Han Yi found no further clues and concluded that a powerful cultivator had likely caused Dongfang He's death.
• As Han Yi prepared to leave, he witnessed a mature Grave Beast grow beyond peak strength before a yellow talisman emerged from its body and absorbed it completely.
• Han Yi waited and saw Yuan Ding Celestial Venerable arrive, collect the talisman, and search other parts of the Burial Calamity Dao Domain.
• Han Yi fled into the Guanghan Dao Domain and suspected both the Heaven-Controlling Dao Palace and the Guanghan Dao Palace were involved in the Grave Beast secret.
• Han Yi hid in a ruin, formed a concealed Celestial Venerable Sword Domain, and began cultivating as his Life Seed burned.

Han Yi cultivated with Life Seeds, returned safely to the Great Wilderness Dao Palace, and fortified it against the Grave Beast calamity. After twelve thousand years in seclusion, he broke through to high-rank God Venerable with an exceptionally powerful divine body and resumed cultivating to strengthen himself further.

• Jade Cauldron Celestial Venerable secretly delivered a Grave-Beast Binding Talisman to Ji Xuan Celestial Venerable and said he had found no trace of Dongfang He’s death in the Burial Calamity Dao Domain.
• Han Yi left the Guanghan Dao Domain, returned to the Great Wilderness Dao Palace, and installed a divine array powered by the bronze ancient artifact, giving its activation keys to Qin Yi and Jade Sea.
• A mature-stage Grave Beast attacked the Great Wilderness Dao Palace, but Qin Yi and Jade Sea activated the array and grievously wounded it.
• Xingkun Celestial Venerable joined the Great Wilderness Dao Palace with survivors from his destroyed world while Han Yi continued his seclusion.
• After twelve thousand years of cultivation, Han Yi broke through to high-rank God Venerable and revealed a divine body about five billion six hundred million zhang tall.
• Han Yi returned to the divine mountain and continued cultivating with Life Seeds to increase his strength.

After advancing to a high-rank Divine Venerable, Han Yi strengthened the Great Wilderness Dao Palace’s reputation and received the true Wanming Book from Nether. He returned to cultivation, but three thousand years later sensed a change in the distant Primordial Grand World.

• Han Yi revealed his colossal high-rank Divine Venerable form to attract cultivators seeking refuge as the Dao Tomb calamity worsened.
• Han Yi reviewed reports of regions where the chaos had entered the Dao Tomb’s third stage early and noted the Primordial Grand World’s continued stillness.
• Cultivators began joining the Great Wilderness Dao Palace after Han Yi’s new rank became known, including Celestial Venerables and Divine Venerables.
• Nether met Han Yi in the chaos and formally handed him the Wanming Book, which merged with its projection and vastly expanded Han Yi’s Myriad Nether Space.
• Nether declined Han Yi’s invitation to join the Great Wilderness Dao Palace and departed to resolve his karma.
• Three thousand years later, Han Yi sensed that something had appeared in the Primordial Grand World.

Six thousand years after Han Yi became a high-level Divine Venerable, Kunlun Mountain began to unseal as the Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable absorbed the source land and Purple Firmament Palace. Sui Zhu Heavenly Venerable returned to the Immortal Court and prepared for the coming confrontation as Hongjun approached from chaos.

• Han Yi learned through the Third Priest that Kunlun Mountain was unsealing and sensed the upheaval across the Primordial Grand World.
• Xuancang Dao Ancestor calmed the Sui Zhu Immortal Court's Dao Realm cultivators and reminded them that Han Yi's Great Wilderness Dao Palace offered an escape route.
• The Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable fused with the source land and absorbed Purple Firmament Palace, freeing the weakened Heavenly Venerables it had suppressed.
• Sui Zhu Heavenly Venerable returned to the Immortal Court, restored his strength with a hidden reserve, and raised its defenses after sensing Hongjun's approaching aura.
• Purgatory Island and Void Demon Palace fled toward chaos while Sui Zhu Heavenly Venerable considered moving the Immortal Court if necessary.
• The Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable watched Hongjun approach and called out his name.

Donghuang Bu'er emerged from seclusion as a new Celestial Venerable while Hongjun returned to Primordial Antiquity to confront the Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable. Han Yi arrived to support Hongjun, and the Grand Celestial Venerables began a battle in chaos that escalated when Hongjun revealed an ancient axe.

• Hongjun's return shook Primordial Antiquity, and Heavenly Venerable Chonglou welcomed the prospect of his return to power.
• Donghuang Bu'er absorbed the flames of the Demon Clan Ancestral Court, ascended to Celestial Venerablehood, and learned from Kunpeng about the mysterious Daoist who had taken control of Kunlun Mountain.
• The Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable emerged from Primordial Antiquity to face Hongjun, while Han Yi arrived and received the Heavy Profound Dao Stele back from Hongjun.
• Hongjun attacked with his seven-colored auspicious cloud and whisk, and the Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable countered with the Origin Great Dao Seal.
• Hongjun produced a black great axe that Dao Immortal recognized as the ancient artifact of a fallen Grand World Lord.

Hongjun revealed the Primordial Grand World Lord’s World Venerable axe and damaged Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable’s spirit pearl. The Wisdom God then brought out the corpse of the Source Wisdom Grand World Lord, and Hongjun transformed into his Ancient Immortal body, preparing to kill Dao Immortal first.

• Hongjun swung the World Venerable axe and severely damaged the Origin Great Dao Seal before its remaining force struck Dao Immortal Grand Celestial Venerable’s spirit pearl.
• Dao Immortal called for help, and the Wisdom God appeared to control the corpse of the Source Wisdom Grand World Lord.
• Han Yi recognized the corpse and realized that Zhi had not revived; the Wisdom God was controlling the body.
• Hongjun understood that Dao Immortal and the Wisdom God had joined forces, but his fighting intent rose as he prepared to face them.
• Hongjun transformed into his enormous Ancient Immortal body, enlarged the axe, and turned to attack Dao Immortal first.

Hongjun and Dao Immortal fought outside the Primordial Grand World as Dao Immortal sacrificed the Immemorial Continent to empower his artifacts and body. Han Yi recognized Dao Immortal’s Ashen Nine Refinements inheritance, while Hongjun faced a renewed threat from the approaching Source Wisdom corpse.

• Hongjun manifested his Ancient Immortal true body and struck at Dao Immortal, who drew on the Primordial Grand World and used the World-Venerable Spirit Pearl to block the axe.
• Dao Immortal sacrificed the Absolute Yin Three Realms and other parts of the Immemorial Continent, killing countless inhabitants and forcing its factions to defend themselves.
• Dao Immortal sent several major Dao veins, including the Great Luo Dao Vein, into the Origin Great Dao Seal, then absorbed the empowered seal into his body.
• Han Yi recognized that Dao Immortal had used the Ashen Nine Refinements to fuse the Origin Great Dao Seal into himself and grow to rival Hongjun in size.
• Dao Immortal used the World-Venerable Spirit Pearl to unleash mist-white radiance at Hongjun, while the Source Wisdom corpse reached the battlefield and grabbed at him.
• Hongjun turned from Dao Immortal and swung the Immemorial Great Axe at the Source Wisdom corpse’s reaching hand.

Han Yi witnessed the violet eyes cast Hongjun, Dao Immortal, and Source Wisdom’s corpse into the Source-less Land, leaving the battle’s outcome unknown. He returned to the Great Luo Immortal Realm and began stabilizing its ravaged land by filling breaks in the extracted Dao Vein.

• Hongjun fought Dao Immortal and Source Wisdom’s corpse until enormous violet eyes appeared and dragged all three into the Source-less Land.
• Han Yi concluded that the violet eyes belonged to a World-Venerable-level existence or a restriction of the Dao Spirit Chaos World, then left for Primordial Antiquity.
• Han Yi met Heavenly Venerable Chonglou, who was astonished to learn that Han Yi had risen from Immortal Venerable to high-stage Divine Venerable in only forty thousand years.
• Han Yi reopened the blocked passage into the chaos and traveled through it to the Great Luo Immortal Realm.
• Han Yi filled two sections of the Great Luo Immortal Realm’s enormous fissure with earth fragments from the Origin Demon Palace, stabilizing the continent so its Dao Vein could later be repaired.
• Luo Tian Dao Ancestor, Pure Yang Sword Ancestor, and Sui Zhu Heavenly Venerable sensed Han Yi’s aura and were shocked by his high-stage Divine Venerable strength.