Chapter Summaries

Xu Yan returned to the Great Wasteland with Mingyu, whose transformation revealed the Taihao Divine Artifact’s aura, and Li Xuan explained Taihao and the path beyond the Unchanging Land. As the Great Wasteland prepared for the Unchanging Divine Palace’s coming attack, Wu Mo asked Li Xuan why Taicang’s World Master realm had differed from his own.

• Xu Yan freed Mingyu from the Primordial Turtle Shell as she transformed and her Taihao aura became exposed near the Great Wasteland.
• Tian Zi, Wu Mo, Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, Fang Hao, Jiang Buping, and the other experts welcomed Xu Yan, who returned to Li Xuan and asked about Mingyu and the Exquisite Jade Seal.
• Li Xuan told Xu Yan and the others about Taihao’s Thirty-Three Heavens, the Land of No Return, and the need to walk the Dao to transcend the Unchanging Land.
• Li Xuan explained that the Great Wasteland’s Heavenly Dao could eventually carry its people beyond the Unchanging Land, prompting Tian Zi and the others to prepare for the coming battle.
• Wu Mo asked Li Xuan whether World Masters could differ in kind, comparing his own world and cultivation with Taicang’s; Li Xuan answered that worlds and paths varied in completeness.

Li Xuan guided the Witch Demon and his disciples while the Great Wasteland prepared for the next Epoch and the powerful forces gathering around it. As the three True Spirit Kings and Yuting appeared, the Black Chi King confronted the Chi Ni King and Giant Tao King to protect Ao Hong.

• Li Xuan explained Walking the Dao to the Witch Demon and advised him to cultivate his own Dao and world by using the Heavenly Dao as a reference.
• Xu Yan told Li Xuan that the Lord of the Jade Court, the Unchanging Divine Lord, and the Chi Ni King were threats; Li Xuan promised to establish rules preventing the strong from bullying the weak and challenged Xu Yan to face the rest himself.
• Li Xuan used the Great Dao Golden Book to guide Xu Yan, Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, Fang Hao, Jiang Buping, and Red Cat in their cultivation.
• As the next Epoch approached, Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping reached the great accomplishment of Dao Establishment, while Xu Yan neared the Creation Realm and Jiang Feng and Cang Lie entered the Heavenly Dao Realm.
• The Chi Ni King, Giant Tao King, Black Chi King, and Yuting appeared in the Unchanging Land; the Chi Ni King and Giant Tao King threatened Ao Hong, but the Black Chi King intervened and warned them against going too far.

The Unchanging Divine Lord intervened to stop the Chi Ni King and Black Chi King from fighting, then negotiated with the powerful factions over his plan and the Taihao Divine Artifact. As the True Spirits advanced toward the Great Wasteland, Ao Lie brought Ao Hong to Li Xuan, where Ao Hong saw Li Xuan’s Nine-Clawed Purple Gold Dragon form and bowed to him as the True Dragon Clan’s Old Ancestor.

• The Chi Ni King prepared to fight the Black Chi King, but the Unchanging Divine Lord arrived and ordered them to keep any battle away from his arrangements.
• The Unchanging Divine Lord negotiated with the Black Chi King and the Lord of Yuting, learning that the Taihao Divine Artifact was the Exquisite Jade Seal and belonged to Mingyu.
• Li Xuan watched from the Great Wasteland and decided to use the Unchanging Divine Lord’s shadowy body to establish his authority.
• Ao Hong reunited with Qingyu, the Witch Demon, and his son Ao Lie, who told him that he had become a Heavenly Dao True Dragon.
• Ao Lie brought Ao Hong to Li Xuan’s courtyard and urged him to bow to the Old Ancestor; after seeing Li Xuan’s Nine-Clawed Purple Gold Dragon form, Ao Hong knelt and paid his respects.

The Unchanging Divine Lord’s mountains completed their encirclement of the Great Wasteland, preparing to extract its world aura when the next epoch began. As the opposing forces gathered and the array neared activation, Fang Hao warned that the world was already caught within it.

• Ao Hong bowed to the Nine-Clawed Purple Gold Dragon, received guidance and protective power, and made Ao Lie thank the Old Ancestor as well.
• The Unchanging Divine Lord dismissed concerns about Mu Xiao and ordered Dou Ning to wait at the divine hall until it was time to act.
• The mountains surrounded the Great Wasteland, and Xu Yan noted that Mingyu’s Jade Puppet body was becoming more like a living person before declaring it was almost time to act.
• Tianzi, Fang Hao, the Witch Demon, Ao Hong, and other Great Wasteland experts gathered outside the world as Fang Hao explained that the crude arrangement would extract its world aura.
• The Unchanging Divine Lord and the other enemy leaders confronted the Great Wasteland’s defenders, while the Unchanging Divine Lord resolved to destroy anyone who stood in his way.
• The mountains reached their positions and their laws converged around the Great Wasteland; Fang Hao warned that the array was ready to devour the world, and the Unchanging Divine Lord said it was almost time to act.

As the Unchanging Divine Palace prepared to devour the Great Wasteland, Li Xuan arrived beyond the world and declared himself the Dao Ancestor. He set a rule requiring the World Masters to settle the conflict in an arena, while forbidding anyone above the World Master Realm from fighting, and the Unchanging Divine Lord challenged his authority.

• Fang Hao identified a weak point in the Unchanging Divine Palace's formation where the Great Wasteland's forces could strike to open an escape route.
• As a new era approached, several True Spirits died from the passage of time, and Giant Tao King ate their bodies.
• Li Xuan set out beyond the world with Red Cat and his disciples, while Su Lingxiu distributed pills to the gathered experts.
• Su Lingxiu revealed that she planned to refine the True Spirits into pills and showed Chi Xiaoni's dissected corpse, alarming Ao Hong about Red Chi King's reaction.
• Li Xuan introduced himself as the Dao Ancestor and created an arena where the two sides' World Masters would fight, forbidding those above the World Master Realm from intervening.
• The Unchanging Divine Lord rejected Li Xuan's rule and unleashed his sinister aura, while the Great Wasteland's forces watched eagerly for a confrontation.

Li Xuan enforced his rules by crushing Chi Ni King with one hand after Chi Ni King attacked the Great Wasteland. The Unchanging Divine Lord revealed his true body, Black Chi King stirred, and the Jade Court gathered its strength, putting Xue Ji in danger.

• The Unchanging Divine Lord summoned a gigantic shadowy claw, but Chi Ni King interrupted his attack when Chi Shibaba Ni showed him Chi Xiaoni's corpse being prepared for alchemy.
• Chi Ni King charged toward Xu Yan and Su Lingxiu, ignoring Li Xuan's warning and threatening to kill and torture them.
• Li Xuan raised one hand and crushed Chi Ni King, annihilating him and leaving the watching experts stunned.
• The true Unchanging Divine Lord emerged, Black Chi King revealed his aura, and the Jade Court recalled its Jade Puppets and fused its forces.
• Xue Ji felt the Jade Court's power devouring the Jade Puppet he occupied and cried out to Li Xuan for help.

Li Xuan forced the Undying Divine Lord and his allies to fight by his rules, leaving Xu Yan’s side to defend the Great Wasteland without his intervention. As the battle began, Meng Chong and Jiang Buping revealed their overwhelming strengths, while Nether Prison sent Blood Demon toward the Great Wasteland to pursue a separate plan.

• Li Xuan freed Xue Ji and Mingyu from the Jade Court’s pull, then introduced himself as the Dao Ancestor and compelled the Undying Divine Lord to accept a battle governed by his rules.
• The Undying Divine Lord agreed that he would follow the rules, and Li Xuan told Xu Yan and the others that he would not interfere if they lost.
• Meng Chong fought a Jade Person and a True Spirit together, severely damaging the Jade Person and killing the True Spirit before joining battle with the Jade Person again.
• Witch Demon charged into battle against a gray-robed Divine Palace expert, while Nether Prison urged Blood Demon to go to the Great Wasteland and said he had another task to complete.
• Jiang Buping fought a Divine Palace expert and a True Spirit, using Extreme Soul Martial Dao to attack the True Spirit while resisting the expert’s attack on his body.
• Meng Chong continued battering the recovering Jade Person until its body was covered in cracks and close to collapsing.

Meng Chong and the Great Wasteland’s experts fought the Undying Divine Lord’s forces while Mingyu awakened and recovered her memories. Mingyu explained Taihao’s Thirty-Three Heavens and the Exquisite Jade Seal, then suggested she might know where the legendary Taihao Divine Jade was as Xu Yan asked Li Xuan about its power.

• Meng Chong neutralized the Jade Puppet’s soul attack, and the Undying Divine Lord told the Black Chi King to send out his true spirits.
• Fang Hao, Ao Hong, Old Man Xiao, and other Great Wasteland experts joined the battle, while Xu Yan waited for the larger confrontation to begin.
• Mingyu awakened, chose to return to her present self, and told Xu Yan and the others about Taihao and its Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Mingyu let Xu Yan inspect the Exquisite Jade Seal and explained that she had been Exquisite Jade Mountain’s seventh sect master and the seal’s seventh wielder.
• Mingyu described the legendary Taihao Divine Jade and said she might know where it was, prompting Xu Yan to ask Li Xuan whether it could make its owner rule Taihao.

Mingyu recounted her incomplete memories of Taihao World, and Li Xuan identified the Lord of the Jade Court as the Taihao Divine Jade. As the changing of the ages approached, the Undying Divine Lord launched the long-awaited invasion of the Great Wasteland, beginning the decisive battle.

• Li Xuan told Xu Yan and Mingyu that the Lord of the Jade Court was the Taihao Divine Jade and explained how it had created the Jade Puppets from its power and the souls of Taihao cultivators.
• Mingyu recalled an unusual aura in Taihao World, her betrayal and self-detonation, and the loss of key memories connected to the Exquisite Jade Seal.
• The Undying Divine Lord judged that his forces could defeat the Great Wasteland, while Li Xuan reaffirmed the rules and allowed one fighter above World Master level, provided that fighter did not exceed the Heavenly Dao's might.
• Xu Yan volunteered to face that opponent and pursue a breakthrough to the Creation Realm, while Mingyu promised to help Tian Zi defend the world.
• The Undying Divine Lord ordered the invasion; the Unchanging Divine Palace advanced alongside the Jade Puppets and eighty percent of the Black Chi King's true spirits, as Tian Zi rallied the Great Wasteland forces and the Canghai Turtle prepared to shield them.

Meng Chong, Fang Hao, Jiang Buping, and the Great Wasteland World’s defenders faced the Divine Hall and its True Spirits in a fierce battle. The defenders held the Heavenly Dao barrier, but casualties mounted as the Undying Divine Lord remained confident and the struggle continued.

• Fang Hao rallied the World Masters to use his grand Array Formation as True Spirits and Divine Hall fighters charged the Great Wasteland World.
• Xu Yan fought the gray-robed man while Meng Chong, Jiang Buping, Fang Hao, and the others attacked the enemy; Su Lingxiu and Qingyu supported their allies with pills and healing vitality.
• Red Cat joined the battle, and Jiang Buping’s soul-killing attacks devastated the enemy until the Undying Divine Lord sent his shadow body to confront him.
• The World Masters’ Array Formation weakened as several of them fell, and Tian Zi ordered the other defenders to retreat behind the Heavenly Dao barrier.
• Mingyu wielded the Taihao Divine Artifact to injure a gray-robed fighter, while Meng Chong, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping stayed at the front to restrain the enemy.
• Li Xuan guided Xu Yan toward the Creation Realm, and Red Cat turned several True Spirits against Black Chi King as the battle continued.

The Great Wasteland’s defenders gained unexpected help as Mu Xiao and Tian Zi joined the battle, while Nether Prison set out to recover Taicang’s bones from the divine palace. The fight shifted when Giant Tao King attacked the Undying Divine Lord and Blood Demon betrayed the divine palace by helping Xue Ji kill Ye Ji.

• Tian Zi told Su Lingxiu to prepare to fight, then urged Mu Xiao to join the battle, where Mu Xiao revealed his greatly enhanced power against two gray-robed men.
• Blood Demon fought Xue Ji and secretly revealed that Nether Prison planned to steal Taicang’s bones from the divine palace and return them to the Taicang World.
• After Xue Ji informed Tian Zi, Tian Zi joined the battle and helped defend the Great Wasteland while Nether Prison headed for the divine palace.
• Giant Tao King ambushed the Undying Divine Lord as Nether Prison approached the palace, forcing the two to battle.
• Blood Demon and Xue Ji worked together to ambush Ye Ji, and Blood Demon’s sea of blood began devouring her vitality and Essence Blood.

Netherworld Prison killed Dou Ning and recovered Taicang’s remains, which Tian Zi brought back to the Great Wasteland and buried at the world’s core. The divine palace’s forces kept attacking, but Li Xuan judged that the Great Wasteland would hold until the next Era and that the Undying Divine Lord’s schemes would fail.

• Blood Demon turned against the divine palace’s powerful figures while the Giant Tao King kept the Undying Divine Lord occupied.
• Netherworld Prison killed Dou Ning with his blood-path power, then retrieved Taicang’s remains from a stone coffin beneath the great tree.
• The Undying Divine Lord ordered his forces to intercept Netherworld Prison, but Tian Zi recovered the stone coffin and returned it to the Great Wasteland.
• Tian Zi buried Taicang’s remains at the world’s core, and Jiang Feng and Cang Lie returned the two missing Finger Bones.
• The divine palace’s forces renewed their assault, while Wu Mo and the others defended the Great Wasteland with help from Tian Zi and Fang Hao’s formation.
• Li Xuan realized the Undying Divine Lord had allowed Netherworld Prison to recover the remains as part of a scheme, but believed the coming Era would prevent the plan from succeeding as Xu Yan advanced toward the Creation Realm.

The Undying Divine Lord’s scheme to use Taicang’s remains to breach the Great Wasteland began as the next era arrived ahead of schedule. As the world’s defenses failed, Xu Yan broke through to the Creation Realm, and azure light appeared in the chaos.

• The Undying Divine Lord revealed the Indestructible Divine Armor and ordered the gray-robed men to resume their assault as the next era began.
• Taicang’s remains emerged from the Great Wasteland’s core and seized the Heavenly Dao’s power, opening a breach in the world.
• Nether Prison realized the Undying Divine Lord had manipulated him, while the Divine Lord activated his arrangements to sacrifice the Great Wasteland and return to Taihao.
• Tian Zi and the others struggled to hold back the breach as the world’s origin power began pouring out.
• Xu Yan broke through to the Creation Realm and trapped the gray-robed man in a small world with his sword.
• Nether Prison burned his origin to stop the breach as a streak of azure light illuminated the chaotic Unchanging Land.

The green light opened a new epoch, allowing Xu Yan to comprehend how to walk the Great Dao and helping Li Xuan break through to the Walking the Dao Realm. After the Undying Divine Lord’s scheme failed, Li Xuan saw that a powerful being imprisoned beneath Taihao was causing the upheaval.

• Netherworld Prison and the others tried to seize the green light as it opened a new epoch, but the Undying Divine Lord’s plan failed and he collapsed in despair.
• Xu Yan entered the green light, comprehended the method of walking the Dao, and advanced to Creation Realm Minor Accomplishment.
• Li Xuan received a breakthrough to the Walking the Dao Realm, walked ten li upon the Dao, and stopped when he felt tired.
• The green light vanished, leaving the Great Wasteland Heavenly Dao restored; Meng Chong, Su Lingxiu, Fang Hao, and Jiang Buping gained strength, while Xu Yan neared Creation Realm Great Accomplishment.
• The Undying Divine Lord approached the Great Wasteland, and Li Xuan saw that a powerful being imprisoned beneath Taihao was consuming the world and drawing strength from the Unchanging Land.

The Undying Divine Lord defended his revenge by revealing how he had helped bring Taicang, Fen Yun, and Hongze into being and claiming Taicang had agreed to return his world to him. Tian Zi rejected his account, leaving the dispute over the world's fate unresolved.

• Li Xuan judged that the suppressed being had caused Taihao's chaos and decided to leave the coming changes to Xu Yan and the others.
• The Undying Divine Lord asked Li Xuan whether his revenge was justified, and Tian Zi argued that the Dao Ancestor's impartial rules also made their resistance justified.
• The Undying Divine Lord revealed that he had gathered Taicang's remains and used Origin Spirits to bring him back, then said Fen Yun and Hongze had also been reborn through his intervention.
• The Black Chi King, the Lord of the Jade Court, and the Giant Tao King explained their connections to Ao Hong, Qing Yu, and Dark Prison, while Wu Mo and Dark Prison were said to have emerged without outside intervention.
• The Undying Divine Lord claimed Taicang's past-life memories returned before his death, that Taicang agreed to return the world to him, and that he had promised not to kill Tian Zi.
• Tian Zi rejected the Undying Divine Lord's story and said he could neither claim the world nor return to Taihao through the Unchanging Land.

Li Xuan revived Tai Cang and restored Fen Yun and Hong Ze, then declared that a World Ending Tribulation was approaching and established a Heavenly Dao for Taihao World. He left his disciples to walk their own paths as he prepared to depart.

• Li Xuan refused to let the Undying Divine Lord return to Taihao yet, explained that the Unchanging Land faced a World Ending Tribulation, and said the time to return would come later.
• Li Xuan transformed Tai Cang's bones into a living body and restored him to his peak strength, allowing him to face the Undying Divine Lord again.
• Li Xuan reached into the River of Time and brought Fen Yun and Hong Ze back to life, leaving the Undying Divine Lord stunned and submissive.
• Li Xuan established a Heavenly Dao in Taihao World, leaving its inhabitants a chance to survive the coming tribulation and begin a new era.
• Li Xuan told Xu Yan and his other disciples that their training was complete and that they must walk the road ahead themselves.

In the chaotic Taihao World, Zhao Changtian rescued Lin Qing'er from the New Era Cult, and the two fought the cult for ten years before Zhao sacrificed himself and Lin Qing'er fled with their son, Zhao Taiping. A century later, Li Xuan watched the world’s turmoil from a secluded valley in the First Heaven, waiting for Xu Yan and the others to arrive and for the World Ending Tribulation.

• Zhao Changtian entered a deserted town and rushed to rescue Lin Qing'er and her family from the New Era Cult, but her parents and younger brother were killed.
• Lin Qing'er joined Zhao Changtian, and they fought the New Era Cult together for ten years before confronting its Master on the Thirteenth Heaven.
• Huang Qin revealed his betrayal, and Zhao Changtian sacrificed himself while Lin Qing'er escaped with their son, Zhao Taiping.
• Lin Qing'er sent six-year-old Zhao Taiping through a hidden passage before she was killed, and he fled through the mountains as Huang Qin's men searched for him.
• Li Xuan watched the turmoil from his valley in the First Heaven, explaining to Cai Ling'er that he awaited the World Ending Tribulation and Xu Yan's arrival.

After Zhao Taiping, the orphaned son of Zhao Changtian, found refuge in Li Xuan’s valley, Li Xuan accepted him as his sixth disciple and taught him the War-Slaughter Martial Dao. Twenty years later, Zhao Taiping began avenging his parents, launching a campaign against the New Era Cult that heralded his rise across Taihao World.

• Cai Ling'er asked Li Xuan whether Taihao World would produce a hero capable of answering the great tribulation, and Li Xuan said a heaven's favorite would emerge but might not end the chaos while the suppressed enemy remained.
• Zhao Taiping fled into Li Xuan's valley carrying his father's spear, and Red Cat frightened him before Shi Er brought him to Li Xuan.
• Li Xuan recognized Zhao Taiping's fortune and talent, accepted him as his sixth disciple, and imparted the War-Slaughter Martial Dao.
• After twenty years of cultivation, Zhao Taiping reached the Supernatural Ability Realm and left the valley to avenge his parents.
• Zhao Taiping swept through the New Era Cult in the First and Second Heavens, drawing surviving former members of the World Cleansing Army to his side.

Zhao Taiping was forced into the Unchanging Land as the World Ending Tribulation began to devastate Taihao, while the Great Wasteland grew into the Great Dao Era. The World Ending Fiend emerged as the Great Wasteland’s forces returned to Taihao, and the chapter ended with Taihao collapsing and a terrifying figure descending.

• Zhao Taiping fought alone against Taihao’s experts until they forced him into the Unchanging Land, where he healed and wandered toward a distant shining pearl.
• Xu Yan warned that the World Ending Tribulation was near, and the Undying Divine Lord, Taicang, and others expanded the Great Wasteland and strengthened its Heavenly Dao.
• The World Ending Tribulation caused Taihao’s heavens to collapse, dividing its inhabitants between those who sought to suppress the World Ending Fiend and those who wanted to free it.
• The World Ending Fiend broke free, and the Great Wasteland swallowed the chaos and began devouring Taihao’s laws as the Great Dao Era emerged.
• The Undying Divine Lord, Zhao Taiping, and Taicang returned with their forces to confront Taihao, but the World Ending Fiend roared that the world belonged to him.
• Taihao collapsed and exploded as a terrifying figure descended.

After the World-Destroying Malice threatened to consume the Great Wasteland, Xu Yan advanced toward Walking the Dao while Li Xuan intervened to help him succeed. Xu Yan destroyed the Malice, the Great Wasteland expanded into the void, and Li Xuan set out after realizing he was one with the Great Dao.

• The Taihao World collapsed, and the World-Destroying Malice emerged as the Great Wasteland began devouring the ruins and fighting to absorb the Unchanging Land.
• Taicang, Xu Yan, and the others battled the Malice and its monsters as the Great Wasteland swallowed most of the Unchanging Land.
• The Malice invaded the Great Wasteland and overwhelmed its defenders while Xu Yan tried to Walk the Dao and stop it.
• Li Xuan restrained the Malice, allowing Xu Yan to advance onto the Great Dao and destroy it with a sword of the Great Dao.
• The Great Wasteland expanded through the void, and Li Xuan received a hundredfold increase in his Walking the Dao before setting out across the void.