Chapter Summaries

Sect Master Tongtian gathered the Primordial World's strongest figures to prepare for the Union of Two Realms and the Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun plan. After assigning their tasks, he sought Demon Ancestor Luohu's help obtaining the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam and learned it was connected to Demon Emperor Long Yuan.

• Sect Master Tongtian returned to Wa Huang Heaven after getting drunk, and Niangniang Nuwa became pregnant again.
• After Sun Wukong had spent three hundred years at Mount Lingtai Fangcun, Tongtian identified the need to unite the Infinite World with the Primordial World and complete the Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun plan before the great tribulation.
• Tongtian gathered the Primordial World's powerful figures at Zixiao Palace, warned them of the risks, and assigned everyone responsibilities for the operation planned for fifty years later.
• Tongtian visited Demon Ancestor Luohu at Buzhou Mountain and asked for the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam, which was essential to the Union of Two Realms.
• Luohu explained that the Demon Realm had three Demon Emperors and named Demon Emperor Long Yuan.

Sect Master Tongtian learned that the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam was essential to Demon Emperor Long Yuan’s Nine Dragon Palace, and that White Emperor was the key to obtaining it. He considered how to persuade White Emperor to help, but the hundred-year pregnancy made the plan difficult with only fifty years to prepare.

• Demon Ancestor Luohu explained that taking the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam would endanger the Nine Dragon Palace, which could also become a flying ship.
• Tongtian asked Luohu how they could obtain the beam, and Luohu remembered that White Emperor was the only person besides herself to have seen Long Yuan’s true face.
• Tongtian clarified that he was the true body, easing Luohu’s concern about who he had been dealing with.
• Luohu said White Emperor regretted being unable to have a child with Long Yuan and believed she could sway her husband to give up the beam.
• Tongtian considered helping White Emperor conceive, but realized a hundred-year pregnancy would exceed their fifty-year preparation window unless she agreed to help as soon as she became pregnant.

Sect Master Tongtian prepared to seek White Emperor’s help in conceiving a child and obtained a Creation Green Lotus seed from Dao Ancestor Hongjun. The chapter ended with Hongjun tasting the wine Tongtian gave him and asking how it was made.

• Demon Ancestor Luohu warned Tongtian that White Emperor was unpredictable and difficult to deal with, but Tongtian said he would prepare before approaching her.
• Tongtian traveled to Zixiao Palace and asked Dao Ancestor Hongjun for a seed from the Creation Green Lotus.
• Hongjun revealed that he had such a seed and gave it to Tongtian in a small gourd.
• Tongtian gave Hongjun a gourd of wine, which filled Zixiao Palace with its enticing aroma.
• Hongjun tasted the wine and asked Tongtian what ingredients he had used.

Tongtian gathered the rare ingredients for the Kirin Pill, refined three pills with Pill Spirits, and traveled to the Devil Realm to find White Emperor. He reached White Emperor City and learned she lived in White Fortress, where he intended to meet her.

• Tongtian left Zixiao Palace after discussing wine with Dao Ancestor Hongjun and obtained the Creation Green Lotus seeds for the Kirin Pill.
• Tongtian went to Northern Darkness, where he and Ancestor Kunpeng searched for three months before finding an Ice Bead.
• Tongtian gathered the remaining ingredients and spent three years refining three Kirin Pills, each of which developed a Pill Spirit.
• Tongtian met Demon Ancestor Luohu at Buzhou Mountain, learned that a passage there led to the Devil Realm, and entered it.
• Tongtian traveled to White Emperor City, bypassed its barrier, and learned that White Emperor resided in White Fortress.

Sect Master Tongtian entered White Fortress by answering White Emperor’s recruitment notice and passed two tests to earn a chance to help her conceive. He revealed that he wanted the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam, prompting White Emperor to question his motives while her guards surrounded him.

• Sect Master Tongtian took down White Emperor’s recruitment notice and was brought into White Fortress to join the assessment.
• Tongtian identified the three pregnant women among ten candidates and passed the first test with four others.
• Tongtian alone made a special fish conceive, completing the second test and earning an audience with White Emperor.
• Tongtian asked for the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam as his reward, and White Emperor recognized him as Sect Master Tongtian.
• Tongtian explained that he hoped to obtain the beam through his own skill, while a female guard urged White Emperor to kill him.
• Tongtian argued that his treatment could be observed openly and that Demon Emperor Long Yuan could refuse the deal if he valued the beam more than having a descendant.

Sect Master Tongtian bargained with White Emperor to obtain the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam by helping her conceive and remain pregnant for three years. After discovering the Dragon Emperor's stored seed lacked vitality, Tongtian began preparing a way to restore it, and Demon Emperor Long Yuan arrived three days later.

• White Emperor stopped her guard from attacking Sect Master Tongtian, then had the guard killed when she tried to flee.
• White Emperor and Sect Master Tongtian signed an agreement exchanging his help with her pregnancy for the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam.
• Tongtian examined the Dragon Emperor's stored seed and found its vitality insufficient; White Emperor suggested Tongtian's seed instead, but he refused.
• White Emperor described the Dragon Emperor as a hybrid of the Devil Race and Dragon Clan, and Tongtian gave her a list of materials needed to restore the seed's vitality.
• Tongtian began preparations with White Emperor's attendants, and Demon Emperor Long Yuan arrived three days later.

Sect Master Tongtian’s attempt to secure the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam exposed the conflict between White Emperor and Demon Emperor Long Yuan, as well as Long Yuan’s apparent affair with Qing Ruhui. The chapter ended with Long Yuan attacking White Emperor after she moved to punish Qing Ruhui.

• Demon Emperor Long Yuan reluctantly discussed the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam, and Sect Master Tongtian said he would treat White Emperor without demanding payment.
• The Black-armored female guard attacked Sect Master Tongtian, but White Emperor’s power struck back until Long Yuan shielded the guard.
• White Emperor confronted Long Yuan and Qing Ruhui, revealed her name as Suzhen, and demanded that Qing Ruhui either die or cripple herself.
• White Emperor began counting down, but Long Yuan refused to yield and attacked her with a Dragon Breath.
• The White-robed maiden intercepted Long Yuan’s Dragon Breath with a lotus that devoured it.

Sect Master Tongtian witnessed the white-robed maiden defeat Demon Emperor Long Yuan and then faced the White Emperor’s proposal to conceive a child with him. When Tongtian refused to violate his principles, the White Emperor revealed that the encounter had been a test and that he was actually speaking with Demon Emperor Long Yuan.

• The white-robed maiden killed the Black-armored female guard and drove Demon Emperor Long Yuan from the White Emperor’s bedchamber.
• The White Emperor produced the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam and told Sect Master Tongtian she wanted an outstanding descendant, then proposed using his seed.
• Sect Master Tongtian refused the White Emperor’s proposal and prepared to end their transaction.
• The White Emperor praised Tongtian, transformed into a handsome man, and revealed that the scene had been a test.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked whether the man before him was the Dragon Emperor.

Sect Master Tongtian helped Demon Emperor Long Yuan and the White Emperor discover that the Demon Realm’s Great Dao was preventing them from conceiving a child powerful enough to escape its control. They conceived in the Unknowable Land after taking a Kirin Pill, and Tongtian concealed the pregnancy as the fetus developed.

• Demon Emperor Long Yuan and Bai Suzhen apologized for testing Tongtian, who examined the couple and found nothing wrong with them.
• Tongtian taught the couple the Yellow Emperor's Art and the True Scripture of the Plain Woman, then observed them for forty-nine days.
• Tongtian concluded that the Demon Realm’s Great Dao prevented the birth of a descendant it could not control, and offered three Kirin Pills made from a Creation Green Lotus seed.
• Demon Emperor Long Yuan and the White Emperor followed Tongtian out of the Demon Realm and into the Unknowable Land, where the White Emperor conceived after taking a Kirin Pill.
• Tongtian concealed the pregnancy and the fetus from both realms’ Great Daos, and three years later the child was developing healthily with extraordinary talent.

Sect Master Tongtian completed the preparations for the Union of Two Realms, including extracting the Sky-Supporting White Jade Pillar, and gathered the mighty figures at Guixu when the fifty-year opportunity arrived. The formation activated, beginning the attempt to unite the Primordial World and the Infinite World.

• Sect Master Tongtian gave the White Emperor the last Kirin Pill and instructions for protecting the children, then left with the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam secured.
• Sect Master Tongtian traveled to Haotu City and spent seven years extracting the Sky-Supporting White Jade Pillar from the heart of the Pillar of Heaven World.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Dao Ancestor Hongjun reviewed everyone's preparations at Zixiao Palace and found that all tasks were complete.
• Eight years later, Sect Master Tongtian, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, and countless mighty figures gathered at Guixu on the eighth day of the eighth month to await the third quarter of the Horse Hour.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Dao Ancestor Hongjun gave the command, activating the Heaven and Earth, Infinite Worlds Unite, Heaven and Earth Yin-Yang Formation and pulling Guixu open.

Sect Master Tongtian defended the Primordial World's effort to unite with Infinite World, destroying the attackers who tried to disrupt the fusion. With the process two-thirds complete, he confronted Multi-Eyed Amitabha and vanished him with a sudden attack, then manifested a golden Buddha above the formation.

• As the Primordial World and Infinite World began merging, black figures attacked the Primordial World's great formation while Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the other experts remained occupied.
• Sect Master Tongtian transformed into a golden-body Buddha and destroyed the black giant Buddha that opposed him.
• Tongtian pushed the Primordial World closer to Infinite World, bringing the union to two-thirds completion, then fired a golden arrow that revealed figures hiding in the void.
• Multi-Eyed Amitabha of Hanging Temple in Northern Zhou challenged Tongtian, but a flash of light from Tongtian made him vanish.
• Tongtian manifested Dharma Manifestation of Heaven and Earth as a golden giant Buddha above the formation.

Sect Master Tongtian helped unite the Primordial World and the Infinite World, defying the Eyes of the Great Dao and naming their fused realm the Infinite Primordial World. After the alliance dispersed, Demon Emperor Long Yuan and White Emperor discussed asking Tongtian to be godfather to their children, and Tongtian returned to the Moon Palace to see his pregnant companions.

• Sect Master Tongtian began merging the Primordial World with the Infinite World, while the two Eyes of the Great Dao attacked the worlds' connection with tribulation lightning.
• The Primordial World's Heavenly Dao intercepted many lightning bolts, and Tongtian caught the rest before proclaiming against the Great Dao and making its Eyes disappear.
• The two realms finished fusing, and Tongtian declared that the united world would be called the Infinite Primordial World.
• Tongtian's Dharma Manifestation vanished, and the Primordial World alliance disbanded, with its members expecting compensation for their contributions.
• Demon Emperor Long Yuan and White Emperor realized Tongtian had taken the Sea-Supporting Purple Gold Beam to help unite the worlds, and White Emperor proposed that their children call him godfather.
• Tongtian returned to the Moon Palace, where Tianqiong, Chang'e, Sheng Ji, and Queen Mother of the West were nearing childbirth.

Sect Master Tongtian left the Moon Palace to advance the Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun plan, hoping to save the Infinite Primordial World from the great calamity. At a meeting beneath the northern glaciers, he faced accusations from Li Tianzun that he was using their alliance for personal gain.

• Sect Master Tongtian apologized to his four wives for neglecting them, and they reassured him that they supported his work.
• After spending years with his wives, Sect Master Tongtian left the Moon Palace to continue the Stealing Heaven and Changing Sun plan, despite fearing he might miss their childbirth.
• Sect Master Tongtian met Heartless Dao Lord and more than a dozen masked allies beneath the northern glaciers to check their preparations.
• Sect Master Tongtian explained that he had prepared three locations and formations as backups for the plan.
• Li Tianzun questioned Sect Master Tongtian's arrangements and accused him of turning the alliance into a tool for personal gain, while Sect Master Tongtian demanded evidence.

Sect Master Tongtian killed Li Tianzun and his supporters after they tried to seize control of the alliance, then took responsibility for the tasks they had left unfinished. He prepared to travel with Heartless Dao Lord into the past to separate a moment from Chaoge City, and the system offered him a choice as they began the plan.

• The Masked Man and Li Tianzun's allies demanded that Li Tianzun replace Sect Master Tongtian as alliance master.
• Sect Master Tongtian challenged them over their unfinished tasks and told them to leave the alliance.
• When Li Tianzun rejected Tongtian's authority, Tongtian crushed his head with a golden hand and then destroyed his remaining supporters.
• Tongtian agreed to complete their unfinished tasks and planned with Heartless Dao Lord to travel into the past to separate a moment from Chaoge City.
• After Tongtian spent more than three months setting up a Time Formation, the system offered him a choice between entering the past or disbanding the Heaven Stealing Alliance.

Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord traveled through time to Chaoge, while an unknown intruder secretly followed them. After explaining why they had arrived three months before their target date, Sect Master Tongtian took Heartless Dao Lord to a pleasure house.

• Sect Master Tongtian activated the Time Formation with Heartless Dao Lord, and the two entered the river of history.
• An unknown person secretly entered the Time Formation, prompting Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the others to guard it rather than follow.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord arrived in Chaoge and disagreed over whether to travel three days or three months into the past.
• Sect Master Tongtian guided Heartless Dao Lord through a deduction that convinced him the earlier arrival was necessary.
• Sect Master Tongtian took Heartless Dao Lord to a pleasure house, where Big Teapot offered them lodging or entertainment and a feast.

Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord stayed at the Hibiscus Pavilion while Sect Master Tongtian observed its guests and prepared for events that would occur before the ideal moment to seize and sever an instant in history. Their stay was interrupted by a richly dressed young man’s men, and Heartless Dao Lord killed the bald attacker with his own throwing knife.

• Sect Master Tongtian paid Big Teapot to arrange a waterside pavilion, a banquet, and singing and dancing for him and Heartless Dao Lord.
• Sect Master Tongtian deflected a beauty’s questions about his identity, while Heartless Dao Lord sat quietly with his companion.
• Sect Master Tongtian surveyed the Hibiscus Pavilion’s guests and considered how to handle events that might threaten the coming opportunity.
• A richly dressed young man and his men stormed into the pavilion and demanded that Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord leave.
• The bald man threw a knife at Heartless Dao Lord, who sent it back and pinned the attacker’s head to a pillar.

Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord fought off Xue JinYi and his men at Hibiscus Pavilion, then stayed there while Sect Master Tongtian searched for the right moment to extract from Chaoge City's history. Seven days and seven nights passed as they continued their wait.

• After Vulture died, Xue JinYi attacked Heartless Dao Lord with a flying sword, but it vanished into starlight before reaching him.
• Xue JinYi tried to leave, but Heartless Dao Lord annihilated him and his group in body and soul with an invisible ripple.
• Sect Master Tongtian rebuked a curious Hibiscus Pavilion woman for asking about his origins and warned her not to pry.
• Sect Master Tongtian listened to Chaoge City as he searched for the right moment to extract, while Heartless Dao Lord remained at Hibiscus Pavilion with him.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord stayed at Hibiscus Pavilion for seven days and seven nights, and Heartless Dao Lord gradually grew accustomed to its indulgent life.

Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord prepared to face an unknown intruder whose arrival had triggered the formation’s warning. A blade-filled attack struck them at the lake, and Heartless Dao Lord identified their foe as the formidable King of Ten Thousand Blades.

• Sect Master Tongtian told Heartless Dao Lord that someone powerful had entered their spacetime, and both men readied their swords.
• Heartless Dao Lord recalled his Heartless Sword and asked Sect Master Tongtian to care for Nanhuang Jiu, revealing that Nanhuang Jiu was his biological son.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord went to the lake near Hibiscus Pavilion, where a fierce gale of blades attacked them and pierced their defenses.
• Heartless Dao Lord recognized the attack as belonging to King of Ten Thousand Blades and raised a shield with the Qiankun Limitless, Great Annihilation Method.

Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord confronted the King of Ten Thousand Blades, whose power reflected Heartless Dao Lord’s attack back onto him. After Sect Master Tongtian defeated the King and his followers, the two returned to Hibiscus Pavilion, where Heartless Dao Lord began recovering and they prepared for the crucial work ahead.

• The King of Ten Thousand Blades blocked Heartless Dao Lord’s attack and took his sword, then used a strange ability to reflect Heartless Dao Lord’s heart-removing attack back onto him.
• Sect Master Tongtian killed the King of Ten Thousand Blades and his attacking followers, then collected their bodies and rescued Heartless Dao Lord with pills.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Heartless Dao Lord returned to Hibiscus Pavilion, where Heartless Dao Lord recognized that Sect Master Tongtian’s combat strength far surpassed his own.
• Sect Master Tongtian gave Heartless Dao Lord three months’ worth of pills and told him to recuperate, explaining that the crucial part of their mission depended on him.
• Heartless Dao Lord assured Sect Master Tongtian their prior efforts would not be wasted, and Sect Master Tongtian told him to remain at Hibiscus Pavilion.

Sect Master Tongtian investigated the imperial palace’s Tong Palace and found a White-clothed Woman playing zither pieces from eras far beyond the Zhou Dynasty. He left the encounter uncertain about her identity and whether she was connected to the strange aura he had sensed.

• Sect Master Tongtian left Hibiscus Pavilion, where Heartless Dao Lord was safely cultivating, and entered the imperial palace.
• He reached Tong Palace, the desolate inner-palace prison, and sensed something unusual.
• Sect Master Tongtian changed course and found a White-clothed Woman playing Phoenix Seeks Mate, a piece from a much later era.
• The White-clothed Woman played High Mountains and then Yangguan Sandie, both anachronistic pieces that deepened Sect Master Tongtian’s suspicions.