Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan revealed that he cultivated the Great Dao of Strength and survived Taishang’s destruction of countless minor worlds. Taishang drew on the Heavenly Dao to reach Hunyuan Ninth Heaven, and Lin Xuan launched the promised punch.

• Taishang concluded that Lin Xuan possessed a treasure that aided Dao comprehension, then broke through and merged his three Saint-level incarnations back into himself.
• Lin Xuan allowed Taishang to attack him with Yin-Yang Great Dao power, enduring it with his physical body as Taishang’s breakthrough-enhanced strength began to wane.
• Taishang detonated countless minor worlds to unleash a destructive torrent, but Lin Xuan emerged unharmed and revealed his mastery of the Great Dao of Strength.
• Lin Xuan promised to spare Taishang if he could withstand one punch, and Taishang invoked the Heavenly Dao to raise his cultivation to Hunyuan Ninth Heaven.
• Lin Xuan threw an ordinary punch as the Three Thousand Great Daos trembled.

Lin Xuan defeated Grand Supreme Elder Laozi in the Chaos and forced him to surrender the Taiji Diagram and Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda. When Laozi resisted Lin Xuan’s demand to leave Taishang Laojun behind, Lin Xuan subdued Laojun and bound him as his slave.

• Lin Xuan’s punch shattered Grand Supreme Elder Laozi’s Dao body despite his borrowed Heavenly Dao power and union with his Evil Corpse.
• Lin Xuan stopped Laozi from leaving and threatened to kill him unless he surrendered the Taiji Diagram and Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.
• Laozi gave Lin Xuan the two treasures, and their resonance with the Chaos Bell and Chaos Banner confirmed Lin Xuan’s suspicion that the three could recreate Pangu’s Sky-Opening Divine Axe.
• Lin Xuan demanded that Laozi leave Taishang Laojun behind to refine pills for the Interception Sect, but Laozi refused and tried to make Laojun self-detonate while his primordial spirit escaped.
• Lin Xuan froze Taishang Laojun’s self-detonation and imprinted a Dao-pattern on him, making Laojun his slave.

Lin Xuan enslaved Taishang Laojun’s Good Corpse, moved the Human Sect’s Shouyang Mountain dojo to Golden Ao Island, and made Laojun refine pills for the Interception Sect. As the Interception Sect’s power surged, Houtu warned Lin Xuan that Dao Ancestor Hongjun was likely plotting against him.

• Taishang Laojun burned his source energy to resist Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan branded him with forty-nine enslavement Dao runes and sealed his body, primordial spirit, and consciousness.
• Lin Xuan and Taishang Laojun went to Shouyang Mountain, where Laojun’s aura opened the formations protecting Eight Sceneries Palace.
• Taishang Laozi sought refuge with Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin, then joined them in setting out to ask Dao Ancestor Hongjun to intervene against Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan uprooted Shouyang Mountain and merged it into Golden Ao Island, causing the Human Sect’s fortune to collapse and flow into the Interception Sect as mighty beings gathered to pay their respects.
• Lin Xuan put Taishang Laojun to work refining pills for the Interception Sect, while Houtu warned Lin Xuan that Hongjun might be plotting behind the rise of his sect.

As Taishang, Zhunti, and Jieyin failed to summon Hongjun, Lin Xuan uncovered a possible plot to steal Pangu’s legacy and received Pangu’s complete inheritance from the Three Treasures of Sky-Opening. The inheritance raised Lin Xuan’s cultivation to Hunyuan Eighth Heaven, while its fragments spread throughout the Primordial World.

• Taishang, Zhunti, and Jieyin knelt before the vanished Zixiao Palace and begged Hongjun to meet them, but Hongjun ignored them and they eventually returned to the Primordial World.
• Hongjun told Tongtian that the time had not yet come, then continued to leave the three Saints outside without answering their pleas.
• Lin Xuan suspected Hongjun planned to seize the Heavenly Dao and Pangu’s legacy, so he concealed the Heavenly Secrets and brought together the Taiji Diagram, Chaos Banner, and Chaos Bell.
• Lin Xuan erased Taishang’s imprint from the Taiji Diagram, causing Taishang’s newly formed body to collapse as he prepared to rebuild it again.
• The three treasures revealed Pangu’s complete inheritance, and Lin Xuan experienced Pangu’s battle against the three thousand Chaos Demon Gods and creation of the Primordial World.
• Lin Xuan’s cultivation rose to Hunyuan Eighth Heaven, and the inheritance shattered into fragments that spread across the Primordial World.

Taishang, Zhunti, and Jieyin failed to summon Hongjun from Zixiao Palace, while Lin Xuan refined the Three Treasures of Sky-Opening and received Pangu’s inheritance. The inheritance raised Lin Xuan’s cultivation to Hunyuan Eighth Heaven and scattered its fragments throughout the Primordial World.

• Taishang, Zhunti, and Jieyin knelt before the vanished Zixiao Palace and begged Hongjun to let them enter, but he ignored them and they returned to the Primordial World.
• Tongtian worried that Hongjun’s hidden strength threatened Lin Xuan, while Hongjun warned only that it was not yet time.
• Lin Xuan considered Hongjun’s possible scheme to seize the Heavenly Dao and used the Chaos Bead to conceal his refinement of the Taiji Diagram, Chaos Banner, and Chaos Bell.
• Lin Xuan erased Taishang’s spirit imprint from the Taiji Diagram, causing Taishang’s newly formed body to collapse.
• The three treasures joined their inheritance imprints into Pangu’s complete inheritance, and Lin Xuan experienced Pangu’s battle against the three thousand Chaos Demon Gods and the creation of the Primordial World.
• The inheritance fragments scattered across the Primordial World, bringing its living beings sudden joy, and Lin Xuan’s cultivation rose to Hunyuan Eighth Heaven.

Lin Xuan went to the Western Sect to take the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit and found Zhunti and Jieyin turning the sect’s foundation into Buddhism by refining a demonic shadow. When Lin Xuan provoked Zhunti and stirred the lotus with the restored Thirty-Six-Petaled Chaos Green Lotus, Jieyin erupted in demonic energy and vowed to fight him to the death.

• Zhunti and Jieyin began refining Demon Ancestor Luohu’s demonic shadow into Amitabha Buddha, transforming the Western Sect’s disciples and spreading Buddhist influence across the western region.
• Lin Xuan arrived at Spirit Mountain, erased living beings driven mad by the new faith, and demanded the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit from Zhunti.
• Zhunti tried to delay Lin Xuan, but Lin Xuan declared the lotus fated to be his and dismissed Zhunti’s consent as irrelevant.
• Lin Xuan stirred the Thirty-Six-Petaled Chaos Green Lotus, causing the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit to struggle against its seals and the Western Sect to lose ten percent of its fortune.
• Jieyin emerged amid overwhelming Demonic Energy and roared that he would fight Lin Xuan to the death.

Lin Xuan confronted Zhunti and Jieyin as they established Buddhism by converting the western Primordial World and fusing into a powerful Buddha. After Lin Xuan destroyed the Buddha’s palm and declared he would bear the resulting karmic sin, the Heavenly Dao withdrew, leaving him poised to kill the Two Sages of the West.

• Daoist Jieyin’s half-Buddha, half-demon form appeared, and Western Sect disciples sacrificed themselves to strengthen the Buddha behind him.
• Lin Xuan exposed the Buddha’s demonic nature, while Grand Supreme Elder Laozi considered devouring Tongtian and Yuanshi’s origins to recreate Pangu’s Primordial Spirit.
• Daoist Jieyin established Buddhism and received Heavenly Dao power, converting the western Primordial World and taking twenty percent of the Profound Sect’s fortune.
• Daoist Zhunti merged with Jieyin’s Buddha phantom, and the two became a Hunyuan Ninth Heaven Buddha that threatened Lin Xuan with karmic sin.
• Lin Xuan cut apart the Buddha’s palm, destroyed the true spirits within it, and declared that he would bear the karmic force himself.
• The Heavenly Dao withdrew after sensing Lin Xuan’s Pangu bloodline, and Lin Xuan swung the Immortal Slaying Sword at the Buddha’s golden body.

Lin Xuan used the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to sever the West’s earth veins, destroy its living beings, and eradicate Buddhism, while Zhunti and Jieyin escaped as relics. As Heavenly punishment gathered, Lin Xuan called on the disciples of the Interception Sect to answer him.

• Zhunti and Jieyin attacked Lin Xuan, but he summoned the Immortal Trapping Sword, Immortal Slaughtering Sword, and Immortal Intercepting Sword to form the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Lin Xuan severed the West’s earth veins and slaughtered its living beings, wiping away Zhunti and Jieyin’s foundations and turning their Buddha golden body against them.
• Lin Xuan declared that Buddhism would cease to exist and used the Great Dao of Strength to suppress Zhunti and Jieyin’s laws and destroy their Buddhist path.
• Zhunti and Jieyin tried to self-detonate, but Lin Xuan seized and suppressed their Buddha golden body while Jieyin escaped with the still-mad Zhunti as two relics.
• As Heavenly punishment gathered over Lin Xuan, he called for the disciples of the Interception Sect, and they answered from Golden Ao Island.

Lin Xuan summoned the Interception Sect disciples to gather the western continent’s severed earth veins, then used Sleeve Universe to take the entire region into his sleeve. Zhunti and Jieyin watched their Buddhist foundation disappear and, already corrupted by Luohu’s demonic path, were left utterly broken.

• Lin Xuan told the Interception Sect disciples to gather the western region’s earth veins so he could move the continent to Golden Ao Island.
• Lin Xuan took the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit and three spiritual treasures from the Buddha’s golden body.
• Luohu revealed that he had corrupted Zhunti and Jieyin’s foundations and challenged their trust in Hongjun.
• The Interception Sect disciples gathered the western region’s earth veins around Spirit Mountain, and Lin Xuan used Sleeve Universe to take the whole continent into his sleeve.
• Zhen Yuanzi witnessed Lin Xuan’s feat, resolved to join the Interception Sect as his disciple, and prepared the Ginseng Fruits as an initiation gift.
• Zhunti and Jieyin saw the western continent vanish and collapsed in despair.

Demon Ancestor Luohu corrupted Nuwa through the Hongmeng Purple Qi, drawing her into the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. Meanwhile, Lin Xuan reshaped the Primordial World by moving the western land into the East Sea and raising Golden Ao Island, earning vast Heavenly Dao Merit and leaving Zhunti and Jieyin enraged.

• Luohu offered Zhunti and Jieyin a demonic cultivation art, and Jieyin urged them to seek Grand Supreme Elder Laozi while waiting for Hongjun to deal with Lin Xuan.
• Luohu infiltrated Wa Huang Palace and corrupted Nuwa’s Hongmeng Purple Qi, overwhelming her with demonic energy and negative emotions.
• Nuwa sealed away a fragment of her clear consciousness before her Dao foundation was fully corrupted.
• Lin Xuan returned to Golden Ao Island after gathering the western land into his sleeve, then filled the East Sea with it and placed Golden Ao Island atop the former Spirit Mountain.
• Golden Ao Island’s ley lines spread vitality through the western land, and the Heavenly Dao rewarded Lin Xuan with vast merit that enraged Zhunti and Jieyin.

Lin Xuan sent the preserved true spirits of the western beings he had slain into reincarnation, earning another vast reward of Heavenly Dao Merit. Hongjun grew alarmed and urged Luohu to inflame Nuwa’s jealousy, while Lin Xuan turned his attention toward Zixiao Palace, where Tongtian remained imprisoned.

• Hongjun envied Lin Xuan’s reward for moving the western lands and continued struggling to refine the Heavenly Dao.
• Candle Dragon discovered that the East Sea had become land, and Ao Xue explained Lin Xuan’s deeds to him and the other dragons.
• Houtu agreed to use the Six Paths of Reincarnation to restore the true spirits Lin Xuan had preserved, and Lin Xuan released them into the Reincarnation Disk.
• The Reincarnation Disk sent the true spirits into reincarnation and returned to the Netherworld, while the Heavenly Dao bestowed another vast sea of Merit on Lin Xuan.
• Hongjun urged Luohu to intensify Nuwa’s jealousy of Lin Xuan, and Lin Xuan collected the Merit and looked toward Zixiao Palace, thinking of Tongtian’s imprisonment.

Lin Xuan’s disciples restored the earth veins and earned Heavenly Dao merit while he entered seclusion, as Nuwa’s demonic obsession drove her to seize the Heavenly Court and attack the Human Dao. After the Interception Sect blocked the demon court with its star formation, Nuwa issued decrees against humanity and Lin Xuan, prompting him to leave seclusion and confront her.

• Lin Xuan directed the Interception Sect disciples to connect the earth veins, and Candle Dragon joined them after learning his Dragon Clan’s ancestral sites had been relocated to a new sea.
• The earth-vein work brought Heavenly Dao merit to the disciples and Candle Dragon, while Lin Xuan entered seclusion to cultivate; meanwhile, ancient demons began disappearing races and driving refugees toward the Interception Sect’s territory.
• Nuwa summoned Haotian and Yaochi, killed Haotian for refusing to surrender the Celestial Emperor’s position, and forcibly made Yaochi her Queen Mother before announcing the restoration of the Ancient Demon Court.
• As the demon court raided human settlements, the Interception Sect’s disciples activated the Chaotic Grand Formation of the Celestial Stars, stopping the demons’ advance and frustrating Nuwa.
• Nuwa declared humanity to be demon livestock and issued decrees to strip the Kongtong Seal of its status, remove Lin Xuan’s authority over the Human Dao, and erase the Interception Sect’s lineage and Lin Xuan’s faith among humans.
• Lin Xuan sensed Nuwa’s actions, left seclusion, and decided to confront her and force her to answer for them.

After emerging from seclusion at the limit of Hunyuan Ninth Heaven, Lin Xuan accepted the Three Ancestors of Humanity’s treasures and pledged to confront Nuwa over her persecution of humanity. He led the Interception Sect toward the Heavenly Court, while hidden enemies watched for an opportunity and Tongtian secretly passed the Qingping Sword’s connection to Lin Xuan; the procession reached the Thirty-three Heavens.

• Lin Xuan emerged from seclusion after refining the Chaos Bead and was welcomed by the Interception Sect disciples at Biyou Palace.
• Daoist Duobao confessed that he had sheltered the Three Ancestors of Humanity, and Lin Xuan approved his actions and agreed to meet them.
• Youchao Shi, Ziyi Shi, and Suiren Shi asked Lin Xuan to defend humanity and offered him four merit treasures, which he accepted.
• Lin Xuan ordered the Interception Sect to prepare its chariot and declared that they would go to the Heavenly Court to whip Nuwa.
• Nine Primordial War Dragons pulled Lin Xuan’s chariot toward the Thirty-three Heavens as Taishang, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Hongjun watched from hiding; Tongtian secretly concealed a connection to the Qingping Sword for Lin Xuan.
• Lin Xuan and the Interception Sect procession arrived outside the Thirty-three Heavens.

Lin Xuan confronted Nuwa over her mistreatment of humanity and condemned her for feeding humans to demons and letting demons prey on the myriad races. He began whipping her with the Human Creation Whip, and Nuwa’s awakened consciousness begged him to keep going as his lashes shook the Demonic Energy within her.

• Ji Meng blocked Daoist Duobao and the Interception Sect at the South Heaven Gate until Nuwa arrived in her Phoenix Carriage and exerted Saintly pressure on the disciples.
• The Interception Sect disciples resisted Nuwa’s pressure without kneeling, and Lin Xuan emerged from his carriage to stop her from attacking them.
• Lin Xuan questioned Nuwa about humanity’s creation and her treatment of humans, then announced that he would punish her with three thousand lashes.
• Nuwa argued that the strong preyed on the weak, so Lin Xuan used her own reasoning to justify enforcing punishment on behalf of Heaven.
• Lin Xuan struck Nuwa repeatedly with the Human Creation Whip, and the lashes awakened the consciousness she had sealed within herself.
• Nuwa’s awakened consciousness seized control of her body and urgently told Lin Xuan to keep whipping her.

Lin Xuan struck Hongjun with the united Four Swords of Zhu Xian, rescued Nuwa’s remaining consciousness, and learned that Hongjun had corrupted her with demonized Hongmeng Purple Qi. He placed her fading consciousness in the Human Creation Whip as its Artifact Spirit, destroyed the demon magnates, and left Hongjun summoning four Saints to join forces against him.

• Nuwa’s consciousness awakened as Lin Xuan whipped her, so Hongjun reached in to take her away and warned Lin Xuan to stop.
• Lin Xuan attacked Hongjun’s colossal hand twice with the united Four Swords of Zhu Xian, injuring him and disrupting his struggle against the Heavenly Dao.
• Nuwa’s consciousness emerged from her body to escape Hongjun, and Lin Xuan intercepted it before Hongjun could erase it.
• Hongjun withdrew Nuwa’s body and seized Taishang Laozi, Zhunti, and Jieyin, while Lin Xuan realized Hongjun had demonized Nuwa’s Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Lin Xuan merged Nuwa’s fading consciousness into the Human Creation Whip, then destroyed the demon magnates who had pleaded for mercy.
• Hongjun summoned Grand Supreme Elder Laozi, Zhunti, Jieyin, and the demonized Nuwa to Zixiao Palace and ordered them to join forces to exterminate Lin Xuan.

Hongjun offered the Creation Jade Disk and restored strength to recruit the Saints into a scheme against Lin Xuan, while Lin Xuan gathered the Primordial World’s powers at the Great Firmament Heaven. Lin Xuan announced that the Interception Sect would leave Hongjun’s Profound Sect and become a sect of the Primordial World, and thunder sounded overhead.

• Hongjun promised Laozi, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Nuwa the Creation Jade Disk, restored cultivation, and Luohu’s assistance in exchange for their help killing Lin Xuan.
• Luohu appeared in Zixiao Palace, revealed his Hunyuan Ninth Heaven cultivation, and agreed to join the campaign against Lin Xuan.
• Hongjun secretly intended for the Saints to die fighting Lin Xuan, hoping their deaths would weaken the Heavenly Dao and free him to seize its Dao fruit.
• Lin Xuan arrived at the restored Golden Valve Mi Luo Palace, where Qiongxiao reported the spoils from Wa Huang Palace, including the Precious Lotus Lantern.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Interception Sect, representatives of the myriad races, and unaffiliated mighty figures, then declared that the Interception Sect would leave the Profound Sect and become the Interception Sect of the Primordial World.
• Thunder sounded above the Great Firmament Heaven as Lin Xuan’s announcement reached the gathered powers.

Lin Xuan led the Interception Sect out of the Profound Sect and established its own Heavenly Court with the Heavenly Dao’s approval. He appointed Zhao Gongming as the Supreme Jade Emperor, further weakening Hongjun as he struggled against the Heavenly Dao.

• Lin Xuan announced the Interception Sect’s withdrawal from the Profound Sect, and its disciples swore to stand with him as the Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Daos witnessed their separation.
• The Interception Sect’s fortune transformed after leaving the Profound Sect, while Hongjun’s weakened authority made it harder for him to resist the Heavenly Dao.
• Lin Xuan announced that he would establish an Interception Sect Heavenly Court, and the Heavenly Dao delivered the Investiture of the Gods and the God-Beating Whip to him.
• Lin Xuan appointed Zhao Gongming Supreme Jade Emperor and promised him sainthood after eighteen thousand kalpas; Zhao Gongming accepted and was restored to the Late Stage Quasi-Saint realm.
• Zhao Gongming took his place as Heavenly Emperor, making the Heavenly Dao more complete and increasing the pressure on Hongjun by thirty percent.
• Lin Xuan continued appointing divine positions from the Investiture of the Gods.

Lin Xuan established the Interception Sect Heavenly Court, revived its disciples as gods, and bound the other Three Sects’ disciples into servants for countless eons. As the Heavenly Court secured providence across the Primordial World, Hongjun sent Laozi, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Empress Nuwa to kill Lin Xuan with four Chaos relics.

• Lin Xuan revived the fallen Interception Sect disciples, appointed 365 Orthodox Gods, and established the Interception Sect Heavenly Court.
• Lin Xuan bound the remnant souls of the Chan Sect, Human Sect, and Western Sect disciples with Heavenly Dao runes, making them servants of the Heavenly Court for countless eons.
• The Heavenly Dao restored and refined the Thirty-three Heavens, giving the Heavenly Court a treasure that suppressed its providence and drew the Primordial World’s destiny into the Investiture of the Gods.
• The four Saints—Grand Supreme Elder Laozi, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Empress Nuwa—recovered in Zixiao Palace and coveted the Creation Jade Disk but did not dare take it.
• Hongjun summoned the four Saints, gave each a Chaos relic, and ordered them to join forces to kill Lin Xuan.

Hongjun sent Laozi, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Nuwa to kill Lin Xuan, offering them a year of Creation Jade Disk study as a reward. Lin Xuan deduced Hongjun was using him to eliminate the Heavenly Dao Saints and planned to kill the four and place their souls on the Investiture of the Gods; he ended their confrontation by inviting them to the Investiture.

• Hongjun promised the four Saints a year of Creation Jade Disk study if they exterminated Lin Xuan, and Luohu followed them from Zixiao Palace.
• Lin Xuan stopped preaching in the Great Firmament Heaven when he sensed the four Saints approaching, and warned Lin Jia not to confront them.
• Laozi, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Nuwa arrived with Luohu, but Lin Xuan's growing power unsettled them until Luohu urged them to attack together.
• Lin Xuan deduced that Hongjun was using him to kill the four Heavenly Dao Saints so Hongjun could escape the Heavenly Dao, and he planned to place their souls on the Investiture of the Gods.
• Laozi demanded that Lin Xuan dissolve the Interception Sect's Heavenly Court and submit to Hongjun, but Lin Xuan calmly invited the Saints to the Investiture of the Gods.

Lin Xuan faced Taishang Laozi, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Empress Nuwa as they joined forces to kill him, then summoned Pangu’s True Body with the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Array. The chapter ended with Pangu’s True Body looking at Taishang Laozi as if he were about to beat his son.

• The four Saints agreed to abandon their dignity and attack Lin Xuan together, while Lin Xuan mocked their excuses.
• Taishang Laozi raised the Taiji Diagram and summoned three Saint-level incarnations with One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Zhunti and Jieyin fused into the Chaos Destruction Demon God Dharma Idol, while Empress Nuwa supported them from behind.
• Lin Xuan summoned the Twelve Capital Gods and Demons Banners and activated the array, whose transformation startled Hongjun and the Primordial World’s living beings.
• The array summoned Pangu’s True Body rather than a phantom, and Pangu’s gaze fell on Taishang Laozi.