Chapter Summaries

Su Yang explained how Heavenly Dao Sages were bound by the Heavenly Dao and described three paths to Sainthood, prompting Tongtian and Nuwa to seek a chance to cultivate anew. Houtu also pledged herself to Su Yang after he said he could help her attain Sainthood, leaving all three committed to his cause.

• Su Yang revealed that Heavenly Dao Sages were constrained from advancing, and Tongtian and Nuwa considered severing their former cultivation to seek a higher path.
• The chapter outlined the three paths to Sainthood: proving the Dao by force, uniting the Three Corpses, and attaining Sainthood through merit.
• Su Yang asked whether Tongtian and Nuwa would betray him if he helped them cultivate anew, and Tongtian swore an Inner Demon oath to serve him as his master.
• Nuwa vowed to fight alongside Su Yang if he helped Tongtian, and Houtu said she would accompany him to repay his kindness.
• Houtu asked if Su Yang could help her attain Sainthood, then swore an Inner Demon oath not to betray him if he did.

Su Yang gave Empress Houtu the Sacrificing Dao Method and invited her to test it, explaining that Desolate Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Emperor Ye had only just entered the realm when they fought the Saints. Nuwa chose to stay at the inn, while Ruthless Great Emperor returned to her room to try the method, leaving Su Yang to worry that she was jealous.

• Su Yang presented Empress Houtu with the Sacrificing Dao Method and said it could help cultivators reach the pinnacle of sainthood after severing their cultivation.
• Su Yang revealed that Desolate Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Emperor Ye had only just entered the Sacrificing Dao realm when they fought the Saints, shocking Sect Master Tongtian, Nuwa, and Houtu.
• Su Yang gave Houtu an ancient scripture and explained that she could practice the method without severing her cultivation; Houtu agreed to try it in a quiet room upstairs.
• Nuwa decided to stay at Su Yang's inn and asked him to call her Elder Sister.
• Ruthless Great Emperor returned to her room to test whether the method could help her reach the Sacrificing Dao realm, and Su Yang wondered if she was displeased with him.

Sect Master Tongtian stayed at Su Yang’s inn to witness Empress Houtu’s attempt to enter the Saint Realm, while Ji Ziyue asked Su Yang for strength and received the Golden Crow Great Emperor’s Dao Fruit. As Ji Ziyue entered seclusion, Su Yang inspected his lottery rewards until a mysterious golden light erupted from the final item.

• Sect Master Tongtian asked Su Yang to stay at the inn for a few days, and Su Yang welcomed him.
• Ji Ziyue told Su Yang she wanted to become stronger so she could stand beside him and avoid being a burden.
• Su Yang gave Ji Ziyue the Golden Crow Great Emperor’s Dao Fruit, and she kissed his cheek before rushing upstairs to refine it in seclusion.
• Su Yang examined his lottery rewards, including the Heavenly Horned Ant, an Immortal King Sarira, duplicate Kunpeng Treasure Arts, and Immortal King Anlan.
• A brilliant golden radiance burst from the final reward, startling Su Yang as the hidden object began to emerge.

Su Yang celebrated obtaining Great Emperor Wushi, while the Western Sect’s leaders assessed how his interventions had disrupted their plans. Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin then considered exploiting Sect Master Tongtian’s possible fall and coveting treasures held by Tongtian and Su Yang.

• Su Yang recognized Great Emperor Wushi’s immense potential and anticipated that he would become a powerful ally.
• Great Sun Tathagata lamented that Sun Wukong had been suppressed before building the reputation the Western Sect’s plan required, and Guanyin Bodhisattva reported that Golden Cicada had passed through his fifth lifetime.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin discussed Sect Master Tongtian’s intention to sever an incarnation and considered seizing his Primordial Violet Qi and Four Swords of Zhu Xian.
• Daoist Jieyin ordered Great Sun Tathagata to monitor Sect Master Tongtian and report if he severed his cultivation.
• Daoist Jieyin raised the prospect of taking the Eastern Emperor Bell and World-Destroying Millstone from Su Yang, but Daoist Zhunti warned that Heavenly Emperor Ye and Desolate Heavenly Emperor guarded him.

Su Yang refined the Dao fruits, broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, and returned to his inn to tell stories. As powerful figures gathered to listen, Zhenyuanzi confronted Ancestor Minghe over Hong Yun’s damaged soul, but Su Yang restored order and began to settle the crowd.

• Su Yang absorbed the Dao fruits in the System Space and broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, then continued refining his power until it stabilized.
• Su Yang left seclusion and found Black Emperor and Duan De in the inn before heading to the storytelling platform.
• Several thousand listeners, including Demon Master Kunpeng, Ancestor Minghe, and Zhenyuanzi, gathered in the inn to hear Su Yang speak.
• Zhenyuanzi accused Ancestor Minghe of misleading him about the possibility of restoring Hong Yun’s soul, and the two prepared to fight.
• Empress Nuwa stopped the confrontation, and Su Yang ordered the listeners to sit quietly or leave; Zhenyuanzi backed down and took his seat.

Su Yang resumed his tale by revealing that Ye Fan would become the legendary Heavenly Emperor Ye, then described the ancient Great Emperors of the Shrouding the Heavens World. The listeners compared their legends with the Primordial World's own buried history as Su Yang began recalling its great conflicts.

• Su Yang resumed storytelling, and the listeners asked about Ye Fan and the ancient Great Emperors.
• Su Yang confirmed Ye Fan would become Heavenly Emperor Ye, stunning the gathered mortals and powerful beings.
• A quasi-saint asked about Ye Fan and the Great Emperors, and listeners discussed the history of the Shrouding the Heavens World together.
• Su Yang recounted legends of the Chaotic Ancient Great Emperor, the Fighting Saint Emperor, the Azure Emperor, Wushi, and other heroes.
• When listeners compared those legends with the Primordial World, Su Yang recalled the Spiritual Stone Monkey's rampage at the Peach Banquet and the ancient wars beneath Buzhou Mountain.

Su Yang began telling the mortals of Qingshan City the history of the Primordial World, while hidden mighty figures wondered how he knew its ancient secrets. He started with the origin of the world and revealed that Pangu was born within a Thirty-Six-Ranked Chaos Green Lotus.

• The listeners asked Su Yang to tell them about the Primordial World's hidden history, and mighty figures including Sect Master Tongtian and Empress Nuwa turned their attention to him.
• Su Yang agreed to recount the great events from the world's beginning, hoping the Storyteller System would add Primordial treasures to its prize pool.
• Su Yang explained that before Heaven and Earth existed, the universe was filled with boundless Primordial Chaos.
• Su Yang described the Thirty-Six-Ranked Chaos Green Lotus and revealed that the Great God Pangu was born within it.
• Pangu awoke in the lotus, surveyed the dark Primordial Chaos, and felt displeased.

Su Yang recounted how Pangu opened the Primordial World, fought the Chaos Demon Gods, and sacrificed his body to form the world and its first beings. He left the listeners awed as he began to tell them that the Primordial World soon faced its first great calamity.

• Su Yang explained that Pangu used the Chaos World-Opening Axe to create the Primordial World.
• Su Yang recounted how Pangu fought the Three Thousand Demon Gods, destroying most of them before exhausting his strength.
• Su Yang described how Pangu's body transformed into the sun, moon, wind, thunder, stars, rivers, mountains, plants, minerals, and rain.
• Su Yang said the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Three Purities, Ancestor Minghe, and other ancient beings had origins connected to Pangu.
• Su Yang announced that the Primordial World faced its first great calamity soon after Pangu died.

Su Yang revealed that Shen Ni, the Fierce Beast Emperor, was the earliest living being in the Primordial World and the central figure in its first great calamity. The immortals accepted that Shen Ni had existed but questioned why history had erased him and whether he could truly rival Hongjun.

• Su Yang began recounting the Primordial World's ancient history and named Shen Ni as its first living being and the first tribulation's central figure, provoking Heavenly Dao omens and lightning.
• Sect Master Tongtian recognized the name Shen Ni as tied to the Fierce Beast Rebellion, while Empress Nuwa recalled that Dao Ancestor Hongjun had once mentioned him.
• The immortals debated which figures predated Hongjun, and Su Yang drew excitement from their attention as his Storyteller System points surged.
• Su Yang rejected the immortals' guesses and identified Beast Emperor Shen Ni as the earliest existence and ruler of the Fierce Beast Calamity.
• The immortals questioned why Shen Ni appeared in no ancient records and doubted that he could have surpassed Hongjun.

Su Yang revealed that Beast God Shen Ni had taken control of the Heavenly Dao’s missing “One,” causing its number to fall from fifty to forty-nine. He said Shen Ni survived the Fiendish Beast Calamity and hid in Deep Chaos, then left the gathered powerhouses wondering what realm Shen Ni had reached as heavenly lightning gathered overhead.

• Su Yang explained that the Heavenly Dao’s incomplete number was linked to the missing “One” and identified Beast God Shen Ni as the one who took it.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Empress Nuwa reacted with shock as Su Yang confirmed Shen Ni controlled the missing path and had lived before Hongjun, Qiankun Ancestor, and Yin-Yang Ancestor.
• Su Yang revealed that Shen Ni had not died but was hiding in Deep Chaos, waiting for a chance to return and overturn the old order.
• Thunderclouds gathered after Shen Ni’s name was spoken, but the gathered powerhouses believed Su Yang was protected by Sect Master Tongtian, Empress Nuwa, and Empress Houtu.
• Su Yang asked what realm Beast Emperor Shen Ni had reached as the Sea of Lightning continued to churn overhead.

Su Yang explained that Beast Emperor Shen Ni had been only an ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortal, yet had seized the Heavenly Dao’s escaped principle with borrowed power. He revealed that the power came from the Great Dao, an existence beyond the Three Realms and Five Elements.

• Sect Master Tongtian asked whether Beast Emperor Shen Ni had surpassed the Saints, and Su Yang said Shen Ni had not even reached the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Ancestor Minghe and Demon Master Kunpeng challenged Su Yang’s claim that Shen Ni could have seized the escaped principle while so weak.
• Su Yang revealed that Shen Ni’s cultivation had stopped at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and clarified that he was not a Mythical Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Su Yang explained that Shen Ni had relied on external power to seize the escaped principle and survive the Calamity of the Ferocious Beasts.
• Su Yang identified the source of Shen Ni’s borrowed power as the Power of the Great Dao, beyond the Three Realms and Five Elements.

Su Yang recounted how Beast Emperor Shen Ni and the Fierce Beast Clan shaped the Primordial World's first great tribulation, and how the Power of the Great Dao helped Shen Ni escape. He began explaining why the Great Dao interfered, leaving the assembled experts awaiting the connection between the Primordial World’s origin and the chaos.

• Su Yang gained points from the experts’ reactions, bringing his total to three million, and reflected on his cultivation and the powerful techniques he had yet to master.
• Su Yang explained that Shen Ni was the Primordial World’s first living being and personally created the Fierce Beast Clan, which later ruled the world and caused widespread destruction.
• Su Yang said the Heavenly Dao descended to suppress the Fierce Beast Clan, allowing the Power of the Great Dao to give Shen Ni the opportunity of the 'One' that Escaped and help him leave the Primordial World.
• The experts questioned why the Power of the Great Dao had interfered, and Su Yang answered that it was because the Primordial World was born within the chaos.
• Zhenyuanzi asked Su Yang to explain the connection, while Sect Master Tongtian and Empress Nuwa grew more suspicious of his knowledge.

Su Yang explained that the Heavenly Dao and the Great Dao had originally been equal powers, and that Pangu’s creation of the Primordial World had provoked the Great Dao’s response. As the gathered figures considered this hidden history, a powerful aura erupted from the inn and triggered a vast calamity across the Primordial World.

• Su Yang told the gathered figures that Heavenly Dao Power and the Power of the Great Dao were equal and had originally been one.
• Su Yang explained that Pangu had created the Primordial World with a new core of order, prompting the Great Dao to act against it and contributing to the Three Thousand Demon Gods’ attack.
• The gathered cultivators, Sect Master Tongtian, and Empress Nuwa reconsidered what they knew about the Heavenly Dao, the Great Dao, and the Calamity of the Ferocious Beasts.
• A terrifying aura surged through the inn, and Sect Master Tongtian and Empress Nuwa suspected that Empress Houtu had completed the Sacrificing Dao Method.
• The Heavenly Vault split open as a vast calamity formed, and Sect Master Tongtian, Empress Nuwa, Ruthless Great Emperor, the Corpse Immortal Emperor, Footprint Emperor, Willow God, and Xiao Jiu protected Su Yang.

Empress Houtu completed the Sacrificing Dao Method and entered the Realm of Sacrificing the Dao, breaking free of the Netherworld Dao and surpassing ordinary Saints. Her transformation left the experts in Su Yang’s inn shaken and inspired Sect Master Tongtian and Empress Nuwa to consider following the same path.

• Sect Master Tongtian offered to stop Houtu’s Heavenly Tribulation, but Su Yang said she had to face the trial herself.
• Experts realized Houtu’s power came from neither the Heavenly Dao nor the Netherworld Dao, while Su Yang recognized that she had completed the Sacrificing Dao.
• Ruthless Great Emperor saw Houtu’s achievement as a possible path beyond the Immortal Emperor realm, and Sect Master Tongtian and Empress Nuwa decided they might imitate her method.
• Houtu completed her transformation, broke free of the Netherworld Dao’s restraints, and established herself in the Realm of Sacrificing the Dao.
• Houtu descended from the second floor as the gathered experts sensed that her strength surpassed that of ordinary Saints.

Empress Houtu entered the Realm of Sacrificing the Dao with Su Yang’s help, becoming powerful enough to challenge Heavenly Dao and protect him. After she shattered Heavenly Dao’s lightning with one punch, Hongjun realized another existence beyond Heavenly Dao’s control had emerged.

• Empress Houtu thanked Su Yang for helping her enter the Realm of Sacrificing the Dao, and he credited her own path for her success.
• The powerhouses in the inn and across the Three Realms realized Houtu had surpassed the Heavenly Dao Sages and that Su Yang could help others reach an even higher realm.
• Houtu relinquished her authority over the Netherworld Dao and vowed to protect Su Yang, threatening to kill any Quasi-Saint or Saint who attacked him and to fight Heavenly Dao itself.
• Heavenly Dao sent down a vast tribulation of lightning, but Houtu shattered it with a single punch.
• In Zixiao Palace, Dao Ancestor Hongjun heard of Houtu’s defiance and recognized that another being beyond Heavenly Dao’s control had appeared.

After Empress Houtu entered the Realm of Sacrificing the Dao, Hongjun, Grand Pure Laozi, and Primordial Lord of Heaven recognized that her power lay beyond the Heavenly Dao’s control. They wondered whether Su Yang’s guidance had opened a new cultivation path, while choosing to watch him and Tongtian from afar.

• Hongjun concluded that Houtu’s new realm rivaled a Three Corpses Sage’s and decided to let events unfold, hoping Su Yang and the others would not disrupt Primordial World.
• Grand Pure Laozi sensed Houtu’s power and wondered whether Tongtian planned to abandon his old cultivation and open a new path.
• Grand Pure Laozi chose to observe Tongtian rather than visit the inn or travel to the Earthly Immortal Realm.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven heard Houtu renounce her identity as Pingxin and vow to protect Su Yang, even if she had to fight Heavenly Dao.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven considered seeking Su Yang’s guidance to escape his own Heavenly Dao shackles, but accepted that Su Yang was unlikely to share his method with him.

Empress Houtu proved a new path beyond the existing Dao systems, leaving the Six Heavenly Dao Saints wary of her strength. After Su Yang ended his story, Daoist Lu Ya asked him for another path to Sainthood, but Su Yang swore he knew of none, and Lu Ya left disappointed.

• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin sensed Houtu's overwhelming power and worried that they could no longer scheme against her or withstand her if she attacked the West.
• Su Yang ended the gathering in Qingshan City so Houtu could stabilize her new realm, and the assembled powers departed rather than risk provoking her or Su Yang.
• Daoist Lu Ya, Zhenyuanzi, Kunpeng, and Ancestor Minghe remained at the inn with Sect Master Tongtian and Empress Nuwa.
• Daoist Lu Ya asked Su Yang whether another path to Sainthood existed, explaining that the three known paths were beyond his reach.
• Su Yang listed the three known paths, swore he knew of no fourth, and watched as Lu Ya sighed and left.

Su Yang revealed that his path led to the Realm of Sacrificing the Dao and agreed to help Zhenyuanzi revive Hongyun the Daoist. He took Hongyun’s remnant soul into his Small World, leaving Nuwa, Tongtian, Houtu, and Zhenyuanzi behind to guard the inn and wonder at his power.

• Su Yang explained that his path transcended the Heavenly Dao and led to the Realm of Sacrificing the Dao, while Kunpeng and Minghe departed.
• Zhenyuanzi bowed to Su Yang and asked him to revive Hongyun the Daoist using the remnant soul he had recovered from Ancestor Minghe.
• Su Yang said he had a way to resurrect Hongyun and asked Zhenyuanzi to hand over the jade bottle containing his final wisp of divine soul.
• Zhenyuanzi entrusted the jade bottle to Su Yang, who asked Nuwa, Tongtian, Houtu, and Zhenyuanzi to watch the inn before disappearing into his Small World.
• Nuwa, Tongtian, and Houtu discussed Su Yang’s mysterious disappearance and speculated about the limits of his strength.

Su Yang used three Immortal Medicines and the Willow Deity Technique to revive Hongyun the Daoist, though Hongyun returned without his former Quasi-Sage power. Zhenyuanzi honored his promise to follow Su Yang, and the chapter ended as Sect Master Tongtian prepared to fulfill his own agreement.

• Su Yang spent years in the System Space using the Immortal Medicines and Willow Deity Technique to restore Hongyun the Daoist’s nearly annihilated soul.
• Hongyun the Daoist returned as a wisp of red cloud, and Su Yang explained that he would need to cultivate anew to regain great power.
• Su Yang showed Hongyun to Zhenyuanzi, who pledged to serve as Su Yang’s superior’s follower in gratitude for saving his friend.
• Su Yang sent Hongyun into his minor world to recover, and Zhenyuanzi agreed without hesitation.
• Sect Master Tongtian told Su Yang that the time had come to honor their old agreement, while Empress Nuwa and Empress Houtu watched for Su Yang’s response.

Su Yang encouraged Sect Master Tongtian to sever his Saint fruit and pursue the Sacrificing Dao path, while arranging defenses for the Western Sages’ expected arrival. As the gathered cultivators prepared for battle, Tongtian began by cutting his cultivation from Heavenly Dao Sage to Quasi-Sage Peak.

• Sect Master Tongtian declared that he would sever his former Dao fruit and begin cultivating anew, and he explained to Zhenyuanzi why sainthood was a shackle rather than the end of cultivation.
• Su Yang told Sect Master Tongtian he would be safe severing his Saint fruit in the inn and asked Empress Houtu and Empress Nuwa to restrain Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin when they arrived.
• Su Yang assembled the inn’s powerful cultivators for the coming confrontation and sent Black Emperor, Duan De, and Ji Ziyue into the System Space to keep them safe.
• Great Emperor Wushi said the world felt familiar and vowed to take his first step toward becoming a Quasi-Immortal Emperor after the battle.
• An aura erupted from Sect Master Tongtian’s retreat, and he severed his cultivation, falling from Heavenly Dao Sage to Quasi-Sage Peak.