Chapter Summaries

Chen An fought to steady himself as the Primordial Wilderness’s Demonic Cloud and baleful aura clashed outside the Fence Gate. Remembering how his words had impressed the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa, he opened the gate and faced the killing intent beyond it.

• The Demonic Cloud and baleful aura clashed as Di Jun, Di Jiang, and Gong Gong displayed their powers.
• Chen An trembled inside the Fence Gate and used pain and cold well water to regain his composure.
• Chen An remembered his encounters with Yuanshi, Laozi, Nuwa, and Tongtian, then resolved to speak little, smile, and say profound things.
• The Willow Branch’s Golden Patterns shone, and a drop of dew fell as Chen An steadied himself.
• Chen An opened the Fence Gate a narrow gap, letting the Primordial Wilderness’s killing intent surge inside.

Chen An stepped out of his courtyard as the Iron Bolts fell, and the Four Symbols Spirit Light from his feet silenced the battlefield and transformed the scorched earth. After he identified himself as a farmer, the Fence Gate shut, leaving him to pick up an Iron Bolt and prepare to hang it back up.

• Chen An opened the Fence Gate and stepped beyond the protective barrier as Di Jun, the Ancestral Witches, and the gathered Demon Gods fought outside.
• The Four Symbols Spirit Light spread from Chen An's feet, smoothing the scorched earth and melting Di Jun's barrier while halting the combatants' attacks.
• Di Jun, Di Jiang, Gong Gong, and Houtu recognized the power around Chen An and reacted with shock, wariness, and uncertainty.
• Di Jun asked who Chen An was, and Chen An answered that he was a farmer.
• The Spirit Light blazed, grass spread across the cracked earth, and the Fence Gate swung shut as Chen An picked up an Iron Bolt to hang it back up.

Chen An unknowingly inspired terror among the Demon Emperor, Eastern Emperor, Ancestor Witches, and assembled demons, who mistook his mortal reactions for overwhelming saintly might. The cultivators bowed ever lower as his confused fear only deepened their awe.

• Chen An stepped barefoot onto the scorched earth, and his gaze made the Golden Lotus, Chaos Bell, and the gathered demons and witches falter.
• Di Jun recognized the force as saintly might as his soul protections cracked, while Gong Gong saw Pangu’s Sky-Opening Axe in Chen An’s gaze.
• Houtu’s Yellow Springs Ice Chain vanished, and demons and witches pressed themselves against the earth in fear.
• Chen An looked at his bloodied hand and wondered why everyone was afraid, unaware that they interpreted his trembling and sweat as signs of heavenly power.
• More cultivators knelt as Chen An stood bewildered beneath their mounting reverence.

Chen An’s wordless sigh made Demon Emperor Di Jun and the Ancestor Witches believe he had issued a command, and they withdrew from the Safe Zone. After they left, Chen An wondered aloud whether this was heavenly might.

• Chen An stood barefoot before the Fence Gate as Demon Emperor Di Jun, Di Jiang, and their forces faced off after their battle.
• Chen An’s painful attempt to speak ended in a sigh, which Di Jun and the Ancestor Witches mistook for an overwhelming Heavenly Dao Proverb.
• The assembled Demon Gods and Ancestor Witches prostrated themselves as the Willow Tree’s falling dew deepened their fear.
• Di Jun ordered the forces to leave, and the Ancestor Witches departed without attacking Chen An.
• Chen An scooped up the scorched earth and quietly asked whether this was heavenly might.

Chen An’s exhausted sigh was mistaken for a warning from the Heavenly Dao, prompting Di Jun, Gong Gong, and other beings to stop the fighting. As the Primordial Wilderness began to settle into peace, the cultivators hailed Chen An as a Sage, leaving him bewildered.

• Chen An sighed at the edge of the Safe Zone, and the lingering chaos qi made his sigh reverberate across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Jun’s Tortoise Shell cracked, and he interpreted the vision triggered by the sigh as a warning that the Demon Court’s conquest had to end.
• Gong Gong felt the sigh break his killing intent and realized he had become a sinner against Father God Pangu.
• Nine Infant released the Golden Crow Guard, Houtu abandoned her attempt to dissolve the slaughter, and signs of peace appeared throughout the mortal world.
• Di Jun and Gong Gong accepted that the fighting must stop, while cultivators thanked Chen An as a Sage and left him confused.

Chen An endured the pressure of Di Jun and Di Jiang, then crossed into his fenced courtyard and shut its gate behind him. His entry healed the scorched earth, while the beings outside remained frozen in awe and fear.

• Di Jun and Di Jiang watched Chen An at the Fence Gate as the gathered beings lay prostrate beneath their pressure.
• Chen An slowly turned from the Primordial Wilderness and noticed Gong Gong's blood burning a hole in the scorched rock.
• Chen An stepped inside the fenced courtyard, and four fundamental forces spread from his foot to heal the earth's cracks.
• Chen An locked the Fence Gate with three Iron Bolts and disappeared inside as the closing gate silenced the powers outside.
• A dewdrop fell from the willow fence, breaking the silence while Di Jun, Di Jiang, and the other beings remained motionless.

Chen An closed the Fence Gate, and the Demon Court and Wu Clan interpreted the sound as a Heavenly Dao command to cease hostilities and leave. The forces withdrew, while Chen An sat inside the gate, unaware that his retreat had divided the calamity outside.

• The sound of the Fence Gate closing struck Di Jun as the Heavenly Dao decree "Cease Warfare" and cracked the Tortoise Shell carrying the Demon Tribe's Fortune.
• Gong Gong and the other Ancestral Wu felt their killing intent erased, and Di Jiang recognized the sound as an order to leave.
• Tai Yi dismissed the Chaos Bell phantom, and the Demon Gods withdrew their Demonic Qi into formation.
• Houtu drew the Wu Clan's killing intent and boiling qi and blood back into Pangu Hall, while the battlefield's damage closed over.
• A dewdrop fell and broke the lingering pressure outside the Fence Gate.
• Chen An slid down the inside of the gate, exhausted and unaware that his instinctive retreat had become a dividing line in the calamity.

After Chen An quietly closed the Fence Gate and stopped the Witch-Demon armies, signs of his act spread throughout the Primordial Wilderness and filled its powerful beings with awe. Unaware of the upheaval, he stayed in the courtyard, eating a wheat cake and worrying that his radishes needed fertilizer.

• Chen An collapsed against the courtyard door after closing it, exhausted and drenched in sweat.
• Di Jun and Di Jiang returned from the battlefield, and their deductions and displays turned the closed gate into a sign that a sage had suppressed the Witch-Demon armies.
• Heavenly signs appeared across the Primordial Wilderness as the Three Pure Ones, Daoist Jieyin, Daoist Zhunti, and the Witch-Demon tribes reacted with awe to the courtyard's power.
• Rumors and strange manifestations spread throughout the wilderness, including signs among the Asuras, plants, cultivators, and spiritual treasures.
• Chen An ate a cold wheat cake beside a chipped pottery bowl and wondered whether his radishes needed fertilizing.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun sensed an anomalous courtyard at the foot of Buzhou Mountain disrupting the Heavenly Dao and fixed his gaze on it. The encounter left the courtyard marked as a variable that even the Heavenly Dao could not understand.

• A tremor in the Authority of Creation chain and a crack in the River Diagram and Luo Book drew Hongjun’s attention to the Small Courtyard at Buzhou Mountain.
• Hongjun opened his eyes and sent a destructive, scrutinizing gaze through the barriers of Purple Firmament Palace toward the courtyard.
• The Willow Branches formed a blood-red “Dao” seal, the well’s steam became a black “Calamity” character, and cracks appeared in the frost on the radishes.
• Chen An felt a soul-chilling presence while eating a cold wheat cake and glimpsed a gigantic eye in the shadows.
• Hongjun closed his eyes and restored the shattered space, but a frost-white trace remained as evidence that the Small Courtyard was a variable beyond the Heavenly Dao’s understanding.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun tried to use the Heavenly Dao’s instruments to deduce the Small Courtyard and Chen An, but Chaos thwarted every attempt and damaged his treasures. He concluded that the courtyard lay beyond the Heavenly Dao’s reach, leaving Purple Heaven Palace in silence as the Nine-Ranked Lotus Platform shed fragments.

• Hongjun used the Nine-Rank Chaos Lotus Platform, River Diagram, Luo Book, and Tortoise Shell to deduce the Small Courtyard, but the Tortoise Shell cracked as Chaos erased the results.
• The Jade Disc of Creation lost its connection to the Heavenly Dao Origin, while the Law Chains on Hongjun’s wrist strained and the palace’s coiling-dragon carvings wept Mysterious Yellow Blood Tears.
• Hongjun’s vision of the Small Courtyard dissolved into Chaos, and his attempt to trace Chen An’s origin found only the Chaos before the Primordial Wilderness existed.
• The illusory Nine-Ranked Lotus Platform cracked, and Hongjun recognized the courtyard as beyond the Heavenly Dao, calling it the first speck of dust to fall.
• Hongjun closed his eyes as the courtyard’s gate briefly appeared in the mist and tiny fragments seeped from the cracked lotus platform.

After the undead army retreated, Chen An recovered from his fear in the Small Courtyard as its frost-covered vegetables and other plants revealed mysterious powers. He ate the spiritual vegetables and fell asleep, unaware that they had transformed the Primordial Wilderness’s world-threatening calamity into ordinary household life.

• Chen An returned to the courtyard, steadied himself, and discovered that the radishes and cabbage had developed strange golden patterns and restorative properties.
• Chen An tended the vegetable plot, and the Silver Frost eased his exhaustion and fear.
• Chen An tried to recite the Tao Te Ching, prompting a Golden Dewdrop to fall from the willow into a clay jar and create a chaos-colored vortex.
• Chen An cooked the radishes and rice, whose spiritual signs appeared as they steamed.
• Chen An ate the meal, regained his clarity and strength, and fell asleep, while the spiritual vegetables quietly transformed the Immeasurable Calamity into the ordinary atmosphere of the courtyard.

Chen An’s recitation of the Tao Te Ching triggered extraordinary changes in his courtyard, awakening the well, the willow, and other objects with the Dao’s power. Unaware of the phenomenon, he extinguished his lamp as its smoke formed ancient characters and vanished into the starry sky.

• Chen An recited “Supreme goodness is like water,” causing the well water, moonlight, and golden patterns from the willow to surge toward his silk scroll.
• Golden characters appeared on the scroll, and two Yin Yang fish formed from dust before slipping into the water in his pottery bowl.
• As Chen An recited “Water benefits all things yet does not contend,” golden seal characters rose from the scroll while the urn, radishes, and willow manifested powerful Dao patterns.
• Chen An continued with “Dwelling among what all men despise, thus it is close to the Dao,” strengthening the Safe Zone and causing weeds and moss to form strange patterns.
• Chen An mistook the golden glow for a flickering candle, blew out his lamp, and unknowingly sent smoke characters into the sky.

Chen An crafted a recliner from pinewood transformed by merit-filled golden rain, and the wood resonated with the Small Courtyard to form Dao Imprints and spiritual effects. As he slept on it, the courtyard became a tranquil refuge, and his sweat triggered an imperceptible ripple of Dao Resonance.

• Chen An chopped and carved the golden-threaded pine, whose shavings stirred the Frost Patterns on the Radish Leaves and awakened golden Seal Imprints in the lumber.
• Chen An shaped the pine into a recliner, and its wood grain formed Chaos script while resin naturally condensed into the Calm Spirit and Nourish Qi seals.
• Chen An lay on the recliner, whose warm current eased his fatigue as mist from the Radish Leaves enclosed the Small Courtyard in a peaceful refuge.
• Chen An fell asleep, and a drop of his sweat struck a Chaos vortex Seal Imprint, sending a quiet ripple of Dao Resonance through the courtyard.

Chen An casually repurposed the Three Pure Ones and Empress Nuwa’s thank-you gifts as household items, unknowingly transforming his courtyard with their power. The supreme treasures settled into ordinary roles around his home while their effects quietly reshaped the garden and house.

• Chen An poured the pills from a White Jade Bottle into his pickled-radish jar, awakening the jar’s Chaos Patterns and spreading Silver Frost around its contents.
• Chen An hung a Green-White Jade Talisman by the window, causing it to ring and produce glowing Balance crystals among the willow branches.
• Chen An used sharp-edged talisman paper to cover a crack in the wall, and its Sword Qi repaired the stone and formed a Mountain and River Veins totem.
• Chen An wrapped Nuwa’s tangled Red Embroidered Ball thread around thorny vines, where it produced a vermilion flower bud and stirred patterns on the radish leaves.
• Chen An admired his courtyard’s new decorations without realizing they were supreme treasures from the Primordial Wilderness.

Chen An cultivated his courtyard, and his hoeing and planting transformed the soil, crops, flowers, and fence with strange Dao power. Unaware of the changes spreading beyond his garden, he finished the day hoping for a good autumn harvest while a Heavenly Dao Blood Seal formed at the broken Old Locust Tree Stump and sank into the earth.

• Chen An broke the barren soil with his stone hoe, causing golden light to flow through it and enrich the land.
• Chen An sowed Moonlight Mushroom spores, Star Pattern Melon seeds, and reddish-gold millet, which quickly sprouted with celestial patterns and signs of abundance.
• Chen An transplanted purple wild chrysanthemums beside the well, where they developed golden petal edges and Dao-seal dewdrops.
• Chen An placed a Sour Jujube Branch in the fence, and its thorns softened as vermilion buds bearing talisman seals emerged.
• Chen An surveyed the transformed garden at dusk and said he hoped to pickle three vats of vegetables after autumn.
• Behind Chen An, amber sap at the broken Old Locust Tree Stump formed an All Laws Return to the Source Heavenly Dao Blood Seal and seeped into the earth.

Chen An continued tending his vegetable garden despite being watched by powerful beings whose probing disturbed the Small Courtyard. His plants soothed him, while Nine Infant was injured by the courtyard barrier and a strange purifying droplet sank into the earth veins.

• Countless peering eyes probed the Small Courtyard, making its Willow Branches, Radish Leaves, and Clay Jar react as Chen An kept working without alarm.
• Chen An watered the Moonlight Mushroom spores and touched the Star Pattern Melon, and their vitality calmed his frayed nerves.
• Nine Infant sent Demonic Thought toward the barrier, which struck it with a backlash that injured its snake head and soul.
• Chen An removed insect-damaged radish leaves and buried them with several dead insects, unaware of the hidden Peep character melting into a purifying droplet.
• The droplet seeped through the earth veins and merged into the Earth Vein Dragon Qi as Chen An returned to his vegetables.

Chen An remained unaware as monsters, cultivators, and other creatures who tried to approach or exploit the Small Courtyard were killed by its barrier and lingering traces of powerful beings. After Chen An washed away the evidence and bolted the gate again, the courtyard was left undisturbed.

• A demonic monster reached through the fence for the Silver Frost Radishes, but the barrier burned its claw and drove it into the forest.
• A blue-robed cultivator attacked the barrier with a Blood Talisman, which turned on him and killed him, while his Sky-Peeking Mirror exploded and left Xuan Yin Temple's emblem in the ground.
• Seven wolf monsters attacked with ghostly earthfire, but the barrier reflected it as molten lava that killed them and left demonic cores marked with the character for greed.
• A rogue cultivator was destroyed by a fragment of Di Jun's Golden Lotus, and the Willow Branches absorbed his remains; a demonic bird that pecked at Gong Gong's blood was burned to ash.
• Chen An opened the gate, mistook the scorched marks outside for evidence of wild dogs fighting, washed them away with dishwater, and secured the gate again.

As the great powers of the Primordial Wilderness reacted to the Small Courtyard, its Willow Branch disrupted divination and a mysterious Calamity crystal formed above the gate. Chen An unknowingly buried the crystal and watered his vegetable seeds, sending the crystal’s purified essence into the earth veins as the Immeasurable Calamity gathered.

• Di Jun ordered the demon race to offer spirit treasures and bow if they approached the Small Courtyard, while Di Jiang and Gong Gong tempered their bodies in Pangu Hall.
• Yuanshi Tianzun’s attempt to probe the Small Courtyard triggered a backlash, while Tongtian Jiaozhu withdrew his sword intent and praised natural non-action.
• Jieyin and Zhunti saw the Small Courtyard’s fence appear in their Buddhist visions, and Zhunti sent a Guidance seal toward Buzhou Mountain.
• The Willow Branch formed Heavenly Secrets Chaos imprints that stirred Dragon Qi and obscured divination across a hundred-mile radius.
• A Calamity crystal formed above the courtyard gate, but Chen An unknowingly buried it with spoiled leaves, and it dissolved into the earth veins.
• Chen An watered his newly sown vegetable ridge with well water, unaware that he was pouring it over the fuse of the Immeasurable Calamity.

After witnessing the Witch and Demon leaders’ clash outside his courtyard, Chen An realized that the sacred signs surrounding his home had made him central to the Primordial Wilderness’s crisis. He resolved to stop trying to escape his role and become a “master,” as the broken Old Locust Tree Stump formed a Heavenly Dao Blood Seal.

• Chen An recalled how his footsteps, sigh, and closing door had provoked supernatural reactions during the battle between Demon Emperor Di Jun and Ancestral Wu Di Jiang.
• He recognized that the courtyard’s sacred signs and the powerful figures who called him a Saint had turned the crisis into something he could no longer avoid.
• Chen An examined the talismans gifted by Tongtian Jiaozhu and Yuanshi Tianzun, beginning to see them as rules he could use rather than threats.
• Chen An declared that if he could not escape, he would become a “master.”
• Amber sap gathered on the broken Old Locust Tree Stump and formed a Heavenly Dao Blood Seal bearing the words “The fittest survive.”

Chen An accepted that his “Sage” identity was both a deadly burden and his best protection, and resolved to learn about the Primordial Wilderness from within the Small Courtyard. As he began cultivating seeds and considering meditation, a Heavenly Dao Blood Seal formed from the Old Locust Tree Stump’s sap sank into the earth veins.

• Chen An recalled the Three Pure Ones, Empress Nuwa, Di Jun, and Di Jiang bowing or prostrating before him, and decided to use his assumed identity to understand the Primordial Wilderness.
• Chen An considered cultivating qi to strengthen his body and senses, treating the courtyard’s Dao Resonance anomalies as possible steps toward survival.
• Chen An locked the Small Courtyard’s door and resolved to rely on its barrier, Yuanshi’s Willow Leaf Jade Talisman, and the Sword Qi Talisman for protection.
• At dawn, Chen An watered the Moonlight Mushroom plot, planted radish seeds, and quietly planned to keep growing vegetables, reading, and perhaps meditating.
• The Old Locust Tree Stump oozed sap that formed a Seeking the Dao Heavenly Dao Blood Seal, which sank into the soil and merged with the Earth Vein Dragon Qi.