Chapter Summaries

Present Zhu Rong joined his past and future selves to erase the Black Tide version of the North Sea Giant Kraken with Flowing Fire of Time and their Zhu Rong Treasure Seals. After the others returned to their own timelines, Zhu Rong traveled east across the Boundary Sea to find a severed River of Time from the Hongmeng Era, which he believed could help him Attain the Dao.

• Present Zhu Rong asked future Zhu Rong how to defeat the Black Tide creature, and future Zhu Rong explained that they had to erase its traces across time.
• The three Zhu Rongs used Flowing Fire of Time and their Zhu Rong Treasure Seals to burn away the creature's time and suppress it.
• After about two and a half quarters of an hour, the Black Tide version of the North Sea Giant Kraken vanished from existence.
• Future Zhu Rong told present Zhu Rong that a broken River of Time lay a hundred million Sumeru to the east in the Boundary Sea.
• Present Zhu Rong sent his past and future selves back to their timelines, then headed east and found the severed River of Time.

Zhu Rong discovered a dead stretch of the River of Time beneath the Boundary Sea and claimed it to advance his mastery of the Time Great Dao. Meanwhile, Holy Mother Jin Ling found an opportunity in the Graveyard of Stars as Hongmeng-era Star Souls gathered around her.

• Zhu Rong claimed the broken River of Time, recognizing that comprehending it could let him attain the Dao.
• Thunder Dragon said he had felt an opportunity calling from the moment they entered the Boundary Sea, so Zhu Rong led the group onward.
• Zhu Rong followed his River of Time into the past and soon returned, while Thunder Dragon and a Black Dragon discussed the implications of his time-based divine ability.
• Cangyuan and the other transcended Saints and Primal Gods watched Zhu Rong's progress and discussed his mastery of time.
• Holy Mother Jin Ling awakened the dead stars in the Graveyard of Stars, drawing numerous Hongmeng-era Star Souls toward herself.

Holy Mother Jin Ling completed her path in the Graveyard of Stars and helped the others escape the Fallen Demon Gods. Meanwhile, the Three Teachings alliance found five strands of Primordial Violet Qi but could not take them from a Hongmeng Divine Palace guarded by a Fallen Saint.

• Holy Mother Jin Ling absorbed the Star Souls and completed her path, then joined the battle against the Fallen Demon Gods.
• Buddha Ancestor Duobao purified a corrupted Hongmeng Sword Cultivator, while Zhao Gongming and Xiao Bai held off other Fallen Demon Gods.
• Holy Mother Jin Ling, Duobao, and Xiao Bai covered the retreat, then escaped after trapping the Black Tide Creatures behind a barrier.
• The Three Teachings alliance found five strands of Primordial Violet Qi inside a Hongmeng Divine Palace in a lost land.
• A Fallen Saint attacked the alliance, and Zhunti and Jieyin's Saint Realm Good Corpses held him back at near-mutual-destruction cost, leaving the group unable to claim the Primordial Violet Qi.

Jiang Ziya recruited Yunxiao’s Martial Hall lineage to help the Three Teachings alliance confront a Fallen Saint and seize five streams of Primordial Violet Qi. As the groups approached the Hongmeng Divine Palace, Yunxiao suspected the Fallen Saint had once cultivated the Cloud Path.

• Jiang Ziya proposed that Six-Eared Macaque, Yuan Hong, and Sun Wukong combine their power to stall the Fallen Saint while the others took the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Jiang Ziya led the Three Teachings alliance to Yunxiao’s Martial Hall lineage and asked for help fighting a saint-level enemy.
• Yunxiao agreed that her three fierce generals would hold off the Fallen Saint, and Jiang Ziya promised three streams of Primordial Violet Qi to the Three Teachings and two to the Martial Hall.
• The Martial Hall lineage and the Three Teachings alliance headed to the Hongmeng Divine Palace, where Jiang Ziya described the Fallen Saint’s disaster-cloud attacks and corrosive powers.
• Yunxiao heard the description and wondered whether the Fallen Saint had once been a Cloud Path cultivator.

Yunxiao’s group confronted a Fallen Saint of the Cloud Dao outside the Hongmeng Divine Palace while seeking the Primordial Violet Qi. The Chaos Demon Ape broke the Saint’s corrupted shell and revealed her Original Heart Pure Cloud, and Yunxiao returned from the palace as the group prepared to learn what she had found.

• Yunxiao ordered Six-Eared Macaque, Yuan Hong, and Sun Wukong to hold off the Fallen Saint while the others sought the Primordial Violet Qi.
• The Fallen Saint unleashed corrupting disaster clouds and revealed that she had deliberately let the group escape earlier so they would bring more people to her.
• Six-Eared Macaque, Yuan Hong, and Sun Wukong merged into the Chaos Demon Ape, which used the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler and its Battle Domain to contain the Fallen Saint and her Cloud Beasts.
• Yunxiao led the Martial Hall lineage and Jiang Ziya led the Three Teachings alliance into the Hongmeng Divine Palace to seek the Primordial Violet Qi.
• The Chaos Demon Ape shattered the Fallen Saint’s corrupted body, revealing her pure Original Heart Pure Cloud and the orthodox Cloud Dao she had preserved.
• The Chaos Demon Ape collected the Original Heart Pure Cloud, then split back into the three weakened fighters, and Yunxiao’s group emerged from the palace.

Yunxiao and the others escaped the Lost Land with five streams of Primordial Violet Qi, while the monkeys explained how the Fallen Saint’s disaster cloud had vanished. The group divided the spoils and left, and Zhunti and Jieyin celebrated Maitreya’s capture of the Hongmeng Divine Palace as Cangyuan considered Yunxiao’s Original Heart Pure Cloud.

• Six-Eared Macaque told Yunxiao how the battle had ended and gave her the restricted Original Heart Pure Cloud left by the Fallen Saint.
• Yunxiao revealed the five streams of Primordial Violet Qi and gave one each to Xuandu, Guangchengzi, and Medicine Buddha, keeping two for the Martial Hall.
• Jiang Ziya pointed out the Hongmeng Divine Palace, and Maitreya lifted it into his Humanity Bag, claiming it for the poor Western Teach.
• The Martial Hall and the Three Teachings alliance left the Lost Land and parted ways to seek opportunities across the Hongmeng Continent.
• Zhunti and Jieyin celebrated Maitreya’s acquisition of the palace, while Demon Ancestor Luohu blamed Hongjun for the western lands’ ruined earth veins.
• Cangyuan thought about the Original Heart Pure Cloud Yunxiao had obtained.

Dijun and Taiyi discovered that the Solar corpse held their opportunity to Attain the Dao and risked infiltrating it despite the Black Tide Creatures guarding it. They reached the Solar’s core, where they sensed warmth as they descended into its depths.

• Dijun, Taiyi, Bai Ze, and Kunpeng learned that the Bone Ship dragging the Solar corpse was covered with countless powerful Black Tide skeletal creatures.
• Dijun proposed that he and Taiyi sneak into the Solar corpse to seize the opportunity to Attain the Dao, and Bai Ze tried to dissuade them.
• Dijun gave Bai Ze and the others their Life-Bound Feathers as a sign to retreat if the feathers dimmed.
• Dijun and Taiyi used the Golden Crow Rainbow Transformation Art to slip onto the Solar corpse without alerting the Bone Ship.
• Dijun and Taiyi passed through the Solar’s surface and continued toward its core, sensing warmth deeper inside.

Dijun and Taiyi were drawn into the miniature sun at the core of the dead star and witnessed the rise and destruction of the Golden Crow Clan. They learned that the miniature sun contained Golden Crow souls and heard its creator, Jinyang, reveal his regret over failing to save his people.

• Dijun and Taiyi approached the miniature sun, and their Golden Crow souls were absorbed into it.
• Dijun and Taiyi witnessed the Golden Crow Clan in its former glory and saw its God Emperor return aboard a Golden Warship dragging a blazing sun.
• Black Tide Creatures invaded the Golden Crow Dao Domain, and the God Emperor fell while fighting ten enemies of comparable strength.
• The Black Tide Creatures exterminated the Golden Crow Clan, polluted the Golden Warship, and extinguished the sun it had dragged.
• The Golden Crow God Emperor's surviving Dao imprint gathered the shattered Golden Crow souls into the miniature sun.
• Jinyang identified himself as the Golden Sun God Emperor and lamented that he had failed to protect his clan, while Taiyi reminded him that the entire Hongmeng Great World had fallen.

Dijun and Taiyi accepted the Golden Sun God Emperor’s offer of inheritance, which would briefly grant Dijun peak battle power so he could reclaim the Golden Crow Warship and Solar. Taiyi returned to Bai Ze and the others while Dijun stayed behind to use the inheritance and leave the Hongmeng Continent.

• The Golden Sun God Emperor offered his inheritance to Dijun and Taiyi, and Taiyi insisted that Dijun receive it.
• The Golden Sun God Emperor revealed that accepting the inheritance would incur karma and asked the brothers to send the purified Golden Crow souls into reincarnation.
• The Golden Sun God Emperor explained that Black Tide creatures could be killed by sufficiently powerful beings and that the Golden Crow souls could be reborn because his Great Dao had purified them.
• The Golden Sun God Emperor said the inheritance would give Dijun peak battle power for an instant, enough to reclaim the Golden Crow Warship and Solar, and urged him to leave the Hongmeng Continent afterward.
• Taiyi chose to return and help Bai Ze and the others seek sainthood, then left the Solar and rejoined them alone.

Taiyi returned from the Solar corpse and explained the Hongmeng Golden Crow Clan’s history while Dijun remained inside to receive the Golden Sun God Emperor’s inheritance. As the Lost Land erupted in light, Dijun began absorbing the inheritance and its Heavenly Dao might.

• Taiyi reassured Bai Ze and the Demon Race Quasi-Saints that Dijun was unharmed, then described the Solar corpse and Bone Ship as creations of the Hongmeng Golden Crow Clan.
• Bai Ze explained that beings in the Primordial World may have formed themselves by imitating ancient Dao forms, and Taiyi recounted the Golden Crow Clan’s former glory.
• Bai Ze inferred that Dijun might have gained an opportunity to Attain the Dao, and Taiyi hinted that an earth-shaking transformation was coming.
• Taiyi learned that only two and a half quarters had passed outside, though he and Dijun had witnessed an entire Hongmeng Golden Crow’s rise and destruction inside.
• The Lost Land blazed with Jin Guang as Dijun received the Golden Sun God Emperor’s Great Dao inheritance and began absorbing its Heavenly Dao might.

Dijun used the Hongmeng Golden Crow inheritance to reach Heavenly Dao Realm power for an instant, reignited the dead sun, cleansed the Golden Crow Warship, and left Hongmeng Continent with both treasures. His final Golden Crow strike continued attacking the Fallen Saint-level Black Tide Creatures as the Demon Race celebrated its renewed prospects.

• Dijun’s power surged to the fourth tier of Hunyuan, briefly granting him Heavenly Dao Realm combat strength.
• Dijun reignited the dead sun and purified the ancient bone ship, restoring it as the primordial Golden Crow Warship and freeing the sun from its chains.
• Cangyuan, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Demon Ancestor Luohu reacted with astonishment to Dijun’s inheritance and opportunity.
• Dijun crushed the Great Dao Crystal and left Hongmeng Continent with the revived sun and Golden Crow Warship.
• Dijun’s Golden Crow Radiant Sun struck the Fallen Saint-level Black Tide Creatures, while Taiyi told the Demon Race that Dijun had inherited a Heavenly Dao Realm Daoist tradition.
• The Demon Race cheered its renewed prospects, and Taiyi ordered them to continue searching for opportunities.

Dijun killed the remaining Fallen Saint Creatures on Hongmeng Continent and returned to the Realm of the Gods with the Golden Crow Warship and a revived sun. Cangyuan proposed merging that sun with the Prehistoric World's sun to help Lu Ya advance, making Lu Ya the chapter's biggest short-term winner.

• Dijun used Golden Crow Illuminates the Sun to kill the thirty-four remaining Fallen Saint Creatures on Hongmeng Continent.
• Dijun arrived in the Realm of the Gods, where Hongjun praised his gains and Zhunti tried to obtain the Golden Crow Warship.
• Cangyuan asked what Dijun planned to do with the sun, and Dijun explained that Lu Ya was merging with the Prehistoric World's sun to become a Saint.
• Dijun agreed to have Cangyuan merge the revived sun with the Prehistoric World's sun so Lu Ya could integrate with the Dao in one step.
• Zhunti and Jieyin realized that Lu Ya stood to become the greatest short-term winner from the strengthened sun.

Zhunti despaired over Lu Ya’s rapid progress while the Hongmeng Continent’s explorers discovered chances to Attain the Dao. Shi Qilin confronted twelve gods from Takama-ga-hara over a Hongmeng-era Kirin Horn and called on the revived Five Elements Old Ancestor to fight them.

• Zhunti lamented that Lu Ya was nearing Dao Integration while he remained at Saint Fourth Heaven, and Jieyin tried to comfort him.
• Zhu Rong, Holy Mother Jin Ling, the Three Teachings and Martial Hall alliance, Yunxiao, Jin Chanzi, Mu Qingluan, and Jade Pool Golden Mother found opportunities in Hongmeng Continent.
• Dijun returned with the Golden Crow Warship and Solar, then learned that Cangyuan’s presence was an incarnation and that Lu Ya still needed tempering before fusing with the Yang God Dao Fruit.
• Shi Qilin found a Hongmeng-era Kirin Horn, subdued twelve Takama-ga-hara gods, and learned their identities and origins from their memories.
• When the gods called for Izanagi, Izanami, and Amaterasu, Shi Qilin asked Five Elements Old Ancestor to test his recovered strength against them.

Five Elements trapped and killed the twelve Kamiyonanayo God Kings, while Shi Qilin gave the Kirin Horn to his followers and vowed to attain the Dao on his own. Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susanoo arrived too late and found the Yamato Divine Clan’s core strength wiped out.

• Five Elements trapped the twelve Kamiyonanayo gods in his Five Elements Great World, suppressed their powers, and took their divine artifacts.
• Shi Qilin gave the Kirin Horn to Lei Jietuo, Moyuan, and the others, declaring that he would attain the Dao through his own strength.
• Five Elements emerged with the twelve gods sealed, and Shi Qilin agreed they should be killed.
• Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susanoo arrived as Five Elements unleashed his sure-kill attack and destroyed all twelve God Kings.
• Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susanoo stared in disbelief at the loss of the Yamato Divine Clan’s core strength.

Shi Qilin drove Amaterasu and the other Takama-ga-hara gods away after defeating them, while the survivors continued searching Hongmeng Continent for opportunities. Xihe’s reincarnation found the moon’s corpse and the Jade Rabbit Warship, and Kunpeng risked his life to draw its Fallen Demon Gods away.

• Shi Qilin warned Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, and Susanoo to know their limits, then left with the Kirin Clan after securing the opportunity.
• Amaterasu ordered Magatsuhi-no-Kami and Yasomagatsuhi-no-Kami to join the remaining Takama-ga-hara gods so they would not split up again.
• God King Tang found Ancient Bamboo and declared that he would use it to pole-vault his divine realm out of Chaos, while God King Xiao continued devouring divine flames.
• Xihe’s reincarnation found the moon’s corpse and the Jade Rabbit Warship, then called Eastern Emperor Tai Yi and nearby Prehistoric World Daoist Traditions for reinforcements.
• Kunpeng split into countless forms and lured the Fallen Demon Gods away from the Jade Rabbit Warship, leaving him chased by tens of thousands of them.

Xihe returned from Hongmeng Continent with the moon's corpse and the Jade Rabbit Warship, agreeing to help Changxi inherit the Yin God Fruit Position. As gods and cultivators continued searching Hongmeng Continent for opportunities, a God King discovered and secretly took an ancient Stone Niche.

• Kunpeng escaped the fallen demon gods with his Yin Yang Extreme Speed after Taiyi left without him, while Xihe returned safely with the moon's corpse and Jade Rabbit Warship.
• Cangyuan proposed merging the moon's corpse with the Primordial Moon to strengthen Changxi, and Xihe agreed to help her younger sister advance.
• Cangyuan cleansed the Jade Rabbit Warship of Black Tide Pollution, and Xihe recovered the inheritance of Empress Liuli from the moon's corpse.
• Xihe returned to the Primordial World and exchanged teasing remarks with Dijun across the stars before returning to the Moon Star.
• A God King found an ancient Stone Niche in a ruined temple and secretly stowed it in his storage divine artifact.

The Elemental God King brought a Stone Niche back to his Divine Domain, only to discover it contained a strange statue that Cangyuan recognized as Gatanothor, a Black Tide Creature. The statue began contaminating the Elemental God King and spreading black fog through the Divine Domain, and Rahu moved to intervene.

• The Elemental God King crushed his Great Dao Crystal and left Hongmeng Continent with the Stone Niche, while Cangyuan secretly sent a Saint Incarnation after him.
• Cangyuan found Hongjun, Rahu, and Yahweh watching the Elemental God King from their own incarnations.
• The Elemental God King opened the Stone Niche and found a bizarre black stone statue; Cangyuan recognized it as Gatanothor, a Great Old One.
• The statue laughed, contaminated the Elemental God King, and resisted his Holy Light forbidden spell as he realized he had brought disaster to his Divine Domain.
• Black fog poured from the Stone Niche and spread through the Divine Domain, prompting Rahu to make his move.

Cangyuan and the others confronted Gatanothor, an Outer Evil God who revealed that the Black Tide would return to destroy their world and offer it to Emperor Cang. They destroyed the Stone Niche that could expose Chaos’s location, while Cangyuan was left puzzling over the Black Tide’s connection to the Cthulhu Mythos.

• Rahu attacked the creature in the Stone Niche, and Yahweh sealed the space-time to keep it from escaping.
• The King of Black Mist and Corrosion revealed himself as Gatanothor, a Pillar of the Lost Divine Court, and threatened that the Black Tide would return to destroy their world for Emperor Cang.
• Cangyuan questioned Gatanothor about Azathoth and other emperors, prompting Gatanothor to vanish and his stone statue to flee.
• Yahweh identified the Stone Niche as the likely means by which Gatanothor had located Chaos, and Rahu, Hongjun, Cangyuan, and Yahweh destroyed it together.
• Rahu asked Cangyuan how much he knew about the Outer Evil Gods, and Cangyuan claimed he had found fragmentary records through the Time and Space Gate.

Cangyuan accepted the system’s mission to destroy the Lost Divine Court and kill Emperor Cang, then ordered the others to prepare for the Black Tide. The chapter ended with the Lost Divine Court appearing amid the ruins of Taichu Great World.

• The system revealed that the Lost Divine Court created the Black Tide and offered Cangyuan a Great Dao Dao Fruit for accepting the mission to destroy it and kill Emperor Cang.
• The system told Cangyuan that the Lost Divine Court’s gods were Half-Step Great Dao beings, but that it had no other soldiers before invading and corrupting living beings.
• Cangyuan told Luohu, Hongjun, and God to build the Primordial Ark and strengthen their forces, estimating that they needed at least ten Half-Step Great Dao experts to oppose the Black Tide.
• Hongjun reminded Rahu and God that Pangu remained their trump card, while God considered risking everything to reach the Half-Step Great Dao Realm.
• Cangyuan and the others inspected the Elemental Divine Domain, confirmed that no Black Tide remnants remained, and left after the Elemental God King thanked them.
• The Lost Divine Court rose from the ruins of Taichu Great World, where twisted divine statues stood within its decayed halls.

Gatanothor awakened Zoga and sent him as a vanguard to attack Boundless Chaos before the Lost Divine Court's Pillars fully awoke. Meanwhile, Cangyuan urged the gods to launch the Primordial Ark plan and restore Primordial Divine Realm so it could carry them away from the Black Tide.

• Gatanothor awakened from his slumber and decided to send a Pillar to entangle the newly born Boundless Great World while the other Pillars remained sealed.
• Gatanothor awakened Zoga, gave him intelligence and coordinates for Boundless Chaos, and ordered him to serve as the vanguard.
• Zoga entered the River of Time and headed toward the timeline containing Boundless Chaos, boasting that he could conquer it alone.
• Cangyuan convened the gods and proposed restoring Primordial Divine Realm to a higher World Rank so the Primordial Ark could carry them away from the Black Tide.
• Shichen lamented that even the Main Vein of the River of Time was no longer safe, and Brahman asked whether the Primordial Divine Realm had taken the Myriad Phenomena Divine Realm's fortune and World Origin to prepare for their escape.