Ch. 641The destination we pursue our entire lives is merely the starting point of the Father God.
Chapter Summary
Key Plot Points and Events
- Zangdixing reveals that the Mouth of the Abyss was once a Dao Venerable of the Taiji Great World and that he had previously fought and killed him after his corruption into an Evil God.
- Using this knowledge, the True Body of Pangu identifies the Mouth’s true core: a grotesque flesh-and-blood planet hidden deep within layers of gray mist and distorted space.
- Pangu’s World Creation Divine Axe bypasses the Mouth’s mist and spatial defenses, repeatedly striking the flesh planet. The Mouth attempts to resist with psychic rays, mental pollution, poisonous fog, blood barriers, and despairing spirits.
- The Great Dao of Strength overpowers every defense. Pangu declares that anything possessing strength—including pollution—falls under the authority of Strength.
- After several devastating axe strikes, Pangu delivers a final blow that destroys the flesh planet from within and reduces its remains to nothingness.
- The Mouth of the Abyss, identified as the thirty-third pillar of the Thirty-Six Sequences, is killed. However, he claims that his divine statue allows him to resurrect in an unreachable ultimate land.
- Pangu’s fused combat form collapses after the battle because maintaining its Dao Venerable-level power consumes enormous Primordial Spirit energy.
- The Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches reappear, exhausted but exhilarated at having personally slain a Pillar-level Evil God despite being far below the Dao Venerable realm.
- Pangu praises them, then ominously declares that he will destroy not only the Mouth’s current incarnation but also his future possibility of resurrection.
Character Developments
- Pangu/True Body of Pangu: Demonstrates overwhelming combat power through the Great Dao of Strength, showing that his fused form can defeat an opponent of the same nominal realm. His strength comes from the unity of the Three Pure Ones, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the World Creation Divine Axe, and the combined Primordial Spirit, killing intent, and turbid qi of his components. Despite victory, the form nearly collapses from the strain.
- Zangdixing: Establishes himself as an experienced and knowledgeable opponent of the Mouth of the Abyss, providing crucial insight into the Evil God’s history and weaknesses.
- Mouth of the Abyss: Revealed as a former Dao Venerable who became an Evil God. His confidence in his regeneration and divine statue is shattered by Pangu’s superior strength, and he dies in confusion and terror, unable to understand why their equal realm did not mean equal power.
- The Three Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches: Their exhaustion is balanced by immense pride and excitement. They gain confidence from crossing the gap between the Dao Integration Realm and Dao Venerable-level combat through cooperation with Pangu.
Significant Themes
- Strength transcending conventional realms: The chapter emphasizes that cultivation realms do not guarantee equal power. Pangu’s mastery and unique fusion allow him to defeat an opponent of the same realm with overwhelming force.
- Unity and cooperation: The combined power of the Three Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches creates a being capable of challenging and destroying a Pillar-level Evil God.
- Destruction versus corruption: The Mouth’s power is based on despair, pollution, and the ruin of worlds, while Pangu’s Great Dao of Strength destroys and suppresses those corruptive forces.
- Limits of immortality: The Mouth believes resurrection makes him invincible, but Pangu suggests that true victory requires eliminating not only the present body but also the source or possibility of future resurrection.
- Humility before a greater power: Tongtian’s reflection—that the group’s lifelong destination is merely Father God’s starting point—captures their realization of how far Pangu’s foundation and power exceed theirs.
Character Interactions
- Zangdixing interrupts the battle with crucial information about his former acquaintance and enemy, the Mouth of the Abyss.
- The Mouth taunts Pangu, boasting about his Mist of Disorder, endless pollution, and ability to resurrect. Pangu responds with dismissive confidence, countering that all such forces are still forms of strength.
- Pangu and the Mouth exchange increasingly direct challenges as Pangu’s successive axe strikes overwhelm the Evil God’s defenses.
- After the battle, Pangu praises the Three Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches for their achievement.
- Tongtian expresses awe at their accomplishment and recognizes the vast gap between their own lifelong pursuits and Pangu’s starting point.
- Pangu answers by reclaiming the World Creation Divine Axe and promising to eliminate the Mouth’s future as well as his present form.