Chapter Summaries

After Zhao Kuangyin fled an arranged marriage, Shi Jingtang’s Jin Dynasty fell and Liu Zhiyuan founded the New Han Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin joined the New Han army and encountered his father, while Zhao Kuangyi was left to marry in his place.

• Shi Jingtang allied with Mandi, ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and established the Jin Dynasty before illness forced him to pass the throne to Shi Chonggui.
• Shi Chonggui rejected vassalage to the Liao Kingdom, which invaded and destroyed the Jin Dynasty after five years; Zhao Kuangyin witnessed the Liao army’s devastation of the Central Plains.
• Liu Zhiyuan proclaimed the Han Dynasty in Taiyuan, rallied support, and recovered Luoyang and Kaifeng as the Liao army withdrew north.
• Zhao Hongyin arranged a marriage for Zhao Kuangyin, who refused, was beaten, and fled home to pursue a military career; Zhao Kuangyi married in his place.
• Zhao Kuangyin joined the New Han imperial guards, where Zhao Hongyin found him and beat him for running away.

Liu Zhiyuan was killed after defying the Human Race’s Golden Immortal, and Guo Wei later rebelled against Liu Chengyou and founded the Zhou Dynasty. After Guo Rong survived an assassination attempt with Zhao Kuangyin’s help, Zhuzhao challenged Lu Ya for the Sun God Fruit Position, leaving Lu Ya to call for his teacher.

• Three reincarnated Gods and Devils attacked Liu Zhiyuan, who forced his way to Earth Immortal before a Golden Immortal killed him for insulting the ancestral land.
• After Liu Chengyou ordered the deaths of Guo Wei’s family, Guo Wei rebelled, and his forces overthrew Liu Chengyou.
• Guo Wei became emperor and founded the Zhou Dynasty, then Guo Rong succeeded him after his death and strengthened the realm.
• The Liao Kingdom’s reincarnated Gods and Devils tried to assassinate Guo Rong, but Zhao Kuangyin and other fighters rescued him.
• On the Sun Star, Zhuzhao challenged Lu Ya’s claim to the Sun God Fruit Position, and Lu Ya shouted for his teacher to save him.

Cangyuan stopped Zhuzhao from disrupting Lu Ya’s fusion with the Sun God Fruit Position, and Wangshu took Zhuzhao away to pursue a safer way to unite their Lunar-Solar Great Dao. As the Primordial World’s Quasi-Saints and Golden Immortals departed to seek sainthood, Chai Rong succumbed to his calamity and fell ill.

• Cangyuan appeared behind Zhuzhao, forced him to back down, and handed him over to Wangshu.
• Wangshu took Zhuzhao to Guanghan Palace and explained her plan to unite their Dao without either sister devouring the other.
• Cangyuan warned Lu Ya that a major event was unfolding across the Primordial World, and Lu Ya said he needed another ten thousand years to complete his fusion.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Martial Ancestor Cangyuan led the Quasi-Saints and Golden Immortals out of the Primordial World with ten Saints accompanying them.
• Chai Rong, the reincarnation of the Calamity Divine Demon, was consumed by the backlash of his calamity and fell ill, blaming himself for the misfortunes of his family.

After Chai Rong died and Zhao Kuangyi refused to reclaim the throne, Zhao Kuangyin helped govern for the child emperor Chai Zongxun. A staged military mutiny at Chenqiao Post forced Zhao Kuangyin to accept a yellow robe, leaving him to consider how to handle the coup and the men who engineered it.

• Chai Rong entrusted Chai Zongxun to Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi before ascending to the Ancestral Land as an Earth Immortal.
• Zhao Kuangyin proposed that he and Zhao Kuangyi take the throne, but Zhao Kuangyi refused and said they should help end the Human Race's chaotic age instead.
• The Zhao brothers helped Chai Zongxun, age seven, succeed Chai Rong, with Empress Dowager Fu governing from behind the curtain and the brothers serving as regents.
• When Northern Han and the Liao Kingdom appeared to invade, Empress Dowager Fu and Chai Zongxun gave Zhao Kuangyin military command, and he marched north.
• At Chenqiao Post, Zhao Pu and the military generals staged a mutiny and draped a yellow robe over Zhao Kuangyin; Zhao Kuangyin agreed to take the throne after hearing the soldiers would otherwise face execution.
• Zhao Pu revealed that the invasion was only a pretext, and Zhao Kuangyin silently marked the men who had plotted the coup as dangerous.

Zhao Kuangyin founded the Northern Song after Chai Rong abdicated, then expanded its territory while consolidating imperial power. As Zhao Kuangyi urged him to secure an heir, Zhao Kuangyin refused and prepared for another northern expedition against Yelü Deguang.

• Chai Rong accepted Zhao Kuangyin's accession, issued an abdication edict, and took Chai Zongxun and Empress Dowager Fu to the Ancestral Land.
• Zhao Kuangyin founded the Northern Song with the Jianlong era name, and Zhao Kuangyi warned him to reclaim military authority without alienating the people.
• Zhao Kuangyin suppressed rebellions, recovered southern kingdoms, and strengthened central control, though his first northern expedition against Northern Han failed.
• Zhao Kuangyi urged Zhao Kuangyin to marry and produce an heir, but Zhao Kuangyin refused and said Zhao Kuangyi could inherit the dynasty.
• Zhao Kuangyin launched another northern expedition as Yelü Deguang prepared to claim the Position of Human Sovereign.

Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi left the Northern Song in the care of an incarnation and set out for the Hongmeng Continent to pursue opportunities to Attain Sainthood. After reuniting with Fuxi, they joined the gathered powers of the Prehistoric World, who departed for the sealed Hongmeng Continent.

• Zhao Kuangyin urged Zhao Kuangyi to leave the mortal world for the Hongmeng Continent, and Zhao Kuangyi agreed to leave an incarnation ruling the Great Song while the realm recuperated.
• Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi Attained the Dao and entered the Earth Immortal realm; Zhao Kuangyi shed his mortal body, and Zhao Kuangyin passed the throne to that body as the new emperor.
• Fuxi welcomed Dijun and Tai Yi at the Ascension Ancestral Land, accepted their remorse for past deeds, and heard Tai Yi vow to protect the Human Race.
• Fuxi told Dijun that Xihe had returned to the Moon Star as a Moon Laurel Tree spirit and was safe, while Dijun's six demon Saints wondered why he had not asked about them sooner.
• After the hundred-year deadline, Hongjun led the Prehistoric World alliance, with Cangyuan, Luohu, and the ten Saints assisting, toward the true Hongmeng Continent through the passage opened by the Will of the Great Dao.

The gods of the Realm of the Gods met the Primordial Divine Realm’s delegation, whose strength and numbers surpassed theirs, while the chapter recounted the succession of Olympus’s first three generations of Devas. The account ended with Zeus’s rise as the third-generation God King and the introduction of another famous Deva.

• God Yahweh and Hongjun exchanged compliments as the Realm of the Gods’ delegation compared its forces with the Primordial Divine Realm’s much larger lineup.
• Gaia rallied her children against Uranus, and Cronus ambushed his father with the Sickle of Time, driving him back to the sky and becoming the second-generation God King.
• Uranus’s curse made Cronus fear his children, so he swallowed his first five children, while Rhea hid Zeus on Crete and gave Cronus a swaddled stone instead.
• After reaching adulthood, Zeus forced Cronus to disgorge his siblings, then joined them in defeating Cronus and banishing him to hell.
• Zeus became the third-generation God King, and the chapter announced that another famous Deva would appear next.

The Olympus gods gathered at the entrance to the Hongmeng Continent, seeking the opportunity to become Primal Gods, while Jehovah and Hongjun prepared the divine realms to enter. After the Prehistoric cultivators crossed over, Heaven’s angels and demons followed, led by Michael and Lucifer.

• The chapter described the twelve main gods of Olympus and explained their origins, family ties, and divine ranks.
• The Olympus gods learned that the promised opportunity to achieve sainthood meant becoming Primal Gods, and thirty to forty of them prepared to enter the Hongmeng Continent.
• Jehovah asked Hongjun when the divine realms could enter, and Hongjun said they could go whenever they were ready.
• Hongjun ordered the cultivators of the Prehistoric World through the passage, and their figures appeared within the illusory image of the Hongmeng Continent.
• Jehovah sent the Heaven Divine Realm’s Quasi-Saint angels and demons after them, with Michael and Lucifer identified as its two peak God King leaders.

The chapter outlined the Heaven and Hell champions entering the Hongmeng Continent trial, then introduced the Olympus and Asgard groups. Loki reunited with his powerful children at the head of the Aesir camp, while Thor envied their strength.

• The chapter described the fourteen Heaven angels and eight Hell demons who qualified for the Hongmeng Continent trial.
• Lucifer vowed to challenge Jehovah after becoming a Primal God, then entered the Hongmeng Continent with the other demon monarchs.
• Cronus and Zeus led the Olympus Divine Realm into the Hongmeng Continent.
• Thor asked Loki who would become a Primal God first, and Loki joked that his children would protect him.
• Fenrir, Jormungandr, and Hela joined Loki, who recalled that their past crimes against Asgard had been pardoned after they fought for the realm.
• Thor said his children would be more outstanding than Loki's if he had any.

The Prehistoric World and divine realms entered the Hongmeng Continent to search for opportunities and gather treasures that could restore the Prehistoric World as an ark against the Black Tide. Their forces split up to explore, and Zhu Rong sensed his opportunity in a desolate sea that appeared to be a crippled River of Time.

• Zhunti worried that the Prehistoric World might have to wander to escape the Black Tide, and Ancestor Dragon argued that his Dragon Clan would still fight.
• The arriving cultivators discovered the Hongmeng Continent’s abundant treasures and complete Great Dao laws, and each received a Great Dao Crystal that could send its bearer to safety.
• Jade Pool Golden Mother ordered the Primordial factions to collect treasures that could strengthen the Prehistoric World’s World Origin and proposed that the forces explore separately while staying close enough to help one another.
• The Primordial factions and the gods of the Realm of the Gods split up to explore the continent.
• The Dragon Clan explored a black sea of dead worlds, where Zhu Rong sensed an opportunity amid the lingering aura of time.
• A Quasi-Saint Thunder Dragon spotted what appeared to be a Black Tide creature.

Zhu Rong confronted a Black Tide creature resembling a North Sea Giant Kraken in the Boundary Sea, using his mastery of time to fight it while protecting the Dragon Clan and Aquatic Clan. As the creature regenerated and attacked, Zhu Rong summoned his vast true body and revealed figures from his River of Time, leaving the battle unresolved.

• A Saint Realm Black Tide creature emerged from a vortex in the Boundary Sea, and Zhu Rong recognized it as the threat tied to the opportunity he sought.
• Zhu Rong refused to send a distress signal, took up the Zhu Rong Treasure Seal he had borrowed from Little Yinglong, and prepared to fight.
• The creature’s cries clouded the Primordial Spirits of the Dragon Clan and Aquatic Clan, while Zhu Rong shielded himself with the treasure seal’s time-light.
• Zhu Rong struck the creature with his Time-Sequence Slash, severing its tentacles, but the creature regenerated them at extraordinary speed.
• The creature attacked the gathered Quasi-Saints with its tentacles and mental pollution, and Zhu Rong transformed into his immense true body to resist it.
• Zhu Rong summoned his River of Time, where his past self appeared in the Dragon-Han Era and a figure from the future began to emerge.

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.