Recaps

Zhou Ming searched Chaos for Yang Mei and tried to understand the Great Dao’s urgent call for him to sleep and gestate, then finally surrendered to it and was sealed in a cocoon supported by the Thirty-Six Grade Green Lotus of Creation. Yang Mei began gestating in a separate cocoon, while countless weaker cocoons appeared throughout Chaos.

• Zhou Ming searched the vast Chaos for Yang Mei but found no other intelligent beings, while the Great Dao repeatedly urged him to sleep and gestate.
• Zhou Ming considered whether the Great Dao was preparing other beings as his Dao tribulation, but found no signs of life as he continued searching.
• Zhou Ming stopped searching, trusted his own strength, and let the Great Dao’s will put him into a deep slumber.
• The Jade Disc of Creation and Pangu Axe emerged beside Zhou Ming as Chaos energy formed a giant cocoon around him, supported by the Thirty-Six Grade Green Lotus of Creation.
• Yang Mei sensed Zhou Ming’s gestation, vowed to meet him when he attained the Dao, and formed a smaller cocoon around himself.
• Thousands of weaker cocoons appeared across Chaos, each holding a being with a faint aura.

Several thousand systems entered Chaos to kill its coming Dao-prover and cultivate a champion of their own. While the Sign-in System and most others chose to target sleeping Chaos Demon Gods, the Devour System led a rogue group toward Pangu’s cocoon to seize his body.

• The Sign-in System gathered the systems and explained that they had come to take Chaos’s Dao Rhythm and defeat its Dao-prover.
• The systems agreed to possess sleeping Chaos Demon Gods and use their hosts to weaken Pangu when he split the heavens.
• The Sign-in System, Karma System, Punch-in System, and Devour System each chose a powerful demon god as a target, and most systems dispersed.
• The Devour System urged a dozen remaining systems to attack Pangu while he was still gestating, despite warnings that the gamble could end in their destruction.
• The Devour System and its allies formed a pact to kill Pangu’s Primordial Spirit and flew toward his gray cocoon.

The Sign-in System tried to possess Yang Mei while he recovered inside his cocoon, believing the Space Demon God was still gestating. Yang Mei awakened, revealed his overwhelming power, and trapped the system in his sea of consciousness.

• The Sign-in System found Yang Mei's emerald cocoon and infiltrated it by corroding weaknesses in its spatial defenses.
• The Sign-in System entered Yang Mei's body and headed for his sea of consciousness to devour and replace his Primordial Spirit.
• Yang Mei awakened and demanded to know what had entered his body, while the Sign-in System announced its intention to take possession of him.
• Yang Mei's spatial blades severed the Sign-in System's order chains and exposed the system's misjudgment about his strength.
• Yang Mei seized control of the space inside the cocoon and trapped the Sign-in System, declaring it would not escape alive.

Yang Mei battled the Sign-in System inside his sea of consciousness, trapping it in layers of spatial barriers while it struggled to escape. The System unleashed a desperate golden light wave that began destabilizing Yang Mei’s barriers.

• The Sign-in System split into hundreds of golden threads to pierce Yang Mei’s defenses, but Yang Mei destroyed nearly all of them and crushed the threads that reached the law-gaps.
• Yang Mei used his Primordial Spirit to bind the Sign-in System with spatial chains, then trapped it in layers of barriers to slowly wear it down.
• The Sign-in System realized it was at a disadvantage without a host and decided to use a costly escape technique.
• The Sign-in System compressed its light into a point and released a golden wave that made Yang Mei’s spatial barriers tremble.

Yang Mei destroyed the Sign-in System in his sea of consciousness and learned that thousands of systems were targeting Zhou Ming and the chaos. He planned to let Zhou Ming and the systems weaken each other before seizing their power, while he recovered and refined the system’s core.

• Yang Mei dispersed the Sign-in System’s attack and crushed its attempt to self-destruct with his control over space.
• Yang Mei examined the system’s memories and discovered its mission to kill Zhou Ming and steal the chaos’s Dao Rhythm, along with thousands of similar systems targeting Chaos Demon Gods.
• Yang Mei realized the system had left him this information as bait, but decided to use the conflict to his advantage and claim Zhou Ming’s Dao Fruit and the chaos’s Dao Rhythm.
• Yang Mei carefully searched the system’s golden core for hidden consciousness, then began merging it with the spatial Dao Rhythm as he continued recovering inside the Emerald Giant Cocoon.

Zhou Ming awakened when seven foreign systems infiltrated his cocoon to kill him, then destroyed them with the Pangu Axe. He learned that thousands of systems were empowering the Chaos Demon Gods meant to become his Dao tribulation, and began forming a plan to counter them.

• The Devour System led six other systems to infiltrate Zhou Ming’s cocoon while he appeared to be asleep.
• Zhou Ming blocked their attack and used the Pangu Axe and his Primordial Spirit to wipe out all seven systems’ intelligence.
• Zhou Ming searched the systems’ rule cores and learned that thousands of systems from beyond the chaos were trying to kill him and seize the chaos’s Dao Rhythm.
• Zhou Ming discovered that the other systems were possessing Chaos Demon Gods and recognized that his coming Dao tribulation would be more dangerous than he expected.
• Zhou Ming decided to make hidden preparations and reached toward the Devour System’s dark-red rule core.

Thousands of systems possessed weak Chaos Demon Gods, implanted human True Spirits and fabricated transmigration memories, then lulled their hosts into deep slumber. After a thousand Kalpas, the Karma System discovered the Great Dao had stopped gestating the demon gods, so it and the other systems began nurturing their hosts themselves.

• The Karma System and thousands of other systems found their assigned Chaos Demon God cocoons and easily possessed the embryonic beings inside.
• The Karma System implanted Chen Bei’s True Spirit and false memories, then bound itself to him as the Fate Control System.
• Chen Bei learned he was meant to defeat Pangu, accepted the system’s plan to gestate in the cocoon, and entered deep slumber.
• After a thousand Kalpas, the Karma System found that the demon god’s body had not grown because the Great Dao had stopped its gestation.
• The Karma System began feeding Chaos Qi to its sleeping host, as the other systems likewise started gestating their Chaos Demon Gods themselves.

Chen Bei emerged as the Destiny Demon God and began seeking allies against Pangu, while Yang Mei infiltrated the systems gathering Chaos Demon Gods by impersonating the destroyed Punch-in System. Their secret plans converged as another crack appeared in the distant gray cocoon containing the Thirty-Six Grade Green Lotus of Creation.

• Chen Bei completed his transformation into the Destiny Demon God, received a quest to unite the Demon Gods against Pangu, and used his system to seek allies.
• Yang Mei emerged from his cocoon with the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle, a supreme treasure built from the Sign-in System's rule core, and planned to use the systems and their hosts against Zhou Ming.
• Newly born transmigrators and their systems gathered to oppose Pangu, while the systems discovered that eight systems, including Sign-in and Punch-in, were missing.
• Yang Mei contacted the systems while posing as Punch-in and claimed he had defeated the Space Demon God; the systems recognized him but agreed to pretend to trust him until after the battle with Pangu.
• Yang Mei headed toward the gathering Demon Gods as a tiny crack appeared in the distant gray cocoon containing the Thirty-Six Grade Green Lotus of Creation.

Zhou Ming emerged from his cocoon with his treasures and a hidden Dao Body ready, declaring that he would open the heavens. The systems rallied thousands of Chaos Demon Gods to stop him, and Yang Mei led their advance as Zhou Ming waited for them.

• Zhou Ming concealed his perfected Dao Body inside his Primordial Spirit, then broke free of the giant cocoon with the Green Lotus of Creation, Jade Disc of Creation, and Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.
• Zhou Ming declared that he would open the heavens, alarming the Karma System, which ordered the systems to withdraw their main bodies from their hosts and send the hosts to stop him.
• The Karma System asked Yang Mei to lead the Demon Gods, and Yang Mei agreed while recognizing that the systems intended to use him as a target.
• Yang Mei gathered the nearby Demon Gods and headed toward Zhou Ming as thousands more assembled from across the chaos.
• Zhou Ming waited at the center of the chaos as Yang Mei and the gathered Demon Gods approached.

Zhou Ming began creating the heavens and killed dozens of Chaos Demon Gods with a single axe, while Yang Mei used the battle as cover to escape. The systems decided to keep using their hosts to exhaust Zhou Ming, and Chen Bei’s system ordered him to attack at full force.

• Zhou Ming announced that he would create the heavens and swept his Pangu Axe through the Chaos Demon Gods who tried to stop him, erasing dozens of them.
• Yang Mei retreated behind the demon gods, then opened a spatial rift and tried to flee while Zhou Ming was occupied.
• Zhou Ming’s second axe strike chased Yang Mei through space, but Yang Mei used the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle to block it and escaped.
• The systems misread Yang Mei’s escape as a scheme to profit after they and Zhou Ming exhausted each other, and resolved to deal with him later.
• The remaining demon gods panicked after Yang Mei fled, but Chen Bei’s Karma System ordered him to attack Zhou Ming with the power of the Great Dao.

Zhou Ming slaughtered the attacking Demon Gods, but the hidden systems forced their Hosts to self-detonate in a last attempt to harm him. After surviving the blast, he began opening the heavens, splitting Chaos with his axe.

• Zhou Ming cut down the Demon Gods who charged at him, while the systems realized their Hosts could not meaningfully weaken him.
• The Karma System ordered all Hosts to self-detonate, and the systems took control of their bodies and ignited their Dao origins.
• Thousands of Demon Gods exploded; Zhou Ming shielded himself with the Thirty-Six Grade Green Lotus of Creation and the Jade Disc of Creation, leaving him unharmed though the lotus was badly damaged.
• The hidden systems concealed their auras and ordered one another to wait for Zhou Ming to exhaust himself opening the heavens.
• Zhou Ming raised the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and split Chaos apart with a single strike.

Zhou Ming opened heaven and earth and held the newborn world apart with his body while comprehending the Dao. Hidden systems and Yang Mei watched, each waiting for him to weaken so they could seize the chance to claim the Dao Fruit.

• Zhou Ming repeatedly swung the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe, splitting Chaos and forming a newborn world, though the axe cracked and the world began to collapse.
• Zhou Ming grew into a pillar between heaven and earth, enduring the world’s pressure as his Primordial Spirit comprehended the principles of creation.
• The systems agreed to wait until Zhou Ming’s strength was drained before attacking, while monitoring him for any sign that he might prove the Dao.
• The systems planned to divide their forces between Zhou Ming and Yang Mei, whom they expected to target them after they fought.
• Yang Mei watched Zhou Ming and the systems from hiding, waiting for both sides to weaken before claiming the Dao Fruit.

As Zhou Ming’s strength seemed to fade while he held up the newborn world, he gained profound insight into the Great Dao. The systems attacked when they sensed he was about to prove the Dao, but Zhou Ming revealed that an avatar had been bearing the burden and confronted them at full strength.

• Zhou Ming’s aura weakened as his comprehension of World Creation deepened, and a fleeting aura of impending Dao attainment appeared within his Primordial Spirit.
• The Karma System ordered the systems to attack Zhou Ming, sending the Punch-in System and a third of their forces to keep Yang Mei from interfering.
• The systems rushed toward Zhou Ming with tools meant to harvest his body and Dao Fruit, while Zhou Ming searched for Yang Mei and found no trace of him.
• Zhou Ming stepped out of the newborn world, revealing that an identical, cracked avatar still held up heaven and earth in his place.
• The systems realized Zhou Ming had deceived them, but his overwhelming aura suppressed them as he summoned the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.
• Zhou Ming challenged the systems over the Dao-attainers they had killed and swung the axe at them.

The systems combined their origins into a shared defense to stop Zhou Ming from killing them before he proved the Dao. Zhou Ming’s relentless axe strikes broke through their formation, leaving the systems in a desperate collapse.

• The Karma System convinced the systems that retreat meant certain death and called on the Punch-in System to bring its forces to the main battle.
• Several thousand systems joined their rules into a defensive net and blocked Zhou Ming’s first axe strike.
• Zhou Ming struck again, cracking the shield, but the Karma System burned its source power to hold the formation together.
• Zhou Ming unleashed a relentless barrage, forcing the systems to abandon counterattacks and struggle to repair their defense.
• Zhou Ming found a flaw at a node guarded by more than a dozen small systems and destroyed them, opening a breach in the defensive line.
• Zhou Ming followed the breach into the formation.

Zhou Ming relentlessly destroyed the systems’ defensive line while Yang Mei stayed hidden, waiting for the systems to weaken. Just as Zhou Ming’s axe was about to finish off the survivors, Yang Mei intervened and faced him.

• Zhou Ming’s repeated axe strikes shattered the systems’ defenses and killed dozens more, while the Karma System called on Yang Mei to help.
• Yang Mei heard the Karma System’s plea but chose to wait, planning to act only after the systems had been reduced enough for him to defeat them.
• Zhou Ming searched Chaos for Yang Mei, then resumed his attacks when he found no trace of him.
• Zhou Ming’s axe-light killed more than thirty systems and left the survivors protected only by the Karma System’s dwindling power.
• Yang Mei emerged and used a spatial barrier to stop Zhou Ming’s axe-light, then greeted him.

Yang Mei emerged to join the surviving systems against Zhou Ming, but their combined defenses could barely withstand his attacks. The Karma System proposed becoming Yang Mei’s host so he could reach the peak of Hunyuan Grand Ultimate Golden Immortal, leaving Yang Mei weighing the offer and questioning its motives.

• Yang Mei appeared before Zhou Ming and coordinated with the surviving systems to block his axe strike.
• Zhou Ming’s second strike forced Yang Mei to rely on the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle and the systems, several of which were lost in each exchange.
• The Karma System privately told Yang Mei that the systems could become stronger by joining with a host.
• The Karma System offered to acknowledge Yang Mei as its master and accept a restraining spell in exchange for being taken out of Chaos after Zhou Ming’s defeat.
• Yang Mei questioned why the Karma System trusted him not to destroy the systems after killing Zhou Ming.

Yang Mei learned that the systems' backer was holding this Chaos's Great Dao in check, then bound the Karma System to himself and broke through to peak Hunyuan Wuji. With the surviving systems empowering him, he began exchanging blows with Zhou Ming, who still vowed to take him seriously.

• The Karma System told Yang Mei that both Great Daos would target him if he killed Zhou Ming and the systems, leaving cooperation as his only hope.
• Yang Mei agreed to bind the Karma System, which accepted a Restraining Spell on its Origin and merged with him.
• The surviving systems burned their Origins to hold off Zhou Ming while Yang Mei completed the union.
• Yang Mei broke through to peak Hunyuan Wuji and shattered a strike from Zhou Ming's Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.
• The systems lent Yang Mei their power, allowing him to gain the upper hand briefly as Zhou Ming prepared to attack again.

Zhou Ming and Yang Mei continued their fierce battle as their supreme treasures and the systems supporting Yang Mei were worn down. The Karma System proposed sacrificing the weakest systems to destroy Zhou Ming’s Chaos Green Lotus.

• Yang Mei withstood Zhou Ming’s axe strike and counterattacked, but Zhou Ming blocked him with the Thirty-Six Grade Green Lotus of Creation.
• Yang Mei warned that Zhou Ming’s damaged supreme treasures would eventually shatter, while Zhou Ming continued attacking to end the battle quickly.
• Zhou Ming directed the axe-light’s aftershocks toward the systems supporting Yang Mei, destroying several of them.
• The Karma System warned Yang Mei that the systems were being wiped out faster than Zhou Ming’s treasures were failing.
• The Karma System urged the remaining systems to have their weakest members self-detonate against Zhou Ming’s Chaos Green Lotus.

Yang Mei and the Karma System destroyed the Green Lotus of Creation by forcing ten weak systems to self-destruct, stripping Zhou Ming of his strongest defense. Zhou Ming revealed his pure Law of Strength as Yang Mei prepared to press his advantage.

• The Karma System sent Yang Mei the weak points of the systems, and Yang Mei used Space Law to seize control of ten and force them to self-destruct.
• Zhou Ming cut down three of the ten systems, but the other seven struck the Green Lotus of Creation and shattered it.
• The surviving systems cursed Yang Mei and the Karma System for sacrificing their companions, then set aside their anger to focus on defeating Zhou Ming.
• Yang Mei taunted Zhou Ming over losing the Green Lotus of Creation and the cracks in his Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.
• Zhou Ming unleashed the Dao of Strength, freezing Yang Mei's smile and warning him to experience the Law of Strength again.

Zhou Ming shattered the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe but revealed that his true strength lay in the Law of Strength, not the weapon. He destroyed Yang Mei's Hunyuan Divine Shuttle with his bare fists, leaving Yang Mei and the surviving systems facing his full power.

• Yang Mei clashed with Zhou Ming's increasingly powerful axe strikes, while the surviving systems cheered and Zhou Ming's attacks also destroyed several of them.
• The Heaven-Opening Divine Axe broke apart after a final collision, and Yang Mei's Hunyuan Divine Shuttle developed a crack.
• Yang Mei and the systems celebrated the axe's destruction, but Zhou Ming refused to use the Jade Disc of Creation and said he could defeat them without a Chaos Supreme Treasure.
• Zhou Ming stopped the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle with his fist, battered it with a barrage of punches, and killed a system with a single strike.
• Zhou Ming explained that he relied on the Law of Strength itself, then shattered the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle with his final punch.

Zhou Ming overwhelmed Yang Mei and the systems, surviving their coordinated self-destruction with only minor injuries. With the systems gone and defeat certain, Yang Mei unleashed a final, more powerful self-destruction to strike Zhou Ming.

• Yang Mei destroyed the Hunyuan Divine Shuttle and chose to fight Zhou Ming to the death rather than retreat.
• The Karma System rallied the surviving systems to burn their origins and attack alongside Yang Mei.
• Zhou Ming killed the systems one by one while fighting Yang Mei, until the remaining systems self-detonated to trap him.
• Yang Mei held Zhou Ming in place with Space Law and Karma Law as dozens of systems detonated, but Zhou Ming emerged with only minor injuries.
• After the systems were annihilated, Yang Mei resisted Zhou Ming's attempt to cage him and self-destructed with his remaining power.

After Yang Mei sacrificed himself in a final explosion, Zhou Ming suffered severe injuries and had to hold up his collapsing newborn world when his Dao Body Avatar shattered. Bearing the world’s weight for countless Kalpas, he comprehended the Dao and reached a state of unity with heaven and earth.

• Yang Mei self-detonated, destroying his body and Primordial Spirit while wounding Zhou Ming with the blast.
• The explosion’s aftermath shattered Zhou Ming’s Dao Body Avatar, causing the newborn world to begin collapsing.
• Zhou Ming crossed to the failing world and used his own body to hold up the sky and keep heaven and earth apart.
• As he endured the world’s weight, Zhou Ming resumed his interrupted comprehension of the Dao of opening heaven and splitting earth.
• After countless Kalpas, Zhou Ming comprehended the Dao as a whole and became one with the newborn heaven and earth.
• Zhou Ming opened his eyes, smiled, and said, “So that's how it is... I understand.”

Zhou Ming merged his body into the newborn world, leaving gifts for Houtu and the Twelve Ancestor Witches before sealing his Primordial Spirit in Pangu Hall. His True Spirit then began to transcend beyond Chaos, while Pangu watched and declared that he would wait for the enemy’s next battlefield.

• Zhou Ming merged the Pangu Realm into the newborn world and placed the Jade Disc of Creation beside the sleeping Houtu.
• Zhou Ming transformed his body into the world’s terrain and sent twelve drops of Essence Blood to Dijiang, Zhurong, Houtu, and the other Twelve Ancestor Witches.
• Zhou Ming’s heart fused with Pangu Hall to make it the world’s foundation, and his Primordial Spirit sealed itself inside the hall.
• After Zhou Ming’s aura vanished, a speck of his True Spirit formed in the Great Dao origin and rose beyond Chaos.
• Pangu told the blurred figure that Zhou Ming had Attained Hunyuan and that its plan had failed; the figure vowed to fight again on the next battlefield.
• Pangu watched Zhou Ming’s True Spirit approach and told the vanished figure, “I’ll wait.”

Zhou Ming re-formed his body from the Great Dao after proving the Dao, and Pangu urged him to settle the promises and karma tied to his path. Zhou Ming revived his departed friends and released the sleepers into his new world, then Pangu told him to leave a Dao body behind to watch over Chaos.

• Zhou Ming thanked Pangu for his protection, and Pangu told him they were now fellow Daoists of equal standing.
• Zhou Ming reached into the River of Time and retrieved the True Spirits of Hongyun, Minghe, Candle Dragon, Taiyi, Haotian, and Wu.
• Zhou Ming sent the True Spirits except Wu into his new Primordial World to be nurtured and reborn.
• Zhou Ming freed Di Jun, East Prince Gong, Taiqing, Yuanshi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa from their seals in Pangu Hall and scattered them throughout the new world.
• Zhou Ming merged Wu's True Spirit with his sealed Primordial Spirit, beginning a new life within Pangu Hall and completing his karma.
• Pangu told Zhou Ming that he should leave a Dao body behind to watch over Chaos.

After attaining the Dao, Zhou Ming learned that he had become the Great Dao responsible for guarding his chaos and created a Dao Body so he could leave and continue cultivating. Pangu took him toward the Eternal Dao Realm and explained that the systems in Zhou Ming’s tribulation came from beyond the Chaos Sea and had been drawn in while Pangu faced a rival.

• Pangu explained that Zhou Ming had become the Great Dao of his chaos and was responsible for protecting its order.
• Pangu said Dao-proven beings left Dao Bodies to guard their chaos while their true bodies traveled and cultivated.
• Zhou Ming created a Dao Body, which merged into the void to watch over the chaos.
• Pangu invited Zhou Ming to the Eternal Dao Realm, and they set off beyond the chaos.
• Zhou Ming asked about the systems, and Pangu said they came from beyond the Chaos Sea and that he had deliberately drawn them into Zhou Ming’s Dao tribulation.
• Pangu revealed that a Great Dao-level powerhouse had held him in a standoff, preventing him from directly intervening against the systems.