Recaps

You Jue cornered Zhou Ming and Houtu in the Chaos Sea, overwhelming them until reinforcements from the Eternal Dao Realm arrived. Cang Xuan and Hongchu engaged You Jue while Zhou Ming took the injured Houtu toward the Eternal Dao Realm.

• Pangu learned that You Jue was hunting Zhou Ming and Houtu, then sent Cang Xuan and Hongchu to rescue them.
• You Jue blocked Zhou Ming and Houtu's escape and used the Law of Devouring to injure them as they fought back.
• When You Jue prepared to attack their Dao foundations, Zhou Ming sensed Cang Xuan and Hongchu approaching.
• You Jue tried to retreat, but Zhou Ming and Houtu delayed him until Cang Xuan and Hongchu arrived and attacked.
• Cang Xuan and Hongchu took over the fight against You Jue, while Zhou Ming brought the injured Houtu toward the Eternal Dao Realm.

After Zhou Ming and Houtu escaped to the Eternal Dao Realm, Hongchu and Cang Xuan defeated You Jue, who burned his origin to flee. Pangu identified Zhou Ming’s damaged origin and gave him and Houtu Great Dao Crystals to help stabilize their foundations.

• Hongchu and Cang Xuan attacked You Jue together, breaking through his defenses and damaging his Dao Body.
• You Jue burned his Great Dao Origin to escape Cang Xuan’s cage, and Cang Xuan stopped Hongchu from pursuing him.
• Hongchu and Cang Xuan judged You Jue’s origin badly damaged and returned to the Eternal Dao Realm.
• Pangu saw that Zhou Ming had damaged his origin by burning it to stop You Jue, and Zhou Ming explained he had acted to protect Houtu during her breakthrough.
• Pangu gave Zhou Ming two Great Dao Crystals and Houtu one, telling them to heal and stabilize their foundations.

After Zhou Ming took the injured Houtu to his Law God Mountain to recover, Pangu learned that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub had abandoned its operations in the other eight chaoses and was turning its attention to the Ninth Chaos. Pangu and his allies prepared for an imminent all-out war, while he wondered what the enemy had gained in the first eight chaoses.

• Zhou Ming brought the injured Houtu to his Law God Mountain to heal before she established her dojo.
• Cang Xuan and Hongchu told Pangu they had broken You Jue's Law of Devouring, forcing him to burn his source and flee badly wounded.
• Pangu warned Cang Xuan and Hongchu that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub had likely completed its objectives in the other eight chaoses and would focus on the Ninth Chaos.
• Pangu, Cang Xuan, and Hongchu agreed that an all-out struggle over the Ninth Chaos was imminent, and Cang Xuan and Hongchu returned to seclusion to strengthen themselves.
• Alone on his mountaintop, Pangu recalled the distorted figure's promise of a new battlefield and wondered what the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub had accomplished in the first eight chaoses.

Pangu sent Cang Xuan and Hongchu to cultivate and declared that the Ninth Chaos would be the next battlefield against the forces beyond the Chaos Sea. At the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub, You Jue returned badly injured and faced mockery from his peers before Xu Yuan appeared.

• Pangu sent Cang Xuan and Hongchu back to their Law God Mountains to cultivate, then vowed to fight over the Ninth Chaos.
• You Jue returned to the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub with a damaged Dao Body and injuries from burning his Great Dao Origin.
• Blood Butcher, Shi Gu, Jue Ying, and Ming Luo mocked You Jue, who blamed Cang Xuan and Hongchu for his injuries.
• You Jue explained that Cang Xuan and Hongchu had rescued Zhou Ming and Houtu after he pursued them, and the others mocked him for failing to escape.
• You Jue challenged Blood Butcher, but their argument ended when Xu Yuan appeared and everyone bowed to him.

Xu Yuan announced that the first eight Chaos regions had yielded enough Dao Rhythm and ordered the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub to prepare for war in the Ninth Chaos. You Jue began recovering in seclusion, vowing to kill Zhou Ming when the war started.

• Xu Yuan declared the first eight regions’ arrangements complete and ordered everyone to gather the Ninth Chaos’s Dao Rhythm to open the Land of Opportunity.
• Xu Yuan warned You Jue to recover quickly, and the others pressured him not to delay their plans.
• Blood Butcher and the others left the Divine Hall to prepare for war against the Eternal Dao Realm.
• You Jue used his stored Great Dao Crystals and the Law of Devouring to repair his Dao Body and Origin in seclusion.
• You Jue vowed to destroy Zhou Ming once he recovered and the Ninth Chaos war began.

After using Great Dao Crystals to recover from their injuries, Zhou Ming and Houtu prepared to travel through the Chaos Sea to hunt Chaos Dao-Devouring Beasts. Pangu warned them about the approaching war, and after Houtu formed her own Law God Mountain, he told her she would eventually need to choose between her two Laws to enter the Fusion Dao Realm.

• Zhou Ming recovered about ninety percent of his burned origin, while Houtu fully repaired her Dao Body but still had a slight gap in her origin.
• Pangu arrived, praised their recovery, and warned that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub would focus on the Ninth Chaos as war could soon break out.
• Zhou Ming told Pangu that he and Houtu planned to travel through the Chaos Sea to hunt Chaos Dao-Devouring Beasts and temper their Laws.
• At Zhou Ming's suggestion, Houtu condensed a Law God Mountain from her Laws of Earth and Reincarnation.
• Pangu admired Houtu's mountain and warned that she would eventually need to choose between her two Laws to reach the Fusion Dao Realm.

Pangu explained Houtu’s two possible paths to the Fusion Dao Realm, including the risks of merging Earth and Reincarnation into a new law. Zhou Ming and Houtu set out into the Chaos Sea, killed a metal-element Chaos Dao-Devouring Beast, and prepared to continue their hunt.

• Pangu told Houtu she could make either Earth or Reincarnation her trunk law, or dangerously fuse both into a new law before advancing.
• Pangu returned to his Law God Mountain, and Zhou Ming and Houtu left the Eternal Dao Realm to search the Chaos Sea for Dao-Devouring Beasts.
• After traveling for several dozen chaos years, Zhou Ming and Houtu sensed violent Metal Law fluctuations and found a beast devouring the law.
• Houtu sealed the beast inside earthen walls reinforced with Reincarnation, while Zhou Ming attacked its shell with the Dao of Strength.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu defeated the beast, and Zhou Ming gave Houtu the Great Dao Crystal it left behind.

Zhou Ming and Houtu defeated a Water-Element Dao-Devouring Beast and continued searching the Chaos Sea for Great Dao Crystals. As they prepared to return to the Eternal Dao Realm, a vast repulsive force swept across the Chaos Sea, and Zhou Ming identified its source as the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos.

• Zhou Ming struck the Water-Element Dao-Devouring Beast while Houtu used the Law of Reincarnation to halt its regeneration.
• Zhou Ming destroyed the beast's source core, and the two collected its Great Dao Crystal, bringing their total to four.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu discussed repaying Pangu three crystals and decided to return to the Eternal Dao Realm after finding no more beasts.
• A powerful repulsive force surged through the Chaos Sea as Zhou Ming and Houtu prepared to leave.
• Zhou Ming recognized the unprecedented law fluctuation as the emergence of the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos.

The Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos emerged in the Chaos Sea, drawing Zhou Ming and Houtu, the Eternal Dao Realm, and the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub toward its fortune. Pangu and Xu Yuan led rival forces into the Chaos Sea as the race for the realm began.

• Zhou Ming explained the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos to Houtu, and they set out toward it while agreeing to retreat if the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub's forces overwhelmed them.
• Pangu emerged from seclusion in the Eternal Dao Realm, recognized the Origin Realm's return, and led its Great Dao Realm cultivators toward it.
• Hongchu and Cang Xuan joined Pangu, with Cang Xuan warning that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub would not stand aside.
• Xu Yuan gathered Blood Butcher, Shi Gu, Jue Ying, Ming Luo, and the injured You Jue, then ordered them to seize places in the realm and kill Eternal Dao Realm cultivators.
• The Eternal Dao Realm and Abyssal Sea Divine Hub forces surged into the Chaos Sea, plunging it into turmoil.

Pangu fought Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Wuwang, who had blocked his true body from reaching the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos. Meanwhile, Zhou Ming and Houtu reached the realm’s unopened light cocoon and prepared to either enter first or retreat if Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s experts arrived.

• Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Wuwang confronted Pangu and said his remaining Dao Body could not stop Xu Yuan or Abyssal Sea Divine Hub from claiming the opportunity.
• Pangu attacked the three Unity Realm experts, breaking Jiemie’s shield and Kongxuan’s spatial barriers before they worked together to withstand his blows.
• Pangu pressed his assault, forcing Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Wuwang to defend while they tried to keep him from leaving.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu reached the unopened Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos and found no other experts nearby.
• Zhou Ming told Houtu they would enter first if the realm opened before the enemy arrived, but retreat if Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s Fusion Dao Realm experts reached them first.

Zhou Ming and Houtu entered the newly opened Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos before anyone else and began cultivating in its ocean of laws. After receiving Zhou Ming’s message, Pangu and the Eternal Dao Realm experts hurried toward the realm, preparing for a battle with the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub.

• Zhou Ming told Houtu that the Origin Realm contained an ocean formed from the intertwined origins of the Three Thousand Great Daos, where they could cultivate toward perfection.
• The passage into the Origin Realm opened, and Zhou Ming and Houtu entered after Zhou Ming sent Pangu a message with his Communication Jade Talisman.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu found the boundless ocean of laws and split up to cultivate in areas where the laws gathered densely.
• Pangu received Zhou Ming’s message and told Cang Xuan, Hongchu, and the other Eternal Dao Realm experts that Zhou Ming and Houtu had entered ahead of everyone else.
• Pangu warned that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub would still contest the remaining places, then ordered the group to advance at full speed and prepare for battle.

Pangu led Eternal Dao Realm experts to the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos, where they clashed with forces from the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub. A massive battle erupted, and Pangu’s Dao Body began to falter against Xu Yuan.

• Pangu arrived with dozens of Eternal Dao Realm experts and turned the standoff between three natives and four Grey Robes in his side’s favor.
• Xu Yuan emerged from a rift with Blood Butcher, Shi Gu, and dozens of Abyssal Sea Divine Hub experts, then challenged Pangu to withdraw.
• Pangu rejected Xu Yuan’s demand, and the two attacked each other as Hongchu fought Blood Butcher and Cang Xuan fought Shi Gu.
• More Great Dao Realm experts joined both sides, expanding the battle around the entrance to the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos.
• Xu Yuan’s Destruction law weakened Pangu’s Dao Body, and Xu Yuan mocked him after forcing him back half a step.

Pangu faced Xu Yuan as Taiyi and Taichu appeared, having recovered to the peak of the Fusion Dao Realm with the Eternal Dao Realm’s support. With the three fighting together, Xu Yuan fell into a disadvantage, and Pangu declared that no one from the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub would reach the passage to the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos.

• Pangu resisted Xu Yuan’s Destruction law and revealed that the Eternal Dao Realm had more allies in reserve.
• Taiyi and Taichu emerged and surprised Xu Yuan by having proved the Dao again.
• Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu attacked Xu Yuan together, and Taiyi dispersed his Destruction blade while Taichu trapped him in a net of primordial qi.
• Pangu struck Xu Yuan from behind, leaving him wounded and at an absolute disadvantage.
• Xu Yuan realized the Eternal Dao Realm had supplied the resources that restored Taiyi and Taichu, while Pangu vowed to keep the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub away from the passage.

Xu Yuan and the three Eternal Dao Realm experts fought for dozens of chaos years over access to the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos. With the realm’s closing deadline approaching and neither side willing to yield, Xu Yuan proposed dividing its ten slots, but negotiations left the battle poised to resume.

• Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu joined forces to fight Xu Yuan, who resisted their attacks through dozens of chaos years despite falling slightly behind.
• Xu Yuan realized that continued fighting could consume the time remaining before the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos closed and prevent both sides from entering.
• Xu Yuan called for a stop and proposed splitting the ten slots evenly, with five for each side.
• Pangu refused an equal split and offered only two slots, while Xu Yuan threatened to fight to the death for five.
• Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu prepared to attack again as Xu Yuan recognized that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub could not afford to let the conflict drag on.

Pangu and Xu Yuan negotiated over the remaining places in the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos, settling on three for the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub and five for the Eternal Dao Realm. Eight chosen cultivators entered the realm while both sides stayed outside, waiting to see which would gain the advantage.

• Pangu revealed that two Eternal Dao Realm cultivators, Zhou Ming and Houtu, had already entered, leaving eight places available.
• Xu Yuan demanded at least three places, and Pangu agreed to give the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub three while the Eternal Dao Realm kept five.
• Xu Yuan chose Blood Butcher, Shi Gu, and Ming Luo, while Pangu chose Taiyi, Taichu, Xuan Yan, Dou Ji, and Cang Xuan to enter.
• The eight chosen cultivators entered the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos through the spatial passage.
• Pangu and Xu Yuan remained outside with their forces, watching each other as they waited for the cultivators to emerge after a hundred thousand chaos years.

Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Wuwang tried to leave their battle with Pangu's True Body after Xu Yuan warned them that Taiyi and Taichu had entered the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos. Pangu kept them occupied, then headed for the realm himself, where his arrival was sensed at the entrance.

• Xu Yuan secretly sent a message to Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Wuwang, warning that he could not hold off Taiyi and Taichu alone.
• Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Wuwang attacked Pangu's True Body together, then tried to flee toward the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos.
• Pangu blocked their escape and fought relentlessly, forcing them to split up and flee in three different directions.
• Pangu let the three escape and raced toward the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos.
• At the realm's entrance, Pangu's Dao Body and the others sensed Pangu's True Body approaching, and Hongchu and Chi Yan recognized his aura.

Pangu returned and fused with his Dao Body, facing Xu Yuan and the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s four Unity Realm experts in a tense standoff outside the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos. While both sides waited for the realm to close, Zhou Ming, Houtu, Taiyi, Taichu, Blood Butcher, Shi Gu, and Ming Luo cultivated inside.

• Pangu arrived at the entrance to the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos and fused with his Dao Body, greatly increasing his aura.
• Pangu confronted Xu Yuan, but Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Wuwang arrived and joined Xu Yuan, bringing the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s Unity Realm experts to four.
• Pangu and the four experts refrained from fighting, wary of the losses a battle could cause before the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos closed.
• Pangu told Cang Xuan and the others to rest as both sides settled into a standoff that would last through the remaining one hundred thousand chaos years.
• Inside the realm, Zhou Ming absorbed law origins, Houtu studied merging the Dao of Earth with the Law of Reincarnation, and Taiyi, Taichu, Blood Butcher, Shi Gu, and Ming Luo cultivated toward the Unity Realm.

Taiyi and Taichu returned to the Unity Realm and moved to stop the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub cultivators from breaking through. As Blood Butcher reached Unity, Taiyi disrupted Shi Gu’s breakthrough but became occupied holding him back, leaving Zhou Ming to race toward Ming Luo.

• Taiyi and Taichu recovered their Unity Realm cultivation and split up to attack the three Abyssal Sea Divine Hub cultivators before they could break through.
• Taichu arrived too late to stop Blood Butcher’s breakthrough, and the two began fighting.
• Taiyi struck Shi Gu’s Great Dao Origin and ruined his breakthrough, then blocked Shi Gu from reaching Cang Xuan.
• Ming Luo hurried to complete his breakthrough while Cang Xuan, Xuan Yan, and Dou Ji also accelerated their cultivation.
• Zhou Ming entered the Fusion Dao Realm, found Taiyi fighting Shi Gu, and rushed toward Ming Luo at Taiyi’s request.

Zhou Ming interrupted Ming Luo’s breakthrough and joined Houtu to stop him from disrupting Cang Xuan’s seclusion. Cang Xuan reached the Unity Realm before the secret realm expelled everyone, leaving the Eternal Dao Realm victorious in the struggle and Xu Yuan’s camp enraged.

• Zhou Ming broke Ming Luo’s defenses and interrupted his attempted breakthrough, then blocked him from reaching Cang Xuan.
• Houtu completed her breakthrough and joined Zhou Ming, and together they held Ming Luo back.
• Cang Xuan completed his breakthrough to the Unity Realm, forcing Ming Luo to accept that his side had lost the advantage.
• The Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos reached its time limit and expelled everyone, while Xuan Yan and Dou Ji failed to break through.
• Pangu celebrated the Eternal Dao Realm’s gains, while Xu Yuan saw that only Blood Butcher had succeeded among his side and grew furious.

The war erupted as Unity Realm powerhouses from both sides clashed across the Chaos Sea. Zhou Ming and Houtu overwhelmed the wounded You Jue, while Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu began breaking through the formation trapping them.

• Xu Yuan, Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Wuwang attacked Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu, forming an array around them.
• Blood Butcher fought Cang Xuan, but Cang Xuan's regenerating vines held the newly advanced Unity Realm expert in a stalemate.
• Chi Yan, Hongchu, and other Eternal Dao Realm fighters clashed with Jue Ying, Shi Gu, and the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub's forces.
• You Jue attacked Zhou Ming and Houtu, but Zhou Ming shattered his devouring vortex and Houtu sealed off his escape routes.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu suppressed You Jue, worsening his injuries and damaging his recovering source.
• Pangu disrupted the array's energy circulation, Taiyi struck its key nodes, and Taichu's blow dimmed its light.

Jiemie and the other three unleashed an external power to strike Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu, but the Chaos Sea’s backlash injured them even more severely. All seven Unity Realm fighters were left unable to continue, bringing the battle to a sudden halt.

• Jiemie persuaded Kongxuan, Wuwang, and Xu Yuan to use their trump card before their formation against Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu broke.
• Jiemie and the others collapsed the formation, released black seals within their bodies, and combined the forbidden power into a pillar aimed at the three opponents.
• Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu joined forces against the pillar, but its blast severely injured all three and destroyed their ability to fight.
• The Chaos Sea retaliated against Jiemie, Kongxuan, Wuwang, and Xu Yuan, leaving them even more heavily injured and unable to fight.
• Cang Xuan, Blood Butcher, Zhou Ming, Houtu, and the other combatants stopped as all seven Unity Realm experts lay incapacitated.

After the battle left both sides’ strongest fighters badly injured, Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu entered seclusion, leaving Cang Xuan to lead the Eternal Dao Realm’s defense. Cang Xuan asked Zhou Ming and Houtu to watch over the Ninth Chaos, the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s likely target.

• Cang Xuan and Blood Butcher stopped fighting, and both forces withdrew after assessing their wounded Unity Realm experts.
• Pangu told the Eternal Dao Realm’s Great Dao Realm experts that he, Taiyi, and Taichu would need several chaos epochs to recover and placed Cang Xuan in charge.
• Pangu warned that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub was targeting the Ninth Chaos and urged everyone to prevent it from obtaining the Dao Rhythm there.
• Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu entered complete seclusion, and Cang Xuan ordered the remaining experts to recover and prepare for battle.
• Cang Xuan asked Zhou Ming and Houtu to send their true bodies to watch over the Ninth Chaos until others could relieve them in the next chaos epoch.

Zhou Ming and Houtu agreed to guard the Ninth Chaos while Cang Xuan stayed behind. As the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub prepared to seize Dao Rhythm, the two hurried toward the Ninth Chaos, resolved to stop the Outsiders without fighting recklessly.

• Zhou Ming and Houtu agreed to watch over the Ninth Chaos and set off after Cang Xuan warned them to call for help if Unity Realm enemies appeared.
• Jiemie and the other three injured Unity Realm cultivators entered seclusion, leaving Blood Butcher in charge of gathering Dao Rhythm from the Ninth Chaos.
• Blood Butcher ordered the Great Dao Realm experts to watch the Ninth Chaos and prepare to move as soon as a Dao Prover appeared.
• Houtu warned Zhou Ming that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub would likely attack in force when another Dao Prover emerged, and Zhou Ming explained that past conflicts had been attritional struggles.
• Houtu asked why the Outsiders wanted Dao Rhythm, and Zhou Ming said that whatever their purpose, they had to be stopped.

Zhou Ming and Houtu returned to the Ninth Chaos and found the Primordial World greatly strengthened, with Dijiang nearing Dao attainment while Wu struggled along the Martial Dao. They left Dao Bodies to guard the world and searched the Chaos Sea for Dao-Devouring Beasts, ending when Zhou Ming sensed a distant disturbance in the laws.

• Zhou Ming and Houtu arrived at the Ninth Chaos and absorbed the memories of Houtu’s guarding Dao Body.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu observed the Primordial World’s stronger laws and spiritual energy, and predicted Dijiang would soon attain the Dao.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu discussed Wu’s arduous Martial Dao path and the difficulty of reaching the Great Dao Realm.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu left Dao Bodies to guard the Ninth Chaos, then ventured into the Chaos Sea to hunt Dao-Devouring Beasts and find Great Dao Crystals.
• After searching for a long time without finding anything valuable, Zhou Ming sensed an obscure disturbance from a reverse flow of laws far ahead.

Zhou Ming and Houtu hunted down and destroyed a Wind-Walking Chaos Dao-Devouring Beast, then returned to guard the Ninth Chaos when they found no other beasts nearby. They entered seclusion to prepare for the coming battle.

• Zhou Ming and Houtu trapped the Wind-Walking Dao-Devouring Beast, then fought together to destroy its body and law origin.
• Zhou Ming claimed the Wind-Walking Great Dao Crystal and gave it to Houtu, who absorbed it to stabilize her Limitless Reincarnation Law.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu searched the region around the Ninth Chaos for a long time but found no other Dao-Devouring Beasts.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu returned to the boundary wall of the Ninth Chaos and withdrew their Dao Bodies.
• Zhou Ming entered seclusion to cultivate, while Houtu refined the Great Dao Crystal.