Recaps

As the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos opened, the Eternal Dao Realm and the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub fought over entry while Zhou Ming and Houtu advanced their cultivation inside. After the battle left both sides’ Unity Realm experts incapacitated, Zhou Ming and Houtu took turns guarding the Ninth Chaos and returned to cultivation.

• Pangu sent Cang Xuan and Hongchu to rescue Zhou Ming and Houtu from You Jue, who fled after they wounded him and damaged his Great Dao Origin.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu recovered, then traveled through the Chaos Sea to hunt Dao-Devouring Beasts before the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos appeared.
• Pangu and Xu Yuan fought over access to the realm, then agreed to divide its remaining eight places between their forces.
• Inside the realm, Zhou Ming and Houtu advanced their cultivation while Taiyi and Taichu disrupted the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub cultivators’ breakthroughs.
• The realm expelled everyone, and the battle that followed left Pangu, Taiyi, Taichu, Xu Yuan, Jiemie, Kongxuan, and Wuwang incapacitated.
• Cang Xuan took command as Pangu, Taiyi, and Taichu entered seclusion, and Zhou Ming and Houtu agreed to guard the Ninth Chaos.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu hunted a Wind-Walking Dao-Devouring Beast, then returned to the Ninth Chaos and withdrew their Dao Bodies as they resumed cultivation.

Zhou Ming and Houtu saved Dijiang’s True Spirit after the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s systems ruined his attempt to prove the Dao. When Wu faced the Hub’s next invasion, he refined the Primordial World into his inner world, reached the Great Dao Realm through Martial Dao, and destroyed the systems before entering the Chaos Sea.

• Blood Butcher led the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s forces toward the Ninth Chaos, and Jue Ying sent nearly twenty thousand systems past Cang Xuan’s blockade.
• The systems attacked Dijiang as he opened the heavens, but Houtu crossed the World Membrane and rescued his True Spirit while Zhou Ming and Cang Xuan held off the attackers.
• Houtu sealed Dijiang’s True Spirit in Pangu Hall to be conceived anew, while the systems’ surviving Host claimed the Dao Rhythm Dijiang had left behind.
• After the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub recovered, Jue Ying sent thirty thousand systems into the Ninth Chaos as Wu prepared to prove his Dao.
• Wu killed the Demon Gods who opposed him and drove off the systems, then drew the Primordial World into his body to refine it.
• Wu merged the Primordial World into his inner world and reached the Great Dao Realm through Martial Dao, prompting the systems to hide behind a restraining spell.
• Wu broke the systems’ defensive spell, crushed them with the devouring force of his inner chaos world, absorbed their Origin energy, and passed into the Chaos Sea.

Wu, Zhou Ming, and Pangu learned the truth about Yuan Chu and the Chaos Sea as the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub departed. In the Hongmeng Universe, Zhou Ming joined forces with Qing Yang and Purple Moon, killed Cang Yun, and took control of the Luofu Realm.

• Wu reunited with Cang Xuan and the Eternal Dao Realm experts after reaching the Great Dao Realm, then gave Blood Butcher the Dao Rhythm so the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub could leave the Chaos Sea.
• Jiemie fused the nine Dao Rhythms to reveal the Origin Realm of Ten Thousand Daos, where the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub entered an ancient palace and the Eternal Dao Realm learned that Unity Realm cultivators could leave the Chaos Sea.
• Yuan Chu appeared before Wu, Zhou Ming, and Pangu, explained the history of the True Saints and Transcendence, and revealed that he had brought Zhou Ming from a surviving fragment of the Primordial World and guided Wu toward Martial Dao.
• Yuan Chu gave Wu the Chaos Sea and sent Zhou Ming, Pangu, and Wu into separate Dao Palace trials, while Jiemie and the other Unity Realm cultivators obtained Yuan Chu’s True Saint Dao Fruit for the waiting True Saints.
• Zhou Ming emerged into the Chaos Void with his laws suppressed, began cultivating their fusion, and killed Black Mystery and four followers when they attacked Qing Yang and Purple Moon.
• Purple Moon and Qing Yang brought Zhou Ming to the Luofu Realm and offered him its Fortune and resources in exchange for protection from rival Sages.
• Cang Yun and Ming Xue confronted Zhou Ming and demanded that he leave the Luofu Realm, but Zhou Ming killed Cang Yun with one punch and the remaining Sages accepted his rule.
• Zhou Ming put Qing Yang and Purple Moon in charge of mundane affairs and left with them for Azure Moon Pavilion as Purple Moon announced that the Luofu Realm’s Fortune would be redistributed.

Zhou Ming turned Liu Yuan and the Luofu Realm’s Sages into agents for gathering Fortune across the Flowing Light Domain, building a force that swept through worlds with his talismans and teleportation tokens. After Liu Yuan’s team killed Ancestor Xuantian and looted the Hunyuan Realm, Daoist Azure Nether escaped, leaving their campaign exposed.

• Purple Moon and Qing Yang forced the Luofu Realm’s Sages to surrender most of their Fortune, and Zhou Ming absorbed it to advance his cultivation.
• Ming Xue recruited Liu Yuan to kill Zhou Ming, but Zhou Ming defeated Liu Yuan, killed Ming Xue and the other Sages, and made Liu Yuan and Qin Jue serve him.
• Liu Yuan gathered Fortune from small worlds and recruited or subdued their Sages, while Zhou Ming restrained them and ordered Purple Moon and Qing Yang to join the effort.
• Liu Yuan brought Cang Yu and the Azure Spirit Realm under Zhou Ming’s control, and Zhou Ming made the realm his base for collecting Fortune.
• Zhou Ming forged teleportation tokens and talismans, then authorized Liu Yuan to organize his growing force into teams to sweep across the Flowing Light Domain.
• Liu Yuan’s team seized the Heavenly Radiance Realm’s Fortune, while Cang Yu’s group and the other teams plundered worlds across the domain’s outskirts.
• Liu Yuan’s team attacked the Hunyuan Realm, killed Ancestor Xuantian with Zhou Ming’s talisman, and drained its Destiny, but Daoist Azure Nether escaped to alert others.