Chapter Summaries

After the Primordial Wilderness shattered, Zhou Ming used the Pangu Realm and the surviving fragments to create a new, portable world for the rescued beings. The survivors entered their new home, while Zhou Ming gained a way to protect them if Yang Mei returned.

• Zhen Yuanzi told Zhou Ming that the group had saved less than one-third of the primordial beings before the world shattered.
• Zhen Yuanzi presented the gathered fragments and asked whether they could be used with his Earth Book to rebuild a world.
• Zhou Ming proposed merging the fragments into the Pangu Realm and making the new Primordial Wilderness portable.
• Zhou Ming, Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, and the others combined the fragments with the Pangu Realm, while the Twelve Ancestor Witches guarded them.
• Zhou Ming placed the Three Authorities of Heaven, Earth, and Man into the stabilized new world, and the Authorities began to recover.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and the others sent the surviving beings into the new Primordial Wilderness.

Zhou Ming found a hidden, stable region of Chaos and settled the Pangu Realm there, reuniting with the others after tens of thousands of years. They revealed that the Heavenly Dao, Earth Dao, and Human Dao authorities were weakening and rejecting the new world, and Zhou Ming sensed their power slowly draining away.

• Zhou Ming sent Dijiang, Houtu, and the others into the Pangu Realm while he searched Chaos alone for a safe place to settle it.
• After traveling for thirty thousand years, Zhou Ming found a stable region of Chaos, expanded the Pangu Realm there, and concealed it with restrictions.
• Zhou Ming returned to Pangu Hall, where Houtu, Dijiang, Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, and the others had waited for him.
• Houtu and Zhen Yuanzi reported that the three Dao authorities were no longer repairing themselves and were increasingly disconnected from the Pangu Realm.
• Zhou Ming examined the Pangu Realm's core and sensed that power was slowly seeping from the edges of the three Dao authorities.

Zhou Ming decided to refine the three Daos’ authority to resolve its conflict with the Pangu Realm, despite the risk of becoming bound to the world. He entered seclusion and began absorbing the Heavenly Dao Authority.

• Zhou Ming explained that the three Daos’ authority would eventually dissipate because it could not integrate with the Pangu Realm on its own.
• Zhou Ming proposed using his connection to the Pangu Realm to refine the three Daos, and reassured the others that his Hunyuan Wuji cultivation would protect him from the backlash that had destroyed Hongjun.
• Houtu warned that refining the three Daos would bind Zhou Ming to the Pangu Realm and could hinder his pursuit of the Great Dao.
• Zhou Ming argued that merging the three Daos’ source rules into himself would strengthen his cultivation and help him reach the Great Dao sooner.
• Zhou Ming entered seclusion in Pangu Hall, where the three clusters of authority descended and the first strand of Heavenly Dao Authority entered his Primordial Spirit.

Zhou Ming refined the Heavenly, Earth, and Human Dao Authorities, advanced to the middle stage of Hunyuan Grand Ultimate Golden Immortal, and became one with the Pangu Realm. He rebuilt Reincarnation and opened the Underworld, leaving Houtu under everyone’s gaze as its likely manager.

• Zhou Ming refined the Heavenly, Earth, and Human Dao Authorities and broke through to the middle stage of Hunyuan Grand Ultimate Golden Immortal.
• Zhou Ming emerged from seclusion and told Houtu, Dijiang, Zhen Yuanzi, and the others that he had completely refined the Authorities.
• Zhou Ming announced that he would establish Reincarnation anew and led the group to the western edge of the Pangu Realm.
• Zhou Ming formed the Nine Hells and the Six Paths of Reincarnation, then connected them to the laws of the Pangu Realm.
• Zhen Yuanzi released the wandering souls from the Earth Book, and Zhou Ming declared that Reincarnation was established and the Underworld open.
• Zhurong remarked that the Underworld needed a manager, and everyone turned to look at Houtu.

Zhou Ming had Houtu and Zhen Yuanzi stabilize the newly established Underworld, then gathered the depleted former rulers and sages at Pangu Hall. He offered to seal them until he could create a perfect world to restore their origins, and promised Yaochi that he would rescue Haotian’s True Spirit if he proved the Dao; after they agreed, he sealed them away.

• Zhou Ming asked Houtu and Zhen Yuanzi to oversee the Underworld, and each sent an Avatar to establish order there.
• Houtu explained that Di Jun, East Prince Gong, Taiqing, and the others had lost most of their origins to Hongjun, leaving their Dao paths cut off.
• Zhou Ming summoned the depleted great powers to Pangu Hall and offered to seal them until his future world could nurture their origins anew.
• Yaochi agreed to be sealed after Zhou Ming promised to reverse time and rescue Haotian’s True Spirit if he proved the Dao.
• Zhou Ming enveloped the gathered figures in light, turning them into points containing their True Spirits and remaining origins.

Zhou Ming promised to restore Hongyun, Minghe, Taiyi, and Candle Dragon when he attained the supreme Great Dao, then explained that the powerful survivors should leave the newborn Pangu Realm so it could develop freely. The group agreed to move their Dao fields into Chaos and followed Zhou Ming out of the realm.

• Zhou Ming promised Zhen Yuanzi and the others that he would bring Hongyun, Minghe, Taiyi, and Candle Dragon back when he attained the supreme Great Dao.
• Zhou Ming explained that the gathered Daluo Golden Immortals of the Origin were burdening the Pangu Realm and that its laws could hinder their cultivation.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, and the West Queen Mother agreed that they should leave the Pangu Realm and establish their Dao fields in Chaos.
• Zhou Ming shrank Pangu Hall and stored it inside himself before leading the group toward the realm's sky-curtain.
• Zhou Ming, the Twelve Ancestor Witches, Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, the West Queen Mother, and Wang Shu passed through the realm's restrictions and entered Chaos.

Zhou Ming and the others settled Pangu Hall near the Pangu Realm, and the Twelve Ancestor Witches entered seclusion. Houtu chose to remain behind so she would not become Zhou Ming’s opponent during his Dao tribulation, while Zhou Ming entered seclusion to prepare to prove his Dao.

• Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and Wang Shu left to establish their own sanctuaries in Chaos.
• Zhou Ming placed Pangu Hall in a concealed region above the Pangu Realm and warned the Twelve Ancestor Witches not to stray too far because Yang Mei remained alive.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches entered seclusion to absorb the insights they had gained from controlling Pangu's True Body.
• Houtu refused to cultivate further because she did not want to become part of Zhou Ming’s Dao tribulation, and she said she would aim to prove her Dao in the next epoch.
• Zhou Ming promised Houtu the next epoch’s chance to prove her Dao, then entered the innermost meditation chamber to prepare for his own breakthrough.

After emerging from seclusion at the peak of Hunyuan Grand Ultimate Golden Immortal, Zhou Ming announced that he was preparing to attain the Dao and summoned his allies for one final Dao sermon. The chapter ends as his first syllable of the Great Dao stills the surrounding Chaos and begins his teaching.

• Houtu sensed Zhou Ming’s breakthrough and learned that he had reached the peak of Hunyuan Grand Ultimate Golden Immortal and felt the pull of the Great Dao.
• Zhou Ming asked Houtu to wake the Ancestral Witches and invited Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, and Wang Shu to Pangu Hall for a final Dao sermon.
• Zhen Yuanzi and the others arrived, feared that Yang Mei had returned, and then congratulated Zhou Ming when he revealed he was about to attain the Dao.
• Wang Shu worried that Zhou Ming’s attempt to attain the Dao would provoke a perilous challenge against the existing order of Chaos.
• Zhou Ming began expounding the Dao, and his single syllable stilled the Chaos surrounding Pangu Hall.

Zhou Ming finished preaching the Dao, then told everyone he would seal them inside Pangu Hall while he faced the Hunyuan tribulation to protect them and the Pangu Realm. After the others left to enter seclusion, Houtu worried that Zhou Ming might fail as Pangu had, and Zhou Ming hinted that Pangu may have succeeded after all.

• Zhou Ming's Dao preaching drew everyone into deep cultivation, and after tens of thousands of years they awakened with stronger cultivation and deeper understanding.
• Zhou Ming explained that his Hunyuan tribulation would endanger all of Chaos and said he would take the Pangu Realm into his body and seal everyone inside Pangu Hall.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, Wang Shu, and the Ancestral Witches agreed to Zhou Ming's plan and left to digest their gains in seclusion.
• Houtu remained behind and asked Zhou Ming whether he was confident in attaining Hunyuan, since Pangu had failed.
• Zhou Ming reassured Houtu that he was confident and asked who said Pangu had not succeeded in attaining Hunyuan.

Zhou Ming told Houtu that Pangu had succeeded in attaining the Dao, then gathered his companions after their long seclusions and prepared to protect them before facing the Chaos alone. He sealed the Twelve Ancestor Witches and his other allies in Pangu Hall, preserved the Pangu Realm within himself, and set out toward the Dao tribulation.

• Zhou Ming told Houtu that Pangu had succeeded in attaining the Dao, though he did not explain how he knew.
• After tens of thousands of years, Dijiang and the other Ancestor Witches emerged from seclusion, followed by Zhen Yuanzi, Tongtian, the West Queen Mother, and Wang Shu.
• Zhou Ming asked everyone to withdraw their Magic Power and not resist, then transformed them into Dao lights and sent them into still space-time within Pangu Hall.
• Zhou Ming shrank Pangu Hall and preserved it within himself, then compressed the Pangu Realm into a glazed pearl and absorbed it into his body.
• Zhou Ming said it was time to walk into the Chaos and took his first step toward its deepest darkness.

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.