Chapter Summaries

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.

Dijiang reached the brink of proving his Dao, prompting Houtu to form his Dao tribulation while Zhou Ming and Houtu prepared to guard the Ninth Chaos from the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub. Cang Xuan learned of the threat and sent Hongchu to scout the enemy, leaving both sides braced for a possible battle over Dao rhythm.

• Zhou Ming and Houtu sensed that Dijiang had brought his Space Law to its utmost limit and was about to prove his Dao.
• Houtu began forming Dijiang's Dao tribulation as Zhou Ming warned Cang Xuan that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub might intervene.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu took up positions at the Ninth Chaos's amniotic membrane and watched for disturbances in the Chaos Sea.
• Cang Xuan summoned Hongchu and told him to scout the area near the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub, report its forces, and then support the Ninth Chaos.
• Hongchu departed to scout, while Cang Xuan worried that an all-out war over Dao rhythm could leave both sides grievously weakened.

After learning that someone in the Ninth Chaos had attained the Dao, Blood Butcher led the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s full force toward it to seize its Dao Rhythm. Cang Xuan received Hongchu’s warning and rallied the Eternal Dao Realm’s experts, sending both sides toward an inevitable battle.

• Blood Butcher summoned the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s experts and ordered them to claim the Ninth Chaos’s Dao Rhythm while Pangu and the others remained injured and in seclusion.
• Hongchu witnessed the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub depart in full force and sent Cang Xuan a warning before racing toward the Ninth Chaos.
• Jue Ying spotted Hongchu, but Blood Butcher ordered the procession not to pursue him and pressed on toward the Ninth Chaos.
• Cang Xuan received Hongchu’s message, summoned the Eternal Dao Realm’s experts, and called on allies traveling through the Chaos Sea to assemble for battle.
• Cang Xuan led Chi Yan, Mo Yuan, Ling Feng, and the other experts into the Chaos Sea toward the Ninth Chaos.

Zhou Ming learned that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub had mobilized its forces and accelerated preparations for Dijiang’s birth while ordering the gestating Chaos Demon Gods to destroy any systems they encountered. Zhou Ming and Hongchu set out to intercept the enemy as Cang Xuan blocked Blood Butcher’s advance, but Jue Ying and a dozen Great Dao Realm experts slipped around the blockade toward the Ninth Chaos with systems in hand.

• Hongchu arrived at the Ninth Chaos and warned Zhou Ming and Houtu that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub had come out in full force.
• Zhou Ming told Houtu to speed up Dijiang’s gestation as much as possible and to warn the gestating Chaos Demon Gods to destroy any systems they saw.
• Zhou Ming and Hongchu left to intercept the enemy, while Houtu stayed behind to guard the Ninth Chaos.
• Cang Xuan and the Eternal Dao Realm experts blocked Blood Butcher’s forces in the Chaos Sea.
• Blood Butcher gave Jue Ying a ball of light containing systems and ordered him to take Ming Luo, Shi Gu, and others to the Ninth Chaos.
• Jue Ying led a dozen Great Dao Realm experts around Cang Xuan’s blockade toward the Ninth Chaos.

Jue Ying fought through the Eternal Dao Realm’s defenders and reached the Ninth Chaos, carrying a ball of light filled with System Light Orbs. Houtu and the reinforcements failed to stop him before he reached the World Membrane.

• Blood Butcher, Shi Gu, and Ming Luo led the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s attack on Cang Xuan and the Eternal Dao Realm’s defenders, while Jue Ying slipped past their line.
• Zhou Ming, Hongchu, and arriving Eternal Dao Realm experts confronted Jue Ying’s group, but he used Space Law to weave through the extended battlefield toward the Ninth Chaos.
• Houtu defended the Ninth Chaos with the Limitless Reincarnation Law, repelling part of the attackers’ torrent and wounding one of them.
• Eternal Dao Realm reinforcements joined Houtu, but Jue Ying used a spatial jump to break through her defenses while another enemy kept her occupied.
• Jue Ying reached the World Membrane and took out the glowing ball of light containing System Light Orbs.

Jue Ying released tens of thousands of systems and forced nearly twenty thousand into the Ninth Chaos despite the Eternal Dao Realm experts’ attempts to stop him. With the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s forces holding them at bay, Houtu and Xuan Feng feared Dijiang would fail to prove the Dao.

• Jue Ying shattered the seal on a gray light ball, revealing tens of thousands of systems, and Houtu recognized the threat to Dijiang’s Dao tribulation.
• Xuan Feng and the Eternal Dao Realm experts attacked the systems, but the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s experts intercepted them and many systems were destroyed in the clashes.
• Jue Ying used Space Law to send nearly twenty thousand systems through the Ninth Chaos’s world membrane.
• Jue Ying attacked Xuan Feng while Houtu fought the expert pursuing her, and Xuan Feng warned Houtu to prepare for Dijiang’s failure to prove the Dao.
• Jue Ying declared that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub would pay any price to obtain the Ninth Chaos’s Dao Rhythm and insisted that the others could not stop them.

The Abyssal Sea Divine Hub sent nearly twenty thousand systems into the Ninth Chaos to overwhelm Dijiang as he attempted to attain Dao. As the Eternal Dao Realm’s fighters struggled to hold off their opponents, Zhou Ming asked Cang Xuan whether there was any way to help Dijiang.

• Jue Ying’s words left the Eternal Dao Realm experts unable to find a way to intervene once the systems entered the Chaos.
• Houtu fought desperately to escape her opponent so she could help Dijiang, but the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub expert kept her pinned down.
• Blood Butcher steered his battle with Cang Xuan toward the Ninth Chaos and celebrated when Jue Ying confirmed that nearly twenty thousand systems had entered.
• Zhou Ming learned from Houtu that the systems had breached the defenses and reassured her that she was not to blame.
• Zhou Ming asked Cang Xuan whether the Eternal Dao Realm had any way to help Dijiang attain Dao.

Zhou Ming learned from Cang Xuan why the Great Dao Realm experts could not intervene in the Ninth Chaos to protect its Dao Prover. The Abyssal Sea Divine Hub had equipped its systems with a one-use defense against Great Dao attacks, leaving the trapped allies with no clear way to stop them.

• Cang Xuan told Zhou Ming that only Houtu, the previous Dao Prover of the Ninth Chaos, could cross its Chaos Membrane to intervene, but the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub's fighters kept her occupied.
• Zhou Ming proposed that their allies risk their Origins to break through and destroy the systems, but Cang Xuan said similar attempts in earlier Chaoses had failed.
• Cang Xuan revealed that more than ten thousand systems could activate a hidden Restraining Spell that briefly withstood a Great Dao Realm attack.
• Zhou Ming realized that the spell would give the systems time to surround and eliminate the Dao Prover while the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub's experts restrained Houtu.
• Zhou Ming asked whether there was any way forward if they disregarded the cost.

Cang Xuan explained that the Eternal Dao Realm’s experts would not detonate their Great Dao laws to save Dijiang, unlike the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s fighters, who were willing to sacrifice their cultivation for Dao Rhythm. As Zhou Ming resumed attacking, Cang Xuan revealed that the Hub’s collection of Dao Rhythm might benefit them, leaving Zhou Ming stunned and demanding an explanation.

• Cang Xuan warned Zhou Ming that the Eternal Dao Realm’s experts would fight and risk injury but would not detonate their Great Dao laws, which would devastate their cultivation.
• Zhou Ming realized that neither the Eternal Dao Realm’s fighters nor their opponents would sacrifice their foundations for Dijiang, and that he could not blame them for refusing.
• A Dao of Fire expert attacked Zhou Ming, and Zhou Ming shattered the flame dragon and battered the man with a furious barrage of punches.
• Cang Xuan urged Zhou Ming not to stake his cultivation foundation on the battle while continuing to fight Blood Butcher.
• Cang Xuan told Zhou Ming that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s pursuit of Dao Rhythm might not be bad for them, and Zhou Ming demanded to know how that could be true.

During the battle, Cang Xuan explained that the Chaos Sea was a cage that barred its inhabitants from surpassing the Unity Realm, and that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub might hold a way out. Zhou Ming learned that both sides were using the conflict to pursue that secret, but his bond with Dijiang left him unable to treat the war as just another scheme.

• Cang Xuan held back Blood Butcher and told Zhou Ming that the Chaos Sea trapped its inhabitants at the Unity Realm.
• Cang Xuan explained that the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub had come from beyond the Chaos Sea and was gathering the Nine Great Chaos’s Dao Rhythm to pursue a way beyond the Unity Realm.
• Cang Xuan revealed that native cultivators were compelled to fight the outsiders, but could satisfy the Chaos Sea’s rules by fighting until their origins were damaged rather than dying for the cause.
• Cang Xuan warned Zhou Ming not to detonate his laws, while the other fighters struggled without choosing to sacrifice themselves.
• Zhou Ming understood that both sides were scheming for a chance to advance, but remembered that Dijiang was his brother and refused to sever their bond.

Zhou Ming learned from Cang Xuan that Houtu could preserve Dijiang’s True Spirit if he failed to prove the Dao, giving them a fallback plan instead of trying to defeat all twenty thousand systems. Zhou Ming and Houtu conserved their strength and waited for Dijiang to reach his limit while the battle remained locked in a stalemate.

• Zhou Ming told Cang Xuan that he and Houtu would risk everything to save Dijiang, and Cang Xuan agreed to hold back the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub’s experts.
• Cang Xuan explained that Houtu could preserve Dijiang’s True Spirit at the moment his Great Dao foundation collapsed, allowing him to try to prove the Dao again in the future.
• Zhou Ming joined Houtu’s fight, drove back one of her opponents, and told her Cang Xuan’s plan.
• Houtu accepted the plan and changed to a cautious defensive style so she could conserve her strength for rescuing Dijiang’s True Spirit.
• The Eternal Dao Realm and Abyssal Sea Divine Hub continued fighting across the Chaos Sea as both sides held their positions.

Dijiang saw how the Outer-Domain Heavenly Demons exploited the Chaos Demon Gods’ distrust to possess and kill them, so he summoned the survivors and proposed a defensive alliance. The chapter ended with Dijiang setting strict rules for a formation, including killing anyone who approached others without cause.

• Dijiang encountered a suspicious Fire Demon God, who refused to ally with him after being attacked by the possessed Water Demon God.
• Dijiang watched the heavenly demons overwhelm the Wind Demon God with possessed accomplices and seize his body.
• Dijiang estimated that nearly a third of the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods had already been lost and summoned the survivors to the center of the Chaos.
• The gathered Demon Gods questioned Dijiang and remained wary of one another, while he argued that they would die if they fought alone.
• Dijiang proposed that the Demon Gods form a spaced-out formation, kill anyone who approached without reason, and attack heavenly demons together.

After the Heavenly Demons were repelled at the cost of nearly all the Demon Gods, Dijiang killed the four survivors who opposed his plan and opened heaven and earth. Exhausted from holding up the new world, he was surrounded by more than ten thousand hidden System Light Orbs, which revealed they had waited for this moment to take his Dao Fruit.

• More than six thousand golden light clusters and several hundred Possession Demon Gods ambushed the Demon Gods, and Dijiang led the counterattack while the Chaos Demon Gods slaughtered one another in suspicion.
• The Heavenly Demons retreated, leaving only Dijiang, the Time Demon God, the Destiny Demon God, the Karma Demon God, and the Destruction Demon God alive.
• Dijiang announced that he would open the heavens, and the four other Demon Gods attacked him to stop him.
• Dijiang used Spatial Strangulation to kill the Destruction Demon God, the Destiny Demon God, the Time Demon God, and the Life Demon God.
• Dijiang formed a giant axe from the Space Law, split Chaos, and exhausted himself stabilizing the new heaven and earth.
• More than ten thousand System Light Orbs surrounded Dijiang, revealed they had waited for him to open heaven and kill the Demon Gods, and lunged for his Dao Fruit.

As Dijiang’s Great Dao foundation collapsed during the Ninth Chaos’s World Creation, Zhou Ming and Houtu broke away from their opponents to intervene. Zhou Ming held off two Abyssal Sea Divine Hub powerhouses while Houtu sent the Limitless Reincarnation Law into the Ninth Chaos, but Blood Butcher ordered his forces to continue with their plan.

• The Ninth Chaos’s World Membrane hummed, and Zhou Ming and Houtu prepared to act when Dijiang reached his limit.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu unleashed their full power, forcing back the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub powerhouses fighting them.
• Houtu pressed her hands against the World Membrane and sent the Limitless Reincarnation Law toward Dijiang while Zhou Ming stayed behind to block their pursuers.
• Zhou Ming repelled attacks from the flame and wind powerhouses as Cang Xuan trapped Blood Butcher behind regenerating vines.
• Blood Butcher refused to self-destruct his Great Dao laws and ordered the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub forces to proceed according to plan.

Houtu and Zhou Ming rescued Dijiang’s True Spirit from the systems besieging him, but two Abyssal Sea Divine Hub experts detonated their laws to stop them. The fighting ended with both sides withdrawing, while Zhou Ming and Houtu confirmed Dijiang could recover and the armies waited for events inside the Ninth Chaos to conclude.

• Houtu’s Limitless Reincarnation Law broke through the systems’ golden barrier and pulled Dijiang’s True Spirit from his collapsing Dao Body.
• Two Abyssal Sea Divine Hub experts severed and detonated their unfused laws, striking Zhou Ming and Houtu as they fled and badly injuring them.
• The two law-detonating experts survived but fell from the Fusion Dao Realm to the Extreme Dao Period of the early Great Dao Realm, while Cang Xuan conceded the Dao Rhythm to Blood Butcher.
• Blood Butcher accepted Cang Xuan’s proposal to stop fighting, and both sides withdrew from the battle.
• Houtu told Zhou Ming that Dijiang’s True Spirit was intact and could be nurtured anew, and the two camps waited in the Chaos Sea for events inside the Ninth Chaos to end.

The Abyssal Sea Divine Hub obtained Dijiang’s Dao Rhythm after its systems cultivated a sole surviving Host into the Great Dao Realm, then withdrew from the Chaos Sea. Zhou Ming and Houtu restored the Primordial World and placed Dijiang’s True Spirit in Pangu Hall to be reborn before returning to the Eternal Dao Realm.

• The systems seized newly awakened beings in the Ninth Chaos and drove their Hosts to battle until one survivor absorbed all the Dao Rhythm Dijiang had left behind and reached the Great Dao Realm.
• The new expert emerged from the Ninth Chaos, and Blood Butcher declared victory over Cang Xuan before leading the Abyssal Sea Divine Hub back to its territory.
• Cang Xuan led the injured Eternal Dao Realm experts home, while Zhou Ming and Houtu stayed behind to settle Dijiang’s True Spirit.
• Houtu returned the Primordial World to the Ninth Chaos and sealed Dijiang’s True Spirit in Pangu Hall, where it began to be conceived anew.
• Zhou Ming and Houtu guarded the Ninth Chaos for one chaos year, confirmed that the Primordial World had stabilized, and returned to the Eternal Dao Realm.