Chapter Summaries

The Seven Emotions Emissary revealed that they had lured out Evil Venerable, a puppet controlled by the Heavenly Dao, and Desire Demon Envoy pursued him after he escaped through a spatial rift. The rift opened onto the Path to Heaven, and the Seven Emotions Emissary entered it while their forces subdued the hidden Heaven-rank experts.

• Evil Venerable attacked the Seven Emotions Emissary with the Heavenly Dragon Zither, but Wrath Demon Envoy blocked him and revealed that the group had been baiting him.
• Desire Demon Envoy swallowed Evil Venerable’s Six Desires power and tried to control him, so he detonated the Heavenly Dragon Zither and fled through a spatial rift.
• Desire Demon Envoy pursued Evil Venerable into the rift, while Wrath Demon Envoy ordered Sorrow Demon Envoy to incapacitate the Ancient Six Desires; Nangong Xian'er, Nangong Yin, and Dongfang Changming were spared because they carried Chen Nan’s aura.
• The spatial rift revealed the Path to Heaven, and Wrath Demon Envoy ordered the Seven Emotions Emissary to enter while the Devil Race subdued the hidden Heaven-rank experts.
• The Seven Emotions Emissary stepped into the Path to Heaven and headed toward the core of the Heavenly Dao.

Chen Nan and the Ancestral Witches reached Taishang Palace, where Taishang’s clone attacked them and revealed that the Taishang Emotionless Scripture was a scheme to raise Heavenly Humans as food. As the clone tried to break through Witch Ruins, Zhu Jiuyin located Taishang’s hidden true body and reached for him.

• Chen Nan asked the Ancestral Witches why they were so determined to find Taishang, and Gonggong said the name was tied to an old friend they wanted to avenge.
• The group arrived at Taishang Palace, where a giant head-shaped divine soul imprint warned them to leave and attacked Witch Ruins.
• Shebishi sensed Taishang approaching, and Taishang’s golden clone appeared, demanding that Chen Nan hand over the Heavenly Human.
• Qiang Liang revealed that Taishang had created the Taishang Emotionless Scripture to cultivate Heavenly Humans as food, enraging Chen Nan.
• Taishang’s clone repeatedly attacked Witch Ruins, but its defenses held, while Zhu Jiuyin found the true body’s hiding place and reached into the void.

The Ancestral Witches captured Taishang’s true body and sent Xing Tian to fight his rampaging avatar. Xing Tian shattered Taishang’s imitation World-Grinding Disc, and his final axe strike continued toward the avatar.

• Zhu Jiuyin seized Taishang’s true body, and Gonggong suppressed him with divine water.
• Qiang Liang ordered Xing Tian to face Taishang’s avatar, and Xing Tian struck it into the Taishang palaces with his axe.
• Chen Nan drew a broken wooden rod from the ruins, and the Gravekeeper identified it as a fragment of the Primordial Wilderness Banner.
• Taishang wielded an imitation World-Grinding Disc against Xing Tian, who endured its destructive power and fought back with his Ganqi Divine Axe.
• Xing Tian shattered the World-Grinding Disc, and his axe’s lingering force cleaved toward Taishang’s avatar.

Xing Tian killed Taishang, and the Witch Ruins departed for the Heaven-Connecting Road with Chen Nan aboard. Elsewhere, the Great Demon Heavenly King led the Seven Emotions Emissary to a blood-red coffin holding Dugu Xiaobai’s first-life body, then brought them to the abandoned road’s final gate.

• Xing Tian destroyed Taishang’s body, captured his surviving soul, and handed it to Zhu Jiuyin before entering secluded cultivation.
• Chen Nan and the others left the shattered starry sky aboard the Witch Ruins, while the Moon Goddess questioned whether the outsiders were truly allies.
• The Great Demon Heavenly King led the Seven Emotions Emissary through the abandoned Heaven-Connecting Road and met the crystal skeleton of the Human King.
• The Great Demon Heavenly King revealed that the blood-red coffin held Dugu Xiaobai’s first-life body, which had reincarnated as Chen Nan, and sealed the coffin away.
• The Great Demon Heavenly King and his companions reached a Chaos-wreathed gate that blocked the way forward.

The Great Demon Heavenly King and the Seven Emotions Emissary rescued the second batch of primordial gods from the Space-Time God’s seal. The Wrath Demon Envoy carried them aboard the Myriad Malevolent Demon Abyss toward the Heaven-Connecting Road so they could reinforce the fight against Heaven.

• The Seven Emotions Emissary recognized the Space-Time God’s work and learned from the Great Demon Heavenly King that he had sacrificed himself to protect the ancient gods’ Divine Fire seeds.
• The Great Demon Heavenly King led the Seven Emotions Emissary and the others along the Road of Eternity to the Gate of Reception, where the survivors were sealed away.
• The Seven Emotions Emissary and his companions broke the space-time seal, freeing several hundred Heaven-rank primordial gods.
• The awakened primordial gods vowed to reinforce the Heaven-Connecting Road and continue their campaign against Heaven.
• The Wrath Demon Envoy summoned the Myriad Malevolent Demon Abyss and took the primordial gods toward the Heaven-Connecting Road.

The Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian fought the Chaos King and King Youluo while ancient gods sacrificed themselves to hold back the Heavenly Dao’s forces. The Ancestral Witches arrived through a spatial passage and destroyed King Youluo, while the Seven Emotions Emissary emerged from another rift.

• Ancient gods fought the Heavenly Dao’s angels and heavenly lords, and several sacrificed themselves to buy time for the campaign.
• The Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian battled the Chaos King and King Youluo for centuries on the Heaven-Connecting Road.
• Two enormous rifts opened, and King Youluo tried to flee, but the Demon Lord sealed his escape routes and held him in place.
• The Chaos King abandoned King Youluo and fled after sensing the terrifying auras from the rifts.
• Zhurong and the other Ancestral Witches arrived with the Witch Ruins and crushed King Youluo until his body and soul vanished.
• The Seven Emotions Emissary stepped out of the other passage and arrived on the Heaven-Connecting Road.

The Witch Clan, Demon Race, and ancient gods joined forces to defeat the Heavenly Dao’s forces and prepare a final assault. Dugu Baitian and the others revived the Human King and other hidden powerhouses, then marched toward the Heavenly Dao.

• The Witch Clan and Demon Race routed the Heavenly Dao’s forces, and Zhu Jiuyin agreed to fight alongside Dugu Baitian and the ancient gods.
• Zhu Jiuyin used the Witch Ruins to find the Human King’s seven crystal-skeleton avatars, whose essence merged into her original body and revived her.
• The Primordial Banner was restored, and the Rebirth Pearl’s power completed the Human King’s return.
• Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord revived the Distant Ancestor of the Chen Family, the Ghost Lord, the Space-Time God, and other hidden powerhouses.
• The assembled armies advanced along the Heaven-Connecting Road toward the Heavenly Dao, beginning the final war.

The allied armies invaded the Chaos Ancient Land, forcing the Heavenly Dao to resurrect old enemies and sacrifice its essence to empower its forces. The final battle erupted across the Heaven-Connecting Road, with both sides clashing in a war that threatened to tear apart time and space.

• The allied armies entered the Chaos Ancient Land, where the Chaos King and the Chaos faction faced overwhelming forces from the Witch Clan and Demon Race.
• Azure Heaven, Yellow Heaven, and Taishang appeared, and Zhu Jiuyin revealed that Taishang had survived by secretly creating a double.
• Vast Heaven, Netherworld Heaven, and the two Chaos Supremes arrived, after which the Heavenly Dao poured its essence into its peak fighters to force more than twenty of them into the Heaven-Defying realm.
• The Demon Lord attacked with the General's Platform, but the newly empowered experts completed their transformations before it struck.
• The Demon Lord, Human King, Ancestral Witches, and allied armies launched into battle against the Chaos Clan, Angel Clan, Taishang, and the newly empowered enemies.

Dugu Baitian, the Demon Lord, and the Human King joined forces against Azure Heaven, whose immortality came from the Heavenly Dao. Chen Nan and the restored Distant Ancestor entered the fight, leaving Azure Heaven battling amid a collapsing void.

• Dugu Baitian and the Demon Lord declared that Azure Heaven would die, while the Human King arrived and made the same threat.
• The Human King revealed that Chaos Son had escaped and that she had subdued the Multi-Eyed King and the Windrider King, distracting Chaos King and allowing the Wrath Demon Envoy and Joy Demon Envoy to nearly sever his arm.
• Azure Heaven transformed into a body of azure light patterned by the Heavenly Dao and challenged his attackers to break his immortal form.
• Chen Nan entered the battle and sealed Azure Heaven's escape routes as the Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian summoned the Taiji Diagram of Gods and Demons.
• The restored Distant Ancestor struck at Azure Heaven, who evaded the Taiji Diagram at great cost before clashing with him inside a collapsing stretch of space.

The Demon Lord, Dugu Baitian, and Chen Zu overwhelmed Azure Heaven, but his bond with the Heavenly Dao let him revive from their attacks. Chen Nan trapped Azure Heaven in his source world and severed that bond, leaving the four experts poised to kill him.

• The Demon Lord injured Azure Heaven with Reverse Yin and Yang, Dreamlike Splendor, and Void Annihilation, while Azure Heaven repeatedly revived through his connection to the Heavenly Dao.
• Dugu Baitian struck Azure Heaven with a devastating sword attack but failed to sever his connection to the Heavenly Dao, and Azure Heaven boasted that he could not be killed.
• Chen Zu fought Azure Heaven as the Chaos Clan army faltered, while Chen Nan appeared behind Azure Heaven and drew him into his stellar source world.
• Chen Nan declared that his source world cut Azure Heaven off from the outside Heavenly Dao, and Azure Heaven failed to break through its barrier.
• Dugu Baitian explained that the Dao Venerable had strengthened Chen Nan’s world with a World Fruit and imprisoned the Heavenly Dao’s true body, terrifying Azure Heaven.
• Chen Nan, Dugu Baitian, the Demon Lord, and Chen Zu launched a combined attack against Azure Heaven after his immortality was severed.

Azure Heaven was destroyed inside Chen Nan’s inner world, and Dugu Baitian stopped Chen Nan from forcing another breakthrough. Back on the Heaven-Connecting Road, the Chaos King summoned the Sevenfold Hell and trapped the surviving heroes in a deadly confrontation.

• The Demon Lord, Dugu Baitian, Chen Zu, and Chen Nan overwhelmed Azure Heaven, whose life essence nourished Chen Nan’s inner world.
• Dugu Baitian halted Chen Nan’s near-breakthrough, warning that his foundation needed time to stabilize, and the group returned to the battle.
• The Witch Clan, Demon Race, and Tomb of Gods defeated most of the Heavenly Dao’s Heaven-defying experts, while the Human King and Ghost Lord drove back the Chaos King.
• The Chaos King summoned the Sevenfold Hell from beneath the former Eighteen Levels of Hell, forcing the heroes to face his hidden weapon.
• The Chaos King awakened the hells’ vengeful spirits and seven Heaven-defying spirits, while the Human King accused him of seeking to replace the Heavenly Dao.

The Chaos King unleashed the Sevenfold Hell, revealing that he had refined the remnant souls of two ancient path lords into its foundations. As the Ghost Lord and the others confronted him, the Ancestral Witches tried to seize the hells for their Lunhui resonance, and Rusou met the Chaos King’s attack head-on.

• The Chaos King manifested the Sevenfold Hell and broke free of the Gods and Devils Diagram’s restraints.
• The Ghost Lord recognized the imprisoned souls of two fallen comrades and attacked the Chaos King in grief and fury.
• The Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian knocked the Sevenfold Hell aside when it pursued the wounded Ghost Lord, though its edge scraped bone dust from him.
• Rusou, Gonggong, Qiang Liang, and Xizi tried to seize the Sevenfold Hell for its Lunhui resonance.
• The Chaos King redirected the Sevenfold Hell at Rusou, who stood his ground and clashed with it in the shattered void.

Rusou and the other Ancestral Witches battered Sevenfold Hell while the Demon Lord and his allies pinned down the Chaos King's other treasures and attacked him. Dugu Baitian struck the Chaos King with a sword, leaving him staring in disbelief at his own neck.

• Rusou fought Sevenfold Hell with his body and damaged it, prompting the Chaos King to recall the treasure.
• Xizi and Qiang Liang combined their lightning to trap Sevenfold Hell, and Rusou, Gonggong, Qiang Liang, and Xizi began hammering its barriers.
• The Chaos King summoned the Demon-Suppressing Stone, but the General's Platform and the Human King's Primordial Banner suppressed it as the Demon Lord and his allies cornered him.
• The Gods and Devils Diagram restrained the Chaos King, and the Demon Lord's power helped the General's Platform overpower the Demon-Suppressing Stone.
• Dugu Baitian unleashed Firmament Upheaval and struck the Chaos King, who looked down at his neck in disbelief.

Dugu Baitian and the others defeated the Chaos King and sealed Sevenfold Hell, then learned that a hidden supreme being had helped create the Chaos Clan and awaken the Heavenly Dao. Zhu Jiuyin revealed that Second Uncle and the Demon Ancestor could soon enter the world, and the allied forces wiped out the surviving enemies.

• Dugu Baitian wounded the Chaos King, and Chen Nan destroyed his body with his world of stars; the Chaos King begged for mercy, then detonated his remaining true spirit and died.
• The Demon Lord revealed that a hidden supreme being had created the Chaos Clan and helped awaken the Heavenly Dao, while the four Ancestral Witches subdued and sealed Sevenfold Hell.
• Gonggong, Qiang Liang, Rusou, and the other Ancestral Witch fought over Sevenfold Hell until Zhu Jiuyin scolded them and displayed the captured Taishang.
• Zhu Jiuyin told the Demon Lord, Dugu Baitian, and the others that the weakened barrier could now withstand Second Uncle and the Demon Ancestor entering in their true bodies.
• The Demon Lord unleashed the General's Platform, and Chen Nan, the Human King, Dugu Baitian, and the others joined him in wiping out the remaining Chaos Clan and Heavenly Dao forces.

Xuanxiao descended to the Heaven-Connecting Road and revealed that he had imprisoned the Tomb of Gods World’s Heavenly Dao. After sealing Taishang, he opened a passage so the world’s powerhouses could decide the war against Heaven themselves.

• Xuanxiao arrived, and his Dao resonance subdued the laws of the Tomb of Gods World and severed Chen Nan’s control over thunder.
• The Ancestral Witches blamed their delay on Dijiang, then presented Taishang to Xuanxiao as a captive with a connection to Laozi.
• Xuanxiao revealed the imprisoned Heavenly Dao to Taishang, whose hope collapsed, and sealed Taishang’s cultivation and soul.
• The Demon Lord asked to let the Tomb of Gods World’s powerhouses fight the Heavenly Dao themselves, despite the risk of death.
• Xuanxiao opened a passage to the Heavenly Dao’s prison and invited anyone who wished to join the final battle.

The Demon Lord revealed that the Heavenly Dao had formed from the will of all living beings, then become corrupted and begun slaughtering its own source to prevent its replacement. As the ancient foes prepared to fight it with three complete worlds, Xuanxiao led the Ancestral Witches toward a separate battlefield.

• The Human King and the Demon Lord explained how the Heavenly Dao had lost its fairness, become corrupted by Turbid Qi, and unleashed calamities to stop a new Heavenly Dao from forming.
• The Heavenly Dao defended its slaughter of living beings as the natural return of its source, and the Demon Lord, Dugu Baitian, and the Human King declared that they would settle the ancient blood debt.
• A second Gods and Devils Diagram appeared, and Dugu Baitian revealed that he and the Demon Lord had prepared it as a complete world for the final war.
• Chen Nan unfurled his original world, joining it with the two Gods and Devils Diagrams to bring three world powers together against the Heavenly Dao.
• Xuanxiao told Rusou and the Ancestral Witches that their battle lay elsewhere, revealed that Luohu and the Demon Race had already departed, and led the witches through a spatial passage.

The Demon Lord, Dugu Baitian, and the other supreme warriors revealed that the final assault on Heaven required the sacrifice of all beings, whose souls and ancient battle wills would power the Gods and Devils Diagram. Chen Nan gathered the fallen souls as ancient warriors awakened and hidden killing arrays formed a world to attack the Heavenly Dao, which fought back with relentless force.

• The Demon Lord, Dugu Baitian, the Human King, and the Ghost Lord apologized to the gathered fighters, who accepted their fate and vowed to fight Heaven.
• Nangong Yin and Wang Lin sacrificed themselves, Xiang Tian burned away his body and cultivation, and countless others gave their lives as Chen Nan gathered their souls in the Gods and Devils Diagram.
• The Heavenly Dao unleashed destructive laws, and the Demon Lord, Dugu Baitian, and the other peak experts raised barriers to shield Chen Nan and the diagram.
• The supreme warriors called on the fallen souls, awakening ancient fighters including Luo Jiade and Lu Siya to join the final battle.
• Chen Nan spread the souls through the merged world as the Ten Directions Killing Valley, Nine Heavens Delusion-Breaking Killing Array, Myriad Spirits Heaven-Burying Array, and Heaven-Rending God-Slaying Array activated and fused into a world attacking the Heavenly Dao.
• The enraged Heavenly Dao struck the newly formed world with increasingly powerful attacks in an effort to destroy it.

Xuanxiao arrived to rescue Luohu from the Life Demon God's attack and confronted her over her attempt to seize a world's Heavenly Dao origin. Their battle began with Xuanxiao's halberd cracking her Life-Death Nirvana Pearl, leaving the two prepared to fight on.

• Xuanxiao used Primordial Spirit Light to remove the Life Demon God's life force from Luohu's wounds and stabilize his origin.
• Xuanxiao summoned the Life Demon God, who revealed that she had devoured the origins of three Great Thousand Worlds and claimed she sought only to restore her strength.
• The Life Demon God argued that she had never deliberately encroached upon the Primordial Wilderness, but Xuanxiao said the world's inhabitants had asked him to protect them.
• The Life Demon God attacked with her Life-Death Nirvana Pearl, and Luohu warned Xuanxiao but could not intervene because of his injuries.
• Xuanxiao struck the pearl with the Nine Heavens Destruction Halberd and Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, cracking it and disrupting its life-and-death Dao aura.
• The Life Demon God threatened to defeat Xuanxiao's avatar and refine his Chaos Supreme Treasure, while Xuanxiao calmly accepted the challenge.

Xuanxiao and the Life Demon God clashed with their opposing Thunder and Life-Extinction Great Daos while the battle below turned in the Devil Race’s favor after the Witch Clan joined the fight. Xuanxiao cracked her ancient Void life tree and stole some of her accumulated essence, driving the Life Demon God into a furious all-out assault.

• The Life Demon God used the Life-Death Nirvana Pearl to corrupt Xuanxiao’s thunder, but Xuanxiao unleashed heavenly-punishment lightning and purified her life-extinction domain.
• The Life Demon God unsealed the life essence she had gathered from three Great Thousand Worlds and summoned an ancient Void life tree to battle Xuanxiao’s Thunder Sea.
• The Witch Clan overwhelmed the Titan Gods, ancient elven trees, and primordial dragons, helping the Devil Race stabilize and counterattack.
• Xuanxiao concentrated his lightning into a devastating strike that cracked the ancient Void life tree, then seized the life essence leaking from it.
• The Life Demon God realized Xuanxiao had baited her into exposing her essence and, enraged by his theft, launched a frenzied all-out attack.

Chen Nan and the surviving beings united their souls in a hundred thousand slaughter formations to attack the Heavenly Dao, but its World-Grinding Disc devastated their forces and began turning the battle in its favor.

• Billions of beings sacrificed their lives and poured their power into Chen Nan's source world to resist the Heavenly Dao's destruction.
• The Seven Ancient Monarchs and the Eight Heroes of the Chen Family gave up their bodies to lead the central slaughter formations, while other ancient battle souls took command of more formations.
• Chen Nan's five children prepared to fight beside him as the Heavenly Dao unleashed the World-Grinding Disc, and the formations drove its power back for a time.
• The Demon Lord and Dugu Baitian activated the hundred thousand formations and taunted the Heavenly Dao, provoking it to unleash a devastating counterattack.
• The Heavenly Dao shattered more than a hundred leading formations and annihilated countless souls, while the Demon Lord, Dugu Baitian, and billions of spirits continued charging against it.
• The World-Grinding Disc overwhelmed the advancing souls and threatened the source world, giving the Heavenly Dao a chance to turn the battle around.