Chapter Summaries

Li Hao killed Tu Gang and dozens of others in the shantytown, then a group of local elders plotted to organize the residents and form a Guard Squad. Their discussion ended when they noticed Li Hao standing among them.

• Tu Gang ordered his thugs to attack Li Hao, but Li Hao killed two men and frightened the rest into fleeing.
• Tu Gang offered Li Hao a position as his second-in-command, then attacked him when Li Hao refused; Li Hao killed Tu Gang with a concealed piece of sharp iron.
• Li Hao killed sixteen people that day and forty-nine over three days, spreading panic throughout the shantytown.
• The shantytown's respected residents gathered to discuss Li Hao's killings, and an old man proposed establishing a Prefectural Office and Guard Squad.
• The group praised the plan before realizing Li Hao had somehow joined their gathering.

Li Hao found a new purpose in creating a world without conflict, killed his remaining enemies in the shantytown, and left. The shantytown’s leaders built a crude county seat and improved local security and livelihoods while exploiting residents, as Wang Pan cultivated in a hidden world beneath a Thatched Hut.

• Li Hao killed a man trying to flee, then urged the shantytown’s leaders to join him in building a world without desire and conflict; they rejected his vision and escaped.
• Li Hao declared that he would create his new world, then left the shantytown after slaughtering all his remaining enemies there.
• The shantytown’s respected leaders united more than three thousand households, took control of the Guard Squad, and forced the Merchants to pay higher prices for goods excavated from the Imperial City Ruins.
• Over three years, the leaders established a crude county seat, reduced violent crime, and helped residents reclaim farmland, while taking kickbacks and preparing to exploit the people further.
• Inside a Thatched Hut, Wang Pan sat in a mirror-filled world and raised a Ten Thousand Fathom Mountain through his mastery of Origin Dao.

Wang Pan mastered the Fire and Earth Origins, completing the five elements and transforming his Life Level further, then considered the greater Origins he might pursue. After checking on Li Hao, he left the story focused on his disciple’s current situation.

• The volcanic eruption forged a Crimson Chain that pierced Wang Pan and fused with him, transforming his body as he emerged from a month-long Flame Cocoon.
• Wang Pan glimpsed what seemed to be the Ancient God Realm’s colossal heart, sealed the memory, and entered an earth Meridian to comprehend the Earth Origin.
• His consciousness witnessed the land changing across ages, and he returned with the five element Origins circulating together before interrupting their evolution into a world.
• Wang Pan weighed the Ancient God Realm’s greater opportunities against the danger of becoming consumed by them, then accepted that his depleted reserves would slow his progress toward mastering space, yin and yang, and Chaos.
• Wang Pan activated the contingency he had placed on Li Hao and used it to locate and observe him.

Wang Pan considered using Overlord Glory to help mortals withstand the Ancient God Realm’s dangerous Origin energy, then found a dying woman whose exceptional talent made her a test subject. After her husband beat her and their child, Wang Pan offered to save the child in exchange for everything she had.

• Wang Pan judged Li Hao’s Heavenly Principle Sect fragile and decided not to warn him about the danger of his doctrine.
• Wang Pan considered whether Overlord Glory could raise ordinary people enough to survive absorbing the Ancient God Realm’s high-level Origin energy.
• Wang Pan arrived at a village and found Bu Shi gravely ill with her injured young child beside her.
• Bu Shi’s drunken husband beat her with a stool, kicked the child into a fatal head injury, and tried to flee.
• Wang Pan froze the surroundings, appeared in the house, and used vitality to keep Bu Shi conscious while asking what she wanted to do.
• Bu Shi begged Wang Pan to save her child, and he demanded everything she had as the price, recognizing her rare talent for sensing Origin energy.

Wang Pan healed Bu Shi and Luo Ye, then made Bu Shi kill Luo Sansheng and gave her power and knowledge to help her survive. Elsewhere, Li Hao was overthrown by the Heavenly Principle Sect’s elders, and Left Emissary Yang took control and renamed the sect the Great Devour Sect.

• Wang Pan healed Bu Shi and Luo Ye, and Bu Shi promised to serve him in exchange for their lives.
• Bu Shi killed Luo Sansheng to protect Luo Ye, then Wang Pan granted her cultivation knowledge and power before leaving.
• Wang Pan selected several more people to receive chances to change their fates, then returned to comprehending the Origin Dao.
• The Heavenly Principle Sect’s elders dragged Li Hao from bed and accused him of causing casualties, declaring Left Emissary Yang the new sect leader.
• Left Emissary Yang revealed that resentment over Li Hao repeatedly calling him Yang Goudan had driven his betrayal, while condemning the sect’s exploitation of its lowest members.
• Left Emissary Yang renamed the Heavenly Principle Sect the Great Devour Sect, ordered Li Hao executed by fire, and banned the old doctrine.

Li Hao died after Yang Goudan exposed the contradictions in his doctrine, and Yang Goudan seized control of the Great Devour Sect before building an empire through conquest and strict reforms. As Emperor Yang sought eternal life, Luo Ye kept his place as Chief Alchemist by secretly making harmless hand-rolled pills and pretending to refine elixirs.

• Yang Goudan challenged Li Hao's understanding of human nature, and Li Hao realized he had lost sight of his original purpose before dying in the flames as Wang Pan watched without intervening.
• Yang Goudan purged the Great Devour Sect, eliminated his rivals, and introduced laws that rewarded officials, restricted powerful clans, and offered commoners advancement through military merit.
• After consolidating power, Yang Goudan proclaimed himself king, defeated the rival forces, founded Taihao as emperor, and conquered the southern territory and neighboring nations.
• As age weakened him, Yang Goudan launched a search for immortality and ordered alchemists to make an elixir, though their experiments repeatedly caused disasters.
• Luo Ye, now Chief Alchemist, recalled how he had risen from poverty by posing as a Daoist master and passing off harmless hand-rolled pills as elixirs for Emperor Yang.

Luo Ye accidentally refined a mysterious Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart, which resurrected him in the Companion Tomb and began devouring Death Energy across Taihao. Thirty years later, Wang Pan comprehended the Spatial Origin, and Azure Fang Ancient God ambushed him, starting a battle.

• Luo Ye added the Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart to his concoction, and after seven days it emerged from the furnace transformed and radiating heat.
• The Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart exploded, destroying the palace and killing Luo Ye, whose corpse was buried in the Companion Tomb.
• The Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart regenerated Luo Ye and absorbed Death Energy and Earth Vein Qi, spreading its devouring force across Taihao over the following decades.
• Emperor Yang ordered the alchemists buried alive and records of the Elixir of Immortality burned before he died.
• Thirty years later, Wang Pan comprehended the Spatial Origin, and Azure Fang Ancient God attacked him without warning.

Wang Pan defeated the Azure Fang Ancient God and gained major advances in his Origin Dao, then began considering the path to the Human Emperor Realm. Meanwhile, Luo Ye absorbed the death and vitality of living beings as he gestated beneath the Taihao Kingdom, and Wang Pan sensed a new danger.

• The Azure Fang Ancient God attacked Wang Pan, but he suppressed her powers, trapped her with Spatial Origin, and struck down her ancient beast phantom with the King Pan Sword.
• Wang Pan killed the Azure Fang Ancient God and spent seventy years clashing his Origin Dao against hers, perfecting his Five Elements origins and advancing his Spatial Origin.
• Wang Pan reflected on the gap between the Five Emperors Realm and the Human Emperor Realm, repaired the devastated land, and left the area.
• Beneath the Taihao Kingdom, Luo Ye absorbed Death Energy from the battle and began draining the vitality of living beings as he gestated in his Imperial Mausoleum.
• Luo Ye murmured, "Heterogeneous Eradication Mission!" and Wang Pan sensed danger while wandering through the void.

Wang Pan built the Pangu Empire to draw out Ancient Gods, captured fifteen of them, and finally advanced his Life Level after comprehending the Yin Origin. Meanwhile, Luo Ye revived in his mausoleum and killed an Ancient God who tried to seize his unborn body.

• Wang Pan used Overlord Creature to empower ordinary people, spread knowledge, and establish the Pangu Empire, where citizens received his blessing upon adulthood.
• Two curious Ancient Gods were lured into Wang Pan’s trap and helped him capture fifteen more, while he struggled to master the Yin Origin.
• After six thousand more years, a solar eclipse helped Wang Pan reach the introductory stage of the Yin Origin, completing his tenth Life Level transition.
• Luo Ye revived in his mausoleum as his life and death Origin Daos grew stronger, despite his body remaining buried in a coffin.
• An Ancient God invaded the mausoleum to take Luo Ye’s body, but Luo Ye’s life and death Origin Daos drained her and left her an empty shell.

Wang Pan watched the Pangu Empire grow, fracture, and produce powerful cultivators while his Humanity's Way advanced to the limit of the Emperor Realm. As Wang Pan pursued nine origins before evolving a world, Luo Ye finished perfecting the Life and Death Origin but halted its fusion, keeping the being inside his Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart from being born.

• Wang Pan suppressed an Ancient God who commanded the Yin Origin, then advanced his Yin Origin to Minor Accomplishment by studying the Origin Dao left after its death.
• Emperor Yu succeeded an unremarkable Imperial Prince named Yu, but seventy-two Crown Princes rebelled and divided the Pangu Empire; Emperor Yu later reached the Fifth Realm and outlived the rebels and ministers who died trying to absorb origin energy.
• Over the following million years, seventy-two descendants of the rebel Crown Princes became Fifth Realm extraordinary beings, and Wang Pan's Humanity's Way reached the Emperor Realm limit.
• Wang Pan commanded the Yang Origin and perfected his origins, but he refused to evolve a world until he could command nine origins and reach the Human Emperor Realm in one step.
• Luo Ye hunted and killed more than a thousand Ancient Gods, perfected his Life and Death Origin, and stopped it from merging to evolve a world because it was not yet time for the being within his heart to be born.

After Emperor Yu’s death, the Pangu Empire fractured, and scientist Xia resumed his research on biological weapons amid the decline. When an attack killed his wife and crippled his son Li, Xia learned that his experiments had used atheists as subjects and that the attackers had sought revenge for their families, leaving him trapped between grief and guilt.

• After Emperor Yu died, his heirs fought over the throne, and the Pangu Empire split into several hundred nations.
• Xia pursued biological research, hesitated to destroy a human-derived Biological Weapon, and later returned to family life after funding cuts halted his project.
• Xia’s son Li impressed him with exceptional research talent, but attackers killed Xia’s wife and severely injured Li while Xia was away at the laboratory.
• Xia spent decades seeking answers, then learned that his experimental subjects had been atheists and that the attackers had acted to avenge nearly ten million victims.
• Xia shut himself inside the laboratory for several years, unable to reconcile his grief with the truth about his work.

Xia perfected the first Biological Weapon, giving it an Adaptive Physique and naming it Li, but imperial officials came to arrest him for secretly diverting research funds. After Xia died, Li escaped the laboratory as soldiers converged on him.

• Decades after his wife and son died, Xia devoted himself to developing Biological Weapons and secretly focused on the uniquely intelligent first specimen.
• Xia perfected the first Biological Weapon's Adaptive Physique, though later specimens remained inferior and the collapse flaw could only be delayed for up to three years with concentrated nutrient solution.
• Soldiers and an imperial official entered the First Imperial Bio-Academy to arrest Xia after the empire no longer needed his research and uncovered his embezzlement.
• A Biological Weapon emerged from a culture dish in Xia's private laboratory, and the officials and soldiers fled to summon reinforcements.
• The Biological Weapon helped Xia up, and Xia named it Li, urged it to hide and grow strong, and died after asking it to carry on his and his son's will.
• Li kowtowed to Xia and headed for the exit as alarms rang and reinforcements rushed toward him.

Li survived the soldiers’ attack by evolving through the damage, escaped the underground base, and slaughtered the soldiers who tried to stop him. After restraining his growing urge to kill, he fled while Wang Pan recognized the limitless potential of Li’s Adaptive Physique.

• Li was shot by reinforcements, declared dead, and taken to the autopsy room, where researchers discovered his enhanced biological traits.
• Li’s Adaptive Physique used high-grade energy to heal his wounds and strengthen his body, causing the researchers to flee.
• Li escaped the laboratory, evaded the soldiers’ bullets as his scales evolved, and killed nearly a thousand soldiers.
• Li restrained his urge to destroy everything and fled the First Imperial Bio-Academy, while two Ancient Gods chose not to intervene.
• The Ancient Gods reported Li to Wang Pan, who judged his Adaptive Physique more perfect than his former Mutation talent and predicted limitless growth.

Wang Pan left the Pangu Empire to seek experience and a path to the Chaos Realm, while Luo Ye’s attempt to borrow something from Lianshan revealed Yeyang Heiyan hiding inside her Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart. Lianshan summoned her Lianshan Realm and attacked the resurrected Four Spirits of the Earth.

• Wang Pan decided to leave the Pangu Empire and travel to meet other Ancient Gods, hoping to verify his Dao and find a way to grasp the Chaos Origin.
• Luo Ye reached the summit of a mountain and awakened Lianshan, asking to borrow something from her.
• Lianshan attacked Luo Ye and destroyed her body, leaving the Seven Aperture Exquisite Heart intact.
• The heart ensnared Lianshan with Life and Death Origin chains, then split open to reveal Yeyang Heiyan, who declared that he could return as long as the Ancient God Realm endured and living beings remembered his name.
• Lianshan recognized Yeyang Heiyan as one of the Four Spirits of the Earth and resolved to kill him, judging that his Life Level had transformed only eight times.
• Lianshan manifested her Chaos Origin, created Lianshan Realm, and brought its power down upon Yeyang Heiyan with the Lianshan Seal.

Yeyang Heiyan killed Lianshan after a devastating battle, then defeated several Eight Realm Ancient Gods who tried to ambush him. As he absorbed Lianshan’s scattered Dao to restore his strength, an unknown voice announced it had found an Eight Realm Ancient God and the remains of a fallen Ninth Realm ancient god.

• Lianshan and Yeyang Heiyan fought with their worlds and clashing Daos, destroying the land around them and drawing ancient gods toward the battlefield.
• Lianshan empowered himself with ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine phantom mountains, but Yeyang Heiyan broke his tentacle spear and killed him.
• Lianshan’s realm merged into the Ancient God Realm as a lifeless mountain range, while Yeyang Heiyan weakened and coughed up blood.
• Several Eight Realm Ancient Gods attacked Yeyang Heiyan, but he revealed an illusion, pierced them with his tentacles, and drained their vitality and Death Energy.
• Yeyang Heiyan used his Life and Death Millstone to consume Lianshan’s scattered Dao and recover, while an unknown voice announced it had found a wild Eight Realm Ancient God and a fallen Ninth Realm ancient god’s Dao.

Wang Pan killed Yeyang Heiyan after she used the Chaos Origin to reach the pinnacle of the Emperor Realm, then searched her memories and discovered the Three-Headed Giant Beast had appeared in the Ancient God Realm as a corpse. He realized the corpse’s appearances across the Ancient God Realm, Main World, and Vast Sea Realm might reveal that the realms existed on different timelines, leaving his route home uncertain.

• Wang Pan recognized Yeyang Heiyan as Bu Shi’s descendant and let her leave, but Yeyang Heiyan revealed that the Ancient God Realm Will had helped her return from the River of Time to target him.
• Yeyang Heiyan controlled the Chaos Origin, created a miniature world, and reached the pinnacle of the Emperor Realm, but Wang Pan struck her down and extracted her divine soul.
• Wang Pan searched Yeyang Heiyan’s memories and learned the history of the Four Spirits of the Earth, the heart beneath the Ancient God Realm, and Yeyang Heiyan’s rebirth through Luo Ye’s alchemy.
• Wang Pan saw that Yeyang Heiyan’s memories identified the Three-Headed Giant Beast in the Main World as a long-dead corpse that had also appeared in the Ancient God Realm.
• Wang Pan realized that the corpse’s order of appearance might mean the Ancient God Realm, Main World, and Vast Sea Realm existed on different timelines, making his return to the Main World uncertain.

Wang Pan discovered that wielding the Chaos Origin required letting his eight Origins merge and collapse, then stepped into the newly emerged Origin to claim it. Meanwhile, Li’s growing power led Pangu Empire war hawks to launch a mass-destruction attack across Ruzhou, leaving him braced for danger as the strike approached.

• Wang Pan stopped suppressing his Origins, let them conflict and vanish, and saw the Chaos Origin emerge.
• Wang Pan entered the Chaos Origin and began enduring its pressure as he tried to wield it.
• Li grew stronger through repeated clashes with Pangu Empire forces, eventually defeating an elite special operations team alone.
• Pangu Empire war hawks took charge of the operation against Li and launched Weapons of Mass Destruction across Ruzhou, accepting the sacrifice of more than a billion people.
• Li sensed the danger in a city in Ruzhou, raised his head, and transformed into combat form.

The Pangu Empire launched a devastating bombardment of Ruzhou to capture Li, killing over a billion people as Li resolved to create a perfectly just world if he survived. The empire blamed the Malin Empire for the destruction, declared war, and rapidly seized its territory.

• The Pangu Empire's officials discussed the difficulty of killing ancient gods and authorized a massive bombardment to prevent Li from escaping.
• Li evaded the first strike, then stopped as danger surrounded him and resolved to create a world of absolute fairness and justice after hearing a mother explain that emotionless Law Enforcers could achieve justice.
• The Pangu Empire's Weapons of Mass Destruction obliterated Ruzhou, killing more than a billion people and devastating neighboring provinces.
• The ancient gods under Wang Pan witnessed the destruction and considered attacking humanity, but held back because they feared Wang Pan's response.
• The Pangu Empire announced that the Malin Empire had destroyed Ruzhou, inflamed public anger, and declared war.
• The Pangu Empire launched a surprise assault, routed the unprepared Malin Empire, and captured large areas of its territory.

Li survived the destruction of Ruzhou and emerged three years later as an Ancient God, resolving to grow strong enough to overturn the Pangu Empire with minimal casualties. Meanwhile, Wang Pan transformed through Chaos Origin, shaking the Ancient God Realm and releasing energy that enabled people across the empires to advance their cultivation, making the Pangu Empire's Biological Weapon project obsolete.

• The Pangu Empire destroyed Ruzhou, and its leaders sent the Ninth Army Group to search for Li while exploiting the disaster to rally citizens to war.
• Fang Jing suspected Li had survived, and Li endured decades of evolution before the Ninth Army Group found no trace of Li and withdrew after three years.
• The Pangu Empire seized one-tenth of the Malin Empire's territory as Malin soldiers repeatedly fled or surrendered.
• Li emerged from Ruzhou Lake as an Ancient God, concealed Li's presence from the satellites, and decided to become strong enough to overthrow the Pangu Empire's system without mass casualties.
• Wang Pan fused with Chaos Origin and completed a twelfth Life Level transformation, creating a world whose upheaval spread gentler energy throughout the Ancient God Realm.
• People across the empires used the new energy to break through into the Marquis Conferment Realm, and the Pangu Empire halted its Biological Weapon program because its weapons could not keep pace.

Wang Pan created a world that repelled the Ancient God Realm, then chose to pursue his own path by perfecting a Dao Fruit through the Three Thousand Origin Daos. He began comprehending the Origin of Mountain, while Li and his companions reached the Qingyang Empire amid a sprawling war between empires.

• Wang Pan stabilized his newborn world with Chaos Origin and realized that its collision with the Ancient God Realm could eventually destroy both worlds.
• Wang Pan recognized his world as an embryonic Dao Fruit and chose to seek perfection by comprehending and controlling all Three Thousand Origin Daos instead of following the established path to the Human Emperor Realm.
• Wang Pan descended into the mountain range formed after Lianshan's death and began comprehending the Origin of Mountain.
• Li traveled with like-minded companions for several thousand years and eventually arrived in the Qingyang Empire.
• The wars begun by the Pangu Empire's attack on the Malin Empire spread among hundreds of empires, which expanded their territories while restraining the conflict until their appetites outgrew the available spoils.