Recaps

Taiyi cultivated through the rise of Buddhism and the emergence of Zhu Long, uncovering a World Tree threat beyond the Primordial World. He took Sun Wukong as his disciple, then moved to protect Chiyou and Bai Qi as a new calamity began.

• Tongtian struck Mount Sumeru, taking roughly one-third of Buddhist merit and fortune, while Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Zhunti later established Buddhism and drew converts west.
• Red Cloud became the Present Buddha, Lu Ya became the Future Buddha, and Amitabha Buddha became the Past Buddha, completing Buddhism's Three Buddhas Across the Three Ages.
• Taiyi ignored the Buddhist expedition against Rahu as Zhunti, Amitabha Buddha, and Zhen Yuanzi defeated him and destroyed the Heavenly Devil Realm.
• Zhu Long attained Sagehood as Chief Sovereign of the Ocean, and Taiyi discovered that a World Tree branch had helped strengthen Zhu Long's bloodline foundation.
• Taiyi entered the Land of Return to Emptiness, comprehended the Great Dao of Ruin, and learned that ruined worlds had lost their origin cores.
• Taiyi took the Lingming Stone Monkey as his disciple, named him Sun Wukong, and sent him to train in the Little Chaos Pearl Heavenly Dao World, disrupting the Heavenly Dao's Journey to the West plan.
• As another Stone Monkey proclaimed himself the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and Houtu revived Zhurong, Shebishi, and Qiangliang, Taiyi learned that Bai Qi had buried four hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers alive.
• Taiyi chose to protect Chiyou and help Bai Qi, told King Di Xin that Bai Qi was the calamity's protagonist, and agreed to handle the rest as Bai Qi faced the Heavenly Court's pursuers.

Taiyi restored the Ancestral Witches, pursued the Great Dao, and learned that the Primal Chaos Sovereign had blocked his path. After departing the Primordial World with a group of followers, he crossed into a Water-attribute Chaos World and encountered two warring Demon God armies.

• Bai Qi joined Great Shang after Huang Feihu forced the Heavenly forces to abandon their attempt to capture Chiyou, and Houtu later met Di Xin and offered Bai Qi a path to strengthen himself.
• Taiyi gathered Great Dao Sources while the Heavenly Dao formed a starry formation that restored Primordial Spiritual Energy, then urged Houtu to revive the Ancestral Witches instead of attending the Heavenly Dao's summons.
• Taiyi and Houtu restored the eleven Ancestral Witches, revived Kua Fu, and returned Houtu to her Ancestral Witch True Body, while Taiyi warned that the clan still lacked the strength to challenge the Heavenly Dao.
• Taiyi fused the Innate Five Tai Great Daos and reached toward the Limitless Great Dao, but the Primal Chaos Sovereign destroyed him and the system revived him, leaving him to resume cultivation with his insights lost.
• After learning that the Heavenly Dao sought to harvest cultivators' Great Daos and could not reconcile with him, Taiyi announced his departure and brought Nether River, Kunpeng, Kong Xuan, Great Peng, and others with him.
• Taiyi released Sun Wukong to sever his Primordial Era karma, reclaimed his Dao laws from the Primordial World, and left through the Chaos Sea after bidding farewell to its Sages and powerhouses.
• Taiyi discussed Dao with the Heavenly Dao, then crossed Chaos into another world with the system's Chaos Divine Light and identified it as a Water-attribute Chaos World.
• Taiyi investigated a clash between Golden Beetle Demon Gods and Heavenly Horned Ant Demon Gods, crushed the attackers who charged him, and devoured the fallen Demon Gods.

Taiyi gathered the Chaos Five Elements Pearls, claimed the Slaughter Demon God title, and consumed the Taiyi Insect Clan while cultivating the World Tree into a source of worlds. The arc left him inside a chaos vortex, facing Great Immortal Yang Mei and a Time Demon God as they disputed who had taken the supreme treasure.

• Taiyi captured the Chaos Earth, Water, and Fire Element Pearls, slaughtered the Chaos Demon Gods who opposed him, and used the pearls to strengthen his Great Dao Gate.
• Taiyi killed the Great Peng Demon King after rejecting the Heavenly Dao’s Slaughter Sage Seat and accepting the primordial Slaughter Source instead.
• Taiyi encountered the World Tree, surveyed it, drew it into the Great Dao Gate, and absorbed its world source laws.
• Taiyi fought the Taiyi Insect Clan, destroyed its swarms with the Innate Five Tai Great Daos, and learned its Great Dao of the Escaping One.
• Taiyi joined the World Tree to the Little Chaos Pearl Heavenly Dao World, cultivated three thousand stable worlds on its branches, and prepared to fuse with it as an External Incarnation.
• The Heavenly Dao treated Taiyi as a native Chaos Demon God, and he raced toward a treasure as elite Chaos Demon Gods gathered around its vortex.
• Taiyi killed two top-tier Chaos Demon Gods at the vortex before a gigantic-kun Demon God warned him to stop.
• Taiyi entered the vortex’s core and found Great Immortal Yang Mei and a Time Demon God accusing each other of taking the treasure.

Taiyi claimed the treasures of the Chaos Void, gathered the five Chaos Pearls, and transformed his body while learning about the Primal Chaos Sovereign from River Crab Daoist. He established Chaos City to preach and cultivate followers as a World-Creation Epochal Calamity approached and Great Immortal Yang Mei and Shichen watched his growing influence.

• Taiyi defeated Great Immortal Yang Mei and Shichen, claimed the Time-Space Treasure Map, and later forged Space-Time Wings that carried him swiftly through Chaos.
• Taiyi found the Giant Whale Demon God, defeated it, and collected the final two Chaos Element Pearls to complete his set of five.
• Taiyi gave Dijun the Chaos Metal Element Pearl, moved the Primordial Wilderness deities into the Chaos World, and began transforming his body with the World Tree and the five pearls.
• Taiyi formed five Chaos Divine Treasury Worlds within his viscera and captured the Shadow Demon God, then discovered that the System had awakened.
• River Crab Daoist revealed that he was the Lord of Systems and warned Taiyi that the Primal Chaos Sovereign had targeted Dao seekers, then gave Taiyi the 404 Purification Light to master.
• Taiyi formed Chaos City and forced the gathered Chaos Demon Gods to listen to his Dao, then established Enlightenment Monuments and the Tower of Tongtian to guide their cultivation.
• Taiyi continued preaching as Chaos City's influence grew, while he avoided confronting Yang Mei and Shichen and sensed that outsiders had accelerated the approaching World-Creation Epochal Calamity.
• Shichen warned Yang Mei that Taiyi's growing followers could overwhelm them, and Yang Mei showed him information about Taiyi's plan to create a cultivation path for Chaos Demon Gods.