Chapter Summaries

The Heavenly Dao offered Zhen Yuanzi Primordial Violet Qi and the position of the Primordial World’s eighth Heavenly Dao Sage, leaving him to weigh the duties against the promise of World Source. Taiyi and the Heavenly Dao explained that the Sage Seat would not bind his true spirit, but Zhen Yuanzi remained undecided.

• Taiyi introduced the figure beside him as the Primordial Heavenly Dao, shocking Zhen Yuanzi and Red Cloud Ancestor.
• The Heavenly Dao offered Zhen Yuanzi Primordial Violet Qi and asked him to become the eighth Heavenly Dao Sage.
• Zhen Yuanzi hesitated because he was already a Grand Luo Golden Immortal Zenith and understood the burdens of serving as a Heavenly Dao Sage.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked whether accepting the offer would restrict him, and the Heavenly Dao said it would only record his aura.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that Hongjun's true spirit had been destroyed and promised World Source for useful service, while Taiyi explained its importance to cultivation.
• Zhen Yuanzi fell silent, still struggling to decide whether to accept the Sage Seat.

The Heavenly Dao revealed that it had destroyed Hongjun and offered Zhen Yuanzi the Primordial Violet Qi, asking him to decide whether to refine it before the Journey to the West Calamity. Zhen Yuanzi delayed his choice, and the Sages gathered at Longevity Mountain Manor, with the Western Two Sages arriving last.

• Taiyi realized the Heavenly Dao had destroyed Hongjun and briefly considered taking advantage of its possible weakness, but the Heavenly Dao warned him off.
• The Heavenly Dao asked Zhen Yuanzi to decide whether to accept the Primordial Violet Qi before the Journey to the West Calamity, and Zhen Yuanzi requested time to consider.
• The Heavenly Dao left the Primordial Violet Qi with Zhen Yuanzi and vanished into the void.
• Goddess Houtu arrived at Longevity Mountain Manor, and Zhen Yuanzi greeted her before welcoming Master Tongtian and Goddess Nüwa.
• Sage Taiqing Laozi arrived alone and exchanged greetings with Goddess Houtu, while Goddess Nüwa and Goddess Houtu spoke warmly together.
• The Western Two Sages arrived last as the Sages gathered at Longevity Mountain Manor.

Zhen Yuanzi hosted the Sages at Longevity Mountain to discuss Dao and share Ginseng Fruit after attaining Sagehood. Taiyi stunned the gathering by revealing that his Sun God Palace also had several Ginseng Fruit Trees.

• Zhunti and Jieyin warmly congratulated Zhen Yuanzi, who invited the gathered Sages to discuss Dao and share their insights.
• Zhen Yuanzi welcomed the Sages to Longevity Mountain and seated Taiyi prominently, while Red Cloud Ancestor also attended as Zhen Yuanzi's close friend.
• Zhen Yuanzi explained the origins, growth, and properties of Ginseng Fruit before inviting everyone to eat.
• The Sages tasted the Ginseng Fruit, and Taiyi casually told Tongtian Jiaozhu that he could visit the Sun God Palace to see its Ginseng Fruit Trees.
• The Sages and Zhen Yuanzi were stunned by Taiyi's revelation that his palace had several Ginseng Fruit Trees.

At the gathering on Longevity Mountain, Taiyi offered spiritual roots to Master Tongtian, Nüwa, and Houtu before Zhen Yuanzi and the goddesses expounded their Daos. The discussion continued with Nüwa’s profound Law of Creation, leaving the sages to absorb and compare their distinct insights.

• Taiyi offered Master Tongtian, Nüwa, and Houtu the chance to relocate Primordial Spiritual Roots from his Sun God Palace, while the Western Two Sages and Taiqing Laozi were left out.
• Zhen Yuanzi expounded the Dao of Earth Law, and the sages absorbed insights from his understanding.
• Houtu revealed the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc and explained how its six paths formed the complete Dao of Six Paths Reincarnation.
• Taiyi considered establishing a Six Paths Reincarnation World within the Heavenly Dao World of his Little Chaos Pearl.
• Nüwa expounded her Dao of Creation, which the sages recognized as exceptionally complete and profound.

The Sages’ Dao exposition turned into a clash of their Dao Fruits until Taiyi’s overwhelming Sun Law silenced them all. As Taiyi expounded his Dao, the Sages recognized reflections and extensions of their own paths in it and stopped to listen.

• Tongtian Jiaozhu, Taiqing Laozi, Zhunti, and Jieyin each expounded their Dao, and the Sages’ laws clashed without any one Sage suppressing the others.
• Red Cloud Ancestor tried to absorb the Sages’ teachings but struggled to understand their profound Dao.
• Taiyi’s vast Sun Law overwhelmed the competing Sage Daos, drawing every Sage’s attention while Taiyi remained immersed in expounding the Dao.
• Goddess Houtu, Goddess Nüwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, Taiqing Laozi, and Zhenyuanzi stopped their own expositions to listen as Taiyi revealed Dao mysteries connected to their paths.

The Sages expounded and tested their Dao Fruits against one another, while Red Cloud Ancestor struggled to grasp their profound laws. Taiyi’s Great Sun Law overwhelmed the competing Daos, leaving the Sages staring at him as he continued expounding his Dao.

• The Sages clashed their Dao Fruits while sharing insights, and none could fully suppress another.
• Red Cloud Ancestor tried to learn from the Sages, hoping to comprehend his Cloud Great Dao and become a Sage.
• Taiyi’s Great Sun Law entered the gathering and forced the other Sages’ Daos aside.
• The Sages turned toward Taiyi as he remained absorbed in expounding his Dao to them.

Taiyi refined the Taisu Great Dao Source, gaining the ability to transform himself into energy and matter, then chose to cultivate the Devouring Great Dao Source after learning that Zhenyuanzi had become the eighth Heavenly Dao Sage. As Taiyi stayed on the Sun Star, Zhenyuanzi prepared to leave Longevity Mountain for a chaos dojo beyond the Thirty-Third Heaven.

• Taiyi swallowed the Taisu Great Dao Source and mastered the ability to shift his body, mana, and primordial spirit between energy and matter.
• Taiyi awakened from his immersion in the Primordial Simplicity World and discovered the system's prompt had been delayed for several thousand years.
• The system announced that Zhenyuanzi had become the eighth Heavenly Dao Sage and offered Taiyi a choice between killing him or cultivating the Devouring Great Dao Source.
• Taiyi chose to ignore Zhenyuanzi and swallowed the Devouring Great Dao Source while remaining hidden on the Sun Star.
• Zhenyuanzi announced that Longevity Mountain would become his Sage's dojo beyond the Thirty-Third Heaven, prompting its inhabitants to compete for places as his spiritual beasts.

After Zhen Yuanzi became the Sage Lord of the Earth, Taiyi told Goddess Houtu he had found a way to revive the eleven fallen Ancestral Witches. He explained his ideas about rebuilding true spirits and consciousness, leaving Houtu eager to help and offering him authority over the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• Zhen Yuanzi sat on the Heavenly Dao Sage Seat and became the seventh Sage of the heavens.
• The Sages gathered at Longevity Mountain to congratulate Zhen Yuanzi and looked on enviously as the new Sage Lord of the Earth.
• Goddess Houtu, dwelling in the Netherworld Underworld as Meng Po, spoke with Taiyi's Star Incarnation about the fallen Ancestral Witches.
• Taiyi told Goddess Houtu that he had developed the True Spirit Nine Transformations and could reconstruct the Ancestral Witches' true spirits and consciousness.
• Goddess Houtu offered Taiyi authority over the Six Paths of Reincarnation if he helped revive the Ancestral Witches, but Taiyi clarified that he had only been thinking.

Taiyi arranged with Goddess Houtu to revive the eleven Ancestral Witches and received a vast store of Witch Clan materials for a treasure he was refining. After preparing on the Sun Star, Taiyi entered the chaos to begin forging the Gate of Myriad Mysteries, hoping to make it a Chaos Spiritual Treasure.

• Taiyi told Goddess Houtu that he would help revive the Ancestral Witches, while Houtu would gather their consciousness and reshape their true spirits.
• Taiyi instructed Houtu to have the Witch Clan erect and worship statues of the eleven Ancestral Witches so their souls and consciousness could return to them.
• Houtu summoned the Ancestral Witches' incomplete consciousness, and the Witch Clan worshipped their statues as Jiu Feng delivered a vast quantity of materials to Taiyi.
• Taiyi accepted the materials from Jiu Feng and entered seclusion on the Sun Star, where the noise drew Dijun's curiosity.
• Taiyi entered the chaos with hundreds of millions of prepared materials and began work on the Gate of Myriad Mysteries, a treasure he hoped would become a Chaos Spiritual Treasure.

Taiyi began forging the Great Dao Gate, a supreme treasure meant to embody the Great Dao and preserve his existence. After refining more than a billion heavenly treasures into innate materials, he began assembling them in the chaos, drawing the attention of the Sages.

• Taiyi prepared to forge the Great Dao Gate as a Chaos-grade treasure that could contain the Three Thousand Laws and allow him to revive if he perished.
• Taiyi refined one billion eighty million heavenly treasures in the Innate Supreme Treasure Cosmos Cauldron, transforming them into materials for the Gate.
• Taiyi identified the Crystal of the Sky Dome, the Heart of the Earth, and the Void Crystal as the three crucial materials and finished refining the remaining treasures.
• Taiyi gathered all the prepared materials around himself and manifested his enormous Dharma Idol True Body in the chaos to begin fusing the Great Dao Gate.
• Master Tongtian and Nüwa saw Taiyi's giant form and wondered what treasure he was forging, while Nüwa resolved to seek his guidance in artifact forging.
• Taiqing Laozi watched Taiyi from the Eight Scenery Palace and reflected that Taiyi's influence could no longer be restrained, even by the Heavenly Dao.

Taiyi forged the Gate of the Great Dao in Chaos, creating a Chaos Spiritual Treasure whose restrictions remained acquired. He continued refining the gate and tempering himself, leaving both his treasure and his understanding of the Great Dao growing stronger.

• Taiyi fused 108 million materials into the Gate of the Great Dao, which took shape as a Chaos Spiritual Treasure.
• Taiyi sensed that the gate's restrictions were still acquired, limiting its power despite its Chaos-grade nature.
• Taiyi continued imprinting his Dao laws and insights onto the gate, causing new restrictions to form and deepening his understanding.
• Taiyi absorbed Chaos Qi to replenish his mana while the gate drew in more Chaos Qi.
• Taiyi tempered his body with Chaos Qi and used the Dao of Artifacts to refine himself like a treasure.

Taiyi spent years refining the Great Dao Gate in chaos, strengthening both the treasure and his Dao attainment until its restrictions began evolving into Chaos Restrictions. When he tested the gate's power, its storm shook the Primordial World, drawing the Sages’ attention and prompting Heavenly Dao Hongjun to appear in chaos.

• Taiyi continued refining the Great Dao Gate and improving his Dao attainment, mana, and physical body.
• The Great Dao Gate absorbed Chaos Energy as its Postnatal Restrictions gradually evolved toward Chaos Restrictions, with nearly half of them completed.
• Taiyi halted his direct refinement when progress slowed, then shrank the gate and summoned it above his palm.
• Taiyi infused the Great Dao Gate with Primordial Chaos mana, unleashing a storm that shattered Chaos Energy into Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind and shook the Primordial World.
• The Sages investigated the disturbance, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun appeared in chaos and remarked on Taiyi’s power.

Taiyi accepted Heavenly Dao’s challenge and followed him into the depths of chaos, where Heavenly Dao revealed he had broken free from the Primordial World. Their coming battle left the Primordial World without the power of its Three Thousand Heavenly Dao Laws, and its Sages were unable to borrow Heavenly Dao’s strength.

• Heavenly Dao challenged Taiyi to test his supreme treasure, and Taiyi agreed, warning that the loser would have to give up his position.
• Taiyi and Heavenly Dao clashed in the Chaos Void, startling the Primordial Sages, who mistook the confrontation for a contest over Hongjun Daozu’s throne.
• Heavenly Dao led Taiyi away from the Primordial World and revealed that it could no longer bind him.
• Heavenly Dao recalled the Three Thousand Heavenly Dao Laws into himself, leaving the Primordial World in disarray and its Sages unable to draw on their power.
• Zhen Yuanzi Saint complained from the Longevity Mountain Five Villages Monastery that he had only just become a Heavenly Dao Sage.

Zhen Yuanzi and the other saints realized that the Heavenly Dao’s new consciousness could abandon the Primordial World and leave them as its servants. Taiyi battled the Heavenly Dao, followed it to a Chaos Hongmeng battlefield, and chose to fight for the Taichu Great Dao Source.

• Zhen Yuanzi regretted entrusting himself to the Heavenly Dao after realizing that the saints could become its lackeys if the Primordial World were destroyed.
• Taiyi and the Heavenly Dao clashed in Chaos, with Taiyi using the Gate of the Dao to absorb and transform the Heavenly Dao’s Time Law attack.
• The Heavenly Dao proposed moving their battle to an isolated Chaos Primordial Continent formed from Hongmeng Great Dao Source, and Taiyi followed.
• Taiyi received a system choice between defeating the Heavenly Dao for Taichu Great Dao Source or surrendering for Primordial Commencement Great Dao Source.
• Taiyi chose to accept the battle and pursue the Taichu Great Dao Source.

Taiyi and the Heavenly Dao reached the Chaos Primordial Continent and began a battle that would decide their fate. Their powers proved evenly matched, and the chapter ended as they fought at full strength, destroying the surrounding chaos, void, and laws.

• The Seven Sages of the Heavens followed Taiyi and the Heavenly Dao onto the Chaos Primordial Continent, while other Primordial Powerhouses turned back because the place was too dangerous.
• Taiyi sensed that the continent shared the aura of the Great Dao Sources he had refined and resolved to seize the Heavenly Dao and uncover its secrets.
• The Heavenly Dao unleashed the Three Thousand Heavenly Daos against Taiyi, who answered with divine abilities from the Gate of the Great Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao's finger destroyed Taiyi's sacred sun, but Taiyi's Greater Five Elements Reversal Destruction Divine Light stopped the next attack and shattered the void.
• Taiyi and the Heavenly Dao recognized that neither could easily defeat the other, then fought at full strength as their clash annihilated chaos, void, and laws.

Taiyi and Heavenly Dao unleashed a devastating battle across the Chaos Void, frightening the Seven Sages of the Heavens. Heavenly Dao’s Forty-nine Innate Supreme Treasures failed to overcome Taiyi’s Gate of the Great Dao, though their clash left the difference in their strength unclear.

• Taiyi and Heavenly Dao fought at incredible speed, shattering stretches of Chaos Void and destroying countless universes as the Seven Sages watched in fear.
• Heavenly Dao summoned Forty-nine Innate Supreme Treasures formed from the Three Thousand Laws of the Heavenly Dao.
• Taiyi manifested the Gate of the Great Dao and struck with the Fist of the Great Dao, destroying all but the Heavenly Dao Pagoda, Bell, and Cauldron.
• Heavenly Dao empowered the remaining three treasures and attacked Taiyi, but the Gate of the Great Dao blocked the Heavenly Dao Cauldron.
• Taiyi shattered the Heavenly Dao Cauldron, blasted down the Heavenly Dao Bell, and cut the spire from the Heavenly Dao Pagoda, repelling Heavenly Dao’s strongest strike.

Taiyi endured the Heavenly Dao’s increasingly powerful attacks and escaped its formation, but neither could defeat the other. The Heavenly Dao ended their battle after recognizing Taiyi’s potential, while an unknown change began to stir in the damaged Primordial Continent.

• The Heavenly Dao combined the Forty-nine Innate Supreme Treasures into a divine pillar and attacked Taiyi, whose punches and Great Dao Gate broke through its assaults.
• The Heavenly Dao trapped Taiyi in a formation made from the Forty-nine Innate Supreme Treasures, and Taiyi endured its relentless attacks until he tore a gap and escaped.
• Taiyi struck the formation with the Great Dao Gate and destroyed it, after which the Heavenly Dao restored the treasures but chose not to attack again.
• The Heavenly Dao told Taiyi that he had touched the edge of the Limitless Hunyuan Great Dao and agreed to end the battle, since neither could defeat the other.
• The Heavenly Dao vanished, and Taiyi returned home as Hongmeng Qi repaired the Primordial Continent; neither knew what mutation their battle’s aftermath would cause.

Taiyi repaired the Great Dao Gate and spent a hundred thousand years refining the Taichu Great Dao Source. When the system alerted him that Zhunti and Jieyin had founded the Buddhist Sect, Taiyi learned that their cautious rule had left western human settlements vulnerable to demons.

• Taiyi sent the damaged Great Dao Gate into the Little Chaos Pearl Heavenly Dao World to absorb Chaos Energy and heal its Dao scars.
• Taiyi restored the Great Dao Gate's lost principles and divine runes with the Three Thousand Laws of the Dao and several Great Dao Sources.
• Taiyi refined the Taichu Great Dao Source and realized that each of the Innate Five Tai contained distinct, difficult mysteries.
• The system informed Taiyi that Zhunti and Jieyin had established the Buddhist Sect and offered him a choice between intervening for a Creation Great Dao Source or ignoring them for a Buddha Dao Source.
• Taiyi looked toward the Western Continent and recalled that the Western Sages' cautious suppression of mortal warfare had left human settlements exposed to demons and demonic beings.

Taiyi chose to claim a portion of Buddhism’s Great Dao Source and considered becoming the ancestor of all Buddhas. On Mount Sumeru, Jieyin and Zhunti established Buddhism with the Heavenly Dao’s acknowledgment, spreading Buddhist Dharma throughout the Primordial World and taking new names.

• Taiyi chose his second system option and received a portion of Buddhism’s Great Dao Source.
• Jieyin and Zhunti instructed hundreds of millions of disciples to leave the Mystic Sect and join their independent Buddhist Sect.
• Jieyin and Zhunti vowed before the Heavenly Dao to establish Buddhism and spread Buddhist Dharma throughout the heavens.
• Merit and Destiny gathered as Jieyin manifested the Eight Treasures Merit Pool and Zhunti manifested the Bodhi Sacred Tree, bringing Buddhism into being.
• The five other sages noticed the Buddhist establishment after its heavenly signs appeared.
• Jieyin became Amitabha Buddha and Zhunti became Buddha-Mother Zhunti as heaven and earth acknowledged their vows.

Amitabha Buddha and Buddha-Mother Zhunti established the Buddhist Sect and drew merit and providence away from the Mystic Sect. As the other Sages weighed their options, Tongtian attacked the new sect with the Qingping Sword.

• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha-Mother Zhunti founded the Buddhist Sect, and the Heavenly Dao answered their vows with merit and providence.
• Goddess Nüwa realized the Western Two Sages had replaced the Western Sect and considered who might stop them from dividing Mystic Sect providence.
• Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun seethed at the Buddhist Sect’s rise but held back because their karmic debts to the Western Two Sages threatened their sage positions.
• Tongtian learned of the Buddhist Sect’s establishment and sent a powerful sword light from Golden Turtle Island toward the Western Paradise Holy Land.
• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha-Mother Zhunti saw Tongtian’s sword strike approaching and feared for their newly founded sect.