Chapter Summaries

Taiyi considered the obstacles to his path to the Dao and turned his attention to preparations, while the Dragon Lord and the Extraterritorial Sages began opening a passage to the Primordial World. The passage grew large enough for a celestial body, and the Dragon Lord called on the others to stabilize it with their supreme treasures.

• Taiyi dismissed the Ancestor Witches' concerns and thought that Hongjun would be occupied by other threats, then decided to make arrangements before attaining the Dao.
• The Three Giants of the eighth Chaos Epoch gathered with the Dragon Lord and the Devouring Demon Sage, whose presence remained difficult to sense.
• Sovereign of Slaughter warned the Devouring Demon Sage to honor their agreement or return to being suppressed.
• The Dragon Lord opened a rift toward the Primordial Universe of the ninth Chaos Epoch, and the other Sovereigns poured their Hunyuan mana into it to enlarge the passage.
• After the passage grew wide enough for a celestial body, the Dragon Lord ordered everyone to stabilize it with their supreme treasures and cast out the Chaos Dragon Pearl.

Taishang and Yuanshi fought Zhunti and Jieyin to a draw, establishing Western Buddhism’s strength and securing its place on Mount Sumeru. Afterward, the Western Sages allied with Duke of the East and began expanding eastward, leaving the sects competing for influence before a greater war.

• Taishang and Yuanshi battled Zhunti and Jieyin in the chaos, but the four sages exhausted their methods and separated without a winner.
• Yuanshi blamed Tongtian for not joining them, while Taishang and Yuanshi returned to their respective palaces.
• Buddhists on Mount Sumeru celebrated the Western Sages’ victory in defending their sect, and some Exposition Sect disciples went west to seek scriptures.
• Jieyin and Zhunti met Duke of the East and reached agreements that laid the groundwork for Western Buddhism’s eastward expansion.
• Jieyin and Zhunti sent Buddhist disciples into the Eastern Continent to convert people, increasing Western Buddhism’s fortune as the Dao Sect and Exposition Sect declined.
• Jieyin and Zhunti watched Western Paradise’s fortune grow and said they could eventually transform it into a Great Thousand World.

Zhun Ti Demon Buddha used the Mount Sumeru Seal to transform and empower Mount Sumeru, establishing the Sumeru Sect and taking the title Ancestor Sumeru. Jieyin Sage Buddha welcomed the change but remained uneasy about the inheritance behind it.

• Zhun Ti Demon Buddha revealed that the Mount Sumeru Seal was both a supreme treasure and a weapon that could become a giant Demon Buddha Hand Seal.
• Zhun Ti merged the seal with Mount Sumeru, reshaping the mountain and transforming some Buddhist cultivators into Demon Buddhas while preserving two distinct branches of the sect.
• Zhun Ti reclaimed the empowered seal and declared that he could control the entire Mount Sumeru range, including forces associated with Zhen Yuanzi's Earth Vein Ancestral Court.
• Zhun Ti told Jieyin that he had obtained the seal and an inheritance from a great sect of a previous Chaos Epoch, named the sect Sumeru, and took the title Ancestor Sumeru.
• Jieyin accepted the existence of the inheritance but felt uneasy about its strange origins.

Zhunti Demon Buddha explained to Jieyin Sage Buddha why he had allied with the Extraterritorial Sages, then revealed that his inherited records might eventually help Jieyin escape the Heavenly Dao’s control. In the East Sea, Zhu Long revived Progenitor Dragon’s remnant soul, and Progenitor Dragon declared that he was close to attaining a Sage Soul and a Chaos Dragon body.

• Zhunti Demon Buddha told Jieyin Sage Buddha that he was using his alliance with the Extraterritorial Sages to pursue power and secure a future for himself.
• Jieyin Sage Buddha accepted Zhunti’s choice and urged him to pursue the Dao beyond the Other Shore, since Heavenly Dao Sages remained bound to the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhunti Demon Buddha revealed that his inherited records described a way for Heavenly Dao Sages to escape the Heavenly Will consciousness, possibly after he reached Sage Realm Ninth Heaven.
• Jieyin Sage Buddha renewed his hope that Zhunti could eventually free him from the Heavenly Dao’s control.
• Zhu Long summoned Progenitor Dragon’s remnant soul from the Progenitor Dragon Pearl, and the brothers recognized each other.
• Progenitor Dragon told Zhu Long that his long slumber had refined his divine soul and that he was close to becoming a Sage Soul and attaining a Chaos Dragon body.

After learning about the Primordial Continent’s upheavals from Zhu Long, Progenitor Dragon planned how the Dragon Clan could regain power by exploiting conflict between its enemies and the Extraterritorial Sages. The brothers agreed to delay the invaders while preparing for their arrival, and Zhu Long shared the Chaos Dragon Clan inheritance with Progenitor Dragon.

• Zhu Long recounted the Primordial Continent’s recent events and described Taiyi’s overwhelming strength, which Progenitor Dragon identified as a major obstacle to the Dragon Clan’s return.
• Progenitor Dragon urged Zhu Long to avoid confronting Taiyi and to wait for Taiyi’s enemies to weaken one another before the Dragon Clan intervened.
• Progenitor Dragon asked Zhu Long about the Chaotic Dragon Nest and the Chaos Dragon Lord, and Zhu Long described his dealings with the Extraterritorial Sages.
• Progenitor Dragon deduced that the Extraterritorial Sages needed a breach and coordinates supplied by a native, then told Zhu Long to delay them until the Dragon Clan could no longer refuse.
• Zhu Long gave Progenitor Dragon the Chaos Dragon Clan inheritance he had obtained from the Chaos Dragon Lord.

The Chaos Dragon Lord used Zhu Long as an anchor to open a Chaos Corridor into the Primordial World, then sent a powerful incarnation through to threaten him and Progenitor Dragon. The Three Giants of the Eighth Chaos Epoch arrived as Sage-level incarnations, leaving the two dragons wary of what the Extraterritorial Sages planned next.

• A dragon-shaped Chaos Corridor appeared, and Zhu Long explained that the Extraterritorial Sages were preparing a passage between worlds.
• The Chaos Dragon Lord's incarnation emerged, and Zhu Long accused him of secretly using him as an anchor to locate the Primordial World.
• The Dragon Lord incarnation threatened Zhu Long and the Primordial Dragon Race, then overwhelmed Zhu Long and Progenitor Dragon with his Hunyuan aura.
• The Three Giants of the Eighth Chaos Epoch—Destruction, Slaughter, and Death—arrived as Sage-level incarnations.
• Zhu Long and Progenitor Dragon stayed silent as the Dragon Lord spoke privately with the Three Giants, and Zhu Long warned his elder brother that the situation had become serious.

Martial Lord of the Martial World seized the Chaos Corridor and entered the Primordial Dragon Palace, where he announced that he sought only the Martial Great Dao Glyph. After questioning Zhu Long and Progenitor Dragon about the martial path, he rewarded them with Chaos Crystal Source and turned his attention toward the Primordial Continent.

• Zhu Long told Progenitor Dragon that the Dragon Lord and the Three Giants of the Eighth Chaos Epoch had once fought Heavenly Dao Hongjun evenly until Taiyi the Supreme drove them back.
• Martial Lord endured the attacks of the Dragon Lord and the Three Giants, seized the Chaos Corridor, and arrived at the Primordial Dragon Palace.
• Dragon Lord challenged Martial Lord for taking the corridor, and Martial Lord said he wanted only the Martial Great Dao Glyph before agreeing not to interfere with the others.
• Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long decided to watch the conflict and use it to gauge the Extraterritorial Sages and Taiyi the Supreme.
• Martial Lord summoned Zhu Long and Progenitor Dragon, questioned them about the Great Dao Human Race's martial path, then released them and gave them Chaos Crystal Source.

Martial Lord, Dragon Lord, and the Three Giants entered the Ninth Chaos Epoch and discovered its Primordial World had far more abundant origin than earlier epochs. While investigating the Three Thousand Greater Worlds system, they uncovered the Sumeru Holy Sect at Mount Sumeru, and Dragon Lord warned that the sect had survived and spread across multiple Chaos Epochs.

• Martial Lord and Dragon Lord were shocked by the Ninth Chaos Epoch's powerful World Origin, and Dragon Lord warned that its Heavenly Dao would grow increasingly dangerous.
• Zhu Long explained Taiyi's Three Thousand Greater Worlds system, prompting Martial Lord to marvel at its scale and Dragon Lord and the Three Giants to fear it would bar their return.
• Martial Lord led Dragon Lord's avatar and the Three Giants across the Primordial Continent while remaining undetected by the World Heavenly Dao and Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Dragon Lord sensed something strange at Mount Sumeru and revealed the Western Paradise grotto-heaven and its demonic Buddha monks.
• Dragon Lord identified the Sumeru Holy Sect as a group that had survived the Sixth Chaos Epoch's destruction, spread into later epochs, and now established itself in the Ninth.

Martial Lord and the other Extraterritorial Sages arrived at the Great Dao Human Race settlement and discovered that a native sage had created a Great Dao Race. Martial Lord demanded to meet Taiyi, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun appeared to confront the intruders.

• Martial Lord told the Dragon Lord avatar that latecomers needed to secure a place in the Primordial World before its future calamity.
• Martial Lord traveled to the Great Dao Human Race settlement with the Dragon Lord avatar, the Three Giants, Zhu Long, and Progenitor Dragon.
• Martial Lord realized that the Great Dao Human Race was an artificially created Great Dao Race and praised the methods used to establish it.
• The Dragon Lord avatar and the Three Giants recognized the race's importance and its potential to lead the Primordial World beyond Chaos.
• Martial Lord asked Zhu Long to take him to Taiyi and tore away the group's Heavenly Dao concealment.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun appeared amid Purple Firmament Tribulation Clouds and rebuked the Extraterritorial Sages for entering his world again.

The Martial Lord released an Epochal Calamity Seed into the Primordial World to defy Heavenly Dao Hongjun, triggering disasters across the continent. As Taiyi’s forces worked to save the world, Nüwa warned that the Human Race was in danger.

• The Martial Lord defied Heavenly Dao Hongjun and released an Epochal Calamity Seed across the Primordial Continent.
• The Dragon Lord and the other Extraterritorial Sages realized the seed carried residual Tribulation Qi from the Fifth Chaos Epoch, while Heavenly Dao Hongjun rushed to contain it.
• Disasters ravaged the Primordial World, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun, sages, and Golden Immortals began taking remedial measures.
• Taiyi ordered Nüwa, Goddess Houtu, Zhen Yuanzi, Dijun, the Ten Great Demon Gods, and the ancestral shamans to help save the continent.
• Taiyi told Houtu and Nüwa that the Extraterritorial Sages had helped his plans, but Nüwa suddenly warned that the Human Race was in danger.

The Martial Lord attacked the Great Dao Human Race, seeking to extract its martialism characters and destroy it. Taiyi and Nüwa arrived after the True Martial Divine Steles held off his strike, and the Martial Lord withdrew his palm to face them.

• Nüwa sensed a supreme threat bearing down on the Human Race, while Taiyi said the enemy would be at a disadvantage fighting in the Primordial World.
• The Martial Lord followed traces of true martial intent to the Great Dao Human Race and decided to destroy it by extracting the martialism characters within its fortune.
• The Martial Lord declared the Human Race guilty and struck with a Heaven-Shrouding Giant Palm, but the three thousand True Martial Divine Steles raised a barrier to resist him.
• The Martial Lord increased his power and began crushing the barrier as Tianyi and the elders searched for their unseen attacker.
• Taiyi and Nüwa arrived, and the Martial Lord withdrew his palm, telling them he had been waiting for them.

Taiyi shattered the Martial Lord’s Martial Dao Domain and let the Primordial World’s World Consciousness suppress him. As Heavenly Dao Hongjun fought the Three Giants’ avatars, the Death Sovereign tried to reclaim the Epoch Stone Bridge, and Taiyi moved to stop him.

• The Martial Lord challenged Taiyi, who dismissed him and shattered his Martial Dao Domain with the Grand Disintegration Art.
• Taiyi explained that the Martial Lord’s true body had been exposed to the Primordial World’s World Consciousness, which then enveloped and crushed him.
• Taiyi reassured Goddess Nüwa that they could one day transcend the Chaos World through cultivation.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun suppressed the cataclysm’s chaos and fought the Three Giants’ avatars while the Martial Lord remained trapped by the World Consciousness.
• The Death Sovereign tried to summon the Epoch Stone Bridge from beneath the River of Fate, and Taiyi countered with the Grand Destiny Art to suppress it.

Taiyi triggered a hidden system mission to kill the Extraterritorial Sages invading the Primordial Wilderness and charged into battle against Death Sovereign and the other giants. As Hongjun forced the Western Two Sages to help stabilize the continent, Zhunti and Jieyin warned that a larger invasion could still destroy the Primordial World.

• Taiyi used the River of Fate to trap Death Sovereign’s Epoch Stone Bridge and prepared to suppress his avatar.
• The God-Tier Sign-In System gave Taiyi the hidden Extraterritorial Holy War mission, offering a random reward for every Extraterritorial Sage he killed.
• Taiyi attacked Death Sovereign and the other giants while Hongjun repaired damage to the Primordial Continent.
• Hongjun threatened Zhunti and Jieyin into joining the battle, and their participation eased the strain on the continent.
• Zhunti and Jieyin discussed how the Primordial World had suppressed Martial Lord and cautioned that a united invasion by Extraterritorial Sages could destroy it.

The Dragon Lord targeted Zhunti and Jieyin over the Sumeru Sect’s role in the Dragon Realm’s past chaos, forcing Nüwa and Houtu to intervene. As the Saint battle stalemated and Taiyi pressed the Three Giants, Eastern King Duke cultivated the Chaos Dao Fruit and discovered it could help him attain the Dao and become a Saint.

• The Dragon Lord recognized Zhunti’s Sumeru Sect inheritance, revealed his true dragon form, and attacked Zhunti and Jieyin.
• After Zhunti and Jieyin were defeated in three exchanges, they called for help, and Nüwa and Houtu joined the fight.
• Houtu manifested the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and Nüwa displayed the Great Dao of Creation, alarming the Dragon Lord with memories of the Reincarnation Dao Lord and Creation God Lord.
• Taiyi continued attacking the Three Giants as their defeat and the fall of their Hunyuan avatars drew closer.
• On Purple Mansion Continent, Eastern King Duke cultivated the Seed of Chaos into a Hunyuan Dao Fruit and realized it could help him forge a Great Dao foundation and become a Saint.

Zhu Long helped Progenitor Dragon restore his cultivation so he could attempt to prove the Primordial Chaos Dao, while Taiyi used the rising tribulation qi to refine the Karma Fire Red Lotus. The lotus advanced from the twelfth grade to the twenty-fourth and continued growing as Taiyi considered its potential.

• Zhu Long returned to the East Sea Dragon Clan and helped Progenitor Dragon rebuild his cultivation with Primordial Chaos Dragon Qi.
• Progenitor Dragon sensed that the foundation he needed to prove the Dao was near and expected to become a Sage within days.
• As he suppressed the Three Giants, Taiyi summoned the Twelfth-Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus and fed it the world's surging karmic power.
• The Karma Fire Red Lotus transformed into a Twenty-Fourth-Grade lotus and continued absorbing karmic power.
• Taiyi reflected that the lotus might eventually reach the thirty-sixth grade or become a Chaos Spiritual Treasure.

Taiyi established the Path of Humanity with Great Dao Primordial Violet Qi and merit, bringing the Three Powers into balance and creating the Kongtong Seal. Nüwa used the new supreme treasure to drive Dragon Lord away from her, while Taiyi prepared to attain Dao.

• As the Karma Fire Red Lotus advanced to a twenty-fourth-grade Innate Supreme Treasure, Taiyi announced that he would attain Dao, drawing the attention of the Three Giants, Hongjun, and other powerful figures.
• Taiyi invoked the Great Dao and used Great Dao Primordial Violet Qi and merit to establish the Path of Humanity, naming the Great Dao Human Race its protagonists in the next epoch.
• The Path of Humanity balanced Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, reducing Hongjun's exclusive authority while increasing the Primordial Continent's origin.
• The Great Dao Human Race's destiny formed the Kongtong Seal, an Innate Merit Supreme Treasure that could appoint or depose Human Emperors and suppress demons, devils, ghosts, and monsters.
• Nüwa summoned the Kongtong Seal and struck Dragon Lord, then used it to repel his attacks until he withdrew to fight Zhunti and Jieyin again.

Taiyi used the newly forged Kongtong Seal to seal the Primordial Continent, and Houtu and Hongjun completed the prison with the earth and Heavenly Dao. As the trapped Extraterritorial Sages prepared to fight back, the Lord of the Martial World revealed his true form, and Taiyi struck him with the Burial Sky Coffin.

• Taiyi returned the Kongtong Seal to the Human Race's fortune and declared that he would deal with the trapped Extraterritorial Sages.
• Taiyi invoked the human path to seal the Primordial Continent, trapping the Extraterritorial Sages inside.
• Houtu mobilized the earth path to reinforce the seal, and the Three Giants prepared to dissolve their Hunyuan clones in a final attack.
• Taiyi urged Hongjun to complete the prison, and Hongjun ordered the Heavenly Dao to seal the continent.
• The Lord of the Martial World transformed into his Martial Dao true form and tried to break free.
• Taiyi struck the Lord of the Martial World with the Burial Sky Coffin, empowered by the Thirty-Three Heavens Creation Divine Fist, and a cracking sound rang out.

Taiyi used the Three Daos’ sealing barrier and the Burial Sky Coffin to defeat the invading Hunyuan clones, while the Martial Sovereign escaped. The Dragon Lord returned to the Ring-Shaped Universe with intelligence about the previous eight eras, where the Three Giants learned that their clones had perished.

• The Three Daos suppressed the Martial Sovereign, shattering his Supreme Martial Body and forcing him to retreat toward the Chaos Corridor.
• Taiyi captured and refined the Three Giants’ Hunyuan clones with the Burial Sky Coffin, absorbing their power.
• The Dragon Lord withdrew from the Primordial World unharmed after speaking secretly with Taiyi, who shared intelligence about the previous eight eras with Hongjun.
• The Dragon Lord’s incarnation returned to the Ring-Shaped Universe and merged with his true body.
• The Dragon Lord told the Three Giants that their clones had perished in the Primordial Wilderness, and the Sovereign of Death asked him to explain what had happened.

The Great Dao Human Race advanced its Martial Dao and grew stronger after absorbing the fallen Sages’ power, while Heavenly Dao Hongjun reconsidered his strategy toward them. Enraged by his humiliating defeat, the Martial Lord ordered his army to march on the Primordial Wilderness.

• The Great Dao Human Race absorbed a third of the fallen Hunyuan Sages’ holy power, and its Martial Dao advanced to the Martial God realm.
• Taiyi’s Great Dao Source Martial Character and the three thousand True Martial Divine Steles strengthened, creating a cycle that further raised Human Race fortune and martial cultivation.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun recognized that the Human Race could summon the Martial Ancestor of Humanity without cost and returned to Purple Cloud Palace to reconsider his strategy.
• The Martial Lord returned to the Martial World furious over his defeat and vowed to take revenge.
• The Martial Lord commanded his Martial Dao army to follow him and march upon the Primordial Wilderness.

Duke of the East attained sainthood through the Chaos Dao Seed and established the unconventional Dao Embryo Method, while the rulers of the Extraterritorial Chaos Starry Sky mobilized their armies against the Primordial Continent. Newly empowered, Duke of the East challenged Taiyi at the South Heaven Gate.

• The Dragon Lord joined the Martial Lord in mobilizing his realm’s forces against the Primordial Continent, and the Three Giants sent the armies of Death, Destruction, and Slaughter after them.
• Duke of the East used a Chaos Dao Seed, nourished by Merit and Destiny, to attain the Grand Luo Golden Immortal Zenith and become a sage.
• Duke of the East’s ascension enriched Purple Mansion Continent, while Taiyi and Hongjun of the Heavenly Dao observed his new path to the Dao.
• Hongjun judged Duke of the East’s cultivation weaker than that of the other sages but recognized that he might establish the Dao Embryo Method lineage.
• Duke of the East condensed his Dao Embryo Dharma Body, charged toward the South Heaven Gate, and challenged Taiyi to fight.