Chapter Summaries

Taiyi defeated the Dragon Lord’s elite forces and killed the Dragon God Heavenly King, turning the battle in the Primordial Wilderness’s favor. He claimed the Heavenly King’s corpse as spoils and taunted the furious Dragon Lord.

• The Dragon Lord ordered the Dragon God Heavenly King to command the Myriad Dragons Army and stop the Primordial Wilderness’s forces.
• The Dragon God Heavenly King summoned the surviving dragons, but Taiyi struck them with his Epoch God Fist and annihilated many of them.
• The Dragon God Heavenly King charged Taiyi to protect the army, and Taiyi pierced his head with the Godslaying Spear.
• Taiyi’s dragon-blood rain stunned the extraterrestrial fighters and encouraged the Interception Sect immortals to rally against them.
• Taiyi collected the Dragon God Heavenly King’s corpse and mocked the Dragon Lord from afar.

After the Dragon God Heavenly King was killed, the Dragon Lord withdrew the Dragon Realm while Taiyi confronted the remaining enemies. Ye Wentian sacrificed Humanity’s Martial Luck to wound the Martial Lord and help Taiyi seize nearly one-third of the source of his martial Dao.

• The Dragon Lord vowed to avenge the Dragon God Heavenly King, but ignored Taiyi’s challenge and led the Dragon Realm toward the Chaos Corridor.
• The Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign accused the Dragon Lord of breaking their agreement, and the Dragon Lord and Martial Lord both dismissed their complaints.
• The Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign decided to stall until Slaughter returned with the Devouring Demon Sage.
• Ye Wentian sacrificed a hundred years of Humanity’s Martial Luck to sever one of the Martial Lord’s arms, then used a second strike to create an opening.
• Ye Wentian revealed that his attack had lured the Martial Lord into a trap, allowing Taiyi to take nearly one-third of the Martial Lord’s martial Dao source before Ye Wentian transformed into the Dao.
• Taiyi mocked the enraged Martial Lord and promised to honor him with a monument and festival, while the Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign gloated.

Taiyi forced Martial Lord to retreat, then led the Primordial Sages in an assault on Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign’s isolated worlds. As the battle raged, Taiyi used the Great Black Cauldron to collect the fallen experts’ resources, provoking Death Sovereign.

• Martial Lord returned to the Martial World and led its forces away toward the Chaos Corridor.
• Houtu, Nüwa, the Three Pure Ones, and the other Primordial Sages surrounded the two Extraterrestrial Great Worlds and attacked.
• Taiyi held Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign at bay while Tongtian Jiaozhu’s forces drove back their armies.
• Taiyi summoned the Great Black Cauldron and sent it to collect resources from fallen experts.
• Death Sovereign condemned Taiyi for openly seizing the corpses and resources of his side’s fallen fighters.

Goddess Houtu used the Six Paths of Reincarnation to subdue a Death Shadow Overlord and turn its death-law origins into nourishment for the Netherworld. The Netherworld gained a new domain of death, strengthening the Earthly Dao and raising Houtu to the sixth level of the Sage Realm, while Hongjun feared the Earthly Dao was nearing the Heavenly Dao’s power.

• Taiyi dismissed the Death Sovereign’s protest as Goddess Houtu confronted a Death Overlord on the Primordial Sages’ battlefield.
• Goddess Houtu repeatedly cast the Death Shadow Overlord through reincarnation, weakening it before sealing it in the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Goddess Houtu refined the Overlord’s death-law origins and introduced them into the Netherworld, creating a new domain of death.
• The death domain calmed and nourished the Netherworld’s souls, prompting the nine-layered Netherworld and the Earthly Dao to grow stronger.
• Goddess Houtu advanced two stages to the sixth level of the Sage Realm, astonishing the Sages on both sides.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun sensed the Earthly Dao’s growing strength and raged that it was approaching the Heavenly Dao.

Goddess Houtu strengthened the Netherworld by adding the Source of the Law of Death, while Lady Pingxin subdued the imprisoned Death Shadow Overlord. On the Chaos Battlefield, Houtu resisted a Death Soul Overlord’s soul attack and began destroying his body to claim his Source of the Law of Soul.

• The eleven Ancestral Witches observed the strengthened Nine-Layer Yin Earth, where Dijiang served symbolically as Fengdu Emperor and Witch Clan members held posts in the Underworld.
• Lady Pingxin used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc to suppress the Death Shadow Overlord and refine his Source of Death into strength for the Netherworld.
• Goddess Houtu continued fighting Extraterritorial Sages on the Chaos Battlefield and viewed them as sources of treasures and laws for the Primordial World.
• The Death Soul Overlord attacked Houtu’s primordial spirit with waves of negative energy, but the Twelfth Grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus protected her.
• Houtu counterattacked the Death Soul Overlord, saying his Source of the Law of Soul would fill the Underworld’s soul domain, and began crumbling his saintly body.

Progenitor Dragon attained Dao as a Chaos Saint Dragon and established the path of dragon veins, startling the Primordial Wilderness and raising fears that the Dragon Clan might destabilize the war against the Extraterritorial Sages. The Great Dao answered his declaration with boundless merit, leaving his new path confirmed as the battle continued.

• Great Witch Jiu Feng celebrated Houtu’s growing power as the Ancestral Witches resolved to work harder toward attaining Dao.
• Death Sovereign and Slaughter Sovereign worried that their forces would be depleted before Slaughter returned, until Progenitor Dragon’s roar announced his attainment of Sagehood.
• Progenitor Dragon appeared over the Primordial Continent as a Chaos Saint Dragon, shocking the Primordial Wilderness and prompting Taiyi to warn that he would kill the dragons if they defied the Heavenly Court.
• Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign hoped the Dragon Clan might attack Taiyi Heavenly Court from behind, while the Primordial Sages feared Progenitor Dragon’s timing and intentions.
• Progenitor Dragon established the path of dragon veins, allowing members of the Scaled Tribe to inherit dragon veins and cultivate into dragons.
• The Great Dao answered Progenitor Dragon’s declaration by sending down boundless merit.

Progenitor Dragon proved his Dao, gained merit, and transformed his companion treasure into an Innate Supreme Treasure. He rejected the Extraterrestrial Sovereigns, established the True Dragon Great World, and drew true dragons under his protection.

• Great Dao Merit dissipated much of Progenitor Dragon's karmic sin and raised the Progenitor Dragon Pearl to an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Death Sovereign demanded that Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long honor their agreement, but Progenitor Dragon denied making one.
• Progenitor Dragon established the True Dragon Great World as a dojo for all who became true dragons and vowed to protect them.
• Heavenly Dao Merit descended in reward, while Taiyi recognized that the Dragon Clan's new merit would prevent others from slaughtering them without consequence.

After the True Dragon Great World rose into the chaos heavens, Progenitor Dragon acknowledged the Primordial Wilderness while preserving his status as a Sage. Taiyi suppressed the Death Sovereign and the Destruction Sovereign, then led the Primordial Wilderness immortals in seizing their two weakened Great Worlds for the Primordial World system.

• Progenitor Dragon emerged from the True Dragon Great World and told Taiyi that the Primordial Wilderness was his master, while Zhu Long stayed silent at his brother’s glance.
• Taiyi demanded that the Death Sovereign and the Destruction Sovereign choose between fighting and surrendering, but they asked to return home and promised not to invade again.
• Taiyi attacked the two Sovereigns with the Godslaying Spear and overwhelmed them, then sent them into the River of Fate to be suppressed.
• Taiyi invited the Primordial Wilderness immortals to divide the spoils, and they overwhelmed the remaining resistance in the Death Great World and the Great World of Destruction.
• Taiyi declared that the two Great Worlds now belonged to the Primordial World system.

After the cataclysm ended, Hongjun summoned the Sages to discuss the transition into a new era and the dispute between the Purple Palace Immortal Court and Taiyi Heavenly Court. Duke of the East demanded that Taiyi be expelled, but the Heavenly Dao had reason to favor Taiyi, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The Primordial World assimilated Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign's Origin Great Worlds as Hongjun summoned the Sages to Purple Cloud Palace.
• The Sages gathered, while Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long ignored Hongjun's invitation and stayed away.
• Hongjun declared the Witch and Demon Cataclysm ended and said the Primordial Continent was entering a new era.
• Hongjun called on Duke of the East and Taiyi to settle the old feud between their courts before the new era began.
• Duke of the East agreed to follow Hongjun, while Taiyi demanded that he dissolve the Purple Palace Immortal Court and asserted Taiyi Heavenly Court's supremacy.
• Duke of the East accused Taiyi of disrupting peace and proposed expelling him, though Taiyi's power and service to the Heavenly Dao made expulsion unlikely.

Taiyi demanded that the Human Race control the Investiture of the Gods List, forcing Heavenly Dao Hongjun to compromise rather than risk a split among the Sages. Hongjun agreed to let the Human Race and Three Sects jointly hold it, and Taiyi took possession of the list.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun dismissed Duke of the East's claims and called on the Sages to unite against external foes.
• Taiyi agreed to make peace with the Purple Palace Immortal Court only if the Human Race activated the Investiture of the Gods List in the next calamity era.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun rejected Taiyi's demand, and Taiyi prepared to leave with his allies, including Goddess Nüwa, Goddess Houtu, Great Immortal Yang Mei, and Demon Ancestor Rahu.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun compromised by proposing that the Human Race and the Three Sects jointly hold the Investiture of the Gods List, and Taiyi accepted.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun handed over the list, and Taiyi subdued its power and unfolded it before the Sages.

After leaving Hongjun’s palace, the powers of the Primordial World expanded their factions while Taiyi Heavenly Court remained stable. Taiyi returned with the Investiture of the Gods List, revealed that it would trigger the next calamity, and left his allies waiting on his plans.

• Taiyi and the other visitors left Hongjun, who ordered the Three Pure Ones and the Western Two Sages to depart as well.
• Eastern King Duke recruited immortals for Purple Palace Immortal Court, while Taishang Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, Tongtian Jiaozhu, Zhunti, and Jieyin expanded their teachings and followings.
• Taiyi returned to Taiyi Heavenly Court with the Investiture of the Gods List as the court and the Great Dao Human Race continued expanding.
• Zhenyuanzi asked whether the list was connected to the next calamity, and Taiyi identified it as the catalyst for the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei, Demon Ancestor Rahu, and the other Sages offered to help prepare, but Taiyi told them to remain calm and said he had his own plans.

Taiyi transformed the Heavenly Dao Investiture of the Gods List into the Great Dao Investiture of the Gods List, granting it the power to appoint Great Dao Gods at the cost of its own origin. After the Heavenly Court Saints congratulated him, Taiyi returned to the Sun Star.

• Taiyi declared that the gods should aim to transcend the Chaos Sea and led the gathered Saints in pledging to follow him.
• Taiyi infused the Investiture of the Gods List with the Dao of Nothingness Origin and used the Grand God Sealing Art to transform it into the Great Dao Investiture of the Gods List.
• Taiyi received delayed system rewards for defending the Primordial Wilderness and slaying four Extraterritorial Sages, including four Great Dao Divine Abilities.
• Taiyi explained that the new list could appoint up to one hundred and eight Great Dao Gods, whose cultivation would remain fixed at the Grand Luo Golden Immortal Zenith realm.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei, Rahula, Zhen Yuanzi, Nether River Ancestor, Kunpeng Ancestor, and the other Saints congratulated Taiyi, who then returned to the Sun Star.

Taiyi refined four Great Dao arts and formed a Dao Bloom on his Primal Chaos Dao Fruit, beginning the path toward nurturing a Dao Seed. The phenomena surrounding his secluded cultivation awed the sages of the Primordial Wilderness, while Hongjun resolved to enter seclusion and pursue Sovereign Sagehood.

• Taiyi swallowed and refined the Source of the Catastrophe Great Dao, then mastered the Grand Sealing Art, Grand God Sealing Art, and Grand Star Art.
• Taiyi integrated the four new Great Dao Divine Marks into his Primal Chaos Dao Fruit, which formed an illusory Dao Bloom.
• Taiyi realized that the Dao Bloom could be used to nurture a Dao Seed and advance his path of one proof, three attainments.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei, Demon Ancestor Rahu, Nüwa, Goddess Houtu, and other Heavenly Court sages observed the Great Dao phenomena above the Sun Star and gained insight from them.
• Hongjun of the Heavenly Dao sensed that Taiyi's aura surpassed his own and decided to enter seclusion to pursue Sovereign Sagehood.

After emerging from seclusion, Taiyi reassured the Heavenly Court officials that he had not attained the Dao and held a ten-thousand-year lecture that drew beings from across the Primordial World. He then questioned Great Immortal Yang Mei about his past, learning that Yang Mei was a Hollow Willow who had acquired a fragment of the Chaos Space God Demon’s Space Great Dao Source.

• Taiyi emerged from seclusion, and Houtu, Nüwa, Rahu, and the other officials were awed by his Great Dao aura.
• Taiyi denied having attained the Dao and proposed a lecture, which Great Immortal Yang Mei eagerly welcomed.
• Taiyi lectured on the Sun Star for ten thousand years, revealing mastery of forty-nine Great Dao Laws and earning the listeners’ gratitude.
• After the lecture, Taiyi kept Great Immortal Yang Mei behind and asked what he remembered about being the Chaos Space God Demon.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei explained that he was a Hollow Willow who had obtained a fragment of the original Yang Mei’s Space Great Dao Source and adopted the name for traveling through the Primordial Wilderness.

Taiyi learned that Great Immortal Yang Mei’s origins and the possible return of the ancient Chaos Gods and Demons concealed a danger he could not yet confront. After the Witch and Demon Cataclysm, the Heavenly Court and other powers moved powerful nonhuman groups into separate realms, leaving the Primordial Continent to the Great Dao Human Race.

• Taiyi realized that Great Immortal Yang Mei was not the Chaos Space God Demon Yang Mei, whose fate left no trace in the spacetime he examined.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei told Taiyi that he had inherited a legacy from Chaos Space God Demon Yang Mei and glimpsed a future in which the gods and demons who had perished would return.
• Taiyi recognized the danger behind the revelation but decided to leave the secret alone until he achieved the Hongmeng Great Dao.
• After the Witch and Demon Cataclysm ended, the Taiyi Heavenly Court ordered powerful members of the Witch and Demon Clans to relocate to the Witch World and Heavenly Demon World.
• Duke of the East opened the Immortal Realm for the Purple Palace Immortal Court, and the realms’ Saints restricted powerful beings from descending to the Primordial Continent.
• The Primordial Human Race moved into Langhuan Heaven, while the Great Dao Human Race replaced its chiefs through successive trials and began governing the continent.

Hongjun learned from the Heavenly Dao that Pangu and the Chaos Demon Gods had gone to the Dao Realm, while the Heavenly Dao had grown stronger across the Chaos Epochs but still could not destroy the Extraterritorial Sages. Taiyi returned to the Demon Court and strengthened the Starry Sky Great Formation’s defenders for the coming invasion.

• Hongjun asked the Heavenly Dao about the Dao Realm and the Extraterritorial Sages, and learned that Pangu had led the Chaos Demon Gods there after creating the world.
• The Heavenly Dao explained that its power had grown over the Chaos Epochs and urged Hongjun to set aside his conflict with Taiyi and resist the Extraterritorial Sages.
• Hongjun agreed to put aside internal disputes and unite against the invasion.
• Taiyi returned to the Demon Court, gave the Ten Great Demon Gods and demon generals the Celestial Grand Star Art, and charged them with defending the Primordial Wilderness.
• Taiyi bestowed cultivation resources on the formation’s defenders, whose power had grown through years of operating the Starry Sky Great Formation.

Taiyi strengthened the Starry Sky Great Formation and reforged the Heavenly Dao Investiture List into the Great Dao Investiture of the Gods List, alarming Hongjun and changing the balance between him and the Heavenly Dao. The chapter ended with Hongjun accepting the Heavenly Dao as a fellow cultivator and teaching it about the Primordial World.

• Taiyi completed the strengthened Starry Sky Great Formation and left the Star Dipper Divine Hall.
• Hongjun sensed the formation’s immense power and feared it could injure or even kill him, so he prepared to confront Taiyi.
• Hongjun discovered that Taiyi had removed the Heavenly Dao’s power from the Investiture of the Gods List and reforged it as the Great Dao Investiture of the Gods List.
• The Heavenly Dao appeared in the Purple Cloud Palace and explained that the reforged list had allowed it to leave its mysterious space.
• The Heavenly Dao told Hongjun that they were bound together and could not destroy one another without both ceasing to exist.
• Hongjun accepted the Heavenly Dao as a fellow cultivator and began teaching it about the Primordial World.

Taiyi’s final testing of the Great Dao Investiture of the Gods List drew the Primordial Sages to the Chaos Starry Sky and angered Hongjun. The three hundred and sixty-five Ancient Stars then blazed with dazzling light, erasing the surrounding Chaos Energy.

• Taishang Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun mistook Taiyi’s final test for an attempt to refine the Investiture of the Gods List, while Tongtian Jiaozhu approached and chatted with Taiyi as a close ally.
• Zhunti and Jieyin mocked Taiyi for supposedly trying to erase Hongjun’s imprint, and Duke of the East repeatedly messaged Hongjun to report him.
• Hongjun struck Duke of the East with Purple Firmament Divine Lightning, then replied that he already knew; the other sages laughed as Duke of the East returned to Purple Mansion Continent.
• The three hundred and sixty-five Ancient Stars shone brilliantly and instantly dissolved the Chaos Energy around them, drawing the sages’ attention.

The 365 Demon Gods tested the Starry Sky Great Formation, whose starlight erased a vast meteor cluster and delighted Taiyi. Meanwhile, Zhunti and Jieyin persuaded Laozi and Yuanshi to consider challenging Taiyi over the Investiture of the Gods List, ending with Zhunti proposing an alliance with Extraterritorial Sages.

• The 365 Demon Gods combined their power through the Starry Sky Great Formation and Bai Ze ordered its starlight beam to erase a massive meteor cluster.
• Bai Ze and the other Demon Gods celebrated the successful test, while Taiyi praised them and declared that the formation could guard the Primordial World against Extraterrestrial Sovereigns.
• Jieyin Sage Buddha asked Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun what they thought about Taiyi obtaining the Investiture of the Gods List, and Zhunti Demon Buddha urged them to fight for a share of its benefits.
• Zhunti proposed that the Three Sects jointly control the list, then suggested adding Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long to their alliance when Laozi said they still lacked strength.
• Zhunti asked whether the alliance could include Extraterritorial Sages, and Laozi reacted with surprise at his suggestion.

Zhunti, Jieyin, Yuanshi Tianzun, Taishang Laozi, Duke of the East, Progenitor Dragon, and Zhu Long demanded that Taiyi surrender the Great Dao Investiture of the Gods List. Taiyi struck first, and the seven Saints attacked him together, leaving him besieged in the Chaos Void.

• The seven Saints urged Taiyi to hand over the Investiture of the Gods List so they could decide the divine quotas together.
• Progenitor Dragon threatened to destroy the Human Race if Taiyi refused, while the Saints assumed Taiyi was intimidated by their numbers.
• Taiyi mocked the Saints and blasted Yuanshi Tianzun and Jieyin Sage Buddha with beams from his Yi Gold Divine Eyes.
• Yuanshi Tianzun and Jieyin Sage Buddha counterattacked, and Taishang Laozi, Duke of the East, Zhunti Demon Buddha, Progenitor Dragon, and Zhu Long joined them.
• The seven Saints unleashed their weapons and abilities against Taiyi, who stood alone amid their assault.