Chapter Summaries

Laozi negotiated with the Devouring Demon Sage, who revealed his power and asked for help breaking free of an ancient seal. Laozi agreed to the arrangement, while Hongjun briefly noticed his aura had become obscured but dismissed it.

• Laozi challenged the Devouring Demon Sage to explain what he could offer, and the shadow introduced himself as a being who fed on the Heavenly Dao.
• The Devouring Demon Sage confirmed he was the figure known to the Three Giants and explained that his appearance was only a projection of his power.
• Laozi activated the Two Elements Dust Formation and Taiji Diagram as the Devouring Demon Sage privately transmitted his methods and proposal.
• Hongjun noticed that Laozi's aura had briefly become impossible to investigate, then assumed Laozi had used a new divine ability or magical treasure and resumed cultivation.
• The Devouring Demon Sage said he had destroyed a spacetime universe before being sealed by ancient powers, and he asked Laozi to assist him in breaking free.
• Laozi understood why the Devouring Demon Sage had chosen him and accepted the plan to cooperate.

Laozi accepted the Devouring Demon Sage’s methods and secretly began converting Heavenly Dao Destiny into his own power, while Taiyi noticed his actions and chose not to intervene. Kunpeng created eight hundred Demon Scripts and advanced to the peak of the Quasi-Sage realm, as Nether River Ancestor waited for the Netherworld to be perfected so he could seek Sagehood.

• The Devouring Demon Sage offered to guide Laozi into his lineage, then vanished after passing on methods and secrets.
• Laozi dismissed the idea of becoming the Devouring Demon Sage’s vanguard but decided to study the techniques he had received.
• Laozi closed his mountain gate and secretly used the Devouring Demon Art to drain Heavenly Dao Destiny and transform his primordial spirit without alerting Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao.
• Taiyi sensed Laozi’s contact with an Extraterritorial Sage but chose to wait rather than act against him.
• Kunpeng created eight hundred Demon Scripts, engraved them on the Demon Master Palace, and received merit that raised his cultivation to Great Perfection of the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Nether River Ancestor envied Kunpeng’s achievement but declared that he would become a Sage once the Netherworld was fully perfected.

Taiyi was surprised that Kunpeng received more Heavenly Dao Merit for creating Demon Script than the Immortal Court had received for Immortal Script. After Duke of the East departed for the chaos, Turtle Prime Minister took charge of the Immortal Court and ordered it to avoid external affairs and conflicts.

• Taiyi reflected on Kunpeng creating only eight hundred Demon Script characters and wondered whether the number related to a saying about three thousand Great Daos and eight hundred side paths.
• Duke of the East envied Kunpeng's greater merit and summoned Turtle Prime Minister.
• Duke of the East told Turtle Prime Minister that he was going to the chaos and left him to coordinate the Immortal Court in his absence.
• Turtle Prime Minister ordered the Immortal Court to suspend external affairs and avoid provoking the Taiyi Heavenly Court or the Human Race.
• The immortals accepted Turtle Prime Minister's decree.

Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long invited Duke of the East to form an alliance against Taiyi Heavenly Court, then revealed that Evil Dragon King had been concealed nearby. Evil Dragon King offered Duke of the East a place among future rulers and the continuation of the Dao Embryo Method, leaving Duke of the East stunned by the revelation that others had advanced along his path in earlier Chaos Epochs.

• Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long proposed an equal alliance with Duke of the East against Taiyi Heavenly Court.
• Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long summoned Evil Dragon King, whose hidden presence shocked Duke of the East and the two dragons.
• Duke of the East asked whether Evil Dragon King was connected to Hongjun's Myriad Evil Heaven Coffin, and Evil Dragon King demanded to know why the dragons had not told him about it.
• Evil Dragon King said he would eventually seize the Myriad Evil Heaven Coffin and offered Duke of the East a future place among the rulers and the next part of the Dao Embryo Method.
• Evil Dragon King revealed that someone had advanced far along the Dao Embryo Method in one of the previous eight Chaos Epochs, leaving Duke of the East, Progenitor Dragon, and Zhu Long astonished.

Duke of the East learned how the Seed of Evil could spread the Evil Dao and discussed the Evil Dragon King's possession of an Evil Dao Sage with Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long. Meanwhile, Hongjun Daozu suspected Extraterritorial Sages were interfering, and the Evil Dragon King reported to the Dragon Lord, who offered to support his rise to a higher Sovereign position.

• The Evil Dragon King left after giving Duke of the East the Seed of Evil, which could spread the Evil Dao and eventually produce Evil Sovereigns.
• Duke of the East explained to Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long that the Evil Dragon King could possess an Evil Dao Sage because their Dao origins were aligned, but could not possess other Sages.
• Hongjun Daozu noticed the Seed of Evil's aura and suspected Extraterritorial Sages had intervened in the Primordial World.
• Hongjun Daozu resented that his cultivation and the Mystic Sect's fortune had improved through his alliance with Taiyi.
• The Evil Dragon King reported his actions in the Primordial World to the Dragon Lord, who praised him and offered to support his ascension to a vacant higher Sovereign position.

Taiyi appointed Kunpeng Ancestor as Demon Clan Emperor Teacher and gave him the Kunpeng Nine Heavens Art, helping him harmonize yin and yang and begin his path toward Sagehood. After Kunpeng departed, Houtu’s incarnation warned Taiyi that the Underworld’s Laws of Death were in turmoil and something seemed about to be born.

• Taiyi named Kunpeng Ancestor Demon Clan Emperor Teacher and charged him with teaching the Demon Clan.
• Taiyi gave Kunpeng Ancestor the Kunpeng Nine Heavens Art and helped him refine his yin and yang origins.
• Kunpeng Ancestor harmonized his yin and yang, then left after Taiyi urged him to build a new Demon Clan and pursue Sagehood.
• Taiyi returned to seclusion, but Houtu’s incarnation soon arrived to report turmoil in the Underworld’s Laws of Death.
• Taiyi reassured Houtu’s incarnation that the disturbance might be a good thing and that he would handle it.

Taiyi visited Houtu in the Ninefold Netherworld and examined the rapidly growing Death Law River, whose power threatened to overwhelm reincarnation. He discovered something unusual in its waters and led Houtu to see it.

• Taiyi saw the immense Death Law River, and Houtu explained that accumulated dead souls and two suppressed Extraterritorial Sages had caused its unexpected growth.
• Taiyi warned that the river could eventually drive out the laws of reincarnation, then identified Houtu's incomplete control of the sages as the cause.
• Houtu asked Taiyi for help, and he studied the Death Law River with his Yi Gold Divine Eyes.
• Taiyi found an unusual stretch of the river and took Houtu there, calling it a surprise.

Taiyi revealed that the disturbance in the Death River came from a newly born Death Spirit Fetus, and promised Goddess Houtu he could make it serve as the Underworld’s guardian. When Taiyi drew it out, the fetus appeared as a Three-Headed Hellhound, whose emergence shook the Netherworld and drew the attention of its powerful inhabitants and distant saints.

• Taiyi explained to Goddess Houtu that the Death Spirit Fetus had formed from the Laws of Death and could threaten her authority over the Underworld.
• Taiyi promised to subdue the Death Spirit Fetus and make it Goddess Houtu’s guardian beast, and she asked him to do so.
• Taiyi unleashed a rune of the Laws of Light, exposing the abyss where the Death Spirit Fetus had concealed itself.
• The Death Spirit Fetus emerged as a Three-Headed Hellhound, halted the Death River, and caused its waters to surge toward it.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Nether River Ancestor arrived, while Taiyi warned them to keep their distance from the Chaos Saint Beast.
• The disturbance shook the Primordial Wilderness, and saints Beyond the Thirty-Third Heaven looked down upon the Underworld.

A disturbance in the Netherworld Underworld drew the attention of sages across the Primordial Wilderness, who headed for the Blood Sea to investigate. Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long stayed away, expecting the conflict between Outer laws and the Underworld’s laws to create trouble for Taiyi and the others.

• Taishang Laozi sensed the disturbance and left the Eight Scenery Palace for the Netherworld, with Yuanshi Tianzun following him.
• Tongtian Jiaozhu, the Western sages, and other powerful figures also set out for the Blood Sea entrance.
• Progenitor Dragon and Zhu Long watched from the True Dragon Great World, excluded from the sages’ affairs because of their ties to the Outer Dragon Realm.
• Zhu Long asked whether they should intervene, but Progenitor Dragon warned that doing so could give Taiyi Heavenly Court an excuse to attack them.
• Progenitor Dragon said the clashing laws had created a Chaos Saint Beast that would trouble Taiyi and the other sages.

A newly born Three-Headed Hellhound, a Ninth Heaven Saint Realm native of the Primordial Wilderness, attacked Taiyi and his companions in the Netherworld. After Taiyi erased its Soulfire, the Hellhound trapped him in an illusory Bottomless Purgatory, while Goddess Houtu trusted Taiyi to handle the attack and more Sages arrived.

• The Three-Headed Hellhound emerged above the River of Death, and Goddess Houtu and the others recognized its overwhelming Ninth Heaven Saint Realm cultivation.
• The Hellhound unleashed Soulfire that consumed the dead and yin spirits, but Taiyi extinguished it with a single word.
• The Hellhound used its Soul Locking Art to envelop Taiyi in an illusory Bottomless Purgatory, cutting him off from the others.
• Goddess Houtu stopped Nether River Ancestor and the Ancestral Witches from rushing to rescue Taiyi, saying he did not need their help.
• The Three Pure Ones, the Four Sages, Great Immortal Yang Mei, Demon Ancestor Rahu, and other Sages arrived in the Netherworld.

Goddess Houtu explained why she had opened the Netherworld Underworld to the Primordial Sages, prompting Great Immortal Yang Mei and Demon Ancestor Rahu to recognize the opportunity to establish their standing. After Taishang Laozi asked about Taiyi and the Three-Headed Hellhound, Yuanshi Tianzun prepared to attack the newly born Chaos Saint Beast, and Houtu began to object.

• Xuanming questioned why Goddess Houtu had allowed the Primordial Sages into the Netherworld, and Houtu explained that the Underworld did not belong to her alone and that the Sages had a right to enter.
• The Three Pure Ones and Four Saints reacted warily to Houtu’s words, while Great Immortal Yang Mei and Demon Ancestor Rahu welcomed the recognition of their status as Primordial Sages.
• Taishang Laozi asked where Taiyi the Supreme was and studied the Three-Headed Hellhound, whose aura he could not see through.
• Goddess Houtu recounted how the Three-Headed Hellhound had been born and how it was contending with Taiyi.
• Yuanshi Tianzun took out the Pangu Banner and proposed helping Taiyi kill the beast, and Goddess Houtu began to explain why he was mistaken.

Goddess Houtu explained that the Three-Headed Hellhound was a newly born Chaos Saint Beast with three Great Dao laws and Sovereign-level cultivation, while the Sages trusted Taiyi to subdue it. After three breaths inside the beast’s Bottomless Purgatory, Taiyi found its rule framework and unleashed a counterattack.

• Goddess Houtu explained that the Three-Headed Hellhound was a Chaos Saint Beast, not a Primordial Sage, and that killing it could weaken the Underworld and the Primordial World.
• Goddess Houtu revealed that the Hellhound embodied the Great Daos of Death, Soul, and Reincarnation and had ninth-level Saint Realm cultivation.
• The Sages feared the Hellhound’s strength, but Goddess Houtu reassured them that Taiyi had a plan to capture and subdue it.
• Master Tongtian and the other Sages recalled their treasures, while Duke of the East reluctantly did the same to avoid misunderstandings.
• Taiyi located the rule framework of the Hellhound’s Bottomless Purgatory and used the Great Dao of Space-Time to withstand its destructive scenes.
• Taiyi invoked Great Sun Golden Flame to burn and destroy the abyss, declaring that Bottomless Purgatory would perish.

Taiyi overwhelmed the Three-Headed Hellhound and offered to spare it if it became his mount and guarded the Netherworld Underworld. The Hellhound’s Soul Exile attack invaded Taiyi’s sea of primordial spirit but found its defenses formidable, leaving it trapped before Taiyi’s final demand to submit or be destroyed.

• Taiyi broke the Three-Headed Hellhound’s Bottomless Purgatory, seized it, and demanded that it become his mount and guard the Netherworld Underworld.
• As the Death River surged and swept away souls, Goddess Houtu opened the Underworld as a refuge and protected the fleeing yin spirits with the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc.
• The Three-Headed Hellhound unleashed Soul Exile of Hell’s Judgment, shaking the Primordial Sages and disrupting Taiyi’s sea of primordial spirit.
• Taiyi’s layered spiritual defenses stopped the Hellhound’s attack from reaching his central primordial spirit palace, and the Hellhound realized it faced a dead end.
• Taiyi confronted the Hellhound’s invading primordial spirit with Golden Crow flames and demanded that it submit or be destroyed.

The Death Sage and Soul Sage revived and joined the Three-Headed Hellhound in attacking Taiyi, enraging Goddess Houtu. Taiyi suppressed the Hellhound in the River of Time and turned to face the two reborn Sages.

• The Death Sage and Soul Sage revived amid turmoil in the Underworld and attacked Taiyi.
• Goddess Houtu refused Laozi's offer of help and revealed that the two Sages had faked their deaths to escape her Reincarnation Laws and seize authority over the Underworld.
• The Death Sage and Soul Sage continued targeting Taiyi instead of confronting Goddess Houtu, prompting Laozi to warn her to stop them.
• The Three-Headed Hellhound broke free within Taiyi's sea of consciousness and joined the two Sages in a counterattack with hellfire.
• Taiyi used the Grand Space-Time Art to cast the Three-Headed Hellhound into the River of Time for a million years of suppression, then turned toward the Death Sage and Soul Sage.

Taiyi confronted the resurrected Death Sage and Soul Sage, who sealed the Underworld Great World and severed its connection to the Primordial Continent. As Goddess Houtu lost contact with the Six Paths of Reincarnation, Taiyi remained confident that he could handle their challenge.

• Taiyi dismissed the Death Sage and Soul Sage's warning that suppressing them might destabilize the Underworld Great World.
• Duke of the East considered joining the Dragon Clan against Taiyi, while Zhu Long and Progenitor Dragon waited for the Evil Dragon King to respond.
• The Death Sage and Underworld Soul Saint sealed the Underworld Great World, temporarily raising their strength to the Sage Realm Ninth Heaven.
• Goddess Houtu found her connection to the Six Paths of Reincarnation faint and intermittent, while Duke of the East celebrated the crisis.
• Progenitor Dragon contacted the Evil Dragon King through his statue, and Goddess Houtu told Taiyi she had lost contact with the Underworld Reincarnation.
• Taiyi told Goddess Houtu not to worry and said he would wait to see what other tricks the two Sages had.

The Death Sage and Soul Sage summoned the Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign, who reappeared with the Slaughter Sovereign in the Primordial Wilderness after escaping Taiyi’s River of Fate. The Three Giants revealed their infiltration plot and challenged Taiyi, who fought the Death Sovereign while Houtu strengthened the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc.

• The Death Sage and Soul Sage called for the Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign to descend, and Taiyi discovered they had vanished from the River of Fate along with the Epoch Stone Bridge.
• The Death Sovereign and Destruction Sovereign emerged from the River of Death, and the Slaughter Sovereign appeared with them in the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Death Sovereign explained that the Three Giants could reclaim the Epoch Stone Bridge through its cycles of reincarnation, while the Destruction Sovereign revealed their plan to infiltrate the Primordial World and seize the Primordial Sages’ authority.
• The Slaughter Sovereign demanded that Taiyi surrender or fight, and Taiyi refused to submit.
• The Death Sovereign attacked with the River of Death, and Taiyi countered with the Grand Space-Time Art, sending the River of Time crashing into it.
• The clash devastated parts of the Underworld Great World, and Goddess Houtu strengthened the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc to protect it.

Taiyi killed the Underworld Death Sage and gave his Dao Fruit to Goddess Houtu, who refined it and gained control of the Great Dao of Death, stabilizing the Underworld. Taiyi then attacked the Underworld Soul Saint while the Death Sovereign and two other Giants tried to stop him, and the spear pierced the Soul Saint.

• Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to freeze the Three Giants and hurled the Godslaying Spear at the Underworld Death Sage, killing him.
• Taiyi seized the fallen Sage's Dao Fruit and tossed it to Goddess Houtu, who refined it instantly and mastered the Great Dao of Death.
• Goddess Houtu's new power eased the pressure on the Six Paths of Reincarnation and restored calm to the Underworld.
• Taiyi targeted the Underworld Soul Saint, but the Death Sovereign charged with the other Giants and unleashed the Epoch Stone Bridge and River of Death against him.
• Taiyi used the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler to stretch the distance between himself and the Three Giants, then struck the Underworld Soul Saint with the Godslaying Spear, piercing his chest and taking his holy soul and Dao Fruit.

After Houtu took control of the Underworld Great World and lifted its seal, the Chaos Three Giants attempted to retreat from Taiyi. The Dragon Lord, Mount Sumeru Holy Monk, Martial Lord, and other Sovereign Sages then appeared, turning the Underworld battlefield against them.

• Taiyi gave Houtu a Soul Sage Fruit, and she refined it after he killed the Underworld Death Sage and Underworld Soul Saint.
• Houtu seized control of the Underworld Great World and Six Paths of Reincarnation, then ordered the seal lifted.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun ordered the Heavenly Dao Sages to aid Taiyi, and they surrounded the Chaos Three Giants as the giants prepared to retreat.
• Taiyi taunted the Chaos Three Giants but did not stop them as they tried to leave across the Epoch Stone Bridge.
• The Mount Sumeru Holy Monk appeared to block the Chaos Three Giants, and the Dragon Lord arrived soon after.
• The Martial Lord emerged from a rift in the Chaos Void, followed by Sovereign Sages from the Eighth, Seventh, and Fifth Chaos Epochs.

Hongjun appeared in the Underworld Great World after breaking through to become a Heavenly Dao Sovereign, confronting the Extraterrestrial Sovereigns with the Jade Creation Disc and Myriad Evil Heaven Coffin. As the Martial Lord attacked and threatened to destroy the Underworld, Taiyi entered the battle with the Godslaying Spear.

• Taiyi mocked the Extraterrestrial Sovereigns as the Devouring Demon Sage, Progenitor Dragon, and Zhu Long joined them, while the Evil Dragon King urged Duke of the East to act.
• Hongjun arrived and revealed that he had advanced from the Sage Realm Seventh Heaven to become a Heavenly Dao Sovereign.
• Hongjun brought out the Jade Creation Disc and Myriad Evil Heaven Coffin, prompting the Evil Dragon King to demand his Companion Treasure back and the Devouring Demon Sage to hunger for Hongjun's Heavenly Dao.
• The Martial Lord attacked first, unleashing Martial Dao power that made the Underworld Great World shake and near collapse.
• Hongjun used the Jade Creation Disc and Myriad Evil Heaven Coffin to defend the Underworld, while the Devouring Demon Sage intercepted him.
• Taiyi summoned the Godslaying Spear and charged into the battle.

Taiyi, Hongjun, and their allies battled the Chaos invaders as the Underworld was shattered by an explosion of Saint Embryos. They preserved its Reincarnation grounds and drove back the attackers, but a Devouring Demon Shadow appeared inside the Nether River Ancestor’s lotus.

• Taiyi countered the Devouring Demon Sage’s Great Devouring Technique while Hongjun subdued the Evil Dragon King and fought the Martial Lord.
• Houtu repaired the Underworld with the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and the Nether River Ancestor used the Blood Sea to restore order to the departed souls.
• The Progenitor Dragon attacked Houtu, but Tongtian Jiaozhu and Great Immortal Yang Mei stopped him as the allies’ trap was revealed.
• Mount Sumeru Holy Monk detonated tens of thousands of Saint Embryos, devastating the Underworld, while the Devouring Demon Sage swallowed half of it.
• The Primordial Sages preserved the Underworld Reincarnation grounds, Hongjun crushed Eastern King Duke’s betrayal, and the Three-Headed Hellhound and Goddess Nüwa helped stabilize the realm.
• The Martial Lord escaped, Hongjun hinted that the true enemy was not in the Chaos Sea, and the Nether River Ancestor discovered a Devouring Demon Shadow inside the Twelfth Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus.