Chapter Summaries

Zhen Yuanzi and Dijun became Sages on the same day, strengthening the Heavenly Court and bringing blessings to living beings across the Primordial Wilderness. Hongjun, the Western Two Sages, and Duke of the East each considered their changed prospects as the Heavenly Court’s power grew.

• Zhen Yuanzi merged his three corpses and became an Earth Dao Sage, causing spiritual energy and other blessings to spread throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Zhen Yuanzi resolved to seek blessings for all beings and attained a deeper understanding of the Dao.
• Taiyi and the Heavenly Court Sages congratulated Zhen Yuanzi and Dijun, whose recent breakthroughs were celebrated at a grand banquet.
• Hongjun concluded that the Heavenly Court had become too powerful to destroy and abandoned his reliance on the Primordial Wilderness’s former fate.
• Zhunti and Jieyin discussed their uncertain future, while Duke of the East felt relieved after letting go of his ambition to control the Primordial Wilderness.

Dijiang and Jumang proved Dao as Sages through their Ancestral Witch bloodlines, strengthening the Witch Clan as more witches advanced. As Taiyi prepared to travel beyond the Outer Realm, Azure Sky Supreme offered the dying Sovereigns of past Chaos Epochs only two places to survive, prompting them to resume their battle to the death.

• Dijiang gathered Pangu True Blood and proved Dao as a Sage, with a phantom of Pangu appearing behind him.
• Jumang followed by proving Dao as a Sage through his Ancestral Witch bloodline, and another Pangu phantom appeared.
• Dijiang and Jumang's ascension greatly strengthened the Witch Clan, and Jiu Feng, Xingtian, Kua Fu, Chiyou, and other witches advanced toward or reached the Ancestral Witch realm.
• Taiyi watched the Witch Clan's rise from the Heavenly Court and prepared to activate his plan to travel beyond the Outer Realm into the Chaos Sea.
• Azure Sky Supreme told the surviving Sovereigns of past Chaos Epochs that he would save only two of them, then disappeared.
• The Ruin Sovereign and Darkness Sovereign attacked the Dragon Lord and Martial Lord, while the Space-Time Sovereign targeted the Chaos Three Giants, restarting a brutal battle for survival.

Pangu discovered a dangerous spacetime vortex and entered it after sending a warning and details to Taiyi and Heavenly Dao Hongjun, who both chose not to follow. Meanwhile, Taiyi’s main body anticipated Azure Sky Supreme’s move against his incarnation and condemned him to death, while the incarnation wondered whether leaving the Primordial World would let him reunite with his main body.

• Pangu noticed that Dijiang and Jumang’s breakthroughs had stirred his true spirit, then discovered a strange spacetime passage and decided to explore it.
• Before entering the passage, Pangu sent Taiyi and Heavenly Dao Hongjun a message describing his discovery, and then stepped inside alone.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun and Taiyi’s main body read Pangu’s message but declined to take the risk of joining him.
• Taiyi’s main body recalled that unknown worlds beyond Chaos might leave Pangu unable to find his way back, but decided it was too late to intervene.
• Taiyi’s main body watched Azure Sky Supreme in hiding, declared that he would die when he made his move, and erased the cross-spacetime dynamic mirror.
• Taiyi’s incarnation sensed a stir, wondered how his main body was doing, and considered whether leaving the Primordial World would let them meet.

At a Heavenly Court banquet, the Witch, Demon, Human, Spirit, and Innate God Races argued over which group would next produce a Hunyuan Sage. Taiyi arrived as the banquet fell silent, leaving the loudest debaters afraid he would punish them.

• Gonggong and Zhurong challenged Zhu Jiuyin to attain Dao before them, and the Ancestral Witches traded boasts about who would prove Dao first.
• A Demon Clan figure predicted that Bai Ze would prove Dao next, prompting Kua Fu, Xingtian, and other demons to trade insults over their clans' strength.
• A Human Race sage claimed the Fire Cloud Cave Three Emperors would prove Dao next, drawing attacks from the Witch and Demon Clans.
• A Spirit Race member and then the Innate God Race asserted that their own groups would produce the next Hunyuan Sage, turning the banquet into a loud dispute.
• Taiyi descended upon the banquet, silencing everyone and making the outspoken guests fear he would strip them of their celestial status.

Taiyi prepared for his journey to the Chaos Sea while the Primordial Continent prospered under the Heavenly Court’s rule. In the Land of Return to Emptiness, Azure Sky Supreme recruited the Ruin Master and Darkness Master to stop the Primordial World from advancing.

• After the four Sages’ banquet, Taiyi entered seclusion to prepare for his journey to the Chaos Sea.
• Taiyi considered opening the Chaos Pearl’s inner world but decided to wait and continued feeding the pearl merit and fate.
• The Primordial Continent enjoyed an era of peace and growth under Taiyi and the Heavenly Court.
• Azure Sky Supreme appeared before the surviving Ruin Master and Darkness Master, gave them Hunyuan Golden Elixirs, and made them his followers.
• Azure Sky Supreme ordered the Ruin Master and Darkness Master to prevent the Primordial World from advancing, then freed them from the Returning Ruins.

As the Investiture of the Gods Calamity began, Taiyi left seclusion after sensing a violent disturbance at Qilin Cliff. A powerful attacker destroyed much of the Qilin Clan’s grotto-heaven and threatened to wipe out the clan, leaving the Thunder Envoy trapped.

• The Heavenly Court’s Sages gathered to discuss the sudden Investiture of the Gods Calamity and wondered whether Taiyi would emerge from seclusion.
• Taiyi sensed a violent aura erupting near Qilin Cliff and went there immediately.
• Sibuxiang entertained the Thunder Envoy, a Hunyuan Sage from beyond Chaos, and praised Taiyi’s defense of the Primordial Continent.
• A storm of laws struck the Qilin Clan’s grotto-heaven, shattering more than half of it.
• The Thunder Envoy tried to flee after seeing the attacker, but the attacker trapped him and vowed to leave no one in the Qilin Clan alive.

Taiyi arrived at the Qilin Grotto-Heaven and stopped Beast Emperor Shen Ni from killing the Thunder Envoy, then learned that Shen Ni had survived the Fierce Beast Calamity. Shen Ni challenged Taiyi over his attempt to exterminate the Qilin Clan, and his confidence suggested he had a hidden source of power.

• Beast Emperor Shen Ni struck at the Thunder Envoy, but Taiyi appeared and stopped the blow.
• Sibuxiang pleaded for Taiyi to save the Qilin Clan and offered to lead the clan in submitting to him.
• The Thunder Envoy introduced himself as a subordinate of the Thunder Sovereign of the Central Chaos Realm, and Taiyi moved him and Sibuxiang to safety.
• Taiyi confronted Shen Ni about the Fierce Beast Race’s return, and Shen Ni withdrew his massive manifestation and revealed his true form.
• Shen Ni declared that he would exterminate the Qilin Clan and claimed his power was greater than Taiyi assumed.

Taiyi confronted Beast Emperor Shen Ni over his plans to attack the Qilin Clan, then rushed to the Undying Volcano after Shen Ni warned of another threat there. A Chaos Fire Demon God awakened and attacked the Phoenix Clan, which pleaded with Taiyi to save them.

• Taiyi offered to join forces with Beast Emperor Shen Ni, but Shen Ni rejected cooperation and explained the Fierce Beasts’ destructive purpose.
• Shen Ni declared that he would take revenge on the Qilin Clan, and Taiyi warned him that the clan was protected; Shen Ni hinted that a passage beneath the Undying Volcano had opened.
• Taiyi knocked Shen Ni down, then transported Sibuxiang, Thunder Envoy, and the Qilin Clan members away from Qilin Cliff to the Undying Volcano.
• The Chaos Fire Demon God broke through the formation made by Yuanfeng and awakened at the peak of the ninth level of the Hunyuan Realm.
• The Chaos Fire Demon God attacked the Phoenix Clan, whose elders begged Taiyi to save them.

Taiyi neutralized Xuan Huo’s Chaos Divine Fire and persuaded the Chaos Fire God to join the Heavenly Court under a Great Dao oath. At the Peach Banquet welcoming him, Taiyi asked whether a passage to another world remained beneath the southern Undying Volcano.

• Taiyi erased Xuan Huo’s Chaos Divine Fire and explained that he could command the Primordial World’s laws as its ruler.
• Hongjun recognized Xuan Huo and said Taiyi was the next Pangu, prompting Xuan Huo to reconsider his defiance.
• Taiyi offered Xuan Huo a place in the Heavenly Court in exchange for a Great Dao oath, and Xuan Huo accepted.
• Taiyi opened the Peach Banquet early and invited the Heavenly Court’s great figures to welcome Xuan Huo Dao Ren.
• Taiyi asked Xuan Huo whether a passage to another world was still hidden beneath the southern Undying Volcano.

Taiyi and the Heavenly Court’s great powers uncovered a sealed passage to another world beneath the southern Undying Volcano and entered it to investigate. The Twelve Ancestral Witches stayed behind to guard the Heavenly Court as Taiyi and the others vanished into the tunnel.

• Xuan Huo confirmed that he had sensed an unusual space-time fluctuation beneath the Undying Volcano, and Taiyi suspected it was the passage Fierce Beast Emperor Shenni had mentioned.
• Xuan Huo learned that Shenni had survived the Fierce Beast Calamity and reached the peak of the ninth level of the Primordial Chaos Realm.
• Taiyi led Xuan Huo, Hongjun, and the Heavenly Court’s great powers beneath the volcano, where Xuan Huo located the abnormal space-time node.
• Taiyi used the Space-Time Laws to open the node, revealing an ancient tunnel filled with a powerful baleful aura.
• Taiyi, Hongjun, Xuan Huo, Nüwa, Houtu, Yang Mei, Rahula, Nether River, Kunpeng, Dijun, Bai Ze, and others entered the tunnel while the Twelve Ancestral Witches remained behind to guard the Heavenly Court.

Taiyi and the Heavenly Court’s strongest figures traveled through a strange space-time tunnel and found a hidden passage to the Space-Time Spirit Clan. The clan’s representative recognized them as inhabitants of the Primordial World, and Taiyi asked to be welcomed inside.

• Taiyi said he could still vaguely sense the Primordial World’s coordinates, while Hongjun, Xuan Huo, and the others could not.
• After nearly a hundred years of travel, Taiyi detected a hidden space-time node and led the group to it.
• Xuan Huo used the Xuan Huo Mirror to shatter the node’s barrier, revealing a passage into the Space-Time Spirit Clan’s domain.
• A Space-Time Spirit Winged Humanoid appeared and demanded to know why the intruders had destroyed the clan’s defenses.
• Taiyi and Hongjun recognized the Space-Time Spirit Clan as a powerful race that had lived beneath the Phoenix Clan’s territory in the Primordial World.
• Taiyi greeted the Space-Time Spirit Winged Humanoid and asked it to invite the group inside.

Taiyi defeated and killed a Space-Time Spirit Clan warrior, learning that the clan had fled the Shadow Clan and was hiding in the Primordial World's space-time tunnel. As Taiyi prepared to destroy the tunnel, a terrified voice called out from within.

• Taiyi revealed that the Space-Time Spirit Clan had been driven into hiding by the Shadow Clan, angering its warrior.
• The warrior attacked Taiyi with a space-time storm, but Taiyi shielded the group with the Chaos Bell and killed him with the Godslaying Spear.
• Taiyi explained that the fallen warrior left behind a Space-Time Crystal that could help cultivators comprehend space-time.
• Taiyi told the Sages that the Shadow Clan fed on the origins of others and urged them to improve their cultivation.
• When no other Space-Time Spirit Clan members emerged, Taiyi began preparing to destroy the space-time node, but a terrified cry came from the damaged tunnel.

Taiyi learned from Tianyan that the Space-Time Spirit Clan had fled the Ashen World after the Shadow Clan consumed much of its population and threatened the surviving races. The Heavenly Court Sages feared the nearby Shadow Clan, but Taiyi promised to protect the Primordial World, while Hongjun and Xuan Huo privately remained worried about the dangers beyond it.

• Tianyan introduced himself as chief of the Space-Time Spirit Clan and explained that his grandson had offended Taiyi.
• Tianyan recounted how the Shadow Clan devoured the other peoples of the Sea of Ash and drove the Space-Time Spirit Clan to seek refuge in a space-time tunnel in the Primordial World.
• Tianyan confirmed to Hongjun that the Shadow Clan was still waging war against the Ashen World's four top races and that the Ashen World was nearby.
• Taiyi reassured the Heavenly Court Sages that he could lead them in defending their homeland, and Dijun reminded them of their past victories.
• Hongjun and Xuan Huo privately worried that the Primordial Sages would be vulnerable if they left their world and entered the Chaos Sea.

Taiyi secured the Space-Time Spirit Clan’s oath to join the Primordial World, then used a hidden treasure to drive Beast Emperor Shen Ni from their territory. The clan was left under Taiyi’s protection while Shen Ni fled injured, and Taiyi turned to the visitors waiting in Lingxiao Palace.

• Tianyan swore that the Space-Time Spirit Clan would join the Primordial World, and Taiyi and the other Primordial Sages accepted their allegiance.
• After Taiyi and the others left, Beast Emperor Shen Ni appeared in the Space-Time Tunnel and berated Tianyan for surrendering.
• Shen Ni attacked, but Taiyi’s Thirty-Three Heavens Creation Artifact struck him repeatedly and forced him to flee while wounded.
• Tianyan and the Space-Time Sprites welcomed the protection of Taiyi Heavenly Court, while Taiyi revealed that he had left the treasure behind as a safeguard.
• Taiyi informed the Heavenly Court’s Sages, entered Lingxiao Palace, and found Sibuxiang and Caifeng waiting for him.

Taiyi agreed to resettle the Qilin and Phoenix Clans in the Thirty-Three Heavens and accepted a preliminary alliance with the Thunder Immortal Domain. He then prepared to explore the nearby Chaos Sea, while Cangjie stepped forward to speak as Taiyi was leaving.

• Taiyi allowed Sibuxiang to move the Qilin Clan into the Thirty-Three Heavens to escape Beast Emperor Shen Ni’s devastation.
• Taiyi told Caifeng that the Phoenix Clan could settle in the Thirty-Three Heavens and have a new Undying Volcano built by Heavenly Court teams.
• The Thunder Envoy reported that the Thunder Monarch wanted an alliance, and Taiyi agreed to let the Thunder Immortal Domain begin negotiations with the Heavenly Court.
• Sibuxiang and Caifeng hurried to the Thirty-Three Heavens to claim new territories.
• Taiyi prepared to explore the Chaos Sea, reassured Goddess Nüwa that the Primordial World could defend itself, and heard Cangjie step forward to speak.

Taiyi heard Sage Cangjie’s plan to lure Beast Emperor Shen Ni and his allies into a trap, then asked about the Human Race’s Sages and its development. He learned that the Hundred Schools of Thought had emerged and began to suspect the wandering Thunder Envoy was an undercover agent.

• Sage Cangjie proposed that Taiyi pretend to leave so they could draw Beast Emperor Shen Ni and his allies out and eliminate them.
• Taiyi praised Cangjie’s strategic thinking and urged the Heavenly Court Sages to learn from the Human Race.
• Cangjie reported that the three Human Ancestors were nearing Sagehood and that the Yellow Emperor, Zhuanxu, and Emperor Ku had become Sages.
• Goddess Nüwa explained that Tianyi and the other Primordial Human Race members had remained at Quasi-Sage Great Perfection in Small Langhuan Heaven for several hundred thousand years.
• Taiyi reflected that the Human Race had developed the Hundred Schools of Thought by studying Cangjie’s three thousand Great Dao Characters.
• Taiyi asked about the Thunder Envoy, and after hearing that he was wandering the Primordial Continent, said he suspected him of being an undercover agent.

Taiyi announced that he would leave the Primordial Wilderness, prompting the major factions to suspect a trap. He departed in full view of the Heavenly Court and the other powers, leaving them uncertain about what would happen next.

• Taiyi explained that the Thunder Envoy might be an undercover agent and chose not to imprison him, then approved Cangjie’s plan with the Heavenly Court sages.
• Taiyi announced that he would ascend and enter the Chaos Realm, and the major powers debated whether his departure was genuine.
• Sage Jieyin told Zhunti that Taiyi’s announcement was both true and false, while Laozi and Progenitor Dragon urged caution.
• Taiyi left the Primordial Wilderness after a grand farewell banquet, and the watching sages were stunned when his aura vanished.
• Zhunti asked whether Taiyi had truly left, and Jieyin confirmed that he had, sounding quietly pleased.

With Taiyi secretly back in the Heavenly Court, rival factions joined forces and demanded its surrender, believing he had left the Primordial World. Beast Emperor Shen Ni attacked the Heavenly Court’s protective formation, leaving its defenders alarmed.

• Laozi, Zhunti, Progenitor Dragon, and Shen Ni searched the Primordial World and found no trace of Taiyi, while rival factions prepared to seize the Heavenly Court.
• The Ruin Sovereign and Darkness Sovereign agreed to wait and see how the Primordial forces acted before launching their own counterattack.
• Taiyi secretly returned to the Heavenly Court through the Space-Time Spirit Clan’s corridor and reassured its Sages, keeping his return hidden from Hongjun.
• A thousand years later, Zhunti and Jieyin led Buddhist disciples and allied forces to the South Heaven Gate, demanding that the Heavenly Court surrender the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• After Zhunti’s challenge drew no response, Shen Ni struck the Heavenly Court’s protective formation with Annihilation Divine Light, shaking its palaces and alarming Nüwa, Houtu, and the other Sages.

The Heavenly Court activated the Starry Sky Great Formation to repel Beast Emperor Shen Ni, and the two sides tested their strength before reaching a stalemate. Ruin Sovereign and Darkness Sovereign then appeared with a vast extraterritorial army, prompting Hongjun to confront them as Darkness Sovereign moved to test his power.

• Dijun ordered Bai Ze to activate the Starry Sky Great Formation as Shen Ni's attacks threatened to break the Heavenly Court's defenses.
• Bai Ze and the Demon Clan Sages powered the formation, which fired a vast beam of starlight at Shen Ni.
• Shen Ni countered with the Beast Emperor Annihilation Fist, and the collision left both sides at a stalemate.
• Ruin Sovereign and Darkness Sovereign appeared with an enormous extraterritorial army, shocking the Heavenly Court and Shen Ni's forces.
• Hongjun entered the chaos and confronted the two Chief Sovereigns, and Darkness Sovereign moved to test his power.

The Extraterritorial Sages launched a full-scale assault on the Primordial Continent while Taiyi held back the Heavenly Court’s strongest allies to draw out the hidden mastermind. As the battle intensified, Taiyi revealed that an existence beyond the Hunyuan Realm was behind the invasion.

• The Ruin Sovereign destroyed the Starry Sky Great Formation and sent the Ruin Legion to attack the Primordial Continent.
• Nine Netherworld Sage led extraterrestrial experts against the Human Ancestral Land, where Cangjie, Suiren-shi, Ziyi-shi, Youchao-shi, and the other Human Race defenders prepared to fight.
• Extraterritorial Sages attacked the Witch Clan Ancestral Land and the Demon Clan Ancestral Court while the Heavenly Court’s defenders were pushed back.
• Taiyi told Nüwa and the other Heavenly Court Saints that a hidden Supreme above the Hunyuan Realm was the true mastermind, and ordered Great Immortal Yang Mei, Demon Ancestor Rahu, and the others to force the enemy to reveal its trump cards.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei, Demon Ancestor Rahu, and their allies entered the battlefield and annihilated several Extraterritorial Sages with their combined attacks.