Chapter Summaries

Dying of late-stage cancer, Zhou Xiaoqin received a strange Box from Grandpa Liu and discovered that it reacted to his insults. The Box opened and pulled Zhou Xiaoqin into its silver-gray light, leaving his fate unknown as a giant hand appeared overhead.

• Zhou Xiaoqin lamented his illness and the burden his treatment placed on his family while Grandpa Liu tried to cheer him up with cigarettes and a small Box.
• Zhou Xiaoqin struggled to open the Box, then heard it buzz whenever he insulted its designer.
• The Box shook, floated in front of Zhou Xiaoqin, and opened to reveal silver-gray mist and a glowing ribbon.
• Grandpa Liu tried to call for help, but the light from the Box stopped him as it began pulling Zhou Xiaoqin's body and soul inside.
• A giant hand appeared above Zhou Xiaoqin, and he vanished into the Box with the silver-gray light.

After dying, Zhou Xiaoqin arrived in Chaos as a light orb and became caught in a struggle between the Dao Coffin of Time and Space and a fragment of Supreme Destiny. The two forces transformed him into an Indestructible Primordial Spirit, and after ages of torment he gained spiritual power and the Dao Coffin’s protection, then drifted through Chaos as its beings multiplied.

• Zhou Xiaoqin awoke as a soul drifting above what he believed was the River of Time, then a fragment struck him and he fainted.
• Zhou Xiaoqin learned he had arrived in Chaos and discovered that he had become a silvery-gray orb protected by a little Box.
• Zhou Xiaoqin accessed the Box’s information and learned it was the Dao Coffin of Time and Space, which had been fighting a fragment of Supreme Destiny.
• The Dao Coffin and Supreme Destiny transformed Zhou Xiaoqin’s soul into an Indestructible Primordial Spirit, but he failed to find a way to cultivate and eventually began to lose his reason.
• The Dao Coffin and Supreme Destiny poured power into Zhou Xiaoqin, repeatedly breaking and healing his Primordial Spirit until he awakened with spiritual power and control of the Dao Coffin.
• Zhou Xiaoqin drifted through Chaos for ages, protected by the Dao Coffin, as the Chaos Demon Gods and 129,600 Chaos Beings were born.

Zhou Xiaoqin, who named himself Xuan Qing, drifted through Chaos and learned that his unusual Primordial Spirit could repel attacks and even wound the Karma Demon God. When Pangu began the Heaven-Opening Tribulation, Xuan Qing watched the Demon Gods fall, and Pangu recognized him as an anomaly tied to Time, Space, and Supreme Destiny before explaining the Supreme Laws.

• Zhou Xiaoqin chose the Dao title Xuan Qing and met Yang Mei, who could not explain his lack of a Great Dao or teach him another Demon God's Law.
• Xuan Qing's golden light struck the Karma Demon God across Chaos, tearing through his body and destroying his Karma Lines.
• Xuan Qing collected a Chaos Spiritual Root and Chaos Breathing Soil before Pangu declared that he would open Heaven and all Chaos beings would face the tribulation.
• Pangu fought the Chaos Demon Gods with the Sky-Opening Axe and the three Chaos Supreme Treasures, killing nearly all of them while Yang Mei and Shichen barely survived.
• Pangu noticed Xuan Qing, called him an anomaly of the Great Dao, and explained the six Supreme Laws as he prepared to open Heaven.

Pangu split Chaos and sacrificed himself to create the Primordial World, which he named the Prehistoric Era. Zhou Xiaoqin received the Chaos Green Lotus Seed and was carried into the new world, where surging elemental forces overwhelmed him.

• Pangu repeatedly cleaved Chaos with the Sky-Opening Axe, then held Clear Qi and Turbid Qi apart for countless years as the Eye of the Great Dao attacked him.
• Pangu collapsed under the Great Dao Divine Lightning, and his body transformed into the sun, moon, Zhou Mountain, Blood Sea, and the land of the Primordial World.
• Supreme Destiny was struck apart, and its fragments became the Primordial Heavenly Dao and scattered across Chaos as Pangu's treasures and merits dispersed.
• The Chaos Green Lotus Seed sent part of its origin toward Zhou Mountain, then merged into Zhou Xiaoqin's Indestructible Primordial Spirit.
• The Dao Coffin of Time and Space carried Zhou Xiaoqin and a fragment of Chaos into the Primordial World, where surging earth, water, wind, and fire made him faint.

Hongjun and Luohu emerged as the first Heaven and Earth Demon Gods, while Shenni and Reincarnation led the Fierce Beasts into war against the Prehistoric Era’s living beings. After the Fierce Beast Tribulation ended, the surviving factions plunged into wars over Auspicious Qi that devastated the Imperial Dynasties and killed many Demon Gods.

• Hongjun emerged from Jade Capital Mountain with powerful Companion Spiritual Treasures, and Luohu awakened at Mount Sumeru soon after.
• Shenni and Reincarnation awakened in the Northern Lands, gathered countless Fierce Beasts, and began ravaging the region.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei traveled together, while Heaven and Earth Demon Gods established Imperial Dynasties to gather Auspicious Qi and grow stronger.
• Shenni established the Fierce Beast Dynasty and killed the Three Heavens after they allied with the Fierce Beasts.
• Dragon, Feng, and the Qilin Three Races joined Hongjun and the other Demon Gods to defeat the Fierce Beasts; Reincarnation and Shenni were slain, ending the tribulation.
• The Imperial Dynasties fought for Auspicious Qi for tens of thousands of Kalpas, causing countless deaths and the collapse of their factions as many Demon Gods died or withdrew into seclusion.

Xuan Qing awakened in the Primordial Era, took form as a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and discovered that his Chaos origins and treasures made him exceptionally powerful. After binding the Green Lotus of Creation to himself, he planned to conceal it, grow stronger, and seek other Spiritual Treasures before rivals could claim them.

• Hongjun used the Jade Disc of Creation to sever an Evil Thought into an Evil Corpse and attained Quasi-Sainthood under the Heavenly Dao’s influence.
• Zhou Xiaoqin awakened as a Primordial Spirit, chose the name Xuan Qing, and prepared to take form despite the Great Dao’s restriction on Grand Luo Golden Immortals.
• Xuan Qing absorbed Innate Spiritual Qi and, after more than ten Kalpas, took form as a Grand Unity Golden Immortal with the Green Lotus of Creation’s aid.
• Xuan Qing discovered the Green Lotus of Creation held fifty Chaos Restrictions and that his own origin came from a Chaos Exotic Treasure and a Chaos Spiritual Root.
• Xuan Qing refined one restriction and bound the Green Lotus of Creation to his Primordial Spirit, then resolved to keep it hidden and seek offensive Spiritual Treasures.

Xuan Qing explored his birthplace, cultivated Innate Spiritual Roots, studied his Dao Field’s great array, and built a cave abode. The Great Dao rewarded his construction with Merit, which strengthened the Green Lotus of Creation, though it still needed far more.

• Xuan Qing found the Three Lights Divine Water, Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, then grew four Innate Spiritual Roots from its branches.
• Xuan Qing surveyed his Dao Field, gathered spiritual fruit, transplanted six Innate Spiritual Roots beside the pool, and identified the Azure Nether Creation Great Array.
• Xuan Qing refined the array’s Formation Stele enough to gain its key, then built nine palaces from Spirit Wood and jade.
• The Great Dao bestowed Merit after Xuan Qing finished furnishing his Heart Nurturing Hall, turning the furniture into Innate Merit Spirit Treasures.
• The Green Lotus of Creation absorbed most of Xuan Qing’s Merit and strengthened its final Chaos Restriction, but conveyed that it needed lots and lots more.

Xuan Qing earned Great Dao Merit by creating cooking utensils and brewing tea, then attempted to make wine. His wine pool received Merit and was named by the Great Dao, while wine became a Postnatal Great Dao; Xuan Qing ended the chapter drunk and unconscious.

• Xuan Qing refined a stove and cooking utensils, which became Innate Merit Spirit Treasures when Great Dao Merit descended.
• Hongjun and Luohu sensed the Merit’s arrival in the East Sea, and Luohu left Mount Sumeru to seek its source.
• Xuan Qing brewed tea from an Innate tea tree, entered Enlightenment, and received more Great Dao Merit.
• Xuan Qing sealed crushed Spiritual Fruits in a wine pool, and the Eye of the Great Dao appeared to name the pool and announce the Postnatal Great Dao of Wine.
• Xuan Qing tasted the Spiritual Wine and passed out drunk.

Xuan Qing comprehended divine abilities and compiled four texts into Xuan Qing's Record of Seeking the Dao, earning Great Dao Merit. He then enlightened two Spiritual Roots, named them Qing Ya and Qing Ling, and welcomed them as the first companions in his Dao Field.

• Xuan Qing discovered that his cultivation had advanced and that the Green Lotus of Creation was transforming beyond the reach of his Divine Sense.
• Over ten Kalpas, Xuan Qing comprehended several divine abilities and compiled the Chapter on Formations, the Chapter on Artifact Refining, the Chapter on Divine Abilities, and Divinity and Humanity into Xuan Qing's Record of Seeking the Dao.
• The Great Dao rewarded Xuan Qing's four scriptures with Great Dao Merit and transformed the jade pieces into jade books.
• After reaching the limit of his current cultivation, Xuan Qing searched the Dao Field and found two Spiritual Roots that had recently gained spiritual intelligence.
• Xuan Qing used Manipulate Creation to transform the two Spiritual Roots into women, named them Qing Ya and Qing Ling, and told them they were family in his Dao Field.

Xuan Qing broke through to the mid-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, learned Azure Nether Island’s origins, and prepared his disciples to manage the Dao field. After spending tens of thousands of years with Qing Ya and Qing Ling, he set out to travel once his cultivation stabilized.

• Xuan Qing gave Qing Ya and Qing Ling private rooms, kitchen duties, and instructions for tending the island’s spiritual roots and brewing fruit wine.
• During nearly a hundred Kalpas of seclusion, Xuan Qing broke through to the mid-stage Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and learned the Formation Stele’s account of Azure Nether Island’s origins and foundation.
• Xuan Qing made Jade Hairpin keys to the grand formation, gave them to Qing Ya and Qing Ling, and learned they had been taking turns watching over him.
• After seeing the sisters’ harvest, Xuan Qing made merit-powered containers for spiritual fruits and wine, gave them cultivation jade books, and shared a meal with them.
• Xuan Qing spent tens of thousands of years with Qing Ya and Qing Ling, then prepared to travel after stabilizing his cultivation.

Xuan Qing repelled Luohu’s attack on Azure Nether Island, then left for the continent and reached the Peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm during his journey. After Luohu returned to Mount Sumeru with a damaged Dao Seed, Heavenly Dao persuaded him to use a Jade Disc of Creation fragment, leaving Luohu unconscious and furious.

• Luohu attacked Xuan Qing’s Formation, but Xuan Qing struck him with its power and drove him away badly injured.
• Xuan Qing told Qing Ya and Qing Ling to conceal the Dao Field, then left Azure Nether Island and traveled toward Zhou Mountain.
• While crossing the sea, Xuan Qing broke through to the Peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm and developed a new way to comprehend the Great Dao.
• Xuan Qing reached the continent after more than fifty thousand years of travel as Luohu returned to Mount Sumeru to heal.
• Heavenly Dao urged Luohu to bind his Dao Seed to a Jade Disc of Creation fragment, and Luohu accepted despite the Dao Seed breaking into six pieces.
• Luohu accused Heavenly Dao of deceiving him, then fell unconscious as a red light merged into one of the Dao Seed fragments.

Xuan Qing rescued Bai Yu from the Earth Bear and Moonlit Grey Wolf clans, then defeated their leaders at a formation they were trying to break. He wiped out both clans, claimed their treasures, and took Bai Yu into his service before heading toward the opportunity inside the formation.

• Xuan Qing killed the Earth Bear and Moonlit Grey Wolf attackers who had surrounded him, then healed Bai Yu and learned about the clans and the great formation.
• Xuan Qing followed Bai Yu to the formation, where the two clans’ experts were trying to break it by force.
• Xuan Qing fought the clans’ two Grand Unity Golden Immortals and defeated them with two physical blows.
• Bai Yu revealed the Grey Wolf Clan had betrayed the Heavenly Horse Clan, so Xuan Qing used the Green Lotus of Creation to kill everyone on the battlefield except Bai Yu.
• Xuan Qing took Bai Yu as a servant, claimed the two leaders’ Spiritual Treasures, and gave them to Bai Yu.

Xuan Qing reshaped a newborn Qiongqi, agreed to help the surviving Heavenly Horse Clan settle on Azure Nether Island, and reached Zhou Mountain. After enduring its crushing pressure for more than a hundred Kalpas, he emerged with a much stronger body and cultivation.

• Xuan Qing restrained and reshaped the newborn Qiongqi with the Green Lotus of Creation and Three Lights Divine Water, then kept it gestating with a Killing Sword and Spiritual Fruits.
• Bai Yu asked Xuan Qing to help the remnant Heavenly Horse Clan, and Xuan Qing gave the injured Patriarch Three Lights Divine Water and a token to reach Azure Nether Island.
• Xuan Qing sent Bai Yu with the Heavenly Horse Clan and continued alone toward Zhou Mountain.
• Xuan Qing built an altar and incense burner at Zhou Mountain, then began climbing without using Magic Power.
• Xuan Qing endured the mountain's pressure for more than a hundred Kalpas, and Zhou Mountain's energy gathered his scattered flesh back together.
• Xuan Qing awakened with his physical body advanced to the Later Stage of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and his cultivation at the limit of the mid-stage.

Xuan Qing followed the Green Lotus of Creation to a hidden Twelve-grade Green Lotus on Zhou Mountain, but Pangu kicked him away when he tried to take it. He discovered Innate Gui Water and its Spiritual Apricot tree, then befriended Han Xi and prepared to take her back to his Dao Field.

• The Green Lotus of Creation restored its Origin to the Twelve-grade Green Lotus, and Xuan Qing added his Great Dao Merit before trying to pluck it.
• Pangu kicked Xuan Qing out of the Formation and into another hidden array, where Xuan Qing found Innate Gui Water and the Gui Water Spiritual Apricot tree.
• Xuan Qing met Han Xi, who feared him because her sister, born from Essence of Ren Water, had died when their life connection broke.
• Xuan Qing invited Han Xi to his Dao Field, stored the Gui Water Spiritual Apricot and some Innate Gui Water in the Green Lotus of Creation, and told Han Xi to keep the treasure secret.

Xuan Qing explored a cave with Han Xi, claimed two powerful treasures, and unintentionally destroyed a suppressed Chaos Demon God. He left with Great Dao Merit and a mysterious blank painting, while Han Xi stayed by his side.

• Xuan Qing entered the cave and used Three Lights Divine Water to restore the Jade Bamboo of Creation, which became a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure; he also found the Cauldron of Creation, an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Xuan Qing broke through a stone wall and discovered a Chaos Demon God suppressed beneath a painting, then sent the Green Lotus of Creation into its Origin and destroyed it.
• Xuan Qing received a large amount of Great Dao Merit, collected the blank painting, and reunited with the anxious Han Xi.
• Xuan Qing showed Han Xi the treasures and noticed the painting could use Great Dao Merit as ink, but his first brushstroke returned to the ink.
• Xuan Qing told Han Xi they should leave, and she prepared to go with him.

After leaving Zhou Mountain, Xuan Qing and Han Xi fought off a Fire Kirin who tried to rob them, and Han Xi killed him after he attempted a sneak attack. The Fire Kirin Ancestor traced the death to them but could not identify or pursue them after the Green Lotus of Creation struck back.

• Xuan Qing told Han Xi to keep her cultivation below her realm and to strengthen her body, then took her out to broaden her experience.
• A Fire Kirin demanded one-third of their gains, and Xuan Qing knocked him aside before letting Han Xi test her combat skills against him.
• After fighting for several hundred years, Han Xi gained the upper hand, but the Fire Kirin tried to attack her with a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure; she sensed him, killed him with her Water Bell, and Xuan Qing collected his treasure and remains.
• The Fire Kirin Ancestor, Huo Lin, sensed his son's death and gathered the four other Kirin Ancestors to search the scene and use bloodline arts and time reversal to find the killer.
• The Green Lotus of Creation sent a phantom Lotus Throne through the time-reversal curtain, crushing the four Kirin Ancestors and leaving Huo Lin unable to seek revenge.

Xuan Qing and Han Xi crossed the Nine Heavens Gale Layer, where Han Xi tempered her body and found the Wind-Quelling Pearl. In the Primordial Starry Sky, they discovered Fierce Beasts draining a star’s origin to nurture Starry Sky Giant Beasts, and Xuan Qing confronted the creatures responsible.

• Xuan Qing forced Han Xi to endure the Nine Heavens Gale Layer, where she strengthened her physical body and was swept into the gale before the Wind-Quelling Pearl stopped her.
• Han Xi obtained the High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Wind-Quelling Pearl, and she and Xuan Qing searched the gale layers for five kalpas before continuing into the Primordial Starry Sky.
• Xuan Qing and Han Xi found the Starry Sky desolate and encountered Fierce Beasts, which Han Xi destroyed without gaining Merit.
• Xuan Qing and Han Xi investigated a dying star and discovered a Beast Nest absorbing its origin while nurturing black cocoons.
• A giant Starry Sky Giant Beast emerged from the largest cocoon and called the nest the birthplace of its kind, prompting Xuan Qing to condemn the Fierce Beasts for destroying the Primordial Starry Sky.

Xuan Qing and Han Xi destroyed Starry Sky Giant Beast nests and restored the damaged stars as they traveled toward the Solar Star. At a protected nest, they defeated its defenders and discovered a fragment absorbing Star Power, while the mysterious force behind the beasts remained unexplained.

• Xuan Qing destroyed a Beast Nest, used divine water with Han Xi to bring the star its first rain, and received Great Dao Merit with her.
• A chained Black-Robed Man woke and cursed whoever had ruined his plans before falling asleep again.
• Xuan Qing and Han Xi found a nest guarded by Starry Sky Giant Beasts, and Xuan Qing fought their leader and two other Primordial Unity Golden Immortals while Han Xi defeated the remaining beasts.
• Xuan Qing tortured the leader until he revealed that their boss had given them fragments to place inside stars, transforming them into Starry Sky Giant Beasts.
• Xuan Qing let Han Xi deal with the leader, then broke the nest's Star Formation and found a fragment absorbing Star Power at its center.

Xuan Qing and Han Xi fought their way through the Starry Sky Giant Beasts, then discovered their Great Commander was attempting a breakthrough. Xuan Qing ambushed it before it could succeed, leaving it badly injured and reduced to the Peak Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm as their confrontation began.

• Xuan Qing destroyed a Chaos Remnant fragment, allowing the star to absorb it and recover while he and Han Xi gained Great Dao Merit.
• Xuan Qing and Han Xi searched the stars for the Great Commander, destroyed many Beast Nests, and Han Xi advanced to the Middle Stage of Primordial Unity Golden Immortal.
• The Deputy Commander led the gathered Starry Sky Giant Beasts against Xuan Qing, who battled them for eight Kalpas while Han Xi used the Green Lotus of Creation and Water Bell to defeat the other beasts.
• After the Deputy Commander died without revealing the Great Commander's whereabouts, Xuan Qing and Han Xi suspected it was breaking through and traveled to its lair.
• Han Xi concealed herself as planned, while Xuan Qing ambushed the Great Commander with the Jade Bamboo of Creation and Green Lotus of Creation, interrupting its breakthrough and severely injuring it.

Xuan Qing and Han Xi killed the Fierce Beast Great Commander, restoring the Primordial Starry Sky and earning a Heaven and Earth Fruit Position for Xuan Qing. They then traveled to the Solar Star, where Xuan Qing entered its deadly center in search of the Chaos Bell and was caught in a massive Energy Tide.

• Xuan Qing and Han Xi defeated the mindless Great Commander after its degeneration weakened it, and Han Xi delivered the final blow.
• The Zhou Tian Stars recovered, spreading Star Power and vitality through the Primordial Land and healing Xuan Qing and Han Xi.
• The Great Dao rewarded the pair with Merit and a Heaven and Earth Fruit Position, which Xuan Qing accepted after Han Xi declined it.
• The restored Starry Sky strengthened the chains restraining a mysterious figure, who realized its scattered Law Fragments had vanished.
• Xuan Qing and Han Xi arrived at the Solar Star, where Xuan Qing entered its center while Han Xi searched the outskirts.
• A violent Energy Tide engulfed Xuan Qing as he stepped into the Solar Star’s center.