Chapter Summaries

Yuan Cang taught his Spiritual Root-based cultivation method, but Jian Chen and Huan Jin rejected it and exposed that they had followed a different path under Xuan Qing. After Yuan Cang attacked them at the crowd’s urging, Xuan Qing’s Creation Dao Rhythm appeared and drove back the laws.

• Yuan Cang explained his cultivation method, while Jian Chen and Huan Jin recognized that its reliance on Spiritual Roots would eventually limit advancement.
• Xuan Qing shielded Jian Chen and Huan Jin from Yuan Cang’s Dao Sound and told them to continue contemplating his own teachings; Tai Xu and Cang Xu also did not learn the method.
• After the lecture, Jian Chen and Huan Jin refused to thank Yuan Cang, and Huan Jin revealed their powerful auras to show they had not learned the Spiritual Root method.
• Wu Wang urged Yuan Cang to punish Jian Chen and Huan Jin, and the crowd joined his demand.
• Yuan Cang summoned a colossal hand of laws to strike the two, but Creation Dao Rhythm spread through the hall and forced the Heaven and Earth Laws to retreat.

Xuan Qing protected Jian Chen and Huan Jin from Yuan Cang, then watched as Yuan Cang appointed eight disciples and gave them treasures. When Yuan Cang offered Cang Xu a place as his ninth disciple, Cang Xu refused and a Karma Line connected him to Xuan Qing.

• Xuan Qing dissolved Yuan Cang's attack and revealed himself as Jian Chen and Huan Jin's master.
• Yuan Cang confronted Xuan Qing, who accused him of attacking his disciples and mocked his claim to be the Creation God.
• Yuan Cang accepted Du Chen as his chief disciple and gave him a Buddhist Prayer Bead; Xuan Qing noticed Yuan Cang was absorbing Du Chen's Auspicious Qi and Origin.
• Yuan Cang accepted the other seven people in the front row as disciples and bestowed an Innate Spiritual Treasure on each.
• Yuan Cang offered Cang Xu a place as his ninth disciple, but Cang Xu refused and a Karma Line connected him to Xuan Qing.

At Cang Yuan Mountain, Cang Xu rejected Yuan Cang’s offer of discipleship and was saved from the enraged cultivators by Xuan Qing, whom he then asked to become his master. Xuan Qing saw that Yuan Cang’s Primordial Violet Qi bound its recipients to his control, refused the final strand offered to Cang Xu, and left with his companions for Spirit Snow Mountain.

• Cang Xu refused Yuan Cang’s offer, and Yu Ya and seven others attacked him until Xuan Qing dispersed their strikes with Dao Sound.
• Cang Xu thanked Xuan Qing and asked to become his disciple, but Xuan Qing told him to stay with Jian Chen and the others for now.
• Yuan Cang gave eight strands of Primordial Violet Qi to his chosen disciples and offered the last one to Cang Xu.
• Xuan Qing examined the Primordial Violet Qi, recognized its flaws and Yuan Cang’s control over its recipients, and rejected the strand offered to Cang Xu.
• Yuan Cang ended the Dao lecture, and Xuan Qing led Jian Chen, Cang Xu, and the others out of the Great Hall.
• Tai Xu chased after Xuan Qing to ask to become his disciple, but Xuan Qing ignored him and used the Law of Space to return with his companions to Spirit Snow Mountain.

Tai Xu sought a way to reach Xuan Qing through Jian Chen, while Cang Xu was suppressed and assigned to learn from Huan Jin. Several dozen Kalpas later, Du Chen broke through to the Emperor Venerable realm, founded Miguang Temple, and opened a cultivation path for all beings.

• Tai Xu failed to find anyone willing to help him and decided to search for Jian Chen in the Huan Yu World.
• Xuan Qing suppressed Cang Xu and ordered Huan Jin to teach him to change his temperament.
• Huan Jin and Jian Chen challenged Cang Xu's belief in equality, but Cang Xu continued to question why equality was unsuitable for the Vast Universe Great World.
• Jian Chen entered seclusion while Huan Jin continued trying to persuade Cang Xu; as several dozen Kalpas passed, Xuan Qing faded from most beings' memories.
• Du Chen broke through the Immortal Emperor realm to become the first Emperor Venerable of the Huan Yu World, then founded Miguang Temple and invited all beings to join and learn cultivation.

Jian Chen broke through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and took over from Huan Jin in guiding Cang Xu. Xuan Qing discovered that damage to the Vast Universe’s Origin had distorted Cang Xu’s Order Law, while Tai Xu finally reached Spirit Snow Mountain in search of Xuan Qing.

• Jian Chen broke through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm in Huan Yu World and thanked Xuan Qing for his guidance.
• Jian Chen relieved Huan Jin, who realized he had neglected the Creation Dao Rhythm while helping Cang Xu.
• Xuan Qing found missing Dao Patterns in Cang Xu’s Order Law and traced the damage to Yuan Cang’s consumption of the Vast Universe’s World Origin.
• Xuan Qing sent Creation Dao Rhythm into Cang Xu’s Origin, causing Cang Xu to enter Enlightenment as the eight sects spread cultivation across the Vast Universe.
• Tai Xu followed reports of Jian Chen’s sword aura to Spirit Snow Mountain and called out to Jian Chen while Cang Xu lay suppressed nearby.

Cang Xu formed an Order Dao Seed and broke through to Primordial Golden Immortal, earning Xuan Qing’s acceptance and entry into the Dao Field. There, Xuan Qing revealed that Yuan Cang had devoured Huan Yu World’s Origin, while explaining that he could not change the world’s fate.

• Tai Xu came to Spirit Snow Mountain seeking Xuan Qing’s guidance, but Jian Chen told him his clouded Dao Heart made him unsuitable; Tai Xu knelt outside the Formation anyway.
• Cang Xu’s Order Law manifested, and his Dao Seed entered the River of Great Dao, advancing him to Primordial Golden Immortal as Xuan Qing concealed the breakthrough’s signs.
• Cang Xu thanked Xuan Qing and entered the Dao Field with Jian Chen, where they learned Huan Jin had also broken through after guiding Cang Xu.
• Xuan Qing told Cang Xu, Huan Jin, and Jian Chen that Yuan Cang’s actions had caused Cang Xu’s suffering by devouring Huan Yu World’s Origin.
• Xuan Qing refused Huan Jin’s request to intervene, explaining that he could not alter Huan Yu World’s established future or defy the Great Dao’s rules of Time and Space.

Xuan Qing planned to oppose Yuan Cang by confronting his eight disciples and allowed Huan Jin and the others to recruit Tai Xu as an ally. Tai Xu began cultivating Xuan Qing’s Method of Severing Three Bodies, and his Law of Water started transforming into a new Law.

• Xuan Qing warned that Yuan Cang’s eight disciples might be powerful and explained that their cultivation could drain Huan Yu World’s Origin, so Huan Jin, Cang Xu, and Jian Chen prepared to oppose them.
• Xuan Qing refused to take Tai Xu as a disciple but approved teaching him the Method of Severing Three Bodies, and Huan Jin brought him into Qing Xuan Hut.
• Huan Jin gave Tai Xu the cultivation method, and Tai Xu felt the Dao Resonance in Qing Xuan Hut as he began cultivating alongside Huan Jin and the others.
• Tai Xu learned that Yuan Cang had advanced by devouring Huan Yu World’s Origin, but rejected the idea of doing the same because the new method freed him from the limits of his Five-Colored Mixed Spiritual Root.
• As Tai Xu cultivated, his Law of Water changed under the Dao Resonance, with five colors converging into a new Law.

Tai Xu comprehended the Void Law and broke through to Primordial Origin Golden Immortal, while Xuan Qing was proclaimed the Immeasurable Dao Venerable. Across Huan Yu, rival sect alliances fought over Auspicious Qi, and Huan Jin and Cang Xu left Spirit Snow Mountain to travel as Tai Xu departed for reasons of his own.

• Tai Xu formed the embryonic Void Law Dao Seed, severed his Obsession, and reached Primordial Origin Golden Immortal.
• A Great Dao edict named Xuan Qing the Immeasurable Dao Venerable, and Tai Xu and the others exchanged teachings.
• Du Chen and the other seven sect leaders drew in living beings to gather Auspicious Qi, then formed rival alliances and fought over territory.
• The seven sect leaders joined forces against Du Chen, who surrendered much of his territory before the conflicts spread across Huan Yu.
• Huan Jin and Cang Xu reached the mid-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm and left Spirit Snow Mountain to travel together.
• Jian Chen stayed at Qing Xuan Hut, while Tai Xu also left Spirit Snow Mountain.

After discovering Huan Yu World was being ravaged by war, Cang Xu and Huan Jin set out to investigate, while Tai Xu found his Dao Field destroyed and learned that Xuan Yuan had seized his followers. Tai Xu confronted Xuan Yuan Sect as a mid-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal and prepared to attack.

• Cang Xu and Huan Jin saw that baleful aura and resentful thoughts had spread across Huan Yu World, and Huan Jin urged them to investigate before acting.
• Tai Xu returned to his Dao Field and found it ruined and its inhabitants gone.
• Tai Xu learned from an Immortal Venerable that Xuan Yuan had destroyed his Dao Field and taken his subordinates.
• Tai Xu stormed the Xuan Yuan Sect and challenged Xuan Yuan, whose disciples panicked at the arrival of a powerful outsider.
• Xuan Yuan recognized Tai Xu's Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm, and Tai Xu accused him of destroying his home before forming a massive Void Sword.

Xuan Yuan convinced Tai Xu that Xuan Tian and the others had survived because he rescued them, and Tai Xu left them in the Xuan Yuan Sect rather than take them away. At the Heavenly Demon Sect’s border, Huan Jin and Cang Xu confronted Yu Ya over the devastation caused by his sects, and Yu Ya attacked Huan Jin.

• Xuan Yuan showed Tai Xu that Xuan Tian and the other survivors were alive, and Tai Xu apologized for accusing him.
• Xuan Tian and the others chose to remain in the Xuan Yuan Sect, so Tai Xu left them in Xuan Yuan’s care and departed to seek revenge on Yu Ya and the others.
• Xuan Yuan asked Xuan Tian to persuade Tai Xu to stay next time, and Xuan Tian agreed to try.
• An Immortal Venerable told Yu Ya that two experts were slaughtering forces at the Heavenly Demon Region’s border, and Yu Ya went there.
• Huan Jin and Cang Xu accused Yu Ya and the great sects of spreading baleful aura and harming the universe’s living beings.
• Yu Ya summoned a demonic blade and charged at Huan Jin.

Huan Jin and Cang Xu fought Yu Ya, Mei Yao, and Wu Wang after discovering they had drawn on the Heaven and Earth Origin. Ling Cang and two others joined the battle, forcing Huan Jin and Cang Xu to flee while the six tried to trap them.

• Huan Jin trapped Yu Ya in an illusion, and Yu Ya's wild attacks struck only at empty air.
• Mei Yao and Wu Wang drew on the Heaven and Earth Origin and battled Huan Jin and Cang Xu, freeing Yu Ya from the illusion.
• Cang Xu struck Mei Yao, but Yu Ya joined the fight and helped the three press Huan Jin and Cang Xu back.
• Huan Jin used the Nightmare Pearl to unleash a colossal Illusion Dao hand, but Yan Tianji and two others arrived and blocked it.
• Ling Cang and the other newcomers learned that Mei Yao, Yu Ya, and Wu Wang had stolen the Heaven and Earth Origin, then surrounded Huan Jin and Cang Xu.
• Cang Xu cast a net of Order laws as he and Huan Jin fled, while the six moved to block their escape.

Tai Xu joined Cang Xu and Huan Jin against Yu Ya’s group, and Jian Chen and Du Chen later entered the battle. After Cang Xu’s combined attack nearly defeated the eight Emperor Venerables, Saint Venerable Yuan Cang intervened and struck Jian Chen’s side down.

• Tai Xu arrived as an Emperor Venerable and attacked Yu Ya to avenge the Saint Venerable Hall’s humiliation and the destruction of his Dao Field.
• Xuan Yuan joined Yu Ya’s group, and the renewed battle left Cang Xu and Huan Jin badly injured under the attacks of five opponents.
• Jian Chen appeared and called out Du Chen, who revealed that he had been watching the fight; the two sides then resumed battle with twelve combatants.
• Cang Xu combined Jian Chen’s Sword Dao Law, Huan Jin’s Illusion Dao Law, Tai Xu’s Void Law, and his own Order Law into a colossal sword that shattered the eight opponents’ barrier.
• Saint Venerable Yuan Cang crushed the colossal sword, backlashed Jian Chen and his three companions, and sent a giant hand slamming toward them.

Xuan Qing arrived to save Jian Chen and the others, revealed that the Great Dao had bestowed him the title Immeasurable Dao Venerable, and challenged Yuan Cang. He defeated Yuan Cang with one palm and severed his connection to the Heaven and Earth Origin, leaving Yuan Cang horrified.

• Xuan Qing healed Jian Chen, Cang Xu, and the others before confronting Yuan Cang for attacking them again.
• Xuan Qing told Yuan Cang to call him Dao Venerable, and the Great Dao revealed his title as Xuan Qing, Immeasurable Dao Venerable.
• Yuan Cang demanded that Xuan Qing leave Huan Yu, then attacked him with the power of a twelfth-layer Saint.
• Xuan Qing trapped Yuan Cang inside an Azure Lotus Realm Boundary and struck him down with one palm.
• Yuan Cang tried to reconnect with the Heaven and Earth Origin but discovered that Xuan Qing had severed their connection.

Xuan Qing forced Yuan Cang to stop interfering in the conflict, and Yuan Cang left Huan Yu to seek outside help. As Cang Xu’s fame drew cultivators to Spirit Snow Mountain, he agreed to lead them in restoring order to Huan Yu.

• Xuan Qing released Yuan Cang from his law barrier after time-space rules threatened to destabilize, then forbade him from interfering in the juniors’ affairs.
• Yuan Cang agreed not to intervene, warned Du Chen and the others to endure, and quietly left Huan Yu to seek reinforcements.
• Jian Chen and the other three became famous across Huan Yu, while cultivators rallied around the story that Cang Xu opposed the eight great sects for the sake of all living beings.
• Huan Jin revealed to Jian Chen that he had used the Illusion Dao Law to spread Cang Xu’s reputation and draw cultivators to Spirit Snow Mountain.
• Yao and the gathered cultivators begged Cang Xu to lead them, and Cang Xu agreed to take them in.

Spirit Ruins grew into the universe’s foremost force, prompting the Eight Great Sects to consider joining forces against it. Xuan Yuan and Mei Yao lured Tai Xu away from Spirit Ruins and tried to persuade him to hold back, leaving their request for help hanging.

• Jian Chen and the others helped Cang Xu establish Spirit Ruins, which quickly surpassed the Eight Great Sects in strength and drew beings from across the universe.
• At Miguang Temple, Yu Ya and the other leaders discussed uniting against Spirit Ruins and worried they could not defeat Jian Chen and his companions.
• Xuan Yuan proposed exploiting Tai Xu’s attachment to old bonds, and the group sent him and Mei Yao to approach Tai Xu.
• Xuan Yuan had Xuan Tian bring Tai Xu to a mountain outside Spirit Ruins, where he and Mei Yao greeted him with a feast.
• Xuan Yuan and Mei Yao claimed the other sect leaders excluded them and asked Tai Xu for help, while Tai Xu remained wary of their intentions.

Tai Xu agreed to spare Xuan Yuan and Mei Yao during the war, while Spirit Ruins and the Eight Great Sects fought for years. Xuan Qing emerged from seclusion at the middle stage of Primordial Taiji, transformed Spirit Ruins with his Creation Dao, and left Tai Xu uneasy about his stalled cultivation.

• Xuan Yuan persuaded Tai Xu to go easy on him and Mei Yao, and Mei Yao seduced Tai Xu into agreeing to spare her as well.
• Xuan Yuan left with Mei Yao and Xuan Tian, then the war between Spirit Ruins and the Eight Great Sects dragged on while both sides waited for Xuan Qing or Yuan Cang to act.
• Yao witnessed Xuan Qing's aura erupt from Qing Xuan Hut after Xuan Qing broke through to the middle stage of Primordial Taiji.
• Xuan Qing used the Great Dao of Creation to enrich Spirit Ruins, turning Chaos Qi into Innate Spiritual Qi and causing its inhabitants to enter enlightenment.
• Jian Chen and the others welcomed Xuan Qing's return, while Tai Xu worried that he remained stuck at the Late Stage of Primordial Golden Immortal.

Xuan Qing prepared the Spirit Ruins for war and sent its army against the eight great sects, while he confronted Yuan Cang and his new ally Gui Ying. The battle began across the Vast Universe Great World, and Xuan Qing faced Gui Ying as the latter unleashed the Eerie Great Dao.

• Xuan Qing sealed the Spirit Ruins with laws that suppressed outsiders and gave Yao a medicinal cauldron bearing forty-five Innate Restrictions.
• Xuan Qing ordered Cang Xu, Jian Chen, and the others to attack the eight great sects, while he went to hold Yuan Cang back.
• Yuan Cang returned with allies, and Cang Xu accused the eight sect masters of aiding him and damaging the Vast Universe Great World.
• Yu Ya rallied the eight great sects, and their forces clashed with the Spirit Ruins army as Tai Xu confronted Yu Ya and Jian Chen and the others fought the sect masters.
• Xuan Qing found Yuan Cang alongside Gui Ying at Cang Yuan Mountain and refused Gui Ying's demand to leave the Vast Universe Great World.
• Gui Ying unleashed the Eerie Great Dao against Xuan Qing.

Yuan Cang tricked Tai Xu into accepting his control by promising to cleanse his resentments and help him break through. Meanwhile, Xuan Qing fought Gui Ying in Chaos and revealed his mastery of the Law of Creation as well as the Law of Space.

• Xuan Qing moved his battle with Gui Ying into Chaos at Yuan Cang's request, and Yuan Cang stayed out of their fight.
• Yuan Cang sent Tai Xu Primordial Violet Qi and persuaded him to submit in exchange for a breakthrough, then used it to bind Tai Xu and cleanse his resentments.
• Tai Xu began cultivating to break through, while Yuan Cang ordered the eight fighters to leave him alone.
• Du Chen's group of eight attacked Jian Chen and his companions, who fought them to a standstill as they waited for Tai Xu's breakthrough.
• Gui Ying unleashed his Eerie Great Dao against Xuan Qing, but Xuan Qing's Law of Creation dissolved the attack and alarmed Gui Ying.

Xuan Qing overpowered Gui Ying with the Law of Creation, then seized Yuan Cang from the Vast Universe Great World. He unleashed the Law of Destiny to erase Gui Ying, who called for the Great Commander of Heavenly Prison City as his existence began to collapse.

• Xuan Qing formed a Great World of Creation and hurled it at Gui Ying, weakening him despite Gui Ying blocking the attack.
• Xuan Qing seized Yuan Cang from the Vast Universe Great World and dragged him to Gui Ying.
• Yuan Cang and Gui Ying invoked Heavenly Prison City’s reputation to threaten Xuan Qing, who revealed the Law of Destiny instead of the Law of Creation.
• Xuan Qing’s Law of Destiny unraveled Gui Ying’s cultivation, Great Dao, memories, and karma.
• As Gui Ying neared erasure, he cried out to the Great Commander to save him.

Xuan Qing brought Gui Ying and Yuan Cang to Heavenly Prison City and challenged its master, Jue Cang. Xuan Qing revealed his control over time and space and fought Jue Cang, but the battle left Jue Cang battered without threatening his foundation or life.

• A supreme aura from the depths of Chaos disrupted Xuan Qing's destiny threads, and Jue Cang fixed his gaze on Xuan Qing and Gui Ying.
• Xuan Qing seized Gui Ying and Yuan Cang and carried them to Heavenly Prison City, demanding that Jue Cang come out and die.
• Jue Cang emerged with his bloodstained spear and met Xuan Qing's pressure with the Law of Slaughter.
• Xuan Qing unleashed the Law of Time and Space, startling Jue Cang, who then attacked with a vast torrent of slaughter.
• Xuan Qing and Jue Cang's laws collided above the city, tearing through its defenses and destroying buildings as they battled.
• Xuan Qing trapped and battered Jue Cang with time and space, but Jue Cang's Law of Slaughter and powerful body kept him alive.