Chapter Summaries

Xuan Qing, Xuan Ming, and You Hui left the Sin Domain to strengthen the Prehistoric Era before pursuing the mysteries of the Divine Abyss. On their journey through Chaos, they found old Chaos Demon God acquaintances in the Destiny Great World and appeared before them.

• Xuan Qing decided to return to the Prehistoric Era and raise it toward Half-Step Eternity before confronting the Divine Abyss again.
• Xuan Qing, Xuan Ming, and You Hui finished their arrangements in the Sin Domain and set out for the Primordial World Dao Domain.
• The three encountered newborn Chaos worlds and sensed familiar Chaos Demon God auras within the Destiny Great World.
• Xuan Qing chose to visit the old acquaintances, and he, Xuan Ming, and You Hui headed to the Destiny Great World.
• Time and space froze as the three appeared before the Demon Gods gathered at a Dao Discussion Platform.

Xuan Qing confronted the revived Demon Gods, reassured them he had not come to punish them, and asked about the Divine Abyss. Shichen revealed that Pangu once vanished from Chaos and that Shichen had glimpsed the Abyss while tracing Pangu through time, leaving Xuan Qing with a frightening mystery.

• Xuan Qing appeared before the Demon Gods, who feared he had come to settle their old grievances.
• Xuan Qing praised the Demon Gods for unwittingly tempering the Prehistoric Era and said he had come to ask about the Divine Abyss.
• Shichen and Destiny recognized the Divine Abyss as a forbidden place, and Shichen recalled that Pangu's aura had vanished from Chaos before the Heaven-Opening War.
• Shichen said Pangu returned transformed and began the war against the Chaos Demon Gods.
• Shichen revealed that he had traced Pangu through the River of Time, glimpsed the Divine Abyss, sensed Pangu's Creation Great Dao and the Annihilation Great Dao, and suffered severe damage from its pressure.

Shichen warned Xuan Qing that the Divine Abyss held multiple supreme Great Daos and was too dangerous to enter with his current cultivation. Xuan Qing promised not to trespass, then offered Shichen, Destiny, and the other Demon Gods the chance to become Great Dao Lords by merging their worlds into the Prehistoric Era, leaving them devoted to its cause and newly enlightened about the Dao.

• Shichen urged Xuan Qing not to enter the Divine Abyss, explaining that even Half-Step Great Dao supreme beings lay dormant within it.
• Xuan Qing acknowledged the warning and offered the Demon Gods the chance to rule Great Daos if they merged their worlds into the Prehistoric Era.
• Shichen, Destiny, and the other Demon Gods accepted Xuan Qing's offer and pledged themselves to the Prehistoric Era.
• The Demon Gods realized that the Dao was nurtured through worlds and living beings, and their Dao Hearts stabilized as their cultivation rose.

Shichen, Destiny, and the other Demon Gods merged their new worlds into the Primordial Heaven and Earth, while Xuan Qing’s return completed its six Supreme Great Daos. The perfected Heaven and Earth opened the Return to Void Forbidden Land, revealing the Guixu Divine Palace and figures within it as Ling Xi watched with stirred emotions.

• Shichen, Destiny, and the other Demon Gods joined their worlds to the Primordial Heaven and Earth and rose to the Half-step Wuji Realm.
• Xuan Qing returned to the Primordial Heaven and Earth, awakening its Annihilation and Chaos Great Daos and completing the six Supreme Great Daos.
• The East Sea’s barrier with the Return to Void Forbidden Land shattered, and the realms began reorganizing into a new space rather than destroying Heaven and Earth.
• The Guixu Divine Palace emerged within the Return to Void, with several immense figures standing outside it as if awakening.
• Qingxu nudged Ling Xi above the sea of clouds while she struggled to contain her emotions over the Return to Void’s transformation.

The Return to Void merged with the Prehistoric Era, completing its Heavenly Dao and transforming its worlds, inhabitants, and cosmic structure. The Prehistoric Era began a vast expansion with a new hierarchy of worlds, while the Return to Void settled beneath the Netherworld as its foundational counterpart.

• Ling Xi, Dao Xuan, Fen Xu, Wu Wei, Chen Qing, and the other cultivators witnessed the reborn Prehistoric Era after its ancient seals and shackles shattered.
• The shattered remnant realm of the ancient Prehistoric Era left the Return to Void and merged with the Primordial Main Realm, forming a new continent in the East Sea.
• The Return to Void’s collapsing Small Worlds were repaired as its Origin transformed, and their surviving inhabitants became Pure Return to Void Beings.
• The Return to Void descended beneath the Netherworld and Underworld, becoming the foundational Great World of Origin opposed to the Primordial Main Realm above.
• The Return to Void’s Half-Step Eternity Origin merged into the Primordial Main Realm, drawing scattered worlds back and expanding the Prehistoric Era.
• The myriad worlds formed a new ordered system of World Barriers, from the Chaos Dao Realm down through Macro, Middle, and Small Worlds.

After the Prehistoric Continent was reborn, Zhuo Guang reunited with Dao Xuan, Fen Xu, Wu Wei, Chen Qing, Ling Xi, and Qingxu. The powers of the new world then met the survivors of the old world, and Master Tongtian realized they were alternate versions of the same beings, sharing the same origins and heritage.

• Zhuo Guang descended onto the restored Prehistoric Continent and grieved that his old companions were gone or dwelling in the Return to Void.
• Dao Xuan, Fen Xu, Wu Wei, Chen Qing, Ling Xi, and Qingxu arrived and reunited with Zhuo Guang.
• The supreme powers of the new world gathered on the continent and felt a deep familiarity with the survivors from the Return to Void.
• Dao Xuan introduced himself to Hongjun, and the two Dao Ancestors exchanged a solemn salute as equals.
• Master Tongtian recognized that the old-world survivors were alternate versions of the beings of the Prehistoric Era, sharing the same origins and heritage.

The ancient survivors and the present-day powers understood that Xuan Qing had saved the Prehistoric Era from the annihilation that befell the old world, and their gratitude toward him deepened. Dao Xuan asked about Jieyin and Zhunti, and Hongjun explained that they had been imprisoned for betraying the Dao, unlike their counterparts in the old world, who had sacrificed themselves to protect it.

• Tongtian and the other great powers realized that without Xuan Qing, their world would have shared the old Prehistoric Era's fate of annihilation.
• The gathered powers remained silent, reflecting on Xuan Qing's role in securing the present era's flourishing and survival.
• Dao Xuan noticed that Jieyin and Zhunti were absent and asked Hongjun where they had gone.
• Hongjun revealed that Jieyin and Zhunti had brought outside forces into the Prehistoric Era and were imprisoned in the Human Dao River.
• Kong Ji, Dumie, and the other old-world powers reflected that Jieyin and Zhunti had sacrificed themselves in their world, but betrayed it in this one.

Hongjun asked how the beings from the Return to Void had gained their power, but Dao Xuan hesitated to reveal Xuan Qing’s secret. Xuan Qing returned with Xuan Ming and You Hui, explained how he had saved the old world’s remnants and helped unite the worlds, and Nuwa realized Ling Xi was herself from another path of Destiny.

• Hongjun asked Dao Xuan and the others how they had survived the Return to Void and cultivated such immense power.
• Dao Xuan hesitated to explain that their transformation came from the Origin Xuan Qing had left behind.
• Xuan Qing, Xuan Ming, and You Hui appeared, and the beings from the old world bowed to their benefactor.
• Xuan Qing welcomed the survivors into the new Primordial Heaven and Earth, and they thanked him for granting them new life.
• Xuan Qing told Hongjun, Nuwa, and the other great powers how he had preserved the old world’s Fire Seed and sheltered its Remnant Spirits through the Return to Void.
• Nuwa realized that Ling Xi was another version of herself from a different path of Destiny.

Xuan Qing eased the ancient and newly reborn beings’ worries about sharing origins by declaring them separate fellow Daoists in the present age. He then explained to Qing Xu that Chaos could sustain its cycles of birth and destruction without Return to Void, leaving Qing Xu free of its long-held concern.

• Nuwa asked Xuan Qing how she should regard Ling Xi and the other former inhabitants of Return to Void.
• Xuan Qing said the old world’s Karma and Fate had been severed, and the former inhabitants were newly reborn beings who should be treated as fellow Daoists.
• Nuwa, Ling Xi, Hongjun, Houtu, the Three Pure Ones, Luohu, and the others let go of their unease about the overlap between ancient and modern identities.
• Qing Xu asked Xuan Qing where worlds nearing destruction would go now that Return to Void had merged into the Prehistoric Era.
• Xuan Qing explained that Return to Void had only concealed Chaos’s destruction and was not needed for its natural cycle of worlds returning to Origin.
• Qing Xu released its Obsession after learning that Chaos would continue its cycles without Return to Void.

Xuan Qing’s six ultimate Great Daos infused the unified Human Dao, transforming it into an eternal foundation that stabilized the Prehistoric Era. The chapter ended with the Three Thousand Great Daos arising independently from the Prehistoric Heaven and Earth, no longer reliant on Chaos.

• Xuan Qing’s six supreme Great Daos poured into the unified Human Dao River, causing it to manifest across the Myriad Worlds.
• The Human Dao absorbed the six Daos’ Origin and Dao Fortune, transcended the limits of eras and Reincarnation, and eternally stabilized the structure of the Prehistoric Era.
• Zhunti and Jieyin remained imprisoned in Rule Cages above the Human Dao River, stripped of their former power.
• A Rule Spirit Body formed in the Human Dao River’s core, and the Eye of Humanity opened to govern the eternal rules of the Prehistoric Era.
• The Three Thousand Great Dao Laws manifested from the Prehistoric Heaven and Earth’s own Origin, taking root throughout the Myriad Worlds without relying on Chaos.

The Prehistoric Era broke free of Chaos and became a stable, self-sustaining half-step Eternal True Realm, with its three thousand Great Daos arising from within. Xuan Qing, Xuan Ming, and You Hui remained at the pinnacle of hunyuan wuji, awaiting the world's eventual true eternity to offer them a chance to advance.

• The Prehistoric Era formed its own three thousand Great Daos, completed its inner cycle, and became independent of Chaos.
• The Realm Wall, dimensions, reincarnation, and lingering flaws stabilized as the world completed its transformation.
• The world’s eternal Dao gifts strengthened the merged worlds and were absorbed only by a few supreme experts, including Xuan Qing, Xuan Ming, You Hui, Hongjun, Nuwa, and Houtu.
• The other qualified experts returned to their own Dao Fields, secret realms, and cavern heavens to meditate on the gift.
• Xuan Qing, Xuan Ming, and You Hui received benefits that reinforced their foundations but did not break their hunyuan wuji barriers.
• The three remained on the newborn Prehistoric Continent, looking over the peaceful universe and awaiting the Prehistoric Era’s eventual attainment of true eternity.

After the Prehistoric Era reached Half-Step Eternity, Hongjun, Houtu, and Nuwa each broke through to Hunyuan Wuji. The chapter ends with Nuwa’s Human Dao power and the Human Race’s fortune blazing across the heavens.

• Hongjun shattered the perfected Saint Venerable Shackles and became the first native Hunyuan Wuji Dao Venerable of the Prehistoric Era.
• Houtu perfected her Reincarnation Dao Heart, broke through the limit of Taiji, and elevated Reincarnation into a supreme Great Dao.
• Nuwa drew on the will of living beings and the completed Human Dao Origin to break through perfected Taiji and attain Hunyuan Wuji.
• Nuwa’s Human Dao true intent spread throughout the heavens as Human Race Fortune blazed above the Nine Heavens.

After Hongjun, Houtu, and Nuwa attained Hunyuan Wuji, Shichen, Destiny, and Karma became Wuji Dao Lords as the Prehistoric Era established their Dao Realms and bestowed authority on them. Yang Mei and Wang Shu then broke through to Hunyuan Wuji, with Wang Shu’s attainment transforming the starry skies across the worlds.

• Humanity across the Myriad Worlds worshiped Nuwa after she attained Wuji through the Human Dao.
• The Time, Destiny, and Karma Dao Realms appeared, and Shichen, Destiny, and Karma attained Hunyuan Wuji.
• The Human Dao named Shichen, Destiny, and Karma the Great Dao Lords of Time Sequence, Heavenly Secrets Dao, and Karmic Sin Dao.
• Yang Mei broke through to Hunyuan Wuji and became the master of Space Dao.
• Wang Shu attained Hunyuan Wuji and became the Starry Sky Dao Lord.
• Wang Shu’s breakthrough transformed the Zhou Tian Stars, creating a complete starry sky above every world.

Han Xi attained the Wuji Dao as Zhou Mountain transformed, and the Prehistoric Era entered a peaceful age in which cultivators across the heavens rose to power. In the revitalized Sin Domain, Tian Feixue considered visiting the Prehistoric Era and acknowledged her admiration for Xuan Qing.

• Han Xi attained the Wuji Dao, and Zhou Mountain's awakened Earth Veins spread spiritual qi through projections across countless worlds.
• Feng Hui Xi, Dao Xuan, Ling Xi, Chen Qing, Wu Wei, and many other cultivators broke through to Hunyuan Wuji as the flourishing Prehistoric Era welcomed countless powerful figures.
• The Sin Domain's shackles crumbled, its Origin revived, and Shang Zhen and Li Tianba discussed Tian Feixue's wish to visit the Prehistoric Era.
• Tian Feixue admitted that she admired Xuan Qing and gazed toward the Prehistoric Era with longing.

Shang Zhen handed the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce presidency to Dao Lord Shou Gu so he could travel to the Prehistoric Era. As he prepared to leave with Li Tianba and Tian Feixue, Qu Yao tried to join them, and Shang Zhen suspected she had another reason for going.

• Shang Zhen relinquished the presidency of the Myriad Worlds Chamber of Commerce and entrusted its authority to Dao Lord Shou Gu.
• Shang Zhen prepared to meet Li Tianba and Tian Feixue before departing for the Prehistoric Era.
• Qu Yao appeared and quietly tried to leave with Shang Zhen’s group.
• Chen Mo objected that the Chamber needed Qu Yao to manage its affairs, and Dao Lord Shou Gu agreed.
• Shang Zhen asked Qu Yao whether she wanted to go because she had feelings for Dao Venerable Xuan Qing.

Tian Feixue prepared to leave the Sin Domain for the Prehistoric Era, entrusted the Sin Fragrance Pavilion to Xiang Ling, and agreed to take her along. They then visited Yue Ying at the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion, where Tian Feixue was startled by the depth of Yue Ying’s cultivation.

• Shang Zhen warned Qu Yao not to pursue her admiration for Xuan Qing, and Chen Mo, Dao Lord Shou Gu, and Shang Zhen refused to let her leave the Sin Domain for the Prehistoric Era.
• Tian Feixue packed her treasured belongings and told Xiang Ling to manage the Sin Fragrance Pavilion and seek Yue Ying’s help with difficult matters.
• Xiang Ling pleaded to accompany Tian Feixue, and Tian Feixue eventually agreed to take her.
• Tian Feixue and Xiang Ling went to the Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion, where Tian Feixue sensed Yue Ying’s powerful cultivation and profound Yue Hua.

Tian Feixue entrusted the command token and Sin Fragrance Pavilion to Yue Ying before leaving with Xiang Ling for the Prehistoric Era to seek Dao Venerable Xuan Qing. Yue Ying realized Feixue likely would never return, and Jin Shui arrived to learn that she had handed over the pavilion.

• Tian Feixue gave Yue Ying Sin Fragrance Pavilion’s command token and asked her to guard the pavilion until Feixue’s possible return.
• Yue Ying promised to protect the pavilion and return it intact if Tian Feixue came back.
• Tian Feixue left Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion’s Great Hall with Xiang Ling to meet Shang Zhen, Li Tianba, and the others before departing for the Prehistoric Era.
• Yue Ying realized Tian Feixue had likely entrusted Sin Fragrance Pavilion to her permanently and felt the weight of its responsibilities.
• Jin Shui arrived, saw the command token, and learned that Tian Feixue was going to the Prehistoric Era to seek Dao Venerable Xuan Qing and would most likely not return.
• Jin Shui reflected that Dao Venerable Xuan Qing was devoted to the Great Dao and the Order of the myriad heavens, not worldly romance.

Tian Feixue left the Sin Domain with Xiang Ling, convinced that abandoning her responsibilities would free her Dao, and went to meet Shang Zhen for their journey to the Primordial Era. Li Tianba failed to arrive because Li Tianshi stopped him at the ancestral hall and begged to go with him.

• Jin Shui told Yue Ying that Tian Feixue’s feelings for Xuan Qing would likely go unfulfilled, but said her chosen path was hers to pursue.
• Tian Feixue left the Sin Fragrance Pavilion behind and explained to Xiang Ling that its power and responsibilities had shackled her cultivation and Dao heart.
• Tian Feixue and Xiang Ling met Shang Zhen in the void, where they waited for the missing Li Tianba.
• At the Li Family Ancestral Grounds, Li Tianshi grabbed Li Tianba’s hands and pleaded to accompany him.

Li Tianba reluctantly agreed to bring his mischievous great-grandson Li Tianshi on the journey to the Prehistoric Era after Zhang Feng urged him to let the boy see the world. At the gathering point, Xiang Ling met the unusually obedient child as the group prepared to travel onward.

• Li Tianshi clung to Li Tianba and begged to join his journey, while Zhang Feng urged Li Tianba to bring the boy along.
• Li Tianba warned Li Tianshi to behave in the Prehistoric Era, and the child promised to obey.
• Li Tianba arrived at the meeting place with Li Tianshi and his servants, surprising Shang Zhen and Tian Feixue.
• Xiang Ling greeted Li Tianba, picked up Li Tianshi, and asked whether he was going to the Prehistoric Era.
• Li Tianshi stayed quiet and obedient while Xiang Ling teased him, and she eventually set him down.

Li Tianba, Shang Zhen, and Tian Feixue traveled toward the Prehistoric Era as it rose to replace the Sin Domain as Chaos’s central cultivation hub. Seeing the new order for himself, Li Tianba understood that Tian Feixue had abandoned her ties to the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion to establish herself at the heart of the Great Dao.

• Li Tianba apologized for arriving late, and Tian Feixue told him she was no longer connected to the Drunken Fragrance Pavilion.
• The Prehistoric Era became the stable core of the Primordial World Dao Domain after Dao Venerable Xuan Qing’s rise and victory in the Sin Domain War.
• The Jin Shui Treasure Pavilion’s passage brought growing numbers of powers from across Chaos to the Prehistoric Era, while the Sin Domain lost its former prominence.
• Li Tianba and his companions witnessed countless experts and clans traveling toward the Prehistoric Era.
• Li Tianba realized Tian Feixue had left her old power behind to settle in Chaos’s new center and pursue the Dao, and he admired her foresight.