Chapter Summaries

Hongjun realized that his attacks had not damaged Qingyuan’s Hunyuan Imperishable Spirit Light, while Qingyuan continued to devour Chaos despite its resistance. After hearing Hongjun claim Qingyuan knew nothing of the hidden conflict, Hongjun merged with the Creation Jade Disk and attacked him as the Dao itself, finally making Qingyuan show pain.

• Hongjun recognized that Qingyuan’s wounds had not harmed his Hunyuan Imperishable Spirit Light and felt worn down by his resilience.
• Demon Master Kunpeng praised Hongjun, mocked Qingyuan, and offered to kill him, while the gathered Saints and gods looked on in silence.
• Hongjun asked Qingyuan to stop, but Qingyuan kept expanding the darkness of the New Primordial Wilderness into Chaos despite the world’s resistance.
• Hongjun claimed Qingyuan knew nothing about the concealed struggle, and Qingyuan noticed that some of Hongjun’s words were blocked from his hearing.
• Hongjun merged the Creation Jade Disk into himself, declared that Qingyuan was fighting the Dao, and attacked him with the rules of life, death, time, space, and Karma.
• The five rules battered Qingyuan’s body and Dao Fruit, shrank the darkness, and finally made his expression show pain.

Hongjun used the Pangu Dao Fruit and the power of the Time Line to erase Qingyuan from every point in the Past Branch, believing he had won and gained a chance at freedom. As he wondered whose scheme Qingyuan had served, another change began.

• Hongjun revealed that Chaos and its cycles predated Pangu, and Qingyuan realized Hongjun was only a projection within a larger Space-Time order.
• Hongjun crushed Qingyuan with five rules, and Qingyuan suspected that Hongjun was not the real Hongjun.
• Hongjun traveled through the River of Time and destroyed Qingyuan's traces across countless past eras, weakening Qingyuan's present existence.
• The Saints across Chaos felt the Time Lines and laws twisting as Qingyuan's body collapsed under Hongjun's attack.
• Hongjun declared victory and hoped to escape the Time Line, then questioned which Daluo's method Qingyuan had followed.
• Another change occurred before Hongjun could investigate Qingyuan's origins.

Qingyuan returned unharmed after Hongjun erased him across the River of Time, then understood that transcendence required devouring the entire chaos. The Saints revealed that Hongjun was only a projection, and Qingyuan left Hongjun confronting the question of who he truly was.

• Qingyuan reappeared without injury after Hongjun’s attack, and Hongjun’s laws shattered before him.
• Qingyuan thanked Hongjun for revealing that he had to devour the entire chaos to achieve transcendence.
• Hongjun searched countless timelines for Qingyuan but found no trace of his past or existence.
• The Heavenly Dao Saints and Hunyuan Saints acknowledged Qingyuan and told Hongjun that he was only a projection of the true Hongjun.
• Qingyuan stepped through Hongjun’s defenses and asked him who he was.

Hongjun awoke from a terrifying vision of Qingyuan and begged him to stop, but Qingyuan continued toward the Primordial Wilderness as the Six Heavenly Dao Saints moved to block him. The chapter ended with all six burning their origins and attacking Qingyuan to protect the living beings and the Primordial Wilderness.

• Hongjun woke from an Inner Demon vision in which an ancient eye and a stirring outline erased his existence, and he feared Qingyuan’s power.
• Hongjun offered Qingyuan a truce, but Qingyuan walked toward the Primordial Wilderness as Eternal Night grew behind him.
• Hongjun called on the Six Heavenly Dao Saints to stop Qingyuan, and Laozi confronted Qingyuan before launching an attack with the Taiji Diagram.
• Venerable Yuanshi, Sect Master Tongtian, Daoist Jieyin, and Zhunti each unleashed their full power against Qingyuan, burning their origins.
• Nuwa pleaded with Qingyuan to spare the Primordial Wilderness’s living beings, then hurled the Red Embroidered Ball at him.

The Saints and Hunyuan Saints sacrificed themselves to attack Qingyuan, but he erased them and began consuming Chaos and the Dao. Hongjun tried to stop him by invoking the lives and places Qingyuan cared about, but Qingyuan declared that a new future would come as the Primordial Wilderness began to collapse.

• The Heavenly Dao Saints, Hunyuan Saints, Four Directional Gods, and Demon Saints burned their power and charged Qingyuan, while Kunpeng cowered behind them.
• Their attack failed, and the Saints vanished one by one; Tongtian asked Qingyuan to look after the Interception Sect’s disciples, and Nuwa apologized to her children.
• Qingyuan walked toward Hongjun as darkness devoured Chaos, the Three Daos, and the Laws.
• Hongjun pleaded with Qingyuan to spare the Primordial Wilderness and named Zhen Yuanzi, Wang Shu, Qingyuan’s disciples, and its mortal inhabitants.
• Qingyuan said a new future would come, and darkness swallowed the Four Extremities Heaven, tore the Heaven and Earth Embryonic Membrane, and consumed the fringes of the Primordial Wilderness.

Qingyuan continued devouring the Primordial Wilderness as Hongjun unleashed a fragment of the Great Dao Grinding Disc in a desperate attempt to destroy them both. The fragment sent them back to the Primordial Chaos Era, where Qingyuan began devouring the Chaos Demon Gods Hongjun hoped would overwhelm him.

• Qingyuan rejected Hongjun's offer of the Pangu Dao Fruit and urged him to accept his fate or fight back as the Primordial Wilderness collapsed.
• Hongjun revealed a fragment of the Great Dao Grinding Disc and unleashed its power, shattering the Great Daos and destabilizing time, fate, karma, and reincarnation.
• Hongjun hurled the fragment at Qingyuan, but Qingyuan remained protected from the destruction as the chaos around them shifted into the Primordial Chaos Era.
• Hongjun hid among the Chaos Demon Gods and expected their combined strength to challenge Qingyuan.
• Qingyuan devoured several attacking Chaos Demon Gods, including the three-headed, six-armed Fiend God, the many-eyed Fiend God, and the octopus-like Fiend God, while more rushed at him.

Qingyuan hunted Hongjun through the Dharma-ending Era after rejecting his offer to join forces. Hongjun fled to Zixiao Palace and found nothing beyond a door he had opened countless times, then asked Qingyuan who he was.

• Qingyuan devoured the Chaos Demon Gods and pursued Hongjun, but their surroundings shifted into the Dharma-ending Era.
• Hongjun recognized the desolate future and urged Qingyuan to cooperate so they could escape the repeating cycle.
• Qingyuan pierced Hongjun twice and rejected his offer, while Hongjun fled through the ruins toward Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun rushed through Zixiao Palace and opened a door to absolute blankness.
• Qingyuan told Hongjun that he had deceived himself about what lay beyond the door, and Hongjun calmly asked who Qingyuan was.

Qingyuan pursued the time-traveling Hongjun through successive time lines, devouring the Fierce Beast Tribulation and killing the six newly attained Saints and that time line’s Hongjun. The chase continued across countless Primordial Wildernesses as Hongjun’s essence dwindled and Qingyuan grew stronger.

• Hongjun escaped Qingyuan by using the Great Dao Grinding Disc to flee into the chaos of the Fierce Beast era.
• Hongjun turned the fierce beasts against Qingyuan, but Qingyuan slaughtered and devoured them, ending the Fierce Beast Tribulation and draining Hongjun’s origin essence.
• Hongjun fled into a new time line where Laozi, Venerable Yuanshi, Sect Master Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa had just attained sainthood, and urged them to stop Qingyuan.
• Qingyuan effortlessly killed the six Saints and the local Dao Ancestor Hongjun, while the time-traveling Hongjun escaped again.
• Hongjun continued fleeing across countless time lines as Qingyuan pursued him, grew stronger, and devoured each world.

Hongjun fled Qingyuan through the Witch-Demon Tribulation after Qingyuan devoured the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation. Qingyuan destroyed the Demon Heavenly Court and the Witch Clan, while Hongjun’s remaining essence continued to dwindle.

• Hongjun entered the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation and stirred the Three Clans and Demon Ancestor Luohu into attacking Qingyuan.
• Qingyuan killed the Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, the First Qilin, Luohu, and the other attackers, devouring them and consuming Hongjun’s essence in the process.
• Hongjun used the Great Dao Grinding Disc to escape the collapsing Time Line and entered the Witch-Demon Tribulation.
• Hongjun stirred Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the Twelve Ancestor Witches into attacking Qingyuan with the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array and their combined true forms.
• Qingyuan shattered the array and destroyed the Twelve Ancestor Witches, then broke Di Jun’s River Diagram and Luo Book and Tai Yi’s Chaos Bell, devouring the remaining demons.

As Hongjun fled through the Investiture of the Gods and Heaven-Opening Time Lines, Qingyuan destroyed the Four Saints, the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, and the Three Thousand Demon Gods Hongjun had awakened to stop him. Qingyuan continued advancing through Chaos toward Hongjun, who had forced Pangu and the Demon Gods to attack him.

• Qingyuan ended the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation by destroying the Four Saints, Sect Master Tongtian, and the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation.
• Hongjun activated the Great Dao Grinding Disc and fled into another Time Line, but Qingyuan seized him and tore away part of his origin before Hongjun escaped.
• Hongjun entered the Heaven-Opening Tribulation and used the Great Dao Grinding Disc to awaken Pangu, then commanded Pangu and the Three Thousand Demon Gods to kill Qingyuan.
• Qingyuan devoured the Chaos Demon Ape, the Yin-Yang Fiend God, the Space Fiend God, and other Demon Gods as they attacked him.
• As Qingyuan walked through Chaos, the Three Thousand Demon Gods vanished one after another, and he kept his gaze fixed on Hongjun.

Qingyuan erased the Chaos Demon Gods and defeated Pangu, whom Hongjun had empowered with the full might of the Time Line. With Pangu gone, Qingyuan cornered Hongjun and began devouring him.

• Qingyuan walked through the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods, erasing them and draining Hongjun's source power.
• Hongjun poured the Time Line's remaining power and the Great Dao Grinding Disc's might into Pangu, raising him to the Great Dao Realm.
• Pangu attacked Qingyuan with the Heaven Opening Divine Axe, but Qingyuan repeatedly reformed from darkness after being cut apart.
• Qingyuan's darkness drained Pangu's power and consumed his Dao body, True Spirit, and Dao Fruit, leaving Hongjun alone.
• Qingyuan surrounded Hongjun with darkness, stopped his attempts to resist or flee, and raised his hand to devour him.

Qingyuan killed Hongjun, absorbed his memories, and devoured countless timelines until he transcended and attained the Dao. He awoke in a higher Primordial Wilderness, where Dao Ancestor Hongjun revealed that Qingyuan had passed a trial and become a Mythic Daluo.

• Qingyuan killed Hongjun and absorbed his final consciousness, including memories of countless timelines.
• Qingyuan devoured the timelines and their origins, Great Daos, and existences, becoming the one and only supreme being.
• Qingyuan appeared in a vast, unfamiliar Primordial Wilderness and wondered whether he had truly transcended or remained trapped in Hongjun's schemes.
• Qingyuan was drawn into a great hall, where he met Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who congratulated him on attaining Mythic Daluo.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun touched Qingyuan's brow, restoring his memories of being a transmigrator who had accepted a trial to attain Mythic Daluo.
• Qingyuan understood that Hongjun had given him a chance to survive in the Primordial Wilderness, and he bowed to Dao Ancestor Hongjun in thanks.

After recovering his memories, Qingyuan met Hongjun, learned that the Hongjun he had hunted was only a reflection, and was sent to deal with transmigrators who had arrived in the Primordial Wilderness. He found a technology-wielding transmigrator, whose weapons failed against Qingyuan, and stood over him declaring his system powerless in the Primordial Wilderness.

• Qingyuan remembered his past timeline and thanked Hongjun, who explained that the Hongjun he had killed was only a reflection and said all mythic Daluo were equal.
• Hongjun gave Qingyuan information about powerful transmigrators and ordered him to handle the trouble they had caused.
• Qingyuan traveled across the vast Primordial Wilderness and found a concealed cave filled with advanced technological defenses and weapons.
• The cave’s projection attacked Qingyuan with a Two-Dimensional Foil, but Qingyuan recovered from being flattened and revealed that he was a Daluo.
• The projection invoked his Technology Saint-Slaying System, but Qingyuan shattered the cave’s barriers and weapons with his steps.
• Qingyuan pressed down on the projection’s head and told him that his system was nothing in the Primordial Wilderness.

Qingyuan traveled to a frozen wasteland to arrest the transmigrator with the Invincible Fiend God System and bring him to Zixiao Palace. The transmigrator repeatedly destroyed Qingyuan with Pangu Blood Essence, but Qingyuan kept returning unharmed, leaving the transmigrator afraid.

• Qingyuan destroyed the first transmigrator's system and left the ruined cave abode.
• Qingyuan found the Invincible Fiend God System's owner in a hidden courtyard in the ice fields and told him the Dao Ancestor wanted to see him.
• The transmigrator mocked Qingyuan, revealed he had extracted Pangu Blood Essence, and claimed to be at the primordial golden immortal perfect stage.
• Qingyuan said he had come to arrest the transmigrator, who attacked and crushed him with Pangu's Power.
• Qingyuan reappeared unharmed after each attack, even after the transmigrator devastated the surrounding landscape.
• The transmigrator attacked Qingyuan repeatedly until his strength faltered and fear entered his gaze.

On the frozen icefield, Qingyuan repeatedly survived the transmigrator’s attacks and revealed that he sensed the man’s system. The transmigrator forced a breakthrough into the primordial Daluo golden immortal realm with a Pangu Incarnation, but Qingyuan’s casual flicks dismantled his power and shattered the incarnation.

• The transmigrator repeatedly attacked Qingyuan with Pangu blood essence, but Qingyuan returned unharmed each time as the icefield was erased.
• Qingyuan told the transmigrator that he sensed his system and ordered him to come see the Dao Ancestor.
• The transmigrator rejected Qingyuan’s claim and summoned a Pangu Incarnation, breaking through to the primordial Daluo golden immortal realm.
• The transmigrator struck Qingyuan with the incarnation’s power, but Qingyuan flicked his finger and negated the man’s arm.
• Qingyuan flicked the transmigrator’s chest, destroying his realm, Pangu blood essence, and Pangu Phantom.

Qingyuan defeated the Pangu-blood-essence transmigrator, captured every transmigrator in the Primordial Wilderness, and delivered them to Dao Ancestor Hongjun. Hongjun sent Qingyuan to bring a mysterious gift to the newly founded Heavenly Court, where Qingyuan arrived and saw Di Jun and Tai Yi in the main hall.

• Qingyuan shattered the transmigrator’s power, suppressed his system, and imprisoned him in absolute nothingness.
• Qingyuan spent a thousand years finding and capturing every transmigrator and their systems throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan brought the captives to Zixiao Palace, where Hongjun imprisoned them and gave Qingyuan a mysterious box for Di Jun and Tai Yi.
• Hongjun told Qingyuan that transmigrators had been deliberately lured into the Primordial Wilderness to relieve the boredom of immortal beings.
• Qingyuan traveled to Buzhou Mountain and approached the Heavenly Court, where he saw Di Jun and Tai Yi seated in its main hall.

Qingyuan visited Buzhou Mountain and the Heavenly Court, where Demon Emperor Di Jun offered him a place among the Demon Race after receiving the Dao Ancestor’s gift. Empress Nuwa then summoned Qingyuan and urged him to join her side in a hidden contest, warning that he did not have much time; Qingyuan left to consider her invitation.

• Qingyuan observed the Witch Clan at Buzhou Mountain and saw the Twelve Ancestor Witches guarding their people with a powerful formation.
• Qingyuan entered the Heavenly Court, met Demon Emperor Di Jun, and declined to join while he assessed the Primordial Wilderness’s factions.
• Qingyuan delivered the Dao Ancestor’s gift to Di Jun, who accepted it without opening the box.
• Azure Luan arrived with Empress Nuwa’s invitation, and Qingyuan followed her to the Palace of Nuwa.
• Empress Nuwa told Qingyuan that the Primordial Wilderness was cycling through calamities and that he must choose a side in a contest whose greater course remained unchanged.
• Qingyuan asked for time to consider joining Empress Nuwa, who warned him that he did not have much time.

Qingyuan accepted Baize’s offer to hunt a Fierce Beast in exchange for a map of the Primordial Wilderness, only to discover the hunt had provoked a battle between the Demon Race and the Witch Clan. With Gonggong confronting the Demon forces and Baize arriving with two Demon Saints, Qingyuan realized he had been set up and would be blamed by the Witch Clan.

• Baize offered Qingyuan a map of the Primordial Wilderness in exchange for help killing a Fierce Beast, and Qingyuan agreed.
• Qingyuan and twenty Demon Gods traveled to the Southern Border and killed the Fierce Beast with the help of the Demon forces.
• Great Witches accused the Demon Race of killing a beast raised by the Witch Clan, and fighting erupted between the two sides.
• Gonggong arrived and his roar overwhelmed the Demon Race’s Daluo Golden Immortals.
• Baize arrived with Lu Wu and Ying Zhao, confronted Gonggong, and declared that the Witch Clan would not leave the battlefield.
• Qingyuan concluded that Baize had used him to spark the conflict and that the Witch Clan would remember him as their enemy.

Gonggong accused Qingyuan of helping the Demon Race trap the Witch Clan, while Baize framed Qingyuan as a willing accomplice and the Demon Saints attacked Gonggong inside their formation. After everyone ignored Qingyuan’s demands to stop, he seized White Sha and began devouring him, leaving the battlefield stunned as White Sha was erased from existence.

• Gonggong confronted Qingyuan and accused him of joining forces with the Demon Race to trap the Witch Clan.
• Baize claimed Qingyuan had helped the Demon Race lure out the Witch Clan, and Gonggong’s attack failed to break the formation sealing the battlefield.
• Baize, Lu Wu, and Ying Zhao attacked Gonggong together and wounded him while the formation divided the Witch Clan forces.
• Qingyuan repeatedly ordered both sides to stop, but the Demon Saints and combatants ignored him.
• Qingyuan seized White Sha and used the Chaos Devouring Refinement Method to erase his body, Great Dao, and existence across the River of Time.

After Qingyuan devoured White Sha’s true spirit and erased him completely, the Demon Race and Witch Clan feared his power and ended their confrontation. Qingyuan claimed the Primordial Wilderness Map and accepted Dijiang’s invitation to the Pangu Temple, where he sensed the Twelve Ancestor Witches within.

• Qingyuan’s Chaos Devouring Refinement Method annihilated White Sha’s true spirit and Dao imprint, leaving the assembled Demon Race and Witch Clan terrified.
• Qingyuan warned everyone that he would keep killing until they were quiet, and Baize called the scheme a misunderstanding before withdrawing the Demon Race’s formation.
• Qingyuan stopped Baize and demanded the Primordial Wilderness Map, which Baize reluctantly handed over before leading his people away.
• Gonggong told Qingyuan that Dijiang had invited him to the Pangu Temple, and Qingyuan agreed to go.
• Gonggong led Qingyuan to the Pangu Temple, where Qingyuan sensed the twelve powerful auras of the Twelve Ancestor Witches.