Chapter Summaries

Qingyuan fought the Dragon Clan Old Ancestors and endured the full force of the True Dragon Realm’s Hunyuan Ten Thousand Dragons Reincarnation Grinding Array, which killed him once before he revived. After testing his limits, he swept away the realm’s treasures, array materials, and many Dragon Clan members, leaving the True Dragon Realm stripped bare.

• The Dragon Clan Old Ancestors activated the Hunyuan Ten Thousand Dragons Reincarnation Grinding Array and trapped Qingyuan inside the sealed True Dragon Realm.
• Qingyuan fought the array head-on, repeatedly recovering from severe injuries as he used its power to temper his body.
• The Old Ancestors unleashed the array’s full power and destroyed Qingyuan’s body, prompting the Dragon Clan to celebrate his death.
• Qingyuan reappeared unharmed, shocking the dragons and prompting their leader to order the array activated again.
• Qingyuan used Five-Colored Divine Light and the Nine Treasures Wonderful Tree to sweep away treasures, array resources, and Dragon Clan members, leaving the True Dragon Realm bare.

Qingyuan seized the True Dragon Realm’s treasures and captured its inhabitants, then defeated the Dragon Clan’s remaining old ancestors. Candle Dragon intervened to save them, and Qingyuan demanded that Candle Dragon become his disciple in exchange for letting the matter go.

• Qingyuan’s mystical branch swept away most of the True Dragon Realm’s formations, treasures, and Dragon Clan, leaving the five old dragons stunned.
• Dragon Lei fled, but Qingyuan caught him, overwhelmed his lightning, and captured his body and Primordial Spirit in the Human Lord Banner.
• Qingyuan fought the remaining four old dragons, rejected their pleas and threats, and prepared to kill them.
• Candle Dragon emerged from the Endless Sea Region and asked Qingyuan to spare the Dragon Clan, offering compensation instead.
• Qingyuan pointed out that Candle Dragon had not acted while the realm was sealed and demanded that he become Qingyuan’s disciple.

Qingyuan forced Candle Dragon to become his personal disciple despite the Four Old Dragons' fury. The system rewarded him with powerful treasures, abilities, and Daoxing, and Qingyuan chose to delay claiming the Daoxing until he returned to Golden Ao Island.

• Candle Dragon offered treasures and laws to settle the conflict, but Qingyuan insisted that he become his disciple.
• Candle Dragon accepted, then kowtowed and bowed nine times after Qingyuan demanded full master-disciple recognition.
• The system rewarded Qingyuan with treasures, Divine Abilities, foundation enhancement, a Five-Needle Pine, and 1.2 billion years of Daoxing.
• Qingyuan decided not to claim the Daoxing yet and planned to improve his foundation after returning to Golden Ao Island.
• Qingyuan checked Candle Dragon's disciple information and learned of his Chaos Divine Beast origin, late-stage Primordial Golden Immortal cultivation, Dao Injuries, and many talents and abilities.

Qingyuan accepted Candle Dragon’s empowerment, and his body and Primordial Spirit began to undergo a profound transformation. After Candle Dragon’s attempt to deduce Qingyuan nearly killed him, he entrusted the Dragon Clan to Qingyuan, who gave him a pill that began repairing his Dao Injuries.

• Qingyuan saw Candle Dragon’s formidable talents and resolved to remain hidden until he cultivated the seventh level of the Nine Revolutions Profound Primordial Art.
• Qingyuan accepted Candle Dragon’s empowerment, and his physical body and Primordial Spirit sublimated as his aura astonished Candle Dragon and the four Old Dragons.
• Candle Dragon tried to deduce Qingyuan’s origins, suffered a backlash, and fell close to death.
• Candle Dragon named Qingyuan the Dragon Clan’s New Ancestor and ordered the four Old Dragons to obey and honor him.
• Qingyuan fed Candle Dragon a pill, and Candle Dragon’s vitality surged as his long-standing Dao Injuries began to heal.

Candle Dragon recovered his strength after taking Qingyuan’s pill, and the Dragon Clan’s elders recognized Qingyuan as their New Ancestor. As Candle Dragon explained the Dragon Clan’s cultivation and the opportunity he had sensed in Qingyuan, Qingyuan asked whether he could gather Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind for his own use.

• Candle Dragon awakened with renewed strength, and the four old dragons mistook his restored appearance for a final flash of brilliance and mourned him.
• Candle Dragon explained that Qingyuan’s pill was healing his Dao Injuries, reprimanded the elders, and ordered them to address Qingyuan as the Dragon Clan’s New Ancestor.
• Qingyuan asked the Dragon Clan to keep the events secret, and Candle Dragon and the four old dragons swore Great Dao Oaths to obey.
• Qingyuan returned the captured dragons and treasures, then accompanied Candle Dragon to a Crystal Palace and asked about the Hunyuan Path.
• Candle Dragon explained how the Dragon Clan developed Dragon Script and revealed that he had sensed an opportunity related to Qingyuan’s aura.
• Qingyuan asked Candle Dragon whether he could gather Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind for his own use.

Qingyuan sought the Chaos Four Spirits and gathered thunder before entering the Dragon Clan’s Shihuang Tower to cultivate. His foundation underwent a startling advancement, and the chapter ended as a terrifying aura escaped the tower and shocked Candle Dragon.

• Candle Dragon warned Qingyuan about the danger of controlling the Chaos Four Spirits, then told him where they could be found.
• Qingyuan collected several kinds of thunder from the True Dragons, asked about the realm’s unsealing, and requested a place for secluded cultivation.
• Candle Dragon gave Qingyuan access to the Shihuang Tower and ordered the dragons to spend five Time Law Fragments and many resources to power it.
• Inside the tower, Qingyuan accepted his foundation’s advancement as his Green Lotus rose from the Twenty-Fourth Grade to the Thirty-Sixth Grade and his Three Flowers Above the Crown reached twelve petals.
• The Shihuang Tower’s power consumed the Dragon Clan’s treasures before a terrifying aura escaped it, startling Candle Dragon from secluded cultivation.

Candle Dragon recognized Qingyuan as a Chaos Demon God and guarded the Shihuang Tower while Qingyuan completed a transformation that made his physical body comparable to a Primordial Golden Immortal Late Stage. After discovering that hundreds of thousands of years had passed inside the tower and his Chaos Divine Beast had hatched, Qingyuan tested his strength against White Bone Buddha.

• Candle Dragon sensed Qingyuan's aura, concluded he was a Chaos Demon God, and decided to guard the Shihuang Tower and keep the clan silent.
• Qingyuan emerged from a Thirty-Sixth Grade Green Lotus with a Primordial Golden Immortal Late Stage physical body after devouring the Twelve-grade Samsara Purple Lotus and the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
• Qingyuan tested his body with the Qiankun Twin Swords, which left only a shallow mark while the swords chipped.
• Qingyuan learned from White Bone Buddha that about 340,000 years had passed and saw that the Chaos Divine Beast had hatched and reached Grand Unity Golden Immortal Early Stage.
• Qingyuan ordered White Bone Buddha to attack with full strength and revealed his Chaos Demon God physical aura, forcing White Bone Buddha back and shattering the bones of his two protectors.

Qingyuan tested his overwhelming physical strength by defeating White Bone Buddha, then left the Shihuang Tower and found the Dragon Clan treating him as a Chaos Demon God. As Candle Dragon began explaining the Ancestral Dragon cultivation method, he spotted a little dragon on Qingyuan’s shoulder.

• Qingyuan challenged White Bone Buddha to survive ten breaths of attacks, then crushed him with a casual palm and reduced him to a Sarira.
• Qingyuan revived White Bone Buddha with pills and the Human Lord Banner, then taught him the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique as compensation.
• Qingyuan concealed his aura, left the Shihuang Tower, and encountered Candle Dragon and the Dragon Clan waiting outside.
• Candle Dragon dismissed the gathered True Dragons and led Qingyuan back to the Crystal Palace, where four Old Dragons knelt and begged his forgiveness.
• Candle Dragon assured Qingyuan that the Dragon Clan would keep his identity secret, then began explaining the Ancestral Dragon cultivation method.
• Candle Dragon noticed the little dragon on Qingyuan’s shoulder and stared at it in shock.

Qingyuan cultivated in the True Dragon Realm, where the Dragon Clan recognized his Chaos Divine Beast, Beginning Dragon, as the hope of their bloodline and treated them with reverence. When the realm returned to the Primordial Wilderness, Sect Master Tongtian and the Interception Sect arrived expecting Qingyuan to have been mistreated, only to find the dragons kneeling as they farewelled him.

• Candle Dragon and the four Old Dragons mistook Beginning Dragon for Ancestral Dragon, then pledged loyalty to Qingyuan and gave Beginning Dragon the complete Ancestral Dragon Transformation.
• Qingyuan learned that only three and a half years had passed outside the Shihuang Tower and that its remaining Time Law Fragments could not sustain another half year of activation.
• Over six and a half more years, the Dragon Clan showered Beginning Dragon with gifts and held a ten-day farewell feast, while Candle Dragon unsuccessfully asked Qingyuan to leave it behind.
• As the True Dragon Realm returned to the Primordial Wilderness, Candle Dragon and the dragons knelt to thank Qingyuan for caring for Beginning Dragon.
• Sect Master Tongtian and the Interception Sect arrived ready to confront the Dragon Clan, but Turtle Spirit Holy Mother and the disciples were stunned to see the dragons kneeling before Qingyuan.
• Kong Xuan laughed that Qingyuan had never suffered a loss, and Sect Master Tongtian left with the disciples, leaving the spatial rift open.

Qingyuan left the True Dragon Realm with Beginning Dragon and encountered Daoist Randeng in the Northern Primordial Wilderness, disguising himself to trick Randeng into a fortune-telling encounter. After earning Randeng’s respect by catching his attack, Qingyuan warned him that he was suffering the Three Calamities, setting up his con.

• Candle Dragon punished four old dragons for scheming against Qingyuan and sent them to Fallen Dragon Abyss for a hundred thousand years of cultivation and hardship.
• Qingyuan traveled through the Northern Lands with Beginning Dragon, planning to visit Buzhou Mountain and seek rare treasures.
• Qingyuan spotted Daoist Randeng, donned a mask that concealed his identity, and approached him as a Chaos loose practitioner.
• Qingyuan’s ability activated with a critical success, granting him a Netherworld Ghost Fire, a cultivation method, a Five Elements Divine Pill, and other rewards.
• Daoist Randeng attacked Qingyuan with the Sky-Measuring Ruler, but Qingyuan caught the strike easily, prompting Randeng to apologize and introduce himself.
• Qingyuan told Randeng about the Three Calamities of Heaven, Earth, and Man, claiming they explained Randeng’s bad luck.

Qingyuan manipulated Daoist Randeng into believing he was suffering a threefold calamity, then boasted that he had fought the Western Sages and taken Bodhi Leaves from Zhunti’s true form. Randeng left convinced Qingyuan was an overwhelming Chaos expert, while Qingyuan revealed his name as Great Love Heavenly Venerate.

• Qingyuan claimed Daoist Randeng was suffering a heavenly calamity, and Randeng explained his feud with the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect.
• Qingyuan fabricated a story about defeating the First Disciple, gaining Randeng’s trust as they set out to discuss the Dao.
• Qingyuan secretly directed lightning and misfortune at Randeng, leaving him humiliated along their walk to a mountain stream.
• Qingyuan brewed tea from Bodhi Leaves, and Randeng recognized the leaves’ connection to the Bodhi Tree of the Western Lands.
• Qingyuan claimed he had fought Zhunti and Jieyin and taken the leaves from Zhunti’s true form, convincing Randeng of his immense power.
• Randeng promised to keep their meeting secret, and Qingyuan identified himself as Great Love Heavenly Venerate.

Qingyuan revealed his overwhelming power to Daoist Randeng, then accepted him as a disciple after seeing his foundations and potential use during the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. He began teaching Randeng about the flaws in the Severing Three Corpses Method and left him alarmed by a secret about its requirements.

• Qingyuan unleashed his aura, terrifying Daoist Randeng, then started to leave despite Randeng begging to become his disciple.
• Qingyuan reconsidered, inspected Randeng’s foundations, and discovered that he was a Heaven Burying Coffin.
• Randeng performed the rites to become Qingyuan’s personal disciple, triggering rewards that included Daoxing, treasures, and new abilities for Qingyuan.
• Randeng confessed that he had reached the peak of Grand Unity Golden Immortal but could not break through to Quasi-Saint, and Qingyuan questioned the Severing Three Corpses Method.
• Qingyuan warned that severing the Three Corpses meant cutting away parts of oneself and revealed that the vessels for the severed corpses had to share the same origin for them to reunite.

Qingyuan taught Daoist Randeng a cultivation method and divine ability, strengthened the flame in his Spirit Coffin Lamp, and warned him of coming danger. Ancestral Witch Houtu arrived, and Qingyuan introduced himself as Fellow Daoist Fang.

• Qingyuan explained the flaws of the Severing Three Corpses Method and taught Daoist Randeng the True Meaning Method of Burning and Annihilation.
• Qingyuan demonstrated Withered Glory Annihilation Hunyuan Light, which Daoist Randeng said he might comprehend through secluded cultivation.
• When Daoist Randeng's Netherworld Ghost Fire began collapsing, Qingyuan added Nether Luo True Flame origin to the Spirit Coffin Lamp and stabilized it.
• Qingyuan told Daoist Randeng not to mention their connection, then warned that his Calamity Tribulation had arrived as they awaited a visitor.
• Houtu arrived and explained that she had left Buzhou Mountain to guide Lost Souls and help them enter Reincarnation.
• Daoist Randeng introduced Qingyuan to Houtu, and Qingyuan gave her the name Fellow Daoist Fang.

Houtian met Qingyuan, whose strength and revelation that he had fought the Two Sages of the West terrified her for the Witch Clan’s safety. After Qingyuan spoke of guiding the cycle of life and death, Houtian glimpsed an answer to her grief over the restless dead and left to seek enlightenment.

• Houtian attacked Qingyuan, but he blocked her palm strike effortlessly, drew her into a seat, and served her tea.
• Daoist Randeng revealed that the tea came from leaves Qingyuan had plucked from Saint Zhunti, and identified Qingyuan as a powerhouse Above Hunyuan.
• Houtian feared that learning Qingyuan’s secret would bring disaster upon the Witch Clan, but Qingyuan promised the encounter would remain private.
• Houtian explained that she wished to bring peace to the dead and stop the suffering caused by the Witch-Demon conflict.
• Qingyuan used tea, a drainage pipe, and a lake to illustrate a cycle of life and return, prompting Houtian to sense an answer to her question.
• Houtian bowed to Qingyuan, bid him and Daoist Randeng farewell, and vanished into the mountains and wilderness.

Qingyuan warned Daoist Randeng about the rising calamity, then left him to cultivate in the Kunlun Mountains. After the Chan Sect Immortals mocked him and Venerable Yuanshi dismissed him, Randeng committed himself to Qingyuan’s teachings; Qingyuan later traveled to Buzhou Mountain and saw the Witch Clan dominating the Primordial Wilderness.

• Qingyuan told Daoist Randeng that Houtu had a great mission and would attain Hunyuan, warned him to avoid the coming calamity, and departed after promising to return for him.
• Randeng returned to the Kunlun Mountains, where True Person Taiyi and other Chan Sect Immortals mocked him; he overheard their insults and grew resentful of the sect.
• Venerable Yuanshi sent Randeng away after he came to pay his respects, so Randeng sealed Yuanjue Cave and began studying the True Meaning Method of Burning and Annihilation.
• Qingyuan resumed his true appearance and flew toward Buzhou Mountain, observing that the Witch Clan had spread across the Primordial Wilderness while the Demon Race retreated.
• Qingyuan noticed that Martial Dao Monuments had appeared throughout Witch Tribe and Witch-Human Tribe settlements, rather than only along the East Sea Coast.

Qingyuan visited the Witch Clan’s ancestral land, where Great Witches attacked him over an old humiliation but could not touch him. Dijiang stopped the fight and invited Qingyuan into the Pangu Temple to discuss important matters, leaving the Great Witches outside.

• Xiang Liu gathered the Great Witches and Witch Clan warriors to attack Qingyuan as he climbed Buzhou Mountain.
• Qingyuan dodged every attack and mocked the Great Witches, while Jiu Feng realized he had far surpassed their progress.
• Zhurong, Gonggong, and the other Ancestor Witches arrived, stopped the Great Witches, and exchanged taunts with Qingyuan.
• Dijiang destroyed the spirit-mirror treasures and spies watching the Witch Clan, then asked Qingyuan to speak somewhere private.
• Dijiang led Qingyuan into the Pangu Temple, while Gonggong kicked Xiang Liu and the other Great Witches out and shut the doors.

Qingyuan discussed the Martial Path’s next realm with the Ancestral Witches and gained seven of them as Registered Disciples after they called him teacher. He asked about Turbid Dirt Yin Earth on Buzhou Mountain, learned it could only be found if the mountain fell, and left as Dijiang suspected he knew more about the Martial Path than he had revealed.

• Dijiang asked Qingyuan to explain how the Martial Path might advance beyond the Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and Qingyuan offered a speculative path toward the Other Shore.
• The Ancestral Witches gained insight from Qingyuan’s explanation and offered him a reward for clearing up their doubts.
• Qingyuan asked the Ancestral Witches to call him teacher, and the system rewarded him with one drop of Pangu Blood Essence and one comprehension of Grand Unity Golden Immortal Space Law after seven of them accepted him as Registered Disciples.
• Qingyuan asked Dijiang about Turbid Dirt Yin Earth, and Dijiang explained that it could only be found if Buzhou Mountain fell.
• After Qingyuan left, Dijiang told the other Ancestral Witches that he suspected Qingyuan knew the methods that came next in the Martial Path.

After visiting the Nine Heavens, Qingyuan used Di Jun’s token to reach the Drowning Water and concealed himself while collecting it. When the curtain he had raised finally withdrew, the Drowning Water was gone, leaving Demon God Liangze stunned.

• The Ancestral Witches doubted that Qingyuan knew the later stages of the Martial Path, while Gonggong urged them to break through and make the Witch Clan powerful.
• Qingyuan left the Witch Clan’s territory, claimed his Daluo Golden Immortal-level Space Law, and decided to study the Pangu Blood Essence after returning to Golden Ao Island.
• At the Heavenly Gate, Demon God Liangze recognized Qingyuan’s token and treated him as Di Jun’s honored envoy.
• Qingyuan asked Liangze to take him to the Heavenly River and learned that the Drowning Water was dangerous even for Daluo Golden Immortals.
• Qingyuan concealed the Drowning Water with a magic treasure and entered the curtain to collect it, while Liangze waited for more than half a year.
• When the curtain withdrew, Liangze saw that the Drowning Water had vanished.

Qingyuan drained the Nine Heavens of Drowning Water, provoking Di Jun’s suspicions that he had secretly advanced the Martial Path for the Witch Clan. After returning to Golden Ao Island, Qingyuan tried to refine the Drowning Water into his foundation and considered using Pangu Blood Essence to help.

• Qingyuan took all the Drowning Water from the Nine Heavens, and Liangze escorted him out after confirming he was unharmed.
• Liangze reported Qingyuan’s visit to Di Jun, and Nine Infants accused Qingyuan of secretly giving the Twelve Ancestor Witches further Martial Path methods.
• The Demon Gods urged Di Jun to attack the Witch Clan and proposed slaughtering humans to strengthen their weapons, but Di Jun prioritized perfecting the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array and rejected an immediate human massacre.
• After more than a hundred years, Qingyuan returned to a thriving Golden Ao Island and entered Secluded Cultivation at his seaside Dojo.
• Qingyuan found that he could not merge the Drowning Water into his body and considered lodging the Chaos Four Spirits in Pangu Blood Essence before swallowing it.

Over millions of years, the Witch-Demon War devastated the Primordial Wilderness while Qingyuan stayed on Golden Ao Island and steadily advanced his cultivation. Bored with the tribulation-filled world, he created the Internet and Mobile Phones, which became popular among cultivators; the chapter ended on the release day of an upgraded model.

• The Witch Clan revealed that the Twelve Ancestor Witches had reached Martial Dao Hunyuan, drawing cultivators and even Saints toward the Martial Path as its conflict with the Demon Race intensified.
• After the Demon Heavenly Court reopened, Di Jun and the returning Demon Saints and Demon Gods led the demons into war against the Witch Clan, and their fighting continued for millions of years.
• Qingyuan remained on Golden Ao Island, taught and traveled to fleece powerful beings, guided Daoist Randeng, and raised his Primordial Spirit to the Primordial Golden Immortal Middle Stage while searching unsuccessfully for two spiritual treasures.
• Qingyuan created the Internet through the Dream Dao and made Mobile Phones that let cultivators communicate across its coverage using mental energy.
• Cultivators embraced Mobile Phones for their convenience, and a crowd gathered at the Interception Sect's Myriad Treasures Pavilion for the upgraded model's release.