Chapter Summaries

Hongjun revealed that the Human Race would rise through the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, while warning the Saints not to provoke the mysterious cultivator who was breaking through to Hunyuan. The Saints then clashed over who could guide the Human Race, and Zhunti left after needling Tongtian about the Interception Sect’s likely role.

• Zhunti proposed that the Saints join forces to identify the mysterious cultivator, but Hongjun arrived and admitted that even he could not deduce the cultivator’s identity.
• Hongjun explained that Hong Yun’s vanished Primordial Violet Qi had merged with the Human Dao and split into eight portions, corresponding to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors who would lead the Human Race’s future rise.
• Hongjun told the Saints they could gain Human Dao Merit and Fortune Aura by helping the destined leaders, and instructed Taiqing and Nuwa to lend their Human Race treasures when the time came.
• Hongjun warned the Saints not to provoke the mysterious Hunyuan cultivator unless they intended to kill him outright, then left the matter of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to them.
• Zhunti suggested dividing the eight positions among the Saints, but Tongtian, Yuanshi, and Taiqing rejected the Western Saints’ claim to interfere in Eastern affairs.
• Zhunti congratulated Tongtian on the Interception Sect’s likely role in assisting the Human Race, then fled before Tongtian could retaliate.

The Saints agreed to divide the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors between the Three Pure Ones, while Nuwa withdrew from the matter. Laozi and Yuanshi ordered Tongtian to give up his share and make Interception Sect disciples assist their lineages, leaving Tongtian furious and determined to let everyone compete on their own merits.

• Nuwa declined to interfere in the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, while reminding the Saints that Humanity still owed her a share of the benefits.
• Yuanshi told Tongtian that Laozi and Yuanshi would divide the Human Emperors between themselves and demanded that Interception Sect disciples provide them with resources and support.
• Laozi and Yuanshi disparaged Tongtian's disciples as burdened by sins and unfit for great use, prompting Tongtian to defend them and their achievements.
• Tongtian and Yuanshi exchanged increasingly bitter insults until Laozi ordered them to stop arguing.
• Laozi also insisted that Tongtian abandon the contest and make his disciples assist the other lineages, so Tongtian left and declared that everyone would rely on their own abilities.

Yuanshi and Laozi discussed why Tongtian’s growing Interception Sect should not compete for the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, then agreed on how to divide them. After the breakthrough phenomenon ended, Qingyuan emerged from secluded cultivation on Golden Ao Island with an aura powerful enough to alarm Beginning Dragon.

• Yuanshi told Laozi that he had opposed Tongtian’s plans for the Interception Sect’s own good and warned that its unruly disciples could cause disaster.
• Laozi and Yuanshi agreed that Yuanshi would seek two of the Three Sovereigns and three of the Five Emperors, and that they would decide the details when the time came.
• The mysterious breakthrough phenomenon lasted for years before a Chaos Demon God swallowed the Black Sea and other celestial signs, and the Primordial Wilderness’s skies and Great Dao Laws began to recover.
• Qingyuan opened his eyes after more than ten million years of secluded cultivation, and Beginning Dragon sensed his overwhelming, unfamiliar aura.
• Qingyuan concealed his aura, greeted Beginning Dragon, and let the excited dragon rush into the villa to embrace his leg.

Qingyuan reached the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm and used the River of Time to survey the Primordial Wilderness’s past and present. He discovered that the Human Race was flourishing and that betrayal and discord were brewing within the Interception Sect, while the future remained uncertain.

• Qingyuan assessed his fused body and Primordial Spirit, which had become tougher than an Innate Supreme Treasure after absorbing Innate Spiritual Treasures and cultivating more than nine hundred Great Dao Laws.
• Qingyuan cautioned himself that the Dao Ancestor and the Three Corpses could still pose a threat, despite his immense strength.
• Qingyuan gazed into the River of Time and learned that Haotian had made little progress as Heavenly Emperor while the Human Race flourished after the Witch-Demon Tribulation.
• Qingyuan saw that his Grandmaster Uncle, Second Martial Uncle, and Master had begun arguing again, and discovered that Chang'er Dingguang Xian had betrayed the Interception Sect and drawn Duobao into the turmoil.
• Qingyuan viewed the Human Race’s future history, from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors through Qin Shi Huang’s unification, before the visions shattered and the future remained unclear.

After emerging from seclusion, Qingyuan relaxed by fishing and caught a Chaos Bell Fragment from the River of Time. He absorbed its Space Law and concealed his Past Branch and present timeline, leaving his full power hidden.

• Qingyuan emerged from secluded cultivation and went fishing by the shore with Beginning Dragon.
• Qingyuan spent several days fishing without a bite, unconcerned with his disciples or Heavenly Palace Immortal City.
• Qingyuan felt a powerful tug and pulled a Chaos Bell Fragment from the Past Branch of the River of Time.
• Qingyuan learned the fragment was one-fifth of the Chaos Bell and contained Space Law, then placed it in his spiritual platform to nourish it and absorb its laws.
• Qingyuan concealed his Past Branch and present timeline, altering them to appear harmless.

Qingyuan’s peaceful fishing was interrupted when the Universe Myriad Worlds Gate opened and later Haotian arrived at the shore. Qingyuan concealed his identity from Haotian, who introduced himself and sought to get closer to him.

• The Universe Myriad Worlds Gate opened, and an arrogant youth emerged and called Qingyuan a mortal.
• Qingyuan annihilated the youth, put away the gate, and returned to fishing.
• Haotian arrived and offered Qingyuan fishing advice, while Qingyuan divined that he was the Heavenly Emperor.
• Haotian found Qingyuan familiar but could not remember where he had seen him, due to Qingyuan’s subtle concealment.
• Qingyuan gave Haotian the name Yuan Qing, and Haotian asked to fish alongside him.

Qingyuan explained to Haotian why he preferred a quiet life fishing rather than pursuing the prosperity of Heavenly Palace Immortal City. After Haotian revealed he was the Lord of the Heavenly Court and invited Qingyuan to serve, Qingyuan refused an official position but agreed to help strengthen the Heavenly Court.

• Haotian asked Qingyuan why he had settled north of Golden Ao Island, and Qingyuan said the rise of Heavenly Palace Immortal City had little to do with him and he preferred his simple life.
• Haotian lamented that he could see the city's prosperity but could not take part in it, while Qingyuan listened without offering a response.
• Haotian caught fish after fish, then served Qingyuan Peach Blossom Tea made from the Innate Ren Water Flat Peach Tree.
• Qingyuan praised the tea, then asked Haotian to explain why he was treating him so kindly.
• Haotian introduced himself as Lord of the Heavenly Court and offered Qingyuan any position he wanted, but Qingyuan declined to serve as an official and agreed to help strengthen the Heavenly Court.

Haotian sought Qingyuan's help in turning the weakened Heavenly Court into a powerful authority. Qingyuan agreed to help only if Haotian brought him the Western Plain-colored Cloud Realm Banner, leaving Haotian to ask Yaochi for the treasure and face her anger.

• Haotian told Qingyuan that the Heavenly Court had lost its followers and influence, leaving only Haotian, Yaochi, and a few lesser immortals.
• Qingyuan asked whether Haotian wanted to balance the Primordial Wilderness's factions or rule as an overlord, and Haotian pleaded to become an overlord.
• Qingyuan demanded the Western Plain-colored Cloud Realm Banner as the condition for lending Haotian a hand, and Haotian accepted the challenge.
• Haotian returned to the Heavenly Court and asked Yaochi to lend him the Western Plain-colored Cloud Realm Banner.
• Yaochi angrily reminded Haotian that the banner had been bestowed upon her by the Dao Ancestor and challenged him over his lack of achievements.

Haotian begged Yaochi to lend him the Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Flag so an Interception Sect cultivator could help the Heavenly Court rise. Yaochi agreed after Haotian promised to follow her plans if he failed, but she could not guess who he intended to lend the flag to.

• Yaochi scolded Haotian for repeatedly borrowing treasures and medicines without returning them, and compared his hopes for the Heavenly Court to a gambler's excuses.
• Haotian begged Yaochi for the Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Flag and promised to heed her plans for the Heavenly Court if his attempt failed.
• Yaochi softened and asked which Interception Sect cultivator would receive the flag and help the Heavenly Court.
• Haotian said the recipient was not Daoist Duobao, Turtle Spirit Holy Mother, Yun Zhongzi, or the other prominent Interception Sect figures Yaochi suggested.
• Yaochi darkened as her guesses failed and asked whether Haotian meant the First Disciple of Intercepting Sect, who had been secluded for years to heal his injuries.

Haotian returned to Yaochi seeking the Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Flag for Yuan Qing, but she refused and publicly rebuked him. Determined to gain power over the Heavenly Court, Haotian went back to Qingyuan, where he knelt before him.

• Haotian told Yaochi he had met a Jie Sect Disciple named Yuan Qing and wanted to give him the Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Flag.
• Yaochi dismissed Yuan Qing as an unknown nobody, refused to lend Haotian the treasure, and ordered him to leave.
• Haotian endured Yaochi's public scolding, then resolved to become a powerful Heavenly Emperor who commanded the Primordial Wilderness.
• Haotian dismissed Li Changgeng and the other worried ministers and flew to the East Sea seaside villa.
• Haotian returned to Qingyuan and dropped to one knee as Qingyuan asked whether he had brought the treasure.

Haotian knelt before Qingyuan and offered his treasures and promises in exchange for help, but Qingyuan rejected his empty words and confronted his reluctance to fight for what he wanted. Qingyuan offered to help Haotian become the true Heavenly Emperor if Haotian became his disciple.

• Haotian knelt before Qingyuan and admitted he had failed to obtain Yaochi's Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Flag, offering his other treasures and any conditions Qingyuan named.
• Qingyuan accused Haotian of relying on empty promises and emotional pressure instead of securing the flag or fighting for it.
• Haotian explained that Yaochi owned the flag and had refused to lend it, then admitted he had been unwilling to give a top-grade treasure to the obscure Yuan Qing.
• Qingyuan criticized Haotian for making excuses and warned that pretending to be useless could make him useless.
• Haotian asked what would persuade Qingyuan to help him, and Qingyuan offered to help him become the true Heavenly Emperor if he became Qingyuan's disciple.

Haotian brought Qingyuan the Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Flag in exchange for advice on strengthening the Heavenly Court. Qingyuan told him to challenge the Primordial Wilderness’s powerful factions and gave him the Sky-Shading Mountain Sea Curtain, ending by asking whether he dared to carry out Severance of the Ways.

• Haotian agreed to fetch the Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Flag after Qingyuan demonstrated that he could fish a High-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasure from the sea.
• Haotian returned with the flag, and Qingyuan accepted it before explaining that he would help establish the Heavenly Court’s authority.
• Qingyuan listed the saints, sects, clans, and powerful figures Haotian would offend, alarming Haotian with the scale of the opposition.
• Qingyuan urged Haotian to rule through strength and gave him the Sky-Shading Mountain Sea Curtain as a means to gather the Primordial Wilderness’s resources.
• Qingyuan asked Haotian whether he dared to carry out Severance of the Ways.

Qingyuan urged Haotian to carry out Severance of the Ways by gathering the Primordial Wilderness’s resources in the Heavenly Realm and restructuring time and seasons. Haotian feared the backlash but agreed after Qingyuan promised to help suppress opposition, then returned to the Heavenly Court with the Sky-Shading Mountain Sea Curtain.

• Qingyuan proposed gathering the Primordial Wilderness’s Innate Spiritual Energy in the Heavenly Realm and separating it from the lower realm, warning that Severance of the Ways would strengthen the Heavenly Court.
• Haotian feared that the Saints, Quasi-Saints, and other beings would attack him if he took their resources and cut off the sun, moon, and stars.
• Haotian asked whether Qingyuan would help suppress opposition, and Qingyuan agreed.
• Qingyuan explained that Severance of the Ways could earn Merit and outlined a calendar of 365 days, twelve hours per day, four seasons, and projected celestial lights for the lower realm.
• Haotian hesitated over the suffering and upheaval the reforms might cause, but Qingyuan challenged his resolve and threatened to send him away.
• Haotian agreed to carry out Severance of the Ways, bowed to Qingyuan, accepted the Sky-Shading Mountain Sea Curtain, and flew back toward the Heavenly Court.

Haotian returned to the Heavenly Court and, despite Yaochi’s anger, proclaimed that he would use the Sky-Shading Mountain Sea Curtain to separate heaven and earth and establish a new reckoning of time. The curtain spread over the Primordial Wilderness, plunging it into darkness as Haotian nervously awaited Yuan Qing’s help.

• Haotian returned to the Heavenly Court after drugging Yaochi and taking the Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Flag, then ignored warnings and headed for Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• Yaochi confronted Haotian, but his sudden display of imperial majesty made her step aside and follow him.
• Haotian declared that he would create a Heavenly Veil, separate the Heavenly Realm from the Mortal Realm, and set one heavenly day to equal one earthly year.
• Haotian cast out the Sky-Shading Mountain Sea Curtain, which vanished through the Nine Heavens and spread across the Primordial Wilderness.
• The curtain covered the sky and plunged the Primordial Wilderness into darkness, leaving its inhabitants terrified.

Haotian’s Heavenly Veil cut off starlight and drained spiritual energy from the Primordial Wilderness, provoking powerful figures to attack it. An ordinary finger defeated them all, including Saint Zhunti’s assault, and continued toward Mount Sumeru as Jieyin and Zhunti fought back.

• The Heavenly Veil darkened the sky and reduced Innate Spiritual Energy, prompting countless beings to curse Haotian and Quasi-Saints to attack it.
• Queen Mother of the West and Zhen Yuanzi each struck at the veil but were defeated by a descending finger and gave up.
• Minghe, Ancestor Kunpeng, and many other powerful figures also tried to interfere, but the finger stopped them all.
• As the veil stabilized, Saint Zhunti attacked from Mount Sumeru with a vast Buddhist palm, which the finger crushed before continuing toward the mountain.
• Jieyin and Zhunti unleashed their treasures and divine abilities against the finger, but it pressed onward and crushed them aside.

Haotian’s descending finger overwhelmed the Two Shakya and continued toward Mount Sumeru, terrifying the Western Land and the Primordial Wilderness. Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin prepared to resist it as powerful figures across the realms watched.

• The Primordial Wilderness and Western Buddhist believers were stunned after Haotian suppressed the Two Shakya, while Western Teachings’ gods and Buddhas lamented their defeat.
• Saint Zhunti recognized that the finger carried the aura of a Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal and several hundred Great Dao Laws, while Saint Jieyin proposed that they block it and prevent the Heavenly Veil from covering the Western Land.
• Saint Zhunti invoked his golden body and vast Buddhist manifestations, while Saint Jieyin gathered the Law of Annihilation into his palm.
• Figures from Shouyang Mountain, Qilin Cliff, Biyou Palace, Wa Huang Heaven, the Underworld Bureau, and a Dao Palace in Chaos watched as the finger kept descending toward Mount Sumeru.
• Saint Zhunti launched a Vajra Palm at the descending finger, and countless Buddhist figures struck forward with him.

A mysterious cultivator’s palm overwhelmed Zhunti and Jieyin as they tried to resist its assault on Mount Sumeru. The Two Sages of the West submitted to the Heavenly Court’s rules, and the palm vanished, leaving them defeated and resentful of the other Saints’ refusal to help.

• Zhunti’s Golden Body and the divine beings and Buddhas of the Western Land struck at the descending finger, but it shattered their attacks and cracked his Golden Body.
• Zhunti called for Jieyin’s help, and Jieyin attacked the finger with Nirvana Divine Thunder.
• The finger became a palm that drove Zhunti into a bottomless pit and erased Jieyin’s thunder before approaching Mount Sumeru.
• Jieyin agreed that the Western Land would abide by the Heavenly Court’s rules, and Zhunti admitted defeat.
• The palm vanished after the Two Sages submitted, while Zhunti sealed the Ultimate Bliss World against reckless divination.
• The Two Sages of the West lamented their defeat and resented that the other Saints had not intervened.

After the Two Sages of the West backed down, Haotian used Heavenly Emperor's Authority to merge the Heavenly Veil with the Primordial Wilderness and cut off the flow of starlight and Innate Spiritual Energy to the lower realm. As the Heavenly Court celebrated its rising prestige, Haotian rebuked Yaochi for addressing him informally and demanded that she call him Your Majesty.

• The Two Sages of the West repaired Mount Sumeru and the Ultimate Bliss World, then stopped challenging the Heavenly Veil as the other Saints and cultivators stayed silent.
• Cultivators who had mocked or opposed Haotian grew anxious and considered how to repair their relationships with him.
• Haotian commanded the Heavenly Veil to merge with the Primordial Wilderness, cutting off the Primordial Stars Domain's radiance and the flow of Innate Spiritual Energy to the lower realm.
• Haotian watched the change through the Haotian Mirror and rejoiced that the Heavenly Court had established its authority, while its officials praised his connection to Fellow Daoist Yuan Qing.
• Yaochi congratulated Haotian and began planning to recruit female immortals for the Jade Pool Fairyland and Imperial Garden.
• Haotian accused Yaochi of disrespecting him in the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and demanded that she call him Your Majesty.

Haotian drove Yaochi from Lingxiao Treasure Hall after confronting her over her control of the Heavenly Court and her claim to the Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Flag. He then changed the Primordial Wilderness’s calendar and introduced the sun, moon, and stars, leaving its inhabitants to adapt to the new cycle and its upheaval.

• Yaochi berated Haotian for scolding her and accused him of forgetting her support after finding a powerful backer.
• Haotian asserted his authority as Heavenly Emperor, declared Yaochi had overstepped her role, and refused to return her Plain Colored Cloud Boundary Flag.
• Yaochi attacked Haotian with her Grand Unity Golden Immortal aura, but Haotian used the Haotian Tower to blast her out of Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• The immortals became more respectful of Haotian after witnessing his clash with Yaochi.
• Haotian decreed that one day in Heaven would equal one year on earth, set the year at 365 days, and brought the sun, moon, and stars to the lower realm.
• After 1.825 million years, the Primordial Wilderness’s inhabitants gradually adapted to the new cycle, while the Human Race spread and regional differences led to disputes.

Haotian refused to meet Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect disciples because he still resented Yuanshi Tianzun’s past humiliation. After they left in anger, Haotian ordered Li Changgeng to receive an envoy from Wuhuaguan Immortal Market instead, leaving the Chan Sect disciples within earshot of the insult.

• Haotian learned that Guangchengzi and other Chan Sect disciples had come to discuss an important matter, then chose to leave rather than meet them.
• Li Changgeng told Guangchengzi, True Person Taiyi, Juliusun, and the others that Haotian was unwell and had entered Secluded Cultivation.
• True Person Taiyi and Juliusun accused Li Changgeng of lying, and Juliusun lifted him up, but Li Changgeng insisted he was telling the truth.
• Guangchengzi turned and left with the others, while Li Changgeng bowed to see them off.
• Haotian ordered Li Changgeng to summon the envoy from Wuhuaguan Immortal Market, then rebuked him when he questioned the order.
• Li Changgeng announced that Haotian would receive the envoy from Wuhuaguan Immortal Market.