Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qingyuan returns to the Primordial Wilderness and quietly passes through the Heavenly Court to visit Wang Shu in the Moon Palace.
• He and Wang Shu exchange restrained greetings and discuss their lives. Wang Shu says her injuries, including severe source-level Dao damage, have mostly healed thanks to the Three Lights Divine Water Qingyuan sent her.
• Wang Shu describes how extensively Qingyuan’s Internet has spread:
  • The Jade Emperor now posts announcements and replies to ordinary cultivators.
  • Buddhist figures such as Ananda and Kasyapa use short-video accounts and compete for followers and comments.
  • The Ten Yama Kings run an “Underworld Express” news column and even investigate karma for online users.
  • Mobile-payment Dharma artifacts and other technological innovations have become common.
• The conversation turns to Interception Sect, Qingyuan’s disciples, and the changes in the Primordial Wilderness. Afterward, the two sit together in a long, meaningful silence without directly discussing their past or future.
• Qingyuan eventually leaves. Wang Shu returns to the unfinished chess game, replacing the white pieces on the board.
• Back at Golden Ao Island, Qingyuan reflects on the danger of confronting Hongjun and the Primordial Wilderness Heavenly Dao. Directly destroying or damaging them could cause the Primordial Wilderness and countless lives to perish.
• He devises a secret alternative: use the Internet to transfer the consciousness and True Spirits of Primordial Wilderness beings into his Myriad Worlds.
• His plan is to create an immersive “cultivation game.” Users would believe they were playing a game, but their consciousness would actually establish real connections with the New World, allowing their cultivation, Laws, and existence to gradually take root there.
• Once enough beings had been transferred, Qingyuan could potentially allow the Primordial Wilderness to collapse or annex it without sacrificing its inhabitants. He leaves the beach to begin preparing this plan.

Character Developments

• Qingyuan remains calm and elusive, but his concern for Wang Shu and the people of the Primordial Wilderness reveals a deep sense of responsibility. Although powerful enough to defeat Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao, he refuses to pursue victory at the cost of countless lives.
• Qingyuan’s approach evolves from direct strength and control of Laws toward a subtler, more strategic solution based on information networks and mass migration.
• Wang Shu remains outwardly cold and composed, but her small changes in tone, faint smile, and willingness to speak at length with Qingyuan suggest lingering familiarity and emotional warmth beneath her reserved nature.
• Wang Shu’s recovery shows that Qingyuan’s past assistance was meaningful and effective, while her continued attention to his activities indicates that she still follows his life from afar.
• Qingyuan’s disciples and the wider Interception Sect are shown to have become capable of managing the sect, reducing his need to oversee everything personally.

Significant Themes

• Preservation over victory: Qingyuan does not want to win by destroying the world he is trying to protect. The chapter emphasizes the moral difference between defeating an enemy and safeguarding innocent life.
• Technology transforming society: The Internet has moved far beyond Qingyuan’s original intentions, reshaping communication, religion, governance, commerce, and even the relationship between ordinary cultivators and powerful authorities.
• Hidden change and strategic patience: Qingyuan’s most important plan relies on gradual, inconspicuous transformation rather than open confrontation. The “game” symbolizes how reality can be altered beneath the appearance of ordinary entertainment.
• Emotional restraint and unspoken bonds: Qingyuan and Wang Shu avoid discussing their history or feelings directly. Their shared silence, the unfinished chessboard, and their understated farewell convey a relationship shaped by distance, familiarity, and unresolved meaning.
• Migration of existence: The proposed transfer of consciousness and True Spirits raises the idea that identity and survival depend not only on physical bodies or worlds, but also on connections to Laws, consciousness, and spiritual roots.

Character Interactions

• Qingyuan and Wang Shu exchange polite but intimate conversation, asking about each other’s health and circumstances while maintaining their customary restraint.
• Wang Shu lightly teases Qingyuan about his fame and the strange developments caused by his Internet, while Qingyuan reacts with mild surprise and amusement.
• Their discussion of the Internet shows a contrast between Qingyuan’s original practical intentions and Wang Shu’s observation of its unexpected cultural consequences.
• They discuss Interception Sect and Qingyuan’s disciples, with Wang Shu acknowledging that he can rely on them.
• Their final silence and Wang Shu’s act of restoring the chessboard suggest a deep connection that neither openly defines. Her recreating the unfinished game implies that their relationship—and perhaps their larger struggle—remains unresolved.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Xi He are cultivating while guarding the Sun Star and Moon Star, whose stability is essential to Qingyuan’s fusion of the Three Thousand Realms.
• Qingyuan reveals that he intends to merge the Three Thousand Realms into a single One True Realm. Di Jun and Tai Yi are shocked, recognizing the enormous danger posed by conflicting laws, unstable world origins, and the immense pressure placed on the Chaos Pearl.
• Qingyuan orders them to maintain the Yin-Yang cycle rather than interfere. Di Jun shields the Sun Star with Solar True Fire, Xi He protects the Moon Star with lunar laws, and Tai Yi stabilizes the bond between them using the phantom of a Chaos Bell Fragment.
• Qingyuan awakens the Chaos Pearl, which is connected to his body and spirit. Three thousand Great Dao Laws spread through the void, linking the Three Thousand Realms and gradually dissolving their boundaries.
• The Chaos Pearl becomes the core of the emerging unified world. Its power draws the laws, spiritual energy, and life force of the separate realms together. The Sun Star and Moon Star contribute vitality through the Yin-Yang connection.
• New solar and lunar bodies form, but Qingyuan absorbs them, entering the Chaos Pearl to personally create the foundation of the new world.
• Within the untouched primordial Chaos inside the pearl, Qingyuan manifests the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws, ascends on a Thirty-Six-Rank Chaos Green Lotus, and wields a reconstructed Creation Axe made from fragments of several supreme treasures.
• Transforming into a true Chaos Demon God, Qingyuan attempts to open Heaven and Earth. His first efforts produce unstable forms of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind that repeatedly collapse.
• Qingyuan ultimately strikes Chaos with the Creation Axe. The primordial Chaos splits, clear qi rises to form Heaven, and turbid qi descends to form Earth.
• As Chaos attempts to close the rift, Qingyuan uses the Three Thousand Innate Spiritual Treasures to anchor Heaven and Earth and personally suppresses the Earth Veins. After countless strikes, the world stabilizes: an immense sky, land, mountains, rivers, oceans, and celestial bodies begin to take shape.

Character Developments

• Qingyuan is shown as calm, decisive, and overwhelmingly powerful. He reveals an ambition far beyond ordinary realm fusion: to create a supreme central world capable of rivaling or surpassing the Primordial Wilderness.
• His role escalates from ruler and cultivator to world-creator and Chaos Demon God. He relies not merely on force, but on mastery of laws, spiritual treasures, and his own body as the foundation of creation.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi initially respond with genuine alarm, demonstrating their understanding of the risks involved. Despite their concerns, they trust Qingyuan’s judgment and accept their responsibilities as guardians.
• Xi He remains quiet but visibly worried, supporting Di Jun and fulfilling her duty by protecting the Moon Star.
• Di Jun, Xi He, and Tai Yi function as stabilizing pillars of the fusion rather than direct participants in the central creation process.

Significant Themes

• Creation through controlled destruction: Qingyuan must destroy the primordial Chaos before he can establish a stable Heaven and Earth.
• Order versus Chaos: The Three Thousand Laws transform disorder into a structured world, with clear qi and turbid qi becoming Heaven and Earth.
• Trust and responsibility: Qingyuan’s disciples question the plan but ultimately trust their teacher and carry out the roles necessary to prevent catastrophe.
• Ambition and transcendence: The goal is not merely to merge existing realms, but to create a greater world that may surpass established cosmic orders.
• Sacrifice and burden: Like Pangu, Qingyuan uses his own strength and body to sustain creation, though he attempts to accomplish the feat through superior control of law and order rather than by simply dying in the process.
• Integration rather than replacement: The new world must preserve and unify the laws and life force of all Three Thousand Realms, making the undertaking more complex than ordinary world-opening.

Character Interactions

• Qingyuan directly informs Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Xi He of his plan, provoking shock and concern.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi challenge the plan by pointing out the dangers of conflicting laws, chain reactions, and the possible destruction of the Chaos Pearl.
• Qingyuan dismisses their concerns with confidence and assigns them practical duties, reinforcing his authority while showing his trust in their abilities.
• The disciples silently agree that, since Qingyuan understands the risks, their role is to protect the Sun Star, Moon Star, and Yin-Yang connection.
• Their coordinated efforts provide the energy and stability needed for Qingyuan’s larger act of creation, linking the disciples’ guardianship with their teacher’s transformation of Chaos into a new world.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qingyuan completes the creation of the New Primordial Wilderness, forming a world with a stable Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind system and a complete framework of Three Thousand Great Dao Laws.
• Although structurally complete, the new world is barren and lifeless compared with the Primordial Wilderness. It lacks spiritual energy, natural treasures, spiritual veins, and the foundational life force created by Pangu and the remains of the Chaos Demon Gods.
• Qingyuan uses the remaining essence blood in the Chaos Demon God Blood Pool to enrich the new world. Wherever the blood falls, vegetation, spiritual springs, fish, fertile land, mineral veins, and other signs of life emerge.
• To accelerate the world’s development, Qingyuan merges three thousand Great Thousand Worlds into it. These worlds, each containing a complete Great Dao and an Innate Spiritual Treasure, are absorbed as nourishment.
• The merged worlds restore and strengthen numerous Laws, including Space, Time, Five Elements, Causality, Creation, Destruction, Thunder, Wind and Rain, Astral Laws, and Reincarnation.
• The three thousand Innate Spiritual Treasures become the structural “bones” of the New Primordial Wilderness. They stabilize its Laws, create spiritual veins and Grotto-Heaven Blessed Lands, and establish the foundations for independent operation.
• The world rapidly evolves. Its heavens become higher, its earth thicker, its oceans deeper, and forests, grasslands, stars, weather systems, and naturally born creatures appear.
• Qingyuan realizes the world is still unstable and chooses to remain inside it to support its growth. He enlarges his body until it reaches from the deepest earth to the highest heavens, functioning as a stabilizing pillar.
• His breathing becomes wind, clouds, and spiritual qi, while his Fortune Aura strengthens the land, spiritual veins, and connections between the Laws.
• After an immeasurable period, Qingyuan’s body becomes a gigantic mountain engraved with the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws. His will remains imprinted throughout the world, continuing to protect and regulate it.
• Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Xi He notice the enormous disturbance and become aware of the transformation taking place within the New Primordial Wilderness.

Character Developments

• Qingyuan demonstrates immense power and creativity by independently reproducing the process of world creation associated with Pangu. Unlike Pangu, however, he survives and remains conscious of his role as the world’s creator and guardian.
• He displays strategic urgency, recognizing that the Primordial Wilderness and its Heavenly Dao may eventually recover. Rather than waiting for natural growth, he accelerates development by sacrificing resources and merging entire worlds.
• Qingyuan also reveals a rare emotional response: genuine joy and pride at seeing the world he created become alive. His achievement carries personal significance because he has endured the entire process without Pangu’s original advantages.
• By transforming into the central mountain, Qingyuan symbolically shifts from an active creator into a permanent protector and foundation of the new world.
• Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Xi He remain linked to the world’s development through their establishment of the Yin-Yang cycle on the Sun and Moon Stars. Their awareness of the changes suggests they may soon respond to Qingyuan’s actions.

Significant Themes

• Creation and sacrifice: Qingyuan’s world-building parallels Pangu’s creation of the Primordial Wilderness, but Qingyuan achieves it through accumulated cultivation, resources, and conscious planning rather than complete self-destruction.
• Life emerging from death: The Chaos Demon Gods’ remains and essence blood become the foundation for new life, showing how destruction can be transformed into creation.
• Structure versus vitality: A world may possess complete Laws and physical form yet remain spiritually empty. True life requires energy, history, natural cycles, and accumulated foundations.
• Acceleration and urgency: Qingyuan cannot rely on the slow passage of time because of the threat posed by Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao. His merging of three thousand worlds reflects the need to force growth before his enemies recover.
• The creator as foundation: Qingyuan ultimately becomes part of his creation. His body, aura, and will sustain the world, echoing the mythic idea that the creator’s existence is inseparable from the world’s continued life.
• Inheritance and surpassing Pangu: Qingyuan follows Pangu’s path of opening heaven and earth while overcoming Pangu’s fate. His achievement suggests that he may create a world capable of rivaling or even replacing the original Primordial Wilderness.

Character Interactions

• Qingyuan directly interacts with the New Primordial Wilderness through the infusion of Chaos Demon God essence blood, the merging of the three thousand worlds, and the placement of the three thousand Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• His relationship with the world becomes increasingly intimate: his aura nourishes it, his body stabilizes it, and his will governs its continued operation.
• Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Xi He previously contribute by establishing the Yin-Yang cycle through the Sun Star and Moon Star. They are now alerted to Qingyuan’s enormous transformation of the world, setting up a likely future interaction or confrontation.
• Qingyuan’s actions also implicitly challenge Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao of the original Primordial Wilderness, as he is building an alternative world strong enough to absorb and replace it.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Xi He leave the Sun Star and witness the newly created New Primordial Wilderness. They are stunned by its vastness, complete Laws, and the enormous mountain formed from Qingyuan’s true body.
• They realize that Qingyuan successfully created a world comparable to the original Primordial Wilderness and that his plan is for them to become rulers and guardians of this new realm.
• Qingyuan orders the three to remain on the New World’s Sun Star, illuminate the land, and avoid entering the New Primordial Wilderness for now.
• Qingyuan’s clone returns to Golden Ao Island while his true body continues stabilizing the new heaven and earth.
• He considers how to transfer the living beings of the original Primordial Wilderness into the new world without alerting Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao.
• Drawing inspiration from consciousness transfer, the “Fourth Heaven Disaster,” and gamification, Qingyuan decides to transform the New Primordial Wilderness into a genuine virtual-reality world.
• He constructs a Laws-based game system using the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws:
  • Space projects consciousness into the new world.
  • Time synchronizes experiences inside and outside the game.
  • Causality records actions and converts them into cultivation feedback.
  • Reincarnation manages death and resurrection.
• Players receive bodies, explore freely, cultivate, fight, establish sects, build residences, and compete for resources. Death affects only their projected bodies, while their True Spirits remain safe.
• Players’ experiences and cultivation insights gradually synchronize with their real bodies, secretly binding their consciousness and True Spirits to the New Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan connects the world to the Primordial Wilderness Internet and releases it as an inconspicuous game called Great Flood, described simply as “A real world.”
• The game initially goes unnoticed. Its popularity begins when Qingsongzi posts about its extraordinary realism.
• Players are drawn to the boundless environment, persistent structures, realistic terrain, and complete freedom from quests, rules, NPCs, and safe zones.
• Player conflicts escalate from personal grudges to group fights and faction wars, causing the player population to grow dramatically.
• The chapter ends with a Loose Immortal named Wandering Taoist claiming that a cultivation technique used inside Great Flood appears to work in reality, suggesting the game is about to become far more significant than entertainment.

2. Character Developments

• Qingyuan is revealed as a powerful creator and strategist. He successfully establishes a new world and devises an elaborate, indirect method to relocate living beings while concealing his involvement from Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.
• Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Xi He shift from astonished observers to devoted guardians of the New Primordial Wilderness. Their reverence for Qingyuan deepens as they recognize the scale of his ambitions.
• Qingsongzi becomes the first player to publicly draw attention to Great Flood’s exceptional realism.
• Wandering Taoist introduces the possibility that cultivation within the game can produce real-world results, marking the beginning of the game’s transformation into a revolutionary phenomenon.

3. Significant Themes

• Creation and replacement: Qingyuan’s New Primordial Wilderness is intended to replace the original world and become the new center of the Three Realms.
• Reality versus illusion: Although presented as a game, Great Flood is a genuine world governed by real Laws, making the distinction between virtual reality and reality meaningless.
• Freedom and immersion: The lack of quests, restrictions, factions, or imposed morality is designed to make players emotionally invest in the world and believe in its authenticity.
• Indirect resistance and concealment: Qingyuan uses the guise of a game to act without alerting Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao.
• Evolution through participation: Players unknowingly help stabilize and populate the new world as their consciousnesses and True Spirits become connected to its Laws.
• Technology fused with cultivation: Internet infrastructure, virtual reality, consciousness transfer, and Dao Laws are combined into a unique method of world-building and transformation.

4. Character Interactions

• Di Jun and Tai Yi openly discuss their shock at Qingyuan’s achievement, while Xi He expresses quiet admiration and reverence.
• The three accept Qingyuan’s command without hesitation and return to guard the New World’s Sun Star.
• Qingyuan’s clone acts independently from his true body, showing his ability to manage both the creation of the new world and affairs in the original Primordial Wilderness.
• Within Great Flood, players’ interactions generate rivalries, alliances, sects, and wars. Personal betrayal leads to faction-wide conflict, demonstrating how player behavior naturally creates social structures without system-imposed rules.
• Qingsongzi’s forum post sparks wider player curiosity, while Wandering Taoist’s discovery is poised to trigger the next major stage of the story.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• An independent cultivator known as Wandering Taoist discovers that cultivation techniques can be practiced inside Great Flood. Because the game contains vastly richer spiritual qi and clearer Dao Resonance than reality, he successfully breaks through a long-standing bottleneck.
• Upon returning to reality, he finds that the insights and improved cultivation route from the game remain with him, allowing his breakthrough to continue in the real world.
• His forum post causes a frenzy. Cultivators begin using Great Flood to test secret techniques, refine pills, construct formations, and experiment with cultivation methods without risking permanent death or crippling cultivation deviation.
• The game’s accelerated time flow—one day in reality equals ten thousand years in the game—makes it an unprecedented cultivation tool. Sects, independent cultivators, Heavenly Court officials, and Spirit Mountain Arhats all begin using it.
• A Grand Unity Golden Immortal publishes an investigation confirming that Great Flood contains genuine Heaven and Earth Laws rather than simulations. The world includes the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws, and insights gained there synchronize with reality.
• Registration numbers explode. Qingyuan observes the game’s rapid growth, recognizing that the investigative report’s claims will inevitably lead to its universal acceptance.
• Players freely experiment with identities and lifestyles in the enormous New Primordial Wilderness. They establish sects, hunt newcomers, explore the world, construct palaces, wage wars, livestream sightseeing, and create businesses and arenas.
• Qingyuan introduces a recruitment campaign rewarding existing players with strands of law for every new user they invite. This causes even greater expansion as cultivators, sects, alliances, and Heavenly Court officials aggressively recruit others.
• After six months, registrations surpass eight hundred billion, while daily active users reach one hundred billion. Virtually every major faction becomes involved.
• Major organizations form in the game, including the Heavenly Court’s Astral Lodge Alliance and Spirit Mountain’s cultivation group. Even Underworld officials open a fighting arena and consider expanding it.
• As the player population stabilizes at an enormous level, players finally discover a mysterious, towering mountain located at the exact center of the game world.

Character Developments

• Wandering Taoist changes from a frustrated cultivator trapped at a bottleneck into the first public proof that Great Flood can directly accelerate real cultivation.
• Qingyuan is revealed as the game’s creator and operator. He remains calm and confident while watching its explosive popularity, understanding that the game’s genuine laws and synchronization with reality make its spread unstoppable.
• Qingyuan also demonstrates the vastness of his own power by casually altering the displayed number of distributed law strands from hundreds of millions to hundreds of billions, showing that such rewards are insignificant to him even though they are priceless to ordinary cultivators.
• The Grand Unity Golden Immortal investigator becomes the figure who publicly validates the game’s authenticity and helps push it from a popular tool into a phenomenon that even the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain must take seriously.
• King Yama, initially silent about the Underworld arena, begins considering its expansion, reflecting how even established authorities are drawn into the game’s opportunities.
• Ordinary players and faction leaders adopt radically different identities in the game, using its freedom to reveal their creativity, ambition, competitiveness, and hidden desires.

Significant Themes

• Cultivation through technology and virtual worlds: The game transforms cultivation from a dangerous, resource-intensive process into something that can be safely tested and accelerated.
• The boundary between reality and simulation: Although initially treated as entertainment, Great Flood is revealed to be a genuine world with authentic laws and consequences for real cultivation.
• Time as power: The enormous difference in time flow gives players access to thousands or millions of years of experimentation within mere days of real time.
• Freedom from social identity: In the game, status, reputation, sect affiliation, and moral expectations disappear. Players can adopt entirely new personalities and pursue desires forbidden or impossible in reality.
• Mass adoption and social transformation: Once the game’s benefits become known, no faction can remain outside it. Even powerful institutions must adapt to the new system.
• Qingyuan’s manipulation of growth: Through law-based recruitment rewards and the game’s design, Qingyuan encourages the entire Primordial Wilderness to connect itself to New Primordial Wilderness.
• The unknown at the center: The discovery of the enormous central mountain introduces a new mystery, suggesting that the game contains secrets far beyond cultivation and entertainment.

Character Interactions

• Wandering Taoist’s post sparks interaction across the cultivation community, inspiring countless cultivators to test their own techniques.
• Cultivators compete and cooperate in the game, from sword sects and anti-ambush instructors to rival groups that escalate local conflicts into massive alliance wars.
• Sect disciples, independent cultivators, and officials recruit one another through the invitation campaign, turning personal relationships and institutional authority into tools for rapid expansion.
• Heavenly Court officials secretly promote the game, while the Jade Emperor quietly registers and orders clerks to do the same.
• The Twenty-Eight Star Lords collaborate in the Astral Lodge Alliance to solve a long-standing formation problem.
• The five hundred Arhats of Spirit Mountain meditate and study Zen together in the game.
• Bull Head and Horse Face establish an arena, and King Yama considers helping them enlarge it.
• Qingyuan remains physically separate from the player population, calmly observing the waves of activity and guiding the game’s growth from the beach near Golden Ao Island.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• An independent explorer reaches the center of the New Primordial Wilderness and discovers an impossibly huge mountain rising into the clouds. Its peak is hidden beyond countless layers of cloud, where traces of Great Dao Origin can be seen.
• After posting a video, he triggers a massive player rush. Players from every faction—including independent cultivators, sect disciples, Heavenly Court officials, Spirit Mountain Arhats, and Underworld officials—travel toward the mountain.
• Thousands of players begin climbing, comparing the mountain to the legendary Buzhou Mountain, the former pillar of heaven created from Pangu’s spine.
• A player discovers that the mountain contains powerful Dao Resonance. The higher one climbs, the denser it becomes, allowing spiritual energy and cultivation to circulate automatically.
• Players realize that even a single day of cultivation on the mountainside can equal years of cultivation in reality. This causes widespread competition, with players fighting over the best cultivation locations or stopping to cultivate wherever they can.
• A forum guide is created to track the mountain’s Dao Resonance density, climbing difficulty, and cultivation benefits.
• As players ascend, an invisible pressure appears. It grows stronger with altitude and is tied to cultivation level. Those who are too weak are crushed or killed if they try to advance.
• Powerful figures secretly disguised as ordinary players—including Tathagata Buddha, the Jade Emperor, Great Immortal Zhenyuan, Sect Master Minghe, and the Twelve Golden Immortals—also climb the mountain and cultivate.
• After several days in-game, many major figures break through their bottlenecks, reaching higher stages such as the perfected Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and the initial Quasi-Saint realm.
• Despite their breakthroughs, even these powerful beings are eventually stopped by the mountain’s pressure. Their failed attempts reveal that the mountain is far more extraordinary than an ordinary cultivation site.
• As the great powers struggle to climb higher, the clouds above the mountain begin rotating and darkening. Lightning gathers within them, and thunder shakes the mountain, suggesting that a major event or danger is about to occur.

Character Developments

• The independent explorer becomes the discoverer of the mountain and unintentionally sparks a massive expedition.
• Ordinary players shift from curiosity to obsession as they realize the mountain offers unprecedented cultivation opportunities. Their desperation leads to competition, fighting, and reckless climbing.
• Tathagata Buddha experiences rare emotional movement. The mountain reminds him of the pleasure of genuine cultivation, rather than the burden of endless responsibility and calculation. He also recognizes that the mountain contains increasingly complete Dao Laws.
• The Jade Emperor discovers that his long-stagnant bottleneck is loosening. This gives him renewed hope and prompts him to focus entirely on breaking through.
• Guangchengzi takes an analytical approach, calculating the mountain’s Dao Resonance and realizing that its summit might possess power capable of making even a mortal a Saint.
• Great Immortal Zhenyuan becomes deeply suspicious when the Book of Earth reacts to the mountain’s Laws, indicating that they share a profound connection.
• Sect Master Minghe benefits from the mountain’s energy as even his killing aura begins transforming, weakening a bottleneck that had remained for tens of thousands of years.
• The powerful figures’ inability to overcome the pressure humbles them and emphasizes the mountain’s overwhelming mystery.

Significant Themes

• Pursuit of opportunity and power: The mountain represents a once-in-an-age chance to shorten millions of years of cultivation, driving players into competition and risk.
• The limits of strength: Even legendary figures and Saint disciples are unable to climb freely, showing that cultivation status alone does not guarantee mastery.
• Mystery and hidden origins: The mountain resembles Buzhou Mountain and contains Laws connected to deeper origins, suggesting it may be linked to primordial secrets.
• Human and immortal greed: Players fight over cultivation platforms, refuse to yield territory, and risk death for greater benefits.
• The contrast between game and reality: Although the mountain exists in a game, its effects carry over into reality, making it a genuine source of power rather than mere entertainment.
• Awe before ancient divinity: The mountain’s scale, pressure, and presence evoke the majesty of the original Primordial Wilderness and make even powerful characters feel insignificant.
• Impending danger: The gathering storm indicates that the mountain’s true challenge has not yet begun.

Character Interactions

• The explorer’s forum post unites players across the entire New Primordial Wilderness and directs them toward one shared destination.
• Players share information through voice channels and forum guides, but cooperation quickly gives way to arguments and fights over advantageous cultivation spots.
• Weaker players are forced to stop and cultivate while stronger players climb farther, creating a visible hierarchy based on cultivation level.
• Tathagata, the Jade Emperor, Zhenyuan, Minghe, and the Heavenly Origin Sect’s disciples remain disguised among ordinary players, allowing major powers from different factions to occupy the same mountain without openly confronting one another.
• The Twelve Golden Immortals collectively attempt to overcome the pressure, but their individual failures demonstrate that even allied strength cannot easily defeat the mountain.
• The chapter ends with all climbers facing a common, unknown threat as thunder and darkness gather above the summit.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• A violent storm suddenly forms over the Divine Mountain, releasing dark-gray rain infused with powerful Dao Resonance and purple-black lightning.
• The rain rapidly becomes a catastrophic flood. Rather than damaging bodies directly, the water attacks and tears apart the victims’ Primordial Spirits.
• Players’ usual methods of escape fail:
  • Flying swords and defensive treasures are destroyed by the rain and flood.
  • Teleportation and other escape techniques collapse because the surrounding Space Laws are disrupted.
  • Even powerful cultivators and Water Element users cannot control or resist the flood.
• At first, many players underestimate the disaster. Some continue cultivating, while others see the flood as an opportunity to climb the Divine Mountain or gain power from the intensified Water Laws.
• The flood suddenly surges outward in enormous waves, sweeping away players, mountains, forests, sects, settlements, and everything else in its path. More than one hundred billion online players are killed.
• The dead reappear in the Resurrection Space, where panic, anger, and confusion erupt. The game forum crashes under the flood of complaints.
• The official system offers no explanation beyond the message: “The Great Flood Is Not Yet Over!”
• Players who log in afterward to investigate are immediately drowned as well, confirming that the disaster remains active.
• A player named Eye of the Deep Sea reports briefly seeing a glowing object and sensing a profound network of Great Dao Laws within the flood, but his discovery is ignored amid the general outrage.
• Qingyuan observes the disaster from outside the game’s immediate chaos. He reveals that the flood has secretly imprinted the True Spirits of the drowned players into the World Origin of the New Primordial Wilderness.
• The players’ “deaths” were actually their first substantive contact with the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws. Their consciousnesses were transferred through the New World’s Laws and returned to their original bodies through the Internet connection.
• Qingyuan also reveals that he planted law fragments, incomplete ancient divine abilities, and Houtian Spiritual Treasures in the floodwaters. The disaster is therefore both a hidden opportunity and a test for players perceptive enough to investigate.
• The chapter ends with Qingyuan anticipating who will uncover the secret of the flood first.

Character Developments

• The players collectively shift from indifference and excitement to panic, fury, and despair. Their confidence in their cultivation, treasures, and game mechanics is destroyed by an enemy none of them can resist.
• Water Element cultivators, initially boastful and eager to exploit the flood, are humiliated when they discover that even their Laws cannot control or merge with the water.
• Eye of the Deep Sea is established as one of the few players perceptive enough to notice that the flood contains something deeper than simple destruction, though his observation is overlooked.
• Qingyuan is revealed as the hidden architect of the event. He appears calm and deliberate, treating the catastrophe as an experiment, a long-term safeguard for living beings, and the first major trial of the New World.

Significant Themes

• Destruction as transformation: The flood appears to be total annihilation, but it secretly transfers consciousness and creates a path toward future rebirth.
• The limits of power: Cultivation level, elemental affinity, treasures, and escape techniques are all rendered useless against a disaster operating at the level of the Great Dao.
• Hidden opportunities within catastrophe: The flood conceals treasures, divine abilities, and law fragments, rewarding curiosity and careful observation rather than brute strength.
• Ignorance and perception: Most players focus on their losses and anger, while only a few notice the flood’s deeper significance.
• The nature of reality: The players believe they are merely participating in a game, but the event proves that their consciousness and True Spirits are interacting with the actual Laws of another world.
• Preparation for future destruction: Qingyuan’s True Spirit imprints provide a backup should the Primordial Wilderness eventually perish, suggesting that the flood is part of a much larger plan.

Character Interactions

• Players debate whether the strange rain resembles Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, but their speculation quickly gives way to terror as the flood overwhelms them.
• Online discussions initially celebrate the storm as beautiful or advantageous, especially among Water Element cultivators and descendants of the Four Seas Dragon Clan.
• As the disaster spreads, players desperately warn one another, attempt coordinated escapes, and complain furiously through voice channels and forums.
• Water cultivators boast that the flood will usher in their era, only to die alongside everyone else when their Laws prove useless.
• Eye of the Deep Sea attempts to share his discovery with the community, but his post is ignored because the players are too focused on blaming the developers.
• Qingyuan does not interact directly with the players; instead, he watches their reactions and secretly manipulates the event, framing the flood as a test to determine who will recognize its hidden purpose.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The first Great Flood devastates the New Primordial Wilderness, wiping out players’ accumulated wealth, sects, spiritual fields, treasures, cultivation progress, and other achievements.
• Players angrily condemn the developers and vow to quit, but most secretly log back in as soon as the flood recedes. Their curiosity—and the possibility of recovering valuable items—overcomes their outrage.
• The flood leaves behind enormous opportunities. Law Fragments, Spiritual Treasure fragments, rare ores, herbs, meteorite iron, and other valuable resources are scattered throughout the ruined world.
• The game world begins regenerating naturally. Plants, animals, plankton, and previously unknown spiritual lifeforms appear, transforming the barren wilderness into a living ecosystem.
• Administrator Qingyuan announces that the flood was deliberate rather than random and conceals a mysterious reward. The first player to uncover its secret will receive a gift from the world’s origin capable of completely rewriting destiny, potentially even affecting reality.
• Players divide into factions: developers’ critics, conspiracy theorists, treasure hunters, relaxed observers, and those focused on studying the newly emerging life. Expeditions search the Divine Mountains and surrounding lands, but no one discovers the secret.
• Players eventually impose a rule forbidding anyone from climbing beyond one hundred thousand zhang on the Divine Mountains, threatening violators with worldwide retaliation to prevent another disaster.
• Over millions of in-game years, native species evolve, some gain intelligence, and players begin teaching them cultivation. Major factions construct flood defenses, including enormous dikes, arks, and a floating city.
• After 1.8 million in-game years, a second flood suddenly erupts from cracks above the Divine Mountains. It destroys all defenses and kills every player—approximately 800 billion in total, including those offline. Players are locked out of the game because their characters are dead, causing the forums to erupt once more.

Character Developments and Interactions

• The players collectively shift from furious victims to opportunistic scavengers. Their repeated claims that they will quit are exposed as empty when rare treasures and new discoveries draw them back.
• Merchants and sect leaders suffer especially severe losses, while some survivors recover hope by gathering resources left behind by the flood.
• Players become increasingly suspicious of the developers and of the Divine Mountains, debating whether the flood was punishment for violating the world’s rules.
• Adventurous players organize expeditions, recruit powerful cultivators, and search for the promised reward. Other players mock them for returning after previously announcing their departure.
• Over time, players take on a more constructive role. They establish rules, build defenses, study the ecosystem, and even act as teachers or gods to newly intelligent native species.
• The second flood unites all players in helplessness: regardless of preparation, faction, status, or whether they were online, everyone suffers the same fatal consequence.

Significant Themes

• Addiction and hypocrisy: Players loudly condemn the game and swear to quit, yet repeatedly return because of curiosity, sunk costs, and the thrill of discovery.
• Destruction and renewal: The flood erases civilization but creates the conditions for a richer, living world to emerge.
• The value and fragility of achievement: Years of cultivation, wealth, relationships, and institutions can vanish instantly, emphasizing how unstable progress is.
• Mystery and control: The deliberate nature of the flood raises questions about the developers’ power, motives, and the true purpose of the game.
• Civilization and adaptation: After suffering disaster, players organize collectively, establish laws, construct defenses, and begin shaping the world responsibly.
• Powerlessness before cosmic forces: Despite their preparation and immense in-game accomplishments, the players remain unable to resist the second flood.

Overall Significance

The chapter transforms the Great Flood from a hated game mechanic into a central mystery tied to destiny, world creation, and possibly reality itself. The players’ return to normal life and their efforts to civilize the wilderness create a sense of progress—only for the second flood to erase it all, ending the chapter on a massive cliffhanger.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The second Great Flood arrives suddenly and violently, killing players whether they are online or offline. Around eight hundred billion players die, triggering massive outrage, forum complaints, and resurrection queues.
• Despite their anger, players continue returning because Great Flood offers enormous advantages:
  • Time passes far faster in the game, allowing thousands of years of cultivation in a single real-world day.
  • The game world has denser spiritual energy, clearer Dao Laws, abundant treasures, and better cultivation environments than the Primordial Wilderness.
  • Floodwaters leave behind Law Fragments, treasure fragments, spirit ores, herbs, and other valuable resources.
• Attention returns to the pinned announcement promising that those who uncover the Great Flood’s “mysterious secret” will receive earth-shattering benefits. Players speculate that the reward may be at least an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Exploration teams search the renewed world, discovering ancient ruins, new species, and hidden runes around Divine Mountain.
• The runes are eventually deciphered as: “Climb to the summit, and you will know the truth.”
• Players converge on Divine Mountain and attempt to reach its summit using brute force, treasures, formations, and escape techniques. None work; only personal cultivation can overcome the mountain’s pressure.
• The pressure increases with altitude, and reaching the summit appears to require at least the Quasi-Saint realm. Even Grand Unity Golden Immortals are unable to climb high enough.
• Before anyone succeeds, the third, fourth, and fifth Great Floods arrive at intervals of 1.8 million years, repeatedly killing and resetting the players.
• Across five world-ending cycles, the New Primordial Wilderness develops. Its plants, animals, aquatic races, and Myriad Races become increasingly advanced, developing language, writing, tribes, and early civilizations.
• Players increasingly integrate into this world: some pose as gods, some trade with native races, and others abandon the mystery to build ordinary lives.
• After the fifth flood, a player called “The Shipbuilder” proposes a new solution: rather than climbing Divine Mountain, players should construct a ship large and stable enough to survive the flood and allow the rising water to carry them to the summit.

Character Developments

• The players collectively shift from outrage to renewed obsession. Although they resent the developers and repeatedly suffer death, the game’s cultivation benefits and material rewards keep them returning.
• Expedition factions become more organized and determined, repeatedly regrouping after each disaster.
• Independent cultivators devote themselves to breaking through increasingly higher realms, especially after learning that only cultivation can resist Divine Mountain’s pressure.
• Some players change their goals entirely, becoming merchants, false gods, explorers, or ordinary settlers within the New Primordial Wilderness.
• The Shipbuilder introduces a crucial change in thinking: instead of directly overcoming the mountain’s pressure, players may exploit the flood itself as a means of ascending.

Significant Themes

• Persistence and obsession: Repeated death and failure do not stop the players, demonstrating both determination and their inability to abandon the game.
• The conflict between effort and exploitation: Players initially try to overcome Divine Mountain through cultivation, but eventually seek an indirect method that uses the flood’s natural force.
• Cycles of destruction and rebirth: Each flood resets the players’ progress while simultaneously enriching and evolving the world.
• The value of the game despite suffering: The game is simultaneously cruel and immensely rewarding, functioning as both a death trap and a treasure-filled cultivation realm.
• Civilization and unintended creation: Through repeated floods and player interaction, the once-empty New Primordial Wilderness gradually develops living races and civilizations.
• Mystery and delayed revelation: The persistent announcement and hidden runes suggest that the secret is real, but the immense difficulty of reaching the summit keeps it out of reach.

Important Character Interactions

• Players interact extensively through forum posts, where they complain about the developers, debate the meaning of the announcement, recruit expedition members, and share discoveries.
• Expedition teams collaborate to explore the world and decipher the runes surrounding Divine Mountain.
• Players compete and cooperate in cultivation groups such as the Divine Mountain Assault Team, which studies pressure levels and develops methods for climbing.
• Players begin interacting with the Myriad Races by teaching cultivation, trading goods, and embedding themselves within native societies.
• The Shipbuilder’s proposal gives the player community a new collective objective: constructing an ark capable of riding the flood upward and reaching Divine Mountain’s summit.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• A forum post proposes building ships to survive the approaching Great Flood. Although many players initially argue that all previous flood defenses—arks, levees, and floating cities—were destroyed by the flood’s Great Dao Laws, the original poster develops a new strategy:
  • Do not resist the flood directly.
  • Seal defensive formations inside the ship, reinforce the exterior, and allow the vessel to rise and fall with the water.
• The idea spreads rapidly, causing the player community to unite around shipbuilding. Major factions reorganize their resources:
  • The Southern Continent’s loose cultivators abandon levee construction.
  • The Western Continent’s sect alliance publishes ark designs.
  • Eastern artifact-refining sects study floating-city formations.
  • Spirit Ore is mined and transported to shipbuilding sites.
• Not all players join the effort. Some continue climbing Divine Mountain, others remain focused on sightseeing, while spectators watch the arguments. A profiteering player plans to collect or sell scarce materials such as iron nails.
• The popularity of Great Flood expands dramatically, surpassing one trillion players. Even major figures and high-level cultivators—including the Jade Emperor and many disciples of powerful factions—have begun playing.
• In Zixiao Palace, Hongjun secretly summons five Heavenly Dao Saints: Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti. Tongtian is deliberately excluded because Qingyuan, the suspected creator of the game, is connected to him.
• Hongjun asks the Saints whether they know who created Great Flood and what its purpose is. All of them understand that Qingyuan is almost certainly responsible, but none dares say so openly.
• Hongjun then proposes that they enter the game personally to investigate its secrets and determine whether it threatens the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Saints agree and return to prepare—not for battle, but to create game accounts. The chapter ends humorously with the Dao Ancestor and the Heavenly Dao Saints preparing to form an unprecedented “party” inside the game.

2. Character Developments

• The players shift from disorganized complaining to collective action. The shipbuilding plan demonstrates their adaptability and growing ability to solve problems through experimentation rather than simply relying on established methods.
• The shipbuilding faction becomes the dominant organized force, pooling knowledge, labor, materials, and resources across continents.
• The expedition faction remains proud and individualistic, believing that climbing Divine Mountain and pursuing the ultimate secret through personal strength is more meaningful than relying on ships.
• The laid-back and onlooker factions retain their carefree or detached attitudes, providing comic contrast to the increasingly urgent survival effort.
• Hongjun is revealed to be deeply anxious about the game and Qingyuan’s hidden intentions, despite maintaining the outward dignity of the Dao Ancestor. His compulsive forum browsing, ruined grass, and tasteless tea expose his unease.
• The five Saints display remarkable caution and political awareness. They clearly recognize that Qingyuan created the game, but deliberately pretend to know nothing to avoid provoking either Hongjun or Qingyuan.
• Nuwa appears especially perceptive, immediately sensing that Hongjun’s summons will lead to trouble. Her helplessness contrasts with the others’ attempts to remain composed.
• Hongjun indirectly admits that he lacks the confidence to investigate Qingyuan alone. Rather than acknowledge this weakness, he “drags everyone into the water” by having the Saints investigate alongside him.

3. Significant Themes

• Adaptation versus resistance: The central survival insight is that one cannot defeat the flood by force. Success requires adapting to its movement and exploiting its nature.
• Collective intelligence and cooperation: The players’ breakthrough comes from open discussion and shared experimentation. Public blueprints, cross-faction cooperation, and resource pooling become more effective than isolated efforts.
• Innovation through unconventional thinking: The ship plan succeeds because it challenges the assumptions behind previous failed defenses.
• The contrast between power and wisdom: Even the strongest factions may fail when they use the wrong strategy, while an ordinary player’s practical idea can reshape the entire world.
• Gaming as a social and cultural phenomenon: The game has become so influential that sect leaders, officials, masters, and Saints are all drawn into it. It functions not merely as entertainment but as a second world, cultivation ground, and social network.
• Political caution and mutual fear: The Saints and Hongjun understand the truth about Qingyuan but avoid saying it directly. Their silence reflects fear of Qingyuan’s overwhelming power and the political consequences of openly confronting him.
• Comedy through role reversal: Ancient, supreme cultivators behave like ordinary gamers—arguing on forums, collecting resources, registering accounts, and preparing to run an in-game “dungeon.”

4. Character Interactions

• Players and forum users repeatedly debate the viability of ships, with skeptical arguments eventually giving way to enthusiastic collaboration.
• Different player factions continue arguing over whether to build ships, climb Divine Mountain, or simply observe, highlighting their contrasting philosophies.
• Hongjun and the Saints interact with extreme formality, but their unspoken understanding is more important than their words. Hongjun asks questions he already knows the answers to, while the Saints deliberately refuse to state the obvious.
• Taishang Laojun acts as spokesman for the group, calmly declaring that they know nothing while noticing Hongjun’s nervous behavior.
• Hongjun and the Saints share an unspoken bargain: they will pretend not to know Qingyuan is behind the game, and Hongjun will avoid openly admitting that he fears investigating Qingyuan alone.
• The chapter concludes with an unusual alliance: Hongjun and the five Saints prepare to enter Great Flood together, transforming an investigation into what may become the most powerful multiplayer party in the Primordial Wilderness.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After leaving Zixiao Palace, the five Heavenly Dao Saints—Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Nuwa—discuss Hongjun’s unusual command that they personally enter Qingyuan’s new game, Great Flood.
• They initially dismiss the game as harmless. Yuanshi and Zhunti believe it is merely a sophisticated simulation of the Primordial Wilderness, while Taishang suspects Hongjun’s concern is justified because Tongtian—Qingyuan’s master—was not summoned.
• The Saints enter the game and receive almost no guidance beyond the message: “Welcome to Great Flood. Your Destiny begins to be rewritten here.”
• Taishang investigates the natural world and discovers that its soil, plants, spiritual energy, and Law fluctuations are indistinguishable from those of the real Primordial Wilderness. He concludes that the game contains a genuinely real world rather than an illusion or simulation.
• Yuanshi analyzes the world’s Laws, Spirit Stone Veins, Earth Veins, and Divine Mountain. He realizes that the mountain is not an imitation of Buzhou Mountain but an entirely independent and complete existence with its own origin and Law cycle.
• Zhunti and Jieyin attempt to climb the Divine Mountain. They discover that its pressure is based on cultivation level rather than mastery of Laws, preventing even Saints from ascending easily. Zhunti is forced to stop after climbing only partway up.
• Nuwa observes a settlement of the Myriad Races instead of pursuing cultivation or exploration. She witnesses their developing civilization, including agriculture, tool use, primitive cultivation, social disputes, sacrifices, and food distribution. She concludes that the world possesses life and civilization of its own.
• Outside the Saints’ investigations, ordinary players prepare for the next flood. Having learned from their previous defeat, they form a massive Shipbuilding Faction. Hundreds of billions of players construct warships, arks, connected vessels, and submarines near the Divine Mountain.
• The Saints judge the players’ preparations inadequate. Yuanshi and Zhunti recognize that the coming flood contains living Law Fragments capable of actively eroding defensive weaknesses, making ordinary ships and basic Water-Repelling Runes useless.
• Believing their Saintly Laws sufficient to withstand any flood, the five Saints prepare to resist the disaster directly and climb the mountain afterward to uncover its secret.
• When the flood arrives, torrents of white water pour from cracks in the sky. The players’ ships are destroyed almost immediately, wiping out decades of collective effort and killing countless players.
• The five Saints simultaneously unleash their Laws to resist the flood, setting up the chapter’s central cliffhanger: whether even Heavenly Dao Saints can survive the coming catastrophe.

Character Developments

• Taishang Laojun is cautious, methodical, and perceptive. Rather than rushing toward power or rewards, he studies the game’s natural processes and becomes the first Saint to recognize that its world is truly real.
• Yuanshi begins with confidence and condescension, believing the game to be an inferior imitation. His investigation forces him to acknowledge that the Divine Mountain and the world’s Law structure are independent and extraordinarily complete. He remains strategically confident, however, and underestimates the coming flood.
• Zhunti is impatient and skeptical. He mocks the idea that Saints should play a game, rushes toward the Divine Mountain, and becomes frustrated when his Saintly Laws cannot overcome its cultivation-based pressure.
• Jieyin remains quiet and restrained, accompanying Zhunti and enduring the mountain’s pressure without much commentary. His slightly greater cultivation allows him to climb somewhat farther, but not enough to overcome the obstacle.
• Nuwa displays the greatest empathy and observational insight. She focuses on the native inhabitants rather than on personal advancement and recognizes the independent vitality and emerging civilization of the Myriad Races.
• The ordinary players evolve from disorganized survivors into a huge, coordinated engineering force. Their determination and collective effort are impressive, but their reliance on physical ships leaves them vulnerable to Laws-level destruction.

Significant Themes

• Appearance versus reality: The Saints initially treat Great Flood as a game or imitation, but the world proves to be real and autonomous.
• Limits of power and pride: The Saints’ confidence in their invincibility is challenged by the Divine Mountain and the unprecedented flood.
• Creation and independent life: The game world contains genuine ecosystems, civilizations, and Law cycles, raising questions about whether Qingyuan has created a new world rather than merely simulated one.
• Knowledge versus power: Taishang and Nuwa gain important insights through observation, while the more aggressive Saints encounter limits despite their immense strength.
• Collective effort versus fundamental laws: The players’ enormous shipbuilding project demonstrates organization and perseverance, but technology and numbers cannot overcome a disaster operating at the level of Laws.
• Unseen cosmic danger: Hongjun’s unusual caution suggests that Great Flood may contain a secret or threat even the Saints do not yet understand.

Character Interactions

• The Saints debate Hongjun’s command after leaving Zixiao Palace. Zhunti openly questions why they should personally participate, while Taishang implies that Hongjun’s exclusion of Tongtian reveals the seriousness of the situation.
• Yuanshi and Zhunti reinforce each other’s confidence, agreeing that the game should be easy for Saints to conquer. Their shared certainty contrasts with Taishang’s caution and Nuwa’s silent observation.
• Zhunti repeatedly urges Jieyin to hurry toward the Divine Mountain. After both fail to climb it, Zhunti admits that something is wrong with the mountain, while Jieyin remains silent and contemplative.
• Yuanshi and Zhunti later assess the players’ ships together, correctly identifying their vulnerability to Law-based erosion. Yuanshi then separates from the group to prepare for the flood.
• Nuwa does not directly interact much with the other Saints, but her observations provide a contrasting perspective: while they study power and structure, she studies life, society, and civilization.
• The chapter ends with all five Saints acting together for the first time in the game, unleashing their Laws against the arriving flood.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The five Heavenly Dao Saints—Yuanshi, Taishang, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti—attempt to ascend the Divine Mountain during the Great Flood using imitation versions of their signature treasures.
• Their game bodies possess only Grand Unity Golden Immortal-level cultivation and limited mana, preventing them from fully using their Saint-level Laws. The flood’s countless compressed Great Dao Law fragments steadily erode their defenses.
• Yuanshi reaches closest to the summit but exhausts his mana before grasping the mountain’s edge. The others soon fail as well: the Taiji Diagram stops, Nuwa’s Red Embroidered Ball shatters, and Jieyin and Zhunti’s Buddhist barriers collapse.
• All five Saints drown, along with all one trillion players. The Resurrection Space fills again, and the forums explode with complaints about the seemingly pointless shipbuilding efforts.
• Qingyuan observes that the deaths have successfully imprinted the players’ True Spirits into the New Primordial Wilderness. However, he considers the number still insufficient. He also realizes that the five Saints are secretly present, sent by Hongjun to investigate the flood.
• Qingyuan deduces that repeated deaths may expose the connection between the Saints’ Primordial Spirits and the Heavenly Dao, potentially allowing him to sever or analyze that connection.
• While players continue debating ship designs, Qingyuan adds the phrase “Ark of Life” to the game’s announcement. Players interpret this as a clue that ordinary ships are insufficient and begin researching ships involving living materials, life-related Laws, and methods of preserving life within the flood.
• The five Saints return to the game and decide to cultivate their game bodies to the Quasi-Saint realm before trying again. They train together for 1.8 million years, forming a Law Cycle that greatly accelerates their cultivation.
• After breaking through, they ascend the Divine Mountain as a coordinated group. Their combined treasures allow them to pass the mountainside, but the pressure grows increasingly intense above it.
• They eventually reach a point where they can advance no farther. At that moment, the heavens split open and an even denser flood descends. The Saints combine their treasures and Laws to form a layered defensive formation, beginning another struggle against the compressed Great Dao Law fragments.

Character Developments

• Qingyuan becomes increasingly strategic and confident. Rather than merely observing the players, he deliberately manipulates their interpretation of the clues and uses the Saints’ repeated deaths to study the Heavenly Dao’s connection to their Primordial Spirits.
• Yuanshi experiences deep humiliation after being defeated by the flood, but he responds by analyzing the failure and proposing that greater cultivation is the solution.
• Taishang Laojun remains calm and disciplined, relying on meditation, the Taiji Diagram’s superior Law control, and careful defensive coordination.
• Nuwa continues to act quietly and practically, using her treasure to repair the group’s defenses and later supporting their cooperative cultivation.
• Jieyin and Zhunti share the greatest visible disbelief and humiliation at being drowned in a game. Zhunti also behaves like an ordinary frustrated player, secretly using an alternate account to curse the developers.
• The five Saints shift from acting individually to cooperating through a unified Law Cycle and coordinated defensive formation.

Significant Themes

• Power limited by circumstance: Even Heavenly Dao Saints can be defeated when restricted to weak bodies with limited mana.
• Humiliation and pride: The Saints’ inability to dominate a game-world flood challenges their assumptions about superiority and invincibility.
• Adaptation versus repetition: Players repeatedly build larger or different ships without understanding the deeper nature of the trial, while Qingyuan hints that survival depends on preserving “life,” not simply constructing stronger vessels.
• Observation and hidden motives: The Saints enter to investigate the flood for Hongjun, while Qingyuan observes them in turn and seeks to uncover the Heavenly Dao’s secrets.
• Cooperation: The Saints’ joint cultivation and Law Cycle demonstrate that coordinated power is more effective than individual strength.
• Life, death, and reincarnation: The flood’s deaths are not merely failures; they allow True Spirit records to be incorporated into the New Primordial Wilderness’s reincarnation system.

Character Interactions

• The Saints initially endure the flood separately, but their shared defeat forces them to reconsider their strategy.
• Qingyuan notices and mentally comments on the Saints’ hidden identities, especially Zhunti’s comical attempt to curse the developers anonymously.
• The players interact collectively through forum debates, criticizing failed ship designs and gradually interpreting Qingyuan’s “Ark of Life” clue.
• The five Saints cultivate together and establish a Law Cycle, with each treasure serving a distinct role:
  • Yuanshi’s Three Treasures Ruyi leads the assault.
  • Taishang’s Taiji Diagram dissolves pressure.
  • Nuwa’s Red Embroidered Ball repairs damaged defenses.
  • Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree reduces pressure and forms the Bodhi Grand Formation.
  • Jieyin’s Buddhist light supports and reinforces Zhunti.
• During the second ascent, Jieyin directly assists Zhunti, while all five coordinate their treasures to withstand the renewed flood.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• The five Saints—Yuanshi, Taishang Laojun, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti—attempt to cross the World-Destroying Flood again after raising their in-game cultivation to the Quasi-Saint level and joining forces.
• Their defensive treasures gradually fail:
  • Yuanshi’s Three Treasures Ruyi is extinguished.
  • Taishang’s Taiji Diagram cracks and stops spinning.
  • Nuwa’s Red Embroidered Ball loses its protective light.
  • Jieyin and Zhunti’s Buddhist barrier collapses.
• All five are swept away and resurrected. Yuanshi is the last to fall, nearly reaching the mountaintop.
• The Saints conclude that Quasi-Saint cultivation, powerful Laws, teamwork, and conventional ships are all insufficient to survive the flood.
• Following the seventh failed flood, players lose hope. Countless strategies—including spiritwood ships, Law Resonance, submarines, floating cities, flood barriers, and True Spirit Sacrifice—have failed.
• The forums develop the concept of “Flood Fatalism,” the belief that the game is designed to make victory impossible.
• The Saints withdraw to a secluded Void Heaven and Earth to analyze Qingyuan’s clue: “Ark of Life.”
• Yuanshi deduces that the flood originates at the Divine Mountain’s summit and destroys everything that does not belong to the mountain.
• Jieyin suggests that survival requires making the Divine Mountain Origin recognize players as its own kind, but ordinary bodies, Laws, and sacrifices have failed.
• Taishang realizes that the clue may not refer to a conventional ark. The key word is “life”: perhaps life itself must become the ark.
• Drawing on Nuwa’s creation of living Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Five-Colored Stones, Taishang argues that only living things can survive the calamity.
• Nuwa proposes the most disturbing interpretation: the Ark of Life may literally be a gigantic living vessel constructed from the flesh and blood of countless beings.
• The Saints recognize that such an ark would preserve only the True Spirits within it. Those chosen to form or inhabit it might survive, while everyone else would be destroyed.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Yuanshi becomes increasingly frustrated and humiliated by repeated failure, especially after nearly reaching the summit. His confidence in cultivation and forceful advancement is shaken.
• Taishang Laojun remains calm and analytical. His insight that “life” is the true focus of the clue redirects the entire investigation.
• Nuwa is mostly silent during the discussion, but her eventual theory proves decisive. Her knowledge of living materials and the past mending of Heaven gives her a unique perspective.
• Jieyin focuses on Qingyuan’s motives and the underlying logic of the game. His comments emphasize the moral consequences of the possible solution.
• Zhunti, initially sarcastic and frustrated, becomes an active participant in interpreting the clue. He helps articulate the implications of Nuwa’s theory.
• The Saints interact as a collective investigative group, challenging and refining one another’s deductions. Their discussion shifts from practical survival tactics to philosophical questions about life, identity, and sacrifice.

Significant Themes

• Failure and despair: Seven failed floods exhaust the players’ creativity and produce widespread hopelessness.
• Life versus creation: The flood destroys constructed objects, regardless of their material or Laws, suggesting that living existence—not strength or durability—is the true means of survival.
• Literal interpretation and hidden clues: Qingyuan’s phrase “Ark of Life” is revealed to contain a possible conceptual distinction between an ark that protects life and life that functions as the ark.
• Sacrifice and selection: The proposed solution may require sacrificing countless beings to create a vessel for a smaller number of survivors, raising severe ethical questions.
• The limits of power: Even Saints and Quasi-Saints cannot overcome the flood through cultivation, emphasizing that the challenge is governed by a deeper rule rather than brute strength.
• Identity and belonging: Survival depends on whether the Divine Mountain Origin recognizes something as part of its own living system, not on its body, cultivation, or Laws.
• Moral ambiguity: The chapter ends without confirming whether the grotesque living ark is truly the answer, but it establishes that victory may demand choosing who lives and who dies.

Chapter Summary: “Saint Zhunti’s Idea, Five Saints Dominate the Game!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The five Heavenly Dao Saints—Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Nuwa—debate Nuwa’s theory that the solution to the Great Flood is the Ark of Life.
• They conclude that the ark must be constructed from the flesh and blood of living beings, allowing their True Spirits to survive the flood.
• Yuanshi calculates that at least thirty percent of all players must sacrifice themselves simultaneously for the ark to be large and durable enough to resist the flood’s laws.
• The Saints worry about the immense moral and practical difficulties:
  • Players may not believe that death is temporary after already dying and reviving seven times.
  • The Saints would be humiliated if their identities were revealed.
  • If the theory failed, trillions of players would die for nothing, damaging the Saints’ reputation.
• Jieyin proposes that the five Saints sacrifice themselves instead, but Taishang explains that five individuals cannot create an ark large enough to survive the flood. The solution depends on sheer numbers.
• Zhunti then devises a third option: the Saints will conceal their identities, cultivate to the Quasi-Saint realm, and conquer the major factions in the five regions. This will allow them to control the players and eventually implement the Life Ark Plan without exposing themselves.
• The other Saints accept the plan despite finding it humiliating, since they must fulfill the Dao Ancestor’s orders.
• After the game reopens, the Saints spend over a million years absorbing Dao Resonance beneath the Divine Mountain and quickly break through to the Quasi-Saint realm.
• They divide the game world:
  • Taishang takes the east.
  • Yuanshi takes the south.
  • Zhunti takes the west.
  • Jieyin takes the north.
  • Nuwa controls the central region around the Divine Mountain.
• Each Saint overwhelms or intimidates the local powers:
  • Taishang forces the Eastern Loose Cultivator Alliance to obey him.
  • Yuanshi defeats the southern leader Nanming by shattering his treasured flying sword.
  • Zhunti subdues the chaotic western loose cultivators through overwhelming force.
  • Jieyin similarly conquers the northern region.
  • Nuwa uses her divine pressure to compel countless central factions to submit.
• The Saints then gather more than ten billion players at the foot of the Divine Mountain just before the next flood. The players are confused and angry, wondering why five mysterious Quasi-Saints have suddenly appeared and why they are being forcibly assembled.

Character Developments

• Zhunti shifts from frustration to strategic insight. Rather than accepting either public humiliation or inaction, he invents a covert plan that solves both problems. His cunning and willingness to manipulate others become especially prominent.
• Nuwa remains the source of the Ark of Life theory. She is thoughtful and cautious, recognizing that the evidence supports her idea but does not prove it.
• Yuanshi acts as the group’s practical analyst. He calculates the thirty-percent requirement and repeatedly emphasizes that the plan must not be attempted without certainty.
• Taishang remains calm and rational, explaining why the Saints alone cannot form the ark. Despite his composed appearance, his destruction of Chaos ice reveals his suppressed frustration.
• Jieyin appears solemn and burdened. His prayer beads slow as the pressure of the decision weighs on him, though he ultimately supports Zhunti’s plan.
• The five Saints collectively become more authoritarian. They abandon their usual dignity and personally dominate the game’s factions in order to carry out their hidden objective.

Significant Themes

• The conflict between morality and survival: The Saints contemplate sacrificing thirty percent of all players for a chance at victory, raising questions about who has the right to decide who lives and dies.
• Pride and reputation: Their greatest concern is not only the deaths themselves but the shame of being exposed as powerful Saints trapped and defeated by a game.
• Deception and manipulation: The Saints choose to hide their identities and control players indirectly, turning the game’s population into tools for their plan.
• Faith versus certainty: The Ark of Life theory explains every major clue, yet remains unproven. The Saints fear acting on a plausible idea that could result in mass death.
• Power and authoritarian control: The Saints use overwhelming strength to unite the five regions, replacing cooperation with forced submission.
• The limits of individual power: Even five Saints cannot overcome the flood through strength alone. The chapter emphasizes that the solution depends on scale and collective sacrifice rather than cultivation.

Character Interactions

• The five Saints engage in a tense council where each proposal reveals their concerns about sacrifice, failure, and humiliation.
• Jieyin challenges the need to involve ordinary players, but Taishang explains why their individual sacrifice would be insufficient.
• Yuanshi’s calculation establishes the enormous human cost of the proposed plan.
• Zhunti’s sudden suggestion unites the group after a period of indecision. The others silently reconsider his idea and ultimately approve it.
• Once the plan begins, the Saints act independently but according to their shared division of territory.
• Their interactions with the game’s leaders are uniformly coercive: Taishang commands, Yuanshi demonstrates superiority by destroying Nanming’s sword, and Zhunti and Jieyin crush resistance through force.
• The chapter ends with the gathered players awaiting an explanation, unaware that the five mysterious rulers intend to use them in the dangerous Life Ark Plan.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Over ten billion players are forcibly gathered at the foot of Divine Mountain by the five major factions, with none of them initially told why.
• The players speculate about possible missions, including a hidden dungeon, a mountain-climbing attempt, or constructing an ark for the coming flood.
• Their worst guess proves correct: the factions order them to use their own bodies as construction materials for the Ark of Life.
• More than half the players initially flee, furious at being treated as disposable building materials. Some later return because death seems inevitable anyway, while others stay out of curiosity or amusement.
• The remaining players enthusiastically organize themselves into ship components:
  • A bow and “head”
  • A hull and cabin
  • Decks and ribs
  • A stern
  • A mast and outer framework
• Players joke, argue, chant slogans, and improvise increasingly absurd messages, transforming the horrifying plan into a chaotic communal spectacle.
• The completed ark stretches thousands of li and is made from over a billion players. Clothing spells out “Ark of Life,” alongside a skull and the warnings “Flood, do not disturb” and “If you disturb us, then you disturb us.”
• Five Saints observe the construction from Divine Mountain. Each is deeply affected by the sight and begins reconsidering their own understanding of the players, sacrifice, and the flood.
• Images of the player-built ark are posted online, causing the forum to explode with discussion.

Character Developments and Interactions

• The players evolve from confused and resentful captives into willing, playful participants. Their humor, cooperation, and willingness to occupy dangerous positions reveal their unusual resilience and collective spirit.
• Players constantly tease one another over the relative danger of each role. The “head,” “mast,” hull, deck, ribs, and stern all argue that another position is worse, creating comic interactions amid the serious situation.
• Squad leaders attempt to maintain order while being mocked by the players. Even the leaders eventually join in the laughter, showing that the formation has become a shared community effort rather than a purely imposed command.
• Venerable Yuanshi realizes that the situation may not be a problem he is controlling through laws and strategy; instead, he may himself be getting carried along by the game’s design.
• Taishang Laojun compares the ark to an alchemical furnace, with each player serving as a precisely placed ingredient. He admits that Qingyuan understands people better than he does.
• Zhunti Daoist becomes embarrassed by the contrast between his careful schemes and the players’ straightforward willingness to sacrifice themselves.
• Jieyin Daoist finally grasps the true importance of “numbers,” recognizing that billions making the same choice matter more than the sacrifice of a few Saints.
• Empress Nuwa is moved by the players’ vitality. Though she created life, she realizes that their collective will displays a power greater than any creation governed solely by divine laws.
• The Saints’ observations collectively suggest that the players are changing their understanding of mortals and of the role they themselves occupy in the larger plan.

Significant Themes

• Collective action and unity: The ark can only exist because billions of individuals accept different roles and support the same purpose.
• The value of ordinary people: The players’ bodies, humor, and cooperation achieve something that the Saints’ elaborate calculations could not accomplish alone.
• Sacrifice and agency: Although initially coerced, many players reclaim control by choosing to participate enthusiastically and turning an apparent death sentence into a shared, meaningful act.
• Humor in the face of catastrophe: Jokes, slogans, and mockery help the players confront fear and absurdity.
• Limits of divine planning: The Saints’ strategies and theories are challenged by the unpredictable strength of mass human behavior.
• Life and vitality: The ark becomes more than a physical structure; it symbolizes the determination of countless lives refusing to face destruction passively.

Overall Significance

The chapter turns an outrageous plan—building an ark from living players—into a demonstration of collective human strength. What begins as coercion and outrage becomes cooperation, comedy, and solidarity. Watching this unfold, the Saints are forced to reconsider both the players and their own assumptions about power, sacrifice, and the meaning of life.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After the players assemble an enormous ark from more than a billion living bodies, spectators flock to Divine Mountain to witness whether it can survive the World-Destroying Flood.
• When the flood arrives, the human ark is battered by enormous waves. Players at the bottom plug gaps with their bodies while others reinforce the structure.
• Against all expectations, the ark rises from the ground and floats. The players aboard erupt in cheers, laughter, and tears, while the observers and recently drowned players are left stunned.
• The event confirms the literal meaning of the “Ark of Life”: the ark is not a magical treasure or object—it is a ship constructed from living beings themselves.
• Resurrection Space and the forums explode with discussion. Players analyze the ark’s structure, compare it with earlier failed arks, and conclude that the crucial difference was using living people and mutual trust as the building material.
• Players identify weaknesses in the design, particularly the insufficiently reinforced bottom and ribs, and begin planning improvements for the next flood. Many volunteer to become “ship planks.”
• The five Heavenly Dao Saints—Jieyin, Zhunti, Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi, and Nuwa—remain aboard the ark as it rises through the flood.
• The ark is not repelled by Divine Mountain’s pressure. Yuanshi realizes that the mountain rejects dead objects but recognizes the ark as living beings, proving that Nuwa’s interpretation was correct.
• As the ark climbs higher, it approaches the upper regions of Divine Mountain, but cracks begin forming in its bottom and stern. Flood-borne Law Fragments seep inside, breaking down the bodies of players and threatening the ark’s stability.

Character Developments

• The players transform from spectators and individual survivors into a unified collective. Their willingness to sacrifice their bodies for the ark demonstrates extraordinary trust, cooperation, and shared purpose.
• Ship Bottom No. 1 becomes a symbolic witness to the ark’s success. After dying during the flood, he asks whether the players at the bottom saw the ship float; the overwhelming response—“Saw it”—captures their shared achievement.
• Yuanshi is deeply affected by the sight of billions of people willingly forming a ship. Though he maintains his usual composure, he experiences an unfamiliar emotional response to the players’ unity and sacrifice.
• Zhunti moves from skepticism and self-mockery to genuine joy when the ark successfully floats and passes Divine Mountain’s pressure.
• Jieyin recognizes that the answer to the Ark of Life was literal and had been visible from the beginning, admitting that he and the others had overcomplicated the mystery.
• Taishang Laojun remains calm and analytical, viewing the ark’s flotation as only the first stage and focusing on whether it can survive until reaching the summit.
• Nuwa’s earlier deduction is vindicated: living beings themselves can form the Ark of Life and pass through Divine Mountain’s rejection of dead objects.

Significant Themes

• Life as salvation: The chapter reveals that the true ark is not something that preserves life from outside; life itself becomes the vessel of survival.
• Trust and cooperation: The ark functions because billions of players rely on one another. Its “building tool” is identified as trust.
• Literal versus abstract thinking: The characters searched for magical, metaphysical, or symbolic explanations, but the answer was literal and directly stated in the game’s name.
• Collective sacrifice: Individual bodies become structural components, showing how personal sacrifice can create a larger chance of survival.
• Defiance of expectations: The impossible vessel floats because the world’s rules have become so extreme that conventional mechanics no longer apply.
• Humor amid catastrophe: Players respond to an apocalyptic disaster with jokes, forum memes, absurd commentary, and theatrical enthusiasm, reflecting their resilience and shared culture.
• Partial victory and continuing danger: The ark’s success is not the end of the crisis. Its structural weaknesses and the destructive Law Fragments show that survival remains uncertain.

Character Interactions

• Players aboard the ark cooperate physically, plugging leaks, supporting one another, and reinforcing weak points during the flood.
• Players outside watch, record, debate, and react collectively through voice channels and forums, turning the event into a shared communal experience.
• The Saints communicate through divine sense while observing the players beneath them. Their discussion shifts from disbelief to admiration and cautious optimism.
• Yuanshi, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Taishang exchange interpretations of the Ark of Life and the significance of Divine Mountain accepting the living ark.
• The players’ forum discussions reinterpret earlier failures and establish practical plans for improving the ark during the next flood.
• The chapter ends with the collective ark beginning to fail: cracks spread through the bottom and stern, and the players who form its structure start being consumed by the flood’s Law Fragments.

Chapter Summary: Forming the All-Under-Heaven Alliance

Key Plot Points and Events

• The players’ first Ark of Life, constructed from their bodies, initially succeeds in floating but ultimately collapses under the World-Destroying Great Flood.
• The Ark breaks apart as the flood’s Law Fragments pierce its hull, the Divine Mountain’s pressure intensifies, and the players forming its bottom, ribs, and other sections can no longer endure.
• The five Saints—Zhunti, Jieyin, Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi, and Nuwa—attempt to reinforce the Ark using their abilities, but the flood overwhelms their repairs and defenses.
• The Ark reaches only halfway up the Divine Mountain before snapping apart. Billions of players die, their bodies destroyed and True Spirits expelled from the game world.
• Unlike previous deaths, the revived players are not angry or despairing. They are exhilarated because they have proven that the correct solution to the flood is to build an Ark from living players rather than construct an ordinary ship or raise their individual cultivation.
• In Resurrection Space and on the forums, players enthusiastically analyze the Ark’s weaknesses and propose improvements:
  • Strengthening the bottom and ribs
  • Using staggered layers of players
  • Adding horizontal supports
  • Recruiting enough people for the stern
  • Creating detailed structural diagrams
  • Establishing signup systems for specific positions
  • Rehearsing Ark construction before the next flood
• The Saints gather afterward in a temporary void realm to discuss the discovery and its limitations.
• Jieyin identifies the central problem: knowing the correct method is useless if too few players are willing to participate. Players are independent, death has no lasting penalty, and many refuse commands or leave when pressured.
• Yuanshi proposes forming an All-Under-Heaven Alliance. The Saints will rapidly reach the Quasi-Saint realm, subdue all major factions, and impose a unified system across the game world.
• Their slogan will be overcoming Doomsday, a threat every player must face. They intend to use alliances, rules, and factional pressure to ensure that players occupy their assigned positions when the next flood arrives.
• The Saints resolve to make the Ark reach at least the summit of the Divine Mountain during the next flood.

Character Developments and Interactions

• Nuwa is revealed as the one who recognizes the true meaning of the Ark of Life: the players themselves must become the Ark. She remains humble, attributing the insight to ideas already circulating among the players rather than accepting personal praise.
• Zhunti openly praises Nuwa’s insight and is visibly excited by the breakthrough. His confidence grows as he realizes they have finally uncovered the game’s intended solution.
• Jieyin remains cautious and analytical. While appreciating the discovery, he focuses on the practical issue of player disobedience and warns that the Saints cannot simply assume universal cooperation.
• Yuanshi responds with a forceful and authoritarian solution. He argues that reluctant players must be compelled through factional control, rules, and pressure rather than persuasion alone.
• Taishang Laojun remains largely silent but participates in the Saints’ collective deliberation, while the group’s silence emphasizes the seriousness of the problem.
• The players themselves undergo a major emotional shift. They move from blaming the developers and despairing over repeated deaths to feeling pride, enthusiasm, and collective purpose. Many volunteer for the Ark’s most dangerous positions, including the ship’s bottom and ribs.
• The players’ discussions become highly organized and technical, showing that they are beginning to treat the flood as a solvable engineering and coordination problem rather than an unavoidable disaster.
• The Saints agree to cooperate closely, setting aside individual factions and forming a unified alliance under Yuanshi’s plan.

Significant Themes

• Discovery through failure: The Ark’s physical collapse is still a strategic success because it proves that the players’ bodies can float and survive the initial stages of the flood.
• Collective sacrifice and solidarity: Players willingly become structural parts of the Ark, and those on the deck recognize that their survival depends on the endurance of those beneath them.
• Freedom versus control: The players’ independence makes voluntary cooperation difficult, forcing the Saints to confront whether survival can be achieved without authoritarian organization.
• Engineering and collective intelligence: After discovering the correct method, players immediately analyze structural weaknesses, develop plans, and propose rehearsals, demonstrating practical cooperation and problem-solving.
• Hope amid apocalypse: The Ark becomes a symbol of hope. The flood is no longer an event in which players merely wait to die; it is now a challenge they believe they can overcome.
• The tension between games and reality: Players treat the world as a game where death has little consequence, while the Saints view the flood as a genuine Heavenly Dao crisis requiring discipline and sacrifice.
• Power through consensus: The Saints plan to unite all factions by making Doomsday the common enemy and using the All-Under-Heaven Alliance to transform scattered players into a coordinated force.

Important Character Interactions

• Zhunti praises Nuwa for uncovering the Ark’s true meaning, while Nuwa responds modestly and credits the players’ earlier discussions.
• Jieyin challenges the Saints’ optimism by pointing out that players cannot be forced to cooperate through ordinary commands.
• Yuanshi answers Jieyin’s concern by advocating suppression, factional unification, and strict rules.
• Jieyin endorses Yuanshi’s plan, and Zhunti formally confirms that the Saints will carry it out together.
• The players’ interactions in Resurrection Space and on the forums reveal a new spirit of camaraderie: they praise those who served as the Ark’s bottom and ribs, volunteer for dangerous roles, and work collectively to improve the next attempt.

Overall Significance

The chapter marks a turning point. The players have discovered the correct survival method, but the Saints realize that technical knowledge alone is insufficient. Their next challenge is political: organizing trillions of independent players into a unified system capable of constructing a sufficiently large Ark. The formation of the All-Under-Heaven Alliance becomes the Saints’ strategy for turning individual enthusiasm—and reluctant obedience—into the coordinated force needed to survive the next flood.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qingyuan observes the activity of the five Heavenly Dao Saints and other players participating in the Great Flood game. Their struggles for survival and repeated deaths are strengthening his New Primordial Wilderness by supplying it with energy, life, and the foundations of civilization.
• Qingyuan’s ultimate goal is to allow the New Primordial Wilderness to grow strong enough to consume and replace the original Primordial Wilderness, thereby eliminating Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao. He understands that this final battle will pit him against the Heavenly Dao, its Six Saints, the Earthly Dao, the Human Dao, and the consciousness of the Primordial Wilderness itself.
• While relaxing on Golden Ao Island, Qingyuan notices that the Great Dao Fishing Rod has moved. The rod previously caught the Sun Star and Moon Star, but this bite is far more powerful.
• He follows the fishing line into the River of Time Phantom, a chaotic realm filled with frozen historical fragments, remnants of dead Chaos Demon Gods, and violent temporal storms.
• The object on the line exerts tremendous force, dragging Qingyuan across the River of Time. He releases some of his true body’s power, manifesting the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws, and engages in a contest of strength with the unknown entity.
• Numerous Chaos Demon God phantoms attack him. Qingyuan destroys them effortlessly with a condensed sphere of the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws.
• A gigantic hand formed from ancient Chaos Laws emerges from the riverbed and attempts to seize him. Qingyuan counters it with the law sphere, causing the hand—and the force behind it—to shatter.
• With the resistance weakened, Qingyuan pulls the object from the depths of the River of Time. It is revealed to be a dark, worn axe handle: the missing handle of Pangu’s Creation Axe.

Character Developments

• Qingyuan is shown to be calm, calculating, and supremely confident. He views the Great Flood and the players’ deaths not as tragedies, but as necessary nourishment for the growth of his new world.
• His ambition becomes clearer: he intends to replace the original Primordial Wilderness and destroy the forces that currently govern it, even though he expects to face the entire world alone.
• The chapter emphasizes the difference between Qingyuan’s clone and true body. His true body has become the central Divine Mountain of the New Primordial Wilderness, yet the clone can still borrow enough power to confront terrifying entities in the River of Time.
• His reaction to the Creation Axe handle shifts from amused curiosity to stunned recognition, followed by satisfaction. He interprets the discovery as evidence that the universe itself is supporting his plan to devour the Primordial Wilderness.

Significant Themes

• World-building through destruction: The players’ survival struggles, deaths, and rebirths unintentionally strengthen Qingyuan’s New Primordial Wilderness and promote the development of life and civilization.
• Conflict between old and new worlds: The chapter frames Qingyuan’s future confrontation with the Primordial Wilderness as a war between an established cosmic order and a growing replacement world.
• Fate versus personal will: The fishing rod’s discovery of the Creation Axe handle suggests that destiny—or “heaven”—may be aligning with Qingyuan’s ambitions.
• Power concealed beneath calmness: Qingyuan appears to be leisurely drinking tea, but he possesses enough strength to destroy Chaos Demon God remnants and repel an entity capable of shaking the River of Time.
• Cosmic relics and unfinished history: The missing handle of Pangu’s Creation Axe reveals that important remnants of the creation of the Primordial Wilderness may still exist outside conventional history.

Character Interactions

• Qingyuan has no direct interaction with other major characters in the chapter, but he mentally considers the Heavenly Dao Saints, Hongjun, the Earthly Dao, the Human Dao, and the Primordial Wilderness consciousness as future enemies.
• His primary interaction is with the Great Dao Fishing Rod and the unknown force beneath the River of Time. Their struggle develops into a contest between Qingyuan’s Three Thousand Great Dao Laws and ancient Chaos power.
• The Chaos Demon God phantoms act collectively against Qingyuan, but he destroys them without difficulty, reinforcing the vast gap between his power and theirs.
• The final interaction is between Qingyuan and the newly recovered Creation Axe handle, whose familiar aura confirms its connection to Pangu and strengthens Qingyuan’s belief that his plan to consume the Primordial Wilderness is destined to succeed.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qingyuan fishes within the phantom River of Time and hooks the broken tail end of the Creation Axe, a damaged Chaos Supreme Treasure believed to have vanished after Pangu’s creation of the heavens.
• A gigantic, primordial hand emerges from beneath the riverbed and tries to keep the axe fragment submerged. Its origin is uncertain—it may be the remnant obsession of Pangu or a fallen Chaos Demon God.
• Qingyuan battles the hand using the Three Thousand Great Dao Laws. His thirty-percent-strength clone cannot overpower it directly because the hand draws endless power from the River of Time.
• He instead uses the fishing line and a sealing technique to restrain the hand, exploiting its distraction to pull up the axe handle. The giant hand is torn apart and its lingering obsession disappears.
• Qingyuan obtains the half-foot-long axe fragment, sensing dormant power and ancient divine blood within it. He views its recovery as a sign that the old Primordial Wilderness is nearing replacement by the New Primordial Wilderness.
• Returning to Golden Ao Island, Qingyuan continues waiting for enough inhabitants of the Primordial Wilderness to enter the Great Flood and leave their True Spirit imprints in the New Primordial Wilderness. His goal is for the New World to replace the old Heavenly Dao and undermine Hongjun’s plans.
• After the World-Destroying Flood recedes, enormous numbers of players return to the game world. They seek treasures left behind by the disaster, cultivate using the game’s accelerated time, and continue improving the Ark of Life.
• The five Heavenly Dao Saints gather at the Divine Mountain and cultivate together for 1.7 million years, refining their Law Cycle and advancing to the Quasi-Saint realm.
• The Saints launch a more organized campaign under the banner of “Alliance Under Heaven,” subjugating strongholds and forcing independent groups into a unified survival structure.
• Players are assigned to ark formations and begin coordinated training, construction, drills, and formation practice. The alliance eventually grows to thirty quadrillion members.

Character Developments

• Qingyuan demonstrates greater strategic maturity. Rather than defeating the river hand through brute force, he identifies its dependence on the River of Time and uses deception and sealing to win.
• His acquisition of the Creation Axe fragment strengthens his symbolic and practical position as the architect of the New Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan remains patient and calculating, choosing to wait until enough beings are spiritually connected to the New World before initiating the final replacement of the old Primordial Wilderness and Heavenly Dao.
• The five Saints become significantly stronger and more coordinated after their prolonged cultivation. They advance to Quasi-Saint and shift from hurried action to careful, systematic preparation.
• Their leadership becomes increasingly authoritarian but also more effective, as they compel players and factions to join Alliance Under Heaven for survival.

Significant Themes

• The decline of the old order: The broken Creation Axe represents the remains of an ancient age, while Qingyuan’s plans signal the coming replacement of the old Primordial Wilderness and Heavenly Dao.
• Strategy over raw power: Qingyuan succeeds by exploiting the giant hand’s priorities and weaknesses instead of trying to overpower an inexhaustible opponent.
• Transformation and rebirth: Floods destroy existing forms but also create opportunities for new worlds, identities, and systems to emerge.
• Survival through collective organization: The players increasingly realize that individual strength and freedom are insufficient against world-ending floods; survival requires alliances, discipline, and assigned roles.
• The blurring of reality and game: Accelerated time, cultivation, trade, and spiritual development make the game world increasingly important as a second life rather than a mere virtual environment.
• Control versus autonomy: Alliance Under Heaven offers protection but demands submission, illustrating the growing tension between personal independence and collective survival.

Character Interactions

• Qingyuan interacts directly with the mysterious giant hand in a battle shaped by mutual struggle over the Creation Axe fragment. He ultimately outmaneuvers it through a coordinated use of the fishing rod, Law Wall, and sealing sigil.
• The five Saints cooperate through their shared Law Cycle, cultivating together and strengthening one another before dividing into different directions to expand the alliance.
• Their incarnations remain beneath the alliance banner while the Saints themselves avoid public appearances, suggesting a deliberate separation between visible administration and true leadership.
• Players interact through forums, treasure-hunting expeditions, ark-design discussions, and alliance drills. Formerly independent players gradually accept the Saints’ system because they recognize that refusing to join means certain death in the next flood.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• Over the final hundred thousand years before the World-Destroying Flood, the Alliance Under Heaven expands dramatically from a coalition led by five Saints into a massive organization commanding hundreds of billions of players.
• Inspired by recordings of the previous Ark of Life surviving the flood, veteran players voluntarily join the Alliance. Members spend years drilling the formation beneath Divine Mountain, refining every detail of the living ark: the hull, ribs, bow, stern, cabin, and deployment procedures.
• The Alliance establishes highly organized command structures, including the Ark Command Hall, with hundreds of thousands of commanders coordinating the formation. The avatars of five mysterious experts oversee the upper command ranks.
• Many independent players refuse to participate. They view the flood as merely a temporary death and plan to log out during the disaster, using the seven real-world days corresponding to the seventy-thousand-year flood period to rest or handle personal matters. A forum thread called the “Flood Period Logout Squad” gains over a billion replies.
• The five Saints do not force every player to join, recognizing that the game’s rules make unwilling players impossible to control. Instead, they focus on gathering those willing to cooperate.
• When the World-Destroying Flood begins, black clouds, Law-infused rain, lightning, and rapidly rising waters engulf the wilderness. Divine Mountain remains the only major landform above the flood.
• Following orders from the Command Hall, hundreds of billions of players assemble into the Ark of Life. Their bodies form every part of the ship, creating a structure so enormous it resembles a continent or living creature.
• The ark initially floats successfully. During the first ten thousand years, the players discover that the flood dramatically accelerates their cultivation. During the second ten thousand years, Law Fragments begin falling from the sky, allowing them to absorb pure power and strengthen the ark. Their combined cultivation creates a circulating Law Cycle, giving the ship a form of “life.”
• During the third ten thousand years, the rising water and increasing pressure push the ark beyond its limits. Cracks spread through the hull, the cabins and ribs collapse, and the stern breaks apart. The entire Ark of Life ultimately disintegrates before reaching Divine Mountain’s summit, swallowing countless players—including the five Saints.

2. Character Developments

• The Alliance Under Heaven evolves from a loose faction into a disciplined, highly coordinated force capable of controlling hundreds of billions of players.
• The ordinary Alliance members demonstrate remarkable commitment and teamwork. Through relentless practice, they transform from an uncoordinated crowd into a precise living vessel.
• Independent players are characterized by their refusal to be controlled. They prioritize personal cultivation, freedom, and the advantages of the game’s time difference over collective survival efforts.
• The five Saints remain focused on uncovering the secrets of Divine Mountain and Qingyuan’s plans. Their cooperation reflects growing curiosity and trust, but they are still uncertain about the true purpose of the game and the mountain.
• The players aboard the ark shift from simply following a survival plan to actively cultivating and strengthening the vessel, turning the ark into a living, law-powered formation.

3. Significant Themes

• Collective effort versus individual freedom: The chapter contrasts the Alliance’s massive cooperative project with players who reject authority and prefer to pursue their own goals.
• The meaning of survival: Because death in the game carries few lasting consequences, many players see no reason to sacrifice themselves for the ark. The chapter questions whether survival has value when the experience is treated as a game.
• Human organization and discipline: Hundreds of billions of individuals achieve astonishing unity through planning, communication, and repeated practice.
• The limits of preparation: Despite exhaustive drills and careful calculations, even the perfectly organized ark cannot withstand the flood’s escalating power.
• Cultivation through catastrophe: The flood is not only destructive; it also releases Law Fragments and accelerates cultivation, suggesting that disasters in this world may conceal opportunities for advancement.
• Mystery and hidden purpose: The Saints suspect that Qingyuan’s preparations and the game may connect to the origin of the Primordial Wilderness or their teacher, but the chapter ends before these secrets are revealed.
• The fragility of grand endeavors: The ark’s collapse emphasizes that size, unity, and preparation are not enough to overcome forces operating on a world-destroying scale.

4. Character Interactions

• Alliance commanders coordinate hundreds of billions of players through voice channels, issuing precise instructions during both training and the flood.
• The avatars of the five mysterious experts oversee the Ark Command Hall; although they rarely speak, their authority keeps the commanders vigilant.
• The five Saints—Yuanshi, Zhunti, Jieyin, Nuwa, and Taishang—communicate privately while standing near the ark’s bow. They discuss Qingyuan’s mysterious preparations and speculate that the summit may reveal truths about the game, the Primordial Wilderness, or their teacher.
• The Alliance’s enforcement teams clash with independent players who refuse to join, but repeated killing and threats prove ineffective because the players can simply revive or log out.
• Players on the ark cooperate closely during formation, cultivation, and repairs, but ultimately cannot prevent structural collapse as the flood’s pressure overwhelms the living ship.