Chapter Summaries

The five Heavenly Dao Saints debated how to rebuild the Ark of Life after the World-Destroying Flood destroyed it. They chose Yuanshi’s plan to arrange players by their Laws and attributes, while Nuwa’s proposal to gather far more players was rejected; Qingyuan, listening from Golden Ao Island, recognized that the Ark’s strength depended on the number of lives supporting it.

• Zhunti lamented that the Ark of Life had failed during the flood, and Yuanshi argued that it had collapsed because its builders had not followed rules for arranging players and their Laws.
• Jieyin and Taiqing agreed that the players should be organized by their Five Elements, Laws, and Daoxing to create a stable Ark.
• Nuwa proposed that the Ark had failed because too few players had joined and suggested gathering one hundred billion or even every registered player.
• Zhunti and Jieyin said that recruiting so many players was unrealistic, while Yuanshi urged the Saints to first rebuild the Ark using the willing players they already had.
• The Saints rejected Nuwa’s proposal and decided to follow Yuanshi’s rule-based plan.
• Qingyuan listened from the beach north of Golden Ao Island and concluded that the Ark depended on having enough lives to support it, allowing more Primordial Wilderness true spirits to enter the New Primordial Wilderness.

Qingyuan refined a fragment of Pangu’s Creation Axe while anticipating the opposition he would face from Hongjun and the Primordial Wilderness. In Zixiao Palace, Hongjun and the five Saints examined the Great Flood game’s benefits and repeated failures but could not understand Qingyuan’s purpose, leaving Hongjun deeply uneasy.

• Qingyuan slowly refined a fragment of the Creation Axe and monitored the Great Flood game’s growing registrations and survival data.
• Hongjun read forum posts about the failed Ark and five Quasi-Saints dying in the flood, then wondered what Qingyuan intended.
• Hongjun summoned Taishang Laojun, Venerable Yuanshi, Empress Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti to report what they had learned from the game.
• The five Saints described the Ark’s collapse and the game’s unusually rich cultivation gains, but admitted they could not discern Qingyuan’s motive.
• Hongjun sent the Saints away to investigate the Great Flood’s secrets and continued brooding over the reports, unable to shake his unease.

After players praised the Alliance Under Heaven and the rewards of surviving the World-Destroying Great Flood, the five Heavenly Dao Saints entered the game again and helped rebuild the Ark of Life with more than fifty billion players. The ark still shattered after more than thirty thousand years, leaving the Saints to consider trying again on an even larger scale.

• Players argued on the forums about Dao Resonance Fragments, the Alliance Under Heaven, and whether its supporters were shills, while applications to join the alliance continued to rise.
• The five Heavenly Dao Saints waited for the cooldown to end, then entered the game again and reached Quasi-Saint earlier than before.
• Venerable Yuanshi's construction plan helped the Alliance Under Heaven gather more than fifty billion players and build a more organized Ark of Life.
• When the flood came, players who had not boarded the ark were swept away, while those aboard cultivated as Dao Resonance Fragments fell from the sky.
• After more than thirty thousand years, the ark weakened despite its formations, developed spreading cracks, and broke apart beneath the flood.
• The five Heavenly Dao Saints exited the game and understood that they might need even more players and a larger ark next time.

The five Heavenly Dao Saints increased the number of players building the Ark, extending its survival past sixty-five thousand years and revealing a clearer line of light beyond the Doomsday Flood. As Qingyuan watched the New Primordial Wilderness take shape, he accepted that its completion would leave him standing alone against everyone.

• Venerable Yuanshi proposed imposing a restriction on players so they would obey collective commands, and the Saints used it to coordinate more than a hundred billion players.
• The restricted players built an Ark that survived for over fifty thousand years before breaking apart, convincing the Saints that increasing player numbers was the right approach.
• The Saints mobilized factions across the Primordial Wilderness to register accounts, raising the online population above four hundred billion.
• The expanded Ark lasted beyond sixty-five thousand years, and the Saints saw a clearer line of light before the Ark broke apart.
• Qingyuan watched the growing player count expand the New Primordial Wilderness and reflected that he would eventually face everyone alone when that world was complete.

The five Heavenly Dao Saints promoted Great Flood and used the expanded player base to build an Alliance Under Heaven capable of enduring the World-Destroying Great Flood. After seventy thousand years, their ship reached the Divine Mountain’s peak, where they found a pillar made of dozens or hundreds of strands of Primordial Violet Qi.

• The five Heavenly Dao Saints agreed to promote Great Flood after concluding that only enormous numbers of players could survive the flood and reach the Divine Mountain’s peak.
• Cultivators across the Primordial Wilderness joined Great Flood, where they could cultivate, carry insights back to reality, and spend ten thousand years in the game for each day outside it.
• The five Heavenly Dao Saints established a vast Alliance Under Heaven, gathering more than eight hundred billion players and forcing many of them to board a massive ship.
• The players endured the flood aboard the ship for seventy thousand years, repairing its formations and replacing exhausted crew members as they made their way toward the Divine Mountain.
• The ship reached the summit, where the five Heavenly Dao Saints and the players saw a pillar formed from numerous strands of Primordial Violet Qi.

Eight hundred billion players rushed toward a pillar of Primordial Violet Qi on the Divine Mountain, breaking the Ark of Life and dying in the flood before they could reach it. After the game ended, the five Heavenly Dao Saints agreed to turn the players into puppets for the next attempt, while forum rumors about the violet qi drove registration numbers higher.

• The players saw hundreds of strands of Primordial Violet Qi on the Divine Mountain and surged toward it despite the five Heavenly Dao Saints' warnings.
• The Ark of Life's formations failed and the ship broke apart as players jumped toward the mountain; the flood swallowed them all, ending the game.
• Daoist Zhunti judged the violet qi to be an illusion, while Daoist Jieyin proposed refining every player into a puppet for the next expedition.
• Daoist Zhunti and the other Heavenly Dao Saints tacitly accepted Daoist Jieyin's plan to control the players and keep the ship intact.
• Players spread reports of the Primordial Violet Qi across the game forum, and Great Flood registration surged as the Alliance Under Heaven announced another expedition.

The five Heavenly Dao Saints used the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to capture and control more than two trillion players, then forced them to build an ark for the coming flood. The ark survived the seventy-thousand-year flood and approached the Divine Mountain, leaving the players unable to move as the Primordial Violet Qi drew near.

• Players flooded into the game and joined the Alliance Under Heaven to prepare for a chance to seize the Primordial Violet Qi.
• The five Heavenly Dao Saints revealed the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and captured more than two trillion players, binding their souls and controlling their movements.
• The controlled players built a sturdy ark in perfect coordination, and the five Heavenly Dao Saints directed its construction.
• The ark endured the flood for seventy thousand years and continued toward the Divine Mountain.
• The players watched the Primordial Violet Qi draw closer, unable to move or act.

As the Ark of Life approached Divine Mountain through a world-swallowing flood, the five Heavenly Dao Saints agreed how to divide the Primordial Violet Qi and began extracting it from the pillar. A vast face appeared across the sky, stopping the rain and freezing the water as the Saints looked up in alarm.

• The controlled players remained trapped aboard the Ark of Life and complained on the forum as the ship carried them toward Divine Mountain.
• Zhunti proposed dividing the Primordial Violet Qi, and Jieyin, Taishang Laojun, Venerable Yuanshi, and Nuwa agreed to the shares.
• The five Heavenly Dao Saints reached the pillar and used their powers to draw strands of Primordial Violet Qi from it.
• A gigantic, indistinct face appeared in the sky, the rain stopped, and the water froze as the Saints looked up in unease.

Qingyuan appeared in the game and destroyed the world around the five Heavenly Dao Saints, forcing them back to their dojos. After Hongjun determined that Qingyuan meant to use the game to devour the Primordial Wilderness, a vast mouth emerged from Chaos, and Saint Taiqing revealed that Qingyuan was after the True Spirit Imprints of all Loose Immortals.

• Zhunti and Venerable Yuanshi asked Qingyuan to let the Saints return to reality, but Qingyuan declared that the era sustained by the Tribulation of Calamity should end and a new era should begin.
• Qingyuan's power shattered the game world, destroyed the Ark of Life's protections, and caused the five Heavenly Dao Saints and the players to lose consciousness.
• The five Heavenly Dao Saints returned to their dojos, then gathered at Zixiao Palace and recounted the events to Hongjun.
• Hongjun used the Creation Jade Butterfly and concluded that Qingyuan intended to replace the Primordial Wilderness with the game and devour it.
• A gigantic mouth approached the Primordial Wilderness from Chaos, and Saint Taiqing said Qingyuan had collected the True Spirit Imprints of players in the game and now sought those of unregistered Loose Immortals.

The Primordial Wilderness came under mysterious pressure as cracks spread through the heavens and the Four Extremities began to collapse, leaving countless beings and even Hunyuan Saints unable to identify the cause. Sect Master Tongtian went to Zixiao Palace to seek answers, where Zhunti accused his disciple Qingyuan of causing the upheaval.

• The Four Extremities shook and suffered damage as cracks spread across the sky, alarming the Four Directional Gods and beings throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Immortals and great powers emerged from seclusion, while Baize and other Hunyuan Saints exchanged messages but found no explanation for the upheaval.
• Sect Master Tongtian sensed the Heavenly Dao's foreboding and traveled from Biyou Palace to Zixiao Palace, where Hongjun and the other Saints had gathered.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked what was happening and whether the Immeasurable Calamity had arrived early.
• Zhunti questioned whether Tongtian was pretending not to know and blamed his prized eldest disciple, Qingyuan, for the catastrophe.
• Sect Master Tongtian reacted with confusion and asked how Qingyuan could have caused it.

Sect Master Tongtian learned that the Saints accused Qingyuan of using a game to record the True Spirits of countless Primordial Wilderness beings and bring about the Primordial Wilderness's collapse. He confronted Qingyuan in Chaos and threatened to purge the Interception Sect if Qingyuan did not stop.

• Daoist Zhunti accused Qingyuan of creating a game that secretly recorded True Spirits and concealed his plan to devour the Primordial Wilderness.
• Venerable Yuanshi blamed Sect Master Tongtian for founding the Interception Sect and failing to discipline Qingyuan.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked Hongjun why he had been excluded from the investigation, then rushed into Chaos with his sword.
• Sect Master Tongtian called for Qingyuan, who emerged from the darkness and asked why his master had come first.
• Sect Master Tongtian demanded that Qingyuan stop and threatened to purge the Interception Sect.

Qingyuan accused Dao Ancestor Hongjun of manipulating tribulations and secretly damaging the Primordial Wilderness, while Hongjun condemned Qingyuan for trying to destroy it. When Qingyuan refused to stop, Sect Master Tongtian unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation against his former disciple, leaving their clash about to begin.

• Sect Master Tongtian asked Qingyuan whether he still recognized him as his master and demanded to know why he was acting against the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan claimed he had repeatedly protected the Primordial Wilderness Source from Hongjun's schemes and said the Interception Sect would have been destroyed without him.
• Hongjun denounced Qingyuan before the Primordial Wilderness, accusing him of stealing living beings' True Spirits and seeking to devour the world's foundation.
• Qingyuan challenged Hongjun's right to damage the Primordial Wilderness and refused Sect Master Tongtian's demand to stop.
• Sect Master Tongtian declared that he would spare no one who threatened the Primordial Wilderness, then opened the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• The Four Immortal Slaying Swords charged toward Qingyuan as he stood his ground, recognizing the formation he had studied with Sect Master Tongtian.

Qingyuan stood unharmed within Sect Master Tongtian’s enhanced Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and broke it without lifting a hand. With Tongtian defeated and the Heavenly Dao Saints and Primordial Wilderness’s living beings overwhelmed by despair, the world was left with no apparent defender against Qingyuan.

• Sect Master Tongtian unleashed the enhanced Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, which he and Qingyuan had strengthened beyond the formation’s former power.
• Qingyuan remained calm as the formation’s sword qi and four immortal swords failed to breach his invisible barrier, while the watching Saints and Dao Ancestor Hongjun feared his strength.
• The formation’s power rebounded until its diagram shattered, and the damaged Four Immortal Slaying Swords returned to Tongtian.
• Tongtian faced Qingyuan in silence, devastated that his strongest disciple had become his adversary and that he could not stop him from destroying the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Jade Emperor, Queen Mother of the West, Zhenyuan, Minghe, Kunpeng, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and countless living beings despaired as they wondered who could stand against Qingyuan.

Qingyuan explained that he planned to swallow the Primordial Wilderness to stop Hongjun from draining it, then create a new world beyond Hongjun’s influence. Hongjun rallied the living beings against him, and the six Heavenly Dao Saints attacked Qingyuan together in the Chaos.

• Tongtian left Qingyuan in despair after the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation shattered and his swords failed to reach him.
• Hongjun called Qingyuan an enemy of all living beings and urged the Primordial Wilderness to fight, inspiring its people to stand against him.
• Qingyuan resolved to swallow the Primordial Wilderness himself because he believed repairing it only helped Hongjun devour it.
• Taiqing, Yuanshi, Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Tongtian confronted Qingyuan and urged him to turn back.
• Qingyuan warned the Saints that Hongjun was using them, then invited them to attack.
• The six Saints unleashed their treasures and Dao powers against Qingyuan in the Chaos.

The six Heavenly Dao Saints attacked Qingyuan with full power, but he remained unharmed and effortlessly shattered their techniques, while Hongjun secretly bolstered them with the Creation Jade Disk. Hongjun then recruited the gathered Hunyuan Saints to join the battle, promising them recognition and status as true Saints, and ordered them to strike.

• The six Heavenly Dao Saints unleashed their strongest attacks on Qingyuan, whose Great Dao power absorbed them without leaving a mark.
• Hongjun watched from Zixiao Palace and realized the Saints could only stand against Qingyuan because he was secretly supporting them with the Creation Jade Disk and the Primordial Wilderness Source.
• Qingyuan caught and dimmed the Red Embroidered Ball, destroyed the Taiji Diagram's attacks, shattered Jieyin's Buddhist treasures, wounded Tongtian and Jieyin, and reflected Zhunti's Divine Light back at him.
• Observers across the Primordial Wilderness mistakenly believed the six Saints were winning because Qingyuan stood motionless while they repeatedly returned to the fight.
• Hongjun summoned the Hunyuan Saints in Zixiao Palace and promised Heavenly Dao recognition, dojos, and Fortune Aura if they helped defend the Primordial Wilderness.
• After the gathered Saints hesitated, Hongjun turned toward the battlefield and ordered them to strike.

The six Heavenly Dao Saints could not harm Qingyuan, while Hongjun pressured the Hunyuan Saints to join the fight against him. In the Netherworld, Empress Pingxin refused to attack Qingyuan and began returning her body, Daoxing, and Saint Position to the Primordial Wilderness.

• The six Heavenly Dao Saints struck Qingyuan with their full power, but his Great Dao barrier erased their attacks without moving him.
• Hongjun threatened the hesitant Hunyuan Saints and promised them Heavenly Dao blessings if they attacked Qingyuan, while the Primordial Wilderness World Consciousness forced them to act.
• Qingyuan's disciples and allies, including Yun Zhongzi, Yuan Hong, Wuzhiqi, the Six-Eared Macaque, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng, struggled against the pressure but refused to attack their master.
• Hongjun left Zixiao Palace and sent his Evil Corpse to confront Empress Pingxin in the Netherworld.
• Pingxin refused Hongjun's demand to fight Qingyuan, declaring that she could not use Qingyuan's kindness against him.
• Pingxin began returning her body, Daoxing, and Saint Position to the Primordial Wilderness, and Hongjun's Evil Corpse cried out in alarm.

Empress Pingxin self-destructed rather than obey Hongjun's command to act against Qingyuan, leaving the Netherworld and the Primordial Wilderness grieving her fall. Hongjun's Evil Corpse blamed and mocked her, then reached for the collapsing Earthly Dao and Six Paths of Reincarnation.

• Empress Pingxin rejected Hongjun's command and self-destructed, returning her body, Daoxing, Saint Position, and True Spirit to the world.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Hunyuan Saints sensed Pingxin's death, while the Netherworld shook and fell into mourning.
• Blood Rain spread across the Primordial Wilderness, and its beings grieved as they remembered Pingxin's creation of Reincarnation and refuge for the dead.
• Hongjun's Evil Corpse accused Pingxin of betraying the Primordial Wilderness and declared that it was good she had died.
• Hongjun's Evil Corpse unleashed his Saint aura and Great Dao Laws toward the collapsing Earthly Dao and Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Hongjun's Evil Corpse seized control of the Earthly Dao after Pingxin's self-destruction, while Hongjun planned to take the Human Dao and unite the Three Daos against Qingyuan. In Chaos, Yun Zhongzi chose not to fight his master and sacrificed himself as the chapter ended.

• Pingxin's self-destruction damaged the Earth Dao Origin, but Hongjun's Evil Corpse suppressed the Netherworld and took control of the Earthly Dao and Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Hongjun's Evil Corpse gathered the Earthly Path Strange Treasures and told Hongjun that the Netherworld was stable and under his control.
• Hongjun welcomed the Earthly Dao's return and planned to seize the Human Dao so he could command the Three Daos against Qingyuan.
• Hongjun gave the Hunyuan Saints a choice between serving the Primordial Wilderness and becoming its sinners.
• Yun Zhongzi knelt toward Qingyuan, explained his gratitude to his master, and chose not to fight him.
• Yun Zhongzi burned his Primordial Spirit and destroyed his body in a blinding explosion.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun demanded that Qingyuan’s disciples choose between supporting him and resisting their master, while his Heavenly Dao authority overwhelmed the gathered Saints. Liu Yuan refused to submit and attacked Zixiao Palace, prompting Hongjun to condemn him to death and unleash Primordial Violet Qi.

• Hongjun pressured Yuan Hong, Wuzhiqi, Golden-Winged Great Peng, Kong Xuan, Northern Darkness, Liu Yuan, and the other disciples to choose a side.
• Liu Yuan denounced Hongjun’s schemes and declared that he would rather die than submit.
• Liu Yuan transformed into a colossal willow Chaos Demon God and sent countless branches toward Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun condemned Liu Yuan in the name of the Heavenly Rules and released waves of Primordial Violet Qi from Zixiao Palace.

Liu Yuan and Qingyuan’s other disciples condemned Dao Ancestor Hongjun for causing calamities and seizing authority, then transformed into Chaos Demon Gods to confront him. Their awakened connection to the Primordial Wilderness Source left the world’s living beings stunned as they declared war on Hongjun.

• Liu Yuan accused Hongjun of orchestrating calamities and interfering with the Three Pure Ones, Houtu, the Human Race, and the Interception Sect.
• Yuan Hong, Wuzhiqi, Six-Eared Macaque, and Golden-Winged Great Peng joined Liu Yuan in denouncing Hongjun and blaming him for past massacres and destruction.
• Golden-Winged Great Peng transformed into a Chaos Demon God, followed by Yuan Hong, Six-Eared Macaque, Kong Xuan, and Northern Darkness.
• The five disciples unleashed their Chaos Demon God auras, resonating with the Primordial Wilderness Source that Qingyuan had strengthened.
• The living beings of the Primordial Wilderness were stunned as Qingyuan’s disciples openly defied Hongjun.