Chapter Summaries

Old Monster Kumoku joined forces with Black Water Old Demon and Evil Fire True Lord to attack Dong Wang Gong and Ziwei Star Lord for the Pure Yang Yi Wood Origin, while King Xuanyuan watched from hiding. Elsewhere, powerful figures withdrew as Zhen Yuanzi’s approaching wrath threatened to engulf the Western Land.

• Old Monster Kumoku persuaded Black Water Old Demon and Evil Fire True Lord to join him in claiming the Pure Yang Yi Wood Origin, and they attacked Dong Wang Gong and Ziwei Star Lord.
• Dong Wang Gong invoked Old Ancestor Five Elements as a warning, but the three Leftist powerhouses dismissed the threat and unleashed their combined attack.
• Dong Wang Gong and Ziwei Star Lord blocked the strike with their treasures but were badly wounded and sent flying.
• King Xuanyuan hid near the battlefield and waited for the fighters to weaken so he could seize their Origins and bodies for his Blood Gu.
• Lei Ze and Yu Qiang withdrew after sensing Hong Yun’s death and realizing Zhen Yuanzi would retaliate, while the battle’s participants remained unaware that his fury was nearing the Western Land.

Zhen Yuanzi arrived at Mount Sumeru in fury over Hong Yun’s death, kicked King Xuanyuan gravely into the distance, and unleashed the Earth Book’s power. His overwhelming aura forced the Eight Great Yao Marshals to the ground, leaving them unable to resist.

• Dong Wang Gong and Ziwei Star Lord used their treasures to block Old Monster Kumoku, Black Water Old Demon, and Evil Fire True Lord long enough to flee eastward.
• The Primordial World Earth shook as Zhen Yuanzi approached Mount Sumeru, riding the earth’s dragon veins.
• King Xuanyuan tried to recruit Zhen Yuanzi by offering information about Hong Yun’s murder, but Zhen Yuanzi kicked him away and left him gravely wounded.
• Zhen Yuanzi saw Hong Yun’s remaining traces trapped within the Eight Great Yao Marshals’ Heavenly Circuit Yao God Formation and summoned the Earth Book.
• The Earth Book manifested the Primordial World Earth, and Zhen Yuanzi’s pressure forced the Eight Great Yao Marshals to the ground.

After completing the Outer Sea Four Scriptures, Zhen Yuanzi reached the Perfection Primordial Golden Immortal realm and learned of Hong Yun’s death. He attacked Kunpeng, then threatened Di Jun and Tai Yi with war against the Yao Race Heavenly Court, leaving the two rulers shaken.

• Zhen Yuanzi completed the Outer Sea Four Scriptures and advanced to the Perfection Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
• Sensing Hong Yun’s death, Zhen Yuanzi struck Kunpeng with Earth Vein Power and shattered his defenses.
• Kunpeng split into a giant kun and a great Roc to escape, but both bodies suffered severe damage to their Dao foundations.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi arrived and protected the Roc with the River Diagram, Luo Book, and Eastern Emperor Bell.
• Zhen Yuanzi defied Di Jun and Tai Yi, threatening to wage war until the Yao Race Heavenly Court was destroyed.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi realized Zhen Yuanzi could turn the Primordial World’s Earth Veins against their forces and feared his threat.

After the Yao Race withdrew, Zhen Yuanzi blamed Jie Yin and Zhun Ti for secretly arranging Hong Yun’s death and attacked Mount Sumeru with the power of the Earth Book. The chapter ended with earth dragons, divine thunder, and countless mountains crashing toward the Western saints’ holy mountain.

• Tai Yi prepared to attack Zhen Yuanzi, but Di Jun restrained him and ordered the Yao Race to withdraw.
• Di Jun and the Yao Marshals retreated toward the Sun Star, taking Tai Yi, the Roc, and the Great Kun with them.
• Zhen Yuanzi accused Jie Yin and Zhun Ti of betraying Hong Yun and setting a trap that led to his death.
• Zhen Yuanzi unleashed the Earth Book’s power, sending Wutu Divine Thunder, nine earth dragons, and enormous mountains toward Mount Sumeru.

Zhen Yuanzi failed to break Mount Sumeru’s barrier, which Daoist Jie Yin and Daoist Zhun Ti empowered through two spiritual treasures. While he secretly set a plan in motion through the earth veins, powerful cultivators watched from across the Primordial World, and the chapter shifted to Di Jun and Tai Yi in the Yao Race Heavenly Court.

• The Six Roots Stabilizing Divine Rod and the Six Roots Pure Bamboo blocked Zhen Yuanzi’s assault on Mount Sumeru, then grew stronger when Daoist Jie Yin and Daoist Zhun Ti lent them their power.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized he could not break the barrier and secretly sent a ripple from the Earth Book, the Classic of Mountains and Seas, through the earth veins of famous mountains.
• Zhen Yuanzi renewed his attacks and accused Daoist Jie Yin and Daoist Zhun Ti of hiding behind their mountain stronghold while the ripple spread across the Primordial World.
• Powerful cultivators watched Zhen Yuanzi from places including the Northern Sea Palace, Zhen Wu Hall, Blood Sea Palace, Pangu Hall, and Dragon Moon City.
• The scene shifted to the Yao Race Heavenly Court, where Di Jun sat on the imperial throne and Tai Yi sat nearby with the Eastern Emperor Bell above his head.

Di Jun and Tai Yi grew alarmed at the Saints’ power and the Pangu Orthodox Lineage’s silence while the Yao Race Heavenly Court watched the conflict around Mount Sumeru. After five thousand years of seclusion at Biyu Palace, Xuanyuan emerged as Chaos Divine Light filled the Three Realms.

• Kunpeng mocked Zhen Yuanzi for failing to breach Mount Sumeru, while Di Jun and Tai Yi worried over the Two Sages of the West’s overwhelming power and independence.
• Xi He and Chang Xi warned Di Jun that the Pangu Orthodox Lineage’s silence suggested it was occupied with another plan or waiting for a pretext to act.
• Di Jun decided the Yao Race Heavenly Court would watch and wait rather than risk provoking the Pangu Orthodox Lineage.
• For five thousand years, the Three Pure Ones guarded Xuanyuan in seclusion at Biyu Palace as sword qi and merit qi concealed the palace.
• Xuanyuan opened his eyes as Chaos Divine Light burst from Biyu Palace and a ringing note of Dao resonance sounded.

Xuanyuan fused his body, primordial spirit, and laws to Prove Dao and reached the Third Heaven of Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, surpassing the other figures in the Primordial World. His brothers celebrated his achievement and reflected on how Hong Yun’s Hongmeng Purple Qi had completed his Dao foundation.

• Xuanyuan completed a Chaos World within the Chaos Pearl as his body, primordial spirit, and laws united in Proving Dao.
• Xuanyuan emerged from seclusion and manifested three chaos lotuses representing his body, primordial spirit, and laws, revealing his Third Heaven cultivation.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian reacted with shock and celebrated Xuanyuan’s achievement, recognizing him as unmatched in the Primordial World while Hongjun remained in seclusion.
• Tongtian lamented that he had not taken Jie Yin and Zhun Ti’s Hongmeng Purple Qi, but Laozi and Yuanshi warned that confronting Hongjun then would have been too dangerous.
• Tongtian congratulated Xuanyuan and recalled the Immortal-Slaying Four Swords and their formation diagram.

Xuanyuan completed his Dao and attained Hunyuan, then explained that Zhen Yuanzi’s five-thousand-year siege of Mount Sumeru was likely buying time rather than a futile assault. The chapter ends as Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian sense the Primordial World’s earth veins to discover what Zhen Yuanzi has been changing.

• Xuanyuan thanked Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian for guarding him while he perfected his Dao, and Candle Dragon congratulated him on attaining Hunyuan.
• Tongtian raised concern that Zhen Yuanzi remained locked in a stalemate with Jie Yin and Zhun Ti outside Mount Sumeru.
• Laozi showed the group a mirror revealing Zhen Yuanzi’s relentless attacks on Mount Sumeru and the devastation across the Western Land.
• Yuanshi warned that the Saints’ power could exhaust Zhen Yuanzi and leave him vulnerable, but Xuanyuan said Zhen Yuanzi was likely holding back and buying time.
• Candle Dragon realized Zhen Yuanzi might be using the siege to prepare something, and Xuanyuan urged the brothers to inspect the earth veins.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian spread their spiritual senses through the earth veins to compare the Primordial World with how it had been five thousand years earlier.

Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Xuanyuan realized Zhen Yuanzi had spent five thousand years linking the Primordial World’s earth veins and gathering the strength of its Earth Immortal Deities while attacking Mount Sumeru. Meanwhile, Jie Yin and Zhun Ti planned to let the assault continue until Hong Yun’s karmic debt was considered settled, then leave seclusion and try to convert Zhen Yuanzi to the Western Teachings.

• Yuanshi noticed that the earth veins and mountains across the Primordial World had grown more active and developed spiritual essence.
• Tongtian explained that Zhen Yuanzi had used the Earth Book to link the earth veins and mobilize the Earth Immortal Deities he appointed.
• Laozi and Yuanshi recognized that Zhen Yuanzi could soon draw on the whole Primordial World’s Earth Path to challenge Mount Sumeru.
• Xuanyuan said Zhen Yuanzi could keep venting his grief over Hong Yun, and promised to intervene if Jie Yin and Zhun Ti caused him harm.
• Zhun Ti proposed letting Zhen Yuanzi bombard Mount Sumeru until the Western Teachings’ karmic debt to Hong Yun appeared settled.
• Jie Yin said he was completing scriptures and a Vajra Method, after which he and Zhun Ti intended to leave seclusion and convert Zhen Yuanzi into a vice sect master.

After completing a cycle of merit, the Daoist guide demanded that Yuanshi join the Western teachings, but Yuanshi refused and was overwhelmed by the guide and Zhunti. As Yuanshi lay pinned, Lei Ze suspected that his hidden trump card might be stirring and resolved to help if needed.

• After forty-eight years, the Daoist guide completed 5,048 scrolls of merit, and Mount Yuanshi blazed with light as the Western Continent filled with golden lotuses.
• The Daoist guide offered Yuanshi the position of vice leader in the Western teachings, but Yuanshi rejected him and accused him of betraying Zhunti and breaking the Heavenly Dao's rules.
• The Daoist guide struck Yuanshi with a colossal golden palm, sending him flying and leaving him badly wounded.
• Zhunti appeared with the Buddhas and used 108 golden relics to pin Yuanshi in place, warning that they would send him to the Eastern Continent's underworld if he continued to resist.
• Watching from the eastern land, Lei Ze wondered whether Yuanshi's hidden trump card was connected to the Daoist Lord trapped in the Heavenly Continent's earth veins, and decided to help Yuanshi if necessary.

Yuanshi opened the World of Mountains and Seas and established the Earthly Immortal Continent of Mountains and Seas to preserve the Earthly Dao. As the Western Land’s saints drew near, the first mountain gods emerged to stabilize the new continent.

• Nether Lightning Demon Lord and Youban fled from the Western Land’s saints, while other Left Dao demons hid in terror.
• Yuanshi confronted Receive and Guide and Zhunti, declaring that he would complete his plan despite their obstruction.
• Yuanshi activated the eighteen volumes of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, opening the World of Mountains and Seas.
• Yuanshi proclaimed the Earthly Immortal Continent of Mountains and Seas, and hosts of earthly immortals answered his decree.
• The Mountain God of Mount Chongya emerged and steadied the earthly energy of the western lands.
• The Mountain God of Mount Buzhou emerged and anchored the continent’s foundations, followed by the Mountain God of Mount Shouyang.

Yuanshi gathered the Earth Immortal Divine Tribulations and the wilderness’s land qi to form a vast formation and a nine-headed giant. He used its power to attack the western realm, shattering Mount Fangcun’s protective light as the western saints struggled to respond.

• The Mountains and Rivers Divine Lord, Crane and Phoenix Divine Lord, and Nether Lightning Demon Lord took their places, joining the other Earth Immortal Divine Tribulations to anchor the continent.
• More than a thousand Daoist figures formed up beneath the six primal chaos Golden Immortals, and many broke through to the Great Firmament Golden Immortal realm.
• Yuanshi completed the Continent-Warding Formation, drawing on the wilderness’s terrestrial qi to make the continent manifest as a colossal nine-headed giant.
• Yuanshi commanded the giant to strike the western realm, and its first blow swept toward the star river.
• The giant’s second palm struck Mount Fangcun and shattered the protective light that had guarded the Great Leiyin Temple for five thousand years.

Yuanshi unleashed the Great Continent of the Earthly Immortals’ power at Mount Buzhou, beginning his attempt to establish the Earthly Dao and confronting the Daoist guide and Yuanshi’s companion. The Immortal King learned how to strengthen his own continent from the display, while the battle’s outcome remained unresolved as the Lightning Tribulation joined the clash.

• A giant palm struck Mount Buzhou, and the Immortal King sensed the power of the Great Continent of the Earthly Immortals from the Nether Sea.
• The Immortal King realized he could unite his continent’s origin with the Earthly Dao and began planning to integrate it with the Nether Sea’s Five Immortal Peaks.
• Yuanshi revealed the nine-headed giant formed from the Great Continent of the Earthly Immortals and declared his intent to establish the Earthly Dao.
• The Daoist guide transformed into his eighteen-armed, twenty-four-headed golden body and attacked Yuanshi with his staff, Bodhi seeds, and seven-treasure tree.
• Yuanshi summoned the power of the continent and called upon its mountain spirits, while the Lightning Tribulation poured its strength into the thunder tribulation from atop the altar.

Yuanshi used the Earthly Dao and the Primordial Continent to fight the Welcoming Daoist and Zhunti to a standstill, then refused their attempts to end the conflict. He trapped them with the Mountains and Rivers Scepter and announced that he would establish the Earthly Dao and become its saint.

• Yuanshi wielded Primal Chaos Divine Lightning, the Primordial Heaven-Shaking Sleeve, and the Earthly Dao to overpower the Welcoming Daoist and Zhunti in their seven-hundred-and-forty-nine-year war.
• Zhunti proposed a truce and promised that the Western teachings would help Daoist Ziyang if he were reborn, while the Welcoming Daoist threatened Yuanshi with the Demon Court’s support.
• Yuanshi spat his essence blood onto the Mountains and Rivers Scepter and used its dark-gold net to trap the Welcoming Daoist and Zhunti.
• Yuanshi called on the Daoist brothers through Heaven and Kunpeng to lend him their strength, then declared that he would establish the Earthly Dao and become its saint.

Xuanyuan revealed that he intended to use the sages’ blood to establish the Earthly Dao, then unveiled his enormous Chaos Ancestral Witch True Form at Mount Buzhou. As powerful figures across the wilderness gathered, he prepared to use the Heavenly Dao zither’s earth-born string to resonate with the Earthly Dao.

• Yuanshi realized Xuanyuan’s true aim was to establish the Earthly Dao and create a new path through the wilderness ruled by the Dao of Heaven.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian reacted with shock to Xuanyuan’s plan, while Tongtian praised him for pursuing it.
• Xuanyuan transformed into his twelve trillion six hundred million feet tall Chaos Ancestral Witch True Form, and his aura shook the wilderness.
• The Queen Mother of the West, the Goddess of the Sun, and Di Jun sensed Xuanyuan’s power and reacted with astonishment.
• Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, Xuan Ming, Gonggong, Qiangliang, and Tianwu rushed to support Xuanyuan, while Houtu and other powerful figures headed toward Mount Buzhou.
• Xuanyuan summoned his treasures, enlarged the Heavenly Dao zither, and drew its earth-born string with a Divine Bow, causing it to resonate with the wilderness’s Earthly Dao.

Xuanyuan’s earth-powered arrow killed Jieyin, making him the first saint to fall, while Zhunti escaped into chaos. In the aftermath, Yuanshi and Xuanyuan recognized the weakened Heavenly Dao as an opening to establish Earthly Dao, which grew rapidly on the power released by Jieyin’s death.

• Xuanyuan fired an arrow infused with the power of the wilderness’s earthly veins at the dying Gonggong, but it struck Jieyin and broke through his defenses.
• The arrow shattered Jieyin’s Golden Body and soul, killing the saint as Zhunti watched.
• Zhunti self-detonated his Golden Body, broke free of the earthly veins, and fled into chaos.
• The wilderness dimmed as blood rain fell and Heaven mourned Jieyin’s death.
• Yuanshi and Xuanyuan discussed establishing Earthly Dao while the Heavenly Dao was weakened, and Tongtian and Gonggong vowed to face the coming threat.
• Yuanshi absorbed the energy released by Jieyin’s fall, strengthening the Human Dao and allowing Earthly Dao to grow until its aura rivaled the Heavenly Dao.

Yuanshi completed the Earthly Dao framework and became a new sage, while Xuanyuan’s arrow killed a Heavenly Dao sage. Xuanyuan revealed that a powerful enemy was hiding in the western lands, and Tongtian and the old sage suspected it was the Chaos Patriarch.

• After five thousand years of seclusion, Yuanshi completed the Earthly Dao framework and reached Earthly Dao sagehood.
• Tongtian and Heaven-Connecting Sage praised Yuanshi after he killed a Heavenly Dao sage with one arrow.
• The old sage asked Xuanyuan why he had not used another arrow to kill Zhunti, and Xuanyuan explained that he sensed a greater threat in the west.
• Xuanyuan warned that a hidden enemy could exploit the coming great tribulation and trap him and his brothers.
• Tongtian and the old sage recognized the chaotic aura Xuanyuan described and suspected the hidden enemy was the Chaos Patriarch.

Yuanshi and the others identified the hidden old Ancestor of the West as a powerful threat and opened a passage to attack his secret realm. Zhurong stayed behind to guard Buzhou Mountain as the others entered the West, where the hidden realm of the Primordial Embryo was revealed.

• Yuanshi and the others concluded that the old Ancestor of the West had hidden his immense power and was likely responsible for repeatedly ambushing Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Tongtian and Yuanshi agreed that the old Ancestor had to be killed before he became a greater threat.
• Yuanshi opened a passage to the West with the Heaven-Shaking Seal, and Tongtian, Taishang, Nuwa, Fuxi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches followed him through.
• Zhurong remained behind to guard Buzhou Mountain and promised to help if the others suffered a calamity.
• The passage closed, and a secret realm hidden deep in the West was shown, concealed even from the Primordial Embryo's own Primordial Dao fragments.

Qiankun Ancestor revealed his ambition to devour the Primordial World’s great Daos and use heaven, earth, and all living beings to nourish his own Qiankun. Xuanyuan broke into his secret realm to confront him, leaving Qiankun Ancestor shocked.

• Qiankun Ancestor watched Kunlun Mountain and blamed Xuanyuan for killing his disciple, ruining his plans, and exposing his aura to the Heavenly Dao.
• Qiankun Ancestor resolved to wait until the Heavenly Dao, Earth Path, and Human Path had grievously wounded one another before pursuing his plan to devour their Daos.
• Qiankun Ancestor dismissed Daoist Jie Yin’s death as an acceptable loss and treated even the Two Sages of the West as pawns.
• Xuanyuan announced that he would settle everything with Qiankun Ancestor, then used the Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler to break through the secret realm’s barriers.
• Xuanyuan entered in his Chaos Ancestral Shaman True Form, and Qiankun Ancestor sprang up in disbelief that Xuanyuan had found his realm.

Yuanshi tracked down the Old Ancestor of the Heavenly Dao and attacked him with Primal Chaos Divine Lightning, breaking through his Heavenly Dao Seal and gravely wounding him. The Old Ancestor used the Heavenly Dao Cauldron and Diagram to resist, but Yuanshi gained the upper hand and left him faltering under a relentless assault.

• Yuanshi used his mastery of space and cause and effect to locate the Old Ancestor of the Heavenly Dao despite the Heavenly Dao Diagram's concealment.
• Yuanshi unleashed Primal Chaos Divine Lightning, shattering the Old Ancestor's Heavenly Dao Seal and sending him crashing into the void's barrier.
• The Heavenly Dao Cauldron intervened with barriers that weakened the lightning, though the Old Ancestor was still gravely wounded.
• Yuanshi charged the Old Ancestor, striking with his fist while wielding the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler against the Heavenly Dao Cauldron.
• The Old Ancestor trapped Yuanshi with the Heavenly Dao Diagram and fought back, but Yuanshi's combined strength overwhelmed him and left him barely able to hold on.