Chapter Summaries

Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian sealed off the Primordial Ancestor as they prepared to suppress him. In chaos, Haotian and Yaochi answered the Dao Ancestor’s summons, rescued Zhunti, and brought his battered primordial spirit to Zixiao Palace.

• Laozi and Yuanshi sealed the Primordial Ancestor and blocked his routes of escape while they waited for a chance to capture him.
• Tongtian and the Twelve Golden Immortals prepared the Four Swords of Zhuxian and the Great Formation of the Gods of the Heavens to obstruct the Primordial Ancestor.
• The Dao Ancestor ordered Haotian and Yaochi to bring the Chaos Golden Immortal into Zixiao Palace.
• Haotian and Yaochi revealed that they had advanced to the Chaos Golden Immortal realm and found Zhunti’s fading primordial spirit in chaos.
• Haotian used the jade bottle’s innate spiritual energy to repair Zhunti’s primordial spirit, and he and Yaochi carried Zhunti back to Zixiao Palace.

Zhun Ti begged Dao Ancestor Hongjun to restore him and Jie Yin, and Hongjun used Heavenly Dao to revive both Western sages. After paying a heavy price in Heavenly Dao origin, Hongjun declared that the Earth Path must not be established.

• Zhun Ti prostrated himself before Hongjun and pleaded for his and Jie Yin’s restoration, blaming Xuanyuan for their ruin.
• Hongjun drew Jie Yin’s remaining primordial spirit mark from the Heavenly Dao and rebuilt his saintly body and Dao fruit.
• Hongjun used Heavenly Dao divine light to restore Zhun Ti’s body, Dao foundation, and saintly cultivation.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti thanked Hongjun as he silently reckoned that reviving them had consumed thirty percent of Heavenly Dao’s harvest from the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, enriching the Earth Path.
• Hongjun declared that the Earth Path must not be established.

Hongjun Dao Ancestor decided to send his true form into the Wilderness to stop Yuanshi from establishing the Earthly Dao and reclaim the fate it had taken from Heaven. Jieyin and Zhunti, reassured by Hongjun’s decision, prepared to use his power to take revenge on Yuanshi and the ancient orthodox sects.

• Hongjun Dao Ancestor saw Yuanshi’s establishment of the Earthly Dao as a threat to Heavenly Dao authority and planned to exploit the approaching conflict between the demonic and immortal factions.
• Jieyin and Zhunti feared that confronting Yuanshi and the ancient orthodox sects could destroy the Western Sect, especially after Hongjun’s clone had been defeated before.
• Hongjun Dao Ancestor announced that he would send his true form into the Wilderness to prevent the Earthly Dao from being established.
• Jieyin and Zhunti rejoiced, believing Hongjun’s true form would possess enough power to defeat Yuanshi and his allies.
• Jieyin and Zhunti vowed to use Hongjun’s support to destroy Yuanshi and punish the ancient orthodox sects.

Xuanyuan confronted Yuanshi in the Secret Realm after accusing him of plotting to seize the Primordial Origin Embryo. He combined the Pangu Axe and Three Treasures Jade Ruyi to unleash his ultimate technique, the Three Lights, One Strike, as cultivators watched outside.

• Xuanyuan arrived in the wilderness with Jieyin and Zhunti following him, both coveting the great treasures held by the Dao Ancestor and the other sages.
• At the Secret Realm entrance, Xuanyuan faced Yuanshi and accused him of secretly plotting to seize the Primordial Origin Embryo and ruin his plans.
• Xuanyuan summoned the Pangu Axe and raised the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, joining their powers with the laws of slaughter, devouring, and destruction.
• Xuanyuan unleashed the Three Lights, One Strike, sending a three-colored axe-shaped beam through the Secret Realm as its space cracked and collapsed.

Xuanyuan fought the supreme Chaos Demon God, who unleashed his true body and powerful treasures after the Chaos Cauldron was knocked away. As the Demon God reversed the laws of the domain and tried to swallow Xuanyuan in a universe held in his palm, Xuanyuan recognized the source of a later Buddhist divine ability.

• The Chaos Demon God sent the Chaos Cauldron crashing away with the combined force of the three supreme techniques and the Three-Star True Word of Destruction.
• The Chaos Demon God revealed his thousand-li-tall true body and expanded his Chaos Domain.
• The Chaos Demon God attacked Xuanyuan with the Chaos Fan and opened the Chaos Diagram to trap him in its thirty-six worlds.
• The Chaos Demon God reversed heaven and earth, dimming Xuanyuan's techniques and stripping away some of the Ancestral Shaman's power.
• The Chaos Demon God used Chaos in the Palm to draw Xuanyuan toward a universe in his hand, and Xuanyuan recognized it as the source of the Buddha's Palm.

Xuanyuan used his supreme treasures and divine abilities to break Yuanshi’s defenses and deal a devastating blow, wrecking the Ancestor of Yuanshi’s body and Dao foundation. Cornered and furious, the Ancestor of Yuanshi unleashed the Chaos Demon God essence blood he had saved as his final trump card.

• Xuanyuan used the Imperial Seal and Four Symbols Jade Fans to repel Yuanshi’s attacks, shatter his fan, and wound him.
• Xuanyuan rang the Death Bell of the Yuanshi Clan to break out of Yuanshi’s World of Chaos.
• Xuanyuan struck Yuanshi with the Heaven-Splitting Ruler, splitting his body and damaging his World of Chaos and Dao foundation.
• Xuanyuan pierced the Ancestor of Yuanshi’s chest and unleashed Soul Devouring, Swallowing Heaven, and Shattering the Dao, breaking his body and severely wounding him.
• The Ancestor of Yuanshi recalled his plan to rebuild the West’s destiny and become a great Dao demon god, then vowed to kill Xuanyuan.
• The Ancestor of Yuanshi released the Chaos Demon God essence blood he had kept as his final trump card, causing the Dao Palace to tremble.

The ancestor of Buzhou used the life-consuming Nine-Turn Chaos Method to raise his cultivation and launch a devastating attack on Yuanshi. Xuanyuan’s avatar was shattered, but the Lotus Seed of Creation and the Great World White Lotus protected Yuanshi’s core origin from the chaos.

• The ancestor of Buzhou sacrificed his origin essence blood and Dao foundation to break through to the pinnacle of the fifth tier of the Chaos Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• The ancestor of Buzhou poured his power into the Chaos Cauldron and hurled it at Yuanshi’s ancestral avatar, while Xuanyuan and the others gathered their treasures to defend themselves.
• The cauldron’s strike shattered the secret realm and blew apart Xuanyuan’s avatar, scattering his body and primordial spirit into blood mist.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jiang Ziya, Jiujiu, and the twelve ancestral gods prepared to attack from outside the secret realm as the ancestor of Buzhou laughed over the blood mist.
• A river of time appeared and carried the Pangu banner and Lotus Seed of Creation into the blood mist, where the Lotus Seed protected Yuanshi’s origin and the Great World White Lotus purified the chaos around him.

Xuanyuan’s shattered spirit and body were restored through the Thirty-Sixth-Grade Chaos Green Lotus, as allies supplied treasures and Dao Rhymes to stabilize its rebirth. The Ancestral Witch lost control of his treasures and power, while Xuanyuan’s body was reconstructed stronger than before.

• The three Pure Jade Ruyi Scepters and other spiritual treasures gathered around the lotus seed, binding Xuanyuan’s scattered primordial spirit and restoring his soul.
• Tongtian sent the Green Duckweed Banner, the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ seals, and their treasures into the secret realm, helping the Chaos Green Lotus’s origin take shape.
• Houtu and Goumang sent their Five-Colored Banners into the Green Lotus of Creation, shielding the lotus seed and restoring its life force.
• The combined treasures and Dao Rhymes formed the phantom of the Thirty-Sixth-Grade Chaos Green Lotus, calming chaos and harmonizing Pangu’s lineage with Xuanyuan’s bloodline.
• The Ancestral Witch’s cauldron and Chaos World fell silent before the Chaos Green Lotus’s primordial source, leaving him unable to unleash his power.
• Xuanyuan activated the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art and rebuilt his immense Ancestral Witch body from his primordial essence and blood, restoring his power in an even purer form.

Xuanyuan reforged his divine soul and body after surviving the Primordial Chaos Annihilation Lotus, reaching the peak of the forty-seventh level of the Nine Revolutions Profound Art. He killed the weakened old ancestor with the Soul-Slaying Spear, ending the ancient foe’s third life.

• Xuanyuan restored his shattered divine soul and merged it with his ancestral body, advancing his physical cultivation to the fourth level of the Primordial Chaos Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nüwa, Zhenyuanzi, and the other ancestral gods rejoiced as Xuanyuan recovered and prepared to fight alongside him if needed.
• Xuanyuan sealed the old ancestor in place and declared that he would pay for plotting against his brothers and coveting the Primordial Spirit Spring.
• The old ancestor launched two desperate seals and charged Xuanyuan, but Xuanyuan shattered the attacks with the Heaven-Measure Ruler.
• Xuanyuan pierced the old ancestor’s divine soul core with the Soul-Slaying Spear, destroying his Dao foundation and ending his third life.

Xuanyuan defeated Pangu and imprisoned his primordial spirit in his chaotic world, then claimed Pangu’s three treasures and gave the Primordial Chaos Green Lotus to Emperor Jiang for the Dao Ancestors to study. He revealed Zhunti condensing a unique Earthly Dao Fruit that could make him an immortal Earthly Dao spokesperson equal to Hongjun.

• Xuanyuan saved Pangu’s primordial spirit from dissipating and imprisoned it in his chaotic world, where Pangu could neither escape nor die.
• Xuanyuan claimed the Pangu Axe, Pangu Diagram, and Pangu Fan, and the arriving Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nüwa, Fuxi, and Dao Ancestors praised him for defeating Pangu.
• Xuanyuan gave the Primordial Chaos Green Lotus to Emperor Jiang so the Dao Ancestors could study its chaotic world and the Great Daos of Space and Strength.
• Xuanyuan displayed a vision of Zhunti refining the golden lotus seed and demon-subduing staff beneath Mount Sumeru as an Earthly Dao Fruit formed.
• Xuanyuan revealed that Zhunti’s Earthly Dao Fruit could establish the Earthly Dao alongside the Heavenly Dao and Human Dao, making Zhunti a potential equal to Hongjun.

As Yuanshi neared completion of his Earthly Dao fruit, Xuanyuan and the others formed a Great Pangu Formation and summoned a formidable ancient true body. Hongjun descended and launched a killing blow at Yuanshi, leaving the Earthly Dao’s fate in immediate danger.

• The prehistoric world’s vitality poured into Yuanshi as his Earthly Dao fruit approached completion, and Xuanyuan warned that Hongjun would intervene.
• Laozi, Tongtian, Nüwa, Zhurong, Houtu, and the other Twelve Ancestral Witches joined Xuanyuan to form the Great Pangu Formation with fourteen Pangu Banners.
• The fourteen merged their origins and manifested an ancient true body whose power astonished Laozi and Yuanshi.
• Heavenly signs spread across the western continent as Hongjun descended and fixed his attention on Yuanshi.
• Hongjun struck Yuanshi with the full might of the Heavenly Dao, aiming to shatter his Dao fruit and destroy the nascent Earthly Dao.

The Dao Ancestor arrived in his true body and shattered Pangu’s Heavenly Dao barrier with a Heaven-Opening Axe strike, while observers judged the primeval Orthodox Sect likely to lose. The chapter left the Five Elements Ancestor alarmed by the Dao Ancestor’s personal intervention.

• Pangu’s true body split the Creation Jade Disc’s Heavenly Dao barrier, then appeared behind Yuanshi at Five Lotus View as Jieyin and Zhunti celebrated.
• Ning Su and the Supreme Sovereign watched the clash from the Lunar Star, and Ning Su predicted that the primeval Orthodox Sect would likely suffer defeat.
• The Supreme Sovereign welcomed the possibility that the Dao Ancestor would suppress the Orthodox Sects and remove the Heavenly Court’s greatest obstacle.
• The Five Elements Ancestor sensed the Dao Ancestor’s arrival from his secret realm and reacted with dread.

Xuanyuan, now a Dao Ancestor, fought the Primordial Ancient true body and gained the upper hand with Purple Firmament Divine Thunder. The Western King Mother resolved to strengthen herself amid the coming upheaval, while Zhunti urged the wounded Yuanshi and Tongtian to surrender.

• The Five Elements Ancestor and Western King Mother sensed Xuanyuan's terrifying power and feared the Primordial Ancient Sect's defeat.
• The Western King Mother celebrated reaching the third level of Heavenly Dao Sainthood, then witnessed Xuanyuan's aura and renewed her resolve to protect the Western Land.
• Xuanyuan confronted the Primordial Ancient true body, which had combined Yuanshi, Tongtian, and the Primordial Spirits of the Twelve Ancestors.
• Yuanshi countered Xuanyuan's Purple Firmament Divine Thunder with fused Heavenly and Chaos Divine Thunders, but Xuanyuan's attack broke through and tore open the true body's chest.
• Zhunti shouted at Yuanshi and Tongtian to kneel and accept their sentence as Xuanyuan's true body descended.

The old man and Yuanshi infused the Tower of Heaven and Earth and their Primordial Axe into Xuanyuan’s phantom axe, greatly restoring its power against Zhunti. After the axe broke through Zhunti’s heavenly barrier and reclaimed much of its suppressed root, the brothers joined Xuanyuan and Tongtian in trapping Zhunti and Welcoming with no way to escape.

• Welcoming and Zhunti accused Xuanyuan and Yuanshi of defying Heaven, enraging the old man and Yuanshi.
• The old man and Yuanshi sent the Tower of Heaven and Earth and their Primordial Axe to Xuanyuan, who merged their origins into the phantom axe.
• Xuanyuan’s axe became a massive, powerful weapon that contained the forces of chaos and the stabilized laws of the four elements.
• Zhunti raised a wall of heavenly power against Xuanyuan’s strike, but the axe smashed through it and reclaimed more than half of its suppressed root.
• Welcoming and Zhunti accused the old man and Yuanshi of betraying the Dao Ancestor, and Yuanshi threatened to cut down their divine souls.
• The old man and Yuanshi seized Welcoming and Zhunti from either side, cutting off every avenue of escape.

Laozi and Yuanshi cornered Jie Yin and Zhun Ti with powerful treasures, forcing the Western Saints to flee toward the Yao Race Heavenly Court. There, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi struggled to restrain the ringing Eastern Emperor Bell as it was pulled toward the west.

• Laozi unfurled the Wordless Heavenly Book, disrupting Jie Yin and Zhun Ti's connection to the Heavenly Dao.
• Yuanshi drew the Immortal-Slaying and God-Executing Saber and locked its killing intent onto Jie Yin and Zhun Ti.
• Seeing that Hongjun could not help them and that they had no weapons, Jie Yin and Zhun Ti fled toward the Yao Race Heavenly Court Beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• At the Sun Star, Eastern Emperor Tai Yi pressed down on the Eastern Emperor Bell as it rang and strained toward the western Primordial World.

The Grand Supreme Lord and the demon emperor activated the Heavenly Cycle Star Battle Formation to defend the demon court against the Primordial orthodox sects. As the formation began to envelop the Great Wilderness, the two battered Western Daoists struck its barrier with their guiding platforms.

• The Grand Supreme Lord warned the demon emperor that he could force open the starry expanse, but might not withstand the Western Daoist's Primordial True Body.
• The demon emperor agreed to activate the Heavenly Cycle Star Battle Formation and ordered the demon court to prepare for war.
• The Grand Supreme Lord issued orders for Bai Ze, Yingzhao, the demon marshals, the Great Luo Golden Immortals, and the Heavenly Immortals to take their assigned positions.
• The demon troops and immortals raised the star banners, and the Grand Supreme Lord used the Milky Way and Purple Tenuity Star Lord's authority to establish the formation across the Great Wilderness.
• The two battered Western Daoists sent their guiding platforms crashing into the star-power barrier as the formation was still taking shape.

Di Jun refused to let Jie Yin and Zhun Ti into the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array, then used its power to create Emperor's Essence and strengthen the Yao Race's fortune. The Eastern Emperor Bell steadied as the Essence infused it, while Emperor's Essence spread across the Primordial World.

• Di Jun refused Jie Yin and Zhun Ti shelter in the array, and Tai Yi supported his decision to protect the Yao Race and the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• Laozi and Yuanshi caught up with Jie Yin and Zhun Ti, who fled into Chaos; the two saints pursued them.
• Tai Yi warned that the Sky-Opening Axe's origin was pulling the Eastern Emperor Bell away, and Di Jun proposed strengthening their fortune with Emperor's Essence.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi activated the array, drawing Moonlight from the Moon Star and refining it with starlight and True Sun Fire into Emperor's Essence.
• Emperor's Essence rained across the Primordial World, flowed to major Yao tribes, and entered the Eastern Emperor Bell, easing its trembling.

Newly formed demons worshiped the moon and poured their fortune into the Heavenly Court, strengthening Yuanshi and the Supreme One while seizing the Five Immortals of Penglai’s foothold. The Five Elements Ancestor warned the Primordial Emperor that the calamity was only beginning, then revealed that the two Primordial Court ministers were already dead and that a fortunate young man’s Earthly Dao had been overlooked.

• Across the Primordial Land, newly formed demons gathered to worship the moon and pledged themselves to Yuanshi and the Supreme One.
• The demons’ fortune surged into the Heavenly Court, helping suppress the Primordial Emperor’s fortune and stabilize the Zhou Tian Star-Dipper Continent.
• The demon race occupied lands under the Five Immortals of Penglai and seized much of their incense, worship, and resources.
• The Primordial Emperor raged as his fortune and the Five Immortals of Penglai’s influence dwindled, but the Five Elements Ancestor advised him to keep a low profile rather than start a war.
• The Five Elements Ancestor warned that the Heavenly Court would eventually reckon with the two Primordial Court ministers and revealed that they were already dead, while a fortunate young man’s Earthly Dao had been missed.

The Five Elements Ancestor abandoned his plans to reclaim the Primordial Orthodox Sect and ordered the Immortal Court to retreat to the Five Peaks of Penglai. After forty-nine days of battle, Yuanshi completed his Earthly Dao Great Dao Fruit and proclaimed that the Earthly Dao would stand as a peer to the Heavenly Dao.

• The Five Elements Ancestor explained that Yuanshi’s rise and the Primordial Ancestor’s battle with the Heavenly Dao had ruined his plans to become an Earthly Dao saint.
• The Five Elements Ancestor ordered the Immortal Court’s forces to withdraw to the Five Peaks of Penglai and remain in seclusion, and the Netherworld King issued the recall.
• The Primordial Ancestor held back the Heavenly Dao’s power for forty-nine days while Yuanshi fought above the Western lands.
• As a lunar eclipse covered the Wilderness, Yuanshi gathered the land’s veins and the power of the sacred mountains into his nearly completed Earthly Dao fruit.
• Yuanshi recited his declaration of the Earthly Dao, completed his Great Dao Fruit, and proclaimed, “I’ve become the Dao!”

Zhen Yuanzi established the Earth Path and gained the Heaven-Earth Treasure Mirror, challenging Hongjun’s control of the Primordial World. As Hongjun prepared to destroy the Western Land, Luohu arrived to exploit his unstable Dao heart.

• Zhen Yuanzi formed his Earth Dao fruit, established the Earth Path, and became a Hunyuan Saint beyond Hongjun’s control.
• Great Dao merit created the Heaven-Earth Treasure Mirror and strengthened the Earth Path and the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
• Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Path’s authority to reclaim more than thirty percent of the Heavenly Dao’s control over the Primordial World Earth.
• Hongjun summoned his obsession corpse and evil-thought corpse, then prepared to destroy the Western Land and extinguish the Earth Path.
• Luohu broke through the Primordial World’s barrier and appeared above Mount Sumeru, intending to exploit Hongjun’s faltering Dao heart.