Chapter Summaries

Ying Zheng and Immortal Qin faced Haotian and Yuanshi’s allied Heavenly Court and Chan Sect forces in a devastating battle, while the sages watched without intervening. With both sides near collapse, Ying Zheng gathered the Human Dao Destiny for one final assault on Heaven.

• Sage Taiqing, Sect Master Tongtian, Empress Nuwa, and Empress Houtu chose to watch the battle, while Lu Yuan saw that none of the sages intended to intervene.
• Haotian and Immortal Elder Nanji led the assembled Heavenly Court and Chan Sect forces against Xianyang as Ying Zheng activated the Twelve Golden Men, opened the Human Dao Forbidden Domain, and assumed his Human Emperor true form.
• Haotian and the Great Formation of the Stars attacked Xianyang, while Yuanshi ordered Guangchengzi and True Person Taiyi to unleash Yuqing sword light against Ying Zheng.
• Ying Zheng destroyed Guangchengzi and True Person Taiyi, defeated the attacking Chan Sect Golden Immortals, broke Immortal Elder Nanji’s Myriad Longevity Formation, and fought Haotian until both were gravely wounded.
• As the Twelve Golden Men and Qin Army ghost soldiers neared destruction, Ying Zheng summoned the Human Dao Torrent and called on his forces to strike at Heaven.

Ying Zheng led the Qin Army in an assault on the Heavenly Court, destroyed the Primordial Heavenly Demon, and died as the Human Dao’s power faded. His true spirit vanished into the Land of Eternal Tribulation, while Yuanshi Tianzun suffered backlash and raged over the destruction of his Evil Corpse and the ruin of the Chan Sect.

• Ying Zheng and the million Qin Army spirits stormed the South Heaven Gate, killing Heavenly Court forces and turning the court into a battlefield.
• Ying Zheng shattered Haotian’s Haotian Mirror and annihilated the Primordial Heavenly Demon with the Sword of Tai'e, while Haotian was left gravely wounded.
• Ying Zheng found the Qin Army’s leaders and Immortal Qin’s great powers dead or gravely wounded, then began to disintegrate before Lingxiao Palace.
• Ying Zheng’s true spirit plunged into the Land of Eternal Tribulation, and the Immortal Qin lineage’s pillar of Human Dao Destiny collapsed.
• Lu Yuan declared that Ying Zheng would return as long as the Human Dao’s spark endured.
• Yuanshi Tianzun suffered Human Dao backlash from the Evil Corpse’s destruction and discovered that nearly all of the Chan Sect’s disciples had perished.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate erased the Immortal Qin Dao Lineage and nearly unleashed further destruction, but Lu Yuan intervened through the Profound Yellow Gate and forced him to stop. Lu Yuan reflected on how the fall of the Xia Hou Clan’s Sage Dynasty had changed Yuanshi, while Ying Zheng remained destined to return from the Land of Eternal Tribulation.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate used the Pangu Banner to erase Xianyang and every existence bound by karma to the Immortal Qin Dao Lineage.
• Lu Yuan witnessed the destruction and realized Ying Zheng’s eventual return would bring another reckoning with Yuanshi and the Chan Sect.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s rage grew as he surveyed the Chan Sect’s losses and raised the Pangu Banner against the mortal realm.
• Lu Yuan manifested the Profound Yellow Gate in Yuxu Palace and warned Yuanshi that further attacks would violate the Heavenly Dao and human Dao.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sensed the other saints watching and restrained the Pangu Banner, while Lu Yuan withdrew his power.
• Lu Yuan considered how the fall of the Xia Hou Clan’s Sage Dynasty and the return of the Nine Tripods had led Yuanshi to despise those he considered improperly born and shallow-rooted.

After the Immortal Qin Dao Lineage collapsed, Saints and powerful cultivators backed rival leaders as a new struggle for the Human Dao began. Lu Yuan stayed out of the contest to pursue the Other Shore Universe, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate turned his attention to taking control of the Heavenly Court; the chapter ended with only Immortal Lord Qing Li retaining hope of attaining the Dao among Lu Yuan’s three disciples.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate held back from confronting the other Saints as the fall of Immortal Qin left the Human Dao Destiny unclaimed.
• Sage Taiqing empowered Liu Bang, Jieyin and Zhunti laid Buddhist karma upon Xiang Yu, and Tongtian strengthened Chen Sheng’s rebellion with Shangqing sword intent.
• Nuwa healed the devastated human world, while Houtu stabilized reincarnation in the Netherworld.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate chose to exploit Haotian’s injuries and the Saints’ focus on the Human Dao to erode the Heavenly Court for the Chan Sect.
• Lu Yuan declined to enter the Human Dao struggle and focused instead on the opportunity in the Other Shore Universe.
• The chapter revealed that Qing Shuang had died pursuing Dao Lord attainment and reincarnated, Qing Yang was hindered by an inner demon, and only Qing Li still had hope of attaining the Dao.

Lu Yuan preached the Great Dao to strengthen Dao Xuan Heaven and secretly identify infiltrators, while continuing to delay his Hunyuan breakthrough until the right moment. His sermon eased the Fate Faction’s suspicions, and Great Dao Lord Taishi also began to lower his guard.

• Lu Yuan watched over Qing Li, Qing Yang, and the reincarnated Qing Shuang, then sent protection to Qing Li and A Shuang as he considered his disciples’ paths.
• Lu Yuan summoned Dao Xuan Heaven’s disciples to the Profound Abyss Dao Platform and preached the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune.
• During the sermon, Lu Yuan detected hidden agents from the Fate Faction and the Innate Dao Lord, and decided to mark them so he could track their schemes.
• The disciples gained insight from the hundred-year sermon, while Lu Yuan’s cultivation grew steadier and the barrier to Hunyuan Master grew thinner; he chose not to break through yet.
• Primordial Great Dao Lord judged Lu Yuan to lack Hunyuan potential and ordered the agents to keep monitoring him rather than attack.
• Great Dao Lord Taishi listened to the sermon and gradually lost some of his wariness toward Lu Yuan.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Devil Ancestor Rahula saw through Lu Yuan’s disguise as an Innate Dao Lord and visited him at the Profound Abyss Heavenly Palace. Rahula proposed that they join forces to break the Fate Rule Net and return to the Primordial Wilderness, while Taiyi argued that they should first build their strength and pursue opportunities in the Other Shore.

• Great Dao Lord Taishi and Tianxu Dao Lord judged that Lu Yuan’s Dao of Tribulation Fortune lacked the foundation to reach Hunyuan and ordered continued monitoring.
• Dao Lord Moyan and Star Vault Dao Lord likewise dismissed Lu Yuan as a potential Hunyuan figure, but Eastern Emperor Taiyi recognized that he was concealing his true strength.
• Taiyi sent a Saintly Thought to Dao Xuan Heaven, and Rahula followed with one of his own after learning of Moyan’s judgment.
• Taiyi and Rahula appeared before Lu Yuan in the Profound Abyss Heavenly Palace and revealed that they knew he was a Hunyuan Sage hiding as an Innate Dao Lord.
• Lu Yuan explained that he intended to use the Other Shore’s Fate Rule Net and its tribulations to break through, while Rahula urged them to join forces and return to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Taiyi objected that returning too soon would cost them the Other Shore’s opportunities and their chance at the Hunyuan Limitless Dao Fruit.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate persuaded Sage Taiqing to join him in confronting Tongtian at Jiepai Pass, where Tongtian had raised the Zhu Xian Sword Formation against the other teachings. After Taiqing’s choice convinced Tongtian that his senior brother had betrayed him, the three Saints’ forces clashed, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Taiqing entered the formation to seek its Formation Eye.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate told Sage Taiqing that Tongtian had formed the Zhu Xian Sword Formation and urged him to claim the Intercepting Sect’s destiny for their Dao paths.
• Sage Taiqing agreed to go to Jiepai Pass and sent the Taiji Diagram’s power toward Tongtian’s formation as the two Saints traveled there.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Sage Taiqing arrived with the Chan Sect and Western Teachings as Tongtian emerged from the formation with the Jie Sect’s disciples.
• The three Saints’ opposing auras tore open a vast rift in the sky, injuring disciples from all three teachings.
• Tongtian rejected Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s demand to withdraw the formation and, believing Taiqing had sided against him, returned inside as the Jie Sect disciples strengthened its four sword gates.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Sage Taiqing entered the Zhu Xian Sword Formation together to search for its Formation Eye.

Lu Yuan killed the three Fate Faction Dao Lords attacking Dao Xuan Heaven, purged their spies, and began hunting every cultivator who controlled the laws of Tribulation Fortune. After defeating many Dao Lords, he confronted Constellation Dao Lord, whose domain he crushed with his own.

• Lu Yuan slew Tianxu, Heavenly Seal, and Heavenly Suppression, then destroyed the remaining army trapped in the Tribulation Fortune Dao Domain.
• Lu Yuan used the Tribulation Fortune Karma Art to find and kill spies in Dao Xuan Heaven, then sent Qing Li and Qing Yang to clear agents among affiliated forces.
• Lu Yuan traced the hidden agents to Fate Heavenly Palace and wiped out the Fate Faction’s spies throughout Taisu Heaven.
• Lu Yuan traveled across the Other Shore Universe, killing Dao Lords of Tribulation Fortune and refining the laws they controlled, including those of Black Wind Dao Lord.
• Lu Yuan confronted Constellation Dao Lord in Constellation Sea and crushed his disorderly Tribulation Fortune domain with his own before swinging the Nine Calamity Sword.

Lu Yuan defeated Constellation Dao Lord, unified the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune, and made Dao Xuan Heaven its sacred origin. After resisting Daoist Tian Yuan’s Hunyuan will, Lu Yuan broke through to the Great Dao Lord realm, leaving the Other Shore Universe to sense his new power.

• Lu Yuan killed Constellation Dao Lord and refined the Tribulation Fortune Dao Laws, uniting the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune under the Dao Xuan lineage.
• Lu Yuan returned to Dao Xuan Heaven, which became the sacred origin ground of the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune, while the Primordial Great Dao Lord and the Fate Faction feared his growing strength.
• Daoist Tian Yuan sent a thread of Hunyuan will to attack Dao Xuan Heaven, and Lu Yuan used the Profound Yellow Gate, the Nine Calamity Sword, and his Dao Domain to shatter it.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi and demon ancestor Rahula watched the battle from afar and chose not to intervene, expecting the trial to aid Lu Yuan’s breakthrough.
• Lu Yuan used the pressure of the Hunyuan will to fuse his Dao Laws and break through into the Great Dao Lord realm, releasing his power across the Other Shore Universe.

After Lu Yuan broke through to the Great Dao Lord realm, Qing Yang overcame his Inner Demon long enough to attain the Golden Immortal realm and defend Dao Xuan Heaven through years of war. When grief and desperation later drove him to force another breakthrough, Lu Yuan intervened and helped him recognize that his Dao lay in protecting others, not obsessing over power.

• Lu Yuan entered the Great Dao Lord realm, while Rahula and Eastern Emperor Taiyi blocked Daoist Tian Yuan from attacking him.
• Inspired by Lu Yuan, Qing Yang suppressed his Inner Demon and, with Lu Yuan's protection, condensed a Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Qing Yang and Qing Li fought the Fate Faction's armies as Dao Xuan Heaven endured years of war, and Qing Yang rose to the peak of the Golden Immortal realm.
• During a surprise attack, Qing Li was gravely wounded, and Qing Yang's desperation to protect his fellow disciples caused his Inner Demon to resurface as he tried to force a breakthrough to the Dao Lord realm.
• Lu Yuan stopped Qing Yang's collapsing breakthrough, suppressed his Inner Demon, and taught him that his path lay in protecting his Dao lineage and Dao heart rather than pursuing power for its own sake.

Lu Yuan restored Qing Yang’s Dao Heart and endured the prolonged war in the Other Shore Universe while secretly traveling to the mortal realm to recover Qing Shuang. He returned with her to Dao Xuan Heaven, where she reunited with her fellow disciples and learned that the Fate Calamity was still raging.

• Lu Yuan healed Qing Yang’s Dao foundation, and Qing Yang resolved to temper his Dao Heart rather than rush toward power.
• After several Kalpas of war left both factions exhausted, Lu Yuan ordered Dao Xuan Heaven to strengthen its defenses and sensed that Qing Shuang’s true spirit was recovering.
• Lu Yuan traveled in a hidden Dao body to the Great Yan Dynasty, where he secretly nourished Xuan Shuang’s damaged true spirit and guided her cultivation.
• After Xuan Shuang helped save people during a locust plague, Lu Yuan restored her past-life memories and brought her back to Dao Xuan Heaven as Qing Shuang.
• Qing Shuang reunited with Qing Li and Qing Yang, and Lu Yuan explained the scale and purpose of the ongoing Fate Calamity.

Qing Shuang recovered her past-life Daoxing and attained the Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit before returning to the battlefield. Lu Yuan then persuaded Rahula and Taiyi to cooperate on a plan to use the Other Shore Calamity to prove Hunyuan, tear open the Fate Rule Net, and claim its fortune.

• Qing Shuang returned to Dao Xuan Heaven and vowed to fight for the Dao lineage alongside Qing Li and Qing Yang.
• Over several thousand years, Qing Shuang recovered her Daoxing, attained the Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit, and left for the battlefield at Lu Yuan's direction.
• Rahula and Taiyi arrived at the Profound Abyss Heavenly Palace and argued over whether to attack the Fate Heavenly Palace or conserve their strength.
• Lu Yuan proposed proving Hunyuan at the calamity's most tragic point, using the universe's will to make the Fate Rule Net backlash.
• Rahula and Taiyi accepted Lu Yuan's plan and pledged their forces to help him tear open the Fate Rule Net and seize its fortune.

After tens of thousands of years of escalating slaughter, the Fate Faction launched its decisive assault on the Original Great Realm. Lu Yuan prepared to confront the Fate Faction’s army and its three Great Dao Lords, taking a crucial step toward proving the Dao of Hunyuan.

• Lu Yuan agreed with Rahula and Taiyi to wait for the calamity’s peak before breaking the Fate Rule Net and seizing its fortune.
• As the calamity worsened, Danxia Dao Lord and Void Dao Lord were killed, while Qing Li, Qing Yang, and Qing Shuang struggled to defend Dao Xuan Heaven.
• Daoist Tian Yuan ordered Taichu, Taishi, and Taiming to lead an army and form a world-destroying formation beyond Taisu Heaven.
• The Fate Faction began its decisive assault, slaughtering Fate Defiers and civilians throughout the Original Great Realm.
• Lu Yuan saw the assault through his divine sense and told Qing Li, Qing Yang, and Qing Shuang to defend Dao Xuan Heaven while he went to fight the three Great Dao Lords and the Dao-Extinguishing army.

Lu Yuan, wielding the Nine Calamity Sword, confronted Primordial, Taishi, and Taiming outside the World-Ending Grand Formation. He resisted their combined Great Daos, but the three continued their assault, seeking to seize his Tribulation Fortune Dao Fruit.

• Lu Yuan left Taisu Heaven and challenged Primordial, Taishi, and Taiming for slaughtering the living beings within the World-Ending Grand Formation.
• Taiming unleashed the Nether Yin Great Dao, Primordial attacked with the Primordial Dao Seal, and Taishi used the Fate Compass to bind Lu Yuan and target his Dao Fruit.
• Lu Yuan dodged their attacks and swung the Nine Calamity Sword, breaking through Primordial's Innate Pure Qi and wounding Primordial.
• Primordial and Taishi renewed their assault while Taiming sent a Nether Yin Long Sword toward Lu Yuan to corrupt his Dao heart.
• Lu Yuan dismissed their tricks and raised a canopy of Tribulation Fortune to defend himself from the Nether Yin attack.

Lu Yuan unleashed the power of the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune and revealed his Half-Step Hunyuan strength, defeating and killing Primordial Great Dao Lord, Great Dao Lord Taishi, and Great Dao Lord Taiming. As he began to prove the Dao of Hunyuan, Daoist Tian Yuan sent an avatar toward Taisu Heaven to stop him.

• Lu Yuan revealed his Half-Step Hunyuan power and shattered the three Great Dao Lords’ attacks with the Nine Calamity Sword.
• Lu Yuan killed Primordial Great Dao Lord, Great Dao Lord Taishi, and Great Dao Lord Taiming, absorbing their Great Dao origins.
• The Other Shore Universe trembled at the three Great Dao Lords’ deaths, while Hunyuan Masters in the chaos reacted with shock and wariness.
• Lu Yuan drew upon the Other Shore Universe’s Calamity Power and began transforming his Tribulation Fortune Dao Fruit as he pursued Hunyuan.
• Daoist Tian Yuan ordered the Fate Faction’s Hunyuan Masters to stop Lu Yuan and sent a Fate avatar toward Taisu Heaven.

Lu Yuan resisted Daoist Tian Yuan, Star Master, and Yellow Springs Master's Hunyuan incarnations while waiting for the great tribulation to peak, then began his Hunyuan Dao Tribulation. The three attackers were caught in the tribulation alongside him and tried to defend themselves against its first wave.

• Daoist Tian Yuan, Star Master, and Yellow Springs Master's incarnations attacked Lu Yuan as Rahu, Taiyi, and the other Fate-Defying Sovereigns fought the Fate Faction in the chaos.
• Lu Yuan awakened his Innate Calamity Fortune Dao Seed and merged the Profound Yellow Great Dao with the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune, breaking free and battling the three incarnations.
• Lu Yuan recognized that the incarnations were stalling until the calamity's peak, so he returned to the Tribulation Fortune Altar and gathered power as the tribulation intensified.
• When the calamity reached its peak, Lu Yuan summoned the Hunyuan Dao Tribulation, and its manifestations swept Daoist Tian Yuan, Star Master, and Yellow Springs Master's incarnations into it.
• The first tribulation wave surged toward Lu Yuan and the three incarnations, who raised barriers and redirected its power to protect themselves.

Lu Yuan endured the Great Dao’s tribulation and the Chaos Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation, absorbing their power until he formed a Hunyuan Dao Body and crossed into the Hunyuan realm. The Fate Obstruction Tribulation then manifested as a Fate Saint, and Lu Yuan fought to break free of fate’s control.

• The flow of tribulation fortune nearly destroyed Daoist Tian Yuan, Star Master, and Yellow Springs Master’s avatars, but Lu Yuan assimilated its origin and safely crossed the first tribulation.
• The Chaos Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation descended, and Lu Yuan absorbed all 129,600 lightning strikes, formed a Hunyuan Dao Body, and reached the Hunyuan realm.
• The chaos lightning shattered Daoist Tian Yuan, Star Master, and Yellow Springs Master’s avatars and wounded their true bodies through the loss of their incarnations.
• The Fate Obstruction Tribulation manifested a Fate Saint from the Fate Great Dao, who tried to assimilate Lu Yuan and offered him power if he submitted to fate.
• Lu Yuan fought the Fate Saint in the River of Destiny, absorbed the Power of Fate, and clashed with the Saint’s palm seal using the Nine Calamity Sword, causing flaws to appear in the Fate Net.

Lu Yuan defeated the Fate Saint phantom, ascended directly to the Primordial Fifth Heaven, and won the Other Shore Universe’s recognition as a Primordial Sage Venerable. He then widened the wound in the Fate Rule Net, drawing the universe’s origin and the attention of both Fate and Defying Fate powers toward the breach.

• Lu Yuan used the Profound Yellow Gate and Tribulation Fortune Dao Fruit to suppress Fate’s attacks, devour its laws, and destroy the Saint phantom’s Fate Net.
• The Dao bell rang eighty-one times as violet qi, golden lotuses, and the Chaos Green Lotus appeared, marking Lu Yuan’s Primordial breakthrough.
• Daoist Tian Yuan and the Fate Faction’s Primordial Masters felt the damage to their Fate Net, while Rahula and Taiyi welcomed the opening it created.
• Immortal Lord Qing Li, Qing Yang Immortal Venerable, Qing Shuang Immortal Maiden, and the cultivators of Dao Xuan Heaven celebrated Lu Yuan’s success as the Fate Faction’s forces lost heart.
• Lu Yuan gathered the Other Shore Universe’s will and living beings’ prayers, then struck the Fate Rule Net again and expanded its fissure into a massive breach.
• Daoist Tian Yuan suffered a severe backlash as mystical light poured from the breach, drawing the eager attention of Rahula, Taiyi, and other Defying Fate sovereigns.

Lu Yuan broke the Fate Rule Net, weakening Daoist Tian Yuan and spreading uncertainty that gave beings across the Other Shore Universe new hope. After the sages fought over the escaping origins and the fissure closed, the Chaos Dao Bell announced the end of the calamity; Daoist Tian Yuan escaped, and Lu Yuan returned to Dao Xuan Heaven.

• Rahula, Taiyi, the Star Sovereign, the Yellow Springs Sovereign, and other Hunyuan Masters fought over the fragments of origin erupting from the Fate Rule Net.
• Ripples from the broken net disrupted fate across the Other Shore Universe, allowing a hunted youth and a trapped Heavenly Immortal to survive.
• Daoist Tian Yuan attacked Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan's Tribulation Fortune sword dissolved his Fate chains and forced him to defend against a strike that exposed his weakened state.
• As the fissure in the Fate Rule Net began to close, the sages seized the last origin fragments and withdrew from the battle.
• Daoist Tian Yuan escaped after vowing to remember Lu Yuan, while the Chaos Dao Bell rang and the calamity's clouds, blood rain, and baleful aura receded.
• Lu Yuan returned to Dao Xuan Heaven, where Qing Li, Qing Yang, Qing Shuang, and the surviving Dao Xuan Lineage awaited him.

After becoming a Hunyuan Sage, Lu Yuan moved Dao Xuan Heaven beyond the Other Shore Universe and reforged it into the independent Dao Xuan World. He opened a forum to expound his Primordial Dao Fruit, while Daoist Tian Yuan watched from the Fate Heavenly Palace and vowed to take revenge.

• Lu Yuan returned to Dao Xuan Heaven, comforted its surviving immortals, and healed the realm and its disciples with his sage power.
• Lu Yuan carried Dao Xuan Heaven into chaos and transformed it into the Hunyuan-level Dao Xuan World.
• Lu Yuan opened the Dao Xuan World to visitors, and Rahula, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, other Hunyuan Masters, and countless immortals gathered to hear him expound the Primordial Dao Fruit.
• Lu Yuan explained his Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune, and the Dao charm helped the gathered cultivators gain insight into their own paths.
• Daoist Tian Yuan watched Lu Yuan's lecture through a water mirror and swore to reforge perfect fate and avenge the Fate Net.