Chapter Summaries

Di Yi fought Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Ancestor Yang Mei, and their battle destroyed the hidden Small World. The three emerged above the Primordial World, where their power shook the realm and alarmed its inhabitants and Saints.

• Hongjun and Ancestor Yang Mei declared that they would kill Di Yi and seize his source, but Di Yi challenged them to fight.
• Hongjun attacked Di Yi with Order Divine Chains while Ancestor Yang Mei collapsed space; Di Yi countered with the Power of Annihilation and Solar True Fire.
• Hongjun and Ancestor Yang Mei attacked together, and the three fought until their powers shattered the Small World.
• Hongjun, Ancestor Yang Mei, and Di Yi withdrew into the Primordial World as Chaos Qi poured through the vast rift left by the Small World's collapse.
• The three figures' auras dimmed the sun, moon, and stars and forced the Primordial World's inhabitants to the ground.
• The Saints sensed the disturbance and saw Hongjun facing Ancestor Yang Mei and Di Yi, while the Three Pure Ones wondered whether Hongjun was fighting two beings as powerful as himself.

Zhenyuanzi, Ancestor Minghe, the Saints, and Qin Mu witnessed Hongjun and Ancestor Yang Mei battle Di Yi, whose power threatened the Primordial World. After Hongjun and Yang Mei defeated him, they divided his remaining origin, while a mysterious figure fused with the last little Golden Crow beneath Tanggu Valley.

• Zhenyuanzi, Ancestor Minghe, the Saints, and Qin Mu saw Hongjun and Ancestor Yang Mei fighting a figure who looked like Dijun and wondered what was happening.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei joined forces against Di Yi, and an unseen power sealed their battlefield to protect the Primordial World.
• Beneath Tanggu Valley, the blurry figure who had once rescued the last little Golden Crow sacrificed himself, merging his origin consciousness and fire Dao laws into the weakened bird.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei suppressed Di Yi, whose strength was limited by the newborn epoch’s rejection, and annihilated Dijun’s body with their combined attack.
• Hongjun claimed about seventy percent of Di Yi’s purest core origin, Yang Mei took the remaining thirty percent, and both departed.

After the Witch-Demon War, Nuwa revived with her cultivation reduced to the Sub-Saint level while the Heavenly River still flooded through the breach in the heavens. Qin Mu visited her and offered a deal for her Five-Colored Stone, promising to help Fuxi’s True Spirit reincarnate and give him an opportunity.

• With Hongjun and Yang Mei gone, the supreme battlefield vanished, but the breach in the heavens remained and the Heavenly River continued to pour into the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Saints watched the flood helplessly, unable to mend the breach or persuade the absent Dao Ancestor to intervene.
• Nuwa revived in Nuwa Palace through the Heavenly Dao’s power and discovered that her cultivation had fallen to the Sub-Saint level.
• Nuwa reflected on her past choices against the Human Race and surveyed the devastation left by the Witch-Demon War.
• Qin Mu visited Nuwa and asked her to give him the Five-Colored Stone.
• Qin Mu promised to help Fuxi’s True Spirit reincarnate and grant him an opportunity in exchange for the stone.

Qin Mu traded Nuwa the Five-Colored Stone for a promise to help Fuxi reincarnate with a chance at a fortuitous opportunity. He returned to Penglai Immortal Island and offered Daoist Duobao a chance to break through to the Sub-Saint realm.

• Qin Mu promised Nuwa that he would help Fuxi reincarnate and gain a fortuitous opportunity in exchange for the Five-Colored Stone.
• Nuwa handed Qin Mu the Five-Colored Stone, and he left Nuwa Palace with it.
• Nuwa wondered why Dijun had not been resurrected, then went into seclusion to stabilize her Saintly Body and restore her cultivation.
• Qin Mu returned to Penglai Immortal Island, where Daoist Duobao greeted him and asked if he would help him become a Saint.
• Qin Mu told Duobao that his fortuitous opportunity would not grant Sagehood but could help him break through to the Sub-Saint realm.

Qin Mu gave Duobao the Five-Colored Divine Stone and tasked him with mending the breach in the sky above Buzhou Mountain. Despite doubts from the powerful beings and Saints watching, Duobao sealed the breach and restored the Heavenly River to its proper course.

• Qin Mu explained that Duobao could mend the heavens with the Five-Colored Divine Stone and gave it to him.
• Duobao flew to the breach above Buzhou Mountain as powerful beings and Saints questioned whether he could succeed.
• Saint Tongtian suspected Qin Mu had given Duobao a way to mend the heavens.
• Duobao channeled his magical power into the stone and sent it into the Heavenly River toward the breach.
• The Five-Colored Divine Stone fused with the firmament, sealed the breach, and returned the Heavenly River to its proper course.

Duobao repaired the sky with the Five-Colored Divine Stone Qin Mu had given him and gained enough merit to become a Sub-Saint. His breakthrough strengthened the Interception Sect and drew the attention of rival Saints, while Jieyin and Zhunti decided Duobao was destined for the Western Teachings.

• Duobao watched the sky recover after the Five-Colored Divine Stone sealed the hole, while a fragment of the stone fell into a Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
• A torrent of Xuanhuang Merit entered Duobao, breaking his cultivation bottleneck and raising him to the Sub-Saint level.
• Duobao credited Qin Mu for trusting him with the Five-Colored Divine Stone, and powerful figures across the Primordial Wilderness praised or envied the Interception Sect’s growing strength.
• Taishang Saint reflected on the Interception Sect’s rise, while Venerable Yuanshi grew furious and an unnoticed thread of black aura seeped into his body.
• Zhunti told Jieyin that Duobao was destined for the Western Teachings, and Jieyin agreed that they should find a way to win him over.

As the Primordial Wilderness’s sky began collapsing because Buzhou Mountain no longer supported it, four Saints gathered to compete for the Merit of holding it up. Tongtian asked Qin Mu whether they would join the contest, leaving their decision unresolved.

• After Duobao mended the hole in the sky, the unsupported firmament began descending and threw the Primordial Wilderness into chaos.
• Taishang Saint, Venerable Yuanshi, Daoist Jieyin, and Daoist Zhunti arrived at Buzhou Mountain and agreed to compete for the Merit of supporting the sky.
• At Kongtong Mountain, Huang Tian asked Zhenyuanzi why he was not joining the Saints, and Zhenyuanzi asked why Qin Mu’s true self was not going instead.
• Ancestor Minghe decided not to compete because he was weaker than the other Saints, and he wondered why Qin Mu had not acted.
• Qin Mu appeared at Biyou Palace, where Tongtian told him the four Saints had gone to Buzhou Mountain and asked whether they would sit out the contest.

Qin Mu visited the sealed Mystic Turtle and offered to free his soul and True Spirit so they could be reincarnated, and the Mystic Turtle agreed. The Heavenly Dao withdrew its chains at Qin Mu’s command, and Qin Mu took the Mystic Turtle out of the seal.

• Qin Mu told Tongtian that Taishang and the other Saints would fail to support the heavens, then left Biyou Palace.
• Qin Mu entered the underwater seal and reunited with the Mystic Turtle, who was astonished by Qin Mu’s cultivation.
• Qin Mu offered to preserve the Mystic Turtle’s soul and True Spirit through reincarnation in exchange for giving up his body and shell.
• The Mystic Turtle accepted Qin Mu’s offer and chose freedom over remaining imprisoned.
• Qin Mu called on the Heavenly Dao to withdraw its chains, and it freed the Mystic Turtle.
• Qin Mu took the Mystic Turtle out of the sealed place.

Qin Mu freed the Mystic Turtle and told him that his body was destined to support the collapsing heavens, while the Saints tried to hold up the firmament at Buzhou Mountain. Taishang’s Taiji Diagram failed, and Yuanshi’s attempt was also beginning to falter.

• Qin Mu freed the Mystic Turtle from the sealed land and warned him that the Heavenly Dao would suppress him again unless he abandoned his body.
• Qin Mu told the Mystic Turtle that Buzhou Mountain had fallen and that he needed the turtle’s body to support the heavens.
• The Mystic Turtle agreed to surrender his body, and Qin Mu took him toward Buzhou Mountain.
• Taishang used the Taiji Diagram as a golden bridge to steady the firmament, but it shook and bent under the heavens’ weight.
• Taishang recalled the Taiji Diagram, and Yuanshi sent the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi against the sky, but its pillars of light also began to tremble.

Jieyin, Zhunti, Taishang, and Venerable Yuanshi each tried and failed to hold up the collapsing sky, even after joining forces. Qin Mu then appeared and announced that it was his turn, while the Four Saints doubted he could succeed.

• Jieyin offered his Twelve-grade Golden Lotus of Merit, but it could not withstand the firmament's pressure.
• Zhunti used the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and his Saint's Power to hold up the sky, then withdrew before the strain damaged him.
• Jieyin proposed that the Four Saints combine their treasures and divide the Merit, but their united effort also failed.
• The watching mighty figures despaired as the Four Saints recalled their failing treasures and conceded they could not hold up the sky.
• Qin Mu appeared and said it was his turn, while Venerable Yuanshi and Zhunti challenged his ability to succeed alone.

Qin Mu refused the Saints’ offer to share the merit of supporting the heavens and summoned the Mystic Turtle to carry out his own plan. After agreeing to preserve the turtle’s True Spirit, he cut off its four legs and sent them toward the four corners of the heavens.

• Jieyin, Taishang, and Yuanshi urged Qin Mu to join the Four Saints in another attempt to support the heavens, but Qin Mu challenged their proposal and insisted on trying alone.
• Zhunti grew angry at Qin Mu’s refusal, but Jieyin restrained him and Taishang allowed Qin Mu to proceed.
• Qin Mu summoned the Mystic Turtle, which had agreed to give up its body in exchange for reincarnation and a great opportunity for its True Spirit.
• Qin Mu drew his Grass Sword and severed the Mystic Turtle’s four legs with four beams of sword light.
• Qin Mu sent the four mountain-sized legs flying toward the four corners of the heavens.

Qin Mu used the Mystic Turtle’s four legs as pillars and its shell to stabilize the collapsing sky, succeeding where Taishang and the other three Saints had failed. Saints and powerful beings across the Primordial World witnessed his achievement, while Tongtian realized Qin Mu may have known all along that the others would fail.

• Qin Mu ordered the Mystic Turtle’s four legs to brace the sky’s four corners, stopping its descent.
• Qin Mu used the Grass Sword to send the Mystic Turtle’s shell into the sky, stabilizing it and restoring balance to Yin Yang and the Five Elements.
• Taishang, Yuanshi Tianzun, Zhunti, and the other witnesses were stunned that Qin Mu had supported the heavens alone.
• At Kongtong Mountain, Zhenyuanzi asked Huang Tian whether he had known his true form could hold up the sky, and Huang Tian answered with a meaningful smile.
• Nuwa reflected on her trade with Qin Mu for the Five-Colored Divine Stone and marveled at how far he had grown.
• Tongtian celebrated Qin Mu’s success and wondered whether his disciple had known the other Saints would fail.

Qin Mu used the Sky-Supporting Black Tortoise to prop up the heavens and received all the Heavenly Dao Merit, ending the crisis across the Primordial Wilderness. As Jieyin and Zhunti returned to the Western Realm empty-handed, Jieyin hinted that they had gained something after all.

• A vast torrent of Heavenly Dao Merit descended upon Qin Mu, who gathered it and collected the Sky-Supporting Black Tortoise's True Spirit to arrange its reincarnation.
• Taishang congratulated Qin Mu, while Yuanshi, Zhunti, and Jieyin lamented that Qin Mu had claimed all the merit for supporting the heavens.
• The Saints departed, and the mighty figures and countless living beings celebrated as the firmament stopped sinking.
• On the way back to the Western Realm, Zhunti complained that Qin Mu had gained another opportunity and suggested taking living beings from the Eastern Lands.
• Jieyin rejected Zhunti's plan and cryptically insisted that they were not returning empty-handed.

Jieyin and Zhunti went to plunder the Demon Race's treasury and agreed to share its contents with Venerable Yuanshi, but they found it completely empty. The three Saints discovered a message revealing that Qin Mu of the Underworld had emptied it before them.

• Jieyin and Zhunti decided to raid the Demon Race's treasury after the Witch-Demon War.
• Venerable Yuanshi arrived at the treasury, and Jieyin offered to split its contents equally with him.
• Venerable Yuanshi opened the treasury gates, but the three Saints found every treasure gone.
• Venerable Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti found a line reading, "Qin Mu of the Underworld was here!" and grew furious.

Qin Mu celebrated having emptied the Demon Race's vault before the Western Teachings and Venerable Yuanshi arrived, then held back from using his sky-supporting merit. Ten thousand years later, the Human Race had risen as the Witch and Demon clans declined, while a transformed Golden Crow and an Ancestral Witch statue showed signs of awakening.

• Venerable Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti found the Demon Race's vault empty and blamed Qin Mu for taking its treasures.
• Jieyin warned Zhunti that Qin Mu was too powerful to target, and Venerable Yuanshi left before the two Western Saints departed for the Western Realm.
• In Fengdu City, Qin Mu stored the treasures he had taken and reflected on the Western Saints finding his message at the empty vault.
• Qin Mu decided not to refine his sky-supporting merit yet, despite expecting it to advance his cultivation.
• Ten thousand years later, the Human Race flourished as the Witch and Demon clans retreated after devastating losses.
• A transformed Three-legged Golden Crow cultivated beneath Tanggu Valley, and the eyes of an Ancestral Witch statue briefly opened in the Witch Clan's Secret Realm.

After ten thousand years of peace, Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Saints to Zixiao Palace, prompting Qin Mu to suspect that they would choose a new ruler for the Heavenly Court. The chapter ended with Qin Mu smiling as he considered the possible appointment of a new Heavenly Emperor.

• A Witch Clan cultivator claimed that the statue of Ancestral Witch Dijiang had opened its eyes, and the gathered cultivators prayed for the Ancestral Witches to return.
• Ten thousand years later, Taishang Saint, Venerable Yuanshi, and Saint Tongtian received Hongjun's summons and departed for Zixiao Palace.
• Zhenyuanzi told Huang Tian that Hongjun had summoned the Saints, but Huang Tian said they would learn the reason when they arrived and hinted that a new order was due.
• Nuwa and the Western Saints Jieyin and Zhunti also received the summons and set out for Zixiao Palace.
• Qin Mu received Hongjun's summons and suspected the Saints would discuss choosing a new ruler for the Heavenly Court, possibly Haotian.

Qin Mu decided to use his Innate Emperor Embryo to create a third Clone and compete for the Heavenly Emperor position at Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s summons. Ancestor Minghe pledged to support him, and the chapter ended as the gathered Saints entered Zixiao Palace and Hongjun looked over them.

• Qin Mu remembered his Innate Emperor Embryo and resolved to make a Heavenly Emperor Clone and compete for the position.
• Ancestor Minghe asked Qin Mu about Hongjun’s summons, then pledged to stand by him because Qin Mu had helped him attain Sainthood.
• Qin Mu and Ancestor Minghe traveled to Zixiao Palace, where the other Saints had gathered.
• Haotian and Yaochi ushered the Saints into Zixiao Palace, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun opened his eyes to greet them.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Saints to discuss a new ruler for the Heavenly Court, prompting several of them to recommend their disciples. Tongtian then stepped forward to recommend someone, leaving the candidate unrevealed.

• Hongjun told the Saints that the decline of the Witch and Demon Races required a new ruler of the Heavenly Court to govern the Three Realms.
• Zhunti and Jieyin recommended Jia Ye as a compassionate candidate for Heavenly Emperor.
• Venerable Yuanshi countered by recommending his disciple Guangchengzi, while Zhunti resented his challenge.
• Taishang Saint surprised the others by recommending his disciple Xuandu for the position.
• Tongtian stepped forward and told Hongjun that he wanted to recommend someone.

Tongtian nominated Qin Mu to rule the Heavenly Court, and Zhenyuanzi and Ancestor Minghe backed him. Zhunti, Jieyin, and Yuanshi opposed the proposal, warning Hongjun that Qin Mu’s control of both the Underworld and Heavenly Court would concentrate too much power in his hands.

• Tongtian recommended Qin Mu to Dao Ancestor Hongjun as the new ruler of the Heavenly Court, citing his fortune, cultivation, and strength.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and the Western Saints reacted with alarm, while Nuwa remained composed.
• Zhenyuanzi and Ancestor Minghe supported Tongtian’s proposal, and Minghe realized Qin Mu had asked for his support beforehand.
• Zhunti, Jieyin, and Yuanshi urged Hongjun not to appoint Qin Mu, arguing that his existing rule over the Underworld made it dangerous to give him the Heavenly Court as well.

The Saints argued over whether Qin Mu should become master of the Heavenly Court, with Tongtian and his allies supporting him while Yuanshi and the Western Saints opposed him. Hongjun stopped the debate and considered the Saints’ objections and the Heavenly Dao’s reluctance, leaving the appointment undecided.

• Tongtian, Zhenyuanzi, and Ancestor Minghe praised Qin Mu’s abilities and urged Hongjun to appoint him master of the Heavenly Court.
• Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti opposed Qin Mu’s appointment, arguing that the Heavenly Court and Underworld should have separate rulers.
• Nuwa chose not to oppose Qin Mu because of their agreement concerning Fuxi’s True Spirit and future.
• Taishang voiced concern that Qin Mu would be unable to manage both the Underworld and the Heavenly Court, concealing his opposition behind concern for the Primordial Wilderness.
• Tongtian grew angry, but Hongjun ordered the Saints to stop arguing and considered their objections and the Heavenly Dao’s reluctance to let Qin Mu rule.