Chapter Summaries

Qin Yu’s explanation of how a world’s inhabitants feed their insights back to its master gave Shi Hao a new path to pursue. Meanwhile, the Black Emperor tried to steal herbs from the Five Elements Sacred Land and was caught by the Five Elements Ancestor, who forced it to tend the medicinal fields for hundreds of millions of years.

• Qin Yu explained that a world’s inhabitants’ cultivation and insights fed back into its master, prompting Shi Hao to reconsider his stalled cultivation and the Dao of worlds.
• The Five Elements Ancestor watched from the Great Evolution Sacred Land and approved of the others discovering the mysteries of the Heavenly Realm.
• The Black Emperor sneaked into the Five Elements Sacred Land’s medicinal fields, but the Five Elements Ancestor exposed it with an Order Divine Chain.
• The Black Emperor invoked Wu Shi to plead for mercy, but the Five Elements Ancestor ordered it to tend the fields for hundreds of millions of years.
• The Five Elements Ancestor turned the Black Emperor into a tiny puppy and petted it, while the Sacred Land Master briefly arrived and then left.
• After waking, the Black Emperor repeatedly insulted the Five Elements Ancestor and was slapped each time until it finally addressed him as Senior.

After awakening from a long slumber, Xiao Xuan unleashed Devouring Beasts upon the Eternal True Realm to force its powerful cultivators into conflict. When an Emperor Realm expert attacked the beasts, a gigantic golden Devouring Beast appeared to face him.

• Xiao Xuan awoke in the origin of heaven and earth and decided the Eternal World needed pressure to produce powerful cultivators.
• Xiao Xuan’s will created Devouring Beasts that could consume opponents and inherit their strength and insights, setting off a struggle for survival across the Eternal True Realm.
• Shi Hao, Qin Yu, and the Xiao Clan’s Xiao Yuan recognized the Devouring Beasts as Xiao Xuan’s handiwork, while Xiao Wu told the clan not to interfere.
• Cultivators charged the Devouring Beasts, and some were devoured as the beasts grew stronger, alarming even Emperor Realm existences.
• An Emperor Realm existence attacked the beast horde, so the Devouring Beasts yielded before a colossal golden Devouring Beast appeared to confront him.

A golden Devouring Beast fought a hundred Eternal Realm beings before Ruthless Great Emperor drove it into the River of Time and Space, but the man escaped. Hidden deep underground, he revealed that the Devouring Beast Clan was his creation and considered how to avoid drawing Ruthless’s attention again.

• The golden Devouring Beast devoured its kin, grew to Semi-Saint Level, and transformed into a crowned man before battling the gathered Eternal Realm beings.
• Chu Heavenly Emperor, Heavenly Emperor Ye, and Huang Heavenly Emperor recognized the man’s resemblance to the mysterious source of the eerie and debated whether to intervene.
• Ruthless Great Emperor attacked the man, while the Eternal Realm beings offered her his corpse after they killed him.
• The man merged with the void and vanished, leaving the Space-Time Ancestor to warn the others and mourn Guiyuan, Shendao, and Light and Darkness.
• The man hid beneath the earth and revealed that he had created the Devouring Beast Clan, then wondered how to keep Ruthless from pursuing him.

Xiao Xuan explained that he had created the Devouring Beast to pressure the Eternal True Realm’s experts and taught four Saint Level beings about cultivating beyond the Saint realm. They agreed to let his plan proceed and began building a cross-world Void God Realm, whose basic framework took shape over several hundred million years.

• Xiao Xuan reassured his evil-obsession avatar that the Devouring Beast would threaten the Eternal True Realm during the great tribulation, while he informed the Saint Level beings.
• Qin Yu, Huang Heavenly Emperor, Emperor Ye, and Shi Hao followed a summons to meet Xiao Xuan, who explained his past and asked them to address him as a fellow Daoist.
• Xiao Xuan described how Saint Level cultivators could master multiple Great Dao laws and revealed that he had created the Devouring Beast to motivate the Eternal True Realm’s experts.
• Xiao Xuan explained the Hunyuan realm as the ultimate sublimation of the Saint realm, surprising the four visitors with the greater heights still ahead.
• Huang Heavenly Emperor proposed a shared spiritual world where geniuses from different true worlds could compete, and the group agreed to call it the Void God Realm.
• The group worked with Xiao Xuan to build the Void God Realm’s basic framework over several hundred million years, then connected it to the laws of the Great Dao across the true worlds and their lower planes.

The Void God Realm expanded across countless worlds, while Xiao Xuan met Chu Heavenly Emperor and reunited with Ye Qingxian. Xiao Xuan took the Black Emperor back to the Xiao Realm, where the Xiao Clan gathered to meet their long-unseen ancestor.

• Living beings across many planes explored the expanded Void God Realm and discovered its benefits.
• Chu Heavenly Emperor introduced Xiao Xuan to Chu Xi and Chu Xiao as the God Lord and Huang Heavenly Emperor’s younger brother.
• Xiao Xuan reunited with Ye Qingxian, who recalled helping him during the Era of Chaotic Antiquity.
• Xiao Xuan learned that Chu Xiao had been beaten by the Xiao Clan after flirting with one of their young women.
• The Black Emperor mistook Xiao Xuan for Chu Heavenly Emperor’s illegitimate son, and Xiao Xuan took him as a guard after sealing some of his memories.
• Chu Heavenly Emperor told Chu Xi and Chu Xiao that even the three Heavenly Emperors together could not withstand one exchange from Xiao Xuan, who then returned to the Xiao Realm with the Black Emperor.

Xiao Xuan entrusted the Eternal True Realm’s core region to Black Emperor before entering a deep slumber, while his Devouring Beast avatar continued consuming powerful Dao Ancestors and turning the Devouring Beasts into a threat to all realms. Elsewhere, cultivators discussed the Void God Realm’s prodigies, and the chapter ended at a Xiao Clan branch in the Xiao Realm as someone addressed an ancestor.

• Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Wu’s leadership of the Xiao Clan and urged him not to neglect his cultivation.
• Xiao Xuan told Black Emperor to guard the place where he would sleep, then entered a deep slumber.
• Xiao Xuan’s Devouring Beast avatar devoured more Dao Ancestors, while powerful outsiders joined the fight and the Devouring Beasts became a common enemy across the realms.
• Cultivators in the Void God Realm discussed the achievements and rankings of prodigies including Shi Chen, Qin Tian, and Xiao Qi.
• Someone called out to an ancestor inside a Xiao Clan branch’s palace in the Xiao Realm.

Xiao Bei brought his talented son Xiao Zhi before Xiao Yuan, who advised the young man to cultivate and forge his own path. Later, an unprecedented Chaos Tribulation threatened every realm, and the strongest figures prepared to face it and seek a chance to advance.

• Xiao Yuan praised Xiao Zhi’s talent and allowed him to study the clan’s rare books, while warning him that strength came from his own cultivation and understanding.
• Xiao Yuan vanished after the audience, and Xiao Bei urged his son to live up to the ancestor’s approval by becoming strong.
• A vast tribulation aura gathered in Chaos, prompting warnings across every realm and clouding the Dao hearts of countless beings.
• Xiao Xuan and Shi Hao recognized that the calamity engulfed the Eternal True Realm, the Supreme Sacred Realm, Eternal God Realm, Yang World, Boundless Heavens, and Other Shore.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the coming Chaos Tribulation could end all things or begin a new Chaos epoch, and urged those nearing the Sacred Realm to seize the opportunity.
• Shi Hao and the others left contingencies behind and returned to the origins of their respective worlds to prepare for the calamity.

The Chaos Tribulation destroyed countless worlds as Xiao Xuan absorbed the fallen life essence and comprehended the Wheel of Ten Thousand Laws. After the survivors reached the peak of the Half-Saint Realm, Xiao Xuan announced that he planned to break through and master more Great Dao laws.

• A vortex of calamity gathered resentment and baleful energy, then black lightning destroyed countless living beings and Great Thousand Worlds.
• Xiao Xuan absorbed the life essence of the dead and studied the laws on the Wheel of Ten Thousand Laws.
• A wave of Chaos destroyed many Immortal Emperors and wounded numerous Sacrificial Dao beings, while a handful of survivors gained profound insights from the Wheel.
• The Eternal True Realm and other supreme true realms vanished, leaving Xiao Xuan and the survivors amid boundless Chaos.
• Xiao Xuan realized that his comprehension of the three thousand Great Dao laws had reached the peak of the Half-Saint Realm.
• Huang asked whether Xiao Xuan intended to break through, and Xiao Xuan confirmed his plan while declaring that a new Chaos cycle era had begun.

Xiao Xuan survived a devastating breakthrough tribulation and rebuilt himself in the void of the Great Dao, but he chose to let his family believe he had died. The surviving clans created Other Shore and secluded themselves, while Ruthless and other ancient prodigies began reaching the Saint Realm.

• Xiao Xuan triggered a tribulation with the Great Dao of the Five Elements, endured successive waves that shattered the Heavens Mirror, and was reduced to specks of light.
• Xiao Xuan’s consciousness entered the void of the Great Dao, where an unseen will gradually restored his body and he awakened with every Dao having proven sainthood.
• Xiao Xuan saw his grieving family from afar but stayed away, deciding that mastering every Dao would be his next goal.
• Xiao Wu urged her family not to grieve and called on the survivors to reach the Saint Realm, while the Xiao Clan mourned its many losses from the great tribulation.
• The surviving clans joined forces to create Other Shore and entered seclusion, and Ruthless later reached the Da Luo Saint Realm through the Great Dao of Devouring.
• Wu Shi, Pollen Emperor, Luo Feng, Xiao Wu, Xiao Jing, Xiao Yuan, Shi Fan, and other ancient prodigies also broke through as Other Shore developed a new civilization.

Xiao Xuan, who had merged with the Other Shore’s origin, sent his divine sense into the Lower Realm and was reborn as a boy in the late Yuan dynasty. After Zhang Sanfeng rescued him from a massacre, Xiao Xuan asked to follow him to Wudang, where they arrived amid a tense confrontation and Zhang Sanfeng recognized the newcomer as his in-law, the Eagle King.

• Xiao Xuan merged with the Other Shore’s origin and sent a strand of divine sense into the Lower Realm.
• Zhang Sanfeng found Xiao Xuan alive in a village destroyed by Tartars and carried him to an inn for treatment.
• Xiao Xuan woke, learned that his rescuer was Zhang Sanfeng, and asked to accompany him to Wudang.
• Zhang Sanfeng agreed to take Xiao Xuan to Wudang after he recovered, and they traveled there by carriage over the next two months.
• Zhang Sanfeng and Xiao Xuan arrived at Wudang during a tense confrontation, where Zhang Sanfeng identified the newcomer as the Eagle King and called him his in-law.

Xiao Xuan became Zhang Sanfeng’s final disciple and spent two years cultivating at Wudang, learning foundational training and the Pure Yang Limitless Skill. He ended the chapter teasing Song Qingshu and the other young disciples while sweeping the grounds.

• Zhang Sanfeng named Xiao Xuan his final disciple, and Xiao Xuan asked permission to read Daoist texts in the Scripture Depository.
• Mo Shenggu taught Xiao Xuan basic body-tempering movements after Xiao Xuan requested foundational training.
• Over the next two years, Xiao Xuan trained in the mornings, studied in the Scripture Depository at night, and swept Wudang; Zhang Sanfeng eventually began teaching him personally.
• Xiao Xuan learned Cloud Ladder Steps, Cotton Palm, and the Pure Yang Limitless Skill, while planning to seek the Seven Injuries Fist.
• Song Qingshu tried to trip Xiao Xuan with pebbles, but Xiao Xuan blocked them with his sweeping and teased him about his Eldest Senior Brother.
• Xiao Xuan told Song Qingshu and the other young disciples that every action could be cultivation and invited them to sweep Wudang with him.

Xiao Xuan encouraged young Wudang disciples to practice martial arts through everyday tasks, then consulted Zhang Sanfeng about his cultivation and the Seven Injuries Fist. Only Gu Xuzi kept training with him, and Xiao Xuan ended the day with a calico cat and Little Black Dog at his side.

• Xiao Xuan told the young disciples that every action could be cultivation and invited them to practice with him after finishing their lessons.
• Zhang Sanfeng answered Xiao Xuan's cultivation questions and wrote down an explanation of the Seven Injuries Fist, warning that it could harm practitioners without profound internal cultivation.
• Xiao Xuan read the notes, burned them, and continued his work.
• The disciples who came to practice gradually gave up, while Gu Xuzi continued trying to apply martial arts to sweeping.
• Xiao Xuan rescued a calico cat from Little Black Dog, scolded and patted the puppy, and the two animals followed him through the evening.

After four years of training on Wudang Mountain, Xiao Xuan gained Zhang Zhenren’s permission to descend and experience the troubled world. He left with Little Black Dog and the tabby, and after a month of killing bandits and Yuan soldiers, reached the outskirts of Xiangyang City.

• Xiao Xuan blocked Mo Shenggu’s surprise attack and showed how much his martial arts had improved.
• Over four years, Xiao Xuan mastered Cotton Palm, advanced his Pure Yang Limitless Skill, and grew close to Little Black Dog and the tabby.
• Xiao Xuan told Zhang Zhenren he wanted to descend the mountain, and Zhang Zhenren agreed while warning him to be careful.
• Xiao Xuan bid farewell to his senior brothers and the Wudang disciples, then left with Little Black Dog and the tabby.
• During a month on the road through Guanzhong and Huguang, Xiao Xuan killed bandits and Yuan soldiers before arriving outside Xiangyang City.

After hearing about disappearances in the mountains, Xiao Xuan entered a hidden valley, opened all twelve primary meridians, and killed a giant Pusiqu Snake. He swallowed its gallbladder to increase his inner power, but its potency overwhelmed him, leaving him to keep training through the pain.

• Xiao Xuan traveled into the valley after hearing that people had disappeared in the forest, but a giant Pusiqu Snake drove him into hiding.
• Xiao Xuan found Dugu Qiubai’s sword graves, took the Purple Star Soft Sword, and opened all twelve primary meridians while the cat and dog kept watch.
• Xiao Xuan returned to fight the Pusiqu Snake and killed it with his sword and the Seven Injuries Fist.
• Xiao Xuan removed the snake’s gallbladder, neutralized its poison with herbs, and swallowed it to absorb its potency.
• Xiao Xuan endured surging inner power by repeatedly practicing his palm, sword, and fist techniques.

Xiao Xuan trained in the valley, searched Kunlun Valley for Zhang Wuji, and copied the Nine Yang Divine Skill, Medical Classic, and Poison Classic. He began treating people near Kunlun and met Miejue and Zhang Wuji, introducing himself as Zhang Sanfeng’s final disciple.

• Xiao Xuan spent three months training, absorbed the python gallbladder, and strengthened his cat and dog with medicinal soup.
• Xiao Xuan traveled to Kunlun Valley, found Zhang Wuji’s hut and Meridian Burial Site, and discovered the Nine Yang Divine Skill, Medical Classic, and Poison Classic.
• Xiao Xuan memorized the Nine Yang Divine Skill and Medical Classic, copied the texts, and returned the originals before leaving the valley.
• Xiao Xuan treated patients for free in a town below the Kunlun Mountains, earning a reputation as a miracle-working young Daoist.
• Miejue brought a poisoned nun to Xiao Xuan, who prescribed treatment, then identified himself as Zhang Sanfeng’s final disciple.

Xiao Xuan followed a disguised monk to Bright Summit’s hidden passage, found Yang Dingtian’s remains, and copied the Great Shift of the Universe. He encountered the monk in black on his way out and clashed with him.

• Xiao Xuan followed a suspicious monk from the Shaolin contingent toward Bright Summit’s Back Mountain.
• Xiao Xuan discovered a concealed cave entrance and used Little Black to navigate the maze of passages.
• Xiao Xuan found Yang Dingtian’s remains and took the sheepskin scroll containing the Great Shift of the Universe.
• Xiao Xuan revealed the Persian script with his blood, copied the manual, and returned the scroll to its place.
• A monk in black ambushed Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Xuan struck back with a palm attack.

Xiao Xuan escaped Cheng Kun, mastered the sixth level of the Great Shift of the Universe, and rescued an Emei disciple from Wei Yixiao. After his pets caused an embarrassing scene at the Emei camp, he met Zhang Wuji, who was disguised as Zeng A Niu.

• Xiao Xuan recognized Cheng Kun, escaped through the secret passage, and practiced the Great Shift of the Universe until he reached its sixth level and opened three more extraordinary meridians.
• The black dog led Xiao Xuan to the Emei group, where Wei Yixiao seized an Emei disciple and tried to flee with her.
• Xiao Xuan used Cloud Ladder Steps and Wudang Cotton Palm to stop Wei Yixiao, who escaped after throwing the disciple at Miejue.
• Xiao Xuan discovered his cat and dog eating the Emei camp's food, then awkwardly struggled with them and tore his robe.
• Miejue praised Xiao Xuan's martial arts, and he noticed Zhang Wuji disguised as Zeng A Niu, who concealed how strong he was.

Xiao Xuan and the Emei group joined the fight against Ming Cult disciples, and Zhang Wuji risked his life to persuade Miejue to spare them. After Yin Yewang arrived with an ambush, Zhang Wuji matched Miejue’s third palm, and she withdrew with Emei, leaving the story with Wudang also departing and Xiao Xuan praising Zhang Wuji while criticizing his kindness.

• Xiao Xuan rushed to the valley after seeing Wudang’s emergency flare, where Ming Cult disciples were besieging Yin Liting and Song Qingshu.
• Miejue and Emei joined the battle, defeated the Ming Cult forces, and prepared to kill Chang Yuchun until Zhang Wuji intervened.
• Zhang Wuji defended the Ming Cult disciples and agreed to endure three of Miejue’s palm strikes to secure their release.
• Zhang Wuji survived Miejue’s first two strikes with the help of his Nine Yang Divine Skill, while Zhou Zhiruo and Yin Liting supported his chance to recover.
• Yin Yewang arrived and revealed a surrounding ambush, but Zhang Wuji insisted on taking Miejue’s final strike and matched her strength.
• Miejue kept her word and withdrew with Emei, Yin Liting led Wudang away, and Xiao Xuan praised Zhang Wuji before telling him he was too kind.

Xiao Xuan left the six sects’ camp, rescued Yin Yewang from Ruyang Manor’s agents, and obtained the Ten Fragrance Softening Tendon Powder and its antidote. The six sects then attacked Bright Summit, where the injured Ming Cult leaders faced the fall of their main altar.

• Xiao Xuan declined to join the six sects’ siege discussion and wandered away from their encampment.
• Xiao Xuan defeated Ruyang Manor’s agents, forced them to hand over the powder and antidote, and carried Yin Yewang and his captor away.
• Yin Tianzheng found Yin Yewang, who told him about the masked martial artist and the imperial court’s agents.
• The six sects stormed Bright Summit and overwhelmed the Ming Cult’s Five Banners.
• The injured Ming Cult leaders debated retreating as the six sects reached the main altar, while one leader insisted they defend it.

The Six Great Sects attacked Bright Summit, but the Heavenly Eagle Cult arrived to help the wounded Ming Cult. Yin Tianzheng challenged the sects to settle the battle through individual duels, and after defeating several Wudang heroes, he faced the attention of the other leaders, who turned toward Xiao Xuan.

• Yang Xiao, Wei Yixiao, Zhou Dian, and the other Ming Cult members rejected retreat and vowed to defend Bright Summit.
• Bu'er arrived and told Yang Xiao that Zhang Wuji had mastered exceptional martial arts, while Wei Yixiao worried Zhang Wuji would remember how he had once knocked him into an abyss.
• The Six Great Sects overwhelmed the Five Banners until Yin Tianzheng led the Heavenly Eagle Cult into the square and pledged to fight alongside the Ming Cult.
• Yin Tianzheng proposed that the sides settle matters through individual duels, and Zhang Songxi persuaded Miejue to accept the challenge.
• Yin Tianzheng defeated Zhang Songxi, Yin Liting, and Mo Shenggu in succession, though the bouts left him wounded.
• The leaders of the righteous sects turned toward Xiao Xuan to test the martial arts they had heard about.