Chapter Summaries

Primordial Beginning learned about the Eternal Land, restored Wangshu, and eventually traveled there, where he met powerful members of Xuantian’s family and learned how far he was from becoming the world’s leading Dao Venerable. The chapter ended with Shi Xiao explaining that Hongjun had been the Eternal Primordial World’s first cultivator, though beings from the age of chaos had survived its creation.

• Shi Changfeng introduced himself as the River of the Great Dao’s guardian, explained the Nine Heavens, and restored Wangshu at Primordial Beginning’s request.
• Shi Changfeng revealed that he came from the Eternal Land and that Primordial Beginning would have to reach the Fourth Layer and defeat him to transcend the world; he also told him that Xuantian had left for the Eternal Land.
• Xuantian sensed Primordial Beginning’s progress, confirmed his own departure from Hong Huang, and observed that the Human Race had become one of the world’s strongest races.
• Xiao Yao and Xu Weibear arrived in the Eternal Land, where Xiao Yao awakened her bloodline, reached the peak of the ninth Heavenly Layer, and later advanced to Half-Step Ruler.
• Primordial Beginning met Shi Changfeng, Xiao Yao, and Shi Xiao in the Xuantian Secret Realm, where Shi Xiao revealed his father’s immense power and urged Primordial Beginning to grow strong enough to guide the Eternal Primordial World.
• Shi Xiao told Primordial Beginning that Hongjun had been the world’s first cultivator and began describing the age of chaos and the survivors of Heaven-Opening.

The Primordial World faced an invasion by the Chaos Remnant Clan, and the allied races fought a devastating war before defeating many of their enemies. The Five Primes then arrived to challenge Xuantian, Huang, and Pan, and Xuantian gained the upper hand against Tai Ji as the chapter ended with him closing in for a killing blow.

• Xuantian explained that the Chaos Remnant Clan had survived beyond the Primordial World’s barrier and warned that its forces could include Dominators, so the Human Race and other great races formed an alliance.
• The Chaos Remnant Clan’s army emerged beneath the vast vortex, and the allied races met its twenty Half-Step Rulers with seventeen of their own, including twelve from the Human Race.
• Shi Liu defeated Bingfeng, while the Primordial World’s forces won many other battles; after a long war, the Chaos Remnant Clan lost nearly half its Half-Step Rulers.
• Tai Yi, Primordial Beginning, Tai Shi, Taisu, and Taiji—the Five Primes—appeared beyond the barrier and called Xuantian, Huang, and Pan out to face them.
• Huang and Pan went to fight two of the Five Primes each, while Xuantian confronted Tai Ji and drove him back with a powerful Dominator attack.
• Xuantian pursued the bloodied Tai Ji, intent on killing him with a single strike.

Xuantian battled Taiji in Hongmeng, overpowering him with the Destruction Sword and a Dominator-strength punch. Taiji unleashed the Chaos Chain to bind Xuantian, who remained trapped as Taiji prepared a strike at his head.

• Taiji summoned the Chaos Chain and attacked Xuantian, but Xuantian repeatedly parried its strikes with the Destruction Sword.
• Xuantian struck Taiji with a Dominator-powered punch and blasted him thirty million miles away.
• Xuantian drove Taiji back with another sword attack, forcing Taiji to summon an immortal umbrella for protection.
• Xuantian used their exchanges to study Taiji's Taiji Seal, angering Taiji as he realized he was being used as a sparring partner.
• Taiji bound Xuantian with the Chaos Chain; Xuantian broke one chain, but Taiji bound him with two more and sent the chain toward his head.

Xuantian and the other Dominators defeated and suppressed the Five Ancestors of Chaos, ending their threat in Hong Huang. Heaven’s Gate opened above the Southern Lands, and the Chaos Remnant Clan stayed in Hong Huang under the three Dominators’ decree, becoming its seventh leading power.

• Xuantian fought Taiji across the Chaos River, pierced him with the Destruction Sword, and sealed him.
• Huang and Xuantian helped suppress Primordial Beginning, while Huang joined Pangu against Tai Yi.
• Pangu kept the remaining opponents from escaping, and Xuantian and Huang later suppressed Taisu and the final ancestor.
• The vortex above the Southern Lands formed Heaven’s Gate, which Hunyuan experts could use to travel beyond Hong Huang.
• The three Dominators forbade Half-Step Rulers of the Chaos Remnant Clan from interfering in Hong Huang’s conflicts, and the clan chose to remain, making the six leading powers seven.

After the battle, the Human Race set its policy toward the Chaos Remnant Clan, arranged succession and rewards for wartime losses, and strengthened its experts through Dao lectures. Over the following 120,000 years, Xuantian finished refining Taiji and Taisu while the Chaos Remnant Clan kept a low profile, easing opposition to its settlement in Hong Huang.

• Huang and Xuantian ordered the Human Race to maintain a peaceful stance toward the Chaos Remnant Clan unless it provoked them, then entered seclusion to refine their subdued opponents.
• Shui Yuechu explained that the Dominator Realm had three levels: chaos, hongmeng, and nothingness.
• Literary Ancestor Qin proposed compensating the fallen and selecting successors for Emperor Dynasties whose rulers had died, and the Human Race leaders approved the plan.
• Shi Xiao arranged for twelve Half-Step Rulers to expound the Dao over 120,000 years, after which many Human Race experts advanced and entered seclusion.
• Xuantian finished refining Taiji and Taisu, gaining their primordial spirits' memories and raising his understanding of both Daos to the Half-Step Ruler level.
• The Chaos Remnant Clan avoided provoking Hong Huang's powers, and the Human Race and other great races maintained a policy of not attacking unless attacked first.

Houtu accepted Pangu’s source blood essence to pursue the Ruler realm, while Pangu considered the limits on his clones. After several eras of growth, Hong Huang’s Hunyuan ranks and the Xiao Clan had expanded, and Shi Xuan watched the clan’s descendants from afar.

• Houtu emerged from seclusion, gave up on advancing by herself, and began refining Pangu’s source blood essence.
• Pangu watched Houtu’s decision and reflected on his slow progress through a clone and the similar difficulties facing Huang and Samsara.
• The Little Stone Emperor recovered from his injuries and resolved to rise through destruction into the Hunyuan realm.
• Several eras after the invasion, Hong Huang’s Hunyuan ranks exceeded a thousand, as the Little Stone Emperor, ascenders, Xiao Clan members, Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and the Sky Evil God attained the Way or broke through.
• The Xiao Clan expanded into four major branches, each led by a Half-Step Hunyuan, while its descendants spread across Hong Huang and beyond.
• Shi Xuan watched the Xiao Clan from afar and felt satisfied when he saw Xiao Lan, an exceptional descendant of his line.

Xuantian comprehended the five primordial great eras and, after surviving the Dominator tribulation, attained Dominator status through both the martial Dao and Yin-Yang Dao. His heightened perception then revealed Luohou, also known as Demon, and Blue Heaven in the River of Time and Space.

• Veteran experts across Hong Huang and the Human Race advanced in cultivation, while the Ancestral Land expanded its army to ten million.
• Taiqing, Tongtian, and Yuanshi lamented that they lacked the opportunity to cross the threshold to Half-Step Ruler.
• Xuantian traveled back through the River of Time to study the five primordial great eras and cultivated the Primordial Beginning Dao Tree.
• Xuantian united his primordial spirit with the Great Change Dao and witnessed the era transition into the Primordial Era.
• Chaos rewarded Xuantian for surviving the Dominator tribulation, and he attained the Dominator position through both the martial Dao and the Yin-Yang Dao, reaching the middle stage of the chaos level.
• Xuantian forged the Return Ruins tablet and sensed Luohou, also known as Demon, and Blue Heaven within the River of Time and Space.

Xuantian discussed the supreme realm with Luohou, then traced Chaos to its origin and witnessed a vision connected to his past as Feng Xing Tian. After awakening with greatly increased cultivation, he returned to his own spacetime and met a supreme being he addressed as Huang, who showed him the Primordial Ancient Great World.

• Xuantian discovered that Blue Heaven and Luohou were two halves of one entity, and Luohou confronted him after sensing his observation.
• Xuantian and Luohou discussed their plans and the nature of supremacy, after which Luohou returned to her era to pursue the Ruler's position as both god and demon.
• Xuantian traveled to the beginning of Hongmeng Chaos and showed a miniature world that brought the Chaos Demon Gods a vision of a supreme being attaining supremacy.
• Xuantian recognized the Reincarnation Demon God as Feng Xing Tian, then fell into Dao comprehension and awoke after a Hunyuan Limitless Calamity with the Five Elements and Thunder Laws at the Chaos Master realm.
• Xuantian returned to his own spacetime and met a white-robed supreme being, whom he addressed as Huang.
• Huang showed Xuantian the Primordial Ancient Great World and said its strongest inhabitants had reached the Half-Step Ruler realm, while Xuantian's original body's world had a being at the pinnacle of the first Ruler level.

Xuantian gathered Hong Huang’s powers to transform the Saint Realm into an Illusory World where beings could grow and eventually become real. After billions of years of work, the three Dao webs formed, bringing vast merit and strengthening the realm, while Houtu’s rise as a Ruler prompted other powers to pursue breakthroughs.

• Xuantian created the Humanity Diagram, a Chaos Spirit Treasure, and placed it in the Kongtong Seal to stabilize humanity’s fortune.
• Houtu became a Ruler, strengthening the Six Paths of Reincarnation and the Witch Race, while other Half-Step Rulers resolved to seek breakthroughs.
• Xuantian assembled Hong Huang’s leaders and proposed using the Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Dao webs to transform the Saint Realm into an Illusory World.
• Cultivators contributed their insights for ten thousand years, and the assembled experts spent 6.4 billion years weaving the three Dao webs into the Saint Realm’s Origin Space.
• The transformation brought immense merit to Hong Huang’s living beings and upgraded Xuantian’s treasures, while Luohou and Blue Heaven vanished after entering enlightenment.
• Xuantian, Pangu, and Huang discussed the hidden dangers posed by surviving beings from the age of Chaos and agreed to remain vigilant.

Xuantian watched Hong Huang’s power and its people grow as more experts became Dominators, including Luohou and Blue Heaven, who merged their Divine and Demon Dao breakthroughs. The chapter ended with Xiao Yao becoming a Dominator, uniting with the Human Dao, and inviting all living beings to hear her preach at Ancestral City Academy in nine yuanhui.

• Xuantian discovered that Hong Huang Chaos had expanded into three thousand chaos dimensions, entered one of their Primordial Worlds, and explored it through a manifestation of his will.
• Luohou and Blue Heaven proved their Daos and merged into one Dominator, with Luohou reaching the ninth level of the early Chaos Master stage.
• Xuantian used the corpses of Half-Step Rulers and Dominators to transform his secret realm’s universe into a Dominator-level world, strengthening Hong Huang as well.
• Across successive Hunyuan Limitless Calamities, Nuwa, Taiqing, other Saints, and members of the Human Race advanced, while Huang Tian and Hongjun became Dominators.
• Xiao Yao summoned the River of Time and Space and the Human Race’s fortune, reclaimed her True Spirit, and became a Dominator of the Great Dao of Dreams.
• Xiao Yao wielded the Humanity Diagram to unite with the Human Dao, then invited all living beings to hear her preach at Ancestral City Academy in nine yuanhui.

Xiao Yao preached to the Primordial World’s gathered cultivators, while Fuxi planned to seek breakthroughs beyond Human Territory and Xuantian advanced toward Hongmeng. When the Heavenly Abyss World invaded, Hongjun led the Primordial World’s forces to intercept it, and the two sides prepared to fight.

• Xiao Yao became the Human Dao’s Dominator and, nine yuanhui later, preached at Ancestral Land Academy to cultivators from across the Primordial World.
• Fuxi announced that he would leave the Human Race to temper himself in the Heavens and Myriad Worlds, hoping to reach Half-Step Ruler.
• After more than ten thousand Hunyuan Limitless Calamities, Xuantian reached Great Perfection in the first level of the Dominator Realm and sensed that he had entered half a step into Hongmeng.
• A light screen revealed the Heavenly Abyss World’s invasion, so Hongjun gathered the Primordial World’s experts and ordered them to intercept its army in the depths of chaos.
• The Heavenly Abyss leaders confronted Hongjun’s army, then recoiled when Xiao Yao, Huang Tian, Luohou, Houtu, Huang, Pangu, and Xuantian appeared as seven Dominators.
• The Lord of the Heavenly Abyss invoked the power of his world to reach the peak of Chaos Master and prepared to fight Xuantian and Pangu.

The Primordial World defeated the Heavenly Abyss invasion, and Xuantian refined the invaders’ remains to strengthen the Xuantian Realm and advance his cultivation. After countless years, the realm began its ascent to an advanced Ruler World, leaving its inhabitants immersed in a world-shaking opportunity.

• Pangu, Xuantian, and the Primordial World’s factions deployed their great formations and fought the Heavenly Abyss forces, whose Quasi-Saints and Hunyuan powerhouses suffered heavy losses.
• The Primordial side sealed or drove off the Heavenly Abyss Half-Step Rulers, and Pangu and Xuantian killed the Heavenly Abyss Lord and the other six Rulers.
• Shi Changfeng, Shi Li, and the Nine Armies’ commanders advanced their cultivation through the battle, while many other fighters also broke through.
• Xuantian refined the origins and corpses of the invaders, advancing the Xuantian Realm and reaching the peak of the Half-Step Rule Ruler realm.
• The Xuantian Realm began advancing toward an advanced Ruler World, and its countless inhabitants stopped their activities to comprehend the surging Dao rhymes.
• After more than a hundred million million years, a light resembling the birth of heaven and earth rose within the Xuantian Realm, and its inhabitants felt that everything had been renewed.

After the Xuantian Realm advanced, Xuantian reached the perfected Half-Step Rule Dominator Realm and drew the attention of supreme beings across the chaos. Hundreds of millions of years later, Hong Huang prepared to defend itself as a great world approached its borders.

• The Xuantian Realm advanced into an advanced Dominator world, and the resulting energy and insights brought Xuantian to the perfected Half-Step Rule Dominator Realm.
• Xuantian accidentally released his aura across Hong Huang and the chaos, shocking Shi Hao, Pangu, Houtu, Xiao Yao, Luohou, Huang Tian, and Nuwa.
• Daoist Shichen and Yang Mei appeared before Xuantian and discussed the surviving Demon Gods of the Chaos Era and the Primordial Origin.
• After hundreds of millions of years, the eight Dominators gathered at the Cosmic Border Wasteland when a great world in the chaos began moving toward Hong Huang.
• Hong Huang's powers answered the Myriad Dao Bell and assembled behind the Great Wall, where Hongjun warned that the approaching world could erase their defensive advantage.

Hong Huang fought a devastating war against the Divine Origin Great World, then rebuilt its strength as many cultivators attained the Dao. After Xuantian emerged from ten thousand Hunyuan Limitless Calamities as an early-stage Hongmeng Dominator, he found Hong Huang’s great powers gathered at Kunlun for a Dao discussion.

• The Divine Origin Great World invaded Hong Huang, and its first army was destroyed by the Great Wall before Pangu and the other defenders joined the battle.
• Xuantian and the leaders of Hong Huang fought the Divine Origin forces through repeated invasions, and the million-year war ended in a standoff after Hong Huang gained the advantage.
• After ten million years of recovery, Ao Peng and many other cultivators attained the Dao, followed by Ao Wuxu, Feng Wu Dao, Batian, and Di Tian becoming Dominators.
• Xuantian secluded himself on Samsara Island while the war continued, then emerged after ten thousand Hunyuan Limitless Calamities as an early-stage Hongmeng Dominator.
• Xuantian discovered that the great powers had gathered at Kunlun for a Dao discussion, where Jiang Chen began by expounding the corpse Dao.

Haotian and the Saints led a debate to change heaven’s laws, choosing Nuwa to revise them and Yang Jian to help overcome Hongjun’s lingering restrictions. As calamity energy spread across Hong Huang, Yang Chan secretly gave birth to her son with Liu Yanchang.

• Haotian argued that heaven’s laws had to change, and the Three Pure Ones and other Saints supported him as a way to advance their cultivation.
• Fuxi asked who would revise the laws, and Haotian proposed Nuwa; Jidu secured a rule allowing gods and immortals to marry and feel desire.
• Haotian proposed that Yang Jian lead the effort to change the laws, and Yang Jian accepted so he could free his mother from the remaining restrictions.
• Shi Changfeng declared that the calamity’s leading figures would be chosen by heaven and that the Saints must not interfere; calamity energy then obscured the workings of heaven.
• Yang Chan secretly endured childbirth at the foot of Mount Hua, gave birth to a radiant boy, and Liu Yanchang embraced her and said he did not want another child.

Yang Jian learned that Yang Chan had borne a mortal’s son, Chen Xiang, and sought advice on how to protect her from Haotian and heavenly law. After consulting the Queen Mother and Yu Ding Zhenren, he faced the painful choice of confining his sister himself to keep her alive.

• Yang Chan told Liu Yanchang to name their newborn son Chen Xiang, while Xuantian watched the birth and recognized the child’s extraordinary potential.
• Yaochi visited Yang Jian at Guanjiang Estuary, revealed Yang Chan’s marriage and childbirth, and urged him to keep her safe before Haotian learned the news.
• Yaochi explained that she wanted to spare Haotian the political damage of punishing Yang Chan publicly, and Yang Jian thanked her while remaining wary.
• Yang Jian went to Mount Yuquan and told Yu Ding Zhenren that Yang Chan had married a mortal and borne a child.
• Yu Ding Zhenren concealed their conversation from heavenly detection and advised Yang Jian to confine Yang Chan himself, leaving Yang Jian struggling to act against his sister.

Yang Jian suppressed Yang Chan beneath Mount Hua after she used the Lotus Lantern to send Liu Yanchang and Chen Xiang away. Eighteen years later, Yang Jiao confronted Yang Jian over his treatment of their sister, and the brothers approached Chen Xiang, who asked whether they knew his mother.

• Yang Jian decided to spare Liu Yanchang and Chen Xiang, while Yang Chan used the Lotus Lantern to send them away before Yang Jian suppressed her beneath Mount Hua.
• Liu Yanchang raised Chen Xiang in a remote village and kept him from cultivating, while Yang Jian secretly watched them from the heavens.
• Yang Jiao attacked Yang Jian in a spatial rift, accusing him of failing to protect Yang Chan, then urged him to go see Chen Xiang.
• Yang Jiao and Yang Jian appeared beside Chen Xiang at a lake and revealed that they were his uncles.
• Chen Xiang asked Yang Jiao and Yang Jian whether they knew who his mother was.

Haotian used his divine power to bring Chen Xiang’s soul to Mount Hua, where he met his imprisoned mother, Yang Chan. After Chen Xiang returned home, he declared that he would find her, and Liu Yanchang demanded to know who had told him she was on Mount Hua.

• Chen Xiang told Yang Jiao and Yang Jian that he wanted a comfortable life and to see his mother, so Yang Jian gave him a rattle to summon him.
• Haotian sent divine radiance to lull a village to sleep and carried Chen Xiang’s soul to Mount Hua.
• Yang Chan revealed that she was Chen Xiang’s mother, but Yang Jian’s restrictions repeatedly hurled Chen Xiang away when he tried to reach her.
• Haotian’s radiance carried Chen Xiang back home after Yang Chan urged him to keep their meeting secret.
• Chen Xiang woke and resolved to find his mother, then told Liu Yanchang that she was on Mount Hua.
• Liu Yanchang confronted Chen Xiang and asked who had told him where his mother was.

Chen Xiang learned that Yang Chan was imprisoned beneath Mount Hua and asked Yang Jian to teach him cultivation so he could save her. Yang Jian refused to release her, and Chen Xiang vowed to find another way to rescue his mother.

• Chen Xiang resisted Liu Yanchang’s attempt to confine him, while Liu Yanchang worried about his son’s resolve and future.
• Shi Nan visited Yang Jian at Guanjiang Estuary and told him that Chen Xiang’s ordeal could help him develop his potential and change the Heavenly Rules.
• Yang Jian heard Chen Xiang’s rattle drum and appeared in the cottage, where Chen Xiang asked to learn cultivation and explained what Yang Chan had told him at Mount Hua.
• Yang Jian argued that Yang Chan had violated the Heavenly Rules by loving a mortal and refused Chen Xiang’s plea to free her.
• Yang Jian offered Chen Xiang wealth and power instead, but Chen Xiang rejected them and declared that he would save his mother himself.

Yang Jian told Yang Tianyou and Yaoji about Yang Chan’s marriage to a mortal and their grandson, Chen Xiang, while Chen Xiang discovered the Lotus Lantern and escaped Yang Jian’s restrictions. Meanwhile, Ao Guang sent Ao Chun to take part in the calamity and urged him to navigate the rivalries among the ancient races.

• Yang Jian visited Yang Tianyou and Yaoji at Peach Mountain, where Yaoji urged him to find a Dao companion and give her grandchildren.
• Yang Jian revealed that Yang Chan had married a mortal and given birth to Chen Xiang, then explained the situation to his parents while concealing the coming calamity.
• Yang Jiao entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the Fourth Heaven after learning about the situation.
• Chen Xiang found the Lotus Lantern, received basic cultivation knowledge from it, and was carried away in a flash of azure light.
• Ao Guang asked Ao Chun to descend and gain experience in the calamity, telling him to interact with young talents from the Phoenix and Qilin races.
• Ao Guang warned Ao Chun that the Demon Race would also act, and Ao Chun promised to make his own decisions and not disappoint his father.