Chapter Summaries

As the Dao-Devil War continued, revolts broke out in the Western Lands while Temüjin conquered the Great Song Dynasty and founded Great Yuan. He rejected the need for Human Race recognition, imposed a four-rank order, and sent his generals to expand his rule, leaving him determined to rival the emperor of Great Qin.

• Rebels led by the Golden Lion Clan attacked Spirit Mountain, where Kui Mo defeated the Nine-Headed Golden Lion King in a single strike.
• Temüjin's four-clawed Divine Dragon devoured the Great Song Dynasty's weakened five-clawed dragon, and Temüjin took the Human King's throne.
• Liang Chunqiu urged Temüjin to perform the Fengshan rites on Mount Tai, but Temüjin named his dynasty Yuan and proclaimed four ranks among its people.
• Temüjin ordered the Keshig Guard to torture Liang Chunqiu and issued a decree that erased his good reputation and altered the memories of people below Quasi-Saint level.
• Temüjin dispatched Borshu, Muqali, Chilaun, and Boroqul with armies to conquer or pacify different territories.
• Temüjin dismissed the court and declared that he would not fall behind the emperor of Great Qin.

Wu Tian faced the Dao Sect’s Hunyuan masters and tried to complete the Dao-Demon Record, which would separate heaven and mortals. As western beings rallied to protect him, Mu Ling sacrificed his Dao power to help complete the treasure, leaving Wu Tian to continue the battle.

• Temüjin learned that a prophet had forced him to abolish the policy dividing the Human Race into four classes.
• Wu Tian gathered battlefield blood and remains to forge the Dao-Demon Record, but Xuandu and the Dao Sect masters attacked and disrupted its formation.
• Wu Tian chose to remain and fight the Hunyuan masters, while the western battlefield’s Demon Realm fighters suffered heavy losses.
• Mu Ling remembered Wu Tian freeing him from the chief god of Life and left the Divine Kingdom to help save him.
• Western mortals and cultivators rallied at the eastern and western border, bringing their collective providence to Wu Tian’s side.
• Mu Ling sacrificed his Dao power to the Dao-Demon Record, and Wu Tian understood what he was doing but turned away.

Mu Ling and countless beings of the Western Lands sacrificed themselves to empower Wu Tian and the Dao-Demon Record. Xuandu entered the Record to balance its Dao and Devil forces, then confronted Wu Tian over his motives, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Mu Ling dissolved into the Dao, and an old Buddhist cultivator and many beings of the Western Lands sent their power into the Dao-Demon Record.
• Wu Tian questioned whether his goal of equality justified the sacrifices, then steadied his resolve after hearing the Western Lands support him.
• Zhunti wanted to stop the sacrifices, but Jieyin warned him that intervening could cost him his Saintly position.
• Xuandu let the sacrifices' power pass through the Taiji Diagram, drew on the Human Sect's fortune, and entered the Dao-Demon Record to strengthen its Dao Mountains and confront Wu Tian.
• Wu Tian explained that his grief over A Xiu and his wish to free all beings had driven him to pursue a Buddhist kingdom through the Devil Dao.
• Xuandu told Wu Tian that his obsession had blinded him and that his path led only to death.

Xuandu and Wu Tian wagered on whether people deprived of cultivation would seek to rise above ordinary life, as Wu Tian forged the Dao-Demon Record into a sealed world. After humanity advanced through technology and one scientist accidentally awakened a bloodline, Wu Tian conceded defeat and died, leaving Xuandu to continue his path.

• Xuandu challenged Wu Tian’s belief in equality, and Wu Tian proposed a wager using the world inside the Dao-Demon Record.
• The Western Lands’ inhabitants sacrificed themselves to complete the Dao-Demon Record, which gathered mortal beings onto the Dao Mountains and sealed away cultivation.
• Humanity forgot the age of myth, formed a federation, and advanced through science and technology while seeking ways to evolve.
• Qiming’s genetic serum awakened a human test subject’s bloodline, turning him into a powerful, mindless monster that resisted the laboratory’s weapons.
• Wu Tian and Xuandu stopped time and examined the serum, and Xuandu explained that its power overwhelmed anyone below the Immortal level.
• Wu Tian admitted defeat and asked Xuandu to carry on his path; Xuandu agreed, and Wu Tian dissolved into the Dao as Hongjun and Rahu observed.

Wu Tian survived his dissolution into the Dao, accepted a Ruler as his master, and began refining a powerful Chaos Spirit Treasure. In Hong Huang, Xuandu chose to cultivate myriad Daos through the Dao-Demon Record, while Temüjin’s invasion of Great Qi brought Zhu Yuanzhang’s forces to Dadu.

• Wu Tian met a Ruler who revealed that his earlier appearance had been an avatar, accepted Wu Tian as a disciple, and gave him an unnamed Acquired Chaos Spirit Treasure to refine.
• Xuandu emerged from the Dao-Demon Record as its artifact spirit, and Zhunti came to claim the treasure before Haoran persuaded him to leave.
• Haoran offered Xuandu a choice between regaining a Dao body by reducing the treasure’s rank or becoming the Heavenly Dao of its world, and Xuandu chose to cultivate myriad Daos.
• Haoran explained that Xuandu needed a guiding Dao to govern his other Daos as Hong Huang prepared to send armies into chaos.
• Temüjin’s ambition led him to invade Great Qi, and Zhu Yuanzhang’s army surrounded Dadu as Temüjin faced the challenge of Zhu’s growing military strength.

Fuxi gave Temüjin one last chance as the Mongol leader withdrew after Duke Huan of Qi crushed his ambitions. Haoran organized the Hundred Clans Passage into the Chaos, and the chapter ended as a Confucian cultivator in Jiuzhou rebuilt his shattered literary heart into a Heavenly Palace.

• Temüjin learned that the Prophet might have abandoned him, while Fuxi sent a rune to Duke Huan of Qi, prompting the duke to withdraw and Temüjin to rebuild his strength.
• Haoran convened the leaders of Hong Huang's peoples and proposed a shared passage through which young talents could travel into the Chaos.
• Haoran described the Chaos's nine foremost powers and revealed that Pangu had survived the Heaven-Opening and protected Hong Huang from outside threats.
• The gathered factions built Hundred Clans Heaven City and a teleportation array, then appointed Xuanyuan to lead the Human Race's first contingent of guards.
• In Jiuzhou, a Confucian scholar's literary heart appeared to shatter after three hundred thousand years of meditation, but righteous energy restored his literary palace as a majestic Heavenly Palace.

Wang Shouren forged Heart Learning into a Saint Dao and attained the Confucian Saint realm, prompting Haoran to share the Vast Righteous Dao’s fortune with scholars and appoint the seven Saints as deputy Dao Lords. Much later, the Yuhua Dynasty conquered Great Jin, while Houtu visited her master Shui Yuechu, who revealed she had reached Great Perfection as a Chaos Master before Heaven-Opening.

• Wang Shouren completed Heart Learning, attained the Dao as a Confucian Saint, and used a word to move the beings in Dragon Field out of danger.
• Haoran welcomed Wang Shouren into the Ancestral Land, made the Confucian Saints deputy Dao Lords, and distributed part of his fortune among scholars, enabling many to advance.
• The years passed as Hong Huang’s powers took turns guarding Hundred Clans Heaven City, and the Evolving Immortal Dynasty rose into the Yuhua Dynasty under the Great Ming Emperor Dynasty.
• Liu Chenxiang defeated Sima Dewen’s forces, accepted Great Jin’s surrender, and ordered Yun Dingtian to secure the capital.
• Houtu arrived at the Taiyi Realm and met Shui Yuechu, who told her she had attained Great Perfection as a Chaos Master before Heaven-Opening.

Shui Yuechu and Houtu investigated the mysterious gate in the Blood Sea, while Xuantian advanced his cultivation and toured Hong Huang. Hongjun used the myriad races to suppress Luohou’s Demonic Dao, but his attempt to merge with the Heavenly Dao failed, leaving him searching for another path.

• Houtu told Shui Yuechu that living souls had stopped entering reincarnation and that a Great Witch had vanished after entering the Return Ruins Gate; Shui Yuechu divined that the matter was shrouded in Chaos.
• Styx reported that the Great Witch had entered a stone gate over three hundred years earlier, and Shui Yuechu identified a destructive power seen nearby as a weakened form of a force wielded by at least a half-step Hongmeng being.
• Shui Yuechu and Houtu went to the gate’s former location, where Ruins Beasts attacked; Houtu destroyed them, and the two returned to Hong Huang to keep watch.
• Xuantian nurtured a mysterious seed for billions of calamity epochs, advanced to the mid-stage Hongmeng realm, and traveled through Hong Huang while concealing his presence.
• Hongjun used the myriad races and the authority of Heaven and Humanity to suppress Luohou’s Demonic Dao, then entered the Heavenly Dao’s source space to merge with it.
• The Heavenly Dao rejected Hongjun, and he began searching for where his path had gone wrong.

Hongjun, Luohou, Xuantian, and Pangu entered the Return Ruins to uncover its secrets and encountered its powerful inhabitants. As Ruins Beasts surrounded them, Xu revealed himself as Creation and challenged Pangu and Xuantian, leaving Hongjun and Luohou to face the beasts.

• Hongjun and Luohou visited Xuantian, then invited him and Pangu to investigate the Return Ruins.
• Styx sealed the Blood Sea while the four entered the Return Ruins and fought through waves of Ruins Beasts.
• At the far side of the Dao Sea, the group encountered Xu, along with Qiankun and Five Elements, who blocked their way back.
• Xu struck Hongjun’s Creation Jade Disc, but Pangu intervened and identified Xu as Creation.
• Xuantian offered to fight Xu while Pangu told Hongjun and Luohou to focus on the surrounding Ruins Beasts.

Xuantian defeated Fortune in the Return Ruins and seized him, while Pangu, Hongjun, and Luohou fought their way through the Ruins forces. Afterward, Xuantian returned to cultivate, and Hong Huang’s powers prepared for the threat as its human dynasties continued to grow.

• Xuantian and Fortune fought to a standstill while Pangu battled the Ruins Beasts and Hongjun and Luohou fought Qiankun, Five Elements, and the other Return Ruins beings.
• Xuantian struck Fortune with the Pure World White Lotus and captured him, while Pangu left Hongjun and Luohou to handle the remaining enemies.
• Xuantian and Pangu met at the Return Ruins Gate, where Xuantian gave Styx the Chaos Spirit Treasure Chengying and asked him to guard the gate.
• Xuantian returned to the Xuantian Realm to cultivate, while Hongjun and Luohou warned Hong Huang’s experts about the Return Ruins and many entered seclusion.
• After a Hunyuan Limitless Calamity, Great Yuan and Ascension joined the Human Race’s existing Emperor Dynasties, and both showed signs of forming an alliance.

After hundreds upon thousands of Limitless Calamities, Xuantian completed his refinement of Return Ruins as Yang Jian and Yang Jiao prepared to leave the ninth heavenly layer. Chaos then led a Return Ruins invasion into Hong Huang, where Pangu confronted him and the realm’s forces joined the battle; the chapter ended as ten more Dominators broke into the realm and destroyed the ancient starry sky’s defenses.

• Xuantian finished assimilating Return Ruins and forged its body into the supreme-grade Chaos Spirit Treasure, Return Ruins.
• Shi Mu met Yang Jian and Yang Jiao, told them about Chan'er and Chen Xiang, and introduced them to Shi Yu and Shi Nan before Return Ruins began moving again.
• Chaos led the Return Ruins army through the stone gate into Hong Huang, grievously wounded Styx and Houtu, and faced Pangu in battle.
• Hong Huang’s major factions gathered at the Blood Sea and fought the invading army while Pangu and Chaos clashed within a sealed battlefield.
• Ten more Dominators entered Hong Huang and overwhelmed the ancient starry sky’s defenses, annihilating countless demons and humans.

Xuantian, Pangu, and the gods of Hong Huang defeated the Return Ruins invasion, while the shattered Blood Sea threatened to destroy the land. Pangu restored the Blood Sea, and a thousand years later, merit descended upon those who had defended Hong Huang.

• Xuantian seized the invading Dominators and their army, restored the fallen defenders, and joined the battle in the Return Ruins.
• Pangu combined the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, and Chaos Bell into the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and wounded Chaos, while the Blood Sea burst and spread across Hong Huang.
• Suiren called the Human Ancestral Land to form arrays against the Blood Sea, and the myriad races joined forces to protect Hong Huang.
• A mysterious finger took Chaos away, and Xuantian killed the remaining Return Ruins Dominators, ending the greatest crisis Hong Huang had faced.
• Pangu gathered the fallen invaders’ blood and used Divine Fire to restore the shattered Blood Sea over a thousand years.
• Merit descended upon Hong Huang’s defenders, with Xuantian and Pangu receiving the largest shares and Huang receiving fifteen percent.

After the Fiendgod of Fate attempted to transcend and died, Pangu, Xuantian, and Huang discovered that immeasurable calamity was forming in a vast desert deep within chaos. Ages passed as the Primordial World expanded and its powerhouses advanced, while the three continued investigating the growing calamity qi.

• The Three Pure Ones reached Half-Step Ruler great perfection, Fuxi became a Half-Step Ruler, and the Human Race reorganized its leadership and established the Elders' Pavilion.
• The Fiendgod of Fate fused his Dao Domain with his body, briefly glimpsed the vista beyond, then dissolved into chaos as all living beings mourned.
• Huang arrived and revealed that he had attained the Emperor Realm of rules; after the Wheel of Fate vanished, he, Pangu, and Xuantian discovered calamity qi forming in a boundless desert and began investigating it.
• The Primordial World expanded through countless ages as worlds and races joined it, while the three remained in the desert and tested the calamity qi.
• Huang reached half-step void great perfection, and several beings across the Primordial World and chaos attained the level of Emperor Realm rules Dominators.

Huang survived the human tribulation’s first assault after transcending and destroying his original attackers, while Pangu and Samsara watched the Dao tribulation unfold. The chapter ended with Huang gravely wounded as the resurrected demon gods and countless tribulation-corrupted beings attacked him.

• Huang struck down Fate’s imprint, then annihilated the weaker attackers, but nearly a hundred Dominator Supreme Treasures exploded and shattered his body.
• Shi Fan, Shi Xiao, and others prepared to defend Huang, but Xuantian stopped them from interfering with his Dao-attainment tribulation.
• Huang received an eternal true crystal, transcended, and returned to destroy more than two thousand Dominators who had attacked him.
• After billions of years, tribulation energy swept through chaos, and Huang’s Dao fruit emerged amid the calamity and absorbed its energy as the Dao tribulation ended.
• Pangu and Samsara observed that Huang had obtained the One That Escaped, then the human tribulation began as the resurrected demon gods and billions of corrupted beings attacked him.
• The assault collapsed half of chaos and hurled Huang backward, leaving him gravely wounded.

After Huang transcended and the Boundless Calamity devastated Hong Huang, Pangu, Xuantian, Houtu, and Nuwa arranged to guide the world’s Daos and begin the Desolate Ancient Era. The story then shifted to Great Qian, where the Carefree Marquis Lin Yi secretly read a banned Martial Scripture from a cache of books he had found.

• Samsara told Pangu and Huang that Huang’s Transcendence had dispelled the Boundless Calamity and begun a new era, while most living beings lost their memories of it.
• Xuantian and Pangu surveyed the devastation, found that Nuwa alone among the Sages had survived by drawing on the Human Dao, and summoned her and Houtu to help guide Hong Huang.
• Pangu joined with the Heavenly Dao, Xuantian took the Devil Dao, and Nuwa and Houtu agreed to guide the Human and Earthly Daos as the Desolate Ancient Era began.
• Xuantian withdrew the Human Ancestral Land and the Shi Clan into the Xuantian Realm, while the nine great clans and eleven emperor dynasties vied for power.
• Xuantian appointed Wu Tian to handle the Devil Dao, then entered the Demon Palace; Pangu took over Purple Cloud Palace and renamed it the Heavenly Palace.
• The story shifted to Great Qian, where Lin Yi secretly read the banned Martial Scripture using books he had stored in a ring.

Lin Yi visited a mountain valley and discovered a clan of foxes studying human books, where he encountered Consort Yuan. Elder Tu showed him the Fox Clan’s vast library, much of it salvaged from the destroyed Great Chan Temple.

• Lin Yi secretly reviewed the martial and Daoist cultivation stages and reflected on how he had concealed his power from the royal family.
• Lin Yi saw through an illusion near Autumn Moon Temple and followed strange lights into the mountains.
• Lin Yi found dozens of foxes reading books and met their formal elder, Elder Tu.
• Consort Yuan appeared, greeted Lin Yi, and quickly departed after asking Elder Tu to entertain him.
• Elder Tu brought Lin Yi to the Fox Clan’s library, where Lin Yi recognized books bearing the seal of Great Chan Temple.
• Lin Yi recalled how Great Chan Temple had been destroyed after plotting rebellion and considered why the court treated Buddhist and Daoist institutions differently.

Lin Yi taught Old Tu and the little foxes the Qi Refining Method while organizing the Pure Fox Clan’s library, then studied the Great Chan Temple’s Amitabha Sutra. After more than half a month in Western Mountain Valley, he helped the foxes learn and cultivate, and Xiao Sang asked him to help Xiao Shu form true qi.

• Lin Yi agreed to sort the library books and gave Old Tu a Qi Refining Method to cultivate.
• Lin Yi made Mimic Voice Talismans for Tu Shan Sang and the other little foxes, allowing them to speak human words.
• Lin Yi explained how Old Tu could cultivate his fox acupoints and eventually transform into human form.
• Lin Yi studied the Amitabha Sutra, whose visions brought him a deep sense of peace and insight into the past.
• Lin Yi spent over half a month in the valley organizing books and caring for the little foxes while Old Tu advanced in Qi Refining.
• Xiao Sang asked Lin Yi to help Xiao Shu form true qi because she had fallen behind the other young foxes.

Lin Yi brought Hong Yi to the secluded valley to teach the foxes and later agreed to guide Hong Yi in cultivation. Old Tu chose to pursue qi refinement, while Bai Ziyue, the White Ape King, arrived and began training Hong Yi in martial arts.

• Lin Yi helped Xiao Shu cultivate true qi, and Consort Yuan later brought Hong Yi to the valley to teach the foxes.
• Old Tu chose to pursue qi refinement, so Lin Yi taught him a method to refine qi and transform the spirit.
• Lin Yi hid the valley from a group of noble hunters, then welcomed Bai Ziyue, who shared spirit wine with the others.
• Hong Yi recited a poem that delighted Bai Ziyue, and the two quickly became friends.
• Bai Ziyue taught Hong Yi the Bull Demon Great Strength Fist while Lin Yi watched.

Lin Yi killed the Unborn Mother at the Great Chan Temple ruins, then traveled south and encountered a golden spider attacking travelers on the Southern Province Ancient Road. After capturing it, he learned that it was the granddaughter of the Rouran Empire’s Golden Spider Dharma King.

• Lin Yi overwhelmed the Unborn Mother at the Great Chan Temple ruins and killed her as she tried to summon divine protections.
• In Jade Capital, Little Crane told Crown Prince Yang Yuan that the Unborn Mother was dead, and he asked Little Crane to take charge of the Unborn Sect.
• Lin Yi took an incomplete copy of the Future Unborn Scripture from the Unborn Mother’s divine soul and discarded its impure wish power.
• At Yellow Millet Town, Lin Yi heard reports of a monster attacking travelers on the Southern Province Ancient Road and continued south after dining at the Yellow Millet Restaurant.
• A golden spider trapped a group of travelers in its web, but Lin Yi repelled its attack and pursued it into the woods.
• Lin Yi captured the golden spider, which spoke and claimed that its grandfather was the Golden Spider Dharma King, Imperial Preceptor of Rouran.

Lin Yi overcame a heart demon and forged his primordial spirit, then sailed with Jin Ling'er to Giant Whale Island, where he found pirates who had founded a kingdom. Inside their palace, he retrieved a hidden scripture from a Buddha statue, leaving Jin Ling'er recognizing its significance.

• Lin Yi subdued the Golden Spider and brought her to Shuiyang Province, where she revealed that her grandfather planned to reincarnate and marry her off to a Rouran prince.
• A wave of loneliness nearly drew Lin Yi into Nirvana, but Jin Ling'er called him back, allowing him to forge his primordial spirit and affect the dreams of everyone in Shuiyang Province.
• Lin Yi and Jin Ling'er sailed to Giant Whale Island, where they discovered a vast settlement, fertile farmland, and a city ruled by pirates calling themselves the Giant Whale Kingdom.
• Lin Yi entered the Giant Whale Kingdom Imperial Palace and found a hidden underground chamber containing a giant Buddha statue.
• Lin Yi extracted a piece of golden-thread nanmu heartwood from the statue and retrieved a scripture concealed inside it, prompting Jin Ling'er to recognize the scripture's name.