Chapter Summaries

Jun Tianxia invited the visitors to critique the Dao Palace’s training system and offered a chance to cultivate under him. After Shi Hao proposed sending young disciples into the Lower Realm to prove themselves, Jun Tianxia investigated the visitors’ histories and considered how such a test could work.

• Xiao Chu arranged rooms with Dao-comprehension cushions and realm-specific insights for the visiting cultivators.
• Xiao Ruohan guided the visitors through the Dao Palace and brought them to the Inheritance Hall, where Jun Tianxia was studying images of children.
• Jun Tianxia asked the visitors how the Dao Palace’s training system could be improved and promised useful advisers a chance to cultivate under him for one era.
• Shi Hao proposed sending young disciples into the Lower Realm to survive and return through their own efforts, and Ye Fan supported the idea.
• Xiao Xuan warned that many disciples had powerful relatives who would resist risking their descendants’ futures.
• Jun Tianxia investigated the visitors’ pasts and the Lower Realm, then considered allowing those who failed to return to be brought back with less support.

Dao Palace elders approved a proposal allowing younger disciples to choose a dangerous trial, and the Holy Land Ranking competition began after the gathering assembled. Xiao Ruohan claimed first place, followed by disciples from across the holy lands.

• Jun Tianxia reviewed the elders’ opinions, found that most supported the proposal, and accepted the choice to join the trial, with failed participants allowed to return at reduced cultivation.
• Three days later, eight powerful figures and delegations from the holy lands gathered at the Dao Palace for the competition.
• Di Lingtian explained the ranking contests and their drawing-lot rules, then opened the Holy Land Ranking.
• Billions of participants drew lots and fought in time-accelerated arenas until the seventy-two ranked places were decided.
• Xiao Ruohan took first place, followed by Luo Shuai, Tianqi, Lin Li, Wufa, Qin Ming, Chu Tian, Ye Zhang, Lu Feng, and Shi Quan.

The Hidden Dragon Ranking tournament began with Jiang Cheng and Myriad Books battling for first place, before a series of powerful challengers reshaped the contest. Jiang Cheng remained a contender, but the appearance of more formidable fighters threatened the rankings of those below them.

• Emperor Ling Tian announced that contestants could challenge for rank and that the fighter who remained on the arena would take first place.
• Jiang Cheng defeated Myriad Books with his Creation Divine Fist, then Ye Yishui defeated Myriad Books and lost to Jiang Cheng.
• The Willow Deity challenged Jiang Cheng and defeated him with her life laws.
• Shi Yi stepped onto the arena to fight the Willow Deity as Jiang Cheng and Myriad Books lamented the arrival of more powerful contenders.
• Xiao Jun quietly noted that the tournament's unexpected challengers made his plan seem feasible.

The Hidden Dragon Ranking battles ended with Other Shore cultivators dominating the top ten, while the Chaos Ranking advancement matches began with ten Wuji Realm experts taking their places. Xiao Xuan chose to watch rather than challenge, judging himself too weak to compete.

• Shi Yi defeated the Willow Deity, but Shi Fan narrowly beat Shi Yi and briefly claimed first place before Ruthless and other contestants began their challenges.
• After several years of matches, Other Shore Ruthless ranked first on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, followed by Shi Fan, Wu Shi, Shi Yi, and the Willow Deity.
• The eight holy land masters were surprised by Other Shore's strong showing and considered recruiting its rising geniuses, while Xiao Jun saw value in sending young disciples to the lower heavens to gain experience.
• Ten Wuji Realm experts, including Shi Xi, Donghuang Tian, Qin Yuan, and Myriad Ages, took their places for the Chaos Ranking advancement matches.
• Long You jokingly invited Xiao Xuan to challenge, but Xiao Xuan declined because he was only in the Taiji Saint Realm and wanted to see how the others fared.

Dong Mu challenged Myriad Ages, the tenth-ranked figure on the Chaos Ranking, and their fight showed the watching Shi Hao, Ye Fan, Chu Feng, Fang Han, and Xiao Xuan the vast gap between Wuji Realm experts and those below them. Dong Mu’s Forgotten River dissolved Myriad Ages’s Heaven-Shrouding Hand Seal, and Myriad Ages began preparing a Spacetime Cleaving Slash as the battle continued.

• Dong Mu entered the arena and challenged Myriad Ages, who welcomed the fight.
• Myriad Ages repeatedly countered Dong Mu’s attacks, while Shi Hao, Ye Fan, Chu Feng, Fang Han, Xiao Xuan, and the others watched and studied their techniques.
• Dong Mu struck Myriad Ages with a powerful blow fueled by the Dragon King Cauldron, forcing both fighters to retreat.
• Myriad Ages proposed settling the fight with one Divine Ability and unleashed the Heaven-Shrouding Hand Seal.
• Dong Mu summoned the Forgotten River, which swallowed and dissolved Myriad Ages’s hand seal.
• Myriad Ages formed the Spacetime Cleaving Slash, and Dong Mu sensed that it could drain his lifespan and sever his body and Primordial Spirit.

Dong Mu lost to Myriad Ages in the Chaos Ranking tournament, and Xiao Xuan broke through to the Wuji Sacred Realm after witnessing their battle. The ranking matches then began, with Tang Dao and Myriad Ages launching a fierce clash that remained unresolved.

• Myriad Ages used Myriad Heavens Samsara to defeat Dong Mu, who accepted his loss despite suffering serious Dao injuries.
• Inspired by the battle, Xiao Xuan entered the Wuji Sacred Realm, and his strength drew attention from Supremes and other powerful cultivators.
• Myriad Ages defeated the challengers who came forward, while Xiao Xuan also fought him and displayed combat power approaching the late stage of the Wuji Sacred Realm.
• After half a month without further challengers, the Chaos Ranking tournament began, and Tang Dao attacked Myriad Ages.
• Tang Dao brought out an ancient beast hide that manifested a pillar of Great Dao laws, while Myriad Ages answered with a devastating strike amid a vision of corpses and blood.

Tang Dao used the Supreme Saint essence blood to strengthen his power, then defeated Myriad Ages with a flawless Great Dao Strike. Myriad Ages accepted the loss and thanked him, while his samsara Dao evolved through the battle.

• Myriad Ages manifested three samsara paths and transformed into three black holes that drew in the world around them.
• Tang Dao resisted the black holes and used the Supreme Saint essence blood to strike his ancestral aperture's divine gate, but stopped before breaking through to the Supreme Saint realm.
• Shi Xi warned that Tang Dao's strength could rise sharply, while Qin Yuan vowed to defeat him anyway.
• Tang Dao gathered the sovereign phantoms into a Great Dao Strike and shattered Myriad Ages' three black holes, splitting them into six.
• Myriad Ages spat blood, admitted defeat, and thanked Tang Dao as the battle further evolved his samsara Dao.

Tang Dao challenged Dongfang Changming for eighth place on the Chaos Ranking, and the two fought with powerful divine abilities. Dongfang Changming shattered Tang Dao’s golden Dao Palace with his Yin-Yang Millstone and left him bloodied and battered.

• Tang Dao taunted Dongfang Changming and challenged him for eighth place, while Dongfang Changming invoked Chaos power and prepared to fight.
• Tang Dao and Dongfang Changming traded attacks, including Tang Dao’s Five Emperors Seal and Dongfang Changming’s Heaven Bell, which blasted Tang Dao billions of light-years away.
• Tang Dao rallied with his divine spear and Spear Dao domain, while Dongfang Changming answered with Yin-Yang laws and formed the Yin-Yang Millstone.
• Tang Dao summoned a golden Dao Palace to defend against the Yin-Yang Millstone, but the millstone shattered it and struck him, leaving him disheveled and bleeding.

The Chaos Ranking Supremes battled to test their strength, with Wuji overwhelming Dongfang Changming before facing opponents whose defenses he could not break. As the top-ranked fighters clashed across time and space, the Sacred Land leaders discussed stepping down and the possibility that Chaos was evolving into a vast world.

• Tang Dao conceded to Dongfang Changming, who then defeated Wuji with a single move and forced him to concede.
• Wuji failed to break Origin’s defense and gave up, while Su Wudao prepared to fight Origin.
• Nangong Tianqi challenged Qin Yuan, who offered to concede if Nangong Tianqi broke his Chaos Star Domain.
• Donghuang Tian and Shi Xi entered the arena, joining the other Supremes in a battle that spanned past, present, and future.
• Ye Junlin and Di Jue praised the Supremes’ Ultimate Saint-level battle prowess and discussed how newer prodigies might eventually rival them.
• Luo Yuanshi shared news that Chaos was evolving toward becoming a world, and Wu Tian considered exploring it as a chance to reach the Chaos Realm.

After the competition, the remaining powerhouses chose sacred lands, and Shi Hao was offered a year under Jun Tianxia before joining Immortal Village. Over the next billion years, Shi Hao and others advanced in cultivation while Xiao Xuan broke through in the Wuji Sacred Realm, drawing Jun Tianxia’s notice.

• The sacred land masters distributed cultivation treasures, displayed their disciples’ environments, and invited the Other Shore powerhouses to choose a sacred land or leave.
• Xiao Jun told Shi Hao that Jun Tianxia had offered to train him in Dao Palace for one era before he joined Immortal Village, and Shi Hao accepted.
• Over the next billion years, Shi Hao reached the Taiji Sacred Realm, while Ruthless, Willow Deity, Shi Fan, Wu Shi, and Shi Yi entered the Dao Lord level.
• Xiao Xuan cultivated in the Mysterious Hall, reached 79.9 percent of the Great Dao laws, and then made a breakthrough that increased his strength.
• Jun Tianxia noticed Xiao Xuan’s breakthrough and reflected that Shi Hao had advanced quickly in the Taiji Realm, regretting that he had not chosen Dao Palace.

Xiao Ruohan learned that Huang and Xuan had advanced rapidly and resolved to enter Chaos through the Return Ruins to train. Her parents revealed that an ancient ancestor had taken notice of her talent, but she had to cross the perilous passage herself; observers in the dimensional void compared her to Xuan as she approached it.

• Ye Xin warned Xiao Ruohan that Huang and Xuan had grown extraordinarily strong, and Xiao Ruohan declared she would enter Chaos to train.
• Ye Xin objected, but Xiao Jun explained that Sky Ancestor had said an ancient ancestor wanted Xiao Ruohan to cultivate under them.
• Xiao Jun recounted the origins of Stone Ancestor's name and the ancient bond between the Xiao Clan's most ancient ancestor and the Immortal Village.
• Xiao Ruohan chose to brave the Return Ruins, and Xiao Jun gave her a token that could summon Sky Ancestor if she faced danger.
• Xiao Ruohan reached the Return Ruins and struggled against the passage's violent aura as powerful observers discussed her and compared her potential with Xuan's.

Xiao Xuan reunited with his former disciple Su Xia in Heaven, gave her knowledge about the worlds beyond it, and respected her choice to seek Transcendence alone. He then exchanged his accumulated insights at the Merit Hall and bought access to the Return Ruins.

• Su Xia, now the Palace Master of the Profound Dao Palace, encountered Xiao Xuan and recognized him as her long-lost master.
• Xiao Xuan gave Su Xia information about the Other Shore, sacred lands, cultivation realms, and the path to Da Luo; Su Xia chose to remain in Heaven and pursue Transcendence on her own.
• Xiao Xuan gave Su Xia a token that could take her to the Other Shore if she changed her mind, then departed.
• At the Merit Hall, Xiao Xuan contributed cultivation arts, Divine Abilities, and Dao insights, earning twenty-seven Dao Points.
• Xiao Xuan spent seven Dao Points to activate Return Ruins access on his identity token.

Xiao Xuan rose through the Dao Palace Wuji Saint Rankings, defeating powerful opponents until he became the new Dao Child. He gained greater authority and access to the Dao Palace, except for the Heaven-level elders’ Forbidden Zones.

• Xiao Xuan watched Shi Hao defeat Xian Wushuang, then challenged Sheng Wuming, who ranked fifteenth.
• Xiao Xuan defeated Sheng Wuming with the Ten Thousand Layers Dao Finger and took fifteenth place.
• Xiao Xuan challenged Jun Lin, ranked tenth, and defeated him after a difficult battle that left him badly injured.
• Over the following billions of years, Xiao Xuan defeated Dao Wushuang and rose to second place on the Wuji Saint Rankings.
• Another billion years later, Xiao Xuan defeated Su Wudao, claimed first place, and became the Dao Palace’s new Dao Child.

After becoming a Dao Palace Dao Child, Xiao Xuan entered Chaos to seek the Dao and encountered two native Demon Gods. His fight with Chaos Demon Ape drew the attention of powerful figures across Chaos, including Xiao Ruohan and Dream Ancestor, while others began considering what the Other Shore’s growing presence might mean.

• Xiao Xuan entered Chaos and wandered for three thousand years before sensing a battle nearby.
• Xiao Xuan interrupted the fight between Chaos Demon Ape and Giant Stone, then sent Chaos Demon Ape flying with a punch.
• Chaos Demon Ape summoned an iron staff and made it explode before Xiao Xuan.
• A giant willow’s old man and Bluestone noticed the battle, while Dream Ancestor showed Xiao Ruohan the scene and Xiao Ruohan recognized Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Ruohan teleported away after vowing to surpass Xiao Xuan, and a burly man on a thirty-six-grade lotus platform sent out balls of light to gather opinions.
• A young man in a peaceful Dao field deduced what was happening and declared that the Other Shore had nothing to fear.

After learning about the Other Shore’s power and the realms of Chaos, Xiao Xuan’s world faced the threat of an alliance of powerful outsiders. Yuanshi gathered the Chaos Demon Gods, who resolved to grow stronger and eventually create a great world to rival the Other Shore.

• The Chaos Demon Ape fled, and Xiao Xuan learned from the Giant Stone Demon God about Chaos’s cultivation realms and the Other Shore’s elders.
• The Chaos Demon Gods gathered in the Hall of Deities after Yuanshi summoned them to discuss the rising prodigies and hidden power of the Other Shore.
• Shi Chen asked Yuanshi why he had called them, and Yuanshi explained that he could not locate the Other Shore or uncover its secrets.
• The Wisdom Demon God speculated that the Other Shore’s First Elder might be fictitious, while Yang Mei warned that the gods should prepare for the possibility that the elder was real.
• The World Demon God proposed that the Other Shore was a vast world and that the gods should join forces to create one of their own.
• Yuanshi urged the Demon Gods to cultivate toward the Heavenly Realm so they could create a world capable of matching or surpassing the Other Shore, and they agreed before returning to their Dao fields.

After more than six hundred billion years of solitary cultivation and battles in the Chaos, Xiao Xuan completed his mastery of the Spacetime Great Dao and received guidance from the Dao Palace’s Destruction Ancestor and Dream Ancestor. He left Dream Ancestor’s Secret Realm and resumed his Chaos journey, drawing the attention of powerful beings.

• Xiao Xuan realized that all things were the Dao and broke through to complete mastery of the Spacetime Great Dao.
• Xiao Ruohan arrived and told Xiao Xuan that Dream Ancestor had summoned him to her secret realm.
• Xiao Xuan met Destruction Ancestor, who praised his progress and answered his cultivation questions before fleeing from his endless inquiries.
• Dream Ancestor continued advising Xiao Xuan until he left the secret realm hundreds of millions of years later.
• The Cause-and-Effect Demon God sensed Xiao Xuan’s return to the Chaos, while Yang Mei and a massive Turtle also noticed him.

Xiao Xuan fought off a powerful Devouring Beast and followed a sensation linked to his Chaos Law to a vast Chaos vortex. At its center, he found the Chaos Pearl and seized it, beginning the process of refining the treasure.

• A Devouring Beast attacked Xiao Xuan, overwhelmed his Time Dao, and sent him flying with its tail.
• Xiao Xuan used Time Shackles and a Time Sword to slow the beast, then hid and escaped with Chaos Law.
• Following a sensation connected to Chaos Law, Xiao Xuan found a gigantic Chaos vortex and followed a safe path to its center.
• Xiao Xuan discovered the Chaos Pearl, one of the five great Supreme Treasures of Chaos, and learned that it had created the vortex around it.
• The Chaos Pearl tried to evade Xiao Xuan, but he caught it and began refining it.

After nearly a million quantitative kalpas refining the Chaos Pearl, Xiao Xuan perfected the Chaos Law, gained a Chaos Domain, and transformed his dantian into a vast Chaos Space. When Shark Demons attacked after the Chaos vortex vanished, he used the domain to seal them in place.

• Xiao Xuan refined twenty-three layers of the Chaos Pearl, which fused partly with his body and soul and strengthened his cultivation.
• After nearly a million quantitative kalpas, Xiao Xuan awoke with the Chaos Law perfected and an initial grasp of the Spacetime Law, reaching the Transcendent Supreme Saint level.
• Xiao Xuan discovered that his fused Chaos Pearl had created a Chaos Domain capable of suppressing beings and sealing spacetime across hundreds of millions of light-years.
• Xiao Xuan found that his dantian had evolved into an enormous, lifeless Chaos Space.
• Hundreds or thousands of Shark Demons appeared and attacked Xiao Xuan after the Chaos vortex around him disappeared.
• Xiao Xuan activated the Chaos Domain, freezing the Shark Demons and filling them with terror.

Xiao Xuan annihilated a horde of Shark Demons, absorbed their energy, and traveled through the chaos while cultivating and collecting treasures. When Devouring Demon God ambushed him in the Chaos Heaven and Earth, Xiao Xuan confronted his old pursuer and vowed to defeat him.

• Xiao Xuan used a Taiji Diagram to destroy more than a thousand Shark Demons and devoured their flesh to strengthen his body, soul, and cultivation.
• Xiao Xuan traveled through the chaos, collected ordinary spirit treasures and materials, and survived numerous dangers, including a pursuit by Devouring Demon God.
• Devouring Demon God found Xiao Xuan lost in thought and launched a devouring vortex, hoping to consume him and advance to the Heavenly Realm.
• Xiao Xuan roared in fury, shook the Chaos Heaven and Earth, and declared that he would defeat Devouring Demon God to establish his prestige.

Xiao Xuan fought Devouring Demon God across Chaos Heaven and Earth, revealing power that let him contend with one of the ten supreme Demon Gods. Their battle continued as Yang Mei, Pangu, Dream Ancestor, and Destruction Ancestor observed from afar.

• Xiao Xuan collapsed Devouring Demon God's vortex with a finger and met his charge with the Chaos Divine Spear, but Devouring Demon God's blade broke the spear and kicked Xiao Xuan away.
• Xiao Xuan attacked with the Hand of Chaos, and Devouring Demon God transformed into his hundred-thousand-zhang Devouring True Body to meet him.
• Xiao Xuan evolved the heavens and descended from the Heavens and Myriad Worlds as the two fought with powerful laws, divine thunder, and world-shattering techniques.
• Xiao Xuan shattered Devouring Demon God's Chaos Divine Fist as their battle continued across the vast chaos.
• Yang Mei watched and marveled at Xiao Xuan's growth, while Pangu chose not to intervene for fear of drawing the attention of the Other Shore's old fellows.
• Dream Ancestor worried that Xiao Xuan might have surpassed him, while Destruction Ancestor wished he could join the fight and beat Xiao Xuan.