Chapter Summaries

After hundreds of millions of years, Chu awakened and preached his understanding of the Dao before Luohou returned to challenge Hongjun. Their battle began in Chaos as powerful figures from across Hong Huang and the Other Shore gathered to watch.

• The old woman encouraged Tian'er to learn from traveling after his defeat by Di Wanyi, while he resolved to surpass Long Ze, Great Phoenix Venerable, Lin Zizai, and Yao Batian.
• Chu awakened from his enlightenment, joined the Human Race's fortune, and preached the Dao in the Ancestral City for ten years.
• Luohou appeared in western Hong Huang as a Half-Step Heavenly Realm powerhouse and openly challenged Hongjun.
• Hongjun entered Chaos to meet Luohou, while Haotian, Houtu, Nuwa, Chu, and other powerful figures followed to observe.
• Luohou attacked Hongjun with the God-Slaying Spear, unleashing countless strands of killing intent.

Hongjun and Luohou fought to an even match, and Luohou reestablished the Demonic Cult. After a long period of cultivation, Di Wanyi attained Hunyuan as the Human Race’s fourth Hunyuan being and left the listeners of her Dao discourse striving to advance.

• Hongjun and Luohou unleashed their Great Daos in a fierce battle across chaos, then departed after reaching an even match.
• Luohou returned to Hong Huang and reestablished the Demonic Cult in opposition to Hongjun’s Immortal Dao.
• Chu and the Human Race experts spent long periods cultivating, while Di Wanyi defeated challengers who came to test her.
• Di Wanyi underwent her tribulation in chaos and attained Hunyuan, becoming the Human Race’s fourth Hunyuan being.
• Di Wanyi returned to the Ancestral Land, delivered a 360-year Dao discourse, and then entered seclusion to consolidate her realm.
• The listeners entered seclusion to comprehend Hunyuan and prepare to face their Great Dao tribulations.

The Human Race and the other races of Hong Huang flourished as generations of experts advanced in cultivation. Luohou then descended on Mount Sumeru and seized the Buddhist Sect’s Pure Bliss World and nearly all its people and accumulated resources, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Human civilization spread across the Other Shore, while kingdoms, clans, and sects arose as Chu and the Human Race’s upper echelon focused on cultivation.
• Long Ze, Great Phoenix Venerable, Lin Zizai, Yao Batian, and Wu Lingtian reached the seventh level of Hunyuan, while Di Wanyi attained peak Hunyuan and other Human Race leaders advanced with Chu’s help.
• Nuwa, Houtu, and Heavenly Emperor Haotian reached the half-step Heavenly Realm, while the Human Race spread throughout Hong Huang and its heavens.
• Luohou shrouded Hong Huang and Mount Sumeru in demonic qi, alarming experts across the realms and drawing Jieyin and Zhunti to confront him.
• Luohou tore open an alternate dimension, seized the Pure Bliss World, and absorbed it into the Heavenly Demon Pagoda along with its Buddhist disciples, treasures, and resources; only the Eight Treasures Merit Pool escaped.

Luohou seized the Buddhist Sect’s Pure Bliss World to nurture the destined Demon Realm, then fought Jieyin, Zhunti, and their allies while revealing that Buddhist doctrine and fortune had roots in his Demonic Cult. As the Devil Dao’s return threatened both Buddhist and Xuan Sect cultivators, Laozi urged the other Saints to change the course of the Heavenly Dao.

• Luohou took the Pure Bliss World and left the Primordial World to develop the Demon Realm, while Jieyin and Zhunti pursued him.
• Luohou fought Jieyin, Zhunti, and the Buddhist Sect’s Hunyuan experts, overpowering them as he explained that their doctrines drew on the Demonic Cult.
• Jieyin and Zhunti admitted that their Buddhist Sect had borrowed from the Devil Dao and accepted the seizure as repayment of a debt.
• Luohou declared that the Demon Realm would be nurtured by the Pure Bliss World and that the Buddhist and Demonic Cults would remain bound together.
• The Xuan Sect Saints recognized the Devil Dao as a threat to their fortune, and Laozi urged them to alter the course of the Heavenly Dao.

The immortal-path Hunyuan powerhouses suppressed the demonic path’s fortune while Luohou and the Western Buddhist Sect dealt with the loss of the Pure Bliss World. As the western powers held back from intervening, Buddha Lord Jingming seized the chance to establish a distinct doctrine for the Human Race’s Buddhist Sect Pure Land.

• The Buddhist Sect’s Hunyuan joined other immortal-path powerhouses to manipulate the will of heaven and suppress the demonic path’s rising fortune.
• Luohou saw the Heavenly Demon Pagoda’s world evolve more slowly, but trusted that his countermeasures and the Demon Clan’s Hunyuan would help him overcome the opposition.
• Jieyin reopened the empty Pure Bliss World to slow the Western Sect’s loss of fortune, and he and Zhunti resolved to stop the demonic sect from rising.
• Ancient Hunyuan powerhouses and the Other Shore God Race discussed Luohou and Buddhism, while forces across Hong Huang chose to remain aloof.
• Buddha Lord Jingming gathered the three half-step Hunyuan and more than ten Quasi-Saints, then declared a new doctrine for the Human Race’s Buddhist Sect Pure Land.

Jingming, Puhui, and Kongchan survived their tribulations and attained Hunyuan, strengthening the Human Race’s Buddhist Sect Pure Land as the Western Buddhist Sect tried to intervene. Later, Di Wanyi returned to the Cosmic Tower with six disciples, and Chu sensed their arrival.

• Merit broke the suppression on Jingming, Puhui, and Kongchan, allowing them to undergo Hunyuan tribulations under the protection of the Human Race’s experts.
• Zhunti tried to stop their breakthroughs, but the Human Ancestral Land’s formation blocked his attack.
• Jingming, Puhui, and Kongchan survived their six-nine tribulations and rose to Hunyuan, earning congratulations from Fuxi, Chi You, and other Human Race leaders.
• The Human Race’s leaders welcomed the Pure Land’s growth and contrasted its service to humanity with the Western Buddhist Sect’s extraction of human fortune.
• Di Wanyi returned to the Cosmic Tower with three girls and three boys after nearly a billion years of travel and instruction, and Chu sensed them arrive.

Di Wanyi arranged for her six disciples to train at different academies before continuing to temper herself at the next realm checkpoint. Meanwhile, Xiao Xuan gave Changxi a Yin-Yang Dao Fruit, and she chose to absorb it despite the cost to her future progress.

• Di Wanyi introduced Jun Yimeng, Gu Ze, Ling Xiao, Li Qinglian, Jiuyou, and Fengxiang to her master, who told her to train them according to their talents and bring them back at Quasi-Sainthood.
• Di Wanyi asked Yang Jiao to send her disciples to several academies without giving them special treatment, and Yang Jiao arranged for Da Luo experts to escort them.
• Di Wanyi left a trace of divine sense to watch over her disciples and went to the checkpoint between the second and third levels to battle and temper herself.
• Xiao Xuan perfected his integration of the Law of Cause and Effect and noticed trouble involving the Western Buddhist Sect and the Demon Sect.
• Xiao Xuan offered Changxi a Yin-Yang Dao Fruit and explained that it could raise her cultivation to the peak of Hunyuan but make later progress far harder.
• Changxi accepted the tradeoff, thanked Xiao Xuan, and entered seclusion to absorb the fruit.

A black hole opened near Burial Saint Star, revealing the aura of a world Nuwa and Houtu had visited under their mysterious master’s guidance. As Nuwa described that world’s powerful rulers and its similarities to Hong Huang, the group debated the master’s strength, and Nuwa ruled out one theory by explaining how the Supreme Heavenly Court had recruited Fuxi.

• The Star Lord of Burial Saint Star reported a vast black hole forming in space, and Haotian, Hongjun, Houtu, Nuwa, and Chu arrived to investigate.
• Hongjun identified the aura of another world, and Chu warned that its strength exceeded the peak Hunyuan level and might be tied to the Chaos Demon Gods.
• Nuwa and Houtu recognized the world’s aura, and Nuwa revealed that a mysterious master had sent them there to train before they reached Da Luo.
• Nuwa described the world’s Three Daos, Yin and Yang Realms, and hierarchy of powerful rulers, including the Supreme Heavenly Emperor and two Netherworld supremes.
• Chu proposed three explanations for the mysterious master’s connection to the world, and Houtu clarified that Fuxi and Feng Qi had also been sent there.
• Nuwa ruled out the idea that her master was simply far stronger than the world’s rulers, explaining that the Supreme Heavenly Court had taken Fuxi in and assigned him its affairs.

Hongjun, Haotian, Nuwa, Houtu, Chu, and the others entered a black hole vortex to investigate where it led. They fought their way through a dark sea and reached a barrier concealing palace structures, leaving the group inside an unknown realm.

• Hongjun, Haotian, Nuwa, Houtu, Chu, and the others agreed to investigate the black hole vortex and plunged into it.
• Hongjun and the others comprehended the Dao within the violent passage, allowing them to navigate its currents and enter a dark purple space.
• Chu identified the black rocky island as a demonic beast after its tentacles attacked the group from the black water.
• The group defeated the sea beasts and shattered the barrier above the island, revealing a vast black sea beneath a dark purple canopy.
• Nuwa spotted a pale gray barrier across the sea, and Chu opened a black hole passage through it so the group could enter the space containing palace structures.

Chen Hua and the others activated a teleportation array beneath the palace and endured a violent passage through chaotic space, collecting rare spiritual materials along the way. Chen Hua lost consciousness as they were dragged through a black hole, and the chapter ended with an unexplained moon reflected in a snowy lake beneath a blazing sun.

• Chen Hua discovered an innate Supreme Treasure in the palace, and the group uncovered a teleportation array beneath its throne.
• Hongjun activated the array, and the group entered a chaotic passage where violent energy tossed them around.
• Haotian was struck by a transparent streak, and Chu collected a flat black crystal after another streak hit him.
• The group collected a few pieces of rare spiritual material each as they traveled through the passage.
• A black hole swallowed them, and crushing pressure made Chen Hua lose consciousness.
• A blazing sun shone over a snow-covered landscape where a small lake reflected a full moon.

Chu, Haotian, Nuwa, Houtu, and Hongjun recovered in the Supreme Heaven Realm and learned that its Dao was unusually clear and easy to comprehend. After they parted to seek opportunities, Heavenly Lord reported their arrival to Liguang Dihao, who decided to investigate personally.

• Chu used the law of life to revive Haotian, Nuwa, Houtu, and Hongjun after they had been unconscious for a thousand years.
• Haotian killed a strange bird, searched its soul, and confirmed that the group had arrived in the Supreme Heaven Realm.
• Haotian, Hongjun, Houtu, Nuwa, and Chu discussed the realm’s laws and their chances of finding a way back to the Hong Huang universe.
• Heavenly Lord arrived, recognized Nuwa and Houtu, and exchanged greetings with the group before leaving.
• The group shared methods of communication and parted to seek opportunities, while Heavenly Lord reported their arrival to Liguang Dihao.
• Liguang Dihao listened to Heavenly Lord’s report and said that he would investigate the matter personally.

Liguang Dihao revealed to Mo Qingcheng that his Cause and Effect Great Dao had united with the Dao, then invited Chu to the Supreme Heavenly Court. He told Chu that Di Wanyi was their daughter, sent to Hong Huang as a child so she could be trained and tempered.

• Liguang Dihao observed Chu and his companions and recognized them as Di Wanyi's masters.
• Mo Qingcheng learned that Liguang Dihao had reached the Heavenly Realm and agreed to receive Chu as their guest.
• Star Lord Tai Bai found Chu in Golden Mausoleum Continent and escorted him to the Supreme Heavenly Court.
• Chu met Liguang Dihao and Mo Qingcheng and recognized Di Wanyi's resemblance to them.
• Liguang Dihao explained that Di Wanyi was their daughter, whose childhood memories they had sealed before sending her to Hong Huang.
• Liguang Dihao apologized for plotting to have Chu raise Di Wanyi, and Chu said he had been glad to take her as his disciple.

Liguang Dihao gave Chu two Chaos-grade towers and gathered powerful figures from the Heavenly Court and Netherworld to discuss the Dao. He revealed that he had opened a passage between the Supreme Heaven Realm and Hong Huang so their younger generations could compete, while insisting they could handle any Chaos Demon Gods who intervened.

• Liguang Dihao gave Chu the Emperor Phoenix Tower for Wanyi and the Human Ancestor Tower as compensation, and said Wanyi would recover her childhood memories upon reaching the half-step Heavenly Realm.
• Liguang Dihao introduced Chu to Princess Tai'an, Princess Tai Ping, and their companions, then invited everyone to discuss the Dao.
• Liguang Dihao transported the Heavenly Court's powerful figures, including Nuwa, Houtu, Hongjun, and Haotian, to the gathering, where Fengdu and Dongyue arrived with the Ten Yamas.
• Liguang Dihao announced that he had opened a passage between the Supreme Heaven Realm and Hong Huang so the younger generations could compete across worlds.
• Fengdu warned that the passage might attract Chaos Demon Gods, but Liguang Yetan said their side had enough Heavenly Realm experts to face them.
• Liguang Dihao's count of eight Heavenly Realm beings included himself and Xiao Xuan, each with three corpse incarnations.

The rulers of Hong Huang and the Supreme Heaven Realm agreed to settle their rivalry through battles between the realms, with the battlefield capped at the Hunyuan level. After a million years of Dao preaching and accelerated cultivation, Liguang Dihao and his allies made major advances, leaving Dihao with more than thirty Great Dao laws at the Dao Fusion level.

• Liguang Dihao proposed a Hunyuan-level limit for the inter-realm battlefield, and the others agreed to send armies and resist them.
• The rulers preached their understandings of the Dao across the realms, and Di Hao’s sermon manifested a vast Imperial Dao vision that inspired the people to praise the Heavenly Emperor.
• A million years passed as cultivators across the realms broke through, while Di Hao, Fengdu, and Dongyue used time-accelerating pagodas to study the sermons and the Creation Jade Disc.
• Di Hao, his avatars, Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Xuan’s avatars advanced eight nearly mastered laws to the Dao Fusion stage and brought more than thirty Great Dao laws to that level.

After ten million years of cultivation, the Supreme Heaven Realm grew much stronger, but forces from Beyond Heavens invaded through the West Pole Gate. As the Heavenly Court prepared to defend Heaven-Severing City, a massive invading army led by Kunpeng, a monk, Chi You, and the dragon, phoenix, and Qilin leaders gathered outside the city.

• Mo Qingcheng, the Heavenly Lord, the three realm lords, the ten kings of Yan, and many Heavenly Court figures advanced in cultivation after hearing the sermon.
• A Hunyuan commander from Beyond Heavens invaded through the western void gate, but the Eastern Azure Emperor and Southern Pole Longevity Emperor defeated him and drove his surviving troops back.
• The Heavenly Court built Heaven-Severing City near the gate, and the four lineage leaders reported that their forces were ready to fight.
• The Heavenly Lord ordered the Azure, Longevity, Heavenly Emperor, Demon God, and Ziwei forces to march to Heaven-Severing City as a greater invasion approached.
• Kunpeng, a bald monk, a man in red, and Chi You arrived with a million-strong army, while Zhulong, Lin Xuan, and Feng Wu led the dragon, Qilin, and phoenix armies.
• Hundreds of millions of Da Luo gathered outside Heaven-Severing City as war drums sounded.

The armies of the Supreme Heaven Realm and the Great Sun World and Primordial Continent clashed across the West Pole Continent as their Hunyuan powerhouses fought above the Ninth Heaven. Styx faced the Lord of the Immortal Domain and transformed into a black millstone that devoured the surrounding space, leaving his opponent's fate unclear.

• The Supreme Heaven Realm's army met the invading forces at the West Pole Gate, while the two sides' Hunyuan experts confronted each other above the Ninth Heaven.
• The two Heavenly Court princesses, Xuan Shang, and Manman arrived to reinforce the Supreme Heaven Realm's side, and both armies charged into battle.
• Styx struck the battlefield with a sword beam, but the Lord of the Immortal Domain blocked it and attacked Styx with his Immortal Domain power.
• Zhunti, Kunpeng, and the other powerhouses paired off against their opponents as battles spread from the West Pole Continent to the Western Sea.
• The Lord of the Immortal Domain overwhelmed Styx and declared he would kill him, but Styx vanished and became a black millstone that devoured the surrounding space.

The Heavenly Court’s forces defeated the invading army at the West Sea, and the Heavenly Lord rewarded the survivors by declaring that he would expound the Hunyuan Dao. After returning to the Immortal Palace, the Heavenly Lord examined the growth of his faith power.

• The Heavenly Lord, the lord of the Immortal Domain, and the lord of the human realm gravely wounded the enemy Hunyuan powerhouses, forcing them to flee through the West Pole Gate with the remnants of their army.
• Qinghua Emperor reported that the Heavenly Court had killed nearly nine million invaders, and the Heavenly Lord promised rewards and announced an exposition of the Hunyuan Dao at the Immortal Palace.
• Xuan Huang merit descended upon the surviving fighters, while some of it sank into the earth and the fallen bodies merged into the land.
• The Heavenly Lord led the surviving troops back toward the East Continent in celebration of their victory.
• Inside the Immortal Palace, the Heavenly Lord’s Divine Soul inspected his Auspicious Cloud and realized how much his faith power had grown.

After the Supreme Heaven Continent won the war between worlds, the Lord of Heaven preserved the fallen in the sea of fortune clouds and shared the path to Hunyuan. On Eternal Star, Daoist Tianji met Xuan Shang and tasted Carefree Tea, then learned it was made without tea leaves.

• The Lord of Heaven revealed that the sea of fortune clouds held the souls of those killed in the war and promised they would return as divine generals of fortune.
• The Lord of Heaven, the Lord of the Immortal Domain, and the Lord of the Mortal World shared their experiences of reaching Hunyuan, while their teachings increased their fortune.
• Daoist Tianji arrived at Eternal Star as promised and met Xuan Shang in the Carefree Pavilion.
• Xuan Shang served Daoist Tianji Carefree Tea, whose effects left him feeling blissfully free.
• Xuan Shang explained that Carefree Tea was prepared by a special method and used no tea leaves.

After a trillion years of war, the Supreme Heaven Realm had grown strong enough to launch counterinvasions, while Mo Qingcheng prepared to face the tribulation for the Half-Step Heaven Realm. In Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun and the leaders of Hong Huang reviewed their failed efforts to conquer the Supreme Heaven Realm and the heavy losses on both sides.

• Xuan Shang reunited with Daoist Tianji and asked him to watch over the threats from beyond their world, while Tianji suggested invading their enemies in return.
• Over a trillion years, repeated invasions strengthened the Supreme Heaven Realm, and its leaders advanced through battle and merit.
• Mo Qingcheng fought a seventh-heaven Hunyuan invader to a standstill and gravely wounded him, then led the realm’s defenses and counterinvasions.
• Mo Qingcheng told the gathered Hunyuan experts she planned to use merit to offset part of her tribulation and advance to the Half-Step Heaven Realm, and they gave her their remaining merit as a loan.
• In Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun told the assembled leaders that their many explorations of the Supreme Heaven Realm had failed and that both realms had suffered heavy losses.
• Taiqing acknowledged that the Supreme Heaven Realm’s powerful experts had united under pressure from Hong Huang and that Hunyuan experts had fallen in the failed invasions.

Di Wanyi broke through to the half-step Heaven Realm and learned that her divine mother was preparing to do the same. Before she could reach her, Xiao Xuan summoned her and revealed that he was her uncle, leaving her stunned by a family she had never known about.

• Hongjun told Hong Huang's factions that he and the other half-step Heaven Realm experts would not intervene, and warned them that a peak Hunyuan expert in the Supreme Heaven Realm might break through using merit.
• Di Wanyi's disciples trained in the Cosmic Tower while she reflected on her own breakthrough and recovered memories of her childhood.
• Chu told Di Wanyi that her divine mother was preparing to break through and asked her to protect her, so Di Wanyi set off toward Burial Saint Star.
• Di Wanyi emerged into a hidden realm filled with rabbit spirits and met Xiao Xuan, the founder of Heavenly Profound Academy.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that he was Di Wanyi's uncle and that she had elder brothers, nephews, and nieces who were powerful Dao Palace elders.
• Di Wanyi said she still intended to protect her divine mother and was eager to see her after their long separation.