Chapter Summaries

Fuxi passed the Saints’ trial, became the Heavenly Emperor, and advanced to the half-step Hunyuan realm. After settling in the Human Race’s Ancestral Land, Xuantian entered contemplation and began experiencing a succession of lives in illusion.

• Laozi and the other Saints approved Fuxi’s ascension, while Xuantian challenged Hongjun’s order to send Fuxi to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Hongjun sent down merit, and Fuxi used it alongside his accumulated fortune and understanding of the Eight Trigrams to reach half-step Hunyuan.
• Countless humans worshipped Fuxi as their Heavenly Emperor, and he joined the powerful Human Race in the Ancestral Land.
• Xuantian gave Fuxi the Heavenly Emperor Palace, a high-grade Acquired Merit Spiritual Treasure.
• Xuantian began contemplating the Dao and experienced successive illusory lives, including those of a scholar, a woman, a general, a fisherman, and a king.

Xuantian hosted a gathering at the Ancestral Land of Mount Shouyang after the hundred-thousand-year deadline, bringing powerful figures from across Hong Huang together to exchange Dao insights. The gathering began with Xuantian, Batian, Yang Mei, and Hongjun expounding their Daos, and the discussion continued with another guest beginning to speak.

• Xuantian welcomed the gathered guests and introduced Pan, Shi Chen, and Yang Mei, while the leaders of the Dragon, Qilin, Phoenix, and Demon races were also identified.
• Xuantian opened the Dao discussion by expounding his understanding of the Great Dao and Pangu's Dao of opening Heaven.
• Batian explained his Dao of overturning Heaven and Earth and inverting Spacetime.
• Yang Mei described the Chaos era and expounded on the Dao of space, leaving the listeners with new insights.
• Hongjun spoke of suffering, detachment, and pursuing the eternal Dao.
• An unnamed speaker began explaining the Dao of fire and civilization.

Xuantian convened the powerful factions to discuss the Human Race’s expansion and the future of the Heavenly Court. The Demon Race relinquished the court and moved north, while Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi to lead its restoration.

• Xuantian proposed letting younger generations expand their territories, and Ao Wuxu, Feng Wudao, and Batian agreed.
• Feng Wudao challenged the Saints’ authority over the Human Race, while Di Tian and Lu Ya were pressured to give up the Heavenly Court.
• Lu Ya proposed dividing Heavenly Court titles among the factions, and Pan secured Houtu a position as the Earthly Sovereign Who Emulates Houtu and Upholds Heaven.
• The factions divided the imperial titles and offices, while Hongjun claimed responsibility for the remaining Human Sovereigns and Five Emperors’ teachers.
• The Demon Race moved to northern Hong Huang after stripping the Heavenly Court bare, and Hongjun sent Haotian and Yaochi to govern it.
• Heavenly phenomena appeared, and the magnificent Heavenly Court was restored.

Lie Shan discovered rice and spread the Five Grains among the Human Race, easing its food crisis and building the Jiang Clan Tribe into the Shennong Tribe. As Lie Shan became known as Shennong, a new wave of illness began afflicting humans.

• Lie Shan tested rice for five years, then taught his tribe how to grow it after confirming it was safe to eat.
• Lie Shan traveled among neighboring tribes, promoting rice and studying other edible plants when rice failed to grow well in some regions.
• Lie Shan identified millet, beans, hemp, wheat, and rice as the Five Grains and spread suitable crops throughout the major tribes.
• The Five Grains helped the Human Race overcome much of its food crisis, and Lie Shan returned to lead the Jiang Clan Tribe.
• The Jiang Clan Tribe grew into a vast power, was renamed the Shennong Tribe, and its leader Lie Shan became known as Shennong.
• After the famine eased, more and more humans began suffering from a range of worsening symptoms.

Lieshan spread herbal medicine among the Human Race, became its Co-Lord, and received the title of Earth Emperor after a sacrifice to Heaven. After Heavenly Dao granted him and his teacher Guangchengzi merit, Shennong departed for the Human Ancestral Land, while the Shennong Tribe later began losing influence.

• Lieshan tasted and documented medicinal herbs for a thousand years, nearly dying after eating the plant later named Heartbreak Grass.
• Lieshan compiled his knowledge and taught the Shennong Tribe and neighboring tribes to use herbs to treat illness.
• Healers and physicians spread Lieshan's teachings, and the Human Race honored him as its Co-Lord.
• After nearly a hundred thousand years of rule, Lieshan sacrificed to Heaven and was named the Earth Emperor of the Human Race.
• Heavenly Dao's merit raised Shennong to half-step Hunyuan Supreme, advanced Guangchengzi to Quasi-Saint, and rewarded others who had helped Lieshan.
• A hundred years after Shennong's deeds were complete, garrison commanders began ruling independently and the Shennong Tribe's standing declined.

The Human Race prospered under successive Co-Lords while Qin and Huang Tian strengthened the Ancestral Land. Seeking greater freedom from powerful Hunyuan Supremes, the Saints sent their three corpses into the Chaos, where Houtu and Ye Qingxian rescued them from Annihilation and Curse.

• Qin broke through to Quasi-Saint, and Huang Tian became the Ancestral Land's second elder despite remaining at Da Luo Great Perfection.
• Xuanyuan defeated Chi You, united the Human Race, completed many achievements, and became a half-step Hunyuan Supreme; later Co-Lords led the race to further prosperity.
• Yuan urged the Saints to seek their fortunes in the Chaos, and Jieyin proposed sending their three corpses ahead to explore.
• The Saints' six corpses entered the Chaos through a vortex passage and were gravely wounded when the River of Time and Space expelled them.
• Annihilation tried to seize the six, but a giant and Houtu intervened; Ye Qingxian appeared and persuaded Annihilation and Curse to let them go.

Nuwa, Taiqing, and four companions explored a deadly Chaos vortex and encountered a woman from Immortal Village fighting a powerful foe. After she sensed Cause and Effect linking her to Nuwa and Taiqing, she continued into the depths, where the group discovered a palace complex covered in carvings of Sector Beasts.

• Nuwa, Taiqing, and their four companions entered a dark vortex filled with destructive winds and searched its vast, lifeless space.
• The group saw a woman in white battle a towering figure; she defeated it with an illusory sword strike and left it fallen on the black ground.
• The woman approached Nuwa's group, sensed Cause and Effect connecting her to Nuwa and Taiqing, and recognized that they carried the aura of Hong Huang.
• The woman said the place was at least a secret realm created by an Eighth Heaven expert, then continued deeper into it.
• Nuwa's group reached a black palace complex and entered a towering hall covered in carvings of Sector Beasts, where a light-absorbing black throne stood above them.

The six explored a treasure-filled palace in the secret realm, where they found a powerful armor they could not claim and a vast deposit of Xirang. After Zhunti killed a giant python guarding a mysterious crystal pillar, he discovered its mist strengthened the body and deepened one’s understanding of the Great Dao of Earth.

• The six gathered treasures from the palace, but the Sacred Heart Armor repelled each of them when they tried to take it.
• The group entered the palace at the highest point and found a desolate world where their perception was cut off and powerful gravity restricted flight.
• Tongtian led the group to a deep chasm, where Nuwa recognized its walls and floor as vast deposits of Xirang.
• A giant python erupted from the Xirang and swallowed Zhunti, but he tore his way out and killed it.
• Zhunti recovered a yellow-brown crystal pillar from the python and found that its mist could strengthen the body and clarify the Great Dao of Earth.

Nuwa's benevolent corpse was killed after she entered a cave in the Chaos Universe, while Taiqing was overwhelmed by the Dao mysteries on a multicolored bridge. A million years passed as the Three Corpses of the Six Saints fell and Hong Huang entered a period of relative peace, ending at Xuantian's residence on Mount Shouyang.

• Zhunti swallowed ocher energy from a jade pillar and found his physical strength had increased by thirty percent.
• Nuwa entered a cave and encountered the corpse of a black-robed young man, whose aura struck her down and caused her benevolent corpse to fall.
• Taiqing stepped onto a multicolored bridge above the Xuanhuang Sea, became overwhelmed by the Dao mysteries, and collapsed before crossing a small fraction of it.
• A million years passed as the Three Corpses of the Six Saints fell in the Chaos Universe and Hong Huang's older powers focused on cultivation.
• New cultivators rose to prominence, races secured their territories, and dynasties, sects, and other forces spread across Hong Huang.
• At Mount Shouyang, the story shifted to Xuantian's residence, the entrance to the Xuantian Secret Realm.

Xuantian advised Nuwa about the dangers of Chaos while Qin arrived and sought guidance on the Hunyuan path. Meanwhile, Shi Chen’s avatar attempted to transcend the Ninth Heaven, and the chapter revealed that countless spacetimes formed a vast multiversal giant with grayish-yellow traces at its heart.

• Nuwa told Xuantian that her Three Corpses had perished while traveling through Chaos, and he warned her to wait until reaching the late Hunyuan stage before venturing there.
• Qin arrived, and Xuantian recognized that he had grasped the opportunity of Hunyuan; Qin then asked Xuantian about the path and received answers.
• A terrifying figure appeared within Hong Huang’s River of Time and Space, drawing the attention of experts across countless worlds.
• Xuantian identified the figure as an avatar of Shi Chen, the Origin Demon God, attempting to transcend the Ninth Heaven.
• A hurricane swept down from Chaos, and the multiversal river of Wan Gu Heavens was revealed to form the body of a Daoist, with grayish-yellow traces near its heart.

After ages of cultivation, Xuantian returned to the source of Hong Huang and reached the Ninth Heavenly Layer, while the Human Race rose to become its strongest race. Huang Tian then used Samsara to restore his teacher’s soul, telling Pingxin of his ties to Immortal Village and the Dominator Realm.

• Qin and Nuwa withdrew after witnessing a failed attempt to reach the Dominator Realm, and Qin later became the Human Race’s third Hunyuan powerhouse.
• Over billions of years, the Human Race became Hong Huang’s strongest race, while powerful figures across the other races reached Hunyuan and Hunyuan Supreme realms.
• Xuantian merged with his body at the source of Hong Huang and returned to the Ninth Heavenly Layer.
• Huang Tian sent his teacher’s restored Soul Origin into Samsara and gave Pingxin a token to visit Immortal Village.
• Huang Tian explained that he had entered Hong Huang while pursuing the Dominator Realm, and Pingxin revealed that her true body had joined Taiyi Island.

Pan faced a terrifying Heavenly tribulation over the Witch Race's territory as the blood-red waves unleashed illusions, prisons, and attacks infused with countless Origins. He prepared to withstand the converging Divine Abilities, while the watching experts recognized that they might face the same tribulation one day.

• Ten years after returning to the Ancestral Land with a little girl, Huang Tian taught her and sent her to cultivate at the major Institutes under a changed name.
• A sudden upheaval darkened the Witch Race's territory as a blood sea and its demons appeared to attack Pan.
• Pan destroyed the tribulation's temptations and shattered the bloodstained prisons with his powers.
• The blood sea unleashed attacks infused with multiple Origins, forcing Pan to form a Sword World as his defenses began to crack.
• Shi Chen, Yang Mei, Xuantian, Hongjun, and other experts watched as Pan faced the deadly tribulation.

Pan destroyed the ocean of Divine Abilities with the Way of Illusion and Extinction, survived the killing tribulation, and revealed that Xuantian was the Reincarnation Demon God. Pan then transformed his hand into an axe and attacked Xuantian and the other gathered powers, leaving them in immediate danger.

• Pan sent six worlds against the ocean of Divine Abilities, but its formations shattered them after he withdrew his support.
• Pan invoked the Way of Illusion and Extinction, erasing the ocean of Divine Abilities and surviving the killing tribulation.
• Xuantian and the Primordial World's powers congratulated Pan, who discussed the Human Race's ties to Chaos beings undergoing tribulations.
• Pan revealed that Xuantian had been the Reincarnation Demon God and explained his own origins in Chaos Xirang.
• Xuantian realized Pan had not yet passed his tribulation as Pan transformed his hand into an axe and struck at Xuantian and the gathered powers.

Xuantian helped Pangu force the Demon Fiend out of Pangu’s body, but the Demon Fiend established the Devil Dao and rose to the peak of Half-Step Ruler. The chapter ended with Pangu and Xuantian launching a renewed attack against him.

• Xuantian used the Five Elements Seal and Pure World White Lotus to help Pangu cut a black mist from himself, revealing the Demon Fiend’s possession scheme.
• The Demon Fiend attacked Xuantian, and Pangu intervened before the two fought across spacetime.
• Pangu wounded the Demon Fiend, but the Demon Fiend established the Devil Dao and gained merit that stabilized his cultivation at the peak of Half-Step Ruler.
• The Demon Fiend struck Pangu, Xuantian, Shi Chen, and Yang Mei, sending Pangu and Xuantian flying with cracked Dao bodies.
• Pangu charged with his axe while Xuantian darkened the River of Time and Space and sent the Buzhou Seal toward the Demon Fiend.

After recovering from Demon Fiend’s attack, Xuantian spent a trillion years cultivating and reached the peak of Half-Step Ruler while Hong Huang and the Human Race grew stronger. He emerged from a trillion-year enlightenment with a new understanding of the True Self.

• Pangu used a creation-era axe light to cleave Demon Fiend in two, gravely wounding him, while Shi Chen, Yang Mei, and Xuantian were left incapacitated.
• Xuantian drew on the Human Race’s fortune to heal, then resumed cultivation as the six established powers were joined by the diverse Demon Clan.
• Over a hundred billion years, Xuantian survived his great tribulation and became a Half-Step Ruler; by the first trillion-year mark, he had reached its peak and twelve more Human Race figures had attained Hunyuan.
• Yunxiao and another woman watched over the Xuantian Secret Realm while Xuantian remained in seclusion, and Yunxiao described the overwhelming presence around her master.
• Xuantian opened his eyes in the White Jade Pavilion and reflected that all laws and Daos were thoughts, while truth, the self, and Wuji were eternal and unified.

Xuantian strengthened his three attendants and transformed his secret realm into a Hunyuan-level universe. Meanwhile, the healed demon emerged in the Western Lands, overwhelmed the gathered Supremes, and unleashed a calamity across Hong Huang as Shi Chen, Yang Mei, and Hongjun fought him.

• Xuantian used Great Dao merit to raise Yunxiao to Hunyuan Supreme and Qiongxiao and Bixiao to Half-Step Hunyuan, then gave them techniques, treasures, and instructions to take disciples.
• Xuantian merged a low-grade Chaos Spirit Treasure into the Xuantian Secret Realm, advancing it into a Hunyuan-level universe.
• The demon emerged after healing his wounds from Pangu, and Jieyin and Zhunti attacked him but were thrown back.
• Hongjun, Shi Chen, and Yang Mei appeared, and the demon mocked them before declaring them sacrifices.
• The demon's aura spread tribulation qi across Hong Huang, causing Fuxi and many cultivators to suffer demonic taint while ordinary beings fell into chaos.
• Shi Chen, Yang Mei, and Hongjun attacked together, but the demon suppressed them and drove them back.

Demon unleashed the Devil Dao’s calamity across the Primordial World, but Pangu and Xuantian confronted him while the Pure World Divine Light restored the fighters’ senses. As Demon tried to fuse his Creation Jade Butterfly fragment into the Heavenly Dao, Yin-Yang appeared and disrupted him, leaving his allegiance uncertain.

• Demon activated the Devil Dao and its Creation Jade Butterfly fragment, forcing Hongjun, Shi Chen, and Yang Mei to retreat as demonic darkness spread across the Primordial World.
• Pangu appeared and struck Demon, while the calamity drove beings across the Primordial World into widespread slaughter.
• Xuantian used Pure World Divine Light to restore the fighters’ senses, then joined Pangu against Demon.
• Demon fused his Creation Jade Butterfly fragment into the Heavenly Dao and began his attempt to devour it.
• Yin-Yang arrived and struck the Creation Jade Butterfly imprint, interrupting Demon’s plan.
• Demon questioned Yin-Yang’s intervention, and Xuantian congratulated him on gaining a new lease on life.

Yin-Yang betrayed Demon after hundreds of millions of years of battle, leaving Pangu and Xuantian to return to Hong Huang while the injured Demon was trapped in Yin-Yang’s Taiji Diagram. A passage then opened between Hong Huang and the Chaos, and a Half-Step Ruler emerged and headed toward the Human Ancestral Land.

• Yin-Yang joined Demon against Pangu and Xuantian, and the four fought across Hong Huang before entering the Inner Chaos.
• Demon and the Yin-Yang Demon God summoned their avatars, and Pan and Xuantian battled them for hundreds of millions of years until every avatar was killed.
• Yin-Yang ambushed the wounded Demon and sealed him inside the Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram, then departed as Pangu and Xuantian returned to their respective territories.
• Pangu considered allowing beings from the Chaos to enter Hong Huang, while the changing will of Heaven awakened Hongjun from his union with the Dao.
• A passage opened from the Chaos into Hong Huang, and powerful beings entered it; a figure in white emerged, found the Human Ancestral Land, and vanished toward it.

After nearly a hundred million cosmic eras, Xuantian finally broke through while the Human Race spread across the Primordial Universe and its ancient unity faded. He learned that Huang had been seeking a life-or-death battle to glimpse the Dominator Realm, and the chapter ended as Xuantian noticed something unexpected.

• A group of powerful visitors arrived from another world, reunited with Xuantian and others at the Human Ancestral Land, and settled in the Primordial Universe.
• Xuantian explained the dangers and opportunities of chaos and the Primordial Universe to the newcomers.
• Over countless ages, the Human Ancestral Land withdrew from human affairs as later generations grew more focused on their own interests.
• Xuantian remained at the peak of the Half-Step Ruler level for nearly a hundred million cosmic eras because he was a clone.
• Xuantian broke through in the Xuantian Secret Realm and explained that only he and Pangu could reach the Dominator Realm through Investiture of the Gods.
• The Willow Deity told Xuantian that Huang had sought him for a life-or-death fight and had tempered himself against Pangu's ancient axe light; Xuantian learned Shi Yi and Qin Hao had surpassed their former limits before noticing something unexpected.

Xuantian learned that Shi Yi and Qin Hao had married, and later generations of their family found partners as well. Thirty million years after the Divine Strategist introduced the Heavenly Secrets Mountain rankings, the Supreme Ranking revealed the leading experts of Hong Huang, with Pan first and Xuantian second.

• The Willow Deity told Xuantian that Shi Hao might one day join their level, and shared news of Shi Yi's marriage to the Double-Pupil Woman and Qin Hao's marriage to A Man.
• Shi Yi and Qin Hao visited Xuantian with their wives and asked him to help them have children; Xuantian agreed to consult his true self.
• Under pressure from their elders, Shi Feng paired with Ye Qingxian, while Ye Yishui pursued Shi Xuan; Shui Yuechu and Shi Liu remained difficult to match because they were Rulers.
• The Divine Strategist appeared thirty million years earlier, established Heavenly Secrets Mountain, and introduced the Divine Treasure Record and the Supreme Ranking.
• The Supreme Ranking listed Pan first and Xuantian second among Rulers, while Hongjun's position at sixty-third surprised Hong Huang.