Chapter Summaries

Hongjun revealed himself as the Destiny Demon God and attacked Styx with the Power of Destiny. Styx resisted with the Chaos Bell and Equality Sword, and the battle ended in a stalemate with help from Sanqing, Nuwa, Houtu, and the others.

• The Saints recognized that Destiny had usurped the Heavenly Dao after Hongjun used Words Become Law to deflect Styx's attack.
• Hongjun transformed into the Destiny Demon God and sent the River of Destiny's power to erase Styx from his origins.
• Styx drew on the three thousand Laws with the Law of Blood and used the Chaos Bell to suppress Destiny's attack.
• The Destiny Demon God swept Styx into the River of Destiny, but Styx countered with the Equality Sword and the destructive power of countless worlds.
• Styx and Destiny fought to a stalemate as Sanqing, Nuwa, Houtu, and the others helped suppress Destiny.

Styx confronted the Destiny Demon God, who had stolen the Primordial World Heavenly Dao and sought to devour the Great Wilderness. As Sanqing, Houtu, and Dijiang began summoning Pangu, Destiny released the Heavenly Dao’s power and prepared to face Pangu’s phantom.

• Styx taunted Destiny for coveting Pangu’s Dao Fruit, while Destiny claimed he sought revenge for the Chaos Demon Gods.
• Destiny used the River of Destiny to alter Styx’s fate and unleashed more power from the Heavenly Dao.
• Styx blocked Destiny with three thousand Great Thousand Worlds, then called on Sanqing, Houtu, and the others to act.
• Houtu summoned Pingxin’s Dharma Body and used the Samsara Purple Lotuses and Earth Dao, with Nuwa, to keep the Heavenly Dao from returning to the Great Wilderness.
• Sanqing, Houtu, and Dijiang formed their formation to summon Pangu, and Destiny stopped attacking to release the Heavenly Dao’s power and face Pangu again.

Sanqing, Dijiang, Houtu, and Styx formed Pangu True Body, which Styx controlled as Destiny Demon God unleashed the Heavenly Dao’s power against them. Pangu True Body split the River of Destiny with the ninth Sky-Opening Axe, leaving Destiny Demon God badly cracked but not yet defeated.

• Sanqing, Dijiang, and Houtu successfully fused into Pangu True Body, and Styx joined them as Destiny Demon God regained control of the Heavenly Dao’s power.
• Styx became Pangu True Body’s controller and wielded the Sky-Opening Divine Axe after Chaos Bell, Pangu Banner, and Taiji Diagram fused together.
• Destiny Demon God attacked with the River of Destiny and used fate and Heavenly Dao laws to try to disintegrate Pangu True Body and erase its past.
• Styx drove Pangu True Body forward and countered Destiny Demon God’s rules with the Nine Forms of Sky-Opening.
• Pangu True Body used the ninth form, Chaos Returns to Ruin, to split the River of Destiny and crack Destiny Demon God’s body.
• The Heavenly Dao’s power surged to repair Destiny Demon God.

After Pangu True Body collapsed, Styx invoked the Great Dao and accused Destiny of usurping Heavenly Dao and endangering the Great Wilderness. Destiny tried to stop the invocation but was held back by Styx’s Merit Golden Wheel, leaving the Great Dao’s response imminent.

• Pangu True Body shattered after its ninth form, and Styx and the others returned to Chaos with their treasures as their auras weakened.
• Destiny recovered with Heavenly Dao Power and prepared to kill Styx and the others, declaring that they were not Pangu.
• Styx summoned the Altar of the Dao, burned Great Dao Merit, and called upon the Great Dao.
• Styx described the roles of Heavenly Dao, Earth Dao, and Human Dao and accused Destiny of usurping Heavenly Dao and seeking to devour all Three Paths.
• Sanqing, Houtu, and Nuwa joined Styx in bowing and calling for Heavenly Dao’s end.
• Destiny mobilized Heavenly Dao Power to stop Styx, but Styx’s Merit Golden Wheel held him in place and awakened Heavenly Dao’s instinct to avoid it.

Styx forced the Destiny Demon God’s plot against the Heavenly Dao to fail, and the Great Dao purified the corruption and punished the fleeing instigator. As the Heavenly Dao began to reassemble, Styx and the others seized the chance to study its Laws.

• The Destiny Demon God shattered Hongjun’s body and sent his True Spirit fleeing into Chaos after threatening Styx.
• The Great Dao’s Purifying Divine Lightning purified the Heavenly Dao, checked the Earth Dao and Human Dao for corruption, and struck down the Destiny Demon God’s True Spirit.
• Hongjun’s body became nourishment for the Heavenly Dao’s reassembly, while Styx and others across the Great Wilderness received Merit from the Great Dao.
• As the Heavenly Dao Laws reassembled, Styx used the World Bead and his Heavenly Dao Avatar to imprint them, burning Merit to erase the resulting Karma.
• The other observers followed Styx’s example, while the Sanqing studied the manifested Laws directly as Heavenly Dao Saints.

Styx and the others completed the Heavenly Dao reorganization, reopening the Primordial Chaos Path and allowing beings in the Great Wilderness to sense its laws. As the chapter ended, Styx considered how to prevent future Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals from weakening the Great Wilderness without sealing the path again.

• Styx withdrew from the Heavenly Dao Avatar, lifted his measures across the Great Wilderness, and returned with the Saints to the Blood God Realm.
• The Heavenly Dao merged with the Primordial World Origin, completed its reorganization, and spread its rules throughout the Great Wilderness.
• Heavenly, Earth, and Human Dao powers gathered above Zhou Mountain as a Three-Colored Dao Lotus, and cultivators began sensing the laws of the world.
• Nuwa told Styx that the reorganization had lifted the Law Restriction and allowed beings to cultivate the orthodox Path of Primordial Chaos.
• Styx worried that Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals without deep ties to the Great Wilderness could drain its spiritual energy and divide its authority, but rejected sealing the Law Path again.

Styx raised the risk that Primordial Chaos cultivators would drain the Great Wilderness’s spiritual energy, and the Saints discussed ways to protect it. They agreed on measures requiring cultivators to repay the Great Wilderness and develop affiliated worlds in Chaos.

• Houtu noticed Styx’s troubled expression and asked whether the Heavenly Dao still held a hidden danger.
• Styx explained his concern that opening the Path of Primordial Chaos could exhaust the Great Wilderness’s spiritual energy, then asked the Saints to consider solutions.
• Taiqing, Yuanshi, and Tongtian proposed requiring Primordial Chaos cultivators to break through in Chaos without seizing the Great Wilderness’s laws.
• Houtu proposed a contract requiring cultivators to refine Chaos Spiritual Qi and repay their Karma to the Great Wilderness, while Nuwa suggested making Heavenly Tribulations reward contributions and punish those who refused to repay Heaven and Earth.
• Fuxi suggested that cultivators create affiliated worlds in Chaos, while Dijiang proposed banishing those who sought to break through; Styx and Houtu rebuked him.
• Styx assessed the suggestions, and the Saints continued discussing the matter until they settled on a solution.

Styx and the Saints established three iron laws to govern cultivation and protect the Great Wilderness as the Three Ways of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity were perfected. The laws became part of the world's origin, and Styx declared the Great Wilderness secure against future calamities.

• Styx led the Saints and other powerful figures to the Blood Sea, where they joined the Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Dao forces to reorganize the Three Ways.
• Styx announced that the Great Wilderness's spiritual qi and authority must be protected and that its inhabitants must contribute to its development.
• Ziwei proclaimed that cultivators needed Merit to attain Primordial Chaos, and the Heavenly Dao inscribed the first iron law into the world.
• Houtu decreed that Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals must join the Primordial Guardian Sequence and protect the Great Wilderness during calamities.
• Nuwa established contracts requiring cultivators to open affiliated worlds, return their origins to the Great Wilderness, and use Chaos Spiritual Qi for later cultivation.
• The Three Ways fused their origins into a seal that imposed the laws on Golden Immortals; the beings of the Primordial World obeyed, and Styx declared the Great Wilderness secure.

Jieyin and Zhunti feared the consequences of the Primordial World Heavenly Dao’s reorganization and the All Saints’ suspicion of their past actions. They sealed Mount Meru and recalled their disciples, hoping the Western Teachings would be spared while they remained unable to escape their debts to the Great Wilderness.

• Jieyin reassured Zhunti that the All Saints were unlikely to risk Heavenly Dao backlash and Great Dao Punishment to eliminate them.
• Jieyin and Zhunti recalled the Western Teachings’ disciples and sealed Mount Meru.
• The two Saints watched the Blood Sea and reflected on witnessing Styx and the other Saints defeat the Destiny Demon God and reorganize the Heavenly Dao.
• Jieyin and Zhunti realized they lacked the strength to leave the Great Wilderness and feared the All Saints would target them over the damage to the Heaven and Earth Membrane.
• The two hoped their voluntary seclusion would earn the Western Teachings a path to survival, though they knew their debts still had to be repaid.

Styx told the Saints that Jieyin and Zhunti would face punishment for their debts to the Great Wilderness, then revealed that the Escape Void Shuttle was undergoing Form Transformation. He began the shuttle’s Heavenly Tribulation, leaving its transformation trial underway.

• Styx said the Great Trend would eventually win acceptance and explained that Jieyin and Zhunti would have to repay their immense Karma.
• Styx removed the concealment around the Blood God Realm, revealing the Escape Void Shuttle absorbing energy and Dao Resonance from three Top-grade Innate Spiritual Roots.
• The Saints realized that the Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure was about to undergo Form Transformation and watched with solemn expressions.
• Styx linked the Blood God Realm to Primordial Heaven and Earth and moved the Escape Void Shuttle to an open area.
• Dark Clouds gathered over the Blood God Realm as the powerful Form Transformation Heavenly Tribulation began.

The Escape Void Shuttle endured its lightning tribulation and revealed that Hong Yun had been reborn as a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure after Styx saved his True Spirit. Hong Yun returned with a changed temperament and a grudge against Jieyin and Zhunti, while the Blood God Realm concealed him from their calculations.

• The Escape Void Shuttle absorbed the lightning tribulation to temper itself, impressing Yuanshi and stirring Nuwa’s recognition of a familiar aura.
• The ninth wave of Purple Heaven Divine Thunder revealed Hong Yun’s spirit, and Styx explained that Hong Yun’s True Spirit had taken root in the shuttle after his self-destruction.
• Hong Yun thanked Styx and vowed to settle his Karma with Jieyin and Zhunti.
• On Mount Meru, Jieyin and Zhunti sensed their Karma with Hong Yun returning, but Jieyin could not locate him because the Blood God Realm obscured heavenly secrets.
• Hong Yun greeted the Saints, who congratulated him and found his changed manner more suited to surviving in the Great Wilderness.

Styx sent Hong Yun to challenge the Western Teachings by establishing a sect and competing for the West's Fortune. After studying Buddhist Scriptures revised by Styx, Hong Yun set out with a Nine-grade Pure World White Lotus to suppress his sect's Fortune.

• Nuwa worried that Hong Yun could not withstand the Western Saints, but Styx explained that Hong Yun would compete for the West's Fortune rather than fight them directly.
• Styx transmitted revised Buddhist doctrines and Classics to Hong Yun, who began comprehending them and developed a powerful Buddhist Light.
• Hong Yun thanked Styx for his guidance after his comprehension improved his cultivation.
• Styx gave Hong Yun a Nine-grade Pure World White Lotus to suppress Fortune and sent him on his way.

After sending Hong Yun to visit Zhen Yuanzi, Styx proposed that the Saints support the Human Race’s unification and opened the Purple Cloud Palace for them to explore. The Saints entered the Chaos Spiritual Treasure, while Styx remained outside.

• Hong Yun thanked Styx for the lotus and left the Blood Sea for Wuzhuang Temple to visit Zhen Yuanzi.
• Styx told the Saints that the Human Race was rising and asked them to send disciples to aid the Human Emperor during the Great Wilderness’s unification.
• The Saints agreed that no Saint-level being would personally intervene and that disputes among disciples would not involve their sects as a whole.
• Styx revealed that the Purple Cloud Palace was a Chaos Spiritual Treasure and invited the Saints to search it for opportunities.
• After the Saints voiced caution and eagerness, Styx opened the palace gates, and the Saints entered using their own protective methods.

Styx sealed the Purple Cloud Palace with the World Bead and the Blood God Realm’s origin power before entering it, wary of a hidden scheme Hongjun might have left behind. Inside, he found the Saints beneath a starry sky formed from damaged Spiritual Treasures being restored by the palace’s strange aura.

• Styx suppressed and sealed the Purple Cloud Palace after the Saints entered, suspecting Hongjun had left a scheme within it.
• Styx planned to refine the palace after the Saints finished searching, while Zi Wei and Fengdu guarded it with their Spiritual Treasures.
• Styx entered the palace and saw its true form, a world of its own filled with damaged Spiritual Treasures arranged like stars.
• Styx found the Saints studying the Spiritual Treasures’ Dao Resonances as the Purple Cloud Palace’s aura flowed into them.

Styx and the Saints discovered that the Chaos Spiritual Treasure fragments in Purple Cloud Palace preserved traces of the Chaos Demon Gods and formed a dangerous Formation devised by Hongjun. After gaining some insight from the fragments, the Saints left to search for more opportunities in the palace.

• Styx recognized the battered treasures as fragments of Chaos Demon Gods’ Spiritual Treasures that Hongjun had gathered and arranged into a killing Formation.
• Styx realized his suppression of Purple Cloud Palace’s restrictions had prevented Hongjun’s Formation from activating, allowing the group to study the fragments’ Dao Resonance instead.
• Styx concluded that the Formation could threaten Saints and had been the source of Hongjun’s confidence in suppressing them.
• Styx and the others gained little insight because the treasures were too damaged and their Dao Resonance was sparse.
• The Saints left the fragments in place and dispersed through Purple Cloud Palace to search for other opportunities.

Styx collected the Chaos Spiritual Treasure fragments for the Chaos Demon God Avatars and searched Purple Cloud Palace with the Saints. He left with the Cloud Bed and Ren Water Immortal Peach for the Heavenly Court and Ming, while Haotian and Yaochi’s missing treasures remained unexplained.

• Styx gathered the Chaos Spiritual Treasure fragments and sent them to the Styx Realm, where the Chaos Demon God Avatars chose matching pieces and began reforging them.
• Styx and the Saints searched Purple Cloud Palace, finding several Spiritual Treasures, including the seven Pu Tuos and Hongjun’s Cloud Bed.
• Styx collected the Cloud Bed to replace Zi Wei’s Emperor’s Seat and took the Ren Water Immortal Peach for the Heavenly Court, planning to send another Immortal Peach Tree to Ming.
• Styx noticed that Haotian’s treasures and Yaochi’s Golden Hairpin were missing, then concluded that losing their destined roles in the Heavenly Court might leave them freer to pursue cultivation.

Styx explained his plan to reforge Purple Cloud Palace into the Great Wilderness’s portal and defensive anchor against the revived Chaos Demon Gods. The Saints approved his proposal, which would move future battles into Chaos while opening regions for cultivators to attain Primordial Chaos and create worlds.

• Styx warned the Saints that the revived Chaos Demon Gods could attack the Great Wilderness and proposed turning Purple Cloud Palace into its portal.
• Houtu asked how Purple Cloud Palace could monitor and protect the boundless Great Wilderness, and Styx said his battle with the Heavenly Dao had revealed a solution.
• Summer Bamboo recognized that Styx planned to use a Formation, and Styx recalled how three divine Formations had linked Zhou Mountain to repel the Heavenly Dao.
• Styx outlined reforging Purple Cloud Palace with the Three Ways of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, using Zhou Mountain stones to link it to the Great Wilderness’s existing Formations.
• Styx said Purple Cloud Palace would become the anchor and front line of the defenses, with Saint-level Powerhouses guarding it and battles against Chaos Demon Gods taking place in Chaos.
• Styx added that the protected Inner Chaos regions could let powerful cultivators attain Primordial Chaos and carry out World Creation, and the Saints praised his plan.

Styx and the Saints gathered at Zhou Mountain to reforge the Purple Cloud Palace, drawing on the powers of Heaven Dao, Earth Dao, Human Dao, and Zhou Mountain. As the Universe Cauldron dismantled the palace, they uncovered a sleeping incarnation of Hongjun hidden inside it.

• Styx led the Saints from the Blood Sea to Zhou Mountain, where they worshiped Pangu and strengthened the mountain’s aura.
• Styx placed the Purple Cloud Palace in the Universe Cauldron, and Zhou Mountain’s aura kept the treasure docile.
• Zi Wei and Sanqing drew down Heaven Dao’s power, Houtu, Fengdu, and Dijiang summoned Earth Dao’s power, and Nuwa, Fuxi, and Kunpeng connected with Human Dao.
• Styx joined those forces with Zhou Mountain’s origin and used the resulting flame to refine the Purple Cloud Palace in the Universe Cauldron.
• The Purple Cloud Palace’s body and restrictions broke apart, revealing a sleeping incarnation of Hongjun hidden in its core.

Styx burned away the spirituality of the Purple Cloud Palace and Hongjun's Incarnation, then reforged the palace into a Great Wilderness Portal. In the Chaos, Hongjun realized his plan had failed and resumed cultivating a Chaos Demon God Body.

• Styx used a flame from the Universe Cauldron to erase the Purple Cloud Palace's spirituality and refine Hongjun's Incarnation into origin.
• Hongjun sensed the loss of his Incarnation and the palace's spirituality in the Chaos, concluded his plan had failed, and returned to cultivating.
• Styx refined the two origins with his own Incarnation to create an Artifact Spirit for the Purple Cloud Palace's restrictions.
• Styx added Stone of Mount Buzhou and Shoushan Copper to the palace's materials as he reforged it into a Great Wilderness Portal.
• Styx joined the power of All Saints and the Four Supreme Powers of the Great Wilderness to reopen a world inside the reforged Spiritual Treasure.

Styx and the Saints completed the reforging of the Purple Cloud Palace into a city containing a world and resonating with the Primordial World Origin. When they debated its new name, the Zhou Mountain Will named it the Primordial Chaos Ruins, and Styx and the Saints accepted it.

• Styx brought the reforged city out of the Universe Cauldron after the Saints and the Three Paths withdrew their power.
• Nuwa suggested renaming the treasure, and the Saints agreed that Purple Cloud Palace no longer suited it.
• Tongtian, Yuanshi, Taiqing, Nuwa, and Houtu each proposed a name, but the Saints could not agree.
• When the Saints looked to Styx for a final decision, the Zhou Mountain Will placed its aura on the city and inscribed Primordial Chaos Ruins above its gate.
• Styx praised the name and described the city as a protector of the Great Wilderness and a tomb for Chaos God and Demons, and the Saints reluctantly agreed.