Chapter Summaries

Styx and the other Saints activated the Primordial Chaos Ruins and sent them to the boundary between the Inner Chaos and Outer Chaos to guard the Great Wilderness. The ruins stopped there, forming an outer defense that refined Chaos Spiritual Qi and would confront any Chaos Demon Gods attempting to invade.

• Styx connected with the Heaven and Earth Samsara Mountain Protection Array while Zi Wei and the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum activated their formations, and their power and the origins of Heaven, Earth, Human, and Zhou Mountain entered the Primordial Chaos Ruins.
• The Primordial Chaos Ruins rose toward the Chaos, and its aura made beings across the Great Wilderness believe a new Saint had appeared before they learned the ruins' name and role as the boundary crossing.
• At Mount Meru, Zhunti asked Jieyin whether the ruins could stop the Chaos Demon Gods, and Jieyin admitted he did not know before urging them to cultivate.
• The Primordial Chaos Ruins drew the old Heaven and Earth Membrane to the boundary between the Inner Chaos and Outer Chaos as the Four Supremes established a new inner membrane and a Fusion Barrier.
• The Primordial Chaos Ruins settled at the outer boundary, where it absorbed Chaos Spiritual Qi, refined some into Innate Spiritual Qi, and guarded the Great Wilderness against invading Chaos Demon Gods.

After the Primordial Chaos Ruins stabilized and the Heavenly Dao was reborn, Merit descended upon the Saints and Styx. Styx gave his share to the Universe Cauldron, which had begun to show faint signs of reversing into Chaos.

• The Primordial Chaos Ruins vanished from the sky, and auspicious signs appeared across the Great Wilderness as a vast Merit Golden Cloud gathered above the Summit of Zhou Mountain.
• Zhunti envied the Merit and complained to Jieyin, who cut off Mount Meru's senses of the outside world and advised him to watch his words.
• Styx explained that the Merit rewarded both the refining of the Spiritual Treasure and the expulsion of Destiny that allowed the Heavenly Dao to be reborn.
• The Merit was distributed, with Styx receiving the largest share and the other Saints receiving roughly equal portions.
• Styx sent his Merit into the Universe Cauldron, hoping to aid its faint signs of reversing into Chaos, while the Saints kept their Merit rather than using it to cultivate.

Styx explained that Chaos contained many powerful beings besides the Chaos Demon Gods, so guarding the Primordial Chaos Ruins would require more than Saints. He proposed transferring people below the Saint level from the Great Wilderness to help guard the ruins.

• Styx told the Saints that they needed to choose guards for the Primordial Chaos Ruins and said they could arrange the Saints' rotation later.
• Styx explained that Chaos was vast and contained other living beings capable of surviving its violent Chaos Qi.
• Nuwa asked whether other living beings existed in Chaos, and Styx confirmed that they did.
• Styx warned that resurrected Chaos Demon Gods might create followers and that guards could face both them and other Chaos creatures.
• Styx decided to transfer a group of people from the Great Wilderness to help guard the Primordial Chaos Ruins.

Styx explained how the Great Wilderness could defend the Primordial Chaos Ruins without relying on Saints to handle every Chaos Being. He proposed recruiting powerful warriors from major factions, rewarding them with Merit and contribution points, and sending the Saints’ disciples only after they reached the Da Luo Golden Immortal realm.

• Taiqing questioned whether the Great Wilderness had enough powerful fighters to guard the Primordial Chaos Ruins against Chaos Beings.
• Styx explained that Chaos Beings were physically strong but mentally impaired, while Great Wilderness warriors could use teams, Formations, Spiritual Treasures, and medicinal pills to defeat them.
• Styx proposed exchanging Chaos Being remains for contribution points and using their bodies as resources for weapons, pills, and body tempering.
• Tongtian praised Styx’s plan, and Dijiang volunteered the Witch Clan’s restless warriors for guard duty.
• Styx selected the Heavenly Court, the Underworld, the Witch Clan, the Human Race, and the Asura Clan as sources for the first guards, while noting that other clans could earn Merit by fighting Chaos Beings.
• Styx said the Saints’ disciples should gain experience among the Human Race and wait until reaching the Da Luo Golden Immortal realm before going to the ruins.

Styx organized the first Saint-level guard force for the Primordial Chaos Ruins and assigned Dijiang, Tongtian, and Fuxi to establish Teleportation Arrays linking the ruins, the Great Wilderness, and its Marketplaces. He set rules for rotating guards and leaving Incarnations behind, then dismissed the Saints with a warning about their disciples’ conduct.

• Styx required Dijiang to lead the first expedition and bring clansmen skilled in Space Law to build a Teleportation Array between the Great Wilderness and the Kunlun Ruins.
• Tongtian and Fuxi volunteered to help Dijiang, and Styx assigned Fuxi to coordinate Marketplace arrays from Great Wilderness Earth while Tongtian traveled to the Primordial Chaos Ruins.
• Styx proposed that Saint-level combatants guard the ruins in pairs by turns and leave Incarnations there and in the Great Wilderness.
• Styx told the Saints to restrain their disciples from killing innocents, then privately reminded Tongtian to leave an Incarnation and teach his disciples properly.
• Tongtian accepted Styx’s reminder, and Styx reflected on Tongtian’s loyalty as a leader and contrasted his character with Yuanshi’s.

Styx gave Dijiang a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root to help the Witch Clan’s spatial cultivators and handed Nuwa a spiritual tree while urging her to strengthen her cultivation. Nuwa promised to open a Destiny World and upgrade the Red Embroidered Ball, while Dijiang departed to prepare for the mission.

• Styx gave Dijiang Yang Mei’s verdant willow tree, a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root containing the Space Law, to help him and the Witch Clan’s spatial branch improve.
• Dijiang promised that the Witch Clan would follow Styx and left to prepare, while leaving an Incarnation behind to watch over Zhurong and the others.
• Houtu thanked Styx, and he reminded her that they were family.
• Nuwa complained that Styx had not given her a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root, so he gave her the Purple Jade Grape Tree for herself and the Human Race.
• Styx urged Nuwa to open a Destiny World inside the Red Embroidered Ball and use the feedback to raise it to an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Nuwa promised to begin opening her Destiny World, while Fuxi looked envious and Kunpeng remained content with the treasures Styx had given him.

Styx gave Fuxi a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root and praised Kunpeng and the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum for their progress. Dream Spirit visited the group, and Styx encouraged her that she was nearing a breakthrough that would free her from the Virtual God Realm’s restrictions.

• Seeing Fuxi envy Nuwa’s Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root, Styx gave him the Goji Tree from Fangzhang Island.
• Styx praised Kunpeng’s steady character and told him his cultivation would become smoother.
• Styx congratulated the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum on Attaining Dao, and they thanked him for his guidance.
• Dream Spirit emerged from Zhou Mountain and greeted Styx, Nuwa, and the others.
• Styx recognized Dream Spirit’s progress, encouraged her not to rush, and told her she would soon break through to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm.

Styx and the other leaders gathered forces from across the Great Wilderness to reinforce the Primordial Chaos Ruins. Xi He and Changxi volunteered to lead Nuwa and Fuxi’s Human Race contingent, and left for Zhou Mountain to join the Witch Clan.

• Styx kept the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum with Dream Spirit and led Kunpeng toward the Blood Sea, while Nuwa, Houtu, and Fuxi went to recruit forces.
• Zi Wei and Fengdu began gathering Heavenly Court and Underworld troops, with Fengdu planning an Underworld Investiture of the Gods.
• Nuwa and Fuxi selected Human Race experts to fight in the Primordial Chaos Ruins, drawing mostly Grand Unity Golden Immortals and some stronger cultivators.
• Xi He and Changxi visited Nuwa and Fuxi and asked to train in the Primordial Chaos Ruins, explaining that Wangshu had approved their request.
• Nuwa appointed Xi He and Changxi to lead the Human Race forces, and they departed for Zhou Mountain to join the Witch Clan.

Dijiang chose Xing Tian and Jiu Feng to help deploy the Witch Clan at the Primordial Chaos Ruins while Styx and Kunpeng returned leisurely to the Blood Sea. There they witnessed Jiang Chen emerge as the ancestor of Zombies, and Styx began preparing the Blood Sea’s powerful beings to guard the ruins.

• Dijiang selected Xing Tian and Jiu Feng to accompany him and deploy the Witch Clan warriors in his absence.
• Styx and Kunpeng wandered through the Great Wilderness, with Styx giving Kunpeng pointers on fusing laws.
• A powerful vision appeared over the Blood Sea as Jiang Chen emerged from the Corpse Raising Coffin and recognized Styx as Father God.
• Styx praised Jiang Chen’s Peak Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal cultivation and told him to awaken the corpses in the coffin into Zombies.
• Styx summoned the Blood Sea beings and planned to send those at the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal level to guard the Primordial Chaos Ruins.

Styx’s Summoning Order revealed the Blood Sea’s 108 legions, whose strength shocked Kunpeng and made him even prouder to be Styx’s disciple. As the legions assembled, the chapter explained how Styx’s Blood God Flags let them challenge Origin-level Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, leaving them ready to confront Chaos Fierce Beasts.

• Styx’s Summoning Order brought the Blood Sea’s living beings together before the Blood God Palace.
• Kunpeng saw that the 108 legions each had ten thousand members, with Da Luo Golden Immortals as their weakest fighters, and sensed that each legion could threaten him.
• Kunpeng became more reverent toward Styx and felt honored and proud to be his disciple.
• Styx had created innate Blood God Flags that let each legion either empower its commander for a powerful attack or form a space to trap and suppress enemies.
• The legions’ formations could contend with Origin-level Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals, and Styx had designed their slower trapping method to work especially well against Chaos Fierce Beasts.

Styx rallied the Blood Sea army and ordered it to guard the newly formed Primordial Chaos Ruins, promising opportunities for advancement and rewards. The legions dispersed to prepare for the expedition, while the One Hundred and Eight Blood Sea Emissaries stayed behind for further instructions.

• Styx addressed the more than million-strong Blood Sea army and appointed them the first candidates to guard the Primordial Chaos Ruins.
• Styx explained that the revived Chaos Demon Gods and restless beings in Chaos threatened the Great Wilderness, and he urged the army to defend it.
• Styx told the Blood Sea beings that guarding the Primordial Chaos Ruins could bring breakthroughs, fortune, and valuable rewards.
• Styx declared that the Heavenly Iron Laws applied to the Blood God Realm and allowed the army to take turns evolving worlds in the Inner Chaos.
• Styx ordered the One Hundred and Eight Blood Sea Emissaries to remain while the other legions dispersed to prepare for the expedition.

Styx appointed Xuan Sha and the Blood Sea Emissaries to lead the Blood Sea Legion to the Primordial Chaos Ruins, giving them Acquired Spiritual Roots cultivated from World Tree roots to help them create worlds. The roots would stabilize those worlds while channeling their Fortune and insights back to the Styx Realm.

• Styx reflected on how the Blood Sea Emissaries had advanced to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal Peak Stage and might break through during their mission.
• Styx placed Xuan Sha in command of the Blood Sea Legion and gave the emissaries one million Acquired Spiritual Roots for their world-evolving efforts.
• Xuan Sha vowed that the Blood Sea Emissaries would establish one million worlds in the Primordial Chaos Ruins and gather Fortune for the Blood Sea.
• Styx distributed ten thousand Acquired Spiritual Roots to each of the One Hundred and Eight Blood Sea Emissaries.
• Styx explained that the roots could stabilize the worlds and carry their Fortune, cultivation insights, and laws back to the Styx Realm.

Styx sent the Blood Sea Legion, the Asura army, and the newly awakened Zombie Clan toward Zhou Mountain to join the Witch Clan and others. He ordered Kunpeng to conceal their movements and contain their blood-fiend aura as they traveled.

• Styx warned the Blood Sea Emissaries to act cautiously in the Primordial Chaos Ruins, and they pledged to return safely.
• Jiang Chen reported that he had awakened the Zombie Clan, whose newly formed army included Golden Immortals and Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
• The Asura Clan assembled 129,600 warriors under Bo Xun, Wu Mo, and Xue Ji, and Styx ordered the forces to set out for Zhou Mountain.
• Styx instructed Jiang Chen to restrain the Zombies and prevent them from massacring innocents in the Great Wilderness.
• Jiang Chen led the Zombie army out with the Asura Clan and Blood Sea Legion, and Styx sent Kunpeng to shield their movements and contain their aura.

Hong Yun returned to Longevity Mountain and reunited with Zhen Yuanzi, who welcomed him into Wuzhuang Temple and heard how Styx had saved him. After learning that Styx had also guided Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun resolved to seize more Fortune from the West to avenge himself and repay Styx.

• Hong Yun hesitated at the foot of Longevity Mountain until Zhen Yuanzi sensed his aura and came down to meet him.
• Zhen Yuanzi confirmed Hong Yun’s return, embraced him, and invited him into Wuzhuang Temple for Ginseng Fruits.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked how Hong Yun had survived after self-detonating, and Hong Yun recounted his experiences since leaving the temple.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun bowed toward the Blood Sea to thank Styx for saving Hong Yun.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Hong Yun about Styx’s guidance and his progress on the World Dao, and Hong Yun resolved to seize more Fortune from the West.

Hong Yun told Zhen Yuanzi that the Western Duo had plotted against him to escape the karmic debt from the seat he had given them. He revealed Styx's plan to take revenge without confronting the Saints directly, and Zhen Yuanzi saw it as a path that could help Hong Yun attain the Dao.

• Hong Yun asked Zhen Yuanzi to use the Earth Book and Wuzhuang Temple's formations to conceal their conversation from Heaven's secrets.
• Hong Yun explained how the Two Saints of the West had tried to destroy him after he gave them his seat and helped them obtain the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Zhen Yuanzi urged Hong Yun to control his hatred and offered to accompany him to Mount Meru after attaining the Dao, but Hong Yun insisted that he had to avenge his own grudge.
• Hong Yun said Heavenly Venerate Styx had instructed him not to fight the Western Duo directly, then shared the methods of the Styx Teachings and the Classics.
• Zhen Yuanzi praised Styx's plan for exploiting the Western Teachings' weakness and said the Classics could give Hong Yun an opportunity to attain the Dao.

Hong Yun invited Zhen Yuanzi to help him establish a sect in the West and share in its Fortune. Zhen Yuanzi agreed to become Vice Sect Master, and the two set out for the Western Spiritual Mountain.

• Hong Yun told Zhen Yuanzi that the Two Saints of the West had closed their mountain gate, creating an opportunity to act.
• Hong Yun explained that the Heavenly Venerate had shown him a Spiritual Mountain where eighty-one Spiritual Veins of the West converged.
• Hong Yun invited Zhen Yuanzi to establish a sect with him, explaining that he had few subordinates and wanted to share its leadership.
• Zhen Yuanzi offered to serve as an idle elder without competing for Fortune, since he had already understood his path along the Great Dao.
• Hong Yun insisted that Zhen Yuanzi become Vice Sect Master and share in the sect's Fortune, and Zhen Yuanzi accepted on the condition that it would not hinder Hong Yun's Attainment of Dao.
• Zhen Yuanzi flew toward the West with Hong Yun following him.

Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi reached Spiritual Mountain, where Hong Yun entered enlightenment beneath a giant tree and opened a Buddhist Lesser Thousand World. He broke through to the Mid-stage Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm, while Zhen Yuanzi completed the mountain-protecting formation.

• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi arrived at Spiritual Mountain, which Styx had bestowed upon Hong Yun as a base for dealing with the Two Saints of the West.
• Hong Yun opened the mountain’s restrictions, and the pair explored its rich Spiritual Aura and abundant resources.
• At the summit, the Buddhist scriptures Styx had taught Hong Yun stirred as he approached a giant tree, and he entered enlightenment beneath it.
• Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to protect Hong Yun and arranged Spiritual Mountain’s mountain-protecting Great Formation.
• A Lesser Thousand World opened behind Hong Yun, with a phantom of the giant tree at its center, and Hong Yun advanced to the Mid-stage Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm.

Hong Yun awakened beneath the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree and broke through to the mid-stage of the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm. He realized the tree could become a weapon against the Western Teachings and planned to exploit their weakness in Annihilation Nirvana.

• Hong Yun stopped himself from making a boastful declaration, and Zhen Yuanzi congratulated him on his breakthrough.
• Hong Yun explained that accumulated cultivation, his transformed Escape Void Shuttle, and enlightenment beneath the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree had helped him advance two realms.
• Hong Yun told Zhen Yuanzi that the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree had formed from Annihilation Dao Resonance and the damaged Western Ancestral Vein, and that it shared an origin with Zhunti's Bodhi Tree.
• Hong Yun identified the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree as an Enlightenment Divine Tree for their future sect and a Tree of Tribulation for the Western Teachings.
• Hong Yun concluded that they could strike the Western Teachings by drawing them toward Annihilation Nirvana, then laughed at the prospect of avenging his old grudge.

red cloud established Buddhism at Spiritual Mountain with Zhen Yuanzi as Vice Sect Master, and the Heavenly Dao granted the new sect vast merit. Jieyin and Zhunti lost part of the Western Teachings’ fortune as red cloud confronted them with evidence of their past schemes.

• red cloud thanked Zhen Yuanzi for protecting him, then prepared to establish Buddhism beneath the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree.
• red cloud proclaimed himself Nirvana Buddha of Silence and named Zhen Yuanzi Longevity Tathagata Buddha, with the Nine-grade Pure World White Lotus and Earth Book suppressing Buddhism’s Fortune.
• The Heavenly Dao recognized Buddhism, sending down Merit Golden Cloud that empowered red cloud, Zhen Yuanzi, the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree, and the Nine-grade Pure World White Lotus.
• The Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus split, sending its upper three grades to Spiritual Mountain and stripping thirty percent of the Western Teachings’ Fortune.
• Zhunti attacked with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, but the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree blocked it and absorbed a wisp of its origin while revealing Jieyin and Zhunti’s past schemes.
• red cloud manifested Silence Buddha and faced Zhunti across Spiritual Mountain.

Jieyin stopped Zhunti from fighting Hong Yun under the Heavenly Dao’s watch and agreed to postpone settling their Karma. Hong Yun used the Fortune he had taken from the Western Teachings to fuse the Three-grade Merit Golden Lotus with the Nine-grade Pure World White Lotus through his Nirvana Sutra.

• Jieyin pulled Zhunti back and asked Hong Yun whether the Western Teachings’ loss of thirty percent of its Fortune could settle their Karma.
• Hong Yun refused, warning that the Karma from his fall would be settled in the future, and the Nine-grade Merit Golden Lotus began to tremble as Zhunti threatened him.
• Jieyin suppressed the lotus, stopped Zhunti from acting, and agreed to put the dispute aside while the Heavenly Dao watched.
• Hong Yun let the Black-Gold Buddha Dharma Aspect dissipate, appeared beneath the Seven-Leaf Bodhi Tree, and revealed the Three-grade Merit Golden Lotus in his hand.
• Hong Yun recited the Nirvana Sutra and fused the Three-grade Merit Golden Lotus with the Nine-grade Pure World White Lotus, inscribing the sutra across the lotus platform.