Chapter Summaries

After breaking through to the Da Luo Golden Immortal Realm, Kong Xuan ordered his protectors to leave and confronted Jin Yu about arranging so many marriages for him. The chapter ended with Kong Xuan facing the problem that his wives were bound to him by Karma, while his younger brother drew his increasingly dangerous glare.

• Kong Xuan decided to postpone merging his bodies until his physical body reached the Peacock True Body's cultivation level, then left the Secret Realm for the Marquis of Shang's Manor.
• Kong Xuan dismissed Qing Luan and Fire Phoenix, who flew east and privately agreed that they had sensed something unusual.
• Jin Yu congratulated Kong Xuan on his breakthrough, but Kong Xuan accused him of arranging so many women for his harem.
• Jin Yu blamed Yi Yin's Marriage Alliance policy and his own efforts to strengthen Kong Xuan's foundation, while Kong Xuan recalled accepting the marriages to avoid arousing Si Gui's suspicion.
• Kong Xuan realized that his wives were bound to him by Karma and glared at Jin Yu with growing menace.

Azure Luan and Fire Phoenix found a concealed Wind-Fire Spiritual Pool and discovered that its Spiritual Treasures had not finished gestating. They stayed to cultivate beside the treasures, whose growing spirituality began to take on their forms.

• Azure Luan and Fire Phoenix followed the pull of an opportunity to an ordinary-looking cave and sensed a formation concealing it.
• Fire Phoenix attacked the formation with his origin flame, and Azure Luan joined his wind to break the barrier.
• Azure Luan and Fire Phoenix entered the cave and found a Spiritual Pool filled with dense wind and fire energy.
• Azure Luan and Fire Phoenix explored the pool and realized its Spiritual Treasures were still gestating, so they decided not to take them.
• Azure Luan and Fire Phoenix cultivated beside the treasures, and their growing auras helped the treasures' spirituality develop into forms resembling them.

Kong Xuan withdrew from the Primordial Continent after passing Shang’s rule to Zhaoming, while Shang Kingdom quietly built its strength under Great Xia’s declining rule. By the time Zi Lu, also known as Shang Tang, became its fourteenth ruler, Shang’s Fortune Flood Dragon neared transformation as Great Xia’s fortune faltered.

• Kong Xuan named Zhaoming Marquis of Shang, established ancestral succession rules, and left for Outside Heaven to create a Great World and break through to Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal.
• Si Gui considered attacking Shang Kingdom, but Mei Xi persuaded him to praise it publicly and suppress it gradually instead.
• Si Gui secretly used the Boiling Frog Strategy against Shang Kingdom, while his cruelty and neglect weakened Great Xia and alienated its officials and Vassal Lords.
• Successive Marquises of Shang followed the ancestral rules, publicly deferred to Great Xia, and secretly gathered strength in the Five Elements Secret Realm as Kong Xuan concealed Shang’s fortune.
• By the time Zi Lu, also known as Shang Tang, became Shang’s fourteenth ruler, its Fortune Flood Dragon neared transformation while Great Xia’s fortune and Fortune True Dragon visibly declined.

Tang and the vassal-state envoys considered joining forces against Great Xia, but feared the Human Emperor’s power. A blood-red phenomenon spread across the Primordial Continent, and Qing Fu suspected Heavenly Venerate Styx had advanced, leaving the envoys worried that Great Xia had gained a formidable protector.

• Envoys urged Tang to unite against Great Xia, while Qing Fu and Huang Liqie warned that Great Xia’s Fortune empowered its Human Emperor and would make an attack disastrous.
• A crimson sky and Blood Chains enveloped the Primordial Continent, bringing immense pressure and giving some Living Beings insight into the Law of Blood.
• Saints and Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals turned their attention toward the Blood Sea, while the two Western Saints watched with wariness and jealousy.
• Qing Fu suggested that Heavenly Venerate Styx, Great Xia’s supporter and cultivator of the Law of Blood, had broken through, alarming the envoys and unsettling Tang.
• The Five Elements Secret Realm had grown into a Five Elements World under Kong Xuan’s supervision and the Shang Kingdom’s rising Fortune.

While their patriarch’s breakthrough suppressed Great Xia’s fortune, Kong Xuan and Jin Yu seized the chance to launch an uprising against the Human Emperor. Kong Xuan left Jin Yu expecting to share the blame as their armies marched toward Mount Tai City.

• Kong Xuan noticed that the blood-red phenomenon had suppressed Great Xia’s fortune and proposed taking advantage of the opportunity.
• Jin Yu encouraged Kong Xuan to act, and Kong Xuan said they would share responsibility if their Master blamed them.
• Tang ordered the vassal lords to rise against the Human Emperor and assembled the Shang Kingdom’s armies.
• Kong Xuan led the Shang rulers and more than a dozen armies out of the Five Elements Blessed Land.
• Jin Yu realized Kong Xuan had made him a scapegoat, but followed the army toward Mount Tai City.

Styx fused eleven Chaos Demon God bloodlines and advanced the Styx Realm into an Origin World, transforming his own bloodline and strengthening his cultivation. The World Bead became a Chaos Spiritual Treasure, and the World Tree opened countless subsidiary worlds that further empowered the Styx Realm.

• Styx merged ten Great Thousand Worlds into the Styx Realm as his Five Elements Demon God Avatar advanced to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm.
• The Styx Realm expanded beyond its former limits and transformed from a peak Great Thousand World into an initial Origin World, while Equality advanced alongside it.
• Eleven Chaos Demon God essence bloodlines fused into Styx's Pangu bloodline, giving him a distinct bloodline and marking his path toward his own Great Dao.
• The World Bead advanced into a Chaos Spiritual Treasure as Styx's eleven Demon God Avatars' Origin Power formed a new supreme bloodline within him.
• The World Tree opened countless subsidiary worlds whose complete laws strengthened the Styx Realm and stabilized Styx's cultivation.

Styx emerged from the Styx Realm and faced the Three Ways, whose pressure weakened the powers that could influence the Great Wilderness. Taking advantage of Great Xia’s reduced strength, the Shang Kingdom marched against it, and the armies met at the Fields of Mingtiao.

• Styx left the Styx Realm and met the Heavenly, Earth, and Human Dao Eyes above the Blood Sea, where their confrontation suppressed the Great Wilderness’s powerful factions.
• Kong Xuan and Shang Tang led the Shang Kingdom’s armies toward Great Xia’s stronghold at Mount Tai City while its National Fortune was weakened.
• Si Gui sealed the Teleportation Arrays, branded the Shang Kingdom a rebel state, and summoned the Vassal Lords to war.
• The Vassal Lords largely resisted Si Gui’s decree through delays, excuses, and covert support for the Shang advance, so Si Gui killed their envoys and decided to lead Great Xia’s army himself.
• At the Fields of Mingtiao, Si Gui found the Shang army disciplined and highly motivated, while Great Xia’s troops could not deploy their ancestral Military Formations.

Styx and the Three Paths remained in a stalemate because neither side would yield, while Styx believed his merits and strength protected him from being expelled. He watched Kong Xuan’s uprising in the Fields of Mingtiao and saw the Shang Kingdom’s resulting Karma as an opportunity for his next plan.

• Styx refused to lower his head to the Three Paths or promise not to influence the Great Wilderness.
• The Three Paths continued clashing with Styx, and he expected them to eventually send their Dao Mergers to confront him.
• Styx split off a will to observe Kong Xuan’s battle in the Fields of Mingtiao.
• Styx admired Kong Xuan’s uprising and expected him to fulfill his Merit and become the leader of the Blood Sea’s third generation.
• Styx recognized that the Shang Kingdom would incur Karma from the uprising and planned to use it for his next scheme.

At the Fields of Mingtiao, Kong Xuan revealed that the Shang Kingdom had concealed its abnormal Fortune and challenged Si Gui over Great Xia’s weakened National Fortune. Their battle began with Si Gui unable to draw on the realm’s Fortune through the Human Emperor Sword, leaving him struggling against Kong Xuan.

• Si Gui recognized Kong Xuan and the Shang Kingdom’s Fortune, realizing they had hidden their strength from Great Xia’s investigations.
• Kong Xuan saluted Si Gui as Qi of the Shang Kingdom, then questioned whether Si Gui could still unleash Great Xia’s true National Fortune.
• Si Gui accused Kong Xuan of underestimating Great Xia’s accumulated power, and Kong Xuan ended their exchange to begin fighting.
• Kong Xuan attacked with Five-Colored Divine Light while Si Gui countered with the Human Emperor Sword.
• The Vassal Lords’ blockade prevented the sword from drawing on Great Xia’s National Fortune, and Si Gui struggled to gain an advantage over Kong Xuan.

As the Shang army attacked Great Xia at the Fields of Mingtiao, Yi Yin and Mei Xi seized control of Mount Tai City and prepared it for the Shang Kingdom’s rise. After securing the city, Yi Yin invited Mei Xi to travel with him when the conflict ended, and she agreed.

• Tang led the Shang army into battle against Great Xia, whose poorly trained forces retreated under pressure.
• With Si Gui away on his expedition, Yi Yin and Mei Xi purged his supporters, closed Mount Tai City’s gates, and activated its city-protecting formation and Yi Yin’s secret formation.
• Yi Yin explained that Great Xia’s rulers had weakened their officials’ loyalty by neglecting the Human Way Investiture of the Gods and mistreating their ministers.
• Mei Xi asked whether the Shang forces would win, and Yi Yin confidently predicted that they would overthrow Great Xia.
• Yi Yin invited Mei Xi to travel through the Great Wilderness with him after the conflict, and she accepted.

Styx watched Si Gui and Kong Xuan draw on their kingdoms’ national fortunes and allied forces to raise their strength for a decisive duel. Kong Xuan matched Si Gui with the Phoenix Staff, but Great Xia’s army was routed and the battlefield began to favor the Shang Kingdom.

• Styx saw Si Gui struggling against Kong Xuan as Great Xia’s forces began to retreat, so he used the Imperial Seal to bolster Si Gui with Great Xia’s National Fortune.
• Kong Xuan drew power from the Five Elements Secret Realm, the Shang Kingdom’s rulers, and his fathers-in-law’s tribes until he reached Si Gui’s level.
• Si Gui and Kong Xuan clashed, with Si Gui warning that he would purge the rebels and Kong Xuan insisting he would not get the chance.
• Kong Xuan brought out the Phoenix Clan’s inherited Phoenix Staff and fought Si Gui’s Human Emperor Sword to a draw.
• The Shang Kingdom’s army routed Great Xia’s forces, Mount Tai City changed hands, and Great Xia’s National Fortune began to fluctuate.

As Great Xia fell, Si Gui tried to destroy its cities and take Kong Xuan with him, but Styx disabled his formations and the Nine Cauldrons stopped his self-destruction. Qiuniu saved Si Gui’s True Spirit and conveyed Emperor Yu’s decision to entrust Great Xia to Kong Xuan.

• Si Gui activated hidden arrays throughout Great Xia to ignite its National Fortune and destroy the cities, while Kong Xuan shielded Shang Tang and the others with the Phoenix Staff.
• Styx severed the Imperial Seal’s connection to Great Xia and destroyed Si Gui’s arrays through his Earth Vein Incarnations.
• Si Gui absorbed Great Xia’s remaining National Fortune and charged at Kong Xuan, then detonated himself with the Human Emperor Sword.
• Nine streams of golden light compressed Si Gui’s explosion, revealing the Nine Cauldrons and protecting everyone from the blast.
• Qiuniu emerged from the Nine Cauldrons with Si Gui’s damaged True Spirit and said Emperor Yu had ordered him to save it so Si Gui could atone.
• Qiuniu told Kong Xuan that Emperor Yu entrusted Great Xia to him, then departed with the Nine Cauldrons.

After Si Gui's death, Shang Tang's army occupied Mount Tai City and the Shang Kingdom was recognized as the new orthodox dynasty. Kong Xuan left Shang Tang and Yi Yin to consolidate their rule while he set out to deal with the other Vassal Lords.

• After Si Gui self-destructed, Shang Tang ordered the surrendered Xia troops spared and marched his army toward Mount Tai City.
• The Fortune Mystic Bird took shape above Mount Tai City, absorbed Great Xia's collapsing Fortune, and received Human Dao's recognition of the Shang Kingdom as the new orthodox dynasty.
• Yi Yin opened Mount Tai City's gates, and the citizens welcomed Shang Tang's army without resistance.
• Yi Yin introduced Mei Xi and credited her work inside the palace with helping the Shang Kingdom succeed.
• Yi Yin warned Shang Tang and Kong Xuan that ambitious Vassal Lords might rebel while Great Shang was still consolidating its rule.
• Kong Xuan assigned Yi Yin to help Shang Tang secure Great Xia's forces and said he would personally visit the other Vassal Lords.

Kong Xuan’s display of power secured the Vassal Lords’ submission to Great Shang, and Shang Tang prepared to establish its capital at Zhaoge. Meanwhile, Styx negotiated his independence with the Three Ways and established the Blood Great Dao, leaving all beings to honor him as a Dao Venerate.

• Kong Xuan merged with the Fortune Mystic Bird, whose overwhelming aura caused the Vassal Lords to submit and let their fortune draw closer to Great Shang.
• Kong Xuan and Shang Tang decided to hold the enthronement at Hao Capital, rename it Zhaoge, and make it Great Shang’s capital.
• The Heavenly, Earth, and Human Daos sent Zi Wei, Houtu, and Nuwa to negotiate with Styx over his standing and future actions.
• Styx and the Three Ways agreed that the Blood Sea would remain his Dojo, his followers could travel freely, and they would protect the Primordial World’s stability.
• Styx signed the Great Dao Contract, and the Blood Great Dao took root as beings across the Primordial World bowed to him.

After reaching the Primordial Chaos Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, Styx welcomed the Saints and other leaders to the Blood Sea, whose rules and power had changed along with his advancement. He praised their resistance to the Chaos Demon Gods and encouraged the newly advanced Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals to create worlds in the Inner Chaos.

• Styx's disciples, the Twelve Ancestor Witches, Sanqing, Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, Wangshu, Xi He, and Changxi congratulated Styx on his breakthrough.
• Styx led the gathering through the transformed Blood Sea, whose rules had become independent of the Great Wilderness while remaining connected to its Primordial World Origin Will.
• The Blood God Realm gained more complete rules and began advancing toward the rank of an Origin World.
• Styx praised the Saints' united resistance against the Chaos Demon Gods while he was in seclusion, and did not blame Wangshu for staying behind.
• Styx encouraged the newly advanced Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals to create worlds in the Inner Chaos and perfect Primordial Heaven and Earth.

Styx lectured the Saints on advancing beyond the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm by fusing other laws into their own Great Daos. After an Eon of teaching and discussion, the Saints gained new insights, while Great Shang established its Fortune Dynasty.

• Styx began his first Dao lecture after attaining the Primordial Chaos Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm and explained how to forge a unique Great Dao.
• Styx manifested his Blood Great Dao, showing the Saints how countless laws could be fused into one intrinsic law.
• Houtu, Nuwa, Hong Yun, and the other Saints studied Styx's Blood Great Dao and gained insights into their own paths.
• Great Shang established its Fortune Dynasty during the Eon-long lecture, and the Heavenly Mandate Mysterious Bird awed the Primordial Continent.
• After Styx finished, the Saints discussed his teachings and felt that their paths of the Dao had become clearer.

Styx proposed a minor Tribulation to redirect the Great Wilderness’s population and test the Saints’ disciples, promising an opportunity to Attain Dao to whoever performed well. After the Saints left, the remaining figures and factions began preparing for their own training.

• Styx told the Saints to expand their lineages and recruit disciples, then announced his plan to promote a minor Tribulation.
• Tongtian asked what form the Tribulation would take, but Styx kept its details confidential and urged the Saints to teach their disciples well.
• Styx dismissed the Three Pure Ones and the other Saints, after which members of the Blood Sea Lineage stayed to thank him before departing.
• Fengdu took the other Ancestral Witches for special training, while Heavenly Emperor Zi Wei began training Queen Mother of the West and the Heavenly Court faction.
• Human Emperor Ming began teaching Emperor Yu, Qi, Lie Shan Shi, and other heroes of the former Great Xia.

Styx explained that he had brought the Tribulation forward to strengthen the Great Wilderness, manage its population and Fortune, and test which paths best supported its development. He revealed that the Tribulation would take the form of Imperial Dynasty Hegemony, though he kept his full plan secret.

• Houtu asked whether Styx had advanced the Tribulation to perfect the Great Wilderness's rules, and Styx said appropriate calamities could help the world advance.
• Styx explained that the Great Wilderness's growing population strained its resources and diverted Fortune from top experts.
• Nuwa asked whether the Tribulation was meant to eliminate living beings, and Styx said he wanted to divert them elsewhere rather than waste their potential.
• Houtu inferred that strong beings might enter Chaos to create worlds while weaker beings remained in the Great Wilderness, but Styx withheld the specifics.
• Styx said the Tribulation would test which Saints' ideals best suited the Great Wilderness and named its form: Imperial Dynasty Hegemony.
• Fuxi questioned how a new Shang Dynasty could face a struggle for supremacy, and Styx said ambitious people could be guided to drive the Tribulation forward.

Styx announced a Great Wilderness Tribulation that would take place partly in the Virtual God Realm, where participants could compete for opportunities and the chance to Attain Dao Primordial Chaos. Dream Spirit prepared the realm as its battlefield while the factions gathered, but Jieyin and Zhunti remained trapped on Mount Meru and unable to join.

• Nuwa asked whether the Tribulation could destabilize the Great Wilderness, and Styx said he would oversee it and channel its Calamity Qi into the Virtual God Realm.
• Styx explained that participants who died in the Virtual God Realm would survive in their true bodies but face punishment, while the victors could gain opportunities, including a chance to Attain Dao Primordial Chaos.
• Styx sent the All Saints to gather their disciples and said his Blood Sea disciples would also compete; Dream Spirit returned to Zhou Mountain to isolate and strengthen a region of the Virtual God Realm.
• Styx infused the battlefield region with Blood-colored Divine Light, stabilizing it with the Blood Great Dao.
• On Kunlun Mountain, Tongtian, Yuanshi, and Taiqing discussed the Tribulation, with Tongtian confident in the Sect of Interception and Yuanshi warning him not to underestimate it.
• At Mount Meru, Jieyin and Zhunti sensed the Tribulation’s importance but remained confined by the barrier, so they continued studying their Buddhist-Demonic Unity Method.

After transforming the Blood Sea and Blood God Realm into an Origin World, Styx and Wood Spirit traveled to the East Sea Coast in search of karmic opportunities and promising disciples. Styx found a stone orb containing a living being and secretly granted Ao Bing a chance to improve his bloodline before leaving his future to his own fortune.

• The Saints and Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals returned to their dojos and sent disciples to the Primordial Continent to seek talents and teach the Dao.
• Styx completed the Blood Sea and Blood God Realm's transformation, raising the latter to an Origin World with rules independent of the Great Wilderness's Three Paths.
• Styx and Wood Spirit left the Blood Sea and went to the East Sea Coast to seek karmic opportunities.
• Styx and Wood Spirit found a stone orb containing a living being, and Wood Spirit noticed its origins resembled those of the Six-Eared Macaque.
• Styx saw Ao Bing emerge from the East Sea and secretly granted him a Blood-colored Divine Light that strengthened his bloodline.
• Ao Bing thanked the unknown senior, and Styx told him to cultivate diligently and await his own fortune.