Chapter Summaries

Styx used the essence blood of the Twelve Ancestor Witches and top Great Witches to strengthen Lotus Seeds according to the scale of the worlds they could bear. The Ancestor Witches began shaping worlds through their chosen seeds, and Styx invited Nuwa to explore her own ideas as well.

• Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin gave Styx the essence blood of the Twelve Ancestor Witches and top Great Witches.
• Styx divided the essence blood among Lotus Seeds according to whether they contained Great Thousand, Middle Thousand, or affiliated Lesser Thousand Universes.
• Gonggong asked to help shape a world, and Styx let each of the Twelve Ancestor Witches choose a Great Thousand World Lotus Seed and merge their minds with it.
• Gonggong, Zhurong, Goumang, Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and Xuan Ming shaped their worlds with distinct powers and laws.
• Nuwa asked Styx if she could participate, and he encouraged her to create freely without being bound by the Great Wilderness's existing laws.

Nuwa infused a Three-colored Lotus Seed with her ideas and Fortune Origin, while Styx used ancient vital essences from the Blood Sea to populate Lotus Seed Worlds and create smaller worlds. The vanished races represented by those essences gained a chance to reappear in the Great Wilderness.

• Nuwa infused a Three-colored Lotus Seed with her ideas and Saint-level mana carrying a strand of Fortune Origin, causing its radiance and internal rules to transform.
• Styx recalled the refined vital essences of countless races that had accumulated in the Blood Sea over billions of years.
• Styx infused the essences of living beings other than Chaos Demon Gods and Chaos Fierce Beasts into Three-colored Lotus Seeds, combining bloodlines to diversify the future worlds.
• Billions of Lotus Seed Worlds began to change, and Styx created countless Mayfly Worlds and Ganges Sand Worlds for weaker vital essences.
• Styx's worlds gave extinct races a chance to reappear in the Great Wilderness as their populations grew and their bloodlines strengthened.

Styx altered lotus seed worlds with vital essence and treasures, giving them specialized paths and the ability to restore their inhabitants. He invited the Great Wilderness’s mighty experts to create worlds of Fortune, and they arrived in Chaos eager to take part.

• Styx infused lotus seeds with treasures and vital essence, creating worlds suited to paths such as artifact crafting, alchemy, wine, and cuisine.
• Styx discovered that worlds infused with vital essence could regenerate their inhabitants after they were wiped out.
• Styx concealed half the lotus seed worlds and issued a decree inviting Great Wilderness experts to contribute vital essence or origin items to the rest.
• Ancient and powerful experts rushed to Chaos, sensing that Styx’s decree offered a chance to attain Dao.
• The Saints and Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals joined Styx and were astonished by the number of ancient experts who emerged.
• Styx explained the Mortal Realms to the gathered experts, whose eyes lit up at the prospect of creating worlds of Fortune.

Styx invited the great adepts to evolve lotus seeds into worlds shaped by their Daos, then accelerated their development with Time Law and Chaos Qi. As the worlds took shape, the adepts’ demonstrations also deepened Styx’s understanding of the Blood Great Dao.

• Styx let the visiting great adepts choose lotus seeds, and they shaped them into worlds suited to their origins, techniques, and Daos.
• Zhen Yuanzi connected an Earth Immortal world to his realm, while Tongtian created a Sword Qi World linked to his own.
• Styx imprinted the Great Wilderness’s basic laws into every lotus seed so that all the worlds would remain connected to the Great Wilderness.
• A flesh-and-blood lotus seed formed a universe where tentacled, many-eyed beings built cities and worshiped an ancient existence sleeping at a planet’s core.
• Styx accelerated time within the lotus seeds a hundredfold and added Chaos Qi to hasten their evolution.
• Styx watched the adepts display their laws and gained insights that made his Blood Great Dao more complete and harmonious.

As the eastern and southern fronts collapsed and Western Qi remained entrenched against Wen Zhong, Di Xin decided to personally lead an army to pacify the rebellion. He ordered Chao Ge’s imperial guards to assemble for a march to Western Qi in three days.

• Yuan Hong, Yang Jian, and Gao Jineng’s forces drove the East Lu Coalition into collapse, while Yunxiao remained blocked by the Ten Golden Crows’ formation and Cang Jie suppressed Qiongxiao and Bixiao.
• Yang Jiao, Deng Chanyu, and their allies drove E Chongyu from the Southern Frontier, while the other immortals continued fighting or discussing Dao.
• Zhang Guifang regrouped under the Truce Token, and Wen Zhong returned to Sishui Pass, where Western Qi could make no further gains against his defenses.
• Di Xin summoned his ministers to the Nine-Chamber Hall and announced that he would personally lead the campaign against Western Qi.
• Di Xin ordered Chao Ge’s imperial guards to assemble and march with him in three days, and the ministers accepted his decree.

Di Xin personally led the Imperial Guards to Western Qi, where his forces and the armies from the east and south crushed the rebellions and defeated the Chan School’s formation. After capturing Ji Chang and the other rebel leaders, Di Xin abolished the four-direction Vassal Lord system, and the collapsed Destiny Pillars sent their Fortune to Great Shang.

• Di Xin reached Sishui Pass and ordered his army to camp before personally breaking the Chan School’s formation at Western Qi.
• Yuan Hong and Yang Jian defeated the East Lu Coalition and captured Jiang Huanchu, while Huang Feihu’s army routed the Southern Barbarian forces and Yang Jiao captured E Chongyu.
• Encircled on three sides, Ji Chang agreed with Di Xin to leave Western Qi’s fate to a battle of formations after his sons persuaded him not to fight to the death.
• The Chan School’s formation was broken, its immortals withdrew from the Virtual God Realm, and Di Xin captured Ji Chang, Bo Yikao, Ji Fa, Ji Dan, and the other rebel leaders.
• In Zhaoge, Di Xin spared the captured Vassal Lords but abolished their fiefs and declared that all decrees would come from Zhaoge.
• The four directional Destiny Pillars collapsed, and their Fortune converged on Great Shang’s Destiny Pillar.

The Virtual God Realm declared Great Shang the victor, and the dead returned to life in the Great Wilderness with their injuries healed. The rebellious Vassal Lords faced Di Xin’s judgment, and the four great leaders began preparing to go to Zhaoge.

• The Virtual God Realm announced Great Shang’s victory, and a pillar of light restored the battlefield’s inhabitants to the Great Wilderness.
• The Vassal Lords and Great Shang soldiers who had died found themselves alive and unharmed, while the mighty beings recalled the battle and praised Great Shang’s strength.
• The Vassal Lords of the four regions realized their rebellion had angered Di Xin and considered how to limit the punishment they would face.
• Minor Vassal Lords prepared gifts and headed for Zhaoge to apologize.
• Jiang Huanchu lamented the damage he had done to the Jiang Clan, then joined Jiang Wenhuan in preparing to leave for Zhaoge.
• E Chongyu and E Shun prepared gifts and set out for Zhaoge.

After returning from defeat in the Virtual God Realm, Ji Chang and his sons argued over how to appease Di Xin and secure a future in the Mortal Realm. Ji Dan proposed surrendering Western Qi’s authority and offering the Book of Changes as a pledge, but the family had not yet agreed on their next move.

• Bo Yikao seized control of the frontline army after Ji Fa’s failed attacks, while Ji Dan infiltrated Western Qi and undermined Ji Chang’s authority.
• Di Xin’s arrival and the encirclement of Western Qi halted Bo Yikao and Ji Dan’s ambitions before they could act.
• Ji Chang warned Bo Yikao, Ji Fa, and Ji Dan that continued infighting could cost them their chance to go to the Mortal Realm.
• Bo Yikao offered to take treasures to Zhaoge and plead with Di Xin, but Ji Fa accused him of trying to take control of Western Qi.
• Ji Dan urged his father and brothers to submit a memorial abolishing their marquis titles and offer Ji Chang’s Book of Changes to Di Xin.

Ji Chang’s family decided to go to Zhaoge, plead guilty, and offer the Book of Changes to show their submission to Great Shang. Meanwhile, Chong Houhu and Yuan Futong feared Di Xin’s punishment and planned to seek help from court ministers.

• Ji Dan persuaded Ji Fa and Ji Chang that siding with Great Shang was the Western Qi family’s only way forward.
• Ji Chang agreed that he and his three sons would travel to Zhaoge to plead guilty and offer the Book of Changes.
• Chong Houhu regretted rebelling against Great Shang and worried about how Di Xin would punish him.
• Yuan Futong blamed Chong Houhu for persuading him to rebel, then demanded a plan.
• Chong Houhu said he would ask the other Vassal Lords to plead for them and send gifts to old court ministers.
• Yuan Futong decided to prepare gifts and set out for Zhaoge.

Di Xin received Jiang Huanchu and E Chongyu after their rebellion and spared their sons to inherit their titles, while sending the two marquises and their clans to develop the Mortal Realm. He explained that their descendants would help stabilize Great Shang’s territories, then summoned Ji Chang, who had arrived with three sons.

• Jiang Huanchu apologized to Di Xin and offered to surrender his title and authority.
• Di Xin let Jiang Wenhuan inherit the Marquis of the East title and assigned him to establish the Sea-Calming Bureau, while Jiang Huanchu and the rest of the Jiang Clan were ordered to the Mortal Realm.
• Di Xin gave E Shun the title of Marquis of the South and tasked him with guarding the southern frontier and opening trade, while E Chongyu and his clan were sent to the Mortal Realm.
• Di Xin told the ministers that the enfeoffment system no longer suited the era and that the descendants of the Four Grand Marquises could quell unrest across the regions.
• Jiang Huanchu, Jiang Wenhuan, E Chongyu, and E Shun all pledged to serve Di Xin.
• A guard reported that Ji Chang had arrived with his three sons, and Di Xin ordered that they be admitted.

Di Xin tested Ji Chang’s divination and then assigned roles to Ji Chang’s sons as part of his arrangements for the Ji Clan. Ji Dan and Bo Yikao accepted important posts, while Ji Chang and Ji Fa agreed to Di Xin’s orders.

• Ji Chang offered Di Xin the Book of Changes and was forced to divine Great Shang’s fate, suffering a backlash when his yarrow stalks burned to ash.
• Di Xin challenged Ji Chang over his former opposition to Great Shang, then announced that the Marquis of the West would receive the same arrangement as the other marquises.
• Di Xin appointed Ji Dan to the Ministry of Rites to unify the Great Wilderness’s rites as the Shang Rites.
• Di Xin told Bo Yikao to oversee the Imperial Observatory and revise the calendar, and Bo Yikao accepted.
• Di Xin ordered Ji Chang to live in seclusion near Mount Shouyang and Ji Fa to lead the Ji Clan tribesmen into the Mortal Realm; both obeyed.

Di Xin assigned the Northern vassal lords and tribal chiefs to develop the Mortal Realm, confiscated their seals, and abolished the enfeoffment system in favor of commanderies and counties under Zhaoge's authority. He left the former lords free to establish nations in the Mortal Realm and announced that he would perform the Mount Tai Fengshan Ceremony in three hundred years.

• The Northern vassal lords arrived in Chao Ge City and were summoned to meet Di Xin, who ordered their legitimate sons to remain in the Great Wilderness while their clans awaited entry into the Mortal Realm.
• Di Xin issued the same order to vassal lords and tribal chiefs throughout the world, and his attendants confiscated their seals as the Primordial Continent's fortune began converging toward him.
• Di Xin abolished the enfeoffment system, established commanderies and counties, and declared that authority under Heaven would return to Zhaoge; the court praised his decision.
• Di Xin permitted the former vassal lords to establish nations and systems in the Mortal Realm, and they knelt in submission while the ministers accepted his policy.
• Di Xin announced that he would perform the Mount Tai Fengshan Ceremony in three hundred years, and Bi Gan and the others pledged to help him.

Di Xin prepared to perform the Mount Tai Fengshan Ceremony after unifying the Great Wilderness, while he spent the next three hundred years strengthening Great Shang and consolidating his rule. By the chapter’s end, his Fortune and prestige had surpassed those of Emperor Ming’s era, but he had not yet performed the ceremony.

• The Great Wilderness recognized Mount Tai as the sacred site where a Human Emperor could gain the Human Emperor Dao Fruit through the Fengshan Ceremony.
• Di Xin announced that he would perform the ceremony, and Bi Gan, Wen Zhong, and other ministers began preparing the rites and inviting powerful figures from across the Great Wilderness.
• Over three hundred years, Di Xin expanded the Commandery-and-County System, weakened the old aristocracy, abolished live sacrifice and slavery, and promoted capable officials.
• Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, and others quietly thwarted aristocrats who tried to obstruct Great Shang’s reforms.
• Di Xin’s consolidated rule caused the Fortune Sea above Chao Ge City to surpass that of Emperor Ming’s era.

At Mount Tai, Di Xin performed the Fengshan Ceremony and declared the unification of the Great Wilderness under the Human Emperor. As Fortune, ancestral imprints, Earth Vein Qi, and vast Merit Golden Light gathered around him, the ceremony’s transformation was underway.

• Prominent Saints, disciples, ancestors, Past Human Emperors, and Vassal Lords gathered at Mount Tai to witness the ceremony.
• Di Xin climbed the altar with Daji, his consorts, his sons, and his ministers, then offered sacrifices to Heaven, Earth, and his ancestors.
• Di Xin declared that the Great Wilderness was unified and that he would protect it as Human Emperor and suppress the Fortune of the Human Way.
• Di Xin raised the Human Emperor Sword as the Imperial Seal drew in Fortune from across the Great Wilderness.
• The Fortune Mystic Bird flew from Chao Ge, the Past Human Emperors’ imprints merged into Di Xin, and Earth Vein Qi and Merit Golden Light enveloped him.

Di Xin received the Heavenly Dao and Human Dao Merit through the Kongtong Seal and attained the Human Emperor Dao Fruit, becoming a powerful figure among the Saints. The ceremony ended with the gathered beings bowing to him as the true Human Emperor.

• The Kongtong Seal transformed the Merit into Imperial Law Power and poured it into Di Xin.
• Di Xin broke through to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm as chains of Human Dao Fortune drew out the Human Emperor Dao Fruit.
• Di Xin's Human Emperor Dao Fruit fused with his Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, allowing him to draw upon the Primordial World's Origin Power.
• Di Xin's Martial Dao World advanced to a Great Thousand World as he completed his attainment.
• Bi Gan announced the ceremony's completion, and the gathered Xian, mortals, gods, and demons bowed to Di Xin.

Di Xin proclaimed the unified Great Wilderness’s next era and announced that meritorious participants in the Tribulation would receive Sealed Realms in the Mortal Realm. After assigning rewards and duties, he prepared to travel to Chaos, where Styx’s blood-colored bridge descended onto Mount Tai Summit.

• The Vassal Lords submitted to Di Xin as he sensed the Great Wilderness’s power and exchanged greetings with the supreme powerhouses shaping the Mortal Realm.
• Di Xin announced that meritorious cultivators could claim Sealed Realms to develop their Dao paths, while others would receive Fortune and treasures from Great Shang.
• Di Xin named Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, Kong Xuan, Yuan Hong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Deng Chanyu to lead their troops into the Inner Chaos and receive their realms.
• Di Xin sent Jiang Huanchu, E Chongyu, Ji Chang, and Chong Houhu to the Mortal Realm to establish merit and rebuild their foundations.
• Di Xin appointed Bi Gan, Jizi, and Crown Prince Yin Jiao to manage Zhaoge while he entered seclusion and prepared to visit Chaos.
• A blood-colored light bridge created by Styx descended from Chaos and landed on Mount Tai Summit.

Di Xin and his followers arrived in the Inner Chaos, where Styx and other mighty experts had formed countless nascent Mortal Realms within lotus seeds. Styx sent the meritorious officials to realms matching their merits and dispersed the Vassal Lords and their clans among other worlds to cultivate and multiply.

• Di Xin stepped onto the blood-red bridge with Wen Zhong, Kong Xuan, Nezha, Yang Jian, and others, and they were transported from Mount Tai Summit to the Inner Chaos.
• Di Xin and his companions witnessed 1.269 billion lotus seeds containing evolving universes, including worlds shaped by unusual laws and the Great Wilderness experts' imaginations.
• Styx congratulated Di Xin on attaining the Human Emperor Dao Fruit, and Di Xin thanked him and the other seniors.
• Styx gave the meritorious officials coordinates and Guidance Sigils so they could choose realms and imprint their Great Daos upon them.
• Styx told Jiang Huanchu, the other Vassal Lords, and the tribal chiefs to settle in suitable Mortal Realms, then sent them and their clansmen to worlds set aside for them.

Styx established Ascension Platforms and Ascension Tribulations so talented cultivators from the Mortal Realms could ascend to the Great Wilderness. As the realms and their civilizations developed, Di Xin handed the Human Emperor position to Yin Jiao and retired to his Imperial Dao World.

• Di Xin infused a Lotus Seed with Human Emperor's Dragon Qi and Imperial Law, beginning the evolution of a Mortal Realm, then secluded himself there to consolidate his cultivation.
• Styx proposed Ascension Platforms and Ascension Tribulations in every realm, and the Saints approved the plan.
• After returning from seclusion, Di Xin appointed Yin Jiao as the new Human Emperor and retired with his imperial consorts to the Imperial Dao World.
• Styx, Nuwa, Wood Spirit, and Houtu accelerated the evolution of billions of Mortal Realms, helping life and civilizations emerge early.
• The developing Mortal Realms brought Fortune and insights to their creators and the Great Shang officials, while criminals began rebuilding their forces among the new lifeforms.

Styx established the Thirty-three Heavens of the Mortal Realm and gave Wen Zhong authority over Thunder Punishment. Zi Wei assigned Haotian, Yaochi, and Yao Ji to govern the Mortal Realm, with Haotian and Yaochi set to undergo reincarnation before taking charge.

• Styx connected Wen Zhong’s Lightning Realm with thirty-two other worlds to create the Thirty-three Heavens and entrusted Wen Zhong with administering Thunder Punishment.
• Zi Wei summoned Haotian, Yaochi, and Yao Ji to the Lingxiao Treasure Hall and explained the Heavenly Court’s plan to oversee the Mortal Realm.
• Haotian and Yaochi agreed to govern the Mortal Realm and accepted Zi Wei’s order to undergo 1.296 billion cycles of reincarnation.
• Zi Wei declared that Haotian would become the Jade Emperor and Yaochi the Yaochi Golden Mother after their return.
• Zi Wei appointed Yao Ji Judicial Heavenly God and tasked her with leading Yang Jiao, Yang Jian, Nezha, and others in maintaining order until Haotian and Yaochi returned.

Kong Xuan, Yuan Hong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and Deng Chanyu shaped their chosen worlds according to their strengths, while four Great Shang vassal clans struggled to establish themselves in the Mortal Realm. As time passed much faster there than in the Great Wilderness, civilizations across the Lotus Seed worlds rose and fell.

• Kong Xuan transformed a world rich in Five Elements Origin into the Five-Colored Divine Light Heaven, taught its inhabitants the Five Elements Dao, and advanced toward becoming a Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal.
• Yuan Hong made a Slayer Qi-filled world into the Plum Mountain Realm, taught the Grass Head Soldiers, and established rules for its spirits and monsters.
• Yang Jian guided the inhabitants of his mountainous world in cultivation, while Nezha helped people in his own world and gained temples and Wish Power.
• Deng Chanyu created the Jade General lineage by adapting Battle Formations and the Divine Powers of the Five-Colored Stone, and her world developed a culture in which women held high status.
• Jiang Huanchu, E Chongyu, Ji Fa, and Chonghou Hu led their clans into separate Mortal Realm worlds, where they struggled to survive and build societies, with Chonghou Hu and Yuan Futong faring worst.
• Time passed rapidly in the Mortal Realm, and civilizations in the Lotus Seed worlds underwent vast changes.