Chapter Summaries

Old Ancestor Styx considered which same-origin treasures and special origins might let cultivators achieve Three Corpses Unity and Primordial Chaos. He resolved to collect suitable treasures and wondered whether the Universe Cauldron could refine same-origin Innate Spiritual Treasures.

• Old Ancestor Styx listed the Creation Supreme Treasures, Lotus Platforms, Sea-Calming Beads, and Heaven, Earth, and Human Lamps as possible tools for Three Corpses Unity.
• He considered the three divine books, the Sanqing's treasures, Hongjun's Jade Disc of Creation, and the Western method of condensing Sariras as further possibilities.
• Old Ancestor Styx reasoned that the Sanqing and Four Mixed-World Monkeys might achieve unity through their shared origins.
• He concluded that the demanding conditions made corpse-severing a rare path, and that the Six Saints mostly relied on Merit Attainment after severing their corpses.
• Old Ancestor Styx planned to collect suitable Spiritual Treasures and considered whether his Universe Cauldron could refine same-origin Innate Spiritual Treasures for future disciples.

Old Ancestor Styx refined the pool and reached mid-stage perfection as a Da Luo Golden Immortal, gaining an extraordinary connection to Heaven and Earth. He resolved to protect the Great Wilderness, knowing that the Heavenly Dao would target him for preserving Father God Pangu’s legacy.

• Old Ancestor Styx placed the Twenty-four-grade Karma Red Lotus and Primordial Sky-Measuring Ruler beside the pool, then entered it to refine its contents.
• After an Eon, the pool dried up and Old Ancestor Styx’s cultivation surged, but a powerful force held him at mid-stage perfection, just short of the late stage of Da Luo Golden Immortal.
• Old Ancestor Styx sensed that Heaven and Earth now supported him and that his ability to comprehend the Dao had greatly improved.
• Old Ancestor Styx recalled how the Heavenly Dao had manipulated and eliminated beings connected to Father God Pangu across successive kalpas.
• Old Ancestor Styx concluded that the Heavenly Dao’s rule had drained the Great Wilderness’s origins and caused its decline, strengthening his resolve to protect it.

Old Ancestor Styx returned to the Blood Sea after leaving Plant Spirits to manage Mount Shou and reflecting on the growing number of beings struggling for cultivation opportunities. He found the Blood Sea’s second layer nearly complete and learned that his assigned work would be finished within about a thousand years.

• Old Ancestor Styx set up more formations on Mount Shou, assigned Plant Spirits to manage it, and departed for the Blood Sea.
• During ten thousand years of travel, Old Ancestor Styx witnessed the Great Wilderness’s population and conflicts grow as living beings fought for cultivation methods.
• Old Ancestor Styx returned to the Blood Sea, where its inhabitants welcomed him and he saw that its second layer had taken shape.
• Old Ancestor Styx used his Nascent Soul to ask the Blood God Sons about his assignments and learned they would finish in roughly eight hundred to a thousand years.

Old Ancestor Styx returned to the Blood God Realm and found that its Lotus Pond had nurtured several unexpected Twelve-grade lotus platforms. A message revealed how the pond’s abundant Fortune and resources had made their collective advancement possible, and Styx accepted the discovery as a gift of Fortune.

• Old Ancestor Styx entered the Blood God Realm and admired its thriving world, which was nearing advancement into a Middle Thousand World.
• Old Ancestor Styx visited the Lotus Pond and discovered three Twelve-grade Creation Green Lotuses and four Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotuses alongside the four Pure World White Lotuses.
• A stream of light from a Creation Green Lotus sent Old Ancestor Styx a message explaining that the pond’s resources, Fortune, and World Origin had enabled the lotuses to advance together.
• Old Ancestor Styx accepted the unexpected lotuses as a gift of Fortune and concluded that the final Twelve-grade Creation Green Lotus might be connected to the one Pangu had left for the Ancestral Witches.

Old Ancestor Styx comprehended the Innate Five Elements Five Directions Grand Formation and began creating a new set of banners modeled on the Innate Five Directions Banners. He integrated the imitation banners into five Immortal Mountains in the Blood God Realm, leaving them arranged to form the grand formation.

• Old Ancestor Styx placed the Twenty-four Pure World White Lotuses and the Twenty-four-grade Karma Red Lotus in the Lotus Pond, then planted three Big Red Robe mother plants beneath the Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• Old Ancestor Styx used Enlightenment Tea and the Jade Disc of Creation to study the Innate Five Directions Banners and comprehend the Innate Five Elements Five Directions Grand Formation over an Eon.
• Old Ancestor Styx refined five World Tree branches with Five Elements materials and infused them with power and restrictions from the Innate Five Directions Banners.
• Old Ancestor Styx placed the original banners in the Lotus Pond to be nourished and left the newly formed imitation banners in the Universe Cauldron.
• Old Ancestor Styx released Daiyu and arranged it with Penglai and the other four Immortal Mountains across the Blood God Realm, integrating them into the realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Old Ancestor Styx fused an imitation banner into each of the five Immortal Mountains according to the formation’s positions.

Old Ancestor Styx used the Innate Five Elements Five Directions Grand Formation and numerous treasures to advance the Blood God Realm into a Middle Thousand World. The five Immortal Mountains merged into the realm as its foundation strengthened.

• The Innate Five Directions Banners activated the grand formation, drawing Chaos Qi into the Blood God Realm and refining it into Innate Spiritual Qi.
• Old Ancestor Styx gave Enlightenment Tea to Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum and the One Hundred and Eight Blood Sea Emissaries, then used the Sea-Calming Beads to strengthen the realm.
• Old Ancestor Styx threw the Banana Tree into the turbulent Earth, Fire, Water, and Wind, calming them and nourishing the tree's origin.
• The Blood God Fruit Tree, Ghost Soul Treasure Tree, Void Nether Treasure Tree, and lotus treasures stabilized the world as it advanced from a Lesser Thousand World into a Middle Thousand World.
• The five Immortal Mountains became the Five Directions Origin Continent, and the Primordial World Ancestral Vein transformed into a five-clawed golden Dragon before the mountains fully merged into the Blood God Realm.

After the five Immortal Mountains merged into the Blood God Realm, Old Ancestor Styx helped the realm advance toward a Great Thousand World by forming a Heavenly Dao Dharma Wheel. He used the chance to study the manifested laws, greatly improving his cultivation and mastery of several laws.

• The Blood God Realm's origin surged after the five Immortal Mountains merged, and Old Ancestor Styx decided to push it toward a Great Thousand World.
• Old Ancestor Styx gave the Jade Disc of Creation to the Heavenly Dao Avatar and had the Three Thousand Chaos Demon God Avatars help form an incomplete Heavenly Dao Dharma Wheel.
• The Heavenly Dao Dharma Wheel regulated the surging Innate Spiritual Qi and guided the Blood God Realm's orderly advancement.
• Old Ancestor Styx used the Blood Scripture to help Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum and the others comprehend the laws while he observed them from the Enlightenment Tea Tree.
• After an Eon, the advancement ended, and Old Ancestor Styx's cultivation and physical body reached the late stage of Da Luo Golden Immortal, while he suppressed a further breakthrough.
• Old Ancestor Styx's Law of Blood reached Ninety-one Percent, and his other laws also improved, including three laws that reached Eighty-five Percent.

Old Ancestor Styx assessed how the Blood Sea’s followers had grown stronger and how the Blood God Realm’s advancement supported his cultivation and Dao. The realm then completed its transformation into a Great Thousand World, with its protective formation becoming its world barrier.

• Old Ancestor Styx saw that Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum had condensed Primordial Unity Golden Immortal Dao Fruits, while the One Hundred and Eight Blood Sea Emissaries had reached Grand Unity Golden Immortal Middle Stage.
• Old Ancestor Styx reflected that the four maidens and the emissaries had gained brighter prospects through improved aptitude, Fortune, and the Blood God Realm’s advancement.
• Old Ancestor Styx used the Blood Law as the core of the Blood God Realm’s Heavenly Dao and designed its Heavenly Dao Dharma Wheel to integrate other laws.
• The Blood God Realm shook as it fully advanced into a Great Thousand World and stabilized.
• The Innate Five Elements Five Directions Grand Formation, five Chaos Fragments, and imitation Innate Five Directions Banners merged into the realm’s Heaven and Earth Membrane, preserving its defenses and its ability to refine Chaos Spiritual Qi.

Old Ancestor Styx received Great Dao Merit after creating the Blood God Realm and learned that it was connected directly to the Great Dao, beyond the future Heavenly Dao’s influence. The merit transformed his spiritual roots and lotus treasures, strengthening his forces and giving him confidence to oppose the Heavenly Dao.

• Great Dao Merit descended upon the Blood God Realm and was divided among Old Ancestor Styx, the Heavenly Dao Dharma Wheel, the World Tree, other spiritual roots, and his Three Thousand Chaos Demon God Avatars.
• Old Ancestor Styx learned that creating the Blood God Realm had added to the Great Wilderness’s origin and that its connection to the Great Dao would keep it beyond the Heavenly Dao’s control.
• The World Tree regained its status as a Chaos Spiritual Root, and Old Ancestor Styx used his essence blood to refine it and the thirty-six Sea-Calming Beads toward becoming avatars.
• The Banana Tree and three native World Trees showed signs of evolving, while the Creation Green Lotus and several lower-grade Lotus Platforms transformed into women.
• Old Ancestor Styx instructed the Twenty-Four Grade Lotus Platforms and the Creation Green Lotus to cultivate acquired Lotus Seeds, then saw his Three Thousand Chaos Demon God Avatars grow stronger.
• Old Ancestor Styx concluded that the Blood God Realm gave him the confidence to contend against the Heavenly Dao without fear of being expelled or sealed away.

Old Ancestor Styx named Mu Ling'er, gave her resources and cultivation guidance, and sent her into seclusion. He equipped the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum for a journey to cleanse foul qi across the Great Wilderness and develop their own purification method.

• Mu Ling'er asked Old Ancestor Styx to name her, and he named her Mu Ling'er and gave her the Daoist title Green Lotus Fairy.
• Old Ancestor Styx gave Mu Ling'er spiritual materials and the Blood Scripture, then sent her beneath the Twenty-Four Grade Lotus Platforms to consolidate her cultivation in seclusion.
• Old Ancestor Styx gave cultivation methods to the other women formed from Lotus Platforms and instructed them to follow Mu Ling'er.
• Old Ancestor Styx bestowed four Twelve Grade Pure World White Lotuses and two Innate Spiritual Treasures each upon the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum, while sealing their cultivation to prevent them from breaking through to Da Luo Golden Immortal.
• Old Ancestor Styx sent the four maidens to cleanse foul qi across the Great Wilderness with their Pure World White Lotuses and consider creating a method that Blood Sea beings could use without them.

Old Ancestor Styx created three thousand Postnatal Dao Scripts and a Universal Cultivation Method, then prayed for the Great Dao’s approval to spread them throughout the Primordial World. The Great Dao granted his request, empowering the Blood Scripture, his carving knife, and the Dao Preaching Steles before the steles scattered across the world.

• Old Ancestor Styx gave the One Hundred and Eight Blood Sea Emissaries the Myriad Immortals Formation Diagram and treasures, and assigned the Chaos Demon God Avatars to refine formation bases.
• Old Ancestor Styx forged three thousand stone tablets and spent three Eons compiling knowledge gathered by his Blood God Son avatars.
• Old Ancestor Styx wrote the three thousand Postnatal Dao Scripts and a Universal Cultivation Method, then carved them onto the three thousand Dao Preaching Steles.
• Old Ancestor Styx prayed to the Great Dao and Father God Pangu to approve the scripts, cultivation method, and plan to distribute the steles.
• The Great Dao granted approval and bestowed merit, which strengthened Old Ancestor Styx’s Merit Golden Wheel and transformed the Blood Scripture, carving knife, and Dao Preaching Steles.
• The three thousand Dao Preaching Steles scattered throughout the Primordial Heaven and Earth to enlighten its living beings.

Old Ancestor Styx reaped the rewards of creating the Postnatal Dao Script and universal cultivation method, then returned to the Blood Sea to advance his cultivation. After tempering his body and condensing his Dao Fruit, he reached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm and prepared to pursue sainthood.

• Old Ancestor Styx thanked the Great Dao and Father God, then discovered his Sacrificial Altar could let others pray directly to the Great Dao.
• Old Ancestor Styx recognized that the Three Thousand Dao Preaching Steles would bring him Merit and fortune while the Great Dao severed the resulting Karma.
• Old Ancestor Styx returned to the Blood Sea, summoned his Blood God Son avatars, and prepared to carry out his plan after his formation foundations and postnatal lotus seeds were ready.
• Old Ancestor Styx cultivated beneath the Enlightenment Tree and reached the Peak Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Old Ancestor Styx tempered his body with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Pure World White Lotus, reaching the Peak Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm physically.
• Old Ancestor Styx spent ten Eons condensing his Daluo Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and reached the summit of the immortal path.

Old Ancestor Styx began reforging the Mountain and River Society and Country Diagram with Earth Vein Origin to create a formation that could shield and purify the Great Wilderness’s Earth veins. As he refined the treasure, his Blood God Son avatars installed formation foundations throughout the Earth veins, where the formation began converting their pollution into Qi of Creation and pure spiritual qi.

• Old Ancestor Styx linked his Nascent Soul to the Blood God Son avatars, gave them a formation, and sent them across the Great Wilderness along the Earth veins with formation foundations and Three-colored Lotus Seeds.
• Old Ancestor Styx selected seventy-two Blood God Son avatars and used Yellow Middle Plums to advance them to Daluo Golden Immortals, though they could not yet condense their Three Flowers.
• Old Ancestor Styx summoned the Heavenly Dao Dharma Wheel and the Three Thousand Chaos Demon God Avatars to help refine the Mountain and River Society and Country Diagram with Earth Vein Origin in the Universe Cauldron.
• Old Ancestor Styx’s Blood God Son avatars embedded formation foundations in the Earth veins, concealing and shielding them within the void.
• The formation extracted Blood Qi, Slayer Qi, and other Filth Qi from the Earth veins, transforming them into Qi of Creation and pure spiritual qi that flowed into the Formation Space and back into the Great Wilderness.

Old Ancestor Styx established a network of Secret Realms around Zhou Mountain, using Three-colored Lotus Seeds to stabilize them and beginning sustainable cultivation within them. Meanwhile, the Great Wilderness flourished, and the first-generation Innate Demon Gods built their own forces.

• Formation foundations transformed the Formation Space into a Secret Realm, where Qi of Creation and Innate Spiritual Qi nourished the Destiny Suppressing Three-colored Lotus Seed.
• Eight Blood God Son avatars established Innate-level Secret Realms around Zhou Mountain, while other Blood God Son avatars and cultivators guarded them with a great formation.
• The Blood God Son avatars shaped soil inside the Secret Realms and planted Spiritual Medicine Seeds.
• Across the Great Wilderness, cultivation spread, and the first batch of reincarnated Innate Gods and Demons reached the Da Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Innate Demon Gods occupied Cave Heaven Blessed Lands, gathered subordinates, and formed forces to manage their dojos and collect resources.

Innate Demon Gods discovered that gathering subordinates increased their cultivation, leading them to form expanding factions and establish Imperial Dynasties. Old Ancestor Diandao gained Merit and became the first Peak Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, while Rahu secretly built a demonized force at Mount Meru.

• Innate Demon Gods copied their rivals by gathering subordinates after noticing that larger forces accelerated cultivation.
• Factions spread across the Great Wilderness, assigned ranks to subordinates, and formed the foundations of Imperial Dynasties.
• Old Ancestor Diandao built a nine-tiered platform, sacrificed to the Great Dao, and proclaimed the first Imperial Dynasty.
• Merit descended upon Old Ancestor Diandao, raising him to the Peak Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
• Most first-generation Innate Demon Gods established Imperial Dynasties, including the Inversion, Qian Kun, Yin Yang, and Five Elements Dynasties.
• Rahu searched for thirteen Living Beings formed from the qi of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires, demonized and controlled them, then hid a growing force at Mount Meru.

The Three Heavens emerged, claimed authority over the stars, and received Great Dao Merit that raised their cultivation to match Old Ancestor Diandao's. As the Three Heavens fought earlier-born Innate Star Gods, conflicts spread across the Great Wilderness while Old Ancestor Styx continued preparing his treasures and expected to step into the limelight soon.

• Imperial dynasties and ambitious Innate Demon Gods escalated local duels into vast wars that devastated mountains and Earth Veins.
• Azure Heaven, Yellow Heaven, and Cyan Heaven proclaimed their authority, used the Star Seal to command the stars, and brought the constellations into orderly motion.
• The Great Dao bestowed Merit on the Three Heavens, whose cultivation rose to match Old Ancestor Diandao's.
• Old Ancestor Styx reflected that the Three Heavens would likely die during the Fierce Beast Kalpa, then returned to refining his treasures and preparations.
• The Three Heavens gathered Star Realm Beings and battled the earlier-born Innate Star Gods, while conflicts and territory-seeking spread throughout the Great Wilderness.

As the Fierce Beast Dynasty rose under Shen Ni and Reincarnation, the four strongest northern Imperial Dynasties formed an alliance and began conquering weaker realms to prepare for war. Their campaigns and the surviving Dynasty Lords’ sabotage left the Four Great Dynasties weakened by rebellion, public resentment, and declining Fortune.

• Shen Ni and Reincarnation emerged as Fierce Beast Emperors and subdued four powerful Fierce Beast Kings: Taotie, Qiongqi, Taowu, and Chaos.
• Reincarnation stayed in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains while Shen Ni declared himself the sole Fierce Beast Emperor and established the Fierce Beast Dynasty to destroy the Great Wilderness and return to Chaos.
• The Wuji Dynasty, Five Elements Dynasty, Qian Kun Dynasty, and Kunwu Dynasty formed an alliance against the Fierce Beast Dynasty and began recruiting experts and absorbing weaker northern dynasties.
• As the four great factions conquered their neighbors, displaced Dynasty Lords fled into seclusion or secretly attacked the victors.
• The Four Great Dynasties struggled to suppress the resistance, while public resentment grew and their Fortune and blessed fortune declined.

Shen Ni launched the Fierce Beast Dynasty’s attack while the Four Great Dynasties were weakened, sending the Four Fierce Beasts to destroy the Kunwu Dynasty. As Old Ancestor Kun Wu was overwhelmed, Shen Ni blocked the other three Imperial Dynasty Old Ancestors, leaving them locked in battle.

• Shen Ni ordered Chaos, Taotie, Qiongqi, and Taowu to attack Old Ancestor Kun Wu while he held off the other Imperial Dynasty Old Ancestors.
• The Four Fierce Beasts ambushed Old Ancestor Kun Wu and besieged him, leaving him badly wounded as they declared the Kunwu Dynasty would perish.
• Old Ancestor Five Elements, Old Ancestor Yin Yang, and Old Ancestor Qian Kun rushed to aid Kun Wu but were intercepted by Shen Ni at the Kunwu Dynasty’s border.
• The three Old Ancestors attacked Shen Ni, and he fought back alone with the Soul Devouring Spear.

The Fierce Beast Dynasty attacked the Four Great Dynasties while Shen Ni held their lords at bay, and Old Ancestor Kun Wu died fighting the Four Fierce Beast Kings. As the conflict intensified, Imperial Dynasty Remnants raided the Four Great Dynasties’ vaults, unaware that their treasures had already been taken.

• Fierce Beasts led by Huo Dou, Zhu Huai, and Gu Diao attacked the capitals of the Four Great Dynasties while Shen Ni prevented the Dynasty Lords from returning to defend them.
• Backlash from their dynasties’ Fortune weakened Old Ancestor Kun Wu as Taotie and the other Fierce Beast Kings besieged him.
• Old Ancestor Kun Wu detonated the Kun Wu Bead and then his cultivation, heavily injuring Taotie before Qiongqi blocked his escape and the other Fierce Beast Kings survived.
• Taotie returned to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains to recover, while the other three Fierce Beast Kings headed to Shen Ni’s battlefield.
• Imperial Dynasty Remnants raided the Four Great Dynasties’ treasure vaults but found them nearly empty, unaware that a distant figure had already taken the treasures into the Blood God Son avatars’ Secret Realm spaces.

Old Ancestor Styx completed the reforging of a half-step Innate Supreme Treasure and sent his Blood God Sons to use it to refine seals for the Earth veins. In the Northern Continent, Old Ancestor Qian Kun died in a self-destruction that let Old Ancestor Five Elements and Old Ancestor Yin Yang escape, while Shen Ni and the Fierce Beasts held the upper hand.

• Old Ancestor Styx finished reforging the Scroll after ten Eons, giving it power that approached an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Old Ancestor Styx sent Earth vein aura and a treasure-refining method to his Blood God Son Avatars, who made seals from Zhou Mountain stone and placed them in the Earth veins.
• Shen Ni and the three Fierce Beast Kings pressed Old Ancestor Qian Kun, Old Ancestor Five Elements, and Old Ancestor Yin Yang as the battle in the north intensified.
• Shen Ni grievously wounded Old Ancestor Qian Kun, who self-destructed with the Qian Kun Bead, Qian Kun Diagram, and Qian Kun Ruler.
• Old Ancestor Five Elements and Old Ancestor Yin Yang reversed their Origins, escaped through the gap, and vanished into the Great Wilderness to recover.