Chapter Summaries

Old Ancestor Styx traded Three Lights Divine Water for three branches from the Fusang Tree, then sent his avatars to gather Essence of Stars. He traveled to the Ziwei Emperor Star and discovered that the entire Starry Sky’s power guarded it from intruders.

• Old Ancestor Styx exchanged Three Lights Divine Water for three Fusang Tree branches and planted them on the Sun Star within the Styx Realm.
• Old Ancestor Styx left the Sun Star and created three thousand Chaos Demon God Avatars to collect Essence of Stars across the Starry Sky.
• Old Ancestor Styx sent a Taiyin Demon God Avatar toward the Moon Star while he headed for the Ziwei Emperor Star.
• Old Ancestor Styx approached the Ziwei Emperor Star and sensed the myriad stars converging to protect it.
• Old Ancestor Styx realized that entering the Ziwei Emperor Star without its recognition meant opposing the power of the entire Starry Sky.

Old Ancestor Styx reached Ziwei Emperor Star and discovered the Star Fruit Tree and the cause of the star’s strange condition. He learned that the Ziwei Imperial Sovereign and the Star Demon God had destroyed each other, leaving the sovereign’s origin without spirituality and preventing a new sovereign from being born.

• Old Ancestor Styx spent over ten thousand years overcoming the Star Power obstruction before setting foot on Ziwei Emperor Star.
• Old Ancestor Styx found the Star Fruit Tree, a top-grade Innate Spiritual Root bearing first-generation Star Fruits.
• Old Ancestor Styx sensed a spiritually vacant origin at the tree’s heart and refined the Star Fruit Tree to learn its history.
• Old Ancestor Styx learned that the Ziwei Imperial Sovereign and the awakened True Spirit of the Star Demon God had fought until both True Spirits perished.
• The Star Seal had flown from Ziwei Emperor Star to the Three Heavens, while the Star Fruit Tree preserved the Ziwei Imperial Sovereign’s origin and suppressed a strand of the Star Demon God’s origin.
• Old Ancestor Styx learned that Ziwei Emperor Star could not produce a new Ziwei Imperial Sovereign until the Star Fruit Tree’s spirituality recovered.

Old Ancestor Styx made the damaged Star Fruit Tree his clone and began refining the Ziwei Imperial Sovereign’s origin so the clone could claim the vacant position. He searched the Ziwei Emperor Star and found the Zhou Tian Star Dou Chart along with many other treasures.

• Old Ancestor Styx decided to make the Star Fruit Tree his clone and take the Ziwei Imperial Sovereign’s name and authority.
• Old Ancestor Styx merged a wisp of his Nascent Soul and Great Dao Merit with the tree’s remaining spirituality, then used Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Three Lights Divine Water to restore it.
• Old Ancestor Styx’s clone began refining the Ziwei Imperial Sovereign’s origin, while the Eight Treasures Glazed Vase settled on a branch to gather starlight and produce water for the tree.
• Old Ancestor Styx picked 365 Star Fruits and stored them in the Styx Realm.
• Old Ancestor Styx searched the Ziwei Emperor Star and found many treasures, including the Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure Zhou Tian Star Dou Chart.

Old Ancestor Styx discovered the Heavenly Book at the core of the Ziwei Emperor Star, then hurried to the Moon Star to save Wangshu from Taiyin Youying and her Fierce Beasts. After the battle, Wangshu welcomed him beneath the Osmanthus Tree and offered him a Laurel Branch.

• Old Ancestor Styx found the Heavenly Book and wondered whether the Ziwei Imperial Sovereign had been destined to rule the Heavenly Court.
• Old Ancestor Styx left the Star Demon God Avatar to guard the Star Fruit Tree with the Zhou Tian Star Dou Chart and set out for the Moon Star.
• Old Ancestor Styx arrived after the Lunar Formation had fallen and struck down Taiyin Youying while Wangshu fought the other Fierce Beasts.
• Old Ancestor Styx stored Taiyin Youying's incomplete True Spirit and corpse, then introduced himself to Wangshu as Styx of the Blood Sea.
• Wangshu invited Old Ancestor Styx beneath the Osmanthus Tree and gave him a Laurel Branch to cultivate.

Old Ancestor Styx and Wangshu exchanged gifts and discussed the Dao, helping Styx deepen his understanding of the Law of Taiyin. Styx then left the Starry Sky to return to the Blood Sea, carrying Moon Essence and an osmanthus leaf from Wangshu.

• Old Ancestor Styx gave Wangshu Three Lights Divine Water for the Osmanthus Tree, and Wangshu served him Osmanthus Tea.
• Styx brewed Enlightenment Tea for Wangshu and exchanged a wine-brewing method for a spatial Spiritual Treasure filled with osmanthus flowers.
• Wangshu and Styx discussed the Dao, and Styx gained insight into the Law of Taiyin as the Moon Star in the Styx Realm grew.
• Styx told Wangshu he planned to return to the Blood Sea, and she offered him the Moon Essence Wheel and an osmanthus leaf.
• Styx declined the Moon Essence Wheel but accepted Wangshu's Moon Essence and osmanthus leaf before departing for the Blood Sea.

Old Ancestor Styx returned from the Starry Sky to the Blood Sea after gathering spiritual materials and observing the Great Wilderness’s growing conflicts. He discovered that the Fierce Beast Dynasty was secretly gathering forces, but chose not to warn the Dynasty Lords, believing those forces were needed to oppose the reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods.

• Old Ancestor Styx returned to the Styx Realm with his Avatars and saw the spiritual materials they had gathered in the Starry Sky.
• Old Ancestor Styx found that descending from the Starry Sky to the Great Wilderness did not require passing through the Nine Heavens Gang Layer.
• After ten thousand years of travel, Old Ancestor Styx returned to the Blood Sea and reflected on the Three Heavens’ conflicts and the Imperial Dynasties’ wars.
• Slayer Qi from the dynastic battles stirred the Calamity Qi, strengthening the Fierce Beast Dynasty and increasing the number and power of Fierce Beasts.
• Shen Ni sent the Four Fierce Beast Kings and thirty-six Fierce Beast Generals to gather newborn Fierce Beasts throughout the Great Wilderness.
• Old Ancestor Styx decided not to warn the Dynasty Lords, judging that the Fierce Beast forces were needed to eliminate the reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods.

Old Ancestor Styx upgraded the Spirit Nurturing Banners with World Tree branches, giving them soul-nurturing worlds that drew in wandering souls. Back in the Blood God Realm, he learned that Mu Ling'er and Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum had led its inhabitants out to clear Slayer Qi and aid the Great Wilderness.

• Old Ancestor Styx refined World Tree branches and merged them into the three hundred thousand Spirit Nurturing Banners, strengthening their foundations and creating worlds within them.
• The evolved banners began pulling in Fragmented Souls from the Blood Sea and Soul Bodies drifting nearby, while the Sea of Blood Soul Nurturing Great Array began forming a domain.
• Old Ancestor Styx entered the Blood God Realm and found that Mu Ling'er and the Five Maidens were away, then learned from its Heavenly Dao that they had been clearing Slayer Qi outside.
• Mu Ling'er and Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum led Blood Sea beings to help clear Slayer Qi, collect corpses, and repair the land as more inhabitants volunteered to join them.
• The Dynasty Lords tolerated the Blood Sea beings' work, while a large group of Da Luo Golden Immortals deterred anyone from targeting Mu Ling'er and her companions.

As the Seventh Tribulation worsened, Old Ancestor Styx recalled his teams from the Great Wilderness and entered Chaos to strengthen the Styx Realm. He left the realm’s Sun, Moon, and Ziwei stars with newly established origins and destinies.

• Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum and the Blood Sea beings cleared Slayer Qi while Shen Ni chose not to let the Fierce Beasts oppose them.
• Old Ancestor Styx ordered his incarnations to tell Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum and Mu Ling'er, the Five Maidens, to return their teams to the Blood Sea.
• Old Ancestor Styx entered Chaos with the World Bead and planted branches from the Fusang Tree and Osmanthus Tree in the Hundred Herbs Illustrated.
• Old Ancestor Styx refined three hundred and sixty-five Star Fruits and Essence of Stars to strengthen the great and auxiliary stars in the Styx Realm.
• Old Ancestor Styx purified the corpses of Sun Candlelight and Taiyin Youying, fused their origins into the Sun Star and Moon Star, and placed their incomplete True Spirits there for nurturing.
• Old Ancestor Styx strengthened Ziwei Star with the Star Demon God’s origin and auras from the realm’s other stars, establishing it as the Ziwei Emperor Star.

Old Ancestor Styx strengthened the Styx Realm by establishing the Star Dou Great Array and creating the Styx Earth Refining Array. After both formations began drawing and refining Chaos Spiritual Qi, the realm became more stable and abundant, and the World Tree’s growth accelerated.

• Old Ancestor Styx activated the Star Dou Great Array, which drew Chaos Spiritual Qi into the Styx Realm and refined it into Innate Spiritual Qi, strengthening both the realm and its stars.
• Old Ancestor Styx concealed the array’s light and studied the Primordial Chaos River-Luo Great Array beneath the World Tree.
• After three Eons, Old Ancestor Styx created the Styx Earth Refining Array using the realm’s mountains, rivers, and Earth veins.
• Old Ancestor Styx rearranged the realm’s mountains and Earth veins, then activated the new array to draw in and refine more Chaos Spiritual Qi.
• Old Ancestor Styx directed both arrays to channel Chaos Spiritual Qi into the World Tree, accelerating its growth and raising the Styx Realm’s upper limit.

As Shen Ni and Reincarnation’s breakthroughs strengthened the Fierce Beast Dynasty, threatened dynasties formed an alliance and their leaders pursued Mixed Origin Golden Immortal. In secret, Hongjun and Rahu also advanced, and both sensed that the other was an enemy they had to kill to attain the Dao.

• Old Ancestor Styx settled beneath the World Tree to recover and prepare for a breakthrough as Slayer Qi stirred conflict across the Great Wilderness.
• Shen Ni and Reincarnation broke through to Mixed Origin Golden Immortal together, though other powers believed only Shen Ni had advanced.
• Old Ancestor Azure Heaven entered seclusion to break through while Yellow Heaven and Cyan Heaven recruited dynasties into an alliance against the Fierce Beasts.
• Old Ancestor Diandao became the first alliance leader to reach Mixed Origin Golden Immortal, and Old Ancestor Yin Yang and Old Ancestor Five Elements later joined the alliance.
• Hongjun severed Hong Tian from himself and advanced to Quasi-Saint, while Rahu broke through to Mixed Origin Golden Immortal on Mount Meru.
• Hongjun and Rahu secretly sensed that the other stood in the way of their path to the Dao.

Shen Ni and Reincarnation attacked the Three Heavens while Yellow Heaven, Cyan Heaven, and Azure Heaven were newly breaking through, hoping to eliminate them before they could master their power. Yellow Heaven and Cyan Heaven died in a mutual explosion, and Shen Ni and Reincarnation killed Azure Heaven, though Shen Ni was slightly injured.

• After learning the Three Heavens had formed an alliance and several Dynasty Lords were breaking through, Shen Ni and Reincarnation decided to strike first.
• Shen Ni and Reincarnation attacked the Three Heavens during their seclusion, with Shen Ni fighting Yellow Heaven and Cyan Heaven while Reincarnation faced Azure Heaven.
• As Shen Ni pressed them, Yellow Heaven and Cyan Heaven self-destructed, injuring Shen Ni with the blast’s aftershocks.
• Reincarnation took advantage of the distraction to heavily injure Azure Heaven, then Shen Ni joined him against their wounded opponent.
• Reincarnation beheaded Azure Heaven with the Six Paths Samsara Disk before Azure Heaven could self-destruct.

After the Three Heavens fell, the Imperial Dynasty Alliance prepared to retaliate while five Fierce Generals entered seclusion to pursue breakthroughs. In Chaos, Old Ancestor Styx reached the Mid-stage Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm, arranged for the Styx Realm’s inhabitants to learn cultivation, and set out for the Blood Sea with his treasures.

• The Star Seal escaped with the Three Heavens Origin after Azure Heaven fell, and Shen Ni and Reincarnation withdrew their forces to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.
• Old Ancestor Diandao, Old Ancestor Yin Yang, and Old Ancestor Five Elements found the Three Heavens Dynasty destroyed and returned to the alliance to plan a joint attack on the Fierce Beast Dynasty.
• Gu Diao, Zhu Huai, Hou, Ao Yin, and Zheng sensed opportunities to break through to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm and entered seclusion.
• Old Ancestor Styx broke through to the Mid-stage Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm and placed the Blood Scripture on the World Tree so the Chaos Demon God Avatars could teach the Styx Realm’s Living Beings.
• Old Ancestor Styx left the Styx Realm, gathered the World Bead and two Lotus Platforms, and followed the Blood Sea’s mark through Chaos.

Old Ancestor Styx learned of the Three Heavens Dynasty’s fall, then assessed Mu Ling'er and the Five Maidens’ cultivation. He explained three ways to entrust their Dao when advancing to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm and left them to consider their choices.

• Old Ancestor Styx returned to the Blood Sea, learned Shen Ni and the others had advanced and the Three Heavens Dynasty had fallen, and decided not to help retrieve the Star Seal.
• Old Ancestor Styx considered how the Star Seal and the origins of the Three Heavens might eventually form the Thirty-six Heavens, then set the matter aside.
• Old Ancestor Styx summoned Mu Ling'er and the Five Maidens and found all five had reached the Peak Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm with solid cultivation.
• Old Ancestor Styx explained that attaining the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm required proving one’s Dao and described entrusting it to the Great Dao River, a world’s River of Dao, or an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Old Ancestor Styx looked to the Five Maidens to see which method they would choose.

The Five Maidens asked Old Ancestor Styx how he had reached the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm, and he explained why he opened his own world to entrust his Dao Fruit. They chose to entrust their Daos to his Styx Realm and entered seclusion there two hundred years later.

• Mu Ling'er asked Old Ancestor Styx how he had broken through to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm.
• Old Ancestor Styx explained that he had opened a Great Thousand World and entrusted his Dao Fruit to it, warning the Five Maidens against relying on another's protection.
• The Five Maidens considered their options and rejected entrusting their Dao Fruits to the Great Dao River or opening their own worlds.
• Spring Orchid suggested entrusting their Dao Fruits to Old Ancestor Styx's world, and he agreed while urging them to think carefully.
• The Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum and Mu Ling'er agreed to entrust their Daos to the Styx Realm.
• Two hundred years later, the Five Maidens entered the Styx Realm and went into seclusion.

Old Ancestor Styx began refining the Great Wilderness’s mountain and earth formations while the alliance and the Fierce Beast Dynasty mobilized for war. The alliance entered the Northern Continent, where the two Fierce Beast Emperors, Shen Ni and Reincarnation, revealed that they had reached the mid-stage of Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal.

• Old Ancestor Styx considered improving the Great Wilderness’s formations and appointing Mountain Gods and Earth Gods as its development continued.
• The Four Fierce Beast Kings, five Fierce Beast Generals, and the alliance’s Innate Gods and Demons completed their breakthroughs, and both sides assembled their armies.
• The Fierce Beast army breached the alliance’s defensive line, but Yin Yang and Five Elements held it back until Old Ancestor Diandao assembled and led the alliance army to the front.
• Old Ancestor Diandao and the alliance entered the Northern Continent and advanced toward the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, where the Four Fierce Beast Kings and five Fierce Beast Generals tried to stop them.
• Shen Ni and Reincarnation emerged with mid-stage Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal auras, prompting Old Ancestor Diandao to warn the alliance not to underestimate them.

Shen Ni and Reincarnation entered the Northern Continent battlefield, killing two Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals and turning the fight against the alliance. The Imperial Dynasty Alliance’s three Old Ancestors were trapped by the Four Fierce Beast Kings as the battle intensified.

• The Calamity Qi drove the armies into a chaotic, frenzied battle and began affecting the higher-ups, causing casualties among the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals.
• The five Fierce Beast Generals were surrounded by more than twenty Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals and prepared to self-destruct.
• Shen Ni and Reincarnation arrived, killed two opponents, and drove many more away from the encirclement.
• Gu Diao and the other Fierce Beast Generals attacked the five remaining alliance Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals, forcing them onto the defensive.
• The Four Fierce Beast Kings attacked Old Ancestor Diandao, Yin Yang, and Old Ancestor Five Elements, preventing them from reaching Shen Ni and Reincarnation.
• The three Old Ancestors fought at full strength to escape, while the Four Fierce Beast Kings struggled to keep them trapped.

The Fierce Beasts attacked the imperial capitals while their armies and the Dynasty Lords were occupied on the battlefield. Reincarnation was badly wounded after a Dynasty Lord destroyed himself, while Qiongqi was gravely injured by the Old Ancestors.

• Thirty-one Fierce Beast Generals led newly emerged Fierce Beast experts in attacks on the imperial capitals of the Imperial Dynasties.
• A Dynasty Lord fighting Reincarnation learned that his capital had fallen and his dynasty and son had been destroyed, then went mad and self-destructed.
• Reincarnation took the blast head-on, suffered severe injuries, and used the Six Paths Samsara Disk to suppress them as he fought off the remaining nine Dynasty Lords.
• Qiongqi was shaken by Reincarnation's injury and exposed a flaw, which Old Ancestor Yin Yang exploited to pin him with Yin Yang Divine Light.
• Old Ancestor Diandao, Old Ancestor Yin Yang, and the Five Elements Old Ancestor struck Qiongqi together, gravely wounding him and removing him from the fight.

The Fierce Beast Kings and their forces fought the alliance’s Old Ancestors and Dynasty Lords, with both sides suffering heavy losses. The Old Ancestors trapped Gu Diao’s group and turned on Reincarnation, while Shen Ni continued fighting seven Dynasty Lords as the battle remained unresolved.

• Old Ancestor Diandao severely wounded Chaos, who detonated himself and caused him minor injuries.
• Reincarnation restored himself by severing his own Reincarnation, then used the Six Paths Samsara Disk to suppress six Dynasty Lords.
• Shen Ni devoured three Imperial Dynasty Old Ancestors with the Soul Devouring Spear as the Dynasty Lords faltered.
• The three Old Ancestors severely wounded Taotie, slew Taowu, and set out to attack Reincarnation.
• After one Dynasty Lord fell and four self-destructed, Old Ancestor Five Elements trapped Gu Diao and four Fierce Beast Generals in the Five Elements Great Formation.
• Old Ancestor Diandao and Old Ancestor Yin Yang joined three Dynasty Lords to overwhelm Reincarnation, while Shen Ni kept seven opponents on the defensive.

Reincarnation died in a self-destruction that killed three Imperial Dynasty Old Ancestors, while the Six Paths Samsara Disk escaped with his origin essence. Shen Ni used the World-Ending Millstone to devastate both sides, and the returned Fierce Beast Generals helped him survive as Old Ancestor Yin Yang and Old Ancestor Five Elements fled.

• Reincarnation self-destructed, killing three Imperial Dynasty Old Ancestors, and the Six Paths Samsara Disk escaped toward Zhou Mountain with his origin essence.
• Shen Ni activated the World-Ending Millstone, killing seven Dynasty Lords and destroying Old Ancestor Diandao's Diandao Seal, while Old Ancestor Yin Yang survived behind the Taiji Diagram.
• Gu Diao and four other Fierce Beast Generals self-destructed, shattering Old Ancestor Five Elements' formation and grievously wounding him.
• Shen Ni used the World-Ending Millstone again, prompting Old Ancestor Diandao to self-destruct and Old Ancestor Yin Yang to block the attack with the Taiji Diagram.
• The thirty-one returning Fierce Beast Generals intervened and fought Old Ancestor Yin Yang and Old Ancestor Five Elements, who escaped together using the Taiji Diagram after killing eleven of them.

After the war devastated both the Fierce Beasts and the Imperial Dynasty Alliance, the Myriad Races began rebuilding while Old Ancestor Styx strengthened the Styx Realm and its formations. He spent an Eon relaxing in the Blood God Realm, but the Heavenly Dao arrived just after he spoke of it.

• Shen Ni ordered the Fierce Beasts to retreat to the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, while the defeated races became independent and learned cultivation from Old Ancestor Styx's Dao Preaching Steles.
• Mu Ling'er, the other four maidens, and the Three Thousand Chaos Demon God Avatars reached the early-stage Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm and entrusted their Dao Fruits to the Heavenly Dao River of the Styx Realm.
• Old Ancestor Styx sent the Three Thousand Chaos Demon God Avatars to reinforce formations across the Great Wilderness and had Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum and the Five Maidens gather Merit.
• Old Ancestor Styx spent an Eon enjoying tea, fishing, Mahjong, and Poker in the Blood God Realm.
• After Old Ancestor Styx mentioned the Heavenly Dao, the Heavenly Dao arrived.