Chapter Summaries

Old Ancestor Styx received Great Dao Merit for creating the Virtual God Realm, startling powerful beings and convincing the Great Wilderness’s inhabitants of its value. As Living Beings flocked to its trials, Styx returned to the Blood Sea while Dream Spirit gained the freedom to travel the Great Wilderness.

• The Great Wilderness’s lower-class beings praised Old Ancestor Styx, while powerful figures including Yang Mei, Hongjun, Yin Yang, Five Elements, Rahu, and Karma reacted to his Great Dao Merit.
• The Living Beings recognized the Dao Platforms’ value and hurried to find them, then entered the Virtual God Realm and began chasing its rewards.
• The Great Dao enabled Living Beings to return to the Virtual God Realm through marks on their arms, though those without Dao Platform protection could not earn tangible rewards and had to guard themselves.
• As the trial craze spread, Old Ancestor Styx quietly returned to the Blood Sea after bidding farewell to Dream Spirit.
• Dream Spirit used her Merit Golden Body and the Virtual God Realm’s connection to the Earth veins to travel throughout the Great Wilderness.

Old Ancestor Styx assigned Mu Ling'er and the Five Maidens to research Earth-vein Teleportation Arrays while he entered seclusion to consolidate his cultivation. Meanwhile, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans joined forces to explore the Starry Sky, prompting the Ziwei Clone and Wangshu to hide and defend their celestial domains.

• Old Ancestor Styx taught Mu Ling'er and the Five Maidens how to transmit items through the Virtual God Realm and Dao Platform, then tasked them with researching Teleportation Arrays using Earth veins and Merit.
• Old Ancestor Styx returned to the Styx Realm and entered seclusion to consolidate his Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal cultivation.
• The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans, seeking new territory and treasures, agreed to explore the Starry Sky together and sent their leaders and Da Luo Golden Immortals there.
• The Ziwei Clone sensed the Three Clans approaching and concealed the Ziwei Emperor Star behind the Star Dou Great Array and layered defenses.
• Wangshu sensed their arrival and protected the Moon Star with a Lunar Formation linked to the Osmanthus Tree and Moon Star Origin.

The Three Clan Leaders searched the Sun Star for treasures that could boost their races’ Fortune but found nothing valuable. At its core, Di Jun and Tai Yi hid inside a Great Formation, unnoticed by the leaders, and vowed to become powerful themselves.

• The Three Clan Leaders sent their subordinates to wait outside the Sun Star and explored it themselves because its heat was unbearable to the others.
• After searching for tens of thousands of years without finding a major treasure, Ancestor Dragon, Ancestor Phoenix, and Ancestor Qilin joined forces to search the Sun Star’s core.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi, protected by the Great Formation, sensed the leaders’ powerful auras and feared they would be discovered.
• The Three Clan Leaders passed the Great Formation several times without noticing it, allowing Di Jun and Tai Yi to remain hidden.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi swore to become as powerful as the Three Clan Leaders.

After failing to find treasures on the Sun Star, Ancestor Dragon, Ancestor Phoenix, and their companion tried to enter the Moon Star but were warned away by Wangshu. Wangshu watched over two powerful Taiyin Origins developing consciousness beneath the Osmanthus Tree, who were nearing Form Transformation as the Moon Goddesses.

• The three clan leaders left the Sun Star disappointed and traveled to the Moon Star in search of Taiyin treasures.
• Ancestor Dragon and Ancestor Phoenix called for the Moon Star's owner to let them in, then prepared to attack its Formation when no one answered.
• Wangshu warned the three that attacking the Formation would provoke Karma backlash, and they abandoned their attempt and departed for Ziwei Star.
• Wangshu reassured the two Taiyin Origins beneath the Osmanthus Tree that the intruders had left and urged them to keep refining their origins.
• Wangshu recalled how her lost blood essence had merged with power from Taiyin Youying, the Osmanthus Tree, and the Moon Star to form the two future Moon Goddesses.

After the Ziwei Clone expelled the Three Clan Leaders from the Starry Sky, they abandoned their alliance and prepared to compete for one another’s Fortune. Ancestor Dragon formed marriage alliances and fathered the Nine Sons of the Dragon, whose talents and governance strengthened the Dragon Clan’s subordinate races despite the pureblood dragons’ disdain.

• The Ziwei Clone cast the Three Clan Leaders and their followers out of the Star Dou Great Array after they repeatedly attacked the Ziwei Emperor Star.
• The Three Clan Leaders apologized to the unseen senior, returned to the Great Wilderness, and decided they would become enemies and seize one another’s Fortune.
• The Three Clan Leaders prepared their clans for war, infiltrated rival factions, and formed marriage alliances to strengthen their ties with subordinate races.
• Ancestor Dragon fathered the Nine Sons of the Dragon, including Fuxi, who loved studying the Dao Preaching Stele, and eight brothers with distinct appearances and temperaments.
• The pureblood dragons mocked the Nine Sons, so Ancestor Dragon sent them to govern the subordinate races, whose loyalty helped increase the Dragon Clan’s Fortune.

Ancestor Qilin expanded the Qilin Clan through his sons, the Five Elements Qilin, and the Second Generation Four Fiends, while Ancestor Phoenix and Ancestor Huang welcomed Vermilion Bird and established seven Phoenix-blooded branches. Both clans grew stronger, though their ancestors' vital energy suffered and the Qilin Clan acquired traces of Killing Intent.

• Ancestor Qilin's sons White Tiger and Pixiu were born with powerful origins, and Pixiu joined Mu Ling'er in the Blood Sea Lineage.
• Four Unlike was born with a damaged Origin, so Ancestor Qilin placed him on Qilin Cliff to recover.
• Ancestor Qilin nurtured the Five Elements Qilin and secretly raised the savage Second Generation Four Fiends.
• The Qilin Clan added the Ink Qilin, Wind Qilin, and Thunder Qilin branches, but Ancestor Qilin's strength waned and Killing Intent entered the clan.
• Ancestor Phoenix and Ancestor Huang's child Vermilion Bird inherited their pure bloodline and gained a transformed Origin from the fire spirit.
• Ancestor Phoenix and Ancestor Huang used their essence blood to establish seven Phoenix-blooded bird branches, leaving their vital energy weakened.

Rahu and the other Innate Gods and Demons maneuvered to trigger the third great calamity, hoping to transcend through the war among the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans. Rahu planned to sacrifice the clans’ lives to break the seals beneath Mount Meru and claim his four killing swords and array diagram.

• The Dragon Clan grew stronger as its fortune rose, while the Phoenix and Qilin Clans weakened after using their origins to expand; the latter two formed a secret alliance to check the Dragon Clan.
• The Innate Gods and Demons began schemes to provoke the third great calamity, with Rahu sending thirteen Demon Envoys to demonize members of the three clans and Hongjun sending his Three Corpses to teach the clan leaders about attaining Dao through fortune.
• The clan leaders learned how fortune could aid their cultivation but distrusted Hongjun and hesitated to start a war, while hidden schemes and entangled karma caused clashes among their followers to escalate.
• Rahu sought to break the seals suppressing his origin spiritual treasure beneath Mount Meru by blood-sacrificing living beings, but sacrifices in the West proved insufficient.
• Rahu laid a Blood Sacrifice Great Formation and personally demonized high-ranking members of the three clans, aiming to provoke a great war and use their blood to unseal his treasure.

Old Ancestor Styx broke through in his mastery of the Law of Blood and learned that the approaching Three Clans war concealed a second great tribulation. When he tried to protect the Western Continent’s earth veins, the Heavenly Dao barred him and sealed his incarnations, leaving him unable to act without damaging the land.

• The Three Clans prepared to fight on the Western Continent as the Innate Gods and Demons pushed their conflict toward war.
• Old Ancestor Styx returned to the Blood Sea after reaching fifteen percent mastery of the Law of Blood and learned the Heavenly Dao intended to use the tribulation to erase Chaos Demon God traces and choose its Spokesperson.
• Old Ancestor Styx took the Earth God List and tried to travel west to protect the earth veins, but the Heavenly Dao forbade him from interfering.
• Old Ancestor Styx warned that Rahu’s hidden measures could destroy the western Great Earth if Rahu fell, but the Heavenly Dao refused to let him pass.
• The Heavenly Dao sealed Old Ancestor Styx’s Western Continent incarnations inside the Earth Vein Secret Realm, making it impossible for him to control the earth veins without breaking them and causing damage.

Old Ancestor Styx reported the Heavenly Dao’s obstruction to the Great Dao and prepared the Blood Sea beings to protect the Primordial World’s Earth veins during the coming battle. As his followers headed for the border between east and west, he also considered the Western Ancestral Vein Origin he had preserved as a chance for the west to recover.

• Old Ancestor Styx used the Altar of the Dao to report that the Heavenly Dao had obstructed him and warned that it would bear the Karma if the Earth veins suffered calamity.
• Old Ancestor Styx ordered Mu Ling'er and the Five Maidens to lead the Blood Sea beings to the east-west border, avoid the Western Continent, and contain the battle’s shockwaves to protect the Earth veins.
• Old Ancestor Styx gave Mu Ling'er the Earth God List and two Twenty-Four Grade Lotus Platforms, while temporarily taking back the Universe Cauldron.
• The Five Maidens led the Blood Sea beings toward the border, and the Heavenly Dao Eye allowed them to pass without revealing itself to them.
• Old Ancestor Styx examined the Western Ancestral Vein Origin he had been nurturing in the Blood God Realm and saw that it could help the west recover if its Ancestral Vein was destroyed.

Old Ancestor Styx began reforging Yuan Tu and A Bi in the Universe Cauldron, intending to merge them with the Soul Devouring Spear and Pangu Axe Light into his Life Dao Weapon. As the Three Clans prepared for war, Mu Ling'er and the Five Maidens concealed their forces near the boundary between the eastern and western Great Wilderness.

• Old Ancestor Styx placed Yuan Tu, A Bi, and the Soul Devouring Spear into the Universe Cauldron and refined them with Pure World Divine Fire.
• Yuan Tu and A Bi devoured the Soul Devouring Spear's spirituality, leaving its killing origin and soul-devouring intent behind.
• Old Ancestor Styx added his Pangu Axe Light to the cauldron to merge the weapons into his Life Dao Weapon.
• Mu Ling'er and the Five Maidens led their people to the boundary between the east and west of the Great Wilderness and hid them with a Great Formation.
• Ancestor Dragon, Ancestor Phoenix, and Ancestor Qilin secretly prepared for the coming war and hoped to leave a path of survival for each other's clans if one side fell.

The leaders of the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans prepared for war while their family conflicts drove several powerful figures to leave and found new clans. With the leaders withdrawing into seclusion, manipulated killings ignited open warfare among the three clans, and rising Calamity Qi drove their fighters mad.

• Ancestor Dragon expelled the Nine Sons of the Dragon, and Azure Dragon left with part of the clan for the Eastern Pole of the Outer Sea before Ancestor Dragon entered seclusion in the East Sea's Sea Eye.
• Vermilion Bird failed to overthrow Ancestor Phoenix, fled with part of the clan and the Wutong Tree, and established the Vermilion Bird Clan; Ancestor Phoenix entered seclusion at Mount Buzhou.
• Ancestor Qilin sent Four Unlike to Pixiu in the Blood Sea and punished White Tiger, who left to establish the White Tiger Clan in the western Starry Sky; Ancestor Qilin withdrew beneath the Central Earth.
• After the Three Clan Leaders stopped attending to clan affairs, a Dragon Clan member demonized by Rahu murdered an elder's son and framed the Qilin Clan, while similar killings struck the Qilin and Phoenix Clans.
• The elders received no instructions from their leaders and ordered their forces to war, sending the three clans into a deadly battle from the east to the western lands.
• Calamity Qi surged as the clans fought, and it drove their cultivators into madness.

The Three Clans escalated their war, weakening the seal beneath Mount Meru and bringing Rahu closer to freeing the Four Swords. Hongjun recruited powerful allies to help defeat Rahu, while secretly agreeing to the Heavenly Dao’s plan to eliminate those allies’ potential.

• The Three Clan leaders sent their experts into battle and clashed with one another as Candle Dragon kept Ancestor Phoenix occupied.
• The war’s blood and Slayer Qi weakened Mount Meru’s seal, and Rahu rejoiced as the Four Swords began to stir within it.
• Hongjun recruited Yang Mei, Hun Kun, and Five Elements into an alliance against Rahu.
• Hongjun visited Yin Yang, who sensed both danger and an opportunity in the proposed alliance.
• The Heavenly Dao told Hongjun to gather powerful Innate Gods and Demons, arrange for them to be killed or crippled during the fight, and promised him Merit and the role of its Spokesperson.

Hongjun persuaded Old Ancestor Yin Yang to join an alliance against Rahu, promising a fair contest for the chance to Attain Dao after the tribulation. He then failed to find Karma and recruited more clans and unaffiliated cultivators, leaving the alliance preparing to face Rahu’s forces.

• Hongjun explained to Old Ancestor Yin Yang the dangers of Rahu Attaining Dao and the alliance’s rewards for opposing him.
• Old Ancestor Yin Yang agreed to join Hongjun’s alliance, though he remained wary and planned to speak with Old Ancestor Five Elements.
• Hongjun secretly hoped to obtain the Taiji Diagram if Old Ancestor Yin Yang died in the coming battle.
• Hongjun searched for Karma but failed to find him and grew increasingly wary of his hidden plans.
• Hongjun recruited powerful clans and unaffiliated cultivators to fight Rahu’s Demonic army and Envoys of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

Hongjun traveled to the Nether Blood Sea to recruit Styx, unaware that Styx had already been confined by the Heavenly Dao and had secretly broken through to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm. Styx sent an Incarnation to meet him, and Hongjun entered the Blood Sea with it.

• As the Three Clans' war intensified, Hongjun hurried toward the Nether Blood Sea to seek out Styx.
• Styx sensed Hongjun approaching but, unable to leave while refining his Life Dao Weapon, sent an Incarnation to receive him.
• Hongjun saw that the Blood Sea absorbed incoming foul energies and spirits without being polluted, unaware that Styx had hidden the original Source Blood Sea inside the Blood God Realm.
• Styx's Incarnation emerged from the Blood Sea and invited Hongjun inside for a chat.
• Hongjun followed Styx's Incarnation into the Blood Sea, confident in his strength and treasures.

Hongjun visited Old Ancestor Styx’s Blood Sea and discovered it was a purified treasure land containing the Blood God Realm. After the two discussed the Dao, Styx withheld useful knowledge in response to Hongjun’s secrecy, leaving Hongjun worried about asking him for help later.

• Hongjun found that the Blood Sea held purified Precious Blood, with impurities and hostile energies removed through Styx’s formations.
• Old Ancestor Styx brought Hongjun to the Blood God Realm, where Hongjun admired its abundant Spiritual Roots, herbs, and Living Beings.
• Old Ancestor Styx served Hongjun Enlightenment Tea, and they discussed the Dao while both concealed useful knowledge.
• Old Ancestor Styx retaliated for Hongjun’s secrecy by discussing only matters of limited use, and Hongjun realized Styx had seen through him.
• Hongjun worried that he had offended Old Ancestor Styx and might not be able to ask him for help later.

Hongjun tried to recruit Old Ancestor Styx to help destroy the Western Continent, but Styx rejected his offer and kept his distance from Hongjun. Hongjun left the Blood Sea, while Styx considered how to obtain several tempting Spiritual Treasures and pursue his own plans.

• Hongjun offered Old Ancestor Styx the same terms he had promised Yang Mei, Five Elements, and the other Innate Demon Gods.
• Old Ancestor Styx judged Hongjun's offer and its promised Merit too risky and unnecessary, since he already had abundant Merit and wanted to rely on his own cultivation.
• Old Ancestor Styx considered the God-Slaying Spear, the Investiture of the Gods, and finding a way to seize Rahu's True Spirit despite Heavenly Dao's ban on entering the Western Continent.
• Old Ancestor Styx told Hongjun he could not help because changes in the Blood God Realm required his attention.
• Hongjun accepted the refusal and left the Blood Sea.

Styx sent an Incarnation toward the Primordial Continent after persuading the Heavenly Dao to allow it, while Yang Mei arrived at the Blood Sea to discuss Hongjun’s request that they fight Rahu. Styx concluded that Hongjun had likely made an agreement with the Heavenly Dao to use the dangerous tribulation to eliminate uncontrolled Innate Gods and Demons.

• Styx revealed his two Merit Golden Wheels until the Heavenly Dao allowed his Incarnation to leave the Blood Sea and watch the battle.
• Yang Mei arrived at the Blood Sea, met Styx’s Incarnation, and praised the place’s fortune.
• Yang Mei and Styx’s Incarnation drank Three Lights Divine Water and Enlightenment Tea and Discussed the Dao.
• Yang Mei told Styx that Hongjun had asked him to help deal with Rahu, then gave Styx a Chaos-aura Willow Branch in gratitude for his earlier gifts.
• Styx told Yang Mei that Hongjun had made him the same offer and that he had refused it.
• Styx reasoned that the Heavenly Dao had likely asked Hongjun to summon powerful figures so the tribulation could purge uncontrolled Innate Gods and Demons.

The Styx Incarnation advised Yang Mei on surviving the coming battle against Rahu and avoiding entanglement in Hongjun’s schemes. Yang Mei left the Blood Sea with Three Lights Divine Water to prepare for the tribulation.

• Yang Mei asked the Styx Incarnation for advice after explaining that he had already agreed to Hongjun’s invitation.
• The Styx Incarnation urged Yang Mei to flee as soon as another fellow Daoist died in the battle against Rahu, warning him about Rahu’s strength and Hongjun’s hidden methods.
• The Styx Incarnation explained that Yang Mei’s Merit Golden Wheel could protect him from the Heavenly Dao if he escaped the tribulation and acted cautiously.
• Yang Mei revealed that he had accumulated Merit and asked whether using Merit to improve one’s strength removed its protective effect; the Styx Incarnation confirmed that it did.
• Yang Mei accepted the Styx Incarnation’s Three Lights Divine Water, said farewell, and returned to his Dojo to prepare.

A Styx Incarnation arrived at Zhou Mountain near the end of the Dragon Han Tribulation and planned to find Nuwa and Houtu before their destinies unfolded. It left to seek Nuwa first, reflecting on how both goddesses would later be trapped by tragic fates.

• The Styx Incarnation left the Blood Sea and headed toward the Starry Sky after seeing Yang Mei off.
• Another Styx Incarnation reached the foot of Zhou Mountain carrying the Creation Green Lotus Seed Father God Pangu had left for Houtu.
• The Styx Incarnation used its authority as the Ancestral God of Earth and its Pangu bloodline to search for Nuwa and Houtu.
• The Styx Incarnation chose to seek Nuwa first and recalled how she would become powerless to protect her brother, the Human Race, and Spirit Pearl.
• The Styx Incarnation reflected on Houtu's future sacrifice of her body to create Reincarnation and her isolation in the Underworld after the Witch Clan's fall.

The Styx Incarnation discussed the Virtual God Realm’s growing connection to the Great Wilderness’s earth veins with Dream Spirit and asked her to locate Phoenix Perch Mountain and Pangu Hall. He also proposed that she develop a mobile phone for the Primordial World, then set off for Phoenix Perch Mountain.

• The Styx Incarnation learned that Dream Spirit had become the Virtual God Realm’s World Spirit and considered how its connection to the earth veins might eventually grant her an Earth Dao Saint Position.
• He asked Dream Spirit to search for Phoenix Perch Mountain and Pangu Hall, and she found Phoenix Perch Mountain but could not locate Pangu Hall.
• The Styx Incarnation proposed that Dream Spirit use the Virtual God Realm and its link to the earth veins to create a Primordial World Mobile Phone, rather than letting the Heavenly Dao expand its influence.
• Dream Spirit eagerly agreed to study the idea and returned to the Virtual God Realm, while the Styx Incarnation headed toward Phoenix Perch Mountain.