Chapter Summaries

Daoist Hunyuan witnessed the Soul Pond repair and transform souls before it closed, while Chi You was cleansed of Killing Qi and reborn with a new identity. The survivors then gathered as Daoist Hunyuan warned that the Path to Heaven had already claimed half their number.

• Daoist Hunyuan split his soul through the Soul Liquid, forming a faceless Soul Shadow from Law Power in his sea of consciousness.
• Great God Pangu and Great God Xuanhuang refined six drops of Soul Liquid, then withdrew into the closing Soul Pond to restore their souls.
• Wu Tian and other cultivators offered Mental Power to Pangu, whose shadow merged with the pond and sent pure Soul Power to Chi You.
• A Demon Race cultivator reached for the Soul Pond and was drained, while Crown Prince Lu Ya flew into it as it closed.
• Chi You emerged cleansed of Killing Qi, and Meng Ke recognized him as Sun Wu; Sun Bin knelt and greeted him as an ancestor.
• Daoist Hunyuan discussed the survivors’ prospects with Wu Tian, Grand Master Xuandu, and Cang Wuzi, then noted that only half their group remained after crossing Heaven Burying Ground.

Daoist Hunyuan and the others reached the Tongtian Ancient Stele, whose power and hidden nature blocked their passage. After the Golden Lion King’s blood sacrifice failed to open it, they realized that each traveler needed to see a way through according to their own understanding, and the chapter ended with several visions of paths appearing.

• Daoist Hunyuan and the other cultivators studied the stele’s divine patterns and witnessed different stages of the universe’s evolution.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing proposed sacrificing living beings, and the Golden Lion King offered his Essence Blood before Xuanjiao stopped him from sacrificing more.
• Yellow Stone Daoist explained that the stele was an illusion, and Venerable Mingxin disappeared into it while the others who rushed forward struck its surface.
• Daoist Hunyuan, Yellow Stone Daoist, and Meng Ke discussed how one’s original heart and thoughts shaped the path through the stele.
• Tian Lingzi saw a golden bridge appear across a nebula, while Xuanjiao saw a nine-headed Flood Dragon forming a vessel to carry him to the other shore.

Daoist Hunyuan and the others entered a sacred Minor World and began walking an ancient road that shaped a separate path for each traveler. After fighting a Savage Beast formed from the Law of Space, Daoist Hunyuan trapped and wounded it with his Law Altar, but an unseen force dragged him into a Space Tunnel.

• Daoist Hunyuan and the others discovered a sacred world beyond the Heaven Burying Ground and found an ancient road leading from a radiant hall.
• Daoist Hunyuan warned that the road might bring each traveler a different trial, and Golden Lion King, Xuanjiao, Meng Ke, and the others stepped onto it and disappeared.
• A gigantic Savage Beast attacked Daoist Hunyuan with Spatial Divine Ability, breaking through his defenses and injuring him.
• Daoist Hunyuan countered with Purple Fire and sword energy, then used his nebula and Chaos power to withstand the beast's spatial attacks.
• Daoist Hunyuan used his Law Altar to restrain the Savage Beast and absorb part of its body and the Law of Space.
• An invisible force seized Daoist Hunyuan and pulled him into a Space Tunnel.

Daoist Hunyuan left the Ancient Road to Heaven to search the Great Terror Zone for Xuanjiao and the others, fighting savage beasts and refining Earth Power from a powerful qilin-like beast. He continued deeper into the beast-filled land and encountered a Giant Yin Soldier beside a strange river.

• Daoist Hunyuan rescued Jin Chanzi from straying off the Ancient Road, and Jin Chanzi explained that an illusion had trapped cultivators among Demonic Beasts and Fierce Ghosts.
• Daoist Hunyuan stepped into the Great Terror Zone, where Heaven and Earth Law suppressed his ability to use the Power of Space, and he fought through swarming Savage Beasts.
• Daoist Hunyuan battled a giant red ant and a qilin-like Savage Beast that wielded Earth Power, then shattered its earthen mountain and refined the beast into Earth Power with his Law Altar.
• Daoist Hunyuan pressed onward and encountered a Giant Yin Soldier surrounded by bones and Savage Beasts as a foul river filled with strange ancient beasts appeared before him.

Daoist Hunyuan reached a ravine where four Great Encompassment zombies were attacking a wounded lion guarding a cave. He destroyed three zombies and sealed the chains draining the lion’s Divine Soul, while the remaining zombie was left struggling against the seal.

• Daoist Hunyuan fought through the Yin soldiers and saw four zombies attack the golden ward covering the cave.
• The zombies shattered the ward and attacked the wounded lion, which stubbornly guarded the cave entrance.
• Daoist Hunyuan killed one zombie with a Lightning Spear and burned two more with Purple Fire.
• The lion warned Daoist Hunyuan that the chains wrapped around it bound its Divine Soul and could not be cut.
• Daoist Hunyuan placed a Soul Seal ward over the lion’s sea of consciousness, trapping the chains and halting their drain of its Soul Power.
• The zombie linked to the sealed chains roared, while the other two zombies were consumed by Purple Fire.

Daoist Hunyuan saved the Golden Lion King and helped Xuanjiao control his five-element powers. Xuanjiao recounted his battle with a Giant Wood Demon Corpse, which ended with the creature’s leg broken but its body still resisting the flames.

• Daoist Hunyuan sealed the zombie, transferred its Soul Power and chains to the Golden Lion King, and healed his wounds.
• The Golden Lion King absorbed the chains and concealed his primordial spirit, while Daoist Hunyuan advised him to refine the Soul Power gradually.
• Daoist Hunyuan placed the Five Elements Diagram inside the sleeping five-headed Flood Dragon, allowing Xuanjiao to awaken and begin controlling his unbalanced powers.
• Xuanjiao recounted how the Giant Wood Demon Corpse’s poison injured him and how he used Yimu Essence Qi to heal himself.
• Xuanjiao attacked the Giant Wood Demon Corpse with lightning and fire, but it withstood both attacks.
• Xuanjiao broke the Giant Wood Demon Corpse’s left leg with four sword energies, though the creature still resisted the flames.

Xuanjiao and the Golden Lion King fought the Yellow Springs Demon Corpse while pursuing the pure wood-element power, but the Demon Corpse repeatedly revived in the Yellow Springs. The chapter ended as a rock Demon Spirit and four Iron Chain Zombies appeared, with the Golden Lion King badly wounded.

• Xuanjiao swallowed part of the Giant Wood Demon Corpse's escaping wood-element power and chased the rest toward the ancient road.
• The Golden Lion King rescued Xuanjiao from a swarm of Yin Beasts and Savage Beasts, then helped him fight the Yellow Springs Demon Corpse.
• Xuanjiao explained the Five Elements Demon Corpses as the Yellow Springs Demon Corpse attacked with deadly Netherworld power and Corpse Water.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Corpse destroyed the Golden Lion King's illusory mountain spirits, but Xuanjiao struck it with Yin Lightning and burned away its rotting flesh.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Corpse revived in the river, wounded the Golden Lion King, and was joined by a rock Demon Spirit and four Iron Chain Zombies.

Xuanjiao and the Golden Lion recovered from their fight with the demon corpses, then joined Daoist Hunyuan in searching Yin Mountain for Minghe. At the summit, Minghe battled Mosquito Daoist over the Blood Sea and Netherworld River, but Mosquito Daoist absorbed Minghe’s Blood God Sons and revealed he planned to remain in Netherworld Mountain.

• Xuanjiao explained that Minghe had swallowed the Yellow Springs Demon Corpse, while Xuanjiao and the Golden Lion escaped the other demon corpses and Xuanjiao broke through by refining the Demon Spirit of Magic Rock.
• Daoist Hunyuan helped Xuanjiao complete his Five Elements cycle, and the Golden Lion returned empowered with law-made chains; the two brothers agreed to follow Daoist Hunyuan to find Minghe.
• Daoist Hunyuan identified the Netherworld River and the Netherworld Grass, while the Golden Lion used his chains to try to fish the herb out of the river.
• Minghe defeated the Demon Mosquitoes surrounding the summit and confronted Mosquito Daoist, who claimed Netherworld Mountain’s Blood Sea and Netherworld River as his own.
• Mosquito Daoist used the Blood River Great Formation to draw out Minghe’s Blood God Sons, devoured them, and formed a true body; he rejected Minghe’s offer to return to the Three Realms.

Minghe fought Mosquito Daoist inside the Great Netherworld Realm, where Mosquito Daoist suppressed his cultivation and attacked him with the realm’s laws. After Minghe’s forces survived the battle, he recognized Mosquito Daoist’s Blood Sea Netherworld Banner as a treasure he wanted to claim.

• Mosquito Daoist trapped Minghe in the Great Netherworld Realm and suppressed his cultivation.
• Minghe used Abi and Yuantu to attack the realm, then summoned the Yellow Springs Demon Corpse and the Annihilation Fire Phoenix to resist Mosquito Daoist’s Blood-colored Starry Sky.
• Mosquito Daoist’s four planets destroyed the Yellow Springs Demon Corpse, but the Annihilation Fire Phoenix struck back and forced Mosquito Daoist to end the realm.
• Mosquito Daoist revealed the Blood Sea Netherworld Banner and sent a Nether Dragon to clash with Minghe’s Annihilation Fire Phoenix.
• Minghe recognized the banner’s laws of death and annihilation and decided he had to take it.

Minghe used the Annihilation Black Phoenix to fight Mosquito Daoist, who sought to absorb Minghe’s power and strengthen his rule-based world. Their battle devastated Netherworld Mountain, but the sealed phoenix emerged within the Blood Sea Netherworld Banner and began transforming its power.

• Minghe manifested the Annihilation Black Phoenix and attacked Mosquito Daoist, who used the power of rules to absorb Minghe’s annihilation spear.
• Mosquito Daoist trapped the phoenix inside the Blood Sea Netherworld Banner, then clashed with Minghe as he attacked with Abi, Yuantu, and his Blood God Sons.
• Their collision shattered the surrounding space, forcing Minghe to retreat into the Karmic Fire Red Lotus while Mixed Essence Daoist, Xuanjiao, and Golden Lion survived the destruction.
• After Netherworld Mountain’s rivers and mountains were devastated, the Annihilation Fire Phoenix appeared across the banner and ignited its sea of blood.
• The phoenix’s black flames fused with the Yellow Springs orb as the Black Dragon and strange pearl formed a ring that converted Death Qi into annihilation power.

Minghe defeated Mosquito Daoist and helped him be reborn as Blood River in the Taiji World. Blood River explained how the Taiji World connected to the Three Realms and where the other spirits had been reborn, before Minghe set off for the Demon Realm.

• Minghe explained that he had taken control of the Sea of Blood Netherworld Banner through Yellow Springs, then defeated Mosquito Daoist with its Light of Nirvana.
• A divine sense warned Minghe not to absorb Mosquito Daoist’s remaining power, as the energy was used to recreate him as Blood River, who paid respects to Minghe.
• Blood River opened a Reincarnation Gate and explained the Taiji World’s layers, its connection to the Three Realms, and how its beings could be reborn and seek sainthood.
• Blood River told Daoist Hunyuan that the other seven of the Eight Spirits had also been reborn in different realms or were awaiting him.
• Daoist Hunyuan decided to seek the Medicine King, Tianpeng, while Minghe took the Sea of Blood Netherworld Banner and headed for the Demon Realm.

Daoist Hunyuan forged two swords from the Mosquito Daoist’s remains, while Blood River explained the Origin World and its reincarnation process. A newly awakened Savage Beast attacked Qiongqi near the Origin Hall, and the battle ended with both beasts chasing toward the Heavenly Gate.

• Daoist Hunyuan forged the Mosquito Daoist’s remains into the Spirit Slaying Sword and the Demon Exorcising Sword for Blood River.
• Blood River told Daoist Hunyuan that the Origin Hall held a portal to the Taisu World and explained how awakened Savage Beasts could reincarnate.
• A Savage Beast awakened near the Reincarnation Gate and shattered the portal before it reformed and released Qiongqi.
• Qiongqi and the Savage Beast fought fiercely in the sky, wounding each other as Qiongqi grew larger and stronger.
• The Savage Beast spat out a magical treasure, and Qiongqi turned toward the Heavenly Gate with the beast close behind.

Daoist Hunyuan discovered that Di Jiang’s remnant soul had been hiding inside the Spatial Savage Beast and fought it in his sea of consciousness. Di Jiang’s spatial attacks trapped and battered him, leaving Daoist Hunyuan facing a rapidly shattering space.

• The monster passed Qiongqi’s reincarnation trial and flew toward the blood-red vortex as Daoist Hunyuan and the others sensed its power.
• Blood River Patriarch noticed Killing Qi infecting Daoist Hunyuan, and he and Xuanjiao used the Demon Exorcising Sword and Righteous Qi to restore his clarity.
• Daoist Hunyuan recognized the Killing Qi within his sea of consciousness as Di Jiang, whose remnant soul had been reborn as the Spatial Savage Beast.
• Di Jiang rejected Daoist Hunyuan’s attempt to persuade him and attacked with the Law of Space, while Daoist Hunyuan countered with Righteous Qi and a powerful killing sword strike.
• Di Jiang compressed and vibrated the space around Daoist Hunyuan, disrupting his attacks and trapping him despite his Xuanhuang Qi and Pangu power.
• Di Jiang unleashed Spatial Shatter twice, sending jagged cracks through the space toward Daoist Hunyuan.

Di Jiang attacked Daoist Hunyuan’s Sea of Consciousness with spatial powers, hoping to destroy its occupant and seize his body. Hunyuan revealed another form of himself and used the Law Altar to overcome Di Jiang’s Spatial Storm, leaving Di Jiang wondering who Hunyuan truly was.

• Di Jiang formed a spatial sword and struck at Daoist Hunyuan while recalling the destruction of the Wu Clan and resolving to take over Hunyuan’s body.
• Daoist Hunyuan used a formation to control the Minor World’s spatial power, calm his Sea of Consciousness, and make Di Jiang’s sword disappear.
• Di Jiang used Spatial Disarray to tear apart Hunyuan’s body, but a second figure identifying himself as Hunyuan appeared and advanced on him.
• Di Jiang unleashed a Spatial Storm, collapsing the space around them and sending a destructive tornado toward Hunyuan.
• Hunyuan summoned the eight-tiered Law Altar, which restrained Di Jiang and restored the shattered Sea of Consciousness.
• Di Jiang asked who Hunyuan was, and Hunyuan said he did not know.

Daoist Hunyuan absorbed Emperor Jiang’s soul and learned the location of the Wu Clan’s Hall of Inheritance, then traveled with Xuanjiao and the Golden Lion toward the Wu Clan. The chapter left Xuanjiao battling Xing Tian, whose defenses were breaking under Xuanjiao’s powerful lightning attack.

• Daoist Hunyuan merged Emperor Jiang’s soul into his Soul Pond, gaining control of source Killing Qi and the spatial coordinate of the Wu Clan’s Hall of Inheritance.
• Daoist Hunyuan learned that the true Hall of Inheritance lay hidden in a separate spatial world and could no longer be reached through the closed tunnel beneath the Pangu Great Hall.
• Ancestor Blood River sent Daoist Hunyuan, Xuanjiao, and the Golden Lion to a poisonous valley near the Wu-Demon Realm.
• Xuanjiao attacked Xing Tian, while the Golden Lion blocked a powerful wave of energy with a mountain defense.
• Xuanjiao unleashed a vast lightning domain that shattered Xing Tian’s barrier and charred his body.

Xing Tian and Xuanjiao survived a devastating battle, and Daoist Hunyuan and Golden Lion contained the destruction. Later, Wu Tian opened the way to restore the Wu Clan’s inheritance and establish the Wu Realm, but he was pulled into a vortex to become its divine spirit.

• Xing Tian shattered the lightning space with his axe, while Xuanjiao and Xing Tian fell exhausted and gravely injured.
• Daoist Hunyuan absorbed the raging lightning, and Golden Lion used mountains and law-forged chains to divert and break the Axe Shadow.
• Daoist Hunyuan explained to Golden Lion how the Wu Clan’s bodily cultivation gave them immense strength and regeneration, while limiting their ability to lead or gain divine abilities.
• Chi You and Wu Tian arrived and found Xing Tian and the five-headed Flood Dragon recovering and growing stronger from the battle.
• Wu Tian revealed the true Inheritance Hall’s origin and asked Daoist Hunyuan to open it; when the inheritance orb began losing its light, Chi You received a message about rebuilding the Wu Realm.
• Wu Tian vowed to become the Wu Realm’s divine spirit, and Heaven and Earth pulled him toward a vortex despite Chi You’s plea to take his place.

Wu Tian formed the Wu Realm and established the Legacy Hall as the center of the Witch Clan's Way of Sacrifice. After Pangu’s accumulated thoughts and Power of Faith flew into the void, Daoist Hunyuan explained that Pangu’s consciousness was gathering into a Divine Soul, and Wu Tian considered searching the Taiji World for Witch Clan remnant souls.

• Chi You's demonic shell merged with Wu Tian's Essence, Qi, and Spirit, helping him form a new body and become the god of the Wu Realm.
• Wu Tian used the Wu Realm's laws to stabilize the Legacy Hall and placed it atop a nine-tiered mountain.
• Wu Tian explained to Daoist Hunyuan that the Witch Clan's legacy was the Pangu statue and its Way of Sacrifice, which helped clan members reshape their primordial spirits.
• Power of Faith and Pangu's thoughts streamed from the statue into the void, and Daoist Hunyuan said Pangu's consciousness was forming a Divine Soul.
• Daoist Hunyuan told Wu Tian that Savage Beasts might carry remnant souls from the Witch Clan and other races, prompting Wu Tian to hope they could find his people.
• A commotion broke out in the Wu Realm, and Daoist Hunyuan apologized for an unexpected event while Wu Tian said it was his destiny.

Wu Tian stopped Xiang Liu from attacking Xuanjiao, who had swallowed Wu Tian’s body, and helped stabilize him as the group discussed their connection and the Wus’ fate. After failing to find other Wu people, Wu Tian received Jiu Feng and used her Creation spring water to revive a withered Vampire Vine.

• Xuanjiao devoured Wu Tian’s body while Xing Tian was too weak to stop him, and the Golden Lion shielded the unconscious Flood Dragon from Xing Tian and Xiang Liu.
• Xiang Liu attacked the Golden Lion with poisonous water, but Wu Tian arrived and stopped the fight before Xuanjiao’s body was destroyed by the power he had swallowed.
• Wu Tian explained that Xuanjiao and Xiang Liu shared an ancestral connection, then asked Daoist Hunyuan to help move the remaining Wu people to the Taiji World.
• Empress Houtu contacted Candle Dragon in the Netherworld and told him the Wus had been granted a place to begin anew, while Wu Tian’s search found no responding Wu people.
• Chi You returned with a withered Vampire Vine, and Jiu Feng arrived carrying a jade bottle of Creation spring water that Wu Tian used to nourish the vine.

Xuanjiao’s primordial soil helped the Creation Spring Water begin reviving the withered Vampire Vine, while Daoist Hunyuan opened a route toward the trapped Wu tribe members in Jiuli territory. Yang Jian arrived in the Wu Realm seeking a body-tempering technique, explaining that his master True Person Yu Ding had guided him there.

• Wu Tian explained that the Life Divine Vine had been destroyed by the Heavenly Dao’s force when the Twelve Ancestor Witches were born, and Xuanjiao awakened with a new wind-attuned head and a seed of the Law of Wind.
• Xuanjiao sensed life force resisting within the Vampire Vine and revealed that his ancestor had swallowed primordial soil; he released a grain of it, which absorbed the Power of Creation and began softening the vine.
• Xing Tian apologized to Xuanjiao, and Chi You asked Daoist Hunyuan to rescue the Wu tribe members hidden in a cave in Jiuli territory.
• Daoist Hunyuan opened a Space Tunnel but found the hidden area protected by a formation that drew in life force; Chi You suspected Guang Chengzi, while Daoist Hunyuan identified it as protective.
• Yang Jian entered the Wu Realm and asked Wu Tian for a body-tempering technique, explaining that True Person Yu Ding had sent him and had left descendants and a Spiritual Sense trace in the formation.

Yang Jian resisted Chi You’s offer of Ancestral Wu Essence Blood and entered the Wu Clan’s Inheritance Hall to seek body-tempering insights. Daoist Hunyuan brought the Jiuli Mountains into the Wu Realm, where Chi You saw the weakened survivors of his clan.

• Chi You offered Yang Jian Ancestral Wu Essence Blood and the Wu Clan’s body-tempering method, but Yang Jian refused to remain loyal to Master Yu Ding and the Chan Teaching.
• Wu Tian opened the Inheritance Hall, and Yang Jian approached its stone steps, where their crushing pressure wounded him and forced him to retreat and meditate.
• Yang Jian told Daoist Hunyuan that the Xiantian Jiamu Essence lay beyond the thirty-third heaven, and Daoist Hunyuan urged him to pursue his opportunity.
• Daoist Hunyuan moved the Jiuli Mountains into the Wu Realm, where Wu Tian merged them into the world.
• Dozens of frail Wu Clan members emerged from a cave, and Chi You wept at the sight of his clan’s weakened survivors.