Chapter Summaries

The Wu Clan struggled to survive under Heaven and Earth's pressure, but the Blood Pool and Life Divine Vine offered a fragile hope. After Yang Jian discovered how the body’s cells could be cultivated through battle and transformation, Daoist Hunyuan prepared to explore the Taiji World, and Yang Jian asked to accompany him.

• Wu Qi sensed the Life Divine Vine’s will, and Wu Tian sent bloodline power from the Blood Pool into it, helping it grow slightly.
• Wu Qi begged Wu Tian to save the dying Wu Peng, but Daoist Hunyuan used Righteous Qi to preserve Wu Peng’s soul for reincarnation in the Three Realms.
• Xuanjiao reported that Yang Jian had reached the ninth step of the fourth flight before turning back, and the others saw him studying the power and vitality of his cells.
• Yang Jian explained that the body held immense power and could be strengthened through battle, while Daoist Hunyuan advised him to use the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts to learn from Primordial Exotic Beasts.
• Daoist Hunyuan set out to explore the Taiji World, and Wu Tian promised to search for the Eight Spirits; Yang Jian asked to travel with his master.

Daoist Hunyuan, Xuanjiao, Golden Lion, and Yang Jian became trapped in an Illusion Array that made a barren forest loop back on itself. After learning that they could disrupt the controller’s concentration by changing the scenery, Xuanjiao flooded the forest, and Yang Jian fought the illusion’s Ji Shui Bao as the scene transformed into an ocean.

• Daoist Hunyuan explained that the forest was an Illusion Array sustained by its controller’s belief that the illusion was real.
• Yang Jian discovered that the rocks shifted between real and illusory states, while Daoist Hunyuan explained that changing the scenery could expose a flaw in the array.
• Xuanjiao transformed into a seven-headed Flood Dragon and flooded the forest, turning the illusion into an ocean.
• Yang Jian identified Ji Shui Bao and attacked it with nine golden arrows, wounding its right foreleg.
• Yang Jian and Ji Shui Bao exchanged attacks with water and ice, and Ji Shui Bao narrowly dodged Yang Jian’s halberd.

Yang Jian fought through the Heavenly Fox Venerable’s illusion array, surviving attacks that threatened to burn and dissolve his body and primordial spirit. Daoist Hunyuan identified Qingqiu Mountain as the array’s hidden core and ordered Xuanjiao and Golden Lion to expose and seal it.

• Yang Jian struck Ji Shui Bao with his golden blade, but the battlefield transformed into a sea of fire filled with five Fire Snakes.
• Yang Jian transformed into Bi Fang and fought the snakes, but a fire targeting his body and primordial spirit nearly made him dissolve himself.
• Daoist Hunyuan broke the illusion with purple qi, and Yang Jian endured further visions of purple light and Wood God Lightning.
• Golden Lion nearly pinpointed the shifting Qingqiu Mountain, which Daoist Hunyuan identified as the source of the illusion array.
• Daoist Hunyuan explained that the Heavenly Fox Venerable had devoured law Savage Beasts to use them as weapons in his Illusion Domain.
• Daoist Hunyuan ordered Xuanjiao to create chaos and Golden Lion to expand the Soul Sense Chain’s sealed area so Qingqiu Mountain would be revealed.

Yang Jian, Daoist Hunyuan, Xuanjiao, and Golden Lion entered Qingqiu Mountain and faced illusions and seductive fox spirits. Yang Jian learned that Heavenly Fox Venerable cultivated with stolen spiritual energy, while Daoist Hunyuan remained missing as the others searched for him.

• Golden Lion located Qingqiu Mountain, and Daoist Hunyuan broke through its hidden illusion array with Yang Jian and the others following him inside.
• A nine-tailed fox tried to seduce Daoist Hunyuan, but he saw through her disguise and continued onward.
• Fox demonesses ensnared Yang Jian, Xuanjiao, and Golden Lion; Xuanjiao and Golden Lion escaped after the soul chain jolted them awake, and Golden Lion killed the demonesses around them.
• Xuanjiao and Golden Lion found Yang Jian, who said he had killed three fox spirits and learned that the foxes transferred drained spiritual energy to Heavenly Fox Venerable.
• Yang Jian warned that Heavenly Fox Venerable had devoured the primordial spirits he consumed and possessed unfathomable powers; he reassured Xuanjiao that Daoist Hunyuan was likely no match for the old fox's tricks.

Daoist Hunyuan broke through Qingqiu Mountain’s restrictions and discovered Heavenly Fox Venerable’s stone tablets, which extracted laws from captured cultivators to create Dao Fruits. After taking a Fire Domain tablet, he fought Heavenly Fox Venerable’s projection inside it and left the giant furnace split apart.

• Daoist Hunyuan endured Qingqiu Mountain’s crushing will, tore open the void, and entered a cave filled with law-bearing stone tablets.
• Daoist Hunyuan saw that Heavenly Fox Venerable used corpses and captive Primordial Spirits to extract laws and forge a Fire Dao Fruit.
• Daoist Hunyuan refined the smallest tablet, and Heavenly Fox Venerable’s projection appeared and trapped him inside the Fire Domain.
• Heavenly Fox Venerable attacked Daoist Hunyuan with Heavenly Fire, but Daoist Hunyuan used Xuanhuang Qi and wind to resist.
• Daoist Hunyuan cleaved Heavenly Fox Venerable’s fiery furnace with his black longsword, weakening its flames with Killing Intent.

Daoist Hunyuan battled Heavenly Fox Venerable’s Fire Domain and escaped its destruction by using Di Jiang’s Spatial Divine Ability. After Heavenly Fox Venerable’s deception left Hunyuan trapped in a star-forming array, he revealed his plan to extract Hunyuan’s Three Thousand Laws and devour them.

• Heavenly Fox Venerable used Ghost Fire and Fire Net Burns Heaven to trap Daoist Hunyuan in a layered Fire Domain that began to refine space away.
• Daoist Hunyuan escaped into a Dimensional Space, caught Heavenly Fox Venerable, and learned he had devoured Di Jiang’s soul and gained the Law of Space.
• Heavenly Fox Venerable offered a green Jade Token, but Daoist Hunyuan recognized it as another Law Domain and exposed the captured figure as an illusion.
• Heavenly Fox Venerable escaped, leaving Daoist Hunyuan with a red stone tablet that could manifest a domain and reveal the source of his Fire Law clone.
• Daoist Hunyuan discovered that the surrounding stone tablets formed a locked formation, which activated and opened into a vast starry array.
• Heavenly Fox Venerable declared that he would extract the Three Thousand Laws from Daoist Hunyuan and devour them to pursue the Great Dao of Chaos.

Heavenly Fox Venerable used his formation to strip Daoist Hunyuan of his Soul Thoughts, laws, and bodily essence, feeding them into a lotus. Kong Qiu awakened inside the lotus, while Heavenly Fox Venerable prepared to claim the strange body once it matured.

• Heavenly Fox Venerable revealed that his memories and inheritance came from his past life as a Chaos God Demon, then began using his formation to refine Daoist Hunyuan.
• The formation tore away Daoist Hunyuan's Spiritual Sense and Soul Thoughts, including those of Di Jiang, Pangu, Xuanhuang, Hua Dou, and Kong Qiu.
• Heavenly Fox Venerable extracted laws from Daoist Hunyuan's body and fed them and the gathered Soul Thoughts into a nine-petaled lotus.
• Kong Qiu's Soul Thought, protected by the Power of Merit, took the lead as the lotus fused the Soul Thoughts, and he awakened within it amid a surge of Righteous Qi.
• The formation consumed Daoist Hunyuan's remaining body, and the lotus condensed into an azure platform that Heavenly Fox Venerable planned to claim after it matured.

Daoist Hunyuan survived Heavenly Fox Venerable’s formation by retreating into the Eight Trigrams Compass, where he rebuilt his body and began creating a domain. As he secretly drew spiritual energy from the vortex, his domain expanded and started to develop mountains, water, and plants, while Heavenly Fox Venerable remained unaware of his presence.

• The Eight Trigrams Compass swallowed Daoist Hunyuan’s soul and Soul Liquid just before the formation consumed them.
• Daoist Hunyuan returned to his origin and used Chaos Origin Qi to form a domain with separated heaven and earth, four pillars, stars, and powers of righteousness and killing.
• Daoist Hunyuan realized his domain still needed Yin and Yang and other forces to develop into a world, and he resolved to subdue Heavenly Fox Venerable to escape Qingqiu Mountain.
• Daoist Hunyuan guided the phantom compass toward the vortex and drew in a wisp of spiritual energy, which catalyzed the Chaos Origin Qi into Innate Spiritual Qi.
• The domain expanded to more than twice its size as Yin and Yang enveloped the Four Symbols and began forming the Five Elements, mountains, rainwater, and barren plants.

Daoist Hunyuan fought the Heavenly Fox Venerable inside the Qingqiu Illusion Realm and used his evolving Hunyuan Space to overcome the fox’s illusions and force him to surrender the Nine-Colored Lotus Seedpod and Jade Token. The Heavenly Fox Venerable left with Qingqiu Mountain, while Daoist Hunyuan struggled to maintain his domain and remained wary of a hidden counterattack.

• Daoist Hunyuan realized his Hunyuan Space needed the Power of Time-Space and used its energy to attack the Heavenly Fox Venerable with a black sword.
• The Heavenly Fox Venerable split his Divine Soul among his nine tails to create fox monsters, but Daoist Hunyuan cut them down with his sword.
• The Heavenly Fox Venerable offered Daoist Hunyuan the lotus seedpod and Jade Token after his illusions failed, and Daoist Hunyuan accepted both.
• Daoist Hunyuan expanded the Hunyuan Space into a worldlike domain and drew the Nine-Colored Lotus Seedpod into it.
• The Heavenly Fox Venerable swallowed Qingqiu Mountain and departed as Yang Jian, Xuanjiao, and the others fell from the void; Daoist Hunyuan struggled to maintain his domain and stayed alert for a Backup Plan.

Kong Qiu emerged from the nine-colored lotus seedpod as a quasi-sage, forming a Righteousness-based rule and sparing the other lotus seeds. Daoist Hunyuan subdued the forces of fire and lightning, while Kong Qiu befriended a Purple Flame Soul Thought named Ziyang; Hunyuan then took the seed containing the Power of Space.

• Kong Qiu absorbed a lotus seedpod’s spiritual energy and laws, reaching the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and forging the shell into a treasured sword.
• Daoist Hunyuan endured the seedpod’s destructive lightning and fire laws, using Righteous Qi to stabilize them within his Primordial Chaos Space.
• Kong Qiu asked to spare the six remaining lotus seeds, and Daoist Hunyuan agreed to help him subdue their powers.
• Kong Qiu encountered the Soul Thoughts within a sea of flames, promised not to devour them, and gained the cooperation of a Purple Flame called Ziyang.
• Daoist Hunyuan found no complete consciousnesses in the other five seeds and took the one containing the Power of Space, while Kong Qiu left the others to him.

Kong Qiu endured the agony of rebuilding his physical body with the Nine-Colored Lotus Seedpod’s power while Daoist Hunyuan withdrew into the compass to recover his injured origin. By discovering his connection to the Heavenly Dao through Primordial Violet Qi, Kong Qiu realized he had become a Saint.

• Daoist Hunyuan explained that he wanted to use the Space-law lotus seed to awaken Di Jiang and said Kong Qiu needed the remaining seeds to gain power.
• Daoist Hunyuan’s primordial spirit vanished from the Nine-Colored Lotus Seedpod, and Xuanjiao sensed that he had withdrawn into the compass because his origin was injured.
• A nine-colored light appeared, and Kong Qiu began forming a body from the power of laws as Xuanjiao, Yang Jian, and Golden Lion felt the pressure of a Saint.
• Kong Qiu endured repeated waves of pain and gradually strengthened his consciousness by entering a state of profound stillness.
• Kong Qiu followed a faint purple thread through his body and saw the River of Fate and the mass of laws above it.
• Kong Qiu recognized the thread as Primordial Violet Qi, realized it connected his primordial spirit to the Heavenly Dao, and understood that he had become a Saint.

Kong Qiu attained sainthood and explained that the Three Realms had to unite to protect their fortune, while Haotian sought guidance on how to assert his authority as Heavenly Emperor. Haotian left determined to claim the Human Emperor Seal and stop the West from spreading its teachings in the East, and Daoist Hunyuan promised to recover the Mortal Realm’s scattered Primordial Violet Qi.

• Kong Qiu reshaped the valley with the power of Heaven and Earth’s laws, and Haotian struggled to remain standing before him.
• Kong Qiu explained to Haotian and the others that the Three Realms were one world among many and that the Mortal Realm’s weakness threatened their shared fortune.
• Kong Qiu brought Haotian to Daoist Hunyuan, who told him his opportunity lay in ruling the Three Realms rather than becoming a Saint.
• Daoist Hunyuan advised Haotian to uphold the Heavenly Dao instead of pursuing power, but Haotian resolved to find the Human Emperor Seal and stop the West’s teachings from spreading in the East.
• Kong Qiu worried that Haotian’s plans would spark conflict, while Daoist Hunyuan promised to find and restore the Mortal Realm’s scattered Primordial Violet Qi.

After Kong Qiu became a Saint, visitors gathered at the valley, where Xuanjiao and Peng Demon King handled their arrival. Grand Master Xuandu, Kun Peng, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and Daoist Hunyuan discussed the Jade Emperor Haotian and the West’s plan to use the Spiritual Stone Monkey to disrupt Heaven and the Underworld; Daoist Hunyuan resolved to urge them to limit the killings.

• Xuanjiao managed the visitors and teased Peng Demon King, who received an intelligence-enhancing pill from Grand Master Xuandu and mistook it for an insult.
• Kun Peng prepared to leave because he feared the Jade Emperor Haotian would move against the Demon Race, but Grand Master Xuandu urged him to stay and discuss the situation.
• Grand Master Xuandu explained that Haotian wanted to strengthen his authority by opposing Buddhism’s spread into the East, while Kun Peng described how the conflict could benefit the Heavenly Court.
• Grand Master Xuandu revealed that the West planned to send the Spiritual Stone Monkey to disrupt the Heavenly Palace and the Underworld, then use Buddhism’s intervention to gain influence and help clear demons from the Western Ox Continent.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi identified the West’s broader plan to transfer the Western Ox Continent and part of the Underworld to the Heavenly Court, and Daoist Hunyuan resolved to discourage excessive killings.

Peng Demon King challenged Chi You to a fight, and their battle revealed the terrifying strength of the Heavenly Roc and Chi You’s Weapon Domain and tearing power. Heavenly Ghost rescued Peng Demon King from Chi You’s final attack, and Peng Demon King admitted defeat.

• Peng Demon King insulted the Witch Clan and challenged its members, prompting Chi You to accept his challenge.
• Peng Demon King and Chi You exchanged powerful attacks, and Chi You summoned Heavenly Generals through his Weapon Domain.
• Peng Demon King’s speed and feather attacks destroyed Chi You’s formation and damaged his black domain sphere.
• Chi You tore open space with the Witch Clan’s divine ability, trapping Peng Demon King in its invisible force.
• Heavenly Ghost pulled Peng Demon King to safety, and the bloodied Peng Demon King bowed to Chi You and admitted defeat.

Kun Peng and Minghe helped Chi You understand how to refine his thoughts and attain the Dao, and Chi You became Sun Wu Zi, the Mortal Realm’s Military Saint. As Sun Wu left for the Mortal Realm to pursue the remaining steps of his cultivation, Yunxiao and Duanmu Ci arrived to attend Confucius’s sainthood.

• Kun Peng explained that Chi You’s incomplete military Dao came from failing to unite his ninefold Heavenly Generals, then gave him innate violet qi to seek the Mortal Realm’s Primordial Violet Qi.
• Minghe told Chi You that casting off the past meant severing the self, prompting Chi You to refine his evil thought with the fire of the Dao and condense the Great Wu Military Talisman.
• Chi You declared that he had passed away and become Sun Wu Zi, and Ruxian Palace recognized him as the Mortal Realm’s Military Saint.
• Sun Wu told Xiang Liu he would remain part of the Wu Tribe but had a duty to protect the Mortal Realm, then departed for it.
• Minghe and Kun Peng discussed their difficult paths to attaining the Dao before Yunxiao arrived with Duanmu Ci, who identified himself as Zigong and said he had come to attend his teacher’s sainthood.

Xuanjiao and the others discussed the missing arrivals and the dangers that might await at Taiji Hall. Meng Ke was trapped inside a crystal wall by the Disaster Beast Fei, but used his Confucian treasures to resist it and escaped after defeating it.

• Xuanjiao let Guanyin Bodhisattva and two Buddhist disciples enter Ruxian Palace, then worried that Meng Ke and the loose immortals of Penglai had not arrived.
• Peng Demon King described Taiji Hall as an enormous eight-sided structure guarded by beast images, while Xuanjiao suspected something had gone wrong there.
• Meng Ke probed a crystal wall at Taiji Hall, was pulled into its inner space, and saw Buddhist cultivators dissolve into light when he approached.
• Meng Ke used his Turtle Plate and ruler to block the wall's array and learned from Fei that the beast absorbed the essence of those who entered its territory.
• Fei tricked Meng Ke into riding on its back and tried to drain his power, but Meng Ke struck it with his ruler, forcing Fei to flee as Dao marks before Meng Ke left the crystal wall.

After Meng Ke warned Tian Lingzi against using Spiritual Sense on the crystal wall, Tian Lingzi was swallowed into a dark world filled with Golden Beetles that devoured Spiritual Power and could break through his starry domain. He captured and controlled some of the insects, but a huge Golden Armored Divine Insect appeared as his domain began to collapse.

• Meng Ke watched Tian Lingzi ignore his warning and enter the crystal wall, then could do nothing as the wall swallowed him.
• Tian Lingzi found himself in darkness amid sounds of stampeding beasts and used his starry domain to protect himself from golden rune-like insects.
• Tian Lingzi captured a Golden Beetle with his star net and refined it, but four other Golden Beetles attacked and drained his domain.
• Tian Lingzi infused the captured beetle with star essence and used it to wound one of the attackers, discovering that the insects' cries had sounded like a Savage Beast horde.
• Three Golden Beetles wounded the controlled insect and shattered Tian Lingzi's river of stars, while a half-foot-long Golden Armored Divine Insect appeared within his domain.

Tian Lingzi defeated the Golden Bug King at great cost, then was drained by the runes in the dark hall. He helped Yun Zhongzi and the Chan Teaching disciples escape, but Guiguzi chose to remain and seek an opportunity to temper his Three Thoughts.

• Tian Lingzi transformed into a star and unleashed the Eye of Destruction, destroying the Golden Bug King but exhausting his strength and half his primordial spirit.
• Tian Lingzi studied the hall’s Great Dao Runes and became entranced as they absorbed his Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
• Yun Zhongzi, Guiguzi, and three others entered the hall, where Tian Lingzi warned them about the Golden Beetles and the danger of the runes.
• As a Beast Tide appeared, the Chan Teaching disciples found they could not withdraw their Spiritual Senses, so Tian Lingzi used the runes to free them.
• Guiguzi thanked Tian Lingzi but refused to leave, saying he sensed an opportunity to temper his Three Thoughts.

Old Ancestor Xuanbing entered the strange space behind a wall in Taiji Hall and fought the Chaos Beast, eventually freezing it and the surrounding chaotic energy. He prepared to refine the beast into his Ice Soul and remake his body as a Chaos Body.

• Old Ancestor Xuanbing entered the strange space despite Randeng Ancient Buddha’s reminder that the juniors they sent in had not returned.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing used his black-ice powers to battle the beast’s claws, while the claws damaged his life-bound black-ice orb and drained his Origin Qi.
• The Chaos Beast revealed its true form, appearing as a round, fire-red creature with four wings and six legs.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing unleashed Ice Realm Descends, freezing the Chaos Beast and the chaotic energy throughout the space.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing planned to refine the Chaos Beast into his Ice Soul and use the chaotic ice to remake his body as a Chaos Body.

Randeng Ancient Buddha tried to subdue Old Ancestor Xuanbing with Buddhist power and a golden-body restraint while the group fought through the Ice Sky Snow Land. The chapter ended as Old Ancestor Xuanbing revealed he could no longer suppress the Chaos Beast, whose pressure began to fill the space.

• Randeng Ancient Buddha used golden lotuses to protect the Du'e Boat and restore Indra while Old Ancestor Xuanbing's ice giant devoured the lotuses for power.
• Jin Chanzi attacked the ice giant, but Old Ancestor Xuanbing trapped him in an ice orb and froze his golden body before Indra rescued him.
• Randeng Ancient Buddha offered Old Ancestor Xuanbing the rank of Ancient Buddha, but Xuanbing refused to join the Buddhist faith.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing discovered golden symbols binding his power and learned Randeng Ancient Buddha had used a restraint drawn by the World-Honored One.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing warned that he could no longer suppress the Chaos Beast, and cracks spread across the ice sculpture as immense pressure filled the space.