Chapter Summaries

Pangu was injured by the Great Dao and trapped beneath Xuanwu’s mountain-range seal while Xuanhuang sheltered inside his pagoda. After Xuanwu died and Yang Mei chose not to kill Pangu, Xuanhuang remained imprisoned as the devastated world faced an uncertain future.

• Pangu’s right side collapsed after he resisted the Great Dao, and Yang Mei and Xuanwu attacked him while Xuanhuang protected him with the Exquisite Pagoda.
• Pangu broke one of Xuanwu’s nine mountain ranges, but Xuanwu increased gravity and the remaining ranges buried Pangu while Xuanhuang took refuge inside his pagoda.
• Pangu began recovering beneath the mountains as Xuanwu reflected that neither Pangu nor the other Gods and Devils had been wrong, then cracked apart and died from exhaustion.
• Yang Mei rejected Lu Ya’s suggestion to reconsider and decided to leave Pangu suppressed rather than kill him.
• Xuanhuang wondered whether anyone could truly control the Great Dao and concluded that the battle had been a brutal test to choose someone who could help it evolve heaven and earth.

Xuanhuang reached the Chaos Green Lotus and helped free Pangu from the mountains suppressing him. Pangu faced Dao Lord Lu Ya’s Immortal Slaying Four Swords while Great Immortal Yang Mei waited nearby.

• Xuanhuang entered the Chaos Green Lotus, found its evolving jade disc and azure palace, and merged a third of his Xuanhuang Qi essence into the three green lotuses.
• A green light from the Chaos Green Lotus pierced Xuanwu’s restriction, and Pangu slowly raised the mountain ridges sealing him.
• Dao Lord Lu Ya summoned nine phantom volcanoes, but Pangu split the mountain fissure, shattered the volcanoes, and drew their fire essence into the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Pangu thanked Xuanhuang for helping dissolve the Heaven and Earth’s power within him, while Great Immortal Yang Mei declared that he would fight Pangu.
• Dao Lord Lu Ya brought out four treasure swords and surrounded Pangu with his Three Corpses as the Immortal Slaying Four Swords attacked him with Chaos Sword Qi and killing aura.

Pangu fought Dao Lord Lu Ya, who exploited his superior speed to suppress him, while Great Immortal Yang Mei battled a curse and a hostile shadow within his world. The Exquisite Pagoda intervened, giving Pangu an opening and forcing Lu Ya to retreat into dodging.

• Pangu shattered Dao Lord Lu Ya's clone and broke the sword formation, but Long Qiong's attack engulfed him in killing intent that he crushed with his Spiritual Sense.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei resisted a curse from a Nine-Headed Savage Lion phantom by drawing on his world's power and Essence Blood, then captured and blasted apart the being's black shadow.
• The shadow reassembled and escaped into the continent, while Great Immortal Yang Mei hurried away to help his friend Lu Ya.
• Dao Lord Lu Ya used his speed and the Immortal Slaying Sword to repeatedly strike Pangu, leaving Pangu unable to counterattack effectively.
• Xuanhuang sent the Exquisite Pagoda over Pangu, whose Xuanhuang Qi blunted Lu Ya's sword and let Pangu smash toward it, splitting Lu Ya's hand and making him dodge Pangu's blows.

Great Immortal Yang Mei used his spatial powers to defeat the Nine-Headed Savage Lion after it cursed Dao Lord Lu Ya with the White Jade Bone Bell. The bell and lion were destroyed, but Yang Mei’s world was badly damaged and Lu Ya was left mentally diminished.

• Great Immortal Yang Mei recalled capturing the Nine-Headed Savage Lion and sealing it in the Chaos Bead after taking its White Jade Bone Bell.
• The Nine-Headed Savage Lion found the ancient hall, recovered the bell, and used a curse ritual that damaged Dao Lord Lu Ya’s soul.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei isolated Lu Ya in another space, then fought the lion as it hid inside the White Jade Bone Bell.
• Yang Mei wielded the Chaos Bead’s spatial laws to shatter the bell and destroy the Nine-Headed Savage Lion.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei surveyed the damage to the Chaos Bead and found Dao Lord Lu Ya confused and diminished.

Xuanhuang fought Dao Lord Lu Ya and used the three green lotuses to absorb Lu Ya’s inferno, but the lotuses consumed Xuanhuang and left him missing. Pangu overcame his trial of the heart and fought Great Immortal Yang Mei, striking down Yang Mei’s Chaos willow form with his three Sky-Opening Axes.

• Great Immortal Yang Mei restored Dao Lord Lu Ya and set him against Xuanhuang, who agreed to settle their karmic debt in a fight to the death.
• Dao Lord Lu Ya attacked with his speed, but Xuanhuang used the Way of Non-Action to redirect his blows and keep him off balance.
• Dao Lord Lu Ya released his Three Corpses and unleashed a boundless sea of fire, forcing Xuanhuang to summon the three green lotuses and sacrifice his essence to contain it.
• Dao Lord Lu Ya destroyed his three incarnations to escape the lotuses, while the lotuses absorbed the flames and then swallowed Xuanhuang.
• Pangu awakened after Xuanhuang vanished, recognized that Xuanhuang had helped him overcome his trial, and prepared to settle things with Great Immortal Yang Mei.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei tried to use his Chaos willow form and the world’s power to resist, but Pangu struck with Sky Opening, Earth Splitting, and Sky Rend, shattering the willow tree and the world.

After Chaos is left desolate, Pangu studies three green lotuses and meets Xuanhuang, who explains their connection to the Chaos Green Lotus and the Great Dao’s plans. Pangu realizes that the Method of Slaying Corpses may offer a way to escape his fate, and settles on creation and evolution as his path while preparing to open a world.

• Pangu reflected on Yang Mei’s uncertain fate and studied the three green lotuses that remained in Chaos.
• A nine-colored light carried Pangu into one of the lotuses, where he met Xuanhuang in an ancient green hall.
• Xuanhuang explained that the Great Dao had created the Chaos Living Beings to evolve the world and that the lotuses were parts of the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Pangu found Dao Lord Lu Ya’s Method of Slaying Corpses among the purple lights and considered using it to free himself from attachments and his destined end.
• Pangu told Xuanhuang that his path was creation and evolution, then returned to Chaos to contemplate the three lotuses and the world he would open.

Pangu’s Evil Corpse opened Heaven and Earth but was forced to transform into the Primordial World, while Pangu watched from beyond it. Ages later, Ji Tian awakened in the Netherworld Blood Sea and connected with the broken Heaven Devouring Halberd blade.

• Pangu severed his Evil Corpse, which borrowed the Sky-Opening Axe and struck open Heaven and Earth.
• Evil Corpse Pangu forged the Heaven Devouring Halberd from Xuanhuang essence and defied Xuanhuang, but was overwhelmed and shattered the weapon as he fell.
• Evil Corpse Pangu transformed into the Primordial World, while Xuanhuang carried his soul into the depths of Heaven and Earth.
• Pangu watched the world evolve and noted its abundant treasures and Savage Beasts, while a strange presence remained sealed in the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Ji Tian fled through a dark abyss of wailing souls and Fierce Ghosts until his Spiritual Sense broke through a barrier and revealed a broken halberd blade.
• Ji Tian joined his Spiritual Sense with the Dragon-shaped Halberd Blade and murmured that he understood.

Ji Tian awakened as a sentient spirit within the Heaven Devouring Halberd and worked with the Black Bone Arm to break through a seal, only to find himself trapped in a blood sea. After drifting in despair, he confronted his fear and resolved to control his own fate through cultivation.

• Ji Tian rejected the identity of the weapon’s former owner, and the Black Bone Arm taught him the Mysterious Ghost Yin Yang Art.
• Ji Tian formed a Spiritual Ghost Body, then merged into the Heaven Devouring Halberd as the Black Bone Arm struck the seal and opened a gap.
• Ji Tian emerged into a blood sea, where the Black Bone Arm fell into a deep slumber after helping him escape the first restriction.
• A black shadow attacked Ji Tian, but the Black Bone Arm devoured it and used its Soul Power before returning to Ji Tian.
• Ji Tian drifted through the blood sea in despair until he questioned his fear and resolved to take control of his fate, even if he had to defy heaven.

Ji Tian was swallowed by a skeleton lion but used his Core Elixir to refine its Soul Flame and absorb its memories. He learned to attack with thrown stones and began hunting weak skeletons to strengthen himself, becoming a force in the outskirts of the Withered Bone Mountain Range.

• Ji Tian encountered a skeleton lion, which attacked him and swallowed him to refine his soul power.
• Ji Tian used his Core Elixir to turn purple flames on the lion’s Soul Flame, refined it, and absorbed the lion’s memories and basic combat knowledge.
• Ji Tian learned that undead creatures survived by devouring Soul Flames and that stronger prey lived deeper in the Withered Bone Mountain Range.
• Ji Tian experimented with his Core Elixir until he used its energy to lift and hurl stones.
• Ji Tian smashed the skulls of wandering Skeleton Soldiers with stones and absorbed their weak Soul Flames.
• Ji Tian became dominant among the low-level skeletons in the outer region and cautiously continued hunting while his Core Elixir darkened toward black.

Ji Tian lured a Blue Flame Demonic Ox into a gorge trap and absorbed its Soul Flame after nearly being killed. He decided to craft weapons from the Ox’s bones as he prepared to grow stronger.

• Ji Tian watched a Blue Flame Demonic Ox’s Skeleton Squad fight a powerful two-headed Skeleton Demonic Wolf, then revealed himself and attacked the Ox with a stone.
• Ji Tian fled from the Ox into a gorge and used falling rocks to trap it beneath a boulder, crushing its spine and damaging its skull.
• The wounded Ox launched its horns into Ji Tian’s chest and swallowed him, but Ji Tian’s Purple Flame overcame the Ox’s Soul Flame and he devoured it.
• Ji Tian learned that Purple Flame Skeletons ranked above Blue Flame Skeletons and reflected on his need for combat experience, techniques, and stronger weapons.
• Ji Tian examined the Demonic Ox’s bones and decided its glowing horns would make suitable flying knives.

Ji Tian forged bone weapons and defeated a Blue Flame lizard Skeleton by striking its Soul Flame, then witnessed a powerful Bone Dragon pass overhead. Afterward, his Soul Power began condensing into liquid, but he remained determined to grow stronger and find better ways to cultivate.

• Ji Tian refined a Bone Arrow and ten Bone Needles, then searched the stone forest for a chance to test his combat strength.
• Ji Tian challenged a six-legged Blue Flame lizard Skeleton and wounded it by coating a Bone Needle with spiritual power and piercing its Soul Flame.
• Ji Tian fired his spiritual-power-coated Bone Arrow into the lizard's skull, shattered it, and quickly defeated the other Skeletons.
• A gigantic Bone Dragon with a Golden Flame in its skull flew over Ji Tian, causing his Core Elixir to pulse and leaving him shaken by the dangers around him.
• While refining a blue Soul Flame, Ji Tian's Soul Power condensed into a drop of liquid, greatly increasing his control over the Bone Arrow.
• Ji Tian decided to keep hunting stronger opponents and considered how to improve his cultivation and find offensive techniques.

Ji Tian fought off the Bone Snake and Giant White Bone Bird, but the Flying Demonic Tiger ambushed him and offered to recruit him. With the tiger watching, Ji Tian kept refining the Bone Snake’s Soul Flame and discovered that its black horn contained poison.

• Ji Tian lured a Bone Snake into a canyon and attacked it, but its extendable bones and poisonous black mist drove him into a corner.
• A Giant White Bone Bird joined the ambush, and Ji Tian used his stored liquid spiritual power and Bone Arrows to destroy it before breaking the Bone Snake apart.
• The Flying Demonic Tiger appeared, swallowed the vulture’s Soul Flame, and offered Ji Tian a chance to follow it.
• Ji Tian continued refining the Bone Snake’s Soul Flame and black horn while the tiger watched, sensing that the horn contained poison.

Ji Tian fought the Flying Demonic Tiger and discovered that he could absorb and subdue the wind energy it controlled. As the Tiger charged him, a purple-black Core Fire erupted from Ji Tian and burned its bones, leaving only its Soul Flame.

• Ji Tian tested the Flying Demonic Tiger’s fear, then attacked it with bone blades and detonated a poisoned bone dagger to disable its wing.
• Ji Tian resisted the Tiger’s whirlwind with a Spiritual Power Shield and used a purple-flame-coated needle to pierce its wing.
• Ji Tian endured the Tiger’s Wind Blades and drew its invading energy into his Core Elixir, where he forced the White Tiger and Wind Spirit to submit to his will.
• Ji Tian formed a black hole in his Core Elixir to devour the Tiger’s energy, but the tiger-shaped wind nearly broke free.
• A purple-black blaze appeared inside Ji Tian’s Core Elixir, engulfed the tiger-shaped wind, and burst out to burn the Flying Demonic Tiger’s bones.

Ji Tian refined purple Soul Flames and learned that his Core Elixir had transformed, while the Black Remnant Bone urged him to seek its scattered remnants and embrace the Way of Slaughter. The chapter left Ji Tian wavering under its arguments, convincing himself that killing was necessary for survival and aligned with the Heavenly Dao.

• Ji Tian refined the Soul Flames, discovered his black liquid Core Elixir and purple markings, and learned how the Undead Clan cultivated by devouring others.
• Ji Tian found a withered bamboo among the Flying Demonic Tiger’s belongings and learned from its memories of a sealed treasure in a deep-pool cave.
• The Black Remnant Bone stirred the bamboo spirit’s remains and offered to help Ji Tian advance if he searched for its remnant bones.
• Ji Tian resisted carrying out the Black Remnant Bone’s will, but it warned that he would not survive the coming primordial world without greater power.
• The Black Remnant Bone argued that the Way of Slaughter was the path to survival, and Ji Tian began to accept that his killing followed the Heavenly Dao’s will.

Ji Tian investigated a strange deep pool and discovered that his Black Remnant Bone had advanced him to the Primordial Spirit Stage. After entering the pool’s sealed darkness, he subdued a death spirit and learned that a powerful master had once overcome the restriction but was now asleep.

• Ji Tian tested the pool’s intelligent restriction, then confronted a Demonic Dragon and shattered its Bone Body with a phantom fist.
• Ji Tian entered the pool and was trapped in a dark space, where a black stone filled him with the sorrow of a mighty being’s death.
• A death spirit attacked Ji Tian with Death Qi, but he swept it aside and devoured both the Qi and the spirit.
• Ji Tian questioned the death spirit and learned that its sleeping master had once scattered the restriction’s white light with a single finger.

Ji Tian struggled to escape a restriction in the pool, discovering that the Black Remnant Bone and Black Stone were tied to an ancient being sealed there. As the bone and its companions held the restriction back, Ji Tian began refining the stone but had yet to overcome its resistance.

• Ji Tian examined the restriction and realized it could be trapping him through his own thoughts, while suspecting the pool and the Flying Demonic Tiger had been part of a scheme.
• Ji Tian concluded the trap was meant for the Black Remnant Bone and painfully tried to separate it from his Primordial Spirit.
• The Black Remnant Bone and a phantom black finger attacked the mercury-like force, breaking its hold and awakening the ancient beings sealed in the bone.
• The ancient beings told Ji Tian the Black Stone held marrow from their original body and urged him to refine it before they were overwhelmed by the restriction.
• Ji Tian burned the Black Stone with his Ghost Fire, then realized he might need to use the Heaven-and-Earth patterns in his Primordial Spirit to manifest Purple Fire as the Black Remnant Bone began to falter.

Ji Tian tried to refine the Black Stone by using the wraith’s soul flame to create Purple Flame, while the Black Remnant Bone sought to escape with the stone’s marrow. Ji Tian gained partial control of the pool’s restriction and unleashed it against the Black Remnant Bone, but the fight remained unresolved.

• Ji Tian seized the wraith and used Soul Power, Death Qi, and seals to turn its Soul Flame purple and form a black Core Elixir.
• Ji Tian devoured the pool’s restriction energy to sustain the Purple Flame, which burned away the Black Stone’s shell and revealed Pangu’s life force.
• The Black Remnant Bone escaped as white light, but Ji Tian used the black Core Elixir to pursue it and revealed that he had helped the wraith break free of the bone’s control.
• The black Core Elixir exploded, and the Black Remnant Bone threatened to seal everyone in the pool while Ji Tian reclaimed the Black Bone Arm.
• Ji Tian made peace with the restriction inside himself and used the Heaven and Earth Seal to control part of the pool, though he admitted he had not refined the Black Stone.
• The Black Remnant Bone’s giant water finger collided with Ji Tian’s whirlpool, and Ji Tian summoned four silver-white fish to send a giant wave against it.

Ji Tian freed the pool’s undead spirit, gained a Sealing Bone, and recruited the Demon Dragon before entering the ominous Demon Hall. Inside, a Nine-Headed Monster Lion’s erratic soul power overwhelmed him, leaving Ji Tian trapped and struggling to protect his primordial spirit.

• Ji Tian recalled gambling on the undead’s plan to become the pool’s spirit and subdue the remnant soul, then set the transformed pool down and wished its new spirit success.
• The pool gave Ji Tian a finger bone, and he freed the Demon Dragon from its guardian’s restraint and asked it to follow him.
• Ji Tian approached the Demon Hall on the Bone Mountain, while the terrified Demon Dragon refused to enter.
• Inside the dark hall, Ji Tian encountered a Nine-Headed Monster Lion whose shifting moods seized his emotions and nearly exhausted his spiritual power.
• Ji Tian sheltered his soul inside the Black Remnant Bone, but the monster’s power still shook him, leaving him wondering how to escape another prison.

Ji Tian comprehended Pangu’s Way of Slaughter and the Nine-Headed Monster Lion’s Soul Law while cultivating with the Black Bone Relic. After the Lion briefly awakened a sealed power and attacked, Ji Tian’s relic destroyed it, leaving its fate uncertain as it absorbed the hall’s Demonic Cloud and fragments of Spiritual Sense.

• Ji Tian reflected on his incomplete cultivation methods and considered how he might refine Death Qi, Malevolent Qi, and other powers.
• The Nine-Headed Monster Lion’s confused memories stirred the Black Bone Relic, revealing Pangu’s defiance of Heaven’s will and inspiring Ji Tian to comprehend the Way of Slaughter.
• Ji Tian studied the Soul Law carried by the Lion’s Soul Power, strengthened his sea of consciousness, and tempered his primordial spirit with killing intent and conviction.
• The Nine-Headed Monster Lion opened one of its sealed eyes, gained formidable power, and unleashed nine golden Soul Power swords at the Black Bone Relic.
• The Black Bone Relic countered with a black finger and phantom fist, shattering the swords and dispersing the Nine-Headed Monster Lion into Demonic Cloud and fragments of Spiritual Sense.
• The Black Bone Relic swallowed the remaining Demonic Cloud and some Spiritual Sense fragments as Ji Tian struggled to keep it aloft.

Ji Tian refined the Nine-Headed Monster Lion’s remnant souls, learned its Soul Refining Technique and Death Spirit Technique, and broke through the hall floor into a space filled with Spatial Rifts. Trapped in shifting spaces where his attacks were dangerous to use, he wandered in isolation and struggled to steady his Dao Heart.

• Ji Tian absorbed the Nine-Headed Monster Lion’s independent remnant souls, strengthening his soul and deepening his understanding of its techniques.
• Ji Tian tested the Death Spirit Technique, but his attempt caused backlash that shook his sea of consciousness.
• Ji Tian used the Sky Covering Seal to smash through the great hall floor and reveal a strange space beyond it.
• Ji Tian found bone powder and shifting Spatial Rifts, then realized the space itself might be a formation or restriction.
• Ji Tian’s attacks were swallowed or caused further danger, so he carefully navigated the rifts and became trapped in monotonous, lonely wandering.
• Ji Tian reflected that conviction and a steady Dao Heart were necessary to withstand loneliness and fear.