Chapter Summaries

Nuwa appeared to shield the Human Race from Hongjun, but Hongjun manifested his true body and threatened to overwhelm her. Just as their battle was about to begin, Yuanfeng arrived with the Phoenix Clan to defend the Human Race.

• Nuwa blocked Hongjun’s attack and stood before the Human Race, who hailed her as their Holy Mother.
• Nuwa vowed to protect the Human Race, while Hongjun warned that his true body could defeat her.
• The Human Race pleaded with Nuwa to leave, but she refused and raised her aura against Hongjun.
• Hongjun manifested his true body and summoned the power of Heaven and Earth to attack Nuwa.
• Yuanfeng arrived with Qing Luan, Kong Xuan, Great Peng, Golden Phoenix King, and other Phoenix Clan Great Experts, declaring that she would protect the Human Race.

Yuanfeng rallied the Phoenix Clan’s allies against Hongjun, forcing him to retreat without Ling Tian appearing. The assembled forces celebrated, while Ling Tian remained caught in an unknown crisis.

• Hongjun challenged Yuanfeng’s ability to stop him, and Yuanfeng summoned Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Kun Peng.
• Houtu arrived with the Twelve Ancestor Witches, followed by Ming River, Zhenyuanzi, Xi He, Chang Xi, and other Great Experts.
• Yuanfeng mocked Hongjun over his defeated subordinates, and Zhu Rong and the assembled experts joined in ridiculing him.
• Hongjun withdrew, and the gathered forces cheered as the Heavenly Dao did not intervene.
• The narration revealed that Ling Tian was facing a crisis unlike any he had encountered.

Ling Tian entered seclusion after sensing a chance to reach the Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal realm, while the Poison Demon God guarded him. Meanwhile, the resurrected Slaughter Demon God learned of the Poison Demon God’s growing strength and ordered the Soul Demon God to confront him.

• Ling Tian absorbed Law Origin from the Demon Gods he killed and secluded himself to pursue a breakthrough.
• The Poison Demon God, now at the sixth layer of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, guarded Ling Tian and looked forward to growing stronger from the remnants of his hunts.
• The Slaughter Demon God reappeared in the Upper Region, having survived the destruction of his Law clone but fallen to the second layer of the Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal realm.
• The Soul Demon God reported that the Poison Demon God had killed at least a hundred Low-tier Demon Gods and ten Mid-tier Demon Gods, reaching roughly the eighth layer of the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• The Slaughter Demon God ordered the reluctant Soul Demon God to go deal with the Poison Demon God in his place.

The Soul Demon God attacked the Poison Demon God to seize the opportunity connected to Ling Tian, overwhelming him with his soul powers. As the Poison Demon God's Law body began to disintegrate, Ling Tian's voice sounded beside the Soul Demon God, warning him to stop.

• The Slaughter Demon God ordered the Soul Demon God to capture the Poison Demon God and bring back his opportunity.
• The Soul Demon God entered the Poison Demon God's domain and attacked him by surprise.
• The Poison Demon God resisted with the Poison Domain Great Array but could not stop the Soul Demon God's shadowy light.
• The Soul Demon God bound the Poison Demon God and demanded to know who stood behind him.
• The Soul Demon God assaulted the Poison Demon God's soul, and Ling Tian suddenly warned him to stop.

Ling Tian broke through to the Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal realm and killed the Soul Demon God when he tried to execute the Poison Demon God. After rewarding the Poison Demon God with most of the Soul Demon God’s Law Origin, Ling Tian prepared to face the Slaughter Demon God.

• Ling Tian completed his breakthrough and received system choices that offered a Primordial Limitless Mirror-Breaking Pill for killing the Soul Demon God.
• The Soul Demon God grew impatient and tried to kill the Poison Demon God, but Ling Tian appeared and restrained him with Yin-Yang power.
• Ling Tian crushed the Soul Demon God and collected part of his Law Origin to comprehend the Soul Law.
• Ling Tian ordered the Poison Demon God to absorb the remaining Law Origin, and the Poison Demon God pledged to serve him.

Ling Tian prepared for the Slaughter Demon God's arrival by taking the [Primordial Limitless Mirror-Breaking Pill], then lured him into the Poison Domain Great Array. The Slaughter Demon God sensed something was wrong but entered anyway, and the chapter left him confronting Ling Tian as gray aura erupted around him.

• Ling Tian told the Poison Demon God to refine the Origin, then swallowed the [Primordial Limitless Mirror-Breaking Pill] as the Slaughter Demon God noticed that the Soul Demon God's True Spirit had vanished.
• The Slaughter Demon God went to the Poison Demon God's domain, followed by a hidden streak of blood-red light.
• Ling Tian told the Poison Demon God to stay and refine the Origin, then opened the Poison Domain Great Array and invited the Slaughter Demon God inside.
• The Slaughter Demon God entered the array, threatened Ling Tian, and demanded that the Poison Demon God surrender.
• The Slaughter Demon God grew angry at Ling Tian's silence and erupted with gray aura.

Ling Tian trapped the Slaughter Demon God in the Chaos Seven Stars Array and attacked him with the Yin Yang Grinding Disc. The Slaughter Demon God feigned surrender, broke the disc with a self-sacrificing strike, and tried to escape, but Ling Tian prepared another attack as he neared the array’s edge.

• Ling Tian activated the Chaos Seven Stars Array, suppressing the Slaughter Demon God’s divine sense and weakening his power.
• Ling Tian sent the Yin Yang Grinding Disc toward the Slaughter Demon God, and the disc ground up his Killing Law Power.
• The Slaughter Demon God pretended to surrender, then detonated part of his origin to shatter the disc and flee.
• Ling Tian realized he had been tricked, abandoned the idea of recruiting the Slaughter Demon God, and pursued him.
• As the Slaughter Demon God reached the edge of the array, a pitch-black coffin appeared within his divine sense.

Ling Tian trapped and killed the Slaughter Demon God, then began absorbing his Killing Law Origin to grow stronger. As Ling Tian recovered inside the Poison Domain, another blood-colored figure arrived outside and decided to investigate the domain.

• The Slaughter Demon God recognized Ling Tian, threatened to expose his identity, and tried to escape the Chaos Seven Stars Array.
• Ling Tian fully activated the array, weakening the Slaughter Demon God, who unleashed a final attack before Ling Tian killed him with the Heaven Suppressing Coffin.
• Ling Tian suffered an injury but celebrated his first victory over a High-ranking Demon God and began absorbing the Slaughter Demon God's Law Origin.
• The Poison Demon God continued absorbing the Soul Demon God's Law Origin inside Poison Hall while Ling Tian absorbed the Slaughter Demon God's Origin outside.
• A blood-colored figure arrived outside the Poison Domain Great Array, noticed that the Slaughter Demon God and Soul Demon God had not emerged, and decided to enter.

The Blood Demon God followed the Slaughter Demon God to the Poison Domain and attacked the Chaos Seven Stars Array, unaware that the Slaughter Demon God had died and Ling Tian had taken his place. Ling Tian prepared to lure the Blood Demon God into the Heaven Suppressing Coffin, leaving the confrontation poised on whether the bait would work.

• The Blood Demon God followed the Slaughter Demon God into the Poison Domain, then attacked the array when the Slaughter Demon God failed to emerge.
• The Blood Demon God mistook the array’s resistance for the Slaughter Demon God’s work and unleashed a full-force strike.
• Ling Tian awakened while refining the Slaughter Demon God’s origin and realized the attacker was a powerful Fourth Layer Demon God.
• Ling Tian decided to use the Heaven Suppressing Coffin to try to capture the Blood Demon God and kept the Yin Yang World Suppressing Cauldron as a last resort.
• Ling Tian placed the coffin against the array and imitated the Slaughter Demon God’s voice, challenging the Blood Demon God to enter.

Ling Tian lured the Blood Demon God into the Heaven Suppressing Coffin and used the Chaos Seven Stars Array and his spirit treasures to seal him in pieces. He then returned to the Poison Hall, where the Poison Demon God eagerly began refining the Soul Demon God's Law Origin while Ling Tian continued refining the Slaughter Demon God's.

• The Blood Demon God entered the shadowy portal after the Slaughter Demon God taunted him, falling into Ling Tian's trap inside the Heaven Suppressing Coffin.
• Ling Tian contracted the Chaos Seven Stars Array into the coffin, lowering the Blood Demon God's cultivation by one layer.
• Ling Tian attacked the Blood Demon God with nearly all his spirit treasures, shattered his blood sea, and sealed its fragments one by one.
• Ling Tian returned to the Poison Hall and told the Poison Demon God to refine the Soul Demon God's Law Origin and aim for the Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal realm.
• The Poison Demon God began absorbing the Law Origin, while Ling Tian continued refining the Slaughter Demon God's Law Origin.

For many years, the Blood Demon God remained trapped inside the Heaven Suppressing Coffin while rumors spread that the Slaughter Demon God was recovering in the Poison Demon God's domain. When an unfamiliar figure finally appeared in the coffin, the Blood Demon God realized it was not the Slaughter Demon God and demanded to know who it was.

• Law-born beings and Demon Gods searched for the Blood Demon God, who had vanished while the Slaughter Demon God remained sealed behind a powerful formation in the Poison Demon God's domain.
• The Blood Demon God recalled stumbling into the Heaven Suppressing Coffin, where a seven-colored formation weakened him and Innate Supreme Treasures attacked him.
• When the Blood Demon God split his true body to defend himself, the formation separated him from his blood sea and disconnected him from his divided bodies.
• A powerful suction tried to draw out the Blood Demon God's origin, but he contracted it and waited for a chance to escape.
• An unfamiliar figure appeared in the coffin, and the Blood Demon God recognized that it was not the Slaughter Demon God and asked who it was.

After refining Slaughter Demon God's Law Origin, Ling Tian broke through to the Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal Third Layer and confronted the trapped Blood Demon God. Ling Tian's strengthened attacks tore open the Blood Demon God's condensed Law Origin, leaving it spilling beyond his control.

• The Blood Demon God realized Ling Tian had killed Slaughter Demon God and feared that Soul Demon God had also fallen.
• Ling Tian revealed that Soul Demon God had delivered his Law Origin and taunted the Blood Demon God about joining him.
• The Blood Demon God claimed Ling Tian could not absorb his Origin while he maintained Primordial Unity and laughed about escaping again.
• Ling Tian's years of refining Slaughter Demon God's Law Origin had raised his cultivation to the Primordial Limitless Golden Immortal Third Layer.
• Ling Tian unleashed his strengthened methods and suppressed the Blood Demon God's cultivation with the Chaos Seven Stars Array.
• The Blood Demon God split into avatars and condensed his Law Power into Primordial Unity, but Ling Tian's suction tore open his Law Origin and caused it to pour out.

Ling Tian rejected the Blood Demon God's pleas for mercy and learned that a top-tier Demon God backed the Slaughter Demon God. Despite the system's warnings that staying in the Land of God-Demons could kill him, Ling Tian chose to remain and hunt Demon Gods, then activated the reward wheel.

• The Blood Demon God begged Ling Tian to spare him, but Ling Tian refused and continued absorbing his Law Origin.
• As the Blood Demon God rambled, he revealed that a Great Expert stood behind the Slaughter Demon God, and Ling Tian connected this figure to the powerful being who had attacked from afar.
• The system warned Ling Tian that staying in the Land of God-Demons could lead to his death and offered him a choice of rewards.
• Ling Tian weighed the danger against his need to grow stronger before the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and his future battle with the Heavenly Dao.
• Ling Tian chose to remain in the Land of God-Demons and activated the reward wheel.

Ling Tian won and refined the [Years Divine Shuttle], then sent a divine sense clone to Hong Huang to check on the situation there. The clone arrived as Yuanfeng worried that Ling Tian had been missing for years, leaving his return unresolved.

• Ling Tian spun the supreme-grade Chaos Spiritual Treasure wheel and won the [Years Divine Shuttle], a treasure engraved with Time and Space Law Dao Patterns that specialized in escape.
• Ling Tian refined the [Years Divine Shuttle] before beginning to absorb the Blood Demon God's Origin, reasoning that it would help him escape the Slaughter Demon God if needed.
• The system offered to send Ling Tian's divine sense clone to Hong Huang, and Ling Tian accepted so he could check on Yuanfeng and the others and assess Hongjun's threat.
• In Hong Huang, Primordial Beings continued cultivating and wondered when Dao Venerable Ling Tian would return.
• Yuanfeng told Qing Luan that Ling Tian had not answered her calls for years and that she feared something had happened to him.

Ling Tian’s divine sense clone returned to the Primordial World, triggering a spectacular phenomenon that made its inhabitants wonder whether he or Hongjun was about to reach a new realm. While Hongjun suspected Ling Tian had returned just as he neared a breakthrough, Ling Tian began asking the Flame Giants for news of the world.

• Yuanfeng and Qing Luan worried about Ling Tian but resolved to carry out the plans he had left behind as Hongjun neared a breakthrough.
• A strange aurora shook the void and rang the Three Thousand Laws, prompting beings across the Primordial World to speculate that Hongjun or Ling Tian had caused it.
• Yuanfeng and Qing Luan wondered whether Ling Tian had returned, then feared Hongjun might be behind the phenomenon.
• Hongjun failed to deduce the phenomenon’s cause and suspected Ling Tian had appeared to interfere with his impending breakthrough and revenge on the Phoenix Clan.
• Ling Tian’s divine sense clone emerged from hiding and went to the Flamefire Tribe to learn what had happened in the Primordial World.
• The Flame Giant Patriarch brought Ling Tian a group of supposedly knowledgeable tribespeople, including both female and male Flame Giants.

Ling Tian learned that Hongjun had failed to seal away the human race and traveled toward Chaoge to enter the coming Investiture of the Gods Tribulation. Meanwhile, Hongjun merged with the Dao and prepared to investigate the Phoenix Clan, wary that Ling Tian might be involved.

• Ling Tian learned from the Flame Giant Patriarch that the human race had entered the Shang Dynasty era, then set out for Chaoge City.
• As Ling Tian journeyed toward Chaoge, a great auspicious phenomenon filled the Primordial World.
• Hongjun broke through to become a Saint Who Has Merged with the Dao, reaching the third level of that realm.
• Haotian, Laozi, Yuanshi, Zunti, and Jieyin congratulated Hongjun, and Haotian urged him to avenge their past defeat against the human race.
• Hongjun hesitated because he suspected Ling Tian was connected to the earlier aurora phenomenon, but ordered the five saints to accompany him to investigate the Phoenix Clan.

Hongjun went to the Phoenix Clan after reaching the Saint Who Has Merged with the Dao realm and demanded to see Ling Tian. Yuan Feng said Ling Tian would meet him only if he passed a trial, and Hongjun asked what the trial was.

• Hongjun arrived outside the Southern Ming Undying Volcano with Haotian, Laozi, and four other Saints, and announced that he had become a Saint Who Has Merged with the Dao.
• Hongjun called for Ling Tian and threatened to force his way into the Phoenix Clan if Ling Tian did not appear within three days.
• Yuan Feng emerged with Qing Luan and the others, mocked Hongjun, and said Ling Tian had predicted his arrival.
• Yuan Feng told Hongjun that Ling Tian stood on equal footing with the Heavenly Dao and would meet him only if he passed a trial.
• Haotian offered to lead an attack on the Phoenix Clan, but Hongjun stopped him and asked Yuan Feng what the trial was.

Yuanfeng tested Hongjun with a rigged Go endgame prepared by Ling Tian, while Ling Tian discovered demonic traces near Xuanyuan Tomb. After years of play, Hongjun resigned in defeat.

• Yuanfeng summoned a huge Go board and told Hongjun that winning would earn him a meeting with Ling Tian.
• Yuanfeng revealed a prepared endgame and played black against Hongjun as the Primordial World Beings watched.
• Ling Tian realized his plan to trap Hongjun had mostly succeeded, then spotted three traces of demonic aura near Xuanyuan Tomb and went to investigate.
• Yuanfeng remained relaxed as Hongjun grew increasingly troubled, since Ling Tian had assured her the endgame could not be won.
• In the year Di Xin was born, Hongjun admitted defeat and resigned.

Yuanfeng revealed that Ling Tian had instructed her moves in Go and offered Hongjun a rematch using the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation as the game. Hongjun accepted, and the Phoenix Clan withdrew behind the Innate Chaos Grand Array while he left determined to meet Ling Tian after the next game.

• Yuanfeng told Hongjun that Ling Tian had predicted all his moves in their Go match, and Hongjun demanded to meet Ling Tian.
• Yuanfeng said Ling Tian would grant Hongjun another game, with the Dao Teachings, Chan Teachings, and Interception Sect as pieces and the Shang Dynasty as the board.
• Hongjun reconsidered after Haotian interrupted him and accepted Yuanfeng's terms, demanding that Ling Tian appear after the game.
• Yuanfeng activated the Innate Chaos Grand Array, hiding the Phoenix Clan from the Primordial World Beings.
• Hongjun and the others appeared in Zixiao Palace as the onlookers realized the confrontation had ended.

Hongjun explained that the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation would begin under an agreement with the Phoenix Clan and help him gain strength against Ling Tian. He assigned Yuanshi’s Chan Teachings to lead the tribulation, while Ling Tian entered Xuanyuan Tomb.

• Hongjun slapped Haotian twice and scolded him for questioning his agreement with the Phoenix Clan.
• Hongjun told Haotian, Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti that the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation would help him advance and that the fallen would join the Heavenly Court.
• Yuanshi protested that losing his few Chan Teachings disciples to the Heavenly Court would leave his sect in trouble, while Haotian welcomed the prospect of a stronger court.
• Hongjun declared that the Chan Teachings would lead the tribulation and gave Yuanshi the Investiture of the Gods List and God-Beating Whip.
• Hongjun told Yuanshi that the person presiding over the tribulation needed a Bear-like Physique, and Yuanshi accepted the assignment.
• Ling Tian strolled into Xuanyuan Tomb while Hongjun and the Five Saints discussed the tribulation.