Chapter Summaries

Huang Wei returned to Fumo Palace, where Daoist Yang Mei and Daoist Shen Guang recognized his overwhelming strength and his record on the Fumo Heavenly Stele. After exchanging his points, Huang Wei accepted Daoist Shen Guang’s invitation to visit the Divine Light Gate and spent nearly a thousand years touring it.

• Huang Wei returned to Fumo Palace and greeted Daoist Yang Mei, who sensed Huang Wei’s immense strength and compared it with his own cultivation.
• Daoist Shen Guang introduced himself and asked whether Chaos Heavenly Demons had become easy to kill, and Huang Wei said they were easy for him to defeat.
• Daoist Shen Guang invited Huang Wei to discuss the Dao, and Huang Wei exchanged all his points for items before accepting an invitation to the Divine Light Gate.
• Daoist Yang Mei watched Huang Wei leave and resolved to discuss the Dao with him after returning from the Alien Battlefield.
• Daoist Shen Guang showed Huang Wei around the vast Divine Light Gate, a tour that lasted nearly a thousand years.

After the Spirit of the Chaos Heavenly Gate secretly tested Huang Wei, the two fought beyond Chaos, and Huang Wei defeated and devoured it. He began refining the Chaos Heavenly Gate with the Great Dao Wheel, and countless ages later the refinement was complete.

• The Spirit of the Chaos Heavenly Gate secretly attacked Huang Wei's mind during his Dao discussion, but Huang Wei's Heart of Chaos Divine Martial blocked the probe.
• Huang Wei traced the attack to the Spirit of the Chaos Heavenly Gate, confronted it, and agreed to fight beyond Chaos.
• Their sparring match became a lethal battle, and Huang Wei used the system to devour the Spirit of the Chaos Heavenly Gate.
• Huang Wei refined the Chaos Heavenly Gate while the Great Dao Wheel devoured it, eventually completing the refinement.

Huang Wei devoured the Chaos Demon Gate and used the Great Dao Wheel to reach the Great Dao realm, then clashed with the awakened Great Dao. He later awoke from a coma in a village on the Great Dao Soul Continent, where the village chief witnessed his Divine Martial power emerge.

• Huang Wei found and refined the Chaos Demon Gate, rapidly gathering experience within his body.
• After countless years, Huang Wei used the Great Dao Wheel to attain the Great Dao realm, and the awakened Great Dao attacked him.
• Huang Wei met the Great Dao in battle, draining the chaos aura from the world before the outcome became unknown.
• In a village in Sacred Soul Valley, the village chief watched over the long-comatose Huang Wei and saw Emerald Light and a Divine Martial figure emerge from him.
• Huang Wei awoke, wondered how he had arrived there after fighting the Great Dao, and checked his system status.

After awakening in the Great Dao Realm, Huang Wei learned from village chief Ke Jie about the vast Great Dao Soul Continent and its cultivation system. He realized he had spent three epochs unconscious, then discovered that his delayed Great Dao Gift Pack had finally been sent to the System Warehouse.

• Huang Wei checked his status, confirmed he had reached the Great Dao Early Stage, and learned from the system that he had awakened in the Great Dao Realm.
• Village chief Ke Jie introduced himself as the head of Holy Spirit Village, and Huang Wei was startled by the village’s familiar name.
• Ke Jie told Huang Wei that three epochs had passed and explained that one epoch lasted a hundred years in the Great Dao Realm.
• Ke Jie described the Great Dao Soul Continent’s immense scale and its ten cultivation heavens, which corresponded to the number of Great Dao Rules a cultivator comprehended.
• Huang Wei asked how Great Dao Rules could be cultivated, and Ke Jie explained that cultivators could pursue different methods, including building upon an existing rule.
• Huang Wei asked the system about a Great Dao Gift Pack and learned it had been delivered to the System Warehouse after he brought it up.

Huang Wei opened the Great Dao Gift Pack and learned how to use his first World Rule in the immense, stable Great Dao Realm. In Holy Spirit Village, Captain Sheng Ye returned from a hunt with a Celestial Elephant Tiger, and the villagers prepared to feast before the children awakened their Dao Souls the next day.

• Huang Wei opened the Great Dao Gift Pack and received comprehensive knowledge of the Great Dao Realm and the Great Dao Rule Scripture.
• Huang Wei drew out his first World Rule and learned that cultivators used Void Laws or other means to travel through the vast realm.
• Huang Wei learned about the village’s origins and the difficult thresholds faced by Great Dao cultivators.
• Sheng Ye and the hunting team returned to Holy Spirit Village carrying a dead Celestial Elephant Tiger, exciting the villagers and children.
• Sheng Ye announced a feast and told the children they would awaken their Dao Souls the following day.
• Village chief Ke Jie welcomed the hunters, while the narration described his Great Dao Third Heaven cultivation and the team members’ realms.

After awakening, Huang Wei learned that Ke Jie and the people of Holy Spirit Village saw him as a gifted ascender and welcomed him with a feast. The next morning, Ke Jie led the village’s ten children to the Qiankun River in Sacred Soul Valley to awaken their Dao Souls.

• Ke Jie told the villagers that Huang Wei had awakened and was an ascender from the Lower Realm with rare talent.
• The villagers discussed befriending Huang Wei, whom Ke Jie had rescued, and agreed he could become a powerful ally.
• Huang Wei introduced himself to Ke Jie, Sheng Ye, and the other villagers, who welcomed him warmly.
• The villagers held a Celestial Elephant Tiger feast, and Huang Wei enjoyed their company and hospitality.
• The following morning, Ke Jie led the village’s ten children to the Qiankun River in Sacred Soul Valley for their Dao Soul awakenings.

After the children awakened their Dao Souls, Huang Wei searched the Qiankun River for the Great Dao Gate connection point but found nothing. He then stayed in Holy Spirit Village to train, and the chapter ended as he prepared to fight a Pseudo Great Dao Celestial Elephant Tiger with Sheng Ye’s group guarding him.

• Huang Wei questioned Village chief Ke Jie about the Qiankun River, and the system revealed that a connection point to the Great Dao Gate had vanished beneath it.
• Village chief Ke Jie awakened the Dao Souls of the ten children in the Qiankun River, and they returned excitedly to their families.
• Huang Wei descended into the river to investigate but found nothing and returned to shore.
• Huang Wei stayed in Holy Spirit Village, trained with his new strength, and joined Sheng Ye’s group on hunts for Dao Beasts.
• Huang Wei’s group encountered a thousand-epoch Pseudo Great Dao Celestial Elephant Tiger, and Sheng Ye left Huang Wei to kill it while the others guarded the area.

Huang Wei and his companions encountered a Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird that discovered Holy Spirit Village and attacked its children. Old village chief Ke Jie intervened and pursued the bird, determined to kill it before it could reveal the village’s location.

• Huang Wei killed a Pseudo Great Dao Celestial Elephant Tiger, and the group continued traveling through the forest.
• Huang Wei and his companions learned that the Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird was a powerful Great Dao Second Heaven creature flying toward Sacred Soul Valley.
• The bird spotted children in Holy Spirit Village and swooped down to attack them.
• Ke Jie appeared, blocked the bird with three Great Dao Rule Chains, and revealed his Great Dao Third Heaven power.
• The Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird tried to flee, but Ke Jie attacked to prevent it from exposing the village.

Huang Wei returned to Holy Spirit Village, then began long-term seclusion to cultivate and condense the three thousand laws. A hundred epochs passed as he pursued the experience and insights needed to advance.

• Old village chief Ke Jie killed the Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird and took its corpse and treasures back to Holy Spirit Village.
• Huang Wei witnessed the gulf between the Great Dao Second and Third Heavens and resolved to cultivate cautiously and grow stronger.
• Sheng Ye led the group to search the surrounding areas, capture or kill Dao Beasts, and then return to Holy Spirit Village.
• Huang Wei checked his Character Panel, saw his experience had risen substantially, and worried about the vast amount still needed to advance.
• After returning, Huang Wei entered seclusion, sent universe clones to absorb worlds for experience, and began comprehending the three thousand laws.
• A hundred epochs passed while Huang Wei remained in seclusion.

Huang Wei repeatedly failed to condense a second Great Dao Rule, forcing him to restore his three thousand laws after each attempt. After cultivating the Great Dao Heart Sutra to steady his Dao Heart, he continued trying, while the villagers discussed how difficult advancement was and expected him to remain in seclusion.

• Huang Wei shattered and tried to fuse his three thousand laws, but his first attempt failed and erased them, so he comprehended them again.
• Huang Wei failed a second attempt and realized his state of mind had not kept pace with his cultivation.
• Huang Wei found the Great Dao Heart Sutra in the Nameless Pavilion and used Instilled Wisdom to cultivate it, greatly improving his state of mind.
• Huang Wei failed his third and fourth attempts, but used the Great Dao Heart Sutra to calm himself and prepare to continue.
• Sheng Ye told Ke Jie and the old village chief that Huang Wei had been secluded for more than five hundred and twenty epochs.
• Ke Jie, the old village chief, and Sheng Ye described their own long struggles to advance and said they did not expect Huang Wei to emerge soon.

Huang Wei repeatedly failed to fuse the three thousand laws before succeeding on his twelfth attempt and advancing to the Great Dao Second Heaven. His breakthrough stunned Holy Spirit Village, and Ke Jie decided to celebrate with a feast.

• Huang Wei failed his fifth through eleventh attempts to condense a second Great Dao Rule, growing faster and more proficient each time.
• Huang Wei carefully fused the laws on his twelfth attempt and formed a second silver Great Dao Rule Chain, advancing to the Great Dao Second Heaven.
• Huang Wei let the energy of his breakthrough surge through Holy Spirit Village, startling the villagers.
• Ke Jie recognized Huang Wei's aura, marveled at his rapid progress, and brought out Great Dao Spirit Ginseng to prepare a feast.

After emerging from a thousand-epoch seclusion as a Great Dao Second Heaven cultivator, Huang Wei reunited with the people of Holy Spirit Village and sparred with Sheng Ye. He remained overwhelmingly strong, then checked the Character Panel that had accompanied him throughout his journey.

• Huang Wei emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Great Dao Second Heaven, and old village chief Ke Jie congratulated him and offered Great Dao Spirit Ginseng for a feast.
• Sheng Ye and the others returned with Dao Beasts, greeted Huang Wei, and celebrated his breakthrough with the village.
• Huang Wei invited Sheng Ye to spar so he could adapt to his strength, while the village's children watched from below.
• Huang Wei used his Great Dao Spiritual Treasures and Great Dao Divine Martial to suppress Sheng Ye, whose attacks could not break through his defenses.
• Huang Wei felt refreshed after the match and opened his Character Panel, which showed his Great Dao Divine Martial and infinite lifespan.

Huang Wei defeated Sheng Ye, then tested his turtle-shell defense against village chief Ke Jie’s Great Dao Third Heaven attacks. The shell endured ordinary and powerful strikes before shattering under Ke Jie’s full-power blow, and Huang Wei gained condensed Great Dao Third Heaven power.

• Sheng Ye accepted his defeat to Huang Wei and asked how Huang Wei’s defense was so strong.
• Huang Wei and village chief Ke Jie agreed to test whether Huang Wei’s turtle shell could withstand a Great Dao Third Heaven attack.
• Ke Jie’s ordinary strike shook Huang Wei’s shell but left it uncracked, surprising the watching villagers and Sheng Ye.
• Ke Jie increased his attacks, and Huang Wei’s shell developed cracks only under the power of a powerful Great Dao Third Heaven cultivator.
• Ke Jie shattered the shell with a full-power strike, while Huang Wei condensed Great Dao Third Heaven power and teleported safely away.

The Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird Clan learned that Nine Fold had been killed by a human and used their bloodline secret art to investigate. The Patriarch sent Nine Chapters, the Fifth Elder, and the Sixth Elder toward the Human Race’s Dao Soul Divine Sect to find the killer, warning them not to act rashly.

• The clan received word that Nine Fold, a talented member of the younger generation, had died, and the Elders vowed to avenge him.
• The Patriarch concluded that Nine Fold’s killer was likely at least a Great Dao Third Heaven cultivator and proposed using the Nine Profound Black Demon Tracking Technique.
• The clan performed the blood-sacrifice ritual with Nine Fold’s belongings and saw an obscured scene confirming that an old man with three chains of laws had killed him.
• The Patriarch determined that the killer was within the Human Race’s Dao Soul Divine Sect territory and warned that traveling north could draw the attention of powerful human cultivators.
• Nine Chapters set out with the Fifth Elder and Sixth Elder aboard the clan’s Great Dao Void Boat to investigate, while the First and Second Elders stayed to guard the valley.

Nine Chapters took Nine Five and Nine Six north to seek revenge while the Dao Soul Divine Sect prepared an expedition into the Primordial Supreme Forbidden Land. Huang Wei continued cultivating in Holy Spirit Village, and many uneventful years passed.

• Nine Chapters departed aboard the Patriarch's Great Dao Void Boat with Nine Five and Nine Six to search for the Human Race.
• The Dao Soul Divine Sect Sect Master called the chief seats together and asked someone to lead a team into the Primordial Supreme Forbidden Land.
• The Elders voiced their fear of the forbidden land, and the Great Elder agreed to lead the expedition, bound by his debt to the Sect Master.
• The Sect Master ordered the Great Elder to select the team, and the Elders reluctantly accepted.
• Huang Wei continued cultivating in Holy Spirit Village as many years passed without major events.

Huang Wei checked his cultivation progress as a chaos-level Shrouding the Heavens Great World merged into his Mixed Realm, then continued perfecting the three thousand laws needed to reach Great Dao Third Heaven. He arrived in Great Dao Sacred State aboard a flying boat, leaving his breakthrough attempt ahead.

• Huang Wei reviewed his Character Panel and saw that his experience for Great Dao Third Heaven was nearly full.
• A chaos-level Shrouding the Heavens Great World merged into the Mixed Realm, and Huang Wei received the memories of his clone there.
• Huang Wei reflected on his clones’ freedom and continued cultivating the three thousand laws, which all had to reach grand completion before they could merge.
• A flying boat emerged from a void opening in the northern region of Great Dao Sacred State.

The Great Elder led a group from the Great Dao Soul Ancestor toward the dangerous Primordial Supreme Forbidden Land while the Sect Master stayed behind to guard the sect. Huang Wei continued trying to reach the Great Dao Third Heaven, but his second attempt to fuse the three thousand laws failed.

• Huang Wei's second attempt to shatter and fuse the three thousand laws ended in failure, and he continued condensing them to try again.
• The Great Elder and a group of Elders and Great Dao Second Heaven disciples prepared to enter the Primordial Supreme Forbidden Land.
• The Sect Master sent the group off with a treasured artifact and hoped as many of them as possible would return alive.
• The Great Elder promised to be careful, then led the group away while the Sect Master remained to guard the Great Dao Soul Ancestor.

After failing to fuse the three thousand laws twenty times, Huang Wei left secluded cultivation and went to seek advice from Ke Jie. He and Sheng Ye found Ke Jie’s door unanswered and thought he was in seclusion.

• The major powers of the Great Dao Sacred State entered the Primordial Supreme Forbidden Land while Nine Chapters, Nine Five, and Nine Six chose to investigate the Great Dao Soul Ancestor instead.
• Huang Wei failed his breakthrough attempt again after thousands of epochs and decided to leave seclusion to recover his Dao heart.
• Huang Wei discovered that the children he remembered had grown up and learned that Ke Jie had not been seen for an epoch.
• Sheng Ye encouraged Huang Wei to persevere and shared that he had failed more than a thousand times in his own attempts to reach Great Dao Third Heaven.
• Huang Wei and Sheng Ye knocked on Ke Jie’s door, but received no response and suspected he was cultivating in seclusion.

Old village chief Ke Jie warned Huang Wei and Sheng Ye that the Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird Clan planned to avenge its slain member, forcing Holy Spirit Village to prepare to flee and seek help from the Great Dao Soul Ancestor. As the villagers prepared to leave, Huang Wei received Ke Jie’s guidance and successfully advanced to Great Dao Third Heaven.

• Ke Jie revealed that the Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird Clan had traced its member’s death to Sacred Soul Valley and would send multiple Great Dao Third Heaven cultivators, possibly backed by an even stronger expert.
• Ke Jie decided to lead the villagers away and seek refuge with the Great Dao Soul Ancestor, and he sent word to the village to prepare for departure.
• Huang Wei asked Ke Jie for advice on breaking through from Great Dao Second Heaven after failing twenty times, and Ke Jie explained how to correct his mistakes.
• Huang Wei followed Ke Jie’s guidance and broke through to Great Dao Third Heaven, astonishing Ke Jie and Sheng Ye.

Ke Jie and Huang Wei prepared to confront three Great Dao Third Heaven elders of the Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird Clan, who had tracked the hidden Sacred Soul Valley while seeking revenge for Nine Fold. Sheng Ye led the villagers through a secret passage toward the Great Dao Soul Ancestor as the two sides closed in on each other.

• Ke Jie sensed three Nine Profound Sky Black Demon Bird Clan elders entering Sacred Soul Valley, and Huang Wei agreed to help delay them while Sheng Ye evacuated the villagers.
• Ke Jie told Sheng Ye to lead the villagers to safety and named him the next village chief if Ke Jie and Huang Wei failed to return.
• Nine Chapters, Nine Five, and Nine Six searched the valley and agreed to avoid confronting an enemy too powerful for them.
• Huang Wei concealed his and Ke Jie's auras, then the two exposed them to draw the elders away from the fleeing villagers.
• The elders detected Huang Wei and Ke Jie approaching and suspected one of them had killed Nine Fold, while Sheng Ye led the villagers through the secret passage and continued toward safety.