Chapter Summaries

The World Tree absorbed the Great Ruin Realm’s Primal Dao principles and extended into the cosmos, consuming the World-Ending starlight threatening the realm. When Chang Dao Heavenly God tried to suppress the principles, they broke free and fled toward the Great Ruin Realm, leaving the Star-Gathering Formation shattered and Roy True God’s mirror cracked.

• Yun Yinchen’s jade box opened, and the World Tree absorbed the Great Ruin Realm’s Primal Dao principles into one of its leaves.
• The World Tree’s shadow appeared across the Great Ruin Realm, and its branches reached into the universe and swallowed the World-Ending starlight threatening the Dark Ghost Lord and his ghosts.
• The World Tree’s branch began summoning the Primal Dao principles held in Roy True God’s Star-Gathering Formation.
• Roy True God summoned Chang Dao Heavenly God, who used a divine hand to strengthen the formation and suppress the restless principles.
• Li Fan poured cold tea over the World Tree’s roots, and the tree absorbed it immediately.
• An immense aura empowered the Primal Dao principles, which shattered Chang Dao Heavenly God’s hand, split the formation, and escaped toward the Great Ruin Realm, cracking Roy True God’s mirror.

The World Mother Tree appeared above the Great Ruin Realm, gathered over a hundred Primal Dao principles, and made the realm the center of a new star wheel. As Yin Dark Origin rained down, the ghosts grew stronger and Dark Ghost Lord transformed into a Purple Extreme Ghost Body.

• Dark Ghost Lord recognized the cosmic branch as the legendary World Mother Tree after over a hundred Primal Dao principles merged into its leaves.
• The World Mother Tree drew more than a hundred star realms around the Great Ruin Realm, forming a star wheel with the Great Ruin Realm at its center.
• The World Mother Tree shed Yin Dark Origin, which the Hungry Ghost absorbed to recover his strength and advance close to the Heavenly Ghost realm.
• Dark Ghost Lord absorbed the Yin Dark Origin and nearly lost control, but the words "Be a good ghost!" appeared on his forehead and suppressed it.
• Dark Ghost Lord refined the Yin Dark Origin until his soul-light turned purple, giving him the rare Purple Extreme Ghost Body.

The Dark Ghost Lord and the ghosts absorbed the Yin Dark Origin, gaining stronger bodies and renewed vitality, and decided to stay and grow their teeth rather than return to the Ghost Realm. After learning that the Great Fortune Star Realm held abundant death energy, the Dark Ghost Lord set his sights on it, while an injured silver-robed figure headed there to investigate the Great Ruin Realm; in the Fu Tian Sect, a man named Ao Wushuang sneezed and complained that people were talking about him.

• The Dark Ghost Lord absorbed the Yin Dark Origin, regained the first heaven of the Ghost Lord Realm, and awakened a Purple Extreme Ghost Body.
• Gui Qi devoured more Yin Dark Origin than the other ghosts because the words “Be a Good Ghost” on his forehead restrained its power, renewing his soul light and raising his cultivation.
• The ghosts reached their limits, regained tiny milk teeth, and celebrated their improved cultivation and vitality.
• The Dark Ghost Lord declared that the ghosts should stay, work hard to grow their teeth, and seek evil people and death energy to strengthen themselves.
• Gui Qi pointed out the Great Fortune Star Realm, and the Dark Ghost Lord resolved to investigate it and the mastermind behind its selection as a constant-realm seed.
• An injured silver-robed figure headed toward the Great Fortune Star Realm to investigate the Great Ruin Realm, while Ao Wushuang sneezed in the Fu Tian Sect and complained that someone was talking about him.

Chang Dao Heavenly God entered the Great Fortune Star Realm and discovered its unusual history as he investigated the Fu Tian Sect. Bai Songming secretly revealed that the sect had long served a demon masquerading as a Divine Realm Deity, just as Chang Dao appeared before the sect elders.

• Chang Dao Heavenly God entered the Great Fortune Star Realm, searched a sect's members' souls, and learned of its supposed connection to the Divine Realm.
• Bai Songming and the Fu Tian Sect elders debated their realm's failure to become the center of the new star wheel, and Tie Hanhhan proposed attacking the current central realm.
• Bai Songming entered the Sacrifice God Hall and offered a human figurine to the being controlling the altar, which demanded the legendary Peerless Fortune Star before it would help.
• Bai Songming remembered that a demon had seized the altar generations ago and that the Fu Tian Sect had deceived the people to preserve their faith and protect the realm.
• Bai Songming told the elders that the Deities would not support their plans, and Chang Dao Heavenly God appeared in the main hall and introduced himself.

Chang Dao Heavenly God forced the Fu Tian Sect to lead a campaign against the Great Ruin Realm, and Bai Songming agreed while hoping to use the opportunity to contact the Divine Realm. Ao Wushuang joined the thirty Fortune Stars setting out for war, while Tie Hanhhan ordered Tie Dingsi to watch and kill him.

• Chang Dao Heavenly God appeared before the Fu Tian Sect elders, rejected Bai Songming’s hope that he came from Fu Shen Tian, and demanded that the sect help conquer the Great Ruin Realm.
• Bai Songming agreed to lead the campaign, hoping the power of a constant realm might reactivate the sect’s formation to the Divine Realm, and Chang Dao promised true-god-grade warships.
• Bai Songming ordered the sect to gather its prodigies and subordinate sects, while Ao Wushuang celebrated his rapid cultivation as a Fortune Star.
• Bai Songming told the thirty Fortune Star disciples they would fight for the Great Fortune Star Realm and sent them out toward the Great Ruin Realm.
• Tie Hanhhan warned Tie Dingsi to watch Ao Wushuang, and Tie Dingsi vowed to find a way to kill him.

As the Great Fortune Star Realm’s army mobilized, Li Fan’s World Tree absorbed the Primal Dao principles across the star wheel, making the Great Ruin Realm its center. Yun Qianshan and Yun Yinchen left Li Fan’s village after his tea and meal raised their cultivation and restored Yun Yinchen’s origin.

• The World Tree displayed Primal Dao principles from across the realms, astonishing Li Fan’s disciples and the visiting Yun family.
• Li Fan served Yun Qianshan and Yun Yinchen tea, which advanced Yun Qianshan to the Wandering God Realm and repaired Yun Yinchen’s damaged origin.
• Gongya served a meal of sacred ingredients, and Yun Qianshan and Yun Yinchen ate while marveling at the village’s ordinary-seeming luxury.
• After dinner, Yun Qianshan reached the sixth level of the Wandering God Realm and Yun Yinchen became a Wandering God.
• Yunxi left the Small Mountain Village with her father and grandfather, and Yun Yang was shocked to see how much their cultivation had advanced.

Yun Yinchen told Yunxi that her mother was in the Divine Realm and urged her to grow stronger without relying on Senior Li. Yunxi began learning Li Fan’s calisthenics, triggering a breakthrough and releasing a powerful aura before a butterfly suppressed it, while an elite army gathered outside the Great Ruin Realm and sent Ao Wushuang and other lucky-star disciples to the vanguard.

• Yun Yinchen revealed that Yunxi’s mother was in the Divine Realm and explained that he had been driven out after their forbidden love left him crippled and separated from his wife.
• Yun Yinchen urged Yunxi to grow stronger, treasure her life at Senior Li’s village, and avoid using him for her own purposes.
• Yunxi asked Li Fan to teach her, and his radio calisthenics helped her break through the God-Connecting realm while a butterfly suppressed the powerful aura she released.
• Tie Hanhhan assembled an elite million-strong army outside the Great Ruin Realm and ordered Ao Wushuang and nine other lucky-star disciples to serve as the vanguard.
• Jia Fuxing encouraged Ao Wushuang to join the advance, and Ao Wushuang agreed as Jiang Gan and Ning Xiao led a hundred thousand troops into action.

Jia Fuxing used the Bamboo Shoot Seizing Art to steal the good fortune of his fellow Fortune Star disciples, but he could not affect Ao Wushuang. After the invading army conquered the Southern Domain, Mu Wanqing rallied the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty to defend the Eastern Wasteland.

• Jia Fuxing’s vanguard attacked a Southern Domain city, where Zhang Yi died in a hidden trap after Jia Fuxing had stolen his good fortune.
• Jia Fuxing secretly used the Bamboo Shoot Seizing Art to kill eight Fortune Star disciples, but his attempt to strip Ao Wushuang’s fortune backfired and left him spitting blood.
• Jia Fuxing and Ao Wushuang returned to the army, and Jiang Gan learned that they were the only two survivors; the invading forces then continued their campaign to conquer the Great Ruin Realm.
• Mu Wanqing received reports that the Southern Domain had fallen and ordered the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty to prepare for battle and raise the banner of the Lord of the Desolate Heavens.
• Mu Wanqing personally led the army to Wangnan City, where she and her ministers watched the enemy approach from the Southern Domain.

Jiang Gan’s army attacked Wangnan City, where Mu Rantian destroyed Long Taoyi’s Blood Banner and drove him back. Jia Fuxing’s attempt to curse the city failed, and he died during a disastrous retreat as Ao Wushuang carried him; Jiang Gan then ordered the army to attack.

• Long Taoyi charged Wangnan City with his Blood Banner, but Mu Rantian shattered it and wounded him.
• Jia Fuxing volunteered to attack the city, and Jiang Gan sent Ao Wushuang with him.
• Jia Fuxing used the Bamboo Shoot Seizing Art against the city’s banner, but it remained unharmed and Mu Zhenkong struck at him.
• Jia Fuxing’s Life-Saving Talisman exploded, and he mistakenly took deadly poison while Ao Wushuang tried to help him.
• Ao Wushuang carried the arrow-riddled Jia Fuxing back to the army, where Jia Fuxing blamed him as a Calamity Star and died.
• Jiang Gan ordered the entire army to charge Wangnan City.

The Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty captured the invading vanguard with its holy sack, while Yun Yinchen warned that a million-strong Star Realm Allied Forces were approaching and that the attack was likely a probe aimed at Senior Li. Mu Wanqing rushed to Small Mountain Village to warn him, and Li Fan sent Long Zixuan and the others to confront the enemy as the allied army entered the Great Ruin Realm.

• Mu Zhenkong and Mu Rantian used the dynasty's holy sack to swallow the vanguard, including Jiang Gan the Wandering God and Ning Xiao the Wandering God, while Ao Wushuang escaped.
• Yun Yinchen arrived with the Yun family's three Wandering Gods and told Mu Wanqing that a million troops were heading toward the Great Ruin Realm and that the vanguard was likely testing Senior Li.
• Mu Wanqing went to Small Mountain Village and warned Li Fan that the people behind the earlier attack might be targeting him.
• Li Fan ordered Long Zixuan and the other disciples to confront the attackers and bring them to the village if they would not back down.
• Li Fan offered Little White a choice between chicken and fish, frightening Bai Xiaoqing, the chickens, and the fish, while the Star Realm Allied Forces entered the Great Ruin Realm.

Tie Hanhhan led a million-strong army into the Great Ruin Realm, ignored Ao Wushuang’s warning, and marched on Wangnan City. Long Zixuan and the other disciples of Senior Li confronted the invaders, leaving Ao Wushuang horrified when he recognized them as the people from Small Mountain Village.

• Tie Hanhhan learned that Jiang Gan and the other vanguard troops were unreachable, then ordered Ao Wushuang to guide the army into the Eastern Wasteland.
• Ao Wushuang warned Tie Hanhhan that the realm held great danger, but Tie Hanhhan dismissed his account and ordered the army to advance.
• Tie Hanhhan’s forces beat a True God-level War Drum outside Wangnan City, shaking the Great Ruin Realm and prompting Mu Wanqing’s army to set out.
• Long Zixuan confronted the million-strong army, then withdrew after seeing more than three hundred wandering gods and nearly a thousand lesser gods among them.
• Dugu Yuqing, Lu Rang, Qing Chen, and the other disciples advanced to fight, while Ao Wushuang recognized them as the people from Small Mountain Village and despaired.

The Great Ruin Realm’s young demigods battled the Star Realm’s Wandering Gods as Mu Wanqing and Yun Yinchen led their forces into the larger war. Jiang Li’s Four Lives Chess Formation trapped the enemy demigods, leaving the thirteen young fighters to hold off more than three hundred Wandering Gods.

• Dugu Yuqing, Qing Chen, Wu Dade, Long Zixuan, Lin Jiuzheng, Lu Rang, Xin Ning, and Gongya attacked the Wandering Gods and forced their first assault onto the back foot.
• Mu Wanqing and Yun Yinchen arrived with the Great Ruin Realm’s army, and Tie Hanhhan ordered the Star Realm Allied Forces to attack with their full strength.
• Yun Yinchen, Yun Qianshan, Yun Yang, and the Wood Spirit Imperial Dynasty’s Sacrificial Spirit fought the enemy, but the Great Ruin Realm’s forces were heavily outnumbered.
• Jiang Li activated the Four Lives Chess Formation across the battlefield and trapped the enemy’s more than a thousand demigods.
• Long Zixuan, Dugu Yuqing, Lin Jiuzheng, Nan Feng, Lang Qianqian, Yunxi, Xin Ning, Gongya, and the others fought the Wandering Gods, with all thirteen holding off more than three hundred opponents.

Long Zixuan and the others fought the wandering gods, and several disciples broke through to godhood by awakening their Daos. Their new powers turned the battle against the enemies, while the Great Ruin Realm’s fighters remained engaged across the battlefield.

• Su Baiqian repeatedly rescued the Great Ruin Realm fighters, while Wu Dade endured a brutal beating from more than thirty wandering gods and awakened the Nine Revolutions Golden Body, becoming a god through his physical body.
• Wu Dade crushed a wandering god with his butt, and Long Zixuan broke through to godhood with the Dragon Fighting Art: Breaking the Waves.
• Nan Feng used her qin music to purify the wandering gods’ thoughts until their souls fell into silence, and her Qin Dao became divine.
• Dugu Yuqing wielded a sword that suppressed everything within ten li, killing the wandering gods it struck and becoming a sword-path god.
• Xin Ning recited ancient poems that changed the seasons and froze the wandering gods into lifeless statues.

Wu Dade, Long Zixuan, Nan Feng, Dugu Yuqing, Xin Ning, and the others advanced to Deity realms while defeating the wandering Deities in the arena. As Tie Hanhhan awakened the True God–rank War Drum and threatened to destroy the Eastern Wasteland, Ziling finished drawing an Old Mother Hen, summoning a vast divine bird phantom.

• Qing Chen used his Thousand-Hand technique to beat the wandering Deities to death, while Lin Jiuzheng drew on Heaven and Earth’s power to defeat his enemies and the little Kirin devoured the resulting calamity.
• Lu Rang understood the cycle of withering and flourishing, awakened his grass’s reincarnation-like power, and killed the wandering Deities attacking him.
• Gongya refined her attackers’ Dao into a Great Dao vessel and advanced, as numerous people in the arena became Deities and the wandering Deities tried to retreat.
• Jiang Li advanced his Nine Lives Chess Formation and used its six-life power to make the enemy army attack itself, then annihilated hundreds of thousands with his chess lines.
• Tie Hanhhan awakened the True God spirit inside the War Drum, unleashing a giant hand of sound and power that threatened the Eastern Wasteland.
• Ziling arrived on a white heavenly steed and completed a drawing of an Old Mother Hen, causing a divine bird phantom to manifest behind her.

Ziling destroyed the True God War Drum with her phoenix painting, but Roy True God and four others arrived to capture her. Yunxi unexpectedly used a divine art that reversed time, and a silver-robed figure recognized the Time Technique and demanded that they reveal where Ziling had learned it.

• Ziling painted a phoenix whose power annihilated the World-Ending giant hand and shattered the True God War Drum, killing Tie Hanhhan and leaving Tie Dingsi with only his head.
• Roy True God arrived with four True Gods and surrounded Ziling, while Long Zixuan and the others failed to break their spatial seal.
• Yunxi confronted the five True Gods and unconsciously used a seven-colored divine art that reversed time, restoring the scene and freeing Ziling.
• Yunxi brought Ziling back to the group as the five True Gods realized their time had flowed backward and grew wary of the young cultivators.
• A silver-robed figure recognized Yunxi's Time Technique and assumed Ziling had seen a Phoenix Stone Carving, then ordered them to lead him to its location.

Chang Dao Heavenly God arrived in the Great Ruin Realm and used his divine domain to suppress Long Zixuan and injure Yun Yinchen, but he became wary of Yunxi and Wu Dade. Nan Feng invited him to meet her master, and he followed the group toward the Burial God Great Wilderness while secretly leaving his true body behind; meanwhile, Li Fan stewed a chicken in the Small Mountain Village.

• Chang Dao Heavenly God appeared and used his divine domain to nullify Long Zixuan’s punch as Yun Yinchen explained how the domain worked.
• Chang Dao Heavenly God recognized Yun Yinchen’s resemblance to Yun Chen, injured him, and tried to kill Yunxi, but his instincts warned him to stop.
• Chang Dao Heavenly God also prevented Wu Dade from bowing, sensing that both he and Yunxi carried a hidden threat.
• Nan Feng invited Chang Dao Heavenly God to meet her master, and he agreed to follow the group toward the Burial God Great Wilderness.
• Chang Dao Heavenly God revealed that he had sent a clone while his true body stayed behind with Roy True God and the others.
• Li Fan stewed a chicken in the Small Mountain Village.

Li Fan cooked chicken and drank with Second Uncle while Nan Feng and the others returned to Small Mountain Village with Chang Dao Heavenly God. Mistaking the village and its residents for terrifying divine beings, Chang Dao was reduced to begging for mercy after Second Uncle confronted him.

• Li Fan visited Second Uncle's home with Bai Xiaoqing and the big black dog, cooked a chicken, and shared drinks with him.
• Nan Feng led Chang Dao Heavenly God into Small Mountain Village, where he mistook its plants and creatures for powerful divine beings.
• Chang Dao watched a rooster swallow a caterpillar and saw Second Uncle seize the bird, leaving him convinced he faced beings beyond his power.
• Wu Dade identified Chang Dao as the leader of the troublemakers, and Second Uncle glared at him.
• Chang Dao, terrified, admitted he was wrong and begged Second Uncle to spare him.

Chang Dao Heavenly God’s clone was brought before Li Fan, who mistook him for a gang boss and made him surrender and apologize to Yun Yinchen. On the battlefield, Chang Dao Heavenly God’s true body also knelt before Yun Yinchen against his will, leaving everyone stunned.

• Second Uncle sent Wu Dade to bring Chang Dao Heavenly God’s clone to meet Li Fan.
• Chang Dao Heavenly God saw the divine bird and White Tiger beside Li Fan, panicked, and begged for mercy.
• Li Fan demanded that Chang Dao Heavenly God surrender and apologize to Yun Yinchen, and the clone agreed.
• On the battlefield, Chang Dao Heavenly God’s true body offered Yun Yinchen a chance to become his disciple, but Yun Yinchen called him too weak.
• Chang Dao Heavenly God attacked Yun Yinchen, but an irresistible force made him kneel, apologize, and confess.

Chang Dao Heavenly God was forced to kneel before Yun Yinchen, cripple his cultivation, and flee after Li Fan intervened from Small Mountain Village. With the allied army routed, the Great Ruin Realm celebrated its survival and honored the Lord of the Desolate Heavens.

• Chang Dao Heavenly God knelt and begged Yun Yinchen for mercy while Yun Yinchen realized some karmic power was controlling him.
• Yun Yinchen demanded that Chang Dao Heavenly God cripple his cultivation, and Chang Dao Heavenly God destroyed his own dantian.
• Li Fan declared the matter settled and allowed Chang Dao Heavenly God to leave Small Mountain Village, whereupon the clone fled Burial God Great Wilderness and vanished after discovering its cultivation was gone.
• Yun Yinchen ordered Chang Dao Heavenly God and the True Gods to leave the Great Ruin Realm, and they fled as the allied army was wiped out.
• Mu Wanqing credited the victory to the Lord of the Desolate Heavens, and the people of the Great Ruin Realm bowed in gratitude.
• Old Ao escaped aboard a True God–grade flying ship and headed toward the Great Fortune Star Realm to avoid Small Mountain Village.

Bai Songming learned that the Great Fortune Star Realm’s expedition had been devastated, while Chang Dao Heavenly God returned gravely weakened. He named Ao Wushuang the Peerless Fortune Star to raise morale, as the Flood Dragon Demon Race’s Third Old Ancestor lost control after forging the Indestructible Demon Body.

• Jiang You reported that the Soul Lamps of Tie Hanhhan, Jiang Gan, and many elders had gone out, and Bai Songming realized the expedition’s strongest forces had been wiped out.
• Ao Wushuang returned alone and warned Bai Songming that the Great Ruin Realm held places that must not be entered, but hid his encounter with the Small Mountain Village.
• Roy True God and the others brought back Chang Dao Heavenly God, whose aura had been ruined, and Bai Songming sent them to Fortune Spirit Mountain to recover.
• Bai Songming declared Ao Wushuang the legendary Peerless Fortune Star and promised to name him the sect heir, though he privately doubted the claim.
• The Flood Dragon Demon Race’s Third Old Ancestor forged the Indestructible Demon Body, then lost control and killed many guardians before the Demon Refining Lake’s Formations suppressed him.
• Experts of the Flood Dragon clan gathered in a Demon Hall to discuss the Third Old Ancestor’s rampage.