Chapter Summaries

Xiang Yuan killed Other-Transformation Heaven, brought Song Jiang to the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden’s temple, and later restored Great Freedom Heaven Realm while bringing Mystic Void Realm under its rule. With all 108 Reincarnation Relics collected, he prepared to reverse the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends and return to Dry Abyss Realm.

• Other-Transformation Heaven revealed that he had weakened himself by dispersing his power among the 108 Reincarnation Relics, and Xiang Yuan killed him with Chaos Light.
• Xiang Yuan took Song Jiang to the ruined Mysterious Maiden Temple, where Song Jiang received three heavenly books from the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden’s phantom.
• Xiang Yuan brought Song Jiang to Kaifeng and left him as a clerk with Gao Qiu, then began reshaping Mystic Void Realm’s Heavenly Dao.
• Over the following three months, Xiang Yuan revived Great Freedom Heaven Realm, became its Heavenly Emperor, and incorporated Mystic Void Realm as a lower realm.
• Xiang Yuan collected the remaining Reincarnation Relics and prepared to reverse the Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends, erase the Mandate of Heaven, and return to Dry Abyss Realm.

Xiang Yuan merged Great Freedom Heaven into Dry Abyss Realm and introduced the concept of demons, creating an office to suppress demonic thoughts. After assigning Spirit Mountain to staff it, he gathered the 108 Reincarnation Relics and prepared to summon the Six Paths Goddess.

• Ji Wuzhou argued with the Heavenly Dao about his role as Jade Emperor until a demonic Great Luo Heaven approached and Xiang Yuan appeared with Great Freedom Heaven.
• Xiang Yuan explained that he had killed Other-Transformation Heaven and claimed the ownerless Great Freedom Heaven, then worked with Ji Wuzhou to merge the realms.
• Xiang Yuan added the concept of demons to Dry Abyss Realm's Heavenly Dao, causing its laws to evolve while he created an office to control demonic thoughts.
• The Buddha Patriarch entered Great Freedom Heaven, where the Azure Emperor of the Eastern Pole, Southern Pole Guanyin, the Buddha, and Spirit Mountain's Buddhas took up the work of suppressing the Demon Domain.
• Xiang Yuan reviewed the gains from his mission, including the 108 Reincarnation Relics, and prepared to use them to summon the Six Paths Goddess.

Xiang Yuan persuaded the six fusion materials to summon the Six Paths Goddess, hoping to confirm that her reincarnation powers could support the Dry Abyss Realm. The Goddess appeared, recovered her memories, and confronted Xiang Yuan, whose fate she could not read with the Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation.

• Xiang Yuan persuaded Sword Venerable Su Ran and White Moon Lay Buddhist to help him approach the Six Paths Goddess, while Chan'er willingly supported him.
• Xiang Yuan held a vote with the six fusion materials; two voted in favor, four abstained, and none opposed summoning the Goddess.
• The six fusion materials merged and summoned the Six Paths Goddess, who recovered her memories and turned the Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation on Xiang Yuan.
• The Ancient Mirror failed to reveal Xiang Yuan's fate, and the Six Paths Goddess's killing intent toward him grew as he offered her nine Reincarnation Relics.
• The Six Paths Goddess insisted Xiang Yuan bore the Heavenly Emperor's karma and proposed becoming the Dry Abyss Realm's Heavenly Emperor, while Xiang Yuan guessed she really wanted to fight him over his intimacy with the six women.

Xiang Yuan battled the Six Paths Goddess, who exploited his reluctance to strike the women she imitated, before he turned the tables and ended the fight with a headbutt and embrace. Later, Ji Wuzhou found the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden’s trail at Liangshan Marsh, and Xiang Yuan prepared to investigate her invitation with the Dry Abyss Realm ready for a trap.

• Xiang Yuan created a vast minor world and used its laws, the Demon-Summoning Banner, and the Kunlun Book Without Words to hinder the Six Paths Goddess.
• The Six Paths Goddess transformed into Chan'er and Xiao Lingyue to make Xiang Yuan hesitate, then repeatedly attacked him while he held back.
• Xiang Yuan punched and headbutted the Six Paths Goddess while she appeared as Sword Venerable Su Ran, then embraced her after she returned to her original form.
• The Six Paths Goddess split into six and withdrew, while Sword Venerable Su Ran confronted Xiang Yuan over singling her out for a beating.
• Ji Wuzhou told Xiang Yuan that the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden had revealed her aura at Liangshan Marsh, and Xiang Yuan recognized it as the destination she had signaled through the Heavenly Book.
• Xiang Yuan decided to enter the Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden’s invitation with the Dry Abyss Realm prepared to attack if it proved to be a trap.

Xiang Yuan entered the World-Swallowing Painting with the Six Paths Goddess and discovered that its world centered on Fusang Mountain, the home of the long-dead Eastern King Lord. Unable to leave without claiming the mountain, Xiang Yuan began swallowing the Fusang Ninefold Immortal Mountains into his small world.

• Xiang Yuan made Queen Mother of the West refine the World-Swallowing Painting while he entered it with the wary Six Paths Goddess.
• Xiang Yuan learned that Eastern King Lord had defected from the Divine Dao to the Immortal Dao and that the Heavenly Emperor had killed him beyond reincarnation.
• The Six Paths Goddess explained the Divine Dao and Immortal Dao conflict and revealed why the Heavenly Emperor had killed her to destroy reincarnation.
• Xiang Yuan and the Six Paths Goddess found Fusang Mountain and its ten suns, but Xiang Yuan suspected that claiming the place could make him Eastern King Lord.
• Xiang Yuan failed to leave the painting, so he used the Formless Seal Method to swallow the Fusang Ninefold Immortal Mountains into his small world.

Xiang Yuan devoured Fusang Immortal Mountain, completed his eighth blood replacement and marrow cleansing, and restored the world after Yin energy threatened to consume it. He met incarnations of Nuwa and Fuxi, returned innate Yin to the Queen Mother of the West, and then asked her to help him cultivate.

• Xiang Yuan refined Fusang Immortal Mountain into primordial Yang, completed his eighth blood replacement and marrow cleansing, and worried that his ninth would leave him ready to be harvested.
• The ten suns vanished and Yin energy swept across the world, so Xiang Yuan used his Yang energy to drive it back and restore the world.
• Xiang Yuan and the Six Paths Goddess met incarnations of Nuwa and Fuxi, who explained that Fuxi had guarded the possibility of Eastern King Lord's return; Xiang Yuan had consumed that possibility himself.
• Xiang Yuan returned the primordial Yin to the Queen Mother of the West, entangling their Yin-Yang powers and leaving her stunned.
• The Queen Mother of the West identified the incarnations as Nuwa and Fuxi, explained that the Heavenly Emperor's return would help turn illusion into reality, and agreed to help Xiang Yuan cultivate.

Xiang Yuan visited Queen Mother of the West to learn the primordial history and investigate the Three Pure Ones’ plans, uncovering how the immortal path, Buddhism, and the three thousand worlds were tied to ancient divine conflicts. He concluded that he understood how the three thousand worlds had come to exist, but refused to explain his theory to Queen Mother of the West.

• Queen Mother of the West proposed joining forces with Xiang Yuan, and he agreed to visit her in Western Kunlun under the pretense of discussing cultivation.
• The Six Paths Goddess split into six fusion materials after hearing Xiang Yuan and Queen Mother of the West arrange to spend the night together, and Xiang Yuan used his power to make Queen Mother of the West serve tea while Chan'er mocked her.
• Xiang Yuan told Queen Mother of the West that the Three Pure Ones might be manipulating both her desire for revenge and his ambition, then asked her to explain the ancient secrets.
• Queen Mother of the West recounted how the gods created the immortal path, how the Heavenly Emperor fought the Three Pure Ones and the immortals, and how the divine path declined.
• Queen Mother of the West explained that Buddhism arose from the Primeval Heavenly Demon and revealed that she had secretly influenced Senior Jiang’s path to becoming the Buddha Patriarch.
• After learning that Zhunti had refined the Reincarnation Mother Tree’s roots into the Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree, Xiang Yuan connected several figures and legacies to the ancient gods and said he understood how the three thousand worlds formed, but declined to explain further.

Xiang Yuan cultivated with the Six Paths Goddess, then used her command over the river of time to begin merging worlds. In the Celestial Gate Realm, Ji Wuzhou was captured by its Celestial Emperor, but Queen Mother of the West killed the invader after he entered the Dry Abyss Realm, and Xiang Yuan prepared to move on to another world.

• Xiang Yuan refused to explain his conjecture to Queen Mother of the West, then went to the Six Paths Goddess and persuaded her to cultivate with him.
• Xiang Yuan and the Six Paths Goddess left marks on each other's Primordial Spirits, and she used the Ancient Mirror of Reincarnation and Yellow Springs Mother Tree to reveal the river of time so they could merge a tributary world.
• In the Celestial Gate Realm, its Celestial Emperor attacked Ji Wuzhou, who wounded him with the Regretless Blade before being trapped inside the Abyss of Returning Ruins.
• The Celestial Emperor entered the Dry Abyss Realm and praised its prosperity, but Queen Mother of the West appeared and killed him when he tried to leave.
• Xiang Yuan watched Queen Mother of the West kill the Celestial Emperor, then told the Six Paths Goddess to continue with the next world.

Ji Wuzhou led the Dry Abyss Realm’s forces into the Blood Sea Realm, where the Blood-Robed Elder Lord and a swarm of Mosquito Daoist’s black mosquitoes revealed an unexpected threat. Xiang Yuan and Queen Mother of the West suppressed the swarm and uncovered a Third-grade Golden Lotus, leaving the golden lotus’s significance to be explored.

• Ji Wuzhou entered the Blood Sea Realm and found the Blood-Robed Celestial Emperor, Blood-Robed Queen Mother, Blood-Robed Buddha, and Blood-Robed Elder Lord waiting for him.
• Ji Wuzhou called Xiang Yuan for help, and Xiang Yuan arrived with the Six Paths Goddess and Queen Mother of the West as the groups began fighting.
• Xiang Yuan overwhelmed the Blood-Robed Elder Lord, while Queen Mother of the West killed the Blood-Robed Celestial Emperor and Blood-Robed Queen Mother; the Blood-Robed Buddha’s destruction released a vast swarm of black mosquitoes.
• Queen Mother of the West suppressed most of the swarm with Western Kunlun, but Xiang Yuan withdrew the immortal mountains when the mosquitoes began devouring them and then used Ten Suns Across the Sky to burn the creatures.
• Xiang Yuan and Queen Mother of the West joined their primordial yin and yang to destroy the remaining mosquitoes, revealing a Third-grade Golden Lotus formed from their Buddhist light.

Xiang Yuan refined the Three-Grade Golden Lotus into himself, then joined forces with Queen Mother of the West to turn the Dry Abyss Realm from illusion into reality and absorb countless worlds. As time flowed backward, he discovered that a young Daoist had created the three thousand worlds by destroying the world and remaking it with earth, water, fire, and wind.

• Xiang Yuan drew the Three-Grade Golden Lotus into his palm, then refined it together with his Nine-Grade Golden Lotus into his body.
• Xiang Yuan explained that the Heavenly Dao was shifting from the Divine Dao to the Immortal Dao, then persuaded Queen Mother of the West to take the lead in making him Jade Emperor.
• Queen Mother of the West and Xiang Yuan joined yin and yang, and the Six Paths Goddess projected the rivers of time as the Dry Abyss Realm began absorbing worlds.
• The Yin-Yang swimming fish brought the Dry Abyss Realm into the true river of time and gathered three thousand worlds into its expanding order.
• Xiang Yuan saw a young Daoist destroy the world with a Light of Chaos sword strike and remake it with earth, water, fire, and wind.
• The young Daoist turned toward Xiang Yuan as time flowed backward past him.

Xiang Yuan was dragged from the river of time by Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy, who revealed that he had returned to the Great Investiture of the Gods Tribulation to seize an advantage over his brothers. After Xiang Yuan studied the Heavenly Dao, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy summoned him to join the coming Immortal-Slaying Formation and outlined a plan that included taking Daoist Cihang from Yuanshi.

• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy seized Xiang Yuan from the river of time and brought him to Jade Wanderer Palace, where he killed Long-Eared Fixed-Light Immortal and revealed that he knew the future.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy explained that he intended to exploit his temporary advantage by having Xiang Yuan impersonate Long-Eared Fixed-Light Immortal during the Great Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Golden Spirit Holy Mother showed Xiang Yuan around Jade Wanderer Palace and told him ancient secrets about the Three Pure Ones and their sects.
• Xiang Yuan entered Great Luo Heaven, copied the earliest laws of the Heavenly Dao into his small world, and emerged from seclusion one hundred days later.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy told Xiang Yuan that Zhao Gongming had died and that he would establish the Immortal-Slaying Formation to seek justice.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy instructed Xiang Yuan to help carry out his plan and to take Daoist Cihang from Yuanshi in front of him.

Xiang Yuan watched Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy confront Venerable Lord of Morality and Primeval Heavenly Venerable, who entered the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation with Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti. As the formation’s battle turned against Zhunti and the Seven Attendant Immortals, Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy signaled Xiang Yuan, who revealed the Six Soul Banner.

• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy broke the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation and confronted Venerable Lord of Morality and Primeval Heavenly Venerable after they subdued the Three Xiao Immortals and their formation.
• Primeval Heavenly Venerable awakened the Twelve Golden Immortals, restored their ability to travel with the Vertical Golden Light Art, and accused Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy’s disciples of opposing Heaven’s mandate.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy summoned the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and established the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, then invited the two Heavenly Venerables inside.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti arrived, and Venerable Lord of Morality and Primeval Heavenly Venerable entered the four sword gates alongside them.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy sent his disciples to attack Jieyin and Zhunti; Zhunti brushed aside the Seven Attendant Immortals, while Xiang Yuan secretly watched for a chance to seize the Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree.
• Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy signaled the attack, and Xiang Yuan shielded Golden Light Immortal and Immortal Pilu before unfurling the Six Soul Banner.

Xiang Yuan helped Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy defeat the four sect leaders, then was forced into Primeval Heavenly Venerable’s plan to merge the Prehistoric Realm with the Dry Abyss Realm. At the origin of time, the Three Pure Ones revealed their roles in the cycle of creation and destruction, and Xiang Yuan prepared to establish a new Dao and begin the world’s creation.

• Xiang Yuan used the Six Soul Banner to shake the four sect leaders’ Dao hearts, letting Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy drive Venerable Lord of Morality and Primeval Heavenly Venerable from the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Xiang Yuan tricked Zhunti, took the Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree and the roots of the Yellow Springs Mother Tree, then defeated Zhunti with a single punch.
• Primeval Heavenly Venerable revealed Xiang Yuan’s connection to the coming Heavenly Dao and sent him toward the Dry Abyss Realm, but Xiang Yuan refused and followed Primeval Heavenly Venerable into the past.
• Xiang Yuan absorbed devastated Prehistoric Realms into his small world, then merged the Dry Abyss Realm with them as the River of Time carried him back to its origin.
• At the origin of time, Primeval Heavenly Venerable, Venerable Lord of Morality, and Numinous Treasure Heavenly Worthy explained the cycle of the Dao and left Xiang Yuan to unfold the Heavenly Dao.
• Xiang Yuan created two clones to split open heaven and teach the Three Thousand Great Daos while he planned to travel to the future and bring the women back.