Chapter Summaries

Xuandu told Kunpeng that his Three Corpses path was a dead end, then taught him a perilous method to refine the laws within them and pursue Hunyuan. He sent Fuxi toward rebirth as a human, while Hongjun watched and realized Xuandu had exposed the secret flaw in the Three Corpses method.

• Xuandu warned Kunpeng that refining the laws within his Three Corpses could destroy his cultivation or Divine Soul, but Kunpeng chose to risk it.
• Xuandu gave Kunpeng the method to refine his Three Corpses and return their laws to himself, and Kunpeng left to cultivate in seclusion in the Northern Sea.
• Fuxi asked whether he could follow Kunpeng's path, but Xuandu said his Dao lay with the Human Race and asked if he would enter Reincarnation.
• Fuxi agreed to be reborn as a human, and Xuandu sent him to find Empress Houtu so she could arrange his entry into the Human Path.
• Hongjun watched the exchange from Purple Heaven Palace and realized Xuandu had publicly revealed that the Three Corpses method required three Same Origin Supreme Treasures to avoid becoming a dead end.

Hongjun suspected that Xuandu possessed the Chaos Bead and had secretly perfected the Earth Dao, but accepted that Xuandu’s plans were already beyond reversal. He withdrew to Purple Heaven Palace and began using Heavenly Dao Origin Power to revive Nuwa.

• Hongjun reconsidered Yang Mei’s denial and suspected Xuandu had refined the Earth Book and aided Houtu.
• Hongjun reasoned that Xuandu might have used the Chaos Bead to conceal his actions and concluded that Xuandu could not be confronted by force.
• Hongjun left Golden Ao Island and returned to Purple Heaven Palace, where Nuwa’s scattered Origin Power was being restored.
• Hongjun poured more Heavenly Dao Origin Power into Nuwa’s Origin Power, causing an illusory figure resembling her to take shape.

Hongjun used the Heavenly Dao’s Origin to resurrect Nuwa and told her to recover in the Purple Heaven Palace until the Investiture of the Gods Great Tribulation. Nuwa agreed to serve in the coming conflict, determined to kill Xuandu.

• Hongjun accelerated Nuwa’s resurrection with the Heavenly Dao’s Origin, restoring her Saint Body, True Spirit, and Dao Fruit.
• Nuwa awoke and learned that Hongjun had saved her after Xuandu killed her.
• Hongjun ordered Nuwa to remain in the Purple Heaven Palace and recover, warning her that she had been defeated because she was inferior to Xuandu.
• Hongjun explained that the Next Kalpa’s Investiture of the Gods Great Tribulation would be the Interception Sect’s calamity and Xuandu’s as well.
• Nuwa knelt and vowed to kill Xuandu in the Next Kalpa, then watched Hongjun disappear and renewed her vow for revenge.

Tongtian told Xuandu that Nuwa had revived in Purple Heaven Palace after Dao Ancestor Hongjun hastened her return. Xuandu calmly accepted the threat and told Tongtian he planned to venture into Chaos.

• Xuandu observed the Interception Sect disciples cultivating and saw that several were advancing in their understanding of laws.
• Tongtian sealed Biyou Palace from Heavenly Secrets and Karma, then told Xuandu that Nuwa had revived through Hongjun's intervention.
• Tongtian revealed that Nuwa was in Purple Heaven Palace, and Xuandu concluded that Hongjun intended her to play a role in the next kalpa.
• Xuandu said he would wait for Nuwa to return and seek revenge, confident that he could defeat her even after her cultivation recovered.
• Xuandu told Tongtian that he intended to travel into Chaos, despite the dangers left by the clash between Yang Mei and Hongjun.

Xuandu concealed himself with the Chaos Bead and left the Great Wilderness to seek Chaos Beings he could recruit as disciples. In the Underworld, Fuxi asked Houtu to send him into Reincarnation so he could be reborn as a human and begin his cultivation anew.

• Tongtian warned Xuandu that Yang Mei might still be nearby in Chaos, but let him go after Xuandu assured him he was prepared.
• Xuandu surveyed the Jie Sect disciples on Golden Ao Island and decided he needed more disciples and fortune to advance his cultivation.
• Xuandu used the Chaos Bead to conceal his aura, Karma, and existence, then quietly left the Great Wilderness World for Chaos.
• Fuxi arrived in the Underworld and told Houtu he wanted to enter Reincarnation and be reborn as a human.
• Houtu learned that Xuandu had directed Fuxi to her and recognized that Fuxi's destiny lay with the Human Race and the future Sage Emperor.
• Fuxi told Houtu he was unafraid to lose his cultivation and memories because starting over offered a path forward beyond his Quasi-Saint Peak bottleneck.

Fuxi entered Reincarnation through the Human Dao Gate, beginning his path toward becoming the Human Emperor, while Xuandu traveled deeper into Chaos. Nearby, Yang Mei sensed a spatial fluctuation but could not discover its source.

• Houtu arranged for Fuxi to reincarnate as a human, and Fuxi asked her to tell him about his past life after he regained his cultivation.
• Fuxi entered the Human Dao Gate, and Houtu said his return would mark the birth of the Human Emperor and the beginning of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors era.
• Xuandu found that Chaos freed him from Heavenly Dao suppression and that Chaos Qi nourished his cultivation.
• Xuandu hurried farther into Chaos to avoid revealing himself to Yang Mei, leaving the Great Wilderness increasingly distant behind him.
• Yang Mei sensed a spatial fluctuation near the Great Wilderness but found no trace of its source.

Yang Mei sensed an undetectable being had left the Great Wilderness and waited in Chaos to discover who it was. Xuandu searched Chaos, found a mid-stage Golden Immortal of the Origin, and set out to recruit it as his disciple.

• Yang Mei connected a lingering karmic trace to the being that had vanished from the Great Wilderness and waited for it to return from Chaos.
• Xuandu stopped after traveling through Chaos for a hundred years, using the Chaos Bead to conceal his aura from Yang Mei.
• Xuandu examined the Human Race Elite inside the Chaos Bead and found that ten had become Daluo Golden Immortals, while thousands more had advanced in cultivation.
• Xuandu searched Chaos for a hundred years, then sensed a distant Chaos Being and identified it as a mid-stage Golden Immortal of the Origin.
• Xuandu judged the Chaos Being to have great potential and headed toward it, intending to recruit it as his disciple.

Xuandu found a Chaos Whale, named him Whale Fall, and took him as a Jie Sect disciple, sending him into the Chaos Bead to cultivate. As Xuandu prepared to search Chaos for more beings, he sensed a powerful primordial aura racing toward him from the depths.

• Xuandu tracked a sleeping Chaos Whale for years, then approached while its defenses were weak.
• Xuandu named the whale Whale Fall and invited him to join the Jie Sect.
• Whale Fall accepted, received the sect rules and cultivation method, and entered the Chaos Bead to cultivate in the North Sea Depths.
• Xuandu received fortune feedback from taking Whale Fall as a disciple, but it was not enough to break through his bottleneck.
• Xuandu sensed a powerful, tyrannical primordial aura charging toward him through Chaos.

Xuandu concealed himself with the Chaos Bead and discovered that Taotie, one of the Four Fierce Beasts, had survived in Chaos and served the still-living Beast Emperor Shenni. After Taotie returned to search the area again, Xuandu remained hidden, watching him.

• Xuandu sensed a powerful Great Wilderness aura, concealed himself with the Chaos Bead, and watched from ten thousand miles away.
• Taotie emerged from the Chaos Depths, furious that someone had taken Whale Fall, which he called his Emperor's food.
• Xuandu recognized Taotie and realized Shenni and the Four Fierce Beasts had survived the Ferocious Beast Tribulation by fleeing into Chaos.
• Taotie searched for a hundred years, then left; Xuandu waited in hiding in case Taotie returned to catch a watcher.
• Taotie reappeared and carefully searched the area while Xuandu continued concealing himself.

Xuandu secretly followed Taotie after learning that Whale Fall’s ancient bloodline had been meant to help Shen Ni break through a bottleneck. Taotie found an injured Fifth Heaven Chaos Being in a raging storm and attacked it, leaving Xuandu watching as the sleeping being awoke.

• Taotie searched the area for three years, then admitted that Whale Fall’s ancient bloodline could have helped Shen Ni break through his bottleneck.
• Xuandu waited until Taotie left, then used the Chaos Bead to follow it from a safe distance and learn that it was searching for Zenith Heaven-level Chaos Beings.
• After searching for several hundred years without finding a suitable target, Taotie headed toward a region of violent Chaos storms to hunt an injured being.
• Taotie waited ten years for the storm to ease, then charged into it and roared, awakening the powerful being hidden within.

Xuandu waited as Taotie defeated the wounded Chaos Silver Python, preparing to strike while Taotie tried to devour it. The chapter ended as Xuandu unleashed the Chaos Light from his palm.

• Taotie attacked the wounded Chaos Silver Python, hoping to devour its origin for Shen Ni.
• Taotie gained the advantage, tearing into the Silver Python as its strength and resistance dwindled.
• Xuandu watched from ten thousand li away and prepared Chaos Light, intending to subdue Taotie and the Silver Python as disciples.
• The Silver Python warned Taotie that Shen Ni would not spare it, but Taotie declared that its emperor would claim all of Chaos.
• Taotie released the dying Silver Python and opened its maw to swallow it, and Xuandu unleashed his Chaos Light.

Xuandu confronted Taotie in Chaos, first wounding him with Chaos Light and then revealing his Martial Dao Law in close combat. He overwhelmed Taotie with a series of punches, leaving the ferocious beast badly injured and retreating under the assault.

• Xuandu struck Taotie with a Chaos Light Pillar, breaking his scales and opening a deep wound.
• Xuandu identified himself as a member of the Interception Sect, but Taotie dismissed him as an unknown junior and attacked.
• Xuandu fired another Chaos Light Pillar, grazing Taotie and reopening his wound as Taotie charged into close combat.
• Xuandu unleashed his Martial Dao Law and punched Taotie's fangs, sending him flying and cracking them.
• Xuandu battered Taotie with successive punches, shattering his claws and scales and breaking his shoulder and chest.

Xuandu defeated Taotie and forced it to become his disciple, then approached the wounded Chaos Silver Python with the same apparent intention. The chapter ended as the Silver Python realized it had been Xuandu’s target all along.

• Xuandu shattered Taotie's skull and gave it the choice to submit or die.
• Taotie feared Shen Ni's retaliation but realized Shen Ni would punish it for Whale Fall's disappearance, so it acknowledged Xuandu as its master.
• Xuandu bestowed the Jie Sect Rules, Cultivation Method, and Hunyuan Dao upon Taotie.
• Xuandu approached the gravely wounded Chaos Silver Python and asked what it wanted.
• The Silver Python realized Xuandu had targeted it as well and reacted with disbelief and horror.

Xuandu persuaded the injured Chaos Silver Python to become his disciple and sent him and Taotie into the Chaos Bead to cultivate. He then hid in Silver Python’s former lair, planning to refine the disciples’ cultivation feedback and break through.

• Xuandu explained that Silver Python had no cultivation guidance and would remain vulnerable to the Chaos’s fierce beasts, and Silver Python agreed to become his disciple.
• Xuandu imparted cultivation methods, Jie Sect Rules, the Hunyuan Dao, and healing methods to Silver Python, then sent him into the Chaos Bead to cultivate.
• Taotie and Silver Python entered the Bead World, where Taotie appeared in the Western Wasteland and Silver Python in the North Sea Abyss.
• Xuandu realized Shen Ni might trace Taotie’s disappearance and went into the storm to seek a safe place to refine the disciples’ feedback.
• Xuandu settled in Silver Python’s former nest, where dense Chaos Qi and the two disciples’ cultivation feedback could help him break through.

Xuandu refined Taotie and the Silver Python’s feedback, advancing from the Third Heaven to Mid Fifth Heaven and strengthening his Chaos Demon God Pedigree. He asked Taotie where the other three Fierce Beasts were, and Taotie eagerly prepared to tell him.

• Xuandu broke through to the Fourth Heaven and then the Fifth Heaven, reaching Mid Fifth Heaven after the Silver Python’s feedback was exhausted.
• Xuandu sensed that the origins had strengthened his pedigree and considered subduing Chaos, Qiongqi, and Taotie to approach a Top-tier Chaos Demon God Pedigree.
• Xuandu reasoned that Shen Ni would face Dao Ancestor Hongjun if he entered the Great Wilderness, then summoned Taotie through the Chaos Bead.
• Xuandu asked Taotie where the other three Fierce Beasts were, and Taotie reacted with excitement at the chance to lead his former rivals to Xuandu.

Xuandu learned that Chaos, Qiongqi, and Taotie were in the Xuandi Heavenly Domain, a sacred realm created by a sleeping Grand Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin. Taotie offered to lead him there through a spatial rift, and Xuandu used Chaos Light to heal Taotie, leaving him stunned.

• Taotie told Xuandu that Chaos, Qiongqi, and Taotie were in the Xuandi Heavenly Domain, where laws and spiritual energy were especially abundant.
• Taotie explained that the domain’s creator had been asleep for hundreds of millions of epochs and that he remembered a spatial rift leading near the domain.
• Xuandu decided to travel there and recognized that Taotie wanted to reunite with the other Fierce Beasts.
• Xuandu sent Chaos Light toward the badly injured Taotie, who feared his master was attacking him.
• Taotie discovered that the Chaos Light healed his scales, bones, chest, and depleted origin instead of harming him.

Xuandu healed Taotie and secured his wholehearted submission, then set out with him for the Xuandi Heavenly Domain. Taotie planned to recruit the other three Fierce Beasts into the Jie Sect, while Xuandu intended to use their recruitment to strengthen himself.

• Xuandu explained that he had injured Taotie to subdue him and healed him to put him to use, and Taotie accepted him as his master.
• Xuandu taught Taotie a Chaos Qi healing method, and Taotie offered to lead him to the Xuandi Heavenly Domain.
• Taotie carried Xuandu through the Chaos toward the spatial rift that led to the Xuandi Heavenly Domain.
• Taotie planned to recruit Chaos, Qiongqi, and Taotie into the Jie Sect and looked forward to surpassing his old rivals.
• Xuandu planned to recruit the three Fierce Beasts and use the resulting gains to pursue the Sixth Heaven or Seventh Heaven before confronting Shen Ni.

Xuandu and Taotie reached the rift to the Xuandi Heavenly Domain, where Shen Ni and the other fierce beasts were. Xuandu concealed Taotie’s allegiance with the Chaos Bead and sent him into the domain to lure Chaos, Qiongqi, and Taotie out one by one while Xuandu waited outside.

• Taotie brought Xuandu to a vast rift leading to the Xuandi Heavenly Domain and explained that Shen Ni and the fierce beasts were there.
• Xuandu decided not to enter because Shen Ni might detect him, and told Taotie to pretend to be badly injured and report a powerful enemy outside.
• Xuandu used the Chaos Bead to conceal Taotie’s aura, Karma, and origin so Shen Ni would not discover his betrayal.
• Xuandu instructed Taotie to lure Chaos, Qiongqi, and Taotie out of the domain one by one, then watched him enter the rift.

Xuandu waited outside the Xuandi Heavenly Domain while Taotie lured Qiongqi out by pretending to be gravely wounded and fleeing from a powerful enemy. Qiongqi followed Taotie deep into Chaos, and Xuandu secretly pursued them, preparing to strike once they were far enough from the domain.

• Xuandu concealed himself with the Chaos Bead and waited for Taotie to draw the other Fierce Beasts out of the Xuandi Heavenly Domain.
• Taotie emerged from the rift pretending to be badly injured, and Xuandu silently acknowledged his signal.
• Qiongqi rushed out of the rift, believed Taotie's story about a powerful enemy with a supreme treasure, and demanded to be led to him.
• Taotie led Qiongqi away from the domain while Xuandu stayed behind briefly before secretly following them.
• Xuandu tracked Taotie and Qiongqi through Chaos, remaining undetected as they traveled farther from the Xuandi Heavenly Domain.

Qiongqi followed Taotie to the place where Xuandu had appeared, then attacked him in pursuit of the supposed supreme treasure. Xuandu’s strike wounded Qiongqi with Fifth Heaven power, but Qiongqi began healing and remained consumed by greed for the treasure.

• Taotie led Qiongqi to the eerie stillness in Chaos where he had lost Xuandu, and Qiongqi ordered him to search separately for the treasure.
• Xuandu appeared before Qiongqi, and Taotie identified him as the man carrying a supreme treasure.
• Qiongqi sensed Xuandu’s Third Heaven cultivation, dismissed him as an ant, and charged to seize the treasure.
• Xuandu struck Qiongqi with a Chaos Light Pillar whose power reached the Fifth Heaven, sending him flying and tearing open a deep wound.
• Qiongqi recovered from the strike and, believing the treasure could let him wield Seventh Heaven power, fixed his greedy gaze on Xuandu.