Chapter Summaries

Chen Yuan established soul cultivation in the Yuan Chu World by adapting its origin and creating the Primordial Spirit Scripture. He enlisted the Human Race to spread the method, and the continent’s powers soon learned of the new system.

• Chen Yuan altered the Yuan Chu World's origin to support soul cultivation and created the Primordial Spirit Scripture, which even Apprentice Level lifeforms could practice.
• Chen Yuan gave the scripture to Original Ancestor, Giant Axe, Luo Feng, and Mountain Sitting Guest, who were shocked by its potential to advance soul cultivation.
• Chen Yuan explained how the world now supported the soul system and urged the four to cultivate it alongside their existing paths.
• Chen Yuan asked the Human Race to spread the Primordial Spirit Scripture across the Yuan Chu Continent and the lower realms, and they agreed.
• Chen Yuan returned to the Origin Space to cultivate in seclusion as the scripture spread and the continent’s powers learned of soul cultivation.

After ten epochs, the soul cultivation system had spread across the Yuan Chu World, allowing Chen Yuan to collect the Desire and Soul World Branches and optimize the Virtual Universe Secret Method. The method remained at the peak of the second level of the God King realm, but Chen Yuan discovered that enduring the cleansing of all living beings’ desires while remaining true to himself could reveal the fourth branch, True Self.

• The powers learned that Chen Yuan ruled the Yuan Chu World, and the Human Race used his backing to unify the Yuan Chu Continent and spread the soul cultivation system.
• Ten epochs later, the soul cultivation system had become a mainstream cultivation path, and its branches had been developed into many stronger techniques.
• Chen Yuan completed collecting the Desire and Soul World Branches and used their data to optimize the Virtual Universe Secret Method.
• The optimized Virtual Universe remained at Level Fourteen, Grade Six, so Chen Yuan concluded that the five branches did not complete the Soul Great Dao.
• After the Virtual Universe helped him grasp a trace of the Desire Branch, Chen Yuan realized that the fourth mind branch required enduring all living beings’ desires while remaining true to oneself.

Chen Yuan forged the Six Desires Pagoda and used it to withstand the desires of living beings as he condensed the True Self Branch. He also advanced the Soul World Branch, turning the Virtual Universe into the Yuan Chu World's Void Realm and leaving soul cultivation easier and increasingly prominent.

• Chen Yuan learned that he had to endure all living beings' desires while preserving his original heart to condense the True Self Branch, so he decided to forge a vessel for those desires.
• Chen Yuan spent a thousand years crafting the Six Desires Pagoda, then gathered and divided living beings' desires into six levels of intensity.
• Chen Yuan sent a mental incarnation into the pagoda's first level and began training against the desires, gradually strengthening his resistance over more than a dozen epochs.
• Chen Yuan advanced his Desire Branch and Soul World Branch, enabling him to gather desires from the Virtual Universe and use them to taint minds or help condense the True Self Branch.
• Chen Yuan used the Yuan Chu World to transform the Virtual Universe into a Void Realm, making soul cultivation easier and helping it become the world's mainstream cultivation system.

After more than a hundred eras of cultivation, Chen Yuan completed his ninth Second-Realm secret technique and advanced his Space-Time Fusion Dao to the Second-Level God King Realm, reaching God Emperor-level strength. He gained the ability to travel between Source Worlds and resolved to arrive openly on the Origin Continent while allowing his clansmen to train there.

• Chen Yuan continued studying the Space-Time Fusion Dao and created his ninth Second-Realm secret technique after three more eras.
• The Annihilation Branch and Fluctuation Branch fused, advancing Chen Yuan's Space-Time Fusion Dao to the Second Realm and transforming his Spacetime Body.
• Chen Yuan discovered that he could stabilize surrounding space-time and use Great World-Breaking Teleportation to reach distant Source Worlds.
• Chen Yuan's strength rose to the God Emperor level, while his Mind Saint Body reached God Emperor Early Stage and his Mind Will reached God Emperor Perfection.
• Chen Yuan decided to show himself openly on the Origin Continent and let his clansmen go there to temper themselves.

Chen Yuan mastered the Space-Time Dao, reaching God Emperor-level strength, and went to meet his master Difu before visiting the Yanfeng and Thunder Progenitors. Difu revealed that an Ultimate Realm Hunyuan Bloodline lifeform corpse he had secured for Chen Yuan might still be useful.

• Chen Yuan completed his first Second Realm Fusion Dao in the Space-Time Dao, and his willpower rose to God Emperor Perfection.
• Chen Yuan decided to seek guidance from the Yanfeng and Thunder Progenitors about God Emperor-level strength.
• Chen Yuan appeared undetected in Emperor Fu Palace and surprised Difu, who sensed that his disciple had become far stronger.
• Chen Yuan confirmed to Difu that he now possessed God Emperor-level strength.
• Difu said he had secured an Ultimate Realm Hunyuan Bloodline lifeform corpse for Chen Yuan, and Chen Yuan insisted he could still use it.

Chen Yuan explained that he needed Difu’s Ultimate Realm Hunyuan Bloodline corpse to strengthen the foundations of his other inheritances, then announced he would settle his clansmen in the former Food Kingdom and meet Yanfeng Progenitor. Difu went to request an audience, and the Progenitor emerged from his seclusion cave.

• Difu gave Chen Yuan the remains of a Twenty-Four Aspects lifeform, and Chen Yuan collected its forms to improve his study of the Great Dao of Life and the Great Dao of Matter.
• Difu told Chen Yuan he could appear openly as a God Emperor, and Chen Yuan said his clansmen would come from his hometown and settle in the Food Kingdom’s former territory.
• Chen Yuan told Difu he intended to meet Yanfeng Progenitor, and Difu agreed to ask for an audience.
• Difu reached Yanfeng Progenitor’s secluded cave, which opened as a figure emerged.

Difu told the Yanfeng Progenitor that his disciple Chen Yuan had advanced from True God to God Emperor in just over three hundred days, astonishing the Progenitor. After hearing how Chen Yuan had grown and learning of his conflict with Emperor Yan’s group, the Progenitor decided to befriend him and asked Difu to arrange a meeting.

• The Yanfeng Progenitor asked Difu to identify the newly ascended God Emperor, and Difu revealed that it was his disciple Chen Yuan.
• Difu explained that Chen Yuan had been a True God when they met and had reached God Emperor in just over three hundred days.
• The Yanfeng Progenitor questioned whether Chen Yuan was a powerful expert reincarnated, but Difu said Chen Yuan’s early Dao comprehension showed no sign of that.
• The Yanfeng Progenitor concluded that Chen Yuan was too exceptional to offend and decided he should be treated as an ally.
• Difu confessed that he had concealed Chen Yuan’s connection to Emperor Yan, Di Xi, and Diwu’s deaths, and the Yanfeng Progenitor dismissed his guilt because Emperor Yan’s group had struck first.
• The Yanfeng Progenitor asked Difu to take him to meet Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan repaired his life-form foundation and broke through Source Annihilation Record to the Second Layer while Difu met with Yanfeng Progenitor. After witnessing Chen Yuan’s breakthrough and learning about his time-acceleration opportunities, Yanfeng Progenitor recognized his extraordinary potential and welcomed him as an equal.

• Chen Yuan studied the life materials in Yuan Chu World for thousands of years and advanced Initial Path to the peak of the First Layer.
• With his life-form foundation repaired, Chen Yuan broke through Source Annihilation Record to the Second Layer.
• Difu returned to Emperor Fu Palace with Yanfeng Progenitor, who witnessed Chen Yuan’s breakthrough and was astonished that he had mastered physiques tied to different paths.
• Yanfeng Progenitor greeted Chen Yuan warmly and agreed that they could address each other as equals.
• Chen Yuan explained that stacked time acceleration let him cultivate for more than thirty epochs during just over three hundred days on the Origin Continent.
• Yanfeng Progenitor understood the reason for Chen Yuan’s rapid progress but still regarded him as a dazzling rising talent.

Yanfeng Progenitor tried to win Chen Yuan’s favor with an offer of resource-producing treasured places, but Chen Yuan refused and said he only wanted a quiet place to settle. Yanfeng then offered him the Food Kingdom’s neighboring nations, leaving Chen Yuan with a proposal to rule five hundred Chaos Provinces.

• Yanfeng Progenitor praised Chen Yuan’s rise from the resource-poor Universe Ocean and offered him a choice of treasured places he controlled.
• Chen Yuan refused the gift, suspecting Yanfeng Progenitor’s sudden generosity and explaining that he could produce the resources himself.
• Yanfeng Progenitor offered to help Chen Yuan establish a power, but Chen Yuan said he only wanted to settle and house his clansmen.
• Chen Yuan claimed the Food Kingdom’s territory because its three former Kingdom Lords had karmic entanglements with him.
• Yanfeng Progenitor offered Chen Yuan the surrounding nations as well, expanding his proposed territory to five hundred Chaos Provinces.

Chen Yuan asked Yanfeng Progenitor to grant him five hundred Chaos Provinces and announced a rule against Great Sinners who devoured vast numbers of lives. Yanfeng Progenitor helped enforce the rule and went to invite the other God Emperors, including Thunder Progenitor, whose opposition could lead to a wagered battle.

• Chen Yuan accepted the territory around the Food Kingdom after Yanfeng Progenitor promised to compensate its former rulers.
• Chen Yuan asked Yanfeng Progenitor to arrange a gathering of the God Emperors and announce his proposed rule against Great Sinners.
• Yanfeng Progenitor warned that Thunder Progenitor would likely oppose the rule because Great Sinners lived in his kingdom, but Chen Yuan said he would wager a battle if necessary.
• Yanfeng Progenitor sent an invisible wind across the Origin Continent, erasing Great Sinners outside the Thunder Ancient Kingdom and East Extremity Domain, including Emperor Yuan and Snow Realm Progenitor.
• Yanfeng Progenitor left to invite the other God Emperors and traveled to Thunder Mountain to contact Thunder Progenitor.

Yanfeng Progenitor told Thunder Progenitor that Chen Yuan might possess two Second Realm Fusion Daos and could eventually become the master of the Origin Continent. He persuaded Thunder Progenitor to challenge Chen Yuan in a wager battle, then deliberately lose and enforce Chen Yuan’s rules against Great Sinners to earn his favor.

• Yanfeng Progenitor summoned Thunder Progenitor and explained that Chen Yuan had reached the God Emperor Realm after only a little over three hundred days of cultivation.
• Yanfeng Progenitor said Chen Yuan had mastered Spacetime Walker and Source Annihilation Record, potentially putting him close to qualifying to refine the Origin Continent.
• Thunder Progenitor agreed that Chen Yuan might transcend the Cage and asked Yanfeng Progenitor to verify the inheritances; Yanfeng Progenitor cited Difu’s report and his own observation of Chen Yuan’s aura.
• Yanfeng Progenitor revealed that Chen Yuan planned to eradicate Great Sinners and proposed that Thunder Progenitor use the rule as a reason to challenge him in a wager battle.
• Thunder Progenitor agreed to test Chen Yuan, deliberately let him win, and enforce the rules against Great Sinners in the Thunder Ancient Kingdom.
• Yanfeng Progenitor left Thunder Mountain and invited the East Extremity Domain Progenitor and Emperor Qing, who both agreed to attend the gathering.

Chen Yuan arrived in the Food Kingdom and subdued Skull Peak God King, who had been plundering its treasury after Kingdom Lord Tiankun’s death. Chen Yuan spared him but ordered him to serve for ten thousand eras, then announced that he would establish the Yuan Chu God Kingdom with the Ancient Kingdom of Yanfeng’s support.

• Skull Peak God King planned to loot the Food Kingdom’s resources and flee before neighboring Kingdom Lords seized its territory.
• Chen Yuan froze the capital’s space-time, shrank Skull Peak God King, and discovered that he had been stealing the kingdom’s treasures.
• Skull Peak God King surrendered the treasures, and Chen Yuan spared him while sentencing him to serve for ten thousand eras.
• Chen Yuan told Skull Peak God King that he would take over the Food Kingdom and neighboring lands to establish a new nation.
• Difu announced that the Ancient Kingdom of Yanfeng had granted the surrounding territories to God Emperor Yuan Chu and would help establish the Yuan Chu God Kingdom.

Chen Yuan dispatched Skull Peak God King to deliver Yanfeng’s orders and summoned Irel and Tuyuan to take control of the Food Kingdom’s territory. After they departed, Chen Yuan considered how to strengthen Tuyuan and received word that the gathering had begun.

• Difu explained that Chen Yuan was a God Emperor, and Skull Peak God King eagerly accepted his orders to deliver Yanfeng’s commands and help stabilize the neighboring kingdoms’ territories.
• Skull Peak God King set out with more than a dozen avatars, each accompanied by one of Difu’s incarnations.
• Chen Yuan summoned Tuyuan and Irel, and Difu was astonished that Irel had reached the Second-Level God King Realm in just over three hundred days.
• Chen Yuan explained that Irel’s rapid cultivation came from her connection to the Virtual Universe and its Soul Great Dao, then sent her and Tuyuan to bring the Food Kingdom’s territory under Yuan Chu God Kingdom’s rule.
• Chen Yuan resolved to feed Great Sinners to Tuyuan and considered challenging the Thunder Progenitor, but a transmission from the Yanfeng Progenitor announced that the gathering had begun.

Chen Yuan met the Origin World’s God Emperors at a gathering in Yanfeng’s secluded world, where he learned Thunder Progenitor’s real name and revealed how quickly he had advanced. The other God Emperors were left astonished by his cultivation speed.

• Yanfeng Progenitor told Chen Yuan that Emperor Qing was delayed while adventuring in the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, and the group waited for him.
• Yanfeng Progenitor introduced Feng Xi and Thunder Progenitor to Chen Yuan, then Emperor Qing arrived from the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm.
• Thunder Progenitor revealed that his real name was Xiuma, and Chen Yuan greeted him by that name.
• Yanfeng Progenitor explained that Chen Yuan, also known as Yuan Chu or Shiyuan, came from the Universe Ocean and had cultivated for just over three hundred days.
• Chen Yuan clarified that Time Acceleration meant his actual cultivation time exceeded three hundred Eras, leaving Emperor Qing and Feng Xi shocked.

Chen Yuan proposed that all Great Sinners be eliminated from the Origin Continent, but the Thunder Progenitor opposed him, arguing that even ruthless cultivators could contribute to the world’s potential. Chen Yuan challenged the Thunder Progenitor to a spar to prove his worth, and the Thunder Progenitor wagered that he would become Chen Yuan’s follower if Chen Yuan defeated him.

• Chen Yuan proposed banning Great Sinners from the Origin Continent and eliminating those already there.
• The Yanfeng Progenitor revealed that he had killed Emperor Yuan and other Great Sinners outside the Thunder Ancient Kingdom, while Feng Xi and Emperor Qing supported Chen Yuan’s rule.
• The Thunder Progenitor objected, arguing that Great Sinners could become powerful cultivators and that eliminating them would waste the Source World’s potential.
• Chen Yuan argued that his value would surpass that of the Great Sinners if his talent proved greater, and challenged the Thunder Progenitor to spar.
• The Thunder Progenitor wagered that he would become Chen Yuan’s follower if Chen Yuan defeated him, and Chen Yuan accepted.

Chen Yuan and Thunder Progenitor fought barehanded in the Universe Ocean, where Chen Yuan revealed formidable Life-and-Death Dao techniques and Mind Will. Thunder Progenitor broke their agreement by deploying a formation-type secret treasure, forcing Chen Yuan to switch into his Spacetime Walker form and escape its range.

• Chen Yuan and Thunder Progenitor agreed to fight without secret treasures, and Thunder Progenitor let Chen Yuan strike first.
• Chen Yuan’s Primordial Life-and-Death Finger damaged one of Thunder Progenitor’s nine incarnations, impressing the watching God Emperors.
• Thunder Progenitor attacked with nine creatures, but Chen Yuan used his Mind Will to drive them back and severely injure a spiritual creature.
• Thunder Progenitor formed a lightning formation and battled Chen Yuan for more than a hundred million moves without finding a way to defeat him.
• Thunder Progenitor used his Ten Absolutes Grand Formation secret treasures, and Chen Yuan switched into Spacetime Walker Form and stepped outside its range.

Chen Yuan switched to his Spacetime Body to evade Thunder Progenitor’s Ten Extremity Array and gain the upper hand. He ended the battle by severing Thunder Progenitor’s connection to the formation, then declared victory.

• Chen Yuan’s Spacetime Body escaped the Ten Extremity Array’s suppression, while Thunder Progenitor realized Chen Yuan might have mastered four Second-Realm daos.
• Thunder Progenitor decided to continue fighting rather than reveal that he wanted to follow Chen Yuan.
• Chen Yuan tested the formation’s limits as he dodged its attacks and launched surprise strikes that Thunder Progenitor struggled to block.
• Chen Yuan used Space-Time: Calamity Extinction to shatter space-time around Thunder Progenitor and sever his connection to the Ten Extremity Array.
• Chen Yuan broke the formation and told Thunder Progenitor that he had won.

Chen Yuan defeated Thunder Progenitor in their wager battle and established a continent-wide ban on great sins, arranging for the Great Sinners’ corpses to be preserved for his Sector Beast. As the others departed, the progenitors of the two ancient kingdoms bowed and offered to follow him.

• Thunder Progenitor conceded defeat to Chen Yuan and promised to obey rules Chen Yuan established.
• Chen Yuan revealed that he used the Perfect Level inheritances Source Annihilation Record and Spacetime Walker, then declared the new rules for Great Sinners.
• Thunder Progenitor executed the Great Sinners in the Thunder Ancient Kingdom and preserved their corpses for Chen Yuan’s Sector Beast.
• The four powers proclaimed across the Origin Continent that anyone committing great sins would be executed.
• East Extremity Domain Progenitor Feng Xi and Emperor Qing departed, and Yanfeng and Xiuma bowed to Chen Yuan, saying they were willing to follow him.

Yanfeng Progenitor and Thunder Progenitor revealed that they wanted to follow Chen Yuan because they believed he could transcend the Cage and refine the Origin Continent’s origin source. After Chen Yuan explained that his Fusion Dao had advanced beyond his ordinary Great Daos, they chose to follow him anyway, making him the Origin Continent’s absolute ruler.

• Yanfeng Progenitor and Thunder Progenitor explained that they had tested Chen Yuan’s Dao mastery during the wager battle because they thought he might master four second-level Great Daos.
• Chen Yuan told the two Progenitors that his Fusion Dao had reached the second level through a Perfect Level inheritance, while his related ordinary Great Daos remained at the first level.
• Chen Yuan considered accepting their allegiance to help secure the Origin Continent as a home and training ground for the Human Race.
• Yanfeng Progenitor and Thunder Progenitor decided to follow Chen Yuan even after learning he had not mastered four second-level Great Daos.
• Chen Yuan accepted Yanfeng Progenitor and Thunder Progenitor as his followers, becoming the Origin Continent’s absolute ruler.

Chen Yuan asked Yanfeng and Xiuma to gather Soul Great Dao-related inheritances and other resources from the Dark Sacred Realm, planning to fund the purchases himself and use the materials to build a new source of income. He also arranged for God Kings to help staff the Yuan Chu God Kingdom, while declining to expand its territory for now.

• Chen Yuan told the two Progenitors he would remain on the Origin Continent for now and did not need them to protect his path.
• Chen Yuan asked Yanfeng and Xiuma to collect fragmented Soul Great Dao inheritances and other soul-related inheritance records from the Dark Sacred Realm.
• Chen Yuan requested God Emperor-level materials, Great Dao inheritances, and information about Great Daos beyond the Origin Continent, promising to repay the purchase costs.
• Chen Yuan explained that he planned to learn artifact refinement and alchemy so he could produce goods and earn Hunyuan Crystals.
• Chen Yuan asked Yanfeng and Thunder to transfer God Kings from the Two Ancient Kingdoms to help staff the Yuan Chu God Kingdom, but declined to expand its territory beyond five hundred Chaos Provinces.