Chapter Summaries

Xiao Heng explored the World Tree Offshoot his father left for the Heavenly Court and realized that building trusted bonds would help secure its future. Meanwhile, clans across the Great Thousand World reacted to his breakthrough, and the chapter ended with Gu Xun'er joining him beneath the tree.

• Xiao Huang'er sent Xiao Heng a message inviting him to visit the Heavenly Court with Tai Yao and Ling'er, while planning to find him potential brides.
• Ancestor Taiming drafted an invitation to the Heavenly Court, using the Saintess Spirit Seal as a pretext and preparing lavish gifts.
• Ancient clans across the Great Thousand World learned that Xiao Heng had reached the Third Sequence God and began investigating eligible young women and preparing gifts.
• Xiao Heng visited the Heavenly Court's World Tree Offshoot, felt its resonance with his Chaos Law, and recognized its importance to the court's future.
• Xiao Heng realized his father had wanted him to build a stable circle of wives, Dao companions, and allies to help sustain the Heavenly Court.
• Gu Xun'er arrived beside Xiao Heng, and he told her he was looking at the foundation his father had left for the Heavenly Court.

Gu Xun'er discussed Xiao Heng’s future marriage and the Heavenly Court’s stability with him, agreeing to choose candidates without forcing him. Xiao Huang'er arranged for friends to visit, and the news that Xiao Heng would choose a Dao companion brought candidates from across the Great Thousand World to the Heavenly Court for a month-long selection.

• Gu Xun'er told Xiao Heng that his marriage concerned the Heavenly Court’s future, and Xiao Heng said he wanted a willing Dao companion rather than a political arrangement.
• Gu Xun'er agreed to select candidates without forcing Xiao Heng, on the condition that he put the Heavenly Court first after his father left.
• Gu Xun'er told Xiao Heng that Xiao Huang'er would bring friends to visit, while Xiao Huang'er received Tai Yun’s message that her group was ready.
• The announcement of Xiao Heng’s Dao companion selection drew envoys and candidates from major factions across the Great Thousand World to the Heavenly Court.
• Gu Xun'er, Qing Xuan, and Qing Yanjing screened candidates for character and then questioned those remaining about cultivation and the Dao path.

Gu Xun'er reviewed five candidates for Xiao Heng and decided their meeting should depend on his wishes. Xiao Huang'er brought Tai Yun, Tai Yao, and Tai Ling'er to the Heavenly Court, while Qing Yue prepared to meet Qing Tian about the Heavenly Court’s intentions.

• Gu Xun'er considered candidates from several factions and favored Tai Yun, Tai Yao, Tai Ling'er, Qing Yue, and Yao Xi as potential matches for Xiao Heng.
• Xiao Huang'er praised the three women from the Supreme Spirit Ancient Clan and arranged to bring them to the Heavenly Court as guests.
• Gu Xun'er arranged for Qing Yue to come with Qing Yanjing and left Yao Xi’s arrangements to Xiao Qing, while stressing that Xiao Heng’s wishes mattered most.
• Tai Yun, Tai Yao, and Tai Ling'er arrived at the Heavenly Court, where Xiao Huang'er welcomed them and said Xiao Heng would be there that day.
• Qing Tian told Qing Yue that he had explained the Heavenly Court’s intentions to her.

Xiao Heng met Tai Yun, Tai Yao, Tai Ling'er, Qing Yue, and Yao Xi at a banquet and agreed to marry them. Gu Xun'er announced the betrothal, and the Heavenly Court celebrated as news reached the Supreme Spirit Ancient Clan.

• Qing Yue agreed to travel to the Heavenly Court to meet Xiao Heng, while Yao Xi received a message about him and left the Sword Territory for the Heavenly Court.
• Xiao Heng attended a banquet with Tai Yun, Tai Yao, Tai Ling'er, Qing Yue, and Yao Xi, and quietly assessed each of them.
• Xiao Heng told Gu Xun'er that he approved of the five women, and she declared the marriage settled.
• Gu Xun'er formally announced that Xiao Heng would marry Tai Yun, Tai Yao, Tai Ling'er, Qing Yue, and Yao Xi, prompting celebrations across the Heavenly Court.
• Ancestor Taiming received the news while playing chess with Qin Tian, and the Nine Provinces Continent prepared for a grand celebration.

Xiao Heng married Tai Yun, Tai Yao, Tai Ling'er, Qing Yue, and Yao Xi in a grand ceremony that bound the Heavenly Court more closely to powerful clans. After confirming that the Great Thousand World was stable and Xiao Heng was ready to bear greater responsibility, Xiao Qing left for the Chaos beyond it to search for Luo Qingxian.

• The Great Thousand World’s major forces arrived at the Heavenly Court for Xiao Heng’s wedding, and Xiao Qing advised his son to balance the interests of the allied clans.
• On the ninth day of the ninth month, five bridal processions entered the Heavenly Court, and Xiao Heng married Tai Yun, Tai Yao, Tai Ling'er, Qing Yue, and Yao Xi.
• At the wedding banquet, Ancestor Taiming and Qin Tian discussed how the other Ancient Clans might oppose the growing alliance between the Supreme Spirit Ancient Clan and the Heavenly Court.
• Xiao Heng told Xiao Huang'er that he felt the weight of his new responsibilities and vowed not to disappoint Xiao Qing.
• At the end of the ninetieth year of the Heavenly Emperor Calendar, Xiao Qing left the Great Thousand World and turned toward the River of Time to search for Luo Qingxian.

Xiao Qing traced Luo Qingxian’s path through time and discovered that an epoch-level Spacetime Tide had swept her away during her breakthrough into godhood. Following her Life Origin imprint through the River of Time, he encountered an immense ancient dragon beside the river.

• Xiao Qing witnessed Luo Qingxian seal the Heavenly Evil God’s aftermath, travel into Chaos, and cultivate until she was ready to become a Third Sequence God.
• Xiao Qing reached the ancient star where Luo Qingxian had attempted her breakthrough and saw how the fragile space-time barrier, her breakthrough, and remnants of an ancient divine battle combined to create an epoch-level Spacetime Tide.
• Xiao Qing reactivated Luo Qingxian’s law imprint with Chaos Divine Fire and used her Life Origin imprint to trace her into the depths of Chaos.
• Xiao Qing walked upstream through the River of Time toward the history of the Tianyuan Realm, resisting its destructive currents and fragments.
• An enormous ancient dragon appeared beside the River of Time, opened its star-sized eyes, and faced Xiao Qing.

Xiao Qing met the Ancestral Dragon’s remnant thought, which asked him to protect Yao Yao, an unborn descendant being nurtured in Tianyuan Realm. The Ancestral Dragon explained that Saint God threatened the realm and began to reveal that it had once chosen someone else to guide Yao Yao’s birth.

• The Ancestral Dragon’s remnant thought congratulated Xiao Qing on becoming an Innate Chaos Deity, and Xiao Qing recognized it as the legendary Ancestral Dragon.
• The Ancestral Dragon examined Xiao Qing and found that he had reached Half-Step Transcendence while retaining traces of his mortal origins.
• The Ancestral Dragon showed Xiao Qing a Divine Stone containing the unborn Yao Yao and asked him to watch over her.
• Xiao Qing learned that the Ancestral Dragon had nurtured Yao Yao as a guardian for Tianyuan Realm against Saint God, who intended to sacrifice its living beings.
• The Ancestral Dragon revealed that it had chosen someone to guide and protect Yao Yao before its death.

Ancestral Dragon explained why Xiao Qing was better suited than Zhou Yuan to guide and protect Yao Yao against Saint God, then offered him its core in exchange for accepting that responsibility. Xiao Qing agreed, and after Ancestral Dragon’s remnant vanished, he took the core and felt its vast Dao intent.

• Ancestral Dragon told Xiao Qing that it had originally chosen Zhou Yuan to guide Yao Yao but saw Xiao Qing as a better choice after glimpsing changes in the River of Time.
• Ancestral Dragon explained that Xiao Qing’s power and understanding of both divinity and the mortal world could protect and guide Yao Yao against Saint God.
• Ancestral Dragon offered Xiao Qing its core, containing its Great Dao insights, as compensation for accepting the task.
• Xiao Qing agreed to Ancestral Dragon’s request, and its lingering remnant dissolved into the Chaos Void and River of Time.
• Xiao Qing took the Ancestral Dragon Core and received its vast Dao intent without immediately beginning to comprehend it.

Xiao Qing carried the Ancestral Dragon Core’s charge into the Tianyuan Realm of a hundred thousand years ago, still seeking traces of Luo Qingxian. After studying the realm’s cultivation system, he began testing whether his Innate Chaos Deity body could cultivate by its methods.

• Xiao Qing accepted the Ancestral Dragon’s entrustment concerning Yao Yao, the Divine Stone, and the Saint God, then continued traveling through the River of Time.
• Xiao Qing arrived in the ancient Tianyuan Realm without provoking a strong rejection from its Heaven and Earth Origin will.
• Xiao Qing studied the realm’s Source Qi, laws, and cultivation ranks while traveling through Cangxuan Heaven as a concealed independent cultivator.
• Xiao Qing decided to test the Tianyuan Realm’s cultivation path and drew a strand of Chaos Qi from a tear in the void.
• Xiao Qing’s energy core began simulating the Tianyuan Realm’s cultivation method after the Chaos Qi entered his body.

Xiao Qing used his Chaos Qi to race through the Tianyuan Realm’s cultivation stages, from Open Veins to Domain Stage, while matching or surpassing the corresponding realms of the Great Thousand World. The chapter left him with a newly unfolded gray law domain, poised at the final barrier below sainthood.

• Xiao Qing opened countless source veins and completed the Open Veins and Qi-Nurturing stages without effort.
• Xiao Qing broke through the Heavenly Gate, drawing vast amounts of Source Qi into the valley and advancing through the Heavenly Gate, Primordial Beginning, and Divine Palace stages.
• Xiao Qing ignited nine Chaos-colored suns in his Divine Repository and completed the Heavenly Sun Stage.
• Xiao Qing condensed a Chaos Source Infant that resembled him and nodded in greeting.
• Xiao Qing silently unfolded a gray law domain, entering the Domain Stage.

Xiao Qing verified Tianyuan Realm’s cultivation path in a single thought, advancing from Pulse Opening to a Three-Lotus Saint. The vast heavenly phenomenon drew the attention of the Saint Palace Master, who recognized the birth of a Three-Lotus Saint.

• Xiao Qing unfolded a Domain containing the fundamental laws of the Chaos universe and rapidly passed through the eight realms from Pulse Opening to the Domain Stage.
• Xiao Qing formed his first and second Sacred Lotuses, reaching the One-Lotus and Two-Lotus Saint Realms as auspicious clouds and golden lotuses appeared.
• Xiao Qing formed a third Chaos Sacred Lotus and reached the Three-Lotus Saint Realm, the pinnacle below gods.
• Heaven and earth celebrated Xiao Qing’s breakthrough as Cai Yun and phantom golden lotuses spread across Cangxuan Heaven.
• The Saint Palace Master sensed the spatial ripple, opened a rift to view the phenomenon, and recognized that a Three-Lotus Saint had been born.

Xiao Qing crossed into the Three-Lotus Saint Realm, and his breakthrough alerted powerful figures across Cangxuan Heaven. He then let the borrowed cultivation recede, but a trace of his Chaos Divine Power remained strong enough to alter the laws of the surrounding region.

• The Saint Palace Master ordered his elders to gather and locate the phenomenon after sensing a Saint’s arrival.
• An ancient man in an ice coffin awakened, recognized the birth of a true Saint, and ordered his attendant to investigate.
• An old woman, a figure on a bone throne, and slumbering experts from major factions reacted to the phenomenon and set out toward the nameless valley.
• Xiao Qing examined the Three-Lotus Saint Realm and compared its power with the Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign realm.
• Xiao Qing dissolved the three Sacred Lotuses and returned his borrowed cultivation to Chaos.
• A trace of Xiao Qing’s Chaos Divine Power seeped into the valley, enough to alter the laws of the region.

After Xiao Qing left Cangxuan Heaven, the Chaos power he had inadvertently infused into a valley made it a cultivation holy land that factions sealed and regulated. He continued toward the Return to Ruins Divine Temple to protect Yao Yao, while his identity and origins became a mystery.

• Xiao Qing left the valley through a spatial fissure after his Chaos Divine Power transformed its surroundings.
• The Saint Palace Master arrived, found the valley empty, and sensed an incomprehensible power in the bluestone.
• News spread across Cangxuan Heaven that a genuine Saint had appeared and left behind a Chaos-infused cultivation holy land called Saint's Descent Valley.
• Xiao Qing listened incognito as people discussed the Saint, then turned his attention to Yao Yao in the Return to Ruins Divine Temple.
• Three months later, the factions established restricted entry to Saint's Descent Valley, where the first cultivators gained breakthroughs and renewed speculation about the mysterious Saint.

Emperor Dragon Ancient Sovereign called an emergency meeting after signs of the Saint God's awakening intensified and proposed refining the Divine Stone to strengthen the heavens. Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign opposed him, warning that the stone carried the Ancestral Dragon's will, as the Saints divided over what to do.

• Emperor Dragon Ancient Sovereign reported that conditions in the Black Abyss Star Domain had worsened and that the Saint God's awakening seemed increasingly likely.
• Emperor Dragon Ancient Sovereign proposed refining the Divine Stone to draw out its power and help the Return to Ruins Divine Temple gain strength.
• Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign objected, arguing that the Divine Stone was the heavens' safeguard and that forcing it to yield its power could bring disaster.
• Myriad Ancestors Grand Sovereign and other Saints supported refining the stone, while Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign and his allies opposed the plan.
• Great Venerable Mou Yin acknowledged Cang Yuan's concerns but argued that greater strength would improve the heavens' chances of survival.
• Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign pointed out that the Divine Stone's power and resonance with the world's laws came from the Ancestral Dragon's will.

Cang Yuan argued that refining the Divine Stone could destroy the unborn guardian meant to protect the Tianyuan Realm, and the Ancient Venerables postponed a decision for a hundred years. While Cang Yuan nourished the stone in the forbidden altar, Xiao Qing silently entered and observed the sleeping being within it.

• Cang Yuan warned Emperor Dragon Ancient Venerable that forcibly refining the Divine Stone risked its backlash and could kill the Tianyuan Realm’s unborn guardian.
• Emperor Dragon Ancient Venerable erupted in anger, but Ancient Venerable Jin Luo ended the dispute and set a hundred-year delay while the temple investigated the Sacred Clan’s movements.
• Cang Yuan entered the forbidden ground and continued nourishing the Divine Stone, noticing an unfamiliar flicker across its surface.
• Xiao Qing silently bypassed the Return to Ruins Divine Temple’s defenses and reached the altar, where he saw the unborn guardian within the Divine Stone.
• The Divine Stone’s faint surface light suddenly flickered as Xiao Qing watched.

Emperor Xiao Qing arrived at the Return to Ruins Divine Temple and took the Divine Stone, which held the unborn being entrusted to him by the Ancestral Dragon. He left Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign an Azure Lotus Dao Seed and vanished, while someone outside the forbidden grounds questioned Cang Yuan about the disturbance.

• Xiao Qing touched the Divine Stone, and it responded to him with trust and joy.
• Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign confronted Xiao Qing, who identified himself as Emperor Xiao Qing and said he had come to take the Divine Stone by the Ancestral Dragon's entrustment.
• Xiao Qing explained that the Divine Stone faced danger from those seeking to refine it and promised to keep it safe, adding that it could return if all heavens needed it.
• Xiao Qing gave Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign an Azure Lotus Dao Seed that could help him enter the Three-Lotus Realm.
• Xiao Qing stored the Divine Stone in his Great Chaos World and disappeared, telling Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign not to reveal what had happened.
• A voice from beyond the corridor asked Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign why Source Qi had fluctuated in the forbidden grounds.

Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign hid the Azure Lotus Dao Seed’s effect while the Divine Stone was taken to the Great Chaos World, where it awakened and began absorbing Chaos Qi. Xiao Qing and Little Qing discovered that the presence within the stone recognized the World Tree as home, and Xiao Qing saw a pale golden cocoon inside it.

• Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign concealed the Azure Lotus Dao Seed and claimed his aura had leaked because of an insight while nurturing the Divine Stone.
• The Divine Stone trembled and glowed after Xiao Qing placed it beside the World Tree in the Great Chaos World.
• The World Tree enveloped the Divine Stone in Chaos Origin, and the stone began devouring Chaos Qi and growing more radiant.
• Little Qing approached the Divine Stone, felt its warmth, and learned from Xiao Qing that it was happy to be home.
• Xiao Qing used the Eye of the Chaos Deity to see a pale golden cocoon floating inside the Divine Stone.

Xiao Qing explained that the Divine Stone’s Primordial Divine Locks were loosening naturally as she grew, and that her birth would mark the descent of the third deity. In the Great Chaos World, the World Tree nourished her rapidly, while Xiao Qing recognized her as a potentially immortal Sacred Spirit whose power would provoke a fierce struggle if she entered another world.

• Xiao Qing discovered cracks in the nine Primordial Divine Locks and told Little Qing that they would unlock as the Divine Stone’s life aura strengthened.
• Xiao Qing explained that the Great Chaos World was accelerating the Divine Stone’s growth, and the World Tree poured its origin essence into her.
• The seventh Primordial Divine Lock broke more than halfway as the Divine Stone absorbed Chaos energy and the World Tree’s nourishment.
• Xiao Qing recalled the Ancestral Dragon’s warning that the Divine Stone had to be naturally nurtured to preserve her Dao foundation.
• Xiao Qing explained that the Divine Stone could become an Immortal Embryo Sacred Spirit, whose arrival in another world would draw Sovereigns into a struggle for immortality.

Xiao Qing protected the Divine Stone by binding it to the Great Chaos World and nurturing its immortal womb with his Flame of Life and Creation. As the Primordial Divine Locks broke apart, he predicted that the sacred spirit would be born within ten to a hundred years.

• Xiao Qing explained that the Ancestral Dragon's nine Primordial Divine Locks concealed the Divine Stone's immortal womb from the Emperor Dragon Ancient Sovereign faction.
• Xiao Qing bestowed nine Chaos Sacred Spirit Dao Runes on the Divine Stone, making it a born child of the Great Chaos World.
• Xiao Qing planted a wisp of his Flame of Life and Creation in the Divine Stone to provide the Life Origin needed for the sacred spirit's birth.
• The World Tree poured Chaos Origin over the Divine Stone, which absorbed it as the nine Primordial Divine Locks shattered and its golden cocoon expanded.
• Xiao Qing sensed that the sacred spirit would be born in ten to a hundred years.

During a routine inspection of Return to Ruins Divine Temple’s forbidden ground, Yin Bone Saint and Saint Yun Xi discovered that the Divine Stone had vanished despite all the restrictions remaining intact. The temple’s strongest figures gathered at the empty altar, where Emperor Dragon Ancient Sovereign erupted with Dragon Might.

• Half a month after Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign visited the forbidden ground, Yin Bone Saint and Saint Yun Xi entered to inspect its restrictions.
• Yin Bone Saint saw that the Divine Stone was missing from above the Chaos Spring Eye and ordered an investigation while sealing the news.
• Yin Bone Saint searched the altar for traces but found only the residual aura left by Cang Yuan Grand Sovereign.
• Myriad Ancestors Grand Sovereign, Great Venerable Gou Lang, Poison Fire Great Venerable, Great Venerable Mou Yin, and other saints arrived and gathered around the empty space.
• Emperor Dragon Ancient Sovereign tore through the spatial barrier, saw the missing Divine Stone, and unleashed a shockwave of golden Dragon Might.