Recaps

Tongtian announced the Human Dao’s emergence and warned the Interception Sect that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity would sweep across the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds. The Star Demon God then issued the Chaos Dao Court’s decree defining the Heavenly Courts and the conditions for ending the Tribulation.

• Tongtian appointed Duobao as Teacher of the Earth Emperor and warned the disciples to avoid killing and karmic entanglements during the Tribulation.
• Tongtian explained that disciples could avoid being listed by cultivating in seclusion or seek protection from Di Jun’s Ancient Heavenly Court, while Haotian would fill the Investiture of the Gods.
• Duobao and Ye Fan worried about the Tribulation’s vast scale, while Shichen Dao Body and Yang Mei discussed its risks and the need to protect the Chaos World.
• A message reached the Star Demon God as he supervised the Seven Luminaries Demon God, prompting him to leave and appear outside the Primordial Realm.
• The Star Demon God issued the Chaos Dao Court’s Imperial Edict, declaring that the Tribulation would end when the Investiture of the Gods held 365 principal gods and all auxiliary gods.
• The beings of the Primordial World obeyed the decree and hurried to find Haotian to help fill the Investiture of the Gods.

Fuxi became the Human Emperor and attained Sagehood after the Kongtong Seal responded to his work for the Human Race. He agreed to let other factions serve as imperial tutors only if they swore to share life and death with humanity, but a voice from Heaven Beyond Heaven rejected the oaths.

• Fuxi lived among the Human Race and taught them writing, medicine, mathematics, calendars, and other skills, with Shennong and Xuanyuan helping him develop the tribes.
• The three progenitors entrusted Fuxi with the Kongtong Seal, which absorbed Human Dao destiny and helped him refine the Hongmeng Purple Qi with merit.
• Fuxi declared himself Sage and Human Emperor, vowing to establish civilization and protect the Human Race.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Houtu, Jie Yin, and Zhun Ti arrived to seek roles as imperial tutors, but Fuxi demanded that they swear their lineages would share life and death with the Human Race.
• The gathered powers swore their oaths, but a Dao voice from Heaven Beyond Heaven declared, "Not permitted!"

Heavenly Dao Shichen forbade the Sages from binding their lineages’ fortunes to the Human Race and declared that the Human Dao must remain under Heaven’s authority. Fuxi appointed Shennong and Xuanyuan as Earth Emperor and Heaven Emperor, then left troubled by the possibility that the Heavenly Dao would reject him as an anomaly.

• Heavenly Dao Shichen shattered the Sages’ vow-runes and prohibited them from interfering with the Human Race’s foundations, warning that violators would face heavenly punishment.
• Heavenly Dao Shichen ruled that the Human Race must choose its emperors through merit and that the Sages could teach them but not appoint or depose them.
• Fuxi used the Kongtong Seal to name Shennong Earth Emperor and Xuanyuan Heaven Emperor, and both accepted their positions with oaths.
• Laozi appointed Xuandu to teach Shennong, while Tongtian appointed Duobao to teach Xuanyuan; the other Sages left disciples to await the Five Emperors.
• Fuxi told Nuwa that Time Dao Venerable had merged with the Heavenly Dao and wondered whether the being they had seen was the Dao Venerable or Heaven itself.
• Fuxi feared the Heavenly Dao would not tolerate him as an anomaly from another world, then flew toward the Human Ancestral Land.

The Demon God of Deception disguised himself as the Star Dao Lord and traveled with a suspicious figure posing as Yang Mei, who intervened in a confrontation between Hong Yun and the Ancient Heavenly Court. The Fate and Karma Demon Gods suspected the pair were impostors and watched them as new anomalous energy appeared nearby.

• The Demon God of Deception met a wine-less figure posing as Yang Mei in the void and persuaded him to travel together.
• Ghost Chariot moved to arrest a wounded boy for slaughtering several cities, while Hong Yun and Zhenyuanzi tried to protect him.
• Hong Yun's magical treasure attacked Ghost Chariot against his will, prompting Ghost Chariot to summon the Lesser Heavenly Stellar Array.
• The disguised Yang Mei questioned Ghost Chariot about the Ancient Heavenly Court's connection to Shichen, then ordered the Heavenly Court forces to leave.
• The Fate Demon God and Karma Demon God noticed signs of deception in the supposed Star Dao Lord and Yang Mei and decided to watch them.
• Shouts warned Hong Yun, Zhenyuanzi, and the disguised pair that powerful anomalous energy had been detected nearby.

Yang Mei and his companions were taken to the Transcendent Bureau, where Hongyun learned that Wang Xing had been driven to revenge after his family was destroyed. Wang Xing gave Hongyun a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi, and as Hongyun feared fate was steering him toward his destined death, Cthulhu fanatics attacked the Bureau headquarters.

• Zhang Anguo questioned Yang Mei and his companions about a world-destroying energy fluctuation, then brought them to the Transcendent Bureau after their documents checked out.
• At the Bureau, Hongyun heard staff complain about a divine envoy called Taotie and discovered that the system inside him had stopped responding.
• Hongyun met Wang Xing on the rooftop, where Wang Xing explained that he had come from the Tianyuan Divine World and had sought revenge on the people who murdered his family.
• Wang Xing offered Hongyun a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi, and Hongyun concealed its aura while worrying that its arrival was part of a fate he could not escape.
• Cthulhu fanatics launched a surprise attack on the Transcendent Bureau headquarters, triggering a full alert.

Bai Ze and the Ancient Heavenly Court descended to stop an evil god attacking the Transcendent Bureau, then declared they would enforce heavenly law in the world. The World Alliance decided to try to recruit Yang Mei, Hongyun, and the others while avoiding any provocation.

• Zhang Anguo and the reincarnation teams fought Cthulhu fanatics until a Primordial Origin Golden Immortal-level evil god descended and overwhelmed them.
• Bai Ze arrived with the Ancient Heavenly Court, purified the evil god, and erased the fanatics.
• Bai Ze announced that the Ancient Heavenly Court would descend upon the world to enforce heavenly law and uphold Order.
• Wang Xing concealed his aura after hearing Bai Ze identify himself and announce the Heavenly Court’s arrival.
• The World Alliance reviewed footage of Yang Mei, Hongyun, and the others resisting the evil god’s whispers and ordered officials to seek their recruitment while keeping their distance if they refused.

Yang Mei punished the World Alliance for threatening him, then destroyed the world and everyone in it, including Wang Xing. Hongyun remembered his identity as a wanderer from another world and challenged Yang Mei, but the story left his fate unknown after the world was erased.

• Deputy Minister Zhao tried to force Yang Mei and the Demon God of Deception to join the World Alliance, so Yang Mei killed the guards and exiled Zhao into chaotic Void.
• Yang Mei declared that the world must be destroyed, and Bai Ze, Zhenyuanzi, and the world's inhabitants realized they could not escape.
• Wang Xing shielded Hongyun from a torrent of Law and died after asking him to resist Fate.
• Hongyun remembered he was a wanderer from another world and charged Yang Mei, but Yang Mei closed his hand and destroyed the world.
• The World Demon God arrived, and the Demon God of Deception distracted her as he followed Yang Mei away.

Yang Mei traveled through the Chaos Void, announcing the Chaos Dao Court before destroying world after world, while the World Demon God and Demon God of Deception secretly interfered. After catching them, Yang Mei ordered the World Demon God to extract the Demon God of Deception’s Dao Marks or face punishment as a traitor.

• Yang Mei destroyed a world whose inhabitants had begged him for salvation, claimed its World Origin, and allowed the fleeing survivors to be swallowed by the World Dao.
• Across countless epochs, Yang Mei continued announcing the Chaos Dao Court and destroying worlds as the World Demon God and Demon God of Deception quietly worked their Origin Cores.
• Cthulhu confronted the trio over the destruction of his followers’ worlds, but Yang Mei crushed him and the evil gods connected to him.
• Yang Mei ordered the World Demon God to devour the Old Universe and take its Origin, but then revealed that she had only appeared to do so.
• Yang Mei accused the Demon God of Deception of interfering in earlier worlds and told the World Demon God to extract his Dao Marks or be judged a traitor to the Dao Court.

The Demon God of Deception and the other Demon Gods exposed a false Yang Mei and trapped him in the Fate-Karma Dao Net, but he proved too powerful to defeat before help arrived. The chapter ends with two identical groups—including two Pangu—facing off, leaving everyone unsure who is real.

• The World Demon God pretended to obey the false Yang Mei and began refining the Demon God of Deception, while Fate and Karma arrived and revealed their trap.
• The Demon God of Deception revealed his true identity, and Fate and Karma explained that they had laid the Fate-Karma Dao Net after learning of the impostor’s plot.
• The false Yang Mei broke through the Dao Net with copied spatial powers, while the Main God Space System joined him in battling Fate, Karma, the World Demon God, and Deception.
• Pangu, the Order Demon God, and the Creation Demon God arrived to aid the group, but the false Yang Mei revealed that another identical group was approaching.
• The two Pangu each accused the other of being an impostor, while the Fate Demon God recognized that the group now faced a serious problem.

Pangu fought the fake Pangu and his allies, killing the fake Creation Demon God with a devastating axe strike. Meanwhile, Fate, Karma, Order, Creation, and the others wore down the fake Yang Mei until they surrounded him as his essence burned away.

• Pangu unleashed his time-enhanced axe technique against the three impostors, destroying their attacks and killing the fake Creation Demon God.
• Karma and Fate mocked the fake Yang Mei, who called for the Main God Space system and discovered it had fled.
• The fake Yang Mei burned his essence and attacked, but Fate, Karma, Order, Creation, and the other Demon Gods evaded him and broke his Dao Net.
• As his essence dwindled, the fake Yang Mei tried to move toward the battle between the two Pangus, but Fate and Karma blocked him.
• Order, Creation, and two other Demon Gods appeared around the fake Yang Mei, leaving him surrounded.

The six Demon Gods defeated the false Yang Mei, while Pangu destroyed the false Pangu with his new Eternal Force technique. Yang Mei then summoned them back because Hundun was in chaos.

• The Order, Karma, Fate, World, Deception, and Creation Demon Gods overwhelmed the false Yang Mei, who burned his remaining origin and unleashed Dao Fall.
• The six joined their power to suppress the black hole, and the Fate Demon God killed the false Yang Mei with the Spear of Fate.
• Beings across five universes watched the battle, while the strange spirit saw the crazed Elder Jun declare that ordinary cultivation was only scraps of the true Dao.
• Pangu defeated the battered false Pangu with his new Eternal Force axe strike, which attacked across past, present, and future.
• The Demon Gods celebrated Pangu's victory and praised the Demon God of Deception for his contribution.
• Yang Mei sent word that Hundun was in chaos and ordered everyone to return at once.

Chaos engulfed the Dao Court as Yang Mei and the Demon Gods fought, and the battle’s aftershocks tore open the Primordial World’s heavens. Nuwa mended the sky with Five-Colored Divine Stones, but Hongjun warned that the ongoing war in Chaos threatened to undo everything.

• Pangu and the other Demon Gods hurried back to Chaos after fearing Shichen was in danger, while Yang Mei fought attackers who resembled the other Demon Gods.
• Chaos’s battle tore a huge breach in the Primordial World’s heavens, letting Chaos Gales and the Heavenly River devastate the land.
• Hongjun told the Sages to stabilize the Primordial World, and they divided the work of gathering materials, refining stones, guiding souls, and overseeing reincarnation.
• Fuxi obtained Solar Divine Flame from Di Jun, and the Three Pure Ones collected Five-Colored Soil before joining Nuwa at Mount Buzhou.
• After nine days of refining, Nuwa used the Five-Colored Divine Stones to mend the heavens, while a hidden monkey-shaped true spirit entered an extra stone.
• The Heavenly Dao granted merit to those who helped, and Hongjun warned that the unresolved war in Chaos could still bring disaster.

Pangu and his companions returned to the Chaos and defeated several impostors, while Yang Mei set out to find the copying system. Hongjun revealed that Demon Gods could prove their identities by manifesting their Hearts of the Origin of the Great Dao, and Fate spread the test throughout the Chaos.

• Pangu arrived in time to kill False Karma and joined Yang Mei in defeating the impostors attacking him.
• Yang Mei concluded that the God of Systems was creating copies and left Pangu to guard the Chaos Dao Court and Shichen while he searched for the system.
• Pangu and Karma used Destruction's injuries and Star's reaction to identify and kill their impostors.
• Hongjun and Luo Hou proved they were genuine by manifesting their Hearts of the Origin of the Great Dao.
• Fate told the Demon Gods across the Chaos to manifest their Hearts of the Origin of the Great Dao so they could identify the remaining impostors.

The impostor Demon Gods ignited and detonated their origins as they tried to reach the Time Temple, threatening to annihilate the nearby Demon Gods. Shichen emerged from seclusion, stopped time, rewound the destruction, and declared himself eternity.

• The Fate Demon God and the other Demon Gods attacked the exposed impostors while the Chaos Demon Ape and its double continued fighting.
• The remaining impostors burned their origins and charged toward the Time Temple, but Pangu and the other Demon Gods killed many of them.
• An impostor detonated his origin near the Time Temple, and the others followed by detonating theirs together.
• The explosion’s shock wave swept across the Chaos World, but time suddenly stopped before it could destroy the Demon Gods.
• Shichen emerged from the Time Temple, rewound the damage across the Chaos World, and declared, “I... am eternity!”

Shichen emerged from seclusion in the late stage of the Chaos Realm, Seventh Heaven, and restored the flow of time across Hundun. Yang Mei battled the stronger Copy System with space-time techniques, and Shichen arrived just as it tried to escape.

• Shichen returned from seclusion, reunited with Pangu and the other Demon Gods, and received their congratulations as time resumed flowing through Hundun.
• Shichen noticed Yang Mei was missing and left to help him, while the two Chaos Demon Apes continued fighting and Pangu agreed not to interrupt them.
• Yang Mei used Space Lock and Space Strangulation against the Copy System, which copied both techniques and taunted him with its greater cultivation and his lost spatial Origin Core.
• Yang Mei combined the Dao of Space with the Dao of Time to unleash Space-Time Slash and Space Annihilation, shattering the Copy System's defenses and injuring it.
• The Copy System tried to escape along a Karma Thread, but Shichen halted time and space and severed the thread as he appeared on a Chaos Golden Lotus.

Shichen emerged from seclusion at the Chaos Realm, Seventh Heaven, captured the Copy System, and announced the Chaos Dao Court’s authority over the five great universes. He erased the Main God Space System’s control over Boss Wu and sent its remnant to Taotie’s Main God Space.

• Shichen recognized the Copy System as an avatar of the God of Systems and suppressed it, then returned Yang Mei’s Heart of Space Origin.
• Yang Mei gave Shichen the Great Dao Prohibition Decree, revealing he had traded for it to protect Shichen, and departed for Chaos.
• At the Chaos Dao Court, the Demon Gods beat the Copy System while Shichen watched without intervening.
• Shichen proclaimed the Chaos Dao Court’s jurisdiction over the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds and ordered the five great universes merged into the Primordial World.
• Shichen pulled out Boss Wu, erased the Main God Space System’s consciousness and the God of Systems’ mark, and sent the resulting light to Taotie’s Main God Space.

Shichen traced the God of Systems to a distant place where past, present, and future overlapped, and learned that his enemy stood at the peak of the Chaos Realm, Ninth Heaven. He left alone to meet the god, while the Demon Gods stayed behind and prepared to await his return.

• Shichen located the God of Systems and confirmed that the god was at the peak of the Chaos Realm, Ninth Heaven.
• Pangu offered to accompany Shichen, but Shichen told him to stay and hold the fort in Hundun; Pangu lent him the Chaos Azure Lotus and Creation Jade Disc.
• The Order Demon God, Fate Demon God, Karma Demon God, and Pangu urged Shichen to return safely, and Shichen promised he would.
• Shichen vanished from the Chaos Dao Court Plaza to seek out the God of Systems, leaving the Demon Gods standing in silence.
• The Lower Demon Gods of the Dao of Time vowed to guard Shichen’s temple, while Yang Mei wondered whether detonating his Spatial Great Dao Origin Core could make the Great Dao intervene.

Yang Mei threatened to destroy the Dao of Space to force the Great Dao to hear his request while Shichen was away fighting for the Chaos World. The Great Dao relented and invited him to state his terms.

• Yang Mei traveled to the Land of Great Dao Origin and confronted the Great Dao, asking it to help defend the Chaos World.
• When the Great Dao stayed silent, Yang Mei began to absorb its origin power, then triggered a crisis that made space collapse across countless worlds.
• The Demon Gods discovered that space was failing, and Hongjun suspected Yang Mei had gone to the Land of Great Dao Origin to threaten the Great Dao.
• Pangu tried to rush to Yang Mei's aid, but Fate Demon God stopped him and urged everyone to wait.
• The Great Dao crushed Yang Mei with its pressure, but he threatened to destroy the Dao of Space and damage its origin unless it made a deal.
• The Great Dao withdrew its pressure and told Yang Mei to speak.

Yang Mei traded half of his Space Dao origin for a trace of the Great Dao’s origin pressure to protect Shichen, sacrificing his cultivation in the process. Shichen reached the God of Systems’ true form, rejected its offer to join it for eternity, and prepared to fight.

• Yang Mei asked the Great Dao to protect Shichen, then traded half of his Space Dao origin for a trace of its origin pressure after his request for direct intervention was denied.
• Yang Mei’s cultivation fell to the Chaos Realm, First Heaven, and he told the Great Dao that his friendship with Shichen was worth the sacrifice.
• Shichen crossed ages and expanses of nothingness to reach the God of Systems’ true form, where he found a gray Dao Pearl and a blood-red eye.
• Shichen asked the God of Systems who He was and why it wanted to reach the Great Dao Realm, then revealed his Chaos Realm, Seventh Heaven power and Eleven-Colored Dao Wheel.
• The God of Systems asked Shichen to retain his humanity and join it above time, but Shichen refused and declared that he was time itself and eternity.

Shichen fought Blood Eye across the overlapping space of three lifetimes, managing to wound him despite the vast difference in their power. Blood Eye revealed that he was the humanity the Great Dao had severed and discarded, then began explaining how Shichen's birth altered the destined future.

• Shichen used his Dao laws and the Chaos Azure Lotus to withstand Blood Eye's attacks, but Blood Eye's Myriad Laws Annihilation severely injured him.
• Shichen unleashed several divine abilities and struck Blood Eye through his origin barrier, wounding the peak ninth-level opponent.
• Blood Eye retaliated with a divine light that drained Shichen's origin of time and forced him down under overwhelming pressure.
• Blood Eye told Shichen that he was the humanity the Great Dao had discarded before Hundun was born, and that he had used systems to devour origin and advance.
• Blood Eye said that Shichen's birth changed every destined outcome and that a previously nonexistent future branch had produced a figure.

Shichen rejected Blood Eye’s proposal to recreate the three thousand Laws of the Dao and fought him, but Blood Eye’s Dao Fall overwhelmed Shichen’s attack. Shichen used the Great Dao Prohibition Decree to seal Blood Eye, and Yang Mei rescued him as the decree dragged the God of Systems into the depths of nothingness.

• Blood Eye explained that a powerful being planned to prevent anyone from ascending to the Great Dao Realm and asked Shichen to join him in recreating the three thousand Laws of the Dao.
• Shichen refused and attacked Blood Eye with Myriad Dao Return to the Void, but Blood Eye countered with Dao Fall, injuring Shichen and cracking his Eleven-Colored Dao Wheel.
• Shichen activated the Great Dao Prohibition Decree, which sealed Blood Eye’s origin and suppressed his black hole.
• Yang Mei appeared, grabbed Shichen, and carried him out of the Three-Lives Space as the Great Dao’s pressure descended.
• The decree dragged the God of Systems into the depths of nothingness, where he vowed to return and warned Shichen of another gift awaiting him in the Chaos World.

Shichen returned to the Chaos Dao Court after the God of Systems was temporarily sealed, where the Demon Gods celebrated their victory. As Shichen prepared the Dao Court for the threat's eventual return, the others urged him to heal his severe injuries.

• Shichen thanked Yang Mei for spending his origin of the Great Dao to help seal the God of Systems, and the two toasted the Chaos Dao Court before returning home.
• Pangu and the Demon Gods welcomed Shichen back, and Shichen announced that the Great Dao Prohibition Decree had temporarily sealed the God of Systems.
• Yang Mei watched the celebration from the edge of the crowd, then left for his Space Temple while coughing up golden divine blood unnoticed.
• Shichen explained the God of Systems' identity, and Hongjun proposed establishing a Dao Court academy and using the captured Copy System to support its cultivation and resources.
• Shichen ordered Hongjun to develop the proposal and sent a message to the Demon God of Disaster to accelerate the Tribulation.
• The Order Demon God and the others discovered Shichen's severe injuries and began using their origins of the Great Dao to heal him.

Shichen recovered from his battle injuries while establishing the Chaos Academy and Resource Exchange Pavilion, then ordered the Investiture of the Gods Calamity accelerated. The Demon God of Disaster unleashed the Tribulation across the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds, pushing the calamity into a more brutal stage.

• Shichen stopped Pangu, the Order Demon God, and Hongjun from continuing to heal him, then privately assessed how little damage he had dealt to the peak of the Ninth Heaven.
• Shichen and Hongjun finalized the Chaos Academy regulations and planned a Resource Exchange Pavilion and a Copy System stripped of the God of Systems' imprint and consciousness.
• The World Demon God noticed a red-glowing World Fruit but found nothing unusual and left the World Temple.
• Shichen gave Yang Mei origin to restore his Dao of Space and thanked him for risking his own Dao origin to help.
• At the Chaos Dao Court assembly, Shichen ordered the Demon God of Disaster to accelerate the Investiture of the Gods Calamity and Hongjun to oversee it with Haotian.
• The Demon God of Disaster drove the Qi of the Tribulation to its peak, spreading it throughout the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Worlds.

Hong Yun offered the Hongmeng Purple Qi to Kunpeng, but Zhun Ti seized it and fought the Ancient Heavenly Court. Hong Yun received a massive system reward and prepared to escape with Zhenyuanzi, just as uncanny spirits began gathering across the world.

• Hong Yun offered Kunpeng the Hongmeng Purple Qi to avoid a conflict with the Ancient Heavenly Court, then tossed it to him.
• Zhun Ti appeared and snatched the purple qi, prompting Kunpeng to deploy the Lesser Heavenly Stellar Array against him.
• Zhun Ti used his golden Buddhist manifestation to withstand the array while fighting Kunpeng.
• Hong Yun received a billionfold return from the system: the Time Dao Venerable's Divine Blood and another wisp of Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Zhenyuanzi urged Hong Yun to flee the battle, and the two prepared to escape as uncanny spirits gathered across the world.

Hongjun arranged for the Demon God of Disaster to send Tribulation Qi into Hongyun, driving him into a violent attack on Zhun Ti. Hongyun joined Kunpeng’s battle and killed Knocking Ghost and dozens of Weird creatures, while Zhurong and Gonggong headed toward the fighting and the Weird spirit set out to retaliate.

• Hongjun asked the Demon God of Disaster to revive true Hongyun’s soul and force the anomalous Hongyun into the Investiture of the Gods Calamity.
• The Demon God of Disaster sent Calamity Qi into Hongyun, overwhelming his system’s efforts to remove it and filling him with murderous fury.
• Hongyun burned apart Knocking Ghost’s Three Knocks rule with Red Lotus Karmic Flame and erased Knocking Ghost and dozens of Weird creatures with one palm.
• Hongyun attacked Zhun Ti over the Hongmeng Purple Qi, and Kunpeng trapped Zhun Ti in the Lesser Heavenly Stellar Array as Zhenyuanzi protected Hongyun.
• Zhurong and Gonggong sensed an opportunity near the battle and rushed toward it, while the Weird spirit received news of the attack and vanished to retaliate.