Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai cultivated the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light and advanced his Primordial Fire comprehension while Yan Ju broke through to the Creation realm and launched a campaign against disobedient tribes. Yan Ju confronted Heavenheart Ancestor and, with a treasure that countered the Four Seasons Reincarnation Divine Blades, drove him into flight and pursued him.

• Yang Huai used the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light to redeem incoming resentment and baleful power, then began comprehending a new source of rebirth within his Primordial Fire.
• Yan Ju had Dao Yuan fill the Wuliang Origin Grand Dao, withdrew his own Primordial Spirit imprint, and broke through to the first layer of the Creation realm as Dao Yuan attained the True One Divine realm.
• Yan Ju mobilized the Human Emperor Palace and Emperor Yan Tribe to conquer unruly tribes, then set his sights on the Heart of Heaven Hall over its past attempt to kill him.
• Yan Ju attacked Heavenly Heart City and challenged Heavenheart Ancestor to battle in the starry sky, where the two fought amid their followers.
• Yan Ju used a four-colored vortex and a Four Symbols treasure to seize Heavenheart Ancestor's Four Seasons Reincarnation Divine Blades and force him to flee.
• Yan Ju chased Heavenheart Ancestor toward the earth, refusing to let his old enemy escape.

Second-Generation Zhurong killed Heavenheart Ancestor, and Yan Ju claimed the Four Seasons Reincarnation treasures before arranging the assault on Heavenheart City. At the Earth Sovereign Palace, Yang Huai arrived as Da You sparred with Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable.

• Heavenheart Ancestor fled toward the Earth Sovereign Palace's territory, but Second-Generation Zhurong broke his will and killed him, capturing part of his four-colored treasure set.
• Yan Ju arrived, received the Four Seasons Reincarnation treasures from Second-Generation Zhurong, and entrusted Yuan Ji Celestial Venerable and the Southern Pole Ancestor with taking Heavenheart City.
• Yan Ju refined the seasonal throwing knives and formation diagram, then returned the borrowed Innate Four Symbols Divine Pagoda to Taiwei Daoist and paid him with heavenly treasures and earthly materials.
• Taiwei Daoist met Golden Spirit Holy Mother, who explained that she had lent him the pagoda in exchange for borrowing the Astral Profundity Diagram.
• Yang Huai arrived at the Earth Sovereign Palace while Da You sparred with Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable, and Green Ripple urged Yang Huai to give Da You pointers.

Da You defeated Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable with his Infinite Scales technique and received the Zhurong Clan's All-Heaven Blazing Flame Art from Yang Huai. At Houtu's council on the Divine Race's response to the Celestial Court, Yang Huai warned that continued opposition could bring Earth Sovereign Palace and Houtu to ruin.

• Da You overwhelmed Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable with Infinite Scales, winning their contest despite leaving him unharmed.
• Da You asked Yang Huai for the Zhurong Clan's body-tempering art, and Yang Huai gave him the All-Heaven Blazing Flame Art.
• Yang Huai considered Da You's pursuit of the Twelve All-Heaven Fiendish Deity Formation and dismissed its cultivation requirements as nearly impossible.
• Houtu summoned Earth Sovereign Palace's gods to discuss the destruction of Heart of Heaven Hall and the Divine Race's worsening position.
• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable urged the gods to unite against the Mystic Sect, while Hou Yi and Nine Phoenix advocated assassinating Yan Ju.
• Yang Huai warned Houtu that opposing the Celestial Court could leave Earth Sovereign Palace with no future and bring her calamity.

Yang Huai challenged Earth Sovereign Palace’s plan to conquer Heaven, arguing that it needed a durable system of divine offices and tangible rewards before it could win the gods’ support. Houtu Imperial Earth Deity granted him permission to spread his Dao through the underworld, and Yang Huai returned to his Pure Land as Daoist Taiwei’s breakthrough signaled a shift in the balance of power.

• Yang Huai warned Houtu Imperial Earth Deity and the assembled gods that Earth Sovereign Palace lacked a viable strategy, enough allies, and the means to defeat the Mystic Sect Three Pure Ones.
• Yang Huai proposed establishing divine merit ranks and complete Earth Deity and Heavenly God systems, explaining that the existing powers already controlled the key domains of heaven and earth.
• Houtu Imperial Earth Deity acknowledged that the Celestial Court had taken the initiative but granted Yang Huai the right to spread the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light in the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses.
• Green Ripple praised Yang Huai and invited him to visit the Nether Kingdom after the gods left Earth Sovereign Palace.
• Yang Huai sensed that Daoist Taiwei had entered the Creation Realm and returned to the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light, where the Celestial Venerables of Light taught holy spirits to cultivate and spread the Dao Seed.

Yang Huai advanced his cultivation while the coming great tribulation threw the realms into chaos and Fu Yun learned that the Dao Origin Secret Realm would be discussed. Three thousand years later, Yang Huai successfully comprehended the Nirvana root source.

• Yang Huai reached the peak of the second level of the Primordial Chaos Dao Realm and sensed that the realms were approaching a great tribulation.
• Tianyun Daoist defeated and killed Qingxu Daoist in Langtian Realm, causing the Qingxu Dao to tremble as destruction spread.
• Ice Empress Fairy told Fu Yun that her master would expound on the Dao Origin Secret Realm, while Purple Origin Celestial Lord sought its location.
• Three thousand years later, Yang Huai comprehended the Nirvana root source in the Fire Virtue Hall of Light.

As Yang Huai pursued his final primordial origin, Yan Ju used trade restrictions to weaken the Xuanming Tribe and Jiuli Tribe while considering stepping down as Human Emperor. Nine Phoenix sought support from the Earth Sovereign Palace, where Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable called for Yan Ju to be removed.

• Yang Huai developed a weak power of rebirth from the Primordial Fire and began comprehending its primordial origin.
• Jiang Zhenwu urged the Human Emperor Palace to attack the Xuanming Tribe, but Jiang Yun and Xuan Guang proposed weakening it through trade restrictions and support for neighboring tribes.
• Yan Ju banned trade with the Xuanming Tribe and imposed an additional forty-five percent trade tax on the Jiuli Tribe, while considering stepping down and going to meet Heavenly Emperor Shennong.
• The northern tribes enforced the trade ban, and Nine Phoenix learned that the Xuanming Tribe faced shortages and disorder; she rushed to the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses for help.
• Nine Phoenix met Da You and Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable at the Earth Sovereign Palace, where Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable declared that Yan Ju could not be allowed to remain.

Yan Ju told Shennong and Ting Yao that he planned to abdicate as Human Emperor, and Shennong approved his decision to hand the position to Di Hong. After Yan Ju announced his abdication five hundred years later, Earth Sovereign Palace was shocked by the sudden move.

• Houtu rejected the idea of Earth Sovereign Palace assassinating Yan Ju and noted that Di Hong could benefit if Yan Ju lost power.
• Houtu promised to teach Da You part of the mysteries of Pangu's Dharma Form after he reached the True Unity Divine Realm.
• Yan Ju gave Ting Yao three rare flowers, including the Three-Lives Wonder Flower, and explained that only one wish remained.
• Yan Ju told Shennong and Ting Yao that he intended to step down as Human Emperor and name Bear Kingdom's Di Hong as his successor.
• Shennong approved Yan Ju's plan, and Yan Ju returned to the earth and announced he would abdicate in five hundred years.
• The gods of Earth Sovereign Palace were shocked when they heard Yan Ju's abdication announcement.

After Yan Ju abdicated, the Earth Sovereign Palace struggled to protect Da You’s chance to become Human Emperor, while Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable sought to use Yan Ju’s Dao companion as leverage. Yan Ju anticipated the scheme and negotiated with Taiwei Daoist to secure reincarnation authority, leaving Di Hong to prepare to inherit the Human Emperor position.

• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable accused Yan Ju of deliberately disrupting Da You’s plans, but Houtu Earth Sovereign Deity refused to entertain accusations without evidence.
• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable asked Yang Huai to help detain Yan Ju’s Dao companion, but Heng'e left the Netherworld Halls for the Lunar Star before the plan could proceed.
• Lu Ya learned that Yan Ju had abdicated and, despite his initial anger, said he would still retrieve the items prepared for him and deal with Yan Ju.
• Yan Ju offered Taiwei Daoist twenty percent of certain marketplace profits in exchange for authority over the reincarnation of the starry sky, and Taiwei Daoist accepted.
• Di Hong arrived at the Purple Tenuity Palace and learned from Yan Ju that Da You might soon cultivate the Pangu True Body; Taiwei Daoist then promised to pass great treasures to Di Hong.

Taiwei Daoist gave Di Hong the Purple Tenuity Divine Sword and taught him the Yellow Profound Emperor Form. Meanwhile, Yan Ju barred Da You and the Jiuli Tribe from the Human Emperor selection and attacked them, but Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable helped them escape as Di Hong witnessed Yan Ju’s growing authority.

• Taiwei Daoist bestowed the Purple Tenuity Divine Sword on Di Hong and told him to refine it and master the Primordial Nine Forms Secret Art.
• Taiwei Daoist taught Di Hong the Yellow Profound Emperor Form for thirty-six years before bringing him to Kunlun Mountain.
• Nine Phoenix refused to seek refuge with the Jiuli Tribe despite her elders’ concerns about the Xuanming Clan’s shortage of ritual-cleansing medicines.
• Red Dragon Child declared that Da You and the Jiuli Tribe had been stripped of their right to stand for Human Emperor and ordered them seized.
• Yan Ju manifested the Flame Emperor Divine Form and struck at the Jiuli Tribe, but a burly figure shattered his palm with an axe.
• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable used his divine seal to withdraw the Jiuli Tribe deities, while Di Hong watched and admired Yan Ju’s power.

Yan Ju relinquished the Human Emperor throne and withdrew from earthly affairs, while Houtu severed the Earth Sovereign Palace’s remaining ties with him by reclaiming the Boundless Treasure Wheel and Lunar Soul Pearl. The chapter ended with Yellow Emperor Di Hong taking over the Human Emperor Palace and realizing Yan Ju had reached an extraordinary stage.

• Yan Ju’s decision to abandon the Human Emperor Palace’s interests left the Jiang Clan elders reluctant to surrender their authority as the palace prepared to relocate its foundations.
• Da You vowed to reforge the Twelve Capitals Heavenly Divine Fiend Banner, and the Jiuli chiefs supported his preparations for war.
• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable told Houtu what had happened, and she sent the Boundless Treasure Wheel and Lunar Soul Pearl out of the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses.
• Yang Huai sensed the underworld’s changes and resolved to reclaim what he had lost, while news arrived that Di Hong had succeeded Yan Ju as the Yellow Emperor.
• Yan Ju fused the Boundless Treasure Wheel into his sea of consciousness, then led the Human Emperor Palace gods beyond heaven.
• Di Hong took over the palace, refined the Boundless Human Sovereign Diagram, and realized Yan Ju had abdicated because he had reached a new stage.

Di Hong took up the Human Sovereign’s authority and sought Daoist Taiwei’s counsel about Yan Ju’s Boundless Human Sovereign Diagram and Human Sovereign Dharma Seal. Meanwhile, Yan Ju established a reincarnation system in the All-Heaven Star Sea, and Yang Huai advanced his cultivation in the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light and the Primordial Chaos Dao Realm.

• Di Hong reorganized the Human Emperor Palace, retained most of Yan Ju’s laws, and ordered the human-god tribes to submit maps of mountains and seas.
• Di Hong brought the Boundless Human Sovereign Diagram and Human Sovereign Dharma Seal to Daoist Taiwei, who explained that Yan Ju intended to perfect the diagram and said the items would not hinder Di Hong’s Dao attainment.
• Daoist Taiwei urged Di Hong to use the diagram against the Nine Li Tribe, and Di Hong returned to the Human Emperor Palace planning to strike the Xuanming Clan first.
• Yan Ju reopened a Reincarnation Palace in the All-Heaven Star Sea and began preparing a separate reincarnation system there.
• Yang Huai condensed his ninth heavenly Dao origin in the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light and transformed his Primordial True Fire Diagram into reality.
• Yang Huai reached near completion of the third level of the Primordial Chaos Dao Realm and touched the threshold of the fourth level.

Yang Huai forged the Wuliang Chongli Sword in the Heavenly Mausoleum Realm, then fled the attention his creation attracted. In the Two-World River, he discovered a powerful Great Simplicity source realm embryo and decided to try claiming its origin by transforming into Pangu or the Heavenly Dao.

• The Dao Origin Secret Realm appeared near the Langtian Realm, and its guardians sent eligible inheritors inside, including Fu Yun and other Immortal Palace experts.
• Yang Huai used Primordial Fire to forge the Wuliang Chongli Sword from Primal Chaos Iron Mother, alarming the sword cultivators and Dao Lords of the Heavenly Mausoleum Realm.
• Yang Huai left Spirit-Bearing Mountain before the gathered Dao Lords could find him, while Shuoyue concealed the island and drove the visitors from Dragon Emperor Marsh.
• Yang Huai discovered a Great Simplicity source realm embryo in the Two-World River and considered claiming its origin through his signature transformation into Pangu or the Heavenly Dao.

Yang Huai carved a universe from the chaos embryo, and the embryo’s Dao origin transformed his talisman into an innate supreme treasure while merit strengthened his sword. In the Dao Origin Secret Realm, Fu Yun awakened after refining a Dao Origin Pearl, while the others regretted that Qizhenzi had taken the Linglong Treasure Seal.

• Yang Huai used the Wuliang Chongli Sword and the Pure Origin Myriad Mysteries Infinite Array to carve a universe out of the Chaos Origin Sea and build its heavens, land, and Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses.
• After five thousand years, the completed Dao origin merged with the Primordial Qianyuan One-Qi Divine Talisman, transforming it into an innate supreme treasure within the new universe.
• Yang Huai directed a torrent of merit into the Wuliang Chongli Sword, elevating it to a top-grade merit dharma treasure, then continued refining the universe to make it an inner world.
• Fu Yun awakened in the Dao Origin Secret Realm after refining a Dao Origin Pearl, and the female war goddess and Daoist Yu Tan congratulated her on approaching the Zenith Heaven realm.
• Fu Yun and the others lamented that Qizhenzi, a calamity candidate and disciple of the Taiyi Sacred Venerable, had taken the innate Linglong Treasure Seal.

Fu Yun and Ice Empress Fairy left the Dao Origin Secret Realm as a newly born source realm entered the Two-World River, drawing the attention of powerful immortals. Yang Huai concealed the Primordial Universe and began merging it into his body in hopes of forming the Pangu True Body, while Youji and Qingyue descended to search for him.

• Fu Yun urged Ice Empress Fairy to return to the Purple Palace Celestial Realm rather than risk confronting Qizhenzi for the Exquisite Treasure Seal, and the immortals left the secret realm.
• The Purple Origin Celestial Lord met Fu Yun with Immortal Venerable Lingxi, but a disturbance in the Great Dao origins revealed that an immeasurable tribulation was beginning and a source realm had emerged.
• Yang Huai concealed the newly emerged Primordial Universe with a Primal Origin True Talisman and sent it into a mysterious stretch of spacetime within the Two-World River.
• The Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor identified the vanished Daoist Wuliang as likely being inside the source realm, while the Radiant Treasure Heavenly Empress learned that Youji and Qingyue had already gone to search for him.
• Yang Huai fused with the Primordial Universe in the Chaos Origin Sea, forming nine divine apertures and beginning to shape his Pangu True Body.

Yang Huai contained the Primordial Chaos Cosmos within his Pangu True Body and traveled to the Primordial Boundary Sea to temper himself and strengthen his inner cosmos. After absorbing much of a Primordial Flame Sea, he heard from its female guardian and changed course to meet her.

• Azure Moon Chief God and Gloom God Lord continued searching the Chaos Origin Sea for Yang Huai, agreeing that whoever found him would decide his fate.
• Yang Huai completed his fusion with the Primordial Chaos Cosmos, suppressed its power within his body, and left the Purple Palace Celestial Realm for the Primordial Boundary Sea.
• Yang Huai crossed the primordial ice region and entered the Primordial Flame Sea, absorbing its flames to nourish his Pangu True Body and inner cosmos.
• A red-dressed woman watching from the heart of the Primordial Flame Sea became alarmed as Yang Huai absorbed nearly half its flames, but he stopped before destroying her Dao field.
• The woman thanked Yang Huai for showing restraint, and he replied that he would not ruin her cultivation ground before turning to visit her.

Yang Huai met Hong Zhao, the Primordial Fire God, and exchanged insights on the Great Dao of fire spirits with her. Their cultivation advanced, and Yang Huai’s fire spirit origin stirred a vast phenomenon in the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light.

• Hong Zhao invited Yang Huai to the Primordial Fire Domain, where they shared food and revealed their identities and cultivation paths.
• Hong Zhao explained her Innate Fire Spirit Scripture, and Yang Huai gained insight that strengthened his Primordial True Fire Diagram and the Middle Palace of Qi in his primordial universe.
• Yang Huai explained his broader path of supreme fire spirits, incorporating innate and acquired fire spirits, light, and pure yang, prompting Hong Zhao’s aura to approach a breakthrough.
• A white-gold-robed man in Divine Spirit Abyss sensed two powerful fire spirit forces nearing the path he controlled and wondered who accompanied the Primordial Fire God.
• In the Fire Virtue Dao Palace, the fire spirit within Zhurong Clan surged, creating a vast phenomenon that suppressed fire spirits throughout the primordial wilderness.

Yang Huai became a Supreme Fire Spirit, transforming his destiny and rapidly restoring his power as Primordial Zhurong. After Hong Zhao reached the seventh level of the Chaos Dao Realm and told him how the Five-Element Main God claimed the innate Five Spirits, they entered the Primordial Wind-Thunder Sea, where a powerful lightning blade struck at Yang Huai.

• Yang Huai broke through to become a Supreme Fire Spirit and entered the Creation Realm, while Second-Generation Zhurong, Lu Ya, Shennong, and Ting Yao sensed the change.
• Yang Huai’s destiny became the true Supreme Dao Position of Primordial Fire God, and his innate divine abilities increased from twelve to eighteen.
• After Yang Huai’s six-hundred-year sermon, Hong Zhao broke through to the seventh level of the Chaos Dao Realm.
• Hong Zhao agreed to guide Yang Huai through other primordial forbidden lands and revealed that the Five-Element Main God had seized the paths of the five innate spirits by manipulating and devouring the Five Spirits of Creation.
• Yang Huai and Hong Zhao entered the Primordial Wind-Thunder Sea, where a divine blade formed from destructive lightning cleaved toward Yang Huai.

Yang Huai subdued Wan He and absorbed the primordial wind-thunder sea for five thousand years, completing his fifth Primordial Chaotic Origin Pearl. He and Hong Zhao then arrived at the primordial ocean, where Supreme Teacher Taiyi attacked Yang Huai without warning.

• Yang Huai crushed Wan He's attacks, seized the Wind-Thunder Seal, and persuaded Wan He to submit by giving him lightning Dao Origin.
• Yang Huai absorbed the primordial wind-thunder power, strengthening his Primordial Cosmos and true body as Hong Zhao watched.
• After five thousand years, Yang Huai completed his fifth Primordial Chaotic Origin Pearl and left the weakened wind-thunder sea with Hong Zhao.
• Three ancient deities discussed whether to let Yang Huai join their effort to explore a mysterious land, while Supreme Teacher Taiyi questioned Hong Zhao's companion.
• Hong Zhao introduced Yang Huai, who called himself Zhurong, to the deities at the primordial ocean; Supreme Teacher Taiyi then attacked him with five Primordial Supreme Lights.

Yang Huai battled Taiyi Sect Venerable, whose eighth-level cultivation and primordial treasures could not withstand Yang Huai’s swordsmanship. After Taiyi apologized and explained his suspicions, he brought Yang Huai and the others to an island and revealed that they had found a primordial origin treasure ground in the Primordial Boundary Sea, but had been unable to retrieve its hidden supreme treasure.

• Yang Huai shattered Taiyi Sect Venerable’s defenses and broke free of the time-space trap, forcing Taiyi to emerge and ask him to stop fighting.
• Taiyi apologized and explained that he had tested Yang Huai because he feared enemies from the Saint Venerable sects; Hong Zhao introduced Taiyi, Lingyi, and Jiuxiao.
• Taiyi led Yang Huai and the others to his island home and offered spiritual fruit before explaining why they had remained in the Primordial Boundary Sea.
• Taiyi revealed that they had discovered a primordial origin treasure ground that likely contained a supreme treasure, and Yang Huai asked why Taiyi had not retrieved it.

Yang Huai agreed to help the ancient gods break the formation around a primordial origin treasure land, in exchange for their promise of future protection and a fair claim to the treasure. As he absorbed the Primordial Yin-Yang Sea, his Primordial Cosmos neared a new stage, while the Purple Palace Celestial Realm’s founding god sensed an unusual variable.

• Yang Huai examined the Nine Heavens Radiant Five Tai Realm Emperor Formation and said he could break it by weakening and then suppressing the Primordial Realm Sea’s source power.
• Taiyi Teach Venerable offered Yang Huai the treasure and asked for protection if he attained the Dao Realm of Hunyuan Daluo, and Yang Huai agreed on the condition that the gods avoid provoking their pursuers.
• Yang Huai plunged into the Primordial Yin-Yang Sea and began absorbing its primordial qi, while Taiyi Teach Venerable and the other gods departed.
• Lingyi questioned the bargain, but the Nine Heavens Ancient God explained that opposing Yang Huai would be too dangerous, and he made her leave with him.
• Five thousand years later, Yang Huai had absorbed two-thirds of the sea and sensed that his Primordial Cosmos was nearing stability and approaching the Tai Shi level.
• The Purple Palace Celestial Realm’s founding god sensed a strand of pure white auspicious qi blending with creation and recognized the arrival of a variable.