Chapter Summaries

Yang Huai used the World Tree to seize a chaotic spirit island and drive off a pursuing Daluo Golden Immortal, after which Daoist Taiwei installed the island in a grotto-heaven on Chaotic Cave Star. As the World Tree reshaped the All-Heaven Star Sea, Taiwei gave the grotto-heaven to Daoist Taichu and showed Emperor Lingji the tree, inviting her to cultivate beneath it.

• Yang Huai relied on the World Tree's power to exile a white-robed ancient god who tried to claim the chaotic spirit island.
• Daoist Taiwei brought the island to Chaotic Cave Star, discovered its rare spirit roots and the Taiyi Purple Lotus's embryo, and planted it inside a primordial grotto-heaven.
• Daoist Taiwei gave the grotto-heaven and its future disciple to Daoist Taichu, who named the lotus-born girl Zijing and moved his belongings there.
• Emperor Lingji sensed the World Tree's influence transforming the All-Heaven Star Sea and went to question Daoist Taiwei.
• Daoist Taiwei showed Emperor Lingji the World Tree and permitted her to cultivate in its valley.

Yang Huai strengthened the World Tree and prepared defenses around the Chaotic Cave Star Sea while Emperor Lingji studied its spacetime patterns. When Shenyin approached the World Tree, Yang Huai intercepted him and struck with overwhelming sword power.

• Emperor Lingji studied the World Tree’s spacetime patterns and advanced toward the Creation Realm as Yang Huai strengthened the tree and planned defensive formations.
• The Xuanyuan Clan sensed a hidden disturbance in the All-Heaven Star Sea and warned Daoist Taiwei through the Astral Profundity Diagram.
• Daoist Taiwei suspected an other-shore being had infiltrated the star sea and summoned Yang Huai’s true body to respond.
• Shenyin approached the Chaotic Cave Star Sea, sensed danger, and tried to retreat, but Yang Huai appeared and blocked his way.
• Yang Huai’s sword light overwhelmed Shenyin’s Shenyin Sword and shattered the protective White Lotus around him.

Shenyin fought Yang Huai, whose attacks interrupted Shenyin’s breakthrough and forced him to spend Dao Yuan Pearls to escape. Shenyin fled into the All-Heaven Star Sea, where Supreme Clarity confronted him with the true Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, leaving him battered and facing the Mystic Sect Three Pure Ones.

• Yang Huai overwhelmed Shenyin with the Wuliang Chongli Sword, interrupting Shenyin’s breakthrough and crushing his body despite the Twelfth-Grade Pure World White Lotus’s protection.
• Yang Huai trapped Shenyin in a Nine-Colored Taiji Diagram, but Shenyin used the Celestial Emperor Pearl and Dao Yuan Secret Art to break free and flee.
• Shenyin scattered Spacetime Annihilation Pearls as he escaped, and Yang Huai contained their explosions with nine-colored immortal light before pursuing him.
• Shenyin encountered Supreme Clarity, who wielded the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and pierced through Shenyin’s defenses.
• Shenyin used another Dao Yuan Pearl to repel Qingping Sword light, but the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation’s four-colored sword storms weakened his perception and left him with little hope of survival.

Shenyin escaped Supreme Clarity Daoist’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation by unleashing the Celestial Emperor Pearl and Heavenly Emperor Mirror, but Daoist Taiwei trapped him in the All-Heaven Star Array and began grinding away his remaining strength. Outside the star sea, the Limitless Sacred Emperor confronted Jade Clarity Daoist, while Great Clarity Daoist faced an indistinct god figure.

• Supreme Clarity Daoist wounded Shenyin with his sword, and Shenyin brought out the Celestial Emperor Pearl and Heavenly Emperor Mirror to resist the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation.
• Shenyin forced his way out of the formation after wounding Supreme Clarity Daoist, who recognized that Daoist Taiwei’s next trap would likely finish him.
• Daoist Taiwei confronted the weakened Shenyin and activated the All-Heaven Star Array, forcing Shenyin to use his treasures to resist its grinding power.
• The Limitless Sacred Emperor blocked Jade Clarity Daoist and warned that the Mystic Sect could not push the God Race aside without consequences.
• Great Clarity Daoist stopped an ethereal, indistinct god figure and questioned why that figure had chosen a perilous path.

Great Clarity Daoist, Yang Huai, and Supreme Clarity Daoist fought the Heavenly Dao wielder, Torch Dragon, Zhunti, and Jieyin as they tried to rescue Shenyin. Shenyin detonated his Dao Fruit to escape, but Taiwei Daoist trapped the fleeing Heavenly Emperor Mirror in the All-Heaven Star Array.

• Great Clarity Daoist confronted the ancient deity who had followed the Heavenly Dao Dao path, and the two clashed across the heavens.
• Torch Dragon called on Zhunti and Jieyin for help; Zhunti attacked Yang Huai while Jieyin went to retrieve Shenyin, but Supreme Clarity Daoist intercepted him.
• Yang Huai resisted Zhunti and Torch Dragon, countered Torch Dragon’s time powers, and wounded him with the Wuliang Chongli Sword.
• Taiwei Daoist ground away Shenyin’s cultivation, but Shenyin revealed the Celestial Emperor Pearl and detonated his Dao Fruit, unleashing a violent explosion.
• Taiwei Daoist seized the Twelfth-Grade Pure World White Lotus and Shenyin Ancient Sword, then used the All-Heaven Star Array to trap the fleeing Heavenly Emperor Mirror.

Taiwei Daoist and his allies battled the ancient Heavenly Emperor, who escaped after clashing with the Great Clarity Daoist and the others. With the Divine Race’s hidden strength exposed and Shenyin severely wounded, Taiwei Daoist prepared to pursue his plans against the Divine Race’s fortune.

• The Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light attacked the Heavenly Emperor Mirror, but its golden radiance forced him to retreat until Taiwei Daoist intervened and the Heavenly Emperor Primordial Spirit fled.
• Taiwei Daoist, the Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light, Yang Huai, and the Supreme Clarity Daoist arrived to aid the Great Clarity Daoist, while Torch Dragon, Zhunti Daoist, and Daoist Jieyin escaped their battles.
• The Great Clarity Daoist broke free of the Nine-Colored Divine Radiance and confronted the ancient Heavenly Emperor, who acknowledged his strength and then vanished.
• Yang Huai suspected the Heavenly Emperor needed the Divine Race’s fortune to control the Heavenly Dao, and the Great Clarity Daoist recognized him as a Dao enemy.
• The Jade Clarity Daoist entrusted the next steps to Taiwei Daoist, who arranged to visit Biyou Palace in a thousand years to discuss perfecting the Ruins of Return.
• Taiwei Daoist gave the Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light a Twelve-Petaled White Lotus, while his allies concluded that Shenyin had been severely wounded and the Divine Race’s hidden cards had largely been revealed.

Yang Huai developed the World Tree’s World Dao Path while the tree began influencing the spiritual qi of the thirty-six heavenly realms. The Jade Clarity Daoist supported Taiwei Daoist’s growing power, while the Torch Dragon considered the danger posed by the Mystic Sect and hesitated to approach the Heavenly Emperor Palace.

• Yang Huai, Taiwei Daoist, and the Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light discussed the Dao Paths their allies could pursue and decided to focus on building their strength before the coming war between gods and mystics.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable of Ten Directions Light remained beneath the World Tree to refine the Purifying World White Lotus as Yang Huai cultivated the World Tree’s World Dao Path.
• The World Tree matured into a Great Luo Golden Immortal and extended roots into the thirty-six heavenly realms, enriching their spiritual qi and potentially allowing Taiwei Daoist to influence its nature.
• The Jade Clarity Daoist saw the World Tree’s influence over the heavens and supported Taiwei Daoist, believing the tree could give him control over the source of spiritual qi.
• The Torch Dragon observed the Mystic Sect’s growing control over heaven-and-earth qi and hesitated to return to the Heavenly Emperor Palace, unsure whether the Heavenly Emperor would favor Shenyin.

Taiwei Daoist visited Supreme Clarity Daoist at Biyou Palace to propose developing the Guixu with a Twelvefold Yuan Ji Guixu Dao Diagram. Supreme Clarity Daoist agreed, having realized that Taiwei Daoist was also the Devil Ancestor, and the two prepared to establish the Guixu Realm.

• Many-Treasure Daoist asked Supreme Clarity Daoist for permission to study the Taiqing and Jade Pure Great Daos, and Supreme Clarity Daoist encouraged his ambition while warning him not to compare himself with Taiwei Daoist.
• Supreme Clarity Daoist told Many-Treasure Daoist that Taiwei Daoist was close to becoming the source of heaven and earth's vital energy, then said they would meet him when he arrived.
• Twelve years later, Taiwei Daoist arrived at Biyou Palace and presented Supreme Clarity Daoist with rare gifts, including spiritual fruits, lotus seeds, and innate divine iron.
• Taiwei Daoist proposed developing the Guixu to perfect the Great Dao of Ending and presented the Twelvefold Yuan Ji Guixu Dao Diagram.
• Supreme Clarity Daoist inferred that Taiwei Daoist possessed the World-Destroying Black Lotus and was also the Devil Ancestor, then agreed to entrust the Guixu project to him.

Taiwei Daoist reshaped the North Sea Guixu with support from the Mystic Sect Three Pure Ones, creating the Yuan Ji Guixu Realm and concealing its deeper workings. The realm’s formation strengthened Taiwei Daoist and established his new Dao Ancestor position.

• Taiwei Daoist and the Supreme Clarity Daoist agreed to keep the World-Destroying Black Lotus’s existence concealed from others.
• Five hundred years later, North Sea Dragon King Ao Qing learned that the Mystic Sect and Celestial Court planned to reshape the North Sea Guixu, and True Lord Cangmu reassured him that the work would benefit the North Sea Dragon Palace.
• Taiwei Daoist fixed the North Sea sea eye in place and split open the Guixu, while the Supreme Clarity Daoist, Jade Clarity Daoist, and Great Clarity Daoist used their treasures to suppress the resulting changes to heaven and earth.
• The shattered Guixu formed the Yuan Ji Guixu Realm, where the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying concealed its deeper changes and gathered destruction, endings, and wandering souls.
• Taiwei Daoist diverted the powers of destruction and endings into the new realm, where the Creation Azure Lotus transformed them into vital energy that circulated through heaven and earth.
• Taiwei Daoist condensed a new Other Shore Dao position and gained the karmic authority of Dao Ancestor, while the Supreme Clarity Daoist approved of his restraint.

Heavenly Emperor Shaohao considered his limited paths as Taiwei Daoist’s Dao Ancestor authority reshaped the balance between the divine and Mystic forces. A thousand years later, Chaotic Cave Star Sea continued to grow and strengthen its inhabitants, while Emperor Lingji sensed another transformation of the World Tree approaching.

• Taiwei Daoist’s new Dao Ancestor status gave him control over vast sources of heaven-and-earth qi, and Shaohao recognized that he could not oppose his grandmaster.
• Shaohao weighed the White Emperor and Metal Virtue paths, then considered Taiwei Daoist’s plan to divide Heavenly Emperor authority among Five Directional Heavenly Emperors.
• After a thousand years, immortals and gods learned of Yuan Ji Guixu, while the Mystic Sect suppressed rumors that it aimed to control heaven and earth.
• Nüwa and Fuxi Clan discussed how the Mystic Sect’s influence and the decline of precelestial spiritual qi were weakening the divine race, and Fuxi Clan urged patience.
• At Taiyi Mountain, Taichu Daoist soothed the embryonic life within the Taiyi Purple Lotus as Chaotic Cave Star Sea naturally expanded and transformed.
• Ember Emperor, Kong Xuan, Guanghua, Ice Snow'er, Gu Lin, and others cultivated alongside Chaotic Cave Star Sea, while Emperor Lingji sensed that the World Tree was transforming again.

The World Tree matured, blossoming and forming its first three World Tree Seeds as its fragrance awakened spirituality across Chaotic Cave Star and brought Emperor Lingji close to the Creation realm. Daoist Taichu brought his newly formed disciple Zijing to meet Patriarch Taiwei, who granted her a valley and a treasured ancient sword, while Yang Huai planned to use the World Tree and the Mystic Sect’s momentum to pressure the divine race.

• The World Tree bloomed and condensed three golden World Tree Seeds, while its fragrance strengthened living beings across Chaotic Cave Star and helped the innate deity on the Taiyi Purple Lotus take form.
• The purple-clad girl Zijing survived forty-nine bolts of divine lightning, attained a Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, and greeted Daoist Taichu as her master.
• Daoist Taichu brought Zijing to Patriarch Taiwei, who granted them the choice of one of twelve valleys for three thousand years and gave Zijing the Purple Sun Ancient Sword.
• Daoist Taichu explained that the ancient sword was a treasure refined by Patriarch Taiwei, and he and Zijing left All-Heaven Star Palace satisfied.
• Yang Huai sensed that he had entered maturity, awakened nearly all eighteen innate divine abilities, and formed his first three World Tree Seeds.
• Yang Huai planned to join the World Dao path with the Mystic Sect’s great momentum to put further pressure on the divine race.

Yang Huai advanced the Earth Immortal cultivation path while preparing to claim the Dao position of Continuance. He began fusing with it despite the Purple Palace Celestial Realm’s backlash, as Vast Firmament Venerable and Sacred Cosmos God Lord watched without intervening.

• Yang Huai developed a plan for Earth Immortals to cultivate through Inner-Scenery and Outer-Scenery methods, using World Tree seeds and the All-Heaven Star Sea as foundations.
• Yan Ju studied Yang Huai’s plan, judged it viable, and joined Taiwei Daoist in helping him comprehend the methods.
• Yang Huai condensed the Boundless Dao Fruit, gaining a powerful Heavenly Dao foundation that surpassed an ordinary fourth-realm Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Yang Huai combined the Dao diagrams of the Nine Heavens Celestial Realm, Netherworld Underworld, All-Heaven Starry Sky, and Limitless Guixu Realm to form the Dao position of Continuance, while resisting its pull toward Primordial Purple Qi.
• Yang Huai began fusing with the Dao position as the Purple Palace Celestial Realm’s Great Daos resisted; Sacred Cosmos God Lord and Vast Firmament Venerable considered stopping him but obeyed the prohibition against acting.
• Yang Huai’s fusion continued, and boundless divine might spread throughout the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.

Yang Huai took control of the Dao Position of Persistence, gaining enough power to suppress changes in the Great Dao and shaking immortals and gods throughout the heavens. He tested his new command over the Purple Palace Celestial Realm with his World Tree Dharma Form, while Purple Cloud Saint Ancestor watched and continued preparing to abandon the Dao Fruit of Creation.

• Yang Huai's control of Persistence unleashed a sacred pressure that forced High Deities, God Lords, and even Primordial Zenith Heaven Sacred Venerables to bow.
• The Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor explained that Yang Huai's new power came from controlling Persistence, while Purple Cloud Saint Ancestor still governed the Purple Palace heavens through the great trend of Creation.
• The Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor suggested Radiant Treasure Heavenly Empress might find a path forward by joining forces with Yang Huai against Myriad Manifestations God Lord.
• Yang Huai absorbed the power of Persistence into his Dao Fruit, bringing his Daoxing to nearly eighteen great universes before the Primordial Cosmos was counted.
• Yang Huai manifested his platinum World Tree Dharma Form and used its three thousand branches to gather and command the Great Daos of the Purple Palace heavens.
• Purple Cloud Saint Ancestor noticed Yang Huai's World Tree and, with his cultivation nearing its final threshold, resolved to hurry toward abandoning the Dao Fruit of Creation.

Xuanyuan Clan learned that Taiwei planned to establish the Earth Immortal Way and recruit fourth-generation disciples to pioneer its cultivation. After Xuanyuan Clan promoted the opportunity, Yang Jiao decided to pursue the new path, convinced it could secure his future.

• Daoist Xuanfeng told Xuanyuan Clan that Taiwei intended to establish the Earth Immortal Way and gave him the Inner-Scenery and Outer-Scenery methods.
• Xuanyuan Clan understood that Earth Immortals could help govern the vast All-Heaven Star Sea and publicized a recruitment effort through the Purple Tenuity Dao Palace.
• Mystic Sect disciples sent their students to the All-Heaven Star Palace to study the Earth Immortal Great Dao.
• Yang Chan urged Yang Jiao not to abandon his existing cultivation, but Yang Jiao insisted he had chosen the Earth Immortal Way for its opportunity.
• Yang Jiao reminded Yang Chan and Yang Jian that rare opportunities had to be seized, while Daoist Xuanfeng listened and approved of his judgment.

The Jade Void Dao Palace’s fourth-generation disciples entered Chaotic Cave Star to begin their trials, while Yan Ju expanded the Netherworld’s earthly network and arranged matters for the Emperor Yan Palace. As conflict grew between the Flame Emperor and Xuanyuan clans, Ting Yao sent Jingwei to the Solar Palace and revealed that the Celestial Court might move against ancient sects and sacred lands.

• Daoist Taichu led 108 disciples into Chaotic Cave Star’s secret realms, where they would face trials to cultivate Earth Immortal Dao Fruits and compete for rare treasures.
• Daoist Taiwei prepared to expound the Mixed Origin Zenith Heaven Dao Fruit and promote the Earth Immortal path, while Yan Ju appointed ghost deities as earthly gods and strengthened the Netherworld’s network.
• Shao Yan, Chi Chengzi, and Jingwei met with Ting Yao as tensions between the Flame Emperor and Xuanyuan clans threatened the Emperor Yan Palace’s interests.
• Ting Yao ordered Jingwei to serve as Duty Star Lord in the Solar Palace until she reached the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Ting Yao warned that the White Emperor might move against the gods, and Zhuanxu considered the Celestial Court’s plans and the proposal for Five Directional Heavenly Emperors.

Zhuanxu worried that he lacked the merit to claim the Black Emperor’s position, while the Western Venerables considered how to counter Shaohao’s campaign against the gods. As Xingtian weighed Nine Phoenix’s appeal to fight back, Hou Yi chose to leave the village, and Yang Huai’s World Tree uncovered a mysterious crystal platform containing a figure.

• Zhuanxu resolved to seek his master’s guidance on attaining the Black Emperor’s position.
• Zhunti Daoist urged Jieyin to blunt Shaohao’s advance, then decided to travel the land in search of worthy talents.
• Torch Dragon sent divine thoughts into the River of Time to stir the Wild Wasteland’s growing conflict, and Yang Huai sensed his intervention.
• Nine Phoenix asked Xingtian and Hou Yi to help the gods resist Shaohao’s persecution, but the Left Sacred Emperor Lord delivered Houtu’s talisman edict protecting Xingtian’s village.
• Xingtian told Hou Yi he would not stop him from leaving, and Hou Yi decided to go see the outside world.
• The World Tree dug a hexagonal crystal platform from a spacetime storm, and a figure began to manifest inside it.

Yang Huai brought a seemingly dead primordial water goddess to the All-Heaven Star Palace, where Daoist Taiwei revived her amid Torch Dragon’s attempt to interfere through the river of time. The goddess identified herself as Li Nü, a Rain Goddess of the ancient Earth Sovereign Palace, and began settling into the All-Heaven Star Sea while seeking answers about the vanished powers of her age.

• Yang Huai found a primordial goddess sealed in a crystal dais and sent her to the All-Heaven Star Palace for revival.
• Daoist Taiwei prepared to restore the goddess using the Life-and-Death Reincarnation Disc, but Torch Dragon tried to sever the river of time and stop him.
• An azure-robed figure struck Torch Dragon with the Wuliang Chongli Sword, forcing him to flee through the river of time and consider his next move.
• Yang Huai arrived, and he and Daoist Taiwei discussed Torch Dragon, Shenyin, and the choice of Heavenly Emperor Cangli.
• The goddess revived amid a rainstorm and introduced herself as Li Nü, a Rain Goddess and Mountain-and-Water Envoy of the ancient Earth Sovereign Palace.
• Daoist Taiwei invited Li Nü to serve as the All-Heaven Star Sea’s Envoy of Cloud and Rain Deployment, and she went to the Purple Tenuity Star to settle in.

Li Nu arrived at Purple Tenuity Star, learned how Daoist Taiwei and the Mystic Sect had risen as the innate gods declined, and discovered the history of the primordial war. A sudden collapse in the spatial Great Dao revealed that its far shore had become vacant, leaving Yang Huai troubled by Heavenly Emperor Cangli’s apparent closeness to the Heavenly Dao.

• Li Nu met Divine Lord Tianyan near Purple Tenuity Star and learned that Daoist Taiwei was revered as the Dao Ancestor of the Mystic Sect.
• Li Nu entered the General Knowledge Tower, received permission to study its books, and read an account of the war between the Demon Court and the gods.
• Li Nu learned that the war had devastated the innate gods, while the Mystic Sect and its immortals rose to prominence afterward.
• Li Nu found that the God Race’s later generations lacked celebrated figures, and she concluded that their disunity had contributed to their decline.
• The spatial Great Dao collapsed, and Yang Huai sensed that its far shore had become unoccupied.
• Yang Huai worried that Heavenly Emperor Cangli had drawn close to the Heavenly Dao by abandoning Shenyin and choosing Torch Dragon.

The Three Pure Ones judged that the Heavenly Emperor’s spirit threatened the Mystic Sect and resolved to confront it after addressing other beings beyond the shore. Before they departed for a land beyond Heaven, they entrusted the Mystic Sect to Taiwei Zi and assigned him to deal with the Holy Mother of Earth while they went to the Western Religion.

• Yang Huai worried that the Heavenly Emperor’s spirit might either be losing itself to the Heavenly Dao or secretly nearing mastery of it.
• Daoist Jieyin concluded that the Heavenly Emperor’s spirit might have stolen vast fortune in the ancient era, then urged Zhunti Daoist to leave Great Mount Sumeru after sensing a change at Kunlun Mountain.
• Jade Clarity Daoist, Supreme Clarity Daoist, and Great Clarity Daoist agreed to confront the Heavenly Emperor’s spirit and first remove threats among the other beings beyond the shore.
• Jade Clarity Daoist entrusted the Mystic Sect and its three teachings to Taiwei Zi while the Three Pure Ones prepared to journey beyond Heaven.
• Jade Clarity Daoist assigned Taiwei Zi, Yan Ju, and the Great Venerable of Light to visit the Holy Mother of Earth, while he and his martial uncles set out for the Western Religion and warned that opposing Torch Dragon would begin the great battle.

Taiwei found that Jieyin and Zhunti had abandoned Mount Sumeru, then let the Three Pure Ones pursue Torch Dragon while he focused on unifying the Wild Wasteland against the spirit of the Heavenly Emperor. At Splendid Heaven, Yan Ju and Yang Huai pressured Nüwa to join the Mystic Sect’s plan, but Taiwei’s arrival with the Fuxi Clan and his offer of authority persuaded her to cooperate.

• The Jade Clarity Daoist brought Taiwei to Mount Sumeru, where they found that Jieyin and Zhunti had fled with the Pure Land of Bliss, leaving the mountain vacant.
• The Three Pure Ones pursued Torch Dragon upstream through the River of Time, while Taiwei resolved to quickly unify the Wild Wasteland and help them defeat the spirit of the Heavenly Emperor.
• Yan Ju visited Nüwa at Queen Wa Palace and urged her to join a gathering at Purple Tenuity Star to discuss the Mystic Sect’s plan to seal demons.
• Yang Huai arrived with the Annihilation Millstone and joined Yan Ju in pressuring Nüwa, whose power was overwhelmed by their combined presence.
• Taiwei and the Fuxi Clan arrived, and the Fuxi Clan revealed that he had become the Mystic Sect’s Azure Emperor.
• Taiwei offered Nüwa authority over Creation matters and a share of the Mystic Sect’s fortune, and Nüwa agreed to cooperate while insisting that her status be respected.