Chapter Summaries

Jiang Chen entered the Primordial Unity Hall and faced its trial, which tested his understanding of the Great Dao rather than his cultivation or combat strength. Although he could not sustain the world he created from Primordial Unity, the trial ended and revealed the true hall.

• Lingmingzi considered abandoning the Primordial Unity One-Qi True Explanation after years of failing to advance beyond the early Purple Mansion stage.
• Jiang Chen arrived at the Primordial Unity Hall and poured his magic power into its doors, opening them as Lingmingzi watched in astonishment.
• Jiang Chen entered the hall's small world and realized that he had to redefine Primordial Unity to find a way out.
• Jiang Chen meditated and spoke of his understanding, causing water, fire, heaven, earth, and other phenomena to form from a single qi.
• Jiang Chen's newly formed world collapsed, but the Primordial Unity shrouding the trial vanished and revealed the true Primordial Unity Hall.

Jiang Chen received the Primordial Unity Golden Seal and the original Primordial Unity One-Qi True Explanation, which revealed a possible path to merge his cultivation methods. After learning the dangers of the Primordial Unity Ancient Stele, he chose to leave it alone until he reached the Celestial Phenomenon realm.

• The Primordial Unity Ancient Stele granted Jiang Chen the Primordial Unity Golden Seal, marking him as Master of Primordial Unity Hall.
• Jiang Chen received the original Primordial Unity One-Qi True Explanation and considered merging it with the Great Splendor Sky-Supporting Method.
• Jiang Chen recognized the fading phantom as Hunyuan Zi, the first master of Primordial Unity Hall, and inferred that he had preserved his power through Everlasting Unity of Qi.
• Jiang Chen recalled that the Primordial Unity Ancient Stele had driven cultivators mad and that Hunyuan Zi had warned against approaching it before reaching the Celestial Phenomenon realm.
• Jiang Chen decided not to comprehend the Primordial Unity Ancient Stele yet and turned to leave.

Jiang Chen passed the Primordial Unity Trial and was formally recognized as Lord of the Primordial Unity Hall after True Lord Xuan Qiong affirmed his succession. The Primordial Unity Lineage resumed its legacy, while Gu Lingxiao and others reckoned with Jiang Chen’s sudden rise.

• True Lord Yingling questioned whether Jiang Chen could claim the Primordial Unity Hall without approval, but True Lord Xuan Qiong declared that Jiang Chen should become its new Lord.
• The Impermanence Sect issued a decree naming Forget Dust True Person, Jiang Chen, Lord of the Primordial Unity Hall, equal in rank to the Void Dao and Impermanence Hall Lords.
• Jiang Chen accepted the decree as precious light appeared behind him, and sect disciples bowed to him.
• True Lord Fuyu was impressed by Jiang Chen’s rise, while several True Persons regretted distancing themselves from him to support White Ape True Person.
• Gu Lingxiao realized that Jiang Chen’s new position would keep him from approaching the Primordial Unity Ancient Stele until he reached the Celestial Phenomenon realm.
• Jiang Chen felt relieved as the Primordial Unity Hall’s long-vacant lordship was filled and its lineage began to revive.

Jiang Chen visited True Lord Xuan Qiong in the Grand Peace Heavenly Realm and requested the Daoist art Shed the Mortal Form and Renew the Bones to overcome a cultivation impasse. Xuan Qiong granted him the complete inheritance and sent him away, while True Lord Xuanji wondered how Jiang Chen compared to Gu Lingxiao.

• Jiang Chen entered the Grand Peace Heavenly Realm and realized it was connected to what Great Splendor Mountain supported.
• True Lord Xuan Qiong praised Jiang Chen for passing the Primordial Unity Trial, and Jiang Chen thanked him for supporting his appointment as master of Primordial Unity Hall.
• Jiang Chen asked True Lord Xuan Qiong for Shed the Mortal Form and Renew the Bones to guide his cultivation of the Archaic Dragon-Whale Transformation.
• True Lord Xuan Qiong gave Jiang Chen the complete Daoist art inheritance and sent him out of the heavenly realm.
• True Lord Xuanji questioned Xuan Qiong’s special treatment of Jiang Chen, then wondered how Jiang Chen compared to Gu Lingxiao.

Jiang Chen took up the position of Hall Master of Primordial Unity Hall, met its dwindling disciples, and revealed his extraordinary Dao to Lingmingzi. Meanwhile, Eyeless Daoist’s attempt to break through with a Dao Insight Stone failed, leaving him to grasp for another way to survive.

• Lingmingzi and the remaining Primordial Unity Hall disciples waited for their new Hall Master, Jiang Chen, to arrive.
• Jiang Chen appeared without Lingmingzi sensing him, inspected the hall’s cultivators, and told them to leave everything as it was.
• Lingmingzi followed Jiang Chen and asked about his mastery of Primordial Unity; after their spell combat, he realized Jiang Chen fused ten thousand methods into one.
• Eyeless Daoist watched his Dao Insight Stone crumble to sand and despaired when his breakthrough failed and decay overtook him.
• Eyeless Daoist seized on another possible path and cast aside his misgivings.

The Day-Wandering God recovered from his injuries and discovered that his divine sigil had advanced, then learned of an opportunity that might help Divine Dao Founding gain a foothold in Yuhuan Continent. Meanwhile, Gu Lingxiao decided to help the Eyeless Daoist pursue the path from immortal to god in exchange for his assistance.

• The Day-Wandering God found that his divine sigil had deepened to green after his battle, raising his prospects of reaching the late third rank.
• He lamented that the Impermanence Sect and the lack of capable allies made reviving the Divine Dao in Yuhuan Continent difficult.
• A spiritual message brought the Day-Wandering God news of an opportunity, and he contacted Divine Dao Founding to request support.
• The Day-Wandering God hoped the Divine Sect would grant him the vacant Yao Ming God divine sigil and help him reach the fourth rank.
• Gu Lingxiao sensed that the Eyeless Daoist had chosen a dangerous path and planned to give him ancient god blood in return for his help.

Jiang Chen examined Golden-Eyed Sacred Son’s bloodline and suspected Jellyfish had created him to seek Heavenly Star’s inheritance, embedding a fragment of an immortal art within him. A glimpse of that imprint gave Jiang Chen two treasure art inheritances, which strengthened his desire to obtain Profound Womb Spirit-Nurturing Immortal Light.

• Jiang Chen used Shed the Mortal Form and Renew the Bones to improve his understanding of bloodline transformation and then examined Golden-Eyed Sacred Son’s body.
• Jiang Chen found cracks and traces of multiple bloodlines in Golden-Eyed Sacred Son and suspected Jellyfish had created him as a means to seek Heavenly Star’s inheritance.
• Jiang Chen detected a fragmentary immortal art imprint in Golden-Eyed Sacred Son’s bloodline, but its repulsive force drove his divine sense away.
• Jiang Chen gained the inheritances of Spirit-Awakening Finger and Enlightening Nether-Piercing Eyes from a glimpse of the imprint.
• Jiang Chen immediately cultivated Enlightening Nether-Piercing Eyes and considered using both treasure arts to develop his soul and investigate the immortal art further.

Jiang Chen watched the Mist Flood Dragon awaken after refining the Water Spirit Pearl and gain perfected Cloudwater True Intent, then helped it form the Eight-Directions Cloud Chart. With the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm’s greatest instability resolved, Jiang Chen decided the Spirit Lord could return to the Boundless Sea, and the Spirit Lord departed the Impermanence Sect.

• Jiang Chen saw the Mist Flood Dragon swallow the Water Spirit Pearl and stabilize at the late-stage Purple Mansion realm with perfected Cloudwater True Intent.
• The Mist Flood Dragon’s Cloud-Mountain Mist Shroud advanced into the innate treasure art Eight-Directions Cloud Chart, which could seal the Great Void.
• Jiang Chen refined Misty Cloud Essence into a cloud chart that formed a world within and could trap Purple Mansion cultivators.
• Jiang Chen concluded that the Mist Flood Dragon’s progress and his plans to refine the Abyssal Waves Unraised Seal made the Spirit Lord’s presence less necessary.
• The Spirit Lord departed from the Impermanence Sect to return to the Boundless Sea.

The Spirit Lord entered Star Sea Blessed Land to comprehend its essence and explore his own changes. Meanwhile, Eyeless Daoist betrayed the Impermanence Sect and joined Divine Dao Founding after accepting a secret art that could save his life, leaving the group poised to expand its influence across Yuhuan Continent.

• The Spirit Lord entered Star Sea Blessed Land and settled into meditation, merging his consciousness with the blessed land.
• Divine Dao Founding's Day Patrol God met Eyeless Daoist and warned that the Dao resonance in his body was turning him into a monster.
• Eyeless Daoist revealed his identity and agreed to join Divine Dao Founding to escape his worsening condition.
• The Day Patrol God gave Eyeless Daoist the True Divine Art of Renewing Yang and Entrusting to Earth, which could let him become an Earth Spirit Lord.
• The Day Patrol God promised Eyeless Daoist the Chaos God Flower, allowing him to absorb other gods' incense offerings, and Eyeless bowed to the High God.

The Impermanence Sect’s True Lords investigated the upheaval surrounding Azure Firmament Mountain and considered whether Lord Heaven-Hanging Thunder Tamer could have survived through nirvana with help from the Flame Phoenix Immortal Palace. As they prepared to investigate using the Void Illusory World Mirror, Eyeless Daoist seized the distraction to continue his transformation in secret.

• True Lord Wuding warned the Impermanence Sect’s True Lords that the thunder and fire around Azure Firmament Mountain might mean Lord Heaven-Hanging Thunder Tamer had survived.
• True Lord Xuan Qiong explained that Phoenix Clan experts could return through nirvana, while True Lord Xuanji argued that a Thunder Roc should not possess that ability.
• True Lord Wuding revealed a phoenix feather and suggested that the Flame Phoenix Immortal Palace had helped Lord Heaven-Hanging Thunder Tamer.
• Lord Execution proposed that the True Lords investigate together and use the Void Illusory World Mirror’s power to protect themselves and peer into Azure Firmament Mountain.
• Eyeless Daoist learned that the Impermanence Sect was distracted and began transforming himself to pursue his cultivation in Yuhuan Continent.

Jiang Chen created the Armament Nurturing Spirit Art to strengthen the Purple Lightning Sword’s spirituality and accelerate its refinement, then gained an insight into lightning as new gods began appearing in the south. The chapter left Hermit Fuling investigating a divine marvel at the Peaceful Daoist statue, which did not answer him.

• Jiang Chen used the Spirit-Awakening Finger to refine two special Demon King hides and sent them to the Black-and-White Elders.
• Jiang Chen created the Armament Nurturing Spirit Art and used his Yin Spirit to nourish the Purple Lightning Sword.
• Jiang Chen fed six third-rank lightning treasures into the Water-Fire Furnace to help the Purple Lightning Sword complete its Nine Heavens Thunder Invocation restriction.
• Jiang Chen entered an enlightenment state while observing the sword’s lightning transformations and glimpsed the threshold of turning his Yin Spirit into Yang.
• The Peaceful Church’s statue of the Peaceful Daoist displayed a divine marvel, and Hermit Fuling tried to contact it but received no response.

The Ge Clan discovered that petty gods were spreading rapidly across the Southern Wastelands and suspected the Chaos God Church was behind it. As they sought Jiang Chen’s guidance, the Sun-Patrolling God and Eyeless Daoist worked to isolate the region from outside information, though Impermanence Sect members began noticing something was wrong.

• Ge Danshen reported the sudden appearance of dozens of petty gods, and Ge Danxin considered whether the Chaos God Church was responsible.
• The Ge Clan elders debated alerting the Impermanence Sect, weighing the danger against the factions involved and Jiang Chen’s ties to the Peaceful Church.
• Ge Danxin ordered the clan to send the information to Dustless True Person, investigate the Southern Wastelands’ Divine Dao, and suppress unsupported groups.
• The Sun-Patrolling God intercepted messages from the Southern Wastelands while Eyeless Daoist used his Impermanence Sect connections to block reports from reaching the sect.
• Some Impermanence Sect members noticed abnormalities in the Southern Wastelands, but they still did not know what had happened.

The Spirit Lord discovered that the incense offerings tied to the Peaceful Church had been altered and warned Jiang Chen, who learned that the Chaos God Church might be manipulating the Southern Wilderness’s divine path. Cold Moon Fairy traced the interception of messages to people connected with Eyeless Daoist and ordered an investigation into his seclusion and further conspirators.

• The Spirit Lord sensed that the incense offerings had changed, suspected a plot against his divine path, sent a portion of his power toward the Southern Wilderness, and alerted Jiang Chen.
• Ge Ziling told Jiang Chen that the Ge Clan suspected the Chaos God Church was behind the Southern Wilderness’s rapidly growing divine path and that someone within the Impermanence Sect had suppressed messages.
• Jiang Chen suspected that people in the Void Dao Hall had intercepted the messages and asked Cold Moon Fairy to investigate.
• Cold Moon Fairy learned that two Purple Mansion True Persons and eleven Dao Foundation cultivators connected to Eyeless Daoist had helped intercept messages.
• Cold Moon Fairy ordered her servant to locate Eyeless Daoist’s seclusion and uncover more conspirators, taking responsibility for the investigation.

Impermanence Sect’s Cold Moon Fairy Yue Shuli ordered a purge of the evil gods spreading through the Southern Wilderness, while Jiang Chen returned to the Clear Source River and Wooden Fish Island. There, he confirmed that Eyeless Daoist had turned to the Divine Dao and suspected he was seeking to reach its fourth rank.

• Cold Moon Fairy Yue Shuli learned that Four-Eyed Daoist had found no trace of Eyeless Daoist and ordered Impermanence Sect to slaughter the evil gods.
• Impermanence Sect’s cultivators swept through the Southern Wilderness, destroying temples and killing many gods, while some escaped and realized the Sun Patrol God had abandoned them.
• Jiang Chen returned to the Clear Source River and saw that the Peaceful Church’s Hundred Rivers Vein Traversal had strengthened it into a second-rank water vein with the potential to come alive.
• Jiang Chen visited Wooden Fish Island and saw Eyeless Daoist’s face on the Peaceful Daoist statue.
• Jiang Chen concluded that Eyeless Daoist had changed from the Immortal Dao to the Divine Dao and was likely trying to reach the Divine Dao’s fourth rank.

The Eyeless Daoist refined incense power into a Divine Dao golden body and began seizing the Southern Wilderness gods’ incense, bringing him close to fourth rank. Cold Moon Fairy used the Lunar Mirror to locate him, but a mysterious figure emerged and cut off the mirror’s moonlight.

• Cold Moon Fairy questioned whether the Eyeless Daoist was behind the Southern Wilderness divine chaos and searched for his whereabouts.
• The Eyeless Daoist refined incense power in a hidden rift and told the Sun-Patrolling God he would reach fourth rank within half a month.
• After ten days, the Eyeless Daoist’s flesh had turned to ash, leaving a hundred-zhang Divine Dao golden body with eight arms.
• The Eyeless Daoist seized the Southern Wilderness’s rivers of incense power, causing gods to scream and some to vanish into ash.
• Cold Moon Fairy manifested the Lunar Mirror and used it to lock onto the Eyeless Daoist’s location.
• A mysterious figure emerged from the darkness and stopped the Lunar Mirror’s moonlight from spreading.

Cold Moon Fairy battled Netherworld Capital Divine Lord to restrain him while Jiang Chen discovered Eyeless Daoist’s attempt to become a fourth-rank Earth Spirit god. Recognizing the breakthrough as his own opportunity, Jiang Chen resolved to advance.

• Netherworld Capital Divine Lord unleashed darkness that stirred violent emotions among living beings, and Cold Moon Fairy identified and confronted him.
• Cold Moon Capital Divine Lord’s divine power clashed with Cold Moon Fairy’s moonlight, while he used the battle to conceal Eyeless Daoist’s movements rather than kill her.
• Jiang Chen used the Spirit Lord’s connection to find Eyeless Daoist and saw that he was merging with the Southern Wilderness to break through.
• Jiang Chen sensed that Eyeless Daoist’s imminent advancement offered him a chance to break through, and he declared that he would advance that day.

The Eyeless Daoist completed his transformation into the fourth-rank Southern Wasteland Peaceful Frontier Spirit Lord and challenged Jiang Chen, expecting to kill him on Gu Lingxiao’s behalf. Jiang Chen unleashed Daoist Yuangang’s Archaic Dragon-Whale Transformation and overpowered the Eyeless Daoist’s first strike, before their next attacks collided and shattered the void.

• The Eyeless Daoist condensed the Southern Wasteland Myriad Manifestations divine talisman and claimed mastery of the Southern Wilderness.
• Jiang Chen tore into the Eyeless Daoist’s hidden domain, where the Eyeless Daoist revealed his plan to kill him for Gu Lingxiao.
• The Eyeless Daoist swept a palm across the void, but Jiang Chen activated the Archaic Dragon-Whale Transformation through the Abyssal Waves Unraised Seal.
• Jiang Chen’s first punch shattered the Eyeless Daoist’s Southern Wasteland manifestation and blew apart his arm.
• Jiang Chen launched Earth Suppression, and the Eyeless Daoist countered with Mountains and Rivers as a Tripod, sending the clash into the great void.

Jiang Chen used the fully sublimated Archaic Dragon-Whale Transformation to overpower Eyeless Daoist, whose divine talisman and control of the Southern Wastelands let him repeatedly restore his body. Jiang Chen transformed into a Primordial Dragon-Whale and gravely injured Eyeless Daoist, exposing that his true body was bound to a special node.

• Jiang Chen realized that the Archaic Dragon-Whale Transformation united dragon, elephant, and whale strength and had become a Dao-art-level ability.
• Eyeless Daoist restored his shattered body and attacked Jiang Chen with the Border-Pacifying Spirit-Sealing Barrier, but Jiang Chen broke through it with another punch.
• Eyeless Daoist summoned mountains to wear Jiang Chen down, but Jiang Chen smashed them apart and activated the second form of the Archaic Dragon-Whale Transformation.
• Jiang Chen transformed into a Primordial Dragon-Whale and charged through Eyeless Daoist’s techniques to strike his true body.
• Jiang Chen gravely injured Eyeless Daoist, whose weakened aura revealed that his true body could not leave the special node supporting his unstable divine talisman.

Jiang Chen severed Eyeless Daoist’s bond with the Southern Wastelands and killed him. As the Netherworld Capital Divine Lord tried to claim Eyeless Daoist’s Divine Seal, Jiang Chen revealed that he had taken it first.

• Jiang Chen used his creation divine ability to cut Eyeless Daoist’s connection to the Southern Wastelands, stripping away the power that sustained him.
• Jiang Chen sealed and shattered Eyeless Daoist’s divine body, and Eyeless Daoist died in disbelief.
• The Netherworld Capital Divine Lord reached for Eyeless Daoist’s corpse to take the Divine Seal for Divine Dao Founding.
• The ghostly hand missed, and the Netherworld Capital Divine Lord realized Jiang Chen had already taken the Divine Seal.

Jiang Chen summoned a fourth-rank thunder tribulation to repel the Netherworld Capital Divine Lord and use its power to break through. He merged his Yin Spirit with the Purple Lightning Sword and fought the thunder qilin’s attack, but his soul suffered devastating wounds as the tribulation overwhelmed him.

• The Netherworld Capital Divine Lord sealed the Southern Wasteland and tried to suppress Jiang Chen and reclaim the golden divine writ.
• Jiang Chen used the Purple Lightning Sword and his accumulated sinful karma to invoke a heavenly thunder tribulation.
• The thunder tribulation shattered the Divine Lord’s darkness and weakened his avatar, which he abandoned before the lightning destroyed it.
• With the Divine Lord gone, the tribulation targeted Jiang Chen and manifested a thunder qilin’s claw.
• Jiang Chen sent out his Yin Spirit and merged with the Purple Lightning Sword, hoping the fourth-rank tribulation would help him break through.
• Jiang Chen fought the thunder tribulation with countless sword lights, but the lightning overwhelmed him and repeatedly devastated his divine soul.