Chapter Summaries

Houtu attained Sagehood through the Earthly Dao, and Pan Xuan realized that the Divine Dao was the path he had followed all along. Drawing on the Divine Dao and the Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Dao, he attained Sagehood and looked out into Chaos.

• Houtu attained Sagehood, prompting the Witch Clan to celebrate their first Sage and the Netherworld’s souls and gods to honor her.
• Houtu recognized that Pan Xuan’s Dao must be nearing perfection, as the Divine Dao had grown to encompass the Primordial World’s order.
• Pan Xuan recalled his efforts to establish order and realized that the Divine Dao, rather than any other path, was his Dao.
• The Divine Dao’s fortune gathered around Pan Xuan, while the Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Dao poured their laws, order, and vitality into him.
• Pan Xuan broke through to the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm and attained Sagehood, drawing congratulations from Houtu, Nuwa, the Ancestral Witches, and Di Jun.
• Pan Xuan surveyed the paths he had helped establish and gazed into the depths of Chaos.

After attaining Sagehood, Pan Xuan discovered that Hong Jun had carved the Investiture of the Gods List from the Heavenly Dao Origin, leaving a breach and using the list to control the Heavenly Court and the True Spirits bound to it. Pan Xuan told Di Jun the truth and proposed returning the list to the Heavenly Dao, while Di Jun sat considering the plan.

• Pan Xuan examined the Primordial World from his Sage's perspective and found a breach in the Heavenly Dao Origin.
• Pan Xuan traced the breach to the Investiture of the Gods List and realized Hong Jun had extracted it from the Heavenly Dao to preserve control over the Heavenly Court and bound True Spirits.
• Pan Xuan went to the Heavenly Court and explained his discovery to Di Jun.
• Di Jun realized Hong Jun had used him to hold the True Spirits and keep the Heavenly Dao's breach in place, and condemned Hong Jun's deception.
• Pan Xuan proposed returning the Investiture of the Gods List to the Heavenly Dao, and Di Jun considered the proposal in silence.

Pan Xuan persuaded Di Jun to free the True Spirits bound to the Investiture of the Gods List and return it to the Heavenly Dao. The Heavenly Dao became whole, and Pan Xuan declared that an expedition into Chaos was drawing near.

• Di Jun agreed to restore the True Spirits on the Investiture of the Gods List and return the list, remembering Pan Xuan’s help and recognizing the danger of keeping it.
• Di Jun opened the list in Ziwei Palace, freeing the bound True Spirits and leaving the Investiture of the Gods List blank.
• Di Jun returned the list to the Heavenly Dao Origin with Pan Xuan, closing the breach and making the Heavenly Dao whole.
• Nuwa, Empress Houtu, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches sensed the change, while Pan Xuan and Di Jun vowed to face Hong Jun and prepare for an expedition into Chaos.

Zeus, God, Odin, and Brahma formed an alliance to stop Hong Jun from growing powerful in chaos. They confronted him at his Divine Domain and demanded that he dissolve it, but Hong Jun rejected their claims and accused them of acting for profit.

• Zeus proposed that the four overlords eliminate Hong Jun, and God, Odin, and Brahma agreed to join the alliance.
• The four overlords traveled together through chaos toward Hong Jun's Divine Domain.
• Hong Jun sensed their arrival and prepared to meet them at the summit of his Divine Domain.
• Zeus, God, Odin, and Brahma surrounded Hong Jun and demanded that he dissolve his Divine Domain and return to the Primordial World.
• Hong Jun mocked their righteous-sounding arguments and accused them of fearing his power and coveting their own territory and fortune.

Hong Jun fought Zeus, Odin, God, and Brahma in chaos, using the Creation Jade Disc to withstand their combined attacks. He bluffed that he would detonate the disc, forcing the four sovereigns to retreat and leaving both sides in a tense stalemate as Zeus urged him to yield.

• Hong Jun summoned the Creation Jade Disc and challenged the four sovereigns to attack.
• Zeus, Odin, God, and Brahma launched powerful attacks, but Hong Jun blocked or evaded them and broke free of Brahma's reincarnation vortex.
• The four sovereigns gained only a slight advantage as Hong Jun fought back, though he began to show signs of strain.
• After Zeus struck him, Hong Jun lit up the Creation Jade Disc and feigned an attempt to detonate it, prompting the four sovereigns to retreat.
• The battle stalled as neither side wanted to risk destruction, and Zeus warned Hong Jun that the four could suppress him even if they lost one or two sovereigns.

Hong Jun persuaded Zeus, Odin, God, and Brahma to ally with him and swear a Chaos Oath to invade the Primordial World. At their first council, he revealed its defenses, while Brahma asked him to explain his plan.

• Hong Jun proposed that the Four Sovereigns join him to seize the Primordial World's territory and Fortune instead of fighting over Chaos.
• Hong Jun pledged the Creation Jade Disc as collateral and swore a Chaos Oath, convincing Zeus, Odin, God, and Brahma to form an alliance.
• The Five Sovereigns swore to breach the Primordial World, divide its Fortune, and never betray the alliance.
• Hong Jun showed the sovereigns a map of the Primordial World and identified Nuwa, Di Jun, the Pangu True Body Great Array, and the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array as its four Sage-level fighting forces.
• Odin urged an immediate assault, but God cautioned against underestimating the Primordial World, and Brahma asked Hong Jun to present his plan.

Hong Jun persuaded the four sovereigns to avoid personally breaching Pangu’s protection and instead find cannon fodder to wear it down. The group agreed to create powerful beings from the world’s negative forces, but the chapter ended before they began.

• Hong Jun explained that Pangu’s Womb Membrane protected the Primordial World and would exact a heavy cost from anyone who forced their way through.
• Hong Jun proposed sending cannon fodder to weaken the protection before the five sovereigns attacked, but Zeus, God, Odin, and Brahma refused to sacrifice their own followers.
• God suggested that the sovereigns create beings to serve as cannon fodder, and Hong Jun proposed using the Creation Jade Disc, Chaos Qi, and their Laws to make them powerful.
• Brahma argued that the beings should be strong enough to tear open the Primordial World, and Hong Jun proposed gathering the worlds’ negative forces into a single body.

Hong Jun and the four sovereigns created a monstrous Demon Creature from the negative forces of the Infinite Worlds and sent it toward the Primordial World. The creature flew into the Chaos to attack Pangu’s protection and devour the world.

• Hong Jun and the four sovereigns agreed to forge a destructive weapon from every negative thing in existence.
• The five sovereigns summoned resentment, greed, brutality, fear, slaughter, despair, and other dark forces into a Chaos Abyss.
• Hong Jun used the Creation Jade Disc to shape the gathered murky qi, while the four sovereigns strengthened its body and soul with their powers.
• A vast, tentacled Demon Creature took shape, and Hong Jun declared it their first weapon for breaching the Primordial World.
• Hong Jun sent the Demon Creature toward the Primordial World, and it flew into the depths of the Chaos.

The five rulers decided to create several specialized monsters to weaken the Primordial World's defenses and prepare an invasion. They created Yog-Sothoth to command time and space, then Shub-Niggurath to endlessly produce corrupted monsters.

• Hong Jun and the other rulers agreed that one monster could not break through the Primordial World's defenses, so they planned to create several monsters with different abilities.
• Hong Jun used the Creation Jade Disc and the five rulers' powers to create Yog-Sothoth from spacetime rifts and fragments.
• Hong Jun sent Yog-Sothoth to the Primordial World to discover its weaknesses and open a passage through Pangu's protection.
• The rulers gathered corruption, mutation, and other negative forces to create a monster that could endlessly produce armies.
• Shub-Niggurath took form as an enormous mass of flesh that continually gave birth to malformed monsters.

The Five Sovereigns created five monsters and sent them toward the Primordial World to weaken its defenses, corrupt its people, and spread fear. As they prepared to invade once Pangu’s protection wore away, Hong Jun hinted that his attack was also meant for Pan Xuan.

• Hong Jun ordered Shub-Niggurath to enter the Primordial World and breed an endless army of monsters.
• The Five Sovereigns created Nyarlathotep, who could take countless forms and infiltrate the Primordial World through deception and temptation.
• Brahma proposed creating Hastur from fear and terror, and the Five Sovereigns sent the King in Yellow toward the Primordial World to break its people’s minds.
• The Five Sovereigns reviewed the roles of all five monsters and agreed to wait until Pangu’s protection was worn away before invading in full force.
• Hong Jun privately wondered whether Pan Xuan was satisfied with the grand gift he had prepared.

Pan Xuan, Nuwa, and Di Jun discovered that five hostile auras were approaching from Chaos to attack Pangu’s Protection, the barrier guarding the Primordial World. Di Jun explained the barrier’s origin, and Pan Xuan privately connected its possible destruction to the arrival of foreign gods in the myths of his former world; the three Sages resolved not to let the attackers succeed.

• Pan Xuan, Nuwa, and Di Jun sensed several strange, malicious auras approaching the Primordial World from Chaos and gathered in Great Luo Heaven.
• Di Jun used the River Diagram and Luo Book to divine that five auras were targeting Pangu’s Protection, not the Primordial World itself.
• Di Jun explained that Great God Pangu had created the hidden barrier to keep beings from Chaos out of the Primordial World.
• Pan Xuan privately connected the barrier’s possible destruction to the Primordial World’s shattering and the later arrival of foreign gods in his former world’s myths.
• Pan Xuan, Nuwa, and Di Jun agreed that they could not allow the five approaching auras to destroy Pangu’s Protection.

Pan Xuan, Di Jun, and Nuwa decided to defend Pangu's Protection from outside rather than pursue the five monsters into Chaos, where Hong Jun and the Chaos Overlords might ambush them. When the monsters reached the Primordial World's perimeter, the three Sages blocked their attacks and guarded the protection.

• Pan Xuan warned Di Jun and Nuwa that the five monsters were meant to weaken Pangu's Protection and lure them into a trap in Chaos.
• Pan Xuan proposed intercepting the monsters outside Pangu's Protection, and Di Jun and Nuwa agreed.
• The three Sages took up positions beyond the protection, with Pan Xuan guarding the spatial and temporal fissures, Nuwa facing the monsters summoned by Shub-Niggurath, and Di Jun confronting the dark-green monster.
• Di Jun blocked the dark-green monster's tentacles with a barrier of starlight, while Nuwa dissolved Shub-Niggurath's deformed monsters with her creation radiance.
• Pan Xuan stopped Yog-Sothoth from slipping through the fissures, as Nyarlathotep and Hastur watched and pressed at the defenses.
• The five monsters unleashed their abilities against the protection, but the three Sages held their ground and blocked their way.

Pan Xuan and Nuwa fought the cosmic beings threatening the Primordial World's sanctuary, overcoming Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, and Shub-Niggurath with their Divine Dao and Creation Dao. Pan Xuan pursued Nyarlathotep's escaping black vapor as Nuwa purified Shub-Niggurath, leaving the sanctuary's defense unresolved.

• Pan Xuan used the Divine Dao's chains to trap and suppress Yog-Sothoth's luminous spheres outside the sanctuary.
• Pan Xuan pierced Nyarlathotep's false avatars with a pillar of light, exposing its true body and forcing it to flee as black vapor.
• Pan Xuan sent Divine Dao chains after Nyarlathotep's scattered black vapor.
• Nuwa dissolved Shub-Niggurath's deformed monsters with the vitality of creation, then transformed their attacking tide into a growing sea of life.
• Nuwa's sea of life surrounded and purified Shub-Niggurath until its enormous body shrank and dissipated.

The three Sages subdued the five Demon Creatures outside Pangu's Protection but realized they could not truly destroy them. The creatures began devouring and merging with one another, and the Sages rushed to stop them.

• Di Jun used the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array to suppress the dark-green monster, resist Hastur's terror, and strike the yellow-clad figure with a pillar of starlight.
• Pan Xuan, Nuwa, and Di Jun subdued all five Demon Creatures, but found that their malice and corrupting auras remained despite their injuries.
• The dark-green monster broke free and attacked Shub-Niggurath, and the two began devouring each other despite Di Jun's attacks.
• Yog-Sothoth's spheres, Hastur, and Nyarlathotep's black vapor converged on the entangled creatures, prompting Nuwa to warn that they were merging into one.

The five Demon Creatures fused into a Demon Lord that could absorb the three Sages’ attacks and reform as long as negative things remained in the Infinite Worlds. Pan Xuan, Di Jun, and Nuwa joined forces to seal it beyond Pangu's Protection, where it remained trapped but still struggling.

• The three Sages attacked the five Demon Creatures, but the creatures devoured one another and fused into a single Demon Lord.
• Di Jun, Nuwa, and Pan Xuan realized the Demon Lord could not be destroyed and decided to seal it with all the negative things in the Infinite Worlds.
• The Demon Lord charged toward Pangu's Protection, absorbing or evading the three Sages’ attacks as it forced them back.
• Pan Xuan proposed a three-part sealing array, assigning himself to seal space and time, Nuwa to create a cocoon, and Di Jun to suppress it with the power of Zhou Tian Xing Dou.
• The three Sages combined their Divine Dao chains, Cocoon of Creation, and stellar sigil to trap the Demon Lord within three layers of seals.

Pan Xuan and the other Sages sealed the fused Demon Sovereign in an isolated spacetime, then Pan Xuan proposed creating an Earth Immortal Realm to separate immortals from mortals. He helped Zhen Yuanzi realize that opening the realm with the Earth Book could fulfill his Dao, and they began preparing to create it.

• Pan Xuan, Nuwa, and Di Jun moved the sealed Demon Sovereign into a sealed spacetime in Chaos and concealed it completely.
• The three Sages warned that the Demon Sovereign might eventually escape and that Hong Jun and the Four Sovereigns would likely return, so Pan Xuan proposed taking the war into their Divine Domain.
• Pan Xuan visited Zhen Yuanzi at Wuzhuang Temple and proposed opening an Earth Immortal Realm where immortals could cultivate without disturbing mortals.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized that his Dao lay in using the Earth Book to open the realm and attain the Dao through the Earthly Dao.
• Pan Xuan agreed to assist with Divine Dao power while Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book as the foundation, and they began preparations for the undertaking.

Pan Xuan and Zhen Yuanzi established the Earth Immortal Realm and decreed that cultivators above the Golden Immortal level must leave the mortal world. Zhen Yuanzi attained the Dao as a Sage and became the realm’s master, while Pan Xuan looked toward a future expedition into Chaos.

• Pan Xuan proclaimed that immortals and mortals would be separated, with powerful cultivators living in the Earth Immortal Realm or Heaven Realm and mortals remaining in the human world.
• Pan Xuan used Divine Dao power to separate a vast tract of land, and Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to shape it into the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Pan Xuan declared the new rules separating immortals from mortals, and Earthly Dao fortune flowed into the newly formed realm.
• Zhen Yuanzi realized the Earthly Dao’s true meaning, attained the Dao as a Sage, and merged the Earth Book into the Earth Immortal Realm as its foundation.
• Zhen Yuanzi named himself master of the Earth Immortal Realm and the Ancestor of Earth Immortals, as Houtu, Nuwa, and Pan Xuan acknowledged his attainment.
• Pan Xuan reflected that the Three Powers had grown stronger and said that, once the Primordial World’s foundation was more stable, they would set out on an expedition into Chaos.

Pan Xuan separated immortals and mortals, sending cultivators above the Golden Immortal level to the Earth Immortal Realm while mortals remained in the mortal world. On Kunlun Mountain, Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian established Daoism, the Chan Sect, and the Interception Sect, opening three paths of enlightenment to the beings of the Primordial World.

• Pan Xuan issued an Edict ordering cultivators above the Golden Immortal level to leave the mortal world for the Earth Immortal Realm or heavenly realm, except those in grotto-heavens and blessed lands.
• Cultivators gathered in the Earth Immortal Realm and established cultivation grounds, while mighty beings such as Zhen Yuanzi, the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti remained in their secluded domains.
• Laozi established Daoism on Kunlun Mountain, teaching the Dao through naturalness and nonaction.
• Yuanshi established the Chan Sect, teaching rites, principles, and enlightenment to guide beings toward order and propriety.
• Tongtian established the Interception Sect, welcoming all beings with spirit to seek the Dao without discrimination.
• The Three Pure Ones opened their teachings, and the three paths of enlightenment flourished across the Primordial World.

Jieyin and Zhunti established Buddhism in the west, bringing the Primordial World’s teachings to four. Pan Xuan then used Divine Dao power to cleanse the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans’ ancient karmic force, freeing the clans and opening new paths for their ancestral sages to advance.

• Jieyin and Zhunti established Buddhism with compassion and the salvation of all beings as its guiding principles.
• Pan Xuan turned his attention to the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans and declared that he would cleanse the karmic force left by their ancient war.
• Pan Xuan’s Divine Dao power washed away the Three Clans’ karmic force, lifting the burden from their members.
• Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin sensed their cultivation bottlenecks loosening and saw the prospect of reaching higher realms.
• The Three Clans’ fortunes began to flourish, and their ties with the Human Race grew closer as they protected its waters, skies, and lands.

Pan Xuan worked with Kunpeng and Fuxi to deduce the Wealth Dao, establishing principles for value, fair transactions, contracts, and the circulation of wealth. He introduced currency and markets across the mortal, immortal, and celestial realms, leaving the Primordial World with rules for exchange at every level.

• Pan Xuan realized that exchanges and the circulation of wealth needed their own Dao and summoned Kunpeng and Fuxi to help deduce it.
• Pan Xuan, Kunpeng, and Fuxi defined the Wealth Dao through value, fair transactions, contracts, good faith, and the gathering and dispersal of wealth.
• Pan Xuan established rules for mortal trade and minted coins, while Kunpeng and Fuxi added the study of goods and wealth to the Literary Dao.
• Pan Xuan opened the Immortal Market so cultivators could exchange treasures, pills, cultivation methods, and spiritual materials.
• Pan Xuan established the Heavenly Market, where gods traded with merit, divine offices, and incense offerings under the oversight of the God of Wealth.