Chapter Summaries

Randeng spread the Way of Burial through the Human Race and the Earth Immortal Realm, while Pan Xuan began investigating possible hidden measures Hong Jun had left in the Primordial World before an expedition into Chaos. He tasked Di Jun with secretly watching Haotian and Yaochi, then set out for Penglai to investigate the King Father of the East and the West Queen Mother.

• Randeng taught the Human Race to honor ancestors and perform funerary rites, helping burial customs and filial practices take root.
• Randeng established the Funerary Office in the Earth Immortal Realm to oversee the remains and succession rites of deceased cultivators.
• Pan Xuan summoned Di Jun and asked him to secretly investigate Haotian and Yaochi for signs that Hong Jun had planted a contingency within them.
• Di Jun agreed to watch Haotian and Yaochi discreetly and report any unusual conduct, while treating them fairly if they were innocent.
• Pan Xuan suspected the King Father of the East and the West Queen Mother might also be hidden measures left by Hong Jun, and flew toward Penglai to investigate.

Pan Xuan investigated and removed Hong Jun’s hidden marks from the King Father of the East and the West Queen Mother, securing the Primordial World against his remaining contingencies. With internal dangers cleared, Pan Xuan turned toward preparing for an expedition into Chaos, where a powerful army would be essential.

• Pan Xuan visited the King Father of the East and discovered a mark Hong Jun had hidden in his divine soul.
• Pan Xuan removed the mark from the King Father of the East, eliminating Hong Jun’s means to meddle with him.
• Pan Xuan traveled to West Kunlun, found a similar mark in the West Queen Mother’s divine soul, and removed it.
• Pan Xuan confirmed that Hong Jun’s other known contingencies had been cleared and reflected on the Primordial World’s growing strength.
• Pan Xuan left Great Luo Heaven and headed for the deepest, most secluded reaches of the Primordial World to prepare for an expedition into Chaos.

Pan Xuan visited Ancestor Minghe to recruit the Asura Race for the Primordial World's coming war against Hong Jun and the Four Sovereigns. They began using Divine Dao Power alongside the Blood Sea's power to create a larger, more disciplined Asura army, and the golden-red energy awakened something within the sea.

• Ancestor Minghe sensed Pan Xuan approaching and welcomed him into the Blood Sea palace.
• Pan Xuan told Ancestor Minghe that the Primordial World was preparing to wage war in Chaos and proposed using the Asura Race as its army.
• Ancestor Minghe explained that the Asura Race's violent nature and limited numbers made it difficult to form a great army.
• Pan Xuan proposed combining Blood Sea power with Divine Dao Power to create vast numbers of stronger, more self-controlled Asura.
• Pan Xuan and Ancestor Minghe joined their powers over the Blood Sea and unleashed the golden-red energy into its depths, awakening something within it.

Pan Xuan helped Ancestor Minghe recognize slaughter as his Dao and urged him to prove it by killing a Sage-realm god in the coming battle in Chaos. As the Asura army trained and enlightenment flourished through the Four Teachings, Laozi grasped that his preaching and guidance were already the Dao in practice.

• Countless Asuras emerged from the Blood Sea and formed an army, prompting Ancestor Minghe to declare that his race could help win the battle in Chaos.
• Ancestor Minghe told Pan Xuan that he had created the Asura Race seeking merit but still could not break through to Sagehood.
• Pan Xuan explained that Ancestor Minghe's Dao was slaughter and urged him to perfect it by killing a Sage-realm god in Chaos.
• Ancestor Minghe vowed to slay a god and prove his Dao through slaughter, and Pan Xuan agreed to the plan before returning to Great Luo Heaven.
• As the Four Teachings flourished, Laozi sensed his opportunity to prove his Dao while preaching at Kunlun Mountain.
• Laozi realized that his preaching and enlightening of living beings were the Dao put into practice, and declared himself an incarnation of the Dao.

Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian each comprehended the core of their teachings and attained Sagehood, adding three Sages to the Primordial World. They opened their respective sects’ teachings to those who shared their Dao, leaving the world echoing with the Three Pure Ones’ ascensions.

• Laozi comprehended the Dao of nonaction and Enlightenment, attained Sagehood, and declared that all who shared an affinity could study the Dao.
• Yuanshi understood his role as the embodiment of order and Enlightenment, attained Sagehood, and opened the Chan Sect to those who could understand principle and follow heaven.
• Tongtian realized that all beings possessed a thread of Heavenly Secrets and potential for transcendence, attained Sagehood, and welcomed all who possessed spirit into the Interception Sect.
• The Three Pure Ones’ successive ascensions added three Sages to the Primordial World, while holy light and the resonance of the Dao spread across it.

Taiyi grasped the Dao of “One” and became the Primordial World’s ninth Sage. With the Three Powers complete and nine Sages united, Pan Xuan summoned them to Great Luo Heaven to plan a counteroffensive into Chaos against Hong Jun’s Divine Domain.

• The Three Pure Ones’ attainment of the Dao inspired Taiyi to understand that his Dao of “One” was the foundation that sustained heaven, earth, and all living beings.
• Taiyi became a Sage through the Chaos Bell and the Dao of “One,” and Di Jun celebrated his younger brother’s breakthrough.
• Pan Xuan counted the nine Sages and declared that the Primordial World was now strong enough to fight the Gods of Chaos.
• Pan Xuan summoned the Sages to Great Luo Heaven to discuss an expedition into Chaos and the destruction of Hong Jun’s Divine Domain.
• Di Jun and Taiyi supported Pan Xuan’s plan to counterattack the Gods of Chaos.

Pan Xuan settled the defense of the Primordial World before the expedition into Chaos, leaving Zhen Yuanzi, Houtu, and Nuwa to guard its domains while the other Sages departed. The Three Pure Ones opened three heavens and established divine origins, laws, and teachings, leaving the Three Realms with a complete governing order.

• Nuwa and Houtu warned that the Primordial World needed protection during the expedition, and Pan Xuan assigned Zhen Yuanzi, Houtu, and Nuwa to guard its domains.
• The other Sages agreed to campaign in Chaos while the Three Pure Ones left avatars behind to oversee the world's higher order.
• The Three Pure Ones opened the Taiqing, Yuqing, and Shangqing realms above the Thirty-Three Heavens and stationed their avatars there.
• Yuanshi Tianzun's avatar created innate gods and established the origins of the heavens and myriad worlds.
• Lingbao Tianzun's avatar conferred divine authority, established heavenly laws and institutions, and arranged the stars and calamities.
• Daode Tianzun's avatar descended into the mortal world to teach and guide living beings, while the gods took up their posts across the Three Realms.

With the Primordial World’s foundations secured, Pan Xuan launched the campaign into Chaos and summoned the Three Clans to join the expedition. The Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin, Witch, and Demon armies assembled under their leaders, ready to march.

• Pan Xuan issued an Edict inviting the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans to accompany the expedition into Chaos and earn Merit.
• Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin rallied their clans and led their armies toward Great Luo Heaven.
• Pan Xuan gathered the Eleven Ancestral Witches and rallied the Witch Clan’s warriors, with Houtu remaining behind to guard the Primordial World.
• Di Jun and Taiyi rallied the Demon Clan in the Starry Sky, while Kunpeng offered to clear the way into Chaos.

The armies of the Primordial World assembled outside Great Luo Heaven, and Pan Xuan led their expedition into Chaos with the Three Pure Ones guarding the host. Deep within Chaos, Hong Jun and the Four Sovereigns sensed their approach.

• Kunpeng rallied the Demon Clan army, while Ancestor Minghe assembled the Asura army and vowed to slay a Chaos god to attain Sagehood.
• Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Primordial Qilin led their armies to Great Luo Heaven and pledged their clans to the expedition.
• Pan Xuan asked Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian to guard the army, and the Three Pure Ones agreed to protect its flanks.
• Pan Xuan declared the Primordial World's purpose and ordered the assembled Witch, Demon, Asura, Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin armies to march.
• Pan Xuan opened a gateway into Chaos and led the host through, with the Eleven Ancestral Witches, clan leaders, and Three Pure Ones following.
• Hong Jun and the Four Sovereigns sensed the Primordial World's army entering Chaos and watched its approach with grave expressions.

As the Primordial World's army advanced into Chaos, Hong Jun sent the Four Sovereigns to gather their forces while he stayed behind to prepare defenses. Zeus and God returned to their domains, summoned their armies, and led them to march against the invaders.

• Hong Jun and the Four Sovereigns sensed the Primordial World's army approaching, and Hong Jun ordered the Four Sovereigns to summon their forces while he defended the Chaos Divine Domain.
• Zeus returned to Olympus, summoned its gods, and rallied them to fight the Primordial World's army.
• God returned to the Holy Light Kingdom of God, assembled the angels and saints, and led them to march against the Primordial World's army.

Odin and Brahma summoned the gods and armies of their realms to prepare for a fight to the death against the approaching army of the Primordial World. Hong Jun fortified the Chaos Divine Domain with layered arrays and awaited the invasion as the forces of the Gods of Chaos converged.

• Odin gathered the gods of Asgard and the warriors of the Hall of the Einherjar, then ordered them to march against the army of the Primordial World.
• Brahma summoned the gods of the Brahma Realm and the Deva Army, then led them to prepare for battle.
• Hong Jun used the Creation Jade Disc to create the Chaos Maze Array, Baleful Qi Traps, and a Restrictions Net around the Chaos Divine Domain.
• Hong Jun erected a platform before the Divine Domain and waited for the Primordial World army to arrive.
• The forces of the Gods of Chaos converged on the Chaos Divine Domain as the approaching army drew near.

Pan Xuan and the Three Pure Ones broke Hong Jun’s defenses around the Chaos Divine Domain, allowing the Primordial World’s army to confront the foreign gods. When the battle began, Pan Xuan and Laozi joined forces against Hong Jun and gradually gained the advantage despite the Creation Jade Disc.

• Pan Xuan and the Three Pure Ones used refining power, the power of order, and Tongtian’s sword to destroy Hong Jun’s maze, traps, and Restrictions Net.
• The Primordial World’s army advanced to the Chaos Divine Domain, where it faced the armies of Olympus, the Kingdom of God, Asgard, and the Brahma Realm.
• Pan Xuan challenged Hong Jun, and the opposing armies began their great battle in Chaos.
• Pan Xuan and Laozi attacked Hong Jun together; Hong Jun used the Creation Jade Disc to dissolve Pan Xuan’s Divine Dao Chains and block much of Laozi’s Dao power.
• Laozi’s clear light pierced the disc’s radiance as Pan Xuan pressed his attack, leaving Hong Jun flustered and gradually at a disadvantage.

Yuanshi Tianzun, Sect Master Tongtian, Di Jun, and Taiyi each clashed with a rival god in the chaos, matching their opponents’ powers with their own Dao. Their battles escalated as holy light, lightning, fate, stars, reincarnation, and the Chaos Bell collided.

• Yuanshi Tianzun blocked God’s holy light and argued that the true body of the Great Dao stood above creation and judgment, before their powers collided again.
• Sect Master Tongtian split Zeus’s lightning with his sword, drove him back, and met a stronger lightning pillar with another sword strike.
• Di Jun used the Zhoutian Star Dou Great Array to block Odin’s attack, then sent a torrent of starlight against Odin’s spear-powered torrent.
• Taiyi countered Brahma’s sacred chant with the Dao of One, and the Chaos Bell shattered the chant.
• Brahma summoned a Reincarnation Vortex, which Taiyi met with successive tolls of the Chaos Bell.

The Primordial World army fought the Gods of Chaos across the battlefield, with the Witch, Dragon, Phoenix, Demon, and Qilin clans pressing their enemies back. The Gods of Chaos were gradually overwhelmed as the melee continued.

• Di Jiang and the Witch Clan charged Olympus, while the clans' laws and attacks tore into the gods' ranks.
• Poseidon, Hades, Ares, Apollo, and the other Olympus gods fought back, but Ancestral Dragon and the Dragon Clan broke their formation.
• Yuanfeng led the Phoenix Clan against the Holy Light Kingdom of God, and their nirvana fire overwhelmed the angels despite Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel's efforts.
• Zhu Rong and Kunpeng halted Asgard's advance, while the Demon and Qilin armies hemmed in the Brahma Realm's celestial legion.
• The Primordial World army surged forward through the prolonged slaughter, gradually swallowing the Gods of Chaos' forces.

Ancestor Minghe secretly gathered battlefield blood and killing intent to empower a sword meant to kill Hong Jun and prove his Dao through slaughter. He waited for Pan Xuan and Laozi to force Hong Jun into a fatal opening before striking.

• Ancestor Minghe watched the battles between Sages and chose Hong Jun, rather than the Four Sovereigns, as his target.
• Ancestor Minghe held back because Hong Jun’s Creation Jade Disc could neutralize attacks, and he needed a sure chance to kill him.
• Ancestor Minghe drew blood, resentment, and killing intent from the battlefield into his blood-colored sword, gradually increasing its power.
• Ancestor Minghe saw Hong Jun tiring under Pan Xuan and Laozi’s combined assault and raised his sword for a concealed strike.
• Ancestor Minghe waited for Hong Jun’s protective mystic light to falter and the Creation Jade Disc’s radiance to dim.

Pan Xuan and Laozi battled Hong Jun while Ancestor Minghe prepared a killing strike from the Blood Sea. Laozi revealed One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones and used the combined strength of four Sages to overwhelm Hong Jun’s Creation Jade Disc.

• Ancestor Minghe gathered power at the Blood Sea and fixed his killing intent on Hong Jun.
• Pan Xuan and Laozi sensed Minghe’s plan and resolved to pressure Hong Jun to create an opening for his strike.
• Hong Jun warned Pan Xuan and Laozi that he could still kill them, but they insisted he would fall for his schemes against living beings.
• Laozi used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to manifest three avatars equal to himself.
• Laozi and his three avatars activated the Taiji Diagram together, crushing Hong Jun’s defenses as Laozi declared that its Yin-Yang Dao could overcome the Creation Jade Disc.

Laozi and Pan Xuan wounded Hong Jun by attacking him from both sides with the Taiji Diagram and Divine Dao Star Seal. Ancestor Minghe absorbed Hong Jun’s spilled Sage blood, temporarily reached the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm, and prepared to kill him.

• Pan Xuan summoned the Divine Dao Star Seal and brought the power of the stars and the Divine Dao to bear on Hong Jun.
• Laozi and the Four Saints drove the Taiji Diagram’s Yin-Yang vortex as Pan Xuan’s colossal seal trapped Hong Jun between their attacks.
• Hong Jun’s Creation Jade Disc could not stop the assault, and the combined forces shattered his protections and made him spit blood.
• Ancestor Minghe summoned and absorbed Hong Jun’s spilled Sage blood, temporarily raising his cultivation to the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Ancestor Minghe declared that he would offer Hong Jun’s blood to his Slaughter Dao and cut off his head.

Ancestor Minghe joined Pan Xuan and Laozi in their battle against the wounded Hong Jun, while the two Sages sealed the Creation Jade Disc. With Hong Jun deprived of his treasure’s protection, Ancestor Minghe unleashed Yuantu and Abi, sending their sword lights toward him.

• Ancestor Minghe entered the battle with the Karma Fire Red Lotus protecting him and the Yuantu and Abi Swords in hand.
• Pan Xuan and Laozi joined forces to restrain the Creation Jade Disc with the Taiji Diagram and the Divine Dao Star Seal.
• Hong Jun failed to retrieve the sealed Creation Jade Disc, and the protective mystic light around him dimmed.
• Ancestor Minghe gathered his slaughter Dao power and infused it into Yuantu and Abi.
• Ancestor Minghe swung both swords, sending intertwined red and black sword lights tearing toward Hong Jun.

Ancestor Minghe’s Yuantu and Abi Swords gravely wounded Hong Jun, while Pan Xuan and Laozi prevented him from reclaiming the Creation Jade Disc. Tongtian abandoned his stalemated fight with Zeus to trap Hong Jun in the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, then invited Ancestor Minghe inside.

• Ancestor Minghe pierced Hong Jun with the Yuantu and Abi Swords, leaving the Heavenly Dao lord gravely wounded.
• Hong Jun tried to summon the Creation Jade Disc, but Pan Xuan and Laozi kept it restrained with the Divine Dao Star Seal and Taiji Diagram.
• Tongtian left his battle with Zeus and deployed the Four Swords of Immortal Slaying around Hong Jun.
• Tongtian raised the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, trapping Hong Jun and cutting him with its sword energy.
• Tongtian opened a gap in the formation and invited Ancestor Minghe to enter.

Ancestor Minghe entered Tongtian’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to finish off the wounded Hong Jun while Pan Xuan and Laozi routed the Gods of Chaos. With their armies collapsing and Hong Jun trapped, Zeus, God, Odin, and Brahma broke free of their battles with the Primordial World Sages and fled toward their forces to save what remained.

• Ancestor Minghe entered the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and waited for his power to stabilize before delivering a final strike against the trapped Hong Jun.
• Tongtian returned to battle Zeus, while Pan Xuan claimed the Creation Jade Disc and Laozi and Pan Xuan attacked the Chaos gods’ armies.
• The armies of Olympus, the Holy Light Kingdom of God, Asgard, and the Brahma Realm fell into disarray and retreated under the Primordial World army’s assault.
• Zeus damaged his Thunderclap Spear to break through Tongtian’s sword light and escape toward Olympus’s army.
• God, Odin, and Brahma each sacrificed part of their power or origin to escape Yuanshi, Di Jun, and Taiyi and rush to their retreating armies.