Chapter Summaries

Cultivators slaughtered one another as they fought for the Nine-Dragon Supreme Pearl, while the Nine Nether Blood Demon Li Qianjue harvested their souls with his Ten Thousand Souls Banner. Xu Changqing learned that Li Qianjue had fled to the outskirts after Zhen Yuanzi nearly suppressed him, as the battle around the treasure continued.

• Zhang Zaizhi warned that hidden threats waited beneath the pillar of light for cultivators blinded by the supreme treasure.
• Hundreds of cultivators fought around the pillar, and nearly thirty percent of those who rushed toward it died in the ensuing chaos.
• The Nine-Dragon Supreme Pearl emerged within the light pillar, driving the surviving cultivators into a frenzy.
• The Nine Nether Blood Demon Li Qianjue and his followers slaughtered cultivators and added their souls to his Ten Thousand Souls Banner.
• A cultivator revealed that Zhen Yuanzi had driven Li Qianjue out of the core region, and Xu Changqing realized why Li Qianjue had reacted to his token.

The Nine-Dragon Supreme Pearl drew cultivators into a deadly struggle, but the apparent treasure emergence turned out to be a trap set by Chaos Lords. As five colossal monsters surrounded the survivors, the Nine Nether Blood Demon sacrificed the souls in his banner to protect himself.

• The Nine Nether Blood Demon charged toward the golden pillar, but a tentacle struck him and blasted him hundreds of zhang away.
• A colossal sea-anemone-like monster rose from the Sea of Chaos and swallowed cultivators and crushed a starship.
• Zhang Zaizhi identified the monster as a Chaos Lord and explained that such creatures could intelligently lure and trap cultivators.
• Four more Chaos Lords emerged from separate vortices and joined the first in weaving a net of tentacles around the survivors.
• The Nine Nether Blood Demon exploded the skulls in his Ten Thousand Souls Banner, releasing vengeful spirits to form a Blood-Soul Barrier around him.

Xu Changqing erased the Nine Nether Blood Demon with one sweep of Five-Colored Divine Radiance, winning the respect of the surviving cultivators. The Chaos Lord then turned its attention to Xu Changqing, leaving him to face the true threat.

• The Nine Nether Blood Demon sacrificed five of his disciples to restore and strengthen himself, then fled toward Xu Changqing while drawing the Chaos Lord after him.
• Xu Changqing swept the Nine Nether Blood Demon away with Five-Colored Divine Radiance, destroying Li Qianjue and everything he carried.
• Xiao Yuanqi and the surviving cultivators bowed to Xu Changqing and recognized him as a Northern Dipper direct disciple.
• The Chaos Lord shifted its gaze from the dead Nine Nether Blood Demon to Xu Changqing and prepared to attack.

Xu Changqing defeated five Chaos Lords with his divine abilities and drove off the survivors who might have challenged him. He then overcame the Nine-Dragon Supreme Pearl’s defenses and secured the treasure.

• Xu Changqing sent Zhang Zaizhi and the others to safety, then faced five Chaos Lords alone.
• Xu Changqing used his divine abilities to kill all five Chaos Lords in less than half an incense stick’s time.
• A Middle Spirit Transformation Rogue Cultivator tried to seize the Nine-Dragon Supreme Pearl, but Xu Changqing killed him with the Five-Colored Divine Radiance.
• The survivors, including Xiao Yuanqi, left the region after seeing Xu Changqing kill the Rogue Cultivator.
• Xu Changqing used the Five-Colored Divine Radiance to suppress the nine dragon phantoms and take the Nine-Dragon Supreme Pearl into his palm.

After defeating five Chaos Lords, Xu Changqing returned to the camp and gave the Nine-Dragon Supreme Pearl to Linglong, awakening her Dragon Clan bloodline and boosting her cultivation. Zhang Zaizhi and Ruo Qunshuang chose to remain in the Sea of Chaos’s fringe regions while Xu Changqing prepared to enter the core region.

• Xu Changqing decided the Nine-Dragon Supreme Pearl would suit Linglong better than him and took it back to the camp.
• Zhang Zaizhi and Ruo Qunshuang chose to gather resources in the fringe regions rather than accompany Xu Changqing into the core region, and Qingyao agreed to stay with Ruo Qunshuang.
• Xu Changqing gave the Nine-Dragon Supreme Pearl to Linglong, and it entered her body, awakening her bloodline and raising her cultivation.
• Xu Changqing entrusted Linglong, Ruo Qunshuang, and Qingyao to Zhang Zaizhi’s protection.
• Xu Changqing summoned the Thunder Nether Yin Dragon Ship as he prepared to travel through the Sea of Chaos.

Xu Changqing sailed deeper into the Sea of Chaos aboard the evolving Thunder Nether Yin Dragon Ship, which devoured treasures and aberrations along the way. When a giant wave carried the Angler, an agent of the Lord of the Ruins, Xu Changqing recognized him as an old acquaintance.

• Xu Changqing sent the Thunder Nether Yin Dragon Ship into the Sea of Chaos, where it consumed floating treasures, aberration remains, and other valuable materials.
• Cultivators and Chaos War-Beasts fled from the ship's intimidating presence, while Xu Changqing ignored the treasure fights around him.
• A massive wave surged toward the cultivators, prompting many to rush toward it in hope of finding a supreme treasure.
• The crowd discovered a shabby scholar fishing from a small skiff atop the wave and identified him as the Angler, agent of the Lord of the Ruins.
• Xu Changqing recognized the Angler as the sour scholar he had known in the past.

Xu Changqing reunited with Zhao Ziyue in the Sea of Chaos and told him that Hu Bugui and Lin Xiaoyan had died. Zhao Ziyue explained that a Dragon Pearl carrying a wisp of dragon soul had caused the Hundred Dragons' Procession to take him away and made him the Lord of the Ruins' agent.

• Xu Changqing recognized Zhao Ziyue and approached his skiff, and the two old friends joyfully reunited.
• Xu Changqing told Zhao Ziyue about his journey to the Four Mortal Domains and his place as the Great Dao Venerable's ninth direct disciple.
• Zhao Ziyue asked after Hu Bugui, and Xu Changqing explained that Hu Bugui and Lin Xiaoyan had died in the Flameglow Sect's internal schism.
• Zhao Ziyue erupted in grief and fury, but calmed when Xu Changqing said he had avenged Hu Bugui and killed everyone involved.
• Xu Changqing asked why the Hundred Dragons' Procession had taken Zhao Ziyue, and Zhao Ziyue revealed that a Dragon Pearl containing a wisp of dragon soul had led to his fate.

Xu Changqing learned that Prison Mirage’s Dragon Pearl had shaped Zhao Ziyue’s fate and brought him to become the Lord of the Ruins’s agent. Their reunion was interrupted by a cataclysmic battle between Zhen Yuanzi and a member of the Chaos Royalty, which Xu Changqing sensed from afar.

• Xu Changqing realized that Zhao Ziyue had absorbed Prison Mirage’s Dragon Pearl, which had been connected to the dragon soul in Xu Changqing’s Portable Space.
• Zhao Ziyue explained that the Mirage Dragon Pearl had fused with his soul and bloodline, leading the Lord of the Ruins to choose him as an agent and raise his cultivation.
• Zhao Ziyue promised to help Xu Changqing if he fought over a supreme treasure, and Xu Changqing accepted his offer.
• A distant blast unleashed devastating waves and sent cultivators and Chaos Mutants fleeing, while Zhao Ziyue’s skiff remained steady.
• A wounded cultivator warned that Zhen Yuanzi was fighting a member of the Chaos Royalty, and Xu Changqing sensed Zhen Yuanzi using time to keep his opponent’s attacks from landing.

Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue reached a newly opened Secret Realm but chose to wait outside, sending Xu Changqing’s three Spirit Plant Puppets in his place. As cultivators split between entering the realm, attacking the Chaos Lords, and waiting for greater opportunities, the battle between Zhen Yuanzi and the Chaos Royalty continued and a terrifying aura gathered deeper in the Sea of Chaos.

• Xu Changqing’s Divine Sense was forced away from Zhen Yuanzi’s battle with the Chaos Royalty, where the Time Law and Chaos Law had turned the surrounding void into a dead zone.
• A Secret Realm appeared in the Sea of Chaos, guarded by more than twenty Chaos Lords and a Chaos Behemoth, and hundreds of cultivators gathered outside its entrance.
• High Person Chi Yan, Jian Wuchen, and Xing Yuanzi proposed different ways to organize the cultivators, while others looked to Xu Changqing and questioned whether he would claim precedence.
• Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue decided not to enter the Secret Realm themselves, and Xu Changqing sent Xu Jiuyou, Xu Zixiao, and Xu Qiansui inside in his stead.
• The gathered cultivators divided into groups that entered the Secret Realm, attacked the Chaos Lords, or stayed behind to await a supreme treasure.
• Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue watched Zhen Yuanzi’s battle grow more violent and sensed a frightening aura brewing in the deepest part of the Sea of Chaos.

A Vacuum Homeland insect swarm appeared in the Sea of Chaos, prompting Zhao Ziyue to warn Xu Changqing about its unpredictable, evolving attacks. As the swarm spread, Zhao Ziyue explained why the Demon Race was nearly absent from the Sea of Chaos, and Xu Changqing understood that most demons there had died, mutated, or fled to remote regions.

• A massive swarm of bizarre insects burst through the Chaos mist, and the crowd recognized them as creatures from the Vacuum Homeland.
• Zhao Ziyue warned Xu Changqing that the insects carried fragments of different laws, could devour time, and evolved while attacking.
• Xu Changqing said he had raised an insect swarm of his own and trusted his Five-Colored Divine Radiance to counter the invaders.
• Xu Changqing asked Zhao Ziyue why he had encountered so few members of the Demon Race beyond the Heavenly Origin Realm.
• Zhao Ziyue explained that Chaos Law contaminated ordinary demons, while surviving demons either became powerful, served great factions, or retreated to the fringes; Xu Changqing understood.

A swarm from the Vacuum Homeland attacked the cultivators and Chaos Lords at the Secret Realm entrance, but Zhao Ziyue annihilated the insects that threatened his skiff. A golden light then revealed another supreme treasure deep in the Sea of Chaos, drawing everyone toward it.

• End Insects and Nymph Insects overwhelmed cultivators and attacked the Chaos Lords, forcing the cultivators to stop fighting among themselves.
• Three Soul-Eating Insects and a Nest Insect approached Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue’s skiff and demanded that they move aside.
• Zhao Ziyue used the Sea of Chaos to destroy the Soul-Eating Insects, crush the Nest Insect’s eggs, and swallow the Nest Insect whole.
• A golden light appeared deep in the Sea of Chaos, revealing another supreme treasure and drawing cultivators and insects toward it.
• Zhao Ziyue and Xu Changqing exchanged a glance and set off toward the treasure.

Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue arrived at a battle over the Galaxy Cauldron, where cultivators, insect swarms, and Chaos Lords fought for the treasure. A hidden Chaos Behemoth emerged and attacked, and Zhao Ziyue stepped forward to face it while telling Xu Changqing to take the cauldron.

• Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue reached the Galaxy Cauldron as hundreds of cultivators and insect swarms gathered around it.
• The cultivators, Vacuum Homeland insect swarms, and Chaos Lords plunged into a chaotic battle around the treasure.
• Xu Changqing noticed that the Sea of Chaos beneath the cauldron was unnaturally calm, and Zhao Ziyue warned him that something was below.
• A Chaos Behemoth rose from the sea, killing cultivators and insects with its roar and crushing claw strike.
• The Chaos Behemoth turned toward Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue, and Zhao Ziyue told Xu Changqing to take the cauldron as he faced the beast with his Guixu Seal revealed.

Xu Changqing reached the Galaxy Cauldron while Zhao Ziyue restrained the Chaos Behemoth, but a black-robed sword cultivator ambushed him. Xu Changqing gained the upper hand in their duel until the swordsman unleashed a devastating strike that shattered the space between them.

• Zhao Ziyue used the Guixu Seal to bind the Chaos Behemoth, allowing Xu Changqing to race toward the Galaxy Cauldron.
• As Xu Changqing reached for the cauldron, a black-robed sword cultivator emerged from a void rift and attacked him from behind.
• Xu Changqing blocked the surprise strike with Palm Abyssal Ruins and fought the swordsman using Summon Wind and Rain and other abilities.
• Xu Changqing gradually gained the upper hand by drawing on his abundant mana and varied abilities against the swordsman's costly attacks.
• The black-robed sword cultivator powered up his longsword and unleashed a strike that shattered space and sent annihilating Sword Qi toward Xu Changqing.

Xu Changqing defeated the black-clad sword cultivator, claimed the Galaxy Cauldron, and escaped with Zhao Ziyue as the freed Chaos Behemoth attacked the remaining cultivators and insects. They reached a calmer stretch of the Sea of Chaos, leaving the battle behind them.

• Xu Changqing used the Five-Colored Divine Radiance to disarm the black-clad sword cultivator and then dragged him back from a spatial rift with his complete Space Law.
• Xu Changqing erased the black-clad sword cultivator with the Five-Colored Divine Radiance, terrifying the cultivators and insect swarms nearby.
• Xu Changqing suppressed the Galaxy Cauldron with Creation Force and made it acknowledge him as its master.
• Zhao Ziyue released the Chaos Behemoth from his restraints, and he and Xu Changqing fled aboard their vessels.
• The enraged Chaos Behemoth attacked the remaining cultivators and insect swarms, killing many as Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue escaped to calmer waters.

Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue traveled through the dangerous Sea of Chaos after Zhen Yuanzi announced a time-altering Interstice and invited Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion disciples to enter it. They reached an immense, eerily calm sea region, with the destination still ahead.

• Zhen Yuanzi summoned Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion members to an Interstice where time flowed differently, and Zhao Ziyue joined Xu Changqing on the journey there.
• Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue hurried through the Chaos mist, detouring around Chaos Behemoths and a distant figure they suspected was Chaos Royalty.
• Xu Changqing defeated a group of seven Spirit Transformation Rogue Cultivators, while Zhao Ziyue exposed and destroyed another group's ambush formation.
• The two collected several treasures, including Primordial Profound Mother, Coiled Dragon Blood Vine, and a Thunderclap Stone.
• Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue arrived at a vast sea region where the Chaos mist had thinned and the water lay eerily still.

Xu Changqing reunited with his fellow Northern Dipper Immortal Mansion disciples at the Time Rift and learned that the fissure led into a chaotic region with an unknown flow of time. After Zhen Yuanzi permitted Zhao Ziyue to enter, Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue plunged into the Interstice.

• Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue landed on the floating island and greeted Zhen Yuanzi and Baili Hong.
• Xu Changqing checked that Xu Ping'an was unharmed and greeted the injured Northern Dipper disciples gathered with him.
• Zhen Yuanzi explained that the fissure was a Time Rift torn open when the Time Law and Chaos Law collided, and that its interior's conditions were unknown.
• More Northern Dipper disciples arrived, and Zhen Yuanzi allowed those who wished to enter the stable rift while forbidding them from killing one another.
• Baili Hong and several disciples entered the Interstice, and Zhen Yuanzi then granted Zhao Ziyue permission to follow.
• Xu Changqing warned Xu Ping'an not to rush a breakthrough, then entered the Interstice with Zhao Ziyue.

Xu Changqing searched the Interstice for a backdrop compatible with his many Daos, passing increasingly strange fragments as he ventured deeper alone. He heard an emotionless sigh from somewhere ahead.

• Xu Changqing and Zhao Ziyue entered the Interstice and found it filled with floating scenes and fragments, where other Northern Dipper disciples had already settled.
• Zhao Ziyue chose a rotating dark sea reflecting a starfield of nine red stars and began fishing there.
• Xu Changqing rejected several backdrops because they did not align with his mixed Dao cultivation and continued deeper into the Interstice.
• Xu Changqing passed silent wreckage, a dead giant eye reflecting a ruined starfield, and an enormous hand bearing three rings.
• Xu Changqing heard a faint, emotionless sigh amid the increasingly abstract backgrounds.

Xu Changqing cultivated for thirteen hundred years within the Interstice, refining his mixed foundations into a Dao of his own called Origin. After his powers and Portable Space transformed, he left the passageway with his new Dao fully formed.

• Xu Changqing entered the mysterious passageway in the Interstice and began cultivating as time flowed rapidly around him.
• Over hundreds of years, Xu Changqing refined his foundations, reached the Spirit Transformation Peak, and strengthened his spiritual power, divine soul, and body.
• Xu Changqing spent thirteen hundred years integrating his Laws, Dao Resonance, and Creation Force into his own self-sustaining Dao, which he named Origin.
• Xu Changqing fused the Heaven-and-Earth Furnace with his sea of qi, forming the Origin Flame, while the Six Creation Treasures became bands of light around it.
• The Seven-Colored Lotus produced a lotus seed, and Xu Changqing's Portable Space became a growing small universe after he sent the Galaxy Cauldron into it.
• Xu Changqing's completed Dao embodied genesis, order, termination, and rebirth, following the endless cycle through which all things returned to nourish new life.

Xu Changqing completed his Origin Dao and reached the threshold of Void Refinement, then left the time passage after encountering a mysterious figure he sensed was beyond his current reach. Outside, he found the Sea of Chaos transformed as the Cosmic Tidal Surge peaked and drew in cultivators and Vacuum Homeland’s insect swarm.

• Xu Changqing comprehended the Origin Dao, creating techniques that dismantled attacks, burned laws, disrupted opponents’ Five Elements, restored laws to their origin, and planted dormant seeds in targets.
• Xu Changqing saw that he could break through to Void Refinement at any time and set out to leave the passage and find a safe place to undergo tribulation.
• Barefoot footsteps approached from deep within the passage, but Xu Changqing saw a blurred figure walking away and chose not to investigate it.
• Xu Changqing passed empty scenes where Baili Hong, the Northern Dipper disciples, and Zhao Ziyue had been, then concluded that time flowed faster deeper within the Interstice.
• Xu Changqing exited onto the floating island and found the Sea of Chaos bright with spiritual radiance as the Cosmic Tidal Surge reached its peak, with many cultivators and Vacuum Homeland’s insect swarm present.

After spending thirteen hundred years in a temporal passage, Xu Changqing emerged to find that only a little over a hundred days had passed outside. He joined Baili Hong on the journey to the Sea of Chaos’s center, where the Cosmic Tidal Surge had exposed the dangers of awakening the Void-Biting Lord.

• Xu Changqing emerged from the fissure and learned that Baili Hong had guarded it for more than a hundred days at the request of Eldest Senior Brother.
• Baili Hong described the fierce battles across the Sea of Chaos and said Eldest Senior Brother had ordered them to seek treasures in its center while avoiding law fluctuations that could awaken the Void-Biting Lord.
• Xu Changqing asked about Third Senior Brother, and Baili Hong said Eldest Senior Brother had been unable to locate him despite searching the Sea of Chaos.
• Xu Changqing and Baili Hong flew toward the center, where increasingly dense Chaos mist began to neutralize the laws within spiritual power and slow its circulation.