Chapter Summaries

Xingtian pursued Lu Ya and drove him toward the deep pit of Chaos Water, where a black Phoenix emerged and unleashed an army of monsters against the gathered Quasi-Saints. The Quasi-Saints fought the creatures while the Phoenix remained at the center, guarding the pit’s core.

• Xingtian attacked Lu Ya, uprooted a vast mountain range, and hurled it at him.
• Lu Ya detonated a Spirit Treasure, and Xingtian’s axe split the mountain range and sent it falling toward the deep pit.
• A black Phoenix formed from Chaos Water rose from the pit and destroyed the falling mountain range and axe light with a tsunami.
• The Phoenix summoned countless divine-water monsters, which charged at the surrounding Quasi-Saints.
• The Quasi-Saints fought back with their divine abilities but could not reach the Phoenix through the monster army.

Lu Ya escaped Xingtian during the battle around the Chaos Water, drawing Quasi-Saints from across the Primordial World to investigate the Black Phoenix. Empress Pingxin revealed that the Phoenix contained Water Demon God flesh that might revive Gonggong, and Minghe led the Asuras to seize it.

• Lu Ya fled at top speed while Divine Water Monsters held Xingtian back, and Xingtian swore the Wu Clan would exterminate the Golden Crow Lineage.
• The Phoenix Clan recognized traces of its former Third Elder in the Black Phoenix and prepared to investigate as Quasi-Saints gathered around the deep pit.
• Minghe initially dismissed the Chaos Water as useless to him, but after receiving a command from the Underworld, he ordered the Asura forces to follow him and seize it.
• Empress Pingxin explained that the Black Phoenix contained Chaos-saturated Water Demon God flesh and traces of the Third Elder’s spirit, and said the flesh might help revive Gonggong.
• Pingxin and the mysterious voice agreed that the Wu Clan would pursue the Water Demon God flesh despite the chaos its discovery would cause.

After Xingtian received a message from Houtu, the Wu Clan mobilized at Severed Phoenix Mountain, alarming Ren and the others in Ziwei City. Nezha explained the old agreement that restrained the Wu Clan and Demon Race from full-scale war, though Lu Ya might not be protected by it.

• Houtu sent word to Xingtian, who declared that the Wu Clan had hope and ordered its warriors to prepare for battle.
• Ren and the others watched the fighting at Severed Phoenix Mountain, and Four-Unlike and Yun Zhongzi set out for the battlefield while Jin Ling took Interception Immortals to deal with Daoist Randeng.
• Lei Zhenzi told Ren that Yang Jian had gone to Guanjiangkou to pay respects to his mother and did not blame Ren for Yang Jiao's death.
• Nezha told Ren that refining the Linglong Pagoda had restored most of his memories from Nuwa Palace and revealed the Wu Clan and Demon Race's agreement against full-scale war.
• Nezha explained that the agreement allowed younger members to fight but barred the strongest from intervening, while Lu Ya's own Demon Race might not stop Xingtian from hunting him.

Nezha gave in to pressure from Ren and the others and shared Nuwa Palace’s inheritance, including the Mending Heaven Scripture and the Creation Immortal Art. The group planned to study and cultivate while the battle over Chaos Water continued.

• Ren decided to seek seclusion after realizing he was too weak to intervene in the ongoing battle or challenge the Demon Race.
• Tianpeng asked Nezha to teach him Nuwa Palace’s inheritance, explaining how its cultivation arts could suit him and complement the Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique.
• Nezha explained the Mending Heaven Scripture’s need for a single kind of Innate Origin and described the benefits of the Creation Immortal Art.
• Ren and the others eagerly pressed Nezha to share the inheritance, and Nezha agreed on the condition that they keep it from outsiders.
• Nezha recited the Nuwa Palace inheritance, and Tianpeng and Lei Zhenzi said they would study and cultivate while the powerful figures fought over Chaos Water.

Ren discussed Nuwa's inheritances with Ruthless, who warned him to stay out of the Chaos Water Phoenix conflict, and he focused on cultivation. Meanwhile, the Phoenix revealed overwhelming power by destroying a Quasi-Saint in one strike, leaving the gathered fighters debating what it was.

• Ruthless manifested from a wisp of divine sense inside Ren and advised him on cultivating the Mending Heaven Scripture and Creation Immortal Art.
• Ruthless warned Ren not to get involved with the Chaos Water Phoenix, and Ren began cultivating the Creation Imperishable Formula toward the Third Turn.
• Quasi-Saints continued fighting Divine Water Monsters around the motionless Chaos Water Phoenix, each waiting for another to approach it first.
• An unknown Quasi-Saint charged the Phoenix, but it trapped him with Chaos Water and killed him with a single wing strike.
• The Quasi-Saints argued over whether the Phoenix was a Barbaric Beast or a Demon God, and Yuding asked Zhenyuan the Great what it was.

The Chaos Water Phoenix emerged from the pit with a mysterious Copper Jar, swallowed several Quasi-Saints, and gained intelligence and immense power. It flew north, leaving Xingtian and the other pursuers far behind as Xingtian continued chasing the hope of reviving the Ancestral Shamans.

• Zhenyuan the Great compared the Chaos Water Phoenix to the ancient Barbaric Beasts, noting that its body was made from Chaos Water.
• A Chaos-colored Copper Jar rose from the pit, and its divine water swept several Quasi-Saints into the jar and swallowed them.
• The Copper Jar fused into the Chaos Water Phoenix, causing its intelligence and aura to surge as it flew north through storms that destroyed the surrounding land.
• Greedy Quasi-Saints tried to seize or stop the Phoenix, but its wind and rain shattered a great cauldron and killed or swept away its attackers.
• Xingtian struck at the Phoenix with his Heaven-Opening technique, but it drowned his attack and engulfed him before he broke free and urged the others to chase.
• The Phoenix crossed vast distances with a flap of its wings, leaving the pursuing Quasi-Saints behind.

Ren watched the Chaos Water Phoenix disappear and then focused on cultivating with Chaos Water, while rumors about the Phoenix and its Copper Jar stirred the Primordial World into a frenzy. He reached the second level of the Creation Immortal Art, but Ruthless warned him not to advance further without a foundation in the Yin-Yang Dao.

• Ren dismissed the Mystic Light Mirror and returned to cultivation, deciding he could not take part in the Quasi-Saints' pursuit of the Chaos Water Phoenix.
• Rumors spread that the Copper Jar and the Phoenix held the Water Demon God's Chaos Spirit Treasure, blood essence, and divine will, prompting powerful figures to hunt for the Phoenix and Chaos Water.
• Ren absorbed wisps of Chaos Water vapor and transformed them into Creation Water with the Creation Immortal Art.
• Ren broke through to the art's second level, strengthening his body and making up for flaws in his Nine-Turn Mysterious Technique.
• Ruthless appeared in divine-will form to guard Ren and warned him that continuing the art without its Yin-Yang foundation would harm him.

Ren learned that revivals were changing the Divine Positions on the Investiture List, then decided to cultivate in seclusion while the Primordial World descended into chaos. He entered the Trash Station with Ruthless Emperor’s divine sense and traveled toward the Battle Through the Heavens World to grow stronger.

• Ruthless Emperor told Ren that the Investiture List’s Divine Position marks were changing after listed immortals were revived, and warned him that powerful forces were hunting for Chaos Water.
• Ren agreed to cultivate in seclusion and chose the Battle Through the Heavens World as his destination rather than returning to the Shrouding the Heavens World.
• Ren ordered the Ziwei Legion to raise the Astral Formation, opened a passage into the Trash Station, and brought Ruthless Emperor’s divine sense with him.
• The Trash Station showed Ren that Aizen, Whitebeard, and Hashirama Senju were growing stronger in other worlds, while some of his followers had died.
• Ren asked the Trash Station to open the passage to the Battle Through the Heavens World and entered its Spacetime Tunnel with Ruthless Emperor accompanying him.

Ren returned to the Battle Through the Heavens World after using the Nine Secrets: Xing to draw upon time and space. His arrival strengthened the Star Empire’s Destiny and its people, and he summoned Yao Lao, Zhukun, Medusa, and Zi Yan to remain with him.

• Ruthless urged Ren to use the Nine Secrets: Xing to comprehend the Dao of Spacetime, and Ren discovered that it could draw upon both time and space to increase his speed.
• Ren arrived in the Star Empire, where the Destiny Divine Dragon roared and grew stronger as he descended.
• Yao Lao’s strength surged toward Nine-Star Dou Saint, Medusa’s Sea of Bitterness began to rise, and Zi Yan transformed into a woman while Zhukun’s Dou Qi grew purer.
• Ren emerged from the imperial capital’s secluded cultivation site, and his return caused the empire’s Destiny and its people’s strength to rise.
• Ren greeted the gathered officials, then ordered everyone except Yao Lao, Zhukun, Medusa, and Zi Yan to withdraw.

After ten years in seclusion, Ren returned to find the Star Empire strengthened and the Soul Clan weakened. He ordered a world-wide conquest, sending Yao Lao, Zhukun, and Medusa to subdue the nations, Magical Beast races, and Ancient Families.

• Ren learned from Yao Lao that the Star Empire had consolidated its power, gained the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and faced no further attacks from the weakened Soul Clan.
• Ren questioned Zhukun about his failure to reach the Dou God realm and promised to help him break through before switching to the Shrouding cultivation system.
• Yao Lao reported that the empire had gathered several Heavenly Flames, including the Life Spirit Flame, while powerful flames remained with the Ancient Families.
• Ren ordered Yao Lao to gather the empire's armies and conquer the Central Plains, declaring that those who submitted would prosper and those who resisted would perish.
• Ren assigned Zhukun to force the Magical Beast races to submit and sent Medusa and Zi Yan to deliver the same demand to the Ancient Families.

Ren gathered the Heavenly Flames and planned to conquer the Battle Through the Heavens World, absorb its Destiny, and find the connected Great Thousand World. As the Star Empire advanced, the Gu Clan sought an alliance and Hun Tiandi offered to cooperate with the other clans against Ren.

• Ren and Ruthless discussed nurturing the Heavenly Flames into Innate Divine Fires and fusing them into Emperor Flame.
• Ruthless sensed that the Battle Through the Heavens World was connected to a greater world, though she was unsure whether Ren could use that connection to reach it.
• Ren revealed that he intended to conquer the world, absorb its Destiny, and use it to seek the Great Thousand World.
• Three days later, Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan elders discussed the Star Empire's invasion and agreed to form an alliance with the other Ancient Families.
• Hun Tiandi saw Ren's challenge to the world as an opportunity and offered the Soul Clan's cooperation to the other clans.

The ancient clans and Magical Beast races united against the Star Empire, while Ren went with Zi Yan to seize the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Ren destroyed the sealed Demonic Flame Space and captured the flame, which was left begging as he prepared to refine it.

• The ancient clans and Magical Beast races chose to unite against the Star Empire, but Ren paid no heed to the opposition.
• Zi Yan showed Ren the sealed spatial node hiding the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Ren decided to break into it rather than wait decades for it to open.
• Ren used the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist to shatter the spatial seal and destroy nearly half of the Demonic Flame Space.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame rejoiced at the chance to escape, then tried to flee when it realized Ren had broken the space.
• Ren froze the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, seized it in a Shrouding Great Hand Seal, and took its Fire Lotus form into his hand as it begged not to be refined.

Ren refined the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and headed with Zi Yan to the Gu Realm to seek the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame inside Gu Xun'er. As the Gu Clan prepared to join the other clans against the Star Empire, Ren arrived in a spatial rift above the Black Annihilation Army.

• Ren erased the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame's consciousness and refined it into a flame within his Sea of Bitterness.
• Zi Yan told Ren that the Gu Clan had taken Gu Xun'er, who bore the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, back to the Gu Realm, and Ren decided to meet her.
• Ren and Zi Yan traveled toward the Gu Realm, and Ren taught her the Nine Secrets: Xing while telling her he planned to take his followers to another world.
• Gu Yuan and Gu Lie prepared the Black Annihilation Army and the Gu Clan's elders to join the other seven clans, while assigning soldiers to protect Xun'er.
• As the Black Annihilation Army took flight, a spatial rift opened overhead and blocked its path.

Ren tore his way into the Gu Realm and demanded the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame. After easily defeating Gu Lie and the Black Annihilation Army, he fixed his attention on the girl carrying the flame.

• Ren emerged from a widening spatial ravine with Zi Yan and demanded that Gu Yuan hand over the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Gu Lie attacked Ren with the Emperor Seal Art while the Black Annihilation Army launched its Black Annihilation Slash.
• Ren shattered both attacks with a flick of his sleeve and a step, sending Gu Lie flying and injuring the army.
• Gu Dao wondered whether Ren had become a Dou God, but Ren denied it and said that it made no difference to him.
• Ren spotted the girl bearing the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and turned his attention toward her.

Ren removed the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame from the young Xun'er without harming her and passed her a new cultivation method. Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan chose to submit to Ren, while Gu Dao realized that Ren's strength came from a different cultivation system.

• Ren raced to Xun'er, and Gu Yuan and the elders hurried after him.
• Ren held the young Xun'er and promised to free her from the pain caused by the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Gu Yuan offered the Gu Clan's submission to protect Xun'er, and Gu Dao affirmed the clan's decision.
• Ren drew the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame from Xun'er, stored it, and taught her the Reincarnation Scroll instead of Dou Qi cultivation.
• Xun'er fell asleep after receiving Ren's memories, and Gu Dao concluded that Ren's unknown cultivation system explained his strength.
• The Gu Clan elders accepted submission after weighing Ren's power and the prospect of a new cultivation system.

Ren secured the Gu Clan’s submission and ordered it to join the Star Empire’s war against the world. As the other Ancient Families assembled to oppose the Star Empire, its army entered the Central Plains and overwhelmed the defenders with a million Dou Wang soldiers.

• Gu Yuan pledged the Gu Clan’s allegiance to Ren, who ordered it to declare war alongside the Star Empire.
• Ren decided to visit the former Tou She Ancient God’s cave dwelling before bringing the Battle Through the Heavens World to an end.
• Hun Tiandi and the other Ancient Family patriarchs met to discuss the Star Empire’s advance, but Gu Yuan was absent.
• A scout reported that the Star Empire’s army had arrived and that the defenders were struggling to hold it back.
• Yao Chen led a million Dou Wang soldiers into battle, and they formed ranks and rained Dou Qi spears upon the Magical Beast army.

The Star Empire’s forces clashed with the Ancient Families as Zhukun, Medusa, and Yao Chen fought their opponents. Zhukun battled Hun Tiandi and Lei Ying, Medusa’s new technique overwhelmed two clan chiefs, and Yao Chen rejected Yao Dan’s offer to lead the Yao Clan and attacked it.

• Yao Chen and Zhukun prepared to join the battle when the Ancient Families arrived, and Zhukun struck Hun Tiandi with Taixu Dragon Fist.
• Zhukun repelled Hun Tiandi’s Death God's Finger, prompting Hun Tiandi and Lei Ying to attack him together.
• Medusa unleashed Demon Emperor's Nine Slashes—Form Annihilation, erasing Magical Beasts and forcing the Yan Clan chief and Stone Tribe chief to defend themselves.
• Yao Dan offered Yao Chen control of the Yao Clan if he betrayed Ren, but Yao Chen refused and attacked with Heavenly Flame Palm.
• Yao Dan ordered the Yao Clan to kill Yao Chen, but their Dou Techniques were annihilated before reaching him.

The Ancient Families suffered heavy losses against the Star Empire and agreed to seek the power of a Dou God in Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. As Hun Tiandi led them toward the cave, Yao Chen reported the Star Empire's advantage to Ren, who had returned from the Gu Clan.

• Yao Chen and the Ancient Void Dragons helped the Star Empire overwhelm the Ancient Families in a battle that lasted through day and night.
• The Ancient Families' leaders discussed the Star Empire's immense forces and the possibility that Ren and Medusa used a power beyond Dou Qi.
• Hun Tiandi proposed combining their Ancient Jade pieces to open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, and the leaders agreed they needed a Dou God to defeat the Star Empire.
• Hun Tiandi revealed he had obtained the Xiao Clan's and Gu Clan's jade pieces through trades and a Gu Clan turncoat, then led the clan leaders toward the cave.
• Yao Chen reported the Star Empire's battlefield advantage to Ren, who had returned from the Gu Clan.

Ren learned that the Gu Clan's ancestor had visited Martial Universe World, then discovered Hun Tiandi had obtained the Gu Clan's piece of the Tou She Ancient Jade and planned to open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. Ren led a group to the cave mansion, confident that Hun Tiandi becoming a Dou God would pose no threat.

• Gu Yuan told Ren that the Gu Clan's ancestor had traveled to a nearby world with Yuan Power and Ancestral Symbols.
• Zhu Li reported that Hun Tiandi had joined forces with other families and intended to use the Tou She Ancient Jade to seek the secret of becoming a Dou God.
• Zhu Li revealed that a Gu Clan traitor had stolen the clan's jade piece and given it to Hun Tiandi, so Gu Yuan went to investigate.
• Gu Lie returned with his grandson, who admitted betraying the Gu Clan because Gu Yuan had given the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to Xun'er instead of him.
• Ren ended the family argument and headed with Zhukun and the Gu Clan elders toward Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, while Yao Chen stayed behind to oversee the battle.

Hun Tiandi and the clan chiefs fought through Ren’s Sword Formation and raced to Tou She Ancient God’s residence beneath the magma lake. Ren’s group caught up, and as the two sides faced off before the stone door, Ren called out to Tou She Ancient God, asking why he was still hiding if he was alive.

• Hun Tiandi’s group reached the magma lake, where Ren’s Sword Formation attacked them, and the clan chiefs joined forces to shatter it.
• Hun Tiandi and the other chiefs plunged into the magma as Gu Yuan arrived with Ren, then fought past the lizard creatures and entered the hidden space.
• Ren led his group through a passage in the magma to Tou She Ancient God’s residence, where they confronted Hun Tiandi’s group before the stone door.
• Hun Tiandi urged the chiefs to use their ancient jade to hold Ren’s side back while he opened the residence, and Lei Ying and the Yao Clan chief handed over their jade.
• Ren stared at the stone door and asked Tou She Ancient God why he was hiding if he was still alive.