Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Reincarnation”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Wu Yong’s Clone and He Chunqiu’s Clone confront Ku He, the only fourth-tier Realm Beast in the Dark Land. Wu Yong’s Destruction Origin aura instinctively attracts the beast, which attempts to devour him.
• Wu Yong engages Ku He directly, using his powerful Perfect Divine Body, Chaos and Destruction Dao Marks, and blood-colored cape to restrain the beast.
• He Chunqiu unleashes the newly developed Ten Blood-Drop Swords, combining the ten fundamental laws through the Nine-Revolution Blood Sword Immortal Gu. The attack reaches the level of an Eternal True God.
• Ku He activates the Blood-Burning Method, temporarily raising its strength to the threshold of the fifth tier, but realizes it cannot win and attempts to escape.
• When trapped, Ku He uses the Realm Light Passage, burning its origin and shattering its body into numerous fragments so that even one surviving piece could eventually restore it.
• Wu Yong catches all the fragments with his blood-colored cape, while He Chunqiu destroys them with repeated uses of Ten Blood-Drop Swords and the Time Immortal Gu. Ku He is completely killed.
• Ten years later, the two Clones reach the vast plain surrounding the mysterious Reincarnation passage. The Primordial Universe’s origin will strongly urges Fang Yan to enter.
• Upon entering Reincarnation, the Clones are separated by tens of thousands of light-years. Chaotic space-time currents damage their bodies, while the Supreme Rule attacks their souls.
• Fang Yan withstands the soul assault because of his powerful will and soul, strengthened by the gall from Soul Shaking Mountain.
• The Clones eventually emerge onto the Origin Continent, in separate locations. Its unique pressure compresses Wu Yong’s enormous body from twelve light-years to eighteen billion kilometers.
• He Chunqiu discovers that Fixed Immortal Travel can no longer teleport freely on the Origin Continent. He disperses the Gu and plans to have Fang Mu refine a replacement elsewhere, since Immortal Gu are unique and a second copy cannot exist while the original remains.

Character Developments

• Wu Yong’s Clone displays overwhelming physical strength and combat instincts. His blood-colored cape, formed from Destruction Dao Marks and Blood Path Dao Marks, proves crucial in preventing Ku He’s escape.
• He Chunqiu’s Clone demonstrates improved mastery of the ten fundamental laws and unveils the devastating Ten Blood-Drop Swords technique. His ability to combine offense with Time Reversal becomes vital during the battle and Reincarnation crossing.
• Fang Yan shows confidence in dividing his power among multiple Clones. Despite their separation and the dangers of Reincarnation, his shared memories and resilient soul allow the Clones to continue operating effectively.
• Fang Mu’s Clone remains active in the Primordial Universe, preparing to refine a new Fixed Immortal Travel after the original is discarded.

Significant Themes

• Power versus survival: Ku He possesses immense strength and a desperate escape technique, but coordinated strategy and superior preparation prevent even a fragment of it from surviving.
• The limits of escape and immortality: The Realm Beast’s ability to scatter its body and preserve its soul suggests a form of pseudo-immortality, yet Fang Yan’s Clones eliminate every possible remnant.
• Reincarnation as an ultimate trial: The passage is portrayed as a terrifying barrier involving spatial dislocation, temporal destruction, and attacks from the Supreme Rule.
• Adaptation to a higher world: The Origin Continent imposes new physical and spatial laws, rendering familiar abilities such as unrestricted Fixed Immortal Travel ineffective.
• Coordination across Clones: Fang Yan’s Clones communicate through synchronized memories and complement one another, allowing them to overcome threats that neither might handle as efficiently alone.

Character Interactions

• Wu Yong and He Chunqiu fight Ku He as a tightly coordinated pair: Wu Yong restrains and pins the Realm Beast while He Chunqiu delivers the decisive attacks.
• Ku He reacts to the combined threat by first empowering itself, then fleeing, and finally sacrificing its origin in a desperate attempt to survive.
• After the battle, Wu Yong and He Chunqiu exchange a glance and recognize Ku He’s obscure place in the future history of the Realm Beasts.
• During Reincarnation, their separation emphasizes both their individual resilience and their continued connection through Fang Yan’s shared consciousness.
• After arriving on the Origin Continent, He Chunqiu uses Fixed Immortal Travel to mark Wu Yong’s location, then sacrifices the Gu once he confirms its limitations.

Chapter Summary: “Luring the Wolf into the House”

Key Plot Points and Events

• He Chunqiu’s clone spends twenty years traveling across the Origin Continent, eventually reaching the border region of the Seven-Colored Chaos Continent in the Flame Wind Ancient Country.
• He encounters three True Gods—Mang Tie, A Yan, and A Shuang—fighting a massive rhinoceros-shaped Desolate Beast guarding a rare treasure, the Life Leaf Grass.
• He Chunqiu effortlessly kills the powerful beast with a single strand of sword qi, astonishing the three True Gods.
• Rather than claim the Life Leaf Grass, he gives it to them, earning their gratitude. Mang Tie invites him to stay at the Mang Niu Tribe, which is several years away from the nearest major city.
• He Chunqiu accepts, intending to use the tribe as a temporary base while learning about the Origin Continent. His other clone is in the distant Thunder Ancient Country, making an immediate reunion impossible.
• After four days of travel, they arrive at the Mang Niu Tribe, a supposedly small border settlement containing three Void True Gods, approximately five hundred True Gods, and more than thirty thousand Lords of Laws.
• He Chunqiu is welcomed by the tribe’s chieftain, Mang Niu, and two elders. During a drinking and conversation session, both sides exchange information, though each is also quietly probing the other.
• He Chunqiu reveals that he is an unaffiliated cultivator from the distant Nine Jiang Chaos Continent of Yu Country. The tribe’s leaders are impressed and intrigued by his background.
• The chapter ends with He Chunqiu suddenly activating the Yin-Yang Immortal Gu and unleashing the Third Heaven. The Metal Continent, Golden Hive, and Cold Rain Autumn Scenery descend to seal the entire tribe.
• By combining the light and darkness phantoms with his main body, He Chunqiu’s aura rises to the level of an Eternal True God, leaving Mang Niu horrified.

Character Developments

• He Chunqiu: Demonstrates overwhelming combat strength, killing a near-Void-True-God-level Desolate Beast instantly. His apparent generosity is revealed to be deceptive, as he has been assessing the tribe and considering whether he could devour it for Dao Marks. His calm, courteous persona gives way to a cold and predatory side.
• Mang Tie: Shifts from fear and reverence toward gratitude and excitement after He Chunqiu gifts him the Life Leaf Grass. He becomes the one who brings the dangerous outsider into the tribe.
• Mang Niu: Initially presents himself as a hospitable and confident chieftain, hoping to benefit from He Chunqiu’s presence and insights. His curiosity and attempts to establish rapport unknowingly help lure the powerful stranger into the heart of the tribe.
• The Mang Niu Tribe’s elders: Treat He Chunqiu warmly but remain cautious, probing his origins and affiliation. Their interest suggests they view him as both a potential opportunity and a possible threat.

Significant Themes

• Predator and prey: The chapter’s title becomes literal as He Chunqiu allows himself to be welcomed into the tribe before revealing that he may be the real predator.
• Deception beneath courtesy: He Chunqiu’s polite behavior and generosity conceal ruthless calculations. Likewise, the tribe’s hospitality is partly motivated by its desire to gain knowledge or advancement from a powerful Void True God.
• The vast scale of the Origin Continent: A force that would dominate the Universe Ocean is merely a small border tribe here, emphasizing the immense power hierarchy of the new setting.
• Power and concealment: He Chunqiu keeps his true strength hidden until the moment he chooses to strike, demonstrating the importance of restraint, disguise, and surprise.
• Opportunity and danger: The tribe sees He Chunqiu as a rare opportunity, but its eagerness to exploit his arrival exposes it to catastrophic danger.

Important Character Interactions

• He Chunqiu rescues Mang Tie and the other two True Gods by killing the Desolate Beast and then gives them the Life Leaf Grass.
• Mang Tie invites He Chunqiu to the Mang Niu Tribe, unknowingly providing him access to the settlement’s full population and leadership.
• Mang Niu welcomes He Chunqiu with wine and formal hospitality, while both sides subtly investigate each other’s origins and motives.
• The elders question He Chunqiu about his sect and cultivation, prompting his guarded claim that he is an independent cultivator.
• The chapter concludes with the hospitality turning into confrontation as He Chunqiu activates his supreme technique and traps the entire tribe, catching Mang Niu completely off guard.

Chapter Summary: Seven-Colored Chaos Continent

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan activates the Ninth-Turn Time Immortal Gu, expanding the Third Heaven into the overwhelming Nine Heavens.
• The Nine Heavens crush the Mang Niu Tribe’s territory. Approximately 30,000 Lords of Laws are annihilated, and their Dao Marks are transported through the Karma Dimension to Fang Yan’s Chunqiu Holy Land Universe.
• Their accumulated power produces 30 Chaos Dao Marks.
• Chief Mang Niu begs Fang Yan to spare the tribe’s bloodline and offers inherited eighth-rank treasures, rare resources, and cultivation manuals in exchange.
• Fang Yan refuses. Using the Blood Sword Immortal Gu and the Ten-Origin Immortal Gu, he unleashes the killing move “Ten Blood-Drop Swords.”
• Chief Mang Niu, the First Elder, and the Second Elder are killed instantly, followed by the tribe’s remaining 500 True Gods. Their Dao Marks generate another 174 Chaos Dao Marks, bringing the total new Chaos Dao Marks to 204.
• Fang Yan searches the leaders’ World Rings and finds roughly 1,000 grains of Universe Sand, adding them to his own collection and bringing his total to 4,000 grains.
• From Mang Niu’s information, Fang Yan learns about the Seven-Colored Great Sage, a former master of the Seven-Colored Chaos Continent who became a God-King and left the continent under the control of his disciple, Great Sage Ancient Blue.
• Because Great Sage Ancient Blue is a powerful Chaos Realm expert stationed in Ancient Blue City, Fang Yan avoids the central city and chooses the more remote Ancient Cyan City as his destination.
• After sixty years of travel, Fang Yan reaches Ancient Cyan City, pays its ten-grain Universe Sand entrance fee, and enters while concealing his true strength.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan becomes increasingly ruthless and pragmatic. Although he acknowledges Mang Niu’s goodwill, he prioritizes his own advancement and kills the entire tribe without hesitation.
• His power and efficiency are emphasized: the Nine Heavens can suppress hundreds of True Gods, while the Ten Blood-Drop Swords effortlessly destroy even Void True Gods.
• Fang Yan demonstrates caution and strategic awareness by recognizing that he cannot currently challenge a genuine Chaos Realm expert. Rather than acting recklessly, he selects a distant city where he can establish himself more safely.
• Chief Mang Niu shifts from a proud tribal leader to a desperate survivor. Despite his fury over the destruction of his descendants, he suppresses his anger and humbly negotiates when he realizes Fang Yan’s superiority.
• Great Sage Ancient Blue is introduced indirectly as a reclusive, powerful guardian whose presence shapes Fang Yan’s decisions.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming power and hierarchy: The chapter highlights the enormous gap between Void True Gods, Eternal True Gods, and Chaos Realm experts.
• Ruthlessness and survival: Fang Yan treats the Mang Niu Tribe as a source of resources and Dao Marks, showing that survival and cultivation advancement outweigh mercy.
• The transformation of life into power: The tribe’s deaths are converted into Chaos Dao Marks, reinforcing the setting’s progression-based and material view of existence.
• Caution before stronger enemies: Despite his recent victory, Fang Yan understands his limitations and avoids confronting an enemy far beyond his current level.
• Expansion into a larger world: Ancient Cyan City and the Seven-Colored Chaos Continent introduce a broader civilization filled with powerful experts, cities, commerce, and hidden dangers.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan and Chief Mang Niu begin from a position of apparent goodwill, recalling their earlier drinking and discussions of the Dao, but the relationship collapses when Fang Yan announces that he needs the tribe’s lives.
• Chief Mang Niu attempts negotiation by offering treasures and knowledge, but Fang Yan responds with silence and then lethal force.
• The Mang Niu elders support their chief by deploying defensive treasures, yet their efforts are ineffective against Fang Yan’s killing move.
• Upon entering Ancient Cyan City, Fang Yan interacts briefly with the city guards, paying the required entrance fee while concealing his true cultivation and observing the city’s social structure and defenses.

Chapter Summary: “Di Mang”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan visits Listening Rain Tower in Ancient Cyan City and casually inquires about a rumored Flame Wind Imperial Family wedding.
• The waiter reveals that the rumor concerns Di Mang, a distant and impoverished member of the Flame Wind Imperial Family who is romantically involved with Gu Qingyi, the second daughter of the city lord.
• Gu Qinghong, the city lord and a peak Eternal True God, strongly opposed the relationship. Months earlier, he nearly killed Di Mang after discovering the affair.
• Although Di Mang’s imperial lineage was extremely distant from the main bloodlines, Gu Qinghong spared him to avoid offending the Flame Wind Imperial Family. Nevertheless, Di Mang became an object of ridicule throughout the city.
• Seeing Di Mang as a potentially useful pawn, Fang Yan visits his humble residence under the alias He Chunqiu.
• Fang Yan offers Di Mang ten Ten-Origin Immortal Gu, which together can grant combat power at the peak Void True God level.
• Fang Yan explains that the power will allow Di Mang to prove his worth before Gu Qinghong, while Fang Yan seeks to benefit from Di Mang’s influence and imperial identity.
• Di Mang accepts the deal and immediately attacks the City Lord’s Residence.
• He destroys the entrance gates and confronts Gu Qinghong, revealing power far beyond his former True God level.
• Di Mang declares that fortunes change and warns Gu Qinghong not to look down on someone merely because he is currently poor.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan: Demonstrates his calculating and opportunistic nature. Rather than acting out of sympathy, he identifies Di Mang’s desperation and imperial background as tools he can exploit. He carefully presents himself as a helpful traveler while concealing his true motives.
• Di Mang: Changes from a humiliated, downtrodden imperial descendant into a determined challenger. His pride and resentment remain strong, but his desperation is transformed into resolve when Fang Yan gives him the means to fight back.
• Gu Qinghong: Initially appears overwhelmingly dominant and dismissive of Di Mang. However, upon sensing Di Mang’s sudden strength and refined law control, he becomes shocked and cautious, forced to reconsider Di Mang’s status.
• Gu Qingyi: Though she does not appear directly, her relationship with Di Mang is the central cause of the conflict and represents the emotional motivation behind Di Mang’s struggle.

Significant Themes

• Power and social status: Di Mang’s bloodline has little practical value because he lacks strength and proximity to the imperial family’s core. The chapter shows that status is respected only when backed by power.
• Reversal of fortune: Di Mang’s transformation embodies the idea that a person’s current condition does not determine their future. His declaration about not mocking the poor emphasizes the possibility of sudden reversal.
• Manipulation and alliance: Fang Yan’s gift is not altruistic. He creates an alliance by giving Di Mang power while expecting to benefit from Di Mang’s imperial identity and influence.
• Pride and dignity: Di Mang’s resistance to humiliation and his determination to reclaim his dignity drive his confrontation with Gu Qinghong.
• Bloodline and legitimacy: The chapter distinguishes between technically belonging to the Flame Wind Imperial Family and being recognized as part of its true ruling bloodlines.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan and the waiter: Fang Yan subtly prompts the waiter to reveal gossip about Di Mang, using patience and generous spending to encourage him to speak freely.
• Fang Yan and Di Mang: Fang Yan approaches Di Mang without openly insulting or pitying him. He offers practical power and frames the arrangement as an opportunity for Di Mang to reclaim respect. Di Mang remains wary but ultimately accepts.
• Di Mang and Gu Qinghong: Their relationship is defined by humiliation, class conflict, and opposition over Gu Qingyi. Di Mang returns to confront the man who once nearly killed him, while Gu Qinghong is forced to recognize the sudden threat posed by his former victim.
• Fang Yan and Gu Qinghong: They do not meet directly, but Fang Yan’s scheme is designed to place Di Mang before Gu Qinghong and compel the city lord to reassess him.

Key plot points

• Gu Qinghong learns that Di Mang is a peak Void True God and therefore close to qualifying for the Flame Wind Imperial Family’s core training. He reverses his opposition to Di Mang and Gu Qingyi’s relationship, then gives Di Mang a commander’s post in Ancient Cyan City.
• Fang Yan, posing as He Chunqiu, settles into Cave Abode A-236 and continues cultivating while his clones pursue other goals.
• Di Mang and Gu Qingyi marry. At the wedding, Fang Yan’s Nine-Revolution Gestation Immortal Gu reacts when he looks at Gu Qingyi.
• The next morning, Gu Qingyi discovers she is pregnant. Di Mang and Gu Qinghong are delighted, and Di Mang’s reputation improves as people reconsider the “fallen imperial.”
• A thousand years pass in relative peace. Gu Qingyi eventually gives birth to a son. As the family celebrates, Fang Yan secretly activates the Nine-Revolution Soul-Exchanging Immortal Gu: half of his Eternal True God soul enters the newborn, while the infant’s faint new soul is transferred into Fang Yan’s He Chunqiu Clone and disappears into its vastly stronger soul.
• No one detects the exchange. The newborn opens his eyes and smiles at Fang Yan, who quietly observes the celebrations.

Character developments and interactions

• Di Mang goes from an outcast whom Gu Qinghong dismissed to a respected commander, husband, and father. His joy and gratitude are clear, though he does not know that Fang Yan has taken over his son’s soul.
• Gu Qinghong shifts from rejecting Di Mang to supporting him once he recognizes his potential, later welcoming the pregnancy and showing tenderness toward the baby.
• Gu Qingyi is happy in her marriage and delighted by her pregnancy and newborn son; she remains unaware of Fang Yan’s intervention.
• Fang Yan stays outwardly courteous and unobtrusive while using the wedding and birth to carry out a concealed plan. His calm, calculated behavior contrasts with the family’s sincere celebration.

Significant themes

• Status and changing fortunes: Di Mang’s imperial bloodline and growing strength transform how others treat him.
• Family and belonging: Di Mang’s marriage, position, and child fulfill what once seemed impossible for him.
• Deception and hidden power: Fang Yan’s Gu techniques operate undetected beneath a joyful public occasion.
• Identity and possession: The soul exchange turns the newborn into a vessel for Fang Yan’s soul, raising a stark contrast between outward family bonds and concealed reality.

Plot points and events

• Di Mang names his newborn son Di Yu, but the baby opens his eyes and declares that his name is Di Chunqiu. Di Mang recognizes the name as belonging to He Chunqiu, the powerful benefactor who once helped him.
• Di Mang realizes that He Chunqiu has placed a soul in his child and secured an imperial identity for himself. Though frightened and resentful, Di Mang understands he cannot resist without endangering himself and Gu Qingyi. He accepts the name and hides his feelings.
• The Di Chunqiu clone waits an era before revealing his strength. When he emerges as a Void True God, Ancient Cyan City is astonished, and his reputation as an unprecedented imperial genius spreads.
• Great Sage Ancient Blue sends ten Chaos Frost Leaves as a gift. Fang Yan uses just one to cultivate in the Origin Continent’s Chaos layer, reaching Eternal True God after 150 years.
• Fang Yan’s breakthrough transforms his Chunqiu Holy Land Universe: it expands to a diameter of 100 billion light-years, and his soul reaches the Chaos Realm.
• A human being—Human Ancestor—appears in the Small Universe among the Desolate Beasts. Fang Yan secretly sends Courage, Wisdom, and Strength Gu to him. Wisdom Gu identifies him, beginning the Human Race Chronicle.

Character developments and interactions

• Di Mang shifts from anger to fearful resignation. He continues his ordinary routines, concealing his distress to preserve his family’s safety and present happiness.
• Di Chunqiu/Fang Yan patiently builds his standing, uses his resources efficiently, and avoids confronting a Chaos creature after becoming Eternal True God, recognizing the danger.
• Gu Qinghong celebrates Di Chunqiu’s breakthrough as a triumph for the imperial family, unaware of Di Mang’s unease.
• Human Ancestor awakens confused and without knowledge of himself; Wisdom Gu gives him his identity.

Significant themes

• Powerlessness and compromise: Di Mang accepts a painful arrangement because resistance could cost him his family and life.
• Identity and manipulation: Di Chunqiu’s name and imperial birth are part of Fang Yan’s long-term plan.
• Patience and strategic growth: Fang Yan conceals his abilities, advances when the opportunity is right, and avoids unnecessary risks.
• Creation and origins: Fang Yan’s breakthrough reshapes his universe and gives rise to humanity, marking the start of a new history.

Plot points and events

• Fang Yan decides to keep Di Chunqiu’s newly achieved Eternal True God strength secret for five epochs. During that time, Di’s clone will cultivate in seclusion, while He Chunqiu’s clone continues hunting on the Seven-Colored Chaos Continent and gathering Dao Marks.
• Fang Yan turns to Wu Yong’s clone in the Thunderous Ancient Country, where he intends to pursue the Bloodline Path. His immediate goal is to gain enough strength to capture a Chaos creature and study its body structure, potentially allowing him to reshape his own divine body into a Trinity configuration.
• Wu Yong purchases the Chaos Ruler-level Blood Sky Elephant Bloodline from Thunderous Commerce for ten thousand grains of Universe Sand. He absorbs and masters it in a day, resisting its lingering will with his Chaos Realm soul.
• With the bloodline fully refined, Wu Yong gains Chaos Realm combat strength. He heads to the City Lord’s Residence to use its Chaos Ruins, but the guards refuse him entry.
• Wu Yong smashes through the residence’s gate. The Nine-Elephant City Lord and his eight top-tier Eternal True God brothers confront him. Mistaking his bloodline for a sign that he has lost control, the City Lord attacks alongside the others. The chapter ends as their assault begins.

Character developments

• Fang Yan shows patience and strategic restraint, delaying Di Chunqiu’s public breakthrough to avoid attracting an Imperial guardian too soon.
• Wu Yong’s clone makes a dramatic leap in power by mastering the Blood Sky Elephant Bloodline. Confident in his new strength, he shifts from preparation to direct confrontation.
• The Nine-Elephant City Lord reacts with suspicion and force, assuming Wu Yong is an uncontrolled bloodline cultivator.

Significant themes

• Power through calculated risk: Fang Yan pursues a bloodline considered a dead end because its strength serves a larger goal.
• Secrecy and timing: He manages his clones’ growth carefully to secure future advantages while avoiding unwanted attention.
• Ambition and transformation: The Bloodline Path is a means to reshape Wu Yong’s power—and ultimately to pursue a Trinity divine body.
• Strength challenging authority: Wu Yong’s new power immediately brings him into conflict with the city’s established rulers.

Character interactions

• Thunderous Commerce’s attendant warns Wu Yong about the danger of losing control, but completes the sale after confirming his payment.
• Wu Yong ignores the City Lord’s guards’ refusal and destroys the gate, prompting the City Lord and his eight brothers to attack.
• The City Lord interprets Wu Yong’s Blood Sky Elephant totem as evidence of a loss of control, setting up the confrontation.

Chapter Summary: Wu Yong Divine Lord

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan visits Nine-Elephant City seeking permission to use the Chaos Ruins. The Nine-Elephant City Lord and the other eight strongest Eternal True Gods confront him, but their combined attacks barely affect him.
• Fang Yan defeats all nine with overwhelming ease, without even using his Chaos Realm power. The Nine-Elephant City Lord and his brothers suffer severe injuries, while Fang Yan remains virtually unharmed.
• After learning that Fang Yan only wanted access to the Chaos Ruins, the Nine-Elephant City Lord grants his request. Fang Yan’s strength and identity as “Divine Lord Wu Yong” quickly become famous throughout the city.
• While traveling through chaotic space, Fang Yan discovers a silk-like Chaos creature containing a complete Chaos Law. Although it initially attacks him, Fang Yan suppresses and captures it after a brief struggle.
• Back in his cave dwelling, Fang Yan spends a century analyzing the creature’s divine-body particle structure. He discovers that the structure could greatly enhance his clones, but his Blood Sky Elephant bloodline prevents him from applying it across his entire body.
• Over the next five thousand years, Wu Yong’s Clone hunts numerous Chaos creatures in the Thunderous Ancient Country and incorporates their unique particle structures into his and Di Chunqiu’s clones. This gradually strengthens their bodies and compensates for their weaknesses.
• Great Sage Myriad Shadows, a powerful Chaos Realm expert from the Heart Shadow Sect, arrives in Nine-Elephant City after fleeing the Food Country. The city’s cultivators rush to pay their respects.
• Fang Yan refuses to visit the Great Sage, remaining focused on researching Chaos creature particles. However, Myriad Shadows personally sends his disciple Chu Qing to invite Fang Yan to Listening Waves Pavilion.
• Fang Yan accepts the invitation and meets Great Sage Myriad Shadows, who reveals that he fled the Food Country after offending a powerful enemy and intends to rebuild the Heart Shadow Sect in Nine-Elephant City.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan/Wu Yong: His dominance is firmly established. He is shown to be vastly stronger than the city’s top Eternal True Gods and confident enough to ignore social expectations surrounding a Chaos Realm powerhouse. His main priority remains cultivation and the refinement of his clones rather than fame or political connections.
• Nine-Elephant City Lord: Initially arrogant and suspicious, he quickly becomes fearful and respectful after realizing the enormous difference between himself and Fang Yan. He also shows practical judgment by abandoning the conflict once he understands Fang Yan’s simple request.
• Di Chunqiu’s Clone and Wu Yong’s Clone: Both benefit from Fang Yan’s long-term research into Chaos creature bodies. Di Chunqiu’s Clone achieves peak Eternal True God combat strength, while Wu Yong’s Clone reaches peak Chaos Realm strength through the combination of Silk Particles and the Blood Sky Elephant bloodline.
• Great Sage Myriad Shadows: Introduced as a powerful but displaced figure. Despite his high status, he approaches Fang Yan personally, suggesting that he recognizes Fang Yan’s unusual strength and may want his cooperation in rebuilding the Heart Shadow Sect.
• Chu Qing: Serves as the respectful messenger who emphasizes the importance of Myriad Shadows’ invitation and Fang Yan’s elevated reputation.

Significant Themes

• The vast hierarchy of power: The battle in Nine-Elephant City illustrates that even elite Eternal True Gods can be completely helpless before a stronger cultivator. Differences within the same realm may be enormous.
• Cultivation through analysis and adaptation: Fang Yan improves his clones by studying the particle structures of Chaos creatures, turning combat encounters into opportunities for advancement.
• Bloodline power versus flexibility: The Blood Sky Elephant bloodline grants tremendous strength but fixes much of Fang Yan’s divine-body structure, limiting how extensively he can incorporate other abilities.
• Independence and indifference to status: Fang Yan refuses to flatter or seek favor from Great Sage Myriad Shadows, showing that his confidence comes from genuine strength rather than social position.
• Political refuge and shifting influence: Myriad Shadows’ arrival changes Nine-Elephant City’s balance of power and hints at future conflict involving the Food Country, the Heart Shadow Sect, and the Thunderous Ancient Country.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan clashes directly with the Nine-Elephant City Lord and his eight allies, defeating them while barely exerting himself. Their confrontation transforms hostility into fear and reluctant respect.
• Fang Yan’s brief interaction with the gate guard demonstrates the difference between his calm authority and the guard’s terror after the battle.
• The city’s cultivators eagerly seek contact with Great Sage Myriad Shadows, contrasting with Fang Yan’s refusal to participate.
• Myriad Shadows reverses the expected relationship by personally inviting Fang Yan through Chu Qing, signaling that he regards Fang Yan as more than an ordinary Eternal True God.
• At Listening Waves Pavilion, Fang Yan remains direct and guarded, immediately asking why he was summoned. Myriad Shadows responds candidly, explaining his exile and plan to rebuild his sect.

Key plot points

• Great Sage Myriad Shadows invites Fang Yan, posing as Divine Lord Wu Yong, to join the Heart Shadow Sect. He offers access to Chaos Realm secrets and a chance to earn a God-King inheritance.
• Fang Yan refuses, preferring independence. Myriad Shadows takes the rejection as an insult and attacks.
• Fang Yan reveals Chaos Realm-level power and fights Myriad Shadows above Nine-Elephant City. His Blood Sky Elephant bloodline gives him overwhelming physical force, while Myriad Shadows’ refined Law techniques and clones gradually put Fang Yan at a disadvantage.
• Fang Yan mentions Great Sage Nine Origins, exposing leverage over Myriad Shadows. Rather than continue the fight, he demands compensation. After bargaining, Myriad Shadows gives him one hundred million grains of Universe Sand and the Peak Chaos Realm inheritance Heaven-Destroying Veil.
• Just as Myriad Shadows tries to leave, a Chaos Realm Immortal Gu is about to be born in Fang Yan’s Chunqiu Holy Land Universe. Fang Yan ignores the inheritance and blocks Myriad Shadows’ escape.

Character developments and interactions

• Fang Yan stays outwardly calm through the recruitment attempt, then proves he can confront a top Chaos Realm expert. He uses his knowledge of Nine Origins to turn the encounter from a battle into a negotiation, though he misjudges how costly his original demands would be.
• Great Sage Myriad Shadows moves from confident recruiter to furious attacker, then to a resentful negotiator forced to pay for Fang Yan’s silence and restraint.
• Their interaction shifts from an attempted alliance to open combat and finally coercive bargaining. Neither trusts the other; Fang Yan lets Myriad Shadows leave only after securing a settlement.

Significant themes

• Independence versus institutional power: Fang Yan rejects the security and inheritance offered by a sect in favor of acting on his own terms.
• Strength and inheritance: Raw power can challenge a Chaos Ruler, but refined Law mastery gives Myriad Shadows an advantage.
• Leverage and negotiation: Fang Yan’s knowledge of Nine Origins proves more decisive than winning the fight outright.
• Changing priorities: The imminent birth of an Immortal Gu immediately outweighs Fang Yan’s newly acquired inheritance.

Chapter Summary: “Chaos Burning Power Gu”

Key plot points and events

• Outside Nine-Elephant City, Wu Yong—actually Fang Yan’s clone—rejects Great Sage Myriad Shadows’ offer of one hundred million Universe Sand and a Peak Chaos Realm inheritance.
• Fang Yan summons the Chaos Burning Power Gu, a new kind of Gu beyond the Immortal Gu ranks. It burns Dao Marks from his holy land universe and converts them into combat power.
• Burning five hundred Dao Marks lets Fang Yan unleash power on the Chaos Apex level. His first palm strike destroys roughly sixty percent of Great Sage Myriad Shadows’ manifested body.
• Myriad Shadows draws the Hidden Shadow Sword, a First-Level God-King secret treasure, and merges into it. The weapon withstands Fang Yan’s attack, and Myriad Shadows prepares to flee.
• Rather than let him escape, Fang Yan decides to burn more Dao Marks. He attacks the Eternal True Gods inside Nine-Elephant City, killing them rapidly and converting their Dao Marks into Chaos Dao Marks in his holy land universe.
• After Fang Yan kills the 153rd Eternal True God, his universe contains three thousand Chaos Dao Marks, radiating an immense aura of chaos.

Character development

• Fang Yan shifts from negotiation to overwhelming force. He reveals both a powerful new ability and a willingness to sacrifice vast resources—and kill indiscriminately—to gain the strength needed to defeat Myriad Shadows.
• Great Sage Myriad Shadows moves from bargaining confidence to terror and desperation. Though his God-King weapon protects him, he retreats into it and attempts to escape when Fang Yan proves able to match Chaos Apex combat power.

Significant themes

• Power has a cost: Fang Yan’s extraordinary strength comes from burning the Dao Marks sustaining his own universe.
• Escalation and desperation: When a direct attack fails to destroy the Hidden Shadow Sword, Fang Yan raises the stakes by harvesting power through mass killing.
• Promises versus force: Karma makes broken promises costly, but the confrontation ultimately turns on who can wield the greater power.
• The limits of conventional ranks: The Chaos Burning Power Gu transcends the established Immortal Gu classification.

Character interactions

• Myriad Shadows tries to settle the dispute with an offer, then threatens Fang Yan when the offer is rejected.
• Fang Yan responds to the threat with a devastating attack, forcing Myriad Shadows to reveal the Hidden Shadow Sword and merge with it.
• As Myriad Shadows attempts to flee, Fang Yan turns on the Eternal True Gods of Nine-Elephant City, using their deaths to strengthen himself for the continuing confrontation.

Chapter Summary: “Biyang God-King”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan, empowered by the three thousand Chaos Dao Marks of the Chunqiu Holy Land Universe, catches up with Great Sage Myriad Shadows and strikes the Hidden Shadow Sword with overwhelming force.
• His attack snaps the God-King secret treasure in half, shocking Myriad Shadows into realizing that Fang Yan possesses power comparable to—or even exceeding—that of a God-King.
• Myriad Shadows begs to end the conflict, warning that the Thunderous Ancient Country will retaliate. Fang Yan refuses and uses his blood-red cloak to envelop and devour him.
• Great Sage Myriad Shadows is killed, and Fang Yan absorbs the resulting Chaos Dao Marks. He also retrieves his remaining treasures: fifty million Universe Sand, two portions of Chaos Transcendent Bloodline, and the Heart Shadow Sect inheritance.
• Fang Yan deliberately spares the Nine-Elephant City Lord. By destroying nearly everyone else but leaving the city lord alive, he signals that the massacre was collateral damage from a conflict between powerful Chaos Realm figures rather than a direct attack on the Thunderous Ancient Country.
• At Thunder Mountain, Jiayin God-King learns of Fang Yan’s victory and recognizes the unusual strength of “Great Sage Wu Yong.” She decides to suppress the incident and recommend him to Marquis Lei Nan as a possible guest elder.
• Before the arrangement can proceed, Biyang God-King arrives and removes Marquis Lei Nan from the hall. She reveals that she wants Fang Yan for herself and asks Jiayin God-King not to punish him.
• Jiayin agrees, avoiding unnecessary conflict with another powerful God-King. Biyang leaves, clearly pleased that she can now pursue Fang Yan.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan/Wu Yong: Demonstrates terrifying combat power by destroying a God-King-level weapon and killing Great Sage Myriad Shadows. He shows both ruthlessness and political calculation: he eliminates his enemy but spares the appointed city lord to avoid directly provoking the Thunderous Ancient Country.
• Great Sage Myriad Shadows: Shifts from confidence to panic after his weapon is destroyed. His attempt to negotiate fails, and he is completely devoured by Fang Yan’s cloak.
• Nine-Elephant City Lord: Reduced to a terrified survivor and unwitting political message-bearer. His survival is intentional and gives the Thunderous Ancient Country room to de-escalate.
• Jiayin God-King: Displays authority and strategic judgment. Rather than immediately punish Fang Yan, she recognizes his value and considers recruiting him through Marquis Lei Nan.
• Marquis Lei Nan: Sees Fang Yan as a powerful potential ally who could improve his standing in future Earth-rank missions and help him defeat a rival marquis.
• Biyang God-King: Reveals an intense, possessive interest in Fang Yan. Her Kuai Snake bloodline influences her seductive, predatory personality and instinct to claim powerful men.

Significant Themes

• Overwhelming strength and hidden power: Fang Yan’s ability to break a God-King secret treasure establishes him as an extraordinary threat whose true level may surpass common expectations for a Chaos Realm cultivator.
• Political calculation: Fang Yan’s decision to spare the city lord, and Jiayin’s choice to suppress the incident, show that power struggles are governed not only by combat but also by diplomacy and plausible deniability.
• Predation and survival: Myriad Shadows is literally devoured by Fang Yan’s cloak, while Biyang’s behavior reflects a more personal form of predatory possession.
• Recruitment and factional rivalry: Fang Yan becomes a valuable asset in the competition among Thunderous Ancient Country’s powerful figures, particularly between Marquis Lei Nan and his rival Marquis Lei Xi.
• Desire and ownership: Biyang’s attraction to Fang Yan is framed as a wish to possess and control a powerful male, contrasting with Jiayin’s colder, pragmatic interest in his usefulness.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan and Great Sage Myriad Shadows: Their confrontation ends with Fang Yan rejecting Myriad Shadows’ plea for mercy and killing him decisively.
• Fang Yan and the Nine-Elephant City Lord: Fang Yan spares him intentionally, creating a silent but meaningful political interaction in which the city lord becomes evidence of Fang Yan’s restraint.
• Jiayin God-King and Marquis Lei Nan: Jiayin offers Lei Nan the opportunity to recruit Fang Yan as a guest elder, while Lei Nan views Fang Yan as a weapon in his rivalry with Marquis Lei Xi.
• Biyang God-King and Marquis Lei Nan: Biyang casually charms and teleports Lei Nan away, demonstrating her superior status and playful dominance.
• Biyang God-King and Jiayin God-King: Their conversation combines rivalry, negotiation, and mutual caution. Biyang asks Jiayin to overlook Fang Yan’s actions, and Jiayin agrees to preserve relations between the two God-Kings.

Key plot points and events

• Biyang God-King visits Wu Yong’s Clone and asks him to undertake a future task, offering one favor in return. He agrees after securing a shed scale from the Ba Tun Great Serpent, a powerful Chaos creature whose body has a rare Trinity particle structure.
• Biyang warns Wu Yong not to rush his advance to God-King and tells him to contact her when he reaches the limit of the Chaos Realm. Wu Yong privately doubts the danger, believing he can abandon the Clone if necessary.
• After three epochs of study, Wu Yong masters the Trinity structure. His three Clones—Wu Yong, Di Chunqiu, and He Chunqiu—rebuild their divine bodies with these particles, raising their physical strength to the highest tier of the Chaos Realm.
• Di Chunqiu publicly reveals that he has become an Eternal True God. His rapid progress—reaching Void True God in one epoch and Eternal True God by his fifth—astonishes Ancient Cyan City and draws congratulations from neighboring powers.
• God-King Qixi, impressed by Di Chunqiu’s talent, appoints him master of the Flamewind Guild Hall in the city and sends him the Chaos Codex, along with a protector.

Character developments and interactions

• Wu Yong/Fang Yan is ambitious and pragmatic: he accepts Biyang’s offer for access to valuable material, studies it patiently, and discounts her warning because he believes his identity is protected.
• Biyang God-King combines flirtation and authority, using the scale as a deposit while keeping the details of her request secret.
• Di Chunqiu gains both physical power and public standing, turning his concealed potential into an acknowledged achievement.
• Gu Qinghong reacts with exuberant pride and quickly reports the breakthrough to the imperial capital. Di Mang watches with complicated feelings, hidden beneath the appearance of a father’s pride.
• God-King Qixi responds strategically, recognizing that Di Chunqiu’s law-comprehension talent could benefit from early access to the Chaos Codex.

Significant themes

• Power through knowledge: Mastering the Trinity structure transforms the Clones’ bodies and dramatically raises their strength.
• Ambition versus caution: Biyang advises restraint, but Wu Yong trusts his ability to manage the risks.
• Recognition and opportunity: Di Chunqiu’s public breakthrough converts extraordinary talent into political influence, resources, and imperial support.
• Identity and concealment: Wu Yong’s confidence rests on the separation between his Clones and the safeguards protecting his true identity.

Chapter Summary: The Calm Before the Storm

Key Plot Points and Events

• God-King Qixi sends the Chaos Apex expert Zhang Xu from the Flame Wind Ancient Country’s capital to Ancient Cyan City to protect Di Chunqiu—Fang Yan’s public identity.
• Zhang Xu delivers the Chaos Codex, an imperial-family inheritance designed to accelerate comprehension of Chaos Law. Fang Yan discovers it is significantly more efficient than his previous method of studying Chaos Dao Marks.
• Fang Yan’s Di Chunqiu Clone spends an epoch studying the Chaos Codex, steadily improving his law comprehension.
• Meanwhile, Fang Yan’s Wu Yong Clone studies Shadow Extinction: Thousand Bodies Die, a Destruction Origin Great Dao combat art inherited from Great Sage Myriad Shadows.
• Unable to meet the art’s normal requirement of comprehending an entire branch of the Destruction Dao, Fang Yan uses the Chaos Burning Power Gu to burn Destruction Dao Marks as a substitute.
• The technique succeeds, creating 1,200 shadow bodies that can explode simultaneously. Its main value is defensive: as long as one shadow survives, the clone cannot be completely destroyed.
• Concerned about Biyang God-King’s interest in him, Fang Yan decides to rapidly increase his strength and resources.
• He attacks Azure Rock City, killing all 157 Eternal True Gods stationed there in under ten breaths. He repeats this strategy across five more cities over the next thirty years.
• Because Biyang God-King is protecting him, the Dragon-Elephant Marquises and other authorities tolerate his attacks, particularly because he avoids city lords, imperial family members, and cities protected by Chaos Realm experts.
• After the city massacres, Fang Yan accumulates 10,000 Chaos Dao Marks and possesses roughly 1,800 Destruction Dao Marks, giving him a much stronger reserve for future battles.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan/Di Chunqiu: Shows patience and strategic calculation, using different clones and resources to pursue rapid advancement. He recognizes both the strengths and costs of burning Dao Marks and begins preparing specifically for a possible confrontation with Biyang God-King.
• Wu Yong Clone: Successfully masters the first stage of Shadow Extinction: Thousand Bodies Die through the use of Destruction Dao Marks. His fighting style becomes colder, sharper, and more destructive.
• Zhang Xu: Arrives as Qixi’s appointed protector and demonstrates that Fang Yan’s talent has attracted serious imperial attention. His warning also establishes that greater Flame Wind Imperial Family inheritances remain inaccessible until Fang Yan reaches the Chaos Realm.
• God-King Qixi: Continues to invest in Fang Yan by providing both protection and an elite inheritance.
• Biyang God-King: Though she does not appear directly, her influence dominates Fang Yan’s decisions. Her apparent desire for him is presented as both protection and a dangerous threat.

Significant Themes

• Preparation before conflict: The chapter emphasizes the accumulation of power before an expected confrontation, matching its title, The Calm Before the Storm.
• Power and political protection: Fang Yan’s safety depends not only on strength but also on Biyang God-King’s backing and Qixi’s support.
• Resource-based cultivation: Dao Marks function as powerful but limited ammunition. Fang Yan must balance immediate battle gains against long-term cultivation needs.
• Adaptability and unconventional methods: Fang Yan bypasses the normal requirements of a difficult combat art by using Dao Marks and the Chaos Burning Power Gu.
• Predation and moral compromise: His city massacres reveal a ruthless “prey on the weak, avoid the strong” strategy. Political protection allows him to commit violence without facing serious consequences.
• Multiple paths to survival: The shadow-clone technique compensates for the Destruction Origin Great Dao’s lack of conventional clone methods, reinforcing the importance of finding indirect solutions.

Character Interactions

• Zhang Xu formally introduces himself to Gu Qinghong and the city’s leaders before meeting Fang Yan and presenting the Chaos Codex.
• Zhang Xu advises Fang Yan that the imperial family’s true core inheritances will only become available after he reaches the Chaos Realm, setting a clear future milestone.
• Fang Yan’s actions indirectly rely on Biyang God-King’s protection: local powers tolerate his slaughter because they do not wish to offend her.
• Fang Yan’s interactions with the wider political world remain mostly indirect, but his massacres and growing strength position him as a dangerous figure whose survival depends on both personal power and powerful patrons.

Chapter Summary: “Dream Domain”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After slaughtering five cities, Fang Yan remains essentially unharmed because the Trinity’s recovery ability makes his energy expenditure negligible.
• His various clones continue their separate tasks: Di Chunqiu studies the Chaos Codex in Ancient Cyan City, while He Chunqiu hunts small tribes around the Seven-Colored Chaos Continent to gather Dao Marks.
• Fang Yan contacts Biyang God-King using a dark-green snake-shaped token. She unexpectedly travels to Nine-Elephant City to meet him personally and escorts him to the Dream Domain.
• Biyang and Fang Yan spend three days traveling at high speed before reaching the Dream Domain’s entrance, protected jointly by the God-Kings of the Flame Wind and Thunderous Ancient Countries.
• Inside the Dream Domain are countless enormous translucent spatial bubbles, each containing an independent world. Fang Yan recognizes that these worlds originated from the corpse of a world-level Chaotic Origin lifeform and considers whether their energy could eventually be converted into Dao Marks.
• Biyang explains her thirty-thousand-epoch plan. She wants Fang Yan to enter a pale-silver spatial world, reach an Illusory Giant Tree, and obtain its fruit.
• The world is inhabited by powerful Illusory Beasts. They adapt their defensive forms to opponents’ law fluctuations and attack in groups ranging from dozens to hundreds. Biyang cannot enter personally because her God-King aura would attract even stronger enemies, whereas Fang Yan will only be confronted by beings of his own apparent rank.
• Fang Yan enters the spatial world and discovers tens of billions of dormant Illusory Beasts surrounding the giant tree. When he deliberately descends into their range, dozens of Eternal True God-level beasts awaken and attack.
• Using the Blood Sky Elephant’s power, Fang Yan destroys the first wave with a single strike. Their energy returns to the Dream Domain upon death, prompting him to wonder whether the Dream Domain can be exploited as a new source of Dao Marks.
• The chapter ends as Fang Yan expands his blood-colored cloak and prepares to confront the remaining swarms of Illusory Beasts.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan: Displays confidence, strategic judgment, and overwhelming combat strength. He carefully observes the Illusory Beasts’ behavior and confirms that they respond only to opponents of comparable aura. His interest shifts from merely completing Biyang’s mission to investigating the Dream Domain’s deeper potential and its connection to Dao Marks and Dream Path cultivation.
• Biyang God-King: Reveals herself as patient and calculating, having planned the mission for thirty thousand epochs. She also behaves flirtatiously and provocatively toward Fang Yan, though the Dream Domain appears to intensify the influence of the Biyang Kuai Snake within her. Despite her teasing, she remains focused on obtaining the Illusory Fruit.
• Fang Yan’s clones: Continue operating independently and efficiently, emphasizing the breadth of Fang Yan’s preparations and resources.

Significant Themes

• Strategic exploitation of rules: Success depends on understanding the Dream Domain’s restrictions, especially its rule that creatures respond according to the intruder’s apparent cultivation level.
• Power versus concealment: Biyang’s greater strength becomes a disadvantage because her aura would awaken stronger enemies, while Fang Yan’s seemingly lower rank allows him to infiltrate the Illusory Beast nest.
• Unknown sources of power: The Dream Domain may contain energy or lifeforms that can be transformed into Dao Marks, suggesting a potentially major new avenue for Fang Yan’s cultivation.
• Dream Path and world remnants: The countless bubble-worlds illustrate the remains of a world-level Chaotic Origin lifeform and connect the setting to the independent power and future possibilities of Dream Path cultivation.
• Calculated risk: Biyang entrusts the mission to Fang Yan because of his exceptional strength among Chaos Transcendents, while Fang Yan willingly enters a dangerous environment to test its rules and harvest its resources.

Character Interactions

• Biyang greets Fang Yan playfully and insists on personally transporting him, keeping an arm around his waist throughout the journey.
• She explains the Illusory Beasts’ abilities and the purpose of the Illusory Fruit, presenting Fang Yan as the ideal agent for the mission.
• Biyang offers additional rewards—including the promised materials from ten worlds and herself—in an overtly seductive manner. Fang Yan rejects her physical advances and maintains a detached, mission-focused attitude.
• At the Dream Domain’s entrance, Biyang negotiates permission to enter, accepting the warning that all consequences will be her responsibility.
• Once inside, Biyang remains outside the target world while Fang Yan enters alone, creating a clear division between her strategic support and his direct combat role.

Summary of “Breakthrough to Chaos”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan uses his blood-red cloak, formed from Destruction and Chaos Dao Marks in a Trinity structure, to capture and crush dozens of Eternal True God-level Illusory Beasts.
• The cloak prevents the beasts’ energy from returning to the Dream Domain, instead devouring it and converting it into Dream Dao Marks. Fang Yan’s total rises to six hundred.
• He realizes that Eternal True God-level Illusory Beasts are rare, while Chaos Realm Illusory Beasts are far more numerous and represent a much greater source of Dao Marks.
• Since the Illusory Beasts respond primarily to beings of their own cultivation level, Fang Yan decides that advancing to the Chaos Realm will allow him to hunt the larger, stronger beasts directly.
• Fang Yan’s Wu Yong Clone remains in the Dream Domain, while his Di Chunqiu Clone continues studying the Chaos Codex.
• Biyang God-King waits outside the Dream Domain for an entire era. Believing Wu Yong may have died or become useless, she eventually abandons him and leaves to find another subordinate.
• Seven eras later, Di Chunqiu completes his comprehension of the Chaos Codex. The ten foundational laws resonate perfectly, allowing him to break through to the Chaos Realm, also known as the level of a Chaos Ruler.
• The breakthrough causes the Chunqiu Holy Land Universe to expand from a diameter of one hundred billion light-years to one trillion light-years before stabilizing.
• A new soul-cultivation site, Soul Falling Valley, emerges beside Soul Shaking Mountain on the Central Continent. Fang Yan recognizes it as a legendary holy land for tempering the will.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan: Becomes increasingly calculating and ambitious. Rather than merely collecting Dream Dao Marks from rare Eternal True God-level beasts, he identifies a method to provoke or hunt the far more numerous Chaos Realm beasts by advancing himself. His mastery of multiple Dao systems continues to grow.
• Di Chunqiu Clone: Completes the Chaos Codex and achieves the Chaos Realm after twelve eras of cultivation—an extraordinary rate even by the standards of the Flame Wind Ancient Country.
• Biyang God-King: Her initial confidence in Wu Yong turns into impatience and suspicion. She ultimately decides he is not worth waiting for, demonstrating her pragmatic and dismissive attitude toward subordinates.
• Gu Qinghong: Witnesses Di Chunqiu’s breakthrough and recognizes its extraordinary significance, judging the cultivation speed to be that of a historic genius.

Significant Themes

• Power through adaptation and strategy: Fang Yan does not rely solely on brute force; he studies the Dream Domain’s rules and adjusts his cultivation plan to exploit its weaknesses.
• The danger of the Dream Domain: Although stronger beings might theoretically be safer from ordinary Illusory Beasts, the Dream Domain can overwhelm even powerful cultivators through its effects on the will and soul.
• Parallel cultivation through clones: Fang Yan advances along different paths simultaneously, with one clone gathering resources in the Dream Domain and another comprehending the Chaos Codex.
• Soul cultivation as a complete system: Soul Shaking Mountain expands the soul’s capacity, while Soul Falling Valley strengthens the will through hardship, frustration, and regret. Together they represent complementary stages of soul refinement.
• Rapid advancement and cosmic transformation: Di Chunqiu’s breakthrough demonstrates Fang Yan’s extraordinary potential, while the Holy Land Universe’s expansion shows how personal cultivation can reshape an entire universe.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan has no direct interaction with Biyang God-King during this section, but her waiting outside the Dream Domain creates tension: she expects a quick success and eventually assumes Wu Yong has failed.
• Fang Yan’s two clones function cooperatively, with Wu Yong gathering Dream Dao Marks and Di Chunqiu focusing on the Chaos Codex.
• Gu Qinghong reacts with shock and admiration to Di Chunqiu’s breakthrough, placing it among the greatest cultivation achievements in the history of his civilization.
• Fang Yan observes and interprets the emergence of Soul Falling Valley, connecting it conceptually with Soul Shaking Mountain and recognizing their combined importance to soul cultivation.

Summary of “The Second Chaos Immortal Gu”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan completes the final stage of his soul-cultivation path with the appearance of Soul Falling Valley. Its decaying mist repeatedly erodes his soul, helping raise his mental will from the Peak Chaos Realm toward the God-King Ultimate Realm. He estimates that reaching First-Level God-King mental will may take roughly ten epochs.
• He also considers the possibility of eventually becoming a Hunyuan Lord through soul cultivation, following the example of Dong Bo Xue Ying.
• Meanwhile, Fang Yan’s Wu Yong Clone breaks into the Chaos Realm within the Dream Domain. Billions of Chaos Realm Illusory Beasts immediately awaken and attack him.
• Fang Yan activates the Chaos Burning Power Gu, burning thousands of Chaos Dao Marks from the Chunqiu Holy Land Universe. The resulting power crosses the Karma Dimension and boosts his clone to nearly invincible First-Level God-King strength.
• Using his Blood Sky Elephant totem, powerful physical attacks, and especially his blood-red cloak’s devouring ability, Fang Yan tears through wave after wave of Illusory Beasts. Their remains are transported into the Chunqiu Holy Land Universe, while Dream Dao Marks steadily accumulate.
• As the number of Dream Dao Marks surpasses twenty thousand, a new Chaos Immortal Gu manifests in the Holy Land Universe: a pale-blue butterfly called Dreamlike Order.
• Dreamlike Order descends to Fang Yan through Projection Descent. Its ability allows its user to transform into a butterfly, travel freely through the Dream Domain without being invaded by its will, and avoid attacks because Dream creatures recognize the user as one of their own.
• Fang Yan uses the Gu immediately. He transforms into a blue butterfly, causing the surrounding Illusory Beasts to lose track of him and become confused.

Character Development

• Fang Yan’s cultivation advances significantly. His soul has already reached the God-King level in scale, and Soul Falling Valley begins strengthening his mental will toward the God-King realm.
• His combat strength also demonstrates a major breakthrough. By combining Chaos Burning Power Gu with his Trinity particle structure and Blood Sky Elephant bloodline, he can temporarily fight at the pinnacle of First-Level God-Kings.
• Fang Yan displays increased confidence, tactical discipline, and patience. Rather than recklessly pursuing the distant Illusory Fruits, he chooses to exploit the newly acquired Dreamlike Order and secure easier gains first.
• His mastery of multiple systems—soul cultivation, bloodline power, Chaos Dao Marks, karma, and Dream Dao—becomes increasingly evident.

Significant Themes

• Accumulation and breakthrough: Fang Yan’s progress depends on steadily gathering power, refining his soul, and converting accumulated Dao Marks into decisive combat strength.
• Adaptation and strategic timing: The appearance of Dreamlike Order at the exact moment Fang Yan needs it highlights the importance of recognizing and exploiting opportunities.
• Power through sacrifice: Burning Chaos Dao Marks grants immense temporary strength but consumes accumulated resources, emphasizing the cost of Fang Yan’s victories.
• Harmony between cultivation paths: Fang Yan combines soul, bloodline, physical, Dream Dao, and karma-based abilities rather than relying on a single method.
• Transformation and identity: His transformation into a butterfly is both literal and symbolic, allowing him to become part of the Dream Domain instead of merely fighting against it.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan interacts primarily with the Chaos Realm Illusory Beasts, overwhelming them in direct combat and using his cloak to devour their remains.
• His connection with the Chunqiu Holy Land Universe enables Chaos Burning Power Gu and Dreamlike Order to transmit power and effects through the Karma Dimension.
• The Dream Domain shifts from being a hostile environment to one Fang Yan can navigate safely after Dreamlike Order changes how its creatures perceive him.
• Although Fang Yan does not directly interact with other named characters in this chapter, his thoughts reference Dong Bo Xue Ying as an example of a possible future soul-path achievement.

Chapter Summary: Chaos Immortal Gu, Dreamlike Order

Key Plot Points and Events

• After spending three months traveling through the Dream Domain in butterfly form, Fang Yan reaches the Illusory Giant Tree at the center of the Gray Wasteland.
• Using the Dreamlike Order, he is recognized as sharing the Illusory Beasts’ origin aura. The surrounding God-King Illusory Beasts ignore him, allowing him to safely collect all three Illusory Fruits.
• Fang Yan leaves the Gray Wasteland without alerting the Illusory Beasts, resisting the bubble’s attempt to pull him back.
• Rather than immediately exiting the Dream Domain, he explores several neighboring bubble worlds:
  • A dark-gold crystal world inhabited by weak beetle-like creatures, which he deems useless.
  • A deep-blue frozen world containing many sealed creatures, including a whale-like being with Peak Second-Level God-King strength—too powerful to attack safely.
  • A gray-mist world filled with numerous Gray-Mist Jellyfish whose strength is around the Invincible First-Level God-King level.
• Fang Yan selects the gray-mist world as the ideal hunting ground. He disables the Dreamlike Order and summons Wu Yong’s Clone, then activates the Chaos Burning Power Gu, burning eight thousand Chaos Dao Marks to raise the clone’s strength to the Second-Level God-King realm.
• The clone rapidly slaughters the Gray-Mist Jellyfish. More than thirty are killed in a single day, with their remains absorbed by the blood-red cape.
• The slaughter produces a massive increase in Dream Dao Marks, raising their total to one hundred thousand. However, all of Fang Yan’s Chaos Dao Marks are exhausted.
• Recognizing that continuing would be too costly, Fang Yan ends the battle. He reactivates the Dreamlike Order, returning the clone to butterfly form, and quietly leaves the gray-mist bubble.
• The chapter ends with Fang Yan flying toward the entrance of the Dream Domain.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan demonstrates increased confidence and strategic judgment. He carefully evaluates each bubble world, seeking opponents that provide the greatest benefit without exceeding his combat limits.
• His mastery of the Dreamlike Order becomes evident: he uses it to infiltrate the Illusory Beast territory, collect the Illusory Fruits, conceal his identity, and escape unnoticed.
• Fang Yan shows restraint by abandoning targets that are either too weak to be worthwhile or too powerful to defeat safely.
• Wu Yong’s Clone displays overwhelming combat efficiency after being empowered to the Second-Level God-King realm. His attacks destroy the Gray-Mist Jellyfish almost instantly.
• Fang Yan’s growing stockpile of Dream Dao Marks hints at a dramatic increase in future potential, though his Chaos Dao Marks are temporarily depleted.

Significant Themes

• Stealth and deception: Fang Yan succeeds by concealing his identity and exploiting shared origins rather than relying solely on force.
• Strategic resource management: The chapter emphasizes choosing battles based on cost, reward, and risk. Fang Yan stops once his Chaos Dao Marks are exhausted.
• Power through accumulation: The Gray-Mist Jellyfish hunt transforms many individual victories into a huge reserve of Dream Dao Marks.
• Exploration and adaptation: The Dream Domain contains diverse worlds and creatures, requiring Fang Yan to constantly assess unfamiliar environments.
• The balance between strength and restraint: Although Fang Yan can temporarily reach the Second-Level God-King realm, he recognizes that unchecked power consumption could leave him vulnerable.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan has no direct conversation with the Illusory Beasts, but his shared Dream Domain aura causes them to accept him as one of their own.
• The Illusory Giant Tree and its three Illusory Fruits serve as the object of Fang Yan’s covert operation.
• Fang Yan’s clone interacts violently with the Gray-Mist Jellyfish, destroying them before they can mount a meaningful defense.
• The Dreamlike Order functions almost like a partner to Fang Yan, enabling transformation, concealment, infiltration, escape, and movement through the Dream Domain.

Chapter Summary: “Battle Biyang!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After spending three years traveling through the Dream Domain, Fang Yan reaches its entrance. The Dreamlike Order has concealed his identity so effectively that the Dream Domain’s creatures do not attack him.
• Outside the entrance, Biyang God-King is waiting. She reveals that she sensed Fang Yan was alive through karmic perception and had waited for eight epochs to see whether he obtained the Illusory Fruit.
• Fang Yan confirms that he acquired the fruit but refuses to hand it over immediately. He points out that the fruit is worth at least a million merit points, while Biyang’s promised compensation is only one living material from the Ten Directions World.
• Biyang mockingly offers to give herself to him as additional payment. Fang Yan rejects the offer without hesitation, provoking her anger.
• Biyang declares that strength determines who has the right to demand fairness. She attacks Fang Yan with the power of an Invincible First-Level God-King.
• Fang Yan activates the Chaos Burning Power Gu and burns the Destruction Dao Marks in the Chunqiu Holy Land Universe, channeling their power through the Karma Dimension into his clone.
• His strength undergoes a major transformation. He blocks Biyang’s attack, forces her backward, and demonstrates that he has effectively broken through to the God-King level.
• Fang Yan attacks with the Destruction Origin Great Dao, repeatedly placing Biyang at a disadvantage despite her superior cultivation and mastery of the World Origin Great Dao.
• Biyang responds by unleashing her powerful domain technique, “Ba-Snake Swallows Elephant.” She transforms her dark green world power into an enormous serpent that swallows Fang Yan and pulls him into her inner world.
• Within Biyang’s world, Fang Yan is surrounded and suppressed by an endless sea of dark green mist infused with World Origin power.
• Rather than being intimidated, Fang Yan burns ten thousand Dream Dao Marks. The resulting Dream Path power invades and disrupts Biyang’s inner world and consciousness.
• His aura rises close to the threshold of the God-King Ultimate Realm, while Biyang’s previously confident consciousness begins to grow hazy.

Character Developments

Fang Yan

Fang Yan returns from the Dream Domain with dramatically increased strength. He has obtained the Illusory Fruit, mastered greater control over the Dream Path, and can now channel the destructive power of his Dao Marks into his clone. His breakthrough allows him to confront an Invincible First-Level God-King directly. His calmness, refusal to be manipulated, and willingness to challenge Biyang show his growing confidence and independence.

Biyang God-King

Biyang begins the chapter confident and in control, expecting Fang Yan to surrender the Illusory Fruit. Her attitude shifts from seductive teasing to open intimidation when Fang Yan rejects her demands. She is shocked when he reveals God-King-level power and becomes increasingly serious as he counters her attacks. Although she successfully captures him within her world, her confidence is threatened when Fang Yan turns her own domain against her.

Significant Themes

• Strength versus fairness: Biyang argues that the stronger party determines the terms of an exchange, while Fang Yan challenges the idea that power alone makes exploitation legitimate.
• Growth and hidden power: Fang Yan’s time in the Dream Domain has transformed him. His true strength was concealed until the moment he faced a powerful enemy.
• Dreams versus reality: Biyang attempts to imprison Fang Yan within her “world,” but Fang Yan responds by making that world “have a dream,” suggesting that perception and consciousness can overcome physical domination.
• Resistance to coercion: Fang Yan refuses both Biyang’s unfair bargain and her seductive manipulation, maintaining control over his choices.
• Destruction versus creation/world power: Fang Yan’s Destruction Origin Great Dao clashes with Biyang’s World Origin Great Dao, contrasting annihilating force with durability and world-building power.

Character Interactions

• Biyang initially approaches Fang Yan with seductive familiarity, asking whether he obtained the Illusory Fruit and attempting to inspect him physically.
• Fang Yan keeps his distance and challenges the value of her offer, turning their conversation into a negotiation.
• When he rejects her proposition, Biyang abandons her seductive façade and threatens to take both the Illusory Fruit and Fang Yan by force.
• Their verbal conflict immediately becomes a battle. Fang Yan’s calm resistance frustrates Biyang, while his unexpected power shocks her.
• Biyang escalates by trapping Fang Yan inside her inner world, confident that he is now under her control. Fang Yan answers by invading and destabilizing that world with Dream Path power, reversing the balance of the confrontation.

Chapter Summary: The Might of the Dream Path

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Yan defeats Biyang God-King by invading her inner world with the Dream Path and forcing her consciousness into sleep. Even though her inner world continues functioning, Fang Yan takes control of its will and then pulls himself out through her mouth.
• Recognizing that she cannot overcome him, Biyang God-King agrees to renegotiate their trade. Fang Yan exchanges three Illusory Fruits for three God-King corpses cultivated by the Ancestors that contain traces of Chaotic Origin Bloodline.
• The arrangement benefits both parties: Biyang can submit the Illusory Fruits to the Thunderous Monarch for 1.5 million merit points each, while paying Fang Yan with resources worth only one million points each. Fang Yan accepts because dealing directly with the ancient country would be riskier and less profitable.
• Fang Yan returns to Nine-Elephant City and begins meditating in seclusion, using Destruction Dao Marks to comprehend the Destruction Origin Great Dao.
• His battle with Biyang is observed by powerful figures across the Origin Continent. His ability to reach Invincible First-Level God-King strength and put Biyang to sleep attracts the attention of several major factions.
• Over the following six hundred years, the Spacetime Lone Boat, Two-World Palace, and Myriad Laws Pavilion each invite Fang Yan to join them. He rejects every offer, preferring independence and equal trade rather than becoming affiliated with a powerful organization.
• Empress Fengdu of the Reincarnation Loft later visits Fang Yan. Her arrival surprises him because she is powerful enough to rival Emperor Lords and Monarchs.
• Upon meeting her, Fang Yan is drawn into her World Projection: an endless cyan grassland. He realizes that its atmosphere resembles the Great Dream Mortal World and suspects that world is connected to the World Origin Great Dao rather than the Life Origin Great Dao.
• The chapter ends with Fang Yan wondering why Empress Fengdu has approached him despite his relatively recent rise to prominence.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan: Demonstrates that his Dream Path is strong enough to overpower an Invincible First-Level God-King. He gains confidence in the potential of his ninety thousand Dream Dao Marks but recognizes his lack of sophisticated Dream Path techniques. He remains cautious, independent, and unwilling to submit to major factions.
• Biyang God-King: Moves from confidence to resignation after Fang Yan defeats her in her own inner world. Though resentful, she accepts his terms and honors the agreement because of their established karmic connection.
• Spacetime Old Demon and other factions: Treat Fang Yan as a rising powerhouse worth recruiting, reflecting the significance of his battle with Biyang.
• Empress Fengdu: Is introduced as an extremely mysterious and powerful figure. Her mastery of the World Origin Great Dao and her interest in Fang Yan suggest that she may have a deeper purpose for contacting him.

Significant Themes

• The growing power of the Dream Path: Fang Yan’s victory shows that Dream Path techniques can bypass conventional physical and defensive strength by directly influencing consciousness and inner worlds.
• Power versus technique: Fang Yan possesses overwhelming raw Dream Path force, but admits that he lacks the inheritance and refined methods needed to compete with the continent’s strongest experts at the highest level.
• Independence and political balance: Fang Yan refuses to join major organizations, choosing to preserve autonomy and pursue mutually beneficial transactions.
• Value and status: The Illusory Fruit trade highlights how political affiliation affects the value of treasures and how powerful figures profit from differences in rank and access.
• Hidden observers and reputation: Fang Yan’s public battle rapidly increases his fame, causing unseen powers and factions to reassess him.
• Connections between great origins: Empress Fengdu’s World Projection links the World Origin Great Dao to the mysterious Great Dream Mortal World, suggesting deeper relationships among the Origin Continent’s supreme paths.

Character Interactions

• Fang Yan and Biyang God-King: Their hostile confrontation evolves into a pragmatic business agreement. Fang Yan’s victory establishes his dominance, while Biyang responds with reluctant respect and resentment.
• Fang Yan and Spacetime Old Demon: Spacetime Old Demon politely attempts to recruit him, but Fang Yan refuses without hostility. Their exchange emphasizes Fang Yan’s desire to remain independent.
• Fang Yan and Two-World Palace/Myriad Laws Pavilion: Both factions make similar recruitment attempts, which Fang Yan also declines.
• Fang Yan and Empress Fengdu: Their first meeting is marked by mutual caution and mystery. Fengdu questions his affiliations, while Fang Yan studies her World Projection and senses a connection to the Great Dream Mortal World.

Chapter Summary: The Path of Chaotic Origin

Key Plot Points and Events

• Empress Fengdu visits Fang Yan and invites him to join the mysterious Reincarnation Loft, explaining that its members address one another as equals.
• Although Fang Yan suspects he may not yet meet the normal requirements for membership, he accepts the invitation. He receives an azure-gray token that allows his will to enter the Reincarnation Loft at any time.
• Fang Yan decides that joining the Loft will benefit him by:
  • Providing allies for future exploration of Yuan’s inheritances.
  • Giving him access to Black Flame Demon Lord’s trading network and the Chaotic Origin lifeform bodies cultivated by Thunder Ancestor.
• Fang Yan reveals his larger goal: to gather five of the nine Dao Marks of the Supreme Rule, temporarily elevate five corresponding Origin Great Daos, and potentially leap directly to the level of a World-Class Chaotic Origin Lifeform.
• Fang Mu’s Clone travels to the Universe Boat using Kong Luo’s token and enters Great Dream Mortal World.
• Using Tianxi World, Fang Mu scans and completely controls Great Dream Mortal World within a short period. She discovers that it embodies the “True Realm” branch of the World Origin Great Dao.
• Fang Yan chooses to leave Fang Mu’s Clone inside Great Dream Mortal World so she can comprehend the World Origin Great Dao. Her prior mastery of techniques related to the Third Heaven allows her to progress extremely quickly.
• Meanwhile, Ganwu carries out Fang Yan’s plans in the Primordial Universe:
  • He subdues and renames Black Dog Lord Zhu Jiajia as Sky Wolf Lord.
  • He assigns Sky Wolf Lord responsibility for the Demon Race’s intelligence network.
  • Dream Demon Ancestor submits to Ganwu rather than risk conflict.
  • Wu Hun Lord, already soul-enslaved by Fang Yan, also follows the assigned script.
• Fang Yan’s soul incarnation completes his cultivation in Soul Falling Valley, strengthening his soul and will to the level of a Second-Level God-King.
• He sends the soul incarnation into the Primordial Universe’s Origin Land to study the Life Origin Great Dao.
• After reassuring the Primordial Universe Origin Will that he does not intend to possess it, Fang Yan reaches the core of the Life Origin Great Dao and senses a faint, familiar aura belonging to the Origin Ancestor.

Character Developments

• Fang Yan becomes increasingly strategic and ambitious. He accepts membership in the Reincarnation Loft, expands his network of allies and resources, and continues pursuing a shortcut toward Chaotic Origin lifeform status.
• His soul cultivation advances dramatically, giving him both a Second-Level God-King soul foundation and mental will.
• Empress Fengdu displays unusual respect toward Fang Yan, suggesting that a powerful figure—possibly the East Extreme Region Ancestor—may be interested in him.
• Fang Mu’s Clone demonstrates exceptional control and comprehension, quickly mastering Great Dream Mortal World through Tianxi World and beginning rapid study of the World Origin Great Dao.
• Ganwu acts as Fang Yan’s enforcer in the Primordial Universe, intimidating the Demon Race and reorganizing its leadership.
• Sky Wolf Lord is reduced from a feared ruler to a frightened subordinate, accepting both a new name and a forced intelligence role.
• Dream Demon Ancestor becomes submissive and conciliatory in the face of Ganwu’s overwhelming power.

Significant Themes

• Power through alliances and networks: Fang Yan’s acceptance into the Reincarnation Loft reflects his willingness to use organizations and relationships to obtain resources that would otherwise be inaccessible.
• Shortcuts versus true comprehension: Fang Yan relies on Dao Marks, Source Worlds, and controlled inheritances to accelerate his growth, while still worrying that excessive shortcuts may undermine genuine understanding.
• Domination and submission: Ganwu’s treatment of the Demon Race demonstrates the new balance of power and the consequences of resistance against Fang Yan’s faction.
• Identity and control: The renaming of Black Dog Lord and the soul enslavement of Wu Hun Lord emphasize how Fang Yan’s forces reshape both the identities and loyalties of others.
• The mystery of the Origin Ancestor: The chapter ends by introducing a familiar but hidden presence within the Life Origin Great Dao, creating a major mystery about the Origin Ancestor’s condition and role.

Character Interactions

• Empress Fengdu and Fang Yan negotiate his entry into the Reincarnation Loft, with her respectful attitude hinting at hidden higher-level connections.
• Ganwu humiliates and disciplines Zhu Jiajia while Dream Demon Ancestor attempts to negotiate for her survival.
• Zhu Jiajia quickly submits, accepts the name Sky Wolf Lord, and agrees to serve the Human Race.
• Fang Yan communicates indirectly with the Primordial Universe Origin Will, calming its suspicion and gaining access to the Life Origin Great Dao.
• Fang Mu’s Clone interacts with Great Dream Mortal World not through conversation, but by imposing Tianxi World’s control over it and using it as a medium for cultivation.