Chapter Summaries

Dao Xuan nearly perfected his Five Elements Law but fell short, then followed a mysterious connection to his World Tree into Chaos. While he was away, the Demon Tribe and Witch Clan fought their final battle, and Dao Xuan eventually discovered a world comparable to the Primordial World.

• Dao Xuan evolved the Five-Colored Divine Light through successively fewer elements, but it returned to its original form before his Five Elements Law reached perfection.
• Dao Xuan sensed something connected to his World Tree in Chaos, left his Inner World, and went searching for its source.
• Less than a thousand years after Dao Xuan departed, the Demon Tribe and Witch Clan fought using the Heavenly Stars Formation and the Twelve Ancestral Witches' Pangu phantom.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun shattered Pangu's phantom, restored the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and established that demons would rule the heavens while witches governed the earth.
• Dao Xuan followed the sensation through Chaos and found a vast world comparable to the Primordial World.

Dao Xuan discovered that a Middle Thousand World in the chaos had formed from a remnant of the Space Demon God Yang Mei and that its sentient Heavenly Dao was too dangerous to enter. Seeking its origin to perfect himself, he attacked from outside, but the world's Heavenly Dao blocked his first strike.

• Dao Xuan investigated the Middle Thousand World and concluded that it had formed from a fragment of Yang Mei’s Chaotic Void body.
• Dao Xuan realized that the world itself had developed into its strongest being, a sentient Heavenly Dao, and that entering it would be fatal.
• Dao Xuan decided to seize the world’s origin from outside so he could perfect his Five Elements Law and advance his own world.
• Dao Xuan revealed himself and withstood the spatial storm the Middle Thousand World unleashed against him.
• Dao Xuan attacked the world’s Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane with Four Symbols Divine Light, but the Heavenly Dao blocked it with a void vortex.

Dao Xuan battled Chaos, the sentient Heavenly Dao of the Greek Mythology World, and used his Inner World’s power to destroy Chaos’s Void Torrent. He summoned the Four Divine Beasts and sent them to form the Four Symbols Formation against the world.

• Dao Xuan pierced the Middle Thousand World’s defenses and sensed lifeforms there resembling the Four Symbols Divine Beasts in his Inner World.
• Chaos revealed himself as the world’s Heavenly Dao and attacked Dao Xuan with a Void Torrent.
• Dao Xuan recognized Chaos as the primordial figure from Greek mythology and vowed to refine him and the entire world.
• Dao Xuan revealed his Inner World projection, which stopped and destroyed the Void Torrent, causing Chaos to suffer backlash.
• Dao Xuan summoned the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise, empowered them with the Four Symbols Divine Light, and ordered them to form the Four Symbols Formation.

Chaos sent Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus, Nyx, and Eros to stop the Four Divine Beasts from surrounding the Middle Thousand World, and the battle turned in Black Tortoise’s favor when his serpent body swallowed Eros. Dao Xuan ordered the beasts to retreat after Gaia wounded Azure Dragon with an Innate Supreme Treasure, while more treasures emerged from the world to arm Chaos’s remaining deities.

• Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus, Nyx, and Eros confronted the Four Divine Beasts as they approached the Middle Thousand World.
• Nyx and Eros tried to subdue Black Tortoise, but his serpent body swallowed Eros while Nyx became intangible to survive.
• Chaos poured his origin into the remaining Four Divine Gods, and Gaia used an earth-yellow trident to wound Azure Dragon.
• Dao Xuan recognized the trident as an Innate Supreme Treasure and ordered Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise to retreat.
• A Thunder, a cloak, and a helmet flew from the Middle Thousand World into the hands of Tartarus, Erebus, and Nyx.

Dao Xuan watched Chaos's treasures turn the battle in the Four Divine Gods' favor, then summoned the Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale to aid the Four Divine Beasts. The whale charged at Gaia as the battle resumed.

• Dao Xuan recognized Chaos's trident as an Innate Supreme Treasure containing a complete Earth Law and coveted it for his Inner World.
• Chaos ordered the Four Divine Gods to press their advantage, and Erebus's cloak and Nyx's helmet helped them suppress and ambush the Four Divine Beasts.
• The Four Divine Beasts formed the Four Symbols Formation to defend themselves against Gaia's Earth Trident and Tartarus's thunderbolt.
• Dao Xuan summoned the Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale, alarming Chaos and the Four Divine Gods.
• Enraged to see its elders under attack, the Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale charged straight at Gaia.

Dao Xuan used his three divine lamps to defeat Gaia and helped the Five Divine Beasts kill the remaining gods of the Chaos World. With Chaos left alone, Dao Xuan began refining the world using the Four Symbols Formation.

• Dao Xuan sent out the Azure Void Heaven-Opening Lamp, Kun Origin Thick Earth Lamp, and Dark Profound Soul-Delivering Lamp to trap Gaia in the Three Talents Demon-Refining Formation and refine her to death.
• Dao Xuan used the three lamps to restrain the Earth Trident, while the Five Divine Beasts killed Nyx and Erebus and survived Tartarus’s self-destruction.
• Dao Xuan collected the gods’ treasures and World Origins, and White Tiger requested Gaia’s Earth Origin.
• Dao Xuan ordered Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise to form the Four Symbols Formation and begin refining the Chaos World.

Dao Xuan destroyed Chaos and absorbed its World Origin into his Inner World, allowing the world to ascend into a Greater Thousand World and helping him prove the Dao as a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal. He considered seeking out more mythical worlds to accelerate his world’s growth.

• The Four Divine Beasts’ formation destroyed Chaos and its Middle Thousand World while Dao Xuan suppressed Chaos’s consciousness.
• Dao Xuan refined the ruined world and extracted its World Origin, then brought it into his Inner World.
• The World Origin completed the Five Elements Law, pushed Dao Xuan’s Inner World into the Greater Thousand World level, and triggered the ascent of surrounding worlds.
• Dao Xuan comprehended the completed Five Elements Law and became a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Dao Xuan noticed that the Space Law had advanced to second place in his Inner World and considered exploring Chaos for more mythical worlds and their origins.

Dao Xuan’s inner world advanced into a Greater Thousand World as Dafeng was born as the Sun-Moon Celestial Roc and he established the five directional divine beasts. After returning to the Primordial World, he learned that more than a hundred epochs had passed and the Witch Clan and Demon Tribe had nearly come to blows before Hongjun intervened.

• The Sun-Moon Twin Stars expanded, and Dafeng emerged as a Daluo Golden Immortal Sun-Moon Celestial Roc while the Azure Abyssal Mysterious Whale surfaced from the ocean.
• Dafeng addressed Dao Xuan as Celestial Venerable, and Dao Xuan accepted the title.
• Dao Xuan decreed the five directional divine beasts and caused a Qilin to form at the center of the earth.
• Dao Xuan failed to destroy the Earth Trident, gave the bolt of Thunder to the Azure Dragon, and integrated the origins of the Dark Cloak and Invisibility Helmet into his world.
• Dao Xuan left his stabilized inner world and returned to the Primordial World, where he learned that over a hundred epochs had passed.
• Dao Xuan divined that the Witch Clan and Demon Tribe had fought with their great formations until Hongjun intervened to stop Pangu’s projection from killing Dijun and the Demon Tribe leadership.

After attaining the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm, Dao Xuan returned to Chaos Island and took Xuanming and Linghu as disciples. He passed on the World Dao and began preaching to them and the island’s gathered inhabitants.

• Dao Xuan returned to Chaos Island after quietly attaining the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• He discovered that the Enlightenment Tea Tree and Gourd Vine had taken human form as Xuanming and Linghu, both Daluo Golden Immortals.
• Dao Xuan offered Xuanming and Linghu the choice to leave without revealing anything about him or stay as his disciples, and they chose to stay.
• Dao Xuan taught them the World Dao and warned them about the dangers of opening worlds within their bodies.
• Dao Xuan began preaching the Dao in Chaos Palace, and beings across the island gathered outside its boundary to listen.

Nuwa visited Dao Xuan on Chaos Island, where he gave her three lights divine water and nine heavens breath soil. After leaving, she realized her path to Sainthood was to create a new race and began shaping the first human from clay, but her creation had no intelligence.

• Dao Xuan stopped preaching on Chaos Island and entered secluded cultivation, leaving the island to Linghu and Xuanming.
• Nuwa traveled to Chaos Island, where Linghu welcomed her as Dao Xuan’s martial aunt and she met his other disciple, Xuanming.
• Xuanming and Linghu told Nuwa that Dao Xuan was secluded and gave her three lights divine water and nine heavens breath soil on his behalf.
• After leaving the Eastern Sea, Nuwa realized that her path to Sainthood was to use her Dao to add another race to the world.
• Nuwa shaped a Clay Figure from soil and infused it with Creation Qi, but although it became flesh and blood, it had no intelligence.

Nuwa used the Three Lights Divine Water, Nine Heavens Breath Soil, and Gourd Vine to create humanity, then received vast Heavenly Dao Merit. She poured much of the merit into a clay figure made in her likeness and used it to sever her obsession.

• Nuwa realized the Three Lights Divine Water could form souls and the Nine Heavens Breath Soil could shape bodies, then created the first living being and refined more Primordial Purple Qi.
• Nuwa created three thousand beings by hand before Spirit Gourd Fairy arrived with a piece of Gourd Vine from Dao Xuan.
• Nuwa used the Gourd Vine to create batches of beings until she had made 129,600, then shaped one final figure from the leftover clay.
• Nuwa declared that the new race was called humans and that their creation would complete the way of the Three Talents.
• The Heavenly Dao sent Nuwa immense merit, and she used much of it to transform the clay figure into a woman resembling herself.
• Nuwa cried out to sever her obsession using the woman she had created.

Nuwa severed her Three Corpses and reunited them with the merit from creating humanity, becoming a Saint. She announced that she would preach in Chaos, left Linghu in charge of the Human Tribe for ten thousand years, and returned to move Phoenix Perch Mountain to her new seat of cultivation.

• Nuwa used a clay figure to sever her Obsession Corpse, then drew on her creation merit to reunite all three Corpses and become a Saint.
• The remaining creation merit spread among the Human Tribe, Linghu, and the Gourd Vine, which transformed into the Creation Whip.
• Nuwa accepted Golden Phoenix as her mount and announced that she would establish a seat of cultivation in Chaos and preach the Dao.
• Nuwa entrusted the Human Tribe to Linghu for ten thousand years before leaving, while Linghu wondered what she was meant to do.
• Nuwa returned to Phoenix Perch Mountain and used her divine power to move it into her new seat of cultivation in Chaos.

After Nuwa became the first Saint, the Three Pure Ones and Jieyin and Zhunti prepared to visit her, while Jieyin warned Zhunti that their Karma with Hong Yun remained unresolved. Dao Xuan left his seclusion and arrived at Nuwa’s gathering, where he walked directly toward her.

• The Three Pure Ones decided to visit Nuwa in the Chaotic Void and ask how she had become a Saint.
• Jieyin told Zhunti that their Karma with Hong Yun over their Saint positions remained unresolved, though the time to settle it had not come.
• Zhunti created three Bodhi Seeds from his true form as a gift for Nuwa, and he and Jieyin set out to congratulate her.
• Dao Xuan concluded that Nuwa had understood his role in her ascension and decided to visit her openly, bringing Xuanming along.
• Dao Xuan arrived beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, greeted Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun, then walked toward Nuwa with Xuanming.

Dao Xuan attended Nuwa’s celebration, addressed her as a fellow Daoist, and gave her a Pure World White Lotus, while other guests mistook his familiarity for arrogance. Nuwa began opening her cultivation ground in Chaos by wielding the Red Embroidered Ball.

• Dao Xuan congratulated Nuwa as a fellow Daoist, prompting other guests to judge his words as disrespectful.
• Nuwa warmly welcomed Dao Xuan and accepted the nine-petaled Pure World White Lotus he offered.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun warned Dao Xuan that he should address Nuwa as Empress and suggested he apologize to her privately.
• Nuwa asked the guests to keep their distance, then moved farther into Chaos and summoned the Red Embroidered Ball.
• Nuwa poured her magical power into the Red Embroidered Ball and repeatedly drove it into Chaos, causing its currents to erupt.

Nuwa created Taisu Heaven and invited the gathered cultivators to hear her expound the Dao, where she revealed that Dao Xuan had attained the Dao before her. The revelation stunned the Primordial World's mighty cultivators and left Dijun and Taiyi anxious about their past conflict with him.

• Nuwa used the Mountain and River State-Society Diagram to create Taisu Heaven, a lesser thousand world, and filled it with living things.
• Nuwa moved her cultivation sanctuary into Taisu Heaven and invited everyone to hear her expound the Dao.
• Nuwa invited Dao Xuan to sit on a Dao Platform equal to hers and revealed that he had attained the Dao before her and guided her.
• The gathered cultivators realized Dao Xuan was a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal, though they did not know how he had attained the Dao.
• Dijun and Taiyi worried about their past conflict with Dao Xuan, while Jieyin urged Zhunti to avoid further conflict with him.

Nuwa preached on the Creation Dao in Taisu Heaven, then invited Dao Xuan to explain the Five Elements Dao. After Dao Xuan left with Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, and Xuanming, Nuwa and Fuxi discussed how he had attained the Dao.

• Nuwa welcomed Dao Xuan and preached on the Creation Dao for eight hundred years.
• Nuwa asked Dao Xuan to preach, and he explained the Five Elements Dao for a thousand years.
• Hongjun watched from Zixiao Palace and was surprised that Dao Xuan had attained the Dao through the Five Elements Law rather than the Four Symbols Laws.
• Dao Xuan left Taisu Heaven with Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, and Xuanming after the gathering ended.
• Nuwa told the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti how she had become a Saint, but could not give them guidance on their own paths to sainthood.
• After the five disciples left, Fuxi asked Nuwa whether Dao Xuan had attained the Dao through the Law-Proving Dao, and she agreed that he had used the Five Elements Law.

Dao Xuan met Hongjun at Zixiao Palace, where Hongjun revealed that he cultivated the Order Dao and reminded Dao Xuan of his promise and the limits imposed by the Heavenly Dao. When Hongjun invoked Dao Xuan’s supposed teacher, Yang Mei, Dao Xuan decided to correct the misunderstanding.

• Hongjun summoned Dao Xuan to Zixiao Palace after Dao Xuan left Taisu Heaven, while Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun took Xuanming back to the Primordial World.
• Dao Xuan questioned Hongjun about the Taiji Diagram in the palace, and Hongjun said it was a rubbing of Pangu’s diagram despite cultivating the Order Dao.
• Hongjun reminded Dao Xuan to keep his promise and warned him that even after proving his Dao, he remained beneath the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun threatened to strike Dao Xuan with the Dragon-Headed Staff, then explained that he could still teach lessons despite merging with the Heavenly Dao.
• After Hongjun referred to Dao Xuan’s supposed teacher, Yang Mei, Dao Xuan decided to explain that the belief was mistaken.

Hongjun explained that Dao Integration let his Order Dao stabilize the Heavenly Dao and delay the Primordial World's destruction, though it could not prevent the eventual calamities. He saw Dao Xuan as a chance to change the world's fate, but Dao Xuan ended by admitting that he had not truly proved the Dao through law.

• Hongjun set aside his suspicion that Dao Xuan was Yang Mei's disciple and explained that the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao lacked the Great Dao Origin.
• Hongjun said his Order Dao could mend flaws in the Heavenly Dao's operation and prolong the Primordial World's existence, but could not fill the missing portion or avert its eventual collapse.
• Hongjun recounted how he had tried to restrain the Witch and Demon clans, later fostered the Human Tribe, and eventually imposed rules on the Saints, yet the world still declined toward the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Hongjun recognized Dao Xuan as a powerful hope who could handle matters Hongjun could not, and Dao Xuan promised to do his utmost to help him.
• Dao Xuan hesitated, then told Hongjun that although he could be said to have proved the Dao through law, he had not actually done so.

Dao Xuan revealed his World-Proving method to Hongjun, giving him hope of escaping the Great Desolate Heavenly Dao. Hongjun explained that Dao Xuan would need to reach Hunyuan Taiji to help free Hongjun’s true spirit while leaving his Dao fruit in the Heavenly Dao.

• Hongjun heard Dao Xuan’s method of World-Proving and praised him as a fellow Daoist.
• Dao Xuan let Hongjun inspect his Inner World, and Hongjun admired its Greater Thousand World and World Tree.
• Hongjun said separating him from the Heavenly Dao was dangerous because his true spirit and body were fused with it.
• Hongjun described his original hope of escaping by comprehending the Law of Order, but said Dao Integration had made that path far harder.
• Hongjun explained that Dao Xuan could help free his true spirit after a great tribulation if Dao Xuan attained Hunyuan Taiji by perfecting and fusing a second complete law.

Dao Xuan learned from Hongjun about the dangers of challenging the Great Desolate Heavenly Dao and received a Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram to study. He returned to Longevity Mountain, where Zhen Yuanzi described the difficulty of advancing through Law-Proving Dao.

• Hongjun explained that the Taiji Realm could transcend the Great Desolate Heavenly Dao, while the Wuji Realm was Pangu’s realm, and warned Dao Xuan not to underestimate the Heavenly Dao.
• Dao Xuan asked Hongjun for treasures and then suggested that Hongjun notify him about other worlds hidden in the chaos, but Hongjun said those worlds’ Heavenly Daos had been swallowed by the Great Desolate Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun gave Dao Xuan a Yin-Yang Taiji Diagram containing copied law and Dao-rhyme, and promised to notify him if he discovered other worlds.
• Dao Xuan returned to the Primordial World and met Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun at Longevity Mountain.
• Zhen Yuanzi said his Earth Law cultivation had not progressed in two hundred thousand years, while Hong Yun said he still did not know how to become a saint despite possessing Primordial Purple Qi.