Ch. 421A Worldview-Shattering Reversal

Key plot points and events

  • Fuxi is stunned when a vast river of fate appears above Border Mountain, beyond his control and outside anything his Great Fate Art had predicted.
  • The Little Beast Emperor’s world-annihilating lightning keeps striking Fuxi, stripping away his protective fate mist and beginning to damage his immense primordial body.
  • Fuxi’s yin and yang divine-sense clones are trapped in endless reincarnation within Jiubao’s and Lin Tian’s consciousnesses, leaving his true self further exposed.
  • The Little Beast Emperor enters the river of fate. Its waves of time, space, dimensions, and unfamiliar laws surge toward Fuxi, and the river connects directly to his primordial spirit.
  • Riding the waves, the Little Beast Emperor advances on Fuxi for a killing blow, with the World-Destroying Millstone spinning overhead.
  • Fuxi realizes his past divinations about the Primordial World were corrupted and that information from Nuwa may have been dangerously inaccurate. Suspecting she might have joined Lin Tian, he sends her an urgent plea for help.

Character developments

  • Fuxi shifts from confidence in his foresight and superiority to shock, rage, and fear as his plans unravel. His usual composure breaks when he faces a threat to his power and survival.
  • The Little Beast Emperor moves from attacking Fuxi with lightning to wielding the river of fate as part of a direct assault, demonstrating a growing and potentially decisive advantage.
  • Fuxi’s trust in Nuwa falters: he wonders whether she has aligned herself with Lin Tian, though he still appeals to her for rescue.

Significant themes

  • Fate versus control: Fuxi’s mastery of fate fails against a force he cannot perceive or direct.
  • The limits of pride and foresight: Fuxi’s confidence in his status and divinations proves fragile when events depart from his predictions.
  • Hidden manipulation and uncertainty: The corrupted prophecies and questionable information suggest that unseen forces have shaped Fuxi’s choices.
  • Power reversal: A being Fuxi regards as inferior now threatens to injure—and possibly kill—him.

Character interactions

  • The Little Beast Emperor relentlessly attacks Fuxi with lightning and then confronts him through the river of fate.
  • Lin Tian and Jiubao are implicated in Fuxi’s predicament because his divine-sense clones are trapped in their consciousnesses.
  • Fuxi contacts Nuwa in desperation, asking her to come to Border Mountain and save him, even as he suspects she may be working with Lin Tian.

Ch. 422The Karma Demon God Was Behind This Scheme

Plot points

  • The Little Beast Emperor charges into Fuxi’s Sea of Consciousness, carrying Lin Tian and Jiubao. The two pin Fuxi’s yin-yang divine-sense clones in place, preventing his Primordial Spirit from escaping into fragments of fate, time, space, or dimensions.
  • Nuwa receives Fuxi’s plea for help and tries to look toward Border Mountain, but her action is repeatedly reset before it can take effect. She recognizes this as the Karma Demon God’s Reversal of Cause and Effect.
  • Convinced the Karma Demon God has entered the world through the Little Beast Emperor and is targeting Fuxi’s body, Nuwa sends Fuxi a warning. The seven forbidden layers redirect her message back into her own Sea of Consciousness.
  • Realizing she cannot reach Fuxi through her usual means, Nuwa asks Li Er to go to Border Mountain and rescue him.
  • Li Er refuses, citing Lin Tian’s instruction that he and Nuwa remain on All-Heaven Divine Peak until summoned. The chapter ends with Nuwa frustrated; she needs Li Er’s unusual ability to unravel arrays and barriers.

Character developments and interactions

  • Fuxi is trapped and under direct attack, unable to flee his own chaotic Sea of Consciousness.
  • Nuwa shifts from alarm at Fuxi’s plea to fear when she discovers her actions are being reversed and her warning intercepted. She sincerely believes the Karma Demon God is behind the attack.
  • Li Er shows loyalty to Lin Tian’s orders and caution despite Nuwa’s urgency. His refusal exposes Nuwa’s lack of control over him after years of strained trust.
  • Lin Tian and Jiubao actively support the Little Beast Emperor by holding Fuxi’s divine-sense clones in place.

Significant themes

  • Causality as a weapon: the Reversal of Cause and Effect makes even observation and communication unreliable.
  • Entrapment and uncertainty: Fuxi is trapped within his own consciousness, while Nuwa is unable to intervene from afar.
  • Trust and authority: Li Er’s obedience to Lin Tian outweighs Nuwa’s request, reflecting the consequences of her past treatment of him.
  • Misread motives: Nuwa’s interpretation may not match what is actually happening, adding uncertainty to the unfolding scheme.

Ch. 423Nuwa marveled at the Spirit Vine's ever-changing methods

Key plot points and events

  • Nuwa tries to leave the All-Heaven Divine Peak to rescue her brother, Fuxi, despite Lin Tian’s old warning not to leave.
  • Lin Tian’s power stops her. His vines create a barrier that traps her in an impossible space, while the God-Slaying Spear strikes at her primordial spirit.
  • Cause and effect reverse, and Nuwa finds herself back on the palace’s Cloud Platform. The encounter has also stripped away roughly a tenth of her essential origin laws and Dao-art foundation.
  • Nuwa realizes Lin Tian may have mastered the Karma Origin Law and obtained the Great Karma Art—an ability feared by the Chaos Demon Gods.
  • Unable to leave the peak, Nuwa gives up on rescuing Fuxi herself. She concludes that Lin Tian’s intervention likely means Fuxi is not in mortal danger, and turns her attention to the Chaos Heavenly River, wondering what Lin Tian is planning.

Character developments and interactions

  • Nuwa shifts from defiant confidence to shock, fear, and frustration after experiencing how completely Lin Tian can control her movements and even damage her foundation. Though she remains wary, she takes some comfort in believing Fuxi will survive.
  • Li Er (Laozi) refuses to help Nuwa and warns her against disturbing his cultivation. He invokes Lin Tian’s authority, reinforcing how thoroughly the Ancestral God’s power governs life at the peak.
  • Nuwa and Li Er’s exchange is outwardly polite but carries an imbalance: she addresses him as a child, while he adopts a grave, senior-sounding tone to decline her request.

Significant themes

  • Power and constraint: Nuwa’s political skill and status cannot protect her from Lin Tian’s superior command of laws and causality.
  • Hidden strength and uncertainty: Lin Tian’s true abilities remain concealed, and Nuwa must reassess what she thought possible.
  • Fate, karma, and consequences: The reversal of cause and effect makes Nuwa’s attempted escape costly and suggests that Lin Tian can shape events at a fundamental level.
  • Trust amid helplessness: Nuwa cannot reach Fuxi, so she must rely on her belief that Lin Tian has reasons to keep him alive.

Ch. 424The World-Destroying Millstone, a Cure for Defiance

Key plot points and events

  • Nuwa realizes that Lin Tian secretly bound her fate to his cosmic-multidimensional Dao long ago, when he visited Taiyin Palace. The discovery leaves her feeling vulnerable and impressed by the depth of his power.
  • On Border Mountain, the Little Beast Emperor enters Fuxi’s Sea of Consciousness in his World-Annihilating Thunder Beast form. Fuxi’s divination, fate, fire, and other Dao techniques fail, as does the Vertical Pupil formed from Chaos-era resentment and baleful intent.
  • The Little Beast Emperor threatens to kill Fuxi, but Lin Tian explains that Fuxi and the River of Fate share a common origin: killing Fuxi could erase fate from the Primordial World.
  • Lin Tian’s concealment is exposed. Fuxi realizes the human cultivator before him is actually Lin Tian, and that Lin Tian has gained access to the terrifying Great Annihilation Art from a future spacetime.
  • Fuxi protests that he and Nuwa acted sincerely and assembled a vast Demon Race army to aid Lin Tian’s Human Race. The Little Beast Emperor ignores him and traps Fuxi’s Primordial Spirit inside the World-Destroying Millstone.
  • Facing the threat of being ground into nothing—and foreseeing his own death—Fuxi abandons his defiance and begs Lin Tian for mercy. Lin Tian watches without answering as the millstone continues to grind him down.

Character developments

  • Nuwa shifts from confidence in her ability to handle Lin Tian to a sense of vulnerability, recognizing that he has long shaped her destiny.
  • Fuxi moves from outrage and resistance to fear and pleading once his powers fail and his life is directly threatened.
  • Lin Tian remains composed and in control, revealing the extent of his hidden power while allowing the Little Beast Emperor to enforce his will.
  • The Little Beast Emperor acts as Lin Tian’s aggressive enforcer, eager to destroy Fuxi but responsive to his master’s guidance.

Significant themes

  • Fate and control: Lin Tian’s influence over Nuwa and Fuxi’s connection to the River of Fate suggest that destinies are intertwined—and potentially manipulated.
  • Hidden identity and power: Lin Tian’s disguise and concealed abilities overturn Fuxi’s assumptions.
  • Defiance versus survival: Fuxi’s principles and indignation collapse when confronted with imminent death.
  • Power and mercy: Lin Tian’s restraint is ambiguous; although he could intervene, he lets Fuxi remain in the millstone.

Character interactions

  • Nuwa’s relationship with Lin Tian is framed by unequal power and a destiny she did not know had been bound to his.
  • The Little Beast Emperor consults Lin Tian before attacking Fuxi, displaying both loyalty and impatience.
  • Fuxi accuses Lin Tian of betraying their alliance, then appeals to him for mercy when the attack becomes real.
  • Lin Tian responds to both Fuxi’s threats and pleas with calm silence, leaving the Little Beast Emperor’s millstone to speak for him.

Ch. 425The ending was written at the beginning, the terror of karma

Key plot points

  • The Little Beast Emperor traps Fuxi’s Primordial Spirit in the World-Destroying Millstone and begins grinding away his serpentine body. Fuxi’s usual escapes through time, fate, and space are blocked, and his spirit risks being erased entirely.
  • Fuxi pleads with Lin Tian, warning that his death will drive the Demon and Human Races into an irreconcilable war. Lin Tian refuses to intervene, determined to stop Fuxi from resuming his schemes with Nuwa.
  • Lin Tian is impressed by the millstone’s unexpected power, which lets the Little Beast Emperor threaten a Primordial God despite Fuxi’s formidable arts and cultivation.
  • In his Sea of Consciousness, Lin Tian discovers that Fuxi’s actions have created an opportunity to free himself from Daoist Jieyin’s Annihilation Will Seed before reaching Great Encompassing Golden Immortal.
  • Lin Tian realizes their confrontation with Fuxi was not chance, but an inevitable result of karma, fate, and the interaction of Origin Laws. Though he and Jiubao have been released from some of those forces, they are not truly free of them.
  • As Fuxi’s spirit continues to be consumed, Lin Tian unleashes the nine Origin Laws in his eyes toward the chaos within Fuxi’s Sea of Consciousness.

Character developments and interactions

  • Lin Tian remains calm and resolute, putting an end to Fuxi’s threat above the prospect of reconciliation. He also gains new insight into his destiny and a possible way to resist Jieyin’s future influence.
  • The Little Beast Emperor demonstrates power beyond Lin Tian’s expectations, using the World-Destroying Millstone and Great Annihilation Art to overpower Fuxi.
  • Fuxi shifts from confidence to desperation. His final appeal combines personal survival with a warning about the consequences for both races.
  • Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor act in concert against Fuxi, while Fuxi’s yin- and yang-aspected Divine Sense Clones remain bound in Lin Tian’s and Jiubao’s Seas of Consciousness.

Significant themes

  • Karma and inevitability: The encounter appears predetermined by the entanglement of fate, dimensions, and Origin Laws.
  • Destiny versus agency: Lin Tian’s possible future as Jieyin looms over him, but Fuxi’s actions may give him a chance to resist that fate.
  • Power and consequences: Fuxi’s defeat could prevent further schemes, yet may also ignite a devastating war between the Human and Demon Races.
  • Mercy versus resolve: Lin Tian rejects Fuxi’s plea, believing that sparing him would only allow the danger to return.

Ch. 426Fuxi offered his authority, annihilation returned to the Spirit Vine

Key plot points and events

  • Lin Tian’s assault with nine origin laws transforms Fuxi’s Sea of Consciousness into a miniature creation of heaven and earth. The origins of karma and annihilation expose the tangled fates, resentments, and baleful energy accumulated across countless ages.
  • Fuxi’s Primordial Spirit releases the authority he has stored in the World-Destroying Millstone. Lin Tian absorbs Fuxi’s accumulated merit, heaven-and-earth xuanhuang qi, and law authority, and advances from the early stage to the peak of the Great Unity Golden Immortal Realm. Seven Creation Jade Tablet fragments appear above him, and his celebratory cloud expands.
  • Realizing Lin Tian is unlikely to seize everything and turn him into the Cosmic Multidimensional Vine’s Second Race, Fuxi stops pleading and voluntarily offers up his powers. He gives up his accumulated resources first, then separates out the authority of his Great Mystic Fire Technique, Great Fate Art, and Great Deduction Technique to secure his life and demonstrate submission.
  • Jiubao regains her awareness. Fuxi’s yin-aspected divine-sense clone had disrupted both the Karma Demon God Seed’s influence and Fuxi’s control over her, inadvertently freeing her from forces that might have replaced or controlled her consciousness.
  • Jiubao asks Lin Tian where they are and wonders whether the river nearby is the legendary River of Time. Lin Tian explains that they are inside a Primordial God’s Sea of Consciousness.

Character developments and interactions

  • Lin Tian demonstrates overwhelming power, using the crisis to collect what he sees as overdue “interest” for Fuxi and Nuwa’s past schemes. His absorption of Fuxi’s authority also brings a major cultivation breakthrough.
  • Fuxi shifts from desperation to calculated surrender. He accepts a severe loss of power and resources as preferable to death or becoming a servant race, and offers his authority as a pledge to Lin Tian.
  • Jiubao survives the manipulation of the Karma Demon God Seed and gains a clearer understanding of what has happened, but her questions reveal how limited her knowledge of the Primordial World and higher cultivation realms remains.
  • Lin Tian answers Jiubao’s questions but privately recognizes that, despite his earlier guidance in music-based cultivation, she still knows little about the abilities and combat strength associated with the Great Unity Golden Immortal Realm.

Significant themes

  • Survival through surrender: Fuxi sacrifices power and accumulated wealth to preserve his life.
  • Power and retribution: Lin Tian’s actions are framed as repayment for years of hidden maneuvering by Fuxi and Nuwa.
  • Identity and control: Jiubao’s experience highlights the danger of supernatural forces replacing or dominating a person’s consciousness.
  • Unequal knowledge: Lin Tian’s expertise contrasts with Jiubao’s inexperience, even after their time together and his instruction.

Ch. 427My junior brother was the Ancestral God

Key plot points and events

  • Lin Tian sends Jiubao a fragment of his memories and Great Luo cultivation insights, including what to expect when advancing and the distinction between innate, latent, and manifest origin laws.
  • The memories reveal Lin Tian’s true identity to Jiubao: he was once a spirit vine and is the Human Race’s revered Ancestral God.
  • Jiubao enters a meditative state as her innate music origin law absorbs karma power from the Karma Demon God seed within her. The two forces begin merging into a new music-karma origin, but the immense energy overwhelms her Great Unity Golden Immortal abilities.
  • Lin Tian absorbs thirty percent of the authority tied to Jieyin’s future annihilation Fruit Position and connects with Jiubao’s developing karma origin.
  • He leaves the Little Beast Emperor and walks into the River of Fate toward the World-Destroying Millstone, sensing that it resonates with his forming annihilation law.
  • Fuxi, already half-ground away by the millstone, begs Lin Tian for his life and offers submission. He fears that continued destruction will erase his Primordial Spirit and his chance to survive in another form.

Character developments and interactions

  • Lin Tian acts as Jiubao’s guide, sharing hard-won knowledge to help her advance safely. He continues consolidating annihilation authority and deliberately approaches the millstone.
  • Jiubao moves from uncertainty to shock and reverence after learning Lin Tian’s identity. She begins a major transformation, though the scale of the karma power threatens to overwhelm her.
  • Fuxi shifts from attempted bargaining to desperate submission as he realizes the millstone may destroy him completely. He pleads directly with Lin Tian, who does not yet answer.

Significant themes

  • Knowledge and mentorship: Lin Tian’s memories give Jiubao the guidance she lacks for a dangerous breakthrough.
  • Power and its risks: Great Dao energies can transform a cultivator, but an unprepared body and spirit may not withstand them.
  • Identity and reverence: Jiubao’s understanding of Lin Tian changes dramatically when she discovers his legendary past.
  • Fear, survival, and consequences: Fuxi’s terror reflects the cost of his earlier actions and the precariousness of his remaining life.

Ch. 428I, Fuxi, Will Shield the Spirit Vine from Calamity

Chapter Summary

Key plot points

  • After absorbing one-third of Fuxi’s accumulated merit and xuanhuang qi, Lin Tian uses annihilation and karma laws to split the chaos in Fuxi’s sea of consciousness, effectively opening a miniature heaven and earth. Fuxi realizes that if the World-Destroying Millstone consumes two-thirds of him, his primordial spirit will collapse—and Nuwa’s connected merits and authority may collapse with it.
  • Lin Tian continues threatening Fuxi with a spear formed from origin laws and a fragment of the Creation Jade Tablet. He intends to use the encounter to free himself from the restraints of annihilation and release the Karma Demon God seed within Jiubao, while transferring the consciousness and nature of both the Karma and Nirvana Demon Gods into Fuxi.
  • Lin Tian recognizes the danger: mishandling the seeds could bring devastating backlash upon himself, Jiubao, and his hidden Cosmic Multidimensional Vine body. The stakes include the possible loss of the Primordial World to the two Chaos Demon Gods.
  • Lin Tian’s newly evolved Fled One space allows him to recover the plans and thoughts he had hidden from even his own primordial spirit. He discovers that, from the beginning of his rebirth, he had deliberately concealed the Nirvana Demon God seed and the reasons for his actions so his weaker self could not be compromised.
  • Now at the half-step Great Luo realm, Lin Tian asks Fuxi whether he knows Lin Tian faces a calamity. Fuxi immediately promises to shield him, hoping to avoid being destroyed.

Character developments and interactions

  • Lin Tian is revealed as an exceptionally cautious planner who deliberately deceived even himself until he became strong enough to face the Demon Gods’ influence. He is now prepared to act on plans hidden for millions of years.
  • Fuxi, trapped and near defeat, shifts from resistance to pleading and ingratiation. He offers protection despite being in no position to guarantee it.
  • Jiubao remains at half-step Great Luo alongside Lin Tian and is directly endangered by the Karma Demon God seed and any resulting backlash.
  • Nuwa is not present, but Fuxi fears that her fate and legacy are bound to his through their shared Dao Art.

Significant themes

  • Self-deception as protection: Lin Tian hides his own intentions from himself to keep his vulnerable primordial spirit safe.
  • Power, manipulation, and survival: Fuxi’s promise of protection is a desperate response to Lin Tian’s overwhelming control.
  • Karma and inherited danger: The Demon God seeds link Lin Tian, Jiubao, Fuxi, and potentially the fate of the entire Primordial World.
  • Long-term planning: Lin Tian’s present choices are the culmination of strategies laid down from the start of his rebirth.

Ch. 429Fuxi Takes On the Karma of the Western Religion's Leader

Plot points and events

  • Lin Tian offers Fuxi the consciousness seeds and species forms of the Nirvana Demon God and Karma Demon God, proposing that Fuxi make them his second and third species forms.
  • Fuxi accepts, recognizing that the forms could restore the demons’ authority over nirvana and karma. He complains that Lin Tian could have approached him peacefully instead of fighting, but Lin Tian does not answer.
  • Using his command over reality and the power of the Seven Creation Jade Tablets, Lin Tian transfers the Nirvana Demon God’s form from his own consciousness and the Karma Demon God’s from Jiubao’s into Fuxi’s primordial spirit. Their lingering lights return to Lin Tian and Jiubao, leaving the two forms in Fuxi.
  • The transfer stops the World-Destroying Millstone from grinding Fuxi’s spirit away. Fuxi survives, though he is gravely weakened.
  • Lin Tian leaves with Jiubao and the Little Beast Emperor. Fuxi bows to them and pledges that, during the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, his Demon Race will follow the Human Race’s lead.

Character developments

  • Lin Tian demonstrates overwhelming control and strategic foresight: he defeats Fuxi, saves him at the last moment, and turns the encounter into a political alliance.
  • Fuxi shifts from enemy to indebted ally. Taking the two demon-god forms also binds him to their future destinies, including the path toward becoming the leader of the Western Religion.
  • Jiubao contributes the Karma Demon God’s form and is spared the danger of being possessed by it.
  • The Little Beast Emperor serves as Lin Tian’s mount and helps withdraw them from the battlefield.

Significant themes

  • Power and control: Lin Tian’s mastery of laws and destiny leaves Fuxi with no realistic chance to win.
  • Fate and karmic obligation: The demon-god forms carry predetermined future paths, shaping Fuxi’s destiny.
  • Mercy as strategy: Lin Tian spares Fuxi while securing his allegiance.
  • Alliance through indebtedness: Fuxi’s gratitude becomes a pledge of political loyalty.

Character interactions

  • Fuxi questions why Lin Tian fought him rather than offering the forms peacefully; Lin Tian responds only with a faint smile.
  • Lin Tian directly transfers the demon-god forms into Fuxi, then orders the Little Beast Emperor to leave.
  • Fuxi bows to Lin Tian and promises the Demon Race will follow the Human Race; Lin Tian acknowledges him casually.

Ch. 430Jiubao, karma in growth

Plot points and events

  • Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor travel toward the Human Race’s great training grounds. The Beast Emperor instinctively understands Lin Tian’s intended destination without being told.
  • Jiubao apologizes to Lin Tian for failing to recognize Mount Buzhou and speaking disrespectfully. Lin Tian tells her that, as members of the same generation, they need not emphasize seniority.
  • Jiubao discovers that Lin Tian is the Human Race’s Ancestral God and that his Thunder Beast companion is the legendary founding ancestor, the Beast Emperor. She is overwhelmed by the revelations and by the realization that she had offended them.
  • The Little Beast Emperor reassures Jiubao that Lin Tian means what he says. Still, Jiubao becomes deferential, standing behind Lin Tian and repeatedly apologizing to the Beast Emperor.
  • After losing the Karma Demon God and Nirvana Demon God consciousness seeds, both Lin Tian and Jiubao remain stalled at the half-step Great Luo Golden Immortal level. Lin Tian is untroubled, but Jiubao is eager to advance after witnessing their immense power.
  • At a valley in the Eastern Sea—where Lin Tian first met the Beast Emperor millions of years earlier—the Little Beast Emperor advises Jiubao that progress in the Great Luo Dao must follow its natural course rather than be forced through hard cultivation. With Lin Tian’s approval, he establishes seven layers of restrictions and manifests a blood-qi-surging World-Destroying Millstone before her, beginning her instruction.

Character developments and interactions

  • Jiubao shifts from confident familiarity with Lin Tian to fearful reverence once she learns their true identities. Her ambition to reach a higher realm remains strong, but she is receptive to the Beast Emperor’s guidance.
  • Lin Tian remains calm and considerate, resisting formal hierarchy despite Jiubao’s anxiety. He lets the Beast Emperor mentor her.
  • The Little Beast Emperor shows deep, wordless understanding of Lin Tian, while acting as an amused but reassuring authority toward Jiubao. He takes on the role of her instructor.

Significant themes

  • Intuition and tacit bonds: The Beast Emperor’s ability to read Lin Tian’s wishes reflects their profound connection.
  • Humility and status: True power contrasts with Jiubao’s concern over rank and etiquette.
  • Natural cultivation: Spiritual advancement cannot be forced; striving too intensely may hinder progress.
  • Ambition and perspective: Witnessing extraordinary power inspires Jiubao but also makes her aware of the distance she must bridge.

Ch. 431Reconstructing Cause and Effect, Reconstructing Dimensions

Key plot points and events

  • The Little Beast Emperor reveals seven restrictions spanning tens of millions of miles, then throws Jiubao into the grinding eye of the World-Destroying Millstone to force her to face the perilous Great Dao struggle herself.
  • Watching this, Lin Tian recognizes that his own gentle, protective approach has been holding Jiubao back. Though she is gifted and already at half-step Great Luo, she may never advance without confronting danger and relying on herself.
  • The Little Beast Emperor explains that Jiubao’s pampered disposition could leave her trapped at half-step Great Luo, as happened to Ghost Chariot. Lin Tian gives no verbal approval, but the Beast Emperor understands that Lin Tian agrees.
  • Lin Tian releases an annihilation origin law he extracted from Fuxi. Its stilling, destructive order overwhelms the World-Destroying Millstone, weakening its aura and drawing its power toward its center.
  • The Little Beast Emperor transforms into his mythic form, the World-Annihilating Thunder Beast. Within the restricted world, Lin Tian retrieves long-hidden thoughts and reconstructs the causal chain and logic behind events whose cause and effect had been reversed.

Character developments

  • Lin Tian realizes that life among ordinary humans has softened his once-uncompromising resolve. He sees that his overprotectiveness has harmed Jiubao’s progress, and begins recovering buried memories and understanding.
  • The Little Beast Emperor shows decisive, if rough, judgment as a teacher: he puts Jiubao in extreme danger to compel growth. He is sheepish about his methods but confident Lin Tian approves.
  • Jiubao is thrust into a life-or-death trial that may force her to break through her stagnation at half-step Great Luo.

Significant themes

  • Growth through hardship: advancement may require facing danger without relying on others.
  • The risks of excessive protection and comfort.
  • Recovering identity and understanding by restoring the true order of cause and effect.
  • The overwhelming authority of primordial laws, as Lin Tian’s annihilation origin law suppresses even the fearsome World-Destroying Millstone.

Character interactions

  • The Little Beast Emperor acts on Jiubao’s behalf, despite Lin Tian’s gentler instincts, and challenges her to face the trial alone.
  • Lin Tian silently accepts the Beast Emperor’s decision, recognizing his own failure to push Jiubao.
  • Their master-and-disciple exchange reveals mutual understanding: the Beast Emperor seeks approval, while Lin Tian’s silence conveys it.

Ch. 432The Human Race Stirred, Following the Ancestral God

Key plot points and events

  • Lin Tian discovers a new dimension origin law within his independent world. Formed from time, space, and fate, it can disrupt linear development and overturn ordinary karmic order.
  • He uses Chaos Union with the Dao Art to combine and separate origin laws, revealing a new way to wield the Three Thousand Great Daos.
  • Lin Tian teaches the Little Beast Emperor the principles of dimension, karma, and annihilation. The Beast Emperor’s seven kinds of world-annihilating lightning react across different dimensions, times, and fates, and his fears about the Human Race’s future in the immeasurable calamity are eased.
  • Their practice causes subtle changes in the Primordial World’s underlying order. Human progenitors and other powerful figures sense the disturbance and identify Lin Tian as its source.
  • Ghost Chariot and Chiyou set out to find Lin Tian. Shen Nong, Zhen Yuanzi, and Creation Daoist leave Creation Palace to do the same, while Xuan Yuan welcomes the changes as a possible chance to strengthen his command of the laws.

Character developments

  • Lin Tian emerges as a teacher and innovator, mastering dimension’s influence over the other origin laws and imparting a new synthesis of Dao principles.
  • The Little Beast Emperor finally receives the guidance he has awaited for millions of years. His anxiety over the Human Race’s fate gives way to understanding and renewed confidence.
  • Xuan Yuan is pleased by the changes but remains conscious of his weakness: despite his high cultivation, his authority over origin laws trails that of the other Human progenitors.

Character interactions

  • Lin Tian guides the Little Beast Emperor through direct instruction and shared cultivation; the Beast Emperor’s lightning responds to Lin Tian’s teaching.
  • Human progenitors react to Lin Tian’s return by moving to reunite with him. Creation Daoist, Zhen Yuanzi, and Shen Nong are eager not to be left behind by the Little Beast Emperor.
  • Ghost Chariot recruits Chiyou to join him in seeking Lin Tian.

Significant themes

  • Interdependence of cosmic laws: Dimension, time, space, fate, karma, and annihilation can reshape one another.
  • Teaching and transmission: Lin Tian’s guidance transforms the Beast Emperor’s understanding and helps him face a seemingly unavoidable catastrophe.
  • Unequal mastery and rivalry: Xuan Yuan’s cultivation is formidable, yet competition over fundamental Great Daos leaves him behind his peers.
  • Small causes, vast consequences: A disturbance in one secluded place can ripple outward and alert powers across the Primordial World.

Ch. 433Haotian Child Without a Future

Key plot points and events

  • Changes in the Primordial World’s origin laws give Xuan Yuan hope of escaping a bottleneck: though he has reached the Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal realm, his union with the Dao remains unstable, and other clans’ growing authority has weakened his hold over his own laws.
  • Xuan Yuan and First Qilin sense the changes and set out together to find Lin Tian. First Qilin leaves Black Jade Qilin in charge of Qilin Cliff and uses Void Traversal, a Human Race technique Xuan Yuan taught him.
  • In the west, the assembled Dragon, Phoenix, and Devil armies halt near Mount Kunlun, unnerved by changes in the world’s dimensions and signs of the Karma and Nirvana Demon Gods’ laws.
  • Hongjun realizes that an unexpected dimensional shift has arisen from the Eastern Sea’s merging origin laws. Fearing that Lin Tian’s influence will overturn his plans and cost him his Creation Jade Tablet fragments, he is alarmed by the development.
  • Haotian Child senses that his future position as Haotian and the Heavenly Court are disappearing from fate. His bow to Hongjun is presented as a final farewell.
  • In the Eastern Sea, the World-Destroying Millstone shrinks and draws its destructive aura inward. Karma and nirvana laws begin repairing its broken corners.

Character developments and interactions

  • Xuan Yuan is eager to regain authority over his Great Dao and sees the new changes as a possible opening. His cordial relationship with First Qilin reflects their shared interests and mutual respect.
  • First Qilin acts generously and decisively, inviting Xuan Yuan to travel with him and entrusting his territory to Black Jade Qilin.
  • Hongjun grows increasingly desperate and anxious: Lin Tian’s past seizure of a Creation Jade Tablet fragment has already forced him to seek alliances against the Human Race’s Ancestral God.
  • Haotian Child accepts the apparent loss of his destined future and bids Hongjun farewell.

Significant themes

  • Fate and disrupted destiny: Lin Tian’s influence and the new dimensional changes threaten futures once considered assured, including Haotian’s.
  • Competition for Dao authority: Xuan Yuan’s struggle illustrates how a clan’s rise can diminish an individual’s control over a Great Dao.
  • Change, destruction, and restoration: The millstone’s destructive power contracts even as its damage is repaired, suggesting that the merging of karma and nirvana may transform destruction into renewal.

Ch. 434Jiubao, reaching Great Luo in desperate straits

Key plot points and events

  • Lin Tian subjects Jiubao to the Little Beast Emperor’s World-Destroying Millstone, using its crushing force to test her and reveal her potential.
  • Within the Beast Emperor’s independent world, Lin Tian fuses and explores the origin laws of dimension, karma, and annihilation, seeking to create a new origin law. He can now handle such dangerous forces through his control of his inner Myriad Heavens World and its fundamental laws.
  • Jiubao withstands the millstone’s overwhelming pressure despite being only half-step Great Luo. She channels her innate music law and karma law, and unexpectedly comprehends the tidal origin law.
  • Lin Tian’s work culminates in the Karma Demon God’s formless mythic manifestation. The millstone grinds it away completely, after which a glowing young woman appears above it, bearing the laws of music, karma, and tide.

Character developments and interactions

  • Jiubao demonstrates exceptional resilience and growth, revealing a new law through hardship. Her breakthrough impresses both Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor.
  • The Little Beast Emperor is pleased with Jiubao’s progress, believing that forcing her into desperate circumstances helped unlock her potential.
  • Lin Tian feels deep affection and pride in Jiubao, whose growth has been an emotional anchor for him. He is especially glad to see her discover the tidal law, which he had not anticipated.
  • Lin Tian’s connection to Jiubao is complicated by his belief that her karmic path may eventually lead her to become Zhunti, one of the Western Saints—a future he finds painful to contemplate.

Significant themes

  • Growth through adversity: Jiubao’s perilous trial brings forth abilities she might not otherwise have discovered.
  • Karma and destiny: Jiubao’s karmic power hints at a future role that troubles Lin Tian.
  • Creation through destruction: The millstone annihilates the Karma Demon God’s form, while a new figure emerges bearing a transformed combination of origin laws.
  • Attachment and pride: Lin Tian’s reaction shows how deeply personal bonds shape his experience of power and destiny.

Ch. 435Dimension at the Core

Key plot points and events

  • Jiubao emerges from an earlier transformation with a treasure-tree-like silhouette and a newly visible streak of ruthlessness, resembling her master, Abbess Seven Absolutes.
  • Lin Tian is pleased with her progress and treats the change in temperament as unimportant, provided she survives and retains her own Dao and future.
  • He sends Jiubao back into the Little Beast Emperor’s World-Destroying Millstone, enveloped in annihilation law. Her body has already been ground away, leaving her vulnerable Primordial Spirit exposed.
  • The Little Beast Emperor warns that the process could destroy her, but Lin Tian insists that she must endure hardship to qualify as a fellow Daoist. The Beast Emperor resumes the grinding with some restraint.
  • A thousand years pass. Lin Tian continues developing a new origin law that unites dimension, cause and effect, and annihilation.
  • The new law helps repair the divide between the Primordial World’s older, fixed-dimensional order and the multidimensional changes introduced over the past million years.
  • Seven powerful figures—First Qilin, Xuan Yuan, Chiyou, Shen Nong, Creation Daoist, Ghost Chariot, and Zhen Yuanzi—take positions around Lin Tian’s restricted world and use the emanating laws to deepen their cultivation.

Character developments and interactions

  • Jiubao shows significant advancement, but her growing resemblance to her ruthless master raises concern about how the millstone’s trials are changing her.
  • Lin Tian proves both invested in Jiubao’s potential and uncompromising: he accepts the risk to her life as part of her necessary tempering.
  • The Little Beast Emperor is anxious about harming Jiubao, partly because he has little experience training human disciples. He nevertheless obeys Lin Tian, reassured that the danger is intentional.
  • Lin Tian’s preaching and evolving laws become a source of insight for the seven mighty figures, who cultivate in response.

Significant themes

  • Trial and transformation: Great strength and fellowship on the Dao’s path require surviving severe hardship.
  • Risk, responsibility, and trust: The Beast Emperor fears the consequences of his actions, while Lin Tian accepts responsibility for the perilous training.
  • Change across generations: Multidimensional evolution has created a divide between older and younger Primordial World beings.
  • Interconnection of cosmic laws: Dimension, causality, and annihilation are presented as intertwined forces whose fusion can bridge that divide and reshape the world’s order.

Ch. 436The Dragon and Phoenix Armies Swept Toward the Southern Continent

Summary

  • As dimension, karma, and nirvana—the Primordial World’s fundamental origin laws—begin to fuse and collide, the world’s underlying order changes violently. Even its greatest experts can sense the upheaval without understanding its core: the dimension-origin law.
  • Xuan Yuan makes an important breakthrough. The three laws flow into his consciousness and reveal how dimension can transform his seemingly insignificant innate origin law into a unique power, potentially granting him authority over his Chaos Union with the Dao.
  • The laws’ interaction triggers a surge of Immeasurable Calamity energy across the Eastern Sea, while the world’s instability also obscures events elsewhere.
  • In the west, Ancestral Dragon and Shi Feng launch the Dragon and Phoenix armies toward the Southern Continent. They aim to destroy the Human Race’s Hongmeng Fierce Bird forces and All-Heaven Palace, then press into the Eastern Continent and eliminate humanity. Both leaders declare their clans’ intention to rule.
  • Devil Ancestor Luo Hou sends Devil Marshal Jidu and a hidden army around Mount Kunlun toward the Central Continent. Jidu intends to destroy the cosmic multidimensional vine’s Hongmeng Palace and demonstrate the Devil Race’s strength. The world’s upheaval conceals this movement from the Human experts.
  • In the Southern Sea, the Chaos Dao Scripture detects the invading armies, captures a moment from time revealing their advance, and sends it to its master, Lin Tian.

Character developments and interactions

Xuan Yuan shifts from being the weakest among the Human experts in origin-law authority to recognizing a path toward a distinctive, potentially powerful law. Luo Hou entrusts Jidu with a covert campaign; Jidu accepts confidently. Ancestral Dragon and Shi Feng act as allied invaders, each proclaiming supremacy for his own clan. The Chaos Dao Scripture responds loyally and urgently to the threat by alerting Lin Tian.

Significant themes

The chapter contrasts cosmic transformation with political and military ambition: the laws of reality are changing even as rival races race to conquer the world. It also emphasizes how upheaval can both create breakthroughs and conceal danger, leaving the Human Race vulnerable on multiple fronts.

Ch. 437The Vine Aerial Carrier's First Shot

Key plot points and events

  • The Chaos Dao Scripture alerts Lin Tian that the Dragon and Phoenix clans have entered the Primordial Southern Continent. He orders the Hongmeng Fierce Birds’ Four Great Generals to hold the south, but retreat to the Eastern Continent if they cannot withstand the invasion.
  • Lin Tian welcomes the clans’ advance: their attack may halt the Primordial World’s loss of fortune and energy, which he needs to complete his integration of new foundational laws. He suspects the invasion may also be meant to disrupt the balance of his and the Little Beast Emperor’s cultivation, so he avoids intervening directly.
  • Baiwan, guarding the border between the Southern and Western Continents, confronts the invading forces. The Fierce Birds use the mountain terrain and their Totem Innate Formation to stop the Dragon Clan’s first assault.
  • The birds assemble a massive vine-based aerial carrier and unleash devastating “Madness Law” shells. The barrage strikes the Dragon Clan’s leading force and leaves Ancestral Dragon dazed and astonished by the Fierce Birds’ strength.

Character developments

  • Lin Tian remains strategically detached, prioritizing his cultivation and the Primordial World’s fortune while preparing a fallback plan for his forces.
  • Baiwan emerges as a capable commander, using terrain, formation tactics, and the birds’ advanced weaponry to resist a far larger invasion.
  • Ancestral Dragon is shocked by the Fierce Birds’ unexpected power, which has apparently grown since their previous campaign.

Significant themes

  • Strategic patience: Lin Tian lets the conflict unfold because even a dangerous invasion may serve his larger goals.
  • Power through adaptation: The Fierce Birds’ unusual bodies, formation, and technological-looking weapons make them formidable despite their fragility.
  • The cost of disruption: The balance of cultivation and the world’s fortune are fragile; a major upheaval could undo progress that cannot easily be restored.
  • Unexpected strength: The Dragon Clan’s confidence is challenged by the Fierce Birds’ renewed military might.

Character interactions

  • Lin Tian communicates with the Chaos Dao Scripture and directs it to warn the Four Generals.
  • Baiwan and his forces meet the Dragon Clan’s charge at Border Mountain, using their formation to halt its advance.
  • The aerial carrier’s barrage directly hits Ancestral Dragon and his troops, forcing him to reconsider how powerful the Fierce Birds have become.

Ch. 438The Hongmeng Fierce Bird Army, So Formidable

Key events

  • The Dragon Clan’s million-strong army is stopped at Border Mountain by the Hongmeng Fierce Birds’ Vine Aerial Carrier bombardment and defensive formation.
  • The Phoenix Clan tries to bypass the barrier through the Netherworld River. The Fierce Birds counter with mass self-detonations, causing devastating damage and nearly wiping out a tenth of the Phoenix army.
  • Kong Xuan uses his Five-Colored Divine Light to sweep away the attackers, but can only hold out briefly before exhausting himself. Shi Feng rescues him and protects the Phoenix soldiers with her Undying Divine Light.
  • Baiwan, commander of the Fierce Birds, confronts the Dragon and Phoenix leaders, invoking the horrors of Shen Ni’s ancient Fierce Beast Tide and threatening to destroy the world rather than let them pass.
  • Ancestral Dragon retreats into his fortified hall while insisting the Dragon Clan has heaven’s mandate to reclaim the continent.
  • As the Netherworld Ancestor’s presence rises from the river, nearly a thousand Fierce Bird warriors again detonate themselves, plunging into the river’s waves to attack him.

Character developments and interactions

  • Baiwan emerges as a formidable, composed commander who holds the crossing alone and directs the Fierce Birds’ extreme tactics.
  • Kong Xuan displays his great power but reaches its limits; Shi Feng intervenes to save him and shield her clan.
  • Ancestral Dragon is unnerved by memories of the Fierce Birds’ past power and hides, though he maintains a boastful public stance.
  • The Dragon and Phoenix leaders’ planned surprise attack is disrupted by Baiwan’s resistance and the Fierce Birds’ coordinated defense.

Significant themes

  • The cost of war: the Fierce Birds willingly sacrifice elite warriors to halt the invasion.
  • Old terror and remembered history: Baiwan’s reference to Shen Ni’s era shakes Ancestral Dragon and frames the current conflict as a return of past horrors.
  • Bravado versus fear: Ancestral Dragon’s grand claims contrast with his retreat.
  • Power and its limits: even Kong Xuan’s extraordinary ability can be exhausted, while teamwork and sacrifice can change the battle’s course.

Ch. 439Kong Xuan's Five-Colored Divine Light Saves the Netherworld Ancestor

Key plot points and events

  • The Dragon and Phoenix armies’ clash at Border Mountain triggers catastrophic explosions, shattering local laws and unleashing chaos across hundreds of millions of li.
  • The Netherworld River appears within the Primordial World, drawing the Heavenly Dao’s Purple Firmament tribulation lightning. The lightning destroys the Chaos Demon God corpses inside the river and begins restoring the shattered elements of the region.
  • The Netherworld Ancestor, Youming, realizes the disaster may ruin his alliance and considers withdrawing from the battlefield.
  • Kong Xuan arrives with Shi Feng’s Undying Divine Light and promises the Phoenix Clan will help. His Five-Colored Divine Light absorbs the tribulation lightning, growing stronger with each bolt and allowing Youming to resume his attack on Baiwan’s generals.
  • Elsewhere, Fuxi divines the battle’s devastation and is left drenched in cold sweat. The Cosmic Multidimensional Vine had anticipated the upheaval, though Lin Tian remains unaware of its hidden Hongmeng Fierce Bird forces.

Character developments and interactions

  • Youming shifts from confidence in his long-term alliance with the Dragon and Phoenix Clans to alarm and near-retreat, then regains resolve when Kong Xuan protects the Netherworld River.
  • Kong Xuan demonstrates that his Five-Colored Divine Light can absorb Heavenly Dao lightning and strengthen him, contrasting with its earlier failure against the Hongmeng Fierce Bird suicide warriors.
  • Fuxi recognizes the battle’s extraordinary scale and danger through divination.
  • Youming and Kong Xuan form a practical, immediate alliance: Kong Xuan shields Youming’s river, enabling Youming to continue fighting.

Significant themes

  • Unforeseeable consequences: Interacting laws of karma, dimension, and nirvana produce events even ancient powers cannot predict.
  • Risk and allegiance: Youming’s investment in the Dragon and Phoenix Clans is threatened by their losses, showing how political ambitions can become liabilities.
  • Hidden strategy and knowledge: The Cosmic Multidimensional Vine’s concealed plans contrast with Lin Tian’s ignorance of the Hongmeng Fierce Birds.
  • Power through adaptation: Kong Xuan turns a divine threat into a source of strength.

Ch. 440Fuxi and Nuwa, Going with the Flow

Key plot points and events

  • The Dragon and Phoenix Clans’ advance across the Primordial Southern Continent is stopped at Border Mountain by only a quarter of the Hongmeng Fierce Bird army, led by General Baiwan. Their attack nearly destroys the Netherworld Ancestor with Heavenly Dao Purple Firmament Tribulation Lightning.
  • Fuxi is shaken by how far events have diverged from the future he once deduced. The Primordial World changed after the Cosmic Multidimensional Vine introduced dimensional influence into its Great Daos, making Fuxi’s old predictions unreliable.
  • Fuxi tries to divine his future with the Primordial Eight Trigrams, but the signs dissolve. He cannot accurately predict events without understanding the newly embedded laws of dimension, karma, and nirvana.
  • Fearing that the karma and nirvana consciousness seeds Lin Tian placed in his Primordial Spirit could eventually displace his own identity and destiny, Fuxi hopes to settle his karmic debts and escape into chaos.
  • Nuwa sends Fuxi a warning: they are already caught in the Cosmic Multidimensional Vine’s design, so they must not act rashly and should follow the prevailing course of events. Reassured that she can still reach him, she turns her attention to the Eastern Sea, where powerful figures gather around the laws reshaping the Great Daos.

Character developments and interactions

  • Fuxi shifts from trying to control events through prediction to caution and resignation. The Bird army’s strength deepens his fear of Lin Tian and of losing his own nature to the Law Gods of karma and nirvana.
  • Nuwa acts protectively toward her brother, warning him against impulsive action. She is anxious about his tendency to disregard order, but gains some relief when her message reaches him.
  • Fuxi and Nuwa remain closely connected, though Fuxi is increasingly uncertain whether Nuwa’s words—and even her intentions—are fully her own.
  • Lin Tian remains an unseen but dominant influence: his actions and the transformed laws have made Fuxi wary of probing or opposing him.

Significant themes

  • The limits of prediction and control: New forces have rendered Fuxi’s once-confident deductions obsolete.
  • Karma and identity: Fuxi fears that inherited or imposed karmic ties may eventually overwrite his own nature and destiny.
  • Caution and surrender: Nuwa urges them to avoid rash choices and move with events rather than resist forces they do not understand.
  • Power and upheaval: The Bird army’s intervention demonstrates how dramatically the balance of power has changed.
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