Chapter Summaries

Key events

• Hongjun recalls the crushing defeat his allies suffered at Border Mountain, where Lin Tian’s Spirit Vine Sect effortlessly stopped the Dragon and Phoenix armies. The experience has convinced him not to challenge Lin Tian.
• With his original plans shattered, Hongjun turns his attention to Devil Ancestor Luo Hou. He intends to reunite the Dragon and Phoenix Clans and fight the Devil Race, hoping to establish his own Daoist lineage before his accumulated fortune is depleted.
• Watching Tongtian comprehend sword intent in Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven, Hongjun realizes Tongtian has unified ten thousand swords into a tangible, potentially lethal force. He sees Tongtian’s straightforward, righteous path of slaughter as the yang counterpart to Luo Hou’s dark, destructive path.
• Ancestral Dragon fears Tongtian’s growing power, while Shi Feng praises his remarkable rise from the Earth’s Embryonic Membrane to the Chaos Dao Scripture and ultimately to one of the Three Pure Ones.
• Hongjun boasts that Tongtian’s sword could not harm him, though he warns Ancestral Dragon that it could kill him instantly. Shi Feng then asks whether even Lin Tian might be vulnerable; Hongjun’s eyes reveal that he is carefully analyzing the sword’s possible movements.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun shifts from challenging Lin Tian to pursuing Luo Hou, while maintaining confidence in his own ability to withstand Tongtian’s sword.
• Tongtian reaches a major breakthrough: his sword intent has become a formidable, concrete power, and Hongjun believes it may lead him toward the Great Dao.
• Ancestral Dragon is visibly shaken and challenges Hongjun to assess whether he could withstand Tongtian’s strike. Hongjun turns the provocation back on him.
• Shi Feng admires Tongtian’s transformation and asks the key question of whether his sword could threaten Lin Tian.

Significant themes

• Power and perspective: Lin Tian’s overwhelming strength has forced Hongjun to reassess what conflicts are worth pursuing.
• Contrasting paths: Tongtian’s open, upright slaughter is set against Luo Hou’s concealed and destructive approach.
• Transformation and destiny: Tongtian’s ascent from a humble origin illustrates how radically a being’s nature and status can change.
• Fear and ambition: Hongjun must balance his diminishing fortune, his desire to establish a lineage, and the growing dangers around him.

Plot points and events

• Hongjun explains that Tongtian’s origins are unusually complex: he evolved through several forms before becoming one of the Three Pure Ones, and the immense karma linking him to Hongjun makes it impossible for Tongtian’s coming sword strike to kill Hongjun.
• Hongjun predicts that Tongtian’s sword will instead target Devil Ancestor Luo Hou at Mount Sumeru. Their opposing paths—upright sword-based killing versus Luo Hou’s dark, destructive demonic path—require a battle to the death for Tongtian to advance.
• Hongjun, Ancestral Dragon, and Shi Feng recognize that Tongtian’s attack creates a brief opportunity to strike Luo Hou. They proceed with their plan to attack Mount Sumeru and unleash the great calamity that, in this timeline, could establish Hongjun as the Heavenly Dao’s First Saint.
• Ancestral Dragon forms a vast teleportation array, while Shi Feng powers it with seven-colored mystic fire. The Dragon and Phoenix clans mobilize their armies and pour into the array, preparing to teleport toward the western battlefield.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun displays confidence in his divination and in his destined rise, while explaining the limits imposed by his karma with Tongtian.
• Ancestral Dragon and Shi Feng initially pity Hongjun over his entangled fate with Tongtian, but quickly turn their attention to the military opportunity. They coordinate their powers to transport their armies.
• Tongtian, though absent, is the force shaping events: his developing sword intent is expected to draw Luo Hou into a decisive contest.
• The three leaders cooperate in a pragmatic alliance, discussing the threat and acting together to launch the campaign.

Significant themes

• Karma and fate: Past and present bonds shape who can harm whom, even when the full causes remain unknowable.
• Competing paths and advancement: Tongtian and Luo Hou’s opposing doctrines make conflict essential to their progress.
• Seizing opportunity: The leaders act immediately because Tongtian’s impending strike may create a fleeting opening.
• Ambition and destiny: Hongjun views the campaign as the step that will secure his future authority over the Heavenly Dao.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Hou and Heaven-Crusher Daoist complete the Devil Race’s enormous teleportation array at Mount Sumeru. Fueled by demonic qi gathered from across the Primordial World, it begins to activate.
• Luo Hou plans to transport his army of tens of billions to the Southern Continent and surround All-Heaven Divine Peak. He intends to wield all Four Zhuxian Swords himself, splitting his body into four to attack Lin Tian from multiple directions.
• Luo Hou leads the Devil Race through the array, with Heaven-Crusher Daoist close behind. He is focused on killing Lin Tian and fails to anticipate that Hongjun, Ancestral Dragon, and Shi Feng are preparing to attack Mount Sumeru.
• In the far north, the Chaos Demon Gods choose their next moves. Yang Mei and three allied Demon Gods head west to seek an alliance with Luo Hou. Meanwhile, the Primordial Wild Dragon proposes that other Chaos Demon Gods enter the world by being born among the Human Race, disrupting Lin Tian’s plans and influence. Several support the idea, doubting that an alliance with Luo Hou alone can defeat Lin Tian.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Hou is consumed by his determination to kill Lin Tian. His confidence rests on the Four Zhuxian Swords and the vast demonic-qi supply of his army; his hostility toward Lin Tian eclipses his concern about other threats.
• Heaven-Crusher Daoist follows Luo Hou into the array, excited but anxious, carrying the Destruction One Sword.
• Yang Mei takes the lead in seeking cooperation with Luo Hou, accompanied by the Power, Time, and Earth Demon Gods.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon favors a different strategy: infiltrating the Human Race to undermine Lin Tian from within. This creates a strategic division among the Chaos Demon Gods.
• Hongjun and Luo Hou are unknowingly moving toward confrontation: Hongjun is preparing an assault on Mount Sumeru just as Luo Hou departs, though Luo Hou assumes Hongjun and his allies are neutral or on his side.

Significant themes

• Escalating power struggles: Multiple factions prepare to challenge Lin Tian, each seeking leverage through armies, artifacts, alliances, or infiltration.
• Fatal misjudgment: Luo Hou’s assumptions about Hongjun’s loyalties leave him blind to an imminent threat.
• Competing strategies: The Chaos Demon Gods debate direct warfare versus disrupting Lin Tian’s influence through the Human Race.
• Power and ambition: Luo Hou’s pursuit of Lin Tian reflects how ambition and fixation can override broader dangers.

Plot points and events

• The Chaos Demon Gods fear that Lin Tian’s mastery of dimension—an exceptionally powerful fusion of space and time—could let him cross planes and eventually confront their true bodies. They agree that their safest option is to send their True Spirits into the Primordial World and undermine Lin Tian’s Human Race lineage from within.
• The Time and Fate Demon Gods reject the Primordial Wild Dragon’s cautious, gradual strategy. They argue that Lin Tian is growing too quickly and that the Demon Gods should attack him directly before it is too late.
• The Time Demon God asks where the sword strike being nurtured by Tongtian in Lin Tian’s Ten Thousand Laws Heaven will land. The Primordial Wild Dragon assumes it will target Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, based on Tongtian’s orthodox Sword Dao and Luo Hou’s conflict with that path.
• After using the Time Demon God’s law to make his deduction, the Primordial Wild Dragon is shocked: the sword strike is aimed at the Chaos Demon Gods’ True Spirits. The Fate Demon God mocks his interpretation, suggesting he has misunderstood what the deduction reveals.

Character developments

• Primordial Wild Dragon: Initially presents himself as a cautious strategist, but his confidence turns to shock when his deduction points to the Demon Gods themselves.
• Time Demon God: Impatient and confrontational, he advocates an immediate, direct response and challenges the Wild Dragon with a probing question.
• Fate Demon God: Supports his twin’s aggressive stance and ridicules the Wild Dragon after the deduction.
• Lin Tian: Though absent, he remains the central threat. His dimensional mastery has made the Demon Gods fear that he may soon surpass their ability to contain or evade him.
• Tongtian: His developing sword strike becomes a looming danger to the Demon Gods, though its target and significance remain uncertain.

Significant themes

• Fear of unstoppable growth: Lin Tian’s rapid development makes delay seem increasingly dangerous to his enemies.
• Strategy versus direct action: The Demon Gods are divided between covert infiltration and an immediate assault.
• Limits of prediction: Even the Wild Dragon’s broad command of laws cannot guarantee that he correctly understands the future.
• Hidden threats and shifting targets: The sword strike’s unexpected direction overturns the Demon Gods’ assumptions.

Character interactions

• The Time and Fate Demon Gods openly criticize the Wild Dragon’s cautious plan, while he responds with a challenge to offer a better one.
• The Time Demon God tests the Wild Dragon by asking him to predict Tongtian’s strike.
• The Wild Dragon mocks the twins before making his deduction, then reacts with alarm at its result.
• The Fate Demon God closes the scene by laughing at the Wild Dragon’s conclusion, leaving the true meaning of the sword strike unresolved.

Key events

• The Primordial Wild Dragon’s divination reveals a vast, hidden Netherworld Blood Sea in the Primordial Northern Continent. The Netherworld Ancestor, Youming, had been unable to sense it despite his affinity for Netherworld forces.
• The Blood Sea’s power and fortune surpass Youming’s own Netherworld River. A mighty being—Patriarch Minghe—has been nurtured there, attaining the power of a Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal and the Great Dao of a Quasi-Saint.
• The Time and Fate Demon Gods mock Youming, explaining that the Blood Sea has taken more than seventy percent of the Netherworld Demon God’s fortune across many worlds. They suggest this accounts for his repeated failures and lost opportunities.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon wonders whether Minghe is the “fled one” missed by their calculations. Fate replies that neither he nor Time can detect the true fugitive, leaving the question unresolved.
• The demon gods speculate that Tongtian’s long-prepared sword strike may target the hidden Netherworld Ancestor rather than the Devil Race’s leaders.
• Seeing a chance to retaliate against Lin Tian, the Primordial Wild Dragon proposes that Slaughter and Youming send their true spirits into the Blood Sea to help Minghe kill Tongtian. They would then use Tongtian’s true spirit to attack All-Heaven Divine Peak and kill Lin Tian. The Wild Dragon promises to assist.

Character developments and interactions

• Youming is shaken by discovering that a rival Netherworld power has quietly drained his fortune and undermined his plans.
• The Primordial Wild Dragon shifts from astonishment to strategic scheming, seeking to turn the possible attack on Minghe into an opportunity against Lin Tian.
• Time and Fate enjoy provoking and humiliating Youming and the Wild Dragon, though the mystery of the “fled one” momentarily leaves even them without an answer.
• The Wild Dragon remains controlled under the Time Demon God’s insults, recognizing that he cannot afford to antagonize the two demon gods he relied on for divination.

Significant themes

• Hidden powers and disrupted destiny: The Blood Sea’s concealment has altered the fortunes and expected roles of powerful beings.
• Fate, uncertainty, and miscalculation: The demon gods’ schemes and prophecies are incomplete, especially regarding the unidentified fugitive.
• Rivalry and opportunism: The demon gods turn revelation into a plan to exploit Tongtian’s strike and target Lin Tian.

Key plot points and events

• The Primordial Wild Dragon persuades the Netherworld Ancestor (Youming) and the Slaughter Demon God to go to the Netherworld Blood Sea and help Patriarch Minghe fight Daoist Tongtian and Spirit Vine Lin Tian. Youming readily agrees; the Slaughter Demon God reluctantly joins, privately intending to avoid doing much.
• The Wild Dragon opens a Void Traversal formation, sending both demon gods directly to Minghe’s domain.
• Minghe senses the threat from Tongtian’s Green Duckweed Sword and realizes it is aimed at him from Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven. Armed with the A Bi and Yuantu swords and protected by his Twelfth-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, he confronts Tongtian’s killing intent.
• Tongtian rises and directs his sword toward Minghe. A projection of Tongtian appears inside the Blood Sea, wielding a blood-colored version of the sword.
• Youming and the Slaughter Demon God arrive beside Minghe. Youming announces that they have come to help kill Tongtian and draws his Netherworld River as a gray sword, causing the Blood Sea to surge.

Character developments and interactions

• Youming acts eagerly, seeing the crisis as a chance to claim the Blood Sea and strengthen his own Netherworld River.
• The Slaughter Demon God remains reluctant and self-interested, agreeing mainly because the Wild Dragon has committed himself and offered assistance.
• Minghe shifts from isolated cultivation to open readiness for battle, though the sudden arrival of the two Chaos Demon Gods frightens him: he has never dealt with either Chaos gods or other beings of the Primordial World.
• Tongtian and Minghe meet through mutual targeting: Tongtian’s sword points at Minghe, while Minghe’s gaze reaches Tongtian across immense barriers.
• Youming and the Slaughter Demon God appear as unexpected allies to Minghe, while Tongtian’s projection establishes an immediate confrontation.

Significant themes

• Fate and intervention: Minghe believes he has kept apart from the world’s affairs, yet becomes a target in a conflict driven by greater powers.
• Reluctant loyalty and self-interest: Youming pursues personal gain, while the Slaughter Demon God participates grudgingly and plans to minimize his effort.
• Escalating conflict: The arrival of Tongtian’s projection and the two demon gods transforms Minghe’s solitary domain into a gathering point for a decisive battle.

Summary

• Minghe’s choice: From the Netherworld Blood Sea, Patriarch Minghe has watched Lin Tian’s rise and the Primordial World’s changing fortunes for millions of years. When two Chaos Demon Gods appear beside his Karmic Fire Red Lotus and propose joining forces against Daoist Tongtian, Minghe suspects they want to exploit the conflict and make him their pawn. Rather than accept their alliance, he calculates that his safest course is to face Tongtian’s sword strike alone.
• Tongtian’s target: Tongtian has located Minghe while preparing a peerless sword strike. Their opposing Slaughter Daos are not, however, the true reason for the confrontation: Minghe had concealed his Dao and has no decisive feud with Tongtian. The connection lies in Houtu’s gift to Tongtian—the Green Duckweed Sword—and her Forty-Nine Paths of Reincarnation, which already encompass Minghe and connect the Netherworld Blood Sea to the sword’s power.
• A conversation before the strike: Minghe sends Tongtian a message explaining that Tongtian may strike him, but that he has something to clarify first. Tongtian answers and asks him to speak plainly.

Character developments and interactions

• Minghe is shown as cautious and calculating, preferring a dangerous confrontation he understands over an alliance that could cost him his freedom. He communicates with Tongtian rather than immediately resisting or trusting the newcomers.
• Tongtian remains focused and composed, but responds courteously when Minghe addresses him.
• Houtu, though absent from the exchange, proves pivotal: her reincarnation system and the sword she gave Tongtian create the hidden link that directs the strike toward Minghe.
• The Chaos Demon Gods are viewed with suspicion by Minghe, who believes their offer is a scheme to profit from the conflict.

Significant themes

The chapter emphasizes caution and self-preservation, the danger of opportunistic alliances, and unseen connections between powerful beings. It also distinguishes apparent rivalry from genuine cause: Tongtian and Minghe are not compelled by personal hatred or a direct Great Dao contest, but by a deeper link between Houtu’s reincarnation and Tongtian’s sword.

Key plot points and events

• Minghe explains to Tongtian that the Green Duckweed Sword’s connection to reincarnation and the Netherworld lets it cut away the karma linking the sword to him. He offers to sever that bond if Tongtian can also remove two demon gods who appeared claiming to help.
• Lin Tian, having refined the Chaos Heavenly River, gains extraordinary command over laws: he can create new origin laws and Dao arts or destroy existing ones.
• Lin Tian focuses on the Red Cloud origin law and brings another-plane version of Red Cloud—Abbess Seven Absolutes—to this world. He sends her to merge with the local Abbess Seven Absolutes, who has endured a life of misfortune while laboring for the Zhunti Pavilion.
• The arriving Red Cloud’s power and fortune transform the local woman’s body. She becomes young, then deliberately returns to her aged appearance, delighted by the laws and opportunities of this plane. She remains in the Great Hero Hall, calmly tapping her wooden fish.
• Lin Tian returns his Pangu True Body to his consciousness and uses the Primordial Unity Creation Illusion to ease Zhen Yuanzi’s fear concerning Red Cloud across his alternate lives and fated paths.

Character developments and interactions

• Tongtian and Minghe: Their exchange is cautious but cooperative; Minghe clarifies the sword’s karmic role while remaining suspicious of the demon gods.
• Lin Tian: His mastery has expanded from refining laws to freely creating and annihilating them, and he actively shapes events across planes.
• Abbess Seven Absolutes / Red Cloud: The previously unlucky local Abbess gains Red Cloud’s immense cultivation, opportunities, and fortune. Despite her excitement, she shows restraint by staying to meditate and regulate her emotions.
• Zhen Yuanzi: Still unconscious, he receives Lin Tian’s intervention to soothe his fear of Red Cloud.

Significant themes

• Karma and fate: The Green Duckweed Sword embodies ties to reincarnation and the Netherworld, while Zhen Yuanzi’s fear spans alternate destinies.
• Transformation and fortune: Red Cloud’s arrival overturns the local Abbess’s long history of misfortune.
• Power and creation: Lin Tian’s new abilities let him reshape the laws underpinning reality.
• Restraint amid power: Red Cloud’s manifestation chooses meditation over immediately acting on her newfound strength.

Plot points and events

• Lin Tian concludes that if Zhen Yuanzi’s fear of Red Cloud prevents them from becoming Dao companions, Zhen Yuanzi could lose both his Dao Fruit and his position as Ancestor of Earth Immortals—changes Lin Tian cannot undo.
• Lin Tian turns his attention to Tongtian, whose Green Duckweed Sword is karmically connected to Houtu. Tongtian’s prepared strike is destined to hit Patriarch Minghe in the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• Before unleashing it, Tongtian asks Lin Tian for guidance. Lin Tian tells him to act decisively and forge his own Dao, then lends him a strand of the slaughter law as sword intent.
• The added power lets Tongtian release the sword intent he has cultivated through his successive forms: the Earth Book, the White Jade Golden Bridge, and the Chaos Dao Scripture. Those forms join into a bridge leading toward Minghe’s domain.
• Tongtian cries, “Green Duckweed Sword, shatter it for me!” and sends a tremendous sword strike into the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• The Netherworld Demon God demands to know whether Minghe will ally with him and the Slaughter Demon God. Seeing that Minghe has not answered and may be setting a trap, the Slaughter Demon God urges retreat and proposes joining the Primordial Wild Dragon to encircle and slowly refine the Blood Sea.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian remains calm and perceptive, understanding the consequences of Zhen Yuanzi’s fate and the hidden karmic ties behind Tongtian’s strike. He supports Tongtian not by directing the attack, but by urging independence and lending him power.
• Tongtian moves from habitual obedience toward self-determination: he seeks his master’s permission, but Lin Tian tells him to trust his own path. The strike becomes the culmination of his many former identities.
• Minghe is portrayed as formidable and inscrutable. His silence makes the visiting demon gods suspect he has no wish to ally with them—and might turn against them.
• The Slaughter Demon God and Netherworld Demon God shift from seeking Minghe’s cooperation to considering a broader attack on his territory.

Significant themes

• Destiny and loss: Zhen Yuanzi’s Dao Fruit and status are tied to his relationship with Red Cloud.
• Independence and self-created Dao: Tongtian’s defining moment comes when he is encouraged to stop seeking permission and act on his own.
• Transformation and accumulated history: Tongtian’s former forms combine to empower his present strike, making his evolution part of his strength.
• Trust, suspicion, and alliance: Minghe’s silence destabilizes negotiations and pushes the demon gods toward confrontation.
  The chapter ends with the demon gods considering retreat and a plan to surround the Netherworld Blood Sea; the outcome of Tongtian’s strike remains unresolved.

Plot and key events

• The Netherworld Demon God rejects the Slaughter Demon God’s suggestion to leave the Netherworld Blood Sea. He wants to consume the sea and Patriarch Minghe, take Minghe’s place in the Primordial World, and establish his own dao lineage there.
• The Slaughter Demon God asks the Primordial Wild Dragon, waiting outside the sea’s barrier, to extract him so they can reconsider their plans. The dragon ignores him, leaving him trapped.
• Daoist Tongtian’s Green Duckweed sword strike reaches the consciousnesses of the Slaughter and Netherworld Demon Gods. Its power is tied to the Netherworld Blood Sea and cuts karmic connections involving the sword, the sea, and Houtu; anyone connected to the sea is caught in its reach.
• Tongtian’s strike cleaves Patriarch Minghe in two and splits the Netherworld Blood Sea with a vast, cliff-sided rift. The two Chaos Demon Gods are struck through their true spirits, but the Primordial Wild Dragon suddenly tears open a rift and rescues them.
• Though gravely cut, Minghe remains composed and praises the terrifying precision of Tongtian’s sword.

Character developments and interactions

• Netherworld Demon God: His ambition to establish a lasting foundation in the Primordial World outweighs caution. He refuses to retreat, treating the Blood Sea and Minghe as resources to seize.
• Slaughter Demon God: He tries to disengage once the plan changes, but the Primordial Wild Dragon’s silence leaves him exposed. At the last moment, he joins the Netherworld Demon God in pleading for rescue.
• Primordial Wild Dragon: He ignores the Slaughter Demon God’s request, then intervenes only when the two demons are in mortal danger.
• Patriarch Minghe: Despite being split apart, he shows no panic and responds to Tongtian’s power with admiration.
• Daoist Tongtian: His strike demonstrates immense reach and power, cutting through the Blood Sea and its connected beings. He does not attend to the demons’ fate afterward.

Significant themes

• Ambition versus prudence: The Netherworld Demon God’s desire for a home and lineage drives him to remain in danger.
• Power and karmic connection: The sword’s reach is defined not only by distance but by ties to the Netherworld Blood Sea.
• The cost of seeking a foundation: The Chaos Demon Gods’ lack of a true place in the Primordial World fuels their attempts to seize one.
• Composure before overwhelming force: Minghe’s calm reaction contrasts with the demons’ terror and highlights his confidence—or acceptance—in the face of Tongtian’s attack.

Key events

• Daoist Tongtian’s Green Duckweed Sword cleaves Patriarch Minghe and the Netherworld Blood Sea in two. Both heal, confirming that Minghe cannot die while the Blood Sea remains.
• Tongtian returns to the Blood Sea. Minghe asks him to recommend him to Lin Tian and the Spirit Vine Sect, but Tongtian says Minghe should approach Lin Tian himself.
• Tongtian’s sword has unexpectedly developed a spirit of its own, a discovery that fills him with excitement.
• Devil Ancestor Luo Hou arrives near All-Heaven Divine Peak by means of a concealed teleportation array. He secretly deploys a vast army to encircle the peak and position the Four Zhuxian Swords, while Heaven-Crusher Daoist leads elite forces to attack the Hongmeng Fierce Birds.
• Lin Tian greets Tongtian and asks what he learned from his strike. Tongtian bows and declares that he has grasped the essence of primordial unity in the Sword Dao.

Character developments and interactions

• Tongtian demonstrates his swordsmanship against Minghe and gains both a new sword spirit and a major insight into the Sword Dao. He remains respectful toward Lin Tian, his master.
• Minghe accepts his survival as a consequence of the Blood Sea’s resilience and reveals his desire to join Lin Tian’s circle. Tongtian neither advocates for him nor discourages him, leaving the decision to Minghe.
• Luo Hou acts covertly and decisively, preparing a large-scale assault designed to isolate Lin Tian’s stronghold and eliminate its powerful allies.
• Lin Tian appears unaware of the hidden encirclement and focuses on Tongtian’s progress.

Significant themes

• Resilience and dependence: Minghe’s survival is inseparable from the Blood Sea; his apparent destruction is reversible while its source endures.
• Ambition and opportunity: Minghe hopes to gain access to the transformations and teachings brought about by Lin Tian’s influence.
• Growth through action: Tongtian’s strike yields an unexpected awakening in his sword and a breakthrough in understanding.
• Concealment and looming conflict: Luo Hou’s ability to evade even Lin Tian’s perception creates dramatic irony and foreshadows an imminent attack.

Key plot points and events

• Daoist Tongtian vows to establish Jiejiao, teaching all beings without discrimination and protecting those who join. Heaven and earth respond with auspicious signs, merit, and a sword seal formed from his peerless sword intent.
• Lin Tian approves Tongtian’s ambition but gives him a binding precept: Jiejiao must put the Human Race’s core interests first if they conflict with the sect’s. Tongtian readily agrees, though Lin Tian doubts this will avert future conflict between Jiejiao and the teachings of Laozi and Yuanshi.
• Lin Tian foresees that these competing interests may eventually lead to the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, but believes intervening could trigger even greater consequences across other dimensions.
• The moment is interrupted by four sword lights and a vast surge of demonic energy. Devil Ancestor Luo Hou and tens of billions of Devil Race forces appear near All-Heaven Divine Peak, having used a hidden teleportation array and deployed the Four Zhuxian Swords Formation.
• Lin Tian recognizes the long-foreseen battle has arrived and reacts with unusual delight, while his companions are shocked and struggle to understand how the Devil Army breached their defenses. They realize it must have entered through the teleportation array.

Character developments and interactions

• Tongtian formally becomes the founder of Jiejiao, expressing an expansive ideal of universal teaching. His unquestioning acceptance of Lin Tian’s precept contrasts with Lin Tian’s doubts about whether Tongtian’s principles will ultimately align with it.
• Lin Tian acts as mentor and protector, affirming Tongtian’s path while warning him about the Human Race. He also reveals his long preparation for a confrontation with Luo Hou, though the enemy’s method of arrival surprises him.
• The Spirit Vine Lineage’s companions move from witnessing Tongtian’s revelation to alarm and confusion at the sudden invasion. Lin Tian alone remains composed.

Significant themes

• Universal compassion versus obligation: Jiejiao’s promise to teach all beings is tempered by loyalty to the Human Race.
• Inevitable conflict and the limits of control: Lin Tian can foresee future calamities but believes that trying to prevent them may cause still greater harm.
• Destiny and surprise: The battle was long foretold, yet Luo Hou’s unexpected route and tactics show that even careful divination cannot anticipate every detail.
• Order disrupted by ambition and force: Tongtian’s solemn founding ceremony is abruptly overtaken by the Devil Army’s attack.

Plot points and events

• The Devil Race surrounds All-Heaven Divine Peak with the Four Zhuxian Swords formation. Its immense army’s cries reach Lin Tian’s companions through the barrier, and its leader, Devil Ancestor Luo Hou, announces that the Spirit Vine fiend is his target.
• The Little Beast Emperor questions how the Devil Race crossed the Southern Continent’s Border Mountain and suspects a traitor. Houtu wonders whether the Hongmeng Fierce Birds have already been defeated and asks Lin Tian to investigate.
• Lin Tian tries to open a path through space to reach the Hongmeng Fierce Birds, but a sword strike from beyond ordinary limits knocks his hand aside. The formation has sealed the area within a million miles, blocking his senses and isolating everyone across time, dimensions, and planes.
• Lin Tian admits he cannot determine the birds’ fate or perceive beyond the formation. As the four sword lights close in, the Spirit Vine companions’ confidence collapses.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian remains composed, but the unexpected sword strike shows that Luo Hou’s preparations have exceeded even his expectations. He answers Houtu honestly about the limits imposed on him.
• The Little Beast Emperor remains loyal to Lin Tian and distrustful of others, especially Ghost Chariot, whom he considers unreliable.
• Houtu quickly recognizes that the situation is abnormal and raises the possibility that the Fierce Birds have been wiped out. Daoist Tongtian senses something is wrong but cannot yet reason out its cause.
• Fuxi abandons thoughts of joining Lin Tian as a disciple and secretly considers betraying him if the swords are about to strike, hoping to bargain with Luo Hou for greater rewards. He assumes Nuwa would join him, though he does not tell her his plan.

Significant themes

• Betrayal and self-preservation: The danger exposes how fragile the companions’ loyalty may be, especially for Fuxi.
• Limits of power: Even Lin Tian is trapped and cut off from information, underscoring the formation’s formidable strength.
• Ambition and opportunism: Fuxi weighs discipleship against the chance to gain status by betraying his protector, spurred by memories of another plane’s history.
• Isolation and uncertainty: With communication and perception severed, the group cannot know what has happened elsewhere or who can be trusted.

Key plot points and events

• Devil Ancestor Luo Hou traps Lin Tian and the Spirit Vine School inside the Four Zhuxian Swords’ independent formation, powered by the sacrifices and demonic qi of his vast army. The formation’s sword intent steadily closes in, threatening to kill everyone at All-Heaven Divine Peak.
• Lin Tian studies the formation and notices a flaw: Luo Hou’s army occupies a shifting position, entering the formation’s boundary whenever Luo Hou contacts the people inside. Luo Hou realizes Lin Tian has noticed, stops communicating, and leaves those trapped with no obvious way out.
• Jiubao and Zhen Yuanzi consider seeking help from Red Cloud, Abbess Seven Absolutes. Lin Tian anticipates this and tells them not to summon her because he has another plan.
• Lin Tian sits in meditation and sends strands of vine-like energy outward, weaving them into a spreading network of sturdy hexagonal shapes. The others wonder whether this structure can resist the formation’s sword intent.
• As Lin Tian’s vines reach Fuxi and Nuwa, Fuxi hesitates over whether to destroy them or let them bind him. Nuwa begins speaking to him through their shared consciousness.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian remains composed under extreme danger. Rather than panic or immediately call for outside help, he analyzes the formation and begins a mysterious countermeasure.
• Luo Hou demonstrates strategic foresight and ruthless resolve. He exploits the formation’s weakness by communicating only once, then withdrawing, apparently cutting off the captives’ chance to draw his forces into the formation again.
• Fuxi is portrayed as especially self-serving and indecisive in this world. He considers betraying Lin Tian by offering him to Luo Hou, but becomes uncertain when Lin Tian’s vines approach.
• Nuwa intervenes at a crucial moment by contacting her brother telepathically; what she says, and how Fuxi responds, are left unresolved.
• Jiubao and Zhen Yuanzi independently think of calling on Red Cloud, but defer to Lin Tian when he says he has a solution.

Significant themes

• Fate and variation: Fuxi’s personality differs across planes, shaped by his circumstances; in this world, his opportunism and wavering loyalties are especially pronounced.
• Strategy and hidden weaknesses: Even a seemingly overwhelming weapon such as the Four Zhuxian Swords has a flaw, and recognizing it becomes central to survival.
• Loyalty versus self-preservation: Fuxi’s temptation to betray Lin Tian contrasts with the group’s reliance on Lin Tian and Nuwa’s apparent effort to influence her brother.
• Composure in crisis: Lin Tian’s calm analysis and deliberate action stand against the fear and uncertainty of those trapped with him.

Key plot points and events

• As Devil Ancestor Luo Hou’s Four Zhuxian Swords Formation traps Lin Tian and his allies, Nuwa secretly warns her brother Fuxi not to betray Lin Tian or change sides.
• Fuxi argues that they must judge the danger quickly: the formation is so powerful that it may determine whether they survive. Inwardly, however, he has considered offering Lin Tian to Luo Hou to save himself.
• Nuwa insists that Lin Tian may be able to overcome even this legendary formation, citing his past feats in another version of the Primordial World. She threatens to sever their sibling bond if Fuxi continues scheming between the two camps.
• Fuxi backs down, claiming he was only afraid they would die.
• The formation suppresses the power of the other trapped powerhouses. The Six Human Ancestors are frightened, but Lin Tian shelters them with a vast framework of Dao-union vines shaped into hexagons.
• The vine lattice stabilizes the formation’s interior, but it is only temporary: the formation’s mysterious sword light steadily withers and destroys the vines.

Character developments

• Nuwa shifts from her former habit of changing sides for advantage to firm loyalty toward Lin Tian. She hopes to become his disciple and gain the opportunity to rise to sainthood and beyond.
• Fuxi is exposed as dangerously opportunistic: despite having committed to Lin Tian, terror at the formation makes him consider betrayal. Nuwa’s warning forces him to retreat from that impulse.
• Lin Tian demonstrates exceptional control within the formation, protecting his allies when even powerful beings can wield only a fraction of their usual strength.

Significant themes

• Loyalty versus self-preservation: fear tests the siblings’ allegiance, especially Fuxi’s.
• Ambition and dependence on power: Nuwa’s loyalty is strengthened by both faith in Lin Tian and hopes for her own rise.
• The limits of power: even formidable cultivators are severely weakened by the formation, while Lin Tian’s defense is effective but not permanent.
• Trust between siblings: Nuwa’s ultimatum shows how Fuxi’s choices threaten not only their alliance with Lin Tian but their relationship with each other.

Character interactions

Nuwa privately confronts Fuxi before he can act against Lin Tian. Fuxi questions whether Lin Tian can survive the formation; Nuwa counters with evidence from his past and demands an unequivocal choice. Her stern threat silences his wavering, while Lin Tian’s protective vines give the trapped allies some reassurance—though the unraveling lattice leaves their danger unresolved.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian remains inside the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation while its sword light steadily shaves away his Dao-Union Spirit Vine. Though the vine is extraordinarily tough, the sword light appears to be wearing it down.
• Outside the formation, Luo Hou is unsettled by Lin Tian’s lack of resistance. Lin Tian had opportunities to disrupt Luo Hou’s preparations but allowed the devil army to assemble and spread across the Primordial Southern Continent.
• Luo Hou’s forces are divided: Demon Marshal Jidu is away at Central Great Dao Mountain, while Heaven-Crusher Daoist leads a third of the army against the Hongmeng Fierce Birds.
• Despite the formation’s completion, Lin Tian’s command over the Three Thousand Great Daos remains unchanged. His will still permeates the world, and his realm, Spirit Vine Ten Thousand Laws Heaven, continues to flourish.
• Yang Mei identifies why the formation has failed to affect Lin Tian: Luo Hou’s four avatars, rather than the four Chaos Demon Gods, are wielding the swords at its formation eyes.
• Yang Mei proposes that he and the other three demon gods—Time, Power, and Earth—take the four swords themselves, potentially making the formation effective. Luo Hou is surprised and pleased by the offer.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Hou shifts from confidence in his powerful formation to anxiety and doubt, suspecting Lin Tian has a hidden plan. He also mocks Yang Mei’s perception before asking for his advice.
• Yang Mei answers Luo Hou’s taunts calmly, then offers a concrete strategy, showing both confidence and willingness to cooperate.
• Lin Tian remains unseen and silent, but his undiminished control over the world suggests the formation has not truly constrained him.
• Luo Hou and Yang Mei’s exchange moves from mutual mockery to potential cooperation against Lin Tian.

Significant themes

• Power versus appearances: The formation looks formidable, yet Lin Tian’s influence remains intact.
• Uncertainty and strategic suspicion: Luo Hou’s inability to read Lin Tian’s intentions undermines his confidence.
• Cooperation born of necessity: Luo Hou may need the demon gods’ direct involvement to make his plan work.

Key plot points and events

• Luo Hou deploys the Four Zhuxian Swords around the All-Heaven Divine Peak, creating a vast, lethal formation. Lin Tian remains undeterred because his mastery of the Three Thousand Great Daos means the formation does not diminish his power or standing.
• Yang Mei and three other Chaos Demon Gods offer to wield the swords to help oppose Lin Tian. Luo Hou welcomes their help but refuses to hand over the leading Executioner Immortal Sword, insisting that only he may control it.
• Though angered by Luo Hou’s distrust, Yang Mei accepts the arrangement and offers to remain as guardian of the formation.
• Luo Hou then demands that Chaos creatures be used as sacrifices to sustain the formation, which has already consumed millions of his own Devil Race disciples. The Power, Earth, and Time Demon Gods erupt in anger at his audacity, while Luo Hou remains calm.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Hou proves calculating and protective of his authority. Even while accepting the Chaos Demon Gods’ aid, he keeps control of the formation’s key sword and pushes them to bear its costs.
• Yang Mei is pragmatic: despite clear displeasure, he agrees to Luo Hou’s conditions because stopping Lin Tian matters more to him than confronting Luo Hou.
• The Power, Earth, and Time Demon Gods resent Luo Hou’s distrust and increasingly see him as shameless and unreasonable. The Power Demon God voices their anger openly.
• Lin Tian is established as an overwhelming threat whose mastery makes even the Zhuxian Sword Formation insufficient to unsettle him.

Significant themes

• Power and control: Luo Hou treats the sword formation as his final source of authority and refuses to surrender its command.
• Uneasy alliances: The Chaos Demon Gods and Luo Hou cooperate out of shared fear of Lin Tian, despite mutual suspicion and resentment.
• Sacrifice and survival: The formation consumes lives, and the characters debate who should bear its cost.
• A struggle beyond the present world: The Chaos Demon Gods fear that Lin Tian could reach the “other shore,” escape the world’s limits, and threaten their own survival.

Plot points and events

• Luo Hou demands that the Chaos Demon Gods help power the Executioner Immortal Sword Formation by sacrificing Chaos Creatures from other dimensions. Great Immortal Yang Mei objects to the demand.
• Yang Mei counters that, if the Chaos Demon Gods help defeat Vine Dao Venerable Lin Tian, they should receive the chance to become the Primordial World’s first Heavenly Dao Saint and claim six of the nine remaining strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Luo Hou points out that their claims depend on the Chaos Demon Gods being able to gain the required Heavenly Dao compatibility, merit, and Heaven-and-Earth Xuanhuang Qi. Beneath the mockery, the two leaders reach a tacit bargain: if the Chaos Demon Gods can secure those prerequisites, Luo Hou will give them sixty percent of the remaining Purple Qi.
• Luo Hou summons four avatars, each embodying an aspect of the Demon Gate, and positions them with the Four Zhuxian Swords. He and the Power, Time, and Earth Demon Gods take up the swords and jointly activate the formation.
• The formation’s power surges more than a hundredfold, shattering Lin Tian’s hexagonal vine defense and driving it toward All-Heaven Divine Peak. Lin Tian now faces the imminent destruction of both his spirit-vine body and Pangu true body, along with the entire Spirit Vine Lineage.

Character developments and interactions

• Luo Hou stays composed during the negotiations and treats the future rewards as distant, while privately welcoming the possibility of gaining power over the Primordial World. He skillfully uses sarcasm and conditional promises to secure Yang Mei’s cooperation.
• Yang Mei begins furious at Luo Hou’s demands but shifts to a relaxed, smiling manner once the two establish terms. His focus is on winning a major share of the world’s future power and resources.
• The Chaos Demon Gods move from contentious allies to active partners, helping Luo Hou operate the Four Zhuxian Swords.
• Lin Tian is placed in a desperate position as his defenses fail under the strengthened formation.

Significant themes

• Power and opportunism: The alliance is built around bargaining over future authority, sacred positions, and cosmic resources.
• Conditional cooperation: Luo Hou and Yang Mei cooperate without surrendering their ambitions, relying on promises contingent on what they can achieve.
• Escalating stakes: The conflict shifts from political negotiation to a near-immediate threat of annihilation for Lin Tian and his lineage.

Plot points and events

• Lin Tian and his companions face the terrifying Executioner Immortal Sword Formation. The formation destroys the Dao-union souls Lin Tian had sent against it, leaving even powerful Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortals fearing they may be killed.
• Jiubao and Zhen Yuanzi suggest calling Red Cloud, Abbess Seven Absolutes, for help. Jiubao’s proposal comes from a karmic connection she has glimpsed; Zhen Yuanzi believes Red Cloud may be the only other person capable of changing their desperate situation.
• Lin Tian remains calm. He recognizes that the formation can be broken by assembling four Saints recognized by the Primordial Heavenly Dao, who can attack it from within using their Dao arts or Chaos Supreme Treasures.
• He also senses that four distinct sword wielders outside the formation have greatly strengthened it, reducing his earlier Spirit Vine formation to ash.
• Lin Tian reassures his companions that Red Cloud’s vast authority in another world does not make her overwhelmingly stronger here: in this plane, her actual power is comparable to that of Nuwa, Fuxi, Houtu, and the Six Ancestors of the Human Race.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian shows strategic knowledge and composure under extreme pressure, calming his allies rather than rushing to seek help.
• Jiubao acts on her understanding of karma, suggesting outside aid while leaving the decision to Lin Tian.
• Zhen Yuanzi openly acknowledges that Lin Tian may not be the only supreme power in their world, and turns to Red Cloud as a possible equal.
• The companions are shaken by the formation’s destructive force, but Lin Tian’s reassurance helps steady them.
• Red Cloud is presented as a supreme figure in another world, though her strength in this one is more limited and comparable to Lin Tian’s other powerful allies.

Significant themes

• Calm and strategy amid danger: Lin Tian treats a seemingly hopeless crisis as a problem with a known solution.
• Power depends on context: Red Cloud’s status and strength differ across world-planes.
• Karma and causality: Jiubao’s suggestion is guided by a subtle connection she perceives through the Karma Law.
• Collective strength: The formation’s weakness lies in facing four qualified Saints together, rather than relying on one individual’s power.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian explains that the Little Beast Emperor’s World-Destroying Millstone may evolve into the complete World-Destroying Great Millstone, a supreme Chaos treasure. If it does, the Beast Emperor could reach the Great Dao Saint level and rival Lin Tian himself—surpassing even Red Cloud.
• Encouraged by this assurance, the Little Beast Emperor transforms into his immense World-Annihilating Thunder Beast form and declares that he can break the Four Zhuxian Swords’ formation.
• Ghost Chariot mocks the Beast Emperor’s rash confidence, but is inspired by the same fearless spirit. He enlarges to match him and unleashes his silence-based Dao Art, quieting All-Heaven Divine Peak. Bloody tears bearing an orthodox, righteous aura spread from his many faces.
• Houtu steps forward, bringing forth her Reincarnation Disk and its Forty-Nine Paths of Reincarnation. Her power gathers the laws and order of the peak into reincarnation.
• The three powerhouses—Little Beast Emperor, Ghost Chariot, and Houtu—willingly place themselves and their Dao in the way of the approaching Four Zhuxian Swords to defend Lin Tian and the Spirit Vine School.
• Daoist Tongtian, having recovered enough to understand that the sword formation has severed the school’s fighters from the Primordial World’s destiny and the Great Dao, is stirred by the formation’s killing sword intent. He joins the defenders and asks Lin Tian to let him face the swords’ destructive power.

Character developments and interactions

• Little Beast Emperor gains confidence after Lin Tian reframes his potential, shifting from awe of other powerhouses to pride in his own future strength.
• Ghost Chariot pokes fun at the Beast Emperor’s impulsiveness but reveals that he shares his reckless courage and eagerness to face danger.
• Houtu acts decisively and selflessly, using her reincarnation power to support the defense.
• Tongtian turns the threat into a chance to pursue and test his Sword Dao, pledging himself to the Spirit Vine Lineage.
• Lin Tian’s faith in his followers helps ignite their confidence and loyalty; the disciples respond by volunteering to bear the danger rather than leave him exposed.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and sacrifice: The followers willingly risk their bodies and Daos to protect their leader and school.
• Confidence and potential: Lin Tian’s explanation helps the Beast Emperor recognize the extraordinary future contained in his treasure.
• Courage and recklessness: Fearless action is celebrated, even as Ghost Chariot hints that impulsiveness can carry consequences.
• The pursuit of the Dao: The sword formation’s power inspires Tongtian to deepen his commitment to the Sword Dao.
• Unity against overwhelming force: Different powers—destruction, silence, reincarnation, and swordsmanship—come together against the Four Zhuxian Swords.