Chapter Summaries

Plot and key events

• The Little Beast Emperor, Cha Luo, grows from twenty-seven to thirty-six zhang after his body returns to normal. His lightning power, physical strength, and bloodline have greatly advanced, though he still has room to develop before reaching the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Ghost Chariot prepares to undergo a tribulation and advance to that realm. His long struggles have finally led to an opportunity on Mount Buzhou, with Lin Tian’s help proving crucial.
• Lin Tian’s Hongmeng Good Fortune Vines guard Ghost Chariot during the tribulation, while Cha Luo waits nearby to absorb the lightning and strengthen his own bloodline.
• A tremendous Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation engulfs Mount Buzhou, sending powerful shock waves across the Central Continent.
• The Qilin Clan, which lives at the mountain’s foot, rallies under its patriarch First Qilin and raises its enormous Innate Eight Gates Formation to protect its territory and accumulated treasures.

Character developments and interactions

• Cha Luo shows remarkable growth and an apparently vast potential, treating the dangerous tribulation as an opportunity to improve.
• Ghost Chariot is on the verge of a major breakthrough after a long history of hardship. Lin Tian supports him by providing protection and having helped bring him to this point.
• First Qilin responds as a cautious leader, mobilizing his clan against the tribulation’s shock waves. Privately, he is baffled and irritated that anyone would choose Mount Buzhou’s summit for such a dangerous breakthrough.
• The Qilin Clan’s response contrasts with Lin Tian and Cha Luo’s support of Ghost Chariot: the former sees the event as a threat to its holdings, while the latter sees it as a chance for advancement.

Significant themes

• Growth through hardship: Ghost Chariot’s trials have brought him to a long-awaited breakthrough, while Cha Luo’s progress suggests even greater potential ahead.
• Power and risk: Advancing to the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm is momentous but dangerous, especially on Mount Buzhou, where a tribulation can trigger immense collateral destruction.
• Self-interest and exploitation: The Qilin Clan profits from travelers who fail to climb the mountain, turning their deaths into labor and materials, and now focuses on protecting its own wealth.
• Opportunity in danger: Cha Luo’s willingness to benefit from the tribulation underscores how perilous events can also create opportunities for growth.

Key plot points and events

• Ghost Chariot undergoes a century-long Great Encompassing Golden Immortal tribulation atop Mount Buzhou’s final stairway step. The lightning repeatedly tears apart its body, but Lin Tian’s Hongmeng Good Fortune Vine restores it with life energy drawn from the Yellow Zhongli.
• The Little Beast Emperor helps by drawing the tribulation’s lightning toward itself. The Qilin Clan evacuates far from Mount Buzhou, while the surrounding land is reduced to scorched wasteland.
• When the tribulation ends, Ghost Chariot has advanced to the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm and can take human form. It thanks Lin Tian for his support.
• Lin Tian directs the group to establish a cultivation ground at the summit. The Little Beast Emperor carries Lin Tian and Ghost Chariot up the final stretch.
• At the summit, they discover an ancient Innate Gourd Vine bearing seven powerful gourds. Lin Tian is delighted; Ghost Chariot marvels at their fortune, while the Little Beast Emperor teases it for sounding as though it wants a share.

Character developments and interactions

• Ghost Chariot endures the tribulation through desperation and pain, but companionship and Lin Tian’s aid renew its resolve. Its advancement brings both a new human form and deep gratitude toward its master.
• Lin Tian remains a supportive leader, using the vine to protect and heal Ghost Chariot, then guiding the group toward the summit.
• The Little Beast Emperor proves a bold and effective ally during the tribulation, later carrying the others uphill. Its gestures also reveal a mischievous, possessive streak toward Lin Tian’s treasures.
• Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor exchange playful teasing: the beast accuses Ghost Chariot of coveting Lin Tian’s treasures, and Ghost Chariot hurriedly denies it.

Significant themes

• Companionship and mutual support: Ghost Chariot survives not alone, but through the combined efforts of its allies.
• Perseverance and reward: The group’s long climb culminates in reaching the summit and finding a legendary treasure.
• Loyalty and gratitude: Ghost Chariot’s transformation does not diminish its devotion to Lin Tian.
• Humor amid danger: The characters’ banter lightens the aftermath of a devastating tribulation.

Chapter Summary

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian observes Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor trading familiar insults, recognizing that their banter has become a way for them to grow closer.
• The group discovers a vine bearing seven extraordinary gourds, each a different color and associated with legendary powers. Though unripe, all seven together are said to be capable of rivaling such supreme treasures as Pan Gu’s Heaven-Opening Divine Axe and the Chaos Green Lotus.
• Rather than wait for the gourds to mature on Mount Buzhou, Lin Tian transplants the vine into one of his Myriad Heavens Worlds, entrusting its care to the old Daoist Yin-Yang Mirror’s divine consciousness. The World Spirit promises that its yin-yang energy will help produce especially high-grade gourds within an epoch.
• While Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor search the summit for treasures, Lin Tian detects an unusual earth aura near the gourd vine’s former location. He touches an apparently ordinary pile of black soil, which neither of his companions could sense.
• System notifications reveal that the soil is primordial breathing earth, an immensely valuable substance later used by Nuwa to create humans. Lin Tian is astonished by the discovery.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian remains composed amid his companions’ bickering, but shows practical judgment by preserving the unripe gourd vine for later. His successful detection of the hidden breathing earth also highlights his unique sensitivity and growing power.
• Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor continue their playful rivalry, which the narration frames as a sign of increasing closeness. They enthusiastically forage across Mount Buzhou, though neither detects the breathing earth.
• The old Daoist Yin-Yang Mirror’s divine consciousness acts dutifully as World Spirit, responding respectfully to Lin Tian and promising to cultivate the vine.

Significant themes

• Patience and cultivation: Powerful treasures may require time to mature, so Lin Tian relocates the vine rather than harvesting it prematurely.
• Hidden value: The unremarkable soil conceals a substance of immense importance, showing that appearances—and even the senses of powerful beings—can be misleading.
• Companionship through rivalry: Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor’s teasing reflects a bond that is strengthening.
• Mythic origins and future significance: The breathing earth links the present discovery to the later creation of humanity and the transformation of the Primordial World.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian, now possessing primordial breathing earth, realizes he can use it to create the Human Race and establish his own lasting influence in the Primordial World.
• The world is still in the Fierce Beast Calamity, an era dominated by ancient beasts and far removed from the later history in which Nüwa creates humanity.
• Lin Tian plans to bring humanity into existence early, rather than leave its creation—and the timing of its birth—to Nüwa in a later, diminished age.
• He places the breathing earth in a world within one of his divine leaves, where the origins of time and strength, along with Pan Gu’s Heaven-Opening Mark, can nurture humanity and give it an unusually strong innate foundation.
• Lin Tian then uses his newly developed Void Creation ability to assemble spiritual materials from empty space and build a grand palace atop Mount Buzhou.

Character developments

• Lin Tian’s ambition shifts from merely accumulating power to founding a tradition and shaping the future of the Human Race.
• His caution gives way to excitement and conviction: he sees the breathing earth as the authority and means to secure humanity’s place in the world.
• Despite having become a spirit vine, he remains deeply identified with his former human self and is determined to protect humanity’s interests.

Significant themes

• Humanity’s potential: Lin Tian rejects the idea that humans must be born weak and subordinate to other beings.
• Power over destiny: He intends to intervene in history rather than accept the established timeline.
• Identity and belonging: His transformed nature has not erased his human origins or loyalties.
• Creation and cultivation: Humanity’s innate strength depends on the conditions and forces present when it is created.
• Founding a legacy: The breathing earth and the palace both represent Lin Tian’s effort to establish a durable base for his own influence.

Character interactions

• The chapter contains little direct dialogue or interpersonal interaction. Its central relationship is Lin Tian’s opposition to the historical role of Nüwa: he resents humanity’s later creation by a figure he views as serving her own path to sainthood rather than humanity’s welfare.

Plot points and events

• Lin Tian completes the fusion of ten origins and evolves from a Hongmeng Good Fortune Vine into a Chaos Good Fortune Vine. His foundation rises from an innate spiritual root to a chaos spiritual root, and he gains the divine ability Historical Traversal.
• His transformation fills the sky above Mount Buzhou with vine-formed stars, each radiating a different origin. A river of time appears among them, and Lin Tian’s power imposes overwhelming laws across the summit.
• Hongmeng Palace rises on the mountain, startling his followers, who are unfamiliar with such a grand structure.
• The new ability lets Lin Tian mark and observe any point in history. Even if his body is destroyed and his Dao extinguished, he can resurrect at a historical point through one of his marks.
• Lin Tian realizes that his evolved innate foundation gives him access to the Great Encompassing Golden Immortal realm whenever he chooses.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian’s cultivation and nature advance dramatically, though the spectacle leaves his followers unsure whether he is ascending realms, changing form, or doing both.
• The Little Beast Emperor and Ghost Chariot are awed and frightened. They flatten themselves against the ground and cannot approach Lin Tian under the pressure of his star-like vines. Even Ghost Chariot, already a Great Encompassing Golden Immortal, is immobilized and injured by the force.
• Ghost Chariot speculates to the Little Beast Emperor that Lin Tian may be accomplishing several transformations at once, reflecting its awareness that its master routinely exceeds expectations.
• Lin Tian privately jokes that naming his sanctuary Hongmeng Palace just before evolving beyond “Hongmeng” may have been ill-timed, but he is pleased with the result.

Significant themes

• Transformation and advancement: Lin Tian’s evolution reshapes both his identity and his capabilities.
• Power beyond conventional limits: His display surpasses what his followers understand about cultivation and the Heavenly Dao.
• Immortality and time: Historical Traversal offers a form of survival that reaches beyond bodily life and ordinary resurrection.
• Awe and uncertainty: The followers’ reactions emphasize how far Lin Tian has moved beyond the familiar order of the Primordial World.

• Lin Tian’s position: He is an early-stage Great Encompassing Golden Immortal and has secured a route toward further advancement. He possesses primordial breathing earth, which could let him create humanity and earn Heavenly Dao rewards, but he holds off on doing so. In the Primordial World, openly founding a lineage would make him a target, and he is not yet powerful enough to risk it.
• New ability—Historical Traversal: At his cultivation ground atop Mount Buzhou, Lin Tian tests the divine ability gained from reaching the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. Using the river of history and markers in his innate bloodline, he can manifest across points in the past and travel backward through events he has personally experienced.
• A startling discovery: Lin Tian reaches the moment he first arrived in the Primordial World and realizes the river of history continues beyond it—to his former home on Earth. He crosses the Primordial World’s boundary with his divine sense and sees Earth from the Moon.
• A potential escape route: Lin Tian leaves a Dao marker near Earth and returns to the Primordial World. He believes the marker could give him a refuge beyond the reach of powerful beings there, potentially making him effectively impossible to kill. The chapter ends with this possibility newly discovered, not yet tested.
  Character development: Lin Tian remains cautious about provoking the Primordial World’s powers, but the discovery of Earth fills him with shock, excitement, and hope. It also revives his long-standing questions about why he—a human—was transported to a world seemingly without humans.
  Themes: The chapter explores the dangers of ambition, the importance of strategic restraint, and the possibility of escape from death through time and distance. It also foregrounds Lin Tian’s unresolved connection to his past and the mystery linking Earth to the Primordial World.
  Character interactions: No other characters appear directly. Lin Tian’s key interaction is with the river of history, which reveals a path beyond his current world.

Chapter summary

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian completes his advancement to the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm atop Mount Buzhou, a place watched by the Primordial World’s most powerful beings.
• A silent, colorless Great Luo tribulation lightning descends. Ghost Chariot tries to shield Lin Tian with his twenty-seven fused divine abilities, but the lightning’s netherworld fire burns them away and nearly catches Ghost Chariot too.
• Little Beast Emperor absorbs the tribulation lightning through his fur, which acts like countless lightning rods. The lightning becomes a powerful source of nourishment for him.
• Lin Tian’s seventy-two Chaos Heaven-Opening Divine Leaves withstand the tribulation. The lightning also conceals his thoughts and plans from beings spying on Mount Buzhou, and Lin Tian takes this as confirmation that the Heavenly Dao recognizes him.
• After ten thousand years, the fire fades. Lin Tian can now conceal his thoughts from heavenly scrutiny, and his power can tear open the void to reveal the chaos beyond the Primordial World.
• Having reached his goal, Lin Tian signals that it is time to leave Mount Buzhou.

Character developments

• Lin Tian reaches Great Luo, gains greater control over the concealment of his thoughts, and remains calm and purposeful rather than celebrating.
• Ghost Chariot shows strong loyalty by risking himself to protect Lin Tian, despite knowing his defenses are outmatched. He spends the long tribulation watching his master but cannot understand how Lin Tian endured it.
• Little Beast Emperor discovers that colorless tribulation lightning is beneficial to him. Though his fur looks soft and harmless again, it now holds immense destructive power.

Character interactions

• Ghost Chariot’s protective response reflects the debt and devotion he feels toward Lin Tian, who has repeatedly protected him.
• Little Beast Emperor supports Lin Tian unintentionally by absorbing the lightning, while staying close at Lin Tian’s feet.
• At the end, Lin Tian calmly gathers his companions and directs them to descend the mountain.

Significant themes

• Loyalty and reciprocity: Ghost Chariot repays Lin Tian’s protection with an attempt to defend him.
• Power and transformation: The tribulation strengthens Little Beast Emperor and marks Lin Tian’s new level of existence.
• Concealment and fate: The lightning hides Lin Tian’s intentions from outside observers, suggesting the Heavenly Dao is aiding or acknowledging him.
• Quiet achievement: Lin Tian’s breakthrough produces no public upheaval; its significance lies in the lasting changes it brings.

Plot points and events

• After leaving Hongmeng Palace, Ghost Chariot lets Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor ride on his back as they descend Mount Buzhou.
• Lin Tian explains that the palace is their new cultivation ground and names their lineage Hongmeng.
• The Heavenly Dao recognizes the newly established lineage, granting Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor merit and Xuanhuang Qi. Both celebrate the recognition.
• Ghost Chariot flies down the mountain at immense speed. He reflects on how much he has advanced during the more than one hundred thousand years spent there, reaching the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.
• Five thousand years later, Ghost Chariot encounters the Qilin Clan’s enormous Eight Gates Formation. Confident in his mastery of space and his new identity, he uses Space-Time Traversal to enter the clan’s territory rather than avoiding it as he once would have. The chapter ends as he arrives within their domain.

Character development

• Ghost Chariot has grown vastly in power and confidence. Having once been cautious and intimidated by powerful forces, he now takes pride in belonging to Hongmeng and acts with boldness.
• The Little Beast Emperor gains a home and a sense of identity as a Hongmeng disciple. He sees himself as the lineage’s eldest senior brother and feels deep gratitude toward Lin Tian.
• Lin Tian establishes Hongmeng as a lasting school and lineage, giving his companions a shared identity and place in the Primordial World.

Themes

• Belonging and identity: Founding Hongmeng gives Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor a lineage, home, and future.
• Growth through companionship: Their time with Lin Tian brings both companions greater power, confidence, and purpose.
• Recognition and legitimacy: The Heavenly Dao’s gifts show the importance of an established lineage in the Primordial World.
• Confidence after hardship: Ghost Chariot’s daring entry into Qilin territory contrasts with his former fearfulness, though it may invite conflict.

Character interactions

• Ghost Chariot treats Lin Tian and the Little Beast Emperor as his seniors and carries them down the mountain.
• Lin Tian reassures Ghost Chariot that they will return to the palace and shares the meaning of its name and their lineage.
• Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor respond to the Heavenly Dao’s recognition with shared excitement; the Little Beast Emperor also empathizes with Ghost Chariot’s pride and sense of achievement.

Key plot points and events

• The Qilin Clan’s ancestral home was destroyed by Mount Buzhou’s great lightning tribulation more than ten thousand years ago, forcing them to relocate. Their long-standing resentment flares when Lin Tian and Ghost Chariot enter the clan’s innate formation.
• First Qilin confronts them with overwhelming force. His pressure drives Ghost Chariot out of the air, but Lin Tian uses his spatial power to protect and suspend him.
• Lin Tian calmly explains that he has lived and cultivated on Mount Buzhou since the world’s creation, so he is not trespassing.
• First Qilin investigates the mountain’s history through the River of Time. He confirms that Lin Tian’s magnificent cultivation ground was already on Mount Buzhou’s summit when Pan Gu opened the heavens.
• Recognizing Lin Tian as the hidden mighty being from recent rumors, First Qilin abandons his hostility and apologizes for failing to show proper respect.

Character developments

• First Qilin shifts from anger and suspicion to shock, then humility and respect after verifying Lin Tian’s ancient presence on Mount Buzhou.
• Lin Tian remains composed throughout the confrontation, displaying confidence in his status and quietly protecting Ghost Chariot.
• Ghost Chariot is initially overwhelmed and envies First Qilin’s speed, but Lin Tian reminds him that the Qilin’s power depends heavily on bloodline and inherited merit. Ghost Chariot takes comfort in his place within Lin Tian’s tradition.

Significant themes

• Hidden power and recognition: Lin Tian’s true standing becomes evident only after First Qilin examines history itself.
• Bloodline versus cultivation: First Qilin’s might is partly innate, while Lin Tian suggests that inherited advantages do not define true spiritual attainment.
• Humility before greater power: First Qilin’s willingness to investigate and apologize contrasts with his initial arrogance.
• Old grievances and territorial conflict: The Qilin Clan’s past losses explain its sensitivity to outsiders, though that anger gives way to respect once the truth emerges.

Character interactions

• First Qilin challenges Lin Tian and Ghost Chariot as intruders; Lin Tian answers directly rather than submitting to his intimidation.
• Lin Tian shields Ghost Chariot from First Qilin’s pressure and later reassures him about the limits of bloodline-based power.
• After confirming Lin Tian’s history, First Qilin addresses him as a senior and offers an apology.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian’s claim about an ancient cultivation sanctuary on Mount Buzhou was a deliberate ruse to make First Qilin believe he was an immensely powerful, ancient being. In truth, Lin Tian is a Great Luo Golden Immortal whose mastery of time lets his Dao markers and Hongmeng Palace exist across history.
• A system notification reveals that Lin Tian’s next advancement requires ten billion evolution points and the fusion of one hundred kinds of Primordial World origins. He is frustrated to learn he cannot progress without the system after all.
• Lin Tian recognizes First Qilin’s deference as an opportunity: he covets Qilin blood, which can grant immunity to karma in the Primordial World.
• Lin Tian challenges First Qilin for remaining in seclusion while a great calamity approaches, implying that the Qilin Clan should lead the response.
• First Qilin interprets the challenge as proof that Lin Tian is a righteous elder who has emerged from seclusion to face the coming fierce beast calamity. He apologizes and invites Lin Tian to the Qilin Clan’s hidden base.
• First Qilin opens a concealed external minor world, a secure and elaborate home for the Qilin Clan. Lin Tian examines how it was created.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian maintains a composed, lofty front while privately scheming to obtain Qilin blood. His irritation at the system’s new requirements contrasts with his confident performance before First Qilin.
• First Qilin is powerful but overly impressed by Lin Tian’s apparent age and sanctuary. Rather than take offense at Lin Tian’s rebuke, he becomes enthusiastic and treats him as a potential ally.
• Their interaction is built on mutual misunderstanding: Lin Tian sees First Qilin as a target for his plan, while First Qilin sees Lin Tian as a venerable champion of the coming calamity.

Significant themes

• Deception and mistaken assumptions: Lin Tian’s bluff leads First Qilin to invent an entire backstory for him.
• Power and appearances: First Qilin’s respect is based less on Lin Tian’s displayed strength than on the evidence of the sanctuary and the age he assumes it implies.
• Ambition and cultivation costs: Lin Tian’s next realm demands immense resources, reinforcing the system’s continuing hold over his progress.
• Karma and survival: Qilin blood’s rare ability to ward off karma makes it a coveted asset amid the approaching calamity.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian cannot create an external Myriad Heavens World himself, so he uses his Origin-law abilities to make a fair-trade arrangement with First Qilin, who mistakenly regards him as a venerable elder.
• First Qilin welcomes Lin Tian into the Qilin Clan’s ancestral world at Qilin Cliff. The clan members are astonished by their progenitor’s deference and speculate that Lin Tian must be a hidden powerhouse.
• Lin Tian stows Ghost Chariot and Little Beast Emperor inside his own Myriad Heavens Worlds to keep them from becoming entangled in the Qilin Clan’s karma. His real objective is to obtain First Qilin’s blood.
• First Qilin asks Lin Tian to assess his lesser world. Lin Tian says it is respectable, but inadequate to serve as the Qilin Clan’s ancestral land, setting up an implied offer of advice.
• First Qilin’s deeper concern is the approaching fierce-beast calamity. He is weighing whether to unite the Primordial Clans against the beasts or strike early to divide their growing forces.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian maintains his disguise and uses First Qilin’s mistaken reverence to gain access, while carefully shielding his companions from risks he has chosen to take himself. He also recognizes that the calamity may be an opportunity for First Qilin.
• First Qilin treats Lin Tian with unusual respect and seeks his judgment, though he has not yet raised his main strategic concern.
• The Qilin Clan is confused and awed by its progenitor’s behavior, gradually concluding that Lin Tian’s apparent strength may conceal far greater power.
• Ghost Chariot and Little Beast Emperor share in Lin Tian’s prestige at first, then are safely removed from the encounter before it can implicate them in Qilin affairs.

Significant themes

• Perception and hidden power: Lin Tian appears to be a modest Golden Immortal, but others infer that he is far more powerful.
• Karma and responsibility: Lin Tian keeps his companions out of consequences arising from his own plans.
• Opportunity within calamity: The coming beast tide threatens the Primordial Clans, yet defeating it could bring First Qilin great merit and advancement.
• Strategic manipulation: Lin Tian’s mild criticism of the ancestral world appears designed to draw First Qilin into seeking his counsel.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian reflects on how taking the Little Beast Emperor as his first disciple has changed the coming Fierce Beast Calamity. The World-Destroying Millstone is not yet fully manifested, but its eventual power could devastate the Primordial World and make its destruction irreversible.
• After studying the river of history for five thousand years, Lin Tian finds the calamity’s possible outcomes increasingly unclear. He believes this gives him a chance to claim the Heavenly Dao merit the Primordial Clans would otherwise receive, though he accepts the heavy karma—and the possibility it may affect the later Dragon-Phoenix Calamity—as unavoidable.
• First Qilin mistakes Lin Tian’s comments about Qilin Cliff for proof that he can improve the Qilin Clan’s ancestral world. He asks Lin Tian how to address its limitations, partly to test his abilities.
• Lin Tian is privately interested chiefly in First Qilin’s qilin blood, which could help his cultivation. At the same time, he discovers that refining strands of Qilin Cliff’s Origin yields substantial Evolution Points.
• Lin Tian calls out First Qilin’s attempt to sound him out. First Qilin takes the rebuke as further evidence of Lin Tian’s immense confidence and imagines he might even be able to raise Qilin Cliff to a Middle Thousandfold World.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian is calculating and pragmatic: he accepts the karmic burden tied to his disciple, seeks ways to advance his cultivation, and weighs how to benefit from the Qilin Clan. His blunt response reinforces his carefully cultivated image as a powerful, perceptive expert.
• First Qilin is ambitious and opportunistic. He probes Lin Tian for help, but quickly becomes eager to believe Lin Tian can solve his clan’s problem—even entertaining an extravagant possibility.
• Their exchange is a mutual test: First Qilin seeks to gauge Lin Tian’s capabilities, while Lin Tian recognizes the probe and manages First Qilin’s expectations. The two do not share their real motives openly.

Significant themes

• Fate, karma, and responsibility: Lin Tian believes taking the Little Beast Emperor has made future calamities and their consequences inescapable.
• Uncertain history and the power to alter events: Lin Tian’s observations make the calamity’s outcome harder to predict, suggesting history can be disrupted.
• Self-interest and manipulation: Both characters pursue personal goals while presenting themselves strategically.
• The scale of cultivation and world-making: The distinction between lesser and greater worlds, and the threat of the World-Destroying Millstone, emphasizes the immense stakes of power in this setting.

Key plot points and events

• Lin Tian demonstrates a heaven-opening mark inside the Qilin Clan’s hidden lesser world. The mark, derived from Pan Gu’s origin of strength, tears the realm apart and convinces First Qilin that Lin Tian possesses an extraordinary art.
• First Qilin rescues the Qilin younglings, then bows and begs Lin Tian to teach the technique. He offers to make Lin Tian the clan’s ancestral master and give him any treasures the clan owns.
• Lin Tian pretends to be reluctant, claiming he revealed his power by mistake and that their meeting must be fate. Secretly, he is pleased that First Qilin is offering treasures.
• First Qilin presents a white jade ruyi. Lin Tian recognizes it as the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, traditionally associated with Primordial Heavenly Venerable, and is startled to find it in the Qilin Clan’s possession.
• The treasure deepens Lin Tian’s suspicion that the Three Pure Ones may not have existed—or originated as history claims—during the eras he has investigated. He dismisses the ruyi as worthless, refusing to let First Qilin think it can buy the technique.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian reveals formidable power but hides his excitement behind a performance of reluctance. The jade ruyi shifts his attention from bargaining to a mystery about the Primordial World’s history.
• First Qilin proves both shrewd and shamelessly opportunistic: he is quick to recognize Lin Tian’s value, flatter him, and offer clan treasures. His reverence is partly strategic but mostly sincere, since he hopes the technique could secure his people’s survival and dominance.
• Their exchange is a negotiation: First Qilin seeks a world-creating art for his clan, while Lin Tian feigns resistance and keeps control of the bargain.

Significant themes

• Power and survival: The ability to create a world could give a race refuge, resilience, and supremacy.
• Performance and persuasion: First Qilin’s flattery and Lin Tian’s false reluctance shape their negotiation.
• Uncertain history: The jade ruyi challenges accepted accounts of the Three Pure Ones’ origins and raises questions about how their famous treasures came to be.

Key plot points and events

• First Qilin offers Lin Tian a Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, an Innate Supreme Treasure, but Lin Tian dismisses it as junk. First Qilin is stunned, then realizes Lin Tian may be willing to trade for something better.
• First Qilin explains that the Ruyi was only a greeting gift and offers to provide anything the Qilin Clan possesses in exchange for Lin Tian’s Heaven-Opening Mark.
• Lin Tian pretends to hesitate, then claims he has more important matters and tries to leave, suggesting they discuss the exchange later at Mount Buzhou.
• Alarmed at losing this rare opportunity, First Qilin rushes in front of him using the teleportation-like movement available to Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortals.
• The narration compares this ability with Lin Tian’s own instantaneous travel, which depends on Dao markers he has placed at his territories, including Penglai, Fangzhang, Yingzhou, and an Eastern Continent formation.
• Lin Tian considers using Primordial Breathing Earth to establish an early Human presence on the overseas immortal mountains before the Beast Calamity. He also reflects that reaching the Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal realm will require immense resources and may eventually force him into the Primordial World’s karmic conflicts.

Character developments

• First Qilin is revealed as shrewd and eager to secure Lin Tian’s Heaven-Opening Mark. His pride in the Qilin Clan’s vast treasury gives way to urgency when he realizes how valuable the exchange could be.
• Lin Tian uses deliberate reluctance to strengthen his negotiating position. Beyond the immediate bargain, he is planning ahead for the Human Race’s survival and weighing the costs of his own advancement.

Significant themes

• Power and value: Even a legendary treasure is insignificant beside a technique or insight that can advance cultivation.
• Negotiation and leverage: Lin Tian’s apparent disinterest prompts First Qilin to offer more.
• Ambition and cost: Lin Tian’s path to greater power demands enormous resources and risks entanglement in karma and violence.
• Preparation for catastrophe: His plan to establish the Human Race early reflects foresight in the face of the coming Beast Calamity.

Character interactions

• First Qilin approaches Lin Tian deferentially, offering treasures and bargaining for the Heaven-Opening Mark.
• Lin Tian’s dismissal and attempted departure heighten First Qilin’s anxiety; First Qilin then uses his speed to intercept him before he can leave.

Key plot points

• Lin Tian considers the enormous requirements for reaching the Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal realm: ten billion Evolution Points and one hundred Origins. He doubts he can reach them through cultivation and consuming treasures alone, and thinks a race that can endure great calamities might help him earn the necessary merit.
• At Qilin Cliff, Lin Tian wants the First Qilin’s blood, which carries a law that repels worldly karma. When the First Qilin initially offers other treasures, Lin Tian pretends to leave.
• The First Qilin realizes he has withheld his most precious possession and offers a battered Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, Auspicious Heavy Water, and a drop of his innate blood in exchange for Lin Tian’s Heaven-Opening Mark cultivation method.
• Lin Tian accepts, claiming he had intended to teach the method anyway. He absorbs the blood, then accepts the Ruyi and Heavy Water as well.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian remains wary of karmic entanglements but is willing to manipulate the situation to obtain immunity from them. He maintains a dignified façade while pursuing his goal, and is pleased when the blood becomes part of his innate lineage.
• The First Qilin misreads Lin Tian’s departure as displeasure at his lack of sincerity. Though he privately resents the misunderstanding, he is eager to win the senior’s favor and readily parts with treasured possessions.
• Their exchange is framed as a negotiation: the First Qilin offers increasingly valuable gifts for the promised cultivation method, while Lin Tian conceals how much he wants the blood.

Significant themes

• Karma and freedom: The Qilin blood grants Lin Tian cause-and-effect immunity, allowing him to act without being touched by worldly karma.
• Power through origins and merit: Lin Tian’s ambition to reach a higher realm depends on accumulating Origins, Evolution Points, and potentially merit through a durable race.
• Appearance versus motive: Lin Tian presents himself as reluctant and generous, while the First Qilin’s eagerness and mistaken assumptions make the exchange possible.
• Cultivation and innovation: The First Qilin’s blood counts as an Origin because the Three Clans’ cultivation paths opened new possibilities in the Primordial World.
  The system reports substantial Evolution Point gains from consuming and refining the blood, and Lin Tian gains the innate trait cause-and-effect immunity.

Plot points and events

• Refining the Three-Light Jade Ruyi and auspicious waters yields Lin Tian enormous Evolution Points—more than he expected from the First Qilin’s blood.
• He gives First Qilin a heaven-opening mark to study for one epoch, then leaves Qilin Cliff using Void Traversal. First Qilin is astonished by the teleportation and concludes Lin Tian must be a hidden, exceptionally powerful primordial figure.
• On the Central Continent, Lin Tian releases Ghost Chariot and Little Beast Emperor and considers his next move. His goal is not to unite the Primordial Clans against the coming fierce beast calamity, but to create a race of his own.
• Lin Tian studies the River of Time and sees that the coming epoch’s history has become indistinct. He concludes his presence will greatly alter the calamity—and that only a whole race could change its course meaningfully.
• He announces that he will travel to Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou to create a race for his tradition. He then transports his two disciples and uses Void Traversal to reach Penglai Island.

Character developments

• Lin Tian commits to bringing the Human Race into the Primordial World early, making race creation central to his plan to counter the calamity.
• First Qilin moves from gratitude for the heaven-opening mark to renewed awe at Lin Tian’s mastery of space.
• Ghost Chariot and Little Beast Emperor are thrilled by the prospect of witnessing the creation of a new race, though Little Beast Emperor signals that the plan may be difficult.

Themes

• Power and reverence: Lin Tian’s gifts and abilities deepen others’ belief that he is an unfathomable primordial master.
• Fate and historical change: The uncertain future suggests that Lin Tian’s actions are disrupting the established course of events.
• Collective influence: Lin Tian believes that a race, rather than an individual, can alter a world-scale calamity.
• Creation and legacy: Establishing a race becomes a way to shape the Primordial World and advance Lin Tian’s tradition.

Character interactions

• Lin Tian rewards First Qilin with a cultivation aid, then departs without accepting further offerings.
• Lin Tian tells his disciples about his plan and frames the journey as an important undertaking for their tradition; their excitement contrasts with Little Beast Emperor’s silent gesture of concern.
• The chapter ends with Lin Tian arriving at Penglai Island, poised to begin the race-creation effort.

Key plot points and events

• After more than a million years, Lin Tian returns to Penglai Immortal Island, where the Innate Ten-Direction Formation he once created still stands.
• He brings Ghost Chariot and the Little Beast Emperor out of his Myriad Heavens World. They are astonished that his Space-Time Traversal carried them instantly from Mount Buzhou to Penglai, a journey that would otherwise take tens of thousands of years.
• Ghost Chariot asks how Lin Tian’s spatial ability has become so powerful. Lin Tian gestures for him to keep practicing.
• The two companions explore Penglai and find its old formation easy to pass through. They marvel at the island’s abundant spiritual energy and natural treasures.
• Lin Tian recalls how Penglai and the nearby immortal islands helped lay the foundations of his rise. He chooses Penglai as the place to shape humans and establish a lasting Dao lineage.
• Using the Chaos Good Fortune Vine and its seventy-two Heaven-Opening Divine Leaves, he forms the Innate 108-Cycle Star Formation, replacing the inadequate old barrier. The new formation is meant to keep all outside creatures from reaching the island.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian demonstrates his greatly increased mastery of spatial travel and takes decisive steps to protect Penglai before creating the Human Race there.
• Ghost Chariot is humbled by the gap between his own progress and Lin Tian’s, despite years of cultivating the same spatial technique. Lin Tian responds with an encouraging, lightly humorous gesture.
• The Little Beast Emperor and Ghost Chariot share excitement over Penglai’s beauty and its value as a secluded sanctuary.

Significant themes

• Growth and mastery: Lin Tian’s abilities have advanced far beyond what was possible when he first built Penglai’s formation.
• Foundations of destiny: The immortal islands’ resources enabled Lin Tian’s rise, and Penglai is now central to his plans for the future.
• Protection and historical change: Lin Tian recognizes that creating humanity could alter the Primordial World’s history, so he secures the island against outside interference.
• Legacy: His plan to establish a human Dao lineage reflects a desire for his work to endure across generations.

Chapter Summary

• Lin Tian commits to forging his own path. He fears that losing the Primordial Breathing Earth would prevent him from creating a new race, leaving him to hide safely on the sidelines. He rejects that future: despite reaching Great Encompassing Golden Immortal through his own advantages, he wants to make a major mark on the Primordial World rather than merely follow its established history.
• The system reveals a new requirement. Lin Tian’s panel shows that he has collected seventeen origins but still needs ninety-seven more to become a Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal. Advancement also now requires ten million merit points, a condition he had not anticipated. He recognizes that such Heavenly Dao merit is usually earned by heroes who avert catastrophe.
• The Fierce Beast Calamity puts the stakes in perspective. Lin Tian recalls that the Qilin, Azure Dragon, and Phoenix clans are expected to receive most of the merit for the coming calamity. Their share will still fall short of what is needed for sainthood, helping set the stage for the later Dragon-Phoenix Calamity. However, Lin Tian’s presence has already begun changing history, making the future uncertain.
• He strengthens Penglai Island’s defenses. Lin Tian channels his consciousness into the seventy-two worlds within his Chaos Heaven-Opening Divine Leaves and develops the Innate 108-Celestial-Circuit Star Formation. The Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls now empower 108 tangible stars, creating a vastly stronger formation around Penglai—one so formidable that even a peerless Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal would need an immense span of time to break it.
• He prepares for the Human Race’s creation. Lin Tian expects molding humans from earth to trigger a major upheaval in heaven and earth and draw the attention of powerful hidden figures, including Shen Ni. Knowing that this event will inevitably entangle him in the world’s karma, he adds a further barrier of chaos-good-fortune vines inside the star formation.

Character Development and Themes

Lin Tian shifts from cautious self-preservation toward deliberate ambition: he accepts that changing history will bring danger and entanglement. The chapter emphasizes fate versus agency, the cost of power and merit, and the idea that a single individual can become a disruptive variable in history. His preparation also shows his protective, strategic side as he anticipates the consequences of creating a new race.

Key events

• Lin Tian completes a barrier around Penglai Immortal Island, creating an independent world beneath a sun formed from the good-fortune illusion origin.
• He realizes that seventeen origins are nowhere near enough to reproduce the Primordial World’s full order, which would require all Three Thousand Great Daos. Still, his existing origins allow Penglai to function like a grotto-heaven, and time flows much faster inside it.
• Lin Tian grants Ghost Chariot a mote of time-origin law. It reaches the twenty-seven points between the brows of Ghost Chariot’s twenty-seven faces, prompting him to retreat into cultivation and begin learning a new divine ability.
• Lin Tian gives the Little Beast Emperor a mote of Geng metal-origin law. It resonates with the Beast Emperor’s World-Destroying Millstone and innate thunder power, pointing toward a path that combines destruction and renewal. He too enters secluded cultivation.
• Lin Tian then unites his seventy-two strands of divine sense and sends them beyond the Seventy-Two Heavens Worlds, into a mysterious world called “The Fled One,” which exists outside both the Myriad Heavens World and the Primordial World.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian acts as creator and teacher, shaping Penglai’s world and giving his companions origins suited to their growth. He also turns his attention toward a realm beyond the known worlds.
• Ghost Chariot receives the time-law opportunity he had long hoped for. It fulfills Lin Tian’s earlier promise that he could learn origin-based abilities after fusing the innate bloodlines of his twenty-seven faces. His excitement is profound.
• The Little Beast Emperor begins to understand his longstanding attraction to golden strike wood: he had sensed its hidden Geng metal origin. That origin may help him unite slaughter, the World-Destroying Millstone, and thunder into a self-sustaining cycle of destruction and revival.
• Both companions respond to Lin Tian’s gifts by immediately beginning secluded cultivation.

Significant themes

• World-building and limits: Lin Tian can create a functioning independent world, but fully reproducing cosmic order demands vastly more origins.
• Time and opportunity: Penglai’s accelerated time and the time-origin gift offer powerful conditions for cultivation and advancement.
• Complementary forces: The Beast Emperor’s prospective path joins destruction with renewal, suggesting that opposing forces can form a stronger, continuous cycle.
• Mentorship and hidden affinity: Lin Tian’s gifts fulfill prior expectations and reveal that the companions’ natural inclinations can guide their development.

Plot points and events

• Lin Tian reflects on his two greatest safeguards in the Primordial World. His first is an Earth-based Dao beacon: if killed, he can revive on the Moon and return through the River of Time to the moment of his death.
• His second is “The Fled One,” a Myriad Heavens World that became completely unobservable after Lin Tian reached the chaos great encompassing golden immortal realm. He believes even the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao may be unable to detect it.
• Lin Tian has hidden valuable resources there: the origin laws of three Good Fortune Jade Disc fragments and a small supply of primordial breathing earth.
• He hopes to use the earth to establish the Human Race as a major race before the Fierce Beast Calamity, earning Heavenly Dao merit and potentially enabling a Human Race saint. Now powerful enough, he believes he can divide the earth into forty-nine portions and shape a race with exceptional innate qualities.
• Lin Tian enters the hidden world in the form of a handsome Daoist based on his former-life appearance, then picks up some primordial breathing earth.

Character developments and interactions

• Lin Tian is confident in his extraordinary cultivation, chaotic roots, and powerful racial lineage, which he believes would let him create a race superior to one made by Nuwa in a later, diminished age.
• He has also been guiding the Little Beast Emperor toward discovering its own innate survival trump card before it reaches the great encompassing golden immortal realm. The Beast Emperor has not yet understood this ability for itself.
• Lin Tian’s observations of Ghost Chariot have taught him that even apparently loyal companions keep survival methods secret.

Significant themes

• Survival and secrecy: In a world where decisive battles can turn in an instant, hidden escape methods are essential, and powerful beings conceal them carefully.
• Power shaping history: Lin Tian intends to use his strength and foresight to influence the Human Race’s status and the emergence of a Human Race saint.
• Historical decline and regret: The chapter contrasts Lin Tian’s potential creation of a powerful race with Nuwa’s later creation of humanity after the Primordial World had been damaged, when its diminished state weakened humanity from birth.