Chapter Summaries

Lin Tian persuaded the Primordial World’s experts to create worlds in Chaos and study the Three Thousand Great Daos, promising Hongmeng purple qi to those who advanced. As the experts began their work and his strength grew, Lin Tian turned to Lady Pingxin and proposed a new Six Paths of Reincarnation linking their worlds.

• Lin Tian explained that the experts could evolve worlds in Chaos to seek the foundations of the Three Thousand Great Daos, and promised guidance and Hongmeng purple qi to those who made progress.
• Lin Tian opened a functioning world in Chaos, and Patriarch Minghe began creating and evolving worlds there.
• Lin Tian persuaded Nuwa to help create worlds by offering Hongmeng purple qi to aid the Demon Race, and she agreed.
• The experts began working in Chaos, giving Lin Tian the power of more than a dozen Quasi-Saints and driving his strength higher.
• Lin Tian took Lady Pingxin aside within the Chaos Pearl and asked her to build a Six Paths of Reincarnation connecting the worlds; she agreed.

Lin Tian strengthened his control over the Chaos Pearl while the mighty figures inside it created worlds and advanced their cultivation. As Hongjun grew wary of Lin Tian, Luo Hou prepared to seize the Primordial World during the Dao lecture.

• Lu Ya, Patriarch Minghe, Great Emperor Fengdu, Nuwa, Pingxin, and other mighty figures created worlds and established a vast network of reincarnation, gaining insights and breakthroughs.
• Lin Tian cultivated with the Chaos Pearl’s power, grew stronger, and used its domain to find the world-builders and share Dao insights and Hongmeng Purple Qi with them.
• Unable to observe Lingxiao Hall, Hongjun summoned Laozi, Primordial Heavenly Venerable, Zhunti, and Jieyin, then developed murderous suspicions about Lin Tian.
• Wutian told Luo Hou that the mighty figures were occupied, and Luo Hou ordered him and Black Robe to move against the Western Ox-Herding Continent while he dealt with Zhunti and Jieyin.
• The Dao lecture continued in Lingxiao Hall, while the Six-Eared Macaque, Tang Monk, Sandy, and Zhu Bajie left Tiger Ridge and encountered the tribulation of the true and false Tang Monks.

Tathagata learned that the Buddhist Sect's tribulation had arrived early and ordered the Buddhas to gather at Spirit Mountain. Wutian drew out Kong Xuan's suppressed heart demon, and Kong Xuan turned to the demonic path, leaving the Buddhist Sect facing a greater threat.

• After the scripture-seeking party continued through its trials, Tathagata divined that the Buddhist Sect's tribulation had arrived ahead of time.
• Tathagata ordered the Buddhist followers to return to Spirit Mountain while Ancient Buddha Randeng and Amitabha Buddha prepared to face the demon forces.
• Wutian and the Black-Robed Venerable revealed that the Devil Race had come to attack Spirit Mountain and that Ayinava had been recruited as an inside man.
• Wutian went to Kong Xuan and urged him to accept the heart demon he had long suppressed.
• Wutian's demonic qi awakened Kong Xuan's heart demon, and Kong Xuan transformed into a vast black peacock that blotted out Spirit Mountain's Buddhist light.
• Tathagata and the other Buddhist leaders saw Kong Xuan turn to the demonic path and feared he would join the enemy.

Wutian and Kong Xuan led the Devil Race in an assault on Spirit Mountain while Luo Hou and Yang Mei ambushed Hongjun and the Saints in Chaos. As Tathagata fought Wutian, the Buddhist Sect faced the threat of destruction.

• Wutian ordered Giant Crab and the Black-Robed Venerable to gather the Devil Race and encircle the Western Ox-Herding Continent, then took Kong Xuan to absorb the baleful qi in the Chaos Abyss.
• Hongjun told the Saints that Luo Hou had returned stronger, and Zhunti and Jieyin left the Purple Heaven Palace to aid Spirit Mountain.
• Luo Hou and Yang Mei ambushed Hongjun, Zhunti, and Jieyin in Chaos, and the Saints joined the battle against them.
• Kong Xuan absorbed the baleful qi and returned with Wutian to attack Spirit Mountain as the Devil Race swept across the Western Ox-Herding Continent.
• The Black-Robed Venerable and Giant Crab led the Devil Race into Spirit Mountain, while Wutian confronted Tathagata and Kong Xuan faced the Buddhist defenders.
• Tathagata unleashed Buddha Kingdom in the Palm against Wutian, who answered with a World of Destruction.

Wutian’s forces captured Spirit Mountain after a three-month battle, forcing Tathagata and the Buddhist powerhouses to retreat to the Southern Jambu Continent. Wutian planned to expand across the Primordial World and target the Heavenly Court, despite Kong Xuan’s warning.

• Kong Xuan joined the attack on Spirit Mountain, where the Devil Race fought the Buddhist Sect for three months and devastated the region.
• Tathagata ordered a retreat and used Buddha Kingdom in the Palm to carry many Buddhas to the Southern Jambu Continent; Randeng, Amitabha Buddha, and other Buddhist powerhouses withdrew as well.
• Wutian occupied Spirit Mountain, took Tathagata’s Buddha throne, and ordered his forces to secure the Western Ox-Herding Continent before expanding into other regions.
• Kong Xuan warned Wutian’s followers not to attack the Heavenly Court, but Giant Crab dismissed the warning and volunteered to lead the assault.
• Wutian directed his forces to let the Human Teaching contend with the Buddhist refugees, then planned to seize the Southern Jambu and Northern Kuru Continents while Giant Crab took the Eastern Victory Divine Continent.
• Wutian ordered Black Robe to recruit dissatisfied members of the Heavenly Court and wait for the Devil Ancestor to return before moving against it.

Giant Crab’s invasion of the Heavenly Court was repelled by the Celestial Star Dou Formation while Lin Tian advanced his cultivation and concluded his Dao discourse. The assembled experts returned to Lingxiao Hall, and the Devil Race remained unable to breach the Heavenly Court.

• Black Robe invaded the Northern Kuru Continent and Southern Jambu Continent, while Giant Crab expanded into the Eastern Victory Divine Continent and seized Heavenly Court territories.
• Giant Crab attacked the Southern Heavenly Gate, but the Celestial Star Dou Formation destroyed his assault and forced him to retreat as Kong Xuan recognized the danger it posed.
• Lin Tian used power returned by the Chaos Pearl to cultivate the Nine-Revolution Mystic Art to its ninth level and raise his Great Dao comprehension to the great dao saint level.
• Lin Tian’s guests gained cultivation insights and breakthroughs while helping open five hundred and seventy thousand worlds, and he privately instructed Queen Mother of the West, Chang'e, Su Meiniang, and Zixia.
• Lin Tian ended his Dao discourse and opened a vortex to Lingxiao Hall, where Patriarch Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, and the other experts returned after thanking him.

After returning from the Chaos Pearl, Lin Tian learned that Wutian and the Devil Race had overrun Spirit Mountain and attacked the Heavenly Court. He sent forces to purge the devils, then went to Southern Jambu Continent to confront the Buddhist Sect, whose leaders faced his now-unfathomable power.

• Lin Tian gave Nuwa four strands of hongmeng purple qi and invited Pingxin to stay, then brought her and the others back to the Heavenly Court.
• Bull Devil King reported that Wutian had seized Spirit Mountain with Kong Xuan, driven out Buddha Tathagata, and spread the Devil Race across several continents while Giant Crab attacked the Heavenly Court.
• Nuwa explained that Wutian's rise was tied to the Buddhist Sect's old karma from the Dragon-Han First Calamity, and Lin Tian wondered how the destined pilgrims would find the scriptures.
• Lin Tian ordered the Dragon Cavalry Corps and Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to purge the Devil Race, appointed Queen Mother of the West to guard the Heavenly Court, and went to settle accounts with the Buddhist Sect.
• Lin Tian arrived in Southern Jambu Continent with Pingxin, and Tathagata, Ancient Buddha Randeng, and other Buddhist leaders saw that Lin Tian had become impossible to fathom.

Lin Tian confronted the Buddhist Sect over its occupation of the Southern Jambu Continent and its tampering with the Heavenly Court’s divine seats. After he destroyed Tathagata’s Buddha Body, Zhunti and Jieyin attacked, and Lin Tian began testing his power against them.

• Lin Tian arrived with Great Master Xuandu, the Grand Supreme Elder Lord, and Lady Pingxin, then struck Tathagata with overwhelming force.
• Zhunti and Jieyin descended and challenged Lin Tian while Great Master Xuandu and Laozi condemned the Buddhist Sect’s occupation of the Southern Jambu Continent.
• Lin Tian crushed Tathagata’s Buddha Body, forcing his Buddha Relic to flee with his primordial spirit and true spirit.
• Zhunti and Jieyin attacked Lin Tian with the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree while Laozi shielded the Southern Jambu Continent with the Taiji Diagram.
• Lin Tian broke through the Saints’ spatial seal, seized the Seven-Treasure Wonderful Tree barehanded, and used the Chaos Space Great Dao to tear open the void around Zhunti and Jieyin.

Lin Tian overwhelmed Zhunti and Jieyin in the Chaos Starry Sky, killing Zhunti and crushing his primordial spirit as the Primordial World mourned a Saint’s fall. Jieyin fled toward Purple Heaven Palace for Hongjun’s help, but Lin Tian intercepted him and trapped him beneath his palm, leaving him battered and unable to escape.

• Lin Tian’s physical power suppressed the Primordial World and forced Zhunti and Jieyin to retreat toward Purple Heaven Palace.
• Lin Tian pursued the Saints, shattered Zhunti’s body with one punch, and confined his primordial spirit in the Chaos Starry Sky.
• Lin Tian crushed Zhunti’s primordial spirit, prompting the Great Dao to wail and blood to rain across the Primordial World.
• Zhen Yuanzi, the Heavenly Court’s women, the Buddhas of Spirit Mountain, and the Three Ancestors reacted to Zhunti’s death and Lin Tian’s overwhelming strength.
• Jieyin summoned the Ninth-Grade Merit Lotus Throne and called for Hongjun’s help, but Lin Tian intercepted him and trapped him beneath his palm.
• Jieyin’s attacks failed to harm Lin Tian, while exploding chaos stars battered him and Lin Tian’s suppressed Great Dao left him near madness.

Lin Tian contained Daoist Jieyin’s self-destruction, then traveled to the Western Ox-Herding Continent to confront the devils threatening the Primordial World. He faced Kong Xuan and Wutian’s forces at Spirit Mountain, leaving them uneasy as he challenged Kong Xuan over his attacks on the Heavenly Court.

• Daoist Jieyin detonated himself inside the Chaos Pearl, scattering Saint remains and treasures across Lin Tian’s Myriad Heavens and Worlds and inspiring new cultivation paths.
• Lin Tian considered adding resources and opportunities to his worlds, while Hongjun grew furious at the threat Lin Tian posed to him.
• Lin Tian activated the All-Heaven Star Array, then went to the Western Ox-Herding Continent as battles between the Heavenly Court’s forces and the devils devastated the land.
• Kong Xuan, Wutian, Black Robe, and the other devils retreated to the Great Thunderclap Temple when Lin Tian arrived.
• Lin Tian confronted Kong Xuan at Spirit Mountain, listing the attacks on the Heavenly Court and asking how they could not count as making an enemy of him.

Lin Tian crushed Giant Crab and forced Kong Xuan to submit to becoming his mount, while Luo Hou and Yang Mei intervened. Hongjun watched from afar and concluded that Lin Tian’s creation of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds was part of his attempt to attain the Dao.

• Lin Tian’s pressure crushed Giant Crab, and he sent Wutian flying before Giant Crab’s remains were absorbed into the Chaos Pearl.
• Lin Tian demanded that Kong Xuan become his mount, leaving Kong Xuan unable to resist.
• Luo Hou and Yang Mei arrived and eased the pressure on Kong Xuan as they confronted Lin Tian.
• Hongjun watched the confrontation through a Dao mirror and used Luo Hou and Yang Mei to test Lin Tian’s strength.
• Hongjun identified the Chaos Pearl as the source of Lin Tian’s sudden rise and warned that Lin Tian was seeking to attain the Dao.

Lin Tian rejected Luo Hou’s offer to join forces against Hongjun, judging that the Heavenly Dao and the Primordial World’s safety made a direct confrontation too risky. Luo Hou then threatened to destroy the Primordial World to force Hongjun to intervene, leaving the Heavenly Court alarmed.

• Luo Hou urged Lin Tian to join forces against Hongjun, while Pingxin privately advised Lin Tian to accept and deal with Luo Hou afterward.
• Lin Tian refused, calling Luo Hou the strongest ant and revealing that he would rather deal with his threats one by one than risk the Heavenly Dao destroying the Primordial World.
• Luo Hou realized Lin Tian would not change his mind and decided to force Hongjun to appear by threatening the Primordial World.
• Holy Mother Jinling rebuked Luo Hou as the Heavenly Court members feared the destruction of their home.

Lin Tian drove Luo Hou and Yang Mei out of the Primordial World and fought them in Chaos, where he used his overwhelming strength and time-based powers to suppress them. He transferred Yang Mei into the Chaos Pearl, where Yang Mei realized that its Dao differed from that of ordinary Chaos and that Luo Hou was gone.

• Luo Hou unleashed his power on the Western Ox-Herding Continent, but Lin Tian sealed him in layers of space and dragged him into Chaos.
• Lin Tian swept Yang Mei into Chaos as well, then battered both Demon Gods while Lady Pingxin and the other cultivators went to watch the battle.
• Luo Hou and Yang Mei counterattacked with their treasures, but Lin Tian manifested his Pangu True Body and drove Yang Mei into retreat.
• Lin Tian trapped Yang Mei with his time domain field, Chaos Time Great Dao, and Zhuxian World, while Yang Mei pleaded for his life and tried to escape.
• Lin Tian used the Chaos Bell and Four Zhuxian Swords to transfer Yang Mei and the surrounding Chaos into the Chaos Pearl.
• Yang Mei sensed that the Dao inside the Chaos Pearl differed from ordinary Chaos and discovered that Luo Hou was no longer there.

Lin Tian defeated Yang Mei and drove Luo Hou to abandon his Chaos Demon God body and flee, then absorbed the spoils into the Chaos Pearl and the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. Hongjun recognized Lin Tian as a threat greater than Pan Gu and returned to Purple Heaven Palace to plan against him.

• Lin Tian pursued Luo Hou with the Four Zhuxian Swords, severing his arm and shoulder as Luo Hou fled through chaos.
• Luo Hou detonated his Chaos Demon God body to escape, while Lin Tian shielded himself from the blast and the shock wave injured the onlookers.
• Lin Tian returned to the Chaos Pearl and crushed Yang Mei, whose Space Great Dao merged into the Myriad Heavens and Worlds while Lin Tian retained the space origin.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Lu Ya, the Saints, and other observers were shocked by Lin Tian's strength, and Nuwa realized she could never have resisted him.
• Hongjun judged Lin Tian's strength to exceed Pan Gu's and returned to Purple Heaven Palace to make plans against him.
• Yang Mei's remains spread through the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, forming treasures and forbidden zones, and Lin Tian chose not to interfere with their evolution.

Lin Tian refined Yang Mei’s Space Origin, defeated the remaining opposition, and brought the Primordial World under the Heavenly Court’s control. The chapter ended with Lin Tian having achieved the unification Haotian had sought, while Hongjun remained a looming threat.

• Lin Tian refined Yang Mei’s Chaos Space Origin, surpassed the realm of a Saint, and left a willow sapling in the Great Wilderness, where it became the Willow God.
• Lin Tian learned that Hongjun had returned to the Purple Heaven Palace and warned Pingxin that he still had a surprise in store.
• Kong Xuan surrendered to Lin Tian, while Lin Tian spared Wutian, Black Robe, and the Devil Race to staff a planned Heavenly Prison.
• Lin Tian spared the Buddhist lineage, chose the Six-Eared Macaque as its future Buddha, and brought Spirit Mountain and the Western Ox-Herding Continent under the Heavenly Court.
• The Three Sovereigns, Laozi’s followers, the Mount Kunlun disciples, the Northern Kuru Continent’s Demon Race, and the Underworld submitted to the Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly Court established the Heavenly Lake Palace and Kunlun Prefecture, and Lin Tian presided over a unified Primordial World.

Lin Tian returned to the Heavenly Court with Pingxin and made her Imperial Consort, while assuring the Queen Mother of the West that she would remain Heavenly Empress. He learned that Hongjun and the Saints were gathering in the Purple Heaven Palace and focused on the threat posed by the Heavenly Dao.

• Lin Tian rode Kong Xuan back to the Heavenly Court and invested Pingxin as Imperial Consort Pingxin, Lady Sovereign of the Six Paths.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin resurrected at the boundary of Chaos and saw eighteen other beings still gestating in spheres of light.
• The Queen Mother of the West asked Lin Tian whether he had known Pingxin before and offered to surrender the Heavenly Empress position if Pingxin wanted it.
• Lin Tian assured the Queen Mother of the West that her position was secure and that Pingxin would not take her place.
• The Queen Mother of the West told Lin Tian that Hongjun and Saints Taiqing, Yuanshi, and Tongtian had entered the Purple Heaven Palace.
• Lin Tian decided to let Hongjun reveal all his preparations and recognized the Heavenly Dao as his greatest threat.

Lin Tian entered seclusion in the Water-Curtain Cave to prepare to attain the Dao while Lady Pingxin and the Heavenly Court organized support against the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun. As Hongjun gathered the saints to stop him, Eastern Emperor Taiyi was resurrected in the Chaos Starry Sky.

• Lin Tian returned to the Water-Curtain Cave on Flower-Fruit Mountain and told Pingxin to seek him there if anything unusual happened.
• Lady Pingxin assembled Holy Mother Jinling, Holy Mother Wudang, Yunxiao, Bixiao, Qiongxiao, and others to prepare to support Lin Tian.
• The Queen Mother of the West returned to the Heavenly Court with the Nine-Heavenly Maiden and enlisted powerful figures to help prepare for the coming conflict.
• In the Purple Heaven Palace, Hongjun used the Heavenly Dao's Rule Order to strengthen Cult Leader Tongtian, Laozi, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, Daoist Zhunti, and Daoist Jieyin so they could oppose Lin Tian.
• A sphere of rule-light broke free from the Void Land and became the Sun Star, where a Three-Legged Golden Crow emerged.
• Lu Ya sensed his uncle Eastern Emperor Taiyi's aura, and the Queen Mother of the West and Holy Mother Wudang realized that the Heavenly Dao had resurrected Taiyi.

After refining three hundred and sixty-five strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi, Lin Tian reached the realm he called “chaos ultimate” and emerged from the Water-Curtain Cave as signs of his impending ascension spread across the Primordial World. The Heavenly Dao resurrected ancient overlords to aid Dao Ancestor Hongjun, while the Heavenly Court gathered its allies and prepared for the coming confrontation.

• Lady Pingxin promised Holy Mother Wudang and the others that, if Lin Tian attained the Dao, they could become imperial consorts of the Heavenly Court and share eternal life.
• Lin Tian refined the Hongmeng Purple Qi, reached “chaos ultimate,” and stepped out of the Water-Curtain Cave as Great Dao visions appeared across the Primordial World.
• The Heavenly Dao resurrected Eastern Emperor Taiyi and seventeen other ancient overlords, who went to the Purple Heaven Palace and pledged themselves to Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
• Nuwa chose not to support either side but secretly warned the Heavenly Court about Hongjun’s preparations, and the Queen Mother of the West gathered forces to respond.
• The Heavenly Court’s fortune and Dao visions surged as Lady Pingxin, the Queen Mother of the West, and their allies watched Flower-Fruit Mountain, while Patriarch Minghe, Luo Chuan, and other mighty beings rushed toward the Heavenly Court.

Lin Tian prepared to attain the Dao in Chaos while his allies fortified the Primordial World and accepted imprints linking their fates to his. At Chaos’s boundary, Dao Ancestor Hongjun confronted him, and Lady Pingxin worried that Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao would be difficult to overcome.

• Hongjun brought the Purple Heaven Palace toward the Primordial World as Laozi and the other mighty figures prepared for the coming battle.
• Lin Tian gave his allies imprints of his Dao fruit and assigned the Queen Mother of the West, Holy Mother Wudang, and Holy Mother Jinling to defend the Heavenly Court with the Celestial Star Dou Formation.
• Lin Tian distributed supreme treasures among his allies and arranged for Patriarch Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, and others to guard the Primordial World against the resurrected powers.
• Lin Tian gave Pingxin the enhanced Four Zhuxian Swords and headed into Chaos to attain the Dao, explaining that the Primordial World could not withstand his breakthrough.
• Hongjun, Laozi, Primordial Heavenly Venerable, Cult Leader Tongtian, Daoist Jieyin, and Daoist Zhunti appeared at Chaos’s boundary, where Hongjun ordered Lin Tian to stop.

Lin Tian challenged Hongjun and fought him and the Saints to clear the way for his attempt to attain the Dao. As the battle continued, Lin Tian shattered Hongjun’s deadly formations and withstood the Saints’ attacks, while his allies protected the Primordial Land from the destruction.

• Lin Tian refused to abandon his path, and Hongjun unleashed the Great Dao’s pressure against him; Lin Tian broke it with a sweep of his sleeve and charged at Hongjun.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable and the other Saints joined Hongjun, while Lady Pingxin joined Lin Tian and Queen Mother of the West, Holy Mother Jinling, Holy Mother Wudang, Patriarch Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, and Lu Ya defended the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Lin Tian struck Hongjun with punches empowered by the Space Great Dao, while Hongjun used Good Fortune Jade Disc Fragments to create countless Creation Slaughter Formation Diagrams; Lin Tian swept the diagrams aside and shattered them.
• Hongjun gathered the formation diagrams into a vast killing formation and attacked, but Lin Tian unleashed the Ninth-Revolution Mystic Art and destroyed it with a punch.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable, Laozi, Cult Leader Tongtian, Zhunti, and Jieyin attacked Lin Tian, who met the Pangu Banner with the God-Slaying Spear and endured the resulting destruction without injury.