Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen rushes to the Eastern Sea to honor his promise and contain the destruction caused by the monster. Fate, who shares responsibility for the crisis, joins him.
• They find the sea in chaos: blood fills the waters, and Sea-Race creatures—including the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan—are driven by resentment and compelled to attack or die.
• The Dragon King of the Eastern Sea is desperate as his clan suffers catastrophic losses and he himself cannot escape.
• Daochen arrives and challenges the monster, but it swiftly swallows him. The witnesses assume he has been killed and flee in terror.
• Daochen emerges unharmed from beneath the creature’s belly and blocks its next attack on the Dragon King. He orders the Dragon King to evacuate the Sea Races while he deals with the beast.
• Daochen recognizes that the creature is unusually powerful: unlike earlier monsters, it can match him in strength. Fate arrives and is alarmed that Daochen may not be able to destroy it.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen acts from a sense of responsibility, despite blaming Fate for the crisis. His apparent defeat briefly terrifies everyone, but his escape reveals both his resilience and the monster’s true threat. He remains composed and takes charge of the evacuation.
• Fate acknowledges his role by joining Daochen, but his shock at the monster’s strength suggests he underestimated the danger.
• The Dragon King shifts from furious desperation and resignation to renewed hope when Daochen reappears. He responds eagerly to Daochen’s command.
• The Sea-Race creatures are shown as helpless victims: their will is overridden, leaving them unable to flee or resist.

Significant themes

• Responsibility and consequences: Daochen honors his promise because failing to do so could worsen the world’s turmoil and burden him with karma.
• Escalating danger: Each newly established world seems to produce stronger monsters, raising the stakes.
• Despair and hope: The Sea Races lose hope when Daochen is swallowed, then regain it when he survives and intervenes.
• The cost of power and conflict: The Eastern Sea Dragon Clan’s devastation shows how powerful forces can leave ordinary communities and their leaders powerless.

Plot points

• Daochen warns Fate that each time a Resentment Aggregate is defeated, it may learn from the loss and return stronger—potentially making the later stages of establishing the Six Realms much harder.
• Fate grows anxious but refuses to abandon the Six Realms, which he needs to reach his full power and pursue Transformation.
• While Fate battles the creature in the Five-Colored Golden Luan Sparrow’s body, Daochen reasons that the Resentment Aggregates may originate in Pangu’s ancient Demon God graveyard, a nearby slaughter-ground that could also contain valuable treasures.
• Daochen identifies the creature’s weakness: it imitates its opponent’s fighting style and physical traits, but has little skill of its own. Copying the sparrow’s physique has made it vulnerable to the sparrow’s attacks.
• The Eastern Sea Sea Race escapes once the creature is too occupied to control them.
• The Resentment Aggregate abandons Fate’s sparrow and charges Daochen. Daochen vanishes, drawing the creature’s attention, while Fate—angry at being ignored—ignites the sparrow’s origin and resumes the fight, exploiting the creature’s aversion to flames.
• Daochen reappears during the clash and cuts the creature in two, then chops it into pieces. But it survives and begins reassembling, splitting into numerous smaller figures.

Character developments and interactions

• Fate shifts from alarm about the escalating threat to determined, furious action. He and the Resentment Aggregate fight fiercely, with Fate using fire after the creature turns away from him.
• Daochen moves from cautious observation to confidence once he understands the creature’s imitation ability. He uses the sparrow as a distraction and strikes when the creature is vulnerable.
• The creature shows limited combat technique but enough awareness to recognize Daochen as the greater threat. Its imitation ability lets it adapt, though copying traits also creates weaknesses.
• Fate and Daochen’s complementary tactics—Fate holding the creature’s attention and Daochen delivering the decisive blow—bring it down temporarily, but not conclusively.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and escalation: Defeated foes may learn from setbacks, raising the stakes of future trials.
• Understanding as power: Daochen’s careful observation reveals a weakness that brute force alone might miss.
• Opportunity and ambition: Daochen sees the possible graveyard discovery as a chance to advance, while Fate’s ambition drives him to continue pursuing the Six Realms despite the risks.
• The limits of apparent strength: The creature is formidable, but its imitation makes it vulnerable—and even being cut apart does not guarantee its defeat.

Key plot points and events

• Daochen repeatedly crushes the Resentment Aggregate, but it keeps reforming—even after being reduced to dust. Unable to find or destroy its core, he realizes brute force will not solve the problem.
• Meanwhile, Jieyin and Zhunti finish establishing the Buddha Realm and hurry to the Eastern Sea to help.
• Daochen proposes scattering the aggregate throughout the Buddha Realm, keeping its fragments apart with barriers so Buddhist Dharma can purify them. The remaining energy could strengthen the realm.
• The Lord of Fate approves the plan. Jieyin and Zhunti are effectively compelled to contain the dust in the Buddha Realm, and the Buddhist Sect’s disciples enter to begin purification.
• The dust is soon absorbed by the Buddha Realm. Daochen discovers the realm itself instinctively absorbs and purifies resentment, while Jieyin and Zhunti grow stronger through the process.

Character developments

• Daochen shifts from trying to defeat the aggregate through force to identifying a solution suited to the Buddha Realm. He also recognizes that preserving his strength is important, since a direct use of Golden Crow Fire could leave him vulnerable.
• Jieyin and Zhunti initially resent being trapped in their realm and made responsible for purification. They later welcome the arrangement when it boosts their cultivation.
• The Lord of Fate supports Daochen’s proposal and decides that the Buddhist Sect should remain in the realm until its work and cultivation are complete.

Character interactions

• Daochen consults the Lord of Fate during the struggle and persuades him that the Buddha Realm can contain and purify the aggregate.
• Jieyin and Zhunti offer to help, but Daochen and the Lord of Fate take control of the decision, leaving the two Sages little room to object.
• The Buddhist Sect’s disciples cooperate in the purification effort through prayer and meditation.

Significant themes

• Transformation rather than destruction: The aggregate cannot be killed by force, but its resentment can be contained and purified.
• Karma and atonement: The aggregate’s slaughter of living beings is treated as a reason for its punishment and purification.
• Worlds as parts of a living system: Daochen concludes that the Primordial World develops whatever it needs. The Buddha Realm serves as an outlet for accumulated killing intent, converting it into energy and helping prevent a future calamity.

Key plot points and events

• As resentment is purified, Daochen discovers that its remaining “energy” is actually a swarm of invisible, instinct-driven parasites. They feed on resentment, reproduce rapidly, and can later consume surrounding energy before going dormant.
• Daochen fears that, if they spread, they could drain the Primordial World. He tests whether Golden Crow Fire can kill them; it does, leaving behind highly concentrated, absorbable energy crystals.
• Fate and the Sages Jieyin and Zhunti are alarmed when Daochen suddenly takes his Golden Crow form, but he assures them he is only experimenting.
• Fate asks Daochen to explain how he makes the crystals. Daochen refuses. When Fate tells Jieyin and Zhunti to stop purifying resentment, Daochen leaves, warning them they may regret it.
• Daochen expects them to discover that the parasites are draining the Buddha Realm’s energy and eventually seek his help.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen shifts from curiosity about the attractive energy to alarm at the parasites’ threat. He acts decisively to test his theory, but also values the crystals as a source of power and keeps his discovery secret.
• Fate covets the energy crystals but masks his frustration with pride. His decision to halt purification frustrates Daochen and may leave the Buddha Realm exposed.
• Jieyin and Zhunti move from celebrating their improved cultivation to fearing Daochen’s sudden display of power. They remain confused about his departure and the danger he has identified.
• Daochen’s exchange with Fate grows tense: Fate demands an explanation, while Daochen refuses and then leaves after Fate intervenes.

Significant themes

• Hidden threats: The parasites evade ordinary perception, showing how danger can thrive unnoticed.
• Power and self-interest: Daochen’s concern for the wider world coexists with his eagerness to gain energy crystals.
• Knowledge and mistrust: Daochen keeps crucial information to himself, while Fate’s interference jeopardizes cooperation.
• Ecological imbalance: The parasites’ unchecked consumption could strip entire realms of energy.

Key plot points and events

• Jieyin and Zhunti ask the Lord of Fate to divine the Buddha Realm’s future. He repeatedly foresees it inexplicably withering unless Demon Emperor Daochen returns, but cannot discover why or how to stop it.
• The three decide to wait and observe, while the Lord of Fate stays with Buddhism to investigate.
• Daochen visits Devil Ancestor Luo Hou and warns him that a strange, supposedly sealed organism can drain an entire world’s energy. He claims it may have escaped into the Primordial World or the Demon Realm.
• In reality, Daochen has brought the organisms to the Demon Realm and releases them there. He plans to use them to consume three worlds and produce a vast reserve of Energy Crystals.
• The organisms awaken, spread, and multiply rapidly. They drain the Demon Realm’s energy, leaving its inhabitants’ spiritual power fading.
• Meanwhile, Jieyin and Zhunti secretly return from meeting Hongjun, unknowingly carrying the organisms into the Primordial World, where they begin spreading beyond Daochen’s awareness.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen presents himself as a vigilant protector, warning Luo Hou, while secretly exploiting the organisms for his own gain. His confidence in controlling them is already being tested by their rapid spread.
• The Lord of Fate is unsettled by a mystery beyond his divination and reluctantly acknowledges that only Daochen may be able to resolve it.
• Jieyin and Zhunti remain cautious and politically opportunistic, but their secret maneuvering inadvertently helps spread the danger.
• Luo Hou accepts Daochen’s warning gratefully and resolves to guard the Demon Realm, unaware that Daochen himself has introduced the threat.

Significant themes

• Deception and manipulation: Daochen’s warning conceals his role in the crisis.
• Greed and exploitation: He treats the destruction of worlds as a means to build power.
• Unintended consequences: The organisms spread farther and faster than he anticipates.
• Limits of knowledge and control: Even the Lord of Fate and the Heavenly Dao cannot detect the organisms.

Character interactions

Daochen uses a courteous, alarming warning to gain Luo Hou’s trust. The Lord of Fate, Jieyin, and Zhunti confer over the Buddha Realm’s unexplained decline, while Jieyin and Zhunti’s dealings with Hongjun unknowingly spread the threat to the Primordial World.

Plot points and events

• Demon Race leaders report that spiritual power has vanished and the realm is drying out. Demon Emperor Daochen says a Chaos Demon God’s resentment is responsible and claims to be investigating.
• In secret, the Demon Realm is still producing spiritual power—but hidden energy parasites are absorbing it. Daochen uses his golden-crow fire to refine the parasites into powerful energy crystals, which he stores in the Origin Land rather than destroying.
• Devil Ancestor Luo Hou arrives seeking help and assumes the Demon Realm has suffered the same disaster as other realms. Daochen confirms that the Buddha Realm and Primordial World are also affected, while the Netherworld Office seems protected.
• Luo Hou offers Daochen an Origin Stone to cleanse his Demon Realm. Daochen accepts and carefully gathers the resulting crystals into his own space, pretending the work is strenuous and dangerous.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, and the Lord of Fate arrive outside the Demon Realm, hoping Daochen can solve the crisis. The Lord of Fate suspects Daochen may be behind it, but has no proof.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen maintains a calm, helpful public image while exploiting the crisis for personal gain. He hides his true motives, keeps the energy crystals, and treats the paid cleanup as a performance.
• Luo Hou is desperate for help but remains shrewd about the cost, offering an Origin Stone before Daochen can name his own price. He accepts Daochen’s explanation of the crystals without questioning it and even urges him not to overexert himself.
• The visiting sages and Lord of Fate recognize that the crisis is widespread and difficult to investigate. The Lord of Fate’s suspicion adds tension, though he cannot substantiate it.

Significant themes

• Deception and appearances: Daochen presents himself as a savior while secretly benefiting from the disaster.
• Greed and opportunism: He turns a realm-wide catastrophe into a source of valuable energy and payment.
• Power and vulnerability: Even major realms are suffering, while the normally inaccessible Netherworld Office is spared.
• Trust and suspicion: Luo Hou trusts Daochen’s account, but the Lord of Fate doubts him.

Key plot points and events

• Daochen finishes purging the Demon Realm of Energy Parasites, carefully checking that none remain. Though the cleanup damages some spirit mountains and veins, he considers it necessary because they were contaminated.
• He learns that the Buddha Realm is also losing spiritual energy. The Lord of Fate, Jieyin, and Zhunti ask for his help and offer a reward.
• Daochen explains that the crisis is caused by mutant resentment—tiny, evasive fragments that can absorb spiritual energy and split into doppelgangers. They have spread across four realms, including the Demon Realm and Primordial World.
• He says his divine sense can detect them and his Golden Crow Fire can destroy them. The group agrees to go to the Primordial World first, with Daochen insisting they follow his instructions.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun intercepts them and asks what it will take to secure Daochen’s help. Daochen demands the Primordial World’s origin, shocking everyone.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains confident and calculating. He is genuinely concerned about the Primordial World, but also enjoys exploiting the others’ need for his help. He uses the crisis to negotiate for a major prize.
• The Lord of Fate is humbled and anxious, apologizing for past behavior and offering compensation. He remains suspicious of Daochen but has little choice but to cooperate.
• Jieyin and Zhunti accompany the Lord of Fate and are caught off guard by Daochen’s demand.
• Hongjun confronts Daochen and attempts to bargain, only to discover that Daochen’s price is the Primordial World’s origin.

Significant themes

• Hidden threats and vigilance: The parasites’ ability to multiply, hide, and drain energy makes the crisis difficult to detect and contain.
• Power, leverage, and negotiation: Daochen’s unique abilities give him control over desperate authorities, while each faction must weigh the cost of accepting his help.
• Responsibility versus self-interest: Daochen wants to prevent widespread damage, yet also pursues a reward that could reshape the balance of power.

Key plot points and events

• Demon Emperor Daochen exploits the crisis in the Primordial World and Buddha Realm to demand a share of the Primordial World’s origin as payment for his help.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun and the Lord of Fate protest, but Daochen threatens to leave, pointing out that he is already breaking the rules by coming to help.
• Hongjun eventually agrees to provide some origin. Daochen lowers his demand to a palm-sized portion in exchange for cleansing both worlds.
• Hongjun and Fate ask to substitute the Buddha Realm’s origin, since they care more about protecting the Primordial World. Daochen accepts.
• Jieyin and Zhunti, the Buddha Realm’s nominal masters, are not consulted meaningfully. Under Fate’s threat, they can only agree.
• Daochen begins eliminating the Energy Parasites. Hongjun’s attempts to contain them have limited their spread, but the parasites have already escaped into many parts of the Primordial World. Daochen works methodically, collecting their energy crystals, and takes several days to clear the area around the spatial grid.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen is opportunistic and confident, using his leverage to secure energy reserves he hopes will help him reach the ninth level of the Saint Realm. Though he appears to be laboring hard, he takes evident pleasure in collecting the crystals.
• Hongjun and Fate shift from resisting Daochen’s demands to negotiating together. Their shared priority is the Primordial World, while the Buddha Realm is expendable to them.
• Jieyin and Zhunti are shown to have little real authority. Both Hongjun and Fate treat them as subordinate tools, and they submit despite their resentment and helplessness.
• Daochen’s unusual ability to sense the parasites—and his apparent reframing of their crystals as something valuable—leaves Hongjun and Fate confused and suspicious.

Significant themes

• Power and leverage: Daochen’s help is valuable enough that even powerful figures must bargain with him.
• Exploitation and self-interest: Daochen turns a crisis into an opportunity for personal gain, while Hongjun and Fate sacrifice the Buddha Realm to protect the Primordial World.
• Political subordination: Jieyin and Zhunti’s nominal ownership of the Buddha Realm cannot overcome their dependence on stronger powers.
• Different perceptions of value: What the others regard as dangerous or troublesome, Daochen sees as a useful harvest and source of energy.

Key plot points and events

• Daochen and the others cannot sense the resentment he described, despite confirming that spiritual energy has vanished from the Buddha Realm.
• Daochen praises Heavenly Dao Hongjun for sealing off the affected spaces, which kept Resentment Aggregates from spreading. Hongjun and the Lord of Fate trade insults, then restrain themselves and continue cooperating.
• Daochen clears the Primordial World’s grid cells, collecting huge quantities of Energy Crystals and taking spiritual veins, dragon veins, medicines, and fruits along the way. The others resent his greed but cannot stop him.
• After finishing, Daochen claims the promised world origin. Hongjun and the Lord of Fate hand over about a third of the Buddha Realm’s origin. Jieyin and Zhunti witness this helplessly and grow angrier at the two authorities.
• Daochen then enters the Buddha Realm and burns through it with Golden Crow fire to clear out dormant energy parasites. He detects and evades a hidden, wolfhound-sized Resentment Aggregate that the others had failed to notice.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains pragmatic and acquisitive, turning the crisis into an opportunity to gather energy and secure the world origin. The collected energy bolsters his confidence about eventually reaching the ninth heaven of the Saint Realm, and he resolves to investigate the Gods’ Cemetery in Chaos.
• Hongjun and the Lord of Fate are mutually antagonistic, but Daochen’s remarks briefly provoke their rivalry; they recognize the danger of being manipulated and avoid further confrontation so they can cooperate.
• Jieyin and Zhunti feel powerless as Hongjun and the Lord of Fate give away part of the Buddha Realm’s origin. Their resentment is directed at those two, not Daochen.
• The newly discovered Aggregate surprises everyone: it has intelligence, can conceal itself from powerful observers, and harbors a deep desire to destroy the Primordial World.

Significant themes

• Power and helplessness: Those with authority can still be outmatched or blind to hidden threats, while weaker figures can only watch events unfold.
• Self-interest amid crisis: Daochen’s resource-gathering and the others’ resentment reveal how personal motives persist even during a shared emergency.
• Hidden dangers and incomplete knowledge: The concealed Aggregate shows that the threat is more pervasive and intelligent than the characters understood.

Key plot points and events

• The Resentment Aggregate realizes Daochen’s attacks cannot harm it, then flees. Its intelligence alarms the group, especially because such creatures appear whenever a world is established and seem to grow more capable over time.
• The creature vanishes from the others’ perception. Daochen detects that it escaped through a concealed spatial rift, hidden by Energy Parasites.
• Daochen destroys the remaining parasites with Golden Crow Fire, exposing the rift. The Lord of Fate and Hongjun are shocked that it formed without their sensing it.
• Convinced the intelligent creature threatens the Primordial World, Daochen proposes entering the rift to pursue it. Hongjun agrees; the Lord of Fate follows, wary of being left behind and eager to learn more about the passage.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains confident and decisive, but recognizes the Aggregate’s intelligence and ability to travel between realms as a serious danger. He seeks Hongjun’s help indirectly, avoiding a direct request that might provoke resentment.
• Hongjun of the Heavenly Dao sets aside his rivalry with Daochen for the mission, agreeing to cooperate while expressing confidence in their combined strength.
• The Lord of Fate is hesitant because his current body has limited combat ability, but follows out of self-interest and fear of exclusion. He admits he cannot return Daochen’s two children until he establishes the Immortal Realm and transforms; he claims they are securely protected.
• The three maintain wary relations: Daochen and Hongjun establish a temporary understanding, while the Lord of Fate suspects they might unite against him. Daochen pointedly reminds him that returning his children could change their relationship.

Significant themes

• Growing intelligence as a threat: The Aggregate’s ability to learn and evade detection makes it more dangerous than its raw strength suggests.
• The limits of perception and control: Even powerful figures fail to sense the concealed rift, hinting at vulnerabilities in their understanding of the realms.
• Reluctant cooperation and mistrust: The characters join forces against a common danger while continuing to guard their own interests.
• Power and obligation: Daochen’s concern for his missing children remains entangled with his dealings with the Lord of Fate.

Plot points and events

• Daochen senses an intelligent Resentment Aggregate and, despite the uncertainty, follows it into a strange underground region. Heavenly Dao Hongjun and the Lord of Fate accompany him.
• The group enters a cavern filled with luminous crystals whose unusual, dangerous energy could destroy the Lord of Fate’s puppet body. Their light makes the otherwise hard-to-detect Aggregate visible.
• The Aggregate leads them through more than a thousand passages and near-identical caverns. Daochen realizes they are moving forward through a region designed to look repetitive, not literally going in circles.
• They emerge into a vast underground chamber filled with Resentment Aggregates. Many have brought beings from the Primordial World—including members of the Buddhist Sect, Human Race, Naga Tribe, and Star Race—suggesting the passage network connects to locations throughout that world.
• Following the Aggregate deeper, the trio rides on what appears to be a road but is actually a giant centipede. In the chamber, cultivation arts cannot be projected outward, though they can still strengthen the user internally.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen remains wary but curious, choosing to follow the Aggregate because its behavior seems purposeful rather than a simple trap. His exceptional memory lets him distinguish the passages and confirm their progress. He is composed even when the group grows impatient.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun and the Lord of Fate initially adopt defensive stances. They are impressed by Daochen’s ability to remember and compare every cavern, and become increasingly frustrated by the repetitive route.
• The Resentment Aggregate behaves like a guide, repeatedly beckoning the group onward. Its intelligence and apparent purpose remain unexplained.
• The Lord of Fate’s confidence partly comes from using a puppet body, while Daochen and Hongjun must protect their true bodies.

Significant themes

• Curiosity and risk: The trio accepts danger to investigate an unfamiliar life-form and place.
• Perception versus reality: The passages look identical, but careful observation reveals they are distinct and lead forward.
• The limits of power: The region’s laws suppress outward cultivation techniques, making physical strength and adaptability crucial.
• A hidden threat to the Primordial World: The presence of people from multiple groups suggests the underground network may be drawing beings from across their world.

• Key events: Daochen, Hongjun, and the Lord of Fate follow a centipede into a crude, rock-built structure, where they encounter what appears to be a brain. It claims to be a dying member of the Giant Spirit Race, trapped far from the Primordial World and longing to see its homeland again. Daochen distrusts the story and challenges the creature. It reveals its hostility, admitting it has studied Primordial World beings and eaten brains, before the supposed brain vanishes: it was an illusion created by a huge, tentacled Resentment Aggregate. The monster attacks. Daochen escapes its tentacles and realizes Hongjun and the Lord of Fate remain caught in the illusion. He grabs Hongjun and the Five-Colored Golden Luan Sparrow to pull them clear, then jolts Hongjun awake with a slap. As the attack continues, Daochen crushes two tentacles and prepares to fight back.
• Character developments: Daochen is immediately suspicious of the creature’s inconsistent story and takes charge once the trap is exposed. Hongjun and the Lord of Fate are more deeply fooled; Hongjun only regains awareness after Daochen intervenes, and initially finds himself unable to use his Dao Arts.
• Character interactions: The brain-like figure tries to manipulate the group with a plea for sympathy, but Daochen confronts it and sees through the disguise. During the attack, he protects the others, physically rousing Hongjun and pulling him out of danger.
• Themes: The chapter emphasizes deception and the danger of trusting appearances, even for powerful beings. It also highlights the vulnerability of the mighty to unseen traps—and Daochen’s responsibility toward his companions.

Key plot points and events

• Daochen, Hongjun, and the Lord of Fate realize that the Resentment Aggregate has lured them into an illusion. Daochen estimates that the creature has reached the peak of the ninth heaven of the Saint Realm.
• The monster offers Daochen power and dominance if he joins with it. Daochen refuses with disgust and punches its apparent body apart—but discovers that it was only a Doppelganger.
• The false underground palace vanishes, revealing that the group has been inside the monster’s enormous body all along. Poisonous gas and corrosive, blood-red fluid begin filling the space as the creature taunts them.
• Hongjun suggests finding the monster’s weakness from within, while the Lord of Fate offers to use his route-finding instinct. Daochen remains wary, suspecting the creature is still manipulating them.
• Daochen’s attempt to punch through the body fails: the walls have softened and now absorb or rebound his force. Their Dao Arts are sealed, leaving them largely dependent on physical strength.
• With escape increasingly urgent, Daochen proposes returning to the entrance and consuming the energy in the strange crystals nearby, hoping to break through to the ninth heaven and gain enough strength to escape.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen rejects the monster’s bargain outright and stays skeptical even when the others suggest attacking from inside. He shifts from brute force to a desperate plan to strengthen himself.
• Hongjun responds angrily to being deceived and tries to assess the body’s defenses, identifying how the red fluid has changed the walls.
• The Lord of Fate remains supportive, offering his ability to calculate a route, though he cannot contribute much in the fight.
• The Resentment Aggregate alternates between flattery, mockery, and threats, using deception and its own body as a trap.

Significant themes

• Deception and false appearances: The apparent palace and the monster’s first body are illusions or projections.
• Power and temptation: The creature tries to win Daochen over by promising supremacy, but Daochen refuses.
• Survival through adaptation: With their usual powers unavailable and brute force ineffective, the group must find another way to grow stronger.
• Overconfidence and vulnerability: The group’s failure to recognize the trap leaves them at the monster’s mercy.

Key plot points and events

• The Resentment Aggregate closes the passages to trap Daochen and Heavenly Dao Hongjun, but their conversation has been a deliberate test: they suspect the creature’s crystals are its weakness.
• Hongjun uses the Heavenly Dao Sword, whose power draws on the Laws of the Great Dao, to cut through the creature’s flesh. They realize the monster cannot suppress those Laws entirely.
• The pair carve their way toward a crystal chamber, dodging poisonous, hallucinogenic, corrosive red liquid and the creature’s attempts to pursue and crush them.
• Daochen and the others collect the crystals. The Resentment Aggregate retaliates by compressing the space around them, but they break free into Chaos.
• Outside, the creature’s true form is revealed: an amalgamation of the surviving corpses of many Chaos Demon Gods slain by Pangu. Hongjun recognizes the crystals as the Demon Gods’ Divine Crystals, stripped of their original Laws.
• Hongjun concludes that the creature must be destroyed before its potential growth threatens the Primordial World.

Character developments

• Daochen remains resourceful and wary. He helps probe the monster’s reactions, recognizes the crystals’ importance, and stays focused on survival and gathering them.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun demonstrates the Heavenly Dao Sword’s formidable power and shares Daochen’s tactical thinking. His confidence gives way to profound fear once he understands what the creature is—and what it could become.
• The Resentment Aggregate shows immense physical power but limited intelligence. Its efforts to trap the heroes instead reveal its weaknesses and nature.

Significant themes

• Knowledge as a weapon: Observation and deception allow the heroes to uncover a weakness brute force alone could not reveal.
• Power’s hidden cost and danger: The creature’s strength comes from the fused Demon God corpses and their potential, making its possible advancement an existential threat.
• Control versus resistance: The monster tries to dictate the heroes’ movements, while they resist through planning, skill, and cooperation.
• Greed and resource-seeking: Daochen and his companions seize the crystals despite the danger, treating the monster’s core as both a vulnerability and a valuable prize.

Character interactions

• Daochen and Hongjun silently coordinate, using their conversation to test the creature without alerting it.
• Hongjun explains why the Heavenly Dao Sword can cut the monster, while Daochen recognizes the significance of the discovery.
• The Resentment Aggregate angrily confronts them as they strip its crystal chamber, then attacks by compressing the space around them.

Plot points and events

• Daochen questions how Pangu could have defeated the three thousand Chaos Gods and Demons. Hongjun argues that Pangu likely reached the Heavenly Dao Realm before opening the world, but fell when his unstable cultivation collapsed—not simply from exhaustion.
• Daochen’s memories seem to contradict Hongjun’s account. The Lord of Fate admits that the “River of Time and Space” Daochen once experienced was an illusion he created, not the true river. Daochen realizes the explanation fits the flaws in his memory.
• Furious at being deceived, Daochen threatens Fate, but spares him because the group needs his strength and knowledge.
• A stitched-together monster attacks. The three evade its many arms and identify its slow, cumbersome body as a weakness.
• The monster suddenly splits apart into numerous smaller creatures made from Chaos Demon Gods. The group flees in separate directions. Fate’s Five-Colored Golden Luan Sparrow puppet is torn apart after he runs into the swarm.
• Daochen fights his way out with the Heaven Measuring Ruler, knocking the pursuing demons aside and opening a path.

Character developments and interactions

• Daochen is shaken by the revelation that his past experience was fabricated, then channels his anger into a practical decision to keep Fate alive. In combat, he acts decisively and protects himself with the ruler.
• Hongjun offers a theory about Pangu’s fall and clarifies why the monster’s slowness does not make it harmless: only powerful, fast fighters can reliably escape.
• The Lord of Fate confesses that he secretly manipulated Daochen’s perception in the past. His puppet body is destroyed during the escape, weakening the group.
• The three initially share confidence as they evade the monster, but its transformation forces them to abandon coordination and flee separately.

Significant themes

• Deception and trust: Fate’s confession recasts Daochen’s past and strains their alliance.
• Power and vulnerability: The monster’s immense strength is offset by poor mobility, while its ability to split into many attackers turns that weakness into a new threat.
• Survival over pride: Daochen suppresses his anger and the group chooses flight rather than risking a fight they may not survive.

Key plot points and events

• Trapped amid a horde of Chaos Demon Gods, Heavenly Dao Hongjun bargains for his life by promising to help Daochen find Qingchan, Qingxuan, and the others. He seals the promise with a grave oath.
• Daochen accepts, warns that they will become enemies if Hongjun fails, then fights through the monsters to reach him. The two escape together, running blindly through Chaos as the pursuing creatures follow them.
• Back in the Primordial World, the Lord of Fate awakens in a new puppet body: a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon. Learning from the Five-Colored Golden Luan Sparrow that Daochen and Hongjun are unlikely to return soon, he sees a chance to act without the Demon Emperor.
• The Lord of Fate goes to Turtle Ao Island and urges Tongtian to establish the Immortal Realm. Though Tongtian worries about the Resentment Aggregate and considers calling Daochen, the Lord of Fate insists it will not appear and claims he can handle it if it does.
• Tongtian agrees. The Moral Heavenly Venerable arrives, and the group chooses to place the Immortal Realm beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, above the other worlds.

Character developments and interactions

• Hongjun reveals valuable information about Daochen’s missing companions and uses it to persuade Daochen to save him. His desperation contrasts with his confidence that Daochen ultimately will not abandon him.
• Daochen shows both decisiveness and strength, charging into overwhelming danger once Hongjun makes his promise. His hope of finding Qingchan and Qingxuan gives him a strong personal stake in the bargain.
• The Lord of Fate becomes bolder after concluding Daochen is absent. His new body reflects his search for potential, while his ambition to complete the Six Realms—and gain a true body—drives him to take the risk.
• Tongtian is cautious because of the Resentment Aggregate, but accepts the Lord of Fate’s confidence and proceeds with the plan. The Lord of Fate also invites Jinyin and Zhunti to strengthen the effort.

Significant themes

• Deals, oaths, and trust: Hongjun’s promise secures his rescue, though Daochen makes clear that failure will carry lasting consequences.
• Ambition and opportunity: The Lord of Fate treats Daochen’s absence as a chance to advance his long-term plan.
• Risk and confidence: Tongtian’s caution clashes with the Lord of Fate’s certainty as they prepare to establish the Immortal Realm despite the danger.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• The Lord of Fate begins establishing the Immortal Realm in the Thirty-Three Heavens, intending it to be a separate home for Immortals rather than a world tied to the lives of lesser beings.
• With the Moral Heavenly Venerable and Tongtian’s help, he opens a foundational Media Ground and the new realm takes shape smoothly—until a powerful Resentment Aggregate appears through a spatial rift.
• The group recognizes that they cannot defeat it with their current strength. The Lord of Fate calls on a contingency: Shen Ni’s body, kept in the Buddha Realm. Possessing it costs him one of his chances at transformation but raises his strength to the Nine Heavens of the Saint Realm.
• The Lord of Fate enhances an ordinary steel saber with the power of fate and prepares to face the creature.
• The Resentment Aggregate reveals that it remembers the Lord of Fate and intends to devour Pangu’s world. It identifies Fate as the one who repeatedly possessed Pangu’s body.
• Fate realizes the creature is Alt Eucis, the ancient Lord of Desire—the first Demon God killed by Pangu and the former ruler who had used the other Chaos Demon Gods as puppets in their assault on Pangu.

Character developments

• The Lord of Fate moves from alarm and uncertainty to resolve, sacrificing a valuable future opportunity to draw on Shen Ni’s power. He also wants to prove that he is more than a schemer, though the enemy’s knowledge of his secrets frightens him.
• Alt Eucis / the Resentment Aggregate emerges as an intelligent, calculating enemy with a personal grudge against Pangu. He believes he should have won and seeks revenge by destroying Pangu’s world.
• Tongtian and the Moral Heavenly Venerable are frustrated by the interruption and recognize that their combined strength is inadequate against the threat.

Significant themes

• Immortality and separation: The Immortal Realm is conceived as a distinct society, set apart from ordinary worlds.
• Sacrifice and contingency: Fate gives up a possible future transformation to gain the strength needed to respond to an immediate crisis.
• Resentment and vengeance: Alt Eucis’s survival as a wisp of resentment is sustained by memory and his refusal to accept defeat.
• Power and identity: Fate seeks recognition as a genuine powerhouse, while the enemy’s revelations expose how much remains hidden about Fate’s past.

Character interactions

• Fate directs Tongtian and the Moral Heavenly Venerable through the realm’s construction, then faces their questions when the Resentment Aggregate appears.
• The group’s alarm contrasts with Fate’s attempt to take charge by revealing his Shen Ni contingency.
• Fate and Alt Eucis exchange revelations: the creature knows Fate’s history, while Fate eventually identifies the creature as the Lord of Desire.

Key plot points and events

• The Lord of Desire was once a powerful ruler of Chaos who could awaken and control others’ desires. He opposed Pangu’s plan to create a world, so Pangu eventually struck him down.
• The Lord of Desire survived as a cursed, undead being. His curse turned his followers against Pangu and contributed to the trials that led to Pangu’s death.
• In the present, he has targeted the Lord of Fate as a vessel for his eventual resurrection, laying a curse that could awaken him when Fate falls to desire and dies.
• Fate recognizes the danger, but fights back using Shen Ni, his powerful puppet body. The two monsters clash as the Immortal Realm takes shape.
• Tongtian and the Moral Heavenly Venerable watch the battle while merging their own Origins with the developing realm. They and Haotian have already prepared to gather the Heavenly Court’s forces and establish the Immortal Realm as a major power.
• Fate understands their ambitions but cannot spare the Origin needed to control the realm: the Lord of Desire has left him struggling merely to protect himself. Still, Fate cannot abandon the project and hopes that establishing the Six Realms will help him gain a physical form and attempt a breakthrough to the Heavenly Dao Realm.

Character developments and interactions

• The Lord of Desire returns as a vengeful, undead threat, attacking Fate in hopes of taking over his body.
• The Lord of Fate is forced from his usual role as a sage into direct combat. Though he regrets encountering such a formidable enemy, he believes Shen Ni can help him prevail.
• Tongtian and the Moral Heavenly Venerable reveal their self-interest: they hope to become masters of the Immortal Realm and remove both Fate and other threats once it is established.
• Fate and the two immortals are therefore uneasy allies: they continue building the realm, but each pursues separate plans for power and control.

Significant themes

• Power and ambition: The characters pursue control of worlds and their Origins, often under the guise of cooperation.
• Desire and corruption: The Lord of Desire’s ability to manipulate others remains dangerous long after his apparent defeat.
• The cost of creation: Pangu’s world-making required a terrible struggle, while establishing the Immortal Realm likewise exposes its creator to threats and political maneuvering.
• Uncertainty and risk: Fate’s hopes for a breakthrough depend on outcomes he cannot predict, while abandoning the Immortal Realm could leave him facing an even worse danger.

Plot points and events

• The Lord of Fate reflects that, despite his power, he cannot control the choices of others. Luo Hou, Tongtian, and Laozi have all acted in their own interests, prioritizing survival over promises or advancement.
• While the Lord of Fate and a monster battle, Tongtian and Laozi finish stabilizing the Immortal Realm. To protect it from the fighting, they open a passage and banish both combatants to the Primordial World.
• The Lord of Fate angrily confronts them, but Tongtian argues that they will help fight the monster there. He plans to summon Jieyin and Zhunti as well.
• Laozi demands to know what happened to their missing brother, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable. The Lord of Fate says he is being held in Fate Space and promises to release him after the monster is dealt with.
• Tongtian and Laozi make clear that they are willing to risk disrupting the Lord of Fate’s plans if he threatens them. Realizing he still needs the Immortal Realm’s support, he backs down and proposes cooperation.

Character developments and interactions

• The Lord of Fate recognizes that the Sages’ willingness to sacrifice ambition for survival makes them difficult to manipulate. He is irritated by their defiance but ultimately accepts that he needs them.
• Tongtian acts pragmatically: he helps protect the Immortal Realm, negotiates firmly, and then agrees to cooperate once the Lord of Fate yields.
• Laozi shows his concern for the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, despite their brother’s flaws, and presses the Lord of Fate for answers.
• Tongtian and Laozi act in concert, using their shared resolve—and the Lord of Fate’s need for their support—to secure a chance to reunite the Three Pure Ones.

Significant themes

• Survival over ambition: The Sages value staying alive above power or advancement, making conventional threats ineffective.
• Mutual dependence and uneasy alliances: The Lord of Fate and the Sages distrust one another but must cooperate to face the monster.
• Limits of power and control: Even a figure who claims authority over fate cannot dictate the choices of others.
• Brotherhood and loyalty: Laozi’s determination to learn the Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s fate reflects the lasting bond among the Three Pure Ones.

Key plot points and events

• With the Demon Realm no longer an immediate concern, the Lord of Fate sees a rare chance to pursue advancement: the Demon Emperor and Heavenly Dao are both occupied, and none of the three supreme powers can safely sabotage another without risking a fatal alliance against themselves.
• The Four Sages—Zhunti, Jieyin, Tongtian, and Laozi—arrive to help the Lord of Fate. The Lord of Desire manipulates them by stirring their greed, turning them against Fate with promises of ruling the Primordial World.
• Unable to reason with the controlled Sages, Fate brings out the Primordial Heavenly Venerable and kills him, triggering his resurrection. Fate orders him to awaken Laozi and Tongtian.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerable breaks through the control by threatening to destroy Tongtian’s Jade Void Sect. Tongtian’s anger—and Laozi’s concern—snaps them back to their senses. The Sages realize they had been ensnared simply by hearing Desire’s words.
• Fate assigns Laozi, Tongtian, and the Primordial Heavenly Venerable to hold off the still-controlled Jieyin and Zhunti while he fights Desire. As the battle intensifies, Desire’s body begins disappearing, and Fate realizes his fate curse is finally taking effect.

Character developments and interactions

• Lord of Fate acts strategically under pressure: he recognizes the danger of Desire’s influence, uses the Primordial Heavenly Venerable’s resurrection to counter it, and presses the attack before the situation worsens.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerable is humbled by his captivity and by witnessing the power of greater beings. Though he remains wary of Fate, he cooperates and uses his knowledge of Tongtian to break the spell.
• Tongtian and Laozi recover from Desire’s control, understand how easily they were manipulated, and reunite warmly with their returned junior brother.
• Lord of Desire remains dangerous despite being only an incomplete remnant. He exploits desire to turn allies against Fate, but his lapses in coherence and the curse’s effects give the others an opening.

Significant themes

• Mutual deterrence and ambition: the supreme powers avoid sabotaging one another because doing so could provoke a catastrophic, all-out struggle.
• Desire as manipulation: Desire’s power turns people’s ambitions against their judgment, showing how easily greed can fracture alliances.
• Humility and growth: the Primordial Heavenly Venerable recognizes how limited his former understanding was and acts more cautiously.
• Cooperation under threat: the group must overcome distrust and divided loyalties to confront a danger that threatens the entire Primordial World.