Chapter Summaries

Boss Qiao endured the Forty-Nine Immortal-Slaying Formation’s attacks while the Heavenly Dao Powerhouses tried to break out of Demon Ancestor Cangsheng’s world. The Queen Mother of the West appeared, effortlessly destroyed their World-Opening Blade, and revealed that heavenly dao-outer path fusion could let her surpass the heavenly dao limit; she then called on Primordial Beginning to stop hiding what he knew.

• The Forty-Nine Immortal-Slaying Formation pierced Boss Qiao repeatedly, while the reincarnated immortals and gods resolved to wear him down and the Heavenly Dao Powerhouses gained confidence that Qing City was safe.
• The Demon Ancestors debated retreating or sacrificing Quasi-Demon Ancestors, but Infinity Demon Ancestor said the Queen Mother of the West had told them to wait because she and the Taiyin Divine Lord were discussing a way to turn things around.
• The Heavenly Dao Powerhouses combined their strength into a World-Opening Blade, shattered the Buddha's Palm Kingdom, and began tearing apart Demon Ancestor Cangsheng’s world.
• The Queen Mother of the West appeared and destroyed the World-Opening Blade with one finger, while her avatar absorbed spiritual power and grew far beyond the heavenly dao limit without harming her true body.
• The Demon Ancestors realized the Queen Mother of the West had used heavenly dao-outer path fusion to surpass the limit, and she told Primordial Beginning that she knew he could do the same.

The Queen Mother of the West directed the Outer Path Demon Ancestors to breach Qing City and create a Demon Ancestor in the mortal world while she trapped the Primordial Heavenly Emperor’s avatar. The Heavenly Dao Powerhouses defended the city, and the Queen Mother of the West called on the Taiyin Divine Lord to attack it.

• The Queen Mother of the West ordered the Outer Path Demon Ancestors to kill the Upper Realm’s Demon Venerables and Quasi-Demon Ancestors, breach Qing City, and sacrifice the sleeping Demon Ancestor Mingye to create a new Demon Ancestor.
• Lady Nuwa realized the Outer Path faction’s plan and led the Heavenly Dao Powerhouses to defend Qing City as the Demon Ancestors gathered outside it.
• Fuxi combined the city’s formations with the Heavenly Dao Powerhouses’ strength to form a barrier that withstood the Outer Path faction’s black lightning attack.
• The Queen Mother of the West reached Great Golden Immortal-level magic power and trapped the Primordial Heavenly Emperor’s avatar inside a phantom Jade Pool, slowing its absorption of spiritual power.
• The Queen Mother of the West telepathically ordered the Taiyin Divine Lord to breach Qing City.

The Outer Path faction’s attacks failed to break Qing City’s array, but Boss Qiao advanced to Quasi-Demon Ancestor and prepared a stronger strike as the Primordial Heavenly Emperor neared freedom. The Taiyin Divine Lord revealed that the Primordial Heavenly Emperor was the Demon Ancestor Primordial Beginning, then died under the Heavenly Dao’s punishment as the Primordial Heavenly Emperor appeared above Qing City.

• The Taiyin Divine Lord formed a powerful incarnation and joined the attack on Qing City, but Fuxi redirected the combined assault and kept the city unharmed.
• The Calamity-Extinction Demon Ancestor killed the Upper Realm’s Demon Venerables and Quasi-Demon Ancestors, allowing the Outer Path Sovereign to raise Boss Qiao to Quasi-Demon Ancestor.
• The Outer Path faction combined its power with Boss Qiao’s and prepared another strike while the Queen Mother of the West warned that the Primordial Heavenly Emperor was about to break free.
• At the Queen Mother of the West’s urging, the Taiyin Divine Lord revealed that the Primordial Heavenly Emperor and the Demon Ancestor Primordial Beginning were one being, and that the Emperor sought the Land of Origin.
• The Heavenly Dao Will destroyed the Taiyin Divine Lord for breaking his oath, but the Outer Path faction learned the secret before his death.
• The Primordial Heavenly Emperor appeared above Qing City in golden imperial robes.

After the Taiyin Divine Lord revealed that Primordial Beginning and Primordial Origin were one, the Demon Ancestors broke the seals beneath Qing City and unleashed hundreds of thousands of ancient outer demons. The Primordial Heavenly Emperor joined Fuxi’s forces and devastated the horde, but the battle continued as tens of thousands of demons fell to a single sword strike.

• The Taiyin Divine Lord revealed the secret before the Heavenly Dao’s punishment erased him, and the Primordial Heavenly Emperor’s avatar arrived above Qing City as the Queen Mother of the West tried to hold him back.
• Demon Ancestor Cangsheng sacrificed herself to empower her world, suppress the Primordial Heavenly Emperor, and let the Calamity-Extinction Thunder Dragon destroy Qing City’s formations and the seals imprisoning the ancient outer demons.
• The Calamity-Extinction Thunder Dragon shattered the Nine Heavens Divine Restrictions, releasing hundreds of thousands of Demon Lords, thousands of Demon Venerables, and over a hundred Quasi-Demon Ancestors.
• Demon Ancestor Cangsheng fell into eternal slumber, the Queen Mother of the West’s avatar was forced back, and the Primordial Heavenly Emperor emerged and killed tens of thousands of outer demons with his palm.
• Fuxi united the Heavenly Dao Powerhouses with the Primordial Heavenly Emperor in an array, and their immortal-slaying sword light destroyed the Queen Mother of the West’s avatar and cut through the outer demons’ formation, killing tens of thousands more.

The outer path sovereign created Boss Qiao as a Demon Ancestor, but he refused to attack Lin Zhishui and instead shielded the Outer Path forces, allowing another Demon Ancestor to be born. As the outer path sovereign descended again, Lin Zhishui finished his paintings in the Calligraphy and Painting Shop, where the five landscapes began to glow and rise.

• The Zhu Xian Sword slaughtered most of the Outer Demons, Demon Venerables, and Quasi-Demon Ancestors while the Infinity Demon Ancestor urged the Calamity-Extinction Demon Ancestor to finish destroying Cangsheng.
• The Calamity-Extinction Demon Ancestor announced that Cangsheng had returned to nothingness, and the outer path sovereign chose Boss Qiao to become a Demon Ancestor.
• Boss Qiao refused the Infinity Demon Ancestor's demands to attack Lin Zhishui and Youchan's reincarnation, but he created a black lotus barrier to protect the Outer Path forces.
• The outer path sovereign descended again and created another Demon Ancestor inside the black lotus; Boss Qiao realized his protection had enabled the enemy's plan and vowed not to let the new Demon Ancestor leave.
• Lin Zhishui finished painting five landscapes in the Calligraphy and Painting Shop, and the paintings began to glow and float before him.

Lin Zhishui’s landscape paintings mysteriously flew away, while Youchan and She Xilu questioned whether he was connected to Primordial Origin and Primordial Beginning. In the Demon Domain, the newly born Hook God Demon Ancestor defeated Boss Qiao and moved to devour Youchan, just as five strange scrolls arrived.

• Five landscape paintings rose from Lin Zhishui’s desk and flew toward the horizon, leaving him to wonder whether they would become real places from mythology.
• Youchan and She Xilu discussed whether Lin Zhishui was Primordial Origin and whether Primordial Beginning was sealed inside his brush.
• The Black Lotus World shattered, revealing the badly injured Boss Qiao and the newly born Hook God Demon Ancestor, who had destroyed the other Outer Demons and avatars.
• Boss Qiao refused the Infinity Demon Ancestor’s offer to join them, and the Hook God Demon Ancestor bound him with chains.
• Youchan urged She Xilu to ascend, but the Hook God Demon Ancestor sealed her cultivation and trapped the Heavenly Dao Powerhouses’ avatars.
• The Hook God Demon Ancestor prepared to devour Youchan, then turned as five colorful butterflies—painting scrolls flying across the sky—approached.

Primordial Beginning used five paintings to summon the ancient Lands of Origin and purify their source essence, shifting the balance of power between the Heavenly Dao and Outer Path. The Heavenly Dao Powerhouses defeated the Demon Ancestors, but refused the Heavenly Dao Will’s demand to kill Boss Qiao, who had saved them.

• Five paintings summoned phantoms of the ancient Heavenly Court, Netherworld, Heaven-Connecting Jianmu, Spirit Mountain, and Guanghan Palace as the Heavenly Dao Will gathered the source essence of the Five Great Lands of Origin.
• The source essence flowed through the phantoms and was purified, restoring the Heavenly Dao’s share of power and weakening the Outer Path’s Demon Ancestors.
• The Heavenly Dao Will released its hold over the battlefield, and Lady Nuwa and the other Heavenly Dao Powerhouses attacked, killing the Hook God Demon Ancestor and sending the other Demon Ancestors into slumber.
• The Most High Celestial Venerable identified Boss Qiao as the lone remaining Demon Ancestor, and Lady Nuwa argued that they should spare him because he had saved them.
• The Heavenly Dao Will ordered Boss Qiao’s death because no Demon Ancestor could remain in the mortal world, but the Heavenly Dao Powerhouses refused to obey.

The Queen Mother of the West tried to kill Boss Qiao under the Heavenly Dao Will’s orders, but switched sides when she learned his death might awaken the great outer-demon consciousness. Before Lady Nuwa could kill him, Lin Zhishui’s painting of Outer Path Pangu unleashed the Outer Path Sovereign, and the painting began absorbing origin power as the Heavenly Dao Will struggled to stop it.

• The Queen Mother of the West used the heavenly heart’s source power to attack Boss Qiao, but Lady Nuwa and the Most High Celestial Venerable deflected her strike.
• The Heavenly Dao Will revealed that Boss Qiao’s existence as the last Free Demon Ancestor threatened to awaken the great outer-demon consciousness, and the Queen Mother of the West attacked the Heavenly Dao Powerhouses to help him escape.
• Lin Zhishui watched the sky from his shop as his portrait of Outer Path Pangu flew toward the other paintings.
• The portrait arrived just as Lady Nuwa was about to kill Boss Qiao, then summoned the Outer Path Sovereign, who froze Earth and the Heavenly Dao Will in place.
• The portrait absorbed origin power from the projections of the Five Great Lands of Origin, leaving the Heavenly Dao Will unable to control it and making the powerhouses question Primordial Beginning’s identity and intentions.
• Youchan sighed within She Xilu’s mind that they had never been able to escape.

The Outer Path Pangu portrait drew in all nine great sources through a hidden passage in She Xilu’s soul, leaving the Three Realms without them. Lin Zhishui awakened in his calligraphy shop, revealed that the starry sky imprisoned him, and said he wanted to compose a glorious age.

• The portrait of Outer Path Pangu absorbed the five Lands of Origin’s sources and the Heavenly Heart’s source power, then revealed the Outer Path Nest and the missing Solar Star source.
• Outer Path Pangu directed the gathered sources into She Xilu, where a fissure in her Primordial Spirit connected to the vanished Demonic Well of Origin.
• Youchan realized Primordial Origin had forged the Demonic Well into a weapon and used the Demon Ancestors’ Primordial Spirits as a passage for safely taking the sources.
• The portrait vanished after the sources entered She Xilu, leaving the Nine Great Sources gone and the Heavenly Dao Powerhouses fearful that Outer Path Pangu would awaken.
• Boss Qiao defied Lady Nuwa’s warning and went to Lin Zhishui’s shop, where Lin Zhishui awakened and explained that the mortal starry sky was his prison.
• Lin Zhishui told Boss Qiao and the gathered Heavenly Dao Powerhouses that he wanted to compose a glorious age.

Lin Zhishui revealed how Pangu, the Heavenly Emperor, Demon Ancestor Primordial Beginning, and Outer Path Pangu were connected, and explained that the Heavenly Dao and Outer Path had originally been one. He began showing the gathered powerhouses the truth through an experience of their own.

• Lin Zhishui explained that Pangu's body became the Primordial Land, his primordial spirit was reborn as the Primordial Heavenly Emperor, and his consciousness became Lin Zhishui.
• Lin Zhishui told the powerhouses that the Heavenly Dao and Outer Path were compatible parts of one system, and that the Heavenly Dao Will's selfishness caused the cataclysm.
• Lin Zhishui told She Xilu that he had erased her memories six hundred years earlier so they could begin their story anew.
• Lin Zhishui enveloped everyone in a ripple so they could experience the long story and understand the truth themselves.

Lin Zhishui woke with a strange question about the Heavenly Dao before remembering his life as a mortal snake catcher. He returned to the Snake Stockade with Xiao Chan, unaware that her unusual ability to understand snakes and the little snake Little You might be more significant than he realized.

• A mysterious voice debated with Heavenly Dao Powerhouses whether heavenly law could protect mortals, then warned that the great calamity came from the Heavenly Heart’s selfishness.
• Lin Zhishui woke in the grass, remembered he was a snake catcher, and headed back toward the Snake Stockade with Xiao Chan after they filled their cage with snakes.
• Lin Zhishui encouraged Xiao Chan to cultivate so they could become immortal masters together, while Xiao Chan said she did not want to be separated from him.
• Little You emerged from Lin Zhishui’s clothes, then curled up inside Xiao Chan’s collar after she understood its request.
• At the stockade gate, Lin Zhishui learned the snake immortal master would soon collect their catch and joked that Xiao Chan could cultivate with him before leading her inside.

Zhishui and Xiao Chan met Ji Qiuling, an elder of the Ten Thousand Snakes Cave Heaven, who discovered Xiao Chan’s rare aptitude and Extreme Yin Spirit Python and took her away to cultivate. Ji Qiuling then poisoned the village to silence its witnesses, before the mighty beings learned her tragic past and were asked what they would have done in her place.

• Ji Qiuling recognized the Extreme Yin Spirit Python on Xiao Chan and discovered Xiao Chan had exceptional cultivation potential.
• Xiao Chan agreed to become Ji Qiuling’s disciple but left Zhishui behind after Ji Qiuling refused to take him to the Ten Thousand Snakes Cave Heaven.
• After warning Chief Lin to keep the python secret, Ji Qiuling released poisonous purple fog that struck down the village’s 321 people.
• The mighty beings discussed Ji Qiuling’s motives, then heard how the Ten Thousand Snakes Cave Heaven had abused her and how she killed her tormentor and sought revenge.
• The indifferent voice asked the mighty beings what choice they would make if they faced Ji Qiuling’s opportunity.

Outer Path Pangu revealed that Lin Zhishui was Pangu’s reincarnation and recounted how his many mortal lives led him to create a new Heavenly Dao. As Lin Zhishui prepared to change Heavenly Law by establishing Demon Tribulations to protect mortals, he discovered that the existing Heavenly Dao Will had developed a self.

• Outer Path Pangu explained that earlier mighty beings had tried to remake the world, but lasting change required changing Heavenly Law.
• Pangu’s consciousness reincarnated as Lin Zhishui, who repeatedly died as a mortal and returned to find Youchan, the union of Xiao Chan and Little You.
• Lin Zhishui and Youchan became husband and wife, but a cultivator eventually killed Youchan, and Lin Zhishui died in the same battle.
• After countless reincarnations, Lin Zhishui awakened as Pangu and used his dreams to create Demon Tribulations that would punish sinful cultivators while shielding mortals.
• As Lin Zhishui was about to integrate his new Heavenly Dao into the existing one, he discovered that the Heavenly Dao Will had developed a self.

Lin Zhishui explained how the Heavenly Dao Will feared his return and how he had spent ages preparing a plan to reclaim the Nine Great Sources. He left the powerhouses understanding that the source power he seized was essential to his revival.

• Lin Zhishui explained that the Heavenly Dao Will had opposed his cultivation, shattered the Heavenly Dao, and created obstacles to prevent him from merging with the new Heavenly Dao.
• Lin Zhishui revealed that She Xilu was Little Chan and that Youchan was the snake part within her, then apologized for including She Xilu in his long-running plan.
• Lin Zhishui explained that he influenced Primordial Beginning to become Demon Ancestor Primordial Beginning, who helped create more Demon Ancestors while sparing the Heavenly Dao faction at Primordial Beginning's request.
• Lin Zhishui revealed that the Primordial Celestial Palace's powerhouses had survived its apparent destruction and that Primordial Beginning and Primordial Origin had entered the mortal world through the Demonic Well of Origin.
• Lin Zhishui showed the brush refined from the Demonic Well of Origin and explained that it concealed the two Primordial beings while letting him seize the Nine Great Sources he needed to revive.

Lin Zhishui explained how he manipulated the Heavenly Dao Will, absorbed his Primordial Spirits, and arranged events to gather the Nine Great Sources and awaken. He revealed that the universe was a formation built by the Heavenly Dao Will from the shattered Mortal Realm, then prepared to remake Heavenly Law.

• Lin Zhishui explained that he absorbed Primordial Beginning and Primordial Origin, and that Primordial Beginning had willingly accepted becoming one with him.
• Lin Zhishui described how he manipulated the Heavenly Dao Will and the Outer Path to gather the Nine Great Sources and awaken, while apologizing to Boss Qiao for including him in the scheme.
• Lin Zhishui told Yang Hui that his sleeping subconscious had influenced events leading to her death, and promised she would again become Queen Mother of the West after the Three Realms were pacified.
• Lin Zhishui announced that the new Heavenly Law would bind every realm, abolish Divine Seats, and turn sinful souls into demonic tribulations that might return through accumulated merit.
• Lin Zhishui revealed to Boss Qiao that the universe was a formation made from the Three Thousand Great Worlds, which the Heavenly Dao Will had shattered to prevent his true body from returning.

Lin Zhishui destroyed the Heavenly Dao Will, rewrote the heavenly laws, and created a vast New Mortal Realm from Pangu’s body. He asked She Xilu and Youchan to seal their memories so they could live with him as mortals on Earth, where spiritual energy would revive.

• Lin Zhishui used the origin power in his brush to seize control of the universe and summon Pangu’s physical body from the Primordial Land.
• Lin Zhishui merged with Pangu and crushed the Heavenly Dao Will, ending the cause of the Three Realms’ great calamity.
• Lin Zhishui wrote new heavenly laws that tied demon tribulations to sin and made Heavenly Dao Powerhouses responsible for passing on the Dao.
• Pangu’s body transformed into a vast New Mortal Realm, restoring Earth and its inhabitants within the new world.
• Lin Zhishui told the Heavenly Dao Powerhouses to spread cultivation and keep his identity secret while he slept and lived as a mortal.
• Lin Zhishui asked She Xilu and Youchan to seal their memories and join him on Earth during its spiritual-energy revival.