Chapter Summaries

Xu Xuan defeated Dongfang Jin in the Flowery Abyss, but Dongfang Jin’s Blighted Dragon Pearl damaged Xu Xuan’s dragon nature and weakened his chances of attaining the Dao. Xu Xuan then headed toward his final opponent, Li Shangmi, while preparing a risky plan involving the Nameless Primordial Chaos Seeking the Golden Position Method and Water Transformation.

• Dongfang Jin challenged Xu Xuan over his pursuit of the Golden Position, then attacked him with the power of Vast Water.
• Xu Xuan combined his Thunder and Wu Earth abilities to trap Dongfang Jin inside the Great Stability Mysterious Yellow World and gain the advantage.
• Dongfang Jin unleashed the Blighted Dragon Pearl, forcing Xu Xuan’s dragon body to manifest and twisting both Dragon Kings with Dragon Blight.
• Xu Xuan severed much of the blight and overwhelmed Dongfang Jin, who collapsed into Vast Water and denounced Xu Xuan before being struck down.
• Xu Xuan left for the Northern Sea to face Li Shangmi, then returned in Ghost God form and told Tiantuo he would use the Nameless Primordial Chaos Seeking the Golden Position Method.
• Xu Xuan sent revelations to Water Transformation through Calamity Blessing and resolved to pursue Mystic Thunder while keeping his final plan in his own hands.

Xu Xuan fought Li Shangmi at Night River, where the Greater Yang Sword Immortal tried to stop him from reaching Cold Gate. After both suffered severe injuries and Li Shangmi's Divine Ability began to fail, Xu Xuan began a transformation that revealed an illusory Mysterious Gold Crown above his head.

• Li Shangmi unleashed his Greater Yang power at Blameless Temple and challenged Mu Youdu, who had arrived to pass through Night River.
• Xu Xuan and Li Shangmi traded powerful attacks, and Li Shangmi's Greater Yang light wounded Xu Xuan while Xu Xuan's Mixed Thunder disrupted Li Shangmi's Soaring Transformation.
• Li Shangmi invoked Heavenly Dao-Command and forced Xu Xuan to answer with Primordial Witchcraft, Formless wind, and Primordial Chaos thunder.
• Xu Xuan used Returning to Hidden Formless Art and Heavenly Huo Illuminates the Night, but Li Shangmi survived the strike with the Imperial Golden Crow Robe and left Xu Xuan badly wounded.
• Xu Xuan drew out Dongfang Jin's Dragon Blight and transformed his body as he advanced across the sea, while Li Shangmi sensed danger and saw an illusory Mysterious Gold Crown above Xu Xuan's head.

Xu Xuan defeated Li Shangmi with the World-Conquering Demon Embryo and advanced toward Thunder Pivot to seek the Golden Position. Dragon King Mingdu tried to stop him in Cold Gate, but Chuming intervened and attacked Crimson Cicadas Child, while Mingdu fled deeper into the darkness.

• Xu Xuan awakened the World-Conquering Demon Embryo and used its adaptive flesh to withstand Li Shangmi's Greater Yang attacks.
• Xu Xuan trapped Li Shangmi inside the Great Stability Mysterious Yellow World, broke through his defenses, and killed him with the Most High Mystic Unity Primordial Mist Sword.
• Xu Xuan left Li Shangmi's robe and White Crown behind and continued through Cold Gate toward Thunder Pivot, despite his injuries and depleted life force.
• Dragon King Mingdu appeared in Xu Xuan's path and prepared to kill him, but an Azure Wood Deity Statue manifested as Chuming and seized Crimson Cicadas Child.
• Chuming's White Feathers Mysterious Chicken pecked out Crimson Cicadas Child's eyes, and Chuming challenged a hidden power to come kill Xu Xuan itself.

Xu Xuan revealed six Divine Abilities and sought to attain the Golden Position of Shock Thunder, but failed to change the path to union of preservation and was executed. As Xia Lin began seeking the Shock Thunder Fruit Position, she discovered that it already had a master: a green-robed man on a land of flesh and blood.

• Xu Xuan defeated his final opponent and declared that he was Mu Youdu and would seek the Golden Position.
• Duke Kui Dragon gave his final strength to Xu Xuan, who revealed a sixth Divine Ability and attempted to attain the Golden Position.
• True Lords intervened, allowing Mu Youdu to demonstrate his art before a Lesser Yin True Lord executed him.
• Xu Xuan's death drove the manifestations of sound and qi to their peak, and Yang Yuanxin sent Mu Sheng and Mu Yu away to seek protection.
• Xia Lin began seeking the Shock Thunder Fruit Position as primordial chaos returned, but found the position occupied by a green-robed man.

Xu Wugui revealed himself as Future Suspended Chaos and escaped the grotto-heaven, while a new figure named Xuanpi attained the Dao as Sage Lord of Shock Thunder. Xuanpi opened a gateway into primordial chaos and promised salvation to those who called upon his name.

• Xu Wugui broke free of Water Transformation’s suppression and revealed that he was Future Suspended Chaos, an unborn successor to the Thing Head who had returned from a future that should have ended.
• Xu Wugui explained how he had entered the Immortal Stele through shock thunder, then vanished amid withering qi as the stele fell silent and Xu Xuan disappeared.
• Tiantuo begged Mercy Spring to save Xu Xuan, and the Lord of Vast Wood arrived, saying he had killed and hidden him according to Xu Xuan’s request.
• At the Northern Sea’s Thunder Pivot, a blood-red figure took the name Xuanpi and proclaimed himself Sage Lord of Resurgent Thunder and Heaven’s Breach.
• Xuanpi told the western sky to fall, opened a gateway into primordial chaos, and stepped through after promising salvation to those who invoked his name during the Final Calamity.

Xuanpi opened the Primordial Heaven and claimed one of its two emerging primordial virtues as the Golden Cores converged to fight for the other. The chapter left the rivals pursuing Xuanpi deeper into primordial chaos as a new great struggle began before Final Dusk.

• Xuanxia entered the Primordial Chaos Gate, and Xuanpi’s Dharma Form proclaimed forgiveness and called himself the last remaining sage.
• Xuanpi summoned the Thunder Marsh Artifact and challenged Origin Vast Dragon Lord, knocking him back into the sea when the dragon attacked.
• Bright Injured, Wounding the World, Bright Sun Emperor Lord emerged from the gate and joined the confrontation, while Xuanpi challenged him too.
• The Qu Clan’s ancestor initiated the Lunar Rite and called for battle as Golden Cores and other powerful beings rushed toward the Primordial Chaos Gate.
• Xuanpi took one of the two primordial virtues and entered deeper into primordial chaos, pursued by Origin Vast and Rising Sun, while the remaining virtue drew the others into a battle declared to be the first great struggle before Final Dusk.

Xu Xuan reunited his three bodies at the Primordial Gate and attained Union of Preservation, using the Sword Ancestor’s wound as his Position Proof. He overcame Xu Wugui’s attempt to stop him and emerged in Primordial Heaven as the Mystic Lord of Nonaction, Dao-Awakening, and Great Abundance.

• Xu Xuan’s dead body and chaos body advanced toward the Primordial Gate, where his formless body had merged with the portal.
• Xu Xuan entered the Sword Ancestor Ji Shang’s wound in the Primordial Gate, reunited his three bodies and consciousnesses, and sensed his Central Firmament Body.
• Xu Xuan resolved to unite Shock Thunder and Altar Thunder through Union of Preservation, then used the Immortal Elixir and Sword fragments to forge the wound into a new Position Proof.
• Xu Wugui revealed that he had used blood in a pill Xu Xuan once consumed to sever their connection and tried to stop Xu Xuan from attaining the Dao.
• Xu Xuan rejected Xu Wugui’s claims about immortality, attained Union of Preservation, and declared that he would awaken living beings without abandoning the mortal realm.
• Xu Xuan emerged in Primordial Heaven as the Mystic Lord of Nonaction, Dao-Awakening, and Great Abundance, declaring that turning wounds into awakening was his achievement.

Xu Xuan attained the Mystic Lord position and confronted Xu Wugui in the primordial chaos, declaring that he would pacify Shock Thunder by executing him. While their battle continued, Xu Xuan returned to Great Scarlet Heaven in a Primordial Spirit, thanked Jin Qi for concealing him, and arranged help for the Altar Thunder Pursuit before his borrowed form faded.

• Xu Xuan attained the Mystic Lord position as heaven and earth recognized him, and beings across the world offered congratulations.
• Xu Xuan revealed that his contest was not for Primordial Heaven's virtue but against Xu Wugui, who had claimed the Postnatal Heaven virtue and was fleeing toward Beyond the Heavens.
• Xu Xuan blocked Xu Wugui at the Primordial Gate and offered to save him if he returned, but Xu Wugui refused, so Xu Xuan drew his sword and called the fight pacification.
• Xu Xuan's battle with Xu Wugui shook Shock Thunder throughout the world as Tiantuo celebrated Xu Xuan's attainment in Great Scarlet Heaven.
• Xu Xuan returned in his Altar Thunder Primordial Spirit, thanked Jin Qi for concealing his death, and learned that Jin Qi had also achieved concealment.
• Xu Xuan told Tiantuo to bring Yelü Tan to Lingsa, then asked Jin Qi for help with Altar Thunder Pursuit; Jin Qi said they could borrow the Living Coffin, and Xu Xuan's Primordial Spirit began to fade as his battle continued.

Xu Xuan defeated Xu Wugui by turning the Sword Ancestor’s scar against him through their Cause and Effect, purging Shock Thunder and taking its authority. As Xu Wugui began to disappear, Xu Xuan declared that he would save and awaken him, then asked him to answer questions.

• Xu Wugui used the Shock Drum to summon Shock Thunder and tried to strip Xu Xuan of his authority over Sound and Qi.
• Xu Xuan revealed the seven scars of the Primordial Gate, frightening Xu Wugui and making him lose his grip on Sound and Qi.
• Xu Xuan directed the sword scar’s damage through their Cause and Effect, shattering Xu Wugui’s manifested world and forcing him to relinquish the Shock Fruit.
• Xu Xuan proclaimed that he had pacified Shock Thunder and seized the defeated Xu Wugui before he could attack again.
• Xu Wugui asked Xu Xuan to kill or suppress him, but Xu Xuan said he would save, remember, and awaken him.
• As Xu Wugui began to disappear, he agreed to answer Xu Xuan’s questions.

Xu Xuan learned the truth about Xu Wugui, secured Xia Lin, and claimed shock thunder’s authority before surviving the Ancient Thunder Palace’s lightning tribulation. As he healed and prepared for what came next, Mu Youdu returned as Thunder-Soothing Lightning-Ruling Dragon Lord Mingdu.

• Xu Wugui explained his origins, revealed An Kuiju’s role in Wen Fufeng’s death and the Blood Pill, and told Xu Xuan that Xia Lin was sealed within shock thunder.
• Xu Wugui vanished, then awoke in the Flesh-and-Blood Land, where the First Demon welcomed him and made him his company.
• Xu Xuan took control of shock thunder’s authorities, found Xia Lin damaged and imprisoned her within calamity blessing in the Immortal Stele, then descended into the Mortal World.
• Xu Xuan endured nine strikes of the Ancient Thunder Palace’s altar thunder with help from True Lord Vast Wood and the Yin-Yang powers, gaining deeper mastery of altar thunder.
• Xu Xuan went to Penglai to heal his Dao wounds with the Life Pivot and sent his consciousness toward a shock thunder fruit position to bring about Mu Youdu’s return.
• Mu Youdu manifested above the Northern Sea as Thunder-Soothing Lightning-Ruling Dragon Lord Mingdu and headed south.

Xu Xuan returned as Mingdu, the Thunder-Soothing Lightning-Ruling Dragon Lord, and reunited with Yang Yuanxin and his children. He settled his debt with Heavenly Vessel by forcing a truce between the Eastern and Southern Seas, then left with Yang Yuanxin for Pure Harmony Palace.

• Xu Xuan surveyed the changed world and went to the Southern Sea, where Yang Yuanxin, Mu Yu, and Mu Sheng welcomed his return.
• Xu Xuan declared himself Mingdu, attained the Thunder-Shock position, and transferred Mu Sheng to Hua Light's line to govern the Northern Sea.
• Xu Xuan confronted Heavenly Vessel over Dongfang Jin's obstruction of his Dao, struck down the cultivation of Dongfang Jin's direct sons, and demanded war.
• Heavenly Vessel yielded the Divine Sound World-Warning Bell and agreed that the Eastern and Southern Seas would remain separate, while Xu Xuan established a guarded checkpoint between them.
• Xu Xuan took Yang Yuanxin to the Great Void, then brought her to Pure Harmony Palace and told her he wanted the same thing she did.

After attaining Dao Verification, Xu Xuan established his authority over Shock Thunder, prepared to found a palace in the Northern Sea, and sent Wang Bo to repay the wrongs of his former life. Yin Thunder Mountain accepted Xu Xuan’s invitation to unite the Shock Thunder lineages and began preparing to relocate.

• Xu Xuan received the Heavenly-Smelting Great Void Nature and decided to establish a palace in the Northern Sea.
• Xu Xuan awakened Wang Bo, revealed his past as Lion’s Roar, and ordered him to repay his karmic debts before delivering immortal decrees to Yin Thunder and Shangyou.
• Xu Xuan used his divine status to strengthen Yang Yuanxin and returned with her to the Water Palace.
• Xu Yi achieved the Shock Thunder Divine Ability Ride Without Blame, then learned that Wang Bo had come to Yin Thunder Mountain with Xu Xuan’s invitation and Tang Yan’s confession.
• Yin Guang accepted Xu Xuan’s decree, absolved Wang Bo of Yin Thunder Mountain’s grievance, and ordered Xu Yi to lead the lineage to the Northern Sea.

Xu Xuan established himself as master of the Mist Marsh Dragon Court, agreed to oversee the restoration of ren water, and began constructing Mystic Enlightenment Heaven. Back in Heavenly Tribulation, he prepared to strengthen his sect and pursue further paths to the Dao, leaving his next steps focused on visiting Universal Salvation and Eastern Azure.

• Xu Xuan met Guangze and Sun Lake, learned how Sun Lake had awakened and how the Returning Daoist was an imitation body, and agreed to support Mist Marsh's pursuit of ren water.
• Xu Xuan rejected Mist Marsh's plan to unleash a catastrophic flood, promised to undo the bloodline restraining seals of six dragons, and accepted the Dragon Court's thirteen thousand volumes of Daoist scriptures.
• Xu Xuan summoned Taoyu, who pledged himself to Xu Xuan after learning that Xu Xuan would oversee ren water, and the dragons recognized Xu Xuan as master of the Mist Marsh Dragon Court.
• Xu Xuan used Primordial Virtue as the spirit pivot for a new grotto-heaven and named it Mystic Enlightenment Heaven.
• Xu Ming told Xu Xuan that Great Peace was about to be founded, and Xu Xuan sent him to negotiate with Wei while directing him toward the sect's Secret Realm for further cultivation.
• Xu Xuan reviewed his disciples' progress and planned to visit Universal Salvation and Eastern Azure to investigate Eastern Radiance's past and the paths of Nurturing Earth, Sky Thunder, and origin wood.

Mei Wankong discovered that Yue Lingxu had reincarnated in Former Liao, while Xu Xuan received guidance from Xi En about the struggles over metal virtue, dry Yang, and thunder. Xu Xuan planned to prepare Fa Yan to intervene in dry Yang, leaving to pursue a possible exchange for his azure lotus sword guard.

• Mei Wankong read the stars and told Mei Jianzhen that Yue Lingxu had reincarnated in Former Liao, where he could pursue a Geng retainer position.
• Xu Xuan visited Universal Salvation after Miaolin enshrined his name and gave her a Formless Incantation to explore the new Western Sea realm.
• Xi En told Xu Xuan that Changji had obtained the hidden metal fruit position and urged him to join the ancient Strange Lord's Qi embryo affair.
• Xi En warned Xu Xuan about Ancient Void, Rising Sun, and the danger surrounding dry Yang, then identified Fa Yan as key to intervening.
• Xu Xuan resolved to rewrite Fa Yan's method so he could use Enlightening Wonder and Constancy to lodge the Dao of firmament dryness and participate in the sky thunder affair.
• Xi En advised Xu Xuan to exchange his azure lotus for Penglai's Sheath of Soaring Beyond, and Xu Xuan departed to consider the arrangement.

Xu Ming entered Great Scarlet Heaven’s Wondrous Solemnity Palace, where Tiantuo enrolled him in the Eastern Radiance lineage and gave him its supreme scripture and a powerful spell to study. Meanwhile, Xu Fayan heard of changes in the world and glimpsed a white sheep that left behind the words “Avert Calamity.”

• Xu Ming arrived at Wondrous Solemnity Palace and met Shao Hua, who summoned him by command of the Mystic Lord of Nonaction, Dao-Awakening, and Great Abundance.
• Tiantuo told Xu Ming to study under him as an Eastern Radiance disciple, and Xu Ming accepted after learning the lineage would not conflict with his Great Scarlet teachings.
• Tiantuo tested Xu Ming’s knowledge, then gave him the Complete Yang Profound Victory Scripture and the spell Primordial Form Manifesting Light.
• Wuge Gaoshi visited Xu Fayan, spoke of new opportunities tied to Primordial Heaven, and said Spirit Monsters’ missing Cause and Effect had been completed.
• After Wuge Gaoshi departed, Xu Fayan saw a white sheep on a mountain; it vanished, leaving behind the character Avert Calamity.

Xu Xuan consulted Chuming about his Dao attainment, the Lesser Yin Lord, and the hidden history of the Thunder Palace before securing Eastern Azure’s support for Sky Thunder. As Xu Xuan prepared a Grotto-Heaven and pursued new plans, the Roaming Union was restored, Yang Yuanxin conceived a child marked by Greater Yang, and cultivators of Shock Thunder gathered in the Northern Sea.

• Xu Xuan explained that Taiyou was his true self and asked Chuming how the powers above regarded his attainment; Chuming warned him about the Lesser Yin Lord’s Three-in-One Dao and the danger of exposing his traces.
• Chuming recounted Lin Wang’s inheritance of Sky Thunder and the Thunder Palace’s destruction, then agreed that Eastern Azure would assist Lin Wang’s descendant in attaining Firmament.
• Xu Xuan sensed Qingrang visiting Fa Yan and learned from Chuming that he might meet the Nurturing Earth lord by going to Mount Tai in his Mystic Lord body.
• Yun Yi received the decree restoring the Roaming Union and ordered Lie Huo to establish a shrine to the Mystic Lord and offer up the damaged Upper Profound Yin-Yang Ceremonial Sword.
• Xu Xuan sent Mystic Dew into Yang Yuanxin, who sensed Greater Yang and realized she had conceived a child; he then began shaping another drop of Mystic Dew with the Stygian Unmoving Nine Shadows Nature.
• Mu Sheng and Bo Chang rebuilt a palace in the Northern Sea as Yin Thunder Mountain cultivators migrated there, while Xu Xuan prepared to connect his Grotto-Heaven to the Union of Preservation and awaken Ghost Gods.

Xu Xuan emerged from seclusion and visited Penglai’s Wood Immortal Hermitage, where Peach Blossom thanked him for helping heal her wounds and returned the Dharma Treasure Soaring Beyond. After learning its ancient history and discussing his Enlightenment verification, Xu Xuan left to open his Grotto-Heaven.

• Xu Xuan emerged from his coffin without another lightning tribulation, and his Life Pivot dispersed back into Taboo Wood.
• Xu Xuan followed the celestial path to Thorn Ridge, where Lord Strong-Joint and the other wood spirits welcomed him to the Wood Immortal Hermitage.
• Lord Strong-Joint gave Xu Xuan the Dharma Treasure Soaring Beyond, which restored his broken Upper Profound Yin-Yang Ceremonial Sword into a transformed treasure.
• Peach Blossom appeared and told Xu Xuan that his Union of Preservation verification had helped heal her wounds and that she had completed Water-and-Fire Refining and Deliverance.
• Peach Blossom explained that Soaring Beyond had once belonged to the Mysterious Maiden, whose reincarnation was the Yue Maiden, and discussed the Yue Kingdom’s ancient Golden Cores.
• Xu Xuan thanked Peach Blossom and departed to open his Grotto-Heaven, while she promised Penglai would witness his future sect-founding ceremony.

Xu Xuan completed Mystic Enlightenment Heaven, appointed Bo Lei to build within it, and created Shi Xian as a ghost god combining calamity blessing with hearing the nether. He sent Shi Xian to infiltrate Bai Ze’s Grotto-Heaven and capture him, leaving Xu Xuan’s next move in the ghost god’s hands.

• Xu Xuan named his reforged Immortal Sword Shang Xuan and used it to create Mystic Enlightenment Heaven, then shaped a sun and moon to illuminate it.
• Xu Xuan summoned Lion's Roar, raised him to the Attendant Envoy realm, renamed him Bo Lei, and ordered him to build palaces and pavilions.
• Xu Xuan combined hearing the nether with calamity blessing and solitary yin to create the ghost god Shi Xian, then appointed him as his Assistant Deity.
• Shi Xian used calamity blessing to locate a place near the Southern Dipper associated with fortune, prosperity, and longevity, which Xu Xuan identified as Bai Ze’s abode.
• Xu Xuan ordered Shi Xian to infiltrate Bai Ze’s clan Grotto-Heaven, capture Bai Ze if possible, and keep the disturbance small.

Shi Xian captured Bai Ze and Sui Bai in the Merit Divine Realm, uncovered the hidden Sacrificial Official temple, and took its three treasures. He returned to the Great Scarlet Heaven with Bai Ze, whom he confronted over Sui Bai’s suffering.

• Sui Bai reported that the Southern Dipper Star Domain had stopped collapsing, and Bai Ze asked her to name a successor to the Heavenly Demon title.
• Bai Ze tried to reclaim Sui Bai, but Shi Xian revealed himself, trapped Bai Ze, and subdued Sui Bai.
• Shi Xian interrogated Sui Bai about the Merit Divine Realm and Bai Ze’s origins, then took the White Marsh Diagram and turned her into an orchid.
• Shi Xian found the hidden temple of the Sacrificial Official and took the Mysterious Clarity Divine Virtue Register, a white skull, and the Blood-Sacrificial Vessel.
• After the Merit Divine Realm began to collapse, the Snake General and Turtle General stabilized the ruins while Shi Xian returned to the Great Scarlet Heaven with Bai Ze.
• Shi Xian confronted Bai Ze, saying he remembered what Sui Bai had done and what Bai Ze had ignored.

Xu Xuan slew Bai Ze, learned that the Netherworld had sought something within Wu Earth, and refined the beast’s remains into a seal that could increase fortune. He planned to meet Bimo about the Dao of Sky Thunder, while discoveries about Wu Earth and an Ancient Shamanism skull left him with new questions.

• Xu Xuan revealed Bai Ze’s role in the destruction of Shu and the slaughter of his sect’s disciples, then killed it and learned the Netherworld had searched Wu Earth for something.
• Xu Xuan refined Bai Ze’s remaining fortune into the seal character Ward Off Evil and Bring Fortune, then planned to use it with Shi Xian’s calamity blessing to help Bimo pursue Sky Thunder.
• Xu Xuan asked Tiantuo to sound out Bimo’s wishes and bring her to the Grotto-Heaven, while advising Tiantuo to wait before choosing his final divine ability.
• Xu Xuan observed Wei Mi’s growing power in Shu and ordered Shi Xian to watch Du Zhi, who practiced Primordial Witchcraft, without acting rashly.
• Shi Xian showed Xu Xuan three artifacts from a divine realm of merit, and Xu Xuan recognized the skull as belonging to an ancient practitioner of creation through nonaction.