Chapter Summaries

After Yang Jian destroyed the Heavenly Court, Hongjun tried to divine Gu Changqing’s origins but suffered a backlash when the Heavenly Dao could find no trace of him. Believing the Ruined Temple concealed Chaos Demon God remnants, Hongjun decided to destroy the world and start anew, and Purple Heaven Palace’s gates opened as his will swept across the Primordial World.

• Hongjun watched visions of Yang Jian’s assault on the Heavenly Court and fixated on the Paving Brick that had crippled the Queen Mother of Yaochi.
• Hongjun joined his divine sense with the Heavenly Dao and traced the River of Time to discover Gu Changqing’s origins.
• Gu Changqing’s karma threads snapped into nothingness, and Hongjun spat blood after his attempt to divine him failed.
• Hongjun concluded that the Ruined Temple was a stronghold for surviving Chaos Demon Gods and that Yang Jian, Kong Xuan, and Nezha were their pawns.
• Hongjun resolved to overturn the world and return heaven and earth to chaos, then summoned Haotian and Yaochi as Purple Heaven Palace’s gates opened.

Hongjun summoned Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti and declared that he would recreate chaos to destroy the Primordial World and eliminate the Chaos Demon God remnants he believed were behind the Ruined Temple. He revealed the World-Destroying Millstone and demanded that the Four Saints surrender their sage origins to help him wield it.

• Hongjun’s destructive will spread across the Primordial World, and he ordered the Four Saints to come to Purple Heaven Palace.
• Yuanshi offered to punish Yang Jian, but Hongjun said the Ruined Temple and its alleged Chaos Demon God remnants were the true threat.
• Hongjun announced that he would recreate chaos and open heaven and earth anew, despite the Four Saints’ objections that this would destroy the world and their Dao orthodoxies.
• Hongjun pressured the Four Saints into submission and showed them the World-Destroying Millstone, saying his strength alone could not drive it fully.
• Hongjun demanded that the Four Saints surrender their sage origins to help him activate the millstone.

Hongjun demanded the Four Saints surrender their Sage Origins and forcibly stripped Zhunti of his, destroying his Sage standing. He then crushed Laozi and Yuanshi, leaving all three helpless as he demanded the remaining origins.

• Hongjun ordered Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti to hand over their Sage Origins.
• Zhunti begged Hongjun for mercy, but Hongjun seized him and forcibly extracted his Sage Origin until Zhunti's Sage standing collapsed.
• Jieyin attacked Hongjun with the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit, but Hongjun's pressure shattered the attack and wounded Jieyin.
• Yuanshi tore open a spatial rift with the Pangu Banner and urged Jieyin and Zhunti to flee, but Hongjun sealed the rift and stopped them.
• Hongjun multiplied into countless forms and battered Laozi and Yuanshi, knocking away the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner and leaving both Saints gravely injured.
• Hongjun asked who still refused to surrender their origin as the World-Destroying Millstone rumbled in the Purple Heaven Palace.

Hongjun seized the Four Saints’ origins and fed them to the World-Destroying Millstone, which warped the Heavenly Dao and plunged the Primordial World into a catastrophic upheaval. The chapter ended with the four fundamental elements rampaging across the world and countless beings dying in the calamity.

• Laozi surrendered his Sage origin, and Yuanshi Tianzun and Jieyin followed.
• Hongjun gathered their origins with Zhunti’s and poured all four into the dormant World-Destroying Millstone.
• The millstone awakened and forcibly twisted the Heavenly Dao’s laws, shaking the Primordial World.
• Earthquakes struck the four continents as spiritual veins dried up and xiantian spiritual qi turned destructive.
• Baleful energy, astral winds, divine fire, and weak water ran wild, killing countless beings across the Primordial World.

As the Primordial World was destroyed by a cataclysm, Yin Jiao and the people of Great Shang struggled to defend the Nine Provinces with the Humanity’s Dao Barrier. The barrier cracked under the growing assault, leaving Yin Jiao and the people facing imminent destruction.

• Yin Jiao watched the cataclysm batter the Nine Provinces Barrier while its pressure injured him and alarmed Wen Zhong, Bi Gan, and the other ministers.
• Yin Jiao ordered the Nine Cauldrons to suppress the Earth Veins, Great Shang soldiers to reinforce the City God Temples, chroniclers to honor past sages, and heroic spirits to shelter the people.
• The Nine Cauldrons, soldiers, chroniclers, and heroic spirits strengthened the barrier, but the calamity outside grew more powerful.
• A crack appeared in the barrier, and Yin Jiao spat blood as he realized Humanity’s Fortune was draining away and the Nine Provinces could soon fall.
• Yin Jiao appealed to a divine one and challenged the Heavenly Dao as people across the Nine Provinces cried out in fear and despair.

Tongtian defied Hongjun and used the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords to hold back the disasters threatening the Primordial World. The Nine Provinces Barrier gained a brief reprieve, but Tongtian’s Sage Dao Fruit cracked as he paid a terrible price to sustain the sword pillars.

• Tongtian watched Hongjun’s twisted Heavenly Dao devastate the Primordial World and saw Yin Jiao and humanity on the verge of destruction.
• Tongtian vowed to fight for the living beings and sacrificed his Sage origin blood to empower the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords.
• Tongtian sent the four swords to the Four Great Continents, where they formed pillars that suppressed the disasters and held up the heavens.
• The sword pillars eased the pressure on the Nine Provinces Barrier, allowing Yin Jiao and humanity to survive for the moment.
• Tongtian’s Sage body weakened and his Dao Fruit cracked, but he remained on Golden Ao Island to keep holding back the Heavenly Dao.

Hongjun turned Laozi, Yuanshi, Jieyin, and Zhunti into puppets and ordered them to destroy the world. They shattered Tongtian’s four sword pillars, leaving the Primordial World’s sky split open as a vast abyss began devouring the world.

• Hongjun ordered the four Sages to carry out the Heavenly Dao’s plan, and they submitted after he threatened them.
• Hongjun restored the Four Saints’ power with grayish-purple energy that crushed their wills and bound them to his commands.
• Yuanshi, Laozi, Jieyin, and Zhunti attacked Tongtian’s four Heaven-Supporting Sword Pillars with their treasures.
• The Four Saints shattered all four pillars despite Tongtian’s desperate efforts to hold them together.
• The Primordial World’s sky split open, and a vast abyss began swallowing the world as chaotic gales poured through.

As the Chaos rift threatened to destroy the Primordial World, Hongjun blamed the Ruined Temple and gave all living beings one incense stick to surrender its inhabitants in exchange for survival. Yin Jiao faced the choice on behalf of humanity, knowing that either decision meant defeat.

• The Chaos rift widened, overwhelmed the Nine Provinces Barrier, and left Yin Jiao believing that Saint Tongtian's defeat had ended all hope.
• Hongjun addressed the Primordial World, blamed the Ruined Temple for the catastrophe, and demanded its inhabitants be handed over in exchange for peace and survival.
• Living beings across the world turned their fearful and hostile attention toward the Ruined Temple.
• Shang Rong and the Great Shang ministers struggled over whether to betray their benefactor or risk humanity's destruction, leaving the choice to Yin Jiao.
• Yin Jiao rose, looked at the pleading people of Chaoge, and condemned Hongjun's scheme, recognizing that humanity had already lost either way.

Yin Jiao and the people of the Primordial World rejected Hongjun’s demand to betray the Deity of the Ruined Temple, uniting their prayers into an immense sea of Vow Power. As Hongjun accelerated the destruction of the world, the power reached Gu Changqing’s clay statue, which began to crack and reveal purple-gold light within.

• Yin Jiao urged humanity to reject the Heavenly Dao and refuse to betray the Deity of the Ruined Temple, and the people of Chaoge City answered with defiant cries.
• The Demon Clan, Witch Clan, Dragon Race, Asura Race, and other living beings joined humanity in pledging to stand with the deity and praying for him to save them.
• Hongjun saw the races unite in the Mysterious Light Mirror, denounced them, and used the World-Destroying Millstone to make the Chaos rift expand ten times faster.
• Countless beings’ prayers formed a golden ocean of Vow Power around the Ruined Temple, temporarily holding back the power of Guixu.
• The Vow Power flowed into Gu Changqing’s clay true form, and cracks spread across the statue as purple-gold light appeared within it.

As world-destroying lightning rained down on the Nine Provinces, Yang Jian transformed into a ten-thousand-zhang Divine Elephant and shielded the living with his body. He held back the lightning for the moment, but other disasters still ravaged the land.

• World-destroying lightning pierced the failing Nine Provinces Barrier and threatened the people of Chaoge City.
• Yin Jiao tried to repair the barrier with Human Emperor fortune, but could not stop it from collapsing.
• Yang Jian charged into the sky and used the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force to become a ten-thousand-zhang purple-gold giant.
• Yang Jian spread his arms and endured the lightning, preventing any bolt from reaching the land below.
• The people of the Nine Provinces recognized Yang Jian and knelt in gratitude, while floods, earthquakes, and heavenly fires continued to ravage the world.

As the Nine Provinces were devastated by floods and collapsing earth, Yang Jian held back the heavenly lightning while Nezha manifested hundreds of millions of himself to rescue the people. Nezha’s original body was growing pale from the strain as he spent his origin to keep the survivors alive.

• The shattered Immortal Slaying Sword Formation allowed floods of underground weak water and earth-core poison fire to ravage the Nine Provinces, killing countless people.
• Nezha told Yang Jian to leave the sky to him and invoked his Self-Transformation Technique, creating hundreds of millions of real projections.
• Nezha’s demon shadows raced across the Nine Provinces, cutting through floodwaters and carrying survivors to safe ground.
• Yin Jiao and the ministers watched Yang Jian shield the world and Nezha save the people, and Yin Jiao began questioning the Heavenly Dao’s judgment of monstrous evil.
• Nezha’s original body turned pale as maintaining the projections consumed his origin.

As the World-Destroying Millstone unleashed spatial fissures across the Nine Provinces, Zhao Gongming and Kong Xuan joined forces to stop them from destroying the realm. Their combined efforts stabilized and repaired the shattered sky, leaving the catastrophe temporarily suppressed.

• Spatial fissures appeared across the Nine Provinces, threatening civilians and wounding Yang Jian's divine body.
• Zhao Gongming summoned the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and formed a vast Sea of Bitterness net that contained the fissures.
• Kong Xuan used Five-Colored Divine Light to mend the damaged sky and seal the spatial fissures.
• Zhao Gongming stabilized space as Kong Xuan repaired it, and together they suppressed the collapse threatening the Nine Provinces.

Hongjun sent a shower of chaos meteors toward the Nine Provinces, but Xiaotian Dog transformed into its Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Dog form and devoured them all. The sky cleared of meteors, while the other calamities remained and the stunned witnesses wondered what kind of monsters lived in the Ruined Temple.

• Hongjun used the World-Destroying Millstone to send thousands of chaos meteors through the chasm toward the Nine Provinces.
• Kong Xuan, Zhao Gongming, Nezha, and Yang Jian could not stop the meteors from destroying the land.
• Xiaotian Dog transformed into its Chaos Heaven-Swallowing Dog form and opened its Heaven-Swallowing Great Art.
• Xiaotian Dog drew in and devoured every chaos meteor, turning them into primordial chaos power.
• Xiaotian Dog belched and eyed the chasm for more, while the Nine Provinces' witnesses stared in shock.

Yunxiao devised a formation that united the prayers and fortune of the Nine Provinces with the Ruined Temple disciples’ divine abilities to create a protective umbrella. The umbrella covered the Nine Provinces and held back the Heavenly Dao’s cataclysm, leaving its inhabitants protected for now.

• Yunxiao realized the disciples could combine the living beings’ faith with their senior brothers’ powers to form a unified defense.
• Yunxiao gathered the Nine Provinces’ prayers, and Yin Jiao added Humanity’s Dao Fortune through the Fortune Golden Dragon.
• Qiongxiao shaped the vow power into golden ribs with the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, while Bixiao stabilized them with the Primordial Golden Dou.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, Zhao Gongming, Kong Xuan, and Xiaotian Dog infused the ribs with the essence of their divine abilities, which the Three Xiao harmonized into a canopy.
• The completed supreme treasure umbrella covered the Nine Provinces, blocking lightning and neutralizing spatial rifts while its vortex devoured powerful attacks.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun reacted to the defenders’ success by unleashing the Eye of Heavenly Punishment against Gu Changqing’s Ruined Temple. As the purple strike began, Yang Jian and the others remained trapped holding up their protective umbrella over the Nine Provinces.

• Hongjun watched Yang Jian, Nezha, Zhao Gongming, Kong Xuan, Xiaotian Dog, Yunxiao, and the others fend off his world-destroying calamities and shield the Nine Provinces.
• Hongjun realized that Gu Changqing and the Ruined Temple were behind the defenders’ extraordinary abilities, and his fury overwhelmed his restraint.
• Hongjun united his will with the twisted Heavenly Dao and summoned the Eye of Heavenly Punishment above Southern Jambudvipa.
• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment locked onto the Ruined Temple, while its destructive power made the protective umbrella shudder.
• Yang Jian tried to rush back to defend the Ruined Temple, but he and the others could not leave without letting the umbrella collapse.
• The Eye of Heavenly Punishment fired a purple pillar of light.

Hongjun unleashed a world-erasing Purple Firmament Divine Thunder strike at the Ruined Temple, overpowering its defenders and obliterating Barren Mountain. The temple and its surroundings vanished, leaving the disciples unable to tell what remained of their home.

• Hongjun formed a supreme Purple Firmament Divine Thunder strike and sent it toward Gu Changqing and the Ruined Temple.
• Yunxiao, her two sisters, Yang Jian, Nezha, Kong Xuan, Zhao Gongming, and Xiaotian Dog were crushed by the strike’s pressure and suffered severe injuries as they tried to defend the temple.
• Nezha and Yang Jian roared for their Master and tried to break free, while the other disciples watched helplessly as the thunder pillar descended.
• The thunder pillar struck the Ruined Temple on Barren Mountain, silently erasing the temple, the mountain, and the surrounding ranges before a devastating shock wave spread outward.

The Heavenly Dao’s furious lightning strike erased the Ruined Temple and its mountain, leaving the surviving disciples and creatures in despair. Yang Jian, Nezha, Kong Xuan, and the others mourned their lost Master and home as the Primordial World fell silent.

• The Heavenly Dao’s lightning destroyed the protective parasol and erased the Ruined Temple and its mountain.
• Yang Jian screamed in grief, returned to his original form, and fell toward the ruins.
• Nezha dropped his weapons and sobbed as he mourned the Master who had saved and raised him.
• Kong Xuan mourned his failure to protect his Master, spat blood, and saw his Dao heart begin to crack.
• Zhao Gongming, the Three Xiao, Xiaotian Dog, and the surviving creatures succumbed to despair.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun believed he had destroyed Gu Changqing and the Ruined Temple, leaving Yang Jian and the others powerless as he prepared to remake the world. Across the Three Realms, gods and Buddhas accepted the Ruined Temple’s apparent fall, though fear of Hongjun’s power overshadowed their relief.

• Hongjun watched the Ruined Temple’s charred ruins and declared the Anomaly’s destruction complete, dismissing Yang Jian and the others as powerless remnants.
• Hongjun credited Haotian and Yaochi’s sacrifices for helping expose the Anomaly and create the chance for his decisive strike.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Jieyin silently mourned the Ruined Temple’s fall and recognized that they would remain puppets under Hongjun’s will.
• Buddhas on Spirit Mountain recalled the Ruined Temple’s past attacks and feared Hongjun might turn his destructive power against them next.
• Gods and Buddhas throughout the Three Realms believed the Ruined Temple had been destroyed, while Yang Jian and the others continued to roar in despair among the ruins.

After Hongjun's world-destroying strike left Yang Jian and the others in despair, a wisp of light revealed that the Daoist Sanctuary had survived. The clay fell from the temple's statue, and its true form awakened, leaving Hongjun terrified as its eyes opened.

• Yang Jian and the others grieved among the ruins while Hongjun savored their defeat.
• A wisp of white light appeared in the destruction and restored a small patch of pure land around the intact Daoist Sanctuary.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, Kong Xuan, and the Three Xiao saw the temple survive and rushed toward it, then halted at the sound of cracking clay.
• The clay peeled away from the statue, revealing its true form and unleashing a supreme will across the Primordial World.
• Hongjun spat blood and asked who the being was as the awakened existence opened its eyes.

After Hongjun’s strike seemingly destroyed the Ruined Temple and broke its defenders, the clay shell around the temple’s divine statue began to fall away, revealing the being within. His true form awakened, wounded Hongjun with a Dao tribulation backlash, and stepped down from the altar as the Primordial World’s myriad Daos bowed.

• Yang Jian, Nezha, Kong Xuan, Zhao Gongming, the Three Xiao, Xiaotian Dog, and the Ruined Temple Disciples grieved over the apparent destruction of their home and Master.
• Hongjun watched their despair through the Mysterious Light Mirror and savored their suffering instead of continuing to attack.
• Cracking sounds revealed that the little temple had survived intact and that its clay divine statue was shedding its shell.
• Yang Jian and the others regained hope when light emerged from the statue, but an aura of reverence stopped them from approaching.
• The statue’s shell shattered, revealing the being’s true form and awakening a supreme will across the Primordial World.
• Hongjun spat out Sage Blood from a Dao tribulation backlash as the being stepped down from the altar and the myriad Daos bowed before him.