Chapter Summaries

Yin Jiao failed to break the chains surrounding the Primordial World, and the Heavenly Dao Wills began draining its world origin to tighten the cage. Far beyond the chaos, Gu Changqing woke from his nap and fixed his gaze on the wills as they watched the Primordial World decline.

• Yin Jiao's Xuanyuan Sword strike barely damaged one chain, and its alien power injured him.
• Shen Gongbao said he could not safely calculate the chains' anchor points because their auras and karma were intertwined.
• The chains tightened together, drawing on the Primordial World's origin and disrupting spiritual energy throughout the world.
• Yin Jiao led Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, the Four Generals of the Mo Family, and Great Shang's soldiers in defending the South Heaven Gate.
• Gu Changqing woke when the distant battle disturbed his nap and gazed toward Supreme Heaven and the gathered Heavenly Dao Wills.

Gu Changqing decided to capture the thousand worlds whose Heavenly Daos were causing trouble and shrink them into potted landscapes around his Daoist temple. He searched his system warehouse for a suitable tool and found a Myriad Worlds Fishing Rod.

• Gu Changqing saw that a thousand Heavenly Daos were conspiring while their worlds attacked the Primordial World.
• Gu Changqing considered destroying the Heavenly Daos but decided that would be too boring.
• Gu Changqing planned to collect the thousand worlds and turn them into miniature landscapes for his mountain.
• Gu Changqing opened his system warehouse and searched its stored items for a way to capture the worlds.
• Gu Changqing found an item called the Myriad Worlds Fishing Rod (Unique).

Gu Changqing used a wisp of his Mythic Great Luo Dao Resonance as bait and cast the Myriad Worlds Fishing Rod toward the Thousand Worlds Alliance meeting at the Eye of Guixu. The thousand Heavenly Daos became consumed by the bait, leaving them poised to reach for it.

• Gu Changqing extracted the Myriad Worlds Fishing Rod and chose his Dao Resonance as bait for the Heavenly Daos.
• Gu Changqing cast the rod toward the Eye of Guixu, where the Thousand Worlds Alliance was meeting.
• A hook carrying Gu Changqing’s Dao Resonance appeared above the Alliance’s sand table and captured every Heavenly Dao’s attention.
• The Heavenly Daos abandoned their plans against the Primordial World and grew desperate to obtain the hook.
• Supreme Heaven reached for the hook, but it rose out of reach and released an even stronger wave of Dao Resonance.

The Heavenly Daos fought over Gu Changqing’s bait in the Eye of Guixu until the Heavenly Dao of a parallel Earth bit the hook. Gu Changqing began hauling its entire universe away, and Supreme Heaven recognized the fishing line with terror.

• The Heavenly Daos abandoned their alliance and battled savagely over the Dao resonance on Gu Changqing’s hook.
• Gu Changqing watched the chaos from his Daoist temple and waited for a powerful Heavenly Dao to take the bait.
• The Heavenly Dao of a parallel Earth seized its chance and bit the hook, only to realize the resonance was a trap.
• Gu Changqing lifted his rod and dragged the parallel Earth universe through Chaos, devastating its spacetime and galaxies.
• The trapped Heavenly Dao cried for help, but the others ignored it, while Supreme Heaven saw the line and trembled in fear.

Gu Changqing reeled a Parallel Earth Universe out of Chaos and set it beside a barren mountain, breaking one of the chains besieging the Primordial World. As Yin Jiao and the others recovered from the sudden reprieve, Gu Changqing cast his fishing rod back toward the Eye of Guixu to catch more worlds.

• The Heavenly Daos realized that Gu Changqing had hooked a universe and Supreme Heaven ordered them to retreat from Guixu.
• Gu Changqing swung his fishing rod and hurled the Parallel Earth Universe through the Primordial World's Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane.
• The universe shrank into a floating island beside a barren mountain, and its Ten Thousand Laws Return to Silence chain shattered, weakening the siege on the Primordial World.
• Yin Jiao, Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, and the surviving defenders watched in shock as the pressure on the South Heaven Gate eased.
• Gu Changqing admired the island's placement and cast his rod into the Eye of Guixu again, seeking eight or ten worlds.

Gu Changqing erased the dying Heavenly Dao Will within a world he had taken from chaos, then compressed the universe’s remains into a golden star and hung it in the Primordial World’s sky. At the South Heaven Gate, Yin Jiao and the other Immortals and Gods watched in shock as their Dao Hearts cracked.

• Yin Jiao and the others stared at the floating island after it snapped the chain that had pressed down on the Heavenly Court.
• Gu Changqing judged the island crude and erased the broken Heavenly Dao Will within it using the principle of his Daoist temple.
• Gu Changqing compressed the island’s collapsing remains into a fist-sized golden star.
• Gu Changqing placed the star in the sky beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, where its radiance briefly outshone the Sun Star and Taiyin Star.
• Yin Jiao and the other Immortals and Gods realized Gu Changqing had turned a universe into a decoration, and their Dao Hearts cracked together.

Gu Changqing summoned his disciples and revealed that he had turned one invading world into a star. He gave them world-catching fishing rods and sent them to retrieve the remaining invaders and arrange their worlds around the temple.

• Gu Changqing decided that decorating the Primordial World's sky alone would be tedious and summoned his disciples.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, the Three Xiao Sisters, and Zhao Gongming arrived and learned that Gu Changqing had made one invading world into a star.
• Gu Changqing crafted jade fishing rods from bamboo and gave them to his disciples with bait and instructions for catching worlds.
• Gu Changqing told his disciples to fish up the remaining worlds and arrange them around the mountains near his temple.
• Nezha and the others excitedly flew to the edge of the Primordial Continent to begin fishing.

Nezha, Yang Jian, the Three Xiao Sisters, Zhao Gongming, and the others fished universes from the Boundary Sea, shattering the Thousand Worlds Alliance and gathering more than a thousand lifeless worlds around the Primordial World. They turned their attention to the alliance’s strongest remaining Heavenly Dao, which was fleeing through chaos.

• Nezha hooked the universe of flames and dragged it out of the Boundary Sea.
• Fairy Qiongxiao, Yunxiao, and Bixiao jointly pulled out three magical universes, while Zhao Gongming and Yang Jian hooked other worlds.
• The disciples’ fishing lines tore dozens and then hundreds of universes from chaos, driving the Thousand Worlds Alliance into panic and collapse.
• The surviving Heavenly Daos burned their origins and fled, but the disciples chased them as more fish to catch.
• Within half a day, more than a thousand lifeless universes surrounded the Primordial World like a ring of gems.
• Yang Jian identified the fleeing alliance leader as the biggest remaining fish, and the disciples focused on its presence.

Yang Jian and the others watched Supreme Heaven flee after the Thousand Worlds Alliance was defeated, but Xiaotian Dog caught and captured it. Supreme Heaven’s forces were wiped out, and the alliance leader was left trembling before Yang Jian and the others.

• Yang Jian and the others watched Supreme Heaven burn its universe to escape through the chaos.
• Supreme Heaven severed its karma at the cost of thirty percent of its origin, briefly escaping the pursuers’ targeting.
• Xiaotian Dog raced after Supreme Heaven and bit a huge chunk from its universe-body.
• Xiaotian Dog carried Supreme Heaven back and dropped it before Yang Jian and the others.
• Yang Jian praised Xiaotian Dog, and Supreme Heaven was captured as its force was wiped out.

Gu Changqing destroyed Supreme Heaven and transformed the origins of more than a thousand universes into a vast star system surrounding the Primordial World. Its light raised the world’s spiritual energy and rank, leaving Yin Jiao and the others bowing before the miracle.

• Gu Changqing rejected Supreme Heaven’s pleas and erased his will, memories, and emotions, ending the Thousand Worlds Alliance.
• Gu Changqing crushed the captured universes into their core origins and began reshaping them while his disciples watched.
• Gu Changqing arranged the origins into a star ring, nebulae, stars, and an anchoring eye around the Primordial World, creating the Supreme Star System.
• The Supreme Star System began moving and illuminated the Primordial World, rapidly increasing its spiritual energy and raising its rank.
• Yin Jiao, Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, the Immortals and Gods, and the soldiers bowed before the star system.

As the universe designated "G-371b" collapses under an unknown force, Adam Li realizes that something is pulling it in like a fisherman drawing in a net. A wisp of energy from a supreme world restores and elevates the universe, leaving Adam and its countless inhabitants prostrating themselves before it.

• Adam Li watches the universe's physical constants fail and its boundaries collapse as the Human Federation's defenses prove useless.
• A civilian escape ship hits an invisible wall and disappears, and the capital planet's power fails as Adam Li and the command center face apparent annihilation.
• A faint wisp of higher-level energy reaches Adam Li, reviving him as the universe's constants and systems begin recovering.
• Golden radiance heals the planet, restores cities and the dead, cures illness, and rejuvenates Adam Li.
• Adam Li sees a vast world and a Taoist temple beyond his universe, then bows before them.
• Survivors throughout the universe designated "G-371b" turn toward the supreme world and prostrate themselves.

Across more than a thousand worlds, survivors abandoned their failed old gods and directed their worship toward the unknown being whose power had revived them. Their vast torrent of faith and Vow Power surged toward a small Daoist temple on the Primordial Continent.

• Gandalf burned the Genesis Codex with Dao Fire and declared that Orlando’s old god was dead and the world must welcome a new one.
• The Brahma Divine Kingdom’s high priest urged believers to worship the being who granted them life, then struck the main god’s statue and led its destruction.
• The high priest knelt toward the Primordial Continent, and hundreds of millions of believers followed him.
• The Heavenly Sword Sect’s sect master burned the ascended patriarch’s spirit tablet and declared the sect would worship Divine Source.
• The Abyssal Lord destroyed its Divine Throne and offered its true name and loyalty to the source of the light.
• Across over a thousand worlds, civilizations renounced their old gods and sent their faith and Vow Power toward the Daoist temple.

An overwhelming flood of faith vow power from the Supreme Star System poured toward Gu Changqing’s Daoist temple, causing his system to overload and crash. Gu Changqing decided to have the figures at Biyou Palace and the Human Emperor Hall establish order and guide the faith.

• Mighty beings across the Primordial Continent witnessed golden waterfalls of faith vow power rushing toward the barren mountain, and Yin Jiao and Wen Zhong believed it was an auspicious omen.
• Gu Changqing’s temple barrier blocked the faith power, but the system’s notifications accelerated into distorted electronic music as it struggled to convert the influx.
• Gu Changqing ordered the system to be quiet, then recognized that the accumulating faith power could eventually overwhelm the temple or form a faith godhead.
• The system displayed a final recommendation to establish order and guide the faith before shutting down.
• Gu Changqing chose the figure at Biyou Palace and the Human Emperor at the Human Emperor Hall to manage the task, then snapped his fingers to summon them.

Sect Master Tongtian and Yin Jiao received an edict to teach and establish order throughout the Myriad Worlds, then set out to carry it out. They opened a gateway to the technological world G-371b and began their journey beyond the Primordial World.

• Sect Master Tongtian received a command token and an accessible version of Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force, then summoned his disciples to establish Preaching Branch Halls across the newborn worlds.
• Yin Jiao received a command token and orders to spread Humanity’s rules throughout the Myriad Worlds, then appointed Huang Feihu to lead the Dao Expeditionary Army and Shen Gongbao as Myriad Worlds Inspector.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Yin Jiao gathered with Tongtian’s four great direct disciples and Yin Jiao’s Black Armor Army at the edge of the Primordial World.
• Tongtian chose the nearby technological world G-371b as their first destination.
• Tongtian and Yin Jiao activated their command tokens, opened a spatial gateway, and entered G-371b, where its people were praying to the sky.

Sect Master Tongtian and Yin Jiao spread the Primordial World’s teachings and rule across more than a thousand realms, establishing preaching halls, common cultivation, and Human Emperor laws. The realms’ ordered faith flowed back to the Primordial World, whose stature began rising as Gu Changqing became worshipped as the Creator God.

• Sect Master Tongtian summoned a Preaching Branch Hall on Capital Star, and Adam Li and the planet’s people rushed inside to seek knowledge and cultivation.
• Yin Jiao used the Human Emperor Seal to bring Universe G-371b under Humanity’s Dao, establish laws, and make its people subjects of the Dao Ancestor.
• Tongtian and Yin Jiao reorganized the Orlando magic realm, Brahma’s Divine Kingdom, and the Xuanyuan Realm through teachings, new officials, and imposed governance.
• Over more than a hundred years, Tongtian and Yin Jiao established uniform preaching halls and the same cultivation method across more than a thousand worlds.
• The worlds’ faith formed steady rivers that nourished the Primordial World, while Gu Changqing was revered across the new Supreme Star System as the Creator God.

A hundred years after the Divine Kingdoms were established, more than a thousand universes had adopted Gu Changqing’s faith and order. As Gu Changqing relaxed at his Daoist temple, the system announced that the gathered offerings had condensed into an unprecedented wisp of Ultimate Dao Incense Offerings.

• Adam Li led hundreds of millions in prayer in the Origin Seven Divine Realm, where technology and cultivation had transformed daily life.
• In the Origin Three Divine Realm, a young elven mage used Divine Construction to create a new mage tower, while Gandalf remained enshrined as a Heroic Spirit.
• More than a thousand universes developed uniform temples, cultivation methods, social structures, and faith centered on the Primordial World and Gu Changqing.
• Gu Changqing drew moisture from the Origin Seven Divine Realm across cosmic boundaries to bring a comfortable breeze to his temple.
• The system informed Gu Changqing that the thousand-world offerings had condensed into a wisp of Ultimate Dao Incense Offerings.

Gu Changqing discovered that the ultimate Dao incense offerings contained the histories and devotion of countless civilizations, then watched the system begin transforming itself into the Myriad Dao Furnace. The system entered deep dormancy, leaving a silent Cocoon of the Dao in his Sea of Consciousness.

• Gu Changqing examined the ultimate Dao incense offerings and saw how thousands of worlds had devoted their civilizations and histories to the Dao Ancestor.
• The system detected that its hidden Return to One protocol's conditions had been met and began its ultimate upgrade.
• The system declared that it would become the Myriad Dao Furnace and burned its accumulated data and functions to smelt the incense offerings.
• The system fused with the incense offerings into a Cocoon of the Dao and entered deep dormancy, permanently deactivating its familiar functions.
• Gu Changqing realized that the system that had accompanied him since his transmigration was gone.

Gu Changqing discovered that the system had fallen silent because it had only translated and guided him toward understanding his own Dao. He accepted that he was a Mythic Great Luo and the Dao, then released his restraint and extended his perception across the Primordial World, the Supreme Star System, and Chaos.

• Gu Changqing tried to check in but received no response from the system.
• He warmed the tea by defining it as warm and realized his power came from within himself.
• Gu Changqing understood that the system had only helped him unlock and comprehend his own essence as a Mythic Great Luo.
• He recognized himself as the Dao and released his restraint, making everything in the temple more absolute than Heavenly Dao Law.
• Gu Changqing extended his perception toward the Primordial World, the Supreme Star System, and endless Chaos.

Gu Changqing’s perception expanded from a falling bamboo leaf to events across the multiverse, letting him hear all existence as a vast melody. At the edge of nothingness, he heard a growing roar from the Primordial World’s origin core, which was about to erupt after a hundred years of incense offerings.

• Gu Changqing heard the detailed sounds of a withered bamboo leaf falling in the Daoist Temple courtyard.
• His perception reached Yin Jiao, Sect Master Tongtian, and Saint Nuwa, hearing their actions through the sounds of Dragon Qi, Sword Intent, and the Great Dao of life.
• He heard Adam Li’s data-filled experiment in the Origin Seven Divine Realm and a newborn elf’s first cry in the Origin Three Divine Realm.
• Gu Changqing’s perception spread through the Boundary Sea and into the Sea of Thought, hearing a sleeping Chaos Demon God and a thought vanish with a sigh.
• At the edge of the multiverse, he heard a superbacterium divide and give a faint sigh.
• Gu Changqing heard a discordant roar rising from the Primordial World’s origin core as it neared eruption.

The Primordial World's origin boiled over, unleashing golden rain that transformed mortals into immortals and empowered beings across the world and more than a thousand Divine Realms. Gu Changqing calmly controlled the origin's eruption, but sensed a ravenous voice stirring in the depths of chaos.

• The Primordial World's origin erupted at critical locations, sending golden pillars and a rain of origin across the Four Great Continents.
• A wounded cultivator in Northern Kuru Continent regrew his arm and broke through to Deity Transformation, while mortals across Chang'an regained their youth and became immortals.
• Taishang Laojun, Tongtian, Yin Jiao, Yang Jian, Nezha, the Three Xiao, and others connected to Gu Changqing gained power as the golden rain strengthened their Dao foundations and humanity's fortune.
• The golden rain spread to more than a thousand Divine Realms, where Adam Li, Gandalf's Heroic Spirit, and countless inhabitants praised the Dao Ancestor as their worlds ascended.
• Gu Changqing subdued the Primordial World's violent origin with a casual gesture, then heard a ravenous voice in the depths of chaos say it was hungry.