Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian transformed the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force’s final stage into eight hundred and forty million universes within his body, nearly losing himself before embracing them as their Dao and attaining a mythic Great Luo body. After realizing his breakthrough surpassed what others could perceive, he sensed Nezha undergoing a radically different transformation in Chentang Pass.

• Origin Golden Rain flooded Yang Jian with essence, causing his particles to become eight hundred and forty million newborn universes that threatened to tear apart his body and soul.
• Xiaotian Dog sensed the incomprehensible being awakening inside the temple and was pressed to the ground by Yang Jian’s aura.
• Yang Jian remembered Gu Changqing’s teachings about creating order and channeling power, then chose to become the Dao of the universes within him instead of suppressing them.
• The newborn universes settled and reconstituted Yang Jian’s body, completing the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Force and granting him a true mythic Great Luo body.
• Yang Jian perceived the reactions of beings across the realms and sensed Nezha transforming in Chentang Pass through a Dao of division and encroachment.

Nezha fully comprehended the Self-Manifestation Technique, drawing countless versions of himself from across time into his present body and becoming an invincible legion in one. After telling Li Jing and Lady Yin he was hungry, he challenged Yang Jian from afar and looked toward his other senior siblings advancing at Jade Void Palace.

• Li Jing and Lady Yin saw multiple versions of Nezha from different points in time appearing throughout the General's Mansion.
• Nezha commanded the past and future versions of himself to return, absorbing their experiences, combat skills, and insights while his Cinnabar Mark suppressed their karma.
• Nezha completed the Self-Manifestation Technique and left his parents unable to comprehend the power he now possessed.
• Nezha told Li Jing and Lady Yin he was hungry, then sensed Yang Jian at Guanjiangkou and mouthed a challenge to fight.
• Nezha looked toward Jade Void Palace, where his senior brothers and sisters were reaching the peaks of their Dao Paths.

Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, Bixiao, Zhao Gongming, Tongtian, Yin Jiao, Yang Jian, and Nezha reached extraordinary realms after Gu Changqing’s guidance, but their attempts to perceive him revealed an insurmountable gulf. As his disciples bowed in reverence, Gu Changqing sensed a faint tremor in the ruins of Buzhou Mountain.

• Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao transformed the Primordial Golden Dou into a newborn universe and bowed to Gu Changqing.
• Zhao Gongming, Tongtian, and Yin Jiao each attained new heights of power and paid their respects to Gu Changqing.
• Yang Jian tried to observe Gu Changqing and nearly had the universes within his Mythic Great Luo Body erased, while Tongtian’s Sword Dao and Nezha’s future self were also nullified.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, Tongtian, the Three Xiao, and the other disciples recognized their vast distance from Gu Changqing and bowed in submission.
• Gu Changqing ignored his disciples’ worship and sensed a faint tremor beneath the ruins of Buzhou Mountain.

A tremor across the Primordial World led to the awakening of an ancient presence beneath the Buzhou Mountain Ruins. Gu Changqing recognized that the golden rain had ripened the world and stirred the seed buried within it, as the awakening will threatened to overwhelm the realm.

• A sudden tremor unsettled the Primordial World, frightening its inhabitants and shaking its mountains, seas, and laws.
• Taishang Laojun sensed that heaven itself had gone wrong, while Houtu felt the earthly Dao shudder and the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk briefly stop.
• Hongjun found a crack in the Jade Disc of Creation and traced the disturbance to the Buzhou Mountain Ruins.
• The world's sounds were drawn into the ruins as an aura older than heaven and the Great Dao began to rise.
• Gu Changqing recognized that his golden rain had awakened the seed beneath the ruins, and a vast will erupted, straining the Primordial World toward shattering.

Pangu's Remnant Echo awakened in Buzhou Mountain, suppressing the Heavenly and Earthly Daos and disrupting the laws of the Primordial World. Gu Changqing recognized the will as Pangu, and it condensed into a figure of light at the ruins.

• Pangu's awakening spread across the Primordial World, cracking the Jade Disc of Creation and leaving Hongjun unable to approach it.
• The Six Paths Reincarnation Disk stopped, and Houtu found that the Earthly Dao submitted to the awakening will.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, Tongtian, and the disciples at Jade Void Palace felt their powers and the world's laws becoming unstable.
• Gu Changqing addressed the will at Buzhou Mountain as Pangu and remarked that opening heaven and splitting earth was hard work.
• Pangu's Remnant Echo gathered the suppressed laws and primordial energy at Buzhou Mountain and rose as an immense figure of light.

A giant of light and shadow in Pangu’s image crossed the Primordial World and headed straight for the Daoist temple by the East Sea. The disciples failed to stop him, and he came to a halt before the temple gate.

• The giant erased the weight of mountains and rivers, then crossed the Primordial Continent and appeared above Great Tang Chang'an City.
• The giant took another step and appeared outside the South Heaven Gate, freezing Mo Liqing and the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals in their perceptions as he passed.
• Nezha realized the giant was heading for their Master, and Yang Jian, Tongtian, the Three Xiao, and other disciples rushed to defend the temple.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, Tongtian, and the others formed a defensive line before the temple, but the giant passed through them without resistance.
• The giant stopped before the gate of the Daoist temple and stood silently.

Pangu’s awakened remnant bowed to Gu Changqing, thanked him for restoring the true path, and accepted his authority. Gu Changqing told Pangu to rise and sit, leaving his disciples stunned before the Daoist Temple.

• Pangu’s giant form bowed deeply to the Daoist Temple, shaking the heavens and silencing the Primordial World.
• Pangu thanked Gu Changqing for slaying the false and preserving the true, and for reopening the path to supremacy.
• Hongjun realized Pangu had recognized Gu Changqing as the true Dao and had withdrawn his suppression of the False Heavenly Dao.
• Houtu sensed the Earthly Dao recover and accepted that Gu Changqing was the source of the Dao.
• Gu Changqing calmly told Pangu to rise and sit, and Pangu obeyed before the stunned disciples.

Pangu showed Gu Changqing’s disciples that their entire universe was only a sealed pond beneath a dome, while a higher dimension existed beyond it. The revelation left them gazing toward the place Pangu called the highest heaven above.

• Pangu enveloped the area around Gu Changqing’s Daoist temple and invited the disciples to witness his demonstration.
• Pangu lifted Yang Jian, Nezha, and the other disciples’ Divine Souls beyond the Primordial World, revealing it and the surrounding realms within a vast sea of Chaos.
• The disciples saw the sea of Chaos shrink into a sealed bubble surrounded by absolute darkness, which Pangu described as a pond beneath a dome.
• Pangu raised their vantage point above the pond and showed them a ray of eternal light spilling from a vast, mysterious dimension.
• Tongtian asked what the dimension was, and Pangu named it the highest heaven above.

Pangu’s will showed the disciples how Pangu had tried to break the dome and carry the newborn Primordial World into Above the Heavens, only to be thwarted by a malicious divine chain and die after leaving an eternal fissure. Yang Jian understood that Hongjun’s Heavenly Dao was a false order confined to the pond, while Pangu’s will remained unwilling to accept the failure.

• Yang Jian asked why Above the Heavens had gone unnoticed and who had sealed the Chaos Boundary Sea beneath a dome.
• Pangu’s will revealed that Pangu had awakened in primordial chaos and repeatedly struck the dome until he opened a breach and created the Primordial World.
• Pangu pushed the newborn world toward the breach, intending to ascend with it into Above the Heavens.
• A black divine chain shot from beyond the dome and began erasing the breach, forcing Pangu to choose between protecting the world and defending the opening.
• Pangu’s final axe strike severed the chain and left an eternal fissure, but he exhausted his strength and disintegrated, becoming the foundations and life of the world.
• Yang Jian recognized Hongjun’s Heavenly Dao as a false order, and Pangu’s will declared that he could not accept what had happened.

Pangu entrusted Gu Changqing with his Creation Origin, asking him to carry the Primordial World beyond its limits. After Pangu’s spirit dissolved into golden light that blessed the world, Gu Changqing opened his eyes.

• Gu Changqing acknowledged Pangu’s discontent, and Pangu said he trusted him to finish the work of freeing the Primordial World from its confines.
• Pangu gathered his creation power, memories, and regrets into the Creation Origin and offered it to Gu Changqing.
• Gu Changqing accepted the Creation Origin, which merged with his essence of nothingness.
• Pangu’s spirit dissolved into golden motes that blessed Yang Jian, Nezha, the Underworld, and the wider Primordial World.
• After absorbing the Creation Origin, Gu Changqing opened his eyes.

Gu Changqing opened his eyes, and two beams of divine light pierced and shattered the vault sealing the Primordial World. As the cracks spread, Hongjun realized the pond’s master had awakened and thought only of escape.

• Gu Changqing opened his eyes and instinctively sent Creation Light and Nirvana Light toward the sky.
• The beams pierced the Chaos vault and continued into the darkness beyond, disturbing an unknown existence Above the Heavens.
• The hole in the vault expanded into spreading cracks, and Nezha and Yang Jian watched in shock as the sky broke apart.
• Yang Jian understood that Gu Changqing could casually break a universe, far beyond his own power.
• Hongjun’s Jade Disc of Creation fell to the floor, and he decided to escape the pond.

Gu Changqing broke open the sky above the Primordial World, revealing the higher-dimensional realm called Above-the-Heavens and protecting the world from the falling fragments. As powerful beings sensed the realm’s potent aura, Gu Changqing emerged from the Daoist Temple.

• The sky peeled away in dangerous fragments, but Gu Changqing turned them into origin energy and merged them back into the Primordial World.
• The beings of the Primordial World saw Above-the-Heavens, a vast realm filled with strange landscapes and higher-dimensional laws.
• A wisp of Above-the-Heavens’ aura killed a low-cultivation immortal, while Yang Jian and Nezha felt their cultivation bottlenecks loosen.
• The sky finished collapsing, exposing the Primordial World and more than a thousand Divine Realms to Above-the-Heavens.
• The disciples gathered before the Daoist Temple and stared at its closed door with fervent anticipation.
• The wooden door opened, and a white-robed Gu Changqing walked out.

Gu Changqing emerged from the Daoist Temple and declared that he and his disciples would shatter the dome above the heavens. His disciples and the beings across the Primordial World and its surrounding realms rallied behind his command.

• Gu Changqing stepped out of the Daoist Temple, freezing all sound and movement across the world as the laws of countless realms responded to him.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, Tongtian, and the other disciples remained bowed before Gu Changqing, sensing that he had become the will governing all worlds.
• Gu Changqing commanded his disciples to come with him and shatter the dome over the pond.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, Tongtian, and the other disciples swore their obedience and answered in unison.
• Beings throughout the Primordial World, the Supreme Star System, and the subsidiary realms raised their heads and devoted their strength and conviction to Gu Changqing's cause.

Gu Changqing gathered the power and will of the Primordial World and more than a thousand Divine Realms to forge a Heaven-Piercing Spear. The weapon took shape before him, and its presence caused even the dimension Above the Heavens to distort.

• Li Shimin led the Great Tang subjects in offering Humanity’s fortune to Gu Changqing’s undertaking, while the Demon Clan, Temple followers, Dragon Kings, and Underworld beings sent their powers toward the East Sea.
• Adam Li and the Angel Legion, Gandalf and the peoples of Middle-earth, and the inhabitants of more than a thousand Divine Realms contributed their varied powers to the gathering.
• Yang Jian, Nezha, Tongtian, the Three Maidens of Sanxiao, Kong Xuan, and the other disciples refined and organized the incoming powers as parts of a Great Dao Furnace.
• Gu Changqing’s Heaven-Piercing Spear formed from the gathered powers, with Humanity’s fortune shaping its shaft and the disciples’ laws and the worlds’ imprints completing it.
• The finished spear made the primordial chaos currents retreat and caused the distant Above the Heavens to distort.

Gu Changqing wielded the Heaven-Piercing Spear, forged by his disciples from the power and will of myriad worlds, and used it to open a passage to Above the Heavens. He set the Primordial World and its thousand-plus Divine Realms moving through the passage, leaving them on their journey into the unknown.

• Gu Changqing effortlessly took hold of the Heaven-Piercing Spear, which only he could wield.
• He connected with the hopes and fears of the inhabitants through the spear and prepared to throw it.
• Gu Changqing threw the spear, which appeared among the shattered dome’s ruins and unfolded into a stable passage to Above the Heavens.
• Gu Changqing stamped his foot and propelled the Primordial World and its subsidiary Divine Realms toward the passage.
• The entire world entered the passage, and its inhabitants saw it begin an unprecedented dimensional crossing toward Above the Heavens.

The Primordial World Ark crashed into the Abandoned Heaven Wasteland, and Gu Changqing used a glance to stabilize the Primordial World. The travelers found themselves in a hostile higher-dimensional realm where their powers were constrained, while Gu Changqing treated it as a suitable starting point and sensed a hidden observer.

• The Primordial World Ark struck a gray-white curtain, and the impact nearly shattered the Primordial World's Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane.
• Gu Changqing stabilized the world and instantly repaired its mountains, rivers, and spatial fissures.
• The inhabitants emerged onto the lifeless Abandoned Heaven Wasteland, where black crystalline ground and enormous skeletons stretched beneath a gray sky.
• Nezha and Yang Jian discovered that the wasteland's dense laws made movement and magic difficult, while Sect Master Tongtian found its air dangerous to breathe.
• Gu Changqing called the wasteland a suitable starting point and sensed a malicious, greedy Divine Sense spying on them.

The Primordial World and its affiliated Divine Realms arrived on a desolate higher-dimensional shore, where oppressive laws crippled its inhabitants. Gu Changqing’s disciples learned to absorb those laws through their techniques, while three powerful presences approached from the northeast.

• The Primordial World and its Divine Realms settled on a bleak shore surrounded by ancient remains, and the inhabitants panicked as the hostile laws killed weaker beings and pinned down powerful ones.
• Nezha, Yang Jian, and Sect Master Tongtian struggled against the world’s crushing pressure and found that its energy harmed them.
• Gu Changqing calmly called the place a suitable starting point, reassuring his disciples.
• Nezha and Yang Jian adapted their techniques to occupy and assimilate the local laws, turning the pressure into nourishment for their power.
• Tongtian, the Three Xiao, Kong Xuan, and the other disciples realized their techniques had prepared them to cultivate in this higher-dimensional world.
• Gu Changqing sensed three powerful presences approaching from the northeast and wondered if harvesters had come for their crops.

After the Primordial World arrived in the Abandoned Heaven Wasteland, Lin Qi and two attendants appeared as envoys of the Heavenly Tide Immortal Dynasty and declared their intention to enslave its inhabitants. Yang Jian moved to confront Lin Qi before he could finish threatening him.

• Yang Jian and the other disciples noticed three lights approaching the Primordial World and prepared for their arrival.
• Lin Qi arrived aboard an ornate vessel with two attendants and identified himself as an envoy of the Heavenly Tide Immortal Dynasty.
• Lin Qi declared that the Dynasty would enslave male immortals as mine workers and seize beautiful women as cultivation vessels.
• Lin Qi offered Yang Jian, Nezha, and the other powerful disciples a chance to become servants if they knelt and crippled half their cultivation.
• Yang Jian appeared in front of Lin Qi's vessel, and raised his right hand as Lin Qi threatened him.

Yang Jian killed Lin Qi with a single palm strike, overwhelming the Upper Heaven True Immortal and defying the laws of the Abandoned Heaven Wasteland. The two surviving reception envoys were left terrified as Yang Jian turned his gaze toward them.

• Lin Qi realized he could neither escape nor resist Yang Jian’s approaching palm.
• Yang Jian struck Lin Qi, erasing him and leaving only blood mist and fragments of bone.
• One attendant screamed and scrambled away, while the other trembled and lost control of his bladder.
• The attendants realized Yang Jian wielded overwhelming power that ignored the laws suppressing lower-realm ascenders.
• Yang Jian calmly faced the two surviving reception envoys and waited for their response.

Yang Jian killed Lin Qi, and Nezha crushed the envoys’ True Immortal treasure and shattered its wielder’s cultivation. With the last envoy begging for his life, Nezha demanded everything he knew about the Heavenly Tide Immortal Dynasty.

• Yang Jian killed Lin Qi with a single palm strike and immobilized the two surviving attendants with his aura.
• Nezha appeared on the Dharma Boat and challenged the remaining envoys, while one attendant unleashed the Heavenly Tide Boundary-Suppressing Stele.
• Nezha walked through the stele’s gravitational field and crushed the True Immortal treasure with one hand.
• The treasure’s destruction shattered its wielder’s Dao Fruit and immortal foundations, leaving him alive but crippled.
• The last envoy knelt and begged for mercy, and Nezha demanded that he reveal everything he knew about the Heavenly Tide Immortal Dynasty.