Chapter Summaries

Yin Jiao used the Human Emperor Sword to sever the Emperor Clan’s fortune, sending its accumulated origin to the Primordial World and empowering its fighters. With the Ji Emperor Clan’s strength collapsing, the battle ended in victory for the Primordial World, though Ji Taigu warned that greater powers would retaliate.

• Yin Jiao struck the Emperor Clan’s pillar of fortune with the Human Emperor Sword, splitting it apart.
• The pillar’s origin flowed to the Primordial World’s armies, triggering breakthroughs among its cultivators and raising the Chaos Ancestral Dragon to quasi-immortal emperor.
• Yin Jiao declared that the Ji Emperor Clan would be erased as its allied powers tried to sever ties.
• Ji Taigu acknowledged defeat, warned Yin Jiao about the deeper powers of The Firmament, and dissolved into luminous rain.
• Ji Wanshang tried to flee but Nezha extracted his primordial spirit, while Kong Xuan captured Ji Netherworld.
• Yin Jiao and the allied forces celebrated their victory across the Tianyuan Star Domain.

Yin Jiao ordered the Primordial World forces to pursue and eliminate the fleeing Emperor Clan cultivators. The Ji Emperor Clan’s Seventh Elder dissolved the clan and urged survivors to flee, while the pursuit left the Emperor Clan’s star domain a lifeless wasteland.

• Yin Jiao ordered Yang Jian, Nezha, Kong Xuan, and the allied army to leave no fleeing Emperor Clan cultivators alive.
• A human general killed a young Immortal King who begged for mercy, citing the Emperor Clan’s destruction of his family.
• The Seventh Elder recognized that the Emperor Clan had fallen, declared the Ji Emperor Clan dissolved, and told its survivors to flee.
• Nezha found dozens of Emperor Clan cultivators hiding in an asteroid belt and killed them with Samadhi True Fire.
• Yang Jian and Kong Xuan continued hunting across the star domain as Tongtian remained at the Ancestral Source Star Domain, which had no survivors.
• Within half a day, the Emperor Clan’s star domain had become a lifeless wasteland, and Emperor-Fall Divine Mountain was dead.

After the Ji Emperor Clan’s destruction, Cangming and the Myriad Races Council designated the Primordial World Temple the Firmament’s highest threat and began organizing an alliance against it. Elsewhere, loose cultivators discussed the fallen clan’s resources and whether to join the Temple, with one deciding to enlist.

• Cangming told the Myriad Races Council that the Primordial World Temple had destroyed the Ji Emperor Clan and proposed classifying it as the Firmament’s highest threat, which the gathered leaders approved.
• Cangming proposed forming the Desolate-Extermination Alliance, recruiting powers that had borne grudges against the Emperor Clan, concealing the alliance’s plans, and monitoring the Temple.
• Loose cultivators gathered around a notice announcing the Ji Emperor Clan’s destruction and discussed how its abandoned resources might benefit them.
• Several loose cultivators debated joining the Primordial World Temple, and one declared that he would enlist.

Nezha recruited hundreds of loose cultivators to the Primordial World Temple by promising a hundredfold cultivation return, while Yang Jian enforced the Temple’s rules among new arrivals in the Tianyuan Star Domain. The chapter ended with the recruits warned that they must cultivate loyally or die.

• A middle-aged sect master condemned the loose cultivators for wanting to join the Temple and threatened them with the Desolate-Extermination Alliance.
• Nezha killed the sect master and offered the loose cultivators a chance to join the Temple and gain a hundredfold cultivation return.
• Hundreds of loose cultivators accepted Nezha’s offer and followed him through a spatial gateway.
• Yang Jian ordered new arrivals at the occupied city to register, cultivate in batches, swear allegiance, and offer incense before the Divine Statue.
• An Immortal Lord demanded an official position, so Yang Jian killed him and warned the recruits that their only choices were loyal cultivation or death.

Yin Jiao followed Gu Changqing’s plan to spread faith in the Ruined Temple by offering the Mythic Cultivation Art to believers. In Qingyun City, Lin Qing regained and surpassed his former cultivation after offering incense, while Yin Jiao saw the Temple’s influence grow.

• Yin Jiao reported the Temple’s resources and the Myriad Races Council’s alliance plans to Gu Changqing, who warned him that force alone could not secure the Firmament Realm.
• Gu Changqing ordered Yin Jiao to spread faith in the Ruined Temple and gave him the complete Mythic Cultivation Art to share with true believers.
• In Qingyun City, Yin Jiao announced that worshippers could receive the art and told those unwilling to accept the Temple’s rules to leave.
• Lin Qing offered incense to the Ruined Temple Daoist, and the warm current restored his damaged body and raised his cultivation to peak Immortal Lord.
• Lin Qing thanked the Ruined Temple Daoist and pledged himself to the Temple as the crowd rushed to offer incense.

The Temple’s Mythic Cultivation Art drew millions of cultivators into its territory, while Yin Jiao confronted opposition in Heavenly Star City. After Lin Qing publicly affirmed his faith in the Temple, Yin Jiao appointed him the city’s new lord.

• Across the Temple Territory, cultivators flocked to Gu Changqing’s statues after reports spread that the Mythic Cultivation Art helped people recover and break through.
• Yin Jiao learned that the influx of eight million loose cultivators was draining the Temple’s resources, so he ordered Kong Xuan to gather supplies from Emperor Clan remnants.
• In Heavenly Star City, a young noble insulted Gu Changqing’s statue and attacked it, so Yin Jiao returned the fireball, shattered the man’s Dantian, and killed him.
• Yin Jiao warned the gathered cultivators that everyone in Temple Territory had to obey the Temple’s rules, and Lin Qing offered incense and urged the crowd to do the same.
• After nearly everyone offered incense, Yin Jiao appointed Lin Qing as Heavenly Star City’s new city lord.

Qin Feng accepted an Oath Mark from the Daoist of the Ruined Temple, reached the Immortal Venerable Realm, and killed Blood Shadow Holy Land elders who discovered the shrine. Across the Firmament Realm, incense offerings fueled a wave of breakthroughs, and Chen Yu became an Immortal King.

• Qin Feng vowed to serve the Temple, received an Oath Mark, and flew toward the Temple's territory after reaching the Immortal Venerable Realm.
• A black-robed elder and a gaunt middle-aged man from the Blood Shadow Holy Land found the shrine and realized that incense offerings could grant breakthroughs.
• Qin Feng returned, killed both elders, and carefully put away the shrine before leaving the desolate planet.
• Cultivators across the Firmament Realm began offering incense and breaking through to higher realms.
• In Qingyun City, Chen Yu offered incense and advanced from the True Immortal realm to the Immortal King realm.

Chen Yu and a former slave named Li Xiaoshi broke through after offering incense to the Daoist of the Ruined Temple, proving the Temple’s divine statues granted real power. A purple-robed cultivator reported the Temple as a growing threat, while incense offerings spread across The Firmament Realm and golden streams rose from the burners.

• Chen Yu broke through to the Immortal King realm after offering incense and thanked the Daoist of the Ruined Temple.
• Elder Zi sent a young cultivator to make slaves offer incense so they could test whether the Temple’s blessings were real.
• Li Xiaoshi advanced from Qi Refining to the Golden Core realm, and the other slaves who offered incense also broke through.
• Elder Zi and the young cultivator saw the breakthroughs and hurried away to warn the Holy Lord that the Temple’s threat needed reassessment.
• Temple guards restored order as cultivators crowded to offer incense across The Firmament Realm, where golden smoke streams began rising toward the sky.

Incense offerings across the Firmament Realm formed a vast golden dragon of vow power, prompting the Myriad Races Council to accelerate its planned attack. The dragon rewarded believers with cultivation gains before entering Gu Changqing, whereupon a terrifying pressure erupted from him.

• Incense offerings from across the Firmament Realm gathered into a golden dragon of vow power that headed toward the Tianyuan Star Domain.
• Cangming ordered the Desolate-Extermination Alliance to launch its offensive ahead of schedule, fearing the dragon would greatly strengthen Gu Changqing.
• Gu Changqing praised Yin Jiao for gathering believers and said the Myriad Races Council could come face him.
• The golden dragon showered the Temple Territory with light that stabilized cultivators' realms and helped them advance.
• The golden dragon flew to Gu Changqing, who drew it into his body and unleashed a terrifying pressure.

Gu Changqing used the Firmament Realm's incense offerings vow power to reach the early stage of the Sacrificial Dao Realm and perfect his Dao foundation. He ordered the Temple to prepare for the Desolate-Extermination Alliance's arrival, while origin power continued flowing into him from the Firmament Realm.

• Gu Changqing converted the incense offerings vow power into origin power, broke through to the early stage of the Sacrificial Dao Realm, and reshaped his Dao foundation to perfect level.
• The breakthrough shrouded the Tianyuan Star Domain in golden light as the prayers of countless living beings resonated around Gu Changqing.
• Gu Changqing told Yin Jiao to expand the Temple by aiding those who submitted and eliminating those who refused.
• Yin Jiao reported that the Myriad Races Council had formed the Desolate-Extermination Alliance with the Eighteen Top-Tier Powers, over five billion forces, and at least thirty Immortal Emperors.
• Gu Changqing chose to await the alliance in the Tianyuan Star Domain and gave Yin Jiao the method for Temple cultivators at Immortal King level and above to form vow power avatars.
• Gu Changqing returned to his chair as origin power flowed into him from vow power, heaven and earth, and the Firmament Realm itself.

Gu Changqing continued absorbing the Firmament’s origin and defied its Will, then left the Temple to face the Myriad Races Council’s approaching army. Meanwhile, the Ruined Temple Daoist’s growing incense offerings alarmed ancient clans whose faith networks were losing power to the Tianyuan Star Domain.

• Gu Changqing drove back the Firmament Will and continued absorbing the Firmament’s origin as his cultivation rose to early Sacrificial Dao Realm (85%).
• Three days later, Yin Jiao learned that the Desolate-Extermination Alliance had arrived with five billion troops, thirty-two Immortal Emperors, and over five hundred Quasi-Immortal Emperors, and ordered the Temple to prepare for battle.
• Gu Changqing declined to intervene as the alliance challenged the Primordial World Temple to come out and die.
• An elder in an ancient temple discovered that incense offerings across The Firmament were rapidly dimming, especially around the Tianyuan Star Domain, where people had begun worshipping the Ruined Temple Daoist.
• Cangming saw that at least a third of the Heavenly Eye Clan’s faith tributaries had redirected toward the Tianyuan Star Domain.

Cangming persuaded the Myriad Races Council to issue the God-Slaying Decree against the Primordial World Temple and its believers. When an Enforcement Team attacked a statue in the Tianyuan Star Domain, Qin Feng defended it and the statue’s golden light annihilated the attackers.

• Cangming called an emergency Myriad Races Council meeting after the Temple drew away the powers’ incense-offering worshippers.
• Representatives from the gathered powers agreed to issue the God-Slaying Decree, destroy the Ruined Temple Daoist’s statues, kill believers, and punish the Temple’s supporters.
• An Enforcement Team confronted an old woman offering incense at a city statue and tried to kill her.
• Qin Feng stepped in to protect the old woman and vowed the attackers would have to kill him before they could destroy the statue.
• The statue released golden light that killed the Enforcement Team members, and Qin Feng finished off their wounded leader.

The Myriad Races Council’s campaign to destroy the Divine Statues suffered heavy losses when the statues retaliated, and Gu Changqing raised a Faith Barrier to protect the Temple Territory. After the Council sent Immortal Emperors and Forbidden Artifacts to attack believers in the Bloodwind Star Domain, Gu Changqing dispatched Daji to stop them.

• Across the Temple Territory, Divine Statues retaliated against the Enforcement Teams, killing and wounding many while believers defended the statues.
• Cangming learned that most of the Council’s Enforcement Teams had been lost and ordered the Heavenly Eye Clan to prepare an assault with Immortal Emperors.
• Yin Jiao reported the fighting to Gu Changqing, who activated a Faith Barrier that reflected attacks below Immortal Emperor level and fatally struck an Immortal Emperor who attacked a statue.
• A Temple disciple reported that three Immortal Emperors and a hundred thousand Enforcement Team members were using Forbidden Artifacts to destroy statues and slaughter believers in the Bloodwind Star Domain.
• Gu Changqing ordered Daji to eliminate the attackers, and she vanished toward the Bloodwind Star Domain.

Daji used the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar to destroy the Myriad Races Council’s Enforcement Team and save the Temple’s believers, causing the Temple’s influence to spread across the Firmament Realm. Gu Changqing learned that the Firmament’s Heavenly Dao was preparing its final judgment against him.

• The white-haired elder and two Immortal Emperors destroyed the Divine Statue, and Daji appeared with the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar.
• Daji devoured the hundred-thousand-strong Enforcement Team, the three Immortal Emperors, and their Forbidden Artifacts, leaving the Immortal Emperors’ bodies as dried husks.
• Daji healed the surviving believers and warned the Myriad Races Council not to attack the Temple’s Divine Statues.
• News of the Enforcement Team’s annihilation spread through the Firmament Realm, prompting over a hundred factions to join the Temple within three days.
• The system announced that Gu Changqing had over one billion believers and could advance to the Middle Stage of the Sacrificial Dao Realm, while warning that the Firmament’s Heavenly Dao was preparing its final judgment.
• Gu Changqing opened his eyes and said the Heavenly Dao’s final judgment was finally coming.

Gu Changqing used the faith of his billion believers to repel the Heavenly Dao of the Firmament and devour its origin, while the Myriad Races Council sought aid from the Primordial Beginning Origin Land. Yang Jian returned injured with a fragment of the Pangu Axe, leading Gu Changqing to suspect that Pangu had been murdered.

• The Heavenly Dao of the Firmament attacked Gu Changqing by striking the Temple's divine statues with black lightning, but Gu Changqing formed a golden avatar from his believers' faith and turned the attack back.
• Gu Changqing's avatar devoured the Heavenly Dao's origin, increasing Gu Changqing's power as the Heavenly Dao shook the realm and shattered star domains belonging to the Myriad Races Council.
• Cangming urged the Myriad Races Council leaders to attack the Temple and decided to seek help from the ancient Immortal Emperor titans in the Primordial Beginning Origin Land.
• Gu Changqing sensed the Council's plan and learned from Yin Jiao that Yang Jian had been training in the Firmament Desolate Land.
• Yang Jian returned badly injured and gave Gu Changqing a fragment of the Pangu Axe, whose resentment nearly consumed him.
• Gu Changqing examined the fragment and suspected that Pangu had been killed by someone.

Gu Changqing revealed that three powerful figures ambushed Pangu after he opened heaven and earth, and one of them may be in the Primordial Beginning Origin Land. As the Myriad Races Council sought help from a Primordial Beginning Ancestor, Gu Changqing prepared the Temple cultivators for war, while Cangming paid the Ancestor the Heavenly Eye Clan’s entire fortune to attack the Ruined Temple Daoist.

• Gu Changqing used the fragment to reveal that three figures attacked Pangu after he split heaven and earth, leaving one of them gravely wounded by the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe.
• Gu Changqing told Yang Jian that one of Pangu’s attackers was likely in the Primordial Beginning Origin Land, and he urged Yang Jian to heal before the coming battles.
• Gu Changqing assured Yin Jiao that his faith power could withstand the old monsters and ordered the Temple cultivators to prepare for battle.
• Three days later, Cangming and the Myriad Races Council elders entered a temple in the Primordial Beginning Origin Land and asked the Primordial Beginning Ancestor to kill the Ruined Temple Daoist.
• The Primordial Beginning Ancestor demanded the Heavenly Eye Clan’s entire fortune, and Cangming handed it over in exchange for the Ancestor’s attack.
• The gray-robed Ancestor accepted the fortune and set out with Cangming to confront the Ruined Temple Daoist.

Gu Changqing confronted the Primordial Beginning Origin Land ancestor who had helped ambush Pangu and revealed his stable middle-stage Sacrificial Dao Realm strength. After two more half-step Sacrificial Dao Realm giants arrived to join the fight, Gu Changqing challenged the rest of the old monsters to come out as well.

• Gu Changqing sensed the Primordial Beginning Origin Land ancestor arriving above Starlight City with Cangming and the Myriad Races Council.
• The ancestor's attack on the city lord's residence failed against its faith barrier, and he revealed his half-step Sacrificial Dao Realm aura.
• Gu Changqing emerged and revealed that he had reached the middle stage of the Sacrificial Dao Realm.
• Gu Changqing questioned the ancestor about ambushing Pangu, and the ancestor admitted that he and two others had killed Pangu to take the Chaos Origin.
• Gu Changqing displayed the Pangu Axe Fragment, and the other two half-step Sacrificial Dao Realm giants arrived to help the ancestor seize it.
• Gu Changqing dismissed the three giants as insufficient and called for the other Primordial Beginning Origin Land elders to come out.

Gu Changqing revealed that the three Primordial Origin Giants had ambushed and killed Pangu, then let Yang Jian use the Pangu Axe Fragment to wound them. He spared the giants so the truth could spread across the Firmament Realm and announced that he would visit the Primordial Beginning Origin Land in three days to settle the score.

• Gu Changqing told the gray-robed elder that the Pangu Axe Fragment recorded his role in Pangu's death.
• The three Primordial Origin Giants attacked Gu Changqing, but he blocked their strikes and dissolved the gray-robed elder's World-Destroying Seal.
• Gu Changqing stabilized Yang Jian's injuries and sent him to fight the three giants with the Pangu Axe Fragment.
• Yang Jian unleashed the fragment's lingering will and wounded all three Primordial Origin Giants with one axe strike.
• Gu Changqing spared the giants so the Firmament Realm could learn the truth about Pangu's murder, then told them he would visit the Primordial Beginning Origin Land in three days.

After revealing that the Primordial Beginning Ancestors murdered Pangu, Gu Changqing ordered the Temple to march against them and weaken the Myriad Races Council's alliance. As the Temple's army swelled to twenty million, the Primordial Beginning Origin Land called its other Ancestors out of seclusion to face the coming attack.

• Gu Changqing drove the three Primordial Beginning titans from Starlight City, then confirmed to Yin Jiao that Pangu's fragment recorded the truth of his murder.
• Yang Jian, Yin Jiao, and Daji asked to avenge Pangu, and Gu Changqing put them in charge of the Temple's campaign.
• Yin Jiao announced that the Temple would march in three days, with Yang Jian named chief commander and the disciples rallying to the cause.
• Gu Changqing told Yang Jian that the Pangu Axe fragment held a lingering wisp of Pangu's will, which could empower him three times.
• The truth about Pangu's murder spread across the Firmament Realm, and the Temple's army grew from five million to twenty million.
• The Primordial Beginning Ancestors learned the Temple was approaching and ordered the other Ancestors to leave seclusion.

Gu Changqing equipped Yang Jian, Yin Jiao, and Daji for an expedition to the Primordial Beginning Origin Land, then sent the Temple army to avenge Great God Pangu. Yang Jian defeated the land’s gate guardians and opened a vast passage through the chaos as the Temple forces charged inside.

• Gu Changqing gave Yang Jian a divine saber, battle armor, and a protective jade pendant, and assigned Yin Jiao to command the army with the Temple Marshal Banner.
• Gu Changqing gave Daji an Immortal-Binding Ribbon and ordered the commanders to demonstrate the Temple’s strength without indiscriminately killing innocents.
• Yang Jian led the twenty-million-strong Temple army toward the Primordial Beginning Origin Land and cleaved a passage through the surrounding chaos.
• Yang Jian killed the two Quasi-Immortal Emperor gate guardians and wounded the gray-robed elder with his saber.
• Yin Jiao announced that the army was in position, and Yang Jian used the Pangu Axe fragment’s Heaven-Opening power to widen the passage as the Temple army surged forward.