Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian led the attack into the Primordial Beginning Origin Land, then pressed on alone toward its Core Region after sensing an ancient power within. He confronted the being at the summit of a distant peak, who demanded his Pangu Axe fragment and warned him that even Pangu had died there.

• Yang Jian defeated two Quasi-Immortal Emperor gatekeepers, while Yin Jiao ordered Daji’s forces to lead the army through the Chaos Passage.
• Yang Jian told Yin Jiao he would enter the Core Region alone, and Yin Jiao agreed after confirming Yang Jian had his protective Jade Pendant and could use the Pangu Axe fragment twice more.
• Yang Jian cleaved through the dense chaos currents and reached a vast gate guarded by the petrified corpses of Taiyi True Immortal and the Five-Spirits Holy Mother.
• Yang Jian split the gate with one slash and entered the Core Region, where an ancient, deathly expanse stretched beneath a gray sky.
• The immense figure atop the farthest peak demanded Yang Jian’s fragment and warned that Pangu had died there; Yang Jian vowed to collect what the figure owed Pangu.

Yang Jian challenged a hidden Immortal Emperor in the Primordial Beginning Origin Land and tested his strength against its overwhelming attacks. Tongtian and Nezha arrived to hold the enemy back and strike its Dharma Form.

• The hidden Immortal Emperor revealed an enormous Dharma Form and attacked Yang Jian with billions of rays of immortal light.
• Yin Jiao sensed the Immortal Emperor and prepared to intervene, but Tongtian told him to remain with the army and went to help Yang Jian with Nezha.
• Yang Jian endured the first barrage, then charged through the immortal light while suppressing the power of the Pangu Axe fragment.
• The Immortal Emperor struck at Yang Jian with a giant palm, but Tongtian cut into it and pinned the Dharma Form's hand with four sword beams.
• Nezha pierced the Dharma Form's ankle with his Fire-Tipped Spear and Samadhi True Fire.

Yang Jian perfected all 840 million Divine Elephant Particles, manifested a Dominion Body, and used the Pangu Axe fragment to shatter half of the Immortal Emperor Dharma Form. As the enemy fled into the Primordial Beginning Origin Land, Tongtian and the others sealed the escape routes and pursued him while Yang Jian followed, determined to settle Pangu’s debts.

• Nezha’s Fire-Tipped Spear burned the Dharma Form, while Tongtian blocked its gray beam and was driven back with a bleeding hand.
• Tongtian drew the Dharma Form’s attention, giving Yang Jian time to perfect all 840 million Divine Elephant Particles and manifest the Dominion Body.
• Yang Jian joined his Dominion Body with the Pangu Axe fragment and struck the Dharma Form with the Heaven-Opening axe, destroying its entire left half.
• Tongtian, Nezha, and Kong Xuan restrained the Dharma Form long enough for Yang Jian’s axe blow to land, but the surviving half fled toward the depths of the Primordial Beginning Origin Land.
• Tongtian sealed the exits with the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords, Yin Jiao ordered the troops to block every escape route, and Nezha pursued the fleeing enemy.
• Yang Jian followed the others with the dimmed Pangu Axe fragment, vowing to collect every debt owed to Pangu.

Yang Jian used the Pangu Axe fragment’s final strike to annihilate the Immortal Emperor’s remaining Dharma Form after Tongtian, Nezha, and Kong Xuan helped restrain it. As the group caught their breath, Tongtian sensed that the dying enemy had awakened something deep within the Primordial Beginning Origin Land.

• The Immortal Emperor’s Dharma Form tried to destroy the core ground of the Primordial Beginning Origin Land, and Kong Xuan held back its gray sphere with Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Tongtian bound the Dharma Form’s right arm with the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords while Nezha’s fire dragons restrained its neck.
• Yang Jian spent the Pangu Axe fragment’s final use on the third strike, Annihilate, and shattered the Dharma Form completely.
• Yang Jian dropped to one knee as the Pangu Axe fragment became powerless scrap, and Tongtian checked whether he could stand.
• Tongtian sensed a new power stirring deep within the Primordial Beginning Origin Land, and a rumble followed from beneath the abyss.

Yang Jian and his allies faced the Grand Patriarch, who emerged from the Abyss after Yang Jian killed his disciple, the Immortal Emperor White Tower. The Grand Patriarch easily overwhelmed Tongtian, Nezha, and Kong Xuan, but Yang Jian stood to challenge him with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Divine Saber.

• A fissure opened in the Primordial Beginning Origin Land, and a voice revealed that the slain Immortal Emperor White Tower had been the speaker’s disciple.
• The Grand Patriarch emerged from the Abyss, and his power shook the entire Primordial Beginning Origin Land.
• The Grand Patriarch identified the Pangu Axe Fragment as the weapon Yang Jian had used to kill White Tower.
• Tongtian, Nezha, and Kong Xuan attacked the Grand Patriarch in turn, but he casually repelled all three.
• Yang Jian stood despite his injuries and exhaustion, declared that he would fight with his saber, and felt the Grand Patriarch’s killing intent seize his internal organs.

A sacrificial Dao old man revealed that the Immortal Emperor guarding the Primordial Beginning Origin Land had been only a fragment of his power. Tongtian, Nezha, and Kong Xuan failed to stop his attack, and Yang Jian’s Jade Pendant was nearly spent as a second destructive strike threatened Yin Jiao.

• The old man told Tongtian that he had waited for the White Tower gatekeeper to be killed so he could reclaim the magical power he had left there.
• Tongtian burned his origin and struck the old man with the Qingping Sword, but the attack vanished without harming him.
• The old man sent a rule-destroying speck toward Yang Jian, and Nezha, Kong Xuan, and Tongtian each failed to stop it.
• Yang Jian used the Jade Pendant’s stored power to hold the speck back for three breaths, but its golden light shattered.
• As the speck closed in on Yang Jian, the old man sent another destructive speck toward Yin Jiao, who was rushing to help.

The old man overwhelmed Yang Jian and the Primordial World Temple’s strongest fighters with the laws of destruction, then moved to kill Yang Jian and attack the army. Just as the mote touched Yang Jian’s brow, it stopped, and the old man sensed an unknown presence far away.

• The old man sent three motes of destruction toward Yang Jian, Yin Jiao, and the Twenty Million Army, while Daji’s Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar failed to devour one.
• The old man demanded that Yang Jian surrender the Pangu Axe fragment, but Yang Jian refused and told him to keep dreaming.
• The old man accelerated the mote toward Yang Jian’s brow, while Nezha and Kong Xuan’s attacks were destroyed before they could reach it.
• The mote touched Yang Jian’s brow as his allies watched helplessly, and the old man turned his attention toward the Twenty Million Army.
• The mote stopped against Yang Jian’s forehead, and the old man turned toward a distant, unknown presence after sensing its aura.

Gu Changqing left the ruined temple and appeared in the Primordial Origin Land after Yang Jian was critically injured, bringing white light that spread across the Firmament Realm. He confronted the old man responsible for the attack and left their confrontation poised to continue.

• A surge of white light spread from the Primordial Origin Land across the army, Temple Territory, and surrounding realms, and cultivators recognized it as the Ruined Temple Daoist's manifestation.
• Golden vow power from the Temple Territory flowed toward the opening in the emptiness as Gu Changqing stepped out of the ruined temple and arrived in the Primordial Origin Land.
• Yang Jian recognized Gu Changqing as his master, while Tongtian and Nezha reacted to his arrival.
• The old man tried to probe Gu Changqing's cultivation but could not discern it, then asked where he had come from.
• Gu Changqing said he had left the ruined temple because the old man was beating his disciple, and dismissed the old man's knowledge as narrow.

Gu Changqing rescued his disciples from the old Sacrificial Dao Realm Ancestor and revealed that his cultivation had advanced beyond the middle stage. After exposing the Ancestor’s role in Pangu’s death, Gu Changqing ordered him to wake the two accomplices sleeping in the Abyss.

• Gu Changqing removed the destruction-rule speck from Yang Jian’s forehead and dissolved the specks threatening Yin Jiao and the army.
• The old man offered to let Gu Changqing’s group leave, but Gu Changqing confronted him for attacking his disciples.
• Gu Changqing identified himself as the Ruined Temple Daoist and revealed that he had advanced beyond the middle stage of the Sacrificial Dao Realm.
• Gu Changqing accused the old man and two accomplices of ambushing Pangu and showed him a Pangu Axe Fragment bearing the old man’s claw marks.
• The old man retreated to the Abyss fissure, and Gu Changqing told him to wake the two accomplices below.

Gu Changqing confronted the old man at the Abyss fissure over his attack on Yang Jian and demanded that the two sleeping beings below be awakened. The old man feared Gu Changqing’s unknowable power, and Gu Changqing declared that all three would die together.

• Gu Changqing told the old man to wake the two powerful beings sleeping beneath the Abyss fissure so he could deal with them all at once.
• The old man tried to deter Gu Changqing by warning him about the Primordial Beginning Origin Land, but Gu Changqing challenged his excuse for attacking Yang Jian.
• The old man admitted he could not understand Gu Changqing’s cultivation and questioned his origins and connection to Pangu.
• Gu Changqing demanded payment for the old man laying a hand on someone from the Temple, while Tongtian, Nezha, and Yin Jiao watched.
• The old man asked what Gu Changqing wanted, and Gu Changqing answered that he should wake the two beings so all three of them could die together.

Gu Changqing confronted three Sacrifice Dao-level Ancestors who had emerged from the Abyss fissure after threatening his disciple. He summoned a vast golden hand seal embodying the Dao and brought it down on them as they desperately raised their defenses.

• Two Ancestors emerged from the Abyss fissure and asked Lingyuan who had destroyed the White Tower.
• Lingyuan directed the new arrivals to sense Gu Changqing, and they realized the scale of his power.
• Gu Changqing warned the three Ancestors that they would die if they touched his disciple.
• Gu Changqing opened a fissure above the Firmament Realm and formed an immense golden hand seal from the Dao's origin.
• Lingyuan and the other Ancestors unleashed their defenses, but Gu Changqing pressed his palm down and sent the hand seal falling.

Gu Changqing erased Ling Yuan and the other two Sacrificial Dao Realm ancestors after Yang Jian refused to spare them. As the survivors regrouped, Gu Changqing discovered a sealed chaos origin fragment in the Primordial Beginning Origin Land's abyss.

• Ling Yuan and the two elders failed to stop Gu Changqing's golden handprint, which erased Ling Yuan from the Multi-Universe timeline.
• Ling Yuan offered the Primordial Beginning Origin Land's surrender, but Gu Changqing reminded him that Yang Jian had not been given the same chance.
• Gu Changqing asked Yang Jian whether the two remaining elders should be spared, and Yang Jian said they had nearly killed him.
• Gu Changqing crushed the tall, thin elder and the short, stout elder, leaving none of the three ancestors behind.
• Gu Changqing checked Yang Jian's wounds, while Tongtian helped the injured disciple stand.
• Gu Changqing detected a sealed chaos origin fragment in the collapsed abyss and recognized it as something Pangu had lost.

After Gu Changqing killed the three Sacrificial Dao Ancestors, he recovered a Chaos Origin Fragment from the Abyss and assigned his disciples to search and secure the Primordial Beginning Origin Land. He left with Yang Jian and Tongtian after restoring their injuries and giving them materials to repair their weapons.

• Gu Changqing retrieved the Chaos Origin Fragment from the Abyss and gave it to Yang Jian to repair the Pangu Axe Fragment.
• Gu Changqing told Nezha and Kong Xuan to search the ruins and divide the treasury, while Yin Jiao stayed to guard the entrances with his army.
• Gu Changqing healed Yang Jian's injuries and gave Tongtian chaos cyan stone to mend the Qingping Sword.
• Gu Changqing, Yang Jian, and Tongtian left the core region as Nezha and Kong Xuan searched the ruins.

After Gu Changqing returned from the Primordial Beginning Origin Land, the news that he had killed its three Sacrificial Dao Ancestors spread across The Firmament Realm. Major powers began submitting to the Primordial World Temple, leaving Gu Changqing and his army to continue toward the Tianyuan Star Domain.

• Yin Jiao and Daji guarded the Chaos Passage with a twenty-million-strong army until Gu Changqing, Yang Jian, and Tongtian emerged.
• Gu Changqing led the army toward the Tianyuan Star Domain as powers across The Firmament Realm learned that he had killed the three Sacrificial Dao Ancestors.
• The Heavenly Secrets Pavilion's Li Xuanji offered submission and the Chaos Compass, but Gu Changqing refused the gift and told him to obey the Temple faithfully.
• Leaders from other powers, including two Immortal Emperors, came to submit and offer treasures, but Gu Changqing accepted none.
• Yang Jian and Tongtian recognized that Gu Changqing's strike had transformed the balance of power, and Tongtian said no one would dare oppose the Primordial World Temple.

After defeating the Primordial Beginning Origin Land, Gu Changqing rejected calls to rule the Firmament Realm and ordered the Temple to stay out of its affairs except to punish anyone who caused trouble on Temple territory. The factions submitted to the edict, while Gu Changqing remained in the Ruined Temple, content to rest.

• Gu Changqing dismissed Tongtian's suggestion that the Temple expand and ordered him to announce that the Temple would not manage the Firmament Realm, but would exterminate any clan that caused trouble on its territory.
• Gu Changqing told Yang Jian that knowing an opponent's realm mattered less than whether one could defeat them.
• Nezha brought back treasures looted from the Primordial Beginning Origin Land's treasury and received Gu Changqing's permission to divide them among himself and his companions.
• The system announced Gu Changqing's achievement for defeating the three Sacrificial Dao Realm experts and urged him to establish the Eternal Divine Court, but he ignored it.
• Tongtian delivered Gu Changqing's edict to the gathered faction leaders, who pledged obedience and recognized the Primordial Ruined Temple as supreme across the lower realm and the Firmament.
• Tongtian returned to report that the message had been delivered, and Gu Changqing settled back into the reclining chair, pleased to have peace and quiet.

Gu Changqing reluctantly established the Primordial World Divine Court and issued rules, leaving its administration to his disciples. As Yang Jian and Tongtian divided patrol duties, they persuaded Gu Changqing to hold a formal investiture ceremony, which he agreed to do once.

• Li Xuanji and leaders of more than three hundred factions asked Gu Changqing to establish a Divine Court, and Yang Jian persuaded him that order would protect the Temple Territory.
• Gu Changqing issued four rules for the Temple Territory and named the new government the Primordial World Divine Court.
• The Divine Court’s golden palace appeared above the Supreme Temple, and Li Xuanji and Ancestor Blood God acknowledged that a new era had begun.
• Yang Jian and Tongtian divided responsibility for the twelve core star domains among the Temple’s six disciples, with Tongtian coordinating from Qingping Hall.
• Tongtian proposed a formal investiture ceremony, and after Yang Jian pressed him, Gu Changqing agreed to hold it once.

Gu Changqing appointed the Primordial World Divine Court’s leaders, while Yin Jiao established a legal code protecting mortals across the Myriad Worlds. As the new order took hold and Gu Changqing hoped for peace, Xiaotian Dog reported a strange rift at the edge of The Firmament.

• Gu Changqing appointed Yang Jian, Nezha, Kong Xuan, Yin Jiao, and Daji to lead different star domains, then named Tongtian Chancellor of the Divine Court.
• Yin Jiao ordered Wen Zhong to draft the thirty-six-article Human Emperor Canon, protecting mortals’ rights across the myriad heavens.
• The Human Emperor Canon was promulgated, bringing hope to mortals and prompting the Blood God Ancestor and Light Pope to accept the Divine Court’s new order.
• Gu Changqing received system notifications that his believers had reached 1.5 billion and that he had earned the achievement Lord of the Myriad Heavens.
• Yang Jian told Gu Changqing he would inspect the Taixuan and Zixiao Star Domains, then Xiaotian Dog rushed in to report a strange rift at the edge of The Firmament.

Yang Jian discovered a rift at the edge of the Firmament that leaked corrosive black slime and released monsters that could not be killed. He fled with Tongtian and Nezha as more than a hundred monsters pursued them, and they reached the Ruined Temple to warn Gu Changqing.

• Xiaotian Dog showed Yang Jian a newly appeared rift at the edge of the Firmament, where black slime corroded immortal power and resisted Yang Jian's attempt to seal it.
• A black-slime creature crawled out of the rift, regenerated after Yang Jian cut it apart, and pursued him as he fled with Xiaotian Dog.
• Yang Jian sent a voice transmission talisman and used the Pangu Axe Fragment to blast the creature away, but it survived and continued chasing him.
• Tongtian arrived to help Yang Jian, but the creature regenerated after Tongtian struck it with the Qingping Sword, so they fled toward the Temple.
• Nezha joined Yang Jian and Tongtian as more monsters emerged from the rift, eventually growing to over a hundred in pursuit.
• Yang Jian, Tongtian, and Nezha reached the Ruined Temple with the monsters behind them, and Yang Jian rushed inside to report the emergency to Gu Changqing.

A rift at the edge of the Firmament released monsters whose black slime infected living beings and resisted immortal arts. Gu Changqing sent the Divine Court forces to contain the outbreak while he remained behind to investigate, and Yang Jian ended by isolating infected people rather than killing them.

• Yang Jian warned Gu Changqing that monsters from a new rift could regenerate after being struck, while their corrosive slime damaged immortal power and the void.
• Gu Changqing shielded the Supreme Temple, but the monsters flew toward other star domains; a water mirror showed one infecting an Immortal Venerable in fewer than three breaths.
• Gu Changqing ordered Yang Jian to gather the Divine Court’s generals, Nezha to seal the Taixuan and Zixiao Star Domains, and Tongtian to seal the rift.
• Yang Jian assigned Yin Jiao, Kong Xuan, and Daji to other star domains while he led troops to Taixuan; Divine Court armies then deployed across the Firmament Realm.
• Yang Jian’s forces sealed a small planet and destroyed dozens of monsters with the Pangu Axe Fragment’s Heaven-Opening Light, though it took ten breaths.
• When a commander asked about more than a dozen infected people, Yang Jian ordered them isolated so he could determine whether they could be saved.

Nezha and Daji fought waves of rapidly evolving monsters threatening the Zixiao and Holy Light Star Domains, but their attacks and defenses struggled to stop the swarms. After Kong Xuan arrived to rescue Daji, he faced the monsters with his Five-Colored Divine Light, which began disintegrating them only slowly.

• Nezha's army raised a wall of Samadhi True Fire, but the monsters repeatedly reformed from black slime after being burned to ash.
• Nezha used Lotus Flower Demonic Fire to erase one wave, then faced a swarm ten times larger and learned from Yang Jian that the monsters targeted populated star domains and evolved quickly.
• Nezha ordered his exhausted army to hold the border and charged into the swarm himself as monsters covered him in corrosive slime.
• Daji used the Heaven-Swallowing Demonic Jar against the monsters, but an oversized creature disrupted the jar and exploded inside it, damaging the treasure and injuring her.
• Kong Xuan arrived on the Master's orders, sent Daji to retreat, and used his Five-Colored Divine Light to freeze and slowly disintegrate the monsters.