Chapter Summaries

Xu Xuan devoured the Thousand Buddhas Saint’s cultivation, finally filling his Chaos Body and allowing it to unleash its strength. The Thousand Buddhas Saint survived, renounced Heaven Buddha Temple, and set off to seek the Buddha, while the rebuilding of Chaos Valley drew awkward congratulations from former opponents.

• Xu Xuan realized that his Chaos Body’s power had been held back by extreme hunger and that absorbing the Thousand Buddhas Saint’s cultivation would temporarily satisfy it.
• As the Thousand Buddhas Saint’s cultivation drained away, he recited Buddhist scriptures and attained a peaceful clarity.
• Xu Xuan severed the connection between their life essences, allowing the Thousand Buddhas Saint to survive and thank him for enlightening him.
• The Thousand Buddhas Saint rejected Heaven Buddha Temple and departed to seek the Buddha, leaving its members questioning their faith.
• The Primordial Saint declared that Heaven Buddha Temple was a martial sect rather than a true Buddhist holy land, and Xu Xuan told his companions that he felt full.
• Gu Zhen congratulated Xu Xuan and Chaos Valley, prompting others to follow his example, while the Primordial Saint reminded them that they had threatened to fight Chaos Valley to the death.

Xu Xuan forced the gathered Holy Lands and Lineages to pledge vast resources to Chaos Valley, then crossed out those he deemed insincere and ordered their leaders attacked. As the surviving guests were dismissed with a warning to fulfill their promises, Gu Zhen offered his daughter Gu Ruoyi to remain by Xu Xuan’s side.

• Xu Xuan asked whether the gathered leaders had come to offer gifts or fight Chaos Valley, and they hurriedly pledged resources.
• Chaos Valley disciples recorded the pledges, and the leaders signed a ledger listing their sects and what they would relinquish.
• Xu Xuan crossed several Holy Lands and Lineages off the ledger, declaring that Chaos Valley would take their resources itself.
• The Primordial Saint, Luo Xiaotian, and Chaos Valley’s elite disciples attacked the marked groups.
• Xu Xuan told the surviving guests to leave but warned he would visit if they delayed fulfilling their pledges.
• Gu Zhen asked Xu Xuan to let his daughter Gu Ruoyi remain by his side.

Xu Xuan sent the other Holy Lands’ representatives away and announced that Chaos Valley would reclaim its resources while preparing to confront Dao Spirit Holy Land and the Shangguan Family. He ordered Primordial Saint and Luo Xiaotian’s group to begin the retrieval, leaving the Ouyang Family as his next concern.

• Gu Zhen proposed an alliance with Xu Xuan and asked him to free Ancient Fairy, then left Chaos Valley.
• Chaos Saint reported that the representatives who had failed to satisfy Xu Xuan had been killed, prompting the surviving outsiders to flee.
• Xu Xuan told Chaos Valley’s disciples to reclaim their resources and explained that the sect had to challenge Dao Spirit Holy Land to survive.
• Xu Xuan promised the disciples they would share in Chaos Valley’s prosperity and said resources would let him improve their strength together.
• Xu Xuan assigned Primordial Saint to retrieve the resources and ordered Luo Xiaotian and others to accompany him, then began to address the Ouyang Family.

Xu Xuan decided to visit the Shangguan Family and investigate the force behind its actions, while Chaos Valley prepared to gather cultivation resources. After the Shangguan Family's elders entered their forbidden Ancestral Land seeking help, every member of the family disappeared inside.

• Xu Xuan told Chaos Valley's leaders he would visit the Shangguan Family, and ordered them to gather cultivation resources so he could strengthen the sect when he returned.
• Luo Xiaotian warned Xu Xuan to be careful before leaving with the Primordial Saint and the others.
• The Dao Spirit Saint learned that Chaos Valley had been attacked, flew into a rage, and contacted the Heaven Buddha Temple to learn how it would respond.
• After learning that their family head had died, the Shangguan Family elders agreed to defy their ancestral teachings and follow an aged elder into the forbidden Ancestral Land.
• The elder was thrown back as a corpse by the being inside, but the Shangguan Family members still answered its summons and entered the forbidden grounds.
• Every member of the Shangguan Family vanished into the Ancestral Land, leaving the compound deserted.

Xu Xuan discovered a folded space hidden in the Shangguan Family estate and entered its lightless domain, where strange creatures attacked him. He drove them back with light from his Chaos Body, but the creatures called for him to be killed as they fled.

• Xu Xuan set the Shangguan Family estate ablaze and noticed a folded space that the fire could not reach.
• A strange figure emerged from the hidden space, and Xu Xuan shattered the spatial trick and entered a dark domain it called the Nether Domain.
• Xu Xuan asked whether the figure was related to the ancient evil spirit that had possessed the Shangguan Family Head, then struck at it with a powerful slap.
• Countless crimson eyes appeared as the domain shook, and Xu Xuan summoned light from his Chaos Body.
• The light terrified the strange black creatures, which fled and shouted for someone to kill Xu Xuan.

Xu Xuan fought the dead Shangguan Family members and their young prodigies, who were empowered by Primordial Evil Spirits. He discovered that the black shadows were remnants of the Shadow Race and asked whether others of their kind were on the Nine Provinces Continent as they ordered their forces to kill him.

• Xu Xuan charged into the dried corpses and shattered them, but their severed limbs continued attacking him.
• A black shadow invaded Xu Xuan's sea of consciousness, where he trapped it briefly before it escaped and accused him of damaging its Life Origin.
• The black shadows revealed that the Shadow Race were humans who had taken up their bloodline, while the Ouyang Family's elites had merged with Primordial Evil Spirits.
• Shangguan Family prodigies attacked Xu Xuan together with Saint Realm combat strength, sending him flying and drawing blood.
• Xu Xuan asked whether other Shadow Race members were on the Nine Provinces Continent, and the black shadow roared for his death.

The Supreme Holy Land was overrun by the Shadow Race, as were factions across Primordial Dao Province and the Nine Provinces Continent. Meanwhile, Xu Xuan struggled against the enhanced Shangguan Family and began forcibly refining the power stored inside his body.

• The Supreme Holy Lord questioned her sect’s doctrine of Supreme Forgetting of Emotion and urged her disciples not to pursue the Great Dao through self-denial.
• Eerie black shadows killed the Holy Lord and many disciples, then possessed the survivors and claimed the Supreme Holy Land.
• Similar Shadow Race takeovers began across Holy Lands and cultivation factions throughout the Nine Provinces Continent.
• Xu Xuan fought the Shangguan Family, whose members coordinated too well for him to kill as his strength waned.
• Xu Xuan roared and forcibly began refining the ancient evil spirit and the Thousand Buddhas Saint’s cultivation stored within him.

Xu Xuan burned the ancient evil spirit within the Chaos Body and used its power to destroy many of the Shangguan Family’s dried corpses. Trapped in a dark space, he wondered how to escape as Primordial Dao Province was cut off by enormous waves and Holy Lands began attacking surrounding forces.

• Xu Xuan burned the ancient evil spirit with the Thousand Buddhas Saint's cultivation, refined its divine soul power, and killed it.
• Xu Xuan used the lingering soul energy to destroy many of the Shangguan Family's dried corpses, forcing the survivors to flee.
• Xu Xuan found himself trapped in a vast, lightless space after the path out disappeared.
• Enormous waves surrounded Primordial Dao Province, cutting it off from the outside world and spreading panic.
• Dozens of Holy Lands launched surprise attacks to exterminate nearby forces.

The Primordial Dao Province suffered widespread attacks as the Heaven-Rank Holy Lands sought alliances, while Chaos Valley waited for Xu Xuan to return before deciding whether to join. Blood began falling over Chaos Valley, and a Blood Clan warrior appeared, declaring that the War of the Ten Thousand Clans was about to begin.

• The foremost Heaven-Rank Holy Lands formed an alliance, and the Dao Spirit Holy Land gave Chaos Valley three days to join or face sealed gates.
• The Primordial Saint refused to decide without Xu Xuan, and the Dao Spirit Holy Land envoy threatened to leave.
• The Zhao Sisters noticed blood falling like snow, and the Primordial Saint watched it form a small Blood Beast and then a humanoid figure.
• The figure thanked the Soul Clan, threatened humanity, and told the Primordial Saint that the Blood Clan was descending to feed on humans.
• The Blood Clan warrior explained that the War of the Ten Thousand Clans was near, then surged toward the Primordial Saint as a mass of red light.

Xu Xuan broke free of a dark space after the Soul Clan trapped there failed to withstand his power. Meanwhile, snow-born monsters threatened the Human Race, and the chapter ended with Xu Xuan discovering murals as the space collapsed.

• The Primordial Saint killed the batlike monsters with a single word, and the group realized the Human Race might face a natural predator.
• Zhao Yue asked when the snow would stop, while the Heaven Buddha Holy Land activated its protective formation and other factions prepared for disaster.
• Xu Xuan grew into a giant and attacked the dark space until its foundations began to break.
• Xu Xuan used his Chaos Body to devour the space's rules, forcing the Soul Clan to flee as he killed many of them.
• As the space shattered, Xu Xuan spotted murals carved across large rocks.

Xu Xuan discovered murals revealing the outsiders’ arrival on the Nine Provinces Continent and the Shangguan Family’s betrayal, then copied the Soul Clan and Blood Clan cultivation techniques before the collapsing space expelled him. He learned that the two races had different paths to longevity and could merge into a powerful but short-lived being.

• Xu Xuan read murals depicting an ancient war, the outsiders’ arrival on the Nine Provinces Continent, and the Shangguan Family siding with humanity’s enemies.
• Xu Xuan noticed two cultivation techniques among the murals and used his Chaos Divine Body to resist the space’s rejection and seize the stone mural.
• As the space collapsed and expelled him, Xu Xuan imprinted both techniques into his sea of consciousness.
• Xu Xuan learned that the Soul Clan endured repeated soul-splitting and devouring to extend their lives, while the Blood Clan relied on the vitality in their blood but could die when their souls were exhausted.
• Xu Xuan discovered that the Soul Clan and Blood Clan could merge into a powerful being, though it would not live long.

Xu Xuan discovered that the falling snow was turning villagers into Blood Clan members and began destroying the bloody snow as he hurried toward Chaos Valley. A powerful group from Nirvana Dao Province also approached the valley in search of a chaos dao body, while the Primordial Saint learned that strangers were attacking the sect-protecting formation.

• Xu Xuan found that his chaos body let him cultivate introductory techniques from other races and disguise himself as a low-ranking member of either race.
• Xu Xuan saw snow-covered villagers melt into pools of blood, then destroyed the Blood Clan members rising from them and realized the snow offered a chance to kill the Blood Clan.
• Xu Xuan charged toward Chaos Valley, crushing snowflakes along the way, but fresh snow continued to fall.
• A group from Nirvana Dao Province traveled toward Chaos Valley to investigate whether a chaos dao body had appeared there; Senior Brother Lu cautioned his companions against killing people who lacked the true physique.
• A Chaos Valley disciple reported that strangers were attacking the sect-protecting formation and demanding that it be opened, and the Primordial Saint suspected they had a powerful backing.

A group from Nirvana Dao Province attacked Chaos Valley while seeking Xu Xuan, and their leader revealed a true Divine Ability that let him become a gigantic Snow Ape. When the Primordial Saint tried to stop him, the Snow Ape overpowered him, leaving Chaos Valley’s defenders facing a disastrous threat.

• The Primordial Saint saw a group of strangers attacking Chaos Valley’s protective grand formation, and their leader transformed into a giant with the appearance of a Snow Ape.
• The young man revealed that his transformation was a true Divine Ability and demanded that Chaos Valley hand over Xu Xuan.
• The Primordial Saint said Xu Xuan had gone to the Shangguan Family, but the young man dismissed his answer and threatened to destroy Chaos Valley.
• The young man transformed into a mountain-sized Snow Ape and struck the protective grand formation with enough force to make it tremble.
• The Primordial Saint charged out to stop him, but the Snow Ape stamped down and forced him into a struggle that left him tottering under the pressure.

The Primordial Saint used his Rebirth Divine Ability to survive the Snow Ape’s blows and advance to the Middle-Stage Saint level. When the middle-aged man demanded Xu Xuan, the Primordial Saint refused and was trapped by the man’s Five Elements Sword Intent.

• The Primordial Saint let the Snow Ape’s attacks batter him until his body burst into blood mist, then emerged unharmed and younger through his Rebirth Divine Ability.
• The middle-aged man identified the Primordial Saint’s advancement and revealed that the Snow Ape had not been a Saint, but had been empowered by his Divine Ability.
• The middle-aged man demanded that the Primordial Saint hand over Xu Xuan and threatened to kill everyone if he refused.
• The Primordial Saint refused and charged the middle-aged man, who transformed his fingers into five short swords and unleashed five kinds of sword intent.
• The middle-aged man trapped the Primordial Saint in a five-element world and sent down sword light, leaving the Primordial Saint terrified by the disparity in their strength.

Xu Xuan arrived at Chaos Valley as the Primordial Saint lay near death, then confronted Lu Tianming and the other visitors from Yuantian Palace of Nirvana Dao Province. After learning they had attacked the valley and dismissed its people as worthless, Xu Xuan charged at them and defeated a young woman by devouring her Divine Ability and draining her strength.

• A furious newcomer rescued the grievously injured Primordial Saint from the middle-aged man's attack, and the man recognized him as Xu Xuan.
• Xu Xuan emerged from the snow after devouring the Blood Clan life energy and asked why the visitors had come to Chaos Valley.
• Lu Tianming introduced himself and said he and the others came from Yuantian Palace in Nirvana Dao Province to bring Xu Xuan back.
• After Lu Tianming dismissed the people of Primordial Dao Province as insignificant, Xu Xuan declared that the visitors would pay for attacking Chaos Valley and injuring its guardian.
• A young woman attacked Xu Xuan with a water-serpent Divine Ability, but he bit into it, seized her, and drained her until she collapsed unconscious.

Xu Xuan used a Blood Clan cultivation technique to extract the bloodlines of three Yuantian Palace fighters, then challenged Lu Tianming to settle their dispute in one battle. Lu Tianming attacked with Five Elements Sword Qi, but Xu Xuan’s Chaos Body began devouring it.

• Xu Xuan seized the Snow Ape youth and a graceful woman, extracting their bloodlines while Lu Tianming watched and the others panicked.
• Lu Tianming confronted Xu Xuan, who released the woman and realized the abilities he had taken were Spell Divine Abilities gained through cultivation techniques.
• Xu Xuan and Lu Tianming agreed to settle the matter in a single battle, though Lu Tianming warned that Yuantian Palace would send stronger experts if he lost.
• Lu Tianming unleashed Five Elements Sword Qi, and Xu Xuan stood still as it tore into his body to test its power.
• Lu Tianming realized Xu Xuan’s Chaos Body was devouring the Sword Qi and raised his other hand to unleash another attack.

Xu Xuan defeated Lu Tianming after absorbing his sword-intent worlds and unleashing the Gods and Devils Spear, leaving the Yuantian Palace disciples to retreat with their injured senior brother. As Chaos Valley celebrated, Xu Xuan worried about the uncertain future of Primordial Dao Province.

• Lu Tianming used his four-colored sword intent to crush Xu Xuan between two worlds of Laws, but Xu Xuan absorbed the Five Elements Heaven and Earth into his body.
• Xu Xuan sent the Gods and Devils Spear through Lu Tianming and transformed it into a demonic dragon that became a towering tree, shattering Lu Tianming’s sword-intent worlds.
• Xu Xuan struck Lu Tianming with a punch, blasting apart his defenses and leaving him broken in the snow.
• Xu Xuan warned the Yuantian Palace disciples to take Lu Tianming away or remain and die, and they fled with him while threatening retaliation.
• Chaos Valley’s people cheered Xu Xuan, who sighed over the troubled times and Primordial Dao Province’s uncertain fate.

A group from the Dao Spirit Holy Land’s visitors from another province judged it cowardly for sealing itself and left to seek help at Heaven Buddha Temple. Meanwhile, Ghost Dao cultivators from Guixu Dao Province attacked the Mystic Mechanism Sect to gather research materials, intending to leave no survivors.

• A group of young people from another province arrived at the Dao Spirit Holy Land and condemned it for sealing its mountain.
• The group’s leader decided to leave for Heaven Buddha Temple after finding the holy land deserted.
• Senior Brother Yan explained that the Ghost Dao cultivators from Guixu Dao Province had come to destroy the Mystic Mechanism Sect and collect materials for research.
• Senior Brother Yan ordered the cultivators to kill everyone so no witnesses could expose their actions.
• The Ghost Dao cultivators attacked the Mystic Mechanism Sect’s protective formation with magic artifacts and covered the holy land in ghostly qi.

The Ghost Cultivators from Guixu Dao Province destroyed the Mystic Mechanism Sect Holy Land after Elder Mystic Mechanism's divination left him too terrified to respond. In Chaos Valley, Xu Xuan organized his people to gather supplies, clear snow, and prepare the Ancient Inheritance Grand Formation while sending reinforcements out to face the dangers ahead.

• Elder Mystic Mechanism received an omen of calamity, but his terror kept him from leading the Mystic Mechanism Sect's defense.
• Ghost Cultivators broke the sect's protective formation, and seven or eight Ghost Kings killed and devoured Elder Mystic Mechanism.
• Senior Brother Yan ordered the Ghost Cultivators to kill everyone, and they reduced the Mystic Mechanism Sect Holy Land to ruins in less than two hours.
• Xu Xuan asked the Primordial Saint about the resources Chaos Valley had gathered and ordered its people into teams to clear snow, transport supplies, and set up the Ancient Inheritance Grand Formation.
• Xu Xuan warned that the Blood Clan had not fully descended and that the Soul Clan needed time to adapt to their new human bodies.
• Xu Xuan brought members of the Feather Race and other beings out of his small world, then sent Xu Qiang to assist the team outside Chaos Valley.

Xu Xuan used the power of his Chaos Body to create an illusion of primordial chaos for Chaos Valley’s disciples, hoping to help them improve despite the valley’s scarce resources. The disciples experienced breakthroughs and transformations in their life origins, while Xu Xuan warned that most of the lotus seeds they saw were illusory.

• Xu Xuan gathered Chaos Valley’s people and asked whether they trusted him before explaining his plan to create a false world of chaos.
• Primordial Saint and the others declared their trust, and Xu Xuan warned that anyone who rejected the illusion could be erased by its world consciousness.
• Xu Xuan altered the formations and trapped everyone in an Illusion Formation, where they believed they had entered primordial chaos and become Innate Gods.
• A Chaos Ancient Lotus appeared in the illusion, and Luo Xiaotian and many others broke through their cultivation realms.
• Xu Xuan revealed that the disciples’ greater gain was an elevation of their life origins, then warned that most of the lotus seeds were illusions because resources were limited.