Chapter Summaries

Han Xuanji learned more about the Primordial Sea and resolved to keep cultivating, while the Supreme Dao Venerable and Primordial Beginning Dao Venerable speculated about his mysterious origins. Several hundred years later, the Lord of Greed approached the Immortal Realm with the Devil Ancestor’s will, preparing to attack Han Xuanji.

• Han Xuanji considered whether the Dao Ancestor and other Immortal Realm Dao Venerables had entered the Primordial Sea, but decided he was not ready to go there.
• The Supreme Dao Venerable and Primordial Beginning Dao Venerable watched Han Xuanji’s actions and wondered whether his unusual destiny came from a higher-level Dao fruit or another supreme being’s legacy.
• The two Dao Venerables discussed Lin Feng and agreed that he was worth nurturing and befriending.
• Several hundred years passed as Li Taiqing strengthened the Mystic Heaven Dao Domain and sent its prodigies to the Spirit Void Heavenly Palace and Myriad Phenomena Divine Dynasty.
• The Lord of Greed approached the Immortal Realm with the Devil Ancestor’s will and declared confidence in defeating Han Xuanji with his supreme treasure.

The Lord of Greed invaded the Immortal Realm with an army of fiends, and the Heavenly Court and its inhabitants prepared to resist. In the Mystic Heaven Dao Domain, Li Taiqing activated Han Xuanji’s stellar grand array, which devastated the fiend tide and protected Starlight City.

• The Heavenly Dao warned the Immortal Realm that the Lord of Greed was approaching, and Han Xuanji identified him as a fourth-level Hunyuan Wuji being wielding the Greed Treasure Pot.
• The Lord of Greed attacked the Immortal Realm’s barrier, and the Heavenly Emperor helped the Golden Mother of Jade Pool escape as darkness engulfed her.
• The Lord of Greed announced that he had come to claim half the Immortal Realm’s origin, then sent countless fiends through the rift to drain its lands and attack its inhabitants.
• Fiends besieged Starlight City and frightened the Mystic Spirit Clan, whose members gathered at Han Xuanji’s statue to pray for protection.
• Li Taiqing led the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace’s disciples in activating Han Xuanji’s grand array, whose purifying starlight destroyed swathes of fiends and saved the city.

The Lord of Greed entered the Immortal Realm after its Evil Devils were destroyed by the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace’s array. The Heavenly Emperor tried to repel it, but the Devil Ancestor intervened, leaving the Lord of Greed free to advance.

• Li Taiqing activated the Circulating Heavenly Stars Grand Array, wiping out the Evil Devils attacking the Mystic Heaven Dao Domain.
• Little White praised Han Xuanji and the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace to the Mystic Spirit Clan disciples, while Xiao Hong said she could make the array far stronger.
• The Lord of Greed tore open the Immortal Realm’s sky and entered, declaring that half of its origin belonged to him.
• The Heavenly Emperor struck at the Lord of Greed with a giant purple-gold palm, but the Devil Ancestor blocked the attack.
• The Devil Ancestor confronted the Heavenly Emperor and told the Lord of Greed to satisfy his appetite, leaving it free to move deeper into the Immortal Realm.

As the Lord of Greed invaded the Immortal Realm, Han Xuanji waited for the world’s suppression to weaken the Chaos Devil God’s immortality and prepared to turn the fight to his advantage. He finally emerged before his disciples, declared the Immortal Realm would be the Lord of Greed’s grave, and inspired hope across the realm.

• Lu Fan left the Myriad Phenomena Divine Dynasty, while Su Ming resolved to return from the Underworld and face the crisis alongside Han Xuanji.
• Jiang Hao, Nangong Wenjian, Yun Wuji, and the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace’s disciples gathered outside the palace to confront the Lord of Greed.
• Han Xuanji sensed the Immortal Ancestor’s will awakening and the Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Dao weakening the Lord of Greed’s connection to the Chaos origin.
• Using Reversing Effect into Cause, Han Xuanji altered the Lord of Greed’s nature so that the Devil God could be killed in the Immortal Realm.
• Han Xuanji appeared atop the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace and declared the Immortal Realm would be the Lord of Greed’s grave, filling his followers and immortals across the realm with hope.

The Lord of Greed attacked Han Xuanji with his Greed Treasure Pot, threatening to swallow the Mystic Heaven Dao Domain. Han Xuanji answered with the Mystic Heaven Banner, which halted the pot’s devouring power.

• The Devil Ancestor prepared to exploit the battle, while immortals and gods worried that Han Xuanji had provoked a foe stronger than himself.
• The Lord of Greed entered the Immortal Realm and summoned his natal supreme treasure, the Greed Treasure Pot.
• The pot’s suction threatened Han Xuanji, the Dao Palace, and the Thirty-Three Layers of Heaven, while Xiao Hong shielded Li Taiqing and the others.
• Han Xuanji revealed the Mystic Heaven Banner and declared that no art could invade its order.
• The banner’s force of order and stability stopped the Greed Treasure Pot’s devouring power.

Han Xuanji used the Mystic Heaven Banner and his Mystic Heaven Dharma Domain to overpower the Lord of Greed, while the Heavenly Emperor kept the Devil Ancestor from intervening. Han Xuanji took the Lord of Greed into the Mystic Heaven Realm, where the captive begged for mercy, but the onlookers outside could only wonder where he had gone.

• Jiang Hao identified Han Xuanji's treasure as the Mystic Heaven Banner, and the Supreme Dao Venerable recognized its power over the myriad Daos.
• Han Xuanji opened the Mystic Heaven Dharma Domain, suppressing the Lord of Greed's Great Dao and absorbing the force of his attacks.
• Han Xuanji pressed down on the Lord of Greed, binding him with chains of the Great Dao and incorporating the Taiji Diagram's power into his domain.
• The Lord of Greed called for the Devil Ancestor, but the Heavenly Emperor held the Devil Ancestor back.
• Han Xuanji took the Lord of Greed into the Mystic Heaven Realm, where the Chaos Bell helped contain him; the Lord of Greed begged to serve Han Xuanji, who refused.
• The onlookers outside could not tell where the Lord of Greed had gone.

Han Xuanji effortlessly suppressed the Lord of Greed, causing the Devil Ancestor to abandon his plan and retreat. Across the Immortal Realm, witnesses reckoned with Han Xuanji’s overwhelming power, while the Heavenly Emperor urged unity and privately considered the consequences of his rise.

• Han Xuanji suppressed the Lord of Greed, and the fiends he had brought into the Immortal Realm vanished with him.
• The Devil Ancestor recognized that Han Xuanji’s strength exceeded his estimates and withdrew rather than risk a direct assault.
• At the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace, Han Xuanji’s disciples and companions celebrated his victory and reflected on how far they had to go.
• At the Spirit Void Heavenly Palace, the immortals reacted with astonishment, and Ancestor Divine Radiance reminded Immortal Venerable Yuxuan that his perspective was limited.
• The Heavenly Emperor called on the immortals and gods to unite, then privately considered Han Xuanji’s strength and the changes it might bring.

After defeating the Lord of Greed, Han Xuanji spent centuries refining his origin and planned to use it to forge the Chaos Heavenly Gate and refine a powerful pill. He agreed to meet Yun Wuji, who had waited patiently for hundreds of years to seek him as a master, and Yun Wuji began his formal kowtows.

• Beings across the Immortal Realm and Heavenly Court celebrated Han Xuanji's victory, and the Nether Lord praised his strength to Su Ming.
• Han Xuanji used the Chaos Bell and Taiji Diagram to refine the Lord of Greed over several hundred years, leaving behind a powerful Wuji origin.
• Han Xuanji considered using part of the origin to forge the Chaos Heavenly Gate and the rest to refine a Hunyuan One Qi Tushita Purple Gold Pill.
• Li Taiqing reported the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace's growth and told Han Xuanji that Yun Wuji wished to meet him as a prospective disciple.
• After Yun Wuji waited patiently for hundreds of years, Han Xuanji agreed to see him.
• Yun Wuji entered the hall and solemnly began the rite of three bows and nine kowtows before Han Xuanji.

Yun Wuji asked Han Xuanji to accept him as a disciple, and Han Xuanji agreed, naming him his seventh disciple. Han Xuanji began teaching him the Mystic Heaven Dao in a Dao realm.

• Yun Wuji praised Han Xuanji for saving the Immortal Realm and asked to become his disciple.
• Han Xuanji learned that simulating Yun Wuji would require five hundred simulations and considered the time needed to gather them.
• Han Xuanji discerned the two inheritances within Yun Wuji and advised him to unite them into his own Dao.
• Han Xuanji accepted Yun Wuji as his seventh disciple and laid out the sect rules.
• Yun Wuji vowed to follow the rules, support his fellow disciples, and explore the Dao with them.
• Han Xuanji created a Dao-teaching realm and began explaining the Mystic Heaven Dao to Yun Wuji.

Han Xuanji guided Yun Wuji to harmonize his inheritances of life and annihilation, helping him forge his own Dao and break through to the Hunyuan Realm. Yun Wuji left the hall to congratulations from his fellow disciples, becoming the first Mystic Heaven Dao Palace disciple to reach Hunyuan.

• Han Xuanji explained that life and annihilation were manifestations of the same Dao and urged Yun Wuji to form a Hunyuan Dao Fruit of his own.
• Yun Wuji followed Han Xuanji’s guidance, fused his insights, and broke through to Hunyuan One Qi with a foundation stronger than that of ordinary newcomers.
• Yun Wuji thanked Han Xuanji, who told him to consolidate his breakthrough by discussing the Dao with his senior brothers and promised him a surprise if he reached Hunyuan Taiji.
• The disciples at the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace gathered to congratulate Yun Wuji, while Jiang Hao and Nangong Wenjian remained in seclusion after their travels.
• Li Taiqing congratulated Yun Wuji for becoming the palace’s first Hunyuan disciple, Lin Potian praised him, and Little White grumbled that every newcomer seemed stronger than he was.

Han Xuanji forged the Chaos Heavenly Gate using part of the Lord of Greed’s origin, creating a powerful defense for the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace and a passage between realms. The gate began drawing in Chaos energy, and Han Xuanji explained its capabilities to his disciples.

• Yun Wuji humbly offered to share his insights after breaking through to Hunyuan, and the disciples gathered to discuss the Dao with him.
• Han Xuanji separated part of the Lord of Greed’s origin and used it to forge the Chaos Heavenly Gate above the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace.
• The disciples recognized the Lord of Greed’s phantom on the gate and were shocked that Han Xuanji had refined a Hunyuan Wuji Devil God’s origin into a treasure.
• The completed gate began exchanging Chaos Qi with the outside world, increasing the Chaos energy within the Dao Palace.
• Han Xuanji told the disciples that the Chaos Heavenly Gate guarded the Dao Palace, could withstand a full-force Hunyuan Wuji attack, and could counterattack by devouring incoming power.

Han Xuanji established the Chaos Heavenly Gate to protect and aid the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace, then resumed cultivating after defeating the Lord of Greed. A disturbance in Reincarnation Purgatory raised concern about ancient beings sealed by the Dao Ancestor, and the Heavenly Emperor came to discuss it with Han Xuanji.

• Han Xuanji explained that the Chaos Heavenly Gate connected realms, provided a safe route through the Chaos, and nourished the Dao Palace; his disciples thanked him and promised to heed his warning to explore cautiously.
• Han Xuanji resumed cultivating with pills refined from the Lord of Greed's origin and resolved to keep growing stronger.
• The Nether Lord told the Underworld's experts that Reincarnation Purgatory had stirred, and Su Ming suggested the sealed ancient beings might have survived or grown stronger instead of weakening.
• Su Ming reminded the Nether Lord that Han Xuanji had defeated the Lord of Greed, easing the Nether Lord's concern as they discussed expanding the Underworld's influence.
• The Heavenly Emperor contacted Han Xuanji, thanked him for killing the Lord of Greed, and reported that the sealed beings in Reincarnation Purgatory might have changed.

The Heavenly Emperor explained the primeval chaos and the threat posed by ancient beings sealed in Reincarnation Purgatory, urging Han Xuanji to join him against the Devil Ancestor. Han Xuanji agreed to watch the matter, and the Heavenly Emperor revealed that the ninth level held a Chaos fiend once fought by the Immortal Ancestor.

• The Heavenly Emperor described how the Dao Ancestor established order by defeating and sealing the savage primeval beings in Reincarnation Purgatory.
• The Heavenly Emperor suspected the Devil Ancestor was helping powerful prisoners break their seals to disrupt reincarnation and create an opening for another scheme.
• Han Xuanji agreed that the Devil Ancestor had to be guarded against and asked how powerful the strongest prisoner was.
• The Heavenly Emperor revealed that a supremely vicious Chaos being, born at Hunyuan Wuji and once an enemy of the Immortal Ancestor, was sealed in the ninth level, the Realm of Guixu.

The Heavenly Emperor asked Han Xuanji to help contain the threat in Reincarnation Purgatory, and Han agreed to prepare before descending into its depths. Meanwhile, the Devil Ancestor infiltrated the purgatory and set out to recruit the imprisoned primordial beings against the Dao Ancestor and the Immortal Realm.

• The Heavenly Emperor explained that a supreme fiend of Chaos threatened Reincarnation Purgatory and proposed that Han Xuanji descend to reinforce its seal while he stabilized the reincarnation passage.
• Han Xuanji agreed to intervene after taking time to prepare and strengthen himself, while the Heavenly Emperor promised to investigate the Devil Ancestor and said the seal would hold for at least a thousand years.
• Su Ming followed Han Xuanji's orders to monitor Reincarnation Purgatory, and the Nether Lord assigned someone to watch it without alerting the conspirators.
• The Devil Ancestor's incarnation secretly entered Reincarnation Purgatory and considered recruiting the imprisoned primordial beings who resented the Dao Ancestor and the Immortal Realm.

The Devil Ancestor made a pact with the imprisoned Lord of Myriad Voids, persuading him to help break Reincarnation Purgatory and attack Han Xuanji. A thousand years later, Han Xuanji had reached the fifth layer of Hunyuan Wuji Daluo Golden Immortal, while his disciples had advanced rapidly toward the Hunyuan Realm.

• The Devil Ancestor entered the ninth level of Reincarnation Purgatory and approached the imprisoned Lord of Myriad Voids.
• The Devil Ancestor persuaded the Lord of Myriad Voids that weakening seals and the absence of the Immortal Ancestor created a chance to escape.
• The Devil Ancestor proposed breaking the purgatory seals and splitting the battle against the Heavenly Emperor and Han Xuanji between them.
• The Lord of Myriad Voids agreed to join the Devil Ancestor's plan, and the Devil Ancestor left intending to release the other prisoners as well.
• A thousand years later, Han Xuanji had advanced to the fifth layer of Hunyuan Wuji Daluo Golden Immortal and believed he could defeat the Lord of Greed without supreme treasures.
• Han Xuanji's disciples had reached the Daluo Perfected Golden Immortal realm or neared it, astonishing the Heavenly Court's mighty figures.

Su Ming reached the Hunyuan realm and learned that Heavenly Abyss Ancestor and the Devil Ancestor were weakening the seal on Reincarnation Purgatory. He returned to the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace to report the danger to Han Xuanji, where his fellow disciples congratulated him on his breakthrough.

• Han Xuanji left the growing Mystic Heaven Realm to develop on its own while he focused on advancing his strength.
• Su Ming broke through to Hunyuan One Qi Daluo Golden Immortal after merging a Chaos Devil God’s origin with his cultivation insights.
• The Nether Lord told Su Ming that the foundation of reincarnation was shaken because Heavenly Abyss Ancestor, aided by the Devil Ancestor, was weakening the seal on Reincarnation Purgatory.
• The Nether Lord urged Su Ming to report the crisis to Han Xuanji, explaining that the upheaval threatened the foundations of the Immortal Realm.
• Su Ming traveled through the Chaos Heavenly Gate to the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace, where Lin Potian, Li Taiqing, and others congratulated him on reaching Hunyuan.

Su Ming returned to the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace with news that Reincarnation Purgatory was nearing upheaval and asked Han Xuanji to decide how to respond. Han Xuanji told him to stay while he preached the Dao, and the gathered disciples prepared to hear the sermon.

• Su Ming told Li Taiqing and the others that Reincarnation Purgatory faced an earthshaking upheaval and went to report it to Han Xuanji.
• Su Ming explained that the Devil Ancestor and a taboo existence were working together to break Purgatory's seal and destabilize the Immortal Realm.
• Han Xuanji said Su Ming could not stop the upheaval and instructed him to remain in the Dao Palace while he preached the Dao to help them enter Hunyuan.
• Su Ming relayed Han Xuanji's instructions, and Lin Potian summoned Lu Fan back to the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace.
• The Dao Palace disciples gathered outside Mystic Heaven Hall, and Han Xuanji began his sermon by declaring that Hunyuan was the beginning of the Great Dao.

Han Xuanji began a Dao sermon at the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace, drawing disciples including Zhou Li to listen. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Court debated how to handle Reincarnation Purgatory and learned that Han Xuanji had agreed to help.

• Han Xuanji told the assembled disciples that Hunyuan was only the beginning of the Great Dao, and they prepared to hear him expound it.
• Zhou Li, a Spirit Void Heavenly Palace disciple and Golden Immortal, attended Han Xuanji's sermon alongside the other disciples.
• Han Xuanji began expounding the Dao, and the disciples and Xiao Hong listened attentively.
• At the Heavenly Court, Lord Dongyue raised the problem of the Devil Ancestor's stolen reincarnation authority and the dangers of Reincarnation Purgatory.
• Supreme Deity Ziwei and Jade True Supreme Deity praised Han Xuanji's strength and proposed guiding or dividing the beings imprisoned in Reincarnation Purgatory.
• The Heavenly Emperor revealed that Han Xuanji had agreed to intervene, while Lord Nine Luminaries warned that an all-out Heavenly Court assault could play into the Devil Ancestor's hands.

The Heavenly Emperor mobilized the Heavenly Court to contain the threat from Reincarnation Purgatory while the Devil Ancestor and the Heavenly Abyss Ancestor plotted to exploit the ancient fiends’ escape. A hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and the Thunder Department gathered beyond the Nether Sea, drawing attention from across the Immortal Realm as the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace’s disciples prepared to respond.

• The Heavenly Emperor ordered Supreme Deity Ziwei to monitor the Land of Reincarnation and establish the Circulating Heavenly Stars Grand Array, while the Imperial Lord of Orthodox Thunder was told to hunt escaped fiends.
• The Heavenly Abyss Ancestor told the Devil Ancestor he could interfere with Reincarnation Purgatory’s seal but not the seal holding the Lord of Myriad Voids.
• The Devil Ancestor planned to direct the Lord of Myriad Voids toward the Immortal Realm and use the turmoil to delay Han Xuanji, whom he considered the greatest variable.
• Supreme Deity Ziwei deployed a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers beyond the Nether Sea as the Imperial Lord of Orthodox Thunder and the Thunder Department patrolled nearby.
• Qin Qilin dismissed the imprisoned fiends as defeated foes and hoped to prove himself worthy of becoming the Great Heavenly Venerable’s disciple, while other cultivators warned that the ancient fiends remained dangerous.
• The Mystic Heaven Dao Palace’s disciples stirred in response to the Heavenly Court’s massive deployment.

After Han Xuanji allowed Li Taiqing and the Mystic Heaven disciples to join the fight in the Land of Reincarnation, the Heavenly Abyss Ancestor opened Reincarnation Purgatory and released the archaic fiendish demons. The demons began surging out as the Immortal Realm braced for battle, while the Innate Chaos Suppression Stele at the bottom of the ruins showed signs of weakening.

• Jiang Hao, Nangong Wenjian, and Lin Potian urged Li Taiqing to lead the Mystic Heaven disciples into battle.
• Li Taiqing asked Han Xuanji for permission to help the Heavenly Court, temper themselves, and spread the Mystic Heaven Dao Palace's name.
• Han Xuanji approved the expedition, warned the disciples to protect and support one another, and gave Li Taiqing command.
• The Mystic Heaven disciples departed in a powerful formation toward the Land of Reincarnation in the Nether Sea.
• The Heavenly Abyss Ancestor opened a purple gateway into Reincarnation Purgatory, and the archaic fiendish demons celebrated their release and charged toward the Immortal Realm.
• At the silent bottom of the Ruins of Return, the Innate Chaos Suppression Stele stood dimmed and cracked.