Chapter Summaries

Wang Hao used a gathering at Listening to Rain Mountain Manor to recruit Heaven's Chosen, secure their paintings, and trade the Qian Character Secret to Tantai Xuan for a future favor. He revealed that he had deliberately provoked the major factions into preparing an ambush so he could turn it against them, then discovered Yuxin's extraordinary spirit in the lines she wrote.

• Wang Hao described the Nine Secrets, drawing declarations of allegiance from some Heaven's Chosen while Dongfang Changming promised the Dongfang Lineage would not pursue him over the Ten Heaven-Splitting Strikes.
• Wang Hao invited the guests to leave paintings and calligraphy at Listening to Rain Mountain Manor, and he guided Yuxin into contemplating a painting filled with majestic, righteous Qi.
• Yuxin wrote four stirring lines on Chen Nan's copied painting, leaving Chen Nan embarrassed by the contrast between her work and his.
• Tantai Xuan asked Wang Hao for his concealment method, and he gave her the first two levels of the Qian Character Secret in exchange for a future favor.
• After the guests left, Wang Hao revealed that he had disclosed the Nine Secrets to lure the major factions' experts into an ambush he planned to turn against them.
• Wang Hao examined Yuxin's writing and recognized the spirit of the Human King's reincarnation.

Wang Hao prepared to leave the imperial capital for his fief, while Nangong Xian'er brooded over his feelings for Yuxin and his companions worried about the dangerous journey. When more than a thousand Sixth Tier experts sealed their path to ambush them, Wang Hao prepared to strike first with a mysterious incantation.

• Wang Hao realized Yuxin's wish had activated a difficult side quest and revised his plans around gaining Fortune Points.
• Nangong Xian'er entered the pavilion, saw that Wang Hao had taken Yuxin's calligraphy, and vowed to win him over.
• Monk Wuhua worried that their small party lacked senior experts, while Dongfang Changming concealed his confidence in the secretly following Dongfang Xiaotian.
• Wang Hao studied the vast fief he had chosen and learned that a forbidden desert south of it could greatly expand his territory if he transformed it.
• Wang Hao sensed that their route had been sealed, spotted more than a thousand Sixth Tier experts, and began reciting a mysterious incantation after confirming the encircling Six Primordial Evil Daos were not Nangong Xian'er's allies.

Wang Hao revealed his Peak Sixth Tier cultivation and used his Outer World and God Deliverance Instruction to subdue more than a thousand Sixth Tier experts. He then killed five Seventh Tier Immortal Martial experts with his Dragon-Subduing Palm, leaving Dongfang Xiaotian wary of provoking him.

• Dongfang Changming and the others discovered that Wang Hao had reached Peak Sixth Tier and was cultivating an Outer World.
• Wang Hao chanted the God Deliverance Instruction, making more than a thousand Sixth Tier experts appear and pledge themselves to him.
• Wang Hao explained that his Outer World amplified the instruction’s range, while Monk Wuhua and Nangong Xian'er reacted to his new technique.
• Wang Hao sealed the space around five Immortal Martial experts and struck them with twelve stacked Dragon-Subduing Palms, blasting them apart.
• Dongfang Xiaotian abandoned his scheme and resolved to warn his lineage and the Destruction Dao not to provoke Wang Hao.

Wang Hao defeated an ambush, turned more than a thousand Sixth Tier experts into puppets after discovering they could not be ransomed, and arrived at his barren fief. He planned to prepare for the dangers of the Death Desert and sought the Chaos Dao’s formation inheritances in exchange for the Formation Character Secret.

• Wang Hao killed five Immortal Martial Level ambushers and brainwashed over a thousand Sixth Tier experts, but Nangong Xian'er warned that their factions would not acknowledge them or pay a ransom.
• After losing the chance to profit from the captives, Wang Hao recited the God Deliverance Instruction eighty-one times and erased their spiritual wills, making them puppets with their cultivation permanently fixed.
• Wang Hao reached his fief and found a vast, barren region whose ecosystem had been destroyed by the Death Desert to the south.
• Wang Hao resolved to strengthen himself and refine the puppets into Dao Soldiers before confronting the Death Desert's powerful fiends.
• Wang Hao offered Bai Miaoyin the first two levels of the Formation Character Secret in exchange for all the Chaos Dao's inheritances and left her its foundational chapter to present to her superiors.

Wang Hao studied the Chaos Dao’s formation inheritances and deduced the second stage of the Formation Character Secret, but could not create the third stage he needed for his grand formation. Meanwhile, Ye Zhiqiu gathered the Six Primordial Evil Daos to help him seize True Person Qingxu from the Azure Cloud Temple, and Wang Hao was asked to join their bride-snatching expedition.

• Ye Zhiqiu brought the Chaos Dao’s formation texts to Wang Hao and agreed to summon formation experts to help build a grand formation across the Death Desert.
• Ye Zhiqiu told Bai Miaoyin that he planned to break into the Azure Cloud Temple and bring her mother, True Person Qingxu, back; Bai Miaoyin agreed to try persuading Wang Hao to help.
• Wang Hao emerged from seclusion having deduced the second stage of the Formation Character Secret, but the Chaos Dao’s focus on killing formations left him unable to deduce its third stage.
• Wang Hao sensed a large gathering of experts from the Six Primordial Evil Daos and went to their camp to learn why they had assembled.
• Dongfang Xiaotian offered Wang Hao help with his future Death Desert campaign and promised the Six Primordial Evil Daos would pay for its formation materials if he joined their attempt to seize True Person Qingxu.

Wang Hao and the Demonic Dao factions carried out a plan to seize True Person Qingxu, the Azure Cloud Temple, and a million-li expanse of land. The chapter ended with the territory lifted away and the righteous factions unable to stop it without risking Heavenly Punishment.

• Chen Zhan and Li Daozong concluded that the Demonic Dao experts had entered the Death Desert, unaware they were secretly heading toward the Azure Cloud Temple.
• Wang Hao proposed taking the Azure Cloud Temple and the surrounding million-li expanse, and Dongfang Xiaotian, Nangong Xingyue, and Xiang Kunlun agreed to help buy him time.
• Dongfang Xiaotian, Nangong Xingyue, and Xiang Kunlun fought seven righteous God King Level experts while Wang Hao completed the formation.
• A hidden God King Level expert tried to break through the formation, but a palm imprint blasted him away before his punch could hit it.
• Wang Hao's formation lifted the million-li expanse, including the Azure Cloud Temple and its Dragon Veins, into the sky.
• The righteous experts raged as the continent left the Heaven-Deceiving Formation's range, while True Person Qingxu realized Wang Hao was behind the seizure.

Wang Hao proposed stealing six Ancestral Dragon Veins from the righteous forces, then suggested freeing the imprisoned vein in their core territory to become a dragon and distract them. Dongfang Xiaotian, Xiang Kunlun, and Nangong Xingyue left to seek their elders’ support, while Dongfang Changming and the others realized how far Wang Hao had surpassed them.

• Li Daozong and Chen Zhan praised the Demonic Dao’s move of bringing the seized land to Wang Hao’s fief, seeing an opportunity to benefit from conflict between the righteous and Demonic forces.
• Dongfang Xiaotian, Xiang Kunlun, and Nangong Xingyue praised Wang Hao’s successful formation plan, and Wang Hao proposed taking six more Ancestral Dragon Veins from the righteous forces.
• Dongfang Xiaotian warned that the plan could trigger war and asked how long the righteous forces would need to prepare; Nangong Xingyue estimated one to three months.
• Wang Hao proposed freeing the Ancestral Dragon Vein imprisoned in the righteous forces’ core territory so it could become a dragon and turn against its captors.
• Wang Hao said he was certain he could free the vein if the others lured away the God King experts; Dongfang Xiaotian promised an answer in three days and left to consult his elders, followed by Xiang Kunlun and Nangong Xingyue.
• Dongfang Changming and the others watched them leave and lamented that Wang Hao had outgrown their generation and was now dealing with older experts.

Wang Hao infiltrated the Ancestral Dragon Vein while the Demonic Dao drew the righteous factions’ God Kings away, then used the Heavenly Dragon Emperor’s form to help the resentful, demonized vein take shape. Just as Dongfang Xiaotian prepared to withdraw, a savage roar erupted from the righteous territory, startling both sides.

• Wang Hao reached the Ancestral Dragon Vein and waited for a gap in its defenses while the righteous factions guarded it with ten God Kings.
• Dongfang Xiaotian and twenty-two other God King Level experts blanketed the righteous core region with Devil Qi, drawing most of its defenders away as the Demonic Dao seized six Dragon Veins.
• Wang Hao slipped past the remaining guards and found that the Ancestral Dragon Vein had been demonized by resentment, leaving its dark crimson devil pupils hostile and its defenses breaking apart.
• Wang Hao formed the Great Dragon Saber’s origin into the Heavenly Dragon Emperor’s shape, calmed the vein’s devil pupils, and entered them to help the vein take form.
• Dongfang Xiaotian waited another incense stick’s worth of time before preparing to withdraw, but a savage roar burst from deep within the righteous territory and shattered the devil clouds.

Wang Hao used the Ancestral Dragon Vein’s transformation tribulation to purge its resentment and devil Qi, turning it into a sacred heavenly dragon and forging a peerless devil weapon from the Dragon-Suppressing Stones. The Six Primordial Evil Daos reclaimed their supreme treasure while the righteous factions withdrew to prepare for the approaching Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.

• The Ancestral Dragon Vein emerged as a chained Demon Dragon, drawing down a vast Heavenly Tribulation that forced the righteous factions to retreat into their mystic realms and abandon their chains and stones.
• Wang Hao seized the eighty-one Dragon-Suppressing Stones and used the Heavenly Tribulation to refine them into a guandao that sealed the Ancestral Dragon Vein’s resentment and devil Qi.
• Six God Emperor-level experts of the Six Primordial Evil Daos entered the abyss beneath the Ancestral Dragon Vein to reclaim their supreme treasure.
• Wang Hao fused the Great Dao of Thunder into the Ancestral Dragon Vein, purified it into a sacred heavenly dragon, and departed on its back.
• The Six Primordial Evil Daos left with their supreme treasure, and the righteous factions’ ancestors forbade a retaliatory war because the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth was approaching.

Wang Hao arranged for Nangong Xian'er to care for the young Sacred Heavenly Dragon, then used the righteous factions’ inheritances to develop a vast formation for his plans in the Death Desert. After agreeing to train Bai Miaoyin in puppet refinement, he left Ye Zhiqiu stunned by naming her his disciple instead of his wife.

• Wang Hao entrusted the timid Sacred Heavenly Dragon to Nangong Xian'er and entered seclusion to study the righteous factions’ inheritances.
• Wang Hao deduced the third-stage Formation Character Secret and designed a grand formation spanning the seven continents he had acquired.
• Wang Hao asked True Person Qingxu to oversee the formation’s construction and explained that he had created the Nine Secrets from Dao resonance and other inheritances.
• Ye Zhiqiu delivered the materials Wang Hao needed to strengthen thirteen hundred Sixth Tier cultivators into Dao Soldiers for the Death Desert formation.
• Ye Zhiqiu asked Wang Hao to teach his daughter Bai Miaoyin puppet refinement, and Wang Hao agreed to take her as his disciple, leaving Ye Zhiqiu dumbfounded.

Wang Hao activated the Zhu Xian Sword Formation over the Death Desert to stop a Half-Step Heaven Tier powerhouse from breaking free. The formation suppressed the old man, and Wang Hao estimated it would grind him down completely in forty-nine days.

• Dongfang Xiaotian warned Wang Hao that the being sealed beneath the Death Desert was a terrifying Peak God Emperor Level powerhouse who had once stepped halfway into the Heaven Tier.
• Wang Hao used Heaven-Reaching Peak and six other mountains to form a super formation, drawing out the Death Desert’s accumulated Sha Qi and turning it into seven kinds of Sword Fiend.
• The old man forced the ancient seal toward breaking while Wang Hao gathered the Sword Fiend into the Zhu Xian Sword Formation and called the little Heavenly Dragon to wield its Devil Sword.
• The old man emerged in a rage, but the Devil Sword’s chains sealed the area and drove him underground, where his roars ended in an agonized scream.
• Wang Hao told Dongfang Xiaotian that the formation would need forty-nine days to grind the old man down completely, shocking the Six Primordial Evil Daos’ observers.

Wang Hao arranged for the Chaos Dao to build the Origin Life Absolute Formation, which would complement his Zhu Xian Sword Formation and combine with it into the Gods and Devils Taiji Grand Formation. The formations required immense resources and a rare Tree of Life, so Wang Hao turned to the Six Primordial Evil Daos’ connections with the Western God Realm.

• The Gravekeeper suspected Wang Hao was connected to Dugu Baitian’s family, while hidden Human Realm powerhouses chose not to provoke him because of his strength and the name Dugu Qiubai.
• After forty-nine days, the Zhu Xian Sword Formation ground the Old Devil out of existence, and Wang Hao used the time to study the Old Devil’s cultivation inheritance and learned he came from the Sixth Realm.
• Ye Zhiqiu, True Person Qingxu, and the Chaos Dao disciples moved to the Death Desert and agreed to help Wang Hao set up another grand formation, despite its enormous cost.
• Wang Hao explained that the Origin Life Absolute Formation could merge with the Zhu Xian Sword Formation into the stronger Gods and Devils Taiji Grand Formation, joining life and death.
• True Person Qingxu warned that the formation needed a Tree of Life, which was guarded by elves in the Western Fantasy Continent, and Wang Hao asked Ye Zhiqiu about the Six Primordial Evil Daos’ ties to the Western God Realm.

Wang Hao secured the Chaos Dao’s help in obtaining a Tree of Life by offering the Ancient Tree of Life’s Dao resonance, then discussed recruiting homeless orphans with Nangong Xian’er. He left her with a way to accelerate her cultivation by awakening the power of her previous life.

• Wang Hao offered the Ancient Tree of Life’s Dao resonance to the Chaos Dao, and its ancestor accepted the exchange and promised to bring a Tree of Life in a month.
• Nangong Xian’er clung to Wang Hao, then reported that her network had registered three hundred billion homeless orphans; Wang Hao warned her to ensure they were gathered through proper channels.
• Wang Hao told Nangong Xian’er to pause efforts to register orphans in righteous territories and prepare to receive them when the Great Tribulation made it possible.
• Nangong Xian’er worried that her cultivation lagged far behind Wang Hao’s, and Wang Hao advised her to awaken the power of her previous life and refine it to strengthen herself.

Wang Hao warned Dongfang Xiaotian about Chen Zhan’s hidden strength, but Dongfang Xiaotian trapped Chen Zhan into exhausting himself and took his Heaven Tier Essence Blood. With the conflict settled, Wang Hao grew the Tree of Life and began turning the Death Desert into a livable home for the orphans.

• Wang Hao warned Dongfang Xiaotian that Chen Zhan had once reached the peak of Heaven Tier and that Chen Nan and his father had powerful backers.
• Dongfang Xiaotian met Chen Zhan in the Savage Wilderness Forest and disguised their life-and-death battle as a contest to settle their grudge.
• Chen Zhan blocked the Ten Heaven-Splitting Strikes while stabilizing the Heaven-Deceiving Formation, and the effort left him badly injured.
• Dongfang Xiaotian struck Chen Zhan’s shoulder, collected the Essence Blood he coughed up, and fled after declaring the contest over.
• Wang Hao fused the Ancient Tree of Life’s imprint into the Tree of Life seed and used the Origin Life Absolute Formation to transform the Death Desert.
• Wang Hao had Nangong Xian'er move the orphans into the newly livable desert and created numerous weak clones to train them.

Wang Hao awakened an enormous, shattered Inner World and discovered that it belonged to his predecessor’s previous incarnation, a follower of the Human King. After absorbing its memories and inheritance, he learned more about the Human King and Dugu Baitian’s schemes, while the collapsing battlefield left his million-li Inner World filled with chaos.

• Wang Hao explored his newly awakened Inner World and found a battlefield littered with the remains of Heaven Tier experts.
• Wang Hao followed a mysterious call to a broken corpse identical to his predecessor and fused with it, recovering fragments of its memories.
• Wang Hao learned that his predecessor’s previous incarnation had followed and loved the Human King, fought alongside her against Tian, and died after the Chaos King shattered his Inner World.
• Wang Hao realized that the Human King had created the Inner World cultivation system and that Dugu Baitian and his son had arranged Yuxin’s relationship with Chen Nan to secure the Human King’s support.
• Wang Hao grew wary of Dugu Baitian and watched the inherited Inner World battlefield collapse into chaos, leaving his million-li Inner World intact.

Wang Hao abandoned his study of the damaged Human King inheritance after learning that Yuxin’s bond with him was nearly severed. He tracked her to Hundred Flowers Valley, where he subdued Chen Zhan and was confronted by someone demanding that he release their father.

• Wang Hao decided to use Fortune Points to comprehend the damaged Human King inheritance and searched it for a clone technique.
• Xiao Mengmeng warned Wang Hao that his Cause and Effect with Yuxin was about to break, so he hurried to the Carefree King Manor.
• Wang Hao found the manor in ruins, searched Steward Du’s memories, and learned that Yuxin had been gravely wounded in an attack by enemies of Chen Zhan and the Huaxia Empire.
• Wang Hao learned that Chen Zhan had taken Yuxin to Hundred Flowers Valley and followed them there.
• Wang Hao suppressed Chen Zhan’s Primordial Spirit, kicked him into the ground, and held him down.
• A figure rushed at Wang Hao and shouted for him to release their father.

Wang Hao crushed Chen Nan, searched Chen Zhan’s memories, and stabilized Yuxin’s injuries, but Dugu Baitian abducted Yuxin before he could repair her shattered Inner World. Determined to gain power quickly and protect himself, Wang Hao moved to seize the Huaxia Empire’s capital and declared that he had been too merciful.

• Chen Nan attacked Wang Hao, who killed him, searched Chen Zhan’s memories, and sealed Chen Zhan before entering the cave abode.
• Wang Hao killed Chen Zhan’s wife and stabilized Yuxin’s body and soul, storing her shattered Inner World in his own Chaos Inner World.
• Dugu Baitian’s intervention freed Chen Zhan and led to the abduction of Chen Nan’s body, Chen Zhan’s wife’s remains, and Yuxin.
• Wang Hao headed for the Huaxia imperial capital and ordered Nangong Xian'er to gather the Six Primordial Evil Daos and their subordinate sects.
• Chen Zhan evacuated Li Daozong’s direct descendants as Wang Hao arrived, then Wang Hao used the God Deliverance Instruction to subdue powerful figures in the capital.
• Dongfang Xiaotian found Wang Hao seated on the dragon throne among brainwashed officials and nobles, and Wang Hao said he had been too merciful.

Wang Hao revealed his power to the Six Primordial Evil Daos and proposed unifying the Eastern Land Continent before the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth. The Six Primordial Evil Daos agreed to help in exchange for temporary positions in his Fortune Dynasty, while the coming tribulation remained only a few years or decades away.

• Wang Hao told the Six Primordial Evil Daos that he had driven off Chen Zhan and demonstrated the Heaven Tier pressure he had gained from his past-life inheritance.
• Wang Hao proposed consolidating the Huaxia Empire and taking the Mystic Realms across the Eastern Land Continent, offering the allied factions a share of resources and cultivation inheritances.
• Wang Hao said he would postpone unifying the entire Human Realm because the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth would arrive within a few decades at most.
• Six God Emperor Level leaders of the Six Primordial Evil Daos arrived, confirmed the warning, and offered support from their ancestors and founders.
• The Six Primordial Evil Daos asked to place disciples in Wang Hao's Fortune Dynasty as officials, and Wang Hao accepted on the condition that they leave and avoid the military system when the tribulation arrived.

Wang Hao seized the Huaxia Empire, crushed the righteous and neutral forces, and began unifying the Eastern Land Continent by brainwashing their leaders and cultivators into loyal followers or Dao Soldier puppets. After witnessing his power and learning their inherited cultivation methods might doom them, the Six Primordial Evil Ancestors decided to reincarnate and seek Nangong Xian'er as their Dao protector.

• Wang Hao took control of the Huaxia Empire by brainwashing its officials and cultivators, then turned Li Daozong and the generals who plotted a counterattack into Dao Soldier puppets.
• Wang Hao and the Six Primordial Evil Daos attacked the righteous forces, while Wang Hao entered their Mystic Realms and brainwashed their cultivators after the Demonic Dao experts occupied the realms.
• Wang Hao and the Six Primordial Evil Daos eliminated the neutral forces, then Wang Hao moved on to annex the other two great empires and publicly punished corrupt rulers across all three empires.
• The Six Primordial Evil Ancestors discussed Wang Hao's warning that flaws in their inherited cultivation methods prevented them from reaching the Heaven-Defying Tier, and they feared the Evil Venerable might still be alive.
• Evil Ancestor Jueqing proposed reincarnating to cultivate anew, and the Six Primordial Evil Ancestors agreed to ask Nangong Xian'er to protect their Dao after helping her recover some memories.

Wang Hao refused Xiang Shengnan and four other women’s request for a cultivation shortcut, then proposed a plan to help Nangong Xian’er’s five senior siblings reincarnate sooner. With their cultivation power merged into him, he visited the injured Devil Master and traded a cultivation method for the use of the Samsara Gate fragments.

• Xiang Shengnan and four other women asked Wang Hao for a cultivation shortcut, but he said he had no suitable method to give them.
• Nangong Xian’er told Wang Hao that the other Five Primordial Evil Ancestors wanted her to protect them when they reincarnated and cultivated anew.
• Wang Hao proposed that the five Evil Ancestors merge into him so he could negotiate with the Devil Master, and they agreed.
• Wang Hao also absorbed Nangong Xian’er’s inherited power and forced his way into the Death Jedi to meet the Devil Master.
• Wang Hao offered the Devil Master his Perfect Cultivation System in exchange for borrowing the collected Samsara Gate fragments for three months, and the Devil Master accepted.