Chapter Summaries

Yang Jiao used himself as a decoy so Erlang and his sister could escape, but the Heavenly Soldiers cornered him. He activated the token his mother had left him and arrived at the Eternal Market, where he learned its rules.

• Yang Jiao drew the Heavenly Soldiers away from Erlang and his sister, then was surrounded and refused to reveal where they had gone.
• Yang Jiao found a token hidden in his clothes, activated it with his blood, and vanished in a burst of white light.
• A Heavenly Soldier identified the token as one that led to the Eternal Market, and the Heavenly General ordered his forces to pursue the other two siblings while waiting for Yang Jiao to return.
• Yang Jiao arrived at the Eternal Market, concealed in a black cloak, and crossed its city gate.
• Yang Jiao received information about the market's perfected rules as he entered.

Yang Jiao explored the Ruins Market and learned that entering immortal cultivation through the Martial Dao could greatly improve his potential. Using Yaoji’s stored wealth, he bought what he needed to pursue the Nine Cauldrons realm and prepare to rescue her and take revenge on Haotian.

• Yang Jiao explored the Ruins Market and studied its treasures, trading rules, and contracts.
• Yang Jiao learned he had aptitude for immortal cultivation and sought information about entering the Dao through martial arts.
• Yang Jiao discovered that reaching the Nine Cauldrons realm before cultivating immortality could improve his potential and earn him a spirit body.
• Yang Jiao decided to continue cultivating the Martial Dao until he reached the Ninth Cauldron realm.
• Yang Jiao used treasures from Yaoji’s storage bracelet to buy techniques, martial skills, pills, and secret arts for his cultivation.

Yang Jiao began cultivating in the Ruins Market while Hongxuan left his future in Cangjie's hands and visited Houtu in the Netherworld. Houtu revealed the nine heavens of sub-Sagehood and explained that advancement through them determined a cultivator’s potential, leaving Hongxuan asking how that affected a Sage’s strength.

• Yang Jiao chose to enter the Dao through martial arts and stayed in the Ruins Market until he could defeat the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals waiting outside.
• Hongxuan sent a jade talisman to Mount Wuyi, leaving Yang Jiao’s affairs to Cangjie, then went to the Netherworld.
• Hongxuan sensed Houtu’s overwhelming power and realized that even at the peak of Quasi-Sage, he could not withstand a Sage.
• Houtu told Hongxuan that she had reached the late Sage realm and that advancing beyond Sagehood would take at least one immeasurable calamity.
• Houtu explained that sub-Sagehood had nine heavens, each marking a cultivator’s potential, and Hongxuan asked whether reaching a higher heaven before becoming a Sage would make them stronger.

Houtu explained the nine heavens of the Sub-Sage Realm and how its deeper stages could lead beyond the Heavenly Dao, while Hongxuan resolved to pursue that path. She warned that reaching even Sub-Sage Fourth Heaven would be extraordinarily difficult, then confirmed that the Sub-Sage method was exactly what he suspected.

• Hongxuan asked whether Sub-Sages could stand against Sages, and Houtu described how their strength rose through the nine heavens.
• Houtu said a Ninth Heaven Sub-Sage could defeat Sages, reach perfected Sagehood through a breakthrough, and potentially advance beyond the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongxuan realized that the Sub-Sage Realm built the foundation for the highest Dao realms and resolved to reach Ninth Heaven.
• Houtu explained that every Sub-Sage heaven required a qualitative leap, making Ninth Heaven nearly impossible to attain.
• Houtu said Hongxuan might reach Fourth Heaven and surpass the powerful figures in Purple Cloud Palace, then confirmed his guess about the Sub-Sage method.

Hongxuan learned from Houtu that the Sub-Sage path was extraordinarily difficult and that some Chaos Gods and Demons might still be behind hidden arrangements in the Primordial Wilderness. After studying Houtu’s knowledge, he reconsidered his cultivation path, and she judged that his Time Treasure Mirror greatly improved his chances of reaching the Sub-Sage Fourth Heaven.

• Houtu explained that only a few of the Three Thousand Chaos Gods and Demons had reached the Sub-Sage Ninth Heaven, while most had advanced only a few heavens.
• Hongxuan asked whether the Chaos Gods and Demons and Pangu had truly fallen, and Houtu confirmed that some arrangements remained in the Primordial Wilderness but said she did not know their purpose.
• Houtu passed Hongxuan information about the Primordial Wilderness and the Sub-Sage realm, prompting him to reconsider his plan to rush toward the Dao of Hunyuan.
• Hongxuan showed Houtu the Time Treasure Mirror, which she recognized as a Chaos Supreme Treasure and said gave him at least a seventy percent chance of reaching the Sub-Sage Fourth Heaven.

Hongxuan used the Time Treasure Mirror and his arts of destiny, karma, and deduction to seek the Space Treasure, uncovering signs that the mirror’s master was a living Chaos God and Demon who had noticed him. He ended with no answer about the master’s purpose and wondered whether other treasures he owned had also been placed in his hands deliberately.

• Houtu told Hongxuan that the Time Treasure Mirror might have been left behind by the Time God and Demon and warned him to stay vigilant.
• Houtu said she could not sense the Space Treasure, but advised Hongxuan to use the karmic connection between time and space to deduce its location.
• In Pingxin Palace, Hongxuan used the Time Treasure Mirror alongside the Grand Destiny Art, Grand Karma Art, and Grand Deduction Art to search for the Space Treasure.
• Hongxuan glimpsed a terrifying, blurry figure and cut off his investigation before the figure could discover him more clearly.
• Hongxuan concluded that the mirror’s master was a living Chaos God and Demon far beyond the Heavenly Dao, had noticed him, and had made him a chess piece.
• Hongxuan wondered whether the Destiny Compass, the Karma Wheel, and the Eternal Dao Tome had also been deliberately delivered to him by hidden existences.

Hongxuan realized the owner of the Time Treasure Mirror was still alive and overwhelmingly powerful, leaving him determined to advance along the Sub-Sage path. He brought Houtu to the Eternal Market to introduce her to Golden Fortune Daoist and assess whether he could be trusted.

• Hongxuan nearly fell into a demonic obsession under the pressure of his deductions, but Houtu called him back to his senses.
• Hongxuan told Houtu that the Time Treasure Mirror's owner was still alive and invincibly powerful, and that he needed to reach the Heavenly Dao Realm to protect himself.
• Hongxuan took Houtu to the Eternal Market and gave her a token that would let her enter it.
• Hongxuan introduced Houtu to Golden Fortune Daoist at the Eternal Commerce Guild and suggested the Netherworld might cooperate with the Ruins Market.
• Houtu chose to explore the Ruins Market on her own, and Hongxuan gave her Eternal Gold Coins for purchases.

Hongxuan questioned Golden Fortune Daoist about a powerful figure he had glimpsed while deducing the Time Treasure Mirror, and learned that it was the Time Chaos God and Demon. Golden Fortune Daoist began revealing secrets, leaving Hongxuan increasingly suspicious that his old ally was himself a Chaos God and Demon.

• After Houtu left, Golden Fortune Daoist praised Hongxuan for winning her affection, and Hongxuan credited their first meeting to Golden Fortune Daoist’s earlier opportunity.
• Hongxuan asked Golden Fortune Daoist about the vague figure he had seen while deducing the Time Treasure Mirror, whose aura surpassed that of the Primordial Wilderness’s Sages.
• Golden Fortune Daoist confirmed the figure had noticed Hongxuan and identified it as the Time Chaos God and Demon, a legendary being second only to Pangu.
• Hongxuan asked whether Chaos Gods and Demons remained in the Primordial Wilderness and privately suspected Golden Fortune Daoist might be one himself.
• Golden Fortune Daoist sensed Hongxuan’s probing but said nothing, instead choosing to reveal selected secrets and deepening Hongxuan’s suspicions.

After a million years, Hongxuan searched the sea where he had found the Time Treasure Mirror, convinced the Space Treasure was hidden there. He found nothing at first, so he sealed off the area and began a careful search.

• Golden Fortune Daoist told Hongxuan that no one surpassed Heavenly Dao Hongjun and that Hongxuan was nearly invincible below the Sage realm.
• A million years passed, and the Human Race entered the rule of the Shang Dynasty after the devastating Xia-Shang War.
• Hongxuan worried that the coming Shang-Zhou War and Investiture of the Gods Tribulation would cause even greater destruction.
• Hongxuan realized that his deductions placed the Space Treasure at the same sea region where he had found the Time Treasure Mirror.
• Hongxuan found no trace of the Space Treasure, suspected it had concealed its aura, and set up an isolation formation to search the area inch by inch.

Hongxuan spent over a million years searching for the Space Treasure, using the Eternal Dao Tome and other arts without success. After finally detecting its aura and revealing a massive half-open gate, he entered the Gate of Space to pursue the treasure and its trial.

• Hongxuan searched the formation for the Space Treasure for over a million years, but his arts and repeated investigations found nothing.
• Hongxuan noticed a faint spatial aura at the place where he had obtained the Time Treasure Mirror after activating it.
• Hongxuan repeatedly used the Eternal Dao Tome and the Time Treasure Mirror to probe the location until a half-open, hundred-thousand-foot-tall gate appeared.
• Hongxuan sensed spatial rules leaking from the gate and entered the Gate of Space before it closed.

Hongxuan entered the world inside the treasure and found it filled with an evil aura and hostile creatures that were not from the Primordial Wilderness. After defeating the first pack, he sensed a greater threat and encountered a stronger group of Evil Beings.

• Hongxuan entered the treasure’s world and found its aura deeply repulsive and incompatible with him.
• Hongxuan used the Grand Destiny Art and Grand Deduction Art to determine that the wolf-like creatures were not from the Primordial Wilderness, but could not discover their origin.
• A pack of Evil Beings attacked Hongxuan, and he destroyed most of them with the Qingping Sword and Azure Lotus Sword Scripture.
• Hongxuan used the Grand Time Art on the surviving leader, reducing it to dense evil mist and confirming that the creatures were not true living beings.
• Hongxuan sensed something else watching him and followed his divinations toward the threat.
• Hongxuan encountered a second group of Evil Beings, nearly twice as numerous and led by several perfected Quasi-Sages.

Hongxuan fought countless powerful Evil Beings in the Space Treasure and sensed that they held a secret tied to an instinctive hatred. Meanwhile, Yaoji’s three children grew powerful through their separate opportunities, reunited, and set out to free their mother from Peach Mountain.

• Hongxuan endured waves of Evil Beings, including nearly a hundred late-stage or perfected Quasi-Sage opponents, and noticed that killing them improved his state of mind.
• Hongxuan sensed that the Evil Beings were natural enemies of his bloodline and wondered why the Space Chaos God and Demon had imprisoned them.
• Yang Jiao used Yaoji’s Eternal Token to enter the Eternal Market, where he gained resources and teachings that rapidly advanced his cultivation.
• Yang Jian reached the Golden Immortal realm under Yu Ding Zhenren, while Yang Chan received the Precious Lotus Lantern from Nüwa.
• Yang Jiao left the Eternal Market to investigate his parents’ fate, and Yang Jian and Yang Chan also sought to rescue their mother.
• The three siblings reunited, learned that Yang Tianyou was dead and Yaoji was imprisoned beneath Peach Mountain, and resolved to free her.

After the Yang siblings rescued Yaoji, Haotian’s complaint to Hongjun set off negotiations over the Investiture of the Gods, which ended in deadlock and heightened tensions among the sects. Yang Jiao joined Cangjie’s Mount Wuyi lineage to repay Emperor Ziwei, while Yaoji settled into seclusion and Haotian became widely resented.

• The Yang siblings split open Peach Mountain and rescued Yaoji, and Haotian was unable to punish them because of their powerful protectors.
• Haotian went to the Purple Cloud Palace to complain to Hongjun, prompting the Six Sages to negotiate the Investiture of the Gods.
• The three sects failed to agree on who would be listed and decided to rely on their own means, leaving the Primordial Wilderness on edge.
• Cangjie invited Yang Jiao to join Mount Wuyi and train as the future guardian war god of the Ziwei Imperial Palace, and Yang Jiao accepted to repay Emperor Ziwei.
• Yang Jian returned to the Chan Sect, Yang Chan returned to the Wa Imperial Palace, and Yaoji settled in seclusion and began teaching local beings.
• Haotian gained the hostility of the six Sages and many other powerful figures after the secret of the Investiture of the Gods became widely known.

As the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation approached, Houtu warned the Three Xiao Sisters that the Jie Sect faced possible destruction and reassured them that Hongxuan’s Divine Dao incarnation remained unharmed. Inside the Space Treasure, Hongxuan reached its center and discovered that the evil-mist creatures he had fought were formed from the aura of a colossal imprisoned Evil Being.

• Yunxiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bixiao visited Houtu to ask about Hongxuan, who had been missing for more than ten million years.
• Houtu told the Three Xiao Sisters that Hongxuan was likely safe because his Divine Dao incarnation still tended the myriad stars, and she urged them to prepare for the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Houtu warned Yunxiao that the Jie Sect might face annihilation and that its direct disciples would be targets if the sect fell.
• Hongxuan fought a gigantic wolf-like creature whose attacks approached the sub-Saint level inside the Space Treasure.
• After defeating the creatures formed from evil mist, Hongxuan reached the inner world’s center and found the mist came from a colossal Evil Being imprisoned in a spatial formation.

Hongxuan fought the Evil Being imprisoned in the Space Treasure’s formation, discovering that it had once been a Primordial Realm expert weakened for the trial. As the battle sharpened his laws and divine abilities, he prepared to finish the creature and claim the Space Treasure.

• Hongxuan realized that killing the suppressed Evil Being was the Space Treasure’s trial and entered the formation without hesitation.
• Hongxuan fought the Evil Being, first struggling, then adapting until he overwhelmed it.
• Hongxuan discovered that the formation had weakened the Evil Being from the Primordial Realm to the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Hongxuan’s laws and Great Dao divine abilities advanced through the prolonged battle, and several supreme laws reached complete perfection.
• Hongxuan unleashed Grand Time Art, Grand Destiny Art, Grand Karma Art, Grand Star Art, and Grand Reincarnation Art against the Evil Being.

Hongxuan killed the Evil Being by severing its destiny thread, passed the Space Treasure’s test, and claimed the Gate of Space, which granted him insights into the Law of Space. As the Eternal Dao Tome opened its blank sixth page, Hongxuan began to see what new power the treasure might bring.

• Hongxuan used Grand Destiny Art: Destiny Sever to cut the Evil Being’s destiny thread and destroy it.
• Hongxuan learned that the Evil Being had been suppressed by the treasure as a test for future inheritors, though he remained uncertain about its origins.
• Hongxuan left the treasure’s inner world and restored the illusory gate until it became a three-zhang Gate of Space.
• Hongxuan realized the Gate of Space had acknowledged him as its master and received profound insights into the Law of Space.
• The Eternal Dao Tome appeared in Hongxuan’s sea of consciousness and opened its blank sixth page.

Hongxuan obtained the Gate of Space, comprehended the first level of the Grand Space Art, and began preparing for the coming Investiture of the Gods War. He showed Golden Fortune Daoist a strange evil mist, and Golden Fortune Daoist reacted with alarm after learning Hongxuan had killed its Primordial Unity realm owner.

• Hongxuan placed the Gate of Space into the Eternal Dao Tome and realized that the Shang Zhou Era and the Investiture of the Gods War were approaching.
• Hongxuan entered seclusion, comprehended ten percent of the Law of Space, created the first level of the Grand Space Art, and strengthened his Purple Palace world.
• Hongxuan visited Golden Fortune Daoist at the Eternal Commerce Guild and showed him a sample of evil mist he had collected.
• Hongxuan explained that he had taken the mist from an evil monster he killed and estimated the creature had possessed strength equivalent to a Sage.
• Golden Fortune Daoist reacted with disbelief and fear, asking whether Hongxuan truly knew the strength of the mist's owner.

Hongxuan questioned Golden Fortune Daoist about the Space Gate and learned that killing the Evil Being had been a far greater opportunity than obtaining the treasure. Golden Fortune Daoist revealed that the Evil Being came from a hostile Chaos World opposite their own, leaving Hongxuan wondering why Chaos Gods and Demons had arranged for treasures to come to him.

• Hongxuan showed Golden Fortune Daoist the Space Gate and watched for signs of greed, but saw only surprise and recognition.
• Golden Fortune Daoist identified the treasure as the Space Chaos God and Demon's supreme treasure, then asked whether Hongxuan had felt different after killing the Evil Being.
• Hongxuan said his exhaustion had vanished, and Golden Fortune Daoist explained that killing the Evil Being had been his greatest opportunity.
• Golden Fortune Daoist told Hongxuan that their Chaos World had an opposing, evil Chaos World whose inhabitants were inclined toward aggression.
• Hongxuan considered the possibility of a future war and questioned why Chaos Gods and Demons had arranged for Chaos Supreme Treasures to reach him.

Hongxuan learned from Golden Fortune Daoist that the Evil Being he had killed was only a pet from another Chaos World, then sought Houtu’s knowledge about the creature. Houtu identified its aura as belonging to Extraterrestrial Demons and warned that they would inevitably return to threaten the Primordial Wilderness.

• Golden Fortune Daoist told Hongxuan that the Evil Being had been a Primordial Realm expert’s pet and that Hongxuan needed to reach the Primordial Realm to learn more.
• Hongxuan returned to the Primordial Wilderness, resolved to investigate the Chaos Worlds, and decided not to leave his fate in others’ hands.
• Hongxuan visited Houtu at Pingxin Palace and showed her the evil mist he had brought back.
• Houtu identified the aura as that of Extraterrestrial Demons and explained that the Innate Great Gods had exterminated them before the Ferocious Beast Calamity.
• Houtu concluded that the creature’s intelligence had been deliberately erased and warned Hongxuan that the Extraterrestrial Demons would return, urging him to grow stronger.

Hongxuan warned Houtu that he would face the coming Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and planned to seek a way for his Jie Sect fellow disciples to survive. After Lord Tongtian ended his sermon on Golden Turtle Island, he warned his disciples about the tribulation and summoned six senior disciples, including Hongxuan, to remain.

• Hongxuan told Houtu he intended to face the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and take the Three Xiao Sisters away for a time.
• Houtu warned Hongxuan that a Sage might target him during the tribulation.
• Hongxuan sought out Yunxiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bixiao, then traveled with them to Golden Turtle Island.
• Lord Tongtian ended his sermon and told the Jie Sect disciples that the Investiture of the Gods had been signed and a tribulation was approaching.
• Lord Tongtian advised the disciples to recite the Yellow Court Scripture and cultivate themselves, then asked Duobao, Jinling, Wudang, Guiling, Yunxiao, and Hongxuan to stay.
• Duobao asked Lord Tongtian whether the tribulation was especially severe.