Chapter Summaries

Hongxuan began restoring the Star Origin by establishing the Grand Zhou Heaven Star Chaos Return Origin Formation across Ziwei Star and the stars of the heavens. As the formation’s effects spread, the stars rotated under his control and inspired countless beings to gain insights, while the Six Sages deduced that the new Emperor Ziwei was behind the spectacle.

• Hongxuan found that the Star Origin had not recovered and feared its slow restoration left him vulnerable to backlash if the stars fell into disorder.
• Hongxuan planted the Star Ancient Tree on Ziwei Star and made it the central formation eye for the Grand Zhou Heaven Star Chaos Return Origin Formation.
• Hongxuan sent incantations into the stars for a hundred years, using the Grand Star Art and Star Law to make them resonate with his inner world and primordial spirit.
• The stars began rotating according to Hongxuan’s will, releasing immense star spiritual energy and creating a spectacular, dangerous phenomenon.
• Countless beings across the Primordial Wilderness gained insights and broke through bottlenecks as they watched the stars.
• The Six Sages of the Great Desolation deduced that the new Emperor Ziwei, Hongxuan, had caused the changes.

Hongxuan’s stellar formation absorbed Chaos Qi and transformed it into spiritual energy, drawing admiration from the Sages and other powerful figures. Haotian and Yaochi recognized the benefits to the Heavenly Court and decided to protect Hongxuan as he established the formation.

• The Sages and other powerful figures marveled at Hongxuan’s plan, his comprehension of Star Law, and the Heavenly Dao’s apparent support.
• Zhenyuanzi, Old Ancestor Minghe, Kunpeng, Queen Mother of the West, and others began to regard Hongxuan as an equal and considered befriending him or treating him as a rival.
• Haotian and Yaochi observed Hongxuan turning the starry sky into a grand formation and praised his mastery of Star Law and formations.
• Yaochi realized the formation absorbed Chaos Qi and converted it into vast amounts of spiritual energy for the Primordial Wilderness.
• Haotian noticed the Heavenly Court’s fortune surging because of Hongxuan’s work and decided that he and Yaochi would go protect Emperor Ziwei.

Hongxuan completed the Chaos Regression Formation, accelerating the recovery of the stars and deciding to direct seventy percent of the transformed spiritual qi toward the Primordial Wilderness starry sky. His success earned him immense merit and drew the attention of powerful beings, who began considering sending disciples to serve under him.

• Hongxuan observed the Star Origin recovering rapidly and chose to allot seventy percent of the transformed spiritual qi to the starry sky and thirty percent to the Primordial Wilderness land.
• Hongxuan completed the Great Celestial Stars Chaos Return formation, causing the stellar phenomenon to vanish and the star origins to recover far faster.
• A vast amount of merit descended upon Hongxuan, but he stored it instead of absorbing it into his cultivation.
• Hongxuan estimated that Ziwei Star's origin would be fully restored in about a million years and realized his comprehension of the Star Law and Grand Star Art had greatly improved.
• Haotian, Yaochi, and other powerful beings envied Hongxuan's merit and potential, while some considered sending their disciples to serve under him.

Hongxuan completed and concealed the Chaos Regression Formation on Ziwei Star, then used the lingering star Dao rhymes to strengthen his laws, divine abilities, and body. After a hundred thousand years, he awakened to find Ziwei Star’s origin recovering and the Primordial Wilderness entering the era of the Five Emperors’ rule.

• Hongxuan made Ziwei Star his secluded Daoist sanctuary and sent his divine path incarnation to the Heavenly Court to handle the commotion caused by the formation.
• Hongxuan stayed behind to repair flaws in the formation and refine his Star Law and Grand Star Art.
• Hongxuan’s enlightenment advanced several laws and Grand Dao Divine Abilities, strengthened his foundation, and brought his cultivation closer to the middle Quasi-Sage stage.
• Hongxuan further improved his divine abilities and body refinement, merging newly comprehended laws into his Purple Mansion Grotto-Heaven.
• After a hundred thousand years, Hongxuan awakened and discovered that Ziwei Star’s origin had recovered by nearly ten percent and the Five Emperors’ era had begun.

Hongxuan returned to Ziwei Imperial Palace and received Taibai Jinxing’s invitation to Lingxiao Palace, where Haotian had summoned the Heavenly Court’s immortals to discuss an important matter. The chapter ended as Haotian began addressing the assembled immortals, with the matter still undisclosed.

• Hongxuan praised the officials of Ziwei Imperial Palace for their progress and considered entrusting them with minor duties.
• Taibai Jinxing visited Hongxuan and conveyed Haotian’s invitation to discuss an important matter at Lingxiao Palace.
• Haotian asked Taibai Jinxing to assess Hongxuan’s strength, and Taibai admitted he could not see through the Quasi-Sage Emperor Ziwei.
• Hongxuan joined Haotian, Yaochi, and the assembled Heavenly Court immortals in Lingxiao Palace.
• Haotian announced that he had summoned the immortals to discuss a matter.

Haotian assigned the Heavenly Court’s forces to counter five Demon Race armies and asked Hongxuan to handle one, but Hongxuan’s doubts about Haotian’s character led him to reject a closer alliance. He sent Zhenwu in his place and left, startling Haotian and Yaochi with his strength.

• Haotian asked the Heavenly Court’s officials how to respond to the Demon Race remnants’ planned attack.
• Hongxuan judged Haotian’s conduct and unstable temperament, then abandoned his plan to collaborate with him.
• Haotian assigned four Demon Race armies to the Giant Spirit God, the Barefoot Immortal, Wang Lingguan, and the Fire Virtue Star Lord, and asked Hongxuan to deal with the fifth.
• Hongxuan said Zhenwu would lead troops against the remaining army and told Haotian to handle future personnel and military matters himself.
• Hongxuan vanished, leaving Haotian and Yaochi startled by his terrifying strength.

After rejecting Haotian and Yaochi as potential partners, Hongxuan entrusted Zhenwu with a Heavenly Court assignment and left for the Primordial Continent. He met Golden Fortune Daoist on Mount Heng, where the transformed grounds and a starry-sky formation impressed him.

• Hongxuan saw through Haotian’s self-serving nature and dismissed both him and Yaochi as possible collaborators.
• Hongxuan summoned Zhenwu, praised his cultivation and Taiji Spirit Body, and ordered him to lead his immortal army to report to the Great Heavenly Lord.
• Hongxuan left the Heavenly Court, sending his divine path incarnation to take his place, and traveled to the Primordial Continent.
• Hongxuan visited Mount Heng and found that Golden Fortune Daoist had transformed it with a grand palace complex.
• Hongxuan praised Golden Fortune Daoist’s starry-sky formation for absorbing Chaos Qi, nourishing the Primordial Wilderness, and bringing him destiny and merit.

Hongxuan established the Eternal Market and Eternal Commerce Guild inside the Eternal Sky Ark, giving Golden Fortune Daoist the task of making it the Primordial Wilderness’s greatest trading ground. The market’s tokens could transport their holders there, while restrictions kept Sages out.

• Golden Fortune Daoist advised Hongxuan to expand the commerce guild beyond the Human Race and focus on powerful cultivators, Innate Gods, and other races.
• Hongxuan brought Golden Fortune Daoist into the Eternal Sky Ark and proposed using one of its Great Thousand Worlds as the guild’s headquarters.
• Hongxuan created the Eternal Market, its central Eternal Commerce Guild, and tokens that could transport their holders to the market from anywhere in the Primordial Wilderness.
• Golden Fortune Daoist tested a token and learned how it worked, then agreed to organize the market and attract powerful traders and rare treasures.
• Hongxuan assured Golden Fortune Daoist that Sages could neither divine the market nor use its tokens, though late-stage Quasi-Sages could enter.

Hongxuan and Golden Fortune Daoist developed Eternal Coin as the currency for the Eternal Market, and Hongxuan used four spiritual treasures to create a method for minting coins that could aid cultivation. The chapter ended with plans to use the market’s accumulated karmic sin, jade, and spiritual stones to produce Eternal Coin continuously.

• Hongxuan infused market tokens with Destiny power and planned to distribute them among people favored by Destiny who also had sufficient capital.
• Hongxuan proposed establishing Eternal Coin and insisted it needed to retain value and work outside the market.
• Golden Fortune Daoist presented the Coin Division Cauldron, and Hongxuan’s comprehension of it alongside three other treasures revealed a path for minting coins.
• Hongxuan used the four treasures, jade, spiritual stones, and a little karmic sin to produce gold, silver, and bronze coins containing absorbable spiritual energy.
• Hongxuan told Golden Fortune Daoist to prepare supplies and planned to use the market’s karmic sin to refine an endless supply of Eternal Coin.

Hongxuan secretly scattered Eternal Market Tokens throughout the Primordial Wilderness, preparing to open the Market while warning Golden Fortune Daoist to keep its secrets. As the tokens sparked conflict and drew in their fated users, one pursued young man activated his token and escaped into the Market.

• Hongxuan gave Golden Fortune Daoist the Eternal Market's operating rules and instructed him to conceal their identities and punish anyone who repeatedly broke the rules.
• Golden Fortune Daoist entered the Eternal Market to prepare for its imminent opening.
• Hongxuan traveled in secret across the Primordial Wilderness and scattered tokens, which led some people into bloody struggles over them.
• A bedraggled young figure fleeing a group of demons activated an Eternal Market Token and vanished, leaving his pursuers stunned.

A young Celestial Immortal used a token to escape a demon and entered the Eternal Market, where he exchanged a magic treasure for Eternal Coins and discovered their value. Golden Fortune Daoist reflected on Hongxuan’s growing market and how its trade, disputes, and currency production formed a self-sustaining cycle.

• A demon searched for the young man after he vanished, then gave up and left.
• The young man used his token to reach the Eternal Market, concealed himself with a black cloak, and learned the market’s rules.
• The young man exchanged a Low-Grade Acquired Magic Treasure with Golden Fortune Daoist for ten thousand Eternal Gold Coins.
• The young man discovered that Eternal Coins could be used for cultivation and left to search for the spiritual herbs he needed.
• Golden Fortune Daoist sensed that the young Celestial Immortal possessed a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and reflected on the fortune of Hongxuan.
• Golden Fortune Daoist considered how more tokens would bring visitors and disputes to the market, supplying karmic sin that Hongxuan used to refine Eternal Coins.

Hongxuan noticed a fortunate youth carrying one of his legacy techniques and discovered that an Eternal Market trade had brought him a fragment bearing the Law of Time. He also learned that Yunxiao and the others were helping Da Yu control the floods, where Yunxiao confronted Wuzhiqi.

• Hongxuan recognized the young market-goer’s cultivation technique as one of the legacies he had left in the Primordial Wilderness and saw that the youth was blessed with fortune.
• Hongxuan examined a silver fragment traded for one thousand Eternal Gold Coins and found that it carried the aura of the Law of Time.
• Hongxuan learned that Yunxiao was Da Yu’s master and that Qiong Xiao, Bixiao, Ao Ling'er, and Jingwei were helping with flood control.
• Yunxiao accused Wuzhiqi of flooding the Huai River and harming countless beings, while Wuzhiqi claimed he was defending his home from Da Yu.
• Wuzhiqi attacked Yunxiao with his staff, and Yunxiao prepared to eliminate him.

Hongxuan arrived to help Yunxiao and subdued Wuzhiqi, ending the Huai River chaos. He left Wuzhiqi trapped beneath a stele and told Da Yu to continue controlling the floods elsewhere.

• Yunxiao struggled to defeat Wuzhiqi as his battle threatened destruction across the region, while Qiong Xiao warned that the disaster could worsen.
• Hongxuan appeared and identified Wuzhiqi as one of the Four Primordial Monkeys, then confronted him for causing calamity.
• Wuzhiqi attacked Hongxuan, who crushed him beneath a giant stone stele and suppressed him in the land.
• Hongxuan refused Yunxiao's suggestion to kill Wuzhiqi, deciding instead to punish him and potentially recruit him as a battle general.
• Hongxuan told Da Yu that the Huai River chaos had ended and sent him to continue controlling the floods elsewhere.

After Hongxuan suppressed Wuzhiqi, he returned to the Heavenly Court, where Haotian revealed he planned to reincarnate and undergo 1,750 tribulations. Hongxuan refused to take charge of the Heavenly Court’s internal affairs, and Haotian publicly announced his departure for the lower realm.

• Hongxuan left after suppressing Wuzhiqi, and Yunxiao resolved to reach the Quasi-Sage realm as the Three Xiao Sisters continued their flood-control journey.
• Haotian summoned Hongxuan to Lingxiao Palace and said he planned to reincarnate for 1,750 tribulations.
• Hongxuan refused to manage the Heavenly Court’s internal affairs but offered to help if a Quasi-Sage-level enemy attacked.
• Haotian and Yaochi privately felt relieved that Hongxuan had no designs on their authority, while Hongxuan recognized that they had been testing him.
• Haotian publicly announced his reincarnation trials throughout the Primordial Wilderness, puzzling Hongxuan.

After Haotian departed and Yaochi took temporary control of the Heavenly Court, Hongxuan rewarded Zhenwu and appointed Bian Zhuang as Marshal Tianpeng under his command. Xuandu left after discussing the Dao with Hongxuan, while Bian Zhuang eagerly began his new post.

• Haotian vanished from Lingxiao Palace, leaving the Heavenly Court temporarily under the Queen Mother's rule, and Hongxuan returned to Ziwei Imperial Palace.
• Hongxuan praised Zhenwu for his service, bestowed a cultivation method on him, and promised to promote him to Marshal Zhenwu if he advanced to the Grand Golden Immortal realm.
• Xuandu visited Hongxuan and asked him to place his wayward disciple, Bian Zhuang, in a Heavenly Court position.
• Hongxuan appointed Bian Zhuang Marshal Tianpeng, gave him ten thousand naval troops, and told him to recruit the remaining ninety thousand himself.
• Xuandu and Hongxuan discussed the Dao before Xuandu took his leave, while Bian Zhuang resolved to prove himself in his new post.

Hongxuan returned to Three Immortals Island to guard Yunxiao as she used the Ancient Tree of Life to sever her good corpse and advance to Quasi-Sage. Her breakthrough succeeded, drawing attention across the Primordial Wilderness and delighting Lord Tongtian while unsettling Yuanshi.

• Hongxuan learned through deduction that Yunxiao was nearing a breakthrough and rushed to Three Immortals Island to protect her.
• Yunxiao entered secluded cultivation beneath the Ancient Tree of Life, which transformed into a miniature tree and entered the hut with her.
• After ten thousand years, auspicious signs appeared over Three Immortals Island, confirming Yunxiao had successfully advanced to Quasi-Sage.
• The Primordial Wilderness's mighty experts and Sages learned that Yunxiao had become another Jie Sect Quasi-Sage, and Yuanshi questioned Lord Tongtian's path before reaffirming his opposition to it.
• Lord Tongtian celebrated Yunxiao's breakthrough and praised the strength of the Jie Sect's Dao lineage.

Hongxuan broke through to the middle stage of the Quasi-Sage realm, creating a Chaos Pearl clone and strengthening his comprehension of several supreme laws. After spending a hundred thousand years correcting flaws in his cultivation, he brought his other laws and divine abilities into alignment with his new realm.

• Hongxuan decided to advance after Yunxiao became a Quasi-Sage and Golden Fortune Daoist neared a breakthrough.
• Hongxuan entered seclusion, raised four supreme laws and their arts to the sixth level, and broke through to the middle stage of the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Hongxuan used a streak of light from his glabella to create a Chaos Pearl clone, which returned to the Eternal Dao Tome.
• Hongxuan spent a hundred thousand years refining his past techniques, divine abilities, and law comprehension to correct hidden flaws.
• Hongxuan raised his Reincarnation, Life, Death, Five Elements, and other laws to sixty percent comprehension, bringing their arts to the sixth level.

Hongxuan stayed in seclusion to strengthen himself before the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, while the Eternal Market and Heavenly Court continued to run smoothly and the Zhou Heaven stars recovered. On Three Immortals Island, Yunxiao and her sisters received Houtu’s summons to the Netherworld Underworld as its next stage of development began.

• Hongxuan found that the Eternal Market and Heavenly Court were operating normally, and that all three hundred and sixty-five Zhou Heaven stars had recovered their origins.
• Hongxuan chose to keep cultivating, knowing he needed to protect himself from the Sages involved in the coming Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• On Three Immortals Island, Yunxiao and her sisters discussed Hongxuan’s long seclusion and his possible advance to the middle stage of the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Yunxiao received Houtu’s message summoning the Three Xiao Sisters to the Netherworld Underworld for its next stage of development.
• Yunxiao was positioned to become the Fengdu Emperor, while Qiong Xiao and Bixiao could seek Emperor Lord positions.

After a million years in seclusion, Hongxuan emerged with his laws comprehended to eighty percent and set out into the Primordial Wilderness. He visited Wuzhiqi, whom he had kept imprisoned beneath a mountain for over a million years, and hinted that the monkey would remain there to be tempered.

• Hongxuan realized a million years had passed in seclusion and decided to stop before his cultivation risked being assimilated by the Great Dao.
• Hongxuan found that the Three Xiao Sisters had gone to the Netherworld Underworld and that Yunxiao had taken the Ancient Tree of Life.
• Hongxuan remembered the monkey he had suppressed during Da Yu's flood-control efforts and traveled to the Huai River to see it.
• Wuzhiqi begged Hongxuan to release or kill him, but Hongxuan said he preferred the monkey's former unruly nature and struck the mountain stele with a ray of light.

Hongxuan freed Wuzhiqi from the stone stele and made him a guardian divine general of the Ziwei Imperial Palace. After equipping Wuzhiqi, Hongxuan prepared to confront Golden Fortune Daoist and visited the thriving Eternal Market.

• Hongxuan released Wuzhiqi from the stone stele, and Wuzhiqi thanked him for his freedom.
• Hongxuan appointed Wuzhiqi a guardian divine general, and Wuzhiqi accepted rather than oppose him.
• At the Ziwei Imperial Palace, Hongxuan assigned Wuzhiqi to guard the palace and gave him battle armor and a weapon.
• Hongxuan decided to reveal the truth to Golden Fortune Daoist and took the silver fragment of stone with the aura of time.
• Hongxuan entered the Eternal Market and observed its growth and the cloaked visitors who concealed their identities.