Chapter Summaries

Guiyuan summoned Heart Demon Elder and used the Five Finger Demon Suppression to drag him before Shakya, cutting off his links to his true body and incarnations. Heart Demon Elder ended the chapter trapped under the Buddha’s suppression, while Guiyuan’s plans for him and Hua Tiandu remained ahead.

• Immortal Venerable Linglong worried that refining Hua Tiandu would alert Creation Immortal King, but Guiyuan said his Hunyuan-level Method of Harmonizing with the Dao could conceal his plans to replace the Gate of Eternal Life Artifact Spirit.
• Guiyuan asked about Heart Demon Elder, intending to enlighten him and use his Demon Dao cultivation to advance the idea that Buddha and demon were one.
• Immortal Venerable Linglong gave Guiyuan the method for contacting Heart Demon Elder and agreed to pass him the Human Emperor Dao Canon if the Human Emperor Brush awakened.
• Guiyuan contacted Heart Demon Elder in the Earth Realm, but Heart Demon Elder refused to hear him and tried to leave.
• Guiyuan summoned the Five Finger Demon Suppression, drew on the Law of Causality, and transported Heart Demon Elder before Shakya, severing his connections to his true body and incarnations.

Guiyuan converted Heart Demon Elder into Kasyapa and planned to spread Shakya’s teachings and Human Immortal Martial Dao through the Xuanhuang Great World. After absorbing the Gate of Eternal Life’s Tumor Power from Hua Tiandu, Guiyuan sensed that Styx had achieved Dao.

• Guiyuan used Shakya’s teachings to guide Heart Demon Elder through 160 days and nights of enlightenment, and the elder became Kasyapa.
• Guiyuan brought Kasyapa back to the Feathered Ascension Heavenly Palace and planned to spread Buddhist principles and Human Immortal Martial Dao through Mind-to-Mind Connection.
• Guiyuan met with Hua Tiandu and comprehended the Tumor Power within him, gaining the Primordial Chaos True Intent of Incompleteness.
• Guiyuan recognized the Tumor Power as accumulated flaws from the Gate of Eternal Life’s past cycles and prepared to continue his plans.
• Guiyuan suddenly sensed that Styx had achieved Dao.

Styx prepared to attain Dao as Great Emperor Fengdu, drawing the attention of the Primordial World's Saints. Jieyin and Zhunti planned to approach Empress Pingxin about Reincarnation, while the other Saints watched to learn how an Earthly Dao Saint came into being.

• The Human Immortal Martial Dao spread through the Primordial World, and many Immortals traveled to the Human Dynasty to study it.
• Styx sat upon the twelve-petaled Karmic Fire Red Lotus as his aura of slaughter and justice spread across the world.
• Taiqing recognized that Styx was about to take his place as Fengdu, the Netherworld's executioner with discretion over law enforcement.
• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed fulfilling their agreement with Empress Pingxin and went to observe Styx's attainment of Dao.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian also arrived to watch Styx and learn how Earthly Dao Saints differed from Heavenly Dao Saints.

Styx attained Dao as Great Emperor Fengdu, establishing his Netherworld world and earning vast Earthly Dao Yin Virtue. The saints recognized the Way of the Earth Immortal as a path to becoming an Earthly Dao Saint, one created by Guiyuan.

• Styx resolved to cast off his former identity and become Great Emperor Fengdu, vowing to judge spirits impartially and open hope through Reincarnation.
• Styx's declaration shook the Primordial Land, and vast Earthly Dao Yin Virtue appeared as he attained Dao.
• Zhunti envied Styx's merit, while Jieyin explained that Styx had fulfilled a duty rooted in his origins and the Nether Blood Sea.
• Styx transformed into Fengdu, merging with Pingxin's city as its ruler, with his twin swords becoming an Imperial Seal and the Karmic Fire Red Lotus becoming a crown.
• The saints deduced that the Way of the Earth Immortal involved merging a world cultivated within oneself into Primordial Heaven and Earth, and identified Guiyuan as its originator.

Fengdu attained the Dao of the Earthly Dao, strengthening Primordial Heaven and Earth and stabilizing the River of Time. Guiyuan and the Saints entered the Netherworld as Zhunti established the Pure Land Sect and vowed to bear the sins of those who entered Western Teachings.

• Fengdu broke through the boundary of his expansion, received the Earthly Dao's authority, and transformed into a giant city within the River of Time.
• Fengdu's attainment brought auspicious signs across Primordial Heaven and Earth, and living beings honored him for taking on the burden of the Netherworld.
• Guiyuan saw the world expanding and traveled to the Netherworld to study the Earthly Dao and perfect his Reincarnation.
• The Saints and Guiyuan arrived in the Netherworld, where Fengdu welcomed them and Zhunti presented the agreement he had made with Empress Pingxin.
• Zhunti established the Pure Land Sect in Fengdu and vowed to bear the sins of all living beings who entered Western Teachings.

Zhunti established a Pure Land in the Netherworld and took the sins and punishments of Western Teachings disciples upon himself, binding his fate to the sect. Watching him, Guiyuan comprehended how Reincarnation and Buddha-nature could lead to the Great Golden Immortal, and Jieyin invited Guiyuan to join the Western Teachings.

• Zhunti created a Pure Land in the Netherworld, shaping its mountain, Sea of Suffering, sun, moon, and lotus-covered land.
• Jieyin brought sinful Western Teachings disciples into the Pure Land, where Zhunti vowed to bear their sins and punishments himself.
• Karmic Force and punishment from the disciples' crimes flowed onto Zhunti, who appeared throughout the Eighteen Levels of Hell to suffer in their place.
• Guiyuan analyzed Zhunti's path and realized that Reincarnation could preserve chances to attain the Dao, while repeated cycles could wear away a True Spirit.
• Guiyuan said that realizing Buddha-nature might lead to the Great Golden Immortal, and Jieyin praised him and invited him to join the Western Teachings.

Zhunti entered the Pure Land Sect to endure punishment as part of his gamble to expand the Western Teachings, while Yuanshi asked Great Emperor Fengdu to appoint one of his disciples to the Netherworld. Fengdu accepted Taiyi for a post helping resolve matters of human suffering, and Taiyi agreed to follow the Netherworld's laws.

• Guiyuan warned Jieyin that Zhunti's Saint position could shatter if the Western Teachings' sins exceeded their merit, and Zhunti began enduring punishment in the Pure Land Sect.
• Yuanshi asked Great Emperor Fengdu to take some of his disciples into the Netherworld so they could gain experience and practice their Dao.
• Fengdu said a suitable appointee should be able to ease the suffering left behind even when Karmic Force had been settled.
• Yuanshi presented Taiyi, describing his origins and his work helping the suffering across the Primordial Continent.
• Fengdu accepted Taiyi on the condition that he remain impartial and obey the Netherworld's Decree, and Taiyi agreed.

Taiyi and Wudang accepted Netherworld offices, while Guiyuan chose to suppress the fiends of Avici Hell to study the Earthly Dao. After the Netherworld appointments were settled, Yuanshi and Tongtian visited Guiyuan on Golden Ao Island.

• Fengdu appointed Taiyi as Taiyi Rescuing the Suffering True Person, and Taiyi began comprehending his Dao through the Netherworld.
• Tongtian chose Wudang for the Jie Sect, and Fengdu appointed her to advance Reincarnation in the Department of Reincarnation.
• Pingxin offered Guiyuan an office as one of the Ten Kings of Hell, but Guiyuan asked to suppress the vicious fiends in Avici Hell instead.
• Pingxin appointed Guiyuan to bear Avici Hell, and a particle of his Chaos Golden Tortoise descended to support the nineteen layers of Hell.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian went to Golden Ao Island to meet Guiyuan, interrupting his plan to study the Path of the Great Golden Immortal.

Guiyuan negotiated with Yuanshi and Tongtian, accepting their treasures and sect positions in exchange for the Three Pure Ones’ formation. Combining its secrets with his knowledge of formations and Tai Su, he developed a method to advance and perfected his Great Dao Turtle divine ability.

• Tongtian offered Guiyuan three spiritual treasures and the position of Deputy Sect Leader of the Jie Sect, while Yuanshi offered treasures, artifact-refining insights, and the Deputy Sect Leader position of the Chan Sect.
• Guiyuan accepted the treasures and both positions on the condition that Yuanshi and Tongtian give him their portions of the formation used when the Three Pure Ones united.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian each passed their portion of the formation to Guiyuan, noting that their eldest brother held the remaining part.
• Guiyuan combined the formation’s methods of origin and Termination with his knowledge of formations, Pangu, and Tai Su.
• Guiyuan comprehended a path toward cultivating to Tai Su and perfected his natal divine ability, Great Dao Turtle, enabling him to transform into the Tai Su Turtle.

During a Dao Discussion with Yuanshi and Tongtian, Guiyuan and the two Saints were drawn into a vision of Pangu’s primordial birth. Guiyuan found himself speaking and acting as Pan, who declared his intent to reopen Primordial Heaven and challenge the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods.

• Yuanshi and Tongtian sought Guiyuan’s guidance, and the three began a Dao Discussion on Golden Ao Island.
• Their discussion carried them into the aura of the Chaos Green Lotus, where Tongtian realized they were witnessing the moment Father God was born.
• Guiyuan spoke as Pan and declared that he would use countless Chaos realms to reopen Primordial Heaven.
• The Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods appeared and condemned Pan’s attempt to open Primordial Heaven.
• Pan resolved to use the Demon Gods’ Daos to sublimate his Positional Status and evolve his Dao Fruit, declaring that he would enter Grand Unity Heaven.

Guiyuan and Yuanshi watched Pan wield the Axe of Origin against the Chaos Gods and Demons, gaining insights into Origin, Continuation, Termination, and the Primordial River of Time. Pan continued slaughtering his challengers as the survivors accused him of seeking to claim every Positional Status and tried to corrupt him with their Daos.

• Pan split Chaos with his axe and killed the Giant Kun, while Guiyuan absorbed insights from the Axe of Origin.
• Pan repeatedly swung his axe, slaughtering the Chaos Gods and Demons as Guiyuan integrated the Dao of the End and Pan's Great Dao into his Dao of the Epoch Cycle.
• Guiyuan saw the Primordial River of Time and realized it was the tangible manifestation of Taishang's Positional Status.
• A Chaos God and Demon surrounded by a tributary of the Primordial River of Time accused Pan of trying to seize every Positional Status, and Pan killed its Other Self with one blow.
• The surviving Chaos Gods and Demons used their Daos as resentful forces to try to corrupt Pan.

Guiyuan returned from witnessing Pan slaughter the Three Thousand Chaos Gods and Demons with a deeper understanding of the Dao and the Primordial River of Time. After Yuanshi and Tongtian repaid their debt with treasures, Guiyuan prepared to seize the Myriad Realms.

• Pan watched the Chaos Gods and Demons die and sought to attain the Dao through their Great Daos.
• A thread of Dao Rhyme sent Guiyuan, Yuanshi, and Tongtian back to their own time, where Yuanshi and Tongtian realized their inherited memories had brought them close to mastering the Daos of origin and termination.
• Guiyuan explained that he would teach Yuanshi and Tongtian how to practice only after they repaid what they had promised, and he reflected on Pan's possible success in proving the Dao.
• Guiyuan gained a Primordial River of Time that anchored Guiyuan Realm and its affiliated worlds, while a figure from the Tai Su Turtle began opening parallel worlds.
• Yuanshi gave Guiyuan the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, and Tongtian offered his formation-array knowledge and twenty-four Sea Calming Pearls.
• After Yuanshi and Tongtian left, Guiyuan turned his attention beyond Honghuang and prepared to seize the Myriad Realms.

Guiyuan combined Tongtian’s Sea Calming Pearls with the ones he already possessed, revealing an incomplete Chaos Bead that strengthened the Guiyuan Realm. After witnessing its worlds evolve and the second strand of Tai Su Qi near completion, Guiyuan traveled through Chaos toward the Myriad Realms.

• Guiyuan gave the gourds from Tongtian and Yuanshi to the Gourd Vine, which showed signs of a chance at rebirth.
• Guiyuan added Tongtian’s twenty-four Sea Calming Pearls to the twelve he had gathered, and the thirty-six formed an incomplete Chaos Bead.
• The Chaos Bead’s power enlarged the Sea Calming Pearl’s Chaos Sea and strengthened the Guiyuan Realm, accelerating the evolution of its parallel worlds.
• The evolving worlds generated Tai Su Qi, bringing the second strand to sixty percent completion and saving Guiyuan nearly two thousand yuanhui of work.
• Guiyuan entered Chaos and used the Gate of Taiyi to travel through the Boundless Chaos Domain toward the Myriad Realms.

Guiyuan retrieved the Myriad Realms from another Chaos and returned to the Primordial World to refine it, while Taiyi reached Half-Step Hunyuan Great Luo but failed to advance further. Taiyi and Di Jun learned that Guiyuan’s rapid growth came from finding other Chaos realms and resolved that the Demon Clan would not repeat its past mistakes.

• Guiyuan found the Myriad Realms’ true body in another Chaos, took the portion he had refined, and returned to the Primordial World.
• Guiyuan began imprinting the Myriad Realms with his own Dao and noticed that Taiyi had reached Half-Step Hunyuan Great Luo.
• Taiyi told Di Jun that he had not advanced to Hunyuan Great Luo and might need the other Heaven Opening supreme treasures to take that step.
• Taiyi revealed to Di Jun that Guiyuan had grown stronger by finding Chaos beyond their own.
• Taiyi vowed that the Demon Clan would not repeat its past mistakes involving Wa Huang, Xi Huang, Randeng, and Pan.

Guiyuan condensed his Past Yuanshi Body in the Perfect World and devised a plan to unite his three bodies as Immortal Emperors at the same moment. He discovered that the Great Settlement had begun in the Lower Realm and waited to see how Shi Hao would face it.

• Guiyuan used the aura of the Chaos Green Lotus and other spiritual treasures to condense his Past Yuanshi Body and glimpse the River of Time.
• Guiyuan concluded that his three bodies must each become Immortal Kings, form their respective Dharmakayas, and enter the Immortal Emperor realm simultaneously.
• Guiyuan surveyed the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and discovered that Upper Realm lineages had opened Space Tunnels to begin the Great Settlement in the Lower Realm.
• Guiyuan wondered whether Shi Hao would die during the coming tribulation and planned to watch him rise as Huang.

Turtle Ancestor Guiyuan defended the Barbarian Tribe’s support for the Human Race against pressure from the Primordial Royal Clans. He revealed that he was nearing the Quasi-Emperor realm and ordered the tribe to bring out its Emperor Weapons.

• The Barbarian Tribe Chief told Guiyuan that the Primordial Royal Clans had questioned the tribe’s public support for the Human Race.
• Guiyuan rebuked the Chief for fearing the Royal Clans and declared that their power would not deter him.
• Guiyuan released Emperor aura, causing the Barbarian Tribe experts to prostrate themselves.
• The Barbarian Tribe Chief realized Guiyuan had reached the Quasi-Emperor realm, and Guiyuan said he was still a thread away and ordered the Emperor Weapons brought to him.

Guiyuan emerged from seclusion, transformed into human form, and began teaching the Barbarian Tribe a Human Immortal Martial Dao adapted to the Shrouding the Heavens Dao. He intended to use the new path to cultivate the world and mend its deficiencies, leaving the tribe with a cultivation philosophy that could incorporate many different paths.

• Guiyuan decided to leave seclusion and hold his Quasi-Emperor Thunder Tribulation in the starry skies to protect the Barbarian Tribe.
• Guiyuan told the Barbarian Tribe Chief to gather the cultivators, promising to take those who entered his Dao as direct disciples.
• Guiyuan absorbed the Divine Source and transformed from the Guardian God’s turtle form into a man, declaring that he would pass down a path suited to the Human Race.
• The Barbarian Tribe Chief gathered the tribe’s cultivators, including the Barbarian Tribe High Priest, to hear Guiyuan preach the Dao.
• Guiyuan fused the Shrouding the Heavens Dao with the Human Immortal Martial Dao, teaching that cultivation meant seeking inward and developing the body’s inner world.

Guiyuan left the Barbarian Tribe and began a Quasi-Emperor Tribulation, drawing the attention of Gai Jiuyou and powerful beings across the universe. As he endured successive seas of thunder, he taught the Human Immortal Martial Dao to the watching existences.

• Guiyuan left the Barbarian Tribe, connected with the laws of the universe, and triggered a reaction from Emperor Weapons across the starry sky.
• Gai Jiuyou appeared and questioned Guiyuan about his identity and the loosening restrictions of heaven and earth; Guiyuan confirmed that their influence was causing the changes.
• Guiyuan entered a barren star river and faced a massive Thunder Tribulation, swallowing its first sea of lightning as a Giant Turtle.
• He endured a second, stronger tribulation that summoned the imprints of ancient Emperors and Sovereigns.
• Guiyuan sat amid the storm and expounded the Human Immortal Martial Dao while hidden Supremes and other powerful beings watched.

While enduring the Quasi-Emperor Tribulation, Guiyuan preached the Human Immortal Martial Dao, a new path that drew the attention of Gai Jiuyou, Jiang Taixu, and powerful factions across the universe. After studying the tribulation’s ancient imprints and Great Daos, Guiyuan declared that he would undergo the Emperor Tribulation, and the universe’s thunder surged as he seized its Great Daos, River of Time, and traces of history.

• Guiyuan devoured the Quasi-Emperor Tribulation’s lightning and suppressed the imprints of Great Emperors, ancient sovereigns, and Celestial Venerables while preaching the Human Immortal Martial Dao.
• Gai Jiuyou listened to Guiyuan describe a path built around the heart, Inner Scene, physical body, and Dharma Body, and realized it could surpass the Great Emperor realm.
• Jiang Taixu ordered the Jiang Family to gather and listen, while Imperial Lineages, sovereign lineages, and hidden Supremes reacted to Guiyuan’s new path with interest or disdain.
• The Thunder Tribulation grew until Gai Jiuyou fled its reach, and Guiyuan studied the ancient imprints to improve his divine abilities and Tai Su Turtle.
• Guiyuan announced that he would undergo the Emperor Tribulation, causing the thunder to expand across the universe as his primordial spirit seized its Great Daos, River of Time, and traces of history.

Guiyuan examined the wound left on Heaven's Will by the collapse of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands and realized that the weakened Great Dao had forced the universe to restrict its resources. He declared that he would bear Heaven and Earth with his own body and mend the Heavenly Dao.

• Guiyuan's aura stirred the universe as he prepared to bear Heaven's Will, and he dismissed the Emperor Tribulation with a word.
• Heaven's Will flew into Guiyuan's palm, where he perceived its Dao Wound and saw visions of the former Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
• Guiyuan traced the Great Dao's decline to the Chaotic Ancient Era, when the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands shattered and Heaven and Earth lost vital essence and laws.
• Guiyuan resolved to use his own boundless power to restore the Great Dao and declared, "With my body, I shall mend the Heavenly Dao!"