Chapter Summaries

The Evil Heavenly Dao transformed after absorbing the Ashes of Dao Tribulation and revealed that Shab-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods, was its master. Ming Xin realized the War Against Heaven was part of a wider Outer God invasion and prepared to destroy the corrupted Heavenly Dao before it could send word.

• The Evil Heavenly Dao absorbed the Ashes of Dao Tribulation, developed a Blood-Black Eye, and spiritually contaminated the Heaven Defiance forces until Ming Xin shielded them.
• The Evil Heavenly Dao claimed its master would devour the Great Dao and turn the Myriad Worlds into hunting grounds.
• Ming Xin provoked the Evil Heavenly Dao, which revealed its master was Shab-Niggurath, the Black Goat of the Woods, an ancient Outer God from the Cthulhu Universe.
• Ming Xin recognized that the corruption might be part of a vast invasion reaching beyond the Grave God World and resolved to spread the warning after defeating the corrupted Heavenly Dao.
• Ming Xin urged the Heaven Defiance forces to attack with everything they had, unleashed his power, and faced the Evil Heavenly Dao as the final showdown began.

Ming Xin and the Heaven Defiers launched their strongest attacks against the Evil Heavenly Dao, and Ming Xin destroyed its core with the Sword of Terminus. The dying enemy planted a curse mark on Ming Xin and warned that Shub-Niggurath would find him, leaving a greater multiverse war ahead.

• Ming Xin used his Five Emperors Canopy to defend against the Evil Heavenly Dao's corruption while his Past Self empowered him and his Future Self cut its connection to Shub-Niggurath.
• Ming Xin unleashed his Myriad Transformations Returning to Void Flame Emperor Seed as Dugu Baitian, the Demon Lord, Chen Zhan, and Chen Nan joined the assault with their strongest attacks.
• The Evil Heavenly Dao prayed to Shub-Niggurath and summoned Chaos Tentacles that corroded or swallowed the attackers' powers, creating a stalemate.
• Ming Xin struck the Blood-Black Eye with the Sword of Terminus, causing the Ashes of Dao Tribulation and Chaos Tentacles to wither as the Evil Heavenly Dao collapsed.
• Before it died, the Evil Heavenly Dao branded Ming Xin's Dao heart with a curse mark and warned that the Mother Goddess would find him.

After Ming Xin destroyed the Evil Heavenly Dao, the people of the Grave God World celebrated their victory and thanked him. Unbeknownst to Ming Xin, Shub-Niggurath shared a clue to the Primordial World with other Outer Gods, while Ming Xin departed to settle affairs across the Myriad Worlds.

• Shub-Niggurath sensed that Ming Xin had destroyed her mark and sent other Outer Gods a clue to the Primordial World’s coordinates.
• The Evil Heavenly Dao’s core and shell disintegrated, and the oppressive aura over the world receded.
• Chen Nan, the Rascally Dragon, and the other Heaven Defiers celebrated the destruction of the Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Nan, the Demon Lord, and Gu Du Bai Tian thanked Ming Xin, who urged them to guide the new world well.
• Ming Xin said he had affairs to settle across the Myriad Worlds and faded away as the Heaven Defiers bid him farewell.

Ming Xin revealed that the Grave God World was too damaged to survive and proposed refining its remaining origin, laws, and World Imprint into the Primordial World. Chen Nan, the Demon Lord, Gu Du Bai Tian, and the other Heaven Defiance warriors agreed, and they began refining the world’s core together.

• Ming Xin paused before leaving and warned Chen Nan, the Demon Lord, Gu Du Bai Tian, and the others that the Grave God World would perish because its origin and laws were ruined.
• Ming Xin proposed moving the world’s remaining origin, laws, and World Imprint into the Primordial World so its people and civilization could endure there.
• Ming Xin explained that the Primordial World could also let the Heaven Defiance warriors escape the limits of their broken world and pursue higher realms.
• Chen Nan, the Demon Lord, Gu Du Bai Tian, and the others agreed to enter the Primordial World and save their people.
• Ming Xin led the warriors in refining the Grave God World’s core, while the Black Goat of the Woods’ distant gaze grew blurred.

Ming Xin and the Heaven Defiance warriors refined the Grave God World's remaining Origin into a World Essence Orb, preserving its World Soul and gathering its survivors before the old world collapsed. Ming Xin returned to the Primordial World, having advanced to the Sixth Heaven of the Primordial Limitless Grand Unity Golden Immortal, but sensed danger from the sealed Curse Mark within his Dao heart.

• Ming Xin coordinated the Demon Lord, Gu Du Bai Tian, Chen Zhan, Chen Nan, and the other warriors as they stabilized the Grave God World and gathered its remaining Origin and living beings' faith.
• Ming Xin purified the Origin, imprinted it with Primordial World laws, and formed a World Essence Orb containing the world's World Soul.
• Ming Xin enveloped the Heaven Defiance warriors and heroic spirits in Dao light and led them away as the Grave God World collapsed.
• Ming Xin raced through Chaos and crossed the Primordial World's outer barrier, returning with the orb and its survivors.
• Ming Xin realized that his insights into the Grave God World's creation and destruction had advanced him to the Sixth Heaven of the Primordial Limitless Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Ming Xin sensed the sinister Curse Mark within his Dao heart and continued toward the Primordial World, wary of the trouble his return might bring.

Ming Xin returned to the Primordial World by forcing his way through the Realm Wall, alarming Hongjun and the Six Sages into believing an invasion was underway. The chapter ended with them realizing the supposed intruder was Ming Xin, whose powerful aura and foreign world origin had caused the misunderstanding.

• Ming Xin attempted to enter the Primordial World directly through its Realm Wall.
• Hongjun sensed the breach and summoned the Six Sages to Purple Cloud Palace, warning them that an invasion was imminent.
• The Six Sages gathered at Purple Cloud Palace and prepared to intercept the intruder outside the Realm Wall.
• Ming Xin passed through the Realm Wall, revealing his powerful cultivation and the foreign laws carried by the World Essence Orb.
• Hongjun recognized Ming Xin and told the Six Sages the invasion was a false alarm.
• Ming Xin sensed the Sages' changing divine thoughts and realized he had caused a misunderstanding.

Ming Xin returned to the Purple Heaven Palace and told Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Six Sages that a terrifying force had corrupted another world and set its sights on the Primordial World. Hongjun’s reaction confirmed that he had already sensed the looming threat, leaving the gathered Sages to face the knowledge that an unavoidable catastrophe was approaching.

• Ming Xin arrived at the Purple Heaven Palace, where Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Six Sages had gathered to meet him.
• Zhunti welcomed Ming Xin back, while Hongjun examined his cultivation and the ominous aura of the World Essence Orb.
• Hongjun tried to dismiss the Six Sages so he could speak privately with Ming Xin, but Ming Xin insisted they all hear the truth.
• Ming Xin revealed that he had encountered a corrupted Heavenly Dao in another world and learned that its hidden master had set its sights on the Primordial World.
• Ming Xin told Hongjun that he had sensed the enemy’s malicious whispers beyond the Chaos Realm Wall and that the coming battle could not be avoided.
• Hongjun’s exhausted reaction showed the Six Sages that he had already suspected the threat, as the gathering realized the Primordial World faced a terrifying catastrophe.

Ming Xin revealed that the Primordial World's great calamities had been orchestrated by Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao to weaken the world and hide it from the Outer Gods. Hongjun confirmed the truth, leaving the Six Sages shaken as the Primordial World faced the approaching Final Crisis.

• Ming Xin explained that the Outer Gods were ancient beings who fed on worlds and regarded the Primordial World as a hunting ground.
• Ming Xin revealed that Dao Ancestor Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao had arranged the great calamities to reduce the Primordial World's population and make it seem less valuable to the Outer Gods.
• The Six Sages reacted with shock and anguish as they reconsidered the deaths and sacrifices caused by past and ongoing tribulations.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun confirmed that Ming Xin's account was true and said the plan had been their only choice.
• The truth was laid bare in the Purple Firmament Palace as the Primordial World faced a darker crisis than any previous great tribulation.

Ming Xin urged Hongjun and the Six Sages to unite against the Outer Gods, using the remnant origin of the Grave God World as proof of what awaited worlds that could not resist. He proposed merging the remnant into the Primordial World and lifting the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions so more experts could cultivate laws and prepare for war, leaving Hongjun and the Sages facing a choice about the world’s future.

• Ming Xin warned Hongjun and the Six Sages that hiding the Primordial World’s strength would not keep the Outer Gods from finding and devouring it.
• Ming Xin showed them the Grave God World’s remnant origin and described how its civilizations had been destroyed by the Outer Gods.
• Ming Xin proposed merging the remnant origin into the Primordial World to strengthen its foundation, expand it, complete its laws, and create more Saint Positions.
• Ming Xin urged Hongjun to have the Heavenly Dao remove its restrictions so capable beings could comprehend laws and attain Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Hongjun and the Six Sages considered whether to keep waiting for catastrophe or fight for the Primordial World’s future.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun accepted Ming Xin’s argument and ordered the Primordial World to stop hiding its strength, unseal its laws, and prepare to fight. As the Grave God World’s origin merged into the Primordial World and its powerhouses advanced, the hostile gaze beyond Chaos took renewed interest.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun declared that the Primordial World would conceal its strength no longer and commanded the Heavenly Dao to unseal the laws and reopen the path to Grand Unity.
• Hongjun ordered Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, and Nuwa to relinquish their Heavenly Dao Merit Saint Positions and pursue the Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Hongjun ordered the Grave God World’s origin merged into the Primordial World, assigned Jieyin and Zhunti to stabilize their realms, and charged Ming Xin with coordinating the fusion and guiding newly advanced powerhouses.
• Ming Xin merged the Grave God World’s origin, laws, and power imprints into the Primordial World, while Divine Tomb’s people received merit and its heroic spirits entered reincarnation.
• The Primordial World expanded and cultivators surged toward higher realms, drawing increased attention from the malicious presence beyond Chaos.

After the Grave God World's origin merged with the Primordial World, Ming Xin helped its survivors settle near Mount Sumeru and saw the Primordial World enter a new era of growth. He then visited the Underworld and urged Empress Ping Xin, the Earthly Dao Saints, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches to strengthen the Earthly Dao against the approaching Outer God threat.

• Ming Xin merged the Grave God World's origin into the Primordial World's source, expanding the world and earning merit from the Heavenly Dao.
• Chen Nan, the Demon Lord, Gu Du Bai Tian, Chen Zhan, Rascally Dragon, and the others received merit that cleansed their Otherworldly Aura and made them natives of the Primordial World.
• At Ming Xin's suggestion, Jieyin and Zhunti invited the Grave God World group to settle near Mount Sumeru, where they began establishing new homes.
• Ming Xin went to the Underworld and met Empress Ping Xin, Old Ancestor Ming He, Zhen Yuan Zi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Ming Xin told them the Earthly Dao needed greater strength to resist the coming calamity and said the Twelve Ancestral Witches could become a powerful defense if they recovered their strength.

Ming Xin urged the Twelve Ancestral Witches to rebuild their bodies and pursue the Dao, then left Yin Tian Zi to guard the Underworld. He and Nuwa awakened the Human Dao at Shouyang Mountain, where the gathered hopes and will of living beings began to form a shared will.

• Ming Xin told the Twelve Ancestral Witches that Ping Xin could help them rebuild their Ancestral Witch bodies and that they might attain Grand Unity.
• Ming Xin left his Past Self, Yin Tian Zi, in the Underworld to assist Ping Xin, Styx River, and Zhen Yuan Zi in protecting Reincarnation.
• Ming Xin went to Wa Huang Palace and asked Nuwa to help awaken the Human Dao.
• Ming Xin and Nuwa found the Kongtong Seal inside a cave at Shouyang Mountain.
• Ming Xin and Nuwa used the Kongtong Seal to call on beings across the Primordial World, whose hopes and thoughts began gathering into a Sea of Will as the Human Dao stirred awake.

The Heaven, Earth, and Human Daos reached perfection, causing the Primordial World to expand and grow vastly stronger. After warning Dao Ancestor Hongjun of the Cthulhu threat, Ming Xin left the Primordial World to seek powerful beings and promising worlds across the Myriad Worlds.

• The Human Dao manifested at Shouyang Mountain, completing the Three Daos and triggering the Primordial World's immense growth.
• Taishang Laozi, Primordial Lord of Heaven, Lord of the Heavens, Empress Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti witnessed the world's transformation and celebrated its new strength.
• Ming Xin told Dao Ancestor Hongjun that the Cthulhu threat remained and proposed gathering heroes from worlds facing calamity.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun agreed to guard the Primordial World while Ming Xin searched the Myriad Worlds for beings he could bring there to prepare for the Epoch Tribulation.
• Ming Xin crossed the Primordial World's boundary wall and entered the Endless Chaos Sea to begin his search.

Ming Xin found the Zhetian World and decided to recruit its greatest figures into the Primordial World. After discovering its fragmented River of Time, he began traveling into the past to meet the Emperors and Sovereigns of earlier eras and change their tragic fates.

• Ming Xin located the Zhetian World and sensed its exceptional talents, ancient Dao marks, and incomplete laws.
• Ming Xin resolved to invite the world's geniuses and powerful figures to a broader stage in the Primordial World.
• Ming Xin realized the fractured River of Time might let him visit eras beyond Ye Fan's present day.
• Ming Xin chose to begin in the End of the Chaotic Ancient Era and set out against the current of time, protected by his laws of Time and Space, Karma, and Fate.

Ming Xin traveled upstream through the River of Time, alarming powerful beings across the history of the Zhetian World. He arrived at the battlefield before the Imperial Pass and invited Shi Hao to a gathering about the survival of all worlds.

• Ming Xin’s intrusion stirred the River of Time, drawing the attention of Ye Fan, the Ruthless Great Emperor’s Immortal Body, Great Emperor Wushi, Emperor Venerate, and Shi Hao.
• Shi Hao sensed the outsider approaching his era and halted his strike against the Darkness Source to challenge him.
• At the Imperial Pass, Shi Hao and An Lan paused their battle when Ming Xin appeared in the River of Time.
• Ming Xin emerged before the battlefield as a Green-Robed Daoist and introduced himself as a visitor from the Primordial World.
• Ming Xin told Shi Hao that he had come to invite him to a gathering concerning the survival of all worlds.

Ming Xin warned Shi Hao, An Lan, and the cultivators at Imperial Pass that the Dark Matter and Weird Ancestors might be linked to the Cthulhu Outer Gods and the Ashes of Dao Tribulation. After revealing how the Grave God World had been devoured by its corrupted Heavenly Dao, he invited the realm’s willing survivors to unite in the Great Primordial World and prepare for the coming Epoch Tribulation.

• Ming Xin warned that Cthulhu Outer Gods might have contaminated the Dark Matter and the power of the Weird Ancestors through the Ashes of Dao Tribulation.
• Ming Xin explained that Shi Hao’s severing of the ages had helped shield the realm from deeper contamination and the Outer Gods’ gaze.
• Ming Xin described how the Grave God World’s corrupted Heavenly Dao devoured its inhabitants and civilizations before he and the surviving heroes defeated it.
• Ming Xin urged Shi Hao and the other experts to unite the surviving forces of the Myriad Worlds against the approaching threat.
• Ming Xin invited Shi Hao and everyone willing to join him in the Great Primordial World to prepare for the Epoch Tribulation.

Ming Xin contrasted the complete laws and reincarnation of the Primordial World with the Zhetian World’s broken order, urging its people to seek a path where more lives and civilizations could endure. The Ruthless Great Emperor crossed time to ask whether reincarnation could return her brother, and, after Ming Xin confirmed there was hope, resolved to go to the Primordial World.

• Ming Xin described how the Primordial World offered immortality and orderly reincarnation, while the Zhetian World condemned its people to short lives, loss, and endless sacrifice.
• Ming Xin urged the Zhetian World’s powerhouses to choose a path that preserved more lives and allowed civilization to endure, stirring their hearts and changing their view of the world.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor traveled against the current of time and asked Ming Xin whether complete reincarnation could bring her brother back.
• Ming Xin said that if even a trace of her brother’s True Spirit Imprint remained, there was great hope of finding and rebirthing him through the Primordial World’s reincarnation.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor resolved to go to the Primordial World, no matter the cost, to find her brother.

Ming Xin revealed that his power surpassed the Immortal Emperor realm and used Karma, Fate, and Reincarnation to retrieve Ruthless Great Emperor’s brother’s true spirit from the past, then restore his body. Ruthless Great Emperor reunited with her brother, while the witnesses’ shock and newfound hope shifted their view of Ming Xin and the Primordial World.

• Ming Xin told Ruthless Great Emperor that they did not need to travel to the Primordial World and revealed that his strength equaled roughly the Sixth Heaven of Immortal Emperor.
• Ming Xin traced the karmic bond between Ruthless Great Emperor and her brother, then pulled her brother’s fading true spirit from the moment before his death.
• Ming Xin used Six Paths Origin Qi to restore the true spirit and rebuild a living body for Ruthless Great Emperor’s brother.
• Ruthless Great Emperor received her brother and wept as she recognized his familiar face and felt his renewed life.
• Shi Hao, An Lan, and powerful figures across the River of Time were stunned by Ming Xin’s ability, and many began to see the Primordial World as a path toward hope and fulfillment.

Ming Xin revived Lin Feng and reunited him with his sister, the Ruthless Great Emperor, after billions of years apart. Lin Feng learned of Yin Yin’s long struggle and thanked Ming Xin, while the reunion’s impact promised to draw more Zhetian experts toward joining forces against the calamity.

• Lin Feng awoke before the Imperial Pass and begged to return to his younger sister, Yin Yin.
• The Ruthless Great Emperor recognized Lin Feng as her brother and embraced him, revealing that she was Yin Yin.
• Lin Feng listened as the Ruthless Great Emperor recounted her life and struggle to become a Great Emperor after his death.
• Lin Feng apologized for failing to protect Yin Yin, and she reassured him as they embraced.
• Lin Feng and the Ruthless Great Emperor bowed to Ming Xin and thanked him for reviving Lin Feng and making their reunion possible.

Ming Xin urged the powerful figures of the Zhetian World to leave for the Primordial World, where they could pursue the Great Dao and fight the Outer Domain Evil Gods without lifespan limits or Dark Turmoil. Cultivators from across eras accepted, and Ming Xin began gathering them for the journey.

• Ming Xin showed the assembled powerhouses how the Primordial World could offer longevity, a complete path of cultivation, and a united battle against Cthulhu.
• An Old Quasi-Emperor declared he was willing to go, and other cultivators from the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands joined him.
• Wills from the River of Time began accepting the journey, and the Ruthless Great Emperor announced she would leave now that her brother had returned.
• Shi Hao declared that he would visit the Primordial World and fight foreign enemies alongside his fellow Daoists.
• Ming Xin agreed to lead the willing cultivators and released chaotic light to gather them for the migration.