Chapter Summaries

Ao Changsheng discovered that the Chaos beneath the River of Space and Time hid a living Pangu, whose presence destroyed his probing thought. He then used the Great Dao of Water to fulfill the requirements for the Dao Body Sacred Method, leaving him with a water Dao body and a way to multiply his Seclusion System’s cultivation time.

• Ao Changsheng sent his thought beneath the Chaos world, where a majestic presence and overwhelming power destroyed it before he could see what lay there.
• Back in his Dao ground, Ao Changsheng recognized the presence as Pangu and realized that Pangu had survived with his own consciousness at the end of the Primordial World's River of Space and Time.
• Ao Changsheng reconsidered the stories of Pangu’s death and the creation of the Primordial World, concluding that Pangu had concealed his survival and that powerful figures pursued their own schemes.
• Ao Changsheng absorbed the Fruit of the Great Dao of Water, causing the complete Great Dao of Water to manifest in and expand his Great Thousand World.
• Ao Changsheng practiced the Dao Body Sacred Method and created a water Dao body, which could cultivate alongside his true self and count as another year of seclusion for the Seclusion System.
• Ao Changsheng and his water Dao body welcomed the increasing turmoil in the Primordial World.

Hongjun visited Ao Changsheng to exchange a Great Dao of the Stars Dao Fruit for Chaos Demon God corpses, while Ao Changsheng considered sharing information about the Four Sacred Beasts and their secrets. After Hongjun left, Guiling attained Daluo in Ao Changsheng’s Dao ground.

• Hongjun entered Ao Changsheng’s Dao ground, and Ao Changsheng presented him with the ripened Great Dao of the Stars Dao Fruit.
• Hongjun gave Ao Changsheng five Chaos Demon God corpses as payment for the Great Dao of Disorder, Metal, and Earth, and Ao Changsheng agreed to provide the Great Dao of Disorder Dao Fruit in a million years.
• Ao Changsheng removed the Heavenly Dao’s power from the corpses, then watched Hongjun leave before deciding not to share what he had learned about the Four Sacred Beasts and the living Pangu beneath them.
• Guiling attained Daluo, and her Three Flowers Atop the Head bloomed to the twelfth grade.
• Guiling entered and emerged from the River of Space and Time, celebrating her attainment with a silly grin.

After Guiling attained Daluo, Ao Changsheng told her to leave his sanctuary and travel the Primordial World, giving her advice on cultivating her inner world and a pearl filled with Innate Spiritual Qi. Guiling departed tearfully, initially heading the wrong way, and then turned west toward the Primordial World.

• Ao Changsheng teased Guiling for grinning after her breakthrough, and she thanked him for guiding her to Daluo.
• Ao Changsheng explained how Guiling should compare her inner world's Dao with the Primordial World's Great Dao to develop her own path.
• Ao Changsheng gave Guiling a Spiritual Qi Pearl and warned her to avoid absorbing spiritual qi or consuming spirit fruits in the Primordial World.
• Guiling joked that Ao Changsheng could grow old alone, then left the sanctuary as he recorded her words in the void.
• Ao Changsheng warned Guiling to be careful and revealed she was heading east instead of west; Guiling circled back and flew west toward the Primordial World.

Guiling abandoned her trip to the Primordial World Continent and drifted through the East Sea, where she discovered a dragon and squid staging an elaborate fake fight. While one avatar followed the sea dragon, it found a city of Merfolk beneath the Nine Provinces Barrier, leaving Guiling wondering whether they had been born from dragons and humans.

• Guiling entered the East Sea in her true form and drifted with the currents after a painful memory left her disoriented.
• Guiling spotted a sea dragon and giant squid pretending to fight, watched them for three days, then sent an avatar after each of them.
• Linggui Number One followed the sea dragon toward the Primordial World Continent and discovered an undersea city within the Nine Provinces Barrier.
• Linggui Number One learned that the city’s human-bodied, fish-tailed inhabitants were called Merfolk and wondered whether they came from the Dragon Race and the Human Race.

Guiling concluded that the Dragon Race had created the Merfolk Race to help the Human Race absorb other races’ Karmic Luck, then headed for the Nine Provinces Barrier. Hongjun watched her and recognized Ao Changsheng’s cultivation method, while the Primordial World absorbed the Great Dao Dao Fruit of the Stars.

• Guiling combined what her clones had learned and inferred that the Dragon Race’s Merfolk Race was sharing in the Human Race’s Karmic Luck more successfully than the Octopus People.
• Guiling wondered whether Ao Changsheng intended a great fusion of the Primordial World’s races and set out for the Human Race’s Nine Provinces Barrier.
• Hongjun watched Guiling, glimpsed her Small Thousand World, and inferred that Ao Changsheng’s cultivation method had been created for the Great Dao of the World.
• Hongjun reflected that he no longer considered Ao Changsheng an outsider, then watched the pure Great Dao of the Stars flow from its Dao Fruit into the Heavenly Dao Origin Space.
• Ao Changsheng sensed the Dao Fruit being absorbed by the Primordial World, considered how its absorption differed from his own, and returned to secluded cultivation.

Guiling and Holy Mother Jinling met outside the Human Race’s Nine Provinces Barrier, where Jinling’s warning about its defenses prompted Guiling to adopt the title Holy Mother Guiling. Jinling overcame her hesitation about entering the barrier and went inside with Guiling, intending to look after her.

• Guiling examined the Nine Provinces Barrier and prepared to test it with an offensive technique before Holy Mother Jinling warned her that the barrier would counterattack.
• Holy Mother Jinling, a Perfection Daluo seeking a breakthrough to Quasi-Sage, decided to enter the barrier after seeing Guiling approach it without hesitation.
• Guiling introduced herself, then declared that she would change her name to Holy Mother Guiling after hearing Jinling’s Daoist title.
• Holy Mother Jinling was bewildered by Guiling’s reasoning but entered the Nine Provinces Barrier with her, deciding to look after her.

Ao Changsheng's Water Dao body created the Water Dragon World in Chaos as a trap for Chaos Demon Gods, then began cultivating within its world origin. In the Primordial World, Ao Changsheng considered the coming Investiture of the Gods Immeasurable Tribulation and suspected Hongjun had plans tied to the Heavenly Court.

• Ao Changsheng's Water Dao body created a Great Thousand World in Chaos and controlled its rapid evolution.
• Ao Changsheng named the world the Water Dragon World, intending it to lure Chaos Demon Gods into attacking.
• Ao Changsheng's Water Dao body sent the Water Dragon World drifting through Chaos and entered its world origin to cultivate.
• Ao Changsheng's true body reflected on the coming Investiture of the Gods Immeasurable Tribulation and the shattering of the Primordial World.
• Ao Changsheng deduced that Hongjun had made hidden arrangements within the Heavenly Court.

At Fire Cloud Cave, Fuxi reassured Human Race elders that the Variant Humans were not stealing Human Race Karmic Luck, then showed them evidence that the other races were contributing to it. In Qing Province, Jinling searched for a fortuitous opportunity among Variant Human cities while Guiling found the Nine Provinces Barrier’s suppression barely affected her.

• A Human Race elder urged Fuxi to stop the myriad races from changing the Human Race bloodline through Variant Humans, but Fuxi said they had chosen their transformations freely.
• Fuxi challenged the elders’ assumption that the Qi above the Nine Provinces Barrier was the Human Race’s Karmic Luck and argued that the Human Race’s strength had produced that Qi, not the reverse.
• Fuxi showed the elders images indicating that the other races were contributing Karmic Luck to the Human Race, and the elders celebrated the Human Race’s prospects.
• In Qing Province, Guiling and Jinling found another Variant Human city, where Jinling felt the familiar pressure of Human Race Karmic Luck and wondered if her fortuitous opportunity was nearby.
• Guiling casually asked a vendor the price of food, while Jinling wondered how she could remain so untroubled by the Nine Provinces Barrier’s suppression.
• Guiling’s unusual resistance came from containing her Law Power and Great Dao within an entire world, something the Nine Provinces Barrier had never encountered.

Xiangliu entered the Nine Provinces Barrier to avenge Xingtian and Chiyou, but its suppression left him unable to use his poison or Great Witch form. Pingxin revealed that she had intervened to temper him, while Jiufeng accused her of abandoning the Witch Race’s remaining Great Witches.

• Xiangliu learned that Xingtian had been defeated and Chiyou had been torn apart, then set out to take revenge on the Human Race.
• Xiangliu entered the Nine Provinces Barrier and found that it suppressed his Great Dao of Poison and weighed heavily on him.
• In Yong City, Xiangliu failed to assume his Great Witch form, injured himself with a roar, and discovered that his blood could not corrode the ground.
• Xiangliu left Yong City, while Pingxin’s old-woman incarnation disappeared and returned to her true form in the Netherworld.
• Jiufeng confronted Pingxin over Xiangliu’s suppression, then left as Pingxin said the time was not right for the Witch Race’s descendants to cultivate or prove the Dao.

Xiangliu failed to breach the Nine Provinces Barrier and began preparing a prolonged campaign of floods and other disasters against the Human Race. At a Domain Gate, Guiling and Jinling discussed the Human Race’s ingenuity and the prospect of becoming Sages, while Guiling privately remained confident in her own path.

• Xiangliu tried numerous ways to damage the Nine Provinces Barrier, but his floods and fierce winds vanished when they touched it.
• Xiangliu summoned eight split-off python bodies to pour water into his hands and resolved to attack the Nine Provinces with floods and other disasters for as long as necessary.
• Jinling and Guiling marveled at a Domain Gate in Qing Province, and Guiling asked whether Holy Emperor Fuxi had forged it.
• Jinling wondered whether she could become a Sage, then said she hoped to reach Quasi-Sage first.
• Guiling assured Jinling that she could become a Sage, while privately treating the goal as far less daunting than Jinling did.

Holy Mother Jinling and Holy Mother Guiling traveled to the border of Gun Province to investigate the Giant Race, hoping Jinling would find her fortuitous opportunity. They discovered the giants had been massacred, and Jinling agreed to help Guiling pursue the powerful culprit.

• Jinling and Guiling used a Domain Gate to travel from Qing Province's East Sea border to its border with Gun Province.
• Guiling explained that the Giant Race descended from the Giant Spirit Race, a collection of enormous beings created by modifying other races.
• The two women spotted what they thought was a gathering of giants and headed toward the mountains, but found a valley full of their slaughtered bodies.
• Guiling silently asked Jinling to help investigate the massacre, and Jinling agreed despite the culprit being at least a Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Jinling extracted Qi from the concealment formation and formed a marker to track the culprit.

Xiangliu lured a Human Race punitive force into a trap in Yong Province, intending to kill its Daluo Golden Immortals. When Xiangliu revealed himself as a Quasi-Sage and surrounded the army, Yu led the Human Race cultivators in forming their battle formation.

• Holy Mother Jinling suspected the killer had deliberately left a trace to lure the Human Race, but she and Guiling followed it anyway.
• Xiangliu prepared to draw Human Race Daluo Golden Immortals into his territory, hoping to strike at the Human Race's upper echelon.
• At Hunling City, Yu led five Daluo Golden Immortals and an army of Golden Immortals toward the suspected killer despite Yi's warning about a trap.
• Xiangliu concealed himself and surrounded the Human Race army with his giant python form, revealing his Quasi-Sage strength while Yi's scouting technique failed to detect him.
• Yu ordered the army to form a battle formation, and the Human Race cultivators drew on the Nine Provinces Barrier as a Savage Wilderness Giant appeared.

Xiangliu ambushed Yu and the Human Race’s battle formation, revealing that he could split into two Quasi-Sage-level bodies and overpower them despite the Nine Provinces Barrier. As the humans fell into a hidden formation beneath the battlefield, a new voice suddenly called out, “Turtle Roar Cannon.”

• Xiangliu escaped the Savage Wilderness Giant’s grasp and revealed that his two black pythons were the separated halves of one two-headed Quasi-Sage.
• Yu recognized that the Nine Provinces Barrier had neutralized Xiangliu’s poison attack, but the remote battlefield left the Human Race’s formation too weak to overcome him.
• Xiangliu merged his two bodies and fought the Savage Wilderness Giant, gradually suppressing the human battle formation.
• Yu told his comrades that reinforcements were coming, while Xiangliu’s four serpent eyes showed that his plan was succeeding.
• A sickly green formation appeared beneath Xiangliu and the Savage Wilderness Giant, and Yu and Yi realized it was the trap they had overlooked.
• As the humans saw a vision of a many-headed vicious beast and feared they were doomed, an unknown voice called out, “Turtle Roar Cannon.”

Holy Mother Guiling and Holy Mother Jinling arrived in time to destroy Xiangliu’s formation and join the Human Race’s battle against the Quasi-Sage. The chapter left them fighting Xiangliu’s two divided forms, with Jinling’s strike creating an opening for the humans to attack.

• Guiling launched her Spirit Turtle Hammer from ten thousand li away, shattering Xiangliu’s formation and disrupting his attempt to defeat the Human Race.
• Guiling and Jinling flew to the battlefield, where Xiangliu recognized them as Daluos and vowed to punish them for ruining his plans.
• Yu urged the two women to leave, but Xiangliu split into two giant pythons and sent one past the Human Race’s battle formation to attack them.
• Yu separated the golden divine dragon from the savage giant and sent it after the python, while Xiangliu’s other form fought the humans.
• Jinling struck the attacking python with her Dragon-Tiger Jade Ruyi, stunning it and giving the humans a chance to launch a fierce assault.

Guiling and Jinling joined the Human Race in fighting Xiangliu, but he had lured them to the edge of the Nine Provinces Barrier and used a hidden body and void runes to transport them all outside it. The group was swept beyond the barrier, where Xiangliu reunited his serpent bodies and emerged in his true nine-headed form.

• Guiling struck Xiangliu with the Spirit Turtle Hammer and her turtle breath while Jinling and the Savage Wilderness Giant helped hold him back.
• Xiangliu noticed the women’s powerful treasures and offered to let them leave, but Guiling and Jinling refused to abandon the Human Race.
• Yu and the human fighters charged Xiangliu, and their combined attacks with Jinling and Guiling temporarily suppressed him.
• Xiangliu secretly led the fight toward a chosen location, then used Witch Power and a second hidden serpent body to reveal void runes and transport everyone away.
• Xiangliu’s colossal body swept the Savage Wilderness Giant, Jinling, and Guiling outside the Nine Provinces Barrier, where he reunited his bodies and emerged as a nine-headed serpent.

Jinling, Guiling, and the Human Race’s fighters faced the restored Quasi-Sage Xiangliu after they were forced out of the Nine Provinces Barrier. Xiangliu poisoned the Savage Wilderness Giant and surrounded them with lethal poison, leaving their defenses close to collapse as Guiling insisted the fight was not over.

• The fighters were blasted out of the Nine Provinces Barrier, and Jinling and Guiling recognized Xiangliu in his restored nine-headed Great Witch form.
• Xiangliu accused the Human Race of helping the Heavenly Court ruin the Witch Race and attacked the Savage Wilderness Giant with poison that caused its fighters terrible pain.
• Jinling used the Dragon-Tiger Jade Ruyi to suppress the poison, while Yu urged Jinling and Guiling to flee and the Savage Wilderness Giant tried to hold Xiangliu back.
• Xiangliu spread poisonous Law Power across the surrounding land, killing countless living things and forcing Jinling to take over the strain of maintaining their defense.
• Jinling lamented that Xiangliu had obstructed her chance to break through, but Guiling told her the battle was not over yet.

Guiling combined seven Supreme-Grade Innate Spirit Treasures to summon the Black Tortoise True Body and fought Xiangliu to protect the Human Race. Though Xiangliu offered to spare the humans and return her treasures, Guiling refused to surrender and gathered power for another attack.

• Guiling recovered her Law Power, raised the Black Tortoise Shield Armor, and joined the Spirit Turtle Hammer, Linggui Whip, and four Heaven-Supporting Divine Pillars into the Black Tortoise True Body.
• The Black Tortoise True Body confronted Xiangliu and struck his poison domain with a turtle breath attack, meeting his nine beams of divine light in a stalemate.
• Xiangliu recognized the Black Tortoise and acknowledged Guiling as the strongest Daluo Golden Immortal, but said the gap between their realms kept her from hitting him.
• Xiangliu urged Guiling to stop fighting and promised in the Witch Race's name to spare the humans' time-space marks and return her treasures after their resurrection.
• The humans begged Guiling to stop, but she refused and gathered Law Power in the Black Tortoise's mouth for a Turtle Roar Cannon.

Guiling exhausted herself holding Xiangliu back so the humans could flee, and Jinling stayed to protect her as Xiangliu struck. A golden dragon rescued both women, while the Human Race returned in the Savage Wilderness Giant to face Xiangliu and fight.

• Guiling injured Xiangliu with the Turtle Roar Cannon, then urged Jinling and the humans to escape while she held him back.
• The humans ran toward the Nine Provinces Barrier, but Jinling refused to leave Guiling behind.
• Guiling's Black Tortoise true form dispersed as her strength gave out, and Jinling shielded her from Xiangliu's finishing strike.
• A golden dragon carried Jinling and Guiling toward the Nine Provinces Barrier while a Savage Wilderness Giant intercepted Xiangliu.
• Yu and the other human cultivators declared that the Human Race would not abandon its saviors, then called for battle.

Yu led the poisoned Human Race cultivators into the Nine Provinces Barrier, where its Human Path Karmic Fortune cured them. He then used the Human Path Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune to carry the barrier’s power beyond its boundary, sending the Savage Wilderness Giant back to aid Holy Mother Guiling and Holy Mother Jinling as observers recognized the Human Race’s growing military threat.

• Yu urged the suffering Human Race cultivators to reach the Nine Provinces Barrier so its Human Path Karmic Fortune could purge Xiangliu’s poison, and they strengthened their battle formation as the Savage Wilderness Giant rushed onward.
• Inside the Nine Provinces Barrier, Yu directed the Human Path Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune to cure the poison afflicting him and the other cultivators.
• Seeing Holy Mother Guiling fall and Xiangliu attack her and Holy Mother Jinling, Yu sent the golden dragon toward them and led the Savage Wilderness Giant back out of the barrier.
• Yu explained that the dragon’s tail remained inside the Nine Provinces Barrier, allowing the Human Race battle formation to retain and amplify its power beyond the barrier.
• Observers across the Primordial World, including Heavenly Emperor Haotian and Queen Mother Yaochi, realized that the Nine Provinces Barrier could serve as a power source for formidable Human Race battle formations.
• Haotian and Yaochi suspected that a Sage had secretly increased the barrier’s power, and they wondered why the Sage had intervened.

Heavenly Emperor Haotian and Queen Mother Yaochi suspected that Guiling’s powerful backing explained Fuxi’s intervention, while Fuxi quietly helped the Human Race’s battle formation. The formation used the Human Path Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune to thrash Xiangliu, leaving the watching mighty figures stunned and Ao Yang wondering whether this was the proper way to use a dragon-shaped Divine Ability.

• Heavenly Emperor Haotian and Queen Mother Yaochi concluded that Guiling’s power, treasures, and connection to the Heaven-Supporting Black Tortoise likely involved a Sage, explaining Fuxi’s intervention.
• Fuxi recognized Guiling’s hand in the Nine Provinces Barrier’s Secret Method and secretly altered the Human Race’s battle formation to improve its coordination.
• An unseen hand knocked Fuxi’s Eight Trigrams rune away from Yu, and the Savage Wilderness Giant seized the Human Path Golden Dragon of Karmic Fortune and used it to batter Xiangliu.
• Xiangliu accused Fuxi of bullying the weak, but Fuxi answered through the Savage Wilderness Giant and intensified the beating by drawing more power from the Nine Provinces Barrier.
• The mighty figures watching across the Primordial World were left speechless by Fuxi’s behavior, while Ao Yang watched the golden dragon and wondered whether it showed how to use the Dragon Race’s form.