Chapter Summaries

Lin Yunji crushed You Han’s body, captured her spirit, and confronted four Supremes who demanded her release. He refused Daoist Cangwu’s offer of one treasure and demanded ten, leaving the four Supremes threatening to oppose him.

• Lin Yunji revealed his Supreme power and destroyed You Han’s body with a single punch, breaking open a passage to Chaos.
• You Han tried to escape through the void vortex, but Lin Yunji sealed the area with the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and captured her with the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda.
• Daoist Cangwu arrived with three other Supremes and asked Lin Yunji to hand over You Han, explaining that she was his former disciple.
• Lin Yunji demanded compensation for You Han’s attack on his people, and Daoist Cangwu offered one Primordial Expanse Spirit Treasure.
• Lin Yunji rejected the offer and demanded ten Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasures, prompting the four Supremes to threaten him.

Lin Yunji fought four Supremes at once, defeated them with the Universe Furnace Cultivation Method, and captured two in the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda. After recovering from his injuries, he prepared to assess what he had gained.

• Daoist Cangwu and three other Supremes attacked Lin Yunji together, wielding Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasures.
• Lin Yunji sent out the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda, but the four Supremes injured him while one blocked his treasures.
• Lin Yunji unleashed the Universe Furnace Cultivation Method, shattered the four Supremes' treasures, and blasted apart their bodies.
• Lin Yunji captured two fleeing Supremes in the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda, while Daoist Cangwu and another escaped.
• Lin Yunji stayed above the shattered Sea of Hatred and healed for several thousand years as other Supremes watched.
• Lin Yunji fully recovered, sensed that his treasured body had grown stronger, and turned to assess his gains.

Lin Yunji examined the Sea of Hatred and broken treasures captured inside the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda, sending the usable fragments to repair his Jade Butterfly of Creation. He then confronted You Han, Jiu Lu, and Wuxiangzi, who were trapped and at his mercy, and asked how he should deal with them.

• Lin Yunji found that refining the Sea of Hatred's water and monsters produced blood-red crystals made from vitality and hatred, which he judged too dangerous to use for treasures or puppets.
• Lin Yunji sent the fragments of the Primordial Expanse Spirit Treasures and Supreme Treasures to be refined, then used the resulting materials to repair the Jade Butterfly of Creation.
• Lin Yunji brought the badly weakened You Han, Jiu Lu, and Wuxiangzi before him inside the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda.
• You Han, Jiu Lu, and Wuxiangzi bowed to Lin Yunji and addressed him as Dao Venerable or senior.
• Lin Yunji reminded the three Supremes of their arrogance and asked how he should deal with them.

Lin Yunji forced Jiu Lu and You Han to submit, while Wuxiangzi chose death rather than becoming his servant. On the fourth floor of the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda, Jiu Lu identified its destructive vortex as resembling a World-Destroying Millstone, leading Lin Yunji to suspect it was a reflection of a Universe Millstone.

• Jiu Lu begged Lin Yunji to spare his life and pledged to serve him, and You Han also submitted, offering to become his dao companion before Lin Yunji vomited and kicked her down.
• Wuxiangzi rejected submission and asked Lin Yunji to kill him quickly, but Lin Yunji seized him and took him along with Jiu Lu and You Han.
• Lin Yunji led Jiu Lu and Wuxiangzi to the pagoda's fourth floor, where Jiu Lu recognized the destructive vortex as resembling the Great World-Destroying Millstone.
• Jiu Lu explained that a world's accumulated karmic ties and killing karma could form a millstone that destroyed the world and returned it to Chaos.
• Lin Yunji connected the fourth floor's vortex to the Universe Furnace Reflection on the fifth floor and suspected it was a Universe Millstone Reflection, leaving him wondering about the pagoda's origins.

Lin Yunji killed Wuxiangzi, bound Jiu Lu and You Han with seals that would destroy their primordial spirits if they betrayed him, and began draining the Sea of Hatred. In the Primordial World, visitors from beyond the heavens stayed on the Mystic Wood Boat, while powerful figures reincarnated among the Human Race to compete for the Human Emperor's throne.

• Lin Yunji cast Wuxiangzi's primordial spirit into the great vortex, where it was ground into essence Qi as Jiu Lu and You Han watched.
• Lin Yunji sealed a strike inside each of Jiu Lu and You Han's primordial spirit seas of consciousness to prevent them from betraying him.
• Lin Yunji released Jiu Lu and You Han, then used the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda to absorb the Sea of Hatred and turn its waters into blood-colored crystals.
• Lin Yunji observed that Gu Yuankan and the other Hunyuan Great Dao Sages had arrived in the Primordial World aboard the Mystic Wood Boat and were behaving cautiously.
• As the Shennong Clan succeeded the Fuxi Clan as Human Emperor, powerful figures reincarnated into the Human Race to contend for the throne and its chance to attain Sagehood.

The Human Race fell into discord under the Shennong Clan, who sought help from the retired sages at Fire Cloud Cave. Lin Yunji arrived, affirmed that he would not intervene in Human affairs, and returned to Snail Emperor Palace, where the Hunyuan Great Dao Sages gathered to congratulate him on his victory.

• The reincarnated contenders stirred tribal rivalries, leaving the Shennong Clan unable to enforce his decrees across the Human Race.
• The Shennong Clan sought an audience at Fire Cloud Cave, but Suirenshi and the others told him they had retired and could not interfere.
• Lin Yunji arrived and told Suirenshi and the others that he had killed one of his five enemies, captured two, and driven off the rest.
• Lin Yunji told the Shennong Clan to govern the Human Race himself and declined to intervene in its affairs.
• Lin Yunji urged Suirenshi and the others to visit Snail Emperor Palace, then returned there and received congratulations from Gu Yuankan and the other Hunyuan Great Dao Sages.

After defeating five Supremes, Lin Yunji learned that passing the Supreme Hall’s trial could grant him entry to the ruins of the Ancient Source Realm, a place he wanted to explore. His companions asked when they could leave the Primordial World, and he revealed that he planned to drain the Sea of Hatred, a task expected to take about a hundred thousand years.

• Lin Yunji’s companions praised his victory over five Supremes, and Jilesheng urged him to visit the Supreme Hall to earn a chance to enter the Ancient Realm.
• Daoist Bailou explained that the Ancient Realm was the vast, dangerous ruin of the shattered Ancient Source Realm, accessible safely only through the Supreme Hall.
• Lin Yunji said he might explore the Ancient Realm, and he promised Daoist Bailou and the others he would take them along if he gained entry.
• Gu Yuankan asked when the group could leave the Primordial World, and Lin Yunji said he was draining the Sea of Hatred to help the nearby heavens, investigate its depths, and refine Blood Sha Puppets.
• Lin Yunji estimated that draining the Sea of Hatred would take about a hundred thousand years, and Gu Yuankan and the others were relieved and praised his Divine Ability.

The Shennong Clan struggled to hold the fracturing Human Race together as Human Emperor. When the East Sea Dragon King killed his daughter Jingwei, the Shennong Clan learned the truth and rose in fury, taking up the Reddish-Brown Whip.

• The Shennong Clan failed to unite the Human Race's tribes, and his rule grew increasingly difficult.
• The East Sea Dragon King mocked the Human Race and led his retinue toward the Eastern Victorious Divine Continent.
• The East Sea Dragon King swept a little girl into the sea, where she drowned and transformed into the divine bird Jingwei.
• The Shennong Clan heard Jingwei's name, divined that the East Sea Dragon Race had killed her, and took up his Reddish-Brown Whip.

After Shennong Clan boiled the East Sea in revenge for Jingwei’s death, the Heavenly Dao stripped him of the Human Emperor’s position and imperial treasures. Lin Yunji saved Jingwei, cleansed Shennong Clan of his karmic sin, and sent him into seclusion at Fire Cloud Cave, while the East Sea Dragon King was left terrified of Lin Yunji.

• Shennong Clan hurled the Reddish-Brown Whip into the East Sea and began boiling its waters, killing countless sea creatures.
• Nüwo revealed that she had transformed Jingwei into a black bird, and Lin Yunji restored Jingwei to human form before Nüwo sent her to stay at the Snail Emperor Palace with Lingzhuzi.
• Old Ancestor Hongjun stripped Shennong Clan of the Human Emperor’s position and treasures, reducing his power to that of an Early-stage Daluo Golden Immortal.
• The East Sea Dragon King celebrated Shennong Clan’s fall and threatened to torture and eat him, but Lin Yunji’s cold snort left the Dragon King injured and trembling.
• Lin Yunji removed Shennong Clan’s karmic sin, told him Jingwei had been saved, and sent him to Fire Cloud Cave with Primordial Expanse purple qi.
• Shennong Clan accepted his fate and left for Fire Cloud Cave, while the East Sea Dragon King remained terrified after Lin Yunji appeared.

The four Sea Dragon Kings submitted to the Heavenly Court for protection, while the Human Race descended into civil war after Shennong Clan vanished. The Yellow Emperor defeated Chiyou and became a Great Emperor of the Human Race, but Lin Yunji withheld the Human Emperor’s authority; the Five Emperors period began, and the Yellow Emperor later passed his position to Zhuanxu.

• The East Sea Dragon King persuaded his brothers to submit the four seas to Jade Emperor Haotian, who appointed them Water Ministry Orthodox Gods under the Water Virtue Star Lord.
• After Shennong Clan disappeared, Human Race tribes fought over the vacant throne, and Chiyou’s Nine Li Tribe launched its first attack.
• Following years of war, the Yellow Emperor’s Youxiong Tribe defeated Chiyou’s Nine Li Tribe at Zhuolu, and the Yellow Emperor killed Chiyou.
• The Yellow Emperor sought the Human Emperor’s title at the Sacred Temple, but Lin Yunji appointed him only a Great Emperor of the Human Race.
• The Five Emperors period began, and after serving for a time, the Yellow Emperor passed his position to his grandson Zhuanxu.

After draining the Sea of Hatred, Lin Yunji discovered a nameless Supreme’s tomb exposed in the void. When he opened it, a burly figure attacked him, and Lin Yunji gained the upper hand in their clash.

• Lin Yunji finished draining the Sea of Hatred in less than twenty thousand years and inspected the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda, where the Jade Butterfly of Creation was repairing itself and more than ten thousand Blood Sha Puppets had been refined.
• Lin Yunji estimated that refining the remaining seawater could yield at least thirty thousand Blood Sha Puppets, though he lacked a suitable formation for them.
• Lin Yunji sensed a great tomb exposed beneath the former Sea of Hatred and found a nameless gravestone outside it.
• Lin Yunji burst open the burial mound, but a massive pitch-black palm emerged and struck at him.
• A burly figure leapt from the shattered tomb and attacked Lin Yunji, who crushed the figure’s arm in their clash.
• The burly figure acknowledged that Lin Yunji’s strength surpassed his in a contest of physical bodies.

Lin Yunji met Shi Mang, who had been living in a tomb built for his deceased friend, and learned that the Sea of Hatred had been formed from the friend’s flesh, blood, and hatred. Lin Yunji continued toward Ancestor Wujie’s Dao Field but had to wait in the Cansha Divine Domain because dangerous boundary tides blocked the way.

• Shi Mang restored Lin Yunji’s shattered arm and explained that the tomb held his deceased friend, whose remains had been destroyed in a battle between Supremes.
• Shi Mang thanked Lin Yunji for draining the Sea of Hatred and offered him the Twelve Realms Stone Bell, but Lin Yunji refused to accept the treasure without earning it.
• Shi Mang introduced himself, invited Lin Yunji to visit the Great Sage Realm, and departed for his ancestral land.
• Lin Yunji headed toward Lesser Central Heaven on his way to Mysterious Heaven and Ancestor Wujie’s Dao Field.
• Lin Yunji reached the Cansha Divine Domain but stayed because active boundary tides made crossing into Mysterious Heaven too dangerous.
• Lin Yunji released the Three Pure Ones, Daoist Bailou, Nüwo, and the others to explore the Source Realm while they waited.

Lin Yunji sent the Three Pure Ones into the Source Realm with life-saving divine light, then explored its bustling worlds with Nüwo and the others. On a shopping street, they noticed an Innate Spirit Treasure hidden among a stall’s ordinary wares, and a Daoist in azure robes bought it without the stallholder realizing its value.

• Lin Yunji gave Laozi, Cult Master Tongtian, and Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi life-saving divine light before they departed to travel until the Realm Tide began to subside.
• Lin Yunji took Nüwo and the others sightseeing while Daoist Mosquito, Zhen Yuanzi, and the others stayed behind to cultivate in the Primordial World.
• Lin Yunji and his companions explored a mortal kingdom in the Source Realm, where cultivators and merchants traded openly in busy streets.
• Bixiao spotted an Innate Spirit Treasure disguised among ordinary Law Treasures at a stall, and Lin Yunji said its discovery depended on fortuitous opportunity.
• A Daoist in azure robes selected several Law Treasures, including the hidden Innate Spirit Treasure, and paid the stallholder two Chaos Origin Stones.

Lin Yunji gave the blue-robed Daoist a Chaos Spirit Treasure to settle a dispute, prompting Bixiao and the others to realize they had no treasures of that level. He then equipped Nüwo and the others with Primordial Expanse Spirit Treasures and assured them that Cult Master Tongtian and the others already had powerful weapons.

• Bixiao called out the blue-robed Daoist for trying to take advantage of the stall owner, who then refused to sell him the item.
• Lin Yunji apologized and gave the blue-robed Daoist a Chaos Spirit Treasure, earning the Daoist's thanks and apology to Bixiao.
• Nüwo and the others complained that they had no Chaos Spirit Treasures, so Lin Yunji refined and gave each of them an ordinary Primordial Expanse Spirit Treasure.
• Nüwo and the others named their new treasures and worried that Cult Master Tongtian and the others lacked weapons to face powerful enemies.
• Lin Yunji assured them that he had already prepared high-grade Primordial Expanse Spirit Treasures for Cult Master Tongtian, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, and Laozi.

Lin Yunji promised Nüwo and the others treasures, then joined the many cultivators gathered to hear Patriarch Cansha lecture on the Great Dao. The lecture began with a display of the Supreme’s power that gradually raised the listeners’ cultivation.

• Lin Yunji promised to prepare Primordial Expanse Spirit Treasures for Nüwo and the others once they reached the Hunyuan Great Dao Sage realm, and spoke of exploring the Ancient Source Realm for greater treasures.
• Lin Yunji and the women traveled to Patriarch Cansha’s cultivation grounds after hearing that he would lecture on the Great Dao for cultivators stranded by the realm tide.
• Lin Yunji found more than a thousand Hunyuan Great Dao Sages gathered near the Source Realm barrier, and many more arrived over the next five hundred years.
• Cult Master Tongtian and his two companions joined Lin Yunji’s group, and they shared stories of their travels and battles.
• Lin Yunji brought Zhen Yuanzi, Daoist Mosquito, Suirenshi, and others from the Primordial World to hear Patriarch Cansha’s lecture.
• Patriarch Cansha preached the Great Dao, and lotus blossoms formed from his Law Power fell on the listeners and gradually raised their cultivation.

After Patriarch Cansha’s sermon ended, Lin Yunji visited him and learned why the Realm Tide had swept him into Lesser Central Heaven. Their conversation turned to the lost Ancient Source Realm and Immortal Venerable Hongluo, leaving Lin Yunji with the cryptic idea that a path might broaden where none seemed to exist.

• Patriarch Cansha ended his thirty-thousand-year sermon, which greatly advanced Nüwo and the other listeners’ cultivation.
• Lin Yunji took the Three Pure Ones and the others to visit Patriarch Cansha, whose cultivation ground welcomed him and whose greeting revealed that Lin Yunji was a Supreme.
• Lin Yunji told Patriarch Cansha that the Realm Tide had swept him into Lesser Central Heaven, and Patriarch Cansha explained that the expanding Source Realm periodically caused such tides.
• Patriarch Cansha recalled the Ancient Source Realm’s destruction and said that Immortal Venerable Hongluo had once stood far beyond his reach.
• When Lin Yunji asked whether Hongluo had surpassed the Supreme realm, Patriarch Cansha said there should be no path above Supreme, yet the absence of a path could make it broader.

Patriarch Cansha told Lin Yunji that draining the Sea of Hatred had disturbed the conflict between Supreme Shi Mang and White Dragon Battle Venerable, who had killed Xuan Luo and sworn to kill Shi Mang. The chapter left Lin Yunji and his companions warned that White Dragon Battle Venerable might target them over their involvement.

• Patriarch Cansha praised Lin Yunji for draining the Sea of Hatred and explained that an old dispute had kept him from doing so himself.
• Patriarch Cansha recounted how White Dragon Battle Venerable killed his disciples’ former fellow, Xuan Luo, after turning against Xuan Luo and Shi Mang.
• Patriarch Cansha explained that Shi Mang fought White Dragon Battle Venerable for nearly a hundred thousand years, then sealed himself in Xuan Luo’s tomb after the battle reached a stalemate.
• Lin Yunji realized that disturbing the Sea of Hatred might have entangled him and Little Yezi in Shi Mang and White Dragon Battle Venerable’s feud.
• Nüwo, Laozi, and Cult Master Tongtian worried that White Dragon Battle Venerable might retaliate against Lin Yunji, and Patriarch Cansha urged him to be careful.

Lin Yunji traveled to Mysterious Heaven and attacked Ancestor Wujie's Dao field, only to be caught in a trap prepared by Wujie and two other Supremes. After they unleashed their formation's attacks, Lin Yunji broke through its barrier and confronted them again.

• Lin Yunji thanked Patriarch Cansha, discussed cultivation and the Ancient Source Realm with him, then left as the realm tide ended.
• Lin Yunji entered Mysterious Heaven, concealed his karma and Qi signature, and followed Old Daoist Bailou to Ancestor Wujie's domain.
• Lin Yunji destroyed the Wujie Dao Field with a giant palm and called Ancestor Wujie out.
• Ancestor Wujie revealed that he had prepared a formation after sensing murderous intent, and two other Supremes joined him in attacking Lin Yunji with sword light, saber light, and flames.
• The three Supremes prepared to finish off their supposedly wounded enemy, but Lin Yunji struck the sealed spatial barrier with a beam of fist light and shattered it.

Lin Yunji defeated Ancestor Wujie and his two allies, capturing them and taking the Hunyuan Thousand-Mechanism Umbrella. After learning they had repeatedly caused trouble in the Primordial World, he decided to kill the three Supremes rather than risk adding them to his followers.

• The Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda overwhelmed Ancestor Wujie and the other two Supremes, capturing one in the pagoda.
• Lin Yunji emerged from the barrier, defeated the remaining Supremes, captured their souls, and bound Ancestor Wujie to preserve his umbrella.
• Lin Yunji suppressed the Hunyuan Thousand-Mechanism Umbrella and sealed it in the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda.
• Lin Yunji released Old Daoist Bailou, and Ancestor Wujie realized Lin Yunji had come from the Primordial World.
• Lin Yunji explained that Ancestor Wujie’s people had repeatedly stirred up trouble in the Primordial World and rejected his offer of compensation.
• Lin Yunji chose not to subdue Ancestor Wujie and the other captives, telling Ancestor Wujie he would kill him.

Lin Yunji killed Ancestor Wujie and received new quests to build influence in the Source Realm and collect the Chaos Pearls. He used the system’s radar to locate Ancestor Wujie’s hidden pearls and discovered the small world held in the ancestor’s ring, where his descendants feared his death.

• Lin Yunji destroyed Ancestor Wujie’s body and used the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda to eliminate his soul and primordial spirit.
• The system rewarded Lin Yunji for killing Ancestor Wujie and triggered quests to increase his influence and collect 129,600 Chaos Pearls.
• Lin Yunji considered entering the Supreme Hall to raise his reputation and learned that his Chaos Pearl quest had a reward of the Heart of the Source Realm.
• The system gave Lin Yunji a Chaos Pearl Radar, which showed three nearby pearls that he believed Ancestor Wujie had hidden.
• Lin Yunji followed the radar to Ancestor Wujie’s ring, broke its seal, and found a small world inhabited by the ancestor’s descendants, who were terrified as his statues cracked.