Chapter Summaries

Lin Yunji and his companions reached the life gate’s formation foundation, where he defeated its Supreme-level puppet guardian and destroyed the stone platform. He discovered that the Great Slaughter Divine Halberd had belonged to the fallen Heavenly Venerable Fanti and claimed the ownerless weapon.

• Lin Yunji and his companions forced their way through the formation and arrived at the life gate’s foundation.
• The Earth Evil Divine General emerged and warned Lin Yunji to leave, revealing himself as a Supreme-level puppet.
• Lin Yunji crushed the Earth Evil Divine General, smashed the stone platform, and pulled out the Great Slaughter Divine Halberd.
• Lin Yunji learned that the halberd had belonged to Heavenly Venerable Fanti, whose entrusted primordial spirit had dissipated after his death.
• Lin Yunji tested the halberd’s power, making the void tremble as if it could collapse.

Lin Yunji and the others met Heavenly Venerable Fanti, who explained that he was caught between life and death after being killed in the Source Realm Great Tribulation. He revealed that the disaster was caused by someone shattering the Source Realm’s Heart and then ambushing the realm’s leaders with an attack from beyond space and time.

• Lin Yunji realized Heavenly Venerable Fanti’s imprint and primordial spirit had vanished, while Fanti explained that he was neither fully alive nor dead.
• Shi Mang recognized Fanti as a lingering existence, and Fanti recalled seeing Shi Mang when he was a newly attained Hunyuan Sage.
• Fanti told Lin Yunji and the others that the Source Realm Great Tribulation was caused by people, not a natural disaster.
• Lin Yunji identified his Chaos Pearl as a fragment of the Heart of the Source Realm after Fanti said someone had shattered it.
• Fanti explained that an unknown attacker ambushed and killed the Lords of the Astral Realms with a precise strike from beyond space and time.

Heavenly Venerable Fanti told Lin Yunji and the others about the Source Realm’s collapse and identified Immortal Venerable Hongluo as one of the five Origin Venerables who saved it. He explained that Supreme Primordial Unity had three stages and began describing the first two, leaving the remaining stages unexplained.

• Heavenly Venerable Fanti said he intended to confront the man who killed him and asked about the Source Realm’s current state.
• Shi Mang told Heavenly Venerable Fanti that the old Source Realm had shattered and that five Origin Venerables had moved the Vermilion Bird Spirit Platform Star Domain to form the new Source Realm.
• Heavenly Venerable Fanti guessed that Immortal Venerable Hongluo was one of the five Origin Venerables and said she had likely survived.
• Lin Yunji asked whether Immortal Venerables stood above the Supreme realm, and Heavenly Venerable Fanti explained that Supreme Primordial Unity had different stages rather than a separate higher realm.
• Lin Yunji, Shi Mang, Nüwo, You Han, and Jiu Lu asked to hear Heavenly Venerable Fanti’s insights, and he described the first stage as gaining momentum and the second as independence.

Heavenly Venerable Fanti explained the stages beyond the Supreme realm, helping Lin Yunji recognize the Universe Furnace Cultivation Method as his path forward. After giving Lin Yunji and Shi Mang the treasures they had found and refusing to leave his Daoist temple, Fanti saw them depart; on their return, they encountered Chang Yanzi as a wandering corpse monster.

• Heavenly Venerable Fanti described the second and third stages beyond the Supreme realm and advised Shi Mang to keep tempering his body and building combat power.
• Lin Yunji realized that advancing the Universe Furnace Cultivation Method to its fourth level could be his path beyond the Supreme realm.
• Lin Yunji described Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable and Kunsheng, and Heavenly Venerable Fanti assessed their likely stages of cultivation.
• Lin Yunji and Shi Mang offered the Great Slaughter Divine Halberd and Mystic Origin Treasure Seal to Heavenly Venerable Fanti, but he let them keep both as gifts.
• Heavenly Venerable Fanti refused to go to the Source Realm, choosing to remain in his Daoist temple and continue cultivating; Lin Yunji and the others left and encountered Chang Yanzi wandering as a corpse monster.

Lin Yunji decided to capture Chang Yanzi’s corpse monster and test whether it could regain intelligence, despite Jiu Lu’s fears. After planning to strip it of its six Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasures and fight it outside, Lin Yunji revealed himself and challenged the monster, which fixed all its eyes on him.

• Lin Yunji and his companions watched Chang Yanzi’s corpse monster preach the Great Dao, guided by memories lingering in its shell.
• Lin Yunji proposed taking the corpse monster with them to see whether it could regain intelligence, and Shi Mang agreed it was worth trying.
• Lin Yunji and Shi Mang planned to fight the monster together, knock away its six Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasures, and lure it outside to avoid the tribulation waves.
• Lin Yunji canceled the Jade Butterfly of Creation’s concealment and appeared before the monster, then shouted at it as every eye on its body turned toward him.

Lin Yunji and his allies captured the corpse monster Chang Yanzi after stripping it of the six Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasures. Lin Yunji divided three damaged treasures among his companions and left them to be repaired in the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda.

• Lin Yunji lured the corpse monster out of the ruins and fought it using the Universe Furnace, the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda, and the Jade Butterfly of Creation.
• Shi Mang, Nüwo, Jiu Lu, and the others ambushed the corpse monster and repeatedly knocked the treasures from its hands while Lin Yunji kept it occupied.
• Lin Yunji bound the weakened corpse monster with the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu and imprisoned it inside the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda.
• Lin Yunji examined the six damaged treasures and chose a sword, a pillar, and a great seal for Nüwo, You Han, and Jiu Lu.
• Lin Yunji said he would repair the three treasures inside the pagoda before giving them to his companions, and You Han and Jiu Lu thanked him.

Lin Yunji and the others returned to the Great Fault, where Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun revealed a Heaven-Stealing Rat they had found in an old Supreme's Daoist sanctuary. Shi Mang realized the rat had lived for at least a hundred billion years and must have existed before the Ancient Realm was destroyed.

• Lin Yunji offered to help Shi Mang repair his damaged Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasures, but Shi Mang declined and planned to ask an old friend skilled in refinement.
• Lin Yunji and the others returned to the Great Fault, where Zhen Yuanzi, Hongyun, and several Primordial Wilderness Sages greeted them.
• Lin Yunji told the Sages about their encounter with Heavenly Venerable Fanti, and the Sages marveled at his ability to return even after his primordial spirit was destroyed.
• Zhen Yuanzi explained that he and Hongyun had found something special in a previously discovered Supreme's Daoist sanctuary, then brought out a Heaven-Stealing Rat.
• Shi Mang examined the Heaven-Stealing Rat and concluded that it had lived for at least a hundred billion years, making it a creature from before the Ancient Realm was destroyed.

Lin Yunji examined the treasures Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi found with the Heaven-Stealing Rat and identified an undamaged Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasure, which he agreed to safeguard for them. After waiting fifty thousand years at the Great Fault, Lin Yunji wondered how to advance his Great Dao cultivation and break through the fourth level of the Universe Furnace Cultivation Method.

• Shi Mang released the Heaven-Stealing Rat, and Zhen Yuanzi comforted the frightened creature.
• Hongyun revealed more than a hundred artifacts the Heaven-Stealing Rat had helped them find, and Lin Yunji used the Heaven-Monitoring Hall to identify their grades.
• Lin Yunji awakened a bronze mirror and discovered it was an undamaged Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasure; he refused to take it and offered to safeguard it until Hongyun and Zhen Yuanzi reached a higher cultivation realm.
• Lin Yunji praised the others for leaving the dangerous Ancient Realm after finding their gains, then checked through the Heaven-Monitoring Hall and confirmed that Cult Master Tongtian was safe.
• Lin Yunji and the others cultivated and waited at the Great Fault for fifty thousand years; Lin Yunji then struggled to find a way to advance his Great Dao cultivation and the Universe Furnace Cultivation Method.

Lin Yunji discovered that refining his body inside the Universe Furnace could break the limit on his strength, while Old Daoist Bailou returned from the Ancient Realm with a flower garden entrusted to him by a Supreme’s undying thought. The garden held one of the few surviving pockets of life in the Ancient Realm Ruins.

• Lin Yunji used the Universe Furnace to temper his physical body and found that it had grown slightly stronger, giving him a path to advance beyond Supreme Primordial Unity.
• Lin Yunji and the others cultivated in seclusion for fifty thousand years as Primordial World Sages explored near the Great Fault, with some failing to return.
• A group of visitors passed Lin Yunji and the others near the Great Fault without greeting them.
• Old Daoist Bailou returned and told Lin Yunji that he had met a peaceful Supreme’s undying thought who taught him the Great Dao and entrusted him with her garden.
• Old Daoist Bailou showed Lin Yunji a small world filled with countless immortal flowers and spirit herbs, many of which had formed spirits.

Old Daoist Bailou decided to return to his ancestral land, tend the Flower Venerable’s garden, and let go of his obsession with cultivation. Lin Yunji learned that Houtu and the Changxi sisters remained missing, then sensed his mark activate and rushed toward them as his Supreme Dharma body appeared in the Ancient Realm Ruins.

• Old Daoist Bailou told Lin Yunji he would protect the flower garden and establish a Daoist sanctuary in his ancestral land.
• Lin Yunji said most people had returned, but Houtu, the Changxi sisters, and his master and martial uncle were still missing.
• Houtu and the Changxi sisters escaped a hidden formation and reached an abandoned Supreme’s sanctuary, where other groups arrived and fought them and Cult Master Tongtian’s companions.
• Lin Yunji sensed the mark he had placed on one of his loved ones activate, became enraged, and sped away.
• Lin Yunji’s Supreme Dharma body appeared from Houtu and confronted the Great Dao Sages attacking her group.

Lin Yunji's Law Body destroyed the Great Dao Sages who attacked him, then fled with Cult Master Tongtian and the others when he sensed a powerful elder approaching. The elder killed Lin Yunji's Law Body with a single arrow and reached for the six survivors, leaving them to fight for their lives.

• The Great Dao Sages attacked Lin Yunji's Law Body, but he blocked them and merged six Law Bodies into one.
• Lin Yunji's Law Body crushed the Great Dao Sages and gathered Cult Master Tongtian and the others into his palm world to flee.
• A distant elder shot Lin Yunji's Law Body with a light arrow, piercing and destroying it.
• Houtu urged Cult Master Tongtian and the others to flee in different directions, but the elder reached for them with a huge hand.
• Cult Master Tongtian roared and sent four Primordial Expanse Spirit Treasure swords toward the elder's palm.

Lin Yunji drove off the Supreme by hurling the burning Heaven-Reaching Jianmu at him, forcing him to flee rather than risk death. Lin Yunji reunited with Cult Master Tongtian and the others, who had escaped the Supreme's attack, and vowed to kill him if they met again.

• Lin Yunji's green Jianmu branch pierced the Supreme's massive palm, and he followed with a barrage of Jianmu spears aimed at the Supreme.
• The Supreme used the Primordial Expanse Cloud-Mist Kasaya to conceal himself and evade the spears, but Lin Yunji prepared to destroy the whole area with the burning Heaven-Reaching Jianmu.
• Fearing Lin Yunji's world-ending strike, the Supreme offered to spare Cult Master Tongtian and the others, then fled into the Ancient Realm Ruins when Lin Yunji refused to stop.
• Lin Yunji extinguished the flames, stored the damaged Heaven-Reaching Jianmu in the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda for repair, and went to meet Cult Master Tongtian and the others.
• Cult Master Tongtian, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi, Xihe, and Changxi reunited with Lin Yunji and explained that the leaked presence of Houtu's excavated abode had drawn the Supreme's group to them.
• Lin Yunji vowed to kill the Supreme if they met again, while Changxi laughed and Cult Master Tongtian praised his disciple.

Lin Yunji and his companions entered Immortal Venerable Heishen’s cultivation ground and met the surviving Dharma body of its former owner. He accepted Heishen’s black fork and jade tablet, promising to find an heir for the Black Water Supreme Art and give the fork to that heir if they became a Supreme.

• Lin Yunji destroyed the ruined formation around the cultivation ground and led Houtu and the others inside.
• A weak Dharma body appeared and explained that he was the remnant of the fallen Supreme who owned the cultivation ground.
• The Dharma body revealed that his original self was Immortal Venerable Heishen, a Chaos spirit fish who had died in the Ancient Realm’s calamity.
• Heishen gave Lin Yunji his black fork, a treasure from his former life.
• Heishen entrusted Lin Yunji with a jade tablet containing the Black Water Supreme Art and asked him to find someone to inherit it.
• Lin Yunji promised to give the fork to the heir if they attained the Dao and became a Supreme, and Heishen bowed in gratitude.

After the old ghost disappeared, Lin Yunji honored his memory by burying Black God Supreme’s Dao ground and returned from the Ancient Realm with his companions. Back in the Supreme Hall, its spirit praised Lin Yunji’s rapid cultivation and predicted that he could soon surpass Daruo.

• Lin Yunji told the others about Heavenly Venerable Fanti, then buried and concealed Black God Supreme’s Dao ground beneath a tomb and protective formation.
• Lin Yunji returned to the Great Fault and told Shi Mang that he had fought Divine Venerable Canghai and killed several of his disciples; Shi Mang warned him about a powerful elder in Mountain and Sea Heaven.
• Lin Yunji and his companions left the Ancient Realm and, guided by Shi Mang, used the Supreme Hall’s power to return.
• The Supreme Hall Spirit noticed Lin Yunji’s improved cultivation, compared him favorably to Daruo, and said Lin Yunji might soon defeat Daruo’s true body.

Supreme Daruo was nearing the Source Realm when a moon-white-robed man calling himself Taixuan suppressed him with one palm. Taixuan then defeated Supremes across the Source Realm, while Shi Mang’s arrival brought Lin Yunji out of a million years of secluded cultivation.

• Supreme Daruo calculated that he was about ten years from returning to the Source Realm and vowed revenge on his enemies.
• Taixuan appeared before Supreme Daruo and sent him flying with a single palm strike.
• Taixuan entered Demon Venerable Donglai’s secluded palace and crushed him with a palm.
• Taixuan fought Patriarch Cansha, destroyed his Dao grounds, and left his whereabouts unknown.
• Rumors spread that Taixuan had challenged Supremes across the Source Realm and defeated them decisively.
• Shi Mang arrived at Lin Yunji’s Dao grounds, and Lin Yunji emerged from the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda looking gaunt but more powerful than before.

Lin Yunji showed the Three Lives, Three Worlds flower to the gathered figures at Purple Cloud Palace, trapping them in memories of three reincarnations and helping many improve their cultivation. He later established passageways between the Primordial World and the Source Realm, then secluded himself to cultivate toward the fourth level of the Universe Furnace, where he spent a million years.

• Lin Yunji opened the Three Lives, Three Worlds flower, whose sprouting, blooming, and withering showed the gathered figures three cycles of reincarnation.
• Lin Yunji explained that the others were temporarily immersed in memories spanning up to 360,000 years, then left with Nüwo and his companions.
• After more than a hundred years, the figures at Purple Cloud Palace awakened and departed; many had advanced, and some had become Sages.
• Lin Yunji collected Exchange Points, listed Source Realm treasures on the Divine Net, and built teleportation arrays linking the Primordial World and the Source Realm.
• Lin Yunji spent time with Nüwo, then entered seclusion to temper himself with the Universe Furnace Reflection and pursue its fourth level.
• After a million years, Lin Yunji had grown accustomed to the furnace’s refinement, while Nüwo and the others continued cultivating in the Source Realm.

Lin Yunji gathered the Primordial World's mighty cultivators at the Purple Cloud Palace to announce plans for a passage to the outside and to share discounted Supreme cultivation methods. He then revealed a wondrous Primordial Expanse flower, leaving its significance unexplained.

• Yang Zai and True Person Yuding learned that Dao Ancestor Hongjun had summoned cultivators at the Quasi-Sage realm and above to the Purple Cloud Palace.
• Cultivators from across the Primordial World arrived and were astonished to find Lin Yunji and his companions already seated inside.
• Lin Yunji said he wanted to open a direct passage between the Primordial World and the outside so its cultivators could explore and exchange with the Source Realm.
• Lin Yunji gave the assembled cultivators jade slips containing Supreme cultivation methods and announced that they would be available on the Divine Net at half price.
• Lin Yunji produced a box and told everyone it held a Primordial Expanse flower that sprouted, bloomed, and withered in three breaths.

After returning to the Primordial World, Lin Yunji found that it had matured and expanded while he was away. True Person Yuding and Yang San debated whether Yang San should use a Jianmu Spirit Fruit to become a Sage or continue pursuing the path of attaining the Dao through strength, before the Heavenly Dao summoned all Quasi-Sages and above to the Purple Cloud Palace.

• Lin Yunji and his companions returned to the Great Sage Realm, and Lin Yunji took Nüwo and the others back to the Primordial World.
• The Primordial World had grown to more than twice its former size, its Heavenly Court order had stabilized, and its cultivators had accumulated many Exchange Points and claimed the treasures on Lin Yunji's exchange list.
• True Person Yuding emerged as a Hunyuan Daluo Sage, and Yang Zai congratulated his master.
• True Person Yuding offered Yang Zai a Jianmu Spirit Fruit but warned that using it might interfere with Yang Zai's cultivation of the Eight-Nine Mystical Art and his path to attaining the Dao through strength.
• Yang San considered whether to use the fruit or continue cultivating, while True Person Yuding noted that Lin Yunji could have advised him if he had returned.
• The Heavenly Dao summoned everyone in the Primordial World at the Quasi-Sage realm or above to the Purple Cloud Palace.

After a million years of refining himself, Lin Yunji emerged with a greatly increased cultivation and learned that Supreme Taixuan had defeated Kunsheng and was heading to the Great Sage Realm. Shi Mang reported that Great Venerable Tianhuang wanted to join forces with them to suppress Taixuan.

• Lin Yunji restored his appearance and revealed that his cultivation had advanced, though he still needed to absorb Chaos Essence Qi to replenish himself.
• Shi Mang praised Lin Yunji's progress and explained that Heavenly Venerable Fanti's answers had inspired his own gains.
• Lin Yunji welcomed Shi Mang into his flourishing Dao Field, where Nüwo joined their conversation.
• Nüwo and Shi Mang told Lin Yunji that Supreme Taixuan had swept through the Source Realm, defeated Kunsheng, and escaped an ambush by several Supremes.
• Shi Mang said that Great Venerable Tianhuang had contacted him to propose joining forces against Taixuan in the Great Sage Realm.

Lin Yunji agreed to join Shi Mang and the Great Sage Realm Supremes in an ambush against Supreme Taixuan, then went to the void of Chaos to restore his strength. As the Supremes gathered in Great Venerable Tianhuang’s emptied domain, Taixuan detected their plan and set out to confront them first.

• Shi Mang asked Lin Yunji to help ambush Taixuan, and Lin Yunji agreed to fight alongside the Great Sage Realm Supremes.
• Lin Yunji entered the void of Chaos and absorbed vast amounts of Chaos Essence Qi to replenish his depleted body.
• Taixuan noticed Lin Yunji’s immense absorption, discovered the Great Sage Realm’s ambush plan with an ancient mirror, and entered the Source Realm barrier.
• Great Venerable Tianhuang moved the worlds in his domain away so the gathered Supremes could use the barren region as a battlefield.
• Tianhuang, Shi Mang, Supreme Xichen, and the other Supremes discussed their forces and Xiangci’s refusal to join, while Tianhuang claimed Taixuan targeted weaker opponents.