Chapter Summaries

Lin Yunji and the other venerables began placing the Twelve Great Realm-Suppressing Pillars throughout the Primordial Sea so they could pull it free and collapse the Spirit God Universe. Seven had regrouped after placing their pillars, while three were still missing; the chapter then described how the Spirit God Universe’s gods depended on their divine kingdoms and worshippers.

• Immortal Venerable Hongluo explained that the Primordial Expanse Universe’s Source Realm had formed from Dao fields built in an original realm of chaos.
• Saint Venerable Daweide and the others prepared the Twelve Great Realm-Suppressing Pillars, intending to anchor them across the Primordial Sea and drag it out of the void.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable ordered everyone to place their pillars discreetly and regroup before the Spirit God Universe’s gods discovered them.
• Lin Yunji used the Jade Butterfly of Creation to conceal himself, traveled for a thousand years, and planted his pillar at the far boundary of the Primordial Sea.
• Lin Yunji rejoined Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable and six other venerables, and they waited for the final three to return before acting.
• The chapter described the Divine Kingdom of Justice and explained that the Spirit God Universe’s gods relied on their divine kingdoms and the living beings who worshipped them.

The God of Justice tried to claim the Tongtian Divine Pillar, only for it to awaken as Lin Yunji and twelve Supremes pulled the Primordial Sea through the twelve divine pillars. The Spirit God Universe's Great Creation Gods realized the attack was a distraction, and one of them crushed Shang Yu and the other two Supremes as the others urged everyone to stop the invaders.

• The God of Justice discovered the Tongtian Divine Pillar near his divine kingdom and began refining it for himself.
• After several hundred years, the God of Justice refined the pillar's outermost restriction and decided to keep claiming it despite suspecting it came from another universe.
• The Tongtian Divine Pillar erupted with power and suppressed the God of Justice as Lin Yunji and twelve Supremes pulled the Primordial Sea through the twelve pillars.
• A Creation God near the Primordial Sea and the four Great Creation Gods on the frontier sensed the disturbance and accused the Primordial Expanse Universe of a sneak attack.
• One Great Creation God attacked Shang Yu and the other two Supremes, who blocked his first strike before he crushed them with a second palm.
• The remaining three Great Creation Gods roared for everyone to stop the attackers.

Lin Yunji and the other eleven tore the Primordial Sea from the Spirit God Universe, triggering a chain collapse and a world-ending tribulation. They escaped aboard the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle and headed for the Primordial Expanse Universe, where they planned to clear the Source Realm Ruins and eventually rebuild the Source Realm.

• Lin Yunji and the other eleven forcibly pulled the Primordial Sea out of the Spirit God Universe, causing the surrounding void to collapse and unleash a torrent of Chaos.
• As the Spirit God Universe’s world-ending tribulation began to form, Lin Yunji and the others fled into a higher dimension aboard the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable piloted the shuttle toward the Primordial Expanse Universe and explained that the cosmic tribulation would annihilate the Spirit God Universe and everything within it.
• Emperor Venerable Wuxuan and the others celebrated the end of the threat to their universe and discussed returning to cultivate and clear the Source Realm Ruins.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo proposed merging the remaining major realms and rebuilding a new Source Realm after the ruins were cleared.

Lin Yunji and the others returned from destroying the Spirit God Universe to find the Primordial Expanse Great Formation broken and a Great Creation God slaughtering the Primordial Expanse Supremes. With the formation gone and the defenders falling, Saint Venerable Daweide and the others joined the hopeless battle.

• The Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable admitted she felt uneasy about the destruction of the Spirit God Universe, and the Supremes recognized the immense burden of the choice they had made.
• Lin Yunji and the others returned to find the Primordial Expanse Great Formation shattered and a Great Creation God fighting the Supremes in the void.
• The Great Creation God killed Supreme Primordial Unities despite their attacks, including Fellow Daoist Kunyuan, who had held the front line with his Demonic Dao Body-Splitting Great Art.
• Divine Venerable Xuanjian, Sword Venerable Datuo, Saint Venerable Daweide, and the Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable realized the formation's loss left them with little chance of winning.
• Saint Venerable Daweide charged into the battle, and Sword Venerable Datuo and the others followed.

As the Great Creation God attacked the Primordial Expanse Universe’s Supremes, Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable urged Lin Yunji to escape with the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle. Lin Yunji chose to stay, then gained the Universe Supreme Art and used his accumulated Breakthrough Points to regain Supreme Primordial Unity cultivation.

• The Great Creation God recognized Saint Venerable Daweide and the others as the destroyers of his universe and fought toward them while the Primordial Expanse Universe’s Supremes tried to stop him.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable gave Lin Yunji the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle’s control mark and a map of more than eighteen hundred universes, urging him to take his loved ones and flee.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that she was a seed of a destroyed civilization and chose to stay and defend the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• Lin Yunji refused to abandon the fight, torn between risking death and saving his family and friends.
• The system rewarded Lin Yunji with the Universe Supreme Art and converted his cultivation, lowering him to Tenth-Stage Hunyuan Great Dao Sage.
• Lin Yunji spent his accumulated Breakthrough Points and swiftly rose back to Supreme Primordial Unity.

Lin Yunji broke through to a realm beyond Supreme Primordial Unity, named it Hunyuan Great Emperor, and revealed his new power on the battlefield. As the Great Creation God charged at him, Lin Yunji told the Primordial Expanse Universe’s venerables to stand aside because he could handle the enemy alone.

• Lin Yunji broke through Peak Supreme Primordial Unity and named his new realm Hunyuan Great Emperor.
• Lin Yunji emerged from the Cosmic Domain Star Shuttle and revealed his power to Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable.
• Lin Yunji appeared on the void battlefield, where the Primordial Expanse Universe’s venerables recognized his breakthrough and celebrated their new hope.
• The Great Creation God escaped the venerables’ encirclement and charged at Lin Yunji, promising to kill him and then the others.
• Lin Yunji went to meet the Great Creation God and told the venerables to stand aside because he would fight alone.

After becoming a Hunyuan Great Emperor, Lin Yunji faced Herakdi, the Great Creation God of Light, and killed him with the Creation Darkness Scepter. The artifact showed that it cared only for strength and had no loyalty to its former master.

• Lin Yunji told the Primordial Expanse Supremes to withdraw, and they left him alone with the Great Creation God.
• Herakdi attacked with the Creation Light Scepter, but Lin Yunji blocked his strike barehanded and identified him as one of the Spirit God Universe's four Great Creation Gods.
• Lin Yunji summoned the Creation Darkness Scepter and wounded Herakdi, then struck the Creation Light Scepter from his grasp.
• Lin Yunji split Herakdi's divine body and pierced his Divine Spark with the Creation Darkness Scepter.
• Lin Yunji shattered Herakdi's Divine Spark and body, and the Creation Darkness Scepter showed delight at defeating a powerful enemy.

Lin Yunji killed Herakdi, the last Great Creation God of the Spirit God Universe, ending the hundred-billion-year war between the universes. After sealing the cosmic passage, he shared his breakthrough insights with the victorious Supremes, who prepared to return home and cultivate.

• Lin Yunji killed Herakdi, seized the Creation Light Scepter, and sealed it inside the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda.
• The Supremes of the Primordial Expanse celebrated their victory and mourned those lost in the war.
• Supreme Hongdu called on the Supremes to gather their fallen comrades' remains and belongings.
• Lin Yunji sealed the cosmic passage and set up a formation to protect the Primordial Expanse Universe.
• Lin Yunji gave the Supremes his insights into breaking through to the Hunyuan Great Emperor realm before they returned to their great realms.

Lin Yunji brought the surviving Vermilion Bird Spirit Platform Star Domain venerables home after the Spirit God Universe was destroyed, then enjoyed a peaceful era as the Primordial Expanse Universe’s strongest cultivator. He expanded the Divine Net across the star domain and gained vast Exchange Points, reflecting that his system resembled the Dao of Faith without binding him to believers.

• Lin Yunji brought the Vermilion Bird Spirit Platform Star Domain venerables home through a cosmic passage, while the survivors mourned those lost in the final battle.
• Lin Yunji returned to the Great Sage Realm and spent his time with friends, visiting fellow venerables, and preaching the Dao to cultivators.
• Lin Yunji refined over a million improved Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda replicas and placed them across the star domain to extend the Divine Net everywhere.
• Lin Yunji expanded the Divine Net’s mental world into a virtual world with online searches, purchases, and instant messaging, which cultivators commonly called Wei Message.
• Lin Yunji received an immense number of Exchange Points from the Divine Net and considered how his gains resembled the Spirit God Universe’s Dao of Faith, though he was not bound by faith.

Lin Yunji welcomed Shi Mang after his long recovery and learned that he intended to challenge Bai Long to avenge Xuan Luo. Lin Yunji agreed to witness the duel, and the chapter ended with Immortal Venerable Hongluo learning the history behind their feud.

• Old Daoist Bailou became a Supreme Primordial Unity, settled into a quiet life tending flowers, and earned the nickname Old Garden Waterer.
• Lin Yunji made Jianmu Spirit Fruits and Jianmu King Fruits available to Primordial World cultivators through a reserved Divine Net marketplace.
• Thirty million years after the Spirit God Universe's destruction, Shi Mang emerged from seclusion with greater cultivation and visited Lin Yunji.
• Shi Mang asked Lin Yunji to witness his planned duel with Bai Long, whom he intended to kill to avenge Xuan Luo.
• Lin Yunji agreed to witness the duel, and Shi Mang said he would challenge Bai Long to fight to the death at the Sea of Hatred.
• Immortal Venerable Hongluo asked Lin Yunji about the duel, and Lin Yunji explained how Bai Long had killed Xuan Luo after Shi Mang and Xuan Luo broke with him.

Bai Long and Shi Mang faced each other in a duel at the Sea of Hatred, where Lin Yunji judged Shi Mang overwhelmingly more likely to win. As their battle unleashed devastating power, Lin Yunji sealed the Sea of Hatred inside a vast prison of life and death.

• Supremes gathered at the Sea of Hatred to witness Bai Long and Shi Mang's duel, and Lin Yunji said Shi Mang had a nine-in-ten chance of winning.
• Lin Yunji explained that Shi Mang had reached the Peak Stage of the Supreme Primordial Unity realm, while Bai Long was only at the Enlightenment Stage.
• Bai Long arrived with Patriarch Cansha as his witness, and he and Shi Mang exchanged hostile words before attacking each other.
• Bai Long and Shi Mang clashed with their Primordial Expanse Supreme Treasures, sending destructive shock waves across the Sea of Hatred and into Lesser Central Heaven.
• Lin Yunji waved his hand, collapsed the Sea of Hatred, and sealed the battlefield behind barriers of void, creating a vast prison of life and death.

Shi Mang defeated Bai Long in the Sea of Hatred but spared him, choosing to keep him alive as punishment for killing Xuan Luo. After Lin Yunji restored the shattered realm, Shi Mang returned to the Great Sage Realm and entered seclusion to focus on cultivation.

• Shi Mang and Bai Long fought fiercely in the Sea of Hatred, using powerful techniques and Supreme Treasures.
• Shi Mang used an imitation of Lin Yunji’s Universe Furnace to overwhelm Bai Long and destroy his treasures.
• Shi Mang defeated Bai Long but demanded to know why he had killed Xuan Luo, then spared him and declared that living in Shi Mang’s shadow would be his punishment.
• Shi Mang thanked the assembled Supremes and Lin Yunji, who removed the spatial barrier and restored the shattered Sea of Hatred.
• Shi Mang returned to the Great Sage Realm and entered seclusion, resolved to devote himself to cultivation.

Lingzhuzi reached the Hunyuan Great Dao Sage realm and sought permission to travel, but a glimpse of Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide’s Dao during their board game gave him a chance to deepen his cultivation first. Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide then discussed whether to rebuild the Source Realm upon the Ancient Realm Ruins.

• Lingzhuzi announced that he had reached the Hunyuan Great Dao Sage realm and asked Nüwo and Lin Yunji for permission to travel through the Source Realm.
• Nüwo approved Lingzhuzi’s journey and gave him two high-grade Primordial Expanse Spirit Treasures for protection.
• Lingzhuzi looked at Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide’s board, became immersed in a vision of their Great Daos, and saw a black dragon overpowering a white dragon.
• Lin Yunji told Lingzhuzi to postpone his travels and contemplate the vision in seclusion, and Lingzhuzi gratefully accepted the advice.
• After losing a third board game to Saint Venerable Daweide, Lin Yunji discussed rebuilding the Source Realm and whether to build upon the Ancient Realm Ruins.

Lin Yunji agreed to help clear the Ancient Realm Ruins after Saint Venerable Daweide revealed that recovered treasures would go to whoever found them. The plan would replenish Lin Yunji’s empty Divine Net exchange list and let him eventually expand the network across the rebuilt Source Realm.

• Saint Venerable Daweide explained that the Ancient Realm Ruins contained valuable treasures that could help the Primordial Expanse Universe prepare for future dangers.
• Lin Yunji and Saint Venerable Daweide discussed how the ruins’ enormous size, dangerous conditions, and dead inhabitants made clearing them difficult.
• Saint Venerable Daweide proposed that Supreme Primordial Unities from the great domains clear the ruins, bury recovered remains elsewhere, and keep any treasures they found.
• Lin Yunji realized Saint Venerable Daweide and the others were recruiting him because his Divine Net needed more treasures for its empty exchange list, and he agreed to help.
• Saint Venerable Daweide laughed that the arrangement benefited everyone, while Lin Yunji noted that the others had secretly been plotting to use him.

Lin Yunji agreed to lead the clearing of the Ancient Source Realm ruins, and the Supremes of the Primordial Expanse Universe gathered there to begin the work. At the former Heavenly Emperor Great Domain, Lin Yunji suppressed the lingering monsters and thoughts, then buried the realm’s dead in named tombs.

• Saint Venerable Daweide and Lin Yunji agreed to clear the Ancient Source Realm ruins so the Source Realm could eventually be rebuilt.
• The lords of the great star domains summoned the Supremes to the ruins, promising that each discoverer could keep the treasures they found.
• Lin Yunji and the assembled Supremes entered the ruins, and Lin Yunji went directly to the former Heavenly Emperor Great Domain.
• Lin Yunji isolated a vast region, gathered the remains of the dead, and suppressed its corpse monsters, demonic Sha, and lingering resentful thoughts.
• Lin Yunji placed the remains in great tombs and raised stone tablets bearing the dead cultivators’ names.

Lin Yunji and the other Supremes cleared the Ancient Realm Ruins and searched the Primordial Expanse Universe for the scattered Chaos Pearls to restore the unstable Source Realm. After fifty million years, the pearls gathered in Lin Yunji’s hands and became the Heart of the Source Realm.

• Lin Yunji gathered the remains of the fallen cultivators into tombs and cleared treasures from a region of the Ancient Realm Ruins, leaving its surviving beings in peace.
• Over fifteen million years, the Supremes of the Primordial Expanse Universe cleared the Ancient Realm Ruins and buried the remains in a new great domain called the Land of Eternal Slumber.
• The Supremes found that the cleared Source Realm was still too unstable to inhabit or reunite, so they sought a way to stabilize it by creating a new Heart of the Source Realm.
• Lin Yunji and the other Supremes searched the Hongmeng World for the Chaos Pearls, with Lin Yunji’s system locating them, and found all the fragments after fifty million years.
• The Chaos Pearls gathered together in Lin Yunji’s hands and formed the Heart of the Source Realm, whose interior contained a world of great and small domains.

Lin Yunji accepted the position of Source Realm Emperor Venerable and refined the Heart of the Source Realm, restoring stability and helping rebuild the realm. He moved his sanctuary to the Heavenly Emperor Great Domain to guard the Heart as civilization began to flourish again.

• Supreme Hongdu proposed that Lin Yunji become the new Source Realm Emperor Venerable and control the Heart of the Source Realm.
• A system mission forced Lin Yunji to accept the role, threatening to reclaim the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda and the Heaven-Reaching Jianmu if he refused.
• The Supremes bowed to Lin Yunji as Great Emperor Venerable, and he vowed to protect the Heart and prevent another Source Realm Great Tribulation.
• Lin Yunji refined the Heart of the Source Realm, stabilizing the shattered space and drawing the great realms back together.
• The universe's mighty experts relocated the scattered great realms into the rebuilt Source Realm, where Supremes established new sanctuaries.
• Lin Yunji moved his sanctuary to the Heavenly Emperor Great Domain to guard the Heart as the Source Realm's civilization flourished again.

Lin Yunji finished extending the Divine Net across the Source Realm and visited Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable, where he revealed that he had used the Cosmic Domain Space-Based Tower to send a message beyond the Primordial Expanse Universe. Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable warned that his action would cause a terrible disaster.

• Lin Yunji spent a hundred million years placing replicas of the Primordial Expanse Glazed Pagoda across the Source Realm to extend the Divine Net.
• Supreme Qianjue reported that Heavenly Lightning Thunder Venerable and Falling Snow Supreme were fighting over a Cold Snow Pearl, and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable ordered both to enter seclusion for a million years.
• Supreme Qianjue noticed Lin Yunji lounging beside Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable and wondered whether he was her dao companion.
• Lin Yunji praised Supreme Qianjue for becoming a venerable in less than a hundred million years, then privately told Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable about the Cosmic Domain Space-Based Tower.
• Lin Yunji admitted he had used the tower to send a message beyond the Primordial Expanse Universe, and Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable warned him that he would cause a terrible disaster.

Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable feared that Lin Yunji had exposed the Primordial Expanse Universe’s coordinates, but he revealed that he had applied to join the Canglan Universe Alliance. She doubted the claim and warned that powerful outsiders could threaten them, while Lin Yunji hinted at his own strength.

• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable warned Lin Yunji that his message could expose the Primordial Expanse Universe to hostile beings from beyond the universe.
• Lin Yunji revealed that he had contacted the Canglan Universe Alliance and applied for the Primordial Expanse Universe to join.
• Lin Yunji said a four-star executive divine officer had agreed to inspect the universe in the coming days.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable doubted that an untransformed universe could qualify for membership and suspected Lin Yunji had been deceived.
• Lin Yunji assured her he could deal with an ordinary impostor and remarked that he had been a Hunyuan Great Emperor for a long time.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable noted that the universe had existed for more than four hundred billion years, and Lin Yunji replied that people's physiques were different.

Lin Yunji explained that joining the Canglan Universe Alliance would protect the Primordial Expanse Universe and allow its people to enter the dangerous Vast Blue Illusory Realm. He revealed that the realm could help them grow stronger despite its lethal rules, giving the Supremes hope of advancing beyond their current realm.

• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable told Immortal Venerable Hongluo and the other gathered Supremes that Lin Yunji had provoked four trillion-year cultivators, alarming them.
• Lin Yunji assured the gathered Supremes that he was confident the Primordial Expanse Universe could pass certification and gain the alliance's protection.
• Ice-Cold Supreme Venerable explained that entrants to the Vast Blue Illusory Realm had their strength suppressed and could die there, recounting how a mighty being had been gored to death by a pig.
• Lin Yunji reassured everyone that the realm's weak starting conditions let entrants grow stronger inside and return with the power to advance.
• The gathered Supremes became eager at the possibility of breaking through, after nearly four hundred million years without anyone besides Lin Yunji reaching the Hunyuan Great Emperor realm.