Before chaos took shape and the Heavenly Dao had rendered its verdict, a plot to murder the Divine Sovereign was already being quietly woven...
He had once ruled three thousand divine realms as the Chaos Divine Sovereign, but as he ascended to eternity, the Heavenly Dao struck back, shattering his divine body amid a sea of stars.
When he opened his eyes again, he had been reborn in the age before Hongmeng had taken shape! His remnant soul drifted through chaos, where gray mist howled. His only chance was a wisp of purple energy: Hongmeng Purple Qi, the origin of all paths!
But as the purple energy appeared, the colossal claws of a Chaos Spirit-Devouring Beast tore through spacetime. Twelve Dao Hunters stepped through the bronze gates, while the authority of creation was being stolen from within a mass of forming black crystal...
"Those who blaspheme the Dao must die!" Amid the icy verdict, Taichu roused a god-slaying blood blade with his remnant soul, severed karma, and reforged his divine body!
But when he cleaved through the Dao Hunters' torrent of black crystal, nine stellar remains illuminated the inscription behind the bronze gates:
The names of destroyed universes covered the stele, and at the very top was his true name from his previous life!
"So my downfall... was part of a scheme laid over countless ages!"
