Recaps

After discovering Nuwa had returned to Buzhou Mountain by Xiang Dong’s golden road, Fuxi regretted his exhausting pursuit and furiously blamed Xiang Dong. Xiang Dong then resumed his work in Pangu Hall, purifying the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ gestation so they could be born as clear-minded heirs of Pangu.

• Fuxi reached the East Sea, saw Xiang Dong’s sunflowers form a golden road to Buzhou Mountain, and divined that Nuwa had already returned home.
• Fuxi realized he had run hundreds of millions of miles for nothing and shouted Xiang Dong’s name in rage.
• Xiang Dong returned to Pangu Hall, where the Twelve Ancestral Witches were nearing birth and Di Jiang’s cocoon strained against Pangu’s Pressure.
• Xiang Dong placed the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus in the blood pool, greatly accelerating the purification of Innate Sha Qi and Turbid Qi.
• Xiang Dong positioned a Nine-Grade Lotus Throne over each cocoon to protect the gestating Primordial Spirits from Innate Sha Qi.

Xiang Dong’s purification of the blood pool continued while he fell into a deep sleep, and Di Jiang emerged as the first Ancestral Witch. Di Jiang discovered a thirteenth cocoon at the pool’s center and learned that his youngest brother had sacrificed himself to purify the blood for them.

• Xiang Dong exhausted his energy after completing the purification and fell asleep, while Nuwa watched over his dormant Spirit Root and waited for events at Buzhou Mountain.
• Over a thousand years, the World-Cleansing White Lotus purified the blood pool and nourished the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ cocoons, and Pangu’s Pressure on Di Jiang faded.
• Di Jiang emerged from his cocoon, announced his birth, and learned his identity and origins through his Primordial Spirit.
• Di Jiang counted the cocoons and discovered a small thirteenth one beneath the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus.
• Pangu’s Will told Di Jiang that the cocoon held their youngest brother, who had used his own origin to purify the blood pool, and Di Jiang was moved by his sacrifice.

Di Jiang gave Xiang Dong a drop of heart's blood bearing his Space Principle, helping Xiang Dong develop a third Principle while he slept in his cocoon. Xiang Dong's dream opened into a view of the Primordial World, where the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans rose toward a destined war.

• Di Jiang offered his Space Principle heart's blood to Xiang Dong's cocoon and promised to protect his youngest brother.
• Over many Yuan Epochs, Xiang Dong's cocoon absorbed the blood as his Light, Creation, and Space Principles began to merge.
• Xiang Dong dreamed that he could follow light across the Primordial World and witnessed the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans flourish.
• Xiang Dong recognized that the three clans' struggle for supremacy would end in a great war that benefited the Heavenly Dao.
• Xiang Dong watched the Ancestral Dragon expand the Dragon Clan by producing nine sons and many other offspring.

As the Dragon, Qilin, and Phoenix clans prepared for war, Xiang Dong observed their leaders’ efforts to preserve their lineages and noticed the Primordial World’s Heavenly Dao imposing a new order. The Heavenly Dao’s growing influence left powerful beings facing reinforced barriers to advancing their realms.

• The Ancestral Dragon accepted the dilution of the Dragon Clan’s bloodlines, prioritizing numbers so he could use his descendants in the coming war.
• The Primordial Qilin used his essence and cultivation to create Sibuxiang, disguising the Qilin Clan’s heir as an unremarkable creature and entrusting him to Yuanshi Tianzun.
• The Primordial Phoenix nurtured two eggs from Innate Five Elements Qi, Yin-Yang Qi, and her essence, which would become Peacock and Golden-Winged Great Peng.
• Xiang Dong reflected that the Dragon Clan might fare better after the war than the Qilin and Phoenix clans, whose descendants were likely to meet misfortune.
• Xiang Dong sensed the Heavenly Dao establishing order across the Primordial World and reinforcing the barriers that kept powerful beings from breaking through to higher realms.

Yangmei realized the Heavenly Dao had blocked Chaos Demon Gods from breaking through by mastering Principles and weighed leaving the Primordial World against submitting to its rules. He considered Xiang Dong a possible third path and decided to wait for the anomaly to change the situation.

• Yangmei left his cultivation ground and entered the chaos, where the Heavenly Dao's suppression vanished and a breakthrough seemed near.
• Yangmei returned to the Primordial World and felt the Heavenly Dao's restraints intensify, confirming that it would block his advancement there.
• Yangmei concluded that cultivation now required Heavenly Dao recognition, with merit enabling breakthroughs and karmic force punishing harmful deeds.
• Yangmei weighed leaving for the chaos against staying and pursuing Sagehood, but disliked both options.
• Yangmei thought of Xiang Dong and decided to wait and see whether he could reveal a third path.

Zhu Jiuyin was born in Pangu Hall and learned that Xiang Dong had purified the blood pool to protect the Ancestral Witches’ Primordial Spirits. The unborn siblings vowed to repay and protect Xiang Dong, while he remained unaware that Zhu Jiuyin had added the essence of the Time Principle to his Primordial Spirit.

• Time fluctuated around his flesh cocoon before Zhu Jiuyin emerged and greeted Di Jiang.
• Di Jiang welcomed Zhu Jiuyin, who learned that Xiang Dong had borne the blood pool’s purification and felt deeply indebted to him.
• Zhu Jiuyin offered Xiang Dong a drop of heart’s blood containing the essence of the Time Principle, adding a fourth Principle imprint to Xiang Dong’s Primordial Spirit.
• The unborn Ancestral Witches awakened through their Primordial Spirits and vowed to repay Xiang Dong and protect him when they were born.
• Xuanming corrected Zhurong when he forgot there were thirteen Ancestral Witches, and the siblings’ blessings formed an invisible barrier around Xiang Dong’s cocoon.

Luohou rejected submission to the Heavenly Dao and decided to seize control of it by weakening it. He spread his Devil Qi through the growing Tribulation Qi, inflaming conflicts among the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans until even their leaders were drawn toward the Kalpa.

• Luohou decided he would become a Heavenly Dao Sage and then take control of the Heavenly Dao and the Primordial World.
• Luohou recognized the Tribulation Qi gathering from the three clans’ expansion and released his Devil Qi to amplify living beings’ negative emotions.
• A Dragon Clan patrol and Qilin Clan scouts fought over a spirit treasure, and the dispute escalated as their elders joined in.
• A fire phoenix and a flood dragon clashed over a parasol tree, with dragon lightning and phoenix fire tearing through the sky.
• Tribulation Qi and Devil Qi fueled repeated conflicts among the three clans, building resentment until Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin were drawn into the Kalpa.

Xiang Dong witnessed the three clans’ hatred deepen as the Ancestral Dragon proposed joining forces with the Primordial Phoenix to rule the Primordial World. Her furious rejection and the Primordial Qilin’s anger shattered the last pretense of peace, and all three clans launched into war.

• Xiang Dong observed conflicts between the three clans grow as Tribulation Qi and Devil Qi fed their hatred.
• The Ancestral Dragon went alone to the Phoenix Clan’s stronghold and proposed uniting with the Primordial Phoenix and bearing dragon-phoenix offspring to rule the Primordial World.
• The Primordial Phoenix rejected the Ancestral Dragon’s proposal as an insult and attacked him.
• The Primordial Qilin learned of the proposal, feared a dragon-phoenix alliance, and joined the conflict against them.
• The Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin rallied their clans and commanded them to fight, beginning the great war.

As the Kalpa’s battles devastated the Primordial World, Xiang Dong resolved to stop the slaughter by linking his sunflowers to the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus. Its light purified the battlefield and cleared the minds of Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin, who realized their clans had been manipulated; a vast screen of golden light then formed above them.

• Xiang Dong regained clarity as he experienced the destruction and suffering across the Primordial World through his sunflowers.
• He decided he had to stop the fighting and activated sunflowers throughout the world as energy nodes and coordinates.
• Xiang Dong summoned the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus from Pangu Hall, and its purifying light reached the battlefield.
• The lotus’s light dispelled Devil Qi and much of the Tribulation Qi, restoring the clarity of the three clan leaders.
• Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin realized their clans’ losses had been secretly kept in balance to prolong the war.
• Golden points of light converged above the three leaders and formed a gigantic screen.

Xiang Dong used a light screen to show the three clans and the Primordial World a vision of the catastrophic war’s ultimate outcome. The screen became clear with help from the Ancestral Witches, Pangu’s phantom, and Heavenly Dao Power, leaving the three clan leaders alarmed as they sensed they had been manipulated.

• Xiang Dong poured nearly all his strength into creating a light screen, but his weak Primordial Spirit left it flickering with static.
• Houtu, Di Jiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and the other Ancestral Witches lent Xiang Dong their power to support his creation.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches’ combined power summoned Pangu’s phantom, whose pressure merged with the screen and helped it render clearly.
• Heavenly Dao Power flowed into the light screen and resolved its remaining problems.
• Xiang Dong showed rapid images of a devastating war that ravaged the Primordial World for several Yuanhui, while the three clan leaders realized they had been plotted against.

Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix and Primordial Qilin learned how the three clans were manipulated into a disastrous war and watched the Heavenly Dao deliver its postwar judgment. The clans survived with their foundations intact, but all their members were left to bear karmic debts that they might someday repay.

• Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix and Primordial Qilin accepted that unseen forces had manipulated the three clans and resolved to preserve their clans before seeking revenge.
• Xiang Dong's consciousness fell asleep, causing the screen of light to go dark as Pangu's illusory figure sighed at the living beings of the Primordial World.
• The Heavenly Dao assigned most of the war's karma to Primordial Phoenix, Ancestral Dragon and Primordial Qilin, with the remainder divided among the three clans.
• The Heavenly Dao's judgment left the clans with manageable debts, while Xiang Dong's intervention ensured they retained enough members and resources to recover.

Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin vowed to atone for their clans’ roles in the war, then withdrew their clans from the struggle for supremacy. Pangu’s phantom turned Xiang Dong’s screen of light into a Merit Treasure and sent it back to him at Pangu Hall.

• Ancestral Dragon vowed to suppress the Four Seas and have the Dragon Clan tend the waterways, receiving merit that reduced their karma before he merged with the East Sea.
• Primordial Phoenix vowed to guard the Immortal Volcano and regulate Yin-Yang, while the Phoenix Clan withdrew to the Southern Continent.
• Primordial Qilin vowed to suppress the central Earth Veins and make his clan an auspicious sign, then merged with the earth as the Qilin Clan vanished.
• Pangu’s phantom drew about one percent of the Heaven-Opening Merit from each of the Three Pure Ones and combined it with his own pressure and merit to transform Xiang Dong’s screen into an Acquired Merit Treasure.
• The Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus carried the Merit Treasure back to Pangu Hall, where it floated above Xiang Dong’s flesh cocoon.

Hongjun and Devil Ancestor Luohou reassessed their plans after Xiang Dong and Pangu’s intervention changed the Longhan Primordial Tribulation. Hongjun identified an unknown agent of the Heavenly Dao on Buzhou Mountain, while Luohou abandoned his plan to detonate the western Spirit Veins and looked for another way forward.

• Hongjun recalled how Xiang Dong’s light screen, Pangu’s phantom, and the Heavenly Dao’s intervention had disrupted his plans and allowed Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin to survive with new duties.
• Hongjun learned that Pangu had revoked Yuanshi Tianzun’s status as the Heavenly Dao’s agent and that the replacement was hidden on Buzhou Mountain, though the Heavenly Dao did not know who it was.
• Hongjun warned the hidden agent to stay concealed and recognized that his struggle with Xiang Dong over control of the Heavenly Dao could not be peacefully settled.
• Devil Ancestor Luohou smashed a stone table and blamed Pangu’s intervention for disrupting his plan to make the three races destroy one another and use their remains to refine the Zhuxian Sword Formation.
• Luohou decided he could still finish refining the Zhuxian Sword Formation by secretly stirring up conflicts, but he abandoned detonating the western Spirit Veins because Primordial Qilin and Primordial Phoenix now guarded them.

While Xiang Dong slept, the Ancestral Witches and many Innate Divine Beings were born, and their origins strengthened his Primordial Spirit. The births of Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi replenished Xiang Dong’s power, waking him at full strength.

• Zhurong and Gonggong were born in Pangu Hall, but Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin stopped their fight so the brothers could offer their heart’s blood and origins to Xiang Dong.
• Jumang, Rushou, Qiangliang, Tianwu, Yanzi, and Shebishi were born and contributed their origins, nearly completing the circle of Principle imprints around Xiang Dong’s Light Principle.
• The Three Pure Ones, the Queen Mother of the West, Dongwanggong, Xihe, and Changxi appeared across the Primordial World.
• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi emerged from the Sun Star as Three-legged Golden Crows, accompanied by the Chaos Bell.
• The Solar True Fire replenished Xiang Dong’s origin power, and Xiang Dong awakened, shouting, “Praise the sun!”

After waking from a decades-long sleep, Xiang Dong reunited with Nuwa and Fuxi, who confronted him about his closeness to Nuwa. Nuwa defended her friendship with Xiang Dong, and Fuxi eventually agreed to play his qin for him.

• Nuwa told Xiang Dong that dozens of Yuanhui had passed since he returned to Buzhou Mountain and explained how his light curtain had stopped the three-clan war.
• Fuxi arrived and thanked Xiang Dong for helping Nuwa obtain the Three Lights Divine Water and a Nine-Grade Lotus Throne.
• Fuxi asked Xiang Dong to keep his distance from Nuwa, promising to repay the karmic debt between them.
• Nuwa stepped between the two men and told Fuxi that choosing her friends was her own business.
• Xiang Dong sang to tease Fuxi, then asked him to play the Fuxi Qin, and Fuxi agreed.

Xiang Dong made a bamboo flute that became a Merit Spirit Treasure, then competed musically with Fuxi. Fuxi’s sorrowful performance made Xiang Dong and nearby creatures break down in tears, and the chapter ended as Fuxi sensed a powerful expert outside the formation.

• Xiang Dong made a flute from Nuwa’s Purple Jade Bamboo, and the Heavenly Dao granted it merit, making it a Merit Spirit Treasure.
• Fuxi calculated that creating something useful and previously nonexistent could earn Heavenly Dao Merit, though only the first creation received it.
• Xiang Dong and Fuxi played “High Mountains and Flowing Water” before arguing over their different approaches to musical harmony.
• Xiang Dong performed lively music that made nearby creatures sway and relax, then Fuxi played a sorrowful melody that caused them to weep or harm themselves.
• Xiang Dong’s loneliness overwhelmed him, and he cried and sang while Nuwa tried to comfort him and urged Fuxi to help.
• Fuxi sensed a powerful expert waiting outside the formation around the cultivation ground.

Yangmei visited Xiang Dong, reunited with him, and shared Enlightenment Tea with Xiang Dong, Nuwa, and Fuxi. After taking human form, Xiang Dong discovered that his other self in Pangu Hall had acquired the divine name Taichu and twelve additional Principle imprints.

• Yangmei arrived at Nuwa and Fuxi's cultivation ground to visit Xiang Dong, and Xiang Dong told Fuxi to let him in.
• Xiang Dong welcomed Yangmei and asked him for Enlightenment Tea, which Yangmei shared with Nuwa and Fuxi.
• Xiang Dong brewed the tea with Three Lights Divine Water and, reminded by Yangmei, took human form for the first time.
• Xiang Dong sensed that his other self in Pangu Hall had developed a new Primordial Spirit named Taichu, bestowed by Pangu.
• Xiang Dong discovered that Taichu's Primordial Spirit bore twelve additional Principle imprints and nearly fainted in shock.

Xiang Dong drank Enlightenment Tea and unexpectedly entered a powerful epiphany, rapidly mastering the Principles in his alt account. While he remained unable to control his body, Xuanming and Houtu emerged, and both added their heart’s blood to his flesh cocoon.

• Xiang Dong drank a cup of Enlightenment Tea brewed with Three Lights Divine Water to calm his nerves.
• The tea triggered a hundredfold comprehension state, and Xiang Dong rapidly mastered Space and other Principles as his Primordial Spirit and realm grew.
• Nuwa worried over Xiang Dong, and Yangmei confirmed that he had experienced an epiphany.
• Xuanming and Houtu emerged from the blood pool, completing the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Xuanming and Houtu each gave a drop of heart’s blood containing an origin Principle to Xiang Dong’s alt account’s flesh cocoon.

Xiang Dong encountered Taichu and Pangu’s remnant soul in a strange space, where Pangu rekindled the light in Xiang Dong’s heart and entrusted him with the Primordial World. Xiang Dong and Taichu agreed to share the burden, and Taichu gave Xiang Dong a phone-shaped treasure before returning to his Primordial Spirit.

• As Xiang Dong’s Principles resonated, his light faded and his Primordial Spirit left his body; Yangmei stopped Fuxi and told everyone to wait.
• Xiang Dong met Taichu in a strange space and witnessed Pangu’s remnant soul name Taichu the thirteenth Ancestral Witch, the Light Ancestral Witch.
• Pangu told Xiang Dong that the light in his heart represented hope, the future, and protection, then entrusted the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the Three Pure Ones, and the Primordial World to him.
• Taichu offered to shoulder Pangu’s charge himself, but Xiang Dong said they shared one body and memories, so Taichu’s happiness mattered to him too.
• Taichu gave Xiang Dong an Acquired Merit Treasure that looked like a phone, and Xiang Dong eagerly kept it.

Xiang Dong woke from his enlightenment with a deeper resolve to face the burden Pangu had placed on him, then Yangmei asked whether Pangu was still present. Xiang Dong avoided giving a definite answer and jokingly suggested Pangu could meet Yangmei for tea.

• Xiang Dong awoke while Yangmei, Nuwa, and Fuxi finished their tea, and Fuxi wondered why the Power of Principle around him had vanished so quickly.
• Xiang Dong dismissed claims of great cultivation gains and admitted he had found something he had lost, while worrying about the burden Pangu had entrusted to him.
• Xiang Dong asked Yangmei why he had come to visit, suspecting the struggle between Dao and Demon was involved.
• Yangmei asked Xiang Dong whether Pangu was still there and recalled Pangu's appearances at Buzhou Mountain and during the battle among the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans.
• Xiang Dong avoided answering directly and teased Yangmei that he would arrange for Pangu to visit him for tea.

Xiang Dong learned that Hongjun had recruited Yangmei to help defeat Luohou, promising him safe passage into the Primordial World even after he reached the Chaos Great Unity Golden Immortal realm. Xiang Dong decided to intervene because he sensed the matter involved Samsara, Yellow Springs, and Houtu, while Yangmei had not yet accepted Hongjun’s offer.

• Yangmei dropped his questions about Pangu and asked Xiang Dong about Heavenly Dao Sages, Chaos Great Unity Golden Immortals, and their differences; Xiang Dong said he knew about all of them.
• Yangmei told Xiang Dong that Hongjun had asked him and several others to help defeat Luohou, and Xiang Dong connected Samsara and Yellow Springs to Houtu and the Earthly Dao.
• Xiang Dong decided he had to protect Samsara and Yellow Springs because the matter concerned Houtu and the Earthly Dao.
• Yangmei explained that Hongjun had promised to let him enter and leave the Primordial World freely if he helped defeat Luohou, even after Yangmei attained the Chaos Great Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Xiang Dong warned Yangmei that Hongjun had betrayed past allies, and Nuwa reminded him that the Heavenly Dao was listening.

Xiang Dong realized Yangmei was using his request for advice to gauge Pangu’s stance on helping Hongjun, so he put off answering while he thought. He explored the merit treasure Taichu had given him, discovered its phone-like functions, and resolved to seize the Twenty-Four-Rank Creation Green Lotus for Nuwa.

• Yangmei asked Xiang Dong for advice about whether to help Hongjun, and Xiang Dong realized he was probing for Pangu’s position.
• Xiang Dong told Yangmei to wait a couple of days, and Yangmei settled nearby while Fuxi felt uneasy about hosting him.
• Xiang Dong examined the phone-like Acquired Merit Treasure and found that the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus served as one of its key components.
• Xiang Dong decided to try to intercept the Twenty-Four-Rank Creation Green Lotus before the Three Pure Ones split it apart and give it to Nuwa.
• Xiang Dong explored the phone and found its browser offline, with only a weak Heavenly Dao Network connection limited by his Primordial Spirit strength.

Xiang Dong searched the Heavenly Dao browser and learned that Hongjun and Luohou were both candidates to merge with the Heavenly Dao, with Luohou holding the Investiture of the Gods List. He discovered that he was the sole Heavenly Dao Agent and decided to use his permissions to recruit Yangmei as an ally.

• Xiang Dong searched for Hongjun, saw that Hongjun was enlisting old friends against Luohou, and learned both were candidates to merge with the Heavenly Dao.
• Xiang Dong searched for Luohou and discovered he held the Heavenly Book, the Investiture of the Gods List, while sacrificially refining the Four Swords of Immortal-Slaying.
• Xiang Dong realized he lacked the strength to intervene in the conflict and decided he needed to make Yangmei an ally.
• Xiang Dong found that he was the sole Heavenly Dao Agent and learned Yuanshi had previously held the role before Pangu's Will reclaimed it.
• Xiang Dong checked the Three Pure Ones' profiles and discovered Tongtian was an Earthly Dao Sage protecting Houtu, while Laozi was meant to help Nuwa.
• Xiang Dong reviewed his available Heavenly Dao permissions and decided to give people whatever Hongjun would or would not dare to grant.

Xiang Dong reviewed the Heavenly Dao’s records of powerful beings and discovered that Bai Xuan, a Chaos Demon God, was stirring on the Moon Star, creating a subtle connection with his alternate account, Taichu. He then encouraged Nuwa to cultivate, but she said she could not enter seclusion.

• Xiang Dong opened the household registration records and found that the Heavenly Dao monitored the Primordial World’s major figures, while reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods faced varying levels of suspicion and hostility.
• Xiang Dong saw that Shi Chen, Mingyun, and Yinguo were untraceable, and learned that the Heavenly Dao could not locate the hidden Demon Gods.
• Xiang Dong spotted Bai Xuan’s record, which said the Light and Darkness Demon God showed signs of revival after Dao tainted the Moon Star, and sensed a connection through Taichu.
• Xiang Dong turned off the phone when his Primordial Spirit neared exhaustion, then resolved to act cautiously because Pangu was counting on him.
• Xiang Dong observed Nuwa tending spirit plants and decided to seize the Creation Green Lotus so she could pursue the Creation Principle and strengthen the Human Race.
• Xiang Dong urged Nuwa to cultivate while the Enlightenment Tea’s effects remained, but Nuwa said she could not.

Xiang Dong used his Heavenly Dao authority to lift the realm suppression on Nuwa and Fuxi, then discussed the Dao with them. After a thousand years, both broke through to the Great Unity Golden Immortal realm, while Yangmei wondered how much time had passed.

• Nuwa told Xiang Dong that she and Fuxi had reached the realm of perfection but could not break through the barrier to a higher realm.
• Xiang Dong brought Fuxi out of seclusion and used the Heavenly Dao Phone to lift their realm restrictions for thirty yuanhui, up to the late Great Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Xiang Dong, Nuwa, and Fuxi discussed the Dao, and their resonance with heaven and earth produced golden lotuses and heavenly flowers.
• After a thousand years, Nuwa and Fuxi broke through the realm barrier and became Great Unity Golden Immortals.
• Fuxi and Nuwa thanked Xiang Dong for guiding them, while Yangmei wondered how long the discussion had lasted.