Chapter Summaries

Xiang Dong, an innate sunflower, fought the ravenous Six-Winged Golden Cicada for ages and detonated his life source to injure it. He revived from the seeds left by the blast as the fierce beast era waned, and realized that sunlight made him nearly impossible to kill.

• Xiang Dong's loneliness and madness led him to provoke the Six-Winged Golden Cicada into a battle that lasted many primordial cycles.
• After the fight wore him down, Xiang Dong let the cicada attack and detonated his life source, blasting it into a deep crater.
• The Six-Winged Golden Cicada survived and ate Xiang Dong's scattered sunflower seeds, which purified its Sha Qi and cleared its mind.
• The seeds took root, and as the fierce beast era faded, they grew into a vast field of sunflowers.
• Xiang Dong awoke among the flowers and concluded that sunlight kept him alive, perhaps making him as hard to kill as a saint.

Xiang Dong, a lonely innate Spirit Root, met Yang Mei Daoist after his singing drew the Space Fiend God to his flower field. Their conversation about isolation and madness left Yang Mei wondering whether Pangu had opened heaven and earth because he, too, had grown weary of the familiar world.

• Xiang Dong sang among his flower clones until Yang Mei Daoist arrived, intrigued by the strange field of innate Spirit Roots.
• Xiang Dong excitedly welcomed Yang Mei, roasted seeds from one of his clones, and shared them with him; Yang Mei discovered the kernels could purify a trace of Sha Qi.
• Xiang Dong learned that Yang Mei had just helped defeat Shen Ni after a battle lasting several Yuanhui, then recognized him as the Space Fiend God.
• Yang Mei grew suspicious when Xiang Dong identified his origins, but Xiang Dong openly invited him to kill him and explained that unbearable boredom had made him wish for death.
• Yang Mei sympathized with Xiang Dong's loneliness and wondered whether Pangu had opened heaven and earth because he had tired of the familiar world.

Xiang Dong accepted Yang Mei’s help learning the Space Great Dao, but only understood it after drinking Enlightenment Tea. He took form as a tiny, palm-sized person of light, while Yang Mei watched to see what would happen.

• Xiang Dong said he would make trouble for Hongjun, and Yang Mei offered to teach him the Space Great Dao.
• Yang Mei passed on insights into space, but Xiang Dong found them impossible to understand.
• Yang Mei brought Xiang Dong Enlightenment Tea, which immediately clarified the teachings for him.
• Xiang Dong realized how to take form and triggered a transformation that drew in Innate Spiritual Qi from the sea of flowers.
• Xiang Dong’s sunflower body produced a little sun that became a palm-sized person of light.

After taking human form, Xiang Dong tried to enlarge himself but learned that his true body would remain palm-sized unless he reclaimed the origin scattered through his sunflower sea. He planned to travel to Buzhou Mountain to purify the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and Yang Mei agreed to teleport him near the mountain before Xiang Dong gathered his sunflower clones to take along.

• Xiang Dong used the sunflower sea’s light to grow ten meters tall, but the form quickly crumbled and he shrank back to palm size.
• Yang Mei explained that Xiang Dong’s origin had been scattered among the flowers, and Xiang Dong chose not to reclaim it because the sunflowers kept him company.
• Xiang Dong announced that he would go to Buzhou Mountain to purify the Twelve Ancestral Witches and reduce their Sha Qi.
• Yang Mei corrected Xiang Dong’s direction and warned him that the journey was long, Pangu’s pressure would grow stronger near Buzhou Mountain, and he would have to climb the final stretch on foot.
• Yang Mei offered to teleport Xiang Dong near Buzhou Mountain, and Xiang Dong thanked him with sunflower seeds.
• Xiang Dong decided to pack up his sunflower clones and take them along rather than leave them vulnerable.

Xiang Dong used his Space Great Dao to create a grotto-heaven inside his true body, moved his sea of flowers into it, and merged his sunflower with his body before setting off with Yang Mei toward Buzhou Mountain. Distracted by a white hole during the journey, he fought against Yang Mei’s spatial force and arrived near the mountain instead of at their intended destination.

• Xiang Dong carved a diamond-shaped space inside his true body and expanded it into a grotto-heaven.
• Xiang Dong moved the sea of flowers and the earth beneath it into the new space, giving his clones a shared home.
• Xiang Dong merged his sunflower true body into himself, growing to about two meters tall and gaining a sun totem on his chest.
• Yang Mei opened a spatial passage toward Buzhou Mountain and warned Xiang Dong to stay still during the journey.
• Xiang Dong spotted a white hole and tried to chase it, struggling against Yang Mei’s force and disrupting the trip.
• Xiang Dong arrived in the vicinity of Buzhou Mountain, still some distance from the mountain itself.

Xiang Dong continued toward Buzhou Mountain and intervened when he saw Nuwa fighting the fierce beast Hou. He drove Hou away with the golden light from his sun totem, leaving Nuwa astonished by his power.

• Xiang Dong ran toward Buzhou Mountain for decades, determined to prevent its future collapse.
• Xiang Dong came upon Nuwa battling Hou, a fierce beast whose attacks were shrouded in Sha Qi.
• Xiang Dong challenged Hou, which abandoned Nuwa and charged at him with a blast of Sha Qi.
• Xiang Dong used Core Impact to purify the Sha Qi and strike Hou with golden light.
• Hou fled from the attack, and Nuwa stared at Xiang Dong in disbelief.

Xiang Dong befriended Nuwa after helping her drive off Hou, but Fuxi mistook him for a threat and blasted him toward Buzhou Mountain. Xiang Dong exploded under the combined force of the qin and Pangu’s pressure, while the sunflower seeds he had given Nuwa began to sprout and helped her glimpse her Dao.

• Xiang Dong shared sunflower seeds with Nuwa, and she discovered they purified the Fierce Sha Qi left by Hou.
• Xiang Dong revealed that he knew about Nuwa’s brother Fuxi and the Fuxi Qin, making Nuwa wary of how much he knew.
• Fuxi rushed to Nuwa’s side, sensed danger from Xiang Dong, and attacked him with the Fuxi Qin despite Nuwa’s protests.
• The qin’s sound wave sent Xiang Dong toward Buzhou Mountain, where Pangu’s pressure destabilized him and caused him to explode.
• Xiang Dong’s scattered sunflower seeds triggered his rebirth, while the seeds in Nuwa’s palm sprouted and gave her a glimpse of her Dao.

Xiang Dong searched Buzhou Mountain for Pangu Hall but could not locate it beneath Pangu’s pressure and its hidden formation. He tried to summon the hall by worshipping Pangu and asking him to open a way, leaving his plan awaiting a response.

• Xiang Dong re-formed in the sea of flowers created by his second self-detonation and set out to find Pangu Hall on Buzhou Mountain.
• Xiang Dong climbed for tens of thousands of years but could not get beyond the mountainside or find Pangu Hall or other treasures.
• Xiang Dong realized that innate formations concealed treasures until they were fully nurtured, and concluded that Pangu Hall would remain hidden until the Twelve Ancestral Witches emerged.
• Xiang Dong decided to make Pangu Hall appear early, prepared an altar with sunflowers and sunflower seeds, and worshipped Pangu.
• Xiang Dong asked Pangu to open a door so he could help care for the Twelve Ancestral Witches.

Xiang Dong tried to persuade Pangu to help him change the Primordial World's tragic future, and Pangu's will finally awakened and showed him the way. Escorted past Buzhou Mountain's barriers, Xiang Dong reached Pangu Hall, the Heart of Pangu.

• Xiang Dong described how the Witch-Demon conflict would lead to Buzhou Mountain's destruction and pleaded with Pangu to prevent the Primordial World from declining.
• Pangu's lingering will awakened in response to Xiang Dong's sincere worship and grew furious at the future he had described.
• Hongjun, Luohou, Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, and Primordial Qilin sensed the disturbance, while Yang Mei suspected Xiang Dong's plan had worked.
• Pangu reshaped Xiang Dong's seed offering into an arrow, and his pressure parted to guide and protect Xiang Dong.
• Xiang Dong followed the arrow through the innate formations and entered Pangu Hall, the Heart of Pangu.

Xiang Dong tried to purify the blood pool in Pangu Hall with his moonlight, but the endless Sha Qi and Turbid Qi overwhelmed his efforts. Pangu’s Will revealed a hidden cache of Pangu treasures, and the Heart Blood and Jade Marrow sent Xiang Dong plunging into the blood pool.

• Xiang Dong used his Full Moon Light Wave to purify the blood pool, but his light barely affected the vast Sha Qi and Turbid Qi.
• Xiang Dong considered entering the blood pool to purify it from within, despite the danger of being corroded by its energies.
• Pangu’s Will guided Xiang Dong to a hidden space in the wall containing Pangu Essence Blood, Pangu Heart Blood, and Pangu Jade Marrow.
• Pangu Heart Blood enveloped Xiang Dong while the Jade Marrow descended over him, and they plunged him into the blood pool.

Xiang Dong used a purifying radiance amplified by Pangu Jade Marrow to cleanse the blood pool inside Mount Buzhou, weakening its innate Sha Qi. The upheaval alarmed the Primordial World’s powerful beings, who wondered whether Pangu had returned, while Fuxi suspected Xiang Dong was responsible.

• Xiang Dong released purifying light from within the blood pool, gradually cleansing the Sha Qi around the twelve flesh cocoons.
• The Heavenly Dao sensed an abnormal change at Mount Buzhou, but Pangu’s will repelled its gaze.
• Luohou felt the God-Slaying Spear react, feared Pangu might have returned, and set off to investigate.
• Hongjun failed to divine what had happened at Mount Buzhou and went there to confirm whether Pangu was alive.
• The Ancestral Dragon, Primordial Phoenix, Primordial Qilin, and other powerful beings turned their attention toward Mount Buzhou.
• Fuxi suspected Xiang Dong had caused the upheaval and worried because he had struck Xiang Dong into Mount Buzhou.

Fuxi went to investigate the strange change on Buzhou Mountain while Nuwa wondered whether Xiang Dong’s sunflowers had caused it. Hongjun, Luohou, and the other powerful beings searched the mountain’s summit but found nothing, and Hongjun stayed behind to investigate further with the Creation Jade Disc.

• Fuxi told Nuwa to stay behind and flew toward Buzhou Mountain, while Nuwa tended the spirit field and wondered whether Xiang Dong had caused the mountain’s change.
• Hongjun, Luohou, Five Elements, Yin-Yang, and Heaven and Earth arrived at Buzhou Mountain and climbed to its summit to check whether Pangu had awakened.
• The group found no sign of Pangu or anything unusual, and Luohou refused to share what he had discovered first.
• Hongjun asked why Yangmei had not appeared, and privately suspected that something had happened to him.
• Luohou and the other Demon Gods left Buzhou Mountain, but Hongjun stayed behind to search with the Creation Jade Disc.

Hongjun used the Creation Jade Disc to investigate Buzhou Mountain and connected with the Heavenly Dao, seeing the path to union with it. As Fuxi gave up climbing and headed home, Xiang Dong awakened in one of Nuwa’s sunflowers and wondered where he was.

• Hongjun used the Creation Jade Disc to probe the disturbance, inadvertently opening a connection to the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao chose Hongjun as its destined partner, and Hongjun realized that his path could end in union with the Dao.
• Fuxi struggled to climb Buzhou Mountain, suspected Xiang Dong was connected to the disturbance, and turned back to return to his sister.
• Xiang Dong’s Primordial Spirit transferred into one of the sunflowers Nuwa had cultivated, where he awoke and asked if he was still in the blood pool.

Xiang Dong discovered that his consciousness had transferred to his strongest clone while another version of him continued purifying the blood pool in Pangu Hall. He received Pangu’s inheritance and two Principle imprints, then set out to find a spiritual treasure in the East Sea while studying the Light Principle and the Space Great Dao.

• Xiang Dong realized he had survived by transferring his Primordial Spirit to his strongest offshoot clone, while his body in the blood pool continued working automatically.
• Xiang Dong received Pangu’s inheritance and the [Light] and [Creation] Principle imprints through his connection to the blood-pool version of himself.
• Xiang Dong lamented that gaining power thwarted his wish to die, then resolved to continue the great purification project.
• Xiang Dong learned that Pangu had instructed him to find a spiritual treasure in the East Sea to help complete the purification project.
• Xiang Dong began combining his understanding of the Light Principle with the Space Great Dao and became absorbed in studying their possibilities.

Xiang Dong used the Light and Creation Principles to make a light display and then created a Peashooter from Xirang. Watching him create it helped Nuwa grasp that her Dao concerned creation and living beings, while Fuxi prepared to return home.

• Xiang Dong formed a colorful light ball, turned it into a screen, and projected an image of Pangu opening the heavens.
• Nuwa observed Xiang Dong, and he noticed her presence and recognized the soil beneath them as Primordial Xirang.
• Nuwa explained that growing Xiang Dong's sunflower seeds in the Xirang had once given her a fleeting sense of her Dao.
• Xiang Dong created a Peashooter from light and Xirang, and Nuwa seized the inspiration that her Dao involved creation and living beings.
• Fuxi found nothing on Buzhou Mountain and prepared to return home.

After helping Nuwa find direction for her Dao Path, Xiang Dong persuaded her to join him on a treasure hunt in the East Sea. Nuwa agreed to travel without Fuxi, while Fuxi hurried back to Buzhou Mountain with a growing sense of unease.

• Nuwa thanked Xiang Dong for giving her a direction for her Dao Path, and he asked her to help him search for a treasure in the East Sea.
• Xiang Dong argued that traveling would help Nuwa grow independent and better understand her Dao Path, despite Fuxi's objections.
• Nuwa imagined protecting Fuxi in the future and resolved to join Xiang Dong on the journey.
• Xiang Dong celebrated that his plan had worked as Fuxi sped back toward Buzhou Mountain, troubled by a premonition.

Fuxi returned to find Nuwa gone and discovered Xiang Dong had left a mocking message in the spirit field. After hearing Nuwa had willingly gone with Xiang Dong to the East Sea to pursue a fortuitous opportunity, Fuxi decided to follow them.

• Fuxi searched the cultivation grounds and spirit field but could not find Nuwa, then spotted three sunflowers and a Peashooter.
• The Peashooter attacked Fuxi, and one sunflower displayed Xiang Dong's message boasting that he had parked his Ghostfire at Fuxi's home.
• Nuwa's lingering divine thought told Fuxi she had chosen to travel with Xiang Dong to the East Sea in search of an opportunity for her Dao Path.
• Fuxi calculated that Nuwa's journey held danger but no serious harm and might bring her a great opportunity.
• Fuxi decided to go to the East Sea after Nuwa.

As Xiang Dong and Nuwa traveled toward the Eastern Sea, Xiang Dong spread downgraded sunflower seeds across the Primordial Land to establish a vast network of roots. Meanwhile, many divine beings emerged, but Xiang Dong used his blood-pool alt to suppress Di Jiang until his Sha Qi was purged.

• Xiang Dong experimented with combining the Light Principle and Space Great Dao as he and Nuwa traveled.
• Xiang Dong collected his sunflower seeds, downgraded their Innate origins into Acquired ones, and scattered them across mountains and plains.
• Nuwa realized Xiang Dong was using the hardy Acquired sunflowers to spread his roots throughout the Primordial Land.
• Kunpeng, Ancestor Minghe, Mosquito Daoist, Daoist Randeng, Daoist Hongyun, Zhen Yuanzi, and other divine beings emerged.
• Xiang Dong had his alt use Pangu's Pressure to suppress Di Jiang in the blood pool until his Innate Sha Qi was purged.

Jiang Chen’s faint leak of Pangu’s presence drew an Earth Qilin to Xiang Dong and Nuwa, forcing them into a long chase. Xiang Dong kept them ahead by replenishing his energy and improving his Flash technique, widening the gap by the end.

• Jiang Chen used Pangu’s pressure to quiet Di Jiang’s flesh cocoon, and Nuwa sensed Pangu’s presence leaking from Xiang Dong.
• An Earth Qilin detected the presence and pursued Xiang Dong and Nuwa, believing they had a treasure.
• Xiang Dong grabbed Nuwa and repeatedly used Flash to flee while the Earth Qilin drew power from the earth veins to catch up.
• Xiang Dong told the Earth Qilin he had no Jizhi cough syrup, then claimed seniority over the Primordial Qilin and enraged his pursuer.
• Xiang Dong replenished his energy from his sunflower seas and improved his Flash until he began widening the distance from the Earth Qilin.

Xiang Dong escaped the pursuing Earth Qilin by leading it to the East Sea, where it clashed with a true dragon over territory. After slipping away with Nuwa, Xiang Dong followed Pangu’s sunflower seeds toward the hidden Three Immortal Islands.

• Nuwa suggested fighting the weakened Earth Qilin, but Xiang Dong refused and headed for the East Sea to divert the trouble.
• The Earth Qilin pursued Xiang Dong into the East Sea, where a true dragon confronted it for trespassing.
• The Earth Qilin and the true dragon exchanged threats and prepared to fight over their clans’ territories.
• Xiang Dong took advantage of the confrontation to flee with Nuwa while the two primordial behemoths faced off.
• Xiang Dong used Pangu’s sunflower seeds to point the way across the East Sea toward the Three Immortal Islands.