Chapter Summaries

Xiang Dong and Nuwa reached Penglai Immortal Island after Pangu's Will drew it to the Primordial World, and Xiang Dong accidentally advanced to Taiyi Golden Immortal. As they explored the island, Xiang Dong's sun totem pulled him in a direction different from the arrow's guidance.

• Pangu's Will summoned an enormous being from the void, which brought the Three Immortal Islands to the Primordial World and released dense innate Spiritual Qi.
• Xiang Dong and Nuwa used Flash to reach the immortal island, where the Spiritual Qi forced Xiang Dong to break through from Golden Immortal Great Perfection to Taiyi Golden Immortal.
• Azure Dragon sensed the islands' return and ordered all true dragons to hurry there and claim their fortuitous opportunities.
• Xiang Dong and Nuwa explored Penglai Immortal Island, where Xiang Dong's downgraded sunflower seeds began recovering their innate spirit-root status.
• Xiang Dong followed the arrow's guidance toward the island's depths, but the sun totem on his chest pulled his body toward another direction.

Xiang Dong's sunflower true form was irresistibly drawn to the innate extreme yang Qi nurturing Dongwanggong, forcing him to follow it to an innate formation. After absorbing a small amount and gaining Pure Yang True Fire, Xiang Dong stopped and left before he could absorb Dongwanggong or become entangled in his fate.

• Xiang Dong's sunflower true form broke away from him and ran toward a powerful pull, so Nuwa encouraged him to follow it.
• Xiang Dong and Nuwa reached a valley surrounded by an innate formation, where Xiang Dong recognized Dongwanggong taking shape inside.
• Xiang Dong identified the source of the pull as innate extreme yang Qi and feared that absorbing Dongwanggong would bring him dangerous karmic ties.
• Xiang Dong's restless sunflower form resonated with the Qi, and the innate formation opened a gap to let it inside.
• Xiang Dong absorbed a little of the Qi, condensed Pure Yang True Fire, and left before he could absorb more.

Xiang Dong and Nuwa traveled to the heart of Penglai Immortal Island, where they found the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus and a lake of Three Lights Divine Water. Xiang Dong claimed the lotus for his purification undertaking and promised to give it to Nuwa afterward, while Nuwa sensed that the innate grains he had collected for her were tied to a future opportunity.

• Xiang Dong left sunflower seeds at Dongwanggong's place of gestation, then followed Pangu's Will toward the heart of Penglai Immortal Island.
• Xiang Dong gathered the innate Five-Colored Rice, millet, and other five-grain Spirit Plants and gave them to Nuwa, who sensed a faint connection to her future fortuitous opportunity.
• Xiang Dong and Nuwa passed through the innate grand formation as the Dragon Clan arrived at the island's entrance.
• Xiang Dong and Nuwa discovered the Twelve-Rank World-Cleansing White Lotus at the center of the protected space, and Xiang Dong said he would give it to Nuwa after using it.
• Nuwa declined to compete for the World-Cleansing White Lotus, and Xiang Dong identified the surrounding lotus platforms and the lake beneath them as Three Lights Divine Water.

Xiang Dong gave Nuwa the jade bottle containing the Three Lights Divine Water and lotus platforms, then tried to escape the Dragon Clan’s blockade with her. He blinded the pursuing dragons with his Sun Fist, leaving their escape in progress.

• Xiang Dong collected the twelfth-grade Pure World White Lotus, twelve ninth-grade lotus platforms, and Three Lights Divine Water, discovering that its jade bottle was a supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure.
• Xiang Dong gave the jade bottle and its contents to Nuwa, persuading her to accept them as an investment and urging her to leave before the innate formation vanished.
• Nuwa spotted more than a hundred true dragons guarding the islands’ exit and prepared to fight, but Xiang Dong said he had another plan.
• Xiang Dong took Nuwa by the hand and used Flash to rush toward the Spiritual Qi vortex entrance as the dragons attacked them.
• Xiang Dong told Nuwa to close her eyes and shut off her Divine Sense, then unleashed his Sun Fist and blinded the pursuing dragons.

Xiang Dong used his Sun Fist to disorient the Dragon Clan, then activated a Superquantum Channel to teleport himself and Nuwa from the East Sea back to Buzhou Mountain. The journey succeeded but left him nearly drained, and he said the channel would be easier to use for making trouble.

• Xiang Dong's Sun Fist blinded the dragons and disrupted their Divine Sense, sending them crashing into one another and attacking each other in confusion.
• Xiang Dong escaped the chaos and called on the sunflowers he had planted along the route from Buzhou Mountain to the East Sea.
• The sunflowers lit up to form a golden track, and Xiang Dong explained that he had created the Superquantum Channel for long-distance teleportation.
• Xiang Dong took Nuwa onto the channel, and they crossed the distance back to Buzhou Mountain in a few breaths.
• Xiang Dong emerged as a tiny point of light, exhausted by the journey, but celebrated the successful experiment.

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.