Chapter Summaries

Grand Pure Daoist accepted the possibility of pursuing a Second Dao Fruit after hearing Xuansu’s interpretation of Yin and Yang. Meng Qi then revealed his plan for the final step of the Method of Reducing to Seek Emptiness: transcend together with his world.

• Grand Pure Daoist used the Taiji Diagram to observe Xuan Du and Xuansu’s Dao Debate, and Xuansu’s explanation of the “Foundation of Existence” resonated with him.
• Grand Pure Daoist recognized that the new interpretation offered another possible Dao Fruit and accepted the Yinguo, then sent a message to Xuan Du.
• Meng Qi told Fang Xun that Taiqing had taken the bait and explained that the Second Dao Fruit offered the Three Pure Ones a chance to pursue another path.
• When Ji Ning asked how Meng Qi would complete the Method of Reducing to Seek Emptiness, Meng Qi said he had adapted it to his circumstances.
• Meng Qi announced that he planned to transcend with his world, explaining that extracting the Three Pure Ones’ symbols was both his own and the world’s Method of Reducing to Seek Emptiness.

Fang Xun shared the New Method of Reducing to Seek Emptiness with Meng Qi and accepted Taiqing’s invitation to Kunlun Mountain. After arriving, he was led to the Three Pure Ones’ humble thatched-cottage Daoist grounds.

• Meng Qi explained that his perfected Method of Reducing to Seek Emptiness required the Three Pure Ones to cultivate its principles before he could seize the crucial moment.
• Xuan Du advanced greatly in the Golden Immortal realm after Fang Xun guided him in the Dao of Yin and Yang.
• Taiqing invited Fang Xun to Kunlun Mountain, and the chat group agreed he should go.
• Fang Xun accepted the invitation, and Xuan Du transported him to Kunlun Mountain using the Taiji Diagram’s Dao Rhyme.
• Xuan Du led Fang Xun to the Three Pure Ones’ thatched cottages and announced his arrival to Taiqing.

Fang Xun visited Grand Pure Daoist, received the Three Pure Ones Dao Arts, and shared it with Meng Qi, whose understanding of the Three Pure Ones advanced his path toward the Dao Fruit. Fang Xun realized Grand Pure Daoist might have arranged for him to lecture the Three Pure Ones’ disciples, and he worried that their established lineages would soon clash over their differing philosophies.

• Grand Pure Daoist corrected Fang Xun’s understanding of the Yin-Yang Great Dao and imparted the Three Pure Ones Dao Arts to him.
• Fang Xun uploaded the Three Pure Ones Dao Arts to the Myriad Heavens Chat Group, and Meng Qi used it to summon the Three Pure Ones and grow more certain of attaining the Dao Fruit.
• Meng Qi explained that Grand Pure Daoist had acted through the Dao of Non-Action, Method of Action, and Fang Xun suspected he had been guided into giving another lecture.
• Xuan Du named several disciples of Jade Pure and Shangqing whom they could invite, and Fang Xun worried that the Three Pure Ones’ lineages would soon clash over their philosophies.

Fang Xun attended Xuan Du’s banquet on Kunlun Mountain, where he encountered Daoist Randeng, whom he discovered had attained Da Luo and become Jade Pure Daoist’s disciple. The two exchanged pointed courtesies as the other disciples sensed their strained history.

• Xuan Du introduced Fang Xun to the assembled Chan and Jie Sects disciples and praised his Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Fang Xun prepared to fulfill his mission with the Three Pure Ones’ disciples, but a familiar voice interrupted the banquet and triggered his instinctive alarm.
• Daoist Randeng arrived with a Bronze Lamp, and Fang Xun recognized that Randeng had attained Da Luo after taking Jade Pure Daoist as his master.
• Randeng greeted Fang Xun and remarked on how his cultivation had advanced since their meeting six thousand Yuan Hui earlier.
• Fang Xun called Randeng “Junior Brother,” and the two traded polite congratulations while the other disciples watched uneasily.

Fang Xun accepted Daoist Randeng’s challenge to a Dao Debate on Kunlun Mountain, with Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones watching over the contest. Randeng used Great Luo Divine Mystery to bring his past self into the battle, and said that this version of himself would fight Fang Xun at the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

• Xuan Du explained that Taiqing Daoist had invited Fang Xun to Kunlun and passed down the Three Pure Ones Dao Arts, making the other disciples reconsider him.
• Daoist Randeng challenged Fang Xun to a Dao Debate using only the Jade Pure Great Dao, and Fang Xun accepted to settle their Yinguo himself.
• A phantom of the Red Embroidered Ball appeared behind Fang Xun, while several gazes from Kunlun Mountain kept Randeng from escalating the fight.
• Fang Xun used the Three Pure Ones Dao Arts to manifest three Daoists, but Randeng’s Great Luo Divine Mystery split the battle across time.
• Daoist Randeng brought his past self into the present and declared that he would face Fang Xun at the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

Fang Xun used the Jade Pure Dao of the Cause of All Fruits to split heaven and earth, astonishing Daoist Randeng and the Three Pure Ones. As Randeng copied the technique, Upper Pure Fang Xun struck at the world Jade Pure Fang Xun had created, leaving the spectators stunned.

• The Three Pure Ones watched Fang Xun’s contest with Daoist Randeng, and Randeng attempted to bind Fang Xun with Jade Pure Dao Rhyme.
• Jade Pure Fang Xun split the chaotic void with the Jade Pure Dao of the Cause of All Fruits, revealing a Dao One Glazed Lamp that unsettled Jade Pure Daoist.
• Randeng copied Fang Xun’s Heaven and Earth Splitting technique and claimed he was no less capable.
• Upper Pure Fang Xun called Randeng shameless, then unleashed a Shangqing sword strike at the world Jade Pure Fang Xun had created.

Fang Xun’s Upper Pure and Jade Pure manifestations clashed in a destructive Dao debate with Daoist Randeng, while Grand Pure Fang Xun quelled their catastrophic collision. When Randeng unleashed Great Luo Divine Mystery, Fang Xun asked Nuwa to help him witness its power, and the Red Embroidered Ball’s misty light surged around him.

• Upper Pure Fang Xun used the Upper Pure Sword of Termination to destroy the world created by Daoist Randeng’s Jade Pure Method, growing stronger as the world neared its final calamity.
• The clash of termination and creation caused a Chaos explosion that threatened Upper Pure Fang Xun and Jade Pure Fang Xun.
• Grand Pure Fang Xun formed a Taiji Golden Bridge that restored order to Yin and Yang and quelled the explosion.
• Jade Pure Daoist and Upper Pure Daoist realized Grand Pure Daoist’s demonstration had shown them new paths, and he warned them to keep those paths separate.
• Daoist Randeng invoked Great Luo Divine Mystery through his Bronze Lamp, pushing the debate beyond the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
• Fang Xun asked Nuwa to help him witness the Great Luo Marvel, and the misty clear light around him surged.

Fang Xun used the Creation Pure Light and the Three Pure Ones Great Dao to glimpse the Great Luo Dao Realm, but Daoist Randeng attacked him through their Karma Thread. Fang Xun revealed the Yinguo Dao’s true origin, severed their karmic connection, and left Randeng determined to oppose him.

• Fang Xun saw the River of Time and realized the Heavenly Dao obscured the future because of the many Great Luo Supremes and fixed constants in the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Three Pure Ones Fang Xun joined their Great Daos, extending the Other Shore Golden Bridge along the River of Time as Fang Xun glimpsed the Great Luo Dao Realm.
• Daoist Randeng used his Bronze Lamp and their Karma Thread to drag Fang Xun back into the Sea of Suffering.
• Fang Xun summoned the Dao One Glazed Lamp and revealed that all Yinguo originated in Pangu’s Heaven and Earth Splitting.
• Daoist Randeng recognized the Jade Pure Dao’s connection to the Cause of All Fruits, and Fang Xun severed the Karma Thread between them.
• Daoist Randeng vanished without admitting defeat, while Fang Xun concluded that Randeng intended to fight him to the bitter end.

Fang Xun’s attempt to reach the Da Luo Dao Realm was interrupted when his origin proved insufficient, while Hong Yi nearly began his own breakthrough to save him. Fang Xun concluded that he needed to strengthen the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree by taking root in other worlds, and his group members welcomed him to visit.

• As Fang Xun’s primordial spirit and the Chat Group Core began evolving, Meng Qi, Ye Fan, Ji Ning, and Hong Yi warned him to stop before his incomplete state caused lasting harm.
• Hong Yi entered the River of Time and prepared to Attain Da Luo so he could interrupt Fang Xun, but Fang Xun woke and told him to stop.
• Fang Xun explained that his origin had collapsed during his ascent because his Great Dao had not traveled far enough and the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree lacked sufficient origin.
• Fang Xun concluded that the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree needed to evolve into a Top Grade Innate Spiritual Root before he could Attain Da Luo.
• Meng Qi, Ye Fan, Ji Ning, and Hong Yi invited Fang Xun to visit their worlds and strengthen his Dao Tree, and Fang Xun accepted.

After Fang Xun’s attempt to perceive the Da Luo state left him unconscious, Nuwa negotiated compensation from the Three Pure Ones, who accepted because they valued the new possibility he had brought them. Fang Xun pretended to remain unconscious while considering which spiritual roots to claim.

• Nuwa searched the River of Time for whoever had disrupted Fang Xun, then went to Kunlun Mountain, where the Three Pure Ones had brought him.
• Fang Xun told Nuwa through their spiritual link that his cultivation experiment had caused the problem, and Nuwa urged him to stay unconscious so she could demand compensation.
• Nuwa demanded three Top Grade Innate Spiritual Roots from the Three Pure Ones, and they agreed.
• Nuwa also secured three Innate Supreme Treasure Dao Rhymes and left one final request for Fang Xun to make after waking.
• Fang Xun continued pretending to be unconscious as he considered which spiritual roots to obtain and celebrated the gains.

Nuwa explained Fang Xun’s two possible Great Luo Paths and supported his choice to make Dao Fruits primary and Spiritual Roots secondary. After Fang Xun declined her offer to gather more roots for him, Nuwa sensed an opportunity and handed him the Red Embroidered Ball.

• Grand Pure Daoist assigned the Three Pure Ones to seek the Immortal Apricot, Yellow Middle Plum, and Bitter Bamboo, and Upper Pure Daoist volunteered to take the Bitter Bamboo from Daoist Zhunti.
• Nuwa examined Fang Xun’s cultivation and explained that his Great Luo Path could rely on nine Top Grade Innate Spiritual Roots or on raising three thousand Dao Fruits to the Taiyi Level.
• Fang Xun chose to make Dao Fruits his primary path and Spiritual Roots his auxiliary path, and Nuwa accepted his decision.
• Nuwa considered other potential Spiritual Roots, including Jianmu Tree and the Pure World White Lotus, but Fang Xun said he would pursue his own plan unless he failed.
• Nuwa sensed an opportunity and tossed the Red Embroidered Ball to Fang Xun.

Fang Xun entered the Yang Shen World and witnessed Hong Yi’s plan to raise its level so it could evolve without becoming dependent on limited resources. The chapter left Hong Yi explaining why the Primordial Wilderness’s infinite origin made it a supreme world.

• Fang Xun returned to Shouyang Mountain after meeting Nuwa and accepted Hong Yi’s invitation to visit the Yang Shen World.
• Fang Xun sent a wisp of his primordial spirit through the passage and met Hong Yi in the form of Yi Zi.
• Hong Yi opened the Yang Shen World’s origin to Fang Xun, who quickly cultivated through its system but stopped before reaching The Other Shore.
• Hong Yi explained that he planned to raise his world’s upper limit so all beings could cultivate and ascend without fighting over scarce resources.
• Hong Yi told Fang Xun he had considered refining a Great Luo Supreme into a perpetual motion machine, but rejected the idea because it would limit the world’s future growth.
• Hong Yi contrasted his world’s resource limits with the Primordial Wilderness’s infinite origin and suggested that even higher beings might exist there.

Hong Yi and Fang Xun began their plan to raise the Yang Shen World’s limits, with Fang Xun merging his Myriad Heavens Dao Tree Body into the world’s origin. Hong Yi opened the world’s fetal membrane to Chaos, and Fang Xun’s tree rooted itself beyond the world to draw in its nourishment.

• Hong Yi explained the World Ascension Plan to Fang Xun, who agreed that his Myriad Heavens Dao Tree Body was suited to help.
• Hong Yi manifested the Heavenly Dao before the people of the Yang Shen World, revealing that Yi Zi was beginning the world’s ascension.
• Fang Xun entered the world’s origin and fused his Myriad Heavens Dao Tree Body with it, becoming a World Tree that supported the world and ordered its myriad Daos.
• Hong Yi used the Sky-Opening Axe Light to break the World Fetal Membrane and expose the world to Chaos qi.
• Fang Xun’s World Tree sent its roots through the void and anchored them in Chaos.

Fang Xun and Hong Yi transformed the Yang Shen World into the Other Shore, allowing Fang Xun to reach the Other Shore Realm. After reading a novel that recorded his life, Fang Xun confronted its author and gained a new understanding of his Great Luo Path.

• Fang Xun drew Chaos qi through the Myriad Heavens Dao Tree, converted it into spiritual qi, and scattered it across the Yang Shen World.
• Hong Yi fused the Central World, the Beyond the Heavens, and the Great Thousand World into a vast realm, named it the Other Shore, and established its new reality.
• Fang Xun witnessed Hong Yi's Great Luo and reached the Other Shore Realm as the world's origin completed its ascension.
• Fang Xun realized he had read an abandoned webnovel that recorded his thoughts and life, and Hong Yi took him back in time to see its author finish writing it.
• After Hong Yi asked whether the novel had been a record or a creation, Fang Xun accepted that it was only a record and took his first step upon his Great Luo Path.

Fang Xun learned from Hong Yi about the Great Luo Dao Heart and the innate Dao Hearts of Primordial Wilderness divine saints, then used the Qiankun Cauldron to return his primordial spirit to an innate state. After three Yuan Hui of seclusion, he emerged with a trace of Great Luo insight and reunited with Hong Yi and Xuan Du, who brought him a Jade Bottle from their teacher and uncle master.

• Hong Yi explained to Fang Xun that acquired lifeforms faced a Great Luo Dao Heart hurdle, while Innate Divine Saints had complete Dao Hearts, and said Ji Ning's cultivation methods could help overcome it.
• Fang Xun returned to the Primordial Wilderness and used the Qiankun Cauldron to refine his primordial spirit, returning it to an innate state.
• After three Yuan Hui, Fang Xun emerged with a flawless Innate Dao Body and a trace of Great Luo insight, then surveyed the Human Race's flourishing incense offerings and academy.
• Hong Yi recognized Fang Xun's return from seclusion and told Xuan Du, who was teaching at the academy, that Xuansu had emerged.
• Xuan Du came to Fang Xun, glimpsed his profound state, and asked whether he had advanced to Great Luo; Fang Xun advised him to seek out Yi Zi.
• Xuan Du delivered a Jade Bottle from their teacher and uncle master, and Fang Xun's eyes lit up when he saw it.

Fang Xun discovered the treasures and spiritual roots hidden in the Jade Bottle, then waited for Di Jun and Xi He’s courtship to begin. After Nuwa’s Red Embroidered Ball revealed that their Heavenly Marriage was at hand, Di Jun and Xi He agreed to arrange it and asked Fang Xun to witness the union.

• Fang Xun opened Xuan Du’s Jade Bottle and found three Top Grade Innate Spiritual Roots and the Dao Rhyme of the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, and Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Fang Xun gathered the three strands of Dao Rhyme, refined the Jade Bottle, and took out Nuwa’s Red Embroidered Ball.
• Fang Xun watched the Sun Star and Moon Star for ages, hoping to observe Di Jun and Xi He falling in love.
• Uncle Master Red Embroidered Ball told Fang Xun that the opportunity had arrived, and Di Jun and Xi He noticed him.
• Di Jun used the River Diagram and Luo Book to learn that Nuwa had sent Fang Xun to help arrange their Heavenly Marriage.
• Di Jun and Xi He agreed to put the marriage on the agenda and asked Fang Xun to serve as their witness.

Fang Xun attended Di Jun and Xi He's Heavenly Marriage in the Heavenly Court, where Fu Xi identified him as a suitable Witness. When Tai Yi questioned Fang Xun's standing, Fang Xun revealed Heavenly Dao authority and the Dao Rhymes of three Innate Supreme Treasures, leaving the Demon Race's leaders astonished.

• Di Jun brought Xi He to the Heavenly Court and transported Fang Xun to Lingxiao Palace, where he asked about Fang Xun's cultivation.
• Di Jun seated Fang Xun beside Tai Yi as a possible attempt to recruit him into the Demon Race, but Fang Xun moved to stand beside the empty seat reserved for Nuwa.
• Di Jun announced his intention to marry Xi He and establish the Heavenly Marriage, and the Demon Race's leaders recognized its benefits and welcomed Xi He as the Demon Empress.
• Fu Xi realized the marriage required a Witness and a particular Innate Spiritual Treasure, and Fang Xun presented the Red Embroidered Ball entrusted to him by Nuwa.
• Tai Yi questioned whether Fang Xun had enough standing to witness the marriage, so Fang Xun revealed the Heavenly Dao Myriad Phenomena Auspicious Cloud and the Dao Rhymes of the Taiji Diagram, Pangu Banner, and Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

After the Demon Race arranged Di Jun and Xi He's Heavenly Marriage, Houtu discovered a hall left for her by Pangu and chose to keep searching for a place for the Witch Clan. Fang Xun negotiated with Di Jun for spiritual-root origins to help him Attain Da Luo.

• Di Jun confirmed Fang Xun as the Witness, and the Demon Race announced the Heavenly Marriage and sent invitations throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Empress Houtu recognized the Heavenly Marriage's potential merit and traveled to Buzhou Mountain, where an Ancient Hall appeared before her.
• Houtu entered the hall, found Pangu's Sky-Opening Axe Light and an Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light, and collected the spiritual light without absorbing it.
• Houtu merged the Ancient Hall with Pangu Hall, wondered where the Witch Clan belonged, and chose to keep searching for its place between heaven and earth.
• Fang Xun asked Di Jun for the Fusang and Moon Laurel, then settled for one-tenth of the Fusang's origin after Di Jun agreed; Di Jun told him to negotiate with Chang Xi for the Laurel's origin.

Fang Xun managed preparations for Di Jun’s wedding and welcomed the Three Pure Ones as the ceremony’s Witness. When Houtu arrived, he stepped in to receive her before Tai Yi could approach and provoke a clash.

• Fang Xun spent three Yuan Hui overseeing the Demon Race’s wedding preparations and used its resources to advance his cultivation to the peak of Taiyi Golden Immortal.
• Fang Xun went to Lingxiao Palace in festive robes, where Fu Xi asked him to welcome the Three Pure Ones.
• Fang Xun told the Three Pure Ones he was the Witness for the Heavenly Marriage, and Grand Pure Daoist warned him not to rely on merit to reach the Great Luo Dao Realm.
• A Demon Race attendant announced Houtu’s arrival, and Tai Yi set out to meet her.
• Fang Xun stopped Tai Yi and went to greet Houtu himself, who asked whether she was not allowed to attend.

Fang Xun presided over Di Jun and Xi He's Heavenly Marriage, which revealed why the Great Luo Supremes had gathered: they hoped to find flaws in the Heavenly Dao's suppression. The wedding earned Di Jun and Xi He immense merit, while Fang Xun poured his share into the Red Embroidered Ball, transforming it into a Merit Supreme Treasure.

• Houtu arrived at the Heavenly Court despite the Demon Race not having invited her, and Fang Xun escorted her into Lingxiao Palace.
• Fang Xun noticed the Great Luo Supremes' congratulatory gifts and began the ceremony by welcoming Di Jun and Xi He.
• Di Jun and Xi He declared that their marriage would complete the Primordial Wilderness Heavenly Dao, causing Heavenly Dao Order Divine Chains to appear around Lingxiao Palace.
• The Great Luo Supremes used the wedding to seek flaws in the Heavenly Dao, while Fang Xun used the Red Embroidered Ball to join Di Jun and Xi He in marriage.
• Heavenly Dao Merit elevated Di Jun and Xi He's cultivation, and the couple severed their second corpses to reach the middle stage of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Fang Xun poured all the merit he received into the Red Embroidered Ball, turning it into a Merit Supreme Treasure.