Recaps

Hongjun realized Bai Yu had attained the Dao five times, mastering five complete Origin Great Daos, and was left profoundly shaken by the impossible feat. He greeted Bai Yu respectfully, though the turmoil in his Dao heart still needed time to settle.

• Hongjun realized the five earlier instances of Dao attainment had all been Bai Yu’s, not five different beings’.
• Hongjun concluded that Bai Yu’s achievements exceeded what origins and effort could accomplish and seemed to require cheats.
• Hongjun recalled that the intervals between Bai Yu’s successive attainments had grown shorter, deepening his shock.
• Hongjun steadied his outward composure and solemnly introduced himself to Bai Yu, greeting him as a fellow Daoist.

Bai Yu met Hongjun on a small island and demonstrated his command of time by slowing its passage, leaving Hongjun astonished by the extent of Bai Yu’s power. Hongjun accepted the vast gap between them and resolved to befriend Bai Yu rather than oppose him.

• Hongjun sensed the five complete Origin Great Daos within Bai Yu and decided to make him a friend.
• Bai Yu and Hongjun began discussing the Dao on an ordinary island instead of exchanging formalities.
• Bai Yu laid down a formation that slowed time on the island, astonishing Hongjun with his ability to alter time within the Primordial World’s framework.
• Hongjun reflected that the world’s framework and Heavenly Dao rules rested on absolute power, and that even he remained bound by them.
• Hongjun accepted that Bai Yu was far stronger and felt no resentment or urge to compete with him.

Bai Yu and Hongjun discussed the Dao inside a formation that slowed time, and both gained greatly from sharing their insights. Hongjun recognized how far Bai Yu surpassed him in learning and comprehension, though he remained exceptionally talented by the standards of the Primordial World.

• Hongjun reflected on Bai Yu's mastery of five origin Great Daos and realized that even his own Jade Plate of Creation counted as a cheat.
• Bai Yu's time-slowing formation allowed a thousand Yuanhui of Dao discussion to pass while only a thousand years elapsed outside.
• Hongjun shared his deep understanding of the Qi Great Dao and his surface insights into the Three Thousand Great Dao Principles, benefiting Bai Yu greatly.
• Hongjun discovered that Bai Yu knew far more about the Three Thousand Great Dao Principles and sensed the Great Dao's presence in him.
• Hongjun concluded that he was a poor student compared with Bai Yu, while acknowledging that his own aptitude still surpassed almost all beings in the Primordial World.

After a thousand origin cycles of discussing the Dao, Hongjun credited Bai Yu with teaching him and tried to establish a karmic master-disciple bond. Bai Yu rejected the connection, while the Primordial Heavenly Dao secretly observed them.

• Bai Yu and Hongjun ended their Dao discussion, and Hongjun felt he had gained profound insights into the three thousand Great Daos.
• Hongjun thanked Bai Yu for teaching him the Dao, turning their discussion between equals into a claimed master-disciple connection.
• Bai Yu questioned Hongjun's gesture and severed the karmic tie, refusing to take on a connection to Hongjun or the Primordial World.
• Hongjun realized Bai Yu had blocked the bond and understood that he could not force it without the Primordial Heavenly Dao's help.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao continued watching Bai Yu and Hongjun without either of them noticing.

Hongjun’s attempt to bind Bai Yu to the Primordial World earned him a lightning strike from the Primordial Heavenly Dao, and he apologized before parting on friendly terms. After Bai Yu left, Hongjun watched Yang Mei from afar and reflected on their different choices regarding the Heavenly Dao.

• Hongjun suggested that Bai Yu should serve the Primordial World, so the Primordial Heavenly Dao struck him with Dutian Divine Thunder and charred him black.
• Hongjun apologized to Bai Yu, who accepted the remark as a jest, and the two discussed the Dao for a thousand origin cycles.
• Bai Yu left after exchanging contact information with Hongjun, who planned to establish a Dao sanctuary in the Outer Chaos and preach in ten thousand years.
• Hongjun looked toward Yang Mei’s distant Dao sanctuary but chose not to visit him, believing Yang Mei wanted to remain free of the Heavenly Dao’s bounds.
• Hongjun admired Yang Mei’s choice to forgo becoming the Heavenly Dao’s spokesman, though he accepted his own role as spokesman.

Hongjun created Purple Firmament Heaven, a Great Thousand World in the Outer Chaos, and prepared to lecture on the Great Dao. As beings across the Primordial World raced to find it, the Heavenly Dao limited entry to three thousand candidates and excluded innate divine demons.

• Hongjun left Yang Mei and created Purple Firmament Heaven in the Outer Chaos as his Dao sanctuary, where he held authority over who could enter.
• Hongjun rested briefly in the Purple Firmament Palace before his Great Dao lecture, which stirred beings throughout the Primordial World to seek him out.
• The Heavenly Dao restricted the audience to three thousand beings with innate foundations or flourishing providence, and barred innate divine demons from attending.
• Daluo Golden Immortals, Primordial Unity Golden Immortals, and even Golden Immortals ventured into the Outer Chaos to find Purple Firmament Heaven.
• The Three Pure Ones crossed the Chaos under the protection of the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.

Bai Yu watched Innate Divine Beings gather outside the Purple Firmament Palace to await Hongjun, while reflecting on the Primordial World's strict hierarchy and the Heavenly Dao's overwhelming power. The chapter left the gathered beings waiting for the palace gates to open.

• Bai Yu observed the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Fuxi, Zhen Yuanzi, Di Jun, Tai Yi, and other Innate Divine Beings arrive at Purple Firmament Heaven.
• The Three Pure Ones and the other visitors waited outside the Purple Firmament Palace rather than risk entering without permission.
• More Innate Divine Beings gathered, while the chapter explained that innate foundations and fortune made it difficult for ordinary beings to rise in the Primordial World.
• Bai Yu considered how Hongjun was bound to the Primordial Heavenly Dao, yet could draw on its power with its consent.
• Bai Yu concluded that controlling fifty complete Origin Great Daos would be enough to destroy the Primordial World and suppress its Sages.

As the Great Dao discourse approached, Zhunti and Jieyin arrived at Purple Firmament Palace on time, while Bai Yu observed that fortune and blessings could bring otherwise ordinary Innate Beings to the gathering. The palace gates opened with no low- or mid-grade-foundation Innate Beings among those who had arrived.

• Zhunti and Jieyin reached Purple Firmament Palace after eight thousand years, surprising Bai Yu by not arriving late.
• An early-stage Daluo Golden Immortal Innate Being with top-grade innate foundations and a high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure arrived near the end of the ninth millennium.
• More Innate Beings arrived, including a dozen or so with only high-grade innate foundations, and some were merely Primordial Unity Golden Immortals.
• The gates of Purple Firmament Palace opened without any Innate Beings of low-grade or mid-grade foundations having arrived.

During Hongjun’s first sermon, Bai Yu watched Yang Mei’s sanctuary and learned that Yang Mei, unable to attain the Dao and barred from Purple Firmament Heaven, had mistaken Hongjun’s silence for disdain. The chapter ended with Yang Mei prostrating himself and begging Bai Yu for an audience.

• Hongjun delivered his first ten-thousand-year sermon, while Bai Yu lost interest and turned his attention toward Yang Mei’s sanctuary.
• Yang Mei found Purple Firmament Heaven but could not enter, and he concluded that Hongjun looked down on him.
• Hongjun sensed Yang Mei’s thoughts but, wary of the Heavenly Dao’s attitude, continued to avoid meeting or explaining himself to Yang Mei.
• After the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun both ignored him, Yang Mei sought help from Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu saw Yang Mei prostrating himself and begging for an audience.

Yang Mei asked Bai Yu to intervene with the Heavenly Dao after it blocked his path to attaining the Dao. Bai Yu agreed to seek an answer, while Hongjun noticed their connection and regretted not having cultivated it himself.

• Bai Yu accepted Yang Mei's request for an audience, and Yang Mei greeted him with reverence and offered him wine and spirit fruits.
• Yang Mei lamented that he could not attain the Dao and prostrated himself, asking Bai Yu to give him an answer.
• Bai Yu glanced at the watching Heavenly Dao, then asked Yang Mei why he thought Hongjun had been able to attain the Dao.
• Yang Mei privately suspected Hongjun had surrendered to the Heavenly Dao, while Hongjun noticed Bai Yu and regretted missing the chance to build a connection with him.
• Hongjun continued his Dao lecture while secretly watching Bai Yu and Yang Mei, unnoticed by the Three Thousand Guests.

As Hongjun preached at the Purple Firmament Palace, Yang Mei begged Bai Yu and the Heavenly Dao to give him a chance to attain the Dao. Bai Yu refused to interfere, and the Heavenly Dao turned its attention to Yang Mei, whom it had begun to view as a dangerous oversight in its plans.

• Hongjun preached the Dao to the Three Thousand Guests while secretly watching Yang Mei.
• Yang Mei lamented that Hongjun had attained the Dao while he had not, and begged Bai Yu and the Heavenly Dao for a chance.
• Bai Yu chose not to interfere, unwilling to risk entangling himself in the Primordial World's karma for Yang Mei's sake.
• The Heavenly Dao considered Yang Mei a fish that had slipped through its net, since its script allowed only Hongjun to attain Hunyuan.
• The Heavenly Dao recognized that if Yang Mei attained Hunyuan, it could suppress him but not kill him.

Yang Mei negotiated with the Heavenly Dao and attained the Dao under its protection, then tried to thank Bai Yu with a heavy karmic debt. Bai Yu refused to deepen their entanglement and left, planning to discuss the Three Thousand Great Dao Principles with Yang Mei later.

• Bai Yu suspected the Heavenly Dao might have suppressed Yang Mei and considered that an official position could protect him.
• Yang Mei negotiated with the Heavenly Dao while Hongjun wondered what position he would receive.
• The Heavenly Dao withdrew, and Yang Mei thanked Bai Yu for helping him attain the Dao, creating a heavy karmic debt in Bai Yu’s eyes.
• Bai Yu declined Yang Mei’s formal thanks and left, saying they could discuss the Dao after Yang Mei attained it.
• Yang Mei realized he was now bound to the Primordial World like Hongjun, and the two had become colleagues as well as fellow Daoists.

Hongjun’s lecture on the Daluo Golden Immortal realm let the listeners comprehend the Great Daos more quickly, while their Dao resonance helped Hongjun in return. Houtu could not understand the lecture and worried that her dim primordial spirit would make her stand out among the enthralled listeners.

• Hongjun’s lecture filled Purple Firmament Palace with the resonance of the three thousand Great Daos, helping the listeners comprehend their own Great Daos.
• The Jade Plate of Creation absorbed the listeners’ Dao resonance, giving Hongjun insights from their understanding in return.
• Houtu sat in confusion as the lecture reached Origin Great Daos and wondered whether she should pretend to be enthralled.
• Houtu’s primordial spirit was dimmed by the Earthly Fiend Turbid Qi absorbed during her gestation, making her unable to follow the lecture.
• The narration explained that Ancestral Witches had primordial spirits and Origin Great Daos, but their essence overwhelmed their Qi and spirit.

After Hongjun finished teaching in the Purple Firmament Palace, his listeners bowed to him and helped establish his status as Dao Ancestor. Attention then turned to the six special seats, where Zhunti’s shameless tactics had displaced Hong Yun and left the reason Kunpeng’s seat was now occupied by Zhunti unclear.

• Hongjun taught for a thousand years, and Houtu struggled to understand the Dao because of her Ancestral Witch nature.
• After the listeners recovered from their meditation, they bowed to Hongjun, and fortune gathered around him as Dao Ancestor.
• Zhunti shoved Hong Yun away from a cushion, then pulled Jieyin onto it while rolling down the steps with Hong Yun.
• The Three Pure Ones claimed three cushions, Kunpeng secured another, and Nuwa took the last after Di Jun and Tai Yi hesitated.
• The chapter revealed that Zhunti was sitting on Kunpeng’s cushion and that Yuanshi had also played a part.

Zhunti manipulated Yuanshi and the Three Pure Ones into pressuring Kunpeng to abandon his meditation cushion, then claimed the seat. Kunpeng retreated to a corner, unaware that the cushion represented a Sage's seat, and resolved to remember those who had humiliated him.

• Zhunti rolled down the steps with Hong Yun, then watched Hong Yun sit beside Zhen Yuanzi on his own red meditation cushion.
• Zhunti targeted Kunpeng and insulted him, prompting Yuanshi to support Zhunti and Laozi and Tongtian to pressure Kunpeng.
• Others joined in demanding Kunpeng give up his seat, leaving him isolated as the crowd watched.
• Kunpeng yielded the cushion and moved to a corner, silently recording those who had joined the humiliation.
• Zhunti thanked the Three Pure Ones, sat in Kunpeng's former seat, and smiled at Nuwa.

After Hongjun ended his first sermon and promised to reopen Purple Firmament Palace after one Yuanhui, Yang Mei successfully attained the Dao of Space. The Three Thousand Guests returned to seclusion, while the Primordial Heavenly Dao made Yang Mei another bound administrator of the world.

• Hongjun announced that Purple Firmament Palace would reopen after one Yuanhui, then departed as the gathered divine beings praised him and left.
• Kunpeng glared at Zhunti, who ignored him and departed alongside Jieyin after greeting the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and other divine beings.
• Yang Mei began attaining the Dao in the East Sea, and the presence of the Space Great Dao spread throughout the Primordial World.
• Bai Yu, Hongjun, and the beings of the Primordial World noticed Yang Mei's breakthrough, while the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa reflected on their progress after Hongjun's sermon.
• Yang Mei successfully attained the Dao, becoming another high-ranking administrator bound to the Primordial World by the Heavenly Dao.

After attaining Hunyuan, Yang Mei released a thousand years of pent-up frustration by unleashing his Sage pressure across the Primordial World, then refrained from attacking Hongjun. Both Sages sought to grow stronger by comprehending multiple Origin Great Daos, with Yang Mei choosing the Time Great Dao and Hongjun continuing his own cultivation while spreading the Dao.

• Yang Mei unleashed his Sage pressure across the Primordial World for a thousand years, leaving all living beings prostrate beneath it.
• Yang Mei considered beating Hongjun but held back to preserve their relationship as colleagues.
• Yang Mei decided to comprehend the Time Great Dao and planned to use a high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure he had obtained from the Time Demon God.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei, inspired by Bai Yu's control of multiple Origin Great Daos, both sought to master more Great Daos and continue advancing.
• Hongjun continued spreading the Dao throughout the Primordial World while pursuing further progress as a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.

Hongjun chose to comprehend the Destiny Great Dao, while Yang Mei opened a hidden Great Thousand World in the Outer Chaos; together their worlds formed a defensive barrier around the Primordial World. After the Three Thousand Guests of Zixiao Palace returned to seclusion, Zhunti and Jieyin prepared to continue repairing the Western Continent’s earth veins.

• Hongjun rejected the Slaughter Great Dao and chose the Destiny Great Dao, hoping his great fortune would help him comprehend it.
• Yang Mei opened a Great Thousand World in the Outer Chaos, concealed by spatial power and positioned alongside Hongjun’s world as a barrier to the Primordial World.
• The Three Thousand Guests of Zixiao Palace entered seclusion to digest what they had gained, and the Primordial World quieted down.
• Zhunti and Jieyin returned to Mount Sumeru instead of immediately repairing the Western Continent’s earth veins.
• Hongjun had repaired the important medium and large earth veins but left the countless smaller ones for the Western Continent’s inhabitants, including Zhunti and Jieyin, to restore.

Houtu returned to Pangu Hall frustrated after learning in Purple Firmament Palace that she could not comprehend the Origin Great Dao. She told the other Ancestral Witches about the gathering and realized their inherited body-refining path offered no known method for attaining the Dao.

• Houtu returned to Pangu Hall in low spirits, and the other Eleven Ancestral Witches gathered around her, fearing someone had bullied her.
• Houtu reassured her elder brothers that no one had harmed her and recounted what she had seen and heard in Purple Firmament Palace.
• Houtu described the powerful innate divine beings she had encountered, including the Three Pure Ones, Kunpeng, Zhen Yuanzi, Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Zhunti.
• Houtu explained that she was distressed because she could not understand the Origin Great Dao and recognized how the Ancestral Witches' ignorant primordial spirits hindered comprehension.
• The chapter explained that the Ancestral Witches followed a difficult body-refining path, but neither Pangu's inheritance nor the Primordial World provided a method for attaining the Dao through the physical body.

The chapter explained how Essence, Qi, and Spirit formed three cultivation paths, and why spirit refinement was most popular for comprehending the origin great Dao. It ended by noting that all three paths could lead to proving Dao, though the Primordial World lacked a method for proving Dao through the flesh.

• The chapter described how cultivators with strong innate foundations could cultivate Essence, Qi, and Spirit together, while ordinary beings often had to choose a path.
• It contrasted spirit refinement, which prioritized realm and comprehension, with Qi refinement, which prioritized cultivation attainment, and body tempering, which prioritized physical strength.
• The chapter explained that body tempering consumed enormous resources and was especially uncommon among Daluo Golden Immortals, while the Twelve Ancestor Witches pursued it because their primordial spirits were benighted.
• It established that comprehending the origin great Dao was essential to proving Dao, making spirit refinement the most popular path across the heavens and myriad worlds.
• The chapter concluded that cultivators could prove Dao through Qi, Spirit, or Essence, but the Primordial World had no known method for proving Dao through the flesh.

Houtu remained determined to attend the Sage’s second lecture and ask whether he could help the Ancestral Witches overcome their clouded primordial spirits and incomplete path to physical Dao attainment. After the lecture, the three thousand guests returned to seclusion, while Bai Yu reflected on the Primordial World’s cultivation system and the importance of comprehending the Origin Great Dao.

• Houtu explained her worries to the Ancestral Witches, who said they were accustomed to the difficulty of comprehending the Origin Great Dao and had little hope the Sage could help.
• Houtu recognized that Pangu’s body-refining technique lacked its final method and that the Ancestral Witches could otherwise only reach the pinnacle of the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• The Ancestral Witches supported Houtu’s wish to attend the Sage’s second lecture and ask him about the problem.
• After the Sage’s lecture ended, the three thousand Purple Firmament Palace guests returned to their sacred grounds to digest their gains and improve their realms.
• Bai Yu considered how cultivation resources were abundant in the Primordial World, but comprehension of the Origin Great Dao mattered most, and the world’s cultivation system combined Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

The chapter explained the limits of the Ancestral Witches’ Body-Refining Dao and contrasted Dijiang’s bodily control of space with Yang Mei’s mastery of the Space Great Dao. As the second Dao lecture began, Kunpeng watched Zhunti with murderous resentment but still had no chance to attack him and Jieyin.

• The chapter explained that Dijiang relied on his body to wield the Space Great Dao, while Yang Mei could control space directly.
• The chapter described how the Twelve Ancestor Witches’ fused Pangu Blood Essence and Turbid Qi left them dependent on the Body-Refining Dao and without a clear path to attaining the Dao.
• Three thousand Innate Beings gathered outside the Purple Firmament Palace for the second Dao lecture, with newcomers filling the places of absent guests.
• Zhunti arrived with Jieyin and began calling out to friends, while Kunpeng stared at Zhunti with killing intent.
• Kunpeng recalled ambushing Zhunti and Jieyin but refrained from attacking because they were always together, leaving him frustrated and resentful.

Di Jun and Tai Yi planned to build a force by recruiting powerful innate divine beings, including Kunpeng, Fuxi, and Nuwa, to gather resources and fortune. The chapter explained how fortune and merit mattered to beings within the Primordial World, and how Hongjun controlled the allocation of the remaining Sage seats.

• Zhunti noticed Kunpeng might attack, so he drew Jieyin away and started chatting with the Three Pure Ones.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi planned to recruit Kunpeng, Fuxi, Nuwa, and other guests after the sermon, first building relationships before presenting their venture.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi aimed to gather resources and fortune, which mattered greatly to Daluo Golden Immortals and beings who had not transcended the Primordial World.
• The chapter explained that Bai Yu had no use for Heavenly Dao merit or Primordial World fortune because he controlled the Destiny Great Dao, while Hongjun could use fortune and merit to help comprehend it.
• The chapter described how Zhunti and Jieyin gained the Western Continent's two Sage seats, while Hongjun kept the final two seats unallocated.

Hongjun explained why he allocated four Sage seats to the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa, then gave two more to Zhunti and Jieyin to repay his lingering karmic debt to the Western Continent. He clarified the distinctions between Hunyuan, Heavenly Dao Sainthood, and Heavenly Dao Representative status, while noting that Yang Mei remained an anomaly without a defined position.

• Hongjun considered the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa destined to become Sages and allocated them four Sage seats.
• Hongjun gave two Sage seats to Zhunti and Jieyin to settle his karmic debt to the Western Continent, leaving them to repay the overpayment themselves.
• Hongjun explained that merit and fortune could address karmic debt, but his subordination to Heavenly Dao prevented him from simply severing karma.
• Hongjun distinguished attaining Hunyuan through mastering a Great Dao from becoming a Heavenly Dao Saint by fusing with Purple Qi of Hongmeng.
• Hongjun explained that he had earned the Dao Ancestor post through Heavenly Dao's recognition and preaching, while Yang Mei still lacked a specific position.

Yang Mei sought the Jade Plate of Creation to improve his Dao comprehension, but the Heavenly Dao ignored his request and Hongjun refused to lend him the treasure. Hongjun planned to master a second Origin Great Dao so he could surpass Yang Mei, leaving Yang Mei without a way to borrow the plate.

• Yang Mei attended Hongjun's second sermon and hoped to discuss the Dao and obtain a Jade Plate of Creation.
• Yang Mei reasoned that the Heavenly Dao held the Jade Plate's fragments, but it ignored his request for one.
• Yang Mei asked Hongjun to lend him the Jade Plate of Creation, but Hongjun refused because he no longer owed Yang Mei a karmic debt.
• Hongjun planned to master a second Origin Great Dao so he could suppress Yang Mei, and Yang Mei's offers of treasures failed to change his mind.