Recaps

Luohu raided the Dragon Clan for its treasures while Hongjun prepared to challenge him, then launched the Dao-Demon Conflict with three allies. Luohu’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation killed Qiankun and Yin-Yang, and Hongjun finally identified the Immortal-Severing Sword as its weakness while Yang Mei struggled to survive.

• Luohu attacked the Dragon Palace with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, forcing Candle Dragon to surrender the Dragon Clan’s treasures, then returned to Mount Sumeru and spared the clan’s palace and Ancestor Dragon Pearl.
• Bai Yu and Hongjun remained stalled below full Great Dao comprehension until the Primordial Heavenly Dao revealed the Dao-Demon War’s role in Hongjun’s path, prompting Hongjun to prepare to oppose Luohu.
• After fully comprehending the Slaughter Great Dao, Bai Yu watched as Hongjun tested Luohu’s formation with his Evil Corpse, then recruited Old Ancestor Qiankun, Ancestor Yin Yang, and Yang Mei with offers to use the Jade Plate of Creation.
• Hongjun and his allies attacked Mount Sumeru, but Luohu deployed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and killed Old Ancestor Qiankun after targeting him as the group’s weakest defender.
• Luohu intensified the formation with the Western Continent’s earth-vein power, and Yin-Yang Ancestor sacrificed himself to create an opening before Hongjun’s Good Corpse took his place with the Taiji Diagram.
• Luohu turned the formation’s attacks on Yang Mei, who endured them for a hundred years while Hongjun searched for a way to break the formation.
• Hongjun found that the Immortal-Severing Sword’s position was the formation’s flaw, but his Obsession Corpse was killed by the sword qi when he sent it to investigate Yang Mei’s direction.

Hongjun destroyed Luohu and repaired the Western Continent, while Bai Yu attained the Slaughter Great Dao and continued pursuing the Origin Great Daos. Yang Mei perfected the Space Great Dao but was barred from attaining the Dao, as Hongjun succeeded and became the Heavenly Dao’s spokesman; Bai Yu then met him and revealed his overwhelming power.

• Hongjun used the Chaos Bead to help escape Luohu’s formation, then broke it despite the damage and karmic debt it would bring to the Western Continent.
• Hongjun and his corpses killed Luohu, after which Hongjun began repairing the Western Continent and lent Yang Mei the Jade Plate of Creation.
• Yang Mei used the Jade Plate of Creation to perfect the Space Great Dao, while Hongjun repaired the Western Continent and the Demon Race bore much of Luohu’s karmic debt.
• Bai Yu attained the Slaughter Great Dao for the fifth time and later chose to comprehend the Creation Great Dao because the Primordial World’s Destruction Great Dao was incomplete.
• Hongjun finished repairing the Western Continent, took the Three Pure Ones as disciples, and perfected the Qi Great Dao, while Yang Mei returned the Jade Plate of Creation.
• Yang Mei attempted to attain the Dao near Bai Yu’s Penglai Immortal Island, but the Primordial Heavenly Dao vetoed his attainment.
• Hongjun attained the Dao with the Heavenly Dao’s permission, announced that he was a Sage, and invited beings to hear him expound the Dao at the Chaos Purple Cloud Palace.
• Bai Yu met Hongjun on an East Sea island, where Hongjun sensed Bai Yu’s five complete Origin Great Daos and stood stunned by his presence.

Bai Yu met Hongjun and Yang Mei as they became bound to the Primordial Heavenly Dao, while Hongjun established Purple Firmament Heaven and delivered his first sermon. As the second sermon approached, the Ancestral Witches confronted the limits of their cultivation, and Yang Mei failed to secure Hongjun’s Jade Plate of Creation.

• Hongjun realized Bai Yu had attained the Dao five times, befriended him, and discussed the Dao with him in a time-slowing formation.
• Hongjun tried to establish a master-disciple connection with Bai Yu, but Bai Yu severed the karmic tie and later rejected Hongjun’s suggestion that he serve the Primordial World.
• Hongjun created Purple Firmament Heaven and preached to three thousand chosen beings, while Yang Mei failed to enter and turned to Bai Yu for help attaining the Dao.
• Yang Mei negotiated with the Heavenly Dao and attained Hunyuan, becoming bound to the Primordial World, while Hongjun continued preaching and pursuing further Great Daos.
• At Hongjun’s first sermon, Zhunti and Yuanshi helped force Kunpeng to surrender his meditation cushion, while Houtu struggled to understand the Origin Great Dao.
• Houtu returned to Pangu Hall and told the Ancestral Witches that their body-refining path lacked a way to attain the Dao, so they supported her plan to ask Hongjun at his next sermon.
• As the second sermon approached, Zhunti avoided Kunpeng, while Di Jun and Tai Yi planned to recruit influential guests and Hongjun allocated Sage seats to the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin.
• Yang Mei asked Hongjun to lend him the Jade Plate of Creation, but Hongjun refused and planned to master another Origin Great Dao so he could suppress Yang Mei.

Hongjun completed his third sermon, established the Mysterious Gate, and assigned disciples, immortal leaders, and seven chances at Sagehood. Hong Yun received the final Purple Qi of Hongmeng, leaving him surrounded by enemies who wanted to take it from him.

• Hongjun completed his second sermon and answered the Three Thousand Guests’ questions before they returned to the Primordial World.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi gathered followers for a new force, then traveled with their companions to Purple Firmament Palace for Hongjun’s third sermon.
• Hongjun taught the Method of Slaying Three Corpses, declared it the orthodox tradition of the Mysterious Gate, and cut off Six-Eared Macaque’s ability to eavesdrop.
• Hongjun named Laozi, Yuanshi, Nuwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin as disciples, appointed Wood Duke and Golden Mother to govern the immortals, and declared that seven Sages would arise from the Mysterious Gate.
• Hongjun gave Purple Qi of Hongmeng to the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin, then the final strand descended into Hong Yun.
• Kunpeng and the other immortals without Purple Qi of Hongmeng turned their attention to Hong Yun, while Kunpeng resolved to seize his strand despite Zhen Yuanzi’s likely defense.