Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu compared the Enlightenment Tea Tree with the Huangzhong Plum and explained why the Ancestor Witches’ primordial spirits were weakened by Pangu’s Turbid Qi. He concluded that Pangu’s Blood Essence and primordial spirit might each have produced a miniature Pangu if they had not been divided.

• Bai Yu assessed the Enlightenment Tea Leaves’ fading effects and their limit at roughly seventy percent comprehension of the Origin Great Dao.
• Bai Yu explained that the Huangzhong Plum could help beings with poor foundations become Grand Unity Golden Immortals, while the Enlightenment Tea Tree was more valuable for comprehending the Dao.
• Bai Yu described how Pangu Blood Essence fused with Turbid Qi, weakening the Ancestor Witches’ primordial spirits and leaving them focused on body cultivation.
• Bai Yu explained that Pangu’s three streams of Pure Qi became the Three Pure Ones, while his twelve streams of Turbid Qi fused with his Blood Essence to form the Ancestor Witches.
• Bai Yu reflected that Pangu’s Blood Essence and primordial spirit might each have nurtured a miniature Pangu if they had not been divided.

Bai Yu planted the Enlightenment Tea Tree on Penglai Immortal Island and returned to seclusion, advancing to Grand Unity Golden Immortal late stage while bearing four Origin Great Daos. After a hundred yuanhui, Primordial Lord of Heaven entered the Mysterious Realm and prepared to return to the Lotus Lantern World.

• Bai Yu collected the Enlightenment Tea Tree and undamaged Innate Spiritual Roots from the divine mountain, leaving damaged roots to recover.
• Bai Yu planted the Enlightenment Tea Tree on Penglai Immortal Island, brewed Enlightenment Tea, and then resumed seclusion.
• Bai Yu spent a hundred yuanhui comprehending the Space, Time, Karma, and Destiny Great Daos, reaching Grand Unity Golden Immortal late stage.
• The Chat Group's older members attained the Dao at the Sixteenth Order, while Yang Jian, Chonglou, and Shi Yaoyao remained unable to comprehend the Mysterious Realm.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven comprehended the Mysterious Realm, became a Seventeenth Order Mysterious Immortal, and prepared to return to the Lotus Lantern World.

Primordial Lord of Heaven reached the seventeenth-order Mysterious Immortal realm but remained wary of Hongjun, whose control over the Lotus Lantern World had made him far more powerful. At Jade Void Palace, Primordial Lord of Heaven prepared to face the unknown alone and told the Exposition Sect disciples he would not take them along.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven continued his seclusion in Cangwu World after stealing most of the Lotus Lantern World's World Origin, fearing Hongjun's strength despite reaching the sixteenth order.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven comprehended the Mysterious Realm and entered the seventeenth-order Mysterious Immortal realm, gaining strength from the Great Thousand Primordial World's cultivation system.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven considered Hongjun's new power as the Lotus Lantern World's ruler and recognized the danger of confronting the full might of a peak Middle Thousand World.
• The second- and third-generation Exposition Sect disciples gathered at Jade Void Palace on Kunlun Mountain, with Yang Jian present as acting sect leader.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven told the disciples that the journey ahead was dangerous and that he would not take them, including Yang Jian, with him.

Primordial Lord of Heaven decided to return to the Lotus Lantern World alone to face Teacher Hongjun, while Yang Jian stayed behind. To address the Exposition Sect’s growing costs and need for more world managers, he restructured it into an immortal cultivation sect with a hierarchy and contribution-point system.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven judged that Yang Jian’s Sixteenth Order strength could not defeat Teacher Hongjun, though Yang Jian could overpower the other Saints, and chose not to bring him.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven recognized that the Exposition Sect’s expanding generations of disciples were straining its resources even as it needed enough followers to control worlds.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven made the second- and third-generation disciples the sect’s upper ranks and fully funded their cultivation as its high-end combat force.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven designated the fourth- and fifth-generation disciples as mid-level managers who needed contribution points to obtain resources.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven established a top-down points system for later generations and transformed the Exposition Sect from a religious order into an immortal cultivation sect.

Yang Jian wanted to return to the Lotus Lantern World to test himself against the Heavenly Dao Saints, but Primordial Lord of Heaven left him behind. Reflecting on the Three Pure Ones’ estrangement, Primordial Lord of Heaven reconsidered how their conflict had benefited Hongjun and the other Saints.

• Yang Jian hoped to return to the Lotus Lantern World with Primordial Lord of Heaven and challenge the Heavenly Dao Saints, but his Grandmaster refused to take him.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven had forgiven Sect Master Tongtian, though Tongtian still believed his elder brother was to blame for their conflict.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven suspected Dao Ancestor Hongjun had given Tongtian the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to deepen divisions among the Three Pure Ones.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven reasoned that a united Three Pure Ones could have constrained Hongjun and the other Heavenly Dao Saints, so their estrangement served the interests of those in power.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven recalled that he had joined the Two Sages of the West against Tongtian while Taiqing Laozi had taken sides, leaving the Heaven and Earth Mighty Ones of the Lotus Lantern World to witness the spectacle.

Primordial Lord of Heaven returned to the Lotus Lantern World after fleeing with nearly seventy percent of its World Origin, intending to deal with Exposition Sect traitors. He arrived to find the world’s order stabilized after three hundred years, while Hongjun remained unaware of his return.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven reflected on the split between the Three Pure Ones and resolved to punish the Exposition Sect traitors who had betrayed his sect.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven instructed Yang Jian and his direct disciples, then traveled through Myriad Worlds City to the Lotus Lantern World.
• The sages struggled to stabilize the Lotus Lantern World after the loss of nearly seventy percent of its World Origin, while the Heavenly Dao remained silent.
• Hongjun told the other sages that the Heavenly Dao would not concern itself with the crisis, and the sages spent three hundred years restoring the world’s order.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven returned to the Lotus Lantern World, and Hongjun did not know he had come back.

Hongjun tried to refine the wounded Heavenly Dao so he could control it and the world, but Primordial Lord of Heaven stole nearly seventy percent of the World Origin. As the world’s order began to destabilize, Hongjun could no longer endure his disciple’s theft and prepared to deal with him.

• Hongjun returned to the Purple Cloud Palace and began refining the wounded Heavenly Dao after using the Origin Law of Destiny to break free from its control.
• Hongjun noticed Primordial Lord of Heaven stealing World Origin but initially let him continue so he could focus on refining the Heavenly Dao.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven stole increasingly large amounts of World Origin, draining the reserves Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao needed to evolve a Nascent Great Dao and nurture a Seed of Great Dao.
• After nearly seventy percent of the World Origin was lost, stars went dark and fell as the world’s order began to destabilize.
• Hongjun could no longer tolerate Primordial Lord of Heaven’s theft and recognized that his disciple had destroyed his plans for advancing the world.

Hongjun failed to stop Primordial Lord of Heaven from fleeing with seventy percent of the World Origin, then spent centuries regretting the loss and refining the Heavenly Dao. Though he later gained complete control of the Lotus Lantern World, its depleted World Origin left him unable to advance, until Primordial Lord of Heaven returned.

• Hongjun and the five Saints attacked Primordial Lord of Heaven, but he escaped with seventy percent of the World Origin.
• Three hundred years later, Hongjun returned to the Purple Cloud Palace, regretted failing to stop Yuanshi, and resumed refining the Heavenly Dao.
• After fully refining the Heavenly Dao, Hongjun became the Lotus Lantern World's highest authority but found himself bored and unable to advance without enough World Origin.
• Hongjun realized the Lotus Lantern World could not begin evolving toward a Nascent Great Dao with its remaining World Origin and foundation.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven returned to the Lotus Lantern World.

Primordial Lord of Heaven returned to the Lotus Lantern World with the Pangu Banner, whose power shattered Laozi's Taiji Diagram on impact. Hongjun revealed that Yuanshi had grown strong enough to unleash the banner's full power, then used Heavenly Dao authority to seize and wield the Taiji Diagram against it.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven's Pangu Banner descended over the Lotus Lantern World and forced all but the five Saints and Hongjun to kneel.
• Laozi sent the Taiji Diagram's Golden Bridge against the Pangu Banner, but it shattered on contact and returned to him weakened.
• Hongjun recognized that Yuanshi had likely attained the Law Enlightenment Path and could now unleash the Pangu Banner's full strength.
• Hongjun used his Heavenly Dao authority to summon the Taiji Diagram away from Laozi and explained that Yuanshi, not the treasure, had been too powerful for Laozi.
• Hongjun transformed the Taiji Diagram into a Golden Bridge and sent it crashing into the Pangu Banner, shaking the world before stabilizing its laws.

Hongjun used the Heavenly Dao to wield the Taiji Diagram at full power, matching Yuanshi’s Pangu Banner and astonishing the saints. Hongjun trapped Yuanshi with the Lotus Lantern World’s laws, but Yuanshi could still escape through the Great Dao power in his Myriad Worlds Token.

• Hongjun’s Taiji Diagram held firm against Yuanshi’s Pangu Banner, unlike when Laozi had wielded it.
• Laozi, Hongjun, and Yuanshi were stunned by the Taiji Diagram’s full strength, while Yuanshi mistakenly believed Hongjun had mastered it himself.
• Hongjun used his control of the Heavenly Dao to activate the Taiji Diagram and secretly seize its power without removing Laozi’s refinement imprint.
• Hongjun sealed the Lotus Lantern World with its laws to trap Yuanshi and reclaim the World Origin.
• Yuanshi recognized that law power could not suppress his Myriad Worlds Token, which contained Great Dao power and could still connect him to Myriad Worlds City.

Hongjun explained that Yuanshi had attained the Law Enlightenment Path after Bai Yu's Law Dao Body helped merge his Three Corpses, exposing how Hongjun had withheld the complete method from the Six Sages. Hongjun remained confident that his control of the Heavenly Dao would prevent Yuanshi from escaping.

• Hongjun recognized that Yuanshi had attained the Law Enlightenment Path and could wield the full power of the Pangu Banner, but trusted the Heavenly Dao's power to contain him.
• Hongjun explained that he had attained enlightenment through both the Method of Slaying Three Corpses and the Law Enlightenment Path, while his Three Corpses shared his cultivation and could aid his cultivation and combat.
• Hongjun revealed that the Six Sages had severed their Three Corpses but could not merge them, leaving them incomplete and unable to attain the Law Enlightenment Path despite their merit-based sainthood.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven discovered in Myriad Worlds City that his severed Three Corpses prevented him from attaining the Law Enlightenment Path, then asked Yang Jian to seek help through the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.
• Bai Yu's Law Dao Body solved the problem, merged Primordial Lord of Heaven's Three Corpses, and enabled him to attain the Law Enlightenment Path.

Primordial Lord of Heaven and Hongjun sent their three corpses into battle, revealing that Yuanshi’s corpses had already reached the Saint realm and were Seventeenth Order. The six corpses fought to a standstill despite Hongjun’s corps being empowered by the Heavenly Dao, leaving the five other Saints astonished by how different their own three corpses were.

• Primordial Lord of Heaven and Hongjun deployed their three corpses as the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner clashed.
• Hongjun realized Yuanshi’s three corpses had reached the Saint realm, though he did not know they were Seventeenth Order.
• Hongjun’s three corpses and Yuanshi’s three corpses fought one another, each wielding Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Hongjun watched his Heavenly Dao-empowered corpses fall into a disadvantage, while Primordial Lord of Heaven wondered why the Heavenly Dao had not reacted to his theft of seventy percent of the World Origin.
• The Two Sages of the West, Laozi, and Sect Master Tongtian watched the battle in disbelief and wondered why their own three corpses were so much weaker.

Yuanshi’s Three Corpses defeated Hongjun’s, forcing the Dao Ancestor to prepare to merge with the Heavenly Dao and confront him personally. Yuanshi faced Hongjun outside Purple Firmament Palace, where Hongjun’s Purple Qi River surged toward him and Yuanshi answered with the Pangu Banner.

• Yuanshi’s Three Corpses defeated Hongjun’s Three Corpses, shocking the Saints and revealing the scale of Yuanshi’s transformation.
• Hongjun rose and summoned the power of the Heavenly Dao, stirring the laws throughout the Lotus Lantern World.
• Yuanshi appeared beside the Pangu Banner, shrank it into his hand, and positioned his Three Corpses around himself.
• Hongjun left Purple Firmament Palace and crossed the Chaos Void to confront Yuanshi, who insisted they settle the matter through battle.
• Hongjun unleashed the Purple Qi River, which contained the world’s laws and River of Time, and Yuanshi threw the Pangu Banner to meet it.

Yuanshi and Hongjun fought to a stalemate as Hongjun’s Purple Qi River engulfed the Lotus Lantern World and Yuanshi failed to break through the Heavenly Dao Dharma Wheel. After more than a century, Yuanshi proposed ending the fight, but Hongjun insisted that Yuanshi was trapped.

• Hongjun’s Purple Qi River battered Yuanshi’s Pangu Banner, and Yuanshi sacrificed his Three Corpses’ treasures to buy time before charging toward Hongjun.
• Hongjun defended himself with the Heavenly Dao Dharma Wheel, preventing Yuanshi from reaching him while the Purple Qi River slowly wore Yuanshi down.
• Yuanshi and Hongjun remained deadlocked for over a hundred years as the Purple Qi River enveloped the Lotus Lantern World and its inhabitants endured the pressure.
• Hongjun recognized that Yuanshi could devastate the Lotus Lantern World if he fought without restraint, while Yuanshi grew frustrated with the stalemate.
• Yuanshi asked to end the fight, but Hongjun claimed Yuanshi was trapped and could not escape.

Yuanshi demonstrated that Hongjun could not prevent him from leaving and returning, then agreed to meet with Hongjun and the other saints in the Purple Firmament Palace. He told them he had returned to rejoin the world, while Hongjun and the others wondered what he intended.

• Yuanshi vanished from Hongjun’s sealed world, reappeared to taunt him, and left again for Myriad Worlds City.
• Yuanshi returned once more, and Hongjun gave up trying to restrain him and took him to the Purple Firmament Palace.
• Hongjun summoned Laozi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin, then asked Yuanshi why he had returned.
• Yuanshi told Hongjun and the other saints that he had come to rejoin the world, not destroy it.
• Nuwa reflected on her isolation among the saints and the thirty percent of the Human Race’s fortune she still retained.

Yuanshi explained the myriad worlds and Myriad Worlds City to Hongjun and the saints, who realized that the city was the source of his extraordinary opportunity. He withheld what he knew about the Chat Group, leaving Hongjun and the others stunned and envious.

• Hongjun dismissed Yuanshi’s claim that he wanted to rejoin the world and demanded that he reveal his true purpose.
• Yuanshi explained that he did not intend to drain the Lotus Lantern World of its remaining World Origin and wanted to preserve it as a lasting resource.
• Yuanshi told Hongjun, Laozi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin about the myriad worlds and Myriad Worlds City.
• Hongjun and the five saints concluded that Yuanshi’s opportunity was Myriad Worlds City and guessed that he had obtained one of its Myriad Worlds Tokens.
• Yuanshi kept quiet about the Chat Group, which had absorbed Myriad Worlds City after defeating its attempted invasion.

Yuanshi told the Saints about Myriad Worlds City and explained that he had reached it through Yang Jian, while the others struggled to understand. Hongjun secretly knew the truth and had been pretending to be surprised so he could get Yuanshi to take him to the city.

• Zhunti asked Yuanshi whether he had obtained this world's Myriad Worlds Token, but Yuanshi said no token had been released there.
• Yuanshi revealed that Yang Jian had shown him the way to Myriad Worlds City, leaving Zhunti, Jieyin, Laozi, Tongtian, and Nuwa confused.
• Hongjun reflected that he had learned about the Chat Group and Myriad Worlds City by tracing Yuanshi's disappearance through the River of Time.
• Hongjun recalled that Yuanshi had stolen World Origin and left without taking him to Myriad Worlds City, so he had pretended to be ignorant when Yuanshi returned.
• Yuanshi mistook Hongjun's silence for genuine shock and privately enjoyed having surprised his master.

After Yuanshi revealed the Chat Group and the value of World Origin, the Saints considered how they could obtain Saint Spirit Stones and join the Law Enlightenment Path. Nuwa asked to join the Exposition Sect, leaving everyone stunned.

• Yuanshi gave Myriad Worlds Tokens to the five Saints and Hongjun, then revealed that Yang Jian had joined the Chat Group and that Myriad Worlds City was its subordinate organization.
• The Saints learned that World Origin could be exchanged for Saint Spirit Stones, and they resented Yuanshi for keeping the World Origin he had taken.
• Nuwa realized she could not obtain World Origin from the depleted Lotus Lantern World or travel to other worlds, while the other Saints faced the same obstacle.
• Nuwa asked Yuanshi if she could join the Exposition Sect, surprising the Saints.
• Zhunti and Jieyin considered handing over the four former Exposition Sect disciples who had joined Buddhism to appease Yuanshi.

Nuwa asked to join the reformed Exposition Sect, and Yuanshi welcomed her as a Grand Elder. The chapter explained how the sect’s cultivation-based Elder Council had eased Yang Jian’s burden and helped bind him to the Exposition Sect.

• Yuanshi was surprised when Nuwa asked to join the Exposition Sect, but recognized that the role suited her lack of ambition.
• Yuanshi welcomed Nuwa into the sect and appointed her a Grand Elder.
• The Exposition Sect’s Elder Council ranked members by cultivation rather than seniority, with Sixteenth Order cultivation required for Grand Elder status.
• Yuanshi had pushed through reforms to revitalize the sect and prevent its outdated structure from holding back Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian found managing the reformed Exposition Sect far easier, and Nuwa became its second Grand Elder.

Nuwa joined the Exposition Sect as a Grand Elder, and Laozi surprised the assembled saints by asking to join as well. His brief explanation left the fate of Human Teachings unclear.

• Yuanshi appointed Nuwa a Grand Elder of the Exposition Sect, and she accepted, pleased to have a stable place to continue her quiet life.
• Nuwa’s history and cultivation were recounted, including her ninety-seven-percent comprehension of the Origin Law of Creation and her potential to attain the Law Enlightenment Path outside the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions.
• Laozi unexpectedly asked Yuanshi to let him join the Exposition Sect, shocking Hongjun, Tongtian, the Two Sages of the West, and Nuwa.
• Laozi said only that he had one disciple, Xuandu, without explaining what would happen to Human Teachings.