Chapter Summaries

Bai Yu considered whether Yang Mei could attain Hunyuan, recognizing that the Primordial Heavenly Dao—not the plots of Primordial Stream novels—controlled the fate of the source Primordial World. He left Yang Mei’s attempt alone and learned that the Heavenly Dao’s unfinished script explained why similar worlds entered the Age of Dharma’s End after the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.

• Bai Yu wondered whether the Primordial Heavenly Dao would allow Yang Mei to attain Hunyuan, since it had restricted other innate divine beings.
• Bai Yu reasoned that the Primordial Heavenly Dao had read Primordial Stream novels through the Myriad Worlds Chat Group but treated their plots as inconsequential to the source world.
• Bai Yu compared the source Primordial World to a main channel whose tributaries were the many similar worlds across the myriad worlds.
• Bai Yu decided not to interfere with Yang Mei’s attempt and watched instead, maintaining his friendly relationship with the Primordial Heavenly Dao.
• Bai Yu understood that the Heavenly Dao’s script ended at the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation, causing similar worlds to fall into the Age of Dharma’s End afterward.

Hongjun spent thousands of origin cycles repairing the Western Continent’s damaged earth veins while its spiritual energy and cultivation resources declined. As inhabitants fled and powerful cultivators became scarce, the Western Continent faced a future of growing poverty and weakness.

• Bai Yu began comprehending the Creation Great Dao, while Yang Mei secluded himself to study the Jade Plate of Creation.
• After Luohu’s fall, the Demon Race stopped stirring up trouble and hid while recovering from its karmic debt; Hongjun left them to fend for themselves.
• Hongjun appeared throughout the Western Continent over several thousand origin cycles to repair its damaged earth veins.
• Leaking earth Qi weakened the Western Continent’s cultivation environment, reduced Innate Spiritual Energy, and caused grotto-heavens and blessed lands to collapse or deteriorate.
• Most inhabitants who left the Western Continent settled in the Northern and Southern Continents rather than the Eastern Continent, where fighting over resources had intensified after the three clans withdrew.
• Only a small number of residents helped repair the earth veins, since the work required at least the Golden Immortal realm.

The chapter explained why Western Continent Daluo Golden Immortals avoided repairing the damaged earth veins and how Bai Yu’s five attainments of the Dao made the East Sea a superstitious destination. It also described Zhunti and Jieyin’s Heavenly Dao-sanctioned destiny as the West’s future Sages, while the Three Pure Ones were destined for Sagehood through the Primordial World’s debt to Pangu.

• The Western Continent’s damaged earth veins went largely unrepaired because few powerful cultivators remained, and its Daluo Golden Immortals judged the work too costly and unrewarding.
• Daluo Golden Immortals gathered in the East Sea as well as the Eastern Continent, believing the sea might aid their cultivation because Bai Yu had attained the Dao there five times.
• Zhunti and Jieyin existed as supreme grade innate spiritual roots and could take human form only with the Heavenly Dao’s permission, since they were destined to become the Sages of the West.
• The chapter explained that the Three Pure Ones were destined to become Sages because the Primordial World owed Cause and Effect to Pangu, regardless of where they had been born.

Bai Yu understood that the Three Pure Ones carried hidden Great Dao merit that could free them from the Primordial Heavenly Dao only if they attained the Origin Great Dao, a path the Heavenly Dao would block. He chose to avoid confronting it and continued pursuing the forty-nine Origin Great Daos while considering how the Heavenly Dao had invested in its other chosen figures.

• Bai Yu suspected the Three Pure Ones carried concealed Great Dao merit, which they could reveal only by attaining Hunyuan through the Dao, but he could not confirm it and chose not to interfere.
• Bai Yu resolved to keep steadily comprehending the Origin Great Daos and avoid a direct clash with the Primordial Heavenly Dao until he had taken all forty-nine.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao had heavily invested in Nuwa and used Fuxi to strengthen her foundation, raising Fuxi's own innate foundation in the process.
• Zhunti and Jieyin had received the Heavenly Dao's permission to take form but had little merit, so they needed grand vows to obtain the merit required for Sagehood.

Over ten thousand origin cycles, Hongjun repaired the Western Continent’s earth veins, took the Three Pure Ones as disciples, and learned that Yang Mei had perfected the Space Great Dao. Though Hongjun expected Yang Mei to attain the Dao first, Yang Mei continued to delay, so Hongjun prepared to attain it himself.

• Hongjun finished patching the Western Continent’s earth veins, while Zhunti and Jieyin established themselves at Mount Sumeru and became Daluo Golden Immortals.
• The Three Pure Ones, Queen Mother of the West, Fuxi, Nuwa, Minghe, Kunpeng, and Zhen Yuanzi emerged as innate divine beings.
• Hongjun passed through East Kunlun and took the Three Pure Ones as his disciples, recognizing their origins as fragments of Pangu’s Primordial Spirit.
• Yang Mei returned the Jade Plate of Creation to Hongjun after perfecting the Space Great Dao, but did not attain the Dao.
• Hongjun perfected the Qi Great Dao and decided to attain the Dao immediately, despite being puzzled by Yang Mei’s delay.

Yang Mei attempted to attain the Dao on an island in the East Sea, but the Primordial Heavenly Dao silenced his Great Dao power and prevented him. He was left despairing and demanding to know why the five beings before him had succeeded while he could not.

• Yang Mei returned the Jade Plate of Creation and headed to the East Sea, determined to attain the Dao before Hongjun.
• Hongjun noticed Yang Mei’s suppressed delight and entered seclusion until he succeeded in attaining the Dao.
• Yang Mei spent a thousand years restoring himself, then began his attempt to attain the Dao near Bai Yu’s Penglai Immortal Island.
• Bai Yu watched as the Primordial Heavenly Dao interfered with Yang Mei’s Great Dao power and vetoed his attainment.
• Yang Mei realized the Heavenly Dao had forbidden him from attaining the Dao and, near the breaking point, questioned why the five beings before him had been allowed to succeed.

Yang Mei watched to see whether Hongjun would be allowed to attain the Dao after the Primordial Heavenly Dao had stopped him. Hongjun attained the Dao in the East Sea, leaving Yang Mei convinced that he alone had been forbidden.

• Yang Mei waited for Hongjun to attain the Dao, hoping to learn whether Hongjun would face the same restriction.
• Hongjun, unaware of Yang Mei’s trouble, traveled to an island in the East Sea and prepared to attain the Dao.
• After nearly a thousand years of preparation, Hongjun released the presence of the Great Dao across the East Sea.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao permitted Hongjun to attain the Dao, making him the Primordial World’s sixth Dao attainer.
• Yang Mei felt chilled and questioned why he alone could not attain the Dao.

Hongjun attained the Dao after signing the Spokesman for the Heavenly Dao contract, binding himself to the Primordial World in exchange for its protection and authority. He announced that he would teach in the Chaos Purple Cloud Palace, while the Dragon-Han Calamity ended and the next calamity began to stir.

• Hongjun signed the Heavenly Dao contract and attained the Dao, while he mistakenly believed Yang Mei had refused the same offer.
• Hongjun announced across the Primordial World that he had become a Sage and would expound the Dao in the Chaos Purple Cloud Palace ten thousand years later.
• The Heavenly Dao recognized Hongjun’s attainment, and his words established Sage as the Primordial World’s title for those who attained the Dao.
• Hongjun’s attainment marked the end of the Dragon-Han Calamity as Calamity Qi stirred for the next calamity, which he believed could not affect him.

After attaining the Dao, Hongjun wondered who the five earlier Dao attainers were and concluded they were likely reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods. Unable to identify them, he waited for them to arrive so he could make friends and discuss the Dao.

• Hongjun reflected that his Three Pure Ones disciples would become Heavenly Dao Saints but likely could not escape the Heavenly Dao's restraints.
• Hongjun reasoned that the five earlier Dao attainers could not be ordinary innate divine beings or visitors from other Great Thousand Worlds, so they were probably Chaos Demon God reincarnations.
• Hongjun wondered how those five had attained the Dao before him and guessed that they might also possess Jade Plates of Creation.
• Bai Yu knew Hongjun's thoughts, while Hongjun recognized that he could not locate or identify the five despite having attained the Dao.
• Hongjun decided against making enemies of the five and stood waiting for them, expecting them to come and meet him.

Bai Yu agreed to meet Hongjun, who had come seeking friendship, and approached him from Penglai Immortal Island. Hongjun was left questioning his own attainment after sensing Bai Yu’s overwhelming power and seeing that he possessed five complete Origin Great Daos.

• Bai Yu decided to meet Hongjun, reasoning that Hongjun was the Heavenly Dao’s spokesman and bore no hostility.
• Hongjun waited on a small island as Bai Yu’s Radiant Great Dao presence rose from the Eastern Sea and filled him with fear.
• Bai Yu appeared before Hongjun, whose own Great Dao radiance looked like a flickering firefly beside Bai Yu’s blazing presence.
• Hongjun sensed the five complete Origin Great Daos within Bai Yu and stood frozen in shock.
• Bai Yu calmly accepted Hongjun’s stunned silence and took no offense.

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.