Chapter Summaries

At Hongjun’s third sermon, Hong Yun received the Purple Qi of Hongmeng, leaving Zhen Yuanzi alarmed by the danger surrounding his friend. Hongjun sensed Bai Yu watching and worried about Zhunti winning the Dao Venerable’s favor, while Zhunti and Jieyin’s devotion to the Western Continent was presented as the basis for their future influence.

• Hong Yun became absorbed in the excitement of obtaining the Purple Qi of Hongmeng, while Zhen Yuanzi feared for his safety and wished to take him back to Wuzhuang Temple.
• Bai Yu watched Hongjun’s third sermon through a Great Dao Dharma Body, and Hongjun felt nervous and pleased that the Dao Venerable was paying attention.
• Hongjun privately worried that Zhunti might approach Bai Yu before he could befriend the Dao Venerable himself.
• Zhunti remained loyal to Hongjun and the Mysterious Gate, while Zhunti and Jieyin continued working for the Western Continent’s revival.
• The Western Continent’s people revered Zhunti and Jieyin, and their support and efforts to repair its damaged earth veins formed the foundation for their future claim to its fortune.

Hongjun announced that he would merge with the Dao, though he intended to retreat from worldly affairs and focus on comprehending Origin Great Daos. Bai Yu’s influence had pushed Hongjun and Yang Mei to work harder, but the Primordial Heavenly Dao remained confident that neither could escape its control.

• Hongjun declared that his merit was complete and that he would merge with the Dao ten thousand years later, prompting beings across the Primordial World to bow to him.
• Hongjun planned to leave the management of the Primordial World to the future Six Saints so he could pursue his goal of becoming a Dao Venerable.
• Hongjun and Yang Mei had begun striving harder because Bai Yu’s command of multiple Origin Great Daos had shocked them and altered smaller currents in the Primordial World.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao regarded Bai Yu as an uncontrollable anomaly but believed Hongjun and Yang Mei remained bound by its restrictions.

Hongjun began bestowing treasures on the assembly and gave the Innate Supreme Treasures Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner to Taiqing Laozi and Yuanshi. Laozi pledged loyalty to Hongjun, while Yuanshi accepted the banner and trusted that his teacher had a purpose for giving it away.

• Hongjun announced that he would bestow his Innate Spiritual Treasures upon the gathered cultivators, who eagerly awaited his gifts.
• Hongjun revealed the Taiji Diagram and bestowed it on Taiqing Laozi, naming him the foremost disciple of the Mysterious Gate and charging him to instruct living beings.
• Taiqing Laozi accepted the Taiji Diagram and resolved to make Hongjun's and the Mysterious Gate's affairs his own.
• Hongjun revealed the Pangu Banner and bestowed it on Yuanshi, telling him to protect the Mysterious Gate and instruct living beings.
• Yuanshi accepted the Pangu Banner, wondered why Hongjun had given away his supreme treasures, and concluded that Hongjun could not be wrong.

Hongjun bestowed the Four Immortal Slaying Swords on Tongtian, completing his gifts of supreme treasures to the Three Pure Ones. The other guests watched their hopes for valuable treasures dwindle as they witnessed the swords’ terrifying slaughter Qi.

• The guests wondered why Hongjun had given the Pangu Banner and Taiji Diagram to Yuanshi and Laozi, while Zhunti and Jieyin hoped for lesser treasures.
• Hongjun turned to Tongtian, and the guests gave up expecting to receive Innate Supreme Treasures or high-grade spiritual treasures.
• Tongtian stood and answered Hongjun, eager to learn what treasure he would receive.
• Hongjun warned that Tongtian was impulsive and insufficiently steady, then bestowed the Four Immortal Slaying Swords upon him.
• The swords unleashed overwhelming slaughter Qi that left the Daluo Golden Immortals chilled and unsettled.

Hongjun bestowed Tongtian with the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram, leaving Tongtian elated and the other disciples alarmed by the formation’s power. The Three Pure Ones saw the gift as a decisive advantage, while Nuwa, Zhunti, Jieyin, and Di Jun worried that they could not match it.

• Hongjun gave Tongtian the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram, surprising Laozi and Yuanshi.
• Laozi and Yuanshi realized that a Sage wielding the formation could be challenged only by four Sages, and imagined how the Three Pure Ones could dominate the Primordial World.
• Tongtian accepted the treasures joyfully as Hongjun warned him to use the formation cautiously.
• Di Jun and the other observers were stunned by the formation’s strength, while Nuwa hoped Hongjun would give her an equally powerful treasure.
• Zhunti and Jieyin despaired at the Three Pure Ones’ growing advantage, and Zhunti concluded that dividing the brothers would be too difficult.

Hongjun reflected on how Heavenly Dao had shaped the fortunes of the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa, whose exceptional foundations had earned its lavish support. When Nuwa looked to him expectantly, he realized he had no supreme treasure left to give her and explained why he had been more willing to bestow the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation on Tongtian.

• Hongjun contrasted the Three Pure Ones, whose Heavenly Dao Saint status constrained them, with Nuwa, whom Heavenly Dao had strongly supported.
• Hongjun suspected Heavenly Dao had influenced Pangu's Primordial Spirit splitting into the Three Pure Ones, while it had spent considerable origin nurturing Nuwa.
• Nuwa sat upright and watched Hongjun expectantly, prompting him to worry that she wanted another supreme treasure.
• Hongjun recalled that he had reluctantly given the Pangu Banner and Taiji Diagram to Yuanshi and Laozi, but had been less reluctant to give Tongtian the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Hongjun reasoned that the formation could threaten four Heavenly Dao Saints but could not trap Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals, so Tongtian could not use it to challenge him.

Hongjun, unable to give Nuwa an Innate Supreme Treasure, bestowed six Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures on the gathered disciples. He secretly planned to claim Tai Yi’s Chaos Bell after Tai Yi died, while Yang Mei suspected Hongjun had gathered most of the Primordial World’s Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.

• Hongjun realized he had no more treasures comparable to the Innate Supreme Treasures he gave his first three personal disciples, so he decided to compensate Nuwa with multiple treasures.
• Hongjun thought about his loss of the Pangu Banner and Taiji Diagram and resolved to seek another Innate Supreme Treasure, setting his sights on Tai Yi’s Chaos Bell after the Witch-Demon Calamity.
• Tai Yi, content with already possessing the Chaos Bell, expected Hongjun to give him no more than a lesser-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Hongjun waved his hand and manifested six Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, stunning the gathering and Yang Mei.
• Yang Mei privately concluded that Hongjun must have collected most of the Primordial World’s Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Hongjun bestowed six Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures on Nuwa, including four of the Innate Five Directions Banners, leaving her with treasures to sever her Three Corpses. He could not provide the missing Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner, which Bai Yu secretly owned and had no intention of giving away.

• Bai Yu wondered whether Hongjun had given Nuwa more treasures than in the original plot and whether she was truly his personal disciple.
• Nuwa eagerly received six Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures from Hongjun: the Red Embroidered Ball, the Mountain River Societal Diagram, the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, the Li Di Yan Guang Qi, the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner, and the Xuanyuan Control Water Banner.
• Hongjun explained that he could not bestow the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner because he had never found it.
• Nuwa thanked Hongjun and accepted the treasures, pleased that she now had enough Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to sever her Three Corpses.
• Bai Yu was revealed to possess the missing Green Lotus Treasure Banner and to have kept it unused as a memento, with no intention of giving it to Nuwa.

Hongjun bestowed treasures on Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti, leaving Zhunti with a damaged World-Destroying Black Lotus and a divine vajra. Zhunti accepted the gifts, though the Black Lotus’s many cracks made its condition impossible to ignore.

• The Three Pure Ones watched Nuwa celebrate receiving six Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and decided not to explain how they compared with Innate Supreme Treasures.
• Zhunti pleaded with Hongjun to bestow treasures on him and Jieyin, citing the Western Continent’s poverty.
• Hongjun gave Jieyin the Merit Golden Lotus and a Precious Banner that could guide souls.
• Hongjun bestowed the cracked World-Destroying Black Lotus on Zhunti, explaining that it still retained its rank and could be restored.
• Hongjun gave Zhunti a divine vajra as compensation for the Black Lotus’s damage.

Hongjun directed the unprovided guests to collect the Innate Spiritual Treasures he had left on a cliff east of the Purple Firmament Palace. The Three Pure Ones raced there first, and Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to sweep away more than a hundred treasures.

• Zhunti accepted the World-Destroying Black Lotus and imagined it fulfilled his dream of taking Luohu’s place.
• Di Jun, Fuxi, and the other guests knelt and begged Hongjun for treasures, while Nuwa considered sharing some of her treasures with Fuxi.
• Hongjun announced that the Innate Spiritual Treasures on a cliff east of the Purple Firmament Palace were for those with destined affinity to claim.
• The Three Pure Ones rushed to the cliff, followed by the other guests, and Kunpeng began catching up with them.
• The Three Pure Ones saw over a thousand Innate Spiritual Treasures on the cliff, and Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to collect more than a hundred.

The Three Pure Ones gathered the greatest share of the Innate Spiritual Treasures on Treasure Distribution Cliff, while Tongtian used the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to keep Kunpeng from collecting any. They returned to the Purple Firmament Palace, leaving the remaining treasures to more than two thousand Daluo Golden Immortals.

• Laozi swept up a hundred-odd Innate Spiritual Treasures with the Taiji Diagram, and Yuanshi collected seventy or eighty with the Pangu Banner.
• Tongtian hastily laid down the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation across Treasure Distribution Cliff, trapping Kunpeng outside and keeping him from taking treasures.
• Tongtian leisurely chose treasures until Nuwa, Zhunti, Jieyin, Fuxi, Di Jun, and others arrived, then swept up more than two hundred with Immortal Slaying Sword Qi.
• Tongtian withdrew the formation, and the Three Pure Ones returned to the Purple Firmament Palace after claiming the largest haul.
• The remaining guests began competing for the six hundred-odd Innate Spiritual Treasures left on the cliff.

The chapter explained how the Primordial World’s complete Time Origin Great Dao and Heavenly Dao restricted powerful beings from changing the past. Amid the scramble for treasures in Purple Firmament Heaven, Zhen Yuanzi grabbed a few Innate Spiritual Treasures and fled with Hong Yun, fearing the crowd would block their escape and target Hong Yun’s Purple Qi of Hongmeng.

• The chapter explained that the Heavenly Dao barred Saints and Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals from freely roaming the past to protect the fixed greater course of events.
• It described how complete Origin Great Daos stabilized worlds, while worlds lacking them were vulnerable to disruption.
• Zhen Yuanzi collected several Innate Spiritual Treasures and stopped competing for more when he sensed the danger.
• Zhen Yuanzi grabbed Hong Yun and fled before the Daluo Golden Immortals could surround them or seize Hong Yun’s Purple Qi of Hongmeng.

Zhen Yuanzi pulled Hong Yun away from the treasure scramble, hoping to return with him to Longevity Mountain, where the Earth Book could protect them from Tai Yi. After the treasures were claimed, Di Jun realized Hong Yun had fled and raged that Hong Yun had taken the Purple Qi of Hongmeng.

• Zhen Yuanzi judged that the Earth Book's defenses were weakened in the Outer Chaos and hurried to get Hong Yun back to Longevity Mountain.
• Zhen Yuanzi refused to abandon Hong Yun despite the danger posed by Tai Yi and his Chaos Bell, and Hong Yun accepted the retreat despite failing to claim any treasures.
• Hong Yun reflected that his Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd and Purple Qi of Hongmeng still made a valuable haul, while envying Nuwa's six top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• The scramble ended after a quarter of an hour, with every Innate Spiritual Treasure on Treasure Distribution Cliff claimed and Tai Yi among the most successful treasure seekers.
• Di Jun noticed Hong Yun was gone and realized he had fled with the Purple Qi of Hongmeng.

After Hong Yun fled the Purple Firmament Palace, thousands of Daluo Golden Immortals pursued his Purple Qi of Hongmeng. Fuxi chose to stay with Nuwa rather than risk his life in the scramble, leaving Nuwa wishing she could help him attain the Dao but unable to safely join the chase.

• Kunpeng was the first to pursue Hong Yun, and the other Daluo Golden Immortals, including Di Jun and Tai Yi, followed.
• Nuwa asked Fuxi whether they should chase Hong Yun and seize his Purple Qi of Hongmeng for him.
• Fuxi said the competition was too dangerous and that he had no affinity with the Purple Qi of Hongmeng.
• Fuxi stayed because Nuwa mattered more to him than attaining the Dao, and he feared she might risk her life trying to help him.
• Nuwa understood Fuxi's reasons but still wished he could obtain the Purple Qi of Hongmeng; she recognized that joining the pursuit would make the others target her.

Nuwa decided to return to the Purple Firmament Palace with Fuxi rather than risk being mobbed while trying to seize Hong Yun’s Purple Qi of Hongmeng. She suspected Di Jun and Tai Yi’s powerful, growing faction had the best chance of claiming it.

• Zhunti realized that persuading Fuxi to join the West might bring Nuwa closer to it, and he stared at Fuxi with such ardent warmth that Fuxi recoiled.
• Nuwa agreed to return to the Purple Firmament Palace because her duties as a Sage’s disciple made it inappropriate to leave as Hongjun prepared to merge with the Dao.
• Nuwa judged that claiming Hong Yun’s Purple Qi of Hongmeng would invite attacks from many rivals, making even her formidable strength insufficient to protect her from a beating.
• Nuwa considered Di Jun and Tai Yi the likeliest claimants because they were powerful and had gathered more than a dozen loyal Daluo Golden Immortals.
• Nuwa reflected that Di Jun and Tai Yi needed genuine loyalty from powerful followers while their faction was still in its early stages of growth.

Nuwa doubted she and Fuxi could protect Hong Yun from the Daluo Golden Immortals coveting his Purple Qi of Hongmeng. Bai Yu reflected that the treasure’s promise of Proving the Dao could test even close brothers like Di Jun and Tai Yi, leaving their future choices uncertain.

• Nuwa judged that fighting Di Jun and Tai Yi for Hong Yun’s Purple Qi of Hongmeng would be too dangerous for her and Fuxi.
• Nuwa feared Hong Yun would soon face nearly every Daluo Golden Immortal in the Primordial World, despite his many friends and Zhen Yuanzi’s loyalty.
• Bai Yu contrasted the Purple Qi of Hongmeng with Innate Supreme Treasures, explaining that most Daluo Golden Immortals valued the Purple Qi more because it could enable Proving the Dao.
• Bai Yu considered whether Di Jun and Tai Yi might eventually turn against each other if one brother’s chance to prove the Dao faded.

After returning to Purple Firmament Palace, Fuxi and the others received special lessons from Hongjun, who answered their questions and prepared to explain the mysteries of Sages. Fuxi tried to leave because he was not Hongjun’s disciple, but Hongjun invited him to stay.

• Nuwa and Fuxi returned to Purple Firmament Palace, followed by Zhunti and Jieyin, who chose not to pursue Hong Yun’s Purple Qi of Hongmeng.
• Hongjun invited the seven who remained to ask questions, and they spent a hundred years receiving his answers.
• Fuxi asked a few questions but refrained from asking more out of consideration for Hongjun’s disciples.
• Hongjun began to explain the mysteries of Sages, and Fuxi reluctantly offered to leave because he was not a disciple.
• Hongjun allowed Fuxi to remain, saying that his return to Purple Firmament Palace counted as a fated connection.

Hongjun explained the mysteries of Heavenly Dao Saints, and Fuxi listened alongside the disciples despite being unable to follow the Great Dao. After the lesson, Hongjun announced he would merge with the Dao, eager to leave the Primordial World's affairs to his disciples and focus on comprehending the Great Dao.

• Nuwa and Fuxi thanked Hongjun after he allowed Fuxi to stay for the lesson, while Zhunti and Jieyin considered how to recruit him for the Western Continent.
• Hongjun taught the mysteries of Heavenly Dao Saints, which Bai Yu and Yang Mei recognized as distinct from the Origin Great Dao.
• Fuxi struggled to understand Hongjun's teaching but memorized it and absorbed its Dao resonance for future study.
• After a thousand years, Hongjun ended the lesson and said he was about to merge himself with the Dao, inviting his disciples and Fuxi to observe.
• Hongjun reflected that he wanted his disciples to take over the Primordial World's affairs so he could enter seclusion and pursue the Origin Great Dao.

Hongjun merged his body with the Dao to complete the Heavenly Dao, revealing the Great Dao to those gathered in the Purple Firmament Palace before closing the palace and sending them away. The Three Pure Ones returned to Kunlun Mountain to cultivate, while Zhunti and Jieyin headed for Zhen Yuanzi’s Longevity Mountain to watch the struggle over Hong Yun’s Purple Qi of Hongmeng.

• Hongjun lectured on the mysteries of Sages for a thousand years, and Fuxi was grateful he had stayed in the Purple Firmament Palace to listen.
• Hongjun summoned the Jade Plate of Creation and merged his body with the Dao as the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Fuxi, Zhunti, and Jieyin watched and strengthened their foundations.
• Hongjun announced that he was merging with the Dao to complete the Heavenly Dao, and his Dao Integration caused wondrous phenomena throughout the Primordial World.
• Hongjun declared that the Purple Firmament Palace would no longer open, then sent everyone out of Purple Firmament Heaven before it vanished into the chaos.
• The Three Pure Ones returned together to Kunlun Mountain to enter seclusion, while Zhunti and Jieyin flew to Zhen Yuanzi’s Longevity Mountain to observe whether Di Jun and the others had seized Hong Yun’s Purple Qi of Hongmeng.

Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun relaxed inside Wuzhuang Temple while thousands of Daluo Golden Immortals besieged Longevity Mountain, unable to breach the Earth Book’s formation. The siege remained at a standstill, as Tai Yi lacked the cultivation and mastery of the Chaos Bell needed to overcome the defenses.

• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun ate Ginseng Fruit and drank spiritual wine inside Wuzhuang Temple as thousands of Daluo Golden Immortals surrounded Longevity Mountain.
• The besiegers failed to penetrate the formation, whose Earth Book foundation drew on the earth veins for seemingly endless defensive power.
• Tai Yi’s Chaos Bell made the Earth Book tremble slightly but could not break through the formation.
• Tai Yi had refined only twelve of the Chaos Bell’s forty-nine innate restrictions, leaving him unable to wield its full power.