Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian reunited with Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao on Three Immortal Island while Huangtian began establishing the Human Path at Kongtong Mountain. After Huangtian’s vow started shaping a new Dao from human fortune and Primordial Violet Qi, the Heavenly Dao struck with a devastating Chaos Divine Thunder, leaving him exposed as the chapter ended.

• Yunxiao and Qiongxiao welcomed Yang Jian to Three Immortal Island, where Bixiao praised his defeat of Minghai Xuanpeng and the sisters marveled at his strength.
• At Kongtong Mountain, the Human Race’s Three Ancestors and Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors gathered as Huangtian prepared to prove the Dao and establish the Human Path.
• Huangtian denounced the oppression of the Human Race, vowed to establish the Human Path, and released his Primordial Violet Qi into the Human Race’s Golden Dragon of Fortune.
• The Human Path began to take shape, drawing the attention of the saints, who reacted with approval, concern, or hostility.
• The Heavenly Dao unleashed a Chaos Divine Thunder at Huangtian and the Golden Dragon, while its pressure immobilized Xuanyuan and the others below.

As the Heavenly Dao targeted Huang Tian with increasingly powerful Chaos Divine Thunder, the Human Race’s greatest leaders fought to protect him, and Nuwa and Taishang each intervened to block a strike. The final Dutian Divine Thunder was crushed by an enormous green hand from the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, leaving the Primordial Wilderness stunned.

• Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, Ziyi Shi, and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors burned their power to resist the Heavenly Dao’s restraints, but the backlash overwhelmed them.
• Nuwa intervened from Empress Wa Heaven and used Seven-Colored Radiance to cancel the first bolt of Chaos Divine Thunder.
• When three more bolts formed, Taishang sent out the Taiji Diagram and absorbed them into its inner world.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered nine bolts into a Dutian Divine Thunder aimed at Huang Tian, while Taishang withdrew the Taiji Diagram and left the outcome to Niu Ben.
• An enormous green hand reached from the direction of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, seized the Dutian Divine Thunder, and crushed it.

Niu Ben appeared at Kongtong Mountain after crushing the Heavenly Dao’s Dutian Divine Thunder, protecting Huang Tian as he prepared to Prove his Dao. When the Eye of Heavenly Dao confronted him, Niu Ben dismissed it, prompting it to unleash a hazy gray attack.

• Niu Ben crushed the Dutian Divine Thunder with an enormous azure hand, astonishing the saints and beings across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Jun, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Yang Jian, and the Three Xiaos Ladies recognized Niu Ben as the one who had intervened.
• Niu Ben appeared at Kongtong Mountain, where the Human Race hailed him as their Saint Master and Huang Tian greeted him as his master.
• Niu Ben told Huang Tian to focus on Proving his Dao while he handled the rest.
• The Eye of Heavenly Dao confronted Niu Ben, who said he did not care about interfering with it.
• The Eye of Heavenly Dao declared that Niu Ben would be destroyed and fired a hazy gray light that alarmed the saints.

Niu Ben effortlessly devoured the Heavenly Dao’s Nirvana Divine Light and broke the attacks of its copied Three Pure Ones incarnations with one finger. The Heavenly Dao summoned six saintly incarnations, which launched a combined assault, and Niu Ben began using the Great Dao God Conferring Technique.

• Niu Ben swallowed the Heavenly Dao Nirvana Divine Light and mocked the Eye of Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao created incarnations of Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian, whose combined attack Niu Ben shattered with one finger.
• The Heavenly Dao summoned incarnations of Jieyin, Zhunti, and Nuwa, bringing the number of saintly incarnations to six.
• Niu Ben challenged all six incarnations to attack together, and they unleashed their Magic Treasures in a world-destroying assault.
• Niu Ben raised his hand and invoked the Great Dao God Conferring Technique.

Niu Ben defeated the six saint avatars and the Heavenly Dao’s Hongjun avatar, forcing Heavenly Dao to recognize the Human Path. With the heavenly tribulation lifted, Huang Tian merged with the Human Path Golden Dragon and attained sainthood.

• Niu Ben sealed and shattered the six saint avatars and their attacks with a single thought and punch.
• Heavenly Dao summoned a Hongjun avatar, but Niu Ben destroyed it by confronting its rule-erasing finger with the power of Primordial Chaos.
• The cracked Eye of Heavenly Dao retreated and declared that the Human Path would stand, dispersing the tribulation clouds over Kongtong Mountain.
• The Human Race celebrated its victory and thanked Niu Ben for protecting its future.
• Freed from Heavenly Dao’s pressure, Huang Tian merged with the Human Path Golden Dragon, attained sainthood, and saluted Niu Ben.

After Niu Ben forced Heavenly Dao to yield and Huang Tian became a Human Path saint, the Primordial Wilderness entered an era of coexistence between the Human Path and Heavenly Dao. As Yang Jian set out from Three Immortal Island to seek his own opportunities, an ancient immortal city rose from the East Sea, and Yunxiao identified it as the Purple Mansion Immortal Court.

• Niu Ben left Kongtong Mountain after telling Huang Tian to govern the Human Race and strengthen the Human Path on his own.
• The Three Pure Ones celebrated Huang Tian’s ascension, the Western Teachings vowed to avoid Niu Ben and his allies, Di Jun lamented the Demon Clan’s fate, and the Wu Clan welcomed the Human Path’s rise.
• Huang Tian began preaching to the Human Race as its newly ascended saint, while the Human Path’s Fortune stabilized and ushered in a new era.
• After watching Niu Ben’s feats, Yang Jian resolved to leave Three Immortal Island and temper himself through travel and hardship.
• As Yang Jian stepped beyond the island’s formation, a powerful aura shook the East Sea and an immense immortal city rose from beneath its waters.
• Yunxiao recognized the city as the Purple Mansion Immortal Court.

Yang Jian and the Three Xiaos Ladies traveled to the newly emerged Purple Mansion Immortal Court, where Northern Darkness Palace claimed the ancient treasure trove for itself. As its Quasi-Saint leader prepared to enter and seize every treasure, Yang Jian watched in anger while Yunxiao recognized the danger posed by the Western Teachings backing them.

• Yunxiao identified the submerged city as East Prince Gong's Purple Mansion Immortal Court, and Bixiao, Qiongxiao, and Yang Jian grew eager to explore its treasures.
• Yunxiao led the group toward the Immortal Court after warning them to stay cautious, and they found tens of thousands of cultivators gathered outside its purple barrier.
• A Quasi-Saint elder from Northern Darkness Palace arrived with over a hundred disciples and ordered the gathered cultivators to leave because the Immortal Court belonged to his sect.
• The elder threatened the crowd, and an old Daluo revealed that Demon Master Kunpeng had joined the Western Teachings as its third Buddha Ancestor, putting two Heavenly Dao Saints behind Northern Darkness Palace.
• Yunxiao worried about provoking the Western Teachings, Bixiao trusted Niu Ben to handle them, and Yang Jian silently burned with anger at the elder's arrogance.
• The Northern Darkness Palace elder ordered his disciples into the Immortal Court to claim every treasure, while the fleeing cultivators scattered.

Jade Cauldron True Person challenged Northern Darkness Palace’s attempt to claim East Prince Gong’s former abode, but a Quasi-Saint nearly killed him before Holy Mother Wudang intervened. Wudang overwhelmed the attacker and joined Jade Cauldron in battle, leaving the Quasi-Saint badly wounded and on the defensive.

• Jade Cauldron True Person confronted the Northern Darkness Palace Quasi-Saint and defended the Rogue Cultivators’ right to share the opportunity at East Prince Gong’s former abode.
• The Quasi-Saint attacked Jade Cauldron, whose Immortal-Slaying Sword Qi failed to stop the overwhelming blow.
• Holy Mother Wudang appeared, split the Quasi-Saint’s giant hand with her sword, and shielded Jade Cauldron.
• Wudang dismissed the Quasi-Saint’s threats about the Western Teachings and invoked Niu Ben’s defiance of the Heavenly Dao.
• Wudang severed the Quasi-Saint’s arm, then teamed up with Jade Cauldron to trap and overpower him.

Holy Mother Wudang and Jade Cauldron True Person drove off the Northern Darkness Palace Quasi-Saint, then reunited with the Three Xiaos Ladies and Yang Jian while waiting for the Purple Mansion Immortal Court to open. As more powers gathered over the East Sea, Mahabrahma, one of the Asura clan’s Four Great Demon Generals, arrived with a host of Asuras.

• Holy Mother Wudang and Jade Cauldron True Person wounded the Northern Darkness Palace Quasi-Saint until he fled with his disciples.
• Yunxiao, Bixiao, Qiongxiao, and Yang Jian greeted Holy Mother Wudang and Jade Cauldron True Person, and Bixiao revealed that Yang Jian was Niu Ben’s Personal Disciple.
• Holy Mother Wudang treated Yang Jian with new respect after learning who his master was, and the group settled in to await the Purple Mansion Immortal Court’s opening.
• Jade Cauldron True Person taught Yang Jian about the Sword Dao as more powerful factions and Rogue Cultivators gathered around the immortal city.
• The sea turned bloody and the Asura clan rose from it on a Bone Lotus Throne, led by Mahabrahma, a peak Daluo Golden Immortal and one of their Four Great Demon Generals.

Ananda arrived with the Western Teachings and tried to defend the Northern Darkness Palace Quasi-Saint, but Bixiao invoked Niu Ben’s name and forced him to back down. The Purple Mansion Immortal Court’s seal then shattered, and the crowd rushed toward its gates.

• Mahabrahma prepared to strike the Rogue Cultivators, but Ananda arrived and his Buddhist light dispersed the Blood Sea’s baleful qi.
• The wounded Northern Darkness Palace Quasi-Saint accused Holy Mother Wudang and Jade Cauldron True Person of attacking him, and Ananda demanded an apology and compensation.
• Bixiao threatened to summon Niu Ben, frightening Ananda and the Western Teachings disciples into dropping their demands and withdrawing.
• The Purple Mansion Immortal Court’s seal weakened and broke, revealing its gates as Holy Mother Wudang warned her companions to stay cautious.
• Rogue Cultivators and Demon Kings surged toward the open gates, and fighting broke out before they entered.

Yang Jian and the other powerful cultivators entered the Purple Mansion Immortal Court after its defenses destroyed thousands of weaker cultivators. Inside, they discovered a vast world of seven surviving continents, and Holy Mother Wudang explained that nearly half of the Court’s thirteen provinces had been shattered in an ancient war.

• The Immortal Court’s purple radiance killed thousands of cultivators who lacked sufficient strength, while Mahabrahma, Ananda, and Holy Mother Wudang watched.
• Holy Mother Wudang tested Yang Jian by sending him to enter first, and he passed through the gate unharmed.
• Holy Mother Wudang, Jade Cauldron True Person, the Three Xiaos, and the other factions followed Yang Jian into the Court, while a mysterious figure slipped through just before the gate vanished.
• Yang Jian found himself in a starry realm containing seven immense, inhabited continents, and the others arrived beside him.
• Holy Mother Wudang explained that East Prince Gong had created thirteen provinces in the Small World and that the Witch and Yao Races had shattered nearly half of them in an ancient war.

Yang Jian and Yunxiao explored the ruined Purple Mansion Immortal Court, where Yunxiao’s Primordial Golden Dou cleared a deadly cloud-beast formation and they discovered the treasure-filled continent of Yingzhou. When rival cultivators demanded a share of their harvest, Yang Jian stepped forward to confront them.

• Holy Mother Wudang explained that the ancient Purple Mansion Immortal Court had once encompassed Thirteen Provinces, then led the group to split up and search the continents.
• Yunxiao chose a cloud-shrouded continent that called to her, and used the Primordial Golden Dou to swallow hundreds of powerful cloud beasts blocking their way.
• Yunxiao identified the continent as Yingzhou, an ancient garden of East Prince Gong, and Yang Jian began gathering its rare herbs and fruits.
• A Daluo Golden Immortal and his companions arrived and demanded some of the treasures, prompting Yang Jian to sneer at them.
• The rival cultivators threatened Yang Jian, and he stepped in front of Yunxiao to handle them as she agreed to watch.

Yang Jian killed two Primordial Unity Golden Immortals and revealed his Late Grand Luo Golden Immortal cultivation while fighting their Daluo Golden Immortal brother. He opened his Heavenly Eye and erased the Nine-Headed Serpent Demon, leaving Yunxiao stunned by his power.

• A Primordial Unity Golden Immortal attacked Yang Jian, who killed him instantly with his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Halberd.
• The remaining Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and the Daluo Golden Immortal attacked Yang Jian together, but Yang Jian revealed his Late Grand Luo Golden Immortal cultivation and cracked the Five Elements Divine Pearl.
• Yang Jian killed the second Primordial Unity Golden Immortal and faced the Daluo Golden Immortal alone.
• The Daluo Golden Immortal transformed into a Nine-Headed Serpent Demon and attacked Yang Jian with torrents of poison.
• Yang Jian opened his Heavenly Eye and erased the Nine-Headed Serpent Demon with Destruction Divine Light, leaving Yunxiao shocked.

After defeating the Nine-Headed Serpent Demon, Yang Jian and Yunxiao stripped Yingzhou Continent of its spiritual treasures and reunited with Wudang, Jade Cauldron True Person, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao. The group set their sights on the Central Immortal Palace and the legendary Dragon-Head Staff, though its dangers and rival claimants loomed ahead.

• Yang Jian asked Yunxiao for praise after killing the Nine-Headed Serpent Demon, and she praised his strength and joked that she would rely on him for protection.
• Yang Jian and Yunxiao swept Yingzhou Continent for spiritual roots and treasures, leaving its forest devastated before flying to meet the others.
• Yang Jian and Yunxiao reunited with Wudang, Jade Cauldron True Person, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao, who showed off their own gains, including Bixiao's rare metals and Jade Cauldron True Person's Dust-Slaying Sword.
• Wudang identified the central continent as the Purple Mansion Immortal Court's Central Immortal Palace and revealed that East Prince Gong's Dragon-Head Staff was hidden there.
• Qiongxiao and Jade Cauldron True Person warned that the palace was dangerous and that the Asura clan and Western Teachings would contest its treasures, and Yang Jian answered that fortune was sought amid danger.

Yang Jian and his companions resolved to press into the Central Immortal Palace, while Niu Ben watched from afar and decided East Prince Gong would make a suitable Dao protector for Yang Jian. After the group crossed the Purple Qi Comes from the East Formation and reached the palace, battle cries and powerful magical fluctuations erupted from its depths.

• Yang Jian urged the group to seek fortune amid danger, and Holy Mother Wudang led them toward the Central Immortal Palace to claim its treasures.
• Holy Mother Wudang warned Yang Jian, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, Bixiao, and Jade Cauldron True Person to guard their minds against the Purple Qi Comes from the East Formation.
• Niu Ben watched the group and recognized that East Prince Gong had preserved a remnant soul in the Dragon Head Staff and was beginning to revive.
• Niu Ben decided East Prince Gong would serve as Yang Jian's Dao protector for the tribulation of splitting the mountain to save his mother.
• Yang Jian and the others crossed the formation and entered the magnificent Central Immortal Palace, where battle cries and surging magical power sounded from within.

Holy Mother Wudang and her companions reached the Dragon Head Staff as the Asura clan and Northern Darkness Palace fought over it, only for Western Teachings to arrive and claim it too. As the factions prepared to battle, an inexplicable Heavenly Immortal in white walked toward the staff, and the Northern Darkness Palace Quasi-Saint attacked him.

• Yang Jian and the others found Mahabrahma's Asura clan fighting the Northern Darkness Palace demon cultivators over the Dragon Head Staff.
• Mahabrahma recognized Holy Mother Wudang's group and withdrew the Asura clan rather than risk fighting them.
• Holy Mother Wudang claimed the staff for Jie Teachings, but the Northern Darkness Palace Quasi-Saint challenged her.
• Ananda arrived with Western Teachings disciples and also demanded the staff, while Jade Cauldron True Person proposed that the strongest faction should take it.
• A young man in white, whose cultivation was only at the Heavenly Immortal realm, ignored the gathered factions and walked toward the Dragon Head Staff.
• The Northern Darkness Palace Quasi-Saint attacked the young man from behind with a freezing blast.

The white-robed young man revealed himself as the resurrected East Prince Gong after casually nullifying a Quasi-Saint’s attack and forcing him to his knees. He declared that he would consume everyone in the palace, and the assembled powers joined forces to fight him.

• The one-armed Northern Darkness Palace Quasi-Saint attacked the young man, but the young man erased the freezing strike and pinned him down with an invisible power.
• The young man took the Dragon Head Staff, awakened its sovereign aura, and identified himself as the returned East Prince Gong.
• East Prince Gong said Yang Jian had awakened him and announced that he would use everyone present to restore his former peak.
• East Prince Gong revealed that his formation concealed the Purple Mansion Immortal Court from the Saints, leaving the trapped visitors without outside help.
• Holy Mother Wudang, Jade Cauldron True Person, and Ananda agreed to fight together against East Prince Gong.
• Holy Mother Wudang attacked first, while Yunxiao ordered Bixiao and Qiongxiao to form their array and Bixiao launched the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors.

East Prince Gong overwhelmed the assembled immortals until Yang Jian exposed that he was a remnant soul inhabiting the Dragon Head Staff. As the impostor prepared to kill Yang Jian, Niu Ben arrived, stopped the attack, and freed the others from his pressure.

• East Prince Gong shattered the combined attacks of Holy Mother Wudang, Bixiao, Jade Cauldron True Person, and Ananda, then destroyed a Northern Darkness Palace Quasi-Saint with a golden ripple.
• Yunxiao used the Primordial Golden Dou against East Prince Gong, but he stopped the treasure with a finger and badly wounded her.
• Yang Jian used his Heavenly Eye to reveal that East Prince Gong was a remnant soul inside the Dragon Head Staff, not the true East Prince Gong.
• East Prince Gong attacked Yang Jian with Chaos Divine Thunder while the others failed to rescue him, and Yang Jian held his ground despite his injuries.
• Niu Ben emerged from the void, shattered the Chaos Divine Thunder, and dispelled East Prince Gong's pressure as Yang Jian and the others greeted him.

Niu Ben drove the rival factions from Purple Mansion Immortal Court and made East Prince Gong Yang Jian’s guardian, restoring him to Late Quasi-Saint strength and promising him a chance to become a Saint. He then infused six Mystic Gate disciples with Chaos Origin, raising them all to Quasi-Saint realms.

• Niu Ben ordered Ananda, the Northern Darkness Palace cultivators, and the Blood Sea Asuras to leave, and they fled the plaza.
• Niu Ben offered East Prince Gong a chance to become a Saint in exchange for guarding Yang Jian until he attained Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin, and East Prince Gong accepted.
• Niu Ben used his Chaos Azure Ox Origin Power to restore East Prince Gong’s body and raise his cultivation to Late Quasi-Saint.
• Niu Ben rewarded Jade Cauldron True Person, Holy Mother Wudang, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, Bixiao, and Yang Jian with Chaos Origin, advancing them to Quasi-Saint realms.
• The six disciples bowed in gratitude to Niu Ben after their sudden breakthroughs.

After Niu Ben elevated them to Quasi-Saint power, Yang Jian announced that he would travel into Chaos to visit his sister, Yang Chan, at Wa Empress Palace. He then vowed to split Peach Mountain and rescue his mother, gaining the support of his fellow Mystic Gate disciples before setting out with East Prince Gong.

• Bixiao, Qiongxiao, Yunxiao, Jade Cauldron True Person, Holy Mother Wudang, and Yang Jian marveled at the Quasi-Saint power Niu Ben had granted them and vowed to repay his kindness.
• Yang Jian told the others he planned to enter Chaos to find his younger sister, Yang Chan, whom Saint Nuwa had taken to Wa Empress Palace.
• East Prince Gong assured Yang Jian that they could reach Wa Empress Palace in less than three days and that Niu Ben's name would help secure their welcome.
• Yang Jian declared that after visiting Yang Chan, he would split Peach Mountain and rescue his imprisoned mother, Immortal Yaoji.
• Yunxiao, Bixiao, Holy Mother Wudang, and Jade Cauldron True Person pledged to support Yang Jian against Haotian and exchanged Communication Jade Talismans with him.
• The others departed to consolidate their cultivation and inform their sects, while Yang Jian and East Prince Gong remained at the Immortal Court and prepared to leave for Wa Empress Palace.