Recaps

The Three Pure Ones and Heavenly Dao Hongjun sealed the Earth Immortal Realm, trapping Primordial Beginning Heavenly King and Yang Mei in battle while the realm and its inhabitants were devastated. As Li Fan and the other divine figures reacted to the destruction, Primordial Beginning Heavenly King and Yang Mei ignited their origins and escalated the fight into a second stage.

• Taishang, Primordial Lord of Heaven, and Lingbao Tianzun sealed the Earth Immortal Realm with their laws, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun reinforced the seal and suppressed Primordial Beginning Heavenly King and Yang Mei.
• Yang Mei welcomed the confinement, while Primordial Beginning Heavenly King realized that the realm created by the Heavenly Emperor was trapped with them.
• The clash of Yuanshi Heavenly Dao and Yang Mei's Space Law destroyed Jixia Academy, ended the Pure Yang True Dao, and devastated the Earth Immortal Realm for seven days.
• Li Fan saw the destruction in the Earth Immortal Realm's origin and raged, while Nuwa, Goddess Wangshu, Empress Ziguang, and Goddess Taiyuan recognized the crisis and reacted.
• Primordial Beginning Heavenly King tried to force Yang Mei to surrender, but Yang Mei refused, and both fighters ignited their origins to begin the battle's second stage.

Li Fan intervened in the ruinous battle between Primordial Beginning Heavenly King and Yang Mei, but both defied him and continued fighting. As the Earth Immortal Realm suffered, Goddess Taiyuan and Heavenly Dao Hongjun declined to take responsibility, while Li Fan waited for the combatants to exhaust themselves.

• Li Fan froze the battlefield with a command, but Primordial Beginning Heavenly King and Yang Mei refused to stop, so he withdrew and warned that their debts would be settled.
• Li Fan returned to the Primordial World with Wangshu, Taiyuan, Ziguang, Nuwa, and the others, and the Three Pure Ones saluted them.
• Goddess Taiyuan condemned Primordial Beginning Heavenly King and separated his clash with Yang Mei, but Primordial Beginning Heavenly King renewed his attack after Hongjun authorized her to handle the matter.
• Li Fan watched from above as Primordial Beginning Heavenly King and Yang Mei continued burning their origins, while the beings of the Earth Immortal Realm could only watch their world suffer.
• Houtu lamented that Primordial Beginning Heavenly King was squandering Pangu's blessing and reflected on how those unable to see their own path eventually fell from power.

Primordial Beginning Heavenly King and Yang Mei ended their three-era battle after Heavenly Dao Hongjun ordered them to stop, and Li Fan made them compensate for the Earth Immortal Realm’s destruction. Their payment restored order and stabilized the End of Dharma Era, while Li Fan hinted that the conflict had won him more than a chess game.

• Primordial Beginning Heavenly King and Yang Mei fought for three eras, exhausting their origins and destroying the Earth Immortal Realm, while Li Fan and the others watched from above the clouds.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun ordered the exhausted fighters to stop, and Li Fan summoned them to answer for the damage they had caused.
• Yang Mei surrendered first, and Primordial Beginning Heavenly King followed after Li Fan’s pressure made resistance impossible.
• Li Fan demanded three strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi from each as compensation, threatening to let them perish if they refused.
• Primordial Beginning Heavenly King offered two strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi and Three Pure Ones Qi, while Yang Mei offered one strand and three Chaos Space Origin Crystals.
• Li Fan collected their offerings as the others departed, and Hongjun sensed that the End of Dharma Era had stabilized.

After the great battle, the Prehistoric Universe remained trapped in the End of Dharma as Li Fan watched Humanity Dao’s defiant fate gather within Nuwa’s stone on Flower Fruit Mountain. He strengthened the Golden Lotus of Merit, distributed treasures, and ended by preparing to invest the Ancestral Human Emperor and the Confucian Sage.

• Li Fan and Wangshu discussed how the Heavenly Dao’s effort to survive the Immeasurable Kalpa had plunged the Three Realms into the End of Dharma.
• On Flower Fruit Mountain, Nuwa’s five-colored divine stone absorbed Humanity Dao’s defiant fate qi and awakened a strand of True Spirit.
• Li Fan infused the Golden Lotus of Merit with Hongmeng Purple Qi, then gathered it with the other lotus platforms to resonate and advance.
• Li Fan gave one strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi each to Goddess Taiyuan and Wangshu, and let Nuwa, Empress Ziguang, and the others study additional treasures.
• Haotian reported that order had returned to the Earth Immortal Realm, and Li Fan told him to continue governing the Heavenly Court.
• Li Fan said the Humanity Dao investiture of the Ancestral Human Emperor and the Confucian Sage should proceed without further delay.

Nuwa established the Humanity Dao Orthodoxy Altar and conferred sainthood on Ying Zheng and Kong Qiu as the Ancestral Human Emperor Saint and Confucian Saint. Their ascension marked Humanity Dao’s zenith and the early phase of the End of Dharma Era’s end, while Nuwa foresaw the coming Immeasurable Kalpa.

• Nuwa built the nine-tier Humanity Dao Orthodoxy Altar at the world's center and placed the Hongmeng Sacred Sword upon it.
• Nuwa summoned the Saints of Humanity Dao, and Ying Zheng and Kong Qiu traveled from Xianyang and Jixia Academy to the altar.
• Nuwa named Ying Zheng the Ancestral Human Emperor Saint and Kong Qiu the Confucian Saint, then used the Hongmeng Sacred Sword to establish their Dao positions.
• The Humanity Dao Rule flowed into Ying Zheng and Kong Qiu, completing Ying Zheng's Human Witch bloodline and securing Kong Qiu's literary Saint position.
• Nuwa declared Humanity Dao's two Saints established, and the gathered immortals and great powers witnessed the End of Dharma Era beginning to subside.
• Nuwa considered the twelve destined Saint positions and the approaching Immeasurable Kalpa before fading away.

Ying Zheng brought Immortal Qin to Huoyun Cave after becoming a Saint and declared that his merit and virtue surpassed those of the earlier Human Emperors. He settled his household and forces there, while Li Fan and the others watched the chaos from Grand Unity Heaven and Nuwa began considering how to keep Fuxi occupied.

• Ying Zheng arrived at Huoyun Cave with his household and army, proclaiming himself the Ancestral Human Emperor and challenging the established rankings of Humanity Dao.
• Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan tried to avoid confronting Ying Zheng, but they and the Five Emperors stepped forward to receive him.
• Ying Zheng argued that his unification and laws deserved first place, then enlisted Confucius to teach benevolence while he enforced order.
• Bai Qi and the Immortal Qin army entered Huoyun Cave, where Ying Zheng claimed a place for his people and an Immortal Qin historian recorded his supposed superiority over the Three Emperors and Five Emperors.
• Immortal Qin stripped Shennong's medicinal fields and later assigned shifts to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, leaving Huoyun Cave in turmoil.
• Li Fan and the others watched from Grand Unity Heaven as Nuwa decided Fuxi needed something to do, giving him a foreboding sense that trouble was coming.

The five Demon Gods of Guixu began probing the Three Realms while remaining within Guixu, and the Three Pure Ones and Primordial Beginning Heavenly King struck back at their spying. The demons withdrew to wait for a better opportunity, leaving the Three Realms outwardly peaceful but on the brink of war.

• The five Demon Gods stirred Guixu’s earth, wind, water, and fire entrances, while Yuanfeng suppressed the erupting tribulation fire.
• The Three Pure Ones and Primordial Beginning Heavenly King met at Tai Xu Mountain to discuss the threat, while Li Fan assigned them the front line and sent Empress Ziguang to guard the stars.
• The five Demon Gods gathered intelligence on the Three Realms, with the Death Demon God, Soul Demon God, Yellow Springs Demon God, and Curse Demon God probing different regions as the Darkness Demon God investigated from Guixu’s source.
• Taishang struck the Death Demon God’s spying divine sense, the Primordial Lord of Heaven quelled the Ninth Heaven’s tempest, and the Primordial Beginning Heavenly King attacked Guixu’s source before Ancestor Dragon intervened.
• The five Demon Gods retreated after their probing attempts were repelled and resolved to wait for more Chaos Demon Gods to return, while Li Fan and his companions watched from the Grand Unity Palace.

Divine Han rose after Immortal Qin’s withdrawal, and Liu Bang received Emperor Yao’s blessing as the new dynasty began. The Three Emperors used Han’s rise to balance rival powers, while Li Fan watched the unfolding struggle from the Grand Unity Heaven Palace.

• Li Fan, Wangshu, Nuwa, and Nüyi observed Divine Han’s founding and the Postnatal Divine Path’s resurgence as the Chaos Demon Gods lamented their lost chance to infiltrate the Earth Immortal Realm.
• The Phoenix Ancestor and Yuanfeng manifested the Phoenix Temple above the southern Immortal Volcano and proclaimed peace as Divine Han’s era began.
• Emperor Yao appeared in Chang’an, recognized Liu Bang’s founding of Divine Han, and bestowed Human Emperor’s Fortune, strengthening the dynasty’s national fortune.
• The Three Emperors in Huoyun Cave discussed Liu Bang’s status and the balance of power, treating Divine Han as part of a wider game of mutual restraint.
• Li Fan watched the competing powers’ plans, while Nuwa urged him to let Humanity Dao grow through competition.

Liu Bang reflected on how Divine Han rose from humble beginnings to establish a Humanity Dao dynasty through the people's support and the efforts of his allies. Empress Ziguang then revealed that she had helped arrange Divine Han's rise as a casual diversion, leaving Li Fan and the other goddesses exasperated by her mischief.

• Liu Bang remembered his rise from an idle commoner to emperor and how he overcame Xiang Yu through allies, strategy, and the people's allegiance.
• Divine Han's victory at Gaixia ended the conflict, and Liu Bang's red imperial aura settled as he established a new age for the human race.
• Empress Ziguang reflected that she had secretly helped shape Divine Han's rise by arranging the Son of the Red Emperor title and related events.
• Empress Ziguang's projection in the Grand Unity Heaven Palace sought praise from Wangshu, while Nuwa, Taiyuan Xuan Guang, Xihe, and Changxi reacted to her scheme.
• Li Fan silently rubbed his forehead as everyone recognized that Ziguang had acted on her own and was deliberately teasing them.

Li Fan and the goddesses met the five Demon Gods in the Return to Ruins, where Darkness warned that a great terror tied to the Chaos Supreme Treasure threatened them all. The group left without fighting, and the Three Pure Ones wondered whether the return of the Primordial Beginning Heavenly King had been planned.

• Li Fan and the goddesses visited Yunxiao, and they discussed the mortal world's role as a shield in the End of Dharma Era.
• Li Fan led the group through the Star Sky and Three Realms Barrier to meet the five Demon Gods in the Return to Ruins.
• The Demon Gods declared their intent to reclaim what they believed was theirs, but Darkness Demon God agreed to avoid a confrontation after seeing Li Fan's Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Darkness Demon God warned Li Fan that a great terror lay deep within the Return to Ruins and said the Chaos Supreme Treasure might break the deadlock.
• Li Fan left with the goddesses, and the Three Pure Ones speculated that the return of the Primordial Beginning Heavenly King was no accident.

Jieyin and Zhunti launched the Westward Journey early, sending Golden Cicada through repeated reincarnations to obtain the scriptures from Divine Han. His first lives failed in increasingly absurd ways, leaving Spirit Mountain unsure how to get him beyond the journey’s starting point.

• Jieyin and Zhunti decided to begin the Westward Journey before the approaching calamity and sent Golden Cicada into reincarnation.
• Golden Cicada’s first life turned back after Divine Han border soldiers warned him about the dangers beyond the realm.
• In his second life, Golden Cicada set out as a devoted monk but was killed by a demon just three miles beyond Chang'an.
• Golden Cicada’s third life became an ascetic, but he stalled at the Celestial Immortal realm and died before he could break through.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, and Duobao Tathagata debated whether Golden Cicada was fit for the mission while Li Fan and the others laughed at Spirit Mountain’s repeated failures.

Liu Bang secured Divine Han’s future through laws and alliances before his death, and the Reign of Wen and Jing began. A new Jidu, born from the future during the End of Dharma, appeared in the Three Realms, fled from Empress Ziguang, and prompted Li Fan and the goddesses to consider the growing chaos in space-time.

• Liu Bang stripped power from nobles outside his surname, secured a Humanity Dao decree and a pact with the Phoenix Clan, and established laws that reserved Human Race affairs for humans.
• Liu Bang died after declaring the Human Race’s ambition, and Human Dao Fortune marked the end of Early Divine Han as the Reign of Wen and Jing began.
• A new Jidu, condensed from the End of Dharma’s Karma Crevice and born from the future, returned to the Nine Heavens, disrupting the star trajectory and drawing the attention of powers across the Three Realms.
• Empress Ziguang warned Jidu, and he fled through a Space-Time Rift before he could challenge her.
• Li Fan and the goddesses discussed Jidu’s time travel, the loosened laws of the Primordial World, and the growing chaos in the past and future.

Jidu visited the unborn Stone Monkey and warned it that the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s future was a scheme, urging it to seek the true Heavenly Court. Li Fan noticed the resulting shift in the River of Fate and dismissed it as a minor variable, while Nuwa arrived having glimpsed part of the karma.

• Jidu found the immortal stone on Flower Fruit Mountain and told it the story of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s rise and fall.
• Jidu warned the stone that the Great Sage’s life was orchestrated and described the true Heavenly Court and its supreme Heavenly Emperor.
• Jidu urged the Stone Monkey not to repeat the Great Sage’s mistakes, then vanished into the forest.
• The Three Realms’ fate shifted subtly, and Li Fan observed Jidu’s intervention in the River of Fate.
• Goddess Wangshu asked Li Fan about the disturbance, and he called it a minor variable.
• Nuwa entered the hall with a knowing smile, having sensed the karma involving Jidu and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

Two Golden Crow Princes led the Demon Clan and Xiongnu wolf demons into war against Divine Han, but Liu Che, Wei Qing, and Huo Qubing resisted them with the Human Race’s united faith and arms. The princes withdrew after Western Regions forces joined the battle, while Divine Han and the west strengthened their alliance ahead of a greater storm.

• The Golden Crow Princes Lu Ba and Lu Jiu descended on the northern border and backed the Xiongnu wolf demons as they attacked Divine Han.
• Liu Che ordered Wei Qing to defend Shanggu and Huo Qubing to raid the demon army through the Hexi Corridor.
• Wei Qing’s Black Armored Heavenly Soldiers met the demons head-on, while Huo Qubing’s cavalry tore through their ranks.
• The people of Divine Han united their faith against the Golden Crow fire, and Liu Che fought Lu Ba and Lu Jiu to a standstill with the Chixiao Sword.
• Western Regions allies joined the battle, forcing the Golden Crow Princes to retreat with the remaining demon army.
• Divine Han and the west strengthened their ties, while the Buddhist sect promoted the alliance as a greater storm approached.

Taiyi, the human race, Haotian, Buddhism, and the Chaos Demon Gods maneuvered as tensions rose across the Three Realms. Li Fan and the goddesses judged the conflict a rehearsal for a distant Immeasurable Kalpa, while the factions cautiously prepared for the coming struggle.

• Taiyi awoke in the far north, and the Chaos Demon Gods chose to assist the Demon Court while Kunpeng refused to take their bait.
• Confucius, Haotian, and Tathagata aligned with the Divine Han against the Demon Clan, while Buddhism and the Han each sought to benefit from their partnership.
• Taiyi warned the Ten Golden Crows that the conflict was part of a tribulation affecting all beings, not merely a contest among factions.
• Nuwa, Goddess Taiyuan, Wangshu, Empress Ziguang, and Li Fan concluded that the turmoil was only a series of minor tribulations and a rehearsal for the distant Immeasurable Kalpa.
• Liu Che, Wei Qing, and Huo Qubing strengthened the Divine Han's defenses as Lu Ya, Haotian, Zhunti, and Jieyin each chose caution and waited for a better moment to act.

All beings fought the hundred-thousand-year war by their own choices, then negotiated a truce without the authority of Heaven, Saints, or the Heavenly Emperor. The chapter ended with Divine Han welcoming home its victorious army as Lu Ya mourned the Demon Clan’s losses and Li Fan reflected on the nature of all beings.

• The Human Race, Demon Clan, Witch Clan, Water Tribe, Heavenly Court, Asura, and others chose their own sides and fought across the Primordial World as the Chaos Five Demons tempted them.
• After a hundred thousand years, representatives of the myriad races negotiated their own borders, oaths, and truce, bringing the tribulation to an end.
• Huo Qubing and Wei Qing led the battered Divine Han army home, where Liu Che welcomed them and the soldiers declared, “I choose, I fight, I win!”
• Lu Ya received Bai Ze’s report that Lu Ba and Lu Jiu had been killed in the Wanling Domain, and he turned his attention to the wounded Demon Clan.
• Nuwa, Goddess Taiyuan, Wangshu, Empress Ziguang, and Li Fan reflected on the returning balance, the consequences of freedom, and the convictions of all beings.

Buddhism launched the Great Awakening Golden Immortal Path, claiming to save all beings while gathering their faith and vow power, and powerful figures condemned it as a plan to bind and exploit them. The three clan ancestors allied against Buddhism, while Jieyin and Zhunti refused to back down, and Li Fan saw the Westward Journey as the place where the conflict would unfold.

• Buddhism sent Buddhas into the Twelve Domains of the Nine Provinces to save living beings and establish the Great Awakening Golden Immortal Path.
• Taishang, Primordial Lord of Heaven, Lingbao Tianzun, Taiyi, and Primordial Beginning Heavenly King identified the path as a means of controlling or exploiting all beings.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Shi Qilin allied against Buddhism and vowed to fight if it threatened their clans' bloodlines or Dao foundations.
• Jieyin and Zhunti resolved to defend Buddhism's path despite the three clan ancestors' opposition, and the western Buddha Light grew stronger.
• Nuwa prepared to return to the Prehistoric Universe, while Goddess Taiyuan, Goddess Wangshu, and Empress Ziguang warned that the path could lead to the End of Dharma Era.
• Li Fan declared that the hidden designs behind salvation would be revealed through the Westward Journey.

Nuwa sent Fuxi to Spirit Mountain to inspect the Buddhist sect’s Great Awakening Golden Immortal Path, and he used the Eight Trigrams to suppress the Western Buddhists. While Fuxi settled in at Leiyin Temple, Nuwa searched his hall in Huoyun Cave and uncovered a hidden pouch.

• Nuwa forced Fuxi to leave Huoyun Cave and go west to speak with the Buddhist sect.
• Tathagata led the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to welcome Fuxi at Spirit Mountain after learning Nuwa had sent him.
• Fuxi formed an Eight Trigrams Grand Formation around Spirit Mountain’s gate, suppressing the Buddhists’ power, then entered Leiyin Temple and demanded an explanation of their path.
• Fuxi teased Tathagata about the failed journey of the Golden Cicada’s reincarnation, took Tathagata’s lotus throne, and ordered the Buddhists to explain their teachings.
• Nuwa searched Fuxi’s Eight Trigrams Human Emperor Hall, overturned its contents, and found a hidden Qiankun pouch.

Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, grew old and the Witchcraft Disaster devastated Chang'an, ending with Crown Prince Liu Ju’s death and Divine Han’s fortune in decline. Stricken with remorse, Liu Che issued the Edict of Repentance at Lun Tai, seeking to repair the harm and steady the dynasty.

• Liu Che’s aging and distrust deepened the conflict between Crown Prince Liu Ju and the imperial relatives, and the Witchcraft Disaster engulfed Chang'an in blood.
• Wei Qing, Zhang Liang, Huo Qubing, and Han Xin learned of the slaughter but refrained from intervening in human Imperial Power, while Wei Qing ordered the heavenly soldiers to guard against demons.
• Li Fan and the goddesses watched as the disaster ended with Liu Ju’s suicide, the Empress’s death, and the deaths of tens of thousands.
• Liu Che admitted, “I... was wrong,” then issued the Edict of Repentance at Lun Tai, dismissing Daoist Masters, abolishing harsh taxes, aiding refugees, restoring agriculture, and halting the fighting.

As the Heavenly Human Five Declines approached, Li Fan agreed to let Goddess Taiyuan decide how much of the calamity would descend upon the Five Heavenly Realms. Across the Three Realms, powerful beings watched the coming upheaval, and Huang Tian prepared to challenge Haotian as mortal unrest began to spread.

• The chapter described the five stages of the Heavenly Human Five Declines and Li Fan viewed them as the Great Dao cleansing and rearranging its order.
• Goddess Wangshu asked Li Fan whether the Five Declines would reach the Five Heavenly Realms, and Goddess Taiyuan proposed blocking part of it while letting part descend as a warning to the great powers.
• Li Fan left the decision to Goddess Taiyuan, and Grand Unity Golden Immortals across the Forty-Eight Heavens sensed the approaching danger but hesitated to flee into Outer Chaos.
• Empress Ziguang observed that the Five Declines would affect beings above the Great Luo realm, while Nuwa told her the process was natural and asked whether she would interfere.
• Huang Tian sensed Cang Tian weakening and fortune turning in his favor, and he resolved to challenge Haotian.
• The Three Pure Ones joined the Primordial Beginning Heavenly King on Tai Xu Mountain to watch the changing circumstances, as unrest grew across the mortal world.

After Divine Han’s fall plunged the Earth Immortal Realm into chaos, Yang Jian and Nezha defeated or subdued the leading demonic threats and restored a fragile peace. They warned that the Heavenly Human Five Declines and the struggle to establish a new human order still lay ahead.

• Yang Jian descended with the Howling Celestial Dog and Nezha arrived on the Wind Fire Wheels to confront the disorder spreading across the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Yang Jian killed Black Wind Old Demon outside Luoyang, while Nezha defeated Xuan Yi at Cloud Dream Marsh and spared her; Holy Mother of Lishan then took Xuan Yi away.
• Nezha and Yang Jian attacked the Blood Skeleton Great Formation at Yin Mountain, destroyed Cang Jie's throne, and killed the Blood Skeleton King when he tried to ambush Yang Jian.
• With the three leading demonic threats defeated, the fires of war subsided and displaced commoners began returning home.
• Yang Jian cautioned Nezha that Divine Han’s fall and the Heavenly Human Five Declines meant more conflict was coming, while Li Fan watched them from Grand Unity Heaven Palace.

Li Fan, Goddess Ziguang, Baili, and Nuwa defeated the Curse Demon God and Soul Demon God, ending the demonic invasion of the Prehistoric Universe. In the Earth Immortal Realm, Wang Mang lost the demonic power sustaining his rise as Liu Xiu’s army advanced on Chang'an.

• Wang Mang revealed his ambition to rule the Earth Immortal Realm as the Future Demon Lord while the Return to Ruins demons invaded the Human Realm.
• Li Fan and Goddess Ziguang joined forces to destroy the Curse Demon God and seize its Primordial Dao Fruit.
• Baili fought the Soul Demon God until Nuwa struck it down with the Hongmeng Sacred Sword, restoring balance to the Prehistoric Universe.
• Li Fan warned the remaining Return to Ruins Demon Gods not to cross the boundary again, and Nuwa left the Earth Immortal Realm’s conflict to the human race.
• Wang Mang sensed the demons’ deaths as Liu Xiu led his righteous army from Nanyang toward Chang'an to slay the Demon Lord and restore the Godly Han.

Wang Mang stopped Liu Xiu’s meteorite attack, but half the Heavenly Realm then crashed down and trapped him beneath Chang'an City. The stranded immortals settled beside Liu Xiu’s army while Wang Mang remained imprisoned and refused to accept defeat.

• Wang Mang caught Liu Xiu’s meteorite with a demonic palm and shattered it, then prepared to crush the rebel army.
• Half the Heavenly Realm fell from the sky and sealed Wang Mang and Chang'an City beneath its wreckage.
• Nezha, Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li, the Seven Fairy Maidens, and other immortals fell with the wreckage, while Liu Xiu’s army celebrated its victory.
• The immortals discovered they could not return to the Heavenly Court, and Liu Xiu offered them temporary lodging in Han territory.
• The immortals established a residence beside the Han camp as Wang Mang raged beneath the wreckage and insisted he had not completely lost.

The Heavenly Human Five Declines spread across the Three Realms, weakening immortals, mortals, kingdoms, and even the Five Heavenly Realms. Goddess Taiyuan stabilized the realms with the Light of Taisu as Buddhist and Taoist factions maneuvered amid the collapse, while the calamity continued to worsen.

• Haotian watched the Heavenly Han's fragile order and Liu Xiu sensed that human stability had already collapsed.
• The Five Declines ravaged the Three Realms, aging Liu Xiu, dimming the gods, and destroying the fallen half of the Heavenly Realm.
• Li Fan, Baili, and Nuwa witnessed the decay, while Nuwa said the Five Declines were another cycle of fire, wind, and frost.
• Goddess Taiyuan invoked the Light of Taisu to stabilize the Five Heavenly Realms and preserve a glimmer of life for Great Luo Golden Immortals.
• The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans saw their ancestral lands and powers wither as their leaders confronted the calamity.
• Zhunti and Jieyin used the turmoil to expand Buddhism, while Taishang Daode Tianzun accepted disciples and the Three Pure Ones agreed to consider Huang Tian's Taiping Dao joining Taoism under their authority.

After the Prehistoric Universe declined into a mortal age, Li Fan summoned its surviving powers to Grand Unity Heaven and established cultivating the truth as the new order. The old Immortal Dao’s realms began to change as the universe’s destiny shifted.

• Four epochs passed, the Prehistoric Universe fell into desolation, and its ancient powers withdrew while mortal dynasties rose and fell.
• Li Fan gathered the surviving supreme figures in Grand Unity Heaven to discuss the Prehistoric Universe’s future order.
• Li Fan declared an era of cultivating the truth, centered on the true self, the Great Dao, and the Original Mind.
• Li Fan set rules for all races to cultivate the truth, preserve Humanity Dao and the Human Realm, and allow successful cultivators to receive ranks in Grand Unity Heaven.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Shi Qilin questioned Li Fan’s intentions, while Cangli Clan left feeling that the world no longer belonged to him.
• Li Fan and the goddesses discussed the new order, and the Immortal Dao’s cultivation realms began to change.