Arc 7The Return to Ruins

Li Fan uncovered the danger posed by the failing Guixu seal, ended the Dragon-Phoenix war, and organized the gods to contain eruptions at its four entrances. After the crisis produced new origins and the clans began rebuilding, Hongjun and Luohu prepared for their struggle over the Immortal Dao and Demon Realm.

  • Li Fan negotiated punishment for the Twenty-Eight Mansions, then warned the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin leaders that the Return to Ruins threatened their domains as well as the world.
  • Li Fan and his allies discovered that the Guixu sealing array was failing, while the three clans prepared for war and Luohu attacked Hongjun with the God Slaying Spear.
  • Li Fan mediated the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, assigning the clans new territories, and broke through to the Sub-Saint realm with the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
  • Li Fan convened the Grand Unity Assembly and announced that the Return to Ruins would emerge, directing the gods and clans to prepare to suppress its entrances and relocate their people.
  • Li Fan and the Zhou Tian Star Array shattered the Guixu seal, and the gods fought to contain the Return to Ruins at the East Sea, Immortal Volcano, and Kunlun Ruins.
  • The Return to Ruins erupted, releasing origins that Li Fan, Nuwa, Hongjun, Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and other great powers claimed, while Li Fan warned Ancestor Dragon to keep the Dragon Clan out of the coming tribulation.
  • The clans rebuilt after the Calamity ended, and Hongjun proposed spreading the Immortal Dao through a new Mystical Sect as Luohu secretly spread Demonic Dao inheritances.
  • Li Fan warned his companions that Hongjun served the Heavenly Dao in its struggle with the Demon Realm, while Hongjun broke with Yinyang and Qiankun and Li Fan weighed whether to intervene.
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Ch. 151Journey to the Dragon Clan

Li Fan disciplined the Demonic Star Gods and took the Five Luminaries Star God and the Twenty-Eight Mansions to the East Sea to confront the Dragon Clan. At the Dragon Palace, Ancestor Dragon received Li Fan and his companions, who were left waiting through a tour and banquet before their discussion began.

  • Li Fan warned the nine Demonic Star Gods about Luohu and ordered them to cut away their Demonic Dao cultivation; he then gave them Three Lights Divine Water to heal.
  • Li Fan ordered the Five Luminaries Star God to escort the Twenty-Eight Mansions to the East Sea, and the group traveled to the Dragon Palace with him and the three goddesses.
  • Candle Dragon sensed Li Fan's arrival and warned Ancestor Dragon, while Leize went out to receive the Heavenly Emperor and his companions.
  • Dragon Lady Yun Hua welcomed Li Fan's party and sent Shrimp Commander and Crab Commander to fetch the Five Luminaries Star God from Penglai Immortal Island.
  • Nuwa asked to see the Dragon Palace's sights, so Yun Hua led the group through its wonders before Ancestor Dragon summoned them to the main hall.
  • Li Fan met Ancestor Dragon and the other Dragon Clan leaders in the banquet hall while Nuwa eagerly ate seafood and studied it for ideas.

Ch. 152Calling the Three Clans to Account

At the Dragon Clan Feast, Li Fan summoned Yuanfeng and Shi Qilin to answer for the Twenty-Eight Mansions’ attack on the Star Sky. He ordered the Mansions to surrender half their Sacred Origin and tasked Nuwa with repairing their origins at the three clans’ expense, while Nuwa also demanded twenty-eight drops of essence blood.

  • Li Fan confronted Ancestor Dragon about the Twenty-Eight Mansions, and Ancestor Dragon summoned Yuanfeng and Shi Qilin to the Dragon Palace.
  • Yuanfeng and Shi Qilin arrived, and Li Fan asked the three clan leaders how the Twenty-Eight Mansions should be punished.
  • Yuanfeng suggested sealing the Twenty-Eight Mansions away, but Empress Ziguang objected to letting the three clans evade responsibility.
  • Nuwa brought the Twenty-Eight Mansions before Li Fan and proposed extracting half their Sacred Origin, with herself responsible for repairing their origins using resources from the three clans.
  • Li Fan approved Nuwa’s proposal, and Nuwa demanded twenty-eight drops of Hun Yuan Golden Immortal essence blood, which Ancestor Dragon agreed to provide.

Ch. 153Siming Reborn

Nuwa altered Siming’s bloodline by merging Flood Dragon essence blood into his restored origin, while Li Fan reforged Siming’s severed Sacred Origin into a powerful Zhou Tian Star Banner. Siming awoke stronger but with a less pure origin, and received permanent partial rights to the banner, leaving him with a new path forward.

  • Yuanfeng, Ancestor Dragon, and Shi Qilin divided the twenty-eight drops of essence blood, and their clans gathered the blood and treasures Nuwa needed to alter the Twenty-Eight Mansions’ bloodlines.
  • Li Fan worried that the Sea Eye of the Four Seas, Immortal Volcano, and Kunlun Mountain concealed entrances to the Return to Ruins, and he wanted to inspect the Guixu Rift before the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity.
  • Nuwa began her work with Siming, who severed his origin; Li Fan used it to reforge a Zhou Tian Star Banner, raising its restrictions from thirty-six to forty-two.
  • Nuwa repaired Siming’s origin and merged Flood Dragon essence blood into him, restoring him while changing his bloodline and limiting his future cultivation ceiling.
  • Siming awoke a year later stronger, and Li Fan granted him permanent partial use of the reforged banner; Siming named it the Nandou Siming Zhou Tian Banner.

Ch. 154Four Entrances to the Return to Ruins

Li Fan revealed that the Return to Ruins had four entrances and warned that its eruption could threaten the Prehistoric Universe. Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng realized they were caught in a tribulation, with no clear way to gain enough power to suppress the entrances in time.

  • Nuwa completed modifying the Twenty-Eight Mansions, while Li Fan reforged Zhou Tian Star Banners for them and Silu named his banner the Southern Dipper Silu Zhou Tian Banner.
  • Li Fan sent the Star Gods and Twenty-Eight Mansions back to the Heavenly Realm, then warned Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng that an eruption of the Return to Ruins would endanger the Sea Eye of the Four Seas and Immortal Volcano.
  • Ancestor Dragon identified the water entrance at the Sea Eye of the Four Seas, Yuanfeng identified the fire entrance at Immortal Volcano, and Li Fan said the earth entrance lay at Kunlun Mountain.
  • Wangshu explained that the wind entrance had once appeared at the Taiyin Star during a Starry Sky Storm, where Pangu's Dùtiān divine light had damaged it and scattered the attack.
  • Li Fan explained that the four entrances corresponded to earth, wind, water, and fire, and that the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans were tied to three of them.
  • Yuanfeng confirmed that she had entered the tribulation, while Ancestor Dragon said there was not enough time to reach the Hunyuan Grand Unity Realm; the chapter ended with the clans' fortune offering no clear solution to suppress all three entrances.

Ch. 155Journey to Return to Ruins

Li Fan and the others discovered that crimson blood from the Three Clans Border War was weakening the Guixu Sealing Array, while Return to Ruins had stopped releasing new matter. Suspecting the seal’s unknown creator and purpose, Li Fan returned to Grand Unity Palace to investigate in secret.

  • Ancestor Dragon asked whether there was another way to deal with Return to Ruins, and Li Fan led the group there to inspect the seal.
  • Li Fan and Yuanfeng burned away the spreading blood mist, revealing that the Chaos Qi patch had nearly dissipated and the sealing array’s cracks had widened.
  • Goddess Wangshu detected traces of Yang Mei, while Empress Ziguang noted that Return to Ruins had long absorbed matter without releasing anything.
  • Li Fan and the others questioned who had created the Hunyuan-level sealing array and hurried away without revealing their discovery.
  • Li Fan asked Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng to keep the matter secret while he investigated, then returned to Grand Unity Palace with Wangshu, Ziguang, and Nuwa.
  • Nüyi reported that the Five Luminaries Star God and Twenty-Eight Mansions had arrived and were training in the Hall of Myriad Gods.

Ch. 156The Three Clans Prepare for War

As the three clans prepared to wage war amid the collapse of Humanity Dao, Li Fan emerged from three eras of secluded cultivation just as the Primordial World descended into chaos. He learned that Humanity Dao might disappear at any moment, bringing the long-anticipated war close.

  • Yuanfeng and Ancestor Dragon readied their armies, while the Qilin Clan followed suit as the three clans drained their treasuries to prepare for war.
  • Li Fan refined the Creation Green Lotus and deepened his mastery of the Law of Creation, while Taiyuan and Nuwa discussed the Dao and Nuwa entered the threshold of Taiyuan Law.
  • Humanity Dao weakened, the Land of Eight Desolations became barren, and Huang Tian began moving its inhabitants westward as celestial signs foretold war.
  • Yuanfeng and Ancestor Dragon agreed to begin fighting when Humanity Dao vanished, while Goddess Taiyuan ordered defensive measures and Goddess Baihua placed the Heavenly Realm under martial lockdown.
  • Luohu prepared to use the malevolent aura of the coming war against Hongjun, Yinyang, and Qiankun with the God Slaying Spear.
  • Li Fan emerged after refining forty-seven Innate Restrictions of the Creation Green Lotus, then learned from Nüyi that Humanity Dao could disappear at any moment.

Ch. 157Blitz Attack on the Qilin Clan

The Dragon and Phoenix Clans launched a blitz attack on the Qilin Clan after the Human Realm vanished, plunging the three clans into a bloody stalemate. As Li Fan considered resolving the upheaval in Guixu with Yang Mei’s help, the war escalated and the clans committed more of their core forces.

  • Nuwa remained in the Heavenly Realm and used purple-gold coins to persuade deities to take part in her creation research, though they refused to return.
  • As food shortages drove living beings east and beasts slaughtered migrants, Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng ordered the Dragon and Phoenix armies to attack the Qilin Clan.
  • Shi Qilin hurried to gather the beast army, but the Dragon and Phoenix armies breached the Eastern Primordial World and met them in battle within seven days.
  • Luohu welcomed the rising slaughter as blood flowed toward the unborn Blood Sea and Return to Ruins, while Hongjun watched from Wuxiang Mountain.
  • Li Fan judged that the battle could not solve Guixu and decided Yang Mei might know how to address the origins of its seal.
  • After seven days of fighting, True Feathered ones, True Phoenixes, True Qilin, and direct-line beasts entered the battlefield, while Wangshu and Empress Ziguang emerged from seclusion.

Ch. 158Luohu Makes His Move

Luohu launched the God Slaying Spear at Hongjun, but Hongjun, Yinyang, and Qiankun delayed it while Wangshu and Goddess Taiyuan joined the battle. Luohu escaped through a passage to the Demon Realm, while Goddess Taiyuan captured the spear.

  • Luohu empowered the God Slaying Spear with the baleful aura and hurled it toward Wuxiang Mountain.
  • Hongjun used the Jade Butterfly of Creation while Yinyang and Qiankun attacked with their treasures, weakening the spear's strike before Hongjun redirected it.
  • Wangshu and Hongjun attacked Luohu from opposite sides as Goddess Taiyuan used the Heavenly Flower Falling Banner to suppress the God Slaying Spear.
  • Hongjun and Wangshu broke through Luohu's World-Destroying Black Lotus, and Goddess Taiyuan secured the God Slaying Spear.
  • Luohu opened a passage to the Demon Realm and fled, vowing to take revenge on Hongjun.

Ch. 159Investigating Mount Sumeru

After Luohu fled to the Demon Realm, Li Fan and the other experts investigated Mount Sumeru, hoping to find the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. They discovered that Luohu had taken the completed Hun Yuan Sword Formation into the origin of the Primordial World, while Luohu recovered and deepened his understanding of the Demonic Dao in the Demon Realm.

  • Hongjun accepted Li Fan's Three Lights Divine Water, and Goddess Taiyuan thanked him for helping her obtain the God Slaying Spear.
  • Li Fan proposed investigating Mount Sumeru while Luohu remained in the Demon Realm, and the experts from the three clans left their battle to follow.
  • Hongjun used the Jade Plate of Creation to pry open Luohu's modified Xumi Formation, and the group fought past the demons toward the site where the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation had first appeared.
  • The group found the divine swords and formation missing, and Li Fan and Hongjun realized that Luohu had completed the Hun Yuan Sword Formation through Mount Sumeru's origin.
  • Li Fan decided they could not safely tamper with Mount Sumeru's origin, so Hongjun led everyone away while Luohu absorbed negative energy and recovered in the Demon Realm.

Ch. 160Primordial Beginning Heavenly King

Li Fan told Hongjun that the Guixu Sealing Array had been created by the Primordial Beginning Heavenly King, whose forgotten history explained why Return to Ruins had been sealed. Taiyuan refined the God Slaying Spear, while Luohu retreated to Mount Sumeru and the war among the three clans continued.

  • Li Fan asked Hongjun to investigate the creator of the Guixu Sealing Array, and Hongjun’s Jade Butterfly of Creation found that information about Return to Ruins had been erased.
  • Li Fan explained that the Primordial Beginning Heavenly King had sealed Return to Ruins, then erased his traces and traveled upstream along the River of Time.
  • Li Fan left Hongjun to contact Yang Mei and went to Taiyuan as she forced Luohu’s primordial spirit out of the God Slaying Spear.
  • Taiyuan used the Creation Green Lotus to suppress the spear’s origin, causing Luohu to dissolve his primordial spirit into the Dao before she claimed the weapon.
  • Luohu returned injured to Mount Sumeru to defend the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, while Li Fan and the Three Goddesses returned to Grand Unity Heaven and the Dragon Clan pressed the Qilin Clan back.

Ch. 161Qilin Clan Defeated

As the Qilin Clan faced defeat, Jade Qilin asked Li Fan to mediate the war among the three clans. Li Fan negotiated a withdrawal from Buzhou and divided territory between the Dragon and Phoenix Clans, ending the fighting while leaving the Buzhou region unclaimed.

  • Shi Qilin’s council voted on whether to keep fighting, and Jade Qilin left for Grand Unity Palace to seek mediation.
  • Li Fan summoned Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Shi Qilin to negotiate an end to the war.
  • Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng demanded territory, but Shangqing Lingbao objected to either clan taking over the Buzhou region.
  • Li Fan ruled that the Qilin Clan would leave Buzhou, the Dragon Clan would receive one-quarter of the east, and the Phoenix Clan one-quarter of the south, with Buzhou declared unclaimed land.
  • Candle Dragon, Phoenix Ancestor, and Ink Qilin ordered their forces to withdraw, ending the battle.

Ch. 162Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls—Ashen Innate Supreme Treasure

Li Fan separated the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls from the Creation Green Lotus and began advancing them while breaking through to the Sub-Saint realm. The pearls became an Ashen Innate Supreme Treasure, empowering Li Fan with the World Power of the Thirty-Six Heavens.

  • Li Fan safely separated the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls from the Creation Green Lotus in Grand Unity Palace.
  • Li Fan and Wangshu went above the heavens, where Li Fan arrayed the thirty-six pearls into worlds and began his Sub-Saint breakthrough as the treasure advanced.
  • Ziguang, the Zhou Tian Star Gods, Taiyuan, Nuwa, Yuanfeng, and others witnessed the heavenly phenomenon, while Ancestor Dragon, Shi Qilin, Shangqing, Taishang, Yuanshi, and Luohu reacted to Li Fan's growing power.
  • The Sea-Calming Divine Pearls formed half a strand of Hongmeng Purple Light and evolved thirty-six perfected Great Thousand Worlds.
  • The Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls completed their advancement into an Ashen Innate Supreme Treasure and became thirty-six Brilliant Light Wheels behind Li Fan, channeling World Power into his Dao Fruit.

Ch. 163Heavenly Emperor Breaks Through to Sub-Saint

Li Fan broke through to the Sub-Saint realm and learned that Immortal Volcano was becoming dangerously unstable because of the influence of Return to Ruins. He resolved to take the initiative against Return to Ruins, fearing that its eruption would force the clans into conflict and endanger the Primordial World’s living beings.

  • Li Fan unleashed the Solar Authority and World Origin Law, suppressed the Calamity Qi, and broke through to the Sub-Saint realm.
  • Goddess Wangshu congratulated Li Fan, while Yang Mei worried about the dangers of attempting a Hunyuan Grand Unity breakthrough in the sealed chaos.
  • Li Fan and Wangshu returned to Grand Unity Palace, where Taiyuan, Nüyi, and Baili congratulated him and described their visit to Immortal Volcano.
  • Taiyuan warned Li Fan that Immortal Volcano’s fires had grown violently destructive under the influence of Return to Ruins, and that Yuanfeng was preparing to relocate the Phoenix Clan.
  • Li Fan concluded that Return to Ruins could trigger disasters across the Four Seas and Southern Primordial World, and decided to shatter its dimensional space before it erupted.

Ch. 164Final Prelude to the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity

As the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity drew near, Yang Mei revealed that Primordial Beginning Heavenly King had created the Guixu Sealing Array, and Li Fan decided it should be moved before Return to Ruins erupted. Li Fan then summoned the Grand Unity Experts and announced a Grand Unity Assembly to address the danger, leaving the clans and Lingbao Tianzun preparing to attend.

  • Yuanfeng, Shi Qilin, Old Ancestor Yin Yang, and Ancestor Qiankun successively broke through, signaling that the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity was approaching.
  • Yang Mei appeared before Hongjun, who asked about the Guixu Sealing Array, and Yang Mei revealed that Primordial Beginning Heavenly King, an incarnation of Pangu's origin, had laid it down.
  • Li Fan and the others decided to move the Guixu Sealing Array, while Yang Mei explained that the Zhou Tian Star Array could temporarily suppress Return to Ruins.
  • Li Fan decided to convene the third Myriad Gods Conference as the Grand Unity Assembly to discuss Return to Ruins and summoned the Grand Unity Experts.
  • Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Shi Qilin agreed to attend the assembly, and Lingbao Tianzun hurried to Kunlun Mountain to join his brothers.

Ch. 165Grand Unity Assembly Invitation

Li Fan sent invitations to the Grand Unity Assembly, revealing that the gathering would address the unstable Return to Ruins and the threat of its eruption. As the assembly approached, the Dragon and Phoenix Clans began relocating their people, while Nuwa secured an invitation of her own.

  • Li Fan decided to invite Luohu and sent a black invitation to Mount Sumeru, where Luohu accepted and planned to attend for his own purposes.
  • Nüyi delivered invitations to Hongjun, Yang Mei, Huang Tian, and Tiger Ancestor, while Baili invited Shi Qilin, Ancestor Dragon, Candle Dragon, Black Tortoise, and Yuanfeng.
  • After learning the Return to Ruins might emerge, Ancestor Dragon ordered the Dragon Clan to split into two groups and migrate to the Northern Primordial World and the Eastern Primordial World.
  • Nuwa complained that she had not received an invitation, traveled to Grand Unity Palace, and persuaded Li Fan to give her a blank one to fill out.
  • Yuanfeng ordered the Phoenix Clan to migrate to the newly occupied Eastern Primordial World, and the Dragon and Phoenix Clans began relocating their people during the million years before the assembly.

Ch. 166Grand Unity Assembly

At the first Grand Unity Assembly, Li Fan announced that the Heavenly Realm would shatter the unstable Return to Ruins in one million years and laid out plans to relocate the myriad races and suppress its entrances. The assembly ended with the gods ordered to begin preparations immediately.

  • The myriad gods and Great Divine Powers gathered at Grand Unity Palace for the first Grand Unity Assembly, where Hongjun and Luohu exchanged hostile words.
  • Li Fan announced that the Return to Ruins could not be kept stable and that he would shatter its dimensional space in one million years.
  • Li Fan offered the races limited provisions and crowded cave-abode designs, while Wangshu called for plans to suppress the Immortal Volcano, the Sea Eye of the Four Seas, and Kunlun Mountain.
  • Taishang warned that Wutu Demon God threatened the Kunlun Ruins, and Li Fan provided thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to help contain eruptions at all three entrances.
  • Ziguang warned that failure to cooperate could trigger another war among the dragon, phoenix, and qilin clans, and Wangshu ordered everyone to begin relocation and construction without delay.

Ch. 167The Grand Unity Assembly Concludes

The Grand Unity Assembly ended, and Hongjun handed Li Fan a thousand Innate Spiritual Treasures to distribute. Li Fan suspected Hongjun and Luohu were chosen by the Heavenly Dao and Demon Realm, while Luohu secretly sought control of the Demon Realm, and the chapter ended with the clans relocating living beings and building cave abodes.

  • Li Fan announced the assembly’s conclusion, and Luohu fled Grand Unity Heaven before the guests dispersed.
  • Hongjun gave Li Fan a thousand Innate Spiritual Treasures, which Nuwa eagerly began examining.
  • Li Fan and the others discussed how Hongjun and Luohu might be agents of the Heavenly Dao and Demon Realm, and concluded Luohu aimed to control the Demon Realm.
  • Li Fan warned Nuwa and the others to keep their discussion secret, then distributed the treasures among them for comprehension.
  • Li Fan and his companions saw the clans relocating living beings and constructing cave abodes, with the Qilin Clan conscripted to build.

Ch. 168Return to Ruins Emerges

Li Fan used the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to supply the Heavenly Realm and organized the innate star gods to strengthen the Zhou Tian Star Array. A million years later, the array shattered the Guixu Sealing Array, and although Goddess Wangshu’s strike briefly froze the Return to Ruins, Li Fan and his allies had to descend to the East Sea to contain it.

  • Li Fan opened thirty-six spatial gateways with the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, pouring resources from thirty-six perfected Great Thousand Worlds into the Heavenly Realm.
  • Li Fan, Goddess Wangshu, and Ziguang distributed Zhou Tian Star Banners among the innate star gods and appointed Nuwa to temporarily replace the absent Ketu Star God.
  • After a million years, Li Fan and Ziguang activated the Zhou Tian Star Array against the Return to Ruins in the East Sea.
  • Li Fan’s solar strike shattered the Guixu Sealing Array, causing the Return to Ruins to emerge and its Chaos Vortex to drain the East Sea’s Eye.
  • Ancestor Dragon used Water Law to defend the East Sea’s Eye while Goddess Wangshu’s lunar strike briefly froze the Return to Ruins.
  • When the Return to Ruins began to thaw, Li Fan, Goddess Wangshu, Taiyuan, and Ziguang brought the Zhou Tian Star Array down to the East Sea and locked it in a curtain of light.

Ch. 169Return to Ruins Uprising

Return to Ruins launched an instinctive uprising at the Sea Eye of the Four Seas, Immortal Volcano, and Kunlun Ruins, forcing Li Fan and the other powers to fight to contain its eruptions. The Twelve Heavens began drawing power from all three gateways, but Hun Yuan Fire threatened to overwhelm the formation at Immortal Volcano as Li Fan warned Phoenix Ancestor that the struggle had become a contest of endurance.

  • The Black Tortoise helped stabilize the West Sea and Northern Sea, while Li Fan called on the Great Divine Powers to reinforce Immortal Volcano and Kunlun Ruins.
  • Phoenix Ancestor withdrew from Immortal Volcano after Yuanfeng warned that the Hun Yuan Fire could not be suppressed, and Huang Tian and Tiger Ancestor hurried to assist.
  • Shi Qilin and the Three Pure Ones held back Kunlun Ruins until Hongjun arrived and used the Jade Plate of Creation and Pangu Banner to suppress it.
  • Li Fan sent the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to the three gateways, and the Twelve Heavens began extracting water-, fire-, and earth-element power from Return to Ruins.
  • Hun Yuan Fire coiled around the Twelve Heavens above Immortal Volcano and began disrupting its control, while the other two sites were brought under greater control.
  • Phoenix Ancestor asked Li Fan how to handle the Hun Yuan Fire, and he said the Twelve Heavens could not hold out much longer and Yuanfeng might have to withdraw.

Ch. 170The Return to Ruins Unrest Is Quelled

Li Fan and the others suppressed Return to Ruins with the Zhou Tian Star Array and three supreme treasures, ending its unrest after five hundred years. But when the formation dispersed, Immortal Volcano erupted completely.

  • Li Fan used the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to absorb Hun Yuan True Fire while Yuanfeng struggled to contain it inside Immortal Volcano.
  • Goddess Taiyuan left the Zhou Tian Star Array and joined Yuanfeng, but the Creation Cauldron could not hold the fire, so they prepared for the volcano to erupt.
  • Luohu saw Goddess Taiyuan carrying the God Slaying Spear and continued waiting for the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to be completed.
  • Five hundred years later, Li Fan, Goddess Wangshu, and Empress Ziguang used three supreme treasures to block Return to Ruins's devouring power, and its unrest subsided.
  • Ancestor Dragon and the others saw the Sea Eyes and other disturbances return to normal, and Empress Ziguang ordered the Zhou Tian Star Array to disperse.
  • Li Fan, Wangshu, and Ziguang turned toward Immortal Volcano and saw that it had erupted completely.

Ch. 171Immortal Volcano Erupts

The Immortal Volcano erupted, and Taiyuan and Yuanfeng stopped the two divine-fire tornadoes with Li Fan’s help. Afterward, powerful beings raced to the Return to Ruins to claim its newly erupted matter and origin power, while Li Fan restricted access to those who had helped suppress the calamity.

  • Yuanfeng used Nirvana Fire to destroy the tornado carrying Southern Bright Lihuo.
  • Li Fan empowered Taiyuan’s Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, and Taiyuan pierced the Hun Yuan Fire tornado with the God Slaying Spear.
  • Nuwa saw Taiyuan’s strike and hurried toward the Return to Ruins, while Yuanfeng and Taiyuan also set off to claim its opportunity.
  • Shi Qilin, Hongjun, Huang Tian, and other great powers raced toward the Return to Ruins after realizing its eruption offered an opportunity.
  • Li Fan barred those who had not helped suppress the Immortal Volcano or other Return to Ruins entrances, and Nuwa argued that she qualified because she had set up the Zhou Tian Star Array.

Ch. 172Second Generation Innate God-Demons

The Eye of Return to Ruins released Great Dao Origins and new matter, granting powerful beings opportunities to claim Origins and strengthen their clans. It chose Li Fan to receive the Reincarnation Origin, leaving Ancestor Dragon, Hongjun, and the others astonished.

  • The Five Elements Origin flew to Yuanfeng, while Li Fan explained that the Origins heralded the birth of second-generation God-Demons and Innate Beings.
  • Ancestor Dragon seized a Mysterious Yellow Stone, Wangshu claimed the Taiyin Origin and entrusted it to Nuwa, and Taishang and Yuanfeng received Yin Yang Origins.
  • Hongjun collected Pure Yin, Pure Sun, and Pure Qi of Heaven Origins in the Jade Butterfly of Creation as Return to Ruins poured new matter into the East Sea.
  • Shi Qilin fished an Earth Origin Embryo from the torrent, while the East Sea's Spiritual Qi surged and Ancestor Dragon recognized the burden of suppressing Return to Ruins.
  • Nuwa, Huang Tian, Taiyuan, and Empress Ziguang received the Creation, Thunder, Life, and Star Origins, while Leize resented Huang Tian's selection.
  • The Reincarnation Origin flew to Li Fan, stunning Ancestor Dragon, Hongjun, and the other onlookers.

Ch. 173The Dragon-Phoenix Calamity Concludes

After the origins of the Three Thousand Laws spread across the Primordial World, Li Fan warned Ancestor Dragon to keep the Dragon Clan out of the coming Dao and Demon Calamity. A million years later, the three clans had rebuilt and the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity had officially ended, while Leize continued searching for the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.

  • The origins of the Three Thousand Laws scattered throughout the Primordial World, and great powers seized some of them while new Innate Beings began to gestate.
  • Li Fan warned Ancestor Dragon that the Dragon Clan had to guard the Four Seas and stay out of the coming Great Tribulation, and Ancestor Dragon agreed.
  • Nuwa and Taiyuan divided the origins of Creation and Life between them, while Leize lamented that Huang Tian had taken the Thunder Origin and searched for the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
  • Li Fan suspected that Leize was hiding a companion Lingbao and began considering what secrets the Thunder God possessed.
  • Over a million years, the Dragon Clan returned to the Four Seas, Yuanfeng and Phoenix Ancestor worked to settle the southern earthfire, and the Qilin Clan established a new home on East Kunlun.
  • The Dragon Clan, Phoenix Clan, Qilin Clan, and the Primordial World’s living beings recovered and rebuilt, bringing the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity to an end.

Ch. 174Grand Unity Golden Immortal

Hongjun visited Grand Unity Palace to promote his newly deduced Grand Unity Golden Immortal path, which relied on cultivating Heavenly Dao Laws. Wangshu, Taiyuan, and Ziguang challenged his plan to restrict access to nine grand altars, while Li Fan recognized the path’s deadly risks; the discussion ended in a deadlock.

  • Hongjun arrived at Grand Unity Heaven to discuss spreading the Immortal Dao and founding the Mystical Sect.
  • Li Fan welcomed Hongjun into Grand Unity Palace, where Taiyuan and Nuwa had been drinking with the others.
  • Hongjun announced that he had deduced the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and explained that its practitioners would cultivate Heavenly Dao Laws.
  • Ziguang, Wangshu, and Taiyuan questioned the method’s dependence on the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun’s plan to establish only nine grand altars.
  • Li Fan considered how Heavenly Dao cultivators risked losing themselves by merging with it, while the debate in the hall reached a deadlock.

Ch. 175Dao and Demon

Hongjun sought to establish a branch of the Immortal Path Alliance, while Li Fan explained that the Calamity of Dao and Demon was fundamentally a conflict between the Heavenly Dao and the Demon Realm. As Hongjun’s plans strained his ties with Yinyang and Qiankun, Li Fan weighed when to intervene, and Ziguang and Nuwa set out for the Star Sky and Taiyin Star.

  • Hongjun asked to establish another branch within the Immortal Path Alliance, and Li Fan let him proceed while warning that joining the struggle would put his fate beyond his control.
  • Li Fan told Wangshu, Ziguang, Nuwa, and Taiyuan that the Calamity of Dao and Demon was a struggle between the Heavenly Dao and the Demon Realm, with Hongjun serving as the Heavenly Dao’s vanguard.
  • Luohu abandoned his failed plan involving the three clans, spread hidden Demonic Dao inheritances across the Primordial World, and recognized the Zhou Tian Star Array as an obstacle.
  • Hongjun told Yinyang and Qiankun that he intended to establish his own faction, rejected their appeals to restore their old friendship, and parted with them on bad terms.
  • Li Fan considered the risks of intervening in the calamity and the chance to obtain the Qiankun Cauldron, while Ziguang and Nuwa departed together for the Star Sky and Taiyin Star.
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