Chapter Summaries

Nuwa used the Heaven and Earth Cauldron Star to forge thousands of Houtian Spiritual Treasures, revealing that the stars could inherit the powers of their Innate Spiritual Treasure cores and help Lu Jun’s avatars learn Great Dao skills. Lu Jun asked Nuwa and Tai Yi to teach him artifact forging, made his first Houtian Spiritual Treasure, and was left considering how to produce the vast number of treasures he would need.

• Nuwa sent Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and other materials into the star containing the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, then used it to forge thousands of Houtian Spiritual Treasures.
• Lu Jun realized the stars could inherit their cores’ powers and that his avatar within the star had been learning Nuwa’s artifact-forging Great Dao.
• Lu Jun asked Nuwa to teach him artifact forging so he could make treasures himself, and Nuwa agreed to teach him with Tai Yi.
• Nuwa and Tai Yi demonstrated their methods, and Lu Jun used the Star Heaven and Earth Cauldron to forge a small sword that barely qualified as a Houtian Spiritual Treasure.
• Lu Jun wondered how he could meet his future demand for tens of thousands or more treasures when forging them one at a time was too slow.

Lu Jun proposed an assembly-line artifact-forging system using specialized stars, the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, and the Haotian Gourd to produce and improve Spiritual Treasures in batches. Tai Yi decided to enlist the Demon Race to operate it, and Lu Jun hinted he had an excessive way to persuade them to participate.

• Lu Jun sent newly forged Spiritual Treasures into the Haotian Gourd Star and discovered that its Dao Rhythm could gradually raise their grades.
• Lu Jun proposed assigning different stars specialized tasks, combining the processed materials in the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, and nurturing the finished treasures in the Haotian Gourd.
• Nuwa, Houtu, Zhen Yuanzi, and Tai Yi deduced the plan and agreed that the system was feasible and could greatly increase forging efficiency.
• Houtu suggested having Demon Race artifact forgers work at the stars, and Tai Yi resolved to make the Demon Race help Lu Jun.
• Zhen Yuanzi warned that an order from Tai Yi might not persuade skilled forgers to participate willingly, and Lu Jun offered a method he called excessive.

Lu Jun proposed charging Demon Race artifact refiners Spiritual Treasures to use Nuwa’s Heaven and Earth Cauldron, while Nuwa and Zhen Yuanzi explained why its ability to turn Postnatal treasures into Innate ones would attract countless cultivators. Nuwa revealed that the cauldron’s transformation had a limit and compared it to Lu Jun’s star-nurturing method.

• Lu Jun proposed that Nuwa spread word that the Heaven and Earth Cauldron was available beyond the heavens, with users paying one or two refined treasures as a usage fee.
• Nuwa, Tai Yi, Houtu, and Zhen Yuanzi agreed that the fee was reasonable because the cauldron’s ability to turn Postnatal treasures into Innate ones would make it highly sought after.
• Zhen Yuanzi explained that Grand Unity Golden Immortals would flock to the cauldron to create Innate Spiritual Treasures for Slaying the Three Corpses and advance to Quasi-Saint status.
• Lu Jun wondered whether the cauldron had a limit and whether refining the Five-Colored Stone to Mend the Heavens had damaged it.
• Nuwa explained that the cauldron’s Postnatal-to-Innate function was limited and simulated the conditions of Pangu creating Heaven and Earth.
• Nuwa compared the cauldron’s function to Lu Jun nurturing stars, whose Companion Spiritual Treasures could also become Innate.

Lu Jun and the others planned an assembly-line artifact-forging system across the stars, with the Heaven and Earth Cauldron and an Innate Gourd offered as hard-earned rewards to attract the Demon Race. Houtu attributed the gourd’s role to the Dao Ancestor’s foresight, and the group began assigning stars to stages of the process before Tai Yi raised the possibility of acquiring Ran Deng’s Human Lantern.

• Lu Jun learned that the Heaven and Earth Cauldron could gradually turn Houtian Spiritual Treasures into Innate ones as it grew, making casual use too costly.
• Tai Yi proposed charging for ordinary star-forging and granting the ten top contributors each Eon the right to use the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, while offering gourd access as a more widely available reward.
• Houtu reasoned that the Dao Ancestor had deliberately left the quality-raising gourd to support Lu Jun’s assembly-line forging, and the others accepted her explanation.
• Tai Yi and the others planned a stellar forging line, assigning stars to process materials, refine components, assemble finished treasures, and raise their grades with the Haotian Gourd Star.
• Tai Yi lamented that the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner and Human Lantern were missing from the plan, and Zhen Yuanzi objected that Randeng’s true body could not become Lu Jun’s Companion Spiritual Treasure.

Tai Yi went to Spirit Vulture Mountain Yuanjue Cave to ask Ran Deng for help with Lu Jun’s artifact-forging plans. Ran Deng, wary of the danger surrounding the Chan Sect but curious about Tai Yi’s proposal, followed him to the starry sky and found Houtu waiting there.

• Tai Yi decided to ask Ran Deng to help stabilize Lu Jun’s artifact-forging system, or at least lend his Heaven and Earth Ruler, and set out for the Western Lands.
• Ran Deng worried that the Earthly Dao Saints might target Chan Sect disciples over the Saints’ conflict and remained cautious in Yuanjue Cave.
• Tai Yi arrived at Yuanjue Cave and asked Ran Deng to accompany him to the starry sky to see a new prospect for the Prehistoric World.
• Ran Deng accepted Tai Yi’s invitation and followed him through space to the starry sky.
• Ran Deng arrived and saw Houtu waiting there, leaving him stunned.

Randeng feared that Tai Yi and the Saints had summoned him to seize his Human Lantern, but learned that they wanted to borrow its power for Lu Jun’s stellar artifact-forging array. Tai Yi revealed a second purpose involving Randeng’s Heaven and Earth Ruler, leaving Randeng startled by the request.

• Randeng surveyed the newborn stars and learned that the Seven Innate Gourds served as Star Cores in a mysterious array.
• Tai Yi pointed out that the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Talents Array lacked Randeng’s Human Lantern, making Randeng suspect they intended to kill him for it.
• Zhen Yuanzi reassured Randeng, and Tai Yi explained that Lu Jun was manifesting billions of Stellar Avatars and needed the Three Talents Array to forge companion treasures efficiently.
• Randeng accepted that Tai Yi wanted to borrow the Spirit Coffin Lamp’s origin light, then asked about Tai Yi’s secondary purpose.
• Tai Yi showed Randeng three stars containing the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, Heaven and Earth Diagram, and Heaven and Earth Fan, prompting Randeng to realize they wanted his Heaven and Earth Ruler.

Tai Yi asked Ran Deng to surrender the Heaven and Earth Ruler for the Demon Race’s Qiankun array, and Ran Deng reluctantly decided he needed to negotiate for more than treasures. He considered changing allegiance to the Underworld, but struggled to raise the idea as Tai Yi invited him to name any difficulty.

• Tai Yi explained that the Heaven and Earth Ruler would strengthen the Qiankun Four Symbols Array and offered Ran Deng an exchange.
• Ran Deng feared refusing Tai Yi and weighed the danger of losing his life and treasures, then decided he would not give up the ruler without gaining something valuable.
• Ran Deng considered joining the Demon Race but judged that it offered less security than his position in the Chan Sect.
• Ran Deng realized his Spirit Coffin Lamp could make him a suitable member of the Underworld and began considering a place under Houtu’s protection.
• Tai Yi noticed Ran Deng’s hesitation and asked him to state his difficulty, promising the Demon Race would help if it could.

Ran Deng claimed that his Spirit Coffin Lamp destined him to serve Reincarnation and sought a place in Houtu’s Underworld, while Lu Jun recognized his attempt to change patrons. The chapter ended with Lu Jun publicly questioning Ran Deng’s true form, leaving the gathered powers stunned.

• Ran Deng manifested the Spirit Coffin Lamp and declared that its Nether Ghostfire had revealed his mission to guide souls through Reincarnation.
• Tai Yi, Nuwa, Houtu, and Zhen Yuanzi considered Ran Deng’s proposal to leave the Chan Sect and enter the Underworld.
• Lu Jun recognized that Ran Deng wanted a powerful new patron and hoped to use the Heaven and Earth Ruler dispute to secure a position in Reincarnation.
• Lu Jun asked Ran Deng why he claimed to have transformed from the Spirit Coffin Lamp when his true form was clearly the Spirit Coffin, shocking everyone present.

Lu Jun exposed Ran Deng’s hidden origins as a Spirit Coffin Body, prompting Houtu to reject his request to enter Reincarnation and threaten to reveal his deception to Yuanshi. Ran Deng tried to learn how Lu Jun uncovered the secret, but Lu Jun only gave him a mysterious answer.

• Lu Jun accused Ran Deng of disguising his true body as the Spirit Coffin Lamp, and the Saints found evidence supporting the claim.
• Ran Deng denied the accusation, but Lu Jun warned Houtu that Ran Deng’s concealed origins made him unfit to enter Reincarnation.
• Ran Deng rebuked Lu Jun, so Houtu used her Saintly pressure to silence him and confirmed that Lu Jun’s words were true.
• Houtu and Nuwa threatened to tell Yuanshi that Ran Deng had deceived him, and Ran Deng realized Yuanshi did not know his secret.
• Ran Deng asked Lu Jun how he had discovered the truth, and Lu Jun replied that he had only been asking casually.

Randeng revealed how he had used the Spirit Coffin Lamp to conceal his true body from even Saints, while Houtu concluded his origin was deeply suited to Reincarnation. The chapter ended with Houtu regretting that Randeng might have been destined to become a Saint of Reincarnation.

• Houtu explained that Lu Jun could uncover Randeng’s origin because he had advanced far along the path of Manifesting Billions of Avatars and All Selves United.
• Randeng admitted his true body was an Innate Spirit Coffin and explained that he had used the Spirit Coffin Lamp’s light and Dao Rhythm to draw attention away from it.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Nuwa praised Randeng’s method of using the lamp’s brilliance to conceal the stillness of the coffin.
• Houtu realized that the Spirit Coffin Lamp and Randeng’s true body both fit the Dao of Reincarnation, guiding souls and laying the dead to rest.
• Houtu said Randeng might have been meant to become the Saint of Reincarnation, leaving everyone shocked.

Houtu revealed that Ran Deng might have become a Saint through reincarnation, but his choices had cut him off from that opportunity. Lu Jun then asked whom Ran Deng’s Spirit Coffin had originally buried, leaving Ran Deng and the gathered powers stunned.

• Houtu explained that Ran Deng’s Great Dao had once led toward reincarnation and that he had missed his chance to become a Saint by joining the Chan Sect.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Nuwa, and Tai Yi reflected on the many possible paths to Sainthood and Ran Deng’s lost opportunity.
• Lu Jun wondered whether Ran Deng’s Spirit Coffin had belonged to a buried Chaos Demon God or another mysterious being.
• Ran Deng struggled with regret over his lost opportunity and braced himself to hear Lu Jun’s next question.
• Lu Jun asked Ran Deng whom his Spirit Coffin had originally buried, shocking everyone present.

Lu Jun’s questions made Ran Deng fear that his Spirit Coffin had once contained an unknown being, so he agreed to let Houtu investigate in exchange for an underworld post. Houtu claimed his Heaven and Earth Ruler and Spirit Coffin Lamp, then Ran Deng revealed his true form, whose mysterious Dao Patterns shocked Nuwa and Zhen Yuanzi.

• Lu Jun argued that Ran Deng’s Spirit Coffin Lamp proved the coffin had once served a purpose, and Ran Deng found no memories or traces inside his true form.
• Houtu and Nuwa offered to examine the Spirit Coffin, and Ran Deng asked Houtu for an underworld post in return for her protection.
• Houtu agreed on the condition that Ran Deng give the Heaven and Earth Ruler to the Sixth Prince and leave the Spirit Coffin Lamp behind for the Three Talents artifact-forging array.
• Ran Deng accepted Houtu’s decree and revealed his true form as an ancient Spirit Coffin.
• Nuwa and Zhen Yuanzi examined the coffin’s incomprehensible Dao Patterns and concluded that they surpassed ordinary Spiritual Treasure patterns.

After the Saints found Ran Deng’s Spirit Coffin completely empty, Houtu appointed him as the Netherworld’s Heavenly Venerate of Guidance, and he handed Lu Jun two Innate Spiritual Treasures. Lu Jun used them to complete two formations, greatly improving their artifact-forging power, and began considering how to accelerate the Haotian Gourd.

• Houtu and Nuwa confirmed that Ran Deng’s Spirit Coffin held no trace of anything ever inside it, leaving Ran Deng and the others puzzled about its purpose.
• Lu Jun wondered whether the Spirit Coffin was a symbolic memorial for Great God Pangu, though he had no evidence for the idea.
• Houtu appointed Ran Deng as the Netherworld’s Heavenly Venerate of Guidance and tasked him with guiding departed souls into the Reincarnation Passage.
• Ran Deng gave Lu Jun the Heaven and Earth Ruler and the Spirit Coffin Lamp, and Lu Jun accepted both treasures.
• Lu Jun added the Heaven and Earth Ruler to the Heaven and Earth Array, boosting the Heaven and Earth Cauldron’s forging efficiency.
• Lu Jun added the Spirit Coffin Lamp to the Three Talents Array, balancing its flames and improving material refining, then considered how to speed up the Haotian Gourd.

Lu Jun asked Nuwa and Houtu to combine the power of the seven Innate Gourds, producing thousands of Spiritual Treasures that occupied his Star Embryos and accelerated their evolution. As the stars devoured Chaos Qi, Houtu speculated that Lu Jun’s growing world might let him and even the Ancestral Witches overcome Pangu’s axe in the River of Time.

• Lu Jun asked Nuwa and Houtu to gather the seven Innate Gourds’ origin power into the Haotian Gourd, and the two Saints rearranged the Seven Star Grand Formation.
• The completed Spiritual Treasures poured from the gourds, and Lu Jun sent ten thousand of them into unoccupied Star Embryos.
• The Star Embryos began devouring Chaos Qi on a vast scale, astonishing Lamp Kindling Daoist, Zhen Yuanzi, and Nuwa.
• Houtu reasoned that Lu Jun’s expanding Great Desolation World could make Pangu spare him when he entered the River of Time.
• Houtu concluded that the Ancestral Witches might likewise establish the Underworld on a vast scale to win a chance to pass Pangu’s axe.

Lu Jun's star domain devoured Chaos Qi, grew countless Star Divine Beings, and began nourishing the Great Desolation World. As the Three Pure Ones set out to investigate, Hongjun recognized that Lu Jun had found a way to create Postnatal Innate Divine Beings and praised the method.

• Lu Jun's Star Eggs absorbed Chaos Qi, grew into powerful stars, and sent pure Star Power and Innate Spiritual Qi into the Great Desolation World.
• Di Jun sensed Lu Jun's advancement and rejoiced, while regretting that Houtu had provided the treasures that enabled it.
• The Three Pure Ones learned that Houtu and Nuwa were helping someone evolve stars using the Thirteen Innate Spiritual Treasures they had compensated Houtu with.
• Yuanshi persuaded Laozi and Tongtian to investigate the star domain before opening their Dao Field above the Thirty-three Heavens, and the three set out for the boundary of Chaos.
• Hongjun observed Lu Jun's star domain and concluded that Lu Jun had created a method for cultivating Postnatal Innate Divine Beings.

Hongjun decided that Lu Jun’s avatar method could help expand the Great Desolation World, and considered reclaiming scattered Innate Spiritual Treasures through a coming calamity. At the Chaos border, the Three Pure Ones discovered that Lu Jun was nurturing ten thousand and eighty star-based avatars, each with a Spiritual Treasure and the potential to become a Quasi-Saint.

• Hongjun judged Lu Jun’s method more useful to the Great Desolation World than the Three Corpses path and considered reclaiming Spiritual Treasures from their holders.
• Hongjun brought out the Investiture of the Gods and planned to collect the True Spirits of those whose treasures he took, then began considering how to trigger a Spiritual Treasure Calamity.
• The Three Pure Ones arrived at the Chaos border and questioned Houtu and the others about the powerful fluctuations from the evolving stars.
• Tai Yi explained that Lu Jun’s Path of Incarnating Billions divided his Primordial Spirit among stars and Spiritual Treasures as they grew with the Great Desolation Starry Sky.
• Laozi realized that Lu Jun’s ten thousand and eighty star-based avatars might each mature into Quasi-Saints.

Laozi and Primeval Lord of Heaven were stunned by Lu Jun’s star domain, and Yuanshi realized the Three Pure Ones could use its method of gradual growth to open a living Heaven and Earth. He proposed a cycle that would use their Heaven-Opening Merit to begin the process and the merit returned by the expanding world to sustain it.

• Laozi rejected the idea that Lu Jun’s star domain could produce more than ten thousand Quasi-Saints, but recognized its extraordinary potential.
• Primeval Lord of Heaven observed the stars devouring Chaos Qi and suggested that the Three Pure Ones learn from Lu Jun’s method of opening heaven.
• Yuanshi proposed using Pangu Banner to continuously split Chaos while Laozi stabilized the new Heaven and Earth with the Taiji Diagram.
• Yuanshi explained that their Heaven-Opening Merit could ignite the process, while merit returned by the growing world could sustain its expansion.
• Laozi and Tongtian were astonished as Yuanshi described creating a living Heaven and Earth that would grow until they stopped or their merit ran out.

The Three Pure Ones agreed to use their Heaven-Opening Merit and supreme treasures to expand the Prehistoric World into Chaos, despite the sacrifices involved. They then decided to repay Lu Jun for inspiring their plan, and Tongtian proposed teaching him the Myriad Immortals Array.

• Laozi identified the loss of the Pangu Banner and Taiji Diagram as a major obstacle to Yuanshi’s plan to create and stabilize a new heaven and earth.
• Yuanshi resolved to sacrifice the Pangu Banner for the sake of continuing Pangu’s work and strengthening the Prehistoric World.
• Laozi agreed to join the plan, and Tongtian said the Three Pure Ones owed Lu Jun a debt for inspiring them.
• Laozi offered to teach Lu Jun artifact-forging methods to repay that debt.
• Tongtian proposed teaching Lu Jun the Myriad Immortals Array, which could unite his ten thousand eight hundred incarnations and draw power from the Stars of the Heavens.

Tongtian taught Lu Jun the Myriad Immortals Array and helped him organize his ten thousand eight hundred stars into a unified formation. As the array strengthened the Star Domain and the Great Desolation World began extending into Chaos to support it, Laozi noticed a problem and quietly asked Primeval Lord of Heaven about it.

• Tongtian offered to teach Lu Jun the Myriad Immortals Array, explaining that its many coordinated units suited Lu Jun’s ten thousand eight hundred star incarnations.
• Tongtian passed the array’s inheritance to Lu Jun and guided him in arranging the Star Embryos and their energy paths.
• Lu Jun used the system to form the Myriad Immortals Array, making the Star Domain more orderly and greatly increasing its ability to devour and refine Chaos Qi.
• Nuwa, Houtu, and Tai Yi praised the array, while Lu Jun recognized that it would strengthen his incarnations and their future cultivation.
• The Great Desolation World’s barrier advanced slightly into Chaos to supply the growing Star Domain, and Laozi quietly asked Primeval Lord of Heaven whether he had noticed a problem.

Lu Jun completed the Myriad Immortals Array with Tongtian’s guidance, while Laozi and Primeval Lord of Heaven were puzzled that his world-expanding feat earned no merit. Tongtian then asked Lu Jun to join the Severing Sect as an Outer Disciple, leaving the gathered powers to weigh the consequences.

• Laozi pointed out that no Heavenly Dao, Earthly Dao, or Heaven-Opening Merit had appeared after Lu Jun expanded the starry sky, and Primeval Lord of Heaven was shocked.
• Laozi and Primeval Lord of Heaven agreed not to investigate the missing merit or spread word of it.
• Lu Jun completed the final adjustment to the Myriad Immortals Array, which stabilized and began operating on its own.
• Tongtian recalled that Lu Jun’s Nirvana had once made him consider taking the Crown Prince as a disciple, and he invited Lu Jun to join the Severing Sect as an Outer Disciple.
• Laozi, Primeval Lord of Heaven, and Empress Nuwa considered the risks and benefits of Lu Jun joining the Severing Sect.