Chapter Summaries

After returning from Hongjun’s sermon, Lu Yang learned that a twenty-fourth-grade Creation Green Lotus would emerge on Kunlun Mountain and sent Panhu toward it. The Three Pure Ones found the lotus first and began dividing it according to Heavenly Mandate.

• The divine beings returned from Hongjun’s sermon, and the Witch Clan’s expansion across Buzhou Mountain deepened tensions with the Demon Clan.
• Lu Yang calculated that a great fortune tied to the Pangu Orthodox Lineage would emerge from Kunlun Mountain in eight hundred years, and he identified it as the Creation Green Lotus.
• The Three Pure Ones sensed a fortune tied to them, returned to Kunlun Mountain, and waited near a hidden Primordial Great Array.
• The array revealed a pool of Three Lights Divine Water containing a twenty-fourth-grade Creation Green Lotus, which the Three Pure Ones recognized as an Innate Supreme Treasure destined to divide.
• Taiqing, Yuanshi, and Tongtian combined their divine lightning to break the lotus’s Creation Divine Light, then used their respective Immortal Lights to make the lotus begin dividing.

Panhu joined the Three Pure Ones as the Creation Green Lotus differentiated, gaining the Ancestral Witch Axe and a connection to their Fortune. Hongjun then trapped Panhu in an Azure Heaven Domain, hoping to lead him to destruction, while Lu Yang used the domain to comprehend Laws; Panhu followed a road toward the Great Dao of Strength as Laws gathered around him.

• Panhu arrived as the Creation Green Lotus differentiated, and his blood energy joined the Three Pure Ones’ immortal light in shaping its treasures.
• The Three Pure Ones received the Coiled Dragon Crutch, Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and Green Ping Sword, while the lotus’s root and stem strengthened Panhu’s axe, which he named the Ancestral Witch Axe.
• Panhu’s Fortune became initially connected to the Three Pure Ones, who left Kunlun Mountain displeased and later discussed severing the connection.
• Hongjun saw the change in Fortune, suspected Pangu was behind Panhu’s appearance, and planned to bring about Panhu’s destruction.
• After Panhu left Kunlun Mountain, Hongjun used the Power of Heavenly Dao to construct an Azure Heaven Domain around him, which also let Lu Yang rapidly comprehend thousands of Laws.
• Panhu sensed the Great Dao of Strength, stepped onto a purple-red road leading toward it, and found that many Laws enveloped him.

Panhu survived Hongjun’s Azure Heaven Domain, gained the Heaven-Opening Axe Spirit and its power, and shattered all forty-nine layers of the domain’s barrier. Hongjun’s scheme failed, leaving Panhu stronger and Hongjun brooding over whether Pangu had long planned events against him.

• Hongjun watched as Panhu crossed the Law-filled path, but Panhu gained each corresponding Law instead of being devoured, reaching the Great Dao of Strength and discovering the Heaven-Opening Axe Spirit.
• Panhu merged the Heaven-Opening Axe Spirit into the Ancestral Witch Axe, greatly increasing its power, while Hongjun suspected that Pangu had orchestrated the events and suppressed his rage at Panhu’s thanks.
• Panhu repeatedly struck the Azure Heaven Domain’s barriers, recovering his mana between assaults and gradually breaking through all forty-nine layers.
• Panhu shattered the final barrier and collapsed the Azure Heaven Domain; the Heavenly Dao awarded Merit to both Panhu and Hongjun, though Panhu received more.
• Hongjun returned to Jade Capital Mountain, dismissed Haotian, and began reconsidering his failed scheme and the suspicions it had raised.

Hongjun forged a Low-grade Merit Spiritual Treasure for Haotian, then watched the Sun Star while considering his plans to integrate with the Dao and draw out Pangu. Haotian named the sword the Jade Capital Sword and left Jade Capital Mountain, witnessing the brutal struggle for survival across the Primordial World.

• Hongjun forged a sword from Innate Divine Iron, infused it with the Law of Gold and his limited Merit, and bestowed the resulting Low-grade Merit Spiritual Treasure on Haotian.
• Hongjun traveled to the Heavenly Realm and settled on an Archaic Star, where he watched the Sun Star and resolved not to act against the possible presence of Pangu within it.
• Lu Yang observed that Hongjun’s plans to integrate with the Dao threatened Heavenly Dao’s impartiality, though Hongjun lacked the Fortune needed to do so.
• Haotian refined the sword, named it the Jade Capital Sword, and left Jade Capital Mountain for the Eastern Sea.
• Haotian watched a Grand Unity-level ancient tree kill a Golden Immortal-level strange beast after it had slain a weaker opponent, then saw further conflicts across Kunlun and the Primordial Great Earth.

Lu Ya watched Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng hatch, then left Black Bird to train the Phoenix Clan princes. As Lu Yang prepared more Golden Crow avatars, East King Duke’s campaign against the Dragon Clan erupted into a major battle in the Eastern Sea.

• Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng hatched at the Immortal Volcano, and the Great Peng emerged with the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle as his natal treasure.
• The Great Peng attacked Lu Ya and Black Bird with his bottle, but Black Bird subdued both princes with her Grand Unity Golden Immortal aura and began disciplining them.
• Black Bird taught Kong Xuan and the Great Peng cultivation techniques, and both reached True Immortal cultivation in less than a hundred years.
• Lu Yang watched his sleeping Golden Crow avatars grow stronger, created several more, and planned to make three thousand of them.
• East King Duke led the Purple Mansion immortals against the Dragon Clan to capture five more Grand Unity-level True Dragons for his Nine Dragon Chariot, and a vast battle began in the Eastern Sea.

East King Duke defeated the Dragon Clan and paraded nine bound Innate True Dragons in his completed Nine Dragon Chariot, enraging Candle Dragon, who chose to endure and cultivate. Meanwhile, more than a dozen Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulations gathered over Huoyun Mountain, threatening Hongyun and the beings he had helped assume human form.

• East King Duke used Scatter Beans to Create Soldiers and his immortal-light domain to crush the Dragon Clan forces, killing or capturing most of their army.
• Haotian watched the Dragon Clan’s defeat from the Eastern Sea and considered leaving the clan, while East King Duke completed his Nine Dragon Chariot with nine restrained Innate True Dragons.
• Candle Dragon suppressed his fury at East King Duke’s procession and returned to cultivating beneath the sea rather than expose Haotian or seek revenge.
• Hongjun saw the Nine Dragon Chariot, then left the Primordial World for Purple Sky Heaven while leaving an avatar behind.
• Yuanshi noticed more than a dozen Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulations over Huoyun Mountain but could not see through its protective array.
• Hongyun realized that the beings he had helped assume human form, along with himself, had been targeted by the tribulations after their expected Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulations became Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulations.

Hongyun tried to help more than a dozen beings undergo their Heavenly Tribulations, but Panhu secretly transformed them into a linked Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation that nearly killed him. After confirming that Hongyun possessed hidden Pangu Bloodline, Panhu began calculating in secret, while the battered Hongyun survived the ordeal.

• Hongyun used the Innate Xu Earth Great Array to shelter the beings and faced the linked Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulations with his Mystic Turtle Shield.
• Hongyun endured wave after wave of lightning, replenishing his Magic Power with pills until the useful ones ran out.
• Hongyun let the array absorb some of the lightning, but it eventually shattered, leaving the beings inside severely injured and their treasures damaged.
• Panhu watched from above the Tribulation Clouds and used a Heavenly Dao Mark to alter the Tribulations and draw out Hongyun's natal essence blood.
• Panhu analyzed Hongyun's essence blood, confirmed his hidden Pangu Bloodline, and began calculating in secret.
• The Tribulation Clouds dispersed, and Hongyun fell to the ground charred and barely alive after nearly suffering Death and Dao Annihilation.

Panhu helped Hongyun awaken the Pangu Bloodline hidden within him, leaving Hongyun with the aura and strength of a Lesser Witch but undecided about joining the Witch Clan. Hongjun learned of Hongyun’s bloodline and grew wary, then his incarnation saw a streak of sword qi.

• Hongyun recovered in Huoyun Cave with Zhenyuanzi when Panhu arrived and said Hongyun was fated with the Witch Clan.
• Panhu explained that Hongyun possessed hidden Pangu Bloodline and offered to help awaken it, and Hongyun agreed.
• Panhu used his blood and vitality to awaken Hongyun’s Pangu Bloodline over several months, while Zhenyuanzi gave Panhu a Ginseng Fruit.
• Hongyun awakened his bloodline at the level of a Lesser Witch, thanked Panhu, and remained unsure whether to join the Witch Clan after Panhu departed.
• Hongjun discovered that Hongyun had awakened Pangu Bloodline and considered him a threat, then noticed a streak of sword qi through his incarnation in the Primordial Heaven Realm.

Di Jun exchanged the Absolute Immortal Sword for the Immortal Slaying Sword, advancing Lu Yang’s plans to reunite the sword treasures. Hongjun then traveled to Kunlun Mountain to recruit the Three Pure Ones as disciples, but first claimed an ownerless treasure; the chapter ended with Taishang refining a Seven-Revolutions Golden Elixir.

• Di Jun offered the Absolute Immortal Sword to Hongjun and received the Immortal Slaying Sword in exchange.
• Lu Yang gathered the Immortal Slaying Sword, Slaughtering Immortal Sword, Trapping Immortal Sword, and Immortal Slaying Sword Formation Diagram, while the Ancestral Witches discussed Di Jun’s trade and Hongyun’s Pangu Bloodline.
• Hongjun decided to take the Three Pure Ones as disciples in private and traveled to Kunlun Mountain.
• Hongjun discovered and broke a Primordial Great Array, claimed the Mid-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure Mountain Breaking Hammer, and continued toward Jade Void Palace.
• Taishang refined a Seven-Revolutions Golden Elixir in Taiqing Hall using the Eight Trigrams Alchemy Furnace Lu Ya had given him.

Hongjun visited Jade Void Palace and offered to take the Three Pure Ones as disciples, but Taishang rejected him on the grounds of their Pangu origins. Lu Yang watched the meeting and considered how the Three Pure Ones’ Fortune might affect Hongjun’s plans; Hongjun then prepared to reveal that Pangu had revived.

• Taishang sensed Hongjun’s arrival while refining a Seven-Revolutions Golden Elixir and sent Yuanshi and Tongtian to welcome him.
• Hongjun privately asked Yuanshi and Tongtian to become his disciples, but they deferred the decision to Taishang.
• Taishang joined them and refused Hongjun’s offer, saying that the Three Pure Ones were Pangu and did not need to acknowledge a master.
• Lu Yang observed the meeting through the Sun Totem and concluded that Hongjun sought to use the Three Pure Ones’ Fortune to support his merger with the Dao.
• Hongjun began to tell the Three Pure Ones that Pangu had revived, intending to persuade them to enter his sect.

Hongjun explained Pangu’s revival and the Hunyuan Dao to the Three Pure Ones, who accepted him as their master and received guidance at Jade Void Palace. After returning to Zixiao Heaven, Hongjun watched the Primordial World and destroyed a massive Chaos Primordial Stone before it could devastate his realm.

• Hongjun told the Three Pure Ones that Pangu had revived and explained the power of Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortals, convincing them that his claim was likely true.
• Taishang, Yuanshi, and Tongtian became Hongjun’s disciples, and Hongjun answered their cultivation questions before leaving Jade Void Palace.
• Lu Yang followed the Three Pure Ones’ Fortune in an attempt to investigate Hongjun, but Heavenly Dao blocked his search.
• Hongjun returned to his main body in Zixiao Palace, reflected on Pangu and the Chaos Golden Crow, and sensed a huge Chaos Primordial Stone approaching.
• Hongjun used a magic-power vortex to break down the stone’s fragments and transform them into Innate Spiritual Qi, slightly accelerating Zixiao Heaven’s growth.

Shangqing defied Yuanshi and told Dijiang that Pangu had revived and might reclaim the Pangu bloodline. Dijiang summoned the other Ancestral Witches to discuss the news, while Lu Yang knew the supposed revival referred to him and that Pangu’s True Spirit might already be gone.

• Shangqing rejected Yuanshi’s objections, left Jade Void Palace, and traveled to the Dijiang tribe while Taishang let him go.
• Dijiang welcomed Shangqing into a secret chamber, where Shangqing said Pangu had revived before Hongjun became a Saint and possessed at least Immeasurable Calamity-level mana.
• Dijiang worried that Pangu might reclaim the Witch Clan’s bloodline and decided to contact the other Ancestral Witches.
• Lu Yang watched Shangqing visit Dijiang and believed Hongjun had mistaken him for Pangu, whose True Spirit was likely extinguished.
• Dijiang gathered the Thirteen Ancestral Witches in the Witch Realm and told them Shangqing’s news, leaving them stunned.

Gonggong and Zhurong fought over whether to resist Pangu’s possible return, forcing Panhu and Di Jiang to intervene. Meanwhile, six Reincarnation Masters emerged from the Six Paths of Reincarnation as Lu Yang’s concealed avatars, leaving Minghe wary of their power.

• After Di Jiang revealed that Pangu had revived, Gonggong and Zhurong argued and fought with their Blood Essence Avatars in the Witch Realm.
• Houtu and Xuanming went offline to stop the brothers, but discovered that Gonggong and Zhurong had already left their tribes to fight in person.
• Gonggong and Zhurong battled for more than half a day, destroying much of a mountain range before Panhu separated them and Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches arrived.
• On Kunlun Mountain, Yuanshi criticized Tongtian for revealing Pangu’s revival to the Witch Clan, and Tongtian defended his actions while Taishang stayed out of the argument.
• The Six Paths of Reincarnation appeared beneath Yin Mountain, and six Reincarnation Masters emerged as Lu Yang’s disguised avatars.
• Minghe’s Blood God Sons approached the Asura Path but were blocked, and the Asura Path Master’s gaze made Minghe fear that he could not claim the Blood Sea as an external avatar.

The Six Samsara Rulers copied the Primordial World’s records into the Book of Life and Death and reforged Naihe Gui as its reincarnation-powered pen. Hongjun concluded that the rulers embodied his will, while the Ancestral Witches confronted them and a battle began with Xuanming’s arrow blocked by Naihe Gui.

• The Six Samsara Rulers used the Power of Reincarnation to connect the Book of Life and Death to the Heavenly Dao Rules and copy information about living beings.
• The Asura Path Master drew Naihe Gui from the Blood Sea, and the Six Great Masters reforged it into a High-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasure.
• Hongjun observed the Six Great Masters and concluded that they were formed from the portion of his will left in reincarnation.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches arrived, demanded that the Six Samsara Rulers submit and surrender strands of their primordial spirits, and prepared to fight when they refused.
• Xuanming fired a bone arrow at the Heavenly Dao Master, and he blocked it with Naihe Gui.

The Six Great Masters defeated the Thirteen Ancestral Witches’ attempt to seize reincarnation, and Hongjun’s Zixiao Talisman recognized them as Lords of Reincarnation. The Beast Path Master enforced the reincarnation rules by killing a Grand Unity Golden Immortal who defied him, while the Three Pure Ones departed for Hongjun’s second Dao exposition.

• The Six Great Masters injured several Ancestral Witches, and Hongjun’s Zixiao Talisman intervened and declared the Ruler of the Six Paths the Lord of Reincarnation.
• Panhu led the Thirteen Ancestral Witches out of reincarnation, while the Three Pure Ones concluded that the Witch Clan would likely challenge the six deities again.
• The Beast Path Master refused a beast-headed divine being’s demand to reincarnate his friend’s soul immediately, explaining that reincarnation rules required them to wait.
• The beast-headed divine being attacked the Beast Path Master, who shattered his weapon and killed him with a sword formed from the Power of Reincarnation.
• The Beast Path Master sent the attacker and his friend’s soul to wait as wandering ghosts on Yin Mountain.
• The Three Pure Ones traveled to the Purple Firmament Palace for Hongjun’s second exposition of the Dao, while the Witch Clan stayed away.

At Purple Firmament Palace, Hongjun taught the Dao of Grand Unity and Quasi-Saints, and Xihe slew her Good Corpse, deepening her conflict with Wangshu. Meanwhile, the Witch Clan launched an attack on the Heavenly Court and a campaign against demons across the great earth, though their plan was seen through and a little deer demon escaped by chance.

• More than thirty thousand listeners gathered at Purple Firmament Palace, where Hongjun began his second lecture on the Dao of Grand Unity and Quasi-Saints.
• Hongjun taught Slaying the Three Corpses, and Xihe used an Innate Spiritual Treasure to slay her Good Corpse, while Wangshu watched with resentment.
• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches decided to send Jumang and Qiangliang against the Heavenly Court while the other eleven led forces to attack demons across the great earth.
• Jumang and Qiangliang led their forces toward Buzhou Mountain, while the Heavenly Court and Hongjun's Avatar saw through the Witch Clan's plan.
• A lesser witch pursued a little deer demon, but she escaped when he chose the wrong of two paths.

Hongjun appointed Qing Tong and Tian Yao as the Mystic Gate’s Heads of Male and Female Immortals, making them its Progenitors. After East King Duke tried to require immortals throughout the Primordial World to register with him, Donghuang Taiyi challenged him and quickly overwhelmed him, while Hongjun remained absent.

• Hongjun named Qing Tong the Head of Male Immortals and Tian Yao the Head of Female Immortals beneath his Mystic Gate, giving each a Zixiao Talisman.
• West Queen Mother worried that she and East King Duke would become pieces in the Mystic Gate’s expansion, while East King Duke imagined ruling the Three Realms.
• After leaving Purple Firmament Palace, East King Duke ordered male immortals to register at Purple Mansion Continent and required newly ascended immortals to pass his assessment for a Xuanmen Document.
• Donghuang Taiyi openly scorned East King Duke’s demands, and East King Duke invoked Hongjun’s authority before attacking him.
• Donghuang Taiyi used Sun Divine Light and Great Sun Golden Flame to defeat East King Duke’s treasures and abilities, setting his clothes ablaze as the assembled divine beings watched.

After East King Duke was humiliated by Donghuang Taiyi, he returned to Purple Mansion Continent and sought to strengthen his faction by pressuring the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan. Chiwen defended Dragon Clan immortals who refused to bow to East King Duke, but the fighting left him expecting a larger attack and considering abandoning his cave dwelling.

• East King Duke left Purple Empyrean Heaven after Donghuang Taiyi defeated him, while the Three Pure Ones discussed the growing challenges facing the Mystic Gate.
• East King Duke returned to Purple Mansion Continent, vowed revenge on Donghuang Taiyi, and considered allying with the Witch Clan before turning his attention to the Dragon Clan.
• Chiwen told several dozen Flood Dragons that the immortal cultivators under his protection did not have to go to Purple Mansion Continent and bow to East King Duke.
• Six Purple Mansion Immortals confronted Chiwen, who fought them and broke their sword formation with Heavenly Water Thunder.
• Chiwen killed four of the Purple Mansion Immortals and drove off the two injured survivors, then concluded that stronger enemies would come and considered abandoning his cave dwelling.

Dragon Son Chiwen sought refuge with Haotian on Nine Dragon Island, prompting East King Duke to pursue an alliance with the Witch Clan. After the Witch Clan rejected him, he formed alliances with other groups hostile to the Heavenly Court, and Xuantian went to alert the Heavenly Emperor.

• Chiwen arrived at Nine Dragon Island with more than a hundred thousand followers and joined Haotian as one of his divine generals.
• East King Duke saw Chiwen join Haotian and traveled to the Dijiang tribe to seek an alliance with the Witch Clan.
• Panhu and Dijiang rejected East King Duke's proposal, and Panhu drove him away with a display of the Ancestral Witch Axe.
• East King Duke visited Gonggong and other Ancestral Witch tribes, but none agreed to ally with him, so he formed alliances with several other races hostile to the Heavenly Court.
• A supervisory Heavenly Official told Xuantian about East King Duke's visits, and Xuantian set off to report the matter to the Heavenly Emperor.

Maha realized Lu Yang's Cosmic Stars Great Array had been completed as Di Jun activated it with the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler, strengthening the Heavenly Court and drawing Hongjun's attention. Alarmed by the array, the Ancestral Witch Avatars agreed to Panhu's risky proposal, though its details were not revealed.

• Maha recognized that the Cosmic Stars Great Array was complete, while the Monster Race finished forging its Star Banners and assigned Golden Crow Talismans to their controllers.
• Di Jun activated the array with the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler, which used Primordial Qi to draw in Outer Chaos Qi and transform it into Innate Spiritual Qi.
• Hongjun discovered the array and Di Jun's treasure, then considered how to balance the Witch and Monster races while planning to control Heavenly Dao.
• The Ancestral Witch Avatars witnessed the array's power and realized they could not contend with it unless they condensed the Pangu True Body.
• Panhu proposed a risky plan, and after Gonggong, Zhurong, Jumang, and the others supported it, Dijiang and Houtu also agreed.