Chapter Summaries

Zhuzhao and Youying entered the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to help bring about Rahu’s defeat, while Lu Yang watched Hongjun and planned for what would follow. In the chaos, Hunwu devoured Jie Tan and absorbed his power to accelerate the growth of the Golden Crow Universe.

• Pan Hu identified Zhuzhao and Youying as the Two Forms Two Sages, and the Ancestral Witches learned their names.
• Zhuzhao and Youying entered the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and announced that they had come to bring Rahu’s tribulation.
• Zhuzhao and Youying unleashed black and white flames against Rahu, whose defeat seemed near as Lu Yang kept watch on Hongjun and considered the consequences of his becoming a Saint.
• Hunwu found Primordial Origin Energy in the chaos and swallowed Jie Tan, a Dragon Clan Grand Unity expert, absorbing him into the Golden Crow Universe.

Hun Wu developed his Golden Crow Universe into a multiverse, while Lu Yang observed the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity nearing its end. Rahu sacrificed the Myriad Demon Pagoda to strengthen the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, but Zhuzhao and Youying revealed overwhelming mana as they attacked him.

• Hun Wu generated a Parallel Universe, opened passages between the two universes, and later created a second Parallel Universe within his body.
• Lu Yang sensed Hun Wu's progress and planned to create more Chaos Golden Crows once the multiverse grew into a Low-level Hunyuan World.
• Rahu detonated the Myriad Demon Pagoda and sacrificed its Demon Clan inhabitants, strengthening the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and crippling the Innate Five Directions Banners.
• Rahu began merging with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, but Hongjun struck the black lotus with the Pangu Banner and briefly interrupted the process.
• Rahu used Hongjun's Power of Creation to aid his Unity of Person and Formation, while Lu Ya protected himself with the Mysterious Yellow Pagoda.
• Zhuzhao and Youying joined forces and unleashed mana exceeding a hundred million Calamities each, stunning Rahu before their Two Forms Divine Fire seized him.

Rahu’s Unity of Person and Formation strengthened the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, but Zhuzhao and Youying still overwhelmed him with their Divine Fire. As Rahu’s power surged, he targeted Hongjun, who revealed his Three Corpses to defend himself but ended the chapter with two destroyed and the last badly wounded.

• Zhuzhao and Youying’s Divine Fire Great Hand shattered Rahu’s Chaos Sword Qi and blasted apart his True Body, but his Primordial Spirit Black Lotus restored it and deepened his Unity of Person and Formation.
• Rahu condensed hundreds of millions of strands of sword qi into Chaos Sword Qi as the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation’s power flowed into him.
• Rahu ignored Zhuzhao, Youying, and the wounded great powers and launched a frenzied attack on Hongjun.
• Hongjun revealed his Three Corpses—Biluo, Mountains and Seas, and Yellow Spring—and had them use the Pangu Banner against Rahu’s sword qi.
• Rahu’s attack destroyed Biluo and Yellow Spring and severely wounded Mountains and Seas, while Hongjun dodged the remaining sword qi and God-Slaying Spear.
• Hongjun drew the incapacitated Mountains and Seas into his Mud Pill Palace as Rahu continued to pursue him.

Rahu defeated Hongjun’s apparent true body, but Hongjun survived by hiding underground and gnawing at the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation’s foundation. After the formation broke and Rahu suffered severe backlash, Heavenly Punishment descended, leaving his death certain as he wondered who had exposed his plans.

• Rahu’s Chaos Sword Qi forced Hongjun into his enormous Innate Earthworm form, and Rahu struck the body down while Hongjun’s Primordial Spirit vanished.
• First Kirin self-detonated, and his death caused the Kirin Divine Statue and Innate Five Elements Domain beneath Buzhou Mountain to crumble.
• Maha realized Hongjun had concealed himself in the earth veins and was weakening the formation’s foundation, but he kept the discovery from Rahu.
• Hongjun emerged from underground as Rahu suffered backlash, and Hongjun, Zhuzhao, Youying, and Di Jun removed the four swords and broke the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• The Eye of the Firmament appeared and brought Heavenly Punishment upon the injured Rahu, who realized Hongjun had not exposed his plans and wondered who had.

Lu Yang erased the imprints in three of Rahu’s swords, and Heavenly Punishment killed Rahu, leaving the surviving treasures to be fought over. Panhou led the Thirteen Ancestral Witches in forming the All-Heavenly Divine Fiend Great Array and summoning the Pangu True Body, whose appearance terrified Hongjun and deepened Lu Yang’s understanding of the Law of Strength.

• Lu Yang erased the Primordial Spirit Imprints in the Slaughtering Immortal Sword, Trapping Immortal Sword, and Absolute Immortal Sword, while Rahu suspected that a Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal had appeared on the Sun Star.
• The Eye of the Firmament struck Rahu with Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder, destroying his body and Primordial Spirit and reducing his black lotus to twelve petals.
• The great experts fought over Rahu’s treasures; the God-Slaying Spear fled into the void, the Twelve-Petaled Black Lotus fled into the Netherworld, and Zhunti collected fragments of the Myriad Demon Pagoda.
• Panhou persuaded the Thirteen Ancestral Witches to form the All-Heavenly Divine Fiend Great Array and condense the Pangu True Body to sever Hongjun’s Fortune.
• The Pangu True Body absorbed Calamity Sha aura and appeared with the Panhu Axe, frightening Hongjun, Ancestor Dragon, and the other great experts.
• Lu Yang gained a deeper understanding of the Law of Strength when it appeared on the Pangu True Body.

Panhú controlled Pangu True Body as the Thirteen Ancestral Witches severed thirty percent of Hongjun's Fortune, forcing him to flee. After the Witches returned toward Buzhou Mountain, Hongjun went to the Sun Star, where Lu Yang watched him unseen.

• The Thirteen Ancestral Witches formed Pangu True Body under Panhú's control and attacked Hongjun to sever his Fortune rather than kill him.
• Pangu True Body broke Hongjun's defenses and cut away thirty percent of his Fortune before Hongjun escaped with the Pangu Banner.
• Pangu True Body collapsed, leaving the Twelve Ancestral Witches exhausted while Panhú remained in better condition.
• Panhú led the Ancestral Witches toward Buzhou Mountain as the other great experts watched and the Western Sand Sea lay devastated.
• Hongjun ascended to the Thirty-third Heaven and then traveled to the Sun Star, where Lu Yang secretly monitored him with his divine sense.

Hongjun separated his inner demon and sealed it inside the Sun Pot on the Sun Star, but Lu Yang erased the pot’s imprint and freed the demon. Hongjun mistook the hidden power on the Sun Star for Pangu, while his inner demon discovered the Sun Star had a Primordial Spirit and concluded that Lu Yang was Pangu.

• Hongjun traveled to the Sun Star and separated his inner demon, intending to seal it there.
• Lu Yang recognized Hongjun’s plan and decided to use the inner demon to learn Hongjun’s cultivation methods and secrets.
• Hongjun placed his inner demon in the Sun Pot and buried it beneath the mountain range before leaving the Sun Star.
• Lu Yang erased Hongjun’s Primordial Spirit Imprint from the Sun Pot, causing Hongjun to sense the intrusion and conclude that Pangu had revived on the Sun Star.
• Hongjun resolved to become a Saint and considered how the Three Pure Ones and the Thirteen Ancestral Witches might respond to Pangu.
• The freed inner demon saw the Sun Star’s Primordial Spirit, and Lu Yang warned it to forget what it had learned; the demon assumed Lu Yang was Pangu using the Sun Star as his body.

Lu Yang captured Hongjun's inner demon, learned Hongjun's cultivation methods and schemes, and began publishing his knowledge on Archaic Star Steles across the Primordial World. The steles sparked a scramble for their contents, and the chapter ended with Hongyun and Zhenyuanzi excited by what they had discovered.

• Lu Yang trapped Hongjun's inner demon on the Sun Star, connected to the Heavenly Demon Realm, and spent several hundred thousand years reading all the information it knew.
• Hongjun descended to the lower realm, sensed Pangu's presence within the Sun Star, and worried that his inner demon had discovered a secret.
• Lu Yang refined Archaic Star Steles and inscribed Hongjun's Three Thousand Great Daos, Forty-Eight Thousand Minor Daos, and Eight Hundred Sideways Paths onto them.
• Eighty-one Archaic Star Steles descended across the Primordial World, and Taishang took the stele that landed on Kunlun Mountain while Yuanshi and Tongtian drove off the beings fighting over it.
• The Three Pure Ones read the stele's vast collection of cultivation methods and other knowledge, while Fuxi and Nuwa examined another stele on Buzhou Mountain.
• Hongyun and Zhenyuanzi read the stele that appeared on Huoyun Mountain and became excited by its contents.

After the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity devastated humanity, survivors discovered an Archaic Star Stele containing Hongjun’s methods and praised him for sharing them. Hongjun realized the steles were spreading his techniques and suspected Pangu was behind them; after destroying one, he wiped out the Yong tribe and the surrounding forest.

• Ancestor Aurora traveled to the Sea Cape to heal his injuries by absorbing Innate Primordial Magnetism and auroras.
• Hundreds of injured human survivors found an Archaic Star Stele and read Hongjun’s methods, believing he had generously shared them.
• Hongjun calculated that eighty-one Star Tablets had appeared and that his Fortune had increased, then set out to investigate.
• At a Yong tribe forest, Hongjun discovered that its Star Tablet contained all of his methods and suspected the revived Pangu had arranged their spread.
• Hongjun destroyed the Star Tablet with the Pangu Banner, then razed the forest and killed the Yong and all the other living beings there.

Lu Yang sacrificed the Mind Monkey to establish the Inner Demon Tribulation in the Heavenly Dao, earning considerable Merit and changing how Heavenly Tribulations worked. As news spread and living beings began falling to inner demons during tribulations, Hongjun suspected Pangu had used his own inner demon as the sacrifice.

• Lu Yang used the Heavenly Dao Mark to sacrifice the Mind Monkey, giving the Heavenly Dao the framework for an Inner Demon Tribulation and earning Merit.
• Lu Yang communicated with the Heavenly Dao and saw his own inner demon take the form of a black sun as phenomena shook the Three Realms and Six Paths.
• Hongjun deduced that an Inner Demon Tribulation had been added to the Heavenly Dao and suspected Pangu had sacrificed Hongjun's inner demon.
• A Dragon Elephant with a Grand Unity Primordial Spirit underwent a tribulation to Assume Human Form, but its body collapsed and its spirit was destroyed when the Inner Demon Tribulation arose.
• Inner Demon Tribulations began appearing frequently during Heavenly Tribulations, causing deaths while strengthening the Dao Hearts of those who overcame them.
• Living beings spread news of the new danger, and some postponed their plans to Assume Human Form or sought treasures that could suppress inner demons.

The Kirin Clan lost Fate as the Witch Clan and Monster Race rose, while the Dragon and Phoenix Clans continued to decline. As the surviving powers settled into the new era, Haotian accepted the damaged Immortal Slaying Sword Formation Diagram from Ancestor Dragon, and Kunpeng attained the Grand Unity Dao Fruit before turning his thoughts to Dragon Clan treasures.

• Pan Hu learned that the Kirin Clan had lost Fate and that the Witch Clan had gained it, bringing a surge of new Lesser Witches into the Witch World.
• The Dragon-Phoenix Calamity ended, the three clans declined, and Pan Hu led a group to establish a Witch Clan tribe near Qingqiu.
• Lu Ya left the Immortal Volcano for Kunlun Mountain after checking Yuan Feng’s condition and putting away the Earth-Leaving Flame-Light Banner.
• Ancestor Dragon gave Haotian the damaged Immortal Slaying Sword Formation Diagram and discussed how Haotian might obtain the other swords.
• Kunpeng attained the Grand Unity Dao Fruit, then went to discuss fortune and Dragon Clan treasures with Chiyang.

After Ancestor Dragon fell, Haotian obtained Taotie's Dragon Seal and used it to summon the Dragon Gate, while planning to seek the Dragon Race Treasury key from Candle Dragon. In the East Sea Dragon Palace, Ya Zi attacked Bi Xi over control of the Dragon Transformation Pool, but a Dragon general intervened and Ya Zi fled.

• Ancestor Dragon's death stirred strange phenomena across the Eastern Sea, and the Three Pure Ones and Lu Ya discussed the Dragon Clan's decline.
• Bi Xi drew the Dragon Clan's attention by holding the seal that opened the Dragon Transformation Pool, while Haotian exchanged a glance with Taotie and left.
• Taotie presented Haotian with the Dragon Seal that opened the Dragon Gate, and Haotian summoned the gate to cultivate his Nine Dragon Qi.
• Haotian planned to visit Candle Dragon, whom he believed held the key to the Dragon Race Treasury.
• Ya Zi attacked Bi Xi near the Dragon Transformation Pool, but a Dragon general blocked his killing strike and forced him to retreat.

Haotian and Taotie entered Candle Dragon's hidden realm near Guixu, where Taotie devoured Candle Dragon's tail and Haotian seized the Mysterious Origin Water-Controlling Banner. Candle Dragon awoke and fought back, but Haotian's suppression left him cornered, weighing whether to detonate his Natal Dragon Pearl and escape into Guixu.

• Azure Dragon broke through to Quasi-Saint cultivation while pursuing Ya Zi, who fled the Eastern Sea and vowed to restore his name.
• Haotian used the Dragon Gate to enter Candle Dragon's hidden Great Thousand World near Guixu without waking him.
• Taotie used Candle Dragon's scale to find him, then began devouring his tail while Haotian took the Mysterious Origin Water-Controlling Banner and erased Ancestor Dragon's imprint.
• Taotie completely devoured Candle Dragon's tail and advanced to the Grand Unity level as Haotian refined the banner.
• Candle Dragon awoke and attacked Haotian and Taotie, but Haotian's Haotian Pagoda suppressed him while Taotie fought him.
• Candle Dragon realized he could not win and considered detonating his Natal Dragon Pearl to escape through Guixu.

Haotian survived Candle Dragon’s Natal Dragon Pearl exploding, but Candle Dragon escaped into the Abyss of Return and eluded him. At the Monster Race Heavenly Court’s Peach Banquet, the Four Divine Beasts took up their posts across the Primordial World, while Lu Ya recognized Hongjun’s plan to make Buzhou Mountain easier to destroy.

• Candle Dragon detonated his Natal Dragon Pearl, collapsing its world; Haotian survived under the Haotian Pagoda’s protection, while Taotie died and Candle Dragon escaped into the Abyss of Return.
• Haotian searched the Abyss of Return for Candle Dragon but could not find him, then spent most of his mana returning through its current.
• The Monster Race Heavenly Court held a Peach Banquet attended by Houtu, Fuxi, Nuwa, the Three Pure Ones, and many other divine beings; Minghe declined his invitation.
• As the banquet ended, the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise assumed their four directions and gained the Heavenly Dao’s recognition, reducing the karmic power of their clans.
• Lu Ya recognized Hongjun’s scheme behind the Four Divine Beasts’ positions, while Kunpeng resented Black Tortoise’s arrival in the Northern Underworld and the Kirin Clan continued to decline.

Hongjun completed the Three Corpses Unite and refined Primordial Violet Qi, becoming the Primordial World's first Heavenly Dao Saint despite fearing Pangu’s growing power. He announced that the Outer Heavenly Zixiao Palace would open in one Cosmic Epoch, then left Haotian Jade Capital Mountain and departed for the Outer Chaos.

• Panhu fought Donghuang Taiyi near Tang Valley, and the two withdrew without a victor after Donghuang Taiyi acknowledged Panhu as the Witch Clan’s strongest expert.
• Di Jiang proposed that the Thirteen Ancestral Witches try condensing the Pangu True Body again in a hundred years.
• Hongjun overcame his hesitation, merged his Three Corpses, refined Primordial Violet Qi, and entrusted his Primordial Spirit to Heavenly Dao, becoming a Saint.
• Hongjun announced across the Primordial World that the Outer Heavenly Zixiao Palace would open in one Cosmic Epoch for those fated to hear the Dao.
• The Three Pure Ones heard Hongjun’s announcement, while Primordial Mother Taiyuan and Wangshu discussed the limited number of Heavenly Dao Sage positions.
• Hongjun left Jade Capital Mountain to Haotian and departed for the Outer Chaos to create Heaven and Earth.

Haotian began refining Jade Capital Mountain’s Origin Core as Hongjun entered the Outer Chaos to establish a Great Thousand World. After sparring with Yang Mei, Hongjun opened Purple Firmament Heaven and moved Purple Firmament Palace there, while Jade Capital Mountain’s Fortune diminished.

• Haotian sat before Jade Capital Mountain’s Origin Core and began refining it.
• Hongjun left the Primordial World and encountered Yang Mei, who challenged him to a spar and overcame his attacks with the Law of Space.
• Hongjun suspected Yang Mei’s ties to Di Jun and the monster race, then continued into the Chaos to open a world.
• Hongjun used the Pangu Banner and his comprehended laws to create and shape a Great Thousand World, naming it Purple Firmament Heaven.
• The Primordial Heavenly Dao projected into Purple Firmament Heaven and granted Hongjun Merit.
• Purple Firmament Palace rose from Jade Capital Mountain and flew into the outer world, causing the mountain’s Fortune to decline.

Hongjun fought Hunwu, Lu Yang’s Obsession Corpse, when the Chaos Golden Crow attacked Purple Firmament Heaven, and eventually surrendered three strands of Primordial Violet Qi to end the battle. Hunwu left with the qi unrefined, while Hongjun was left with four strands and many of his plans disrupted.

• Hongjun created Purple Firmament Palace in Purple Firmament Heaven, enlightened two jade stones into attendants, and weakened a Chaos Storm threatening the world.
• Hunwu appeared as a Chaos Golden Crow, revealed Hongjun’s earthworm origin, and attacked him while Hongjun defended Purple Firmament Heaven.
• Hongjun borrowed the Primordial Heavenly Dao’s power, but Hunwu overwhelmed him and demanded three strands of Primordial Violet Qi.
• Hongjun struck Hunwu with the Pangu Banner and nearly split him apart, but Hunwu quickly recovered and continued the fight.
• Hongjun gave Hunwu three strands of Primordial Violet Qi, and Hunwu left without refining them.
• Hongjun was left with four strands of Primordial Violet Qi, disrupting his plans for the Three Pure Ones and his other schemes.

Hongjun prepared Purple Firmament Palace for his first sermon, while divine beings braved chaos to reach it and competed for three prayer mats. Hongjun began expounding the Immortal Dao to more than sixteen hundred listeners, many of whom found his introductory teachings familiar.

• Hongjun removed three prayer mats and reflected on the mysteries surrounding the Sun Star before preparing to integrate himself with the Dao.
• Divine beings traveled toward Purple Firmament Palace, but many died in chaos; the Three Pure Ones reached it safely with Hongjun's unseen aid.
• The Three Pure Ones took the three small prayer mats, while Hongyun, Nuwa, Kunpeng, and others failed to claim them.
• Over seven hundred years, more than sixteen hundred divine beings arrived, including the Seven Ancestral Witches, Di Jun, and Donghuang Taiyi.
• Hongjun appeared, declared that the seats would remain unchanged, and began his first sermon on the Immortal Dao.
• Many listeners grew disappointed because much of Hongjun's introductory teaching had already spread throughout the Primordial World.

As Hongjun continued his first sermon, the Witch Clan took advantage of the gods’ absence to seize Buzhou Mountain. Chiyou slew more than a thousand exotic beasts, while Gonggong began fighting the Heavenly Court’s forces.

• Hongjun taught the Five Immortals of the Mystic Sect, but the Seven Ancestral Witches could not understand his sermon.
• The six Ancestral Witches led the Witch Clan up Buzhou Mountain to occupy it before the absent gods returned.
• Chiyou volunteered to fight a host of exotic beasts and killed them despite three Grand Unity-level beasts self-detonating against him.
• Panhu praised Chiyou, then led the Witch Clan onward as Chiyou’s battle tempered and strengthened him.
• Gonggong confronted the Heavenly Court’s forces and overwhelmed their Monster Gods and Heavenly Monsters with his Water Law and towering floods.

Hongjun’s projection fought Panhu and the other Ancestral Witches to stop the Witch Clan from occupying all of Buzhou Mountain, but vanished when Hongjun’s first lecture ended. The listeners left Purple Cloud Palace, the Ancestral Witches rejected Hongjun’s path, and Haotian returned to Hongjun.

• Gonggong summoned a Weak Water waterfall that crushed demon gods and Heavenly Demons, while Qiangliang drove two Great Luo from Buzhou Mountain.
• Hongjun sent a Sage Projection to confront Panhu and warned the Witch Clan to stop claiming the mountain, but Panhu refused.
• Panhu shattered Hongjun’s spiritual qi sword, and Gonggong and four other Ancestral Witches joined the fight against the projection.
• Hongjun’s projection vanished when his preaching ended, preventing the Witch Clan from occupying all of Buzhou Mountain for the time being.
• Hongjun announced that Purple Cloud Palace would reopen after ten Cosmic Epochs, and the listeners departed while the Seven Ancestral Witches chose to pursue proving the Dao by force.
• Haotian returned to Purple Cloud Palace after lingering in the chaos and called Hongjun his teacher.