Arc 17The Heart of Life Gambit
Taichu defeated Hongjun and Luohu in Chaos, while the Earthly Dao gained strength and the Heavenly Dao revived its plans against its rivals. The Heavenly Dao sent Jidu to draw out the Heart of Life, prompting several Hunyuan Celestial Venerables to suspect a trap as Taichu and the Sanqing approached the disturbance.
- Taichu pushed the Chaos Star into the Primordial Wilderness, then refined it as the Heavenly Dao created a Fear Demon and demanded Hongjun surrender the Hongmeng Purple Qi refined by his Three Corpses.
- Houtu strengthened the Earthly Dao as Zhen Yuanzi, Styx, five Ancestral Witches, and Hong Yun attained Earthly Dao Sainthood, prompting the Heavenly Dao to attack the Netherworld and then destroy Hongjun and Luohu’s physical bodies with Heavenly Punishment.
- Hongjun and Luohu confronted Taichu while he refined the Chaos Star, but Taichu exposed Hongjun’s earlier defeat and distributed recordings of his flight throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
- Taichu fought Hongjun and Luohu in Chaos, captured Hongjun’s Purple Firmament Immortal Robe, and used Ancestor Reincarnation’s Reincarnation Disk to erase them both before the Heavenly Dao revived them.
- The Heavenly Dao revived Hongjun and Luohu, punished them, and planned to lure the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables into Chaos with a Chaos Spirit Treasure, while the real Luohu secretly took over Jidu’s body and fled to the Western Continent.
- The Heavenly Dao sent the substitute Luohu, still using Jidu’s identity, to draw out the Heart of Life, but the treasure rejected him and hurled him into Chaos.
- Taichu traveled toward the Primordial Wilderness with the Sanqing, who absorbed nearby Chaos storms with the Primordial Gourd as they followed a powerful fluctuation.
- The Heart of Life emerged, and Ancestor Reincarnation and several other Hunyuan Celestial Venerables refused to pursue it because they suspected the Heavenly Dao had set a trap.