Recaps

Primordial Phoenix attained the Dao of a Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin with Taiqing's support and announced that the Phoenix Clan had submitted to the Witch Race. Her declaration stunned beings across the Great Desolation, while the other ancient clans reacted with envy and renewed urgency to serve the Witch Race.

• Beginning Qilin hurried the Qilin Clan's construction of the Great Desolation Four Extremes Great Array, while Ancestral Dragon continued suppressing the Return Ruins and accepted that the Dragon Clan had no role in the array.
• Black Tortoise remembered Taiqing's support and urged the Black Tortoise Clan to work harder on the array after sensing Primordial Phoenix's breakthrough.
• White Tiger lamented that his clan lagged behind the other ancient clans and resolved to follow the Witch Race closely.
• Phoenix Clan members celebrated as Primordial Phoenix emerged from nirvana and attained the Dao of a Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin.
• Primordial Phoenix declared that the Phoenix Clan had submitted to the Witch Race, promised to suppress the Undying Volcano, and invited listeners to her Nirvana Great Dao lecture in a hundred years.
• Beings across the Great Desolation and reincarnated Chaos Demon God experts were shocked by the Phoenix Clan's submission and wondered whether the other ancient clans had also joined the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches.

After Yuanfeng attained the Dao of a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, Ancestral Dragon secretly tried to refine Jidu’s Saint Body to advance his own cultivation. Candle Dragon and Azure Dragon alerted Taiqing, who sealed Jidu and stopped the refining, leaving Ancestral Dragon weakened.

• Heavenly Dao sensed Yuanfeng’s breakthrough and grew angry that she served under the Sanqing, while longing for Jidu, who remained hidden in the Eastern Sea.
• Ancestral Dragon began refining Jidu near the Return Ruins, hoping to become the second of the five ancient races to attain the Dao of a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Candle Dragon and Azure Dragon worried that Ancestral Dragon’s actions could endanger the Dragon Clan, so they sent Taiqing a message.
• Heavenly Dao sensed a fluctuation of His power in the Eastern Sea and deduced that the Twelve Ancestral Witches had hidden Jidu in the Return Ruins.
• Taiqing sealed Jidu’s Saint Body, preventing Ancestral Dragon from refining it, then awakened Ancestral Dragon from his muddled state.

Taiqing stopped Ancestral Dragon from being consumed and controlled by the Heavenly Dao, then placed safeguards in the Dragon Clan’s Primordial Spirits. The Heavenly Dao used Jidu’s Hongmeng Purple Qi to awaken him and raise his cultivation, and Jidu escaped the Return Ruins toward the Heavenly Dao Origin Space.

• Taiqing woke Ancestral Dragon from the Heavenly Dao Power’s influence and punished him for secretly trying to refine Jidu’s Saint Body.
• Ancestral Dragon thanked Taiqing, who removed the Heavenly Dao Power and placed restrictions in the Primordial Spirits of the Dragon Clan.
• The Heavenly Dao traced Jidu to the Return Ruins and used the Hongmeng Purple Qi in his Primordial Spirit to trigger a breakthrough.
• Jidu’s cultivation rose from the Third Heaven of Saint to the middle stage of the Sixth Heaven of Saint, shattering his seal.
• Jidu realized he was in the Return Ruins, but the Hongmeng Purple Qi took control of him and drove him toward the Heavenly Dao Origin Space.
• Taiqing cried out for the Heavenly Dao to leave something behind as Jidu broke through the group’s obstruction.

The Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches formed a great formation and used a Pangu Axe phantom to destroy Jidu, though the Heavenly Dao expected to resurrect him. After the formation dissolved, auspicious signs and Dao verses announced the arrival of powerful figures from beyond Witch City.

• Taiqing joined Shangqing, Yuqing, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches to summon the Pangu True Body, which struck Jidu with a phantom Pangu Axe and reduced him to ashes.
• The Heavenly Dao lamented Jidu’s fall but expected the Hongmeng Purple Qi to let him return, while Zhu Jiuyin regretted that they had failed to retain Jidu’s Primordial Spirit.
• Taiqing said Jidu could no longer affect the Primordial Wilderness’s larger course, especially with powerful reincarnations of Chaos Demon Gods ready to oppose him.
• After the Pangu True Body vanished, auspicious phenomena appeared beneath Buzhou Mountain, and Dao verses rang out across the land.
• Towering figures descended from the void beyond Witch City, and those who witnessed them felt their cultivated laws improve.

Nuwa established the Three Marriages of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity in Witch City, bringing order to marriage and strengthening the Primordial Wilderness and the Five Elements Great World. The Great Dao affirmed the marriages and distributed merit among Nuwa, the couples, the Human Race, and the witnesses.

• Taiqing removed the Laws that beings had gained by staring directly at the Daluo Golden Immortals, allowing them to continue cultivating.
• Reincarnated Chaos Demon God powerhouses arrived in Witch City to witness the ceremony, while Pangu's memorial tablet stirred within Pangu Hall.
• Nuwa officiated the marriages of Dijiang and Queen Mother of the West, Zhu Jiuyin and Xi He, and Zhu Rong and Chang Xi, alongside Human Race couples.
• Nuwa invoked the Great Dao, Pangu, and the Primordial Wilderness as witnesses and declared the Three Marriages of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity established.
• The Primordial Wilderness and the Five Elements Great World trembled and grew more complete as the Three Marriages took effect.
• The Great Dao sent down merit and affirmed the marriages, awarding the greatest share to Nuwa and substantial shares to the couples and the Human Race.

After the three marriages ushered the Great Desolation into a prosperous new era, Mituo and Bodhi returned to find Little Western Heaven destroyed and learned that Medicine Master had agreed to Taiqing’s terms. They left the Southern Continent’s attackers unpunished for now, wary of provoking Taiqing, the Witch Race, and Primordial Phoenix.

• The Great Desolation entered a new era of flourishing life, and the Heavenly Dao Saints gradually revived while the Heavenly Dao quietly accumulated strength.
• Mituo and Bodhi returned to the West and found Little Western Heaven destroyed, with Medicine Master as the Western Teachings’ only remaining disciple.
• Bodhi prepared to punish the Southern Continent living beings who had attacked the Western Teachings, but Medicine Master warned that Taiqing had forbidden retaliation.
• Medicine Master argued that Primordial Phoenix would also protect the Southern Continent and that rebuilding the Western Teachings mattered more than avenging the destruction.
• Mituo persuaded Bodhi to set aside their anger and wait for a better opportunity.

Mituo and Bodhi struggled to attract listeners to their preaching in Little Western Heaven as the Primordial Wilderness’s Saints and experts opened Daoist Arenas. They forcibly converted Western Continent beings heading east, and Shangqing Lingbao condemned their conduct while another voice dismissed it as useful training.

• Mituo and Bodhi abandoned plans to challenge the Witch Race or Heavenly Venerate Yuanfeng and focused on preaching for the Western Teachings.
• Saints and Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals across the Primordial Wilderness opened Daoist Arenas, while the Heavenly Dao kept Tianxing, Heavenly Spirit, Heavenly Void, and Heavenly Guard from preaching.
• Mituo and Bodhi saw that their Daoist Arena attracted few listeners compared with those of other powers, and they grew angry as Western Continent beings headed east.
• Mituo and Bodhi used Conversion to force beings traveling to the Eastern Continent to go hear them preach in Little Western Heaven.
• Shangqing Lingbao condemned the Two Sages of the West for forcibly converting living beings, while another speaker said the Western Teachings could train reserve workers.

Luohu finished refining the Shichen Sundial and used it to draw the Shichen Realm into the artifact, then planned to exploit the worlds connected to the Time Long River. Shichen Ancestor watched from within the river as Luohu prepared to sacrifice thousands of worlds for his grand plan.

• Mituo and Bodhi worried that Yuqing Yuanshi might punish them for converting living beings in the Western Continent, but he made no further move after his divine sense swept over Little Western Heaven.
• Living beings and powerful figures across the Primordial Wilderness and other worlds gathered at Daoist Arenas to hear the Great Dao, while the Five Elements Great World's ancestors returned to their established traditions to preach.
• The Time Long River surged through countless connected worlds, shattering weaker ones and absorbing them as Time Origin.
• After several hundred Eons of work, Luohu refined the Shichen Sundial's first restriction and used it to draw the Shichen Realm into the sundial, spending a third of his power.
• Luohu examined the Time Long River and resolved to take in or refine thousands of connected worlds to replenish his power, unaware that Shichen Ancestor was watching from within the river.

Luohu sent countless World-Ending Demon Bodies through the Time Long River to infiltrate and refine worlds, while Old Ancestor Shichen copied the technique as Time Dharma Bodies and used them to accelerate his growth. Their actions caused a surge of timelines that Zhu Jiuyin sensed in the Great Desolation, prompting him to warn Taiqing that Shichen might be responsible.

• Luohu split off countless World-Ending Demon Bodies, reducing his power to the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal First Heaven, and sent them through the Time Long River to enter worlds and seize their resources.
• Old Ancestor Shichen copied Luohu’s technique with time laws, renamed his creations Time Dharma Bodies, and used them to unfold immeasurable timelines and increase his power.
• Old Ancestor Shichen’s timeline expansion caused a vast upheaval in the Time Long River, though Luohu remained unaware that Shichen had copied his ability.
• At the foot of Buzhou Mountain, Zhu Jiuyin sensed the timelines surging and told Taiqing that Old Ancestor Shichen was the likely cause.
• Taiqing wondered whether Old Ancestor Shichen had acted, noting that his fate was unknown among the three thousand Chaos Demon Gods.

Taiqing and Zhu Jiuyin considered who could be manipulating time and concluded that Old Ancestor Shichen was the likeliest candidate. Taiqing ordered preparations to strengthen the Great Desolation Four Extremes Great Array and put Zhu Jiuyin’s temporal authority to use, while Old Ancestor Shichen sensed Zhu Jiuyin’s unusual attainment.

• Zhu Jiuyin told Taiqing that Old Ancestor Shichen was likely behind the timeline anomaly and estimated that he had reached at least the Limitless Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin realm.
• Taiqing assessed that an expert of such power could threaten the Heavenly Dao and urged caution because they did not know whether Old Ancestor Shichen was friend or foe.
• Taiqing decided to accelerate construction of the Great Desolation Four Extremes Great Array after the preaching ended.
• Taiqing instructed Zhu Jiuyin to exercise his portion of the Great Desolation’s temporal authority and ensure it remained with Pangu’s descendants.
• Old Ancestor Shichen sensed Zhu Jiuyin through the timeline, discovered that he had become a Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin, and remarked that the timeline differed from those he had observed.

Shichen Ancestor discovered that the Great Desolation’s altered course stemmed from a variable he could not identify, while Taiqing sensed Shichen’s attempt to investigate him. Luohu’s incarnation entered a vast universe-world through the Time Long River and decided to preserve it for cultivating the Devil Race, before a drop of black blood landed on its strongest being.

• Shichen Ancestor reflected that the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Sanqing attaining the Dao had overturned the Heavenly Dao’s usual plans, but he could not deduce the variable behind the change.
• Taiqing sensed an existence probing him from the depths of chaos and suspected it was Shichen Ancestor.
• Shichen Ancestor sensed Taiqing’s perception but remained unable to uncover information about him, while Luohu sneezed and worried that someone was plotting against him.
• Luohu focused on the Time Long River as his World-Ending Demon Body incarnations invaded and refined worlds along its tributaries.
• Luohu’s incarnation entered a universe-world nearly as vast as the Shichen Realm and chose to keep it as a place to cultivate Devil Race soldiers.
• A drop of black blood fell from the Time Long River and landed on the glabella of the universe-world’s strongest being.

Luohu's World-Ending Demon Body infected the supreme being of a Universe World, who sacrificed his Dao, body, and soul to contain the illness and protect his world. Luohu's intent broke through the copper coffin's seal, scattered the being's ashes, and spread across the isolated highland.

• Shichen Ancestor sensed Luohu's black blood enter the supreme being of the Universe World and recognized the being's extraordinary potential.
• The infected supreme being sacrificed everything he possessed, sealed his ashes in a copper coffin, and placed it on an isolated highland to stop the illness from spreading.
• Luohu's World-Ending Demon Body learned that the supreme being's sacrifice had thwarted its plan to replace the world's Heavenly Dao with the Demonic Path.
• Luohu resolved to infect the world's living beings by other means and sent a wisp of intent through the copper coffin's seal.
• Luohu's demonic might shook the highland until the coffin split, scattering the ashes and letting his black blood seep into the plateau.

Luohu's World-Ending Demon Body continued corrupting the Universe World while its three Daos struggled to resist, and Luohu recognized a tribulation-born being with extraordinary potential. In the lower realm, a clan's elder brother had his younger cousin's precious bone stolen, just as countless timelines merged into the injured boy.

• Luohu's demonic blood corrupted the plateau and spawned beings who massacred the living every dozen or so Eons, weakening the Universe World's Heavenly Dao.
• The Immortal Realm and the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands resisted Luohu's corruption, but internal conflicts broke out during periods of relative peace.
• Two gifted cousins of the Sin Clan were born: the elder brother had unusual pupils, while the younger brother possessed a precious bone.
• The elder brother's mother tore out the younger brother's precious bone and had her son refine it, then sent the surviving boy to a distant ancestral land.
• Countless timelines from the Time Long River merged into the boy as Luohu's World-Ending Demon Body suppressed the Universe World's three Daos.

After thousands of years of open preaching, the Great Desolation grew stronger, while Hongjun promoted an improved Three Corpses method that concealed serious flaws. Taiqing sensed an important disciple born in a Universe World deep in Chaos and sent Li Er to retrieve him, with Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao secretly following.

• The Sanqing, Twelve Ancestral Witches, Saints, and other powers taught openly, helping beings across the Great Desolation advance in cultivation.
• Hongjun revealed an improved method of Severing the Three Corpses but concealed that its Origin Daluo Golden Immortal result was incomplete and made true attainment harder.
• Taiqing sensed a strong master-disciple bond with a being born in the Universe World deep in Chaos and asked Li Er to bring him back safely.
• Li Er departed for the Universe World, while Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao secretly sent incarnations after him.
• The Heavenly Dao noticed Li Er's departure and suspected Taiqing of scheming, but failed to detect the other two incarnations.

The Heavenly Dao ordered Hongjun to send his Three Corpses into chaos to track Taiqing’s avatar, while secretly placing restrictions on them. Taiqing’s avatar Li Er and the other Three Pure Ones’ avatars traveled toward the world connected to the coming calamity, and three figures appeared behind them from the direction of the Great Desolation.

• The Heavenly Dao worried that the Three Pure Ones and Twelve Ancestral Witches could overwhelm it, and it could neither see nor deduce where Taiqing’s avatar had gone in chaos.
• The Heavenly Dao commanded Hongjun to send his Three Corpses after Taiqing’s avatar, and Hongjun agreed while hiding his resentment.
• The Heavenly Dao planted restrictions in Hongjun’s Three Corpses through the Hongmeng Purple Qi and urged Hongjun to depart at once.
• Hongjun sent his Three Corpses into chaos before he could remove the restrictions.
• Li Er and the other Three Pure Ones’ avatars traveled through chaos toward the world where the beings destined to face the calamity had been born.
• Yuqing Yuanshi’s avatar asked whether the Heavenly Dao would send followers after them, and Li Er said it would; three figures then appeared in the direction of the Great Desolation.

Taiqing’s One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones incarnations entered the chaos, followed by the Three Corpses of Hongjun, Haotian, Yaochi, and Kunpeng, whom the Heavenly Dao had sent after them. As Li Er traveled, he wondered about an unknown being with an exceptionally strong master-disciple connection to Taiqing.

• Li Er sensed that the Heavenly Dao had sent the Three Corpses of Hongjun, Haotian, Yaochi, and Kunpeng into the chaos after the Three Pure Ones.
• Taiqing accepted the six Three Corpses’ pursuit, while the Heavenly Dao worried that Hongjun’s Three Corpses might escape its restraints in the chaos.
• Li Er traveled through the chaos and pondered the identity of the being whose master-disciple affinity with Taiqing surpassed Xuandu’s.
• Li Er considered Xuandu’s rapid rise to Early-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal and the stronger Daoism disciples, including Kong Xuan, who had reached Late-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal.

Old Ancestor Wuxing regretted that Kong Xuan had not become his disciple, unaware that Hong Yun had already reached Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal. After Hongjun’s investigation in Chaos failed and he returned to the Great Desolation, the Heavenly Dao decided to replace him with Jidu and began helping Jidu revive.

• Old Ancestor Wuxing lamented that Kong Xuan had joined Daoism instead of becoming his disciple, while Hong Yun’s Hunyuan attainment remained hidden from him and the Heavenly Dao.
• Styx, Hong Yun, Zhen Yuanzi, Yuqing Yuanshi, Shangqing Lingbao, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches received Chaos Essence from the phantom of the Chaos Green Lotus after entering Chaos.
• The Heavenly Dao sent Hongjun into Chaos to investigate, but Ancestor Chaos and five other Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortals beat him and destroyed his shell; Hongjun escaped by returning his true spirit to the Great Desolation.
• The Heavenly Dao resolved to have Jidu replace Hongjun as Dao Integrator after Hongjun repeatedly failed to serve its interests.
• The Heavenly Dao began helping Jidu absorb power to speed his revival, unlike Hongjun and the other fallen Heavenly Dao Saints, who had to revive themselves.

The Heavenly Dao stripped Hongjun of his Dao Integrator status and gave it to Jidu, despite the damage the act caused to its own consciousness and the Jade of Creation. The chapter ended with Jidu accepting the role and being told to cooperate with the Heavenly Dao’s plans.

• The Heavenly Dao suppressed Hongjun in its Origin Space and stripped him of his Dao Integrator status, causing the Origin Space and the Primordial Wilderness to tremble.
• Taiqing, Ancestor Reincarnation, Old Ancestor Yang Mei, World Daoist, and other powerful figures tried to deduce what had happened but failed.
• Hongjun realized that losing his status would expose him to the karmic consequences of his past thefts and destroy his plans to control the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Heavenly Dao’s consciousness showed signs of collapse, while the Jade of Creation began cracking as the Dao Integrator position stood vacant.
• The Heavenly Dao appointed Jidu as its new Dao Integrator, and Jidu immediately fused with the status.

After the Heavenly Dao designated Jidu as its Dao Integrator and fell into a weakened slumber, Hongjun tried to destroy the Jade of Creation and take its place. Jidu appeared at Saint Sixth Heaven and confronted Hongjun, who summoned dozens of Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to defend himself.

• The Heavenly Dao designated Jidu as its Dao Integrator, repaired the Jade of Creation’s cracks, then fell unconscious from the backlash of stripping Hongjun of his status.
• Hongjun seized the chance to attack the Jade of Creation, intending to erase the Heavenly Dao’s consciousness and replace it.
• Jidu materialized in the Heavenly Dao Origin Space at Saint Sixth Heaven, forcing Hongjun to stop his attack and resist his pressure.
• Hongjun raged at being suppressed by Jidu, whom he considered a junior of the Demonic Path.
• Jidu attacked Hongjun with the power of a Heavenly Dao Dao Integrator, and Hongjun summoned dozens of Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to bolster himself.

Hongjun fled Jidu after the backlash of his accumulated karma weakened him, while the Great Desolation’s powerful beings sensed the upheaval. Jidu pursued Hongjun but felt a mortal danger approaching and broke off the chase.

• As Lei Ze neared the Eastern Sea with Donghua and the Spirit Race, he sensed his companion Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure in the Heavenly Dao Origin Space, where Hongjun had summoned it.
• The Sanqing and Nuwa sensed the immense karma converging on Hongjun, and the River of Karma appeared before beings across the Great Desolation.
• Overwhelmed by karmic backlash and suppressed by Jidu, Hongjun fled the Heavenly Dao Origin Space rather than continue fighting.
• Jidu pursued Hongjun, while Taiqing suspected that something had gone wrong with the Heavenly Dao.
• Jidu felt a warning of imminent death and gave up the chase, declaring that he would spare Hongjun this time.

Jidu entered the Heavenly Dao Origin Space to repel Sanqing’s probe, but the Jade of Creation absorbed the intent of Creation and turned against him. Taiqing realized the Heavenly Dao had fallen asleep and replaced Hongjun with Jidu, while Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches decided to wait until they were stronger before trying to erase the Heavenly Dao’s consciousness.

• Jidu entered the Heavenly Dao Origin Space and called on the Jade of Creation to withstand Sanqing’s divine consciousness attack.
• The Jade of Creation absorbed Sanqing’s intent of Creation, defended their attack, and grievously wounded Jidu’s divine consciousness.
• Jidu sealed away the Jade of Creation and suspected Sanqing had discovered that the Heavenly Dao was asleep.
• Taiqing inferred that the Heavenly Dao had replaced Hongjun with Jidu as its Dao Integrator.
• Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao concluded that the Four Saints of the Heavenly Human Race and the protective formations prevented them from reaching the Heavenly Dao’s consciousness safely.
• Shangqing Lingbao proposed waiting until they advanced to a higher realm before trying to destroy the Heavenly Dao.

Luohu used the Time Long River to inspect futures where the Great Desolation’s Demonic Path surged, but each timeline showed increasingly strange events that undermined his plans. He dismissed the visions as unreliable, while wondering whether a Human Race cultivator could truly comprehend his Demonic Path.

• Luohu sensed the Great Desolation’s Demonic Path growing stronger and viewed a future where Sanqing accidentally released a sealed Mysterious Demon Realm.
• In that future, Luohu tried to enter the Great Desolation, clashed with Sanqing, then joined them against a powerful demonic shadow that self-destructed.
• Luohu examined another timeline, where a Human Race cultivator mastered the Demonic Path, gathered Rogue Cultivators, and fought Sanqing before Luohu attacked both sides.
• A mysterious old man stopped the battle and warned Luohu that claiming the Primordial Wilderness’s Demonic Path would bring consequences.
• Luohu questioned the strange visions and doubted that the Human Race could truly comprehend his Demonic Path.

Luohu rejected the bizarre future timelines he had seen and began refining Shichen Ancestor’s sundial, unaware that Shichen Ancestor was manipulating him for a larger scheme. Nearly a hundred Eons passed, and the story turned to the precious-bone youth, who faced a Demonic Path-infected Immortal Emperor wielding the Great Luo Sword Embryo.

• Luohu extinguished the future timelines after deciding they could not reveal the truth behind the Demonic Path’s rise.
• Shichen Ancestor revealed that he had fabricated the timelines and concluded that one of the Sanqing was the variable changing the Great Desolation’s course.
• Shichen Ancestor helped Luohu refine the Shichen Sundial so Luohu could eventually bring the sundial, Shichen Realm, and Time Long River to the Great Desolation.
• Luohu resolved to conquer the Primordial Wilderness and began refining the sundial, believing the Demonic Path’s growth had made the process faster.
• Nearly a hundred Eons passed, and the precious-bone youth, now a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, faced a Demonic Path-infected Immortal Emperor who wielded the Great Luo Sword Embryo.

The Treasure Bone youth became an Immortal Emperor, defeated the Demonic Path Immortal Emperor, and later reached the Sacrificial Dao realm after dying in battle and returning to life. As Taiqing and his Two Brothers approached the world through Chaos, another figure secretly followed them.

• The Treasure Bone youth drew strength from countless timelines, attained the Dao of an Immortal Emperor, and overpowered the Demonic Path Immortal Emperor.
• The Treasure Bone youth seized and refined the Demonic Path Immortal Emperor, while Luohu’s World-Ending Demon Body recognized him as a threat but could not act directly.
• Several more Immortal Emperor-level powerhouses emerged as Luohu’s World-Ending Demon Body struggled with the world’s original Heavenly Dao for authority.
• The Treasure Bone youth fought through countless Eons, lost those around him, died to the progenitor infected by the Demonic Path, and returned in the Sacrificial Dao realm.
• Taiqing and his Two Brothers traveled through Chaos toward the world, while another figure furtively followed them.

Li Er and the other two Sanqing incarnations followed their connection to a disciple’s world after deciding not to pursue the Time Long River. There, they discovered that Luohu’s Demonic Path had infected more than half the world, while Luohu sensed their threat and sent six Darkness Progenitors to test them.

• Li Er and his brothers concluded that Shichen Ancestor would likely bring the Time Long River back to the Great Desolation himself, so they set off toward their disciple’s world.
• The Three Brothers found the world heavily infected by the Demonic Path and wondered how Luohu had survived the Heavenly Dao’s Lightning Punishment and hidden his movements.
• Li Er recognized the world of the youth with the precious bone and double pupils, and deduced that its source of darkness came from the Demonic Path.
• Luohu’s World-Ending Demon Body sensed danger from the three visitors and ordered six of his ten Darkness Progenitors to investigate them, keeping four behind to help seize the world’s authority.
• Li Er observed that the world had far more epochs than the Great Desolation but that its living beings and realms were generally inferior in essence.