Chapter Summaries

After awakening as Taiqing in the Great Desolation World, he learned that Pangu had charged him with protecting his siblings and the Primordial Wilderness. Taiqing took form on Kunlun Mountain with the Taiji Diagram and discovered that he had absorbed parts of Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao’s Origins, gaining the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones ability.

• Pangu drew Taiqing’s transmigrated Soul into his Primordial Spirit and entrusted him with protecting his younger siblings and safeguarding the Primordial Wilderness before transforming into all things.
• Taiqing awakened on Kunlun Mountain, learned his identity and fate, and began cultivating to strengthen his Origin.
• After hundreds of thousands of years, Taiqing took form, bowed toward Buzhou Mountain, and received a thunderous acknowledgment from the Heavenly Dao.
• Taiqing discovered that he possessed both the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and the Taiji Diagram as Companion Treasures.
• Taiqing found that he had unknowingly absorbed parts of Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao’s Origins, forming the One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones divine ability.

Taiqing recovered from the Origin injuries he sustained while sharing Origin with Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao, then discovered that his brothers possessed the Chaos Bell and Pangu Banner as their Companion Treasures. He urged them to absorb clear qi actively so they could be born sooner, as Luohu’s plot drove the three clans toward their final battle on the Western Continent.

• Taiqing split his Origin and exchanged portions with Yuqing and Shangqing, then meditated for several Eons to recover.
• Luohu gathered the war’s Calamity Qi and baleful qi beneath Mount Sumeru to forge the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, while Hongjun entertained great powers on Jade Capital Mountain.
• Taiqing recovered with help from the Taiji Diagram and saw the Chaos Bell above Yuqing’s Origin and the Pangu Banner above Shangqing’s Origin.
• Yuqing and Shangqing asked Taiqing why he had been born first, and Taiqing attributed it to Pangu Father God’s arrangement.
• Taiqing explained that clear qi could be absorbed actively, so Yuqing and Shangqing began drawing it in to strengthen their Origins and hasten their births.

Taiqing realized the Heavenly Dao was suppressing cultivation and set out to find a way to reach Hunyuan Golden Immortal before Hongjun became a Saint. He left Kunlun carrying Yuqing and Shangqing’s treasures, while Daoist Hongjun secretly appeared on the mountain after his departure.

• Taiqing concluded that the Heavenly Dao’s restrictions prevented breakthroughs and feared that Hongjun’s future preaching would trap the Sanqing in the Path of Three Corpses.
• Taiqing told Yuqing and Shangqing he would travel through the Primordial Wilderness to seek a way to advance and urged them to keep cultivating.
• Yuqing and Shangqing offered Taiqing the Chaos Bell and Pangu Banner, threatening to enter the world early if he refused.
• Taiqing accepted the two treasures, stopped his brothers from transforming prematurely, and departed the Innate Great Formation.
• Daoist Hongjun appeared on Kunlun Mountain in secret after Taiqing left.

Hongjun entered the Sanqing’s birthplace on Kunlun Mountain to steal their Companion Treasures, but Merit of World Creation and the Innate Great Formation thwarted him. He escaped badly injured and returned to Jade Capital Mountain, unable to get a response from the Heavenly Dao.

• Hongjun found the Innate Great Formation protecting the Sanqing’s birthplace and used Heavenly Dao Power to enter it.
• Yuqing and Shangqing sensed Hongjun, disguised themselves as clear qi, and relied on Merit of World Creation for protection.
• Hongjun found only two wisps of clear qi and tried to use a secret art to seize their Companion Treasures, but the treasures did not appear.
• When Heavenly Dao Power touched the Merit of World Creation, Great Dao Thunder struck, leaving Hongjun injured and stripping away his Heavenly Dao Power.
• The Innate Great Formation attacked Hongjun, who summoned his Three Corpses and fled with the Jade of Creation protecting him.
• Hongjun failed to reach the Heavenly Dao and returned to Jade Capital Mountain to recover, wary of Luohu.

After Hongjun fled Kunlun Mountain, Taiqing traveled to Buzhou Mountain to reach Pangu Hall and seize the chance to break through while Heavenly Dao suppression had weakened. As he approached the mountain, someone stopped him and demanded to know his clan.

• Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao celebrated Hongjun’s retreat, unaware that their Merit of World Creation had triggered Great Dao Thunder that gravely injured the Heavenly Dao and sent it into slumber.
• Yuqing Yuanshi urged Shangqing Lingbao to cultivate quickly, and Shangqing Lingbao said they were fortunate Taiqing had already taken their treasures away.
• Taiqing sensed that Heavenly Dao suppression had weakened and realized the opportunity could help him break through to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm.
• Taiqing traveled for two Eons from Kunlun Mountain to Buzhou Mountain, then bowed to the mountain and followed his Primordial Spirit’s guidance toward Pangu Hall.
• As Taiqing neared his destination, someone stopped him and demanded to know what clan he belonged to.

Taiqing encountered Fire Qilin near Buzhou Mountain and fled rather than fight the Early-stage Hunyuan Golden Immortal. Fire Qilin returned to the Qilin Clan enraged, while Water Qilin suspected Taiqing had an Innate Supreme Treasure.

• Fire Qilin attacked Taiqing for trespassing near Qilin territory, and Taiqing deflected his casual strike with the Taiyi Fly-Whisk.
• Fire Qilin accused Taiqing of spying and launched a serious attack with his Fire Law.
• Taiqing used the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and Taiyi Fly-Whisk to defend himself, then concealed his form and aura with the Taiji Diagram and escaped toward Pangu Hall.
• Fire Qilin searched the surrounding Great Thousand World but could not find Taiqing, so he smashed an immortal mountain and returned to the Qilin Clan.
• Water Qilin asked why Fire Qilin was angry, and Fire Qilin told him that a peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal had escaped his grasp.
• Water Qilin concluded that Taiqing likely possessed an Innate Supreme Treasure that let him escape.

Taiqing escaped Fire Qilin and learned that the Qilin Clan had laid a trap for him at the foot of Buzhou Mountain. He reached Pangu Hall but could not enter because it had not yet emerged, leaving him to wander Buzhou Mountain in search of another way to break through.

• Water Qilin deduced that Taiqing likely possessed an Innate Supreme Treasure after learning he had used a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Water Qilin persuaded Fire Qilin to deploy the Qilin Clan at the foot of Buzhou Mountain to capture Taiqing when he descended.
• Taiqing condemned the Qilin Clan’s violence, resolved to settle the score later, and hurried toward Pangu Hall to seek a breakthrough to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm.
• Taiqing reached Pangu Hall but found that its Innate Great Formation and Pangu’s Will prevented him from entering before its time had come.
• Taiqing despaired at losing his only apparent path to breaking through, then wandered up Buzhou Mountain while searching for another solution.

Taiqing climbed to the summit of Buzhou Mountain and appealed to Pangu’s will for help, pretending to weep over Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao plotting against Pangu’s descendants. His worship stirred Pangu’s dormant will, which began to gather as Taiqing continued his plea.

• Taiqing reached the summit of Buzhou Mountain, protected from Pangu’s Pressure by the three World-Opening Supreme Treasures and his Pangu origin.
• Taiqing set up an altar, offered treasures and food, and performed three kneelings and nine kowtows to Pangu.
• Taiqing claimed that Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao were plotting against Pangu’s descendants and asked Pangu to uphold justice.
• Taiqing inwardly hoped Pangu would reward him, while Pangu’s will stirred in response to the first worship it had received.
• Taiqing accused Hongjun of targeting the Sanqing’s Companion Treasures, and Pangu’s gathering will trembled as if furious.

Taiqing met Pangu’s remnant will after blaming Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao for their schemes against Sanqing. Pangu advised him on paths to sainthood, then departed, leaving Taiqing to care for his unborn siblings.

• Pangu’s fury shook the Primordial Wilderness, frightening the Heavenly Dao and prompting Hongjun, Yin-Yang Ancestor, Five Elements, Reincarnation, Luohu, Yang Mei, and others to rush toward Buzhou Mountain.
• Taiqing’s surroundings changed as Pangu’s remnant will summoned him, and Taiqing clung to Pangu’s leg while weeping and asking him to intervene.
• Taiqing asked how Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches could escape the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun’s control, and Pangu advised him to wait for his brothers or seek the Three Immortal Islands to pursue the Law Path to Sainthood.
• Taiqing shamelessly asked Pangu to give Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches ten or eight treasures each, but Pangu refused and said their inheritance would emerge when the two groups united.
• Pangu’s remnant will faded after telling Taiqing to cultivate well and care for his younger siblings.

Taiqing left the summit of Buzhou Mountain and concealed himself as reincarnated Chaos Demon God powerhouses gathered there in response to Pangu’s manifested will. At the summit, Old Ancestor Wuxing and the others found Taiqing’s memorial tablet to Pangu, but no one dared inspect it.

• Taiqing failed to learn how to invoke Merit of World Creation from Pangu’s fading will, then decided to seek the Three Immortal Islands in the Eastern Sea.
• Taiqing searched Buzhou Mountain for spiritual treasures, but found that its treasures and spiritual roots had not yet finished gestating.
• Old Ancestor Wuxing flew past Taiqing toward the summit, and Taiqing concealed his aura with the Taiji Diagram and Chaos Bell before descending.
• Yin-Yang Ancestor, Ancestor Reincarnation, Devil Ancestor Luohu, Old Thief Hongjun, and other powerhouses followed Wuxing toward the summit.
• Old Ancestor Wuxing found Taiqing’s Pangu memorial tablet and waited for the others; none dared approach it, and one asked Wuxing what he had discovered.

After the Chaos Demon Gods debated the Pangu memorial tablet, Old Ancestor Wuxing realized that Taiqing might have triggered the Will of Pangu and gained something from it. He prepared to pursue Taiqing but stopped when he noticed Hongjun watching him.

• Hongjun questioned Old Ancestor Wuxing, who revealed the scene of his arrival and made Hongjun’s scheme clear to the others.
• Yang Mei reasoned that the Will of Pangu was restricted and suggested that the worshipper might have learned or obtained something from it.
• Luohu and the other Demon Gods refused to inspect the memorial tablet, and Yang Mei left before the others followed.
• Old Ancestor Wuxing recalled meeting Taiqing, a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, on Buzhou Mountain and concluded that he had worshipped Pangu.
• Old Ancestor Wuxing decided to pursue Taiqing but halted when he saw Hongjun still watching him.

Old Ancestor Wuxing and Hongjun pursued Taiqing after discovering traces of him on Buzhou Mountain. Taiqing escaped into a hidden Innate Great Formation, which vanished and left Wuxing unable to track him.

• Old Ancestor Wuxing left Buzhou Mountain after warning Hongjun away from Pangu's memorial tablet, and Hongjun eventually descended without investigating it.
• Taiqing felt danger approaching and used the Taiji Diagram and Chaos Bell to conceal himself as he fled down the mountain.
• Old Ancestor Wuxing used the Five Elements Law to find Taiqing, while Hongjun secretly followed Wuxing and tried to draw Taiqing out.
• Taiqing recognized Wuxing's probing and fled, ignoring both Wuxing's and Hongjun's offers to help him.
• Taiqing spotted an Innate Great Formation and rushed inside, causing it to vanish into the void.
• Old Ancestor Wuxing reached the place where Taiqing disappeared but could not sense the formation or find him.

Hongjun failed to enter the Innate Great Formation and placated Old Ancestor Wuxing with the Purple Lightning Hammer while secretly planning to use their Causality. Inside the formation, Taiqing discovered Fifteen Pangu Marrows and believed Pangu had prepared one for each of the Fifteen Brothers and Sisters.

• Old Ancestor Wuxing concluded that Taiqing had vanished because he entered a place that blocked Five Elements investigation, while Hongjun questioned him about the pursuit.
• Hongjun could not draw on Heavenly Dao Power to enter the Innate Great Formation, so he gave Old Ancestor Wuxing the Purple Lightning Hammer and withdrew toward Jade Capital Mountain.
• Old Ancestor Wuxing accepted the hammer, recognized Hongjun’s attempt to bind him with Causality, and began waiting near the place where Taiqing had disappeared.
• Taiqing entered the Innate Great Formation and found a Great Thousand World filled with spiritual life beneath fifteen suns.
• Taiqing realized the fifteen suns were Pangu Marrows and rejoiced, believing there was one for each of the Fifteen Brothers and Sisters.

Taiqing refined a small portion of Pangu Marrow, raising his physical body to the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and strengthening his foundation. After resolving to unite the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches against the Heavenly Dao, he left Buzhou Mountain for the Eastern Sea in search of the Three Immortal Islands.

• Taiqing began refining Pangu Marrow inside the Innate Great Formation while Old Ancestor Wuxing waited outside.
• Old Ancestor Wuxing abandoned his vigil and returned to his Five Elements Daoist Arena to focus on cultivation.
• Taiqing's physical body reached the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and the suppression of the Heavenly Dao weakened.
• Taiqing vowed that the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches would reclaim their inheritance from the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun.
• Taiqing inspected the formation, found Old Ancestor Wuxing and Hongjun gone, and left Buzhou Mountain concealed by the Taiji Diagram.

After nearly an Eon of waiting for Taiqing, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans ended the Dragon-Han Calamity by swearing oaths to withdraw from the struggle for supremacy and regulate the Primordial Wilderness. Their leaders’ choices disrupted Luohu’s plan and changed the Heavenly Dao’s intended course.

• At Buzhou Mountain, Fire Qilin persuaded Beginning Qilin to keep the three Qilin elders at their clan grounds, prompting the Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan to hold back their reinforcements as well.
• On the Western Continent, Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Beginning Qilin stopped fighting when the Calamity Qi cleared and they saw their nearly destroyed clans and the ruined land.
• Ancestral Dragon vowed to guard the Four Seas and regulate their water veins, then merged into them as the Dragon Clan followed and received merit.
• Yuanfeng vowed to suppress Undying Volcano and regulate yin and yang, then entered the volcano with the Phoenix Clan and laid two eggs whose Karma was erased.
• Beginning Qilin vowed to regulate the Primordial Wilderness’s earth veins and make the Qilin Clan an auspicious sign, then merged into the earth veins with the surviving qilin.
• As the Calamity Qi dispersed, Luohu realized Beginning Qilin’s action had ruined his plan to detonate the Western Continent’s earth veins, while the Heavenly Dao trembled at the altered course of the calamity.

After the Dragon-Han Calamity changed, Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Beginning Qilin gained authority over parts of heaven and earth, while Taiqing set out for the Eastern Sea. An Ink Jade Qilin joined him as his mount, and Taiqing began cultivating the Five Elements Law as they traveled.

• Ancestral Dragon, Yuanfeng, and Beginning Qilin realized Taiqing's actions had helped their clans survive and vowed to repay his favor.
• Taiqing left Buzhou Mountain and encountered an Ink Jade Qilin sent by Beginning Qilin to serve as his mount.
• The Ink Jade Qilin said it could not reveal the reason for Taiqing's favor to the Qilin Clan because Tian Ji must not be revealed, and Taiqing accepted it as his mount.
• Taiqing directed the Ink Jade Qilin toward the Eastern Sea and meditated while it carried him there.
• Taiqing began comprehending the Five Elements Law, intending to transform yin and yang into the Five Elements.

Taiqing reached the Eastern Sea after comprehending the five individual Five Elements Laws to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and followed a faint pull toward the Three Immortal Islands. There, Ao Jiang appeared to repay his debt to Taiqing and asked to become his mount.

• Taiqing chose to pursue the Innate Five Elements Law and spent four or five Eons traveling toward the Eastern Sea while comprehending its five individual laws.
• Taiqing completed his comprehension of the metal, wood, water, fire, and earth laws to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and credited the Pangu Marrow with strengthening his comprehension.
• Taiqing told the exhausted Ink Jade Qilin to travel toward a direction that drew a faint sensation from his Primordial Spirit.
• Ao Jiang emerged from the Eastern Sea, transformed into a Dao Body, and asked Taiqing to accept him as a mount to repay the Dragon Clan's debt.

Taiqing accepted Ao Jiang as a follower and learned from him that Penglai Immortal Island would soon intersect with the Eastern Sea. He set out with Ao Jiang and Ink Jade Qilin to wait in the predicted area.

• Taiqing agreed to take Ao Jiang along and let him choose one of Taiqing’s younger brothers as a future mount.
• Ancestral Dragon instructed Ao Jiang to accept, and Ao Jiang bowed to Taiqing and followed his orders.
• Ao Jiang explained the Dragon Clan’s records of the Three Immortal Islands and said Penglai Immortal Island would emerge in roughly one Eon.
• Ao Jiang estimated Penglai’s emergence point would lie tens of thousands of years’ flight east, and Taiqing ordered him to lead the way.
• Taiqing meditated atop Ink Jade Qilin as the three traveled toward the predicted area.

Taiqing and his mounts settled near the sea where Penglai Immortal Island was expected to emerge, and he cultivated while planning to reach the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm. After nearly an Eon, he detected the island’s emergence and rushed toward it with Ao Jiang and Ink Jade Qilin.

• Ao Jiang explained that Penglai’s repeated intersections had enriched the sea with Innate Spiritual Qi, and Taiqing settled on an island to cultivate before Penglai emerged.
• Taiqing planned to combine the laws of Yin Yang, the Five Elements, and Heaven and Earth to reach the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm, since he had failed to comprehend the Law of Strength.
• Ao Jiang and Ink Jade Qilin cultivated under Taiqing’s urging as their island attracted beings who benefited from the trio’s cultivation and Taiqing’s Dao lectures.
• Taiqing discovered that his Dao lectures earned merit and considered using them to benefit the Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Taiqing sensed the sea’s Innate Spiritual Qi growing stronger, then hurried with Ao Jiang and Ink Jade Qilin toward the crash announcing Penglai Immortal Island’s emergence.

Taiqing entered Penglai Immortal Island and began cultivating to break through to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal Realm before Dong Wang Gong was born and the island emerged. As Taiqing’s breakthrough stirred the Sanqing and alarmed the Heavenly Dao and several ancient ancestors, his cultivation continued.

• Taiqing found the Innate Great Formation at the center of Penglai Immortal Island and sensed that Dong Wang Gong would be nurtured there.
• Taiqing entered an ocean of Innate spiritual liquid and cultivated, manifesting twelve laws while reserving the core for the Law of Strength.
• Ink Jade Qilin and Ao Jiang guarded Taiqing and rejoiced that they had become mounts to such a powerful master.
• On Kunlun Mountain, Shangqing Lingbao and Yuqing Yuanshi sensed a powerful resonance and concluded that Taiqing might be nearing a breakthrough.
• The injured Heavenly Dao felt an unknown sense of danger but could not investigate its source.
• Yin-Yang Ancestor, Old Ancestor Wuxing, and Qiankun Ancestor also felt something stir in the Primordial Wilderness.