Chapter Summaries

Dong Wang Gong sent the Immortal Court’s Myriad Immortals Great Formation and numerous Quasi-Saints to fight Tai Yi’s Demon Race army, revealing that the Immortal Court was far stronger than others believed. As the battle escalated, Hunyuan Celestial Venerables detected Calamity Qi arising from the conflict.

• Dong Wang Gong dismissed the objections of the Immortal Court’s Quasi-Saints and ordered the Myriad Immortals Great Formation to battle, with five Quasi-Saints leading it.
• The Myriad Immortals Great Formation charged from Penglai Immortal Island, forcing Tai Yi and the Demon Race army to retreat under its mid-stage Quasi-Saint pressure.
• The formation tied down Demon Race Quasi-Saints and troops while more Immortal Court Quasi-Saints joined the battle and surrounded Tai Yi.
• Hongjun realized that the formation was a variable beyond his control and began trying to deduce its origin.
• The Immortal Court’s forces kept Tai Yi occupied, revealing its hidden strength to the watching powers of the Primordial Wilderness.
• The Hunyuan Celestial Venerables noticed that the battle between the Immortal Court and the Demon Race Heavenly Court had produced Calamity Qi.

Hongjun intervened in the Immortal-Demon War to save Tai Yi and the Demon Race, revealing his support for the Heavenly Court. Reincarnation and the other Hunyuan Celestial Venerables resolved to secretly aid the Immortal Court, while Dong Wang Gong questioned whether Hongjun had been using him from the start.

• As the Immortal Court overwhelmed Tai Yi and his forces, Hongjun arrived and used his Saint's Pressure to freeze both armies.
• Hongjun ordered the war to stop, sent the Demon Race troops back to the Heavenly Court, and returned to Chaos Purple Cloud Palace.
• Reincarnation, Five Elements, Yin Yang, Qiankun, and the other Hunyuan Celestial Venerables decided to secretly support the Immortal Court.
• Di Jun welcomed Tai Yi and the battered remnants of his troops, while Dong Wang Gong grew angry but hid his dissatisfaction with Hongjun.
• Hong Yun suggested that Hongjun had appointed Dong Wang Gong as Head of Male Immortals as part of a scheme, and Fuxi agreed that the idea was likely.

Hong Yun and Fuxi manipulated Dong Wang Gong into suspecting that Hongjun planned to destroy the Immortal Court for its Destiny, prompting him to resume cultivation. Meanwhile, Tai Yi returned safely to the Demon Race Heavenly Court and apologized to Di Jun for failing his mission.

• Hong Yun and Fuxi discussed strengthening the Immortal Court and improving the Myriad Immortals Great Formation while Dong Wang Gong listened from hiding.
• Hong Yun left to recruit more Quasi-Saints, and Fuxi went to perfect the formation.
• Dong Wang Gong concluded that Hongjun wanted the Heavenly Court to destroy the Immortal Court and seize its Destiny, then handed off routine duties and entered seclusion to cultivate.
• Hong Yun told Zhen Yuanzi that Dong Wang Gong had believed their staged conversation and would now cultivate before the Immortal-Demon Calamity.
• Di Jun breathed a sigh of relief when Tai Yi returned, and Tai Yi apologized for failing his mission.

After the Demon Race’s defeat, Di Jun began developing a formation to counter the Immortal Court, while Xuanqing and Ancestor Reincarnation secretly thwarted Hongjun’s attempt to direct Di Jun toward the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Formation. Hongjun believed the formation had been deduced and turned to his teleportation research as the Primordial Wilderness entered a temporary peace.

• Di Jun comforted the injured Tai Yi, then decided the Heavenly Court needed a formation to counter the Immortal Court’s Myriad Immortals Great Formation.
• Xuanqing offered to help Di Jun deduce a formation using the Myriad Demons Great Formation as a blueprint.
• Hongjun tried to make Di Jun comprehend the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Formation, but Ancestor Reincarnation secretly transferred that comprehension to Xuanqing.
• Xuanqing and Di Jun used the River Diagram and Luo Shu to deduce formations, and Hongjun sensed both the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Formation and the evolving Myriad Demons Great Formation.
• Hongjun stopped watching the Heavenly Court and focused on teleportation research, while beings across the Primordial Wilderness began cultivating in preparation for another war.

Jidu opposed Heaven Demon, Earth Demon, and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires when they proposed attacking Hongjun’s Daoist tradition. The three established new demon clans within the Demon Cult, and a strange fluctuation spread through the Demon Realm as Jidu prepared to stop them.

• Heaven Demon proposed exploiting divisions in Hongjun’s Daoist tradition to launch an attack on the Primordial Wilderness.
• Jidu refused to commit the Demon Cult’s forces, arguing that an attack would endanger Demon Ancestor Luohu’s foundation and return.
• Heaven Demon declared that he would establish the Heavenly Demon Clan and challenge Jidu for leadership after attaining the Dao.
• Earth Demon established the Earthly Demon Clan, and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires established a clan of his own.
• Jidu prepared to use his trump card against the three demons when a strange fluctuation spread through the Demon Realm.

Jidu received Devil Ancestor Luohu’s message, then Heaven Demon, Earth Demon, and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires established clans to govern three new demonic tribulations. The Earthly Dao was disturbed by the demons’ claim over its authority, prompting Taiqing and the others to accelerate the Underworld’s construction.

• Jidu realized Devil Ancestor Luohu had sent him a message and privately acknowledged that he had manipulated Heaven Demon, Earth Demon, and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires into challenging the Heavenly Dao.
• Heaven Demon, Earth Demon, and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires each established a clan to preside over a distinct tribulation, claiming those who failed would join their clans.
• Hongjun learned of the three clans and vowed to counter their attack on his Daoist Tradition, while the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables began planning their responses.
• Houtu sensed a disturbance in the Earthly Dao, and Taiqing explained that the new demonic tribulations had taken some of its authority under the Heavenly Dao’s scheme.
• Taiqing told Houtu to focus on cultivation as the Witch Race reorganized to gather Underworld materials and absorb Innate Fiendish Energy, while Styx continued building the Underworld with help from Ancestor Slaughter.

As the three demon tribulations were suppressed and the Underworld continued its construction, Taiqing concluded that the Earthly Dao’s authority could not yet be fully protected. During the third lecture, the three Demon Races exploited the absence of the Primordial Wilderness’s strongest experts and launched attacks on the Witch Race, Heavenly Court, and Immortal Court.

• Taiqing and the other factions gathered materials for the Underworld while Hongjun and the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables suppressed the three demon tribulations into minor advancement trials.
• Taiqing admitted that he could not resolve the Demonic Path’s threat to the Earthly Dao before the Earthly Dao emerged.
• Taiqing told Yuqing Yuanshi that Sanqing would return to Pangu Hall after the third lecture and wait for Hongjun to merge with the Heavenly Dao.
• Heaven Demon proposed attacking the Primordial Wilderness while its powerful experts attended the third lecture, and Earth Demon and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires agreed.
• The Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires chose the Immortal Court, Earth Demon chose the Heavenly Court, and Heaven Demon chose the Witch Race.
• The three demon leaders each led their clans toward their chosen targets, using the tribulation rules to enter the Primordial Wilderness.

The Heaven Demon, Earth Demon, and Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires invaded the Primordial Wilderness, but the Witch Race overwhelmed the Heaven Demons. Hongjun dispatched two of his Three Corpses to protect the Heavenly Court and Immortal Court, and his Obsession Corpse appeared before the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires outside Penglai Immortal Island.

• The Heaven Demon possessed Witch Race warriors, but the Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned the Pangu Father God True Body and began beating him.
• The Witch Race warriors crushed the newly formed Heavenly Demon Clan, whose attacks on Primordial Spirits were thwarted by the Pure World White Lotus.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches took turns controlling the Pangu Father God True Body and slapping the Heaven Demon.
• Hongjun sensed the three demons invading and sent his Good Corpse to the Heavenly Court and his Obsession Corpse to Penglai Immortal Island.
• The Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires arrived outside Penglai Immortal Island, where Hongjun's Obsession Corpse appeared to confront him.

Earth Demon and Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires attacked the Heavenly Court and Penglai Immortal Island, but Hongjun’s corpses defeated them and undid their transformations. The seven-emotions-and-six-desires qi disappeared during the battle, and Hongjun suspected Yang Mei or Reincarnation had taken it.

• Earth Demon led his clan to the Heavenly Court and transformed many members of the Demon Race, while Hongjun kept Di Jun and Tai Yi at Purple Cloud Palace.
• Hongjun’s Good Corpse struck Earth Demon through twenty layers of heaven, restored the transformed Demon Race members, and turned Earth Demon’s clan back into the Demon Race.
• Hongjun’s Obsession Corpse defeated Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires outside Penglai Immortal Island, and his clan became qi that vanished without a trace.
• Earth Demon and Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires escaped using their respective tribulation authorities after Hongjun’s corpses blasted them apart.
• Hongjun concluded that Yang Mei or Reincarnation had taken the vanished qi because either could conceal the act from him.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches crushed the Heaven Demon and captured the Heavenly Demon Clan after their invasion of the Witch Race. Dijiang brought the Heaven Demon to Pangu Hall on Taiqing’s orders, where he demanded that the captive submit or die.

• The Witch Race warriors devoured the Heavenly Demon Clan’s Heaven Demon qi and beat them into submission while the Pangu True Body battered the Heaven Demon.
• The Heaven Demon begged the Twelve Ancestral Witches to spare him, but Dijiang refused to let him go.
• Taiqing sent word for the Witch Race to bring the Heavenly Demon Clan to Pangu Hall, and Dijiang dragged the Heaven Demon there.
• Dijiang carried the helpless Heaven Demon to the Blood Pool and demanded that he submit or die.
• The Heaven Demon stared at the Blood Pool in terror and asked what it was.

Dijiang forced the Heaven Demon to submit by suspending him over the Witch Race’s Blood Pool, then revealed Taiqing’s plan to reclaim Earthly Dao authority through the Heavenly Demon Tribulation. The Heaven Demon swore to serve the Witch Race and to require failed tribulation-takers to pass through Earthly Dao Reincarnation once the Earthly Dao awakened.

• Dijiang threatened to drop the Heaven Demon into the Blood Pool, and the Heaven Demon cried out that he submitted to the Witch Race.
• Dijiang pulled the Heaven Demon back and required him to swear submission and secrecy about what he had seen and heard in Pangu Hall.
• Dijiang explained that Taiqing wanted the Witch Race to control the Heavenly Demon Tribulation and reclaim the Earthly Dao authority it had encroached upon.
• Houtu regretted that the Earth Demon and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires had gone to the Heavenly Court and the Immortal Court instead of invading the Witch Race.
• Dijiang ordered the Heaven Demon to vow that failed Heavenly Demon Tribulation-takers would undergo Earthly Dao Reincarnation once the Earthly Dao awakened.
• Houtu recognized that the vow would strengthen the Earthly Dao by extending reincarnation to high-realm beings who failed their tribulations.

Dijiang and Houtu subdued the Heaven Demon and arranged to use him to bring the other demons to Buzhou Mountain, strengthening the Earthly Dao. The Heaven Demon returned to the Demon Realm with orders to rebuild his strength and later target Mount Sumeru.

• Houtu sensed feedback from the Earthly Dao after the Heaven Demon made his Great Dao Vow, and suggested luring the Earth Demon and Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires to Buzhou Mountain.
• Dijiang ordered the Heaven Demon to gather the other demons and promised the Witch Race would secretly support his bid to become Demon Cult Leader.
• The Heaven Demon reported that Hongjun's Three Corpses had defeated the Earth Demon and Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires, and Dijiang inferred that they would stay quiet until Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao.
• Dijiang told the Heaven Demon to build strength in the Demon Realm and make another move after Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao.
• Dijiang ordered the Heaven Demon to send Heaven Demons to harass Mount Sumeru and try to occupy it again after Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heaven Demon led the Heavenly Demon Clan away from Pangu Hall, while onlookers wondered why the Twelve Ancestral Witches had released them.

Hongjun focused on preaching the path of the Saint while secretly deciding how to distribute the remaining Hongmeng Purple Qi amid the changed balance of power in the Primordial Wilderness. He chose to give Di Jun the strand originally intended for Hong Yun, hoping to strengthen the Demon Race against the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables.

• Hongjun failed to uncover why the Twelve Ancestral Witches had acted abnormally, then resumed preaching after Heaven Demon returned to the Demon Realm.
• Hongjun explained the path of the Saint, which most of the three thousand Purple Cloud Palace guests could neither understand nor retain.
• Hongjun decided to keep three strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi for Sanqing, reserve one for Nuwa, and use others in schemes involving Houtu and Mituo.
• Hongjun abandoned his plan for Hong Yun's strand and chose to give it to Di Jun, hoping the Demon Race could resist the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables.

Hongjun decided how to distribute the eight remaining strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi, favoring the Demon Race and Mituo while excluding Dong Wang Gong, Kunpeng, and the rogue cultivators. At Kunlun Mountain, Taiqing discussed the expected allocations with Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao, who thought Di Jun and Tai Yi would each receive a Saint Position.

• Hongjun decided to give Hongmeng Purple Qi to Tai Yi, Di Jun, and Mituo, while refusing to allocate any to Dong Wang Gong or Kunpeng.
• Hongjun abandoned his plan to use Hong Yun as a pawn and recorded his chosen recipients in the Jade of Creation so they would receive the Heavenly Dao's recognition.
• Dong Wang Gong fantasized about becoming a Heavenly Dao Saint and leading the Immortal Court to defeat the Demon Race Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi, Mituo and Bodhi, and Kunpeng each believed they had a strong chance of obtaining Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Taiqing wondered how Hongjun would distribute the Saint Positions and told Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao that Mituo would likely receive one.
• Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao suggested that Di Jun and Tai Yi would each receive a Saint Position.

The Sanqing and the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables planned how to counter Hongjun’s expected support for Di Jun and Tai Yi, while Heaven Demon launched an attack on Mount Sumeru. The chapter ended with Heaven Demon and the Heavenly Demon Clan advancing into the Western Continent as Earth Demon and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires stayed out of the assault.

• Taiqing, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Lingbao reasoned that Hongjun would likely give Di Jun and Tai Yi Heavenly Dao Saint Positions to strengthen the Demon Race’s Heavenly Court.
• Taiqing proposed using Mituo and Bodhi to take one of the brothers’ Hongmeng Purple Qi strands, and the Sanqing agreed to pursue the plan during the second Immortal-Demon War.
• The Hunyuan Celestial Venerables independently concluded that Hongjun would favor Di Jun and Tai Yi, so they decided to send disciples to support the Immortal Court after the third lecture.
• Heaven Demon returned to the Demon Realm, recovered, and then invited Earth Demon and the Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires to attack the Western Continent.
• After both demons refused, Heaven Demon led the Heavenly Demon Clan to Mount Sumeru, which had become suffused with demonic qi.

The Heaven Demon occupied Mount Sumeru and captured Medicine Master, whose claim that his masters Mituo and Bodhi might obtain Hongmeng Purple Qi convinced the Heaven Demon that the Witch Race had a larger plan. The Heaven Demon decided to guard Mount Sumeru and asked Dijiang how to handle Medicine Master.

• Mituo and Bodhi sensed their Destiny declining but stayed at Hongjun’s lecture rather than risk losing their chance at Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• The Heaven Demon seized Mount Sumeru and captured Medicine Master, then offered him a place in the Heavenly Demon Clan.
• Medicine Master refused because he was Mituo’s disciple and said his masters might become Saints with Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• The Heaven Demon took Medicine Master’s claim as an explanation for Dijiang’s plan and chose to remain at Mount Sumeru.
• The Heaven Demon sent Dijiang a message asking how to deal with Medicine Master, and Dijiang reacted with surprise at the brothers’ talented disciple.

Dijiang and Taiqing arranged for Medicine Master to be spared after the Heaven Demon seized Mount Sumeru, while Hongjun ended his third lecture and began granting Hongmeng Purple Qi to those who begged. Mituo received a strand and was named Hongjun’s nominal disciple, leaving the other supplicants waiting for their own allotments.

• Houtu reminded Dijiang to consult Taiqing about Medicine Master, and Taiqing decided Medicine Master should be preserved as a chess piece against the West and the Heavenly Dao.
• Taiqing had Dijiang tell the Heaven Demon to spare Medicine Master, so the Heaven Demon expelled him from Mount Sumeru and Medicine Master fled, believing his master’s reputation had protected him.
• Hongjun ended his third lecture and declared that he would soon merge with the Heavenly Dao without mentioning the Saint Positions.
• Mituo and Bodhi wept before Hongjun and begged for Hongmeng Purple Qi, prompting Di Jun, Tai Yi, Dong Wang Gong, and Kunpeng to kneel and ask for it as well.
• Hongjun accepted Mituo and Bodhi as nominal disciples, granted Mituo a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi, and told the brothers to develop the West after becoming Saints.

Hongjun accepted Di Jun and Tai Yi as disciples and gave them Hongmeng Purple Qi, then claimed the Heavenly Dao had decreed how the remaining strands would be distributed. His explanation stirred hostility toward Sanqing and sharpened Dong Wang Gong’s resentment, leaving Hongjun’s schemes poised to divide his rivals.

• Mituo thanked Hongjun for granting him Hongmeng Purple Qi, while Hongjun silenced Bodhi’s continued sobbing.
• Hongjun accepted Di Jun and Tai Yi as disciples and gave each brother a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Dong Wang Gong wept and pleaded for a strand, but Hongjun ignored him until he gave up and stepped aside.
• Hongjun explained that the Heavenly Dao reserved strands for Sanqing, Nuwa, the West, and the Heavenly Court, while the final strand had gone somewhere unknown.
• The guests grew curious about Sanqing and hostile toward them after Hongjun said they were destined to receive three strands.

Hongjun distributed spiritual treasures to Mituo, Bodhi, Di Jun, and Tai Yi, then sent the three thousand Mortal Guests to collect treasures from Treasure Distribution Rock. Dong Wang Gong and Kunpeng grew more resentful after receiving nothing directly from Hongjun.

• Dong Wang Gong and Kunpeng secretly hated Hongjun after receiving neither Hongmeng Purple Qi nor discipleship, while the others accepted Nuwa’s strand without objection.
• Mituo and Bodhi asked Hongjun for protective Lingbao, and Hongjun gave Mituo the Wheel of Nirvana and Bodhi the Muni Pearl.
• After the other Mortal Guests begged for treasures, Hongjun bestowed the Sun Essence Wheel on Di Jun and the Fire Spirit Pearl on Tai Yi, revealing that the five spirit pearls could form the Innate Five Elements Great Array.
• Hongjun told the three thousand Mortal Guests to take treasures from Treasure Distribution Rock according to their fate, saying it held thousands of Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and many others.

Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao after finishing his sermons, strengthening its suppression over the Primordial Wilderness. Merit for enlightening its living beings descended to the seventeen Hunyuan Celestial Venerables, Hongjun, and the absent Taichu, while Sanqing and Taichu remained hidden.

• Hongjun searched for Sanqing and Taichu but found neither, then announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao and vanished with the Jade of Creation.
• A ripple spread throughout the Primordial Wilderness as the Heavenly Dao became more complete and its suppression of the Law Path grew stronger.
• Yang Mei and the other Hunyuan Celestial Venerables dismissed Hongjun's plans to drive them out and stayed in the Primordial Wilderness.
• A vast mass of merit descended and divided into nineteen portions for the seventeen Hunyuan Celestial Venerables, Hongjun, and Taichu.
• Taichu's portion strengthened Daoism's Daoist Arena and disciples, while the rest waited for him at Kunlun Mountain.
• Sanqing hid in Pangu Hall, and Ancestor Reincarnation wondered whether Taichu's next appearance would be after he attained the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.