Chapter Summaries

Yang Mei, Reincarnation, and the other reincarnated Chaos Demon Gods formed an alliance to resist the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun. Destiny and Causality concealed their private ambitions, and Destiny agreed to join while Reincarnation and Yang Mei remained wary of both.

• Yang Mei revealed that he had reached the Second Heaven of the Hunyuan Celestial Venerable realm and urged the others to ally against the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun.
• Creation, World, Soul, Xuanhuang, Chaos, and the other powerful beings agreed to join the alliance, while Destiny and Causality hesitated over their plans to control fate and karma.
• Reincarnation warned Yang Mei that Destiny and Causality might act against the alliance or collude with the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun.
• Destiny decided to join the alliance temporarily so its members could help him pursue his ambitions, then assured Reincarnation that he understood the need to unite.
• Reincarnation mocked Destiny's hesitation but welcomed him into the alliance.

Ancestor Karma tried to provoke conflict between Reincarnation and Destiny, but Reincarnation severed his manipulation and injured him. The seventeen Hunyuan Celestial Venerables formed a Great Dao Vow to oppose the Heavenly Dao together, though Destiny and Causality continued to hide their own schemes.

• Ancestor Karma joined the alliance and secretly used the Causality Great Dao Laws to stir up karmic conflict between Reincarnation and Destiny.
• Ancestor Reincarnation severed Karma's manipulation, injured him, and mocked his weak cultivation.
• Old Ancestor Destiny noticed Karma's attempt and resolved to remember the slight against him.
• Ancestor Reincarnation proposed a Great Dao Vow barring alliance members from scheming against or hindering one another while opposing the Heavenly Dao, and Yang Mei supported him.
• Destiny and Causality agreed to the vow after deciding their private schemes did not violate its terms.
• The seventeen Hunyuan Celestial Venerables established the Great Dao Vow to oppose the Heavenly Dao without attacking or plotting against one another.

After learning of the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables' alliance against the Heavenly Dao, Taiqing and the others planned to cultivate and awaken the Earthly Dao while remaining cautious. The Heavenly Dao and Hongjun discovered they could not sense the Sanqing and postponed their plot against them, turning instead to plans for dividing the reincarnated Chaos Demon God powerhouses.

• Xuanqing told Taiqing about the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables' alliance and warned him to be wary of Old Ancestor Destiny and Ancestor Karma.
• At Pangu Hall, Taiqing urged the Sanqing and Twelve Ancestral Witches to cultivate, while Houtu promised to establish Reincarnation and awaken the Earthly Dao.
• Taiqing ordered the Witch Race to keep refining Innate Fiendish Energy as they waited to see how the Heavenly Dao and Hunyuan Celestial Venerables acted.
• The Heavenly Dao and Hongjun realized they could no longer sense the Sanqing and feared that plotting against them might provoke Pangu's power.
• The Heavenly Dao and Hongjun postponed their scheme against the Sanqing and discussed using old rivalries to turn the reincarnated Chaos Demon God powerhouses against one another.

Hongjun and Heavenly Dao planned to use Xuanqing and the disciples of the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables to sow conflict during the second Immortal-Demon War. Ancestor Reincarnation uncovered the scheme and decided to play along, though Destiny and Causality did not join the other Venerables in informing their disciples.

• Hongjun proposed schemes to divide the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables, and Heavenly Dao approved them while becoming more wary of him.
• Hongjun decided to use the method he had secretly planted on Xuanqing to incite conflict among the Venerables’ disciples during the second Immortal-Demon War.
• Ancestor Reincarnation detected Hongjun’s activated method on the paper effigy and realized it was meant to influence Xuanqing into attacking other Venerables’ disciples.
• Ancestor Reincarnation gathered the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables and Xuanqing, explained the scheme, and proposed turning it against Hongjun and Heavenly Dao.
• Most of the Venerables agreed to inform their disciples and cooperate, while Destiny and Causality were the exceptions.

Destiny and Karma planned to manipulate the Primordial Wilderness’s fate and karma during the second Immortal-Demon War, while Ancestor Reincarnation warned Xuanqing and Taiqing’s group discussed the threat posed by the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables. After a hundred thousand years of peace, the Demon Race had grown rapidly with the Heavenly Dao’s secret support.

• Old Ancestor Destiny and Ancestor Karma planned to stir up the fates and karma of the Primordial Wilderness’s living beings during the second Immortal-Demon War.
• Ancestor Reincarnation warned Xuanqing to guard against Destiny and Karma’s disciples, and Xuanqing promised to watch for their schemes.
• Xuanqing told Taiqing about the warning, and Taiqing’s group considered using the Heavenly Dao’s conflict with the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables to protect the Primordial Wilderness.
• Shangqing Lingbao argued that the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables should establish worlds beyond the Primordial Wilderness to reduce its burden, and Taiqing agreed but said they lacked the strength to act.
• A hundred thousand years passed peacefully as the Immortal Court and Heavenly Court developed, the Witch Race accumulated merit, and Di Jun and Tai Yi advanced to the Late Stage Quasi-Saint realm.

Dong Wang Gong finally gave up on refining the Hongmeng Purple Qi and realized Hongjun had manipulated him and trapped him in the Path of Three Corpses. He resolved to challenge Hongjun’s authority and asked Hong Yun for help, offering to follow his instructions.

• Di Jun and Tai Yi discovered that their Three Corpses could not merge because they were anchored in incompatible Lingbao.
• Dong Wang Gong abandoned his attempt to refine the Hongmeng Purple Qi after more than a hundred thousand years without progress.
• Dong Wang Gong recalled how Hongjun had influenced him to reject Yin Yang Celestial Venerable and vowed to replace Hongjun as Immortal Ancestor.
• Dong Wang Gong went to Hong Yun’s imperial palace, knelt before him, and asked him to save him.
• Dong Wang Gong admitted he knew Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi had their own calculations in founding the Immortal Court, but promised to obey Hong Yun’s instructions.

Dong Wang Gong sought Hong Yun’s help to escape the danger of the Path of Three Corpses and the crisis surrounding his feud with Hongjun. Hong Yun revealed that Hongjun had entangled Dong Wang Gong in a Tribulation, leaving him to confront the full danger of the scheme.

• Dong Wang Gong kowtowed to Hong Yun and asked him to find a way to resolve the hidden danger of the Path of Three Corpses or help him switch to cultivating the Dao of Laws.
• Dong Wang Gong made a Great Dao Vow, convincing Hong Yun to take him to Zhen Yuanzi’s imperial palace and summon Nuwa and Fuxi.
• Lei Ze noticed the five Immortal Emperors gathering and grew wary, regretting that he had once taken two Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures from Dong Wang Gong.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, and Nuwa shielded the imperial palace, and Dong Wang Gong made another Great Dao Vow before the other Immortal Emperors.
• Hong Yun told Dong Wang Gong that Hongjun had plotted against him and drawn him into a Tribulation to gain from its outcome.
• Dong Wang Gong realized Hongjun’s scheme could be fatal, recalling the devastation caused by previous Tribulations.

Dong Wang Gong learned that he could not escape his tribulation by ordinary means, but Zhen Yuanzi offered him a secret path to evade the fate imposed by Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao. Reassured, Dong Wang Gong returned to lead the Immortal Court and began breaking through to the Late Stage Quasi-Saint.

• Fuxi told Dong Wang Gong that he had already entered the tribulation and could not withdraw, while Dong Wang Gong returned Nuwa's Hongmeng Purple Qi and resolved to fight the Demon Race.
• Hong Yun reassured Dong Wang Gong that the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables supported the Immortal Court, and Zhen Yuanzi proposed a Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell plan to help him escape his appointed fate.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, Fuxi, and Nuwa made Great Dao Vows, and Dong Wang Gong agreed to trust their plan and lead the Immortal Court meanwhile.
• Zhen Yuanzi told Dong Wang Gong he could continue cultivating the Three Corpses method, and Dong Wang Gong pledged to cooperate with the others before returning to his imperial palace.
• Dong Wang Gong entered seclusion, and the pressure of a Late Stage Quasi-Saint soon spread across Penglai Immortal Island.

Dong Wang Gong transformed the Immortal Court after reaching the Late Stage Quasi-Saint, while Taiqing and his brothers developed their disciples and prepared to travel to the Southern Continent. Taiqing planned to accept Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird when they hatched.

• Dong Wang Gong emerged from seclusion as an enlightened ruler, opened the Immortal Court's treasury, and increased the number of its middle-stage Quasi-Saints.
• Hong Yun and the others informed Taiqing of Dong Wang Gong's transformation, and Taiqing resolved to accept him as a disciple after his reincarnation.
• Taiqing reminded Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao to test their disciples' character and guide only virtuous cultivators.
• Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao accepted worthy disciples, including Yun Zhongzi, Huang Long Zhenren, Zhao Gongming, and the Three Xiao Sisters, while Taiqing sent Chang Er Ding Guang Xian to Little Western Heaven.
• Taiqing summoned Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao and announced his plan to visit the Southern Continent to accept two soon-to-hatch disciples.
• Taiqing revealed that he intended to accept Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird, the eggs Yuanfeng had laid before suppressing the Undying Volcano.

Taiqing learned that Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird were about to hatch and traveled with the Sanqing to the Undying Volcano to take them as disciples. Seeing how the volcano devastated the Southern Continent, Taiqing recognized the Phoenix Clan’s burden, while Yuqing Yuanshi warned that suppression alone would eventually lead to catastrophe.

• Taiqing decided to take Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird as disciples and teach them carefully.
• Shangqing Lingbao summoned Feng Jiu, who confirmed that the Phoenix Clan’s two eggs were near hatching and offered to lead the Sanqing to them.
• The Sanqing traveled with their mounts to the Undying Volcano in the Southern Continent.
• Taiqing observed the Southern Continent’s barren, fire-scorched landscape and praised Yuanfeng for suppressing the volcano.
• Feng Jiu tearfully thanked Taiqing for recognizing the Phoenix Clan’s suffering and responsibility.
• Yuqing Yuanshi privately told Taiqing that endless suppression would only build up the volcano’s flames and urged him to find a lasting solution.

The Sanqing devised a plan to redirect the Undying Volcano’s flames into the Return Ruins and make the Heavenly Dao maintain the solution. At the volcano, they saw Yuanfeng’s two nearly hatched eggs, and Yuanfeng reacted with delight after sensing their arrival.

• Shangqing Lingbao proposed draining the Undying Volcano’s flames into the Return Ruins, with the Heavenly Dao responsible for maintaining the flow.
• Yuqing Yuanshi and Taiqing supported the plan, and Taiqing proposed asking the Great Dao to compel the Heavenly Dao to contribute its authority and power.
• Feng Jiu led the Sanqing to the Wutong Tree, where they found two cracked phoenix eggs belonging to Yuanfeng’s children.
• Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao recognized that the eggs’ heirs could inherit Taiqing’s Dao of the Five Elements and Dao of Yin Yang.
• Yuanfeng sensed the Sanqing near her children, grew angry at first, then became delighted when she saw Feng Jiu with them.
• The Sanqing and their mounts saluted Yuanfeng and greeted her as a senior.

Taiqing secured Yuanfeng’s agreement to make her two children his disciples and proposed that the Sanqing and Phoenix Clan cooperate to resolve the Undying Volcano’s danger. Yuanfeng revealed that the Return Ruins devoured spiritual energy on an even greater scale, leaving Taiqing and his brothers to recognize it as a major threat.

• Taiqing asked Yuanfeng to let her two children become his disciples, and Yuanfeng agreed while pledging the Phoenix Clan’s support to the Sanqing.
• Taiqing proposed working with the Phoenix Clan to resolve the growing danger inside the Undying Volcano, and Yuanfeng promised full cooperation.
• Taiqing asked Yuanfeng about the Return Ruins, and she explained that it devoured the Four Seas’ waters and the Primordial Wilderness’s Innate Spiritual Qi on an immense scale.
• Taiqing was shocked by the scale of the Return Ruins’ consumption, and his second brother warned that expanding spiritual-energy sources would not suffice unless they resolved it.

Taiqing proposed sending the Undying Volcano’s destructive energy into the Return Ruins, which devoured the Primordial Wilderness but never grew stronger. He left Yuanfeng considering how the Sanqing’s planned Teleportation Array could connect the two.

• Taiqing proposed redirecting the Undying Volcano’s flames and violent energy into the Return Ruins to reduce the damage both caused.
• Yuanfeng said the plan could work but advised Taiqing to confirm with Ancestral Dragon whether the Return Ruins grew stronger after consuming things.
• Ao Jiang relayed Ancestral Dragon’s answer that the Return Ruins had never changed, and reported that Ancestral Dragon wanted the Sanqing to accept his talented son as a disciple.
• Taiqing agreed to assess Ancestral Dragon’s son and said he would visit the Eastern Sea to discuss the plan with Ancestral Dragon.
• Taiqing described the Sanqing’s plan for a Teleportation Array across the Primordial Wilderness, and Yuanfeng realized they could use it to send the Undying Volcano’s energy into the Return Ruins.

Taiqing gained Yuanfeng’s agreement to cooperate on a plan to use the Undying Volcano’s energy to power a Teleportation Array, then witnessed the birth of Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird. After Yuanfeng urged them to accept Taiqing as their master, Taiqing promised both brothers they could attain the Dao of Hunyuan Celestial Venerables, leaving them and Yuanfeng astonished.

• Taiqing explained how a Teleportation Array could use the Undying Volcano’s energy and the Heavenly Dao’s power, and Yuanfeng agreed that the Phoenix Clan would cooperate with the Sanqing.
• Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird hatched from their eggs on the Wutong Tree, born with powerful foundations and Grand Unity Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Yuanfeng introduced her sons to the Sanqing and explained that Taiqing wished to accept them as disciples.
• Taiqing promised Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird that they would attain the Dao of Hunyuan Celestial Venerables.

Taiqing accepted Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird as disciples and gave each a compatible Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure. After leaving Undying Volcano, Sanqing headed toward the Eastern Sea to meet Ancestral Dragon and discuss the volcano’s hidden danger and Return Ruins, while Heavenly Dao and Hongjun considered how to deal with the growing variables.

• At Yuanfeng’s urging, Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird bowed to Taiqing and became his disciples, strengthening their Destiny/Luck and the Phoenix Clan’s.
• Taiqing bestowed the Five Elements Universe Fan on Kong Xuan and the Yin Yang Qiankun Cauldron on the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird, and the siblings thanked him.
• Taiqing bid farewell to Yuanfeng, who urged her children to cultivate well and care for their master and uncles.
• Sanqing left the Southern Sea with their new disciples and traveled toward the Eastern Sea to visit Ancestral Dragon and discuss Undying Volcano and Return Ruins.
• Heavenly Dao complained that Taiqing’s choices had created more variables, while Hongjun proposed having the Western duo convert Kong Xuan and the Golden Winged Great Peng Bird during the Investiture of the Gods war.
• Heavenly Dao and Hongjun set the matter aside and turned to stirring Destiny and Causality for the coming second Immortal-Demon War.

Ancestor Karma manipulated Mituo and Bodhi to provoke conflict between the Immortal Court and the Heavenly Court and test whether Pangu was truly dead. The Heavenly Dao and Hongjun watched and allowed his scheme, while Mituo and Bodhi awoke unaware that they had been drawn into it.

• Ancestor Karma went to Little Western Heaven and found Mituo refining Hongmeng Purple Qi, intending to use him to stir up causality and provoke conflict between the Immortal Court and the Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly Dao watched Ancestor Karma through the Hongmeng Purple Qi and recognized that it had led him to Mituo as part of its scheme.
• Ancestor Karma altered Mituo and Bodhi's thoughts and decided to use them to lure the Heaven Demon, Earth Demon, and Demon of Seven Emotions and Six Desires into testing the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Ancestor Karma vanished, and Mituo and Bodhi awoke, feeling the weight of their responsibilities without realizing how many forces were scheming against them.
• Bodhi wished for a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi, and Mituo agreed that they could provoke a battle between the Immortal Court and the Heavenly Court to profit from it.

Mituo and Bodhi devised a scheme to draw the Witch Race, Heaven Demon, Heavenly Court, and Immortal Court into conflict so they could weaken their rivals and reclaim Mount Sumeru. Meanwhile, Old Ancestor Destiny discovered the Heavenly Dao’s Destiny Celestial Book in the Heavenly Court and prepared to use its authority over the fates of living beings.

• Mituo rejected Bodhi’s idea of provoking the Witch Race directly and proposed using the Heaven Demon and other demonic clans to restrain it instead.
• Mituo and Bodhi finalized their plan, with Mituo heading to Mount Sumeru to lure the Heaven Demon toward the Witch Race and Bodhi going east to ignite war between the Immortal Court and Heavenly Court.
• Ancestor Karma watched the brothers act, then returned to his Daoist Arena to prepare to oppose the Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao and Hongjun approved the scheme, believing their plans were under control.
• Old Ancestor Destiny entered a treasure hall in the Heavenly Court and found the Destiny Celestial Book, which recorded the fates of beings at the Taiyi Profound Immortal realm and below.

Old Ancestor Destiny altered countless fates with the Destiny Celestial Book, unknowingly helping the Heavenly Dao expand its authority and provoke conflict among the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables. After Ziwei detected a mass shift in the minor stars, the Sanqing and Xuanqing traced the disturbance to Destiny and warned Ancestor Reincarnation, who recognized that Destiny had been used by the Heavenly Dao.

• Old Ancestor Destiny moved into the Destiny Celestial Palace and used the Destiny Celestial Book to alter the fates of countless living beings, accelerating his cultivation.
• The Heavenly Dao used Di Jun’s Primordial Spirit to observe Destiny and revealed its plan to exploit his changes to seize authority over fate and stir conflict among the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables.
• Ziwei reported to Xuanqing that innumerable minor stars had shifted, indicating widespread changes to living beings’ fates.
• The Sanqing calculated the stellar shifts and suspected Destiny was involved in a Heavenly Dao scheme, then informed Xuanqing of their conjecture.
• Ancestor Reincarnation and the other Hunyuan Celestial Venerables failed to identify the cause of the altered fates, but Xuanqing’s message convinced Ancestor Reincarnation that Destiny had been used by the Heavenly Dao.

Yang Mei persuaded Reincarnation to gather the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables and confront Destiny, who was altering the destinies of the Primordial Wilderness’s living beings. To avoid breaking their alliance, Yang Mei asked Dijiang for a strand of his Merit of World Creation so he could have the Great Dao punish Destiny, and Dijiang consulted the Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches before agreeing.

• Yang Mei convinced Reincarnation that Destiny was undermining their struggle against the Heavenly Dao, and Reincarnation began deducing Destiny’s location with other Hunyuan Celestial Venerables.
• Reincarnation and Yang Mei found Destiny in the Heavenly Court, and Yang Mei proposed sealing or expelling him, while Reincarnation warned that this could fracture their alliance.
• Reincarnation gathered sixteen Hunyuan Celestial Venerables and led them toward the Heavenly Court, where Destiny remained unaware because the Heavenly Dao had sealed the area.
• Yang Mei privately asked his disciple Dijiang to lend him a strand of Merit of World Creation so he could invoke the Great Dao against Destiny.
• Dijiang consulted Taiqing, the Sanqing, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who unanimously supported the plan because Destiny’s expulsion could benefit them.

Taiqing planned for Old Ancestor Destiny to survive the Great Dao's punishment by becoming the Destiny Long River, and Old Ancestor Yang Mei agreed to relay the plan. As the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables confronted Destiny, he restored the altered fates and denied Yang Mei's accusation that he had aided the Heavenly Dao.

• Taiqing proposed that Old Ancestor Yang Mei tell Destiny to transform into the Destiny Long River before the Great Dao punished him, and Yang Mei approved the plan after hearing it from Dijiang.
• Dijiang gave Yang Mei a preserved strand of Merit of World Creation while Di Jun and Tai Yi welcomed sixteen Hunyuan Celestial Venerables to the Heavenly Court.
• Yang Mei led the Hunyuan Celestial Venerables to the Destiny Celestial Palace, where Destiny realized the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun had schemed against him and began restoring altered fates.
• Yang Mei secretly hid Dijiang's strand of Merit of World Creation within a living being's fate, and Destiny triggered it without noticing.
• Yang Mei accused Destiny of aiding the Heavenly Dao, but Destiny finished restoring the fates and claimed that he had fallen into the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun's scheme.