Recaps

Li Yun watched Li Xuan strengthen his three avatars, hoping they could reach the half-step Dao Ancestor level and support Li Xuan’s future advancement. Houtu arrived after receiving Xuanming’s opportunity, and the group agreed to let her enter and stabilize her cultivation.

• Li Yun focused on Li Xuan’s three avatars as they absorbed the laws of heaven and earth and grew stronger.
• Xuanming and Houtu arrived, and the others realized Houtu had reached the half-step Dao Ancestor level after Xuanming gave up her chance to Merge with Dao.
• Jieyin and the others congratulated Houtu and admired Xuanming for relinquishing her opportunity for her sister.
• Xuanming noticed Li Yun had attained Dao and become a Saint, and Li Yun said he still needed to perfect his cultivation.
• Xuanming asked for Houtu to enter and address her remaining deficiencies, and Li Yun and the others agreed.

Li Xuan’s three clones reached saint completion with space and time laws, while Li Xuan himself broke past saint extreme toward the half-step Dao Ancestor level. As the Small Primordial World began to shake, Li Yun spotted someone interfering and struck at the hidden threat.

• Houtu’s half-step Dao Ancestor status left Nuwa troubled by how far she had fallen behind.
• Li Xuan’s three clones surged to saint completion, their space and time laws beginning to blend.
• Li Xuan broke through saint extreme and pushed toward the half-step Dao Ancestor level, causing the Small Primordial World to shake.
• Minghe warned Li Yun that the Small Primordial World might not withstand the disturbance.
• Li Yun used the Eye of Heaven and Earth to detect a hidden scheme and punched toward the spot where he sensed it.

Li Yun identified the attacker as the Small Primordial Huang World's Heavenly Dao after Xuanming froze it, and explained that absorbing it offered little benefit and carried risks. Minghe asked Li Yun to spare it and leave it to him, and Li Yun agreed conditionally.

• Li Yun's attack exposed a fleeing black figure, and Xuanming froze it with her Law of Ice.
• Minghe led the others to examine the frozen octopus-like creature, and Li Yun identified it as the Small Primordial Huang World's Heavenly Dao.
• Yuanshi Tianzun asked whether the Heavenly Dao could be absorbed or merged with the Dao, and Li Yun warned that its limited potential made this dangerous and of little value.
• Jieyin called for the creature's death because it had ambushed Li Xuan, and Xuanming prepared to destroy it.
• Minghe asked Xuanming to spare the creature and promised to make it pay, then asked Li Yun to leave it to him; Li Yun agreed, but began to set a condition.

Li Yun offered Minghe the chance to use the Small Primordial World's Heavenly Dao as a path toward the Dao Ancestor level, warning that the cost would be immense. With Xuanming's approval and a promise to aid the Witch Clan in the future, Minghe bonded with the octopus and gained a mark that confirmed the opportunity was real, though difficult.

• Li Yun told Minghe that the octopus could offer him a chance to advance, but warned that the price would be immense.
• Minghe explained that only he could master the Small Primordial World's Heavenly Dao because it depended on the world he and Li Xuan had created.
• Xuanming gave the opportunity to Minghe in exchange for his future aid to the Witch Clan, and Li Yun agreed to discuss his request later.
• Minghe accepted the risks and approached the octopus to make contact with it.
• Blood-red light enveloped Minghe and the octopus, which entered his palm and left an octopus mark as his aura rose.
• Minghe sensed that perfecting the power could lead him to the Dao Ancestor level, and Li Yun and the others congratulated him.

Minghe learned that the weakened Heavenly Dao could advance to the half-step Dao Ancestor level if he gained control of the Small Primordial World and developed it. Meanwhile, Li Xuan reached the half-step Dao Ancestor level, and the others wondered whether he would go further and attain the Dao Ancestor level.

• Minghe explained that the weakened Heavenly Dao needed him to control and develop the Small Primordial World to advance, and that perfecting its vessel could offer a slim chance of reaching the Dao Ancestor level.
• Xuanming warned that perfecting the Small Primordial World would demand immense resources, but Minghe said he believed he could resolve the immediate problems.
• Li Xuan's aura and the power of his three clones rose to the half-step Dao Ancestor level, though the clones began to struggle.
• Jieyin, Xuanming, and the others recognized Li Xuan's immense strength and looked to Li Yun as they considered what the advancement meant.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked whether Li Xuan could advance again, prompting the others to realize that his goal was the Dao Ancestor level.

Li Xuan held up the heavens as the Small Primordial World rapidly expanded, while his three avatars cultivated with the laws he summoned. Li Yun revealed that the avatars were intended as sacrifices, and after one shattered into azure qi and was absorbed, Li Xuan's half-step Dao Ancestor cultivation stabilized and grew stronger.

• Li Xuan formed a giant body that braced the earth and held up the heavens, causing the Small Primordial World to expand and draw in chaos qi.
• Jieyin, Li Yun, and the others retreated from the expanding world, while Minghe welcomed its growth as beneficial to his plans.
• Li Xuan directed countless laws toward his three avatars, which stopped supporting the heavens and focused on cultivating as the onlookers realized they were attempting breakthroughs.
• When one avatar began to crack under the strain, Li Yun said the avatars had always been intended as sacrifices and that the failing one had no chance of surviving.
• Li Xuan shattered the avatar and absorbed its azure qi, stabilizing his half-step Dao Ancestor cultivation and increasing his strength tenfold.

Li Xuan recalled two clones, absorbing their foundations and rising to a level that Li Yun suspected was mid-stage Half-Step Dao Ancestor. The final avatar began transforming and reached the Half-Step Dao Ancestor level, leaving Li Yun and the others stunned.

• Jieyin and the others realized Li Xuan's One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones could transfer a clone's entire foundation back to its true body, and suspected Li Yun had two other such clones.
• Li Xuan recalled another clone after it gathered the laws into itself, causing his aura to rise and overpower Tongtian, Minghe, Xuanming, and Houtu.
• Li Yun wondered whether Li Xuan had reached the mid-stage of the Half-Step Dao Ancestor level, and Tongtian and the others recognized the gap between their strength and his.
• Li Xuan's final avatar began gathering the laws and energy of heaven and earth, then grew stronger instead of shattering.
• The final avatar surpassed the ultimate Saint level and reached the Half-Step Dao Ancestor level, astonishing Li Yun and everyone watching.

Li Xuan absorbed the returning clone and reached a level close to the Dao Ancestor, strengthening the Small Primordial World before forging a sword infused with chaos energy. The sword was still transforming when the chapter ended.

• The clone that had forced its way to the half-step Dao Ancestor level exploded and merged into Li Xuan, causing his aura to surge until the Sages had to retreat or rely on Tongtian's protection.
• Tongtian and the others marveled at Li Xuan's power, while Li Yun said they would ask him about his condition once he woke.
• After his aura stabilized, Li Xuan enlarged himself and expanded the Small Primordial World to nearly twice its previous size, increasing its scale to one-seventh of the Primordial World.
• Minghe thanked Li Yun for the expanded world and said he was prepared to handle the resources it would require.
• Li Xuan condensed a treasured sword that surpassed the rank of an innate supreme treasure, then drew chaos energy through a fissure to transform it.

Li Xuan forged a chaos spiritual treasure while expanding the Small Primordial World, and Minghe accepted the gift without resentment after Li Yun explained how the world could still evolve. Houtu entered the world to hold up heaven and earth, where she struggled through her injuries as her aura began to stabilize and rise.

• The Small Primordial World formed a chaos spiritual treasure for Li Xuan, and Minghe congratulated him rather than objecting.
• Li Yun told Minghe that the treasure would not harm the world and that its Heavenly Dao could help reforge the Yuantu Abi Twin Swords into innate supreme treasures, perhaps even a chaos spiritual treasure.
• Li Xuan finished condensing the sword, absorbed it into his soul, and then left the Small Primordial World for Chaos.
• Minghe urged Ancestral Witch Houtu to enter the Small Primordial World before it collapsed, and Houtu agreed.
• Houtu unleashed her Ancestor Witch True Body and began holding up heaven and earth, but she was injured and Xuanming cried out.
• Houtu told Xuanming she could endure the strain, then channeled her power until her aura began to stabilize and rise.

Li Xuan revealed that he had reached the late Half-Step Dao Ancestor stage and could contend with Dao Ancestors, while Li Yun promised to seek Humanity Dao’s aid to help him advance. The chapter ended when Houtu’s body began cracking and Xuanming was injured trying to reach her, leaving the cause of Houtu’s crisis unclear.

• Xuanming sensed that Houtu had stabilized and was still improving.
• Li Xuan told Minghe and the others that he had reached the late Half-Step Dao Ancestor stage and could fight a Dao Ancestor, though he could not defeat one.
• Li Yun promised to ask Humanity Dao to grant Li Xuan more power so he could reach Half-Step Dao Ancestor Great Perfection.
• Li Xuan said he had the foundation to advance but needed more energy, and Li Yun agreed to handle the matter.
• Houtu screamed as cracks spread across her body, and Xuanming was injured by overwhelming pressure when she tried to enter the Small Primordial World.
• Sect Master Tongtian and the others asked Li Xuan what was causing the pressure and Houtu’s condition.

Li Xuan pulled Houtu out of the collapsing Small Primordial World before the combined pressure of heaven and Chaos could kill her. Minghe then entered the world and began transforming his three Sage Realm clones into all things to revive it, revealing that he belonged to the Pangu Lineage.

• Li Xuan bound Houtu and pulled her from the Small Primordial World, explaining that its expansion had left it vulnerable to the crushing force of heaven and Chaos.
• Houtu thanked Li Xuan, and Yuanshi noted that her aura had become more stable despite the danger.
• Minghe entered the Small Primordial World and enlarged his body to resist the closing heaven and earth and the pressure of Chaos.
• Minghe's three Sage Realm clones dissolved into blood-red rain that spread across the world and brought forth vitality.
• Jieyin and the others questioned how Minghe could transform his body into all things, and Houtu explained that the ability belonged to the Pangu Lineage.
• Li Yun and the others remained calm, knowing Minghe had gained Pangu bloodline through absorbing essence blood.

Li Yun explained that Minghe possessed a powerful Pangu bloodline, and Minghe completed his Small Primordial World by turning the Heavenly Dao into four pillars. With the world supported and Minghe free, he began transforming his true form.

• Li Yun told Zhen Yuanzi and the others that Minghe had inherited and awakened a Pangu bloodline from the Sea of Blood.
• Zhunti questioned how Minghe would keep his newly created heaven and earth from collapsing, and Tongtian urged everyone to wait and watch.
• Minghe gathered the Small Primordial World's power of creation and called forth the captured octopus Heavenly Dao.
• The Heavenly Dao plunged into the gathered power of creation and transformed into four black heaven-supporting pillars.
• Minghe sent the pillars to the four directions, stabilized heaven and earth, broke free of his true form, and pointed at it to make it transform.

Minghe transformed his true body into a heavenly pillar to support the Small Primordial World, and Li Xuan explained the potential rewards and risks of his plan. After completing the first step, Minghe asked Li Yun how to protect and move the enormous world, and Li Yun hinted that it could be relocated even if Minghe could not take it back.

• Minghe turned his true body into a towering heavenly pillar, astonishing Tongtian, Yuanshi, and the others.
• Tongtian recognized Minghe's resolve, while Li Xuan explained that the Small Primordial World’s heavenly Dao could let Minghe advance to Dao Ancestor and eventually reclaim his true body even if the plan failed.
• Minghe emerged from the completed first step and told Li Yun that the enormous Small Primordial World was unsafe to leave behind and too large to store away.
• Minghe said the Small Primordial World's Heavenly Dao had exhausted its strength helping him and could not awaken or recover soon.
• Li Yun warned that carrying the world inside Minghe's body would make the Primordial World try to devour him, then said it could still be moved or relocated.
• Minghe asked Li Yun to enlighten him, as Zhen Yuanzi and the others listened eagerly.

Li Yun suggested tying Minghe’s Small Primordial World to the Earthly Dao, but the Earthly Dao proposed making it the Netherworld’s other side instead. Minghe learned that this arrangement could protect and develop his world while granting him authority over the eighteen levels of hell and a source of merit.

• Li Yun advised Minghe to shrink the Small Primordial World and banish it into Chaos, or attach it to the Earthly Dao as a special world.
• Minghe asked Houtu to contact the Earthly Dao, and she summoned an avatar before the gathered cultivators.
• Minghe explained the Small Primordial World, and the Earthly Dao judged that its already-born Dao made direct incorporation into the Earthly Dao nearly impossible.
• The Earthly Dao offered to make the Small Primordial World the other side of the Netherworld and transfer its dark matter and energy there.
• The Earthly Dao proposed giving Minghe authority over the Netherworld’s eighteen levels of hell so he could establish them in his world and earn merit for himself or the Asura Race.

Minghe accepted the Earthly Dao’s proposal after confirming that the Small Primordial World would remain safe, and the Earthly Dao took the world away to begin the next steps. Li Yun and his companions returned to the Primordial World, where Li Yun reached the Human Race and advised its newly appointed Saints to unlock their potential.

• Minghe agreed to the Earthly Dao’s proposal after learning that the world’s Heavenly Dao had become part of the heavenly pillar and could not be attacked without destroying it.
• The Earthly Dao shrank the Small Primordial World into his palm, then left with Minghe, Xuanming, Houtu, and Zhen Yuanzi.
• Li Yun and his companions returned to the Primordial World, while Nuwa hurried ahead to search for Fuxi.
• Tongtian joined Li Yun on the journey to the Human Race and entrusted the Interception Sect’s affairs to Lingbao Tianzun.
• Li Yun, Tongtian, and their companions arrived in the Human Race’s territory, where Xuandu and Luochuan’s group greeted them.
• Li Yun learned that Luochuan and the other two had reached the late Saint stage and urged them to cultivate by unlocking their Human Dao potential.

Li Yun returned to find the Human Race on the brink of division amid a fierce struggle over the final Five Emperors seat. He discovered that the Luomo Lineage was manipulating humans through the Devil Dao and set out to expose and stop them, with Luochuan and the other two joining him.

• Xuandu told Li Yun that the Human Race had been thrown into turmoil by the fight for the last Five Emperors seat.
• Li Yun calculated what had happened and sensed that the Human Race was close to falling apart, with the Devil Dao stirring conflict behind the scenes.
• Li Yun suspected the Luomo Lineage and ordered Li Xuan to create a vessel that could detect the Devil Dao's aura.
• Li Yun explained that Devil Dao infiltrators were bewitching humans and magnifying their emotions, while Xuandu and the Three Sovereigns vowed to make them pay.
• Luochuan and the other two asked to join Li Yun, who agreed to deal with the demons inside the Human Race first.

Li Xuan gave the Human Race four replicas of the Heaven-Devouring Devil Jar to uncover hidden Devil Race members, while Li Yun and Tongtian discussed the danger of the Devil Race’s infiltration. Tongtian reunited with Laozi in the Humanity Dao Space, where Laozi warned that the Heavenly Dao would now guard against the escape method Tongtian used.

• Li Xuan split replicas of the Heaven-Devouring Devil Jar among Luochuan and three others, instructing them to test Human Race members seeking to become Great Emperors.
• Tongtian warned Li Yun that the Devil Race might infiltrate other Races and target the Jie Teachings, and Li Yun agreed the threat was possible.
• Li Yun sent Li Xuan with Tongtian to the Humanity Dao Space to meet Laozi, then headed toward the Human Race’s Ancestral Temple to prepare for the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors’ conclusion.
• Li Xuan opened a Space Tunnel, and he and Tongtian arrived at the Palace of Supreme Purity, where Laozi welcomed them.
• Tongtian told Laozi he had escaped the Heavenly Dao’s control by using an avatar to swap a plum for a peach, but that Second Brother had failed to use the same method.
• Laozi praised Tongtian’s method and said the Heavenly Dao would now be alert, preventing Second Brother from using it.

Sect Master Tongtian asked Laozi to sever his Shangqing origin so the Three Pure Ones could avoid devouring one another as their cultivation grew. Laozi agreed and began extracting the origin, leaving Sect Master Tongtian in agony as his strength and life force declined.

• Laozi warned Sect Master Tongtian that Heavenly Dao and Hongjun were too powerful to confront recklessly.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked Laozi to make his body independent by separating it from Shangqing's origin and inheritance.
• Laozi realized Sect Master Tongtian feared the Three Pure Ones might eventually absorb and devour one another.
• Li Xuan warned that losing Shangqing's origin could weaken Sect Master Tongtian and leave him dangerously exposed.
• Laozi agreed to the separation and used his Dao Ancestor-level power to extract Sect Master Tongtian's Upper Pure origin.

Sect Master Tongtian surrendered his Shangqing Origin to Laozi, losing much of his strength but retaining his Half-Step Dao Ancestor cultivation. Laozi offered him a Limitless Pill, a Jade Talisman recording One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, and a great seal, then hinted that the seal was more valuable than the other gifts.

• Sect Master Tongtian had his Shangqing Origin stripped away but kept his cultivation at the Half-Step Dao Ancestor level.
• Laozi thanked Sect Master Tongtian for giving up his origin, and Sect Master Tongtian said the sacrifice had resolved a hidden danger.
• Laozi presented Sect Master Tongtian with a Limitless Pill that could improve Dao Ancestor-level cultivation and potential.
• Laozi gave Sect Master Tongtian a Jade Talisman containing One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, which could help him cultivate an origin of his own.
• Laozi said the great seal was more valuable than the pill and Jade Talisman, prompting Li Xuan and Sect Master Tongtian to ask what made it special.

Laozi explained that the great seal was a vessel for the Dao and urged Sect Master Tongtian to bind it as his master. Tongtian’s strength quickly recovered after refining it, and he asked Laozi what price he had paid to create it.

• Laozi told Sect Master Tongtian and Li Xuan that the great seal could become Tongtian’s own Dao and help him perfect his cultivation.
• Laozi explained that Li Xuan could not use the seal because the Human Dao constrained him, and said its secret might help them gather allies against the Heavenly Dao.
• Sect Master Tongtian bound the great seal and refined it, causing it to enter his sea of consciousness and rapidly restore much of his strength.
• Sect Master Tongtian sensed the seal’s power and asked Laozi what it had cost him to refine it.

Sect Master Tongtian stayed with Laozi to restore his origin while Li Xuan returned to guard the Human Race. At the Ancestral Temple, Ye Qingcheng confessed that she had devoured someone who invaded her sea of consciousness, and Li Yun reassured her that she had acted against an enemy.

• Laozi gave Sect Master Tongtian the remaining items and a Primal Chaos Golden Elixir, and Sect Master Tongtian chose to cultivate at Laozi's place.
• Li Xuan told Laozi that the Demonic Path had infiltrated the Human Race and left to protect it.
• Li Yun arrived at the Ancestral Temple and praised Ye Qingcheng's progress in cultivation and mastery of the Law of Devour.
• Ye Qingcheng confessed that someone had invaded her sea of consciousness while she condensed the Great Luo Dao Fruit, and her Law of Devour had consumed his body and soul.
• Li Yun concluded that the intruder had tried to possess Ye Qingcheng and told her she was not at fault for devouring an enemy.

Li Yun discovered that a demon had infiltrated the Great Emperor Palace and attacked Ye Qingcheng, explaining how demons had fueled conflict among the Human Race. He examined Ye Qingcheng’s sea of consciousness and found pure devilish qi hidden within the black gas she had devoured.

• Li Yun reassured Ye Qingcheng, then took her to the place where she had been cultivating when her soul was invaded.
• Li Yun used the Eye of Heaven and Earth to detect dense demonic qi lingering where the intruder’s body had scattered into ashes.
• Li Yun told Ye Qingcheng that a demon had attacked her because she was his Direct Disciple and could rally support in the struggle for the Great Emperor position.
• Ye Qingcheng vowed to wipe out the Devil Race, and Li Yun began examining her condition for dangers left by devouring the devil.
• Li Yun entered Ye Qingcheng’s sea of consciousness and found a strand of pure devilish qi at the core of the black gas.

Li Yun searched the demonic core hidden in Ye Qingcheng’s sea of consciousness and discovered that Luomo, the Son of Luohu, had arranged the attack with help from traitors among the guards. He proposed that Ye Qingcheng cultivate the Devil Dao alongside her Law of Devour, offering a dangerous path to power and revenge.

• Li Yun extracted the demonic qi from Ye Qingcheng and warned that Demon Race cultivators could have used it to attack her or seize her body.
• Li Yun searched the demonic core, which disintegrated into harmless energy after its remaining awareness had been erased.
• Li Yun found that traitors among his guards had helped Luomo, the Son of Luohu, infiltrate Ye Qingcheng’s residence.
• Li Yun told Ye Qingcheng that Luomo was stronger than an ordinary Saint, and she vowed to grow powerful enough to kill him.
• Li Yun offered Ye Qingcheng a dangerous path: combine the Law of Devour with Devil Dao cultivation to gain power quickly and eventually surpass Luomo.

Li Yun persuaded Ye Qingcheng to cultivate the Demonic Path, revealing that his incarnation Li Mo was a Devilish Dao Saint who could protect and guide her toward becoming a Dao Ancestor. After Ye Qingcheng agreed, Li Yun left her to recover and summoned the guards in Guangcheng to restrain figures identified from a Devil Race cultivator’s memories.

• Ye Qingcheng balked at Li Yun’s suggestion that she follow the Demonic Path, but Li Yun explained that his incarnation Li Mo was a Devilish Dao Saint and that the Demonic Path could offer her a path to the Dao Ancestor level.
• Li Yun told Ye Qingcheng that mastering the Demonic Path could help protect the Human Race, and she agreed to give it a try.
• Li Yun and Ye Qingcheng left the Sea of Consciousness, and Li Yun told her to recover while he dealt with hidden dangers.
• Li Yun summoned the guards to Guangcheng and used pillars of light to restrain figures he had identified from a Devil Race cultivator’s memories.
• The restrained cultivators questioned Li Yun as the gathered guards watched with suspicion.

Li Yun exposed cultivators who had aided the Demonic Path by opening a breach in the Great Emperor Palace’s restrictions, nearly allowing a demon to possess his Direct Disciple, Ye Qingcheng. He executed them painfully as a warning, then told the others they could leave safely but would be punished for betraying him or harming the Human Race and his disciples.

• Li Yun accused several cultivators of betraying him, prompting the others to demand an explanation and turn against the accused.
• The accused knelt and begged for mercy as Li Yun revealed they had helped the Demonic Path and opened a breach that nearly let a demon seize Ye Qingcheng’s body.
• Li Yun dismissed the betrayers’ pleas and used a strange power to destroy their bodies and Primordial Spirits amid their screams.
• After the last betrayer was annihilated, Li Yun warned the remaining cultivators that they could leave safely, but anyone who cooperated with the Demonic Path or harmed the Human Race or his disciples would meet the same fate.