Chapter Summaries

Laozi and his brothers discussed their hopes of regaining freedom and advancing after defeating the Heavenly Dao. Li Yun introduced Ye Qingcheng as his Inheritor of the Robe and Bowl, and Laozi gave her a treasure to control the risks of her Law of Devour before revealing an incomplete Chaos Spiritual Treasure mask.

• Laozi urged Yuanshi Tianzun and Sect Master Tongtian to cultivate toward the Saint Realm or beyond so they could reclaim their Original Primordial Spirits.
• Li Yun brought Ye Qingcheng before the Three Pure Ones and introduced her as his Inheritor of the Robe and Bowl.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Yuanshi Tianzun praised Ye Qingcheng’s cultivation and potential, while Laozi noticed that she practiced the Law of Devour.
• Li Yun explained that Ye Qingcheng had only recently activated the law and had tempered her Dao Heart, easing Laozi’s concerns about Qi Deviation.
• Laozi gave Ye Qingcheng the Soul-Suppressing Bell to protect her Primordial Spirit and then revealed a mysterious fragment of a Chaos Spiritual Treasure: an incomplete bronze mask.

Li Yun discovered that the incomplete Chaos Spiritual Treasure Laozi gave Ye Qingcheng contained a sleeping remnant soul that might belong to a Demon God. After Ye Qingcheng refined the bronze mask, its power transformed her aptitude into that of a lower-grade Innate God-Demon, while the remnant soul remained a potential danger.

• Li Yun used his Eye of Heaven and Earth to spot a sleeping, monstrous remnant soul inside the bronze mask and suspected it belonged to a Demon God.
• Li Yun urged Ye Qingcheng to thank Laozi, then told her to refine the mask under the Three Pure Ones' supervision.
• As Ye Qingcheng refined the mask, its fused Laws of Light and Fire and another Law awakened, and platinum flames scorched her body and soul.
• Laozi assured Yuanshi Tianzun and Sect Master Tongtian that the flames were purifying Ye Qingcheng, while Li Yun noticed the mask's Divine Patterns linking with her and the remnant soul seemingly cooperating.
• The flames ceased after purifying Ye Qingcheng, and Sect Master Tongtian recognized that her aptitude had risen to that of a lower-grade Innate God-Demon.

Ye Qingcheng awakened the Sacred Light Law within the Demon God Mask, and Li Yun advised her to cultivate it alongside her core Law of Devour. Recognizing her as a worthy successor, the Three Pure Ones began giving her treasured gifts, and Sect Master Tongtian summoned two swords of light and darkness.

• Ye Qingcheng identified the Demon God Mask’s power as the Ultimate Sacred Light Law and said her Law of Devour could not absorb it.
• Li Yun told Ye Qingcheng to cultivate the Sacred Light Law as a combat method while continuing to focus on the Law of Devour.
• Laozi urged Yuanshi Tianzun and Sect Master Tongtian to give Ye Qingcheng gifts, recognizing her as Li Yun’s successor.
• Yuanshi Tianzun gave Ye Qingcheng the Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Book of Light, which she accepted with Li Yun’s approval.
• Sect Master Tongtian summoned two resplendent swords, one black and one white, surrounded by light and darkness.

Ye Qingcheng received the Light Sword and Darkness Sword from Sect Master Tongtian and a Saint-level Supreme Purity Sword Dao inheritance from Laozi. After Li Yun settled her in the Great Emperor Palace and warned her not to refine the Gods and Devils Mask too deeply, he went to Shouyang Mountain to find Xuandu and discovered the disciples facing off in the Palace of Supreme Purity.

• Sect Master Tongtian gave Ye Qingcheng the Light Sword and Darkness Sword and explained they could become the Light-Dark Divine Sword when she reached the Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Li Yun asked Laozi to pass the Supreme Purity Sword Dao inheritance to Ye Qingcheng, and Laozi inscribed an improved Saint-level method onto a Jade Talisman.
• Laozi told Li Yun to check on Xuandu and help choose candidates for the Five Emperors.
• Li Yun brought Ye Qingcheng to the Great Emperor Palace, where he told her she could live and cultivate, and warned her not to refine the Gods and Devils Mask too deeply before completing the Law of Devour.
• Li Yun sensed that Xuandu had returned to Shouyang Mountain and went to the Palace of Supreme Purity, where he found the disciples divided into factions and asked Xuandu what was happening.

Li Yun advised Xuandu to let his disciples compete for the Five Emperor positions through their contributions to the Human Race, and Xuandu sent them out to prove themselves. After the disciples left, Li Yun warned that Xuandu had weakened his Direct Disciples’ standing, leaving Xuandu uncertain how to fix the problem.

• Xuandu told Li Yun that the disciples were eager for the Great Emperor positions and he could not decide whom to choose.
• Li Yun proposed that the disciples enter the Human Race and earn the positions through their contributions and prestige.
• Xuandu ordered Shi Yi and the other disciples to leave Shouyang Mountain and help the Human Race develop.
• The disciples departed together, leaving Li Yun and Xuandu alone in the hall.
• Li Yun warned Xuandu that he should have reserved positions for his Direct Disciples and explained that Xuandu remained Laozi’s sole true heir.
• Xuandu asked Li Yun what they should do now that the order had already been given.

Li Yun helped Xuandu resolve the dispute over the Five Emperors by urging him to let Shi Yi and the other disciples compete for positions. He then explained the costs and possibilities of becoming an Emperor, leaving Shi Yi and the others weighing the chance to pursue sainthood against leaving Xuandu’s tutelage.

• Li Yun told Xuandu that he could not reverse his decision but could arrange for Shi Yi and others to compete for positions behind the scenes.
• Xuandu recalled Shi Yi and the other two, then asked whether they resented him for how he had handled the matter.
• Li Yun explained that Xuandu had overestimated their resilience and reminded them that becoming one of the Five Emperors would mean leaving Shouyang Mountain and Xuandu’s tutelage.
• Li Yun told Shi Yi and the others that sainthood remained possible through several paths and that their potential gave them a chance to attain it.

Li Yun helped Xuandu reconcile with Shi Yi and the other disciples over their choices between pursuing the Five Emperors’ positions and seeking Sainthood. He revealed that Ye Qingcheng was his chosen Inheritor of the Robe and Bowl, then set off with Xuandu for the East Sea as Li Xuan and Minghe’s battle intensified in the Outer Chaos.

• Shi Yi and the other two disciples apologized to Xuandu after understanding why he had left their futures in their own hands.
• Li Yun told the disciples they could take time to choose between competing for the Five Emperors’ positions and pursuing Sainthood, then sent them back to their duties.
• Li Yun told Xuandu that he had accepted Ye Qingcheng as a Direct Disciple and intended to train her as his Inheritor of the Robe and Bowl, praising her Devouring Physique and mastery of Sacred Light.
• Li Yun and Xuandu departed Shouyang Mountain for the East Sea to investigate the Dragon Clan’s plans.
• Li Xuan and Minghe continued their fierce battle in the Outer Chaos, where their power shattered chaos and began forming a Small Thousand World.

Li Xuan and Ancestor Minghe ended their sparring after demonstrating that they could create a world within Chaos, leaving Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Zhen Yuanzi shaken by the difference between their strength and that of the Saints. Li Xuan then proposed that they recreate the pressure Great God Pangu faced when Attaining Dao through Strength, and the four Saints joined the attempt to open a world together.

• Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Zhen Yuanzi witnessed Li Xuan and Ancestor Minghe create a world within Chaos and realized how far their power exceeded the Saints'.
• Zhen Yuanzi took Ancestor Minghe's strength as proof that he could eventually reach the same level, while the others grew resentful toward Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao.
• Li Xuan and Ancestor Minghe stopped fighting, acknowledged that they were evenly matched, and agreed to end their sparring.
• Li Xuan asked Ancestor Minghe to help him experience the pressure Great God Pangu faced when Attaining Dao through Strength, and Ancestor Minghe agreed.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, Nuwa, and Zhen Yuanzi asked to join the attempt, and Li Xuan and Ancestor Minghe invited them to strike together as they opened a world.

Li Xuan and Ancestor Minghe joined the other Saints to create a Small Primordial World, gaining breakthroughs from their insights. As the new world began to collapse, Zhunti entered to hold it open, but his Heaven-and-Earth Dharma Form shattered under the immense pressure, forcing him to reveal his Bodhi True Body.

• Minghe and Li Xuan drew on Humanity Dao and Earth Dao power, while Jieyin, Zhunti, Nuwa, and Zhen Yuanzi drew on Dao power to strengthen themselves.
• Minghe and Li Xuan split the Chaos open, and the six Saints joined forces to expand the new world into a Small Primordial World.
• Minghe and Li Xuan gained insights and breakthroughs from creating heaven and earth, while the other Saints realized the world was rapidly collapsing.
• Li Xuan urged the others to use their Heaven-and-Earth Dharma Forms to hold the world open, and Zhunti entered first.
• Zhunti's Heaven-and-Earth Dharma Form cracked under the pressure, so he activated his Bodhi True Body to resist the collapsing world.

Li Xuan and Ancestor Minghe reflected on the Great Dao while Zhunti escaped the failing Small Primordial World after holding heaven and earth apart for three days. Meanwhile, Xuandu sealed the East Sea Dragon Clan involved in the affair, and Li Yun chose to wait rather than interfere with the Three Human Emperors and Five Emperors.

• Li Xuan and Ancestor Minghe thanked their fellow Daoist and discussed how Pangu had reached the Great Dao beyond Primordial Unity Limitless.
• Jieyin told Li Xuan that Zhunti had held the Small Primordial World apart for three days, but Zhunti's Bodhi True Body began to crack.
• Jieyin entered the Small Primordial World and used his thousand-handed golden body to hold heaven and earth apart while Zhunti escaped.
• Zhunti said the ordeal had exhausted him but would bring great gains, and Zhen Yuanzi and Nuwa reflected on the paths they had chosen.
• Xuandu used the Taiji Diagram to seal the involved Dragon Clan members within the East Sea, and Li Yun said they should wait rather than interfere in the Three Human Emperors and Five Emperors' affairs.

Li Yun went to Candle Dragon to question him about the Dragon Clan’s attack and flooding of the East Sea Coast. Candle Dragon denied knowing about the flooding and promised to deal with those responsible, while Li Yun left the Human Race to handle the renegade dragons.

• Xuandu agreed that he and Li Yun should not interfere with the Three Sovereigns’ trials, and offered to guard the area.
• Li Yun traveled to Candle Dragon’s territory to ask him to keep watch over the Dragon Clan figure who had attacked him.
• Candle Dragon apologized for the earlier attack and asked Li Yun’s forgiveness.
• Li Yun asked whether Candle Dragon had known that the Dragon Clan flooded the East Sea Coast, and Candle Dragon said he had not.
• Candle Dragon vowed to confront the Dragon Clan members responsible, while Li Yun said the Human Race would deal with the renegade dragons themselves.

Candle Dragon agreed to deal with the Dragon Clan members who had attacked the Human Race, while Li Yun warned him that Eastern Duke had Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao backing him. At the East Sea Dragon Palace, the Four Seas Dragon Kings confronted Candle Dragon, and Li Yun discovered that each carried a segment of Heavenly Dao Tentacle within their body.

• Candle Dragon accepted Li Yun’s chance for the Dragon Clan to atone and vowed to handle the matter himself.
• Li Yun warned Candle Dragon that Eastern Duke had the support of Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao, but Candle Dragon set out to correct the Dragon Clan’s wrongdoing.
• Candle Dragon reached the East Sea Dragon Palace and unleashed his pressure, shattering its barrier and damaging the palace.
• The Four Seas Dragon Kings emerged at Quasi-Saint Late Stage strength and resisted Candle Dragon’s pressure.
• Li Yun used the Eye of Heaven and Earth and discovered that a Heavenly Dao Tentacle had replaced each Dragon King’s core power.

The Four Seas Dragon Kings refused Candle Dragon’s demand to stop serving the Heavenly Dao, and the five dragons fought while Li Yun watched. Elsewhere, Eastern Duke found Queen Mother of the West transformed by devilish qi and confronted her in her cave.

• Li Yun searched the East Sea Dragon Palace for Eastern Duke but could not locate him because Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao concealed his whereabouts.
• Candle Dragon rebuked the Four Seas Dragon Kings for flooding the East Sea Coast and warned them that their actions endangered the Dragon Clan.
• The Four Seas Dragon Kings defended their choice to serve the Heavenly Dao and challenged Candle Dragon to a fight.
• Candle Dragon attacked the four kings, and the five dragons clashed as Li Yun watched without intervening.
• Eastern Duke opened a Restriction at the former site of Penglai Immortal Island and found Queen Mother of the West transformed into a member of the Devil Race.
• Queen Mother of the West greeted Eastern Duke with exhaustion and resignation.

Eastern Duke confronted the badly wounded Queen Mother of the West and offered to remove the lingering damage from the Saint’s pursuit in exchange for her primal yin. They negotiated conditions for restoring their former partnership, and the chapter ended with Queen Mother of the West agreeing only if he healed her first.

• Eastern Duke approached Queen Mother of the West, who rejected him but acknowledged her worsening injuries.
• Eastern Duke offered to remove the Saint’s Power and Heavenly Dao’s power from her body in exchange for her primal yin.
• Queen Mother of the West demanded that Eastern Duke swear a Dao Heart oath, heal her, publicly recognize her as his Daoist Companion, and grant her partial control over his forces.
• Eastern Duke demanded that Queen Mother of the West also swear an oath to become his Daoist Companion and commit herself to their shared future.
• Queen Mother of the West agreed, but required Eastern Duke to heal her before her oath could take effect.

Eastern Duke agreed to let Queen Mother of the West recover before swearing a Dao Heart oath, but Luomo interrupted them and exposed their plans. Luomo overpowered Eastern Duke and ordered Queen Mother of the West to come with him.

• Eastern Duke agreed to Queen Mother of the West’s condition, and she began to swear a Dao Heart oath.
• Luomo entered the cave, dispelled Eastern Duke’s pressure, and accused Queen Mother of the West of betraying the Demonic Path.
• Eastern Duke attacked Luomo with his dragon-headed cane, but Luomo destroyed the Blood Dragon with a wave of demonic qi.
• Queen Mother of the West recognized Luomo as the Son of Luohu and begged Eastern Duke to take her away.
• Luomo struck Eastern Duke down with one sweep and warned him not to interfere.
• Luomo approached Queen Mother of the West and ordered her to come with him, threatening her if she resisted.

Eastern Duke drew on the Heavenly Dao’s power to fight Luomo, while Queen Mother of the West tried to escape being taken by Luomo. Eastern Duke helped her flee to his territory, leaving him to taunt Luomo as the battle continued.

• Queen Mother of the West urged Eastern Duke to attack Luomo, promising that defeating him could earn Hongjun’s favor and perhaps Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Eastern Duke summoned the Heavenly Dao Tentacle, raised his strength to the False Saint realm, and clashed with Luomo using his Dragon Head Staff.
• As Luomo’s power cracked the space around them, Eastern Duke gave Queen Mother of the West a spatial Jade Talisman and told her to go.
• Queen Mother of the West crushed the talisman, then destroyed her High-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure hairpin to block Luomo’s attack and escape through the Space Tunnel.
• Eastern Duke laughed and taunted Luomo, pleased that Queen Mother of the West had reached the destination he arranged.

Queen Mother of the West used her Extreme Yin Origin to heal herself and greatly increase her power, while Li Yun also advanced to the Quasi-Saint Late Stage. Li Yun then intervened in the battle at the East Sea Dragon Palace and struck down the Four Seas Dragon Kings.

• Queen Mother of the West emerged from the secret chamber healed and near the Half-Saint stage, intending to absorb her gains and take revenge on Eastern Duke and Luomo.
• Li Yun woke, realized Queen Mother of the West had used her origin core, and found his cultivation had reached the Quasi-Saint Late Stage.
• Li Yun left the secret chamber and arrived at the East Sea Dragon Palace, where Candle Dragon was struggling against the Four Seas Dragon Kings.
• Li Yun opened the Thirty-Six Heavens and sent a giant palm toward Candle Dragon and the Four Seas Dragon Kings, allowing Candle Dragon to withdraw.
• The Four Seas Dragon Kings joined forces to meet Li Yun's attack, but the collision shattered the palm and sent them flying with cracked bodies and fading auras.

Li Yun defeated the Four Seas Dragon Kings and demanded an explanation, threatening to destroy them and the Dragon Clan. Candle Dragon pleaded for their lives, but the Dragon Kings insisted they would accept the consequences of their defeat, and Candle Dragon rejected their resignation.

• Li Yun overwhelmed the Four Seas Dragon Kings, leaving them injured and terrified by the disparity in their strength.
• Candle Dragon recognized that Li Yun had used the Thirty-Six Heavens, once a Dragon Clan foundation, to amplify his power.
• Li Yun demanded an explanation from the Four Seas Dragon Kings and threatened to kill them or wipe out the Dragon Clan.
• Li Yun summoned the Profound Yellow Axe, forcing the Four Seas Dragon Kings to the ground as Candle Dragon begged him to spare them.
• Candle Dragon argued that the Dragon Kings had been deceived and that their actions did not represent the Dragon Clan.
• The East Sea Dragon King and the other three accepted responsibility for their defeat, but Candle Dragon angrily insisted the Dragon Clan would not acknowledge their actions as its own decision.

Li Yun confronted Candle Dragon over the Dragon Clan’s role in the Human Race’s losses and demanded the Dragon Clan’s entire fortune. He left Candle Dragon to choose between surrendering it and risking the Four Seas Dragon Kings’ deaths.

• Candle Dragon questioned the Four Seas Dragon Kings, and the East Sea Dragon King admitted they had carried out the deed under restraint and could not resist.
• Li Yun rejected Candle Dragon’s plea to spare the Four Seas Dragon Kings and collected them into his Thirty-Six Heavens.
• Candle Dragon offered compensation and asked Li Yun to release the Dragon Kings, but Li Yun overwhelmed him with his aura and refused to give him face.
• Candle Dragon realized Li Yun had come for him and asked what he wanted.
• Li Yun demanded all of the Dragon Clan’s fortune and told Candle Dragon he could refuse, though the Four Seas Dragon Kings would likely perish.

Luomo arrived and confronted the wounded Eastern Duke while Li Yun chose to stay out of their fight. After Li Yun revealed that the Eastern Duke was favored by Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao, Luomo turned hostile, leaving the Eastern Duke to prepare for battle.

• Luomo appeared, and Li Yun realized he had come after the Eastern Duke, whose injuries left him at a disadvantage.
• Li Yun withdrew and offered to let Luomo settle his business with the Eastern Duke, while Candle Dragon saw a possible chance to survive.
• The Eastern Duke urged Li Yun to oppose Luomo because he followed the Devil Dao, but Li Yun refused and dismissed their conflict as unrelated to him.
• Li Yun revealed that the Eastern Duke was chosen by the Heavenly Dao and Hongjun, provoking Luomo's anger and killing intent.
• The Eastern Duke summoned his spiritual treasures and asked Luomo whether he intended to fight until one of them died.