Chapter Summaries

Laozi and the others discussed how Hongjun might use assimilation with the Dao to seize control of the Primordial Desolation World, and considered ways to weaken his influence while strengthening the Heavenly Dao. They agreed to seek allies and improve the world, leaving the group to consider Jiang Yun's proposal to further perfect the Primordial Desolation.

• Laozi suspected that Hongjun intended to devour the Heavenly Dao through assimilation with the Dao, and Jieyin urged everyone not to panic while the Heavenly Dao remained stronger.
• Yuanshi argued that joining the Mystic Sect had strengthened Hongjun, while Nuwa and Tongtian said membership had also protected them and helped them secure the Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Jiang Yun warned that Hongjun could intensify the Great Tribulation to damage the world and weaken the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhunti proposed seeking an alliance with the Witch and Demon Clans while avoiding the Immortal Court to prevent information from leaking.
• Laozi suggested recruiting Purple Heaven Palace cultivators and replacing Hongjun's Immortal Dao influence with their own methods, while Zhenyuanzi said restoring the western and northern lands could strengthen the Heavenly Dao.
• Jiang Yun proposed that further perfecting the Primordial Desolation World could increase the Heavenly Dao's power, prompting the others to consider the idea.

Jiang Yun explained how the Primordial Desolation World was incomplete and warned that Hongjun and other Chaos Demon Gods might be weakening it to seize control. The assembled powers formed a secret alliance to restore the world and awaken the Earthly Dao and Human Dao.

• Jiang Yun showed that stranded souls damaged the World Origin and argued that the missing cycle of souls revealed an incomplete Earthly Dao.
• Jiang Yun described the declining spiritual energy and proposed that the world’s origin was leaking because the Primordial Desolation World was incomplete.
• Jiang Yun warned that Hongjun and other Chaos Demon Gods may have suppressed the Earthly Dao and Human Dao, leaving the Heavenly Dao vulnerable to their control.
• Jiang Yun proposed repairing the western and northern lands, awakening the Earthly Dao and Human Dao, and investigating the loss of Heaven and Earth Origin.
• Laozi agreed to approach the Witch Clan, Nuwa agreed to consult the Demon Court and investigate the Human Dao, and Jieyin and others pledged to repair the west and investigate the North Sea ruins.
• Laozi and Jieyin took charge of coordinating the east and west, and the gathered powers swore an oath and formed a secret alliance.

Jiang Yun and the others traveled from Kunlun to Longevity Mountain, where they learned that Guixu might be a route for Chaos Demon Gods to corrupt the North Sea. They secured Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun’s help, then returned to Mount Sumeru to prepare for action.

• The Three Pure Ones and their allies formed the Hong Sect, swearing an oath to oppose the invading Chaos Demon Gods.
• Jiang Yun traveled west from Kunlun with Jieyin, Zhunti, Ziwei Star Lord, Zhenyuanzi, and Hong Yun, and discussed the Three Pure Ones’ treasures along the way.
• At Wuzhuang Temple, Jieyin and Zhunti explained that Guixu might contain Chaos Demon God remnants and the Reincarnation Purple Lotus, while Hong Yun revealed scales tainted with Chaos Malevolent Qi from a frenzied flood dragon.
• Jiang Yun deduced that Chaos Demon Gods were trying to corrupt North Sea creatures through Guixu before Hongjun merged with the Dao.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun agreed to help investigate Guixu, and the group returned to Mount Sumeru through the Star Gate.
• Zhunti sent Jiang Yun to summon disciples from the Spirit Land Nodes so they could distribute spiritual treasures among them.

Jieyin and Zhunti rewarded their disciples with spiritual treasures for their work developing spiritual lands across the West. The disciples returned to their assignments better equipped, while Jiang Yun was left to distribute refined treasures to the outer disciples.

• Jiang Yun summoned the disciples stationed at the spiritual lands to Mount Sumeru, where Jieyin and Zhunti prepared to distribute treasures.
• Jieyin rewarded Medicine Master, Maitreya, and Ksitigarbha for their work in the northeastern jungle, southeastern lava valley, and southern desert.
• Jieyin bestowed paired sun and moon treasures upon Sunlight and Moonlight for their work in the southwestern marshes.
• Zhunti gave Zhao Gongming the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls after hearing of his work in the Hurricane Plains.
• Zhunti bestowed treasures upon Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, Bixiao, and Kinnara for developing the Frozen Plains and eastern spiritual land.
• Jieyin and Zhunti set aside refined Houtian Spiritual Treasures for Jiang Yun to distribute among the outer disciples according to their cultivation.

Jieyin and Zhunti heard reports on the Spirit Lands’ progress and urged their disciples to recruit and cultivate local talent as the Western Teachings prepared for the approaching tribulation. Afterward, Medicine Master borrowed Jiang Yun’s Five Elements Spirit Pearls to aid his cultivation, while the Saints gave Jiang Yun materials and treasures.

• Jieyin and Zhunti distributed spirit treasures, and Zhunti advised Zhao Gongming on the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl’s potential to evolve into a world.
• Medicine Master reported that the northeastern Miasma Jungle had been purified and its Spirit Vein had grown into a primary Spirit Vein, while the other disciples described the progress of their Spirit Lands.
• Jieyin and Zhunti praised the disciples’ work and instructed them to recruit local cultivators and teach them the Western Teachings.
• After the reports, Medicine Master asked Jiang Yun to lend him the Five Elements Spirit Pearls so he could cultivate the five elements and attempt a breakthrough, and Jiang Yun agreed.
• Jieyin gave Jiang Yun spirit materials, and Zhunti noted that he still lacked an appropriate offensive treasure before Jiang Yun left the hall feeling confident about the Western Teachings’ future.

Empress Nuwa returned from Kunlun and warned Fuxi that Hongjun’s Three Corpses Method concealed a danger and that his plan to merge with the Dao threatened the Primordial Desolation. She and Fuxi realized the Heavenly Dao had obscured the final two hundred years of lectures, then went to Emperor Jun to summon the Demon Court’s leaders for an urgent discussion.

• Empress Nuwa sealed the Heavenly Secrets Hall and told Fuxi that the Three Corpses Method could backfire unless its spiritual treasures were of the same origin, while Hongjun intended to seize control of the Heavenly Dao.
• Fuxi realized he and the demon race had unknowingly missed two hundred years of lectures on Hunyuan Great Luo, and he and Empress Nuwa reasoned that the Heavenly Dao had clouded their perception of time.
• Empress Nuwa explained Jiang Yun’s ideas about the Heavenly Dao’s development and tried to teach Fuxi the Hunyuan method, but he could not understand it.
• Empress Nuwa and Fuxi went to the Sun Palace to discuss their plans with Emperor Jun, who was refining star banners for the Heavenly Cycle Stars Great Formation.
• Empress Nuwa and Fuxi insisted that the Demon Court’s leaders be summoned to discuss a threat to their paths to the Dao, so Emperor Jun stopped refining and called them together.

Nuwa warned the demon race that the Three Corpses Method had hidden requirements and revealed Hongjun’s plan to seize control of the Primordial Desolation World. Di Jun rallied the demon race to resist Hongjun, and they joined the Hongmen Alliance Covenant.

• Nuwa explained that the Three Corpses Method required objects of the same origin and offered alternatives, including innate spiritual roots and proving the Dao through a world.
• Nuwa told the demon race that Hongjun intended to devour the Primordial Desolation Heavenly Dao, and that the Three Pure Ones, the Western Teachings, and Wuzhuang Temple had already formed an alliance against him.
• Kunpeng, Shang Yang, and the other demon race members called for resistance, while Di Jun declared that the demon race would fight any Chaos Demon God who threatened the Primordial Desolation World.
• Di Jun, Nuwa, and the assembled demon race established an oath to the Great Dao and joined the Hongmen Alliance Covenant.

Jiang Yun helped the Three Xiao refine their new Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, and the little panda unexpectedly guided its evolution. Yunxiao broke through, and the formation gained the power to contend with a Great Luo as Bixiao began considering how it might combine with the Star Gate.

• Jiang Yun hosted Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao, who asked him to assess the formation they had developed using the Primordial Chaos Golden Dipper.
• Yunxiao demonstrated the rudimentary Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, and Jiang Yun identified a flaw and suggested changing its Kan-position rune pattern.
• The little panda resonated with the formation and released Yin-Yang Two Energies, prompting Jiang Yun to combine the formation with a simplified Lesser Heavenly Cycle Star Formation.
• Yunxiao's cultivation surged toward a breakthrough, and Jiang Yun used the Twelve-grade White Lotus and Congenital substance to help the Three Xiao.
• After Yunxiao broke through, Jiang Yun assessed that their transformed formation could contend with a Great Luo, while Bixiao proposed combining it with the Star Gate.

After digesting the Three Firmaments’ lecture, Jiang Yun used the Chaos Spirit Vein fragment and Treasure Distribution Cliff to transform his Inner World and set it on the path toward becoming a Great Thousand World. He planned to accelerate its evolution with his Three Corpses while continuing to prepare for a breakthrough.

• The Three Firmaments returned to the Frozen Plains, and Jiang Yun began secluded cultivation after organizing and completing what he had learned from their lecture.
• Jiang Yun placed Jieyin’s Chaos Spirit Vein fragment in his Inner World, where its Chaos Law began strengthening the world’s origin and barrier.
• Jiang Yun analyzed and dismantled the Treasure Distribution Cliff, spreading its Chaos Spiritual Power Crystal through the world and merging its Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane with the world’s boundary and core.
• The merged membrane began absorbing Chaos Qi and producing Innate Spiritual Qi, accelerating the growth of Kunlun Wood, Spirit Veins, and Jiang Yun’s Inner World.
• Jiang Yun deduced that his astral apertures might evolve into Lesser Thousand Worlds and decided to use the Three Corpses Proving Dao Method to hasten his Inner World’s evolution.
• Jiang Yun resolved to further cultivate the Starry Sky Body Refining Method and prepare his body and primordial spirit before attempting a breakthrough.

After nearly ten thousand years of seclusion, Jiang Yun rededuced the Starry Sky Body Refining Method around the worlds within his apertures and completed nurturing spirits in his main apertures. He emerged to rest briefly, knowing he would soon return to seclusion.

• Jiang Yun used the Dao Derivation Disk to revise the Starry Sky Body Refining Method, defining its fourth layer as Primordial Unity Nurturing Worlds and outlining a fifth layer, Hongmeng Seed World.
• Jiang Yun stabilized the conflicting energies in his apertures by using the Seven Luminaries Star Gods and a miniature Star Dou formation to turn them into Star Essence.
• Jiang Yun completed the revised cultivation method, and the laws of his inner worlds raised his physical strength to that of an early-stage Quasi-Saint.
• Jiang Yun repeatedly used Aura of Merit and the Treasure Gourd to nurture True Spirits in all his main apertures.
• Jiang Yun left the Quiet Room after nearly ten thousand years, spoke with the Black Tortoise, and relaxed with tea and a walk through the bamboo forest.

Jiang Yun severed his good corpse and reached the Quasi-Saint realm, strengthening his Inner World and gaining command of its Heavenly Dao. After learning that the Western Teachings would explore the Ruins in a thousand years, he prepared himself and his treasures for the expedition.

• Jiang Yun abandoned his plan to populate his Inner World with races from the Primordial Desolation after sensing it would incur immense karma and force the world's growth unnaturally.
• Jiang Yun nourished and severed his good corpse, merging it with the Inner World's Heavenly Dao and breaking through to the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Jiang Yun tested his new command of the laws and watched his good corpse accelerate the Inner World's growth by increasing its intake of Chaos Qi.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, and Ziwei Star Lord congratulated Jiang Yun and showed him seven safe routes through the chaotic vortexes surrounding the Ruins, where the group planned to set out in a thousand years.
• Jiang Yun and his good corpse strengthened the Yin-Yang Fetal Membrane against chaotic forces, while Jiang Yun refined spiritual treasures and discovered that the Sin Mirror could illuminate the Land of Nine Netherworlds.

Jieyin, Zhunti, Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, Jiang Yun, and Ziwei Star Lord set out for the Land of Return to Ruins by way of the Northern Sea Dragon Palace. Meanwhile, the Three Pure Ones emerged from seclusion and found the Demon Clan negotiating an alliance with the Witch Clan, then revealed themselves and asked to join the meeting.

• Jieyin and Zhunti prepared for the journey by leaving their corpses behind to guard Mount Sumeru, while Zhenyuanzi left his good corpse at Wuzhuang Temple.
• Jiang Yun retrieved the Five Elements Spirit Pearls from Medicine Master, who had used them to reach the perfected Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and then began consolidating his foundation.
• Ziwei Star Lord joined the group on Mount Sumeru, and Zhenyuanzi proposed taking the Star Gate to the Northern Sea Dragon Palace to ask Ao Shun for news.
• The Three Pure Ones emerged from seclusion after reaching the mid-stage Quasi-Sage realm, opening Lesser Thousand Worlds and discovering that World Power strengthened their Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.
• The Three Pure Ones secretly watched Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Demon Master Kunpeng meet Dijiang, Zhujiuyin, and Houtu to discuss bringing the Witch Clan into an alliance against the threat from Hongjun and the Chaos Demon Gods.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian revealed themselves and asked to join the meeting at Pangu Hall.

Jiang Yun and the others visited Dragon King Ao Shun to learn about the increasingly unstable Ruins of Return, then joined forces to clear its perimeter. After following the dragon race’s safe route, they entered the vortex to investigate its depths.

• Ao Shun told Jieyin, Zhunti, Jiang Yun, and the others that the dragon and Kunpeng clans were defending against Chaos Aura and powerful beasts around the Ruins of Return, and gave them a map of a safer route.
• Jiang Yun and the others traveled to the Ruins of Return, where Jieyin proposed they split up to clear the vicious beasts around the vortex.
• Jiang Yun and the Mysterious Turtle found Great Luo-level Chaos variants hiding behind a barrier, and Jiang Yun destroyed one with his physical strength alone.
• Within five hundred years, Jiang Yun and the others cleared the perimeter and reduced the area affected by the Ruins of Return to less than ten thousand miles outside the vortex.
• Jieyin followed the route on the dragon scale into the vortex, and Jiang Yun and the others followed him.

Jiang Yun and his companions descended into Guixu, where his Inner World let him withstand its chaotic power and guide them toward a hidden site. They discovered a soul-sacrifice altar suppressing a massive Demon God skull, which awakened and called them nourishment.

• Jiang Yun found that his Inner World could filter Guixu’s chaotic aura and replenish his strength, so he secretly used its power to help protect the group.
• The group reached a sealed dark continent where their Heavenly Dao connection, divine sense, and escape techniques were severely restricted.
• Jiang Yun’s spiritual treasures guided the group to a broken celestial island, where they fought chained Great Luo beasts controlled by a Demon God and defeated them.
• The group found a Twelve-petal Reincarnation Purple Lotus above an altar carpeted with sacrificed souls, and Jiang Yun’s Sin Mirror revealed a colossal Demon God skull beneath it.
• The rift valley rose around the group as the bronze pillars awakened, and the Demon God’s voice declared that nourishment had arrived.

Jiang Yun and the others were trapped in a closing rift controlled by a powerful Demon God's remnant soul, whose domain continually revived its attacking beasts. As their escape stalled, Jiang Yun brought out his Earthly Dao treasures, hoping their laws could strengthen the seal.

• A Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal aura erupted beneath the rift, and Jieyin sheltered the group with the Twelve-Petaled Golden Lotus as the rift began closing.
• Zhunti and Ziwei Star Lord failed to break through the Chaos Law-solidified walls, so Jiang Yun formed a Star Dharma Form and cleared a path through the beasts.
• Black chains bound Jiang Yun's Dharma Form, and he braced the closing rift while Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun helped him hold back the attackers.
• The Demon God's chains unleashed controlled Chaos beasts that blocked every escape route, and Jieyin warned the Black Tortoise against risking possession by the soul-controlling Demon God.
• Zhunti proposed using the sealing power to counter the Demon God's domain, while Jiang Yun brought out the Three Lives Stone, Sin Mirror, and other Earthly Dao treasures to draw on their laws.

Jiang Yun and the others awakened the Way of Earth Will and escaped the Reincarnation Domain, reaching the Reincarnation Purple Lotus’s stone platform. They learned how the Reincarnation Demon God’s remnant soul had weakened the Way of Earth, and realized they needed to restore its Origin to escape.

• Jiang Yun activated his Earth Dao Spiritual Treasures, causing them to resonate with the Reincarnation Purple Lotus and briefly suppress the Chaos Demon God.
• Jieyin led the group out of the rift valley as the Black Tortoise soul opened a passage and Jiang Yun shielded them with World Power.
• When the group reached the stone platform, the Reincarnation Purple Lotus revealed the history of the demon god’s suppression, its severed fingers, and the Way of Earth’s decline.
• Zhenyuanzi’s Earth Scroll updated with a map of the Primordial Desolation’s earth veins as the group saw the Nine Netherworlds Membrane crack widening and leaking Origin.
• Jieyin and Zhenyuanzi concluded that they had to restore the Way of Earth’s Origin, but the demon god’s fingers and dependents made repairing the membrane dangerous.

Jiang Yun comprehended the Reincarnation Law in the Purple Lotus, transformed his Inner World’s Earth Dao, and successfully severed his Evil Corpse. He and the others devised and completed two arrays to seal the Demon God and repair the Nine Netherworlds World, then prepared to put their plan into action.

• Jiang Yun used the Reincarnation Purple Lotus to comprehend its laws, transforming his Inner World’s Earth Dao and severing his Evil Corpse.
• Jiang Yun explained that the Ancestral Witches were the most suitable candidates to help awaken the Earth Dao, but the group lacked a way to put that insight into practice.
• Jiang Yun proposed combining his Earth Dao Spiritual Treasures with the Purple Lotus to strengthen the seal, while Jieyin outlined how the others could clear the Demon God’s severed fingers and repair the world’s fetal membrane.
• The group spent ten thousand years preparing, with Jiang Yun creating the Primordial Chaos Fetal Membrane Great Array and the others deducing the Youming Evil Sealing Great Formation.
• After sharing their array principles, Jiang Yun and the others finished their preparations and were ready to act.

Jieyin led the group in sealing the Reincarnation Demon God and repairing the Nine Nether Membrane while Jiang Yun and Zhenyuanzi maintained the formation. The finger-bone giants were defeated and sealed, though Jiang Yun still had to hold the formation as the others worked on the cracks.

• Jieyin assigned Jiang Yun and Zhenyuanzi to reinforce the sealing formation, then taught the others the Void Spirit Protection Seal and Reincarnation Demon-Sealing Art.
• Jiang Yun arranged the Earth Dao Spiritual Treasures around the Reincarnation Purple Lotus while Zhenyuanzi linked the Earth Scroll to the Nine Netherworlds' ley lines, activating the Youming Evil Sealing Great Formation.
• The Reincarnation Demon God attacked the formation with purple-black chains, but Jiang Yun's Inner World shielded the platform until six stone-gate phantoms strengthened the seal and broke the chains.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, Hong Yun, and Ziwei Star Lord went to the membrane cracks while Jiang Yun and Zhenyuanzi maintained the formation; Kunlun Wood began absorbing the escaping Origin of the Way of Earth and developing reincarnation patterns.
• Hong Yun and Ziwei Star Lord disrupted the giants formed from the Demon God's finger bones with star cores, allowing Jieyin and Zhunti to sever their connection to Chaos and seal them in a Bottle-shaped Spiritual Treasure.

Jiang Yun and the others repaired the Nine Netherworld Membrane and strengthened the seal holding the Reincarnation Demon God, expecting the world to suppress it over time. The demon god sacrificed its body and fled toward the membrane scar, but Jiang Yun destroyed most of its remnant soul before the last portion escaped into Chaos.

• Jieyin, Ziwei Star Lord, Hong Yun, and the others repaired the membrane’s cracks and established formations to mend and guard its scar.
• Ziwei Star Lord and Hong Yun left Three Corpses incarnations to watch the formations while the others returned to help suppress the demon god.
• Jieyin told Jiang Yun to remain and oversee the Youming Evil Sealing Great Formation for roughly thirty thousand years as the Nine Netherworlds World recovered.
• The Reincarnation Demon God stripped away its Reincarnation Origin and used the chaos to disintegrate its body and flee with its skull and remnant soul.
• Jiang Yun sensed the demon god escaping toward the membrane scar and shattered its skull, but a small part of its remnant soul slipped through into Chaos.

Jiang Yun and his allies restored the Nine Netherworlds World after the Reincarnation Demon God's remnant escaped, then helped Jieyin claim the Reincarnation Purple Lotus. With the crisis resolved, Jiang Yun and Senior Mysterious Turtle set out to search the Ruins of Return for the Giant Turtle Clan, joined by their companions.

• Jiang Yun explained that he had destroyed most of the Reincarnation Demon God's remnant, though a fragment escaped through the gap in the world membrane.
• Over ten thousand years, Jiang Yun, Zhenyuanzi, and their allies transformed the Demon God's body into the Nine Netherworlds World's foundation and restored the world.
• Jiang Yun used the Kunlun Wood and his Inner World's Reincarnation Law to replace the Reincarnation Purple Lotus, allowing Jieyin to take the original lotus for his Three Corpses Method.
• Jiang Yun told Jieyin he planned to search the remains of the two immortal islands with Senior Mysterious Turtle for traces of the Giant Turtle Clan.
• Jieyin, Zhunti, Ziwei Star Lord, Hong Yun, and Zhenyuanzi agreed to join Jiang Yun and Senior Mysterious Turtle in exploring the Ruins of Return.