Chapter Summaries

Zhou Qingqing arranged Earth Dao divine offices and masters for Yaoji and Nüwa, drawing Xuanming Ancestral Witch and Zhen Yuanzi closer to the Earth Dao. By the end, both had agreed to teach the girls, and Flame Emperor watched in astonishment as the arrangements fell into place.

• Zhou Qingqing proposed making Yaoji the Mount Wu Goddess and Nüwa the Nine Springs Goddess, and suggested Zhen Yuanzi and Xuanming Ancestral Witch as their masters.
• Houtu agreed to arrange the divine offices, while the Three Pure Ones recognized how Zhou Qingqing's plan could strengthen Flame Emperor's chances of attaining the Earth Sovereign Dao.
• Xuanming Ancestral Witch arrived, hit it off with Zhou Qingqing, and agreed to accept Nüwa as her disciple.
• Zhen Yuanzi arrived with Ginseng Fruit for Zhou Qingqing and her companions, then agreed to accept Yaoji as his disciple.
• Flame Emperor watched in astonishment as Zhou Qingqing's arrangements for both daughters were settled before he had acted.

Yaoji and Nüwa ate Ginseng Fruits and received the divine offices of Mount Wu Goddess and Nine Springs Goddess from Houtu. Seeing their Earth Dao offices helped Flame Emperor resolve his doubts about his own path, and he gained a new insight into attaining the Dao.

• Bai Ze and the other cultivators ate Ginseng Fruits while Zhou Qingqing watched Yaoji and Nüwa rebuild their foundations.
• Yaoji's soul gained the aura of the Ginseng Fruit Tree, and Nüwa's surroundings transformed into spiritual springs.
• Houtu conferred the divine offices of Mount Wu Goddess and Nine Springs Goddess on Yaoji and Nüwa.
• Flame Emperor saw his daughters' natural connection to Earth Dao and gained clarity about his own path to becoming the Earth Sovereign.
• Auspicious clouds appeared around Flame Emperor as his Three Flowers manifested, and Zhou Qingqing recognized that he had gained insight.

After Houtu blessed the Flame Emperor with Earth Dao, he resolved to attain the Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit and establish a Central Divine Court. Nuwa approved of his path and prepared to grant him Primordial Purple Qi.

• Houtu recognized the Flame Emperor’s intent and blessed him with the power of Earth Dao before sending Zhou Qingqing’s group back to Shennongjia.
• Diting relaxed beside Houtu and observed the Flame Emperor’s transformation by listening to people’s thoughts.
• The Flame Emperor declared his plans to transform Fusang into agriculture and establish a Divine Court.
• The Flame Emperor merged with the Fusang Divine Tree and the earth as Human Dao power converged on him, forming his path toward the Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit and a Central Divine Court.
• Supreme Pure Laozi credited Zhou Qingqing’s influence for the Flame Emperor’s new ambition, while Nuwa approved and decided to grant him Primordial Purple Qi.

Zhou Qingqing helped Shennong attain the Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit, and Xuandu broke through to the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. Supreme Pure Laozi recalled Qingqing to Mount Shouyang, then tasked her with finding him a new disciple; she chose Du'e True Person and went to seek him out.

• Nuwa sent a strand of Primordial Purple Qi to the central Divine Court as Shennong attained the Earth Sovereign Dao Fruit, and Xuandu reached the Daluo Golden Immortal realm after witnessing the Human Dao develop.
• Supreme Pure Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to bring Zhou Qingqing back to Mount Shouyang, and instructed the Seven Little Ones to return to Three Pure Ones Heaven while Bai Ze completed Qingqing's task.
• Supreme Pure Laozi waived Qingqing's punishment and told her that the Divine Courts needed time to develop before the Human Sovereign could be sought.
• Supreme Pure Laozi asked Qingqing to find him a new disciple, and she chose Du'e True Person as a candidate.
• Zhou Qingqing arrived at Du'e True Person's cave with the Five Elements Grand Escape, where Du'e examined the Wind-Calming Pearl before a disturbance rendered him unconscious.

Zhou Qingqing brought Du'e True Person to Mount Shouyang, where Supreme Pure Laozi accepted him as his third disciple and taught him the Disaster-Averting Misfortune-Transcending Scripture. She then left for Golden Turtle Island to urge Tongtian to cast Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal aside before he could betray the Jie Sect.

• Zhou Qingqing brought the unconscious Du'e True Person to Eight Views Palace, and Supreme Pure Laozi woke him with clear qi.
• Supreme Pure Laozi asked Du'e True Person to become his third disciple, and Du'e accepted and saluted him and Zhou Qingqing.
• Supreme Pure Laozi gave Du'e True Person the Disaster-Averting Misfortune-Transcending Scripture to help him escape calamities.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to visit Golden Turtle Island and persuade Tongtian to reject Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal before he could join the Jie Sect.
• Supreme Pure Laozi sent Zhou Qingqing away so he could guide Du'e True Person, and she departed for Golden Turtle Island.

Zhou Qingqing arrived at the East Sea as Master Tongtian prepared to seek out the last attendant disciple, Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal. Master Tongtian brought her along so she could test the prospective junior brother before he was accepted.

• Six-Eared Macaque asked Master Tongtian whether they should go find the last attendant disciple, but Master Tongtian chose to wait for Zhou Qingqing.
• Six-Eared Macaque and the other disciples welcomed Zhou Qingqing at the East Sea with grand slogans, while the Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate tasked Guangchengzi with inventing a more sophisticated greeting for her.
• Zhou Qingqing noticed Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal was missing, and Master Tongtian invited her to join the group seeking him out.
• Zhou Qingqing said she would not acknowledge Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal as her junior brother unless he passed her test, and Master Tongtian looked forward to seeing her act.

Zhou Qingqing and Upper Pure Master Tongtian went to find Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, whose eventual betrayal of the Jie Sect was a fixed destiny. Zhou Qingqing examined him for signs of wrongdoing, hoping to change that fate before he joined the sect.

• Upper Pure Master Tongtian learned from Zhou Qingqing's thoughts that Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal had handed the Six-Soul Banner to the Western Sect.
• Zhou Qingqing traveled to an immortal island in the East Sea with Six-Eared Macaque, who guided her toward Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal.
• Zhou Qingqing found Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal meditating beside his burrow and wondered whether Master Tongtian favored rabbits.
• Upper Pure Master Tongtian recognized that Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal's entry into the Jie Sect followed a fixed destiny, and resolved to intervene if Zhou Qingqing could not change it.
• Zhou Qingqing scrutinized Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, suspecting that his eventual betrayal could not be explained by simple deception, and hoped she might uncover a hidden problem.

Zhou Qingqing tested Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal at Tongtian’s request, first failing to spot anything wrong with her black lotus vision. When she switched to golden eyes, she saw that his supposedly Upper Pure Immortal Light had always been Joyful Zen Light, revealing his disguise.

• Tongtian examined Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal and found no apparent flaw, while Zhou Qingqing tried to detect a problem using her black lotus vision.
• Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal asked Tongtian to accept him as a disciple, and Tongtian said Zhou Qingqing would test him first.
• Zhou Qingqing asked Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal to display his innate divine ability, and he produced light that resembled Tongtian’s Upper Pure Immortal Light.
• Tongtian sensed that Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal was suited to inherit his lineage, while Zhou Qingqing questioned how his light could surpass her own.
• Zhou Qingqing used her Merit Golden Lotus to look at Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal and recognized his light as Joyful Zen Light, which he had disguised as Upper Pure Immortal Light.

Zhou Qingqing used the Twelve-Petaled Merit Golden Lotus and a copied Buddhist technique to reveal the pink Joyful Zen Light hidden in Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal's immortal light. Tongtian finally saw through the disguise, and his intuition that Dingguang Immortal should inherit the Dao lineage disappeared.

• Tongtian, Laozi, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate realized that an unknown force had hidden the Joyful Zen Light from them and may have been manipulating events.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to expose Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal's disguise by activating her golden merit transformation.
• Zhou Qingqing summoned the Twelve-Petaled Merit Golden Lotus and used Buddha's Light First Appears to form glazed golden Buddha light.
• The Buddha light struck Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal's immortal light, revealing its pink color to the watching cultivators.
• Tongtian saw the Joyful Zen Light at last, and his sudden intuition about Dingguang Immortal vanished.

Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti failed to trace a fleeting sign of a destined disciple after Laozi blocked their calculations. Meanwhile, Zhou Qingqing confronted Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, whose revelations and attempt to send a message provoked Master Tongtian to kill him and destroy the message's path through time.

• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti sensed a potential Western Sect disciple, but Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to block their calculations.
• Zhou Qingqing saw Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal recognize her disguise and claim that an error had appeared in the Calamity.
• Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal spoke of the destruction of the three sects and the Immeasurable Calamity, confusing Master Tongtian, who asked him what he meant by the three sects.
• Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal revealed a time-based divine ability and sent a stream of information through the void.
• Master Tongtian unleashed his four divine swords into the stream of time, destroying its path and killing Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal.

After Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones learned that Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal had served a hostile force aware of repeated Calamities, Tongtian sent her to warn Yuanshi and help with the Chan Sect. She arrived at Jade Void Palace, where her thoughts about its disciples and Burning Lamp left Yuanshi facing a new worry.

• Tongtian killed Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, learned the force behind him was called Desire Heaven, and sent Zhou Qingqing to tell Yuanshi what had happened.
• The Three Pure Ones considered the claim that similar Calamities had occurred repeatedly and resolved to prevent their sects from being destroyed in this one.
• Yuanshi told Guangchengzi to organize the Jade Void Twelve Immortals to welcome Zhou Qingqing, who praised the disciples and recognized Cihang Daoist and Yellow Dragon True Person.
• Guangchengzi told Zhou Qingqing that Yuanshi was speaking with a visitor from Purple Cloud Palace, and she suspected the visitor was Burning Lamp and criticized Yuanshi for appointing him Vice Sect Leader.

Zhou Qingqing challenged Daoist Burning Lamp’s attempt to join Eastern Kunlun as a disciple or discipline director, turning his status as an elder into a reason to refuse both roles. Burning Lamp accepted her challenge to prove he could serve as an instructor, leaving their contest about to begin.

• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate explained that Daoist Burning Lamp had declined discipleship and was considering a discipline director role like Red Cloud.
• Zhou Qingqing entered Jade Void Palace, rejected Burning Lamp’s proposed position, and suggested he was qualified to be a deputy sect leader instead.
• After Zhou Qingqing pointed out that Daoism could not appoint another deputy sect leader, Burning Lamp said he had only wanted to become a Chan Sect disciple.
• Zhou Qingqing refused to let Burning Lamp become either a disciple or an instructor, arguing that he could not instruct her.
• Daoist Burning Lamp accepted Zhou Qingqing’s challenge to test whether he was qualified to serve as Eastern Kunlun’s instructor.

Zhou Qingqing used her knowledge of Daoist Burning Lamp and his ambitions to bait him into a contest of Dao techniques, offering two innate supreme treasures as the stakes. Burning Lamp accepted and wagered the Qiankun Ruler and Coffin Lamp, setting up their contest.

• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate recognized that Burning Lamp knew little about Qingqing, while Qingqing knew about his treasures and the Three Lamps of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity.
• Qingqing decided against trying to reform Burning Lamp because she considered him an ambitious villain with ulterior motives.
• Qingqing offered the Qiankun Cauldron and Innate Five Directional Banners if Burning Lamp could defeat her in Dao techniques.
• Burning Lamp, enticed by the two innate supreme treasures, offered his Qiankun Ruler and Coffin Lamp and agreed to compete with Qingqing.

Zhou Qingqing faced Daoist Burning Lamp and answered his Great Dao-burning divine ability with the Primordial Grand Seal. The seal struck toward Burning Lamp’s divine lamp, but the chapter ended before their clash was resolved.

• Zhou Qingqing let Daoist Burning Lamp make the first move while the Jade Void Twelve Immortals watched.
• Daoist Burning Lamp turned his Great Dao insights into a powerful divine lamp and pointed it at Zhou Qingqing.
• Zhou Qingqing gathered Yuqing Dao arts into the Primordial Grand Seal taught by her master.
• Zhou Qingqing tossed the Primordial Grand Seal toward Daoist Burning Lamp’s divine lamp, and Guangchengzi watched excitedly.

Zhou Qingqing defeated Daoist Burning Lamp, took his Qiankun Ruler and Coffin Lamp, and secured the role of training the Jade Void Twelve Immortals. Burning Lamp later joined the Western Sect, while Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate focused on the Twelve Immortals’ cultivation.

• Zhou Qingqing shattered Daoist Burning Lamp’s first divine ability with her Primordial Grand Seal, while she and the Three Pure Ones recognized that Burning Lamp had underestimated her strength.
• Daoist Burning Lamp summoned a vulture, mountain, and coffin with his Purple Cloud Palace-derived divine ability, but Zhou Qingqing transformed her seal into azure lotuses and broke it.
• Daoist Burning Lamp admitted defeat, severed his connection to the Qiankun Ruler and Coffin Lamp, and left Eastern Kunlun; Zhou Qingqing claimed both treasures.
• Zhou Qingqing asked Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate to watch Burning Lamp and agreed to train the Jade Void Twelve Immortals in exchange for the Jade Void Glazed Lamp and Eight Views Palace Lamp.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate observed Burning Lamp’s injured Dao heart and saw him join the Two Sages of the West, then turned his attention to improving the Twelve Immortals’ cultivation plan.

Zhou Qingqing devised a Heavenly Demon Battlefield to replace the abandoned path to the Human Sovereign’s Dao of slaughter, gaining her masters’ support and setting out to build it. At the Return Ruins, she cast the Demon Pill and Qiankun Ruler into the void to begin establishing the battlefield.

• Zhou Qingqing concluded that the changed balance of the Three Daos had made the original Human Sovereign plot impossible, and proposed sending cultivators to fight the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons beyond the domain.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate agreed to support her plan and offered the Primeval Treasure Pearl; Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate split it into a spiritual pearl and a Demon Pill.
• Zhou Qingqing placed Spirit Pearl Child’s spiritual light in a Twelve-Grade Azure Lotus and appointed Taiyi True Person to watch over it and become its master.
• Zhou Qingqing led the Jade Void Twelve Immortals toward the Return Ruins, reminding them to master the Golden Light Escape.
• At the Return Ruins, Zhou Qingqing cast the Demon Pill and Qiankun Ruler into the void to establish the Heavenly Demon Battlefield.

Zhou Qingqing created Great Dark Heaven as a battlefield for cultivators to fight Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons and pursue merit and Dao insights. After Chiyou led the first charge, Zhou Qingqing sent the Jade Void Twelve Immortals into battle to avert their coming slaughter Calamity and keep them from clashing with Heavenly Emperor Haotian.

• Zhou Qingqing sealed the Demon Pill and used it to create Great Dark Heaven, while the Jade Void Twelve Immortals observed her methods.
• Nuwa sent Human Race contenders for the Human Sovereign position to Great Dark Heaven, Houtu dispatched Chiyou and the Nine Li Tribe, and Tongtian sent Red Cloud Ancestor with Jie Sect disciples.
• Zhou Qingqing assigned Red Cloud Ancestor and Bai Ze to organize Great Dark Heaven as cultivators from across the Three Daos gathered there.
• Chiyou and his eighty-one brothers manifested the Great Dao of Soldiers and attacked the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons, inspiring the other cultivators to join the battle.
• Zhou Qingqing sent the Jade Void Twelve Immortals to fight and earn merit, intending to prevent their slaughter Calamity from leading to a conflict with Heavenly Emperor Haotian.

Zhou Qingqing decided that Great Dark Heaven needed more candidates for the Human Sovereign, so she returned to the Primordial World with Bai Ze to gather figures tied to the Three Sovereigns. She began by abducting Bi Fang and Kui Ox for the battlefield, while planning to find more candidates next.

• Zhou Qingqing decided to bring everyone connected to the Three Sovereigns Fruit Position into Great Dark Heaven and summoned Bai Ze to guide her through the changed Primordial World.
• Bai Ze used his deductions to locate Bi Fang at Mount Zhangwo, Kui Ox at Flowing Wave Mountain, and Wuzhiqi in the Huai River.
• Zhou Qingqing sent the Twelve-Grade World-Destroying Black Lotus to seize Bi Fang and Kui Ox and transfer them to Great Dark Heaven without revealing herself.
• Zhou Qingqing planned to find Wuzhiqi, Yinglong, Nine Heavens Mysterious Maiden, and Cangjie, and to arrange compensation for Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters.
• Supreme Pure Laozi watched Zhou Qingqing's latest abductions and hoped they would not harm the reputation of Daoism's First Disciple.

Zhou Qingqing tested Wuzhiqi’s instincts by having Bai Ze confront him, then caught the Sea-Supporting Purple-Gold Beam sent by her Second Master. She offered the Lingbao to Wuzhiqi, who realized he had fled for nothing.

• Zhou Qingqing asked Bai Ze to demonstrate his divine ability and test Wuzhiqi.
• Bai Ze revealed a restrained threat, and Wuzhiqi fled from the Huai River.
• Bai Ze caught Wuzhiqi and carried him back to Zhou Qingqing.
• The Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent the Sea-Supporting Purple-Gold Beam across space, and Zhou Qingqing caught it.
• Zhou Qingqing offered the Lingbao to Wuzhiqi, who regretted running away.

Zhou Qingqing recruited Wuzhiqi into Daoism and directed him toward Supreme Pure Laozi’s Mount Shouyang lineage, while Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate found Yuan Hong and accepted him into his own lineage. She then went to Mount Wuyi to secure the Treasure-Dropping Coin for Zhao Gongming, where she discovered Daoist Burning Lamp was also present.

• Zhou Qingqing offered Wuzhiqi a place in Daoism, and he agreed; she sent him to Great Dark Heaven to train before joining the Mount Shouyang lineage.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate found Yuan Hong cultivating in a plum forest and gave him a cultivation method and the Sky-Piercing White Jade Pillar.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to retrieve the Treasure-Dropping Coin from Mount Wuyi for Zhao Gongming and traveled there with Bai Ze.
• The Three Pure Ones deduced that Daoist Burning Lamp was also on Mount Wuyi as Zhou Qingqing approached the mountain.
• Zhou Qingqing broke the formation guarding the Treasure-Dropping Coin and captured the winged Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.