Chapter Summaries

Queen Mother of the West accepted Hongjun’s position and received the Western Plain White Cloud Boundary Flag, prompting the Three Pure Ones to plan how to obtain it for Zhou Qingqing. After Houtu thanked them for helping her attend the sermon, Zhou Qingqing thought of asking her about the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, and Yuanshi resolved to pursue the technique for his disciple.

• Queen Mother of the West accepted the position of chief among the realm’s female immortals and received the Western Plain White Cloud Boundary Flag from Hongjun.
• Laozi and Yuanshi decided they would try to help Queen Mother of the West with the hidden danger of her position in exchange for the flag, which they wanted for Zhou Qingqing.
• After Hongjun dismissed the assembly, Houtu approached the Three Pure Ones and thanked them for pleading on her behalf.
• Yuanshi introduced himself and his brothers as beings transformed from Pangu’s primordial spirit, and Houtu bowed to them and asked how she could repay their help.
• Zhou Qingqing thought Houtu might know the Nine Revolutions Profound Art and wished Yuanshi would teach it to her; Yuanshi resolved to pursue the technique for his disciple.

Houtu repaid the Three Pure Ones by giving them her insights into the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, which Zhou Qingqing claimed for herself. After Red Cloud Ancestor, Zhen Yuanzi, Fuxi, and Nuwa thanked the Three Pure Ones, Supreme Pure Laozi discovered that a destined opportunity awaited them on Mount Buzhou and led everyone there.

• Houtu gave the Three Pure Ones a drop of essence blood containing her insights into the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, and Zhou Qingqing sent it into her Lotus Space.
• Red Cloud Ancestor, Zhen Yuanzi, Fuxi, and Nuwa gathered to thank the Three Pure Ones for their earlier help and invited them to visit their homes.
• Tongtian politely postponed the invitations, while Zhou Qingqing thought the group would soon meet again over the Innate Gourd Vine on Mount Buzhou.
• Supreme Pure Laozi deduced that a spiritual treasure on Mount Buzhou was fated with the group.
• Fuxi and Zhen Yuanzi confirmed that Nuwa and Red Cloud Ancestor had opportunities on Mount Buzhou, and Supreme Pure Laozi led everyone there.

Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones reached Mount Buzhou and located the formation concealing the Chaos Spiritual Root, the Innate Gourd Vine. As they waited for it to mature, Di Jun and Taiyi arrived, and Taiyi prepared to break the formation with the Chaos Bell.

• Zhou Qingqing reflected on her return to Mount Buzhou and imagined herself as the Primordial World's fated protagonist.
• Supreme Pure Laozi used his primordial spirit to deduce the Innate Gourd Vine's location and led the group to its innate formation.
• Nuwa and Red Cloud sensed treasures fated to them within the formation, while Zhen Yuanzi said the gourd vine had not yet matured and advised waiting.
• Zhou Qingqing recalled that the vine originally bore seven gourds but only six had been taken, and suspected that opening the formation too early had caused the last one to disappear.
• Di Jun and Taiyi arrived in golden light, and Taiyi manifested the Chaos Bell and announced that he would smash through the formation.

Zhou Qingqing helped the Three Pure Ones use the 24-Petal Creation Azure Lotus to block Taiyi’s Chaos Bell from breaking the formation around the Innate Gourd Vine. Di Jun apologized for Taiyi, but Zhou Qingqing’s inner thoughts exposed that Di Jun had ordered the attack, turning Yuanshi’s favorable impression of him into distrust.

• Taiyi prepared to smash the formation with the Chaos Bell while Zhou Qingqing expected the gathered deities to stay out of the fight.
• Yuanshi asked Zhou Qingqing to circulate the Jade Pure Golden Casket Artifact Refining Record so the Three Pure Ones could use her as an innate supreme treasure against the Chaos Bell.
• Zhou Qingqing cooperated, and the 24-Petal Creation Azure Lotus unfurled to block the Chaos Bell’s aura.
• Di Jun reprimanded Taiyi and apologized to Yuanshi, who briefly regarded Di Jun favorably.
• Zhou Qingqing’s inner thoughts revealed that Di Jun had instigated Taiyi’s attack, so Yuanshi withdrew the Creation Azure Lotus and coldly warned Di Jun not to repeat it.

Di Jun and Taiyi arrived at the Innate Gourd Vine, but Tongtian stepped in to break its formation and preserve all seven gourds. The gourds matured, and Di Jun, Red Cloud, and Nuwa each claimed one, with Zhou Qingqing recognizing their future identities and powers.

• Di Jun arrived with Taiyi and advised him to wait calmly, while the Three Pure Ones took Zhou Qingqing’s prediction that the brothers would become calamity protagonists seriously.
• Zhou Qingqing saw that the Innate Gourd Vine had ripened, and Di Jun asked Taiyi to break its formation as compensation for his earlier rudeness.
• Tongtian offered to break the formation, traced its paths with sword qi, found its eye, and destroyed it with a precise strike.
• The formation’s destruction revealed seven mature gourds, and Di Jun claimed the Purple-White Gourd.
• Red Cloud took the Purple-Red Gourd, and Nuwa claimed the Purple-Cyan Gourd, which Zhou Qingqing recognized as the future Demon-Summoning Gourd.

The Three Pure Ones claimed the remaining gourds, and Jade Pure Yuanshi bestowed the purple-black gourd on Zhou Qingqing. Supreme Pure Laozi then uncovered the Gourd Vine’s hidden power and the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil beneath it, treasures Zhou Qingqing said were originally fated for Nuwa.

• The Three Pure Ones took the remaining gourds, and Jade Pure Yuanshi gave the purple-black gourd to Zhou Qingqing as her spiritual treasure.
• Di Jun and Taiyi left Mount Buzhou, followed by Zhen Yuanzi and his companion, while Nuwa and Fuxi stayed to talk with the Three Pure Ones.
• Zhou Qingqing realized the Gourd Vine and the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil beneath it had not been claimed and thought that her masters should take them.
• Supreme Pure Laozi pulled up the Gourd Vine and discovered its hidden vitality and power.
• Nine-colored Nine Heavens Breathing Soil appeared beneath the vine, and Nuwa recognized its extraordinary properties.
• Supreme Pure Laozi understood that the vine and soil had originally been Nuwa’s destined treasures, though they were now in his hands.

Supreme Pure Laozi traded the Gourd Vine and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to Nuwa while secretly arranging for Zhou Qingqing to receive Nuwa’s Purple-Cyan Gourd. After the group parted ways, Zhou Qingqing thanked him and wondered which of the Three Pure Ones should get credit for her two gourds.

• Supreme Pure Laozi offered Nuwa the Gourd Vine and Nine Heavens Breathing Soil in exchange for her Purple-Cyan Gourd, claiming the treasures would benefit her Dao of Creation.
• Nuwa offered the Purple-Cyan Gourd as a meeting gift for Zhou Qingqing and refused the proposed exchange, but Fuxi accepted the treasures on her behalf after failing to deduce anything with the Eight Trigrams.
• Supreme Pure Laozi proposed that everyone return to their Dao grounds, and the Three Pure Ones, Fuxi, and Nuwa agreed to discuss the Dao another day before parting.
• The Purple-Cyan Gourd appeared in Zhou Qingqing’s Lotus Space, and she sent Supreme Pure Laozi a sweet voice transmission of thanks.
• Zhou Qingqing wondered which Master should receive credit for her two gourds, leaving the Three Pure Ones speechless.

The Three Pure Ones discussed how to refine their gourds, and Zhou Qingqing’s inner thoughts inspired Tongtian and Yuanshi to choose new designs. The chapter ended with Laozi determined to devise a gourd more impressive than his brothers’ treasures.

• Laozi prompted Tongtian to discuss his gourd, and Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts led Tongtian to choose a Ten Thousand Swords Gourd instead of a Water-Fire Gourd.
• Tongtian declared that he would gather sword qi in his gourd and engrave his sword Dao upon it.
• Yuanshi showed his gourd, and Zhou Qingqing suggested refining it into a Yin-Yang Gourd that used yin-yang qi to refine all things.
• Yuanshi accepted the idea and explained how it suited his identity as the primordial beginning of innate qi.
• After Zhou Qingqing dismissed Laozi’s Purple-Gold Gourd as little more than a pill container, Laozi began deducing a unique design that could surpass his brothers’ gourds.

Supreme Pure Laozi chose to refine his gourd into a Taiji Gourd after hearing Zhou Qingqing’s inner thoughts. When he asked how she wanted her two gourds refined, Zhou Qingqing assigned a Chaos Gourd to Jade Pure Yuanshi and a Creation Gourd to Upper Pure Tongtian.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi and Upper Pure Tongtian teased Supreme Pure Laozi’s ideas for refining his gourd, prompting him to reconsider.
• Zhou Qingqing’s inner thoughts about Taiji led Supreme Pure Laozi to refine his gourd into a Taiji Gourd.
• Supreme Pure Laozi asked Zhou Qingqing how she wanted her two gourds refined, and she decided her first should become a Chaos Gourd.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi agreed to gather Chaos qi and refine Zhou Qingqing’s first gourd.
• Zhou Qingqing asked Upper Pure Tongtian to refine her other gourd into a Creation Gourd, and he readily agreed.

Zhou Qingqing reached the Golden Immortal realm but struggled to cultivate the qi of the five elements, so Upper Pure Tongtian saw the Eastern Duke’s visit to Western Kunlun as a chance to help her obtain the Western Plain White Cloud Boundary Flag. Tongtian brought Zhou Qingqing along to meet the Queen Mother of the West, whose nine-tailed tiger invited him inside.

• Zhou Qingqing broke through to the Golden Immortal realm but found that transforming spiritual qi into the qi of the five elements was difficult.
• Upper Pure Tongtian realized that Zhou Qingqing might need all five Heaven and Earth Five Direction Flags to restore her usual cultivation speed.
• Tongtian saw the Eastern Duke heading to Western Kunlun and suspected he had come to invite the Queen Mother of the West to join the Penglai Immortal Court.
• Tongtian took Zhou Qingqing to Western Kunlun, where a nine-tailed tiger emerged from the formation and invited him into the abode.

Tongtian visited Queen Mother of the West and discovered Eastern Duke was pressuring her to become his Dao companion. He confronted Eastern Duke, who invoked his title from Hongjun and threatened Tongtian’s authority as a male immortal.

• Lu Wu escorted Tongtian into Western Kunlun, where he found Eastern Duke and Queen Mother of the West arguing.
• Eastern Duke rebuked Tongtian for interrupting, and Queen Mother of the West ordered Eastern Duke to leave.
• Zhou Qingqing realized Eastern Duke was trying to force Queen Mother of the West into marriage and bind her to Penglai Immortal Court.
• Tongtian accused Eastern Duke of using his title to force Queen Mother of the West into marriage and vowed not to stand by.
• Eastern Duke claimed that he and Queen Mother of the West were a match made by Heaven, then warned Tongtian that male immortals fell under his jurisdiction.

Upper Pure Tongtian drove Eastern Duke from Western Kunlun after overwhelming him with the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd. Queen Mother of the West explained why she had been unable to fight, then asked Tongtian why he had come to Mount Kunlun.

• Eastern Duke threatened to use his status and backing against Upper Pure Tongtian, who challenged him and ordered him to stay away from Kunlun.
• Eastern Duke attacked Tongtian with the Pure Yang Sword, but Tongtian’s Ten Thousand Swords Gourd shattered its attack and forced him to rely on the Heavenly Dipper Shield.
• Eastern Duke retreated after threatening to return, while Queen Mother of the West thanked Tongtian for intervening.
• Queen Mother of the West told Tongtian that refining the Kunlun Mirror had cost her mana and left her unable to fight Eastern Duke.
• Queen Mother of the West asked Tongtian why he had come to Mount Kunlun.

Tongtian sought the Western Plain White Cloud Boundary Flag to help Zhou Qingqing break through her Golden Immortal bottleneck. Using Zhou Qingqing’s insight, he advised the Queen Mother of the West on easing the backlash from her karmic office, and she handed over the flag in exchange.

• Tongtian told the Queen Mother of the West that Zhou Qingqing needed the Western Plain White Cloud Boundary Flag to condense the five qi.
• Zhou Qingqing realized that the Queen Mother of the West could offset the backlash from her office by acquiring other supreme karmic offices, and Tongtian secretly adopted her idea.
• Tongtian advised the Queen Mother of the West not to establish an Immortal Court and to seek offices such as the Lord of Cave Yin and the Golden Mother Primordial Sovereign.
• Tongtian promised to remove the decree once he attained sainthood, though Zhou Qingqing mistakenly thought he already had a plan.
• The Queen Mother of the West gave Tongtian the Western Plain White Cloud Boundary Flag, saying his advice was worth the exchange even without his future help.

Zhou Qingqing refined the Western Plain White Cloud Boundary Flag, gaining a clearer connection to metal-element power and a path toward advancing her cultivation. After the Three Pure Ones initially decided to ignore the Penglai Assembly, her complaints prompted them to reconsider and agree to attend.

• Queen Mother of the West thanked Tongtian and entered seclusion to understand her new karmic position, while Tongtian returned to Eastern Kunlun.
• Tongtian gave Zhou Qingqing the Western Plain White Cloud Boundary Flag and refined the Creation Gourd nearby as she merged the banner into herself.
• Zhou Qingqing sensed a vast platinum world through the banner, while Tongtian recognized that its metal-element power could help her perfect her Five Qi.
• The Penglai Immortal Court invited the Three Pure Ones to its assembly, where it would formally announce its establishment, and Tongtian briefed Laozi and Yuanshi on recent events.
• Laozi and Yuanshi dismissed Eastern Duke and agreed with Tongtian that they should not attend the assembly.
• After hearing Zhou Qingqing lament the missed trip and mention treasures in the East Sea, Tongtian persuaded his brothers that declining the invitation could damage their reputation, and the Three Pure Ones agreed to go.

The Three Pure Ones searched the East Sea for Tongtian’s fated sacred ground, guided by Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts to Golden Turtle Island. After Tongtian broke the Ten Absolute Array and revealed the island, Dragon Clan cultivators appeared and claimed it as their own.

• Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts revealed Golden Turtle Island, and Supreme Pure Laozi divined its location for Tongtian.
• The Three Pure Ones reached a hidden stretch of sea, where Tongtian broke the Ten Absolute Array with the Ten Thousand Swords Gourd.
• Golden Turtle Island appeared, and Tongtian decided it was an ideal sacred ground and residence.
• Dragon Clan cultivators arrived and ordered the Three Pure Ones to stop, claiming Golden Turtle Island as Dragon Clan territory.

Tongtian wounded two golden flood dragons after they attacked the Three Pure Ones, but Zhou Qingqing recognized that they could become the Golden Dragon Shears and urged him to spare them. A powerful Dragon Clan cultivator arrived to protect them, and the confrontation ended with him rejecting Tongtian’s demand that the dragons become his spirit treasure.

• Tongtian sent sword lights after the two Dragon Clan members who had shown killing intent, piercing them after they transformed into golden flood dragons.
• Zhou Qingqing realized the dragons could become the Golden Dragon Shears, so Tongtian held back enough to keep them alive.
• A powerful Dragon Clan cultivator appeared, healed the wounded dragons, and asked the Three Pure Ones to spare them for his sake and the Dragon Clan’s.
• Tongtian demanded that the dragons voluntarily transform into the Golden Dragon Shears and serve him in exchange for their lives.
• The Dragon Clan cultivator refused, saying the dragons could apologize and offer gifts but would not become the Golden Dragon Shears.

Zhou Qingqing recognized that Azure Dragon was pretending to be a Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal, and the Three Pure Ones confronted him. After Azure Dragon revealed his cultivation had fallen to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, he admitted he was nearing death from karmic backlash, leaving the Three Pure Ones to consider his fate.

• Zhou Qingqing realized Azure Dragon's display of Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal might was an act and warned the Three Pure Ones that he was a paper tiger.
• Supreme Pure Laozi, Jade Pure Yuanshi, and Upper Pure Tongtian challenged Azure Dragon and demanded that he show his true strength.
• Azure Dragon admitted his identity and let his aura fall from the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
• The two golden flood dragons offered to become the Golden Dragon Shears and asked Tongtian to spare Azure Dragon.
• Azure Dragon said he had acted to save the flood dragons and that karmic backlash would soon consume him, prompting the Three Pure Ones to realize he was fated to perish.

The Three Pure Ones offered to spare Azure Dragon and the two golden flood dragons in exchange for spiritual treasures. Azure Dragon offered the Eastern Azure Lotus Precious Color Banner and twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, while Zhou Qingqing realized Tongtian would soon obtain twenty-four more pearls.

• Supreme Pure Laozi offered to let Azure Dragon take the two golden flood dragons if he traded spiritual treasures.
• Tongtian agreed with Laozi and demanded treasures in exchange for the dragons' lives.
• Azure Dragon revealed the Eastern Azure Lotus Precious Color Banner and offered it to the Three Pure Ones.
• Azure Dragon said the Southern Ground-Severing Flame Light Banner was with Primal Phoenix and the Northern Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner had to remain with the Dragon Clan.
• Azure Dragon offered twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls instead of the Northern Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner, and Zhou Qingqing thought Tongtian would soon obtain another twenty-four.

Tongtian proposed completing Azure Dragon’s set of Sea-Calming Divine Pearls before exchanging it for the Northern Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner. Azure Dragon agreed to make the Dragon Clan serve Golden Turtle Island if Tongtian succeeded, and Tongtian promised to return once he found the remaining pearls.

• Tongtian returned Azure Dragon’s twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and explained that all thirty-six together could become an innate supreme treasure.
• Tongtian offered to find the missing twenty-four pearls and exchange the complete set for the Northern Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner.
• Azure Dragon offered to become Golden Turtle Island’s guardian divine beast and pledged the Dragon Clan’s service if Tongtian gathered the complete set.
• Zhou Qingqing judged the proposed exchange beneficial, and Tongtian accepted Azure Dragon’s offer.
• Tongtian identified himself and his brothers, Yuanshi and Laozi, as beings formed from Pangu’s Primordial Spirit and promised to return after finding the remaining pearls.

Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones traveled to Penglai Island for Eastern Duke’s assembly, where she recognized the Yellow Center Plums offered to them as suspicious. The chapter ended with her suspecting the seventy-two fruits were tied to Eastern Duke’s seventy-two subdued Red Dust Guests.

• Azure Dragon and the two golden flood dragons stayed behind on Golden Turtle Island to do labor under an arrangement proposed by Zhou Qingqing.
• The Three Pure Ones decided to attend Eastern Duke’s Penglai Assembly, and Upper Pure Tongtian promised not to make a move there.
• Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones arrived at Penglai Island and learned that its three islands had formed from fragments of Chaos.
• Sea Toad Daoist greeted the Three Pure Ones and led them to special seats, where Eastern Duke had provided seventy-two Yellow Center Plums.
• Zhou Qingqing suspected Eastern Duke had tampered with the plums and connected their number to the seventy-two Red Dust Guests he had subdued.