Chapter Summaries

The Three Pure Ones and Eastern Emperor Taiyi briefly reassembled the Heaven-Opening Axe, allowing the Ancestral Witches to glimpse its power and deepen their understanding of strength. As the Three Pure Ones investigated an aura beyond the three thousand Great Dao laws, they appeared to have discovered something and spoke in unison.

• Houtu told Xuanming that the malice she sensed likely came from the Heaven-Opening Axe as the Three Pure Ones and Eastern Emperor Taiyi advanced their deductions.
• The Three Pure Ones linked the three innate supreme treasures and briefly assembled the complete Heaven-Opening Axe.
• Xuanming and Houtu witnessed the Heaven-Opening Axe's phantom, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches gained insight into the Great Dao of Strength.
• Houtu realized the Three Pure Ones sought something contained within the Heaven-Opening Axe, beyond merely comprehending its laws.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi sensed an aura resembling the Great Dao of Opening but beyond creation, and the Three Pure Ones spoke the same word.

The Three Pure Ones and Eastern Emperor Taiyi discovered that the Heaven-Opening Axe contained the Great Dao of Change and each received a share, while Zhou Qingqing had already entered the Dao-Fusion Realm. In the Western Land of Ultimate Bliss, Jieyin regained Primordial Chaos cultivation through the Buddha Path and sent its method to his junior brother, unaware that a six-eared monkey had noticed his return.

• The Three Pure Ones and Eastern Emperor Taiyi concluded that the Heaven-Opening Axe contained the supreme Law of Change and each received one-fourth of its insight as the axe reverted to innate supreme treasures.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi offered his share of change to Zhou Qingqing, but the Three Pure Ones stopped him and told him she had already advanced through her Law of Creation into the Dao-Fusion Realm.
• Houtu, Empress Xuanming, and other Saints arrived to learn about the Heaven-Opening Axe's appearance.
• Jieyin regained the Primordial Chaos Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm through the Buddha Path and decided to establish Buddhism apart from the Three Daos when circumstances allowed.
• Jieyin sent the Buddha Path's method of attaining the Dao toward Blue Planet for his junior brother, while a six-eared monkey on Mount Zhou told its senior sister that Jieyin had regained Primordial Chaos cultivation.

Six-Eared Macaque revealed that Daoist Jieyin had returned to Primordial, prompting Zhou Qingqing to prepare for the West’s coming upheaval. After rewarding her disciples and assigning them their tasks, she returned to the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm with Bai Ze to integrate the Stellar Daos.

• Six-Eared Macaque revealed that Daoist Jieyin had reattained Primordial, and Zhou Qingqing praised him for uncovering the news.
• Zhou Qingqing told her junior brothers she would leave Mount Zhou to continue raising her realm, while Guangchengzi promised to oversee their cultivation.
• Zhou Qingqing rewarded Six-Eared Macaque with a flat peach, and he offered to keep monitoring the West.
• Zhou Qingqing asked Bai Ze to watch developments on Blue Planet and left Mount Zhou with him.
• Zhou Qingqing returned to the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm and set out to integrate the Stellar Daos, beginning with Ziwei Enclosure.

Zhou Qingqing returned to Celestial Principle Star after attaining the fourth layer of the Primordial Zenith and met Daoist Duobao at the Many-Treasures Pagoda. She transformed several of his acquired treasures into supreme-grade innate spiritual treasures, then ordered Bai Ze to spar with him.

• Bai Ze and Fairy Qingqing arrived at the Many-Treasures Pagoda, where Daoist Duobao emerged carrying the acquired spiritual treasures he had forged.
• Daoist Duobao asked Zhou Qingqing to turn some of his treasures from acquired to innate, and she restored several of them in the Qiankun Cauldron.
• Daoist Duobao recognized that Zhou Qingqing had attained the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, and she announced she had reached the fourth layer of the Primordial Zenith.
• Zhou Qingqing told Bai Ze to spar with Daoist Duobao, ending Duobao's relief that the difficult sparring days were over.

Zhou Qingqing watched Daoist Duobao spar with Bai Ze while Supreme Pure Laozi worried over her plans and the possible consequences of her Dao-merging. Duobao ultimately defeated Bai Ze by combining the Azure Lotus with his treasures’ light to simulate an acquired supreme treasure.

• Zhou Qingqing wondered whether Duobao could lure Daoist Jieyin out, but Supreme Pure Laozi doubted Jieyin would leave the Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• Duobao countered Bai Ze’s divine abilities with spirit treasures, while both fighters mistakenly believed Qingqing had arranged the spar to teach them a lesson.
• Duobao drew on the Twelve-Grade Azure Lotus and the light of his other treasures to form an illusory Twenty-Four-Grade Treasure Lotus.
• The simulated supreme treasure overturned the gap between their cultivation, and Duobao defeated Bai Ze.
• Bai Ze realized Duobao had hidden the imitation treasures connected to Fairy Qingqing.

Zhou Qingqing praised Daoist Duobao for imitating her lotus divine ability and gave him a wisp of the Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Azure Lotus’s aura, allowing him to develop a Sixfold Lotus Realm. She then revealed that she had come to Celestial Principle Star to integrate the starry heavens’ Great Dao, and Bai Ze said she meant to thwart the Fate Demon God’s scheme.

• Daoist Duobao displayed a lotus divine ability that imitated Zhou Qingqing’s Dao Resonance, earning her praise.
• Zhou Qingqing gave Duobao a wisp of the Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Azure Lotus’s aura, and he transformed his imitation into a six-layered lotus.
• Bai Ze admitted his defeat and resolved to improve his Wisdom Lotus, while Zhou Qingqing encouraged him and assured him that he had done well.
• Duobao asked why Zhou Qingqing had come to Celestial Principle Star, and she said she planned to integrate the Great Dao laws of the stars, beginning there.
• Bai Ze explained that the stars were Fate Stars and said Zhou Qingqing intended to ruin the Fate Demon God’s scheme.

Zhou Qingqing welcomed Fire Spirit Holy Mother and arranged for her to train with the Dragon Clan, challenge Guangchengzi, and pursue a destined opportunity on Blue Planet. She then began merging Celestial Principle into herself, sensing that the Fate Demon God’s hidden Fate Stars could help her advance in the Dao-Fusion Realm.

• Guangchengzi introduced his disciple Fire Spirit Holy Mother to Zhou Qingqing, who told her to take Guangchengzi’s Cloud-Sweeping Robe and strike him a hundred times with her Primordial Chaos Hammer.
• Zhou Qingqing offered Fire Spirit Holy Mother several powerful fire divine abilities and urged her to train with the Red Dragon Clan before completing the task and visiting Blue Planet.
• Fire Spirit Holy Mother eagerly accepted Zhou Qingqing’s plans and asked to witness her martial aunt’s divine abilities before leaving.
• Zhou Qingqing manifested Celestial Principle and began merging it into herself, while Daoist Duobao explained that she was entering the Dao-Fusion Realm beyond Primordial Chaos.
• As she fused with Celestial Principle, Zhou Qingqing recognized Jidu, Rahu, Gouchen, Heavenly Principles, and Nanji as Fate Stars tied to the Fate Demon God, and felt her cultivation advance.

Buddha Mother Zhunti taught Lu Ya the Buddhist path and asked him to leave Shang Dynasty to confront the Marquis of the West. With Lu Ya gone, Zhunti began planning to bring Shang Dynasty under his Buddhist faith and act beyond Empress Nuwa’s Human Dao power.

• Daoist Zhunti told Lu Ya that he had received Buddhist teachings from Jieyin and become Buddha Mother Zhunti, independent of the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Daos.
• Zhunti passed Buddhist teachings to Lu Ya, whose strength began to recover through the power of faith, though Lu Ya secretly remained loyal to the Dao.
• Zhunti asked Lu Ya to go west and hold off the Marquis of the West’s faction while Zhunti remade Heaven and Earth for Shang Dynasty.
• Lu Ya readily agreed, citing Zhou Qingqing’s favoritism with the Investiture of the Gods List, and vanished to confront the Daoist disciples.
• Alone in Shang Dynasty, Zhunti turned his attention toward Golden Turtle Island and began planning to convert the dynasty into his system of faith.

Bai Ze relayed Lu Ya’s promise to go easy on Daoism during the attack on the Shang Dynasty, while Zhou Qingqing drew the Ways of stars across the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm into herself. The Three Pure Ones and Houtu discussed Qingqing’s achievement and shared insights into the Primordial World’s reincarnation cycle.

• Lu Ya contacted Bai Ze and promised not to fight Daoism to the death when its disciples attacked the Shang Dynasty, and Bai Ze assured him Zhou Qingqing would remember his service.
• Bai Ze told Duobao and Fire Spirit Holy Mother that Lu Ya would not be a threat when Fire Spirit went to Blue Planet to undergo her tribulation.
• Zhou Qingqing drew the Ways of named and nameless stars into herself, and Lingbao Grand Master activated Hook Chen Star in response to her presence.
• Houtu told the Three Pure Ones that Qingqing’s actions had improved her deduction powers and deepened her insight into the Reincarnation Demon God’s divine abilities.
• The Three Pure Ones explained that Qingqing had merged with the Dao in the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm, and Houtu shared her reincarnation-cycle insights with them.

Zhou Qingqing sent Fire Spirit Holy Mother to Jianmu and learned that Zhunti had taken over as the Shang Dynasty’s State Preceptor and was using the Buddha Path to scheme. She sent Daoist Duobao to warn Nuwa and made him promise to stay away from the Buddha Path.

• Bai Ze told Zhou Qingqing that Lu Ya had reported Zhunti’s plans, and she remarked that Lu Ya had volunteered to stage a fake fight.
• Zhou Qingqing sent Fire Spirit Holy Mother to Jianmu with a lotus, where she joined Houtu and the others discussing Primordial World Reincarnation.
• Zhou Qingqing realized Zhunti was playing both the State Preceptor and Daji while advancing the Buddha Path, and decided Nuwa needed to be warned.
• Zhou Qingqing gave Daoist Duobao information about the Buddha Path and ordered him to tell Nuwa about Zhunti’s scheme.
• Zhou Qingqing warned Daoist Duobao that Fire Spirit Holy Mother would hammer him if he joined the Buddha Path, and he promised to stay away unless Zhou Qingqing told him otherwise.

Daoist Duobao reported that Zhunti planned to establish a Buddhist Kingdom, while Nuwa refused to interfere with the Shang Dynasty’s projected fate and backed the future Zhou Dynasty. Zhunti killed Di Yi’s projection, but Di Yi awakened in the Primordial World and became Taiyi True Person’s disciple, leaving Nuwa to recognize Qingqing’s careful arrangements.

• Daoist Duobao told the Human Dao Saints that Zhunti planned to establish a Buddhist Kingdom, and Nuwa said she would not interfere with the Shang Dynasty but expected a share of Zhou’s fortune.
• Fuxi decided to pass the Book of Changes to Ji Chang and suggested that Ji Chang might become his disciple.
• Buddha Mother Zhunti killed Di Yi in the Shang Dynasty projection, bypassing the Human Dao’s protection with Buddhist Dharma.
• Di Yi awoke in the Primordial World and discovered that his name was not on the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Taiyi True Person offered to take Di Yi as his disciple and send him to Tianyi Star to seek a divine position, and Di Yi accepted.

Zhou Qingqing warned Bai Ze that his disciple Bi Gan could be drawn into the Investiture of the Gods, and Bai Ze chose to help him survive the coming calamity. When Daoist Zhunti tried to convert Bi Gan and seize his Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart, Kong Xuan intervened, leaving the two powers poised to clash.

• Zhou Qingqing explained that Di Yi’s fate was tied to Tianyi Star and urged Bai Ze to decide whether to protect Bi Gan or let him withdraw from Blue Planet.
• Bai Ze chose to let Bi Gan remain in the mortal world and sought Kong Xuan, planning to have the Southern Earl’s camp help him.
• Daoist Zhunti visited Bi Gan in Zhaoge and tried to convert him, but Bi Gan’s Seven-Aperture Exquisite Heart dispelled the Buddhist influence.
• Daoist Zhunti attempted to take Bi Gan’s heart, but Kong Xuan swept Bi Gan away with the Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Daoist Zhunti confronted Kong Xuan with the Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree, while Kong Xuan realized Zhunti was no longer a Primordial Saint.

Kong Xuan used his newly manifested Peacock King form to block Daoist Zhunti’s Seven Treasures Wondrous Tree and escape Zhaoge City with Bi Gan. Bai Ze told Bi Gan that the Shang Dynasty was on the verge of becoming a Buddhist kingdom and asked him to help Kong Xuan’s side, while Zhou Qingqing sent Bai Ze a message.

• Kong Xuan transformed into the Peacock King and used his Five-Colored Divine Light to withstand Daoist Zhunti’s attack.
• Daoist Zhunti tried to persuade Kong Xuan to join the Buddha Path, but Kong Xuan refused and flew out of Zhaoge City.
• Kong Xuan rescued Bi Gan, who recognized that Bai Ze had sent him.
• Bai Ze told Bi Gan that the Shang Dynasty was about to become a Buddhist kingdom and asked him to remain with the Southern Earl and Kong Xuan.
• Bi Gan agreed to help Kong Xuan repay the kindness of his rescue, and Bai Ze thanked Kong Xuan for saving his disciple.
• As Bai Ze prepared to leave, Zhou Qingqing sent him a message through the lotus flowers in his Primordial Spirit.

Zhou Qingqing used the Qiankun Cauldron and the Law of Creation to make essence blood of the Five Elements Demon God and the Yin-Yang Demon God, then had Bai Ze give it to Kong Xuan and Golden Roc to strengthen them. The Three Pure Ones worried when Qingqing considered making essence blood for other powerful beings, including Pangu, and resolved to stop her from becoming a “system.”

• Zhou Qingqing judged that Kong Xuan and Golden Roc still lacked the strength to deal with Zhunti and Burning Lamp, and decided to strengthen them with source essence.
• After recalling the Five Elements and Yin-Yang Demon Gods, Zhou Qingqing used her essence blood, the Qiankun Cauldron, and the Law of Creation to produce two drops of their essence blood.
• Bai Ze presented the demon-god essence blood to Kong Xuan and Golden Roc on Fairy Qingqing’s behalf, and the brothers accepted it and asked him to convey their thanks.
• Zhou Qingqing wondered whether she could also create essence blood for other Chaos Demon Gods and Pangu, then considered giving it out like a system.
• The Three Pure Ones decided they would prevent Zhou Qingqing from abandoning her place as their First Disciple to become a system.

Zhou Qingqing hoped Queen Jiang could be saved from Zhunti’s plans to turn the Blue Planet into a Buddha Kingdom. Supreme Pure Laozi arranged for Nine Phoenix and Ghost Chariot to enter the calamity and rescue her.

• Zhou Qingqing decided that Queen Jiang was worth saving and hoped the Nine Nether Realm could hinder Zhunti.
• Supreme Pure Laozi asked Houtu to send Nine Phoenix to Zhaoge to rescue the Ghost Earl’s daughter, and Houtu agreed.
• Nine Phoenix descended from the Nine Nether Realm to the Blue Planet, while Zhou Qingqing recognized her eldest master’s intervention.
• Supreme Pure Laozi asked Eastern Emperor Taiyi to bring Demon Marshal Ghost Chariot into the calamity to help Nine Phoenix.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi agreed and handed Supreme Pure Laozi a wisp of true solar fire.

Nine Phoenix and Ghost Chariot joined forces, defeated Daoist Zhunti, and took the Queen from Chaoge to Ghost Earl’s camp. Zhunti dismissed their victory as a minor setback and vowed to press on.

• Bai Ze recognized Ghost Chariot, while Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts led the Three Pure Ones to question what she meant by “Witch-Demon King.”
• Supreme Pure Laozi explained that he had paired Nine Phoenix and Ghost Chariot because their similar paths could help Nine Phoenix break through.
• Di Jun welcomed the former Demon Marshal’s participation in the calamity, and Nine Phoenix and Ghost Chariot found their Great Daos compatible when they met.
• Nine Phoenix and Ghost Chariot joined forces, defeated Daoist Zhunti, and took the Queen away to Ghost Earl’s camp.
• Bai Ze recorded the alliance in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, while Daoist Zhunti called the loss an insignificant setback.

Zhou Qingqing waited for the Shang Dynasty’s downfall and continued merging with the Dao across the stars. On Wenchang Star, she praised Wenshu for discovering his own Dao of the Heavenly Venerate through copying scriptures, then began drawing Wenchang Star’s talismans to herself.

• Zhou Qingqing told Bai Ze to wait, explaining that Zhunti’s Buddha Kingdom would coincide with the Shang Dynasty’s decline and the lords’ rise.
• Zhou Qingqing traveled to the next starfield and continued merging with the Dao while the Three Pure Ones watched from the Nine Nether Realm.
• At Wenchang Star, Wenshu showed Zhou Qingqing the Dao Scriptures he had copied and revealed that the practice had helped him comprehend his own Dao of the Heavenly Venerate.
• Zhou Qingqing praised Wenshu, sat down before him, and drew countless talismans from Wenchang Star toward herself.

Zhou Qingqing fused the Great Dao laws of Wenchang Star into her Fate Palace and reached the fifth layer of Primordial Chaos. After gaining the ability to see the trajectories of Fate, she prepared to test her new strength while the Three Pure Ones resolved to study Fate themselves.

• Bai Ze told Wenshu that Zhou Qingqing was fusing Wenchang Star's Great Dao laws to advance to the fifth layer of Primordial Chaos.
• Zhou Qingqing completed the fusion, uniting the stars under her control into one region and forming the Ziwei Palace.
• The Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Azure Lotus concealed Zhou Qingqing as astral signs manifested around her, then she opened her eyes after reaching the fifth layer of Primordial Chaos.
• Zhou Qingqing used her divine sense to inspect the Primordial World and Blue Planet and saw the trajectories of Fate for most cultivators.
• The Three Pure Ones decided to deduce the Great Dao laws of Fate using Zhou Qingqing's displayed insights as a foundation.

Zhou Qingqing heard Bai Ze’s report on the changing Blue Planet and watched Daoist Zhunti complete the Deer Terrace in Zhaoge. Though it briefly lifted the Shang Dynasty’s Fortune, it soon plunged lower than before, while forces across the realm prepared to clash.

• Bai Ze reported that Daoist Zhunti had supported Di Xin, spread Western Sect disciples through the Shang Dynasty, and built the Deer Terrace to gather Fortune.
• Maitreya brought Daoist Zhunti the power of faith and other materials, and Zhunti used Buddhist arts to finish the Deer Terrace.
• The Deer Terrace briefly stabilized and raised the Shang Dynasty’s Fortune, but it quickly fell below its previous level, leaving Daoist Zhunti unable to halt the Calamity’s decline.
• Bai Ze reported that Wen Zhong and Yu Yuan had entered the Calamity, Nezha and Yang Jian had joined Western Qi, and Ji Chang had begun studying the Book of Changes.
• Bai Ze reported that the Northern Earl had backed the Ziwei Star Lord as his successor, while Bi Gan, Nine Phoenix, Ghost Chariot, and Xiangliu strengthened other territories.

Daoist Jieyin sensed danger in the Western Sect’s involvement in the calamity and discovered a possible last-resort tactic called Nirvana Entry. Fairy Qingqing and Bai Ze learned of his plan, and the Three Pure Ones realized that both Jieyin’s Myriad Buddhas Nirvana Formation and Tongtian’s Myriad Immortals Formation could become trump cards in the conflict.

• Daoist Jieyin returned to the fourth level of the Primordial Zenith realm, sensed danger in the Western Sect’s role in the calamity, and decided he could not withdraw while his junior brother remained in peril.
• Daoist Jieyin discovered the phrase “Nirvana Entry,” concluded it offered a way to turn defeat into victory at the final moment, and vanished from the Western Pure Land to gather materials.
• Fairy Qingqing told Bai Ze that Six Ears had overheard Daoist Jieyin’s words and departure, and Bai Ze considered warning Six Ears to stop spying on him.
• Bai Ze wondered whether Daoist Jieyin was preparing a formation, and the Three Pure Ones concluded that a Myriad Buddhas Nirvana Formation could become a Shang Dynasty trump card.
• Supreme Pure Laozi asked Upper Pure Master Tongtian about his Myriad Immortals Formation, and Tongtian assured him and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate that he had prepared it.