Chapter Summaries

Supreme Pure Laozi unleashed his Limitlessness Great Dao while the Three Pure Ones resisted Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s Great Dao Spiral. They united their Great Daos and shattered the spiral, leaving Hongjun’s attack in fragments.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun challenged Supreme Pure Laozi to make his move.
• Supreme Pure Laozi used Chaos Limitlessness, returning the surrounding Chaos to its primordial state and revealing the full might of his Great Dao.
• Di Jun realized the Three Pure Ones had each developed a Great Dao that could rival the Divine Path.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun unleashed the Great Dao Spiral, twisting the laws of the Dao and threatening to shatter the Three Pure Ones’ foundations.
• The Three Pure Ones connected Taiqing Qi, Yuqing Qi, and Shangqing Qi to fully evolve their Great Dao and collapse the spiral into fragments.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun transformed into the Boundless Heavenly Venerate and unleashed increasingly powerful abilities against the Three Pure Ones. The Three Pure Ones resisted his Great Dao Interrogation and prepared to use the supreme Great Dao law they had deduced from the Heaven-Opening Axe, while Hongjun began manipulating spacetime.

• Di Jun sensed that Heavenly Dao Hongjun was undergoing a new transformation and urged Haotian to perceive its Heavenly Venerate aura.
• Haotian sensed the aura and learned that Hongjun was evolving into the Boundless Heavenly Venerate.
• The Three Pure Ones chose not to involve Zhou Qingqing and prepared to test the supreme Great Dao law they had deduced from the Heaven-Opening Axe.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun invoked Boundless Heavenly Venerate and used Thunderous Dharma Edict, Infinite True Words against the Three Pure Ones.
• Zhou Qingqing used the Black Lotus to neutralize the Great Dao Interrogation, and the Three Pure Ones secretly turned its remaining effects into nourishment.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun invoked Macrocosm, Infinite Spacetime, causing the surrounding Chaos to change as the spectators realized he could control spacetime laws.

The Three Pure Ones used the Great Dao of Opening to break Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s Boundless Spacetime and Infinite Chains, while Zhou Qingqing prepared to join them. Hongjun revealed the complete Creation Jade Disc and trapped Qingqing in Boundless Spacetime, prompting Nuwa, Houtu, Di Jun, and the other Saints to move to help her.

• The Three Pure Ones invoked Primordial Genesis, using the Great Dao of Opening to cleave through Boundless Spacetime and Infinite Chains.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi explained that the Heaven-Opening Axe contained the Great Dao of Opening and that the Creation Jade Disc contained Hongjun’s Boundless Great Dao.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun revealed the complete Creation Jade Disc and used Infinite Cycle to divert the Three Pure Ones’ Primordial Genesis.
• Hongjun trapped Zhou Qingqing in Boundless Spacetime before she could join the Three Pure Ones, while the Creation Jade Disc’s power threatened to overwhelm them.
• Nuwa, Houtu, Di Jun, and the other Saints gathered to help Zhou Qingqing break free.

Zhou Qingqing’s allies failed to break Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s Infinite Spacetime, so she summoned the Four Symbols Star Lords to channel the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm’s power into her. As the stars responded, Zhou Qingqing began drawing on the Balance Great Dao, seemingly preparing to break through to the Dao Integration Realm.

• Di Jun gathered power from the Saints and launched the True Spirit Rank Diagram, while Haotian and Yaochi added their marks despite Zhou Qingqing telling them not to fight.
• The combined attack shook Infinite Spacetime but could not break it because Di Jun’s foundation was too weak.
• Zhou Qingqing decided to rely on her own breakthrough and called on Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise to form the Four Symbols Grand Formation.
• The Four Symbols Star Lords linked the stars across the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm and sent their starlight into Chaos toward Zhou Qingqing.
• The starlight infused Zhou Qingqing with the Balance Great Dao’s laws, and Bai Ze recognized that she might be about to enter the Dao Integration Realm as the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm began to boil over.

Zhou Qingqing broke free from Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s attempt to trap her and reached the Seventh Layer of Primordial Chaos, declaring herself the Azure Lotus Dao Ancestor and Creation Dao Venerate. Her titles spread throughout the Primordial World and Blue Planet, leaving Saints, allies, and rivals stunned as the chaos struggle continued.

• Primal Phoenix sent her divine sense into the chaos and saw Zhou Qingqing trapped by Heavenly Dao Hongjun while the Saints of the Three Daos tried to help her.
• Zhou Qingqing’s aura surged to the Seventh Layer of Primordial Chaos, and Heavenly Dao Hongjun used Infinite Maze to hinder her while the Three Pure Ones shattered it with their combined essence blood.
• Zhou Qingqing realized she needed an honorific title, then proclaimed herself the Azure Lotus Dao Ancestor and Creation Dao Venerate.
• Zhou Qingqing’s titles resounded through the universe, shocking the beings of the Primordial World and Blue Planet, including Di Xin’s group, the Buddhists, and the Seven Little Ones.
• Primal Phoenix praised Zhou Qingqing’s achievement, then her pupils contracted violently.

Zhou Qingqing joined the battle against Heavenly Dao Hongjun and broke his Infinite Spacetime with the Godslaying Spear. Empowered by the Three Pure Ones, she faced his Infinite Incarnations with her own creation power, and the chapter ended as she revealed an aura of eternal existence that even Hongjun found extraordinary.

• Zhou Qingqing used the Godslaying Spear to shatter Heavenly Dao Hongjun's Infinite Spacetime and joined the Three Pure Ones on the battlefield.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun erased the Three Pure Ones' axe blade and summoned Infinite Incarnations representing the Three Thousand Great Daos and myriad Daos.
• Zhou Qingqing called on the Three Pure Ones, who connected their power to her through the Alchemy Dao, Artifact Dao, and Formation Dao.
• Empowered by her masters, Zhou Qingqing gained a clearer understanding of the Creation Jade Disc and the laws of the Great Daos.
• Zhou Qingqing released the eternal, boundless aura of the Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Azure Lotus, which reminded Heavenly Dao Hongjun of the Mother of the Great Dao.

Zhou Qingqing used the Three Pure Ones’ mana to raise the Chaos Azure Lotus against Heavenly Dao Hongjun’s Infinite Incarnations and Creation Jade Disc. As Hongjun intensified his attack, Qingqing invoked the Mother of the Great Dao’s aura and called out “Genesis.”

• Zhou Qingqing attempted to create a trace of the Mother of the Great Dao’s aura to overwhelm the Creation Jade Disc.
• The Infinite Incarnations attacked Zhou Qingqing with countless Great Dao laws, and her Chaos Azure Lotus blocked their assault.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun empowered the Infinite Incarnations through the Creation Jade Disc, causing lotus forms to gather before them.
• Zhou Qingqing said she would not let Hongjun test her defense and invoked the Mother of the Great Dao with “Genesis,” making Hongjun’s expression change.

Zhou Qingqing used her Genesis divine ability to create a wisp of the Mother of the Great Dao’s aura, revealing a force that overwhelmed the Boundless incarnations and threatened the Creation Jade Disc. As the aura rushed toward the treasure, Heavenly Dao Hongjun put it away and faced the attack himself.

• The Three Pure Ones and the saints realized Zhou Qingqing’s Genesis had created a trace of the Mother of the Great Dao’s aura, startling Heavenly Dao Hongjun.
• Lu Ya and Wangshu sensed that the aura differed from the Mother of the Great Dao they had known and recognized it as belonging to an earlier era.
• Zhou Qingqing sent the aura against the Boundless incarnations, which it wiped out in a single strike.
• The aura surged toward the Creation Jade Disc as the saints anticipated its destruction.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun put away the Creation Jade Disc and confronted the Mother of the Great Dao’s aura himself.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun endured Zhou Qingqing's Genesis, then used the remaining aura of the Mother of the Great Dao and the Creation Jade Disc to transform into a Celestial Immortal. As Hongjun adjusted to his new power, the Three Pure Ones reassured Zhou Qingqing that they had learned her divine ability of destiny.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun let Zhou Qingqing's Genesis shatter his body and consume much of his origin, then smiled as the aura began to disperse.
• Hongjun told the Saints that he had created the Immortal Path and needed the Mother of the Great Dao's aura to advance beyond Dao Integration.
• Hongjun integrated the Creation Jade Disc, summoned three thousand weakened incarnations, and absorbed the remaining aura.
• Hongjun transformed his Heavenly Dao and Immortal Path powers into the Celestial Immortal Great Dao.
• Zhou Qingqing worried about stopping Hongjun, but the Three Pure Ones reassured her that they had learned some of her divine ability of destiny.

Zhou Qingqing helped the Three Pure Ones create the Dao Star, which overcame Hongjun’s Celestial Immortal Dao and left him defeated. The Three Pure Ones absorbed the Boundless Heavenly Venerate into Daoism, while Hongjun was left weakened and unable to recover quickly.

• Zhou Qingqing used Genesis again to create another aura of the Mother of the Great Dao, and Supreme Pure Laozi drew it to the Three Pure Ones.
• The Three Pure Ones combined their Great Dao principles and Fate to condense the Dao Star, which Zhou Qingqing recognized as their means of changing their Fate.
• Hongjun unleashed the Celestial Immortal Dao and began recovering, but the Dao Star broke through its power and clashed with it.
• After the Dao Star gained the advantage, Hongjun used the Creation Jade Disc to withstand the Three Pure Ones’ attack, and their strike left a crack in the treasure.
• The Three Pure Ones absorbed the Boundless Heavenly Venerate into Daoism, declared their separation from the Mystic Gate, and left Hongjun weakened as Zhou Qingqing realized they had won.

After defeating Heavenly Dao Hongjun, the Three Pure Ones secured Daoism’s independence and returned to the Primordial World with Zhou Qingqing to conclude the calamity. Zhou Qingqing’s display of power and the Three Pure Ones’ founding of Three Teachings Grotto left the Saints gathered at Kongtong Mountain.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun acknowledged the Three Pure Ones’ victory, declared Daoism independent from the Mystic Gate, and retreated to Purple Cloud Palace.
• The Three Pure Ones thanked the Saints who had aided them and invited them to return to the Primordial World for a grand gathering of the Dao.
• Zhou Qingqing led the Saints back as the Three Daos celebrated her return, and she scattered six-colored lotuses that granted cultivators insight into the Dao.
• Supreme Pure Laozi led the Saints to Kongtong Mountain, where Nuwa recognized the Kongtong Seal’s connection to the sacred mountain.
• The Three Pure Ones established Three Teachings Grotto on Kongtong Mountain as a gathering place for their three lineages.

Zhou Qingqing returned to Blue Planet and used the methods of Buddhism’s past, present, and future calamities to take control of the Investiture of the Gods Calamity. She kept the calamity going despite its apparent end, inviting even Saints to take part.

• Nuwa asked the Saints how Zhou Qingqing would end the calamity, and Supreme Pure Laozi said they would wait to see what she did.
• Zhou Qingqing returned to Blue Planet, where the Four Great Lords and the other lords greeted her as the Azure Lotus Dao Ancestor and Creation Dao Venerate.
• Zhou Qingqing took control of the fading calamity energy and manifested the methods of the past, present, and future calamities.
• Amitabha Buddha sensed that Zhou Qingqing’s actions had shaken Buddhism’s foundations, but he and Buddha Mother Zhunti remained trapped inside the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin as its golden Swastika Symbol went dark.
• Zhou Qingqing sent the calamity back into Blue Planet, declared that it would continue because its participants had not given their all, and announced that Saints could join.

Zhou Qingqing established the Contention of the Hundred Schools on Blue Planet, opened it to Saints, and created the Starry Sky Ancient Road as a way to escape the Calamity. She then empowered Bai Ze with Blue Planet’s data, helping him attain Primordial Chaos as the Wisdom Sage, and brought him to Kongtong to hear the Three Pure Ones expound the Dao.

• Zhou Qingqing named the remaining Calamity the Contention of the Hundred Schools and allowed Saints to enter Blue Planet to participate.
• Zhou Qingqing created the Starry Sky Ancient Road, while Ji Chang resolved to lead the Zhou Dynasty across it and escape the Calamity.
• Zhou Qingqing sent the Star Lords and atmosphere crew from Mind Platform Star to the Heavenly Court to fulfill their roles on the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Zhou Qingqing asked Bai Ze to gather Blue Planet’s data and create panels, and he absorbed its Dao rhythm through the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Bai Ze Diagram.
• Bai Ze attained Primordial Chaos as the Wisdom Sage, prompting Amitabha Buddha to lament that Bai Ze had claimed the Buddha Path’s wisdom.
• Zhou Qingqing invited Bai Ze to Kongtong to hear the Three Pure Ones expound the Dao.

As the Three Pure Ones began a Dao Grand Assembly on Kongtong Mountain, Zhou Qingqing’s disciples from the Zhou Dynasty set out along the Starry Sky Ancient Road. The Dao Ancestors added powerful phenomena to the road, and Zhou Qingqing began explaining the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Daos as the travelers encountered their creations.

• The Zhou Dynasty, led by Ji Chang and joined by Yang Jian, Nezha, and other disciples, entered the Starry Sky Ancient Road to explore it.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin onto the road, while Supreme Pure Laozi and Master Tongtian added the Eight Views Palace and a Sword Tomb.
• Nuwa added the Gate of Creation, Houtu added Ghost Gate Pass, and Di Jun sent the divine charm of the Ancient Heavenly Court onto the road.
• Zhou Qingqing left her own mark on the road with a world-weary sigh that produced new phenomena, then began lecturing on the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Daos at Supreme Pure Laozi’s request.
• The Zhou Dynasty travelers encountered the coffin, the Eight Views Palace, the Sword Tomb, the Gate of Creation, Ghost Gate Pass, and part of the Ancient Heavenly Court, before sensing that Qingqing’s sigh might give rise to a future threat.

After completing the Starry Sky Ancient Road, Ji Chang and many others returned to the Primordial World with the gains of their trials, and the Zhou Dynasty escaped calamity. The chapter ended with the Six-Winged Golden Cicada shedding its shell and beginning a rebirth through reincarnation.

• The Four Great Lords set out together on the Starry Sky Ancient Road, while Zhou Qingqing observed the changes leading Blue Planet toward the Hundred Schools of Thought.
• Ji Chang completed the road, returned to the Primordial World, gained immense power of the mind, and learned he could establish the Zhou Dynasty anew.
• Nezha, Yang Jian, Fire Spirit Holy Mother, Wen Zhong, and other Daoism disciples returned with improved Dao nature, wisdom, bodies, and minds, and planned to take offices maintaining order.
• The Three Pure Ones considered how Qingqing’s changes had allowed many figures to escape the Investiture of the Gods Calamity and find cultivation paths in heaven and earth.
• The Six-Winged Golden Cicada shed its shell, shrank while glowing with golden light, and vanished into the reincarnation passage to begin its rebirth.

Zhou Qingqing discovered that a Buddha Path Dao Fruit had entered Blue Planet and empowered the reincarnated Six-Winged Golden Cicada, who emerged as Master Sanzang. She resolved to keep the Buddha Path out of the Hundred Schools’ contention and planned to create Sha Wujin as Master Sanzang’s opponent, turning her attention toward the current Curtain-Rolling General.

• Zhou Qingqing used her Golden Eyes to detect the Buddha Path Dao Fruit entering Blue Planet and locating the reincarnated Six-Winged Golden Cicada.
• The Buddha Path Dao Fruit descended through the Three Lifetimes Calamities, and a novice monk opened his eyes and declared, "Sanzang!"
• Supreme Pure Laozi recognized Master Sanzang as the one fated to undergo the tribulation in Journey to the West, and Zhou Qingqing decided the Buddha Path should not join the Hundred Schools’ contention.
• Zhou Qingqing chose the current Curtain-Rolling General as the target for her plan to create Sha Wujin and deal with Master Sanzang.
• Zhou Qingqing looked toward the present Thirty-Three Heavens and prepared to meet the Curtain-Rolling General.

Zhou Qingqing sent the Three Xiao Sisters to train the Curtain-Rolling General by turning him into Sha Wujin and preparing him to kill a Buddha-path monk with the Buddha Dao Fruit. The Three Pure Ones watched as Sha Wujin gained a powerful killing Dao, a Moon Laurel Tree staff, and a custom formation, while other future figures and treasures remained in reserve.

• Zhou Qingqing sent a decree to the Three Xiao Sisters on the Lunar Star, and they learned that their senior sister wanted them to find the Curtain-Rolling General.
• The Three Xiao Sisters met the Curtain-Rolling General at the High Heaven Palace and told him to kill a Buddha-path monk with the Buddha Dao Fruit through every reincarnation.
• Yunxiao told the Curtain-Rolling General that Zhou Qingqing had named him Sha Wujin and sent the sisters to train him.
• Bixiao used the Golden Dragon Shears to give Sha Wujin principles of the Killing Dao, and Qiongxiao gave him a Moon Laurel Tree weapon called the Sala Treasure Staff or Moonlight Shovel.
• Yunxiao gave Sha Wujin the Eight Hundred Flowing Sand Realms formation, which summoned eight hundred shifting Flowing Sand domains to help him slay enemies.
• The Three Pure Ones observed that Qingqing had created a new Sha Wujin, while Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerate kept other future disciples and treasures in reserve.

Sha Wujin left the Three Xiao Fairies and defeated Master Sanzang with the Eight Hundred Flowing Sand Realms and his Crescent Moon Spade. Afterward, Zhou Qingqing considered changing the rest of the Journey to the West figures and spreading Daoist arts westward.

• Sha Wujin departed from the Three Xiao Fairies, who decided to establish the School of Novelists together.
• Sha Wujin found Master Sanzang, who expected him to follow the original Journey to the West events and leave him alive.
• Sha Wujin rejected Master Sanzang's claim that they were on the same path and trapped him in the Eight Hundred Flowing Sand Realms.
• Sha Wujin struck Master Sanzang with the Crescent Moon Spade and killed him, improving his cultivation and attainment.
• Zhou Qingqing considered changing the other Journey to the West figures and discussed the possibility of spreading Daoist arts westward.

After Zhou Qingqing finished preaching on the Great Dao, Houtu asked her to help choose paths in the Hundred Schools of Thought for the Ancestral Witches. Qingqing proposed that they help Turtle Spirit Holy Mother pioneer martial arts and attain the True Martial Great Emperor position, and Turtle Spirit began projecting the Black Tortoise constellation toward Blue Planet.

• Zhou Qingqing finished preaching, then passed questions from the gathered Saints to the Three Pure Ones, who explained Divine Path and Immortal Path civilization.
• Houtu asked the Three Pure Ones to help find suitable Hundred Schools of Thought paths for her elder brothers, but the eldest brother directed Zhou Qingqing to answer.
• Zhou Qingqing proposed that the Ancestral Witches follow Turtle Spirit Holy Mother and pioneer Blue Planet martial arts to help her become the True Martial Great Emperor.
• Zhou Qingqing offered Chiyou and other Ancestral Witches an alternative: Turtle Spirit could use the River Map and Luo Scroll to help them with deductions if they helped her attain divine martial arts.
• The Ancestral Witches agreed to help Turtle Spirit, and she projected the Black Tortoise constellation toward Blue Planet.

Zhou Qingqing assigned Saints and other powerful figures to schools for the debate among the hundred schools, prompting many to project themselves onto Blue Planet. The debate gained new participants, including Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Red Cloud, and disciples of Daoism.

• Houtu projected the Ancestral Witches and Great Witches onto Blue Planet after they agreed to experience Martial Dao.
• Nuwa asked Zhou Qingqing which Human Race schools Suiren, Youchao, and the Human Dao Saints could join, and Zhou Qingqing named the Mohists, Agriculturalists, and Fangji School.
• Di Jun asked about Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and Zhou Qingqing recommended that he join the Yin-Yang School; Taiyi projected himself down at once.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate asked Zhou Qingqing to arrange schools for the Kunlun lineage, while Supreme Pure Laozi assigned Zhuang Zhou to Daoism and Great Master Xuandu to the School of Diplomacy.
• Zhuang Zhou and Great Master Xuandu welcomed the chance to participate, while Red Cloud learned that he could project himself down to establish the Confucian School.
• Zhen Yuanzi thanked Zhou Qingqing and Upper Pure Master Tongtian for remembering Red Cloud, and Zhou Qingqing said that participants like him were needed to give the debate a strong foundation.