Chapter Summaries

Tongtian secured Di Jun’s Immortal-Slaying Gourd for Zhou Qingqing, who feared the treasure’s future threat to the Three Pure Ones’ disciples. After the Three Pure Ones declined to attend the Heavenly Court’s founding ceremony, Zhou Qingqing claimed the gourd and its flying dagger as her own.

• Tongtian asked Di Jun to give Zhou Qingqing the Immortal-Slaying Gourd as compensation, and Di Jun agreed after weighing it against the Heavenly Court’s founding.
• Di Jun asked the Three Pure Ones to attend the ceremony establishing the Heavenly Court, but Laozi and Yuanshi declined and reminded him to keep the upper three heavens forbidden to the Demon Clan.
• The Three Pure Ones assured Di Jun that Zhou Qingqing would not interfere with his plans, while Zhou Qingqing resolved not to stay alone in Three Pure Ones Heaven during the Calamity.
• Zhou Qingqing placed her primordial spirit imprint on the gourd and discovered the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger inside, which she claimed as her own.

Zhou Qingqing finished refining the first twelve layers of the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and wanted a chance to test its power. Supreme Pure Laozi deduced that the Enlightened Beast near Eastern Kunlun was a suitable opponent, and Zhou Qingqing summoned her gourd to attack it.

• Zhou Qingqing told the Three Pure Ones that she had refined twelve layers of the Immortal-Slaying Gourd and described its flying dagger.
• Upper Pure Tongtian challenged Zhou Qingqing to compare the dagger with his Zhuxian, but Supreme Pure Laozi promised to find her a suitable opponent.
• Zhou Qingqing thought of fighting a ferocious beast, identified the Enlightened Beast near Eastern Kunlun, and Supreme Pure Laozi deduced its location.
• The Three Pure Ones found the nine-headed Enlightened Beast in an abyss south of Eastern Kunlun and let Zhou Qingqing test her dagger on it.
• Zhou Qingqing summoned the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, recited its incantation, and called, "Please turn around!"

Zhou Qingqing tested the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger, then asked the Three Pure Ones to save the Enlightened Beast so she could keep it as a pet. After they restored the beast and repaired the abyss, Di Jun announced the formation of the Demon Clan and Heavenly Court.

• Zhou Qingqing used the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger to kill the Enlightened Beast by cutting off its heads.
• Zhou Qingqing asked the Three Pure Ones to examine the beast, and they found its corruption had been deliberately stirred up and could be removed.
• The Three Pure Ones restored the Enlightened Beast's clarity and gave it to Zhou Qingqing as a pet.
• The Three Pure Ones began repairing the abyss before returning to Kunlun.
• Di Jun proclaimed the formation of the Demon Clan and established the Heavenly Court in the Thirty-Three Heavens.

After the Demon Clan established the Heavenly Court, Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones discussed its likely conflict with the Immortal Court and the fate of Eastern Duke’s good corpse. Eastern Duke then learned of the Heavenly Court’s rise and flew into a rage, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• Di Jun established the Heavenly Court in the Thirty-Three Heavens, while Fuxi told Nuwa that the Demon Clan did not own the upper three heavens.
• Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones wondered why the Witch Race had not reacted and predicted that the Heavenly Court and Immortal Court would inevitably clash.
• Laozi realized Eastern Duke’s good corpse, Donghua Dijun, might eventually join his lineage, and decided to bring Qingqing when he went to Purple Residence.
• Eastern Duke saw the Heavenly Court’s announcement and angrily condemned Di Jun for challenging his authority over the male immortals.

Supreme Pure Laozi took Zhou Qingqing to watch the Heavenly Court attack the Purple Mansion, intending to assess Donghua Dijun. As Donghua Dijun confronted Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Zhou Qingqing anticipated his defeat, but their clash left its outcome obscured.

• Supreme Pure Laozi persuaded Zhou Qingqing to travel with him to Purple Mansion Province to watch the conflict between the Heavenly Court and the Immortal Court.
• The Heavenly Court overwhelmed the Purple Mansion as Di Jun trapped its divine generals, the Ten Great Demon Marshals fought its cultivators, and Eastern Emperor Taiyi pursued those fleeing.
• Donghua Dijun appeared before Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and Supreme Pure Laozi revealed that he had brought Zhou Qingqing to see him.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi invited Donghua Dijun to surrender, but Donghua Dijun drew the Pure Yang Sword and challenged him to battle.
• Donghua Dijun's Pure Yang Sword and Eastern Emperor Taiyi's Chaos Bell clashed, while Zhou Qingqing expected Donghua Dijun to be defeated and perish.

Supreme Pure Laozi intervened just as Eastern Emperor Taiyi was about to destroy Donghua Dijun’s good-corpse incarnation. Taiyi withdrew after Laozi blocked his attack, leaving the Heavenly Court poised to rule the heavens.

• Donghua Dijun accepted his defeat and awaited Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s killing blow, realizing he was unworthy of leading the male immortals.
• Supreme Pure Laozi appeared before Taiyi’s Chaos Bell could destroy Donghua Dijun and blocked the attack with the Taiji Diagram.
• Laozi struck Taiyi with the White Jade Golden Bridge, convincing him that he could not win the confrontation.
• Laozi said he would protect only Donghua Dijun, whom Hongjun had appointed leader of all male immortals, and Taiyi agreed to spare him.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi departed, while the Immortal Court’s fall left the Heavenly Court set to govern the heavens.

Supreme Pure Laozi saved Donghua Dijun from Eastern Emperor Taiyi and brought him to Mount Shouyang to recover. Donghua Dijun offered to become his disciple, but Supreme Pure Laozi deferred the decision, leaving their future relationship unsettled.

• Supreme Pure Laozi drove Eastern Emperor Taiyi away and saved Donghua Dijun, who thanked him for the rescue.
• Supreme Pure Laozi said the Purple Mansion Immortal Court had fallen and offered to find Donghua Dijun a place to recover.
• Supreme Pure Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to break Mount Shouyang's innate formation and brought Donghua Dijun to the Eight Views Palace.
• Donghua Dijun offered to become Supreme Pure Laozi's disciple, but Supreme Pure Laozi said they should reconsider after he attained the Dao.
• Donghua Dijun accepted Supreme Pure Laozi's answer, while Supreme Pure Laozi privately regretted not accepting him.

Donghua Dijun gave Supreme Pure Laozi a mysterious divine stone before settling into cultivation on Mount Shouyang, and Laozi had Zhou Qingqing mine the mountain’s copper vein. Back in Eastern Kunlun, Qingqing placed the Three Lives Stone in her Lotus Pond and anticipated the Ancestral Witches’ emergence, capturing the Three Pure Ones’ interest.

• Donghua Dijun told Supreme Pure Laozi he would skip the Purple Cloud Palace’s third lecture and gave him a mysterious divine stone, which Qingqing recognized as the Three Lives Stone.
• Supreme Pure Laozi accepted the stone and discovered a top-grade copper vein on Mount Shouyang, then assigned Zhou Qingqing to mine it to practice controlling her dharma power.
• Supreme Pure Laozi helped Zhou Qingqing extract the vein and brought the copper back to Eastern Kunlun, where Jade Pure Yuanshi and Upper Pure Tongtian were surprised by the delivery.
• Zhou Qingqing placed the Three Lives Stone in her Lotus Pond and noted that she would have to wait for the third lecture to obtain the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner.
• Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts about the Ancestral Witches and the Witch Race emerging drew the Three Pure Ones’ attention.

Zhou Qingqing watched the Witch Race reveal itself as the Witch-Demon Calamity began, then traveled with the Three Pure Ones to Purple Cloud Palace for Hongjun’s third lecture. The Three Pure Ones used their choice to create their own secret method as a test of Hongjun’s reaction.

• Zhou Qingqing attempted to refine a sixth-revolution Nine-Revolution Golden Pill, but the cauldron exploded as the Twelve Ancestral Witches appeared near Mount Buzhou and proclaimed the Witch Race’s arrival.
• Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches declared that they bowed to neither heaven nor earth and honored only Pangu, prompting Di Jun to foresee a bloody conflict between the Witch and Demon Clans.
• The Three Pure Ones discussed the Ancestral Witches’ strength and the coming calamity while Zhou Qingqing blamed her failed pill on the upheaval in the Primordial World.
• Zhou Qingqing accompanied the Three Pure Ones to Purple Cloud Palace, where she noticed many Red Dust Guests had died since the previous lecture.
• Hongjun appeared for the third lecture, and the Three Pure Ones waited to see how he would respond to their decision to create their own secret method.

At Purple Cloud Palace, Hongjun praised the Three Pure Ones for creating their own cultivation methods, explained the three paths to sainthood, and granted Primordial Purple Qi to six chosen cultivators. After announcing that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao, he left Zhou Qingqing anticipating the next major event.

• Hongjun praised Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian for devising methods suited to themselves, while Laozi credited their insight to Hongjun’s Three Corpse Severance Secret Method.
• Hongjun explained that cultivators could attain the Dao through strength, by severing the three corpses, or through merit, as Zhou Qingqing fell asleep during the lecture.
• Hongjun bestowed Primordial Purple Qi on the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Red Cloud, without promising Red Cloud that he would become a saint.
• The Three Pure Ones resolved to try to change the fate Zhou Qingqing had described for their brotherhood.
• Hongjun announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao and would appear again only if a major event occurred, prompting Zhou Qingqing to distrust his claim and anticipate what came next.

After Hongjun closed Purple Cloud Palace, Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones raced to Treasure-Distribution Rock to collect spiritual treasures. Qingqing obtained several treasures linked to her, and Tongtian set out with her for the Dragon Clan to seek the Northern Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner.

• Hongjun announced that the Red Dust Guests could claim the treasures on Treasure-Distribution Rock, and Zhou Qingqing urged the Three Pure Ones to hurry there with their innate supreme treasures.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate collected the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner and Treasure Lotus Lamp for Zhou Qingqing, then stopped the fleeing Purifying White Lotus so she could claim it.
• Upper Pure Tongtian gave Zhou Qingqing the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and took Treasure-Distribution Rock for himself after she pointed out its value.
• Tongtian took Zhou Qingqing toward the East Sea to seek the Northern Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner, while Supreme Pure Laozi and Jade Pure Yuanshi returned to Eastern Kunlun.

Upper Pure Tongtian returned to Golden Turtle Island with the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls and learned that Azure Dragon had gone to the East Sea Dragon Palace. He crossed the sea with his sword and confronted Eastern Emperor Taiyi, declaring that he would protect the Dragon Clan as their superior.

• Two golden flood dragons told Upper Pure Tongtian that Azure Dragon had left Golden Turtle Island because of a major event within the clan.
• Upper Pure Tongtian announced that the Dragon Clan was under his command and headed to the East Sea Dragon Palace using the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi urged Azure Dragon to join the Demon Clan, while Ji Meng threatened the Dragon Clan and claimed it had no hope on its own.
• Upper Pure Tongtian arrived before Eastern Emperor Taiyi and stopped Ji Meng's oppressive display with his sword.
• Azure Dragon realized Upper Pure Tongtian had obtained the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, and Upper Pure Tongtian told Eastern Emperor Taiyi he had to defend the Dragon Clan as their superior.

Upper Pure Tongtian defeated Eastern Emperor Taiyi in a duel and protected the Dragon Clan from joining the Demon Clan. The Dragon Clan thanked Tongtian, and Zhou Qingqing received the Northern Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner alongside the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi challenged Upper Pure Tongtian to a duel, and Tongtian accepted to decide whether the Dragon Clan would join the Demon Clan.
• Taiyi used the Chaos Bell, but Tongtian wielded the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords and sent him flying to the surface of the East Sea.
• Taiyi admitted he could not defeat Tongtian and withdrew with Ji Meng and the other demons, while Di Jun decided to wait for the Three Pure Ones to become saints.
• Azure Dragon King thanked Tongtian for saving the Dragon Clan, and Zhou Qingqing revealed the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.
• Azure Dragon King ordered Ao Guang to bring out the Northern Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner, and Tongtian accepted it and handed it to Zhou Qingqing.

Azure Dragon refined the complete set of thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, which began restoring the Four Seas and easing the Dragon Clan’s karmic burden. After becoming the Heavenly Dao’s eastern Azure Dragon, he rose to perfected Daluo Golden Immortal but still could not break through to Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal.

• Upper Pure Tongtian urged Azure Dragon to refine the thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, and Azure Dragon branded his divine sense onto the remaining twenty-four.
• Zhou Qingqing reasoned that the pearls were better suited to aquatic palaces than evolving the heavens, and Tongtian considered their connection to Burning Lamp and the Qiankun Ruler.
• As Azure Dragon refined the pearls, the fortune of the Four Seas began to recover, and the Dragon Clan sensed renewed hope.
• Tongtian told Azure Dragon that he lacked merit and suggested becoming a divine beast of the Heavenly Dao to overcome karmic suppression.
• Azure Dragon vowed to become the eastern Azure Dragon, rose to perfected Daluo Golden Immortal, and stopped short of Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal.

Upper Pure Tongtian used the Immortal-Ending Sword to cut through the Heavenly Dao karmic burden suppressing Azure Dragon King, allowing him to recover to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm. The Dragon Clan planned to build a Dragon Gate to commemorate Tongtian’s sword strike.

• Upper Pure Tongtian explained that he had given the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to help the Dragon Clan regain the chance to advance beyond Daluo Golden Immortal.
• Zhou Qingqing’s inner voice suggested that Tongtian could cut open Azure Dragon King’s Heavenly Dao karmic burden with his sword.
• Tongtian chose the Immortal-Ending Sword and told Azure Dragon King to focus his strength while he struck.
• Tongtian’s sword cut through the karmic burden and split two underwater divine mountains, allowing Azure Dragon King to return to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm.
• The Dragon Clan bowed to Tongtian and vowed to build a Dragon Gate atop the split mountains to commemorate his sword strike.
• Zhou Qingqing realized the Dragon Gate’s origin and worried that little carp would now have to leap through it.

Zhou Qingqing gathered the Innate Five Directional Banners, achieved Five Qi Returning to the Origin, and advanced to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm by refining the Treasure Lotus Lamp. As Laozi replenished the Lotus Pond with merit, Nuwa and Fuxi arrived at Mount Kunlun to visit the Three Pure Ones.

• Zhou Qingqing merged the Central Wuji Apricot-Yellow Banner and Northern Mysterious Origin Water-Control Banner into her body, completing the Five Qi Returning to the Origin and gaining the Innate Five Elements Five-Direction Formation.
• Tongtian praised the new formation, then fell silent when Qingqing thought it would make a suitable mountain-protecting formation for Yuanshi.
• Zhou Qingqing comprehended the Five Elements Grand Escape, and Yuanshi approved of the escape technique before reacting to her comparison with Julu Sun.
• Zhou Qingqing realized that refining the Treasure Lotus Lamp could help her break through, then used it to shatter the shackle to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.
• Laozi added merit to the Lotus Pond and told Qingqing to replenish its Merit Water as Nuwa and Fuxi arrived to visit the Three Pure Ones.

Nuwa and Fuxi visited Mount Kunlun to seek advice from the Three Pure Ones about entering the Quasi-Sage realm. After learning that Nuwa might be poorly suited to the Three Corpse Severance path, Supreme Pure Laozi warned her against it.

• Zhou Qingqing welcomed the arrival of Nuwa and Fuxi and shared Nuwa’s Hundred-Flower Fruit Brew with the Three Pure Ones.
• Nuwa asked the Three Pure Ones how she and Fuxi could break through to the Quasi-Sage realm and raised doubts about becoming a Saint through merit.
• Zhou Qingqing realized that the Three Corpse Severance Secret Method was incompatible with Nuwa and hoped the Three Pure Ones would steer her away from it.
• Supreme Pure Laozi recognized that Nuwa should not enter the Quasi-Sage realm through Three Corpse Severance and told her she was not suited for it.

Nuwa explained why the Three Corpse Severance Secret Method conflicted with her Dao of Creation and asked the Three Pure Ones to help her and Fuxi devise suitable methods. Supreme Pure Laozi agreed to begin by observing the 24-Petal Creation Azure Lotus.

• Fuxi challenged Supreme Pure Laozi after he said Nuwa was unsuited to the Three Corpse Severance Secret Method.
• Nuwa explained that the method's division and destruction conflicted with her Dao of Creation and might be inappropriate for her merit-based path to sainthood.
• Nuwa revealed that the Three Pure Ones' decision not to sever their three corpses had inspired her doubts about the method.
• Nuwa asked the Three Pure Ones to help her and Fuxi create secret methods suited to them, and they agreed.
• Supreme Pure Laozi proposed that they observe the 24-Petal Creation Azure Lotus to deduce a method for Nuwa.

The Three Pure Ones, Fuxi, and Nuwa contemplated Zhou Qingqing’s Creation Azure Lotus to deduce a secret art for Nuwa. Qingqing’s Dao resonance helped them create the Creation Three Realms, while her own Taiyi Golden Immortal realm stabilized.

• The Three Pure Ones revealed that Zhou Qingqing was their shared disciple and asked her to help them comprehend a secret art for Nuwa.
• Nuwa warmly reassured Qingqing, while Supreme Pure Laozi described her as quiet and shy around strangers.
• Zhou Qingqing entered a state of Dao comprehension, and her twenty-fourth-grade Creation Azure Lotus bloomed and spread Creation Mystic Light through the Lotus Pond.
• The Three Pure Ones, Fuxi, and Nuwa used the lotus’s manifested creation mysteries to deduce the Creation Three Realms for Nuwa.
• Zhou Qingqing emerged with her Taiyi Golden Immortal realm stabilized and saw the others open their eyes with joyful smiles, realizing their deduction had succeeded.

Nuwa used the Creation Lotus Scripture, which she and the Three Pure Ones had devised with Zhou Qingqing’s help, to break through to the first realm of Creation. After celebrating Nuwa’s progress, Zhou Qingqing turned her thoughts to helping Fuxi, while Supreme Pure Laozi planned to take charge of his Eight Trigrams studies.

• Nuwa named the secret art the Creation Lotus Scripture, and the Three Pure Ones recognized Zhou Qingqing’s crucial role in its creation.
• Supreme Pure Laozi urged Nuwa to break through immediately, and Fuxi played the Fuxi Zither to steady the spiritual energy around her.
• Nuwa cultivated the Creation Lotus Scripture as creation energy formed a lotus and connected her Three Flowers and Five Qi.
• Nuwa completed her breakthrough, gaining strength comparable to a corpse-severing Quasi-Sage.
• Zhou Qingqing offered to explain the Eight Trigrams to Fuxi, but Supreme Pure Laozi resolved to teach him himself.