Chapter Summaries

Inside the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti used the Buddhist Dao to raise their cultivation and nearly escaped, but Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate sealed them in again. As Zhou Qingqing considered creating a myriad-worlds version of TikTok and short dramas, the Three Pure Ones carried her off to cultivate.

• Amitabha Buddha told Buddha Mother Zhunti that he had reached the seventh layer of Primordial Chaos and used the Buddhist Dao's origin power to raise Zhunti to the sixth layer.
• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti prepared to lift the coffin lid, but Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate's Primordial Grand Seal broke their power and renewed the red-hair curse.
• The Three Pure Ones agreed to keep the Two Sages of the West sealed while the myriad worlds continued developing, wary of Amitabha Buddha's influence and plans.
• Zhou Qingqing thought about launching a myriad-worlds version of TikTok and short dramas, alarming the Three Pure Ones.
• The Three Pure Ones carried Zhou Qingqing from Miro Palace to Three Pure Ones Hall, insisting that she cultivate and improve her seventh-layer Primordial Chaos cultivation.

Zhou Qingqing sent her White Lotus incarnation, Zhou Baibai, into the Kunlun Mirror to find Queen Mother of the West, who had attained the Primordial Chaos Dao but become trapped in a distorted spacetime. Zhou Baibai found her facing Patriarch Luo, who tried to recruit her into the Luo Sect, and Queen Mother of the West questioned his claim that Maitreya would save the world.

• Zhou Qingqing split off Zhou Baibai to search for Queen Mother of the West while her true body trained with the Three Pure Ones.
• Fa Jie told Zhou Baibai that Queen Mother of the West had entered the Kunlun Mirror to attain the Primordial Chaos Dao.
• Zhou Baibai used the White Lotus Sect’s connection to the Vacuum Homeland to reveal the Kunlun Mirror and entered it.
• Queen Mother of the West had attained sainthood inside the mirror but was trapped by chaotic spacetime after Patriarch Luo defeated her and demanded that she join the Luo Sect.
• Patriarch Luo promised the Unborn Venerable Mother a place at the forefront and declared that Maitreya would save the world, prompting Queen Mother of the West to ask how that could be true when Maitreya was already on the Investiture of the Gods List.

Queen Mother of the West confronted Patriarch Luo in the Kunlun Mirror, but Zhou Baibai arrived and broke his attack before identifying him as a likely creation of the Immeasurable Calamity. The chapter ended with Patriarch Luo’s reaction confirming Zhou Baibai’s suspicion.

• Queen Mother of the West told Patriarch Luo that Maitreya was already on the Investiture of the Gods List and could not save the world, then warned that the Buddha Path would decline.
• Patriarch Luo rejected Queen Mother of the West’s warnings about Fairy Qingqing and used his divine ability to manifest her Vacuum Homeland and suppress her.
• The Three Pure Ones deduced that Patriarch Luo had a connection to the Immeasurable Calamity and sent Zhou Baibai to intervene.
• Zhou Baibai appeared before Queen Mother of the West and Patriarch Luo, used Purifying World Divine Light to break his attack, and identified herself as the White Lotus.
• Zhou Baibai told Queen Mother of the West that the Investiture of the Gods Calamity had ended and said Patriarch Luo was likely the Source of Calamity meant to emerge in the Age of Dharma Decline.
• Patriarch Luo furrowed his brows, confirming Queen Mother of the West’s belief that Zhou Baibai’s guess was correct.

Zhou Baibai rejected Patriarch Luo’s offer to join the Luo Sect and prepared to show that she could create a world without his help. As her purified Dao body manifested before him, Patriarch Luo realized that she was far more than he had assumed.

• Queen Mother of the West asked Zhou Baibai to speak up for her after revealing that Patriarch Luo had offered to strengthen the Vacuum Homeland and make her Supreme Goddess.
• Patriarch Luo invited Zhou Baibai to join the Luo Sect and offered to help her become a Creator God, but Zhou Baibai mocked his proposal and refused.
• Patriarch Luo unleashed his Dharma body, displaying influences from saints and methods including his Immovable Mount Tai Deep Roots and Fruit-Bearing Scripture.
• Zhou Baibai told Patriarch Luo she could create a world herself, and Queen Mother of the West watched expectantly.
• White lotuses descended around Zhou Baibai as her pure Dao body and Purifying World Divine Light emerged, making Patriarch Luo recognize her extraordinary nature.

Zhou Baibai used her Thirty-Six-Grade Purifying White Lotus and Boundless Great Dao to overpower Patriarch Luo, who then revealed his Luo Path and gathered the Luo Dao Sect’s power. Recognizing the Immeasurable Calamity’s influence, Zhou Baibai summoned her true body, while Zhou Qingqing left the Three Pure Ones Hall to answer the call.

• Zhou Baibai manifested a Thirty-Six-Grade Purifying White Lotus and used it to strike Patriarch Luo, leaving him badly injured but alive.
• Queen Mother of the West saw Zhou Baibai’s attack as a way to purify everything and stand before the innate, while Zhou Baibai combined the lotus with the Boundless Great Dao to demonstrate Wuji creating the world.
• Patriarch Luo revealed that his Dao was becoming the Luo Path and gathered the power of the Luo Dao Sect, making himself difficult for Zhou Baibai to harm in that spacetime.
• Zhou Baibai called out, “White Lotus Descends, Vacuum Homeland,” intending to summon her true body as a safer response to the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Zhou Qingqing left the Three Pure Ones Hall after her masters watched her leap away, expecting her to return with a surprise.

Zhou Qingqing arrived to confront Patriarch Luo, overpowered his Vacuum Homeland with her own, and revealed how deeply connected she was to the Primordial World’s leading figures. As the fight left Patriarch Luo confused about the altered history, he admitted he did not know how he became a Source of Calamity or attained sainthood, only that he joined the Immeasurable Calamity to survive and transcend reincarnation.

• Zhou Qingqing arrived through the White Lotus spatial mark, and her azure radiance led Patriarch Luo to ask whether she was an Azure Lotus.
• Zhou Qingqing called herself the Miro Palace Master and countered Patriarch Luo’s Zenith Heaven Palm with her Young Loli Palm, then formed a Vacuum Homeland that encompassed his.
• Queen Mother of the West entered the Vacuum Homeland and listed Zhou Qingqing’s titles and connections, leaving Patriarch Luo astonished by the Primordial World’s altered events.
• Patriarch Luo learned that the Three Pure Ones and other figures remained in the Primordial World and that Maitreya was on the Investiture of the Gods List.
• Zhou Qingqing questioned Patriarch Luo about the Immeasurable Calamity, and he said he did not know how he became its Source of Calamity but had joined it to survive and transcend reincarnation.
• Patriarch Luo also said he did not know why he had attained sainthood, only that it had happened after he arrived in the spacetime of Queen Mother of the West’s Dao-attainment.

Patriarch Luo recounted his past to Zhou Qingqing and Queen Mother of the West, then tried to infect Zhou Qingqing with a source of chaos from the Immeasurable Calamity. Zhou Qingqing absorbed it into the Qiankun Cauldron, while the Three Pure Ones arrived to guard her and Queen Mother of the West confronted Patriarch Luo.

• Patriarch Luo told Queen Mother of the West and Zhou Qingqing about his origins and the founding of the Luo Sect, while minimizing his voluntary alliance with the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Zhou Qingqing pretended to be swayed but noticed Patriarch Luo preparing to transfer a source of chaos to her, and chose to accept it for the insights it contained.
• Patriarch Luo tried to infect Zhou Qingqing and seize the Vacuum Homeland, but her Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Azure Lotus absorbed the source of chaos into the Qiankun Cauldron.
• Zhou Qingqing revealed that she had become the Azure Lotus Dao Ancestor and the Creation Dao Venerate, then transformed into her true lotus form to contain the calamity.
• The Three Pure Ones appeared to guard Zhou Qingqing, and Queen Mother of the West took responsibility for dealing with Patriarch Luo.

Queen Mother of the West watched Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones use their Dao teachings to separate and absorb the Luo Dao Dao Fruit, raising Qingqing to the eighth layer of Primordial Chaos. The group then joined their powers to investigate the Immeasurable Calamity, discovering that the World-Destroying Mill was part of it.

• Queen Mother of the West finished repairing the Kunlun Mirror’s spacetime and stayed to watch Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones.
• As the Three Pure Ones expounded the Dao, Zhou Qingqing separated the Luo Dao Dao Fruit from the Immeasurable Calamity and absorbed it, advancing to the eighth layer of Primordial Chaos.
• Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones combined Fate, boundlessness, and Creation to probe the Immeasurable Calamity and obtain information from its aura.
• Queen Mother of the West watched the Four Pure Ones’ overwhelming display and tried to preserve the scene with the Kunlun Mirror.
• Zhou Qingqing discovered that the World-Destroying Mill had entered the Immeasurable Calamity, leaving the Three Pure Ones wondering whether the Mother of the Great Dao had arranged it.

Zhou Qingqing used the Luo Path and Patriarch Luo’s appearance to communicate with the Immeasurable Calamity, seeking more information about it. The Three Pure Ones cut off the dangerous calamity aura when its chaotic noises overwhelmed her, but Qingqing managed to discern a few syllables just before they did.

• Zhou Qingqing decided to seek the World-Destroying Mill and considered how it might weaken the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Zhou Qingqing used the Dao Fruit of the Luo Path to merge with the Immeasurable Calamity and transformed into Patriarch Luo’s appearance.
• Zhou Qingqing told the Immeasurable Calamity she wished to join it and pursue her Great Dao, and it responded by sending down profundities.
• Queen Mother of the West sensed the Immeasurable Calamity’s overwhelming aura and realized she could not survive beneath it.
• The Three Pure Ones severed the calamity aura surrounding Zhou Qingqing to protect her from its chaotic noise.
• Zhou Qingqing heard a few syllables in the noise just before the Three Pure Ones’ strike removed the aura.

Zhou Qingqing returned from the Kunlun Mirror after hearing the Immeasurable Calamity speak the terms “Wukong” and “Great Sage Equaling Heaven,” which she and the Three Pure Ones suspected might point to Sun Wukong and the next Calamity. Back in the Primordial World, she turned her attention to Blue Planet’s Mythic Three Kingdoms era and asked Bai Ze to help develop it, while the Two Sages of the West remained trapped in the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin.

• Zhou Qingqing told Queen Mother of the West and the Three Pure Ones that she had heard “Wukong” and “Great Sage Equaling Heaven” from the Immeasurable Calamity, and they considered what the terms might foretell.
• Queen Mother of the West returned to Three Pure Ones Heaven and exchanged news with Bai Ze about the Immeasurable Calamity, the Primordial World, and the evolving myriad worlds.
• Bai Ze urged Queen Mother of the West to watch for the next Calamity, then reflected on Blue Planet’s Mythic Three Kingdoms era and his new disciple.
• Zhou Qingqing asked Bai Ze to help develop Mythic Three Kingdoms, including the possibility of powerful figures such as Mythic Lü Bu emerging from Blue Planet.
• Amitabha Buddha and Buddha Mother Zhunti failed again to escape the Heaven-Suppressing Coffin, while the Three Pure Ones observed their continued imprisonment.

Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts led the Three Pure Ones to find Zhang Daoling, Zhang Jiao, and Ge Xuan and guide them toward the Celestial Master Dao. The chapter ended with Qingqing proposing that Wukong might attain the Great Sage Equaling Heaven’s Primordial Chaos sacred position and threaten the Immeasurable Calamity, a possibility her masters supported.

• Supreme Pure Laozi found Zhang Daoling on Blue Planet, where a Five Mountains True Form Diagram and Rejuvenation Elixir helped him attain the Celestial Master Dao Arts.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate redirected Zhang Jiao’s karma toward himself and sent South Pole Immortal to teach Zhang Jiao thunder arts.
• Upper Pure Master Tongtian introduced Ge Xuan as another cultivator suited to becoming a Tianshi, and Zhou Qingqing recognized him as the future patriarch of Daoism’s Numinous Treasure School.
• Supreme Pure Laozi proposed that Zhang Daoling, Zhang Jiao, and Ge Xuan join the Celestial Master Dao and search for more Tianshis beneath Zhou Qingqing.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate turned the discussion toward Qingqing’s understanding of the Immeasurable Calamity, and she suggested Wukong might become the Great Sage Equaling Heaven and shake it.
• The Three Pure Ones agreed with Qingqing that Wukong’s potential role against the Immeasurable Calamity was possible.

Zhou Qingqing discussed how Wukong and the Great Sage Equaling Heaven might affect the Immeasurable Calamity, and the Three Pure Ones urged her to become Wukong’s master. After entrusting her with Daoism’s leadership while they sought breakthroughs, they left her to prepare for Wukong’s birth.

• Upper Pure Master Tongtian and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate argued that Wukong and the Great Sage Equaling Heaven might oppose the Immeasurable Calamity.
• Supreme Pure Laozi pointed out that the stone meant to become Wukong was still in Eastern Kunlun’s Lotus Pond, and Zhou Qingqing realized she needed to prepare for its birth.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate urged Zhou Qingqing to become a master, and she agreed to teach Wukong and spread her Dao lineage.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate gave Zhou Qingqing the As-You-Will Gold-Banded Staff, and the Three Pure Ones entrusted Wukong’s affairs and Daoism’s leadership to her while they entered seclusion.
• Zhou Qingqing left the hall and headed for Eastern Kunlun to prepare for Wukong’s birth.

Zhou Qingqing returned to Eastern Kunlun and watched over the Intelligent Stone Monkey as he remained trapped in the Lotus Pond, then checked on the former companions of Monkey Brother. The chapter ended with the Nine-Headed Worm confronting Ao Lie in Black Dragon Heaven and demanding to borrow his dragon body.

• Zhou Qingqing returned to the Lotus Pond and decided to wait for the Intelligent Stone Monkey to break free from his stone form rather than enlighten him herself.
• Zhou Qingqing observed that Sha Wujin was fighting Tripitaka and that Zhu Bajie had obtained his Nine-Toothed Rake and taken up farming.
• Zhou Qingqing discovered that Ao Lie was cultivating in Black Dragon Heaven and wondered whether he could change his fate when the Nine-Headed Worm appeared.
• Ao Lie recognized the Nine-Headed Worm’s request to borrow his dragon body as an attempt to enter Black Dragon Heaven under false pretenses.

Nine-Headed Worm attacked Ao Lie in Black Dragon Heaven, but Ao Lie defeated him and Nether Mosquito consumed the remaining Primordial Five Insects. When Nether Mosquito combined their origins, Zhou Qingqing discovered they carried Gu Path and removed the insect from her.

• Nine-Headed Worm revealed himself as one of the Primordial Five Insects and attacked Ao Lie in Black Dragon Heaven.
• Ao Lie transformed into a black dragon and used the White Wall divine ability to cut off Nine-Headed Worm's heads.
• Nether Mosquito appeared, consumed Nine-Headed Worm, then tracked down and consumed the Multi-Eyed Golden Centipede and Nine-Tailed Earth Scorpion, allowing them to reincarnate through the Animal Path.
• Nether Mosquito brought Ao Lie to train in the Animal Path and began merging the power of the Five Insects to advance her cultivation.
• Zhou Qingqing realized the merged origins formed Gu Path and warned Nether Mosquito that the Five Insects had been afflicted by gu.
• Zhou Qingqing removed an insect from Nether Mosquito to free her from Gu Path.

Zhou Qingqing used the Nine Nether Corpse Beetle to help Nether Mosquito prove the Primordial Chaos Dao, then began investigating the beetle’s connection to Gu Dao and the possible involvement of King Pan. The chapter ended as the beetle’s Three Descents Divine Gu tried to control Nether Mosquito despite her new strength.

• Zhou Qingqing used the Gu-Removing Art to command the Nine Nether Corpse Beetle and reveal the origins of Chaos Demon Gods within its stored corpses.
• Nether Mosquito devoured the revealed origins, emerged from a blood-red cocoon, and attained the Primordial Chaos Dao.
• Nether Mosquito found that she could not see through her own origins in Primordial Chaos, and Zhou Qingqing suggested that Gu Dao might be connected to witchcraft and King Pan.
• Zhou Qingqing accompanied Nether Mosquito as she confronted the Nine Nether Corpse Beetle and removed the art controlling it.
• The Nine Nether Corpse Beetle used the Three Descents Divine Gu to try to control Nether Mosquito.

Nether Mosquito followed the Karmic Thread to King Pan Valley, where the Nine Nether Corpse Beetle revived King Pan. Their exchange revealed that King Pan came from another cycle and was connected to the Witch Race, leaving Zhou Qingqing considering whether his Witch-Gu Arts could help the Witches overcome their lack of Primordial Spirits.

• Nether Mosquito evolved her Devouring ability, captured the Gu insect, and followed its Karmic Thread to a hidden valley.
• Nether Mosquito revealed King Pan Valley with Devour Heaven, Consume Dao, and the Nine Nether Corpse Beetle entered King Pan's ruined body and awakened him.
• Nether Mosquito questioned King Pan about his connection to Pangu, and Zhou Qingqing concluded that he came from another cycle of the Primordial World.
• King Pan assumed Nether Mosquito had helped Houtu reclaim Reincarnation, but learned that Houtu already held its authority as the Lord of Earth Dao.
• King Pan used the Twelve Corpse God Gu to verify Nether Mosquito's account of the Witch Race, and Zhou Qingqing considered whether his Witch-Gu Arts could give the Witches Primordial Spirits.

Nether Mosquito confirmed that King Pan was a Gu insect nurtured by Pangu’s Blood Essence and learned that he had developed Witch Gu arts to aid the Witch Race. King Pan refused to meet Lady Houtu, revealing that he was dying and intended to preserve his strength to secretly help the Ancestral Witches.

• Nether Mosquito proved she was the master of the Animal Path by manifesting Lady Houtu’s edict and the path’s imprint.
• King Pan revealed that he had been nurtured by Pangu’s Blood Essence and had tried, unsuccessfully, to create Witch Gu arts for the Witch Race.
• Nether Mosquito told King Pan that Old Ancestor Minghe was her master and an Earth Dao Saint, surprising him with how the Primordial World had changed.
• Nether Mosquito invited King Pan to meet Lady Houtu, but he declined, saying his injuries were at the Heavenly Dao level and he was near death.
• King Pan asked Nether Mosquito to forget their meeting because he needed to save his strength for a secret effort to help the Ancestral Witches.

Zhou Qingqing revealed herself to King Pan and promised to help him reverse life and death, despite being unable to create Pangu anew. She began the process using the Book of Life and Death, leaving Nether Mosquito to wonder what more Qingqing would need to do.

• Zhou Qingqing made a dramatic entrance from Nether Mosquito’s forehead, startling King Pan, who mistook her for the source of the malice he had sensed.
• Nether Mosquito introduced Zhou Qingqing as the Chaos Azure Lotus and recounted how she had helped the Witch Race and the Three Pure Ones.
• King Pan recognized Zhou Qingqing’s origins and asked whether she could create Pangu again; Zhou Qingqing admitted she could not.
• Zhou Qingqing told King Pan she could still help him reverse life and death, then transformed into Celestial Master Zi and produced the Book of Life and Death.
• Zhou Qingqing sent two divine lights onto King Pan, while Nether Mosquito judged that the Reincarnation and Life-and-Death Great Daos alone would not be enough.

Zhou Qingqing used her divine ability to restore King Pan’s origin, and Bai Ze arrived to record his account of the Primordial World’s reincarnations. King Pan described his repeated efforts to save the Witch Race and his plans after Journey to the West, but he knew nothing of the Immeasurable Calamity or how he had died.

• Zhou Qingqing drew a circle that King Pan entered as a Dragon Dog-shaped gu insect, allowing him to reverse life and death and begin mending his origin.
• The Three Pure Ones sent Bai Ze to King Pan Valley, where he and Nether Mosquito watched King Pan regain human form and recorded the event.
• Zhou Qingqing asked King Pan about the Primordial World’s reincarnation, and he recalled repeatedly joining the Witch Race as a witchcraft master and deriving the Twelve Corpse God Gu from the Twelve Capital Divine Fiend Formation.
• King Pan explained that Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s actions and the Witch-Demon Calamity thwarted his attempts to help the Witch Race, even as his awakening shifted earlier with each reincarnation.
• King Pan said he had planned to return Reincarnation’s authority to Lady Houtu and unleash a Chaos Calamity after Journey to the West, but he knew nothing about the Immeasurable Calamity and could not recall how he died.
• Zhou Qingqing acknowledged King Pan’s limited memories and began considering the revelations he had shared.

Zhou Qingqing brought King Pan to meet Houtu, where he explained his history as the Witch Race’s witch doctor. As the Immeasurable Calamity approached, Qingqing proposed transforming King Pan’s witch Gu into a Witch Dao to strengthen the Witch Race.

• King Pan told Zhou Qingqing that his cultivation and memories would gradually recover, and he explained that he had used Three Corpse Brain God Gu to help the Witch Race overcome flaws in their Primordial Spirits.
• Zhou Qingqing led King Pan, Bai Ze, and Nether Mosquito through a Reincarnation passage to the Reincarnation Plaza, where they found Houtu gaining strength from the reincarnators’ light spheres.
• Houtu thanked King Pan for supporting the Witch Race across reincarnated Primordial Worlds and appointed him their witch doctor again.
• Zhou Qingqing proposed having King Pan help prepare the Witch Race to resist the approaching Immeasurable Calamity, but rejected relying on Three Corpse Brain God Gu alone.
• Zhou Qingqing explained that King Pan’s witch Gu could be transformed into witchcraft and developed from art into the Witch Dao.