Chapter Summaries

Supreme Pure Laozi demonstrated the limits of Fuxi’s Eight Trigrams and advised him to pursue Primal Change among the Five Primordial States. Fuxi accepted the guidance and began considering the new path, while Nuwa thanked Laozi for helping her brother.

• Supreme Pure Laozi used the Taiji Diagram to show Fuxi the Innate, Middle Heaven, and Later Heaven Eight Trigrams, revealing that Fuxi’s understanding was incomplete.
• Supreme Pure Laozi advised Fuxi to move beyond the foundational Dao of the Eight Trigrams, and Fuxi asked which direction he should take.
• Zhou Qingqing’s inner voice prompted Supreme Pure Laozi to recommend Primal Change, explaining that it could let Fuxi contend with Taiji.
• Fuxi thanked Supreme Pure Laozi and resolved to consider the path of Primal Change, while Nuwa thanked her eldest senior brother for guiding Fuxi.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi and Upper Pure Tongtian lamented that Fuxi and Nuwa now held Supreme Pure Laozi in higher regard because of Zhou Qingqing’s remarks.

After reaching the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, Zhou Qingqing refined the Twelve-Petal Purifying White Lotus and realized that gathering more lotus treasures might be necessary for her next cultivation stage. Jade Pure Yuanshi took her to visit the Witch Race and Old Ancestor Minghe in search of opportunities, and they arrived at the Nether Blood Sea.

• Nuwa left Eastern Kunlun after promising to bring Zhou Qingqing Creation Sacred Water, and the three masters entered seclusion after their Dao discussion.
• Zhou Qingqing refined the Twelve-Petal Purifying White Lotus into her Azure Lotus true body after reaching the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, and she suspected other lotus treasures would be needed to condense her Three Flowers.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi considered how difficult it would be to obtain the other lotus treasures and decided to visit the Witch Race and Old Ancestor Minghe.
• Zhou Qingqing eagerly joined Jade Pure Yuanshi, who took her to the Nether Blood Sea and announced his visit to Old Ancestor Minghe.
• Old Ancestor Minghe was surprised when Jade Pure Yuanshi arrived to see him.

Zhou Qingqing protected Jade Pure Yuanshi from the Nether Blood Sea’s foul air as he visited Old Ancestor Minghe and agreed to discuss the Dao through swords. Jade Pure Yuanshi matched Minghe’s killing intent with his understanding of spiritual treasures, leaving Minghe shocked by the equal principles he displayed.

• Zhou Qingqing changed her lotus mark into the Purifying White Lotus and shielded Jade Pure Yuanshi from the Nether Blood Sea’s foul air.
• A Blood God Child led Jade Pure Yuanshi and Zhou Qingqing to the Blood God Palace, where Minghe greeted them.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi recognized Minghe’s many Blood God avatars and agreed to discuss the Dao through swords.
• Minghe sent Primordial Slaughter and Avici at Jade Pure Yuanshi, who used the Yin-Yang Gourd and his understanding of spiritual treasures to match their killing intent.
• Minghe grew increasingly shocked as Jade Pure Yuanshi displayed principles equal to his own.

Jade Pure Yuanshi and Minghe exchanged insights for three thousand years before Yuanshi asked to trade for Minghe’s Karmic Fire Red Lotus. Minghe demanded Red Cloud’s Primordial Purple Qi, but Yuanshi argued that the Heavenly Dao would never allow Minghe to become a saint, leaving his attempt to persuade Minghe unresolved.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi and Minghe exchanged insights for three thousand years, and Minghe praised Yuanshi as the first being to match him for so long.
• Minghe asked why Jade Pure Yuanshi had come to the Nether Blood Sea, and Yuanshi requested the Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
• Minghe offered the Karmic Fire Red Lotus in exchange for Red Cloud’s Primordial Purple Qi, which he sought as the foundation for sainthood.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi declared that the Three Pure Ones would become saints before Red Cloud, but said the Heavenly Dao would not permit Minghe to become one.

Jade Pure Yuanshi challenged Minghe’s belief that the Innate Killing Dao could lead to Heavenly Dao sainthood and wagered that another creature lived in the Nether Blood Sea. He unleashed the Pangu Banner, forcing a Blood-Winged Black Mosquito to emerge from the sea.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi argued that Minghe’s Innate Killing Dao leaned toward destruction and might be incompatible with Heavenly Dao sainthood.
• Zhou Qingqing revealed that a Blood-Winged Black Mosquito lived in the Nether Blood Sea, though Minghe had never found it.
• Minghe insisted no other creature lived there and wagered the Karmic Fire Red Lotus against Jade Pure Yuanshi’s claim.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi raised the Pangu Banner and swept its destructive power across the Nether Blood Sea.
• A Blood-Winged Black Mosquito flew out of the churning sea to escape destruction.

Jade Pure Yuanshi captured the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito and traded the Twelve-Petaled Karmic Fire Red Lotus to Old Ancestor Minghe. Minghe accepted the mosquito as his disciple, naming her Nether Mosquito.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi captured the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito after shattering its devouring divine ability.
• Old Ancestor Minghe confirmed the mosquito shared his origin and gave Jade Pure Yuanshi the Twelve-Petaled Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi passed the lotus to Zhou Qingqing, who celebrated being able to resist karmic force.
• Old Ancestor Minghe decided to take the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito as his disciple and bestowed his essence blood upon it.
• The Blood-Winged Black Mosquito swallowed Minghe's essence blood, transformed into a woman, and was named Nether Mosquito.

Jade Pure Yuanshi advised Minghe and Nether Mosquito to govern the Nether Blood Sea and wait rather than pursue slaughter or sainthood, and they agreed to earn merit there. After the Witch-Demon war ended, Yuanshi left to visit Houtu, while Minghe prepared his disciple to help manage the arriving souls.

• Minghe thanked Jade Pure Yuanshi for helping him make the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito his disciple and asked what path they should follow.
• Yuanshi told Minghe that he could not become a Heavenly Dao Saint and advised him to govern the Nether Blood Sea with Nether Mosquito, earn merit, and wait.
• Minghe and Nether Mosquito accepted Yuanshi's advice and agreed to cultivate peacefully and govern the Blood Sea.
• As the Witch-Demon war ended, souls began gathering in the Nether Blood Sea, and Yuanshi departed to visit Ancestral Witch Houtu at Mount Buzhou.
• Minghe gave Nether Mosquito the Asura Netherworld Prison Scythe and the Asura Netherworld Garment and asked her to refine them before helping him handle the souls.

Jade Pure Yuanshi visited Houtu’s tribe with Zhou Qingqing, where Zhurong brought back two eggs that Qingqing recognized as Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng’s. Yuanshi stepped in to stop Zhurong from roasting them, and Qingqing’s thoughts revealed that Zhurong would help break Mount Buzhou, leaving Yuanshi prepared to confront him.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi and Zhou Qingqing arrived at the Houtu Tribe and learned that Houtu and the other Ancestral Witches were out hunting.
• Zhurong returned with two eggs, and Zhou Qingqing recognized them as Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng’s eggs.
• When Zhurong prepared to roast the eggs, Jade Pure Yuanshi intervened and said they were phoenix eggs connected to a friend of his.
• Zhurong accused Jade Pure Yuanshi of being sent by the Demon Clan and threatened to fight him, despite Da Yi’s attempt to explain.
• Zhou Qingqing thought that Zhurong had helped break Mount Buzhou, and Jade Pure Yuanshi resolved that Zhurong deserved a lesson.

Jade Pure Yuanshi fought Zhurong at Zhou Qingqing’s urging, overwhelming the Ancestral Witch with divine abilities and then using the Karmic Fire Red Lotus against his fire. Zhurong was engulfed in flames, though the battle had not yet established whether he was defeated.

• Zhurong challenged Jade Pure Yuanshi and offered the phoenix eggs as a prize if Yuanshi defeated him.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi used the Yuanshi Seal and several divine abilities at once, slowing and battering Zhurong.
• Zhurong summoned the Heavenly Departure Fire God Whip as his strongest spirit treasure.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi coordinated with Zhou Qingqing to bloom the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and attack Zhurong with its flames.
• Zhurong was wrapped in fire, and the watching Ancestral Witches saw him being overwhelmed by a fire-based spirit treasure.

Jade Pure Yuanshi helped Zhurong avoid a worse confrontation with Primal Phoenix after Zhurong stole and nearly roasted her phoenix eggs. After Primal Phoenix departed, Houtu welcomed Jade Pure Yuanshi and invited him to talk, leaving his purpose for visiting the Houtu Tribe still ahead.

• Zhurong emerged from the karmic fire with his hair and eyebrows burned away, and Jade Pure Yuanshi politely acknowledged him as a fellow Daoist.
• Primal Phoenix arrived to reclaim her stolen eggs and repeatedly burned Zhurong with her Nirvana Flame until Jade Pure Yuanshi's intervention persuaded her to leave with the eggs.
• Houtu returned to the tribe, heard Da Yi explain what had happened, and thanked Jade Pure Yuanshi for helping her elder brother avoid a crisis.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi explained that his intervention had been coincidental, then warned Zhurong that the Primordial World held many powerful flames and profound Dao principles.
• Zhurong laughed off the warning, left to hunt for food, and Houtu invited Jade Pure Yuanshi to speak with her elsewhere.

Jade Pure Yuanshi visited Houtu to learn about the coming establishment of Reincarnation, but their discussion revealed that she had no conscious understanding of its Great Dao. After hearing Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts about Houtu sacrificing her Ancestral Witch identity, Yuanshi resolved to guide her toward Reincarnation, leaving Houtu sensing that the Great Dao mattered deeply to her.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi spoke with Houtu about the Witch Race and exchanged insights on the Great Dao of Strength and the Earth Great Dao, while Zhou Qingqing gained insights into her own cultivation.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi grew puzzled because Houtu did not mention the Reincarnation Great Dao, and Zhou Qingqing’s thoughts revealed that Houtu would eventually turn her flesh into Reincarnation and lose her Ancestral Witch identity.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi asked Houtu whether she sensed another Great Dao, then told her that his comprehension of Heavenly Dao indicated she would establish Reincarnation.
• Zhou Qingqing realized Yuanshi intended to help Houtu establish Reincarnation, and Houtu’s true spirit stirred when she heard the word.

Jade Pure Yuanshi brought Houtu to the Nether Blood Sea so she could begin learning about Reincarnation. Houtu sensed a deep connection to the place but gained no decisive insight, leaving Jade Pure Yuanshi to consider how she might avoid sacrificing her body to establish Reincarnation.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi told Houtu that the Nether Blood Sea might help her understand Reincarnation, and she agreed to visit it.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi and Houtu arrived at the Nether Blood Sea, where Minghe warmly welcomed them and offered Nether Mosquito's help.
• Nether Mosquito guided Houtu through the Nether Blood Sea, where she studied the gathered souls and began forming ideas about Reincarnation.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi asked Houtu about her insights, and she said the place felt deeply connected to her but that she had not yet comprehended Reincarnation.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi realized he had been impatient and considered cultivating the Great Dao of Earth as a way for Houtu to avoid transforming her body into Reincarnation.

Jade Pure Yuanshi brought Houtu from the Nether Blood Sea to Five Manor Temple, where Zhen Yuanzi welcomed them and inscribed a couplet suggested by Yuanshi. The visit left Yuanshi realizing he had unknowingly supplied the famous lines, while Minghe resolved to remain in the Nether Blood Sea and rely on Houtu.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi invited Houtu to visit Five Manor Temple and eat Ginseng Fruit, and Houtu agreed.
• Nether Mosquito told Minghe that Yuanshi and Houtu had left, and Minghe instructed her to cultivate a good relationship with Houtu and stop reporting on her.
• Minghe said he would stay in the Nether Blood Sea and trust Yuanshi's judgment about the conflict between the Witch Race and Demon Clan.
• Zhen Yuanzi welcomed Yuanshi and Houtu to Mount Longevity, where Houtu praised the sacred mountain.
• Yuanshi supplied the couplet “An abode of immortals who live forever, a home of Daoists as enduring as Heaven itself,” and Zhen Yuanzi carved it onto Five Manor Temple.
• Yuanshi asked about Red Cloud, then regretted speaking aloud and realized he had revealed the couplet's source.

Jade Pure Yuanshi, Zhou Qingqing, and Houtu visited Zhen Yuanzi, where they ate Ginseng Fruit and discussed the Dao through the Earth Book. Zhen Yuanzi and Houtu gained fresh inspiration, but the demonstration reached the limit of his cultivation while Qingqing kept enjoying the fruit.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi asked Zhen Yuanzi to pick extra Ginseng Fruit for his disciple, and Zhou Qingqing introduced herself as a lotus and the Three Pure Ones’ first disciple.
• Zhen Yuanzi recognized Zhou Qingqing as the 24-Petal Creation Azure Lotus he had seen at Mount Buzhou and went to pick fruit for her.
• Houtu asked whether Zhou Qingqing had released the Red Lotus Karmic Fire that burned Zhurong, and Jade Pure Yuanshi said he had used one of Qingqing’s lotus seeds.
• As the group ate Ginseng Fruit, Jade Pure Yuanshi asked Zhen Yuanzi to demonstrate his Dao through the Earth Book.
• Zhen Yuanzi showed the Earth Book’s changes to Jade Pure Yuanshi and Houtu, and Houtu exchanged insights with him while Jade Pure Yuanshi analyzed their ideas.
• Zhen Yuanzi said his cultivation could not sustain further evolution at the Quasi-Sage stage, while Zhou Qingqing continued eating Ginseng Fruit.

Jade Pure Yuanshi proposed that Zhen Yuanzi and Houtu join forces to create a world inside the Earth Book, helping them deepen their understanding of the Great Dao. Their completed world made Zhen Yuanzi the Ancestor of Earth Immortals and helped Houtu advance her Nine Revolutions Profound Art.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi suggested that Zhen Yuanzi and Houtu jointly derive the Great Dao by creating a world.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi proposed that they create the world inside the Earth Book, using its earth qi and powerful defenses.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Houtu joined forces and sent their immortal powers into the Earth Book to create a world.
• Zhen Yuanzi gained the supreme karmic position of Ancestor of Earth Immortals as the world was completed.
• Houtu broke through in her Nine Revolutions Profound Art and deepened her understanding of the Great Dao of Earth.

Zhen Yuanzi bid farewell to Jade Pure Yuanshi and Houtu, while Zhou Qingqing cheered Houtu on and planned to help build a formation on Eastern Kunlun. After the Three Pure Ones reviewed Yuanshi’s recent actions, Laozi decided Tongtian should turn their attention to the Demon Clan and Heavenly Court, with their next move depending on what Qingqing wanted to change.

• Zhen Yuanzi gave Jade Pure Yuanshi and Houtu Ginseng Fruits as they departed Mount Longevity, and Houtu said she would return to the Nether Blood Sea after secluding herself.
• Zhou Qingqing asked Jade Pure Yuanshi to gather Five Elements materials so they could establish the Innate Five Elements Five-Direction Formation on Eastern Kunlun.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi set up the formation, while Laozi and Tongtian sampled the Ginseng Fruits and learned Qingqing had obtained two lotus seeds.
• Jade Pure Yuanshi recounted his actions in the Nether Blood Sea, among the Witch Race, and at Mount Longevity for Laozi and Tongtian to review.
• Laozi said Houtu’s changes could affect the greater course of the Calamity over time and proposed turning the Three Pure Ones’ attention to the Demon Clan and Heavenly Court.
• Laozi told Tongtian to get involved in events that could influence the Demon Clan, then said their next plans depended on what Qingqing wanted to change.

Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Tongtian learned that Di Jun and Taiyi planned to marry Xihe and Changxi, so they set out to prevent the marriage. Tongtian took Qingqing to the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm while Laozi went to Mount Fengqi, as Di Jun headed there to seek Nuwa’s help.

• Jade Pure Yuanshi entered seclusion, Laozi continued his deductions, and Tongtian taught Qingqing before learning the Demon Clan’s fortune was rising.
• Qingqing recognized the rise as a result of Di Jun and Taiyi’s planned marriages to Xihe and Changxi, and recalled the sisters’ tragic fates.
• Laozi decided to visit Mount Fengqi and stop Nuwa from presiding over the marriage, while Tongtian agreed to take Qingqing to the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm.
• Laozi secretly inspected the Nether Blood Sea and the Houtu Tribe before arriving at Mount Fengqi, where Fuxi welcomed him.
• Di Jun announced he would seek Nuwa’s help to secure the Lunar Star Lords’ alliance, then left High Heaven Palace for Mount Fengqi.

Supreme Pure Laozi warned Nuwa and Fuxi that Di Jun wanted Nuwa to facilitate the Heavenly Marriage, which would entangle her with the Demon Clan before she became a saint. Nuwa and Fuxi refused to meet Di Jun and continued discussing the Dao while he waited outside Mount Fengqi.

• Nuwa asked Supreme Pure Laozi why Zhou Qingqing had not come, and he said she was gathering stellar essence and refining her sword with Upper Pure Tongtian.
• Di Jun arrived at Mount Fengqi and asked Nuwa to receive him, but Fuxi urged her to refuse.
• Supreme Pure Laozi explained that Di Jun wanted Nuwa to facilitate the Heavenly Marriage and warned that it would entangle her with the Demon Clan.
• Nuwa refused Di Jun even after he mentioned the marriage's merit, and Fuxi also declined to meet him.
• Di Jun said he would wait outside Mount Fengqi, while Supreme Pure Laozi, Fuxi, and Nuwa resumed discussing the Dao.
• At the Starry Sky Heavenly Realm, Upper Pure Tongtian smiled and reflected that a thousand years would pass quickly and that Zhou Qingqing's three masters would not forget her.

Zhou Qingqing and Upper Pure Tongtian encountered the Moon-Howling Divine Hound as it attacked the Lunar Star, while Di Jun remained outside Mount Fengqi and could not act. Xihe and Changxi fought the beast but barely harmed it, leaving Tongtian poised to intervene.

• Demon Master Kunpeng and Bai Ze divined that Di Jun was still waiting outside Mount Fengqi, where he had been turned away for five hundred years.
• Upper Pure Tongtian spotted the Moon-Howling Divine Hound near the Lunar Star, and Zhou Qingqing recognized it as a surviving ferocious beast capable of devouring the moon.
• Di Jun watched the beast approach the Lunar Star and regretted that Nuwa’s refusal to leave kept him from going to protect it himself.
• Xihe and Changxi sensed the danger, left the Lunar Star, and confronted the Moon-Howling Divine Hound as it tried to swallow the star.
• Xihe and Changxi attacked with the Sun Essence Wheel and Moon Essence Wheel, but their strikes raised smoke without significantly injuring the beast.

Xihe and Changxi failed to defeat the Moon-Howling Divine Hound and were nearly caught as they fled, until Upper Pure Tongtian intervened with the Immortal-Trapping Sword. He told the Lunar Goddesses to thank Zhou Qingqing, leaving her to accept the credit for the rescue.

• Xihe and Changxi discovered that their attacks barely affected the Moon-Howling Divine Hound and agreed to make one more combined attack before fleeing.
• The sisters joined their Sun Essence Wheel and Moon Essence Wheel to strike the hound, cutting open a patch of its fur and enraging it.
• Xihe and Changxi tried to escape with Moon Shadow Without Trace, but the hound quickly blocked their path.
• Zhou Qingqing reminded Tongtian to intervene, and he stopped the hound with the Immortal-Trapping Sword.
• Tongtian told Xihe and Changxi to thank Zhou Qingqing for leading him to them, and Zhou Qingqing accepted the credit.