Recaps

Nuwa began forging a sword with the Qiankun Cauldron to manifest the Human Dao and elevate the Primordial World. Zhou Qingqing saved the remaining Five-Colored Stone, while the Human Race, Witch Race, and Demon Clan agreed to support Nuwa.

• Nuwa used the Qiankun Cauldron and divine materials to forge a sword, adding most of an enormous Five-Colored Stone to the cauldron.
• Zhou Qingqing caught the remaining piece of the Five-Colored Stone and planned to keep it in her Lotus Pond until it was needed on Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• The Three Pure Ones recognized the stone as containing part of the Chaos Demon Ape's bloodline and identified it as the Intelligent Stone Monkey.
• Nuwa called on all beings to lend their soul power so she could manifest the Human Dao, establish the Three Daos, and elevate the Primordial World.
• The Human Race, the Ancestral Witches, and Heavenly Emperor Di Jun pledged their support, and the Demon Clan joined them.

Zhou Qingqing urged the Three Pure Ones and other powerful beings to lend Nuwa their power as she forged a sacred sword from the hearts of all living beings. Nuwa completed the innate supreme treasure, the Primordial Sacred Sword, and prepared to use it to open the Human Dao.

• Heavenly Emperor Di Jun regained his senses and responded, while Zhou Qingqing noticed lights of support gathering from across the Primordial World for Nuwa.
• Zhou Qingqing raised her arm to lend Nuwa her power and persuaded the Three Pure Ones to do the same, though they hid their gestures from the other Saints.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi also lent his power, while Houtu beat Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti.
• Nuwa gathered the hearts of all living beings into a five-colored stone and used the Qiankun Cauldron to forge the Primordial Sacred Sword.
• Nuwa declared the Primordial Sacred Sword her treasure for proving the Dao, and the Three Pure Ones recognized that she still needed to use it to open the Human Dao.

Nuwa used the Primordial Sacred Sword to open Human Dao, become its first saint, and raise the Primordial World to a higher level, ending the Calamity. Hongjun watched the unexpected transformation from Purple Cloud Palace and realized he had miscalculated.

• The Three Pure Ones urged Nuwa to act, and she slashed the void with the Primordial Sacred Sword, breaking the Heavenly Dao's shackles and opening Human Dao.
• Nuwa's sword gave rise to the Twelve-Petaled Creation Azure Lotus, deepening the world's origin and making its Dao laws easier to comprehend.
• The Heaven-Piercing Jianmu and Mount Zhou grew beyond their limits, and the Jianmu transformed all the Calamity aura, ending the fighting among the Witch Race, Demon Clan, and Human Race.
• The beings of the Primordial World thanked Nuwa, while Zhou Qingqing and the Three Pure Ones reflected on how the changed outcome had disrupted Hongjun's plans.
• Hongjun watched from Purple Cloud Palace and realized Nuwa's Human Dao path and the world's dimensional ascension had completely overturned his expectations.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun appeared after Nuwa manifested Human Dao and released her from the Mystic Gate, then began punishing those who had interfered with Heavenly Dao. Houtu accepted his order for most of the Witch Race to develop Earth Dao in the Nine Nether Realm.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun left Purple Cloud Palace and arrived at Mount Fengqi, where the Three Pure Ones and the other cultivators greeted him.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun congratulated Nuwa on attaining Human Dao Sainthood and declared that she was no longer his disciple or a member of the Mystic Gate.
• Nuwa thanked Heavenly Dao Hongjun, while Fuxi also bowed in thanks despite knowing Hongjun had obstructed her attainment.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun accused Houtu of overstepping by interfering in Heavenly Dao affairs and ordered her to take the Witch Race into the Nine Nether Realm.
• Houtu accepted the punishment and agreed that most of the Witch Race would remain in the Nine Nether Realm to develop Earth Dao.

Hongjun punished Houtu, Jieyin, Zhunti, Di Jun, and Taiyi for their roles in the Calamity, while Di Jun gave up his and Taiyi’s Heavenly Dao Saint positions to avoid exile. The Three Pure Ones anticipated that Hongjun would punish them next.

• Hongjun sentenced Jieyin and Zhunti to assist Houtu in guiding souls through Reincarnation for five thousand yuanhui.
• Hongjun ordered Di Jun and Taiyi to leave the Primordial World and remain in Chaos for three Calamities, but Di Jun offered to surrender their Saint positions in exchange for permission to return occasionally.
• Hongjun accepted Di Jun’s proposal and ordered Tongtian to sever Di Jun and Taiyi’s Saint positions.
• Tongtian used the Saint-Slaying Sword to remove their Primordial Purple Qi, reducing both Demon Emperors to the Quasi-Sage level.
• The Three Pure Ones realized that Hongjun might punish them next for helping Nuwa attain the Dao.

Hongjun punished the Three Pure Ones by ordering them to separate into three branches and cultivate peacefully for one Calamity, but Laozi, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and Tongtian refused to split. Zhou Qingqing had assumed the punishment would proceed and began planning how to reunite her Masters, but the Three Pure Ones asked Hongjun to choose another punishment.

• The Three Pure Ones considered whether to defy Hongjun but initially planned to let events unfold and separate into their prepared Dao fields.
• Hongjun declared that the Three Pure Ones had failed to act against their junior sister as Heavenly Dao Saints and ordered them to become three branches for one Calamity, while offsetting part of their guilt.
• Zhou Qingqing assumed her Masters would accept the punishment and began planning regular gatherings to keep them together during their separation.
• Laozi cited the Dao De Jing and argued that the brothers should not separate, asking Hongjun to choose another punishment.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Tongtian joined Laozi in refusing the order, leaving the other Saints astonished.

Heavenly Dao Hongjun challenged the Three Pure Ones to defeat his Good Corpse, Purple Cloud, rather than grant their request to remain together. The battle began in Chaos with Purple Cloud unleashing his divine lightning, while Zhou Qingqing worked to refine the Qiankun Cauldron.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun offered to grant the Three Pure Ones' request if they could defeat his Good Corpse, Purple Cloud.
• The Three Pure Ones accepted, hoping to learn more about Hongjun, and Hongjun led them into Chaos for the battle.
• Zhou Qingqing began refining the Qiankun Cauldron in case Purple Cloud wielded the Creation Jade Disc.
• Purple Cloud appeared in Chaos, and the gathered observers considered the significance of his name and origin.
• Purple Cloud announced that he would strike first and unleashed Purple Cloud Divine Lightning against the Three Pure Ones.

The Three Pure Ones countered Purple Cloud’s Purple Cloud Divine Lightning with their own Chaos Divine Lightning, but Purple Cloud then summoned a vast Purple Cloud Palace through Supreme Origin Purple Cloud. The Three Pure Ones were left trapped in a difficult position as the watching cultivators tried to work out how to break the divine ability.

• The Three Pure Ones unleashed their Great Purity, Jade Purity, and Supreme Purity Divine Lightning, transforming them into Chaos Divine Lightning that erased Purple Cloud’s attack.
• Purple Cloud acknowledged the Three Pure Ones’ strength and revealed his next technique, Supreme Origin Purple Cloud.
• Purple Cloud drew on the auras of the three thousand Red Dust Guests to manifest a Purple Cloud Palace that engulfed the Three Pure Ones.
• The Three Pure Ones found the divine ability difficult to escape, while the watching cultivators considered ways to break it.

The Three Pure Ones struggled to break Purple Cloud's Supreme Origin Purple Cloud divine ability while the watching cultivators failed one by one. After Zhou Qingqing recalled Kongtong Mountain’s quality of uniting the three teachings, Supreme Pure Laozi summoned it, and the Three Pure Ones shattered Purple Cloud Palace with a single strike.

• Fuxi, Heavenly Emperor Di Jun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, and the other watching cultivators withdrew after failing to break the divine ability, while the Three Pure Ones continued alone.
• Daoist Zhunti claimed that even the Three Pure Ones could not break Purple Cloud Palace, and Zhou Qingqing privately resented his words.
• Zhou Qingqing realized that Kongtong Mountain, Daoism's number one mountain, might counter Purple Cloud Palace because it embodied the three teachings merging as one.
• Supreme Pure Laozi summoned Kongtong Mountain through the Prime Unity Supreme Pure Talisman, and Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Upper Pure Master Tongtian joined their mana with his.
• The Three Pure Ones sent Kongtong Mountain crashing into Purple Cloud Palace and shattered Supreme Origin Purple Cloud's divine ability.

Purple Cloud used the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation to conjure three thousand worlds, overwhelming the Three Pure Ones after Kongtong Mountain failed to counter it. Zhou Qingqing prepared to intervene, believing only another fragment could match it.

• Nuwa recognized the divine mountain as Kongtong Mountain and chose to keep its secret from the others.
• Purple Cloud brought out a fragment of the Creation Jade Disc after Kongtong Mountain shattered his techniques.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi told Heavenly Emperor Di Jun that he had seen the fragment when he attained sainthood and comprehended Taiyi Generates Water.
• Purple Cloud used the aura of the three thousand Red Dust Guests to restore the fragment and unleashed Creation Jade Disc: Three Thousand Worlds.
• The Three Pure Ones attacked the three thousand worlds with their treasures, but their weapons proved ineffective.
• Zhou Qingqing resolved to step in and fight the fragment with another fragment.

Zhou Qingqing refined the Qiankun Cauldron and transformed it back into the Lotus Pod, breaking through to the early stage of the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm. Empowered by the Three Pure Ones, she entered the battle as their final hope against the Creation Jade Disc.

• Zhou Qingqing scolded the Qiankun Cauldron until it returned to its original form as the Lotus Pod.
• Zhou Qingqing sensed her power transforming and realized she could advance directly to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm.
• Zhou Qingqing asked the Three Pure Ones to help her, and they joined their arts to empower her.
• Zhou Qingqing transformed into the 24-Petal Creation Azure Lotus and appeared before the watching cultivators.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi recognized Zhou Qingqing's breakthrough, while Heavenly Dao Hongjun worried that the Qiankun Cauldron had created another unpredictable variable.
• The Three Pure Ones prepared to rely on Zhou Qingqing as their final move against the Creation Jade Disc.

Zhou Qingqing tried to awaken a divine ability by drawing on the Three Pure Ones' power, but her first ideas failed before her true form responded to a new insight. As her lotus faced the Creation Jade Disc's three thousand laws, she manifested a power named “Creation of the Three Pure Ones,” leaving its true strength uncertain.

• Zhou Qingqing imagined divine abilities combining the Three Pure Ones' power, while her Masters worried that joining their primordial spirits might produce Pangu's Primordial Spirit.
• Zhou Qingqing calmed herself after none of her envisioned abilities appeared and used the Three Pure Ones' saintly power to sense changes in her body.
• Zhou Qingqing considered deriving an ability from the Dao principles within herself, and her true form subtly changed in response.
• The 24-Petal Creation Azure Lotus met the Creation Jade Disc's three thousand laws, and a vast aura rose from it.
• Zhou Qingqing's voice announced “Creation of the Three Pure Ones,” astonishing the Three Pure Ones and drawing a look of surprise from Heavenly Dao Hongjun.

Zhou Qingqing used the Creation of the Three Pure Ones to sever Purple Cloud’s control over three thousand worlds, absorb them, and create a perfect major world. Her power shattered the Creation Jade Disc further, ending the confrontation with the Three Pure Ones safe and Hongjun declaring their victory.

• Zhou Qingqing severed the three thousand worlds and cut their connection to Purple Cloud’s Creation Jade Disc.
• Zhou Qingqing used the Creation Azure Lotus to absorb the three thousand worlds and create a complete major world.
• Purple Cloud raised the Creation Jade Disc to attack again, but the fragment cracked and shattered further.
• Zhou Qingqing celebrated the breakage, while Purple Cloud gathered the remaining pieces and abandoned the fight.
• Heavenly Dao Hongjun collected the fragments, dismissed Purple Cloud, and told the Three Pure Ones that they had won.

After the Three Pure Ones and Zhou Qingqing defeated Hongjun’s plan to divide them, Heavenly Dao Hongjun allowed the brothers to remain together but required them to teach their future disciples separately. Di Jun and Taiyi accepted their exile to Chaos, while Tongtian agreed to protect the remaining Demon Clan; Zhou Qingqing then turned her attention to helping Houtu deal with the Two Sages of the West.

• Heavenly Dao Hongjun acknowledged the Three Pure Ones’ victory, let them remain together, and required them to teach their future disciples separately.
• Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi to take Di Jun and Taiyi’s places in the Heavenly Court before returning to Purple Cloud Palace.
• Di Jun told Tongtian that he and Taiyi would establish an Outer Heaven in Chaos and asked him to protect the Demon Clan remaining in the Primordial World.
• Tongtian agreed to protect the Demon Clan and urged its members to keep striving amid the Primordial World’s Ten Thousand Daos Contention.
• Zhou Qingqing decided that she and her masters should help Houtu resolve the danger posed by the Two Sages of the West.

Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate stopped Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti from entering the Six Paths of Reincarnation until they expelled the foreign power within it. Zhou Qingqing discovered that the power was Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and devised a plan to make the two Saints build an Outer Path Reincarnation under Houtu’s control.

• Houtu agreed to punish Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti by sending them into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, while the other Daoists departed for their own destinations.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate halted Jieyin and Zhunti and ordered them to remove the power within Reincarnation that had altered Zhurong and Gonggong.
• Jieyin and Zhunti searched the Six Paths and began expelling the power of the Heavenly Dao.
• Zhou Qingqing sensed that the Heavenly Dao power also contained Reincarnation laws, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate realized she had identified its nature.
• Zhou Qingqing planned to make Jieyin and Zhunti use the power to establish an Outer Path Reincarnation that Houtu would fully control.

Zhou Qingqing told Lady Houtu how to use the Two Sages of the West to establish Outer Path Reincarnation, then left to find the ferocious beast Hou so Houtu could control it. Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate stayed behind to watch the two saints as Qingqing traveled through the Primordial World.

• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate created a soundproof restriction so Zhou Qingqing could speak privately with Lady Houtu.
• Zhou Qingqing told Lady Houtu that the force expelled by the Two Sages of the West carried Heavenly Dao Reincarnation and could help establish Outer Path Reincarnation.
• Lady Houtu agreed with Zhou Qingqing's plan but asked how she could keep the Outer Path under her control.
• Zhou Qingqing claimed her Twelve-Grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus had the answer and left Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate to watch the Two Sages of the West.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate realized Zhou Qingqing intended to find the ferocious beast Hou, whose connection to Pangu Skull could help Lady Houtu control Outer Path Reincarnation.
• Zhou Qingqing used the Five Elements Grand Escape to travel through the Primordial World.

After the Calamity ended, Zhou Qingqing tracked down the ferocious beast Hou and tested her Creation Reincarnation divine ability on it. She revived it as a dog and brought it back toward Mount Kunlun, where the Moon-Howling Divine Hound waited for her return.

• Zhou Qingqing used Qimen Dunjia to locate the ferocious beast Hou, with Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate allowing her deduction to succeed.
• When Hou roared at her, Zhou Qingqing used the Immortal-Slaying Flying Dagger to cut off its head and pried open its skullcap to remove Pangu's skullcap.
• Zhou Qingqing tested Creation Reincarnation and restored Hou, transforming it into a large dog without its savage aura.
• The Three Pure Ones admired Zhou Qingqing's ability to combine the Dao of Creation and Reincarnation laws, while Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate anticipated trouble for the Two Sages of the West.
• On Eastern Kunlun, the Moon-Howling Divine Hound watched the other dogs play and hoped Zhou Qingqing would return soon.

Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti turned the foreign Heavenly Dao power into an Outer Path Reincarnation while Zhou Qingqing used Reincarnation and Creation to evolve the four great Zombie Progenitors. The Western sages saw her creation’s four terrifying phenomena and could barely hide their frustration.

• Daoist Zhunti sensed the foreign power’s potential, and he and Daoist Jieyin decided to claim it by establishing an Outer Path Reincarnation.
• Zhou Qingqing returned and began using Reincarnation Divine Light on Pangu’s skull while Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Lady Houtu watched.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti drew on their Nirvana and Karma Sariras and transformed the foreign Heavenly Dao power into an Outer Path Reincarnation.
• Zhou Qingqing invoked Jiangchen, Drought Demon, Yinggou, and Houqing as she combined Reincarnation and Creation to evolve the Zombie Race.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti turned toward Zhou Qingqing and saw four ominous phenomena, then struggled to conceal their urge to stab someone.

Celestial Master Zi created the Four Great Zombie Progenitors, who entered the Outer Path Reincarnation and helped Lady Houtu bind it to the Six Paths. Lady Houtu sent Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti back to the Land of Ultimate Bliss, and Zhou Qingqing prepared to leave.

• Celestial Master Zi revealed the Four Great Zombie Progenitors, while Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti realized they were suited to the Outer Path Reincarnation.
• The Four Great Zombie Progenitors entered the Outer Path Reincarnation, and Lady Houtu used her Ancestral Witch Blood Essence to connect them to it.
• Lady Houtu pulled the Outer Path Reincarnation into the Six Paths, creating a seventh path and causing the Earth Dao to flourish.
• Lady Houtu thanked Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti, waived their remaining punishment, and sent them away through a Reincarnation passage.
• Zhou Qingqing decided the matter was settled and prepared to return.

Houtu and the Ancestral Witches asked Zhou Qingqing to stay so they could repay her for helping with the Outer Path Reincarnation. They offered to teach her Pangu’s All-Heavens Divine Thunder, and she began to learn it with the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ help.

• Zhou Qingqing asked Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate to take her back to Kunlun, but Houtu insisted that Qingqing stay to receive compensation for helping her.
• Houtu brought Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Zhou Qingqing to Pangu Divine Hall, where Dijiang teased Gonggong and Zhurong for being defeated.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate said he had already arranged to fight Gonggong and Zhurong again, then urged the Ancestral Witches to explain their plans quickly.
• Houtu offered to let Zhou Qingqing learn the All-Heavens Divine Thunder Method created by Pangu.
• Zhou Qingqing accepted the offer, and the Ancestral Witches prepared to use the Twelve Capital Divine Fiend Formation to help her comprehend the divine thunder.

Zhou Qingqing faced the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ formation and comprehended the All-Heavens Divine Thunder from the Pangu True Form. She emerged with the Twelve Capital Heaven Divine Thunders, astonishing Houtu and the Ancestral Witches.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed a clearer Pangu True Form, which spoke an incomprehensible syllable that Zhou Qingqing understood as “punishment.”
• Zhou Qingqing saw the All-Heavens Divine Thunder split into twelve colors and began comprehending them as the Twelve Capital Divine Thunder Method.
• The Pangu True Form dispersed, and Houtu worried that its first spoken sound might have harmed Zhou Qingqing.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate reassured Houtu and predicted that Zhou Qingqing would learn to condense the Twelve Capital Heaven Divine Thunders.
• Zhou Qingqing stood and summoned twelve divine thunders, leaving Houtu, Qiangliang, Xizi, and the other Ancestral Witches astonished.

After returning to Eastern Kunlun, Zhou Qingqing reunited with her masters and prepared to test her juniors’ studies. She settled Nuwa’s Five-Colored Stone in her Lotus Pond and paired the Moon-Howling Divine Hound with the revived Sky-Gazing Hou, while the Three Pure Ones began discussing the coming Investiture of the Gods Calamity.

• Zhou Qingqing left the Nine Nether Realm with Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate after demonstrating divine thunder to the Ancestral Witches.
• Zhou Qingqing reunited with Supreme Pure Laozi and Upper Pure Tongtian at Eastern Kunlun, and the three masters summoned her juniors and companions for her tests.
• Zhou Qingqing placed Nuwa’s Five-Colored Stone in her Lotus Pond, where it rapidly grew into a massive boulder.
• Zhou Qingqing released the revived Sky-Gazing Hou to accompany the Moon-Howling Divine Hound, and the two dogs joyfully played together.
• The Three Pure Ones discussed the coming Investiture of the Gods Calamity as the summoned juniors and companions arrived at the Lotus Pond.

Zhou Qingqing put the Seven Little Ones through dangerous training while enjoying her leisure time, and the Three Pure Ones decided to separate their disciples’ cultivation grounds. They agreed to move to Three Pure Ones Heaven, where Zhou Qingqing would stay and they could respond to the coming Investiture of the Gods Calamity.

• Zhou Qingqing unleashed the Twelve Capital Heaven Divine Thunders on South Pole Immortal, whose Three Pure Ones Divine Lightning failed to protect him, and the Three Pure Ones muffled his screams.
• The Seven Little Ones trained under Zhou Qingqing’s harsh methods while she spent her days relaxing, and they became more motivated after learning she had beaten the Sky-Gazing Hou to death and revived him.
• Supreme Pure Laozi, Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and Upper Pure Tongtian agreed to separate the three lineages’ disciples and assign Mount Shouyang, Mount Kunlun, and Golden Turtle Island as their cultivation grounds.
• The Three Pure Ones rejected Kongtong Mountain as a gathering place and agreed to move to Three Pure Ones Heaven, where Zhou Qingqing would live independently and they could stay near Haotian.

The Three Pure Ones told Zhou Qingqing to leave Eastern Kunlun and live in Three Pure Ones Heaven as the disciples of their three lineages separated. She agreed and arranged to bring the Seven Little Ones, while promising to keep helping her masters guide their disciples; Laozi then told her that Haotian and Yaochi had become the new Heavenly Emperor and Queen Mother.

• The Three Pure Ones explained that Zhou Qingqing needed to move to Three Pure Ones Heaven because she was the senior sister of their three teachings and the lineages would be taught separately.
• Zhou Qingqing happily agreed to move, realizing the Thirty-Three Heavens would make a suitable dojo with the Investiture of the Gods Calamity approaching.
• Zhou Qingqing asked to bring Nanji and the other Seven Little Ones, and the Three Pure Ones agreed that they could accompany her.
• The Three Pure Ones said they would visit Three Pure Ones Heaven and asked Zhou Qingqing to return to assess and teach their future disciples, which she accepted.
• Supreme Pure Laozi told Zhou Qingqing that Haotian and Yaochi had been appointed the new Heavenly Emperor and Queen Mother and had reached the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Zhou Qingqing persuaded the Three Pure Ones to send gifts to Haotian and Yaochi, hoping to build goodwill with the newly appointed rulers of the Thirty-Three Heavens. The chapter ended with the Three Pure Ones preparing pills, spiritual treasures, and formation diagrams for her to deliver.

• Zhou Qingqing realized Haotian and Yaochi had arrived in the Thirty-Three Heavens and planned to visit them on behalf of the Three Pure Ones.
• Zhou Qingqing urged her masters to support Haotian and Yaochi as fellow Daoist disciples and future rulers of Heaven.
• Supreme Pure Laozi gave Zhou Qingqing two Nine-Revolution Golden Pills for Haotian and Yaochi.
• Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerate forged a pagoda for Haotian and a hairpin for Yaochi at Zhou Qingqing's suggestion.
• Upper Pure Tongtian decided to give Haotian and Yaochi two formation diagrams for the Heavenly Court.