Chapter Summaries

Lin Cang transmigrated into a Sea Calming Pearl on Fangzhang Immortal Island and cultivated for 129,600 years with help from the World Purifying White Lotus and Three Lights Divine Water. He completed Form Transformation as a Golden Immortal, received the name Cangyuan, and was bound to the Choice of Destiny system.

• Lin Cang realized he had become one of Zhao Gongming's lost Sea Calming Pearls and resolved to undergo Form Transformation.
• Lin Cang comprehended his origins and absorbed the Innate Spiritual Energy around him.
• The World Purifying White Lotus placed Lin Cang in its lotus heart and helped him cultivate with the lake of Three Lights Divine Water.
• After one Yuanhui, Lin Cang transformed into an azure-robed Golden Immortal.
• Heaven and earth named him Cangyuan, and the Choice of Destiny system bound itself to him.

After transforming, Cangyuan awakened a choice system, sensed the scattered Sea Calming Pearls, and created the Cangyuan Realm within himself. He discovered that he was on Fangzhang Immortal Island beside the World Purifying White Lotus, and the system offered him a choice about how to deal with it.

• Cangyuan learned that his God-tier Selection System would offer rewards when he faced choices of Destiny.
• Cangyuan sensed the other Sea Calming Pearls and realized that twenty-four of them were together, likely already in Shangqing Tongtian's possession.
• Cangyuan used Innate Spiritual Energy to open and expand his Inner World into a Lesser Thousand World, which he named the Cangyuan Realm.
• Cangyuan discovered that he had been inside the World Purifying White Lotus, in a lake of Three Lights Divine Water, and spoke with the lotus.
• The system offered Cangyuan a choice between erasing the World Purifying White Lotus's spiritual intelligence for World Destroying Black Lotus coordinates or befriending it and taking it from Fangzhang Immortal Island for Penglai Immortal Island coordinates.

Cangyuan chose to help the World Purifying White Lotus, claimed Fangzhang Island as his Dojo, and received coordinates for Penglai Immortal Island. As he set out to explore, Shangqing Tongtian announced that he was establishing the Jie Sect Dojo on Jin'ao Island and recruiting disciples.

• Cangyuan chose the system reward that gave him Penglai Immortal Island's coordinates and invited the World Purifying White Lotus to travel with him, promising to help it undergo Form Transformation.
• Cangyuan stored the World Purifying White Lotus in the Cangyuan Realm and spent a thousand years gathering Three Lights Divine Water and Innate Spiritual Roots from Fangzhang Island.
• Cangyuan found the Immortal Gathering Bottle, Crimson Firmament Sword, and Heart Piercing Nail, then spent fifty thousand years refining Fangzhang Island's Boundary Stele.
• Cangyuan claimed Fangzhang Island as his Dojo and discovered that Penglai Immortal Island was currently speeding through Chaos, beyond his reach.
• Shangqing Tongtian announced that he was establishing the Jie Sect Dojo on East Sea Jin'ao Island and opening its gates to recruit disciples.

Cangyuan chose to join Shangqing Tongtian’s Jie Sect and flew toward Jin'ao Island, hoping to obtain the Sea Calming Pearls. On the way, he encountered the Three Virtuous Ladies of Sanxiao and Zhao Gongming fleeing a powerful Sha Dragon, and the Choice of Destiny urged him to decide whether to intervene.

• Cangyuan chose to hear Shangqing Tongtian’s Dao and become his disciple, selecting the reward of a Water Spirit Pearl.
• Cangyuan spent a thousand years flying across the East Sea toward Jin'ao Island and refused to ride on the World Purifying White Lotus to avoid attracting attention.
• Cangyuan encountered four fleeing cultivators pursued by a Grand Unity Golden Immortal Sha Dragon, but the four changed course and warned him away.
• Cangyuan realized the four cultivators were Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, Bixiao, and Zhao Gongming, and the Choice of Destiny offered him rewards for either fleeing or fighting the Sha Dragon.
• Cangyuan wondered whether the Sha Dragon might become the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors associated with the Three Virtuous Ladies of Sanxiao.

Cangyuan used the World Purifying White Lotus to slay the Sha Dragon that was pursuing Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao. After they met and agreed to travel together, the five reached the sight of Jin'ao Island.

• Cangyuan chose to intervene, mounted the World Purifying White Lotus, and pursued the Sha Dragon with Xiao Bai's help.
• The Sha Dragon closed in on Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao, and Zhao Gongming offered to draw it away while his sisters refused to leave him.
• Cangyuan arrived and used the World Purifying White Lotus to suppress and kill the Sha Dragon, then claimed its black and white flood dragon corpses and received a Law of Clouds Fragment from the system.
• Yunxiao, Zhao Gongming, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao thanked Cangyuan, introduced themselves, and learned that he was also going to Jin'ao Island.
• Yunxiao invited Cangyuan to travel with them, and after several hundred years the five saw Jin'ao Island.

Cangyuan, the Three Xiao, and Zhao Gongming reached Jin'ao Island and waited outside Biyou Palace for Shangqing Tongtian to begin his lecture. After Tongtian arrived with great ceremony and introduced his four Personal Disciples, he began teaching while the World Purifying White Lotus listened eagerly from within the Cangyuan Realm.

• Cangyuan and the Three Xiao and Zhao Gongming flew for five hundred years before arriving on Jin'ao Island with many other cultivators seeking Tongtian as their master.
• Cangyuan led the group to Biyou Palace, where they settled outside and cultivated while more living beings gathered on the island.
• After five thousand years of waiting, Shangqing Tongtian appeared above Jin'ao Island, and the assembled living beings bowed to him.
• Daoist Duobao, Holy Mother Jin Ling, Holy Mother Wudang, and Holy Mother Guiling appeared beside Tongtian as his Personal Disciples.
• Tongtian began his lecture, and the World Purifying White Lotus listened eagerly, hoping to comprehend Form Transformation.

After a ten-thousand-year lecture, Tongtian admitted the beings who understood his teachings into the Jie Sect and selected several as Outer Disciples. He recognized Cangyuan’s unusual potential and made him his Fifth Outer Disciple.

• Cangyuan comprehended the Shangqing Marvelous Method during Tongtian’s lecture and advanced to Late Golden Immortal Perfection.
• Tongtian dismissed those who had failed to understand his teachings, leaving around ten thousand beings to join the Jie Sect as Registered Disciples.
• Tongtian selected Zhao Gongming as his Senior Outer Disciple and admitted Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao into the outer sect.
• Yunxiao recommended Cangyuan to Tongtian, who recognized his Sea Calming Pearl origin and potential before naming him his Fifth Outer Disciple.

Cangyuan became Tongtian’s Outer Disciple and received the Twenty-Four Sea Calming Pearls along with other Spiritual Treasures. After Tongtian dismissed his disciples, Cangyuan told Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao Sisters that he would stay on Jin'ao Island for now, leaving Fangzhang Immortal Island unclaimed until he could protect it.

• Tongtian accepted Cangyuan as an Outer Disciple, and the system rewarded him with the Water Spirit Pearl.
• Tongtian appointed seven Registered Disciples as the Seven Attendant Immortals and sent the Ten Thousand Immortals outside Jin'ao Island to find cave abodes.
• Tongtian distributed Spiritual Treasures to Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao Sisters before bestowing the Twenty-Four Sea Calming Pearls and other treasures upon Cangyuan.
• Tongtian gave treasures to the Seven Attendant Immortals and dismissed everyone to establish cave abodes on or near Jin'ao Island.
• Cangyuan told Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao Sisters that he would establish a temporary cave abode on Jin'ao Island while he cultivated.

Cangyuan settled on Jin'ao Island and spent a Yuanhui cultivating with the origins of the Twenty-Four Sea Calming Pearls, raising his potential to High-grade Innate Divine Being and reaching the Early Grand Unity Golden Immortal level. He realized his twenty-five Inner Worlds needed a way to refine Chaos energy into Innate Spiritual Energy and considered the Great Array of Zhou Tian Stars.

• Cangyuan parted from the Sanxiao Sisters and Zhao Gongming, who left to search for suitable dojos, while he remained on Jin'ao Island.
• Cangyuan established a temporary cave residence in the island's third ring and reviewed the Spiritual Treasures and Spiritual Roots he had collected.
• Cangyuan absorbed the origins of the Twenty-Four Sea Calming Pearls, using each pearl to open another Inner World and strengthen his own origin.
• After one Yuanhui, Cangyuan had raised his innate potential to High-grade Innate Divine Being, advanced to Early Grand Unity Golden Immortal, and opened twenty-five Lesser Thousand Worlds.
• Cangyuan recognized that his Inner Worlds relied on spiritual energy from the Prehistoric World and thought of using the Great Array of Zhou Tian Stars to refine Chaos energy.

Cangyuan learned that the World Purifying White Lotus had devised a plan to undergo Form Transformation by transferring her consciousness into one of her cultivated lotus-seed treasures. When separating her consciousness proved to require a Saint’s help, The Choice of Destiny offered Cangyuan a reward for helping her.

• Cangyuan considered studying the Heavenly Court’s Great Array of Zhou Tian Stars but decided he could not rush the matter.
• The World Purifying White Lotus told Cangyuan she planned to abandon her Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure body and transfer her consciousness into a lotus-seed treasure.
• Cangyuan realized her plan could work, but doubted anyone short of a Saint could separate her consciousness from her current body.
• The Choice of Destiny offered Cangyuan a choice between leaving the World Purifying White Lotus to solve the problem herself or repaying her favor by helping her, with a hundred Innate Undying Spiritual Lights as the reward.

Cangyuan cultivated twelve World Purifying White Lotus replicas to offer Sect Master Tongtian in exchange for his help, then left to meet his master. On the way, he witnessed the first war between the Witch Race and the Heavenly Court and arrived at Biyou Palace.

• Cangyuan chose a hundred strands of Innate Undying Spiritual Light as his reward and planned to offer Sect Master Tongtian a World Purifying White Lotus to secure his help.
• Cangyuan used Three Lights Divine Water and the essence of Innate Spiritual Roots to cultivate twelve lotus seeds over two and a half Yuanhuis.
• Cangyuan finished cultivating twelve Third-Grade World Purifying White Lotuses and returned from the Cangyuan Realm to his cave abode on Jin'ao Island.
• Cangyuan learned that Yunxiao and Brother Gongming might have advanced during his long seclusion and reflected on his goal of mastering the Law of Creation.
• Cangyuan sensed the first war between the Witch Race and the Heavenly Court but decided that asking his master for help was more important.
• Cangyuan continued to Biyou Palace and was transported inside.

Cangyuan offered the World Purifying White Lotus to Sect Master Tongtian for Jie Sect to Suppress Destiny and asked him to transfer Xiao Bai’s consciousness into twelve smaller lotuses. Tongtian agreed, exchanged two Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasures for the lotus, and Cangyuan left to check on Yunxiao and Zhao Gongming before secluded cultivation.

• Cangyuan presented the World Purifying White Lotus to Sect Master Tongtian as a treasure to Suppress Destiny for Jie Sect.
• Cangyuan explained how Xiao Bai could transfer her consciousness into twelve smaller World Purifying White Lotuses, and Tongtian agreed to help place Houtian Restrictions on them.
• Tongtian gave Cangyuan the Purple Lightning Hammer and Heart Piercing Lock in exchange for the World Purifying White Lotus.
• Tongtian said he would accept Xiao Bai as his Fifth Personal Disciple if she could undergo Form Transformation.
• Cangyuan received one hundred strands of Innate Undying Spiritual Light and decided to visit Senior Sister Yunxiao and Brother Gongming before refining his new treasures.

Cangyuan visited Yunxiao on Three Immortal Island, accepted her invitation to live there, and established Canglan Palace. After ten thousand years of seclusion refining his treasures, he emerged to find the War of the Witches and Demons had ended.

• Cangyuan flew to Three Immortal Island and was welcomed by Yunxiao, who had reached the early-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Yunxiao told Cangyuan that Qiongxiao and Bixiao were in seclusion pursuing breakthroughs and that Zhao Gongming had established a dojo at Mount Emei Luofu Cave.
• Yunxiao invited Cangyuan to establish a dojo on Three Immortal Island so they could discuss the Law of Clouds, and Cangyuan accepted the System's second option to move there.
• With Yunxiao's help, Cangyuan built Canglan Palace and planted the remaining ten percent of the Innate Spiritual Roots from Cangyuan Realm on the island.
• Cangyuan spent ten thousand years refining the Heart Piercing Lock, mastering twelve of its restrictions, and the War of the Witches and Demons ended during his seclusion.

Cangyuan set out for the East Sea to find Penglai Immortal Island and brought Bixiao along after she begged to join him. They reached the hidden island, where Bixiao was astonished by its splendid scenery.

• Cangyuan learned that Penglai Immortal Island had returned to the East Sea and left seclusion to claim the Sea Calming Pearls.
• Bixiao stopped Cangyuan and pleaded to travel with him, so he agreed on the condition that she obey him.
• Yunxiao sensed Bixiao leaving with Cangyuan and resumed cultivating without stopping them.
• Cangyuan and Bixiao traveled for a hundred years on the Heart Piercing Lock before reaching the coordinates of Penglai Immortal Island.
• Cangyuan took Bixiao through the island's concealment, revealing a magnificent Blessed Land that left her amazed.

Cangyuan and Bixiao explored Penglai Island, where Cangyuan found several treasures and a Supreme Innate Spiritual Root. He reached the Dao Comprehension Tea Tree and discovered the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler planted beneath it.

• Bixiao recognized Penglai Island after Cangyuan led her there, and the two began exploring its treasures.
• Cangyuan captured the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl and sent it to his Cangyuan Realm, then proposed that he and Bixiao explore separately.
• Cangyuan headed for Penglai Island's center, transplanted Innate Spiritual Roots into his newly named Changchun Realm, and found the Soul Nurturing Banner.
• Cangyuan found the Dao Comprehension Tea Tree and hurried toward it, gaining insights into the Dao along the way.
• Cangyuan spotted the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler planted beneath the Dao Comprehension Tea Tree and recognized it.

Cangyuan found the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, gained its aid and the Dao Comprehension Tea Tree’s leaves, then refined the Penglai Realm Stele. After seeing Bixiao chase a Qingluan divine bird, he intervened and asked the bird whether it wanted to leave the island.

• Cangyuan met the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, which agreed to accompany him.
• The Dao Comprehension Tea Tree gave Cangyuan 12,960 Enlightenment Tea Leaves, and he watered the tree with Three Lights Divine Water before leaving.
• Cangyuan followed the ruler’s directions and spent a thousand years refining the Penglai Realm Stele, becoming Penglai Island’s master.
• Cangyuan used his new control of Penglai Island to find Bixiao chasing a Peak Taiyi Golden Immortal Qingluan divine bird.
• Cangyuan blocked Qingluan’s path as Bixiao asked him to help catch it, and he offered Qingluan a chance to leave the island.

Cangyuan and Bixiao took Green Phoenix as their mount and explored Penglai Island, gathering more treasures before leaving. Once they reached the East Sea, the Dragon Clan blocked their way and demanded that they hand Green Phoenix over.

• Cangyuan forced Green Phoenix to agree to become Bixiao's mount, and Green Phoenix accepted after learning they belonged to the Jie Sect.
• Bixiao listed the treasures she had found, and Cangyuan and Bixiao continued exploring Penglai Island with Green Phoenix, collecting more roots and treasures.
• Cangyuan gave Green Phoenix the Sunset Sword, then opened a gap in Penglai Island's formation so they could leave.
• Bixiao asked where they would go next, but a Black Dragon and ten thousand Aquatic Clan soldiers appeared and accused them of bringing a Phoenix Clan enemy into Dragon Clan territory.
• Cangyuan identified himself and Bixiao as Jie Sect members, and the Black Dragon agreed not to trouble them but demanded that they surrender Green Phoenix.

Cangyuan returned Bixiao to Three Immortal Island, gave the Sanxiao Sisters valuable materials and tea leaves, then set out for the East Sea. He hoped to find traces of the Human Race and worried about the calamity that would threaten them in the future.

• Cangyuan and Bixiao drove off a Black Dragon and his aquatic followers after he tried to claim the Green Phoenix.
• At Three Immortal Island, Bixiao told Yunxiao and Qiongxiao how she had obtained the Green Phoenix, and Cangyuan confirmed her account.
• Cangyuan gave the Sanxiao Sisters the Innate Yin-Yang Flood Dragon corpses and a thousand Enlightenment Tea Leaves to share with their master.
• After Cangyuan departed, Yunxiao urged Qiongxiao and Bixiao to remember his kindness and help him if he ever needed them.
• Cangyuan flew toward the East Sea, hoping to find the Human Race and reflecting on his inability to protect them from their coming calamity.

Cangyuan traveled to the East Sea shore and rescued the Taixu Tribe from a demon who claimed Empress Nuwa had created the Human Race as food. He defended Nuwa, urged the humans to strive for self-improvement, and was invited to visit the tribe by its chief, Taixu Yunhai.

• Cangyuan reached the Primordial Land after traveling from Jin'ao Island and sensed a Golden Immortal aura near a human tribe.
• A Golden Immortal demon terrorized the Taixu Tribe, mocked the humans' faith in Empress Nuwa, and threatened to devour them.
• Cangyuan arrived, identified himself as a disciple of Saint Tongtian of the Jie Sect, and killed the demon with the Heart Piercing Lock.
• Cangyuan stopped the humans from kneeling and reassured them that the demon had spoken falsely about Nuwa's intentions.
• Cangyuan explained that the Human Race had to endure hardship and strive for self-improvement, stabilizing Taixu Yunhai's Dao heart.
• Taixu Yunhai introduced himself as chief of the Taixu Tribe and invited Cangyuan to visit so the tribe could repay him.

Cangyuan stayed with the Taixu Tribe, learned about the Human Race, and found a Sea Calming Pearl hidden in a child's jade toy. After absorbing it, he was interrupted by an angry stranger accusing the Human Race of killing the Pelican Ancestor.

• Cangyuan questioned Taixu Yunhai about the Three Human Ancestors and learned that the Human Race numbered at least one million billion.
• A woman brought her child to Cangyuan, who recognized the Sea Calming Pearl's aura in the crescent-shaped jade stone the child held.
• Cangyuan traded three Star Spirit Fruits for the jade stone and gave them to the woman for her child.
• Cangyuan broke open the jade, retrieved the twenty-sixth Sea Calming Pearl, and spent a hundred years absorbing its origin.
• As Cangyuan prepared to use the pearl's empty shell to open an Inner World, someone accused the Human Race of killing the Pelican Ancestor.