Chapter Summaries

Xuan Qing blocked Hongjun and the other great powers from uncovering his identity, then met Yang Mei and obtained the Space Spiritual Treasure Fragment he needed. After repairing Yang Mei’s Hollow Willow, Xuan Qing left the South Sea for Azure Nether Island with both fragments in hand.

• Hongjun, Old Ancestor Yin Yang, Zu Long, and the other great powers reversed time at the South Sea, but Xuan Qing destroyed their vision with the Green Lotus of Creation before they could identify him.
• Yang Mei recognized Xuan Qing’s Green Lotus of Creation as a Chaos Spiritual Treasure, and Xuan Qing showed him the Time Compass fragment taken from Shichen’s legacy.
• Yang Mei gave Xuan Qing a Space Spiritual Treasure Fragment from the Hollow Willow, and Xuan Qing used the Law of Creation to restore some of the tree’s lost vitality.
• Xuan Qing decided that the two fragments would let him activate the Dao Coffin of Time and Space and advance his comprehension of the Laws of Time and Space.
• Xuan Qing told Yang Mei that his Dao Field was Azure Nether Island and departed the South Sea to return there.

After returning from his breakthrough, Xuan Qing inspected the newly evolved Sun and Moon Grotto-Heaven and promised it to Chong Shan for overseeing the Azure Nether Sea Domain’s inhabitants. He then summoned the Dao Coffin of Time and Space, comprehended its laws, and learned to use them to attack and trap powerful enemies.

• Xuan Qing returned to the Azure Nether Sea Domain and learned that Han Xi and the others had gathered to witness the completed evolution of the Sun and Moon Grotto-Heaven.
• Xuan Qing inspected the grotto-heaven, which had fused its three islands and used three Innate Spiritual Roots to draw Star Power, then promised it to Chong Shan if he kept the inhabitants in order.
• Xuan Qing toured the other sixteen Cavern Heavens with Han Xi and Qing Ling before returning to Azure Nether Island to inspect its enhanced spiritual roots and ripe fruits.
• Xuan Qing activated the Chaos Spiritual Treasure Fragments related to time and space, and the Dao Coffin of Time and Space appeared and drew him into enlightenment.
• Xuan Qing comprehended the Law of Time and Space, practiced controlling its power, and discovered he could create an independent space-time to trap even a Primordial Origin Golden Immortal.

After emerging from seclusion, Xuan Qing reunited with Han Xi and welcomed Yang Mei and Hongjun to Azure Nether Island. He showed them his rare spiritual roots and Dao Palace, and his counsel prompted Hongjun to reconsider his path; the group then settled in to share tea and discuss the Dao.

• Han Xi complained that Xuan Qing had entered seclusion without telling her, and he teased her before the Qing Ya Sisters announced visitors.
• Xuan Qing welcomed Yang Mei and Hongjun, who had waited on the island while he was secluded, and brought them into Azure Nether Island.
• Xuan Qing introduced Han Xi, Han Li, and his attendants, then explained the island’s spiritual roots and revealed that its central roots included a Chaos Spiritual Root and a damaged Pseudo Chaos Spiritual Root.
• Yang Mei and Hongjun admired Xuan Qing’s Dao Palace and its meritorious treasures, and Xuan Qing invited them to share the roots’ fruits after they attained the Dao.
• Xuan Qing advised Hongjun not to lose himself in the Great Dao, and Hongjun thanked him for the guidance.
• Qing Ya served High-Grade Enlightenment Tea, and Yang Mei eagerly praised its fragrance as the visitors prepared to discuss the Dao.

Xuan Qing hosted Hongjun and Yang Mei for tea and a Dao discussion, revealing that he had comprehended the Laws of Destiny and Time and Space as well as the Law of Creation. The chapter left Hongjun and Xuan Qing’s disciples shocked by his extraordinary origins and insights.

• Yang Mei and Hongjun drank Xuan Qing’s Enlightenment Tea, gained insights into their laws, and joined him and his disciples on the sofa for a Dao discussion.
• Hongjun lectured on the Way of Balance, and Han Xi entered Enlightenment while comprehending the Law of Yin Yang.
• Yang Mei lectured on the Way of Space, then Xuan Qing shared his understanding of the Great Dao and deepened his own insights into the Law of Time and Space.
• Hongjun asked whether Xuan Qing had caused the disturbance in the River of Destiny, and Xuan Qing confirmed that he had while explaining that he had comprehended the Law of Destiny.
• Xuan Qing revealed his Laws of Destiny and Time and Space, describing the latter as a law just below Great God Pangu’s level and acknowledging the price behind his gains.
• Yang Mei recalled Xuan Qing’s earlier state in Chaos, and Xuan Qing explained that Great God Pangu had guided him and granted him fortune, leaving Hongjun and the others astonished.

Xuan Qing learned from Hongjun where the Azure Dragon and Vermillion Bird had withdrawn, then traveled to the East Sea to recruit the Azure Dragon for his plan to establish the Four Pillars. The Azure Dragon accepted the opportunity to transform his clan’s desolate home, and Xuan Qing prepared to continue his search.

• Han Xi returned after comprehending the Law of Yin Yang to the late Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, and Xuan Qing hosted Hongjun and Yang Mei for tens of thousands of years.
• Xuan Qing asked Hongjun about the Azure Dragon and Vermillion Bird, and Hongjun revealed that the Azure Dragon lived in the Extreme East while the Vermillion Bird had gone to the Extreme South.
• After Hongjun and Yang Mei departed, Xuan Qing told his companions that the Heavenly Dao might soon emerge and that he needed to hasten the establishment of the Four Pillars.
• Xuan Qing traveled into the desolate East Sea, met a courteous young member of the Azure Dragon Clan, and followed him to the Azure Dragon’s settlement.
• Xuan Qing explained that the Azure Dragon’s Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure could transform the clan’s barren surroundings and that the plan would bring the Azure Dragon greater cultivation at the cost of remaining there.
• The Azure Dragon accepted Xuan Qing’s proposal and began planning the undertaking, urging Xuan Qing to help move it forward quickly.

Xuan Qing arrived at Dangyun Mountain to meet the White Tiger Clan Leader and explain an opportunity involving the Four Clans. He revealed that the White Tiger Clan would have to leave its territory and settle in the Far West Land, leaving the Clan Leader to question how his people would survive there.

• Xuan Qing flew to the Eastern Continent and learned from a local where the White Tiger Clan's territory lay.
• At Dangyun Mountain, Yun Jing and Lei Li greeted Xuan Qing, and White Tiger welcomed him with a feast.
• Xuan Qing praised the roasted meat and Yun Jing's strong wine, then invited Yun Jing to visit Azure Nether Island.
• After the others left the Great Hall, Xuan Qing told White Tiger that the Four Clans' leaders would become the Four Spirits of Heaven and Earth and guard the Four Pillars.
• White Tiger, learning that his clan would need to relocate to the Far West Land, asked how its members would live and cultivate there.

Xuan Qing resolved the White Tiger Clan’s concerns, declined Lei Xing’s invitation to visit the Kirin Clan, and traveled to Immortal Volcano to find Vermillion Bird. He asked the Phoenix Clan for permission to pass through, but Ancestor Phoenix rejected the request as a threat to the clan’s secrets.

• Xuan Qing assured White Tiger that he could transform the desolate land, then left White Tiger to handle the Kirin Clan himself.
• Lei Xing introduced himself as Lei Li’s father and invited Xuan Qing to visit the Kirin Clan, but Xuan Qing postponed the visit.
• Xuan Qing crossed the Southern Continent toward Immortal Volcano, knowing that the Phoenix Clan would discover him.
• Ancestor Phoenix and Ancestor Phoenix met Xuan Qing and recognized him as the great power who had fought Candle Dragon.
• Xuan Qing asked to pass through Immortal Volcano, and Ancestor Phoenix refused, objecting that he would expose the Phoenix Clan’s secrets.

Xuan Qing crossed Immortal Volcano with Ancestor Phoenix’s help, learned that the Phoenix Clan’s Nirvana Flames formed there, and followed the route the Vermillion Bird Clan had taken. After traveling through a desolate region, he reached a broken, lifeless sea and chose a direction to continue his search.

• Xuan Qing promised the Phoenix Clan a great favor in exchange for passage through Immortal Volcano, and the two Ancestor Phoenix agreed to guide him.
• Ancestor Phoenix led Xuan Qing through the volcano’s black flames to its center, where Xuan Qing saw the Phoenix Clan’s Nirvana Flames and sensed Chaos energy.
• Xuan Qing declined to investigate the volcano’s deepest center, and Ancestor Phoenix guided him through a hidden valley along the route the Vermillion Bird Clan had taken.
• Xuan Qing traveled south for more than ten Kalpas and reached a shattered coastline with black, lifeless seawater.
• Xuan Qing used a counting rhyme to choose between two directions, then decided to go left instead of following the result.

Xuan Qing found and destroyed several groups of Fierce Beasts, including their kings, while searching for the Vermillion Bird Clan. After rescuing Vermillion Birds from Zhuyan, he learned their Clan Leader was trapped by Chaos and Taotie and went to help.

• Xuan Qing used the Jade Bamboo of Creation to annihilate a pack of Fierce Beasts and then killed their returning king with the Green Lotus of Creation.
• Xuan Qing followed flame and baleful aura through a damaged Formation to a continent where Vermillion Birds were fighting Zhuyan.
• Xuan Qing rescued the wounded Vermillion Birds, gave them Three Lights Divine Water, and destroyed Zhuyan with the Green Lotus of Creation.
• A Vermillion Bird told Xuan Qing that Chaos and Taotie had trapped the Clan Leader, and Xuan Qing agreed to help.
• Xuan Qing followed the Vermillion Birds to a barrier of baleful aura that concealed the Clan Leader's situation.

Xuan Qing rescued the Vermillion Bird Clan Leader and defeated Taotie while capturing Chaos. He discovered that Chaos's head was the source of its abilities and began investigating it.

• Xuan Qing broke through the sha qi barrier with the Green Lotus of Creation and rescued the Vermillion Bird Clan Leader from Taotie.
• Xuan Qing fought Chaos and Taotie, withstanding Chaos's attacks and studying Taotie's devouring patterns inside its stomach.
• Xuan Qing pierced Taotie's belly from within, then killed Taotie with the Jade Bamboo of Creation and trapped the fleeing Chaos in the Green Lotus of Creation.
• The Vermillion Bird Clan Leader asked about the Green Lotus of Creation, and Xuan Qing learned that others believed it was the Prehistoric Era's strongest treasure.
• Xuan Qing used the Law of Creation to examine Chaos and found that its head resisted his power, identifying it as the source of Chaos's abilities.

After defeating Chaos, Xuan Qing persuaded the Vermillion Bird Clan to join the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Xuan Wu Clans in establishing the Four Pillars. Their Great Dao Oath was granted, transforming the four clans’ leaders into transcendent guardians bound to protect the Prehistoric Era and stay out of its conflicts.

• Xuan Qing destroyed Chaos, studied its remains, and discovered a Chaos Origin Stone that could strengthen his body.
• Xuan Qing told Vermillion Bird that he wanted to stabilize the Primordial Heaven and Earth and guard its borders by establishing the Four Pillars; Vermillion Bird agreed to join the plan.
• Xuan Qing sent the oath to the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Xuan Wu Clans and instructed all four clans to swear it together one Kalpa later.
• The four clan leaders proclaimed their Great Dao Oath, and the Great Dao granted it, sending Merit that formed the Pillars of Heaven and Earth and raised the leaders to the Transcendence Realm.
• Xuan Qing declared that the Four Spirits must guard the Prehistoric Era, remain at the Four Pillars, and avoid its conflicts; the Four Spirits accepted his Imperial Edict.

Xuan Qing helped establish the Four Sacred Beasts as the Four Spirits, granting them powerful Heaven and Earth Fruit Positions while restricting them to the Four Extremes Land. After returning from Vermillion Bird's territory, he met the Ancestor Phoenixes, who invited him to visit their clan.

• The Four Sacred Beasts accepted their Heaven and Earth Fruit Positions and learned they could not interfere in the Prehistoric Era beyond their assigned territories.
• Xuan Qing accompanied Vermillion Bird to her Heavenly Pillar, where she received a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure palace and learned the Four Spirits could draw on their Fruit Positions to reach the Transcendence Realm within the Four Extremes Land.
• Vermillion Bird explained that the Four Spirits' clans could travel freely, though the Four Spirits themselves could intervene only to prevent their clans' annihilation.
• Xuan Qing left for Azure Nether Island, crossed Immortal Volcano after nearly one Kalpa, and encountered the two Ancestor Phoenixes waiting for him.
• The Ancestor Phoenixes invited Xuan Qing to their Great Hall, where he remarked that the scarcity of male phoenixes suggested an imbalance of Yin and Yang.

Xuan Qing explained the Four Sacred Spirits and the Phoenix Clan’s Auspicious Qi to Ancestor Phoenix, then warned her to protect the Prehistoric Era’s Earth Veins during future wars. After Xuan Qing departed, Luohu devised a new scheme to use the Heavenly Dao to create a race and provoke mass slaughter.

• Xuan Qing told Ancestor Phoenix that the Four Sacred Spirits held Transcendence-level strength only within the Four Pillars and would not return to seize the Phoenix Clan’s lands.
• Ancestor Phoenix explained that the Three Tribes gathered Clan Auspicious Qi to advance toward the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm, and Xuan Qing suspected that Chaos Demon Gods had provoked the resulting conflicts.
• Xuan Qing agreed to preserve hope for the Phoenix Clan if it faced disaster and advised Ancestor Phoenix to keep future battles from destroying the Earth Veins.
• Xuan Qing left the Phoenix Clan, and Luohu flew into a rage at Western Mount Sumeru because the Four Pillars had thwarted his plan to trigger the Annihilation Tribulation.
• Luohu planned to use the Heavenly Dao’s power to create a race and incite every race into a vast karmic slaughter while secretly pursuing freedom from the Heavenly Dao.

Luohu absorbed the Destruction Demon God's Origin, created the Demon Race, and discovered the treasures that would become the Four Swords of Zhu Xian, setting his sights on Hongjun and the living beings of the Prehistoric Era. Meanwhile, Xuan Qing returned to Azure Nether Island and explained how the newly born Four Spirits would guard the Prehistoric Era's borders.

• Luohu absorbed the Destruction Demon God's Origin from the God-Slaying Spear, transformed his Demonic Dao Laws into Destruction Laws, and created the Demon Race.
• Luohu named Jidu, Molo, Wuxin, and Wuxiang as the Demon Race's elders and secretly ordered the race to spread chaos through the Prehistoric Era.
• Hongjun sensed the black mist and a threat to his life, while Xuan Qing recognized the aura of Destruction Laws and suspected that the Dao-Demon tribulation was beginning.
• Jidu reported a Sha Qi Space beneath Mount Sumeru, where Luohu found the Four Swords of Zhu Xian and their Formation Diagram, five treasures that could eventually merge into an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Xuan Qing returned to Azure Nether Island and told his companions that the Four Spirits would guard the Primordial Border and block Chaos Demon Gods from entering through its four passages.

Xuan Qing warned his companions to cultivate spiritual roots before the Heavenly Dao emerged, then left them with his Spiritual Root Cultivation Manual. Meanwhile, the Mystic Turtle advanced by fusing with the Water Element World, which became the Mysterious Water Great World, and visited Xuan Wu at the Black Tortoise Holy Hall.

• Xuan Qing told Han Xi and the others that the Great Dao would soon withdraw and urged them to cultivate spiritual roots to earn more Merit.
• Qing Qiong complained that Xuan Qing had neglected it, but followed Han Xi after she offered to take it in as her little brother.
• Xuan Qing gave Qing Ling and the others his Spiritual Root Cultivation Manual and left them to handle the cultivation work.
• The Mystic Turtle broke through to the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm by merging with the Water Element World, which emerged as the Mysterious Water Great World.
• Xuan Wu met the Mystic Turtle and explained that he had become the Sacred Spirit of the Extreme North and a Black Tortoise Sacred Beast.
• Xuan Wu brought the Mystic Turtle to the Black Tortoise Holy Hall, where he described the overwhelming power of the Transcendence Realm and warned against relying on it too often.

Xuan Qing and his companions traveled to the Netherworld Sea of Blood to investigate it and seek Great Dao Merit. There, Xuan Qing explained how the Blood Sea trapped damaged True Spirits and taught the others about Karmic Sin and the future role of Reincarnation, leaving them wondering when Reincarnation would emerge.

• Mystic Turtle admired Xuan Wu's Black Tortoise Holy Hall and learned that the Heavenly Pillar could be seen but not touched, and that its aura could suppress him.
• Xuan Qing chose the Netherworld Sea of Blood as the group's next destination and gave Han Li the Heaven and Earth Dao Diagram to collect Spirits of the Earth Veins.
• Xuan Qing and his companions reached the Blood Sea, entered under the protection of the Green Lotus of Creation, and found damaged True Spirits trapped in its filthy waters.
• Xuan Qing revealed that the True Spirits were wrapped in Karmic Sin, prompting the others to withdraw their sympathy for them.
• Xuan Qing explained that Reincarnation would allow True Spirits to give rise to new living beings, while their former identities and experiences would disappear.
• Han Xi asked when Reincarnation would emerge, and Xuan Qing looked toward the sky and shook his head.

Xuan Qing discovered that ginkgo trees and the Blood Sea Origin could purify the Blood Sea’s Filth Qi, then used an Innate Great Array to establish ten forests of spiritual roots in its vortices. The forests stabilized the vortices and earned Great Dao Merit for the vortices and the women.

• Xuan Qing and his companions found a Pure Ginko Tree on a blood-colored island and discovered that it purified Filth Qi behind a barrier that blocked Divine Sense.
• After studying the tree for tens of thousands of years, Xuan Qing learned how the Blood Sea Origin had strengthened its purifying barrier.
• Xuan Qing found ten vortices around the Blood Sea’s center and identified them as foundations of an Innate Great Array, with spaces suited for planting spiritual roots.
• Xuan Qing had the women plant Acquired Spiritual Roots in the ten vortices while he comprehended the array, and the forests began purifying the Filth Qi.
• The Blood Sea Origin transformed one tree in each forest into a Pure Ginko Tree, formed blood-colored islands and barriers, and expanded the vortices.
• The forests absorbed the Filth Qi surge and turned it into Innate Spiritual Qi, after which Great Dao Merit appeared and split between the vortices and the women.

After helping transform the Blood Sea, Xuan Qing and the girls received Demon God Blood Essence and explored the region in search of the Netherworld entrance. They found tortured True Spirits with much of their Karmic Sin removed, and Xuan Qing suspected the Karma Fire Red Lotus was responsible.

• Great Dao Merit expanded the forest and formed passages between the ten vortices, while the Blood Sea absorbed its Filth Qi and turned part of its waters clear.
• The Heaven and Earth Dao Diagram absorbed a strand of the Blood Sea Origin and advanced to a Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, then Xuan Qing and the girls entered the Blood Sea's Origin Space.
• The Blood Sea Origin gave them six masses of Pangu's and Chaos Demon Gods' Blood Essence before its repulsive force expelled them from the Origin Space.
• Xuan Qing realized the Blood Sea Origin had transformed purifying Spiritual roots into ginkgo trees, and the group returned to the Blood Sea's center to continue searching for the Netherworld entrance.
• Han Li detected heavy Karmic Sin, and the group found increasingly damaged True Spirits whose Karmic Sin had been absorbed.
• Xuan Qing suspected the Karma Fire Red Lotus had tortured the True Spirits and removed their Karmic Sin.

Xuan Qing discovered that the Karma Fire Red Lotus was using the Blood Sea’s Karmic Sin to nourish itself, protected it with a Formation, and then began seeking the Netherworld and a way to gather the Blood Sea’s Remnant Spirits. He realized the Soul-Gathering Formation needed Spiritual Treasures to store the spirits before he could complete it.

• Xuan Qing and his group followed the True Spirits to a sea of Karma Fire, where the flames burned away their Karmic Sin.
• Xuan Qing identified the flames as the Karma Fire Red Lotus’s Origin Fire and found the mature lotus and its partly formed Lotus Seeds at the center of the fiery sea.
• Xuan Qing set up a Formation to protect the Karma Fire Red Lotus and speed its growth, then continued searching for the Netherworld.
• At Han Xi’s suggestion, Xuan Qing considered gathering the Remnant Spirits and ordered Qing Yue to use the Law of Death to search for a place that resonated with it.
• Xuan Qing planted thirty-six soul-gathering Acquired Spiritual Roots on the seafloor, then realized he needed Spiritual Treasures to store the Remnant Spirits the Formation would attract.

Xuan Qing created thirty-six worlds to gather and nurture Remnant Spirits, earning Great Dao Merit. After Qing Yue found a sealed passage to the Netherworld surrounded by countless Remnant Souls, Xuan Qing devised the Duer Immortal Scripture and began reciting it to guide them through their suffering.

• Xuan Qing refined thirty-six Human Emperor Banners and linked them with spiritual roots, creating thirty-six Middle Thousand Worlds that gathered and nurtured Remnant Spirits.
• The Great Dao rewarded Xuan Qing with merit, and Han Xi marveled at his unexpected achievement.
• Qing Yue led Xuan Qing to a sealed Netherworld passage where countless Remnant Souls struggled against baleful qi and repeatedly struck the barrier.
• Xuan Qing asked Qing Yue to see whether the small worlds could accept the Remnant Souls once he purified them.
• Xuan Qing adapted verses from his past life into the Duer Immortal Scripture, then invoked the Great Dao and began reciting it above the Blood Sea.