Chapter Summaries

Xuan Qing freed the Blood Sea’s remnant souls, earned the Great Dao’s title and merit, and inspected the thirty-six Small Worlds built to shelter them. The Heavenly Dao then announced its imminent emergence by granting all living beings clearer access to laws, prompting Hongjun and Luohu to react while Xuan Qing reassured Han Xi and the others that the Heavenly Dao owed them Karma.

• Xuan Qing recited the Duer Immortal Scripture for ten kalpas, freeing the Blood Sea’s remnant souls and earning the title Xuan Qing, Immeasurable Dao Venerable from the Great Dao.
• Xuan Qing traded two-thirds of his Great Dao Merit to condense a Space-Time Dao Flower, and the Great Dao protected the stele and its thirty-six Small Worlds.
• Xuan Qing inspected the Small Worlds, where repaired remnant souls could eventually become Ghost Immortals, and concluded that the Blood Sea could become a source of further merit.
• The Heavenly Dao stirred the Prehistoric Era and bestowed clearer comprehension of laws upon all living beings, causing the Three Tribes and combatants to stop and contemplate.
• Hongjun learned that future cultivators would use Heavenly Dao Laws rather than Great Dao Laws, while Luohu hurried to arrange the Four Swords of Zhu Xian before the Heavenly Dao emerged.
• Xuan Qing told Han Xi and the others that the Heavenly Dao’s gifts were an advance notice of its emergence and that it owed them Karma for their contributions.

As the Heavenly Dao announced its impending emergence and the Great Dao’s retreat, Xuan Qing prepared Azure Nether Island’s inhabitants to receive the Great Dao’s final gift. Mystic Turtle and Ancestor Phoenix sought information from the Sacred Spirits, who warned that the Heavenly Dao could not be opposed and withheld further details.

• Xuan Qing and the women contemplated the Law Rainbow before the Heavenly Dao announced its coming rule over the Prehistoric Era.
• Xuan Qing explained that the Great Dao’s retreat would reveal the Dao Wheel and offer the living beings one chance to witness its laws, then led the group back to prepare for the opportunity.
• Bai Yu told Xuan Qing that Tian Yu had gone to the Fox Clan to help arrange a refuge for some of its members in the Azure Nether Sea Domain, and Xuan Qing offered them two Cavern Heavens.
• Xuan Qing told everyone at the Dao Field to prepare for the Great Dao’s baptism, then sat alone beside the Three Lights Divine Water Lake.
• Mystic Turtle asked Xuan Wu about the Heavenly Dao, and Xuan Wu said it was impartial but warned that opposing it would bring consequences.
• Ancestor Phoenix asked Vermillion Bird for information about the Heavenly Dao, but Vermillion Bird refused to say more for fear of offending it.

The Great Dao and Heavenly Dao manifested across the Prehistoric Era, granting its beings a vast opportunity for enlightenment. After the Great Dao retreated, Heavenly Dao took control, changing how cultivators could comprehend laws and advance.

• Ancestor Phoenix, Candle Dragon, and Lei Xing sought information from Vermillion Bird, Azure Dragon, and White Tiger, while Yin Yang and Qiankun received guidance from Hongjun at Jade Capital Mountain.
• Wang Shu discovered two beings gestating beside the Laurel Tree, and Xuan Qing had Azure Nether Island prepare for Heavenly Dao's emergence.
• Thirty thousand years later, the Heavenly Dao Wheel appeared, and beings throughout the Prehistoric Era entered enlightenment for four hundred and ninety thousand years.
• The Great Dao Wheel appeared beside the Heavenly Dao Wheel, and Xuan Qing and the Grand Luo Golden Immortals gained profound insights.
• After one Kalpa, the Great Dao Wheel vanished and Great Dao departed, leaving Heavenly Dao in control of the Prehistoric Era.
• The new order imposed Karma and Destiny, concealed Great Dao, and left most beings below Grand Luo able to advance only by comprehending Heavenly Dao Laws.

Xuan Qing condensed a silver-gray Dao Flower and reached the peak of Late Daluo, then began merging his three Primordial Spirit Flowers. His deductions revealed that Heavenly Dao was diminishing Great God Pangu’s influence to establish its own supremacy.

• Heavenly Dao’s emergence changed cultivation across the Prehistoric Era, leaving Zu Long, Ancestor Phoenix, and Ancestor Kirin uncertain whether to persist with Great Dao or submit to Heavenly Dao.
• Xuan Qing resonated with the laws of Creation, Destiny, and Time and Space, condensed a silver-gray Dao Flower, and advanced to the peak of Late Daluo.
• Xuan Qing’s three Primordial Spirit Flowers began merging, but their intertwined laws progressed so slowly that he expected the process to take countless years.
• Xuan Qing used Law of Destiny to investigate the changes in the Prehistoric Era and discovered that Heavenly Dao was weakening Great God Pangu’s standing to strengthen its own authority.

Heavenly Dao rewarded Xuan Qing by transforming the Azure Nether Sea Domain, while the Great Dao’s lingering gift let Azure Nether Island’s residents comprehend Great Dao Laws directly. After learning that Xuan Qing carried the Origin of Supreme Destiny, he began investigating further changes to his Dao Field.

• Heavenly Dao warned Xuan Qing not to interfere with the Prehistoric Era’s rules again, then formed a World Barrier around the Azure Nether Sea Domain and filled it with new spiritual resources.
• Zu Long witnessed the transformation from the East Sea and wondered whether to visit Xuan Qing.
• Han Li and Han Xi discovered that the Azure Nether Sea Domain blocked the effects of destiny and karma, while Xuan Qing realized Heavenly Dao had granted him special authority there.
• Xuan Qing summoned Heavenly Dao, which explained that the women’s ability to sense Great Dao Laws came from a gift the Great Dao had left for him.
• Xuan Qing told the women he had fused with part of the Origin of Supreme Destiny and warned them not to seek the full truth before reaching Primordial Chaos Great Luo.
• Xuan Qing began inspecting his Dao Field and found that the area beside Three Lights Divine Water Lake had changed greatly.

Xuan Qing surveyed the transformed Azure Nether Island, where the Great Dao had upgraded its spiritual roots, palace, and protective formation. He gave Bai Yu permission to let the island’s inhabitants freely use its abundant fruits and divine water, then began preparing the Sun and Moon Grotto-Heaven as a place to receive visitors.

• Xuan Qing found the island’s Chaos Spiritual Roots, vast divine-water lake, and many upgraded spiritual roots, including a Supreme Grade Innate Fusang Wood.
• The Great Dao transformed Xuan Qing Dao Palace into Azure Nether Palace and upgraded its Nine Palaces into Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Xuan Qing told Bai Yu to let the island’s inhabitants pick spiritual fruit as needed and brew wine, while Qing Ya and the others admired their transformed home.
• Xuan Qing discovered that the island’s Formation had merged with the Chaos Spiritual Roots and now automatically supplied spiritual essence while keeping outsiders out.
• Xuan Qing traveled to the Sun and Moon Grotto-Heaven, planted an Enlightenment Tea Tree beside a pool of Three Lights Divine Water, and created two palaces for receiving visitors.

Xuan Qing appointed Chong Shan to manage the Sun and Moon Grotto-Heaven and arrange lodging for the arriving Fox Clan. After the Fox Clan settled in, Chong Shan and Su Mei joined Tian Yu to visit Xuan Qing on Azure Nether Island, where Tian Yu discovered the island now contained the Great Dao Law.

• Xuan Qing assigned Chong Shan to receive visitors at the Sun and Moon Grotto-Heaven and told him he would receive Azure Nether Island's benefits.
• Chong Shan discovered a pool of Three Lights Divine Water and a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Root, then refined the Cavern Heaven's Formation and opened its entrance.
• Tian Yu arrived with Su Mei and the Fox Clan, and Xuan Qing told Chong Shan to arrange two Cavern Heavens for them and bring the visitors to Azure Nether Island.
• Chong Shan, Tian Yu, and Su Mei chose two neighboring Cavern Heavens for the Fox Clan, then traveled through the Sun and Moon Grotto-Heaven to Azure Nether Island.
• Tian Yu sensed the Great Dao Law on Azure Nether Island and became excited, while Xuan Qing summoned the three to the Heart Nurturing Hall.

Xuan Qing welcomed Su Mei and Chong Shan to Azure Nether Island, explained the island’s protections and the dangers of Measure Tribulations, and saw Bai Yu break through to Grand Luo Golden Immortal. After several more Kalpas, Han Li and the Qing Ling sisters also advanced, while Xuan Qing and Bai Yu finished building a stone bridge at Divine Water Lake.

• Tian Yu brought Su Mei and Chong Shan to Xuan Qing, and the two guests entered Enlightenment after drinking his tea.
• Xuan Qing told Tian Yu that Azure Nether Island preserved Great Dao cultivation and that the surrounding sea domain was free from Heavenly Dao Karma, then warned him about Measure Tribulations.
• Bai Yu broke through to Grand Luo Golden Immortal with a Nine-Petal Bloom, and Tian Yu returned to managing the Heavenly Horse Clan’s affairs.
• Xuan Qing and Bai Yu spent more than ten Kalpas building a stone bridge across Divine Water Lake.
• Han Li and the Qing Ling sisters reached the Mid-Stage of Grand Luo Golden Immortal, while Qing Yue continued building her foundation and Han Xi caught up to Xuan Qing’s cultivation.

Han Xi celebrated catching up to Xuan Qing’s cultivation pace, while Su Mei and Chong Shan received a way to return to Azure Nether Island and cultivate despite their duties elsewhere. Zu Long and Candle Dragon visited Xuan Qing to seek advice about choosing between the Great Dao and Heavenly Dao, and Xuan Qing appeared before them through a spatial passage.

• Han Xi caught up to Xuan Qing’s pace, and he placed her in charge of the Fusang Wood in their Dao Field.
• Su Mei and Chong Shan discovered they could comprehend Great Dao Laws on Azure Nether Island, and Xuan Qing gave them Keys allowing them to cultivate there for thirty Kalpas in every hundred.
• Zu Long and the East Sea Dragon Clan’s Grand Luo Golden Immortals argued over whether to cultivate Heavenly Dao Laws or persist with Great Dao Laws, and Candle Dragon suggested seeking Xuan Qing’s advice.
• Zu Long and Candle Dragon prepared the Twenty-Four Treasured Pearls as a gift and traveled to Azure Nether Island to visit Xuan Qing.
• Chong Shan went to notify Xuan Qing, who opened a spatial passage and appeared before Zu Long and Candle Dragon, startling them and catching Candle Dragon’s interest in the Law of Space.

Zu Long and Candle Dragon sought Xuan Qing’s guidance on Heavenly Dao cultivation and the Great Dao, then gave him twenty-four mysterious pearls. Xuan Qing uncovered their connection to the Return to Void, leaving him determined to investigate where the pearls had been found.

• Xuan Qing explained how a Dao Seed could be entrusted to the River of Heavenly Dao and advised Candle Dragon that Great Dao comprehension was easier in Chaos or near its entrances.
• Zu Long gave Xuan Qing twenty-four Treasured Pearls as thanks, and Xuan Qing warned him not to let anger cloud his judgment.
• Candle Dragon learned where Great Dao cultivators could find easier comprehension, and the group shared news of a mysterious flame-wreathed Daoist seen during the Fierce Beast War.
• After Zu Long and Candle Dragon left, Xuan Qing brought the Green Lotus of Creation near the pearls, triggering a clash of forces that the Dao Coffin of Time and Space suppressed.
• The Green Lotus of Creation revealed that the power surrounding the damaged Sea Calming Divine Pearls came from the Return to Void, and Xuan Qing resolved to investigate their place of origin.

Xuan Qing explained the damaged Sea Calming Divine Pearls and their connection to the mysterious Return to Void, then planned to visit the Netherworld with Qing Yue. Meanwhile, Zu Long proclaimed the Dragon Clan’s rule over the seas and gained Heavenly Dao Merit, prompting the Phoenix Clan to prepare a similar oath.

• Xuan Qing gave Qing Yue the twenty-four damaged Sea Calming Divine Pearls and explained that Return to Void’s power had corroded them.
• Xuan Qing said the completed set of thirty-six pearls might become an Innate Supreme Treasure after recovering, and he planned for Qing Yue to accompany him to the Netherworld.
• Zu Long proclaimed the Dragon Clan’s rule over the seas, and Heavenly Dao sent a vast pillar of Merit to the East Sea.
• Zu Long condensed a Dao Fruit and broke through to Primordial Origin Golden Immortal, but learned that he had not entrusted his Dao Fruit to the River of Heavenly Dao.
• Heavenly Dao Merit strengthened the Dragon Clan, while Candle Dragon found that his path had shifted toward Heavenly Dao cultivation.
• Ancestor Phoenix ordered the Phoenix Clan to prepare to swear an oath to Heavenly Dao in three thousand years.

The Phoenix and Kirin Clans swore oaths to rule their domains and gained breakthroughs through Heavenly Dao Merit, after which the Three Tribes began annexing and destroying other races for Auspicious Qi. Xuan Qing explained the limits of their path to Han Xi and Qing Ling, then discussed the frail, short-lived beings he had encountered and left Han Xi wondering about his origins.

• Ancestor Phoenix swore for the Phoenix Clan to rule the skies, and Heavenly Dao Merit raised her to the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm; Ancestor Kirin then made a similar oath for the Kirin Clan and received even less Merit.
• Ancestor Kirin and Ancestor Phoenix joined forces to destroy the Flying Sky Lion race after its leader claimed rule over both sky and land, and their clans formed ties in the process.
• The Three Tribes began annexing and exterminating races to gather Auspicious Qi, spreading baleful aura across the Prehistoric Era.
• Xuan Qing told Han Xi that the Three Tribes' Auspicious Qi enlightenment had a limit, and Han Xi recognized that they might fight over the single opportunity to reach the Primordial Chaos Great Luo realm.
• Xuan Qing described short-lived beings born without cultivation, and Han Xi connected them to the Human Race he had mentioned before and questioned where he had encountered them.
• Xuan Qing said he did not know his own origins, while Han Xi diverted Qing Ling's questions about their private conversation.

Xuan Qing and Qing Yue entered the Netherworld Realm and found Ancient Xun Mu, a divine tree under attack by the Reincarnation Demon God. Xuan Qing agreed to help protect Xun Mu and the Netherworld Realm, then prepared to test his strength against Reincarnation.

• Xuan Qing took Qing Yue through the Blood Sea gateway into the Netherworld Realm, where they endured its deadly environment and traveled for ten Kalpas.
• Qing Yue spotted a colossal tree, and after nearly a hundred Kalpas of travel, Xuan Qing identified it as Ancient Xun Mu.
• Xun Mu asked the Green Lotus of Creation for help and warned that its defeat would damage the Netherworld Realm's Origin.
• Xuan Qing learned that Reincarnation Demon God was attacking Xun Mu and chose to intervene because damage to the Netherworld Realm could harm the Earth Dao.
• Reincarnation attacked Xuan Qing with the Law of Reincarnation, but the Green Lotus of Creation blocked it, and Xuan Qing challenged Reincarnation to battle.

Xuan Qing and Xun Mu fought the Reincarnation Demon God together after Reincarnation injured Qing Yue and revealed how he had returned to the Netherworld. As Xun Mu drew Reincarnation’s full attention, Xuan Qing secretly gathered power in the Green Lotus of Creation and prepared a decisive strike.

• Xuan Qing used the Jade Bamboo of Creation and his three laws to drive Reincarnation into a crater, but Reincarnation then attacked Qing Yue and severely wounded her.
• Reincarnation explained that his Origin survived the Fierce Beast Tribulation, his Companion Spiritual Treasure brought him to the Netherworld, and he had attacked Xun Mu because its peak drew him toward a mysterious place.
• Xuan Qing revealed that his third law was Time and Space, then continued fighting Reincarnation as their exchange of attacks intensified.
• Xuan Qing called on Xun Mu to help, and its branches joined the battle while Qing Yue withdrew to safety.
• After more than a hundred Kalpas of fighting, Xuan Qing coordinated with Xun Mu and secretly gathered Magic Power in the Green Lotus of Creation.
• Xun Mu formed its branches into a giant hand and struck Reincarnation, while Xuan Qing poured power into the Green Lotus of Creation and the clash sent an Energy Tide toward Qing Yue.

Xuan Qing defeated Reincarnation with repeated attacks, then persuaded him to undergo extinction and join the Prehistoric Era. Reincarnation agreed to leave behind his Origin and True Spirit, trusting Xuan Qing’s promise to guide his rebirth in a future Measure Tribulation.

• Xuan Qing used the Green Lotus of Creation and Jade Bamboo of Creation to repeatedly strike Reincarnation while Xun Mu helped attack him.
• Reincarnation emerged gravely wounded, with his Origin leaking and his injuries preventing him from recovering.
• Xuan Qing offered to preserve Reincarnation’s True Spirit if he underwent extinction and left behind his Origin.
• Xuan Qing explained that the Chaos Demon Gods had been meant to contribute to Pangu’s heaven-opening, and Reincarnation accepted his explanation.
• After learning that Xuan Qing had received an honorific title from the Great Dao, Reincarnation agreed to join the Prehistoric Era and trust Xuan Qing to guide his future rebirth.
• Reincarnation’s consciousness sank into slumber as his body dissipated.

After Reincarnation extinguished himself, the Earth Dao absorbed his origin and asked Xuan Qing to lend the Green Lotus of Creation to nurture a vessel for its manifestation. While waiting for the nurturing to finish, Xuan Qing and Qing Yue explored the Underworld Realm, where Xuan Qing discovered that a strange mountain connected to the Primordial Land was Two Realms Mountain, Old Ancestor Yin Yang’s Dao Field.

• Reincarnation’s origin triggered the Earth Dao’s manifestation, and the Earth Dao asked Xuan Qing to lend the Green Lotus of Creation to nurture a vessel for it.
• The Earth Dao promised to infuse the Green Lotus with Earthly Dao Origin, and Xuan Qing agreed to let it nurture the lotus for nearly ten thousand Kalpas.
• Xuan Qing and Qing Yue explored the changed but barren Underworld Realm until they found a mountain surrounded by an unexpected immortal landscape.
• A Chaos Storm erupted from the mountain and destroyed its surroundings, so Xuan Qing protected Qing Yue and flew toward its center while she stayed behind to cultivate.
• Xuan Qing reached the summit and recognized the mountain as Two Realms Mountain, Old Ancestor Yin Yang’s Dao Field and another passage between the Primordial Land and the Netherworld.

Xuan Qing cultivated beside a Chaos entrance until his Three Flowers merged and his cultivation reached peak Daluo, then learned that the Lotus Seed of the Green Lotus of Creation had been conceived. Earth Dao entrusted him with the Lotus of the Earth and four Lotus Seeds to take into Chaos, where he began advancing the lotus treasures alongside the Green Lotus of Creation.

• Xuan Qing found an entrance to Chaos beneath Two Realms Mountain and took Qing Yue there to cultivate in seclusion.
• After six thousand Kalpas, Xuan Qing merged his Three Flowers, endured the clash of his three kinds of Magic Power, and reached peak Daluo with a Grand Luo Perfection fleshly body.
• Xuan Qing and Qing Yue continued cultivating until Earth Dao told Xuan Qing that the Lotus Seed of the Green Lotus of Creation had been conceived.
• Earth Dao gave Xuan Qing the Lotus of the Earth and four Lotus Seeds, asking him to take the treasures into Chaos and help them advance.
• Xuan Qing left Qing Yue at the Chaos entrance as an anchor, traveled into Chaos, and summoned the Green Lotus of Creation and the Lotus of the Earth.
• Xuan Qing used the Jade Bamboo of Creation to withstand the Chaos energy flows as he watched the two lotus treasures begin their advancement.

Xuan Qing helped the Lotus of the Earth and the Green Lotus of Creation advance in Chaos, then returned to the Prehistoric Era and brought the Lotus of the Earth to Earth Dao. As Earth Dao emerged, Heavenly Dao confronted Him, but Xuan Qing persuaded Heavenly Dao to accept a balance of authority, leaving the selection of the Heavenly Dao Spokesperson untouched.

• The Lotus of the Earth endured the Great Dao Divine Lightning and was reborn as a Chaos Spiritual Root with Earth and Reincarnation Dao Resonance.
• The Green Lotus of Creation absorbed a bolt of Great Dao Divine Lightning, gained a new Chaos Restriction, and carried Xuan Qing out of Chaos.
• Xuan Qing searched Chaos for over a hundred Kalpas, found Qing Yue, and returned with her to the Prehistoric Era.
• Xuan Qing presented the Lotus of the Earth to Earth Dao, and its integration transformed the Underworld Realm and linked the Primordial Land’s Earth Veins.
• Heavenly Dao challenged Earth Dao’s emergence, and Xuan Qing argued that their separate duties should balance one another for the Prehistoric Era’s future.
• Heavenly Dao agreed that major matters must be discussed together but forbade interference in the selection of the Heavenly Dao Spokesperson, then vanished.

The Earth Dao evolved the Underworld, where the Six Paths of Reincarnation formed and an abnormal Dao fruit emerged, drawing Xuan Qing into a strange fusion and deep slumber. Fifteen thousand kalpas later, while Xuan Qing remained absent, Qing Ling set out to confront Ya Zi and Suan Ni for harassing the East Sea.

• The Earth Dao manifested in the Underworld, merged the Lotus of the Earth into her origin, and began transforming the realm with Netherworld Qi and new spiritual plants.
• The Yellow Springs resonated with Qing Yue, while the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc and Reincarnation Origin appeared around the altar.
• Earth Dao Origin, Netherworld Qi, and Chaos Qi condensed into a Dao fruit that merged with Xuan Qing’s other fruit, fusing his body, magic power, and primordial spirit into a sphere of light.
• The Eye of the Earthly Dao brought the unconscious Xuan Qing into the Earth Dao’s origin space to protect his strange state from interruption.
• Fifteen thousand kalpas later, Qing Ling learned that Ya Zi and Suan Ni were tormenting water clans near the Azure Nether Sea Domain and flew out with the Spirit Binding Rope to stop them.
• New arrivals learned that Qing Ling was Xuan Qing’s handmaid, while the Heavenly Dao continued obscuring the names of ancient powers such as Xuan Qing from the Prehistoric Era.

Ya Zi and Suan Ni were whipped by Qing Ling after provoking her in the Azure Nether Sea Domain, but Candle Dragon warned the Dragon Mother and the brothers not to seek revenge. After the dragons backed down, Qing Ling sensed a strange energy from the gratitude of the beings she had protected and decided to ask Xuan Qing about it.

• Qing Ling drove Ya Zi and Suan Ni away from the Azure Nether Sea Domain, then lashed Ya Zi again when he charged at her.
• Ya Zi and Suan Ni told the Dragon Mother that Qing Ling had attacked them, and she set out to avenge Ya Zi.
• Bi An blamed Ya Zi and Suan Ni for their disruptive behavior, while Candle Dragon recognized the Law of Life in Ya Zi's wounds and warned them not to challenge Qing Ling's group.
• Candle Dragon explained that the Dragon Clan owed its rise partly to a powerful figure connected to the Azure Nether Sea Domain, and the Dragon Mother ordered the brothers to behave.
• The beings outside the Azure Nether Sea Domain felt safer after Qing Ling drove off the dragons and sent her gratitude toward her as a strange energy.
• Qing Ling sensed the energy, chose not to absorb it, and planned to ask Xuan Qing what it was.