Chapter Summaries

Hongjun and the other great powers confronted Luohu after the Measure Tribulation devastated the Prehistoric Era, and Luohu answered their challenge by activating the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. Hongjun, Yin Yang, Yang Mei, and Qian Kun entered the formation, where Luohu identified Qian Kun as his easiest target.

• Hongjun explained why Wang Shu escaped the Measure Tribulation and warned the great powers about Luohu's God-Slaying Spear and the killing intent gathering at Mount Sumeru.
• After ten thousand years of battle, the Myriad Spirits drove back the Demon Race, though the fighting killed nearly all the Prehistoric Era's powerful cultivators and most of its living beings.
• Five-colored light cleared the Karma and tribulation aura, ending the fighting and leaving the surviving Myriad Spirits grieving their losses.
• Hongjun confronted Luohu and demanded that he surrender, but Luohu rejected his accusation and summoned the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Hongjun, Yin Yang, Yang Mei, and Qian Kun entered the formation, where Hongjun and Yang Mei remained composed, Yin Yang relied on the Taiji Diagram, and Qian Kun hid inside the Qiankun Cauldron.
• Luohu surveyed the four trapped powers and chose Qian Kun as his primary target.

Luohu killed Qiankun in the Four Symbols Sword Formation, while Hongjun revealed a powerful incarnation to counter Luohu’s advantage. Yin Yang found the Formation Eye but was ambushed by Luohu before he could reach the others.

• Luohu ambushed Qiankun, who fought back by detonating his Qiankun Sword and then self-destructing, but Luohu survived and took the Qiankun Cauldron.
• Hongjun sent an incarnation carrying a Dragon Head Staff and the Map of Mountains and Rivers into the formation, then continued searching for the Formation Eye.
• Xuan Qing realized that Hongjun had successfully used the Three Corpses Method and watched Luohu’s plan falter.
• Luohu chose to target Yin Yang, judging that Yang Mei posed too great a threat and Yin Yang’s offense was weaker despite his Taiji Diagram.
• Yin Yang discovered the Immortal Slaying Sword at the Formation Eye and sent a message to Hongjun and the others, but received no reply.
• Luohu attacked Yin Yang with the God-Slaying Spear, and Yin Yang summoned the Taiji Diagram and raised his Yin Yang Brush to defend himself.

Luohu killed Yin-Yang Ancestor, but Hongjun revealed his three avatars and broke the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. Hongjun and Luohu then fought across the Western Continent, and Luohu killed Old Ancestor Five Elements before turning on Kunwu.

• Luohu ambushed Yin-Yang Ancestor with the Immortal Slaying Sword, and Yin-Yang Ancestor detonated his treasures and himself before Luohu took the Taiji Diagram.
• Yang Mei escaped the formation, so Hongjun sent out his remaining two Three Corpses to help locate the Formation Eyes.
• Hongjun and his three avatars found the Formation Eyes and took the Four Killing Swords, breaking Luohu's formation.
• Hongjun attacked Luohu with the Pangu Banner, and their battle devastated Mount Sumeru and the Western Continent for more than thirty thousand years.
• Hongjun summoned Kunwu and Old Ancestor Five Elements to attack Luohu; Luohu killed Old Ancestor Five Elements and was struck by the Pangu Banner.
• Luohu ignored Hongjun's attack and thrust the God-Slaying Spear at Kunwu.

Luohu detonated the Western Continent’s earth veins, devastating the region and burdening himself, Hongjun, and Kunwu with immense Karma. He established the demonic path and merged into the Heavenly Dao, but before departing he seized Xuan Qing’s fate by naming him a Demon Lord and bearing part of Luohu’s sins.

• Hongjun saved Kunwu from Luohu’s spear, but Luohu detonated the western earth veins, wrecking the Western Continent and destroying the battlefield.
• Xuan Qing revealed himself, and Luohu realized Xuan Qing had reduced the Karma caused by the destruction.
• Luohu declared that Dao would decline as demons rose, established the demonic path, and merged into the Heavenly Dao Origin.
• Xuan Qing used the Green Lotus of Creation to take Luohu’s God-Slaying Spear and World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Luohu offered his body to wash away his sins and named Hongjun, Kunwu, and Xuan Qing as fellow bearers of the Karma, making Xuan Qing a Demon Lord alongside him.
• The Heavenly Dao enveloped Hongjun, Luohu, and Kunwu in golden light as Luohu’s body dissolved and a new figure emerged from the Heavenly Dao Origin.

Xuan Qing brutally beat Luohu, who repeatedly returned through the Heavenly Dao Origin, until Luohu fled into the newly opened world. Afterward, Xuan Qing hinted that Hongjun might avoid bearing his Karma himself and accepted Kunwu’s offer to become his follower.

• Xuan Qing ignored Luohu’s attempt to use the Heavenly Dao against him and attacked him with the Green Lotus of Creation.
• Xuan Qing beat Luohu for over a thousand years, killed him, and watched the Heavenly Dao restore him.
• Luohu asked the Heavenly Dao for help, but Xuan Qing killed him again, prompting him to flee into the newly opened world.
• Xuan Qing told Hongjun he might not have to bear his Karma himself, then told Kunwu that Kunwu would have to repay his Karma over time.
• Kunwu offered to follow Xuan Qing, who agreed to look for work for him when the next great age arrived.

After the Dao-Demon War, Xuan Qing negotiated with Hongjun over the Spirit of the Ancestral Vein of the West and received the Qiankun Cauldron in exchange for returning it. Xuan Qing and Kunwu departed, leaving Hongjun to face the ruined Western Continent and his burdens as Dao Harmonizer.

• Heavenly Dao bestowed merits after the war, and Xuan Qing gave his share to help restore the Western Continent.
• Xuan Qing revealed that he had preserved the Spirit of the Ancestral Vein of the West, and Hongjun realized it could eventually help clear his karma.
• Xuan Qing bargained with Hongjun for the Spirit, but Hongjun said Heavenly Dao had claimed most of the treasures and that he could not freely trade them.
• Xuan Qing agreed to let Hongjun borrow the Qiankun Cauldron in exchange for giving it to him and owing him a favor.
• Xuan Qing returned the Spirit of the Ancestral Vein to Hongjun, accepted the Qiankun Cauldron, and left with Kunwu.
• Hongjun remained alone in the devastated Western Continent, reflecting on the damage and his responsibilities.

After the great battle, the weakened Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin Clans faced the consequences of their Karmic Sin as affiliated races began to leave. The Three Tribes withdrew from power, leaving the Four Seas and the wider Prehistoric Era to the remaining races.

• Hongjun stabilized his Dao Injuries and vanished from the Western Continent, which had become a Spirit-Deprived Land.
• Teng Snake led Water Clan races to leave the Dragon Clan, and Bi An agreed rather than risk another conflict.
• Teng Snake and the departing Water Clan races swore oaths to the Heavenly Dao and shed the Dragon Clan's Karma and Karmic Sin.
• Bi An placed the Four Seas under Ao Guang and his three brothers, then withdrew the Dragon Clan into the Dragon Palace.
• Qingluan relayed the Phoenix Clan Great Elder's order to let affiliated races leave, but most chose to remain.
• The Kirin Clan's affiliated races departed to escape their Karma, and the Three Tribes faded from the Prehistoric Era's affairs.

Xuan Qing subdued the God-Slaying Spear after years of struggle, which strengthened his laws and let him refine the weapon. Its power carried him to a space containing the Destruction Demon God, where he began a confrontation that remained unresolved.

• Xuan Qing discovered that the Qiankun Cauldron could only transform a few high-grade Postnatal Spirit Treasures over a kalpa and could not upgrade supreme-grade ones.
• The God-Slaying Spear resisted Xuan Qing’s attempts to refine it, but his Dao Seed overcame its Destruction Laws and helped him brand the spear with his mark.
• Xuan Qing’s struggle with the spear advanced his Law of Creation and Law of Time and Space to the third tier and increased his Law of Destiny by ten percent.
• After consolidating his cultivation, Xuan Qing refined the God-Slaying Spear and was pulled through a Space Rift into a space filled with Destruction Laws.
• Xuan Qing met the Destruction Demon God, mocked him, and shattered his giant sword with the Green Lotus of Creation.
• The Destruction Demon God gathered black qi to form a new giant sword.

Xuan Qing destroyed Destruction’s hidden passage between the Primordial World and Chaos, while the God-Slaying Spear absorbed its laws. Destruction and Karma then identified Xuan Qing as a threat and began plotting against him, leaving him sensing that someone had targeted him.

• Xuan Qing overwhelmed Destruction’s false body with the Laws of Creation and Destiny, then discovered the space was a Destruction Law passage between the Primordial World and Chaos.
• Xuan Qing shattered the passage, and the God-Slaying Spear absorbed its scattered laws before the space collapsed completely.
• Destruction told Karma that Xuan Qing had destroyed the passage and described sensing the Laws of Creation and Destiny in him.
• Karma recognized Xuan Qing as the one who had injured him in Chaos and vowed to make him face their schemes.
• Xuan Qing sensed a malicious presence targeting him and resolved to meet the Chaos Demon Gods with greater strength.

Xuan Qing visited Luohu in the Heavenly Demon Realm to ask what the Chaos Demon Gods had wanted from him, but their clash damaged the realm before Luohu revealed their plan. Xuan Qing left, and Luohu ordered Molo to receive him if he returned.

• Xuan Qing asked the Heavenly Dao where the Heavenly Demon Realm was and warned it that Luohu had colluded with Chaos Demon Gods.
• Xuan Qing traveled to the Heavenly Demon Realm and smashed through its barrier with the Green Lotus of Creation after Luohu ignored him.
• Luohu fought Xuan Qing with the Heavenly Demon Realm's support, but their clash badly damaged the realm and killed many Demon Race beings.
• Luohu stopped the fight when neither could overcome the other's defenses, and he told Xuan Qing that the Destruction Demon God and the others had asked him to eliminate the Prehistoric Era's great powers and not interfere with their actions.
• Xuan Qing left the Heavenly Demon Realm, and Luohu told Molo to claim he was in seclusion if Xuan Qing came again.

Xuan Qing emerged from a long seclusion after half a Measure Tribulation, while Hongjun took Haotian and Yaochi as disciples and entrusted Jade Capital Mountain to them. Xuan Qing found that his companions had advanced in cultivation and asked Han Xi to prepare him a meal.

• Xuan Qing returned to his Dao Field, placed the damaged World-Destroying Black Lotus in Divine Water Lake, and entered seclusion.
• Heavenly Dao removed Hongjun's Karmic Sin as compensation for taking his Spiritual Treasure and assured him the Western Lands' Karma would not hinder his path to sainthood.
• Half a Measure Tribulation passed as the Prehistoric Era slowly recovered, and Hongjun named the two children Haotian and Yaochi and left Jade Capital Mountain in their care.
• Xuan Qing emerged from seclusion with his three laws at seventy percent comprehension, and Han Xi told him she had reached the third level of the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.
• Han Xi told Xuan Qing that her Big Sister and Qing Ya had also broken through, and he asked Han Xi to make him a new dish.

Han Xi served Xuan Qing an overwhelmingly sweet dish made with an elaborate spiritual-fruit sauce, prompting him to flee before she could experiment further. Seeing that beings across the Prehistoric Era were transforming into strange monsters, Xuan Qing created five Transformation Inheritance Steles and obtained the Heavenly Dao’s approval to distribute them, beginning with the Azure Nether Continent.

• Han Xi made Xuan Qing taste her intensely sweet experimental cooking, and both of them spat it out after trying it.
• Xuan Qing left Han Xi behind and learned that Chong Shan was collecting spiritual fruits for her next experiment.
• Xuan Qing discovered that newly born beings across the Azure Nether Sea Domain transformed into strange monsters and decided to teach them a Transformation Method through a Stele.
• More than ten Kalpas later, Xuan Qing completed five Transformation Inheritance Steles and asked the Heavenly Dao to distribute them.
• The Heavenly Dao agreed, and a golden ray sent one Stele to the center of the Azure Nether Continent, where its arrival disturbed countless beings.

Xuan Qing planted the Jade Bamboo of Creation in Chaos Breathing Soil and began nurturing it with the Law of Creation. Meanwhile, Taiqing Laozi completed his transformation under the Tribulation of Transformation, startling the Prehistoric Era and prompting Yuanshi and Tongtian to prepare to transform next.

• Xuan Qing planted the Jade Bamboo of Creation on an island in Divine Water Lake and used the Law of Creation to help it grow roots, then committed to nurturing it for countless years.
• Taiqing Laozi began his Tribulation of Transformation on Kunlun Mountain while Yuanshi and Tongtian watched.
• Taiqing endured eighty lightning strikes, and the final strike enveloped his Primordial Spirit in vitality and Innate Spiritual Qi, forming a cocoon.
• Taiqing emerged as a Grand Unity Golden Immortal and announced that he was one of Pangu's Three Pure Ones, astonishing beings throughout the Prehistoric Era.
• Taiqing advised Yuanshi and Tongtian to comprehend the final lightning strike, and both brothers began preparing for their own transformations.

The Three Pure Ones, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and several other Innate Divine Beings took form across the Prehistoric Era, competing for the auspicious fortune of emerging early. The chapter ended with Hong Yun surviving his lightning tribulation and transforming into human form at Wuzhuang Temple.

• Yuanshi and Tongtian took form on Kunlun Mountain alongside Taiqing, and the Three Pure Ones traveled together after declaring themselves Pangu’s descendants.
• Di Jiang and the other Eleven Ancestral Witches took form beneath Zhou Mountain, prompting Yuanshi to demand that the Three Pure Ones confront them before Taiqing restrained him.
• Nuwa and Fuxi emerged from Phoenix Nest Mountain, and Ming He later took form with three Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures after absorbing the Blood Sea’s energy.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi emerged from the Solar Star and considered the quiet Starry Sky their future domain.
• Zhunti and Jieyin took form together after Zhen Yuanzi emerged, while Kunpeng severed an unseen karmic bond and Hong Yun survived his tribulation and transformed at Wuzhuang Temple.

Hong Yun visited Zhen Yuanzi after taking form and tasted a Ginseng Fruit, while Zhen Yuanzi gained insight into the laws of earth. After leaving Wuzhuang Temple, Hong Yun found Fire Cloud Cave, his own Dao Field, and settled there to comprehend the laws.

• Hong Yun asked Zhen Yuanzi to pick Ginseng Fruits, and Zhen Yuanzi explained how to harvest them and warned that their power could be difficult to digest.
• Hong Yun ate a Ginseng Fruit whole and sat down to refine its spiritual energy, while Zhen Yuanzi savored his fruit and entered Enlightenment into the laws of earth.
• After waking, Hong Yun left Wuzhuang Temple and traveled east through the Prehistoric Era.
• Hong Yun found Fire Cloud Cave and recognized it as the place where he was meant to take form.
• Hong Yun discovered the cave's Fire Cloud Jujube Tree and other treasures, then settled beneath the tree to comprehend the laws.

Jieyin and Zhunti explored Mount Sumeru, made it their Dao Field, and studied its demonic qi while refining treasures. After ten Kalpas, they endured the Heavenly Dao’s lightning trial and became Grand Luo Golden Immortals, with Jieyin comprehending Nirvana and Zhunti comprehending causation.

• Jieyin and Zhunti entered Mount Sumeru, where Zhunti used the ruins’ materials to strengthen his Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree.
• Jieyin and Zhunti chose Mount Sumeru as their Dao Field and began clearing its demonic qi and refining Spiritual Treasures.
• Jieyin and Zhunti studied the Demonic Dao without inheriting it and incorporated its methods into their own Paths of Dao.
• After ten Kalpas, Jieyin and Zhunti faced the Heavenly Dao’s golden lightning and received World Marks.
• Jieyin comprehended the Nirvana Law, while Zhunti comprehended causation within the Law of Karma, and both advanced to Grand Luo Golden Immortals.

Zhunti and Jieyin traveled east from Mount Sumeru, where Zhunti began plundering Longevity Mountain’s spiritual plants for the West. At Wuzhuang Temple, Hong Yun enjoyed Ginseng Fruit with Zhen Yuanzi and his attendants until Zhen Yuanzi suddenly rushed outside in a rage.

• Zhunti and Jieyin agreed to strengthen the West rather than leave it, and Zhunti entered Longevity Mountain to gather its spiritual herbs and flowers.
• Hong Yun arrived at Wuzhuang Temple to taste Ginseng Fruit and drank Zhen Yuanzi’s Spiritual Wine.
• Hong Yun shared Ginseng Fruit with Qing Feng and Ming Yue after noticing they had never tasted it.
• Zhen Yuanzi suddenly shouted about a thief and rushed out of Wuzhuang Temple, and Hong Yun followed after telling Qing Feng and Ming Yue to guard the Dao Field.

Zhunti and Jieyin stripped spiritual herbs from Zhen Yuanzi’s Dao Field before Hong Yun persuaded him to let them go. Later, a mysterious Inheritance Stele appeared in the Northern Continent, where its dangerous defenses killed several Grand Unity Golden Immortals who attacked it.

• Zhunti and Jieyin gathered spiritual herbs from Longevity Mountain, and Zhen Yuanzi confronted them until Hong Yun intervened and allowed them to leave.
• Hong Yun explained the Western Lands’ barrenness to Zhen Yuanzi, stayed at Wuzhuang Temple for tens of thousands of years, and received ten Ginseng Fruits before continuing his travels.
• A Golden Immortal tiger discovered a Transformation Method on a golden Stele in the Northern Continent, memorized it, and left when he could not move the Stele.
• Several Grand Unity Golden Immortals decided to destroy the Stele to keep its inheritance from spreading, but the Stele’s golden barrier blocked their attacks.
• The Stele’s golden rays killed the attackers, and Grand Luo Golden Immortal Giant Mastiff suggested that it punished anyone who attacked it or fought nearby.

Kunpeng discovered the name Xuan Qing, Immeasurable Dao Venerable, on the Inheritance Stele and continued studying its Transformation Method. At another Stele, Hong Yun was badly wounded defending it from a mysterious Daoist, but the Three Pure Ones rescued him and learned why they had fought.

• Kunpeng found faint Dao Patterns naming Xuan Qing, Immeasurable Dao Venerable, and Xuan Qing briefly descended his consciousness to the Inheritance Stele before withdrawing.
• Kunpeng warned arriving living beings not to attack the Stele, identified himself as a Grand Luo Golden Immortal, and continued comprehending the Transformation Method.
• Hong Yun tried to stop a black-robed Daoist from destroying a Stele, but the Daoist attacked him with a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure halberd.
• The Daoist wounded Hong Yun and aimed at his Origin, but Laozi's Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda blocked the strike as the Three Pure Ones arrived.
• The black-robed Daoist escaped when Laozi judged him strange and not one of the Innate Divine Beings, and Hong Yun explained the Stele and their fight to the Three Pure Ones.

Xuan Qing and Han Xi returned to Zhou Mountain, where Pangu’s gift appointed Han Xi as its future Mountain God and moved her home’s Formation to the summit. They began climbing together, encountering the place where Xuan Qing had once bled before Zhou Mountain’s pressure set in.

• East King Duke celebrated his breakthrough to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, and Xuan Qing stopped Han Xi from confronting him.
• Xuan Qing completed the Jade Bamboo of Creation grove and used his Inheritance Stele mark to take Han Xi to Zhou Mountain.
• Xuan Qing and Han Xi offered incense to Pangu, who sent an investiture into Han Xi’s sea of consciousness, naming her the future Mountain God of Zhou Mountain.
• Han Xi sensed that the Formation had moved to the summit, so Xuan Qing decided they would climb there.
• Xuan Qing and Han Xi reached the spot where he had turned back before, saw the bloodstained soil from his earlier climb, and continued upward as Zhou Mountain’s pressure descended.