Chapter Summaries

After more than two thousand Kalpas of cultivation, the Three Pure Ones explored Kunlun Mountain and discovered several treasures. Tongtian took the sentient pagoda Duobao as his disciple, and he entered a mysterious passage while his brothers waited outside.

• Taiqing Laozi broke through to Peak Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, and Yuanshi suggested that the brothers explore Kunlun Mountain.
• Tongtian broke a Formation and found the Heart-Piercing Lock and a sentient treasure pagoda.
• Tongtian spared the pagoda and named it Duobao, his eldest disciple, while Laozi reassured him and Yuanshi agreed to divide future finds fairly.
• The Three Pure Ones discovered an Immortal Apricot, which Yuanshi took, and Tongtian uncovered Nine Heavens Breathing Soil beneath it.
• A hidden passage appeared, and Tongtian entered it to investigate while Laozi and Yuanshi remained outside.

Tongtian accidentally emerged from a passage into Queen Mother of the West’s Dao Field and was mistaken for peeping at Xuan Nü while she bathed. After clearing up the misunderstanding, he brought Laozi and Yuanshi over to help decide what to do with the passage, and they considered protecting it with Formations rather than destroying it.

• Tongtian passed through the passage and startled Xuan Nü while she was bathing, then Queen Mother of the West stopped him as he tried to leave.
• Tongtian explained that he had arrived by accident through a passage from Kunlun Mountain, and Queen Mother of the West and Xuan Nü confirmed the passage’s residual aura.
• Queen Mother of the West asked Tongtian how to destroy the passage without harming the Immortal God Tree, and Tongtian summoned Laozi and Yuanshi for help.
• Tongtian proposed using Yuanshi’s Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to protect the tree, but Yuanshi suggested keeping the passage and securing it with Formations.
• Laozi endorsed Yuanshi’s plan to turn the passage into a protected teleportation route, and Tongtian became interested in studying it.

Lei Li brought Laozi and Yuanshi to Kirin Cliff and asked the Three Pure Ones to shelter the declining Kirin Clan from further harm. Yuanshi accepted the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner in exchange for allowing the Kirin Clan to dwell on Kunlun Mountain.

• Tongtian stayed at West Kunlun to study the one-way passage while Laozi and Yuanshi returned toward Kunlun Mountain.
• Lei Li stopped Laozi and Yuanshi and invited them to Kirin Cliff to discuss a transaction.
• Lei Li told them that the Kirin Clan had once been a protagonist of heaven and earth but had declined after a devastating war.
• At Kirin Cliff, Lei Li asked the Three Pure Ones to let the Kirin Clan live on Kunlun Mountain and offered the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner in return.
• Yuanshi accepted the banner and agreed to shelter the Kirin Clan, while Lei Li thanked him.

Lei Li gave Yuanshi Kirin Cliff and planned to retreat with his family, while Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi faced another ambush by Gu Diao’s beast army. Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi defeated the attackers, captured Gu Diao, and demanded to know why he had been targeting them.

• Lei Li told Laozi and Yuanshi about the Three Tribes War and the Dao-Demon War, then handed Kirin Cliff to Yuanshi.
• Lei Li planned to retreat with his father and Phoenix Kirin, while Laozi and Yuanshi prepared to return to Kunlun Mountain.
• Gu Diao ambushed Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi outside Wuzhuang Temple with a large beast army.
• Hong Yun attacked with his Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd, and Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to protect them and capture Gu Diao.
• Zhen Yuanzi questioned Gu Diao about his repeated attacks, and Gu Diao gave his name but had not yet explained his motive.

Zhen Yuanzi learned that a mysterious figure wanted his Earth Book to complete the Mountain Sea Scroll, so he captured Gu Diao to use as a guide against the figure. In a hidden valley, the figure mourned the loss of his beasts and contacted Karma, who questioned Shanhai about Xuan Qing before cutting off their connection.

• Gu Diao revealed that his lord had sent the beasts to seize Zhen Yuanzi's Earth Book, apparently to complete a scroll.
• The Earth Book reacted to the mention of the scroll, and Zhen Yuanzi suspected it was an incomplete Spiritual Treasure sought by the mysterious figure.
• Gu Diao described his lord as someone above the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, and Zhen Yuanzi spared him but sealed him to keep him as a future guide.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi continued their journey after Hong Yun pledged to help punish the figure who had targeted his fellow Daoist.
• The mysterious figure discovered that most of the Mountain Sea beasts had died and blamed Gu Diao for ruining his plan.
• Karma contacted Shanhai about Xuan Qing, then ended their connection before Shanhai could get the answers he wanted.

Xuan Qing broke through to Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal, gaining an Immeasurable Dao Body and reaching the third level. After glimpsing Earth Star and sensing a call from the Chaos Depths, he summoned a river with the Dao Coffin of Time and Space, only to be ambushed by a streak of light that diverted toward the River of Time and Space.

• Xuan Qing's Dao Seed blossomed into a Dao Flower, transforming his True Spirit and drawing laws into his body as Yang Mei noticed the upheaval in the River of Great Dao.
• A mysterious river revealed Xuan Qing's past and an image of Earth Star, but an axe light severed it before he could look closer.
• After forty-nine Kalpas, Xuan Qing completed his breakthrough, formed an Immeasurable Dao Body, and reached the third level of Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal.
• Xuan Qing used the Dao Coffin of Time and Space to summon what first appeared to be the River of Time, and a streak of light attacked him from within it.
• Xuan Qing countered with the Green Lotus of Creation, but the streak of light changed course and flew toward the River of Time and Space, revealing that he had fallen into a trap.

After breaking through, Xuan Qing was ambushed by Shichen, Destiny, and Karma but overwhelmed them with the Law of Creation and the God-Slaying Spear. The three escaped, and Xuan Qing sensed the Prehistoric Era through his Dao Fruit and opened a passage back to it.

• Xuan Qing chased a streak of light through the River of Time and Space, pulled it out before it could reach his past self, and sealed the river.
• Shichen, Destiny, and Karma emerged and attacked Xuan Qing, whose Law of Creation easily dispelled their combined assault.
• Xuan Qing counterattacked with the God-Slaying Spear, prompting Shichen and Destiny to flee while Karma remained behind.
• Xuan Qing trapped Karma with the Green Lotus of Creation and wounded him, but Karma detonated a clone to break through the blockade and escape.
• Xuan Qing sensed the Prehistoric Era through his Dao Fruit and opened a passage through Chaos to return.

Xuan Qing returned to the Prehistoric Era after attaining the Primordial Chaos Great Luo realm and examined the Four Extremes Land, where he discussed its future development and Earth Dao with Vermillion Bird. He then returned to Azure Nether Island, where Han Xi, Nuwa, and the island’s inhabitants congratulated him on his breakthrough.

• Xuan Qing passed through the Membrane of the Earth and found that the Four Extremes Land had grown greener, though most of it remained barren beyond the Heavenly Pillars.
• Vermillion Bird welcomed Xuan Qing and invited him to the Vermillion Bird Clan’s Sacred Hall, while he studied how the Four Pillars had shaped the land.
• Xuan Qing explained that Earth Dao would be responsible for helping the Four Extremes Land flourish, and Vermillion Bird promised her clan would cooperate.
• Xuan Qing left the Four Extremes Land and returned to Azure Nether Island, whose island had expanded and whose spiritual plants had shifted and grown.
• Han Xi, Nuwa, and the inhabitants of Azure Nether Island congratulated Xuan Qing on attaining the Primordial Chaos Great Luo realm, and he bade them rise.

Xuan Qing explained his breakthrough to Nuwa and Han Xi before the second sermon brought the gathered cultivators to Zixiao Palace. Hongjun described the realms beyond Grand Luo and the different paths toward attaining the Dao, leaving the guests wondering whether they could pursue the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal path.

• Xuan Qing reassured Nuwa that her role in the Gourd Vine incident had helped him break through to the Primordial Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Hongjun summoned the three thousand guests to Zixiao Palace, while Ran Deng secretly took a slain guest's place and Houtu set out with Xuan Ming despite her brothers staying behind.
• Hongjun began his second sermon on breaking through Grand Luo's limits, then explained that the Quasi-Saint and saint realms lay above Grand Luo Golden Immortal.
• Nuwa asked about the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm, prompting Hongjun to explain that it was an alternative path involving a Dao Seed planted in the River of Great Dao.
• An Innate Divine Being asked Hongjun whether cultivators could also attain the Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.

Hongjun explained the methods of attaining the Dao, identifying the Three Corpses as his own attainable path and teaching the gathered cultivators how it worked. He then named East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West the leaders of male and female immortals, formally establishing the immortal path in the Prehistoric Era.

• Hongjun described attaining the Dao through Law Power, Merit, or Severing the Three Corpses, and revealed that Yang Mei, Xuan Qing, and a Mystic Turtle had succeeded through different methods.
• Kunpeng recognized Xuan Qing as the Immeasurable Dao Venerable named on the Inheritance Stele, and Hongjun confirmed that Xuan Qing had spread a cultivation method throughout the Prehistoric Era.
• Hongjun taught that cultivators could sever the Three Corpses with innate objects to advance through the Quasi-Saint stages and eventually attain the Dao.
• East King Duke praised Hongjun as the Dao Ancestor, and the gathered cultivators accepted the title.
• Hongjun appointed East King Duke the Head of Male Immortals and Queen Mother of the West the Head of Female Immortals, giving them the Dragon Head Staff and Pure Water Bowl.

After Hongjun ended his sermon, Nuwa rejected East King Duke’s attempt to recruit her and returned to Azure Nether Island to ask Xuan Qing about the discord she felt in the three-corpse cultivation method. Xuan Qing told her the method was unsuitable for her and that she should not imitate Hongjun’s path.

• Hongjun vanished after rewarding East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West, and the great powers left Zixiao Palace.
• East King Duke tried to recruit Nuwa and Fuxi, but Nuwa refused, prompting his follower to threaten her.
• Tai Yi and Di Jun challenged East King Duke’s authority, then invited Fuxi to visit the Solar Star while Nuwa headed home alone.
• Nuwa returned to Azure Nether Island and asked Han Xi why Hongjun’s three-corpse method felt discordant with her cultivation.
• Xuan Qing told Nuwa that the three-corpse path was not suitable for her and that he had never asked her to learn Hongjun’s methods.

Xuan Qing advised Nuwa to pursue the Human Dao rather than Hongjun’s Severing the Three Corpses method, which he believed concealed a flaw that could block cultivators from attaining the Dao and provoke a Measure Tribulation. He decided to attend Hongjun’s final lecture and confront the Heavenly Dao, while preparing Nuwa and Han Xi to grow stronger.

• Xuan Qing told Nuwa to follow the Human Dao and use the Law of Creation to reach Primordial Origin Golden Immortal after achieving Grand Luo Perfection.
• After Nuwa described Hongjun’s Severing the Three Corpses method, Xuan Qing concluded it could prevent cultivators from attaining the Dao without same-origin spiritual objects or Primordial Violet Qi.
• Xuan Qing accused Hongjun of concealing the method’s flaw to incite competition over Innate Spiritual Objects and trigger a Measure Tribulation.
• Xuan Qing agreed to attend Hongjun’s final lecture and said he would speak with the Heavenly Dao, while warning Nuwa not to accept Primordial Violet Qi.
• Xuan Qing sent Nuwa to cultivate and urged Han Xi to learn from Qing Ya and pursue the Dao.

Di Jun and Tai Yi invited Fuxi to join their plan to gather the creatures of the Prehistoric Era and establish Order, founding the Demon Clan with Fuxi as Emperor Xi. After Fuxi refused to recruit Nuwa, the Demon Clan began its first recruitment campaign, leaving its leaders to pursue Star Gods and other members.

• Xuan Qing escorted Han Xi into seclusion after warning her to take her role as Mountain God of Zhou Mountain seriously.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi told Fuxi they intended to unite creatures covered in fur and scales, born from dampness and eggs, and establish Order in the Prehistoric Era.
• Fuxi proposed acting on behalf of Heaven and protecting the Prehistoric Era as their banner, and Di Jun named the faction the Demon Court and its members the Demon Clan.
• Di Jun offered Fuxi the title of Emperor Xi, and Fuxi joined the Demon Clan but rejected the idea of recruiting Nuwa.
• Di Jun assigned Tai Yi and Fuxi to visit the Lunar Star and Ziwei Star, while he and the other Demon Gods set out to recruit Star Gods and other members.

Fuxi and Tai Yi sought to unite the Starry Sky beings, but Xi He, Chang Xi, and Zi Wei refused to join them. After divining that Zhou Mountain held an opportunity for the Demon Clan, Fuxi suffered a severe Dao Injury and later emerged from seclusion to find Di Jun had established the Solar God Palace.

• Tai Yi invited Xi He and Chang Xi to join his plans, but their teacher told them to refuse, so the sisters declined and returned to the Lunar Star.
• Fuxi persuaded Tai Yi to leave the Lunar Star and visit Ziwei Star, where Zi Wei also refused to join them but agreed not to interfere.
• Fuxi and Tai Yi joined Di Jun in gathering Star Gods, while the ten demon gods recruited clans and Bai Ze spread Fuxi's arguments across the Prehistoric Era.
• Fuxi used the River Diagram and Luo Script to divine a suitable main base and discovered an opportunity at the summit of Zhou Mountain, but the divination left him with a severe Dao Injury.
• Di Jun sent Fuxi back to the Solar Star to recover, and Fuxi later emerged from seclusion to find Star Gods serving him as Emperor Xi and a new Solar God Palace standing nearby.

Di Jun led the Demon Clan to Zhou Mountain, where Tai Yi opened a hidden passage to the Heavenly Court. The Demon Clan claimed the magnificent realm as its home, celebrating the opportunity to grow stronger.

• Di Jun welcomed the injured Fuxi as the Demon Clan’s third sovereign, Emperor Xi, and learned that Zhou Mountain’s pressure had weakened.
• Di Jun led the Demon Clan’s forces to Zhou Mountain, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches stayed behind to await the birth of their bloodline clan members.
• Tai Yi struck the Sky Dome with the Chaos Bell, opening a passage that released boundless Star Power.
• Di Jun and the Demon Clan’s upper echelon passed through the opening and discovered the South Heaven Gate, realizing they had found the Heavenly Court.
• Di Jun declared that the Heavenly Court would become the Demon Clan’s home, and the gathered demons congratulated their Demon Emperor.

Di Jun and the Demon Clan established the Thirty-Three Heavens as their base and publicly founded the Demon Clan atop Zhou Mountain. After Xuan Qing secretly healed Fuxi’s Dao Injury, Di Jun prepared to entrust him with more responsibility.

• Di Jun appointed Bai Ze to set rules for the Heavenly Court and asked Fuxi to choose a date to announce the Demon Clan’s founding.
• Bai Ze restricted residence in the Heavenly Court to Demon Clan members who had reached the Golden Immortal realm, while the Ten Great Demon Gods brought in leaders of various races and assigned them posts.
• A thousand years later, Di Jun ascended the altar on Zhou Mountain and swore to establish the Demon Clan and protect living beings, drawing auspicious qi toward the Heavenly Court.
• Xuan Qing watched from Azure Nether Island, noticed Fuxi’s Dao Injury, and secretly healed him with the Law of Creation.
• Fuxi concealed Xuan Qing’s help and told Di Jun that the auspicious qi had healed his injury, prompting Di Jun to express relief and praise him.

Di Jun announced the Demon Clan’s banquet and delegated the invitations, prompting East King Duke to seek an alliance with Queen Mother of the West. When she refused and his followers insulted her, East King Duke drew his Pure Yang Sword and attacked.

• Di Jun invited the Prehistoric Era’s great powers to the Heavenly Court banquet and assigned Fuxi, Tai Yi, and Bai Ze to arrange and deliver invitations.
• East King Duke fumed that Di Jun had usurped his authority, while the Twelve Ancestral Witches discussed opposing the Demon Clan and establishing the Witch Clan.
• At his subordinates’ suggestion, East King Duke led several Grand Luo Golden Immortals to West Kunlun to recruit Queen Mother of the West into his Immortal Court.
• Queen Mother of the West declined the alliance and told East King Duke to mind his own business.
• After his followers threatened Queen Mother of the West, East King Duke drew the Pure Yang Sword and attacked her.

Queen Mother of the West drove East King Duke from West Kunlun with help from Tongtian, but East King Duke regrouped in the East Sea and established the Immortal Court to challenge Di Jun's Heavenly Court. Queen Mother of the West chose a limited role protecting female immortals, while the Immortal Court's founding drew the Dragon Clan's attention.

• Queen Mother of the West used the Kunlun Mirror to repel East King Duke, and Tongtian arrived and struck him out of West Kunlun with the Qingping Sword.
• East King Duke recovered and decided to establish the Immortal Court in the East Sea, recruiting Grand Luo Golden Immortals and other immortals.
• At Purple Prefecture, East King Duke swore an oath to establish the Immortal Court and govern the Prehistoric Era, prompting a stir across the realm.
• Queen Mother of the West decided to protect female immortals below the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and instructed Xuan Nü to spread the news, excluding those guilty of great evil.
• The Immortal Court's founding reached the Dragon Clan in the Dragon Palace.

East King Duke founded the Immortal Court and gained an opportunity to advance, while the emergence of the Three Immortal Islands drew the great powers of the Prehistoric Era to the East Sea. Xuan Qing sent Bai Yu, Qing Qiong, and Nuwa to seek their opportunities, where they met Fuxi and Di Jun before tensions flared between Zhen Yuanzi and Zhunti and Jieyin.

• Tai Yi urged Di Jun to destroy East King Duke, but Bai Ze and Di Jun argued that they should suppress him rather than defy the Dao Ancestor.
• East King Duke founded the Immortal Court, gathered Auspicious Qi with the Dragon Head Staff, and neared a breakthrough.
• When the Three Immortal Islands appeared above the East Sea, Xuan Qing summoned Bai Yu, Qing Qiong, and Nuwa and sent them to explore.
• Bai Yu and Qing Qiong bickered as they traveled with Nuwa, while the Three Pure Ones, Heavenly Court, Kunpeng, and other great powers gathered at the East Sea.
• Fuxi met Nuwa with Di Jun and the others, and Bai Yu and Qing Qiong introduced themselves without revealing their connection to Azure Nether Island.
• Zhen Yuanzi confronted Zhunti and Jieyin, who smiled and greeted him despite his anger.

Zhunti and Jieyin faced criticism as the cultivators discovered three immortal islands in the East Sea. East King Duke entered Penglai Island, found the ancient Jian Mu and its abundant resources, and began moving the Immortal Court there.

• Zhen Yuanzi accused Zhunti and Jieyin of stealing Hong Yun's seat and taking treasures and talented beings from the east, while Zhunti pleaded poverty.
• Nuwa explained the pair's history to Bai Yu as the three immortal islands appeared and the cultivators hurried toward them.
• Kunpeng failed to pass through an island's barrier, while East King Duke entered Penglai Island and found the Jian Mu and other spiritual resources.
• East King Duke refined Penglai Island's stele, learned of its protective formation and abundant spiritual qi, then returned to summon the Immortal Court's forces.
• East King Duke led the Immortal Court onto Penglai Island, declared it their headquarters, and ordered a grand banquet there within three Kalpas.