Recaps

The Old Fiend in Red Robes attacked Hundred Flowers Valley, hoping to seize the legacy of the Dao Lord who had died there. Zhou Yuan appeared, saved Granny Huai and the valley’s plant spirits, and instantly destroyed the fiend.

• The Old Fiend in Red Robes survived a sword strike with his Death Substitute Puppet and resolved to claim the dead Dao Lord’s remains and legacy.
• The Old Fiend in Red Robes demanded that Granny Huai reveal where the being was, threatening to destroy Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Granny Huai told the fiend the being had departed and refused to help him, so he attacked her with his Soul-Chasing Divine Light.
• Zhou Yuan appeared and stopped the divine light, then greeted Granny Huai and promised to share tea with her after dealing with the fiend.
• Zhou Yuan glanced at the Old Fiend in Red Robes and transformed him into vapor, then learned through karma that the fiend had been a pawn and looked westward.

Zhou Yuan drove off a Western Demonic Cult scout, met the dying Sword Dao Lord Liu Xuan, and taught him a way to seek rebirth from his fatal Dao Injury. After arranging for Hundred Flowers Valley to move to Wuyi Mountain, Zhou Yuan studied a jade slip that revealed a method for cultivating spiritual apertures and creating blessed lands and grotto-heavens.

• Zhou Yuan exposed the Demonic Sect Dao Lord hiding in the void and burned him with Merit Spirit Fire, forcing him to escape.
• Granny Huai led Zhou Yuan to Liu Xuan, who offered him the Kunwu Sword and a jade slip in gratitude for protecting Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Zhou Yuan refused the sword, taught Liu Xuan about yin and yang, life and death, and left him with hope of overcoming his Dao Injury.
• Zhou Yuan told Granny Huai to move Hundred Flowers Valley to his Daoist sanctuary, then sent Jin Chentao to escort its people to Wuyi Mountain.
• Zhou Yuan examined the jade slip and discovered instructions for nurturing spiritual apertures and forming lesser blessed lands and greater grotto-heavens.

Zhou Yuan deduced the Inner Scenery Blessed Land method and began clearing the spiritual aperture beneath Hundred Flowers Valley, earning merit and forming an Inner Scenery Land. Zhen Yuanzi visited to seek fortune and discuss the Earth Immortal path, and recognized the Dharma seed in Zhou Yuan’s celebration cloud as the completion of his Dao.

• Zhen Yuanzi ordered Qingfeng and Mingyue to pick nine Ginseng Fruits before leaving Wuzhuang Temple to visit an old friend.
• Zhen Yuanzi traveled toward Zhou Yuan, reasoning that working with him to develop the Mystic Gate lineage would bring greater fortune than competing for it.
• Zhou Yuan deduced the Inner Scenery Blessed Land method and cleared the spiritual aperture beneath Hundred Flowers Valley, gaining merit and forming an Inner Scenery Land.
• Zhou Yuan considered spreading the Blessed Land method so disciples could cultivate by sorting out earth veins and building blessed lands.
• Zhen Yuanzi arrived and offered Zhou Yuan nine Ginseng Fruits, then asked to discuss and verify their Dao methods.
• Zhou Yuan manifested his celebration cloud and its true Dharma seed, prompting Zhen Yuanzi to realize that his Dao was complete.

Zhou Yuan taught Zhen Yuanzi the Earth Immortal Dharma Gate, and the two agreed to establish the Earth Immortal Lineage together. Zhou Yuan became its Earth Immortal Ancestor, while Zhen Yuanzi became its Sect Master, and they planned to divide their teachings between east and west.

• Zhou Yuan explained the Inner Scenery Blessed Land method, and Zhen Yuanzi abandoned his plan to cultivate 129,600 Spiritual Apertures and refined Longevity Mountain into his own blessed land.
• Zhou Yuan revealed his own Inner Scenery Blessed Land, where an illusory Longevity Mountain settled beside Wuyi Mountain and strengthened his foundation.
• Zhen Yuanzi brought out the Book of Earth and shared his Earth Immortal methods, while he and Zhou Yuan discussed the lineage's potential to restore the damaged earth veins of the western continent.
• Zhou Yuan and Zhen Yuanzi agreed to establish their own traditions in the east and west, then formally found the Earth Immortal Lineage when the Mystic Gate Immortal Path opened its gates.
• Zhen Yuanzi accepted Zhou Yuan as Earth Immortal Ancestor, and Zhou Yuan named Zhen Yuanzi Earth Immortal Sect Master.

The Three Pure Heavenly Venerates sensed a change in the Mystic Gate’s fortune and discovered that Zhen Yuanzi had established the Earth Immortal lineage with Zhou Yuan’s help. They welcomed Zhou Yuan into their ranks, but acknowledged that replacing the Turbid Fiend God-Demon Path would bring calamity and leave the Mystic Gate’s success uncertain.

• The Three Pure Heavenly Venerates investigated a surge in Mystic Gate fortune and learned that the Earth Immortal lineage had emerged ahead of schedule.
• Grand Pure Daoist tried to uncover how Zhen Yuanzi had established the lineage so quickly, but someone had concealed the heavenly secrets from his calculations.
• Upper Pure Daoist, Jade Pure Daoist, and Grand Pure Daoist joined forces to break through the concealment, prompting Zhou Yuan to withdraw the aura of the Myriad Dao Book.
• Zhou Yuan told Zhen Yuanzi that the three Heavenly Venerates were watching, and the two greeted them across the Great Void.
• The Three Pure Heavenly Venerates praised Zhou Yuan’s role in the Earth Immortal lineage and planned to invite him to the Mystic Gate Opens Mountain gathering.
• Upper Pure Daoist warned that replacing the Turbid Fiend God-Demon Path could bring calamity, while Grand Pure Daoist declared that the Mystic Gate’s destiny could not be overturned.

Zhou Yuan reached Poison Wolf Ridge to demonstrate the Earth Immortal Dharma, killed Poison Wolf Old Ancestor, and transformed the corrupted mountain into a lush place. He left the demons to announce that he would lecture on the Dao there.

• Zhou Yuan arrived at Poison Wolf Ridge and erased a wolf demon and his followers with a glance.
• Poison Wolf Old Ancestor learned that a Daoist had killed his two Heavenly Human Realm lieutenants and went to confront him.
• Zhou Yuan appeared in Azure Wolf Cave, and Poison Wolf Old Ancestor begged for his life before being erased.
• Zhou Yuan cleared Poison Wolf Ridge’s demonic miasma and poisonous fire, making the mountain lush and green.
• Zhou Yuan ordered the surviving demons to spread word that he would lecture on the Dao at Poison Wolf Ridge.

Zhou Yuan preached the Earth Immortal Dharma Gate at Poison Wolf Ridge, drawing many cultivators to convert and cultivate its earth veins. After he departed, Kusongzi and the others renamed the mountain Dao Preaching Mountain and prepared to establish a lineage there.

• News of a Great Divine Ability User at Poison Wolf Ridge spread, and cultivators flocked there after an old Daoist confirmed Zhou Yuan was a Dao Lord.
• Zhou Yuan demonstrated the Earth Immortal Orthodox Path, transformed Poison Wolf Mountain’s earth veins, and inspired several dozen cultivators to convert.
• After three thousand years of preaching, the converts opened Inner Scenery Blessed Lands and refined earth vein spiritual apertures, transforming the mountain.
• Zhou Yuan named himself Taiyuanzi, instructed his disciples to spread the Earth Immortal Dharma Gate, bestowed treasures and pills on the earliest converts, and departed.
• Kusongzi was chosen as the mountain lord and persuaded the cultivators to rename Poison Wolf Ridge Dao Preaching Mountain and establish an Earth Immortal lineage there.

Zhou Yuan completed his eighty-first lecture on the Earth Immortal Lineage, but a Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate intercepted him and revealed himself as the Great Freedom Heavenly Son. The Heavenly Son invited Zhou Yuan to join a demonic path of destroying and harvesting worlds, and Zhou Yuan rejected him.

• Zhou Yuan spread the Earth Immortal Lineage across the eastern continent, then descended to deliver his final lecture, completing the eighty-one transmissions ordained by Heaven.
• As Zhou Yuan finished speaking, a mysterious being severed the surrounding time and space and challenged the value of cultivation in a world whose spiritual qi could be exhausted.
• Zhou Yuan argued that cultivation and transcendence should advance all beings and Heaven and Earth, while the stranger claimed that slaughter was the way to transcendence.
• The stranger revealed himself as the Great Freedom Heavenly Son, seated on a Twelve-petal World-Destroying Black Lotus, and invited Zhou Yuan to join the demonic path.
• The Great Freedom Heavenly Son described destroying worlds, harvesting them, and repeatedly recreating Heaven and Earth as his path to transcendence, but Zhou Yuan refused, saying their paths were incompatible.

Great Freedom Heavenly Son attacked Zhou Yuan with the Myriad Demon Catalog, and Zhou Yuan met the Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate head-on with his full strength. As their battle shook the Primordial World, hidden forces moved to block Zhou Yuan’s allies and isolate him.

• Great Freedom Heavenly Son unleashed the Myriad Demon Catalog against Zhou Yuan, spreading Calamity Qi and apocalyptic visions through the great void.
• Zhou Yuan strengthened himself with the Sea-Calming Pearls, his Inner Scenery Blessed Land, and the Black Banner, then struck back with a palm bearing Pangu’s World Creation essence.
• Great Freedom Heavenly Son intensified his attack after recognizing Zhou Yuan’s power, and their clash sent immense ripples across the Primordial World.
• Empress Nuwa and Dao Lord Fuxi tried to aid Zhou Yuan, but two unknown Quasi-Saints locked their auras onto Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Jade Pure Daoist, Grand Pure Daoist, and Upper Pure Daoist attacked the demonic figures above Kunlun Mountain as forces gathered to block the Dao fields of Zhou Yuan’s potential allies.

Zhou Yuan fought Great Freedom Heavenly Son while the Demonic Sect and other factions sought to destroy him and cripple the Mystic Gate Immortal Path. As the Three Pure Heavenly Venerates were held back at Kunlun, Great Freedom Heavenly Son unleashed the World-Destroying Black Lotus to erase Zhou Yuan across the River of Time.

• Zhou Yuan recognized that Great Freedom Heavenly Son had come to eliminate him and considered why the Demonic Sect and Primordial Divine Race opposed the Mystic Gate Immortal Path.
• Great Freedom Heavenly Son's attacks overwhelmed Zhou Yuan, and distant Dao Lords believed Taiyuanzi was about to perish.
• Jade Pure Daoist attacked the Demonic Sect giants at Kunlun, while they fought back to delay the Three Pure Heavenly Venerates and let Zhou Yuan be killed.
• Great Freedom Heavenly Son spread 129,600 black lotuses across Zhou Yuan's tributary of the River of Time, intending to erase him in past and future alike.
• Great Freedom Heavenly Son commanded the World-Destroying Black Lotus to descend upon Zhou Yuan.

Zhou Yuan used [To Be a Monarch with the World] to transfer Great Freedom Heavenly Son’s attack onto heaven and earth, triggering heavenly punishment against them both. Zhou Yuan was struck by lightning and a divine blade and vanished, while the Three Pure Daoists resumed their battle on Kunlun Mountain and an old woman on a dark bridge stirred.

• Great Freedom Heavenly Son’s black lotus trapped Zhou Yuan, who activated [To Be a Monarch with the World] and transferred the attack to heaven and earth.
• Heavenly punishment struck Great Freedom Heavenly Son, while Zhou Yuan’s merit and fortune drained away until he too was targeted by violet lightning.
• Great Freedom Heavenly Son attacked Zhou Yuan with a blood-colored divine blade as the lightning struck, and Zhou Yuan vanished amid a black hole and shifting space-time.
• On Kunlun Mountain, the Three Pure Daoists realized Taiyuanzi had escaped, and the Upper Pure Daoist unleashed the Four Swords of Zhu Xian to restart the battle.
• In a dark realm beneath a Blood Moon, an old woman on a black wooden bridge raised her head.

After escaping the Great Freedom Heavenly Son, Zhou Yuan found himself injured in the unexplored Netherworld and began recovering in a cave. He sent Su Nu out to explore while he wondered why powerful beings in the realm had abruptly stopped using their abilities.

• An old woman in black robes tried to divine a change in the Netherworld, but the Red Moon's light corrupted her and forced her to remain motionless on a black bridge.
• Zhou Yuan assessed his severe Dao Injury and realized he had landed in the Netherworld, a realm absent from historical records and apparently untouched by other powers.
• Zhou Yuan summoned Su Nu, who sensed the Netherworld's favor and believed she might attain the Dao as an Innate Dao Lord there.
• Zhou Yuan gave Su Nu the Myriad Souls Banner and Nine-Section Bamboo Staff, then sent her to explore while he entered seclusion.
• Zhou Yuan wondered why the Quasi-Saints and Dao Lords whose fluctuations he had sensed had suddenly withdrawn their divine abilities.

Nine Nether Profound Yin Su Nü explored the Netherworld and discovered that its qi could strengthen her cultivation beyond the limits imposed by the Myriad Souls Banner. After a ghost reported a hidden grotto-heaven containing a precious tree, she rewarded him and ordered him to lead her there.

• Nine Nether Profound Yin Su Nü noted the strange blood-red moon and sent ghosts from the Myriad Souls Banner to explore the Netherworld.
• After a thousand years of cultivating Netherworld qi, Nine Nether Profound Yin Su Nü sensed that her foundation had grown stronger and considered breaking free from the Myriad Souls Banner’s constraints.
• A vicious ghost reported finding a valley that concealed a grotto-heaven with a precious tree emitting Innate Spiritual Energy, but an array blocked his way.
• Nine Nether Profound Yin Su Nü suspected the grotto-heaven could be a trap, then took confidence from the Nine-Section Bamboo Staff and ordered the ghost to lead her there.

Mysterious Yin Su Nu followed a fierce ghost to a valley and broke the magic array protecting an Innate Spiritual Root. She entered Duoshuo Mountain, where a sentient Divine Peach Tree attacked her, and escaped with the Nine-Section Bamboo Staff.

• Mysterious Yin Su Nu followed the fierce ghost to a hidden valley, deduced that it held great fortune, and found an Innate Spiritual Root behind a magic array.
• Mysterious Yin Su Nu broke the array, then was transported to another world and found a Stone Tablet inscribed with “Duoshuo Mountain.”
• Mysterious Yin Su Nu followed the revealed mountain path to the summit and saw a towering Divine Peach Tree surrounded by ink-black currents.
• Mysterious Yin Su Nu began to retreat, but the sentient Divine Peach Tree attacked her with branches that pierced through space and time.
• Mysterious Yin Su Nu’s Nine-Section Bamboo Staff sealed the Six Consciousnesses and five senses, then carried her away from Duoshuo Mountain.

Zhou Yuan followed Mysterious Yin Su Nu to Duoshuo Mountain to investigate the mysterious existence she had discovered in the Netherworld. He attacked the Divine Peach Tree to seize the mountain, while the tree fled into the mist and called on its hidden elder brother for help.

• Zhou Yuan decided that the intelligent Innate Spiritual Root could help him uncover the Netherworld’s secrets and find a way back through the realm barrier.
• Mysterious Yin Su Nu led Zhou Yuan to Duoshuo Mountain, where he sensed a strange, chaos-like presence behind the mountain’s radiant glow.
• The Divine Peach Tree tried to settle its past conflict with Mysterious Yin Su Nu, but Zhou Yuan instead asked to share its mountain.
• The Divine Peach Tree attacked Zhou Yuan with branches of divine light, and Zhou Yuan countered with the Profound Nether Weak Water Bead.
• The Divine Peach Tree retreated into the mountain’s mist and asked its hidden Big Brother for help, confident the mist would let it escape.

Zhou Yuan confronted the Divine Peach Tree at Duoshuo Mountain and tried to take control of the Ghost Gate, awakening a terrifying being hidden inside it. The being threatened Zhou Yuan and demanded his submission, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• The Divine Peach Tree prepared to flee Duoshuo Mountain through the Ghost Gate, but Zhou Yuan arrived and blocked its escape with the Twelve Sea-Calming Pearls.
• Zhou Yuan reached for the Ghost Gate, which turned blood-red and opened to reveal a sinister head with hands growing from its eye sockets.
• The head’s gaze transformed the plants, medicines, and ores on Duoshuo Mountain, while the Divine Peach Tree urged its boss to punish Zhou Yuan.
• Zhou Yuan recognized Heaven-Opening Axe Light on the head’s cut surface and suspected it was connected to Pangu.
• The head unleashed an aura stronger than an Innate Dao Lord’s, told Zhou Yuan he would suffer a Death Tribulation, and offered to spare him if he submitted; Zhou Yuan smiled.

Zhou Yuan captured a weakened Chaos Demon God after the demon failed to escape the isolated realm, then brought the captive back to Duoshuo Mountain. The strange red hairs, Pangu’s lingering power, and the Red Moon left Zhou Yuan determined to investigate the secrets behind them.

• Zhou Yuan judged that the Chaos Demon God was too weakened to threaten him and attacked with his treasures and sealing powers.
• The Chaos Demon God burned his reserves and broke through the Sea-Calming Pearls’ heavenly curtain, but Pangu’s lingering influence forced him to return.
• Zhou Yuan used the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner to capture the Demon God alive.
• The Divine Peach Tree acknowledged Zhou Yuan as its master and asked what he would do with the captive; Zhou Yuan said the Demon God had research value.
• Zhou Yuan collected the bronze Great Gate and had the Divine Peach Tree carve a cave dwelling into Duoshuo Mountain.

Zhou Yuan examined the Ghost Gate and summoned a Chaos Demon God's head to question it about the Netherworld. When the demon god claimed Pangu's Will made it impossible to destroy, Zhou Yuan revealed his own Heaven-Opening Axe Light and struck at it.

• Zhou Yuan realized the Ghost Gate could let him travel between the Primordial Great World and the Netherworld while evading the Heavenly Dao, then put the gate away.
• Zhou Yuan summoned the Chaos Demon God's head and asked it questions, but the demon god refused to cooperate.
• Zhou Yuan noticed Pangu's Will protected the demon god's head and considered whether he could combine different Heaven-Opening Axe Lights to recreate Pangu's World Creation.
• The Chaos Demon God's head claimed it was indestructible and offered to share Netherworld secrets in exchange for Zhou Yuan's help.
• Zhou Yuan rejected the proposed alliance, revealed Heaven-Opening Axe Light in his palm, and slashed toward the demon god's head.

Zhou Yuan repeatedly destroyed Great Dark Sky’s head with Heaven-Opening Axe Light, drawing out its Pangu Will and forcing the Chaos Demon God to reveal what he knew about the Netherworld. After hearing Great Dark Sky’s account, Zhou Yuan considered the Netherworld’s origins and turned his attention to its blood-red full moon.

• Zhou Yuan used repeated axe strikes to transfer Great Dark Sky’s Pangu Will into the axe light and strengthen its World Creation Laws.
• Great Dark Sky begged Zhou Yuan to stop, and Zhou Yuan ended the torture and promised not to kill him if he cooperated.
• Great Dark Sky agreed to answer Zhou Yuan’s questions, hoping Zhou Yuan could help him escape the Pangu Clan’s schemes.
• Great Dark Sky revealed the Netherworld’s secrets, including that the Pangu Clan had imprisoned Chaos Demon Gods there to nourish it.
• Zhou Yuan reflected on Great Dark Sky’s account and looked toward the blood-red full moon hanging over the Netherworld.

Zhou Yuan decided to capture the Chaos Demon Gods in the Netherworld and investigate the Blood Moon, hoping to seize the power and opportunities left by the Pangu Clan. With Great Dark Sky guiding him to a nearby Demon God, Zhou Yuan captured his first target beneath the Blood Moon.

• Zhou Yuan learned that the Pangu Clan had made the Blood Moon to erode the imprisoned Chaos Demon Gods, and decided to capture them and investigate the moon.
• Great Dark Sky told Zhou Yuan that he had sensed three Chaos Demon God auras near Duoshuo Mountain and offered to guide him.
• Zhou Yuan attacked a Black Mountain with the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner, prompting a Chaos Demon God to warn him that fighting beneath the Blood Moon broke the Netherworld's rules.
• Great Dark Sky denied knowing the rules, and the Chaos Demon God fled after recognizing Zhou Yuan as an outsider.
• Zhou Yuan used the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner to trap the fleeing Chaos Demon God along with Black Mountain, then prepared to find another target.

Zhou Yuan used information from the Chaos Demon Gods he had captured to track down and apprehend every Chaos Demon God in the Netherworld, while wondering what part the powerful Dream Demon God had played in ancient events. After gathering more than a hundred captives inside the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner, he worried that the treasure might not be strong enough to contain them forever.

• Several Chaos Demon Gods near Duoshuo Mountain gave Zhou Yuan information about their associates, and one offered to lure friends from their domains.
• Zhou Yuan considered the Dream Demon God's unexplained arrival in the Netherworld and decided to visit her at the Bridge of Helplessness after capturing the other Chaos Demon Gods.
• Zhou Yuan used the Myriad Dao Book to conceal the heavenly secrets, then hunted down Chaos Demon Gods across the Netherworld and suppressed them in the Northern Profound Origin Water Control Banner.
• After immeasurable ages, Zhou Yuan finished visiting every Chaos Demon God's domain, including one where he spent tens of thousands of years wearing down a powerful Gold Demon God.
• The captured Chaos Demon Gods clamored inside the banner, and Zhou Yuan feared they might eventually break free because the treasure was not designed specifically for suppression.

Zhou Yuan visited the Dream Demon God at the Bridge of Helplessness to remove a potential obstacle to his plans in the Netherworld. After breaking free of her dream realm and gaining insight into Hunyuan, he met Meng Jiuyou, who asked him to call her Meng Po.

• Zhou Yuan left his cave abode and went to meet the being guarding the Bridge of Helplessness before heading to the Blood Moon.
• Meng Jiuyou attacked Zhou Yuan with her Great Dream of a Thousand Autumns, trapping him in visions of creation, destruction, and mortal life.
• Zhou Yuan recognized the dream as a glimpse of the Dao and realized Hunyuan was no longer beyond his reach.
• Zhou Yuan used the Pangu Axe’s World Creation strike to shatter Meng Jiuyou’s dream realm.
• Meng Jiuyou revealed her name and asked Zhou Yuan to call her Meng Po, and Zhou Yuan introduced himself as Taiyuanzi.

Zhou Yuan visited Meng Po in her sanctuary, where she offered him memory-erasing soup and explained why she had abandoned her pursuit of the Dao. She revealed that Pangu severed the Primordial Great World from the Chaos Sea, leaving her waiting in the Netherworld for a possible return to Chaos.

• Meng Po welcomed Zhou Yuan into her sanctuary and served him soup that made his mind blank before he praised it.
• Meng Po told Zhou Yuan she had no interest in contesting his authority over the Netherworld or interfering in its karma.
• When Zhou Yuan asked why she had given up seeking the Dao, Meng Po explained that Pangu had severed space-time and cut off the Chaos Demon Gods from the Primordial Chaos Path.
• Meng Po recounted how she lost the ancient struggle, survived Luo Hou's God-Slaying Spear, and later lost to Daoist Hongjun, leaving her bound to the Netherworld by fortune and karma.
• Meng Po said the Primordial Great World would eventually return to the Chaos Sea, and she would remain in the Netherworld until then.

Zhou Yuan faced Meng Po’s hostility by revealing the Mystic Gate Immortal Path and proposing that they jointly develop the Netherworld through the Dao of Ghost Immortal. Meng Po glimpsed a future in which the Netherworld’s Six Paths flourished and felt a new hope of attaining Dao.

• Zhou Yuan told Meng Po he could not feel reassured while she remained in the Netherworld, provoking her anger and a wave of killing pressure.
• Zhou Yuan proposed that he and Meng Po jointly develop the Netherworld instead of driving her away.
• Zhou Yuan revealed the Mystic Gate Immortal Path, explaining its five lineages and stages of cultivation, and Meng Po acknowledged its potential for all beings.
• Zhou Yuan expounded that the Dao of Ghost Immortal accorded with the Netherworld’s will and could bring it prosperity.
• Meng Po glimpsed a future of flourishing ghosts and gods, suffered a drop of blood from her eye, and heard Zhou Yuan invite her to co-create the Dao of Ghost Immortal.

Zhou Yuan persuaded Meng Po to pursue the Ghost Immortal Path and explained its principles, while she accepted the risks of advancing it. Meng Po then asked whether extinct Chaos Demon Gods could use the path to return and reclaim their souls.

• Zhou Yuan argued that those who advanced the Mystic Gate Immortal Path could earn ancestral positions, persuading Meng Po to seek the Ghost Immortal Path.
• Meng Po bowed to Zhou Yuan and asked him to teach her the Ghost Immortal Path.
• Zhou Yuan warned that founding the path would place great karma upon him, and Meng Po vowed to bear the consequences herself.
• Zhou Yuan explained that Ghost Immortal cultivation transformed Pure Yin into Pure Yang and would flourish when the Netherworld opened.
• Meng Po questioned how souls could survive after death and asked whether extinct Chaos Demon Gods could return through the Ghost Immortal Path.