Recaps

Dao Lord Ji Meng reported to Xi He and Chang Xi that their scheme to seize the Acquired Merchant Dao had failed because Taiyuanzi had returned. The sisters called off the effort and agreed to keep it from His Majesty.

• Dao Lord Ji Meng struggled to heal the Dao Injury Taiyuanzi had inflicted and accepted that their conflict had no path back.
• Dao Lord Ji Meng visited Xi He and Chang Xi on Taiyin Star and told them that Taiyuanzi had returned, ruining their scheme.
• Xi He and Chang Xi ordered Ji Meng to retreat to Zhangshui Dojo and cultivate in seclusion while they ensured his safety.
• Chang Xi soothed Xi He, and the sisters decided to make other plans and not tell His Majesty about the failed scheme.

As Mystic Gate Opens Mountain began, Grand Pure Daoist laid out the Immortal Path’s five foundational lineages and invited the gathered powers to establish their inheritances. The Three Pure Daoists introduced the Heavenly Immortal path, while Zhou Yuan anticipated a founding role through his Earth Immortal and Ghost Immortal lineages.

• Zhou Yuan and Queen Mother of the West traveled to East Kunlun after the Dao Bell announced the start of Mystic Gate Opens Mountain.
• The gathered divine ancestors paid their respects at the Purple Sky Palace and greeted one another.
• Grand Pure Daoist thanked the assembled powers and outlined the Immortal Path’s realms and five foundational lineages: Heaven, Earth, Human, God, and Ghost.
• Grand Pure Daoist invited the powers to establish the inheritances of their lineages, and Zhou Yuan expected to have a place among the founding patriarchs.
• The Three Pure Daoists revealed their Dao domain and explained how Heavenly Immortals comprehended laws and merged their Dao with the heavens of various worlds.

At the Mystic Gate Opens Mountain gathering, the Three Pure Daoists and other great powers expounded the Heavenly Immortal Dao, prompting Daoist Zhunti to interrupt and establish the Human Immortal Dao. Empress Nuwa disputed the West’s claim to that path and divided its fortune, after which Zhou Yuan and Zhen Yuanzi prepared to present the Earth Immortal Dao.

• Zhou Yuan listened to the Three Pure Daoists explain that the Heavenly Immortal Dao advanced through comprehending the laws of worlds and gathering their essence.
• Daoist Zhunti interrupted the Heavenly Immortal Dao’s rise, arguing that the Human Immortal lineage could guide all beings, and the Three Pure Daoists’ realm shattered.
• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin proclaimed the Human Immortal Dao as a path of cultivation through worldly suffering and toward Sumeru and Bodhi.
• Empress Nuwa challenged their claim, describing the Human Immortal Dao as a path grounded in the heart, action, and the natural world.
• Empress Nuwa divided the Human Immortal Dao’s fortune between Mount Sumeru and Phoenix Perch Mountain.
• Zhou Yuan and Zhen Yuanzi stepped forward to introduce the Earth Immortal Dao.

Zhou Yuan introduced the Earth Immortal and Ghost Immortal paths, drawing Dao Lords into the Earth Immortal lineage and completing the Mystic Gate Five Immortals ahead of schedule. The chapter ended with the Three Pure Daoists and other great powers considering how Zhou Yuan’s rise and the early arrival of the Ghost Immortal path would change Mystic Gate.

• Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi explained the Earth Immortal Dao, and Pan Man Dao Lord and several other Dao Lords asked Zhou Yuan to lead them into its lineage.
• Zhou Yuan accepted the Dao Lords and transmitted the Earth Immortal methods, shifting twenty percent of Mystic Gate Immortal Path’s destiny to the Earth Immortal lineage and advancing Zhen Yuanzi’s Primordial Chaos Path.
• Eastern Emperor Tai Yi and Di Jun expounded the Divine Immortal Great Dao, prompting Di Jiang, East King Duke, and other powers to demand that their own divine beings share in the path.
• Zhou Yuan unveiled the Ghost Immortal Great Dao and explained its cultivation methods, causing destiny to flow from the future and completing the Mystic Gate Five Immortals ahead of time.
• The Three Pure Daoists recognized that Zhou Yuan’s early Ghost Immortal path disrupted their plans as the gathered great powers watched him with their own thoughts.

The Mystic Gate Five Immortals were established, and Purple Heaven Palace stabilized their new fortune and formed seven of nine ancestor ranks. The Four Extremes Divine Lords then used the Heavenly Dao to challenge Dao Ancestor Hongjun, shaking Purple Heaven Palace as the chapter ended.

• Grand Pure Daoist proclaimed the establishment of the Five Immortal Dao Lineages, and the Heavenly Dao Altar appeared as their fortune surged into turmoil.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun manifested Purple Heaven Palace and stabilized the Mystic Gate's fortune, from which seven ancestor ranks emerged for Grand Pure Daoist, Jade Pure Daoist, Highest Pure Daoist, Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate, Great Immortal Zhen Yuanzi, Empress Nuwa, and Daoist Jieyin.
• Zhou Yuan, Di Jun, Di Jiang, and East King Duke considered how the ancestor ranks might affect their lineages and future ambitions.
• The Four Extremes Divine Lords—Azure Dragon Mengzhang Divine Lord, White Tiger Jianbing Divine Lord, Vermilion Bird Lingguang Divine Lord, and Divine Lord Xuanwu Zhiming—appeared and demanded that Dao Ancestor Hongjun return to Purple Heaven.
• The Four Extremes Divine Lords invoked the Heavenly Dao to repel Purple Heaven Palace and joined their power to shake it.

The Four Extremes Divine Lords and the Western Demonic Cult attacked the Mystic Gate, triggering a vast battle across the primordial world. As Zhou Yuan fought the Great Freedom Heavenly Son, the Three Sovereigns Palace, ancient clans, and Chaos Demon Gods arrived to contest the future of heaven and earth.

• The Three Pure Daoists attacked the Four Extremes Divine Lords with their supreme treasures, but the Western Demonic Cult appeared and used the God-Slaying Spear and other treasures to intercept them.
• The Three Pure Daoists retaliated against the Demonic Cult, while Zhou Yuan left Kunlun Mountain to fight the Great Freedom Heavenly Son; battles spread across the dimensions.
• Daoist Mother Yuan Jun confronted the Three Sovereigns Palace as its ancient deities arrived, and Candle Dragon led the Dragon Clan into battle against the Mystic Gate's allies.
• The Five Virtues Phoenixes joined the conflict, and the Ink Qilin chose to fight despite Zhen Yuanzi offering refuge for his surviving clan.
• Chaos Demon Gods descended into the primordial world, prompting Empress Nuwa, Di Jun, and the other demon race Quasi-Saints to attack alongside the Mystic Gate.

Zhou Yuan drew the Great Freedom Heavenly Son into the Ghost Gate and vanished with him, hoping to turn the battle between the Mystic Gate Immortal Path and the Losers' Alliance. Their allies blocked the enemy’s attempts to track them, leaving the Heart Demon Old Ancestor and the other Losers' Alliance powers unsettled as the fighting resumed.

• Zhou Yuan realized the struggle between the Mystic Gate Immortal Path and the Losers' Alliance was a contest between new and old heavenly wills, with lower-level cultivators likely to decide the outcome if the stalemate continued.
• Zhou Yuan resolved to kill the Great Freedom Heavenly Son, then concealed a Ghost Gate inside his palm strike and sprang his trap.
• Zhou Yuan and the Great Freedom Heavenly Son were drawn into the Ghost Gate, which vanished into space and time.
• The Heart Demon Old Ancestor, Candle Dragon, and other Losers' Alliance powers tried to trace the pair, but Mystic Gate allies used their treasures to erase the trails and block the search.
• Daoist of Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerate challenged the distracted enemies, forcing them to resume the battle while they worried over Zhou Yuan's plan.

Zhou Yuan, Meng Po, and Emperor Fengdu trapped Great Freedom Heavenly Son in the Netherworld and battled him until he tried to turn their attacks into a final calamity and escape through space and time. Zhou Yuan summoned the World-Destroying Millstone to seal the escape route, leaving Great Freedom Heavenly Son trapped and enraged.

• Emperor Fengdu and Meng Po appeared after sensing Zhou Yuan and Great Freedom Heavenly Son enter the Netherworld.
• Zhou Yuan, Meng Po, and Emperor Fengdu attacked Great Freedom Heavenly Son together, aiming to trap him.
• Meng Po recognized Great Freedom Heavenly Son as Luo Hou's disciple and descendant, then revealed that she was the Dream Demon God.
• Great Freedom Heavenly Son used the Myriad Demon Catalog to unleash destruction across countless worlds and create a spatial-temporal escape route.
• Zhou Yuan summoned the World-Destroying Millstone, which erased the destruction and sealed the spatial-temporal node.
• Great Freedom Heavenly Son recognized the World-Destroying Millstone and stared at it in fury.

Zhou Yuan suppressed Great Freedom Heavenly Son in Taisha Heavenly Palace and divided the captured treasures with Emperor Fengdu and Meng Po. His victory shifted Heaven’s will in favor of the Mystic Gate, and a Dao Lord of the Demonic Sect fell as the battlefield’s fortunes turned.

• Zhou Yuan used the World-Destroying Millstone to imprison Great Freedom Heavenly Son in the Eighteen Layers of Hell and told Emperor Fengdu to keep him alive while wearing down his cultivation.
• Zhou Yuan took the Twelve-petal World-Destroying Black Lotus, gave the Myriad Demon Catalog to Emperor Fengdu, and let Meng Po collect the remaining treasures and materials.
• At Kunlun Mountain, the Mystic Gate immortals felt Heaven’s will shift and resolved to seize the advantage, while the Losers’ Alliance Dao Lords sensed their strength weakening.
• Heart Demon Old Ancestor cursed Great Freedom Heavenly Son as the Great Dao wailed and a Dao Lord of the Demonic Sect fell.
• Divine Lord Xuanwu Zhiming bent beneath the burden as the Four Extremes Divine Lords continued trapping Purple Heavens Palace above the heavens.

Zhou Yuan entered the Archaic Dragon Clan’s hidden Dragon Abyss to contend for the Water Element Black Emperor’s position while the clan’s strongest figures were away. He confronted five ancient dragons guarding the grotto-heaven and unleashed his Monarch with the World technique as they joined forces against him.

• Zhou Yuan concealed his aura and traveled beneath the Eastern Sea to find Dragon Abyss, an Innate Grotto-heaven that suppressed the Four Seas’ Innate Water Eyes.
• Zhou Yuan concluded that he needed to weaken the Dragon Clan to claim the water fortunes tied to his Dao path.
• Five ancient dragons at the peak of the Innate Dao Lord realm discovered Zhou Yuan and challenged his presence in Dragon Abyss.
• Zhou Yuan introduced himself as Taiyuan and said he had come to borrow something, but the old dragons refused to negotiate until Candle Dragon and the empresses returned.
• Zhou Yuan attacked the five dragons, who combined their Five Elements power with Dragon Abyss’s will to strike back.
• Zhou Yuan activated To Be a Monarch with the World and detonated Karmic Debt.

Zhou Yuan used [To Be a Monarch with the World] to unleash the Heavenly Human Five Decays on the five Dragon Lords guarding Dragon Abyss, then entered Myriad Dragon Hall after a sudden threat warned him against killing them. His Heavenly Machine Chessboard revealed that his target was on the hall’s ninety-eighth level.

• Zhou Yuan’s Greater Divine Ability struck the five Dragon Lords, causing their accumulated Karmic Debt to erupt and the Heavenly Human Five Decays to descend upon them.
• A golden Auspicious Dragon of Destiny split into five and helped the Dragon Lords suppress their Karmic Debt, while Zhou Yuan sensed a grave threat and abandoned his plan to kill them and destroy Dragon Abyss.
• An emerald bamboo struck the five Dragon Lords and sealed their Primordial Spirits, senses, and Six Consciousnesses as Zhou Yuan entered Myriad Dragon Hall.
• Zhou Yuan’s [Five Elements Mystic Gate] activated, and his Heavenly Machine Chessboard identified his target as being on the ninety-eighth level of Myriad Dragon Hall.

Zhou Yuan entered the ninety-eighth floor of the Myriad Dragon Hall, purified the resentment in its array, and claimed the Dragon Gate along with several other treasures. As the dragon race’s hidden strength began to threaten him, he left the hall without reaching its ninety-ninth floor.

• Zhou Yuan entered the array on the ninety-eighth floor and found a burial ground filled with ancient dragon corpses and baleful Calamity Qi.
• Zhou Yuan used the Book of Life and Death, the Merit Golden Wheel, and his scripture to calm the resentment and transform the Calamity Qi into Pure Qi.
• Zhou Yuan opened the array and claimed the Dragon Gate, planning to use it to establish a new foundation and divide the dragon race’s fortune.
• Zhou Yuan took several more Innate Spiritual Treasures and two Innate Spiritual Roots before the danger from the dragon race’s reserves of strength returned.
• Zhou Yuan looked toward the inaccessible ninety-ninth floor and vanished from the Myriad Dragon Hall.

Candle Dragon abandoned the battle at Kunlun after sensing that the dragon clan’s fortune had been tampered with, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared to suppress the Four Extremes Divine Lords. The Mystic Gate Immortal Path won the battle and became the Primordial Great World’s Orthodox Dharma, while the surviving demons withdrew to wait for a chance to rise again.

• Candle Dragon sensed that the dragon clan’s fortune was being stripped away, unleashed his full power, and escaped into the River of Time as the five ancestral shamans and Kunlun’s immortals attacked.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun appeared, sealed the Four Extremes Divine Lords’ cultivation, and sent them to suppress the four poles before ordering the Mystic Gate’s Great Luo Dao Lords to visit Purple Heavens Palace in thirty thousand years.
• Daoist of Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerate and Zhou Yuan urged the immortals to finish off the Losers' Alliance, and Old Ancestor Ming He launched the renewed attack.
• The Mystic Gate Immortal Path defeated its enemies and declared itself the Orthodox Dharma, prompting the Heavenly Dao to protect its practitioners and subject other paths to calamities.
• The Supreme Heavenly Demon Lord escaped with his wounds, told Wu Tian to take the name Kinnara and go to Sumeru, and withdrew to heal while urging him to wait for the right moment.

After the Mystic Gate Opens Mountain concluded, Zhou Yuan returned to Wuyi Mountain and summoned his disciples. He rewarded them with seventy-two laws leading to Grand Luo Golden Immortal, beginning by giving Guizhenzi and Old Man Qingrong methods suited to their caves.

• Grand Pure Daoist declared the Mystic Gate Opens Mountain concluded and urged the immortals to spread the immortal path and compete for its positions and resources.
• The immortals dispersed, and Zhou Yuan recited the Song of the Immortal Dao before returning to Wuyi Mountain.
• Zhou Yuan summoned his disciples, praised their loyalty, and announced that he had comprehended seventy-two immortal Dao methods leading to Grand Luo Golden Immortal.
• Zhou Yuan gave Guizhenzi and Old Man Qingrong jade slips with methods suited to Longevity Cave and Evergreen Cave.

Zhou Yuan rewarded Wuyi Mountain’s disciples and assigned them roles as he prepared to expand the Acquired Merchant Dao and reclaim the Primordial Continent’s waterways. He returned Wu Zhiqi’s treasure, but Wu Zhiqi immediately tried to trade it for Zhou Yuan’s staff.

• Zhou Yuan made Madam Jiuzhen and Granny Huai his registered disciples, appointed them to Jade Truth Cave and Myriad Spirits Cave, and gave them jade slips containing Dharma.
• Zhou Yuan allowed forty-four peak Golden Immortal disciples to serve temporarily as cave masters, gave them treasures and spirit fruits, and said they could become registered disciples through merit.
• Zhou Yuan ordered Guizhenzi to spread marketplaces across the Divine Demon territories and Four Seas, then bestowed the Five Elements Compass on him.
• Zhou Yuan sent Wu Zhiqi, Jiuzhen, and Jin Chentao to muster the grotto-heaven’s fighters and Huai River navy to reclaim the Primordial Continent’s waterways, and gave them treasures.
• Zhou Yuan returned the Profound Nether Weak Water Bead to Wu Zhiqi, who offered it back and asked for Zhou Yuan’s staff instead.

Zhou Yuan equipped his disciples and expanded Wuyi Mountain’s plans to recruit cultivators, while weighing how to claim authority over the world’s waters without provoking rival factions. At Dragon Abyss, Candle Dragon and the Dragon Mother Empress accepted that the weakened dragon clan had to accommodate Taiyuanzi and his Wuyi Mountain lineage.

• Zhou Yuan gave Wu Zhiqi a water-element treasure and a staff meant to help him tame the demonic intent within his spirit, then sent him and his companions toward the Huai River.
• Zhou Yuan entrusted Old Man Qingrong and Granny Huai with recruiting disciples and finding masters for Wuyi Mountain’s remaining twenty-four caves, giving them the Karma Mirror to assess candidates.
• Zhou Yuan resolved to pursue control of the Four Rivers and Eight Streams indirectly, then appointed the white deer and white crane as attendants and sent them west with the Three Lights Jade Ruyi to draw forth Three Lights Divine Water.
• Candle Dragon mourned the elder dragons who had died at Kunlun, but recognized that their deaths would free the next generation from the clan’s burden of karmic debt.
• The Dragon Mother Empress urged Candle Dragon to treat Taiyuanzi’s Wuyi Mountain lineage courteously, and Candle Dragon agreed.

Dragon Mother Empress and Candle Dragon arranged for the weakened Dragon Clan to submit to East King Duke while preserving its control of the Four Seas, and sent Ao Guang to carry the message. On Mount Sumeru, Daoist Jieyin accepted Kinnara and the Western Demonic Cult into the lineage despite Daoist Zhunti's suspicions.

• Dragon Mother Empress proposed opening a Dragon Blood Pool for the Dragon Clan's young descendants and talented Aquatic Race members with dragon bloodlines.
• Candle Dragon revealed that his and Dragon Mother Empress's severe Dao Injuries would force them into slumber, then ordered Ao Guang to lead thirty-six juniors to submit to East King Duke.
• Ao Guang protested the surrender, but after seeing the ancestors' injuries, he accepted the mission and left Dragon Abyss resolved not to forget the humiliation.
• Daoist Zhunti hesitated over Kinnara's request to join Mount Sumeri with the Western Demonic Cult, but Daoist Jieyin accepted them into the lineage.
• Daoist Zhunti warned that Kinnara might be scheming, while Daoist Jieyin said they had to accept the hidden risks of seeking authority over the West.

Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti agreed to expand Mount Sumeru’s influence without openly harming the Earth Immortal lineage. Ten thousand years later, Wu Zhiqi’s campaign against the Tongtian River stalled when the Mingyan Goddess of Red Maple Mountain struck his forces with poisonous fire, and Old Man Qingrong arrived to heal the wounded.

• Daoist Zhunti proposed sending Mount Sumeru disciples to manage former Western Demonic Cult territories, and Daoist Jieyin agreed while warning him not to provoke the Earth Immortal Patriarch.
• Over ten thousand years, Wuyi Mountain’s Seventy-two Caves filled and its lineage spread through sects and Dao academies across the land.
• Longshan Lie reached Evergreen Cave and told Old Man Qingrong that the Mingyan Goddess had wounded Wu Zhiqi’s Dao soldiers with poisonous fire while blocking their advance at the Tongtian River.
• Old Man Qingrong used the Azure Cloud Bottle and a Yellow-skinned Gourd filled with spirit water and pills to heal Longshan Lie and the entire camp.
• The Mingyan Goddess watched from Red Maple Mountain as Old Man Qingrong’s gourd appeared in the sky.

Mingyan Goddess refused Shui Yong’s request to destroy Wu Zhiqi’s forces, warning that Red Maple Mountain could not retreat, while Wu Zhiqi and Old Man Qingrong sought help from their teacher. In a hidden valley, Crane Child and Deer Child witnessed their senior brother’s awakening as a willow tree survived heavenly lightning and was revived by the Three Lights Divine Water.

• Mingyan Goddess told Shui Yong that Wu Zhiqi was backed by the Heavenly Venerate of Wuyi Mountain and that Red Maple Mountain could not retreat without facing death.
• Wu Zhiqi suspected a Sage was plotting against his teacher, so he and Old Man Qingrong prayed to their patriarch’s tablet and received word that someone would come to resolve the calamity.
• Crane Child and Deer Child waited in the valley for their senior brother’s awakening, then sensed spring thunder erupting within the Great Void.
• Heavenly lightning struck an emerald sphere of life eighty-one times, revealing a charred willow stump that Crane Child and Deer Child recognized as their senior brother.
• Crane Child and Deer Child used the Three Lights Jade Ruyi to pour Three Lights Divine Water onto the stump, which burst into life as a vast willow tree spanning the Great Void.

Liu Xuan survived the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning Tribulation and joined Wu Zhiqi’s campaign as his junior fellow disciple. After hearing Wu Zhiqi’s account of Mingyan Goddess blocking the army’s advance, Liu Xuan accompanied him to Red Maple Mountain, where they confronted her as she sought to restore her damaged spiritual treasure.

• Liu Xuan emerged from seclusion, defeated the Purple Firmament Divine Lightning with his willow tree’s sword light, and learned that ten thousand years had passed.
• Liu Xuan accepted Zhou Yuan’s jade slip and traveled east with Deer Child and Crane Child to find Wu Zhiqi.
• Wu Zhiqi welcomed Liu Xuan as his junior fellow disciple, explained that Mingyan Goddess had barred his army from moving north, and gave him the [Profound Nether Weak Water Bead].
• Wu Zhiqi brought Liu Xuan to Red Maple Mountain and challenged Mingyan Goddess to explain why she was blocking the army.
• Mingyan Goddess continued refining the [Nine Luminaries Glazed Lamp] with the Great Sun Divine Fire and Zhu Rong Divine Flame, hoping to gather all nine kinds of Innate Spirit Fire.

Mingyan Goddess risked Taiyuan Heavenly Venerate’s wrath to restore the Nine Luminaries Glazed Lamp, but Wu Zhiqi’s attack disrupted her ritual and brought her out to confront him. She warned Liu Xuan not to interfere, unaware of his standing as the confrontation began.

• Mingyan Goddess accepted the benefits offered by several factions and continued guiding the Great Sun Divine Fire and Zhu Rong Divine Flame into the Nine Luminaries Glazed Lamp.
• Wu Zhiqi transformed into a colossal ape and struck Red Maple Mountain’s protective formation with his Primordial Chaos One Qi Staff, while Liu Xuan watched.
• The impact disturbed the two true fires, forcing Mingyan Goddess to withdraw them and postpone her restoration ritual.
• Mingyan Goddess emerged from her cave and accused Wu Zhiqi of insulting her and attacking her dojo.
• Mingyan Goddess mistook Liu Xuan for an allied Great Luo Dao Lord and privately warned him against interfering in her dispute with Wu Zhiqi.

Liu Xuan confronted Mingyan Goddess for blocking Wu Zhiqi and defeated her in a battle of Dao arts. He brought her to Wuyi Mountain after learning that his master wished to see her.

• Liu Xuan rejected Mingyan Goddess's explanation and ordered Wu Zhiqi to gather the troops, seize the Tongtian River basin, and head north.
• Mingyan Goddess attacked Liu Xuan with the [Nine Luminaries Glazed Lamp], and Liu Xuan countered with the [Profound Nether Weak Water Bead].
• Liu Xuan drew the [Kunwu Sword] and overwhelmed Mingyan Goddess with his Sword Dao, leaving her wounded and admitting defeat.
• Liu Xuan spared Mingyan Goddess, then took her to Wuyi Mountain because his master wished to see her.

Liu Xuan formally joined Zhou Yuan’s lineage, and Mingyan Goddess revealed the powerful figures behind the plot over the Primordial Continent’s Authority of Water Element. Zhou Yuan chose to punish Mingyan while keeping her, then resolved to confront Old Ancestor Kunpeng and force the other factions to yield; Kunpeng remained determined to claim the authority for himself.

• Zhou Yuan accepted Liu Xuan as his true disciple, gave him the Primordial Abyss True Scripture and the Yellow Springs Life and Death Tablet, and heard his account of the four factions behind the scheme.
• Liu Xuan released Mingyan Goddess, and Zhou Yuan’s pressure compelled her to name the powerful figures who had recruited her and supplied the four clusters of Innate True Fire.
• Zhou Yuan sealed Mingyan Goddess’s cultivation and confined her beneath a cloud-covered cliff to reflect, intending to keep her if she changed her ways.
• Liu Xuan identified the factions’ motives, and Zhou Yuan revealed that Old Ancestor Kunpeng had likely become a Quasi-Saint Heavenly Venerate and planned to use the dispute to unify the Primordial Continent’s water authority.
• Zhou Yuan said he would make an example of Kunpeng to deter the other factions, while refusing Liu Xuan’s offer to accompany him.
• At North Nether Palace, Old Ancestor Kunpeng considered the water authority a chance to increase his power and reclaim the opportunity he believed was rightfully his.

Taiyuanzi attacked the North Nether with a colossal palm, prompting Kunpeng to reveal his Primordial Golden Immortal strength and draw the attention of powers across the primordial world. Di Jun, the witch clan, and East King Duke watched the battle and weighed how its outcome would affect their plans for the Authority of Water Element.

• Kunpeng brooded over losing his cushion and resented Red Cloud for receiving the final strand of Primordial Violet Qi.
• Taiyuanzi’s immense palm descended on the North Nether, terrifying its demons and shattering the heavens above them.
• Kunpeng emerged in his immeasurable form to confront Taiyuanzi, while powerful beings throughout the primordial world watched.
• Di Jun and Eastern Emperor Tai Yi discussed Kunpeng’s concealed breakthrough and planned to judge Taiyuanzi by the battle’s outcome.
• Gong Gong and Xuanming decided to wait and see whether Taiyuanzi could force the demon clan to yield before acting against him.
• East King Duke ordered Ao Guang to prepare the Four Seas Aquatic Race for either outcome and insisted that the dragon clan retain its promised autonomy.

Zhou Yuan fought Old Ancestor Kunpeng in North Nether, overcoming his Innate Feng Shui Dao Domain with an illusory Chaos Sea. Kunpeng conceded, surrendered his claim to the Primordial Continent’s water authority, and allowed Zhou Yuan to establish a secondary residence in North Nether, while secretly hoping to use the widening North Sea conflict to his advantage.

• Zhou Yuan and Old Ancestor Kunpeng clashed in the Great Void, and Kunpeng was injured by Zhou Yuan’s attack.
• Old Ancestor Kunpeng trapped Zhou Yuan in his Innate Feng Shui Dao Domain, where the Kun and Peng attacked through the Great Dao itself.
• Zhou Yuan created a Dao Domain of his own, whose Chaos Sea swept Kunpeng’s incarnations into world-birth-and-death cycles and threatened his foundation.
• Old Ancestor Kunpeng conceded defeat and agreed not to interfere with Zhou Yuan’s claim to the Primordial Continent’s water authority, offering the North Nether waters to the Wuyi Mountain Dao Lineage.
• Zhou Yuan requested a secondary residence in North Nether, and Old Ancestor Kunpeng accepted while privately calculating how to exploit the North Sea conflict.
• The battle ended, and distant great powers realized that Zhou Yuan had quickly defeated Kunpeng, though they could not see the details of the fight.