Chapter Summaries

Qingyuan preached the Dao at Serene Peak for 375 years, drawing hundreds of Jie Sect Disciples and helping them deepen their understanding. After receiving rewards that advanced him to the Golden Immortal Middle Stage, he heard the disciples praise his teaching above Sect Master Tongtian’s and accepted Great Peng Bird’s apology for sneaking away.

• Great Peng Bird entered Serene Peak’s dojo, was astonished by Qingyuan’s preaching, and sat at the back to listen.
• Over several hundred years, more Jie Sect Disciples gathered to hear Qingyuan teach, while most remained too wary to approach.
• Qingyuan ended his 375-year sermon, and the disciples emerged from their meditative state with varied gains and reactions.
• The system rewarded Qingyuan with 380,000 years of Daoxing and other treasures, advancing him to the Golden Immortal Middle Stage and startling the disciples with his pressure.
• Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Holy Mother Wudang, and other disciples praised Qingyuan’s clear teaching, while he insisted he could not compare with Sect Master Tongtian.
• Great Peng Bird apologized through voice transmission for his earlier actions, and Qingyuan forgave him on the condition that it would not happen again.

Qingyuan guided the Golden-winged Great Peng back toward diligent cultivation and received several rewards, including an immensely powerful artifact blueprint. He distributed Peaches of Immortality, summoned the Interception Sect disciples to the Jiangyue River to discuss the Immortal Market, and left the Golden-winged Great Peng holding a massive Chaos Spirit Stone aloft.

• The Golden-winged Great Peng argued with Wuzhiqi, but Qingyuan stopped their fight and urged his disciple to cultivate and pursue his goals.
• The Golden-winged Great Peng accepted Qingyuan's advice, earning him rewards that included a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir Formula, 99 Peaches of Immortality, and an artifact blueprint.
• Qingyuan gave Peaches of Immortality to Jin Ling, Wudang, several Interception Sect disciples, his four disciples, and the Willow Immortal.
• Qingyuan ordered the Interception Sect disciples to gather at the Jiangyue River and sent Yun Zhongzi and Wuzhiqi to invite Xuandu and Guangchengzi to discuss the Immortal Market.
• Qingyuan had the Golden-winged Great Peng lift a landmass-sized Chaos Spirit Stone from the riverbed and keep holding it overhead.

Qingyuan gathered disciples from the Human, Chan, and Jie Sects and announced his plan to establish the Kunlun Immortal Market. The gathered disciples questioned what an Immortal Market was, and the chapter ended before Qingyuan explained it.

• The Great Peng Bird complained about holding up the Chaos Spirit Stone, while Qingyuan warned him to keep doing so.
• Daoist Duobao and the Human Sect disciples arrived, followed by thousands of Jie Sect disciples and then the Chan Sect immortals.
• Qingyuan rebuked Guangchengzi for the Chan Sect's deliberate late arrival, forcing the Chan Sect immortals to apologize.
• Qingyuan stood atop the Chaos Spirit Stone and announced the Three Sects' first Ten-Thousand-Year Plan: establishing the Kunlun Immortal Market.
• Disciples from all three sects wondered what an Immortal Market was, and Qingyuan called for everyone to listen before explaining.

Qingyuan promoted his plan for Kunlun Immortal Market, winning support from many disciples while Chan Sect Immortals condemned the proposal. He invoked Yuanshi’s approval to challenge Guangchengzi, who immediately knelt toward Yuqing Peak, leaving the Chan Sect humiliated.

• Qingyuan described the Immortal Market as a peaceful trade and settlement hub where the Heavenly Net would prevent murder and protect visitors.
• Qingyuan addressed Interception Sect disciples’ concerns and explained how the market could offer safe trading, instruction, and employment, gaining broad support.
• Great Master Xuandu and others from the Human Sect accepted the proposal, while Guangchengzi, True Person Taiyi, Daoist Huanglong, and other Chan Sect Immortals opposed it.
• Qingyuan silenced the angry crowd with his sword aura, startling Great Master Xuandu and the Chan Sect’s Golden Immortals with his strength.
• Qingyuan said Yuanshi had approved the market and asked whether Guangchengzi considered his own Dao greater than Yuanshi’s.
• Guangchengzi knelt toward Yuqing Peak and refused to rise, while the Chan Sect Immortals watched in dismay.

Qingyuan persuaded the Three Sects’ disciples to support establishing an Immortal Market in the Kunlun Mountains, answering their objections and rebuking several Chan Sect disciples. He announced the official establishment of the Kunlun Immortal Market Project Department and began assigning work among the sects.

• Qingyuan reassured the disciples that the Three Sects could protect the Immortal Market, and Duobao vowed to kill anyone who caused trouble in the Kunlun Mountains.
• Qingyuan argued that an Immortal Market would make it easier for cultivators to obtain materials, prompting True Person Taiyi to admit his concerns had been short-sighted.
• Qingyuan asked Huanglong what origins, Fortune Aura, abilities, and resources he possessed, leaving Huanglong humiliated.
• Qingyuan answered Zhenwu’s concern about crowds by praising cultivation in the city as a path to greater seclusion, and the Human Sect disciples pondered his words.
• Qingyuan announced the official establishment of the Kunlun Immortal Market Project Department and said he would assign work to each sect.

Qingyuan assigned disciples from the Human, Chan, and Interception Sects to eight departments for the Kunlun Immortal Market project, placing Daoist Duobao in charge of supervision. Great Master Xuandu was left bewildered when he saw that the products he was expected to develop included modern foods and drinks.

• Qingyuan secured the three sects’ agreement to follow his assignments and warned that poor work could bring severe discipline or expulsion.
• Qingyuan appointed Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Holy Mother Wudang, Qiushou Xian, Daoist Randeng and his deputies, and Yun Zhongzi to lead the Materials, Construction, Logistics, Formations, and Publicity departments.
• Qingyuan appointed Xuandu and his deputies to lead the Pill Department and Immortal Elder Nanji and Guangchengzi to lead the Artifact Department.
• Qingyuan made Daoist Duobao head of the Supervision Department, responsible for overseeing the other seven departments and enforcing discipline.
• The department heads examined their project details, and Xuandu asked Qingyuan what Cola, Sprite, Yanjing, Red Bull, instant noodles, and potato chips were.

Qingyuan assigned the Three Sects of the Mystic Gate roles in building the Kunlun Immortal Market, explaining unfamiliar products and equipment to the Human and Chan Sects. After several thousand years of coordinated work across Kunlun, the three saints noticed that the usually quarrelsome disciples had become strangely quiet.

• Xuandu, Guangchengzi, Nanji, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, and Wudang questioned Qingyuan about their unfamiliar production and construction assignments, then agreed to carry them out.
• Qingyuan explained the Pill Department’s tasks to Xuandu and the Artifact Department’s principles to Guangchengzi and the Chan Sect immortals, while Daoist Randeng reconciled with him and gave him Skyfire Bintie Immortal Gold.
• The Jie Sect disciples searched Kunlun for several hundred years, found a suitable site, and began building the Immortal Market under Wudang’s, Golden Spirit Holy Mother’s, and Qiushou Xian’s leadership.
• Yun Zhongzi recruited immortals for publicity, while Duobao’s inspections punished and expelled disciples who broke the rules.
• Qingyuan returned to Serene Peak and marked the Immortal Crystals from the three saints with the Falling Treasure Gold Coin as the sects worked together for several thousand years.
• The three saints noticed that the Chan and Jie Sects had stopped fighting and wondered why the disciples had become so quiet.

Sect Master Tongtian preached the Dao to the Three Sects’ disciples after years of labor on the Kunlun Immortal Market, while Zhunti set out east to seek people with an affinity for the Western Lands. When several Interception Sect disciples compared Tongtian’s sermon unfavorably with Qingyuan’s, Qingyuan fled but suddenly found himself inside Shangqing Hall.

• Tongtian summoned the Interception Sect disciples to Shangqing Peak and announced a three-thousand-year sermon, prompting eager disciples to gather.
• Tongtian began preaching as Taiqing and Yuqing also summoned their disciples, while Zhunti proposed traveling east to seek people for the Western Lands and then departed.
• After three thousand years, Duobao neared the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and Qingyuan and the other disciples congratulated him.
• Several Interception Sect disciples said they understood Qingyuan’s sermons better than Tongtian’s, so Qingyuan fled using White Rainbow Escape.
• Qingyuan found himself inside Shangqing Hall after the scene before him changed.

Qingyuan reassured Sect Master Tongtian that Kunlun Immortal Market would succeed, then inspected its construction and gave the Three Sects Disciples a century-long vacation. After decades of solitary work refining Falling Treasure Gold Coin and Immortal Crystals, he learned that Ao Guang was causing trouble on Yuqing Peak over a failed promise from Daoist Huanglong.

• Qingyuan told Sect Master Tongtian that Kunlun Immortal Market would become famous throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan inspected the nearly completed market and granted the Jie Sect Disciples a century-long vacation.
• Qingyuan visited Taiqing Peak and Yuqing Peak, granting the disciples and workers there a hundred-year vacation as well.
• Qingyuan returned to Serene Peak and spent seventy or eighty years refining Falling Treasure Gold Coin and producing Immortal Crystals.
• Yun Zhongzi and Great Peng Bird summoned Qingyuan from secluded cultivation and told him someone was causing trouble on Yuqing Peak.
• Great Peng Bird said Ao Guang had failed to join the Chan Sect and accused Daoist Huanglong of taking benefits without keeping his promise.

Qingyuan learned why Ao Guang had come to Yuqing Peak and found him badly beaten after accusing Daoist Huanglong of stealing his Ancestral Dragon Pearl. Qingyuan stopped the Chan Sect Immortals from killing Ao Guang, then kicked him into the forest, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Great Peng Bird told Qingyuan and Yun Zhongzi how Ao Guang had once insulted Qingyuan and promised him a reward for rescuing him.
• Qingyuan, Yun Zhongzi, and Great Peng Bird flew to Yuqing Peak, where Interception Sect Disciples explained that Ao Guang had tried to join the Chan Sect and been driven out.
• Ao Guang accused Daoist Huanglong of taking his Ancestral Dragon Pearl, while Huanglong and the Chan Sect Immortals beat and threatened him.
• Qingyuan arrived as the Chan Sect Immortals prepared to kill Ao Guang and kicked him flying into the forest.

Qingyuan intervened when Ao Guang was attacked at Kunlun Mountains, then forced Daoist Huanglong to surrender the Ancestral Dragon Pearl. Yun Zhongzi and the Great Peng Bird secretly spared Ao Guang, and Qingyuan returned the pearl to him, leaving Ao Guang shocked by Qingyuan’s appearance.

• Qingyuan knocked Ao Guang unconscious, blamed him for breaking an earlier promise and insulting Daoist Huanglong, then ordered Yun Zhongzi and the Great Peng Bird to take him outside Kunlun and execute him.
• Qingyuan threatened Daoist Huanglong with exposure and made him hand over the Ancestral Dragon Pearl before leaving Kunlun.
• Yun Zhongzi healed Ao Guang after the Great Peng Bird carried him beyond the Kunlun Mountain Immortal Realm, explaining that Qingyuan had intended to spare him while preserving the Chan Sect’s dignity.
• Ao Guang thanked Qingyuan for saving him and protecting the Dragon Clan, then Qingyuan arrived and returned the Ancestral Dragon Pearl.
• Ao Guang recognized Qingyuan and cried out in disbelief.

Ao Guang gave Qingyuan the Ancestral Dragon Pearl before fleeing, and Qingyuan used his system to gestate a Chaos Divine Beast inside it. He returned the pearl to Daoist Huanglong in exchange for Huanglong's magic treasure, leaving Huanglong pleased with the trade and unaware of the system's changes.

• Ao Guang gave the Ancestral Dragon Pearl to Qingyuan and fled toward the Primordial Wilderness, convinced the Interception Sect was more worthy than the Chan Sect.
• Qingyuan activated the system's Mount Gestation Function, which began gestating a powerful Chaos Divine Beast inside the pearl.
• Qingyuan returned to the Three Sects with Yun Zhongzi and the Great Peng Bird, then called Daoist Huanglong away from True Person Taiyi.
• Daoist Huanglong prepared to attack Qingyuan, but Qingyuan explained that Ao Guang had given him the pearl to settle their karma and offered it to Huanglong.
• Qingyuan took Huanglong's High-grade Houtian Spiritual Treasure Absolute Mountain Seal, then gave Huanglong the Ancestral Dragon Pearl.
• Huanglong inspected the pearl, decided the trade was worthwhile, and flew back toward his cave abode while True Person Taiyi was gone.

After more than three thousand years of work, Qingyuan and the Three Sects disciples completed the Kunlun Immortal Market and celebrated its opening. Sect Master Tongtian used the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram to protect and publicize the market, and Saint Taiqing began to speak as the chapter ended.

• Qingyuan invited the Three Sects’ core figures to Heavenly Peak Plain after the Kunlun Immortal Market was completed.
• Qingyuan praised the disciples and leaders who had contributed to the market, and the gathered immortals celebrated their shared work.
• Qingyuan delivered a completion speech to tens of thousands of Interception Sect disciples, crediting the Three Pure Ones Saints for their support.
• Sect Master Tongtian deployed the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram to guard the market, then announced its opening across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan and disciples from all Three Sects bowed to thank Sect Master Tongtian, while Saint Taiqing began speaking from Taiqing Peak.

Taiqing and Yuanshi Tianzun offered the Taiji Diagram and Pangu Banner to suppress Kunlun Immortal Market’s Fortune Aura, drawing the attention of the Primordial Wilderness. Qingyuan rallied the Three Sects Disciples to honor their teachers and work together, leaving them united and inspired to build the market.

• Taiqing offered the Taiji Diagram to suppress Kunlun Immortal Market’s Fortune Aura, causing it to gather and grow.
• The Three Sects Disciples knelt and thanked Taiqing as powerful figures across the Primordial Wilderness watched the market.
• Yuanshi Tianzun offered the Pangu Banner, further strengthening the market’s Fortune Aura, and instructed the disciples to make it serve all living beings.
• The disciples of the Three Sects thanked Yuanshi Tianzun, and he warned them not to disgrace the Mystic Gate.
• Qingyuan praised the three teachers’ care and called on the Three Sects Disciples to stand together and spread the Immortal Dao.
• The disciples were moved by Qingyuan’s words and felt a powerful sense of belonging to the Mystic Gate.

The Three Sects’ Immortal Market strengthened their unity and drew Heavenly Dao Merit, startling powers across the Primordial Wilderness. As rival factions headed to Kunlun to investigate, Di Jun’s proposal for the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array met fierce resistance from Demon leaders.

• The Three Pure Ones praised Qingyuan and celebrated the bonds among their disciples as the Immortal Market boosted their Fortune Aura.
• Saint Jieyin lamented the East’s growing advantage, while Saint Zhunti failed to recruit a Heavenly Court Demon God and grew envious of the Three Sects.
• Heavenly Dao Merit descended over the Kunlun Immortal Market, drawing the attention of powerful beings throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Jun proposed building the Zhou Tian Star Dou Array, but Demon Gods and Demon Saints objected to its cost and suspected the Heavenly Court wanted to annex their clans.
• Saint Zhunti persuaded Saint Jieyin to visit Kunlun and urged their disciples not to leave anything edible or valuable behind.
• The Witch Clan, Western Sages, and other great powers set out for Kunlun, while the Three Pure Ones and Qingyuan stared in surprise at the descending merit.

When heavenly Merit descended over the Immortal Market, greedy Interception Sect disciples tried to seize it, and Qingyuan made Daoist Duobao stop them before punishing those who refused to honor their wager. As Qingyuan declared he would kill anyone Duobao would not, the Three Pure Ones appeared above the market.

• Heavenly Merit appeared over the Immortal Market, bewildering Qingyuan and drawing the attention of the Three Sects’ disciples.
• Daoist Duobao killed the first disciples who tried to steal the Merit, then defeated hundreds more who charged together.
• Qingyuan offered the defeated disciples three punishments, and he killed those who rejected the wager or challenged his authority.
• The Great Peng Bird tried to challenge Duobao but Yun Zhongzi, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong dragged him away.
• Qingyuan condemned the greedy disciples and said he would handle anyone Duobao was unwilling to kill.
• The Three Pure Ones appeared above the Kunlun Immortal Market, and the Interception Sect disciples bowed to them.

Qingyuan learned that the Three Pure Ones’ support had spread the Kunlun Immortal Market and earned Merit for its founders and organizers. The Two Sages of the West and many Primordial Great Powers arrived to learn about Immortal Markets and seek a share of the opportunity.

• Venerable Yuanshi explained that the Saints’ influence had helped Immortal Markets spread, prompting the Heavenly Dao to award Merit to the Three Pure Ones, Qingyuan, the market, and its organizers.
• Sect Master Tongtian and Venerable Yuanshi argued over whether Qingyuan’s achievement suited the Heaven-Severing Dao or the Heaven-Expounding Dao until Saint Taiqing warned them that visitors were arriving.
• Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin arrived with Western Teachings disciples, and Sect Master Tongtian warned them against forcibly converting Eastern living beings.
• Qingyuan explained the Immortal Market to the Two Sages of the West, who admired his talent but abandoned thoughts of recruiting him after Sect Master Tongtian’s cold warning.
• Saint Nuwa, Queen Mother of the West, Ancestor Minghe, Zhen Yuanzi, leaders of the Demon Race, and leaders of the Witch Clan arrived and asked about establishing Immortal Markets.

At the gathering outside the Immortal Market, Qingyuan explained his plan for a protected trading hub that would connect the Primordial Wilderness and benefit its inhabitants. The assembled powers saw the opportunities in his proposal, and Di Jun asked how the market would earn a profit.

• The Heavenly Court arrived in overwhelming force, and the Witch Clan arrived with the Twelve Ancestor Witches and their elite Great Witches.
• Tongtian directed Qingyuan to explain the Immortal Market to the gathered martial uncles.
• Qingyuan described a safe marketplace where beings could trade resources and exchange goods they had for what they needed.
• Qingyuan explained how regional differences and scarce resources could make trade profitable and help connect the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan proposed that a force oversee the market and said he also hoped to earn a profit, prompting Di Jun to ask how.

Qingyuan explained the Immortal Market’s many sources of profit and declined Di Jun’s offer to serve in the Heavenly Court. He then called on the Primordial Wilderness’s great powers to uphold rules ensuring peace and fair trade in every Immortal Market, leaving them united behind the pledge and Qingyuan’s name destined to spread.

• Qingyuan described how Immortal Markets could earn profits and serve as connected bases for trade and recruitment across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Di Jun praised Qingyuan, offered him a heavenly post and access to the Heavenly Court’s resources, and accepted his polite refusal.
• Qingyuan asked the gathered great powers to pledge to ban violence and exploitation in Immortal Markets and punish those who broke the rules.
• Yun Zhongzi, Xuandu, Guangchengzi, Duobao, and other disciples of the Three Sects joined Qingyuan in appealing for the pledge.
• Di Jun, Dijiang, Zhen Yuanzi, Minghe, and the other great powers vowed to follow and enforce the Immortal Market rules.

Qingyuan distributed merit-laden trophies and Immortal Crystals to reward the Three Sects’ workers, then proposed using Immortal Crystals as universal currency across the Primordial Wilderness. The six Saints agreed to oversee currency unification, and the chapter ended as a vast wave of Heavenly Dao merit descended over Kunlun.

• Qingyuan awarded the departments’ leaders and diligent workers trophies, merit medals, and Immortal Crystals, while Daoist Duobao identified shirkers whose rewards were revoked.
• Qingyuan presented merit-filled trophies to Taiqing, Yuqing, and Shangqing, who accepted them and praised him.
• Qingyuan explained that Immortal Crystals could serve as currency and asked the six Saints to help unify currency throughout the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan offered the Falling Treasure Gold Coin as the foundation of the currency system, and the six Saints agreed to oversee its development.
• After Saint Taiqing put away the Falling Treasure Gold Coin, heavenly flowers and golden lotuses appeared as an enormous mass of merit descended over Kunlun.