Chapter Summaries

Qingyuan’s establishment of unified Immortal Crystal currency earned vast Heavenly Dao Merit and brought the Money Great Dao into the Primordial Wilderness. After Hongjun placed the Falling Treasure Gold Coin within that Great Dao, Qingyuan discovered he would continue receiving its Fortune Blessing and Merit.

• A new wave of Merit descended, rewarding the Three Pure Ones, the Two Shakya, Nuwa, Qingyuan, the Falling Treasure Gold Coin, and Qingyuan’s Immortal Crystal ornament.
• Nuwa, Zhunti, and Jieyin praised Qingyuan for perfecting the Money Great Dao and unifying currency.
• Hongjun arrived, warned the Saints and great powers not to let currency cause disorder, and asked Qingyuan to surrender the Falling Treasure Gold Coin as the foundation of currency.
• Qingyuan agreed, and Hongjun concealed the Falling Treasure Gold Coin within the Money Great Dao, allowing trades and currency to be recognized across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Qingyuan realized he retained a connection to the coin and would continue gaining Fortune Blessing and Merit from the Money Great Dao.

At the Kunlun Immortal Market opening, Qingyuan guided the gathered Saints and great powers through its exhibition. He introduced a refrigerator that caught the Witch Clan’s interest, and Zhurong demanded one hundred thousand units.

• The Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, the Two Sages of the West, and the gathered great powers entered the Kunlun Immortal Market after Tongtian declared it open to all who behaved.
• Qingyuan entertained the Saints and delayed the tour while the Three Sects Disciples prepared the exhibition.
• Qingyuan led the guests to the Spiritual Artifact exhibition area and demonstrated a refrigerator that could cool and preserve food and other goods without mana control.
• The Witch Clan recognized the refrigerator’s usefulness for storing meat, and Zhurong asked Qingyuan to prepare one hundred thousand units for them.

Qingyuan guided the Primordial great powers through the Kunlun Immortal Market, where the Witch Clan bought large quantities of appliances and food while others explored the market’s offerings. After the visitors departed, Zhen Yuanzi approached Qingyuan and, staring at Yun Zhongzi, asked whether he was Hong Yun.

• Gonggong and Zhurong argued over the displayed appliances until Dijiang stopped them, and Dijiang ordered the Witch Clan to buy a million sets of every product.
• Qingyuan showed the great powers the market’s appliances, food, goods, transport, and Spiritual Realm Immortal Mansions, and the Witch Clan led the appliance and food purchases.
• The great powers departed after touring the market, with Dijiang planning to use its layout as a model for redesigning the Nine Heavens.
• After most visitors had left, Zhen Yuanzi arrived with Clear Wind and Bright Moon, studied Yun Zhongzi, and asked whether he was Fellow Daoist Hong Yun.

Zhen Yuanzi mistook Yun Zhongzi for his lost friend Hong Yun, then gave Qingyuan a Ginseng Fruit Branch to safeguard. A thousand years later, Kunlun Immortal Market had grown to tens of millions of residents, with Daoist Duobao serving as its busy Deputy Immortal Market Master.

• Zhen Yuanzi accepted that Yun Zhongzi was not Hong Yun and invited him to visit Wuzhuang Temple to discuss the Dao and taste Ginseng Fruit.
• Qingyuan advised Wuzhiqi and the Great Peng Bird on cultivation, then showed the Great Peng Bird his vast Merit and explained his paired cultivation.
• Zhen Yuanzi gave Qingyuan a Ginseng Fruit Branch, and Qingyuan planted it in Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.
• Over the next thousand years, Kunlun Immortal Market grew to tens of millions of residents and developed an orderly system of management.
• Daoist Duobao served as Deputy Immortal Market Master and focused on managing the market, seemingly forgetting the Interception Sect’s disciples.

Qingyuan tended his vast Herb Garden as Yun Zhongzi, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong each broke through to the Golden Immortal Realm. He used Serene Peak’s formations to support their breakthroughs and watched over his disciples as the Heavenly Court’s control of the stars fueled conflict with the Witch Clan.

• Qingyuan watered the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil Herb Garden and considered which Golden Immortal pills he could refine from its abundant spiritual herbs.
• Yun Zhongzi, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong successively broke through to the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Qingyuan activated Serene Peak’s formations to divide astral and cosmic power among the three disciples’ Dojos and prevent their breakthroughs from interfering with one another.
• Qingyuan reflected on the Heavenly Court’s monopoly over the Primordial Stars Domain and the ensuing battles with the Witch Clan, while the Kunlun Immortal Market continued to draw intelligent immortals.
• Great Peng Bird arrived and teased Qingyuan about falling behind his disciples, while Qingyuan considered how the Immortal Market and his other disciples had progressed.
• The three disciples stabilized their Golden Immortal cultivation, and the system’s voice rang out.

Qingyuan received rewards for bringing all his disciples into the Golden Immortal Realm, including a talent and a method for cultivating ten powerful incarnations. After reaching the Golden Immortal Realm Peak, he began teaching his awakened disciples about the Golden Immortal Path.

• Qingyuan received the One Heart Two Uses talent and the Universal Salvation, Ghost-Subduing and Demon-Quelling, Profound Divine Demon God Art, and decided to try cultivating the method when resources allowed.
• Qingyuan's aura surged from the Golden Immortal Late Stage to the Golden Immortal Peak, shocking the Great Peng Bird, whom he encouraged to keep cultivating and challenge Kong Xuan one day.
• Qingyuan examined his new Manifestation of Heaven and Earth ability and used One Heart Two Uses to cultivate multiple methods at once.
• Over several decades, Qingyuan cultivated while watching over his disciples, and many Interception Sect disciples visited Serene Peak.
• Yun Zhongzi, Wuzhiqi, and Yuan Hong emerged from Secluded Cultivation after entering the Golden Immortal Realm, and Qingyuan took them to Serene Peak's square to teach them the Golden Immortal Path.

Qingyuan preached on Serene Peak, drawing more than a hundred elite Jie Sect Disciples into deep meditation for over a century and leaving the Immortal Market without its usual leaders. When the disciples finally found them, they learned Qingyuan welcomed kindhearted outsiders who sincerely sought the Dao to attend his preaching too.

• Qingyuan used the Great Dao Incense Burner and his Preaching Function to teach his disciples about the Golden Immortal Realm, filling Serene Peak with auspicious phenomena.
• Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Holy Mother Wudang, and other elite Jie Sect Disciples arrived and listened to Qingyuan preach for more than a hundred years.
• Outer Jie Sect Disciples grew anxious when they could not find the elite disciples to manage the Immortal Market, and Daoist Duobao returned to suppress the resulting disorder.
• After years of searching, the Immortal Market disciples learned that more than a hundred elite disciples were listening to Qingyuan on Serene Peak, and they rushed there in excitement.
• Immortal Market residents envied the Jie Sect Disciples until they heard that Qingyuan invited all kindhearted people who sincerely sought the Dao to attend his preaching.

Qingyuan opened his lecture at Serene Peak to anyone devoted to the Dao, drawing thousands of Jie Sect Disciples and tens of thousands of Immortal Market cultivators while leaving the market understaffed. As he taught, he also used One Heart Two Uses to comprehend a demonic cultivation art and forge ten Demon God Seeds.

• Many Jie Sect Disciples and bold Immortal Market cultivators headed to Serene Peak, while Daoist Duobao struggled to keep the market running.
• The Great Peng Bird announced that Qingyuan welcomed anyone devoted to the Dao, prompting even more people to leave for the lecture.
• Qingyuan welcomed the arriving crowd, provided meditation cushions, and began teaching the Divine Ability Finger to Steel and methods of the Earth Immortal Realm.
• Old Monkey joined the audience and listened as Qingyuan's Preaching Function and Great Dao Incense Burner helped cultivators enter deep concentration.
• While lecturing, Qingyuan comprehended the Ten Directions Universal Salvation, Ghost-Suppressing, Demon-Subduing Grand Nether Mystic Response Fiend God Art and refined divine materials to evolve ten Demon God Seeds.

After more than a thousand years of forging the ten Demon God Seeds, Qingyuan split his Primordial Spirit to empower them and suffered severe backlash, causing his cultivation realm to fall. He calmed his disciples, recovered with the system’s preaching rewards, and was left awaiting another system announcement.

• Qingyuan forged ten Demon God Seeds for a thousand years while preaching at Serene Peak.
• Qingyuan divided half his Primordial Spirit into ten portions and fused them with the seeds, suffering intense pain and falling from Golden Immortal Realm Peak to Golden Immortal Middle Stage.
• Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Holy Mother Wudang, and Qingyuan’s other disciples sealed the area and prepared to punish anyone responsible, but Qingyuan said the backlash was his own doing and ordered them to let the cultivators leave.
• Qingyuan secretly explained his method of dividing the Primordial Spirit, calming his disciples and allowing the visitors to depart.
• The system rewarded Qingyuan for preaching with ten million years of cultivation, a Wind Thunder Immortal Apricot Root, Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, and a Golden Light Pearl.
• Qingyuan absorbed the cultivation reward and began recovering as the system spoke again.

Qingyuan received major rewards after his preaching activated the Registered Disciple Function, including a high-grade innate treasure and the Mind's Eye. He discovered that an inconspicuous Old Monkey had triggered the special rewards, but the monkey sensed his probing and slipped away, leaving Qingyuan intent on winning him over as a disciple.

• Qingyuan gained the Registered Disciple Function's rewards, including the Azure Sea Sky Pillar, Mind's Eye, Primordial Rootless Water, and millions of years of Daoxing.
• Qingyuan used the Mind's Eye to hear the thoughts of people around the Zhou Dynasty and noticed an Old Monkey whose past and circumstances seemed unusual.
• The Old Monkey sensed Qingyuan listening to his thoughts, searched the crowd, then lowered his bamboo hat and disappeared into the throng.
• Qingyuan chose not to investigate the Old Monkey openly and decided he would eventually recruit him as a disciple while he remained in Kunlun Immortal Market.
• Qingyuan dismissed the visitors, told them not to disrupt Kunlun Mountains over his injury, and sat down to examine the ten blood-colored Demon God Seeds within him.

Qingyuan entered the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm after several centuries of secluded cultivation, then invited fellow disciples to hear him lecture on the Dao. He expanded his Herb Garden with Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and began restoring the Ginseng Fruit Tree’s foundation with precious essences.

• Qingyuan recovered from his injuries, refined the Five Elements Great Dao Laws, and broke through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm, shocking the Three Sects Disciples.
• Qingyuan continued cultivating in Unity of Heaven and Man, drawing closer to the Middle Taiyi Golden Immortal stage and manifesting a green lotus above Serene Peak.
• Qingyuan announced that he would lecture on the Dao at Serene Peak for three hundred years, and he arranged rotating shifts so Interception Sect Disciples could attend without disrupting the Immortal Market.
• Qingyuan added Nine Heavens Breathing Soil to the Herb Garden, giving the Ginseng Fruit Tree and other spiritual roots more space to grow.
• Qingyuan gave the Ginseng Fruit Tree Essence of Wutu, Essence of Renshui, Three Lights Divine Water, and Primordial Rootless Water, triggering a drastic transformation.

Qingyuan watched the Ginseng Fruit Tree wither after he nurtured it, only for it to transform into a powerful spiritual root with fruits that would take three million years to ripen. After Willow Immortal correctly identified the rare substances used in the garden, Qingyuan rewarded it, and the willow tree unexpectedly seemed to want more.

• Qingyuan feared he had killed the Ginseng Fruit Tree when it withered despite the Three Lights Divine Water.
• The Ginseng Fruit Tree revived and grew into a massive black-gold tree, passing Qingyuan information about its extraordinary fruit and three-million-year ripening cycle.
• Qingyuan confirmed that the other spiritual roots were unharmed and left the Herb Garden.
• Willow Immortal asked Qingyuan for a reward after sensing what had happened in the garden.
• Willow Immortal named every substance Qingyuan had used, so he gave it a wisp of each, but the willow tree seemed unsatisfied.

Qingyuan supplied Willow Immortal with vast quantities of rare waters and ancestral sources, which it absorbed without harm as its origin grew stronger. Later, while preaching on Serene Peak, Qingyuan’s ten Demon God Incarnations broke out of their seeds and unleashed overwhelming pressure on the assembled cultivators.

• Willow Immortal absorbed the Three Lights Divine Water, ancestral sources, and Primordial Rootless Water without showing signs of strain, and its origin began to resemble that of an Innate Demon God Variant.
• Willow Immortal told Qingyuan it could soon reach the Golden Immortal realm, and Qingyuan left it to cultivate while returning to seclusion.
• Qingyuan held another preaching session on Serene Peak, drawing an immense crowd of cultivators and setting a later session for thirty years afterward.
• As Qingyuan preached to hundreds of thousands of listeners, he refined the Innate Spiritual Energy entering the Ten Demon God Seeds within him.
• All ten Demon God Incarnations broke free from their shells, and their pressure made the cultivators present collapse to the ground.

Qingyuan suppressed the Ten Demon God Incarnations that surfaced during his lecture, then completed the gathering and received powerful rewards. He used his accumulated Merit to nurture the Primordial Disaster-Free Golden Lotus Divine Seed, stunning everyone on Serene Peak.

• Qingyuan’s aura darkened Serene Peak as the Ten Demon God Incarnations appeared, frightening Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Holy Mother Wudang, and the other cultivators.
• Qingyuan suppressed the incarnations, finished lecturing, and spent decades answering questions and rewarding Jie Sect Disciples and Immortal Market listeners.
• The lecture system rewarded Qingyuan with Daoxing, a Nine Revolutions Golden Elixir, the Primordial Disaster-Free Golden Lotus Divine Seed, the Ten Directions Demon Slaughter God-Killing Cold Rod Soldier, and other treasures.
• Qingyuan recognized that Daoxing rewards would help less as he approached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, while Merit and new disciples could offer greater benefits.
• Qingyuan poured his accumulated Merit into the Golden Lotus Divine Seed, leaving everyone present astonished by his lavish use of Merit.

Qingyuan incubated the Primordial Disaster-Free Golden Lotus Divine Seed with Great Dao Merit, armed his Ten Demon God Incarnations, and ended his lecture at Serene Peak. As he watched the crowd disperse, he unlocked the Registered Disciple 'Five Hundred Types' badge and searched the gathered beings with his divine sense.

• Qingyuan used Great Dao Merit to make the Primordial Exotic Species take root and sprout, then left it to grow within the merit.
• Qingyuan gave ten Heavenly Dao Fierce Treasures to his Ten Demon God Incarnations, which bound the weapons to themselves with essence blood.
• Qingyuan announced nine lectures on Mystic Gate Immortal Dao Methods at Serene Peak and warned the cultivators not to claim his discipleship while harming innocents.
• Qingyuan ended the gathering, and the cultivators dispersed; Yuan Hong memorized the grateful beings as Qingyuan had instructed.
• Qingyuan watched from a pavilion as the crowd departed and unlocked the Registered Disciple 'Five Hundred Types' badge.
• Qingyuan swept his divine sense across the beings present.

Qingyuan met Hong, an Innate Human Race member who had arrived at Serene Peak after a difficult journey, and asked how the Human Race was faring. Hong described how the Human Race had been hunted and driven to depend on rapid reproduction and the Witch Clan.

• Qingyuan noticed Hong weeping among the crowd and realized he was an Innate Human Race member who had missed the end of the lecture.
• Qingyuan invited Hong into a pavilion, where Hong introduced himself and praised the safety and order of the Kunlun Immortal Market.
• Hong told Qingyuan he had traveled from near Buzhou Mountain after securing a ride from the Witch Clan.
• Qingyuan offered Hong Dao tea and asked about the Human Race's circumstances.
• Hong explained that after Empress Nuwa created the Human Race, other races hunted humans as food, while rumors claimed they had been made as rations for the Demon Race.
• Hong said the Human Race had survived through rapid reproduction and reliance on the Witch Clan.

Hong told Qingyuan that the Human Race had weakened until newborns could live only a few dozen days, and Qingyuan resolved to help them. As he committed to acting, his cultivation advanced to the Late Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.

• Hong described the Human Race’s decline, short lifespans, and dependence on the Witch Clan, then thanked Qingyuan for asking Houtu to treat them kindly.
• Hong told Qingyuan that humanity had enshrined his clay statue alongside Empress Nuwa and the three Saints, and that the Human Race had only five Golden Immortals.
• Qingyuan wondered why the Three Ancestors of Humanity had not appeared after nearly fifty thousand years.
• Qingyuan decided to travel and do something for the Human Race despite the dangers of the coming Witch-Demon Tribulation.
• Qingyuan’s thoughts cleared, and his cultivation broke through to the Late Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm.

Qingyuan broke through to the Late Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, while Yun Zhongzi and the others discussed his rapid progress and screened potential disciples. Qingyuan invited Hong to cultivate at Serene Peak and said he would later visit the Human Tribe, leaving Hong startled.

• Qingyuan's aura erupted as he reached the Late Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, astonishing cultivators across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Yun Zhongzi explained how comprehension of the Great Dao Law and opportunities shaped cultivation beyond the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Yun Zhongzi and Yuan Hong screened the cultivators who attended Qingyuan's lecture, removing those who showed hatred or killing intent from the list of possible disciples.
• Qingyuan told Hong to cultivate at Serene Peak and offered him access to resources through Yun Zhongzi and the others.
• Qingyuan said he would accompany Hong to visit the Human Tribe, and Hong exclaimed in surprise that he was going to the Human Race.

Qingyuan strengthened his Ten Demon God Incarnations with two Nine Revolutions Golden Elixirs, raising them to Peak Mystic Immortal and improving his own combat power. He then went to Kunlun Immortal Market, where Yuan Hong reported that the honest old monkey Wuliao had a clean record.

• Qingyuan distributed Ten Million Years of Cultivation among his Ten Demon God Incarnations, bringing them to Late Earth Immortal.
• He crushed two Nine Revolutions Golden Elixirs and let the Ten Demon God Incarnations consume them, accelerating their cultivation to Peak Mystic Immortal.
• Qingyuan sensed that the incarnations could briefly raise him to Early Grand Unity Golden Immortal and left his secluded realm without disturbing Hong.
• Qingyuan traveled to Kunlun Immortal Market and entered through the gate, taking the subway to the main street administration headquarters.
• Yuan Hong told Qingyuan that Wuliao, a Mid-Stage True Immortal who sold wine on Xuanwu Third Ring Wujia District Eighteenth Main Street, had honestly registered his income and committed no offenses for several thousand years.

Qingyuan confronted the humble street vendor Wule over secretly attending his lectures and trying to repay the karmic debt with Immortal Crystals. After revealing that he wanted Wule to become his disciple, Qingyuan left the onlookers stunned.

• Qingyuan and Yuan Hong found Wule selling drinks on the street, and Yuan Hong praised his honest, dutiful conduct.
• Qingyuan bought drinks and cigarettes from Wule, then challenged him about seeking atonement through humble acts and small payments.
• Qingyuan revealed that Wule had attended his Serene Peak Lectures seven times over two thousand one hundred years and accused him of trying to erase the karma with Immortal Crystals.
• Wule tried to leave, but Qingyuan restrained him as the crowd watched and Yuan Hong pleaded for him.
• Wule's pointed ears appeared as his grief and anger grew, and Qingyuan declared that he wanted Wule to become his disciple.