Chapter Summaries

Qingyuan met the Twelve Ancestor Witches, who asked him to invite the Three Pure Ones to discuss the Dao in exchange for their blood essence. He deferred his answer and stayed in the Witch Clan’s highly developed realm, where Gonggong soon invited him to meet again.

• Qingyuan entered the Pangu Temple and met the Twelve Ancestor Witches, who tested his devouring Great Dao and congratulated him on attaining Daluo.
• Dijiang warned Qingyuan that Di Jun would seek revenge for White Sha’s death and offered him a place with the Witch Clan.
• Dijiang asked Qingyuan to invite the Three Pure Ones to the Witch Clan, and Zhujiuyin explained they wanted to work with them on the Nine Revolutions Profound Primordial Art.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches offered Qingyuan a drop of ancestral witch blood essence each, but Qingyuan asked for several days to consider and declined to pursue their cultivation art.
• Qingyuan stayed in the Witch Clan’s territory and saw its advanced civilization, which combined technology, star-spanning infrastructure, and Immortal Dao.
• Gonggong invited Qingyuan to meet him again.

Qingyuan agreed to ask the Three Pure Ones to visit the Witch Clan after witnessing its flourishing civilization. At Kunlun Mountains, he found the Interception Sect far more orderly than he had expected and met Sect Master Tongtian, who asked why he had come.

• Qingyuan praised the Witch Clan's governance, and Dijiang asked him to invite the Three Pure Ones to visit.
• Qingyuan agreed to ask the Three Pure Ones but said he could not guarantee their answer.
• Qingyuan traveled to the Kunlun Mountains and saw the many Interception Sect disciples living and cultivating there.
• Daoist Duobao welcomed Qingyuan and led him to Sect Master Tongtian.
• Sect Master Tongtian asked Qingyuan why he had come to the Interception Sect.

Qingyuan visited Sect Master Tongtian to ask whether the Three Pure Ones would meet with the Twelve Ancestor Witches, while struggling with memories of an illusory past in which he had belonged to the Interception Sect. Tongtian gave him a high-grade innate spiritual treasure and sent him to ask the other two Pure Ones; Qingyuan arrived at Yuqing Peak and requested an audience with Venerable Yuanshi.

• Qingyuan spoke with Sect Master Tongtian about the Interception Sect, the Three Pure Ones, and the Twelve Ancestor Witches’ invitation to discuss the Dao and complete the Nine Revolutions Profound Primordial Art.
• Sect Master Tongtian gave Qingyuan an azure high-grade innate spiritual treasure and told him to ask Venerable Yuanshi and the eldest brother whether they would accept the invitation.
• Daoist Duobao escorted Qingyuan from Shangqing Peak, treating him as a visiting stranger.
• Qingyuan flew to Yuqing Peak and found Guangchengzi, True Person Huanglong, and other Chan Sect disciples outside the Jade Void Palace.
• Guangchengzi asked why he had come, and Qingyuan requested an audience with Venerable Yuanshi.

Qingyuan visited Venerable Yuanshi to relay the Twelve Ancestor Witches’ request, but Yuanshi discussed their contrasting Great Daos and deferred the decision to Grand Pure Laozi. After suppressing Guangchengzi’s challenge, Qingyuan traveled to Taiqing Peak to meet Laozi.

• Qingyuan met Venerable Yuanshi, who praised his Devouring Great Dao and invited him to discuss the Dao.
• Qingyuan and Venerable Yuanshi exchanged views on the Heaven-Expounding Dao and the Devouring Great Dao, and Yuanshi sent him to ask Grand Pure Laozi about the witches’ request.
• Guangchengzi challenged Qingyuan to spar, but Qingyuan devoured his attack and dismissed him as too weak to fight.
• Qingyuan traveled from Yuqing Peak to Taiqing Peak and entered the Taiqing Palace.

Qingyuan visited Taiqing Peak to relay the Twelve Ancestor Witches’ request for the Three Pure Ones to discuss the Dao with them, but Grand Pure Laozi set the request aside and questioned Qingyuan’s uncertain plans after attaining mythic Daluo. After they exchanged insights on nonaction and devouring, Laozi warned that the Witches had used the Great Dao to influence Qingyuan into lobbying for them, leaving him shaken and unsure whether his thoughts were his own.

• Qingyuan arrived at Taiqing Peak and, seeing Great Master Xuandu and Grand Pure Laozi, struggled with memories that felt both real and false.
• Qingyuan told Grand Pure Laozi that the Twelve Ancestor Witches wanted the Three Pure Ones to visit the Witch Clan and discuss the Dao, but Laozi set the matter aside and asked what Qingyuan planned to do after transcending.
• Qingyuan admitted that he did not know what to do, and Laozi expressed surprise that someone with an unsettled Dao heart had attained mythic Daluo.
• Grand Pure Laozi and Qingyuan discussed their Ways of Nonaction and Devouring, and their exchange helped Qingyuan gain insight into nonaction.
• Qingyuan asked about the Great Luo saying that everything would begin again, and Laozi replied, “What has been will be again; what has been done will be done again.”
• Grand Pure Laozi told Qingyuan that the Twelve Ancestor Witches had used the Great Dao to influence his thoughts and draw him into lobbying for the Witch Clan, leaving Qingyuan in a cold sweat.

Qingyuan realized the Twelve Ancestor Witches had manipulated what he saw to draw the Three Pure Ones into helping the Witch Clan, and he devised a way to reclaim the initiative. After Qingyuan left Taiqing Palace, the Three Pure Ones recognized that his Great Dao turned falsehood into truth and might let him surpass them.

• Saint Taiqing questioned whether Qingyuan had truly seen the Twelve Ancestor Witches clearly and revealed that they may have shaped what he saw of the Witch Clan.
• Qingyuan recognized the Witches' scheme, thanked Saint Taiqing, and silently devised a way to make them surrender the initiative.
• Saint Taiqing invited Qingyuan to cultivate with the Human Sect, but Qingyuan declined for now and left to handle other matters.
• Saint Taiqing summoned Venerable Yuanshi and Sect Master Tongtian and told them Qingyuan's Great Dao could stand above the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• The Three Pure Ones concluded that Qingyuan's Great Dao turned falsehood into truth and could eventually surpass their own paths.

Qingyuan returned to Pangu Temple and told the Twelve Ancestor Witches that the Three Pure Ones demanded their blood essence and the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique before meeting them. The witches handed over both, believing Qingyuan was advancing their plan, while he secretly kept his own intentions hidden and headed back toward Kunlun.

• Saint Taiqing judged Qingyuan's path unknowable, and the Three Pure Ones realized he had gone to Buzhou Mountain.
• Qingyuan met the Twelve Ancestor Witches at Pangu Temple and claimed the Three Pure Ones had set a condition for meeting them.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches gave Qingyuan twelve drops of their blood essence and the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique.
• Qingyuan left Pangu Temple promising to invite the Three Pure Ones, while the witches believed he would help secure their ascendancy.
• Away from the temple, Qingyuan stored the gifts and turned back toward the Kunlun Mountains, concealing his plan from both sides.

The Twelve Ancestor Witches dismissed Houtu’s concerns about Qingyuan and decided to support Dongwang Gong against the Heavenly Court, sending Houtu to the East Sea. On his return to Kunlun, Qingyuan examined the false Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique and discovered that Ru Shou’s supposedly genuine blood essence contained no Great Dao origin.

• Xuanming questioned why the Three Pure Ones had suddenly agreed to contact the Witch Clan, but Shebishi, Dijiang, and Zhurong argued that Qingyuan had nothing to gain from deceiving them.
• Houtu warned that offending Qingyuan might be unwise, but the other Ancestor Witches dismissed her concern and decided their exchange was a risk-free gain.
• Dijiang ordered Houtu to go to the East Sea and support Dongwang Gong in establishing the Immortal Court against the Heavenly Court.
• Houtu left for the East Sea while continuing to wonder why Qingyuan had shown no reaction after meeting the Three Pure Ones.
• On his way back to Kunlun, Qingyuan read the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique and recognized the suspicious claim that completing it would bring Pangu back to life.
• Qingyuan tested Ru Shou’s metal blood essence and found it was merely high-quality blood, with no Dao Resonance, origin, or Laws.

Qingyuan returned to Saint Taiqing with the Twelve Ancestor Witches’ seemingly false technique and blood drops, and Saint Taiqing revealed them as genuine treasures concealed by their Great Daos. Qingyuan mastered the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, while Saint Taiqing secretly used the test to see whether Qingyuan could turn falsehood into truth, leaving the Three Pure Ones concerned about what his success would mean.

• Qingyuan discovered that the technique and blood drops from the Twelve Ancestor Witches appeared to contain no genuine essence, then brought them to Saint Taiqing.
• Saint Taiqing claimed the treasures were real but concealed, removed the concealment, and revealed the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique and twelve drops of ancestral witch blood essence.
• After Qingyuan left, Saint Taiqing revealed to himself that the treasures were entirely fake and that he had lied to test Qingyuan’s ability to turn falsehood into truth.
• Qingyuan cultivated the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique in a secluded Kunlun valley, transformed his body through all nine stages, and attained an Immortal Physical Body.
• Venerable Yuanshi and Sect Master Tongtian worried that Qingyuan might succeed in mastering a nonexistent technique, while Saint Taiqing said the outcome depended on Qingyuan.

Qingyuan mastered the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique, turning the false art and fake essence blood into a powerful physical body and genuine laws. Grand Pure Laozi then taught him the Nine Revolutions Primordial Art, leaving the Three Pure Ones to wonder whether Qingyuan could make that real technique his own.

• Qingyuan completed his transformation in the valley, forging an extraordinary physical body and refining the Great Dao laws of the Twelve Ancestor Witches.
• The Three Pure Ones tested Qingyuan’s aura and realized that he had turned the supposedly fake technique and essence blood into real power.
• Qingyuan thanked Grand Pure Laozi, who offered to teach him the Nine Revolutions Primordial Art despite Venerable Yuanshi’s attempt to interrupt.
• Qingyuan received the Nine Revolutions Primordial Art and absorbed its scripture into his Dao Foundation before departing.
• Venerable Yuanshi and Sect Master Tongtian questioned Grand Pure Laozi’s decision, but he said they could only watch to see whether Qingyuan mastered the art.

Qingyuan combined the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Technique with the Nine Revolutions Primordial Art, achieving unity of his physical body and primordial spirit and a new form of near-indestructibility. His breakthrough sent shockwaves across the Primordial Wilderness, leaving the saints, the Three Pure Ones, the demons, the Ancestor Witches, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun uneasy.

• Qingyuan realized that the ninth revolution of the Mysterious Technique and the first revolution of the Primordial Art could be practiced together, then circulated both arts through all nine revolutions.
• Qingyuan fused his physical body and primordial spirit, making each able to restore the other and giving him an indestructible quality alongside his true spirit immortality.
• Qingyuan released an aura that swept across Kunlun and drove away innate spiritual energy, vaporized the snow, displaced rocks, and sent rivers into the sky.
• Nuwa sensed Qingyuan's breakthrough and voiced shock and wariness at his unity of body and primordial spirit.
• Jieyin and Zhunti recognized that Qingyuan had become an existence they could not kill, while the Three Pure Ones acknowledged their fear of his achievement.
• Di Jun, the Twelve Ancestor Witches, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun sensed the breakthrough and reacted with concern or silence.