Chapter Summaries

On Kunlun Mountain, Yan Sheng and Yan Wolf fought a peak Golden Immortal Water Rhinoceros without using a treasure, while Long Ling watched from above. After she rescued them with one punch, Long Ling invited Yan Sheng to visit Xuan Nü at the Jade Pool, leaving the unconscious Water Rhinoceros behind.

• Yan Sheng and Yan Wolf charged the Water Rhinoceros despite Yan Wolf’s warning that it was too powerful to fight without a treasure.
• Long Ling watched as Yan Sheng and Yan Wolf battled the Water Rhinoceros for three days and three nights before being defeated.
• Long Ling broke the Water Rhinoceros’s horn and knocked it unconscious with a single punch.
• Yan Sheng lamented the gap between his strength and Long Ling’s, while Long Ling blamed his weak Foundation on his bloodline and their master’s neglect.
• Long Ling suggested visiting Xuan Nü at the Jade Pool, and she and Yan Wolf flew ahead as Yan Sheng followed.

Xuan Nü broke through to the Grand Unity realm and began guiding Yan Sheng and Long Ling, while Luo Qing united his three body imprints and reached the Peak of Grand Unity. He found that the Primordial Wilderness's conventional path had ended, leaving him uncertain how to advance toward Sagehood, and he observed the Three Pure Ones nearing their own breakthroughs.

• Xuan Nü transformed from a Phoenix Bird of Grand Unity and offered to guide Yan Sheng and Long Ling in their cultivation.
• Luo Qing captured the Future Body Imprint, united it with his past and present imprints, and reached the Peak of Grand Unity.
• Luo Qing realized that his Fire Dao Fruit could no longer grow within the Primordial Wilderness and found no answer from Heaven and Earth about how to proceed.
• Luo Qing considered Ancestor Hongjun's path of Severing Three Corpses but concluded he could not create another method of becoming a Sage in the short term.
• Luo Qing sensed that the Three Pure Ones were nearing a breakthrough to the Late-stage Grand Unity and looked toward Fairy Xihua at the Jade Pool.

Luo Qing recognized that the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven was becoming overcrowded and stagnant, then devised a way to establish reincarnation in the Hua Tian Small World. After refining the Reincarnation Pool and sending a thousand dead spirits and Yin Souls through it, he searched the mortal world for their new incarnations.

• Luo Qing assessed the cultivation of the Three Pure Ones and Fairy Xihua, then checked Luo Xuan’s progress in the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven.
• Luo Qing toured the Ghost Cities and realized their growing population and lack of reincarnation had left the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven stagnant.
• Luo Qing examined the Hua Tian Yin Realm and considered creating a reincarnation system, inspired by Houtu’s transformation and his own treasure-refining skills.
• Luo Qing refined the top-tier Acquired Spiritual Treasure Reincarnation Pool and placed a thousand dead spirits and Yin Souls inside it.
• The Reincarnation Pool sent the souls into newly conceived lifeforms, and Luo Qing searched the Hua Tian Small World to locate their reincarnations.

Luo Qing refined a system of twelve Reincarnation Treasures that raised the safety of reincarnation in the Hua Tian Underworld to ninety-five percent. After observing the cycle for three thousand years, he became absorbed in thought while Long Ling and Yan Sheng waited nearby.

• Luo Qing found that failed reincarnations resulted from poor compatibility, impure souls, and memories that remained from past lives.
• Luo Qing drew on Underworld legends to create Divine Treasures for cleansing souls, erasing memories, and judging their merits and sins.
• After a thousand years of experiments, Luo Qing finalized twelve top-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures and assigned several Taiyi Ghost Kings to oversee reincarnation.
• The Treasures of Reincarnation began operating, and the first souls were born again in the Hua Tian Small World, though a few died in the womb.
• Luo Qing watched the cycle of life and death for three thousand years, while Long Ling and Yan Sheng waited and wondered about his stillness.

After studying reincarnation in the Hua Tian Small World for thirty thousand years, Luo Qing decided to test its effects by sending fragments of his own soul through the cycle. The chapter ended with those fragments reborn as varied beings across the world.

• Luo Qing realized that he needed to experience reincarnation himself to pursue the answer he had been seeking.
• Luo Qing reassured Yan Sheng and Long Ling, then spent a hundred years preaching the Dao to them.
• Yan Sheng hesitated to ask Luo Qing to transform his Root Bone, then left without making the request.
• Luo Qing concluded that reincarnation could strengthen souls but also erode their Spiritual Nature, and estimated ordinary souls could endure about a hundred thousand years.
• Luo Qing sealed the Spiritual Nature of more than a hundred fragments of his Soul Light and sent them into reincarnation, where they were reborn as many different species.

Luo Qing’s 129,600 Split Souls reincarnated for hundreds of thousands of years, and their returning memories gave him insight into the path to Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal. He emerged from his long trance to find the Primordial World entering an age of powerful Great Luo immortals.

• Luo Qing divided his primordial spirit into 129,600 Split Souls and sent them to reincarnate in the Hua Tian Small World.
• After more than two hundred thousand years, a Split Soul reincarnated as a Green Ox broke its seal, remembered it was Flame Emperor Luo Qing, and returned to him.
• The Split Souls awakened and returned one by one, restoring Luo Qing’s awareness as their accumulated memories illuminated his primordial spirit.
• Three hundred thousand years after his trance began, Luo Qing saw the path to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm and celebrated his insight.
• Luo Qing surveyed Kunlun Mountain and the Primordial World, then felt the fighting spirit of the Flourishing Age of Primordial Wilderness.
• The peak Great Luo auras of the Three Pure Ones, Luo Qing, and Fairy Xihua resonated across the Kunlun Mountain Range, leaving no one to challenge them.

Luo Qing welcomed Huang Ting, the Buzhou Mountain God, as his first bloodline child and accepted him as a disciple. The new family gathered in the Hua Tian Immortal Realm, where Long Ling eagerly claimed the role of Huang Ting’s senior sister.

• After Luo Qing called out to the Five-Colored Divine Mountain, Huang Ting emerged as an Earth Qilin and transformed into human form when Luo Qing named him.
• Huang Ting knelt and addressed Luo Qing as Father God, and Luo Qing accepted him as his child after examining his flawless foundation and powerful cultivation.
• Luo Qing summoned Luo Xuan, Yan Sheng, and Long Ling to meet Huang Ting.
• Huang Ting greeted Yan Sheng and Long Ling as his senior brother and second senior sister, while they reacted with surprise and delight at having a new junior disciple.
• Long Ling enthusiastically promised to protect Huang Ting on Kunlun Mountain, and Luo Qing observed that the honest new disciple might indeed need her care.

Luo Qing introduced Huang Ting to the Hua Tian and Jade Pool lineages, and Huang Ting honored Fairy Xihua as his Mother Goddess. He kept Huang Ting in the Hua Tian Small World to cultivate as its Earth God, then teased Fairy Xihua with a condition for revealing how to advance her Jade Pool Small World.

• Luo Qing introduced Huang Ting to Xuan Nü, Bai Hua, and Fairy Xihua, and Huang Ting bowed to Fairy Xihua as his Mother Goddess.
• The group held a banquet on the Five-Colored Divine Mountain to welcome Huang Ting into the Hua Tian Peak family, then spent three years cultivating together.
• Luo Qing told Huang Ting to govern the land within the Hua Tian Small World as its Earth God, and Huang Ting transformed into a Qilin and went to try.
• Luo Qing revealed to Fairy Xihua that Huang Ting was the Innate Mountain God of Buzhou Mountain, and she understood why he kept Huang Ting out of the outside world.
• Luo Qing told Fairy Xihua that the Hua Tian Small World was close to advancing into a Middle Thousand World, then whispered a condition for sharing the secret with her.
• Fairy Xihua snorted and walked down the mountain without objecting, and Luo Qing followed her.

After analyzing the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls, Luo Qing discovered that they were identical, could be combined in any number, and might eventually be replicated. He used the Remote Spirit Gathering Array to advance the Hua Tian Small World into a Middle World, leaving its Origin Ocean greatly expanded.

• Luo Qing learned that one Sea-Calming Pearl could serve as an embryonic stone for a Small World but required at least Quasi-Sage cultivation to use that ability.
• Luo Qing discovered that all twenty-four Sea-Calming Pearls were identical and could be combined in any quantity, giving him hope of recreating the missing twelve.
• Luo Qing connected the birth of Innate Spiritual Treasures to a world's Heavenly Dao and decided to strengthen the Hua Tian Small World.
• Luo Qing activated the world’s transformation with the Remote Spirit Gathering Array, while Huang Ting spread his land-divine power as the world expanded.
• The Hua Tian Small World grew from thirty million li across to ninety million li and transformed into the Hua Tian Middle World.

Luo Qing upgraded Hua Tian World's array to draw in more chaotic energy, then began creating a method to prove the Dao as powerful beings across the Primordial Wilderness searched for their own paths to Hunyuan. The chapter ended as Ancestor Hongjun triggered his Saint Tribulation in a barren land.

• Luo Qing judged Hua Tian World's will too weak to form its own Heavenly Dao and upgraded the Spirit-Gathering Spirit Array to increase its intake of chaotic energy.
• After meditating for three years, Luo Qing secluded himself to develop a method of proving the Dao based on unifying the self within and without.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi considered gathering the Primordial Star Gods into a clan, while Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian rejected ruling the myriad spirits as a path to Hunyuan.
• Fuxi and Nuwa pursued their own views of the Dao, while Fairy Xihua looked toward the Lunar Star and watched Bai Hua with Luo Xuan from afar.
• Ancestor Hongjun sensed that the time had come and linked his aura to an unknown object in the Nine Heavens, bringing down his Saint Tribulation.

Ancestor Hongjun survived the Saint Tribulation and attained the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin, while the Primordial World’s immortals wondered what his rise would mean for them. He then attempted to merge with the Heavenly Dao but sensed its rejection and realized his karma might be preventing him.

• Ancestor Hongjun endured a vast Thunder Sea tribulation at the universe’s border while the Primordial Myriad Gods watched.
• Luo Qing worried about how Hongjun’s sainthood might affect him and returned to perfecting his Method of Proving the Dao.
• After the Thunder Sea vanished, auspicious signs spread across the Primordial World, confirming that Hongjun had survived and attained the Daluo Golden Immortal of the Origin.
• Fairy Xihua told the Jade Pool and Hua Tian Peak to continue as usual as cultivators across the world grew anxious about the newly proven Dao’s intentions.
• Ancestor Hongjun went to the Origin Land to attempt to merge with the Heavenly Dao, but its rejection led him to suspect his accumulated karma was the obstacle.

Ancestor Hongjun announced that he would preach at Purple Cloud Palace in three thousand years, prompting beings across the Primordial Wilderness to race beyond the heavens to find it. Luo Qing stayed in seclusion to finish deducing his Method of Proving the Dao, sent Fairy Xihua and the others ahead, and realized he had likely lost his connection to Purple Cloud Palace’s greatest opportunity.

• After proving the Saint Position, Ancestor Hongjun found seven strands of Primordial Violet Qi and resolved to spread the Dao.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi abandoned their failed attempt to gather the Primordial Star Gods and considered recruiting other beings instead.
• Ancestor Hongjun announced that he would preach at Purple Cloud Palace in three thousand years, and beings throughout the Primordial Wilderness set out beyond the heavens to seek it.
• Fairy Xihua and the others informed Luo Qing of the announcement, and he told them to go ahead while Huang Ting stayed behind.
• Luo Qing continued his seclusion to deduce the Method of Proving the Dao and sensed that he had likely lost his connection to Purple Cloud Palace’s greatest opportunity.

Luo Qing completed his deduction of the Method of Proving the Dao and set out for the Purple Firmament Palace, while the Twelve Ancestor Witches also traveled there. In the void, Zhu Rong sensed Luo Qing approaching and recognized his old enemy.

• Luo Qing abandoned his chance to head straight to the Purple Firmament Palace so he could finish deducing the Method of Proving the Dao.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches decided to visit the Purple Firmament Palace, despite their reluctance to learn from Sage Hongjun.
• After three Kalpa Cycles of seclusion, Luo Qing emerged and told Huang Ting to guard Hua Tian Peak during his absence.
• Luo Qing set out for the Purple Firmament Palace, hoping to compete for one of the Six Cushions.
• The Twelve Ancestor Witches became lost in spiritual mist in the void, and Zhu Rong sensed Luo Qing approaching and warned his siblings.

Luo Qing was ambushed by the Twelve Ancestor Witches while heading toward the Purple Heaven Palace, but his Karma Fire Red Lotus saved him from their combined strike. Outnumbered and unable to fight back, he mocked the Ancestral Witches for their repeated ambushes, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Luo Qing charged into the Spirit Mist Void Sea, where the Twelve Ancestor Witches ambushed him with an axe made from their combined blood and energy.
• Luo Qing shielded himself with the Karma Fire Red Lotus, which survived the blow but lost nearly half its Spiritual Nature.
• Luo Qing recognized the Twelve Ancestor Witches and realized he could not defeat them alone.
• Luo Qing accused the Ancestral Witches of shamelessly ambushing him and reminded Zhu Rong that the feud began with his earlier attack.
• Di Jiang defended the ambush as a consequence of Luo Qing stealing the Ancestral God Blood Sea, but Luo Qing mocked him and condemned Zhu Rong and the other Ancestral Witches.

Luo Qing provoked the Twelve Ancestor Witches into letting Zhurong face him alone, pretending the duel could settle their grievances while secretly intending to kill Zhurong. As Zhurong prepared to withstand Luo Qing’s Mysterious Dragon Demon-Slaying Sword, Houtu sensed that something was wrong.

• Gonggong, Xuan Ming, and Zhurong erupted in anger when Luo Qing appeared to insult Ancestor God Pangu, and Di Jiang stopped them from charging after him.
• Luo Qing challenged Zhurong to take one attack from him, promising to accept punishment and end their feud if Zhurong endured it.
• Zhurong accepted the challenge despite Di Jiang’s warning and went alone to face Luo Qing in the void.
• Luo Qing drew the Mysterious Dragon Demon-Slaying Sword while the Ancestor Witches judged that its power could not break Zhurong’s Ancestral Witch Body.
• Houtu felt increasingly uneasy as Luo Qing prepared to attack Zhurong.

Luo Qing used his own blood to empower the Mysterious Dragon Demon-Slaying Sword, allowing it to pierce Zhurong’s Ancestral Witch Body. Zhurong chose to face the attack rather than retreat, and the chapter left him being torn apart by the sword light as the other Ancestral Witches rushed to save him.

• Zhurong manifested his Ancestral Witch Body and challenged Luo Qing to attack.
• Luo Qing cut his wrist and let his blood flow into the Mysterious Dragon Demon-Slaying Sword.
• Luo Qing unleashed a river of crimson-black sword light, and Di Jiang and Houtu realized it could penetrate an Ancestral Witch Body.
• Di Jiang, Houtu, and the other Ancestral Witches rushed to protect Zhurong, but Zhurong refused to retreat and charged the sword light with the Blazing Sun Bowl.
• The sword light destroyed Zhurong’s defensive treasure and pierced his Ancestral Witch Body, leaving him screaming as the attack carved into him.

Di Jiang and Houtu saved Zhurong from Luo Qing’s sword, then the Twelve Ancestor Witches pursued Luo Qing after he mocked them and fled. Luo Qing reached the Five-Colored Star Sea before the Purple Firmament Palace, only to discover that crossing it would be a daunting trial.

• Di Jiang and Houtu broke the sword-light torrent and rescued the badly wounded Zhurong, while Di Jiang warned that Luo Qing’s attack threatened the Twelve Ancestor Witches’ survival.
• Houtu asked Luo Qing how he had broken Zhurong’s body, but Luo Qing mocked the Ancestor Witches for breaking their promise and refused to explain.
• The furious Twelve Ancestor Witches charged at Luo Qing, who fled and led them on a years-long chase through the Spirit Mist Void.
• Luo Qing escaped the mist and entered the Five-Colored Star Sea, with the Twelve Ancestor Witches following behind him.
• Inside the Star Sea, Luo Qing discovered that the Purple Firmament Palace was much farther away than it appeared and saw tens of thousands of Immortal Gods struggling to approach it.

Luo Qing crossed the Inch-Long Star Sea and entered the Purple Cloud Palace ahead of the pursuing Ancestral Witches. As more immortals arrived, the first five White Jade Cushions were claimed, and Old Ancestor Kunpeng took the sixth despite a warning feeling.

• Luo Qing used the Inch-Long technique to cross the Star Sea and leave the Twelve Ancestor Witches far behind as they struggled after him.
• The Three Pure Ones entered the Purple Cloud Palace first and took the first three White Jade Cushions.
• Nuwa claimed the fourth cushion, while Fuxi sensed danger and chose a Straw Cushion instead.
• Red Cloud Daoist ignored his ominous feeling and sat on the fifth White Jade Cushion as Ancestor Hongjun watched with regret.
• Old Ancestor Kunpeng reached the palace next and took the sixth cushion, overlooking his own brief feeling of loss.

More immortals arrived at Purple Firmament Palace as the seats filled, and Jieyin and Zhunti decided to seize two White Jade Cushions by appealing to the suffering of the Western World. The chapter ended with them demanding that Red Cloud and Old Ancestor Kunpeng yield their seats.

• Di Jun and Tai Yi arrived and chose front Straw Cushions, while Chang Xi and Xi He sat beside them.
• Fairy Xihua arrived with Xuan Nü, Bai Hua, Luo Xuan, Yan Sheng, and Long Ling, and instructed the younger members to sit in the middle.
• East King Duke recognized Fairy Xihua and remembered their past conflict, while she noticed her enemies and kept her hatred to herself.
• Jieyin and Zhunti arrived after half the allotted time had passed and saw that all six White Jade Cushions were occupied.
• Zhunti chose Red Cloud and Old Ancestor Kunpeng as targets, and he and Jieyin staged a public lament about the Western World’s hardships.
• Jieyin and Zhunti pleaded with Red Cloud and Old Ancestor Kunpeng to yield their White Jade Cushions for the sake of the Western World.

Luo Qing arrived at the Purple Palace as Jieyin and Zhunti pressured Red Cloud Daoist and Kunpeng to give up their white jade seats. Red Cloud yielded his seat and urged Kunpeng to do the same, leaving Kunpeng under mounting pressure from Zhunti and Yuanshi.

• Luo Qing entered the Purple Palace, sensed Ancestor Hongjun watching from the rear hall, and accepted that he had no fate with the six white jade seats.
• Jieyin and Zhunti appealed to Red Cloud Daoist's compassion and the West's suffering until Red Cloud agreed to yield his seat.
• Red Cloud urged Kunpeng to yield too, angering Kunpeng and shifting the pressure onto him.
• Zhunti denounced Kunpeng's origins and lack of virtue, prompting the gathered deities to look on him with disdain.
• Yuanshi declared that Kunpeng was unfit to sit alongside them and demanded that he yield his seat.