Chapter Summaries

After the Three Thousand Mortal Guests left seclusion, Primordial Immortal Gods and the Dragon Race began crushing the Demon Race’s settlements across the Primordial Wilderness. Di Jun and Tai Yi watched reports of the losses arrive as the Dragon Race and Western Spirit Mountain dealt their forces devastating blows.

• Zhenyuanzi emerged from seclusion, found a Demon Race stronghold near Wuzhuang Temple, and annihilated it along with nearby settlements.
• Luo Qing and other powerful Immortal Gods purged Demon Race settlements across the Primordial Wilderness, prompting orthodox Immortal Gods to join the suppression.
• Azure Dragon led the Dragon Race in driving the Demon Race from the seas and coastal regions, declaring there was no place for demons in the Four Seas.
• Azure Dragon rejected the Demon Race’s claim to the Dragon Race and recalled that Di Jun and Tai Yi had sought to recruit the Dragon and Phoenix Clans.
• Jieyin and Zhunti launched a purge of demon cultivators in the Western Continent, while Di Jun and Tai Yi received reports of the Demon Race’s mounting losses.

Emperor Jun rallied the demon race to consolidate its strength and prepare to establish a royal court, while Luo Qing welcomed several disciples back from cultivation and resumed teaching and refining artifacts. The demon race prepared to seek powerful allies as Luo Qing awaited the next Purple Cloud Palace Sermon.

• Emperor Jun persuaded the demon leaders not to retreat and ordered demon elites from across the regions to gather in the Heavenly Realm and await the right moment to establish a royal court.
• Emperor Jun sent Kunpeng to invite Fuxi and Nuwa, while Tai Yi went to seek Chang Xi and Xi He as allies and prospective empresses.
• The Primordial Immortal Gods assumed the demon race had backed down and dismissed it as no threat.
• Fairy Xihua emerged from seclusion as a Quasi-Sage after deriving an Inner Self World of eleven kalpas, while Luo Xuan and Bai Hua reached the peak of the Grand Luo realm.
• Luo Qing ended his seclusion, taught his disciples, exchanged Dao insights with Fairy Xihua, and studied artifact refining; Long Ling showed a particular talent for the craft.

Dragon Ling presented Luo Qing with the Earth Flowing Water Diagram, which he upgraded and assigned her to use in managing the Hua Tian World’s mountains and waterways. While playing Dao Chess with Shu Dao Ren, Luo Qing learned that Shu had stolen the Phoenix eggs and traded one to Spirit Mountain, then invited him to become Hua Tian Peak’s steward.

• Dragon Ling offered Luo Qing the Earth Flowing Water Diagram as a congratulatory gift, explaining that she had made it to organize the Hua Tian World’s mountains, rivers, and veins.
• Luo Qing upgraded the diagram into a Top-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure and used it to map the Hua Tian World’s terrain and waterways.
• Luo Qing assigned Dragon Ling to manage the mountains, rivers, and veins, freeing Huang Ting to focus on cultivation.
• Luo Qing asked Shu Dao Ren about the missing Phoenix Egg, and Shu admitted that he had stolen both eggs and traded one to Spirit Mountain.
• Luo Qing invited Shu Dao Ren to become the Steward of Hua Tian Peak, and Shu accepted.

Di Jun established the Heavenly Court as its Heavenly Emperor, and his proclamation reached every corner of the Primordial World. Luo Qing watched from Kunlun Mountain, expecting more conflicts to follow.

• Nuwa and Fuxi agreed to join Di Jun’s Heavenly Court, while Luo Qing and the Twelve Ancestor Witches rejected his invitations.
• The Primordial gods, Hongjun, and the Twelve Ancestor Witches watched as Di Jun prepared to establish the Heavenly Court in the thirty-sixth heaven.
• As the sun and moon converged, Di Jun proclaimed the Heavenly Court’s establishment and declared himself its Heavenly Emperor.
• Di Jun’s voice spread throughout the Primordial World, drawing the attention of its living beings and gods.
• Luo Qing heard the proclamation and smiled, anticipating more upheaval.

Di Jun established the demon race’s Heavenly Court, named its Four Emperors, and received Heavenly Dao Merit, while the Witch Clan rejected its authority. Twenty thousand years later, the gods gathered for Hongjun’s second lecture at Purple Cloud Palace, where East King Duke began considering an Immortal Court of his own.

• Heavenly Dao Merit raised Di Jun’s cultivation, and the assembled demons saluted him as Heavenly Emperor.
• Di Jun appointed Tai Yi, Fuxi, and Nuwa as the other Four Emperors, made Kunpeng Teacher of Ten Thousand Demons, and granted officials ranks and merit.
• Di Jiang declared that the Witch Clan would not submit to the demon race’s Heavenly Court, while Di Jun’s forces focused on growing stronger.
• Twenty thousand years later, Luo Qing and the others traveled to Purple Cloud Palace for Hongjun’s second lecture, where Luo Qing noticed many Innate Sacred Beings had reached the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Di Jun arrived with Tai Yi, Kunpeng, and a powerful demon procession, prompting East King Duke to envy his position and consider founding an Immortal Court.

Sage Hongjun completed his second preaching in Purple Firmament Palace, while the absent Witch Clan focused on cultivation. Afterward, East King Duke resolved to pursue an Immortal Court and planned to approach Luo Qing to reach Fairy Xihua.

• Di Jiang dismissed Houtu’s concern about missing the preaching, saying the Witch Clan would rise once the other Ancestral Witches reached the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Sage Hongjun analyzed the Three Thousand Great Daos for three thousand years, and Luo Qing and the other gathered gods gained greatly.
• After the preaching ended, Sage Hongjun sensed clashing killing intent between Demon Emperor Di Jun and East King Duke and feared a future conflict.
• East King Duke watched Di Jun depart and renewed his desire to establish an Immortal Court, but decided he needed allies.
• East King Duke planned to invite Luo Qing first, hoping to approach Fairy Xihua through him.

After emerging from five thousand years of seclusion, Luo Qing planned how to obtain Primordial Violet Qi and attain Sagehood before Hongjun’s other disciples. He concluded that advancing Hua Tian World was central to his plans, just as East King Duke arrived at Kunlun Mountain.

• Luo Qing emerged from seclusion after assimilating what he had learned at the second Saint Preaching and estimated that completing his Inner Self Worlds would take six or seven Kalpa Cycles.
• Luo Qing worried that Nuwa, the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti might attain Sagehood before him, so he began seeking a way to obtain Primordial Violet Qi.
• Luo Qing considered Red Cloud Daoist’s future strand and the possibility that Houtu received another strand, while contemplating having Luo Xuan create the Six Paths of Reincarnation first.
• Luo Qing decided that advancing Hua Tian World could help him refine an Innate Reincarnation Spiritual Treasure or learn how to create Primordial Violet Qi.
• East King Duke arrived at Kunlun Mountain for the second time.

East King Duke visited Hua Tian Peak to recruit Luo Qing and Fairy Xihua into his proposed Immortal Court, but Luo Qing refused and secretly decided to kill him. As East King Duke’s recruiting efforts gained little support, Di Jun began tracking him, and an unexpected visitor arrived offering help.

• East King Duke visited Luo Qing at Hua Tian Peak and praised the growth of his Dao Field.
• East King Duke invited Luo Qing to help establish the Immortal Court, but Luo Qing declined and refused to introduce him to Fairy Xihua.
• Luo Qing became hostile toward East King Duke and resolved that he would not survive until the next Saint Preaching at Purple Firmament Palace.
• East King Duke left Kunlun Mountain and spent several thousand years seeking support, but few immortal gods accepted his invitation.
• Di Jun learned of East King Duke’s plan and ordered the demon race to monitor him, viewing the Immortal Court as a threat to the Heavenly Court.
• After East King Duke’s recruiting efforts faltered, an unwelcome visitor arrived intending to support his Immortal Court.

Luo Qing strengthened the Hua Tian World’s spirit-gathering array and learned that East King Duke had gone to the Eastern Sea. On Penglai Immortal Island, East King Duke agreed to establish the Immortal Court with the Dragon Race’s support in exchange for seeking Heaven’s pardon for its sins.

• Luo Qing set up a Super Remote Spirit Gathering Array that accelerated the growth of the Hua Tian World’s origin.
• Long Ling reported that East King Duke had disappeared along the Eastern Sea coast, and Luo Qing suspected he was heading to Penglai.
• Di Jun learned of East King Duke’s visit to the Eastern Sea and reacted with hostility toward the Dragon Race and concern about Water Spirit.
• Azure Dragon offered Penglai Immortal Island and the Dragon Race’s support for the Immortal Court in exchange for East King Duke seeking a pardon for the Dragon Race’s sins.
• Water Spirit urged East King Duke to accept the Dragon Race’s help, and he agreed to the deal, beginning the construction of the Immortal Court.

East King Duke and Water Spirit established the Immortal Court on Penglai Immortal Island, but shielding the Dragon Race’s remaining karmic sins stalled its fortune and stirred Crimson Baleful Qi. Di Jun learned of the rival court and ordered East King Duke to dissolve it or face an attack, drawing the Primordial Wilderness’s attention to the coming conflict.

• After recruiting tens of thousands of Primordial Immortal Gods, East King Duke and Water Spirit completed preparations to establish the Immortal Court on Penglai Immortal Island.
• East King Duke proclaimed the Immortal Court’s founding, received Heavenly Dao Fortune and Merit, and named himself Immortal Emperor while appointing Water Spirit, the Dragon Race, and other leaders to official positions.
• By granting the Dragon Race protection under the Immortal Court’s Fortune, East King Duke reduced its karmic burden, but the Immortal Court’s Fortune stopped rising and developed Crimson Baleful Qi.
• Di Jun discovered that a large portion of the Heavenly Court’s Fortune had fallen east, and a returning Demon Saint reported the Immortal Court’s establishment.
• Long Ling told Luo Qing that Di Jun had ordered East King Duke to dissolve the Immortal Court within a thousand years or face an invasion in three thousand years; Luo Qing summoned Long Ling and his other disciples for that time.
• News of the impending struggle spread across the Primordial Wilderness, and countless powerful figures turned their attention to the Eastern Sea.

East King Duke rejected Di Jun’s demand to dissolve the Immortal Court and spent three thousand years expanding and fortifying Penglai. As the Demon Race army arrived to destroy it, Luo Qing watched from nearby and caught a giant fish.

• East King Duke refused Di Jun’s ultimatum, citing Sage Hongjun’s appointment and the Immortal Court’s recognition, and joined Water Spirit Holy Mother and the Dragon Race in reinforcing Penglai.
• Over the following three thousand years, the Immortal Court grew to one hundred thousand Immortal Gods as observers gathered near Penglai.
• Luo Qing watched Penglai with Yan Sheng and Long Ling while Huang Ting remained in Hua Tian World overseeing the Super Remote Spirit Gathering Array.
• Di Jun sent Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Demon Master Kunpeng, five Demon Saints, and a vast army to destroy the Immortal Court, ordering Taiyi to ensure East King Duke died.
• Luo Qing joked with Long Ling after years without a catch, then hauled a hundred-zhang Golden Giant Fish from the sea as the Demon Race army appeared near Penglai.

The demon race army arrived at Penglai Immortal Island and demanded that East King Duke disband the Immortal Court. He refused, and the demon race began its assault, leaving the island's protective array trembling but intact.

• Luo Qing watched the demon race's massive army with Yan Sheng and Long Ling, reassuring them that the demon race had offended them first.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi demanded that East King Duke disband the Immortal Court, but East King Duke refused and ordered his immortals to prepare for battle.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi ordered the demon race to attack, while East King Duke and Water Spirit Holy Mother positioned the Immortal Court's soldiers at the island's protective array.
• Old Ancestor Kunpeng commanded the demon soldiers to form the Myriad Demon Grand Array and attack Penglai Immortal Island.
• The array formed a giant demon that struck the protective barrier, and East King Duke rallied the Immortal Court's gods to steady it.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi and the six Demon Sages broke Penglai Immortal Island’s defenses and nearly annihilated the Immortal Court. As the surviving immortals were hunted down, a despairing East King Duke attacked Eastern Emperor Taiyi.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi ordered the demon army to end its month-long assault, and Old Ancestor Kunpeng turned the Myriad Demon Grand Array into a seal around Penglai Immortal Island.
• East King Duke, Water Spirit Holy Mother, and the Immortal Court’s fighters reinforced the island’s protective array as the six Demon Sages struck it with their Innate Spiritual Treasures, killing a third of the immortal soldiers and wounding the island’s spiritual root.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi hurled the Eastern Emperor Bell into the weakened barrier, shattering it and driving Penglai Immortal Island hundreds of meters underground; most of the Immortal Court’s remaining soldiers and many Grand Luo Golden Immortals perished.
• Luo Qing watched the destruction and realized that the Eastern Emperor Bell was far more powerful in Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s hands as a Quasi-Sage.
• The Demon Sages hunted down the surviving Immortal Court members, and Demon Saint Ji Meng killed Old Ancestor Yuan Hai after he begged for mercy.
• East King Duke, driven mad by the Immortal Court’s destruction, attacked Eastern Emperor Taiyi and swore that they were irreconcilable.

As the demon race overwhelmed the Immortal Court at Penglai, Water Spirit Holy Mother and Azure Dragon used the Profound Origin Water Control Banner and Dragon Race reinforcements to force a way out. Eastern Emperor Taiyi allowed them to leave, while East King Duke remained trapped and near defeat.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi ordered the demon race to surround East King Duke, while Old Ancestor Kunpeng and Demon Saint Bai Ze harassed him without striking lethally.
• Azure Dragon urged Water Spirit Holy Mother to retreat, and she agreed to abandon the doomed Immortal Court.
• Water Spirit Holy Mother summoned vast seawater with the Profound Origin Water Control Banner as more than ten Dragon Race Grand Luo arrived to help her.
• Water Spirit Holy Mother threatened the demon race with the seawater and offered to withdraw from the Immortal Court if the Myriad Demon Grand Array opened.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi ordered the demon race to let Water Spirit Holy Mother and Azure Dragon leave, and they escaped with the Dragon Race reinforcements.
• Luo Qing watched the Dragon Race and nearby immortals disappear, then turned his attention back to the still-struggling East King Duke.

As East King Duke’s Immortal Court fell, he self-detonated with his Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, forcing Eastern Emperor Taiyi and six Demon Saints to shield the Demon Army from the blast. While they contained the explosion, Luo Qing slipped into Penglai Immortal Island and reached its hidden Fire Date grove, where he found the Crimson Flame Fire Date.

• After Water Spirit Holy Mother and the Dragon Race abandoned him, East King Duke begged Eastern Emperor Taiyi to spare his life, but Eastern Emperor Taiyi refused and promised the Demon Saints his treasures.
• Realizing the Demon Saints intended to kill him and seize his treasures, East King Duke chose to take his enemies with him and detonated his Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and Divine Body.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi expanded the Eastern Emperor Bell over Penglai Immortal Island, and he and six Demon Saints joined forces to contain East King Duke’s explosion and protect the three hundred thousand Demon Soldiers.
• Luo Qing left Long Ling and Yan Sheng at a distance, broke through a weak point in the Myriad Demon Grand Array, and used a Space Passage to reach a valley behind Penglai Immortal City.
• Luo Qing burned through the valley’s Guardian Spirit Array and found nearly a thousand Fire Date Spiritual Trees, including the Crimson Flame Fire Date, a High-grade Innate Spiritual Root.

Luo Qing escaped Penglai Immortal Island with his disciples after seizing treasures during East King Duke’s self-detonation, which destroyed most of the island and ended the Immortal Court. He tracked East King Duke’s Good Corpse across the Eastern Sea and found Green Boy Lord, who mourned the defeat.

• Luo Qing grabbed the Innate Fire Jujube Root, then risked the self-detonation’s expanding force to retrieve East King Duke’s relic sword before escaping with Yan Sheng and Long Ling.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi watched Luo Qing depart, then led the Demon Race army back to the Heavenly Court after Penglai Immortal Island was mostly destroyed.
• The Immortal Court’s remaining treasures were lost, leaving Old Ancestor Kunpeng and the other Demon Saints without the Divine Treasures Eastern Emperor Taiyi had promised them.
• Luo Qing used the relic sword’s lingering aura to search the Eastern Sea for more than a month, determined to eliminate East King Duke’s Good Corpse.
• Luo Qing found Green Boy Lord on a remote island, where East King Duke’s Good Corpse lamented the Immortal Court’s defeat.

Luo Qing hunted down and destroyed Green Boy Lord, East King Duke’s Good Corpse, then returned toward Kunlun Mountain with his disciples. Sage Hongjun considered the imbalance among the Great Daos, while Luo Qing encountered the Dragon Race still fighting plunderers in the Eastern Sea.

• Green Boy Lord hoped to ask Sage Hongjun for help, but Luo Qing’s sword destroyed his body, spirit, and soul.
• Luo Qing explained the Method of Slaying Three Corpses to Long Ling and erased every trace of Green Boy Lord from the island.
• Sage Hongjun regretted East King Duke’s death and considered how to balance the weakened and rising Great Daos.
• Luo Qing led Yan Sheng and Long Ling back toward Kunlun Mountain and came upon Water Spirit Holy Mother and the Dragon Race battling two Quasi-Sages and more than a dozen Grand Luo Golden Immortals.

Luo Qing watched Water Spirit Holy Mother and two Quasi-Sages battle before his appearance forced the attackers to retreat. Water Spirit Holy Mother and the Dragon Race owed him a debt of karma, and she invited his disciple Long Ling to visit the East Sea Dragon Palace after her cultivation matured; Luo Qing then set off for Kunlun with his disciples.

• Water Spirit Holy Mother and two Quasi-Sages fought until they noticed Luo Qing watching, after which both sides stopped and the attackers withdrew.
• Water Spirit Holy Mother thanked Luo Qing by declaring that she and the Dragon Race each owed him a favor and a debt of karma.
• Water Spirit Holy Mother recognized Long Ling's Innate Water Dragon Origin and asked Luo Qing to send her to the East Sea Dragon Palace when her cultivation matured.
• Long Ling worried that Luo Qing would send her away to join the Dragon Race, but Luo Qing reassured her that she would remain his disciple.
• Luo Qing considered the mystery of Long Ling's origin, then left for Kunlun with Yan Sheng and Long Ling.

After returning to Kunlun Mountain, Luo Qing transplanted the Fire Jujube Mother Tree and secluded himself to cultivate and strengthen Hua Tian World. Meanwhile, the demon clan’s destruction of Penglai Immortal Court expanded its power and intensified the slaughter across the Primordial World, while Luo Xuan discovered that the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven had reached its capacity.

• Luo Qing returned to Hua Tian Peak, transplanted the Fire Jujube Forest beside Hua Tian Immortal Realm, and resumed suppressing the Super Remote Spirit Gathering Array before entering seclusion.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi used East King Duke’s death to restore the demon clan’s prestige and recruit more members into Heavenly Court.
• As the demon clan spread across the Primordial Wilderness, its members and other forces carried out widespread slaughter and devouring.
• Rising deaths and filthy energies filled the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven with Netherworld Qi, which the Netherworld Ghost Willow array gathered to its limit.
• Luo Xuan awoke beneath the Netherworld Ghost Willow, saw the grotto-heaven overflowing with dense Netherworld Qi, and recognized it had reached its capacity.

Luo Qing investigated the rising Netherworld Qi and redirected the excess from the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven into the Hua Tian Yin Realm. He gave Huang Ting authority over the Hua Tian Underworld, considering a future in which Huang Ting might unite the roles of Buzhou Mountain God, Netherworld ruler, and Heavenly Emperor.

• Luo Xuan informed Luo Qing that Netherworld Qi in the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven had risen to its peak, and Luo Qing used the Eye of the Great Dao to inspect the Netherworld regions and the wider Primordial World.
• Luo Qing saw increased killing and baleful energy across the Primordial World, especially in the Northern Primordial Territory, but judged that the situation had not yet reached the point of a Kalpa Tribulation.
• Luo Qing opened a passage with the Yin-Yang Heaven-Transforming Mirror and sent the saturated Netherworld Qi from the Netherworld Grotto-Heaven into the Hua Tian Yin Realm.
• Luo Qing summoned Huang Ting and assigned him to govern the Hua Tian Yin Realm, its earth veins, its Ghosts and Gods, and the cycle of life and death throughout the Hua Tian World.
• Huang Ting moved his residence to the Hua Tian Yin Realm and began overseeing its millions of Ghosts and Gods and departed souls.
• Luo Qing considered Huang Ting's possible future as Buzhou Mountain God, Netherworld Great Emperor, and Heavenly Emperor, but knew he would need to attain Sagehood to realize those ambitions.