Chapter Summaries

At the third Purple Cloud Palace sermon, Luo Qing learned why Ancestor Minghe resented him and saw Di Jun become the first attendee to reach Mid Quasi-Sage. After Hongjun’s three-thousand-year sermon ended, the gods found themselves at Treasure Distribution Cliff, where the next stage of the gathering was about to begin.

• Luo Qing noticed that nearly five hundred seats were empty and exchanged greetings with the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Fuxi, Water Spirit, and Zhenyuanzi.
• Ancestor Minghe glared at Luo Qing because Hua Tian Peak was competing with the Netherworld Sea of Blood to gather the Primordial Wilderness’s foul and turbid energies.
• Di Jun arrived with the demon race at Mid Quasi-Sage, prompting other divine beings to consider improving their relations with the Heavenly Court.
• Hongjun began his third sermon without mentioning the demon race’s destruction of East King Duke’s Immortal Court, and the demon-race members relaxed.
• Long Ling neared the threshold of Grand Luo Golden Immortal, while Yan Sheng advanced to late Taiyi cultivation through the sermons.
• After Hongjun’s sermon ended, the Purple Cloud Palace vanished and Luo Qing recognized the new setting as Treasure Distribution Cliff.

At Treasure Distribution Cliff, Ancestor Hongjun announced he would merge with the Dao and give away his treasures. He distributed nearly a hundred Innate Spiritual Treasures among his six disciples, banished the God-Slaying Spear, and gave the Plain Cloud Boundary Flag to Fairy Xihua.

• Ancestor Hongjun explained that he would use his Sage body to mend flaws in the Great Dao and merge with the Heavenly Dao.
• Ancestor Hongjun summoned Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti, then revealed nearly a hundred Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Ancestor Hongjun distributed the treasures among his six disciples, but the God-Slaying Spear and Plain Cloud Boundary Flag refused to go to Tongtian.
• Ancestor Hongjun sent the God-Slaying Spear into the Primordial World for someone destined to find it.
• Ancestor Hongjun gave the Plain Cloud Boundary Flag to Fairy Xihua beside Luo Qing.

Sage Hongjun distributed the remaining treasures and bestowed Primordial Violet Qi on his six disciples and Red Cloud Daoist. Luo Qing received none and resolved to analyze the Qi himself, while Old Ancestor Kunpeng resented Hongjun’s favoritism toward Red Cloud.

• The God-Slaying Spear vanished into the Primordial World, and Fairy Xihua accepted the Plain Cloud Boundary Banner after Luo Qing reassured her.
• Sage Hongjun finished distributing the Innate Spiritual Treasures, clearing his karmic burden and preparing to Merge with Dao.
• Luo Qing recognized the seven strands of Primordial Violet Qi and restrained himself from using the Eye of the Great Dao to examine them.
• Sage Hongjun gave six strands of Primordial Violet Qi to Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti, then bestowed the final strand on Red Cloud Daoist for his virtue.
• Luo Qing felt disappointed at being passed over and resolved to analyze Primordial Violet Qi himself, while Old Ancestor Kunpeng resented Red Cloud’s reward.

After Ancestor Hongjun distributed treasures to the remaining guests and departed to Merge with Dao, Luo Qing followed Red Cloud Daoist from Purple Firmament Palace. He ambushed Red Cloud near his mountain, then revealed that he wanted to borrow the Primordial Violet Qi.

• Ancestor Hongjun gave the remaining guests spiritual treasures and immortal items, then vanished with Treasure Distribution Cliff and Purple Firmament Palace to Merge with Dao.
• The gods returned to the Primordial Great Land in search of the Innate Supreme Treasure, while Luo Qing sent Fairy Xihua and the others back to Kunlun Mountain and followed Red Cloud Daoist.
• Luo Qing tracked Red Cloud Daoist to Red Cloud Mountain and attacked with the Yin-Yang Heaven-Transforming Mirror and Mysterious Dragon Demon-Slaying Sword, trapping him in a Spatial Cage.
• Red Cloud Daoist prepared to defend himself, but Luo Qing appeared and assured him that he had no intention of killing him.
• Luo Qing told Red Cloud Daoist that he had come to borrow the Primordial Violet Qi bestowed by Sage Hongjun.

Luo Qing pressured Hong Yun into lending him the Primordial Violet Qi and settled at Red Cloud Mountain to analyze it. Ancestor Hongjun learned of the arrangement but chose not to interfere, while Hong Yun eventually stopped worrying that Luo Qing would leave with the treasure.

• Luo Qing threatened Hong Yun with the Mysterious Dragon Demon-Slaying Sword until Hong Yun agreed to lend him the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Hong Yun handed over the qi, and Luo Qing promised to return it after studying it and to remain at Red Cloud Mountain while he did so.
• Luo Qing privately considered destroying Red Cloud Mountain and taking the treasure if he could not analyze another strand of Primordial Violet Qi.
• Ancestor Hongjun learned that Luo Qing had obtained the qi but concealed the Heavenly Secrets and left the matter to Luo Qing's own ability.
• Luo Qing began analyzing the qi in seclusion and estimated that the work would take at least three thousand years.
• After checking on Luo Qing for three hundred years and seeing that he remained in seclusion, Hong Yun finally felt at ease.

After discovering that Primordial Violet Qi could be condensed only at an enormous cost to a world's origin, Luo Qing returned it to Red Cloud Daoist and went back to Kunlun Mountain. He helped Fairy Xihua advance the Jade Pool World into a Middle Thousand World, then prepared it for further growth before leaving with gifts for Huang Ting, Long Ling, and the others.

• Luo Qing learned that creating Primordial Violet Qi would consume enough World Origin to halt a world's development for tens of millions of years, and he decided not to pursue Red Cloud Daoist's wisp.
• Luo Qing returned the Primordial Violet Qi to Red Cloud Daoist, promised him a karmic favor, and departed for Kunlun Mountain; Red Cloud then fled Red Cloud Immortal Mountain, fearing others would covet the treasure.
• Luo Qing returned to Kunlun Mountain and considered how the Witch-Demon War and Buzhou Mountain's destruction would change the Primordial World's growth.
• Luo Qing entered the Jade Pool World to help Fairy Xihua advance it, and a hundred years later it became a Middle Thousand World.
• Luo Qing gave Fairy Xihua an improved Super Remote Spirit Gathering Array and accepted Yellow Middle Plums and Moon Laurel Enlightenment Flowers to distribute among Huang Ting, Long Ling, and the others.

Luo Qing cultivated in seclusion as the Hua Tian World absorbed Chaos energy, until Hongjun merged with the Dao and the Primordial World’s Great Dao began withdrawing. As cultivation grew harder and Hongjun stopped responding to the Three Pure Ones, they decided to remain safely in seclusion at Kunlun Mountain.

• Luo Qing distributed immortal fruits and treasures to his disciples, then entered secluded cultivation in the Origin Land to accelerate the Hua Tian World’s growth.
• For ten thousand years, the Primordial World’s powers searched for the God-Slaying Spear and awaited the effects of Hongjun’s merger with the Dao, while conflict among lower-level races intensified.
• Fifty thousand years after Hongjun’s third lecture, thunderous Dao Sound purified the Primordial World, and auspicious phenomena announced that Hongjun had completed his merger with the Dao.
• Luo Qing used the Eye of the Great Dao to observe Heaven and Earth’s changes, recognized that the Great Dao was withdrawing and cultivation would become harder, then returned to seclusion.
• At Jade Void Mountain, Laozi told Yuanshi and Tongtian that Hongjun had not answered his call, and the Three Pure Ones agreed to stay in seclusion at Kunlun Mountain.

After Hongjun merged with the Dao, the Primordial World began shifting from Innate Beings toward Acquired Beings, while powerful immortals waited and prepared for the changes. Luo Qing finished conquering the Inner Self Worlds of the fourth Kalpa, reached Mid Quasi-Sage, and resisted merging with Hua Tian World.

• The Three Pure Ones and the Western Dao lineage shut themselves away, while Nuwa and Fuxi moved into the Demon Clan's Heavenly Court for protection.
• Di Jun questioned Nuwa about her contact with Dao Ancestor, and Tai Yi and Di Jun suspected she had lost contact with him.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi resolved to build up the Heavenly Court and become Sages before the other Primordial Gods.
• After Hongjun merged with the Dao, Innate Beings and ancient races declined as Acquired Beings and newly born species grew more numerous.
• Luo Qing completed the forty-third thousand two-hundredth Inner Self World, raising his cultivation to Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal, Mid Quasi-Sage.
• Luo Qing felt he could turn Hua Tian World into a Heavenly Dao, but suppressed the impulse to merge with it.

After nearly being assimilated by Hua Tian World's growing will, Luo Qing realized the danger would increase as the world evolved. He decided to strengthen the Fire Spirit Pearl's consciousness so it could merge with Hua Tian in his place.

• Luo Qing surveyed Hua Tian World and realized its growing will might eventually overpower his own and assimilate him.
• Luo Qing considered how Dao Ancestor Hongjun had balanced the Primordial World Heavenly Dao with the Creation Jade Butterfly, but he lacked a suitable treasure.
• Luo Qing rejected sacrificing the Creation Green Lotus or Innate Gourd Vine and found that his four Innate Spirit Pearls could no longer adequately suppress Hua Tian World's origin.
• Luo Qing recalled transferring the Fetal Heart Demon Seal to a clone, but decided he could not risk dividing his primordial spirit on his path to Sainthood.
• Luo Qing chose the Fire Spirit Pearl as a substitute to merge with Hua Tian and resolved to strengthen its weak Artifact Spirit.

Luo Qing awakened the Fire Spirit Pearl’s Artifact Spirit and sent it into reincarnation to prepare for merging with the Hua Tian Heavenly Dao. While observing the Primordial Wilderness, he saw the conflicts worsening and foresaw the destruction of the Five Colors Human Race.

• Luo Qing guided the Fire Spirit Pearl’s spirituality into forming an Artifact Spirit, whom he named Fire Spirit.
• Luo Qing asked Fire Spirit to merge with the Hua Tian Heavenly Dao, and Fire Spirit gratefully agreed.
• Luo Qing sent Huo Ling'er into Hua Tian World’s reincarnation cycle and sent the Fire Spirit Pearl to Hua Tian World’s Origin Land.
• Luo Qing observed that cultivation had grown harder since Hongjun Dao Ancestor merged with the Dao, and saw resource conflicts spreading across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Luo Qing considered how the accumulated conflicts would feed into the coming Witch-Apocalypse Calamity and wondered about the Five Colors Human Race’s fate.
• Luo Qing saw a vision of demons slaughtering the Five Colors Human Race and turning tens of millions of its people into food.

After foreseeing the Five Colors Human Race’s destruction, Luo Qing decided to relocate them before the next Kalpa Tribulation. He sent Yan Sheng and Long Ling on the mission and forced Bi Fang to serve as Long Ling’s mount, leaving the disciples to begin their training journey.

• Luo Qing created an ice moon beyond the Nine Heavens and summoned Yan Sheng and Long Ling to Five-Colored Divine Mountain.
• Luo Qing told Yan Sheng and Long Ling to travel to the Southern Primordial Territory and relocate the Five Colors Human Race before the coming calamity.
• Yan Sheng and Long Ling asked to bring Huang Ting along, but Luo Qing refused and called the mission a training task.
• Long Ling released Bi Fang, and Luo Qing lifted the seal that had kept him as a mortal pet for three Kalpa Cycles.
• Luo Qing offered Bi Fang the choice of becoming Long Ling’s mount or dying, and Bi Fang agreed to serve her.

Luo Qing gave Long Ling control of Bi Fang and equipped his disciples with Cave Heaven bracelets before sending them to recruit willing members of the Five Colors Human Race. He then continued preparing Huo Ling'er's reincarnation, while the Ancestral Witches discussed the Witch Clan's future once all twelve reached the Quasi-Sage realm.

• Luo Qing placed a driving spell in Bi Fang's primordial spirit and made him Long Ling's mount.
• Luo Qing refined ten Cave Heaven bracelets for Yan Sheng and Long Ling, instructing them to bring back only those who chose to migrate.
• Yan Sheng and Long Ling rode Bi Fang south from Kunlun Mountain to recruit the Five Colors Human Race.
• Luo Qing manipulated Hua Tian World's will to strike down Huo Ling'er's reincarnated cow demon with a thunder tribulation, then sent its Fire Spirit True Spirit into reincarnation again.
• Di Jiang and the other Ancestral Witches discussed how the Witch Clan could challenge the Demon Gods and claim a place in the Heaven Court once all twelve attained the Quasi-Sage realm.

The Ancestral Witches discussed killing Luo Qing but decided to wait until Zhurong and the others reached Quasi-Sage so they could use the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiend Great Array. Sensing killing intent from Buzhou Mountain, Luo Qing suspected the Ancestral Witches were preparing to target him and considered his Divine Treasures.

• Di Jiang warned the Ancestral Witches that Luo Qing could harm their bodies and should be eliminated before they contended with the Divine Race.
• Tian Wu proposed that the eight Quasi-Sage Ancestral Witches attack Kunlun Mountain, but Di Jiang and Houtu opposed her because Kunlun’s allies and the unguarded Witch Clan made the plan too risky.
• Di Jiang persuaded the Ancestral Witches to wait for Zhurong and the others to advance, so ten could attack while two guarded Buzhou Mountain and the twelve could form their great array.
• Xuan Ming and the other six hid their Quasi-Sage cultivation in Witch God Palace, leaving only Di Jiang and Houtu active outside to avoid alerting the Divine Race.
• Luo Qing sensed threatening killing intent from Buzhou Mountain and judged that either the Ancestral Witches or the Divine Race might be targeting him, though he suspected the Ancestral Witches.
• Luo Qing worried that even his Peak Quasi-Sage cultivation would not withstand the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiend Great Array and turned his attention to the Innate Gourd Vine and Creation Green Lotus.

Luo Qing studied the Seven Gourd Embryos, hoping to combine them into an Innate Supreme Treasure before the Twelve Ancestor Witches threatened him. Meanwhile, Yan Sheng and Long Ling searched the Southern Territory for the Five Colors Human Race and headed toward its ancestral land after finding its former settlements deserted.

• Luo Qing examined the mature Seven Gourd Embryos with the Eye of the Great Dao and considered combining them into one Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Luo Qing began strengthening and transforming Fire Spirit while studying the Innate Gourd Vine and its seven gourds.
• Yan Sheng and Long Ling traveled into the demon-dominated Southern Territory on the Bi Fang Bird to complete their trial mission.
• Yan Sheng and Long Ling found more than a dozen former Five Colors Human Tribe sites deserted and worried that the race had vanished or migrated.
• Yan Sheng suggested searching the Five Colors Human Race's ancestral land near the South Sea before questioning local Immortal Gods or demons.

Yan Sheng and Long Ling rescued the surviving Five Colors Human Race from the Monster Race and brought them to Luo Qing, who moved them into Hua Tian World. Luo Qing reunited with Huoshi and prepared to forge an Innate Supreme Treasure when Hua Tian World ascended to a Great Thousand World, as Fire Spirit’s reincarnation approached its end.

• Yan Sheng and Long Ling led the surviving million members of the Five Colors Human Race away from the Southern Domain after Yan Sheng and the Bi Fang Bird killed a Monster Race Grand Luo expert.
• Fifteen hundred years later, Yan Sheng and Long Ling reported their mission to Luo Qing and presented the ten Cave Heaven Divine Treasures holding the Five Colors Human Race.
• Luo Qing summoned Huoshi, recognized his former elder from the Five Elements Tribe, and exchanged memories with him.
• Luo Qing moved the Five Colors Human Race into Hua Tian World, where they began settling across the land.
• Luo Qing reviewed Fire Spirit’s nearing end of reincarnation and finalized his plan to fuse the seven gourd spirit fetuses when Hua Tian World became a Great Thousand World.

After Fire Spirit survived her hundredth reincarnation and became an Earth Immortal, Luo Qing prepared her to Merge with the Dao during Hua Tian World's ascension. He also helped Long Ling prepare to Revert to Innate and become a Water Source Sacred Being, then began the world's ascension.

• Fire Spirit survived her hundredth immortal tribulation, awakened her memories, and agreed to Merge with the Dao when Hua Tian World's ascension began.
• Luo Qing sent Fire Spirit into the Hua Tian Origin Land to familiarize herself with the origin before merging with the Dao.
• Luo Qing summoned Long Ling and offered to raise her Foundation so she could become an Innate Sacred Being; Long Ling first asked him to give the opportunity to Yan Sheng.
• Luo Qing gave Long Ling the Water Element Emperor Position Dharma Form framework and Divine Body Construction Diagram, and she condensed the position seed and learned the Water Source Sacred Divine Body.
• With Fire Spirit and Long Ling prepared, Luo Qing began Hua Tian World's ascension to a Great Thousand World.

Luo Qing used the Hua Tian World’s ascension to transform the Innate Gourd Vine and establish the Hua Tian Minor Heavenly Dao. After the world became a Great Thousand World, he sent Long Ling into the Origin Ocean to begin her transformation.

• Luo Qing pulled up the Innate Gourd Vine and cast it with the Seven Gourd Embryos into the Hua Tian Origin Ocean to trigger the world’s ascension.
• Huoshi reassured the Five Colors Human Race that Luo Qing was ascending the Hua Tian World.
• Luo Qing sent Fire Spirit into the Origin Ocean, where she merged with the Hua Tian World Will and became its dominant force.
• Over five hundred years, the Hua Tian World expanded to nine hundred million li and ascended into a Great Thousand World, forming the Hua Tian Minor Heavenly Dao around Fire Spirit.
• Luo Qing confirmed that the Minor Heavenly Dao remained under his control, then sent Long Ling into the Origin Ocean, where she began reverting into a Sacred Dragon Egg and transforming her Sacred Body.

Luo Qing used the Hua Tian Great Thousand World’s merit and Minor Heavenly Dao to refine the Innate Gourd Vine and its seven Treasure Gourds into an Innate Supreme Treasure, the Mysterious Black Thunder Gourd. After five thousand years of refinement drained the world’s origin and left it devastated, Luo Qing took the completed gourd and left the Hua Tian World.

• Long Ling transformed into a Dragon Egg to begin her Sacred Transformation, and Luo Qing removed her from the Origin Ocean before the ascension.
• The Hua Tian World ascended into a Great Thousand World, and merit descended on Luo Qing, the Innate Gourd Vine, Long Ling, and Huang Ting.
• Luo Qing gathered the merit and guided the Hua Tian Minor Heavenly Dao to refine the seven Treasure Gourd Embryos into an Innate Supreme Treasure.
• Over five thousand years, the refinement consumed the Hua Tian World’s origin, leaving much of its land barren and its spiritual energy diminished.
• The refinement produced the Mysterious Black Thunder Gourd, and Luo Qing took it through a rift in the Hua Tian World Barrier.

Luo Qing left Hua Tian World and tempered his Innate Thunder Gourd in the Chaos Void, naming it the Heaven-Opening Thunder Gourd. His thunder drew Grand Immortal Yang Mei out of hiding, and Luo Qing demanded to know why Yangmei had left Primordial World.

• Luo Qing traveled beyond Primordial World's influence and chose a place in the Chaos Void to temper his Innate Thunder Gourd.
• Luo Qing released a thunderbolt that dispersed the Chaos Qi across a vast region and briefly formed the illusion of a new world.
• Luo Qing named the treasure the Heaven-Opening Thunder Gourd and immediately refined it as its master.
• Luo Qing sensed someone watching and threatened to use the gourd unless the hidden figure appeared.
• Grand Immortal Yang Mei emerged and introduced himself, while Luo Qing questioned why he had abandoned Primordial World.
• Grand Immortal Yang Mei eyed the Heaven-Opening Thunder Gourd warily and suppressed his thoughts of taking it by force.

Grand Immortal Yang Mei told Luo Qing that Hongjun had betrayed him and warned him to keep their meeting secret, but Luo Qing secretly followed him through the Chaos Void. Luo Qing ambushed Yang Mei with his treasures, trapping him in a thunderstorm as the attack left him uncertain whether Yang Mei could survive.

• Grand Immortal Yang Mei recounted how Hongjun had allegedly sacrificed Yin Yang and Qiankun in a plot to prove the Dao, then warned Luo Qing not to reveal their meeting.
• Grand Immortal Yang Mei departed, unaware that Luo Qing had used his Eye of the Great Dao to trace his spatial Dao Resonance.
• Luo Qing followed Yang Mei toward a Chaos Mountain, preparing the Heaven-Opening Thunder Gourd, Yin-Yang Heaven-Transforming Mirror, and Mysterious Dragon Demon-Slaying Sword.
• Luo Qing froze the surrounding void with the Yin-Yang Heaven-Transforming Mirror and struck Yang Mei with Mysterious Black Divine Thunder.
• Luo Qing unleashed three more thunderbolts at Yang Mei, spending thirty percent of his Dharma Power while remaining wary of Yang Mei's possible life-saving trump cards.