Chapter Summaries

After Luo Qing attained sainthood, the Three Pure Ones, other powerful figures, and the Witch and Demon Clans reacted with shock and fear. Di Jun sought to strengthen himself, while Di Jiang planned to appease Luo Qing and raise the Twelve Ancestor Witches’ cultivation so they could better withstand a Saint.

• Yuanshi struggled to accept that Luo Qing had become a Saint and attained the Dao, while Tongtian saw his achievement as inspiration for his own path.
• Laozi warned the gathered gods not to discuss Luo Qing carelessly, and they looked forward to hearing his teachings in ten thousand years.
• Di Jun concluded that he had no serious enmity with Luo Qing, entrusted Tai Yi with the Demon Clan’s aftermath, and withdrew to heal and cultivate.
• Di Jiang ordered the Witch Clan to stop seeking revenge and send Luo Qing a generous congratulatory gift to ease their relationship.
• Di Jiang urged the Twelve Ancestor Witches to raise their cultivation, believing their formation could protect them from Saints if they became strong enough.

After attaining Sainthood, Luo Qing returned to Hua Tian Peak, reassured his family that their relationship would not change, and arranged a lecture for Kunlun Mountain’s immortals. He then inspected Hua Tian Universe and considered how to obtain another strand of Primordial Violet Qi, but its prospects were not encouraging.

• Luo Qing returned to Hua Tian Peak, where Fairy Xihua, Yan Sheng, Long Ling, and the others congratulated him on becoming a Sage.
• Luo Qing urged his family to treat him as before, and he corrected Long Ling when she boasted about her new status as a Sage’s disciple.
• Luo Qing announced that he would lecture Kunlun Mountain’s immortals and gods for a thousand years, beginning three thousand years later.
• Luo Qing went to Hua Tian Universe and observed its immense growth and the embryonic Great Daos forming in its Origin Land.
• Luo Qing connected with Hua Tian Heavenly Dao to learn how Hua Tian Universe might produce another strand of Primordial Violet Qi, but the situation appeared bleak.

Luo Qing concluded that waiting for new Primordial Violet Qi was impractical and resolved to reach the Primordial Violet realm before Pangu revived. After finding that ordinary cultivation had brought little progress, he considered developing his Divine Dao and competing with Ancestor Hongjun for the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao.

• Luo Qing learned that the Hua Tian Universe would need more than a thousand Kalpa Cycles to produce another strand of Primordial Violet Qi, but believed he could evolve more universes over time.
• Luo Qing assessed his Sage-level cultivation and suspected Pangu had possessed the Primordial Violet Power Great Dao and might one day return.
• After several thousand years of cultivation, Luo Qing found little progress and realized ordinary Dao-comprehending resources no longer helped Sages.
• Luo Qing considered advancing his Divine Dao alongside his Immortal Dao, potentially combining his Dao Fruits with Luo Xuan's after the clone returned.
• Luo Qing considered merging with the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao but concluded he could not do so before Ancestor Hongjun, especially with Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones soon to become Sages.

After ten thousand years of seclusion, Luo Qing began planning to merge the Five Colors Human Race with the Hua Tian Human Race by relocating the Five Colors Human Race into the universe’s Small Worlds. Huang Ting carried out the order, and within a few years ten billion members had been moved.

• Luo Qing ended his seclusion and learned that Huang Ting and Long Ling had spent ten thousand years reorganizing the Hua Tian Universe while humans from its Small Worlds ascended into the Hua Tian World.
• Luo Qing decided to prepare the Hua Tian Human Race to become the future World Protagonist and planned to use the Small Worlds to shelter and cultivate humanity.
• Luo Qing summoned Huang Ting and ordered him to relocate at least ten billion Five Colors Human Race members below the immortal and divine realms into the Small Worlds.
• Huang Ting warned that the Five Colors Human Race elders might resist, but Luo Qing insisted the relocation proceed.
• Huang Ting and thousands of Five Colors Human Race immortals completed the relocation of ten billion people within a few years.

After the Five Colors Human Race integrated into the Hua Tian Human Race, Luo Qing advised his disciples on paths to attain the Dao. Yan Sheng chose to reincarnate and cultivate anew so he could pursue the Great Dao, and Luo Qing agreed to send him into reincarnation in ten years.

• Huang Ting moved ten billion Five Colors Human Race members to Hua Tian Earth, where they eventually integrated into the Human Race.
• Luo Qing finished preaching to his disciples and explained the advantages and risks of the Method of One Yuan Perfection and the Method of Slaying Three Corpses.
• Long Ling chose the Method of One Yuan Perfection, while Yan Sheng, Kong Xuan, Shu Dao Ren, and Xuan Nü postponed their decisions.
• Long Ling asked whether a method of attaining the Dao through the Divine Dao existed, and Luo Qing said one would emerge in the future.
• Yan Sheng asked Luo Qing to let him reincarnate as a member of the Hua Tian Human Race and cultivate anew; Luo Qing agreed to send him into reincarnation in ten years.

Yan Sheng underwent reincarnation at Luo Qing’s hand and was reborn as Yan Tianyu, a human infant in the war-torn Guangyuan Realm. Luo Qing refused Long Ling’s request to watch over him, trusting the Dao Jade to protect him as he was tempered for the Human Emperor’s role, and told Long Ling to prepare for a future journey to the East Sea Dragon Clan.

• Yan Sheng spent ten years bidding farewell to friends on Kunlun Mountain before kneeling before Luo Qing and entering reincarnation.
• Luo Qing transformed Yan Sheng into a strand of Zhen Ling and sent it through the Reincarnation Pool toward a small world.
• Three years later, Yan Tianyu was born in a Fire Tribe village amid auspicious phenomena, clutching the Dao Jade Luo Qing had placed with him.
• Long Ling asked Luo Qing to send someone to protect and guide Yan Tianyu, but Luo Qing refused and explained that the Dao Jade would keep him safe while he endured hardship.
• Luo Qing told Long Ling to visit the East Sea Dragon Clan after ten thousand years to seek the divine position of Lord of Canghai.

Luo Qing decided to strengthen the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao by encouraging Primordial Gods to create Affiliated Universes, which could also hinder Ancestor Hongjun from merging with the Dao. He began designing a Heaven-Opening Divine Treasure that would let lower-ranked cultivators open worlds, but realized he first needed the Earth Spirit Heaven-Opening Imprint.

• Luo Qing concluded that expanding the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao through Affiliated Universes was the best way to make Ancestor Hongjun abandon merging with the Dao.
• Luo Qing decided to create a Heaven-Opening Method that would let Grand Unity Golden Immortals and Grand Luo Golden Immortals open Small Worlds or Blessed Land Grotto-Heavens.
• Luo Qing studied the Twenty-Four Sea-Calming Pearls and deduced that adapting them into Acquired Spiritual Treasures would make them suitable for opening Grotto-Heavens, but not for easily evolving Small Worlds.
• Luo Qing considered combining the Sea-Calming Pearls with the Yin-Yang Heaven-Transforming Mirror and the Heaven-Opening Imprints in his four Innate Spirit Pearls to create a widely usable Heaven-Opening Divine Treasure.
• Luo Qing realized that he lacked the Earth Spirit Heaven-Opening Imprint and looked toward Jade Void Mountain on Kunlun Mountain, where he believed it might be found.

Luo Qing refined the Three Treasures Ruyi, a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure that could gather and suppress a sect’s Fortune, intending to trade it with the Three Pure Ones for the Earth Spirit Heaven-Opening Imprint. Long Ling invited the Three Pure Ones to Hua Tian Peak, where Luo Qing planned to discuss an important matter with them.

• Luo Qing refined twelve Sea-Calming Pearls with the Hua Tian Heavenly Dao, restoring the set of thirty-six pearls and successfully testing Heavenly Dao Treasure Refining.
• Luo Qing spent a hundred years refining the Three Treasures Ruyi, a treasure specialized in suppressing Fortune.
• Luo Qing wondered whether the Three Pure Ones would recognize the treasure’s value and sent Long Ling to invite them to Hua Tian Peak.
• The Three Pure Ones, uneasy about living beside the newly ascended Sage Luo Qing while holding Primordial Violet Qis, personally received Long Ling at Jade Void Mountain.
• Long Ling told the Three Pure Ones that Luo Qing had invited them to Hua Tian Peak to discuss an important matter.

The Three Pure Ones feared that Luo Qing had summoned them to demand their Primordial Violet Qi, so they sought Hongjun Dao Ancestor’s guidance. Hongjun approved their visit to Hua Tian Peak, while he and Luo Qing remained wary of how to deal with each other.

• Long Ling invited the Three Pure Ones to meet Luo Qing at Hua Tian Peak in ten days, and Laozi accepted on their behalf.
• After Long Ling left, Yuanshi and Tongtian worried that Luo Qing might take their Primordial Violet Qi, and they persuaded Laozi to consult Hongjun Dao Ancestor.
• The Three Pure Ones prayed before Hongjun’s portrait, and Hongjun sensed their request and replied, “Approved!”
• Reassured by Hongjun’s response, the Three Pure Ones agreed to prepare for their visit to Hua Tian Peak.
• Hongjun considered Luo Qing’s sudden rise and the danger of a conflict between Sages, then resolved to persuade Luo Qing rather than abandon his plan to Merge with Dao.

Luo Qing summoned the Three Pure Ones, gave them his experience of attaining sainthood, and asked to exchange for the Kirin Clan’s Earth Spirit Heaven-Opening Imprint. Yuanshi accepted the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Three Treasures Ruyi in exchange, leaving Luo Qing with the imprint.

• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian arrived at Hua Tian Peak and respectfully greeted Luo Qing.
• Luo Qing gave the Three Pure Ones a Jade Slip containing his experience of attaining sainthood and surviving the Thunder Tribulation.
• The Three Pure Ones grew wary when Luo Qing mentioned an exchange, but he assured them he did not want their Primordial Violet Qi.
• Luo Qing asked Yuanshi for the Kirin Clan’s Earth Spirit Heaven-Opening Imprint, which Yuanshi had kept in a Mysterious Yellow Dao Jade.
• Luo Qing exchanged the imprint for the Three Treasures Ruyi, a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure that could conceal and suppress Fortune.

Luo Qing traded the Three Treasures Ruyi to the Three Pure Ones for the Earth Spirit Heaven-Opening Imprint, while Yuanshi and Tongtian’s growing discord gave him a chance to plan for recruiting them. After analyzing all four Heaven-Opening Imprints and other treasures for over a thousand years, Luo Qing achieved an initial success in creating a Creation Treasure.

• Tongtian accepted Luo Qing’s Three Treasures Ruyi, and Yuanshi and Laozi thanked Luo Qing for the gift.
• After leaving Hua Tian Peak, Yuanshi gave the Three Treasures Ruyi to Tongtian and angrily rode ahead, while Laozi worried that the Three Pure Ones would eventually split apart.
• Luo Qing considered using the brothers’ worsening conflict to win them over as future Sages.
• Luo Qing analyzed the Earth Spirit Heaven-Opening Imprint and restored the four Heaven-Opening Imprints to their corresponding Spirit Pearls.
• After more than a thousand years of studying the four imprints and other treasures, Luo Qing formed a bright pearl of Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water and achieved initial success in creating a Creation Treasure.

Luo Qing completed and mass-produced two Cave Heaven Treasures that could create worlds with unlimited growth potential. After testing them with the Hua Tian and Jade Pool lineages, he prepared to distribute them more widely when he lectured at Kunlun Mountain.

• Luo Qing refined a Mid-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure Cave Heaven Spirit Pearl for Grand Unity Golden Immortals, then created a stronger Top-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure Cave Heaven Treasure Pearl for Great Luo Golden Immortals and Quasi-Sages.
• Luo Qing mass-produced both treasures using resources from the Hua Tian Universe and stockpiled enough for the immortals and gods of the Primordial World.
• Luo Qing gave Cave Heaven Treasure Pearls to Long Ling, Huang Ting, Shu Dao Ren, Kong Xuan, and others, explaining that the worlds they opened could grow without limit.
• Long Ling created a Top-Grade Grotto-Heaven, Shu Dao Ren and Kong Xuan opened Cave Heaven Worlds, and Huang Ting created a Small Thousand World that earned Heaven and Earth Merit.
• After dozens of Cave Heaven Worlds operated safely for a thousand years, Luo Qing decided to distribute the treasures at his upcoming Kunlun Mountain lecture.

Tens of millions of immortals and gods gathered at Hua Tian Peak to hear Luo Qing preach without restrictions on cultivation. Before the sermon began, Luo Qing urged Long Ling and Huang Ting to consider accepting disciples and presented them publicly as his Direct Disciples.

• Immortals and gods from Kunlun Mountain and the surrounding lands gathered at Hua Tian Peak, arranged according to their cultivation.
• Luo Qing asked Long Ling and Huang Ting to consider accepting disciples so the Hua Tian Peak Lineage could grow.
• Long Ling and Huang Ting resisted, then agreed to keep recruitment in mind after Luo Qing clarified they did not need to accept disciples immediately.
• Luo Qing brought Long Ling and Huang Ting beside him to the preaching platform, introducing them to the gathered crowd as his Direct Disciples.
• Tens of millions of immortals and gods welcomed Luo Qing in unison as he arrived at the platform to preach.

Luo Qing gave a thousand-year lecture on cultivation and answered questions from the gathered immortals and gods. The discussion turned to the Divine Dao’s future and the Immortal Dao’s reliance on scarce Innate Spiritual Treasures, leaving Yuanshi and Zi Guang debating while Luo Qing watched.

• Luo Qing lectured on the Immortal Dao, the Divine Dao, artifact refining, formations, and runes for a thousand years, helping many listeners advance their cultivation.
• Luo Qing told the gathered gods that the Divine Dao still had a path beyond the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm, though he did not predict its future.
• Fairy Zi Guang asked how future Immortal Dao cultivators could reach Quasi-Sage when the Method of Slaying Three Corpses required scarce Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Yuanshi argued that the Immortal Dao might develop another method of proving the Dao or find replacements for the treasures, and Zi Guang challenged his speculation.
• Yuanshi and Zi Guang argued over the Immortal Dao as Luo Qing watched with interest.

Luo Qing addressed the shortage of Innate Spiritual Treasures, revealing that he could refine them by hand and had already reforged the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Pearls. He also announced that he would teach a new Method of Attaining the Dao at a lecture assembly seven thousand years later.

• Fairy Zi Guang and Yuanshi argued over whether the concentration of Innate Spiritual Treasures among Quasi-Sages threatened the Immortal Dao, and Luo Qing intervened.
• Luo Qing announced that he possessed a new Method of Attaining the Dao but would teach it at a lecture assembly seven thousand years later.
• Luo Qing explained that Innate Spiritual Treasures could be refined by hand, presenting the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Pearls as proof.
• Luo Qing recounted how he had reforged the twelve shattered Sea-Calming Pearls and revealed that he had also personally refined the Three Treasures Ruyi he exchanged with the Three Pure Ones.

Luo Qing taught the Primordial Wilderness a safer method for refining Innate Spiritual Treasures, adapted so it would not consume a world's origin. The Immortals and Gods learned the technique but realized they lacked the Great Thousand Worlds it required.

• After Fairy Zi Guang asked whether he would teach the method, Luo Qing agreed to spread it to cultivators of Grand Luo Golden Immortal rank and above.
• The Immortals and Gods bowed and asked Luo Qing to preach, and he imparted his improved Heavenly Dao Treasure Refining technique.
• Luo Qing explained that the method required refining a Spiritual Treasure Embryo and nurturing it inside a Great Thousand World or Affiliated Universe with a Dao-Guiding Spirit Array.
• The Immortals and Gods became dismayed when they learned that the technique required a world with its own Heavenly Dao, since even Small Thousand Worlds were rare.
• A Grand Luo Golden Immortal complained that the Primordial World had hardly any Small Thousand Worlds, and other Immortals and Gods agreed.

Luo Qing answered the gods’ concern that Heavenly Dao Treasure Refining required a Heavenly Dao World by giving them treasures that could open Cave Heavens and grow into worlds. After explaining how to advance them, he ended his sermon and sent the visiting immortals and gods away from Hua Tian Peak.

• Luo Qing told the gods they could create their own worlds and revealed that he had a Grotto-Heaven Opening Treasure to help them.
• Luo Qing bestowed Grotto-Heaven Spirit Pearls on the Grand Unity Golden Immortals and Cave Heaven Treasure Pearls on the Great Luos and Quasi-Sages.
• Yuanshi praised Luo Qing’s treasure-refining skill, and Tongtian agreed that the Treasure Pearls could grow into worlds despite their low rank.
• Luo Qing explained how to open and advance a Cave Heaven, and the gods thanked him for the method and treasures.
• Luo Qing promised that lower-ranked immortals could obtain the treasures later by trading precious materials, then ended the sermon and teleported the visiting gods away from Hua Tian Peak.

After his sermon, Luo Qing rewarded Long Ling and Huang Ting with powerful treasures, then refused Fairy Zi Guang’s requests to become his disciple and immediately reclaim the Star Sea. Across Kunlun Mountain, immortals began opening worlds with Cave Heaven Pearls, while the Three Pure Ones created a Small World and Ancestor Hongjun already obtained both kinds of pearls.

• Luo Qing bestowed the Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Pearls on Long Ling and the Yin-Yang Heaven-Transforming Mirror on Huang Ting.
• Fairy Zi Guang asked to become Luo Qing’s disciple, but he declined and told her the Star Sea would return to her in time.
• Luo Qing taught Zi Guang, Long Ling, and the others principles of nurturing worlds as the sermon attendees returned home and began opening Cave Heaven Worlds.
• The Three Pure Ones joined forces to create a Small World within Jade Void Mountain and resolved to offer a Cave Heaven Pearl to their teacher.
• Ancestor Hongjun obtained both kinds of Cave Heaven Pearls while watching Hua Tian Peak.

Ancestor Hongjun discovered that Luo Qing’s Cave Heaven Pearls accelerated world growth and realized they could strengthen the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao, threatening his attempt to Merge with Dao. As Cave Heaven Worlds spread and immortals flocked to Kunlun Mountain to obtain pearls, Hongjun decided to speak with Luo Qing ahead of schedule.

• Ancestor Hongjun examined the Cave Heaven Pearls, found that their worlds grew at least a hundred times faster, and recognized Luo Qing’s artifact-refining skill.
• Ancestor Hongjun foresaw that countless expanding Cave Heaven Worlds would strengthen the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao and make his attempt to Merge with Dao harder, so he moved up his meeting with Luo Qing.
• Tens of thousands of immortals evolved the first Cave Heaven Worlds, and news of Luo Qing’s lecture and treasures spread throughout the Primordial World.
• Some Grand Unity Golden Immortals traded their Cave Heaven Spirit Pearls at high prices, while immortals who had missed the lecture regretted not attending.
• Groups of immortals set out for Kunlun Mountain to exchange for Cave Heaven Pearls, and Great Luos and Quasi-Sages gathered treasures to obtain pearls in bulk.
• Luo Qing’s plan envisioned the Primordial World giving birth to three thousand Affiliated Universes and thousands upon thousands of Great Thousand Worlds.

Luo Qing discussed cultivation with Ancestor Hongjun, who then asked about Pangu and revealed his intention to merge with the Dao. Luo Qing understood the plan but warned that Pangu's return could end the Primordial World.

• Long Ling told Luo Qing that the Heavenly Court and the Witch Clan wanted to trade vast quantities of treasures for Grotto-Heaven Pearls, and Luo Qing ordered the goods added to Hua Tian Peak's treasury.
• Luo Qing sensed Ancestor Hongjun waiting above Kunlun Mountain and left the Hua Tian Universe to meet him.
• Luo Qing and Ancestor Hongjun discussed the Dao for a hundred years and each gained new insights.
• Ancestor Hongjun asked Luo Qing about the Primordial World's origin and what they had seen in Pangu Temple.
• Luo Qing said he knew Ancestor Hongjun wanted to merge with the Dao and warned that Pangu's return could destroy the Primordial World.