Chapter Summaries

Luo Qing returned to Kunlun Mountain, assessed the pollution and investigated the transformed Netherworld Yin Realm. After leaving its governance to Huang Ting, he went to meet Houtu the Ancestral Witch.

• Luo Qing found that the Vile Grey Lotus would need at least a hundred years to purify the pollution covering Hua Tian Peak.
• Luo Qing reassured Long Ling before traveling through a Netherworld Portal to meet Huang Ting and inspect the Netherworld Yin Realm.
• Luo Qing confirmed that the Chaos Ghost Willow had become a Chaotic Spiritual Root and taken control of reincarnation in the Netherworld.
• Luo Qing surveyed the barren Netherworld Yin Realm and told Huang Ting to decide how to govern it as Netherworld Ghost Emperor and Netherworld Lord.
• Luo Qing brought Huang Ting to the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to meet Houtu the Ancestral Witch.

Luo Qing awakened Houtu and offered her freedom in exchange for serving Hua Tian Peak and managing the Netherworld Yin Realm for a hundred Kalpa Cycles; Houtu accepted. At Buzhou Mountain, Luo Qing learned that the Pangu Temple had vanished, possibly hidden by Pangu before the Sages could reach it.

• Luo Qing awakened Houtu's primordial spirit from the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk and told her that her eleven siblings had died and the Witch Clan had retreated to the Netherworld Yin Realm.
• Houtu recognized Luo Qing's role in the Witch Clan's downfall, while Luo Qing argued that Heaven's will had destined its defeat.
• Luo Qing offered to free Houtu and eventually restore her physical body if she served Hua Tian Peak in the Netherworld Yin Realm for a hundred Kalpa Cycles, and Houtu accepted.
• Luo Qing left the Netherworld Yin Realm with Huang Ting, leaving Houtu beside the Chaos Ghost Willow as its Nether Tree Spirit.
• At Buzhou Mountain, Luo Qing instructed Huang Ting to recruit immortals and gods to help manage the damaged mountain.
• Huang Ting told Luo Qing that he could not find the Pangu Temple, and Luo Qing suspected Pangu had hidden it before Sages appeared.

After the Witch-Apocalypse Calamity, Luo Qing considered the Primordial World's changing prospects and studied how to use the Nine-Eyed God-Demon to strengthen himself. As the surviving Demon Clan came under attack, Nuwa established a Demon Cult to gather its scattered members.

• Luo Qing observed the Heavenly Realm's reconstruction and noted that the Primordial World was recovering, which could make it harder for the Human Race to rise.
• Luo Qing returned to Hua Tian Peak and considered how to study the imprisoned Nine-Eyed God-Demon and transform his foundation into a Divine Demon Body.
• Luo Qing sent Fairy Zi Guang and the Innate Star Gods to reclaim the Starry Sky, then used the Hua Tian Heavenly Dao to suppress the Nine-Eyed God-Demon.
• The Sages entered seclusion as rival factions competed for territory and resources, while the surviving Demon Clan faced suppression from across the Primordial World.
• Old Ancestor Kunpeng and the remaining Demon Clan Quasi-Sages sought Nuwa's protection, and Nuwa established a Demon Cult to unite the scattered Demon Clan.

After the Demon Clan and Witch Clan lost their dominance, the Primordial World entered a new flourishing Innate Era. Luo Qing emerged from thirty thousand years of seclusion with his Chaos God-Demon analysis complete, but he chose to pursue a different path: advancing the Innate Divine Path toward becoming a Primordial God-Demon.

• Old Ancestor Kunpeng led the Demon Clan's remaining core forces to the barren Northern Primordial Territory, while the rest of the clan began calling themselves the Demon Cult.
• Houtu's submission to Hua Tian Peak gave the Witch Clan a chance to endure in the Netherworld Yin Realm, and the era of Witch and Demon Clan supremacy ended.
• Thirty thousand years passed, the Witch-Apocalypse Calamity subsided, and Kunlun Mountain rose in prominence as the Primordial World's essence and spiritual energy increased.
• Luo Qing emerged from the Hua Tian Origin after completing his analysis of the Chaos God-Demon and concluded that copying its body would not grant him the necessary Dao Fruit position.
• Luo Qing decided to cultivate the Innate Divine Path and seek a method to become a Primordial God-Demon, planning to develop his Emperor Yan Dharma Form rather than simply copy Pangu's Fire Element Emperor Dharma Form.
• Luo Qing found that the Fire Spirit Great Dao's Origin was only at the Quasi-Sage level and could not accommodate the Sage-level Position Dharma Form he would eventually need.

Luo Qing purified and advanced his Fire Element Emperor Dharma Form, breaking through to the Innate Divine Dao Quasi-Sage realm and becoming the Fire Spirit Origin Great Dao’s Dao Master. He considered how to expand the Innate Divine Dao beyond its current limits and saw that it could eventually make his Method of One Yuan Perfection the Primordial World’s leading path to Sainthood.

• Luo Qing set aside the challenge of raising the Fire Spirit Origin Great Dao to Saint level and chose to focus on purifying the Fire Element Emperor Dharma Form.
• Luo Qing completed a purer Fire Element Emperor Dharma Form and transformed the Emperor Yan Dharma Form within his primordial spirit into it.
• Luo Qing’s Innate Divine Dao cultivation reached the Quasi-Sage realm, sharply increasing his control over the Fire Spirit Origin Great Dao.
• Luo Qing realized that Ancestor Witch Zhurong’s death had allowed him to become the Fire Spirit Great Dao’s sole Dao Master.
• Luo Qing concluded that the Innate Divine Dao’s growth depended on creating and expanding Innate Positions beyond the limits set by birth.
• Luo Qing considered promoting the Innate Divine Dao and believed its rise could make the Method of One Yuan Perfection the mainstream path to proving the Dao.

After emerging from seclusion, Luo Qing learned that Ancestor Yangmei had returned to the Primordial World and tried to reincarnate by abandoning his former cultivation. Luo Qing allowed the reincarnation under surveillance, then turned to the coming discussion about the Heavenly Court's emergence.

• Luo Qing finished a stage of cultivating the Divine Dao and received a message from Long Ling about Huang Ting's request for advice.
• Luo Qing discovered that Ancestor Yangmei's Zhen Ling had been intercepted by the Chaos Ghost Willow while attempting to enter reincarnation.
• Luo Qing learned that Ancestor Yangmei had dispersed his Quasi-Sage cultivation and Dao Fruit, earning Merit Golden Light's protection for his Zhen Ling.
• Luo Qing secretly marked Ancestor Yangmei's Zhen Ling and ordered the Chaos Ghost Willow to send it into the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• After the Ninth Heaven reemerged, Luo Qing received Ancestor Hongjun's summons for the Sages to discuss the Heavenly Realm and Heavenly Court.

Ancestor Hongjun gathered the Sages to discuss who should rule the newly established Heavenly Court. After they rejected Nuwa’s candidate, Lu Ya, Luo Qing recommended Haotian, and Ancestor Hongjun summoned him for consideration.

• Ancestor Hongjun explained that the Nine Heavens would rotate as the damaged Heavenly Realm gradually restored its Thirty-Six Heavens.
• Nuwa proposed that Lu Ya inherit the Heavenly Throne as Di Jun’s son, but Zhunti, Jieyin, Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian opposed her.
• Nuwa asked the Sages to recommend another candidate, and Luo Qing suggested Fuxi, but Nuwa rejected the proposal because Fuxi had only recently recovered from severe injuries.
• Luo Qing recommended Ancestor Hongjun’s disciple Haotian, and Ancestor Hongjun agreed to have him meet the Sages.
• Ancestor Hongjun summoned two figures from afar, while Nuwa and the Three Pure Ones realized that Luo Qing and Ancestor Hongjun had secretly agreed on Haotian.

Luo Qing and Ancestor Hongjun installed Haotian as the new Heavenly Emperor, while the other Sages reluctantly accepted the decision and showed little interest in supporting the Heavenly Court. Luo Qing then searched Hua Tian Peak for a future successor and ordered Huang Ting to take a disciple, leaving Huang Ting to realize that the next Heavenly Emperor was meant to come from his lineage.

• Luo Qing endorsed Haotian and Taihua, and Ancestor Hongjun named Haotian the new Heavenly Emperor after the other Sages raised no objections.
• Ancestor Hongjun invited the Sages to recommend followers for the Heavenly Court, but they offered little support and left on unpleasant terms.
• Luo Qing reviewed Hua Tian Peak's disciples and considered Yun Xiao and Yan Tianyu, but judged them unsuitable to inherit the Heavenly Throne.
• Luo Qing ordered Huang Ting to take a disciple quickly and forbade him from returning to Kunlun Mountain without one.
• Huang Ting recognized that Luo Qing intended to cultivate his new disciple as the next Heavenly Emperor.

Luo Qing responded to Ancestor Hongjun’s request by sending Kong Xuan, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao to strengthen Haotian’s struggling Heavenly Court. With their help and the arrival of Zi Guang’s Star God Lineage, the court began operating smoothly, though it remained far from ruling the Primordial World.

• After Haotian’s ascension, the Heavenly Court remained weak because the Sages’ disciples and other powerful Immortal Gods refused to join it.
• Ancestor Hongjun asked Luo Qing to send Hua Tian Peak disciples to the Heavenly Court, and Luo Qing chose Kong Xuan, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao while reserving the Netherworld and Buzhou Mountain as Hua Tian Peak territories.
• Luo Qing helped Kong Xuan break through to the Quasi-Sage realm and helped Qiong Xiao and Bi Xiao reach the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Haotian appointed Kong Xuan Southern Great Emperor after he arrived at the Heavenly Court with Qiong Xiao and Bi Xiao.
• At Luo Qing’s hint, Holy Mother Zi Guang led the Innate Star God Lineage into the Heavenly Court, where she became Dou Mu Yuan Jun and Eastern Great Emperor.
• With Kong Xuan, Zi Guang, Hua Tian Peak, and the Star God Lineage supporting it, the Heavenly Court began operating smoothly, though Luo Qing recognized it still had a long way to go.

As the Innate Era revived, the Human Race lost territory and population to Innate Gods, prompting Yan Tianyu to seek help from Luo Qing. Luo Qing said the Human Race’s decline was unavoidable, but his smile suggested he had a plan.

• Over a hundred thousand years, Innate Beings multiplied and clashed with Acquired Beings, while the Human Race’s influence and population declined.
• Yan Tianyu reviewed reports at the Human Ancestral Land and heard Yan Wolf advise him to seek help from Luo Qing.
• Luo Qing sensed Yan Tianyu’s distress and opened a Space Gate for Yan Tianyu and Yan Wolf to reach him.
• Yan Tianyu described the Human Race’s predicament, and Luo Qing explained that Acquired races had to lie low as the Innate Era returned.
• Yan Tianyu noticed Luo Qing’s smile and asked his teacher for guidance.

Yan Tianyu followed Luo Qing’s advice and led the Human Race to retreat into hidden Small Worlds to survive the dangerous Innate Era. More than a hundred thousand years later, the Human Race had vanished from the Primordial World, where another figure finally attempted to attain Sainthood.

• Luo Qing advised Yan Tianyu that Small Worlds could shelter the Human Race until the Innate Era ended.
• Yan Tianyu convened the Human Race’s leaders, who agreed to move ordinary people and lower-level cultivators into Small Worlds while immortals and gods established sects, cities, or joined other forces.
• Yan Tianyu distributed Luo Qing’s information about Small Worlds, and a vast migration began a hundred years later, continuing for a thousand years.
• Nuwa did not intervene as the Human Race retreated, distracted by Fuxi’s entanglement in the sin caused by the Heavenly Court’s collapse.
• More than a hundred thousand years later, the Human Race had disappeared from the Primordial World, and someone made another attempt to attain Sainthood.

Red Cloud Daoist began the Sainthood Tribulation over the Eastern Sea after cultivating to the Peak Quasi-Sage realm, drawing the attention of the Sages and Quasi-Sages. Luo Qing brought Long Ling, Yun Xiao, and Zhao Gongming to witness, but saw blood light in the tribulation and warned against Hongjun’s claim that Red Cloud was fated to fall.

• A celestial anomaly announced an attempt to attain sainthood, and Luo Qing identified Red Cloud Daoist as the one behind it.
• Luo Qing sensed that Red Cloud’s tribulation was accompanied by blood light, then took Long Ling, Yun Xiao, and Zhao Gongming to the Eastern Sea.
• Red Cloud Daoist began the tribulation on a hidden island, having reached the Peak Quasi-Sage realm through Merit, blessed fortune, and the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Sages and Quasi-Sages gathered as the thunder tribulation engulfed Red Cloud, while many Quasi-Sages envied his possession of the last known strand of Primordial Violet Qi.
• Ancestor Hongjun said Red Cloud was destined to fall, but Luo Qing frowned and objected that this was not necessarily so.

Red Cloud Daoist attempted to attain sainthood amid a devastating tribulation, while Luo Qing sensed that his success might bring an ominous outcome. After enduring the lightning with his battered body, Red Cloud Daoist believed the tribulation had ended and celebrated his apparent success.

• Luo Qing sensed a faint chance that Red Cloud Daoist might succeed, but felt it would be better if he failed, while Ancestor Hongjun judged his odds nearly nonexistent without more Merit.
• Red Cloud Daoist's inadequate defensive treasures were destroyed by the opening lightning, leaving him to resist the Saint Ascension Tribulation with his Innate Sacred Body.
• Red Cloud Daoist fought through the lightning with his body, growing severely injured as the watching Sages expected him to die.
• Beneath the Western Continent, the Devil Dao's Fortune began to stir and gather filth, unnoticed by Luo Qing, Ancestor Hongjun, and the other Sages.
• The Sea of Thunder calmed after Red Cloud Daoist survived its bombardment, and he laughed that he had overcome the tribulation and would become a Sage.

The Red Cloud Daoist was crushed by nine Sage Thunder Tribulation Incarnations, but his despair and hatred resonated with the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao and transformed him into a Devil Sage. Luo Qing attacked to stop the change, but the resurrected Demonic Hong Yun proved to be a Sage and challenged the eight Sages.

• Nine Thunder Tribulation Incarnations crushed the Red Cloud Daoist and left him unable to resist, revealing to the Quasi-Sages that the Sages obstructed later seekers of Sainthood.
• As the Thunder Incarnations destroyed the Red Cloud Daoist's body and his primordial spirit dissipated, his despair and hatred resonated with the Primordial Era Heavenly Dao, which fused with him.
• Luo Qing saw the emergence of an evil aura and warned the All Sages that a variable had appeared.
• Luo Qing struck the Thunder Sea with his Sky-Supporting Hand, scattering the tribulation and its nine incarnations, but an inexplicable force stopped his palm above the sea.
• The Red Cloud Daoist resurrected with a Sage aura, blocked Luo Qing's palm, and shattered his Dao technique with a punch.
• Calling himself Demonic Hong Yun, the Red Cloud Daoist greeted the eight Sages.

The eight Sages confronted Demonic Hong Yun after he revealed himself as a Heavenly Demon Saint, but discovered that his true body had already escaped. Before Luo Qing destroyed his phantom, Hong Yun proclaimed that the Devil Dao would rise and that Heart Demons would threaten immortals breaking through to new realms.

• Ancestor Hongjun ordered the Sages to attack Demonic Hong Yun, and Luo Qing burned away what appeared to be Hong Yun with the Fire Spirit and Netherworld Great Daos.
• Demonic Hong Yun reappeared and rejected Hongjun's offer to purify him, claiming that entering the Devil Dao was his true choice and inviting the Sages to join him.
• Luo Qing used the Eye of the Great Dao to recognize that Hong Yun was a phantom avatar whose true body had escaped during the Thunder Sea's disruption.
• Luo Qing searched for Hong Yun's true body, found no trace, and used Hunyuan Heavenly Thunder to disperse the phantom's origin.
• Demonic Hong Yun declared that Heart Demons would accompany immortals' breakthroughs and that the Devil Dao would endure, leaving the Sages troubled by the threat of demonic corruption.

The Sages discussed the newly formed Heart Demon Tribulation and agreed to cooperate against Demonic Hong Yun, while easing restrictions on the Western Teachings to contain the Devil Dao. After failing to find Demonic Hong Yun, Luo Qing turned his attention to Luohou's Demon Star in the Hua Tian Universe.

• Luo Qing reassured the Sages that the Heart Demon Tribulation posed little threat while the Immortal Dao remained strong, and explained that Demonic Hong Yun's unstable foundation limited his power.
• Nuwa worried that Demonic Hong Yun would threaten the Sages and damage the Primordial World, so the Sages agreed to eliminate him together and rescue any Sage he attacked.
• Luo Qing, the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, and the others eased obstacles to the Western Teachings' expansion to help them suppress the Devil Dao in the west.
• Quasi-Sages spread news of Demonic Hong Yun and the Heart Demon Tribulation, prompting some cultivators to consider joining the Evil Demon path.
• Luo Qing searched the Primordial World and the Hua Tian Universe for Demonic Hong Yun but found no trace of him.
• Luo Qing turned his gaze toward Luohou's Demon Star in the Hua Tian Universe.

Luo Qing summoned the Luohu Star God, exposed him as a remnant of Demon Ancestor Luohu, and revealed his plan to send him into reincarnation as an agent to undermine the rising Devil Dao. The Luohu Star God understood the scheme and resolved to use Luo Qing’s support to pursue Sainthood himself.

• After failing to find Demonic Hong Yun, Luo Qing summoned the Luohu Star God to learn about the Devil Dao.
• Luo Qing revealed that he knew the Luohu Star God was Demon Ancestor Luohu’s remnant and said he would not release him.
• Luo Qing proposed erasing the Luohu Star God’s self-awareness, returning his True Demon origin, and sending him into human reincarnation.
• Luo Qing showed the Luohu Star God how Demonic Hong Yun’s rise as a Heavenly Demon Saint fit into the Devil Dao’s growing influence.
• The Luohu Star God realized Luo Qing intended to use his reincarnation to seize the Devil Dao’s Fortune, then resolved to use Luo Qing’s help to attain Sainthood.

Luo Qing refined Luohou’s Devil Ancestor Origin into the Vile Grey Lotus and gave the lotus the Hua Tian Universe’s Great Dao of Ending as its original path, preparing it to become Luohou’s reincarnated body. While Demonic Hong Yun hid and waited for the Devil Dao to grow stronger, Evil Demons went underground as the Primordial World eased its suppression.

• Luo Qing extinguished Luohou’s consciousness, reduced his body to ash, and kept his Devil Ancestor Origin for reincarnation.
• After a thousand years of purification, Luo Qing merged the Devil Ancestor Origin with the twelve-grade Vile Grey Lotus in the Hua Tian Netherworld.
• Luo Qing implanted the Hua Tian Universe’s Origin Seed of the Great Dao of Ending into the lotus and submerged it in the universe’s origin power to await its transformation.
• The Heavenly Court and Saint Factions led the suppression of Evil Demons, while most other immortals avoided provoking Demonic Hong Yun.
• Demonic Hong Yun hid in a concealed space, judged his new strength too weak to act, and resolved to wait for the Devil Dao to rise.
• After a hundred thousand years without Demonic Hong Yun appearing, the factions relaxed their pursuit, and Evil Demons spread among the Acquired Beings in secret.

As Devil Dao cultivation stalled at higher realms, Golden Immortal Yuechi grew desperate to preserve his status as a Yueshan Clan genius. He gave in to the urge to sacrifice the clansmen under his protection, leaving their fate in danger.

• Acquired Beings increasingly embraced the Devil Dao as the Saints and Heavenly Court failed to eradicate its influence.
• After another hundred thousand years, many Devil Dao Immortal Gods had stalled at the Golden Immortal and Grand Unity levels, and their greed for faster cultivation intensified.
• Golden Immortal Yuechi, a rising star of the Yueshan Clan, became anxious when his cultivation slowed and he feared losing the clan's support.
• Yuechi's thoughts turned to sacrificing the tribe he guarded, and he convinced himself that his clansmen should contribute to the clan's strength.
• Yuechi finally extended his sinful hand toward the more than one hundred thousand clansmen under his protection.

Evil Demons escalated their blood sacrifices from Acquired Races to Innate Divine Beings, intensifying the conflict between the two groups. Demonic Hong Yun secretly spread Crimson Qi that increased the world’s Turbid Baleful Qi, while Luo Qing watched and waited; by the chapter’s end, the Innate beings’ slaughter had grown fierce before the Top Deities and great Innate Sacred Beings fully responded.

• Golden Immortal Yuechi returned to the Yueshan Clan’s Ancestral Land gravely wounded after an Innate Divine Being attacked a tribe and killed more than a hundred thousand clansmen.
• Evil Demons blood-sacrificed Acquired Races to raise their cultivation, framed the violence on Innate Divine Beings, and worsened tensions between the races.
• A Grand Unity ancestor sacrificed tens of millions of his own people, became a Grand Luo Golden Immortal, and attacked nearby races before their ancestors drove him away.
• Luo Qing allowed the demonic chaos to spread, hoping to draw out Demonic Hong Yun, while Demonic Hong Yun avoided confronting the Sages and released Crimson Qi into the Primordial Great Land.
• Demonic Hong Yun’s Crimson Qi caused Turbid Baleful Qi to seep toward the surface and grow heavier, while the Chaos Ghost Willow kept it out of the Netherworld Yin Realm.
• Evil Demons slaughtered a Spirit Mountain’s Innate residents and hunted tens of thousands more, prompting the Top Deities and great Innate Sacred Beings to notice the danger.