Chapter Summaries

Three hundred years later, after completing the Northern Domain’s Water Veins, Luo Qing surveyed the improved region as Long Ling and the others planned to extend the excavation into the central lands. Long Ling chose to negotiate with the opposing Immortals and Gods first, but planned to force them into labor if they refused.

• Luo Qing surveyed the Northern Domain’s reanchored Water Veins and noted that connecting them to Buzhou Mountain could further improve the region.
• Huang Ting warned that the central lands’ Immortals and Gods might resist the river excavation, while the Golden Winged Great Peng urged using force and Randeng favored negotiations.
• Long Ling decided to meet personally with the Quasi-Sage invited by several million Immortals and Gods, while ordering the teams to prepare for the next excavation phase.
• Luo Tian questioned Long Ling’s willingness to negotiate, and she explained that she would offer courtesy first but capture the opposing Quasi-Sage if he refused.
• Luo Tian volunteered to handle the matter, and Long Ling left it to him.

Wan Yu Quasi-Saint and six Grand Luo Golden Immortals came to negotiate with Long Ling’s water vein excavation team, but Huang Ting suppressed them after accusing Wan Yu of disrespecting Saint Huode. Long Ling spared them on the condition that they lead the excavation and remove anyone who obstructed it.

• Wan Yu Quasi-Saint led six Grand Luo Golden Immortals to Long Ling’s camp to ask the excavation team to detour around certain areas.
• Long Ling had Zhao Gongming invite Randeng, Azure Dragon, and two other Quasi-Saints to join the negotiations.
• Huang Ting suddenly used a Mysterious Yellow Jade Seal to suppress Wan Yu Quasi-Saint and the six Grand Luo Golden Immortals.
• Huang Ting accused Wan Yu Quasi-Saint of opposing the waterway project and speaking disrespectfully of Saint Huode.
• Long Ling spared the seven captives but ordered them to serve as the excavation vanguard and eliminate anyone who refused to leave.

Long Ling and Huang Ting subdued the resistance and completed the Northern Domain’s water-vein network, earning Heaven and Earth Merit for the participants. With the north restored, Long Ling and Luo Qing turned toward negotiations with the Western Saints and the next stage of the project.

• Long Ling captured Wan Yu Quasi-Saint and used his cooperation to force the resisting immortals to help excavate the river channels.
• The water-vein teams dug the Three Super Rivers to Buzhou Mountain, while the region’s immortals fled or yielded rather than resist.
• After five hundred years, Huang Ting fixed the Three Super Rivers’ sources, completing the Northern Domain’s surface water-vein network and restoring its water supply.
• Heaven and Earth Merit descended on the participants, with Long Ling and the other Quasi-Saints receiving the greatest shares and the Earth Flowing Water Diagram gaining more merit.
• Long Ling looked toward the Western Land, while Luo Qing sent an incarnation to Western Spirit Mountain to meet the Two Saints of the West.

Luo Qing visited Spirit Mountain and offered Jieyin and Zhunti the chance to earn substantial Merit by opening the mountains, rivers, and Water Veins throughout the Five Regions. The two Sages were tempted by the reward but worried that the undertaking would anger countless immortals and gods.

• Luo Qing arrived at Spirit Mountain, where Jieyin welcomed him and Zhunti wondered why he had come.
• Luo Qing observed the Western Teachings' vast number of disciples before meeting Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Luo Qing asked about the Western Teachings' gains from opening the Northern Domain's Water Vein, and Jieyin said they had earned less Merit than Hua Tian Peak.
• Luo Qing proposed opening the Water Veins throughout the Primordial World's Five Regions to gain far greater Merit.
• Jieyin and Zhunti considered the Merit and the risk of offending hundreds of millions of immortals and gods.

Luo Qing persuaded Jieyin and Zhunti to have the Western Teachings support Hua Tian Peak’s plan to reorganize the Primordial Wilderness’s Water Veins, offering them a generous share of the Merit. After securing their agreement, he turned his attention to bringing Jade Void Mountain into the plan.

• Jieyin and Zhunti debated whether the Western Teachings should risk offending other immortal gods to gain Merit, and Zhunti persuaded Jieyin by pointing to the benefits for the Western Land’s Earth Pulse Ancestral Root.
• Zhunti agreed on behalf of the Western Teachings to support Hua Tian Peak, and Luo Qing negotiated a larger Merit share and substantial work in the Western Land for them.
• Zhunti asked whether the Three Pure Ones of Jade Void Mountain would support the plan, and Luo Qing said he had arranged matters so they would struggle to withdraw.
• Luo Qing discussed the Dao and the Mandala Path with Jieyin and Zhunti for several months before his avatar left Spirit Mountain.
• Long Ling received Luo Qing’s message at Buzhou Mountain and began forming a plan to deal with Jade Void Mountain, while the Golden Winged Great Peng learned of the Western Teachings’ support and eagerly welcomed the coming upheaval.

After the Northern Domain’s Water Veins were completed, Saint Huode prepared to reorganize the Southern Land’s Water Veins, while the army set out to develop the Western Continent with the Western Teachings’ support. Randeng and the Three Pure Ones suspected the campaign would spread across the Primordial Wilderness, leaving the Chan and Jie disciples marching west while their leaders awaited guidance.

• Saint Huode announced plans to continue developing the Water Veins, prompting many Kunlun Mountain Immortals and Gods to seek a chance to join after seeing the rewards from the Northern Domain.
• Jieyin and Zhunti publicly welcomed Hua Tian Peak to work with the Western Teachings on the Western Water Veins.
• Long Ling led the army west from Buzhou Mountain, with Azure Dragon, the Kunlun Rogue Cultivator, Wan Yu Quasi-Saint, and Randeng continuing with the expedition.
• Randeng, Guang Chengzi, Daoist Duobao, and Xuan Du worried that the project might expand across the Primordial Continent, but agreed to keep following the army while awaiting instructions from their teachers.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian learned of the Western campaign, and Yuanshi accused Saint Huode of planning to develop the Eastern and Southern Regions without consulting Jade Void Mountain.

The Three Pure Ones argued over whether Jade Void Mountain should support Hua Tian Peak’s continued Water Vein development, then reached a reluctant compromise. Their disciples continued participating, while Long Ling and Huang Ting saw the decision as evidence of growing discord among the Three Sages.

• Yuanshi criticized Sect Master Tongtian for supporting Hua Tian Peak, but Tongtian insisted that the Interception Sect would participate regardless of the other teachings’ decisions.
• Laozi proposed that the Three Teachings’ disciples could continue following Hua Tian Peak while the three Sages refrained from publicly supporting the plan, and Tongtian reluctantly agreed.
• Daoist Randeng informed Xuan Du and Guang Chengzi that the Sages had ordered them to continue participating, and Daoist Duobao welcomed the chance to pursue the Quasi-Sage realm.
• Daoist Randeng secretly informed Long Ling of Jade Void Mountain’s decision, and Long Ling and Huang Ting concluded that the Three Pure Ones were divided.

Luo Qing secured Jade Void Mountain’s support for the water-vein development plan, while his invitations to Nuwa and Ancestor Hongjun went unanswered. Long Ling’s growing force joined the Western Teachings to transform the Western Land, then advanced toward an alliance blocking the way west of Buzhou Mountain.

• Luo Qing invited Nuwa and Ancestor Hongjun to join the plan, but neither Phoenix Perch Mountain nor Jade Capital Mountain responded.
• Long Ling arrived in the Western Continent with a force that had grown to three million, while Immortals and Gods elsewhere largely refused to join the opposition.
• Long Ling’s force joined the Western Teachings, bringing their combined strength to more than five million as they began reshaping the Western Land’s water veins.
• After more than three hundred years, the Western Land’s new rivers and lakes appeared to revive its spiritual energy and Earth Pulse Ancestral Root, pleasing Zhunti and Jieyin.
• Water Spirit and the other armies advanced west of Buzhou Mountain, where an alliance of more than ten million Immortals and Gods blocked their path.

The Western Immortals and Gods Alliance gathered hundreds of millions of immortals, gods, and cultivators to resist the Three Saint Lineages’ Water Vein development army, hoping their numbers would force the lineages to compromise. At Hua Tian Immortal Realm, Luo Qing explained to Luo Lian and Zi Luo that the resistance came from a conflict of interests.

• More than a dozen top-tier Grand Luo Golden Immortals debated whether their resistance could work, and one claimed a Quasi-Sage had provided a strategy that would prevent the Three Saint Lineages from slaughtering them.
• The Grand Luo Golden Immortals decided to gather mortals and cultivators as well as immortals and gods, bringing the crowd to several hundred million people.
• The gathered crowd sat across the defensive line without forming battle formations or setting up Formation Arrays.
• Luo Qing watched the crowd through a Cloud Mirror as Luo Lian complained that the immortals and gods were opposing Hua Tian Peak’s beneficial development plan.
• Luo Qing told Luo Lian and Zi Luo that people resisted because their interests differed, comparing the dispute to someone taking Hua Tian Peak’s resources to benefit its Subordinate Deities.

Luo Qing explained why Immortals and Gods resisted contributing to strengthen the Primordial World while Hua Tian Peak’s Water Vein development army faced a billion peaceful protesters. Long Ling left the impasse to the Western Teachings, and Zhunti began to intervene with Saint Power.

• Zi Luo offered to give up his treasures for Hua Tian Peak, prompting Luo Lian to accuse him of competing for favor before she also pledged her loyalty to Luo Qing.
• Luo Qing explained that most Immortals and Gods would not sacrifice their own interests to improve the Primordial World.
• The Water Vein development army led by Long Ling reached a defensive line where more than a billion beings staged a nonviolent sit-in.
• Huang Ting asked Long Ling how to proceed, and she decided that the Western Teachings should resolve the blockade.
• Zhunti arrived near the gathering, blamed Bai Ze for encouraging opposition to the Western Teachings, and sent a golden phantom lotus toward the protesters with Saint Power.

Sage Zhunti intervened to end the resistance obstructing the Western Water Vein project, sealing billions of beings into a ten-thousand-year sleep. With the path cleared, Long Ling ordered the excavation to resume, while Zhunti returned to Spirit Mountain and left the work to others.

• The Western Immortals and Gods' Grand Luo Golden Immortals planned to intensify their display of weakness to force the Three Saint Lineages to compromise.
• Long Ling and Huang Ting sensed a Western Sage's approach, and the arriving golden lotus swept across the gathered army, putting billions of beings to sleep.
• Luo Qing watched through the Cloud Mirror and explained to Luo Lian and Zi Luo that the sleepers would awaken after the storm had passed.
• Yuanshi objected that Zhunti had violated the Saint Covenant, but Tongtian argued that putting the beings to sleep without killing them did not break the agreement.
• After the golden seal enclosed the unconscious army, Long Ling ordered Huang Ting, Randeng, and the others to resume developing the Western Water Vein.
• Zhunti declared that the seal would release the sleepers after ten thousand years, then returned to Spirit Mountain.

After the Western Water Vein was completed, Sect Master Tongtian visited Luo Qing to ask that the Interception Sect lead the waterworks in either the Southern or Eastern domain. Tongtian revealed a way to compensate for his sect’s small workforce, leaving Luo Qing to inspect five mysterious yellow-armored figures.

• Long Ling’s army completed the three rivers linking the West Sea to Buzhou Mountain, and the Western Teachings gained a great share of merit and fortune.
• The waterway project in the West ended with a celebration, while immortals across the remaining domains secretly prepared for possible conflict.
• Sect Master Tongtian visited Luo Qing at Hua Tian Peak and asked for the Interception Sect to lead the development of one remaining domain.
• Luo Qing warned that the Interception Sect’s ten thousand disciples could not earn much merit without contributing substantial labor.
• Tongtian dropped five glowing yellow beans, which transformed into five yellow-armored figures before Luo Qing.

Luo Qing examined Sect Master Tongtian’s Yellow Turban Warriors and learned how their Spiritual Bean origins and rune arrays sustained them. Tongtian revealed that he had prepared enough Dao Soldiers to help develop the waterways, leaving Luo Qing confident they could form the main force for the work ahead.

• Luo Qing saw that the five Yellow Turban Warriors were Dao Soldiers made from High-grade Innate Spiritual Beans, with rune circuits that restored their Dharma Power.
• Sect Master Tongtian explained that the Yellow Turban Warriors had great strength but limited cultivation because their Spiritual Bean Mother Plant could support only Golden Immortal-level power.
• Luo Qing praised Tongtian’s method and noted that the bean soldiers avoided the disobedience and fear of death found in Dao Soldiers made from living beings.
• Luo Qing asked how many Yellow Turban Warriors Tongtian could provide for excavating waterways and opening mountains.
• Sect Master Tongtian said he had prepared five hundred thousand low-level Yellow Turban Warriors and ten thousand Golden Immortal-level ones.
• Luo Qing concluded that the forces from the Interception Sect and the Yellow Turban Warriors would be enough to lead development of the later Water Veins.

After discussing the Dao with Sect Master Tongtian, Luo Qing assigned the Interception Sect to develop the southern Water Vein and prepared Hua Tian Peak to confront resistance in the east. The three Saint Lineages publicly committed to the Water Vein project, and a storm across the Primordial Wilderness began to gather.

• Luo Qing and Sect Master Tongtian discussed the Dao, and Luo Qing gave the Interception Sect the main role in developing the southern Water Vein.
• Luo Qing foresaw that opposing Immortal Gods would abandon the south and gather in the east to resist Long Ling’s forces, so he ordered Long Ling to proceed with the plan.
• Long Ling summoned Daoist Duobao and arranged for the Interception Sect to set out for the Southern Domain in seven days.
• Long Ling and the Golden Winged Great Peng agreed that more than a million Western Teachings Immortal Gods would return west while the remaining army continued south.
• Luo Qing announced that Hua Tian Peak would lead Water Vein dredging across the Primordial Wilderness and warned eastern and southern Immortal Gods not to obstruct it.
• Western Spirit Mountain supported Hua Tian Peak’s announcement, while Jade Void Mountain stayed silent as the three Saint Lineages’ campaign became known throughout the Primordial Wilderness.

The Immortal Gods’ opposition to the Water Vein development escalated into a wider struggle against the Saint Lineages for power in the Primordial Wilderness. Luo Qing told Long Ling to continue the plan, then sent her two Innate Supreme Treasures, leaving her confident she could overcome the Quasi-Sages opposing Hua Tian Peak.

• Top Deities across the Primordial Wilderness secretly contacted one another and prepared to challenge the Saint Lineages after Hua Tian Peak announced its Water Vein development plan.
• Immortal Gods in the western and northern regions also received invitations to join the opposition, and some prepared to compete with the Saint Disciples or profit from the unrest.
• Luo Qing recognized that the conflict had grown beyond the Water Vein dispute, but he told Long Ling to proceed without changing the plan.
• Luo Qing sent the Creation Green Lotus and the Heaven-Opening Thunder Gourd to Long Ling as she led Hua Tian Peak’s main force toward the Southern Domain.
• Long Ling received the treasures and resolved to defeat the opposing Quasi-Sages and make the Immortal Gods submit to Hua Tian Peak.

Long Ling oversaw the Southern Water Vein Network’s construction as the southeastern Immortals and Gods prepared to confront the three Saint Lineages in the Eastern Region. After the waterways advanced past Kunlun Mountain, reports revealed that the Saint Lineages faced a severe disadvantage in Quasi-Saints, leaving neutral observers doubtful they could prevail without a Sage.

• The southeastern Immortals and Gods ceded the region south of Buzhou Mountain to the three Saint Lineages and gathered in the Eastern Region to oppose them.
• Yan Tianyu secured support from the Southern Domain’s Acquired races, and Long Ling assigned the Interception Sect to lead the waterway excavation.
• The Southern Water Vein Network connected the region through three Super Rivers, and Long Ling’s army continued north into the lands south of Buzhou Mountain.
• The river passed alongside Kunlun Mountain, where local Immortals and Gods admired Hua Tian Peak’s plan and many began moving toward the Eastern Region.
• Reports counted more than thirty opposing Quasi-Saints against only seven aligned with the three Saint Lineages, prompting neutral observers to doubt the Saint Lineages could win without a Sage.

Hao Yuan Quasi-Saint and five top Quasi-Saints discussed how to stop Hua Tian Peak's Water Vein Development Plan. After Ancestor Minghe warned that an Innate Supreme Treasure could defeat a gauntlet strategy, Hao Yuan agreed that more than thirty Quasi-Saints should attack the Saint Disciples together.

• Hao Yuan Quasi-Saint hosted Ancestor Jin Feng, Sage Lord Biyuan, Lingxu Quasi-Saint, Zhenling Quasi-Saint, and Ancestor Minghe to discuss opposing the three Saint Lineages.
• Ancestor Minghe explained that the Water Vein Development Plan threatened the Netherworld Sea of Blood and said he was willing to oppose Hua Tian Peak.
• Ancestor Jin Feng proposed a fair contest and then suggested wearing the Saint Disciples down through a gauntlet battle.
• Ancestor Minghe warned that Saint Huode could provide an Innate Supreme Treasure, making the proposed gauntlet battle futile.
• Ancestor Minghe proposed that more than thirty Quasi-Saints attack together, and Hao Yuan and the others agreed to seek victory without killing their opponents indiscriminately.

As the Southern Water Vein Network neared completion, the army grew restless over the coming battle at the Eastern Border, where Hao Yuan Quasi-Saint had gathered a far larger force. Daoist Long Ling allowed the ordinary immortals and gods to leave and assigned the Quasi-Sages roles in Hua Tian Peak’s plan for the decisive clash.

• After three more Water Vein sources were fixed in Buzhou Mountain and rewards were distributed, many immortals and gods began leaving the army.
• Daoist Randeng asked Daoist Long Ling how to respond to the growing number of departures, while Golden Winged Great Peng and Azure Dragon urged them to restrain the deserters.
• Daoist Long Ling told Huang Ting to reward those who had contributed greatly and said Hua Tian Peak would lead the battle rather than send the lower-level immortals and gods to their deaths.
• Daoist Long Ling assigned Golden Winged Great Peng, Randeng, and Daoist Duobao to support her and Huang Ting, and asked them to seek Divine Treasures from their Sages.
• Daoist Long Ling promised Azure Dragon, Wan Yu Quasi-Saint, and the Kunlun Rogue Cultivator a mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure each if they held back one Quasi-Sage apiece.

Nuwa focused on advancing Phoenix Perch World so it could nurture Primordial Violet Qi and help Fuxi attain Sainthood, while Hongjun entered seclusion to pursue a breakthrough. Luo Qing then launched Hua Tian Peak’s campaign against the Eastern Region before Hongjun could emerge, sending Long Ling and six other Quasi-Sages ahead to defeat the opposition.

• Old Ancestor Kunpeng lamented that Phoenix Perch Mountain was sitting out the conflict, hoping to earn Merit to offset his karmic burdens, while Fuxi explained that Nuwa had made no decision to join.
• Nuwa strengthened Phoenix Perch World, preparing to advance it and use its Primordial Violet Qi to help Fuxi attain Sainthood.
• Quasi-Sages and Grand Luo Golden Immortals sought Hongjun’s aid at Jade Capital Mountain, but he was connected to the Heavenly Dao and pursuing a breakthrough to the Sage’s Second Realm.
• Luo Qing prepared his forces and decided to act before Hongjun emerged from seclusion, confident he could suppress Hongjun after condensing three layers of the Saint Dao Fruit.
• Long Ling received Luo Qing’s command, organized the Saint Disciples, and sent four disciples to lead the remaining forces toward the Eastern Region.
• Long Ling and six other Quasi-Sages set out to defeat the opposing Quasi-Sages before the larger army followed.

Daoist Long Ling and seven Quasi-Sages reached the Eastern Region, where Hao Yuan Quasi-Saint’s forces had assembled a vast army and battle formation to resist them. After negotiations failed, Hao Yuan ordered the formation to rise, beginning the confrontation.

• The Eastern Region’s Quasi-Sages confidently prepared to face Daoist Long Ling’s group, while Ancestor Minghe quietly considered an escape route.
• Yun Huang Quasi-Saint fled toward the Eastern Sea, and other immortals and gods also left to avoid the coming turmoil.
• Daoist Long Ling and the seven Quasi-Sages crossed half the Central Earth and arrived at the Eastern Region’s border.
• Hao Yuan Quasi-Saint confronted Daoist Long Ling and offered to disband his army if the Saints’ forces abandoned their plan to gather the land’s Water Veins.
• Daoist Long Ling refused to compromise and warned the Eastern Region’s forces to surrender or face the consequences.
• Hao Yuan Quasi-Saint rejected Daoist Long Ling’s warning and commanded the battle formation to rise.