Chapter Summaries

Xuanyuan welcomed Fuxi at Pangu Hall and arranged a discussion of the Dao of Yin and Yang that lasted for centuries. Meanwhile, Mount Sumeru emerged in the Western Land, where Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, and Tai Yi discovered the Bitter Bamboo.

• Fuxi warned that the Yao Race might ally with Jie Yin and Zhun Ti, but Tongtian revealed that Zhen Yuanzi, Candle Dragon, and Lei Ze also stood with their side.
• Xuanyuan invited Fuxi to discuss Yin and Yang with Jueyin, Yangming, and Tongtian at Pangu Hall.
• Jueyin, Yangming, Tongtian, and Fuxi shared their insights into Yin and Yang while the others listened, and centuries passed.
• Mount Sumeri emerged as a Blessed Land in the Western Land, and a green light revealed an Innate Spiritual Root deep within it.
• Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, and Tai Yi arrived at Mount Sumeri and identified the green bamboo as the Bitter Bamboo, one of the Ten Great Top-grade Innate Spiritual Roots.

Tai Yi moved to claim Bitter Bamboo, but Jie Yin and Zhun Ti persuaded him to let them use it to rebuild Mount Sumeru by promising the Heavenly Court most of the resulting merit. The brothers secured the spiritual root, while Tai Yi demanded seventy percent of the merit for the Yao Race Heavenly Court.

• Tai Yi approached Bitter Bamboo, intending to take the spiritual root for the Heavenly Court.
• Jie Yin pleaded that Bitter Bamboo was vital to the West's revival, but Tai Yi ignored his appeal.
• Zhun Ti promised that rebuilding Mount Sumeru would bring abundant merit and benefit Tai Yi, Di Jun, and the Heavenly Court.
• Tai Yi agreed to yield Bitter Bamboo if the Heavenly Court received seventy percent of the merit from Mount Sumeru's reconstruction.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti thanked Tai Yi and accepted the arrangement.

Jie Yin and Zhun Ti nurtured the Bitter Bamboo, which transformed into two Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and gave their damaged Dao foundations new hope. With Tai Yi urging them on, they flew to Mount Sumeru’s ruins to rebuild it, where Jie Yin discovered that most of Luohu’s lingering resentment had dissipated.

• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti used their Merit Power and magic power to nurture the Bitter Bamboo, which produced the Six Roots Pure Bamboo and recognized Zhun Ti as its master.
• The Bitter Bamboo’s remaining section and roots transformed into the Six Roots Stabilizing Divine Rod, which Jie Yin gathered for the Western Teachings.
• Tai Yi told Jie Yin and Zhun Ti to hurry to Mount Sumeru’s ruins and rebuild the Heavenly Pillar, and the three flew there together.
• Jie Yin found that most of the resentment and baleful aura left by Luohu’s self-detonation had dissipated, ending the brothers’ hoped-for source of Merit Power.
• Zhun Ti encouraged Jie Yin to focus on rebuilding Mount Sumeru, and Jie Yin agreed to begin work while vowing to defeat Tongtian and Xuanyuan after becoming Sages.

Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, and Tai Yi worked together to rebuild Mount Sumeru, forging its structure with divine materials and True Sun Fire while drawing no interference from other powers. In Pangu Hall, Fuxi’s insights into Yin and Yang deepened, and Xuanyuan and Tongtian saw that he was about to break through.

• Jie Yin planted the Six Roots Stabilizing Divine Rod and arranged the Six Roots Pure Bamboo around it to form Mount Sumeru’s foundation and protective formation.
• Zhun Ti transformed into a Bodhi Tree, absorbing resentment and baleful energy while nourishing the ruined mountain with vitality.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti asked Tai Yi to restore Mount Sumeru’s body, and Tai Yi used the Eastern Emperor Bell as a furnace to melt divine metals and Chaos materials over its framework.
• Tai Yi, Jie Yin, and Zhun Ti spent years refining Mount Sumeru, while other powers left them undisturbed; Tai Yi wondered why Tongtian and Xuanyuan had not intervened.
• In Pangu Hall, Fuxi’s discussion of the Great Dao of Yin and Yang cleared his doubts and intensified the surrounding Yin and Yang Qi.
• Xuanyuan said Fuxi was about to break through, and Tongtian agreed that his accumulated foundation made the breakthrough a natural result.

Fuxi attained the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, while the Ancestral Witches and other powerful figures set out on journeys across the Primordial World. Xuanyuan and Tongtian chose to travel to the Netherworld so Xuanyuan could seek the Death Great Dao, but they paused after sensing the establishment of the western pillar begin.

• Fuxi broke through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm and thanked Xuanyuan, Tongtian, and the others before leaving for Phoenix Perch Mountain to see Nuwa.
• Gonggong, Zhurong, Rushou, Gou Mang, and Houtu each departed to explore a different region, while Xuan Ming joined the traveling group and the six remaining Ancestral Witches stayed in Pangu Hall.
• Di Jiang and Zhu Jiuyin warned Xuanyuan and Tongtian about possible visitors from Chaos, and Xuanyuan agreed that the Primordial World’s shifting circumstances could bring old powers back.
• Xuanyuan proposed visiting the Netherworld to seek the Death Great Dao, and Tongtian agreed to accompany him.
• As Xuanyuan and Tongtian prepared to leave, they sensed that the establishment of the western pillar had begun.

Jie Yin, Zhun Ti, and Tai Yi raised Mount Sumeru as the western Heaven Pillar, restoring the West and earning Heavenly Dao merit. Just as the two chancellors were about to receive their share, a giant kun apparition siphoned away ten percent and carried it toward the Northern Sea.

• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti completed Mount Sumeru with materials sent by Kunpeng, while Zhun Ti felt uneasy but dismissed his suspicions.
• Tai Yi, Jie Yin, and Zhun Ti declared the West under Heavenly Court rule as Mount Sumeru's power revived the region's spiritual veins.
• Xuanyuan and Tongtian watched the western spectacle, and Xuanyuan said they should wait until Mount Sumeru fell before taking its treasures.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed merit, with seventy percent going to the Heavenly Court and thirty percent set aside for Jie Yin and Zhun Ti.
• A giant kun apparition rose beneath Mount Sumeru and seized ten percent of the merit intended for Jie Yin and Zhun Ti, sending it toward the Northern Sea.

Kunpeng secretly used his Northern Sea materials to seize a tenth of the merit Jie Yin and Zhun Ti earned, then reunited his Good Corpse Roc and Evil Corpse Great Kun to break through to the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm. His surge of power awakened Yu Qiang, Lord of the North Sea, who recognized Kunpeng’s mastery of water and wind as a threat to his own.

• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti realized Kunpeng had taken a tenth of their merit using the source aura he had hidden in the Northern Sea materials.
• Kunpeng summoned the Good Corpse Roc and Evil Corpse Great Kun, whose complementary wind and water powers helped him break through to the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm.
• Kunpeng’s breakthrough shook the North Sea, and his true form appeared as a colossal Kun bearing a Roc on its back.
• Yu Qiang, Lord of the North Sea, awoke and sensed Kunpeng’s new power, realizing his own mastery of water and wind fell short.

Yu Qiang feared Kunpeng’s rise threatened his rule over the North Sea, so he set out east to seek a thunder treasure and strengthen his cultivation. Meanwhile, Jie Yin and Zhun Ti appealed to Tai Yi over Kunpeng taking part of their merit, but Tai Yi dismissed their complaint and left them to guard Mount Sumeru.

• Yu Qiang recognized Kunpeng’s growing power as a threat to his North Sea territory and resolved to improve his Thunder Dao.
• Yu Qiang departed for the Eastern Land in search of a treasure attuned to the Thunder Dao, heading toward Yunmeng Marsh.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti accused Kunpeng of stealing a tenth of their merit and asked Tai Yi to punish him and return it.
• Tai Yi defended Kunpeng as a loyal member of the Heavenly Court, promised only to investigate later, and ordered Jie Yin and Zhun Ti to guard Mount Sumeru.

Jie Yin and Zhun Ti recovered their cultivation with Merit Power but could not restore their destroyed Evil Corpses, deepening their resentment toward Kunpeng and Tai Yi. Xuanyuan foresaw the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s eventual decline, while Dong Wang Gong’s forces assembled a powerful formation on the Five Immortal Island to oppose it.

• Tai Yi left Mount Sumeru after arranging for the Heavenly Court to take charge of the West, and Jie Yin and Zhun Ti concealed their anger toward him and Kunpeng.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti absorbed the Merit Power, advancing to the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm, but failed to restore their annihilated Evil Corpses.
• Xuanyuan used the Chaos Pearl to deduce that Jie Yin and Zhun Ti would eventually release Di Jun’s Ten Golden Crows, harming the Heavenly Court’s fortune and setting the stage for conflict with the Donghua Immortal Court.
• Xuanyuan and Tongtian discussed the Heavenly Court’s growing enemies and continued their journey toward the Netherworld.
• Dong Wang Gong and the immortals of the Five Immortal Island formed a vast, intricate array intended to serve as their chief defense against the Yao Race Heavenly Court.

Dong Wang Gong learned a method for gathering faith and incense after Hongjun secretly imparted the Dao, then began forging a spiritual treasure for Donghua Immortal Court. The chapter ended with him refining the treasure to gather the wishes and fortune of the immortals and myriad races.

• Ziwei Star Lord and the Nine Sons of the Dragon formed the Innate Five Elements Great Array, while Kuafu and the Great Witches prepared the Earthly Fiend Great Array to defend Donghua Immortal Court.
• Tai Yi, Jie Yin, and Zhun Ti proclaimed their rule over the Western Land, enraging Ziwei Star Lord and prompting debate among the immortals about whether to fight.
• Dong Wang Gong calmed the immortals and dismissed the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, whereupon Hongjun secretly imparted a method for gathering faith and incense through the Jade Disc of Creation.
• Dong Wang Gong proposed forging a treasure to gather the wishes and fortune of the immortals and myriad races, then went to the Heavenly Crafting Hall.
• Dong Wang Gong used rare materials and Pure Yang power to begin refining a spiritual treasure intended to match the Monster Summoning Banner and symbolize Donghua Immortal Court's authority.

Dong Wang Gong forged the Myriad Immortals Scroll with the faith of the myriad races, received Heavenly Dao merit, and advanced to Late Quasi-Saint. At Mount Tai, Xuanyuan began explaining to Tongtian why faith and incense offerings differed from merit.

• Dong Wang Gong forged the Myriad Immortals Scroll from immortal materials, using Pure Yang essence and the faith of his followers.
• The Heavenly Dao granted the scroll ten thousand feet of Merit Golden Light, transforming it into a Top-grade Acquired Merit Spiritual Treasure.
• Dong Wang Gong proclaimed himself Donghua Mu Gong, Purple Palace Supreme Pure Yang Great Emperor, and used faith and merit to break through to Late Quasi-Saint without severing his Obsession Corpse.
• Tongtian and Xuanyuan arrived at Mount Tai and were surprised that Dong Wang Gong had surpassed the other Mid-stage Quasi-Saints through faith and incense offerings.
• Tongtian asked Xuanyuan how faith and incense compared to merit, and Xuanyuan said faith was a perilous shortcut rather than the foundation of the righteous path.

Xuanyuan explained to Tongtian the risks of incense-based cultivation and why Merit was safer, while revealing that Dong Wang Gong had become a Divine Immortal bound to faith. Xuanyuan and Tongtian then reached Duoshuo Mountain, where they discovered two spirit-bearing peaches growing on the Netherworld Peach Wood.

• Xuanyuan explained that Merit could strengthen a Dao Foundation without backlash, while incense of faith could make cultivators dependent on believers and vulnerable to karmic fire.
• Tongtian decided that he and his disciples must avoid relying on incense, and Xuanyuan noted that Dong Wang Gong had become the Primordial World's first Divine Immortal through faith and Merit.
• Xuanyuan described the Netherworld Peach Wood on Duoshuo Mountain, a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root formed from the Death Origin and growing where the Netherworld met the Primordial World.
• Xuanyuan and Tongtian arrived at Duoshuo Mountain through a spatial rift, riding Taotie beasts as Tongtian used the Immortal-Slaying Four Swords to repel the Yin Qi.
• Tongtian sensed spiritual souls within the two peaches atop the tree and remarked that they might transform and be born before the Kalpa Tribulation ended.

Xuanyuan awakened the Netherworld Peaches and named the resulting gate gods Shen Tu and Yu Lu, then continued with Tongtian toward the Netherworld. At Rongyu Mountain, Zhen Yuanzi prepared to appoint a mountain god, but the Classic of Mountains and Seas revealed a new passage about Shen Tu and Yu Lu.

• Xuanyuan used Chaos Pure Qi to awaken the two Netherworld Peaches and named them Shen Tu and Yu Lu.
• Shen Tu and Yu Lu took human form with innate treasures and swore to guard the Netherworld gates when Houtu established reincarnation.
• Xuanyuan told Shen Tu and Yu Lu to cultivate at Duoshuo Mountain, then he and Tongtian continued toward the Netherworld.
• Shen Tu and Yu Lu took positions beside the Netherworld Peach Wood and captured tomb tigers as mounts while stabilizing their cultivation.
• Zhen Yuanzi arrived at Rongyu Mountain to appoint a mountain god and complete the Central Mountain Scripture.
• The Classic of Mountains and Seas turned to the Overseas Northern Scripture and recorded that Shen Tu and Yu Lu guarded Ghost Gate Pass and restrained evil ghosts with Reed Rope.

Zhen Yuanzi completed the five Mountain Scriptures, appointed the Mountain God of Rongyu Mountain, and broke through to the Late-stage Primordial Golden Immortal before heading north to complete the Sea Scriptures. The chapter then shifted to two riders entering the Netherworld and landing on Yin Mountain.

• Zhen Yuanzi appointed the mountain spirit as the Mountain God of Rongyu Mountain and entered his true spirit into the Earth Book.
• The five Mountain Scriptures became complete, and the Earth Book’s power and Earth Path Merit surged into Zhen Yuanzi.
• Zhen Yuanzi broke through to the Late-stage Primordial Golden Immortal and gained the strength to contend with an opponent at the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Zhen Yuanzi instructed the Mountain God to guard Rongyu Mountain, then flew toward the northern sea to continue completing the Sea Scriptures.
• Two figures crossed from the living world into the Netherworld through a spatial rift at Myriad Souls Peak on Duosuo Mountain and landed on Yin Mountain.

Xuanyuan and Tongtian explored the desolate Netherworld around Yin Mountain and encountered a beast formed from the souls of dead ferocious beasts. The Creation Lotus Seed reacted to a force of death beneath the mountain, and Xuanyuan began to break through the earth with the Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler.

• Tongtian and Xuanyuan surveyed Yin Mountain and discussed how the Netherworld lacked order before the Six Paths of Reincarnation were established.
• A Netherworld beast attacked Taotie and Taowu, and Tongtian killed it with a sword aura from the Immortal-Slaying Four Swords.
• Taotie swallowed the beast's fangs while Taowu's roar drove the other lurking beast souls away.
• Xuanyuan sensed the Creation Lotus Seed responding to a powerful force of death beneath Yin Mountain's main peak and recognized an opportunity to comprehend the Death Great Dao.
• Xuanyuan summoned the Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler and sent it crashing into the foot of the main peak.

Xuanyuan and Tongtian discovered the Soul Burying Cave beneath Yin Mountain, where the Death Demon God’s remains had formed an Innate Death Restriction concealing the Primordial World’s Death Origin. Tongtian unleashed his full strength and many treasures against the restriction, but the chapter left its fate unresolved as Yin Mountain shook under the assault.

• Xuanyuan used the Primordial Measure Heaven Ruler to carve a deep ravine beneath Yin Mountain, exposing an Innate Death Restriction.
• Tongtian recognized the restriction as the Death Demon God’s burial place, and Xuanyuan divined that the Primordial World’s Death Origin was likely hidden there.
• Tongtian summoned the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and struck the restriction, but it absorbed the sword energy without damage.
• Tongtian transformed into his Yin Yang Ancestral Witch True Body and attacked with divine thunder, the sword formation, and his many spiritual treasures.
• Tongtian’s full assault shook Yin Mountain and twisted the space around the restriction, while the restriction’s fate remained uncertain.

Xuanyuan used the Yin Yang Mirror and Creation Lotus Seed to break the Innate Death Restriction on Yin Mountain, revealing the Deathly Stillness Sickle and refining it. When he took the sickle, the white bone altar collapsed and released thousands of fierce beast battle souls that attacked him.

• Tongtian failed to break the Innate Death Restriction by force, and Xuanyuan explained that its life-and-death balance made brute strength ineffective.
• Xuanyuan borrowed Tongtian's Yin Yang Mirror and used the Creation Lotus Seed to balance its powers of life and death against the restriction.
• The restriction dissolved, revealing a white bone altar and the Deathly Stillness Sickle, a top-grade innate spiritual treasure formed from the Death Demon God's remains.
• Xuanyuan refined the sickle and learned that it could sever life and open a passage between the Primordial World and the Netherworld.
• The altar shattered into four thousand four hundred and forty-four White Bone Fierce Beast Battle Souls, which charged at Xuanyuan.

Tongtian unleashed the complete Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation against the 4,444 White Bone Fierce Beast Battle Souls and forty-four Death Demon Souls surrounding him and Xuanyuan. The formation trapped the puppets, and its first strike erased a Giant Ape battle soul, while Xuanyuan watched for the opportunity hidden among the Death Demon God's puppets.

• Forty-four Death Demon Souls rose from the altar as thousands of battle souls and demon souls closed in on Xuanyuan and Tongtian.
• Tongtian told Xuanyuan to leave the enemies to him, and Xuanyuan agreed while considering what opportunity the puppets might hold.
• Tongtian recalled his earlier formation and brought out the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram and its four swords.
• Tongtian arranged the swords into four gates and activated the complete Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, trapping all 4,488 puppets inside its killing domain.
• The White Bone Fierce Beast Battle Souls charged the gates, but the formation's sword qi destroyed the first Giant Ape battle soul completely.

Tongtian used the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to destroy the White Bone Fierce Beast Battle Souls and obtained four Primordial Spirit Crystals. Xuanyuan urged him to keep them because they could help Tongtian break through his Primordial Spirit bottleneck, but the Death Demon Souls then launched a renewed attack.

• Tongtian's Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation wiped out all 4,444 White Bone Fierce Beast Battle Souls.
• Four Primordial Spirit Crystals formed from the battle, and Tongtian recognized them as treasures that could nourish his Primordial Spirit.
• Xuanyuan told Tongtian to keep the crystals, explaining that they could help him break through while offering little benefit to Xuanyuan.
• Tongtian accepted the crystals and put them away until they could find a place to cultivate.
• The forty-four Death Demon Souls grew furious and attacked Tongtian with Death Great Dao power and countless Ghost Claws.

Xuanyuan tested the Deathly Stillness Sickle on forty-four death demon souls and gained Death Demon God essence blood and the Annihilation Reincarnation Scripture. He began comprehending its teachings on death and reincarnation as the essence blood entered his glabella.

• Xuanyuan asked Tongtian to put away the Immortal-Slaying Formation Diagram so he could test the Deathly Stillness Sickle against the demon souls.
• Xuanyuan used Annihilation Slash and Source Suppression to pierce the forty-four souls and strip away their control over death.
• Xuanyuan activated Soul Scythe Devours Origin, refining the souls into a drop of Death Demon God essence blood.
• An archaic scroll called the Annihilation Reincarnation Scripture formed from innate death qi, and Xuanyuan recognized teachings from the Death and Reincarnation Demon Gods.
• Xuanyuan sat down to comprehend the scripture’s life-and-death teachings as the essence blood flew into his glabella.