Chapter Summaries

Old Ancestor Five Elements failed to uncover who had thwarted his scheme at the Return to Ruins, then tracked the Five Elements Origin to the Five Immortal Island and tried to claim Kong Xuan as his mount. Kong Xuan and the others refused to yield under his crushing pressure, and Jin Zhao openly cursed him.

• Old Ancestor Five Elements could not deduce who had sabotaged his Return to Ruins plan and went to Purple Qi Yuan Jun to borrow the Karma Book and Opportunity Line.
• Purple Qi Yuan Jun refused to meddle, and Old Ancestor Five Elements left, suspecting Xuanyuan and Tongtian were behind the shrouded karma.
• Old Ancestor Five Elements sensed the Five Elements Origin at the Five Immortal Island and decided Kong Xuan would make a suitable mount.
• Kong Xuan refused Old Ancestor Five Elements' demand, so Five Elements crushed him and the other three beneath four Five Elements mountains.
• Kong Xuan and the others resisted rather than kneel, and Jin Zhao defied Old Ancestor Five Elements with insults.

Dong Wang Gong returned to Five Immortal Island and watched Old Ancestor Five Elements attack Kong Xuan and his companions, choosing not to intervene. The Five Elements Ancestral Witches arrived in time to save Jin Zhao, and the Azure Lotus Treasure Color Banner emerged from the East Sea as battle formations formed around the embattled group.

• Dong Wang Gong sensed Old Ancestor Five Elements' Primordial pressure and returned to Five Immortal Island, where he secretly urged the Island-Bearing Golden Aos not to interfere.
• Old Ancestor Five Elements formed a Five Elements handprint to kill Jin Zhao, who revealed his Golden Winged Great Peng form and defied him.
• Kong Xuan, Wuyun Xian, and Si Bu Xiang tried to protect Jin Zhao but remained pinned under Old Ancestor Five Elements' pressure.
• The Five Elements Ancestral Witches arrived with seventy-two Great Witches, and Houtu raised the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner while the five witches shielded Yingzhou Immortal Island.
• The Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner stirred the Innate Yi Wood Restriction, bringing forth the Azure Lotus Treasure Color Banner, which helped block Old Ancestor Five Elements' attack.
• The seventy-two Great Witches began forming a star-patterned formation as Candle Dragon shaped the East Sea currents into a protective Earthly Fiend Great Array around Kong Xuan and the others.

Houtu and the Ancestral Witches escaped Old Ancestor Five Elements’ attack with hidden help, while Dong Wang Gong defended the Immortal Court’s decision not to intervene. The Witch Ancestor Tribe then formally withdrew from the Donghua Immortal Court, and Dong Wang Gong received the news in silence.

• Houtu led the wounded Ancestral Witches and Kong Xuan’s group through a space rift after the Island-Bearing Golden Ao subtly deflected Old Ancestor Five Elements’ strike.
• Old Ancestor Five Elements pursued them, while a newly formed strand of Innate Yi Wood Qi was carried away with the group by Si Bu Xiang.
• Ziwei Star Lord challenged Dong Wang Gong’s decision to leave the Witch Ancestor Tribe unaided, but Dong Wang Gong said he did not regret prioritizing the Immortal Court’s survival.
• Minor Director of Destinies reported that Xing Tian had announced the Witch Ancestor Tribe’s formal withdrawal from the Donghua Immortal Court.
• Dong Wang Gong accepted Xing Tian’s message jade slip and quietly acknowledged his decisiveness.

Old Ancestor Five Elements pursued Houtu, the Five Elements Ancestral Witches, and their companions to Kunlun Mountain, where Laozi and Yuanshi intervened. After they refused his demands to claim Kong Xuan as his mount and recruit the Ancestral Witches, he attacked and badly injured Laozi.

• Dong Wang Gong accepted the Witch Ancestor Tribe's departure from the Immortal Court, then learned that the Dragon Race had withdrawn as well.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Laozi and Yuanshi discussed Nuwa's plans to create a new race and establish a following through faith and incense offerings.
• Yuanshi sensed Houtu fleeing and rushed with Laozi to protect her and the injured group as they emerged from a Space-time Rift.
• Old Ancestor Five Elements demanded Kong Xuan as his mount and ordered the Five Elements Ancestral Witches to join his school.
• Yuanshi and Laozi refused Old Ancestor Five Elements' demands and shielded the group with their treasures.
• Old Ancestor Five Elements struck Laozi's Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, sending it into a Space-time Rift and leaving Laozi severely injured.

As Old Ancestor Five Elements overwhelmed Laozi, Yuanshi, and their allies at Kunlun, Queen Mother of the West chose to continue severing her third corpse rather than risk her Dao foundation to help them. Just as Yuanshi unleashed the Heaven Suppressing Coffin, Nuwa’s creation of humanity earned her immense merit and the Heavenly Dao proclaimed her the Human Race Saint Mother.

• Old Ancestor Five Elements battered Laozi, Yuanshi, the Ancestral Witches, and Kong Xuan, declaring that none of them could oppose his Hunyuan Dao Fruit.
• Queen Mother of the West sensed the crisis at Kunlun but suppressed her desire to intervene, fearing that leaving her cultivation would ruin her attempt to sever her third corpse.
• Laozi urged Yuanshi to retreat, but Yuanshi chose to stay and summoned the Heaven Suppressing Coffin as a desperate attack against Old Ancestor Five Elements.
• Nuwa’s creation of humanity drew a vast flood of Merit Golden Light from the heavens into her.
• The Heavenly Dao declared Nuwa the Human Race Saint Mother, interrupting the battle at Kunlun with her overwhelming Creation Dao aura.

Nuwa created the Human Race, earned vast merit, and became a Heavenly Dao Saint, prompting the Yao Race to honor her and the Primordial World’s great powers to react. On Kunlun Mountain, Old Ancestor Five Elements decided to kill Laozi and Yuanshi before they could become Saints and unleashed a devastating attack.

• Nuwa molded the Innate and Acquired Human Races from Nine Heavens Breathing Soil and Yellow River water, then granted humans marriage bonds and vitality.
• Nuwa received Heavenly Dao merit, became a Saint, and used the Mountain River Society Diagram to shield the Human Ancestral Land for one Eon.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi ordered the Yao Race to honor Nuwa as the Wa Huang Saint and sent envoys with gifts to congratulate her.
• Hongjun, Jie Yin, and Zhun Ti observed Nuwa’s ascension, while Old Ancestor Five Elements grew wary of her power.
• Old Ancestor Five Elements resolved to kill Laozi and Yuanshi before they could become Saints, then struck them with a Five Elements Sky Curtain.

Laozi established the Human Teachings during his battle with Old Ancestor Five Elements and became a Heavenly Dao Saint without completing the Three Corpses. His new Saintly power shattered Five Elements’ advantage, leaving the defeated ancestor considering flight while Yuanshi congratulated Laozi.

• As Old Ancestor Five Elements’ pressure threatened to crush him, Laozi awakened to a new understanding and declared that he would become a Saint.
• Laozi established the Human Teachings, proclaimed its doctrine, and received a vast torrent of Merit Golden Light from the Heavenly Dao.
• Laozi used the merit and Hongmeng Purple Qi to entrust his Primordial Spirit to the Heavenly Dao and prove the Hunyuan Dao Fruit.
• Merit transformed the Taiji Diagram, established the Eight Sceneries Palace as the Human Teachings’ ancestral seat, and empowered the Eight Sceneries Palace Lamp.
• Laozi’s Saintly pressure shattered Old Ancestor Five Elements’ Sky Curtain, and Five Elements realized he might have to flee into Chaos.
• Yuanshi congratulated Laozi on proving Hunyuan.

After Laozi became a saint, Yuanshi established the Chan Teachings and proved the Hunyuan Dao Fruit, joining his brother in confronting Old Ancestor Five Elements. The two saints let Old Ancestor Five Elements flee to the East Sea, while Hongjun reacted with alarm to Yuanshi’s declaration that his teachings would proclaim the Pangu Great Dao.

• Old Ancestor Five Elements dismissed Laozi’s new sainthood and tried to withdraw with his dignity intact, but Yuanshi challenged him to face two opponents instead of one.
• Yuanshi established the Chan Teachings, named Jade Void Palace their ancestral seat, and became a Heavenly Dao Saint.
• Laozi and Yuanshi’s combined saintly might overwhelmed Old Ancestor Five Elements, who fled toward the East Sea to seek refuge in the Five Elements Origin.
• Laozi advised against pursuing Old Ancestor Five Elements, while Yuanshi vowed to deal with him later alongside their Third Brother and Fourth Brother.
• Hongjun heard Yuanshi proclaim the Pangu Great Dao and reacted with a sudden change in expression.

Xuanyuan received the merit left over from Nuwa’s creation of humanity, awakening the Kongtong Seal and advancing his cultivation. As Tai Qing Lao Zi and Yu Qing Yuan Shi established their teachings and became Heavenly Dao Saints, Tongtian celebrated the rising fortunes of Pangu’s Orthodox Lineage.

• Hongjun suspected Yu Qing Yuan Shi’s reverence for the Pangu Great Dao could threaten the Heavenly Dao and resolved to correct him.
• Ancestor Minghe thanked Xuanyuan for revealing the Six-Winged Black Mosquito’s weaknesses and vowed to kill it if it returned.
• Heavenly Dao Merit descended on Xuanyuan, and the Kongtong Seal awakened, absorbing one-tenth and becoming a Top-grade Innate Merit Spiritual Treasure.
• The Kongtong Seal’s nine dragon souls emerged, while the remaining merit strengthened Xuanyuan’s body and helped him reach the forty-third level of the fifth revolution.
• Tongtian congratulated Xuanyuan, then celebrated when Tai Qing Lao Zi and Yu Qing Yuan Shi declared their teachings and attained sainthood.

Tongtian established the Interception Sect and absorbed its merit to break through to Perfection Primordial Golden Immortal, surpassing Xuanyuan in physical strength. He prepared to return to Kunlun and organize his sect, while Xuanyuan opened a rift back to the Eastern Primordial World.

• Xuanyuan urged Tongtian to establish his lineage, and Tongtian declared Biyu Palace the ancestral court of the Interception Sect.
• Tongtian proclaimed that his sect would teach without distinction and welcome all who sought the Great Dao, while warning that traitors would be slain by the Immortal-Slaying Swords.
• Tongtian absorbed the merit granted for establishing his sect, and it drove his Nine Revolutions Profound Technique past its bottleneck to the forty-fifth layer of the fifth revolution.
• Tongtian manifested his Ancestral Shaman True Form and reached Perfection Primordial Golden Immortal, drawing the attention of Laozi, Yuanshi, Nuwa, Old Ancestor Hongjun, and Zhen Yuanzi.
• Tongtian told Xuanyuan and Ancestor Minghe that he would return to organize his sect, and Xuanyuan opened a void rift to the Eastern Primordial World with the Deathly Stillness Sickle.

Ming He resolved to refine the Netherworld Blood Sea and create a new race to gain Heavenly Dao merit. Meanwhile, Dong Wang Gong recruited Old Ancestor Five Elements as his master and ally, drawing him into the Immortal-Demon Calamity.

• Ming He watched Xuanyuan and Tongtian return to Kunlun, then decided to seize control of the Blood Sea and seek merit by creating a new race.
• Ming He sent Yuan Tu and Abi into the Blood Sea to purge Mosquito Daoist's traces and begin refining its origin.
• Dong Wang Gong and Ziwei Star Lord worried that the Donghua Immortal Court lacked powerful allies after the rise of the saints.
• Dong Wang Gong offered Old Ancestor Five Elements the Five Immortal Islands and asked to become his disciple.
• Old Ancestor Five Elements accepted Dong Wang Gong, whom he called Mu Gong, as his founding disciple because of his affinity with the Five Elements Great Dao.

The Four Pure Ones gathered at Kunlun Mountain with the Five Elements Ancestral Witches, where Tongtian accepted Spirit Turtle Mother as a disciple. Their meeting was interrupted by an extraordinary sign in the west, suggesting Jie Yin and Zhun Ti were attempting to attain sainthood.

• Old Ancestor Five Elements refused to take Ziwei Star Lord as a disciple but promised Dong Wang Gong he would perfect the Five Elements Formation.
• Xuanyuan and Tongtian arrived at Kunlun Mountain and reunited with Laozi, Yuanshi, Houtu, Zhurong, Gonggong, and the other Five Elements Ancestral Witches.
• Xuanyuan healed Si Bu Xiang, Jin Zhao, Kong Xuan, and Wuyun Xian after noticing their injuries.
• Wuyun Xian introduced Spirit Turtle Mother, and Tongtian accepted her into the Interception Sect as his disciple.
• A vast golden light and unusual merit aura appeared in the west, and Xuanyuan identified it as Jie Yin and Zhun Ti's attempt to attain the Dao.

Jie Yin and Zhun Ti established the Western Teachings, but their damaged foundations caused their Good Corpses and Faith Incarnations to clash, sending their cultivation into decline. After Zhun Ti rescued Jie Yin from a Heart Demon, they vowed to seek Sainthood through Twelve Great Vows, and began by promising to guide suffering beings and restore the West.

• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti drew upon Mount Sumeru's fortune and proclaimed the establishment of the Western Teachings.
• The Heavenly Dao granted them Merit Golden Light, briefly raising their cultivation before their Good Corpses and Faith Incarnations clashed.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti spat black blood as their cultivation fell from Quasi-Saint Perfection to Early Stage Quasi-Saint.
• Jie Yin lamented their misfortunes and nearly succumbed to a Heart Demon, but Zhun Ti used Bodhi Pure Qi to save him.
• Zhun Ti proposed borrowing merit through great vows, and Jie Yin agreed to seek Sainthood that way.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti swore Twelve Great Vows, beginning with promises to guide suffering beings and transform the barren West.

Jie Yin and Zhun Ti made twelve grand vows and borrowed merit from the Heavenly Dao to reach Quasi-Saint Perfection, with Hongjun secretly supplying the final aid. After Hongjun repelled Luohu’s demonic attack, the two became Saints and began plotting revenge against Kunpeng, Xuanyuan, and Tongtian.

• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti made twelve vows to save beings, repay the Heavenly Dao, and unite the Western and Eastern traditions.
• The Heavenly Dao sent merit to the West, and Hongjun added a wisp of Heavenly Dao Origin that repaired the brothers’ Dao Foundations.
• As Jie Yin and Zhun Ti tried to become Saints, Luohu sent the Ninety-Nine Annihilation Heart Demon Tribulation to corrupt them.
• Hongjun used the Jade Disc of Creation and the Heavenly Dao’s divine thunder to drive away Luohu’s demons, allowing Jie Yin and Zhun Ti to complete their ascension.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti became Saints and vowed to capture Kunpeng as their mount and kill Xuanyuan and Tongtian when an opportunity arose.

Xuanyuan explained the three drawbacks Jie Yin and Zhun Ti faced after borrowing merit to become saints, while the Eastern saints discussed Hongjun’s intervention and the West’s future ambitions. Yuanshi then recognized an unfamiliar elder at Kunlun and identified him as the first wisp of Innate Yi Wood Qi to take human form.

• A tiny black ant secretly gnawed at Mount Sumeru’s foundation, eroding the Western Teachings’ fortune.
• Tongtian condemned Hongjun for helping Jie Yin and Zhun Ti become saints, while Laozi and Yuanshi argued that the two Western saints were weaker and more constrained than the Eastern saints.
• Xuanyuan described how the Western saints’ vows shackled their Dao foundations, risked their Saint Positions if they fell short on merit, and forced them to deliver beings and compete with other lineages.
• Xuanyuan considered how the Western Teachings might otherwise have expanded east and fueled future calamities, while Tongtian noted Kunpeng’s karmic debt to the West.
• Yuanshi recalled his role in pressuring Kunpeng to surrender the cushion at Purple Heavens Palace, then asked an unfamiliar elder who he was and recognized him as the first wisp of Innate Yi Wood Qi to take human form.

Yuanshi accepted Nanjixian Weng as his eldest personal disciple and bestowed the Five Fires Seven Birds Fan upon him. As Jie Yin and Zhun Ti became Saints, Kunpeng realized their new power could threaten his plans to control the North Sea.

• Nanjixian Weng introduced himself to Yuanshi, who praised his roots and invited him to join the Chan Teachings as his eldest disciple.
• Nanjixian Weng accepted Yuanshi as his Master, and Yuanshi bestowed the Five Fires Seven Birds Fan, suited to Nanjixian Weng's Innate Yi Wood body.
• Tongtian and Xuanyuan praised Nanjixian Weng's potential, while Xuanyuan thought of Demon Master Kunpeng in the North Sea.
• Kunpeng continued his campaign to seize the North Sea and searched for Yu Qiang, Lord of the North Sea, so he could claim the region's fortune.
• Jie Yin and Zhun Ti announced that they had become Saints, and their Saintly Pressure silenced the North Sea and left Kunpeng pale and shaken.

Kunpeng abandoned the North Sea and set his sights on taking Hong Yun’s Hongmeng Purple Qi after learning that Jie Yin and Zhun Ti had become Saints. Meanwhile, Queen Mother of the West slew all Three Corpses, attained sainthood as West China Yuan Jun, and went to visit Laozi and Yuanshi as the Six Saints ushered in a more dangerous era of calamity.

• Kunpeng resolved to pursue Hong Yun’s Hongmeng Purple Qi as his only path to sainthood and left the North Sea to lie in wait in the eastern lands.
• Queen Mother of the West emerged from seclusion and slew her Obsession Corpse with the Green Lotus Cushion, completing the Three Corpses and reaching Quasi-Saint Perfection.
• Queen Mother of the West united with the Heavenly Dao through her Hongmeng Purple Qi and attained sainthood as West China Yuan Jun, relying solely on Severing Three Corpses.
• The female immortals of Dragon Moon City celebrated Queen Mother of the West, who restrained her Saintly Might and told them to continue their duties as before.
• Queen Mother of the West traveled to East Kunlun to visit Laozi and Yuanshi, while the emergence of six Heavenly Dao Saints raised the stakes of the Immortal-Demon Calamity.

Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming joined the Interception Sect, and Tongtian appointed them its left and right Vice Sect Masters. Xuanyuan proposed a gathering to discuss the Dao, and Tongtian prepared Kunlun to host it.

• Queen Mother of the West arrived at East Kunlun and greeted the Three Pure Ones and Xuanyuan.
• Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming arrived, praised Tongtian's Interception Sect, and asked to join it.
• Tongtian welcomed the siblings and appointed them the Interception Sect's left and right Vice Sect Masters.
• Xuanyuan proposed that the gathered cultivators discuss the Dao, and Empress Jueyin, Heavenly Venerate Yangming, Laozi, Yuanshi, and Queen Mother of the West agreed.
• Tongtian invited worthy cultivators to attend and arranged cloud seats, lotus thrones, Spiritual Roots, and immortal flowers across Kunlun.

The Three Heavenly Dao Saints and Tongtian expounded the Dao at Kunlun, where Jin Zhao broke through after understanding Tongtian’s Yin Yang teachings. In the Netherworld Blood Sea, Ming He created the Asura Clan and called on the Great Dao and Heavenly Dao to witness its birth.

• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Queen Mother of the West each lectured on the Heavenly Dao, but most of the gathering could not understand their teachings.
• Tongtian explained the Great Dao of Yin Yang in simple terms and created the Classic of Yin Yang Harmony and Wonderful Methods.
• Empress Jueyin and Heavenly Venerate Yangming gained insight from Tongtian’s scripture, while Jin Zhao reached Grand Unity Golden Immortal Perfection.
• Ming He refined the Netherworld Blood Sea and decided to create a race to gain merit.
• Ming He used the Blood Sea’s origin, his blood essence, Blood God Sons, and resentful spirits to create the Asura Clan.

Ming He created the Asura Clan and established the Killing Teachings, earning merit that raised him to Quasi-Saint Perfection but not to sainthood. Frustrated by Hongjun’s incomplete method, he resolved to pursue the Hunyuan Dao Fruit and sent the Rakshasa Woman to form an alliance with Pingxin’s ghost race.

• Ming He created the Asura Clan, received Heavenly Dao merit, and advanced to Late-stage Quasi-Saint.
• Ming He established the Killing Teachings, gained further merit, and reached Quasi-Saint Perfection, though he lacked the Hongmeng Purple Qi needed to become a Saint.
• Other great powers failed to gain merit by imitating Nuwa, Houtu, and Ming He, while the chapter explained why their three races held special roles in reincarnation.
• Several thousand years later, Ming He blamed Hongjun for obstructing his path to sainthood and vowed to join Xuanyuan’s war against Heaven.
• Ming He ordered the Rakshasa Woman to take seventy-one Rakshasa princesses to the Yin Mountain Holy Land and form an alliance with Pingxin’s ghost race.