Recaps

Dijun and Taiyi claimed the Heavenly Realm Ruins for the Solar God Palace and discovered the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation, laying plans to establish the Yao Race Heavenly Court. Meanwhile, Lu Yuan ended a three-thousand-year seclusion on Kunlun Mountain and resolved to keep strengthening his Dao foundation.

• Dijun and Taiyi entered the Heavenly Realm Ruins through the South Heaven Gate and declared the Thirty-Three Heavens the future domain of the Yao Race Heavenly Court.
• Dijun discovered that Lingxiao Palace contained the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation and ordered the Solar God Palace to gather Yao tribes and prepare to establish the Heavenly Court.
• Dijun sent Bai Ze to sound out Fuxi and Nuwa and Ji Meng to seek Kunpeng's support, offering them positions as Demon Emperors.
• Taiyi asked whether the three would join, and Dijun said they must join if favored by destiny or be dealt with later.
• Lu Yuan ended his three-thousand-year seclusion at Qingxuan Hall after studying Yue Jianshi's Way of Earth and Profound Yellow, choosing to build his Dao foundation patiently.

Lu Yuan explored Kunlun Mountain for its spiritual treasures while Dijun and Taiyi secured Hongjun’s approval to establish the Yao Race Heavenly Court. As they began gathering creatures and negotiating with Fengqi Mountain, the Twelve Ancestral Witches noticed their movements but dismissed them as unimportant.

• Lu Yuan spent centuries exploring Kunlun Mountain and collecting its spiritual plants and mineral treasures.
• Fuxi judged that joining Dijun and Taiyi’s Yao Race Heavenly Court would benefit him and Nuwa, and Nuwa agreed to join.
• Kunpeng rejected Ji Meng’s invitation and drove him from the Northern Sea Dao Field.
• Dijun and Taiyi sacrificed to Hongjun’s sacred statue in the chaos, won his permission to establish the Heavenly Court, and received a surge of fortune.
• Dijun and Taiyi began gathering creatures into the Yao Race and negotiated with Fuxi and Nuwa over the division of interests.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches noticed the gathering but dismissed the creatures and the effort as beneath their concern.

Dijun, Taiyi, Fuxi, and Nuwa established the Yao Race and reopened the Heavenly Court, drawing merit and the attention of powerful cultivators across the Primordial World. Watching from Kunlun Mountain, Lu Yuan feared the coming Witch-Demon Calamity and resolved to return to his Dao field.

• Dijun and Taiyi thanked Fuxi and Nuwa for helping prepare the Thirty-Three Heavens for the Yao Race and Heavenly Court.
• Led by Bai Ze and Ji Meng, the four leaders performed the Heaven-sacrificing ceremony and established the Yao Race, receiving Heavenly Dao Merit.
• Dijun announced the reopening of the Heavenly Court, naming Taiyi Eastern Emperor, Fuxi Xi Emperor, and Nuwa Wa Emperor as Heavenly Dao recognized its establishment.
• Great Divine Ability Users across the Primordial World awoke to the ceremony and resented Dijun’s growing authority, but could not openly oppose him because the Saint of Purple Cloud Palace had approved it.
• Lu Yuan watched the spectacle from Kunlun Mountain, suspected the Heavenly Dao Saints would use the Witch-Demon Calamity to eliminate rivals, and set off for the main range of Kunlun Mountain.

The Great Desolation’s factions reacted to Dijun and Taiyi establishing the Yao Race Heavenly Court, with the Twelve Ancestral Witches deciding to expand their influence and claim the land. Lu Yuan returned to Kunlun Mountain and found the Three Pure Ones and several fellow disciples gathered in Sanqing Palace.

• The Three Pure Ones discussed the Heavenly Court’s rise, while Yuanshi questioned whether it truly reflected Heaven’s Will.
• Dijiang and the Twelve Ancestral Witches chose to sacrifice to Pangu, claim command of the Great Desolation’s land, and divide into twelve tribes spreading out from Buzhou Mountain.
• Kunpeng resented Dijun and Taiyi for not inviting him, but trusted that they would eventually need his Northern Sea lineage.
• East King Duke resolved to gather overseas immortals and build his influence while awaiting a chance to contend for supremacy.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hongyun anticipated turmoil, while Minghe welcomed the prospect of slaughter filling the Netherworld Sea of Blood.
• Lu Yuan returned to Kunlun Mountain and found the Three Pure Ones, Daoist Duobao, Saint Mother Jin Ling, and Immortal Elder Nanji in Sanqing Palace.

Lu Yuan told Pangu Sanqing that a secret art he discovered could condense Primordial Violet Qi and help someone reach the Hunyuan Dao Realm. The chapter left the Three Purities stunned after they sealed Sanqing Palace off from the Heavenly Dao to hear his revelation.

• Lu Yuan reunited with Daoist Duobao, Saint Mother Jin Ling, and Immortal Elder Nanji in Sanqing Palace, and praised Daoist Duobao's progress in artifact forging.
• Lu Yuan declared his ambition to collect the Primordial World's spiritual plants and objects in a Myriad Spirit Garden, an idea Grand Pure Daoist Laozi approved.
• Pangu Sanqing expounded their respective Great Daos, and Lu Yuan gained a faint glimpse of his own Dao but could not yet understand it.
• After the other disciples left, Lu Yuan asked Pangu Sanqing to seal the palace off from the Heavenly Dao so he could report a matter concerning their Dao lineage.
• Lu Yuan revealed that a fragment of Earth Emperor Yuejian's primordial spirit had given him a Hunyuan secret art that used merit and destiny to condense Primordial Violet Qi and aid a breakthrough into the Hunyuan Dao Realm.

Lu Yuan gave the Three Pure Daoists Earth Emperor Yuejian’s secret art for condensing Primordial Violet Qi and learned how they would need to adapt it to their own Great Daos. As Hongjun noticed a change in the Heavenly Dao Trend, Dijiang and the other ancestral witches established the Witch Race and proclaimed it ruler of the Primordial World’s lands.

• Lu Yuan presented the Three Pure Daoists with Yuejian’s secret art, and Grand Pure Daoist, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Shangqing Tongtian promised to repay him for the karmic debt.
• The Three Pure Daoists verified the secret art and explained that each practitioner had to replace Yuejian’s Great Dao of Earth with their own Great Dao to refine pure Primordial Violet Qi.
• The Three Pure Daoists severed heavenly secrets and erased their traces, causing a subtle shift in the future Heavenly Dao Trend that Hongjun sensed but could not seize.
• Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, Houtu, Zhurong, Gonggong, Ju Mang, and the other witches sacrificed to Pangu and established the Witch Race, with the Ancestral Witch Hall at Buzhou Mountain suppressing its fortune.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches established the Witch Race, raising its fortune and unveiling a powerful formation that alarmed the Great Desolation’s powers. As Fuxi warned Nuwa to avoid the coming conflict, Taiyi struck at the Ancestral Witch Hall with the Chaos Bell, leaving the Witch and Demon Clans on the brink of a clash.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches founded the Witch Race, and their ritual summoned twelve divine pillars that formed a fearsome formation around Buzhou Mountain.
• Lu Yuan observed the Ancestral Witches’ Great Dao Rules, while the three Qing Daoists reacted uneasily to the Witch and Demon Clans’ growing power.
• Fuxi foresaw a long, bloody tribulation between the Witch and Demon Clans and warned Nuwa to stay clear of the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s affairs.
• Dijiang declared that the Witch Race should rule the Primordial World, and its members roared their support.
• Taiyi attacked the Ancestral Witch Hall with the Chaos Bell, sending a colossal chaos axe toward Buzhou Mountain.

The Witch and Yao Clans clashed when Dijun and Taiyi’s forces challenged the Twelve Ancestral Witches, who overcame the Great Formation of the Stars with the Great Formation of the Gods and Fiends. After the two clans settled into an uneasy division of power, tens of thousands of years passed, and Hongjun summoned those fated to attend his second lecture at Purple Heaven Palace.

• Taiyi attacked the Ancestral Witch Hall with the Chaos Bell, but Dijiang and the other Ancestral Witches strengthened the hall’s Pangu Divine Power and resisted it.
• Dijun unleashed the Great Formation of the Stars, and Dijiang led the Twelve Ancestral Witches in forming the Great Formation of the Gods and Fiends.
• The Great Formation of the Gods and Fiends gained the advantage, so Dijun and Taiyi withdrew; the Twelve Ancestral Witches retaliated against the Thirty-Three Heavens before stopping.
• The Witch Race campaigned across the Primordial World while the Yao Race Heavenly Court ruled the Thirty-Three Heavens, and neither side attacked the other for tens of thousands of years.
• Hongjun announced that one Kalpa had ended and summoned those fated to attend the second lecture at Purple Heaven Palace.

After the Sanqing Daoists left for Purple Firmament Palace, Duobao organized the remaining Kunlun disciples to guard the Dao Field, and Lu Yuan arranged to return to Qingxu Mountain. The group discussed their Daos as the second sermon began in Purple Firmament Palace, where Hongjun appeared before the assembled listeners.

• Duobao assigned the Kunlun Dao Field watch in rotating pairs, and Lu Yuan asked Nanji and Jin Ling to take the first watch because he planned to return to Qingxu Mountain.
• Duobao proposed a discussion of the Dao, and Nanji, Jin Ling, Duobao, and Lu Yuan manifested their Dao Fruits and shared their paths of cultivation.
• Lu Yuan observed the distinct Daos cultivated by Nanji, Duobao, and Jin Ling, while the four also discussed their secondary practices and Lu Yuan's insights from the Jade Disk of Creation fragment.
• Great Divine Ability Users and Great Luo Dao Lords gathered in Purple Firmament Palace, where Haotian and Yaochi shut the doors and announced the start of the second sermon.
• Hongjun appeared on the Cloud Bed, and the assembled listeners bowed to him.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun taught the Purple Heaven Palace assembly the Quasi-Saint path of Severing the Three Corpses, while Lu Yuan left Kunlun Mountain for Qingxu Mountain to gather resources and tend to his damaged Innate treasures. The chapter ended with Lu Yuan anticipating that restoring the Black Gourd and Three-Petal Green Lotus would take several epochs.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained that cultivators could sever the Good Corpse, Evil Corpse, and Corpse of Attachment to approach Sainthood, and that each corpse needed an Innate object to house it.
• Daoist Randeng asked whether Innate Spiritual Roots could be used to sever the corpses, and Hongjun said they could but might produce flawed Three Corpses.
• Hongjun began expounding the Quasi-Saint realm and the technique of Severing the Three Corpses as the Purple Heaven Palace assembly listened.
• Lu Yuan ended his discussion at Sanqing Palace, bid farewell to Daoist Duobao, Saint Mother Jin Ling, and Immortal Elder Nanji, and flew toward Qingxu Mountain.
• Lu Yuan planned to check Qingxu Mountain, gather Innate resources, and plant the treasures and spiritual plants he had collected during his travels.
• Lu Yuan estimated that the Tree of Life would need several epochs to provide enough Life Essence to restore the Black Gourd and Three-Petal Green Lotus into Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Lu Yuan returned to Qingxu Mountain, announced that he would preach the Dao, and created the Myriad Spirits Garden to cultivate his collected plants. After seeing the garden begin to develop the Power of Creation, he turned his attention to improving Qingxu Cave Heaven and harvested its spiritual treasures.

• Lu Yuan avoided the Witch and Demon Clans’ territories and returned to Qingxu Mountain after more than three thousand years of travel.
• Lu Yuan announced that he would preach the Dao at Qingxu Mountain in one thousand years, delighting its resident cultivators and creatures.
• Lu Yuan inspected the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, found it secure, and transformed a dragon-vein treasure ground into the Myriad Spirits Garden.
• Lu Yuan planted his Innate Spiritual Plants, Postnatal Immortal Roots, and other rare herbs, and sensed the garden developing the Power of Creation.
• Lu Yuan reflected on the possible evolution of the Myriad Spirits Garden and Qingxu Cave Heaven, then harvested the Purple Green Vital Qi Lotuses and Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruits.

Lu Yuan collected spiritual fruits and arranged for the Black Gourd and Three-Petal Green Lotus to recover beside the Tree of Life. He then began gathering Innate Wood Element Vital Qi to cultivate his Liver Aperture Divine Treasury.

• Lu Yuan collected six First-grade Purple Green Vital Qi Lotuses and thirty-six Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruits, then picked twelve Life Spirit Fruits from the Tree of Life.
• Lu Yuan set up formations to nourish the Black Gourd and Three-Petal Green Lotus with Life Essence and Innate Primordial Qi.
• Lu Yuan reflected on his progress condensing the Five Qi in his chest and his plans to gather the remaining elemental vital qi.
• Lu Yuan took out an emerald-glazed immortal bottle and began collecting Innate Wood Element Vital Qi beside the Tree of Life.

After gathering enough Innate Wood Element Vital Qi, Lu Yuan prepared for and delivered a century-long Dao lecture at Qingxu Mountain. He ended by inviting the mountain’s living beings to compete for ten places as his subordinates, then cast them into an illusory formation for the selection trial.

• Lu Yuan sealed away the full Emerald Glazed Immortal Bottle and reflected on the Five Qi he still needed to condense, especially the Innate Fire Element Vital Qi.
• Lu Yuan prepared a Dao lecture for Qingxu Mountain’s living beings, adapting teachings from the Three Pure Ones Daoists to suit their limited foundations.
• Lu Yuan arrived at Qingxu Mountain’s main peak and lectured on the Immortal Dao realms, from Origin Immortal through Golden Immortal, for a hundred years.
• Lu Yuan offered ten positions as subordinates to those willing to follow him, and every living being stepped forward rather than leaving.
• Lu Yuan invoked the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Qi Grand Formation and threw the several thousand candidates into its illusory world for the trial.

Lu Yuan selected ten followers for the Qingxu Mountain Dao lineage, taught them the Supreme Clarity Profound Qi True Method, and arranged for them to guard the mountain while he returned to Kunlun. After sealing Qingxu Cave Heaven and resuming his secluded cultivation, he was still refining Innate Metal Element Vital Qi as auspicious signs appeared in Purple Sky Palace.

• Lu Yuan chose ten followers from the Taixu Illusory Realm trial and gave them the Supreme Clarity Profound Qi True Method, forbidding them to pass it on without permission.
• Lu Yuan spent three thousand years refining Innate Metal Element Vital Qi, then summoned the ten followers and arranged for Qingxiaozi, Huangxuzi, and Daoist Beiyuan to oversee Qingxu Mountain while he was away.
• Lu Yuan distributed spiritual resources to the ten, inspected the spiritual roots and items in Qingxu Cave Heaven, and sealed the cave heaven before leaving for Kunlun Mountain.
• Three thousand years later, Lu Yuan returned to Kunlun Mountain, greeted Immortal Elder Nanji and Saint Mother Jin Ling, and resumed secluded cultivation in Qingxuan Hall.
• In Purple Sky Palace, the Saint's Dao voice lingered as heavenly maidens scattered flowers and golden lotuses rose from the earth.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun's second sermon led many powerful listeners to comprehend the Quasi-Sage path and sever their corpses, while Lu Yuan continued refining Innate Metal Element Vital Qi in seclusion. The sermon remained underway as Lu Yuan finished filling his Lung Aperture Divine Treasury and wondered whether his Master and the others were nearing its end.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun explained the Quasi-Sage path, and the listeners at Purple Firmament Palace advanced their cultivation through his Great Dao aphorisms.
• Grand Pure Daoist severed his Good Corpse, followed by Daoist Yuqing Yuanshi and Daoist Shangqing Tongtian, while Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, Dijun, Taiyi, and other top Great Divine Ability Users also severed their corpses.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches comprehended Quasi-Sage-level Great Dao Rules and strengthened their divine baleful power.
• At Kunlun Mountain, Lu Yuan continued refining Innate Metal Element Vital Qi while guarding the Dao field with Daoist Duobao.
• After another three to five thousand years, Lu Yuan filled his Lung Aperture Divine Treasury with Innate Metal Element Vital Qi and wondered if Purple Firmament Palace's second sermon was nearing its end.

Lu Yuan continued cultivating in seclusion while Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended his second sermon at Purple Cloud Palace and explained sainthood and the three paths to proving the Dao. Hongjun left the gathered powers stunned by declaring that none of them would attain Hunyuan within ten thousand tribulations, and that only those destined for sainthood could obtain a Saint’s Dao Fruit.

• Lu Yuan reflected on his treasures and cultivation, then used Three Lights Divine Water to refine Innate Water Element Qi in his Kidney Aperture Divine Treasury.
• After a thousand years, Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended his second sermon and announced that he would teach the Dao of Hunyuan Sages one kalpa later in his final sermon.
• The Grand Pure Daoist asked what a Saint was, and Hongjun described Saints’ power and explained the paths of Great Dao Rules, Severing the Three Corpses, and merit.
• Daoist Shangqing Tongtian asked how the three paths compared, and Hongjun ranked their Dao Fruits by combat power, potential, and relationship to the Heavenly Dao.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi asked about the differences between Saints and Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals, and Hongjun explained the distinctions among their Dao Fruits.
• Dijun asked who among them could become a Hunyuan Sage, and Hongjun said none would succeed within ten thousand tribulations and only the destined could become Saints.

Hongjun appointed East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West to govern the Mysterious Gate Immortal Dao, then bestowed treasures on them. He ended the sermon and sent the assembled cultivators back into the sea of chaos, announcing that Purple Firmament Palace would open again one yuanhui later.

• Hongjun declared that the Immortal Dao needed leaders before he merged with the Dao and summoned East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West.
• Hongjun named East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West the heads of male and female immortals, prompting unease from the Yao Race Heavenly Court faction and amusement from the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West accepted their appointments, and Hongjun gave them the Immortal Gathering Banner and the Ten Thousand Immortals Record.
• Hongjun bestowed the Dragon Head Staff on East King Duke and the Pure Water Alms Bowl on Queen Mother of the West, warning them not to abuse their authority.
• Hongjun ended the sermon and announced that Purple Firmament Palace would open again one yuanhui later; the listeners found themselves in the sea of chaos.

After Dijun challenged East King Duke over his appointment as Head of Male Immortals, East King Duke grew ambitious about founding an Immortal Court, while Queen Mother of the West refused to join him. At Kunlun Mountain, Lu Yuan congratulated the Three Pure Ones on their cultivation breakthrough and eased their lingering displeasure.

• Dijun confronted East King Duke, who called himself subordinate to the Heavenly Emperor within the Heavenly Dao Order, and Dijun departed with Taiyi and the Yao Race Heavenly Court powers.
• East King Duke envied Dijun’s influence and resolved to establish an Immortal Court to compete for supremacy in the Primordial World.
• East King Duke urged Queen Mother of the West to work with him, but she warned him about the karmic burden and left for her dojo.
• Lu Yuan and Daoist Duobao sensed the Three Pure Ones’ stronger auras when they returned to Sanqing Palace.
• Lu Yuan congratulated the Three Pure Ones on their progress, lifting their gloom, and Daoist Shangqing Tongtian praised his discernment.

After the Sanqing preached the Dao in Sanqing Palace, Lu Yuan condensed Innate Water Element Qi and advanced to the late Golden Immortal realm. East King Duke then established the Purple Mansion Immortal Court, prompting the Sanqing to suppress their destiny and consider how to prevent Dijun from easily completing his authority as Heavenly Emperor.

• Lu Yuan flattered the Sanqing, and Yuqing Yuanshi praised his improved cultivation and Daoxing.
• The Sanqing preached the Dao to their disciples for nine thousand years, and Grand Pure Daoist helped Lu Yuan refine Innate Water Element Vital Qi.
• Lu Yuan condensed Innate Water Element Qi and broke through to the late Golden Immortal realm.
• East King Duke announced the establishment of the Purple Mansion Immortal Court and received Profound Yellow Merit Qi from the Heavenly Dao.
• The Sanqing suppressed their destiny and the destiny of their disciples to keep it from flowing to the Purple Mansion Immortal Court.
• Grand Pure Daoist concluded that the Purple Mansion Immortal Court could not fall too quickly, lest Dijun complete his authority as Heavenly Emperor.

East King Duke founded the Purple Mansion Immortal Court and began expanding overseas, prompting the Three Pure Ones and Queen Mother of the West to consider the growing struggle while Dijun and Taiyi weighed when to strike. The Witch Race, Yao Race, and Purple Mansion forces divided the world into rival spheres, and calamity aura began to rise as wars spread.

• The Three Pure Ones agreed that they would not allow Dijun to easily establish the Yao Race Heavenly Court's authority, while Lu Yuan reflected on the Purple Mansion Immortal Court's danger and strengthened his resolve to prove the Hunyuan Dao.
• Queen Mother of the West decided to remain in West Kunlun until the third sermon, waiting to see whether East King Duke would defeat the Witch and Demon Clans or fall to them.
• Taiyi urged Dijun to attack the Purple Mansion Immortal Court, but Dijun, Bai Ze, and Ji Meng persuaded him to wait until after Hongjun's third sermon and merger with the Heavenly Dao.
• The Witch and Yao Clans expanded their campaigns across the land, while East King Duke's Group of Immortals fought overseas powers to control the Four Seas.
• Wars spread as the Yao Race Heavenly Court, Witch Race, and Purple Mansion Immortal Court occupied the heavens, the land, and overseas territories, and many Great Divine Ability Users sealed their dojos against the rising calamity.

Lu Yuan remained in seclusion on Kunlun Mountain and opened his Liver Aperture Divine Treasury, beginning to condense Innate Wood Element Qi. Meanwhile, the Yao Race Heavenly Court debated whether to attack the Witch Race or first bring Kunpeng and his forces under its control, leaving Dijun to weigh the proposals.

• Lu Yuan stayed on Kunlun Mountain to avoid the growing bloodshed and karmic dangers of the Witch and Demon Clans’ conflict.
• After three thousand years of cultivating the Wood Dao, Lu Yuan opened his Liver Aperture Divine Treasury and began refining Innate Wood Element Vital Qi.
• Lu Yuan’s azure qi pillar appeared above his head, still illusory as he continued condensing Innate Wood Element Qi.
• In the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, Taiyi urged Dijun to raise an army against the Witch Race.
• Tengshe proposed that the Yao Race Heavenly Court first subdue Kunpeng and his forces, while Fuxi and Nuwa supported his cautious approach.
• Dijun acknowledged that Kunpeng could not be underestimated as he considered the counsel.

Bai Ze proposed using a Heavenly Emperor enthronement ceremony to test the Twelve Ancestral Witches and establish the Yao Race Heavenly Court's claim to orthodoxy. Dijun approved the plan, and the court began inviting powerful figures across the Primordial World to attend three thousand years later.

• Taiyi swallowed his frustration after Tengshe's caution against rashly attacking the Witch Race won support from the other Demon Emperors.
• Bai Ze proposed holding an enthronement ceremony to boost the Heavenly Court's prestige and draw a response from the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
• Dijun and the other Demon Emperors approved Bai Ze's plan, and Dijun set the ceremony for three thousand years later in the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• The Yao Race Heavenly Court dispatched envoys of varying rank to invite powerful figures across the Primordial World.
• Fuxi, Nuwa, Tengshe, and Taiyi personally visited sacred grounds to deliver invitations.

Nuwa invited the Three Pure Ones to Dijun’s enthronement ceremony, and they accepted despite suspecting the invitation was a political scheme. More than nine hundred years later, the Three Pure Ones and their companions reached the South Heaven Gate as guests gathered for the ceremony.

• Nuwa delivered Dijun’s invitation to the Three Pure Ones and explained that she and Fuxi were already entangled with the Yao Race Heavenly Court.
• Tongtian warned Nuwa that the Yao Race Heavenly Court risked repeating the Three Clans Tribulation, while Yuanshi advised her to avoid its karma.
• The Three Pure Ones recognized that attending would lend legitimacy to Dijun and Taiyi’s court, but agreed to go and planned to bring Duobao, Jin Ling, Nanji, and Lu Yuan.
• More than nine hundred years later, the Three Pure Ones and their companions departed Kunlun Mountain and traveled toward the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• The group arrived at the South Heaven Gate, where a familiar voice welcomed the Three Pure Ones and urged them inside.

Lu Yuan attended the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s grand Heavenly Emperor enthronement ceremony, where the Primordial World’s great powers gathered to witness Dijun’s rise. As the ceremony began, Lu Yuan reflected that the coming struggle between the Witch and Demon Clans would be a desperate attempt to resist the Heavenly Dao’s course.

• Fuxi and Taiyi welcomed the Three Pure Ones and their juniors, including Lu Yuan, into the Yao Race Heavenly Court.
• The Heavenly Court hosted guests from Purple Cloud Palace and invited 129,600 other cultivators to spread its standing as the rightful orthodoxy of Heaven and Earth.
• After a sixty-year cycle, the enthronement ceremony began on the ninth day of the ninth month, with Dijun, Taiyi, Fuxi, Nuwa, and Tengshe seated in Lingxiao Treasure Hall.
• The Three Pure Ones and other leading great powers occupied the central guest platforms, while Lu Yuan and the other juniors stood behind the Three Pure Ones.
• Lu Yuan considered past figures who had defied the Heavenly Dao and concluded that Dijun, Taiyi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches had also chosen to resist its course.

Dijun and the other four Demon Emperors established the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s orthodoxy and received Heavenly Emperor offices from the Will of Heavenly Dao. The ceremony’s fortune and insights let Dijun sever his Evil Corpse and reach the Late Quasi-Saint realm, leaving the gathered Great Divine Ability Users resentful.

• Dijun, Taiyi, Fuxi, Nuwa, and Tengshe recited a sacrificial text at the ancient Heavenly Court altar to ask the Heavenly Dao to establish the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s orthodoxy and confirm Dijun as Heavenly Emperor.
• The Will of Heavenly Dao bestowed one primary and four subordinate Heavenly Emperor offices upon the five, linking them to the Heavenly Dao and merging their offices with the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s fortune.
• Dijun, Taiyi, Fuxi, Nuwa, and Tengshe manifested their respective Great Dao phenomena as they absorbed fortune and gained insights into the Heavenly Dao.
• Dijun used the Sun God Mirror to sever his Evil Corpse, Fellow cultivator Sun, and advanced to the Late Quasi-Saint realm.
• Sanqing, Jieyin, Zhunti, Minghe, Kunpeng, East King Duke, and the other gathered Great Divine Ability Users reacted with jealousy and grim resentment at Dijun’s breakthrough.