Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan awakened as a Mid-grade Innate God-Demon just as Daoist Hongjun proved the Hunyuan Dao and announced a sermon at the Purple Palace. While Lu Yuan considered how to survive the coming Saint Era, the Sanqing decided to attend Hongjun’s lecture.

• A natural formation on a southern sacred mountain nurtured Lu Yuan’s God-Demon Dao Embryo until Hongjun’s Sage signs stirred him awake.
• Hongjun announced that he would lecture on the Great Dao at the Purple Palace in three thousand years, and Lu Yuan realized he had awakened in the Primordial World at the start of the Saint Era.
• Lu Yuan recalled the future rise of the Sages and the ruin of the Witch and Demon Clans, then absorbed Innate Primordial Qi while planning his path after birth.
• The Sanqing discussed Hongjun’s power and the coming sermon at Kunlun Mountain.
• Grand Pure Daoist persuaded Jade Pure Daoist and Supreme Pure Daoist to attend the Purple Palace sermon, and the three left for the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Lu Yuan completed his manifestation as an Innate God-Demon in his Divine Mountain Dao Field and resolved to pursue the Dao. He discovered that the White Jade Plate that had struck him on Blue Star had followed him into the Primordial World, where it began to stir.

• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti discussed attending Hongjun's sermon, and Jieyin foresaw an opportunity to restore the Western Ley Lines or advance their Dao.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches debated whether to attend Zixiao Palace; after Houtu mediated a quarrel between Zhurong and Gonggong, Dijiang decided they would go.
• Great divine ability users from across the Primordial World flocked toward Zixiao Palace for Hongjun's sermon.
• After a thousand years, Lu Yuan manifested within his Divine Mountain Great Formation and formed a perfected Innate God-Demon Dao Body.
• Lu Yuan resolved to cultivate toward the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit before pursuing the distant goal of sainthood.
• Lu Yuan discovered the White Jade Plate from Blue Star within his true spirit, and it trembled as information surfaced in his perception.

Lu Yuan learned that the White Jade Plate was a Treasure Beyond Fate that could be repaired with World Origin power, then explored his Divine Mountain Dao Field for treasures. He refined the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram and discovered that a damaged jade disk was a fragment of the Jade Disk of Creation.

• Lu Yuan understood that the White Jade Plate had brought him to the Primordial World and concealed and muddled the power of fate around him, but needed World Origin power to be repaired.
• Lu Yuan explored his Cave Heaven Blessed Land and protected its spiritual plants, knowing they would become valuable after the Innate Era.
• Lu Yuan traveled to the earth veins and refined twelve Innate restrictions of the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram, discovering it was a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with thirty-six restrictions.
• Lu Yuan found a damaged jade-slip Lingbao in the earth-vein secret realm and refined it.
• Lu Yuan learned that the jade disk was a fragment of the Jade Disk of Creation, containing three Great Daos and the ability to record teachings, and stored it in his Purple Mansion.

Lu Yuan preserved a secret realm, collected treasures from two dragon-vein convergences, and discovered a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root at the third. The abundance of treasures led him to conclude that the Pure Turgid God-Demon had lacked the destiny to claim them and had been born into disaster.

• Lu Yuan used materials from the first secret realm to create an array that preserved it, then headed to the second dragon-vein convergence.
• Lu Yuan found the Purple Green Vital Qi Lotus and Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruit, collected half their fruits and lotus flowers, and protected the Pure Turgid Secret Realm with an array.
• Lu Yuan followed the third dragon-vein convergence to an Immortal Island and discovered a towering ancient tree bearing forty-eight Innate Spiritual Fruits.
• Lu Yuan recognized the tree as a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root and reflected that its great fortune explained why the Pure Turgid God-Demon had failed to transform.
• Lu Yuan reasoned that the Pure Turgid God-Demon had insufficient destiny to possess so many treasures and had been born amid Rahu's destruction of the Western Ley Lines and turmoil in the Heavenly Dao.

Lu Yuan refined the Tree of Life and witnessed its memory of Pangu creating the Primordial World, confirming the spiritual root came from the Life God-Demon. He collected most of the Liquid of Life from the nearby pool and left the rest in the hidden Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

• Lu Yuan reflected on how taking the place of the Pure Turgid God-Demon had spared him providential backlash and increased his providence.
• Lu Yuan refined the ancient spiritual-root tree and received a vision of Pangu battling the Chaos God-Demons, in which the Life God-Demon’s Chaos spiritual root was split apart.
• Lu Yuan learned that the Tree of Life contained the Great Dao of Life and could produce Fruits of Life and Liquid of Life.
• Lu Yuan forged an immortal pool and collected seventy percent of the Liquid of Life, leaving the remainder in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

Lu Yuan secured the Tree of Life’s resources and continued cultivating while postponing his choice of a primary Great Dao. Meanwhile, Fuxi and Nuwa found Purple Skies Palace in the chaos and reunited with Sanqing before the Saint’s sermon.

• Lu Yuan stored the immortal pool and twelve Fruits of Life in his Spirit Platform Secret Realm and left the Tree of Life rooted in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.
• Lu Yuan decided not to pursue the Tree of Life’s profound Great Dao of Life until he chose his primary Great Dao, then began cultivating with the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram and the Jade Disk of Creation fragment.
• Fuxi and Nuwa searched the chaos for Purple Skies Palace, following their spiritual intuition despite struggling to find their way.
• Fuxi and Nuwa spotted the Guiding Golden Bridges, crossed them, and entered Purple Skies Palace.
• Fuxi and Nuwa greeted Sanqing, who were seated on three of the six Purple Cushions.

Zhunti and Jieyin reached Purple Firmament Palace just before the sermon, and Zhunti secured a purple cushion by persuading Hongyun to yield his seat. Zhunti then forced Kunpeng from his cushion so Jieyin could take it, and the chapter ended as Hongjun began expounding the Dao.

• Fuxi failed to claim a purple cushion and sat in the second row, while Nuwa took the fourth cushion.
• Jieyin and Zhunti arrived at Purple Firmament Palace after nearly missing the sermon, and Zhunti persuaded Hongyun to yield his purple cushion.
• Zhunti and Yuanshi rallied the assembly against Kunpeng, and Zhunti struck him with the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, knocking him from his seat.
• Jieyin took Kunpeng's vacated cushion, and Kunpeng left the front row resentful of Zhunti and Hongyun.
• Haotian and Yaochi closed the palace doors, and Hongjun appeared on the cloud bed and forbade further disputes.
• Hongjun began expounding the Dao to the assembled cultivators.

After reaching the late Heavenly Immortal stage, Lu Yuan weighed whether to specialize in the unclaimed Profound Yellow Great Dao. Fearing the coming Witch-Demon Calamity and the power of the future Saints, he resolved to become a Saint’s disciple.

• Lu Yuan completed more than a thousand years of cultivation and broke through to the late Heavenly Immortal stage.
• Lu Yuan judged the Profound Yellow Great Dao to have enough potential to support the Primordial Dao Fruit and considered specializing in it, but postponed his choice.
• Lu Yuan recalled that cultivators sharing a Great Dao would become enemies once one proved the Dao and became a Hunyuan Sage.
• Lu Yuan realized his Innate God-Demon origins would likely draw him into the coming Witch-Demon Calamity unless he found protection.
• Lu Yuan resolved to seek a future Heavenly Dao Saint as his master.

Lu Yuan chose to seek Tongtian as his master and left his protected cave heaven to travel across the Primordial World. After many thousands of years, he reached Buzhou Mountain and sensed Pangu’s undying will; he had yet to continue on to Kunlun Mountain.

• Lu Yuan decided Tongtian was the Sanqing Saint most likely to accept him as a disciple and planned to visit Buzhou Mountain before seeking a master at Kunlun Mountain.
• Lu Yuan activated the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram and left his cave heaven, which he had secured with two formations protecting its three Innate Spiritual Roots.
• Lu Yuan surveyed the divine mountain that held his cave heaven, then traveled through the Primordial World, collecting a variety of spiritual plants and treasures.
• After eight thousand years crossing the Southern Region and another ten thousand years of travel, Lu Yuan spotted Buzhou Mountain in the distance.
• Lu Yuan reached the foot of Buzhou Mountain more than three thousand years later and felt the lingering majesty of Pangu’s will.

Lu Yuan spent five thousand years exploring Buzhou Mountain, battling dangerous foes, gathering treasures, and deepening his cultivation. After detecting a hidden fluctuation that resonated with his Profound Yellow treasure, he entered an Innate Grand Formation and found a ruined divine hall bearing unfamiliar Dao Scripts.

• Lu Yuan entered Buzhou Mountain and endured the weight of its Great Dao Rules as he traveled through its ranges.
• Lu Yuan fought ferocious beasts and cultivators, surviving several dangerous battles and obtaining the Earth Spirit Pearl and other resources.
• Lu Yuan spent five thousand years exploring Buzhou Mountain, refining his cultivation and discussing the Dao with other beings.
• Lu Yuan detected a hidden fluctuation in a valley and used the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram to reveal an Innate Grand Formation.
• Lu Yuan entered the formation, arrived at a ruined divine hall, and recognized its inscriptions as Divine Script from the World of Gods and Demons.

Lu Yuan discovered and began refining the Profound Yellow World-Generating Bead, a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure containing a fragment of Earth Emperor Yuejian’s Primordial Spirit. As Lu Yuan deepened his grasp of the Profound Yellow Great Dao, Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended his thirty-thousand-year sermon and announced the next would be one Kalpa later.

• Lu Yuan entered a ruined divine hall from the World of Gods and Demons and found a Profound Yellow innate spiritual pearl in an earth-vein spiritual acupoint.
• Lu Yuan recognized that his past-life memories of the Primordial World could be unreliable and accepted the pearl, sensing that they shared fate.
• Lu Yuan learned that the pearl was the Profound Yellow World-Generating Bead, a treasure nurtured by a fragment of Earth Emperor Yuejian’s Primordial Spirit.
• Lu Yuan failed to refine Yuejian’s Primordial Spirit fragment, then began refining the bead and comprehending the Profound Yellow Great Dao.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended his sermon at the Purple Firmament Palace and announced that the next sermon would take place one Kalpa later.

After Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended his lecture, Yangmei prepared to leave the Primordial World, while Lu Yuan advanced his understanding of the Profound Yellow Great Dao and searched a ruined hall on Buzhou Mountain. Sanqing returned to Buzhou Mountain, where Shangqing Tongtian sensed a being destined to become his disciple.

• Hongjun met Yangmei in the chaos, and Yangmei entrusted him with matters in the Primordial World before setting out to seek a chance amid the chaos.
• Hongjun warned Yangmei that the Immeasurable Tribulation might be connected to the Primordial World and Pangu, then challenged him to discuss the Dao before he left.
• Lu Yuan finished refining nine Innate Divine Prohibitions of the Profound Yellow World-Generating Bead and realized he could attempt to reach the Golden Immortal realm, but chose to consolidate his cultivation first.
• Lu Yuan put away the bead and searched the ruined divine hall for other treasures and spiritual items.
• Sanqing returned to Buzhou Mountain, and Shangqing Tongtian sensed a living being within its heavenly pillar who was destined to become his disciple.

Lu Yuan found and claimed the Banana Leaf Fan in Earth Emperor Yuejian’s ruined palace, while the Three Pure Ones learned from the heavenly secrets that Lu Yuan was destined to become Daoist Shangqing Tongtian’s direct disciple. The Three Pure Ones arrived at the palace as Lu Yuan stepped outside and recognized them as Pangu Sanqing.

• The Three Pure Ones divined that Lu Yuan was an Innate God-Demon with deep fortune and destined to become Daoist Shangqing Tongtian’s direct disciple.
• Lu Yuan took the earth-origin Banana Leaf Fan from the palace and marked it as his own, deciding not to spend thousands of years refining it.
• The Three Pure Ones identified the ruins as a remnant of Earth Emperor Yuejian’s palace and entered the valley to pay their respects and meet Tongtian’s future disciple.
• Lu Yuan left the divine hall, felt the immense auras of the three approaching Daoists, and realized they were Pangu Sanqing.

Lu Yuan presented the treasures he found in Earth Emperor Yuejian’s palace to the Three Pure Ones, passing Grand Pure Daoist’s test of character. Daoist Shangqing Tongtian accepted him as a disciple, gave him the daoist name Qingxuan, and made him his third personal disciple.

• Lu Yuan recognized the Three Pure Ones and respectfully praised their origins and future attainment of Hunyuan Sagehood.
• Grand Pure Daoist asked Lu Yuan to show the relics he had obtained, and Lu Yuan presented the Profound Yellow World-Generating Bead and Banana Leaf Fan.
• Grand Pure Daoist returned the treasures and offered Lu Yuan one request in exchange for letting him examine them.
• Lu Yuan asked to serve the Three Pure Ones, and Grand Pure Daoist urged Daoist Shangqing Tongtian to take him as a disciple.
• Daoist Shangqing Tongtian accepted Lu Yuan as his third personal disciple and bestowed on him the daoist name Qingxuan.

Lu Yuan presented the Three Pure Ones with Fruits of Life from his Tree of Life, strengthening his new ties to his masters and martial uncles. They rewarded him with Profound Yellow Dao insights, Three Lights Divine Water techniques and medicine, and a Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane, leaving him with several valuable paths for advancing his cultivation.

• Lu Yuan offered each of the Three Pure Ones a wooden box containing three Fruits of Life and promised to provide fresh fruit every epoch.
• The Three Pure Ones accepted the gifts and learned that Lu Yuan possessed the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root called the Tree of Life.
• Grand Pure Daoist gave Lu Yuan a violet jade slip containing Profound Yellow Great Dao transformations and his insights into the Dao.
• Daoist Yuqing Yuanshi gave Lu Yuan a jade slip for the Three Lights Divine Water divine ability and a bottle of the water.
• Daoist Shangqing Tongtian rewarded Lu Yuan with a Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane that could potentially be refined into an Innate Spiritual Treasure-grade Destiny Treasure.

Lu Yuan accompanied the Sanqing as they paid respects to Earth Emperor Yuejian, whose possible return led him to worry about other fallen powers returning in future Dao eras. After the incense offering, the Sanqing sensed an opportunity in Buzhou Mountain and brought Lu Yuan there to witness the gathering of Great Divine Ability Users.

• Lu Yuan accepted the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane from the Sanqing and led them to Earth Emperor Yuejian's main hall.
• Daoist Yuqing Yuanshi and Daoist Shangqing Tongtian lamented that Earth Emperor Yuejian had fallen during the Hunyuan Dao Tribulation, while Grand Pure Daoist suggested he might return.
• Lu Yuan wondered whether other fallen powers, including Emperor Cangli and Human Emperor Jiutou Shi, might return, and resolved not to slacken in pursuing the Great Dao.
• After offering incense, the Sanqing sensed an opportunity in Buzhou Mountain and decided to investigate it with Lu Yuan.
• The Sanqing carried Lu Yuan through the innate formation and deep into Buzhou Mountain, where its Great Dao Rules had no effect on them.

Lu Yuan watched the Sanqing and other great divine ability users gather at the Innate Gourd Vine as its gourds ripened and were claimed according to their fates. After six gourds were taken, the vine withered, leaving the final Black Gourd stunted and near death.

• Grand Pure Daoist broke the formation concealing the Innate Gourd Vine, and Lu Yuan recognized it as one of the Primordial World's ten great Innate Spiritual Roots.
• Fuxi and Nuwa arrived, followed by Dijun, Taiyi, Daoist Hongyun, and Zhenyuanzi, and they waited for the gourds to mature.
• Lu Yuan observed the newcomers and speculated that Taiyi might have an extraordinary origin connected to Emperor Cangli.
• Grand Pure Daoist declared that the Sanqing were fated to claim three gourds, and the others agreed on who would take the remaining gourds.
• Grand Pure Daoist, Daoist Yuqing Yuanshi, Daoist Shangqing Tongtian, Dijun, Nuwa, and Daoist Hongyun each took a gourd.
• The vine's vital essence dried up, and Zhenyuanzi lamented that the undersized Black Gourd was destined to wither before it was born.

Lu Yuan took the dying Black Gourd and used Three Lights Divine Water to halt its decline, while the gourd vine flew to Nuwa. The Great Divine Ability Users then began discussing the Dao, leaving Lu Yuan to study their manifestations and gather the spiritual signs they produced.

• Fuxi suggested giving the dying Black Gourd to Lu Yuan, and the Great Divine Ability Users agreed.
• Lu Yuan plucked the Black Gourd and used Three Lights Divine Water to stop it from withering further.
• The withered gourd vine flew to Nuwa, and Lu Yuan suspected it was the vine she would use to create humanity.
• Taiyi proposed that the Great Divine Ability Users discuss the Dao, and the others agreed.
• Lu Yuan sat near Daoist Shangqing Tongtian and comprehended the Dao manifestations while refining the Golden Lotuses and auspicious signs into his mana.

Lu Yuan comprehended the Profound Yellow Great Dao while listening to Great Divine Ability Users discuss the Dao, refining Heavenly Dao blessings and secretly recording their manifestations. After three hundred years, he entered unity between Heaven and man and plucked the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, leaving him newly established in the Golden Immortal realm.

• Lu Yuan refined golden lotuses and auspicious signs, comprehended the Great Divine Ability Users' Dao manifestations, and secretly recorded them on his Jade Disk of Creation fragment.
• Nearby living beings flocked to the valley to listen, though most lacked the aptitude to gain much from the discussion.
• Three hundred years passed as more beings gathered and Lu Yuan's Three Flowers solidified, bringing him to the threshold of the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Lu Yuan stopped refining blessings and recording Dao manifestations, focusing entirely on seizing the spiritual inspiration needed to advance.
• Lu Yuan entered unity between Heaven and man, drew in the valley's golden lotuses and auspicious signs, and opened the gate to the Golden Immortal realm.

Lu Yuan attained the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit through the Profound Yellow Great Dao, earning praise from the gathered Great Divine Ability Users. With his new cultivation, he could see through the veils surrounding their Dao manifestations and continued studying them.

• The Heavenly Dao bestowed Green Qi of Creation on Lu Yuan, and it merged into his Three Flowers as he attained the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit.
• Fuxi, Hongyun, Nuwa, Zhenyuanzi, Dijun, and Taiyi congratulated Shangqing Tongtian on Lu Yuan’s achievement, while Yuqing Yuanshi and Grand Pure Daoist also felt pleased.
• Lu Yuan examined his transformed mana, Primordial Spirit, and Dao body, then lamented that his cultivation amounted to only a mu of Great Dao cloudlight.
• Lu Yuan resumed comprehending the Dao manifestations and found that his Golden Immortal Dao Fruit let him grasp their mysteries more clearly.
• Lu Yuan saw through the mist around the Great Divine Ability Users and observed the distinct Dao realms manifested by Grand Pure Daoist, Yuqing Yuanshi, Shangqing Tongtian, Fuxi, Nuwa, Dijun, Taiyi, Hongyun, and Zhenyuanzi.