Chapter Summaries

Cangjie completed the Human Race’s three thousand characters despite a devastating Heavenly Punishment, and the Literary Dao helped him break through to Great Perfection Quasi-Saint. As the chapter ended, an even more destructive tribulation descended and locked onto him.

• Xuanyuan and the watching sages recognized the importance of Cangjie’s work as the tribulation intensified, while other Great Divine Ability Users dismissed his characters as powerless.
• Cangjie continued creating characters, and the Saints realized that they would preserve Human wisdom and strengthen the Race’s claim to the position of protagonist.
• Cangjie completed all three thousand characters and called on the Heavenly Dao and Human Dao to bear witness, provoking the tribulation clouds to condense into a terrifying Heavenly Punishment.
• The River of the Literary Dao erupted behind Cangjie, raising his strength to Great Perfection Quasi-Saint and astonishing the Saints, elders, and watchers across the Primordial World.
• A wondrous melody briefly calmed all living beings, but a far more powerful destructive tribulation then descended and locked onto Cangjie.

Cangjie challenged the Heavenly Dao by using the Literary Dao to pierce its secrets, provoking an unprecedented heavenly tribulation. The destruction subsided, but the chapter left Cangjie's fate unresolved.

• The six Heavenly Dao Saints sensed Cangjie's tribulation and recognized that creating writing had brought both merit and heavenly punishment.
• Cangjie declared that he would Seek the Dao Through Literature, then repelled the Saints' probing thoughts with his Literary Dao.
• Cangjie's four words and Dao insight collided with the Calamity Thunder, breaking open a black hole into the secrets of the Heavenly Dao, and Cangjie entered it.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun connected the Jade Disk of Creation to the Heavenly Dao, which unleashed a world-destroying array of tribulations against Cangjie.
• Empress Nuwa moved the mortals and weaker cultivators away as Cangjie's Literary Dao characters struggled against the destruction and the heavenly might finally receded.

Cangjie died after hinting that he had seen a calamity awaiting the Saints, while his creation of writing earned vast Heavenly Dao merit and transformed his book into a powerful treasure. As Xuanyuan’s reign brought the Human Race to new heights, Lu Yuan suspected that Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao had erased Cangjie to conceal a forbidden truth.

• Cangjie told Empress Nuwa that her choice had been right, then vanished, leaving the Saints troubled by his pitying gaze and mysterious vision.
• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate wondered whether Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao was plotting against the Saints and questioned the meaning of Hongjun’s Merger with Dao.
• Heavenly Dao Merit transformed Cangjie’s three-thousand-character book into a Jade Book, which escaped the Saints and other powerful beings seeking to claim it.
• Lu Yuan saw the literary net gathering the Human Race’s fortune and suspected that Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao had acted to erase Cangjie.
• Cangjie’s writing spread Human Race civilization and secured its position as the protagonist of heaven and earth.
• Xuanyuan established an orderly government, allied the Human Race with the Dragon Clan, and oversaw a flourishing era of cultural and practical inventions.

Xuanyuan passed the Human Emperor’s seal to Zhuanxu and, after attaining Great Perfection Quasi-Saint through Heavenly Dao merit, ascended to Fire Cloud Cave. Guangchengzi received merit for teaching Xuanyuan and broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm.

• After failing to find a suitable successor, Xuanyuan chose his grandson Zhuanxu to inherit the position of Co-Lord of the Human Race.
• At Chendu, Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Laozi, Tongtian Cult Master, and Empress Nuwa arrived to witness Zhuanxu’s succession ceremony.
• Xuanyuan handed Zhuanxu the Human Emperor’s seal, and Zhuanxu vowed to protect the Human Race and honor its trust.
• Heavenly Dao merit raised Xuanyuan to Great Perfection Quasi-Saint, after which he ascended to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Guangchengzi received Heavenly Dao merit for serving as Xuanyuan’s teacher and advanced into the Quasi-Saint realm.

Lu Yuan planned to complete the remaining Dao Fruit incarnations and traveled to the Netherworld Sea of Blood to obtain Minghe's Wind Fan. He traded promises concerning the Asura Path, the Asura clan, and protection from calamity for the fan, then left Minghe with a Calamity Fortune Talisman.

• Lu Yuan assessed his progress toward perfecting the Nine Dao Fruit incarnations and planned to seek the treasures needed for the Four Symbols and five elements Daos.
• Lu Yuan decided that the Primordial Chaos Star Sea Source Land would provide the merit and fortune needed for his path to proving the Dao.
• Lu Yuan visited Minghe in the Sea of Blood and asked for the Wind Fan of the Four Symbols Fan.
• Lu Yuan offered to strengthen the Asura Path, protect the Asura clan, give Minghe a Calamity Fortune Talisman, and grant him future assistance.
• Minghe agreed to the trade and handed Lu Yuan the Wind Fan.
• Lu Yuan gave Minghe the talisman and departed, while Minghe regarded him with renewed wariness.

Lu Yuan obtained the Fire Fan from Taiqing and learned from Tongtian that the Water Fan lay beneath the mysterious ice of the Abyss of North Nether. Back in Ziwei Imperial Palace, he severed his Creation Dao Seed to form a sixth Dao Fruit incarnation and advanced to the Late Quasi-Saint realm, then prepared to seek the Water Fan.

• Lu Yuan visited Taiqing at Shouyang Mountain, and Taiqing gave him the Fire Fan after acknowledging his progress and plans to sever a Dao Fruit incarnation.
• Lu Yuan told Tongtian about obtaining the Fire Fan and trading with Minghe for the Wind Fan, then asked him to locate the Water Fan.
• Tongtian pierced the heavenly secrets with his sword Dao and found the Water Fan beneath ten thousand zhang of mysterious ice in the Abyss of North Nether, inside an Innate Gui Water Origin-Returning Grand Formation.
• Lu Yuan returned to Ziwei Imperial Palace and used his five existing Dao Fruit incarnations, the Disk of Creation, star power, and merit to sever the Creation Dao Seed and form the Creation Daoist.
• Lu Yuan broke through from Mid Quasi-Saint to Late Quasi-Saint, absorbed the Creation Daoist's insights, and set out to retrieve the Water Fan from the Abyss of North Nether.

Lu Yuan obtained the Water Fan and several other treasures from the Black Tortoise remains, then learned from Zhiyi that the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon had secretly corrupted him in the ancient past. The Heavenly Demon appeared and challenged Lu Yuan’s Immortal Dao, leaving them locked in a clash of opposing doctrines.

• Lu Yuan broke the Innate Kui Water Source Returning Grand Formation, took the Water Fan, and reunited the Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind sources.
• The Myriad Tribulation Chessboard, North Nether Abyss Map, Cloud Water Jade, and Water Origin Plate emerged from the Black Tortoise remains, and Lu Yuan collected them.
• Zhiyi’s remnant soul revealed that the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon had contaminated his Dao Heart, forcing him to undergo Dao transformation to prevent his corruption from harming the Primordial World.
• The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon appeared and identified Lu Yuan as Qingxuan Daojun, then tried to persuade him that the Demonic Dao offered greater freedom than the Immortal Dao.
• Lu Yuan defended the Mysterious Gate Immortal Dao against the Heavenly Demon’s examples of corruption, and the Heavenly Demon dismissed order and goodness as tools for controlling living beings.

Lu Yuan and Lord Zhiming joined forces in the Abyss of North Nether to destroy Great Freedom Heavenly Demon's Dao body after it attacked Lu Yuan with the Heavenly Demon Scroll. Great Freedom Heavenly Demon vowed to target the Mysterious Gate's Three Teachings, but Sect Master Tongtian wounded his true body, and Lu Yuan left for the Ziwei Imperial Palace.

• Lu Yuan rejected Great Freedom Heavenly Demon's claim that their paths could be reconciled, and the demon attacked him with a demonic claw and the Heavenly Demon Scroll's Dharma-Ending tribulation power.
• Lu Yuan defended himself with the Profound Yellow Gate and his Dao Fruit incarnations, while the battle's shockwaves alarmed powerful beings throughout the Great Desolation.
• Lord Zhiming sent a Dao body to avenge Grand Elder Zhiyi, and he and Lu Yuan trapped and destroyed Great Freedom Heavenly Demon's Dao body, suppressing its fleeing imprint inside the Profound Yellow Gate.
• Great Freedom Heavenly Man threatened to make Inner Demon tribulations harder for Mysterious Gate disciples, but Lord Zhiming's true body blocked his distant pressure and Sect Master Tongtian struck his true body with the Qingping Sword.
• Lord Zhiming's Dao body took Zhiyi's remains back to the North Pole, while Lu Yuan reflected on his progress and flew toward the Ziwei Imperial Palace.

After returning from the Abyss of North Nether with rare treasures, Lu Yuan was summoned to Biyou Palace, where Sect Master Tongtian explained the path and dangers of Hunyuan transcendence. Lu Yuan returned to the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea and strengthened its Great Formation of the Stars, spreading his cultivation method and gathering merit and providence.

• Lu Yuan assessed the treasures he had gained at the Abyss of North Nether and reflected on the danger of offending the Great Freedom Devil Master and the protection of his ties to the Jie Sect and Lord Zhiming.
• Sect Master Tongtian summoned Lu Yuan to Biyou Palace and praised him for slaying the Devil Master's Dao body, exposing the Dragon Han Tribulation's karmic ties, and reaching the Late Quasi-Saint realm.
• Sect Master Tongtian explained the difference between Heavenly Dao Saints and Hunyuan Sages, described the trials of proving Hunyuan, and warned Lu Yuan of the deadly Dao Tribulation that had destroyed the Three Sovereigns Heavenly Emperor.
• Sect Master Tongtian transmitted insights from Pangu, Dao Ancestor Hongjun, and his own experience, then urged Lu Yuan to build his foundation and prove the Dao through his own method.
• Lu Yuan activated the Great Formation of the Stars and infused the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea with the Qingxuan Ziwei Xuanji Golden Chapter's Dao charm, helping cultivators advance and strengthening the star sea's civilization.
• Lu Yuan watched merit and providence gather from the flourishing Circumference Heavenly Star Sea and nourish his Profound Yellow Dao Fruit.

The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon corrupted the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea, prompting Lu Yuan to order a purge. Zhuanxu crushed the Jiu Li and San Miao rebellion and prepared to break Tongtian Jianmu to sever communication between Heaven and Earth.

• The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon planted Inner Demon Seeds in Star Immortal Dao cultivators, driving them to sacrifice stars and slaughter others across the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea.
• Lu Yuan detected the demonic calamity and ordered the Great Formation of the Stars and the Profound Yellow Tribulation Fire Great Formation to suppress and purify it.
• After ascending the throne, Zhuanxu learned that Cang Jie and the Jiu Li remnants had rebelled, so he set out with Chijingzi to quell them.
• At Yunmeng Marsh, Zhuanxu and Chijingzi defeated the Mountain God and River Earl, destroyed the Blood Shaman altar, and killed Da Li and Cang Jie; Jiu Li was defeated and San Miao surrendered.
• Zhuanxu went to the God Severing Platform and declared that he would break Tongtian Jianmu to sever communication between Heaven and Earth.

Fuxi approved Zhuanxu’s plan to sever communication between Heaven and Earth, and Zhuanxu broke the Tongtian Jianmu and sealed the remaining passages, ending the gods’ and demons’ free access to the mortal world. Afterward, Fuxi abdicated as Heavenly Emperor and Shennong succeeded him, beginning his reign over the Heavenly Court.

• Fuxi reviewed scenes of suffering in the Haotian Mirror, approved Zhuanxu’s petition, and forbade Heavenly Court deities from descending to the mortal world without permission.
• Zhuanxu appointed Chong Li to govern the gods and Bei Zheng Li to govern the people, then issued orders to seal unlawful routes between Heaven and Earth.
• Zhuanxu struck the Tongtian Jianmu with the Tengkong Sword, destroying the tree as Chong and Li sealed the remaining passages and cross-realm routes.
• The severance cut off the gods’ and demons’ interference in mortal affairs, strengthened Human Race fortune, and left Zhuanxu bloodied with his hair turned white.
• Fuxi completed his term and passed the Heavenly Emperor’s Dao Fruit to Shennong, who took the throne and proclaimed his rule over the heavens.

Lu Yuan seized the chance created by Shennong’s ascension to suppress the demonic calamity, while Zhuanxu purged the Witch Race’s influence and completed his reign. Zhuanxu ascended to Fire Cloud Cave after handing the Human Emperor Seal to Emperor Ku, who began a new era for the Human Race.

• Shennong ascended the throne, and his fire virtue weakened the demonic corruption in the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea as Lu Yuan strengthened its formation.
• The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord watched his demonic calamity falter and withdrew his probing thoughts, vowing to attack Lu Yuan when the Mysterious Gate’s fortune waned.
• Zhuanxu and Chijingzi used poisoned nuptial wine and a spirit-locking formation to trap Jiu Feng, but Empress Houtu rescued her before Zhuanxu could kill her.
• Zhuanxu’s forces purged the Witch Cult’s remaining strongholds, and the Human Race’s fortune became unified.
• Zhuanxu handed the Human Emperor Seal to Emperor Ku during a ceremony attended by the Four Saints, then received merit, reached Mid Quasi-Saint, and ascended to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Emperor Ku accepted the seal and responsibility for the Human Race as Zhuanxu took his place alongside the Three Sovereigns.

Lu Yuan sensed the Fire Virtue’s influence waning as Demon Seeds revived across the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea, and Long Ear Dingguang Immortal stirred resentment against the Three Sects. He deliberately released the star formation’s restraints to draw the spreading demonic calamity and its hidden conspirators into the prosperous Star Sea while preparing the Four Symbols Fan to return to its origin.

• Lu Yuan sensed Qingming Star’s Merit of Enlightenment and Power of Faith faltering as the Fire Virtue cycle receded, while Qingmingzi struggled to contain a revived Demon Seed.
• The Demon Seed corrupted Qingmingzi and his Star Officials, overwhelmed the star’s defenses, and transformed Qingming Star into a Demonic Realm.
• The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord sent Long Ear Dingguang Immortal to the Western White Tiger Star Domain, where Dingguang urged oppressed cultivators to blame the Three Sects and take refuge in the Western Pure Land.
• Lu Yuan saw Qingming Star fall, Dingguang’s recruitment efforts, and Ancestor Minghe and Grandmaster Kunpeng waiting at the Star Sea’s edges.
• Lu Yuan freed the demonic energy restrained by the Great Formation of the Stars, letting the calamity surge toward the prosperous central regions to expose and destroy his enemies.
• Lu Yuan turned his attention back to the Earth Fan, Water Fan, Wind Fan, and Fire Fan as their Origins revolved under his Dao Fruit.

Minghe, Kunpeng, and Maitreya exploited the demonic calamity to attack or infiltrate the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea, while Lu Yuan watched and restrained his forces. East King Duke returned and founded the Pure Yang Immortal Palace, leaving the Star Sea engulfed in a struggle among rival powers.

• Minghe sent Asura battle generals to invade the Mars, Blood Blade, and Greedy Wolf Star Domains and harvest their star souls.
• Kunpeng sent demons to attack the Profound Abyss, Ice Soul, and Han Ming Star Domains while hidden Yao Race Heavenly Court agents prepared to act.
• Lu Yuan observed the invasions and Maitreya’s spread of Buddhist faith in the White Tiger Star Domain, then secretly altered the star power to monitor the Western Teachings.
• East King Duke returned to the Star Sea, established the Pure Yang Immortal Palace, and drew disaffected immortals to his banner.
• Lu Yuan allowed the Pure Yang Immortal Palace to stand out on the star chart as the Star Sea’s competing factions drove the calamity into chaos.

The Star Demon God awakened in the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea and corrupted Dinguang Buddha, seeking to reclaim the Star Origin and restore its power. After Maitreya exposed the corruption, Lu Yuan unleashed the Great Formation of the Stars to purge the demonic forces and attack the Star Demon God.

• The Star Demon God revived from a remnant of its True Spirit and resolved to seize the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea and the Star Immortal Dao.
• The Star Demon God corrupted Dinguang Buddha, twisting his Buddhist teachings and amplifying his resentment without his awareness.
• Maitreya detected the ancient stellar corruption in Dinguang Buddha and urgently warned Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan declared a Heavenly Dao Calamity, mobilized the Star Lords and Three Sects, and activated the Great Formation of the Stars at full strength.
• Maitreya confronted the possessed Dinguang Buddha as the Star Demon God revealed itself and unleashed a devouring force; the formation also struck Minghe’s forces in Mars and Kunpeng’s demons in Profound Abyss.
• Lu Yuan directed the Star Killing Divine Light toward the White Tiger Star Domain to destroy the Star Demon God.

Lu Yuan discovered that the Star Demon God was behind the chaos in the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea and struck its hidden True Spirit with the Great Formation of the Stars. Gravely wounded, the Star Demon God triggered the Heavenly Dao Calamity, while its Anti-Star Alliance moved its attacks against the formation up ahead of schedule.

• Lu Yuan traced the star sea's turmoil to the Star Demon God, which had corrupted Dinguang Buddha and gathered White Bone Dao Lord, Mountain River Ancestor, and other allies into the Anti-Star Alliance.
• Lu Yuan used the Great Formation of the Stars to send Star Killing Divine Light at the Star Demon God's hidden True Spirit in the White Tiger Star Domain.
• The strike gravely wounded the Star Demon God, which unleashed the Heavenly Dao Calamity and vowed to make the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea the grave of both itself and Lu Yuan.
• White Bone Dao Lord learned of the injury and ordered the Nightbone corps to attack the Heavenly Festival star gate's formation foundation ahead of schedule.
• Mountain River Ancestor and Demon Lord Yuan Gu accelerated their assault on the Mysterious Halberd fortress as the Star Demon God's commands spread through the Anti-Star Alliance.

The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord and the Anti-Star Alliance attacked several nodes of the Great Formation of the Stars, while the wounded Star Demon God revealed his plan to reverse the formation and drown the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea in chaos. Lu Yuan judged the attacks to be a minor nuisance as Lord Zhiming confronted the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon’s contamination of the Northern Sea.

• The Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord polluted star nodes on the Northern Sea border, provoking Lord Zhiming to attack him.
• Mountain River Ancestor collapsed an ancient leyline, damaging barriers around key formation nodes and allowing Demon Lord Yuan Gu’s forces to assault the Dark Spear star fortress.
• White Bone Dao Lord sent skeletal killers against the Heavenly Knot star gate and secretly used Marrow-Corroding Poison Flame to undermine its formation foundations.
• The wounded Star Demon God planned to exploit the attacks and Dinguang Buddha’s corruption to seize the formation’s hub, reverse its stellar tide, unleash outer chaos, and rebuild his Dao-body and Primordial Dao Fruit.
• Lu Yuan surveyed the attacks from the Ziwei Imperial Palace and concluded that the Great Formation of the Stars remained intact.

As the Star Demon God’s forces ravaged the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea, East King Duke discovered the demon god’s attempt to seize the Pure Yang Immortal Palace’s fortune and attacked the Anti-Star Alliance. His betrayal turned the battle in the Star Ruins, prompting the Star Demon God to reveal its monstrous form through Dinguang Buddha.

• Ancestor Minghe, Old Ancestor Kunpeng, Dinguang Buddha, White Bone Dao Lord, and Blood Soul Ancestor led attacks that battered the Star Dipper Grand Array and corrupted the Star Sea.
• The Star Demon God reached for the Innate Pure Yang fortune in the Pure Yang Immortal Palace through Mountain River Ancestor.
• East King Duke recognized the demonic will, recalled Sage Taiqing’s rescue of him, and resolved to defend his Daoist tradition.
• East King Duke ordered the Pure Yang forces to strike the Anti-Star Alliance, destroying undead beasts and vaporizing Blood Soul Ancestor’s tide of blood.
• The Star Demon God, enraged by the reversal, transformed Dinguang Buddha into a towering demonic body bearing the Star Demon Imprint.

Lu Yuan used the star-sea calamity to create Four Symbols Daoist, then coordinated the Star Formation’s defense against the Star Demon God’s Dharma-Ending Domain. The Calamity Fortune Gourd began devouring the domain’s power, exposing an opening for Lu Yuan to exploit.

• The Star Demon God devoured battlefield remnants and fought Venerable Maitreya, whose Blessing Divine Pestle damaged it but could not overcome its regeneration.
• Lu Yuan used the Four Symbols Divine Fans, calamity fortune, and his Blade of Heavenly Will to create Four Symbols Daoist, a Perfected Quasi-Saint who opened the Myriad Tribulation Chessboard across the star sea.
• Lu Yuan deployed the Great Formation of the Stars against the Star Demon God while Lord Zhiming sealed the Northern Sea against the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Lord’s demonic tide.
• The Star Demon God unleashed its Dharma-Ending Star Domain, draining spiritual energy and destroying cultivators and magical treasures as it eroded the Star Formation.
• Venerable Maitreya invoked the Future Star Sutra to steady the cultivators’ hearts, while Lu Yuan’s Calamity Fortune Gourd devoured the domain’s tribulation qi and weakened its core.

Lu Yuan used the Four Symbols Demon-Suppressing Diagram, the Profound Yellow Gate, and the Zhou Tian Stars Formation to destroy the Star Demon God and restore the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea. After severing the battle’s karma, he received Profound Yellow Merit and gained insight into the Great Dao of Karma, then turned his attention to those who had exploited the calamity.

• Lu Yuan invoked the four treasure fans to transform the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea into the Four Symbols Demon-Suppressing Diagram, suppressing the Star Demon God.
• Lu Yuan used the Profound Yellow Gate and the Zhou Tian Stars Formation to strip away and cleanse the Star Demon God's True Spirit, then dispersed its purified origin to heal the star sea.
• Lu Yuan severed the karma tied to the demon god's calamity and the slaughter across the star sea.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed Profound Yellow Merit on Lu Yuan, replenishing his strength and clarifying his understanding of the Great Dao of Karma.
• Lu Yuan surveyed the aftermath through the Zhou Tian Stars Formation and resolved to deal with those who had exploited the chaos.