Chapter Summaries

Primordial Heavenly Venerate ordered Duke of Zhou Dan to crush the Three Overseers and purge the Human Sect from the Human World, then made him a personal disciple to establish Yuqing rule through ritual. After the Reign of Cheng and Kang took hold, Lu Yuan studied how the struggle over Dao Lineages and fortune was shaping the next tribulation.

• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent Duke of Zhou Dan an edict to suppress the Three Overseers and uproot the Human Sect's Dao Lineage.
• Duke of Zhou Dan mobilized the Six Armies of Yin, and the Three Overseers and their supporters were crushed in a brutal purge that devastated the Human Sect and Shang Dynasty lineages.
• Sage Taiqing accepted the destruction of the Human Sect's Human World foundations without retaliating, while Jiang Ziya fortified the coast of the State of Qi against threats from the East Sea.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate made Duke of Zhou Dan his personal disciple and granted him the Yuqing Immortal Method, after which Duke of Zhou Dan became a Heavenly Immortal and rebuilt the realm through the Rites of Zhou.
• Duke of Zhou Dan ruled for thirty thousand years, establishing the Reign of Cheng and Kang and securing the Human Dao Lineage for the Chan Sect.
• Lu Yuan watched the changes in the Human World through the Profound Yellow Gate and concluded that the struggle over Dao Lineage, order, and fortune was laying the groundwork for a future tribulation.

The Chan Sect’s Chengzhou order collapsed as accumulated corruption, human resentment, and karmic debts culminated in the Witch-Demon assault on Haojing. Primordial Heavenly Venerate chose to abandon the doomed lineage rather than risk his Great Dao, leaving the Human Dao’s future open to change.

• The well-field system and Zhou institutions decayed as mortals, divine heirs, and Yuxu immortals resisted maintaining the order, and disasters and resentment spread across the realm.
• King Zhao’s southern campaign turned violent against Chu’s people, and the Human Dao rejected the army before Chu’s forces destroyed it at the Han River.
• King Mu briefly revived Zhou’s military power, but later rulers weakened the dynasty until King You squandered its remaining credibility by repeatedly lighting the beacon fires.
• Xing Tian, Jiu Feng, Jiu Ying, and Ji Meng led the Witch-Demon coalition against Haojing, while the Horned Green Ox used the Diamond Cutter to shatter Ming Tang’s wards and open the city.
• Sages Taiqing, Tongtian, Nuwa, Houtu, Jieyin, and Zhunti watched or aided the collapse, while Lu Yuan warned that Yuanshi’s attempt to restrain the Human Dao had become untenable.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate recognized that Haojing’s fall could not be reversed and withdrew his protection, allowing the city and the Zhouyuan Immortal River to be destroyed.

The Primordial Heavenly Venerate used a Yuqing Talisman to preserve the Cheng Zhou Dao Lineage’s last remnant, intensifying Human Dao backlash and setting the stage for a greater calamity. Lu Yuan sent a wisp of his True Spirit into the Other Shore Universe, where Daoist Tian Yuan attacked him under the Fate Net; the chapter ended as the law chains closed in.

• The Primordial Heavenly Venerate arranged for Duke Zhuang of Zheng to hasten the Breakdown of Ritual and Music, then let the old order’s remnants burn as kindling for a new era.
• Haojing fell, its immortals and deities perished in the Human Dao backlash, and a grief-stricken grandson of King Xuan wandered the ruins singing a lament.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s Yuqing Talisman sheltered King Ping of Zhou and the fleeing remnants of the Cheng Zhou Dao Lineage, provoking the Human Dao and gathering Heavenly Dao killing intent.
• Lu Yuan recognized that the talisman’s protection was allowing the lineage’s karma to accumulate, and the resulting upheaval awakened the White Jade Plate’s connection to the Other Shore Universe.
• Lu Yuan sent a wisp of his True Spirit through the plate into the Other Shore Universe, where the Fate Net marked him as an outsider and Daoist Tian Yuan attacked him with chains of law.

Lu Yuan burned his True Spirit to wound Daoist Tian Yuan and escaped into the Other Shore Universe’s reincarnation, while Taiyi and Luohu’s arrival forced the Fate Faction into a standoff. After the Fate Masters withdrew, Taiyi and Luohu discussed Hongjun and the paths the Primordial World might have followed.

• Taiyi and Luohu appeared to break Daoist Tian Yuan’s Net of Extinction, drawing the other Hunyuan Masters into a confrontation between the Fate Faction and the Fate Defiers.
• Lu Yuan burned his True Spirit and used the Profound Yellow Dao to crack Daoist Tian Yuan’s shield, then fled into the Great Dao Reincarnation River.
• The reincarnation force repelled the Fate Net and swallowed Lu Yuan’s True Spirit imprint, beyond the Fate Rules’ reach.
• Daoist Tian Yuan withdrew with the other Fate Masters, warning the Fate Defiers that the returning Heavenly Mandate Masters would decide their conflict.
• After the remaining Fate Defiers departed, Luohu told Taiyi that Hongjun had been fortunate because someone had chosen him over Luohu’s Dao.

Rahu told Taiyi that Lu Yuan had become a Hunyuan master in the Great Desolation, while hinting that he still had a connection to it. In the Great Desolation, Lu Yuan glimpsed the Other Shore Universe through the White Jade Plate, saw his true spirit flee into reincarnation under Daoist Tian Yuan’s attack, and vowed to remember the humiliation.

• Rahu revealed Lu Yuan’s achievements to Taiyi, who recognized him as the young Qingxuanzi he had once seen beneath Buzhou Mountain.
• Taiyi grew wary when Rahu implied that he had never abandoned his claim on the Great Desolation and that the sealed Demon Realm was more than an eye through which to watch it.
• Lu Yuan sensed the Other Shore Universe through the White Jade Plate and saw that Rahu had reached the Half-step Heavenly Dao realm, while Taiyi had reached the Hunyuan Fourth Heaven.
• Lu Yuan glimpsed fifteen Hunyuan Masters and the Fate Rule Heavenly Net, recognizing the Other Shore’s rules as a threat to the Great Desolation.
• Lu Yuan saw his true spirit flee into reincarnation after Daoist Tian Yuan nearly destroyed it, then vowed to remember the attack and its humiliation.

Lu Yuan watched Human Dao’s backlash devastate the old Chengzhou order as Duke Zhuang of Zheng wounded King Huan of Zhou and broke its authority. Primordial Heavenly Venerate rallied the remnants around Qi, but Duke Huan of Qi’s hegemony consumed the state’s fortunes and ended in his lonely death, leaving Southern Jambudvipa in deeper chaos.

• Lu Yuan observed calamities ravaging the states as Human Dao’s accumulated grievances struck the Chengzhou Dao Lineage and its loyal vassals.
• Duke Zhuang of Zheng shot King Huan of Zhou at Xige, shattering the Son of Heaven’s aura of inviolability and weakening the Chengzhou Pillar of Destiny.
• Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent a Yuqing Talisman to Linzi, reviving the God-Beating Whip and summoning remnants of the Chan Sect to support Qi.
• Duke Xiao Bai of Qi, guided by Guan Zhong, raised the banner of Respect the King and Repel the Barbarians, built Qi’s strength, and led the vassals in alliances at Kuiqiu.
• Lu Yuan recognized that Qi’s apparent revival was burning through its destiny, while calamity and karmic force steadily weakened its immortals, gods, and God-Beating Whip.
• After Guan Zhong died, treacherous ministers confined the dying Duke Huan of Qi; his death collapsed Qi’s hegemonic fortune and unleashed greater calamity across Southern Jambudvipa.

Lu Yuan awakened as Qingxuanzi, his Hunyuan Sage self from the Primordial World, and broke free of the Decline of the Dao Heart that had tormented Immortal Venerable Dao Xuan for twenty-three thousand years. He formed an Innate Calamity Fortune Dao Seed, while his disciples outside the cave realized that his aura had changed.

• Lu Yuan's Hunyuan True Spirit imprint awakened, restoring memories of his countless lives and his battle with Daoist Tian Yuan.
• Lu Yuan understood that the Fate Rules had tried to erase him through reincarnation, but those lifetimes had cleansed his foreign aura and helped him accumulate fortune.
• Qing Shuang Immortal Maiden, Immortal Lord Qing Yang, and Immortal Lord Qing Li guarded the cave as rival factions threatened the Dao Xuan Immortal Sect and its Mountain Protecting Grand Array.
• Lu Yuan released a majestic aura from the cave, startling his disciples and making Qing Shuang wonder if he had overcome the Decline of the Dao Heart.
• Lu Yuan fused his Hunyuan Dao Heart with Immortal Venerable Dao Xuan's Golden Immortal cultivation, formed the Innate Calamity Fortune Dao Seed, and shed the decay of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.

After recovering from the Decline of the Dao Heart, Lu Yuan reflected on the Fate Rule Net and welcomed his three disciples, then taught them the Great Dao of Calamity Fortune. His disciples gained fresh insights and advanced in their cultivation.

• Lu Yuan considered the Fate Rule Net a threat to the Primordial World and foresaw that its clash with that world could bring an Immeasurable Tribulation.
• After the cave dwelling opened, Qing Shuang Immortal Maiden, Immortal Lord Qing Yang, and Immortal Lord Qing Li entered and celebrated Lu Yuan's recovery.
• Lu Yuan saw that his disciples were dwelling on the status and rewards of serving an Innate Dao Lord, and cautioned them against letting worldly desires cloud their Dao Hearts.
• Lu Yuan explained that tribulations were part of the Dao's natural cycle and began teaching his disciples the Great Dao of Calamity Fortune.
• Qing Shuang Immortal Maiden deepened her understanding of life and death, Immortal Lord Qing Yang broke through a bottleneck, and Immortal Lord Qing Li gained new insight into lightning and creation.

Lu Yuan overcame the Decline of the Dao Heart, formed the Innate Calamity Fortune Dao Seed, and planned to use his Other Shore incarnation to pursue the Hunyuan Dao. His survival shocked Mitian Dao Prefecture’s powers, who began reconsidering their plans for Dao Xuan Immortal Sect as news of his breakthrough spread.

• Qing Shuang, Qing Yang, and Qing Li thanked Lu Yuan for his teachings and left his cave abode, newly confident in their Dao Hearts.
• Lu Yuan resolved to cultivate the Innate Calamity Fortune Dao Seed, oppose the Fate Rules faction, and use his incarnation to prove the Dao of Hunyuan.
• Lu Yuan sent an order into his disciples’ primordial spirits and used the White Jade Plate’s connection to channel insights between his two selves.
• Miro Daoist learned that Dao Xuan had survived the tribulation and considered reassessing Miro Palace’s relationship with Dao Xuan Immortal Sect.
• Nine Netherworld True Demon vowed to kill Dao Xuan before the Opportunity to Achieve Dao, while Vajra Arhat planned to try to convert him.
• News that Dao Xuan had survived the Decline of the Dao Heart and condensed an Innate Dao Seed spread across Mitian Dao Prefecture, stirring its powerful factions.

The Crimson Cloud Mountain God recognized that Lu Yuan had survived the Decline of the Dao Heart and realized they would compete for the Dao Qi when Cangming opened in three thousand years. Lu Yuan uncovered schemes by the Nine Netherworld True Demon and Vajra Arhat and learned the history and significance of the coming contest.

• The Crimson Cloud Mountain God sensed Lu Yuan's newly formed Innate Dao Seed and recalled how he had once secretly helped Dao Xuan establish his sect.
• The Crimson Cloud Mountain God remembered how the Primal Sovereign had enlightened him and resolved to compete against Lu Yuan for the sole wisp of Dao Qi when Cangming opened in three thousand years.
• Lu Yuan traced hostile karma to the Nine Netherworld True Demon, who had plotted against Dao Xuan and raged at his survival.
• Lu Yuan discovered that the Vajra Arhat wanted to turn his Dao Seed into a Buddhist relic and recruit him to help seize the Dao Qi.
• Lu Yuan learned that Cangming held the remnant of a Primordial Dao Fruit embryonic form, whose Dao Qi could help an Innate Dao Seed bearer become a Dao Lord.

Lu Yuan traveled to the Cangming Secret Realm to compete for the Opportunity to Achieve Dao and advanced through the Three Thousand Dao Platforms. He entered the Endless Dao Heart trial, where illusions and temptations began assaulting his consciousness.

• Lu Yuan learned that the wisp of Dao Qi came from a fallen Fate Dao Lord’s embryonic Primordial Dao Fruit and resolved to claim it, despite the coming contest at Cangming.
• Three thousand years later, Lu Yuan reassured Qing Shuang Immortal Maiden, Immortal Lord Qing Yang, and Immortal Lord Qing Li before departing for the Cangming Secret Realm.
• At the secret realm, the Star River Elder explained its three trials, and Lu Yuan offered a wisp of Innate Purple Destiny to enter.
• Lu Yuan climbed all three thousand Dao Platforms, absorbing their Great Dao insights and passing the first trial ahead of most of the gathered Golden Immortals.
• Lu Yuan entered the Endless Dao Heart trial, where tribulations, desires, Inner Demons, and visions of Hunyuan sought to ensnare him.

Lu Yuan passed the Dao Heart trial and won the Opportunity to Achieve Dao after defeating six powerful Golden Immortals in the Contention of the Great Dao. When he left Cangming Secret Realm, the Nine Netherworld True Demon, the Vajra Arhat, and other cultivators ambushed him to seize his treasure.

• Lu Yuan became the first to emerge from the endless Dao Heart trial, and eighty-one Golden Immortal experts entered the Contention of the Great Dao.
• Lu Yuan killed a Devil Dao expert and an Immortal Dao cultivator, then defeated a Golden Winged Great Peng King, a Divine Path god, and Baoguang Arhat.
• Lu Yuan destroyed a Martial Dao Golden Immortal’s battle body, prompting the last two rivals to withdraw and leaving him the winner of the contest.
• Lu Yuan received the Opportunity to Achieve Dao, sensed greed and malice from the watching Dao Lords, and hurried out of Cangming Secret Realm.
• The Nine Netherworld True Demon and Vajra Arhat led forces to block Lu Yuan’s escape, while other Golden Immortals gathered around him to take the treasure.

Lu Yuan secluded himself on Xuan Yuan Mountain and refined the Opportunity to Achieve Dao, beginning his breakthrough toward becoming an Innate Dao Lord. As the Other Shore’s Fate Rules and tribulation phenomena shook the realms, he formed an Illusory Dao Fruit Prototype and sought to detach his existence from the Fate River.

• A Golden Immortal Venerable who cultivated the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune realized that Dao Xuan’s opportunity to achieve Dao could close off his own path, but fear of Dao Xuan’s power forced him to abandon his killing intent.
• Lu Yuan entered seclusion on Xuan Yuan Mountain while Qing Shuang, Qing Yang, and Qing Li waited outside, and he studied the Opportunity to Achieve Dao left by an ancient Fate Dao Lord.
• Lu Yuan’s Innate Calamity Fortune Dao Seed absorbed fragments of the Other Shore’s Fate Rules, transforming as a pillar of Calamity Fortune Qi manifested across Mitian Dao Prefecture.
• After a thousand years, Lu Yuan emerged from his stillness and began his breakthrough as Chaos Calamity Thunder and tribulation clouds spread over Mitian Dao Prefecture, stirring new insights in his disciples and awe among powerful factions.
• Lu Yuan refined the Opportunity to Achieve Dao into his Dao Seed and formed an Illusory Dao Fruit Prototype, then concluded that he needed to detach his existence from the Fate River and reforge an Innate Foundation.

Lu Yuan broke free of the Fate River, reforged his Innate Foundation, and unified the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune, becoming Dao Xuan and displaying Hunyuan potential. As the Primordial True Realm celebrated and powerful beings took notice, the awakened Fate Rule Net recognized him as a threat.

• Lu Yuan used the Nine Calamity Sword and the Innate Calamity Fortune Dao Seed to sever the Fate River’s shackles and attain an Innate Foundation.
• Lu Yuan merged his Illusory Dao Fruit with the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune, destroying its rival imprints and the previous Dao Lord’s lingering will.
• Lu Yuan declared himself Dao Xuan, master of tribulation fortune, and nine manifestations descended, including Primordial Heaven’s Congratulations.
• Rahu and a majestic figure in a divine court noticed Lu Yuan’s Hunyuan potential, while Mitian Dao Lord and other powerful beings sent congratulations and goodwill.
• Qing Shuang, Qing Yang, and Qing Li knelt in celebration as Lu Yuan acknowledged the congratulations from across Mitian Dao Prefecture.
• The Fate Rule Net awakened and identified Lu Yuan’s escape from its control as a threat it could not tolerate.

Lu Yuan severed the Fate Rules Net’s attempt to curse him, then led Qing Shuang, Qing Yang, and Qing Li to Taisu Heaven and established Dao Xuan Heaven. Back in the Primordial World’s Origin True Realm, he refined the myriad Daos of the Other Shore and began forming a vast Dao Domain.

• Lu Yuan used his Tribulation Fortune Dao Domain to sever the Fate Rules Net’s malicious Karma Threads, stunning the watching Dao Lords and ending Crimson Cloud Mountain God’s resentment.
• Lu Yuan told Qing Shuang, Qing Yang, and Qing Li that they would establish a sanctuary in the Thirty-Three Heavens Domain, then opened a Void Channel and took them there.
• In Taisu Heaven, Lu Yuan created Dao Xuan Heaven by shaping its land, spirit springs, boundaries, and foundations with the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune.
• Lu Yuan instructed his disciples to cultivate, organize the sanctuary, and welcome disciples as they began building the Dao Xuan lineage.
• In the Primordial World’s Origin True Realm, Lu Yuan surveyed the Other Shore’s Great Dao Rules and refined the gathered essences of its myriad Daos into his cultivation.
• Lu Yuan sang of uniting the Daos of the two realms, and a vast blue Dao Domain formed above him.

Lu Yuan comprehended the Hunyuan Seventh Level and refined his plans to use the civilizations of two worlds to advance his Primordial Dao Fruit. Meanwhile, Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti established Buddhism as a separate sect, provoking alarm and anger among the other Sages.

• Lu Yuan formed a Dao resonance between the Great Desolation Great World and a nascent True World, creating his Primordial Dao Fruit and understanding the deeper cycle of spiritual civilization.
• Lu Yuan resisted the urge to break through, used his Wisdom Sword to cut away attachments, and resolved to gather more knowledge to advance his Dao Fruit.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti renamed the Western Teachings Buddhism, defined the Bodhisattva path, and established its ranks in a grand ceremony at Spirit Mountain.
• The Three Realms’ leaders and the other Sages recognized that Buddhism had broken away from the Mysterious Gate, while Lu Yuan dismissed it as an unorthodox lineage.
• Sect Master Tongtian, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Taiqing Laozi, and Empress Nuwa revealed their reactions and Sage manifestations, but Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s decree kept them from openly fighting.

The Buddhist Sect’s independence stripped thirty percent of the Mysterious Gate’s fortune, prompting its leaders and affiliated cultivators to stabilize their foundations while Lu Yuan chose not to intervene. As Buddhist fortune surged, Randeng absorbed its power and ascended to the half-sage dao state, declaring his ambition to lead the Buddhist Sect.

• Amitabha Buddha and Patriarch Bodhi watched the Buddhist Sect’s fortune rise as the Mysterious Gate’s fortune fell by thirty percent.
• The Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Sage Taiqing, Sect Master Tongtian, and Empress Nuwa each acted to protect or sever their teachings’ remaining fortunes, while Lu Yuan remained detached.
• Zhenyuanzi stabilized the earth veins around Wuzhuang Temple, and Ancestor Minghe drew on the Blood Sea to resist the upheaval.
• The Buddhist Sect’s surging fortune poured into Randeng, breaking the barrier to a higher Dao state.
• Randeng entered the half-sage dao state and proclaimed that he would become the Buddhist Sect’s leader.

Randeng’s rise to the Half-Saint Realm strengthened the Buddhist Sect but deepened Maitreya’s and Pharmacist’s resentment. Lu Yuan recognized that Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate had planted Jade Pure karma in Randeng, setting him up as a pawn whose eventual downfall could damage Maitreya’s path to sainthood; the chapter ended with Jieyin and Zhunti acknowledging the danger while accepting Randeng’s role in the Buddhist Sect’s plans.

• Maitreya and Pharmacist resented Randeng after his breakthrough to the Half-Saint Realm.
• Lu Yuan deduced that Randeng’s growing fortune would feed Maitreya’s future Buddha position and that Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate had hidden a karmic chain in Randeng’s Dao Fruit.
• Randeng celebrated his new power, then sensed Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate’s Jade Pure karma still clinging to his Sarira.
• Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate secretly activated the karmic connection and regarded Randeng’s Half-Saint power as a resource for a future strike against Maitreya.
• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed Randeng’s advancement and recognized Yuanshi Heavenly Venerate’s methods, while Zhunti maintained that the Three Ages of Buddha followed their destined course.

Lu Yuan accepted Tongtian’s warning that he was not ready for the Heavenly Emperor’s position and resigned as Biyou Palace’s In Charge of Teaching Rules, prompting Tongtian to appoint Duobao. Afterward, Lu Yuan realized that an unseen power might have distorted his thoughts and feared that forces beyond the Sages were manipulating him.

• Tongtian warned Lu Yuan that taking a Heavenly Court position without sufficient cultivation and foundation could bring disaster, and Lu Yuan promised to focus on perfecting his Dao.
• Tongtian praised Lu Yuan’s prospects for proving the Hunyuan Dao and urged him to pursue it, even if he had to leave Biyou Palace for a long time.
• Lu Yuan asked to resign as In Charge of Teaching Rules, and Tongtian chose Duobao to replace him.
• Lu Yuan regretted surrendering his authority, fearing Duobao’s generosity would leave the unruly Interception Sect disciples without strict discipline.
• Back at Qingxu Mountain, Lu Yuan realized he had inexplicably forgotten Yuanshi and Taiqing’s instructions to preserve the Mysterious Gate’s Dao Tradition when he resigned.
• Lu Yuan suspected Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao had altered his thoughts, but he feared the consequences and rejected the idea of telling Tongtian.

Lu Yuan stabilized his Dao imprint, bloomed a twelve-grade Profound Yellow Dao Flower, and entered the River of Destiny to face his final Daluo tribulation. With the Human Race’s gratitude empowering him, he broke free of destiny’s bonds and emerged as Qingxuan Daojun.

• Ancient demons and other hidden beings tried to attack Lu Yuan’s Dao imprint, but Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master destroyed their manifestations and warned them against further attempts.
• Lu Yuan’s Dao imprint merged with the Profound Yellow Great Dao, and his Dao Flower bloomed to twelve grades as Heavenly Dao’s Favor helped form his Daluo Dao Fruit.
• Lu Yuan entered the River of Destiny and struggled upstream against its karmic shackles and the river’s immense pressure.
• Grateful Human Race members’ wishes reached Lu Yuan and strengthened his Dao Flower, allowing him to unleash the Profound Yellow Gate and shatter the bonds of destiny.
• Lu Yuan broke free of the River of Destiny, and living beings across time and space heard the honorific “Praise Qingxuan Daojun!”