Chapter Summaries

After the Dao discussion, Lu Yuan rejoiced in his gains as he followed Pangu Sanqing away from the valley. The heavenly secrets then revealed a supreme treasure fated for all three brothers, and they set out to find it.

• Taiyi acknowledged Grand Pure Daoist's victory, while Yuqing Yuanshi privately judged Dijun's ambitions to establish the Demon Race as doomed.
• Lu Yuan realized the Jade Disk of Creation fragment had recorded the Great Divine Ability Users' Innate Dao Manifestations for him to study.
• Tongtian called Lu Yuan to follow, and Lu Yuan departed with Pangu Sanqing as the other Great Divine Ability Users left the valley.
• The living beings in the valley bowed in gratitude after the Great Divine Ability Users had departed.
• Pangu Sanqing sensed their destined opportunity and learned that a supreme treasure fated for all three had appeared.

Lu Yuan and the Three Pure Ones discovered the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus, which Heavenly Punishment destroyed as it bloomed. The Three Pure Ones claimed its main parts and treasures, while Lu Yuan received the damaged remnant to cultivate.

• The Three Pure Ones led Lu Yuan to a hidden valley on Buzhou Mountain, where Daoist Shangqing Tongtian revealed an Immortal Island concealed within its pool.
• Lu Yuan recognized the green lotus as the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus and learned that Heavenly Punishment would strike when it bloomed.
• After waiting more than ten days, Lu Yuan and the Three Pure Ones watched the lotus bloom and resist Heavenly Punishment, which ultimately destroyed it as the Immortal Island emerged.
• Grand Pure Daoist claimed the lotus flower and formed a Flat Staff, Daoist Yuqing Yuanshi claimed the lotus root and formed a Three-Jeweled Jade Ruyi, and Daoist Shangqing Tongtian claimed a leaf and formed a Qingping Sword.
• The remaining source merged with a damaged lotus seed to form a Three-Petal Green Lotus, which Grand Pure Daoist bestowed upon Lu Yuan to cultivate.

Lu Yuan returned to Kunlun Mountain with the Three-Petal Green Lotus and a pool of innate spiritual liquid, while the great powers of the Primordial World entered seclusion to digest their gains. At Solar God Palace, Dijun and Taiyi announced that they had found the ancient Heavenly Realm Ruins and prepared to begin their plan to establish the Yao Race Heavenly Court.

• Lu Yuan accepted the Three-Petal Green Lotus, collected the innate spiritual liquid, and returned to Kunlun Mountain with the Three Purities.
• Daoist Shangqing Tongtian passed Lu Yuan the Shangqing Great Cavern True Scripture, then entered seclusion with the other two Pure Daoists.
• Great Luo Dao Lords and other great powers across the Primordial World entered seclusion to contemplate what they had learned.
• Dijun and Taiyi gathered Solar God Palace's mighty experts in their temporary palace instead of returning to the Sun Star.
• Taiyi told Dijun that the Heavenly Realm Ruins of the World of Gods and Demons had finally been found.
• Dijun explained that he intended to use the ruins as the foundation for the Yao Race Heavenly Court and gain Heavenly Dao providence.

Dijun and Taiyi debated how to establish the Yao Race and open the Heavenly Court, and Bai Ze advised them to restore the court’s prestige by first founding the Yao Race and seeking Hongjun’s decree. The chapter ended with Bai Ze urging them to recruit the Northern Sea and Fengqi Mountain branches of Beast God-lineage Innate God-Demons, while Lu Yuan settled at Shangqing Palace on Kunlun Mountain.

• Dijun gathered the Solar God Palace’s great cultivators to discuss establishing the Yao Race and opening the Heavenly Court, and the assembly split over whether to act immediately.
• Dijun silenced the arguing factions and asked Bai Ze for guidance.
• Bai Ze advised Dijun and Taiyi to establish the Yao Race first, restore the Heavenly Court’s prestige, and seek Hongjun’s decree from the Purple Cloud Palace.
• Bai Ze explained that Hongjun would likely support the Heavenly Court as a means of restoring order to the Primordial World, and Dijun and Taiyi welcomed the reasoning.
• Bai Ze urged the emperors to recruit the Northern Sea and Fengqi Mountain branches of Beast God-lineage Innate God-Demons into the Yao Race Heavenly Court.
• Lu Yuan settled in Shangqing Palace on Kunlun Mountain.

After refining the Earth Emperor Primordial Spirit fragment, Lu Yuan learned Yue Jianshi’s insights into the Dao of Earth and Profound Yellow and gained a secret art for condensing Primordial Violet Qi. He resumed cultivation while, a thousand years later, Dijun and Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to reveal a passage near Buzhou Mountain as they moved to establish the Demon Race and Heavenly Court.

• Lu Yuan returned to Qingxuan Hall after giving Innate Life Spirit Fruits to Daoist Duobao, Saint Mother Jin Ling, and Immortal Elder Nanji, then entered seclusion.
• After a thousand years, Lu Yuan completely refined the Earth Emperor Primordial Spirit fragment and discovered its teachings on the Dao of Earth and Profound Yellow, including a secret art for condensing Primordial Violet Qi.
• Lu Yuan realized the art required great merit and destiny, and resolved to pursue them later, after the Witch-Demon era and during the rise of the human race.
• Lu Yuan began another period of seclusion to comprehend Yue Jianshi’s insights, while Dijun, Taiyi, and other great powers finalized plans to establish the Demon Race and Heavenly Court.
• Dijun and Taiyi led the Solar God Palace’s great powers to the void near Buzhou Mountain, where Taiyi rang the Chaos Bell and exposed a broad passageway.

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.