Chapter Summaries

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.

Dijun and Taiyi established the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s orthodoxy, gaining power and fortune as they completed their enthronement ceremony. The Twelve Ancestral Witches then attacked the Thirty-Three Heavens, beginning the Witch-Demon Calamity.

• Dijun and Taiyi severed their corpses and advanced to the Late Quasi-Saint realm after the Heavenly Dao’s blessing.
• The assembled cultivators bowed to the Heavenly Emperor’s position, and their fortune flowed into the Yao Race Heavenly Court; Bai Ze then granted divine titles to the guests.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches decided to attack the Yao Race Heavenly Court and stormed the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Dijun ordered Bai Ze to deploy the troops and led Taiyi, Fuxi, Nuwa, Tengshe, and the Yao Saints and Yao Gods to meet the attackers at the South Heaven Gate.
• Lu Yuan watched the Witch Race’s assault and recognized that the Witch-Demon Calamity had begun.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches invaded the Thirty-Three Heavens, and the Witch and Demon Clans began a full-scale battle over who would rule the Primordial World. As the leaders fought and both sides suffered heavy losses, Kunpeng, East King Duke, and Minghe argued over Dijun’s authority and whether the attack was part of his plan.

• The Twelve Ancestral Witches broke through the South Heaven Gate while its restrictions were not fully activated and their forces clashed with the Demon cultivators.
• Zhurong and Gonggong demanded that Dijun disband the Heavenly Court, but Dijun and Dijiang each declared their clan the rightful ruler of Heaven and Earth.
• Taiyi, Dijun, Fuxi, Nuwa, and Tengshe confronted the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and battle erupted between the leaders and their forces.
• The Witch and Demon armies formed their respective battle formations, whose attacks killed countless cultivators on both sides.
• Kunpeng praised Dijun, while East King Duke questioned his worthiness and Minghe claimed the invasion was a trap to lure in the Witch rebels.

Lu Yuan watched the Twelve Ancestral Witches overwhelm the Yao Race Heavenly Court’s leaders, while the Great Divine Ability Users hoped neither clan would dominate the Primordial World. As Dijun’s side came close to collapse, he ordered the Yao Race to activate the Great Formation of the Stars and strike the Witch Race.

• The Great Divine Ability Users in Lingxiao Palace praised Dijun and Taiyi sarcastically, while Lu Yuan reflected that the Heavenly Emperor’s authority lacked the strength to command their respect.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches drove Dijun, Nuwa, Fuxi, and Tengshe onto the defensive, though Taiyi held his own against three Ancestral Witches with the Chaos Bell.
• The Great Divine Ability Users worried that the Witch Race might defeat the Yao Race and monopolize the Primordial World, and Lu Yuan judged that the Heavenly Court still had defenses and potential allies.
• Seeing Tengshe near collapse and the other battles going badly, Dijun ordered the Yao Race to draw upon the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation.
• The Yao Race’s leaders and forces gathered power from the stars, and the formation sent a colossal pillar of light toward the Twelve Ancestral Witches and Witch Race cultivators.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned Pangu’s True Body to battle the Demon Race’s Cosmic Stars Grand Formation, and their repeated clashes devastated both armies. The Witches finally shattered the formation, leaving Dijun, Taiyi, and the other Demon Emperors badly injured.

• Dijiang ordered the Twelve Ancestral Witches to deploy the Great Formation of the Gods and Fiends after the Great Formation of the Stars slaughtered tens of thousands of Witches.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches combined their power to summon Pangu’s True Body, which formed a creation axe and struck the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation.
• Pangu’s axe-light and the Demon Race’s star pillar collided, killing and wounding countless Witch and Demon cultivators while the Witches gained a slight advantage.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches exchanged six more blows with the formation, weakening Pangu’s True Body as casualties mounted among the Demon Race.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches struck once more and shattered the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation, killing many Demon cultivators and making Dijun, Taiyi, Fuxi, Nuwa, and Tengshe spit blood.

After the Witch Race defeated the Yao Race Heavenly Court, both sides withdrew to recover, and Lu Yuan returned to Kunlun Mountain to cultivate. More than thirty thousand years later, he completed the Five Qi Converging at the Origin realm and left the story at Golden Immortal Perfect.

• Ancestral Witch Dijiang warned Dijun and Taiyi to dismantle the false Heavenly Court, then led the Twelve Ancestral Witches back to their Ancestral Land.
• Daoist Kunpeng, East King Duke, and Daoist Zhunti urged the gathered cultivators to leave, and the Great Divine Ability Users departed the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Dijun, Taiyi, and the other Yao Race leaders returned to their palaces to recuperate, while Lu Yuan went back to Qingxuan Hall and began cultivating Innate Wood Element Qi.
• After twenty thousand years, Lu Yuan filled his Liver Aperture Divine Treasury, then studied the Great Dao of Fire and the Five Elements' cycles until he lit his Heart Aperture Divine Treasury.
• Lu Yuan combined the five elemental Qi within his Auspicious Cloud Dao Fruit and, after more than ten thousand years, reached Five Qi Converging at the Origin.

Lu Yuan pursued the Innate Profound Yellow Great Dao, aiming to comprehend twelve rules before forging an illusory Dao Fruit. Over tens of thousands of years, he comprehended four more rules, while the Three Pure Ones continued cultivating in Sanqing Palace.

• Lu Yuan resolved to forge an illusory Innate Profound Yellow Dao Fruit from twelve rules and set an epoch as his limit for comprehending them.
• Lu Yuan left seclusion and spent tens of thousands of years discussing the Dao, traveling Kunlun Mountain, and studying the Jade Disc Fragment.
• Lu Yuan comprehended the Profound Yellow Star Rule from Dijun and Taiyi's Dao discussion and the Profound Yellow Thunder Rule from the Three Pure Ones' sermons, then created Profound Yellow Divine Thunder.
• Lu Yuan comprehended the Profound Yellow Life Rule from the Innate Life Spirit Fruit.
• Lu Yuan witnessed a middle thousand world's destruction and transformation into a world seed, then spent more than ten thousand years comprehending the Profound Yellow Reincarnation Rule.
• The Three Pure Ones continued cultivating in Sanqing Palace, with their cultivation and Daoxing matching Dijun and Taiyi, who had reached the Late Quasi-Saint realm.

After one Kalpa of recovery and cultivation, the Three Pure Ones and other powerful figures traveled to Purple Firmament Palace for its third lecture, while Lu Yuan stayed behind in Kunlun. Lu Yuan reflected on the growing difficulty of comprehending the Profound Yellow Great Dao Rules and continued studying the Dao of Heaven and Earth.

• The Three Pure Ones displayed their intertwined Dao manifestations, and their Daoxing increased as their illusory world repeatedly formed and perished.
• The Witch and Yao races recuperated after their war, while cultivators across the Primordial World advanced by digesting the gains from the second lecture.
• Hongjun announced the third lecture at Purple Firmament Palace, and the Three Pure Ones and other fated cultivators set out for the palace.
• Lu Yuan felt envious that he had missed the lectures, then accepted his fate and resolved to pursue the Great Dao through his own efforts.
• Lu Yuan comprehended the Profound Yellow Destruction Rules, bringing his total to nine, and continued studying nature in Kunlun despite the sharply increasing difficulty of mastering more rules.

At Hongjun’s final teaching in Purple Firmament Palace, the gathered cultivators studied the Hunyuan Saintly Dao while Hongjun assessed their destinies and announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao. He began taking disciples and granting Primordial Violet Qi, leaving the other listeners waiting to learn who else would receive his favor.

• Three thousand cultivators gathered in Purple Firmament Palace, where Hongjun began expounding the Hunyuan Saintly Dao; Houtu instead found herself drawn to the Reincarnation Great Dao.
• After thirty thousand years, Hongjun ended his teaching and reflected on the destinies of Sanqing, Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, Hongyun, Kunpeng, Dijun, Taiyi, East King Duke, and Houtu.
• Hongjun announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao, remain in Purple Firmament Palace until the calamity ended, and help delay the Immeasurable Tribulation.
• Hongjun invited Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian to become his disciples, and Sanqing accepted; he gave each of them a strand of Primordial Violet Qi.
• Hongjun asked Nuwa to become his disciple, and she accepted after Fuxi prompted her.

Hongjun bestowed the final Primordial Violet Qi upon Hongyun, leaving him exposed to the resentment of the other Great Divine Ability Users. He then distributed Innate Spiritual Treasures to Sanqing and Nuwa, while the remaining treasures were still to be given.

• Hongjun accepted Jieyin and Zhunti as Registered Disciples and bestowed a strand of Primordial Violet Qi upon each.
• Dijun and the other Great Divine Ability Users pleaded for the final strand, which flew into Hongyun’s primordial spirit; Kunpeng, Dijun, Taiyi, and Minghe resented Hongyun’s good fortune.
• Hongjun’s bestowal left Hongyun without a Saint’s protection, and the Great Divine Ability Users fixed their attention on him as a likely target.
• Hongjun gave Laozi the Taiji Diagram, Yuanshi the Pangu Banner, and Tongtian the Four Swords of Zhu Xian and their array diagram.
• Hongjun bestowed the Rivers and Mountains Painting and the Red Embroidered Ball upon Nuwa.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun bestowed spiritual treasures on Jieyin and Zhunti, then merged with the Heavenly Dao and vanished from Purple Firmament Palace. The gathered powers found Treasure Distribution Rock and seized the Innate Spiritual Treasures within it.

• Jieyin and Zhunti knelt and pleaded for treasures, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun gave Jieyin the Twelve-Petal Merit Golden Lotus and Demon-Subduing Vajra, and Zhunti the Green Lotus Treasure Banner and Blessing Divine Pestle.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun told the assembled powers to seek treasures at Treasure Distribution Rock and announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun merged with the Heavenly Dao, completed it, and disappeared from Purple Firmament Palace as the watching powers comprehended the three thousand Great Dao Rules.
• The Great Divine Ability Users discovered Treasure Distribution Rock after it appeared on a Chaos Divine Mountain southeast of Purple Firmament Palace.
• Sanqing drew more than two hundred Innate Spiritual Treasures from Treasure Distribution Rock, with Daoist Shangqing Tongtian taking the most.
• Empress Nuwa, Jieyin, Zhunti, Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, Minghe, Zhenyuanzi, Hongyun, East King Duke, Queen Mother of the West, and other powers also took treasures.