Chapter Summaries

After the treasure distribution, Hongjun began a final, lengthy lecture for his six disciples while the other Great Divine Ability Users searched the Primordial World for scattered treasures. In Kunlun, Lu Yuan completely comprehended the Profound Yellow Void Dao, bringing his total to ten Profound Yellow Great Dao Rules, but he postponed entering the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm to strengthen his foundation.

• Tongtian took Treasure Distribution Rock, and a Chaos Storm disrupted the Great Divine Ability Users’ attempt to intercept the treasures that burst from it.
• Hongjun gathered the Sanqing, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti at Purple Firmament Palace and began a thirty-nine-thousand-six-hundred-year lecture on the Hunyuan Dao.
• The other Great Divine Ability Users returned to the Primordial World and searched for Innate Spiritual Treasures as news spread of Hongjun’s disciples and the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Lu Yuan spent decades studying the void rifts in Kunlun and endured repeated losses of Divine Sense while comprehending the Profound Yellow Void Dao.
• Lu Yuan completed his tenth Profound Yellow Great Dao Rule and suppressed the urge to condense an Illusory Dao Fruit, choosing instead to pursue the remaining rules and temper his foundation.

Lu Yuan decided to return to the Kunlun Mountain Dao Field to continue cultivating, unaware that the Purple Cloud Palace lecture had only just ended. After learning the Heavenly Dao had concealed the lecture from them, Fuxi doubted his mastery of heavenly secrets, while Dijun and Taiyi feared the coming sages and planned how to secure the Yao Race Heavenly Court.

• Lu Yuan left the Kunlun Mountains and headed for the Kunlun Mountain Dao Field to study the remaining laws of the Profound Yellow Great Dao and learn from the Three Pure Ones.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun ended his lecture on the Hunyuan Saintly Dao, warned the six listeners to cultivate and avoid karmic sinful power, and sent them back to the Primordial World.
• Fuxi sensed the Heavenly Dao's concealment of the lecture and realized he had failed to detect it, prompting him to question his faith in heavenly secrets and fate.
• Dijun and Taiyi discussed how the coming Heavenly Dao Saints threatened the Yao Race Heavenly Court and resolved that they had to defeat the Witch Race and unify the Primordial World before the sages proved the Dao.
• Dijun proposed forging a Monster Summoning Banner to collect the true spirits of the Yao Race and control potential deserters, while leaving Nuwa and the Ten Great Demon Sages untouched and targeting Tengshe and lower-ranking members.

Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi decided to eliminate Kunpeng and the Purple Mansion Immortal Court before confronting the Witch Race. After the Sanqing returned to Kunlun Mountain, they urged Nanji and Duobao to become Great Luo Dao Lords before the Heavenly Dao made the breakthrough harder.

• Dijun and Eastern Emperor Taiyi planned to refine the Monster Summoning Banner, force Kunpeng to submit, and destroy East King Duke's Purple Mansion Immortal Court.
• The Sanqing returned to Kunlun Mountain, and Lu Yuan left seclusion to attend their gathering in Sanqing Palace.
• Grand Pure Daoist urged Immortal Elder Nanji and Daoist Duobao to prove the Dao of Great Luo, but Nanji wanted a ten-petal Dao Flower and Duobao hoped to lay the foundation for an eleven-petal flower.
• Lu Yuan considered the importance of Dao Flower petals and the difficulties he would face beneath the Heavenly Dao Saints.
• Daoist Yuqing Yuanshi and Daoist Shangqing Tongtian warned that the Heavenly Dao would make becoming a Great Luo Dao Lord much harder, and urged Nanji and Duobao to break through soon.

The Sanqing guided Immortal Elder Nanji, Daoist Duobao, Saint Mother Jin Ling, and Lu Yuan on their paths toward the Great Luo Dao Realm, then expounded the Dao to help them advance. Lu Yuan gained insight into the Profound Yellow Karma Great Dao Rules, while Daoist Yuqing Yuanshi and Daoist Shangqing Tongtian revealed the contrasting powers of cause and effect.

• Immortal Elder Nanji and Daoist Duobao accepted the Sanqing's guidance and resolved to enter seclusion to pursue the Great Luo Dao Realm.
• Daoist Shangqing Tongtian urged Saint Mother Jin Ling to pass her remaining decline tribulations and claim the Daluo Dao Fruit before the Heavenly Dao Saints took their places.
• Daoist Shangqing Tongtian advised Lu Yuan to deepen his understanding of the Profound Yellow Great Dao Rules, and the Sanqing began expounding the Dao.
• Lu Yuan realized he could use the Profound Yellow Great Dao as a foundation for a cycle of Heaven and Earth, then focused on learning from the Sanqing.
• As Daoist Yuqing Yuanshi explained Heavenly King Yuanshi's creation of Heaven and Earth, Lu Yuan comprehended a thread of the Profound Yellow Karma Great Dao Rules and manifested a phantom River of Karma.
• Daoist Shangqing Tongtian expounded the Fruit of All Causes, describing how his power could make causes appear after their effects, in contrast to Daoist Yuqing Yuanshi's power over causes and results.

Lu Yuan comprehended the Profound Yellow Karma Great Dao during the Sanqing’s teaching and received several powerful spiritual treasures before returning to cultivation. Meanwhile, Dijun and Taiyi completed the Monster Summoning Banner and planned to use it to bind the myriad demons to the Yao Race Heavenly Court, starting with the wavering Tengshe.

• Lu Yuan combined insights from the Sanqing’s teachings and formed his eleventh Profound Yellow Great Dao Rule, the Profound Yellow Karma Great Dao.
• The Sanqing warned Lu Yuan and the others about the coming Witch-Demon calamity, then bestowed Innate Spiritual Treasures; Lu Yuan received the Dao Refining Furnace, Dao Heart Burning Lamp, and Taiji Talisman Seal.
• Lu Yuan refined the three treasures and resumed cultivating toward his twelfth Profound Yellow Great Dao Rule while the Sanqing and his fellow disciples entered seclusion.
• Dijun and Taiyi completed the Monster Summoning Banner by combining the Netherworld Soul-Seizing Banner, three shattered Innate Spiritual Treasures, and the fortune of the Yao Race Heavenly Court.
• Dijun and Taiyi conspired with the Ten Great Demon Sages to imprison the true spirits of the myriad demons and chose the wavering Tengshe as their first target.

Dijun and Taiyi forced Tengshe and the Yao Race Heavenly Court's Demon Sages and Demon Gods to surrender wisps of their true spirits for the Monster Summoning Banner, then prepared to bring Kunpeng under their rule. Fuxi rejected their recruitment on Kunpeng's behalf, and the Heavenly Court's army waited outside the Northern Sea for Dijun and Taiyi to act.

• Dijun and Taiyi seized Tengshe and forced him to offer a wisp of his true spirit, then compelled the assembled Demon Sages and Demon Gods to do the same for the Monster Summoning Banner.
• Dijun and Taiyi rewarded the subdued demons with fortune and treasures before deciding to campaign against Kunpeng and complete the Yao Race Heavenly Court's fortune.
• Bai Ze proposed sending Fuxi to recruit Kunpeng before the army attacked, and Dijun ordered Bai Ze to invite Fuxi from Fengqi Mountain.
• Kunpeng foresaw the calamity of broken wings, heard Fuxi's invitation to join the Heavenly Court as a Demon Emperor, and challenged Dijun and Taiyi to defeat him in a decisive battle.
• Fuxi sent Kunpeng's reply to Dijun and Taiyi as the Yao Race army surrounded the Northern Sea and waited for the message.

Dijun and Taiyi went to the Northern Sea to force Kunpeng to join the Yao Race Heavenly Court, and Taiyi defeated him with the Chaos Bell. Kunpeng finally agreed to offer a wisp of his true spirit, and the Northern Sea Yao Race’s fortune joined the Heavenly Court.

• Dijun chose to meet Kunpeng’s challenge with Taiyi after Bai Ze warned that forcing Kunpeng could drive him to desperate resistance.
• Fuxi tried to ease tensions between Dijun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng, but Kunpeng challenged Taiyi to battle.
• Taiyi and Kunpeng fought with their Dao Domains, and Taiyi used the Chaos Bell against Kunpeng’s Kunpeng Palace.
• After a thousand years of battle, Kunpeng’s Kunpeng Palace failed, and Taiyi’s Chaos Bell left him near death.
• Kunpeng agreed to place a wisp of his true spirit in the Monster Summoning Banner, and the Northern Sea Yao Race’s fortune joined the Heavenly Court, increasing its fortune by nearly one-third.

Eastern Emperor Taiyi forced daoist Kunpeng to submit to the Yao Race Heavenly Court, alarming the Great Divine Ability Users and Daluo Dao Lords. After three Kalpas of preparation, Lu Yuan continued cultivating toward the Profound Yellow Way of Time while Dijun and Taiyi perfected the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation and chose East King Duke as their next target.

• Eastern Emperor Taiyi forced daoist Kunpeng to surrender a wisp of his true spirit and seal it into the Monster Summoning Banner, then Dijun appointed him Heavenly Court Demon Master instead of Demon Emperor.
• Daoist Kunpeng's submission completed the Yao Race Heavenly Court's fortune, prompting the Great Divine Ability Users and Daluo Dao Lords to fear Dijun and Taiyi and avoid leaving their sanctuaries.
• Lu Yuan cultivated in seclusion for three Kalpas, refining his Dao and gradually realizing that the final Profound Yellow Great Dao Rule he needed was the Profound Yellow Way of Time.
• Dijun, Taiyi, and the Ten Great Demon Sages used the He Tu Luo Shu to perfect the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation and selected 365 Demon Gods to refine Star Origin.
• Dijun and Taiyi chose the overseas Purple Mansion Immortal Court as their target, intending to kill East King Duke and reclaim the Heavenly Court authority split away by Dao Ancestor Hongjun.

Dijun ordered Fuxi to persuade East King Duke to submit, then led ten million Yao soldiers toward Purple Mansion Prefecture after Fuxi failed. As the army approached, East King Duke and his allies prepared to face the invasion, relying on the Myriad Immortals Great Formation.

• Ji Meng accused East King Duke and the Purple Mansion Immortal Court of attacking the Yao Race, and Bai Ze supported his account.
• Bai Ze proposed sending Fuxi to persuade East King Duke before resorting to war, and Dijun agreed while ordering preparations for an invasion.
• Tengshe and Kunpeng silently reached an understanding as they concealed their opposition to Dijun and Taiyi’s plans.
• Fuxi returned a thousand years later without securing East King Duke’s submission, so Dijun, Taiyi, Tengshe, and Kunpeng led ten million Yao soldiers toward Purple Mansion Prefecture.
• Queen Mother of the West and the Pangu Sanqing watched the army’s advance, while Yuanshi worried about the Yao Court’s growing power and the Grand Pure Daoist expected the coming calamity to bring its downfall.
• Daoist Liehuo, Cangming Daoist, and Daoist Qingyang rallied the Purple Mansion Immortal Court’s worried experts by reminding them of East King Duke’s Myriad Immortals Great Formation.

East King Duke prepared the Myriad Immortals Great Formation to defend Purple Mansion Prefecture against Dijun and Taiyi’s Yao Race Heavenly Court. The Cosmic Stars Grand Formation clashed with it in a cataclysmic battle, which remained unresolved as the chapter ended.

• East King Duke reflected that his Myriad Immortals Great Formation could rival the great formations of the Witch and Yao Races if he had enough powerful immortals, then ordered his forces to deploy it.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi demanded East King Duke disband the Purple Mansion Immortal Court and surrender, but East King Duke refused and invoked Teacher Hongjun.
• Dijun ordered the Yao Race army to raise the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation and destroy Purple Mansion Prefecture.
• East King Duke placed the Myriad Immortals Painting at the formation’s eye and activated the Myriad Immortals Great Formation, drawing on its power to approach the Half-Saint Realm.
• The Three Pure Ones, Lu Yuan, Daoist Duobao, Saint Mother Jin Ling, and Immortal Elder Nanji watched the formations collide as the Star Grinding Disc battered the Primordial Immortal Domain in a devastating clash.

Dijun made the Great Sun descend over the East Sea, claiming the act would cleanse the Sun Star’s toxic fire and establish a Land of Sunrise. He then used the Sun Star to empower the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation, which broke East King Duke’s Myriad Immortals Great Formation and devastated Purple Mansion Prefecture.

• The Three Pure Ones discussed how the Myriad Immortals Great Formation could withstand the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation, and Grand Pure Daoist suggested the Hongjun Heavenly Dao had granted it to balance the Witch and Yao Clans.
• Dijun decided that the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation could not grind down East King Duke’s defense, so he drew the Sun Star toward the East Sea.
• Nine Tribulations Daoist and other observers fled as the Great Sun poured True Sun Fire over the East Sea, killing countless beings.
• Dijun explained that bathing the Sun Star in the East Sea would cleanse its toxic fire and serve the Heavenly Dao, while East King Duke condemned the devastation.
• Dijun drove the Sun Star into Purple Mansion Prefecture and used its origin True Fire to raise the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation to Hunyuan power.
• The empowered formation burned through the Primordial Immortal Domain and shattered the Myriad Immortals Great Formation, killing cultivators below Daluo Dao Fruit, more than a thousand Grand Unity Dao Lords, and hundreds of millions of living beings.

Dijun and the Yao Race Heavenly Court destroyed the Purple Mansion Immortal Court, killing its leaders and defeating East King Duke, who sacrificed himself in a final explosion. The Sanqing saved East King Duke’s surviving true spirit, while Hongjun reclaimed the Immortal Dao treasures and let the Yao Race’s actions stand.

• Dijun burned Daoist Liehuo to ash with True Sun Fire while Taiyi, Kunpeng, and Tengshe blocked East King Duke, Cangming Daoist, and Daoist Qingyang from helping him.
• The injured Great Luo Dao Lords of the Purple Mansion Immortal Court fell in battle, and several self-destructed, taking more than a dozen Yao Race Daluo Demon Gods with them.
• Daoist Qingyang and Cangming Daoist died fighting Tengshe and Kunpeng, and East King Duke detonated his Dao Fruit, devastating Purple Mansion Prefecture and the surrounding East Sea.
• Taiyi, Dijun, Tengshe, and Kunpeng suppressed the destruction, but Taiyi tried to destroy East King Duke’s surviving true spirit until the Sanqing intervened and took it away.
• Dijun agreed that the Sanqing could protect East King Duke’s true spirit on the condition that he could not return before the Heaven and Earth Calamity ended.
• Hongjun reclaimed the Dragon Head Staff and bestowed the Immortal Gathering Banner and Myriad Immortals Painting on Queen Mother of the West and Daoist Shangqing Tongtian, while leaving Dijun and Taiyi unpunished.

Dijun and Taiyi transformed Purple Mansion Prefecture into Tanggu, using its Sea Eye to cleanse the Sun Star’s poisonous flames and earning the Yao Race Heavenly Court great merit. After the Yao Race crushed the overseas opposition, Lu Yuan considered how he might secure merit in the future, while the Dragon Clan submitted to the Heavenly Court.

• Dijun and Taiyi turned Purple Mansion Prefecture into Tanggu and established the sun’s eastern rising and western setting, earning Heavenly Dao Merit alongside Kunpeng, Tengshe, and the Daluo Demon Gods.
• Lu Yuan watched from Sanqing Palace and considered future opportunities to gain merit through Nuwa’s creation of humanity, Houtu’s establishment of reincarnation, and the rise of the Mysterious Gate Immortal Dao.
• The Three Pure Ones’ projections vanished, and Lu Yuan, Immortal Elder Nanji, Daoist Duobao, and Saint Mother Jin Ling returned to their cave abodes after witnessing the destruction of Purple Mansion.
• Taiyi took command at Tanggu with over a hundred Daluo Demon Gods and millions of Yao troops, then campaigned against overseas powers.
• The Yao Race swept across the overseas regions, and the Dragon Clan submitted to the Heavenly Court and accepted appointment as its Orthodox Gods.

During thirty thousand years of cultivation, Lu Yuan pursued the Profound Yellow Great Dao and studied the talisman Dao, hoping to establish an immortal lineage. He witnessed Daoist Duobao attempt to attain the Great Luo Dao Realm, where the Great Luo Dao Blocking Tribulation tested his path.

• The Yao Race Heavenly Court’s victories over the Purple Mansion Immortal Court and the Dragon Clan raised its prestige, while the Witch Race slaughtered Yao Race members who entered its territory.
• Lu Yuan studied the Profound Yellow temporal rules, the Jade Disk of Creation’s Innate Dao Script, and the talisman Dao of the Taiji Talisman Seal.
• A Great Dao phenomenon appeared over Kunlun Mountain, and Lu Yuan went to Sanqing Palace to witness Daoist Duobao’s breakthrough.
• Daoist Duobao gathered his imprints from the River of Time and connected with the Innate Destiny Cutting Great Dao.
• Daoist Duobao faced the Great Luo Dao Blocking Tribulation as imprints of past Great Luo Dao Lords attacked him, and Daoist Shangqing Tongtian remained confident he would overcome it.

Daoist Duobao survived the Dao Transformation Tribulation, condensed a ten-grade Dao Flower and Daluo Dao Fruit, then transcended the River of Destiny to become Duobao Dao Lord. Lu Yuan and the others witnessed his ascension, leaving Lu Yuan longing for the Great Luo Dao Realm.

• Daoist Duobao imprinted his Dao upon the Innate Destiny Cutting Great Dao, while Shangqing Tongtian punished mighty beings who tried to kill him during the tribulation.
• Daoist Duobao condensed a ten-grade Dao Flower and Daluo Dao Fruit, completing the Dao Transformation Tribulation.
• Daoist Duobao entered the River of Destiny and struggled upward as Lu Yuan and the others watched Shangqing Tongtian's projection.
• Daoist Duobao's pagoda-bearing Life Star rose from the River of Destiny, and he became Duobao Dao Lord.
• Lu Yuan watched Duobao's ascension and yearned to attain the Great Luo Dao Realm.

After Daoist Duobao obtained the Daluo Dao Fruit, Lu Yuan listened to the Sanqing expound the Great Dao and suddenly comprehended the Profound Yellow Rules of Time. He began tempering time with his Dao fire, while the three Sanqing recognized his breakthrough.

• Daoist Duobao returned to Sanqing Palace after transcending the River of Destiny, and the three Sanqing praised his ten-petaled Dao Flower and Great Luo attainment.
• Daoist Shangqing Tongtian urged Lu Yuan and the other disciples to follow Duobao's example, and they congratulated their senior brother.
• The three Sanqing expounded the Great Dao to celebrate Duobao's achievement, calming Lu Yuan's thoughts and drawing his awareness into the River of Time and Space.
• Lu Yuan used the Taiji Talisman Seal's innate runes to connect past, present, and future, then ignited the Dao fire of time with the twelve rules.
• Lu Yuan suddenly comprehended the essence of time as independent of fate and karma, and the three Sanqing noticed his enlightenment.

Lu Yuan advanced to the middle stage of Taiyi after forming the embryonic Innate Profound Yellow Dao Fruit, then refined a Destiny Treasure called the Profound Yellow Gate from the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane, a Jade Disc Fragment, and other spiritual materials. The gate became an instrument aligned with his Dao that could contain and record myriad methods, and Lu Yuan intended it to grow with his cultivation.

• Lu Yuan fused twelve Profound Yellow Great Dao Rules with the River of Time, formed an embryonic Innate Profound Yellow Dao Fruit, and entered the middle stage of Taiyi.
• Lu Yuan listened as the Three Pure Ones expounded the Dao, while Daoist Duobao glimpsed a realm beyond Great Luo, Immortal Elder Nanji found an opportunity to attain Great Luo, and the other disciples advanced their cultivation.
• After the sermon, Lu Yuan spent thirty thousand years in seclusion refining spiritual fruits and absorbing his insights, stabilizing his Taiyi cultivation.
• Lu Yuan emerged to congratulate Daoist Duobao and Immortal Elder Nanji on attaining Great Luo, giving each Innate Spiritual Fruits as gifts.
• Lu Yuan gathered the Heaven and Earth Fetal Membrane, a Jade Disc Fragment, Innate Profound Yellow Qi, and other materials, then used the Dao Refining Furnace and Three Flavors True Fire to forge the Profound Yellow Gate.
• Lu Yuan declared the Profound Yellow Gate his Dao and believed it could grow with his cultivation, contain myriad methods, and eventually become an instrument for attaining the Dao.

Nuwa discovered that creating a peaceful new race was her opportunity to prove the Dao, created the Human Race, and became a Saint. Her ascension unsettled powerful figures across the Great Desolation, while Lu Yuan broke through to the late stage of Taiyi and foresaw the coming age of Saints.

• Lu Yuan nurtured the Profound Yellow Gate in his Auspicious Cloud Dao Fruit as the Witch and Yao Clans continued bloody battles across the Primordial World.
• While traveling in disguise, Nuwa witnessed the suffering caused by the clans' wars and realized that creating a new race could fulfill her chance to prove the Dao.
• Nuwa used Nine Heavens Breath Soil, Three Lights Divine Water, and the Gourd Vine to create three thousand humans, then bestowed upon them the name Human Race.
• Profound Yellow Merit descended, allowing Nuwa to attain Sainthood as the Human Race received a share of the merit and the Qiankun Creation Cauldron and Gourd Vine were transformed.
• The Three Pure Ones, Dijun, Taiyi, Jieyin, and Zhunti reacted to Nuwa's ascension, while Great Divine Ability Users turned their attention toward the Human Race.
• Nuwa's Dao resonance shattered Lu Yuan's bottleneck and raised his cultivation to the late stage of Taiyi.

After Nuwa became a Saint, she protected the Human Race, announced that she would open Wa Huang Tian and preach the Great Dao in a thousand years, and departed to establish her Dao field. Lu Yuan secured permission to accompany the Three Pure Ones to the ceremony, where several of their disciples would also attend.

• Nuwa accepted the Five-Colored Golden Phoenix as her mount and named her Jin Ning, then forbade cultivators from interfering with the Human Race for one kalpa and shielded their territory.
• The Human Creation Whip flew into the hands of the first human, and hidden fortune from the Divine Demon Era flowed into the Human Race.
• Nuwa announced that she would open Wa Huang Palace in the chaos beyond Heaven in a thousand years and expound the Hunyuan Sage's Great Dao.
• Dijun and Taiyi were wounded by Nuwa's Saintly pressure, while Jieyin and Zhunti discussed their own prospects of attaining the Dao; the Three Pure Ones decided to attend Nuwa's ceremony.
• Lu Yuan asked to accompany the Three Pure Ones, and Yuanshi agreed to take him as an attendant; Grand Pure Daoist also invited Duobao and Nanji, while Yuanshi chose Jin Ling to accompany them.

After Nuwa attained Sainthood, she opened Wa Huang Tian and began a nine-thousand-year sermon for the gathered powers of the Great Desolation. Lu Yuan advanced to Taiyi Perfection while listening, but as the sermon continued, the Decline of Mana struck him and his body began to wither.

• The Sanqing took Lu Yuan, Saint Mother Jin Ling, Daoist Duobao, and Immortal Elder Nanji into the chaos to attend Nuwa’s ceremony.
• Nuwa used the Rivers and Mountains Painting and Heavenly Dao power to create Wa Huang Tian, then invited the gathered cultivators to hear her expound the Hunyuan Saintly Dao.
• The Sanqing, Jieyin, Zhunti, the Yao Race Heavenly Court, and other great powers entered Wa Huang Palace, where Nuwa began her sermon.
• Lu Yuan’s Auspicious Cloud Dao Fruit recorded the sermon’s insights, and he advanced to Taiyi Perfection over eight thousand years.
• The Decline of Mana descended on Lu Yuan, separating his mana from his Primordial Spirit, body, and true spirit as he rapidly aged and withered.