Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan survived the Decline of Mana during Nuwa’s sermon and strengthened his Profound Yellow Great Dao, then spent a kalpa refining his Dao Fruit. He left seclusion with enough foundation to attempt Great Luo but chose to wait, while Fuxi remained committed to the Yao Race’s struggle despite Nuwa’s warning.

• Lu Yuan transformed the Decline of Mana and Nuwa’s saintly aura into a tribulation that refined his mana, stabilized his Dao Fruit, and laid a foundation for the Hunyuan Dao.
• Nuwa ended her sermon and told Dijun, Taiyi, and the Yao Race’s other leaders that she would not interfere in the Witch-Demon conflict, though she would not abandon the Yao Race in times of trouble.
• Nuwa warned Fuxi against entangling himself further in the Yao Race Heavenly Court, but Fuxi said he was already bound to the Witch-Demon calamity and intended to fight through it.
• Lu Yuan returned to Kunlun Mountain with the Sanqing and spent a kalpa in seclusion, using the sermon’s insights to bring his Innate Profound Yellow Dao Fruit prototype to forty percent completion.
• Lu Yuan emerged from Qingxuan Hall with enough foundation to attempt Great Luo, but he held back because two of the Five Decays remained and his chances of forming a high-petal Dao Flower were too low.

Lu Yuan left Kunlun to search for the Grand Pure Daoist at Shouyang Mountain, hoping to witness his path to sainthood. Among the human tribes, the Grand Pure Daoist realized humanity was destined to become the protagonists of Heaven and Earth and began traveling among them to seek his own opportunity to attain Dao.

• Lu Yuan emerged from seclusion and headed toward the human tribes to find the Grand Pure Daoist, whom he believed would attain enlightenment at Shouyang Mountain.
• The Grand Pure Daoist stayed with a small human tribe, whose peaceful life and respect for elders pleased him after a thousand years spent witnessing strife across the Great Desolation.
• The Grand Pure Daoist sensed that his opportunity to attain Dao was connected to humanity and considered the race’s growing population and potential.
• He glimpsed the human race’s destiny and the Eight Innate God-Demon Dao Positions of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, recognizing humanity as Heaven and Earth’s future protagonists.
• Understanding the Heavenly Dao’s plans and Nuwa’s role in humanity’s rise, the Grand Pure Daoist began traveling among human tribes in search of his path to sainthood.

Lu Yuan traveled among the Human Race, easing their hardship by teaching cultivation, farming, animal husbandry, and basic medicine while searching for Mount Shouyang. When Grand Pure Daoist recognized the mountain as his chance to attain sainthood, Lu Yuan’s words led him to realize that establishing a sect to enlighten the Human Race was the key, and he declared that his Dao was complete.

• Lu Yuan crossed many Human Race tribes and taught them practical skills and basic healing, helping them survive despite the Heavenly Dao’s constraints.
• After more than ten thousand years, Lu Yuan found Mount Shouyang, confirmed its identity, and taught the tribe beneath it; they later honored him as the Human Race Immortal Master.
• Grand Pure Daoist secretly listened to Lu Yuan teach and praised his compassion and his methods of cultivating spiritual plants and spiritual medicine.
• Lu Yuan admitted that he had initially sought the Human Race’s secrets but could not bear their suffering, and he suggested that a Great Divine Ability User could help them rise by providing guidance.
• Grand Pure Daoist realized that establishing a sect to enlighten the Human Race was his opportunity to attain sainthood, and his released aura nearly crushed Lu Yuan.
• Grand Pure Daoist helped Lu Yuan up, credited him with awakening the insight, and declared that his Dao was complete.

Grand Pure Daoist preached the Golden Core Great Dao to the Human Race, establishing the foundation for his path to sainthood while Lu Yuan endured the Decline of the Great Dao. The chapter ended with Grand Pure Daoist establishing the Human Sect and declaring his Great Dao complete.

• Grand Pure Daoist chose the Human Race as the people through whom he would attain the Dao, and settled near their tribes beneath Shouyang Mountain with Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan taught the humans to cultivate spiritual plants and use spiritual medicine; after three hundred years, they honored him as the Human Race Immortal Master.
• When tribal leaders asked Lu Yuan for an immortal inheritance suited to ordinary humans, he directed them to request aid from Grand Pure Daoist and told them to prepare a reed pavilion.
• Grand Pure Daoist accepted the request and taught the Golden Core Great Dao to the Human Race, while Lu Yuan listened and endured the backlash of the Decline of the Great Dao.
• After preaching for three thousand years, Grand Pure Daoist gathered the Human Race's fortune and declared that he was establishing the Human Sect, using the Taiji Diagram to suppress its fortune.

The Grand Pure Daoist became a saint after establishing the Human Sect, and the resulting merit restored Lu Yuan’s Dao Fruit while he stored the merit for later use. At Shouyang Mountain, his rebuke awakened Yuanshi and Tongtian, who established the Chan Sect and Intercepting Sect and began their own ascensions to sainthood.

• The Grand Pure Daoist established the Human Sect, severed all Three Corpses, and attained sainthood as the third Hunyuan Sage.
• Lu Yuan received Profound Yellow Merit that repaired his Dao Fruit and completed his Taiyi Perfection, then stored the merit instead of using it to improve his cultivation.
• Jieyin and Zhunti considered using the Method of Great Vows to gain enough merit to become saints, while Nuwa resented the Grand Pure Daoist for taking part of the Human Race’s fortune.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian arrived at Shouyang Mountain to congratulate the Grand Pure Daoist, who urged them to establish sects and become saints.
• Yuanshi founded the Chan Sect and attained the Primordial Saint Realm with the Pangu Banner suppressing its destiny.
• Tongtian founded the Intercepting Sect, invoked the Zhu Xian Sword Formation to suppress its destiny, and manifested his saintly Dharma form.

After the Sanqing attained sainthood, Jieyin and Zhunti established the Western Teachings and made Forty-Eight Great Vows to gain the merit they needed. Their vows brought down a flood of merit, and both became saints, leaving five new saints to shake the Primordial World.

• Lu Yuan watched Yuqing and Shangqing attain sainthood, while the Profound Yellow Gate absorbed their merit and Dao laws.
• Jieyin and Zhunti established the Western Teachings, but the meager merit they received was insufficient to make them saints.
• As other great powers mocked their failed attempt, Jieyin and Zhunti resolved to make Forty-Eight Great Vows to save living beings.
• The Heavenly Dao answered their vows with immense merit, and Jieyin and Zhunti attained sainthood amid visions of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
• The emergence of five saints in one day shook the Primordial World and weighed heavily on the strongest members of the Witch and Demon Clans.

After the Sanqing attained the Hunyuan Great Dao, Grand Pure accepted Xuandu as his first disciple and began establishing the Human Sect among humanity. Lu Yuan appointed sixteen disciples to spread practical knowledge throughout human tribes before returning to Kunlun to cultivate.

• Lu Yuan congratulated the Sanqing, who praised his solid foundation and his choice to keep refining it rather than rush toward Daluo.
• Grand Pure recognized the human cultivator who had sought him for over ten thousand years, named him Xuandu, and accepted him as his first disciple.
• Grand Pure bestowed a Taiqing cultivation method upon hundreds of humans, laying the foundation for the Human Sect among the human race.
• Lu Yuan accepted sixteen registered disciples and charged them with teaching spiritual-plant cultivation, medicinal-herb identification, and spiritual medicine throughout human tribes.
• The Sanqing departed for Kunlun with Xuandu, while Lu Yuan sent his disciples out to spread their teachings and then flew back to Kunlun for secluded cultivation.

As the Saints’ rise made Hongyun’s Primordial Violet Qi a target, Kunpeng set out to kill him while Dijun, Taiyi, and Minghe prepared to exploit the hunt. Hongyun left Zhenyuanzi’s protection at Wuzhuang Temple despite sensing the approaching killing tribulation, and the chapter ended with him heading west into danger.

• Dijun and Taiyi learned that Kunpeng had moved against Hongyun and planned to use the hunt to seize the Primordial Violet Qi and weaken Kunpeng.
• Minghe sent his Blood God Son avatars across the world, intending to claim the Primordial Violet Qi after the others fought.
• Zhenyuanzi warned Hongyun to remain at Wuzhuang Temple, where the Earth Book and earth veins could protect him.
• Hongyun refused to hide and asked Zhenyuanzi to visit Fire Cloud Cave if he did not return.
• Hongyun left Wuzhuang Temple and sensed the Primordial Violet Qi’s ominous warning as he looked west.

Hongyun was ambushed by Kunpeng and then intercepted by Old Ancestor Minghe, who seized the gourd containing Hongyun’s remnant soul and the Primordial Violet Qi. Dijun and Taiyi arrived to confront Minghe, and their battle threatened to destroy the Blood Sea as an enraged roar changed the situation.

• Hongyun left Longevity Mountain after sensing danger, and hidden powers followed him while waiting for him to get farther from Zhenyuan’s protection.
• Kunpeng attacked Hongyun, shattered his defenses, and drove him to burn his origin and flee with the Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd and the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Old Ancestor Minghe revealed the Blood Sea, wounded Kunpeng with Yuantu and Abi, and dragged Hongyun’s gourd into the sea.
• Dijun and Taiyi arrived and confronted Minghe, who refused to yield the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Taiyi and Dijun attacked with the Chaos Bell and He Tu Luo Shu while Minghe fought back with the Blood Sea, his swords, and his incarnations.
• Taiyi called for the Zhou Tian Xing Dou array, and an enraged roar sounded from afar as Minghe prepared to withdraw.

The Witch Race joined the Demon Race and Minghe in fighting over Hongyun’s Primordial Violet Qi, but Kunpeng seized the Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd and tried to flee. Heavenly Dao intervened before the factions could strike him down, taking the gourd and violet qi and leaving the combatants stunned.

• Dijiang and the Twelve Ancestral Witches attacked the Demon Race and Minghe, turning the battle around the Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd into chaos.
• Kunpeng seized the gourd and Hongyun’s true-spirit imprint, then fled toward the Chaos beyond the heavens.
• Tongtian revealed the battle in a water mirror to the disciples at Sanqing Palace, where Laozi and Yuqing discussed Hongyun’s downfall and Tongtian argued that the violet qi would be claimed by whoever fought for it.
• Minghe, Dijun, Taiyi, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches joined forces to attack Kunpeng and reclaim the violet qi.
• Heavenly Dao summoned heavenly punishment, forcing the attackers to stop, then sent blue light down and took the gourd and Primordial Violet Qi from Kunpeng’s claws.

After the Heavenly Dao reclaimed the Primordial Violet Qi and Hongyun died, Zhenyuanzi vowed vengeance while Dijun and Taiyi maneuvered to turn him against Kunpeng and Minghe. The Witch and Yao Races prepared for war, as Minghe considered a new path to sainthood and Lu Yuan secluded himself on Kunlun Mountain.

• Dijun and Taiyi blamed the Twelve Ancestral Witches for ruining their plan and returned to the Thirty-Three Heavens, while Dijiang ordered the Witches to prepare for war.
• Minghe considered creating a race of slaughter and establishing an Asura Great Sect, while Kunpeng fled to the Northern Sea and swore revenge over Hongyun's death.
• Zhenyuanzi broke through Bai Ze, Ji Meng, and Shang Yang's formation and found Hongyun's True Spirit Imprints gone, then vowed to remember his grudge against Kunpeng and Minghe.
• Dijun and Taiyi decided to spare Zhenyuanzi and let him pursue Kunpeng and Minghe, using him as a weapon against the two rivals.
• The Witch and Yao Races mobilized their forces as news of Hongyun's death spread across the Primordial World, while Lu Yuan began secluded cultivation on Kunlun Mountain.

After the Three Pure Sages debated who could enter their sects, Lu Yuan proposed that disciples needed both a Heart of Seeking Dao and virtuous character, and the sages adopted his standard. Ten thousand years later, millions of beings gathered at Kunlun Mountain as the Sanqing Sages appeared to open their gates and recruit disciples.

• During Lu Yuan's thirty thousand years in seclusion, the Heavenly Emperor Dijun proved the Heavenly Marriage, and the Three Pure Sages sent their disciples to attend in their stead.
• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate argued that Chan Sect disciples needed exceptional foundations and virtue, while Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master declared that Jie Sect would accept any being sincerely seeking the Dao.
• Taishang Moral Heavenly Venerate asked Lu Yuan to advise them, and Lu Yuan proposed that all applicants needed both a Heart of Seeking Dao and upright character.
• The Three Pure Sages accepted Lu Yuan's proposal as the criterion for joining their lineage, and news of their recruitment spread across the Primordial World.
• After ten thousand years, several million beings who had survived the perilous journey gathered at Kunlun Mountain to seek admission.
• The Sanqing Sages appeared before the Kunlun Mountain Dao Field amid auspicious light and manifestations of their respective Dao powers.

The Three Pure Ones opened Kunlun Mountain to seekers and established three trials to select disciples for their sects. As the candidates entered the arrays, Lu Yuan spotted Daoist Randeng among them and was assigned to help Immortal Elder Nanji receive those who passed Yuxu Pass.

• The Three Pure Ones announced the Heart-Tempering Array, a second array for sensing the Dao, and the Myriad Immortals Fate-Interception Array as trials for prospective disciples.
• The Three Pure Ones explained how candidates would choose an array and how their talent, disposition, and affinity would determine their standing in a sect.
• White Crane Boy and the Water Fire Boys opened the Mountain Protecting Grand Array, and the waiting seekers rushed into the trials.
• Lu Yuan recognized Daoist Randeng among the candidates entering the Heart-Tempering Array and realized he was seeking a chance to join the Chan Sect.
• Grand Pure Daoist and Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master returned to Sanqing Palace, while Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate ordered Lu Yuan to assist Immortal Elder Nanji in receiving those who passed Yuxu Pass.

The Three Purities screened and assigned disciples from those who passed the Heart-Refining Formation, while Lu Yuan foresaw the Jie Sect’s future troubles. Daoist Randeng sought to become Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s disciple but was instead appointed Vice Cult Master of the Chan Sect.

• The Three Purities observed the candidates in the Heart-Refining Formation, and Taiqing and Tongtian praised the talents among their respective sects.
• The Three Purities admired True Person Yuding’s Pangu origins, and Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate took pride in the future Chan Sect disciple.
• Lu Yuan judged the candidates’ character and worried that the Jie Sect’s large intake and karmic entanglements foreshadowed the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation.
• Daoist Randeng greeted Lu Yuan and Immortal Elder Nanji after passing the trial, then joined the candidates traveling to Sanqing Palace.
• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate named the Chan Sect’s direct, inner, and outer disciples, while Tongtian assigned the Jie Sect’s inner and outer disciples.
• Daoist Randeng knelt and requested discipleship, but Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate appointed him Vice Cult Master instead, and Randeng accepted.

At the Yuanhui gathering, the three Sages announced a Three Religions Debate on the Dao one kalpa later and lectured their disciples for ten thousand years. After reaching the peak of Taiyi, Lu Yuan resisted an early breakthrough and proposed regular Dao discussions and trial grounds to prepare the Jie Sect, earning Tongtian’s approval and responsibility for the assembly.

• The three Sages instructed their newly inducted disciples, who met one another while Lu Yuan noticed the divide surrounding Daoist Randeng.
• Sage Taiqing announced a Three Religions Debate on the Dao atop Kunlun Mountain one kalpa later, and Lu Yuan foresaw that it could worsen the conflict between the Chan and Jie Sects.
• The three Sages expounded the Hunyuan Saintly Dao for ten thousand years, bringing Lu Yuan to the peak of Taiyi and prompting him to delay breaking through until his foundation was stronger.
• Tongtian taught the Jie Sect disciples the Shangqing Yellow Court Inner Landscape Scripture and the Severing Heaven Seven Swords, then asked Duobao and Lu Yuan how to help them improve.
• Lu Yuan proposed thousand-yearly Dao discussions and Shangqing Trial Grounds, and Tongtian approved the plan, appointed Lu Yuan to oversee the discussions, and assigned Duobao and several senior disciples to oversee the grounds.

Lu Yuan refined his own cultivation method by drawing on the essence of Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master’s teachings, while organizing Dao discussions that helped the Shangqing Palace disciples improve and work together. His leadership won the approval of Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master and Sage Taiqing, while Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate admired him and regretted that he had joined the Jie Sect.

• Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master opened the Shangqing Trial Secret Realm, drawing Jie Sect Disciples into its trials for treasures and Dao arts.
• Lu Yuan studied the Shangqing Yellow Court Inner Landscape Scripture and the Severing Heaven Seven Swords, integrating their insights into his own scripture rather than adopting a sage’s Great Dao wholesale.
• Lu Yuan held Dao discussion meetings every thousand years, where disciples exchanged insights and questions under rules that rewarded those who answered with favors.
• The Shangqing Trial Secret Realm pushed disciples through inner-demon illusions, combat trials, and challenges in the Myriad Dharma Grotto, leaving them more disciplined and eager to improve.
• Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master praised Lu Yuan’s influence by giving him personal instruction, while Sage Taiqing quietly approved of his approach.
• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate watched Lu Yuan’s work with growing admiration but regretted that Lu Yuan had entered the Jie Sect rather than the Chan Sect.

Lu Yuan faced the Decline of the Dao Heart, which manifested as Dao Ancestor Hongjun accusing him of being an extraterrestrial demon and erasing him with the Jade Disk of Creation. He survived by unleashing the Profound Yellow Gate, completed his Dao Fruit, and prepared to pursue Daluo.

• Lu Yuan cultivated for more than thirty thousand years, deepening his understanding of the Profound Yellow Great Dao through the Profound Yellow Gate and Tongtian Cult Master's private teachings.
• The Decline of the Dao Heart trapped Lu Yuan in an illusion where Dao Ancestor Hongjun exposed his secrets and attacked him with the Jade Disk of Creation.
• The White Jade Plate dispelled Lu Yuan's panic, and he recognized the ordeal as a tribulation and struck at the illusion with his Severing the Dao and Seeing Myself sword.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun's power shattered Lu Yuan's treasures, body, and primordial spirit while attempting to erase him across time, but Lu Yuan's undying True Spirit refused to yield.
• Lu Yuan summoned the Profound Yellow Gate's primal strike, cracked the Jade Disk of Creation, and dispelled the Hongjun illusion.
• Lu Yuan's primordial spirit and treasures were restored as his Dao Fruit matured and his cultivation advanced toward Daluo; he resolved to pluck the Daluo Dao Fruit.

Lu Yuan attempted to break through to Great Luo by gathering his traces across the River of Time and entering the source of the Innate Profound Yellow Great Dao. He overcame the first waves of calamity but was besieged by ancient Great Luo imprints, while the Three Saints watched and Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate urged his disciples to learn from him.

• Lu Yuan unleashed his perfected cultivation and opened the Great Luo gate, summoning grand auspicious signs across Kunlun Mountain.
• He gathered his past traces from the River of Time, replenished his mana, and sent his Profound Yellow Dao projection toward the source of the Innate Profound Yellow Great Dao.
• Lu Yuan's projection faced the earth, fire, wind, and water calamities along with Inner Demon illusions, then broke through them by tempering his Dao body.
• Veteran Great Luo Dao imprints emerged from the Profound Yellow river and attacked Lu Yuan's projection, pushing it close to collapse.
• Tongtian Cult Master watched without intervening, while Laozi and Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate observed from their palaces.
• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate showed the Chan Sect disciples Lu Yuan's battle and told them to learn from his perseverance and Dao heart.

Lu Yuan broke through the Great Luo Dao-Blocking Tribulation and entered the Innate Profound Yellow Great Dao to imprint his own Dao. As he resisted the Dao Transformation Tribulation, hostile powers traced his imprint and launched secret attacks against him.

• Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, and other Chan Sect disciples were shaken by Lu Yuan's foundation, while the Jie Sect immortals watched and hoped he would bloom a twelve-petal Dao Flower.
• After enduring twelve breaths of attacks from ancient Great Luo imprints, Lu Yuan's Dao shadow erupted with Profound Yellow divine light and destroyed the imprints, breaking the tribulation.
• Lu Yuan entered the river of Innate Profound Yellow Great Dao Origin and faced the risk of having his consciousness assimilated by its boundless mysteries.
• Lu Yuan held fast to himself and began branding his understanding of the Profound Yellow Great Dao onto its origin to establish his own Dao imprint.
• Powerful cultivators across the Great Desolation sensed Lu Yuan's imprint, and several hostile forces sent curses and soul-destroying attacks toward him while he was vulnerable.

Lu Yuan completed his twelve-petaled Profound Yellow Dao Flowers and condensed the Daluo Dao Fruit, then overcame the River of Destiny’s restraints with help from the gratitude of the Human Race. He emerged as Qingxuan Daojun, and vast Heavenly Dao manifestations announced his attainment across the Primordial World.

• Ancient demonic beings tried to destroy Lu Yuan’s Dao imprint, but Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master shattered their attacks and warned the surviving dark beings.
• Lu Yuan’s Profound Yellow Dao imprint stabilized, and Heavenly Dao’s Favor nourished his Dao Flowers until they bloomed to twelve petals and formed his Daluo Dao Fruit.
• Lu Yuan entered the River of Destiny to face the Transcendence Tribulation, where its karma threads and turbulent currents threatened to drag him under.
• Grateful aspirations from the Human Race Sacred Temple strengthened Lu Yuan’s Dao Flower, allowing his Profound Yellow Gate to break the karma shackles and open a path across the river.
• Lu Yuan escaped the River of Destiny, became Qingxuan Daojun, and triggered immense Heavenly Dao phenomena that drew the attention of powerful beings across the Primordial World.