Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan attained the Great Luo Dao, and nine Heavenly Dao phenomena revealed his potential to found a Dao, rule all beings, and save the Primordial World from a future calamity. As the final phenomenon appeared, Lu Yuan was pulled into an unseen place, his primordial spirit drawn away.

• Lu Yuan’s fifth phenomenon purified the karma and causality of beings across Kunlun Mountain, leaving his Dao foundation immaculate.
• Lu Yuan’s sixth phenomenon manifested a Dao tree, revealing his potential to establish a sect and become a Dao ancestor.
• Lu Yuan’s seventh phenomenon showed him as a future Ziwei Heavenly Emperor, alarming Dijun and Taiyi, who resolved to focus on defeating the Witch Race.
• Lu Yuan’s eighth phenomenon depicted a Creation Green Lotus saving the world from an apocalyptic catastrophe, unsettling Hongjun and the Three Pure Ones.
• Lu Yuan’s ninth phenomenon showed the Infinite evolving into Pangu and the Heavenly Dao, revealing a chance to enter Pangu’s Secret Realm and shocking the Six Saints and Taiyi.
• Lu Yuan evolved the Mystical Yellow Dao Realm as an immense force pulled his primordial spirit into an unseen place.

Lu Yuan passed all eighty-one Primordial Origin Dharma Realm trials and entered Pangu Hall, where he received three High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and the Pangu Orthodox Lineage inheritance of the Profound Yellow Emperor Dharma Aspect. The chapter left him excited to pursue the Profound Yellow Great Dao with a new Hunyuan-level inheritance.

• Lu Yuan resonated with the Profound Yellow Heaven and Earth, deepening his understanding of the Innate Profound Yellow Great Dao before entering the Primordial Origin Dharma Realm.
• Lu Yuan overcame the trials, including the Return to Ruin, primordial chaos, and Pangu’s final test of his Dao heart, and earned a Peerless evaluation and one kalpa to comprehend the Pangu Dao Fruit.
• Lu Yuan entered Pangu Hall and failed to seize a passing strand of Primordial Qi, then received the Diagram of Life and Death, the Disk of Creation, and the Chain of Karma.
• Lu Yuan found the eighty-one Pangu Dharma Aspects and was chosen by the Profound Yellow Emperor Dharma Aspect, receiving its inheritance and the fortune of Pangu’s Orthodox Lineage.

Lu Yuan used the Pangu Dao Fruit to devise a path toward the Primordial realm, discovering that he could sever core Dao Fruit prototypes and entrust them to compatible Innate Spiritual Treasures. His new method succeeded in the illusory world, leaving him wondering whether Pangu had truly perished after transforming into the Dao.

• Lu Yuan entered Pangu Hall’s central chamber, encountered the Pangu Dao Fruit, and began deducing a path to the Primordial realm.
• Lu Yuan’s first attempt to condense three thousand Dao Fruits failed when the Immeasurable Tribulation destroyed his illusory world before he reached the Primordial realm.
• Lu Yuan realized that the Profound Yellow Dao Fruit should serve as a core supported by nine pillars of Great Dao, while the remaining Daos could nourish the system without being condensed.
• Lu Yuan conceived the Dao Fruit Severing Dao Proving Method and successfully severed a Life and Death Dao Fruit prototype into the Diagram of Life and Death.
• Lu Yuan entrusted nine core Dao Fruit prototypes to compatible Innate Spiritual Treasure phantoms, and his illusory self attained the Primordial Saint Realm after only several Tribulations.
• Lu Yuan understood how the method resolved the difficulties of condensation, conflict, and support, then wondered whether Pangu had truly perished after transforming into the Dao.

Lu Yuan returned from the Pangu Secret Realm as a Great Luo Dao Lord, received the Three Pure Ones’ recognition, and assessed the treasures and cultivation method he had gained. Meanwhile, Minghe founded the Asura Teachings but failed to prove the Dao, deepening the Great Desolation’s doubts about whether Sainthood was possible without Primordial Violet Qi.

• Lu Yuan emerged from the Pangu Secret Realm, discovered that only a breath had passed outside, and answered the Three Pure Ones’ summons.
• Tongtian praised Lu Yuan’s achievement, and the gathered disciples congratulated him, though the Chan Sect disciples showed resentment and Grand Master Xuandu felt competitive.
• Lu Yuan told the Three Pure Ones he had inherited the Profound Yellow Emperor Dharma Aspect, and Taiqing, Yuanshi, and Tongtian gave him their insights on the Great Luo realm.
• Lu Yuan examined his three High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and the Dao Fruit Severing Dao Proving Method, then realized he still needed six more compatible treasures.
• Minghe created the Asura race and founded the Asura Teachings, but the merit he received only raised him to the threshold of Great Perfection Quasi-Saint.
• Great Divine Ability Users across the Great Desolation lamented Minghe’s failure and questioned whether anyone could become a Saint without Primordial Violet Qi.

After Minghe failed to attain the Dao, Dijun and Taiyi prepared the Yao Race Heavenly Court for war against the Witch Race, while Dijun sent his uncontrolled Golden Crow Princes to Tanggu. Ten thousand years after his seclusion, Lu Yuan emerged with greatly increased power and attended the Shangqing Palace Dao Discussion Meeting, where he noticed ominous karma surrounding Long Ear Dingguang Immortal.

• Dijun and Taiyi concluded that the Yao Race needed to gather the fortune of the Great Desolation to pursue the Dao, and ordered preparations for war against the Witch Race.
• After the Golden Crow Princes accidentally killed Heavenly Court demons with their True Sun Fire, Dijun ordered Bai Ze to take them to Tanggu to master their bloodlines and accumulate merit.
• Lu Yuan emerged from ten thousand years of seclusion with fifty percent mastery of the Profound Yellow Emperor Dharma Aspect and a transformed, high-grade Profound Yellow Gate.
• At the Shangqing Palace Dao Discussion Meeting, Long Ear Dingguang Immortal mocked Zhao Gongming's wealth-and-water Dao, and Daoist Duobao challenged him to defend his criticism through debate.
• Lu Yuan joined the meeting, observed the disciples' growing unity, and sensed concealed resentment and karmic entanglement in Long Ear Dingguang Immortal.

Lu Yuan held a Dao-discussion gathering at Shangqing Palace, where Yunxiao won the contest with her emerging Nine Bends formation and received the Fruit of Life. Lu Yuan then revealed a fledgling Rune Immortal Dao, drawing the Three Pure Ones' attention to his potential as the founder of a new immortal lineage.

• Lu Yuan offered the Fruit of Life as the prize for the Shangqing Palace Dao discussion, prompting the disciples to compete.
• Zhao Gongming and the other disciples displayed their techniques, but Yunxiao's nine-bend formation overcame them all and won her the Fruit of Life.
• Duobao taught artifact refinement and Jin Ling demonstrated her Big Dipper Sword Formation before Lu Yuan presented his Profound Yellow Rune Dao.
• Lu Yuan combined innate runes for earth, wind, water, and fire to create a small world, revealing the foundation of a new Rune Immortal Dao.
• The Three Pure Ones recognized Lu Yuan's work as the beginning of an immortal Dao lineage, while Tongtian praised Yunxiao's formation talent.

After six Kalpas away, Lu Yuan returned to Qingxu Mountain, assessed its growing treasures and disciples, and strengthened the lineage as a Great Luo Dao Lord. He left Qingxu Mountain in the hands of his senior disciples and headed back to Kunlun Mountain for the Three Religions Debate and Mystic Gate Grand Gathering.

• Lu Yuan returned to Qingxu Mountain and harvested its mature Purple Green Vital Qi Lotuses, Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruits, and Fruits of Life.
• Lu Yuan found that the Black Gourd had developed a powerful destructive Dao rhythm, making it a potential treasure for his Dao Fruit Severing Dao Proving Method.
• Lu Yuan named Qingxiaozi, Huangxuzi, Daoist Beiyuan, Fairy Xuanling, Fairy Yuanshui, Venerable Wanmu, and Daoist Honglu as his registered disciples and taught them deeper cultivation methods.
• Lu Yuan spent roughly fifty thousand years teaching at Qingxu Mountain, during which Qingxiaozi, Huangxuzi, and Daoist Beiyuan advanced to the Taiyi Dao Realm.
• Lu Yuan entrusted Qingxu Mountain's affairs to Qingxiaozi, Huangxuzi, and Daoist Beiyuan, then departed for Kunlun Mountain to attend the Three Religions Debate and Mystic Gate Grand Gathering.

After fifty thousand years away, Lu Yuan returned to crowded Kunlun Mountain as the Three Religions gathered for a Kalpa Debate. Sage Taiqing began the contest in a created world, while Lu Yuan and the other Great Luo figures watched from a separate platform.

• Lu Yuan surveyed the growing Jie Sect population on Kunlun Mountain and reflected that the Sanqing Split seemed near.
• After a thousand years of meditation, Lu Yuan answered the three bells summoning the religions to Sanqing Palace.
• The Jie, Chan, and Human Sects assembled, and Sage Taiqing instructed Lu Yuan, Duobao, Nanji, and Jin Ling to debate separately because they had attained Great Luo.
• Lu Yuan followed the other Great Luo figures to a quiet platform and kept his spiritual treasures and trump cards concealed.
• Sage Taiqing created a middle thousand world and ordered the younger disciples of the Three Sects to contend there.
• The disciples entered the world, where their treasures and techniques clashed as the debate began.

The disciples of the Chan, Jie, and Human Sects competed in the arena, where Grand Master Xuandu defeated Guangchengzi and claimed first place. The Jie Sect outnumbered the Chan Sect among the top-ranked disciples, leaving Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate privately wary of its rising strength.

• True Person Huanglong defeated Wuyunxian, then lost to Jinguang Immortal, while the Jie Sect gained the early advantage in the arena duels.
• Zhao Gongming defeated Grand Master Lingbao and True Person Taiyi before Chijingzi overcame him after a long battle.
• Fairy Yunxiao defeated Chijingzi with Heavenly River Weak Water, but True Person Yuding countered her techniques and won.
• Saint Mother Wudang defeated True Person Yuding, while Guangchengzi narrowly defeated Saint Mother Guiling.
• Grand Master Xuandu overwhelmed Guangchengzi with Taiqing immortal radiance and secured first place in the contest.
• The Jie Sect claimed eleven of the top twenty places, and Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate concealed his displeasure while acknowledging that the three sects had gained from the debate.

Lu Yuan edged out Daoist Duobao, Immortal Elder Nanji, and Saint Mother Jin Ling in a debate over the Dao, then received Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s order to host future discussions with Chan Sect disciples. During the Three Pure Ones’ ten-thousand-year sermon, Lu Yuan’s Profound Yellow Gate advanced, and he deepened his comprehension of the Innate Great Dao of Life and Death before presenting spiritual fruits to the Saints.

• Lu Yuan debated the Dao with Daoist Duobao, Immortal Elder Nanji, and Saint Mother Jin Ling, winning by a slight margin.
• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate appointed Lu Yuan to preside over Shangqing Palace Dao discussions that Yuqing lineage disciples could attend, leaving Lu Yuan worried about the burden of balancing the sects.
• Sage Taiqing distributed spiritual treasures and fruits to the top-ranked disciples, and Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate urged all three sects’ disciples to learn from the assembly.
• The Three Pure Ones delivered a ten-thousand-year sermon, during which Lu Yuan’s Profound Yellow Gate advanced to a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and recorded the Saints’ Dao traces.
• Lu Yuan focused on the Innate Great Dao of Life and Death and strengthened his comprehension while absorbing the Saints’ sermon.
• After the sermon, Lu Yuan offered Innate Spiritual Fruits to the Three Pure Ones, who accepted his filial gesture with appreciation.

Lu Yuan created the Talisman-Pattern Immortal Dao, gained the Mystic Gate Immortal Venerable Position, and glimpsed the greater Innate Talisman Patriarch Position. Meanwhile, Jieyin and Zhunti decided to provoke the Witch-Demon Calamity early, and Zhunti departed for the Eastern Lands under Jieyin’s concealment of Heaven’s secrets.

• Lu Yuan formed the Talisman-Pattern Immortal Dao and condensed an intrinsic Dao talisman that reached Taiyi Perfection, though it could not advance further because the Dao’s foundation was incomplete.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed the Mystic Gate Immortal Venerable Position on Lu Yuan, who then glimpsed the Innate Talisman Patriarch Position and its immense fortune.
• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed the Western Teachings’ debt to the Heavenly Dao and feared that the Witch and Demon Clans would grow stronger if left in peace.
• Jieyin and Zhunti resolved to hasten the Witch-Demon Calamity so the two clans would destroy each other and clear the way for the West.
• Jieyin concealed Heaven’s secrets around Mount Sumeru, and Zhunti set off for the Eastern Lands to carry out their plan.

Zhunti infiltrated Tanggu and tricked the ten Golden Crows into believing Dijun’s protective formation had failed, prompting them to leave the island. The young princes’ uncontrolled True Sun Fire began devastating the eastern Primordial World, and the resulting karma gathered over them and the Yao Race Heavenly Court.

• Zhunti entered Tanggu disguised as a wounded little demon and told the Golden Crows that the Witch Race had defeated the Yao Race.
• The little demon suggested that the island’s protective formation had disappeared, and the ten Golden Crows flew to the shore to check.
• The eldest Golden Crow killed the disguised demon, while Zhunti’s power opened a gap in the formation and let the princes escape.
• Zhunti revealed himself through a phantom and returned to the Western Pure Land after setting the calamity in motion.
• The Golden Crows flew across the eastern Primordial World, scorching forests, drying rivers, and killing countless living beings.
• Karma from the destruction gathered around the Golden Crows and bore down upon the Yao Race Heavenly Court.

After Kuafu pursued the ten Golden Crow princes and was killed by their formation, Houyi avenged him by shooting down nine of them. Eastern Emperor Taiyi arrived in time to save the youngest Golden Crow and confronted Houyi, leaving the Witch-Yao conflict on the brink of open war.

• Lu Yuan sensed the Golden Crows’ devastation of the Primordial World and recognized that Kuafu was being drawn into a trap.
• Kuafu chased the Golden Crows, but their Ten Suns Patrolling the Heavens Great Formation burned him to death, leaving a flaming peach forest behind.
• Houyi arrived in grief and fury, then used his Ice Bow Profound Arrow to kill nine Golden Crow princes as the survivors fled.
• Dijun and Xihe learned of their sons’ deaths, and Dijun ordered the Yao forces to mobilize while Taiyi set out with the Chaos Bell.
• Houyi aimed his final Witch-Slaying Divine Arrow at the youngest Golden Crow, but Taiyi shattered it with the Chaos Bell and rescued his nephew.
• Taiyi confronted Houyi with murderous intent, as Lu Yuan recognized that Kuafu’s death and the Golden Crows’ killings had made peace between the Witch and Yao races impossible.

The Witch and Demon Clans’ battle escalated into a clash between the Great Formation of the Stars and the Twelve Great Formation of the Gods and Fiends, threatening to destroy the Great Desolation. Dao Ancestor Hongjun intervened, imposed a ten-Kalpa truce, and left Lu Yuan wondering whether the figure had been Hongjun himself or the Will of Heavenly Dao.

• Taiyi attacked Houyi with the Chaos Bell, but Dijiang and Zhurong arrived and shielded him as the Witch and Demon Clans gathered for battle.
• Dijun activated the Great Formation of the Stars, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned the Pangu True Body to fight it, devastating the world around them.
• Taiyi took control of the Great Formation of the Stars and clashed its power against the Pangu True Body’s giant Killing Intent axe, while Lu Yuan watched the battle from Qingxuan Hall.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun froze the combatants and decreed that demons would govern the heavens and witches the earth, forbidding them to wage war for ten Kalpas.
• Dijun and Taiyi withdrew with the Demon Race, and Dijiang led the Witch Race back to Buzhou Mountain as the battlefield fell quiet.
• Lu Yuan questioned whether Hongjun had appeared in person or whether the figure had been a manifestation of the Will of Heavenly Dao.

After the Golden Crow princes’ deaths, Dijun suspected the Saints had manipulated events to ignite the Witch-Demon Calamity and vowed to seek strength and revenge. Lu Yuan maintained peace between the Heavenly Origin and Jie Sects, then successfully severed his Innate Life and Death Dao Fruit Avatar and advanced to the middle stage of the Great Luo Dao Lord realm.

• The tenth Golden Crow prince told Dijun that a little demon had predicted the Witch Race would dominate, and Bai Ze argued that the princes’ departure from Tanggu had been deliberately engineered.
• Dijun concluded that Saints had concealed the heavenly secrets and used his sons’ deaths to set the Witch-Demon Calamity in motion, then vowed to attain the Dao and trample Mount Sumeru.
• During a Kunlun Mountain Dao discussion, Long Ear Dingguang Immortal disparaged the Jie Sect, and Lu Yuan stopped the dispute by urging both sects to value Dao comprehension and practice over appearances.
• After meditating for three thousand years, Lu Yuan merged his Innate Life and Death Dao Seed with the Diagram of Life and Death and used his merit and destiny to sever a Life and Death Dao Fruit Avatar.
• Lu Yuan’s avatar appeared with the Dao Fruit and Diagram of Life and Death, and Lu Yuan advanced from the early to the middle stage of the Great Luo Dao Lord realm.

Lu Yuan witnessed the Sanqing divide their Dao grounds, then followed Tongtian Cult Master to the East Sea, where Tongtian established Golden Ao Island and Biyou Palace as the Intercepting Sect’s ancestral court. As myriad cultivators gathered to hear Tongtian preach, Lu Yuan recognized that he would need to protect the sect from the dangers growing among its disciples.

• Tongtian Cult Master told his disciples that the Intercepting Sect would leave Kunlun and establish its Dao ground in the East Sea.
• Sage Taiqing entrusted Lu Yuan with Nine Revolutions Golden Elixirs and charged him with safeguarding the Intercepting Sect, while Primordial Heavenly Venerate gave him the Yin Yang Wuji Banner and urged him to restrain its disciples.
• The three sages preached to their disciples, then separated: Laozi chose Shouyang Mountain, Tongtian set out for the East Sea, and Primordial Heavenly Venerate remained on Kunlun.
• Tongtian revealed Golden Ao Island, established Biyou Palace there, and announced a sermon three thousand years later, drawing cultivators from across the Great Desolation.
• Ao Guang brought lavish gifts to Golden Ao Island, hoping to ally the East Sea Dragon Clan with Tongtian’s sect.
• As myriad cultivators gathered, Long Ear Dingguang Immortal and other disciples showed greed and arrogance, prompting Lu Yuan to worry about the sect’s future.

After the Sanqing split, the Yao Race and Witch Race plotted to use Human souls to create weapons against each other, while the Western Saints saw a chance to expand their teachings. On Golden Ao Island, Lu Yuan punished corrupt Jie Sect disciples and warned the island’s inhabitants to obey the sect’s rules.

• Dijun and Taiyi celebrated the Sanqing’s separation, and Tengshe proposed harvesting Humans to forge a weapon against the Witch Race; Dijun decided to seek approval from Nuwa and Taiqing.
• The Ancestral Witches planned to capture Humans and use their souls to create weapons, while Houtu objected but was silenced.
• Jieyin and Zhunti recognized an opportunity to recruit disciples from the divided Eastern teachings and planned to form karmic bonds in the East.
• Immortal Qiushou seized a Pearl Clam Maiden’s treasure, while Long Ear Dingguang Immortal urged that she be punished and her possessions taken; Lu Yuan arrived and bound the offenders.
• Lu Yuan sentenced Immortal Qiushou to ten Heavenly Thunder Tribulations and a hundred thousand years of confinement, then abolished Long Ear Dingguang Immortal’s cultivation and expelled him and his accomplice disciples.
• Lu Yuan addressed the Jie Sect disciples on Golden Ao Island, warning that he would punish anyone who bullied the weak or violated sect discipline.

Lu Yuan welcomed powerful guests to Golden Ao Island as Tongtian Cult Master held a sermon for nearly a hundred thousand cultivators. Zhunti used the gathering to recruit Eastern cultivators for the Western Teachings, and Tongtian answered by opening the Jie Sect to sincere seekers without heavy karmic burdens, leaving the East’s religious fortunes unsettled.

• Lu Yuan welcomed the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas and other distinguished guests to Golden Ao Island, where Zhenyuanzi, Kunpeng, and Old Ancestor Minghe nearly clashed over Hongyun’s death before Lu Yuan stopped them.
• Zhunti arrived with Western Teachings disciples and praised Tongtian’s open-door policy while surveying talented Eastern cultivators.
• Tongtian Cult Master preached for three thousand years, guiding the gathered cultivators through the foundations of the Great Dao.
• After the sermon, Zhunti announced that the Western Teachings would hold their own assembly and welcome virtuous seekers, prompting Tongtian and his disciples to recognize his attempt to poach recruits.
• Tongtian Cult Master invited sincere cultivators without great karmic burdens to join the Jie Sect, while cultivators barred by their karma considered turning to the Western Teachings.

As the Witch Race slaughtered humans to forge Soul Gathering Banners, its leaders developed a plan to use human wraiths in the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Fiends Great Formation. The Yao Race learned of the scheme and ordered its own forces to kill humans and craft weapons, leaving humanity trapped between both clans.

• Demons preyed on expanding human settlements, and Witch tribes discovered that the resentment of murdered humans could disrupt demon souls and be captured in Soul Gathering Banners.
• At Buzhou Mountain, the Ancestral Witches approved mass human killings to create banners and a Twelve Heavenly Fiend Ghost Body, while Houtu warned that the plan would bring disaster and left in grief.
• Zhu Jiuyin revealed that the ghost body could strengthen the Witch Race's great formation, and Dijiang ordered tribes to hunt humans while sparing settlements near Shouyang Mountain.
• At the Lingxiao Treasure Hall, Kunpeng and Taiyi urged the Yao Race to make its own weapons from human souls, while Fuxi warned that the method was cruel and could harm the clan's fortune.
• Dijun claimed that Nuwa and Laozi had tacitly consented, then ordered the Yao Race to collect human souls and forge weapons for slaying witches while leaving humanity a thread of life.

Lu Yuan left Golden Ao Island to pursue his own Great Dao and found the Human Race around Qingxu Mountain being slaughtered by the Yao Race. He vowed to protect the survivors and faced three Daluo Demon Gods, holding them off with his two Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures as the battle escalated.

• Lu Yuan received Sect Master Tongtian's permission to leave Golden Ao Island and returned to Qingxu Mountain, where he found the Human Race villages devastated by Yao Race forces.
• Lu Yuan ordered his seven disciples to lead the Qingxu lineage in establishing the Profound Yellow Qian Kun Great Formation and sheltering the surviving Human Race.
• Lu Yuan confronted the Green Lion Demon God, invoked Sage Tongtian's name, and annihilated a group of demons attacking Human Race cultivators.
• The Green Lion Demon God attacked Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan used the Profound Yellow World-Opening Bead and Yin Yang Wuji Banner to injure him and repel his strike.
• The Blood Fiend Demon God and Soul Devouring Demon God arrived to aid the Green Lion, and Lu Yuan used the treasure bead's Cycle of Birth and Death to block all three attacks.