Chapter Summaries

Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to cooperate with East King Duke’s Immortal Court, and Xuan Xiao returned to Zifu Prefecture with the news. East King Duke announced their allegiance throughout the Primordial Wilderness, shaking the realm and putting the Demon Race Heavenly Court under pressure.

• Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to work with the Immortal Court and planned to visit Zifu Prefecture to discuss the terms.
• Xuan Xiao reported their decision to East King Duke, delighting the Immortal Court’s assembled cultivators.
• East King Duke rewarded Xuan Xiao with the Azure Spirit Sword and ordered the news announced across the Primordial Wilderness.
• Beings throughout the Primordial Wilderness were astonished by the announcement, and the Demon Race Heavenly Court became the first faction to feel its impact.

After Jieyin and Zhunti joined the Immortal Court, the news boosted its prestige and drew in cultivators, while the Demon Race and other factions speculated about the pair’s motives. Meanwhile, Qin Mu and Duobao continued collecting treasures and approached Buzhou Mountain.

• Dijun, Donghuang Taiyi, and Fuxi discussed Jieyin and Zhunti’s alliance with the Immortal Court and suspected they had joined for their own benefit.
• The Three Pure Ones and Ancestor Minghe also heard the news and suspected Jieyin and Zhunti had a hidden plan, while Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun chose to stay out of the conflict.
• The Immortal Court’s announcement attracted free cultivators and members of various races, increasing its prestige and Fortune as East King Duke expanded his recruitment.
• Qin Mu and Duobao finished plundering a Great Principle Golden Immortal’s treasury, then spotted Buzhou Mountain ahead as they continued their journey.

Dijun persuaded Kunpeng to join the Demon Race Heavenly Court by offering him the position of Demon Teacher and help taking Hong Yun’s Primordial Violet Qi. Meanwhile, Jieyin and Zhunti joined East King Duke’s Immortal Court after securing a vast region where they could spread the Western Teachings.

• Dijun visited Kunpeng and offered him the position of Demon Teacher and a chance to seize Hong Yun’s Primordial Violet Qi.
• Kunpeng agreed to join the Demon Race, and he and Dijun headed for the Demon Race Heavenly Court.
• Dijun told Kunpeng that Jieyin and Zhunti had joined the Immortal Court, deepening Kunpeng’s resentment toward them.
• East King Duke welcomed Jieyin and Zhunti to Zifu Prefecture, where Jieyin demanded a region to spread the Western Teachings without interference.
• East King Duke accepted Jieyin’s demand and granted the region he had marked out.

Daoist Jieyin and East King Duke clashed over control of Zifu, settling on three prefectures for the Western Lands. At Buzhou Mountain, Qin Mu and Duobao joined a crowd seeking treasures and met True Man Yu Ding.

• Jieyin expanded his golden ring to cover all thirteen prefectures of Zifu, and East King Duke countered with his Dragon Head Crutch.
• Jieyin and East King Duke's powers collided, and the golden ring shrank until it covered only three prefectures, which Jieyin accepted for the Western Lands.
• Jieyin and Zhunti descended toward their three prefectures as golden lotuses bloomed and Buddhist chants filled the sky.
• Qin Mu and Duobao reached the heart of Buzhou Mountain and found a long queue of beings waiting to enter in search of treasures.
• True Man Yu Ding greeted Qin Mu and Duobao, learned it was their first visit, and explained that traces of spiritual treasures had drawn the crowd.

Qin Mu, Duobao, and True Man Yu Ding learned that the Witch Clan required challengers to defeat a Great Witch before entering Buzhou Mountain. After watching several Golden Immortals lose, Qin Mu assessed the guard’s formidable strength as the group reached the front of the line.

• True Man Yu Ding recognized Qin Mu as a disciple of the Three Pure Ones and hoped to build a connection with him.
• Yu Ding explained that Buzhou Mountain was controlled by the Witch Clan, whose entrance challenge required defeating its guard.
• Qin Mu, Duobao, and Yu Ding saw a Golden Immortal get badly injured by the guard, then went to watch the challenge.
• A towering Great Witch defeated another challenger with one punch, and Qin Mu recognized him as a Great Witch.
• Duobao asked Yu Ding whether he had challenged the guard, and Yu Ding admitted that he had lost after only a few exchanges.
• Qin Mu concluded that the Witch Clan’s physical strength was terrifying as he studied the Great Witch.

Duobao challenged Great Witch Kuafu at the entrance to Buzhou Mountain but was defeated by Kuafu’s overwhelming physical strength. Qin Mu then stepped forward and chose to fight Kuafu with his own physical strength, leaving their fists locked in a powerful clash.

• Yu Ding urged Qin Mu to challenge the Great Witch, but Qin Mu encouraged Duobao to try first.
• Duobao attacked Kuafu with a rain of magical treasures, but Kuafu’s body shattered many of them without injury.
• Duobao transformed into a Treasure-Seeking Rat and charged Kuafu, who knocked him down with a stomp and a shockwave.
• Qin Mu helped Duobao up, then stepped forward to challenge Kuafu.
• Kuafu introduced himself, and Qin Mu recognized him as the legendary Witch who chased the sun.
• Qin Mu and Kuafu met each other’s fists using pure physical strength, unleashing a shockwave that split the earth and shattered rocks.

Qin Mu matched Great Witch Kuafu’s physical strength, then revealed his Innate Green Lotus Sword Grass true form and defeated Kuafu with a single sword strike. The chapter ended with Qin Mu returning to human form while Kuafu lay injured in a crater.

• Qin Mu and Kuafu traded punches, and Qin Mu held his own against the Great Witch.
• Kuafu enlarged his body and unleashed his full strength, prompting Qin Mu to reveal his true form as the Innate Green Lotus Sword Grass.
• Qin Mu’s Sword Qi formed a giant phantom sword, which struck Kuafu and sent him crashing into a crater.
• Qin Mu returned to human form and thanked the injured Kuafu for letting him win.

Qin Mu defeated Kuafu and entered Buzhou Mountain, where he spent a thousand years tempering his body under its immense pressure. Duobao and Yu Ding headed to Kunlun Mountain after Qin Mu hinted at an opportunity there, while the Three Pure Ones emerged from seclusion.

• Qin Mu defeated Kuafu in a contest of strength, earning the right to enter Buzhou Mountain.
• Qin Mu told Duobao that Kunlun Mountain might hold a great opportunity for him, and Duobao decided to go there with Yu Ding.
• Xing Tian arrived at Buzhou Mountain seeking the person who had defeated Kuafu, but learned Qin Mu had already gone inside.
• Qin Mu climbed Buzhou Mountain without using magic power and spent a thousand years tempering his body, advancing the Nine Revolutions Profound Skill to its third revolution.
• The Three Pure Ones emerged from seclusion at Kunlun Mountain, each having made progress in cultivation.

Tongtian and Yuanshi announced that they would recruit disciples at Kunlun Mountain in three thousand years, drawing beings from across the Primordial World. Duobao, Yu Ding, and representatives of several powers headed there, while Taishang chose not to recruit disciples yet.

• Tongtian and Yuanshi announced their plans to recruit disciples at Kunlun Mountain, while Taishang said he preferred to wait.
• Countless beings set out for Kunlun Mountain after hearing the Three Pure Ones' announcement.
• Duobao and Yu Ding arrived near Kunlun Mountain, believing it held the opportunity Qin Mu had predicted.
• Dijun ordered the Demon Race Heavenly Court to send its most talented young members to seek discipleship.
• East King Duke ordered talented members of the Immortal Court to go to Kunlun Mountain, and Jieyin and Zhunti also sent people from the Western Lands.

After five hundred years of tempering his body while climbing Buzhou Mountain, Qin Mu encountered an Innate Formation that three late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals had studied for ten thousand years. He used Heaven-Defying Comprehension to study it for three hundred years and awakened the Eye of Shattering Delusion, then approached the formation again.

• Qin Mu reached the fourth revolution of the Nine Revolutions Profound Skill after five hundred years of climbing Buzhou Mountain under its pressure.
• Qin Mu met three Green Robed Daoists before an Innate Formation, and they told him they had studied it for ten thousand years without finding a way to open it.
• Qin Mu struck the formation with Sword Qi, but it absorbed his attack, and the Green Robe Daoist said it likely required Quasi-Saint cultivation to break by force.
• Qin Mu sat down and used Heaven-Defying Comprehension to study the formation's patterns.
• After three hundred years, Qin Mu awakened the Eye of Shattering Delusion, which revealed the formation's Dao-law threads and weaknesses.
• Qin Mu walked toward the Innate Formation as the three Daoists watched.

Qin Mu entered the Innate Formation, found the Innate Gourd Vine, and used Chaos Liquid to mature its seventh gourd into the Chaos Purple Gold Gourd. While he refined the treasure for more than two thousand years, disciples gathered at Kunlun Mountain to seek places in the Three Pure Ones' sects.

• Qin Mu passed through the Innate Formation, leaving the three Green Robe Daoists astonished that he had solved it after only three hundred years.
• Qin Mu discovered the Innate Gourd Vine and identified the six missing gourds as treasures held by Taishang, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nuwa, Taiyi, and Hong Yun.
• Qin Mu poured Chaos Liquid onto the vine, restoring its source and maturing the seventh gourd into the Chaos Purple Gold Gourd.
• Qin Mu refined the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with his Innate Green Lotus Sword Grass form for more than two thousand years.
• Talented beings, Great Principle Golden Immortals, and two Quasi-Saints gathered at Kunlun Mountain to seek discipleship under the Three Pure Ones.

After three thousand years, Tongtian and Yuanshi opened their recruitment formations on Kunlun Mountain and selected disciples from among the beings who passed. Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao sisters, along with Duobao, joined Tongtian, while Yu Ding and others joined Yuanshi.

• Bixiao, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Zhao Gongming arrived at Kunlun Mountain seeking a chance to become disciples of the Three Pure Ones.
• Tongtian and Yuanshi appeared after three thousand years and opened separate formations, inviting those who passed to join their respective sects.
• Zhao Gongming chose Tongtian’s sword formation with the Three Xiao sisters, while Duobao entered it and Yu Ding chose Yuanshi’s formation.
• After a hundred years, Zhao Gongming, the Three Xiao sisters, and Duobao emerged from Tongtian’s formation, while Yu Ding, Guangchengzi, and others passed Yuanshi’s trials.
• Tongtian and Yuanshi dismissed their formations, sent away those who had not passed, and led their chosen disciples toward their places of cultivation.

After years of refining the Purple Gold Chaos Gourd inside the formation on Buzhou Mountain, Qin Mu emerged and was ambushed by three late-stage Taiyi Golden Immortals. He survived their attacks and killed the Green Robe Daoist with one punch, while the Red Robe Daoist and Black Robe Daoist remained.

• Qin Mu refined sixteen restrictions on the Purple Gold Chaos Gourd and collected the Innate Gourd Vine before leaving the Small Heaven and Earth.
• The Green Robe Daoist, Red Robe Daoist, and Black Robe Daoist attacked Qin Mu as he emerged from the innate formation, but he was unharmed.
• The three Daoists demanded that Qin Mu hand over the Purple Gold Chaos Gourd, and he refused to back down.
• The Green Robe Daoist attacked Qin Mu with a sword, but Qin Mu shattered it with a punch and killed him.

Qin Mu killed the three Taiyi Golden Immortals who had ambushed him, then continued climbing Buzhou Mountain. On Mount Kunlun, a dispute between Bixiao and Juliusun over a Nine-Leaf Lingzhi escalated into a fight between their fellow disciples, and Guangchengzi arrived as Juliusun accused Bixiao of taking the medicine by force.

• Qin Mu killed the Green Robe Daoist with one punch, then used the Purple Gold Chaos Gourd to refine the Red Robe Daoist and Black Robe Daoist.
• Qin Mu resumed climbing Buzhou Mountain to temper his body.
• Bixiao found a Nine-Leaf Lingzhi, but Juliusun claimed he had marked it and ordered her to leave.
• Juliusun attacked Bixiao with the Immortal Binding Rope, and Bixiao countered with the Primal Chaos Golden Cauldron.
• Disciples of Yuanshi and Tongtian joined the fight until Guangchengzi arrived and Juliusun accused Bixiao of trying to seize the Spiritual Medicine.

Bixiao and Juliusun disputed the theft of spiritual medicine, but Guangchengzi backed Juliusun and used his Taiyi Golden Immortal pressure to suppress the Shangqing disciples. Duobao arrived to defend them and challenged Guangchengzi, whose Kunlun Seal failed to break Duobao’s array before he entered it to attack from within.

• Guangchengzi accused Bixiao of taking Juliusun’s spiritual medicine, and Zhao Gongming and the other Shangqing disciples challenged his bias.
• Bixiao prepared to fight, but Guangchengzi released his Taiyi Golden Immortal pressure and pressed her and the others to apologize.
• Duobao arrived, dispersed Guangchengzi’s pressure, and defended the Shangqing disciples.
• Duobao attacked Guangchengzi with a golden seal, then formed the Duobao Array when the Kunlun Seal sent his seal flying.
• Guangchengzi entered the Duobao Array and unleashed repeated attacks, causing its light to dim.

Duobao and Guangchengzi’s battle drew Yuanshi and Tongtian to Kunlun, where Tongtian exposed Juliusun’s lie about Bixiao and the Nine-Leaf Lingzhi. Tongtian punished Juliusun by reducing his cultivation, and Yuanshi challenged his right to discipline Yuanshi’s disciples.

• Duobao withdrew his Array and fought Guangchengzi with the Immortal-Trapping Sword until both were driven back.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian arrived and demanded an explanation for the fighting on Kunlun Mountain.
• Juliusun accused Bixiao of trying to take his Nine-Leaf Lingzhi, while Bixiao said Juliusun had claimed the Spiritual Medicine she found.
• Tongtian summoned a vision of the earlier events, proving Bixiao’s account and exposing Juliusun’s lie.
• Tongtian reduced Juliusun’s cultivation from Golden Immortal to Mystic Immortal, prompting Yuanshi to protest that only he should discipline his disciples.

Yuanshi and Tongtian nearly fought over their disciples before Taishang ended the confrontation and the Three Pure Ones chose separate Dao Fields. Meanwhile, Qin Mu reached the summit of Buzhou Mountain and opened a Large Red Packet, though its contents were not yet revealed.

• Yuanshi and Tongtian summoned their Quasi-Saint auras and drew their spiritual treasures, but Taishang intervened and made them put their weapons away.
• Taishang proposed that the Three Pure Ones find separate Dao Fields, and Yuanshi and Tongtian agreed.
• Taishang left for the Eight Sceneries Palace, Yuanshi remained at Kunlun Mountain, and Tongtian led his disciples to Jin'ao Island and established Biyou Palace.
• Qin Mu reached the summit of Buzhou Mountain, collected a Large Red Packet, and chose to open it.

Qin Mu opened a Large Red Packet and received a million years of mana and the Lin Secret, advancing to the early stage of the Great Principle Golden Immortal realm. He descended Buzhou Mountain and encountered Kuafu and another powerful Great Witch at its foot.

• Qin Mu claimed the Large Red Packet’s rewards and used the million years of mana to advance from the middle stage of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm to the early stage of the Great Principle Golden Immortal realm.
• Qin Mu formed a ninth-grade Human Flower and received the Lin Secret, which enhanced his combat abilities.
• Qin Mu left Buzhou Mountain, resolved to seek Chaos Liquid to grow more gourds on the Innate Gourd Vine, and reached the mountain’s base.
• Qin Mu encountered Kuafu and an imposing Witch Clan figure whose aura was several times stronger than Kuafu’s.

Qin Mu met Xing Tian after leaving Buzhou Mountain and revealed that he was Tongtian’s disciple. Xing Tian challenged Qin Mu to a spar and offered a Creation Jade Disk Fragment and a drop of his Quintessential Blood, and Qin Mu agreed.

• Kuafu introduced Xing Tian to Qin Mu, who recognized the Great Witch as the Witch Clan’s God of War.
• Qin Mu said he was returning to Kunlun Mountain and revealed that Shangqing Tongtian was his master, delighting Kuafu and Xing Tian.
• Xing Tian asked Qin Mu to spar with him, explaining that Qin Mu’s victory over Kuafu had stirred his desire to fight.
• Xing Tian offered Qin Mu a purple fragment he had found in Buzhou Mountain and a drop of his Quintessential Blood as a reward.
• Qin Mu recognized the purple fragment as a likely Creation Jade Disk Fragment and accepted Xing Tian’s challenge.

Qin Mu and Xing Tian sparred in a Small World created by an Ancestral Witch, testing Qin Mu’s greatly improved strength. Xing Tian attacked with the Gan Qi Axe while Qin Mu countered with the Grass Sword, and their clash left the battlefield shaking.

• Xing Tian opened a scroll that carried Qin Mu and Kuafu into a Small World made for cultivation and sparring.
• Qin Mu and Xing Tian exchanged punches, and Xing Tian was surprised that Qin Mu could match his physical strength.
• Xing Tian summoned the Gan Qi Axe and Xing Tian Shield, then attacked Qin Mu with the axe.
• Qin Mu activated the Lin Zi Secret and countered Xing Tian’s strike with the Grass Sword and Grass Character Sword Art.
• The axe-light and sword-glow collided, shaking the Small World violently.