Chapter Summaries

Red Dust joined the Black-White Academy as a Celestial Immortal and became master of the Dao Repository Hall after presenting the academy with several cultivation manuals. A thousand years passed as the academy’s loose Immortals studied the path to Celestial Immortality.

• Red Dust visited the Black-White Diagram and asked the Black-White Academy’s Immortals to let her join.
• Immortal Qingxu welcomed Red Dust and appointed her master of the Dao Repository Hall after she offered several manuals.
• Daoist Taiyi introduced Red Dust to the academy’s disciples, who were shocked to learn that a Celestial Immortal had joined them.
• Red Dust settled on a mountain peak and visited the Dao Repository Hall while the academy’s loose Immortals studied her manuals.
• A thousand years passed.

Red Dust visited Emperor Xia before returning to seclusion at the Black-White Academy. Several thousand years later, Taiyi began his Heavenly Tribulation, and the chapter ended as the final trial of the wind tribulation approached.

• Red Dust met Emperor Xia at Heavenly Radiance Palace and explained that she had come to pay her respects.
• Red Dust returned to the Black-White Academy and entered seclusion for several thousand years.
• Five Madmen became the academy's strongest Primordial Spirit cultivator, while Taiyi prepared to face the Heavenly Tribulation.
• Taiyi endured twelve kinds of heavenly wind as Qingxu, Five Madmen, and the other immortals watched from afar.
• Qingxu recognized that Taiyi's final wind trial was beginning: the deadly Celestial Immortal Wind.

Taiyi endured the Celestial Immortal Fire and faced the Lightning Tribulation, using his magic treasures to withstand its escalating bolts. After surviving the twenty-seventh bolt, he began transforming into a Celestial Immortal, though the Heart Demon tribulation still remained.

• Taiyi survived the Celestial Immortal Fire, completing the fire tribulation as Immortal Qingxu and the Five Madmen watched.
• A vast Lightning Tribulation cloud formed overhead, and Immortal Qingxu warned that Taiyi would face more bolts than he had.
• Taiyi blocked the first eighteen lightning bolts with one supreme-grade immortal-tier flying sword.
• Taiyi used a high-grade immortal-tier seal and his other treasures to withstand the stronger bolts through the twenty-seventh.
• Taiyi's body began showing the signs of a Celestial Immortal as auspicious clouds and golden lotuses appeared around him.

Immortal Taiyi became the Black-White Academy’s second Celestial Immortal, drawing gifts and congratulations from the other great powers. After many ages passed and the Academy gained another Celestial Immortal, Red Dust withdrew into seclusion and entered the Emperor Phoenix Tower to test her full strength.

• Immortal Taiyi passed his Heavenly Tribulation, and representatives of the great powers brought him gifts, including a Celestial Immortal-level puppet from the Mu Lan Clan.
• Red Dust noticed a black-haired youth resonating with Northwalker’s sword intent and inheriting the Three-Foot Sword’s first six forms.
• Qingxu died in meditation, Five Madmen became a Celestial Immortal, and Dian Cai reached the Void Return Earth Immortal level.
• Red Dust hid inside a Little Pagoda in the Dao Repository Hall and entered seclusion after countless years of wandering.
• Red Dust entered the Emperor Phoenix Tower’s fifth-floor trial, where she faced an identical opponent and several puppets at the tenth level of Dao mastery.

After recovering most of her memories and reaching the eighth level of Emperor Phoenix Tower, Red Dust learned that her past self had pursued the ultimate leap and that the ninth level held the way to the Other Shore. Xiao Jing found her outside the tower and urged her to return to their family in the Other Shore, but Red Dust remained committed to perfecting her Dao.

• Red Dust entered the seventh level of Emperor Phoenix Tower and found an ancient stele inscribed with “Chaos of the Heavens, Other Shore Supreme.”
• Ji Ning became the Desolate Chaosverse's controller, met Red Dust, and learned from her about Outer Chaos and the Heavens and Myriad Worlds.
• Red Dust left Ji Ning's world, wandered through Chaotic Vastness, and eventually reached the eighth level of Emperor Phoenix Tower, recovering eighty percent of her memories.
• Red Dust remembered that her past self had fused with all three thousand Dao laws and sought the ultimate leap, which required reaching the tower's ninth level to find her past-life Dao Fruit and a path to the Other Shore.
• Xiao Jing appeared before Red Dust and invited her to return to their family in the Other Shore, but Red Dust said incomplete Dao attainment was not enough for her.

Red Dust claimed the title of Pan, then hid while Zhi Shan, E Lai, and the Life-Death Emperor fused into a new Pan and began cultivating in the chaos. After a thousand immeasurable tribulations, Chen foresaw an axe-light calamity that would kill most of the Chaos Demon Gods and warned Yang, but could not identify where it would occur.

• Xiao Jing gave Red Dust a chaos-level jade talisman containing one of his strikes before she left.
• Red Dust sensed the Chaos Demon Gods and claimed the title of Pan, drawing immense providence and karmic ties.
• Red Dust screened off her karmic ties and hid on the eighth floor while Zhi Shan took her place and identity.
• Zhi Shan, E Lai, and the Life-Death Emperor fused, entered the Dao Merging realm as Pan, and created a concealed secret realm to cultivate.
• After a thousand immeasurable tribulations, Chen saw an axe-light destroy the chaos and kill most of the Chaos Demon Gods, then warned Yang but could not locate the future calamity.

Pan reached the peak of Dao Integration, then split Chaos to create the Hong Huang world and sacrificed herself to stabilize it. After her body formed the world’s sun, moon, land, rivers, and living things, an illusory Dao Fruit vanished into the Emperor Phoenix Tower.

• Pan awakened from enlightenment after integrating with dozens of Great Daos and using most of the Creation Green Lotus’s origin to temper her body.
• After perfecting her integration with three thousand Great Daos, Pan declared that she would split Chaos and create a world, prompting many powerful beings to flee.
• Pan slew hundreds of Chaos fiendgods with one strike, then cleaved Chaos open and formed the foundations of heaven and earth.
• Pan used the Taiji Diagram, Chaos Bell, and Pangu Banner to calm the newborn world, then held heaven and earth apart until they stabilized.
• Pan’s body and primordial spirit failed, and she fell; her body transformed into the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, and living things of Hong Huang.
• An illusory Dao Fruit disappeared into the Emperor Phoenix Tower, which the Great Dao could not detect.

Red Dust entered the newly formed Hong Huang as an avatar while her true self remained in seclusion, and powerful figures across the world sensed her arrival. The chapter ended with a figure in the Demon Palace of Destruction questioning how to reach Hunyuan.

• Red Dust’s cultivation soared as she absorbed Pan’s memories, while life and countless races arose in Hong Huang over the passing ages.
• Red Dust entered Hong Huang as an avatar and arrived on Purple Thorn Island, while her true self continued exploring the Emperor Phoenix Tower’s ninth floor.
• Shi Hao, Shi Yi, and Willow Deity sensed Red Dust’s familiar aura and learned she had come to Hong Huang.
• The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin races rose to dominate Hong Huang after the Fierce Beast tribulation, while Daoist Hongjun struggled to find a path to Hunyuan.
• A figure in the Demon Palace of Destruction wondered whether borrowing the three races’ vast fortune was the only way to attain Hunyuan.

As the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Clans’ conflict escalated, Luohou’s scheme to kill Ancestral Dragon’s eldest son sparked open war across Hong Huang. The three clan leaders clashed while the calamity’s baleful energy empowered Luohou and Daoist Styx, and Old Ancestor Hongjun began preparing for the conflict to come.

• Red Dust preached the Dao on Purple Thorn Island as wars among the three clans intensified and Luohou stoked the fighting to gather baleful energy.
• Twelve blood cocoons burst open in a cave on Mount Buzhou, while Innate Demon Gods across Hong Huang took human form and withdrew to cultivate.
• After Luohou had his eldest son killed and framed the Qilin and Phoenix Races, Ancestral Dragon declared war and led the Dragon Race against them.
• Ancestral Qilin and Ancestral Phoenix rallied their races to resist Ancestral Dragon, and the three leaders began a battle that shook heaven and earth.
• Luohou absorbed the growing baleful energy, Old Ancestor Hongjun set out to seek allies, and Daoist Styx reveled as the war’s blood flowed into the Netherworld Blood Sea.

The Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin Races fought under the tribulation aura until their leaders and armies were devastated, while Luohou watched and gathered the killing aura for his swords. The tribulation aura began to fade after the three leaders’ final clash, leaving them badly wounded and facing the near-destruction of their races.

• Ancestral Dragon, Ancestral Qilin, and Ancestral Phoenix lost themselves to the tribulation aura and attacked one another as their races slaughtered each other.
• Qiankun Ancestor, Ancestor Qiongtian, Yin-Yang Ancestor, and Hongjun Ancestor secretly watched the battle, while Luohou gathered its baleful aura into his four swords.
• Ancestral Dragon wielded the Golden Dragon Spear against Ancestral Qilin and Ancestral Phoenix as the three leaders fought on despite their wounds.
• A group of Da Luo Golden Immortals attacked the exhausted race members, prompting widespread retaliation and cultivators’ self-destruction.
• Ancestral Dragon, Ancestral Qilin, and Ancestral Phoenix unleashed their strongest attacks, then crashed to the ground severely wounded as the tribulation aura dissipated.
• The three leaders regained their senses and saw that only a few of their disciples remained.

Ancestral Dragon, Ancestral Phoenix, and Ancestral Qilin sacrificed themselves to repair Hong Huang and lessen its baleful aura. Demon Ancestor Luohou then trapped Hongjun and three allies in the Zhu Xian Sword Formation, where they began fighting to break its gates.

• Shi Hao considered using the dragons, phoenixes, and qilin as mounts, while Shi Yi approached with plans of his own.
• Ancestral Dragon vowed that the Dragon Race would guard the four seas and merged his body and Primordial Spirit with Hong Huang to repair the world.
• Ancestral Phoenix and Ancestral Qilin made their own oaths, sacrificing themselves as the southern and northern lands were restored and the baleful aura receded.
• Luohou confronted Hongjun, Yin-Yang Ancestor, Qiankun Ancestor, and Ancestor Qiongtian, then deployed the Zhu Xian Sword Formation across the Western Lands.
• Hongjun and the three allies each charged toward a different sword gate to break the formation, while Red Dust watched from Purple Thorn Island.
• The four swords unleashed black killing intent that formed icy blossoms filled with death.

Luohou used the Zhu Xian Sword Formation and the God-Slaying Spear to kill Ancestor Qiongtian and Qiankun Ancestor. Hongjun and Yin-Yang Ancestor sensed their deaths and faced Luohou with the odds now even worse.

• Luohou trapped the four opponents in the Zhu Xian Sword Formation and attacked Ancestor Qiongtian with the God-Slaying Spear.
• Ancestor Qiongtian struck Luohou’s World-Destroying Black Lotus, but Luohou’s spear pierced his head and killed him.
• Luohou turned on Qiankun Ancestor, knocked aside the Qiankun Cauldron, and pierced his chest before he could use the Qiankun Ruler.
• Luohou destroyed Qiankun Ancestor’s body and primordial spirit, and the God-Slaying Spear absorbed the spirit’s fragments.
• Hongjun and Yin-Yang Ancestor sensed that Ancestor Qiongtian and Qiankun Ancestor had fallen and realized their situation had worsened.

Old Ancestor Hongjun sent his good and evil corpses into the Zhu Xian Sword Formation, but Yin-Yang Ancestor’s self-destruction broke the formation and grievously wounded Luohou. Luohou then sacrificed himself to establish the Devil Dao, leaving Hongjun alive but burdened by the devastation of western Hong Huang as life returned to the world.

• Old Ancestor Hongjun sent his good and evil corpses to suppress two sword gates, but Luohou drove them back with the God-Slaying Spear and World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Luohou attacked Yin-Yang Ancestor, who detonated his body and Primordial Spirit, destroying the Immortal Trapping Sword Gate and breaking the Zhu Xian Sword Formation.
• Daoist Hongjun emerged from the formation while Luohou, badly wounded, declared that he would establish the Devil Dao and vowed that its rise would accompany the Dao’s decline.
• Demon Ancestor Luohou detonated himself, devastating the spiritual veins and lands of western Hong Huang and strengthening the Devil Dao.
• Daoist Hongjun gathered scattered treasures and flew east, while the surviving smaller races fell quiet and cultivation resumed during the following Yuanhui.

The Demon Race and Witch Race rose to dominate Hong Huang as their conflicts spread and independent factions formed. A vast pressure then forced even the greatest cultivators to kneel, announcing the arrival of the first Saint.

• Dijun and Taiyi founded the Demon Race, gathered its Demon Saints, and became its Demon Emperors.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches led the rising Witch Race, and the two races grew into Hong Huang’s dominant powers.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun formed a faction on Mount Longevity, while Eastern King Gong, Nuwa and Fuxi, and Kunpeng established other factions.
• An overwhelming pressure swept through Hong Huang, forcing powerful cultivators including Hong Yun, Zhen Yuanzi, Styx, Kunpeng, Dijun, Taiyi, Fuxi, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti to their knees.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian resisted the pressure with their treasures and will before kneeling on the eighth breath.
• When the tenth breath arrived, the pressure vanished as purple qi, heavenly music, blooming flowers, and the cries of myriad beasts heralded the first Saint.

Hongjun became the first Saint and announced that he would expound the Dao at Purple Cloud Palace in a thousand years. Red Dust explained the difference between Sainthood and Hunyuan to Ancestral Phoenix, while Hong Huang’s cultivators braved Chaos and began arriving at the palace.

• Hongjun attained Sainthood, announced his lecture at Purple Cloud Palace, and drew cultivators from across Hong Huang toward Chaos.
• Ancestral Phoenix asked Red Dust whether she could hear Hongjun’s lecture, and Red Dust explained that sainthood depended on the Heavenly Dao while Hunyuan depended on personal Dao comprehension and control.
• Red Dust told Ancestral Phoenix that she needed to complete her comprehension of the Dao of Fire before pursuing Hunyuan.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian crossed Chaos with their treasures protecting them and reached Purple Cloud Palace on a golden path.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian saw the palace’s plaque and its immense Dao presence as other cultivators, including Nuwa, Fuxi, Houtu, Xuanming, Dijun, and the Eastern Emperor, gathered nearby.

The Three Pure Ones met Houtu and Xuanming at Purple Cloud Palace, where the cultivators entered and fought over six prayer cushions before Daoist Hongjun’s lecture. Two ragged Western Daoists arrived too late and one staged a tearful complaint over having no seat.

• Houtu and Xuanming introduced themselves to the Three Pure Ones and discussed their shared connection through Pangu.
• Purple Cloud Palace opened, and its attendants announced that Daoist Hongjun was about to expound the Great Dao.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian claimed the first three prayer cushions, while Nuwa took the fourth and Kunpeng and Hongyun seized the fifth and sixth.
• Zhen Yuanzi, Dijun, Taiyi, Styx, and other cultivators found places in the second row as the palace filled.
• Two ragged Western Daoists arrived after all the cushions were occupied, and one wailed about their plight before pretending to attempt suicide by striking a pillar.

Zhunti provoked Kunpeng into giving up his cushion before Hongjun delivered his first lecture in Purple Cloud Palace. After Houtu asked how the Witch Race could attain the Dao without primordial spirits, a mysterious shadow suggested that the Witch Race could cultivate the physical body, but warned that Pangu’s remaining grace would not last forever.

• Red Cloud yielded his cushion to Zhunti, who then joined Taiyi and Dijun in pressuring Kunpeng to surrender his seat.
• Hongjun appeared, fixed the seating, and began his first lecture on the Dao as Haotian and Yaochi closed the palace gates.
• After three thousand years, Hongjun ended the lecture and said he would lecture again in ten thousand years.
• Houtu asked Hongjun how the Witch Race could attain the Dao without primordial spirits, and he replied that a destined method would come in the future.
• Houtu left Purple Cloud Palace worried about the Witch Race’s path and encountered a mysterious shadow that proposed cultivating the physical body while warning that Pangu’s protection could not last forever.

Houtu received the origin of Pangu’s primordial spirit, while Red Dust took Ancestral Phoenix to meet Shi Yi, Shi Fan, Willow Deity, and Shi Hao. Their gathering revealed that Shi Hao had saved Ancestral Dragon, and they discussed the fate of the Qilin.

• Houtu learned that her brothers lacked primordial spirits as protection from their baleful aura, then collected the golden origin of Pangu’s primordial spirit.
• Red Dust took Ancestral Phoenix from Purple Thorn Island and guided her through a rift to a gathering beneath the immense willow tree.
• Ancestral Phoenix met Shi Yi, Shi Fan, Willow Deity, and Shi Hao, who discussed Red Dust’s extraordinary past cultivation and Hong Huang’s foundations.
• Shi Hao summoned Ancestral Dragon, astonishing Ancestral Phoenix, and explained that he had saved the dragon but the Qilin had been rescued by someone from Lincang City.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches summoned Pangu during the Witch-Demon battle, and his first strike devastated the Heavenly Court forces. As Pangu raised his axe to strike again, a gray-robed elder appeared and stopped it with one hand.

• The Witch and Demon Races clashed at the foot of Mount Buzhou, with their leaders fighting to a standstill.
• The Twelve Ancestral Witches formed the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiend Formation and summoned Pangu, shocking Hongjun and other hidden observers.
• Pangu summoned a phantom Giant Axe and shattered the Eastern Emperor Bell, River Chart, Luo Writing, Fuxi Qin, and Demon Master Palace, gravely wounding the Heavenly Court's Quasi-Saints.
• Nuwa emerged from her Dao field and prepared to intervene because her elder brother was on the battlefield.
• A gray-robed elder appeared before Pangu and caught his next axe strike with one hand.

Hongjun enforced a hundred-thousand-year truce between the demons and witches after clashing with Pangu, while Red Dust observed Hong Huang’s future without interfering. In the Demon Court, Dijun revealed plans for a formation to counter the witches, and Kunpeng questioned whether the day’s events had been strange.

• Hongjun, speaking as the Heavenly Dao, destroyed Pangu’s axe and ordered the demons and witches not to wage war for a hundred thousand years.
• Red Dust watched Pan’s last consciousness fade and declined to intervene in Hong Huang’s future, while Huang discussed the coming Human Race and future powerful beings.
• Dijun gathered the Demon Court’s leaders and admitted that the demons had lost, then asked them to find a way to counter the Twelve Dutian Divine Fiend Formation.
• Fuxi proposed matching the witches’ formation with another great formation, and Dijun revealed that he and Taiyi were developing the Zhoutian Star Dou Formation.
• Kunpeng asked whether the day’s events had seemed strange, and Dijun asked what he meant.