Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhu persuaded Ying Gou to accept his post guarding the Yellow River's source and taught him cultivation methods. Meanwhile, Maitreya's attempt to provoke a war between Youxiong Shi and Chi You failed when Xuan Du rescued the captured generals, leaving the Western Sect to seek another plan.

• Ying Gou thanked Lin Zhu for explaining Youxiong Shi's intentions, and Lin Zhu taught him cultivation methods before leaving to investigate the Karmic Bonds tied to Golden Roar's escaped primordial spirit.
• Maitreya and Amitabha decided to provoke a war by capturing Chi You Tribe generals and placing them among Youxiong Shi's forces, hoping Youxiong Shi would then accept their aid.
• Maitreya captured several generals outside Chi You's command tent, but Xuan Du confronted him and demanded their release.
• Maitreya attacked Xuan Du with the Innate Qiankun Bag, but Xuan Du expanded the Taiji Diagram inside it until the bag tore and the diagram returned to him.
• Xuan Du freed the generals, while Maitreya fled and returned to Amitabha; the two realized they needed another way to fulfill their mission.

Lin Zhu interrupted Amitabha’s attempt to forcibly convert Youxiong Shi, then defeated Amitabha in battle and learned that Nüba was guarding the Red Land. Amitabha and Maitreya fled to Mount Sumeru, where Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin questioned their return.

• Amitabha and Maitreya decided to forcibly convert Youxiong Shi after he refused to take them as masters.
• Lin Zhu interrupted Amitabha’s conversion scriptures and restored Youxiong Shi’s clarity of mind.
• Lin Zhu drew Amitabha away from the military camp and shattered his Buddha Kingdom in the Palm with a single punch.
• Maitreya helped the injured Amitabha flee west, while Lin Zhu returned to ask Youxiong Shi about Nüba and learned she was guarding the Red Land.
• Amitabha and Maitreya returned to Mount Sumeru and asked Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin to forgive them.

Lin Zhu destroyed the remnant of Golden Roar’s primordial spirit and watched as the Youxiong and Chi You tribes marched to war at Zhuolu. As Guang Chengzi struggled against Haotian’s reincarnation, Lin Zhu stopped Xuan Du from intervening and let the two settle their old grievance.

• Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin decided not to retaliate against Lin Zhu, and they sent Amitabha and Maitreya away to cultivate.
• Lin Zhu found Nüba’s camp, then destroyed a wisp of Golden Roar’s primordial spirit hiding in the mountains.
• Youxiong Shi and Chi You gathered powerful allies and armies, and their forces met at Zhuolu for a decisive battle.
• Guang Chengzi joined the fighting but was overpowered by a skilled cultivator from the Youxiong Tribe.
• Lin Zhu told Xuan Du that Guang Chengzi’s opponent was Haotian’s reincarnation, so Xuan Du stood aside and watched the fight.

After Jiu Li and Youxiong Shi agreed to end their war, they became co-rulers as the two Human Emperors, Xuanyuan and Jiu Li. Lin Zhu then traveled to the Netherworld Blood Sea to destroy Golden Roar’s final primordial spirit strand, alarming Minghe when he entered Asura territory.

• Lin Zhu destroyed a strand of Golden Roar’s primordial spirit near Zhuolu and learned that Jiu Li had recovered his past-life memories and wanted to make peace.
• Jiu Li sent Youxiong Shi a letter offering to withdraw, end the war permanently, and yield the Human Emperor Position; Youxiong Shi responded by agreeing to peace and offering to yield in turn.
• Lin Zhu and Xuan Du supported the plan for two Human Emperors, and Shennong passed the position jointly to Youxiong Shi and Chi You, known as Xuanyuan and Jiu Li.
• Xuan Du returned to Shouyang Mountain, Guang Chengzi returned to Mount Kunlun, and Lin Zhu set out for the Netherworld Blood Sea to pursue Golden Roar’s last primordial spirit strand.
• The Asura clan discovered Lin Zhu in the Netherworld Blood Sea and reported his arrival to Minghe, who was greatly alarmed.

Lin Zhu found and destroyed the Golden Roar's last primordial spirit in the Netherworld Blood Sea, then returned to Golden Turtle Island and took charge of Jie Sect while Tongtian Sect Leader entered seclusion. He tested the Three Xiaos' newly formed Nine Bends Yellow River Formation and saw through all its flaws.

• Ancestor Minghe met Lin Zhu in the Netherworld Blood Sea and learned he had come only to find the Golden Roar's primordial spirit.
• Lin Zhu killed Jiang Chen and destroyed the Golden Roar's primordial spirit with the Qing Qian Sword, settling his karmic bond with Ancestor Minghe.
• Lin Zhu returned to Golden Turtle Island, where Tongtian Sect Leader asked him to manage Jie Sect while he entered seclusion.
• The Three Xiaos asked Lin Zhu to guide them in perfecting the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation, and he agreed to test it.
• The Three Xiaos activated the formation against Lin Zhu, but he repelled their attacks and identified every flaw in the array.

Lin Zhu instructed the Three Xiaos in perfecting the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation and helped Jie Sect disciples improve their cultivation. After regaining his throne, Haotian enfeoffed Lin Zhu, Xuan Du, and Guang Chengzi as honorary Great Emperors and invited them to help strengthen the Heavenly Court.

• The Three Xiaos demonstrated the Nine Bends Yellow River Formation to Lin Zhu, who identified its flaws and explained how to improve it.
• Lin Zhu continued cultivating and instructing Jie Sect disciples, while Guang Chengzi returned to Yuanshi Tianzun and received permission to establish a Chan Sect branch elsewhere.
• Xuan Du considered establishing a branch of the Human Sect, but Taishang Laojun persuaded him to remain at Shouyang Mountain.
• Haotian invited Lin Zhu, Xuan Du, and Guang Chengzi to the Heavenly Court and asked them to hold honorary positions.
• Lin Zhu accepted the title of Azure Sky Great Emperor, Xuan Du became the Wonderful Joy Great Emperor, and Guang Chengzi became the Peaceful Emperor Lord.

Haotian arranged nominal Heavenly Court posts for Lin Zhu and the others, then Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned Lin Zhu to Purple Cloud Palace to learn from Ancestor Yang Mei. After a thousand years of instruction and meditation, Lin Zhu broke through into the Chaotic Origin Realm, astonishing the Saints and his teachers.

• Haotian persuaded Guang Chengzi, Lin Zhu, and Xuan Du to accept nominal Heavenly Court posts and planned an enfeoffment ceremony.
• Lin Zhu returned to Golden Turtle Island and taught the Jie Sect Disciples until Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned him to Purple Cloud Palace.
• Hongjun introduced Lin Zhu to Ancestor Yang Mei, who agreed to explain the mysteries of the Chaotic Origin Realm.
• Yang Mei lectured for a thousand years as Lin Zhu comprehended the Hunyuan Profound Pass and broke through its barriers.
• Lin Zhu entered the Chaotic Origin Realm, and the six Saints sensed his breakthrough while Hongjun and Yang Mei watched in awe.

Lin Zhu attained the Chaotic Origin Realm and demonstrated his overwhelming strength to the Six Saints. After he defeated Jie Yin in two exchanges, Zhun Ti offered to join forces with him, and Lin Zhu accepted the challenge.

• Haotian, Guang Chengzi, and Xuan Du reacted to Lin Zhu's breakthrough, while Lin Zhu sensed the power of the Chaotic Origin Realm and thanked Ancestor Yang Mei for his guidance.
• Ancestor Yang Mei departed for Chaos, and the Six Saints gathered in Purple Cloud Palace to congratulate Lin Zhu and discuss the mysteries of cultivation with him.
• After a hundred years, Lin Zhu and the Six Saints entered Chaos to test his strength against the Saints.
• Jie Yin struck Lin Zhu with the Jie Yin Treasure Banner, but Lin Zhu's first sword attack sent Jie Yin flying.
• Jie Yin summoned the Twelfth Grade Merit Golden Lotus and charged again, but Lin Zhu used the Chaos Bell to blast him a thousand miles away.
• Zhun Ti offered to fight Lin Zhu alongside Jie Yin, and Lin Zhu agreed to face them both.

Lin Zhu drove back Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin with a single strike, then established a new Daoist sanctuary at Zhaoyao Mountain after gaining Tongtian’s approval. The celebration began with powerful guests arriving, and Haotian God ordered Peaches of Immortality to be brought for the gathering.

• Lin Zhu used the God-Slaying Spear and Qing Qian Sword to repel Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin, ending their contest with the Saints.
• Lin Zhu answered the Saints’ questions about the Chaotic Origin Realm, and after a hundred years they returned to the Primordial World to enter seclusion.
• Lin Zhu asked Tongtian for permission to establish a branch of the Jie Sect, then told Jin Chan to prepare to leave Golden Turtle Island with him.
• Lin Zhu and Jin Chan traveled to Zhaoyao Mountain, where Lin Zhu reshaped the mountain, established a Spirit Gathering Array, and built a grand Daoist sanctuary.
• Haotian God, Guang Chengzi, Xuan Du, Jie Sect disciples, and other powerful figures came to congratulate Lin Zhu; Zhenyuan Zi presented sixty Ginseng Fruit.
• Haotian God ordered Heavenly Soldiers and Generals to harvest Peaches of Immortality for the guests at Zhaoyao Mountain.

After attaining the Chaotic Origin Realm, Lin Zhu hosted a grand celebration and accepted a nominal position in the Heavenly Court before returning to Zhaoyao Mountain. He later traveled to find disciples and met Cangjie, whose work on a system of writing Lin Zhu helped inspire.

• Lin Zhu welcomed congratulations and gifts from Haotian, the Four Seas Dragon Kings, Nüwa, Minghe, and many other figures at a forty-nine-day banquet on Zhaoyao Mountain.
• Haotian announced that he would confer divine positions on Lin Zhu, Guang Chengzi, and Xuan Du, then held the ceremony three years later.
• Haotian named Lin Zhu the Azure Sky Great Emperor of the Upper Mysterious Pole, True Saint of Shangqing, Unified Qi, Commanding All Laws at the Center, and recruited many cultivators into the Heavenly Court.
• Lin Zhu returned to Zhaoyao Mountain, named his palace Azure Sky Palace, taught Jin Chan the mysteries of the Quasi-Saint Realm and the Method of Cutting Three Corpses, and sent him into seclusion.
• Lin Zhu traveled the Primordial Wilderness in disguise to seek disciples and encountered Cangjie beside the Yellow River as he worked on a way to record matters.
• Lin Zhu told Cangjie that all things had their own outlines, then left; Cangjie recalled his words and realized how to proceed.

Lin Zhu guided Cangjie in creating writing, then spent years protecting the Human Race as floods ravaged the Primordial Wilderness. He saved Gun from suicide and taught him flood-control techniques, then confronted Wuzhiqi, who was stirring up the floodwaters, and left him frozen in midair.

• Cangjie attained enlightenment after Lin Zhu's guidance, created writing, and became a Human Ancestor after teaching the Human Race to use it.
• Lin Zhu protected Human tribes from demons and monsters, then relocated people to higher ground when the flood calamity began.
• Lin Zhu stopped Gun from drowning himself and rebuked him for avoiding responsibility for the flood damage.
• Lin Zhu taught Gun Divine Powers, and Gun returned to his camp to continue controlling the floods until he died of illness and age.
• Lin Zhu discovered Wuzhiqi stirring up the floodwaters and froze the demon when it tried to escape.

Lin Zhu suppressed the Dapeng Golden Winged Bird on Phoenix Mountain and discovered he had been harassing Princess Long Ji. He accepted Long Ji as his disciple and promised to ask her mother to end her confinement.

• Lin Zhu killed Wuzhiqi for his crimes and sent his soul to the Nine Underworlds to be reborn as a human.
• Lin Zhu traveled on, guiding spiritually awakened plants and trees to Zhaoyao Mountain.
• A black-robed Daoist tried to bar Lin Zhu from Phoenix Mountain, but Lin Zhu identified and suppressed him as the Dapeng Golden Winged Bird.
• Princess Long Ji told Lin Zhu that the Dapeng Golden Winged Bird had tried to force her into submission after she rejected his advances.
• Lin Zhu accepted Princess Long Ji as his disciple and offered to speak with her mother so she could leave confinement and go to Zhaoyao Mountain.

Lin Zhu took the Golden Winged Dapeng as Zhaoyao Mountain’s Guardian Beast, accepted Princess Long Ji as his disciple, and found a Witch Slaughtering Sword at Buzhou Mountain. Meanwhile, Da Yu’s flood-control efforts drew aid from many sects, but a Divine Mountain blocking the Eastern Sea Water Veins resisted every attempt to move it, and Lin Zhu appeared as the experts considered seeking a God Splitting Axe.

• Lin Zhu spared the Golden Winged Dapeng, made him Zhaoyao Mountain’s Guardian Beast, and met Kong Xuan, who thanked him and urged Dapeng to cultivate properly.
• Lin Zhu took Princess Long Ji to the Heavenly Court, where Haotian released her from confinement, and sent her to Zhaoyao Mountain while he continued traveling.
• At the ruins of the Ancestral Witch Palace on Buzhou Mountain, Lin Zhu discovered and kept a Witch Slaughtering Sword containing Human Race souls.
• After Emperor Shun sent Yu to control the floods, Guang Chengzi, Xuan Du, Zhao Gongming, the Three Xiaos, and other experts joined Da Yu in clearing the waterways.
• The experts found a Divine Mountain blocking the Eastern Sea Water Veins, failed to move it, and heard Xuan Du propose asking his master for a God Splitting Axe.
• As Guang Chengzi and Xuan Du prepared to seek the treasure, Lin Zhu appeared in the form of an old man riding an Iron-Eating Beast.

Lin Zhu helped end the Primordial Wilderness floods, comprehended the Pangu Nine Axes, and took the transformed Witch Slaughtering Sword as his disciple, naming him Mo Xie. He then confronted a recurring locust plague and set out to find the Great Power controlling it.

• Lin Zhu split the flood-blocking Divine Mountain with forty-nine sword strikes and comprehended the Pangu Nine Axes.
• Lin Zhu helped divert the floods into the Four Seas, and Xuan Du stayed behind to ask him to explain the Chaotic Origin Dao.
• Lin Zhu accepted the transformed Witch Slaughtering Sword as his disciple, named him Mo Xie, and sent him to Zhaoyao Mountain.
• After the floods ended, Yu ascended the throne, and Lin Zhu continued searching for disciples of exceptional aptitude.
• Lin Zhu created birds to devour the locusts ravaging the Primordial World, but the plague returned.
• Lin Zhu suspected a Great Power was controlling the locusts and prepared to investigate.

Lin Zhu traced the locust plague to Lu Ya, restrained him, and ended the disaster. Back at Azure Sky Palace, Lin Zhu taught his disciples and announced a Dao Lecture in ten thousand years, drawing the attention of cultivators across the Primordial World.

• Lin Zhu tracked the locust plague to Lu Ya, a surviving Golden Crow who had caused it to harm the Human Race.
• Lin Zhu captured Lu Ya and placed Chaotic Origin Restrictions on him, sparing his life because he carried the Demon Race's remaining Fortune.
• The locust plague ended after Lu Ya stopped causing trouble, and Lin Zhu returned to Zhaoyao Mountain.
• Lin Zhu admonished his disciples to value virtue, gave Jin Chan the Sky Sweeping Bell, and delivered a three-hundred-year Dao Lecture at Azure Sky Palace.
• Lin Zhu announced that he would give a Dao Lecture in ten thousand years and might recruit worthy listeners as disciples.
• Cultivators across the Primordial World learned of the lecture and resolved to attend.

Lin Zhu delivered a thousand-year lecture on the Chaotic Origin Dao at Zhaoyao Mountain, drawing tens of thousands of cultivators and founding Azure Sky Palace as a sect. After the lecture, he noticed Nüwa among the listeners and watched as the crowd continued to wait for him to speak.

• Jin Chan entered the Quasi-Saint Realm, stabilized his cultivation, and accepted Lin Zhu’s instructions to prepare for the lecture and welcome guests.
• Lin Zhu’s disciples and attendants emerged from seclusion with improved cultivation, while Jin Chan organized the growing crowd at Zhaoyao Mountain.
• Lin Zhu used his divine ability to identify cultivators of poor virtue and had Huaguang escort them away before the lecture began.
• Lin Zhu lectured for a thousand years on the Chaotic Origin Dao, helping many cultivators deepen their understanding and break through their bottlenecks.
• Lin Zhu recognized Nüwa, Daughter of Divine Dragon, among the listeners and observed the cultivators waiting outside Azure Sky Palace after the lecture.

Lin Zhu explained the Chaotic Origin Realm to Xuan Du and Guang Chengzi, then accepted the cultivators gathered on Zhaoyao Mountain into Azure Sky Palace under rules centered on protecting the Primordial Wilderness. After a thousand years of seclusion, Xuan Du attained the Chaotic Origin Realm.

• Lin Zhu lectured Xuan Du and Guang Chengzi on the mysteries of the Chaotic Origin Realm for a thousand years.
• Jin Chan told Lin Zhu that fifteen thousand cultivators were willing to remain at Azure Sky Palace, and Lin Zhu accepted them as disciples under strict rules.
• Lin Zhu answered the new disciples' cultivation questions, then guided Long Ji and Mo Xie as they advanced in cultivation.
• Xuan Du returned to Shouyang Mountain and entered seclusion to pursue the Chaotic Origin Realm.
• After a thousand years, Xuan Du released overwhelming Chaotic Origin might from Xuan Du Cave and attained the Chaotic Origin Realm.

After Xuan Du entered the Chaotic Origin Realm with Lin Zhu’s guidance, powerful figures across the Primordial Wilderness sought ways to follow him. The Six Saints and others set out to seek guidance, leaving their next steps unresolved.

• Xuan Du attained the Chaotic Origin Realm, prompting cultivators across the Primordial Wilderness to consider pursuing the same path.
• Ancestor Minghe and Haotian God decided to seek Lin Zhu’s guidance and headed for Zhaoyao Mountain.
• Xuan Du thanked Lin Zhu, then answered Taishang Laojun’s summons to Eight Scenery Palace, where his master admitted he wanted Lin Zhu’s guidance too.
• Tongtian, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Saint Nüwa each set out for Zhaoyao Mountain to seek Lin Zhu.
• Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti, worried about the Western Sect falling behind, left Mount Sumeru to ask their master about Chaotic Origin at Purple Cloud Palace.

The Western Sect Saints and other powerful figures visited Lin Zhu to seek guidance on the mysteries of Chaotic Origin. Lin Zhu lectured them for a thousand years, leaving their progress toward the realm in their own hands.

• Zhun Ti and Jie Yin asked Ancestor Hongjun to explain Chaotic Origin, but he directed them to seek Lin Zhu at Zhaoyao Mountain.
• Mother Nüwa and Ancestor Minghe visited Lin Zhu at Azure Sky Palace, followed by Haotian God, Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Tongtian Sect Leader.
• Zhun Ti and Jie Yin arrived and joined the gathering, where Lin Zhu recognized that everyone had come to learn about Chaotic Origin.
• Lin Zhu offered to explain the path to Chaotic Origin and cautioned that attainment depended on each person's own fortune.
• Lin Zhu lectured the gathered figures for a thousand years and finished explaining the mysteries of Chaotic Origin.

After Lin Zhu explained the mysteries of the Chaotic Origin Realm, the Saints began seeking breakthroughs, but Taishang Laojun realized the Primordial World could not sustain another expert without risking an immeasurable calamity. He and Yuanshi Tianzun set out to warn the others, and Yuanshi arrived at Mount Sumeru to find the Western Saints in seclusion.

• Lin Zhu lectured the Saints and Ancestor Minghe on the Chaotic Origin Realm for a thousand years, then returned to seclusion in Azure Sky Palace.
• Taishang Laojun realized that another Chaotic Origin breakthrough within the Primordial World could trigger an immeasurable Great Calamity, so he abandoned his own attempt.
• Taishang Laojun warned Yuanshi Tianzun that breaking through in the Primordial World could destroy it, and Yuanshi agreed to help prevent others from attempting it.
• Yuanshi Tianzun and Taishang Laojun divided up the task of warning the other Saints and potential practitioners.
• Yuanshi Tianzun reached Western Mount Sumeru and learned from Yaoshi that Daoist Zhunti and Daoist Jieyin were in seclusion.