Chapter Summaries

Li Mo awakened a system that promised rewards for doing nothing and aimed to make him a Saint after the Witch-Demon Tribulation, but his plans to lie low were interrupted when Bai Ze took him to the Sun God Palace. There, Di Jun discovered he could hear Li Mo’s unspoken thoughts.

• Li Mo learned his system would reward him for taking it easy and grant him Sainthood if he survived until the Witch-Demon Tribulation ended.
• Hong Jun announced that he had become the Primordial World’s first Saint and would preach at Purple Heaven Palace.
• Bai Ze woke Li Mo and brought him to the Sun God Palace to attend Di Jun and Tai Yi’s discussion about Hong Jun’s invitation.
• Li Mo privately mocked Di Jun, and Di Jun searched the hall after hearing an unfamiliar voice in his mind.
• Di Jun realized that the voice belonged to Li Mo’s thoughts and fixed his gaze on him.

At Di Jun’s meeting about whether to attend Hongjun’s lecture at Purple Heavens Palace, Li Mo’s unspoken thoughts revealed his knowledge of the realms and drew the leaders’ attention. Forced to give his opinion, Li Mo praised Di Jun and Tai Yi but acknowledged Hongjun’s overwhelming strength, shocking the hall and angering Shang Yang.

• Di Jun asked his followers whether he and Tai Yi should attend Hongjun’s lecture, and Shang Yang and others warned them against going.
• Li Mo privately urged Di Jun and Tai Yi to go and showed that he knew about Sainthood, prompting Di Jun to ask Bai Ze who he was.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi pressed Li Mo to share his view despite Shang Yang’s objections, and Bai Ze encouraged his disciple to answer.
• Li Mo said Di Jun and Tai Yi could cross the Chaos Gale but that Hongjun was so powerful he would have regarded them as children in the past.
• Shang Yang accused Li Mo of diminishing their leaders, and Bai Ze apologized to Di Jun and Tai Yi for his disciple’s words.

Di Jun admitted that he and Tai Yi were no match for Hong Jun, then decided to take Li Mo and Bai Ze to Zixiao Palace. Shang Yang grew jealous of Li Mo and Bai Ze and ordered Dang Kang to find an excuse to imprison Li Mo when he returned.

• Li Mo’s thoughts about Hong Jun’s strength angered Di Jun, who told the gathering that he and Tai Yi could not defeat Hong Jun.
• Li Mo’s thoughts about the six seats and destined Saints stirred Di Jun, who ended the meeting and ordered Bai Ze and Li Mo to stay behind.
• Di Jun announced that he would take Bai Ze and Li Mo to Zixiao Palace, but Li Mo asked to travel with his master, so Di Jun agreed to take them both.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi carried Bai Ze and Li Mo away from the Sun Star while Shang Yang watched jealously.
• Shang Yang ordered Dang Kang to find an excuse to imprison Li Mo when he returned.

Di Jun and Tai Yi traveled through the Chaos Gale toward Purple Sky Palace under the protection of the Chaos Bell, while Li Mo’s thoughts revealed other treasures that could rival it. After seeing the Three Pure Ones and other beings race past, Di Jun pushed Tai Yi to speed up so they could compete for the front-row seats.

• Tai Yi used the Chaos Bell to shield Di Jun, Bai Ze, and Li Mo as they entered the Chaos Gale.
• Li Mo privately listed several treasures that could rival the Chaos Bell, angering Di Jun with his thoughts.
• The Three Pure Ones passed them inside the Taiji Diagram, followed by other fast-moving beings, and Di Jun realized the Chaos Bell was not unmatched.
• Li Mo thought that the six front-row seats were reserved for the future Saints, but Di Jun decided he and Tai Yi would compete for them.
• Di Jun ordered Tai Yi to speed up, and the Golden Crows surged forward.

Di Jun rewarded Li Mo with the Golden Crow Transforming into Rainbow Technique as they raced to Purple Sky Palace, where Li Mo’s thoughts revealed a grim future for the Demon Race and Witch Clan. When the gates opened, Di Jun seized a front-row seat, and all six cushions were quickly occupied.

• Di Jun passed the Golden Crow Transforming into Rainbow Technique to Li Mo, and the system offered mastery and a Three-legged Golden Crow Bloodline in exchange for lying flat.
• Bai Ze thanked Di Jun for rewarding Li Mo and grew jealous of his disciple’s favor.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi arrived at Purple Sky Palace before its gates opened, and Li Mo’s thoughts warned that the Demon Race and Witch Clan would eventually destroy each other.
• The gates opened, and Di Jun rushed inside with Tai Yi and claimed a central front-row cushion.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Nuwa, and Hong Yun took the other four front-row seats.

As the six seats in Purple Skies Palace were claimed, Li Mo recognized the arrivals and predicted that Jieyin and Zhunti would try to take seats from others. Hong Yun gave his seat to Jieyin, but Di Jun blasted Zhunti away when he approached Tai Yi, leaving the remaining dispute unresolved.

• Di Jun and Tai Yi arrived with seats, while Li Mo recognized Tongtian and Yuanshi as the brothers argued over the missed seats.
• Jieyin and Zhunti entered Purple Skies Palace just before its gates closed and searched for seats.
• Jieyin persuaded Hong Yun to surrender his seat, despite Zhen Yuanzi's objections.
• Zhunti approached Tai Yi with flattery, but Di Jun shouted him into a pillar before he could ask for the seat.

Di Jun and Tai Yi clashed with Daoist Zhunti, Daoist Jieyin, and Yuqing Yuanshi over their seats in Purple Cloud Palace until Daoist Hongjun stopped the fight. When Hongjun ordered the brothers to give up their seats, Di Jun voluntarily gave his to Tongtian, leaving Hongjun surprised.

• Changxi admired Di Jun, and Xihe teased her about being interested in him.
• Daoist Zhunti provoked Di Jun, who flared with golden flames and defended Tai Yi.
• Daoist Jieyin and Yuqing Yuanshi condemned Di Jun and the Golden Crows, prompting Tai Yi to prepare for a fight.
• Daoist Hongjun appeared and quelled the conflict, warning that anyone who fought in Purple Cloud Palace would be expelled.
• Daoist Hongjun ordered Di Jun and Tai Yi to give up their seats, and Di Jun gave his seat to Tongtian before Hongjun could assign it.

Di Jun gave up his seat to Tongtian and Tai Yi gave up his to Zhunti, earning two spiritual treasures from Hong Jun. Di Jun then drew unwanted attention to Li Mo by gifting him the White Rainbow Sword, while Hong Jun failed to calculate Li Mo’s origins and began his lecture.

• Tongtian thanked Di Jun for yielding his seat, and Hong Jun rewarded Di Jun and Tai Yi with the Primordial Gold Dou and the Eight Treasures Merit Dragon Pool.
• Tongtian gave Di Jun the White Rainbow Sword in gratitude, and Di Jun sat with Bai Ze and Li Mo.
• Di Jun bestowed the White Rainbow Sword on Li Mo, making the other attendees notice and envy the Earth Immortal.
• Bai Ze accepted the sword on Li Mo’s behalf, but Li Mo took it back and decided to keep it.
• Hong Jun tried to calculate Li Mo’s origins, failed, and began his lecture.

Hong Jun began his first lecture on the Dao of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal while Li Mo slept and gained rewards from his system. After three thousand years, the lecture ended with Houtu asking why it had been no use to her.

• Hong Jun explained the three lecture periods and the realms above the Grand Unity Golden Immortal, revealing that he was a Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal.
• Li Mo slept at the back of the Purple Sky Palace, drawing criticism from the gathered beings, while Di Jun stopped Tai Yi from waking him.
• Hong Jun began lecturing, and the listeners absorbed the Dao amid golden lamps, heavenly flowers, golden lotuses, and purple qi.
• While lying low, Li Mo perfected his Golden Crow Transforming into Rainbow Technique, received the Three-legged Golden Crow Bloodline, and advanced to late True Immortal.
• Bai Ze claimed Li Mo as his disciple and praised his talent as the other powerful beings also advanced; after the lecture, Houtu asked Hong Jun why it had not helped her.

During Hong Jun’s lecture, he appointed Dong Wang Gong and Xi Wang Mu as leaders of the male and female immortals, disappointing Di Jun. As Di Jun left for the Sun God Palace with Tai Yi, Changxi and Xihe watched them and considered catching up.

• Hong Jun explained that the Twelve Ancestral Witches had no primordial spirits, prompting Houtu to angrily leave Purple Sky Palace.
• Hong Jun announced that he would appoint leaders of the male and female immortals, and Di Jun mistakenly believed the position would be his.
• Hong Jun named Donghua Daoist, now Dong Wang Gong, and Yaochi Golden Mother, now Xi Wang Mu, and granted them each an Innate Supreme Spiritual Treasure.
• Li Mo warned that Dong Wang Gong would eventually die at Di Jun’s hands, and Di Jun calmed himself instead of acting against him.
• After the lecture, Di Jun and Tai Yi departed for the Sun God Palace, while Changxi suggested to Xihe that they catch up with them.

Di Jun recruited Xihe and Changxi by proposing that they and Tai Yi become sworn siblings, while Li Mo’s private thoughts revealed his desire to leave the Demon Race and Di Jun’s effort to keep him close. They all headed back toward the Sun Star, where the demons celebrated their return.

• Li Mo planned to take his master and leave the Demon Race, but Di Jun resolved to find a way to keep him with the group.
• Di Jun asked Li Mo about his interests and decided that finding him a beautiful partner might persuade him to stay.
• Xihe and Changxi asked Di Jun to protect them from Dong Wang Gong and said they wished to follow him instead.
• Di Jun proposed that he, Tai Yi, Xihe, and Changxi become sworn siblings, and they accepted despite a muddled exchange of sibling titles.
• Di Jun, Tai Yi, Xihe, Changxi, and Li Mo returned toward the Sun Star as the demons cheered their arrival.

Di Jun offered Li Mo a safe post at the Sun God Palace, but after Bai Ze left to meet Shang Yang, Dang Kang accused Li Mo of absence without leave and attacked him. Li Mo revealed his Late True Immortal strength, and Dang Kang used his assault on the soldiers as an excuse to threaten to kill him.

• Di Jun offered Li Mo a personal guard position at the Sun God Palace and permission to cultivate in the Eight Treasures Merit Dragon Pool, and Li Mo accepted because he would not have to go to battle.
• Bai Ze left to meet Shang Yang after explaining that he wanted to strengthen his standing, while Li Mo returned to their quarters and hid his animal-hide books.
• Dang Kang arrived with soldiers, accused Li Mo of missing the muster, and ordered them to take him for thirty lashes with the Law Whip.
• Li Mo broke free and knocked two soldiers away with his Late True Immortal power, shocking Dang Kang and the others.
• Dang Kang claimed Li Mo's attack made his crime unforgivable and threatened to kill him on the spot.

Li Mo killed Dang Kang and wounded Commander Heavenly Dog after the commander attacked him, revealing Li Mo’s mastery of the Golden Crow Transforming into Rainbow Technique and his Solar True Fire. Commander Heavenly Dog summoned more than twenty Golden Immortals, while Li Mo waited for Di Jun’s people to arrive.

• Li Mo used the White Rainbow Sword to kill Dang Kang and drive his soldiers away.
• Commander Heavenly Dog went to Li Mo’s dwelling and attacked him with a saber, but Li Mo dodged using the Golden Crow Transforming into Rainbow Technique.
• Li Mo burned Commander Heavenly Dog with Solar True Fire, forcing him to cut off his arm.
• Commander Heavenly Dog called for reinforcements, and more than twenty Golden Immortals rushed to the scene as Li Mo wondered why Jun Ge’s people had not arrived.

Li Mo was imprisoned after killing Dang Kang and injuring Commander Heavenly Dog, but Shang Yang learned of his new strength and freed him before Bai Ze could attack. The chapter ended with Shang Yang asking Bai Ze why he had not told him that Li Mo had mastered the Golden Crow Transforming into Rainbow Technique and Solar True Fire.

• Commander Heavenly Dog accused Li Mo of killing Dang Kang, and Li Mo was sent to prison after the other commanders refused to kill him.
• A soldier told Shang Yang that Dang Kang was dead and Commander Heavenly Dog had been badly wounded, while Bai Ze discovered his home had been destroyed and hurried to the prison.
• Commander Heavenly Dog revealed that Li Mo had reached Late True Immortal and learned the Golden Crow Transforming into Rainbow Technique and Solar True Fire.
• Shang Yang stopped Commander Heavenly Dog from punishing Li Mo, woke the sleeping prisoner, and escorted him out.
• Bai Ze forced his way toward the prison, but Shang Yang brought Li Mo out unharmed and asked Bai Ze why he had concealed Li Mo's new abilities.

Li Mo revealed that he had mastered the Golden Crow Transforming into Rainbow Technique and could wield Solar True Fire, while Bai Ze confronted Shang Yang over his treatment of Li Mo. At the Sun God Palace, Di Jun explained his plans to bind Li Mo to their side through Xihe, then learned Li Mo had used his new abilities to wound a Golden Immortal commander.

• Li Mo confirmed to Bai Ze and Shang Yang that he had comprehended the Golden Crow Transforming into Rainbow Technique, and Bai Ze rebuked Shang Yang for targeting his disciple.
• Jiu Ying arrived with Di Jun’s order to take Li Mo to the Sun God Palace and gave him a Fusang Wood guard token; Bai Ze joined them to report Shang Yang.
• Di Jun told Tai Yi that Li Mo’s ideas had helped them gain advantages at Purple Firmament Palace and proposed making Li Mo Xihe’s Dao Companion to bind him to their side.
• Shang Yang accused Li Mo of killing Dang Kang, wiping out soldiers, and wounding the Heavenly Dog commander; Bai Ze revealed Li Mo’s Golden Crow technique and Solar True Fire, leaving Di Jun astonished.

Di Jun and Tai Yi discovered that Li Mo could wield Solar True Fire and protected him when Shang Yang accused him of murder. Li Mo was assigned to guard the Eight Treasures Merit Dragon Pool with permission to cultivate there, while Xihe was asked to make nice with him.

• Di Jun asked Li Mo to demonstrate his flame, and he and Tai Yi recognized it as Solar True Fire and evidence of the Three-legged Golden Crow Bloodline.
• Li Mo argued that Dang Kang had attacked him first and accused Shang Yang of arranging the confrontation to retaliate against him.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi ordered Shang Yang to swear a blood oath never to harm Li Mo again and surrender a lower-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, so Shang Yang handed over the Floating World Lamp.
• Di Jun assigned Li Mo to guard the Eight Treasures Merit Dragon Pool, and Commander Mie Meng told him he could cultivate in it whenever he wanted.
• Di Jun told Xihe to make nice with Li Mo, leaving her frowning at the request.

Di Jun asked Xihe to draw Li Mo closer to the Demon Race, so she privately proposed becoming Dao companions with him. Li Mo was left stunned by her unexpected confession.

• Di Jun told Xihe that Li Mo's talents could let him surpass Di Jun and Tai Yi, and asked her to bind Li Mo to their side.
• Li Mo woke beside the Eight Treasures Merit Dragon Pool, collected a spicy strips reward, and ate while on guard duty.
• Xihe arrived and took Li Mo to a private room, while Di Jun secretly listened and urged her to make her intentions clear.
• Xihe praised Li Mo's cultivation and abilities, then asked him to become her Dao companion.
• Li Mo froze in shock at Xihe's proposal.

Li Mo rejected Xihe’s offer to become Dao companions, while Di Jun listened and misread his excuses as loyalty and ambition. After Xihe tried to seduce him again and he refused, Di Jun ordered her to force Li Mo into bed so he would be bound to the Demon Race.

• Li Mo rejected Xihe, citing her status and his desire to achieve greatness through his own strength.
• Xihe was struck by Li Mo’s grand claims, while Di Jun briefly imagined himself making the same declaration before hearing Li Mo’s private thoughts.
• At Di Jun’s urging, Xihe exposed herself and tried to persuade Li Mo to become her Dao companion.
• Li Mo shoved Xihe away and refused again, privately worrying that she was becoming infatuated with him and that he might be drawn into Di Jun’s conflicts.
• Di Jun told Xihe to force Li Mo to sleep with her so he would be bound to the Demon Race.

Li Mo resisted Xihe’s illusion because his system activated a defense mechanism, leaving Xihe injured and Di Jun astonished. Di Jun decided to become sworn brothers with Li Mo to keep him in the Demon Race, but Li Mo remained unaware and was summoned to see Di Jun.

• Xihe tried to influence Li Mo with an illusion, but his system blocked it and the backlash injured her.
• Li Mo hurried away, convinced that Xihe had failed and that events had returned to normal.
• Xihe told Di Jun what happened, and she and Di Jun concluded that Li Mo’s willpower had overcome her illusion.
• Di Jun told Tai Yi about Li Mo’s words and resistance, then proposed becoming sworn brothers with him to keep him close.
• Changxi, Xihe, and Tai Yi agreed with Di Jun’s plan while Li Mo returned to the Eight Treasures Dragon Transformation Pool, unaware of it.
• Mie Meng woke Li Mo with Di Jun’s summons, and Li Mo left for the main hall.

Li Mo became sworn siblings with Di Jun, Tai Yi, Xihe, and Changxi, and secretly copied the Fusang Tree after surviving its Solar True Fire. He returned to watch over the Eight Treasures Merit Dragon Pool, where Bai Ze later arrived with a little girl.

• Di Jun, Tai Yi, Xihe, and Changxi persuaded Li Mo to become their sworn sibling and agreed to keep the news quiet.
• Li Mo received a system task to copy the Ten Great Innate Supreme Spiritual Roots and reached out to touch the Fusang Tree.
• The Fusang Tree's Solar True Fire engulfed Li Mo, but he survived and Di Jun pulled him free; Li Mo realized he had copied the tree.
• Li Mo changed clothes, completed the swearing-in ceremony as the fifth sibling, and returned to watch over the Eight Treasures Merit Dragon Pool.
• The copied Fusang Tree converted its Solar True Fire into power for Li Mo, and Bai Ze arrived on the Sun Star with a little girl.