Chapter Summaries

After learning that Nuwa was destined to sever his limbs to support the heavens, Beichen pleaded with the Heaven and Earth Great Dao to change his fate. The Great Dao granted him a system and powerful rewards, and Beichen vanished with three immortal islands rather than support the sky.

• Beichen realized he had become the North Sea Black Tortoise just as Nuwa began mending the heavens, and learned he was fated to die after his limbs were severed.
• Beichen begged the Heaven and Earth Great Dao for a way to escape his fate, drawing the attention of Nuwa, Primordial Lord of Heaven, the Grand Pure Lord of Morality, and Sect Master Tongtian.
• The Heaven and Earth Great Dao answered Beichen's plea, bound a system to him, and granted him a Universe Great Dao Mystic Turtle Shell and the Boundless Immortal Body of the Great Dao.
• Beichen chose the system's option to refuse supporting the sky, receiving the Great Dao Fragment Domain and the Three Islands of Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou.
• Beichen disappeared with the three islands, and the four Destined Saints arrived over the North Sea, puzzled by his sudden absence.

Beichen forged four Mysterious Sky Divine Dragon Pillars to support the sky and earned a Form Transformation Dao Fruit, which turned him into a handsome young man. In the ninety-ninth year, he offered the pillars to Nuwa, who recognized him as the Mysterious Turtle.

• The Destined Saints waited in the North Sea after Grand Pure Lord of Morality divined that something from there would support the sky, while Yuanshi dismissed the Mysterious Turtle as insignificant.
• Beichen spent ten years mastering the Three Islands and learned that the Saints were waiting to take his legs for the Mending of the Heavens.
• Beichen accepted a system quest to find rare materials and forge the Mysterious Sky Divine Dragon Pillar, then spent twenty years making one pillar and another sixty years making all four.
• The system rewarded Beichen with a Form Transformation Dao Fruit, which he swallowed before spending nine years stabilizing his human form.
• The Three Islands appeared before the four Destined Saints in the ninety-ninth year, and Beichen offered Nuwa all four pillars from within the island array.
• Nuwa caught the pillars and asked Beichen whether he was the Mysterious Turtle.

Beichen’s pillars helped Nuwa mend the sky, earning him half the Heavenly Dao merit and all the Heaven and Earth Great Dao merit. As the other Destined Saints grew resentful, Nuwa asked Beichen to become her disciple.

• Nuwa carried Beichen’s Mysterious Sky Divine Dragon Pillars to the Four Poles, where they raised the sky and restored order.
• The Heavenly Dao divided its merit equally between Nuwa and Beichen, advancing both of their cultivation.
• Grand Pure Lord of Morality explained that Beichen’s pillars had deprived the three Destined Saints of the merit they expected to earn.
• The Heaven and Earth Great Dao sent all its merit to Beichen, bringing him to the peak of the Golden Immortal Realm.
• Primordial Lord of Heaven declared Beichen their mortal enemy, while Nuwa approached him and asked him to become her disciple.

After refusing Nuwa’s offer to become his disciple, Beichen learned that the Witch-Demon Great Tribulation still lay ahead and chose to hide on the Three Immortal Islands to cultivate. Six thousand years later, the islands returned to the East Sea, where Beichen spotted the Fusang Divine Tree and two Golden Crows.

• Nuwa failed to recruit Beichen, and he hinted that he could offer her guidance on becoming a Saint.
• Beichen learned from Nuwa that the sky’s collapse and its mending had happened before the Witch-Demon Great Tribulation.
• Grand Pure Lord of Morality decided the three Destined Saints should leave Beichen alone while he remained on the Three Islands.
• Beichen concealed the Three Immortal Islands and cultivated until he reached the middle stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Realm.
• Beichen noticed the islands had returned to the East Sea and saw two Golden Crows cultivating in the Fusang Divine Tree.

Beichen went to the Sun Star and helped Dijun and Taiyi understand their companion treasures, earning a fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation and the mysteries of the Three Thousand Great Daos. After the Two Crows advanced to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, Beichen stayed to cultivate and noticed two women on the Moon Star, prompting him to ask whether Dijun and Taiyi wanted wives.

• Beichen brought the Three Immortal Islands beneath the Sun Star and shattered its protective formation.
• Taiyi attacked Beichen with the Eastern Emperor Bell, but Beichen repelled him with the Universe Great Dao Mystic Turtle Shell.
• Dijun stopped Taiyi's attack, and Beichen earned the Two Crows' trust by explaining their companion treasures for a thousand years.
• Dijun grasped the rudiments of the Star Dou Grand Formation, and Taiyi learned to draw out more of the Eastern Emperor Bell's power.
• Dijun and Taiyi entered the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, while Beichen received a Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation and the mysteries of the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Beichen noticed two women playing on the Moon Star and asked Dijun and Taiyi whether they wanted wives.

Beichen persuaded Dijun and Taiyi to seek Dao Companions on the Moon Star, where they broke through Xihe and Changxi’s formation and provoked a fight. As the sisters attacked, Beichen watched from the Sun Star and began cultivating, expecting the brothers to lose.

• Beichen convinced Dijun and Taiyi that finding Dao Companions could help their cultivation and pointed them toward the Moon Star.
• Dijun and Taiyi traveled to the Moon Star, where Dijun broke its grand formation with a rudimentary Star Dou Grand Formation.
• Xihe and Changxi confronted the brothers, who were captivated by the sisters and declared that they had come to find wives.
• Xihe attacked Dijun with the Moon Profound Light Mirror, while Changxi’s Moon Star Annihilation Divine Ball descended on Taiyi and he answered with the Eastern Emperor Bell.
• Dijun used the River Map and Luo Book to resist Xihe’s attack as Beichen watched from the Sun Star and began comprehending the Fragment of the Jade Disc of Creation.

Beichen comprehended the three thousand Imperfect Great Daos and began proving the Dao of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal on the Sun Star. His Twelve-Petal Three Flowers summoned the Purple Firmament World-Ending Thunder Tribulation, drawing attention from powerful figures across the primordial world and alerting Hongjun to Beichen’s existence.

• Xihe and Changxi gained the upper hand against Dijun and Taiyi on the Moon Star, imprisoning Taiyi in a net formed by the Moon Star Annihilation Divine Ball.
• Beichen completed a hundred years of Dao comprehension and gathered Three Flowers above his head as he advanced to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Dijun, Taiyi, Xihe, and Changxi sensed Beichen’s extraordinary breakthrough, and a bolt of Purple Firmament World-Ending Thunder struck the Sun Star.
• Grand Pure Lord of Morality, Primordial Lord of Heaven, and Tongtian recognized that the thunder tribulation belonged to Mysterious Turtle rather than the Golden Crows.
• Hongjun investigated the tribulation and concluded that Beichen had the roots of a Chaos Godfiend and had become an anomaly beyond the Heavenly Dao’s control.

Beichen intervened when Xihe and Changxi were about to cripple Dijun and Taiyi, then rescued the Two Crows from the Moon Star. Back on the Sun Star, Dijun and Taiyi abruptly swore an oath to become Beichen's disciples.

• Hongjun dismissed Beichen as weak and focused on the coming Dao-Devil War with Luohu.
• Beichen shielded the Sun Star from the World-Ending Thunder with his Boundless Immortal Body, then repaired the star using the Dao of Creation.
• Dijun broke Xihe's seal, provoking a renewed fight in which Xihe and Changxi decided to cripple him and Taiyi.
• Beichen answered the system's call for aid, defeated Xihe and Changxi, and carried Dijun and Taiyi away from the Moon Star.
• Dijun and Taiyi knelt before Beichen and swore to become his disciples, leaving him astonished.

Beichen accepted Dijun and Taiyi as disciples and taught them how to court the Moon Star Goddesses. After the two brothers left for the Moon Star, Beichen examined the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler, but a column of black energy rising from the sea prompted him to divine its meaning.

• Dijun and Taiyi formally swore to the Heavenly Dao and became Beichen's disciples.
• Beichen urged Dijun to keep visiting Xihe and taught Taiyi to spend time with Changxi while remaining composed and mysterious.
• Dijun and Taiyi happily set off for the Moon Star to pursue the goddesses.
• Beichen inspected the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler and began to comprehend its restrictions.
• A column of black energy rose from the sea near the Moon Star, and Beichen began a divination after sensing danger.

Beichen discovered that Mo Yuan, a powerful black dragon, coveted Xihe and Changxi, then spent a century mastering the Heaven Measuring Ruler. After Dijun and Taiyi reported their growing closeness with the Moon Star Goddesses, Mo Yuan attacked the Moon Star, leaving Beichen to stop his disciples from confronting him recklessly.

• Beichen used the Universe Great Dao Mystic Turtle Shell to identify Mo Yuan, a mid-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal spying on Xihe and Changxi.
• Beichen spent a hundred years comprehending the Heaven Measuring Ruler and mastered its methods of use.
• Dijun told Beichen that Xihe had grown accustomed to his visits, while Taiyi said Changxi remained curious about him.
• Beichen revealed Mo Yuan to Dijun and Taiyi as the opportunity that could bring the four of them together.
• Dijun and Taiyi prepared to attack Mo Yuan, but Beichen warned them that their cultivation was far below his.
• Mo Yuan announced that he would take Xihe and Changxi as his concubines and sent vast waves surging toward the Moon Star.

Beichen held Dijun and Taiyi back while Mo Yuan overwhelmed Xihe and Changxi on Moon Star, then sent the two sun gods to intervene. Mo Yuan attacked them as Xihe warned that they had come to die.

• Beichen told Dijun and Taiyi to watch Mo Yuan fight the Moon Star Goddesses, explaining that the black dragon was too powerful for them to face yet.
• Mo Yuan shattered Xihe's Moon Profound Light Mirror and turned Changxi's silver net against her, injuring both sisters.
• Mo Yuan demanded that Xihe and Changxi become his concubines, then threatened to kill them when they refused.
• Beichen gave Dijun the Heaven Measuring Ruler and warned him that Mo Yuan carried a fragment of the World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Beichen teleported Dijun and Taiyi to Moon Star, where Changxi greeted Taiyi tearfully and Xihe warned the newcomers that they could not defeat Mo Yuan.
• Mo Yuan unleashed annihilating black flames at Dijun and Taiyi as Xihe shouted for them to flee.

Dijun and Taiyi swore vows binding them to Xihe and Changxi, then fought Mo Yuan to protect the Moon Star. Dijun shattered Mo Yuan’s World-Destroying Black Lotus, but Beichen intervened before Taiyi could finish the wounded dragon.

• Dijun vowed to the Heavenly Dao that he would defeat Mo Yuan and take Xihe as his wife, while Taiyi made a matching vow about Changxi.
• Mo Yuan attacked the four with overwhelming dragon aura, and Dijun used the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler to repel him.
• Mo Yuan revealed that a remnant petal of the World-Destroying Black Lotus gave him his strength, and explained that Luohu had gifted it to him.
• Dijun fought the lotus with the Heaven-Measuring Ruler until he shattered it and badly wounded Mo Yuan.
• Taiyi struck Mo Yuan with the Eastern Emperor Bell, but Beichen ordered him to let the black dragon return to the East Sea, and Taiyi stopped.

After Beichen let Mo Yuan escape, Taiyi and Dijun claimed Changxi and Xihe as their wives through their Heavenly Dao oaths. Beichen welcomed the Moon Goddesses into his faction and decided to return to the Three Immortal Islands after his disciples came back.

• Beichen told Changxi and Taiyi that Mo Yuan had a deep connection to the Dragon Dao, and Taiyi reminded Changxi that her oath bound her to marry him.
• Changxi accepted Taiyi as her husband, while Xihe agreed to marry Dijun under pressure from the Heavenly Dao.
• Xihe asked how Dijun had become Beichen's disciple, and Dijun said that Beichen would be her and Changxi's master as well.
• Beichen withdrew his divine sense and reflected that his faction had grown to include the two Moon Goddesses.
• Beichen divined that Mo Yuan's karma involved the Phoenix and Qilin clans, then decided to return to the Three Immortal Islands after his disciples came back.

After a century of cultivation on the Moon Star, Dijun, Taiyi, Xihe, and Changxi became parents-to-be and returned to the Sun Star to visit their master. Beichen welcomed them, revealing that he had reached the mid-stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.

• Dijun and Xihe discussed how yin-and-yang cultivation had accelerated their progress, while Xihe resolved to keep pace with him.
• Taiyi and Changxi discovered that Changxi was pregnant, then learned that Xihe was expecting a child as well.
• Dijun and Taiyi decided to return to the Sun Star with their wives to pay their respects to Beichen and share the news.
• The four crossed the chaos and arrived at the Sun Star, where Beichen was waiting to greet them.
• Dijun noticed Beichen had advanced to the mid-stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, and Beichen joked about their future children.

Beichen revealed what Xihe and Changxi’s unborn children would become and warned their parents about the dangers and weaknesses they might face. He returned to the Three Immortal Islands after offering the four disciples advice on combining their powers, but cautioned them never to fuse their bonded treasures.

• Beichen told Xihe that she was carrying ten Golden Crows, whose future calamity might kill all but one, and promised to help if fate allowed.
• Beichen told Changxi that she was carrying twelve Moon Maidens, then advised her and Taiyi to train them because they would be weak.
• Beichen returned to the Three Immortal Islands, and Dijun, Xihe, Changxi, and Taiyi knelt to see him off.
• Before leaving, Beichen suggested that the four experiment with formations, treasures, and spiritual resources to strengthen their yin-and-yang cultivation.
• Beichen warned the four never to fuse their bonded treasures because the consequences would be unimaginable.

Beichen settled into cultivation on the Three Immortal Islands while Dijun, Taiyi, Xihe, and Changxi followed his guidance and tested ways to combine their powers and treasures. After discovering Mo Yuan and a Fire Qilin attacking the injured fire phoenix Ling Cair, Beichen faced a system choice about whether to rescue her.

• Beichen entered the Three Immortal Islands and found that their rich innate spiritual energy accelerated his cultivation.
• Dijun, Taiyi, Xihe, and Changxi expressed gratitude to Beichen and continued cultivating together, with Taiyi bringing spirit fruits to the pregnant Xihe and Changxi.
• The four disciples combined their formations and weapons, but Dijun's fusion of the Xuanyuan Sword and Changxi's treasures became unstable until Xihe balanced it with the Taiyin Soul-Reaping Mask.
• Beichen spent more than a thousand years cultivating on the islands, but his progress slowed after he reached the middle stage of Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
• Beichen spotted Mo Yuan and a Fire Qilin attacking the gravely injured fire phoenix Ling Cair, and the system offered him a choice between rescuing her and receiving an opportunity glimpse or letting her die for a World-Destroying Black Lotus.

Beichen chose to save Ling Cair rather than take Luohu’s World-Destroying Black Lotus, then intervened when Mo Yuan and Yan Lie cornered her. After Beichen struck Mo Yuan with the Heaven-Piercing Purple-Patterned Ruler, Mo Yuan recognized him as the one behind the Two Crows’ attack six hundred years earlier.

• Beichen rejected the option of taking the World-Destroying Black Lotus because it could draw Luohu’s attention and chose to save Ling Cair.
• Beichen saw Mo Yuan and Yan Lie attacking Ling Cair over the old enmity between the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans.
• Ling Cair tried to flee to the Three Immortal Islands, but their barrier stopped her, and Mo Yuan and Yan Lie gravely wounded her.
• Beichen caught Ling Cair and used the islands’ energy to protect and heal her.
• Beichen struck Mo Yuan with the Heaven-Piercing Purple-Patterned Ruler, and Mo Yuan recognized him from the attack by the Two Crows six hundred years earlier.

Beichen revealed that he had saved Mo Yuan from Taiyi and demanded that the black dragon join him, while warning him of Dijun and Taiyi’s growing power. Beichen then captured Mo Yuan and Fire Qilin Yan Lie and brought them to the Three Immortal Islands, where he declared that the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin remnants would join his ranks; Mo Yuan turned toward Ling Cair as she awoke.

• Beichen told Mo Yuan that he had stopped Taiyi from killing him six hundred years earlier and argued that this made him Mo Yuan’s benefactor.
• Mo Yuan realized the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler could kill without incurring karma, thanked Beichen for saving his life, but refused to become his subordinate.
• Beichen warned Mo Yuan that Dijun and Taiyi would become powerful rulers and urged him to join his ranks for protection and guidance.
• Yan Lie recognized Beichen as the Golden Crow’s master, and Mo Yuan recalled his Innate Divine Demon origins.
• Beichen used a net formed from three thousand Imperfect Great Daos to capture Mo Yuan and Yan Lie and drag them into the Three Immortal Islands.
• Beichen declared that the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin remnants would join his ranks, and Mo Yuan moved toward Ling Cair as she opened her eyes.

Beichen subdued Mo Yuan and Yan Lie in his domain, beating Mo Yuan until he admitted fault and both beasts agreed to follow him. Ling Cair, Mo Yuan, and Yan Lie each then offered to serve as Beichen’s mount, leaving him unable to choose.

• Beichen’s domain nullified Mo Yuan’s attack on Ling Cair and struck Mo Yuan with the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler.
• Beichen beat Mo Yuan until he knelt and admitted his mistake, then Yan Lie submitted to avoid the same punishment.
• Mo Yuan and Yan Lie accepted Beichen’s offer to follow him, recognizing his power and potential.
• Beichen reassured the two beasts that he wanted the three clans to stop fighting and rebuild together.
• Ling Cair, Mo Yuan, and Yan Lie each asked to become Beichen’s mount, and he said he would think it over.

Beichen chose Ling Cair as his mount and assigned her, Yan Lie, and Mo Yuan duties across the Three Immortal Islands. After they left to work, he used his new ability to glimpse an opportunity and learned that the final battle of the Dao-Devil War would begin in three years.

• Beichen chose Ling Cair as his mount because he preferred female mounts, and she swore to serve him, forming a karmic bond that eased the Heavenly Dao's suppression on her.
• Beichen told Ling Cair, Yan Lie, and Mo Yuan to put aside their grudges and help one another, then assigned Ling Cair to find treasures and Yan Lie to locate spiritual roots and plants.
• Beichen tasked Mo Yuan with locating rare materials and patrolling the Three Immortal Islands for unusual signs.
• After the three beasts left to begin their duties, Beichen activated A Glimpse of Opportunity and saw Lesser Sumeru Mountain and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Beichen realized the final battle of the Dao-Devil War would begin in three years and resolved to witness it.