Chapter Summaries

After studying the Twelve Ancestral Witches’ laws, Beichen returned to Immortal Island Palace to teach his followers. He passed on the Path of Water to Chiliao, who broke through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, while Mo Yuan eagerly awaited his turn.

• Beichen resolved to pass on the laws of the Ancestral Witches so their abilities would endure after their deaths.
• Beichen returned to Immortal Island Palace, where Bai Xiaoya welcomed him and Shi Ji reported her cultivation progress.
• Beichen gathered Chiliao, Tongbi, the Six-Eared Macaque, Mo Yuan, Yan Lie, and Ling Cair for a lesson in law-based abilities.
• Beichen demonstrated the laws of the Path of Water to Chiliao for ten years, teaching him to control water spirits wherever they were found.
• Chiliao condensed the laws of the Path of Water and broke through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Mo Yuan eagerly asked which law Beichen would bestow on the others, and Beichen told him to calm down.

Beichen taught the Six-Eared Macaque the laws of space and speed, then demonstrated the laws of time, metal, and wood to Mo Yuan, Shi Ji, and Bai Xiaoya. After the Six-Eared Macaque left to travel and seek a chance to become a Quasi-Saint, Beichen began considering which Ancestral Wu's Dao would suit Chiliao, the Long-armed Ape Monkey.

• Beichen promised Chiliao, Long-armed Ape, and Shi Ji that he would later teach them Hongjun's complete Grand Unity Golden Immortal path.
• The Six-Eared Macaque mastered the laws of space and speed, demonstrated a swift trip to Fangzhang Island, and left the Three Immortal Islands to travel.
• Beichen taught Mo Yuan the law of time, and Mo Yuan excitedly demonstrated its techniques before Beichen stopped him and sent him off to cultivate.
• Beichen taught Shi Ji the law of metal and Bai Xiaoya the law of wood, and both mastered their laws and advanced in cultivation.
• Chiliao asked Beichen what art he would teach him, and Beichen considered which Ancestral Wu's Dao best suited the Long-armed Ape Monkey.

Beichen taught Yan Lie, Ling Cair, and Long-armed Ape Monkey laws suited to their abilities, helping them advance in cultivation. When Shi Ji asked why they should attend Hongjun’s upcoming lecture, Beichen explained that they should learn Hongjun’s Quasi-Sage methods before choosing their own path to sainthood; Shi Ji concluded that Beichen pursued the higher path of proving the Dao through laws.

• Beichen offered Long-armed Ape Monkey several laws to learn, and Long-armed Ape Monkey chose Xuanming’s laws of ice and rain.
• Over the next forty years, Beichen taught Long-armed Ape Monkey the laws of ice and rain, Yan Lie the Law of Fire, and Ling Cair the Law of Wind.
• Long-armed Ape Monkey advanced to the middle stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, while Yan Lie and Ling Cair reached its absolute peak.
• Ling Cair asked how to enter the Quasi-Sage Realm, and Beichen advised her, Yan Lie, and Bai Xiaoya to attend Hongjun’s second lecture in a few hundred years.
• Shi Ji asked why Beichen did not teach his own Quasi-Sage path, and Beichen explained that they should first learn Hongjun’s approaches before choosing a path to sainthood.
• Shi Ji realized Beichen followed the path of proving the Dao through laws and believed he would become a Saint above Hongjun.

Kunpeng considered joining the Demon Race as its Demon Master after Dijun and Taiyi entered the Quasi-Sage Realm. Beichen searched for Zhao Gongming and Sanxiao and found them cultivating and relaxing in the Chaos Profound Yellow Realm.

• Kunpeng and the Dragonwhisker Whale watched a replay of the Twelve Ancestral Witches battling the Sanqing, then learned that Dijun and Taiyi had entered the Quasi-Sage Realm.
• Kunpeng chose to remain in the Northern Sea rather than return to Three Immortal Islands, wary of being watched by Beichen.
• The Dragonwhisker Whale encouraged Kunpeng to accept the Demon Master position if the Demon Race approached him again, and Kunpeng agreed to wait for them.
• Beichen used the Great Dao Qiankun Divine Tortoise Shell to find Zhao Gongming and Sanxiao in the Chaos Profound Yellow Realm.
• Zhao Gongming urged his three younger sisters to cultivate diligently, and Yunxiao assured him she would not neglect her cultivation.

Beichen watched Zhao Gongming and Sanxiao before sensing a calamity approaching their secluded paradise. Taotie abducted Qiongxiao and Bixiao, and Qiangliang threatened Yunxiao and Zhao Gongming until an unseen rescuer struck him away.

• Zhao Gongming urged Qiongxiao and Bixiao to cultivate, while Yunxiao reassured and defended her younger sisters.
• Beichen recalled how Zhao Gongming and Sanxiao would suffer during the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and resolved to change their fates.
• Beichen sensed a great calamity as Taotie burst from the ground and attacked Sanxiao.
• Taotie seized Qiongxiao and Bixiao and fled, then sent Zhao Gongming flying when he tried to stop him.
• Qiangliang blocked Yunxiao and threatened her and Zhao Gongming, but an unknown figure slapped him tens of thousands of miles away.

Beichen secretly used the Time Law, Thunder Law, and his immense strength to save Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao from Taotie and Qiangliang. After Qiangliang retreated, Beichen revealed himself, and Yunxiao recognized him as the legendary Dao Ancestor Beichen.

• Beichen reversed time and stopped Taotie, freeing Bixiao and Qiongxiao and returning Taotie to Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao.
• Qiangliang attacked Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao, but Beichen countered his thunder with an even stronger Thunder Law.
• Beichen struck Qiangliang again and dropped a massive blue-black object onto Taotie, forcing Qiangliang and his people to retreat to Hongmeng Divine Mountain.
• Beichen revealed himself to Zhao Gongming and the others, and Yunxiao recognized him as Dao Ancestor Beichen.

Beichen invited Zhao Gongming and the Three Sisters of the Clouds to visit the Three Immortal Islands after learning that they had once refused Six-Eared Macaque’s offer to join Immortal Island Palace because the four siblings would not separate. He brought them to Penglai Island, where the Heavenly Dao stirred as their fates began to change.

• Zhao Gongming told Beichen that he and Yunxiao had refused to join Immortal Island Palace because Qiongxiao and Bixiao were not accepted.
• Yunxiao recalled that the four siblings had seen the Three Immortal Islands fifteen thousand years earlier and once hoped to make them their Dao Field.
• Beichen invited the siblings to visit the islands and offered them a chance to escape the dangers approaching their refuge.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Sisters of the Clouds accepted, and Beichen transported them instantly to Penglai Immortal Island in the North Sea.
• Beichen sensed the Heavenly Dao stir as the siblings arrived, and a universe-shaking Daoic sound rang out beyond the Three Immortal Islands.

Hongjun announced his second sermon, and Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao decided to attend to pursue the Quasi-Saint Realm. Beichen welcomed the siblings to the Three Immortal Islands and left Nuwa waiting outside, saying he would speak with her at the Zixiao Palace in a hundred years.

• Hongjun announced that he would teach the Dao of the Quasi-Saint at the Zixiao Palace in one hundred years.
• Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao decided to attend Hongjun’s sermon, and Beichen approved of their choice.
• Zhao Gongming suggested that Beichen might be gathering sages to contend with Hongjun, and Beichen said he hoped to coexist with him.
• Beichen invited Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao to explore the Three Immortal Islands and planned a welcoming banquet.
• Nuwa called for Beichen from outside the Three Immortal Islands, but Beichen stayed with his guests and said he would speak with her at the Zixiao Palace in a hundred years.

Beichen welcomed Zhao Gongming, Yunxiao, and the Three Sisters of Sanxiao to his Immortal Island Palace, where discussing the Dao helped them reach the perfected Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm. He brought them to the Zixiao Palace just before Hongjun’s lecture, where Hongjun announced that proving the Dao through laws was a dead end and called its practitioners “stuck-at-the-top” or “fake” Quasi-Saints.

• Beichen chose to attend Hongjun’s lecture and received a Chaos Bead from the system, then told Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao that he planned to go to the Zixiao Palace.
• Beichen hosted Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao, and decades of discussing the Dao helped Zhao Gongming and the Three Sisters of Sanxiao reach the perfection of the Great Luo Golden Immortal Realm.
• With only a few years remaining before the lecture, Beichen gathered his cultivators and transported them to the Zixiao Palace, while Qiongxiao and Bixiao stayed behind.
• Hongjun opened the palace gates after many powerful cultivators arrived and prepared to begin his lecture.
• Hongjun declared that using laws to enter the Quasi-Saint Realm led to a dead end, leaving the assembled cultivators stunned when he called them fake Quasi-Saints.

Hongjun told his disciples that Law Proving Dao could no longer lead to Sainthood and promised to replace their cultivation with his Three Corpses method. As Hongjun began explaining the remaining paths to Sainthood, Dijun and Taiyi wondered whether Beichen’s progress disproved his claim.

• Grand Pure Lord of Morality, Primordial Lord of Heaven, and Lingbao Tianzun asked Hongjun to correct their cultivation, and he promised his seven disciples they would become Saints.
• Hong Yun tried to make peace with Kunpeng, who resented him for taking the Saint Position; Hongjun noticed their karmic entanglement and expected Kunpeng to kill Hong Yun.
• Hongjun said he would erase his disciples’ Law Proving Dao cultivation and teach them to become Saints by slaying the Three Corpses, while leaving other cultivators to their own paths.
• Dijun and Taiyi questioned Hongjun’s claim that Law Proving Dao could only reach the early Quasi-Sage stage, since Beichen had advanced further, and decided to ask their master about it.
• Hongjun explained that Pangu’s creation of the world had scattered the laws, making Law Proving Dao a dead end, and introduced slaying the Three Corpses and Heavenly Dao merit as the remaining paths to Sainthood.

Old Ancestor Hongjun explained the Three Corpses, Inner Demons, and the differences between the three paths to sainthood. Beichen woke to a foul smell during the lecture, and Hongjun angrily accused him of disrupting the gathering again.

• Old Ancestor Hongjun explained that the Good Corpse, Evil Corpse, and corpse of obsession had to be severed to become a complete saint, and described how Inner Demons arose after the Dao-Devil War.
• Nuwa asked why Inner Demons existed, and Hongjun recounted the war and warned that Inner Demons could seize cultivators’ lives during advancement.
• After five hundred years of lecture, Jieyin asked how to sever the Three Corpses, but Hongjun said he would explain that later and began discussing sainthood through merit.
• Hongjun compared the paths to sainthood and declared that the Twelve Ancestral Witches could never become saints through the path of laws, prompting Houtu to look at him with disdain.
• Beichen woke to the smell of Hong Yun’s fart, complained aloud, and Hongjun accused him of repeatedly disrupting the lectures at Zixiao Palace.

Beichen challenged Old Ancestor Hongjun’s claim that the Laws path could not lead to Sainthood, while hiding that he had already become a Great Dao Saint. A foul smell disrupted the lecture, and Hong Yun finally admitted he had caused it by eating too many Innate Yellow Beans.

• Beichen fanned away Hong Yun’s stench and argued that the Laws path could lead to Sainthood, drawing angry rebukes from Old Ancestor Hongjun and the other disciples.
• Beichen said he had glimpsed a way to prove the Dao through the Laws, exciting Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, and Zhen Yuanzi, but he stayed silent when Hongjun pressed him on whether he was already a Saint.
• Beichen kept his Great Dao Saint status secret because he feared the attention and upheaval it would bring.
• Changxi, Xihe, and the other cultivators smelled the fart and began fanning their noses, prompting Old Ancestor Hongjun to accuse them of insulting him.
• Bai Xiaoya hid behind Beichen as Hongjun scolded her, and Beichen defended her before Hong Yun admitted he had let out the fart after eating too many Innate Yellow Beans.

Beichen slept through Hongjun’s second lecture while the Ancestral Witches debated who had attacked Qiangliang and whether Hongjun threatened their clan. Dijiang concluded that Hongjun was securing his own destined connection, ordered the campaign against the demons to continue, and planned to visit Beichen after the lecture.

• Hongjun scolded Hong Yun, then lectured on the paths to sainthood as Beichen recorded his voice without listening.
• Beichen observed that fewer than a hundred guests attended the second lecture and fell asleep again.
• The Ancestral Witches discussed the force that had suppressed Qiangliang and considered Hongjun, Luohu, Yang Mei, and Beichen’s possible backers.
• Goumang argued that Hongjun had attacked Qiangliang to secure his destined connection, and Dijiang accepted the explanation.
• Dijiang ordered Zhurong and Qiangliang to continue fighting the myriad races and said he would visit the North Sea Black Tortoise after Hongjun’s lecture.

Dijiang ordered the Ancestral Witches to cultivate and prepare for conflict with the Demon Race while he worried over their strength and Houtu. At the end of Hongjun’s second lecture, Hong Yun’s fart emptied Zixiao Palace, and Nuwa tried to catch Beichen before he could leave.

• Dijiang sent some Ancestral Witches to weaken the Demon Race and told the rest to cultivate at Hongmeng Divine Mountain.
• Dijiang concluded that Houtu had reached the Quasi-Sage Realm and hoped more Ancestral Witches would soon break through.
• Nuwa considered whether to pursue merit-based sainthood and planned to ask Beichen for guidance, but found him asleep during Hongjun’s lecture.
• Hongjun explained that severing the Three Corpses required a Supreme Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, then ended the lecture.
• Hong Yun’s unbearable fart filled Zixiao Palace, prompting Beichen and Bai Xiaoya to flee and Hongjun to send Hong Yun away.
• Nuwa called after Beichen, but Zhao Gongming nearly revealed that she had searched for him before, so Beichen covered his mouth.

Beichen waited outside the Zixiao Palace while Hong Yun’s foul accident drove away the cultivators and frustrated Kunpeng’s attempt to kill him. After Hong Yun left, the stench faded, and Zhen Yuanzi approached Beichen.

• Zhao Gongming covered up how he had found Beichen, and Nuwa entered the Zixiao Palace to hear Hongjun’s instructions.
• The cultivators mocked Hong Yun for soiling himself, while Zhen Yuanzi, Kunpeng, and Beichen stayed behind; Beichen sent his disciples and Ling Cair away.
• Beichen urged Hong Yun to leave, and Hong Yun flew off while Kunpeng followed, intending to kill him.
• Kunpeng nearly attacked Hong Yun but fled from the overwhelming stench, leaving Hong Yun unaware that his accident had saved his life.
• After Hong Yun departed, the air cleared, and Zhen Yuanzi greeted Beichen.

Beichen arranged to discuss the path to Sainthood with Zhen Yuanzi, Hong Yun, and Kunpeng, while Hongjun tried to guide his disciples toward the Three Corpses path. The chapter ended with Nuwa still considering the Merit Saint path and Jieyin and Zhunti postponing their choice.

• Beichen invited Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun to visit him in the North Sea in fifty years to discuss the Law Saint path.
• Kunpeng asked Beichen for guidance on advancing after entering the Quasi-Saint Realm through the path of laws, and Beichen invited him to Immortal Island Palace in a hundred years.
• East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West waited outside Zixiao Palace, hoping Hongjun would help them change their cultivation paths.
• Hongjun asked his six disciples to let him set their cultivation paths straight, and the Sanqing agreed to follow the Three Corpses Saint method.
• Nuwa asked whether she could pursue the Merit Saint path, and Hongjun told her to return once she had decided.
• Jieyin and Zhunti deferred their decision while Hongjun set the Sanqing's path, prompting him to regard them as insincere.

Hongjun corrected Sanqing’s cultivation path and bestowed three treasures made from the Creation Green Lotus, while Jieyin and Zhunti pleaded for treasures of their own. Hongjun finally agreed to bestow a treasure on them for the sake of the Western lands.

• Hongjun stripped Sanqing of their law-based cultivation and explained that they should follow his Three Corpses method to become Quasi-Saints.
• Hongjun transformed the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus into the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, the Green Ping Sword, and the Taiyi Fly Whisk.
• Grand Pure Lord of Morality, Yuanshi, and Tongtian each claimed a treasure, which Hongjun said could help them sever their corpses.
• Jieyin and Zhunti complained that Hongjun had given treasures only to Sanqing, then pleaded and wept for treasures to aid the people of the Western lands.
• Hongjun relented and agreed to bestow a treasure on Jieyin and Zhunti.

Hongjun distributed the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree to Jieyin and Zhunti and the Red Embroidered Ball to Nuwa, then advised his disciples about their paths to sainthood. After leaving the Purple Sky Palace, Nuwa asked Beichen for guidance and mistakenly concluded that he had meant for her to become the Demon Ancestor.

• Hongjun gave Jieyin and Zhunti the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, and Jieyin objected that they had received only one treasure.
• Hongjun bestowed the Red Embroidered Ball on Nuwa and told her to seek him out if she chose the Three Corpses path to sainthood.
• Jieyin and Zhunti refused to abandon their Quasi-Sage cultivation, while Hongjun told East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West to keep governing the primordial world.
• The Sanqing hurried away from Beichen, and East King Duke and Queen Mother of the West entered the Purple Sky Palace to discuss their cultivation with Hongjun.
• Nuwa asked Beichen how she could become a Saint, and he told her that accumulating great merit could lead to sainthood regardless of whether she led the Demon Race.
• Nuwa misinterpreted Beichen's vague guidance and decided he meant that she should become the Demon Ancestor.

Nuwa decided to leave Buzhou Immortal Mountain and lead the Demon Race toward merit-based sainthood, while Fu Xi chose to pursue the path of laws. Fifty years later, Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun went to the North Sea to discuss the Dao with Beichen, who led them to the Three Immortal Islands.

• Nuwa told Fu Xi that she planned to lead the Demon Race against the Witch Clan and seek sainthood through merit, following Beichen's hints.
• Fu Xi said he would pursue the path of laws because he lacked a suitable treasure for severing a corpse.
• Nuwa waited for the Demon Race to return, but Bai Ze, Ji Meng, and the other great demons remained in seclusion for fifty years.
• Zhen Yuanzi visited Hong Yun, who said the Innate Yellow Beans had cleansed his body and improved his cultivation, and invited him to discuss the Dao with Beichen.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun searched for the Three Immortal Islands for two years before Beichen appeared and summoned them to his sanctuary.

Beichen welcomed Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi to the Three Immortal Islands, where they admired his palace and discussed the Dao. He revealed Hongjun’s true form and gave Hong Yun a path to advance through cultivating cloud laws, leaving the steps to sainthood for later.

• Beichen showed Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi the Three Immortal Islands and brought them to the Immortal Island Palace.
• Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun praised the palace, and Bai Xiaoya welcomed them as Beichen’s attendant.
• The three shared spiritual fruits and jade wine and discussed the Dao in the empty main hall.
• Beichen said Hongjun’s true form was an earthworm and explained that Hongjun became a Saint by entrusting himself to the Heavenly Dao.
• Beichen advised Hong Yun to gather spiritual cloud qi and seek the cloud qi laws left by Jin Yun at Mount Sumeru to reach the middle or late Quasi-Saint Realm.
• Hong Yun asked what came after that, but Beichen told him to first complete the cultivation he had described and reach the late Quasi-Saint Realm.