Chapter Summaries

Beichen explained the hidden difficulties in the paths to Sainthood and showed Hong Yun his future death at Kunpeng’s hands. He promised to help Hong Yun change that fate, then revealed that Zhen Yuanzi would remain a Quasi-Saint despite pursuing Sainthood for ages.

• Beichen told Hong Yun that becoming a Saint through the Dao of Laws required reaching the late Quasi-Saint stage, and warned that a great tribulation awaited him.
• Beichen explained that severing the Three Corpses required three Supreme Grade Innate Spirit Treasures and an additional karmic opportunity, leaving Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi shocked by the path’s hidden obstacles.
• Beichen revealed scenes of Kunpeng ambushing Hong Yun and pursuing him until his soul entered the Styx of the Sea of Blood.
• Hong Yun asked Beichen to change his fate and pledged to follow him, while Beichen promised to mediate with Kunpeng and said Hong Yun would need to pay a price.
• Zhen Yuanzi asked Beichen to foresee his future, and Beichen said he would remain a Quasi-Saint for millions of years while seeking Sainthood and ultimately fail.

Beichen welcomed Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun into Immortal Island Palace after showing Zhen Yuanzi a vision of his frustrated future and encouraging him to keep pursuing Sainthood. When Kunpeng arrived a century later, Beichen urged Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi to leave before the two rivals met.

• Zhen Yuanzi watched a vision of his future stagnation at the middle stage of the Quasi-Sage Realm and lamented that he would never become a Saint.
• Beichen told Zhen Yuanzi that he would surely become a Saint, and the words raised Zhen Yuanzi's cultivation to the peak of the early Quasi-Sage stage.
• Zhen Yuanzi joined Immortal Island Palace as its second elder, while Beichen accepted Hong Yun as its third elder and warned that Hong Yun and Kunpeng still had to settle their grievances.
• Beichen told Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun they could return to their own homes rather than move into Immortal Island Palace.
• A century after Kunpeng's arrival, Beichen urged Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi to leave and avoid him for the time being.

Old Ancestor Kunpeng came to Immortal Island Palace seeking guidance on becoming a Saint through the Water Dao, and Beichen showed him how far his own understanding fell short. After revealing that he was already a Great Dao Saint, Beichen told Kunpeng that he would have to kill him to become a Saint of the Great Dao of Water.

• Old Ancestor Kunpeng explained his insights into the Water Dao, and Beichen said its three familiar states were only the foundation.
• Beichen described the Water Dao’s deeper state, No Law, Yet Heaven, and invited Kunpeng to test it with his strongest technique.
• Kunpeng unleashed his nine-colored divine light, but Beichen suppressed it instantly, alarming the attendants outside the main hall.
• Beichen demonstrated that water qi could become fire and freeze space, then revealed that he had become a Great Dao Saint.
• Kunpeng asked Beichen to show him how to become a Saint of the Great Dao of Water, and Beichen said Kunpeng would have to kill him first.

Beichen told Kunpeng that he could not become a Water Dao Saint in the primordial world and warned him to choose another Great Dao. Later, Nuwa agreed to become the Demon Ancestor, but Fu Xi’s vision of the Demon Court’s future left them worried that Bai Ze and Ji Meng had arranged another leader.

• Beichen explained that Kunpeng would have to gather the Water Dao principles of other practitioners to pursue sainthood, then revealed that he had already become a Water Dao Saint outside the primordial world.
• Kunpeng respectfully left for the North Sea after Beichen invited him to return once he chose a Great Dao.
• After 3,300 years of cultivation, Bai Ze and Ji Meng told Nuwa that the Demon Race was under attack, and she readily agreed to become its Demon Ancestor.
• Bai Ze proposed Fu Xi as Demon Chancellor, and Fu Xi accepted the position.
• Nuwa asked Fu Xi to use his Eight Trigrams Daoist arts to glimpse the Demon Court’s future, and Fu Xi reported that Bai Ze and Ji Meng had been persuasive.

Nuwa and Fu Xi organized the Demon Race’s leaders and established the Demon Court to oppose the Twelve Ancestral Witches. East King Duke arrived to propose an alliance, prompting Dijiang to order his assassination.

• Fu Xi learned that Dijun and Taiyi had become Demon Emperors and that Kunpeng had agreed to serve as Demon Teacher, while Nuwa reconsidered her assumptions about gaining sainthood through leading the Demon Race.
• Nuwa and Fu Xi discussed joining forces with Sanqing and possibly East King Duke against the Witch Clan, while Fu Xi said Queen Mother of the West and Beichen’s involvement remained uncertain.
• After a hundred years of ceremonies, the myriad demons established a magnificent Demon Court under Nuwa, Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, and Fu Xi.
• East King Duke arrived at the Demon Court to congratulate its leaders and propose an alliance between the Immortal Court and the Demon Court.
• Dijiang ordered Qiangliang to watch East King Duke and do everything possible to kill him as the opening sacrifice of the Witch-Demon War.

East King Duke was ambushed by Qiangliang, Zhurong, and Gonggong after allying his Immortal Court with the Demon Court, and he escaped to the East Sea with severe injuries. After waking from a nightmare that seemed to foretell his death, he returned to the Ancestral Witches and offered to ally with them against the ten thousand demons.

• Dijiang sent Qiangliang to ambush East King Duke and ordered Zhurong and Gonggong to support him without entering the Primordial Demon Ruins.
• After decades of feasting with the Demon Court’s leaders, East King Duke announced that his Immortal Court would join their alliance and set out to gather his forces.
• Qiangliang’s Thunder Witch Tribe ambushed East King Duke, and Zhurong and Gonggong joined the pursuit, badly wounding him.
• East King Duke used his Spirit Dispersion Blood Escape to break free and flee into the East Sea.
• After waking from a vivid dream of the Ancestral Witches killing him, East King Duke returned to their encirclement and offered to ally with them against the ten thousand demons.

East King Duke tried to persuade the Ancestral Witches to ally with the Immortal Court against the Demon Race, but Dijiang arrived and demanded proof he would keep his word. East King Duke swore a deadly oath to the Heavenly Dao, pledging to fight alongside the Witch Clan.

• East King Duke claimed the Ancestral Witches would be foolish to kill him and argued that an alliance with the Immortal Court would help them defeat the Demon Race.
• Qiangliang, Zhurong, and Gonggong doubted East King Duke because he had just considered allying with the Demon Race and repeatedly changed his position.
• Dijiang appeared, trapped East King Duke with his power over space, and demanded proof that he would honor the alliance.
• East King Duke swore to the Heavenly Dao that he would join forces with the Witch Clan against the Demon Race, or suffer the destruction of his Dao, body, and soul.

East King Duke swore to ally with the Ancestral Witches against the Demon Race, angering the Demon Court and alienating most of the Immortal Court. After two thousand years of battles brought both sides to a truce, Hongjun announced his third lecture, and Zhao Gongming and the Three Firmaments asked Beichen about becoming disciples of Lingbao Tianzun.

• East King Duke swore before the Heavenly Dao to join the Ancestral Witches against the Demon Race, prompting Nuwa to place a bounty on his head.
• Dijiang welcomed East King Duke as an ally, but most Immortal Court leaders rejected the alliance when East King Duke returned and announced it.
• The Ancestral Witches defeated the Demon Race in a major battle, forcing Nuwa and the other leaders to seal the Demon Ruins and suspend hostilities.
• Hongjun announced that his third lecture on the Dao of Sainthood would begin in a hundred years, and the five Demon Court leaders planned to attend.
• Zhao Gongming and the Three Firmaments told Beichen they wanted to become disciples of Lingbao Tianzun, and Beichen approved their plan.

Dijun and Taiyi sought Beichen’s guidance during the truce, then joined the other powerful cultivators traveling to the Zixiao Palace for Hongjun’s third lecture. At the palace barrier, Hong Yun and Minghe were denied entry, and Hong Yun asked Hongjun why.

• Dijun and Taiyi visited Beichen, discussed the Witch-Demon conflict, and received his advice to attend Hongjun’s lecture.
• A hundred years later, the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, Zhunti, and other cultivators set out for the Zixiao Palace while Xihe and Changxi stayed behind to guard the stars.
• Beichen arrived with Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao, who could not enter because they had not reached the required realm or were not fated to attend.
• Kunpeng, Dijun, Taiyi, the Three Pure Ones, and the other invited cultivators passed through the barrier after greeting Beichen.
• The barrier turned away Minghe and Hong Yun, and Hongjun told them they were not fated to attend the lecture.
• Hong Yun asked Hongjun why he would not let his disciple enter to listen to the Dao.

Hongjun turned Minghe away but also barred Beichen from entering Zixiao Palace, prompting Beichen to reveal that he could overcome the barrier. Hongjun recognized Beichen as a Great Dao Saint and reluctantly let him stay, leaving the gathered cultivators stunned.

• Hongjun kept Minghe out of Zixiao Palace, advised him to build his strength in the Blood River, and Minghe left with thanks.
• Hongjun barred Beichen from entering, while Dijun and Taiyi grew angry and prepared to leave in protest.
• Beichen released the aura of the Water Dao and passed through Hongjun's barrier into the palace.
• The cultivators realized Beichen had become a Saint, and Hongjun feared the threat to his position but assumed Beichen was newly ascended.
• Hongjun set aside his objection and allowed Beichen to listen to the lecture.

Old Ancestor Hongjun explained the risks and requirements of becoming a Saint by severing the Three Corpses or through merit. Beichen reassured Nuwa that she would become a Merit Saint, while Jieyin and Zhunti were left to work out Hongjun’s hint themselves.

• Old Ancestor Hongjun explained that severing all three corpses granted the qualifications for sainthood, while Two Corpse Saints faced an Obsession Tribulation.
• Lingbao Tianzun asked about the Obsession Tribulation, and Hongjun described how it could destroy a Saint or turn one evil; Beichen called the latter outcome turning evil.
• Lingbao Tianzun asked how corpse cultivators could obtain the opportunity to become Saints, but Hongjun said he would explain that method in private.
• Old Ancestor Hongjun told Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti that only one share of Heavenly Dao merit could lead to sainthood.
• Beichen promised Nuwa she would become a Saint through merit, and she said she trusted Dao Ancestor Beichen.
• Hongjun said Jieyin and Zhunti could draw boundless merit from the future world, but told them to figure out the method themselves.

Jieyin and Zhunti plotted to seek merit from the future Heavenly Dao while Hongjun finished his lecture and announced a treasure distribution. Beichen then revealed two gourds he had taken from Kunlun Mountain, leaving Hongjun furious.

• Jieyin and Zhunti discussed copying Beichen's appeal to the Great Dao by calling on the future Heavenly Dao for merit to become Saints.
• Beichen ignored Hongjun's lecture and slept standing up as the powerful cultivators listened for three thousand years.
• Hongjun concluded his lectures, announced that he would merge with the Heavenly Dao, and sent the cultivators to Treasure Distribution Cliff to claim treasures.
• Kunpeng reached the cliff first, found only mediocre treasures, and returned to Zixiao Palace before the others arrived.
• Hongjun set aside treasures for his six disciples and called Hong Yun to stay, while Beichen offered to bestow a treasure of his own.
• Beichen produced two Seven Treasure Gourds, and Hongjun accused him of stealing the gourds and vine from Kunlun Mountain and became enraged.

Beichen challenged Hongjun’s claim to the Seven Treasure Gourds and began giving them to his own allies and Hongjun’s disciples. Hongjun’s anger finally erupted when Jieyin and Zhunti also asked Beichen for gourds.

• Beichen argued that the Seven Treasure Gourd belonged to whoever found it, and Hongjun reluctantly held back his anger.
• Beichen gave the Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Red Gourd to Hong Yun, who revealed he had joined Beichen’s Immortal Island Palace as its Third Elder.
• Hongjun secretly planned for Kunpeng to kill Hong Yun after Hong Yun received the Hongmeng Purple Qi, while Kunpeng resented Hong Yun over the seat he had lost.
• Beichen gave Nuwa the Monster Summoning Gourd, which could command the myriad demons, and gave Lingbao Tianzun the Water Fire Gourd.
• Jieyin and Zhunti asked Beichen for gourds, prompting Hongjun to shout at them and accuse Beichen of overstepping before he had finished distributing treasures.

Beichen left Zixiao Palace after provoking Hongjun and warned Hong Yun, Dijun, and Taiyi about future dangers. Hongjun distributed treasures and seven strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi, then withdrew to unite with the Heavenly Dao, while East King Duke arrived too late and mistook a strand of purple qi for a gift.

• Beichen refused to give Jieyin and Zhunti gourds, taunted Hongjun, and left Zixiao Palace.
• Beichen advised Hong Yun to resolve his conflict with Kunpeng and warned Dijun and Taiyi to protect the Golden Crows and Twelve Moon Maidens.
• Hongjun bestowed Dao Treasures on his disciples, giving Lingbao Tianzun the most and Hong Yun no physical treasure.
• Hongjun gave seven strands of Hongmeng Purple Qi to his disciples, and Hong Yun handed his strand to Kunpeng as an apology for costing him the Saint Position.
• Hongjun announced that he would withdraw and unite with the Heavenly Dao, then vanished.
• East King Duke entered Zixiao Palace and mistook a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi for a treasure bestowed upon him.

Hong Yun handed Kunpeng the Hongmeng Purple Qi to settle their grudge, but East King Duke snatched it and fled, drawing Kunpeng in pursuit. Meanwhile, Beichen urged Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao to claim Lingbao Tianzun as their master, and they performed the disciple ceremony before he could respond.

• Hongjun bestowed Dao Qi on the Three Pure Ones and instructed each to establish a palace and religious school as the path to sainthood.
• East King Duke mistook Hong Yun’s Hongmeng Purple Qi for a gift meant for him, took it, and fled as Kunpeng gave chase.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi predicted that the Twelve Ancestral Witches might protect East King Duke from Kunpeng.
• Lingbao Tianzun stayed behind while the other two Pure Ones left to study the path to sainthood.
• Beichen told Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao to perform the disciple ceremony, and they bowed three times and kowtowed nine times to Lingbao Tianzun.
• Zhao Gongming asked Lingbao Tianzun to accept them as disciples after they had completed the ceremony.

Lingbao Tianzun accepted Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao as disciples after they bowed before the Heavenly Dao's Eye, while Beichen made him realize he had nearly harmed Shi Ji by taking her as a student. Lingbao gave his new disciples several powerful treasures and agreed to accept their sisters Bixiao and Qiongxiao, as Beichen resolved to change their fate himself.

• Lingbao Tianzun sensed Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao's powerful foundations and accepted them as disciples, with the Heavenly Dao's Eye witnessing their initiation.
• Beichen explained that taking Shi Ji as his disciple would have hindered her cultivation and burdened Lingbao with wrongdoing; Lingbao felt ashamed and asked how Shi Ji was doing.
• Beichen told Lingbao that Shi Ji had reached the middle stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm after fusing with spirit jade and divine stones from Kunlun Mountain.
• Beichen declared that a master should do anything to protect and support his disciples, moving Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao and making them regret not choosing him as their master.
• Lingbao gave Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao the Primordial Golden Dou, Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, and Twenty-Four Dinghai Pearls, then agreed to accept Bixiao and Qiongxiao as disciples.
• Lingbao left to contemplate the path to Sainthood, while Beichen resolved to change Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao sisters' fate.

Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao joined Immortal Island Palace with Qiongxiao and Bixiao, while Beichen planned to help the younger sisters improve their cultivation. Beichen then rescued Kunpeng from Dijiang and revealed that East King Duke had fallen into a scheme among the Ancestral Witches.

• Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao thanked Beichen for helping them become Lingbao Tianzun's disciples and offered to serve at Immortal Island Palace.
• Beichen accepted Zhao Gongming and Yunxiao as members, then agreed to take in Qiongxiao and Bixiao as well.
• Beichen worried that Qiongxiao and Bixiao's weak foundations would keep them from meeting the palace's cultivation standards.
• Kunpeng fled the Ancestral Witches after failing to reclaim the Hongmeng Purple Qi from East King Duke, and Dijiang blocked his escape with his laws of space and speed.
• Beichen intervened, broke Dijiang's hold, and sent him back to the other Ancestral Witches and East King Duke.
• Kunpeng thanked Beichen, who told him East King Duke had already fallen into a scheme and was under the Ancestral Witches' control.

The Ancestral Witches manipulated East King Duke into swearing to obey their orders, then planned to use him in an attack on the Three Pure Ones. After the Three Pure Ones established their teachings at Buzhou Immortal Mountain, Dijiang led the Ancestral Witches and East King Duke to strike before they attained sainthood.

• Beichen explained to Kunpeng that the Ancestral Witches were using the Hongmeng Purple Qi to bind East King Duke to their cause.
• Dijiang persuaded East King Duke to swear before the Heavenly Dao that he would fight anyone the Ancestral Witches ordered him to fight.
• The Ancestral Witches announced that they intended to attack the Three Pure Ones before they became Sages, leaving East King Duke distressed by his oath.
• Ten years later, the Supreme Pure One founded the Universal Teaching, Yuanshi founded the Chan Sect, and Lingbao Tianzun named himself Sect Master Tongtian and established the Interception Sect.
• Dijiang ordered the Ancestral Witches to bring East King Duke to Buzhou Immortal Mountain and attack the Three Pure Ones, while Houtu was away at Boundless Divine Mountain.

The Ancestral Witches marched on Buzhou Immortal Mountain to kill the Sanqing before they became Sages, while the Demon Race and Beichen's disciples chose not to intervene. The Sanqing and the attackers gathered at Sanqing Hall, where Dijiang began the second battle over Pangu's orthodox lineage.

• Dijiang ordered the eleven Ancestral Witches to attack the Sanqing, leaving Houtu a message because she was missing.
• Gonggong summoned East King Duke, and the Ancestral Witches headed for Buzhou Immortal Mountain.
• Kunpeng advised Dijun and the Demon Race to wait and see how the battle went before choosing whether to help the Sanqing.
• Beichen stopped Zhao Gongming and the Three Sisters of the Clouds from joining the battle, warning that they would only hinder their masters.
• Dijiang confronted the Sanqing at Sanqing Hall and declared that their fight would decide who inherited Pangu's orthodox lineage.

Sanqing tried to avoid a fight with Dijiang and the Ancestral Witches, but Dijiang found a pretext by accusing Taishang Laojun’s name of insulting Pangu. The Ancestral Witches attacked, and Sanqing fought back with their powerful treasures and Dao arts.

• Taishang Laojun stopped Dijiang and conceded that the Ancestral Witches held the title of Pangu’s true lineage, while Yuanshi and Tongtian also held back from provoking them.
• Dijiang accused Taishang Laojun of claiming superiority over Pangu, and the Ancestral Witches used the accusation to launch their attack.
• Taishang Laojun battled Dijiang, Goumang, and Qiangliang with the Taiji Diagram, the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, and the Divine Brush.
• Yuanshi fought Zhurong, Gonggong, Tianwu, and Xuanming with his treasures, while Shebishi’s poison attack on Taishang Laojun was blocked by Hongmeng Purple Qi.
• Tongtian repelled Xizi’s lightning with Qingping and drove back Gonggong and Zhujiuyin with the Purple Lightning Hammer and Fishing Drum.
• Gonggong urged East King Duke to join the fight against Tongtian and use his Hongmeng Purple Qi.