Chapter Summaries

Taiqing visited the Human Race at Mount Shouyang to investigate its connection to the Human Teaching and marveled at its rapid growth. After witnessing a human cultivator kill a Grand Unity Golden Immortal demon, he began to understand why Nuwa had gained so much Merit by creating the race.

• Taiqing traveled to Mount Shouyang to observe the Human Race and learn what made it special.
• Ming allowed demons to prey on humans as a trial, while arranging for human experts to defend the tribes and hunt the demons.
• Kunpeng and the other guardians noticed Taiqing's arrival but let him observe the Human Race.
• Taiqing witnessed a talented human cultivator slay a demon at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm.
• Taiqing sensed the Human Race's many powerful cultivators and unfamiliar cultivation systems, and recognized its extraordinary nature.

Taiqing traveled among the Human Race and devised the Golden Core Great Dao, but found no opportunity to spread his teachings and left. Meanwhile, Jieyin and Zhunti sought Merit and Fortune to become saints and decided to address the demonic qi corrupting the Extreme West.

• Taiqing studied the Human Race and comprehended the Golden Core Great Dao, but judged it insufficient to establish a sect and attain Merit Sainthood.
• Taiqing failed to persuade the forward-driving Human Race to accept his Way of Quiet Non-Action and left to travel the Great Wilderness.
• Jieyin and Zhunti sought ways to gain Merit and Fortune after learning it could help them achieve Three Corpses Unity and become saints.
• Jieyin and Zhunti turned their attention to the Extreme West, where demonic qi from the Heavenly Demon Realm corrupted Living Beings.
• Jieyin and Zhunti began considering how to resolve the demonic qi's corruption and earn Merit by defeating demons or awakening the afflicted.

Jieyin and Zhunti created the World-Crossing Scripture and used it to cleanse demonic energy in the Extreme West, gathering followers and Merit. Inspired by successful sect founders, countless cultivators established sects, but most received no Heavenly Dao response and still incurred the Karma of their oaths.

• Jieyin and Zhunti created the World-Crossing Scripture using the Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus and fragments of the Four Seasons Pure World Curse.
• Jieyin and Zhunti preached from the Merit Golden Lotus, cleansing corrupted Living Beings and gathering followers in the Extreme West.
• The Western Duo's efforts gradually restored the Extreme West and drew Merit and Fortune toward them.
• Quasi-Saints who practiced Severing Three Corpses announced the founding of sects, and some with complete doctrines received Merit from the Heavenly Dao.
• Da Luo Golden Immortals, Grand Unity Golden Immortals, and countless other cultivators imitated the sect founders, but most received no response from the Heavenly Dao.
• Many unsuccessful founders remained bound by their oaths and sect Karma as new sects competed for resources and Calamity Qi rose.

Di Jun and East King Duke moved to establish teachings for the Monster Race and Immortal Court, hoping to gain Merit and strengthen their factions. East King Duke also planned to use the Immortal Teachings to test Candle Dragon and extend his influence over the Water Tribes.

• Di Jun proposed founding the Yao Teachings, and the Monster Race leaders agreed to discuss a complete system.
• East King Duke proposed establishing teachings for the Immortal Court.
• East King Duke considered how to involve Candle Dragon’s allied Dragon Clan without disregarding their interests or provoking them.
• East King Duke hoped to bring the Water Tribes under the Immortal Teachings and strengthen the Immortal Court before the Saints turned their attention to it.

East King Duke privately approached Candle Dragon to discuss founding a sect and revealed that he had begun cultivating Heavenly Venerate Styx’s World Dao. Candle Dragon, seeking a way to overcome his lingering Karma and attain Dao, became interested in learning more.

• East King Duke invited Candle Dragon to the rear hall and served him Spirit Tea before asking his opinion of the sect plan.
• Candle Dragon praised the plan but reminded East King Duke that the Dragon Clan’s aid would require an appropriate price.
• East King Duke warned that Di Jun might also establish a sect and said they had little time left to attain Sainthood.
• East King Duke admitted that founding a sect might not make him a Saint because he lacked Primordial Violet Qi and Pangu ancestry.
• East King Duke revealed that he had been cultivating Heavenly Venerate Styx’s World Dao, surprising Candle Dragon and drawing his interest.

East King Duke explained that Immortal Court and the Monster Race had reached a stalemate and proposed using Candle Dragon’s Water Tribe forces to defeat their rival and gain fortune. Candle Dragon recognized the danger to the forces he had worked to preserve, leaving him reluctant to agree.

• East King Duke said that advancing his World Dao required resources and opportunities beyond Immortal Court’s current means.
• East King Duke explained that Immortal Court and the Monster Race avoided war because neither could defeat the other without suffering heavy losses.
• Candle Dragon reflected on how the Three Clans might have survived if their leaders had acted as calmly as East King Duke and Di Jun.
• Candle Dragon urged East King Duke to get to the point, and East King Duke proposed using Candle Dragon’s forces to defeat the Monster Race and help cleanse the Dragon Clan’s Karma.
• Candle Dragon realized East King Duke meant the Water Tribe forces under his command and struggled with the request.

East King Duke negotiated with Candle Dragon for the Dragon Clan’s support and the allegiance of its subordinate water tribes. Candle Dragon accepted after East King Duke offered him high positions and a share of the sect’s and Immortal Court’s Fortune.

• Candle Dragon decided to help East King Duke, seeing that the Dragon Clan would suffer if the Immortal Court fell and recognizing a chance to discipline disobedient water tribes.
• Candle Dragon emphasized the Dragon Clan’s reliance on the water tribes’ Fortune to press East King Duke for benefits.
• East King Duke offered Candle Dragon the position of Vice Sect Master and thirty percent of the future sect’s Merit and Fortune.
• When Candle Dragon held out for more, East King Duke offered him the title of Dragon Lord of the Immortal Court, second only to East King Duke, with a share of its Merit and Fortune.
• Candle Dragon accepted East King Duke’s terms on behalf of the Dragon Clan.

Di Jun established the Yao Teachings after imprinting an improved Demon Pill Method into the Monster Race’s bloodline inheritances, gaining Heavenly Dao Merit and strengthening the race’s Fortune. Tai Yi stored his Merit in the Chaos Bell to help refine it, while Di Jun took the Sect Leader position that had originally belonged to Nuwa.

• East King Duke and Candle Dragon agreed on the Immortal Court’s sect leadership, elder, and Dharma Protector positions, then began planning its establishment.
• Di Jun and the Monster Race’s leaders completed preparations for the Yao Teachings and gathered at the Sacrificial Altar a thousand years later.
• Di Jun established the Yao Teachings, named Tai Yi Vice Sect Master, and declared that the Chaos Bell would suppress its Fortune.
• Di Jun used Kunpeng’s Bloodline Dao Scripts to imprint the improved Demon Pill Method into the Monster Race’s bloodline inheritances.
• The Heavenly Dao bestowed Merit, and the Monster Race’s Fortune increased as its members gained a lasting path to cultivate and restore their bloodlines.
• Tai Yi stored his Merit inside the Chaos Bell to refine its restrictions, while Di Jun’s cultivation advanced and he took the Sect Leader position originally meant for Nuwa.

East King Duke and Candle Dragon established the Immortal Dragon Sect by creating a method that let beings with dragon blood strengthen their lineage and transform into dragons. Heavenly Dao Merit rewarded their work, lifting Candle Dragon’s Karma and advancing East King Duke’s cultivation.

• East King Duke and Candle Dragon agreed to combine the Rune Dao with bloodline cultivation and develop the All Things Transform into Dragon Method.
• The Immortal Court and Candle Dragon created a method that turned dragon blood into Bloodline Runes, allowing cultivators to strengthen their bloodlines and gain the chance to become dragons.
• East King Duke proclaimed the Immortal Dragon Sect and named the Nine Dragon Golden Staff as its treasure to suppress the sect’s Fortune.
• Candle Dragon sent Ancestor Dragon bloodline from the Ancestor Dragon Pearl into the East Sea’s Sea Eye, letting the Water Veins carry it throughout the Great Wilderness.
• The Heavenly Dao granted the Immortal Dragon Sect abundant Merit, reduced the Dragon Clan’s Karma, and allowed Candle Dragon to approach a breakthrough while East King Duke advanced to Half-step Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin.

The Immortal Dragon Sect threatened the balance between the Immortal Court and the Monster Race by drawing in beings with dragon blood and giving East King Duke access to the Dragon Clan’s vast subordinate forces. As East King Duke strengthened the Immortal Court and organized the Four Seas Water Tribes, the Monster Race mobilized for a decisive war before its rival reached full strength.

• The Immortal Dragon Sect’s emergence alarmed the Monster Race’s leaders, who feared that dragon-blooded members of their ranks would increasingly transform into dragons.
• The chapter explained that the Monster Race’s vast population gave it an advantage over the Immortal Court, while Candle Dragon’s alliance with East King Duke had originally been limited by the Dragon Clan’s decline and Karma.
• East King Duke abandoned the Immortal Court’s restrictions on innate origins and secured the Dragon Clan’s cooperation to expand the court’s strength.
• The Dragon Clan gave the Immortal Court authority over its subordinate Water Tribes, and East King Duke purged those who resisted while reorganizing the others into armies.
• The Monster Race mobilized its divisions and prepared to begin a decisive war before the Immortal Court reached its full strength.

Taiqing left the Human Race to seek his Dao as the Great Wilderness’s Calamity Qi rose and other mighty experts surpassed him. After gaining enlightenment at Shu Mountain, he established the Daoist Sect, attained the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal Realm, and sealed the Heavenly Dao’s influence over him.

• Taiqing left the Human Race and studied the Great Wilderness, resolving to find his Dao without hastily establishing a sect.
• Taiqing watched a waterfall at Shu Mountain and realized that his Dao was like water, benefiting all things without contention.
• Taiqing proclaimed the Classic of Dao and Virtue and established the Daoist Sect with the Taiji Diagram suppressing its Fortune.
• The Heavenly Dao answered Taiqing’s prayer, and gathered Fortune and Merit helped him attain the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal Realm.
• Taiqing accepted the Saint Fruit and used the Taiji Diagram to seal the Heavenly Dao’s influence as Purple Qi spread from Shu Mountain.

After attaining Sainthood, Taiqing chose Shu Mountain as his Dojo, and Yuanshi and Tongtian agreed that the Sanqing should establish separate Dojos to prevent conflicts among their disciples. They parted on good terms, with Kunlun Mountain remaining with Yuanshi and Tongtian keeping a suitable Immortal Mountain for himself.

• Taiqing's Dao Resonance transformed Shu Mountain, making it capable of bearing his Saint Dao Resonance.
• Yuanshi and Tongtian arrived to congratulate Taiqing on attaining Dao.
• Taiqing explained that he wanted to establish his Dojo at Shu Mountain and that the brothers should preach from separate places to avoid conflicts among their disciples.
• Tongtian said he had found an Immortal Mountain fated to him and agreed that Yuanshi could keep Kunlun Mountain.
• Taiqing reminded Yuanshi and Tongtian that the Sanqing shared the same origin and urged them to teach their disciples to support one another.

After Sanqing finished discussing the Dao on Shu Mountain, Tongtian traveled to Maoshan and established it as his dojo for the Intercepting Sect Lineage. He began expounding his Great Dao there, with the transformed Zhenyuanzi helping manage the dojo.

• Sanqing discussed the Dao on Shu Mountain for ten thousand years, nourishing the mountain and improving the spiritual creatures living there.
• Yuanshi returned to Kunlun Mountain to oversee accepting disciples, while Tongtian left to establish his inheritance at a mountain he had discovered earlier.
• Tongtian chose Maoshan, whose Cave Heaven had advanced to the Great Thousand World level and could withstand a Saint's Dao Resonance.
• Tongtian established his dojo at Maoshan, laid down a protective mountain Formation, and began expounding his Great Dao.
• Tongtian's pet mouse transformed into a chubby Zhenyuanzi and began helping him manage the dojo.

Jieyin and Zhunti established the Western Teachings, but their accumulated Merit was not enough to become Saints. They issued one hundred and eight Great Vows to borrow Merit from the Heavenly Dao, taking on vast Karma as they finally reached sainthood.

• Jieyin and Zhunti returned to Mount Meru with their converted believers after converting the final Demonic Creature.
• Jieyin and Zhunti taught the Great Dao for a thousand years, then established the Western Teachings with the Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus suppressing its Fortune.
• The Heavenly Dao granted them Merit, but it was insufficient to unite their Three Corpses and make them Saints.
• Jieyin and Zhunti used the Primordial Violet Qi to issue Great Vows and borrow Merit from the Heavenly Dao.
• Hongjun redirected the Karma he owed the West onto Jieyin and Zhunti, forcing them to make one hundred and eight vows before they became Saints.

Jieyin and Zhunti became Saints after making one hundred and eight Great Vows, taking on immense debts of Heavenly Dao Merit. Styx explained the Heavenly Dao’s motives to Wood Spirit, then secretly sent the Sanqing a message that left them choosing to wait and see.

• Jieyin and Zhunti fused their origins with the Primordial Violet Qi and Saint Fruits, becoming Saints whose Nascent Souls were entrusted to the Heavenly Dao.
• Countless beings in the West praised the newly crowned Saints, who accepted their status despite the karma they had incurred.
• Styx and Wood Spirit discussed the Western Duo’s Great Vows and the Heavenly Dao’s reasons for lending them Merit.
• Wood Spirit worried that the five Heavenly Dao Saints might threaten the Blood Sea, but Styx said their divided authority and independence made that unlikely.
• Styx sent a message to the Sanqing through his Earth Vein Incarnations, and the three brothers decided to wait and see.

Styx and Wood Spirit discussed the Five Saints before Styx spotted Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao sisters fleeing an Innate Yin Yang Flood Dragon. Styx captured the dragon, and the four survivors flew over to meet him and Wood Spirit.

• Styx explained to Wood Spirit that the Five Saints had firm Dao hearts and speculated that Yuanshi's will might stand in for Heaven's Heart.
• Styx and Wood Spirit noticed Qing Feng fleeing with three companions while an Innate Yin Yang Flood Dragon pursued them.
• Styx recognized the group as Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao sisters and caught the dragon with his fishing rod.
• Styx examined the captured dragon and considered its scales and innate killing aura suitable for refining a powerful artifact.
• Qing Feng and his three companions stopped, transformed into one man and three women, and flew toward Styx and Wood Spirit.

Styx and Wood Spirit saved Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao sisters from the Yin-Yang Flood Dragon, then offered them a place in their sect. The four accepted Wood Spirit as their Master and learned their ranks and that Pixiu was their senior disciple brother.

• Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao sisters thanked Styx and Wood Spirit for saving their lives.
• Styx asked how they would repay him, and Zhao Gongming and the sisters offered to serve him.
• Styx invited the four to enter his sect, and they accepted after learning he was Heavenly Venerate Styx.
• Styx asked Wood Spirit to take Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao sisters as her disciples, and she agreed.
• The four bowed to Wood Spirit, who named Zhao Gongming her second disciple and told them Pixiu was their senior disciple brother.

Styx welcomed Zhao Gongming and Sanxiao into the Blood Sea Lineage, guided their cultivation, and forged a powerful Yin Yang Formation Disk intended for Bixiao. The four disciples continued tempering their bodies while Styx prepared the treasure to protect Bixiao and support her future cultivation.

• Styx affirmed that Zhao Gongming and Sanxiao were Blood Sea Lineage disciples and instructed them to follow its rules in the Great Wilderness.
• Styx arranged Blood Scripture Projections for the four disciples, and Wood Spirit taught them as they quickly advanced to the Golden Immortal Peak.
• Styx restricted their Nascent Soul cultivation and had them focus on tempering their weak physical bodies with the Blood Sea's abundant resources.
• Styx refined the Innate Yin Yang Flood Dragon and two Innate Dragon Clan bodies in the Universe Cauldron into a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure called a Formation Disk.
• Styx made the Formation Disk a trapping and defensive treasure, with a blunt striking function, and planned to give it to Bixiao as her Natal Dao Treasure.

Styx refined protective Spiritual Treasures for his disciples, choosing Natal Dao Treasures and World Attainment over the Severing Three Corpses Method. He prepared a Five Elements Formation Disk for Zhao Gongming, an enhanced Primordial Golden Dou for Yunxiao, and an Earth, Fire, Water, Wind Formation Disk for Qiongxiao, then decided such disks would become standard issue for the Blood Sea Lineage.

• Styx refined the Dragon Sinews into a Top-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure, the Dragon Binding Rope, and decided to give his disciples supportive treasures rather than offensive ones.
• Styx chose Natal Dao Treasures and World Attainment for his disciples and refined a Supreme Innate Five Elements Formation Disk for Zhao Gongming.
• Styx combined the Primordial Golden Dou with Star Dou Fruit and the Nine-Bend Yellow River Array to create a Primordial Chaos Small World for Yunxiao.
• Styx refined a Supreme Innate Four Symbols Formation Disk from Phoenix Clan bodies for Qiongxiao.
• Styx decided that Formation Disks would become standard issue for the Blood Sea Lineage.

Styx bestowed Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao sisters with Spiritual Treasures, Immortal Robes, and Pure World White Lotuses, then sent them to refine their new treasures. He continued preparing Formation Disks for his disciples and planned to pass on the method of making them.

• Styx explained the treasures’ functions and refinement requirements, then gave each of the four a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure, with Zhao Gongming also receiving a Top-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure.
• Styx added On Several Methods of Bludgeoning to Zhao Gongming and Bixiao’s Blood Scripture Projections and gave the four Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Immortal Robes.
• Styx gave each of the four a Nine Ranks Pure World White Lotus to help steady their emotions and outlined a standard allotment of lotus treasures and Formation Disks for future disciples.
• Bixiao briefly wondered whether being hunted again might bring more rewards, but the Pure World White Lotus helped interrupt the thought.
• The four thanked Styx, who dismissed them to refine their treasures and prepare their Natal Dao Treasures.
• Styx had Wood Spirit watch over things while he resumed refining Formation Disks, starting with a set for Six-Eared Macaque, and planned to pass the refining method down.