Chapter Summaries

While drifting through the East Sea, Styx and Wood Spirit accidentally entered a formation and discovered Golden Ao Island, a powerful Immortal Island suited to serve as a sect’s ancestral seat. Styx concealed its emergence and brought the boat inside, leaving the group to explore their unexpected discovery.

• The boat struck a formation while Zhao Gongming and the Sanxiao sisters and Styx were refining Spiritual Treasures, and Wood Spirit and Styx examined it.
• Styx recognized that the formation was beginning to fluctuate and suspected the island beyond it was Golden Ao Island.
• Styx quickly broke the formation, concealed the island’s emergence, and guided the boat inside.
• Styx identified the connected islands as Golden Ao Island and sensed the faint aura of a Chaos Demon God.
• Styx considered how Golden Ao Island’s origin and surrounding islands made it an ideal Dojo for Tongtian and the Sect of Interception.

Styx and Wood Spirit explored Golden Ao Island, which had formed from the body of a Chaos Demon God, while Zhao Gongming and the other three searched separately under Styx’s protection. They found few valuable treasures but enjoyed the outing, and Styx considered the island’s potential as a future dojo.

• Styx woke Zhao Gongming and the other three, protected them, and sent them to search Golden Ao Island for opportunities.
• Styx and Wood Spirit explored the central island, with Styx warning her that remnants of a Chaos Demon God might remain.
• Styx and Wood Spirit found only low- and mid-grade Innate Spiritual Roots as they wandered around the island.
• Styx reasoned that the island’s treasures were scarce because its lingering Slayer Qi had driven treasures away during the world’s creation.
• Styx and Wood Spirit continued sightseeing and treasure hunting, while Styx considered Golden Ao Island a suitable future dojo for his disciples.

Wood Spirit discovered four extraordinary Innate Spiritual Treasures and turned them into a bracelet before she and Styx reached a nurturing Formation at the center of Golden Ao Island. Inside, they found a sleeping crystal-like turtle whose Origin rivaled that of powerful Innate Divine Beings.

• Wood Spirit found the Sky-Opening Bead, Earth-Splitting Bead, Primordial Chaos Bead, and Sun-Moon Bead, all High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Wood Spirit combined the four pearls into a bracelet, and Styx praised how it looked on her wrist.
• Styx sensed a nurturing Formation in the island’s center and opened a passage through it without disrupting its operation.
• Styx and Wood Spirit entered the Formation and found a pond of unusual Divine Water with a crystal-like turtle sleeping at its center.
• Styx examined the turtle and discovered that its Origin rivaled that of some High-grade Innate Divine Beings.

On Golden Ao Island, Wood Spirit discovered Gui Ling and asked her to become a disciple. Gui Ling accepted and became Wood Spirit’s sixth disciple.

• Styx recognized the crystal-shelled Little Turtle as Gui Ling, whom he believed had a connection to the Chaos Demon God Golden Ao.
• Wood Spirit woke Gui Ling and offered to take her as a disciple.
• Wood Spirit introduced herself and Styx as Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals, easing Gui Ling’s hesitation.
• Gui Ling kowtowed and accepted Wood Spirit as her Master.
• Wood Spirit named Gui Ling her sixth disciple and transmitted information about herself, the Blood Sea Lineage, and her other disciples.

After Gui Ling became Wood Spirit’s disciple, Golden Ao Island empowered them with its Fortune, and Styx deduced Gui Ling’s connection to the island. Styx then entered a sealed formation on the island’s head and discovered a powerful tortoise formed from Chaos Demon God Baleful Resentment Aura.

• Gui Ling acknowledged Wood Spirit as her master, and Golden Ao Island’s Fortune empowered Wood Spirit through their connected Destinies.
• Styx deduced that Gui Ling originated from Golden Ao’s physical essence and Innate Spiritual Aura, giving her a claim to Golden Ao Island.
• Zhao Gongming and Sanxiao returned with a few resources, then exchanged introductions with Gui Ling.
• Styx entered the formation on the island transformed from Golden Ao’s head while Wood Spirit stayed with the others.
• Styx found a separate world filled with Baleful Resentment Aura and a powerful black ao tortoise formed from that aura.

Styx contained the Ao Turtle’s violent Baleful Resentment Aura and discovered that it concealed a powerful, damaged Turtle Shell. He suspected the shell belonged to the Chaos Golden Ao and had survived a strike from the Pangu Axe.

• The Ao Turtle roared, sending Black Dragons formed from Baleful Resentment Aura to attack Styx, who absorbed them with a specially refined Gourd.
• The Ao Turtle charged Styx, but he trapped it in a cage formed from Law Power and examined its instinctive, violent nature.
• The Baleful Resentment Aura contracted, revealing a dark-golden Turtle Shell that nearly broke Styx’s Law Cage.
• Styx recognized the aura of the Pangu Axe in the shell’s damage and suspected it was a shed shell of the Chaos Golden Ao.

Styx subdued the Turtle Shell and discovered it was likely the Chaos Golden Ao’s, then purified the vengeful spirit and examined the shell’s remaining power. He prepared the shell for Gui Ling to refine into a Natal Dao Treasure.

• Styx pulled the Ao Turtle Vengeful Spirit from the Turtle Shell, bound the shell with transformed Law Cage chains, and shrank it into his hand.
• Styx searched the vengeful spirit and learned it was an imprint of the Chaos Golden Ao, trapped in an Innate Formation after the Golden Ao became Golden Ao Island.
• Styx purified the vengeful spirit in the Twenty-Four Grade Pure World White Lotus, intending to give its Golden Ao Origin Power to Gui Ling.
• Styx drew the weakened Sky-Opening Axe light from the shell’s axe mark and absorbed it into the Equality Sword.
• Styx removed the resentful baleful aura from the shell’s inner space and placed the damaged but slowly healing shell in the Pure World White Lotus for purification.
• Styx decided the Turtle Shell would be a suitable material for Gui Ling’s Natal Dao Treasure.

Styx secured Golden Ao Island, then set out with Wood Spirit and his disciples for the North Sea to find the Black Tortoise. Meanwhile, the Underworld expanded its work processing the growing flood of souls, with Dream Spirit taking the role of Meng Po.

• Styx collected the formation world and turtle shell for later refinement, returned to Golden Ao Island, and established a formation that admitted only Blood Sea Lineage disciples.
• Styx sailed toward the North Sea to search for the North Sea Black Tortoise, while Gui Ling absorbed the Chaos Golden Ao's origin aboard the boat.
• As Calamity Qi grew turbulent, minor sects were destroyed and their dead souls overwhelmed the Underworld, forcing the Eighteen Layers of Hell to operate at full capacity.
• Dream Spirit created a Merit Incarnation and became Meng Po at the Bridge of Helplessness, where Underworld Virtue could provide her with Merit.
• Dijiang and Houtu linked the Great Thousand World beneath Zhou Mountain to the Underworld, while Houtu searched for more places to connect to Reincarnation and Dijiang prepared Great Witches to guard the portals.
• Ran Deng took a post at the Ghost Gate Pass, using his Lingjiu Lamp to guide Living Souls and earn Merit.

Taiqing, Jade Purity Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, and Zhunti announced plans to preach and recruit disciples, seeking Fortune to develop their sects. Their sermons would begin in ten thousand years, leaving the Great Wilderness’s Living Beings to choose among the five Saints’ teachings.

• Taiqing announced that he would preach at Shu Mountain and accept disciples into the Daoist Sect, since he could no longer draw Fortune from the Human Race or the Kongtong Seal.
• Jade Purity Yuanshi announced that he would accept disciples at Kunlun Mountain and set up trials to select candidates with strong foundations and Fortune.
• Tongtian announced that he would preach at Maoshan, welcome all who came to listen, and choose disciples for the Sect of Interception.
• Jieyin and Zhunti announced that they would recruit disciples at Mount Meru, where the West had recovered but remained somewhat less abundant than the eastern Great Wilderness.

As the Five Saints prepared to preach the Dao, Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book to block Eastern cultivators from traveling west, frustrating Jieyin and Zhunti. Meanwhile, Hongjun’s transferred karma allowed his strength to rise rapidly in the Purple Cloud Palace.

• News that the Five Saints would preach the Dao and accept disciples stirred cultivators across the Great Wilderness.
• Most Eastern cultivators avoided the Western Saints, while those still hoping to travel west were stopped by Zhen Yuanzi’s Earth Book formation.
• Because Western teleportation arrays required extensive resources, the blocked visitors turned back to hear one of the three Eastern Saints preach instead.
• Jieyin and Zhunti resented Zhen Yuanzi’s interference but feared Heaven and Earth’s judgment over the karma they owed, so they watched the visitors leave.
• Hongjun felt his strength rapidly increase with the Heavenly Dao’s aid after his karma had been transferred away.

Zhen Yuanzi used the Earth Book Great Formation to block the Two Saints of the West, while relying on Styx's protection of the Earth veins to keep the formation from being challenged. After Styx advised him to abandon the Three Corpses Dao, Zhen Yuanzi switched cultivation paths and planned to use the Earth Book and Ginseng Fruit Tree to create an Earth Immortal Realm.

• Zhen Yuanzi maintained the Earth Book Great Formation at Longevity Mountain, aware that it was only a facade against Saints because the Styx Incarnation guarded the Earth veins.
• Zhen Yuanzi blocked living beings from entering the West and humiliated the Two Saints of the West, who avoided testing the formation.
• Zhen Yuanzi reflected on the Blood Sea's hidden strength and grew more reverent toward Styx after learning about his work maintaining the Earth veins.
• The Styx Incarnation advised Zhen Yuanzi that the Three Corpses Dao had flaws and urged him to cultivate the Natal Dao Treasure Attain Dao Method and World Attain Dao Method.
• Zhen Yuanzi accepted the advice and changed cultivation paths, intending to use the Earth Book and Ginseng Fruit Tree to establish an Earth Immortal Realm.

Zhen Yuanzi opened a world within the Earth Book and discovered that its earth-rich environment could help spirits born from stones cultivate and advance toward Dao. The chapter left him beginning the path of gathering mountain-stone spirits, whose future growth could support the Great Wilderness’s Mountain God and Earth God system.

• Zhen Yuanzi felt renewed after opening a world with the Earth Book and beginning to cultivate the World Dao.
• The chapter explained that plants, bamboo, and stones in the Great Wilderness often struggled to cultivate and were coveted as spiritual resources.
• Styx’s plan for Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum was to gather plant spirits, help them grow with the Hundred Herbs Illustrated, and collect their Fortune.
• Zhen Yuanzi recognized that his Earth Book World could nurture mountain-stone spirits and help him gather their Fortune.
• Styx considered plant- and stone-born cultivators suitable future Mountain Gods and Earth Gods who could maintain the earth veins.

As the Five Saints prepared to preach the Dao and take disciples, Di Jun weighed the dangers of war against his ambition to destroy the Immortal Court and claim its providence. He summoned Tai Yi and Shang Yang to discuss his arrangements, but the chapter ended before he revealed them.

• Nearly ten thousand years passed as beings across the Great Wilderness chose which Saint's Dojo to visit, while the Immortal Court and Demon Race avoided major trouble.
• East King Duke sent subordinates to the Saints' Dojos to hear the Dao and observe potential disciples, then began preparing for war.
• Di Jun considered the danger of fighting the Immortal Court while Saints were rising, but remained determined to seize its providence and become a Saint.
• Di Jun worried about leaving Shang Yang and the ten Little Golden Crows behind, since their growth could greatly strengthen the Demon Race.
• Di Jun summoned Tai Yi and Shang Yang, then explained the Five Saints' preaching and the Demon Race's arrangements to Tai Yi.

Di Jun arranged for the Ten Golden Crows to seek a Saint’s tutelage before the war with the Immortal Court, hoping to preserve the Monster Race’s future. Tai Yi and Shang Yang set out with the ten children for Mount Shouyang, with Maoshan as a fallback.

• Di Jun told Tai Yi and Shang Yang he wanted the Ten Golden Crows to cultivate under a Saint so they would be safe if the coming war went badly.
• Tai Yi used the Chaos Bell to conceal the hall’s heavenly secrets, and Di Jun explained why Mount Shouyang’s lineage was their best first choice.
• Tai Yi and Shang Yang agreed to take the Ten Golden Crows to Mount Shouyang and to try Maoshan if they were refused.
• Di Jun instructed Shang Yang to prepare gifts and cultivation resources, and Tai Yi and Shang Yang departed with the ten children once preparations were complete.
• The Ten Golden Crows behaved well on the journey and controlled their Solar True Fire under Shang Yang’s strict upbringing.

Tai Yi and Shang Yang brought the ten Little Golden Crows to Mount Shouyang to ask Nuwa to shelter them from the coming Immortal-Demon war. The chapter ended with the children learning why they had been brought and grieving, while Tai Yi tried to quiet them before Nuwa responded.

• Tai Yi and Shang Yang led the ten Little Golden Crows to Mount Shouyang, where Six-Eared Macaque welcomed them on Nuwa’s behalf.
• Six-Eared Macaque guided the group to Nuwa’s cave, and Tai Yi and the others paid their respects.
• Shang Yang asked Nuwa to take in the ten Little Golden Crows, explaining that the Monster Race and the Immortal Court were nearing war and that he feared his children would perish.
• The ten Little Golden Crows realized their parents might not survive the war and pleaded to stay with Shang Yang and fight alongside the Monster Race.
• Tai Yi reprimanded the children and comforted them until they quieted down.

Nuwa agreed to take in the ten Little Golden Crows on the condition that they severed their Karma with the Monster Race, though she left open whether she would make them disciples. After Tai Yi and Shang Yang departed, the ten Golden Crows remained at Mount Shouyang to serve Nuwa.

• Nuwa told Tai Yi that the ten Little Golden Crows had to sever their Karma with the Monster Race before entering her sect, and that their future as disciples would depend on their performance.
• Tai Yi accepted Nuwa’s conditions, and the ten Little Golden Crows bowed to her as she accepted their gifts and used Human Dao Power to erase their Karma with the Monster Race, with Di Jun’s consent.
• The ten Little Golden Crows felt the loss of the Monster Race’s Fortune but also felt freed from their shackles and escaped the death tribulation awaiting them.
• Nuwa let the ten Little Golden Crows escort Tai Yi and Shang Yang to the foot of Mount Shouyang, where Shang Yang tearfully instructed her sons before leaving with Tai Yi.
• The ten Little Golden Crows watched Tai Yi and Shang Yang depart and remained behind to serve Nuwa.

Ming persuaded Nuwa to take the Ten Golden Crows under her guidance, saying their destined killing tribulation could be resolved through the Blood Sea lineage. Nuwa agreed and arranged for them to train with Six-Eared Macaque before entering the Human Race for further experience.

• Nuwa asked Ming why he had arranged for her to take the Ten Golden Crows as disciples, and Ming explained their importance and future potential.
• Ming planned to keep Nuwa occupied by assigning her the Ten Golden Crows and, later, talented members of the Human Race to guide.
• Nuwa decided the Ten Golden Crows could strengthen her disciples and thanked Ming for arranging their arrival.
• After the Ten Golden Crows returned, Nuwa assigned them to train under Six-Eared Macaque until they could control their strength.
• Nuwa planned for the Ten Golden Crows to enter the Human Race for training before she formally took them as disciples.

Jieyin and Zhunti began preaching on Mount Meru, hoping to recruit the western living beings and build the Western Teachings’ Fortune. As they preached, they secretly used a modified Method of Salvation to increase their listeners’ support for their teachings without erasing their self-awareness.

• Jieyin and Zhunti saw the crowds gathering on Mount Meru, then compared them with the better-founded listeners at the Three Saints of the East and blamed Zhen Yuanzi for the West’s weaker turnout.
• Jieyin stopped Zhunti from confronting Zhen Yuanzi and persuaded him to focus on preaching and recruiting the western living beings.
• Jieyin and Zhunti summoned golden light and Golden Lotuses, then appeared before the listeners and began expounding the Great Dao.
• Jieyin and Zhunti secretly infused their preaching with a modified Method of Salvation that influenced the listeners while preserving their self-awareness.
• Jieyin and Zhunti expected the listeners to seek membership in the Western Teachings and later spread their reputation across the western Great Earth.

Taiqing preached on Shu Mountain, where newly transformed beings became followers of the Daoist Sect and he noticed a willow spirit with a possible master-disciple affinity. On Kunlun Mountain, Yuanshi tested prospective disciples with the Nine Heavens Steps and approved of the few who had advanced far.

• As the Two Saints of the West preached, Taiqing began preaching on Shu Mountain, and his Dao Resonance gathered spiritual qi and helped listeners advance their cultivation.
• Several Shu Mountain beings underwent Form Transformation and became followers of the Daoist Sect, whose Fortune was connected to Taiqing.
• Taiqing noticed a newly transformed willow-tree spirit whose affinity with him seemed to match the trembling Two Forms Dust Talisman Seal.
• Yuanshi used formations and the Nine Heavens Steps to test candidates on Kunlun Mountain instead of publicly preaching the Dao.
• Yuanshi saw that only a dozen or so candidates had passed the sixth level and approved of their foundations, resolving to accept only the worthy.

Tongtian preached his Jie Tian Doctrine at Maoshan, while Jieyin and Zhunti persuaded the beings gathered on Mount Meru to join the Western Teachings. The Western Saints gained nearly thirty percent of the Western Continent’s Fortune and began building up Mount Meru.

• Tongtian arrived at Maoshan and began preaching as beings crowded the disordered grounds outside his Dojo.
• Streams of Sword Intent emerged from Tongtian’s Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, and those who resonated with them could become his disciples.
• After a thousand years of preaching, Jieyin and Zhunti’s listeners awoke and vowed to join the Western Teachings.
• Jieyin and Zhunti gained nearly thirty percent of the Western Continent’s Fortune, while the Blood Sea Lineage retained thirty percent and other beings held forty percent.
• Jieyin and Zhunti accepted personal disciples, including Maitreya, Pharmacist, and Mahasthamaprapta, then began a major construction effort at Mount Meru.