Chapter Summaries

Hongjun bestowed spiritual understanding on the Ginseng Fruit Tree and helped form a dragon-phoenix treasure from the valley’s Earth Veins. He witnessed his True Self create the Mortal Realm and the Pangu Banner, while Luo Hou’s view of his own Dao began to change.

• Hongjun found the Ginseng Fruit Tree, gave it a cultivation method and Xuanhuang Qi, and awakened its Spiritual Intelligence.
• Hongjun used Xuanhuang Qi to gather the valley’s innate Geng Earth Qi into a golden dragon and phoenix, which drew in the remaining fortune of the Primordial Era Three Tribes through the Dragon-Phoenix Treasure Record.
• Hongjun witnessed Pangu open the Mortal Realm, where Yin and Yang formed a Taiji Diagram that became a supreme treasure, and the shattered Sky-Opening Axe became the Pangu Banner.
• Pangu’s colossal figure transformed into the world, while a divine thought explained to Hongjun that the Mortal Realm would evolve naturally without spiritual energy or Heavenly Dao power.
• Luo Hou watched the creation of the Mortal Realm and reflected on Pangu, the Heavenly Dao, and whether he could accept disappearing into another being.
• Luo Hou’s malice diminished as his thoughts and cultivation shifted toward greater balance and harmony.

Hongjun preached to the plants of Mount Buzhou, saved Huangzhong Li from its karmic tribulation, and forged its companion treasure into the Qiankun Cauldron. He accepted Nuwa as his disciple, while Fuxi arrived skeptical of Hongjun and his teachings.

• Hongjun preached the Dao to Mount Buzhou’s flowers and grasses, awakening their Spiritual Intelligence.
• Huangzhong Li revealed its resentment and past role in sowing discord among the Primordial Era Three Tribes, and Hongjun agreed to help it survive its deadly tribulation.
• Hongjun cleansed Huangzhong Li’s Karmic Debt, transformed its companion treasure into the Qiankun Cauldron, and let Huangzhong Li enter it to recuperate.
• Hongjun met Nuwa, discussed the Dao with her for more than a hundred years, and accepted her as his disciple.
• Fuxi arrived at Nuwa’s cultivation place and doubted Hongjun’s worth as a teacher, while Hongjun sensed that Fuxi would never prove the Dao.

Hongjun guided Fuxi and Nuwa across Mount Buzhou, where they discovered the Xuantian Gourd Vine and its seven innate treasures. He helped Fuxi study the vine’s protective formation and taught Nuwa the Path of Creation, leading her to uncover Nine Heavens Breathing Soil tied to her future proving of the Dao.

• Fuxi challenged Hongjun about the nature of Heaven, then asked to become his disciple and was accepted as an honorary disciple.
• Hongjun took Fuxi and Nuwa on a tour of Mount Buzhou in search of opportunities and treasures.
• Fuxi attacked a powerful formation protecting the Xuantian Gourd Vine, but its power reflected his strikes until Hongjun opened a way through.
• The Xuantian Gourd Vine produced seven gourds; one flew to Hongjun, while the other six escaped, and the vine withered.
• Hongjun helped Fuxi comprehend the formation and taught Nuwa the Path of Creation as she studied the withered vine.
• Nuwa unearthed nine grains of Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, which Hongjun said was connected to her proving the Dao, while Hongjun refined the vine into a staff.

Lu Tian and True Man Ji Yin entered Five Poisons Valley and clashed with its powerful guardian, Five Poisons Hermit. After Lu Tian forced the Hermit to yield, he had him cure Ji Yin, and the Hermit explained why he stayed in the valley.

• Lu Tian and True Man Ji Yin entered Five Poisons Valley, fought off poisonous creatures, and collected a poison pill from a giant toad.
• True Man Ji Yin attacked a multicolored spider, but a poisonous giant hand struck him and left his body covered in blisters.
• Lu Tian met the giant hand with his killing-power hand, and the clash devastated the valley before a voice invited them inside.
• Five Poisons Hermit appeared, acknowledged Lu Tian's strength, and invited him and Ji Yin into the valley.
• Lu Tian asked Five Poisons Hermit to cure Ji Yin, and the Hermit drew the poison from his body.
• Five Poisons Hermit explained that he stayed in the valley because its innate poisonous creatures and clouds strengthened his abilities.

Lu Tian, True Man Ji Yin, and Five Poisons Hermit cleared the poisonous clouds around Five Poisons Forbidden Land Valley and continued recruiting and slaughtering across the Great Desolation. Meanwhile, Hongjun traveled Mount Buzhou with Nuwa and Fuxi, then sent his disciples away to prepare for the great tribulation a million years in the future.

• Lu Tian proposed using True Man Ji Yin's five Soul Gathering Banners to absorb the poisons, and Five Poisons Hermit traded him five spiritual fruits in return.
• Five Poisons Hermit used the Five Poisons Banner to absorb the poisonous clouds and creatures, clearing the valley and gaining a powerful formation.
• True Man Ji Yin tried to recruit a Blood Kirin cultivator by offering to fix his cultivation, but Lu Tian ordered him killed, and the formation crushed him and his companions.
• Five Poisons Hermit, True Man Ji Yin, and Lu Tian continued seeking recruits and greater power as slaughter spread through the Great Desolation; Great Desolate Skeleton and Heavenly Ghost also preyed on cultivators.
• Hongjun traveled Mount Buzhou with Nuwa and Fuxi, collecting treasures and spiritual roots before telling his disciples to return and prepare for the coming great tribulation.

Hongjun tracked a Chaos Living Being to the North Nether Sea and discovered Great Immortal Yang Mei in a hidden world beyond the North Sea Eye. After testing their strength and discussing the Dao and the primordial world's coming calamity, Hongjun and Yang Mei agreed to guide others and pursue their respective paths.

• Hongjun attacked Old Ancestor Xuanbing, who froze him and carried him through the North Nether Sea's icy maze and Three Lights Divine Water barrier.
• Old Ancestor Xuanbing brought the frozen Hongjun to a hidden celestial island, where Hongjun thawed and revealed that he had followed Xuanbing to find the being he sensed.
• Hongjun and Great Immortal Yang Mei discussed the Dao, then fought, with Yang Mei's spatial powers and Hollow Willow form stopping Hongjun's attacks.
• Yang Mei said a great calamity would strike the incomplete primordial world after a million years, and Hongjun said he hoped to help people avoid it.
• Yang Mei returned the spiritual treasures he had captured, gave Hongjun twenty-four Sea Calming Pearls, and accepted Hongjun's request to look after the Innate Five Elements Spiritual Roots.

Hongjun traveled to the Solar Star with Kun Peng, where Taiyi attacked them with the Chaos Bell before Di Jun intervened. After learning the Innate Binghuo Spiritual Root was gone, Hongjun agreed to help Di Jun meet the Taiyin Star deities and continued toward the Taiyin Star with Kun Peng, who asked to become his disciple.

• Kun Peng transformed from a fish into a Great Peng Bird, thanked Hongjun for saving him, and offered to carry him through the Primordial World.
• Taiyi attacked Hongjun and Kun Peng with the Chaos Bell, but Hongjun caught the falling Kun Peng with the Azure Lotus and stopped the bell’s ripples.
• Di Jun welcomed Hongjun and introduced Taiyi; Hongjun learned that the Fusang Divine Tree, the Innate Binghuo Spiritual Root, had fled after Di Jun and Taiyi damaged it.
• Hongjun asked whether deities had taken form on the Taiyin Star, and Di Jun agreed to accept his help in meeting Xi He and Chang Xi.
• As Hongjun and Kun Peng set out for the Taiyin Star, Hongjun discussed Karma, prompting Kun Peng to ask to become his disciple; Hongjun agreed to teach him the Dao.

Hongjun and Kun Peng secluded themselves in Kunlun to cultivate and enlighten beings born from Yin and Yang Qi. After Great Immortal Yang Mei arrived with several newly enlightened cultivators, he and Hongjun discussed how to create Heaven and Earth and prepare for the approaching killing tribulation.

• Kun Peng plunged toward Kunlun's lake of Chaos Essence, but Hongjun stopped him with the chaos-born green lotus and explained the danger of its Chaos Origin Qi.
• Hongjun and Kun Peng stayed in a bamboo hut, where Hongjun taught the Dao and helped the Yin and Yang beings take form within a golden lotus.
• Kun Peng advanced his understanding of wind and water laws, while Hongjun explained the Quasi-Saint realm and the Dao Fruits.
• Hongjun welcomed Great Immortal Yang Mei and four cultivators, including Zhen Yuanzi, Zhunti, the Geng Mountain Essence, and the Heaven and Earth Spirit Coffin.
• Hongjun and Great Immortal Yang Mei discussed the coming killing tribulation and a plan to create Heaven and Earth using the Chaos Bell, Taiji Diagram, and Pangu Banner.
• Great Immortal Yang Mei offered to use his Spatial Divine Ability to support the new Heaven and Earth while Hongjun used Pangu's vital essence to evolve it.

Tongtian departed after absorbing Pangu’s primordial spirit, while Luo Hou recruited Minghe to help spread negative energy through the Primordial World and develop his path of life and death. The Dragon Ancestor assembled new allies, then Fuxi appeared to warn him and demonstrate his power, leaving the Dragon Ancestor weighing his options.

• Tongtian thanked Xuanhuang for his help, learned that Luo Hou’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation threatened the Primordial World, and was sent toward the Primordial Continent.
• Luo Hou seized the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and explained that he planned to reshape the world by using its accumulated negative forces against Heaven and Earth.
• Luo Hou offered to teach Minghe the Way of Life and Death, and Minghe agreed to ally with him without accepting restrictions.
• Luo Hou instructed Minghe to lead his created race and the Netherworld’s Ghost Clan, zombies, and skeletons into battle to gather negative energy.
• Ao Yi told the Dragon Ancestor that Nine-Headed Ancestor had secured powerful cultivators and troops from the Asura Clan and Undead Clan.
• Fuxi attacked the Dragon Ancestor with his Five-String Zither, warned him to be wary, and left the Dragon Ancestor considering the offered way forward.

As the Primordial World descended into calamity, Di Jun recruited Taotie for his Demon Race while Lu Tian led the Scale Armor Race in attacks on the Beast Tribe and searched for Sky Slaying Halberd fragments. Haotian and Yaochi carried the Kunlun Mountains into the Chaos toward their teacher’s world, where they faced the Chaos Qi and quarreled along the way.

• Fuxi, Zhen Yuanzi, Nuwa, Kun Peng, Zhunti, and Jieyin traveled the Primordial World to guide its living beings away from the coming calamity, while Di Jun searched for powerful subordinates.
• Di Jun subdued Taotie and persuaded it to join his plan to establish a world ruled by the Demon Race.
• Lu Tian led the Scale Armor Race against the Beast Tribe, killed its cultivators, and continued searching mountain dwellings for Sky Slaying Halberd fragments.
• The Kunlun Mountains broke away from Mount Buzhou, and Haotian and Yaochi carried them toward the depths of Heaven and Earth.
• Haotian and Yaochi crossed into the Chaos, discussed their teacher’s power, and Yaochi used the Plain Colored Cloud Realm Banner to shut out Haotian.

As the Primordial Great Land’s calamity intensified, Phoenix Ancestor entered the new world and met Hongjun, who sent Tongtian with him to meet the child in Phoenix Ancestor’s wife’s womb. The Immortal Slaying Four Swords began emerging and killing on a vast scale, while the Dragon Clan’s campaign continued and a red-robed Daoist helped the wounded.

• Phoenix Ancestor left the Heavenly Fire Mountains and traveled to the new world, where Haotian led him to Hongjun.
• Hongjun told Phoenix Ancestor that the child his wife carried was destined to be connected to Tongtian, then sent Tongtian with him to the Primordial Great Land.
• Hongjun revealed that the Immortal Slaying Four Swords were emerging and that their sword auras had already killed tens of billions of beings and destroyed four sections of the Primordial Heaven and Earth.
• A vast sea of Vampire Vines fed soul power into twelve blood cocoons as violent changes swept through the Primordial Great Land.
• Luo Hou watched the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation absorb power and anticipated the arrival of its supreme treasure, while the Dragon Clan continued conquering sacred lands.
• A red-robed Daoist cleared blood and severed limbs from battlefields and used spirit liquid to treat wounded beings.

Hong Yun tried to reduce the Primordial World's Killing Qi as the Three Tribes waged devastating war, but Luo Hou targeted him and ordered Minghe to stop him. Minghe trapped Hong Yun in the Blood River Great Formation, where Hong Yun urged him not to serve Luo Hou.

• Hong Yun witnessed the Phoenix and Kirin forces win a costly battle against the Dragon Clan's vanguard, with the elite fighters on both sides suffering catastrophic losses.
• Luo Hou attacked Hong Yun with Destructive Power, but Hong Yun's Red Gourd swallowed the beam, and Hong Yun condemned the hidden forces driving the Primordial World toward ruin.
• Luo Hou, concerned that Hong Yun was purifying the negative forces needed by his plans, instructed Minghe to deal with him.
• Minghe hesitated but obeyed Luo Hou, surrounding Hong Yun with the Blood River Great Formation.
• Hong Yun used Red Sand to resist the blood river's corrosion, then warned Minghe against becoming Luo Hou's accomplice; Minghe activated the formation's full power.

Minghe’s Blood River Great Formation trapped Hong Yun until Zhen Yuanzi arrived and broke it, forcing Minghe and his allies to retreat. As Luo Hou’s Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram neared completion, the Twelve Ancestor Witches and the Three Pure Ones were born, leaving the Primordial World on the brink of upheaval.

• Minghe strengthened the Blood River Great Formation around Hong Yun, then attacked him with blood figures while the enchantress tried to bind and bewitch him.
• Zhen Yuanzi arrived and used the Dragon and Phoenix Treasure Record to break the formation, then shielded Hong Yun from the enchantress and made her retreat with Minghe and the Raging Ape.
• Luo Hou watched the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram absorb the negative forces gathering in Netherworld Land.
• The Vampire Vine poured its Essence Blood into twelve cocoons, and the Twelve Ancestor Witches emerged with powers over the elements and forces of nature.
• The Three Pure Ones—Shangqing Laozi, Yuqing Yuanshi, and Taiqing Tongtian—were born as the formation diagram neared completion.

Luo Hou identified the four spirits needed to complete the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram and sent his allies to capture them. Lu Tian subdued Azure Dragon, while the Nine-Headed Savage Lion captured Vermilion Bird, leaving both spirits in their enemies’ hands.

• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Nuwa, and other Great Divine Ability cultivators guided Primordial beings toward the new world as Luo Hou’s forces ambushed and slaughtered them.
• Luo Hou realized the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram needed four Artifact Spirits and chose Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Xuanwu, and Vermilion Bird as targets.
• Lu Tian trapped Azure Dragon in his Domain of Slaughter and drained his spiritual power while Azure Dragon tried to break free with his coral treasure.
• The Nine-Headed Savage Lion attacked Vermilion Bird, whose Iron Shard overcame his fire, but his Soul Gathering Banners and Mysterious Pearl let him seize part of her soul and subdue her.

Luo Hou completed the Immortal Slaying Formation Diagram by sacrificing the Four Spirits, then unleashed the Immortal Slaying Four Swords across the Primordial Great Land. As the swords slaughtered cultivators, the Dragon Ancestor learned that Azure Dragon had vanished and that Lu Tian had been gravely wounded protecting him.

• Luo Hou refined the Four Spirits into the formation diagram, where their resentful Primordial Spirits became its foundation.
• The formation diagram absorbed Star Power and solidified, and Luo Hou sent the Immortal Slaying Four Swords through the seals and into the Primordial Great Land.
• The swords slaughtered cultivators across the land, and they severed the Hundred-Armed Demon God's arms when he tried to claim them.
• Hongjun sensed the killing aura, calculated what had happened, and entered the Primordial Great Land, worrying that he might not defeat Luo Hou.
• At Ten Thousand Dragon Mountain, the Dragon Ancestor learned Azure Dragon was missing and heard Ao Meng suggest Lu Tian might have harmed him.
• The Asura Demoness reported that Phoenix Ancestor and Qilin Ancestor had wounded Lu Tian and that Azure Dragon had been obliterated while Lu Tian protected him.

Dragon Ancestor launched the Azure Dragon Shatters Heaven against the Phoenix Clan, while Ao Yi learned of a weapon fragment in Ao Feng’s treasury. The Phoenix Clan trapped and seemingly destroyed the giant dragon, but Dragon Ancestor transformed it into a Fire Dragon that swallowed the formation’s flames.

• Dragon Ancestor dismissed the witch’s suspicions about Vermilion Bird, revealed his breakthrough, and ordered the Dragon Clan to prepare for war.
• Ao Yi asked Ao Cang about the weapon fragment, learned it might be in Earth Dragon God Ao Feng’s treasury, and resolved to visit him.
• Dragon Ancestor sent the Azure Dragon Shatters Heaven toward Immortal Volcano, where it drained the living beings’ fighting spirit and Essence, Qi, and Spirit as it grew.
• The Phoenix Clan’s birds attacked the Azure Dragon, and their Eight Trigrams of Innate Li Fire Formation trapped and dismembered it.
• Dragon Ancestor sent an illusory dragon into the burning Azure Dragon, transforming it into a Fire Dragon that devoured the formation’s Innate Li Fire.

The Fire Dragon destroyed the Bird Tribe’s Li Fire formation and devastated the battlefield until the Phoenix Ancestor, Dragon Clan, and Kirin Clan leaders clashed over their treasures. As the three clans descended into full-scale war and countless beings died, two figures observed that the world was fated for destruction and departed to fulfill their teacher’s task.

• The Fire Dragon absorbed the Li Fire, slaughtered most of the Bird Tribe forces, and spread flames across a thousand miles of land.
• Kirin Clan and Beast Tribe cultivators arrived to fight the Fire Dragon, but its Samadhi True Fire killed more than a thousand Beast Tribe members.
• The Phoenix Ancestor used the Earth-Leaving Flame Light Banner to capture the Fire Dragon, but a Dragon Clan figure trapped the banner inside the Crystal Palace.
• The Kirin Clan’s Heaven and Earth Seal disrupted the Crystal Palace, allowing the Phoenix Ancestor to free the banner before the Dragon Clan figure escaped and sent his forces into battle.
• The Dragon Clan, Kirin Clan, and Phoenix Clan fought a devastating war that killed countless cultivators and ravaged the land.
• Two figures watched the carnage, noted that the world was destined for destruction and that the dead were gathering into the Dragon Phoenix Treasure Record, then left to carry out their teacher’s task.

Dragon Ancestor used his treasures to overpower Kirin King and battle Phoenix Emperor, while the three clans’ fighting continued to devastate the Primordial World. Nine-Headed Demonic Lion and Lu Tian then emerged with the Undead Clan, turning the fight against Dragon Ancestor’s rivals into a larger ambush.

• Dragon Ancestor used the Crystal Palace’s Saintly pressure to badly injure Kirin King, but Phoenix Emperor attacked with the Phoenix Divine Furnace and exposed that the pressure came from a treasure rather than a true breakthrough to Saint Level.
• Dragon Ancestor fought Phoenix Emperor with the Crystal Palace and Xuan Yuan Water Control Banner until Kirin King returned with the Kirin Seal to join the battle.
• The three quasi-Saints’ attacks battered the void and drew a response from the Green Lotus’s protective formation as the Primordial World continued to crumble.
• Nine-Headed Demonic Lion appeared from the void with eighty-one Soul Gathering Banners and the Undead Clan, and Dragon Ancestor called Lu Tian out of hiding.
• Phoenix Emperor and Kirin King attacked Dragon Ancestor, while Nine-Headed Demonic Lion provoked Phoenix Emperor into targeting him before Kirin King warned him not to fall for the trick.

Lu Tian and his allies were caught in battles across the primordial world as a lightning-wreathed giant attacked Minghe and other enemies pinned down the group. Lu Tian confronted Di Jun’s star formation and Chaos Bell, holding off their assault as the golden markings pressed against his Killing Qi Domain.

• A Sea of Lightning destroyed much of the Undead Clan, and Lu Tian rescued the Raging Ape from the heavenly thunder by pulling it into the Mysterious Pearl.
• The lightning tore through Minghe’s Blood River Great Formation, and Minghe attacked the bronze-bodied giant who had ambushed him.
• Lu Tian left the Nine-Headed Demonic Lion to guard their position after learning that True Man Ji Yin, the Five Poisons Hermit, the Great Desolate Skeleton, and the Heavenly Ghost were all fighting powerful opponents.
• The Nine-Headed Demonic Lion warned Lu Tian about Di Jun, and Lu Tian entered the starry region to confront him after a meteor attack challenged him to fight.
• Lu Tian destroyed Di Jun’s successive formations of stars with Killing Qi and killing intent, but Di Jun then struck him with the Chaos Bell.
• Lu Tian formed a Killing Qi Domain to resist the Chaos Bell’s golden markings, which began moving rapidly and sending golden radiance skyward.

Lu Tian survived Taiyi’s Chaos Bell by dispersing his true spirit throughout the world’s killing intent, then fought Di Jun and Taiyi with renewed strength. Di Jun and Taiyi held him off with the Chaos Bell and an incomplete star formation, and the chapter ended with all three facing one another in a tense standoff.

• Taiyi and Di Jun believed they had destroyed Lu Tian, but Lu Tian reformed from the remaining killing intent and struck Di Jun with Black Lightning.
• Taiyi attacked Lu Tian with the Chaos Bell while Lu Tian unleashed the world’s killing intent against the two brothers.
• Di Jun recovered with the help of Hetu Luoshu and used an incomplete star formation to evaporate Lu Tian’s black sea of killing intent.
• Lu Tian and Di Jun traded attacks as Lu Tian’s demonic shadows clashed with Di Jun’s nine stars, destroying both sides’ manifestations.
• Taiyi trapped and refined Lu Tian’s black sword with the Chaos Bell, while Lu Tian transformed his killing intent into a black lotus.
• Di Jun and Taiyi stood together beneath the Chaos Bell and starlight, facing Lu Tian in silence.