Chapter Summaries

Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi traveled through the chaos toward the Purple Cloud Palace before Hongjun's first lecture. Hong Yun urged Zhen Yuan Zi to claim a Prayer Mat at once, and they reached the palace together.

• Hong Yun reflected on his transmigration, his powerful origins, and the tragic fate awaiting the original Hong Yun.
• Hong Yun hurried Zhen Yuan Zi through the chaos and told him to claim a Prayer Mat and never give it up.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi sensed the Purple Cloud Palace ahead and saw its plaque shining through the chaos.
• The two entered the palace's domain, where the pressure of the Chaos Qi eased.

Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi arrived at Purple Cloud Palace, where Hong Yun claimed one of the six Prayer Mats but could not secure a seat for Zhen Yuan Zi. As the gathering filled, Hong Yun planned to give his seat to Hou Tu to disrupt the expected course of events, and the Great Dao Karma System activated and bound itself to him.

• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi reached Purple Cloud Palace before the sermon and hurried inside after Hao Tian told them other guests had already arrived.
• Hong Yun used the Law of Wind to race Kun Peng to the last two Prayer Mats, leaving Zhen Yuan Zi without a seat.
• Hong Yun greeted the seated Three Pure Ones and Nu Wa, then worried that fate would force him to give up his seat later.
• Hong Yun spotted Hou Tu among the arriving Twelve Ancestral Witches and decided to offer her his seat to alter the course of events.
• The Great Dao Karma System activated when Hong Yun called to Hou Tu, and Hong Yun immediately bound it.

Hong Yun learned how the Great Dao Karma System rewarded good deeds and offered Hou Tu his seat in Purple Cloud Palace. Hou Tu declined the original cushion, and Hong Yun left her wondering why he had given up a seat that held a great opportunity.

• Hong Yun learned that the Great Dao Karma System could force repayment of karma and grant him a prize draw.
• Hou Tu joined the other Ancestral Witches and followed Hong Yun's invitation to sit near him.
• Hong Yun offered Hou Tu his original seat, but she declined because she did not want to take his opportunity.
• Xuanming teased Hong Yun about favoring Hou Tu, so he produced twelve Jadeite Cushions for the Ancestral Witches.
• Hou Tu sat with her elder brothers and asked Hong Yun why he had offered her the mysterious seat.

Hong Yun gave Hou Tu his seat at Purple Cloud Palace and received a system lottery with a free choice, then weighed its Witch Clan rewards against the dangers of the coming Witch-Demon Calamity. He had not yet chosen a reward as he considered whether to select Hou Tu, Pangu’s essence blood, or the Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Formation.

• Hong Yun warned Hou Tu that he and Zhen Yuan Zi could not protect the opportunity, and she consulted Dijiang before taking the seat.
• The system awarded Hong Yun a lottery draw for yielding his seat and revealed Witch Clan rewards, including Hou Tu and Xuanming as possible Dao Companions.
• The system granted Hong Yun a free choice for his first draw, while Zhen Yuan Zi mistakenly assumed he had yielded the seat to win the favor of Hou Tu and Xuanming.
• Hong Yun considered the formation and Pangu’s essence blood as ways to strengthen himself and complete his mastery of the laws.
• Hong Yun weighed choosing Hou Tu for her Law of Earth against the risk of being caught up in the Witch-Demon Calamity.

Hong Yun chose Hou Tu as his Dao Companion, and the system’s influence seemed to stir feelings between them. As Jieyin and Zhun Ti arrived late and began pleading for seats, Hong Yun recognized their interest in the special front-row Prayer Mats and watched them press their case.

• Hong Yun chose Hou Tu as his reward, deciding that gaining a future Saint as his Dao Companion mattered more than keeping his standing in the family.
• Hou Tu wondered why Hong Yun had chosen her, then blushed and turned away when he smiled at her; Hong Yun suspected the system was already affecting her feelings.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti entered Purple Cloud Palace and noticed that the six front Prayer Mats differed from the ordinary seats.
• Zhun Ti concluded that the front seats held a great opportunity and tearfully complained that he and Jieyin had arrived too late to find places.
• Hou Tu wondered whether Hong Yun had given her his seat because he had anticipated Jieyin and Zhun Ti’s arrival, while Hong Yun dismissed their complaints as their own fault.

Jieyin and Zhun Ti used a soul attack to take Kun Peng’s seat in Purple Cloud Palace, but the Ancestral Shamans stopped them from targeting Hou Tu. Hong Yun offered Zhun Ti and Kun Peng ordinary cushions, leaving Kun Peng to endure the loss as the gathering settled down.

• Jieyin and Zhun Ti’s soul attack knocked Kun Peng off his Prayer Mat, and Jieyin took his seat.
• Xuanming supported Hou Tu as Dijiang broke the attack, while the Ancestral Shamans confronted Jieyin and Zhun Ti.
• Hou Tu restrained her brothers from fighting in the Saint’s dojo, though Zhurong challenged Zhun Ti to spar outside.
• Kun Peng considered confronting Jieyin and Zhun Ti but decided he could not reclaim his seat alone.
• Hong Yun offered cushions to Zhun Ti and Kun Peng, and both sat down while the others watched.

At the Purple Heaven Palace, Hong Yun eased the conflict over the seats and secretly drew a reward for helping Zhunti. He received an opportunity connected to the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, then began a second draw for helping Kun Peng, whose result was left unknown.

• Hong Yun offered Zhunti a way out, Zhunti took the seat, and the Ancestral Witches stood down, easing the tension.
• Hong Yun calmed Zhen Yuan Zi and checked the system notifications, which granted him draws for helping Zhunti and Kun Peng.
• Hong Yun drew the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus opportunity from Zhunti's reward and sensed a brief, unclear guidance.
• Hong Yun began the draw for helping Kun Peng, and the system's roulette wheel stopped over a section.

Hong Yun obtained the Profound Origin Water Control Banner before Kun Peng could find it and discussed restraint with Xuanming after she questioned his gift of a prayer mat. As Hong Yun resolved to keep a low profile, the doors of Zixiao Palace shut and a gray-robed Daoist appeared on the dais.

• Hong Yun claimed the Profound Origin Water Control Banner from its hidden place beneath the North Sea, preventing Kun Peng from obtaining it.
• Hong Yun sensed the banner’s Water Law and stored Water Origin, which suited his own mastery of the Water Law.
• Xuanming asked Hong Yun why he had given a prayer mat to one of the Two from the West and suggested fighting them after the lecture.
• Hong Yun refused to fight and reflected that survival in the Primordial Wilderness required brains and a low profile.
• The doors of Zixiao Palace shut, and Hong Yun saw a lean, gray-robed Daoist standing on the dais.

Hongjun appeared before the three thousand gathered deities in Zixiao Palace and discovered that Hong Yun and Hou Tu had disrupted his planned seating for the Saint Positions. Hong Yun realized Hongjun had noticed and reflected on how his past life’s fortune had been ruined by giving up a seat and later clinging to the Primordial Violet Qi.

• Hongjun appeared on the raised platform and surveyed the three thousand Innate Deities gathered in Zixiao Palace.
• Hongjun noticed extra Prayer Mats, saw that Hou Tu occupied one and Zhun Ti was missing, and divined that Hong Yun had disrupted his plans for the Saint Positions.
• Hongjun looked intently at Hong Yun, who feared that Hongjun had already taken notice of him.
• Hong Yun recalled how he had given away a Prayer Mat, later held on to the Primordial Violet Qi, and ultimately exhausted his fortune and died in his former life.
• Hong Yun considered legends that his True Spirit might have been reborn as figures such as Shen Nong, but decided he could not risk his life on those uncertain stories.

Hongjun began expounding the Dao in Zixiao Palace, and Hong Yun hoped his decision to yield the seat would change his fate. As Hongjun explained cultivation, Hong Yun realized he had already reached the Great Luo Realm, while the lecture continued toward the path of controlling laws.

• Hong Yun resolved to compete for a seat alongside Zhen Yuan Zi but yield completely if they could not win one, and the system activated.
• Hongjun introduced himself as a Heavenly Dao Saint and told the three thousand Innate Deities to sit according to the front seats.
• Hongjun began expounding the Dao, and Hong Yun recognized the opening line and wondered whether Hongjun or Taiqing had copied it.
• Hongjun explained that the Dao came from the interweaving of laws, prompting Hong Yun to reflect on how Zhen Yuan Zi's Earth Book had helped him complete the Four Symbols of Heaven Opening.
• Hongjun outlined the Immortal Dao cultivation stages, and Hong Yun understood that he had advanced from the Taiyi Realm to the Great Luo Realm.

Hongjun outlined the Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, and Grand Unity Golden Immortal realms, then paused before explaining what came next. Hong Yun asked how cultivators could achieve the Dao, leaving Hongjun frustrated as the assembled gods waited for his answer.

• Hongjun explained that cultivators chose a path at the Golden Immortal Realm and advanced by refining and fusing Laws through successive Heavenly Tribulations.
• Hong Yun reflected that the Primordial Wilderness’s interwoven Laws made achieving the Dao through a single Law impossible, and he resolved to fuse his four Laws into Primordial Unity.
• Hongjun stopped his lecture after describing Grand Unity Perfection, intending to begin detailing the earlier stages of cultivation.
• Hong Yun raised his hand, stood, and asked Hongjun what realm followed Grand Unity and how one achieved the Dao.
• Hongjun grew displeased because he had withheld the answer to keep the gods attending his lectures, but the others watched him eagerly for a response.

Hongjun explained the realms beyond Great Luo, the path from mastering Laws to Primordial Unity, and his vision of the Great Dao. After Hong Yun and Taiqing Laozi sat down, Hongjun began lecturing on the Heavenly Immortal realm.

• Hongjun explained that Grand Unity Perfection allowed cultivators to establish their own Dao, while perfecting and unifying that Dao led to Primordial Unity.
• Hong Yun understood how Laws, individual Daos, and the Heavenly Dao related to one another, and recognized the stage between Grand Unity Perfection and Primordial Unity as the Quasi-Saint realm.
• Hong Yun asked what lay above Primordial Unity, and Hongjun described cultivating countless Daos until they returned to one as the Great Dao.
• Taiqing Laozi praised Hongjun's explanation and declared his resolve to pursue the Dao, prompting Hongjun to invite him to sit.
• Hongjun invited Hong Yun to sit as well, then began his lecture with the Heavenly Immortal realm.

Hong Yun listened to Hongjun explain the Heavenly Immortal and True Immortal realms, absorbing principles he could use to refine his own cultivation. After the lecture ended, Hou Tu invited him to return to the Primordial Wilderness with the Ancestral Witches, and Xuanming hoped he would accept.

• Hong Yun studied Hongjun's lecture for three thousand years, drawing on its principles and the Power of Law to refine his cultivation.
• Hongjun ended the lecture and told everyone they could return to their abodes until the Zixiao Palace opened again.
• Zhurong and the other Ancestral Witches complained that the Immortal Dao did not suit them and said they would not attend another lecture.
• Hong Yun asked Xuanming whether she would come back, and she said she would decide when the next lecture was near.
• Hou Tu invited Hong Yun to travel back to the Primordial Wilderness with the Ancestral Witches so they could look out for each other in the Chaos, while Xuanming waited hopefully for his answer.

Hong Yun accepted Hou Tu’s invitation to travel with her and the Ancestral Shamans after leaving the Zixiao Palace. As they crossed the chaos toward the Primordial Wilderness, Hou Tu thanked him for yielding his seat, and Dijiang praised his straightforwardness, making Hou Tu blush and Xuanming react with an ice blade.

• Hong Yun agreed to travel with Hou Tu and invited her and Xuanming to discuss the Dao with him and Zhen Yuan Zi.
• Hong Yun noticed that the Three Pure Ones and Nu Wa had already left the Zixiao Palace and resolved to seek them out later.
• Hong Yun, Zhen Yuan Zi, Hou Tu, Xuanming, and the other Ancestral Shamans left the palace and crossed the chaos together.
• Hou Tu told Hong Yun that she felt the seat he had yielded carried a great opportunity and that she owed him karma, but Hong Yun dismissed her concern.
• Dijiang praised Hong Yun and teased Hou Tu about enjoying his company, prompting Hou Tu to blush and Xuanming to form a huge ice blade.

Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi joked about his feelings for Hou Tu and Xuanming while the Ancestral Shamans held their barrier against the Chaos Qi. Hou Tu then redirected Hong Yun’s attention to the Prayer Mat and began explaining its connection to the Saint Position.

• Dijiang took a blade strike from Xuanming, then returned to the barrier as the Ancestral Shamans laughed.
• Hong Yun admitted privately to Zhen Yuan Zi that he had feelings for Hou Tu.
• Zhen Yuan Zi told Xuanming that Hong Yun liked her, prompting Dijiang and the other Ancestral Shamans to tease him.
• Hou Tu calmed Xuanming and told Hong Yun that the Prayer Mat might hold a great mystery.
• Hou Tu explained that she had thought the Prayer Mat gathered the Power of Law during Hongjun’s sermon on the Immortal Dao.

Hou Tu discovered that Hongjun’s Prayer Mat had let her cultivate a spirit despite the Ancestral Shamans’ bodies rejecting Pure Qi. Dijiang offered Hong Yun repayment for helping her, but Hong Yun decided not to accept yet.

• Hou Tu told the Ancestral Shamans that she had absorbed Pure Qi and begun cultivating while listening to Saint Hongjun’s sermon.
• Hou Tu explained that Hongjun’s Prayer Mat had blocked the Turbid Qi and suppressed her body’s power long enough for her to cultivate a spirit.
• The Ancestral Shamans realized Hong Yun’s gift of the seat had enabled Hou Tu’s breakthrough, and Dijiang offered to repay him for the karmic debt.
• Hong Yun considered asking for a reward but decided to refuse, reasoning that the Ancestral Shamans were his future family and that accepting might affect his system benefits.

Hong Yun refused Dijiang’s offer of a treasure, unaware that the Ancestral Shamans had planned to give him the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler. After the group returned to the Primordial Wilderness and passed Bu Zhou Mountain, Hou Tu invited Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi to visit the Witch Clan, giving Hong Yun a chance to spend more time with her.

• Hong Yun firmly refused Dijiang’s offer, and the Ancestral Shamans privately praised his resolve and agreed that he and their sisters should become Dao Companions.
• Dijiang stopped discussing repayment, and the group returned to the Primordial Wilderness through the chaotic membrane.
• Hong Yun and the others saw Bu Zhou Mountain, where Dijiang and the Ancestral Shamans renewed their determination to follow Pan Gu’s legacy.
• Hou Tu invited Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi to return with the Ancestral Shamans to Pangu Hall, and Zhen Yuan Zi teased Hong Yun through a voice transmission.

Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi visited the Witch Clan’s Pangu Hall, where Hong Yun learned about the clan’s origins and considered its eventual decline. Left alone with Hou Tu and Xuanming, he explained that he needed the Law of Earth to balance his other laws, and Xuanming urged Hou Tu to help him.

• Dijiang used the Law of Space to bring the Ancestral Shamans, Hong Yun, and Zhen Yuan Zi back to the Witch Clan’s settlement.
• Hou Tu explained that the Witch Clan had originated from the blood pool inside Pangu Hall, formed from Pan Gu’s heart.
• The Ancestral Shamans left Hong Yun with Hou Tu and Xuanming, while Zhen Yuan Zi followed them to discuss Dijiang’s Law of Space.
• Hong Yun discussed his unstable foundation with Hou Tu and Xuanming, explaining that he needed the Law of Earth to harmonize his other laws.
• Xuanming realized Hou Tu could help Hong Yun and pleaded with her to do so.

Hou Tu revealed her soul to help Hong Yun comprehend the Law of Earth, and their exchange took on the meaning of a Dao Companion bond. As their souls touched, Hong Yun’s soul split into water, fire, and wind, while Hou Tu’s Earth Law merged with them.

• Hou Tu displayed the Law of Earth through her soul so Hong Yun could comprehend it directly.
• Hong Yun thanked Hou Tu and declared that he would not betray her trust, making Hou Tu and Xuanming realize the intimacy implied by her gesture.
• Hong Yun suspected the system had influenced Hou Tu’s feelings and decided to make their relationship official.
• Hong Yun released the laws within his primordial spirit, and his scarlet-cloud soul drifted toward Hou Tu’s soul.
• Their souls touched, Hong Yun’s soul divided into water, fire, and wind, and Hou Tu’s Earth Law joined them as ochre-yellow energy.

Hong Yun and Hou Tu blended their souls and laws as they began cultivating together, while Xuanming left them alone and the others speculated about her feelings. The chapter ended with the group confirming Hong Yun and Hou Tu were in seclusion and Zhen Yuan Zi and Dijiang going to discuss Sleeve Universe.

• Hong Yun and Hou Tu's souls and four laws blended, letting them sense each other's feelings before they focused on comprehending the laws.
• Xuanming left the hall while Zhen Yuan Zi and the Ancestral Shamans discussed why she had stayed behind with Hong Yun and Hou Tu.
• Zhen Yuan Zi changed the subject by asking Dijiang for advice on the Sleeve Universe divine ability, and the Ancestral Shamans loudly discussed ways to improve it.
• Zhurong cautiously checked the hall and reported that Hong Yun and Hou Tu were using their souls to comprehend the Power of Law.
• Dijiang invited Zhen Yuan Zi to discuss Sleeve Universe, and Zhen Yuan Zi suggested they stop addressing each other as 'Fellow Daoist.'