Chapter Summaries

Gong Gong recovered his past-life memories while Hong Yun and Dao Ancestor Hong Jun clashed over the fate of the Innate Spiritual Root Tong Tian Jianmu Tree. Hong Jun unleashed Heaven's Dao against the tree, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Hong Yun destroyed the heavenly tribulation, and Gong Gong recovered his memories after Xuanming kicked him awake, then challenged Hao Tian.
• Zhen Yuan Zi blocked the Hao Tian Tower with the Earth Book Barrier and warned Hao Tian about the karmic burden of damaging the Innate Spiritual Root Tong Tian Jianmu Tree.
• Taiqing stopped Gong Gong and attacked Xuanming while Primordial Heavenly Lord faced Zhen Yuan Zi, and Hao Tian fled toward the Heavenly Court.
• Hong Yun rejected Dao Ancestor Hong Jun's claim that the great trend could not be changed, and Hong Jun resolved to restore the great trend of Heaven's Dao.
• Hong Jun unleashed Heaven's Dao against the Innate Spiritual Root Tong Tian Jianmu Tree, which emerged from another layer of space before everyone.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun attacked the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree to weaken the Human Dao, but Hou Tu, Pingxin, and their allies arrived to defend it. As the forces gathered for a possible battle, Hongjun promised Jieyin and Zhun Ti that the Western Sect could spread its teachings in the East and prosper for one measureless kalpa.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun used the power of the Heavenly Dao to attack the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree and strike at the Human Dao.
• Hou Tu appeared and stabilized the tree with the power of the earth, while Pingxin and the Ancestral Shamans arrived through a Netherworld passage to support Hong Yun.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun recognized that Hong Yun had concealed Hou Tu's presence, while Yuan Shi and Taiqing worried about the imbalance between their allies and Hong Yun's forces.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti watched from Mount Sumeru and discussed whether to join the conflict, with Zhun Ti favoring waiting for an opportunity.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun promised Jieyin and Zhun Ti that they could spread their teachings in the Eastern world after the battle and that the Western Sect would enjoy the fortune of one measureless kalpa.

Hong Yun, Hou Tu, and Pingxin confronted Dao Ancestor Hong Jun as he moved to cut down the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree and regain control of events. As the battle spread, several Ancestral Shamans reincarnated among humanity awakened their past-life memories and joined the fight.

• Zhun Ti left Jieyin at Mount Sumeru and appeared beside the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree to take part in the battle.
• Nu Wa prepared to stop Zhun Ti, but Hong Yun urged her to protect humanity, and she flew down to the human tribes.
• Hong Yun launched an attack on Dao Ancestor Hong Jun, while Hou Tu and Pingxin struck from the Primordial Wilderness and another layer of space.
• Hong Yun realized Dao Ancestor Hong Jun had acted because the Heavenly Dao's future was slipping beyond his control, and he sent the Great Innate Five Elements Five Directions Banner to protect Hou Tu.
• The Ancestral Shamans confronted Taiqing, and Xuanming's call awakened Zhurong, Qiang Liang, She Bi Shi, and Xi Zi among the human tribes.

Hou Yi joined the Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Formation while the other powerful figures occupied the remaining opponents, leaving Zhunti free to attack the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree. Kun Peng, now known as Cang Jie, intervened against Zhunti after reflecting on how little support Hong Jun had ever given him.

• Hou Yi took Houtu's place in the Twelve Capital Celestial Evil Formation, while Xing Tian searched for an opponent.
• Zhen Yuan Zi led Primordial Heavenly Lord to the outskirts of the Primordial Wilderness to fight, and Taiqing stalled the Ancestral Witches with his treasures.
• Tong Tian trapped Suiren Shi, Fuxi, and the Heavenly Emperor inside the Immortal Slaying Sword World without attacking them.
• Hong Jun ordered Zhunti to destroy the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree, and Zhunti moved to attack it.
• Kun Peng, acting as Cang Jie, sent countless golden human characters toward Zhunti after deciding that Hong Yun had been the one to support him.

Kun Peng fought Zhun Ti over the Primordial Violet Qi while urging Xing Tian to disrupt the Heavenly Court and weaken the Heavenly Dao as Hong Yun, Pingxin, and Hou Tu confronted Dao Ancestor Hong Jun. Wu Tian stayed to protect the human race and prepared to help, taking Xuanwu’s shell for defense.

• Kun Peng revealed his true body, attacked Zhun Ti, and demanded repayment for the Primordial Violet Qi he had lost at the Purple Heaven Palace.
• Kun Peng told Xing Tian to head for the Heavenly Court and destabilize it, and Xing Tian set off for the Ling Xiao Treasure Hall.
• Hong Yun, Pingxin, and Hou Tu formed a threefold formation around Dao Ancestor Hong Jun as the powers of the Heavenly, Earthly, and Human Daos clashed through the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree.
• Wu Tian stopped Hong Yun’s disciples from joining the battle and told them to protect the human race alongside Empress Nu Wa.
• Xuanwu offered Wu Tian his merit-refined shell, and she accepted it before preparing to act.

Wu Tian joined Kun Peng against Zhunti, while Xing Tian fought Hao Tian and Yao Chi at the Heavenly Court. After Hao Tian beheaded him, Xing Tian rose again, awakened a new power, and broke through the Ancestral Shaman realm.

• Wu Tian flew to aid Kun Peng against Zhunti with the God-Slaying Spear and Xuanwu's tortoiseshell shield, turning their fight into a stalemate.
• Xing Tian attacked Hao Tian at Ling Xiao Treasure Hall, blaming him for sowing discord among the humans, while Yao Chi joined the battle.
• Hao Tian unleashed his Quasi-Saint power, pinned Xing Tian down with the Hao Tian Tower, and severed his head with the Hao Tian Mirror.
• Xing Tian's fighting spirit kept burning after his beheading, and he rose again with his nipples for eyes and his navel for a mouth.
• Xing Tian roared that he would become the God of War, and his aura surged as he broke through the Ancestral Shaman realm.

Xing Tian wounded Hao Tian, disrupting the Heavenly Court and the Heavenly Dao Saints' focus. Wu Tian then wounded Zhun Ti, who struck him down before Hong Yun rescued his gravely injured disciple and turned on Zhun Ti.

• Xing Tian struck Hao Tian's true body with his axe, then fled as the Heavenly Court shook and Yao Chi went to examine Hao Tian.
• Hong Yun used the opening caused by Hao Tian's injury to counterattack with the power of the Human Dao.
• Wu Tian wounded Zhun Ti's true body with the God-Slaying Spear, and Zhun Ti retaliated by knocking away Wu Tian's tortoise shell and defeating Kun Peng's attempt to intervene.
• Zhun Ti's Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree struck Wu Tian, leaving him gravely injured and flickering between his body and a cracked black lotus platform.
• Hong Yun pulled Wu Tian into the Fire Cloud Cave World and confronted Zhun Ti, vowing revenge for his disciple.

Hong Yun unleashed the God-Slaying Spear against Zhun Ti after seeing Wu Tian gravely wounded, while Dao Ancestor Hong Jun chose to attack Innate Spiritual Root Tong Tian Jianmu instead of saving Zhun Ti. Hong Yun accepted the tree’s possible destruction as the price of avenging Wu Tian and striking at the Heavenly Dao.

• Hong Yun drew on the Fire Cloud Cave World’s power, manifested the True Body of Pangu, and took up the God-Slaying Spear.
• Zhun Ti sensed he could not withstand Hong Yun’s strike and fled through layers of space while calling for Dao Ancestor Hong Jun to save him.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun let the chance to rescue Zhun Ti pass and attacked Innate Spiritual Root Tong Tian Jianmu.
• Pingxin and Hou Tu came under greater pressure as Hong Yun turned his strength toward Zhun Ti, then understood his intentions after he sent them a thought.
• Hong Yun decided to kill Zhun Ti even if Tong Tian Jianmu broke, and the Heavenly Dao’s power surged across the tree as Pingxin and Hou Tu were driven toward its middle.

The Innate Spiritual Root Tong Tian Jianmu Tree snapped, throwing the Primordial Wilderness into upheaval and damaging the human Dao fortune. As Fuxi and the others worked to stabilize it, Ancestral Dragon decided to use his body to fill the gap in its fortune.

• The Tong Tian Jianmu Tree broke, and Nu Wa, Hong Yun's disciples, and Zhuanxu acted to protect the human race from the resulting disasters.
• Pingxin gathered the broken halves of the tree and took them into the cycle of reincarnation as the human Dao fortune began to falter.
• Fuxi confronted Tong Tian, who opened the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation and let Fuxi and the others leave to stabilize the human Dao fortune.
• Ancestral Dragon and Candle Dragon watched the battle, and Ancestral Dragon decided to fill the gap in the human Dao fortune with his body.

Ancestral Dragon broke free of the Primordial Wilderness’s earth veins and became the spirit of the Human Dao, restoring its strength as Hong Yun attacked Zhunti. Jieyin rushed to save his junior brother but faced the backlash of the oath binding him to the Western World.

• Ancestral Dragon absorbed the earth-vein power and, with help from Pingxin and Nu Wa, broke free of the Primordial Wilderness’s restraints.
• Ancestral Dragon entered the Human Dao River and became its spirit, transforming it into a Fortune Golden Dragon that joined Pingxin and Hou Tu in resisting Dao Ancestor Hong Jun.
• Ancestral Dragon endured the crushing thoughts of humanity as they threatened to assimilate his soul.
• Hong Yun thrust his God-Slaying Spear at Zhunti, who fled toward the Western World after realizing Dao Ancestor Hong Jun could not save him.
• Jieyin formed his Golden Body Dharma Appearance and reached the boundary between east and west, where the oath binding him to the Western World began to backfire.

Hong Yun used the God-Slaying Spear to pin Zhun Ti and drain his power, leaving him close to becoming the first Saint to fall in the Primordial Wilderness. Jieyin broke his oath and crossed the Western Boundary to save him, but his own Saintly Golden Body began to dissolve.

• Hong Yun pierced Zhun Ti with the God-Slaying Spear and suppressed him as the spear devoured his power.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun could not intervene quickly because the awakened Human Dao and its defenders held him back.
• Kun Peng descended toward the Human Dao while Sect Master Tong Tian remained motionless.
• Jieyin crossed the Western Boundary and struck Zhun Ti with the Jieyin Treasure Banner, blasting away the God-Slaying Spear.
• Zhun Ti escaped death, but saw Jieyin’s Saintly Golden Body cracking apart and cried out to his Senior Brother.

Jieyin and Zhun Ti fell from their Saint Positions after leaving the Western World, weakening the Heavenly Dao and forcing Hong Yun to reconsider how to settle their conflict. As Mosquito Daoist appeared carrying stolen Golden Lotus essence, Maitreya chased him from Mount Sumeru.

• Jieyin and Zhun Ti lost their Saint Positions, and the Western World’s fortune and spiritual energy declined as the Earthly Dao and Human Dao pressed the Heavenly Dao back.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun sensed that events were slipping out of control while Hong Yun prepared to strike the fallen Jieyin and Zhun Ti.
• Zhun Ti offered to settle the conflict by accepting the cause and effect of their fall, and Jieyin said they would accept death if Hong Yun shouldered the Western World’s cause and effect.
• Mosquito Daoist emerged from the Western World with Maitreya pursuing him after he drained three grades of essence from the Twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus, reducing it to a nine-grade lotus.

Hong Yun confronted Jieyin and Zhun Ti after Mosquito Daoist stole three grades of the Golden Lotus of Merit, while the other factions watched the fallen Saints’ dispute. Hong Yun reconsidered killing Zhun Ti and suspected Dao Ancestor Hong Jun had granted Jieyin and Zhun Ti their Saint Positions to repay karmic debts, leaving him to wonder whether their deaths would settle those debts.

• Zhun Ti attacked Mosquito Daoist, but stopped after Mosquito Daoist called out to Hong Yun; Mosquito Daoist then escaped through a reincarnation passage to the Underworld.
• Zhun Ti told Hong Yun that the Golden Lotus of Merit’s damage was part of the calamity that had befallen the West, while Jieyin and Zhun Ti accepted the loss.
• Taiqing, Yuan Shi, and others watched as Jieyin and Zhun Ti repeatedly yielded to Hong Yun, and Tong Tian held back from trying to persuade him.
• Hong Yun revealed that he had only feigned intent to kill Zhun Ti, hoping to draw out Dao Ancestor Hong Jun and give the Earthly Dao and Humanity an advantage.
• Hong Yun suspected Dao Ancestor Hong Jun had given Jieyin and Zhun Ti their Saint Positions to repay karmic debts, and wondered whether killing them would settle those debts; Zhun Ti grew worried when Hong Yun stayed silent.

After settling his karma with Zhun Ti, Hong Yun watched as Jieyin and Zhun Ti left the Mystic Gate and established Buddhism. Although they gained fortune and merit, they still failed to fuse with the Primordial Violet Qi and prepared to rely on vows again.

• Hong Yun agreed that his karma with Zhun Ti was settled but required compensation for the injury to his disciple.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti decided to leave the Mystic Gate, and Zhen Yuan Zi stopped Yuan Shi from interfering.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti declared the establishment of Buddhism, renamed Mount Sumeru Spiritual Mountain, and took the names Amitabha and Buddha Mother Zhunti.
• The Heavenly Dao, Earthly Dao, and Human Dao granted Buddhism fortune and merit, while Hong Yun directed human incense and Wish Power to the two founders.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti failed again to fuse with the Primordial Violet Qi and resolved to borrow merit through grand vows.

Jieyin and Zhun Ti founded Buddhism and swore the Forty-Eight Great Vows to the Three Daos, regaining their Saint Positions with support from Hong Yun and Empress Pingxin. After they left, Hong Yun asked Dao Ancestor Hong Jun whether they should continue fighting, and Hong Jun considered the Investiture of the Gods.

• Jieyin and Zhun Ti vowed to the Three Daos to deliver all beings from suffering through Buddhism’s Forty-Eight Great Vows.
• The Heavenly Dao, Hong Yun, and Empress Pingxin lent their power to Jieyin and Zhun Ti, restoring them as Heavenly Dao Saints and dividing Buddhism’s fortune among the Three Daos.
• Zhun Ti asked Dao Ancestor Hong Jun whether his promise of a prosperous kalpa still stood, and Hong Jun nodded.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti left with Maitreya to tend to the Western world.
• Hong Yun asked Dao Ancestor Hong Jun whether they should continue the battle as Heaven and Earth neared collapse, and Hong Jun recalled the Investiture of the Gods.

After the battle shattered the Primordial Wilderness, Hong Yun and the others helped stabilize the land and heavens. Empress Pingxin returned to the underworld with the Ancestral Shamans, while Hou Yi stayed with the human race to care for Xing Tian, whose severed head would not reattach.

• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun stopped contending with the Earthly Dao and Human Dao, then returned to the Heavenly Dao to suppress its turbulent laws.
• Hong Yun asked Zhen Yuan Zi to use the Earth Book and Great Emperor Fengdu’s aspect to stabilize the land and govern its earth deities.
• Taiqing, Yuan Shi, and Tong Tian helped calm the spatial rifts and tremors as Empress Pingxin prepared to return to the underworld.
• Empress Pingxin returned the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree to Hong Yun, who placed it in the Fire Cloud Cave World to nurture.
• Empress Pingxin led the Ancestral Shamans back to the underworld, while Hou Yi stayed with the human race to look after Xing Tian.
• Hou Yi found Xing Tian still holding his severed head, unable to reattach it because a restriction remained at his neck.

Xing Tian broke through to the Ancestral Shaman realm, while Nu Wa prepared to mend the heavens after the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree broke and the Heavenly River flooded human lands. Hong Yun reassured his disciples about Wu Tian’s recovery and warned them to prepare for another great calamity as Nu Wa began repairing the heavens.

• Hou Yi returned and was astonished that headless Xing Tian had broken through to the Ancestral Shaman realm.
• Hong Yun joined Nu Wa in human territory, where she refined the remains of the Tong Tian Jianmu Tree into Five-Colored Stones to mend the heavens.
• Hong Yun discussed the floods with Zhuanxu, who planned to appoint a Gonggong Tribe leader as Water Official and organize flood control.
• Hong Yun told Zhuanxu to move the elderly and infirm to the Fire Cloud Cave World, then showed his disciples that Wu Tian was recovering as power from the God-Slaying Spear flowed into her.
• Hong Yun warned his disciples to cultivate in preparation for another great calamity, and Nu Wa began mending the heavens as the humans cried out to her.

After Nu Wa mended the heavens, Hong Yun kept the final Five-Colored Stone and gave it a memory of Journey to the West, while Zhen Yuan Zi and Nu Wa added power of their own. The stone fell onto a mountain on East Victory Divine Continent, setting the stage for an altered stone monkey’s birth.

• Nu Wa sealed the breach in the heavens with thirty-six thousand five hundred Five-Colored Stones, and the human race thanked and revered her.
• Hong Yun stopped Nu Wa from discarding the last Five-Colored Stone, explaining that the final stone was destined to become extraordinary.
• Hong Yun placed a memory of Journey to the West inside the stone for the stone monkey to awaken to when it was born.
• Zhen Yuan Zi and Nu Wa each added power to the Five-Colored Stone, making its multicolored radiance blaze across the sky.
• Hong Yun tossed the stone down to a mountain on East Victory Divine Continent, between the continent and the Eastern Sea.

Hong Yun returned to Fire Cloud Cave after helping end the Heavenly River disaster and explained why he had agreed to stop fighting Dao Ancestor Hong Jun. He told his companions that they had gained an advantage but should keep building humanity's strength while Hong Jun's hidden methods remained unknown.

• Hong Yun gathered the waters of the Heavenly River into Primordial Heavy Water, then left with Nu Wa and Zhen Yuan Zi for Fire Cloud Cave.
• Hong Yun, Nu Wa, and Zhen Yuan Zi arrived at Fire Cloud Cave, where Suiren Shi, Fuxi, Xi He, Wang Shu, and the others were waiting.
• Xi He asked whether the battle was over, and Hong Yun reassured her and Wang Shu that everyone was safe.
• Suiren Shi and the others questioned why Hong Yun had agreed to end the battle, and Hong Yun asked whether Hong Jun, Taiqing, and Yuan Shi had truly used their full strength.
• Zhen Yuan Zi recalled that Yuan Shi had held back, while Hong Yun noted that Hong Jun likely still had unknown trump cards and that the Two Sages of the West had reclaimed their Saint Positions.
• Hong Yun told everyone they had gained the advantage and urged them to strengthen humanity in the Fire Cloud Cave World.

Hong Yun and Nu Wa released Lu Ya from the Qiankun Cauldron after he became an essence of innate Li Fire and reached the Great Luo realm. When Lu Ya asked to travel the Primordial Wilderness, Hong Yun concealed his identity and warned him not to reveal his origins.

• Suiren Shi and the others left Fire Cloud Cave after receiving guidance from Hong Yun.
• Nu Wa recalled the Qiankun Cauldron and released Lu Ya, who emerged in human form as an essence of innate Li Fire.
• Lu Ya thanked Hong Yun and Nu Wa, and Hong Yun asked what he wanted to do next.
• Lu Ya asked to travel the Primordial Wilderness, and Xi He watched anxiously as Hong Yun agreed.
• Hong Yun muddled Lu Ya's karmic ties and concealed his origins, then warned him never to reveal where he came from.