Chapter Summaries

After the first attempt to break the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation failed, the Saints split up to clear away Jie Sect Disciples before trying again. Primordial Heavenly Lord and his followers captured and humiliated several disciples, provoking Tongtian as Saint Mother Wu Dang appeared.

• Primordial Heavenly Lord, Taiqing, and Zhun Ti blamed one another for their failed attack before agreeing to try again after clearing the formation of Jie Sect Disciples.
• Zhun Ti used the Purple Gold Alms Bowl to sweep up Jie Sect Disciples and urged them to join Buddhism.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord captured Ling Ya Xian, restrained him with a talisman and collar, and let Daoist Ran Deng and Immortal Official Nan Ji humiliate him with a name plaque.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord and his companions treated Qiu Shou Xian and Jinguang Xian the same way.
• Huluwa protested the Chan Sect's treatment of the Jie Sect Disciples while Hong Yun watched from outside the formation.
• Tongtian roared in anger, and Saint Mother Wu Dang appeared at the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

Tong Tian killed Guang Chengzi and the other captured Chan Sect disciples, driving Primordial Heavenly Lord into a furious assault on the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. As Hong Yun stopped Primordial Heavenly Lord from damaging the Primordial Wilderness, the Four Saints still struggled to break the formation.

• Spirit Turtle Saint Mother urged Tong Tian to stop sparing the Chan Sect disciples, and Tong Tian sent sword qi through the formation to kill Guang Chengzi and the others.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord grieved over his disciples and attacked the Immortal Slaying Sword Realm with the Pangu Banner while Di Xin used the Nine Cauldrons to stabilize the Nine Provinces.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord, Taiqing, and their allies battled Tong Tian's disciples but could not easily break the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord threatened to remake Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind and struck toward the Primordial Wilderness, but Hong Yun's Twenty-four-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus dissolved the attack.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord declared that the Chan Sect was nearly destroyed and sent his soul out of his body to merge with the Pangu Banner.

Yuan Shi unleashed the transformed Pangu Banner against the Primordial World, forcing the Saints and Hong Yun’s allies to protect its lands and people. Huluwa established the Human World, while Hong Yun intervened to stop Fuxi’s Primordial Violet Qi from drawing him into an uncertain path and helped him contain it.

• Yuan Shi transformed the Pangu Banner into the Sky-Opening Axe’s blade and fired destructive axe rays at the Primordial World.
• Hong Yun sent Hou Tu, Zhen Yuan Zi, Nu Wa, Fuxi, and Huluwa to protect the Underworld and the Human Race, while Tong Tian and Taiqing intercepted axe rays with their treasures.
• The Nine Cauldrons Formation and the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors protected the Nine Provinces, while Hou Tu and Zhen Yuan Zi used the Earth Immortal Realm to absorb fragments of the shattered land.
• Huluwa merged the Yin-Yang Five-Element Gourd Vine with Bitter Bamboo, combined the resulting formation with the Nine Cauldrons Formation, and proclaimed the Human World established.
• Fuxi gathered seven strands of Primordial Violet Qi into the River Diagram and Luo Book, but Hong Yun warned Nu Wa to stop the qi from merging with Fuxi.
• Nu Wa brought the Qiankun Cauldron to Fuxi, and he sent the River Diagram and Luo Book into it.

Nu Wa, Fuxi, and Hong Yun prepared to fuse the River Diagram and Luo Book, the Mountain River Society Map, and the Myriad Stars Formation Diagram inside the Qiankun Cauldron. The three diagrams began merging as Fuxi’s recovered innate power marked the star formation, leaving their transformation on the verge of completion.

• Nu Wa suppressed the River Diagram and Luo Book inside the Qiankun Cauldron, then added the Mountain River Society Map to prepare for their fusion.
• Nu Wa brought Fuxi into the Primordial Starry Sky and awakened the power of his innate self from his past life.
• Hong Yun stirred the Primordial Starry Sky into the pattern of the Myriad Stars Great Formation, restoring the scattered stars to their places.
• Fuxi’s aura marked the Myriad Stars Formation Diagram as it gathered the power of the stars.
• Nu Wa drew the Myriad Stars Formation Diagram into the Qiankun Cauldron, where it began fusing with the other two treasure diagrams.

Hong Yun, Nu Wa, and others helped Fuxi merge three treasure diagrams and prepare to attain Primordial Unity, while Zhen Yuan Zi absorbed the shattered lands into the expanding Earth Immortal Realm. As Hong Yun added the heavens’ star map to Fuxi’s treasure, he called to Fuxi at the Human Dao’s river of fortune.

• Hong Yun empowered Nu Wa’s Qiankun Cauldron with the Twenty-four-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus as the three treasure diagrams merged into a single treasure above Fuxi.
• Jieyin and Zhun Ti protected the Western Land’s fragments and began refining them into an independent Buddhist world instead of attacking Tong Tian’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Zhen Yuan Zi absorbed shattered land into the Earth Immortal Realm, rapidly increasing his strength and expanding his domain.
• Zhen Yuan Zi and Huluwa engraved the Earth Immortal Realm’s and Human World’s terrain into Fuxi’s treasure diagram.
• Hong Yun urged the stars to engrave the Primordial Starry Sky into the diagram, then called out to Fuxi from the river of Human Dao’s fortune.

Fuxi attained the Dao by restoring the Primordial Violet Qi inside the Three Talents Eight Trigrams Diagram, helping the shattered Primordial Wilderness begin to recover. Meanwhile, Jieyin and Zhun Ti returned to the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, where Taiqing summoned his two corpses to aid the assault on Daoist Duobao.

• Fuxi declared that he would attain the Dao, reunited the eight fragments of Primordial Violet Qi, and contained it within the Three Talents Eight Trigrams Diagram.
• Fuxi attained Primordial Unity, gained authority over Heaven and Earth, and helped the scattered fragments of the Primordial Wilderness begin gathering again.
• Fuxi thanked Hong Yun, who turned his attention back to Tong Tian and Yuan Shi's battle.
• After Taiqing urged Zhun Ti to resume the attack, Zhun Ti and Jieyin protected the forming Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and reentered the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.
• Taiqing split off Taishang Laojun and another corpse; Taishang Laojun used the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to block Daoist Duobao's sword qi while the other wielded the Taiyi Duster to cut off support from the other gates.
• Daoist Duobao gritted his teeth and continued urging the Immortal Slaying Sword as the Four Saints attacked the formation.

Taiqing captured Daoist Duobao and took the Immortal Slaying Sword, breaking Tong Tian’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation. Tong Tian reversed the formation to save his remaining disciples, then faced the Primordial Heavenly Lord as Hong Yun wondered whether Dao Ancestor Hong Jun had encouraged the Three Pure Ones’ estrangement.

• Taiqing advanced through the formation and captured Daoist Duobao with the Wind Fire Cushion, taking the Immortal Slaying Sword.
• The loss of the sword severed the formation’s linked nodes, and Tong Tian sensed Daoist Duobao’s aura disappear.
• Tong Tian reversed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, sweeping Spirit Turtle Saint Mother, Saint Mother Wu Dang, and Golden Spirit Holy Mother into its central world.
• The formation vanished, and the Primordial Heavenly Lord demanded that Tong Tian answer for his disciple’s death while Taiqing stopped them from arguing.
• Hong Yun suspected Dao Ancestor Hong Jun might have encouraged the Three Pure Ones to divide to prevent them from uniting.

Sect Master Tong Tian challenged Primordial Heavenly Lord to break the Immortal Slaying Sword World, and their clash threatened the world and the disciples inside it. As Primordial Heavenly Lord prepared another strike, Tong Tian merged his Three Corpses into the world, prompting Taiqing to intervene while Hong Yun held back Huluwa.

• Sect Master Tong Tian refused to yield and challenged Primordial Heavenly Lord to attack the Immortal Slaying Sword World.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord used a third of the Heaven-Opening imprint to strike Tong Tian with the Pangu Banner, but Taiqing suppressed the Immortal Slaying Sword and left Tong Tian’s counterattack incomplete.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord’s axe-light nearly cleaved apart the Immortal Slaying Sword World, which held Tong Tian’s disciples.
• Tong Tian merged his Three Corpses into the Immortal Slaying Sword World to strengthen it, and Taiqing shouted in alarm.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord launched another axe-light, so Taiqing swung the Taiyi Duster to stop it while Hong Yun restrained Huluwa.

Hong Yun helped Tong Tian reject Hong Jun’s attempt to restore his Heavenly Dao Saint Position after Yuan Shi destroyed the Immortal Slaying Sword Realm. Tong Tian declared himself Pan Gu Tong Tian as the three treasures Hong Yun sent descended toward him.

• Hong Yun watched Tong Tian’s battle and told his allies to monitor the Heavenly Dao and Hong Jun.
• Yuan Shi shattered the Immortal Slaying Sword Realm, destroying Tong Tian’s fused Three Corpses and causing him to lose his Saint Position.
• Hong Jun sent chains from the Heavenly Dao to reconnect Tong Tian, but Tong Tian used the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation to reject the Primordial Violet Qi and Shangqing’s energy.
• Hong Yun sent Tong Tian the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation Diagram, and the Primordial Chaos Golden Dou, then caught and protected the Jie Sect Disciples Tong Tian expelled.
• Tong Tian declared, “There is no more Shangqing Lingbao Tong Tian” and named himself Pan Gu Tong Tian as the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation changed and the three treasures descended toward him.

Tong Tian used the Heaven Opening Seal, the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, and the Qingping Sword to rebuild the Immortal Slaying Sword World and pursue the Formation Dao. When Hong Jun tried to draw him back toward the Heavenly Dao, Tong Tian severed the Interception Sect’s ties to the Mystic Gate and invited his disciples to follow his independent path.

• Tong Tian’s Heaven Opening Seal opened new spaces in the ruined Immortal Slaying Sword World as the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation merged with the sword formation and stabilized Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.
• The Primordial Chaos Golden Dou radiated new life while Tong Tian’s aura strengthened, and observers believed he was about to attain Primordial Unity through the Formation Dao.
• Hong Yun challenged Hong Jun for hindering Tong Tian, and Hong Jun asked why Tong Tian insisted on cutting himself off from the world Pangu had created.
• Tong Tian declared that he was Pan Gu Tong Tian, not Shangqing Tong Tian, and said that those on different paths could no longer work together.
• Tong Tian used the Qingping Sword to sever the Interception Sect’s fortune and Mystic Gate immortal roots, then invited disciples willing to follow his Dao into his Immortal Slaying Sword World.
• Saint Mother Wu Dang laughed with delight at Tong Tian’s declaration.

Sect Master Tong Tian severed his ties to the Mystic Gate and led the Jie Sect Disciples into his newly formed Immortal Slaying Sword World, but Dao Ancestor Hong Jun attacked and disrupted his attempt to prove the Dao. As the world began to collapse and Tong Tian’s condition worsened, Wu Dang and Golden Spirit Holy Mother sought help from San Xiao and Zhao Gongming.

• Sect Master Tong Tian declared that he would forge his own path, and nearly ten thousand Jie Sect Disciples entered the world he was opening.
• Huluwa released San Xiao and Zhao Gongming, sending them to join Sect Master Tong Tian.
• Sect Master Tong Tian finished refining the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler and merged the two formations as Dao Ancestor Hong Jun appeared and attacked him with a seven-colored sword.
• Hong Yun sent the Twenty-four-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus to intercept the sword, while Dao Ancestor Hong Jun’s Jade Disc of Creation held it back.
• The attack interrupted Sect Master Tong Tian’s attempt to prove the Dao, wounded him, and left the Immortal Slaying Sword World on the verge of collapse.
• Wu Dang and Golden Spirit Holy Mother asked San Xiao and Zhao Gongming if they could help, and San Xiao said they had no idea what to do.

Hong Yun confronted Dao Ancestor Hong Jun over Tong Tian and the Interception Sect, only to discover that Purple Cloud Palace contained a world more powerful than his Fire Cloud Cave. He then began severing Tong Tian’s remaining karmic ties to the Immortal Dao.

• Zhao Gongming and Saint Mother Wu Dang urged San Xiao to contact Hong Yun for help.
• Hong Yun attacked Dao Ancestor Hong Jun with the World Seal, but Purple Cloud Palace absorbed the strike and severed his connection to it.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun revealed that he had studied Hong Yun’s world-opening path and wondered whether Hong Yun was a contingency left by Great God Pangu.
• Hong Yun strode toward Dao Ancestor Hong Jun and ordered Tong Tian to sever his karmic ties to the Immortal Dao.
• The Twenty-four-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus sent violet light into Tong Tian, allowing Hong Yun to act on the karmic ties still connecting the Interception Sect disciples to the Immortal Dao.

Hong Yun confronted Dao Ancestor Hong Jun while Tong Tian severed the Sword Dao’s ties to the Immortal Dao. When Hong Yun exposed Hong Jun’s secret extraction of the Primordial World’s essence, the battle revealed the true Investiture of the Gods and left the world’s hidden corruption exposed.

• Tong Tian used the Qingping Sword to sever the Sword Dao’s karmic ties with the Immortal Dao, freeing himself and his disciples from their shackles.
• Hong Yun accused Hong Jun of draining the Primordial World’s essence to strengthen the Purple Cloud World and raised the God-Slaying Spear to fight him.
• Taiyi appeared and used the Chaos Bell to halt the Purple Cloud World briefly, giving Hong Yun an opening to attack Hong Jun.
• Hong Yun tore through the Heavenly Dao’s chains and peeled open part of the Primordial World, revealing a giant earthworm siphoning its essence and holding the true Investiture of the Gods.
• The Investiture at the Platform of Investiture vanished as a counterfeit, and Hao Tian and Yao Chi appeared amid the Heavenly Court’s upheaval.

Dao Ancestor Hong Jun revealed that he had planned to take over the Primordial Wilderness and had refined ancient powers who supposedly died fighting Demon Ancestor Luohu. He began devouring the Primordial World to strengthen the Purple Cloud World, and Hong Yun and the others moved to stop him.

• Hao Tian realized that Dao Ancestor Hong Jun had used him as a decoy and mourned the loss of his hopes for the Investiture of the Gods.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun explained that he had taught and favored powerful beings to gain their fortune, then planned to devour Heaven and Earth after the immeasurable tribulation.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun credited Hong Yun's World Dao with showing him a new path, then sent the earthworm to swallow the Primordial World and pierce the Purple Cloud World with its tail.
• Hong Yun attacked Dao Ancestor Hong Jun with the True Body of Pangu and the God-Slaying Spear as the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Empress Pingxin, and Zhen Yuan Zi defended the underworld and the remaining world fragments.
• Qiankun Ancestor and Yin-Yang Ancestor emerged to confront Nu Wa and Fuxi, who realized Dao Ancestor Hong Jun had refined ancient powers after their deaths.

Dao Ancestor Hong Jun faced the Saints as Qiankun and Yin-Yang Ancestor attacked, while Primordial Heavenly Lord questioned whether Hong Jun had manipulated the Three Pure Ones. Hong Yun urged Sect Master Tong Tian to prove the Dao, but Hong Jun unleashed a Saint-Slaying Pill that stirred the Primordial Violet Qi in Tong Tian’s spirit.

• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun asked Taiqing and Primordial Heavenly Lord whether they would oppose him, reminding them of what he had given them.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord asked whether Hong Jun had influenced the conflicts among the Three Pure Ones, and Hong Jun stayed silent.
• Hong Yun scolded the hesitant fighters and urged Sect Master Tong Tian to prove the Dao.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun launched a black object at Tong Tian, causing Primordial Violet Qi to reappear and churn within and outside Tong Tian’s primordial spirit.
• Sect Master Tong Tian sealed the exposed violet qi and began wearing away the wisps inside his primordial spirit with sword qi.
• Hong Yun recognized the object as the Saint-Slaying Pill and recalled that Hong Jun had used it to control the Three Pure Ones.

Hong Yun tried to stop the Saint-Slaying Pill from reaching Tong Tian, but Taiqing blocked it with the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda. As Tong Tian began merging the Formation Dao and Sword Dao to prove the Dao, Hong Jun attacked Taiqing, prompting Primordial Heavenly Lord to join him in defending their brothers.

• Hong Yun attacked Dao Ancestor Hong Jun and hurled the God-Slaying Spear at the Saint-Slaying Pill, but neither could stop it.
• Taiqing used the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda to block the Saint-Slaying Pill and protect Tong Tian.
• Hong Yun urged Tong Tian to prove the Dao, and Tong Tian sat within the Immortal Slaying Sword World as the Formation Dao and Sword Dao laws began to merge.
• Taiqing told Hong Jun he would not let him kill Tong Tian, and Hong Jun used the Investiture of the Gods to draw power from living beings and strike Taiqing.
• Primordial Heavenly Lord joined Taiqing against Hong Jun, while Hong Yun realized the Saint-Slaying Pill and Primordial Violet Qi represented opposing forces of death and life.

Jieyin and Zhun Ti realized Dao Ancestor Hong Jun would never treat them as allies and pledged to follow Hong Yun, who accepted their support but told them to wait for an opening. Meanwhile, Primordial Heavenly Lord joined Taiqing against Dao Ancestor Hong Jun, as the Saint-Slaying Pill began attacking Taiqing’s Primordial Violet Qi.

• Jieyin decided that he and Zhun Ti should side with Hong Yun rather than remain pawns under Dao Ancestor Hong Jun.
• Jieyin explained that Hong Yun’s mastery of the Way of Karma gave the brothers little choice, and Zhun Ti reluctantly agreed.
• Zhun Ti pledged the brothers’ allegiance to Hong Yun and offered to honor him as the Dao Ancestor.
• Hong Yun accepted their allegiance but told Jieyin and Zhun Ti to wait nearby and join the fight when an opportunity arose.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun sighed when Primordial Heavenly Lord joined Taiqing against him, while the Saint-Slaying Pill attacked Taiqing’s Primordial Violet Qi and drove back the Heaven and Earth Mysterious Yellow Exquisite Pagoda.

Hong Yun and the Three Pure Ones fought Dao Ancestor Hong Jun as the Saint-Slaying Pills destabilized their Primordial Violet Qi. Taiqing severed his Saint Position and sent the extracted Primordial Violet Qi toward the Primordial Chaos Treasure Box, creating an opening for Hong Yun to strike Hong Jun.

• Primordial Heavenly Lord used the Primordial Chaos Treasure Box to pull at the Saint-Slaying Pill, but Dao Ancestor Hong Jun added another pill and stopped it.
• Taiqing used the Taiji Diagram to draw the Primordial Violet Qi from his primordial spirit and severed his connection to it.
• Taiqing wrapped the extracted Primordial Violet Qi in the Taiji Diagram and sent it toward the Primordial Chaos Treasure Box as his Saint Position fell.
• The Heavenly Dao weakened, causing Dao Ancestor Hong Jun's battles and forces to falter.
• Hong Yun seized the opening and drove the God-Slaying Spear into Dao Ancestor Hong Jun's true form.

Hong Yun continued fighting Dao Ancestor Hong Jun, who swallowed the Purple Cloud World and claimed he would rise above the Heavenly Dao. Meanwhile, Sect Master Tong Tian broke through his Heavenly Dao Shackles and regained the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm with the Great Dao's favor.

• Hong Yun rejected Dao Ancestor Hong Jun's offer to divide the worlds and condemned his desire to covet them as incompatible with the Heavenly Dao.
• The God-Slaying Spear split Dao Ancestor Hong Jun's true body, but he escaped its devouring force, regenerated, and swallowed the Purple Cloud World.
• Sect Master Tong Tian continued comprehending the Great Dao while Taiqing restored the Immortal Slaying Four Swords to the formation.
• Sect Master Tong Tian used Qingping Sword to cut through the barrier preventing his breakthrough, and the one-third fragment of the Heaven Opening Seal drew down the Great Dao's favor.
• Sect Master Tong Tian regained the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm and recognized it as the true path of the Three Pure Ones.

Sect Master Tong Tian entered the battle and freed Nu Wa and Fuxi to remove the Primordial Violet Qi from Nu Wa’s primordial spirit. With Fuxi’s aid, Nu Wa drew the Qi into the Creation Qiankun Cauldron, where it was trapped in a breath of Primordial Unity.

• Sect Master Tong Tian asked Taiqing to guard the Immortal Slaying Sword Realm, then joined the battle and attacked Qiankun and Yin-Yang to relieve Nu Wa and Fuxi.
• Tong Tian told Nu Wa to resolve the danger posed by the Primordial Violet Qi while he held off the two Heavenly Dao puppets.
• Nu Wa called Fuxi to help her, and the siblings used the Three Talents Eight Trigrams Diagram and Creation Qiankun Cauldron to draw power from the stars, earth, and Human Dao.
• Nu Wa severed the Primordial Violet Qi from her primordial spirit, and Fuxi poured his magic power into the formation.
• The Primordial Violet Qi entered the Creation Qiankun Cauldron and was trapped by the breath of Primordial Unity.