Chapter Summaries

Hong Yun trapped Luohu inside the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and seized the God-Slaying Spear, leaving Luohu unable to escape. Ancestral Dragon mocked Luohu, and Hong Yun offered to let him fight, though Ancestral Dragon was still injured.

• Hong Yun explained why he suspected Luohu was hiding inside the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Hong Yun caught the weakened God-Slaying Spear in a giant hand and isolated it behind the grand arrays.
• Luohu rushed to reclaim the spear, but the repaired arrays blocked him and sent him tumbling back onto the lotus platform.
• Ancestral Dragon mocked Luohu, whose remnant soul was weaker than Ancestral Dragon’s current state.
• Hong Yun offered to let Ancestral Dragon beat Luohu while he refereed, and Ancestral Dragon looked aggrieved because he was still injured.

Ancestral Dragon revealed how Luohu manipulated the three races into war by promising that control of the Primordial Wilderness’s destiny would lead to sainthood. Luohu offered to share his secrets with Hong Yun in exchange for help, but Hong Yun rejected the offer and pointed out that Luohu’s treasures were already his.

• Ancestral Dragon weighed his options while struggling to suppress the killing intent in his injured body, then told Hong Yun that Luohu knew the secret of attaining the Dao through destiny.
• Ancestral Dragon explained that Luohu had spread a rumor that ruling the Primordial Wilderness would grant its destiny and allow someone to become a Saint.
• Ancestral Dragon recounted how Luohu secretly provoked war among the three races, whose leaders grew stronger as their share of destiny increased.
• Hong Yun guessed that Luohu had intended to defeat the three races after they weakened themselves, and Ancestral Dragon confirmed that Hongjun had instead rallied Innate Gods against Luohu.
• Luohu claimed he had lost only because he was outnumbered, then offered Hong Yun his secrets and help becoming a Saint in exchange for cooperation.
• Hong Yun rejected Luohu’s offer, saying Luohu’s secrets were useless to him and that the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and God-Slaying Spear already belonged to him.

Hong Yun rejected Luohu’s offer to reveal the Way of Destiny, explained his understanding of how it worked, and seized the God-Slaying Spear. Ancestral Dragon reconsidered his fixation on destiny as memories of the Dragon Clan’s losses revived his guilt.

• Luohu offered to reveal the secret of the Way of Destiny, but Hong Yun said destiny depended on the hearts of living beings and the Heavenly Dao’s support.
• Hong Yun subdued the God-Slaying Spear, wrapped it in three banners, and stored it inside himself.
• Ancestral Dragon watched Hong Yun take the spear and began questioning whether his desire for the Way of Destiny was only an obsession.
• Ancestral Dragon recalled leading the Dragon Clan into war, the deaths of his clansmen, and the karmic debt that still hindered the clan.

Ancestral Dragon let go of his resentment over the past and thanked Hong Yun for helping him resolve his inner knot. As Hong Yun prepared to deal with Luohu, Luohu made a final offer to join him, revealing that he had secretly stored the Demonic World’s origin in the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus to awaken its spirit.

• Ancestral Dragon accepted that the past could not be changed, shed a layer of the Heaven’s Shackles, and thanked Hong Yun for helping him find clarity.
• Ancestral Dragon declined to torture Luohu and told Hong Yun to kill him, while declaring that he would await Luohu’s return and overcome the Heaven’s Shackles.
• Luohu mocked Ancestral Dragon’s promise and urged Hong Yun to spare him, offering to help him become a Saint and stand above everyone.
• Luohu explained that he had hidden beneath the Western lands, absorbed the Demonic World’s origin, and stored it in the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus to awaken its spirit.

Hong Yun refused Luohu’s offer to ally with him and chose to kill the Demon Ancestor rather than risk trusting him. As Luohu burned himself away, he asked Hong Yun to spare the Black Lotus, whose spiritual nature he had nurtured.

• Luohu offered to give Hong Yun the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and God-Slaying Spear in exchange for his life and a place above everyone but Hong Yun.
• Hong Yun rejected Luohu’s offer, saying he would not trust or ally with the Demon Ancestor, and promised to kill him with the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler.
• Luohu praised Hong Yun’s honesty and declared that no one but himself would ever kill him.
• Luohu set himself ablaze, and Xuanming admired his resolve while Hong Yun disapproved.
• As he faded, Luohu explained that he had nurtured the Black Lotus with the origin of the Demonic World and asked Hong Yun not to refine it.

After Luohu vanished, Hong Yun took the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus and discovered it contained a vast store of Demonic World origin. The lotus cautiously asked whether Hong Yun was now its master.

• Luohu thanked Hong Yun for agreeing to protect the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, then disappeared in black flames.
• Hong Yun removed the lotus’s restraints and dismissed Ancestral Dragon’s concern that Luohu might have left hidden tricks inside it.
• The black lotus mourned Luohu and revealed that it had endured his plan to possess it because it had not dared defy him.
• Hong Yun inspected the lotus and found a great quantity of Demonic World origin hidden within it.
• The black lotus offered the world origin to Hong Yun, who teased it by claiming that everything it had already belonged to him.
• The black lotus asked Hong Yun whether he was its new master.

Hong Yun accepted the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus as his disciple rather than its master, aiming to nurture its independent consciousness and gain Devil Dao fortune. As the lotus asked what a teacher was, Hong Yun began explaining their bond.

• The system guided Hong Yun to take the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus as his disciple in exchange for Devil Dao fortune.
• Hong Yun told the lotus it belonged to itself and that he would be its teacher.
• Ancestral Dragon questioned Hong Yun’s decision, while Xuanming trusted that he had his reasons.
• Hong Yun declared that he would become the Ancestor Above the Demon Ancestor if the lotus replaced Luohu.
• Ancestral Dragon praised Hong Yun’s ambition and compared his potential status to Dao Ancestor Hong Jun.
• The Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus asked what a teacher was, and Hong Yun began explaining the teacher-disciple relationship.

Hong Yun accepted the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus as his first disciple and promised to share responsibility for whatever path it followed. The Innate Gourd Vine’s sentient little gourd then demanded his attention, revealing its origins to Ancestral Dragon.

• The Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus gladly accepted Hong Yun as its teacher, and Xuanming welcomed Hong Yun’s first disciple.
• Ancestral Dragon praised Hong Yun’s kindness, reconsidered his reservations, and voiced concern that the black lotus might turn toward the Devil Dao.
• Hong Yun assured Ancestral Dragon that he would teach the black lotus and bear any consequences with it, strengthening the lotus’s affection for him.
• The Innate Gourd Vine brought its chaos-colored gourd to Hong Yun and complained that it had been there first.
• Hong Yun explained to Ancestral Dragon that the little gourd came from the Innate Gourd Vine’s sentience and that the vine supported and expanded his inner world.

Hong Yun set a contest for the little gourd and the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus to see which would take human form first and become his senior disciple. He then began teaching the black lotus his own insights so it could find a path beyond Luohu’s Devil Dao.

• Hong Yun told the little gourd and the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus that whichever took human form first would become his disciple first, while the other would be junior.
• The little gourd rushed away to cultivate, and the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus began refining more of the Demonic World's origin.
• Hong Yun left enough of the Demonic World's origin for the black lotus and warned that any new disciples could leave both of them as juniors.
• Hong Yun passed his cultivation insights and understanding of the devil to the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus, urging it to find its own path instead of following only Luohu's.

Hong Yun taught the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus his ideas about a Devil Dao rooted in the human heart and left it to cultivate on the Treasure Distribution Cliff. In the Demonic World, Jieyin entered the Quasi-Saint realm and then began healing Zhun Ti while gathering traces left by Hong Yun and the others.

• Hong Yun told the Twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus that the Devil Dao meant defying Heaven’s rules and changing the human heart, not simply slaughtering others.
• Hong Yun passed his ideas to the lotus and placed it on the Treasure Distribution Cliff to cultivate.
• Ancestral Dragon accepted that the lotus would not follow Luohu and worried that Jieyin and Zhun Ti had already tracked the Dragon Clan’s aura.
• Jieyin severed his evil corpse with the Blessing Divine Pestle, entered the Quasi-Saint realm, and recalled the corpse into his body.
• Jieyin helped Zhun Ti dispel the remaining killing aura and gathered the traces Hong Yun and the others had left behind.

Jieyin and Zhun Ti blamed the Dragon Clan for stealing Luohu’s treasures and retreated to Mount Sumeru. In Fire Cloud Cave, Ancestral Dragon left hoping to recruit Hong Yun as a teacher for young Dragon Clan members, while Hong Yun gave him a gourd that could summon him.

• Jieyin and Zhun Ti recognized the God-Slaying Spear’s murderous aura, believed the Dragon Clan had taken Luohu’s treasures, and vowed the clan would pay.
• Jieyin urged Zhun Ti to return to Mount Sumeru so he could recover from his injuries.
• Ancestral Dragon realized Hong Yun’s cultivation method could help the Dragon Clan and decided to send talented young clan members to Fire Cloud Cave as Hong Yun’s disciples.
• Ancestral Dragon took his leave to return to the earth’s veins and arrange matters with the Dragon Clan.
• Hong Yun gave Ancestral Dragon a ripe gourd that would let him contact Hong Yun from anywhere.

Ancestral Dragon received a gourd from Hong Yun that could contact him, then rushed away after sensing a drastic shift in the Dragon Clan's fortune. Xuanming decided to return to the Witch Clan, and Hong Yun suggested a training plan that would make its members work hard to avoid sparring with her.

• Ancestral Dragon accepted the gourd, pleased that it could connect him to Hong Yun and serve as a magic treasure.
• Hong Yun told Ancestral Dragon he might enter seclusion to refine the Demonic World's origin and opened the connection between Fire Cloud Cave and the Primordial Wilderness.
• Ancestral Dragon sensed that the Dragon Clan's fortune had shifted drastically and hurried off to investigate.
• Xuanming decided to return to the Witch Clan and asked Hong Yun how to motivate its members to cultivate.
• Hong Yun suggested that Xuanming test the Witch Clan members and personally train those who fell behind.

Xuanming asked Hong Yun for gourds to distribute among the Witch Clan, and he gave her twelve before beginning to refine the Demonic World's origin. Three hundred years later, Ancestral Dragon arrived at Fire Cloud Cave with an urgent matter, but Long Wu and Long Jiu told him Hong Yun was in seclusion.

• Xuanming asked Hong Yun for about a hundred gourds, and he gave her twelve, promising more after his world advanced.
• Hong Yun watched Xuanming leave, then sealed Fire Cloud Cave and began refining the Demonic World's origin.
• Hong Yun's world expanded during his cultivation, and three hundred years passed.
• Ancestral Dragon came to Fire Cloud Cave after receiving no answer from the gourd.
• Long Wu and Long Jiu stopped Ancestral Dragon at the mountain gate and asked him to wait because Hong Yun was in seclusion.

Ancestral Dragon revealed himself to Long Wu and Long Jiu and sought Hong Yun’s help against the Demon Clan’s siege of the Dragon Clan. Unable to reach Hong Yun in seclusion, he set out to find Zhen Yuan Zi, while the two young dragons resolved to stop hiding beneath Fire Cloud Cave’s protection.

• Ancestral Dragon released his aura, forcing Long Wu and Long Jiu to prostrate themselves before recognizing him.
• Ancestral Dragon explained that the Dragon Clan was besieged by the Demon Clan and asked to find Hong Yun for help.
• Long Wu explained that Hong Yun’s seclusion had separated Fire Cloud Cave from their world and pointed out a formation leading to Zhen Yuan Zi’s abode.
• Ancestral Dragon decided to seek Zhen Yuan Zi’s help after confirming the hidden formation’s aura.
• Long Wu recounted how Maitreya had taken him and Long Jiu hostage and Hong Yun had rescued them.
• Long Wu and Long Jiu, troubled by the Dragon Clan’s plight, resolved to leave Fire Cloud Cave’s protection and act.

Ancestral Dragon sought Zhen Yuan Zi’s help after discovering that the demon race was attacking the Dragon Clan, since Hong Yun was in seclusion. The chapter ended with the demon army gathered at a fortified mountain on the Eastern Sea shore.

• Long Wu and Long Jiu asked to accompany Ancestral Dragon back to fight, but he told them to stay and inform Hong Yun when he emerged from seclusion.
• Ancestral Dragon entered Zhen Yuan Zi’s formation using Hong Yun’s gourd to show his connection to Hong Yun.
• Zhen Yuan Zi welcomed Ancestral Dragon, heard how he and Hong Yun had become friends, and asked what help he needed.
• Ancestral Dragon explained that he had sensed the Dragon Clan’s fortune faltering and learned that the demon race was attacking it.
• The demon army gathered around a heavily fortified mountain by the Eastern Sea, where a golden palace stood at the summit.

Taiyi ordered the Demon Clan to continue its war against the Dragon Clan, hoping Kun Peng’s possible recruitment would overcome their advantage at sea. At Wuzhuang Temple, Ancestral Dragon asked Zhen Yuan Zi to have Hong Yun mediate, leaving Zhen Yuan Zi doubtful that Hong Yun could end the war.

• Bai Ze reported that Candle Dragon had led the Dragon Clan farther into the deep sea, and Taiyi ordered the pursuit to continue.
• Taiyi announced that his elder brother had gone to invite Kun Peng to join the Demon Clan, raising the generals’ hopes of defeating the Dragon Clan.
• Taiyi rallied the Demon Clan troops, and Ci Tie beat the war drum as the Dragon Clan prepared for another attack.
• At Wuzhuang Temple, Ancestral Dragon asked Zhen Yuan Zi to have Hong Yun mediate, and Zhen Yuan Zi wondered whether Hong Yun could truly end the war.

Ancestral Dragon asked Zhen Yuan Zi to seek Hong Yun’s help protecting the Dragon Clan and offered the clan’s treasures and resources in return. Zhen Yuan Zi rejected the idea of the Dragon Clan submitting to Fire Cloud Cave, but agreed to sound out Hong Yun about the request.

• Zhen Yuan Zi struggled to answer Ancestral Dragon because agreeing could burden Hong Yun with Karmic Debt.
• Ancestral Dragon explained that the Dragon Clan was trapped by Heavenly Dao Karmic Debt and pleaded for Hong Yun to mediate with the Yao Clan.
• Ancestral Dragon offered Innate Spiritual Roots, Innate Spiritual Treasures, and blessed lands, and even proposed the Dragon Clan submit to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Zhen Yuan Zi refused to accept the entire Dragon Clan on Hong Yun’s behalf, though he considered accepting its treasures and resources.
• Zhen Yuan Zi told Ancestral Dragon he would sound out Hong Yun about helping.

Zhen Yuan Zi accepted Ancestral Dragon’s gift and agreed to arrange a meeting with Hong Yun, but went to consult Hou Tu first. Meanwhile, Di Jun arrived at the Northern Darkness Sea to summon Kun Peng, who remained unable to break through to the next realm.

• Ancestral Dragon gave Zhen Yuan Zi a sea chart of Fangzhang Island as a sign of the Dragon Clan’s goodwill.
• Zhen Yuan Zi agreed to make arrangements for Ancestral Dragon to meet Hong Yun after Hong Yun emerged from seclusion.
• Zhen Yuan Zi returned Ancestral Dragon to Fire Cloud Cave, left Long Wu and Long Jiu to attend him, and set out for the Houtu Tribe to consult Hou Tu.
• Di Jun arrived above the Northern Darkness Sea in his Golden Imperial Chariot and called for Kun Peng to meet him.
• Kun Peng heard Di Jun’s summons and opened his eyes, still stuck at the peak of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm and unable to sever his corpse.

Di Jun visited Kun Peng in the Northern Darkness to recruit him into the Demon Race and revealed that its fortune had helped him and several others become Quasi-Saints. Kun Peng was left shaken by how far his former peers had advanced.

• Kun Peng brooded over his inability to sever his corpse and welcomed Di Jun when he arrived at the Northern Darkness Sea.
• Bi Fang offered to drag Kun Peng out, but Di Jun reminded him that Kun Peng was a powerful Zixiao Palace guest.
• Kun Peng emerged from the sea aboard a black palace carried by an enormous Black Evil Shark and asked Di Jun why he had come.
• Di Jun invited Kun Peng to rule the Demon Race alongside him and argued that allies could have helped Kun Peng stand against Zhun Ti.
• Kun Peng sensed that Di Jun had severed his corpse, and Di Jun confirmed that the Demon Race's fortune had helped him, Taiyi, Fuxi, and Nu Wa become Quasi-Saints.

Di Jun invited Kun Peng to join the Demon Clan and offered him the title of Emperor Kun, but Bi Fang raised concerns that the clan would resent the appointment. Kun Peng reconsidered the offer as the chapter ended, while Di Jun and Bi Fang awaited his response.

• Kun Peng asked Di Jun whether the Demon Clan's destiny could help him sever a corpse.
• Di Jun offered Kun Peng equal standing with the clan's rulers and proposed the title Emperor Kun.
• Kun Peng accepted Di Jun's offer with growing goodwill, but noticed Bi Fang's skeptical expression and became angry.
• Di Jun struck Bi Fang into the imperial carriage and demanded to know whether he opposed Kun Peng's appointment.
• Bi Fang argued that clan members might reject a newcomer becoming an emperor without first contributing to the Demon Clan.
• Kun Peng considered Bi Fang's point and wondered whether he had been speaking on behalf of the clan.