Chapter Summaries

Hong Yun arrived at West Kunlun after East King Duke attacked West Queen Mother and her followers, healed Nine Heavens Profound Lady, and moved to kill East King Duke. The Three Pure Ones sensed the fight and reluctantly watched, mindful that Dao Ancestor Hong Jun valued East King Duke.

• East King Duke accused West Queen Mother of being involved with Hong Yun, and she rejected his authority over her private affairs.
• East King Duke overpowered West Queen Mother’s female immortals, badly wounding Nine Heavens Profound Lady, who told Lu Wu to seek Hong Yun’s help.
• Hong Yun appeared, healed Nine Heavens Profound Lady, and said he would no longer spare East King Duke.
• Hong Yun blocked East King Duke’s escape and reached for him with a giant hand.
• Taiqing and Yuan Shi criticized East King Duke’s conduct but kept watch over the battle because Dao Ancestor Hong Jun had previously ordered them to rescue him.

Hong Yun captured East King Duke at West Kunlun and prepared to kill him for his insults and crimes. West Queen Mother offered to take responsibility, but Hong Yun crushed East King Duke before she could act.

• The Three Pure Ones debated whether to intervene again, and Taiqing led Yuan Shi and Tong Tian toward West Kunlun.
• Hong Yun bound East King Duke and apologized to West Queen Mother for the trouble before promising to avenge her.
• West Queen Mother demanded that East King Duke be killed, then hesitated over Dao Ancestor Hong Jun's possible reaction.
• West Queen Mother resolved to kill East King Duke herself, but Hong Yun tightened his grip and shattered his body.

Hong Yun destroyed East King Duke’s body and primordial spirit while the Three Pure Ones tried to save him, leaving only a remnant of his soul. After Taiqing and Yuan Shi took East King Duke’s spiritual treasures, Hong Yun agreed to trade the remnant to them for the Southern Blazing Flame Banner.

• Hong Yun shattered East King Duke’s body and trapped his injured primordial spirit in his palm.
• The Three Pure Ones attacked Hong Yun to rescue East King Duke, but Hong Yun crushed his primordial spirit during the clash.
• Taiqing took the Dragon-Headed Golden Staff and Purple Mansion Pure Yang Sword, while Yuan Shi took the Nine-Rank Lotus Platform.
• Hong Yun collected East King Duke’s remaining pure-yang soul fragment and taunted Taiqing and Yuan Shi for taking the treasures.
• Taiqing asked Hong Yun to hand over the soul fragment, and Hong Yun agreed in exchange for the Southern Blazing Flame Banner.

Hong Yun killed East King Duke and demanded the Southern Blazing Flame Banner from Taiqing in exchange for his remnant soul. Dao Ancestor Hong Jun ordered Taiqing to surrender the banner and preserve the soul for reincarnation, leaving Hong Yun with all five Innate Five Directions Banners.

• Hong Yun refused to bargain over East King Duke’s remnant soul and looked toward the heavens after Taiqing rejected his demand for the Southern Blazing Flame Banner.
• Dao Ancestor Hong Jun watched from within the Heavenly Dao and, concerned about his authority, ordered Taiqing to give Hong Yun the banner and arrange East King Duke’s reincarnation.
• Taiqing reluctantly handed the Southern Blazing Flame Banner to Hong Yun and asked for the remnant soul in return.
• Hong Yun erased East King Duke’s memories from the remnant soul before giving it to Taiqing, who accepted the fresh start.

After the Three Pure Ones left with their debts settled, Hong Yun kept the Southern Blazing Flame Banner and considered the Nine-Rank Lotus Platform’s possible future as Daoist Cihang. He reassured West Queen Mother after their victory over East King Duke, but she worried that opposing him had earned her Dao Ancestor Hong Jun’s displeasure and left her isolated.

• Yuan Shi hurriedly left with Taiqing and the others, relieved that Hong Yun did not demand the Nine-Rank Lotus Platform.
• Hong Yun used the Great Dao of Karma to foresee that the Nine-Rank Lotus Platform might become Daoist Cihang, whom he considered bringing to Fire Cloud Cave.
• Hong Yun examined the Southern Blazing Flame Banner, stored it away, and turned to comfort West Queen Mother.
• West Queen Mother thanked Hong Yun and said East King Duke had long been at odds with her.
• West Queen Mother worried that helping Hong Yun kill East King Duke had alienated Dao Ancestor Hong Jun and weakened her already isolated West Kunlun lineage.

Hong Yun helped West Queen Mother restore West Kunlun and heal its injured immortals, then gave her a gourd that would let her contact him. After Hong Yun left, West Queen Mother revealed her reluctance and remarked that he was hurrying back to Hou Tu.

• Hong Yun pledged to support West Kunlun and repaired the sanctuary damaged by East King Duke and West Queen Mother's battle.
• Hong Yun healed the injured female immortals, and several of them advanced in cultivation and thanked him.
• Hong Yun asked West Queen Mother about the insights he had shared, but she admitted she had not had time to study them.
• Hong Yun gave West Queen Mother an unusually rich-origin gourd that could serve as the foundation for a treasure and let her contact him.
• Hong Yun left for Fangzhang Island, and West Queen Mother watched him go before Nine Heavens Profound Lady asked why he had left so soon.
• West Queen Mother said Hong Yun was hurrying to reunite with Hou Tu, then realized the others had noticed her feelings and stood up in embarrassment.

Hong Yun returned to Fangzhang Island with the Southern Blazing Flame Banner and discussed his plans for the Innate Five Directions Banners. After the Ancestral Shamans and Candle Dragon departed, he began helping Zhen Yuan Zi absorb Fangzhang Island into his Earth Immortal Realm.

• Hong Yun returned to Fangzhang Island, where Zhen Yuan Zi teased him about West Queen Mother and his reputation.
• Hong Yun showed Hou Tu the Southern Blazing Flame Banner and explained how Taiqing had given it to him.
• Hong Yun decided to use the Innate Five Directions Banners to form the Innate Five Elements Great Formation while he sought the five Innate Five Elements Spirit Pearls.
• Hou Tu and Xuanming left to manage the ongoing clashes between the Witch and Demon Clans, and Hong Yun said he would visit them after helping Zhen Yuan Zi.
• Candle Dragon said farewell, and Hong Yun sent the four Huluwa to explore Fangzhang Island while he helped Zhen Yuan Zi refine it.

Di Jun reconsidered whether Hong Yun was truly an enemy and suspected that East King Duke and West Queen Mother had been appointed to replace him and Taiyi. Meanwhile, Nu Wa grew disillusioned with the demon race as the Primordial Violet Qi within her soul began refining faster, and Hong Yun helped Zhen Yuan Zi refine Fangzhang Island.

• Di Jun watched Hong Yun face the Three Pure Ones and told Taiyi to keep the demons under control, while suspecting Hong Yun might not be their enemy.
• Di Jun concluded that East King Duke and West Queen Mother might have been established to replace him and Taiyi, and decided to treat Fuxi and Nu Wa with more respect.
• Nu Wa regretted her involvement with the demon race after seeing its internal conflicts and remembering that Fuxi had urged her not to help Hong Yun.
• The Primordial Violet Qi in Nu Wa's soul stirred and refined faster as her Creation Dao began circulating, though she did not notice.
• Hong Yun helped Zhen Yuan Zi refine Fangzhang Island, where the four Huluwa began cultivating.

Hong Yun sensed that Nu Wa was about to create humanity and hurried to bring her the Nine Heavens Breath Soil. Zhen Yuan Zi continued refining Fangzhang Island into his Earth Book as Hong Yun left to join the moment humanity entered the Primordial Wilderness.

• Zhen Yuan Zi expanded the Earth Book Barrier around Fangzhang Island and drew its origins into the Earth Book, advancing his Earth Immortal Realm.
• Hong Yun and Zhen Yuan Zi recalled their old battles and laughed while Huluwa and Wu Tian listened.
• Hong Yun sensed through his Great Dao of Karma that Nu Wa was about to create humanity.
• Hong Yun told Zhen Yuan Zi he had to leave and took out the Nine Heavens Breath Soil to bring to Nu Wa.
• Zhen Yuan Zi teased Hong Yun about his intentions toward Nu Wa, and Hong Yun laughed off the suggestion.

Hong Yun left Huluwa and the other disciples with Zhen Yuan Zi and followed the pull of cause and effect to find Nu Wa exploring the Way of Creation. He brought her the Nine Heavens Breath Soil, which joined with her half and stirred an insight she had not yet managed to grasp.

• Hong Yun asked Zhen Yuan Zi to teach Huluwa and the other disciples, then traveled through the Primordial Wilderness toward Nu Wa.
• Hong Yun found Nu Wa creating new living beings and praised her progress in the Way of Creation.
• Nu Wa told Hong Yun she had wanted to help him when he was besieged over the Eastern Sea, but had followed Fuxi's advice to prioritize the Demon Race.
• Nu Wa explained that she hoped to create an intelligent race but had not yet found the insight needed to give her creations wisdom.
• Hong Yun presented Nu Wa with his half of the Nine Heavens Breath Soil, and her own half joined it, stirring an insight she could not yet break through.

Hong Yun suggested that Nu Wa create beings using the Innate Dao Body as their template, and she used the idea to begin creating the human race. After borrowing blood essence from Hong Yun and adding her own, Nu Wa shaped and animated the first three humans, while the Heavenly Dao gathered in anticipation of the race's completion and her reward.

• Hong Yun told Nu Wa that her previous creations might have been limited by their demon-race models and suggested using the Innate Dao Body as a template.
• Nu Wa realized the Innate Dao Body was an ideal vessel for wisdom and began refining materials in her Creation Qiankun Cauldron under the Heavenly Dao's power.
• Nu Wa asked Hong Yun for blood essence, and he gave it willingly; she added a drop of her own as well.
• Nu Wa molded three figures in the likenesses of Fuxi, Hong Yun, and herself, then brought them to life and named them humans.
• Thunder and auspicious signs gathered as the Heavenly Dao awaited the birth of the full human race, and Nu Wa recognized the chance to attain the Dao.

Nu Wa created the human race and received Heavenly Dao merit, bringing her close to becoming a Saint. Hong Yun interrupted her ascension and urged her to sever her remaining corpse before attaining sainthood.

• Nu Wa declined Hong Yun's offer to help and molded three thousand people from spiritual clay.
• Hong Yun gave Nu Wa the Innate Yin Yang Five Elements Gourd Vine, which she used to create 129,600 humans.
• Nu Wa declared the creation of humanity, and the Heavenly Dao sent merit to Nu Wa, Hong Yun, the human race, the Creation Qiankun Cauldron, and the Gourd Vine.
• The merit prompted Nu Wa's Primordial Violet Qi to fuse with her soul, and she began to entrust herself to the Heavenly Dao.
• Hong Yun struck the Creation Qiankun Cauldron with the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler to stop Nu Wa's ascension, then told her to sever her remaining corpse: her obsession with creation.

Hong Yun helped Nu Wa sever her obsession with creation and unite her Three Corpses, preventing her from becoming a Saint too early. Nu Wa entrusted her Primordial Unity primordial spirit to the Heavenly Dao and became the first Heavenly Dao Saint after Hongjun.

• Nu Wa accepted the Creation Qiankun Cauldron, and Hong Yun used the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler to sever her obsession with creation and trap it in the cauldron.
• Hong Yun used the Heavens Celebration Cloud and Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler to draw Nu Wa’s good and evil corpses from her true body.
• Nu Wa’s three corpses merged within the Heavens Celebration Cloud, then returned to her true body along with the Three Corpses united.
• Nu Wa entrusted her Primordial Unity primordial spirit to the Heavenly Dao and became a Heavenly Dao Saint.
• Wondrous signs appeared across the Primordial World as living beings learned that Nu Wa had become a Saint.

Nu Wa became a Saint after creating humanity, and the Primordial Wilderness’s great powers congratulated her. With Hongjun directing her to open a dojo in the chaos, she announced that she would follow his instructions.

• Countless beings, the Three Pure Ones, Di Jun, and others congratulated Nu Wa on becoming a Saint, while the Three Pure Ones renewed their efforts to comprehend the Primordial Violet Qi.
• Di Jun told Taiyi to watch over the newly born humans and considered them part of the Demon Race because Nu Wa had created them.
• Nu Wa thanked Hong Yun for helping her attain Sainthood, and Fuxi arrived to congratulate his sister and thank Hong Yun.
• Hongjun appeared, congratulated Nu Wa, and instructed her to open a dojo in the chaos while privately wondering about Hong Yun’s involvement.
• Nu Wa announced that she would follow Hongjun’s instructions and open a dojo in the chaos.

After Nu Wa left to open her Daoist sanctuary, Hong Yun and Fuxi discussed how to guide the newly created human race. Fuxi proposed letting them develop on their own, but Hong Yun wondered whether he should spare them the hardships of that path.

• Nu Wa departed for the Chaos beyond the Primordial Wilderness after asking Hong Yun and Fuxi to look after the human race.
• Hong Yun asked Fuxi to advise him on how a newly born race could grow and thrive.
• Fuxi admitted he had no experience guiding a people from scratch, despite his role in founding the demon race.
• Fuxi suggested that the intelligent humans could find their own path and rely on Nu Wa and Hong Yun for protection.
• Hong Yun considered intervening to spare the humans the hardships of developing on their own.

Hong Yun resolved to guide the newly created human race, giving them basic knowledge and cultivation techniques before arranging for Zhen Yuan Zi to help develop them. He left Fuxi to watch over the humans while he went to find more people to assist.

• Hong Yun taught the newborn humans about the Primordial Wilderness and simple martial cultivation, and the first three called him Saint Father before he asked them to call him Old Ancestor.
• Hong Yun introduced Fuxi as Nu Wa’s elder brother, then let the humans explore while he and Fuxi watched their quick learning.
• Hong Yun asked Zhen Yuan Zi to bring his disciples and teach any humans suited to the Way of the Earth Immortal.
• Zhen Yuan Zi agreed and hurried to finish refining Fangzhang Island, privately worrying that Hong Yun’s attention to the humans might upset Hou Tu.
• Hong Yun decided Fuxi needed more preparation before becoming the human race’s future Heavenly Emperor, then left Fuxi to guard the humans while he went to find helpers.

Hong Yun visited the Houtu Tribe to ask Hou Tu for help caring for the newly born humans, after giving Xing Tian a martial imprint. He began explaining the human race to Hou Tu, whose displeasure stemmed from seeing Nu Wa and Hong Yun’s bloodline auras among them.

• Hong Yun decided to ask the powerful Houtu Tribe to take the newly born humans under its wing and traveled there.
• Hong Yun met Xing Tian, praised his martial arts, and gave him an imprint of the Heaven Opening Seal.
• Hong Yun entered the Houtu Hall and told Hou Tu he would help her become a Saint when the time was right.
• Hong Yun took Hou Tu’s hand and caused the space around them to ripple as he prepared to explain the human race.

Hong Yun told Hou Tu that humanity was destined to become the future protagonist of heaven and earth and proposed that the Witch Clan prepare by joining with humans. Hou Tu agreed to have the Houtu Tribe help humanity develop, while keeping the plan between them for now.

• Hong Yun brought Hou Tu to the Fire Cloud Cave World and revealed that the Primordial Wilderness had brought humanity into existence through Nu Wa, with his blood essence contributing to its creation.
• Hong Yun predicted that humanity would become the future protagonist of heaven and earth, and Hou Tu worried about what that meant for the Witch Clan.
• Hong Yun proposed that the Witch Clan invest in humanity early and explained that humans and the Witch Clan could unite and leave descendants even if the Witch Clan withdrew from the Primordial Wilderness.
• Hou Tu agreed that the Houtu Tribe should send some of its people to help humanity develop, while they waited to see how the two races would blend.
• Hong Yun asked Hou Tu to keep the matter secret until the time was right, and she agreed that the Houtu Tribe alone was enough to begin.

Hou Tu told the Ancestral Shamans that the human race might help the Witch Clan reproduce, easing their anger toward Hong Yun. After Xing Tian, Kua Fu, and Hou Yi set out for the human tribes, Hong Yun chose to spend time alone with Hou Tu while their plans proceeded.

• Hou Tu contacted Dijiang, Zhu Jiuyin, and the other Ancestral Shamans to explain how the human race might help the Witch Clan reproduce.
• Dijiang told the Ancestral Shamans about Hou Tu's message, and their anger at Hong Yun faded as they considered the benefit to their clan.
• Zhu Jiuyin proposed letting Hou Tu's tribe try first and observing the results before deciding what to do next.
• Hong Yun told Hou Tu to have Xing Tian and the others lead Witch Clan members to the human tribes while they waited.
• Xing Tian, Kua Fu, and Hou Yi gathered clansmen and headed for the human race, while Hong Yun stayed with Hou Tu.

Ancestor Minghe and Kun Peng went to observe the human race after Nu Wa became a saint through creating them. Minghe hoped to find a way to create a race and become a saint, while Kun Peng sought to learn what made humans special.

• Ancestor Minghe watched the human race and wondered whether creating a race in the Nether Blood Sea could help him become a saint.
• Minghe left the Nether Blood Sea and headed to the human lands to study the humans for himself.
• Kun Peng left the Heavenly Court and quietly traveled toward the human race.
• Kun Peng watched the humans from a distant mountaintop, seeking to understand how they had enabled Nu Wa to become a saint.