Recaps

The mighty figures of the Primordial Wilderness converged on the Undying Volcano, believing an innate supreme treasure was emerging, while Xuande and others suspected the phenomenon concealed a living being. The vortex burst apart and Yuanfeng emerged as a Late Quasi-Sage, leaving the gathered factions stunned and wary.

• An immense vortex of yin-yang qi and five-element qi appeared above the Undying Volcano, drawing cultivators from across the Primordial Wilderness who expected an innate supreme treasure.
• Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, the Three Pure Ones, Xuande and the western trio, Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, Nuwa, Fuxi, West Queen Mother, and Minghe traveled to the volcano, while King Father of the East chose to stay behind.
• Xuande, Nuwa, and Zhenyuanzi sensed life within the vortex, and Fuxi failed to divine what it concealed.
• After years of waiting, the vortex slowed and released an overwhelming pressure that forced the gathered Quasi-Saints to defend themselves.
• The Undying Volcano erupted, the vortex shattered, and a woman in seven-colored robes rose from the crater as a Late Quasi-Sage.
• Xuande recognized the woman as Yuanfeng, who had been suppressing the Undying Volcano, while the other mighty figures reacted with shock and caution.

Yuanfeng revealed that the disturbance at the Undying Volcano came from her children, Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng, taking form, and invited the gathered cultivators to become their masters. Kong Xuan chose Xuande and the Golden-Winged Great Peng chose Laozi, who named him Yun Cheng; the brothers then departed for the West and Kunlun Mountain with their masters.

• Yuanfeng explained that her children's emergence had caused the disturbance and said she wanted them to find masters while she remained to suppress the Undying Volcano.
• Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng emerged from the crater with extraordinary Five-Element and Yin-Yang powers, then greeted Yuanfeng.
• The gathered cultivators offered to teach the brothers, and Kong Xuan chose Xuande while the Golden-Winged Great Peng chose Laozi.
• Laozi accepted the Golden-Winged Great Peng as his disciple and gave him the Daoist name Yun Cheng, while Xuande accepted Kong Xuan.
• Yuanfeng returned to the Undying Volcano, and Laozi took Yun Cheng to Kunlun Mountain while Xuande brought Kong Xuan to the West.

Xuande brought Kong Xuan to Yingzhou Island, taught him the Five-Element Dao, and introduced him to his fellow disciples at Mount Sumeru. After visiting Northern Mystery, Xuande agreed to take the ancient tortoise to the East Sea to see the Ancestral Dragon, and they departed together.

• Xuande welcomed Kong Xuan to Yingzhou Island, gave him enlightenment tea and a Five-Needle Pine nut, and taught him the Five-Element Dao for several years.
• Kong Xuan swallowed the pine nut and began absorbing its five-element power as Xuande took him to Mount Sumeru’s Tea Garden.
• Xuande introduced Kong Xuan to Wuzhen, Yuan Hong, and Wuzhiqi, and the four disciples became friendly beneath the Enlightenment Tea Mother Tree.
• Xuande visited Northern Mystery, who asked to see the Ancestral Dragon in the East Sea, and Xuande agreed to take him there.
• Xuande told his four disciples he would be away, then carried Northern Mystery aboard the Twelve-Petal World-Purifying White Lotus and set off for the East Sea.

Xuande brought Northern Mystery to the East Sea to reunite with Ancestral Dragon, then rescued Zhao Gongming, Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao from two vicious jiaos. He refined the jiaos into the Golden Jiao Scissors and left the four newly transformed beings alive.

• Xuande carried Northern Mystery across the continent and brought it to the Sea Eye, where it reunited with Ancestral Dragon.
• After leaving Northern Mystery with Ancestral Dragon, Xuande sensed four beings undergoing Form Transformation near an East Sea island.
• Zhao Gongming tried to protect Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao from two Peak Grand Unity Golden Immortal vicious jiaos, but the jiaos overwhelmed him and pursued the three sisters.
• Xuande restrained both vicious jiaos with Merit Golden Light and introduced himself to the four survivors.
• Xuande absorbed the jiaos into the Creation Cauldron, refined them, and forged the Golden Jiao Scissors.

After saving Zhao Gongming and the Three Cloud Sisters, Xuande declined their request to become his disciples and brought them to Wuzhuang Temple to meet Hongyun, whose Cloud and Wind Dao suited their origins. Hongyun sensed their strong connection as they arrived, and the chapter ended with them recognizing the resonance between their origins and his Dao.

• Zhao Gongming and the Three Cloud Sisters thanked Xuande for saving them and asked him to accept them as disciples.
• Xuande praised their aptitudes but explained that their Wind and Cloud Dao origins suited Hongyun better than his own cultivation.
• Xuande created a golden auspicious cloud and carried the four toward Wuzhuang Temple, teaching them about the Primordial Wilderness along the way.
• At Wuzhuang Temple, Hongyun sensed that the newcomers were strongly fated to meet him and urged Zhenyuanzi to welcome them.
• Xuande introduced Hongyun to Zhao Gongming and the Three Cloud Sisters, who felt a deep familiarity with him and sensed their origins resonating with his Wind and Cloud Dao.

Xuande brought Zhao Gongming and the Three Cloud Sisters to Wuzhuang Temple, where Hong Yun recognized their wind-and-cloud origins and accepted them as disciples. After the group celebrated and studied the Dao, Xuande gave them powerful treasures and departed for the West, leaving Hong Yun and Zhenyuanzi with the new disciples.

• Xuande explained that Zhao Gongming and Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao had transformed from Qingfeng and clouds, and Hong Yun accepted all four as disciples.
• Hong Yun fetched his aged cloudmist wine from Fire Cloud Cave, and the group celebrated the new disciples beneath the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
• Hong Yun, Zhenyuanzi, and Xuande expounded the Cloud Dao, Earth Dao, Way of Merit, and Five Elements Dao to the four disciples over several days.
• Xuande gave Zhao Gongming the Golden Jiao Scissors and gave Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao the Hunyuan Golden Bushel to share.
• Xuande bade farewell and flew toward the West, while Hong Yun, Zhenyuanzi, and the four disciples watched him leave.

Xuande returned to Mount Sumeru and watched Wuzhen, Kong Xuan, Yuan Hong, and Wuzhiqi spar, then taught them how to improve their techniques. Seeing that Kong Xuan lacked a suitable spirit treasure, Xuande forged him the Five-Element Heaven-and-Earth Fan and gave it to him as his natal treasure.

• Xuande secretly watched Wuzhen spar with Kong Xuan and Yuan Hong battle Wuzhiqi in the clearing behind Mount Sumeru.
• Wuzhen defeated Kong Xuan in their sparring match and advised him to use the Five-Colored Divine Light more flexibly.
• Xuande praised the four disciples, taught Kong Xuan to seek the essence of the Five-Element Dao, and encouraged Yuan Hong and Wuzhiqi to keep learning from one another.
• Xuande asked Kong Xuan what kind of spirit treasure he wanted, and Kong Xuan requested a fan.
• Xuande spent five hundred years forging the Five-Element Heaven-and-Earth Fan from Five-Element and spatial materials.
• Xuande gave Kong Xuan the Five-Element Heaven-and-Earth Fan as his natal spirit treasure, and Kong Xuan thanked him.

Kong Xuan received the Five-Element Heaven-and-Earth Fan from Xuande, while Xuande considered how to strengthen the West’s fortune by attracting talented cultivators. Xuande persuaded Jieyin and Zhunti to develop a Western cultivation method, and the three resolved to derive it together.

• Xuande gave Kong Xuan the Five-Element Heaven-and-Earth Fan, and Kong Xuan vowed to use it to protect the West and their sect.
• Wuzhen, Yuan Hong, and Wuzhiqi congratulated Kong Xuan, but Xuande sent them to cultivate while he met with Jieyin and Zhunti.
• Xuande told Jieyin and Zhunti that he had delivered Northern Mystery to Ancestral Dragon and arranged for Hong Yun to accept Zhao Gongming, Yun Xiao, Qiong Xiao, and Bi Xiao as disciples.
• Xuande explained that the West needed more fortune and talent, but could not attract cultivators by competing with the Three Pure Ones and the Demon Clan on their terms.
• Xuande proposed developing a Western cultivation method based on the Mystic Gate and their own insights, and Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to derive it with him.

Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti devised the Seven Emotions and Six Desires method as a path to Quasi-Sainthood that required no Innate Spiritual Treasures. They announced the method from Mount Sumeru and invited cultivators to become their disciples, drawing attention and skepticism across the Primordial Wilderness.

• Xuande proposed replacing the treasure-dependent Slaying Three Corpses method with severing the seven emotions and six desires, and Jieyin and Zhunti helped define its five cultivation realms.
• The three agreed that their method could lead cultivators as far as Mid-Quasi-Saint but could not provide a path to Late Quasi-Sage or Sagehood.
• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti chose to accept disciples and spread the method before establishing a separate sect, avoiding direct conflict with the Dao Ancestor.
• Three days later, the three proclaimed from Mount Sumeru that their methods could lead to Quasi-Sainthood without Innate Spiritual Treasures and invited suitable cultivators to study under them.
• Countless cultivators heard the proclamation, and some independent cultivators debated whether it was credible before considering traveling west to investigate.

The West’s announcement of a method to reach the Quasi-Saint realm without an Innate Spiritual Treasure drew cultivators and envoys from across the Primordial Wilderness toward Mount Sumeru. As the West prepared to welcome them, Xuande recognized that its rise had begun but that it still had a long road ahead.

• The King Father of the East sent two trusted subordinates to investigate the West’s method in secret.
• Dijun ordered Bai Ze and several Demon Gods to visit the West under the guise of offering congratulations and report on the method.
• Tongtian, Hong Yun, Zhenyuanzi, Nuwa, Fuxi, the West Queen Mother, and Randeng each set out for the West, while the Dragon Clan sent Ao Yuan with gifts.
• Dijiang led the Twelve Ancestral Witches westward with congratulatory gifts, honoring Xuande’s kindness to Houtu and their ties to the West.
• Countless cultivators and representatives of major powers converged on Mount Sumeru.
• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti went to welcome the arriving guests, with their four disciples following behind.

Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti welcomed great powers and cultivators to Mount Sumeru to share the Western Wondrous Dharma. After Xuande began explaining the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Severance, the chapter left the gathered cultivators listening to the method’s opening principles.

• Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, Nuwa, and Fuxi arrived at Mount Sumeru and praised the West’s flourishing Spiritual Energy and Three Immortal Islands.
• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti welcomed Tongtian, the West Queen Mother, Randeng, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, serving them Enlightenment Tea.
• Yuan Hong, Wuzhiqi, and Kong Xuan guided unaffiliated cultivators to Mount Sumeru, where Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti provided them with tea.
• Xuande revealed that the West would publicly teach the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Severance, while hidden observers from the King Father of the East’s camp remained among the guests.
• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti manifested a tricolored lotus, heavenly blossoms, and golden lotuses before Xuande explained that severing emotions and desires could purify the mind and advance cultivation.

Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti finished teaching the five stages of Seven Emotions and Six Desires Severance, earning the admiration of cultivators from across the Primordial Wilderness. After their sermon, Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Nuwa began sharing their own Daos with the gathered audience.

• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti explained how cultivators could sever the six desires and seven emotions through five stages without an Innate Spiritual Treasure.
• Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, Nuwa, Fuxi, Tongtian, West Queen Mother, Randeng, Houtu, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches recognized the method's value, while Bai Ze and the King Father of the East's aides prepared to report what they had heard.
• After teaching for several years, Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti concluded that the method could help cultivators reach the Mid-Quasi-Saint stage, and the audience thanked them.
• Bai Ze and several Demon Gods left to report to Dijun, while two aides left to inform King Father of the East.
• Zhenyuanzi asked permission to teach the Earth Dao, then spoke about its bearing, inclusiveness, and stability.
• Hong Yun taught the Four Symbols Dao, and Nuwa followed by teaching the Creation Dao.

After the Western sermons ended, many cultivators stayed on Mount Sumeru to pursue the Western Wondrous Dharma, and Randeng joined them without becoming a disciple. Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti then chose six gifted cultivators as disciples, including Ksitigarbha, Medicine Master, Great Strength, Maitreya, Sunlight, and Moonlight.

• Fuxi, Tongtian, the West Queen Mother, Randeng, and the other great powers preached their Daos to thousands of wandering cultivators over several years.
• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti invited the cultivators to stay in the West or return whenever they sought guidance; many left, while others settled on Mount Sumeru.
• The great powers departed, and Randeng asked to become Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti's disciple, but they refused because they were of the same generation and welcomed him to cultivate in the West instead.
• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti decided to take promising cultivators as disciples, and Xuande accepted Ksitigarbha and his divine beast Diting.
• Jieyin accepted Medicine Master and Great Strength as disciples of the Nirvana Purity Dao.
• Zhunti accepted Maitreya, Sunlight, and Moonlight as disciples of the Wisdom and Skillful Means Dao.

The West’s new disciples settled into cultivation, and Xuande proposed a system of disciple records and tokens to manage the growing sect. After Xuande refined and distributed the tokens, they strengthened the disciples’ defenses, communication, and accountability, and Ksitigarbha received an invitation from Wuzhen to visit the Tea Garden.

• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti discussed their disciples’ abilities and resolved to build the West’s strength gradually, while their disciples settled into cultivation across Mount Sumeru and the Three Immortal Islands.
• Xuande proposed registering every disciple and refining tokens for identification, protection, recordkeeping, and communication, and Jieyin and Zhunti supplied Innate Spiritual Materials.
• Xuande used the Creation Cauldron and its Return to Origin power to refine three Master Tokens and hundreds of Disciple Tokens over hundreds of years.
• Xuande distributed the tokens to the direct and registered disciples and explained their defensive, recording, merit, and communication functions.
• The disciples began using their tokens to exchange messages and study their contents, and Ksitigarbha received Wuzhen’s invitation to try new tea at the Tea Garden.

Bai Ze reported the Western Wondrous Dharma to Dijun, who ordered an experiment with Demon Clan cultivators, while King Father of the East began teaching it within the Immortal Court. Concerned about the West’s growing influence, Dijun then set out for Buzhou Mountain to invite Nuwa and Fuxi to join the Demon Clan.

• Bai Ze returned to Lingxiao Palace and confirmed to Dijun and the Demon Gods that the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Severance was viable, prompting them to test it on Demon Clan cultivators without Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Dijun ordered Bai Ze to recruit experimental cultivators and strengthen the Demon Clan, while three of the ten candidates later advanced by severing their six desires.
• King Father of the East learned from his trusted aides that the Western Wondrous Dharma worked and ordered Immortal Court cultivators to practice it, offering them resources and support.
• King Father of the East warned the Immortal Officials that those who left for the West would sever their ties with the Immortal Court, then considered how to adapt the method and recruit more independent cultivators.
• Dijun and Taiyi decided to invite Nuwa and Fuxi to join the Demon Clan with high honors, and Dijun left Sun Star alone for Buzhou Mountain.

Dijun failed to recruit Nuwa and Fuxi into the Demon Clan, and Fuxi chose to pursue his own Deduction Dao. Tongtian created and announced the Shangqing Immortal Method and Eight-Nine Arcane Art, inviting cultivators to Kunlun Mountain to become his disciples.

• Dijun offered Nuwa and Fuxi equal standing with himself and a share of the Demon Race Fortune, but both refused to join the Demon Clan.
• Fuxi told Nuwa that the three from the West had inspired him to systematize his Deduction Dao, and he entered seclusion to create an Eight Trigrams Deduction Method.
• Tongtian told Laozi and Yuanshi that he would create the Shangqing Immortal Method and the Eight-Nine Arcane Art, then entered seclusion on Kunlun Mountain.
• Tongtian developed the methods, combining the Dao Ancestor's Method of Severing the Three Corpses with Shangqing killing intent and a nine-turn path of physical cultivation.
• Tongtian completed the methods through the Quasi-Saint realm and announced across the Primordial Wilderness that cultivators with a fated connection could come to Kunlun Mountain to seek his tutelage.

Fuxi completed the framework of the Later Heaven Eight Trigrams but remained in seclusion to simplify them further for ordinary cultivators. On Western Mount Sumeru, Xuande created Western Treasury Coins and began circulating them among the West’s disciples, leaving broader adoption for the future.

• Fuxi combined the Innate Eight Trigrams with the Five Elements, Heavenly Stems, and Earthly Branches, then completed the first framework of the Later Heaven Eight Trigrams after thousands of years of deduction.
• Fuxi told Nuwa he would continue simplifying the Later Heaven Eight Trigrams before announcing them, so ordinary cultivators could learn them more easily.
• Xuande explained to Jieyin and Zhunti that he planned to create currency based on the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin to promote trade and earn merit, beginning with a trial in the West.
• Xuande designed three denominations of Western Treasury Coins, minted them with the Creation Cauldron, and established rules for trading and redemption backed by the West’s three leaders.
• Xuande distributed coins to the direct disciples, who tested them in trades, then introduced them to registered disciples after a hundred years of successful circulation.
• Xuande saw trade grow throughout the West and decided to expand the coins there before considering adoption across the Primordial Wilderness.

Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti expanded Western Treasury Coins across the West, supporting them with rare treasures and earning heavenly merit as trade flourished. Encouraged by their success, Xuande proposed creating an accessible writing system based on Dao Script, and the three began work with the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti opened Western Treasury Coins to all living beings in the West and offered limited supplies of Yellow Center Plums, Bitter Bamboo, and Five-Needle Pine seeds for redemption.
• Disciples and unaffiliated cultivators exchanged goods for coins and used them to buy supplies and treasures, making trade in the West faster and more active.
• Xuande established rewards in Western Treasury Coins, and the West's fortune rose as the currency spread and cultivation conditions improved.
• The Heavenly Dao sent Merit Golden Light to Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti for the Trade Dao, while leaders across the Primordial Wilderness discussed the coins and their effects.
• Xuande proposed simplifying Dao Script into a writing system that lower-level cultivators could learn, and Jieyin and Zhunti agreed to create it with him using the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti created Sanskrit, a simpler writing system that spread across the West and earned them another vast share of Heavenly Dao merit. The news spurred the Demon Clan, Witch Clan, Immortal Court, and Three Pure Ones to begin planning their own languages or scripts.

• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti developed and refined twelve hundred Sanskrit characters, then announced the writing system and opened classrooms beneath the Bodhi Tree.
• Living beings across the West learned and used Sanskrit to record cultivation knowledge, and the Heavenly Dao rewarded Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti with merit that strengthened the West.
• Dijun ordered Bai Ze to lead the creation of a shared Demon Language, with Taiyi and Kunpeng pledging their support.
• Dijiang decided the Witch Clan should create Witch Script, and Houtu agreed to visit the West to learn how Xuande and the others had developed Sanskrit.
• The King Father of the East ordered an Immortal Court official to organize the creation of Immortal Court Script.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian agreed to work together to simplify Dao Script for lower-level cultivators.

Houtu created Witch Script with Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti, then tested and refined it among the Witch Clan. After the warriors learned to use it, she proposed announcing its creation to the Heavenly Dao.

• Demon Clan, Immortal Court, and the Three Pure Ones began creating or simplifying their own languages and scripts.
• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti cataloged the West’s resources, set exchange rates, and established cultivation records for their disciples.
• Houtu sought Xuande’s advice, compiled three thousand Witch Clan terms, and returned to Mount Sumeru with draft symbols.
• Houtu and the three Western sages derived three thousand bold, forceful Witch Script characters over hundreds of years.
• Houtu brought Witch Script to Pangu Hall, where the Ancestral Witches approved it and warriors learned to use it.
• After testing Witch Script and revising several characters, Houtu proposed announcing its creation to the Heavenly Dao.

The Witch Clan, Demon Clan, Three Pure Ones, and Immortal Court each announced a script or language and received merit from the Heavenly Dao. As factions across the Primordial Wilderness reacted to Western Sanskrit, Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti watched the growing commotion on Mount Sumeru.

• Dijiang, Houtu, and the other Ancestral Witches announced the Witch Script and received merit from the Heavenly Dao.
• Dijun, Taiyi, and Kunpeng announced the Demon Language, and merit entered the three leaders.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, and Tongtian combined their versions of the Simplified Dao Script and announced it, receiving less merit than the Witch Script and Demon Language.
• King Father of the East announced the Immortal Script, but the Immortal Court received only a small amount of merit.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun discussed the wave of new scripts, while Nuwa and Fuxi discussed simplifying the Later Heaven Eight Trigrams.
• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti watched the merit signs on Mount Sumeru and reflected on how Sanskrit had inspired the other factions.

Kunpeng failed to persuade Ancestral Dragon to submit the Dragon Clan to the Heavenly Court, so Taiyi and Kunpeng led a demon army to the East Sea. Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti arrived to defend the Dragon Clan, and the two sides ended in a tense standoff.

• Kunpeng offered Ancestral Dragon a Dragon Emperor's Position if the Dragon Clan joined the Demon Clan, but Ancestral Dragon refused to become anyone's vassal.
• Ancestral Dragon sent Ao Yuan to Mount Sumeru to ask Xuande for aid, while Kunpeng reported the refusal to Dijun.
• Dijun ordered Taiyi and Kunpeng to lead five Demon Marshals and demon soldiers against the Dragon Clan, prompting factions across the Primordial Wilderness to watch the campaign.
• Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti agreed to help the Dragon Clan because of their ties to Ancestral Dragon and Northern Mystery, then traveled with Ao Yuan to the East Sea.
• Taiyi demanded the Dragon Clan's submission, but Ancestral Dragon refused and warned that he could drag the demon army into the abyss if they attacked.
• Xuande asked Taiyi to withdraw and offered mediation, but Taiyi refused, leaving the Western trio, Ancestral Dragon, and the Demon Clan facing one another without yielding.

After Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti helped Ancestral Dragon repel Taiyi and Kunpeng, they accepted his gift and brought Northern Mystery back toward the West. Taiyi and Kunpeng then led the Demon Clan toward Purple Mansion Continent to attack the Immortal Court and warn the West.

• Taiyi and Kunpeng withdrew their Demon Clan forces from the East Sea after Ancestral Dragon and Xuande held them off.
• Ancestral Dragon thanked Xuande, Jieyin, and Zhunti, hosted them in the Sea Eye, and gave Xuande the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage.
• Xuande invited Northern Mystery to return to the West, and Northern Mystery agreed to leave with him on the Twelve-Petal World-Purifying White Lotus.
• Taiyi and Kunpeng decided to target the Immortal Court at Purple Mansion Continent instead of attacking the West directly.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun discussed the Demon Clan's advance and decided not to intervene in the attack on the Immortal Court.

Taiyi and Kunpeng attacked the Purple Mansion Continent after King Father of the East refused to dissolve the Immortal Court and submit to the Demon Clan. Taiyi shattered the Myriad Immortals Formation, and King Father of the East agreed to join the Demon Clan if Taiyi spared his followers.

• Taiyi and Kunpeng confronted King Father of the East and demanded that he submit to the Demon Clan and dissolve the Immortal Court.
• King Father of the East refused, citing his appointment by the Dao Ancestor, and Taiyi and Kunpeng attacked the Myriad Immortals Formation.
• King Father of the East rallied the 3,600 Immortal Officials and strengthened the formation, but Taiyi unleashed the Chaos Bell at full power.
• Taiyi broke the Myriad Immortals Formation, leaving King Father of the East and the Immortal Officials badly injured.
• King Father of the East agreed to submit and join the Demon Clan on the condition that Taiyi let the other Immortal Court members leave safely.

After the Immortal Court’s destruction, Dijun reassessed the Demon Clan’s losses and grew concerned about the rising power of the West. Meanwhile, Tongtian taught the Dao to the more than ten thousand disciples gathered at Biyou Palace on Kunlun Mountain.

• Taiyi and Kunpeng returned to the Heavenly Court and reported that the King Father of the East’s self-detonation had killed thirty percent of the Demon Soldiers and wounded every Demon Marshal.
• Dijun rejected Kunpeng’s attempt to blame the Western trio, ordered proper burials and care for the fallen and wounded, and reassured them that the Dao Ancestor would not punish the Demon Clan.
• After Taiyi and Kunpeng left, Dijun worried that Jieyin, Zhunti, and Xuande’s actions signaled the West’s rise and resolved to reassess the balance of power.
• On Kunlun Mountain, Tongtian expounded the Shangqing Dao to more than ten thousand disciples gathered before Biyou Palace.
• Tongtian’s renowned disciples included Daoist Duobao, Golden Spirit Holy Mother, Wudang Holy Mother, Turtle Spirit Holy Mother, and several transformed spirits and beasts.