Chapter Summaries

As calamity qi spread across the Primordial Wilderness, Luohu and his demon race intensified the Three Races’ existing tensions and drove them toward war. After prominent Dragon, Phoenix, and Kirin figures died in battles and ambushes, calls for restraint vanished, and all-out war began.

• Calamity qi grew denser across the Primordial Wilderness as Luohu and his demons secretly sowed discord and hastened the Three Races’ decline.
• A Phoenix ambush trapped and killed a Dragon King, whose falling corpse blocked a river and flooded settlements along its banks.
• The Ink Jade Kirin and demon-disguised attackers ambushed and killed a Phoenix princess despite her gravely wounding the Kirin.
• A demonic-seed-infected Dragon general killed a benevolent Kirin elder who had tried to mediate a dispute.
• The Three Races’ war factions overwhelmed advocates of restraint, and their leaders sounded the horns of all-out war.

Ancestor Dragon launched the Dragon Clan’s forces from the Four Seas to conquer the Primordial Continent. Facing the threat, Yuanfeng and First Kirin set aside their clans’ enmity and mobilized their forces to meet the dragons east of Buzhou Mountain.

• Ancestor Dragon rallied the Dragon Clan in the East Sea and led a vast army from all Four Seas toward the Primordial Continent.
• Yuanfeng saw the invading army through a Water Mirror and ordered the Phoenix Race to prepare for battle.
• Yuanfeng sent the Fire Feather Golden Plume Order to First Kirin, urging an alliance against the Dragon Clan at the eastern foot of Buzhou Mountain.
• First Kirin agreed to ally with the Phoenix Race and sounded the Myriad Beasts Facing Heaven Drum to summon the Beast clans.
• The Beast clans gathered their warriors and began converging on the designated battlefield.

The Dragon Clan and its aquatic vassals launched a full-scale war against the allied Phoenix Race and Kirin Race near Buzhou Mountain and the East Sea. The battle left the battlefield devastated, with the Primordial World's land, spiritual veins, and natural laws suffering widespread damage.

• The Dragon Clan's waves crashed onto the coast, beginning the war against the Phoenix Race, the Kirin Race, and their allies.
• The Phoenix Race and allied Flying Birds attacked from the sky with fire, while the Kirin Race and Beasts fought the Dragon Clan's forces on the ground.
• The Dragon Clan tried to split the allied forces and strike at the Southern Immortal Volcano and Kirin Cliff, while the Phoenix Race and Kirin Race used their strongest defenses to stop them.
• Fighters on both sides slaughtered one another as divine powers destroyed mountains, rivers, and plains, leaving rivers of blood and mountains of corpses.
• The fighting shattered Spiritual Veins and destabilized the Primordial World's energy and laws.

Luohu gathered the destruction and resentment generated by the Three Races’ war to empower the Four Immortal Slaying Swords and advance his plan to overturn the Heavenly Dao Order. At Wuzhuang Temple, Zhenyuanzi warned Hong Yun that the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation was reaching its climax and Luohu would soon emerge.

• Luohu drew the battlefield’s Negative Energy into the Demon Abyss and used it to strengthen the Four Immortal Slaying Swords.
• The Four Immortal Slaying Swords absorbed slaughter, resentment, despair, and destructive qi, bringing the formation closer to the power that required four Saints to break.
• Luohu planned to spread the devastation across the Primordial Wilderness, use its accumulated baleful qi to refine his formation, and establish an era ruled by the Devil Dao.
• At Wuzhuang Temple, Hong Yun grieved over the Three Races’ war and its damage to the Primordial Wilderness.
• Zhenyuanzi told Hong Yun that the Three Races’ fortunes and the Heavenly Dao’s Karma had made the calamity unavoidable, and predicted that Luohu would soon reveal himself.

Hongjun decided he could not face Luohu’s Immortal Slaying Sword Formation alone and sent his Three Corpse Clones to recruit powerful allies. Yang Mei, Daoist Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi agreed to join him, leaving the alliance ready to confront Luohu in the Western Land.

• Hongjun judged that Luohu’s sword formation was too dangerous for him and his Three Corpse Incarnations to face alone, so he sought allies.
• Hongjun sent his Good Corpse Clone to recruit Great Immortal Yang Mei, who agreed to help break Luohu’s formation.
• Hongjun’s Evil Corpse Clone invited Daoist Yin Yang, who agreed to join the fight to restore balance.
• Hongjun’s Attachment Corpse Clone asked Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun to join the alliance at Wuzhuang Temple.
• Zhenyuanzi agreed to confront Luohu, completing the core alliance preparing to journey west.

Luohu appeared above the devastated battlefield after the Three Races had nearly annihilated one another, absorbing the calamity’s baleful energy and clearing the survivors’ minds. Ancestor Dragon and Yuanfeng realized Luohu had manipulated the conflict and accused him of using their slaughter to advance his Devil Dao.

• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and First Kirin faced one another in an exhausted stalemate as their armies lay devastated and Candle Dragon remained surrounded.
• Luohu emerged from the Western Lands, overwhelmed the battlefield with his demonic aura, and declared the Three Races’ slaughter a sacrifice for his Dao.
• The Great Tribulation Sha Qi and the battlefield’s resentment and death energy rushed into Luohu, while the survivors’ minds cleared and they grieved over the destruction.
• Ancestor Dragon recognized Luohu as the one who had stirred up the conflict, and Yuanfeng accused him of exploiting the Three Races’ ruin to feed his Devil Dao.

Luohu trapped Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, First Kirin, Candle Dragon, and other fighters in the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, then wore down the three Emperors and Candle Dragon. Hongjun, Great Immortal Yang Mei, Daoist Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi arrived outside the formation, and Luohu merged with it to face them.

• Luohu revealed that he had manipulated the Three Races’ conflict and activated the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation, trapping the three Emperors, Candle Dragon, and their allies.
• Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, First Kirin, and Candle Dragon tried to resist the formation, but its sword qi and baleful energy weakened them and destroyed their defenses.
• Luohu watched as the four survivors grew close to death, then sensed powerful arrivals outside the formation.
• Hongjun, Great Immortal Yang Mei, Daoist Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi arrived together at the western battlefield.
• Luohu vowed to kill the four newcomers and merged completely with the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

Luohu turned the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation against the Three Clan Emperors and Candle Dragon while Hongjun, Yang Mei, Daoist Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi attacked from outside. Luohu cast the four wounded leaders out and trapped their rescuers inside the formation, leaving the leaders to face the ruin of their clans and their crushing Karmic Retribution.

• Luohu unleashed the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation at full power, bringing Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, First Kirin, and Candle Dragon to the brink of death.
• Hongjun, Yang Mei, Daoist Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi combined their powers to attack and weaken the formation.
• Luohu opened the formation, cast out the four dying leaders, and pulled their attackers inside before sealing the barrier.
• Ancestor Dragon saw that most of the Dragon Clan had perished and that Karmic Retribution was consuming its remaining Fortune and vitality.
• Yuanfeng and First Kirin sensed their clans' devastation and the Karmic Retribution hanging over them.

The Ancestor Dragon, Yuanfeng, and the First Kirin vowed to bind their surviving races to duties that would repay their Karmic Retribution, and the Heavenly Dao sent them to guard the Sea Eye, Immortal Volcano, and Kirin Cliff. The Three Races withdrew from the Primordial Wilderness's center stage, but the battle in Luohu's Immortal Slaying Sword Formation continued.

• The Ancestor Dragon vowed that the Dragon Clan survivors would guard the Sea Eye of the Four Seas and bring order to its waters.
• Yuanfeng vowed that the Phoenix Race survivors would guard the Southern Immortal Volcano and suppress its subterranean fire.
• The First Kirin vowed that the Kirin Race survivors would guard Kirin Cliff and tend the Primordial Land's Spiritual Veins.
• The Heavenly Dao answered the vows with merit and sent the surviving dragons, phoenixes, kirins, and auspicious beasts to their assigned duties.
• The Ancestor Dragon merged into the Guixu Sea Eye, Yuanfeng became a seal in the Immortal Volcano, and the First Kirin became one with Kirin Cliff; the Heavenly Dao exiled the Candle Dragon to a remote time rift.
• Nearly half the world's Calamity Qi vanished as the Three Races withdrew, while Luohu mocked their sacrifice and prepared to face the four opponents inside the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

Luohu unleashed the full power of the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation against Hongjun, Yang Mei, Daoist Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi. Each of the four countered their sword realm’s attacks and struck at the corresponding sword’s core, leaving the battle fiercely contested.

• Luohu poured his demonic essence into the formation, strengthening all four sword realms and their attacks.
• Hongjun summoned his Three Corpse Incarnations to divert the destructive chains, then used the Jade Plate of Creation to target the Immortal Slaying Sword’s core.
• Yang Mei shifted his position between spatial dimensions to evade the sword qi and pierced toward the core of the Slaying Immortal Sword Intent.
• Zhenyuanzi used the five elements to form a miniature chaotic world, assimilated the Trapping Immortal Sword’s gray light, and attacked its true body with Five-Colored Divine Light.
• Daoist Yin Yang turned the Taiji Diagram’s yin-yang qi against the Absolute Immortal Sword’s cold light and sought to suppress its true body.

Luohu fused the Four Immortal Slaying Swords into one and unleashed a strike that threatened to erase the Four Saints’ Dao fruitions. Hongjun, Daoist Yin Yang, Yang Mei, and Zhenyuanzi revealed their strongest treasures and powers to withstand it.

• Hongjun, Yang Mei, Zhenyuanzi, and Daoist Yin Yang shattered the four sword realms with their supreme abilities.
• Luohu called the four swords back and fused them into a chaos-colored Immortal Slaying Sword.
• Luohu swept the fused sword at all four opponents with a strike that annihilated space and threatened their existence.
• Hongjun analyzed the strike with the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation and countered with the Pangu Banner and Myriad Heavens Celebration Cloud.
• Daoist Yin Yang used the Taiji Diagram and Yin Yang Sword, while Yang Mei summoned the Space Pearl to defend against the strike.
• Zhenyuanzi drew power through the Book of the Earth and formed the Innate Five Elements Great Formation with the Innate Five Directions Banners.

Zhenyuanzi used the Innate Five Elements Great Formation to capture and seal Luohu’s fused Immortal Slaying Sword after Hongjun, Yin Yang, and Yang Mei weakened its strike. Luohu then revealed the Twelve-petal World-Ending Black Lotus and God-Slaying Spear, beginning the final confrontation in his ultimate form.

• Hongjun, Yin Yang, and Yang Mei combined their treasures and abilities to weaken Luohu’s sword strike, but all three suffered Dao injuries.
• Zhenyuanzi activated the Innate Five Elements Great Formation to absorb and refine the weakened sword scar, then sealed the fused Immortal Slaying Sword within the formation.
• Luohu reacted with rage when Zhenyuanzi seized the sword and declared that he would reveal the Devil Dao’s ultimate power.
• Luohu summoned the Twelve-petal World-Ending Black Lotus and God-Slaying Spear, restoring his strength and unleashing overwhelming Demonic Might.
• Hongjun, Yang Mei, Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi prepared to face Luohu as the final confrontation began.

Hongjun merged his Three Corpse Incarnations with the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation and temporarily reached the Sub-Saint state. He suppressed Luohu’s Devil Dao laws and, with Yang Mei, Daoist Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi, drove Luohu onto the defensive.

• Hongjun absorbed his Three Corpse Incarnations into his three flowers and used the Fragment of the Jade Plate of Creation to ascend temporarily to the Sub-Saint state.
• Luohu attacked Hongjun with the World-Ending Demonic Dragon and the God-Slaying Spear, but Hongjun halted both attacks with a word and suppressed Luohu’s laws.
• Hongjun called on Yang Mei, Daoist Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi to attack Luohu together.
• Yang Mei struck with Space Blades, Daoist Yin Yang attacked with the Taiji Diagram and Yin Yang Twin Swords, and Zhenyuanzi used Five Elements Chaos Power and the Book of the Earth.
• Luohu’s protective demonic light and the World-Ending Black Lotus buckled under the assault, leaving him on the defensive.

Luohu sacrificed his Dao fruit to establish the Devil Dao, then detonated the Western Lands’ earth veins as he was banished from the Primordial World. The Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation ended with the Western Lands devastated, while Hongjun and the others survived and faced an uncertain future.

• Luohu swore a Great Dao Oath that made the Devil Dao an eternal counterpart to the Dao, sacrificing his Dao fruit to lay its foundation.
• Luohu triggered the destruction he had planted in the Western Lands’ earth veins, unleashing a cataclysmic storm across the continent.
• Hongjun, Great Immortal Yang Mei, Zhenyuanzi, and Daoist Yin Yang used their treasures and powers to survive the destruction, while Luohu was summoned out of the Primordial World.
• The Twelve-petal World-Ending Black Lotus and God-Slaying Spear were swept away, and the storm left the Western Lands ruined and lifeless.
• Hongjun fell back to the Late Golden Immortal of the Origin realm, and the survivors watched the calamity qi disperse as the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation ended.

After Luohu’s defeat, Hongjun, Yang Mei, Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi received Heavenly Dao Merit for ending the Dragon-Han Initial Tribulation. Hongjun absorbed his share to deepen his Dao comprehension, while the others stored theirs, and the celestial signs faded.

• Hongjun thanked Yang Mei, Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi for helping defeat Luohu and protect the Primordial Wilderness.
• Heavenly Dao Merit descended and was divided among the four, with Hongjun receiving half and Zhenyuanzi receiving the largest share of the remainder.
• Hongjun absorbed his merit to strengthen his foundations and advance his understanding of the Three Thousand Great Daos.
• Yang Mei sealed his merit in a jade talisman, Yin Yang stored his in the Taiji Diagram, and Zhenyuanzi gathered his into the Book of the Earth without absorbing it.
• The merit clouds and celestial phenomena faded after the distribution.

After the battle, Zhenyuanzi and Daoist Yin Yang returned safely to Wuzhuang Temple, where Hong Yun and the temple’s guardians welcomed them. Zhenyuanzi ordered Longevity Mountain’s residents to remain cautious, then invited his allies to discuss the Dao over tea.

• Hongjun and Great Immortal Yang Mei departed, while Daoist Yin Yang invited Zhenyuanzi to return to Wuzhuang Temple.
• Hong Yun greeted Zhenyuanzi and Daoist Yin Yang with concern, and Zhenyuanzi revealed that he had seized an Immortal Slaying Sword from Luohu.
• Daoist Yin Yang described how Zhenyuanzi had shielded him from the destruction caused when Luohu detonated the Western Land’s Earth Veins.
• Hong Yun summoned Qingfeng and Mingyue, and the Emperor and True Martial welcomed their master home.
• Zhenyuanzi ordered the beings of Longevity Mountain to avoid leaving the Mountain Gate while chaotic baleful energy lingered.
• Zhenyuanzi invited Hong Yun and Daoist Yin Yang to drink tea beneath the Four Symbols Plantain Tree and discuss their battle insights.

After recovering from the battle with Demon Ancestor Luohu, Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Daoist Yin Yang shared tea and discussed their insights into the Great Dao. Daoist Yin Yang departed to enter seclusion, while Zhenyuanzi began his own seclusion to consolidate his advances and prepare for the Heavenly Dao's rise.

• Zhenyuanzi served Hong Yun and Daoist Yin Yang Chaos Dust Buds brewed with Three Lights Divine Water, and the three recovered as they drank.
• Hong Yun, Daoist Yin Yang, and Zhenyuanzi shared their insights from the battle with Luohu, and their discussion deepened Zhenyuanzi's understanding of the five elements, earth, and chaos.
• Daoist Yin Yang thanked Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun, then left Wuzhuang Temple to enter seclusion and pursue a breakthrough.
• Hong Yun offered to manage the temple while Zhenyuanzi consolidated his cultivation, and Zhenyuanzi sealed himself inside his meditation chamber.
• Zhenyuanzi examined the Immortal Slaying Sword, chose to keep suppressing and nurturing it rather than refine it, and considered the Earthly Dao's future under the coming Heavenly Dao order.
• Zhenyuanzi began seclusion, determined to reach his peak before Hongjun attained the Dao and the Heavenly Dao's influence spread.

After emerging from seclusion, Zhenyuanzi freed the Four Immortal Slaying Swords from Luohu’s remaining imprint and sealed them in the Book of the Earth for later use. He then gathered his followers and declared his intention to restore the Western Lands’ shattered earth veins, with Hong Yun pledging to help.

• Zhenyuanzi used the Innate Five Directions Banners Phantom to break Luohu’s imprint and separate the Immortal Slaying Sword into the Four Immortal Slaying Swords.
• Zhenyuanzi sealed the four swords with the Book of the Earth and stored them there, intending to reforge them after Hongjun returned the Heaven and Earth Cauldron.
• Zhenyuanzi emerged from seclusion and told Hong Yun he planned to restore the Western Lands’ destroyed earth veins.
• Hong Yun agreed to accompany Zhenyuanzi and use Fire Cloud Cave to help channel subterranean fire and stabilize the energy.
• Zhenyuanzi summoned Emperor, True Martial, the Four Spirits Divine Beasts, Kirin, Ink Jade Kirin, Nine Spirits Yuan Sheng, and his other followers, then announced his plan to restore the Western Lands.

Zhenyuanzi led Hong Yun and Longevity Mountain’s forces to the Western Lands to repair their shattered earth veins. As the land began to recover, he discovered that the lingering souls and resentment of the dead were poisoning its foundations and sent a message to Lord Wanshouyuan for help.

• Zhenyuanzi assigned Emperor, True Martial, the Four Spirits Divine Beasts, Kirin, Ink Jade, and Nine Spirits Yuan Sheng their roles in repairing the Western Lands, then ordered preparations for their departure in three days.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun led the assembled forces from Longevity Mountain into the Western Lands and ordered everyone to begin work according to their assignments.
• Emperor stabilized a broken earth-vein node, True Martial dredged underground currents, and the Four Spirits Divine Beasts, Kirin, Ink Jade Kirin, and Nine Spirits Yuan Sheng worked to restore and guard the land.
• Hong Yun used Fire Cloud Cave to transform chaotic spiritual energy, while Zhenyuanzi wielded the Book of the Earth to reconnect the veins and restore the land’s vitality.
• Zhenyuanzi sensed that the dead from the ancient tribulation remained trapped in the baleful qi, their resentment poisoning the earth-vein foundations, and sent a message to Lord Wanshouyuan in the Netherworld Blood Sea.

Lord Wanshouyuan arrived in the Western Lands to use reincarnation to cleanse the corruption and lingering souls left by the Dragon-Han Great Tribulation. As the purification restored the land and strengthened the Earth Veins, Zhenyuanzi recognized how life and death completed the Earthly Dao.

• After receiving Zhenyuanzi's message, Lord Wanshouyuan left the Netherworld Blood Sea and traveled to the Western Lands.
• Zhenyuanzi dismissed Emperor, True Martial, and the other Longevity Mountain disciples, then asked Hong Yun to stabilize the surrounding void.
• Lord Wanshouyuan rooted himself in the Western Lands and summoned the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to draw in malign energy, resentful souls, and lingering true spirits.
• The Reincarnation Disk purified the souls and sent them into reincarnation, while the land's oppressive gloom and negative energy began to fade.
• Zhenyuanzi felt the restored Earth Veins strengthen and understood that Lord Wanshouyuan's purification completed the cycle of life and death in the Earthly Dao.
• Lord Wanshouyuan continued cleansing the Western Lands and released pure vitality to nourish the wounded land.