Chapter Summaries

Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Lord Wanshouyuan restored the Western Lands and purified most of its lingering sha qi and resentful souls. The Heavenly Dao rewarded their work with immense merit, which all three stored in their respective treasures or domains.

• Lord Wanshouyuan used the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk to purify the Western Lands while Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun stabilized its earth veins and spiritual currents.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun and Daoist Yin Yang sensed Zhenyuanzi’s work and recognized the power of his reincarnation methods.
• After countless years, Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Lord Wanshouyuan restored most of the Western Lands’ earth veins and purified over ninety percent of its sha qi and resentful souls.
• The Heavenly Dao sent down vast merit across the Primordial Wilderness, dividing it into three great pillars for Zhenyuanzi, Lord Wanshouyuan, and Hong Yun.
• Zhenyuanzi sealed his merit in the Book of the Earth, Lord Wanshouyuan stored his within his true form, and Hong Yun sealed his in Fire Cloud Cave.

After restoring the Western Continent, Zhenyuanzi prepared to return to Wuzhuang Temple, believing his work had laid the foundations for the Earthly Dao. Yuanfeng then sent him an urgent plea to visit the Immortal Volcano, and Zhenyuanzi set off to investigate.

• Merit descended upon Emperor, True Martial, the Western Spirit Beasts, the Kirin, Ink Jade Kirin, Nine Spirits Yuan Sheng, and the others who had helped restore the West.
• Zhenyuanzi reflected that restoring the West had demonstrated the Way of the Great Earth and decided to await Hongjun's attainment of the Dao before bringing forth the Earthly Dao.
• Zhenyuanzi told Lord Wanshouyuan to return to the Blood Sea and guard the Six Paths Reincarnation Disk, and Lord Wanshouyuan departed through a blood-red spatial passage.
• Zhenyuanzi and Hong Yun left the West and headed back to Longevity Mountain after discussing the land's renewal.
• Near Wuzhuang Temple, Zhenyuanzi received Yuanfeng's urgent message asking him to visit the Immortal Volcano.
• Zhenyuanzi asked Hong Yun to return to the temple and oversee affairs, then headed south to meet Yuanfeng.

Zhenyuanzi traveled to the Immortal Volcano after Yuanfeng asked for help and discovered that she was nurturing two Phoenix Eggs. Their origins revealed that they would become Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird.

• Hong Yun warned Zhenyuanzi about the dangers of the Immortal Volcano, and Zhenyuanzi left Wuzhuang Temple to answer Yuanfeng's plea.
• As Zhenyuanzi journeyed south, he considered whether Yuanfeng's rebirth or the volcano's suppression had gone awry.
• Zhenyuanzi reached the Immortal Volcano and passed through Yuanfeng's fiery sealing barrier, protected by the Earth Book Phantom.
• Zhenyuanzi found two eggs resting on a crystal platform at the volcano's center instead of Yuanfeng's Phoenix form.
• Zhenyuanzi recognized the Five Elements Egg as Kong Xuan and the Yin Yang Egg as the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird.

Yuanfeng told Zhenyuanzi how her failed attempt at rebirth had created two extraordinary eggs, and begged him to protect them as her consciousness faded. Zhenyuanzi took the eggs into the Book of the Earth and left the Immortal Volcano, promising to raise and guide them at Longevity Mountain.

• Yuanfeng explained that the Bitter Bamboo Zhenyuanzi had once traded her had awakened her dormant consciousness.
• Yuanfeng revealed that her attempt to escape the Immortal Volcano through Nirvana had produced two eggs infused with the Innate Five Elements and innate Yin Yang Qi.
• Yuanfeng begged Zhenyuanzi to take the eggs, protect them from the Phoenix Race's Karmic Retribution, and guide them away from the Devil Dao.
• Zhenyuanzi promised to shelter and teach the eggs at Longevity Mountain, then Yuanfeng's consciousness faded into silence.
• Zhenyuanzi used the Book of the Earth to place the eggs in a nurturing formation and departed the Immortal Volcano.

Zhenyuanzi traveled through the Primordial Wilderness, reflecting on the devastation of the Dragon-Han Great Tribulation and his responsibility to protect the world through the Earthly Dao. After revisiting the recovering Western Lands, he discovered Jieyin and Zhunti gestating safely within Mount Sumeru and considered forming ties with them.

• Zhenyuanzi wandered across the scarred Primordial Continent and sensed the world's pain and gradual recovery.
• Zhenyuanzi observed that Pangu's Dao Rhyme was fading from Buzhou Mountain, bowed to it, and left without climbing.
• Zhenyuanzi returned to the Western Lands and felt the land recovering as its Earth Veins carried new spiritual energy.
• Zhenyuanzi discovered that Mount Sumeru had survived the calamity and that the Heavenly Dao protected it.
• Zhenyuanzi recognized Jieyin and Zhunti gestating within Mount Sumeru and considered offering them guidance to build a relationship.

Zhenyuanzi taught the nascent spirits Jieyin and Zhunti at Mount Sumeru, then returned to Longevity Mountain with Yuanfeng’s two eggs. He nurtured the Five Elements Egg with the Innate Five Directions Banners and decided to seek Daoist Yin Yang’s help with the Yin Yang Egg.

• Zhenyuanzi preached the foundations of cultivation to Jieyin and Zhunti for eighty-one days, strengthening their nascent spirits and forming a bond with them.
• Zhenyuanzi returned to Longevity Mountain and told Hong Yun how Yuanfeng had entrusted him with two eggs containing Innate Five Elements and Yin Yang origins.
• Hong Yun warned Zhenyuanzi that raising the extraordinary children would bring great karmic burdens, and Zhenyuanzi accepted the responsibility.
• Zhenyuanzi placed the two eggs beneath the Four Symbols Plantain Tree and arranged the Innate Five Directions Banners around the Five Elements Egg to nourish it.
• Zhenyuanzi considered the Yin Yang Egg’s needs and decided to ask Daoist Yin Yang, a master of the Yin Yang Great Dao, to help guide its development.

Daoist Yin Yang visited Wuzhuang Temple and discovered the innate yin yang egg, which Zhenyuanzi entrusted to his guidance. Daoist Yin Yang began nurturing it with his treasures, and the two eggs continued their incubation under the care of the temple’s allies.

• Zhenyuanzi invited Daoist Yin Yang to Wuzhuang Temple after recovering from the Dao-Demon War.
• Daoist Yin Yang arrived and recognized the Five Elements Egg and the innate yin yang egg, reacting with particular astonishment to the latter.
• Zhenyuanzi explained how Yuanfeng’s nirvana had produced the two eggs and entrusted them to him.
• Daoist Yin Yang asked to guide the yin yang egg, and Zhenyuanzi agreed.
• Daoist Yin Yang used the Taiji Diagram and Yin Yang Sword to nourish and temper the egg, whose Dao rhyme grew more profound as its incubation accelerated.

Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Daoist Yin Yang took turns preaching to the two growing eggs beneath the Four Symbols Plantain Tree, while Wuzhuang Temple’s inhabitants cultivated and listened. As the temple’s fortune flourished, the eggs grew stronger, though Qingfeng and Mingyue remained content at their current level of cultivation.

• Zhenyuanzi taught the Way of the Great Earth and the five elements, strengthening the resonance of both eggs.
• Hong Yun expounded the Path of Freedom and the Four Symbols Dao, drawing the Four Symbols Plantain Tree’s powers into the eggs.
• Daoist Yin Yang taught yin yang balance and Tai Chi transformations, especially exciting the Yinyang Egg.
• Zhenyuanzi allowed Wuzhuang Temple’s awakened cultivators to attend the sermons, and Emperor, True Martial, the divine beasts, and the immortal cranes listened and benefited.
• Qingfeng and Mingyue stayed in the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm, and Zhenyuanzi let them follow their unhurried path.
• Wuzhuang Temple’s fortune grew, and the eggs’ shell patterns and pulses of life grew stronger over time.

Innate Divine Beings emerged throughout the Primordial Wilderness as it recovered from the Dragon-Han Great Tribulation, ushering in a new age of powerful contenders. At Wuzhuang Temple, Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird hatched as Da Luo Golden Immortals and joined the Longevity Mountain Lineage.

• The Sanqing, Twelve Ancestor Witches, Fuxi and Nuwa, Jieyin and Zhunti, and other Innate Divine Beings appeared across the Primordial Wilderness, each revealing Da Luo Golden Immortal cultivation.
• Di Jun and Tai Yi emerged from the Sun Star, while Chang Xi and Xi He appeared on the Great Yin Star; the Queen Mother of the West, Kunpeng, Ancestor Minghe, and other divine beings also made themselves known.
• At Wuzhuang Temple, the five-colored spirit egg cracked open and Kong Xuan emerged with command of the Innate Five Elements Dao.
• The second spirit egg dissolved, releasing the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird with mastery of Yin Yang Qi and an innate law of speed.
• Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird recognized Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Daoist Yin Yang as their teachers and bowed to thank them for their nurturing.

After Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird were born, Zhenyuanzi and Daoist Yin Yang formally established the disciples and ranks of the Wuzhuang Temple lineage. The chapter ended with Zhenyuanzi clarifying how the disciples should address one another and Ancestor Hong Yun.

• Kong Xuan and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird thanked their mentors and recognized Zhenyuanzi and Daoist Yin Yang as their respective masters.
• Zhenyuanzi summoned the lineage to the main hall to establish its ranks and order.
• Zhenyuanzi appointed True Martial his foremost disciple and Emperor his second disciple, assigning them duties in temple discipline and outside affairs.
• Zhenyuanzi accepted Kong Xuan as his third disciple, while formally admitting Nine Spirits Yuan Sheng, the Four Spirits, the Kirin, Ink Jade Kirin, and other early followers as registered disciples.
• Daoist Yin Yang accepted the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird as his foremost disciple and promised to pass on the Yin Yang Great Dao.
• Zhenyuanzi set the disciples' seniority and instructed them to address Ancestor Hong Yun as Martial Uncle Hongyun.

After Wuzhuang Temple established its lineage hierarchy, Zhenyuanzi gave his first systematic lecture on the Great Earth Chaos Scripture to all his disciples. The disciples gained new insights, and Zhenyuanzi reflected that his lineage was ready for the coming changes in the Primordial Wilderness.

• The disciples, including the Golden-Winged Great Peng, accepted Zhenyuanzi's decree, solidifying Wuzhuang Temple's hierarchy and strengthening its fortune.
• Kong Xuan diligently practiced his Five-Colored Divine Light, while the Golden-Winged Great Peng trained in Yin-Yang transformations and speed under Daoist Yin Yang.
• Zhenyuanzi gathered the temple's disciples beneath the Plantain Tree and began expounding the fundamentals of the Great Earth Chaos Scripture.
• Kong Xuan, Emperor, True Martial, the Golden-Winged Great Peng, Hong Yun, Daoist Yin Yang, and the other disciples gained insights from Zhenyuanzi's teachings.
• After the months-long lecture ended, Zhenyuanzi considered his lineage prepared for the new era approaching in the Primordial Wilderness.

Nuwa and Fuxi left Buzhou Mountain to visit Zhenyuanzi at Wuzhuang Temple, while Jieyin and Zhunti set out from Mount Sumeru for the same purpose. The four met on the way, exchanged teachings as they traveled together, and arrived within sight of Longevity Mountain.

• Nuwa and Fuxi decided to thank Zhenyuanzi for his past teachings and departed for Wuzhuang Temple on Longevity Mountain.
• Jieyin and Zhunti left Mount Sumeru to visit Zhenyuanzi and seek guidance that might help revitalize the West.
• Fuxi, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti encountered one another near Longevity Mountain and learned they were all headed to Wuzhuang Temple.
• The four agreed to travel together and discussed their insights into the Dao of divination, creation, vows, and annihilation.
• The four reached Longevity Mountain and saw Wuzhuang Temple ahead.

Nuwa, Fuxi, Jieyin, and Zhunti visited Longevity Mountain and were struck by the peaceful land and Zhenyuanzi’s profound influence. Zhenyuanzi sent four disciples to welcome them, and the guests entered Wuzhuang Temple’s main hall with renewed awe and respect.

• Nuwa, Fuxi, Jieyin, and Zhunti traveled into Longevity Mountain and admired its peaceful creatures, pure spiritual energy, and protective Dao resonance.
• Fuxi announced the four visitors’ arrival and asked to see Zhenyuanzi.
• Zhenyuanzi discussed the visitors with Hong Yun and Daoist Yin Yang, then instructed True Martial, the Emperor, Kong Xuan, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird to escort them.
• True Martial and the other disciples greeted the visitors at Wuzhuang Temple’s Mountain Gate, impressing them with their powerful cultivation and foundations.
• Nuwa, Fuxi, Jieyin, and Zhunti returned the greeting and followed the four disciples toward the main hall.

Nuwa, Fuxi, Jieyin, and Zhunti visited Zhenyuanzi to thank him for guiding them while they were still forming. Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Daoist Yin Yang held a forty-nine-year sermon for them and Wuzhuang Temple’s disciples, leaving the listeners with greatly deepened understanding.

• Fuxi and Nuwa thanked Zhenyuanzi for the Dao sermon that had guided them during their formation at Mount Buzhou.
• Jieyin and Zhunti thanked Zhenyuanzi for teaching and protecting them near Mount Sumeru and for restoring the Western Lands.
• Zhenyuanzi proposed a joint sermon, and Hong Yun and Daoist Yin Yang agreed to teach the four visitors.
• Zhenyuanzi summoned Wuzhuang Temple’s disciples to gather outside the main hall for the sermon.
• Zhenyuanzi taught the Great Earth, Hong Yun taught the Path of Freedom, and Daoist Yin Yang explained Yin and Yang.
• After the sermon lasted forty-nine years, Nuwa, Fuxi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and the gathered disciples emerged with deeper understanding and improved cultivation.

Daoist Yin Yang accepted Fuxi and Zhenyuanzi accepted Nuwa as disciples after the three cultivators finished teaching. Jieyin and Zhunti asked to become disciples too, but were refused and encouraged to follow their own destined paths.

• Daoist Yin Yang saw Fuxi's affinity with the mysteries of change and accepted him as a disciple alongside Golden-Winged Great Peng.
• Zhenyuanzi accepted Nuwa as his disciple, joining her with True Martial, Emperor, and Kong Xuan.
• Zhunti asked Daoist Yin Yang, Hong Yun, and Zhenyuanzi to accept him and Jieyin as disciples.
• Daoist Yin Yang declined because their paths differed from his, and Hong Yun said he had no intention of taking disciples.
• Zhenyuanzi refused Jieyin and Zhunti but urged them to pursue their mission of revitalizing the Western Lands.
• Jieyin and Zhunti accepted Zhenyuanzi's guidance, though they remained disappointed and worried about the West.

Hongjun became a Saint and announced that the Zixiao Palace would open in three thousand years for a Great Dao sermon, stirring awe and ambition across the Primordial Wilderness. Zhenyuanzi invited Jieyin and Zhunti to return to Wuzhuang Temple and travel with his group through Chaos when the time came.

• Hongjun’s attainment of sainthood triggered visions across the Primordial Wilderness, and he announced the Zixiao Palace sermon in three thousand years.
• Laozi, Primordial Heavenly Lord, Tongtian Sect Master, the Ancestor Witches, Di Jun, Tai Yi, and other powerful beings sensed Hongjun’s strength and considered seeking his teachings.
• Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Daoist Yin Yang calmly discussed Hongjun’s rise and the coming gathering at the Zixiao Palace.
• Jieyin and Zhunti worried that they could not safely cross Chaos or reach the Zixiao Palace in time.
• Zhenyuanzi invited Jieyin and Zhunti back to Wuzhuang Temple and offered to travel with them when the sermon drew near.
• Jieyin and Zhunti returned to Wuzhuang Temple and settled in the Guest House.

Zhenyuanzi led his disciples, Hong Yun, Yinyang, Jieyin, and Zhunti through Chaos to Zixiao Palace ahead of the other guests. Dao Ancestor Hongjun welcomed Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Yinyang as fellow Daoists, made room for their disciples to hear the lecture, and invited the three into the palace.

• Jieyin and Zhunti settled at Wuzhuang Temple, grateful to Zhenyuanzi for promising to take them to Zixiao Palace.
• As the lecture approached, Zhenyuanzi gathered his Great Luo disciples along with Nuwa, Fuxi, and the Golden-Winged Great Peng Bird, then led them through Chaos with help from Hong Yun and Yinyang.
• Zhenyuanzi's party reached Zixiao Palace first, and Dao Ancestor Hongjun emerged to welcome Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Yinyang as fellow Daoists.
• Zhenyuanzi asked Hongjun to let his disciples hear the lecture and brought Jieyin and Zhunti as guests; Hongjun created a pocket space for the disciples.
• Emperor and True Martial led the disciples into the pocket space, while Hongjun invited Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Yinyang into the main hall and the palace gates closed behind them.

Hongjun repaid Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Yinyang by returning the Heaven and Earth Cauldron and teaching them the mysteries of Sagehood. When the gates of Zixiao Palace opened, the arriving great powers raced to claim the six Purple Cushions, whose occupants were the Sanqing, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Kunpeng.

• Hongjun returned the Heaven and Earth Cauldron to Zhenyuanzi and acknowledged the karmic debts he owed the three Daoists.
• Hongjun explained the Heavenly Dao and the three paths to Sagehood, and Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Yinyang gained deeper insight into their own Daos.
• The bell rang after three thousand years, and Hongjun opened the gates of Zixiao Palace as the great powers arrived.
• The newcomers were shocked to see Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, and Yinyang seated on three cushions above the six Purple Cushions.
• Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Kunpeng claimed the six Purple Cushions in that order, while the other great powers took seats farther back.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun delivered his first sermon in Zixiao Palace, teaching cultivation up to the Da Luo Golden Immortal realm and setting the next sermon for three thousand years later. As Zhenyuanzi and his companions returned toward Longevity Mountain with Jieyin and Zhunti, Houtu resolved to visit Wuzhuang Temple, while Hongjun watched Zhenyuanzi from afar.

• Hongjun began the first Zixiao Palace sermon, explaining the path of cultivation from drawing qi into the body through the Da Luo Golden Immortal realm.
• Zhenyuanzi, Hong Yun, Daoist Yin Yang, and the Wuzhuang Temple disciples benefited from the sermon, while Sanqing, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Kunpeng listened from the six Cattail Hassocks.
• Hongjun ended the sermon, declared the hassock seats permanent, and announced that his next sermon on realms above Da Luo would take place three thousand years later.
• Houtu felt an affinity between her earth-bearing bloodline and Zhenyuanzi's Earthly Dao, and decided to visit Wuzhuang Temple after returning to the Witch Clan.
• Jieyin and Zhunti waited for Zhenyuanzi, then joined him, Hong Yun, Daoist Yin Yang, and the Wuzhuang Temple disciples on their journey back to Longevity Mountain.
• After everyone left Zixiao Palace, Hongjun watched the returning party through Chaos, his attention fixed especially on Zhenyuanzi.

After a thousand years of secluded cultivation, Zhenyuanzi revealed that his Earth Dao offered a path to Primordial Chaos Saint alongside the Heavenly Dao. He told his disciples they could skip the next two sermons at Zixiao Palace, leaving them energized to pursue his inheritance while Jieyin and Zhunti envied their fortune.

• Zhenyuanzi’s disciples and the visiting Jieyin and Zhunti spent a thousand years absorbing the teachings from Zixiao Palace and strengthening their cultivation.
• Zhenyuanzi gathered those who had attended the sermon beneath the Four Symbols Plantain Tree and praised their progress.
• Zhenyuanzi declared that the Heavenly Dao was not the only route to Primordial Chaos and described his Earth-rooted path of proving the Dao with strength, merit, and creation.
• Zhenyuanzi told his disciples they need not attend the next two sermons at Zixiao Palace because he possessed a Great Dao that led to becoming a Primordial Chaos Saint.
• Kong Xuan, Nuwa, Fuxi, True Martial, Emperor, and the other disciples embraced the promise of a broader path, while Jieyin and Zhunti felt envy and longing.
• Zhenyuanzi urged his disciples to deepen their foundations and comprehend the Great Earth and Chaos, promising to explain the subsequent Dao when the time was right.