Chapter Summaries

Lin Bei awakened as Kun Peng in the North Sea, cultivated until he reached the peak of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, and witnessed the Three Innate Clans withdraw from the world. He sensed a summons and swam toward an enormous Mystic Turtle, whose purpose remained unknown.

• Lin Bei realized he had transmigrated into Kun Peng before the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans’ struggle for supremacy and considered how to avoid Kun Peng’s grim fate.
• Lin Bei studied Kun Peng’s inheritances and resolved to cultivate, seek Spirit Treasures, and find reliable Daoist friends.
• After countless Yuanhuis of cultivation, Lin Bei emerged as a Giant Kun and heard Zu Long, Yuan Feng, and Shi Qilin vow to withdraw their clans from the world.
• Lin Bei reached the peak stage of Taiyi Golden Immortal, sensed a heavy aura that felt like a summons, and swam toward its source.
• Lin Bei discovered the aura came from an enormous Mystic Turtle and wondered why it had summoned him.

After taking human form, Lin Bei named himself Bei Ming and chose Kun Peng as his Dao title. As he prepared to leave the North Sea, Mystic Turtle offered him a Spirit Treasure.

• Lin Bei patiently discussed the Dao with Mystic Turtle while they waited through the long years and the end of the Demonic Dao War.
• Lin Bei cultivated The Great Void Two Forms Art and took human form amid a vortex above the North Sea.
• Lin Bei proclaimed himself Bei Ming with the Dao title Kun Peng and greeted Mystic Turtle in his new form.
• Mystic Turtle congratulated Bei Ming, urged him to explore the Primordial Wilderness, and said he would give him a Spirit Treasure.

Mystic Turtle entrusted Bei Ming with the Xuan Yuan Controlling Water Flag and asked him to see the world beyond the North Sea in his stead. Bei Ming accepted the flag and its accompanying bond, then began refining it as he prepared to represent the north.

• Mystic Turtle drew the Xuan Yuan Controlling Water Flag from his mouth and gave it to Bei Ming.
• Mystic Turtle asked Bei Ming to see the sights of Hong Huang Zhi Zhong in his stead, and Bei Ming accepted the entrustment.
• Bei Ming recognized that accepting the flag had formed a new tie and added karma between him and Mystic Turtle.
• Bei Ming considered how his alliance with Mystic Turtle and his own luck could let him represent the north without repeating Kun Peng's original mistakes.
• Bei Ming set up a defensive formation on Mystic Turtle's back and began refining the flag's forty-seven innate Restrictions.

After completing his refinement of the Xuan Yuan Controlling Water Flag, Bei Ming left Mystic Turtle and traveled to the Northern Continent. There he discovered that baleful qi had contaminated the region’s spiritual veins and resolved to seek their progenitor and attempt to cleanse them.

• Bei Ming finished refining the Xuan Yuan Controlling Water Flag, advanced to the middle stage of Daluo Golden Immortal, and bid farewell to Mystic Turtle.
• Bei Ming crossed the North Sea toward the Northern Continent, collecting several spiritual roots and treasures along the way.
• Bei Ming reached the continent’s core region and found it blanketed in baleful qi, with Fierce Beast corpses scattered across the land.
• Bei Ming sensed that baleful qi had contaminated the Northern Spiritual Veins and concluded that finding their progenitor could offer a chance to restore the region.
• Bei Ming decided to attempt clearing the baleful qi to gain the Northern Continent’s luck and avoid involvement in the Demon Race’s affairs.

Bei Ming traveled to Changbai Mountain to claim it as his Daoist arena and discovered that its spiritual veins were threatened by Killing Intent. After fighting Ice Soul Daoist, he demanded that the cultivator surrender the treasures he had plundered, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Bei Ming reached Changbai Mountain and found traces that someone had recently broken several Innate Formations and taken their treasures.
• At the Heavenly Lake, Bei Ming encountered Ice Soul Daoist, who claimed the mountain as his quiet cultivation retreat.
• Bei Ming attacked Ice Soul Daoist, wounded him with the Feather Blade, and revealed his name.
• Ice Soul Daoist recognized Bei Ming's strength and offered to yield the mountain, but demanded half of the Heavenly Lake's water as compensation.
• Bei Ming refused and told Ice Soul Daoist to leave behind all the spiritual treasures he had plundered from Changbai Mountain.

Bei Ming trapped Ice Soul Daoist in his Returning Ruins Realm Phase and killed him with a concealed Profound Feather. After 1,500 years of refining Ice Soul Daoist’s body, Bei Ming retrieved the Ice Soul Cold Marrow and confronted his surviving True Spirit.

• Ice Soul Daoist attacked Bei Ming with the Ice Soul Cold Needle and Cold Light Sword, but Bei Ming contained their battle within his Returning Ruins Realm Phase.
• Ice Soul Daoist unleashed Extreme Deep Cold, but Bei Ming used the Xuan Yuan Controlling Water Flag to absorb the cold current and trap the Ice Soul Cold Needle.
• Bei Ming surrounded Ice Soul Daoist with a Profound Feather killing formation and wounded him as he tried to escape the domain.
• Bei Ming concealed a Profound Feather strike in the Returning Ruins and pierced Ice Soul Daoist’s glabella, destroying his Primordial Spirit and physical body.
• After 1,500 years, Bei Ming refined Ice Soul Daoist’s body into Ice Soul Cold Marrow and drew out his True Spirit, declaring their karma settled.

After killing Ice Soul Daoist, Bei Ming claimed his treasures, established Great Void Palace on Changbai Mountain, and refined two powerful spirit treasures. He then traveled east across the East Sea to search for the Three Immortal Islands and the Twelve Grade Pure World White Lotus, but had not yet encountered another Daluo Golden Immortal.

• Bei Ming completely annihilated Ice Soul Daoist and claimed his treasures, including the Ice Soul Cold Needle and Cold Light Sword.
• Bei Ming built Great Void Palace on Changbai Mountain and established defensive formations around the mountain and Heavenly Lake.
• Bei Ming decided to seek the Twelve Grade Pure World White Lotus on Penglai Immortal Island to suppress Changbai Mountain's baleful qi and help the North.
• After several thousand years, Bei Ming finished refining the Ice Soul Cold Needle and Cold Light Sword and left Changbai Mountain.
• Bei Ming reached the East Sea and searched its islands with his Spiritual Sense, but encountered no one in the Fellow Daoist Realm.

Bei Ming discovered and spent ten thousand years deciphering an innate Three Talents Formation in the East Sea, entering the hidden Penglai Immortal Island within it. After refining the island’s Boundary Tablet, he prepared to explore further.

• Bei Ming sensed an innate Formation in a quiet part of the East Sea and studied it for three thousand years before finding a way inside.
• Bei Ming used his Kun Peng incarnation and the Wind and Water Laws to align a smaller Three Talents Formation with the larger Formation.
• After ten thousand years, Bei Ming broke through and arrived on Penglai Immortal Island, where he noticed its spiritual treasures had been prevented from developing intelligence.
• Bei Ming refined the Boundary Tablet in just over a hundred years and then turned to face the sea beyond the island.

After refining Penglai’s Boundary Tablet, Bei Ming discovered that the Three Immortal Islands formed a formation around a mysterious sealed existence. He collected Penglai’s treasures, refined the Pure World White Lotus, and took control of Fangzhang, where he headed straight for a powerful treasure in the island’s core.

• Bei Ming sensed Fangzhang and Yingzhou through Penglai’s Boundary Tablet and discovered that the three islands surrounded an ancient, powerful sealed existence.
• Bei Ming collected eighteen Innate Spirit Treasures on Penglai and took the Twelve Grade Pure World White Lotus from its core pool.
• Bei Ming refined the Pure World White Lotus and used a Spirit Breath Bottle to gather some Three Lights Divine Water.
• Bei Ming traveled to Fangzhang, found that its spiritual objects were suppressed and lacked intelligence, and began refining its Boundary Tablet.
• After a hundred years, Bei Ming took control of Fangzhang and went directly to its core to claim a treasure that could increase his combat strength.

Bei Ming acquired the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler and explored Fangzhang and Yingzhou Islands, gaining control of all Three Immortal Islands. He found the Five-Needle Pine on Yingzhou and reflected on the risks of cultivating multiple laws.

• Bei Ming claimed the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler on Fangzhang Island and spent fifty-four thousand years refining it.
• Bei Ming searched Fangzhang Island and collected twelve Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Bei Ming reached Yingzhou Island, refined its Boundary Tablet, and gained control of the Three Islands and their Innate Three Talents Array.
• Bei Ming explored Yingzhou Island and collected ten Innate Spiritual Treasures.
• Bei Ming found the Five-Needle Pine and considered how cultivating both the Wind Law and Water Law might bring hidden dangers.

Bei Ming harvested the Five-Needle Pine’s first Pine cones and explored the Three Immortal Islands, where he encountered a powerful Chaos God’s remnant spirit. The spirit identified itself as the Destruction Demon God and ordered Bei Ming to leave.

• Bei Ming considered the paths to sainthood and resolved to hold onto his prayer mat at Purple Cloud Palace.
• Bei Ming harvested and stored all the Five-Needle Pine’s Pine cones, allowing the ancient tree to begin nurturing new fruit.
• Bei Ming used his Island Master privilege to shift through space into a hidden realm at the center of the Three Islands.
• A Purple Phantom appeared, recognized as a likely Chaos God’s remnant spirit, and mocked Bei Ming as a little ant.
• The Purple Phantom declared itself the Destruction Demon God and told Bei Ming to leave.

Bei Ming spoke with the Destruction Demon God's True Spirit, who explained why Yang Mei had left the Three Immortal Islands and why killing him risked karmic consequences. Bei Ming chose to keep suppressing him, but the Demon God called after him before he could leave.

• Bei Ming recognized that the Destruction Demon God was trapped by the Innate Three Talents Formation and asked why Yang Mei had not acted against him.
• The Destruction Demon God explained that Yang Mei sought to repay his karma before leaving the Primordial World and avoided taking its treasures or becoming entangled with the Three Islands.
• The Destruction Demon God revealed that his Laws of Destruction had seeped into the Three Islands, and that his death could destroy them and bring karma upon whoever was responsible.
• Bei Ming considered whether killing the Demon God could earn Heavenly Dao rewards, but the Demon God argued that Bei Ming carried more karma than he did.
• Bei Ming decided to keep suppressing the Demon God and turned to leave, but the Demon God urgently called him back.

Bei Ming rejected the Destruction Demon God's offer to become his disciple, but considered a gamble in which he might refine the demon god and inherit his identity. The chapter ended with Bei Ming demanding that the demon god swear to the Great Dao that his proposal held no hidden traps.

• The Destruction Demon God offered to teach Bei Ming the Laws of Destruction in exchange for his release, but Bei Ming refused, fearing the demon god would endanger the Three Immortal Islands.
• The Destruction Demon God proposed a gamble tied to Bei Ming's cultivation and asked whether he wished to transcend or attain the Dao through Laws.
• Bei Ming weighed his chances of becoming a saint, achieving transcendence, or accepting a lesser fate, while considering the possible value of refining the Destruction Demon God's True Spirit.
• The Destruction Demon God offered Bei Ming the chance to refine him and become the new Destruction Demon God, warning that the attempt could let him seize Bei Ming's body.
• Bei Ming considered the gamble's promise and asked the Destruction Demon God to swear to the Great Dao that he had concealed no traps in his words.

Bei Ming left the Three Immortal Islands after making the Destruction Demon God swear that his claims were true, then stored the islands in the Returning Ruins. He considered how to protect himself from the future Demon Race and concluded that he needed reliable Daoist friends, especially as Hongjun and the Wu Clan could not be depended on.

• The Destruction Demon God swore by the Great Dao that he had spoken truthfully and set no traps, and Bei Ming agreed to return after advancing his cultivation.
• Bei Ming departed the hidden space, while the Destruction Demon God raged helplessly under the Three Talents Formation.
• Bei Ming used his authority as Island Master and Formation master to shrink the Three Immortal Islands and store them in the Returning Ruins.
• Bei Ming planned to return to the Honghuang Continent and weighed how to address Tai Yi, Di Jun, and the Demon Race.
• Bei Ming decided that Hongjun was unpredictable and the Wu Clan was difficult to rely on, so he needed to seek trustworthy Daoist friends.
• Bei Ming considered Hong Yun and Zhen Yuanzi, judging Zhen Yuanzi to be a steadfast friend who had dared to face the Demon Race.

Bei Ming planned to cleanse the Northern Continent’s spirit veins and remove the source of their Killing Intent, but Ju Mang confronted him for trespassing into territory claimed by the Wu Clan. The chapter ended with Ju Mang challenging Bei Ming to a fight.

• Bei Ming decided to test the Pure World White Lotus, then seek a gourd from the Innate Gourd Vine to contain and refine the Fierce Beast Remains.
• Bei Ming returned to the Honghuang Continent and encountered Ju Mang, who accused him of trespassing in Wu Clan Airspace.
• Ju Mang introduced himself as one of the Twelve Ancestor Wizards and explained that he claimed the land for the Wu Clan after founding a Tribe there.
• Bei Ming challenged Ju Mang’s claim to the airspace, pointing out that the Wu Clan had not marked its borders and asking how far its claim extended.
• Ju Mang proposed a fight, saying he would let the matter go if Bei Ming survived a few of his moves.

Bei Ming tested his strength against Ju Mang, evading the Ancestor Wizard’s attacks and countering his Wood Law domain with the Xuan Yuan Controlling Water Flag and Returning Ruins Realm Phase. Ju Mang then used Divine Wood Condensation to immobilize the space around them, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Bei Ming evaded Ju Mang’s punches with the Free and Unfettered Journey and taunted him as Ju Mang grew angry.
• Ju Mang used Wood Bending and Stretching to fill the sky with regenerating branches, while Great Wizard Kua Fu kept the Wu Clan members back from the duel.
• Bei Ming used the Xuan Yuan Controlling Water Flag to block the branches as Ju Mang summoned Wood Realm Descent.
• Bei Ming opened Returning Ruins Realm Phase, suppressing the vitality of Ju Mang’s Wood Realm.
• Ju Mang used Divine Wood Condensation to solidify the space saturated by his transformed spiritual energy.

Bei Ming defeated Ju Mang after overcoming his Wood Realm with Qi Embracing Cangming and striking him with the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler. Ju Mang conceded and welcomed Bei Ming as an honored guest of his tribe, leaving their relationship amicable.

• Ju Mang revealed his Ancestor Wizard form and unleashed Wood Decay, sacrificing his vitality to strengthen the Wood Realm.
• Bei Ming invoked Qi Embracing Cangming, and his Great Peng and Giant Kun phantoms tore apart and swallowed the Wood Realm.
• Ju Mang charged Bei Ming, but his powerful body withstood the hurricane blades with only superficial wounds.
• Bei Ming used the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler to shatter Ju Mang’s left shoulder bone and asked him to concede.
• Ju Mang admitted Bei Ming was stronger for now and welcomed him as an honored guest of the Ju Mang Tribe; Bei Ming said he had no interest in becoming the Wu Clan’s enemy.

Bei Ming returned to Changbai Mountain and used the Twelve Grade Pure World White Lotus to suppress the mountain range’s baleful aura, strengthening his plan to purify the Northern Continent. Ju Mang, meanwhile, recognized Bei Ming as a Daoist friend and instructed his tribe to treat him as an honored guest.

• Ju Mang invited Bei Ming to visit his tribe, but Bei Ming declined and departed using the Free and Unfettered Journey.
• Ju Mang realized Bei Ming could have escaped their fight and concluded that Bei Ming had chosen to exchange blows because he enjoyed fighting.
• Ju Mang told Kua Fu that Bei Ming was his Daoist friend and ordered him to show Bei Ming respect if they met.
• Bei Ming returned to Changbai Mountain and spread the Twelve Grade Pure World White Lotus’s divine light across the range, quieting its ancient baleful aura.
• Bei Ming placed the Pure World White Lotus and Three Grade Pure World White Lotuses in Heavenly Lake, then guided their purifying power into the Ancestral Vein.

After spending four Yuanhui purifying Changbai Mountain’s Ancestral Vein, Bei Ming received Heavenly Dao Merit and advanced to the late stage of Great Luo Golden Immortal. A visitor then appeared at White Cloud Peak: Han Chi, a descendant of Chiwen who had come to cultivate nearby.

• Bei Ming completed the purification of Changbai Mountain’s Ancestral Vein, and Heavenly Dao Merit descended, rewarding him, the Twelve Grade Pure World White Lotus, and the mountain’s spiritual veins.
• Bei Ming kept his share of the Merit in reserve and considered how purifying the entire Northern Continent could strengthen the Lotus Platform.
• Bei Ming returned to Great Void Palace and sensed a visitor inside the Gui Xu Submerged Abyss Array.
• Bei Ming deduced that the visitor was Han Chi, a descendant of Chiwen who had remained near Changbai Mountain after the Three Clans’ final battle.
• Han Chi knelt respectfully at the foot of White Cloud Peak.

Han Chi entered Bei Ming’s formation after kneeling outside it for three thousand years and asked to serve him. Bei Ming accepted him as a disciple, guardian spirit beast, and palace attendant, then offered him a pine cone to aid his cultivation.

• Han Chi rose after three thousand years of waiting and stepped into the Gui Xu Submerged Abyss Array, where its pressure stopped him.
• Bei Ming teleported Han Chi outside the Great Void Palace and invited him inside.
• Han Chi told Bei Ming he wanted to enter his service because he lacked ties to the Dragon Clan and sought a powerful patron.
• Bei Ming accepted Han Chi as his disciple and assigned him to guard Changbai Mountain and serve at the Great Void Palace.
• Bei Ming gave Han Chi a Five-Needle Pine cone whose nuts could help him condense the Five Qi in the Chest.