Recaps

As Yang Huai pursued his final primordial origin, Yan Ju used trade restrictions to weaken the Xuanming Tribe and Jiuli Tribe while considering stepping down as Human Emperor. Nine Phoenix sought support from the Earth Sovereign Palace, where Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable called for Yan Ju to be removed.

• Yang Huai developed a weak power of rebirth from the Primordial Fire and began comprehending its primordial origin.
• Jiang Zhenwu urged the Human Emperor Palace to attack the Xuanming Tribe, but Jiang Yun and Xuan Guang proposed weakening it through trade restrictions and support for neighboring tribes.
• Yan Ju banned trade with the Xuanming Tribe and imposed an additional forty-five percent trade tax on the Jiuli Tribe, while considering stepping down and going to meet Heavenly Emperor Shennong.
• The northern tribes enforced the trade ban, and Nine Phoenix learned that the Xuanming Tribe faced shortages and disorder; she rushed to the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses for help.
• Nine Phoenix met Da You and Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable at the Earth Sovereign Palace, where Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable declared that Yan Ju could not be allowed to remain.

Yan Ju told Shennong and Ting Yao that he planned to abdicate as Human Emperor, and Shennong approved his decision to hand the position to Di Hong. After Yan Ju announced his abdication five hundred years later, Earth Sovereign Palace was shocked by the sudden move.

• Houtu rejected the idea of Earth Sovereign Palace assassinating Yan Ju and noted that Di Hong could benefit if Yan Ju lost power.
• Houtu promised to teach Da You part of the mysteries of Pangu's Dharma Form after he reached the True Unity Divine Realm.
• Yan Ju gave Ting Yao three rare flowers, including the Three-Lives Wonder Flower, and explained that only one wish remained.
• Yan Ju told Shennong and Ting Yao that he intended to step down as Human Emperor and name Bear Kingdom's Di Hong as his successor.
• Shennong approved Yan Ju's plan, and Yan Ju returned to the earth and announced he would abdicate in five hundred years.
• The gods of Earth Sovereign Palace were shocked when they heard Yan Ju's abdication announcement.

After Yan Ju abdicated, the Earth Sovereign Palace struggled to protect Da You’s chance to become Human Emperor, while Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable sought to use Yan Ju’s Dao companion as leverage. Yan Ju anticipated the scheme and negotiated with Taiwei Daoist to secure reincarnation authority, leaving Di Hong to prepare to inherit the Human Emperor position.

• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable accused Yan Ju of deliberately disrupting Da You’s plans, but Houtu Earth Sovereign Deity refused to entertain accusations without evidence.
• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable asked Yang Huai to help detain Yan Ju’s Dao companion, but Heng'e left the Netherworld Halls for the Lunar Star before the plan could proceed.
• Lu Ya learned that Yan Ju had abdicated and, despite his initial anger, said he would still retrieve the items prepared for him and deal with Yan Ju.
• Yan Ju offered Taiwei Daoist twenty percent of certain marketplace profits in exchange for authority over the reincarnation of the starry sky, and Taiwei Daoist accepted.
• Di Hong arrived at the Purple Tenuity Palace and learned from Yan Ju that Da You might soon cultivate the Pangu True Body; Taiwei Daoist then promised to pass great treasures to Di Hong.

Taiwei Daoist gave Di Hong the Purple Tenuity Divine Sword and taught him the Yellow Profound Emperor Form. Meanwhile, Yan Ju barred Da You and the Jiuli Tribe from the Human Emperor selection and attacked them, but Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable helped them escape as Di Hong witnessed Yan Ju’s growing authority.

• Taiwei Daoist bestowed the Purple Tenuity Divine Sword on Di Hong and told him to refine it and master the Primordial Nine Forms Secret Art.
• Taiwei Daoist taught Di Hong the Yellow Profound Emperor Form for thirty-six years before bringing him to Kunlun Mountain.
• Nine Phoenix refused to seek refuge with the Jiuli Tribe despite her elders’ concerns about the Xuanming Clan’s shortage of ritual-cleansing medicines.
• Red Dragon Child declared that Da You and the Jiuli Tribe had been stripped of their right to stand for Human Emperor and ordered them seized.
• Yan Ju manifested the Flame Emperor Divine Form and struck at the Jiuli Tribe, but a burly figure shattered his palm with an axe.
• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable used his divine seal to withdraw the Jiuli Tribe deities, while Di Hong watched and admired Yan Ju’s power.

Yan Ju relinquished the Human Emperor throne and withdrew from earthly affairs, while Houtu severed the Earth Sovereign Palace’s remaining ties with him by reclaiming the Boundless Treasure Wheel and Lunar Soul Pearl. The chapter ended with Yellow Emperor Di Hong taking over the Human Emperor Palace and realizing Yan Ju had reached an extraordinary stage.

• Yan Ju’s decision to abandon the Human Emperor Palace’s interests left the Jiang Clan elders reluctant to surrender their authority as the palace prepared to relocate its foundations.
• Da You vowed to reforge the Twelve Capitals Heavenly Divine Fiend Banner, and the Jiuli chiefs supported his preparations for war.
• Sacred Stone Celestial Venerable told Houtu what had happened, and she sent the Boundless Treasure Wheel and Lunar Soul Pearl out of the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses.
• Yang Huai sensed the underworld’s changes and resolved to reclaim what he had lost, while news arrived that Di Hong had succeeded Yan Ju as the Yellow Emperor.
• Yan Ju fused the Boundless Treasure Wheel into his sea of consciousness, then led the Human Emperor Palace gods beyond heaven.
• Di Hong took over the palace, refined the Boundless Human Sovereign Diagram, and realized Yan Ju had abdicated because he had reached a new stage.

Di Hong took up the Human Sovereign’s authority and sought Daoist Taiwei’s counsel about Yan Ju’s Boundless Human Sovereign Diagram and Human Sovereign Dharma Seal. Meanwhile, Yan Ju established a reincarnation system in the All-Heaven Star Sea, and Yang Huai advanced his cultivation in the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light and the Primordial Chaos Dao Realm.

• Di Hong reorganized the Human Emperor Palace, retained most of Yan Ju’s laws, and ordered the human-god tribes to submit maps of mountains and seas.
• Di Hong brought the Boundless Human Sovereign Diagram and Human Sovereign Dharma Seal to Daoist Taiwei, who explained that Yan Ju intended to perfect the diagram and said the items would not hinder Di Hong’s Dao attainment.
• Daoist Taiwei urged Di Hong to use the diagram against the Nine Li Tribe, and Di Hong returned to the Human Emperor Palace planning to strike the Xuanming Clan first.
• Yan Ju reopened a Reincarnation Palace in the All-Heaven Star Sea and began preparing a separate reincarnation system there.
• Yang Huai condensed his ninth heavenly Dao origin in the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light and transformed his Primordial True Fire Diagram into reality.
• Yang Huai reached near completion of the third level of the Primordial Chaos Dao Realm and touched the threshold of the fourth level.

Yang Huai forged the Wuliang Chongli Sword in the Heavenly Mausoleum Realm, then fled the attention his creation attracted. In the Two-World River, he discovered a powerful Great Simplicity source realm embryo and decided to try claiming its origin by transforming into Pangu or the Heavenly Dao.

• The Dao Origin Secret Realm appeared near the Langtian Realm, and its guardians sent eligible inheritors inside, including Fu Yun and other Immortal Palace experts.
• Yang Huai used Primordial Fire to forge the Wuliang Chongli Sword from Primal Chaos Iron Mother, alarming the sword cultivators and Dao Lords of the Heavenly Mausoleum Realm.
• Yang Huai left Spirit-Bearing Mountain before the gathered Dao Lords could find him, while Shuoyue concealed the island and drove the visitors from Dragon Emperor Marsh.
• Yang Huai discovered a Great Simplicity source realm embryo in the Two-World River and considered claiming its origin through his signature transformation into Pangu or the Heavenly Dao.

Yang Huai carved a universe from the chaos embryo, and the embryo’s Dao origin transformed his talisman into an innate supreme treasure while merit strengthened his sword. In the Dao Origin Secret Realm, Fu Yun awakened after refining a Dao Origin Pearl, while the others regretted that Qizhenzi had taken the Linglong Treasure Seal.

• Yang Huai used the Wuliang Chongli Sword and the Pure Origin Myriad Mysteries Infinite Array to carve a universe out of the Chaos Origin Sea and build its heavens, land, and Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses.
• After five thousand years, the completed Dao origin merged with the Primordial Qianyuan One-Qi Divine Talisman, transforming it into an innate supreme treasure within the new universe.
• Yang Huai directed a torrent of merit into the Wuliang Chongli Sword, elevating it to a top-grade merit dharma treasure, then continued refining the universe to make it an inner world.
• Fu Yun awakened in the Dao Origin Secret Realm after refining a Dao Origin Pearl, and the female war goddess and Daoist Yu Tan congratulated her on approaching the Zenith Heaven realm.
• Fu Yun and the others lamented that Qizhenzi, a calamity candidate and disciple of the Taiyi Sacred Venerable, had taken the innate Linglong Treasure Seal.

Fu Yun and Ice Empress Fairy left the Dao Origin Secret Realm as a newly born source realm entered the Two-World River, drawing the attention of powerful immortals. Yang Huai concealed the Primordial Universe and began merging it into his body in hopes of forming the Pangu True Body, while Youji and Qingyue descended to search for him.

• Fu Yun urged Ice Empress Fairy to return to the Purple Palace Celestial Realm rather than risk confronting Qizhenzi for the Exquisite Treasure Seal, and the immortals left the secret realm.
• The Purple Origin Celestial Lord met Fu Yun with Immortal Venerable Lingxi, but a disturbance in the Great Dao origins revealed that an immeasurable tribulation was beginning and a source realm had emerged.
• Yang Huai concealed the newly emerged Primordial Universe with a Primal Origin True Talisman and sent it into a mysterious stretch of spacetime within the Two-World River.
• The Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor identified the vanished Daoist Wuliang as likely being inside the source realm, while the Radiant Treasure Heavenly Empress learned that Youji and Qingyue had already gone to search for him.
• Yang Huai fused with the Primordial Universe in the Chaos Origin Sea, forming nine divine apertures and beginning to shape his Pangu True Body.

Yang Huai contained the Primordial Chaos Cosmos within his Pangu True Body and traveled to the Primordial Boundary Sea to temper himself and strengthen his inner cosmos. After absorbing much of a Primordial Flame Sea, he heard from its female guardian and changed course to meet her.

• Azure Moon Chief God and Gloom God Lord continued searching the Chaos Origin Sea for Yang Huai, agreeing that whoever found him would decide his fate.
• Yang Huai completed his fusion with the Primordial Chaos Cosmos, suppressed its power within his body, and left the Purple Palace Celestial Realm for the Primordial Boundary Sea.
• Yang Huai crossed the primordial ice region and entered the Primordial Flame Sea, absorbing its flames to nourish his Pangu True Body and inner cosmos.
• A red-dressed woman watching from the heart of the Primordial Flame Sea became alarmed as Yang Huai absorbed nearly half its flames, but he stopped before destroying her Dao field.
• The woman thanked Yang Huai for showing restraint, and he replied that he would not ruin her cultivation ground before turning to visit her.

Yang Huai met Hong Zhao, the Primordial Fire God, and exchanged insights on the Great Dao of fire spirits with her. Their cultivation advanced, and Yang Huai’s fire spirit origin stirred a vast phenomenon in the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light.

• Hong Zhao invited Yang Huai to the Primordial Fire Domain, where they shared food and revealed their identities and cultivation paths.
• Hong Zhao explained her Innate Fire Spirit Scripture, and Yang Huai gained insight that strengthened his Primordial True Fire Diagram and the Middle Palace of Qi in his primordial universe.
• Yang Huai explained his broader path of supreme fire spirits, incorporating innate and acquired fire spirits, light, and pure yang, prompting Hong Zhao’s aura to approach a breakthrough.
• A white-gold-robed man in Divine Spirit Abyss sensed two powerful fire spirit forces nearing the path he controlled and wondered who accompanied the Primordial Fire God.
• In the Fire Virtue Dao Palace, the fire spirit within Zhurong Clan surged, creating a vast phenomenon that suppressed fire spirits throughout the primordial wilderness.

Yang Huai became a Supreme Fire Spirit, transforming his destiny and rapidly restoring his power as Primordial Zhurong. After Hong Zhao reached the seventh level of the Chaos Dao Realm and told him how the Five-Element Main God claimed the innate Five Spirits, they entered the Primordial Wind-Thunder Sea, where a powerful lightning blade struck at Yang Huai.

• Yang Huai broke through to become a Supreme Fire Spirit and entered the Creation Realm, while Second-Generation Zhurong, Lu Ya, Shennong, and Ting Yao sensed the change.
• Yang Huai’s destiny became the true Supreme Dao Position of Primordial Fire God, and his innate divine abilities increased from twelve to eighteen.
• After Yang Huai’s six-hundred-year sermon, Hong Zhao broke through to the seventh level of the Chaos Dao Realm.
• Hong Zhao agreed to guide Yang Huai through other primordial forbidden lands and revealed that the Five-Element Main God had seized the paths of the five innate spirits by manipulating and devouring the Five Spirits of Creation.
• Yang Huai and Hong Zhao entered the Primordial Wind-Thunder Sea, where a divine blade formed from destructive lightning cleaved toward Yang Huai.

Yang Huai subdued Wan He and absorbed the primordial wind-thunder sea for five thousand years, completing his fifth Primordial Chaotic Origin Pearl. He and Hong Zhao then arrived at the primordial ocean, where Supreme Teacher Taiyi attacked Yang Huai without warning.

• Yang Huai crushed Wan He's attacks, seized the Wind-Thunder Seal, and persuaded Wan He to submit by giving him lightning Dao Origin.
• Yang Huai absorbed the primordial wind-thunder power, strengthening his Primordial Cosmos and true body as Hong Zhao watched.
• After five thousand years, Yang Huai completed his fifth Primordial Chaotic Origin Pearl and left the weakened wind-thunder sea with Hong Zhao.
• Three ancient deities discussed whether to let Yang Huai join their effort to explore a mysterious land, while Supreme Teacher Taiyi questioned Hong Zhao's companion.
• Hong Zhao introduced Yang Huai, who called himself Zhurong, to the deities at the primordial ocean; Supreme Teacher Taiyi then attacked him with five Primordial Supreme Lights.

Yang Huai battled Taiyi Sect Venerable, whose eighth-level cultivation and primordial treasures could not withstand Yang Huai’s swordsmanship. After Taiyi apologized and explained his suspicions, he brought Yang Huai and the others to an island and revealed that they had found a primordial origin treasure ground in the Primordial Boundary Sea, but had been unable to retrieve its hidden supreme treasure.

• Yang Huai shattered Taiyi Sect Venerable’s defenses and broke free of the time-space trap, forcing Taiyi to emerge and ask him to stop fighting.
• Taiyi apologized and explained that he had tested Yang Huai because he feared enemies from the Saint Venerable sects; Hong Zhao introduced Taiyi, Lingyi, and Jiuxiao.
• Taiyi led Yang Huai and the others to his island home and offered spiritual fruit before explaining why they had remained in the Primordial Boundary Sea.
• Taiyi revealed that they had discovered a primordial origin treasure ground that likely contained a supreme treasure, and Yang Huai asked why Taiyi had not retrieved it.

Yang Huai agreed to help the ancient gods break the formation around a primordial origin treasure land, in exchange for their promise of future protection and a fair claim to the treasure. As he absorbed the Primordial Yin-Yang Sea, his Primordial Cosmos neared a new stage, while the Purple Palace Celestial Realm’s founding god sensed an unusual variable.

• Yang Huai examined the Nine Heavens Radiant Five Tai Realm Emperor Formation and said he could break it by weakening and then suppressing the Primordial Realm Sea’s source power.
• Taiyi Teach Venerable offered Yang Huai the treasure and asked for protection if he attained the Dao Realm of Hunyuan Daluo, and Yang Huai agreed on the condition that the gods avoid provoking their pursuers.
• Yang Huai plunged into the Primordial Yin-Yang Sea and began absorbing its primordial qi, while Taiyi Teach Venerable and the other gods departed.
• Lingyi questioned the bargain, but the Nine Heavens Ancient God explained that opposing Yang Huai would be too dangerous, and he made her leave with him.
• Five thousand years later, Yang Huai had absorbed two-thirds of the sea and sensed that his Primordial Cosmos was nearing stability and approaching the Tai Shi level.
• The Purple Palace Celestial Realm’s founding god sensed a strand of pure white auspicious qi blending with creation and recognized the arrival of a variable.

Fu Yun survived the Dao Venerable Tribulation after the God Lords’ projections tried to stop her, protected by treasures and the intervention of Benevolent Light Holy Mother. Meanwhile, Taiwei Daoist sought Jade Clarity Daoist’s approval to establish the Nine Venerables of the Mystic Sect and asked how he could attain the Dao of the Other Shore after perfecting the Pangu True Body.

• Fu Yun faced projections of three God Lords during her Dao Venerable Tribulation, but the Purple Palace Vast-Heavens Diagram trapped them.
• Five God Lord imprints appeared, and Benevolent Light Holy Mother drove them away with the Great Sun Glazed Lamp.
• Fu Yun completed her tribulation and worried about how her husband, Yang Huai, was faring amid the great purge.
• Taiwei Daoist proposed establishing the Nine Venerables of the Mystic Sect, and Jade Clarity Daoist left the decision to him.
• Taiwei Daoist asked Jade Clarity Daoist how he could attain the Dao of the Other Shore after perfecting the Pangu True Body.

Jade Clarity Daoist explained the dangers of relying on another’s Dao path to reach the Other Shore, and Taiwei Daoist chose to continue pursuing the Heavenly Emperor’s path. Taiwei then proposed a hierarchy and council for the Mystic Sect, while Biyou Palace disciples decided to aid Di Hong in the mortal world.

• Jade Clarity Daoist told Taiwei Daoist that creation could lead him to the Other Shore, but warned that relying on borrowed power could weaken an Other Shore Dao Fruit.
• Taiwei Daoist decided against inheriting Primordial Beginning’s Dao path and resolved to pursue the Heavenly Emperor’s path toward the Other Shore.
• Taiwei Daoist proposed the Mystic Sect’s Nine Venerables, twelve Heavenly Venerables, thirty-six Luo Heaven Immortals, and an Ancestral Court Council to Supreme Clarity Daoist.
• Supreme Clarity Daoist agreed to support Taiwei Daoist, who promised not to neglect Biyou Palace’s disciples.
• Many-Treasure Daoist, Azure Lion, Holy Mother Guiling, and other Biyou Palace disciples agreed to descend the mountain and help Di Hong against his mortal-world opponent.

Zhao Gongming and the Three Skies decided to seek positions in Purple Tenuity Palace, while the Nine Li Tribal Alliance prepared to counter the Mystic Sect and Xingtian vowed to assassinate Di Hong. Yang Huai advanced to the fifth layer of the Creation realm and arranged for Yan Ju to give the Second-Generation Zhurong a diagram that could help restore the Ancient Earth Core.

• Zhao Gongming persuaded Yunxiao, Qiongxiao, and Bixiao to seek opportunities in Purple Tenuity Palace, and Yunxiao said they should first show their abilities.
• Daoist Taiwei spread news that the Mystic Sect would select nine Venerables and visited ancient gods to draw them into its system.
• Da You, Wind Earl, Rain Master, and Xingtian discussed the threat posed by the Mystic Sect, and Xingtian promised to kill Di Hong.
• Yang Huai reached the fifth layer of the Creation realm and asked the Houtu Emperor Earth Deity to help him reclaim the Ancient Earth Core, but agreed to wait for a better opportunity.
• Yang Huai gave Yan Ju a diagram of the Ancient Earth Core's pathways and instructed him to pass it to the Second-Generation Zhurong.

Yan Ju persuaded Second-Generation Zhurong to open the Ancient Earth Core and presented a plan to establish a Fire Spirit Origin Palace, bringing Zhurong’s support and the Mystic Sect into the undertaking. The chapter left Yan Ju confident that the plan would advance his own standing and benefit Yang Huai and Primordial Zhurong.

• Yang Huai warned Yan Ju that the Jiuli Tribe might target Di Hong and said Da You had asked them for help, likely against the Human Emperor Palace.
• Yan Ju sent a warning to Daoist Taiwei, then traveled to the Ancient Earth Core to meet Second-Generation Zhurong.
• Yan Ju urged Second-Generation Zhurong to dredge the Ancient Earth Core and promised to secretly help him despite the Fire Spirit path being occupied.
• Yan Ju showed Second-Generation Zhurong a diagram marking more than a thousand sites that would form the Fire Spirit Origin Palace and explained how it could regulate the Ancient Earth Core’s origins.
• Second-Generation Zhurong agreed to pursue the plan with Yan Ju and seek support from the Father Emperor and the Mystic Sect.

Yan Ju and Second-Generation Zhurong arranged how the Mystic Sect and other factions would help open the Ancient Earth Core, and Daoist Taiwei recruited fire cultivators for the undertaking. Meanwhile, Di Hong received tribute from Blackwater envoys, but their leader Black Kui struggled to find a chance to assassinate him.

• Yan Ju and Second-Generation Zhurong divided participation and the resulting divine positions among their factions, then Yan Ju reported their plan to Shennong and contacted Purple Tenuity Palace.
• Shennong agreed to seek the Mystic Sect's support, while Daoist Taiwei appointed Zhao Gongming and the Three Skies maidens as palace envoys after arranging for them to train for three months.
• Daoist Taiwei recruited Ember Emperor and other fire cultivators to help open the Ancient Earth Core, then turned his attention to Di Hong's approaching tribulation.
• Di Hong sensed his Human Emperor karmic throne growing stronger as the Nine Palace deities returned to their positions.
• Black Kui presented Blackwater's tribute to Di Hong, who dismissed the envoys to receive their rewards, leaving Black Kui uncertain how to carry out his assassination.

Xingtian’s assassination attempt on Di Hong failed, and Di Hong used it to rally the human and divine tribes against the Jiuli Tribe. Yang Huai and Green Willow escaped the battle, while Yang Huai’s Primordial Cosmos began advancing toward the ninth level of the Primordial Unity Dao Realm.

• The Ten-Direction Red Lotus Karmic Fire Divine Thunders erupted across the Human Emperor Palace and city as Xingtian revealed the Ganqi Divine Axe and struck at Di Hong’s incarnation.
• Di Hong activated the Pure Origin Myriad Mysteries Infinite Array and fought Xingtian with the Purple Tenuity Divine Sword, the Human Sovereign Treasure Mirror, and his Pangu Dharma Body.
• Green Willow joined Queen Mother of the West, the Primordial Origin Holy Mother, and Yang Huai in blocking the Earth Sovereign Palace’s reinforcements, while Zhurong and Green Ripple battled Queen Mother of the West.
• Xingtian escaped into the River of Time after Di Hong drove him back, and Yang Huai, Green Ripple, Sacred Stone, and Spirit King also fled there.
• Di Hong declared that the Jiuli Tribe had attempted to assassinate the Human Emperor and announced a decisive campaign against it.
• Yang Huai absorbed nearly two-thirds of the Primordial Five Supreme Principles ocean’s origin, and his Primordial Cosmos began advancing toward the ninth level of the Primordial Unity Dao Realm.

Yang Huai reached the ninth level of the Primordial Zenith Dao Realm as the second stage of the Boundless Great Calamity began and the second Dao Origin Secret Realm opened. He stayed out of the struggle over the realm and continued cultivating, while the rival powers agreed to send disciples inside.

• Yang Huai advanced his Pangu Boundless Supreme God's True Body and entered the ninth level of the Primordial Zenith Dao Realm, drawing Supreme Teacher Taiyi and the other gods’ attention.
• A thousand years later, calamity power spread through the three thousand Great Daos, driving immortals into demonic deviation as signs appeared that the second Dao Origin Secret Realm would emerge.
• Yang Huai told Supreme Teacher Taiyi, Hong Zhao, Lingyi, and Jiuxiao Ancient God that the secret realm had opened by the Two-World River, then showed them its entrance with his Void Mirror Dao Art.
• Gloom God Lord stopped two Great Luo Golden Immortals from entering the secret realm and destroyed them after one addressed him by his divine name and the other defied his command.
• Yang Huai refused to intervene while many Sacred Venerables and God Lords gathered, and the Purple Palace Immortal Palace, Divine Spirit Abyss, and Demon Realm agreed to send disciples into the secret realm.
• Purple Origin Celestial Lord asked Fu Yun whether she would enter, but Fu Yun declined the opportunity.

Fu Yun warned Purple Origin Celestial Lord against entering the Dao Origin Secret Realm, while Yang Huai drained the Primordial Boundary Sea and stabilized his Primordial Cosmos. He took the four gods into his body and departed, leaving the Boundary Sea to convulse as powerful figures arrived.

• Fu Yun told Purple Origin Celestial Lord that veteran Great Luo experts and supreme treasures made the secret realm too dangerous for him to enter.
• Yang Huai absorbed the Primordial Five-Elements Ocean and Primordial Glacier, then devoured the Nine Heavens Radiant Five Tai Realm Emperor Formation to stabilize his Primordial Cosmos.
• Yang Huai revealed the Primordial Seven Divine Steles and offered one to each of the four gods on the condition that they enter his body and remain there until he reached the Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
• Supreme Teacher Taiyi, the Nine Heavens Ancient God, Lingyi, and Hong Zhao each accepted a stele and entered Yang Huai's body.
• Yang Huai left the Primordial Boundary Sea, which shook and began generating an immense devouring force as more than a dozen powerful auras arrived from the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.

Yang Huai entered the Heavenly Illusion Realm to study its divine path and advance his own Primordial Cosmos, while the emergence of Primordial Purple Qi drew powerful figures toward the Dao Origin Secret Realm. The Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor sent a Primordial Origin Purple Qi Orb to Limitless Dao Lord, leaving the Purple Palace Immortal Palace poised to pursue the rare opportunity.

• Star Palace Shangdi and Limitless Dao Lord concluded that an extraordinary treasure had emerged from the Primordial Boundary Sea, while the chief gods suspected one of the Saint Venerables had taken it.
• Yang Huai entered the Heavenly Illusion Realm and observed Heavenly King Yao and Mr. Zhang plotting to sacrifice a million people to break the Great Zhou ancestral dragon vein.
• Yang Huai turned the resentment of the slaughtered people into a pearl and placed it in Heavenly King Yao's ancestral grave to make him suffer their karmic retribution.
• Dao Lord Miaoyuan recognized the Primordial Origin Purple Qi Source he had seized, while Heavenly Oracle God Lord obtained another and hurried toward the Dao Origin Secret Realm's exit.
• The Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and the Radiant Treasure Heavenly Empress learned that Primordial Purple Qi might emerge and ordered an orb presented to Limitless Dao Lord.

Limitless Dao Lord accepted the Taichu Purple Qi Origin Orb and prepared to join forces with the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor for the third Dao Origin Secret Realm. As war spread ahead of its opening, Yang Huai chose to wait for a chance to confront the Gloom God Lord and marked Demon Emperor Wan Yu as a future target.

• Limitless Dao Lord received the Taichu Purple Qi Origin Orb from the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and concluded that he had about twenty thousand years to prepare for the third Dao Origin Secret Realm.
• Origin Lord Yisheng argued with the Purple Origin Celestial Lord over whether their family should pursue ambition or stay safe, while he warned Fu Yun and Jiuyuan that they might need to leave the Immortal Palace.
• Fu Yun reflected on the bloodshed across the realms and feared that the Purple Palace Immortal Palace would be attacked while the Six Imperial Heavenly Emperors entered the secret realm.
• Yang Huai decided not to compete for Primordial Purple Qi directly and instead planned to use the secret realm's opening to target the Gloom God Lord and improve his Primordial Cosmos.
• Demon Emperor Wan Yu devoured a fleeing Golden Immortal of the Great Luo near the Purple Palace Immortal Palace, and Yang Huai resolved to confront him after the Gloom God Lord left.