Recaps

The third Dao Origin Secret Realm appeared, drawing powerful figures from across the realms as war threatened the Purple Palace Celestial Realm. After killing Bound Dragon Master and rescuing Ganli Immortal Lord, Yang Huai saw his long-awaited opportunity and set out for the Demon Realm.

• Gloom God Lord ordered the Demon Emperors and Devil Emperors to join the Primordial Unity Divine Court’s forces in attacks on ancient Dao lineages, while the six Heavenly Emperors agreed to defend the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.
• Yang Huai advanced his Primordial Unity primordial spirit to the seventh level and continued preparing to comprehend the Immortal-Slaying Origin.
• A Purple Palace Heavenly Court immortal struck down Bound Dragon Master and spared the surrounding sea, but Bound Dragon Master later tried to devour Ganli Immortal Lord.
• Yang Huai restored Ganli Immortal Lord, killed Bound Dragon Master, and noticed the third Dao Origin Secret Realm opening near the Myriad Demon Mountain Range.
• Heavenly Rectitude God Lord, other God Lords, three Heavenly Emperors, four Saint Venerables, and Gloom God Lord entered the secret realm as forces gathered for war.
• As the immortals and devils prepared to clash, Yang Huai left for the Demon Realm to pursue the opportunity he had been waiting for.

Yang Huai seized the Demon Realm’s origin and escaped as the realm began to collapse, while the Dao Origin Secret Realm shattered and several powers fought over the Primordial Purple Qi. The Limitless Dao Lord revealed that he walked the Great Dao of ending and rushed to prove his Dao amid the destruction, as Yang Huai watched from the edge of chaos with his own breakthrough near.

• Yang Huai destroyed Ancestor God Mountain, devoured the Demon Realm’s ancestral vein, and seized its origin before escaping as the Primordial Devil Ancestor attacked him.
• The Limitless Dao Lord struck Ancestor God Mountain’s ruins with the Limitless Treasure Seal, causing the Demon Realm to fracture and collapse.
• The Dao Origin Secret Realm shattered, and the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor seized the Primordial Purple Qi from Sumeru God Lord and drew it into the Order Sacred Sword.
• Gloom God Lord and the other main gods attacked the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor, who entered the Order Sacred Tower to resist them while seeking to attain the Dao.
• The Limitless Dao Lord revealed his Great Dao of ending, fought off Saint Venerable Hanguang and Purple Emperor Saint Venerable, then burned his Dao Fruit and entered the collapsing Demon Realm to prove his Dao.
• Jade Truth Saint Venerable restrained Qingyue and the Five-Element Main God, while Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable attacked five God Lords; Yang Huai watched from the edge of chaos as his own breakthrough neared.

Yang Huai completed his breakthrough to Primordial Zenith Heaven after refusing a creation Dao Fruit that would have bound him to the Purple Palace Celestial Realm. Elsewhere, the battle over the Demon Realm and the Primordial Purple Qi reached a crisis as Limitless Dao Lord faced three Saint Venerables and Gloom God Lord moved against the Purple Palace Immortal Palace.

• The Primordial Devil Ancestor fell to Yang Huai's four sword phantoms, and the resulting twilight pushed Yang Huai's Primordial Dao nature to ninety-nine percent.
• Hanguang, Purple Emperor, and Myriad Manifestations shattered Limitless Dao Lord's Chaos Divine Steles, while Limitless began stepping into nothingness with his Guixu Dao Diagram.
• Sacred Cosmos God Lord wounded Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable, who used his Merit Treasure Wheel to strengthen the Nine-Dragon Refining Dao Formation and fight back.
• Gloom God Lord abandoned the assault on Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and raced toward the Purple Palace Immortal Palace to disrupt his chance to refine the Primordial Purple Qi.
• Yang Huai rejected the Purple Palace Celestial Realm's creation Dao Fruit and broke through to Primordial Zenith Heaven using his Panhuang Boundless Supreme God's True Body.

Limitless Dao Lord attained the Primordial Zenith Heaven realm and fought off Saint Venerable Hanguang and Purple Emperor Saint Venerable. As Gloom God Lord broke into the Purple Palace Immortal Palace and threatened Radiant Treasure Heavenly Empress and the imperial daughters, a mysterious Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal arrived to confront him.

• Purple Cloud Saint Venerable witnessed a creation-leaning Primordial Zenith Heaven phenomenon, while Limitless Dao Lord emerged on Myriad Demon Mountain with an end-times phenomenon and thanked Jade Truth Saint Venerable for helping him break through.
• Purple Emperor Saint Venerable and Saint Venerable Hanguang tried to seal Limitless Dao Lord, but he shattered Hanguang's formation with the Limitless Treasure Seal and forced him to retreat.
• Gloom God Lord broke the Purple Palace Six Origins Dao Diagram, overcame Radiant Treasure Heavenly Empress, Purple Origin Celestial Lord, Spirit Palace High Deity, and Primordial Yang Supreme God, and moved to capture the empress and the women beside her.
• A nine-colored radiance destroyed Gloom God Lord's demonic tree and shattered his defensive Taiji Diagram, then an azure-robed figure with an immortal sword appeared behind him and declared that they would settle their old karma.

Yang Huai revealed his Saint Venerable power, killed the Gloom God Lord, and rescued Fu Yun, the princes, and allied disciples from the Purple Palace Celestial Realm. As the Sacred Cosmos God Lord fought the newly ascended Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable, Yang Huai intervened and faced the Sacred Cosmos God Lord directly.

• The Gloom God Lord sacrificed his Annihilation Dao Fruit to restore his power, but Yang Huai shattered his Dao Domain and captured him, causing the Demon Dao founder to fall.
• Yang Huai collected Fu Yun and the six princes, thanked Radiant Treasure Heavenly Empress, and removed the Pure Origin Myriad Wonders Sect and Profound Mystery Sect disciples from the battle.
• Vast Firmament Venerable and Benevolent Light Holy Mother arrived, and Benevolent Light Holy Mother reassured Radiant Treasure Heavenly Empress that the Primordial Ancestor was safe.
• The Sacred Cosmos God Lord trapped Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable, damaged the Order Sacred Tower, and fought the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor after he attained the Dao as a Primordial Saint.
• Yang Huai struck the Myriad Gods Illustrated Record, allowing Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable to escape, then confronted the Sacred Cosmos God Lord, who demanded to know his identity and why he had intervened.

Yang Huai, calling himself Wuliang, challenged Sacred Cosmos God Lord and fought through his fate-based techniques with the Panhuang Boundless Supreme God's True Body. The battle left Sacred Cosmos God Lord facing Yang Huai’s innate supreme treasure and power drawn from the Purple Palace Celestial Realm, while Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable escaped their imprisonment.

• Yang Huai introduced himself as Wuliang and asked Sacred Cosmos God Lord for pointers, drawing the attention of the gathered gods and venerables.
• Sacred Cosmos God Lord attacked Yang Huai with golden rays, but Yang Huai split them apart and struck back with the Wuliang Chongli Sword.
• Sacred Cosmos God Lord trapped Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable with his mind-sealing technique and confronted Yang Huai with rings and a river of fate.
• Yang Huai resisted Sacred Cosmos God Lord’s fate-based attacks as his body absorbed and refined their damage.
• Yang Huai summoned an innate supreme treasure and split the river of fate, then drew on the Purple Palace Celestial Realm’s will to unleash a powerful strike.
• Sacred Cosmos God Lord blocked the blow with his Myriad Gods Treasure Chart and Primordial Wish-Granting Divine Pearl, allowing Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable to escape.

Yang Huai helped the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable survive the battle, and the enemy forces withdrew as three new Saint Venerables’ rise became inevitable. He then withdrew to cultivate at the edge of the Purple Palace Celestial Realm, where he discovered a new ability of the Primordial Treasure Realm.

• Yang Huai prepared to use the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation against the Sacred Cosmos God Lord, but the God Lord withdrew with four other God Lords as the four opposing Saint Venerables fled.
• Vast Firmament Venerable and Benevolent Light Holy Mother arrived, restored the damaged Myriad Demon Mountain, and welcomed Yang Huai after his attainment of the Dao.
• The Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor thanked Yang Huai and invited the Saints to gather at his palace in a hundred years; Yang Huai accepted and then left to cultivate.
• Azure Moon Chief God worried that Yang Huai would seek revenge against the Star God Palace, while Saint Venerable Hanguang told Miaoxing Dao Sovereign that he would face Yang Huai himself.
• Yang Huai absorbed Chaos Origin Qi and refined his cultivation, discovering that the Primordial Treasure Realm’s new Summoning ability let his other selves summon his true body.

Yang Huai returned Purple Origin Celestial Lord and the other imperial children to the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor, then joined the Saint Venerables in forming an alliance against the gods of the Divine Spirit Abyss. The fourth Dao Origin Secret Realm was expected to appear in twenty thousand years, and the gathering ended with the Saint Venerables preparing to discuss the Dao.

• Yang Huai decided not to use his summoning ability for now, fearing that his true body could expose the Primordial Treasure Realm, and focused on strengthening his Primordial Zenith Heaven cultivation.
• A hundred years after the calamity, Yang Huai returned Purple Origin Celestial Lord and eight others unharmed to the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and the Radiant Treasure Heavenly Empress.
• Yang Huai joined the Saint Venerables and four Heavenly Emperors in the Central Primordial Ancestor Immortal Palace, where the guests welcomed him and offered rare spiritual fruits.
• The Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor proposed an offensive and defensive alliance to oppose the Nine Great God Lords and prevent them from gaining treasures from the fourth Dao Origin Secret Realm.
• The Saint Venerables accepted a loose alliance requiring mutual aid against direct attacks, and Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable proposed that they discuss the Dao.

Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable explained how Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals could deepen or ascend their Dao paths and how Primordial Zenith Heaven traits shaped their Daoxing. Yang Huai considered how to expand his Boundless Grand Dao through the Barbaric Lands and began to see a direction for cultivating his own Primordial Zenith Heaven Primordial Spirit.

• Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable began the discussion by explaining that Sacred Cosmos God Lord deepened the Grand Dao of gods into divine destiny, while Jade Truth Saint Venerable confirmed that Dao concepts could be streamlined.
• Yang Huai asked about the scope and purity of deepened Dao paths, and Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable outlined the risks of broadening a Dao fruit and described ascension as running a Grand Dao through the Purple Palace Celestial Realm.
• Yang Huai considered pursuing ascension through the Barbaric Lands, where the All-Heaven Star Sea and his ties to Yan Ju and the next Heavenly Emperor offered a chance to spread the Boundless Grand Dao.
• Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable explained how completing Primordial Zenith Heaven traits could increase Daoxing and compared the strength of several Saint Venerables, including Limitless Dao Lord and Yang Huai.
• Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable said Primordial Purple Qi could improve an incomplete Primordial Zenith Heaven Primordial Spirit, and confirmed that the blood of transcendence and Five Elements viscera could lead to other superior traits.
• Yang Huai realized that his own Primordial Zenith Heaven Primordial Spirit, nurtured within the Panhuang Boundless Supreme God's True Body, could be cultivated further, and wondered whether other shore powerhouses followed similar rules.

Yang Huai listened to the Five Saints discuss their Dao paths, then agreed to help the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor in exchange for the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses supporting his reforms. He headed toward the Divine Spirit Abyss with Fu Yun, intending to settle old grudges now that he had attained the Dao.

• Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable and Jade Truth Saint Venerable lectured on moral enlightenment and the cultivation of Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals.
• Yang Huai explained the Primordial Zenith Heaven Dao Body and the Primordial Nine Apertures, while the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and Limitless Dao Lord shared their insights on order and creation.
• The Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor offered to have the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses support Yang Huai’s reforms if Yang Huai held back Hanguang and Purple Emperor for three breaths in the fourth Dao Origin Secret Realm.
• Yang Huai accepted and said he would arrive at the Netherworld Underworld in thirty thousand years, asking the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor to notify Xuantian.
• Yang Huai and Fu Yun traveled toward the Divine Spirit Abyss so Yang Huai could settle old grudges.

Yang Huai attacked Star God Palace to collect a debt from Azure Moon Chief God, devastating the palace before withdrawing from the Divine Spirit Abyss. He then completed the formation of his Primordial Zenith Heaven primordial spirit, greatly increasing his cultivation, and turned his attention toward the Barbaric Lands.

• Yang Huai's Boundless Star rose to overshadow the other primary stars, and he launched successive sword attacks against Star God Palace.
• Azure Moon Chief God used the Heavenly Stellar Bell and the Innate Yin-Yang Stellar Formation to resist Yang Huai, but Yang Huai shattered the formation and nearly broke the bell.
• A white-robed figure intervened to protect Azure Moon Chief God, but Yang Huai escaped after declaring that he would collect more debts; Star God Palace was left in ruins, with most of its gods dead and some taken away.
• Purple Emperor Saint Venerable watched the battle and grew concerned about Yang Huai's strength ahead of the Dao Origin Secret Realm reopening.
• Yang Huai cultivated for ten thousand years and formed the primordial spirit of Pangu Wuliang Supreme God, raising his cultivation by close to two and a half great universes.
• After completing his cultivation goal, Yang Huai turned his attention toward the Barbaric Lands.

Yang Huai oversaw the final preparations to open the Ancient Earth Core while the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light continued to attract and transform ghostly gods. A hundred years later, Yan Ju successfully opened the Earth Heart Palace, unleashing vast pure-yang spirituality and gaining a surge of divine power.

• The Netherworld deities discussed the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light’s growing influence and the Earth Sovereign Palace’s losses in the Battle of Zhuolu.
• A ghostly god attained the Second Fruit of Light and entered the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light, where Yang Huai’s luminous holy spirits continued to gather.
• Yang Huai studied the Ancient Earth Core’s final-stage arrangements and traveled to the Netherworld Halls of the Nine Abysses to demonstrate his resolve to claim its origin.
• Yan Ju used the fire spirit divine palaces to expand his Boundless Grand Dao, then allowed his sisters Shao Yan, Yao Ji, and Jingwei to leave their posts briefly.
• A hundred years later, Yan Ju opened the Earth Heart Palace, releasing immense pure-yang spirituality and causing his divine power to rise.

Yan Ju completed the Boundless Reincarnation Diagram and reached the peak of the ninth level of the Creation Realm, while his transformation stirred creation across heaven and earth. At the Earth Sovereign Palace, Houtu offered Yang Huai a Pangu Imprint that could help him reach the Other Shore, and he accepted it to study its mysteries.

• Golden merit descended upon the figures in the Ancient Earth Core, and Yan Ju completed his Boundless Reincarnation Diagram and condensed the Primordial Chaos Infinite Profound Pearl.
• Primordial Origin Holy Mother and Queen Mother of the West recognized Yan Ju's hidden strength as his advancement stirred vital energy and creation throughout heaven and earth.
• Yang Huai visited Houtu at the Earth Sovereign Palace and said he would not join the Western Religion despite its offer to help him prove the Dao.
• Houtu revealed the Pangu Imprint, explaining that it could help Yang Huai reach the Other Shore but could limit his future advancement once fused.
• Yang Huai accepted the Pangu Imprint so he could study its mysteries and help Daoist Taiwei advance.

Yang Huai gave the Pangu Imprint to Daoist Taiwei, then resonated with the Supreme Fire Spirit destiny but lacked the essence points to stabilize it. As the Purple Palace Celestial Realm’s tribulation neared its peak, a treasure’s appearance stirred a vast bloody aura.

• Yang Huai gave Daoist Taiwei the Pangu Imprint, allowing him to pursue the Pangu Purple Tenuity Heavenly Emperor Primordial Spirit and the Other Shore.
• Yang Huai withdrew to his true body, gained 370,000 essence points, and found that stabilizing the Supreme Fire Spirit destiny required 800,000.
• Yang Huai turned to comprehending the Pangu Imprint while the twenty-thousand-year deadline approached and the tribulation intensified.
• Purple Origin Emperor warned Young Lord Jiuyuan to stay cautious, then rebuked Origin Lord Yisheng for neglecting their daughter Fu Yun in favor of the Heavenly Saint lineage.
• Young Lord Jiuyuan spotted a surge of bloody aura and treasure light, and Purple Origin Emperor realized a supreme treasure had emerged.

The fourth Dao Origin Secret Realm opened in the Divine Spirit Abyss, drawing the Saints into a battle over Primordial Purple Qi, a rare Five-Element spiritual root, and an innate supreme treasure. Yang Huai confronted the Five-Element Main God over the Five-Spirit Nine-Branch Lotus Tree, while the Sacred Cosmos God Lord’s fate net kept two Saints outside.

• Purple Origin Celestial Lord sent Jiuyuan and Origin Lord Yisheng to shelter in the Sage Emperor Spirit Garden while he stayed behind with the Sacred Empress.
• Yang Huai released Supreme Teacher Taiyi, Jiuxiao, Lingyi, and Hong Zhao, giving them a brief chance to pursue revenge and capture Wuyuan Celestial Lord.
• Yang Huai and four other Saint Venerables broke through the Sacred Cosmos God Lord’s Primordial Unity Net of Fate and entered the Dao Origin Secret Realm, while Saint Venerable Hanguang and Purple Emperor Saint Venerable were trapped outside.
• The Azure Moon Chief God claimed two strands of Primordial Purple Qi, the Five-Element Main God seized the Five-Spirit Nine-Branch Lotus Tree, and Jade Truth Saint Venerable broke open the final divine mountain to claim its Annihilation millstone.
• Yang Huai attacked the Five-Element Main God to take the Five-Spirit Nine-Branch Lotus Tree as the Five-Element Main God unleashed overwhelming five-colored divine power.

Yang Huai suppressed the Five-Element Main God and confronted Saint Venerable Hanguang and Purple Emperor Saint Venerable while the battle for the Dao Origin Secret Realm intensified. The Sacred Cosmos God Lord unleashed a devastating attack on Jade Truth Saint Venerable, who was swallowed by golden light.

• Yang Huai trapped the Five-Element Main God in the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation and seized the Five-Spirit Nine-Branch Lotus Tree.
• The Sacred Cosmos God Lord brought Saint Venerable Hanguang and Purple Emperor Saint Venerable into the Dao Origin Secret Realm and ordered them to support Azure Moon Chief God, while the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor urged them to switch sides.
• Yang Huai rushed to aid Azure Moon Chief God, but Saint Venerable Hanguang attacked him and Purple Emperor Saint Venerable moved to intervene.
• Yang Huai suppressed Saint Venerable Hanguang with his nine-colored immortal light and used the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation to block Purple Emperor Saint Venerable.
• The Sacred Cosmos God Lord drew on Divine Spirit Abyss and struck Jade Truth Saint Venerable with a Primal Unity Golden Saber, engulfing him in golden light.

Sacred Cosmos God Lord trapped Jade Truth Saint Venerable and the other Saints in a fate net, but Yang Huai intervened and freed the three besieged Saints. As Yang Huai continued attacking to stop the refinement of the Annihilation Millstone, Sacred Cosmos God Lord offered peace, and a sudden arrival of Primordial Zenith divine power interrupted Yang Huai’s decision.

• Sacred Cosmos God Lord trapped Jade Truth Saint Venerable, Azure Moon Chief God, Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable, Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor, and Limitless Dao Lord in rivers of fate.
• Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable used Nine Dragons Unite, but Sacred Cosmos God Lord’s fate net trapped the Nine-Dragon Orb and kept the Saints under pressure.
• Yang Huai arrived after suppressing Hidden Radiance and Purple Emperor, attacked Sacred Cosmos God Lord, and gave the three Saints a chance to escape.
• Yang Huai used Pangu Emperor Splits the Heavens to attack Sacred Cosmos God Lord and disrupt his refinement of the Annihilation Millstone.
• Sacred Cosmos God Lord revealed a golden flying dagger aimed at Yang Huai’s Dao heart and proposed peace, but strands of Primordial Zenith divine power suddenly descended from the void.

Purple Cloud Saint Ancestor ended the battle in the Divine Spirit Abyss, ordered the saints to create worlds beyond the heavens, and returned two supreme treasures to the Purple Palace Heavens. Yang Huai freed the captured gods and reflected on Purple Cloud Saint Ancestor’s plans, resolving to prepare for the possibility that someone would inherit his Dao Fruit and will.

• Purple Cloud Saint Ancestor appeared and ordered the Sacred Cosmos God Lord and Yang Huai to stop fighting within the realms and create worlds beyond the heavens.
• Purple Cloud Saint Ancestor returned the Annihilation Millstone and two strands of Primordial Purple Qi to the Purple Palace Heavens, while allowing Yang Huai to keep the Five-Spirit Lotus Tree fused into his cosmos.
• The saints and chief gods left the Divine Spirit Abyss, and Perfect Harmony Saint Venerable and Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor thanked Yang Huai and offered him a favor and access to the Netherworld Underworld.
• Supreme Teacher Taiyi returned the Mirror Moon Bureau gods to Yang Huai, who imprisoned them for Fu Yun’s judgment and drew Supreme Teacher Taiyi, Hong Zhao, Jiuxiao, and Lingyi back into his Primordial Cosmos.
• Yang Huai considered Purple Cloud Saint Ancestor’s likely plans and resolved to prepare for a successor who might inherit his Dao Fruit and will.

Yang Huai inspected the Netherworld Underworld, established a reincarnation space, and made a manifestation vow to create the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light. He entered seclusion beyond the heavens and used the Primordial Treasure Mirror to descend into a congenital black lotus bearing immense baleful qi and the desires of living beings.

• Yang Huai visited Xuantian City with the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor and learned how the underworld judged and guided its souls.
• Yang Huai examined the Reincarnation Spring Eye and created a vast reincarnation space, anchoring it with three hundred and sixty-five Pure Origin Boundless Divine Banners.
• Yang Huai manifested as the Ten-Directional Fire Virtue Radiant Heavenly Venerable, vowed to deliver suffering beings, and established the Ten-Directional Pure Land of Light with merit light.
• Ghost gods and yin spirits recited the Radiant Precious Edict, and several underworld deities joined the Pure Land as Dharma protectors.
• The Sacred Cosmos God Lord and the other gathered saints reacted warily to Yang Huai's growing influence and discussed opposing him.
• Yang Huai left the Netherworld Underworld in his manifestation's care, entered seclusion, and descended through the Primordial Treasure Mirror into a congenital black lotus filled with baleful qi and the desires of living beings.

Yang Huai discovered that he had been born as the Killing Intent Ancestor and began cultivating his body and demonic path within the Black Lotus Mountains. Five hundred years later, he had refined the Twelfth-Rank Black Lotus and sensed that several beings connected to him existed elsewhere in heaven and earth.

• Yang Huai recognized Da You outside the Twelfth-Rank Black Lotus and realized Da You's remnant soul might know where Pangu's blood essence remained.
• Yang Huai learned that his body was the Killing Intent Ancestor, whose incomplete source of innate Killing Intent left him seeking to reclaim it.
• Yang Huai chose to cultivate the Pure Origin Myriad Wonders Boundless Scripture and develop the Pangu Devil Ancestor True Body, absorbing Killing Intent in the Black Lotus Mountains.
• Da You warned the demon lords of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires not to question the upheaval in the Black Lotus Mountains, while struggling to remove the black lotus attached to his Primordial Spirit.
• Five hundred years later, Yang Huai's form had grown more solid, he refined the Twelfth-Rank Black Lotus, and he sensed several brothers elsewhere in heaven and earth.

Yang Huai used the World-Destroying Black Lotus to develop his own demonic Dao and capture the Six Desires Demon Lord and Seven Emotions Demon Lord. He began recruiting them to help open the demon tribulation, while Chiyou prepared to draw others toward the Black Lotus Mountains.

• Yang Huai drew on the Black Lotus’s powers and began condensing a source of demonic Dao from the baleful qi gathering in the Black Lotus Mountains.
• Chiyou suppressed the parasitic black lotus within himself, then ordered the Six Desires Demon Lord and Seven Emotions Demon Lord to spread word of a supreme treasure in the Black Lotus Mountains.
• The two Demon Lords secretly diverted to the mountains and descended into the black-water lake, where they found a cavern filled with black lotuses and a twelve-grade World-Destroying Black Lotus.
• Yang Huai appeared above the lotus and immobilized the Demon Lords, then implanted black lotuses in them and declared that they would help him open the demon tribulation.
• The Six Desires Demon Lord and Seven Emotions Demon Lord submitted to Yang Huai, who told them the parasitic lotuses could help refine spiritual desires and protect their Primordial Spirits.

Yang Huai perfected the source of his demonic path and drew the gathered fiendish spirits into a battle as he underwent the Golden Immortal tribulation. After killing one attacker and swallowing the others’ strikes, he forcibly crossed into the Golden Immortal realm, leaving the remaining fiendish spirits and Devil Master Chiyou facing his overwhelming power.

• Yang Huai warned Seven Emotions Demon Lord and Six Desires Demon Lord that Chiyou’s forbidden art would expose them if they returned, then ordered them to settle elsewhere in the mountains.
• Yang Huai refined his demonic path, formed ancestral qi of demons, and condensed a World-Destroying Black Lotus as his demonic Dao embryo.
• As great fiendish spirits gathered near the Black Lotus Mountains, Yang Huai told the two Demon Lords to keep cultivating while he made his own arrangements.
• Yang Huai began the Golden Immortal tribulation, and Yue Hong attacked him but was killed by Yang Huai’s Immortal-Slaying Sword Qi.
• Devil Master Chiyou and four other great fiendish spirits attacked Yang Huai, who swallowed their strikes and absorbed the surrounding Killing Intent to force his breakthrough into the Golden Immortal realm.

Yang Huai subdued Chiyou Devil Master and the four great fiendish spirits, then extracted Pangu Essence Blood to forge a Pangu Devil Ancestor True Body. As the transformation began, ominous signs spread across heaven and earth, heralding the birth of a peerless devil.

• Yang Huai trapped Chiyou Devil Master and seized the four great fiendish spirits while overcoming the Heavenly Venerable projections that obstructed his tribulation.
• Yang Huai ordered the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Demon Lords to guard the four fiendish spirits, then brought Chiyou into the cave dwelling.
• Yang Huai spent thirty years extracting Pangu Essence Blood from Chiyou and gathered Chiyou's weakened remnant spirit into the parasitic black lotus.
• Yang Huai fused the Pangu Essence Blood into his own body and began refining it to create a Pangu Devil Ancestor True Body.
• A purple-red giant egg formed amid surging baleful qi, alarming powerful fiendish spirits across the Boundless Black Abyss.
• The Jade Purity Primordial Heavenly Venerable sensed the coming devilish calamity and chose to stand by, while ominous blood light spread across a sacred mountain in the western extremity.

Di Hong learned that the growing devilish tribulation arose from accumulated resentment and was urged by Daoist Taiwei to establish laws and separate humans from immortals and gods. As the Mystic Sect and Heavenly Emperor Shennong prepared to open the Thirty-Three Heavens, Houtu Earth Sovereign Deity considered joining the Mystic Sect, though a silver-robed elder doubted she would truly do so.

• An azure-robed Daoist and a yellow-robed Daoist discussed the Devil Ancestor's coming birth and concluded that the calamity had arisen naturally from Heaven and Earth's evolution.
• Daoist Taiwei explained the origins of the devilish tribulation to Di Hong and urged him to reform the laws and overawe immortals and gods.
• Daoist Taiwei proposed severing Earth and connecting Heaven by separating ordinary humans from immortals and gods, while relocating some humans to the All-Heaven Star Sea.
• Daoist Taiwei revealed that he and Heavenly Emperor Shennong planned to reopen the heavenly realm and divide it into Thirty-Three Heavens.
• Houtu Earth Sovereign Deity told a silver-robed elder that she might side with the Mystic Sect, but he insisted she would not abandon her path so easily.

Houtu Imperial Earth Deity heard Torch Dragon's proposal to trap the Mystic Sect Three Pure Ones and asked him to explain the plan. Yan Ju prepared his Boundless path for transcendence, while Yang Huai emerged from seclusion, established the Heavenly Demon lineage, and began teaching its Dao; a divine might from the living world then drew his attention to the Celestial Court.

• Houtu Imperial Earth Deity rejected Torch Dragon's pressure to oppose the Mystic Sect but listened when he claimed ancient gods could trap the Three Pure Ones.
• Yan Ju reviewed how the Boundless Reincarnation Diagram, the Nine Palaces, and the future Thirty-Three Heavens would complete his path to transcendence.
• After six hundred years, Yang Huai emerged from the World-Destroying Black Lotus with his Pangu Demon True Body and announced his plan to establish the Heavenly Demon lineage.
• Seven Emotions Demon Lord, Six Desires Demon Lord, and the other fiendish spirits agreed to follow Yang Huai, who promised Chiyou Devil Master the Primordial Demon Scripture.
• Yang Huai taught the gathered fiendish spirits the Dao of Extraterritorial Heavenly Demons and declared his ambition to become the Devil Ancestor.
• Six hundred years later, divine might spread from the living world, and Yang Huai decided he would need to act with his true body at the Celestial Court.